The Division of Consciousness: The Secret Afterlife of the Human Psyche

Faced with the finality of death, most of us have pondered the ultimate question: do we have souls and do they survive death? In the East many believe that the soul is reincarnated to live another life, and in the West that we are judged and live in a permanent afterlife state.

After the tragic death of his wife, the author threw himself into the study of the evidence for the soul's survival of death. Drawing on mythology, psychology, religion and science, as well as past-life regression and near death experiences, Novak concludes that the human psyche not only survives but divides at death, with the conscious mind reincarnating and the subconscious mind judging itself.

This startling conclusion not only explains the differences between many of the world's great religions, but also shows that humanity's intuitions about the soul's survival has a reality separate and distinct from the mind's philosophical conflicts.