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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Shermer, Michael, author.     Subjects     Immortality.     Future life.     Immortalism.     Religion and science.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Shermer, Michael, author.       by title:      Heavens on earth : t...         MARC Display

Heavens on earth : the scientific search for the afterlife, immortality, and utopia / Michael Shermer. by Shermer, Michael, author. New York, New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2018. Subjects Immortality.   Future life.   Immortalism.   Religion and science. ISBN:  9781627798570 (hardcover) : 1627798579 (hardcover) Description:  xii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  Prologue : Memento mori -- Part I. Varieties of mortal experiences and immortal quests. A lofty thought : imagining mortality ; What dreams may come : imagining immortality ; Heavens above : the afterlives of the monotheisms -- Part II. The scientific search for immortality. Heavens within : the afterlives of the spiritual seekers ; Evidence for the afterlife : near death experiences and reincarnation ; Evidence for the afterlife : anomalous psychological experiences and talking to the dead ; Soul stuff : identity, replication, and resurrection ; Afterlife for atheists : can science defeat death? -- Part III. All our yesterdays and tomorrows. All our yesterdays : progress, decline, and the pull of pessimism ; All our tomorrows : utopias and dystopias in fiction and in fact -- Part IV. Mortality and meaning. Why we die : the mortal individual and the immortal species ; Imagine there's no heaven : finding meaning in a meaningless universe. Requests:  0 Summary:  "In his most ambitious work yet, Shermer sets out to discover what drives humans' belief in life after death, focusing on recent scientific attempts to achieve immortality by radical life extentionists, extropians, transhumanists, cryonicists, and mind-uploaders, along with utopians who have attempted to create heaven on earth. For millennia, religions have concocted numerous manifestations of heaven and the afterlife, the place where souls go after the death of the physical body. Religious leaders have toiled to make sense of this place that a surprising 74% of Americans believe exists, but from which no one has ever returned to report what it is really like. Heavens on Earth concludes with an uplifting paean to purpose and progress and what we can do in the here-and-now, whether or not there is a hereafter"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 202.3 Sh Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua-Kona Public Library Adult Nonfiction 202.3 Sh Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kaimuki Public Library Adult Nonfiction 202.3 Sh Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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