Life After Death: The Evidence

The book, Life After Death: The Evidence isn't based on the afterlife or sacred texts. The author, Dinesh D'Souza, uses theory to give credence to the often challenged belief that there is life after death. Souza uses his book to show how life after death can give significance to the life before death with a reason for hope.

Author Dinesh D'Souza is not new to publishing controversial books. His book, Life After Death: The Evidence is one in a long line of book that have had a major influence on public opinion and public policy. In 2002 he published the New York Times bestseller What's So Great About America (Penguin Books) and in 1991 his book Illiberal Education was the first study to publicize the phenomenon of political correctness. The book became a New York Times bestseller for 15 weeks. It has been listed as one of the most influential books of the 1990's.

Dinesh D'Souza believes that the majority of us are consumed with wondering what will happen to us after death. He also believes that even skeptics need to be convinced about life after death.

In a recent article in Newsweek about Life After Death: The Evidence, columnist Jerry Adler writes:

D'Souza doesn't claim to have communicated with anyone who has died, and he doesn't expect to. Instead, he looks to the human heart, and finds therein a universal moral code underlying acts of self-sacrifice and charity that appear to run counter to the Darwinian imperative to outcompete thy neighbor. This is a time-honored argument for the existence of a God who created human beings in his image and imbued them with a moral sense, as well as the free will to follow, or ignore, it.

After-life studies have not been a big field of study until recently. A group started a study by the name of AWARE (Awareness during REsuscitation) was launched by the Human Consciousness Project and is led by Dr. Sam Parnia, a world-renowned expert on the study of the human mind and consciousness during clinical death.

During the AWARE study, physicians will also be testing the validity of out of body experiences and claims of being able to see and hear during cardiac arrest through the use of randomly generated hidden images that are not visible unless viewed from specific vantage points above.

Dr. Sam Parnia, director of AWARE, told NEWSWEEK that researchers at 20 hospitals have identified about 600 subjects for interviews. Parnia expects to publish his results in 2010. This should be an interesting study to read, along with the thoughts of Dinesh D'Souza in his new book, Life After Death: The Evidence.

What we don't know or don't believe about the after-life is up for conversation and more intense study. There will be many who cannot be convinced of an after-life and some who believe in it. Dinesh D'Souza write a convincing argument about life after death. In his book he provides a checklist of benefits from believing in life after death: it keeps us honest, gives our lives "a sense of hope and purpose"—and "surveys show" that believers have better sex. It provides "a mechanism to teach our children right from wrong"—a mechanism that those who have been subjected to it tend to describe as a neurotic lifelong fear of going to Hell.

Life After Death: The Evidence is available on Amazon.com

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