It’s an interesting question, one which undoubtedly will nag the mind of all of us sooner or later. Is there life after death?
In 2007, a poll was conducted by the AARP with people 50 and over, asking them if they believe in life after death. As one might assume, 73% of 1011 polled believed in life after death. Of the believers in an afterlife, women were more likely to believe than men. Two thirds of those polled admitted that their confidence in an afterlife grew as they became older. Ah, the folly of youth! It is apparent that the closer we come to the day when our body passes, the more hopeful we become that death is only a bad joke.
There was another interesting statistic revealed by the AARP survey. The richer people were, the less likely they were to believe in life after death. This is not surprising to me because, as human beings, we have a tendency to focus our lives on external things. Everything seems to take place around us – outside of us. The world seems like it is only a place of things, places, animals, plants and people. All nouns. No verbs. Looking outside of ourselves, everything appears disconnected and temporary. Why wouldn’t those, whose focus is on the material world, meaning persons, places or things, find it difficult to identify with something as spiritual as an afterlife?
What is the point of this article? I guess I wanted to spark the reader to consider looking at life from a different perspective. Instead of attempting to answer the question, “Is there life after death?” by examining our experiences that take place with the world around us, why not look within ourselves. Let’s begin there. Take a journey inward and listen to what you hear. You just might find there’s something there, something you may have overlooked. Is it time for you to see the world differently? Perhaps, there is something to meditation.
Is there life after death? The answer to that question can only be answered for each person who embarks upon an individual adventure of discovery. My journey began when I decided to quiet my mind in order to listen to my “gut” through meditation. It was only then that I knew I was to create a website to investigate life after death by exploring ghosts and spirits. Angels & Ghosts was born in 2004.
For six years now, I have been receiving possible evidence of ghosts and spirits, submitted by our viewers. Photographs, videos, near death experiences, out-of-body experiences, EVP and other evidences have come to me by e-mail from around the world. The Angels & Ghosts website has become a great resource for me and others to explore life after death.
I have also made it a point to get out in the field to investigate the paranormal firsthand. I will stop at nothing to attempt to “figure things out.” This has become another portion of my own personal journey of discovery. Through many experiences, I remain convinced that there is indeed life after death. To me, encounters with ghosts are possibly the best evidence that life goes on beyond the material world. Near death experiences also have given me much food for thought, and my own out-of-body experience further cemented in my mind the existence of spirit.
I encourage you to step out and explore the unknown. It is only then that you may have the privilege of knowing the answer to the question, is there life after death?
LC
