{"product_id":"the-map-of-return-twenty-sources-on-death-9798197602336","title":"The Map of Return: Twenty sources on death","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Antonio Belmar\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Spiritual\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIf consciousness operates independently of the body, what happens when the body shuts down?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter several books exploring what human consciousness is and how it is cultivated, that question was still open. This book is what I found when I stopped settling for not knowing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI didn't find the answer in any single place. I found it - or something that resembles it - by putting twenty sources on the table and cross-referencing them piece by piece: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAncient sacred texts that have thought about death for millennia (the Tibetan \u003ci\u003eBardo Th�dol\u003c\/i\u003e, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, Plato, the Upanishads, the \u003ci\u003ePistis Sophia\u003c\/i\u003e, the Bible).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContemporary clinical researchers of near-death experiences (Van Lommel, Greyson, Moody, Alexander, Moorjani).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConscious explorers of the beyond (Swedenborg, Monroe, Stead).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnglo-Saxon and French mediums (Kardec, Tymn).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHypnotherapists who take their patients back to the period between lives (Newton, Cannon).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eSources separated by centuries, continents, and cultures. Some with documented influence on one another, others with no possible contact between them. What emerges when they are cross-referenced, piece by piece, is a pattern hard to explain as coincidence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result can be one of two things: a coherent fiction that twenty independent sources happened to assemble separately, or a map of what happens when we die.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI am not a physician, nor a theologian, nor a professional philosopher. I am an industrial engineer. My aim is to cross-reference data, look for patterns, and strip out noise. This book is what that work produced when applied to the greatest of human enigmas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe pieces are here. Each reader decides whether they fit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo dissolve the ego in life is to experience what death reveals.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47891306283159,"sku":"9798197602336","price":887.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798197602336.webp?v=1781183141","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-map-of-return-twenty-sources-on-death-9798197602336","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}