Am I already dead? (Page 2)

Live_By_Common_Sense: Okay, well I understand this. I won't complain about my life, since there are many other people out there who has it worse than me. I understand suffering, so I will do my best to give the good energy out to others who needed the most. I would treat others the way they treat me. If they treat me wrong, or ignore my good energy, I would forgive and let him or her on their way. Because I am human just like them. Plus if God do care for us, I would build that type of relationship with him and be the lightworker for the people who wants peace and healing in their life.

Having depression and anxiety is a real pain, and I know what pain is mentally. So, I took it upon myself to understand who God really is, and ask Him if He can take the burden off of me. I want to learn the spiritual truth of healing and knowledge from this spiritual warfare we are having. Nobody wants to be lied to, and nobody wants to be mislead. So I take it upon myself to find the true souls that are in the same position as me.

I am ready to live the good light, to protect my family and friends who care for me from the spiritual attack that the demons trying to manipulate us to fall from our peace and freedom.

Zanjan: Well said!! May your spiritual journey be ever-rewarding.

Live_By_Common_Sense: I appreciate that Zanjan. I just hope the decisions I make in the future will be right for my soul.

Zanjan: Don't worry, as long as your heart is in the right place, you can confidently lay all your affairs in God's hands......He will guide you.

Live_By_Common_Sense: Thank you Zanjan.

Live_By_Common_Sense: Zanjan, I want to fight the good fight. I want be in peace, by my action of tranquility and self healing. Zanjan please do let me know that I shall find peace through the benevolent spirit. I want to be warrior of God. I do not know how to do so. I just want to be disciplined by Gods word. He is the protector. I will seek and find peace from under the protection of the soldiers of the good.

Zanjan, I don't know what actions to take, but I want to let you know I will work in peace. It feels like the world is ignoring me, and I am set apart from the general population. The only people I can seek is my family and few friends. I need blessings of healing and direction to the right relationship. I seek peace for the ones that despise me, and to my close ones.

Zanjan: I understand you're a Christian - as such, you're dedicated to being a seeker of truth and a pleasing servant to God. Your aim is to come closer and closer to Christ by acquiring as many divine virtues as possible. These are your armor against the afflictions of the world and any enemies you may have. They drive away and replace any demons you've faced.

You'll acquire these virtues via practice in active service to Him - that is, serve the church, spread the Word, and serve your fellow man as nobly as you can.

Peace doesn't come to you like a long lost puppy - you have to MAKE it. Be a peacemaker. Do everything Christ asks of you. Peace is to be found in reliance on Him and in trusting God. I hope you don't interpret peace as "calm" - it's resignation and contentment with the Will of God.

You can't heal yourself spiritually - Christ will do that via the Holy Spirit when you put Him first, before everything else, and under all conditions. Sometimes, even physical healing can occur, if it's right for the individual.

One serves God through different forms of worship - that is, through your work by striving for excellence, through pouring out the love in your heart on others, through prayer and recitation of scriptures, by working towards unity, by showing hospitality and being charitable, donations to this Cause etc. and so forth. Cover all theses bases - if you neglect any, your progress will be a lot slower.

This is the same in my religion. Briefly, it is to give all of yourself up to God and abide by His Will; you'll get phenomenal rewards as you go. When you do the right thing, confirmations from God will follow.

Live_By_Common_Sense: Zanjan, thank you for your response. I feel as though I am a prayer warrior. I have no options to take but to meditate and pray for my well being as well as for my close ones. I even pray for my enemies, if I do have one or many, since I see them trying to live a life that want to prosper but in different ways. If someone and somehow tries to harm me in any possible way, I will use my spiritual guidance to avoid the harm, or deflect the harm. I search for the truth, and it seems like the truth is hidden for to the ones that seek it. So by knowing that the philosophy of Jesus Christ will lead me to truth, and I will feel content knowing that there is going to be no more anger and no more frustration, since I practice the belief of pacifism, I will take upon myself to give love and repel hate.

Live_By_Common_Sense: Zanjan, aren't you a Christian as well?

Zanjan: No, I'm a Baha'i.

Personally, I like my enemies - I mean, that I have some. I don't avoid them because they multiply the opportunities to demonstrate the stuff I'm made of. In the end, they make me look really good, although that wasn't their intention. You see, the world doesn't believe people like me exist - only my enemies can prove it.

Live_By_Common_Sense: I believe that enemies can teach you many life lessons. Without physical fights I believe there is such thing as anxiety war. We are facing a battle through non verbal, but intimidation as well as non verbal threats. Such as threatening pose, or intimidating look, and even much as hostile body language. This is what is called spiritual warfare. The enemies are trying to get in to peoples head. Do not know if I am crazy, but I am just explaining my point of view.

Live_By_Common_Sense: Zanjan, if you don't mind me asking. How did you get in to being with Baha'i?

Zanjan: Oooh, that's a very long story. The short version isn't something I'd apply to anyone else, except in a few rare cases. There are easier ways.

The long story is a tale of woes, trials and suffering - the thing that begins with "poor me" and ends with 'what the hell?!"

I honestly couldn't nail down a time frame when my spiritual journey began because I discovered it had legs. Heh. The one you're asking about, is that last leg - that final push to the summit. I'll divide that into two segments:

The first occurred during an accident, which caused me to have a Near Death Experience. I was 22 years old. I wont go into that narrative here, except to say I saw somebody so amazing, there was no need to ask who He was, I just had to ask Him about His life.

I saw hundreds, maybe a few thousand people - lovely and smiling but not a single soul I knew. When I came back to life, I remembered that Face. Knowing He'd once lived on earth, I had to find Him and those people who were by Him. That was the day I became a true Seeker.

Years of study and research seemed to be getting me nowhere. My thirst and hunger weren't quenched. I prayed and prayed for guidance. One night, 9 years later, I had an unusual experience - a "visitation" from a young man....just saw his head, wearing a turban. He spoke 4 letters - not letters that made up a word. Then the vision disappeared.

Obviously, that drove me crazy because I knew it was real and had to find those letters somewhere. Burning with with a desire to know, in exasperation and not knowing what else to do, I grabbed the phone book to look up all those letters. Suddenly, my eyes fell on the word "Baha'i" and, the room literally shook around me! Never heard of that word before so I phoned the number.

Three months later, I became a Baha'i but still hadn't found the significance of those letters. I spoke about this with a Baha'i who had just moved to the city; she said let's meet tomorrow for coffee. We did; she laid a book on the table and there it was - those letters!

That's what you call a confirmation. There were many more to come. The best was 11 years later when I went on pilgrimage to the Holy Land. The Baha'i Faith has it's world spiritual and administrative center on Mt. Carmel. There's an archive building, which we toured. Suddenly I stopped and stared - there was a photo of the Face I saw in my NDE. Unforgettable! Next, there was a painting - that was the young man in the visitation.

Confirmations are those little rewards that say "you did well" .

Live_By_Common_Sense: That is awesome Zanjan. People with near death experience stories are very interesting. It gives me the outlook on what the after life is really about.

I want to know, did you ever had psychic abilities after the NDE? Like have you ever heard voices in your dreams and later on in life you feel like you had deja vu? Can you give me a simple detail of how your NDE experience was like? Just the description of how it happened, and the details of your experience, like your mood and such. If you don't mind me asking.

Zanjan: I had psychic abilities since early childhood - as long as I can remember. I never doubted them, because I knew they came from God. Everything I saw came to fruition so that's no trick. Yes, you name it, I experienced it, but there was no teacher so I learned old-school - the hard way.

Through it all, I just wanted to know 'why me?'. That was one of my most burning questions - nobody could answer it until I came to the Baha'i writings and looked it up. The answer was so unbelievably simple -> "Because you needed it".

When I realized why I had needed it, I didn't need it anymore......sounds strange, right? Oh, I still have it but I don't rely on it to guide me as I did then. I liken it to big drips of water.......you follow it to the source; on finding the fountain, you drink to your heart's content - it continually fills and overflows.

Zanjan: My NDE began as most do, except I didn't know they existed. At the time, no one had ever mentioned them.

After my heart stopped, naturally, I was unconscious; suddenly, out of the black, my mind saw a pinpoint of light which quickly grew larger and larger, brighter and brighter until it filled all the field of my vision. I asked, "Is this God"? A voice from the center, a rather young male voice said "It is no other". At that precise moment, I found myself standing in air, if you will, dark all around me except for a figure standing ahead of me.

I could see every detail of Him, His clothing was of traditional Eastern origin, a kind of robe with a wrap overlay, down to His feet; He wore something akin to a turban but not the same style as a head wrap because I could see His black hair flowing down from it. He had a long beard.

He didn't speak but I instantly knew I was standing in the presence of great authority. With a wave of His hand, I saw my whole life played out before me in fast forward re-lay. There was an unspoken understanding I was to make a comment on it - a judgment of some sort. (that part is personal). Up until then, I didn't have a mood - I was like the child who's completely dependent and just observing. No fear, not emotional....just a tad bewildered.


Next, I heard a great, resounding VOICE all around me,under, above, and all sides, knowing it was the Voice of God from way beyond all of us.

Next, I saw Him again with a whole concourse of people beside Him to the right - all smiling at me, lovely and beautiful; one woman was holding the hand of a young, blond haired girl, dressed in pretty dress and apron. Perhaps they'd been there the whole time and just hadn't seen them until now.

Then He and I had a conversation.....He told me something of His life on earth, how badly He'd been treated, how His heart had been broken many times........His suffering was beyond human endurance. I was amazed that He still loved God through all of it. Silly me, but you know I wasn't religious and really quite ignorant of religious history at the time.

A few more words, then I heard some women's voices around me - I was given a choice to stay or return. I wanted to stay and be with them. They asked me to look again......I turned towards earth and saw someone I thought might be worth trying to help. Instantly, I was snapped back, hovering over my body.

As I hung there, the Heads of three men appeared and told me something.....then they disappeared and next thing I knew, I was back in my body. It was a long night with my heart having rhythm problems and breathing labouring but I knew I'd make it. I did. However, I was never the same again. Now I know who all of those Faces were.

Live_By_Common_Sense: Zanjan, I will tell you my experience of having psychic abilities. When I was younger in my teenage years I used to hang around with sort of a bad influence. I smoked marijuana with a friend of mine. This day was a very bad day for me, it felt like hell on earth that day. I do not know if I was smoking marijuana cigar that was laced, but it ruined my mentality ever since I was consuming it. So, while I was smoking with a friend of mine, my mind was going off on to the matrix. Like I as wondering off in to a different perception of my brain. I was clear in to smaller details, and felt like time was going slower second by second. This one guy we were hanging out with, said something that made my night hellish. I remember the few word he was saying that repeated in my head many times. His exact words were, "Go to hell". It triggered my mind to repeat, and somehow these few words triggered me to remember what I was told before the day this happened. I do not know who and what entity told me this, but I remember I repeated something before I slept. This is what I repeated, I told my self, that this little girl will try to stop you from smoking this marijuana cigar. If you do not comprehend, than you fall in to sin, and will go to hell. This is your test. This is the message that was sent in to my head. It was not the exact same words, but it was the same concept of the message. Before I met with the friend of mine, the little girl saw what I was carrying. I paid no attention to it, and she did attempt to stop me from the tragedy. She broke the marijuana cigar and told me it was bad for me. I should have listen, because that day was the worst day of my life. My life turned upside down, and I was sensitive to sound, and I can hear the trucks reverse beeping from far off distance. I can sense bad atmosphere, and see color of hellish red around me. I felt that my life was over that day, and I thought I was going to die at the same day. So I cried for help, my dad was so worried about me.

After that day, I woke up with major depression. I had no life in me, but the thought of negativity. No happiness, and motivation to get up. Later on, I realized I had some kind of psychic abilities. When I went to sleep, I had often times see clear visuals of what my dream is, and also I can clearly hear a conversation going around with the people that I interacted with before. I can hear my dads voice, or my moms voice, and even the voices of my acquaintances. Than as days go by, I felt many dejavu. Like it happened in my dream, and I felt like I am aware of it. Every dejavu I had, I felt the sense that I was going to be in a tragedy, but it never happened.

One time, I sense some kind of death. I sense that there was going to be two death by two acquaintance. At first, I thought it was going to by with my mom and dad, but it was not. This sense of death was related to heart failure. One guy died of a heart attack while driving a bus. One women died of an exploded heart, from a car collision. Both of this tragedy was from two of the members of our church. I predicted it, and it happened! I told my parents before it happened. They was not surprised by it somehow.

So, Zanjan. Please do reply and do explain what kind of experience I went through. Was this a sign of some sort? This heartache I went through, was this a message, or was it a warning? How should I have reacted to this? Please do explain. Thank you..

Zanjan: Sometimes, marijuana and other mind-altering drugs can open a "window" in the brain. These areas are like unused neural pathways one stumbles onto because they've lost their normal inhibitions. Sometimes stress does the same thing, as in post traumatic stress. One has wandered into uncharted territory.

That sort of thing is a temporary sensitivity - temporary, in that it can last for minutes or months and can be confusing. I've heard of some individuals who were doing nothing unusual when a tremendous sense of dread just washed over them; soon after, they discovered a loved one had died. That only happened to them once or twice in their lives, like a blip on the screen.

Secret, everybody has psychic activity; however, it's usually latent in most people for good reason. It's present in all, existing as a very low, unconscious buzz until they experience the odd blip. These powers are primarily intended for the next world; most people aren't fit to handle them actively here so, attempting to "dabble" can be very dangerous. What God doesn't give permission for should be left at rest.

In my own case, I received a gradual, safe introduction throughout my childhood years so, I was used to it; I could bear whatever came my way, although it was never all "bad" feelings or visions - mostly just informative stuff. By the time I reached my teens - it was my "norm", if you will. I didn't ask for that so this is an example of natural development of sensitivity.

Like any other "talent", what you do with it is the test - it comes with great responsibility. One has to learn wisdom - that is, when to speak, what to say, to whom it's said, and when to keep silent; make the wrong choice and it folds back to bite you hard. I was not one to abuse it so it stayed with me without causing harm.

What happened to you was "accidental" - that is, you didn't plan it or expect it. It was unknown to you so, you weren't properly prepared. Such events are terrifying to some because its so sudden. Once that "door" was set ajar, it sorta flapped in the wind for awhile. Quite the distraction! If this is too disturbing for the individual, they can kick that door closed if they focus - faster, if they consistently pray for calmness and serenity.

Zanjan: God ensures that this psychic capacity is awakened in some people so that no one, including science, can explain away the supernatural. That doesn't necessary mean it will be highly active for a lifetime - only that it is from time to time. It's all in God's Plan.

Thus, anyone who doesn't believe such things exist also doesn't believe God exists. I've found that the most dramatic displays won't convince the atheist. They need something different to jar them into acceptance.

Live_By_Common_Sense: Zanjan, thank you for your response. I have this thought where I want to know, how does God really looks like? I know people say that God made us in His image. But from my own thinking, I would see that God looks is a different form of human. I do not know if its true, but I saw a youtube video where it says that Angels really do not look beautiful as the media portrays. They said that Angels look more like monsters. So if that theory is correct, than I would think that Gods look is similar to the Angels. I am just questioning about it, because my curiosity goes deeper and deeper. If you have the answers, please do confirm. Thank you.

Zanjan: God isn't a human - He made humans and they have their limitations. An image is a reflection of something - not necessarily complete or perfect, it may only be an outline, perhaps a silhouette. One should remember the image is not the original subject.

You'll never know what God looks like because He's a Being that's beyond the ken of men.....incomprehensible and pre-existent, lofty above all Names. His world is entirely separate from ours - there's no tie that binds Him to us. That doesn't prevent us from loving what we do know about Him.

All that we can know of God we know through His Manifestations - His Revelators. They're the true models of pure virtue, the perfect Mirrors of His attributes. We're not such masters, nor have we attained all the virtues and attributes possible to us.

Without These divine Teachers, it would be impossible for us to know anything about God; They're created differently than we are - they're Mediators Who bring the World of God into relation with the world of man. We can never reach to that kingly rank and authority. We're all just students and foot soldiers.

Don't bother yourself with theories; those who invent them are talking through their hats. If you prefer reality, pay attention to what God says. We can never know more than what the Revelators have delivered.

As a species, we're still developing. According to God, mankind is in its adolescent stage right now, slowly approaching maturity. That's entirely believable, albeit some are greatly lagging behind because we don't all develop at the same speed.

Live_By_Common_Sense: Okay, so I was wondering. If the human race have psychic abilities, that would mean that God gave us that gift. Wouldn't there be other powers that are hidden within us, but never shown? Like telepathy and what not. I know it sounds much as a science fiction type, but I am just curious. Knowing for a fact that God is always listening, I had the idea that God knows what we have in our heart. Pretty much God got the power to understand our superficial as well as deep emotions. So if God can do that, than wouldn't the Angel has the same power? Or are their power limited?

Zanjan: ALL powers have various degrees of strength. When combined, they're magnified.

Psychic activity is the *sensation* in the power of thought; as you know, thought isn't unique to humans. When animals think, it's in a primitive form; thus, it issues as a need, idea, emotion, or urge. Plants "think" too but at the most simplified level possible - it's a base chemical language.

They can all communicate with each other without making sounds or moving, albeit that form isn't as reliable since it depends on the strength and cohesion of the thought and sensitivity to chemical transmission. They use "smell" language.

"Telepathy" is the term we use to convey that a sender and a recipient have made a conscious thought connection - doesn't matter the form of thought or the species that sends or receives. Some connections are made without the sender or recipient being aware of them - that is, there is evidence a connection was made regardless.

The faculty of word usage is a gigantic step-up in articulation of thought; being at the intellectual level, only humans and God can connect telepathically in the form of words.

Since God is the creator of all, He misses nothing. If plants need water, He senses that - that is, "hears" their need as a prayer; if an animal is in distress, He leads it via thought. So, we call that indirect communication.

It's the same with angels IF you're speaking of living entities. (The word "angel" can also be used to describe an action, a force, dynamic, a spirit or, an object). As living entities, angels have magnified thought power because their thoughts are alike (unified), which boosts effectiveness of communication in any form.

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