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  • The Daemon

  • A Guide to Your Extraordinary Secret Self
  • By: Anthony Peake
  • Narrated by: Anthony Peake
  • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (13 ratings)

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Publisher's Summary

Anthony Peake is engaged in one of the most important strands of ontological inquiry of modern times, nothing less than unravelling the Gordian knot that is the mystery of our existence." (Bob Rickard, founder editor of Fortean Times)

Appearing in Greek mythology and popularized by Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, the Daemon is broadly understood as a guiding spirit which exists as one half of your split self. 

In The Daemon: A Guide to Your Extraordinary Secret Self, Anthony Peake proposes that people consist of not one but two separate consciousnesses - everyday consciousness and that of The Daemon, a higher being that seems to possess knowledge of future events. Drawing upon phenomena such as déjà vu and near-death experiences, he explores the ways that our Daemon breaks through into our consciousness and can subconsciously impact upon our decisions. 

From the author of Is There Life After Death?, this endlessly fascinating book draws upon the neurology, metaphysics and theology. It also follows the stories of famous figures, including Byron, Geothe, Jean Cocteau, and many others who have "felt a force outside themselves". This radical book will change the way you perceive reality, time, and ultimately yourself.

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Fascinating

Springboard to much further reading, more of his books and others he mentioned through this one.

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Revolutionary

An ear opening experience that raises more questions than not about the existence of reality and the human condition.

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Such a lot of research for such a bleak thesis!

Anthony Peake has undertaken an impressive amount of research. He writes well, and reads his work well.

The problem is the goat-tracks of logic joining this or that evidence with the thesis. The vast body of knowledge and experience that are passed over because they don't fit the thesis, and overall, the utterly bleak vision of our existence that Peake presents. It seems our lives are hallucinations, endlessly repeated, our embodied selves ignorant, our daemons all-knowing. But why? What's the point?

Even the arid vision of reductionist/material universe is more satisfying than this, bleak, bleak vision. By all means have a listen: you will learn a lot. But if you are anything like me, you will be left feeling empty.



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