Posted by:
Keith Vaught
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Date: July 21, 2014 11:26AM
A lady in my home ward (late 60s to early 70s) occasionally told her story about nearly dying and what it was like. She said that she was in a very peaceful state and would have stayed there except a voice told her that, unless she returned, someone else would marry her husband and raise her children.
As a youth, I always accepted her story and I felt my beliefs in an afterlife were validated when Raymond Moody's "Life After Life" was published in the mid 70s.
These days, I only know what I can perceive with my five senses in the here and now. I would certainly like to believe in a survival of consciousness, as a part of me finds the illusion comforting, but I have no direct, empirical construct to support it.
When I resigned from TSCC, my youngest said that she couldn't live without believing in God. In my mind, it's not a question of doubt or denial but more of an affirmation that I just don't know and "not knowing" is good enough for me.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/21/2014 11:36AM by Keith Vaught.