The Lost Secret of Death: Our Divided Souls and the Afterlife / Edition 1

by Peter Novak

Overview

Novak investigates a belief called the Binary Soul Doctrine (BSD) which states simply that humans possess two souls which split at death, the conscious going on to reincarnate again and again, while the unconscious ends up in a type of limbo judging itself for all eternity.

He goes on to explain that long ago the BSD was the primary belief of a single world religion, which since has been broken into more and more fragments. However, he claims that twentieth-century findings, including the work of Freud and Jung, as well as findings of modern neuroscience and Near-Death research, has marked a resurgence of belief in the veracity of the BSD.

Novak argues—just as those long ago did—that it is essential for humans to integrate these two souls together before death to avoid the nightmare of being split in two at death. He even offers a few steps to help readers start the process of integration.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781571743244
Publisher:	Red Wheel/Weiser
Publication date:	08/01/2003
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

	Preface	xiii
	Foreword	xvii
	Introduction: A Threatening Babble	xxiii
1.	When We All Spoke One Language: The Single World Religion of Humanity's Past	1
2.	Two Selves in Every Brain: Modern Science's Binary Soul Doctrine	35
3.	Witnesses of Division: Near-Death Experiences	50
4.	Descendants of Division: Past-Life Regression	92
5.	Victims of Division: Ghosts and Poltergeists	108
6.	Healers of Division: Shamanic Soul Retrieval and Out-of-Body Rescues	123
7.	Conquerors of Division: Psychics and Mystics	140
8.	That's Why They Call It a Blind Spot: Cognitive Illusions in Afterlife Experiences	155
9.	Why We Have Two Souls: The Divine Dichotomy and Our Binary World	178
10.	Why Would Our Souls Divide at Death? The Pathology in the System	189
11.	Message in the Messenger: The Encoded History of the Jews	211
12.	Forging a Self That Won't Shatter at Death: Baptism into the Authenticity of the Third Soul	225
13.	The Old Path to the Third Soul: The One World Religion of the Pyramid Builders	246
14.	The Toltec Teachings: Living Voice of the Old Path	254
15.	Forging a New Path to Immortality: Christ's Mission to Save the Human Race	265
16.	The Third Day: Consummation	283
	Conclusion: A New Vision of Life and Death	286
Appendix A	What Was Baptism for the Dead?	297
Appendix B	Integrity and the Nondual	301
Appendix C	How Can Belief Save Anything?	307
	Endnotes	309
	Bibliography	321
	Index	327