I honestly had a hard time when I first started believing in life after death. But it's weird. Having spent most of my life as an atheist and agnostic, I didn't really care about it and my life had no substance or sense of worth. I was ok believing that death was the end all, be all because I just saw it as an end to everything. If life sucks, then surely not having to experience or feel anything isn't really that bad. You won't care because you won't be able to care. That thought worked for me, but it didn't make living feel any better.

Then once I came to understand that there are things going on bigger than we can conceive, I could no longer support any theory on the end of consciousness after death and honestly...it hasn't necessarily made life easier, but it has made me more capable of living and given me a new found appreciation for life. I understand more than anything now that our "problems" and these fears and these worries are all attributed to our ego, and if we can overcome our ego then we can overcome the problems associated with it. I believe this is the true solution, because it's been working pretty well for me.

Life isn't about you. It's about everything.

chrwe:

I haven't had an NDE, but one of the reasons I'm able to believe what some NDErs say, is because I had an experience like an NDE without a near death event taking place.

The key thing about my experience is that as it took place I had no doubt about what I experienced and what I understood. I understood in a manner that was much vaster, deeper, clearer and certain than how things tend to be understood while in this world.

Besides the experience I speak about above, I've had numerous other experiences that have made me certain that the afterlife exists. It makes a "HUGE" difference to know that the afterlife exists. I'm grateful I've been able to become certain.

It is hard to say all of the reasons some people become certain, while others don't. I believe Bruce Moen is correct when he says that the more you grow in PUL (pure unconditional love), the easier it is to make contact with positive parts of the spirit world. This is how it has been for me. Partly because my vibration has become more like the vibration of beings who live in higher realms. I still have some work to do.