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“I knew, somehow, that I was dead. I was aware my brain was dying and crying out for help. But, at the same time, I felt things completely separate from my body. It was like I was in a void but could feel emotions and sensations. Despite knowing I was dead, I also knew that there was a chance of coming home.
I also understood that I’d be reincarnated, but I didn’t want that just yet. I wanted to return to life, to the material world and to my wife. I demanded that I was coming back and I got my wish.
I felt there was a whole set of possibilities. Various lives and reincarnations that were being offered to me. But I didn’t want them. I made it very clear that I wanted to return to my body, to my time, to my wife and to go on living.
I needed to be proactive. I said I was coming back. I said it as a demand not a request.”
I had no body as such. I suppose it was a bit like swimming through water, you feel weightless and disconnected from the physical world. At one point I was travelling over the moon and I could see meteorites and all of space.
I’m less fearful of death because of it, but at the same time I’m also more fearful, because I’ve realized how precious everything I have in life is. I’m grateful just to be here. My drive for life has been boosted. I’ve always thought that kindness is essential for humans to evolve and become better, but after this experience, I now feel this very deep inside me – like a fundamental truth.
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'You feel weightless and disconnected from the physical world,' says Shiv of 'crossing the threshold', which also inspired this colourful piece
Pictures of Shiv's artwork
Do I believe in an afterlife ? , I don't disbelieve in it and think it possible that there is more to our existence than we understand.
Not a god. More of an energy consciousness without physical form.
originally posted by: Arnie123
What if, all that we experienced in the "afterlife" or something similar is the brain going into overdrive at the onset of death?
That its the biological way of easing ones own demise? Those last few seconds within the mind could pave way to all kinds of lives and actions, spooky quantum mechanic stuff, squeezed into a few seconds....
originally posted by: gortex
a reply to: Annee
Not a god. More of an energy consciousness without physical form.
Agreed , I don't think you need to be religious to believe in a possible afterlife , the void could be a part of the Holographic Universe recycling us and spitting us back out to continue the purpose.
Perhaps.
originally posted by: toysforadults
a reply to: Annee
I agree with Hermes or Thoth. the physical world is a mental construct, it's all in your imagination
I don't dispute that at all.
originally posted by: Annee
originally posted by: Arnie123
What if, all that we experienced in the "afterlife" or something similar is the brain going into overdrive at the onset of death?
That its the biological way of easing ones own demise? Those last few seconds within the mind could pave way to all kinds of lives and actions, spooky quantum mechanic stuff, squeezed into a few seconds....
Maybe, but I've connected and interacted with other people I've only known online -- in that out of body state.
It's normal for me. I've always been this way.