09.07.07
Complete idiot’s guide to…
MIndful Hack reviews (?) a real stunner, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Life After Death(Complete Idiot’s Guide to) (Paperback)
by Diane Ahlquist (Author)
I guess, given the number of extant guides of this series, this category was waiting for the treatment, maybe it’s the money, stupid. MH shovels dirt over the book better than I, and it is more believable from the co-author to The Spiritual Brain.
The amusing thing here is that such books have a long tradition, The Tibetan Book of The Dead being the classic.
I mention all this because knowledge in the epistemic sense is impossible on such a subject, which is not the same as saying that the ‘afterlife’ is a superstition, only its attempted descriptions. A psychic trying to feed us knowledge here is not going to be helpful.
Be sure to read an old post:
Schopenhauer on death
and a category search Schopenhauer death for much other comment.
My point here (leading up to my next post) is that we can infer from transcendental idealism, not knowledge of an afterlife, but the basic framework of the human frame as this is considered in relation to space and time, and experience, and the inference of that which stands beyond experience.
Thus these afterlife accounts are exploitative because they peddle what is most likely false, the equation of soul/self survival with the afterlife question.