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This edition published in 2008 by Arcturus Publishing Limited
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Copyright © 2008 Anthony Peake/Arcturus Publishing Limited
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Contents
Introduction
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Prologue: The Garden of the Forking Paths
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Chapter 1 Neurology
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Chapter 2 Opening the Doors of Perception
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Chapter 3 The Voices
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Chapter 4 Theology
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Chapter 5 The Dream
158
Chapter 6 Precognition
176
Chapter 7 The Mystery of the Double
198
Chapter 8 The Being of Light
225
Chapter 9 The Protector
255
Chapter 10 Summary: One Man’s Experience
288
Epilogue: Is The Case Proven?
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Index
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I N T R O D U C T I O N
Modern physics teaches us that reality at the quantum level is so
bizarre and strange that normal causality and logic simply breaks
down. Subatomic particles are brought into being by the
observation of a conscious observer, and atoms, the basic building
blocks of reality, are part of this charade. Put simply, we create
reality by observing it – even the reality of objects that existed
before mankind had evolved. A majority of the world’s leading
theoretical physicists believe that the universe splits into identical
copies of itself millions of times a second, while many others
hold that reality is simply a hologram. The Hindus have a word
for this mind-created universe – Maya, or illusion. What we see,
hear and feel is all a creation of our own mind. We each inhabit
one of those trillions of alternative universes. The world is literally
what you make it.
In my first book, Is There Life After Death?: The Extraordinary
Science of What Happens When We Die, I suggest that this strange
world of quantum events has a direct and personal relevance to
each one of us because within this bizarre view of the universe
lie potential clues to our own immortality. In the book I present
evidence to suggest that each one of us carries this world-view
within our brain, enfolded like a hologram within its structures.
There is overpowering scientific evidence that we forget absolutely
nothing. All our experiences, thoughts and sensations are held,
recorded and waiting to be replayed. This is a literal real-life,
virtual-reality holographic experience with you as the star,
producer, director and author. So when is this recording screened?
The answer is both simple and stunning – because I suggest that
this happens at the split second before you die.
Many individuals that have a Near Death Experience, or NDE,
report a phenomenon termed the ‘past life review’. The endogenous
chemicals that are known to stimulate this are exactly the same
ones that cause a temporal lobe epileptic seizure. Individuals who
suffer TLE say that one regular experience is that time slows down,
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becoming almost non-existent. An additional experience is vivid
déjà vu sensations. So what does this all mean?
At the moment before death endorphins and a particular
neurotransmitter called glutamate are pumped into the brain,
causing a profound slowing of internal time perception. At that
point the brain triggers this virtual-reality life re-run in actual
real-time. Put simply, the dying person lives their previous life
again minute by minute. However, I propose that something even
stranger happens at this point. I suggest that consciousness itself
splits into two loci of awareness. These I term the Daemon and
the Eidolon. The dying person starts their life again, the Eidolon
re-living every experience as if it was the first time. However, this
is not so for the Daemon. The Daemon remembers exactly who
it was in the previous life. In effect this being is a simple
continuation of the conscious awareness of the person before the
NDE took hold. As this being begins the new life it has, in effect,
full precognition of what will take place in this new life – simply
because it recalls what happened as a ‘future-memory’.
The Daemon finds its home in the non-dominant hemisphere
and from here acts as an ‘all knowing’ passenger. This is because
within the dominant hemisphere is a new ‘version’ of the dying
person, the Eidolon. This being has no pre-life memories and
begins this life as if it is the first time. Occasionally old memories
break through as déjà vu. However, the Daemon can, under certain
neurological circumstances, guide and assist its ignorant partner
when it feels it is needed. Every Daemon-induced change creates
a new universe to accommodate the implications of this change.
In the first book I described in detail the mechanism by which
this ‘Cheating the Ferryman’ takes place. In this book it is my
intention to focus in more on the evidence for the existence of
the Daemon. Can it really be true that you, the being reading these
words, consist of not one, but two, personalities? Only you can
decide if the evidence I present is convincing or otherwise . . .
of course you could always ask your Daemon!
Anthony Peake, March 2008
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The universe is built on a plan,
the profound symmetry of which
is somehow present in the
inner structure of our intellect.
Paul Valéry
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So the Platonic year
Whirls out new right and wrong,
Whirls in the old instead;
All men are dancers and their tread
Goes to the barbarous clamour of a gong.
W. B. Yeats
The inner ET
‘We are not alone.’
Remember that phrase? It was the tag line for one of the most
popular movies of all time: Close Encounters of the Third Kind. This
film suggested that extraterrestrial life not only exists but that it
is intelligent and peaceful. This was a wonderful suggestion at a
time when humanity felt very isolated and in danger of nuclear
war. The idea that we were being watched over by benevolent and
sensitive ‘space-brothers’ was curiously reassuring and many
left the cinema feeling more assured about mankind and its
potential future.
This book also suggests that we are not alone. However, it is
from Inner, not Outer, Space that this intelligence can be found.
Welcome to a secret that has been known for at least 3,000 years.
A secret that is a part of all the great esoteric traditions – that the
human being is a binary, not a unitary, intelligence.
Let us ponder on this for a few minutes.
I would like to start by asking you a question. What made you
pick up this book? What series of events brought about the
circumstances whereby you are reading these words? Why this
book and not the dozens of others that you could have chosen?
Simple answer: you picked up this book because your whole life
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has been a series of guided coincidences that have placed you
here, reading these words, at precisely this time. What is more,
by the time you finish the last page of this book you will spot
the chance decisions, going back over the years, that made this
event take place. This book is your fate. Intrigued?
Up until now your life has been made up of a series of chance
events that have coincided to create a history, a memory of what
has gone on before. And you, you are the consciousness that has
perceived those events as you have travelled through time. From
moment to moment your life has consisted of decisions, millions
upon millions of them, and each one has changed your future.
Every second you decide to do one thing or another – to cross
or not cross a road, to speak to somebody or ignore him or her,
to watch one television channel rather than another. And within
each one of these decisions lie the seeds of a different life, a
different course of events. Like snooker balls they bounce and
ricochet off in a multiplicity of directions. Every small decision
made with no conscious thought changes the future, brings a
possible future into an actual event.
Some of those decisions you were very happy with. They were,
from your present viewpoint, the ‘right’ thing to do. But from the
moment that you set the train of events into motion you knew
that others were wrong. You watched as the cause and effect
process rippled out to affect life after life. ‘No man is an island’,
wrote John Donne, and as regards how we interact with others
no truer words have ever been written.
This book will present evidence that your decisions, although
made by you, have been guided by another being, a higher
intelligence that shares your thoughts, your dreams and the good
times and the bad. However, it also has knowledge that you do
not have. In fact it not only knows everything about you, it also
knows everything that you will do. It can do this for one simple
reason – it has lived your life before!
And it gives us clues about this knowledge. Indeed, my first
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book was guided by this intelligence. Let me explain why I believe
this to be the case.
Footsteps in the snow
For me it all started with mitochondria.
I had no real idea why – indeed, I had no real idea what I was
doing or where I was going. Three months before, circumstances
had conspired to allow me a period of free time whereby I could
fulfil a life-long ambition: to write a book. This is something that
most people would like to do but with me it was different. It was
a burning need. I felt that my life would only become complete
if I saw my muddled thoughts in print. The idea of what kind of
book was clear in my mind. It would consist of pages and be
paper-bound. It would be bought by a handful of people and
would then languish in obscurity. It would never appear in
any libraries and would never be reviewed by any magazine or
newspaper. That was clear. However, a much more crucial aspect
of my project was in no way clear – the subject matter. That I was
going to write a non-fiction book was the only thing that was
really clear to me when, in early 2000, I sat myself down in front
of a blank computer screen.
Certain subjects had leapt to mind. I had a lifelong interest
in the human mind and the nature of consciousness. I had also
been fascinated by parapsychology, UFOs, religious belief and
quantum physics. All of these seemed totally unrelated, but
something inside me drove me on and that something then gave
me a clue, not only to its existence but also to the subject matter
of my future book.
As I have already stated, it all started with mitochondria. Which
is a curious statement in itself in that life as we know it also
started with mitochondria. On this tiny planet of ours all living
things are divided into two distinct groups: bacteria/archaea and
the rest. Human beings and all visible life forms belong to the
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rest, which are collectively known as eukaryotes. What divides
these two groups is that the cells of all eukaryotes contain within
them smaller structures such as the nucleus, which houses the
chromosomes, and curious objects known as mitochondria. On
the other hand bacteria and archaea are unicellular. What
fascinated me about mitochondria is that they contain their own
DNA. This has a totally different code from the more influential
DNA contained in the nucleus.
I was interested in this particular fact because I had been
reading up about something called the Anthropic Cosmological
Principle. This fascinating theory suggests that the universe has
developed specifically for the evolution of intelligent and, more
crucially, conscious life. A series of hugely unlikely coincidences
have fine-tuned the environment in order that you and I can be
here to write and read this book. Crucial to this was the split
into bacterial, archaeac and eukaryotic-based life forms. This
occurred around 2,500 million years ago. By developing the
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‘If the world may be thought of as a certain definite quantity
of force and as a certain definite number of centres of force –
and every other representation remains indefinite and therefore
useless – it follows that, in the great dice game of existence,
it must pass through a calculable number of combinations. In
infinite time, every possible combination would at some time
or another be realized; more: it would be realized an infinite
number of times. And since between every combination and its
next recurrence all other possible combinations would have to
take place, and each of these combinations conditions the
entire sequence of combinations in the same series, a circular
movement of absolutely identical series is thus demonstrated:
the world as a circular movement that has already repeated
itself infinitely often and plays its dice game in infinitum.’
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compartmentalization of the cell nucleus and the mitochondria
the eukaryotes were freed from the need to have a rigid cell wall,
which is used by other organisms to distribute genetic material
at cell division. This allowed them to engulf and eat other living
structures just as amoeba do today. Evolution had been given
a massive kick-start.
I
vaguely
recalled
that mitochondria, and therefore
mitochondrial DNA, were only carried down through the female
line. At that stage I was in great need of more information on
this subject. I took myself over to my library of bookcases, at a
loss as to where I would find this particular reference. My eyes
then alighted on my collection of Richard Dawkins books.
As Dawkins is a zoologist it was possible that I had read about
mitochondrial DNA in one of his books. I reached out and pulled
off the shelf my copy of Dawkins’ The Blind Watchmaker. I had
read this book only once and that was sitting on Pedi Beach on
the Greek Island of Symi 12 years earlier.
Now a little personal note: I adore books. I never throw them
away and I try hard to avoid the temptation to loan them out. I
also like to keep them as pristine as possible. I try very hard never
to break the spine of a book and under no circumstances will I
‘dog-ear’ a page to keep my place. Indeed, I have dozens of books
with bookmarkers in them of various types, designs and sizes.
And that is why I was really surprised to note that of all my
books this one seemed to have one page that had been carefully
turned over at the top. A much younger version of me had done
the unthinkable. He had presumably decided to go for lunch and
something in him had decided not to use a bookmark but to
‘dog-ear’ the page. Even now I find this impossible to do, but on
that hot Greek day many years ago I, or somebody, did.
Then a really weird thing happened. A thought that was not
my own entered my head.
‘That’s the page you need,’ it said.
I opened the book at the offending fold and read down the
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