Sometimes I feel gullible or dumb for trying to believe in anything related to an afterlife.
This isn’t question as much as a confession. I consider myself to be a non-dogmatically spiritual person. I think I believe in god (in some form, not necessarily the god of any particular religion). I think I believe that there something after death, even if I don’t really know what it is. I’ve had spiritual experiences and I’ve received signs from a deceased loved one.
But, most of the time, I feel incredibly dumb for believing in things. I am, admittedly, not a very intelligent or deep guy, and I wonder if I’m just bullshitting myself.
Sure I’ve had spiritual experiences, but people do have hallucinations and vivid dreams, so maybe that’s how it was. I’ve had signs from my dad, but coincidences do happen. I’ve never had any success with “proving it to myself” and I’ve spent a lot of trying… probably way too much time
I’ve read about thousands and thousands of spiritual experiences (NDEs, visions, miracles, ADCs) and some of them sound so genuine. But I can’t verify anyone else’s experiences, so that doesn’t seem to help.
So here I am feeling a bit dumb to for trying/wanting to believe in anything.