Mark Mirabello

A Traveler's Guide to the Afterlife

Traditions and Beliefs on Death, Dying, and What Lies Beyond

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on death and afterlife traditions from cultures around the world, Mark Mirabello explores the many forms of existence beyond death and each tradition's instructions to access the afterlife. He examines beliefs on the soul, heaven, hell, and reincarnation and wisdom from Books of the Dead such as the Book of Going Forth by Day from Egypt, the Katha Upanishad from India, the Bardo Thodol from Tibet, the Golden Orphic Tablets from Greece, Lieh Tzu from China, and Heaven and its Wonders and Hell from Things Heard and Seen from 18th-century Europe. Considering the question "What is Death?" Mirabello provides answers from a wide range of ancient and modern thinkers, including scientist Nicholas Maxwell, the seer Emanuel Swedenborg, 1st-century Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna, and Greek philosopher Euripides, who opined that we may already be dead and only dreaming we are alive. He explores the trek of the soul through life and death with firsthand accounts of the death journey and notes that what is perceived as death here may actually be life somewhere else.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 371g
• ISBN-13: 9781620555972
• ISBN-10: 1620555972
• Artikelnr.: 44579136

Autorenporträt

Mark Mirabello, Ph.D., is a professor of history at Shawnee State University in Ohio and a former visiting professor of history at Nizhny Novgorod University in Russia. He has appeared on Ancient Aliens and America’s Book of Secrets on the History Channel as well as in the documentary The Kingdom of Survival. He is the author of The Odin Brotherhood, Handbook for Rebels and Outlaws, and the Pulitzer-nominated novella The Cannibal Within. He received his master’s from the University of Virginia and his doctorate from the University of Glasgow. He lives in Portsmouth, Ohio.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. Where Are We Now?
Euripides Said We May Be Already Dead
II. How to Live Forever without a God or an Immortal Soul
If Either Eternal Recurrence or Eternalism Is Correct, Scientific
Skepticism May Be Groundless
III. Information for the Nihilists
A Guide for the Metaphysically Impaired
IV. Souls and Other Worlds
Some Interesting Traditions
V. The Trek of Souls
Accounts of the Death Journey
VI. Afterlife
How to Enter Other Worlds
VII. Ghosts and Specters
When the Dead Are Here
VIII. Communicating with the Dead
From Necromancy to Scrying
Afterword
Appendix I
A Quick Guide to a Good Death
The Tibetan Way of Death
Appendix II
Reincarnation
Some Possibilities
Appendix III
How to Have an Out-of-Body Experience
Appendix IV
A Séance Procedure to Contact the Dead
Bibliography
Index