There's a lot more than that in the book - it marries metaphysical with religious, personal God with impersonal Universe, religion with cosmology, etc. From his experience, of course, and his research into what happened to him and his need to reconcile his medical science background with Reality (his version). He addresses, simply, the "hard problem of consciousness" albeit at a level us ignorants can fathom. Curtis, you might read this book. Robin, you might read this book. Ha ha ha...not to annoy either of you....can't help myself, I think I'm having a spiritual experience. Not to worry though - I'm sure it will be gone by tomorrow. Smiley face. Plus, there are some great quotes in this book - Einstein, Kierkegaard, Cicero, etc.
And I love these two lines...."And, as such, I can tell you that most skeptics aren't really skeptics at all. To be truly skeptical, one must actually examine something, and take it seriously." Ha. >________________________________ > From: Buck <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 8:02 PM >Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Proof of Heaven - has anyone actually read this >book? > > > > > >--- In [email protected], Emily Reyn <emilymae.reyn@...> wrote: >> >> >> >> I just finished this book. It is quite accessible to a laywoman such as >> myself and is quite fascinating from many perspectives. I read it without >> having read all the critiques and despite the marketing distortion involved >> in selling it. There is a lot more to this book, despite it's horrible >> title, than simply another story of an NDE hallucination. Has anyone here >> actually read it? (And, I don't just mean read the Sam Harris reviews about >> it.) >> > >Om Yes, spiritually it's quite accurate and is becoming one of the required >readings of the baby-booming conscious death movement for perspective. As >always Fairfield is on the forefront of that too. The book's very readable as >a modern narrative. By demographics now a lot of people in Fairfield are >reading it. Nice 'cus it is not loaded so with religious buzz. I liked the >page or two he devoted to his experience with Om. It's funny in that will >probably have TM-tru-believers tossing in their sleep if not rolling over in >their graves. >-Buck > > > > >
