Life - What's it All About?

I suppose most of us have wondered what life is allBecause of a work related injury, I had plenty of time
about, is this all there is, is there life after death? Doto research the subject and began reading everything I
we Reincarnate or do we go to heaven and floatcould find on metaphysics. After a short time I began
around on a cloud all day.to understand how reincarnation was possible, it fit into
I doubt there is a person alive who hasn't asked thosewhat I was sensing and feeling. I just knew that after
questions sometime in their livesdeath we had to go some where and do something
The quest began for me at the ripe young age of 38, Iother than ride around on a cloud all day, (how boring is
had worked hard all my life,had three kids, a wife, andthat?) If there was nothing after death, why would
a house with a pool , everything I owned was paid for,people go to college and embark on other learning
I was living the life of Riley.adventures when they are well into old age, what
One morning I woke up and thought, "Wow, that waswould be the point?
easy, there must be more to life than this." ThoseBecause I had sensed and seen objects and beings
thoughts brought on a life long journey of discoveryfrom other planets, I subconsciously "knew" there had
and insight. Within 3 years my life and beliefs hadto be life some where besides planet earth. It just didn't
changed completely.make sense that earth was "all there is".
My marriage had been shaky for several years andThe resulting "quest" has thus far taken me to the four
as a result a divorce followed. I began to question whycorners of the earth, from Egypt to Australia and
these things were happening to me, I wasn't perfectmany lands in between. What I have learned has not
but knew I was a pretty decent person with goodonly strengthened my belief in life after death and the
values and common sense, there had to be more to itexistence of other life forms, but it also has
than it was just God's will, or the luck of the draw.strengthened my belief in many of organized religions
I grew up on a farm and always thought it was anphilosophies and the reasoning behind them.
idealistic setting. However,because of memories andNot that I'm in a class with them, but many of the
"events" from my child hood and before, of things Iworld's great teachers and prophets such as Jesus
couldn't explain, I had always had a passing interest infollowed the same path, and were taught many of the
the supernatural and things of an esoteric nature. Since"secrets" of the universe. We should look to what they
organized religion wasn't giving me the answers Itaught for salvation and not to the individual them self,
needed , I began to turn else where.everyone of us can do as they did.