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AfterLife : The Complete Guide to Life after Death
AfterLife The Complete Guide to Life after Death
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What happens to us after we die? Do we survive in some form? Will we be rewarded for our good deeds in life, or punished for our transgressions? Does our future existence take place in another dimension, or are we reborn into another body here on this earth to continue learning the lessons of life? — In Afterlife: The Comple... more », authors Carol Neiman and Emily Goldman take a wide-ranging view of the human search for the answers to these questions. The quest to know whether there is life after death has led to the creation of whole systems of religious and philosophical thought, as rich and varied as humanity itself. It has also led many of the living to try to contact the dead to get answers straight from those who ought to know. And in recent decades, medical science has brought an unprecedented opportunity for thousands of ordinary people to return from death and tell us what it was like.
The stories they tell are beginning to have a revolutionary impact on our ideas about the afterlife — confirming some aspects of our most longstanding beliefs and shattering others. They suggest that perhaps there is indeed something awaiting us after death, and that it is more glorious than we can imagine. Some tell stories of traveling to luminous worlds where they are greeted by loving beings. Others tell of panoramic visions of the events in their lives that amount to a kind of intimate, personal, utterly nonjudgmental review of both good deeds accomplished and hurtful acts inflicted on others. An extraordinary fraction of those who have passed through this "life review" assert that they now understand that love is the most important quality to cultivate in our lives.
The growing and enthusiastic popular response to the reports of near-death experience is changing our perceptions of death in subtle but profound ways, chipping away at ancient taboos and a centuries-old habit of avoiding the subject. AfterLife presents its readers with a challenge to take a new look at the old beliefs about life after death, to take them out of the dusty trunks where they have been all but forgotten in our scientifically-inclined and often cynical society. In doing so, we begin to see the long-neglected nuggets of actual, living reality that lie hidden within the myths that sustained our ancestors. And we have the opportunity to put behind us once and for all the fears and superstitions of our ancestors, and to create a new mythic vision of life and death to sustain ourselves.
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What happens to us after we die? Do we survive in some form? Will we be rewarded for our good deeds in life, or punished for our transgressions? Does our future existence take place in another dimension, or are we reborn into another body here on this earth to continue learning the lessons of life? — In Afterlife: The Comple... more », authors Carol Neiman and Emily Goldman take a wide-ranging view of the human search for the answers to these questions. The quest to know whether there is life after death has led to the creation of whole systems of religious and philosophical thought, as rich and varied as humanity itself. It has also led many of the living to try to contact the dead to get answers straight from those who ought to know. And in recent decades, medical science has brought an unprecedented opportunity for thousands of ordinary people to return from death and tell us what it was like.
The stories they tell are beginning to have a revolutionary impact on our ideas about the afterlife — confirming some aspects of our most longstanding beliefs and shattering others. They suggest that perhaps there is indeed something awaiting us after death, and that it is more glorious than we can imagine. Some tell stories of traveling to luminous worlds where they are greeted by loving beings. Others tell of panoramic visions of the events in their lives that amount to a kind of intimate, personal, utterly nonjudgmental review of both good deeds accomplished and hurtful acts inflicted on others. An extraordinary fraction of those who have passed through this "life review" assert that they now understand that love is the most important quality to cultivate in our lives.
The growing and enthusiastic popular response to the reports of near-death experience is changing our perceptions of death in subtle but profound ways, chipping away at ancient taboos and a centuries-old habit of avoiding the subject. AfterLife presents its readers with a challenge to take a new look at the old beliefs about life after death, to take them out of the dusty trunks where they have been all but forgotten in our scientifically-inclined and often cynical society. In doing so, we begin to see the long-neglected nuggets of actual, living reality that lie hidden within the myths that sustained our ancestors. And we have the opportunity to put behind us once and for all the fears and superstitions of our ancestors, and to create a new mythic vision of life and death to sustain ourselves.
ISBN-13: 9780670857326
ISBN-10: 0670857327
Publication Date: 11/10/1994
Pages: 224
Rating: 2
ISBN-10: 0670857327
Publication Date: 11/10/1994
Pages: 224
Rating: 2
3.5 stars, based on 2 ratings
Publisher: Viking Studio Books
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
Members Wishing: 0
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Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Genres:
- Religion & Spirituality >> New Age & Spirituality >> Reincarnation
- Religion & Spirituality >> Occult & Paranormal >> General
- Religion & Spirituality >> Occult & Paranormal >> Near-Death Experiences
- Religion & Spirituality >> Religious Studies >> Comparative Religion
