After Death: A New Future for Human Consciousness

by Darryl Reanney

Book Overview

Drawing on religion, mythology, and science, a molecular biologist examines man's fear of death on both a personal and a universal level. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688144209
• ISBN13: 9780688144203
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 283 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

New Perspective

To be honest - I am writing this review half way through the book! This book is beautiful - it gives a totally new perspective on time, human consciousness and death. Hindu Philosophy says 'everything you see is an illusion', and this book brilliantly analyses that statement using statistics, math and quantum physics. Its not too technical, and its not too philosophical. I was somewhat familiar with Erwin Shrodinger's Cat in the box paradigm - but this book lends it new meaning and perspective. I am not sure if you can do this book any justice by rating it - death and consciousness are personal experiences, and any reviews of books about them are always prone to be tainted by personal beliefs - but this book was right in alignment with my thoughts about death. So if you are open minded - go for it - this book will definitely make you re-think life! ... Ok, I have finished reading this book twice. I am trying to buy this, but seems to be out of stock.

A calming hammock in the wild ride of Living

Here's a guy who spent a great deal of energy figuring out how to document the one-ness of all. Say what you will about the specifics, looking for one-ness is a noble task. I applaud Dr. Reanney's efforts, smarts and conclusions.

beautiful and poignant

Darryl Reanney was already dead by the time I discovered his book. I read it on the inside back flap before I had even purchased it. That fact I suppose set a curious mood for my reading of his work. But the spell of Reanney's poetic prose and erudite musings on the nature of time, space, consciousness and the possibility of immortality would have held no less power for me had I not known of his untimely death. Reanney, an Australian molecular biologist, was a gifted writer able to combine compelling personal anecdote with insights from biology, physics, cosmology, philosophy, religion, literature, poetry and art into a dazzling narrative that searches ultimately for the answers to the 'big' questions: who are we? where did we come from? what is the meaning--if any--of consciousness? Reanney wisely stops short of providing answers he could only invent, eschewing any overt or unsupported mysticism; yet he pursues the tantalizing clues that modern cosmology suggests we follow and makes poetry of it: we are the stuff of stars, truly made from dust--and in the sense that matter can never be destroyed but only converted into energy--eternal as those ancient stars. I have rarely been so moved by a work of nonfiction; it is filled with insight and compassion and wonder. So while those readers looking for pat explanations or easy comfortable conclusions would do better seeking out the quantum quackery of Deepak Chopra, this book was an awe-inspiring mind-expanding experience for me and will always have a place on my shelf.For admirers of the work of David Darling, Paul Davies, et al... but superior, I think.

The must read for the students of life.

There is now, finally, a book the honestly looks at the truth and realities of life from a multi-scholastic and pan-spiritual treatise. The author inspires the reader to follow through thoughts within the worlds of biology, quantum physics, spirituality and philosophy/psychology. There is no difficult theories or far-fetched bias. It is a surprisingly honest and refreshing addition to anyone who senses there IS something more, to life and death.

Our Future: Now

In my opinion, the author, Darryl Reanney, offers a colossal advancement in the field of human consciousness, succeeding to open a new dimension for the bold and the brave. He calls for the death of the ego-self as the way of moving into another realm, the breaking of the time continuum of today's perception into the liberating space and unity of the Super-consciousness. If one word can characterize his endeavor, it is "Freedom". For it is the conquest of death through death that Reanney is advocating, aligning himself with the well-known immortal figure of our culture: Yahshua, or Jesus, as many know him. It is the exalted state of the human condition that he is able to describe using the latest advancements in science and thought. If Jesus had to live as a testament of our future, Darryl Reanney comes along, twenty Centuries later to start the process of becoming for the average intellectual mind.The title, I think, is the only minus about this work. It might put off some people due to the title-induced perceived message of the book. I would have rather preferred to be called: "Our future: Now".Every person that sincerely desires to transcend the present primitive condition of the human perception, should not only read this book, but make a point to study it out. I know of no other work that would help us to increase the awareness of our potential more, the critical need for spiritual growth for the preservation and advancement of the living condition.