The Half-Open Door - by Philip Goodwin (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

A journey through new thinking about consciousness, exploring what it is, what it means, and what happens when we die.

What happens to consciousness when we die? Triggered by the death of loved ones, author Philip Goodwin takes us on a highly personal journey through new thinking on consciousness and its interaction with older philosophical and religious ideas. In a series of engaging episodes, Goodwin unpacks some of the most profound questions we ask ourselves.

Review Quotes

The Half Open Door is a very moving and illuminating account of an intellectual and spiritual odyssey to answer the question, 'where are they; what has happened?' - one we all must face when someone we love dies. He starts from his own deeply felt family experience of death - and two remarkable accounts of his own brushes with near death - and then embarks on an impressively rigorous, wide ranging, and candid quest to work out what is really going on. Whether you agree with his eventual conclusions or not, I found it an inspiring example of how we might go about pondering this difficult but most important of questions.--Stuart Bell, CBE, Chief Executive NHS Foundation Trust

About the Author

The author is a businessman and academic with a lifelong interest in philosophical and religious questions. He has degrees from Oxford University and the University of Manchester, where he also completed his Doctorate. He is the founder of Fusion Group Africa, a residential and commercial developer based in Nairobi, Kenya.