Tanhausser
9th March 2011, 09:43 AM
I had some very close friends around for lunch a while back - lots of good spirited conversation about all sorts of things - eventually it fell into Religion - organised religion as opposed to faith: Generally, none of us follow organised religion, but some of us do have 'faith' in something greater - although none of us could actually define that.
Eventually I raised the question - 'what do you think happens to you when you die' and the conversation ran around the table for all of us to make comment:
When it was my turn, I was explaining that I believed 'part of us' goes on to another plane / level / place - whatever.. our spirit or energy - I couldn't describe what: I found myself trying to explain what it felt like when your spirit leaves your body and moves up into that place where you are at once recognised - welcomed - embraced in warmth and affection - wrapped in security and safety - that it wasn't an 'alternative world' where we still walk around and talk to people, but that we do still communicate....by thought..
I found myself saying these things: this is not a conversation I had had before - I had never voiced this before but I still remember strongly that what I was trying to explain was a deep emotion or feeling that I had experienced - and I recognized it as something that I had done more than once.
The table sat in silence listening and I brushed it off as 'I believe this is what happens' but I though about it later: Where ever it is that we go - I have been there, and not just once. I have been going there when I am asleep for years - since childhood actually - I now recall coming back from it and not wanting to leave it:
Maybe it is another level of conciousness - maybe it was all a dream, but I know that I remembered this incredible feeling - emotion - intense joy and calm - that I was trying to describe:
I have flown through clouds before - I have looked up into the sky and immediately flown there: I know what the view is from a certain point up in the sky looking down and I have done this since childhood - my mother thought I has balmy when I tried to explain it to her: But this spiritual experience is something different, but somehow connected.
Eventually I raised the question - 'what do you think happens to you when you die' and the conversation ran around the table for all of us to make comment:
When it was my turn, I was explaining that I believed 'part of us' goes on to another plane / level / place - whatever.. our spirit or energy - I couldn't describe what: I found myself trying to explain what it felt like when your spirit leaves your body and moves up into that place where you are at once recognised - welcomed - embraced in warmth and affection - wrapped in security and safety - that it wasn't an 'alternative world' where we still walk around and talk to people, but that we do still communicate....by thought..
I found myself saying these things: this is not a conversation I had had before - I had never voiced this before but I still remember strongly that what I was trying to explain was a deep emotion or feeling that I had experienced - and I recognized it as something that I had done more than once.
The table sat in silence listening and I brushed it off as 'I believe this is what happens' but I though about it later: Where ever it is that we go - I have been there, and not just once. I have been going there when I am asleep for years - since childhood actually - I now recall coming back from it and not wanting to leave it:
Maybe it is another level of conciousness - maybe it was all a dream, but I know that I remembered this incredible feeling - emotion - intense joy and calm - that I was trying to describe:
I have flown through clouds before - I have looked up into the sky and immediately flown there: I know what the view is from a certain point up in the sky looking down and I have done this since childhood - my mother thought I has balmy when I tried to explain it to her: But this spiritual experience is something different, but somehow connected.