In religion the concept of life after death is discussed in great 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 requires a form of immortality of the soul and a lack of immortality of the body: the soul lives forever, the body perishes. John Hick in his excerpt from “Immortality and Resurrection” refutes the ideology that the spirit and body are dichotomous, one being eternal and the other limited. In his vision of the immortality of the human psyche, he states that the spirit and the body are connected; they are not too distinct entities. With this announcement he attempts to demonstrate the existence of life after death by analyzing resurrection from a psychological perspective and through thought experiments. Hick deconstructs the Platonic notion of the duality between the soul and the body. Plato, one of the most influential Greek philosophers who influenced the realm of philosophy and religion, holds that the spirit is eternal and the body a vessel. For him the spirit and the body belong to different worlds: the spirit to "immutable realities...or universals or eternal ideas". and the body to the sensitive world. In turn, the soul, being connected to a world of higher callings and truths, exists in the body after death and leaves the sensible world behind, demonstrating the existence of the immortality of the soul. Furthermore, Plato supports the immortality of the soul by arguing that only composite things can be destroyed. The soul is not composite because it is simple, a concept that cannot be further broken down and examined. Hick shows how Plato's logic is flawed... middle of paper ......the body influences how 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; then it is possible that the body is just a device used to interpret the "sensible world". Therefore, the complexity of the device interpreting the world is not related to whether the entity controlling the device is also complex. Hick's argument attempts to provoke a new understanding of a psychophysical person, rather than a person composed of two separate entities, the body and the world. soul. His work fails to provide convincing evidence of the evidence of a psychophysical person; instead it provides a basis for believing in the division between soul and body. Works Cited Hick, John. Immortality and Resurrection. Pearson Education, Inc. 1990.