I'm wishing to explore more PE type explorations and generate that here, so here goes something that happened.    I met a person here. her name is Kathy spelled with a K.
as I read her posts I grew very fond of her. I must of set an unconscious intention to get to know her better. shes active on another forum now and I'm there too.
so if you meet someone on the internet and you like them, you could be setting up a PE or a dream situation where u are talking with them. if this happens, examine what you remember very closely as you could be doing unconscious PE's and its fun to find out that you are indeed developing your nonphysical senses, or expanding them.

it was dreamy and I floated into someone's house out there but didn't have a clue who this might be but she was very nice and friendly so there was nothing to fear. I liked her house and there seemed to be some patio doors and lots of nice wood. like varnished wood, gleaming. she sat on the floor. I asked myself what I was doing there. I wouldn't get the answer until later. I just got these kittens she said. I noticed one was a little peaked and we talked about the kittens, how to heal the sick one. I was worried when she told me of her fear she might have to put it to sleep. I remember thinking there's always hope..theres always a remedy.

next I asked her to come look out the window with me. (this means looking out into the future for me)  I showed her a garden growing, changing, blooming, being constructed. at first I don't know who's garden it is. later I discover it is this forum which is the garden and perhaps the other forum as well that we both share.
I have a belief I create my own reality and so this dream showed me that must be true! I handed her my music CD as a gift and I am very proud and happy. we had some words I forgot what but the feelings were all positive to be meeting like this.

so what happened in reality...shortly after this dream obe PE, don't know how to classify it really...Cathy posted about getting some kittens and one of them got ill. it did recover later. the other forum began to blossom like a beautiful garden being birthed. not all forums survive the process of birth. about the same time I had just established a website to let the whole world I, yours truly was attempting to become a bonafide writer!!   now that I actually had a website, I figured I'd better finish the book   as I might get sued if I didn't    lol, so I also put some of music up there as every website should have music my opinion. I remembered in the dream I had given Kathy my CD. one day came I mailed her my CD. but before that she had gone to my website and said she liked the music. then I remembered what I had asked her to do. lol. nobody had given me any kudos for my music and I needed her to go to my website and deliver me a kudo in real life...because this other me needs people. on the other side I need people too, but on this side in C1 I'd don't admit that   hee hee.

what else could friends be for but to say they love you and you love them?
so, spread the word; love is all that matters. 

Hi Curious George well, hmmm, thats a lot of questions when I was 18 I was asking the same thing and needing to know if there was something there for me after death, as if there wasn't, I was going to raise hell   it changes your way of thinking after you know for sure and I'm not kind of person take anyone's word for it or based on faith, to just have a belief. had to find out. then when I found out (wrestled with some spirits who gave me lessons about..well, lets just say I had my answers and verification and everybody has to get their own "experiences". since you're just out of high school, you will be collecting your own experiences as time goes on. If I inspired you to post here then I've done my job and I'm happy to hear it.  don't expect u to take my word for it but the afterlife is there. we will continue, a big thumbs up on that. u say you can't afford books but reading was my way to get inspired to experiment and theres no quick easy way when you're getting your experiences. talking with others about your questions doesn't yield quick results, especially if they are comfortable with their beliefs, they don't want you to ask hard questions because they don't have the answers. thats where reading other people's experience about your questions will help you the most.
if you want to experiment, an easy experiment I once tried was to simply get a close buddy to try and read your mind on a certain time, hour. one of you be the receiver, and one of you be the sender. u could see if you're good at sending or receiving then as a test. I tried this and it worked pretty good. i was the sender and the receiver person picked up almost the whole rote (thought ball) but misinterpreted a little of it. so keep it a very simple rote, like, my dogs name is...or the card I'm holding is red jack of diamonds...this way its simpler. now mental telepathy is not verification of an afterlife, but if you think about it, it means we can project our mind to another and it opens the door to gathering other kinds of experiences which prove we are more than our physical bodies and we are all connected as well. and if we are able to project ourselves this way, then when we eject from the physical at death, theres this part of our beingness has already projected itself away from the body and this is the part of us that continues as "I am" consciousness. you will be you in other words and able to draw form, or another body around you as a creative person. you are light, in other words. so read up, many in this day and age are waiting to give you their secrets
and welcome to this great forum!  Bruce Moen is the administrator and has a lot of great, simply, great exercises to expand your awareness. love, alysia