The Lost Secret of Death
Peter Novak
(Reviewer - Rev. Marie D. Jones)
2003 Hampton Roads Publishing
ISBN: 1571743243

Our Divided Souls and the Afterlife. Stunning proof of the Binary Soul Doctrine as the key to the secrets of the afterlife.

Associate Reviewer Rev. Marie D. Jones writes:

That we all have a soul is a given. But after reading Peter Novak's awe-inspiring &; shocking The Lost Secret of Death: Our Divided Souls and the Afterlife, an intensely researched argument for the Binary Soul Doctrine, any givens are suddenly up for grabs.

So persuasive is Novak's book, & the amazingly rich & detailed evidence he backs up his theory with, that this reader was completely changed & will never think the same about life, death or anything again.

The Binary Soul Doctrine, as Novak claims so persuasively, is a theory that has been present from the beginning of time, & one that is found in every great religion on the face of this Earth. The Doctrine states that we have two souls, divided at birth, that long for union all through our lives.

That most of us will never achieve union while we are alive is tragic, & the author brilliantly parallels the divided soul theory with the ills & miseries of human life, especially in modern times when we are so cut off from our inner voices. But the real scary & challenging stuff is not what happens during life, but after death.

Using a myriad of near-death accounts, past life regressions, & the writings of religious texts, Novak compares the after-death experience & finds that there is a pervasive similarity which runs beneath all -- the divided soul that is trying to unite its two parts. Even the Bible is filled with comments about this binary soul, as are the major texts of the world's religions, as well as the ancient shamanic & earth-based traditions.

Novak also examines the most recent research into consciousness, the brain & thought to show how this dual soul theory also reaches into the realms of science & human biology, & how it explains the constant battle between left & right brain, reason & intuition, science & art.

With all this evidence of the Binary Soul Doctrine, it is hard to see how we could have gotten so far from the possible truth & instead settled on a one-soul theory that permeates our belief systems today. Novak covers those issues as well, along with the fact that Christ himself may have been our real ticket to soul union, & unless we learn from him & follow his lead, the suffering our souls may face in the afterlife will be tremendous.

What this book does is shoot down so many shaky theories we hold near & dear about how pretty & cozy death will be, & for some it will be. But for many it will be just the opposite, & without giving away too much, suffice to say that the author does a truly convincing job of explaining heaven & hell in Binary Soul Doctrine terms.

The glorious thing about the Binary Soul Doctrine is how it explains all the discrepancies, differences & disparities between science & religion, & between Eastern & Western spiritual thought. It also reconciles different accounts of life after death with one basic concept that is so hard to ignore or deny once you've read this book. The Doctrine also connects the world's greatest philosophers such as Carlos Castaneda, Edgar Cayce, & Emanuel Swedenborg with a commonality of vision that makes the concept of death much clearer, when examined in terms of a dual soul.

That the Binary Soul Doctrine is 100% completely, unarguably right is still up for grabs. But after reading this truly amazing book, I, for one, am convinced. I read a lot of books, & not one has ever made so many things about life, misery, happiness, destiny, death & religious belief make sense as this one did.

More from Peter Novak:
The Division of Consciousness: The Secret Afterlife of the Human Psyche.
(04/04/04)

Rev. Marie D. Jones
2004©Marie D. Jones
A RebeccasReads.Com Associate Reviewer

Reviewer's Bio:
Marie Jones is a New Thought minister, author of Looking For God In All The Wrong Places & a widely published writer of inspirational essays, gift books, short stories & magazine articles. She is also a screenwriter, & has produced a children's storybook video series for Gigglebug Farms Productions. she holds a Masters Degree in Metaphysical Studies & is a licensed pastoral counsellor.