Description
Book SynopsisA scientific exploration into humanity''s obsession with the afterlife and the quest for immortality from the bestselling author and sceptic Michael Shermer
In his most ambitious work yet, Shermer sets out to discover what drives humans'' belief in life after death. For millennia, the awareness of our own mortality and failings has led to religions concocting comforting notions of an afterlife, of heaven and hell, utopias and dystopias, and of the perfectibility of human nature.
Heavens on Earth explores the numerous manifestations of the afterlife - a place where souls might go after the death of the physical body. Religious leaders have toiled to make sense of this place that a surprisingly high percentage of people believe exists, but from which no one has ever returned to report what it is really like.
This is one of the most profound questions of the human condition and has long driven philosophers and theologians to try to understand the meaning
Trade Review
Not only a bizarrely uplifting look at death and the great beyond, but a witty and insightful examination of morality as dictated by science * Independent *
