OTOH - I did experience an incident back in the 60's that led me to believe in the possibility of life after death. My best friend, girl friends father was killed in a boating accident on Puget Sound. Her mother was meeting with a Medium to discuss business issues with her dead father. I was invited along, very skeptical engineer type. He held his sessins in a modest home in Lebenon OR, in one of the back bedrooms. No $ or my name was ever given. He put two metal megephones with aluminious bands around them in the middle of dake room. We did the Lords Prayer and the 23rd Psalm. Welcomed the spirits, and the megephones (Could only see only the bands) started flyng around the 9 x 12 room(how could he do that with stuff on the floow?). The horn then came around to the grieving mother and she held a business conversation with her dead husband!!!!. I went to two other sessions, one with my new wife. Same stuff, and he dscribed a dead friend of mine killed in a PBY crash standing next to me. He talked about reincarnation and I am in the 3rd life, wife in 6. theory was that to get to God you had to improve your life in each cycle. Cool. (wife must have had some interesting experiencfe on the first go:-). One meeting was stopped early becase the spirits(I never saw), had to leave to help someone over who had died unexpectantly. I did some research, skeptical I was, and found that when someone dies the lose about 6 ounces imeditaley, that supposedly is your soul, and is in the form of plasma. The medium says he minipultes physcial objects with his plasma. The medium was just a blue collar worker at a plywood mill - He said he always saw things as kid, and was just gettin into it.
So maybe........
I read that in a book about 40+ years ago. I've been looking for that book ever since. Can't remember the title.