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A Traveler’s Guide to the Afterlife:
Traditions and Beliefs on Death, Dying, and What Lies Beyond.
MARK MIRABELLO, Ph.D.
A grand survey of the world’s death and afterlife traditions throughout history.
• Examines beliefs from many different cultures on the soul, heaven, hell, and
reincarnation; instructions for accessing the different worlds of the afterlife; how one
may become a god; and how ethics and the afterlife may not be connected.
• Explores techniques to communicate with the dead, including séance instructions
• Includes an extensive bibliography of more than 900 sources from around the world
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. He reveals
how, in many traditions, ethics and the afterlife are not connected and how an afterlife is
possible even without a god or a soul. Sharing evidence that consciousness is not simply a
product of the brain, he offers a strong rebuttal to nihilists, materialists, and the Lokayata
philosophical school of India who believe in the “finality” of death. He explains how specters
and ghosts are produced and offers techniques to communicate with the dead as well as
instructions for an out-of-body experience and the complete procedure for a séance.
With an extensive bibliography of more than 900 sources, this guide offers comprehensive
information on afterlife beliefs from the vast majority of cultures around the world
and throughout history—a veritable “traveler’s guide” to the afterlife.
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 Virgina and his doctorate from the
University of Glasgow. He lives in Portsmouth, Ohio.
Pub Month Mid-2016
Inner Traditions
ISBN 978-1-62055-597-2
$16.95 (CAN $ ) Paper
Also available as an ebook
208 pages.
List of Chapters:
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A Traveler’s Guide to the Afterlife:
Traditions and Beliefs on Death, Dying, and What Lies Beyond.
MARK MIRABELLO, Ph.D.
A grand survey of the world’s death and afterlife traditions throughout history.
• Examines beliefs from many different cultures on the soul, heaven, hell, and
reincarnation; instructions for accessing the different worlds of the afterlife; how one
may become a god; and how ethics and the afterlife may not be connected.
• Explores techniques to communicate with the dead, including séance instructions
• Includes an extensive bibliography of more than 900 sources from around the world
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. He reveals
how, in many traditions, ethics and the afterlife are not connected and how an afterlife is
possible even without a god or a soul. Sharing evidence that consciousness is not simply a
product of the brain, he offers a strong rebuttal to nihilists, materialists, and the Lokayata
philosophical school of India who believe in the “finality” of death. He explains how specters
and ghosts are produced and offers techniques to communicate with the dead as well as
instructions for an out-of-body experience and the complete procedure for a séance.
With an extensive bibliography of more than 900 sources, this guide offers comprehensive
information on afterlife beliefs from the vast majority of cultures around the world
and throughout history—a veritable “traveler’s guide” to the afterlife.
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 Virgina and his doctorate from the
University of Glasgow. He lives in Portsmouth, Ohio.
Pub Month Mid-2016
Inner Traditions
ISBN 978-1-62055-597-2
$16.95 (CAN $ ) Paper
Also available as an ebook
208 pages.
List of Chapters:
- Introduction
- Where Are We Now? (Euripides Said We May Be Already Dead)
- How to Live Forever Without a God or an Immortal Soul (If Either Eternal Recurrence or Eternalism Is Correct, Scientific Skepticism May Be Groundless)
- Information for the Nihilists (A Guide for the Metaphysically Impaired)
- Souls and Other Worlds (Some Interesting Traditions)
- The Trek of Souls: (First-Hand Accounts of the Death Journey)
- Afterlife (How to Enter Other Worlds)
- Ghosts and Specters (When the Dead Are Here)
- Communicating with the Dead (From Necromancy to Scrying)
- Afterword
- A Quick Guide to a Good Death (The Tibetan Way of Death)
- Reincarnation (Some Possibilities)
- How to Have an Out-of-Body Experience
- A Séance Procedure
