Life After Death: The Burden of Proof
by Deepak Chopra
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Book Reviews of Life After Death: The Burden of Proof
Book Review: A Book of Meaning.
Summary: 4 Stars
Deepak Chopra has presented in his latest book 'Life After Death: The Burden of Proof' the one question mankind has commonly been concerned with since our existance: what happens to the spirit and soul after our physical death here on earth? Drawing from his life's work, Chopra positions the reader to take interest in his conclusions through his gifted ability as a storyteller; however, what is more important is his hard conclusion that the soul continues on in journey through presenting concepts that we can all understand. Chopra eagerly points out that death is miraculous and a "doorway to a far more important event--the beginning of the afterlife" and "can be as creative as living."
Overall, this is a spiritually uplifting book that will make readers pause and reflect. I was able to actually hear my heartbeat slow down a bit. If you are interested in further study, I highly recommend Robert J. Geis' book titled 'Personal Existence After Death: Reductionist Circularities and the Evidence'. Chopra touches on what Geis layed out in easy but much more evidentary detail: arguments against immortality have little proof value, while the argument for immortality has concrete data one can examine: long-term memory seems to be non-localizable, hence giving man a possible non-spatial dimension. Consciousness requires a unifying principle to hold together simultaneously all the billions of data bits entering awareness.
Book Review: Life, Life, and More Life!
Summary: 4 Stars
The first time I ever conducted a study of one of Deepak Chopra's books, it was "The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success." The language was so esoteric and poetic, I often felt like a translater, trying to explain to my class what Deepak meant. This book is an easy read by comparison. I love the concept that Deepak mainly focuses on, which is simply this: Consciousness is creative. Consciousness is eternal. So consciousness continues to create after death. In other words, through our consciousness, we actual "create" our own individual heaven or hell . . . temporarily, anyway. This concept is corroborated by another book I enjoyed on this subject, which is "Home With God" by Neale Donald Walsch.
I have given "Life After Death" 4 stars instead of 5 because about two thirds of the way through this book Deepak goes off on far too many tangents, and loses focus. However, there is one thread that holds most of this book together nicely, which is an East Indian fable that Deepak uses at the beginning of each chapter to illustrate some of his major points. I enjoyed that. All in all, there is much value in Deepak's latest work.
Steven Lane Taylor, Author of Row, Row, Row Your Boat: A Guide For Living Life In The Divine Flow
Book Review: What the ?
Summary: 2 Stars
Let me begin by saying that this is the first Deepak Chopra book that I have ever read. Right off, I am sure that many fans of his will dismiss what I have to say because I am a novice to his work. In addition, I am a Christian.
This book left me with more questions than answers and the answers he does provide may be interesting but they are very sided towards his own hinduism.
In fact, I felt he belittled Christianity and Christians in general by dismissing the notion of God as a seperate entity altogether and leaving the afterlife as a continuing journey of finding the "God" within oneself.
The book starts out just fine with medical and scientific data that chronicles Near Death Experience (NDE). Most of these studies can only go so far because the person comes back to physical life.
Well, Deepak continues the afterlife journey (beyond initially crossing over) based on assumptions of hindu Rhishis and the testimonial of a mountain hindu woman who died for several days and came back to life. -- I'm not sure what evidence even supports the claim. So, what you get is alot of rhishi philosiphy. I kept an open mind but I don't follow his views.
Book Review: Love the man, not the book
Summary: 2 Stars
I have a read some of Deepak's books and he does have some wisdom in them, but this one does a diservice to life after death. The title should have included, "From a Hindu/Buddist prespective". He talks about reincarnation and Karma and gives examples of how people have talked to their loved ones after they died. He mentions Islam 3 times and only when he needs to talk about radical Islam and its threat to the west. Why he ignores the rich beliefs of the afterlife that 1.4 billion people believe in is a mystery.Could it be that Mr Chopra doesnt want to face the reality that Islam has the most deepest understanding of Life after death than anyone can imagine. It has even been shown that Dante copied his work from Islamic sources.The Quran states that this worldly life is a preparation for the eternal life after death and those who deny it become slaves of their passions and desires. It gives details on what happens to you as soon as you are dead, even if you are cremated. I recommend you read After Death, Life! and Death & dying by Ahmad Sakr if you would like to see what you may go through after you die.
Or just google Islam and Death.
Book Review: Pure Conscience = "I am"
Summary: 5 Stars
A book that achieves the unattainable: to reconcile science with religion and philosophies on such complex issues such as: what happens after we die?, where do we come from?, where do we go to?, why is it that we are here?, what's life's sense?, does personality survive our death?, where is God?, Will I ever see my beloved departed ones? (by the way, you bet we all will!) etc...
This Deepak Chopra's masterpiece very clearly (and in simple terms) explains how is that conscience masters us and the whole cosmos. It goes on to explain with beautiful stories, metaphors and scientific evidence the mechanisms behind our brains and mind, our bodies, our souls and the definitive connections between us all and every single "thing" in the universe. We are and everything else, the expression of the cosmos!
This book prepares us all for an inevitable outcome... so, it's both, a consolation and an inspiring source of invaluable information... definitively the kind all human beings should receive as soon as we are capable of understanding that the day we are born is the day we begin to die, only to keep on living...