The task is not to “believe” in a life beyond this one; the task is to perceive it. Perception is not projection: we are not meant to project our experience of this life into another, nor are we meant to imagine, by means of the details of this life (which is the only resource we have for imagining), some impossible beyond. Life is not life without an afterlife, and there is no afterlife beyond the life we treasure and suffer and feel slipping from us moment by moment.
