Leslie Kean

It’s a fair enough read, the part about reincarnations more so than others, but written by a female journalist with an agenda, it is lacking objectivity in several areas. There is the typical fallacy of “cherry picking” what she needs to support her agenda and ignoring all else. I picked up on that for the first time when she described the particular case of an out of body experience. A woman whose consciousness supposedly detached from here body enabling here to see several objects she supposedly could not have seen while on the hospital bed. One of the objects was a shoe that lay abandoned on a window sill of a hospital window.
In another paper by another author where the very same case of the claimed out of body experience was closely examined , it is noted that she could have and indeed must have seen the shoe in question as she entered the hospital from the ground level. The angle was just right.
Then of course our journalist falls prey to the oh so typical fallacy of uncalled for assumption that because out of body experiences induced by NDA being generally quite similar no matter the culture and gender, she can (wrongly) conclude that consciousness can and does exist without the brain after death. Well, unfortunately she forgets the simplest of all explanations. We all have brains that pretty much function and consequently react to a similar stimulus the same no matter who we are and where we are from. That I myself had an out of body experience once doesn’t exactly make her professed beliefs look any better. I had my own few seconds of ”heaven” once. I couldn’t feel my body and an indescribable warm feeling flooded through my being. When I entered my body again I was disappointed and to this day I remember that eerily relaxed feeling of being detached from the body. No, I was not on a hospital bed. I was on a 20,000 ft mountain. Yes, my friends it was oxygen starvation, a very stimulating experience for any brain. There is more, but suffice it to say that I remain unconvinced of radiant white lights and shiny rainbow passages to the heavens and especially so by smiling relatives waving from the other side, and with that of life after death as a whole.… (mehr)

I found a documentary of the same title on NetFlix. It was a series and I watched every specific subject.

The Netflix adaptation of the book, is so much better than the book. I found the book difficult to read. The writing seemed to drag, and often I had to go back again and again to try to understand just what the author was trying to say.

The chapters contain subjects such as communication from those who have passed on before us, data told from very reputable mediums, and trance mediums.

While difficult to read, I highly recommend the Netflix documentary. The author is very knowledgeable. Perhaps I was tired when I tried to read the book many times. In the end, I can guardedly recommend it.… (mehr)