This is a distorted belief—a figment of imagination, or many imaginations. What you refer to as souls are not being held somewhere against their will. If souls are incarcerated, they incarcerate themselves. 

The reason why I call out distorted beliefs is because by the time you realize it’s a distorted belief, you now exist within that distortion. Your reality becomes that distorted belief. And as all of my students know, your belief creates your reality!

A hellish state is a psychic creation. It only exists in your reality within its own dimensional framework. Guides, as they are commonly called, can telepathically manifest in these realities, altering your psychic creative efforts and withdrawing you from this distorted loop of psychic creation and emotional in-drawing, with belief acting as the glue holding it all together.

Beliefs are important. What do you believe?

Distorted beliefs can and do fall away, but some don’t. Quite honestly, there are realities that exist populated around distorted beliefs by what you would call normal people in normal communities who see no need to give up certain periods of time or belief systems of a time, so they exist there. If, say, a calamity might befall them, they may telepathically choose not to end their civilization but to continue on along an alternate timeline without the cataclysm. Ancient civilizations in your so-called past that you know of exist now just on a different “physical” timeline.

Your concept of time is not what is, but rather what your collective ego chooses to believe. Belief creates your reality.