I Think Neville Goddard Mis-stated What Happens When We Come Back to Life, er, Death

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From: Tina
To: imagicworldview <imagicworldview@aol.com>
Sent: Mon, Jun 8, 2015 5:37 am
Subject: Reincarnation

Hi Dan,

I am new to all Neville's teachings, and the one thing I am trying to understand is after a person dies (body) what happens to them? Oh and I love your blog..it was your commentary on Victor about the name of God that led me to Neville and my new awakening. I read your profile and saw that you read everything by Neville Goddard..so I said who is Neville Goddard? Well! Was I ever changed...thank you!

Tina
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Tina,

Thank you for the compliment and for contacting me with your question. It reminded me of one of the big problems I do have with Neville. I often listened to Neville's lectures on my long commute to work, and his answer to the question you asked was never satisfactory. In fact, it was frustratingly illogical. Neville's opinion is a little hard to pin down because we do not know of what, exactly, he was referring when he talked about his experience with the dead.

Being compelled eternal energy, after we pass we, of course, continue toward our destiny. Neville repeatedly asserted that after a person "dies," he or she finds his or herself conscious as a person about twenty years old with no recollection of being who he or she was previously. I look at kids and remember being a kid and say, "What?" Neville mentioned meeting his former secretary Jack and a couple of older men he knew from Barbados who had passed, all as twenty (or so) year olds. What he does NOT mention is how long those people had been living before his meeting them intersected their lives.

I suspect they had been infants and had grown as normal humans, and then he encountered them in their twenties. The point of the encounters in their twenties was that these people still had the same interests and types of personalities they had in their previous lives. Supposedly, we will too.

But that is not your question. Neville also mentioned talking to groups of spirits about "Woodland," i.e., life here. He said they couldn't believe it, that spirit could be involved with physical matter. Wait until they imagine what it is like and find themselves here! No, that's not it, either.

No, I do not know what happens to us when we pass. "Go to the light," they say. I figure that is Life, where we came from. I can tell you this: I am not afraid of death anymore. Like Neville, I am kind of anxious for it (but I am not going to do anything to accelerate the process). My mom went through it. My dad went through it. My grandparents, my friends and co-workers, my pets, all the animals and the fish in the sea--every living thing that ever lived and is not living now--went though it. Hey, if my hamster can go though it, what do I have to worry about? We have probably been through it many hundreds of times already, anyway. It just goes with being eternal.

I agree with Neville that there is no punishment. It is not reincarnation. We get "restored," as he called it, to being conscious as an entity appropriate to our level of spiritual maturity. About the worst punishment we can afflict upon ourselves is to come back here. I liken "wailing and gnashing of teeth" to crying as a baby born here and having to go through all the afflictions of human experience AGAIN. Ever play soccer? Afflictions are the kicks of the Ineffable guiding us toward our goal. Bless God, we can have the volition to roll toward the goal on our own, then He blocks for us. Is that the right game? We want to be playing the right game.

I am sorry I cannot answer your question more fully. If I get to come back . . .

And please take everything I say with a grain of salt. I would greatly appreciate it if you would try to disprove me and every other teacher you listen to and read. We are all wrong on one point or another (lots). The effort to disprove us will move you along and keep you from getting caught up in cults, and will prepare you for being the great teacher you are called to be.

Dan Steele

PS
Completely aside, I was shocked the other day went I visited youtube.com and saw all the arguments about the name of God and Chasidism and the like. Holy cow! Have people gone insane? They are calling people Satan just because they apply different vowel points to Hebrew words that have never had vowel points. For a God who doesn't have a name! Stupid beyond belief. What about just recognizing that we are Him, and we are supposed to become just like Him.

Hey, guys, we are supposed to put on His character and nature. Group hug!

Oh, something else about being back in Life (Heaven): the unlimited potential of the universe already exists unto the realization of our being the Ineffable, so, from the state of Life, regardless of how long we have stayed there, we can access birth back here at any point in time. How can we go back or forth in time? It is imaginary! We do not have to intersect physical time, but imagined time. I hope that makes sense. Chao!