Is there life after death?

[JAGG]

Yes there is life after death. I am 100 percent sure , of this I have no doubt. I'm sorry, I can't share how I know this ,it is way too personal. I am not a religous person. I know that before this event, I didn't think there was life after death. I thought that this was it. No one could have convinced me otherwise. I'd hoped maybe there was, but, I highly doubted it.
What exactly there is after this I can't say for sure, but I do know there is something else, and life doesn't end when we die. Sometimes I forget about that event, because I get busy living my life, but then I remember and it feels so good, because no matter what happens in my life, I have that ace in the hole.

[JustLovelyJenn]

Yes, I believe there is life after death. I believe it with all of my being, because I can and have talked with those spirits have left their bodies behind. I have on many occasions been able to sit with someone and tell them things that no one but themselves and the person in question would have been able to know. I have been able to pass on messages that needed to be shared and weren't. I have been able to sooth the living that remain behind because the dead are there, real, and care.

[Corkey]

I have no idea, no one I know has ever come back to say there was. I however will still act like there is, just in case.

[Ebon]

Absolutely. I think that after we die our spiritual bodies have a life review to see what we have learned from our experiences. There is more but BFP doesn't have enough server space for me to continue.

i believe that there has been "life before life" and will be "life after death" (reincarnation). i have a couple of real-time experiences for believing this.
the first concerns my belief as a child and youth that i was a boy. i was not butch or trans-i was simply a boy. i happen to be born a little more than 3 months premature. i also got a shock every time i looked into a mirror and saw this blonde-haired, blue-eyed, fair-skinned person looking back at me. my conception of my self was of a black-haired, dark-eyed, somewhat dark-skinned boy. my Buddhist Master explained that in their teachings i had "jumped the gulf" too soon, i.e. passed into my next incarnation too soon. i was remembering my self from the last incarnation and had not yet fully incarnated into this incarnation as a girl.
the second concerns my after-death experience. i had had an extremely severe reaction between seafood and medication. according to my dr, i actually was dead for several minutes before they brought me back to this world. i can remember looking down at my body, to which i was connected by a golden cord. according to my Master, if this cord had severed, they would not have been able to bring me back to life here. i would have passed into the next bardo.
those two experiences, plus the teachings of my Masters, have convinced me of the reality of reincarnation.
pres

[Kenna]

For me, if there is, I hope it's a peaceful life - more so than what I've faced in this one - where I get to be with my Great Gramma, my children, my nieces, my brother and other loved ones again. I can't imagine that our souls - spirits aren't connected in some way.

I have had my own personal experiences as well, too many to keep track of. I have studied Metaphysics since I was 11, So let's say... a while... I love hearing the stories and experiences others have had and I do not have enough room here to expound on all I know or The Truth as I know it !!! I am not a Religous person, too much dogma but I am very Spiritual ... That's enough said... Keep sharing :~)

[MsDemeanor]

I don't have a real life experience, as I have not died. That said, when you're dead, you're dead. Done, gone, finito, bye-bye.

[princessbelle]

From my *me* space....

I'll try and make it way shorter than i could.

What happened:

I was 16 and hit head on by a drunk driver who was 20 years old going 80 mph. Through the windshield i go, prior to seatbelt laws. Landed partly on the hood of the car and partly on the road. Parametics did CPR for over 5 minutes. I was dead.

What i remember:

Seeing headlights, feeling and hearing glass. Then, I was laying in tall grass and a man leaning over me saying the Lords Prayer. Looking down at me with the most beautiful blue eyes I've ever seen. Telling me i would "be ok". The peace felt was like no other. No words to describe the feeling of love, completness, happiness, comfort, beauty and joy. He smiled. I smiled and closed my eyes. Then, i heard someone say "i've got a pulse". I was back, paddles still on my chest, and i hurt, and i cried and people were bleeding and oh how i wanted to go back....

....back to that place that was *my* life after death....

I am thankful for that experience. I am thankful i left and thankful i came back. *I* know, without a single doubt, there is life after death. I am thankful...that I know....what a blessing it is.

[Lynn]

My personal belief is that we are spiritual beings, larger and more powerful than our bodies. I believe that we *are* the soul, not that we have a soul, and I believe we are immortal. I have had some personal experiences which lead me to these conclusions, as well as some studies which support my perceptions.

I don't believe that there is a prescribed task or set of activities that one does when he or she leaves her body. That is, to me, as regimented and proscribed as the dogma of religion. I think if you're a nice guy in life, you're always likely to be a nice guy. If you're rotten, you can learn and do better, but you can also continue to be rotten, from lifetime to lifetime. There is a continuity to who one is, body or not. Just because someone has died and is now in a spiritual form, it doesn't mean they are wiser or kinder. But, they may be!

Day to day, I don't thnk about dying or a next life. I experience spirituality more in terms of realizing that I am able to create my life and future, and that my intentions and thoughts can supercede the expectations of others, or even the "rules" of the universe.