Published on 12, July, 2020
Hi , does anyone ever think about the afterlife ?.
Like is there one ? .
If there is what is it like ? .
I've been obsessivly thinking about it since an experience that I had at Bodmin goal .
My nan had died one year prior to my visit to the goal .
I went with a friend to the ghost event and I we were in a group of six , we did the glass thing where everybody puts a finger on the glass and the spirit uses the energy to move the glass .
I was very skeptical about the whole thing , the medium was saying that a lady was there that used to be a maid or something .
I had read somewhere that if you say the deceased name and then say come forward , that they will come through .
The medium said that you can ask a question in your mind and the spirit will hear you ,so I said my nans name ,come forward .
I kept repeating this and then the medium said oh wait there's another lady coming through , she's pushed the other lady out !.
And then she started asking are you an older lady etc and the glass was moving .
Anyway it turned out it was my nan , the medium had described her down to a T and was saying that she is laughing at me .
She then said "she's showing me her legs , they're lovely legs she said but I don't know why she's showing me "
I didn't say anything but my nan had cellulitis in her legs.
I can't wrap my head around how she knows all this and I can't wrap my head around how a spirit can function without a brain .
I've over analysed it so much that It's made my anxiety bad because now I'm scared of dying because I don't know what to expect.
Can someone help me put this to bed please ?
I find it impossible to look at the exquisite forms of succulents, sea shells, crystals, and not sense that there is intelligence there
We're travellers here, O. Spirits passing through. And the love we give is all that will endure.
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That's true but I think of that from a more scientific stand point in that we die and we return out energy and nutrition that's in our bodies back to the earth and it helps to grow plant life and feed animals.
I like that thought that I'm useful to something or someone after I die and that even though im dead my body is still useful for some purpose
PM me, as per usual, if u need to talk ---- and let me know what your shrink says today
there are many Buddhists and Mystics sections which believe this
I like that. It's like Rick & Morty - infinite me.
Energy forms and reforms in a continuous cycle, a never-ending cosmic dance. Like the changing shapes, colours and patterns in a kaleidoscope.
Energy forms and reforms in a continuous cycle, a never-ending cosmic dance.
You're not going anywhere, and at the same time you're going everywhere.
remember the koan "what is your face like before your mother was born ?" that's what death is like
I do think about it, a lot. I'm not scared of dying, even though I don't know what will happen.
There's a huge amount of literature on reincarnation coming from Jim Tucker and Ian Stephenson. My mother said she could remember being a lady in another life and was constantly asking her mother who this former lady had been.
Then there are the nde's so often reported.
If course nothingness could still be awaiting for us all but I cannot rule out the idea that that maybe the ghost in the machine paradigm is faulty, and those who say, as some physicists now would, are less in error and that consciousness is everywhere, not as a by-product in the shabby human meat computer
I would like something to happen after death not necessarily a heaven or anything biblical but just something would be nice, maybe reincarnation but my more logical, rational side says well it's just the state of non-existence. Just like how you were before you were conceived, developed into an embryo and then birth, you weren't there and that's how it will be after we're gone. It's not nothingness or blackness or anything like that it's just non-existence.
Try and remember what it was like before you were born... you can't and that's what death is.
I'm pretty sure that there's no afterlife - but you know my circumstances - so I'd like to hope.
In a way, there's no point worrying because you'll only *know* when you're there - or not.
Energy forms and reforms in a continuous cycle, a never-ending cosmic dance. Like the changing shapes, colours and patterns in a kaleidoscope. When people die, a part of them lives on with us. That part of them is love. Wherever we are, they are too. We will never be alone. We're travellers here, spirits passing through. And the love we give is all that will endure.
I don't think you will be able to put this to bed, in the sense of simply being able to dismiss it or exsin it rationally.
Your experience sounds similar to that of what happens to others who visit a genuine medium. I have an autobiography by Lyndall Hopkinson, the daughter of Antónia White (in case anyone remembers the BBC 80's Frost in May quartet where Hopkinson also visits a medium.
I used to do psychic fairs but for some reason I never had much time for mediums, all a bit too 'white light' for me, and my experience was that often the spirits, or more likely the psychics themselves, could be spiteful. Seems there are plenty of trolls on the other side, hence all the warnings about being careful when using ouija boards, ghost boxes and the like.
I understand that a true medium is certainly able to offer a bereaved person closure in many cases, obviously there are plenty of charlatans too in this area who are simply very skilled at character reading. It may well still be most important to focus on this life, in hospices many people are said to be able to see their loved ones again, but then they are in hospices for a reason.