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

I definitely believe in life after death because of Jesus. He left heaven, was born on earth, lived, died and rose again from the dead and has promised that those who follow Him will, one day, be with Him. And in John 3 verse 16 it says that 'God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him would not perish but have everlasting life.' As a bible believing Christian I would never visit a medium as in both the old and new testament it is firmly forbidden.

I told my husband if I were to see him on the other side, I expect to see a young man in his thirties.

Many moons ago, I made the mistake of telling my husband’s cousin - a spiritualist that my grandfather was a spiritual healer and that I struggled to sleep due to menopause.

She told me I had ‘the gift’ and sent through the post sachets of camomile tea and a few mediation books which I read and practiced on.

Not long after that, my husband and daughter started having nightmares and I felt the presence of a a malevolent spirit in my house. At the same time, I started getting messages from the other side. The messages came thick and fast and I felt quite unwell.

Came to the realisation that becoming a medium is definitely not for me. I am a tee total, I do not even drink spirit let alone dabble in it.

I realised now that I was receiving messages about the pandemic ten years before it actually happened.

I don't believe in 'the other side'. I really don't think there is anything after death. Its just not scientific to believe there is. I believe people only live on in the memories of others. I stopped believing in God a long while ago.

I had a peculiar experience at Earls Court tube station in London during the late 1980s.

It was about 6 pm on a summer evening and my train had stopped to let people in and out. On the opposite platform was a man wearing a 1940s style long brown raincoat and a brown trilby hat. He seemed to be completely still and he looked 'wrong' somehow. When I looked again, he had vanished!

I believe that once one dies that’s it, you are no more than a lump of meat, I understand that my opinion might be a bit brutal for some people to embrace, but it’s what I feel 🤷‍♀️

My husband when a very little boy was playing in his front garden. He looked up and saw his Auntie coming along the rod so he ran in to tell him Mum.

His Auntie had died in the night.

Yes in some form or other

There is so much we do not, and cannot, understand. We are blind creatures - goodness, we only can see a tiny part, something like 0.05%, of the electromagnetic spectrum. To believe this world is all there is, is to me, well, surprising. I have seen and heard things that cannot be explained by 'science' and I have 'felt' things myself, that have turned out to be true. Unfortunately it's not always easy for the dead to come back and tell us they are still there - for a start we have to be open and able to perceive. Once someone enters the spirit world there is an immense complexity of experience, and a soul who was a total disbeliever in life might be too bewildered to 'get in touch'. Plus, time operates differently in the 'otherworld.' As to mediums, plenty are fake and unimpressive, but there are some good ones too.

I know there are ghosts as my late Dad visited me shortly after he died.

I like to believe there is a life hereafter. When my then 10 year old son had a tumour (which thank Heaven, turned out to be benign) in his tibia , I remember consoling myself by thinking that whatever happened, I would see him again . That was such a dark time in my life 🥲 He is now 52 with a wife and 2 lovely girls.

My eldest child when around 3 remarked passing a row of houses, there used to be fields here, then on visiting an old farmhouse sitting in the lounge she said there used to ne a big table in here, our friend who bought and modernised the house said my goodness yes this used to be the farmhouse kitchen. The next time was our middle child who was about the same age of 3 said the Soldier man came to see me again last night and told me stories about the war. We think it was the Brother of the owner. We passed it off but he says even now he remembers this. I do believe and pray that we have an after life.

Like GrandtanteJE65 I'm a Christian and believe in a life after death, though not knowing all the details. I do believe that we'll see the people we've known and loved - probably some that we didn't love too, however that works out! I have wondered, in the light of advancing scientific knowledge, whether the afterlife might be on some alternative "dimension," but who knows. Never seen a ghost myself, but as children we lived in a Victorian cottage and my brother always maintained that the ghost of a little old man, dressed in brown, appeared regularly in his bedroom. He wasn't worried about this - my brother is not a nervous type - he just used to say sometimes that he'd seen the ghost again.

I believe in life after death but cannot imagine what it will be like. DH died last year and I feel/believe that he is very close and I now feel close to my late parents as well - I don't believe this closeness is all in my imagination.

In my twenties, on a day out, a friend and I had a session with a 'fortune teller'. She mentioned a relationship in my life - not in precise detail - but it did rather shake me. She couldn't have possibly known about it, and she couldn't have picked up on anything I'd said.

Twice since DH died I have heard my Christian name said very clearly - the last time quite recently and I answered 'yes'. No-one else was in the house.

A couple of days after my dad died I had gone to bed before my husband and was dozing. I felt as if my husband had sat on his side of the bed and turned round and kissed me. When I looked there was no one there and I have always thought it was my dad saying goodbye. A few days after my mum died my daughter and her son , then aged two, were in her kitchen. My grandson was staring up at the ceiling saying something and when my daughter asked what he was saying he said that he was saying hello to Nanny Peg which was what he used to call my mum. My daughter said say goodbye to her now which he did and went back to playing. A while after my mum died I had a dream that I met her at a fair. I asked what she was doing there as she was ill and she said that she was okay now. I also dreamt about my ex husband a while after he died and in it I met him in Italy and he said that it was where he lived now.

My husbands eyes flew open during the night, he found his childhoods friend dad sat on the edge of the bed, he said to my DH "i have just come to say cheerio and to ask you to look after that lad of mine, don't let him buy a Moto Guzzi, he will loose money on it. Look after yourself lad, you have turned out alright in the end" My husband looked at the clock it was 05:11. Two hours later my husbands friend called to say that his dad had died, my DH asked at what time, his friend replied 05:12. He hadn't been expected to die.

Shinmae 💐

i believe in Godand life after death.

I believe in God and life after death.

Is your self a thing ; or is your self just a feeling you have ?

What is it you see when you see a ghost? Are you not simply hallucinatimg?

Milliedog

I definitely believe in life after death because of Jesus. He left heaven, was born on earth, lived, died and rose again from the dead and has promised that those who follow Him will, one day, be with Him. And in John 3 verse 16 it says that 'God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him would not perish but have everlasting life.' As a bible believing Christian I would never visit a medium as in both the old and new testament it is firmly forbidden.

I see it this way too. I especially like the Bible verse where Jesus tells his followers, ‘I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am’ (John 14.3). And in Revelation it says that the people of God will be with him and ‘There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain’ (Revelation 21.4). I am looking forward to it.

I had a similar experience to Lucyd. My Dad died suddenly, my youngest child was 3 at the time, one day I saw him waving thru the window into the garden, when I asked who he was waving to he said ‘Grandad, he’s on the swing’. I just started waving too

Caleo

Is your self a thing ; or is your self just a feeling you have ?

What is it you see when you see a ghost? Are you not simply hallucinatimg?

I certainly didn’t have a visual hallucination. What I saw was very real and I don’t suffer from anxiety or take drugs and only drink a little.

I don't believe in God as such, but I do in a Universal Consciousness, also an afterlife and reincarnation. An acquaintance said she didn't believe in ghosts as she had never seen one. I asked how she could be so sure. When she walks down the road, does she touch everyone she sees to make sure they have a corporeal body? It gave her food for thought. I believe we have choices when our body dies, and our continued existence is in the state we choose, to learn and evolve and maybe decide to return to a corporeal body
again at some point.

I apologise if I have mentioned this on another thread but I remain convinced I saw my Dad a few months after he died.

I was walking through a churchyard and following the path around and as I turned the corner my Dad was leaning against a headstone with the brightest light shining above him. It was a sunny day and as I shielded my eyes he disappeared. This is not the church yard he is buried in by the way but one we often went to together.

Nice attitude- hope you hear from your Dad . Personally I can’t help thinking afterlife is total wishful thinking