IS THERE LIFE AFTER DEATH?

Tony Peake does not think that we survive the death of our bodies and instead argues that we do not die at all, that bodily death as we usually think of it is in fact not possible. Presenting insights into contemporary neuroscience and quantum physics as well as ancient cosmologies and mystical traditions, he presents a coherent picture of a universe that literally requires you to be immortal. As preposterous as this may seem, he finds persuasive evidence to support it from a variety of sources but most of all from our everyday experiences. How often have you had a sensation that you were reliving an event for a second time? How often have you had a correct 'hunch' about something that was about to happen? Is this a glimpse of a life already lived, perhaps many times? You will read about the common features of near-death experiences, the slowing of time, a review of your entire life, brain stimulation studies, evolution, Freudian slips and déjà vu, epilepsy and schizophrenia. Peake shows that the slowing of your sense of time dictated by chemical changes in your dying brain allows you to re-experience your life all over again - in seconds, in someone else's universe, but in another full life-time in yours. A most innovative and provocative argument about the afterlife. 416pp in new full price large softback.