Afterlife
Afterlife – Explore Accounts of Life Beyond Death
Are you curious to know what others have experienced around the time of death?
In our original survey on spontaneous paranormal phenomena many people took the opportunity to share their encounters with death. While there were few references to the Grim Reaper, there were many fascinating accounts about personal encounters of death bed visions and after death communications.
Some survey participants had gone to the edge, the area between life and death, and returned. Others had been with their friends and loved ones when they had crossed over.
Their stories make for compelling reading.
In the following pages, read what others have written about death and dying.
Is there such a thing as life after death? What do others know about first hand about the tunnel, life reviews, and making the choice to return to this life?
We’ve probably all heard about near death experiences. There are those who have come close to, or been declared clinically dead, and yet have survived to tell the tale.
What of the children who come into this life talking about a past life? What do their stories tell us about life beyond this life? These experiences are widespread in countries such as India but are they also found in other cultures?
And what about the death of a pet? Just how close to we get to our pets and do they communicate with us beyond the grave?
A lot of death proof evidence was presented in the original survey and some of that is reproduced, respectfully and anonymously of course, in the following pages.
Today I Died
Check out the video above.
Death is such a complex issue and surprisingly few resources are available in the public domain on this topic.
Maybe death is still a taboo subject?
If it is, according to those who have experienced it, there is nothing more life affirming than a NDE.
This is a great video, from a very reputable source – none other than the BBC.
It is the first of 6 videos in the series and in it the research on near death experiences, by several well known and highly regarded doctors, is examined.
Does human consciousness lie outside the human body? That is, what if the brain is not producer but rather the receiver of consciousness?
Now that is quite a thought! Bear it in mind as you watch this video.
NDE or near death experiences have existed forever but it was only in the 1970′s, after Raymond Moody released his book Life After Life: The Investigation of a Phenomenon–Survival of Bodily Death
The psychiatrist Bruce Greyson developed the NDE Scale which classifies experiences according to the presence of various components, including:
- changes in the quality of thinking
- changes in emotional state, euphoria etc
- the leaving of the physical body
- existence of ESP experiences including visions of the past and the future, and
- transcendental experiences – meeting with deceased relatives, religious figures etc.
Enjoy the video and please share your thought below.
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{ 18 comments… read them below or add one }
There is ample evidence, in my opinion, that there is another dimension beyond or around the living, and those who have passed on – there is absolutely no doubt in my mind about it – but I would like to know more than a description of beauty and feelings of love and acceptance, and sometime communication.
With all do respect, what does the spirit do on the other side with all of it’s time? Nothing is revealed about the spirit developing further in the pursuit of art, music, engineering, medicine, or other disciplines one enjoyed on earth.
If the spirit simply floated about, I could not imagine anything more boring.
Ciro
Spirits aren’t human.
They have no real form other than the one the energy manifests itself as.
Why would a spirit’s needs be the same as a human who has a physical body, a thirsty mind for information and a need for entertainment to stave off boredom?
To Julie-Ann from Ciro
Then tell me Julie-Ann, will my persona and whatever gifts I came with into this life, be erased into a plasma of meaningless energy when I pass? Would not that energy include my persona, and life experience and ambition? Would I return to be someone different than when I passed, and was I different before this life?
My question still goes unanswered — to those of us who have been achievers, do we continue our development in the disciplines in the arts and sciences, or does that come to a halt when passing over, and we simply float around to await starting all over in the next round?
Ciro
Lovely to hear from you Ciro and good on you for coming back to your original line of questioning.
I’m keen to read Julie-Ann’s response too.
Ciao
Rosemary
Hi Ciro
My idea of Spirit is consciousness merely information of all that is. Of course all you have achieved and become in this life time is in that ‘One Mind’ to be accessed by whoever, whenever if they are able too.
As for you continuing your development when you are physically dead then I wouldn’t be 100% sure on that as I haven’t died. There are many schools of thought. I suppose all you can do is choose the one that most resonates with you and not necessarily what someone else believes.
When I attended a weeks training with Tony Stockwell to become a medium I was told that spirits go into hospital and heal before they go through lessons on many levels. That the person who lived on earth lives in spirit and if they were, say cantankerous on earth, they would be the same in spirit and the idea was to develop them into pure love. Now that doesn’t ‘fit’ with my experiences or beliefs. I tend to look at things with a healthy balance of science and spiritual, rather than full on spirituality as I used too.
I also like the fact that I can live for one lifetime and am not afraid of my own mortality and wonder if information comes from people’s fear of losing their life one day. At least in spirit they have eternal life and if they fail in this one they can come back and try again or continue on in the afterlife doing what they were doing whilst they were alive.
Somehow that doesn’t ring true to me. I can only summarise that I work on ideas that enhance my life in this time as it is all I actually have and if others benefit from my view point then so be it. And if they don’t I’m sure they will find their answer in some other way.
Julie-Ann
Hi Julie-Ann
Ill chime in here before Ciro replies.
Ciro and other members of the community have been discussing the afterlife for quite sometime and with varying degrees of inspiration and frustration.
Ciro, you so beautifully stimulated the discussion with your big question about what we do in the afterlife.
For those who didnt catch the beginning of the thread, here is where it all started:
Hi Julie-Ann,
I admire your telling it as it as it is attitude; and I would like to take the liberty to do the same as I think you would wish me to do.
Sorry Julie-Ann, but I don’t think we are not on the same page — there’s a disconnect – as though your responding to someone else’s post. Quite honestly, I don’t believe you answered my specific question(s), and it left me somewhat unclear about how I should respond, or if you were expecting one at all.
To be clear, my post was intended to solicit responses from a medium(s) who, if there is an answer give it, and if not say so. A response based on a creditable communication from a discarnate who has the answer. Not from the imagination and speculation of those of us, the living. Thus far I’ve received a number of oblige responses, similar to yours, but no direct answers — perhaps there is none.
I’m beyond confused by your “As for you continuing your development when you are physically dead then I wouldn’t be 100% sure on that as I haven’t died. There are many schools of thought. I suppose all you can do is choose the one that most resonates with you and not necessarily what someone else believes.”
My post “are we floating around over there?” clearly was referring to our departed soul, spirit or energy, not about continuing the development of the physical dead body. Was that not clear? What “schools” were you referring to? What thoughts — imaginations of those of us living, or those who have actually communicated from the other side?
I come away from your post, Julie-Ann, with the sense that my post was a platform for you to express your views which departed from my question, and I’m sorry to say, did not square with the body of information I’m acquainted with.
It leaves one, as Rosemary put it, “left wondering if all we will know about the afterlife, before we pass, is what we come to know as our own truth?” Is that what you as a medium wish to convey?
Ciro
Hi Ciro
I like your directness and we shall wait to see Julie-Ann’s response. I know that she is away on holidays for a week and so there may be a lag.
From what I can recall of all the discussion we have had here around you topic and others connected Ciro, there has been no definitive answer given about life on the other side.
Maybe there is no other side? (Am I allowed to suggest this? Yes I can. It is my blog after all.) Perhaps discussions about the paranormal are as much to do with life as they are to do with death. Perhaps they will always have a philosophical bent to them – with no right or wrong answer – merely a discussion of what is.
Ciao
Rosemary
Hi Ciro
I’m sorry my post confused you in part and left you feeling I was merely using my imagination and speculation to voice my own views.
I have used my skills as a ‘medium’ to help the living by contacting the dead and and was trained to bring proof that life after death exists.
I tend to explore more than just what others say, preferring to look outside the box and, since then I have realised that knowledge exists from beyond our conscious mind. I no longer contact spirits as my ‘medium’ to bring forth the required information and just connect with all that is to bring myself and others the knowledge they seek.
As you wish for a discarnate to answer your question through a medium then I have to say that is not my way and I wish you every success in finding the right person to answer this.
Julie-Ann
Why did you stop choosing to use the medium path?
Im sure soem here would be interested to know, especially those who are learning to open?
Ciao
Rosemary
PS Ciro, how’s that homework going
Hi Rosemary
I didn’t really choose to stop being a medium. At first as a psychic child I didn’t use an in between spirit, guide or other persona to tell me things that I couldn’t logically explain how I knew them. I just knew.
As I grew older curiosity and the need to be liked by others got the better of me and I started to ‘channel’ the same kind of information, wisdom and truth or get it via spirits and guides in my healing sessions and to individuals as appropriate. Over a period of time of doing this successfully I needed to explore the mind more.
To cut a long story short in 2004 I woke up one day and a voice inside told me I had to write a book called ‘How To Be.’
I believed I was being used as a channel for important information and that made me feel special. (Obviously this would mean I would be loved by all, funny not quite what happens!) This turned into the first of many books and ended up being called ‘How To Be You One’ and even when I was writing down a direct conversation with my spirit guide (Mikanon) I still believed the information was being passed to me direct from this spirit.
Only during this conversation Mikanon kept telling me I was him.
I argued and felt I may be getting ideas of grandeur. It took me ages to understand I had indeed falsified this guide to help me feel ‘safe’ to share the knowledge I was being given. After all if I was merely the messenger to share knowledge with others then I wasn’t to blame for what came through.
This created change and more confidence in the way I chose to share the accessed information. I carried on writing and even though I gradually learnt my doubt had caused the need for an in between ‘spirit’ messenger some people still think I channelled my books.
Now, whereas I used to ‘tap in’ to the higher consciousness I no longer have the ‘veil’ to separate me from it so I can readily access it on a need to know basis.
The end result is the same the information gets passed from consciousness to person just no longer with spirits or guides to support me. It therefore seems pointless for me to go back in time to self doubt when I have moved on. We take steps that advance us day by day, year by year, acting as a medium and a channel was merely one of mine to develop self belief and inner trust.
In some ways I have come full circle back to the time when I was an innocent child who had no doubt, religious beliefs or need to fit in by following the crowd, only now I have learnt compassion and discernment in sharing what I know to help others grow.
Beautifully written Julie-Ann.
And controversial.
Ill be interested to read responses from others who ‘channel’. Have they ever considered that they are not only the conduit but the source of their information? Is this too ar fetched for them to consider or liberating?
So, Id love to hear from the channellers, psychic artists in the Psychic Revolution community what do you think of Julie-Ann’s ‘take’ on how it is for her?
Ciao
Rosemary
Hi Julie-Ann
My very first post asked the question, which I believe was quite clear “what is the spirit doing over there?”
It was addressed to a community that I presumed included sensitives who could, if not answer the question directly, redirect me. It was not a solicitation for conjecture or opinion, but an expectation from a body of methodical research, or validation from a number of communications.
I believe I clearly acknowledged I was referring to the spirit passing over and not the human form, as was the question about furthering one chosen profession(s) in the spirit world. How the leap was made to equate that with a need for entertainment, or that I had implied spirit as a human form alludes me.
You initiated the dialogue, went far afield but never addressed my question and, after much dialogue, then claim that you dont do that (which I did not ask). Finally, you dismiss me with good luck.
One question Julie-Ann, when you’re communicating with the departed on behalf of those you say you are helping, does not one ask “what are you doing over there”? Would that be considered too intrusive, or too complex a question? Or doesn’t anyone care?
I would be very interested, and perhaps others as well, if you would care to share an actual extract(?) of a communication with a departed on behalf of a person you helped.
Ciro
Will leave this for Julie-Ann to reply to.
Cheers
Rosemary
Hi Ciro
As I have said my connection with the departed is nothing more than reading thoughts from the mind and passing them onto the living.
The people who come to me do not wish to know what their beloveds are doing they merely wish to connect with them one more time so they can move on and release the pain that grief brings.
My psychic skills are not used to prove there is life after death so I do not ask the questions you seek.
My own beliefs are through years of experiences and experiments with exploring all aspects of consciousness including telepathy, channelling, psychic readings and medium work. As I have said I am not the right person to provide you with your information. Sorry. I hope the right person does answer it for you.
Julie-Ann
Ciro is off line for a while – his computer has had an IT meltdown, so alas he is preoccupied.
However, Im wondering what other paranormal practitioners will think when they read your explanation of what you do, ie ‘my connection with the departed is nothing more than reading thoughts from the mind’?
You are actually saying a lot here and I wonder if those who are psychics etc will agree with your summary or be affronted by it?
I cant answer that.
We shall see when and if someone responds.
Ciao
Rosemary
My mom died after a sudden illness that followed a horrible 6 weeks of the intensive care unit and the 4 surgeries that were unable save her. I lived with my mom and returning back home knowing that she would never be there again was especially difficult.
I spoke aloud to my mom and said “mom please talk to me, if you are worried about scaring me…come to me in my dreams”. Later that night when I fell asleep I dreamed that I turned the corner and walked into her bedroom. She was standing there more beautiful than I had ever seen her….in fact she was enveloped in an luminous, warm, glowing light…. I fell to my knees and I began to cry…
I told her that I was so sorry about what had happened and that I loved her… She consoled me by saying that everything was alright and that she loved me …. I knew that she was ok and that nothing else really mattered.
Suddenly like a crack of a whip I woke up from my dream and i knew that my mom had been with me and she had shown me that what waits for us on the other side is love and a return to our true form.
I now know what they mean by a glorified body or spirit because that is what I saw.
Pat
Thank you for leaving a comment.
What a beautiful gift to be given from beyond the veil! I imagine your experience was very comforting for you at the time that is happened and perhaps it is even so now.
It seems many of us are able to escape our physical world in our dreams and this is what you were able to do, with help from your Mom. You must have been very close – I think this is the key to communication from the spirit world – certain bonds never die.
I know couples who have set up systems of signs so that they can be in contact when one partner dies. I wonder if this is necessary. Have you been in your Mom’s presence since then?
Rosemary