Michael Prescott's Blog

Despite the paucity of my posts lately, I haven't been entirely idle. I finally got around to writing my book on the afterlife, which I call The Far Horizon: Perspectives on Life Beyond Death. 

I was planning to self-publish this short (45,000-word) book and maybe sell a handful of copies. But when I announced it on Facebook, a helpful Facebook friend, Maryam Ebadi, contacted Jon Beecher, who runs White Crow Books, the well-known niche publisher of paranormal titles. Jon was interested in handling the book and got in touch with me. We had a very friendly FaceTime chat—one of the few times I've ever used FaceTime—and agreed to do the deal.

So the upshot is that The Far Horizon will come out in both paperback and digital editions through White Crow, probably within the next three months or so.

Here's the blurb I wrote for the book when I was planning to self-publish. It gives you the gist:

THE FAR HORIZON

Over the past century and a half, a wealth of evidence has emerged that is consistent, at least, with the hypothesis of life after death.

• Near-death experiences
• Deathbed visions
• Mediumship
• Apparitions
• Past-life memories, and memories of a between-lives state

Yet even those who are inclined to take this evidence seriously may struggle to make sense of it. How can the idea of an afterlife be integrated into our everyday experience? How can we connect the seemingly nebulous notion of postmortem survival with the hard, tangible reality of life on earth?

Through metaphors, images, and analogies—illustrated with dozens of documented cases drawn from the literature of parapsychology—this book suggests ways of looking at life beyond death, not as a baffling anomaly, but as a logical extension of our experience of reality here and now.

The hope is that we can learn to see reports of an afterlife as something more than mere ghost stories … and to sharpen the focus of our gaze on The Far Horizon.

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The book offers four main metaphors or "models" of the afterlife, all of which have been discussed on this blog:

1.  the virtual-reality simulation model
2.  the spectrum of frequencies model
3.  the Flatland model; and 
4.  the diamond model.

There's also a concluding chapter that examines the meaning and purpose of it all. 

Although my focus is not on "proving" postmortem survival, the various models are illustrated with case studies that serve as evidence. I have to say that most of the material (both the models and the case histories) derives from posts I've already published on this blog, which is how I was able to put to the book together pretty quickly. However, it's not just a compilation of blog posts. I extensively rewrote most of the content and structured it into what I hope is a coherent presentation.

One thing I discovered when rereading old blog posts is how many typos there are. I never realized there were so many. Oh, well. You get what you pay for, and this blog is free. The book will cost money, but it will also be professionally proofread.

Cheers!