Do you believe in life after life? Or were you terrified by tales of hell, or told that when you die that's it, you're gone? Bah humbug! A pack of tall tales (you figure out why). Near-death experiences (NDEs) have happened as long as humans have been. They are not nearly as rare as you think. An NDE is when someone's body medically dies and they experience going somewhere else, usually described as light, love and peace, sometimes with beings who tell and show them things, and then they come back into a "miraculously" restarted body again. Dannion Brinkley came back from a lightning strike after he'd been dead 28 minutes, according to his book, Saved by the Light.
There are many clues around us about the energetic nature of the body, but we ignore them, rationalize them away, or laugh them off. NDEs have been known widely for a long while, though only recently studied by the medical system which most of us take as authority on anything body/mind. Popes, doctors, the Mormon church and others have tracked NDEs for centuries, but the stories are found in history and religious books, not where you and I can find them.
Why would you want to believe in NDEs if you don't? Because it makes you realize you are something other than a bag of bones and chemicals living on a timer, and that there is something more. (You don't have to know what, exactly.)
Instead, you suspect that life in 4-D is the temporary illusion. You are something more wondrous and beautiful than you can conceive, a powerful being of light and goodness, a multidimensional energy being having a temporary physical existence. Lose your insecurities, baby! Go co-create your life -- what do you want? That's the game of life on earth. Make it yours.
So what exactly do (or did) you believe? Something more than meets the eye? Or do you buy that end-is-the-end story? Don't ask your mind, but hold each statement in your heart for a few seconds and ask how it makes you FEEL: yummy or yucky? Therein lies the truth.