Brendan D. Murphy is a consciousness researcher, systems thinker, and author of The Grand Illusion: A Synthesis of Science and Spirituality — a 600-page cross-disciplinary investigation into consciousness, the evidence for what persists beyond physical death, and the philosophical foundations of reality.
The work draws on 23 years of research across NDE science, comparative metaphysics, depth psychology, and esoteric traditions — synthesised without doctrine, without reduction, and without the constraints of either religion or materialism. It is the most comprehensive synthesis of its kind: 1,000+ citations, spanning quantum biology, parapsychology, comparative religion, and systems thinking.
Brendan is also the creator of the Consciousness TBrendan D. Murphy is a consciousness researcher, systems thinker, and author of The Grand Illusion: A Synthesis of Science and Spirituality — a 600-page cross-disciplinary investigation into consciousness, the evidence for what persists beyond physical death, and the philosophical foundations of reality.
The work draws on 23 years of research across NDE science, comparative metaphysics, depth psychology, and esoteric traditions — synthesised without doctrine, without reduction, and without the constraints of either religion or materialism. It is the most comprehensive synthesis of its kind: 1,000+ citations, spanning quantum biology, parapsychology, comparative religion, and systems thinking.
Brendan is also the creator of the Consciousness Transition Model (CTM) — the first structured, cross-tradition map of how consciousness moves through post-mortem states. Not a belief system. Not a cosmology. A map built from the data.
His second book, Reverse Engineering the Afterlife, operationalises the CTM — presenting the 14 novel insights that emerge when the full cross-tradition dataset is mapped structurally for the first time.
"I cannot stress enough how much I enjoyed your book. A hugely well researched piece of work." — Anthony Peake, author of Is There Life After Death?
"A masterpiece. Mind-blowing." — Sol Luckman, author of Conscious Healing
"Stunningly good. One of the best synthesis books on this sort of material I have ever read. Actually, no — it WAS the best." — Mark Jeffrey, Author & Entrepreneur
Brendan publishes ongoing research and analysis at officialbrendanmurphy.substack.com and at brendandmurphy.com....more