[jemmyw]

I read the articles you posted. I'm sorry, I don't find any of them convincing. They are anecdotes and wishful thinking. In particular 2 focus on people communicating with dead people they didn't know had died. I've had a lot of dreams about a relative dying and talking to them, as well as many many dreams talking to dead relatives. That's the problem with that kind of reporting: people constantly dream and so occasionally you'll get weird coincidences across a huge population.

Again, I can't discount that it could be true, but it's not proof. It's not controlled. Further, people rationalize and make things up, not on purpose, but ask any 2 people to recount the same event and get 2 completely different stories.

Actual proof would be like we placed a random word on a high shelf, nobody involved in the experiment could see the word, it was collected without viewing. The disembodied people could relay the word at some percentage. That experiment or similar has actually been tried, though I read it a long time ago and can't find the paper - it didn't work out.