Our psyche is formed by external forces, and only exists in interaction with them. (Our inner self is not separate from our external influences).
As we are part of something bigger than ourselves, the death of our physical body is not an end to the 'psychological' forces that we perceive to be our 'self'. c.f. the research that Jung did to demostrate the common unconscious. (The individual psyche has it's roots in something much wider than the individual). All the best, Fuzzyman http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
