Dualism or idealist monism as the best model for survival after death data

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Of course for some this is a disturbing proposal, to imagine so many events in our lives are due to entities that invisibly act upon us. But for myself this is a natural conclusion, since it seems to me all causation is best explained as being mental causation.

I look at it more from the standpoint of the analogy of a clock: it tells time via the physical contact-induced behavior of gears and wheels of a simple mechanical computer - a causal machine, whether or not the essence of "causation" is ultimately understood. Mechanical parts are predictably interacting through contact forces which are ultimately electrostatic at the atomic level. But at the same time the clock exists because it was intelligently designed and crafted by a conscious intelligence. To follow the analogy, so it is that our reality goes along behaving deterministically (at least at the human macro level), with the rules and equations determining this behavior having been designed by some colossal intelligence. It seems to me postulating sentient entities as keeping all of this in motion moment to moment is unnecessary.