Where is Hell?
Article about experiences of the Spirit World based upon the book "What to do when you are dead" by Craig Hamilton-Parker..
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Spiritual reform
There are places in the next life where every man, woman, and child actively tries to inflict as much emotional pain as possible on everyone else there. When they died, they were drawn together into these levels like a magnet. People of a similar disposition are drawn together by their makeup. There are places for thieves, pedophiles, murderers, liars, sadists, and the greedy. There are millions of hells.
Where is Hell? Is Hell Bad?
 I have been told by the spirit people that hell is not a place to be feared but a state of being that is necessary for some souls to grow towards the light. For example, on one occasion I worked with a group of mediums to “clear” a spirit that was causing poltergeist activity on board a boat. When the spirit spoke to us, through one of the mediums, we learned that the spirit was not moving on to the next world because he feared punishment for a crime he had committed while on earth. So, he was “clinging” to the aura of the woman now living in the cabin in which he had once lived. The solution was to get him to connect with his angelic helper and those in the spirit world who loved him. When he finally did so, he let go his paralyzing fear and moved towards the light--and no longer troubled the boat's passengers. It was his fear of what he believed awaited him in Hell that prevented his moving on to the next world.
Soon after this, one of the mediums involved was given a message from the spirit who had caused the poltergeist activity. He was now happy in the afterlife; his irrational fear of a personal hell had been one of ignorance. He was not being punished so much as being helped to come to terms with what had happened and caused his distress.
I recall another incident where a spirit told us that he had done terrible things while on earth. He had spent much time in the lower planes facing the wrongs he had done. Now he had progressed from that place and wanted to help others to know that God's world can be opened up even to the most hardened sinner as long as they are willing to reform. This spirit now works in helping other mediums. When he shows himself to clairvoyant people, they see him as wearing a Nazi uniform.
 The highly respected American doctor Carl A Wickland recorded some very interesting cases of spirits who spoke through his wife's trance mediumship during the 1920's. In some instances. criminals spoke to the group and explained what happens to criminals when they die. In one instance, the spirit of a hanged criminal named Pete Neidemeyer spoke to the Wickland's Spiritualist circle to tell what happened to him after death:
"The first thing I had to do was to conquer self, and it is very hard to conquer selfishness when you have never thought of anything else but selfishness. We must conquer that before we can do any work in the spirit world.
"The best way is to be put in a dark room--we sometimes call it a dungeon--where we see nothing but ourselves and our acts of the past. One after another these acts come crowding in. The good ones are so few that they hardly count for anything. When we do see a good act, it seems as if it belongs to someone else. We have to stay there until our hearts and our eyes are opened. When we seek to overcome our bad habits and to live for others then we get out of the selfish state.
"My heart was very hardened, but finally I cried out: ‘Not my will any longer, but thine.’
"The first thing to be done is to help the very lowest we come in contact with. I felt that I did not want to assist with this or that, but I had to. I had to learn patience. When we can serve without grumbling and do it for the love of our fellow man, it does not seem so hard.
"So I have gone on from one thing to another, always learning, and through learning I have stepped into a more beautiful condition. In the invisible world we advance by stages, but only through learning.”
Escaping Hell
 There are also planes of hell where the inhabitants are so wrapped up in their own wickedness that they are hardly aware of the existence of the worlds of light that most people will know in the life beyond death. These dark lower planes are filled with the darkness of hate. It is a world that draws only the worst of people. Here live many sub-human spirits, who have descended into a demonic state of being. Many were once human but have now become caricatures of their own evil. But even here there is the option of redemption.
We create our own personal hell; not a form of punishment but self-created in order to resolve our imperfections. As this happens, the burdens on the soul become lighter and allow it to move “upwards” to the paradise planes of the afterlife. Only through the process of spiritual development can the soul  escape the weight of the karma that prevents it from rising to the higher planes of the afterlife. (Strictly speaking, it is all about change of vibration rate rather than any “up” or “down” direction to heaven or to hell.)
For centuries. religions have used the concept of hell to frighten people into subscribing to their belief system. Mediums have been condemned to death as witches and warlocks and subjected to all sorts of horrible tortures. Their bodies were buried in unhallowed ground with knives and rivets through the thighs, knee bones, and feet to prevent the corpse from later rising and walking. Since 1712, when the last witch was burned in England, mediumship has developed and shown us that the hell planes are only a temporary sojourn on the soul's journey. Also, we have learned, through mediumship, that the angelic beings are able to descend to hell in order to help guide the souls who are there toward a better way of living. Even in this terrible level of being, God's work goes on.
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