Is there life after life?

I was watching some you tube videos about spooky goings on yesterday, ghosts, alleged angel activity, people talking about near-death experiences - I'm fascinated by it all!

When I was a mere boy, just before I fell asleep, I could hear about half a dozen conversations going on in my head.  I can only describe it like being on a railway station or in an airport near a bank of telephones - I could hear one half of all the people speaking - but if I tried to focus on one particular conversation, it would stop, only to start up again when I stopped paying it any attention.

Someone once told me it was the voices of the dead trying to channel through me.  I didn't like that very much so I blocked the voices out after that.

I have seen a ghost.  Well, I'm certain I have - and when I told my landlady she confirmed my sighting and told me it was real. 

Now the way I see it, we have an amazing amount of energy while we're alive - not just the bio mechanics and the chemistry in our bodies and brains - but also our thoughts and feelings - chemical reactions and electrical impulses.  What happens to all that energy when we die?  It must go somewhere?

I've always believed what we consider the afterlife is a continuation of that energy.  I think that depending on whether your energy is good in this life or bad will depend on how it continues afterwards, and I like to think that angels are after lives that have volunteered to help others both in this life and afterwards. 

I know this is a very simplistic view - but I'm a very simplistic person, and I'm just trying to make sense of my limited experiences.

I'm also a strong believer in reincarnation.  I have read many articles about people that are able to accurately recount past life in great detail - often verified by the families of those they claim to be.  I see this as even more evidence of an afterlife.  I think the older we get, the more we forget (the connections with the other side) what we might have seen before we were born.

I sometimes wonder whether the butterfly remembers it's existence as a caterpillar? 

It could be that I'm clutching straws - that I'm so desperate to believe that there's more to this life than just this life that I look for anything that might indicate that there is something - but I know I'm not the only one.  Most religions have some believe in the afterlife, Buddhism believes in reincarnation, people pray.  I think the majority of people on Earth believe in some form of spirituality.

I'll end on a quote from Marcus Aurelius - made famous in the film Gladiator. 
"What we do now echoes in eternity."