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Would some sort of magic like the Force be a viable option to a scientific approach?

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good idea must be in want of a miracle. Well, I have a terrible idea and I am asking for a miracle. I am trying to write a soft science fiction story that somehow connects a bunch of separate personal myths/superstitions I have. And I am genuinely curious about what are some of the problems I would need to deal with before I can proceed.<br><br>I have a long list of personal myths and superstitions in the head that are not connected to each other. But I am interested in trying to connect them in a hard science fiction world setting, I don't know if it's possible though. To give you a sense, I have a bunch of different things I want in the setting like these following examples: <br><br>- Religion 1: A (physical) afterlife that exists as world split in two continents: one side is a hellscape, the other side is a heaven. Maybe they could be different realms like Valhalla and Hel. <br>- Religion 2: An afterlife where you can be born again only if you can remember your past life. If you forget your past life then your soul is destroyed forever. <br>- Religion 3: An afterlife where your soul is judge by a court of souls on the ship of the dead where you are determine to go to heaven or hell by who you know board the ship. You can’t get on the ship in the first place without some type of soul currency that can only be earned after a good life. <br>- Religion 4: Death is final, the only afterlife is what your ancestors remember of you and that is all you should care about. <br>- Religion 5: Our souls are from aliens who have colonize too many worlds to remember and that’s the reason our species has been academically successful but not practical.<br>- Religion 6: There is a heaven/hellbeyond our universe that our souls go to. But our souls can also go to the heaven/hell of other universes.<br>- The dead can communicate/signal the livings through strange events. <br>- Our ancestors can possess us at will to protect our family or to punish us of misbehaving. <br>- Our consciousness is the universe itself trying to become sentient so everything exists as atoms in our consciousness

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