Not sure if this is the correct forum for this topic but....

I'd like to know what led you to this site/way of thinking/wanting to gain knowledge of what happens in the Afterlife?

I'll start...

Just doing research for a screenplay, I googled something about the Afterlife and stumbled upon this website.

I must admit, I thought the whole thing was pretty hilarious and kooky but I felt compelled to go on and continue reading.

It just made soooo much sense to me! I've lived my life for the last four years as an agnostic that believed that there could be life after death. I was just all against the Christian version.

So to sum it up...my imagination, curiosity, and Google led me here. I'm so glad it did.

my obsession with the paranormal led me here,and google.is the afterlife a reality? my experiments with EVP tells me it certainly is.

Through a friend who I later got into a relationship with. He was into lucid dreaming and OBE's, time travel and that sort of thing.

He owned all of Bruce's and Monroe's books, and he let me read all of them. Later on, I looked up this website and once I became interested in participating in forums, I decided to join up, and the rest is history! I do enjoy this forum the most, so far, because everyone here is so nice and open. :)

PUL,

Ally

I was going through a depressed time and harping on death a lot in my head. I guess after the middle age crazy one comes down to earth. I had a lot of family members pass on within a few years of each other and I googled "the afterlife" cause I needed some answers even if I didn't completely buy them all.. I found much to keep me occupied but since I had had a familiarity with Monroe from years gone by I found Bruce's approach very compatible with what I could accept. Since coming here I've also found Thomas Campbell's site and I like the way my voyage is growing. I just wish my meditation skills were better. I'm trying to get off sugar and meat. I go for a few weeks, but then convenience comes into play and BAM, I'm at those addicting edible behaviors again. I need some incentive I guess to stay on track. Maybe just a taste of the Non physical, but so I keep going a little forward then back two steps and so on. It's frustrating at times but I'm still plugging away and trying new things.

1) a happy accident, surfing around for answers to what happens after one finds happiness in this life, or not

2) interesting stories people had to tell here, still do

3) sneaking suspicion that there is much more to all this than meets the eye

I was well established at self work, but with not that much contact with others locally except in a fairly formal Buddhist context - and i figured maybe a suitable forum would be informative and good company.

The site proved very interesting, given it's mixed blend of views and members and very nice people. I was also interested in finding out whether others had experienced some of what was just beginning to happen to me...

I happened to have Maury on and my laptop was right in front of me.  The topic of his show ghost, and were they real.  So he had people coming on explaining things they saw or what happened to them.  I thought it was all very humorous and decided to look up ghost on the internet.  Thats when I came across the website.  Everything seemed interesting and some what logical, however there was no REAL way of finding out if any of it was fact or fiction.  It all seems interesting, but I guess I will have to buy the books and the tapes and whatever else I need to buy in order to try this stuff out for myself..........

My daughter took her own life almost a year ago.  The Buddhist sangha I belong to held a 49-Day ceremony for her last December 1, with very powerful chants about the bardo of the time after death from a traditional Buddhist perspective.  When I talked about that to one of the meditation instructors (MI), he pointed me to the book Mind Beyond Death by a Buddhist teacher.  This past spring another of the MIs began a class about that book.  In the first session he talked at length about Bob Monroe's books, Bruce Moen's books and this website.  Afterwards, he told me he thought I might find those books and this site very helpful in dealing with the loss of my beloved daughter.  I have.

I'd been a member of Robert Bruce's forum/web site for several years, & saw frequent references to Robert Monroe - so I investigated & here I am!  I feel more drawn nowadays to the idea of helping others in some way in other dimensions, rather than just being a "tourist"

I don't remember where, I read Bruce Moen's name some place, did an internet search, and found this site.

It all started when my husband was deployed and I was getting majorly stressed out having to take care of two little boys, the house, etc. without any help.  Then my friends/neighbors' newborn infant passed away at 8 days old and it left me with a lot of sorrow and questions as to why such things happen to truly good people.  I decided to start meditating in order to relax.  After about 2 months of meditating, I started to have lucid dreams, then one morning I "woke up" and I was not in my body...I thought I had died!  Trying to seek answers for what happened to me, I did a few Google searches and OBE and Robert Monroe kept popping up.  I decided to do some research on Monroe and he piqued my interest, so I bought his books.  I LOVED THEM!!!  Reading about OBEs became an insatiable obsession and it led me to Moen's books and several others...eventually it brought me here. :)

Rebecca wrote on Sep 18^th, 2009 at 2:07pm:

It all started when my husband was deployed and I was getting majorly stressed out having to take care of two little boys, the house, etc. without any help.  Then my friends/neighbors' newborn infant passed away at 8 days old and it left me with a lot of sorrow and questions as to why such things happen to truly good people.  I decided to start meditating in order to relax.  After about 2 months of meditating, I started to have lucid dreams, then one morning I "woke up" and I was not in my body...I thought I had died!  Trying to seek answers for what happened to me, I did a few Google searches and OBE and Robert Monroe kept popping up.  I decided to do some research on Monroe and he piqued my interest, so I bought his books.  I LOVED THEM!!!  Reading about OBEs became an insatiable obsession and it led me to Moen's books and several others...eventually it brought me here. :)

Something in this post really struck me. It's like the more spiritually aware I become, I've been able to do some "strange" (for lack of a better word) things myself.

I've had my first OBE and seems like I made the trip over to the other side.

I used to be so depressed but I feel like every day is a new adventure of learning something about my world (and other worlds) every day.

I can't wait to see what my new journey entails!

A friend told me about it after I told her I have been seeing and hearing dead people for the last three years or so. One recently appeared next to my wife, and I described to her what I saw. Later that day, a former co-worker of hers was visiting and my wife told her what I saw. The co-worker said it sounded exactly like her sister who had died a few months earlier.

As cliche as it may sound, a Google search, which was partially fueled by depression, anxiety and curiosity. A post I made about a few weeks ago is very similar to the state my mind was in back in 2007 when I first came across this site. I eventually decided to start posting here shortly upon discovery. I found the concept of meditation and astral exploration to be quite fascinating.

I went to the Monroe Institute, and then to Bruce's workshop. I read all of Bruce's books, and his Guidebook (my favorite) and then after I went to Lifelines at Monroe Insitute (with that Black Panther Irene) , I posted my first retrieval here.

And I found spiritual family and fellowship here, and now have names and faces for all those folks that I see and meet at The Park..... it has been like coming home in some ways.

Thomas

My daughter died in 1988 and on her first death anniversary appeared in my home for a "visit". This led me to try to find information about where she might be. One day I asked for guidance and went to the library, where one of Monroe's books more or less jumped into my hand. One thing led to another and I found Bruce's site. Vee

Vee, I love your "one thing led to another."  I can trace my finding this site all the way back to reading an article by Pema Chodron in 1996 or so, through "one thing led to another".  One lesson I've learned is to always be open to at least considering going where a thing seems to be leading me.  Or, to put it another way, let coincidence be inspiration.

supermodel wrote on Sep 19^th, 2009 at 6:17pm:

I used to be so depressed but I feel like every day is a new adventure of learning something about my world (and other worlds) every day. I can't wait to see what my new journey entails!

I love this!  That's exactly how I feel... :)