The Afterlife Revealed

I've been meaning to review Michael Tymn's terrific new book, The Afterlife Revealed, but personal things have gotten in the way. I did read an advance copy and liked it very much, and I will have a review up ASAP; but in the meantime I wanted to let readers know that the book is now out in both print and ebook editions, and is sure to be of interest to anyone who follows this blog. 

For more info, you can go to the print edition's Web page, or the ebook edition's page. Both pages contain links to the Amazon and Amazon UK sales pages. The ebook can also be purchased through iTunes. 

While you're at it, check out Robert McLuhan's excellent review of the book on Paranormalia. 

Comments

[Aftrbrnr]

Wow, a bot for the first comment?

[Bruce Siegel]

"Wow, a bot for the first comment?"

What--you think bots aren't concerned about the afterlife?

[Art]

I wonder if Nymphets are like Fairies? With little wings and white frilly dresses? I wonder if there are Nymphets in heaven?

[Michael Prescott]

I deleted the porn spam. Thanks to Roger Knights for telling me about it via email.

"I wonder if there are Nymphets in heaven?"

In Roman Polanski's heaven there will be.

[BenSix]

What--you think bots aren't concerned about the afterlife?

This particular bot was going straight to hell.

[Wax Frog]

I could go for some corn Spam, I'm even willing to try Quorn Spam, but porn Spam? Is that even safe to eat? ;-)

[Pococurante]

"What Dreams May Come" seems to be the theme...

[no one]

OT.....Robert McLuhan has a post up about "magic" mushrooms and a recent John Hopkins study that suggests their positive life changing effects.

[-Marty]

This is rather disturbing,
http://tinyurl.com/3rg8gut

If our consciousnesses is truly independent of the brain (& I believe it is) the fact that a tumor can radically change a person from a normally passive person to a violent murderer or pedophile is disturbing if one knows who they are how can anything the brain does change someone that radically unless of course mind is brain...
**snip**
By the time the police shot him dead, Whitman had killed 13 people and wounded 32 more.
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he had murdered his mother and stabbed his wife to death in her sleep.

It was after much thought that I decided to kill my wife, Kathy, tonight … I love her dearly, and she has been as fine a wife to me as any man could ever hope to have. I cannot rationa[l]ly pinpoint any specific reason for doing this …

Along with the shock of the murders lay another, more hidden, surprise: the juxtaposition of his aberrant actions with his unremarkable personal life. Whitman was an Eagle Scout and a former marine, studied architectural engineering at the University of Texas, and briefly worked as a bank teller and volunteered as a scoutmaster for Austin’s Boy Scout Troop 5. As a child, he’d scored 138 on the Stanford-Binet IQ test, placing in the 99th percentile. So after his shooting spree from the University of Texas Tower, everyone wanted answers.

For that matter, so did Whitman. He requested in his suicide note that an autopsy be performed to determine if something had changed in his brain—because he suspected it had.
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Whitman’s body was taken to the morgue, his skull was put under the bone saw, and the medical examiner lifted the brain from its vault. He discovered that Whitman’s brain harbored a tumor the diameter of a nickel. This tumor, called a glioblastoma, had blossomed from beneath a structure called the thalamus, impinged on the hypothalamus, and compressed a third region called the amygdala

*endsnip*

There is a story of a normal person all of a sudden becoming attracted sexually to children... he also was found with a tumor...

so if all it takes to radically change from good to evil is a tumor....? that seems rather in favor of the mind equals brain folks... I wonder where free will comes into play? could these people stop this behavior? crazy.. and disturbing.

[Michael Prescott]

Another famous case of personality change was that of Phineas Gage, who suffered an accident in which an iron rod was driven through his brain. He lived, but changed from a reliable, sensible fellow into a capricious and profane troublemaker. Though the changes have been exaggerated in some accounts, there's no question that a profound alteration of personality took place. See the Wiki article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage

I think the transmission theory adequately explains this, especially if we see personality as more of a facade or artifact than as the true self (or higher self, or soul).

[Юкинов]

so if all it takes to radically change from good to evil is a tumor....? that seems rather in favor of the mind equals brain folks... I wonder where free will comes into play? could these people stop this behavior? crazy.. and disturbing.

Consider the possibility that disruptions in the physical-form may also affect the energy forms, too, and thus, may be something that could "spring a leak" so to speak into realms of more "sinister consciousness" flowing into that person's mind... this might be more understandable for people who are familiar with how acupuncture operates in regards to energy channels.

[Kris]

I never understood the big deal with the Gage case? The man just had a very traumatic event happen to him. Many people are radically changed through profound injuries even if they are not to the brain.

I know people with PTSD who are radically different then they used to be and they never had a brain injury.

The logic with the Gage case is just flawed.

[-Marty]

Consider the possibility that disruptions in the physical-form may also affect the energy forms, too

A friend of mine was saying the same thing, I mean I realize we can not "Learn" anything useful if bad things didn’t happen, and "someone" has to do the bad things...and yet I have a hard time thinking someone would sit in the spirit world and say
"You know, I think in my next lifetime I want to experience killing my friends and molesting my children" I mean damn! What kind of freak show is the universe running anyway?

Well I am hope that more often then not (Tumors and such) most people CHOOSE not to live out whatever it is they are being tempted to do. its just weird after all the data regarding the mind being separate from the brain that the brain can hold so much control over the mind..

[Leo]

Hi Marty,

Radical affects on personality dued to brain damage or tumors doesn't prove personality is produced by the brain. Because usually personality can come back either through neuroplasticity or even when close to the brink of death. As in cases of people who had severe dementia but their memories came back shortly before their deaths. http://journals.lww.com/jonmd/Abstract/2009/12000/Terminal_Lucidity_in_Patients_With_Chronic.12.aspx

[Steve]

My uncle (a brash, highly extroverted lawyer turned property developer) had a car accident, sustaining head injuries. He was in a coma for several days, and when he came by he was a changed man -- gentle, ineffectual, with severe short and long-term memory issues. He recognised some of his family members, alas, we did not recognise him. 15 years after the accident, he died in his sleep, not quite 60 years old. My wife's aunt suffered from Alzheimer's disease. Seeing someone deteriorating over a 10 year period is heart-wrenching.

Experiences like these suggest that the mind is indeed the product of the brain. The suggestion that minds could be subjected to a decade or more of torture (how else does one describe not being able to communicate, and probably not having adequate sensorial input) is simply unconscionable.

[Kris]

Hey Leo

First if I was you I would tiny url that link.

Second, radical personality change can happen without any damage to the brain though traumatic events, for example PTSD.

Injuries often change people's personality just because it was something traumatic.

I do not think there is as strong a correlation as some would like to argue.

[Phil]

The best book I have read on the after life is "Testimony of Light"...How does this book rate with the ones you are reviewing? I am looking for more books on our survival after death...

[Michael Prescott]

"Experiences like these suggest that the mind is indeed the product of the brain."

Again, the transmission theory covers such cases. The idea is that the while we are embodied, our mind is indeed restricted (ordinarily) by the limitations of the brain, and affected by injuries. But when disembodied (after death) the mind is freed - either suddenly or gradually - from these encumbrances and functions at a higher level. Hence the many reports by NDErs that their thinking and perception were clearer than ever, that they understood much more than they ever had, that they could process information at incredible speed, etc.

It also appears that when attempting to communicate through mediums, spirits must "lower their vibrations" and enter a trancelike state in which their thinking is more sluggish. The earth plane does not seem conducive to the clearest possible state of mind - as may be obvious just by reading the newspapers!

"How does this book rate with the ones you are reviewing?"

They're completely different. Testimony of Light, which I like very much, is a channeled book. The Afterlife Revealed is not channeled, though it does rely on channeled information in addition to other sources.