Here's a sample of one of the chapter introductions:
8. SOULED OUT
If This World doesn’t give you enough to believe in, there
is always the Hereafter, a place notoriously dependent upon Faith
for its very existence. What happens to people when they die?
Most of us don’t concern ourselves about the postmortem prospects
of termites or cockroaches. (If we did, the pesticide industry
would have to do some deep soul-searching.) But when it comes
to people, and especially people close to us, well that’s
another story. And when it comes to the closest person of all
– the good old Self – that indeed is another whole chapter
– this chapter, in fact.
Let’s face it -- this particular question, and the fact that
we do all have to face it, is actually the greatest thing we all
have in common. That (no doubt) is one reason why human beings,
as a class, are frequently referred to in literature as "mortals."
As a paid-up mortal in good standing since 1933, I am, like most
of the rest of us, anxious to maintain that status as long as
possible. Not that I have anything against immortality per se
– but I can’t help having doubts about the exact process
by which it is to be achieved.
About my work, however, I have fewer qualms. If any part of it,
after having been born in my mind, passes over into yours, surely
to that extent we are both already tasting the immortality of
a Brilliant Thought.