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Oct 11, 2012 7:34 PM CST ====+++the core of your excistence+++====
Dadude62
Dadude62Dadude62Elkton, Maryland USA1,120 Posts
freesparrow: Thank you. You are, of course, right. It could have been just a child's imagination. I must tell you that this was totally out of her character and she has not mentioned him again. At the risk of turning this into a ghost story cliche, I really want to tell you one more true story. Many years ago, I returned to my hometown after a long absence and rented a home. One night, as I turned back my covers to go to bed, I looked up and saw a figure walking in the hallway. It could best be described as a fog in the shape of a man. I sensed that it was a ghost, but I felt no fear or even surprise, for some reason. I just went to bed. When I shared this story with my brother, who was a detective, he was amazed. He told me that he had investigated the death of a man who had lived in that same house. He had committed suicide. Later I was told that the house was often vacant because renters said it was haunted. I would not call it a ghost, but a soul...maybe a lost soul. The beings that we are is so powerful, that I cannot see how we could just die and bah....be gone. Though it cannot be proven, I have always felt completely sure that there is some sort of afterlife.


I was raised by an atheist (father) and a mother who just agreed with him. It was a very dysfunctional family, very poor back in the old country. When we came to the US they worked hard and became fairly well off. That's when the troubles really took off.
I was always scientifically inclined and thought everything could be explained scientifically and I had no spiritual awareness. I had become agnostic by my late teens because my fathers atheism was much like a staunch religion with all kinds of thou shalt's and shalt nots.
I went into the Navy during the Vietnam era and one morning I was in my bunk and the wake up bosuns whistle went off just like every morning 6 AM.
I found myself in some kind of semi awake state and could not completely wake up. Then it appeared,,,,,, there, was the perfect image of my fathers face in a black outline in a very white background staring at me, right in front of me.. Along with this came an intense feeling that he was either dead or dying. I woke up after what seemed like eternity and that haunted me all day long.
The next morning I was woken up and told to come to the chaplains office. He read off the telegram and when he came to that part,,,, "suicide",,, I just fell,, like in a falling dream (not physically). I stood there falling forever and could not grab hold. Eventually I did grab hold,, internally,,,,
That event changed me completely. There has been much soul searching and coming to terms. Along with that a deep spiritual awareness of what I think to be a realistic sort. Nothing having to do with religion.
Also what has come out of that for me is a deep love of life, I'd do it all over again.
I don't know what will come after I cease to be. I imaging kind of like before I came to be. If there is anything I would like to believe, that would be reincarnation. That is what makes sense to me. I have no proof other then the fact that I am here now. So why not again?
I believe, know, we are in heaven right her on earth, it's just that many don't know that and insist in making hell out of it.
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Oct 11, 2012 8:08 PM CST ====+++the core of your excistence+++====
freesparrow
freesparrowfreesparrowHarlingen, Texas USA10 Threads 1 Polls 1,162 Posts
Dadude, that is a beautiful story...not about your dad, but because of the spiritual awakening you experienced. Once you go through such a life altering event, you cannot help but believe in some kind of spirituality. I agree....we are in a heavenly place. Our pains and hurts are a part of it...we must experience them to be human, to be compassionate, loving. For some of us, it could take several lifetimes to get to that point....lol.
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Oct 11, 2012 10:16 PM CST ====+++the core of your excistence+++====
Dadude62
Dadude62Dadude62Elkton, Maryland USA1,120 Posts
freesparrow: Dadude, that is a beautiful story...not about your dad, but because of the spiritual awakening you experienced. Once you go through such a life altering event, you cannot help but believe in some kind of spirituality. I agree....we are in a heavenly place. Our pains and hurts are a part of it...we must experience them to be human, to be compassionate, loving. For some of us, it could take several lifetimes to get to that point....lol.


Thank you Free,,. Yes heaven is a place where we have pains and hurts and beauty and joy and love. These pains and hurts do not have to get as extreme as they do in the world we have created. I do see, and consider it the real hope of this world, a true spiritual awareness explosion. A few more lifetimes ? Things are rapidly developing.
You have wonderful spiritual awareness.
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