Beau, that's probably because the mentally ill often perceive the nonphysical much more easily than the "sane" do, which is why they get labelled as mentally ill.  So the afterlife is probably no big surprise to them.  I'm just speculating here, and I'm sure there isn't one and only answer.

Hello Ginny,

Thanks for that website. I went to NDE.com and I couldn't get a website about NDE's at that web address. There was a website called NDE.com, but it was about something else besides NDE's. That's o.k. though.

Thanks everyone for bringing clarity to the issue of mental illness and the afterlife experience of someone suffering from some form of this illness. Our mental life seems to have everything to do with our personality and if personality survives death, then I hope that any mental problems that go with it do not survive death as well.

There were many good suggestions to possible answers to this question on this forum. I will do my best to remember them all. I prefer to think that at death, mental illness goes away and a new life with a new and better personality, or one free from the earth bound mental problems, will exist in the hereafter.

I will do my best in my battle with this problem and continue to educate myself on how to hopefully be ready for the afterlife and to experience a pleasant one. If there really are Beings of Light that help us heal over there, then maybe I have nothing to really worry about. Considering regular physical ailments seem to be alliviated in the afterlife, I am hoping the same is true for mental ailments. But when our mental life is so connected to our identity and personality, one hopes to improve on that inner mental life as much as possible just in case it does have an influence on our possible afterlife experiences.

Sorry I haven't posted for a while, but I was away on vacation for about a week. I just got back yesterday. I went to Yosemite National Park and enjoyed the beauty there. Hopefully the afterlife is just as beautiful as Yosemite is! It's a wonderful place to see at least once in a lifetime, especially if the same beauty can be experienced in the hereafter. I believe Yosemite is very healing and pristine.

El Capitan was one huge rock! I think they said it was about a mile high, but I'm not sure if I got that right. On a sad note, I also found out that some poor souls have climbed to the top of El Capitan just to commit suicide by jumping off of it. I don't know what could compel someone to do such a thing. Apparently that has happened a few times over the years. Maybe they just wanted to go out big.

Beau wrote on Oct 10^th, 2010 at 4:36pm:


What is a clear statement of sanity as apposed to its ugly sister insanity

Alan