There is a phenomena in bodily existence with actions of vocal prayer for the dead; ritual sacrifice; thinking one can pull one’s self up by the bootstraps using psychedelic drugs to obtain spiritual experience; and starkly taking one’s death into one’s own hands by the methodology of suicide.  All these ideas cultivate within the mind and speak to one encompassing concept.  What is controlling the events defining bodily existence?   The usual ideas formed posit the existence of soul and a here/there-after from this bodily consciousness as that body mechanism ceases.  Though this soul idea is questioned from many logical viewpoints most questions fail to deal with how best proof of ‘afterlife’ is entertained.  There are the paranormal circuses expected by agnostic thinkers to define their prejudgments on this matter.  If I can’t see it with the eyes then it doesn’t exist.  Or, if I can’t see a sensory reinterpretation, using some material interface, then I’ll remain unconvinced that a non-physical existence can be proven, or that it exists.

If an existence after death is available, real; the likes, while alive, for gleaning advantage, then these sensory doubts would have little use as thinking constructs--in obtaining immediate benefit from such a perspective.  Thus it’s clear, using one’s thoughts can be defeating and constructive in one breath should that premise hold.  One can blindly think of an afterlife all one’s corporeal existence and come to no greater perspective while alive and thinking how best to survive.  One can also breed skeptical thoughts, which do nothing but shield one’s self from that mindless obedience given by the former’s thinking.  The only worthwhile viewpoint would be how best to allow the existence of these non-physical semblances to act in a constructive way for those needs of a bodily perspective.  To the extent that a non-physical existence doesn’t exist, then thought process would be best to acknowledge that too.  (This might be akin to reading too much into what another person may think or feel about any matter of consequence and finding out later that you had indeed read too much into it where no such ideas existed.)