Full Description
This new and completely redesigned edition explores the deepest secrets of the afterlife. Stanislav Grof guides readers through Egyptian, Tibetan, Mesoamerican and Christian texts, art and iconography of death, as well as modern consciousness research into near-death experiences, psychedelic paintings and meditation. The result is vivid and arresting: a series of overlapping maps and manuals for the worlds beyond death, drawing on a host of spiritual and artistic traditions.
Contents
The Ancient Books of the Dead; Manifestation in the Light (Egyptian); Liberation Through Hearing (Tibetan); The Ballgame in the Underworld (Maya); The Mystery of the Plumed Serpent (Nahuatl); The Art of Dying (Christian); The Posthumous Journey of the Soul (Myth and Science); Themes: Egyptian Deities of the 'First Time', The Six Realms of Existence, Death, Rebirth and the Maya Underworld, The Ballgame of the Gods, Death and the Strategy of Life, The Visionary Quest, Attitudes to the Human Body, The Scenery and Inhabitants of the Netherworld, Animals of the Beyond, Deities as Models, Transcendence and the Emergence into Light
