Hi ladys and gents,
I should already still be in bed, but just missed you all so much that I got back out of it. (Thats strange, but I hope you`re happy that I`m hooked on you) 

My thoughts were these. How does "Prophecy and the afterlife" combine with each other. The term "prophecy" has really been reserved for the more religious roads in the past thus the term "prophet", right? However the word Prophecy is also being used in reference to non-religious persons whom must be getting their "info" from somewhere?

Can one say that people whom have the ability to "prohet" anything at all, must have a connection of some sort to the afterlife so to be able to "see" these things?

Hmmm 
Nanner

Can we look at those whom can Prophet successfully as being "proof" that there is an afterlife?
Nanner

Nanner

If as you note we set aside the religious connotation of prophet then the more appropriate term would be 'clairvoyant'; foreseeing the future, perceiving things beyond the natural range of the senses.

(As I was posting this I noticed that betson had just posted also using the term)

I guess it depends on what is meant by "successfully". As for the "info", there are many possibilities. The most basic starting point is in assessing whether the information is the result of projection or reception. Effective assessment of this would require a study of the clairvoyant him or herself. What is the psychological dynamic involved in their person? Knowing such would give us an idea as to their interpretations in the sense of what they are referencing and whether the reference is neutral (meaning that it is general enough to possibly qualify as a applicable to many others) or whether the reference is actually a 'self-looping', a specialized interpretation of reference intended more for the clairvoyant's benefit than anyone else.

Example:

Clairvoyant "A" says that the world will come to an end tomorrow at 12 p.m. Next day rolls around and at 11:59 am clairvoyant A has a heart attack. The world did come to an end--for him. Possibly a subconscious signal/alert from A's subconscious that was interpreted as an external event for everyone but was actually quite specific. RIP.

Clairvoyant "B" - let's put her location in Nebraska - says that tomorrow there's going to be a powerful earthquake. Tomorrow rolls around and there is an earthquake but it's on a small, populated island in the Pacific Ocean. For the islanders it was scary and powerful enough, some people got hurt and a couple of them died. In this case we could entertain the possibility that B was somehow privy to information that was not self-looping, the signals of this forthcoming event were somehow received by her regardless of her distance from the actual event.

As you can see, there would be many variations on this and when it comes to the ideas of an afterlife it's an even more suspended proposition since apart from personal validations here and there it's difficult to claim certitudes as material as earthquakes and so on.

Afterlife states are indeed possible, I believe that myself. But again due to its remoteness in contrast with the material environs it more often than not remains a personal concern. Thus you can see the benefit of clarifying whether an individual who is clairvoyant is operating from a specific/personal or general/impersonal premise.


Desert