What’s it like to write a mega bestseller and not get credit for it?

A chat with the elusive Ptolemy Tompkins—son of Secret Life of Plants author and New Age guru Peter Tompkins—on ghost writing Proof of Heaven. We also discuss the Intelligence Squared debate, Death Is Not Final, against Sean Carroll and Steven Novella…and what it was like to watch that shit show from the sidelines. This is part one in a three-part series. Next week we’ll discuss a book Ptolemy did get credit for, The Modern Book of the Dead, in which he offers a modern map of the afterlife for our science-soaked souls. After that we’ll talk about a book I’ve written about before (it’s my personal favorite of his), The Divine Life of Animals, on the souls of animals and our relationship to them in the divine-natural order. https://philosophyandfiction.substack...