Answers of the sort you seek only you can find.

No, really, the big philosophical questions turn out to be very personal and the answers even more so.

However, from my current perspective I am forced to say things like, "God is what happens when people stop thinking."  What I mean to say is that, once upon a time, the Earth was flat and the sun moved around it, and the stars were little lights twinkling in a globe that rotated around the Earth, sun and moon.

We, of course, know better now.  That trend is not likely to stop.  There will never be a point at which all magic and mystery is removed from life, of that I am certain.  However, there are no ills to mankind that technology cannot alleviate; up to, and including, mortality (eventually).  There is no need for self-loathing and reproach like the sort demanded by almost any organized religion.  You are fine, just the way you are.  Even if there is a God, I cannot believe that the creator of Heaven and Earth could possibly be so petty as to condemn his own creations for being exactly as he made them.

What lies beyond life?  Dunno.  Probably nothing.  I do not intend to find out.  I plan to live forever.  Too much to do to go dying any time soon.  I don't really have time for eternity because I'm too busy living right now.  Why live for tomorrow (one which may not come) when you can live for today?

I am not saying that you should not ask the big questions.  I love philosophy and I'd be a hypocrite if I said that pondering the nature of God was a waste of time.  All I am saying is that, in the end, the only person you have to answer to is yourself.

And I generally don't believe in mediums of any sort.  Especially if they are getting paid for it.  They seem like a particularly malicious form of predator to me:  preying upon the heartbroken, picking their pockets while shining them on with pretty lies.