The Mystery of Death: Navigating the Great Divide

The mystery of death--the greatest mystery of the ages--has been "solved," we've been told, through "scientific breakthroughs" in the realm of near-death-experiences first reported in the '70s bestseller, Life After Life. Those who have "come back" reveal the afterlife in radically new terms, using images as wild and baffling as scenes in the most mind-boggling special-effects movies.

Hereafter, starring Matt Damon, What Dreams May Come and the Academy Award-winning The Sixth Senseare among a rash of digitally enhanced films that have recreated scenes of the death plane. On-screen are compelling images of beings-of-light, the tunnel of light, disembodied spirits, souls awaiting rebirth, astral planes, psychic contacts, nonhuman entities, channeling and astral travel. New accounts of the afterlife continue to appear in books, films and television.

But is this recent breakthrough of the afterlife what really happens at death? Or are these experiences a spiritual cocktail for a for a perplexed and adrift modern age? Is it a symptom of a culture that has lost its spiritual moorings, become gullible, and is desperate to explore what proves to be some of the oldest occult terrain in history, going back to Babylon and Chaldea (while offering lucrative rewards to such media darlings as Betty Eadie, James Van Praagh, and John Edward among others)?

It turns out that there is another side to this issue. A credible and unique ancient source reveals that supposed breakthrough is in reality a powerful deception spanning back to the ancient world with its mediums, astrologers, witches and sorcerers. Saul seeks the Witch of Endor as a medium to reach his dead mentor Samuel, the prophet, and the result is disarming. This stuff is not new!

The Mystery of Death contends that there are realities that need to be considered in order to grasp the full picture. At stake is what happens to the human soul at death -- a soul whose worth is beyond measure. You don't want to get on some spiritual carnival-ride, unknowingly falling for history's oldest lie while missing the far grander truth. So much is at stake here. Yet most people will shop for transient items such as cars, computers or real estate, scrutinizing them with far more concern and exactitude than the really big issues that carry eternal consequences.