BACKWARDS: Returning to Our Source for Answers Paperback – January 15, 2020

This book is fantastic. Nanci gives us her deeper interpretations of her near-death experience. Most importantly, she tells us that what we call God is simply the source of the universe. Also, she is not afraid to tell us that religion has it all wrong. There is no such place as Hell and no true religion. It's all about love.

Q: Why do so many people that meet God through a Near Death Experience or have God "talk to them" always seem to be SELLING a product or service? For example, people like Neale Donald Walsch with his "Conversations with God" books, Betty Eadie's NDE books, and Alexander Loyd with his "Healing Code" books, among MANY other people selling their "insider" God info. IS that what God told them to do, to SELL the knowledge God gave them (*cough* *cough*) for free? I'll leave it there, and resist the urge to state P.T. Barnum's most famous quote. I hope the lady below is different.This Nanci Danison NDE book is a really tough book to wrap your mind around, and despite the book having so many contradictions in different parts of it, I really do believe that this is Nanci Danison's true experience, despite her website that's selling books, cds, seminars, "1 hour manifesting coaching sessions" for $100, etc. But to find out that we're only imagined characters in God's thoughts, that God never intervenes, that prayers do not work, and that there is nothing to protect you from this sometimes horrendous world, is inevitably going to bother any thinking person.One of the many contradictions in this book is, she says there's no punishment in the afterlife. There most certainly is, during the life review. She says God never punishes anyone, but you're still being punished during the Life review for anything whatsoever that bothered anyone even in the slightest, so don't say there's no punishment, because there is! And having a life review after you've already died is a little too late for God telling you what's right and wrong, isn't it? And that's another problem with this book. They're supposedly is no right and wrong in the eyes of God because God created us with it's thoughts so it could have first hand experience in the flesh, because God is all intellectual and does not have a body. And yet, if there's no right or wrong, why is there a life review? And if God created us with its thoughts and is living through every one of us, why are we going to be punished through the life review for what God chose to do through us?I really like this book, and I think she's telling the truth, I really do, but this makes me very disappointed with the so-called unconditionally loving God, who she refers to as source in her books. That's my take on this book. Your mileage can and probably will vary. I'm just telling it as I see it, and as I said, this book is loaded with contradictions, but they may not be contradictions after all, but just different points of view.It's just disappointing and terribly scary to find out that this so-called loving God doesn't care about his so-called imagined characters called humans, or really ANY life on Earth. This DOES perfectly explain why so many terrible things have happened in this world since it's beginning, right to the present day, doesn't it? Animals are forced to live in fear and pain, live in harsh weather conditions, forced to eat other terrified animals, etc. The human existence isn't much different, so it's pretty hard to believe a "loving" being created all this, but it's VERY believable that a complete monster created all this. Also, the author says reincarnation is real, so can you imagine having to come back to live in a horrible environment over and over and over again, because some being that's supposed to be all powerful can't even make his own body, so he makes helpless pawns? Not my idea of a loving person. I believe the author, but I wish I never read this book. And for a lady that has a YouTube video where she says God expects nothing of us, the last chapter is super preachy with all its do's and don'ts.

Just time for a quick word—I hadn't read any of her previous books, didn't know there were any. First of all, I think the title "Backward" shows poor judgment as to what to name a book that purports to be about wisdom! Just saying.I haven't been interested enough to finish this book. I was expecting something more on the lines of Michael Newton's "Journey of Souls" and "Destiny of Souls" with lots of stuff about life in our true home. She had an experience where she by-passed the lower "Summerland" type of levels, and so she seems to think that says something about the NDEs of people that only get to the gate of heaven or a bit beyond it. It seemed to me that she is taking her experience as a kind of template for all NDE or visionary experiences and deriving information about heaven in general to teach people. I could not agree with that for no other reason than it didn't fit with much of the other material I have read over the last 12 years. There was too much of an "I know it all" attitude, therefore, for my taste. But apparently she has helped many people, according to feedback she reports in this book, so that is always good!

I've seen and read many NDEers' accounts of their experiences. Danison's story seems authentic at first blush. But over several live presentations and a few of her books, I find that her story doesn't hang together. She contradicts herself, in subtle ways. Her demeanor to listeners in live presentations is sometimes rude and dismissive, something you absolutely don't see with authentic NDE experiencers. She makes outlandish claims about the nature of the physical universe. I won't list all the discrepancies I see. Danison is a fraud, in my opinion. My suggestion is to find a better source for NDE stories.

I don't know anything about this book, my son wanted it. He is happy about it.

I read this book with the authors’s perspective/experience and this feels true.