As a teenager I had a transcendent experience. I experienced myself with-in the whole room but there was no individual me at the centre of the experience. My consciousness was everywhere. This is consistent with the Buddhist idea that there is no self.

However, many years later I experienced a number of "ghostly" experiences where the individuals were people that had died and were able to interact with me as individuals, clearly indicating the existence of the individual self after death.

So, does the individual exist or not....?