Injury and loss can trigger the question: is there life after death?

Life is eternal, love is immortal and death is just a horizon. A horizon is but the limits of our sight… R Worthington Raymond

When we are grieving, we seem to have a fundamental need to know if our loved ones are still ‘alive’ in some way. The hurt and loss can trigger a strong urge to seek them out, a need to know where they are now and if they are okay. Is there a direct line to them…somehow? How can we find it?

Our belief system largely dictates what we believe and how receptive we are to accepting information that can support the belief that yes, our loved ones are still there, even if we don’t see, feel, or hear them. Either we are an emphatic yes or no or we float in the middle, not really sure, but not totally dismissive either. Ultimately, we’ll never know for sure until we too leave this life, but there are many, myself included, who have a strong belief in eternal life, in some form.

In “Hello from Heaven,” Bill and Judy Guggenheim reveal the experiences of communication after the death of more than 350 people. Based on a groundbreaking study spanning over 7 years, they detail the messages that were received and the incredibly positive impact it had on so many lives. I have spoken with many people who are grieving and almost without exception they speak of a strong belief that their loved ones continue to be present in their lives and communicate with them in some way after death.

I have read many books written by mediums and have visited many over the years. They each have a different personality, a different approach, but essentially their descriptions of the ‘afterlife’, so to speak, and what happens after death, are more or less the same. Michael Newton, in his book “Journey of Souls”, details the results of ten years of his research in which he takes his clients back to a point between lives, after death, but before birth. Defiant and controversial, he still supports the view that our existence is not limited to the physical body, but that our soul and the souls of those we love live forever.

In my own experience there have been many occasions when I have received messages from my son, which were, in my opinion, irrefutable proof that he was still able to communicate with me and his soul was still alive. I still had a connection to him. Still, that doesn’t take away the pain and the pain of grief, the longing to see him again, to smell him, hug him and hear his voice. It is the physical presence of him that I miss and continue to miss every day. But it is my belief that he is still there, albeit in a very different way, that gives me the strength to go on every day and do what I am doing knowing that he is still a very important part of my life.

What do you think?