'Kwabena' draws from his own melodramatic past to create a philosophy that almost amounts to his new religion

Chris, like Crystal, does not see the point of the question but he at least says why.

Jacqueline is a Medium and recounts some of her interpretations of what is going on in her mediumship.

Amongst other things, Henry thinks the past is a part of the present

Dave aligns the practical requirements of his life with his philosophy about it

To Josephine, “You live like the movement of water. We go with the flow, with nature. If the rain has to come the rain comes, you can’t do anything about it.”

Anthony talks of the ephemerality and purpose of his life and a possible afterlife.

To Matthew, home is where the heart is: “It’s a sense of defining what is important to us, a centering point of view that there is somewhere that at the end of the day and if all goes to hell there’s home.”

Emmy says: “I believe in God. There is a creator who created us. To know him, to love him and to serve him, that’s (what is important). We need to act and help each other. We are the temple of the Holy Spirit.” Lord Mereworth, from a different religion, says much the same.

Tsuruko here is giving Barry ‘the Light’, in the process of which she explains what she is doing.

Adrian says: “God is nature. It’s open for nature. Religion, if you go back far enough, came from the Sun God. I really believe that the Sun gave life.”

‘Fred’ was a successful sportsman and muses gratefully on a sport that has given him meaning to his life.aFred, an Olympian fencer, says of his sport that it: “changed every part of my life in so many ways.… You do things that you would never have done without it.”