KnockEmOutt Wrote:Mind you it was mostly when he was younger and during a period of severe illness
Was his life on the line? It may very well have been a coping mechanism where he believes he has proof that life carries on after death to comfort him from the fact that his life might end.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
