Is there life after death for you?

When you die do you just die and that’s it?

What a sad thought.  Are we really just organic material with nothing else?  Well this author believes not!

As always, I am not going to try and discuss why someone else is wrong if they believe otherwise, all I am trying to achieve is a signpost.

I read a great little story today about a boy who had a life after death experience.

Or as it is sometimes called a near death experience.  Carlton Burpo had a life after death experience that is astonishing.

His book has actually been out for some time but I have only just read the story about it.  You can read the whole thing here

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/42154263/ns/today-books/

What I love about this story is that it is from a 4 year old child!  It means that the child has less experiences to drawn on to make this up.  He speaks so clearly and honestly about it.  Almost as if it was obvious that he thought he was in heaven.

I have read several books and articles on this subject and people experience different things.  It would seem if you believe in Jesus, you see Jesus.  If you believe in Buddha you see Buddha.  If you believe you will see friends and family then that is what you see.

It also doesn’t matter what religion you are or not.  What you think you will see you do.  Isn’t that just great?

I mean, what you think you will experience when you die you will.

Now I know many people reading this will say that it is all in the mind, or imagination.  And they are right.  That is exactly what it is.  In our mind.

We experience life like this.  The mind doesn’t know what is imagined and real.  It uses the same brainwaves.

A great book I read is called Life After Death By Deepak Chopra.

In this book Deepak gives many examples of people who have experienced something they consider life after death.  The interesting this is that each account is almost the same.  The same way they feel, how it looks etc.  How can this be so if it is just someone making it up?

Unless they have read books on the subject how would they know?

Deepak Chopra calls it “waking up”.  He says life is like a dream and when we are in death we are waking up.

For me this is very real.  I completely believe this life is one consciousness and there are more.

If you pick up either of these books it would be interesting to get your thoughts.  What do you think?  All made up or is there more to death than we think?

Matt