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The Soul's Remembrance: Earth Is Not Our Home

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This is one of the greatest books ever written. It's a gift from God.
Roy Mills is just the messenger. It's too bad that most people are just
too busy to stop and read a book like this so they can learn and grow.
Spiritual growth is important. Most people ignore their spirit and
just work with their minds and bodys. It is important to create a harmony
between your eternal spirit, mind and body. I'm looking forward to
my trip to the Heavenly Council. My life review will be easy if i
simply do selfless acts and expect nothing in return.

This book is spectacular! As I read it, I was continually amazed at the tremendous amount and depth of the wisdom in it. Although this book is not about a Near-Death Experience (NDE), the information in it is similar to and consistent with that reported by many people who have had an NDE. I've read over a dozen books on NDEs, and if I had to choose, I'd say that "The Soul's Remembrance" contains the most insights and the most useful information applicable to living a loving life. It is truly excellent, and I highly recommend it to all seekers.

IN the main it was interesting. However, as I progressed through the book I found myself having difficulty accepting many of the things Roy put forth as universal. What he divulges as happening to him I would have to say they were unique to him and not everyone. There are many NDE stories and related experiences published over the years. The differences across these stories are sufficient the reader should take these with a grain of salt for literality.

I had what one might call a mid-life review. It came at a time when I really thought I had screwed up in a major way and I was headed to hell because of it. I knew what time it was when my experience began and when it ended. I also know just how long I was gone subjectively--nearly three days worth of learning and discussing my life up to that point, as well as what was coming. The most important thing I learned was my life's experiences were not "preplanned" and therefore "cast in stone." There was no "book" that I had used to select my life experiences from. There were no specific things that I had to experience or privation or suffering that I needed to go through. There were however certain things which I had chosen to experience in order to gain insight about mortality as well as personal progression. What was a great cause for relief was finding out that there are many ways for these things to be realized. There is no one unique experience (at least for me) that needed to happen. I was shown a kind of panorama of what my life had been up to that point, and several possibilities of what life would be like after that time, based on certain choices I would make. I was informed that while there were optimum choices for attaining the desired growth and learning, that could be had in any of those possible paths. When I asked if I could remember the things I had seen and learned I was asked the simple question: "Do you honestly think you could refrain from tampering with events by virtue of foreknowledge?" I had to admit that I did not have the strength of character to endure difficult situations if I knew they were coming ahead of time. But I was given the privilege of remembering key parts of that life review after they had transpired as an aid to help me know I was still "on track" with what I needed to learn, and that I had not made any serious blunders along the way. Roy must be an extraordinary person to know the future, but not mess around with it, trying to change the outcome to his own advantage. Frankly I find it terrifying to know too much about what the future can bring.

In my experience, there wasn't any intimation that my life was part of any great "plan", nor that God had any say in it except as a counselor does when observing what others are thinking. I did not experience any religion nor implication that religion had any bearing on earthly life. In fact I wasn't even aware of there being any "supreme being" of some kind running everything. I was aware of there being a lot of people who were a lot farther down the road of progression who were engaged in helping the rest of use get through this stage of development in a positive way.

I would offer the suggestion the reader use their innate intelligence and search out the parts that don't make a lot of sense--like God being involved in EVERYBODY'S life (come on 3 billion+ now living and who knows how many before that?)or that there are certain things we must go through here or we end up in less desirable circumstances there. And a smorgasbord of experiences all laid out in a book?

One thing I can say, we limit ourselves way too much by what we are willing to believe--about ourselves and what life has to offer. Take the positive parts as encouragement and leave the literality off.

What I like most about what I feel are TRUE spiritual teachings are their inclusiveness. I truly resonate with the message that all true spiritual teachings speak of the same thing and that ideology is not a part of it. I believe Buddha, Jesus, and Mohammed were all enlightened men who stood out among the few who have truly been fully enlightened and are therefore special human beings, but one not "better" than the other. What I felt uncomfortable about in Mills' book is the overemphasis on Christianity. He never says outright that you have to be a Christian to go to heaven, but it seems that Heaven is dominated by all things Christian. He actually says he met the "Father" and he was a man with white hair. He says he saw buildings leafed in gold. He says he met the Virgin Mary and Jesus. He makes Heaven sound like a very Christian,"Defending your Life" movie-ish version of heaven and that's what makes me uncomfortable. It doesn't ring true that God is a man sitting in the sky with white hair. I'd like to believe God is all around us and in everyone as well. On a tangential note, there's a story about killing a turkey that I couldn't stomach, but Mills calls it one of the funny things written in his pre-written "Life book." Things like that didn't resonate with me at all.

I would like to believe as another commenter noted that if Roy Mills had been Buddhist he would have seen a Tibetan Lama instead of Jesus. This makes me feel better about his experience because I believe he makes some wonderful points.

This book is a gem that we are all very lucky to even have to read. By all means sit back and take it all in. Wonderful!

Yikes! Looks Mr. Mills needs psychiatric help, and fast!