Maryann, a homemaker in Florida, took an extended journey about a year after her 18-year-old son, Shawn, was hit and killed by an automobile:
I was sound asleep, and it was like there were two of me...the real me ('astral body'), was being drawn up and up. I could look down and see my body was sleeping.
... - I went higher and higher - way up - and all of a sudden Shawn was there!... It was very bright, but there were no earthly surroundings. I had a floating feeling like we were suspended in space.
My son and I hugged each other - it was so intensely joyful, it was just overwhelming! There were no words, just this great joy and the fact that Shawn was really still alive. There was this understanding like a communion, a knowing, an accepting.
Then I was back down in my body on my bed, and I was awake. I thought to myself, 'This existence seems more like a dream. That existence seems more real than life!' It was the most comforting and the most real experience I've ever had.
I know that I will see Shawn again someday and that he will be waiting for me - I just know these things.
I still cry because I miss my son. But I no longer cry because I don't think he's alive. I no longer cry because I don't think I'll ever see him again.
Having left her physical body, Maryann traveled in her spiritual body an unknown distance to visit her deceased son. Apparently, in that existence, which 'seems more real than life' we can meet as eternal beings and achieve a state of communion with our deceased loved ones that may be more intimate, more complete, and more fulfilling than the reunions we have here on Earth.
(Bill & Judy Guggenheim, Hello From Heaven!: A new field of research ~ After-Death Communication ~ confirms that life and love are eternal)