No Wonder Science Is Hopelessly Stuck

Oh, there's one more thing I remember about my step-mother and the subject of the afterlife. Even though she was pretty intolerant of such talk, she did once open up because, as I said, my father was very interested. She told of one night during the war (WW2) when she woke to see her brother standing at the end of her bed. He was in uniform and he spoke to her. He reassured her that he was OK - that he was safe now. Then he disappeared. Within a short time (not sure whether it was the next day or some days later) the dreaded telegram arrived and confirmed he had been killed in action on the day he appeared in her bedroom.

There are so many stories like this that I have to be careful not to mix her story with those I have read about since but I'm pretty sure of the basic facts as described above. Perhaps it wasn't a telegram - maybe it was a visit from the Army? I can't be sure of that but I do remember her telling that story and I remember being shocked that she would share such a thing after being so dismissive of all that "spiritualist stuff". She told us that her brother's name was John and showed us a photograph of him in uniform.

Dave, that experience was commonplace, the very same thing happened to the next door neighbour (think it was next door)
of my grandma. Her son (my uncle believe it or not ...my father was born in 1920 and named after this son who was killed on the Somme by a shell...a german officer mercifully shot him to put him out of his misery apparently) appeared at the foot of the neighbour's bed and asked her to tell my grandma that he'd been killed and wouldn't be coming back. My uncle was at the foot of that bed.

The telegram arrived about a week after I think. There was nothing strange about it at all, it happened all the time (as you will know). How did we get to this point where such events are denied or put down as hallucinations ? I'm fed up with relentless scepticism. They deny an important element of what it is to be human.