From the editor: How can you be sure? Between all the different conflicting scenarios taught by humanity's traditional religions, and all the different conflicting reports of near-death experiences, past-life regression, ghosts, poltergeists, after-death communication, deathbed visions, and all the rest, how can anyone be sure?

If you're not sure what will happen after you die, each day of your life will be spent trying to ignore feelings of fear, anxiety, desperation, despair, and helplessness.

Fortunately, there is an answer to this dilemma - An answer that reconciles all these different reports & traditions - An answer based on modern science - A solution to the ultimate mystery.

An unexpected parallel between modern scientific findings and an age-old teaching points to the answer. Split-brain research shows that we actually possess two minds: the two hemispheres of the brain house separate mentalities, providing both linear and nonlinear perceptions of the world. In a startlingly similar vein, an ancient belief known as the Binary Soul Doctrine (BSD) holds that two events occur at the time of death: linear and nonlinear experiences of the afterlife.

Using neuropsychology as a foundation, Peter Novak takes us on a remarkable adventure, showing how the binary soul doctrine reconciles many of humanity's most divisive spiritual controversies. His new book, The Lost Secret of Death: Our Divided Souls and the Afterlife shows how the BSD reconciles the disparities between views of reincarnation, resurrection, and there being no survival after death, simultaneously building bridges between science and religion and between eastern and western philosophies. Indeed, this ancient teaching offers the key to understanding virtually all present and past belief systems about death and the afterlife, including:

* The common foundation of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Taoism, Huna, shamanism, and even the pyramid religions of ancient Egypt and MesoAmerica.
* The relationship between near-death experiences, after-death communications, memories of past incarnations, reports of angels, ghosts, poltergeists, and other afterlife phenomena.
* The common vision connecting the work of such thinkers as Emanuel Swedenborg, Rudolf Steiner, Edgar Cayce, Robert Monroe, Carlos Castaneda, Ken Wilber, Daskalos and James Van Praagh.

This long-forgotten concept provides timely answers for today. It unites rather than divides. It reveals instead of conceals. And it offers freedom in place of repression and deception.

Pages: 332
Special Interest: Death, Life After Death, NDE, Paranormal, Science, Religion, Studies & Application, Psychic Development.