By Douglas M. Stokes

This publication explores conceptions of the soul and the afterlife which are in keeping with the findings of recent technological know-how. It ways those topics from many various angles: spiritual, philosophical, medical, poetic, funny, quasi-scientific, or even pseudoscientific (just to be fair). Many attainable afterlives are tested, together with actual resurrection (whether supernatural, organic or cybernetic in form), reincarnation, participation in a dream-like international or collective brain, and the endurance of recycling facilities of natural realization. Philosophical, clinical and spiritual doctrines concerning the dating among wide awake minds and actual subject are reviewed. facilities of attention most likely exist at many various hierarchical degrees, from basic debris, unmarried neurons and organisms all of the manner as much as supra-individual entities akin to ant colonies or deities. Empirical facts concerning the character of the soul and the afterlife can be reviewed, together with that gathered via parapsychologists suggesting that a few character parts may perhaps live to tell the tale dying (as in terms of young ones who file stories of prior lives). The findings of contemporary neuroscience recommend that you just can't take all of it (or even a lot of it) with you yet you could not less than take you with you