I never could come to a solid grasp of what might happen to us after death. I grew up as a Jehovah's Witness--you're either one of the chosen (relatively) few who go to heaven to rule with Jesus, or you're one of the other faithful who remain on the earth forever after Armageddon, and if you're not one of those two--you're just dead. No hell, no torment, just no longer existing. Eternal, dreamless sleep.
Which isn't so bad, as religious beliefs for non-believers go, really. No eternal damnation, you just cease to be living.
I've drifted from religion as I've gotten older, leaning more toward being agnostic/atheist. I'm not sure I believe there's NOTHING out there, but I'm not sure I necessarily believe in the idea of a benevolent, omnicient god either. So I've leaned more toward the idea of when you die, you're just gone. Everyone dies, it's over. No heaven or hell, no eternal life, just you cease to exist.
We have a client who comes into our salon however, who claims to be a medium. I'm always hugely skeptical of anything like that, but I've heard some pretty crazy stories from her, and with myself and others I know, she's been oddly spot on. I had a weird event last summer where out of the clear blue sky, 3 $2 bills appeared in my wallet at work one day. At the time that they appeared, my purse was in the locked back room, and I was the only person in the building.
With no other trace of where those bills could've come from, I asked her about it, because it was a very odd occurrence. She told my my grandfather had a message for me, and that was the only way to get my attention. She then described him, the house he lived in, the back yard and the shed outside of the kitchen window, down to the broken window in the shed. It was really, really weird. She's only known me for 3 years, and my grandfather passed 15 years ago, so she has absolutely zero way of knowing any of that information.
She's shared the same kind of oddly personal information with several of my coworkers. Family secrets that she'd have no way of knowing, exact physical descriptions of people she's never met, descriptions of photos she hasn't seen but that people have later found. I remain skeptical because she's said a few things that don't quite make sense, but she's spot-on more often than not.
So I guess at this point I'm kind of open to anything.
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