03852cam a2200289 i 4500 385483607 TxAuBib 20190628120000.0 111128s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2011047954 9781451616538 softcover 1451616538 softcover (OCoLC)741542748 TxAuBib rda Tompkins, Ptolemy. The Modern Book of the Dead : A Revolutionary Perspective on Death, the Soul, and What Really Happens in the Life to Come / Ptolemy Tompkins. First Atria Books softcover edition. New York : Atria Books, 2012. 275 pages : softcover. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Table of Contents Preface: The Design in the Sand xiii 1 A Long, Personal, but Necessary Introduction Explaining How I Came to Write This Book 1 2 Ancient Egypt, the Origins of the Afterlife, and the Birth of the Idea That Each of Us Is a God in Training 52 3 The Egyptian and Tibetan Books of the Dead, the Mortal and Immortal Parts of the Soul, and the Key Difference Between the Eastern and the Western Views of the Afterlife 63 4 The Need for a Single Map, the Imaginary and the Imaginal, What the Brain Does (and Doesn't) Do, and the Nonlocal Nature of Consciousness 94 5 Different Kinds of Reincarnation, Different Kinds of Evolution, Why Flying Saucers Help Us Understand the Afterlife, and Why the Romantics Are Still Important 114 6 The Transcendentalists, Reincarnation Reenvisioned, and What the Universe Was Really Created For 133 7 The Age of Science and the Age of Spiritualism, the Unsung Discoverer of the Human Unconscious, the French Schoolteacher Who Spoke to the Dead, and the Botanist Who Mapped the Afterlife 149 8 Death on the Slopes, the Initial Stages of the Afterlife Journey, the "Silver Cord," "Ghost Clothing," and What It's Like to Emerge from Physical Space 195 9 The Removal of the Coat of Images, More on Life as a Movie, and the Real Significance of the Life Review 220 10 A World Much Like This One, the Waning of the Etheric, the Rise of the Astral, the "Second Death," and Connectivity, Spiritual-Style 226 11 Private and Public Postmortem Worlds, the Zone of the Earthbound Spirits, the Dangers of the Lower Astral, and the Continuing Power of Thought 232 12 Seven Planes, the Judgment, to Be Reborn or Not to Be Reborn, Life as a Movie Worth Watching, and the Concept of the Group Soul 242 13 The Pulse of Life, Keeping Heaven in Your View, What Lies Beyond the World of Form, and What Waits Beyond the End of Time 259 Acknowledgments 273. It remains perhaps the single most important question we can ask, one that still inspires thousands to turn to the Tibetan and Egyptian Books of the Dead for hope and comfort. But we can no longer rely solely on ancient wisdom for truly useful answers about our own mortality. We must find explanations for the afterlife in the fruits of modern experience. Critically acclaimed author Ptolemy Tompkins grew up in a family where questions about the shape and fate of the human soul were discussed on a daily basis, but it was only after his father’s passing that he began to consider death in a genuinely concrete way. In this boldly unconventional book—part memoir, part history of ideas, part road map to what might truly await us—Tompkins approaches the question of the afterlife with refreshing intimacy. Weaving together philosophy, science, stories of near-death experiences, and theology, he offers readers a new perspective on death and comes to an amazing and uplifting conclusion: that, somehow, human consciousness lives on. 20190628. Future life.