You are a brave soul (sic), Max_Blanche.
I think there’s more to it than just longing for post-mortem existence for me (though I’m not denying that!). I think a large measure of it has to do with what Tolkien talks about in “On Fairy Stories” – there’s a longing for contact with other realms which is expressed both through fantasy and occult: “Other creatures are like other realms with which Man has broken off relations,and sees now only from the outside at a distance.”
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