The second edition of this book is now available again, offering readers a refreshed opportunity to explore its content. This edition likely includes updates or revisions that enhance the original material, making it a valuable resource for both new and returning readers. Key themes and insights from the first edition are preserved while potentially introducing new perspectives or information.
Challenging the validity of near-death experiences, this book examines the discrepancies between reported conditions in the Afterlife and what might truly await us after physical death. It delves into philosophical and existential questions, prompting readers to reconsider their beliefs about life after death and the nature of consciousness. Through critical analysis, it invites a deeper exploration of the unknown aspects of existence beyond our earthly experiences.
If you've ever had questions about the inconsistencies between chakra systems or wondered where the names, colors, locations, and other associations came from#8212you'll find the answers here, along with 24 tables and 28 black-and-white illustrations showing how the Western chakra system developed from the mid-19th through the 20th century, many from rare and forgotten sources. Based on the teachings of Indian Tantra, the chakras have been used for centuries as focal points for healing, meditation, and achieving a gamut of physical, emotional, and spiritual benefits, from improved health to ultimate enlightenment. Contemporary yoga teachers, energy healers, psychics, and self-help devotees think of the chakra system as thousands of years old. Yet the most common version in use in the West today came together as recently as 1977. Never before has the story been told of how the Western chakra system developed from its roots in Indian Tantra, through Blavatsky to Leadbeater, Steiner to Alice Bailey, Jung to Joseph Campbell, Ramakrishna to Aurobindo, and Esalen to Shirley MacLaine and Barbara Brennan.
