In religion, the concept of life after death is discussed in detail. In monotheistic religions, particularly Christian theology, death is a place where the soul, the eternal spirit that is part of you, transcends or descends depending on whether you go to heaven or hell. The argument calls for a form of immortality of the soul and an absence of immortality of the body: the soul lives eternally, the body perishes. John Hick, in his excerpt from “Immortality and Resurrection,” refutes the ideology that the mind and body are dichotomous, one being eternal and the other limited. In his vision of the immortality of the human psyche, he asserts that the mind and body are linked; they are not too distinct entities. With this proclamation, he attempts to prove the existence of life after death by analyzing resurrection from a psychological perspective and through thought experiments. Hick deconstructs the Platonic notion of duality between soul and body. Plato, one of the most influential Greek philosophers who influenced the field of philosophy and religion, held that the mind is eternal and the body a vessel. For him, the mind and the body belong to different worlds: the mind to “immutable realities… or to universals or to eternal ideas”. and the body to the sensitive world. In turn, the soul being linked to a world of higher callings and truths, it exists in the body after death and leaves the sentient world behind, thus proving the existence of the immortality of the soul. Plato also defends the immortality of the soul by asserting that only composite things can be destroyed. The soul is not composite because it is simple – a concept that cannot be further broken down or examined. Hick shows how Plato's logic is flawed... middle of paper ... the body affects the way we interpret the world, but this does not conflict with the existence of the indivisible notion of the soul. If the soul and the body are two distinct entities, where the soul inhabits the physical shell, the body; it is then possible that the body is only an apparatus used to interpret the “sensible world”. Therefore, the complexity of the device interpreting the world is not also related to the complexity of the entity controlling the device. Hick's argument attempts to provoke a new understanding of a psychophysical person, rather than a person composed of two distinct entities, the body and the body. soul. His work fails to provide convincing evidence for the existence of a psychophysical person; instead, it provides a basis for the belief in a division between soul and body. Works Cited Hick, John. Immortality and resurrection. Pearson Education, Inc.. 1990.