Recurring Themes

(from "Lenses" a book-length collection of essays in search of a publisher)

Someone on Twitter asked "What is the one theme or question that you find yourself exploring over and over again in your stories?
Here's my answer (not one, but six):
1 - free will vs. determination
2 - meaning and nature of the soul?
3 - what are you before birth?
4 - what are you after death?
5 - what are you after that?
6 - what are the many ways by which all of us, through all of time are connected to one another?