BUY ASAP

http://www.amazon.com/There-Life-After-Death/dp/0785821627

The basic premise is that nearing the point of death, you actually never die and the brain gushes with glutamate, as it did once before, during birth, and you re-live your current life again in a virtual reality generated by the brain (or something else) - a Groundhog Day existence, so to speak. This is due to the fact that time dilates and you literally enter a time-less state or at least a state where time is near endless. This is alluded to by the way your perception of time changes dramatically throughout your life for one reason or another - dreaming, playing, getting bored, endangered, excited, sad and so on. Dropping out of time is what Peake calls it.

http://www.amazon.com/Daemon-Guide-Your-Extraordinary-Secret/dp/1848370792/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238477848&sr=1-2

This is Peake's second book and in some ways I think it's more important than his first. His first, 'Is There Life After Death?' looked at the physics of what must happen to you when you die. His second, 'The Daemon' brings on some interesting ideas about what you can do about it before it happens.