What happens after the body dies usually boils down to a wide range of different beliefs—a matter of faith. These days, what can’t be proven scientifically is usually rejected or so we think. The truth is we can’t even scientifically detect and prove that we have thoughts. The closest we’ve come is to measure brain wave activity. Yet we all know we have thoughts. That’s not a matter of faith or belief…
Read more on Medium.com (comments on the article are welcome).
Birthdays always bring on those questions of life after death. I have felt and known from a very young age information from other lives,things I couldn’t prove to my family.
When it came time to sit with my dad in the year before his transition, suddenly there were questions that I answered as best I could, summed up as “It’s not over dad”. So many notions,so many fears,and the identity of self that year. My gift to dad; his gift to me were the funds to sent me to explore further with Michael Mamas.
There is very beautiful wisdom in that article. Thank you for sharing it with such clarity.
Beautiful article! It is refreshing to hear somebody write intelligently on a subject of dying. We all experience and think about it but is generally taboo to discuss.
A close relative recently passed. We had some time to prepare and to talk about a lot of things. When we talked about what would happen after he died, he told us that he firmly believed that there would be nothing more, and that he would just “end”. What happens to the soul when the person has that belief during their life?
Wanda,
They are in for a surprise. But it does not need to look any particular way. I does not have to be a traumatic shock… certainly not one with lasting effects. It can be a wonderful relief. There are those whose ‘job’ it is to be there to welcome such souls.
Thank you for the reply. This is a comfort, and what I feel in myself as well. To me, he was an “old soul” but never had much use for religion in its traditional form, and despite a lively intelligence, not much interest in exploring spirituality (it wasn’t a common thing to do in his time). I think that he will have been fine with the transition, and such a “surprise” afterward.