Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I. Where Are We Now?
Euripides Said We May Be Already Dead

II. How to Live Forever without a God or an Immortal Soul
If Either Eternal Recurrence or Eternalism Is Correct, Scientific Skepticism May Be Groundless

III. Information for the Nihilists
A Guide for the Metaphysically Impaired

IV. Souls and Other Worlds
Some Interesting Traditions

V. The Trek of Souls
Accounts of the Death Journey

VI. Afterlife
How to Enter Other Worlds

VII. Ghosts and Specters
When the Dead Are Here

VIII. Communicating with the Dead
From Necromancy to Scrying

Afterword

Appendix I
A Quick Guide to a Good Death
The Tibetan Way of Death

Appendix II
Reincarnation
Some Possibilities

Appendix III
How to Have an Out-of-Body Experience

Appendix IV
A Seance Procedure to Contact the Dead

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

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 Virginia and his doctorate from the University of Glasgow. He lives in Portsmouth, Ohio.

Reviews

"People interested in the research of survival of physical death will find in A Traveler's Guide to the Afterlife a compelling wealth of information. People who are not interested in the subject will benefit from the author's erudition and his remarkable exploration of the sacred Eastern and Western traditions." * Anabela Cardoso, retired Portuguese senior career diplomat, editor in chief of the ITC Journal, and *
"An extraordinary exploration of humankind's collective wisdom about what lies on the other side of death." * Matthew McKay, Ph.D., author of Seeking Jordan *
"What stands out in this traveler's guide to the afterlife is how great minds throughout Earth's history have over and over said that reincarnation, the recycling of souls, is the machinery of the universe. This book reinforces the importance of the soul in the mind-body-spirit complex that humans are; it should inspire all readers to do what they can to strengthen their soul while alive in the matter world." * Linda Moulton Howe, Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist and reporter and editor of Earthfile *
"I have been hoping to find a resource like this for years. Mark's book has become one of my most valuable reference tools for information on multicultural, multispiritual perspectives on death and the afterlife. The research is impeccable." * Rev. Terri Daniel, CT, founder of the Death Awareness Institute and The Afterlife Conference *
"The suspense of death often kills us, figuratively speaking. That unknown door we all inevitably walk through stands as the proverbial 'elephant in the room' that we all choose to ignore. In this book Mark Mirabello has accumulated the most extensive knowledge on death and the afterlife; it is enough to make a believer out of the skeptic. After reading this book you will face that unknown door with no suspense but instead a sense of wonder and excitement." * Jason Gregory, author of Enlightenment Now and The Science and Practice of Humility *