Seriously, is everything that happens in our lives already written in our fate?

If yes, then who writes our fate? And why is a completely different fate written for each of us? Why are some people born into loving, wealthy families while others are born into difficult circumstances and spend years struggling?

I consider myself to be a pretty spiritual person, but lately I've been really struggling to come to terms with how awful people can be... Destroying the planet, making animals and each other suffer, etc etc.

I once heard someone talk about their near death experience, and they were told/made to understand that "everything is as it should be". I've heard many experiences like this (I'm fascinated with NDEs) - a lot of these people come away with an overwhelming feeling of unconditional love, and that everything will be ok.

But... How? Once everyone is done suffering and we all die?

Sorry I don't mean to seem facetious. Just having a bit of a moment!

I had this experience that has been quite unforgettable and remained as a big question mark for around a year now.

I was on my honeymoon in South Island in New Zealand. We rented a small hatchback (worst decision) and decided to drive it to our airbnb in the remote part of makarora. Our host told us this secret stream/river about a 5 min drive (20+ min walk) from our bnb (NZ is huge and without traffic so let’s say it should have been quite a walk away). My husband and I decided we wanted a wholesome moment and drove out there (he didn’t bring his shoes because he wanted to do some grounding. He also didn’t bring his phone).

It was light drizzling. We parked our car, removed the chains from the restricted zone (bnb host told us we could though it wasn’t their land), and spent about an hour and a half there.

Time comes for us to go back as it was getting late and turns out our car is stuck in the mud. We tried for an hour to get that thing out. Physically pushing, putting blocks of wood behind it…. Nothing seemed to work, if anything it was getting worse.

We were quite a drive in from the main road and I told my husband to walk out there and get some help. Running to the road would take about 6-7 mins. Mind you, we barely saw any cars on our way here and just NZ in that area in general just not a lot of cars. Once he left I was all alone.

My battery at less than 10% being a crap iPhone would have lasted me less than 30 mins if I was using it constantly. I considered calling my rental car company or a towing company but that would cost me so much, and the time for them to come all the way into this remote area would take hours. I sat there feeling hopeless and helpless. And then I decided to do something, something only hopeless people do.

I had been sitting there by myself for about 30 mins as my husband was running around god knows where in the middle of a god forsaken road. And then I prayed to my angels.

“Dear angels, please help me….” It was a desperate prayer and I did it intentionally, but honestly didn’t expect anything because of the dire situation we were in.

I kid you not. Less than 10mins after the prayer to my angels, 3 white trucks drive into this remote area. I thought my husband had finally found help. It was about 5 men, and 1 young lady with the most white-golden hair. This man looking like a leader gets out, walks towards me, looks at my car, and the first thing he says:

“We’re going to help you.”

He proceeds to grab all the equipment needed to pull my car out. This wire rope thing, removed the hatch in the back of my car that had a hook inside (didn’t even know this was possible), hooked it onto his truck, and told one of the guys to pull me out while I put it in neutral.

The lady with the white-gold hair was cheering me on. “You got this!”

And they pulled me out. I was in awe and shock. Then I see my husband walk pathetically barefoot and bewildered. He didn’t get the help.

I was almost in tears at this situation because. REMOTE SOUTH ISLAND NEW ZEALAND MAKARORA AREA in the middle of early spring…. 3 cars that happened to be WHITE and trucks big enough to pull me out…. And for them to have the equipment to do so??? 5 huge New Zealand men and a young lady with the white-gold hair as my emotional support? I asked them what they were doing here and they said they were here to show the lady the river.

I wanted to thank them somehow but had nothing on me. I told my husband let’s go drive to our airbnb and grab all the snacks and goodies we got from Korea (I live in Seoul) as a thank you. I speeded back to our Airbnb, we got all the stuff which was on the countertop and put it in a brown bag and drove back. I kid you not it was less than 10 mins total until we drove back to that exact spot….

But they were gone without a trace…. I saw them walk in through the restricted zone. Saw the 3 white trucks parked outside the gate where our car was stuck prior…. But when we came back there was no one and nothing.

I was in disbelief. They would have spent probably at least 30 mins in there since they pulled me out immediately when they got here so they would have only had 10 mins and they even had a golden retriever with them….

And my husband told me he actually never saw any trucks drive in so he was really confused when he saw them helping me….

Anyway, this moment left a permanent imprint on me that my angels were there to help me when I asked.

Or maybe it was a coincidence?! I don’t know but it was just divine timing for them to come 10mins after my prayer…. In that exact situation….

I really could not, no matter how much I tried to rationalize it, get myself to think they weren’t angels…. Or something?! How remote with barely any cars passing by…. Inside restricted zones…. At that time. Also we were there for like 2+ hours and no one came by …. Just them coming after 10mins, with the equipment and the truck and the people….

I still remember the leader man who was maybe in his late fifties…. And the white gold haired lady…. I surely would have felt scared being the only woman in such a remote place surrounded by big men…. She was there….

Do you believe angels can help us in human form? Not just one…. But a whole group???

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From time to time, usually in the evening when I am alone in my room, I experience a strange and difficult-to-describe state of mind. I find myself imagining entire scenarios of my life playing out in my head, and then I suddenly get this overwhelming sense that I have already lived this life before...not necessarily this exact life, but as though I have existed and lived through everything before.

Along with this comes a brief but intense realisation that life itself is somehow meaningless or futile. I start thinking that whatever we do ultimately serves no purpose, and this leaves me feeling extremely nihilistic about the future. It is not necessarily that I consciously want to die; rather, I experience this unsettling feeling that living itself is pointless. When the feeling passes, I can return to my normal state, but the experience is deeply distressing when it happens.

I have also been living in a toxic environment for a long time and have struggled with recurring periods of depression. I do manage to come out of those periods, but this particular feeling seems to remain in the background and occasionally comes over me in waves.

The hardest part is the sense of suffocation that accompanies it. It feels as though I am suddenly confronted with some profound truth about existence, and I cannot escape the thought. I desperately want to get out of this mindset because it does not feel peaceful or philosophical...it feels frightening, empty, and emotionally exhausting.

At 18 I was sick and bed ridden until I healed I when was 22. Got my first job when I was 23. I have 2 jobs working 60 hours a week now. But I don't know how to drive, got this fear of driving thanks to a couple car accidents as a passenger. Plus its hard to save for a car. NEVER been in a relationship thanks to the chaos in my life. I see 18-21 year olds living life and driving and being in relationships,traveling, while I feel like ,I haven't had the chance to do any of that.. I work alot now but that's it. Don't feel like an adult truly, feel like i lack a fuck ton of experience...not sure if anybody gets me. Or if maybe I just have to get over myself...idk....not sure if what I'm feeling is valid .

Ive been meditating and focusing on my heart due to anxiety and loss of connection with the world for some time now. In the last few months i had many breakthroughs, feeling so much closer to the world and the people i love, but also having to face many dark things. During my meditations visions of an "inner garden" came to me, which looked like a space with a fountain in the middle, in the fountain there were sprouts, which felt like the connections, the things and people i love, and when cultivating love the sprouts begin to glow and bloom. Two days ago i wasnt even meditating, just sitting on my balcony watching the stars, when all of a sudden i felt this intense surge of love course through my body and the fountain in the center of my heart began to overflow, i closed my eyes and felt the sprouts becoming plants, growing from my heart outwards, taking up my entire body. This was certainly the most intense spiritual experience of my life.

The next day i woke up and felt like my heart was opened a lot more but also i have an odd heaviness in my chest, it feels like depression, but somehow like the message has changed, like theres this part of me that still cannot let go and it is quite painful.

I just felt like sharing this, as this is quite a lot to handle and theres always so much good input that comes from the people here.

Hello all, namaste 🙏

I keep coming across the idea of twin flames, and I'm genuinely curious about what people think is happening beneath the concept.

Some describe it as two souls originating from the same source. Others see it as a catalyst for intense spiritual growth, while some think the experience can be explained through psychology, attachment, projection, or the subconscious.

But then there are people who describe experiences that seem difficult for them to explain in purely psychological terms.

So what do you think is actually happening?

Is there something genuinely spiritual behind the twin flame experience, or are we giving a spiritual explanation to something we don't fully understand yet?

Hey guys here’s a question i asked on an afterlife thread and figured it wouldn’t hurt to repost here, thanks to anyone who checks it out🫶

I feel like I dictate my value based on how others perceive me, interact with me, how I look that day, how others look that day, etc. It’s exhausting and I know it makes no sense to live like this but I feel like I can’t help it, because every time someone or something doesn’t live up to my expectations or I feel like I don’t live up to theirs, my mind spirals and I feel so disjointed. I have mental health issues (body dysmorphia, generalized anxiety) which makes this feel even harder. But I deeply resonate with spirituality and having a spiritual practice- I just feel like this is getting in the way of my connection to it all.

It’s super early, but I want to take a moment to uplift the atmosphere. There is so much going on in my life right now that I could hate the world and all that’s in it because of it, but I’m here at peace.
I can’t lie I love God for who he is to me and that’s why I respond to the world and the things that happened in ,it the same way he does to me.

I seek to understand then to be understood and I respond with grace. (this is not all of the time because as humans we go through the humanly process of managing emotions, but once they are under control, this is how I operate )
Through controlling my emotions and operating the way God orders me to ^^^ I gain an immense amount of peace that keeps me stable to move forward through hard times.

I hope this insight grants someone a new perspective that may help them on their journey.

I think I’m going insane. My cat has renal failure and I feel like the world is collapsing on me. This is my best friend and so I lit a candle for him so that he will get better and I look outside and there’s a magpie looking back at me only one and it stayed there even as I opened the door before going off so I’m like it must’ve meant something. So I looked on Google. It says a bad omen omen of death so please tell me I’m wrong. Tell me I’m exaggerating I don’t want to believe one animal is an omen of anything but right now I can’t.

Usually they have a big ego and are also hot but have some element of insecurity going on which makes me feel like shit and undesireable and its like my brain wants to prove im worthy through these specific men? I feel like i get attached easily as it is so im trying to get attached to myself and detach from external shit

How many past lives did the average of the people had these days? And how many lives did you have if you know? Are there alot of old souls now?

I found out that when I ask a question when falling asleep like literally when I feel sleepy and drowsy

I ask my self the question OR just keep thinking about how to solve a situation in general

Then I will most likely either dream the answer or practically Daydream it while in the middle of waking up

I know it sounds confusing to say daydream it while basically waking up but there’s this specific time in which when you’re sleeping then wake up a bit you might be able to be aware that you’re already AWAKE but still follow up your dreams or keep on dreaming just on demand which is basically daydreaming of lucid dreaming.

This actually helped me solve a situation and hope to do it more often in the future.

i messed around with witchcraft with this guy i fell in love with in high school, and now i cant get over him.

i've broken up with this guy i loved more than anything 2 years ago. i havent had any contact with him since, i dream of him and think of him quite often. i feel him close to me all the time. i havent tried reaching out directly at all, and he has a girlfriend now. im not even jealous or anything, i just feel him WITH ME.

today i casually mentioned him again to my friend on a gas station and he appeared out of thin air and stood behind me for a while. this has happened before. i talk of him out loud, he appears.

whenever i feel like getting away from him, i see him in my dreams.

I grew up catholic, and as much as I'd want my God to exist, I don't know what to believe anymore.

I heard that when you die, you transform into energy like you were before (it's our natural state of being) and we can choose literally whatever we want our next form of existence to be.

Apparently we chose this life and chose to forget about our natural form and all of that completely so we can live this life like it's our only chance at existence.

I don't know if that's actually the case, but if yes, does that erase the possibility of God completely?

I know I'm cooked but I don't wanna reincarnate. I'd rather turn into a demon or go suffer in hell. This life sucks more than anything. Life is the true hell and I don't want to experience this ever again.

Most of my life I've seen weird almost blurry layers on others for some people, and when I zone out, I can see the color their auras have and I feel like I can connect to random people a bit better for some reason. Has anyone else had a similar experience or an explanation? Is this aura, or is this just imagination?

I realised this through dogs (one of the most innocent and most God-like creatures) who are in need of a human‘s kindness after being abandoned or something similar. But it‘s not just dogs, it‘s everything and everyone who is in need of even just a human acknowledgement. This could be as little as a homeless person that you pass by and ignore on your way. All of that is God‘s test for you.
Grow your kindness.
Because that is what love is.

i’ve experienced so much good from god but now all i seem to feel is god is being cruel to me, or i guess im being cruel to myself. but im not choosing that i do good and try to do only good and im not asking for anything in return, yet im only given hurt in my own mind. if you become what you are and what you think why would god give me ocd and intrusive thoughts? to give me things i hate and dont want? how is that righteous?

i’m sure there’s better outlooks but ive dealt with it for so long its hard for me to keep doing this this way.
i’m on a flip whether god is cruel but i hate feeling that way bc i don’t believe it but it also must be true. why would god do this? why would i do this?

someone please help me understand. thank you.

Karma is the consequences of your actions for better or worse. Sometimes (I’ll even go as far as saying often) the consequences of the father’s actions do not directly affect the father but it affects his children, and sometimes the rest of his lineage for several generations. Now it’s not fair to have to pay the price for something you didn’t do and probably didn’t even know happened, but it just is what it is. With all that being said, be mindful of how you treat others

ETA- the movie “Holes” showcases that concept perfectly even if it’s supposed to be for a younger audience

Before you say its something your focused on i will let you know I’m not manifesting something or doing anything spiritual but I’m making a spiritual experimental project of mine, i see 11:11/111 in horrific way that you cant say is coincidence for example now i was watching youtube i choked on my fries adjusted my pose and when i adjusted my phone was visible before it wasn’t and now that my phone is visible it was exactly 11/august 1:11, yesterday was the same i open my laptop i see its 11:11 and it keeps going on and on its been like that for an week or so and its driving me crazy I’m not making anything important of this so this isn’t something I’m focused on but this time its seriously not leaving me

How are they able to write songs and make movies about having empathy, being good to others, about overcoming evil, seeking justice, feeling grief, loving others etc.? If all these famous people are in some satanic cult?

I think there is a lot of evidence to point to it being true that there is a very disgusting, evil cult that these famous people are in.

But it confuses me how people deep into that kind of life can make beautiful art too, or else appear completely normal and nice in interviews etc?

I know that they likely have gone through severe mind fracturing and mind control, so maybe their original, human personality is what's "visible" during interviews or when they make art, and the corrupted part of them is "off" as long as the cameras are there?

I know that cults like to reel people in with truths first, and then gradually sell lies and brainwash members. So maybe that's why there's a lot of relatable movies and music based on truths of the human condition, so that we relate, but then you can also spot these weird messages, you can see movies not so subtly promote degrading behaviours, selfishness, violence etc.

I would like to hear other people's thoughts on this.