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Volume 1
preface ........................xi
introduction .................. xiii
Chapter 1
How the Major Religions View
the Afterlife ...................4
Buddhism.........................5
Christianity .......................8
Hinduism ........................10
Islam ...........................12
Judaism .........................14
Ancient Egypt and
the Afterlife ..................15
Egyptian Book of the Dead ............16
Table of Contents
Osiris: Death and Resurrection..........18
Pyramid Texts .....................20
Individual Human Experience
with Death and the Afterlife ...22
Deathbed Visions...................23
Near-Death Experiences ..............26
The Mystery Schools ..........31
Dionysian Mysteries .................33
Eleusinian Mysteries.................33
Hermetic Mysteries .................34
Orphic Mysteries ...................34
Pythagorus .......................35
Tribal Religions ...............36
Burial Mounds.....................38
Land of the Grandparents .............40
How the Major Religions
View Reincarnation.............41
Buddhism........................43
Christianity ......................43
Hinduism ........................46
Islam ...........................47
Judaism .........................48
Contemporary Mystery Schools
and Reincarnation .............49
Akashic Records ...................51
Anthroposophy ....................51
Association for Research
and Enlightenment ...............53
Theosophy .......................55
