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

MissInterpreted

Well, this thread has been well and truly hijacked, has it not?

Just a bit!!

I believe that organised religion is a social and divisive construct that benefits men and maintains the patriarchal world order. Now if God was a woman and all world religions were run by women, I wonder how different things would be.

Perhaps she is.
Mother Nature, and all that jazz.

Miss Interpreted:

"Well, this thread has been well and truly hijacked, has it not?"

Sorry about that, Miss I.!

The point I should have made is that if you believe in Biblical miracles you are likely also to believe in non religious paranormal events such as ghosts and
magically foretelling the future.

Yes, I read the article on weird Wiltshire Margells, but the first picture of the cottage is different to the next two pictures though?? looking like different cottages, unless part of the original was knocked down??

A ghost is not a thing like us and other living beings that breathes and eats. So is a ghost a hallucination? Sometimes a hallucination where several persons see or hear the same thing?

The appearance of a recently deceased friend or relative is known to be a therapeutic response to the grief of mourning.

There is a reasonable way to believe that death is not the end, although the phrase "life after death "is misleading'. Souls (selves) do not survive death as individuals.

The sense of self comes from the living brain.

Caleo

A ghost is not a thing like us and other living beings that breathes and eats. So is a ghost a hallucination? Sometimes a hallucination where several persons see or hear the same thing?

The appearance of a recently deceased friend or relative is known to be a therapeutic response to the grief of mourning.

That’s as maybe, but I’ve heard of cases where someone has seen what they assumed was the person, before knowing that they’d died. So no grief or mourning yet involved at all.

I know, Witzend, and such anecdotes fascinate me, and I read all the these posts with a lot of interest.

Howeevr I still think scientific/ psychological investigation is prudent. Is the Koestler Institute still functioning?

Incidentally I don't believe death is 'the end'.

My childhood home is still my parents home is almost 300years old. We dealt with many different entities in the house one that my parents actually came to introduce us to as babies when we came home from the hospital.

Son died aged 33.came and told me he was in heaven and gran and grandad were with him

There used to be a religious programme called Credo on Sunday afternoons that one week had life after death as a topic. The programme interviewed a lorry driver who had been seriously injured in a crash and was unconscious for several hours in hospital. He said that he could feel himself rising above the hospital bed and then was told it wasn't his time yet and then came round. Possibly it could have been the medication, but it was interesting to hear his story.