Trevor,

My answer to your questions of our existence and the afterlife: who knows? Why strain so much on a matter that we will ALL come to eventually find out for ourselves. In the meantime, don’t you find it more captivating that you have been given one life, one opportunity before turning into stardust to be self aware, to experience the many dimensions (emotions, senses, etc..), to have been given a physical form and a consciousness to undergo the extraordinary and complex occurrence which is LIFE?