The Far Horizon

Subtitled 'perspectives on life beyond death', this fascinating book provides four different approaches to understanding the evidence, all with extensive illustrative case histories from the literature based on over 30 years of research. The etymology of the word 'concept' literally means to grasp with, as does comprehend; we do so through language and metaphors as ways of mapping territories and making sense. The author's four approaches are a fully immersive first-person computational virtual reality game, a continuum of frequencies, a hierarchy of dimensions, and a diamond of many facets.

Each corresponding chapter draws on particular cases to highlight the usefulness of the approach in considerable depth. One can intuitively understand the relationship between the metaphors of frequency, dimensions and facets, while the capacity to know is inherent in consciousness itself. The final chapter considers the nature of the I-Thought as the 'universal awareness, the Mind of God, which branches out into countless individual minds.' This lies beyond all the models, and the author lucidly explains how this is refracted through his models (p. 177). In every case, we have to hold together the perspectives of linear time and existence outside time where 'each perspective is correct on its own terms' even if this is logically paradoxical as in 'all is one, and everything has already happened, and will happen, and is happening now.' Or 'all facets of the diamond have always existed, and yet it is only our struggle that brings them into being.' I'm sure that the author is on the right track here, and it is well worth joining him on the journey even though it is already complete at another level….