I know that many people here remember things from past lives. Friends, families, events, emotions, facts. Many remember life, but does anyone remember the afterlife? Will you tell us about it? What you felt, what you saw, what you know about god/heaven/hell from that experience?
I can tell you that I remember the peace of it. The being set free of the restraints from a body that starts to die as soon as it is born. The freedom, the lightness of it is amazing, but only because as i left the physical weight behind, i took my memories with me. I don't remember a being waiting for me or big pearly gates, i simply remember the feeling of complete and total peace, of contentment on a scale that i have a hard time reaching in this form.
So tell me, what do you remember?
I remember darkness, and silence but the kind of silence that is full of sound just on the edge of hearing. A great weightlessness and a feeling of expanding and becoming disperse but not diluted. A feeling of comfort and gladness. A feeling of being home. A sense of being surrounded by something familiar and dear.
The only being i have sensed between worlds is my lover and guardian who is always waiting for me as a spark of light or patch of darkness.
The passage between worlds seems to last a second and an eternity and then there is a lessening of darkness to grey and then light.
I have this memory many times over but I have only confused memories of what happens after. I have a memory of a gate opening and of trees with silver and gold leaves, and of people who are made of light and of people who are merely surrounded by light and of paths in cool forest where the animals speak. Of dragons lounging in pools with children splashing and laughing and of a great red dragon in a deep cave who speaks to me through thought and who is possibly the best friend I have ever had.
But only snippets.
I have my memories of past lives all securely kept in glass bubbles which I can view at anytime, but the 'between lives' portion for me is always the same.
A great feeling of home and family. A sense of belonging that transcends anything felt in life so far.
I remember a group of people like me who can switch from human like creatures to cat creatures in the wink of an eye. I remember groves of trees and the feel of the wind, which is always a constant friend and companion.
I remember a mass gathering of kin each year, with runners going from group to group passing on news of the venue and any other gossip for months beforehand.
And the excitement when the runners arrived, the great ceremony with which they were greeted, and the preparations made for the journey to the gathering.
I remember the pride and the honour felt by every member of my 'clan' the year WE played host to the gathering.
I remember eating and drinking, laughing and loving, some of my best lives lived have been when I was not strictly speaking 'alive'. LOL
I remember choosing to be born again, and what as (either human or kitty cat or big cat).
Then the dance begins again for however long my allotted time runs this time.
I remember growing up with this clan of people, the stories told and songs sung to lullaby me to sleep. Almost as though my living days are dreams I have between the waking reality of this 'life'. I miss this life when I am not there and have never considered it dying more a passing through a portal to a world more real than reality could ever be. A true homecoming that I welcome each time with open arms. Secure in the knowledge that anyone important I 'lose' in my passing, will be found again in the afterlife I am to lead now or the new life I will begin in the fullness of time.
Because of this my lives and my 'between life' are secure and happy times in which to learn, experience and grow in the sunshine of the love of my family and friends.
Hope this is what you meant Katie.
There is more, details of religion, and beliefs and stories told me by elders and tales of derring do by ancestors. If you're interested that is.
Darkness
Interested? That is an understatement. I am fascinated and so envious......my claws are coming out.
indeed, i too am interested! That is exactly what i mean.
i don't remember anything about being an actual being with others. just the memories of finally being freed from my fleshy prison to rejoin with whatever that force out there is. just the feeling of freedom, of contentment, of joy. on the edges of my consciousness i can feel great knowledges that would shock my current form into stupidity. but all in all i only remember myself and the rejoining, but i dont remember any other individuals...
please, tell me more about what you remember.
Well there you go.
To my shame I haven't really looked.
I got so engrossed in trying to work out the Phoenix and assimilate it that I left those bits alone.
I did get as far as working out that they are some of the longest periods I have spent anywhere and are most definitely happy times but thats it.
I really should look a bit further.
My clearest memory is re-entering life. I'm not sure if it was this one, but it most likely was... I remember being born... which is quite a vast emotion, as well as a rather frightening feeling.
It's more a passion than a thought, however. Beginning with the realization of my own imprisonment from the vastness of death, followed by the overwhelming presence of the physical world around me as it clogged my senses.
Then I recall pondering the riddles of reality... haha. I must have been very young because I could not move my head from the table on which I lay (naked)... The feeling was one of emptiness and I peered upwards to a white ceiling. I cannot recall if it was a ceiling or just bright light now, however. It gives me a headache just thinking about it...
Besides that, all I have are snippets of severe anguish, joy, love and hatred. It's unexplainable. More often than not, I remember something, but in trying to recall it, the moment is lost and I can't quite grasp what it was; as if I were remembering a dream that holds relevance to something I saw around me.
But as for that, I know there was a time when I had no need for physical manifestation. Whatever inspired me to take the challenge, I'll never know.. haha.
Dark Blessings,
Z.L.H.
What do I remember?
Far more than is good for my peace of mind.
Chaira, I would like to talk to you about your lover/guardian, if you have nothing against it!
I have to agree with Come To Me here ...... I can remember far more than I want to or is good for my well being, but not enough to give me the answers I want and need.
I remember exile, I remember pain, and being more lonely than I ever thought possible. I remember being awake, no sleep, watching and waiting as centuries passed ... counting down the millennia until it was time again. I remember the harshest of conditions in that exile.... I remember being so lonely.
You did ask.
