Out of body experience and saw my mom who died

I started meditating in February but not everyday. Recently I started to meditate every day. Yesterday I was completely blank and I heard a buzzing in my ear..then a man's voice sort of like a transistor radio in my right ear..I think I heard him say something like "It's jesus!!"..then next thing I am in a white room..I had no sense of time or anything except I saw my mom, she died two years ago..I see her across the way..but never saw her face but knew or felt instantly it was her. She was like shimmering and white and silver..there was a presence with her..maybe god? who was sort of watching over the entire thing..she told me she never saw me so happy and said I was really learning and growing..I felt like I had to leave because I couldn't stay in that place. It left me feeling really good but sort of dizzy. Has anyone else had such an experience? or could it have been a dream..although I don't feel as if it was a dream because I was in control of my responses and could feel myself knowing I was just visiting.

 

Beginning meditation stirs up much more stuff than will happen later. Later the experience will be calm, clear, liberating, without definition. Right now your mind will elaborate to match your experience, ie., it will grab things of value to you to give the meaning behind the feeling. But later the definition will drop away along with the imagery and stock responses, and you'll be more plain, clear, free.

I suggest what you experienced was something being freed, and yes, some waking dream experience as well. Thanks for sharing.

 

Interesting reply.

 

That is cool. I wish I could see mine to substantiate that there is an afterlife....and that she is around.

 

Sit quietly and you can feel her...I know it sounds strange..but maybe a thought will come to your mind and it will be her. Everyone makes everything so complex but heaven is just simple..what I feel anyways. Maybe in your dreams too she will come for a visit. :angel:

 

Yeah, I have seen her in my dreams....and my dad, as well....but I am not sure if that is just memories from my own subconscious.....

 

I would say it's really them..after my mum died she came to me in a dream which seemed very real..it was to real to not be I remember. She was shopping with me and told me that I had really grown up and then we just walked forward and I woke up. Because we are in a different state during sleep they can visit us without us really feeling the emotions of being awake. When I dream I don't really feel deep emotions..but I "watch" the dream...I think they know this and it's easier for them to jump into our subconscious and interact..especially telepathically.

 

I don't think honest spirituality can happen while people refuse to accept death. I was with my dad at age 8 when he died suddenly of a heart attack. I saw him leave his eyes. I never felt his presence again, though I have memories of him, he is not here anywhere. Seeing death up close sent me on my personal spiritual journey. People might think me an asshole to disregard all the fluffy bunny emotional sentimentality that comes with the various woowoo factions that populate the contemporary seeking society. But wiser people than I have eschewed immortalizing any aspect of human existence because it denigrates the present, and the living.

Choose to live, and don't make a cult of death, death of loved ones or death of some mysterious prophet. In this moment and in this life only is the reality - the rest is a fairy tale. I hope that people could understand that what I wrote was life affirming, and that I am strongly promoting caring about ones living details and the living first.

Choose the living first.

 

daily meditation comes highly recommended in the eastern esoteric traditions. i don't know if you'll see relatives that have passed on while you meditate, but meditation may still be worthwhile. :sunny:

 

Are you 100% certain of that statement?

In order to be certain, a necessary qualifier would be an exhaustive comprehension of reality.

You do impress me as a smart person but I'm pretty sure you don't have an exhaustive comprehension of reality.

Or am I missing something?

 

Around the first times I meditated I had very similar experiences. Now...I don't really need to meditate to have those experiences and when I meditate it is usually more peaceful than a sort of "downloading" of information or connections, but you can still live a very meditative life and get similar experiences.

 

My experience doesn't do you any good. But working with the immediate is more probable empirically then working with an imaginary future or past. Economically, ecologically starting from the immediate spends less energy than planning for something totally indefinite.

In fact through meditation one can get their fill of the indefinite and then they don't need to resort to wonderlands and heavens and other religious fervors.

The ocean is in every teaspoon of the ocean

 

I wouldn't deny that.

I can agree with that too.

Yes but not all are enlightened. Some of us need crutches for a while.

That's like saying the ocean is the ocean. No argument there.

What is the scope of the reality of which you speak?

What is real?

 

That sounds like an out of body experience. I've been looking into this and the best information I've been able to find is from the astral pulse website. A guy who was well respected on that website and no longer posts (maybe he's now dead) has had all his posts compiled onto one document. His name is/was Frank Kepple. Here is an example of where he comments to a poster about "buzzing in the ears":

 

This is the real question, I believe.

not -
is there life after death
why am I here
is there a god
can I astral travel faster
are men or women better
is skin color a sign of superiority
are repubs or demos closer to jesus

there are at any rate
so very many
pointless
questions
which are starting out from a place of irreality
and which therefore will never be answered within reality

i would suppose if one doesn't know whether inquiry is based in something realistic then they should draw a deadline for getting the answer so as not to search forever and waste this precious life in belly lint picking.