What happens after we die?-1

What happens after we die?-1

Death Cannot Be An End

When I lost my father three years ago, I could not believe that he had left our lives permanently. I refused to believe that he had just vanished into the blue. Surely, he had gone somewhere safe and continued to be there for his family, where he could receive our telepathic love and watch over us? Death could just not be the end. Such are the thoughts that have prompted humanity to examine whether there is indeed life after death, what is known as afterlife.

Soul Searching

Most religions talks of the soul or atma that never perishes, that leaves the body after the latter has become lifeless. So, where does this imperishable entity go? Does it just float around on the earth plane (which we probably perceive as ghosts) or does it go to another plane or world where it has a non-human experience?

Tunnel To Where

There have been many cases of patients in coma (considered a state of death) recounting after coming out of it, to have seen a tunnel which has light at the end of it. Is it a glimpse of a journey to another place? Well, we certainly can't say for certain.

A Wow Place

Apple founder Steve Jobs, just before he died, was heard by near and dear ones as saying "Oh wow, Oh wow, Oh wow"...and died soon afterwards. So, what did his last words mean? Was he happy to die? Was he feeling free of the pain of cancer? Or was he seeing something we couldn't even imagine? Was it the place he would soon go to?

Dream Sequence

When British neurosurgeon Dr Eben Alexander recovered from his coma, he described an experience which apparently convinced him that an afterlife did exist. It was of the lavishly conventional kind - fluffy clouds, shimmering beings and a beautiful, blue-eyed guide...

Embracing Afterlife

The general human tendency is to fear death, even fear any talk of death, and fear afterlife as well. But why this fear, even "shyness", to accept the inevitable, when a long history of people dying is before us? Doesn't our incapacity to accept death make us more miserable in our old age? Doesn't the theory of an afterlife (as well as reincarnation) give one fresh hope as opposed to a final, all-conclusive Death?

Om Namah Shivay