We can only prove things about this life, because that's where we are at the moment. ;-) If we were somewhere else, we could prove things about that state of existence, but not about this one. Proof is strictly limited to the board upon which the game is being played, so to speak...since the game is not able to be played anywhere BUT on that board. This does not mean that there may not be other games available at another time.

Bill, I am just as worried about Bush's reliance upon weird religious notions as you are. ;-)

All the things I mention when talking about reincarnation, Bill, are not absolute beliefs of mine, but they are things that seem quite probable to me. My absolute beliefs only concern matters I've experienced directly in this life. There's a lot of other stuff I think is likely or probable...among which is reincarnation, etc....

By the way, my Dad passed away back in May this year, and my mother and I keep having these dreams where he's in the house, wandering around, talking about his business like usual (he was a 7-day-a-week workaholic who basically was interested in nothing except his entrepreneurial business ideas, most of which were extremely unrealistic, to put it mildly).

I don't think he knows that he died!!! In fact, I'm sure he doesn't know it. I have directly confronted him in several of those dreams, saying, "Look, Dad, you passed away on May 30th this year at the hospital. You're not in a body anymore. There is nothing you can do with the business here anymore. Why don't you be done with it, and move on to the next thing? Wouldn't it be more interesting than hanging around here?"

He won't have any of that. He refuses to discuss the possibility that anything has changed. He doesn't want to talk about anything except the same old stuff like before. It's damned frustrating, I can tell you. You couldn't talk sense to him when he was alive, and you can't do it now that he's dead either.

And no, Bill, I'm not joking. My mother and I have both been having those same dreams frequently in the last couple of months. Some souls are so stuck on this Earthly existence that they just WON'T think about anything else. My father never believed in anything spiritual or non-physical, he never was willing to talk about it, and he still isn't, it seems.

Maybe this is what you will be like after you shuffle off this mortal coil, eh, Bill? You'll show up in relative's dreams and say, "Whaddya mean I died? I'm right here talking to you, aren't I? I never died. The dead can't talk or do anything, and I'm talking, aren't I? So prove I died. Where's your proof? The burden of proof is on you." ;-) (that IS a joke, Bill)