I probably should have. It was a both wonderful experience and a very confusing one.
Before it happened, I had barely even heard of them. After it did, I researched a lot about it and was amazed and relieved to hear that a lot of people's experiences pretty much echoed my own.
The main really cool parts I remember are:
1. The absolutely overwhelming sense of peace. Nothing I experienced before or since comes even remotely close to it.
2. The brilliant white light that shone a katrillion times brighter than the sun, but the fact that I could look at it without squinting my eyes.
3. And the feeling of "corporealness." I could look down and see nothing, yet I felt like I had form and substance. But not the same as my physical body. Very hard to explain. It was like...almost like a dream, except that dreams are only in your conscience and you don't "feel" like a "being." I don't know if that makes sense or not. But that's how it was.
My daughter was very young when it happened to me. And part of the experience I remembered being "given a choice" whether to stay or go back. I wanted to stay soooo badly..but kept thinking of her...so there was no choice, really, but to go back to her because I loved her and I knew she needed me and I would be back again soon enough.
I believe our physical bodies in this human state house the soul and the spirit. If my perception of what I experienced during an NDE I had many years ago is remotely accurate, I believe we continue to have a corporeal body, but completely unlike what we are now familiar with.
What you perceive to be truth doesn't make it truth. I think that's a significant difference and I think it's incomprehensible the conceit with which you purport to know said "truth."
This is very true, and it's not something to be taken lightly or to figure you "know" this is happening with someone you haven't even met yet. I mean, it could be..but, you're letting yourself in for a serious letdown if you think that just because you feel a certain way means everything is "honkydory." know what I mean?
No one mentioned marriage; we're talking about being in a rush to tell someone you love them. There is no "right" time, like two months or a week, or six months or a year...just don't tell someone you love them before you've even met them, is what I believe, anyway.
My own personal opinion is that you need to remove your head from the clouds there, Skippy. Where's the fire? It's very easy to get caught up in the excitement of perceived romance, but you really don't know "what's what" until after you have met someone and spent some time with them.
Rushing into things can very often be a fatal mistake when trying to develop a relationship with someone.
Yes, people do tend to favor what they'd like to believe, just like you believe what you write.
And I happen to believe in evolution of species, not as the explanation for the origin of man. Simply put, modern man did not evolve from apes. That YOU happen to believe that does not make it true.
This is why I hate arguing religious versus scientific theory. There's no point. There's never going to be an impasse, so what's the point of wasting the energy typing it or referencing anything, if it's only going to be discounted as hogwash?
The numbers speak for themselves. More than half of Americans do not believe in Darwinism, and I'm sure a good many of them have studied theology and Darwinism and the big bang and so forth and so on in at least as great a depth as you have, and possibly even more.
I'm not just "randomly guessing," either. I don't hold any degrees, but I do think I am capable of forming an intelligent opinion and debating the issues without benefit of such.
Cuz, I don't know about you, but *I* sure as hell can't see the back of my neck. And I can crane my neck to smell my armpit, but I can't see it..maybe in a mirror. LOL.
Well, stamping it on the backs of our necks kind of defeats the purpose, doesn't it? I mean, unless someone tells us while they're fastening a necklace for us or something.
jeanc200658 Forum Posts (1,858)
RE: Spirit is Basic
I probably should have. It was a both wonderful experience and a very confusing one.Before it happened, I had barely even heard of them. After it did, I researched a lot about it and was amazed and relieved to hear that a lot of people's experiences pretty much echoed my own.
The main really cool parts I remember are:
1. The absolutely overwhelming sense of peace. Nothing I experienced before or since comes even remotely close to it.
2. The brilliant white light that shone a katrillion times brighter than the sun, but the fact that I could look at it without squinting my eyes.
3. And the feeling of "corporealness." I could look down and see nothing, yet I felt like I had form and substance. But not the same as my physical body. Very hard to explain. It was like...almost like a dream, except that dreams are only in your conscience and you don't "feel" like a "being." I don't know if that makes sense or not. But that's how it was.