I haven't posted in here for a bit because my paranormal interest and experiences were, until now, pretty limited. I have never seen a ghost, apparition or anything like that. Just every so often little things, or shadows out of the corner of my eye. But nothing that would make me thing it was paranormal.

Last year I did see something in the sky over Cleveland, Ohio that I couldn't explain, and didn't look like any aircraft I'd seen before. Even though it did look like a classic saucer-shaped object, the thing that got my attention the most was that it didn't move or waver in the air. It didn't drift or sway, it just didn't move. Other than the shape, that was the thing about this object in the sky that made me realize this was something different.

The other thing that was interesting, I thought, was the fact that when I saw this object in the sky, later on that day I found out that Zecharia Stichin had died. And he had died that same day. In a nutshell he had proposed that humans had alien DNA from long ago. I had known of him before he died. Being more interested in UFOs and aliens than anything else at the time, I had come across his work in my research.

Now I've read and heard stories of paranormal encounters. My Father-in-Law had an interesting experience with his wife, who passed before he did. After she died, he would see her standing at the foot of his bed saying, "Al, get up."  This happened several times through the three years after her passing. Then one time, a few days before he passed, she appeared and said, "Al, get up, it's time to go."  He passed a day or two later.

That and some of the research I have done into paranormal studies regarding the nature of this life and reality, make me rethink my previously held beliefs. I was an evangelical for almost 30 years. There came a point in time where it felt like i couldn't go back to that church anymore, literally walk into the building. Looking back it may have been that it was time to move on. Part of it was my own maturation, discovering myself and reclaiming my own peace,if you will, realizing that I couldn't do that there. Nothing against Christianity, but more about myself and self-realization.

Anyways, I've become open to other worldviews, particularly reincarnation and multiverse concepts. My question becomes; what's the reality of this life, and the life beyond?