Dreams and Resurrection: On Immortal Selves, Psychedelics, and Christianity

Dreams and Resurrection: On Immortal Selves, Psychedelics, and Christianity

by Jack Call
Dreams and Resurrection: On Immortal Selves, Psychedelics, and Christianity

Dreams and Resurrection: On Immortal Selves, Psychedelics, and Christianity

by Jack Call

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Overview

If you are ever haunted by the thought of being sucked away into nothingness, you should read this book. It would be understandable for you to think that everything that can be said about the probability of an afterlife has already been said, but that doesn't matter. What matters is whether you remember the reasons why personal, subjective immortality makes sense and eternal death doesn't. Here you will find an extended inductive argument to that conclusion, based on the time-honored analogies between life and dream, death and sleep. The author takes an argument of David Hume's and turns it on its head. That argument forms the core of a view the author describes as Taoistic, psychedelic Christianity. Taoistic in that God's power is conceived as purely artistic and inspirational, and psychedelic in that the author acknowledges that taking LSD had a profound and benign influence on his life. On this view, the first-person perspective is given in experience. What kind of person you are is an ever-unfolding story that you strive to perfect.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781782796831
Publisher: Collective Ink
Publication date: 11/28/2014
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 135
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Jack Call PhD, teaches philosophy at Citrus College in southern California. He has published numerous essays on the relations between philosophy, religion and social science. He received his PhD from Claremont Graduate University.

Table of Contents

Inductive reasoning about the afterlife 1

Where will I be after I'm dead? 8

The dream analogy 14

Dreaming of waking up 21

Inside and outside 26

Fully mortal, fully immortal 36

Afterlife and pre-life 39

Are other people really there? 43

More on what difference it makes 54

How an afterlife might make sense 67

Transcendence and immanence 73

Punishments, rewards, tests 75

Psychedelics 82

Christianity 94

The reality of selves 106

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