in Life after Death.
Now I am not limiting this to some pseudo-religious definition, but just asking the question if anyone has a view or more importantly reason to believe either yes or no.
I am not religious in any way being agnostic since I was 35, prior to this I held an atheist view similar to those of Dawkins and his ilk.
Without getting into too much detail, I was almost killed when I was 16 and I had what I can only describe as a near death experience, I am not talking about seeing a bright light or Angels or anything like that, but while I was lying in hospital on the brink of death, a woman (who at the time, I thought was a nurse) sat with me through the days and nights until I pulled through.
While this woman sat with me I felt a sense of well-being and peace, the pain I was in seemed distant and inconsequential. Strangely (although it didn't seem so at the time) she did not speak, not once, she just sat there holding my hand.
Anyway I pulled though and when I asked after the nurse who sat with me through that time, I was met with blank looks and was told that there was no such woman. I put it down to being so ill and didn't really think about it.
When I was 35 I was seriously injured and again found myself on the brink of death, you can imagine my shock when on the transport to the medical station that this same nurse (the exact same woman, the same age and everything) is sat next to me throughout the time on the transport (I felt the same feeling as before and again she said nothing), before I got to the station I slipped into a coma and the next thing I remember is waking several days later, the woman was gone. Again no-one saw this woman.
Was this a case of errant brain chemistry or something more, I cannot say, but it did open my mind from the certainty that there is nothing more after this life and I now accept that maybe there is more to spirituality and a supposed afterlife than I first thought.
Anyone else had such a epiphany, or have any thoughts on the afterlife, or do you simply not believe there is anything more.
Now I am not limiting this to some pseudo-religious definition, but just asking the question if anyone has a view or more importantly reason to believe either yes or no.
I am not religious in any way being agnostic since I was 35, prior to this I held an atheist view similar to those of Dawkins and his ilk.
Without getting into too much detail, I was almost killed when I was 16 and I had what I can only describe as a near death experience, I am not talking about seeing a bright light or Angels or anything like that, but while I was lying in hospital on the brink of death, a woman (who at the time, I thought was a nurse) sat with me through the days and nights until I pulled through.
While this woman sat with me I felt a sense of well-being and peace, the pain I was in seemed distant and inconsequential. Strangely (although it didn't seem so at the time) she did not speak, not once, she just sat there holding my hand.
Anyway I pulled though and when I asked after the nurse who sat with me through that time, I was met with blank looks and was told that there was no such woman. I put it down to being so ill and didn't really think about it.
When I was 35 I was seriously injured and again found myself on the brink of death, you can imagine my shock when on the transport to the medical station that this same nurse (the exact same woman, the same age and everything) is sat next to me throughout the time on the transport (I felt the same feeling as before and again she said nothing), before I got to the station I slipped into a coma and the next thing I remember is waking several days later, the woman was gone. Again no-one saw this woman.
Was this a case of errant brain chemistry or something more, I cannot say, but it did open my mind from the certainty that there is nothing more after this life and I now accept that maybe there is more to spirituality and a supposed afterlife than I first thought.
Anyone else had such a epiphany, or have any thoughts on the afterlife, or do you simply not believe there is anything more.
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