What you just said, is what I always thought myself too. However, as I have looked into this further, things get interesting.
https://www.amazon.com/Surviving-Death-Journalist-Investigates-Afterlife/dp/0553419617
This book is extremely, extremely well researched on the topic and helps but things into a modern perspective based on historical and scientific research in the paranormal.
As I mentioned, I was with you in not believing this shit and kept researching. I read the Leslie Kean book linked above, and I am not reading author Peter Levenda's Sinister Forces triology which does EXACTALLY the same thing as Kean, but through a different lens that examines religions, the occult, witchcraft, ancient rituals, modern ritualistic leaders like Allister Crowley, Jack Parsons (founded JPL at NASA) and others.
It all fits into Tom DeLonge's theories of there being alternate, accessible, dimensions where interaction can occur between our two realities.
Some people believe in some kind of consciousness after death that isn't tied to religion, allegedly there might be some scientific evidence to back this up too. I just bought this book, haven't read it yet but it might interest you:
https://www.amazon.com/Surviving-Death-Journalist-Investigates-Afterlife/dp/0553419617
This is based on a book that was written by Leslie Kean -- a well known journalist. There's no connection to The OA.
https://www.amazon.com/Surviving-Death-Journalist-Investigates-Afterlife/dp/0553419617
You guys should read Leslie Kean book called Surviving death, she cite several examples like James Leininger (Google it, it's fascinating)
Here is a review of the book: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/book-reviews/matters-of-life-and-death/article35826381/
Here is the link to buy it: https://www.amazon.com/Surviving-Death-Journalist-Investigates-Afterlife/dp/0553419617
Since you brought up Greer, that's your bullshit thesis on this? https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=98572&page=1
Are all of these knowledgeable people in on it as well? The same "scam" you keep thinking everyone is part of? cmon dude.
>>Among them is Daniel Sheehan, a well-known Washington lawyer who is acting as counsel for members of Greer's group.
>>Sheehan told reporters that during the Carter administration he found out about government-held UFO information that then-CIA Director George Bush, father of the current president, would not release.
Here's the entire 2001 National Press Club press conference with witnesses who worked in the military and for the government as well as NASA and private aerospace companies. It's an hour and a half long. I guess all of these people are "in on it" too though.
Since you brought up Leslie Kean as well, I would implore you to explore her best selling book https://www.amazon.com/Surviving-Death-Journalist-Investigates-Afterlife/dp/0553419617 as she investigates the similarities between various realities, and how they ay all be linked to the phenomenon itself - which echoes what many people (that we have already discussed above) also believe. Tom DeLonge is another that springs to mind.
There is a lot of ground to cover in all of this. I say follow the people you trust to cover it accuratly and then cover the rest of it for yourself and form your own opinions. You feel that it is all a scam, I think, because I've read about and looked into it for so long, that all of the various instances of "the phenomenon" are in fact, all related to one another. It's cool to have opinions, you don't have to be a dick.
You said the word "soul", not me.
I already linked you to Orch-OR, but it's not clear to me that you took the time to read about it.
I have a lot of respect for Leslie Kean and her book Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife. It's full of evidence. Some of my favorite evidence is the so called "veridical NDEs" - where people in the out of body state are able to obtain verifiable information that could not have been obtained by any normal means.
If YouTube is more your style, maybe you can dig into the story of neurosurgeon Eben Alexander and his NDE story. Spoiler: he used to be even more of a materialist skeptic than you are.
Let me also remind you that you asked for evidence and not proof.