Has anyone met loved ones in the AP?

[Urantia]

Here's what i was curious about..now, i know love is so powerful that it can break through any of the rules set forth (if there are any) in this universe. Sometimes i get the feeling that i have been in love in some other life so deeply that somehow someway...i would see her or meet them in my physical or astral? I read somewhere that Souls meet in a higher plane in existence and then they somehow they team up to go into these physical worlds to increase there chances of spiritual growth or evolution.

Now how about this..Since everything i do is NO coincidence..then sometimes i wonder the girls i meet, or family i have, or people that stop by my store...maybe I could of know them in future and past lives? does love bring us together? or does some other force? or maybe just a combination of forces? IDK but i see these people and they all seem UNFAMILAR to me..isn't that strange UNFAMILAR? its like I'm used to see them subcounsiously..but Cousionsly they seem FAMILAR to me? maybe its just a trick my mind is playing but i come in contact with thousands of people a day...and its like non of them look unusual, different..they all look the same..nothing new? why is that...its like each face is okay but not so much there face its like something behind it. What if i met spoke with each one in another life or plane of existence. do you think thats the case? isn't it funny how you meet someone you never thought you knew, but yet you have conversations as though you knew them for a lifetime? I have so many of these and they just make me wonder...I see some other force at work here, it's all to much for me to take.

[iNNERvOYAGER]

Hi, I'm replying to the question in the Subject line.

Yes, during a trance session, I was somehow taken, probably assisted in experiencing what I would have to say was my mother's garden heaven world. (at least heaven compared to earth that is)

In a nutshell, the journey started by flying over an expanse of forest and colorful flowers that extended from horizon to horizon.

I, or we, ( as I said, I think that I was guided), arrived in a beautiful little courtyard where the central piece was a group of 3 roses, and a deep blue or black rose at the center.

I then turned around and was pleasantly surprised to see my mother standing there, in front of a path to a greater part of the garden. I noted in particular, a stand of tall, thin ornamental banana trees. My mother was wearing a robe of woven earth tones woolen or cotton like fabric, and over that was draped over her shoulders a smaller yellow robe, that I researched later and then realized that it was the saffron color that a monk would wear.

We had a brief greeting by simply touching hands, and she explained that she was working on a medical cure to help people.

I started to get a little emotional and I think that it blew me out of there, and whoosh, I was back in my body.

From my level of experience, I'm still a beggar. It would be nice to just sit down in the mornings and say, hmmm, today I'll go visit Uncle Bob, or go see Grandma, or explore the Wider Reality, but as I said, I'm a beggar and just thankfully accept what's offered to me in what is seaminly a random way.

[Blazewind]

I have had one encounter with a deceased loved one, during an unintentional projection.  This was the one and only time I have ever projected while aware of it, and starting from a wakefull state, but I somehow did it without even trying.  Anyway, I somehow found myself standing on the edge of a cliff, looking forward into nothingness.  I walked closer to the edge of the cliff and looked over.  I seemed to be standing on a cliff in the middle of the universe or something.  all i could see beofre me, and below the cliff was blackness, although I could see distant stars glittering far away.  As I continued to look out there I began to see swirls of color forming in the blackness.  Suddeny as I looked straight ahead again, there stood my grandfather, who had died in the past year.  He looked just as he had in life, even wearing his favorate old grey button down sweater, over his clothes.  stood as if if was an everyday thing to do, right in the middle of... nothing.  I was somehow, however, not too amazed to see that nothing was under his feet holding him up.  I was well aware that the laws of psysics did not apply there in the same way they do here.  He looked at me, as if not at all surprised to see me at all, and I wondered, did he call me there?  he came closer to the cliff's edge, and I stayed where I was and waited to see what he would say.
"I made it over alright," he said to me.  "It was easier than always thought.  The whole process of dying and going over to the next world, I mean.  I miss all of you though.  Nice to see you again, and be able to talk to you."  I looked around bit more, unsure still of exactly where I was and how I had gotten there in the first place, but trusting that I could get back home if I really wanted to.
"come out here," he said to me suddenly, and I suddenly began to feel nevrvous.  Beging used to life as a physical being, I could not imagine deliberatly stepping off a cliff   I recall that I shook my head at first, unwilling to try.  He held he hands out though, insisting that I trust that I wouldn't fall  I took a leap of faith and stepped close to the edge, then stepped off, into nothing below.  And I stoode as though on solid ground.  It was the wierdest thing ever to stand on nothing at all.
I don't know if he said anything else to me.  i relly don't recall, even how I got back.  I just suddenly started to drift back to wakefullness, and could hear the sounds in the room again.

[Greytraveller]

For anyone interested in the possibility of communicating with deceased relatives (or friends) I recommend the website www.adcrf.org (Adcrf stands for After Death Communication Research Foundation). The site is run by Jeffrey and Jodi Long who also run the NDERF.org and OBERF.org sites. (Near Death Experience and Out of Body Experience Research Foundation). All of those sites have relevant information and hundreds of personal accounts.

Grey

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I don't have a lot of OBEs but Since we're on the subject of loved ones in ap i remember this experience awhile back. I remember i was flying around my house. Flying as fast as i could, stopping, feeling the wall, sticking my hand through it, then flying around again. I remember my dad coming out through the hall way and I wondered if he could see me. I flew past him as fast as i could, low to the ground, and tapped him on the knee.

Next day my dad's knee was killing him..he could barely walk.

Thought that was interesting...weird but interesting