A New Science of Heaven

New knowledge from the most recent advances in a little-known area of science matches many of the accounts surviving down the ages from mystics, meditators, people who have survived near-death experiences, inspired sages and shamans, and experiences from dreams and trance states. Such accounts have until now been dismissed by people inclined to hold ‘materialistic’ views of the world. Many people often take pride in describing themselves as ‘sceptics’ or ‘agnostics’. Here, Robert Temple takes the view that it is reasonable to be sceptical, but can understand how these altered states may have been used in the past to access awareness of the elusive and apparently immaterial ‘other world’ by shamans and seers over the millennia.