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In his most ambitious work yet\\u2014a scientific exploration into humanity\\u2019s obsession with the afterlife and quest for immortality\\u2014bestselling author and skeptic, Michael Shermer, sets out to discover what drives humans\\u2019 belief in life after death, focusing on recent scientific attempts to achieve immortality along with utopian attempts to create heaven on earth.

For millennia, religions have concocted numerous manifestations of heaven and the afterlife, and though no one has ever returned from such a place to report what it is really like\\u2014or that it even exists\\u2014today science and technology are being used to try to make it happen in our lifetime. From radical life extension to cryonic suspension to mind uploading, Shermer considers how realistic these attempts are from a proper skeptical perspective.

Heavens on Earth concludes with an uplifting paean to purpose and progress and how we can live well in the here-and-now, whether or not there is a hereafter.

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