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bellsspinningmember
79 posts
Location: nsw camden


Posted:
hey all

i wanted to have a discusion about what happens to your soul after you die and do you believe in reincarnation

ive had someone pass just yesterday and i believe that he is still with us and he wont go and rest until he knows where fine he was a very spiritual person and he always told us that when he went that he would come back and tell us somehow what goes on after wards i guess if we dont hear from him we no nothing but i dont believe that

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jo_rhymesSILVER Member
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Location: Telford, Shrops, United Kingdom


Posted:
Hi Bellsspinning hug
I'm really sorry to hear about your friend. No matter what you believe, it's always hard to lose someone, and miss their physical presence.
I believe that only our physical bodies die but our soul is eternal. There is so much evidence available for reincarnation that it's difficult to deny that it happens.
My advice for you is to sit quietly with a candle and perhaps something personal of your friend's and meditate on him. Invite his spirit nearer and try and feel him there. hug we can never truly die.

Hoppers are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.


SethisBRONZE Member
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Posted:
It's probably not useful that I believe that we have no soul, but I take comfort from the fact that my body will break apart and join the the rest of the world again. Eventually some of my body will be reborn as another human being, or an animal or plant. With my death I feed the earth, and I take joy in that. smile

Take Care hug

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chris19SILVER Member
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Posted:
Well I think it is a kind of mix of what has been written so far. I think we have a soul that joins a kind of an energetic flow again but stays in it as something of its own like a mosaic. I also believe, that there is reincarnation but maybe in another way than we think. It is not under the laws of time or any other dimension known by men.
Maybe it's easy to say for me (I've never lost somebody dear to me) but death is a part of life, neither it's end nor it's beginning, as birth is also a part of life and not it's beginning or end, both are parts of something bigger.
I'm sure we all will see each other again. Maybe not in a place or time we expect it but it will happen.

twirling greets

chris

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jeff(fake)Scientist of Fortune
1,189 posts
Location: Edinburgh


Posted:
Tis better to remember the person for who they were. Life is finite, that's why it's special.

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faith enfireBRONZE Member
wandering thru the woods of WI
3,556 posts
Location: Wisconsin, USA


Posted:
i like what hilli billi had to say
while i don't believe in reincarnation, i do believe that our friends and family are always there with us. i believe that i felt a loved one's energy/spirit when i needed them
the love that we have is a tie that will not be broken, it may not be manifested in any tricks, but when you need them they will be there hug

Faith
Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed


L0s3r_r@v3rSILVER Member
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Posted:
all i got to say is hug sorry wove.

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jo_rhymesSILVER Member
Momma Bear
4,525 posts
Location: Telford, Shrops, United Kingdom


Posted:
We are all One, and cannot truly be separated.

Hoppers are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.


GnorBRONZE Member
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Posted:
Some people believe the spirit stays around for a certain period but needs to move on.
When a friend of ours dies his spirit stayed with a close friend for nearly a year and helped her through some very hard decisions.

hug hug hug hug to you

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Is it Fair to all concerned?
Will it build Goodwill and Better Friendships?
Will it be Beneficial to all concerned?

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Ange_GSCGOLD Member
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Posted:
Losing someone is always hard, I believe some kind of spirit of a person stays around to say goodbye before moving on. Take this time to reflect on your life, and theirs and make peace with them so everything can settle in a peaceful way without sorrow.

hug things will be ok, dont be too upset, try to find confort in reflection.

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misscorinthianSILVER Member
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784 posts
Location: Bristol, United Kingdom


Posted:
A friend of mine used this scenario when stating that he did not believe in "life after death":

You have a tv. It works and you can see a picture. If your tv breaks, you don't get the picture anymore.

In my opinion this is in fact the perfect scenario to use when I state that I do believe in the soul/spirits or whichever words you like to use:

You have a tv. It works and you can see a picture. If your tv breaks, you don't get the picture anymore. There is still a signal in the air, but the tv can no longer recieve it. You cannot see it, but it is there.

I believe I have had personal experiences of being "contacted" by souls I have known, and it is my own opinion that death is not the end- but we are all merely guessing on this one.

So sorry that you have lost a friend hug

XLenX

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bellsspinningmember
79 posts
Location: nsw camden


Posted:
Thank you to everyones opinions
i very strongly believe in spirits and life after death.
every person os different in what they believe and i think that has to do with life experiences.As i know i have been contacted by my brother inlaw and i was his channel to conect him to my sister.i dont remember what happened but my sister explained to me i was in the back of her car singing a tina arena song and i cant sing but she said i sung it so beautifully i then told her that he was saying baby i love you i had my hand on him and my hand was moist and cold . i had tears streaming down my face but then i felt so at eez and from that moment on i have been calm and peacful.i also believe in negative energy and i hope that in conecting with russ a neg wont come through that "channel" thanks again to all

look inside yourself for YOUR answers


bellsspinningmember
79 posts
Location: nsw camden


Posted:
the funeral is today the final sending off and teh summary of his passing away but truely not the end

look inside yourself for YOUR answers


Psycho_lemmingSILVER Member
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Location: Scotland


Posted:
hug

take care of youself
xxx

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bellsspinningmember
79 posts
Location: nsw camden


Posted:
well the memorial/funeral is over and it was a very presious and good day instead of mauning we reflected and reminised about his happy 24 yrs on earth thanks all for your support

look inside yourself for YOUR answers


Neon_ShaolinGOLD Member
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Posted:
Whether or not you believe in the afterlife, the departed will always be with you.

Whether in spirit or in the memories they left with you when they were here.

It's good that you reminised. I would probably still be a wreck but would prefer to celebrate a life rather than morn a death.

"I used to want to change the world, now I just wanna leave the room with a little dignity..." - Lotus Weinstock


bellsspinningmember
79 posts
Location: nsw camden


Posted:
thanks for that that makes alot of sense
well i would be still a wreck if i didnt have to be strong for my sister

look inside yourself for YOUR answers


bellsspinningmember
79 posts
Location: nsw camden


Posted:
so many weird things have happen since my brother in law passed he was a very spiritual person and always saiod if he was to go first he would show us some how what happens once you die
isnt that a question alot of people want answered

look inside yourself for YOUR answers


FireTomStargazer
6,650 posts

Posted:
bellspinning - not reading the above answers - the thing your brother in law said sounds more like a threat, than a benefit...

Anyways - spirits and ghosts have as much power over you as you allow them to have IMO - they are without a body and therefore act upon a different level (not material)... YOU have a body - if you ignore them, or do not let them use you - they have ZERO power...

One thing with the human psyche and mind is that it tries to explain things and put them into context (example Moiree-effect)... therefore we are trying to find certain explanations for certain events and sometimes even create a reality that is not there...

No - I have no question about what happens after I die, anymore... it's the last great adventure. If I'd put out this question then someone would answer it - and who might that be then? And who claims that the same thing happens to everybody? And who claims to know anything about it anyways? umm wink

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Mr MajestikSILVER Member
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Posted:
who claims to know anything firetom? wink

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jo_rhymesSILVER Member
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Location: Telford, Shrops, United Kingdom


Posted:
Thats great Bellspinning, is it a comfort to know he's still around? smile

Hoppers are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.


FireTomStargazer
6,650 posts

Posted:
Majestik: redface sorry re-reading my post I might have created the impression that I have know what I am talking about here.... In fact I don't!

This life I have not been dead, yet... bounce

And jo: that's the best question so far! smile

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bellsspinningmember
79 posts
Location: nsw camden


Posted:
i do not understand why it would be a threat
my sister, russell (brother in law) and i would sit up many of nights and talk about life after death re incarnation the spirit world and so on
in these convos we all said that whcih ever was to go first they would come through to the others
my sister and i are into all of this ie inhancing psychic ability and want him to come to us
i have very strong beliefs on this and i am not trying to push them on to anyone ( just thought i might clarify that) i am simply expressing them
i believe if my sister and i were not so spiritual we would have nothing to believe in and the passing on of him would of been a hole different experience
t5hanks all for your in puts im very intreged about others views

look inside yourself for YOUR answers


bellsspinningmember
79 posts
Location: nsw camden


Posted:
oh i forgot to challange on a quote from yourself fire tom

No - I have no question about what happens after I die, anymore... it's the last great adventure

my question to you is why not anymore
and how do you no its the last great adventure?

look inside yourself for YOUR answers


buzzingtalkMember
152 posts
Location: London, england


Posted:
I have this belief that..hmm I won't go into it now, its real hard to explain. Its like we carry on living through each other through birth and stuff, I think it is nice to have hope, even when no one has passed of late it is still good to sit down one time and think and remember and communicate, or beleive, that people are still with you.
I lost obscne amounts of freinds last year in loads of different scenarios, and by the5th of the year I was so used to the feeling of emptyness that I guess I started to hope, and I started believeing that, even after all that could happen, they were still with me ,and even if they werent that i could allow them to liveo n at least inside of my mind. Sorry to hear about your freind, just remember to not look for evidence of your freinds afterlife, im sure if he/she was spirutial then he will find you and make the move. Live on as he would wish you too,
Peace,
Sx

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blu_valleySILVER Member
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197 posts
Location: Brighton, United Kingdom


Posted:
No one alive can be 100% sure what happens when you die. It's pointless to spend your years wondering about a question you cannot know the answer to. Death is the last great adventure in life at least, and we need only cross that bridge when we come to it.Searching for the answers in life will leave you unsatisfied.

I do believe in life after death, with all my heart and soul. I have seen and felt things that only confirm this belief to me.

I knew a little boy who was in a car accident in which he lost his mother, cousin and brother. He celebrated his 5th birthday in intensive care. That little boy used to tell us that his mother came to see him,and that he spoke to her. I myself used to have very vivid dreams about her and his brother, every single night for the following two years. From the mouths of babes. That same little boy was then in another car accident with his father and they both died. He was 7 years old. The dreams stopped immidiately.

I believe that that boy left in the first car accident, that he stayed behind to help us through as we had to be strong for him.If he hadnt of been there, I know a few of us who would have gone over the deep end. He was there for another two years, growing as a boy, but you needed only to look into his eyes to see that he was special.He was our angel.Our gardian angel. I believe his mother and brother waited around for him and thats why I used to get those dreams. I belive that they have now all moved on and are watching over us from a distance. These are my beliefs. I cannot prove or disprove this to anybody else but I know this to be true in my heart.

The sighns you seek may not be apparent to you now. It took me two years to realize what I now believe.

Keep strong
Live in love

"I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day,and if you can source your own life from its presence.." - Oriah Mountain Dreamer


The_Magnesium_Masterjourneyman
97 posts
Location: Brisbane, Queensland


Posted:
I am definitly not an expert on all aspects of the occult, but I can guarantee you that you can percieve yourself go out of your body and observe things that can confirm the authenticity of the experience 100%, and that solid matter can be penetrated and time warped in this realm. Unfortunately I have also heard the things you see are real, but seen for you by external demonic spirits. This means you actually stay put in your own body but effectively tune yourself into a whole host of demonic forces that can not only allow you to see things external to the place you are at at the start of the experience, but also expose yourself to corruption by spirits that feed false information directly to you aswell.



This is why you need a witness to anything you have seen (in the spirit world or the physical world) to veryfy that you saw it yourself, or at least had the same spirit corrupt both you and your witness.



Personally I can not recomend strongly enough that you stay totally away from the occult world as it soon leads to you being unable to trust anything you see, dream, or do. You will begin to have total awareness of everything you dream about, but also loose the abillity to tell truth from fiction ie you have dreams and out of body experiences so realistic there is no way to tell the difference between them and your normal waking hours.



Time also changes such that you appear to have tens if not hundreds of times more time engauged in activities in dreams or in the spirit worlds, relative to the experiences of the physical world. The advantage is that this will realy fast track your spiritual evolution. The bad news is that you will also feel as old and tired as methuselah, and your memory will be dreadfull as you feel like your trying to remember about 10 000 years worth of things from the spirit world , as well as everything from your current life in the physical world, and there just is not enough room in your head to fit it all in. If you are prone to nightmares like I am then it is even worse, your life can soon become an endless video of terrible things , similar to the effects of adrenaline psycosis or post traumatic stress dissorder.



Many people warned me of the dangers of the spirit world and many more told me it is perfectly safe, all based on their own experiences there, but I deffinitly beleive it is a place filled with extream danger to avoid at all costs, and thats speaking as someone who's been heavilly involved with this facet of the occult and got out of it because of the fact that you see so many things you can tell are false or bad (often you will be stripped of the abillity to judge this while actually in the spirit world)



The Bible expressly forbids consulting the spirits of the dead, so this leads me to hold the view that any such contact actually results from demonic spirits acting as imposters in a similar way to the warning above on out of body experiences.



The other thing I wory about is a verse in the bible in hebrews someware that says it is apointed for men to die once, then the judgement. Also a verse in john that says something about there then only being 2 options, these ultimately being rebirth once only in iether heven or hell. (You would need someone with a good knowledge of scrippture to help you out on this one)



I have had very greatly reduced expsure to these types of experiences since converting to christianity a few years ago. One consequence of following the gosples is that it leads to what is refered to as baptism by the Holy Spirit. The best way of describing this is to say that you become ruled by a spirit (provided directly by God ) that gives you even greater wisdom than can be gained from the spirit world of astral traveling, gives you a strong sence of write and wrong, gives incredible disipline and patience and also makes sinfull activities and things visable to you so you can avoid them. Sin actually feels vile to be near, and becoming enlightened to your old sinfull ways and repenting of them is like being born without a sence of smell, growing up surrounded by rotten fish, and then gradually developing a sence of smell. You start avoiding the foulest rotten things first and soon stay away from all of them as you realise that they are bad.



This leads me to believe my reduction in OOB activity is probably due to this Holy Spirit displacing demonic spirits, thus leading me to suspect your own spirit is not actually what you see with durring an OOBE and that demonic imposters are actually what you are consulting with when sensing or seeing the spirits of the dead.



Another thing I have been thinking about involves the fact that many Christian sects say the soul/spirit dies and then gets reborn after death while others say these things do not die but are what is used to re incarnate once only in heven or hell (or continualy in many eastern religions).

Since occult training strengthens these spirit bodies such that they can be perceived to exit the physical body with greater and greater ease, does that mean that it will make reincarnation imposible as they can never actually die in order to be reborn, make them strong enough to enable rebirth to occur only following hard core occult training, or just train the practitioners to allow demonic imposters to find and enter their bodies with greater and greater ease?

bellsspinningmember
79 posts
Location: nsw camden


Posted:
wow this is great to hear others views as i have my own but i am still feel in my beliefs there are parts not complete.I believe very strongly in spirits and them being able to contact us in the "physical world" i also believe that we are able to clear the channel making it easier for them to come through.I do believe that not everything that comes through is from good intentioned spirits but i do believe in the theory that 'bad' spirits can not be of any harm if they are not recognised as long as they dont get your attention as i think they feed of others miserable feelings.I also believe in re incarnation but i believe there is a difference between a spirit and soul and i think that its your soul that chooses the next path in its journey ( hence re incarnation) and will live that life to learn the next lesson but i believe its the spirit taht makes us all individual and that is the part that will rise to the realm above and tehy watch over us.I don't believe in the god that alot of people have in there beliefs i believe god is all the energy from this world that has arised ie spirits its really hard to explain what i believe you have to be pretty open minded to take any of my beliefs in to consideration lol
thanks to all its really great to know that im not the only one with spiritual beliefs
just to make one more statment i would liek to say that if you arnt a strong minded person and believe you may not be able to know what is reall or not then contacting the other realm may not be for you
everyone will eventually be more open to the spiritual side but everyone will come when their ready as its something that can not be forced apon a being.
peace to all

look inside yourself for YOUR answers


Groovy_DreamSILVER Member
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449 posts
Location: Australia


Posted:
 Written by: The_Magnesium_Master



I am definitly not an expert on all aspects of the occult, but I can guarantee you that you can percieve yourself go out of your body and observe things that can confirm the authenticity of the experience 100%, and that solid matter can be penetrated and time warped in this realm. Unfortunately I have also heard the things you see are real, but seen for you by external demonic spirits. This means you actually stay put in your own body but effectively tune yourself into a whole host of demonic forces that can not only allow you to see things external to the place you are at at the start of the experience, but also expose yourself to corruption by spirits that feed false information directly to you aswell.



This is why you need a witness to anything you have seen (in the spirit world or the physical world) to veryfy that you saw it yourself, or at least had the same spirit corrupt both you and your witness.



Personally I can not recomend strongly enough that you stay totally away from the occult world as it soon leads to you being unable to trust anything you see, dream, or do. You will begin to have total awareness of everything you dream about, but also loose the abillity to tell truth from fiction ie you have dreams and out of body experiences so realistic there is no way to tell the difference between them and your normal waking hours.



Time also changes such that you appear to have tens if not hundreds of times more time engauged in activities in dreams or in the spirit worlds, relative to the experiences of the physical world. The advantage is that this will realy fast track your spiritual evolution. The bad news is that you will also feel as old and tired as methuselah, and your memory will be dreadfull as you feel like your trying to remember about 10 000 years worth of things from the spirit world , as well as everything from your current life in the physical world, and there just is not enough room in your head to fit it all in. If you are prone to nightmares like I am then it is even worse, your life can soon become an endless video of terrible things , similar to the effects of adrenaline psycosis or post traumatic stress dissorder.



Many people warned me of the dangers of the spirit world and many more told me it is perfectly safe, all based on their own experiences there, but I deffinitly beleive it is a place filled with extream danger to avoid at all costs, and thats speaking as someone who's been heavilly involved with this facet of the occult and got out of it because of the fact that you see so many things you can tell are false or bad (often you will be stripped of the abillity to judge this while actually in the spirit world)



The Bible expressly forbids consulting the spirits of the dead, so this leads me to hold the view that any such contact actually results from demonic spirits acting as imposters in a similar way to the warning above on out of body experiences.



The other thing I wory about is a verse in the bible in hebrews someware that says it is apointed for men to die once, then the judgement. Also a verse in john that says something about there then only being 2 options, these ultimately being rebirth once only in iether heven or hell. (You would need someone with a good knowledge of scrippture to help you out on this one)



I have had very greatly reduced expsure to these types of experiences since converting to christianity a few years ago. One consequence of following the gosples is that it leads to what is refered to as baptism by the Holy Spirit. The best way of describing this is to say that you become ruled by a spirit (provided directly by God ) that gives you even greater wisdom than can be gained from the spirit world of astral traveling, gives you a strong sence of write and wrong, gives incredible disipline and patience and also makes sinfull activities and things visable to you so you can avoid them. Sin actually feels vile to be near, and becoming enlightened to your old sinfull ways and repenting of them is like being born without a sence of smell, growing up surrounded by rotten fish, and then gradually developing a sence of smell. You start avoiding the foulest rotten things first and soon stay away from all of them as you realise that they are bad.



This leads me to believe my reduction in OOB activity is probably due to this Holy Spirit displacing demonic spirits, thus leading me to suspect your own spirit is not actually what you see with durring an OOBE and that demonic imposters are actually what you are consulting with when sensing or seeing the spirits of the dead.



Another thing I have been thinking about involves the fact that many Christian sects say the soul/spirit dies and then gets reborn after death while others say these things do not die but are what is used to re incarnate once only in heven or hell (or continualy in many eastern religions).

Since occult training strengthens these spirit bodies such that they can be perceived to exit the physical body with greater and greater ease, does that mean that it will make reincarnation imposible as they can never actually die in order to be reborn, make them strong enough to enable rebirth to occur only following hard core occult training, or just train the practitioners to allow demonic imposters to find and enter their bodies with greater and greater ease?





I'm sure that OBE has been a stepping stone in your spiritual path. You have had direct spiritual experiences, instead of simply reading about some far-away, mistranslated spiritual experience in the Bible, and that's something that must be respected.



OBEs aren't demonic in themselves. From my experiences, 99% (if not all) of the stuff in OBEs is our own subconscious. The only demons are already in your head. The Bible doesn't specifically say spiritual curiousity is a sin but vaguely says that these practices can be dangerous. Well, here are some of the dangers:



1. The most important thing is to stay grounded. Whatever you do, you're still going to be incarcerated into a physical body and there's nothing you can do about it, so you might as well accept that you're going to live an earthly live and not try to escape reality. We've been put here on Earth to live on EARTH and not try to return straight away.

2. Our puny human minds can only reach a certain height of consciousness, so trying to transcend this (especially when the ego is still intact) will only send us insane.

3. Sorcery (negative visualisation) is out of the question... you will be completely taken out.

4. Attempting to invade other people's dreams or auras (whether possible or not) is still immoral.

5. Yes, it makes it hard to know what's real. But really, noone knows for sure what's real anyways.

6. You have put it very well here:

"Time also changes such that you appear to have tens if not hundreds of times more time engauged in activities in dreams or in the spirit worlds, relative to the experiences of the physical world. The advantage is that this will realy fast track your spiritual evolution. The bad news is that you will also feel as old and tired as methuselah, and your memory will be dreadfull as you feel like your trying to remember about 10 000 years worth of things from the spirit world , as well as everything from your current life in the physical world, and there just is not enough room in your head to fit it all in."



As for the re-incarnation question, I'd suggest that since OBE basically stems from a resistance to being in a physical body, re-incarnation is unlikely.

The_Magnesium_Masterjourneyman
97 posts
Location: Brisbane, Queensland


Posted:
This thread must atract readers who have had spiritual experiences themselves as most poeple I talk to about spirits just say I am barking mad and that they dont exist. It's good to know I'm not the only one to have seen this stuff for myself.

bellsspinningmember
79 posts
Location: nsw camden


Posted:
for people that say they dont exist what do they think makes them who they are and there individuality.I dont think anyone will have the full answers until its there time but i am definatly a strong believer to psyrush i would liek to ask you a question if reincarnation is unlikely what is your beliefs on where our souls go ? just curious
peace

look inside yourself for YOUR answers


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