Question from atheist to people who believe in "afterlife"?

Cosmologists tell us that there may be infinite universes 'out there' which we cannot access because we work within our particular dimensions. The Bible tells us that mortality will put on immortality, and the physical will become the spiritual. You are only thinking as a mortal who is physical. Until you grasp the spiritual dimension, you won't be able to think about spiritual realities.

A lady who had no belief in God became clinically dead and this is what she experienced, despite having no belief in an after-life, thinking that death is the end of existence. But on Thursday, September 5th, 2003, she almost died, and this is what she said happened to her while her heart had stopped beating.

After an ectopic pregnancy, she was quite ill after a lot of blood loss, and knew she would have to miss her eldest daughter's first day at school. She was in hospital and instructed her husband to take Ruby to school, no matter what state she would be in, in hospital. In the small hours of the following day, she awoke at 3.30 am hardly able to breathe. A doctor began slapping her face hard saying, "Wake up, stay with me". An alarm bell was ringing, people were running around. Another doctor felt the pulse in her neck and said, "She's tachycardic". She was raced into an operating theatre as all hell broke loose. She remembered the entire medical team swearing. She saw the huge bright light above her head and tried to stay calm, thinking of her three children.

Suddenly, she felt her entire body being sucked up into the white light above. She found herself in a white tunnel, and she knew she had died. There was a wonderful sense of calm. She knew she had to join others awaiting her. It was a tranquil and warm acceptance. But then she became aware of somebody standing a few feet away. It was Ruby, dressed in her new school uniform and with her hair tied in bunches. She had never seen Ruby wearing her school uniform, and Ruby had never allowed her to put her hair into bunches. Ruby smiled, took her hand and implored, "Come with me, Mummy."

She followed Ruby down the white tunnel. She kept turning to check that she was following. "Quick, Mummy" she urged. They came to a gate. She stopped, feeling the urge to walk back where she was sure others were, who had passed away previously. But Ruby was insistent. "Mummy, step through the gates NOW!" Her urgency won. She stepped through and Ruby slammed the gates shut behind her.

That was the moment she thinks the defibrillator pads had shocked her back into life. She remembered nothing more till wakening up in intensive care. Hours later her husband arrived, bringing with him a photo of Ruby he'd taken outside school. There was Ruby, smiling proudly, wearing her new uniform. And she had allowed her father to put her hair in bunches for the very first time ever!

Well, there goes the experience of an unbeliever. Her article was published in the 'Life' section of the Daily Mail, Friday November 16, 2012

I don't understand your question. Are you actually asking how one is able to fit the finite within the infinite? And what is a small dimension? And why would you think the afterlife would be a small world?

For my VIEW, not fact, just opinion. I think we are beings of thought. We are here to to experience and learn from a material world. There are some things we simply cannot learn as being of thought alone. For example, you cannot learn to forgive without something to forgive. As beings of thought we cannot have things taken from us. We cannot be injured or hurt. Thus we cannot truly learn forgiveness. We also cannot truly learn the depths of love. Love is willingness to sacrifice for others. This is only possible in a physical realm where there is something to sacrifice and a need. Of course this existence is hard. Lessons as valuable as love and forgive MUST come at a great cost.

Now I do not know where we go when we have learned what we need to learn from the physical realm, but I do KNOW that thought does not take up space, so this concern of overcrowding is entirely invalid.

Why do you tackle these inquiries to atheists? Would not your questions be extra effectively directed at 1) individuals who think the big Bang befell 2) persons who feel that apes are currently spontaneously turning into humans (if such individuals exist) i'm an atheist and i do suppose that current available proof means that the tremendous Bang passed off. I do not feel that apes can transform humans. I additionally do not believe "seeing is believing." I base my beliefs on evidence. When the evidence in desire of a designated concept turns into strong sufficient, i'm prone to suppose that proposal (as a minimum unless new proof leads me to change my belief).

I'm an atheist but i'd honestly rather be in an afterlife with people from the 1600's than a lot of todays generation. Society was good until the 1960's - 70's.

Your problem is you think small. You think of the universe as what you see. The universe is so expansive you can not even fathom it. And to think that the people of 2013 somehow have it more together than the 1600's. Come on have you not taken a look at our world today?

Rebirth or reincarnation is the Buddhist teaching. living beings can come from other types of beings, like animals, or different worlds.