Hi. I have recently thought about the afterlife a lot. I think the pandemic has brought that out into me. It's caused me to research into the afterlife. I am not religious, but I have had religious influences all my life, primarily from my grandfather and going to a Catholic school. I am here to discuss and have conversations with some very insightful people, and bounce ideas and thoughts off of others. I am also here to learn and open my mind to other possibilities.
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bluebird
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Hello, and welcome to ALF.
I think you are probably not alone in the pandemic having caused you to think more about the afterlife -- being confronted with such immediate and widespread mortality has had that effect on a lot of people, I think.
What are your ideas/beliefs regarding an afterlife?
I think you are probably not alone in the pandemic having caused you to think more about the afterlife -- being confronted with such immediate and widespread mortality has had that effect on a lot of people, I think.
What are your ideas/beliefs regarding an afterlife?
I'm glad adherence to or influence from religion won't hamper your search.
What's on 'the other side' is a subject we've done times-many on this website and it's important to me too and to many others I've come into contact with over a fair-few years. Our conversations here going back to the time ALF was founded are readily found by using the search utility.
My personal approach is that we benefit most from hearing what it's like from those living 'over there' and/or from spiritually-evolved teachers and guides. Beyond that - the philosophy found in 'my own' religion and/or leading a so-called spiritual life etcetera - can be pursued if one has any inclination. But for many those issues are much less important than just understanding that life goes on beyond death.
Many seekers reach out to mediums who can act as intermediaries for communication between loved ones in spirit and those who are desperate to hear from them. There is an abundance of accounts of such communication.
Your beliefs, or what you've been taught by mainstream religion, may take some time to reconcile with the accounts we have from those who live 'over there' and the guidance of spirit teachers and guides. We have no desire to change any of that other than to say we will try to help you find your own direction.
bluebird
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Mediums are only human, and have their own views and biases even if they try not to let those things influence or interfere with their work, but I think the good ones generally agree on at least most of the major issues.
Personally I am agnostic regarding both god and an afterlife, but I can tell you that I have had a couple of experiences with two different mediums which have given me some hope. In both cases I believe, at the very least, that the mediums honestly believed in what they were doing (i.e., they were not trying to scam me), and I think there's a more than fair chance that the readings were legit, that my husband was actually communicating with me through them.
Personally I am agnostic regarding both god and an afterlife, but I can tell you that I have had a couple of experiences with two different mediums which have given me some hope. In both cases I believe, at the very least, that the mediums honestly believed in what they were doing (i.e., they were not trying to scam me), and I think there's a more than fair chance that the readings were legit, that my husband was actually communicating with me through them.
In essence a medium passes on to the sitter what the communicator is wanting to tell their loved one. Of course mediums will say different things because communicators say different things.
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