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...After publication of his first book on the afterlife, The New Revelation, Doyle followed it up in 1919 with The Vital Message, where he shares his thoughts on skepticism, religion, psychic phenomena, and Jesus....

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...The narrator dies in the first sentence. Through relating his travels in the afterlife, Henry Fielding, author of Tom Jones and Joseph Andrews, gently satirizes life here on earth. (Summary by Denny Sayers)...

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...final days (the first six being Theaetetus, Euthyphro, Sophist, Statesman, Apology, and Crito). In the dialogue, Socrates discusses the nature of the afterlife on his last day before being executed by drinking hemlock. Socrates has been imprisoned and sentenced to death by an Athenian jury for not believing in the gods of the state and for corrupting the youth of the city....

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...In the afterlife grizzled sea captain Eli Stormfield finds himself piloting a ship to heaven. Despite a detour and some navigation errors he arrives but finds the transition to heavenly bliss a little disconcerting. – Although first...

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...After a number of deaths in his close family, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle turned to spiritualism in hope of finding proof of the afterlife. Being open in this way, he wanted to believe that spirits and other supernatural being including fairies were real. Because of this he believed the photographs of fairies taken by the Cottingley girls were proof of...

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...re, the last great work of literature of the Middle Ages and the first great work of the Renaissance. A culmination of the medieval world-view of the afterlife, it establishes the Tuscan dialect in which it is written as the Italian standard, and is seen as one of the greatest works of world literature. - The Divine Comedy is composed of three canticas (or cantiche) — Infe...

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... and the Unseen World - A Study in Old Testament Religion . Oesterley describes the beliefs that pre-Christian Hebrews and Semites held regarding the afterlife and the immortal nature of humans. The nature, form and evolution of these beliefs are derived from the Tanakh (Old Testament), comparisons with the beliefs and mythologies of neighboring cultures, and archeological...

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...merican author and satirist, and the creator of modern Bangasian Fantasy, the school of fantasy writing that sets the plot wholly or partially in the afterlife. (Wikipedia) Plot summary: J K Bangs has taken Alice from Lewis Carroll's “Alice in Wonderland” and lets her on a boring day travel with the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, the Cheshire Cat and the other of Carroll's fa...

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...at all the teachers promise you, and they just promise, a next life or an afterlife. Till then he is in business, he is assured. If he says there is ... ...to grind, nothing to prove. _______ The body is not concerned with the afterlife or any kind of permanency. It struggles to survive and multiply ... ...ow, clinical death will take place. Then the question whether there is an afterlife would not at all arise because the living organism has no way of...

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...its of the deceased were supposed to possess living bodies before departing to the afterlife. Pumpkins were not part of Halloween celebrations ...

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...son lying on the bed is dead?” Mitch ventured. “Perhaps the person is journeying into the afterlife, represented by the rising sun? This might be hi... ...hered with differentiating appearances. Or it could be showing the person moving into the afterlife. But what are these rays coming from two of the ...

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... its rewards and punishments, which are destined to come primarily in the afterlife? And we need not mention the third issue, for everyone knows tha...

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...ends in water and is then transformed to youthful immortality by water. Dependent upon the huntsman who captured her, Gwen must come to terms with an afterlife that offers one very important choice: accept the huntsman or not. This short story contains mature content which may not be suitable for readers under 18 years of age....

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...human female. “Is she dead?” Umberco inquired. “Yes.” “Has her soul departed?” “No.” “Good. Snare it before it does, else she’ll not survive the afterlife.”...

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...(ee ́-thrah)......................................................................................................................................31 Afterlife....................................................................................................................................................31 Agamemnon (ag-ă-mem ́-non).........................................

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...I see people making conscious choices.‖ —―Well Ray, we like to think that we can think for ourselves and our quest for a religious afterl... ...who better than God to provide us with an existence after death that surpasses our earthly life in every divine dimension. ―Having an afterl... ...ably. Do we go to heaven or hell? Do we experience nearly endless reincarnations? Do we become the revered ancestors of our progeny? Does that afterl... ...world. ―Our cultures, religions, secular philosophies, economic needs and blessings each influence our needs for and, our views of, an afterl... ...he scriptures continually, decrying sin more loudly—are all possible activities of holy people in most religions. In fact just believing in an afterl... ...hysical or mental benefits like a lower blood pressure, or whether they are detrimental, such as causing anxiety or depression relative to an afterl...

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... end up in the same post- mortem place!‖ --―Come on Ray, you know that afterlife wouldn‘t be the same without me. It wouldn‘t be heaven if we did... ...onsider us to be animals when we then may be forced to drop the idea of an afterlife? We think we know it all. And there is always somebody in author... ...eration of the world?‘ The next of the enduring questions is ‗Is there an afterlife, and if so how does one assure oneself of a pleasurable place in ... ...families killed? Are they self centered but looking to the future--for an afterlife in heaven, because they believe that their action is desired by A... ...zing that we can‘t go on forever, we naturally would like to believe in an afterlife. ―Once we decide that we are important, perhaps all-im... ...appy hunting ground? When there is no hope in this life, the hope of an afterlife looms larger than life. Consequently many poor Muslims are ready... ... a single being who created the world along with a pleasant or unpleasant afterlife. Then it gave us the means for achieving either eternal joy or ne... ...s all-merciful how can good people of any persuasion be unrewarded in the afterlife? If God is vengeful, you can see how only the chosen group can be... ...ll and are really determined in everything we do. There is no heaven, and afterlife is merely becoming again the universal being, like a drop in the...

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...n. These women have lived with the angels of death. If there is a God, an afterlife, or a release from this world, they deserve whatever rewards dea... ...oach to religion, believing in personal gods and the potential of a happy afterlife. The great mass of Hindus also cannot comprehend the 43 pant...

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...ate vector and its projections represents the transition between life and afterlife, or lower and higher consciousness, in the context of this book...

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... this illusion, by taking from the Egyptians the idea of the kingdom of the afterlife, the kingdom of immortality. It is the same promise that, taken...

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...ort of accepted everything. ―The uneducated people need beliefs in an afterlife and of some supernatural powers who can be prayed to for imposs...

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...sible given an eternal amount of time – so are resurrection and reincarnation, the afterlife, hell and other beliefs adhered to by the eternal lot....

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...and prayer money, in order to provide Grand Ma with sufficient income in the afterlife. I think to myself, What could Grand Ma possibly buy in heaven...

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...till behind many funereal customs, as in villagers' interpretations of the afterlife. The family and kinship group of the deceased are duty-bound to h... ...that he will be surrounded by the splendour of palaces and goodness in his afterlife. At the hundredth day remembrance, the deceased is given food, be...

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...s down a slippery ethical slope towards bloodlust and orgiastic massacres. II. The Afterlife Moreover, in life, the human body and form are consid... ...ty of this shrine is widely thought to guarantee a faster, unhindered access to the afterlife, to immortality, and eventual reincarnation (or karmic... ...sible given an eternal amount of time – so are resurrection and reincarnation, the afterlife, hell and other beliefs adhered to by the eternal lot.... ... his suffering by re-interpreting it ("suffering in this world is rewarded in the afterlife" as institutionalized religions are wont to say). The ...

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...s down a slippery ethical slope towards bloodlust and orgiastic massacres. II. The Afterlife Moreover, in life, the human body and form are consid... ...ty of this shrine is widely thought to guarantee a faster, unhindered access to the afterlife, to immortality, and eventual reincarnation (or karmic... ...sible given an eternal amount of time – so are resurrection and reincarnation, the afterlife, hell and other beliefs adhered to by the eternal lot.... ... his suffering by re-interpreting it ("suffering in this world is rewarded in the afterlife" as institutionalized religions are wont to say). The ...

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...ined, we have to make an effort. That freedom can be attained not in the afterlife, as religions promise us, but here in the corporeal world, in th...

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...s and took a deep, shuddering breath. There was no portal to the beyond, no afterlife. There were only bones and entrails, fanciful manipulations of...

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...own weak, random, meaningless living hells while alive, and cannot imagine an afterlife without it. History is full of thousands of accounts of cor... ... when you are dead. It means there is good reason for the depiction of the afterlife as a form of hell. That reason is the passage of time. Bec... ... to live with them anyways after you die? Why preach about the benefits of an afterlife; when you will be no better off then either? Why be willin... ...and hatreds that remain unresolved and unfaced. That is the true hell of the afterlife. And no living person can ever imagine the plight of these ... ...ome one of the undead and suffer a long, long horrible death in the remaining afterlife of your negative dwindling existence. Until you learn to ...

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.... It was one of those rash friend- ships that so often prove an incubus in afterlife. I may as well tell you plainly, we were once on very intimate te...

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...time, seemed to him a pathetic, kindly old man much to be pitied. Often in afterlife Pierre recalled this period of blissful insan- ity. All the views...

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...ample, that are accepted in a child’s home world are very rarely shaken in afterlife. People who have been brought up in households where there is an ...

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...tion of the engine. All that romance, silly as it looks, becomes sacred in afterlife. Besides, when it is not underground in a foul London tunnel, a t...

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...time, seemed to him a pathetic, kindly old man much to be pitied. Often in afterlife Pierre recalled this period of blissful insanity. All the views h...