Re: Anybody Ever Communicated With A Dead Person?
Yes. I have done that. We did it when I was too young to know any better.....and the concept behind my involvement in the whole process was that I was "innocent" and could not possibly cause the movement of the item that was being used such as the bottle cap that you used. (My brother, the skeptic, had requested the cousins shown him the process. He wanted to prove that it was all a hoax that they were putting on.)
The questions we asked were about the future and eventually, every single one of those predictions came true. Right down to the date. It didn't bother me then. I was too young to grasp what had actually ocurred, but it creeps me out now and chances are I will never participate in such activity again. I may observe, but my finger will not be on the bottle cap.
I have, on numerous occasions, seen and felt the presence of those that either belong to a different kind of world (i.e. the world of the Jinn) or those that have passed on. I am not learned enough to know the difference so I can't say with certainty that these have all been souls of humans that have died.
I have also been told that there is an "angel" (the soul of a young boy) that is with me always and watches out for me. Unfortunately I have never felt his presence or seen him.
Whenever I have asked people if we are able to communicate with those that have left us, I have received mixed replies. Some say we can and others say that we cannot access those souls. Some say there are souls that are doomed to roam the earth forever because they took their own lives. I suspect that I will have to do a great deal of reading on the matter to formulate my own opinion.
One thing that I do know for sure.....it is NOT forbidden for women to go to the cemetery. I researched and confirmed this when my father passed away and later re-confrimed when Ammi followed him.
Women are discouraged from visiting the cemetery IF they are unable to maintain decorum and modesty. If they fear being overcome with grief, crying unconsoleably (sp?), or in more simple terms "making a scene", then they should not go. It's all about modesty; about not attracting attention to oneself. (I remember wanting to go to the cemetery to visit my uncle in Karachi and my cousin's eyes popping out of his sockets saying "How can you even think of that!? All the "murday" will see you unclothed!!! Girls should never go to any cemetery. You people that grow up in the west know nothing about religion." From that day forward I have always remembered that cousin as "Blithering Idiot".