Thank you very much for your reply and this interesting story.
Also thanks to others who have replied my question, all of your wisdom and
insightful view is a blessing to me.
Om mani padme hum,
Nasir
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> From: Dharma[SMTP:fisher1@...]
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 5:16 AM
> To: HarshaSatsangh (AT) onelist (DOT) com
> Subject: [HarshaSatsangh] PS: What's really happen when we die?
>
> From: Dharma <fisher1@...>
>
> One more note on the subject:
>
> On the Opra Show just now, she showed a follow-up interview with the
> mother
> of a girl who died in the Columbine High School massacre five months ago.
> Lauren would have been her class valedictorian.
>
> The mother seems to be doing well, and she said it's very much because of
> a
> contact with Lauren.
>
> A week after the massacre, she had a radio on when the announcer said that
> it was one week to the minute after the killing started... and called for
> a minute of silence in memory of the students who died. She said she felt
> she should look down, as if in prayer, and she started to do it. But then
> something told her to look up instead, and she put her head back and
> looked
> up.
>
> She saw a big white cloud, and she began to visualize Lauren being there.
> And she said a few things... hoping that Lauren was happy, etc. And a
> big
> bird came flying from the mountains and came right to her... it flew
> round
> and round and round right above her.
>
> Opra asked, "Did you think it was a message from Lauren?"
>
> She said, "I KNEW it was a message from Lauren!" And she said she
> realized
> that if she'd been looking down, she never would have seen it. She feels
> Lauren was telling her to keep looking up, keep moving forward. 
>
> There have been many other cases reported of birds coming to people as
> messengers, sometimes right after a death. They act in such completely
> abnormal ways that you can't miss it. They will peck or beat at the
> windows to draw attention. They will walk back and forth on a
> windowsill... or even come inside a house.
>
> I think it must be that birds are easier to influence and control than
> other creatures nearby, so they are easy to use for a message.
>
> Love,
> Dharma
>
> > All paths go somewhere. No path goes nowhere. Paths, places, sights,
> perceptions, and indeed all experiences arise from and exist in and
> subside back into the Space of Awareness. Like waves rising are not
> different than the ocean, all things arising from Awareness are of the
> nature of Awareness. Awareness does not come and go but is always Present.
> It is Home. Home is where the Heart Is. Jnanis know the Heart to be the
> Finality of Eternal Being. A true devotee relishes in the Truth of
> Self-Knowledge, spontaneously arising from within into It Self. Welcome
> all to HarshaSatsangha.
>