What happens after we die? That's the question I asked myself after four friends died within four months. Although this question had been with me my entire life, I had not found a convincing answer - until now. The answer is evidence-based. That is, it is based on thousands of actual accounts of people who have had near-death experiences (NDEs), out-of-body experiences (OBEs), or past-life psychotherapies. There are two main strands of 1) the remarkable consistency of accounts about the afterlife across thousands of people; and 2) the fact that many of these accounts have been proven either by physical evidence or they have been independently corroborated by witnesses. These narratives, which span a wide range of demographics, cultures and religions over the centuries, represent the best proof we have of an afterlife. The book also spends quite a bit of time documenting the evidence for the presence of a divine consciousness in our universe, how our consciousness relates to it and how the shared consciousness of humans, as well as animals, intersect. As one reader put it, "The main thing I took from the book was a much less ominous thought of death. I think the book would fit with the thinking of lots of folks, regardless of religious beliefs." After reading the book, you will be able to look yourself in the eye in front of a mirror and say with confidence, “I will always exist.” This is the one book you should read before you die.
An interesting topic slightly spoiled by the sometimes petulant tone of the author
This is a topic that fascinates me. I'm not religious but am spiritual and having had a past life regression I'm curious to lean more. However the tone of this book spilled it a little for me as he writes it as if it is entirely factual whilst at the same time deriding the sceptics who believe only in the facts of science as we currently know it. The thing that bothers me most is the assertion that animal spirits and human spirits are entirely separate and that anyone who claimed to be an animal in a previous life was either mis-remembering or mistaken even though the author wants us to take as fact the stories of the people remembering a previous human life. The idea that humans are superior to animals is something that bothers me in this life and religion plays no small part in that so to have that notion carried over into the afterlife just makes it seem all the more made up. Humans are animals ultimately so if there was to be something after this life (& honestly the idea of going through life on this planet even once more fills me with dread so I'm really going git the atheist nothingness!) then surely spirits are spirits regardless of what bodily form they take on earth.