Is There Life After Death?

[Barblue]

I went to an author talk last night at our local library, by Anthony Peake. The talk was entitled The Similar Science & Philosophy behind 'Cheating the ferryman' and the movie 'The Golden Compass' - very intriguing I thought. It was very interesting indeed.

We were given a lively but intensely thought provoking talk with power-point. In it Anthony Peake illustrated how the subjects covered in Pullman's three books (not just the movie) ran parallel, to some extent, with the views he expresses in his book Is There Life After Death?

It is a long time since I have had Quantum Physics, Temporal Lobe Epilepsy and parallel universes to think about all within a short hour and a half. Peake also gave writers such as T.S. Elios, Walter Scott and Dickens as examples of TLE sufferes who illustrated this in their literature. At times it became difficult to hold on to the concepts he was expounding but at others it made emminent sense.

So now I have his book to read. When I get round to reading it in detail I hope to come back and comment more. Apparently he has a new one coming out in September titled The Daeman: A guide to your extraordinary secret self. Has anybody else met this man, or read his book?

[MrMustard]

Just the name quantum physics scares me!

[nonsuch]

The question should really be not 'Is There Life After Death,?' but 'Is there any life for me after my death?' It seems pretty obvious that life will continue after any individual's death. There will be children or offspring of moluscs or whatever.

[Colin]

Hope this doesn't trivialise this thread Barblue but I've just started reading 'Six Feet Over' by Mary Roach. It's subtitled 'Adventures in the Afterlife' and it's essentially looking at people (including scientists) who've done work on things like reincarnation, spirits etc. This includes the surprisingly large number of people who have tried to weigh a person's soul (in some, rather disturbing, cases by weighing people as they die). There are various other odd things (such as the once popular belief in 'ectoplasm', which was believed to emerge from the orifices of spirit mediums) - which is probably why I like it so much.

Less than half way through at present but it promises to be an entertaining read throughout.