OVERVIEW

Do you want to know what it’s really like to die?
Would you like a state-of-the-art guide to the afterlife?
Thanks to a variety of modern sources, now you can prepare yourself…
with the most reliable information that’s ever been available.

For millennia various prophets, gurus, visionaries and mystics have given us descriptions of what happens after death. Their tales of assorted heavens and hells have inspired and terrified in equal measure. But their use of symbolism and archaic language can be baffling. What is more the reliability of their accounts is questionable.

The good news is that now we have a variety of more modern sources. For example, ordinary people who have passed over and 'channelled' reports of their experiences via human mediums. Increasingly too we are hearing from those who have visited the afterlife planes when 'near death'. Perhaps even more important are the pioneering ‘out-of-body’ explorers who have learned to repeatedly and deliberately expand their consciousness so as to experience other planes of reality. The reports are remarkably consistent, both within and across each source of information.

Now they can all be brought together to produce a simple, up-to-date guide to an afterlife we’ll all experience sooner or later. One that contains myriad possibilities. These range from various heavens created by the collective human expectations of different religious groups, to personal hells where misguided souls insist on punishing themselves. To those involved these experiences appear just as real as earthly life, yet all represent varying degrees of illusion.

Most of us enter the afterlife in ignorance. But if you’re ready to take advantage of modern discoveries, this guide will dispel the illusions and free your soul to expand into realms previously attained only by the few. Realms of supreme lucidity, awareness, unity… and, above all, love.

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TESTIMONIALS

Incredible, rich, informative, rewarding and hugely entertaining. Surely the most extensively researched book on the afterlife of all time. Jurgen Ziewe, out-of-body pioneer and author of Multidimensional Man

Easily the best all-round guide available. No question it's the foremost in the field. Gordon Phinn, out-of-body pioneer and author of More Adventures in Eternity

CONTENTS

PREFACE

PART 1: CAN WE PROVE THE AFTERLIFE EXISTS?

1 THE SCIENTIFIC VIEW

2 MEDIUMSHIP EVIDENCE

3 REMOTE VIEWING EVIDENCE

4 NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE EVIDENCE

5 OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE EVIDENCE

6 CONCLUSION

PART 2: A NEW TAKE ON THE SEVEN PLANES

7 THE BIG PICTURE

8 SUPERSOUL SPIRITUALITY

9 WHAT DO WE MEAN BY ‘PHYSICAL’?

10 WHAT DO WE MEAN BY ‘OUT-OF-BODY’?

11 A STATE OF THE ART APPROACH

12 THE ASTRAL ROUTEMAP MODEL

13 PRELUDE TO REMAINING PARTS: the continuation of the personality; the individuality of the experience.

PART 3: PLANES OF CONFUSION, DELUSION & OBSESSION

14 THE NEAR-EARTH PLANE: channelled material; NDE reports; OOB reports; the effect of excessive grief; spirits who attach to living humans.

15 THOSE WHO DON’T BELIEVE IN AN AFTERLIFE: channelled material; OOB reports.

16 THE LOWER ASTRAL GENERALLY

17 INDIVIDUAL HELLS: channelled material; NDE reports; OOB reports.

18 THE DEPTHS OF HELL: channelled material; NDE reports; OOB reports.

19 MORE ON RESCUE AND RETRIEVAL: spirits trapped in the near-earth plane; spirits trapped in the lower planes; why are rescue missions needed? is the situation getting better or worse?

20 CONCLUSION: the importance of compassion; the consistency of the reports; contemplation and review; what drives our afterlife experience? practical advice; the law of karma and attraction; building up spiritual capital; final implications for our earthly life.

PART 4: PLANES OF TRANSITION, RECREATION & ILLUSION

21 ASSISTANCE, HEALING AND ACCLIMATISATION: individual assistance; major disasters and battles; sleeping; healing environments; earth-like environments.

22 SMOOTH TRANSITIONS AND LIFE REVIEWS: smooth transitions; light at the end of the tunnel; guides and guardians; life reviews and balancing.

23 THE MID ASTRAL GENERALLY: feeling more ‘real’ and ‘vital’; different perception of time; travelling by thought; communicating by thought; transparency; creating by thought; consensus realities; the degree of physicality; personal appearance and age; eating, drinking and sleeping; sound, colour and natural beauty; spiritual partnership and union; children in the afterlife.

24 HEAVENLY LIFE: like attracts like; meeting with friends and relatives; individual homes; heavenly towns and cities; heavenly recreations.

25 ILLUSION: religious heavens; is everything what it seems? reincarnation revisited.

26 CONCLUSION: visiting the astral during sleep; practical advice.

PART 5: PLANES OF LEARNING, PROGRESSION & INTEGRATION

27 THE UPPER ASTRAL PLANES: communicating by thought-form; halls of learning and libraries; artistic endeavours; love and service; inspiring humans; conclusion.

28 THE MENTAL PLANES: the second death; general conditions; conclusion.

29 THE HIGHEST PLANES: the superconscious planes; the metaconscious planes; conclusion.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Includes channelled material from Julia Ames reporting via the medium William Stead; Franchezzo via A Farnese; various departed spirits via Emily French; Henry Lanchester via John Ward; David Patterson Hatch via Elsa Barker; Emma Vale Owen and others via her husband George; Robert Benson via Anthony Borgia; Frederick Myers via Geraldine Cummins; TE Lawrence (of Arabia), Andrew Sherwood and others via his wife Jane; Philip Gilbert via his mother Alice; Frances Banks via Helen Greaves; Arthur Ford via Ruth Montgomery; ‘John’ (anonymously channelled); Arthur Sandys and others via his wife Cynthia; Erik Medhus via Jamie Butler; and Billy Cohen via Annie Kagan. OOB reports from Emanuel Swedenborg, Charles Leadbeater, Annie Besant, Vincent Turvey, Swami Panchadasi (aka William Walker Atkinson), Yram (aka Marcel Forhan), Caroline Larsen, Gladys Leonard, Oliver Fox (aka Hugh Callaway), Peter Richelieu, Frederick Sculthorp, Robert Monroe, Vee Van Dam, Stylianos Atteshlis, William Buhlman, Bruce Moen, Rosalind McKnight, Graham Dack, Albert Taylor, Gordon Phinn, Waldo Vieira, Jurgen Ziewe, Robert Bruce and Frederick Aardema. And NDE reports from Dannion Brinkley, Mellen-Thomas Benedict, Bettie Eadie, George Ritchie, Howard Storm and Eben Alexander.