Getting older in the after-life?

[mrs.chappie]

What are your thoughts on this please?

William Roache (the actor who plays Ken Barlow in Coronation Street) lost his daughter in 1984 to pneumonia. She was a baby .... eighteen months old. He believes that, many years on, this daughter is now grown-up and a nurse. He has been told this by a spiritualist.

I don't believe in the after-life ..... but for those that do - do you believe that your deceased loved ones get older, wherever they may be? Or will they stay forever at the age at which they died?

[bookbinder]

My father died when he was 39 years old. My mother died at the age of 81. I like to think that they are now together, but - would my father want a wife who is 81 years old? Do they become the same age when they are together?

[smurfchops]

I know someone who had two terminations in two consecutive years. 15 years later she went to a clairvoyant who saw two teenage children standing behind her. She couldn't think who they could be, but years later realisation dawned. Interesting. She is a firm believer now, and I am too. Yes, its a comfort I suppose.

[mrs.chappie]

Doc, hc is not the only ABer to have seen a ghost. Do you remember Ice.Maiden? I'm sure you do - she used to post a lot in the evenings.

Ice had two or three ghosts inhabiting her house. I remember her telling us all about them on Answerbank one night. She wasn't drinking or under the influence of drugs when she saw them. She wasn't making it up either ..... she used to see them quite clearly but they never bothered her. It was as if they were "living" quite happily in the old house, alongside her and her family.

And she was not trying to wind us up - she was very serious about it.

[NoMercy]

But surely that's how the souls manifested themselves to the clairvoyant because that's the age they would have been had your friend proceeded with both pregnancies. ?

2 teenage apparitions isn't necessarily indicative of celestial ageing... or is it?

[NoMercy]

Not if they no longer inhabit this realm, Doc....

[cazzz1975]

unless people experience something supernatural first hand, they are bound to dismiss it as nonsense and an active imagination.

[jake-the-peg]

I'm sure the first hand experiences of psychotics seem very real to them.

People who think plants talk to them are nuts

People who think the dead to to them are spiritual

Go figure - at least plants are alive!

[naomi24]

//I'm sure the first hand experiences of psychotics seem very real to them. //

Could I just make one thing absolutely clear? I am not psychotic.

[rowanwitch]

never in your darkest fantasies... I've seen the nastiness on the dark side...

[SarcasticStevie]

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(20:04 on Thu 19/Aug/10) What exactly makes someone think that the soul of a baby is a "baby soul".

What if there is no such thing as age, but karmic advancement?

Karmic advancement? Nomercy can I have an explanation please?

[rowanwitch]

why should a spirit not manifest in the way that would give most comfort to someone who loved them? If we grow through many lives and I am not saying I personally believe this ...then maybe a child leaves the earth 'early' as there were no more earthly lessons to learn.... child dies ...perfect soul moves on to the next level... this thought has comforted one of my friends who lost her daughter at 15 months old...

[jno]

I can cope with the idea of karmic advancement; but nursing schools in the afterlife is a new one on me, I must admit.

[rowanwitch]

there is an idea that each plane is only a shade different than the ones on either side...so if you move through them sequentially you wouldn't notice much difference...but if you could see them a hundred at a time the differences would be amazing...

[China Doll]

I don't believe in any kind of after life and firmly believe that just because an experience doesn't have a rational explanation, it doesn't mean it never will.

I do however think that if a belief gives someone comfort and isn't hurting anyone then they should be let be to have that belief.

[naomi24]

Rowan, the same thought brought great comfort to a friend of mine whose full term baby was born dead.

[jomifl]

you can believe whatever you like, most people do, but it doesn't change the facts.

[jomifl]

We take our brain for granted and believe it when it tells us that it is working perfectly, yet it can easily be demonstrated to be very unreliable. Seeing ghosts and deja vu are just the product of faulty data processing and memory sequencing. You have a blind spot in each eye and you would think that if you closed one eye it would be obvious in the open eye. It isn't because your brain fills in the space and pretends that it isn't there. It does this all the time in many subtle ways.

[naomi24]

What facts? There are no facts. Have you considered that in reaching such a definite conclusion concerning something that is unproven either way, your brain might be letting you down? Just a thought.