I will share three personal experiences....

One...My uncle was dying of a cancer of the lymph nodes...I was 19...we were visiting his bedside...his heart stopped.My automatic reaction was to shout..."Don't you dare!" He immediately came back and the nurses immediately screamed..."Don't you ever do that again." He'd been in a coma with his degeneration for some time.Tho' he passed very soon after.

The second...I was 23...And as a first home with my small children...we rented a home left to a lady whos Grandpa had recently died...of no trauma...just a natural death.I was stealing a nap and I opened my eyes to a transparent figure like me...a human...yet opaque...standing looking at me.No words gestures...just looking.And it disappeared.It induced no sense of dread...I wasn't startled.My impression from it was that it was curious.

The most recent...my Mum passed,I was enduring a tremendous bit of inner turmoil for it....as well as other stressful factors in addition.I stepped onto her back porch while she was asleep and thought of the loss of her and a flood of other things ..I was crying like a baby..and I spoke..."Please God,if you love me,I need to know it send a shooting star."...in that instant it happened.The brightest star drop/semi spiraled.

Now...I know that all of these things feel insignificant to the reader.And very subjective,but ,for myself....they were confirmation.I am not atypical in my mind toward those who hold other beliefs ...nor to those who hold none.I think we are all at our own place in our psyche and I hold respect for all views.But,I felt to share this.

Somehow have never questioned the existence of what I cannot see not ever.

I don't know why.I know the thread went off track greatly so

... I guess as to "soul mates"...I think that feeling is when you feel a oneness and a serenity or enmeshment with a breathing creature.Be it a human...or so often...with a pet.