...to ask what happens when you die?

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... or more accurately, what you think happens?

I really really don't want to die (a good thing I guess! As I wasn't too bothered either way as a moody teen, but now I love life most of the time and want to hang around).

It's comforting to think there's a heaven, but I don't believe there is (and I'd probably get bored if I had to stay there for EVER). But when u die - is that it? Game over ? I'm not too keen on that idea either.

What do you think happens? and what would you like to think happens?

*This reminds me of the question about if a tree falls down but no-one hears it, did it make a sound or not?

If there is nothing after death, but no-one experiences it, is it really there?*

yes, this 100%

I'mListening a medium can't 'summon' anybody in spirit, it's up to them if they communicate or not. I have found my loved ones are really keen to. The love is still just as strong, it doesn't die just because their physical body has, and they can't wait to to express that and reassure that they are ok.

I agree with that leopard, a very dear loved one of mine was apparently "clambering to get in and be heard". He was overjoyed to be able to communicate. The medium wasn't able to get much out of him at the time, there was that many eager to be heard. But she did manage to describe him in a way she couldn't possibly have known. He was very happy though.

This thread is awesome, it’s so interesting.

The thing is that quantum physics shows that reality is probably not as real as we think (the double split experiment shows that a photon changes its state whether it is being observed or not). We also know that time and space are relative to the observer, as per Einstein's Theory of Relatively which makes me think that once again, consciousness can explain some of these anomalies.

If consciousness produces what we call physical reality then it makes sense that physical reality is not permanent but is subjective and depends on the consciousness of the observer/person experiencing it. I know that when I am asleep, time/space/the outside world doesn't exist according to my conscious experience, I am in a sort of void. Also, when people take certain psychedelic drugs, their experience of physical reality changes, so physical reality is not always constant and solid but maleable and subjective.

GottaGet maybe :o but I hadn't seen any films when I was 2 and we didn't have a TV til I was 5.

Plus I wasn't exposed to religion when I was young but knew things about saints etc.

Just realized I've animated a dead thread replying. Sorry!

You might be interested to read the book 'Many Lives Many Masters' by Dr.Brian Weiss. It explains reincarnation and past life experiences in great detail.