Reddit mentions of Stop Worrying! There Probably is an Afterlife

You're wrong about the evidence. There are case studies on so called "veridical near death experiences" where information is gathered during the out of body state that could not be otherwise perceived.

A good book (ignore the cheeky title) is Stop Worrying! There Probably is an Afterlife which covers several of these cases in addition to much more evidence.

Indeed, the place you go when you die may be the same place you were before you were born, and you may simply have lost your memory/ability to perceive that place.

There's the nineteenth century school of spiritualism that has a lot to say and describes a system like you're asking for.

Then you have the entire world of nde's and everything they describe, which is mostly judgment and reincarnation. Life after life is good place to start or ian stevensons books.

Then you have hypnotic regression and the whole Michael Newton school of thought.

Then you have plain Jane religion, especially Buddhism, especially the esoteric stuff like the Tibetan book of the dead.

Personally, the best book on this subject I've read on this subject is this and it touches of most of the above. I suggest you check it out as a starting point and work your way from there:

https://www.amazon.com/Stop-Worrying-There-Probably-Afterlife-ebook/dp/B00GBLRNTS

If he was in the military and overseas, then I suppose he never really was an option as a possible explanation. I would feel safe in ruling him out.

These are the only facts that you have.

1. New locks, all keys accounted for.
   
2. Young son said a grown man with a key opened the door for him.
   
   Now, here are some assumptions that you made that weren't warranted:
   
   
3. Family members being 500 miles away make them irrelevant.
   
   Actually, there are cases of family members being seen in places where they couldn't have been. Showing a few pictures could have turned up something interesting.
   
   
4. Family members being dead makes them irrelevant.
   
   There are even more cases of people reporting dead family members (sometimes their death was unknown to the witness) being where they shouldn't have been. Again, showing a few pictures might have produced interesting results.
   
   So you go through a family album with your son (at the time; too late now) and rule all that out.
   
   (If you are interested in reading a balanced book that deals with some of these things, check out Greg Taylor's Stop Worrying! There Probably Is an Afterlife. http://www.amazon.com/Stop-Worrying-There-Probably-Afterlife-ebook/dp/B00GBLRNTS )
   
   If you had ruled those things out, then you might have some kind of glitch. As it is, I think this probably belongs in a paranormal sub somewhere.
   
   You asked earlier, "And please elaborate on how evidence can guide us to most likely solutions is full of unwarranted assumptions from the 1920s." That isn't exactly what I said. I said, "There's a load of assumption in that, and those assumptions haven't been warranted since the 1920s at least."
   
   Here's a wiki quote: "In the mid-1920s, developments in quantum mechanics led to its becoming the standard formulation for atomic physics."
   
   That, and what it implies about the nature of reality, is something that should be common knowledge by now. But it isn't. (In fact, just this week there was an announcement about new evidence pointing toward there being multiple universes, some even lying very near our own, yet invisible to us. This comes shortly after other evidence that "bruising" evident in the background radiation suggests our universe has "bumped into" other universes in the past.
   
   I'll just give you a sample of some recent articles discussing the issue of the multiverse and its implications:
   
   > Last month, a team of scientists at the South Pole announced that their telescope, Bicep 2, had discovered gravitational waves, colossal ripples in space time. The finding, which has been disputed and has yet to be confirmed, would not only back up our models of the Big Bang but also provide strong evidence for inflation and the reality of the multiverse.
   > Recent discoveries like this suggest space may have inflated to an infinite extent after the Big Bang. Physicists believe that the inflationary process was capable of creating matter as well as space, in similarly infinite quantities.
   > In which case, go far enough and you will see an exact “repeat” of the stars and galaxies we see around us, including another planet Earth and another you – and every variation thereof, including worlds where Elvis lives, where Hitler won the Second World War, and where strange creatures like unicorns graze on alien pastures. This is a respectable idea. “To get rid of that conclusion,” Tegmark says, “either inflation is wrong … or space is in fact not infinitely stretchy.”
   
   Here's another with some very interesting implications:
   
   > A second possibility is that our universe is part of a larger system called the multiverse in which all possible values for m and b can occur and lead to many -- in fact, an infinite number of -- separate, logically consistent universes. Most of those values lead to universes in which life does not exist, while others have randomly selected values for m and b that are within the very narrow range to allow life to eventually emerge. We observe the weird values for m and b because we are here to experience them. This is called the anthropic cosmological principle, and it represents the dilemma facing physicists today.
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   > If we live in the first kind of universe, we expect that at some point we will eventually understand all there is to know about it and come up with a single, complete mathematical theory explaining all of its significant details. There will be no impediments to making all the necessary observations and creating the ultimate logical model with no unprovable assumptions to launch the mathematics. For example, all the fundamental constants in nature will be derivable from inside the mathematical theory and will no longer be quantities that we have to observe and measure.
   >
   > If we live in the second kind of universe, we have a problem. If the multiverse exists, we can never observe any of these other universes to prove or disprove their existence. The fundamental constants that make our universe look the way it does and make life possible are not unique and derivable from some grand supertheory but are randomly assigned and can in principle take on any value from 0 to infinity. We are simply lucky to be living in a life- and sentience-friendly universe where the constants we see and even the laws of nature make this possible.
   
   There's a long chain of thought and experiment that brought us to this point. I think everyone should be more familiar with it, but especially if one is interested in the unexplained.
   
   You have something that is bothering you, but you have been a bit like the fellow who lost his keys and is looking for them under a lamppost. Another fellow comes to help him look, but together they still can't find the keys. Finally the second fellow says, "We've looked everywhere, are you sure you lost them here?"
   
   "Oh, no; I lost them over there," says the first fellow, pointing into the darkness. "But the light is so much better over here."

This book has a chapter of stories like that.

https://www.amazon.com/Stop-Worrying-There-Probably-Afterlife-ebook/dp/B00GBLRNTS

Sure! A couple books I can recommend:

Stop Worrying! There Probably is an Afterlife

Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife

Both of those authors have videos on youtube and podcasts and such.

You may also be interested in the Orch-OR theory of consciousness.

I'm very sorry for your loss. Just a few points...science is not ye close to explaining what consciousness is or providing an explanatory mechanism for how it arises from electro-chemical brain activity. And with that, no can say what occurs at death with irrefutable certainty. I wouldn't look for scientific evidence of an afterlife...I don't believe science to be the appropriate medium for this (I say this as a scientist myself and someone who is passionately pro science). Direct experience is a much better medium I think. If you are interested, I would recommend you research near death experiences, death bed visions, death bed phenomena witnessed by others, after death visitations, and maybe talk to sympathetic hospice people who have a lot of experience of being around the dying. I'm not sure any of these things will provide anything approaching hard evidence, but taken together they are at the very least strongly suggestive that death is something far more mysterious than what mainstream science understands, and the relationship of brain to consciousness is likewise also something more mysterious.

A recommended book that explores all this evidence without trying to convince you, it just lays it all out there and allows one to make up their own mind (if they wish). Interesting stuff.

https://www.amazon.com/Stop-Worrying-There-Probably-Afterlife-ebook/dp/B00GBLRNTS

ni li ike ala tawa mi!

mi lukin kin e lipu ni: lipu "lipu pi kon moli ike" pi jan Posi.

mi lukin kin e lipu ni: lipu "o pilin pona tan ni: ken la moli li moli ala" pi jan Telu

mi lukin kin e lipu ni: lipu "ilo mute pi pali toki" pi jan Losepete

Honestly, the best evidence and narrative defending the paranormal has been compliled lovingly into this easy to read book:

https://www.amazon.com/Stop-Worrying-There-Probably-Afterlife-ebook/dp/B00GBLRNTS

It covers a wide range of topics and is impeccably researched, regardless of its goofy title.

I find anything done for video/tv/movies is sensationalist, driven entirely by a profit incentive, mostly dishonest, and frankly - pretty stupid.