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

@Valmar - I think the generation of souls without God is actually just as problematic as "God did it" explanations. 

I don't think "God" generates souls... that presumes a religious creator figure creating from nothing, rather than something.

If souls are eternal, then they have always existed, only changing form. But perhaps souls can create new souls from their own essence, which doesn't seem impossible, given that we can create thoughtforms that have some level of autonomy. New souls would therefore be the extreme of that.

I agree with you that it seems possible the One, as an Absolute that may or may not be a conscious entity, could ground the Many without the One creating the Many.

I think part of the issue is the language we use to describe these transcendent concepts ~ like "the One" implies that... Unity, Source, Oneness, is an entity, which seems very improbable, because entities only exist in relation to other entities, so as to differentiate. Nor do I think that it is conscious in a way that we can comprehend ~ it may be the source of mind, consciousness, beingness, so includes those qualities as part of being Oneness, but may not be traditionally conscious as we know it.