What happens in a life review?

 

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 differ 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 one seems to be entirely alone.

Yours is the judgment. You make your own decisions. You take your own blame. You are the accused, the judge, the jury.