Has visiting cemetaries ever helped you with your spiritual awareness?

Question

Why do you like to visit cemetaries?

What has visiting cemetaries done for you?

I like so many of the answers that it is difficult to make a selection. I even liked most of the negative answers since they are also speaking truthfully.

I am exploring this belief that there are spirits in cemetaries
waiting to take birth again or rather they are just waiting there
and higher powers may eventually dictate how they will take birth
again. However, if someone is extremely good then they
automatically rise to a higher place of existence taking birth on
a much higher plain than our earthly existence. Those who are
really bad might automatically get animal body of some kind. That
is the basics of my reasonings on this.

I was applying this idea to myself. It came from a dream/vision I
had one day. I felt like I was in a cemetary just languishing
there as a spirit. I could see the stone crypts and statues. The
place was bathed in sunlight. It was really strange feeling. I
really felt like I was there sort of resting as a spirit.

I
really felt like I was there sort of resting as a spirit. Then I
don't remember anything more. So I am wondering if I lived in this
city, New Orleans, in a previous life and now I am taking birth
again to take up on things I was into in a previous life?

I am wondering how true it is. I was going around town on the
public bus today with the car in the shop. I was thinking about
this seeing so many cemetaries. Here some call it the cities of
the dead because most of the crypts are above ground looking like
little apartments. And I am thinking that it has taken all these
years, going on fifty, for me to finally realize this truth of my
existence. But, that is not all.

I have felt there was a presence of a higher intelligence while I
might have been lingering in a cemetary as a spirit. And that
this intelligence was completely in tune with the higher
intelligence of the cosmic manifestation and perhaps even the
Supreme Being. And that perhaps I was getting association, sanga,
of that higher intelligence. That higher intelligence was trying
to or wanting to guide me to a higher plain than just this earthly
existence. So I get this human form of life to use my human brain
to possibly make some progress in trying to figure all this out.

That is my confession.

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Answer 1

No
But when I was homeless I slept in a few, felt very safe

Answer 2

Not really, nothing significant anyhow...when I'm in a cemetary I'm aware of mortality, my own mortality and everyone else's and how short this life I'm living now is.
I think of how the deceased's loved ones are missing them and how the living are grasping at memories to keep that person or persons alive in their heart(s).
I've only visited cemetaries to attend funerals and my heart usually feels raw when I feel so badly for the family or my own selfish loss of the person. So visiting a cemetary hasn't been a priority... I'm afraid to wake up that pain again. Is that spiritual? No.
If I could ignore the fact there are hundreds of corpses and last statements of a person's short life (tombstone) perhaps I wouldn't mind visiting the trees in the area.
Forests or nature really bring about a spirituality within me... all the life that is buzzing and moving about. Sounds corny but my heart swells with love for this type of environment, I feel the spirit(s) in the woods... I've been known to hug a tree on occasion (lol!) (I don't do drugs)

For the most part visiting cemetaries depress me... the finality of it all. Most of us regular folks' life is reduced to one stone with our name and dates on it... that's it. All our work, possessions, likes and dislikes, intentions, dreams....gone, done. We are forgotten within two generations maybe.

I appreciate life and my relationships more after a 'visit' even if I'm quite miserable... it's got to be better than the alternative. There isn't enough time given to us to learn everything...this saddens me.
I'd like to believe there is more after we die but I haven't evolved to that point...yet.

Answer 3

Yes. Theres a cool cemetary where I live called Blood cemetary.

Answer 4

I find a lot of peace at cemeteries, but as a genealogist I have plenty of reason to visit. I also do voluntary stone transcriptions to be put online.

I view cemeteries as museums and the stones as the artifacts that need great care to survive our modern world and the elements it contains like acid rain. I will usually always bring clippers, a trowel and a small rake to clear lots that look like they need it no matter whom is buried there.

Answer 5

Occasionally I will visit the cemetery where my father lays to rest. I like to look at the trees and beautiful blue sky. The beautiful Doves that I saw the last time i visited. It's just so peaceful.

Answer 6

I like to visit cemeteries because of all the different headstones and the older the better. Some of the ephitaths are really neat.

Answer 7

My sister's ashes are at beautiful place about an hour from where I live.There's gorgeous gardens,and large green fields,and a beautiful pond with water lillies and water flowers.It's really peaceful there,and
it's comforting to know that my sister and others are without pain in the afterlife.

Answer 8

I like to visit cemeteries to photograph the interesting statues that many of the older ones have.

There's one near my apartment called Rural Cemetery that has some particularly nice statues.

Answer 9

I've occasionally enjoyed looking at old cemeteries. The old headstones are a part of history and sometimes art.

Answer 10

I do not visit cemeteries.The soul left the body.there is nothing in that ground but a shell rotting.