///No need to explain it over and over - once will do. It's not a matter of me not accepting it - if that was the case I wouldn't be asking you to explain it. If you are right about this, I want to know, but I also want to be certain.///

There is no certainty here. There's no way to prove empirically that consciousness survives the death of the body so I have relied on reason instead and tempered it with quantum physics where it clarifies the points of the argument. But because something is logical doesn't mean it's true. We simply don't have a lot to work with so we have to take educated guesses based on our present experience.

So my argument has to be taken with a grain of salt. You just can't throw all your belief in it and I would never want you to. My point is, because it's logical, it's worth considering over purely religious dogma or knee-jerk atheism that can't think past "death is final and life is a pointless joke." One thing that strikes me hard about near-death experiences is not seeing the light tunnel and all that--most people don't see anything. But what most of them also say is that when they were in the process of dying, they felt terrible regret that they didn't do more with their lives. So it's best not to waste your life poring over old translated writings you've only been taught to interpret superficially or deciding nothing is worth the effort because you lose it all in the end. You will take something with you--and you'd best be sure it isn't useless baggage.

Learn and do as much as you can.