Is There Life After Death?

by Anthony Peake

Book Overview

"Peake's explanation of your immortality is the most innovative and provocative argument I have seen." - Bruce Greyson, Carlson Professor of Psychiatry, University of Virginia. Do you occasionally... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841934534
• ISBN13: 9781841934532
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Gardners Books Ltd
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

philosophical underpinnings of Peake's theory

Besides being an innovative and fascinating work on human consciousness after death, Peake's text is delightful to read for its many parallels to existential thought and phenomenology. I for one was less interested in the quantum physics and cognitive science (although I certainly did take these sections of the book very seriously and learned much from them) than those parts which examined the contents of our consciousness. In his eidolon/daemon dyad and its concept of a second, higher Self, Peake mirrors so many thinkers (James, Emerson, Fechner, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Jaspers and Jung to name only a few) and manages to elegantly tie together key concepts which are essential to deeper comprehension of human existence. The theory of eternal recurrence obtains from Peake's theorizing an aspect of realness and validity for perhaps the first time. I highly recommend his book for anyone interested in the depth of our human existence, in life and at the point of death.

Extraordinary piece of work

The only bad thing about this book is its title, which gives the impression you'll read about mediumship or psychical research. You won't. This work is soundly based on the latest findings of Quantum Physics and, in a stroke that amounts almost to genius, elects to take their implications seriously. The result is a book that should be required reading in every school in the country. This is reality not as we experience it, but as it must be. I cannot recommend it highly enough to anyone concerned with the big questions in life. (Including whether there is life after death, but, oddly, that's the least important question.)

A scientific thriller

In "Harry Potter" there is a witch who owns a magic book "you can't stop reading". Mr. Peake apparently had met this witch and tickled her secret out of here. His book, in any case, is one you can't stop reading. You don't need to agree with his last conclusion about life never ending but repeating itself at Death's approach in something like an exploding time-bubble and a new parallel universe. But along the way, leading to this conclusion, you will have revelations and epiphanies on every second page. Nothing is like it seems to be - this, at least,is one truth you carry home having read this brillant and mind-boggling book.

Excellent and thought provoking.

Is There Life After Death by British author Anthony Peake is a brilliant book. It is a very hard, but extremely interesting read and would be helped greatly by a table of contents and index. However, it is a must read by all people interested in this genre, absolutely and unequivocally. In this book, Peake attempts to update the ideas of J.W. Dunne in the light of the latest theories of quantum physics, neurology and consciousness studies. The basic premise is that nearing the point of death, you actually never die and the brain gushes with glutamate, as it did once before, during birth, and you re-live your current life again in a virtual reality generated by the brain (or something else) - a Groundhog Day existence, so to speak. This is due to the fact that time dilates and you literally enter a time-less state or at least a state where time is near endless. This is alluded to by the way your perception of time changes dramatically throughout your life for one reason or another - dreaming, playing, getting bored, endangered, excited, sad and so on. Dropping out of time is what Peake calls it. Come the near time of your virtual reality death, the process is repeated, ad infinitum so it seems. The doctrine is called Recurrence and it seems the ancient Greeks and others alluded to it, so we find Peake uses Greek terminology for some of his concepts. Peake uses the fact that time is not constant as well as the NDE, deja-vu, epilepsy and a host of neurological diseases to convince you to believe Recurrence. He does this quite well, but as with anything, the judgement is up to you. In fact, I found that some of the arguments materialists use to bludgeon a random and meaningless existence where they are the final arbiters of truth and the high priests of knowledge and wisdom, Peake uses to good effect in proving his point which is contra to theirs. He uses quantum physics theory and its interpretation to convince us that the virtual life and all those thereafter are not exactly the same, as you have the freedom to choose and thus enter a different parallel universe with each choice you make. Deja-vu is a glitch in the system, when you actually remember the previous Recurrence of your virtual life. NDE is more or less another glitch in the system where your next Recurrence is prematurely triggered and you come back and call it a "Life Review". You're actually alive and the next virtual life starts running. Prophecy alludes to Recurrence too, according to Peake and his argument here is that prophets like Nostradamus, are exceptionally good at predicting future events within the time span of their lives, but hopeless once past their date of death. That's because they're somehow remembering their previous Recurrence and can't gather information outside their existence. Get a young prophet is the message here as they should be able to see more years into the future, their future as well as yours. Don't be fooled, while I believe the title is quite