I wholeheartedly disagree. I have a half-brother (same father, different mother) and he’s my brother in every way. We look alike, talk alike, have the same mannerisms, same interests, both look just like our father, and are spiritually connected. He’s my blood. He’s a lot smarter than me, though. But I have more hair at 51 than he does at 24 (big spread in age). He got our father’s hairline. Dad was going bald in high school. Mine hasn’t even started receding yet.
Candy Gal, we have a very weird dichotomy going on at my house. My wife’s family calls her a bruja (witch) because she’s very sensitive to energy, ghosts, spirits, hauntings, whatever you want to call them. It affects where we live when we move, and we even had to move once because of it. She was terrified of a house I rented with friends, claimed there was an old man and two children living in the attic who wanted us out. Not long after we moved, my roommates started playing with a Ouija board and the board told them that a man was protecting kids in the house and to get out (my girlfriend/future wife never told them what she felt in the house). I don’t really believe in any of that. I never felt any type of “energy” from any houses and to me a Ouija board is just a game. But I do still feel a connection to my father and grandfather. I don’t feel like they’re “talking to me from the grave”, but their influence remains. They help me when I have difficult decisions to make. I’d be lying if I said I don’t feel their presence, but I think it’s more that I feel their influence on me based on the respect I had for them when they were alive. I have conversations with them in my head. They help me do what’s right. And sometimes Dad still makes me laugh, because in my head I can hear him calling me an idiot when I think about doing something stupid.
What a fascinating post. Thank you for that. I sometimes think my hubby is turning into his Mother, she used to nag me a lot, now he does. In truth none of us really know what happens when we pass away.