Wabbit, I really like your answer. Thank you. You mentioned believing its common for spirits to pay visits to check up on loved ones.
My mom will be gone four weeks tomorrow. I've been home since April 8th. Even though she and I lived here together for 13 years, I havent felt her presence, or her pay me a visit, as you mentioned.
That is something you might or might not experience. When I experienced it, it didn't happen right away. It was awhile after they passed.
However,my mom told me that, in 1989, after my maternal grandfather died, she used to feel his presence in our old house in CT where we lived with my dad. She would tell me instances where she would feel a certain feeling of something or someone passing her in the hall. Additionally, she told me one instance of a night she was sleeping, when my father wasnt home, and she felt an unexplained energy or presence squeeze her hand in her sleep.
Yes. Experiences like that. After my grandfather passed away, I remember coming home on a Saturday evening from working overtime at my job. I carpooled with a lady and when I dropped her off, I got lost and didn't know where I was. I remained calm and eventually found an exit off of the freeway and sure enough I knew where I was. What was really weird about it was when I realized where I was, I passed by a building my grandfather used to have his metal fabricating shop in. Coincidence? That's what I mean when I mentioned bizaare signs that are more than just a coincidence. Another would be when I used to sleep downstairs and turned out the light. When I woke up, I saw my grandfather sitting in the recliner he always sat in when he was still alive. He was smoking a cigarette. I can't remember the entire conversation I had, but I do remember hugging him with my eyes closed and telling him that I love him and when I opened my eyes, he was gone. Then, when I woke up later, thinking this was just a dream, I noticed the light was on when I definitely remember turning it off before going to sleep.
Another would be when my grandmother passed away. My grandmother bought my mom a deck of tarot cards that she really wanted for Christmas. One day, that box containing them, just shot off of the shelf and out on the middle of the floor. And the tarot cards weren't like they were just on the edge of the shelf either. They were really back in there and it's not like they just dropped off the shelf and fell straight down either. Guess what the the image was on the back of the cards? Angels. Guess what was on the shelf right below? The urn with my grandmother's ashes in them? It was almost like she was telling her daughter that I am watching you, I am here if you ever need me, and I just wanted to let you know that I am okay and the place where I am is peaceful.
I have also felt my grandmother's presence. On the second floor hallway to be exact. I would also smell a scent as if she was wearing the perfume she used to wear a long time ago when we was still alive and healthy. I've woken up from a deep sleep hearing her calling my name but didn't see her anywhere.
My aunt who is into astrology believes that people never really die, and that they are transformed, into an energy, that is alive always.
Exactly. Whether you are a Christian, Wiccan, Muslim, Pagan, Agnostic or even an Atheist, there is some form of a higher power out there somewhere. Whether you refer to it as God, a Supreme Being, an energy field, The Force (like they do in Star Wars), advanced intelligence, somewhere there has to be a higher power. Even with those who believe in the Big Bang Theory, something out there had to be behind that spontaneous combustion and for it to be precisely configured to turn out the way it did.
I often wonder if the afterlife, if there is one, and the experience with it, is diffferent for someone who dies a peaceful death, and is ready to die, as opposed to someone whose death is not peaceful, and isnt ready to die.
Can you elaborate more as to what you mean? For example, are you talking about someone who let's say had sleep apnea, stopped breathing, therefore died from pulmonary sarcoidosis, which would be a peaceful way to go, as opposed to someone who died from Multiple Myeloma, which would be a slow, agonizing and unremitting death?
If so, it depends. If it was their time to go, whether they were ready to die or not, their time is up and that's it. The only time the afterlife is going to be different depend on whether the person was good or evil. Will their energy be different based on how they died? No. If they were good (positive), if they were evil (negative).
Now, if you mean if the afterlife will be different for someone whose life was cut off short, such as a person who got murdered and died instantly from a gunshot wound to the head as opposed to someone who was tortured to death?
If so, the answer is no. The afterlife itself would not be different. However, there are those whose life was short lived and because they were murdered, they resent it and instead of crossing over to the other side, they decide to drift among the same dimension as us. These are what are often referred by most people as ghosts and the reason why they do not cross over is for a variety of reasons: 1) they haven't accepted the fact that they are dead and still believe they are alive, 2) they are afraid to cross over because in most people's minds it has been ingrained that people are judged and are sent to one of two places; heaven or hell. And they are not ready to meet their fate because they fear if for reason if they are not good enough to be accepted into "Heaven", they don't want to be judged and face damnation, which once that is done, it's eternal, or 3) they resent the fact that their life was cut short and they just absolutely positively refuse to cross over because their time was not up and are sticking around because what happened to them was unfair and unjust and they want justice. I am sure you have seen or heard of either tv show ghost adventures or ghost hunters where they go to these haunted places? Or you hear about stories where whomever murdered someone ended up being haunted where they were driven to a mental hospital or played on their conscience until they go to the police and confess what they did? That's the spirit getting their revenge and once they see justice has been done, then they cross over to the other side.
Another thing I don't believe is if someone dies gruesomely, some will say that when you cross over, you'll see their spirt as their physical body was, which is to say all deformed and disfigured. I don't believe that because if they were a good person and you are also good and being sent to the same place as they are, that would a terrifying experience to deal with for all eternity.
I hope this answers your questions. If not, please clarify and I'll try to answer it.
