Sorry if this is a bit scrambled...

Published June 12th 2011
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I can't help but to have a fascination with the dead and after life. When I was four and a half I had my first paranormal experience after my mother passed away.  Since then I have experienced many different kinds of encounters.

I often ponder what happens to us when we die.  I know energy never ceases to exist and we are made up of energy. But, what happens to our energy? What happens when we no longer inhabit a home (the body) that supplies us with senses and consciousness? As of right now our energy is attached to earth and when earth ends our energy will then survive elsewhere in the universe. Our energy lives on and in that sense we are immortal... but is our energy our soul? Do we even have souls? If there are such things as "inteligient hauntings" where the dead are aware of their surroundings as they inhabit earth, what will happen to them when earth no longer exists? I can't even begin to imagine what the other side may or may not look like and if we can even see it, feel it, sense it?

When I watch Ghost Adventures and they speak out loud to the spirits asking "is there anybody in the room with me right now?" how can it be assumed that the other side looks anything like the room they are in? I understand asking that question is part of trying to figure it all out and that they want to understand the other side just as much as I do... without dying. I ask the same dumb questions when I do investigations as well.

I try to imagine all the tests that have been conducted over the years to prove the existence of the soul. I also think about the scientists trying to raise the funds to conduct new, more advanced tests.  I think about the mystery behind death as well.  Think of all the things we can do with science. We have neurogensis with suspended animation and the regrowth of dead brain tissue. We can regrow the brains of comatose head trauma patients until they wake up and walk around again. We can transplant organs, use stem cells to help organs become like-new again. We can do so much - EXCEPT- bring a perfectly healthy body back to life. Even if the organs and everything were in perfect working condition there is no way (as of yet) that we can bring life back into the body.  Why? Does this show us that there is more than just a working engine (our body) that is needed to give us life? If so, what is it? Where does it go when we die? And how can we try to get it back?

I also wonder if the hadron collider is going to help us discover more about the after life or alternate universes?

I could bring many other questions, theories, and thoughts up... but I prefer human interaction on the subject.

All I do know is that life is a miracle. Every day that we awake to another is a blessing.  We are never promised tomorrow. Anything at anytime can and sometimes will happen to you. There is no "eh, it'll never happen to me."  You never know what is going to happen. Nothing is certain and nothing is forever. Knowing this I appreciate life, all life, and the short amount of time I have to be a part of something bigger.