Deepak Chopra - Life After Death: The Book of Answers

CONTENTS

Also by Deepak Chopra

Creating Health

Return of the Rishi

Quantum Healing

Perfect Health

Unconditional Life

Ageless Body, Timeless Mind

Journey into Healing

Creating Affluence

Perfect Weight

Restful Sleep

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success

The Return of Merlin

Boundless Energy

Perfect Digestion

The Way of the Wizard

Overcoming Addictions

Raid on the Inarticulate

The Path to Love

The Seven Spiritual Laws for Parents

The Love Poems of Rumi

(edited by Deepak Chopra; translated by Deepak Chopra and Fereydoun Kia)

Healing the Heart

Everyday Immortality

The Lords of the Light

On the Shores of Eternity

How to Know God

The Soul in Love

The Chopra Center Herbal Handbook

(with coauthor David Simon)

Grow Younger, Live Longer

(with coauthor David Simon)

The Deeper Wound

The Chopra Center Cookbook

(coauthored by David Simon and Leanne Backer)

The Angel Is Near

The Daughters of Joy

Golf for Enlightenment

Soulmate

SynchroDestiny

The Book of Secrets

Fire in the Heart

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga

(with coauthor David Simon)

Magical Beginnings, Enchanted Lives

(coauthored by David Simon and Vicki Abrams)

Praise for L IFE A FTER D EATH

Deepak Chopra has written a masterpiece that is long overdue in our spiritual culture. Life After Death: The Book of Answers is a bold and comforting guide into the afterlife. Eternity is the true home of the soul, yet we fear to explore experience of death and our place beyond now. Deepak has brilliantly accomplished this journey on our behalf.

C AROLINE M YSS , author of Anatomy of the Spirit and Sacred Contracts

Here is the paradox: lifes greatest mysterydeathseems to be its opposite and its very denial. However, anyone who reads Deepak Chopras penetrating and insightful investigation into this great mystery with an open mind will come to realize that the opposite of death is birth, not life. Life, which in essence is consciousness, is eternal and has no opposite. There is no death, only the metamorphosis of life-forms, consciousness appearing as this or that. This is the liberating truth the book continuously points to.

E CKHART T OLLE , author of The Power of Now

Wide-ranging and thought-provoking, this book puts the question of life after death in a vast perspective. It is an excellent antidote to any self-imposed limitations we may have on our thinking about the nature of life, death and consciousness.

R UPERT S HELDRAKE , Ph.D., biologist and author of The Presence of the Past

Who is not curious about what happens after death? And even when there are many answers available, both ancient and modern, even some based on new science, the question What does Deepak Chopra have to say about this? is an important one for our age. Well, finally, Deepaks answer is here, and it is very affirming on meaningful questions. I like that. Need I say more? This is a great book for your easy reading.

A MIT G OSWAMI , Ph.D., author of The Self-Aware Universe, Physics of the Soul, and The Quantum Doctor

This fascinating, provocative and profound book is written with exquisite ease and with a very personal warmth that makes its invitations to expansion of consciousness all the more delicious and powerful.

A NDREW H ARVEY , author of The Direct Path and Sun at Midnight

What if life and death are like two locked boxes, each containing the key to the other? In this book Dr. Chopra looks at life after death from this intriguing perspective and proposes that death may not constitute the extinction of life, as usually imagined, but rather its extension by other means. He draws upon a dazzling array of sources, from ancient myths to the findings of modern science, to produce a work of compelling novelty on an eternal mystery.

A RVIND S HARMA , Birks Professor of Comparative Religion, McGill University

Deepak Chopra has been my friend and mentor for nearly twenty years. Now, when we baby-boomers are finally admitting our own mortality, he has tackled the ultimate subject which fascinates us all: life after death. Drawing from many cultures, and emphasizing the idea of Karma from his own, Deepak interweaves mythical lore with first-hand spellbinding anecdotes to somehow make the subject of death very useful and relevant to making the most time on the Earth here and now. A must-read for everyone who will die.

C ANDACE B. P ERT , P H .D ., author of Everything You Need to Know to Feel Good

In this remarkable book, Deepak Chopra turns to the anomalies in science that modern physicists are trying to explain, and considers how the rishis, the ancient sages of Vedanta, dealt with the very same questions. According to the observer effect in physics, for example, the very act of looking at an electron forces it to leave the quantum soup of pure potential and take specific form. Vedic rishis believed that seeing is the ultimate act of creationthat through consciousness each of us shapes the universe we experience. By marrying science and wisdom in Life After Death, Chopra builds his case for an afterlife in which our most essential self, the seer that observes our experiences in this temporary home that we call the self, uses the end of this lifetime to pass over into the next. This is an intellectual and spiritual tour de force.

P ROFESSOR R OBERT T HURMAN , Columbia University, author of Infinite Life and The Tibetan Book of the Dead

In this book, Deepak brilliantly creates a remarkable tapestry for opening our hearts, minds and consciousness to explore for ourselves the mysteries of life, death and the mind. He cleverly interlaces mystical stories, childhood memories, thoughts on creation, scientific data about many areas, and questions that will allow the reader to reexamine and to question old beliefs about our own identity. With an open-minded approach, this book stretches our mind and our imagination to explore a reality of truth that is far beyond our physical reality.

G ERALD G. J AMPOLSKY , M.D., author of Love Is Letting Go of Fear and founder of the International Center for Attitudinal Healing (Sausalito, California)

If I had any doubts about the afterlife, I dont have them anymore. Deepak Chopra has cast his inimitable light on the darkened corners of death. I think this is his greatest contribution yet.

M ARIANNE W ILLIAMSON , author of The Gift of Chang

As I shuttled between East and West cultures, the greatest difference that I have found has been attitudes toward death and life-after-death. Deepak Chopra has combined East and West in his Being. He is familiar with Vedanta, the laws of Karma, and Hindu myths for he grew up in a Hindu family in India. But then he went to a Catholic school, where he learned the fathers take on death and afterlife. He is familiar with Western science so we have quantum physics and consciousness theories in the mix, and then he is a Western physician, which makes him familiar with Near-Death Experiences (NDEs). In this book he incorporates these parts of his Being to provide us with a masterful treatment of life-after-death.