I am awed by the convoluted logic, unwarrented assumptions and baseless premises employed by those who decide to believe before they investigate just what is IS they are accepting!

I see phrases like "seemed to become aware that there may be a life after death" and I cringe! If you phrase that differently ..."developed a belief in life after death",... it loses much of its force. And appeals to "people I admire most and are the most holy" are practically scary!

We humans evolved over millions of years, and as we became more aware of our own thought processes and were ABLE to conjecture about the "whys' instead of just the "wheres" and "whats", it is entirely reasonable that we speculated about death and wished we didn't have to die.....and invented stories about "might bes"......(a Google search on William of Occam and "Occam's Razor" could help you see a safer way to approach it all, but is not NEARLY as much fun as just wallowing in the wonderful stories and embroidered beliefs we creative humans have surrounded ourselves with)

As to 'experiences' of seeing apparitions, ghosts, etc. and having visions of things we can't explain...well, why decide on the LEAST provable explanations????? ....perhaps because "contact with Aunt Sadie" or "talking with God" is more interesting than "unconcious processes in my own mind using symbols, memories and random connections".....Under hypnosis, people can be convinced of MANY things that are not 'true'....why do we assume that strong, clear 'visions' must be 'real' in the scientific sense of the word?

We know that witnesses to a crime sometimes remember things incorrectly and 'identify' innocent people. Their minds simply draw upon memories and re-arrange them in order to satisfy the need to have an answer.

Do I think all this will change anyone's mind? Nope...just always hoping...