Soul Search:: A Scientist Explores the Afterlife
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| Rating | : | 4.14 (880 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0679418458 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 193 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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Excellent content but sub-standard reading quality on tape Next to Darling's other book 'Zen Physics', this is one of the best books I have ever 'read'. Darling is like a cross between Alan Watts and Carl Sagan. The worldview he presents beautifully unifies science and mysticism. Unfortunately, the reading quality on the audio tape is very sub-standard. The speech is slurred, consonants are dropped, and quite a few words are mispronounced, making the listening experience frustrating and detracting from the great content. I wonder. A Customer said Excellent blend of science and mysticism. Darling has a wide grasp of various sciences; astronomy, biology, anthropology, and psychology among them. He blends these with an appreciation for the various mystical traditions, western and eastern. His interesting and sincere style make for stimulating reading. Not as technical as Capra's "Tao of Physics", it is in the same vein.
He touches on a host of topics?the Egyptian cult of the dead, neurological disorders, evolution, drug highs, mysticism, Einstein's space-time?as he explores how we develop a sense of self and time, and concepts of an afterlife. As for near-death experiences, Darling suggests that the phenomena frequently reported?a sense of bliss, travel through a tunnel, encountering a being of light?may merely be comforting projections of a dying brain. From Publishers Weekly Darling (Equations of Eternity), a science writer with a Ph.D. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. in astronomy, believes modern science is ultimately of limited usefulness because it fails to recognize that consciousness is an irreducible part of reality?"the ever-present 'mind' of the universe." In this intriguing speculative essay, he develops a sort of scientific pantheism positing that, with death,
Drawing on current research in anthropology, neurology, cosmology, and quantum mechanics, a scientist explores evidence that consciousness may survive death and the reality of a spirit or soul that exists independent of the physical body. 15,000 first printing.