Death Our Last Illusion

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(32 33 36 1)>Is there anything beyond death? And is it worth having?</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(32 33 36 1)>This book begins with the latest science on the Near-death Experience then explores the passage through physical death to the states of conscious being beyond. These states ~ often blissful are outlined by our great religious traditions and detailed in Tibetan Buddhism and the perennial philosophy particularly in the Alice Bailey books.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(32 33 36 1)>Traditional sources are compared with findings of science and medicine and psychology from Jung and Piaget to Wilber. Later chapters examine clinical studies by well-known psychiatrists and psychologists:these were undertaken after they accidentally took subjects into 'the place the Tibetans call the Bardo' ~the state after death/between lives.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(32 33 36 1)>In a letter to Australian journalist Pamela Bone author Susan Shore wrote:</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(32 33 36 1)>You say in your book Bad Hair Days that the brain is the only thinking mechanism therefore consciousness cannot survive death. In my book I examine a mass of evidence...to the contrary...that is ignored. This is due to its rejection by a materialistic science that can be as inflexible as the religion it often deplores.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(32 33 36 1)>Pamela Bone whose book Bad Hair Days was about the passage to her own death found the book 'wonderful deeply thoughtful...beautifully written. It has made me think again.</span></p>