Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

David Eagleman

Does heaven consist of all our desires coming true, therefore creating our own personal hell?

Does God spend his evenings reading Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein because he finally found a character who can relate to his own personal experiences?

Were we created by machines of subpar intelligence? Did they create us so they can come to us for the answers to which they themselves cannot fathom… only to be disappointed by a human creation that cannot provide these so called answers?

In the afterlife do we relive all our experiences but only this time in sequential order… sleeping for 30 years in a row… showering for 200 days... Sitting on the toilet for 5 months?

This creative book delves into 40 possibilities or visions of what the after life can look and feel like.

Each chapter is just a few pages long and can be read in a few moments. But the humor and understanding of the human condition in each of these snippets of the hereafter is profound. This is a truly unique book filled with much valuable insight on the human condition, both on a spiritual and materialistic manner. Written by a neuroscientist.

Review by Tony Kainauskas