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In The Afterlife of a Restless Soul: But Is God Really a Woman? author John Brinster offers the reader a provocative look at possible afterlife scenarios. Professor Jeremiah Cackelry III has died from complication of a Viagra dose. He is a brilliant scholar and an absolute atheist who finds himself in a very difficult situation following his untimely demise. He awakens to find himself as some sort of spirit entity and he attempts to comprehend the transition he has made. Being both an astronomer and a physicist, he cannot fathom that this spirit world has thus far gone undetected by the greatest minds in the scientific community. His most pressing concern is that there is no organization or purpose to the spirit world. So he goes about soliciting ideas from the great minds of those in what he names Spiritland. They begin to address concerns about conditions on Earth, such as the crowded penal system and why humans appear to be possessed by both imagination and superstition. Cackelry is now in command and he begins to have feelings associated with others he has known in such positions of power. There is speculation about the elusive nature of human emotion and how women factor into using their uncanny, nearly godlike instinctual, emotional gifts.
There are issues galore in this book and many readers will finish the book with more questions than resolutions. Even though Cackelry dismisses religions as useful to humankind, he has no trouble assuming a position of ultimate power in Spiritland such that he attempts to control much as he surmises religious doctrine controls. The ending brings an interesting surprise, whereby the reader understands that, despite one's beliefs, second chances do present themselves at opportune times.
