Powerful stuff. I'm not sure whether I agree with James's actions or not. One of my personal philosophies is that a good deal of the mysteries of the universe are intended to STAY mysteries - that even if you penetrated one of them and learned one of the Great Truths that man has been struggling with since the dawn of time, all it would ultimately lead to would be another mystery. For example, what if you learned that there IS an afterlife, but it's only what you would call a sort of second stage to things, and that in the afterlife you can still die? What would happen to you - would you go to the after-afterlife? Would you reincarnate? See, this leads to a whole new chain of questions, on and on into infinity - and while you eventually might find someone who knew the answers, they would only know SOME of them. The universe is made of mysteries, and one would have to spend uncountable millions of years to uncover all of them, or even most of them. Therefore, perhaps what James is doing is valid. Perhaps solving this mystery would only make things worse, or complicate things to an endless degree. Perhaps, having solved the mystery of the afterlife, you can never enter it - or first you have to solve a second riddle that mankind has never even conceived of, and that she couldn't possibly solve in the time she has left. That being said, however, were I there, I'd be damn pissed off if someone stopped me from opening the door. Curiosity may have killed the cat, but at least he learned somethind first.