Danni asked:

Do you think that heaven is just an interim state, a place where our souls are stored much like a filing
system until they are ready to be transferred to a different body? Also do you think that our souls are
fully cleansed once they enter a new body or do they retain parts of old memories and former selves
and that is why certain people can remember things about the past and of past people even though
they might know nothing about them at all? Is the idea of life after death a coherent concept or is it
something we use to comfort the sick and dying?

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Ok... why don't you read a guy named Philip Jose Farmer. He's a science fiction writer, and is
fascinated by questions like these, and attempts to create scenarios which answer them reasonably
coherently; much more coherently, in my opinion, than do conventional religions. Try the Riverworld
series; try Inside Outsideand Night of Light.

Steven Ravett Brown