You may not remember, but there was probably a time when you were able to communicate with the spirit of those who have passed through death’s door. You don’t remember, because you were a child. You had not yet learned to doubt. You had not yet learned about fantasy. You had not yet learned science and logic. You were innocent, and you were open to experiences that adulthood denies.

When we begin the effort of finding a common ground between faith and logic, we need to acknowledge the multitude of tales of human encounters with occupants of the afterlife as evidence of existence after physical death. And chances are that you have had such an experience, even if you don’t remember it.

Children are commonly observed having conversations or playtime with invisible friends or companions. In their early stages of learning about the world, children are open to virtually any possibility. Perhaps you have been told by parents or family members about the times you engaged in such conduct. Perhaps you witnessed your own child interacting with invisible entities and passed it off as childhood imagination.

Perhaps you were wrong.

If we could shed our many year’s accumulation of doubts and logical foundations, would we find that we too are capable of seeing, hearing or sensing messages from beyond the grave?

Although most of us may have forgotten our childhood encounters, we may have had brief glimpses of that forgotten skill, even in adulthood. How many of us have had that brief, flickering sense that a lost loved one was present at a particular moment? How many of us have caught a brief vision of a loved one who passed, only to conclude that it was just an illusion? How many of us have been reunited in a dream?

Is it possible that the layers of doubt that we have accumulated over a lifetime are occasionally breached, if only for a moment, and even the most cynical of us has an experience we can’t explain? Would such an event help us embrace our faith by providing proof that we exist beyond physical death?

Perhaps, too, we are handicapped by religious leaders who would have us believe that embracing the idea of spiritual visitations is a betrayal of our faith. Maybe that judgment is wrong.

If nothing else, we must concede that what we don’t know, what we don’t understand, is our greatest handicap to a full acceptance of our faith. Perhaps allowing ourselves to revert back to that childhood innocent state is the key to real faith.

If we struggle to find a logical reason to embrace our faith, maybe a glimpse of the afterlife is a path we need to follow.