Thanks for replies and the welcomes AB and Skeptic!
Skeptic brings up some very valid discussion points which I will briefly touch upon here and leads me to a suggestion for a new thread which I will post in the appropriate forum.
I was brought up as an Easter Orthodox Christian and didnt learn too much about God because all of those services were 1 hour and 1/2 of mystical chants and singing in an old slavic dialect that my parents who were born there could barely understand let alone me (it is kind of cool actually, the orthodox stress a mystical union with God over preaching a bunch of rules). That was OK because I grew up and formulated my own healthy ideas about God. Later on I made the mistake of listening to and believing the Protestant Fire and Brimstone & Catholic bullshit. I then questioned that crap and thought they were completely full of **** and God cant be like that and refused to throw out the baby (God) with the bathwater as some have done. I then started doing research to find the truth about this.
To make a long story short, my journey led me to near death experience research, reincarnation research and astral projection research which has convinced me of those beliefs that I have listed in my introductory greeting.
Afterwards, I read the "conversations with God" series of books that really resonated with my core being and thinking about what God is really like and thats where Im at now.
This leads me to my suggestion for a thread which I will post in the appropriate forum and am quite surprised that a site like this doesnt have. Specifically, a thread where various scientific research regarding reincarnation, afterlife, consciousness, ghosts etc. can be discussed, validated or debunked.
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