Consciousness is the creator creating the creation and all of the above. It does not cease upon physical death because it underlies and creates the physical. A portion of the conscious spectrum is gone, i.e. your body & your life, but the mind, its personality and all it has experienced continues in more subtle realms. You want proof of life after death? You go to school for years and years and years to get educated and secure the perfect job but won't spend a solid month confirming the existance of the other realms or even a few weeks seriously contemplating the possiblity. It's there, it's been explored, it's been studied. It is subjective and until you begin to entertain the possibility, it is impossible to know the truth until

True faith is not something you have in order to save yourself and avert hell, true faith is something you have in order to save everyone else through deliverance of love and compassion.

In the end, will we be sorry because we screwed ourselves or will we be sorry because we screwed everything