Life After Death - Mediums, Ghosts, Heaven or Nothing?

Has it made you believe there must be something, Witzend?

Yes there is life after death, like parallel universe. Souls stay until they are given permission to leave by their loved one, that silken thread. Soul family, why many of us feel an instant afinity with special others. I believe souls come back time and time again and we meet over and over

I have no fear at all of death. I had some sort of nightime experience when I was in my bed at around age 9. Several `dead` people came to see me. It took away any fear of death and also gave me the help I needed to be able to `let go` of my husband. I scattered rose petals and told him he could leave as I would be fine. I usually see a small fluffy white feather when I have made a big decision or when I have something important to do

I don't think there is anything else however I have had a couple of weird encounters after friends or family have died. I think this is more to do with our subconscious than anything else.

if you are religious, then you believe in ghosts! I had a very real experience when someone visited me at the time of his death , you only have to read stories of near death experiences to make you ponder. There are some genuine mediums but then there are a lot of crooks. how do you know the difference, i'd say you have a gut feeling.

Yes there is life after death.
I’m psychic myself have had many many experiences since young child find the whole thing intriguing too many things to mention here. I certainly don’t fear death. Like Doris stokes used to say you can’t die for the life of you. You continue to go on

Fascinated by this topic. I've heard so many stories of encounters that we cannot rationally explain, especially from small children who would not have the insight or knowledge to make it up. I definitely believe that there are dimensions which we don't all realise or recognise but that one day (if our planet survives the destruction that is happening - that's a whole other topic) we will respect different spiritual and energy forms

I absolutely believe there is "something". We live in a 18th century former corn mill - although there has been a mill building on this site for many years before this (mentioned in the doomsday book). We have a definite presence in one part of the house and I have felt something brush past me on the stairs on several occasions and often smell an old fashioned floral-y perfume. Things move and turn up in the most bizarre places too! I've never felt afraid - it's part of the history of this beautiful building we are privileged to live in

I think there is life after death, too but not sure what form it takes. Obviously our bodies die when we do but I believe we are resurrected . I have seen a ghost of a young boy who took his own life but until then I didn’t believe in them, had an ‘open’ mind. He was as clear as day, not scary, just looked normal walking along the corridor in our house. A week or so after he died.

I’m still “fence sitting” Twice in my life I’ve visited a physical, one I didn’t know and who didn’t know me, twice they were spot on!

Both my daughters and myself have felt a presence several times in our family home, built in 1904, and things have happened we just cannot explain.

Who knows?

Not physical !! Physic!

Grrrrrr psychic!

I felt a hand on my head at mum's funeral. Some things that happen, (and have happened to me) are so personal that you wouldn't repeat them anywhere.

This is a fascinating thread, and there are several things that align to my thinking, and religion.
First as a Jew we are warned not to visit a medium, like the lady who said the Bible also forewarned about this. So I’m not going to see one either.
Secondly the lady who said that time as we understand it may not be the same as an after life , or one where a G-d exists in. We believe our soul continues after we die. I understand this as an essence, or molecule. I don’t understand how we can have our senses, or a brain in the afterlife because we can’t have a physical presence. My husband says we may well have those things- but I’m a bit sceptical. I’ve tried to look for a better understanding- but I don’t think we are supposed to know these answers! I hope that there is something to come.
I too have had some extraordinarily experiences, and do feel that some of us are more sensitive to these things.
I’ve been extremely ill, and we bought a puppy from a recommended pet shop. We went on a cruise, and the puppy was staying with a friend. While we were at sea, in the Baltic, at about 6.00 a.m. I woke up suddenly with a feeling my puppy was on my chest. It wasn’t a dream , it was a very real intense sensation. His heart was pumping slowly and then stopped. I felt him die. About an hour or so later, my friend sent me a message to say that my puppy was very ill. He died shortly after. I had no realisation that he was ill beforehand.
If so many people have had some sort of experience, then I take that as a positive to there being something after we die. Scientists or doctors will tell you there is no proof, but surely there are some things you cannot measure??

I always insisted I didn't believe in mediums but, a few years ago I was persuaded by a friend to see one following the death of my husband and father
When I sat down the first thing she asked me 'did you bring your Dad with you today?'. When I told her I was alone she described 'the man' in my car, which could have been my Dad. When she asked if I knew anyone by the Christian name
...... I said I knew 3 people with the name (one was my late DH) and she told me that this ...... wasn't hapoy that I was wearing 'big knickers'!! This shocked me as, on that day, I was wearing a pair of boxer type pants, whereas my DH had always bought me really fancy bikini/thong types! He would definitely have commented on my 'big pants'. I came away after an hour feeling quite shocked at the amount of things she told me that were true. I had never met the lady and lived nowhere near her, so just can't explain how she could know the things she did.

I have seen things I can’t explain so possibly there’s something but I definitely don’t have any faith or belief in the afterlife.
A convent education dinned into me hellfire and purgatory, especially for all of us who weren’t RC - any hint of a question meant detention or worse.
And unfortunate encounters with hypocritical church goers finished off religion for me some years ago.

Reading the new posts today, I was struck by the fact that quite a few of you have experienced children talking about their former lives, who stop doing so at around the age of five.

I saw "people who were not there" (ghosts) when I was three or four. Around the age of five, this stopped, or perhaps I had just learned not to talk about it, as I do remember often feeling frightened in strange places and not telling anyone because I was afraid they would not believe me. I had been accused of "making up stories", in other words telling lies.

When I was thirteen the ability to see or sense past events in places or foretell the future started again. I learned not to tell other people about this, as they tended either to treat me as a liar, or even worse, want me to foretell the future, which I cannot do on command.

This ability has cropped up quite frequently during my adult life, but here have also been long periods where it has been absent.

I cannot say whether small children remember their former lives or not, but I can believe that around five they either stop remembering, or stop talking about it.

I have never seen a medium, never seen a ghost and I don't believe in life after death. However, if I do see a ghost or find out after I'm gone that I was wrong then I am happy to be corrected.

All of the above...and experienced all ,except the charlatans....

Interesting thread, and glad to see that most of us are open minded, not dismissive. I don't believe in life after death as in heaven and angels and such, but I do think that we all have some sort of innate 'sixth sense' or similar which is trained out of us as we grow up, thus the many incidents on here of children, who haven't supressed this sensitivity, talking of events and places which are previously unknown to them. I do like the theory of time being a man made system, and some of us seeing a glimpse of another time level. I do not have this ability or 'gift' but some people do.

Yes I believe in ghosts as have seen one. Also been to a medium who was very accurate and knew things without me having to prompt him. He didn't even know my name so couldn't have done any prior research. I see a spiritual healer regularly and she is incredible.

I believe in “something “ after death. My late husband definitely did not. However, since he passed away my three daughters and I have been the recipients of way over 100 dimes from him. Many of them were dramatic- the one I remember most was in a hospital’s Emergency Room. I had checked in and then sat down to wait my turn. There were about 60 seats to choose from. It turned out that the one I had sat in had a dime on the arm rest.
This is a real phenomenon- please Google it if you are curious

I would like to think there is ... not had any experiences myself other than a lot of unexplained deja-vu when I as a teenager.

However, my daughter committed suicide in the house in November 2022. One of my dogs stayed with her that night for 14 hours, in fact it was the fact that he hadn't been down for his breakfast or a wee that made us go up there - he didn't make a sound, but when I am unwell, he alerts by barking, trying to get someone to come and help me. Before she left the house we took the dogs up to say goodbye - the one that had stayed with her sniffed and licked her ear and then left, the other just rolled over nowhere near her wanting her belly tickled ... after that they didn't really go upstairs - until one day several months later when she disappeared one morning, and only noticed as I wondered where she was. I called her and she came down the stairs. Later that evening she vanished again, so I went to the bottom of the stairs and she came and just sat at the top, and wouldn't come down, but kept looking towards the door of my daughter's bedroom which was open. She did this for about 5 minutes so I told her it was okay and left her. She didn't come back downstairs for around an hour. THAT was weird ... and has never been repeated

A few times in the evenings though they have quite spooked me - once she was on my knee and suddenly shot off and stood next to me shaking and terrified, and he was scared too, and another time I got jumped upon in the middle of the night nearly giving me heart failure as she again was shaking and terrified. My other daughter said 'tell C to stop messing about', but I am certain that they wouldn't of been frightened by her as she loved them dearly, but dogs and cats are very perceptive - so, I just don't know?

Nope
I'd like to think there's something more, but realistically, no.

jesus spoke to his heavenly ghost father,his mother was a virgin,abraham,moses etc etc probably most other religions founders quoted similar events, were they mediums?

About 15/16 years ago when walking the dogs in the woods early in the morning and not far from where we live I saw a ghost. I didn’t believe in them, I’m not very religious but I definitely saw a very old and very grey looking woman with very long hair. I could only see her from the waist up as she was in the middle of some bushes. I stood and looked for a few seconds before walking on but almost immediately I turned back to have another look and she was just there looking straight at me. It wasn’t anyone I knew.

Most days you’d see lots of people walking, jogging but that morning I was the only person in that part of the woods. Like the old woman standing absolutely still watching me everything was grey and misty, a horrible day. I don’t think I have ever moved so quickly in all my life and legged it out of the woods as I realised that I had just seen a ghost.