I have always heard of people telling how they “feel” their loved ones who have passed . I have never experienced that. I would love to hear from others who have actually made contact

The basic problem with having anyone tell you that they had contact with a deceased loved one is that it is just a bunch of pixels on a page and basically just a message that will never really mean anything to you unless you have experienced it yourself.

If you sit still with your eyes closed long enough to let the idea of your body disappear, you'll notice that your body is just a thought like any other that will come and go and you might at some point realize that you are a ghost, but that you just happen to occupy a living body for the moment.

Once that happens, you can begin to explore the realm inside, that is beyond your own thinking, you just have to realize that this realm is just behind all the thinking that you constantly do, like the sun behind the clouds. Never try to fight with the clouds, or your thoughts, because it's just like cloudy water, if you stir it, it will remain cloudy, but if you sit still long enough, the dirt in the water settles to the bottom... and then the sun shines thru. That's when you begin to realize that the deceased are not really dead, they are just in a different realm that you usually don't notice. It takes practice to notice them.

I've heard people talk of seeing or hearing loved ones after they died, mostly at funerals.

I think it's just a combination of grief, religious beliefs, and just maybe a desire for attention.