Roger:
For the Maise quote you provided, I think she meant while alive.
I read one NDE experience where a lady blacked out as her boyfriend choked her. She said that he was a negative guy. He had an NDE where he went towards the light, but when it is was time for him to have a life review, he wasn't interested, and instead went to a lower realm. What this guy experienced is different than what the hit man experienced.
A hit man might be different than say a bully. A bully has some awareness that he is harming others, he bullies people because he wants to cause them to suffer.
Or consider people involved in politics in someway (either politicians or political commentators) that purposely lie to people in order to mislead, manipulate and control them. They couldn't lie to the extent they do, if they weren't conscious of what they were doing. Before they go through a life review, they will have to get over their attachment to the concept that it is okay to lie to others as you try to control them. A person such as a bully will have to get over his attachment to wanting to make other people suffer.
The Mafia like hit man example I provided contradicts some of the above. Perhaps he was motivated by indifference and a commitment to his crime boss, rather than something such as meanness, or being hungry for power.
Back to the bully issue, there are usually reasons for which people become bullies. If such people during a life review become conscious of why they became bullies, and then have some remembrance of their innate divinity, they are likely to become more open to recognizing in an honest and responsible way how they harmed others.
It is possible that Jesus told his prodigal son story for a reason.
rondele wrote on Jan 5th, 2020 at 12:48pm:<< I was also shown that there is no point in trying to educate these people of the errors of their ways>>
So true. A life review experienced by, for example, a serial killer would be useless. A masochist would probably take pleasure in feeling the pain and hurt he inflicted on others.
Even for most of us, a LR during an NDE may or may not materially change our behavior during the rest of our earth life. Being human is not a walk in the park. We're bound to do or say things that will hurt others, even after going through a life review where we are shown the consequences of what we had done prior to our NDE.
R