Some who’ve gone through a near-death experience reported having a full life review—the iconic “my life flashed before my eyes.” Others did not get that experience. Can Creator explain why that is a common, but not guaranteed, event with a near-death experience? Does that only happen in reaching the divine realm, or can one get the full life review while in limbo?

A full life review will not happen unless there is a return to the light proper. It is done when there is a very serious transition underway that is meant to happen, or in some cases where a consultation is needed to make a final determination, with consultation by that transitioning spirit with the higher self and Creator and others as advisors perhaps, as well, who all participate in a discussion to assess the pros and cons of the alternatives in question. Some decisions are quite difficult and complex because there are high stakes. If the life returned to will involve great suffering, there needs to be a careful consideration of the implications because it might do more harm than good to put a person back in harm’s way with little prospect of gaining ground but only incurring further damage and a karmic penalty as a consequence. Sometimes it is a question of honoring obligations and duty if vows and promises have been made to others, so that even if a person has a valid reason to exit and something has happened to set that in motion, like an accident, this review will give a person an opportunity to reflect on all the consequences that will ensue if this is indeed the final break with their life, and it might well be that they will decide to return even under more difficult circumstances in order to satisfy a promise made to a loved one, for example. That is the mark of the light being, to be of service with equal vigor to serving the self, and the purpose of such reviews is to allow the future to go better than the past, whether a person is returning to the light for a sojourn or at a decision point with a possible return to be among the living still. So this reckoning process is at a more advanced stage of transition. There might well be a simulation of the review done at an earlier stage, where a person is impulsed with an awareness of what will happen to perhaps a loved one, or even to themselves should they return, and that constitutes a kind of review of circumstances but in a very narrow‑focused way, to reach a quick decision based on key information, and not something more comprehensive. Indeed, the full life review is normally quite extensive because the entirety of the existence is gone through to mine from it as much meaning and significance as is present and only discernable from the divine perspective in hindsight, to note all of the things that went wrong, all of the shortcomings that were not surmounted, all of the potential turning points that came along but were not seized and taken advantage of, and so on. So the various things people experience and report reflect a variety of such scenarios and all were purposeful in order to shed more light on the choice under consideration to keep the transition going or reverse it for a high purpose.