So, The Soul is like a PC’s ‘Registry’ then? It has nothing to do with all the day to day shit, but unless you do a regedit and go into those blasted hotkeys, everything will just stay there until the next reformat?
The data never get erased. Even if you format your hardrive the data still remains there. None of your memories will get erased, including the horrible past life rapist and killer ones(as an example, not saying you were a rapist and killer in your past life :p) but your indentification with these memories will get weakened. You will be able to look at these memories like any other memories - objectively - without reacting emotionally.
…some stupid viruses will also get stuck in the Registry despite being reformatted though and the PC sorta ‘remembers’ those. lol
Yep, very deep seated habit patterns are like viruses. Like I said, you would be aghast to find what lurks there in your soul’s hardrive
Anyway, even though I now understand it, I was brought up as a skeptic and non-believer…it’s more a case that nobody has actually ‘died and lived to tell about it’…apart from some NDE’s which can be very plausibly explained by an oxygen deficiency to the brain combined with a triggered birth experience memory (i.e the light at the end of the tunnel & stuff)…
You might be able to explain some cases like this, but not at all. What about cases where the person undergoing the NDE is in a operating theatre lying in bed, but then describes in detail everything that is happening around them and in adjacent rooms from another vantage point than the one they are in. Again do some research into NDE and you will revaulate your beliefs.
I guess what it all boils down to is a matter of [I]Faith[/I]. I have absolutely no ‘Faith Cells’ in my whole body.
I have no faith cells in my body either. I only accept either direct proof or impeccable arguments that demonstrate their conclusions without doubt. Again to say people who accept these things are using faith, is another common atheist strawman and adhominem. Again it maybe the case that some people accept things like soul/afterlife/reincarnation on faith alone, but others do so because of strong rational arguments, others because they have direct proof either through their own past life memories or somebody trustworthy, and others may begin with believing none of it, and get converted to it because of their research.
Robert Monroe, a pioneer in OBE research, was an engineer by profession and did not even begin with OBE research. His research project was to work with brain entrainment technology in its application to learning faster. It was found that binaural beats could induce alpha, beta, delta and theta waves. So he listened to this stuff regularly - one day he got scared, when he noticed - he was not in his body anymore - but on the damn celing! He was looking down on his body lying next to his wife. He thought he had died and got really afraid. Fortunately, he would always snap back to his physical body. After repeated instances of leaving his body, he came to accept that the binaural beats faciliated OBE’s. This is how his OBE research started. It was not planned, it was an accident - most scientific discoveries are.
Since Monoroe there have been hundreds of OBE researchers who have verified all the states Monroe has described. Focus 10 mind awake/body asleep and Focus 15 loss spatial awareness and vibrations and Focus 20 - entering into the mental plane(heavens, hells, and everything in between)
My friend, whose never had an OBE experience in his entire life, recently downloaded some of the Hemi-synch tracks produced by the Monroe institute, and now he has reported his first OBE experience. I had my first OBE experience after starting meditation which happened spontaneously. I had many after as well.
There are many scientific studies done on OBE in very controlled conditions not only have been able to verify that projection is taking place and something is indeed leaving the body, they have been able to measure that something with sensors in the remote target location with gauges. It also been found that electrical grids can trap the astral body(Do not mistake the astral body/subtle body with the Atman, they are completely different)
This is scientific fact, not theory. Its as factual as gravity and atoms. You too can have an OBE experience and verify it all for yourself. You need to dedicate a month at least to regular OBE practice, and you will project at some point. Many of my friends have succeeded, so I don’t see why you shouldn’t.
Similarly, Ian Stevenson began his research into reincarnation when he heard about people who could remember their past lives in India. He was intriguied and skeptical. So he went there and started scientifically investigating how valid these claims were. He found that the claims appeared valid. He then investigated over the course of many years past life memories not just in India, but in every continent in the world and found that they all had the same objective characteristics. He has written a brilliant research study on this, “20 cases suggestive of reincarnation” Check it out and review your beliefs.
Since Stenvenson, there have been loads of researchers into reincarnation and a strong body of evidence now exists showing reincarnation is a fact of nature. Heck, murder cases have been solved by interviewing the person who was the murder victim in the past life 
It is absolutely paramount that we accept the soul, other planes, reincarnation and karma into a world religion. Because they are real teachings.
This is where Hinduism-Buddhism-Jainism — Dharmic religons — make their contributions for they have recorded the best research, analysis and given the best explanations for these facts of nature, which no other religion has. Every other religion is hopelessly confused.
The new world religion will be a religion that will draw from the best of each religion has to offer. Like I said we cannot draw tolerance from Islam or rationality from Christianity. But we can draw from Islam how it can fully integrate you into religion and from Christianity its devotion, compassion and charity to the less fortunate.
You will remember every detail of your trip.
The soul is like the elephant, it never forgets anything.