What happens when you die?

my husband died eight months ago very suddenly and unexpectedly.
Some six hours later he was sending through to me images of himself filled with healing white light energy to reassure me.
Since that time he has been constantly in contact with me and tells me that your first feeling or sense when you release from your body is a sense of bewilderment at what is happening but there are no barriers, no tunnel like you hear about in NDE`s, there is just freedom and space.
That you then go through the life review where you have to account for all you`ve done and said during your recent life.
that it takes a while to heal but especially when you have had a traumatic death or after a long illness you receive a lot of help from some higher energies.
In life he couldnt walk very easily but now he feels as though he is free to travel anywhere, that he is coming into a sense of his own power and wisdom and that it is harder for those of us left behind.
I am an author and have been writing a diary since the day he died listing all my experiences of the various ways he has been in touch with me, such as throwing some books on the floor in front of me whilst I try to work out what he is saying. I have published my diary/book about the first nine weeks after he died, and all that happened, but am now looking to hear from other people about their own experiences of contact or strange things happening ~ especially with things like mobile phones, or objects moving etc. after their loved one has died. It would be good to hear from anyone
Petra G

December has been a bit depressing at the nursing home. Alot of residents have died compared to previous Decembers. This is also happening at hospitals and other homes, so many of our rooms are empty. Is it a coincedense?  Something to think about.

Naturally I don't have it and can only tell you about it... but it's still cool.  I was at a party this evening in a home located a stone's throw from our town's cemetery.  I asked the homeowner, we'll call her C,  if she had any ghosts come visit her from the cemetery and her reply was, "Just my Mom."  So I wanted to know more and she brings out this photo of a window dressing she'd done.  She'd remodeled the whole house and I guess she took pics as she went.  I couldn't see anything.  So she shows me this face that is in the photo, it's sideways in the photo, not upright.  It's a woman's face and you can see her shoulders and part of her chest.  You can see her hair too.  And it's not a reflection or an impression because it's just floating in the air next to a lit lamp, it's not on the floor or on the wall or against any furniture.  It's there, it's not REALLY clear, but clear enough!  C says that people who knew her mother recognize her in the picture.  She also said that her mother had been buried in dark clothing.  One of these days I hope to get C to let me scan the photo.  It's a pretty cool ghost photo!  And, you know, I realize it could just be a trick of the light.  But there is still something freaky about the woman in the photo looking so much like C's mother.  It's not a vague face.  The nose, for instance, is very distinctive.  So, if it's a trick of the light, it's a very interesting trick because the face that's created by it isn't just any face--it's C's mother's face.

I didn't know the sister, but I felt like I did.  I am so fond of my friend, I'd do just anything for her.  She was there for me in a big and supportive way through my mother's illness and subsequent death.  My friend called me Friday evening and said that her sister had died about 15 minutes before.  This is the email I sent to her a couple of hours after she called me:

Has anybody read this book?  It's by Gary E. Schwartz, William Simon, and Deepak Chopra.   I can't wait to read it!

Schwartz has long been interested in the possible survival of consciousness after death. With Simon's assistance, he reports on his and fellow psychologist Linda Russek's increasingly scientific experiments to determine whether consciousness survives death--experiments that HBO publicized in a program that unfortunately downplayed the science in them. The second and third experiments involved some silent-sitter time, when the spirit mediums involved had to make observations without being able to ask questions, and also wholly quiet times. The results, particularly of the second and third experiments, showed definite examples of precognition and surprisingly accurate observations by the mediums. Lengthy presentation of some of the sessions with the mediums figure in the text, and 90 pages of scientific reports demonstrate the scientific foundation for Schwartz and Russek's work, as does their earlier book The Living Energy Universe (1999). The Afterlife Experiments should provoke considerable discussion, which, once the reactions of those who refuse to look at the data are discarded, should be of value for further investigation in this controversial field. William Beatty

Mom died in 2001.  I gave a ring of Mom's to my aunt.  My aunt called today to tell me that for several days the ring had been uncomfortable, as if it were pinching her finger, and then it disappeared.  She looked everywhere for it but couldn't find it and was upset because she never takes it off and can't imagine how it came off her finger.  She also said she's been having trouble getting into the Christmas spirit and she's just been really depressed.

Today her husband complained about the fact that they don't have a Christmas tree up so she got out a ceramic Christmas tree my mother had made for her years ago.  She noticed it was kind of dirty and decided to wash it.  When she was drying it she turned it upside down.  She'd never looked at the bottom of it before, in all these years.  It said, "To Pinki with love, Sandi."  She stood and cried over having found this and after she got done yelling and screaming a bit (she's still really angry about my Mom's death) it suddenly occurred to her that she hadn't looked in the bed for the ring.  She walked towards the bedroom and before she even entered the room she could see the ring on the bed, she didn't have to move anything--it was laying right there.  She told me that she felt like this was my Mom's way of telling her "Merry Christmas." 

Alright, so ever since I began practicing whyte magick, psionics, meditation, and "sensory training", as I'm going to call it, my instincts have been strengthened and my mind has been working double time to fix things, and not only that, but I am now feeling what people would call "spirits" or "energy" wherever I go and my dreams have suddenly become more and more intense, realistic, and horrifyingly questionable.

I have been following several murder and missing person cases and ever since I have really felt like I was connecting with the victims, my animals and fiance have noticed a change in the air, like something is lurking.

We have also found out that the person who lived here was a sex offender, so it may have something to do with that, but my dreams are going more toward these cases...and I'm seeing symbols that may or may not have had anything to do with the crimes.

Well, the problem is that I don't know what to think now.. I don't know what to do about any of it or where to take it that can even be helpful. I am trying to avoid any negative attention, but if there is something trying to get me to help, I WANT TO HELP! My dog is barking constantly in the room I keep going in that feels like something powerful is there.. it doesn't seem bad, but then again incredibly eerie and it frightens all of us a little bit...

I'm lighting white sage it seems constantly to clear the air of negative energy and using salts, candles, and incense to try to calm whatever it is down.

Nick's family once had to have an exorcist come into their old house to deal with a very powerful BAD spirit and he says this is nothing like that, but there is something here now. There are a BUNCH of orbs in the pictures I took a few nights ago, and they are all very positive looking colors.. I just am really unsure of what to do now. What steps do I take and how the FUCK can I ignore this now???

I don't want to exactly ignore it because it is really intriguing in a way, but I am not going to lie.. this is scaring the fucking shit out of me.

I need to figure out the deal with spirit guides, I think..

I have a tarot meeting tomorrow at 5 p.m... I guess they would be good people to present this to, instead of most of my lj acquaintances who have nothing or close to nothing to do with this. I am very new to all of this, honestly. I have sensed things, but it's never been so ingrained in my mind that what I am feeling is real. Please, any help on how to look at this and deal with it would be very helpful. My books only go so far into things... (My money is only going toward my apartment and my next move at the moment. Fiance and I need to control spending, but it looks like it's going to be REALLY important to pick something else up. Any good suggestions would be MUCH MUCH MUCH appreciated!!!!!)

Love and Light,

Gen