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Soul Search:: A Scientist Explores the Afterlife

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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 why they didn't hire an actor to read this, like so many other audio tapes I have purchased? I wish I could find this work as a book rather than a tape.

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.

David Darling
Soul Search:
A Scientist Explores the Afterlife

(New York: Villard/Random House, 1995) 193 pages

Altho this book by a science writer begins with a scientific basis,
by the end it has veered off into Eastern mysticism
as the answer to the problem of death.
Some themes discussed: beliefs in life after death,
ancient to modern---religious, philosophical, & scientific;
near-death experiences; consciousness and self-consciousness;
memory and illusion; perceptions of time and space;
accepting absorption of individual (illusory) consciousness
into the cosmic consciousness.

If you would like to read better books on life after death,
search the Internet for the following exact words:
"IS THERE LIFE AFTER DEATH? THE BEST BOOKS".

James Leonard Park, skeptic.