Do you believe in the afterlife?

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[skywatching]

That's a yes from me too as I believe there are other dimensions out there, not just the one we reside in.

 

Plus I've been visited multiple times by family members that have passed on, so there is still some part of them that lives on.

[Jewel]

I also answered yes.  I believe that we are reincarnated as many times as necessary for our soul to evolve, much like a journey through the Major Arcana lessons.  After that we may not come back in a physical body any longer but I do believe we endure in some way, perhaps on a different plane of existence all together.

[Cookie]

Yeah, for sure, why not. 

 

Ha!...would of put money on all the Pisces saying yes.  The motto does say "I Believe" on our cosmic coat of arms.  But perhaps it should say "Definitely Maybe" 

[G_Dren]

I suppose that for me it is what I refer to as the Astral existence. I also believe strongly in past life. The unfortunate thing about past lives for me is that I seem to have all these different time frames of memory flashes that seem to show me terrible demises I had endured. I truly hope that cycle is broken this time around.

 

I feel awkward expressing this personal belief of mine; it has been met with weird looks and disbelief, so here it goes!

 

What I feel is that a soul divided into other parts and reside in other bodies after its first life existence, and one of the parts of the soul are maintained through time and the other parts gradually merge to each other creating more complete parts of the same energy. the splintered and merged parts of a soul are oblivious to the majority of the re-meets. oddly, they all sense the familiarity of the larger intact part of the energy when they are near it. I have met the last 2 parts in this life; and I chose to stay by the one I have re-met first. and at least fulfill and merge with this part of my energy in the astral until I return one last time to merge the rest of my energy.

[ballerina]

Hi all.  I absolutely believe there is something after this life.  I also believe in good and evil as separate states of being. 

 

Change is hard and unless you manage to do so your essence will continue on as you are on this plane.  Good folks send good energy into the universe and evil people send the bad stuff.

 

I have no idea in what form the energy coalesces after we stop breathing but there are depictions I wish I could make myself believe in.  Reincarnation to improve oneself sounds great, so does continuing whatever work you doing on this plane after you go to the next, and then passing that on to someone here.

 

In the end, maybe we are stardust and we return to the cosmos.

[Guest libra]

What I feel is that a soul divided into other parts and reside in other bodies after its first life existence, and one of the parts of the soul are maintained through time and the other parts gradually merge to each other creating more complete parts of the same energy. the splintered and merged parts of a soul are oblivious to the majority of the re-meets. oddly, they all sense the familiarity of the larger intact part of the energy when they are near it. I have met the last 2 parts in this life; and I chose to stay by the one I have re-met first. and at least fulfill and merge with this part of my energy in the astral until I return one last time to merge the rest of my energy.

 

This pretty much sums up how I see life & after life (or, rather, the new life.)

 

Plus, it kinda compounds in with ... well, let me toss in a quote from a book called "My Name is Memory" by Ann Brashares:

 

There’s a pattern in it. Your death is the shadow of your life. If you have strong and loving attachments in your life, you will cohere to your community of souls. You will probably come back to life quickly and among your own people… When you go to a new place, you’ll often migrate among your loved ones…

 

If you are distant and misanthropic, selfish or cruel, you will find yourself alone in life and death. You’ll die into nothingness and come back among strangers or very occasionally among enemies. And you’ll stay alone and at odds until you don’t want it anymore… It won’t happen until you want it to.

 

So, I've got this understanding that every person out there is built up of bits of souls that splintered out and came back together.  I feel like those that you are close to in life, your splinters may merge with theirs in the next incarnation, or come back near them.  It makes for an interesting thing, though, as the internet starts connecting people.  Those that you are "close" to may not be physically near you now.  I feel like it used to be, as mentioned in the quote, that you were more likely to end up isolated far from that which you know now if you didn't have strong ties to where you are now, and yet with connections being made all over the world, there's more likelyhood now that fragments of you after you die may end up near someone you've connected with online, if you've really made a true friendship with them. 

 

This is why I'm not terribly attached to the whole Soul Mate idea.  I think that as the population grows, we splinter more and more, and you can fit 2 pieces back together with many people in your life.  Plus, I think I'm always losing bits and growing others - like, I was SO musical as a youth.  I played every woodwind I could get my hands on.  That drifted out of my life, and even if I were to pick up music now, it wouldn't be the same person doing it or the same reasons.  I think that little bit of my soul was let go, and I'm inclined to think it went to my niece, who was born around the time that I stopped playing.  She had the passion I do, the same reasoning.  I would talk to her about it and be like "yes!  exactly!" but from a place of memory, not of currently sharing her feelings. 

 

I'm not sure I'm making sense, so I'm gonna stop here lol. 

[G_Dren]

Hey Libra! I had no idea that someone else wrote about this! I have felt this knowledge since i was a child. The part I left out was the fact that I am the larger part of the energy with a lot of past life memories that are terrible to say the least. A locked in battle between my 2 other energies. One smaller part was always an authoritarian role. I.E.; Roman soldier and the other always more of a deligate type role. And I was always some sort of a scribe. I am becoming more interested in a spiritual path than all the previous lives. I think the change into the final phase of spiritual existence when I knew I won the battle with one of the other 2 parts!

[abalone]

I voted Yes.  For a number of years I've been following NDE reports.  Afterlife communication.  My views on this pretty much line up with Spiritualists.  I believe there is not only an afterlife but that we can connect with it.  I've had dreams, signs, help given by deceased loved ones, even visitations from my pet.  So yes, definitely  :love:

[Thoughtful]

Yes l believe in the afterlife.  Had too many experiences with visitations from guides, family members and pets.

 

Also when l give readings family and friends of the sitter sometimes bring in messages.

 

 

This of course could class me as deluded, mad or hallucinating which is what an ex partner once called me back in the day  :)) 

 

 

 

[G_Dren]

Don't know where this falls in place. I had a dream this morning that placed me in the 1920's as a man meeting another man I rather liked on a boardwalk in Boston Ma. I think it happened around Harvard University. I seem to recall "Harry". not sure what it means. I believe I was found dead later in my parents home. I might try looking onto this a bit later.

[EmpressAdora]

I do believe in the after life. I think it’s not the same for everyone though. I believe in reincarnation. I do have some very serious flashbacks. About one life in particular.l that was pretty horrific. It took me a really really really long time to understand that that is what was going on.  I think there are souls that can get trapped her. And ones that are reincarnated right away. I have always been curious to how/why it happens. What determines what happens to your soul when you leave this level

Of existence and move on to another?  Someone once told me you have to keep coming back until you’ve learned all of your lessons. What about souls that get trapped on earth?  As that a lesson they are learning somehow?  Do they ever move on from there?

[G_Dren]

EmpressAdora; I was thrown by the fact that you also recollect the worst ends to your past lives as well. I think this is the curse of the larger, or more intact part of the soul. All of mine have the worst possible ends. I think the trick is to re-connect to the larger parts of your soul. I think my 3 souls have been locked in a terrible battle of dominance, due to the fact that we re-emerge at the same spans of time over and over again. I feel that I merged with one part at last, so I hope the next go around will be the last one for me. I felt that my soul is starting to shift into the final phase of returns; which will happen to be more solidified in the next life. I hope to truly connect to that last piece of my soul. I am so tired of returning.

[EmpressAdora]

EmpressAdora; I was thrown by the fact that you also recollect the worst ends to your past lives as well. I think this is the curse of the larger, or more intact part of the soul. All of mine have the worst possible ends. I think the trick is to re-connect to the larger parts of your soul. I think my 3 souls have been locked in a terrible battle of dominance, due to the fact that we re-emerge at the same spans of time over and over again. I feel that I merged with one part at last, so I hope the next go around will be the last one for me. I felt that my soul is starting to shift into the final phase of returns; which will happen to be more solidified in the next life. I hope to truly connect to that last piece of my soul. I am so tired of returning.

 

It really is a curse isn’t it. The one that I have nailed down is pretty bad. I know she was very much a disco queen. So I assume the 70s maybe early 80s. California somewhere. She was raped and strangled. Sorry if tmi. But it really freaking awful to have rape flashbacks. I still knowing this will have a full on anxiety attack if someone touches my neck. Or puts their hands around my neck anything like that. The first time it happened, it was like a stage five meltdown. And I just had no idea why that freaked my out so bad. Why I was-having these dreams and so forth. My gosh it was bad. I think once I finally figured it out and put two and two together i felt more whole of that makes sense?  Like that part of me just wanted me to understand and acknowledge its existence. Like hey dummy I’m here and you need to remember me so you don’t keep doing the same dumb stuff over and over again. Now I’m prettying to pay attention too all those other things that I’m drawn to and pulled to. Maybe that’s another piece I need to put together!

[abalone]

EmpressAdora, those that talk about souls being trapped here on Earth usually also say that there is always help available to them.  That higher level beings are present who help those souls move on when they are ready.  Like here, it seems we always have free will.  No one can make you go to the Light.  Some souls feel they have unfinished business or they are still attached to their previous life and aren't ready yet to move on. Or they fear moving on.  Maybe a fear of judgement?  It takes them time to see they aren't achieving anything by hanging around here.  When they are ready help is available.

 

 

[chongjasmine]

I voted Yes. I believe in heaven and hell, and Jesus Christ.

[lyndiaa11]

Yes, I believe in reincarnation. :heartz:

[fire cat pickles]

Life is an energy and energy cannot be created or destroyed. So, yes I believe that there is an afterlife. Do I believe it is something like a form of consciousness? No. But there is something in the hereafter, I think.

 

One of the most profound quotes that explains simply how I feel about this is from C.S. Lewis: "You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body."