Celebrating death: life after death beginning or end/ John Mumford

Aspects of Death
Possibilities After Death
Death Meditation
Alchemy Laboratory — Phase 1
Who Are You?
Create a "Likes" List
My Personal "Likes" List
The Inner Chat Room — 1
Meditation-Contemplation — 1
Exercise One
Exercise Two
Medical Viewpoint of Death
Medical Death in the Eighteenth and
Nineteenth Centuries
Clinical versus Biological Death
Diagnosis
Hypothermia
Resuscitation
Anatomy of Death
Establishing Death
Alchemy Laboratory — Phase 2
Create a "Dislikes" List
My Personal "Dislikes" List
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The Inner Chat Room — 2 27
Meditation of Death 28
Meditation-Contemplation — 2 30
Meditation Facilitates Autohypnosis 33
Meditation, Aging, and Melatonin 34
Beginning the Technique 35
Physical Signs and Symptoms
of Successful Meditation 36
3 Death and Consciousness 37
East versus West 38
Organic versus Inorganic 39
Five Observable Characteristics of Life 41
The Matchbox Demonstration 42
Western Anatomy 43
Triggers of Biological Death 43
Central Nervous System 44
Western Source of Consciousness 47
The Brain 48
Survival of Consciousness 52
Alchemy Laboratory — Phase 3 53
The "Strengths" List 53
My Personal "Strengths" List 54
The Inner Chat Room — 3 55
Meditation for Life 56
Meditation-Contemplation — 3 58
Gayatri So Hum Meditation — Part 2 60
4 Is the Person the Body or the Brain? 63
World War II: Germany 63
World War II: China
Arizona, USA: 1920
Queensland, Australia: 1939
Nepal: 1984
Cambridge, Britain: 1961
Alchemy Laboratory — Phase 4
My Personal List of "Weak Points"
The Inner Chat Room — 4
Meditation-Contemplation — 4
Gayatri So Hum Meditation — Part 3
The Magic Ring Finger
The Gnana Mudra
Meditation Tip
Technique Summary: ARRTM
5 The Five Bodies
Five Bodies of Eastern Philosophy
Physical Body: Annamaya Kosha
Etheric Body: Pranamaya Kosha
Astral or Emotional Body:
Manamaya Kosha
Mental Body: Vijnamaya Kosha
• Spiritual Body: Anandamaya Kosha
Integration of the Five Bodies
Hindu View of Death
Sequential Separation of the
Psychic Sheaths at Death
What is the Secret of Life and Death?
Alchemy Laboratory — Phase 5
My Personal "Problem" List
My Personal "Recurring Themes" List
The Inner Chat Room — 5
Meditation-Contemplation —5
Gayatri So Hum Meditation — Part 4
The Ultimate Secret of the
Gayatri So Hum
The Movement of the Left Ring Finger
Meditation Tip
Gayatri So Hum Meditation Technique
Technique Summary: ARRTM
6 Possibilities at Death
Earthbound
Possession
Trapped in the Astral Body
General Custer
The Hashish Killers!
Believing is Seeing
Instant Replay
Reincarnation
The Incarnation Spiral
Reincarnation by Intent
The Lama's Message
Freedom
Alchemy Laboratory — Phase 6
Exercise: Personal "Ultimate Priority" Lists
My Personal "Ultimate Priority" List
The Inner Chat Room — 6
Meditation-Contemplation — 6
Gayatri So Hum Meditation — Part 5
Meditation Dip
Technique Summary: HARRTM
Life and Death: The Same Coin
Life after Life
The Secret of Death
Your Thoughts are Your Reality
Alchemy Laboratory — Phase 7
The Inner Chat Room — 7
Meditation-Contemplation — 7
Gayatri So Hum Meditation