The middle

Be careful, though this book presents arguments and evidence refuting the classic materialism (hence the eagerness of some rationalists & materialistic clueless), the author skips steps and performs shortcuts that lack of explanation and argument, although they were supposed to justify the title of his book.

If he fails to convince the most skeptical of a life after death, he nevertheless manages to refute the materialistic thesis (monism) that consciousness would be material in nature, and would be located only (and not outside) in the brain because the mind (again according to this assumption) is secreted by neurons (while a neuron has / contains no consciousness, neural billion interaction does not produce more consciousness). Now the neurology studies, in addition to type of experience NDE / EMI, demonstrates otherwise. That's not the material that creates the Spirit, but rather the opposite.

That consciousness is independent of the brain, which is therefore immaterial, but remains linked to the brain. The brain is like a kind of radio in which music is not stored in the device. But if we remove one of the components of the radio, it starts to go awry.
Thus, the brain could very well be an interface between the human body (physical dimension) and an immaterial dimension of consciousness. Many results in this direction, as the work of Benjamin Libet, John Eccles or the conclusions of Wilder Penfield.

What is amazing, after the development of many sophisticated techniques to see brain think after so many peak experiences always made in a conceptual framework in which the brain produces consciousness is that a summit of neurosurgery as Wilder Penfield who had never looked toward the dualist thesis to conclude that (in contrast to the assertions of many materialists):

"After a lifetime of trying to discover how the brain explains the spirit, this is me as a surprise to discover now, on the occasion of the last review of the matter, that the dualistic assumption (the separation of mind and brain) seems the most reasonable of the two possible explanations. " (Quoted by Michael Sabom, "Death Memories", p.280)

Finally, this work allows to study many interesting questions, and opening new horizons, such as:

- This book is an excellent introduction to the NDE / EMI, and seriously raises the question of encouraging scientific research in this area.
- The data in this book are food for thought rationalist-materialist as spiritualists.
- The author demonstrates that the scientific facts refute (s) assumption (s) materialist (s).
- Opens new perceptions of the direction / mode (the) life.
- One (the) life after death is no longer an absurd hypothesis and seems more than likely, besides being logical and rational (though this does not please the radical rationalists).
- That there is a real transcendence, and that the foundations of spirituality and religion has not within the fantasy or lower psychological failures.
- That man is a spiritual being in its essence.

One downside, the title of his book, he had better change, not to be at odds with the content of the latter, and thus give them a more objective vision, in line with the essence of his work .