An End to Upside Down Thinking: Dispelling the Myth That the Brain Produces Consciousness, and the Implications for Everyday Life

by Mark Gober (Reader)

Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time meets Eckhart Tolle's The Power of NowConsciousness creates all material reality. Biological processes do not create consciousness. This conceptual breakthrough turns traditional scientific thinking upside down. With cutting-edge thinkers ranging from two-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee Dr. Ervin Laszlo to chief scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences Dr. Dean Radin to New York Times bestselling author Dr. Larry Dossey supporting this thesis, this book will rock the scientific community and mainstream generalists interested in understanding the true nature of reality. Implications will impact everyday decisions related to business, health, and politics.

Genres: Science, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Psychology, Audiobook, Spirituality, Personal Development

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First published September 1, 2018

Reviews

[Francis Djabri · Rating 2 out of 5]

I am totally open to the idea that consciousness precedes matter. Really I am - after all, no one really understands the relationship between consciousness and the brain. This book had me initially excited to explore some non-materialistic perspectives, of which I’m hungry to find out more. But this book is so badly written and its reasoning so spurious that I rapidly lost interest. Useful though for pointing out some links to other sources.

[Darrell · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a milestone book. FINALLY, a book that summarizes all the evidence in Quantum Science!

It’s not necessarily pioneering, and there isn’t anything new in here, but holy cow, the author knocked it out of the park. Why? Because he took a good thousand+ books, and a few decades worth of research, and somehow, amazingly, summed it up into an easily readable, understandable, persuasive and succinct book.
I mean, I always hesitated to talk to people about this stuff because it’s like, “Well, here, read these 300 books and you’ll start to get a grasp” Which nobody ever would do.

BUT NO MORE!

Because now I can just recommend this ****one**** book.

I read well over a hundred books a year, but this one wins 2019, and a permanent place in the “recommended” list.

I just can’t get over how amazing this book is. Already recommended to all my friends.
It’s a must-read, especially for anyone in the sciences. There is so much cognitive dissonance in science, even more so than in religion. In religion, they have sort of had to concede a lot of things, and admit that maybe it’s not all as that has been claimed. But too many in science they are unwilling to admit new ideas, to do any research, and summarily reject entire fields of research. They are not scientists, they are not skeptics as they should be, they are willed-ignorant cynics. They need to be disavowed from the entire scientific community.

Mark, you fantastic and amazing author! Thank you for your open-mind, your mad research skillz, your writing, summarizing and explaining ability, and just the thousands of hours this book had to have taken. You’ve done what I always wish someone would have done. I would have done it myself, but this was such a huge topic, insurmountable evidence to try and put into an easily understandable book, (that isn’t 2000 pages). Thank you so much!

[Erik Persson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic! The fact that it is not a scientist who wrote this means that (at least I) did not see any bias. The evidence and studies Mark accumulated and presented in this book are lead me the reconsider what I had previously thought about consciousness. I am not completely persuaded into the idea that consciousness is concrete, but the book gave good evidence and examples of phenomena that can't be explain with science.

A great introduction into the topic!

[Tximo · Rating 1 out of 5]

One of the most ridiculous books I have ever read. The whole book is nothing more than quote after quote from the same sources over and over and over. The author uses sound byte quotes from famous scientists to make it sound like he has represented the opposing side of the question at hand. I would like to have the time back that I invested in this book.

[michael · Rating 1 out of 5]

"I wanna believe so badly in a truth beyond our own, hidden and obscured from all but the most sensitive eyes. In the endless procession of souls, in what cannot and will not be destroyed. I want to believe we are unaware of God's eternal recompense and sadness. That we cannot see his truth. That that which is born still lives and cannot be buried in the cold earth, but only waits to be born again at God's behest, where in ancient starlight we lay in repose."
- Fox Mulder, FBI Special Agent

[Annie Kay · Rating 2 out of 5]

At first I was disappointed that this book, which addressing something I think about a lot, was not written by a scientist or someone with a scientific background.

Then, the thesis - that most bench scientists believe that consciousness arises from matter - seemed old and tired to me. I guess as a yogini for so many yrs, understanding that consciousness is more fluid and of-the-ether is not new news. Reading that it is controversial, I just felt a little sad.

All this said, I did appreciate his summary of quantum physics and how the edges of a number of sciences - genetics, psychology - are experiencing the shift toward limitlessness. There is a growing interface between science and metaphysics - and Gober does explore and uncover some of the implications of the quantum shift.

Ultimately, I appreciated his perspective and work.

[Theodore · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very interesting and compelling, and pretty earth shaking. Points the way towards some tatters in the fringes of science that have turned out to be gaping holes in our knowledge. It’s worth knowing going into this book that there is a pretty big tonal shift in the last two chapters to focus on spirituality, but I appreciated this and thought it was well done.

[Linda Gaines · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book. Mark does an amazing job of collecting and organizing massive amounts of scientific studies on psychic events and presenting them in an understandable manner. This is a life-changing book. I listened to it on Audible then I bought a hard copy to read. Don't miss it.

[Sean Helvey · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a seminal work that I would recommend to anyone who is interested in.. umm, life? It’s incredible to be alive at a time when the concepts in here are only beginning to be understood.

[Fiona Saunders · Rating 5 out of 5]

Real world evidence validates my beliefs. It is great to read and listen to proof of what I generally already believe. it is a sad day but not a huge surprise that mainstream science is censuring discoveries amd knowledge from the masses. But what really surprised me is even this wall in fornt of them some scientists across multiple disciplines have climbed the wall any way and found a abundance of new and amazing stuff that works on the emotional and spiritual level. This book is also what the theory behind Light Dynamics is about.

It was fantastic that the author was one reading the book. It may seem slow but for those not already working in the realms of spirit/consciousness but it gives you the time to think for your selves and to make make up your own mind of the information presented. As this is what the author entended this book to do. Well worth the read/listen to.

[Vovka · Rating 3 out of 5]

A valiant and brave attempt. Too much desire to believe led the author to overstate the case he’s trying to make. A more skeptical approach would’ve wooed better, rather than the zeal-infused path taken here.

[David Randall · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is an attempt to bring a scientific lens to the realm of parapsychology. Gober wants to convince materialists their world view is as culty as any religion and that he has the receipts proving lots of spooky phenomena like remote viewing and reincarnation are real. All this means, he would say, that consciousness exists independent of the body and that consciousness is more fundamental than matter.

I find his evidence somewhat compelling, but his conclusions pretty suss.  

Gober presents decades of peer reviewed research showing what looks like small but measurable direct effects of the mind on other minds and random number generators. He also shares a ton of compelling anecdotal evidence for even wilder phenomena like remote viewing, and I had a hard time finding easy ways to dismiss all of the stories. 

However, he falls into what to me feels like the default trap of the whole field of parapsychology and religion. Evidence, valid or not, paves a straight path to dogma. These ideas get pushed by people who want to show what should be, rather than what is, and Gober makes no bones about his feelings or agenda. Helping people develop an understanding of the universal nature of consciousness will heal our human divisions, he says. He also asserts, laughably, that love has no evolutionary value and thus must come from this universal consciousness. Wtf!? There is no value to the genes of a mother to love and raise her child who also contains those genes? The book is full of these types of assertions which demonstrate a lack of deep thought and a keen interest in the evidence pointing to a desirable outcome.

He says he used to be biased against assuming desirable outcomes until he saw the evidence, but I think he too easily turned a 180.

All that said, to dismiss the evidence in the book because I feel like I can dismiss the motives of the author feels like the same trap. And he points out lots of instances of materialists dismissing parapsychology a priori the way religionists dismiss evolution. Carl Sagan, a noted exception, was in this camp until he reviewed some research and said some of these ideas merit further study.

So how would I approach this evidence differently if I were writing this book? I think the number one thing would be to propose some less mystical alternative explanations, something I'm sure would not go over well with the plant medicine/dreadlock/Chakra community that's bound to love this book.

This book reminds me a little of the book Sex At Dawn, the incredibly popular book pushing the polyamory agenda. It cherry picks cultural/anthropological data to spin this narrative that poly is the default human condition. In reality it just beating the strawman idea that lifeling monogamy is the default.

The book Sex At Dusk is an incredible line by line rebuttal from a biologist that threads together the evidence into a much more compelling, if nuanced and challenging, narrative that doesn't give ground to either monogamists or polyamorists. No surprise the more provocative Sex At Dawn that speaks to a burgeoning community continues to be far more popular.

[Jim Razinha · Rating 1 out of 5]

Saw someone gushing over this (and some of the other similar books on their past reads list) and with the disaster happening in the US now (early 2025) after skimming the description, I needed a laugh. I’ve read Robert Lanza, Robert Anton Wilson, Charles Berlitz, Erich von Däniken, Csíkszentmiháli (no matter what I thought of Finding Flow, that’s an awesome name), Miguel Ruiz, Keith Harary’s Lucid Dreams…, Eckhart Tolle, and others… name dropping is fun, isn’t it?!

The author says upfront:

“Books of this nature are typically written by scientists and philosophers. I am neither. Rather, I am a businessman.” Well, actually, books of this nature are not written by scientists. They are written by cranks. Or flimflammers. Mr. Gober seems to be a mix of both. Most of his sources are comical - Institute of Noetic Sciences (that should be “Sciences”, but they take themselves seriously), Rupert Sheldrake, Eben Alexander, Robert Lanza, Open Sciences dot org - an anti-materialist site (they call it “post-materialism”), Dean Radin … Some are not - Richard Feynman (though he did have a wicked sense of humor), Hawking (if cherry-picked),…

Never mind… it’s a who’s who and what’s what of a lot fringe pseudoscience. But out of all the woo woo, actually writing of URI Geller as a genuine “psychic”??? That is an instant credibility bottoming out. Geller is a con man/illusionist who fooled a lot of people (“controlled experiment”??…Please) but not James Randi and others who proved he was a fraud. Read Randi’s The Truth About URI Geller and you’ll see some of the tricks he used.

I made the mistake a few years ago of reading a paper on NDEs (rubbish) and that’s mostly what Academia sends me now, nearly every day. It’s a curiosity as to how long they’ll do it. They even send me papers on a book - Conversations with God, a supposed death experience (not really, but the author thought so) - I am surprised the author didn’t roll into his quotefest.

Remote viewing gets a long look (more URI Geller), and the author says “The program ran for many years and included studies demonstrating that remote viewing is in fact real.”
The CIA’s report said:
“Our conclusion is that at this juncture it would be premature to assume that we have a convincing demonstration of a paranormal phenomenon. In fact, until a plausible causal mechanism has been identified, and competing explanations carefully investigated, we cannot interpret the set of anomalous observations localized to one laboratory with one set of methods. Given these observations, and the methodological problems noted above, we must conclude that
Adequate experimental and theoretical evidence for the existence of remote viewing as a parapsychological phenomenon has not been provided by the research component of current program. A significant change in focus and methods would be necessary to justify additional laboratory research within the current program.”

On telepathy, the author cites this from Carl Sagan as evidence that “Sagan peeked in the telescope, and you see what happened.”:
“In Sagan’s last published book before he died, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1996), he stated: “There are three claims in the ESP field which, in my opinion, deserve serious study: (1) that by thought alone humans can (barely) affect random number generators in computers; (2) that people under mild sensory deprivation can receive thoughts or images ‘projected’ at them; and (3) that young children sometimes report details of a previous life, which upon checking turn out to be accurate and which they could not have known about in any other way than reincarnation.”
Except that the quoted passage stops before the next sentence:
“I pick these claims not because I think they're likely to be valid (I don't), but as examples of contentions that might be true. The last three have at least some, although still dubious, experimental support. Of course, I could be wrong. In the middle 1970s an astronomer I admire put together a modest manifesto called 'Objections to Astrology' and asked me to endorse it. I struggled with his wording, and in the end found myself unable to sign, not because I thought astrology has any validity whatever, but because I felt (and still feel) that the tone of the statement was authoritarian. It criticized astrology for having origins shrouded in superstition.
But this is true as well for religion, chemistry, medicine and astronomy, to mention only four.
The issue is not what faltering and rudimentary knowledge astrology came from, but what is its present validity.
[…]
Many valid criticisms of astrology can be formulated in a few sentences: for example, its acceptance of precession of the equinoxes in announcing an 'Age of Aquarius' and its rejection of precession of the equinoxes in casting horoscopes; its neglect of atmospheric refraction; its list of supposedly significant celestial objects that is mainly limited to naked eye objects known to Ptolemy in the second century, and that ignores an enormous variety of new astronomical objects discovered since (where is the astrology of near-Earth asteroids?); inconsistent requirements for detailed information on the time as compared to the latitude and longitude of birth; the failure of astrology to pass the identicaltwin test; the major differences in horoscopes cast from the same birth information by different astrologers; and the absence of demonstrated correlation between horoscopes and such psychological tests as the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.”

And, Sagan said in the same book,

"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to
acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back."

On Dean Radin’s, Leena Michel’s, and Arnaud Delorme’s (I’ll abbreviate as RLA) experiments/paper claiming that meditators thinking about or not could influence the outcome of a double-slit experiment, this paper analyzed their data more rigorously and determined their conclusions to be based on insignificant deviations from expected results. The authors of the review paper said “We would like to thank the authors of [RLA] for an unlimited access to both years’ data, and their patience in answering all our questions regarding technical details of the data and the experimental protocol.” Their conclusion: “The thorough analysis pursued in this paper contradicts the results previously published in [RLA]. On the one hand, we observe shifts of the fringe visibility in the direction predicted by the mind-matter interaction hypothesis, as in [RLA]. On the other hand, these shifts are not deemed significant by our analysis.”

Stephanie Simoes is a teacher and founder of Critikid, teaching critical thinking to kids and teens. She said this:

“When people call scientists closed-minded because they don't accept things like telekinetic and psychic powers, I want to ask them if they've ever heard of the double-slit experiment. That yields results that are arguably even more bizarre and counterintuitive than paranormal powers, and yet scientists accept the results. In science, it doesn't matter how strange a claim is; what matters is the strength of the evidence supporting it.”

That said, the author does a decent job covering the simplification of some of actual quantum theories. Two stars for that. Minus one for conflating it with pseudoscience.
Paralegal - not quite a lawyer
Paramedic - not quite a doctor
Paragraph - not quite a story
Paramilitary - not quite an army
Paranormal - not even close

And I didn’t laugh so I need to find another book.

[Fahad · Rating 1 out of 5]

I like to keep an open mind regarding ideas and concepts that I don't necessarily agree with or believe in. However this book does a lazy job to challenge the reader's mind and convince them to agree with the author's beliefs without any real effort or reasoning.

Since the author endlessly quotes people he agrees with, some are extracted out of context and others cherry-picked, I will also quote a review by Emily Chappelear on Audible about this book which summarizes my thoughts on this:

"The philosophical case against materialism is made in the first few minutes of the book and is the only part worth reading. It's downhill from there. The author has no idea how to present information. As "evidence" for his case that consciousness is altogether separate from matter, he uses endless quotes. The reader has little context for the quotes and therefore no way of judging whether or not they have been taken out of context. Most of the evidence he pulls from scientific studies is described vaguely, and again the reader is expected to trust the conclusion that the author came to about the study because in most cases we are not given enough information to judge for ourselves. The author casually refers to his thesis as "the truth" while imploring the reader to have an open mind, a tired and common manipulation tactic that everyone should be aware of. When he quotes scientists and philosophers he agrees with, he states their impressive scientific credentials and asks you, "so is this person lying?"-- another common manipulation technique. He talks about consciousness and cognition interchangeably as if they mean the same thing and several of his arguments are based on this mix-up. In chapter 2 he defines consciousness as a sense of "I" or a sense of being alive and having experiences, which is fine, but most of his arguments are actually talking about cognition, not consciousness. This book uses the following subjects to try to make the case that consciousness is separate from matter: pre-cognition, telepathy, autistic savants, near-death experiences, and other psychic phenomena. He comes across narcissistically in his writing as if he believes that every idea he's ever had is evidence of his own genius. I was hoping to hear a philosophical argument for the case that consciousness is separate from matter, but this book is nothing even close."

[Christy ofthewoods · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is great for people who are just starting on their path from materialism. I had already researched all of the phenomenon he mentions in the book, but I still really enjoyed the opening and how he explains materialism with the pyramid. Give to those who are teetering on the edge of materialism and need a mind blowing push.

[Tara · Rating 4 out of 5]

What an amazing book! Gober objectively and without bias gathers all the scientific data for you, and frankly, it’s undeniable.

The fact that this evidence is mainly buried, denied by most scientists, and ignored by mainstream media, should outrage everyone. Humanity is the one losing out.

It’s time for a shift in the scientific field to better study these proven topics, rather than rigidly clinging to now disproven beliefs just because certain scientists’ egos can’t bear a paradigm shift.

If you want meticulous evidence for near-death experiences, communication with the dead, past lives, remote viewing, telepathy, precognition, psychokinesis, oneness, and consciousness being the foundation of reality, you’ve found the book.

[Mark Zellner · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book starts out fantastic and goes downhill. The author begins with a delicious dissection of what we truly know about the universe and reality, but his critical thinking skills slag off considerably with every following chapter.

[Aaron Webb · Rating 4 out of 5]

Definitely get the book not audiobook

[Laura Iverson · Rating 4 out of 5]

My first introduction to the concept of the brain filtering consciousness rather than producing it

[Qurenna Bayes · Rating 4 out of 5]

So many questions and no answers, the conclusion is up to you to decipher. I enjoyed this and looked forward to reading the rest of this series.

[Keith Preston · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was one of the most challenging books that I've read. Challenging, because that's what it does: it takes on the topics that are scoffed at and dismissed by traditional or material science. However, recent advances in quantum mechanics point to the stories and evidence portrayed in this book.
After reading, it left more questions than answers . . . and of course, I stepped back into the comfort zone that may, in fact, not be real.
I want to "re-read" this in audio book format with the hope that I can gain more insight and confidence in understanding the reality-shattering concepts described by the author.

[Eben · Rating 5 out of 5]

The scientific study of the mind-brain relationship, including all manner of human experiences, combined with the deepest mysteries of modern physics, are leading to an unprecedented shift in human understanding of the nature of reality, one that many in the field feel will make the Copernican Revolution seem minuscule by comparison. In An End to Upside Down Thinking, Mark Gober provides a broad sketch of the relevant scientific lines of inquiry to support this inevitable, yet very empowering and optimistic, shift in understanding of the nature of human existence. Especially as one realizes the damage that has been done by our reigning materialistic paradigm and its false sense of separation, the promise of this newest unifying scientific revolution becomes clear — we must grow into this new understanding, if for no other reason than to survive.

[Lenin Alevski · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love this kind of books, is very interesting when authors put a lot of question over the table and are not afraid to challenge the status quo (mainstream materialismo idiology) however I feel like the author uses a lot of argument from authority, statistical fallacies and conjectures to build his theory.

At the end of the book he throwed a lot of concepts to the reader to support his idea on why we all humans are the same "being" the same "consciousness", for instances he mentioned epigenetics and I think he should explained a little bit more in detail how this is part of his theory besides "your genes change over time therefore you are not your genes".

[Mrs Mommy Booknerd http://mrsmommybooknerd.blogspot.com · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am still making my way through this book. I do find it very interesting and thought provoking, but I tend to try to apply what I learn as I go, so I think it may take me sometime to really work my way through his book. If you ever wondered about consciousness this book is for you. I would love it if you read this book and have thoughts to please share them with me. I love to read comments from others and interact with others who have thoughts about these types of books.

[Callie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I cannot say enough about this life-enhancing book! This puts EVERYTHING into perspective and has been essential in reshaping the way I now look at and experience life! SO grateful to Mark Gober for putting this information together so brilliantly, in a way that is easy to follow, easy to understand and easy to immediately implement. I am a firm believer that this has brought my upside down thinking to an end and I am watching my world turn right side up as a result!!

[Carla King · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the most important books of our decade.

[Thad · Rating 2 out of 5]

I hasten to disclose my inspiration to have read this book. WSJ editorial writer Holman Jenkins (who seems to disdain editors as he does most conventional thinking) mentioned Mark Gober and another of his books in a passing, apparent endorsement of UFO theorizing. I was moved to learn more about that other book, which led me to this one.
Other reviewers have noted the flaws here. This book is a collection of quotes and snippets, clearly relying on the credentials of others to bolster its message. Gober writes as I suspect he speaks: quickly, urgently, pressing from point to point. One gets the sensation of being cornered by someone at a cocktail party who is a bit too lubricated and too willing to open up about something better revealed sparingly.
As is surely summarized all over this page, this book is one man's summation of his inspired conclusion that there is no matter and that all is a projection of our consciousness (already, I imagine Gober politely pulling apart my description, forcefully smiling while spilling his cosmo on my shoe). I am completely open to the premise that our minds - which might also be considered our spirits, souls, or persons - are not the fruits of our brains, which in turn are merely the evolved products of dumb matter. I found the early chapters here to be quite informative in laying this foundation, and Gober well summarizes the scientific and philosophical schools behind the two major worldviews (which are those that consider either material or consciousness, respectively, as the genesis for all we perceive). Acknowledging that there can be impasse for this debate, Gober slides into what is the heart of this book - the anecdotal fantasical. Here is where our inebriated companion really opens up, with chapter after chapter unrolling one "and what do you think about this?!?" after another: ESP, near death experiences, psychic pets, telepathic organ transplants, etc, ad abundantiam. Where is all of this going?
"Here's my point" he says, rocking a bit and looking around not to see who is listening, but rather to remind himself what apartment this is. The closing two chapters are clearly intended to be the summation of the heretofore laid logical bricks - that is, if consciousness precedes reality ("which you agreed" he insists, although you don't remember phrasing it that way), and modern scientific thought tells us that we're interconnected (you nod, recalling your fascination with quantum physics, which no one understands), and there's a bunch of stuff we can't explain (yes, the pet stories and the organ donation stuff were pretty interesting), then you have to admit . . . . And here is where the book and our conversation companion fall down. Before we know it, we're full on eastern philosophers and we're all gods. Or, rather, God. Gober hammers his conclusions too hardly, too summarily, and much too insufficiently. It should be enough that we acknowledge what we don't know about matter and the mind, but our ignorance does not then support wild conclusions about the unity of all things, the meaningless of time and space (they're not meaningless, no less so than gravity or light), or our divinity.
I appreciated this book's informative attacks on materialist philosophy and scientific betrayal, and I wholly believe in a spiritual world the transcends the mere physical, but I don't agree fully with where this author leads us. Jesus, and his Father, revealed what we need to know of reality - and we are not the divine in this universe, certainly not apart from what imprint or reflection the Divine has chosen to bestow on us. Anyway, interesting but flawed book, redeeming in that it can be read quickly and, like our conversation companion, can make the party memorable.

[Alex Shrugged · Rating 2 out of 5]

It seems to me that the author is a flat-earther. If you think that is a good thing then you will probably rate this book higher. If, like me, you think this is a silly thing, then you will give this book 1 star. I have given this book 2 stars because I liked the author's skeptical thinking, but disapprove of his being misled by it and, by extension, misleading others.

This book started out strong, and I approve of skeptical thinking; however, I suspect propaganda tactics were being used here. I am sensitive to that.

Propaganda tactics, in general, go like this: State an indisputable fact. Then offer an extension to that fact that follows logically. Then insert an opinion. The human mind will be led to accept all of it as fact unless one is prepared to analyze what is being proposed.

Politicians use propaganda tactics often and many people object to that for obvious reasons.

Frankly, teachers use propaganda tactics which is why I admonish people to choose their teachers wisely.

There is nothing wrong with using propaganda tactics. It is a sort of short cut that allows the conveyance of facts without having to justify/prove every single point. People who do this see the general idea as more important than the details because the details will soon be forgotten, but the general idea will be retained. Those who wish to delve into the details will be inspired to do so.

If you trust your teacher, then no problem.

I do NOT ascribe bad motives to the author of this book. I simply think he has misled himself and by extension is misleading others.

FYI, I only read part 1 of this book. I concluded that reading more would be a waste of my time.

I doubt I will read this book again.

[Andrew Ashby]

It’s old news to me. I’ve been reading on this subject for over 30 years. NDEs and such. The evidence.
It’s so overwhelming that one has to wonder why the mass ignorance and rejection. I realize it’s not meant for us as humanity, to KNOW. Collective Consciousness, or God, whatever you call it, the absolute essence of Love, created the cosmos, the Universe, in such an exact mathematical motion so as to achieve the ability for the spiritual or unmanifested to become physical beings, a vehicle as it were. Sorry, it’s not evolution. Not as physical humans conceived of. It’s the plan of our immortal souls. The true mystery is: Why?

[Natellu · Rating 3 out of 5]

ในวิทยาศาสตร์กระแสหลักและสสารนิยม สมองสร้างจิตสำนึก (consciousness) สมองตายทุกอย่างจบ ตรงไปตรงมา หนังสือเล่มนี้กำลังจะชี้ให้เห็นว่าเราคิดผิด คิดกลับด้านมาโดยตลอด จิตสำนึกต่างหากที่มีมาก่อนเอกภพและสมอง ถ้ามองแบบนี้พวกเรื่องเหนือธรรมชาติต่างๆ (paranormal) ก็มีความเป็นไปได้ เช่น พลังจิต คนทรง เวียนว่ายตายเกิด ฯลฯ ซึ่งพยายามเอาความแปลกประหลาดของกลศาสตร์ควอนตัม และการทำงานของสมองที่วิทยาศาสตร์ในปัจจุบันยังอธิบายไม่ได้หมดมามองในอีกมุมหนึ่ง ผู้เขียนไม่ใช่นักวิทยาศาสตร์แต่เอาข้อความของนักวิทยาศาสตร์คนอื่นๆมาอ้างอิง อ่านแล้วไม่ต้องเชื่อหมดก็ได้ รู้เขารู้เรา ได้รู้ว่ามีคนเห็นต่างอย่างไรบ้าง ไม่มีอะไรใหม่เอาไปสามดาวพอ ตายแล้วเดี๋ยวรู้เอง หรือไม่รู้อยู่อยู่ดีเพราะหายไปเลย