The mind is very powerful and can play tricks on you.

mcculloch I've had a few strange "coincidences" as well. Here's a recent one: I had met a friend for lunch, she had completed treatment for breast cancer (chemo and surgery) and in the coming weeks would be starting radiotherapy. She is 42. I told her about a young relative of mine (R) who works in London as a radiographer and how she is passionate about her job and how wonderful (but unlikely) it would be if R could be the one to treat her. I left my friend and headed home, London is heaving with tourists. En route home in a busy, busy station with throngs of people, who should come walking straight towards me but R, the young radiographer. After the usual greetings, I told her the story and all she said with a smile was "You summoned me". Guess where my friend has been assigned for radiation treatment.

I like to think of myself as a strongly practical person, but I am absolutely convinced that there are things we don't know and things that science cannot explain that it likes to brush under the carpet, pretending they have not happened.

I went to see a medium just to keep a friend company and with no expectations at all.

What I was told could not have been known to the medium, and there were even things which I didn't know, but were then corroborated by others or by subsequent events.

I have had staggering examples of synchronicity in my life. Some may call it coincidence, but the person who was responsible for one humdinger coming about told me there was no such thing as coincidence.
Those particular events involved someone who had died; others have involved people who were very much alive.

I am not afraid of death, I feel that there is nothing to be afraid of. Of course, if my end was to be less than peaceful, then the moment of passing might be fearful, but of death itself, no.
Canon Scott-Holland got it right in 'Death Is Nothing At All', I will just be in another room. We had that read at both my parents' funerals and I believe it absolutely.

I've been a practising Christian for 50 years, so for me the concept of life after death is integral to my faith.

And me.

I have no doubt in my mind that there is an afterlife

Me too.

I believe that when you leave this earth you are outside of the limits of time so you wouldn't want to come back as you are all together with those you love anyway. A bit mind boggling, sorry!

"I go to prepare a place for you. If it were not so I would have told you". Jesus said that and I for one believe him.

Nell, sending condolences and love x you will be together again, I'm sure.

Sorry about that, nell. I can see why you believe in the afterlife.

Im so sorry for your loss Nell.

I had an experience when I was having an operation,apparently I had a cardiac arrest during surgery. I remember going through a dark tunnel lined with people towards a bright light I felt totally at peace and eager to go to the light but just as I got there I experienced a blinding pain and I felt myself being dragged back, waking up in the recovery room.
Yes I believe and after losing my son tragically in February I pray that we will be together again.

My mother in law's father was a spiritualist preacher.
For the past three years she has seen various family members coming for her, but she's still here.
Perhaps that's why she's got dementia.

Its would be a bit packed up there by now.

What a nice thought though.

I did and there's some very interesting bits on it if you scroll down.

Wish I hadn't now.

Ooh I am!

Goodness, I'm certainly not going to click on that link! Thanks for the warning, librarylady...

And what this article does not mention, like so many others, is that NOT all NDEs are beautiful and wonderful, leaving the people who experience them horrified and sometimes terrified of death.

www.google.co.uk/?ion=1&espv=2#q=bad%20near%20death%20experiences

Wow Peaseblossom what a report!!! Its because of things like that I believe there is an afterlife. My mother & her sister heard a ghost in an ancient house in Branscombe, Devon called Margells & now a Landmark Trust house. Mum is a very strong, no-nonsense type of person too, if she says she heard it, she heard it!

Same thing with a friend's GD who was two, nearly three when friend's DS died. The GD told her mother not to shut the curtains because her daddy waved to her before she went to sleep.

A friend of my DD's had been sitting with a friend of hers every afternoon because her friend's husband had only died at home a few days before unexpectedly. A man only in his thirties, he had come home from work, said he felt unwell and collapsed and died. The young woman who had a baby had no family support, hence DD's friend was there every day. DD's friend heard the front door click this afternoon, she looked up and saw a grainy figure heading from the front door along the passage past the sitting room door. DD's friend hadn't believed in anything until that moment. The newly widowed young woman found it comforting to think her husband was still around. She said it was the time he came home from work and the way he walked to the kitchen every afternoon.

I hope so too, Jane10.

Young children see things/people that we (mostly) don't. I remember the day after her Daddy was killed in an accident my niece then aged just 2 was sitting in the back of my car parked as we waited to collect someone. She began to smile and chatter away at someone outside the window. There was no one there. When I asked her who she was looking at and talking to she said 'my Daddy'. I really hope it was him.

The house we live in is quite old, built at the beginning of the last century. We've lived in it for many years and have had a succession of neighbours, mainly with young children. On two separate occasions over the years, different children living in the house have seen an old lady sitting in the corner of their bedroom.
I know this isn't a thread about ghosts and apparitions, but thought I'd just pop it in anyway!
I keep an open mind.

Whoops, I'd missed a whole page! I was referring to Jane's post about it being the last great adventure.