I'm having conflictions with my spiritual belief regarding this.

How can the higher spirits on the other side just sit back and watch as we destroy ourselves??

Nicely put, Kardec-

Regression work tends to give the impression that very new souls are still impressed by the finality and absolute nature of power, physical limitations, and the obvious stupidity of making wars in order to create peace, while overlooking the needs and feeliongs tht underly the entire human experience. So the young souls begin by getting work as Kings, tyrants, rules and powerful warriors. Then they make wars to "set it all straight", and far more often than not, they wind up with more problems than they had at first. (I'll avoid giving examples.)

Later on, after a certain amnounbt of common sense sinks in, they look for work in which they can be major builders, arrangers, planners and the movers and shakers of society, so they can impose rules that are supposed to make things work. And often the impose terrible punishments, because they feel that these are people who "need to be saved from their human frailties". Thjis is less disturbing, but it rarely ends well, and never seems to solve anything.

The next stge is to loosen up a little bit more and look at the level at which problems arise, first on the Big Scale and then the issues that everyday folks have. And eventually we have a very few who become dedicated to service and wind up in spectacular missions of mercy. The rest tend to keep on working with personal issues until they are reborn as "just plain folks".  Bruce Moen is an engineer - nort an earth shaking profession, but auseful way to contribute. Edgar Cayce was a photographer, and more or less was "drafted" into service as a pro[phetic healer. Nisargadatta Maharaj was a businessman who owned a small market selling bidis (Indian cigarettes) and related items.

Meanwhile, along the way, we all try to generate rules of behavior for ourselves and others to follow. We occasionally mess up, but it's easy to force others to follow our rules anyhow. So now we have "religion". The actual centers of religious belief are rarely the ones who create the religious organization. Jesus' works were carrier forward by disciples, St Paul and others, Mohammed's works were elaborated by Ali and others, and often the core message (in these two cases, it was simply monotheism - that there exists only one god) gets overwritten by all the other freight that others are carrying and off they go, creating a new church.

The new church attracts young souls who feel that if they impose religious principles with sufficient severity they can force people to be good - and off we go again into a new cycle. Juditha's teachers are right on target calling this "almost the lowest state of existence in the spiritual universe".

If you will forgive a personal opinion, my suggestion to cure your problem with organized religions is to "go there and do it for yourself".  Bruce's soul retrievals are an excellent path into universal service, and universal service looks like a pretty good path to a higher level of existence.

dave