Interesting, B2,

My thoughts - the life review is for loving souls. Most NDEs and other reports of the afterlife suggest that those who chose a path away from God (toward hate), found themselves in darkness when they crossed over, and then gravitated toward others of their similar inclinations.  A life review is an internal review meant for a sensitive soul to reflect, and learn.  In my opinion, you have to have a certain amount of love and good intentions to have this review occur.

So, assuming a person like Hitler was unrepentant in his expression of hate toward God and other people, it is unlikely that he would rise out of his own personal hell anytime soon - though its not for anyone to know with certainty.  Swedenborg and others have shown that all of us end up dropping our masks of civility after death and pursuing our truest deepest love, be it noble or ignoble. 

All that said, it is an oversimplification to make Hitler the man the embodiment of all evil.  I am Jewish, and yet I can say this.  He was certainly evil in his thoughts and actions, but the movement of Nazism, the ideology that proposed the extermination of millions, the war and carnage, were evil to the core, and more than any one man could create by himself. 

I maintain that a person such as this does not in general get a life review, and would most likely, act in death as he did in life, and gladly seek out a hell to interact with others of his ilk, to continue to pursue his true love and sadism. 

Other than divine intervention, it is simply unlikely that one goes from unloving thoughts and actions to the selfless helping of other people.


Matthew

I would think that Hitler did have his life review. Just like all of us will do/have. He more that likly placed himself just where he believed he should be afterwords. A "hell" most likly. I imagined him existing in a place where only Jews, Gypsies, and Homosexuals exist. With him being the center of their attentions. But I also believe him to have been able to exit this hell of his own making. Perhaps now he has gone to the other extreme and is now even a Jew himself. Feeling the hate from the Muslim world anoung others. I dont think he was the most evil ever. There has been worse. Most likly will be more, even more evil. I sure dont agree with his message of hate, but I will say, I forgive him. Just like I forgive all of those who followed him, killed for him. Of course there are those who still follow in his thoughts. That the Jews must be wiped off the face of the earth.  But isn't this a religion thing? The thought of...My God being better than yours? Just why is there are there so many people against the Jews?

I also don't think that Hitler is condemned by anyone but himself.  So if, after repenting over time, and wrestling with his karma, he can become more loving, then he would be a different person, evolving. 

I don't think everyone gets a life review.  This goes against many many reports of NDEs and other communications with the afterlife.  Many malicious spirits find themselves in a dark twilight type realm immediately after death, (do not pass Go, do not collect 200.00).

Many instances document that one has to be at a certain stage of loving development to have or benefit from a life review.

As to Hawkeye's question of why Jews are so hated, I think one could apply it to many different groups that are "different" and separate themselves from the norm in a society(homosexuals, African Americans, Muslims in America, etc.).  They make easy scapegoats.  However, the statement is somewhat offensive, even if not meant that way by ol' Hawkeye.


Doc

Thank you for your interesting replies. I am confused about the life review. Why would some people have one while others don't? Does it have a unique purpose? Do some people 'forget' their 'earth' lives, or portions of it, when arriving in the afterlife? Do they receive this information 'later' when they are ready for it?

Hi

I agree with Beau that life reviews are 'constant', or maybe I'd say intermittent.  We've already established  that we visit the afterlife regularly in our sleep. Surely some of those visits must be for 'business.' 
The reason I think this is that just the other morning I woke with the memory of a stern voice questionning me, "You don't agree with the Red Cross?!" (the US aid organization.) I mumbled some response about their sometimes having administrative problems, but I felt that censure for hours after waking. 

B2,  Surely there must be much we experience here that slips away, yet I don't know what category the extraneous experience might fit. Think of the children now who take to computers so readily. Computers don't seem to be an eternal truth necessary for spiritual development, but the newer children seem to be carrying  such skills that they may have picked up in a recent life.

I think we don't forget our attitudes. Attitudes mix knowledge, belief, and emotion, so they seem to me to be indelible markers.

Bets

Yes, I like that point. So many times, I have been given the idea that such 'instruction' can be valuable, that having the 'rug pulled out from under me' was a fine 'teaching lesson'... or somesuch...whatever.

I declare that one must pull the rug out from under one's own self.

I certainly don't need anyone else to show me what dirt looks like. I can take a look at it on my own.

Hmmmn. Thanks. I kinda like that thought.

heisenberg69 wrote on Feb 15^th, 2010 at 1:38pm:

gordon phinn wrote on Feb 4^th, 2010 at 2:08pm:


   I would agree that all serves a greater purpose and general appreciation is helpful, but i wouldn't go so far as to say that some Souls were hired to be the bad guys (hired by whom?), and that we should be thanking them for playing the lacking in light roles. 

   Also, originally there was no "need" to learn or evolve in the context of being human and having physical experiences. 

    This came about because enough Souls had turned their back on their Creator(s) and It's ways and beingness that it necessitated this kind of experience for our own benefit that we might find our way back. 

  Hence, if more had kept their attunement with Source originally, then we all would have kept playing the roles we were meant to and will eventually move into again, as full and fully conscious companions and co-creators with Source.

   Those Souls who continue to rebel against the ways and begingness of their Creator and against reality, tend to keep the collective in a more stuck state.   For every consciousness influences the Whole to some extent, and if one of us suffers or is stuck, it affects us all on some level. 

  A percentage of us voluntarily gave up our full conscious attunement to Source to get involved in this once very tangled mess called physicality in order to try to "retrieve" many of those original rebellers and stuck siblings.

  Many of us in this process, got overly stuck too from interacting with these collective energies of stuckness.

  In short, nobody hired anybody to express lack of light.  Most every Soul deep, deep down wants to attune to, and express a more pure Light, yet many get relatively lost in the collective stuckness that is physicality.