2006-07-10 05:11:49 · 7 answers · asked by Maria Isabel 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
In near-death experience, I was traveling underwater, and it was very cool and relaxing. I'm curious on the thoughts of other PAGANS on the Summerland.
2006-07-10 05:34:41 · update #1
I don't believe in the Summerland as a "land" anything like a land you'd visit in life. But maybe it's an appropriate metaphore for what I do believe.
In my view.. It's a little difficult to explain, so I have to use a very strange sounding metaphore, but you might get it since you had a near death experience...
Souls are like water. All the souls in the world make up a great "sea" of souls. All paths are rivers flowing into this Sea. When we are alive, we are like icecubes bobbing along, flowing down the river toward the Sea, each an individual, but still part of the Sea, but separate, more like ice cubes wrapped in plastic. When we die, the plastic is stripped away, discarded, and we ice cubes are plunged into the warm Sea where we begin to melt, forget our individual identities and become One with the All that is the Sea. When a new life is created, a new "ice cube" is formed of the Sea to be wrapped in the "plastic" of the body. Sometimes we are not completely melted when we are refrozen again, especially if our actions during our lifetime has given us the immortality that memory affords, but most of us completely lose our identity in the Sea.
2006-07-10 09:14:01 · answer #1 · answered by kaplah 5 · 4⤊ 2⤋
The first time I meditated I was sitting on top of a great ocean...and I could see myself and also all of the sea life below me. Your experience just reminded me of that.
I'm not quite sure if I know what Summerland is like yet. Or maybe I'll never know.....perhaps it'll just be a surprise until I get there.
2006-07-11 04:53:54 · answer #2 · answered by Frodo the space bard 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe the Summerland is a man made concept. It exist on the Astral between here and the Afterlife. As such it resembles what the people in it believe it should be like.
2006-07-10 12:15:49 · answer #3 · answered by bobbert 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hm..always something that I've been unsure of. Probably a beautiful forest, where people and animals live in harmony, just enjoying the beauty and magic of nature.
Stupid Christians. You don't want us answering your "Christian Only" questions, but you can come in here and answer ours with nothing to actually contribute? Hogwash!
Haha! I'm not wicked! And if you're not Christian, no need to feel insulted! (though it was a very Christian-like answer)
2006-07-10 12:28:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very hot, with sweaty beast romping around everywhere, and naked people getting it on.
Edit: I'm no Christian, so I hope that wicked lady down the list wasn't insulting me.
2006-07-10 12:15:28 · answer #5 · answered by a_red_wine_guy 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Really missing Glastonbury this year?
2006-07-10 12:17:21 · answer #6 · answered by omniscient omnivore 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
HELL ON EARTH
2006-07-10 12:14:54 · answer #7 · answered by philski333 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋