Restored to Life as a Twenty-something Without a Childhood? I Think Not

I have no doubt that Neville reported accurately what he observed, but I doubt that we are restored to living on a terrestrial sphere as a twenty-something year old immediately after dying from this life as he said. I do not doubt that was his assumption from what he observed, but I think his conclusion was wrong. There are far too many testimonies from people who have died and come back who say otherwise.

For one thing, many say that there is an interlude between lives, during which our "sunflower" selves (see "Unless I go away," http://www.mindserpent.com/library/goddard/audio/neville_goddard_unless_i_go_away.mp3, or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sux5iWH-Vmk) plan what they want to accomplish in these lives. That may be an illustration given to them. Another thing is that when Neville encountered his friends restored in their next lives in their twenties, they would have already have had their childhoods.

I think what was happening is Neville's friends, and possibly we too, had double lives going on. The same "sunflower" mentality could flip into a human consciousness to accomplish whatever it has planned, and making insufficient progress in it flip into another human consciousness to try it as another of the same person. We might already be doing a do-over.

So Jack, Neville's secretary, who died in his fifties, was already living another life when he died and Neville buried him. Half a year later Neville visited the newer re-Jack, and he did not know that Neville had known the first Jack or that the first had died.

From Neville's "Truth, the Word of God" (http://realneville.com/txt/truth_the_word_of_god.htm):

"My wife's oldest sister is a darling. We love and respect each other, but she cannot believe what I teach. Although she believes in the Bible, and calls herself a good Christian, she could not believe me when I said she would not die. That even the little flower which blooms once blooms forever, for I am a God of the living, not the dead.

"Now, Alice would not believe me on this level, so I reached her on another level. In 1948, my secretary, Jack Butler, died quite suddenly. Six or seven months later, fully awake and aware of where I was and what I was doing, I visited Jack. Although he was 50 when he died here, he was a young man in his twenties, there.

"Standing beside me, Alice said, 'You know, I still don't believe what you teach,' and I replied, 'How can you say that when you see Jack here?' 'What does he have to do with it?' she asked. And I replied, 'Don't you remember, Jack died in August of last year.' With that remark Alice's face took on an expression of complete amazement. Knowing I was telling the truth, seeing Jack denied her belief in non-survival.

"Then Jack spoke saying, 'Who's dead?' and I said, 'Jack, you are not dead, but you died. I gave you a good Catholic funeral and your body is buried in a Catholic cemetery.' 'Oh' he said, 'You're stupid. You say I'm not dead but I died. That can't be.' Then I said to Alice, 'Come over here,' and I placed my hand on Jack's thigh and said, 'See, my hand doesn't go through his flesh. It's solid. If I cut him right now he would bleed. He would hurt as you would hurt.'

"With this remark Jack took my hand and slapped it saying, 'Get your hand off me,' just as he would do were he here. You see, there is no transforming power in death, and Jack did not know he had died. Not everyone knows of the transition. Some take years to discover it.

"Although Alice was with me at the time, she didn't remember the incident. If she had, it would have taken on the form of a dream, to her. But, being fully awake, I know exactly what I am doing every moment of time. Today Alice believes in survival, although she doesn't realize that that experience was the beginning of the subtle change in her.

"When you are sent, you will carry the message of the one who sent you. You will tell all who will listen that there is only one body, one spirit, one love who embraces and incorporates the individual into a single body who is the Lord Jesus Christ."