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One of the extraordinary things for me about being an administrator of AfterlifeForums has been watching the growth of individual members. Studying the afterlife turns out to be not about dying, after all: it is about living. Each of us faces a particular set of challenges in moving through this lifetime, and for some of us those challenges can seem to be almost insurmountable. But, wonderfully, our members help each other! This past week I read a four–post exchange between two of our deeper ...

I understand that religion and spirituality are two different things, and I'm not religious. What I don't get though is why people report seeing religious figures? Sometimes there are sightings of Jesus, or of the Virgin Mary. Others see religious figures in their near-death experiences. Are they all hoaxes?

When it comes to religious sightings, such as those of the Virgin Mary, or of Jesus, notice that it is always people who subscribe to that particular religion who see the figures. ...

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A common question people ask is, “If we are truly of God, then why is there so much evil or hurt, or sadness? Or is God experiencing life through us? Do we forget that we are come from good, when we incarnate?”

Suffering, which is what we experience, and evil, which is what others inflict on us that we experience, are a result of humankind’s still being at that level a child is in during the terrible 2’s. The child sees ...

Where is heaven, if we can’t see it and science can’t find it? I think I will believe better if I can envision where it is.

One of the hardest things for us to grasp when we try to understand reality is the concept of a many-layered and mostly solid afterlife. That used to bother me too! If there really is a heaven, then where the heck is it? The evidence overwhelmingly suggests that about seven afterlife levels ...

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I was asked, “If we all come from God, then why would we need lessons? Isn't God perfect in every way? Why would we have to learn what it's like to feel remorse or hurt, when really we wouldn't be doing anything like that to someone else, to make us feel that way?”

The “why” is far beyond our understanding. But we do have an understanding of how this process of being human on the Earth plan unfolds. That will at least ...