Susan's argument towards the close of the book is that modern cognitive psychology's discovery that all our experience is modelling, points logically to Buddha's discovery under the bodhi-tree that isolated suffering selfhood is an illusion, and I would agree entirely. Where it seems to me that her case falls short is in failing to convey what it was about the Buddha's discovery which gave rise to legends about all the gods of the universe coming to bow down to him in gratitude for this enlightenment, when no-one I've yet met has ever felt that way about cognitive psychologists nor, I regret to say, about Susan's book. It is a Wonder that contains all the marvels that the airy-fairy theories are trying, inadequately, to express. The trouble with all reductive explanations, even gentle ones like Susan's, is that their tone effectively throws out the baby of marvel with the bathwater of nonsense that comes from trying to describe the marvel too literally. My inclination is to think that enough will be enough both from Eternity's point of view and Planet Earth's, but the Infinite Eternal isn't governed by what I or anyone else can believe or doubt.
Words fail in trying to say anything about it, but it's the absolute opposite of loss.
The best I can manage in trying to describe it is to say that it embraces and includes the value of all J W-L's actual and possible 'achievements' and relationships without the limitations of time and space. And as for life in time before death, all the resources of Eternity are available to each of us at every instant as the ordinary natural Ground of our personal being, and this includes all the value of 'spirit guides', 'wisdom from the Other Side', patron saints, angels, archangels and all the company of heaven, without the Monty Python silliness that inevitably results from the finite mind's attempts to imagine such things concretely. You can give a rating to this scheme overall. Click 0-10 below and press the Submit button. DoBe.org or click on the image below.