Neville Goddard's Restoration as a Twenty-something Year Old And Built-in Antiquity

"How many times must we tell the tale?
How many times must we fall?
Living in lost memory you just recalled . . .
Satisfied, but lost in love,
Situations change,
You're never who you used to think you are,
How strange,"
(Eric Clapton, "Pretending").

Neville Goddard had the strangest theory of after-life I have ever heard. He posited that when a person "dies," he or she wakes in another physical-sphere existence as a twenty-or-so year old with basically the same interests and things needed to learn as they had had in their previous existence. He called it restoration, as opposed to reincarnation, which entails punishment for bad karma. I honestly could not accept the idea, because, well, I remember being a kid, and I have children. We were all BORN, were we not?

Maybe not. For I recall the theory of built-in antiquity I heard (and did not accept) at Melodyland School of Theology (MST) back in the 1970s. Built-in antiquity was not a doctrine endorsed by MST, but it did come up in a discussion about creation and the age of the earth (or for that matter, the age of the universe). The theory of built-in antiquity deals with the question of whether or not the Almighty Intelligence--God--could know all the effects of ages of evolution--13.8+ billions of years for the universe and 4 to 5 billions of years for this solar system--and create THIS WORLD we live in in our imagination with all those never-actually-happened effects within it. I.e., could God have STARTED Creation at this end?

Could it be that our memories of childhood, or of yesterday, are false, or at least supplied? We can visit the house we were raised in, but were we ever really there? The park we played in, our old school, our classmates--did we just wake up with them as false memories, our personal built-in antiquity? If the world is our selves pushed out, our imagination's projection, if all this is a dream--"lost memory you just recalled," is anybody actually there?

We say that we understand what God is doing, that we know His plan. But are we actually pretending, pretending to understand?