Do you feel that you are part of something greater?

Question

I have been fortunate to have seen a glimpse of something more, have any of you experienced the afterlife?

I had a near death experience, and yes I am serious....and very thankful

Answer 1

Several years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away.

While driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.

Three days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to.

I feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.
During the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible.

I can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.

I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings.

Your brother don

Answer 2

Even if there were no heavenly afterlife, there would still be a more down-to-earth afterlife. We are all part of society, and it will outlive us all. It lives on after our lives end, and is therefore an afterlife. Do you want your great-great-great grandchildren to be happy? Do you want them to have peace and prosperity? Do you want them to have pecan pie? What if nobody uploads the recipe, and it gets lost when the books get old and brittle with crumbling paper? Do your part for posterity by uploading the recipe for pecan pie right now. Then ask yourself why you did it, if not for an afterlife?

Answer 3

I AM... there is no afterlife only this life that you are experiencing
How can you experience the afterlife in this one?

Now hear you are already something greater. You have to become life! If you do not then no life will you have.

The word afterlife is a trick that is played on you making you think that you can die and there will be something after... but the truth is that you need to learn about "this" life... in "this" life. JUST as you have experienced the "glimpses" now look for more because if you don't see it in this life how will you see it in, as they say the "next".... death is just a transition for those who know the transition. But it is certainly death for those have never seen it.

The Christ said look to the living one as long as you live otherwise you might die and then try to see the living one, and you will be unable to see.

Answer 4

Yes

Answer 5

No chance the lights of the oxygen starved brain are perfectly and easily explained not fodder for the proclivities of the gullible and susceptible .

Answer 6

i have not experienced it that i can recall... i did have an encounter when i was an infant. my family remembers however i do not. I do feel as though we are all a part of something greater!

Answer 7

Yes, and I know if we could build a fire and share a bottle of wine, we could compare notes and see that we are the same in this respect. It was beyond words, wasn't it?

Answer 8

Yes.

Answer 9

Everyday.

Answer 10

I am part of something greater - people working together for a common goal.

Wait.. greater than... what?