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Lately I've been absorbing books on both spirituality and the science of consciousness like a giant sponge, perfectly content to curl up in a chair by the fire and read all weekend long, occasionally muttering, "wow!" and dog-earring a page I feel I have to investigate further or read again. I must admit to feeling a little nervous about the one I'm currently working through, Your Eternal Self. Yes it's received just shy of 5 stars on Amazon.com, but who's ever heard of Greater Reality Publications? And what's with the dated-looking cover design? Yet between it's covers the author, R. Craig Hogan, Ph.D, presents an amazing summary of the scientific evidence for irreducible consciousness, citing evidence from psychology, medicine, neuroscience, parapsychology, afterlife studies, etc. and he provides a cumulative (and solid) argument for his thesis.

My first dog-eared page — child prodigy Jay Greenberg, subject of the 60 Minute segment above. Savants and child prodigies are two of many arguements for a unified field of consciousness that our minds, separate from our physical brains, can tap into to gain knowledge and information — also known as non-local intelligence. Wherever one believes his gift originates from, Jay Greenberg (or "BlueJay" as he likes to be called) has been deemed "... a prodigy of the level of the greatest prodigies in history, when it comes to composition" by Samual Zyman, his professor at Julliard.

An amazing world we live in. I'll share more dog-eared discoveries as I find them.

UPDATE: This book is fantastic until Chapter 5 and then, in my opinion, loses a lot of its focus.