Hello Werner,

You asked,
What happpens to the souls of mentally ill people like schizophrenics who commit suicide?

There is no judgment in the afterlife. We are all in a spiritual progression and there is no right or wrong place to be. No one judges a person who commits suicide. That person is met with compassion and helped through the crisis that brought him or her there.

We enter the next plane of our eternal lives exactly as we were when we made the transition. A person who was mentally ill will still be mentally ill, although mental illness is caused to a great extent by oppression from lower-level spirits and that will go away. Then, the person can begin to grow spiritually away from the patterns that he or she had been displaying on the Earth plane. We grow from where we are. No one is judged and required to reincarnate. We decide to grow spiritually and decide if we want to reincarnate to either help someone on Earth or grow ourselves.

The term "soul" creates problems because people have unusual beliefs about what that means. It is better to talk about the mind than the soul. We are our minds, and our minds carry on. We have a greater mind that has been experiencing different incarnations, and eventually we'll be able to review and integrate what we've learned, but not right after crossing over.

You asked,
Is their suicide justified? Will they still be allowd to go to the highest astral dimension called Summerland?

Nothing on the Earth plane is judged in the spirit realm. There is no question about whether suicide is justified or not. That's an Earth judgment people make. In the spirit realm, we are all growing and becoming. What we are is spiritual, not what we do. The important question is, "Is the person who committed suicide growing away from the issues that caused him or her to end their life?" But there's no judgment that they're bad or justified or unjustified. It's all spiritual growth, and we're all working at it at our own paces.

I've read about "Summerland," and have heard someone on the next plane of life refer to it disparagingly. There's not really any such place, as far as I've heard in the seances I've listened to and books I've read. There is so much about the afterlife that is kind of shared legend or mythology. People pass it around and it seems to have validity because you see it so much, but as far as I know, there's no validity to it.

What those on the next plane of life say, repeatedly, is that there are millions of planes, levels, and spheres of existence, and we pass from one to the next seamlessly, so there aren't really levels, and there aren't huge places where people are located. The afterlife is vaster than we could ever imagine.

Love and peace, Craig