I can say that after months and months of exhausting thought a while ago, as a skeptical scientist, I came to the following conclusion, which I simply cannot reduce or refute by reasoning, that: There is simply no question that there is more that remains after our death than the physical just to be recycled, since no matter how much you negate every conclusion, there is still a remainder that is unknowable. The unknowable is not the unknown; the unknowable is what cannot be known through science or any possible human system of thought. It cannot even be known through faith, and remains the unknowable, which is irrefutably there, whether you are an atheist, agnostic, monist, or deist. It can be "felt," kissed for a tiny fraction of a second like a bird flying by (to paraphrase William Blake) through the mystical experience. This is precisely what mystics of all kinds, from the secular Einstein to the most exalted sages of any religion or philosophy, have called the ultimate reality, the Absolute, or God (at least impersonal), depending on word choice. There simply is, with unassailable certainty, an inconceivable and undefinable reality behind you, me, and everything.
— Gabriel Fenteany, April 29, 2016
