Assuming that we acknowledge it as a real possibility, and have not pre-decided that it cannot be true; we can know that our soul is is not bounded by mortal life (our conception and death).
We can know this directly and for-ourselves - simply by remembering our past experience.
If we have personal knowledge of being-alive (in some way) that extends back beyond our incarnation; then we know that "we" (whatever makes me me) are not only mortal Beings.
(I am saying nothing here about the specifics of our past existence, such as the forms in which we existed. Whether as spirits of some kind...Whether we were previously incarnated in some human or other form - or how many times. Such specifics may not be knowable... But surely are much harder to establish accurately, and are much less reliably knowable, than the simple fact of having existed.)
In sum: we can know our immortality going-back-in-time, by direct personal experience.
And there is nothing more sure than direct personal experience.
What about life after death?
What about immortality going-forwards?
Can our future potential state also be known for ourselves - known despite that we personally have not yet experienced it?
(And despite that any and all "reports" of post-mortal life are subject to all the uncertainty, error, manipulations, lies, and varieties of interpretation that are common to all forms of second-hand, third-party, "public knowledge".)
We can potentially know about possible future states from those we love who have died, and with whom we have established direct and personal contact.
We can know this, in just the same way we know of those we currently love in this mortal life; but with whom we are not at this moment, here and now, in sensory contact.
This contact is not available to everybody.
It must, of course, be acknowledged as possible, if it is to happen and be taken seriously. Also it depends on being capable of love, and on actually loving someone who is now "dead" - and also that the person who died is in a post-mortal state in which contact can be established.
It is not the same when contact with the dead is claimed by other-people (such as spiritualist mediums - who almost certainly do not love those whom they claim to contact); nor by means of visions, voices, nor any intermediate symbolism - all of which require interpretation.
What is most convincing is not to have conversations with "the dead"; but instead to have a living and loving relationship by direct (mind to mind) contact - just the kind of relationship (to repeat) we may currently be-having with someone we love and who loves us.
In other words, this is not a matter of "getting information" about post-mortal conditions from the so-called dead whom we have loved; it is knowledge that arises in the course of having a loving relationship.
I think this may be the best (and only) sure way we have, personally to experience the possibility of resurrected eternal life in Heaven - to be in a direct and personal relationship with someone who currently lives thus.
The point about such direct and relational personal experiences is that they by-pass all concerns about errors, deceptions, manipulations and dishonesty of third parties - or the consequences of misunderstanding, fear and wishful thinking in imagining and interpreting... Those problems that beset all discourse on such matters in public.
Of course, the consequence is that in knowing by personal experience, we can't convince other people that we are right!
Indeed we should not try to convince them of the reality of past or future existence - only, as I am trying now, to convince them to discover for themselves.
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