"The point was, God can't just appear in our dreams each night and straighten everything out. That isn't the way it works. You will say it would make things a lot easier, but it actually wouldn't be any fun, for him or for us. We have to find out things for ourselves. But once we DO find out things for ourselves, those things we as humans discovered cannot be erased. The spirit world does not allow it. Documents can be destroyed and people can be killed, but that is feckless since the information is ultimately not stored in documents or in people's bodies. It is stored in people's minds or spirits, which are photon bodies. In a sense, the very air around you remembers these things, and the governors cannot do anything about it. Once it is known it cannot be unknown."
This song is haunting, although not directly applicable to my personal experience.
There's an interesting semi-parallel in Revelation 7:17 and 8:1:
"...and God shall wipe all tears from their eyes. And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour."
Some years back there were some public comments from famous authors about the Susan in the Narnia books not being present for the Final Battle and what followed. It was framed as bigotry against women and people of average morals.
Neil Gaiman's came in the form of a short story, "The Problem of Susan," which from an excerpt I found is apparently quite vile.
Gaiman has fallen out of public favor as allegations against him have begun to surface.
Two other authors were J. K. Rowling, who ought to know better, and Phillip Pullman, who also writes vile stories, I've been told.
Pastor Douglas Wilson has a lucid, sensitive, and rather long rebuttal to the Problem of Susan; link below.
My own, lesser contribution here, is that C. S. Lewis was a fan of George MacDonald, and MacDonald wrote some vivid portrayals of spiritual devolution. In The Princess and Curdie, Curdie was given the ability to discern which beast a person's moral character was descending into by holding their hand. In ...
