How have I defined the truth I have received? In my view we all have an innate ability to feel something is true when it resonates with one’s innermost parts. It feels right. Something within says to us “this is true truth, go with it”. Now, I can’t expect you to totally agree with my truth and so if you disagree simply put this aside and go on with your life as you are. However, if you can open your mind to the truth, as I have done, nothing in these writings will shock or disappoint you. It will resonate with your feelings in your innermost parts, as with mine.

True truth has only one source. That is the basis for all about which you will read. It comes not from one’s mind, or training, or culture, or religion.  Although we may derive bits and pieces in any or all of the foregoing it goes deeper than that. And everyone who lives life is endowed with the ability to connect to this truth. That’s not to say everyone will. One may live a whole lifetime and never connect. That’s what is great about the Source of true truth. It never is withdrawn no matter how long or how many lifetimes it takes, one is given as many chances as required to connect.  Are you shocked already to have read the previous sentence? Did he say "many lifetimes?" “Where is this going?” you might ask.  OK, I‘ll tell you—it’s going there-- lifetimes, plural, period. This is what it is all about and I intend to give evidence of it in the following pages.

 During my many years of seeking these elusive truths about life and living I have more than just read books. I have re-read, researched and compared one author’s finding with other authors’ findings and if I came across  conflicting statements that couldn’t be squared with the others that work was discarded. 

One example of potential conflict is that of whether or not “new Souls” are being “born” and if not why the increase in the world’s population if everyone is/has a Soul. After my having read the Conversations With God books several times over and having read God telling Walsch that everything, including Souls, was created in one grand instant, I felt a conflict had arisen with what I read from a book by Michael Newton who describes the “birth” of Souls. As I researched this more I found the answer in the Conversations books, primarily Book 3 of the trilogy. When you get to the section where I explain where  we came from I shall reveal the answer to this Divine Dichotomy.

 I have therefore chosen a legal format for revealing  this corroborative evidence as follows:

Who (are we?) Available now as an E-Book; The 1st of the Truth-On-Trial Transcripts

What (are we made of?) Available now as an E-Book; The 2nd of the Truth-On-Trial Transcripts

Where (did we come from, and are going?) Currently Being Compiled as The 3rd of the Truth-On-Trial Transcripts

When (did time begin and will it end?) Available later as The 4th of the Truth-On-Trial Transcripts

Why (did God create us in the first place?) Available later as The 5th of the Truth-On-Trial Transcripts

How (should we then live?-Epilogue) Available later as the wrap-up to the series

That will about cover it all, in six distinct sections--my world view--my truth. If it is not yours its OK, perhaps I can persuade you of mine in the end. And for no other reason than this burning desire to share my truth with you and to give evidence of what life is really about. And so we come back to the question of what expertise I have in this field. The answer is, by some standards—none, nada, zip. But--;

         Many years ago I was introduced to a man known as The Sleeping Prophet, Edgar Cayce. At one time in my life as a young engineer I had the opportunity to live in the adjoining County to the one in which Cayce was born and lived and prophesized. People in that area held him in great esteem and spoke of the man as divine. I became somewhat interested, then intrigued, and finally I began to read of his life and life’s work. I was as shocked as he to learn of previous lives lived by contemporaries. Consequently I put the book down in disgust many times, only to be drawn back with insatiable curiosity.

 You see, I was a professing Christian, a Baptist, a Sunday school teacher, choir member and believer in the Universal Church headed by Jesus Christ. So why did I “dabble in the occult” as my wife has put it so often? I’ll tell you why--it resonated. It was commodious with my innermost feelings. Deep down I knew there was something there that I could not eschew, even though my church eschewed it. And so I read in private, believed in private and practiced outwardly the forms of my upbringing in the church that would not bring suspicion of a lack of faith or disgrace to my family.

 This went on for years as I read more and varied accounts of the return of Souls for the many lifetimes of learning that can only take place where Souls are torn by emotion and physical feelings. A sentient world of time where the Soul is tested and developed and evolves and is strengthened as a muscle is by flexing to extremes. Not just once but many times. And then finally it becomes strong enough to withstand the many forces put against it.

 In the course of my journey from religion to Spirituality I have amassed a very large library on the subject of the Soul and the Soul’s travels and travails. It's large though not altogether complete. (I will be reviewing those books and authors throughout this writing without footnotes, but with proper citation.) Those I will share with you as we go on. Do I have a handle on it all? The answer is emphatically, NO!. If I’ve given that impression please forgive me. There are several gaps in my world view that will never be filled until I reach the other side once more. I have been told I have this knowledge deep inside but it is beyond my present ability to access it. How I wish it were not so! Therefore, I agree with Paul the Apostle who said, “We see through a glass darkly.”  

 God put the icing on the cake of my painfully developed world-view when He caused these words to be written, in Book 1 of Conversations With God:

     No. You are making a mock of me. You are saying that I, God, made inherently imperfect beings, then have demanded them to be perfect, or face damnation.

      You are saying then that, somewhere several thousand years into the world’s experience I relented, saying that from then on you didn’t necessarily have to be good, you simply had to feel bad when you were not being good, and accept as your savior the One Being who could always be perfect, thus satisfying My hunger for perfection. You are saying that My Son---who you call the One Perfect One---has saved you from your own imperfection---the imperfection I gave you. 

In other words, God’s Son has saved you from what His Father did.

This is how you---many of you---say I’ve set it up.

Now, who is mocking who?

That interchange, sealed the case for me. It rang true in my innermost parts and I have never ceased reminding myself of the truth of it. Many more such interchanges are in store for the reader as we move forward, not just from the Conversations With God books but from many others as well. 

 In Book 2, for example,  God is recorded comparing Spirituality with religion

     Religion would have you take its word for it. That is why all religions ultimately fail.

     Spirituality, on the other hand, will always succeed.

     Religion asks you to learn from the experience of others. Spirituality urges you to seek your own.

    Religion cannot stand Spirituality. It cannot abide it. For Spirituality may bring you to different conclusion than a particular religion---and this no known religion can tolerate.

     Religion encourages you to explore the thoughts of others and accept them as your own. Spirituality invites you to toss away the thoughts of others and come up with your own.

 We will never have complete clarity on this side. Something happens when we undertake another life on this world---amnesia is an agreement so that we can’t look back, only ahead, and certainly for our own benefit.

         As previously stated, you won’t find footnotes in the following pages although I will refer to several authors and use m many references to their work to make my point. I will attempt to keep those excerpts in the proper contexts so as to   as to engender the greatest clarity and understanding. The use of these resources is two-fold;

          1. I personally cannot relate experiences that might prove to anyone' satisfaction the value of my theses, and;

          2. It is my desire for you, the reader, to avail yourself of these same resources to which I refer, and build build       your own library. You will return to it often, as I have over these many years. 

 In this day of the Internet it’s fairly easy to research these books, authors and/or titles and read the material to which I refer. Rather than supplying you with fish it is my desire that you go fishing for yourself as a result of my sharing of these tidbits.

So, all that being said, let’s begin with the evidence, looking first at Who we really are.