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The Afterlife Bible: The Definitive Guide to Otherwordly Experience
The Afterlife Bible describes the many beliefs in an afterlife, from ancient myths and religions to contemporary spiritual faiths. Sarah Bartlett explains how the scientific community has taken part in the search for evidence of the afterlife and reveals the role of contemporary spiritual practices.
Topics in The Afterlife Bible include:
The Search for Evidence: Gives the history of how the religious, the scientists, the believers and the doubters explain the afterlife in hard evidence.
Belief: Describes the world's many cultural interpretations of an afterlife. These include polytheism, re-incarnation and karma, ancient Egyptian beliefs, the Vedic traditions, Christianity, Ancient Mesoamerican beliefs, Kabbalah, and Wicca.
The Nature of the Soul: Describes the Ancient Greek soul, the Ancient Egyptian soul, soul spark, Plato's chariot, the soul in Taoism, Gnosticism, Islam and many more.
Afterlife Places and Beings: Paints a picture of the afterlife. Osiris, the Mesopotamian underworld, offended spirits, the afterlife as suffering, an afterlife for heroes, and mythical journeys to the afterlife.
Experience and Healing: Gives readers easy exercises and rituals for meditation, channeling, dream work, astral travel, scrying, mediumship, and automatic writing. Throughout history, civilizations have believed in an afterlife. More recently, new parapsychological research, personal reports of near-death experiences, and scientific studies into the nature of energy and matter, have prompted a renewed interest in discovering the truth. The Afterlife Bible is a great start on that journey.
Topics in The Afterlife Bible include:
The Search for Evidence: Gives the history of how the religious, the scientists, the believers and the doubters explain the afterlife in hard evidence.
Belief: Describes the world's many cultural interpretations of an afterlife. These include polytheism, re-incarnation and karma, ancient Egyptian beliefs, the Vedic traditions, Christianity, Ancient Mesoamerican beliefs, Kabbalah, and Wicca.
The Nature of the Soul: Describes the Ancient Greek soul, the Ancient Egyptian soul, soul spark, Plato's chariot, the soul in Taoism, Gnosticism, Islam and many more.
Afterlife Places and Beings: Paints a picture of the afterlife. Osiris, the Mesopotamian underworld, offended spirits, the afterlife as suffering, an afterlife for heroes, and mythical journeys to the afterlife.
Experience and Healing: Gives readers easy exercises and rituals for meditation, channeling, dream work, astral travel, scrying, mediumship, and automatic writing. Throughout history, civilizations have believed in an afterlife. More recently, new parapsychological research, personal reports of near-death experiences, and scientific studies into the nature of energy and matter, have prompted a renewed interest in discovering the truth. The Afterlife Bible is a great start on that journey.
400 pages, Paperback
First published January 29, 2015
About the author
Sarah Bartlett
146 books106 followersSarah Bartlett (D.Psych Astrol) is the author of international best-selling books including The Tarot Bible, The Little Book of Practical Magic, The Witch's Spellbook and National Geographic's Guide to Supernatural Places. As contributing astrologer to media such as Cosmopolitan, She, Spirit & Destiny, the London Evening Standard and BBC Radio 2, Sarah now practices and teaches tarot, natural magic, astrology and other esoteric arts. She lives in the countryside.
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February 23, 2018
I'm still not sure why I read the entirety of this book. I saw it at the local bookshop, leafed through it and from the description on the back, assumed it was about how various religions and mythologies related to the idea of the afterlife. The subject was of interest to me as I am writing a book about immortal characters and wanted to connect their existence with older beliefs throughout history.
Arguably, the book does talk about the subject, albeit less than a third is dedicated to it. This third presented some of the more important mythologies and how they related to the concept of soul (both from a religious and a philosophocal point of view), of death and of places beyond death (such as heaven or hell). Some (such as the Ancient Egyptian religion, based on the idea that death is only a transition to the afterlife) were grossly simplified, some were more detailed (such as the Greek concepts), others were merely mentioned (such as Native American beliefs). There was also a kind of glossary in one of the chapters which talked about gods associated with various death cults, but the presentation was incoherent and in complete disorder, making it very difficult to follow.
The rest of the book focused way too much on modern and contemporary beliefs regarding the soul. Some were more interesting, such as out of body experiences or near death experiences. Most of them, however, were about spiritualism, neopaganism, modern shamanism etc. and all that. I didn't mind them being mentioned and explained, however you could see the complete bias of the author when talking about them, as she seemed to believe every little thing. Whenever she mentioned scientists and quantum energy, my head hurt from the leaps of logic she made trying to connect things completely unconnected. Also there is close to no science in this book and now I feel like reading about the subjects from a more sciency angle.
The last 100 pages or so of the volume contained the last chapter, which was about developing your spiritual sense. I have no idea why it was included, as it had very little to do with the idea of afterlife. Some exercises suggested by the author were downright laughable, others were somewhat creepy (the thought of imagining I had roots gave me anxiety). If you are a believer in these things, I suppose the book will only confirm your beliefs. If you aren't and you're also not a susceptible person, this book really isn't the one to convince you of their truthfulness.
Last thing, there were so many pictures that had nothing to do with the discussed subject. They seemed to be there only for being aesthetically pleasing and for inducing a sense of mysteriousness. Some of them were even mislabeled.
Arguably, the book does talk about the subject, albeit less than a third is dedicated to it. This third presented some of the more important mythologies and how they related to the concept of soul (both from a religious and a philosophocal point of view), of death and of places beyond death (such as heaven or hell). Some (such as the Ancient Egyptian religion, based on the idea that death is only a transition to the afterlife) were grossly simplified, some were more detailed (such as the Greek concepts), others were merely mentioned (such as Native American beliefs). There was also a kind of glossary in one of the chapters which talked about gods associated with various death cults, but the presentation was incoherent and in complete disorder, making it very difficult to follow.
The rest of the book focused way too much on modern and contemporary beliefs regarding the soul. Some were more interesting, such as out of body experiences or near death experiences. Most of them, however, were about spiritualism, neopaganism, modern shamanism etc. and all that. I didn't mind them being mentioned and explained, however you could see the complete bias of the author when talking about them, as she seemed to believe every little thing. Whenever she mentioned scientists and quantum energy, my head hurt from the leaps of logic she made trying to connect things completely unconnected. Also there is close to no science in this book and now I feel like reading about the subjects from a more sciency angle.
The last 100 pages or so of the volume contained the last chapter, which was about developing your spiritual sense. I have no idea why it was included, as it had very little to do with the idea of afterlife. Some exercises suggested by the author were downright laughable, others were somewhat creepy (the thought of imagining I had roots gave me anxiety). If you are a believer in these things, I suppose the book will only confirm your beliefs. If you aren't and you're also not a susceptible person, this book really isn't the one to convince you of their truthfulness.
Last thing, there were so many pictures that had nothing to do with the discussed subject. They seemed to be there only for being aesthetically pleasing and for inducing a sense of mysteriousness. Some of them were even mislabeled.
July 13, 2022
3.5
Este libro es una recopilacion informativa de distintos temas referentes a la vida en el mas alla o la vida despues de la muerte. Se nos presentan en 4 capitulos como donde se categorizan los temas, entre los cuales se nos pretende dar a conocer la percepcion de diferentes culturas y pensamientos a traves de la historia sobre el concepto del alma y sobre sus definiciones y entendidos que han intentado establecer que nos espera a todos despues de morir, encontramos el concepto de egipcios, romanos, hindues, cristianos,chamanes y demas teorias modernas.
En otro de sus apartados encontramos la informacion que desde todas estas culturas y estamentos historicos nos han presentado frente a cual es el lugar al que llegamos en el mas alla y todos los seres que lo gobiernan, asi como los demas seres que acompañan estos mundos.
Finalmente tenemos informacion sobre los enceuntros y experiencias recopiladas a lo largo de la hostoria que miles de personas han investigado y documentado sobre el contacto con el mas alla, las experiencias extracorporeas, experiencias cercanas a la muerte, etc.
Y nos incluye un apartado de rituales y metodos de acercamiento al lado psiquico de todas las personas, como desarrollar la intuicion y los sentidos,como encontrar nuestro guia espiritual e incluso como encontrar nuestor angel de la guardia, entre otros.
Personalmente me gustan mas los libros que se enfocan en un solo tema, pero este libro abroda miles de temas y por lo mismo toda la informacion que nos brindan es un brochazo superficial, no es nada malo pero no es de mi gusto, sin embargo es el libro perfecto para abrise paso a investigaciones puntuales.
Este libro es una recopilacion informativa de distintos temas referentes a la vida en el mas alla o la vida despues de la muerte. Se nos presentan en 4 capitulos como donde se categorizan los temas, entre los cuales se nos pretende dar a conocer la percepcion de diferentes culturas y pensamientos a traves de la historia sobre el concepto del alma y sobre sus definiciones y entendidos que han intentado establecer que nos espera a todos despues de morir, encontramos el concepto de egipcios, romanos, hindues, cristianos,chamanes y demas teorias modernas.
En otro de sus apartados encontramos la informacion que desde todas estas culturas y estamentos historicos nos han presentado frente a cual es el lugar al que llegamos en el mas alla y todos los seres que lo gobiernan, asi como los demas seres que acompañan estos mundos.
Finalmente tenemos informacion sobre los enceuntros y experiencias recopiladas a lo largo de la hostoria que miles de personas han investigado y documentado sobre el contacto con el mas alla, las experiencias extracorporeas, experiencias cercanas a la muerte, etc.
Y nos incluye un apartado de rituales y metodos de acercamiento al lado psiquico de todas las personas, como desarrollar la intuicion y los sentidos,como encontrar nuestro guia espiritual e incluso como encontrar nuestor angel de la guardia, entre otros.
Personalmente me gustan mas los libros que se enfocan en un solo tema, pero este libro abroda miles de temas y por lo mismo toda la informacion que nos brindan es un brochazo superficial, no es nada malo pero no es de mi gusto, sin embargo es el libro perfecto para abrise paso a investigaciones puntuales.
August 17, 2024
Very broad overview but hits a lot of topics that could help a reader find direction and inspiration
May 27, 2017
This little book is chock full of information with lots of beautiful photographs.
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