Sometimes, I start thinking about a blog knowing exactly what I want for the topic, even if I didn't already see the details. I didn't this week. While there is much I could write about regarding our culture and what direction will best govern its future, I already said the immediate and now, I want to see more of how it plays out since voters in some states have spoken. Let's see the results before more about it.
What is on my mind is more personal. Given my age, 82, I am definitely nearer to death than younger folks-- or so we would expect. I have no reason to think mine is imminent, but then whoever knows.
The topic for today isn't though unique to being this age. I've thought about spirituality and death all of my life. In my mid-50s, I got curious about reincarnation. Reading a lot about it didn't answer my questions; so I spent a summer doing meditative regressions, where you follow instructions from a tape to take yourself back down steps to maybe your own past lives.
Being a writer, always thinking of stories, I had some concern for the stories I had gathered with that method. There were 6 or so of them, but none with being a queen or celebrity. All had sad endings. At the end of that summer, I worked with a hypnotherapist to get the same stories with one more. She asked a salient question when I brought up my concern. Did you cry when you come up with earlier stories for books. I know that some writers do, but I don't. But with the past live meditations, I did.
For my personal exploring, that was more or less all I did-- leaving the answers of the beyond to mystery. Although, when I lost my beloved cat at too early an age, I did ask for a dream about reincarnation. I did have a very specific dream (not about the cat) that led to my paranormal/fantasy series.
Recently, on YouTube, I watched a podcast where the host was asking questions of a doctor, who does such research on near death experiences, which are death except the people come back. I found it of interest and wanted to share the link here with readers for others to think about.
It turned out the host was wrong, not on All Souls Day, but at the time of year for such questions to arise with Samhain. This is a very spiritual time of the year for many religions. A good time to consider what might be beyond what we see.
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