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Question:Perhaps, but consciousness seems to continue.

Several years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away.

While driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.

Three days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to.

I feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.
During the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible.

I can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.

I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings.

Your brother don


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Perhaps, but consciousness seems to continue.

Several years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away.

While driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.

Three days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to.

I feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.
During the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible.

I can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.

I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings.

Your brother don

if you had all the parts of your mind you would have the answers to those questions so how do epople get cofused itno thinking they want ansers to their thoughts like they can make anything new a part of their mind like they are a robot

Questions exist mostly when your mind is 'not' intact. The questioning comes from our more outer levels of the ego/mind, and knowingness felt when in touch with the inner 'Mind' often is not compelled by questions as we know them most of the time.

If your mind is not intact, then I have questions to ask the medical doctor. So, questions still exist despite your mind. But I'm thinking this is not what you were asking...

No, we are just the carriers of those questions. Questions are always there, even if there was no living creature whatsoever to carry the question. Don't fool yourself by thinking we 'create' the questions, that's wrong, I'ts the living creature like us who carries and solves the question a non-living creature could not. Just don't create illusions, those are no actual questions, because they are based on nothing.

Apparently not...... you just asked one.

God has given us minds to make decisions, think great thoughts and control our lives. But our minds are not only ours to control. They can be controlled by our sin or by the Holy Spirit.

For humans, yes. I cannot speak for non-humans, inhumans, meta-humans, trans-humans, or pseudo-humans.
I once had a night dream in which, out of the blue, I asked a bystander : "What is it like, to be just a figure character in someone's dream, like mine here?" He answered: " I can't tell you, man, because it's TOO strange to talk about."
That was a lucid dream. I was aware that I was dreaming. But in a non-lucid, ordinary dream, everything is just accepted and taken for granted, without questions. That is SLEEP, the natural state of humanity even while they act during the daytime.