Daemon [Hardcover]

Anthony Peake (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 30, 2008

In The Daemon: A guide to your extraordinary secret self, Peake expands on one of the most enigmatic areas of his previous book "Is there life after Death?", the proposition that all consciously aware beings consist of not one but two separate consciousnesses - everyday consciousness and that of The Daemon, a higher being that seems to possess knowledge of future events.

Integral to this book are the stories of many famous artists, poets, politicians, musicians and scientists who have felt "a force outside themselves", including Winston Churchill, Byron, Goethe, Jean Cocteau and many others

""In Harry Potter there is a witch who owns a magic book you can't stop reading" Anthony Peake apparently had met this witch and tickled her secret out of her - a brilliant and mind boggling book" - Michael Marr, visiting professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University, in praise of AAnthony Peake's "Is there Life After Death?"

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 336 pages
• Publisher: Arcturus Publishing (September 30, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1848370792
• ISBN-13: 978-1848370791
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #565,957 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Anthony Peake (born 1954)grew up on the Wirral, near Liverpool, England. He was educated at Wirral Grammar School, Warwick University and the London School of Economics. He is a member of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, The Scientific & Medical Network and the Society for Psychic Research.

In his previous two books Anthony has presented a potentially paradigm-changing hypothesis that suggests that human consciousness survives the physical death of the body by falling out of time. He calls this process Cheating The Ferryman. In his second book, The Daemon- A Guide To Your Extraordinary Secret Self, he focuses in on one major element of this hypothesis - that all human beings consist of two centres of consciousness. Borrowing from Gnostic terminology He call these "The Daemon" and "The Eidolon".

In turn "Cheating The Ferryman" seems to offer a radically new, and scientifically based, explanation for such phenomena as "Near-Death Experience", "Deja Vu", "Precognition", "Angelic Encounters", "Doppelgangers" and many other mysteries of consciousness.

He has been interviewed by many radio stations and magazines across the world and has appeared on British television discussing the explanatory power of this idea. He is also developing a reputation as an engaging and dynamic public speaker having now presented over 100 lectures across the UK, Europe and the USA. In July of 2009 he was a speaker at a prestigious "Platform Event" at the National Theatre in London, and two weeks later he presented a lecture to over 300 people in Manhattan, New York.

Since 2006 Anthony has continued to collect evidence for "Cheating The Ferryman" and has been contacted by many hundreds of individuals from round the world who have presented him with stunning personal accounts that support his theory. In turn Anthony has made contact with a handful of the world's leading experts working in the areas of science central to his hypothesis.

As far as Anthony is concerned "Cheating The Ferryman" is a work-in-progress. For this purpose he has created a very active FORUM (www.anthonypeake.com/forum). This FORUM is open to all and Anthony actively seeks out contributions from his readers and other individuals and organisations interested in assisting in developing this hypothesis.

In November 2009 Anthony began a regular slot on BBC Radio Merseyside.

After living in many parts of the United Kingdom Anthony has returned to his roots on The Wirral where he continues to explore the implications of "Cheating The Ferryman" and in his spare time worries about the decline of his beloved football team, Tranmere Rovers.

Customer Reviews

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Peake's Daemon is Binary Mind Theory: Beautifully Written, Finely Executed, and Superior in its Conclusions, January 2, 2009

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Betty DeCicco "Kierkegaard's daemon" (Ledgewood, New Jersey United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Daemon (Hardcover)

I was already a fan of Anthony Peake, having read his first book ("Is There Life After Death?: The Extraordianry Science of What Happens When We Die", 2006) but I am if possible moreso now. "The Daemon" is an excellent text for anyone interested in our divided self. Using Binary Mind theory as his premise, and with a sophisticated and elegant drawing from classical philosophy, nuero-science, psychology, cognitive theory quantum physics, and literature, Peake reveals that we have a second, secret self which both partakes in, and is transcendent to, our daily self. This is the eternal part of us, which will live recurrently. the notion of eternal recurrence was advocated by the great Nietzsche, and Peake now fuses this theory with quantum physics, making the transcendent also empirically real.

In chapter 3, there is an examination of the Socratic daemon; and this dipping into antiquity, while standing firmly in 21st century quantum scientific theory, is the mark of Peake's superiority, and makes him a joy to read. Chapter 10 is a beautiful exploration of the 20th century Gnostic writer of high brow science fiction (with philosophical underpinnings), Philip K Dick. Peake is strongly identified with Mr. Dick, having been an impassioned reader and researcher of his texts in his youth, and bearing a name which is eerily similar to a character from one of Dick's own stories, about a man who would be the harbinger of a new afterlife theory: Anarch Peak.

I highly recommend this text, which in my opinion surpasses Peter Novak's wildly popular "The Division of Consciousness" and "The Lost Secret of Death" : if only because Peake is such a good writer, and is so modest in his premises, and yet delivers a theory which is sublime , exciting, and beautiful. I give it 5 stars, unreservedly.

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Very interesting ideas, some squirrely, June 16, 2009

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blue jaguar (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Daemon (Hardcover)

If you have been in metaphysics for awhile then you already know about the 'higher self'. The breadth of the topic is wide and incompasses many ideas. When the author looks at the concept of the higher self being able to tap into timeless/precognitive awareness he is on pretty solid ground.

However, when he delves into the concept that we are all living personal ground-hog day lives over and over as the source of the precognitive information ('Recurrence' theory from the first book) is where he looses it. To imagine that the universe would waste so much creative potential by looping the same moments repeatedly is absurd. The universe is an engine of creativity not of monotony. The author also says the daemon (Eidolon) resides in the non-dominant hemisphere of the brain. Here we have shades of the dillusions of Descartes who taught that spirit is tangential to matter and the soul incidental to the body intersecting only at the pineal gland. One of the first rules of metaphysics is precision. The more precise you attempt to be in your theories and formulae the more likely you are whistling dixie.

If the author (or reader) can edit out some of these weaker points then you have something you can get into. But I would caution that merely discovering the poles of being is not enough. Getting beyond duality requires movement and communication. I'm not sure the author really developed these last points adequately. In the end I struggle with concepts of concepts in this book. Simply building castles of ideas on others ideas can be nothing but foundations of sand. What matters is experience not just theories.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Extraordinary and important book, December 11, 2008

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Herbie Brennan (Ireland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Daemon (Hardcover)

This is Peake's second book and in some ways I think it's more important than his first. His first, 'Is There Life After Death?' looked at the physics of what must happen to you when you die. His second, 'The Daemon' brings on some interesting ideas about what you can do about it before it happens. Hugely accessible, hugely interesting, hugely stimulating. I've taken to buying copies for friends and I don't suppose you can give a book higher praise than that.