In part, DocM,
From  the angry spiritual seekers I've known and once was, I would say that some feel blind-sided by new challenges while trying to resolve previous problems. Yes, we're not given more than we can handle, but we could get overly-stuck on a problem,
thinking we have to solve it ourselves ( thru lack of faith in Spiritual Guidance,) and then be unready for the next or over-lapping ones. Then they/we may act out negatively.
I believe there is a 'straight and narrow' path set up to give us the most learning and the most reward, but our free will that makes wrong turns possible could get us into such frightening situations that we lash out in fear and anger.
Harder to prove would be
the idea that we come here from a variety of previous incarnations in various environments and are not fully cognizant of the challenges  21st C. Earth. I've read on these boards or in Bruce's books that some people recall amphibious lives. Personally I cannot rid myself of a memory that has me complaining:  'You want me to go there?!  They have to spend so much energy on sheltering themselves!' [with those clothes and buildings.]
Then also I believe, there are the Judases, here to do a job for some unknown Plan or Balance.
All the above would have the souls as underlyingly good. In the overview we're told Good and Evil are one. But that doesn't help when you're face to face with 'Judas', I realize.
bets

Why is one plane higher and another lower?  They are just different.  I think we have higher energy than the spirit plane, though it may vibrate at a higher frequency.  I'm not so sure playing the villain on earth is anything more than being the murderer in a school play.  I don't think it has much impact in the whole scheme of things.  If one considers the zillions of beings past and present (include critters & plants), the evildoers are nothing more than another form of noise in the experience.  (btw, I've got a few evil trees in the woodlot, they're not just in LOTR)  If you subtract out the throw-backs in human experience who are merely reverting back to a former animal instinct (animals seems cruel, but they are not bound by morals- lump in here crimes of passion and post-partem depression murders and the like), the numbers are insignificant aren't they?  Maybe the truly evil characters are required to provide an experience desired by the victims?  After all, some of these guys say god told them to do it.  Maybe it really happened that way.  (that doesn't change the deserved trip to the gallows, or whatever your respective country dishes out).  Or perhaps the victims are required to provide the experience for the evildoer.  For all we know, this is a pact made between victim(s) and perp before they were born, to share some wild ride.

hey guys. I look at this as a simple positive and negative look. I worte a god theory at 22 and wished it was published or never lost. From what I understood is that earth is the rykers island of learning. In my younger years I have alot of bad trees but it took those seeds to realize the right path. As per the bad ones I agree they usually say god told them to do it. In feeling and BELIEVING that god told them to do it I would think that they in fact would go to heaven although a rough transition it would be. I used to believe you would go to hell if you committed suicide and when the time came I didnt care where I went just not here. Now I believe if I commit suicide I will go to heaven still which to me is even a bigger responsibility, although I would get sent back most likely. I think bruce explains it best in his books which I would highly reccomend reading. All in all depending on your beliefs you will go where you believe you deserve to go. Theres always us, helpers, and retrievals to help them out of hell...

Hi Iread in Doris Stokes the mediums book that there is a lowest plane were people go . They are people like hitler and those who are really evil.But they can be saved because the spirits come down from the highest plane and open there arms and they say who wants to be saved.She said some of them are so evil they refuse to be saved . Those who want to be saved the high spirits take them up to learn remorse and love . Ive wandered sometimes why do these people reincarnate .perhaps they are given a second chance on earth to love there fellow man and if they fail perhaps they have to do it again until they do learn love . Im probably wrong but its just a thought .God bless juditha

The question is then, if a soul is retrieved from a hell, they should have made a fundamental change toward love and God.  Only then could they leave the "lower realm."  Ok.  Then, if through grace and their own change in belief they leave the hell, why would they incarnate and then committ atrocities and hatred (or be given the chance to)? 

In other words, pick an unremorseful serial killer.  To tell me that he/she was previously a Hitler who appealed to God's grace, saw the light then was reincarnated and followed the wrong path again seems a bit twisted.  If someone is saved from a hell of their own making.  They may want to give something back, guide others out, etc.  They certainly would not want to go back to earth and enact horrible acts or crimes. 

M

Perhaps, we choose a life which is difficult - in order to test ourself. We find out, it was to much - and something goes really bad. We pay the price, which is going to a hellish dimention. The question is, what will be our reward for completeling such a life?

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and how is consciousness measured?