Your Eternal Self [Perfect Paperback]

R. Craig Hogan Ph.D. (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 22, 2008

Since research scientists began to delve into the nature of the mind and the afterlife in the last quarter of the twentieth century, humankind has made remarkable discoveries that have left researchers in wonder and awe. Your Eternal Self contains descriptions of the results of the thousands of studies that have pointed unmistakably to the finding that we are eternal beings having a physical experience. Death is an illusion. Even hard-nosed skeptics described in the book have changed their viewpoints in light of the evidence. Your Eternal Self describes carefully controlled, scientific research done by biologists, physicists, neuroscientists, physicians, psychologists, Nobel laureates, and other renowned scientists showing that the mind is outside of the brain, people see and know things they couldn't know if the mind were in the brain, the afterlife is as real as this life, people's minds are united, and our consciousness actually changes the environment in which we live. The book cites 330 sources from many prestigious scientific, psychological, and medical journals, but distills the essence of the research without technical detail, bringing it down to practical, daily life. It is easy reading and full of fascinating anecdotes and explanations. Your Eternal Self ends by describing what our purpose seems to be in life, what true spirituality is, how people can grow spiritually to change themselves so they have love and bliss in their lives, how they can provide that loving legacy for their children's children, and what the research has shown about the world of the afterlife.

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About the Author

R. Craig Hogan, Ph.D., co-authored Induced After-Death Communication: A New Therapy for Healing Grief and Trauma with Dr. Allan Botkin (Hampton Roads 2005), co-authored the Personal Styles Inventory, wrote two books on business writing, co-authored a book training supervisors in schools to more effectively work with teachers, and developed several Web sites devoted to spiritual understanding, including 30ce.com, adcguides.com, greaterreality.com, mindstudies.com, and induced-adc.com. He has been a professor of business writing at three universities and now teaches writers through his own school, the Business Writing Center.

Product Details

• Perfect Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Greater Reality Publications; 1 edition (February 22, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0980211107
• ISBN-13: 978-0980211108
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #446,761 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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36 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Examining The Best Evidence, February 29, 2008

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Michael E. Tymn (Kailua, Hawaii) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Your Eternal Self (Perfect Paperback)

The next time I encounter someone who is looking for assurance that physical death is not the end I will recommend this book. Having read literally hundreds of books offering evidence that consciousness survives physical death, I would have to rank this as number one from the standpoint of offering the reader the full gamut of phenomena supporting the survival hypothesis in clear and concise language.

This book deals with the most important question facing mankind - whether we are all marching toward extinction in a meaningless world or whether we are spiritual beings temporarily occupying physical bodies while participating in a divine plan. "Our culture has a desperate fear of death, as though death were somehow a bad thing - the end of existence," Dr. R. Craig Hogan, the author, advances, pointing out that much of the money spent in healthcare today is expended on the last two weeks of life, trying to keep the body alive just a few days longer. The problem, Hogan suggests, is that humankind matured intellectually over the past two millennia, but went spiritually backward. "The result is that over the two millennia since the Axial Age, humankind has been in a spiritual dark ages," he continues. "Religion punished anyone who spoke about spiritual things not sanctioned by the religion." Meanwhile, a "herd of stubborn skeptics" resisted from the other end out of pure elitist arrogance.

As Hogan points out, there is overwhelming evidence that we are eternal beings - evidence that if properly studied and discerned allows those accepting the afterlife on blind faith to move to true faith or conviction. At the same time, the skeptic with an open mind can move off his skepticism to belief.

"People today who are still not able to accept the abundant data that the afterlife is as real as this life have not read the evidence or participated in medium activities," Hogan explains. "They assume that the mind is confined to the brain, so evidence of the mind outside of the body couldn't be valid, and that justifies their not reading it. Because they haven't read the evidence, they assert that there is no evidence, and since they are not themselves aware of any evidence to the contrary, they are assured that the mind must be confined to the brain and that reinforces their belief that any evidence of the mind outside of the brain must be invalid. That circular reasoning leaves them in an ignorance of their own making."

Hogan begins by examining the most recent evidence which strongly suggests that the mind is much greater than and not confined to the physical brain. He first looks at remote viewing, mentioning some very impressive research in the area as well as his own interesting experience with this phenomenon. He then looks at out-of-body experiences, including near-death experiences, various forms of mediumship, including materializations and the direct-voice phenomenon, deathbed visions, apparitions, induced after-death communication, studies in ESP, what-have-you. He summarizes the findings of esteemed scientists and scholars both of yesteryear and today, often quoting them. He examines the arguments by the debunkers and then offers arguments debunking the debunkers.

After examining the evidence for survival, Hogan discusses some of the testimony from the spirit world concerning the conditions after death. "People do not lose their individuality in the afterlife and don't suddenly become omniscient or clairvoyant," he states. "They don't change. They also don't transform into being good or angelic. They carry their fears, conflicts, and problems into the afterlife." The environment one finds himself in depends on the person's state of being when he leaves the earth realm.

Hogan has taken the best evidence, distilled it, dissected it, and discerned it. The person with an open mind will find much food for thought in this book.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Paradigm Shift, April 26, 2008

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Allan L. Botkin (Libertyville, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Your Eternal Self (Perfect Paperback)

Dr. Hogan and I co-authored Induced After Death Communication: A New Therapy for Healing Grief and Trauma. Since I am a psychologist, my primary focus has been helping people who suffer from grief and trauma. I have remained neutral regarding the issue of whether my patients' after death communications are real or not because it is important that my patients evaluate their experiences in any way that is comfortable for them.

That being said, I am well aware of the ongoing debate between afterlife believers and skeptics. It has seemed to me that most believers believe in everything, and that most skeptics believe in nothing. Both positions appear to be based more on simple beliefs than a critical analysis of the available evidence. The most remarkable aspect of Dr. Hogan's book is the mountain of scientific evidence he provides to support his hypothesis that the mind and the brain are two distinct entities. For skeptics to reasonably maintain their position, they will have to somehow respond to Dr. Hogan's very convincing and evidence based arguments. These kinds of arguments, I believe, is what the field of afterlife research needs.

On a more personal level, while I have believed for some time that the mind is more than the brain, Dr. Hogan's hypothesis is more radical than my own. To be honest, when I finished reading his book, I felt different. I felt like if he is right, the world is even more different than I had imagined. If you are like me, this book will challange your own personal paradigm or worldview, and make you think differently about who you are, and the world you live in.

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Compelling and Eye-Opening, April 20, 2008

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Paul Coleman "psych/author at paul-coleman.com" (Wappingers Falls, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Your Eternal Self (Perfect Paperback)

R. Craig Hogan's book presents fascinating and compelling evidence that a non-physical reality truly exists. A truly open-minded reader will have a difficult time dismissing the evidence as inadequate or fatally flawed. Instead, the evidence is eye-opening and at times jaw-dropping. The concept that the mind is NOT located within the brain--and the reasons given for that amazing assertion--are more than worth the price of the book.

Evidence is presented by physicists, physicians, and other professionals from prestigious journals such as the Lancet. Data on numerous topics such as remote viewing, mediumship, and after-death communications are offered. The last part of the book ventures into practical concerns such as how to grow spiritually, and ponders questions such as "What are you to do with your eternal life?" and "What is the relationship of your eternal self to the physical realm?"

R. Craig Hogan is co-author of "Induced After-Death Communications" which reveals groundbreaking work on how EMDR--a well-established treatment for post-traumatic stress--can be used to trigger the subjective experience of having an after-death communication from a loved one.

In all, if you want to tantalize your mind (wherever it may be located) with fascinating evidence from reputable scientists that there is ample evidence of survival of consciousness after death and that we are really spiritual beings more than physical beings, you will enjoy this well-organized, thought provoking book.