Love's Eternal Legacy

Arvin S. Gibson

Review

This is a tender tale of love that cannot be bound by the veil of forgetfulness which separates us from the loved ones we knew and are yet to know. Arvin Gibson weaves this tale from knowledge about what life is like beyond the veil, drawn from his personal interviews with hundreds who have had near-death experiences and glimpses of their pre-mortal life.

Readers' Comments:

Love's Eternal Legacy is much like looking into the starlit sky on a summer night. It helps you examine your sojourn on earth with an eternal perspective! -Mark B. Taylor; M.D.

Arvin Gibson has done a superb job of creating a novel by weaving together intriguing threads of light and knowledge from his research in near-death experiences. -Jeremy Masterson, Canadian Businessman

Love's Eternal Legacy is a spiritually uplifting tale combining pre-mortal existence, mortality, and the after-life, generated from fresh new research involving near-death experiences. -Fred L. Beckett, Utah State Microbiologist/ Mycologist

Arvin Gibson's first-hand research among those who have had near-death experiences is reflected in his depiction of the spiritual realm. His vivid descriptions, attention to detail and scriptural insights serve to create a picture that is understandable, believable, and thoroughly inspiring. -Leanne B. Mayo, Educator

This imaginative novel draws upon the author's compelling research into near-death experiences to describe unseen worlds which support each human life. In Love’s Eternal Legacy, death is not death—but one's fourth birth. And life is just a few frames in one's eternal video. He writes with feeling and insight . . . and his novel reveals the rest of the picture. -Ralph Mabey, Attorney

This novel gives joyful, inspired insight into our true purpose on earth. It uplifts the spirit and integrates spiritual and physical reality. -Philip R. Pluta; Ph.D; Nuclear Engineer

Table of Contents

Foreword, 7

First Day of Forever, 11

The Award, 23

Last of the Big-Time Spenders, 31

Home Cooking, 45

The Least of These, My Brother, 57

Sometimes a Phone Call, 69

The Emergence of Butterflies, 81

The Flowers of Early Summer, 95

Charly, 103

Onward Christian Soldiers, 117

You Can't Save Cotton Candy, 131

The Changing of the Guard, 137

Pesky Little Brother of the Bride, 143

This Could Be the Big One, 149

Sample Page

The class was already in session when Laura arrived. Smiling at her as she entered, Teacher Gallexus mind-transmitted a quick synopsis of what had been covered in her absence. Then he continued orally instructing the class in Earth characteristics.
"So, you see, Earth was formed by Elohim, the Father, Jehovah, the Son, and Michael (who became Adam) in such a way as to emphasize physical characteristics, and to de-emphasize spiritual characteristics. When you go to Earth, your memory of a spiritual life before Earth life will be obliterated. You will have The Word from prophets and from The History, and there will be prayer, but many people will not believe The Word."
"How can they not believe?" asked Shemey.
"Because, aside from the written Word, there will be no evidence that you existed before Earth life or that you will exist after it."
"Won't the Earth itself, and all the living creatures in it, be evidence of the living Father and his Son?" Laura asked.
"That's a good question. The problem is, in order to protect agency, or free will, knowledge of life after life on Earth must be very obscure. Thus, when you reach the end of your life, as with all other living forms of life, your bodies will die. People will see what happens after death, and many will think that's all there is."
"Please explain death, again, Teacher Gallexus. It sounds so ghastly, I'm not sure that I understand it," Sharnz requested.
Gallexus smiled. "To those on earth who do not believe in The Word, it will be ghastly. At your appointed time your body will experience pain and illness, or because of an accident it will not function properly, and it will cease to live. At death, the spirit will leave the body and return to Father. Other living people who witness this death will not be able to see the spirit, except in exceptional circumstances. To them, the body will become cold and the limbs will fail to move. With time, the body will decay to dust. Viewing the decayed body of a dead person, with its accompanying heavy odor of decay, many will be convinced that this is the end destiny of all living beings—to be destroyed with no consciousness of ever having existed."
"How does pain work?" asked Sharnz.
"It's understandable that you cannot know what pain is; you've never experienced it. When I went to Earth, and other Teachers had explained the idea to me, I only dimly understood what they were talking about. Yet, when it happened to me it was a vivid experience, and it was not pleasant.
"You say that pain is unpleasant. How can anything that's unpleasant be good?" asked Shamz.
"It's good in the sense that it alerts you to problems that need to be corrected to protect your body. It also is a great teaching tool to see how well you respond to this form of adversity. Satan and his followers will be there trying to get you to surrender to the pain. But that's the subject of a different lesson."
Gallexus searched the room, using thought transference to find out how the students were receiving his instruction. Most of them seemed to be absorbing it reasonably well. He knew from his thought query of Laura that Mathias was absent and would have trouble accepting some of the ideas. He wondered if Mathias would be ready for Earth when Laura left. She was so anxious for them to go together. Considering these issues, he looked again at
Laura, and she signalled a question.
"Yes, Laura?"
"I still wonder why people on Earth disbelieve in Father and the Son. I object to your characterization of God as an idea. The Father and the Son are not an idea—they are real, and they created us and everything in the universe."
Smiling to himself at Laura's vigorous defense of God, Gallexus said: "You're right, Laura, but you're thinking in terms of a spiritual being. Put yourself in the position of the Earth-bound scientist who knows what his science teaches him and is skeptical of anything else."
"But the mind of God is made known to humans through The Word. All they have to do is read the History. Furthermore, there are prophets to tell them the mind of God. Surely that should help them understand what God is saying."
"That would be true if they read and believed the History, or if they listened to the prophets. A large fraction of them, though, do not believe the History or the Prophets."
"How do they think that the Earth and all living things in it came to be?"

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Title: Love's Eternal Legacy Author: Arvin S. Gibson Retail Price: $14.98 Available: Now ISBN: 0-88290-504-X Order Number (SKU): 1955 Pages: 204 Size: 6" X 9" Binding: Paperback