83. Proofs of the Immortality of the Soul

However, the large amount of work that has been devoted to such investigations cannot satisfy the judgment of the strictly thinking person. The objections that can be made are all too easy to come by, even when only the most serious works are considered. First of all, the communications that one would like to relate to the deceased are of little value in terms of content. Souls whose carriers were astute in life express themselves after death in a manner that is not very astute, often childish, petty, etc. Also, their messages are of such a nature that one cannot gain the slightest insight into a world in which one might suspect them after death. One may admit that they speak about things that take place far away from the place where the experiments are being done, or that they deal with things that neither the medium nor the people involved know anything about: the things themselves are insignificant. It is not possible to refute the objection: Why do only revelations come to light in this way that are so uninteresting to a more sophisticated human intelligence? Why are they so different from those that could be of interest to a deeper spiritual mind?