>>As to proving the existence of the soul, the investigations by Dr. Raymond A. Moody ("Life after Life") came much closer to that, although he himself admits that they are in no way an absolute proof.
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>Would you believe that this book was translated back then in socialist Yugoslavia, and that I have read it... sometime in early 80s, I think. Though I can't say I remember much.
It was a quite popular book. Some of the basic ideas are that people who were near death (later interviewed by Dr. Moody) had seen a glimpse of the afterlife; that their experiences were similar in many elements (although not all elements were present in all the experiences); but that under normal circumstances, they were afraid to talk about their experiences, for fear of being ridiculed or worse.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
