r/afterlife

As we dont know this, what is your truth? Does our soul go to a spiritual realm and we see people we know? Do we geg our bodies? Do we meet God? Do we remember our life on Earth? I would love to hear your truth as we are all lost souls in a way that dont the answers to the big questions.

To start,I had a bunny. He had been living with me all my life until his final year because of my living situation. (I would go see him, even spend the night at times and clean his cage every morning, he just stayed with a friend.) It’s been a year ago today since he died. I have been asking and praying to see him in anyway again or get a symbol/sign from him in anyway from the start. It had been eating me alive so much going months with nothing, so I came to an acceptance that this is just how it is now.

Yesterday I was in the downstairs part of my house (the people I am currently staying never housed the bunny because of their dog, so this wasn’t left behind from any of my bunnies stuff) there was a spill on the carpet so I got on the floor to clean it. When I got on the floor I saw it. A pellet. It was out in the open. It looks exactly like a bunny pellet. I didn’t believe it at first, so I tried to hold it up to every piece of furniture and anything it looked like it might’ve been a match to, but I never found anything that had the same pattern or texture as it in the entire room. I have it. I can’t post the picture on this post maybe I can put it in comments on here. I don’t know what to make of this.

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Basically it was that this guy died, went to heaven, but as the NDE went on, he was overtaken with fear and was then taken to hell. And the person’s point was that maybe people who aren’t Christian do end up going to Hell, but because their NDEs don’t last long enough, they don’t get to that point, and they only get to see the bliss. They argue that the bliss is deception from the devil and that being taken to hell is because of god. Now this is making me panic and question all NDEs I read

Do you think in the afterlife, it’ll be like cities and gardens that we’ve all heard, people sitting in porches waving and talking to people who pass by? Just complete peace and life?

I ask because an NDE I just watched described that.

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.

I just felt the need to post this. I've been recently very ill. I was so sick I was talking to my dead Dad. I said Dad if you can hear me just give me a sign. So today I'm sitting on Instagram and a lady makes a post and uses a name my Dad always called me !!! I think maybe it's Dad then I think well maybe it's just a coincidence. Tbh though I don't really believe in coincidences. So just now I get a notification in YouTube about a comment that I made a long time ago about my Dad. It feels as though he is trying to communicate with me. I'm not sure about life after death. I'm very skeptical but it felt too specific. Anyways I just wanted to share it.

Hello! So I’m a very introverted person, I have no friends literally.. I don’t really speak to my family very much at all, I’m 29 and I live alone..

People who have no one.. do you think they still get greeted when they transition over?

Near-death experience that I experienced during my catastrophic motorcycle collision: it felt like having this strange sensation that something was on your face bothering you while you were alone in the house, yet there was nothing actually wrong with your face. Then someone removes the VR headset from you, and you suddenly realise that the “reality” or life we live is inside that headset, but only about 5% of actual reality exists inside this VR — aka the life we live compared to the post-death reality.

Outside of it, you exist in this overwhelming state of love, peace, and abundance. Then, when you’re brought back (CPR or otherwise), you kind of understand that you need to put this terrible 5% reality VR headset back on again in order to return. Once you return, you realise there are no real words capable of describing the remaining 95% that feels missing from the life we live here.

This is also a phenomenon where a lot of people who have experienced NDEs end up depressed or didn’t want to return. Some people have even sued healthcare providers or others who saved their lives with CPR, for example. Even people who have partners and kids, and explicitly say they love their family and would do anything for them, have said that after experiencing an NDE they wanted to stay on the other side and didn’t want to come back. That has nothing to do with how their lives are, but because it feels like you traversed into this next reality and just want to stay there and understand more.

I waa thinking about this yesterday.hmm

My mother and I were very close. We emailed every day since I moved out. I remember as a kid telling her she had to live long so that we could go to the same retirement home. I remember as a kid telling my friends that I couldn’t handle not having my mum, that I’d rather die before. That’s how close we were. I lost her 2 years ago after a long battle with fronto temporal dementia. She was in a sense gone before she died, but she was still there and I still took care of her as much as I could. It was different but the love was the same. We lived in different countries. I came to see her as soon as I had vacation and the last time I came, she was in bad bad shape, but I still wanted to believe. I could see in her eyes she was happy to see me. She died the morning after. Like she waited for me to come. Though when my sister came to wake me up that morning and told me it looked like the end I refused to believe it and didn’t go downstairs. She died in my sisters arms and it was the hardest thing ever. One thing I don’t understand is that we were so close that I was hoping she’d visit me in a dream, but nothing. I don’t understand. Is she angry I didn’t go downstairs as she died?

Some believe that to serve a higher purpose, we need to forget who we are. But people have NDEs or spiritual experiences and bring messages.

Why do you think the "veil of forgetfulness" is so leaky? Is it an accident? Or is the idea that we're supposed to forget flawed? Or something else?

I ’ve been sitting here thinking about Steven, my 19-year-old son who passed away in October 2024. He left behind a young son.

Steven’s son was 19 months and 12 days old when he died. Steven had 19 months and 12 days on this Earth with him.

Today ALSO marks 19 months and 12 days since Steven passed. That means he has now been gone for half of his son’s life. The timing on this seems strange to pop to my mind today randomly

I’m not sure why I found myself thinking about this today of all days—it feels oddly meaningful, almost like it can’t be a coincidence.

I will spend today holding his baby and telling him about his dad, who truly loved him.
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Lately I’ve latched onto learning about spirituality. I’ve read a ton about life reviews, and it’s been causing me great anxiety. Personally, I think about bad things I’ve done every single day; it consumes a lot of my life. Even small things I've done as a child. The idea that I will have to relive it all and feel it more intensely is terrifying to me as I deal with the negative emotions, such as guilt, on the physical plane so intensely already. Would love to hear anyone’s perspective on this.

F33 here.

I would have never thought, 20 years back, that suffering so much was humanely possible.

I won’t enter into details and I know my English is not the best to tell stories.

So let’s simply say that as a child, I had a very loving family. I felt deeply protected at home, and it was the contrary at school, where I was bullied from the first day to the last.

Then my dad died when I was 17, my mother when I was 24.

Now I made the sum of everything that I’ve been through in this life, and I reached a critical point of loneliness and self-depreciation.

And since I have a strong belief in the afterlife (told in near death experiences), and that I know our soul embodies to improve, I think maybe it’s time for me to go.

Because there’s so much the body can take, but there’s a moment when you have to bow when you are defeated.

And I am pretty sure that if I meet my parents as I imagine there, they will be far from angry that I ended what was necessary.

Maybe my efforts in earth life mean nothing, the issues aren’t solved and I keep suffering day and night… but at the same time, my soul must have hugely evolved for so much to bear.

A former friend of mine had an experience several years ago where she was clinically declared “dead” during surgery before being resuscitated. She says she remembers there being absolutely “nothing” when she died, like a sort of peace.

While I respect her experience and find it beautiful, what I don’t find beautiful is that she uses this to define others’ experiences and beliefs with life and death. She uses her single, anecdotal experience with “death” (when she was heavily sedated and literally survived) to insist that there is absolutely nothing after death — no heaven, no ghosts, no past lives. Whatever someone else believes, it can’t be real because she didn’t experience it.

Again, I’d respect her viewpoint if she kept it to herself. Instead, I’ve heard her bring this story up close to a dozen times, almost always after someone spiritual or religious discusses their beliefs. For example, when I shared my belief in past lives (which I have memories from), she immediately brought up her experience (that I’d heard several times) seemingly to end the conversation.

This person is no longer in my life due to other reasons (my ex cheated on me and she sided with the ex lol), so I likely won’t have a chance to confront her personally on this. However, if I encounter a situation like this again, what do you think is the best way to approach the subject to stop someone from invalidating others’ beliefs without invalidating THEIR beliefs or heightening conflict?

[Note: It’s not super important, but from my own personal belief, I think my friend is full of 💩 with her conclusion. She pretends her conclusion that “life is all there is” is scientific, but a “lack of evidence” cannot serve as evidence in most scientific processes, especially if others have experiences that do arguably have evidence (even if it’s just their anecdotal experiences, too). I personally believe our brains make us experience whatever is most comforting when we are close to death’s door, and for her, that was peace and silence. When I nearly died during surgery, I experienced something very different.]

heyy everyone! I’m 20 years old student who moved out of her country for education. I never had any fear of death before and believed fully in afterlife, but since moving i somehow managed to develop anxiety for literally everything and it’s slowly consuming my life.

the fact that i’m not with my family just doesnt sit right with me and i hate the idea that anything could happen to them while im not there. I just love them so much.

So as i mentioned i developed anxiety and one specifically was death anxiety, where instead of studying now i spend my days stressing about my parents, grandparents, sister and me dying (rip with my finals approaching). I dont know why i suddenly started doubting existenc of afterlife even tho i believed in it my whole life. Thanfully, I’m lucky enough that I never experienced death in my family, so i still dont know the feeling of that.

I found myself way too often reading and searching on reddit and similar platforms topic about afterlife, and for peace of my mind i wanted to ask if anyone knows any papers, research and stuff about it so i can study it further. I study chemistry and all my professors disagree about existence of it, which again doesnt sit right with me. There has to be something. I just can’t accept idea that once you die it’s all over. I keep losing motivation for studying, going out etc because what would be the point if one day nothing will exist and it would all be for nothing.

At this point anything would help

In your opinion what is the best evidence we have to suggest the existence of a life after death? Between things like NDE’s, veridical OBE’s, mediumship, ADC’s etc, there are so many ways we experience the afterlife or at least glimpses of it. If you could only use one to best make a case for the afterlife which one would it be and why?

I made a similar post here the other day, but it got lost in the void...

I posted in a different group, a near death experience group the other day, about desiring luxurious things in the afterlife and how I hoped we could have beautiful mansions and extravagant things, delicious foods and wonderful travel destinations in heaven.

I assumed this was a universal desire, since the vast majority of us do enjoy nice things like that... things that are out of reach for the majority of us while we live here on earth. Unfairly so. It's greatly unfair that only the richest get to enjoy the most beautiful travel destinations on earth, and live in their dream homes.

But in the group I posted this in, I got absolutely swarmed by people calling me materialistic and acting like I was greedy and shallow, and not spiritual or such. Just people talking down to me, because I expressed wanting to enjoy beautiful things basically...

It was very silly, I assumed people understood what I was talking about, but no, I was just a shallow greedy person for even asking this question over there... They acted like I literally wanted to sit on a big pile of money in the afterlife, just wallowing in greed for no reason.

NO of course not! I was trying to say that I hoped we could all live our dream lives and be in gorgeous and beautiful place, such as a big mansion or a stunning beach, but those are all things that only rich people with money can access here on earth...

What on earth is "shallow" or bad about wanting to be on some gorgeous beach in a nice mansion eating lobster?

If "evolving spiritually" somehow means to "ascend" so you are just a floating consciousness in a blank white room doing literally nothing all day without a body, that's HELL and I would rather stay "unevolved" and primitive in my mansion with my lobster if that is the case...

We were made as human beings to enjoy beautiful things, fine art, luxury, beautiful buildings and delicious foods. (sex too, most of us) and that isn't shallow or "materialistic" or bad at all.

Just I hope the afterlife is full of these things, that everyone who is there can actually get these things, which would be actually fair for once and that it would be without suffering, for example no lobster having to actually suffer for it. I hope I still feel like myself, just healthier and better, but still have all my desires and personality I have now, so I can enjoy actually living in a limitless beautiful world full of wonders... How could one even enjoy all those fantastic things in a perfect heavenly world, if suddenly we are like monks who don't even enjoy or want anything?

One of the worst periods of my life, my biggest trauma was when I was so severely depressed and drugged up on psych meds that I was like an empty, ego-less and anhedonic shell of a person. I HAVE experienced what it is like, having absolutely no desires, no feelings, complete apathy and no sense of personality. It's not some "ascended" state, it was pure hell and I never, ever want to return to such a state. There is nothing glorious or great about it, it's just torture being alive and conscious like that. Having personality, desires and feelings is what makes being alive and conscious bearable.

I am not some greedy awful "materialistic" person for hoping heaven is full of these things, huge personalised castles and gorgeous beaches like I visited in Thailand. And the people in that other group talking down to me are not any more spiritually advanced than I am, like what even is the point of getting to go to a perfect heaven if it has literally nothing, what do you even want??

And I am by no means wealthy right now, I think being very wealthy on earth is largely immoral because of the vast poverty and suffering here. But if it were without suffering like in heaven and fully ethical, I would love the chance to live like that.