What is the life review process?

As a spirit, you still have the same experiences―the same problems―the same hopes―with even greater and wider aspirations for work, only now you view them from an entirely different angle, and with far greater dawning comprehension.

Now you are learning to apprehend the meaning of much that happened to you.

You see it as a background pattern.

In a way, you are beginning to realise the effects of your thoughts,  and to view the events that were set in motion by these very thoughts and ideas.

This is indeed a most sobering exercise.

When in the body one is so limited by environment―emotions―difficulties―that it is very hard to judge accurately such results as might possibly ensue from the planning, and when you do try to assess the value, you are so often wrong because you yourself―your small egotistic self―gets in the way and deflects the purpose.

Here you live so much more in the realm of mind.

As you ponder over an experience―or a purpose, the mind stretches out to see all sides of the problem.

This is a new, and not always exciting―or pleasant experience.

It is rather like a chain reaction―much more potent and real than the old association of ideas of earth psychology.

Here, as one thinks, one is.

There is no compulsion, of course, to review your past life on earth as soon as you arrive and the new life here begins.

Some take a long while to tackle the problem.

They dread to see the effects of mistakes and failures.

Somewhere, in the deeps of your mind two ‘blueprints’ are brought forward into your consciousness.

These are so clear that you can literally take them out, materialise,  and study them.

One is the perfect idea with which your spirit went bravely into incarnation.

The other is the resultant of only a partially understood plan―in fact, your life as it was actually lived.

It is a shock to you, and a very salutary experience to find that these two plans differed exceedingly.

And yet, one learns so much by facing the results.

In a way, the blueprints resemble maps with coloured places and light and dark patches, and a kind of glowing ‘sun’ for the highlights.

First of all, the mind looks at the whole comparison and sets the blueprints side by side.

This is the first shock―a true humbling of yourself to find that you did so little when you would have done so much―that you went wrong so often when you were sure that you were right.

During this experience, the whole cycle of your life-term unfolds before you in a kaleidoscopic series of pictures.

During this crisis you seem to be entirely alone.

Yours is the judgment.

You make your own decisions.

You take your own blame.

You are the accused, the judge, and the jury.

This is where quite a few souls in rest homes become immobilised.

Their pictures are too searing in their exposures.

So spirits try to help them along, but only when they have made the ‘inner desire’ to right their wrongs.

‘Someone’ is beside you.

Only now, as you ponder, work out, go over, tabulate and judge what you did, and why and what were the results, you are gloriously ‘aware’ of this great being beside you, giving strength, peace, tranquility and helping with constructive criticism.

This is a wonderful experience, though harrowing at times.

But very cleansing and bringing new hope.

Lots of these here have got ‘stuck’ on their ‘first picture.’

So the sisters here in the homes try to link up with Great Ones and bring help and strength to the stumblers’ level.