If you are a religious person, you will understand that yes, those who have passed from this side of life can hear you.
I guess it depends on the religion.
I’ve performed mental gymnastics over this in the past to where it makes my head hurt.
I believe I’m going to heaven when I die. Some religious people would say you need a pit stop in purgatory. Or that we won’t actually get to heaven until “the dead in Christ shall rise first “ 1Thessalonians 4:16. Others may contemplate that refers to a physical resurrection. But I don’t consider any of that crucial to my spiritual beliefs.
I believe we don’t have any knowledge or insight of things in this plane of existence mainly because of what I was taught about there not being any pain or suffering in heaven. My mother died when I was 18. I believe she was a Christian that checked all the boxes and ended up in heaven. In general I’m a pretty decent guy but I know that there are things I have done since my mother died that would have saddened her at the time.
Now some people might say that when Revelation 21:4 states “He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”, that those things haven’t happened yet. It’s upon Christ’s return. Well does that mean that there is mourning right this second by the souls in heaven? This is where my brain hurts.
Maybe once we get to heaven we are so much closer to god than we are now that we can begin to view imperfect human beings and their imperfect ways more like god views us. With unconditional love and compassion and a spirit of forgiveness.
I had a very spiritual experience with a male cardinal 3 years ago. I won’t go into details but it pretty much saved my life. When I shared this experience with my aunt who was my mother’s younger sister the first words out of her mouth were “That was your mother. We believe our deceased relatives appear to us as cardinals to give us comfort.”
While that didn’t necessarily align with my spiritual beliefs at the time, I accept that it was a profound experience that was more than a coincidence. Same thing can be said about ghosts. I believe I’ve had at least 4 encounters with ghosts in my life. I’ll go to my grave describing those encounters as I remember them. While ghosts kinda mess with the framework that I have developed around my spiritual beliefs I fully accept that they happened and that I don’t really need to understand why they happened.
A lot like memories from past lives. From time to time I get glimpses of past life experiences. The thing is that I don’t believe in reincarnation. At least not in this lifetime.
