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The one thing that makes me suspicious about crossing into the light, are the accounts of family members or friends waiting in a peaceful setting for this person. I understand that being on this plane my understanding is probably very limited, but I don't believe we maintain these same personal identities and certainly not a replica appearance of self on earth. For those family members to be there waiting are they pulled out of another realm to greet the dying or nearly dying person? That doesn't feel right to me...
It seems it has to be an illusion and those soul entities are not really waiting to greet us. Could it be illusory, created by the mind? Is it illusory and created to allay our fear in the dying process? Is it a manipulation and a deception?
Greetings, rarely do I share personal viewpoints, or experience's, however, to respond to PeterPam, I step outside my ' seclusion zone ' !
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are the accounts of family members or friends waiting in a peaceful setting for this person." - I presume this can only refer to OBE's... and will share, not my experience, but the 2nd hand experience, recounted to me by my Mother in 2000.
Five members of our family were around my Dad's bedside, at home, when he calmly, happily and contentedly ' Passed-over '. My Brother-in-Law, eventually left the room, to 'phone the family doctor, who replied, no urgency, I'll call in about an hour. ( He had complete confidence, knowing my B-i-Law. )
Some thirty five minutes after, my Father returned, and lived a further three-four months.
PeterPam, here's the chord you struck with me :- As I was staying with my Parents, during his decline, my Mother shared after his death, what he had related :- He had entered into a 'Tunnel-of-Light', but before the other end, saw various people he knew, including his Cousin, dressed in his Estonian Army uniform, who told him " Go back, Kalju, we're not ready for you yet... "
In this case, the ' Light ' denied to my Father, ( at the time ),
For those family members to be there waiting are they pulled out of another realm to greet the dying or nearly dying person? That doesn't feel right to me...
I am an Old Man, yet have not a fraction of understanding, demonstrated by far younger people. So, I have to learn by external inputs : Jill Bolte Taylor's sharing of her experience helped my greatly, reinforced by many others, here and elsewhere.
To reply to your " doesn't feel right, to me ", How about, if our 'Spirit', which contains all of our Memories,
( all lives experienced here ); is capable of re-assembling stored Memories, and still, interacting, with the ' Other Spirits ', gone before us ?
A little bit , if you will, like some refer to a 'Galactic Consciousness ' ?
Pardon me, if this isn't helpful, just stumbling in the dark !
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There's an additional aspect to my Dad's departure, but another time....