Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia

Shermer, author of The Moral Arc and founder of the Skeptics Society, dives into humanity's deepest questions about life and what happens after death. He explores religious versions of the afterlife and science's attempts to explain it, yet approaches both with caution. Incongruences among different religions are examined, and Shermer suggests that their explanations of life after death do not measure up to scientific scrutiny. Even the secular medical community's mechanical attempts to prolong lifespans and touch immortality are dissected and found imperfect. Much like Shermer's previous work UFOs, Chemtrails, and Aliens, this book also requires strict adherence to scientific methods and measurable observations when dealing with supernatural or paranormal occurrences. Shermer succeeds in not only analyzing human beings' efforts to live forever in a utopian existence, but he ends the journey by encouraging readers to seek the forms of heaven which exist around us, in our own lives.