“Birth and death, the inseparable poles of all life on earth, should not be a secret to man.”
“...Everything, positively everything,
speaks for the probability
of an existing world of other substance,
which the average person
of today is unable to see.”
Since the beginnings of recorded history, we have celebrated birth and mourned death. This indicates the importance we place on earthly life. We have created for ourselves an impression of existence that begins with entry onto this planet and ends with our exit from it. Just as early man believed that the earth was the center of the universe around which everything revolved, so it seems that many today perceive life on earth as the focus and center of our existence.
But in recent decades, death has been "rediscovered", so to speak.
Dr. Raymond Moody's groundbreaking 1975 book Life After Life
compiled findings from interviews with people who had undergone
near-death experiences, recounting the startling similarity of their
observations in the interval between life and death. That Dr. Moody's
book has become an international bestseller indicates that we still long
for an answer to the question, "Where do we go when we die?".
Yet as valuable and important as the findings of such investigations
are, they have only compiled descriptions of experiences. They have
not explained the actual process of dying. To understand the
significance of this so important turning point, it is essential to know
how it is possible at all for us to go on living after death.
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