CONTENTS
PART I: VARIETIES OF MORTAL EXPERIENCES AND IMMORTAL QUESTS
CHAPTER 1. A Lofty Thought: Imagining Mortality
CHAPTER 2. What Dreams May Come: Imagining Immortality
CHAPTER 3. Heavens Above: The Afterlives of the Monotheisms
PART II: THE SCIENTIFIC SEARCH FOR IMMORTALITY
CHAPTER 4. Heavens Within: The Afterlives of the Spiritual Seekers
CHAPTER 5. Evidence for the Afterlife: Near Death Experiences and Reincarnation
CHAPTER 6. Evidence for the Afterlife: Anomalous Psychological Experiences and Talking to the Dead
CHAPTER 7. Soul Stuff: Identity, Replication, and Resurrection
CHAPTER 8. Afterlife for Atheists: Can Science Defeat Death?
PART III: ALL OUR YESTERDAYS AND TOMORROWS
CHAPTER 9. All Our Yesterdays: Progress, Decline, and the Pull of Pessimism
CHAPTER 10. All Our Tomorrows: Utopias and Dystopias in Fiction and in Fact
PART IV: MORTALITY AND MEANING
CHAPTER 11. Why We Die: The Mortal Individual and the Immortal Species
CHAPTER 12. Imagine There’s No Heaven: Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe