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Lucy Bregman received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago Divinity School. She is now Professor of Religion at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. She is the author of multiple books on death and dying, including Death in the Midst of Life: Perspectives on Death from Depth Psychology and Christianity (Baker Book House, 1992); Beyond Silence and Denial: Death and Dying Reconsidered (Westminster, 1999); and Preaching Death: The Transformation of American Funeral Sermons (Baylor, 2012). She edited Religion, Death and Dying (Praeger, 2010) a three-volume anthology, and Death and Dying in World Religions (Kendall Hunt, 2009), an undergraduate textbook. Candy Gunther Brown is Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University. Brown’s books include The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789–1880 (University of North Carolina Press, 2004); Testing Prayer: Science and Healing (Harvard University Press, 2012); and The Healing Gods: Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Christian America (Oxford University Press, 2013). Thomas Cattoi is Associate Professor of Christology and Cultures at the Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara University, which is part of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. His teaching and research focus on early Christian theology and spiri- tuality, as well as comparative theology, with particular attention to Buddhist-Christian dialogue. He is the author of Divine Contingency: Theologies of Divine Embodiment in Maximos the Confessor and Tsong kha pa (Gorgias Press, 2009) and Theodore the Studite: Writings on Iconoclasm (Paulist Press, 2014), and he edited Perceiving the Divine Through the Human Body: Mystical Sensuality (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). He served as cochair of the Mysticism group at the 266 Contributors

American Academy of Religion, and is currently coeditor of the jour- nal Buddhist-Christian Studies. Callum E. Cooper is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Northampton, where he also lectures on Parapsychology, Thanatology, and Human Sexual Behaviour. He holds numerous awards in parapsychology such as the Eileen J. Garrett Scholarship (Parapsychology Foundation), the Alex Tanous Scholarship Award (Alex Tanous Foundation for Scientific Research), and the Dr Gertrude Schmeidler Award (Parapsychological Association). He is a member of the Society for Psychical Research (and on the Survival Research Committee), the Parapsychological Association, a Hope Studies Graduate Researcher (University of Alberta), and a member of the Centre for the Study of Anomalous Psychological Processes (CSAPP, University of Northampton). Additionally, he is the author of Telephone Calls from the Dead, coau- thor of Conversations with Ghosts, and coeditor of Paracoustics. Graham Mitchell is Subject Leader for Psychology at the University of Northampton, UK. He is a biological psychologist, a chartered biolo- gist, and a qualified teacher. His research interests lie in the area of positive psychology and self-belief with its effects on academic achieve- ment and health. More specific interests include resilience associated with major life events and stressful experiences, cognitive style, hope, learned helplessness, and depression. Graham also develops programs designed to increase resilience in children and adults. June-Ann Greeley is Associate Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut. Dr. Greeley is trained in classical languages and literature and Medieval Studies, specifically late antique and medieval theology and religious and intellectual history. Cynthia A. Hogan is a Ph.D. candidate in Religion and Culture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her areas of academic interest include religious expression in the arts, traditions of Western esotericism, and metaphysical traditions in American popular culture. Martin J. M. Hoondert is Assistant Professor of Music, Religion & Ritual at the Tilburg School of Humanities, the Netherlands. He spe- cializes in music and death (modern requiem masses, requiem concerts, musical repertoires of funerals, music and grief, music in hospices). Lee Irwin holds an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Religion, Folklore, and Anthropology from Indiana University and is Professor at the College Contributors 267 of Charleston. His area of specialization is comparative religions of Native North American (including Maya and Aztec) and shamanism of Asia and Siberia. Stuart Jesson is Lecturer in Religion, Philosophy, and Ethics at York St John University. His doctoral research focused on the interaction between theology, philosophy, and ethics within recent accounts of forgiveness, and is currently exploring the way in which Simone Weil’s thought may be put to creative yet critical theological use. Jin Sook Kim is currently in the doctoral program at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. He was born in Seoul, Korea, and gradu- ated from Seoul National University, majoring in Religious Studies and Psychology. His main academic focus is on the Theory of the Subject: The subject in practice, in the context of religion, capitalism, and science. Jordan Paper is Professor Emeritus (Religious and East Asian Studies), York University (Toronto). He has written on Chinese religion, Native American religions, female spirituality, polytheistic theology, Chinese Jewish theology, and relevant to the essay in this anthology, The Mystic Experience: A Descriptive and Comparative Analysis (SUNY Press, 2004). June McDaniel is Professor of the History of Religions in the Department of Religious Studies at the College of Charleston. She is the author of three books on India, a recently coedited volume on mysticism, and many articles. Her MTS was in Theology from Candler Seminary at Emory University, and her Ph.D. was in History of Religions from the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. She spent two years in India, on grants from the American Institute of Indian Studies and as a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar. Lloyd W. Pflueger is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Truman State University, in Kirksville, Missouri, where he has taught since 1993. He grew up in Alaska and got his B.A. from the University of Washington in Seattle. He received his doctorate from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His chief area of research is yoga philos- ophy and mysticism. In addition to many publications on yoga, he has recently coauthored (with Neil Delmonico) ĪśopaniŴad or The Secret Teaching on the Lord (Blazing Sapphire Press, forthcoming). Darleen Pryds is Associate Professor of Christian Spirituality and History at the Franciscan School of Theology. Her publications include The 268 Contributors

King Embodies the Word: Robert d’Anjou and the Politics of Preaching (Brill, 2000) and Women of the Streets: Early Franciscan Women and Their Mendicant Vocation (Franciscan Institute Publications, 2010) in addition to several articles on medieval lay preaching. Since 2009 she has been a volunteer at Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco where she practices a Buddhist approach to being present with the dying Chris A. Roe holds a Chair in Psychology at the University of Northampton. He is Research Leader for the Psychology Division and Director of the Centre for the Study of Anomalous Psychological Processes. He is Treasurer for the British Psychological Society Transpersonal Psychology Section, Board Member of the Parapsychological Association, Council Member of the Society for Psychical Research, and International Affiliate for England of the Parapsychology Foundation. He edits the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. His research interests encompass understanding the nature of anomalous experiences and includes research on the psy- chology of paranormal belief and of deception and the phenomenol- ogy of paranormal experience as well as experimental approaches to test claims for extrasensory perception and psychokinesis, particularly where they involve psychological factors. Recent research has been concerned with unconscious measures of psi and predicting perfor- mance using a composite personality measure called “lability.” Robert Michael Ruehl earned his Ph.D. from Syracuse University’s Department of Religion, and he currently works as a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and as a faculty graduate tutor in the Writing Center at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, NY. His dis- sertation examines the idea of religion in Thoreau’s A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers and how Thoreau is a liberation thinker who honors Native American culture and the environment. Ruehl’s aim is to use an interdisciplinary style that unites philosophy, religion, and literature to develop a pluralistic philosophy of liberation for our twenty-first century, North-American context. Index

Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations. 23 Minutes in Hell (Wiese), 144 annihilation, 63n26 90 Minutes in Heaven (Piper), 144 Classical Yoga and, 204, 206, 207, 700 Club (TV show), 143 209–10 Lacan and, 104, 105, 109 Abnaki Indians, 71, 79 loss of self and, 183, 184 Abrahamic “prophetic” piety, nirvana and, 207, 216n19 38–9 ĀraŘya, Swami Hariharanānda, 214 Absolute Beingness, 163, 164 Ariès, Philippe, 243 acceptance stage of grief, 66, 80 Aristotle, 5 Advaita Vedanta, 189 ars moriendi, 9–10, 12, 41 after-death communications, 120 asceticism, 2, 165, 194, 201, 205–8, afterlife (life after death), 133 214, 216n15 Requiem Masses and, aspect psychology, 88, 100n8 243–4 Assisi Compilation, 19–21, 23, 32n17 Weil and, 56 Association for Research and AIDS, 36–7 Enlightenment, 97 Ajamila story, 191–2 atheism, 56, 63, 133, 204 Albertson, Mark, 43 Atlantis, 98 Albertson, Sandra, 43 atman (deeper self), 189 Alcott, Bronson, 158 atta (self), 216n19 Alexander, Eben, 144, 205, 208, attachment, 3, 39, 95 217n26 bereavement and, 117, 122, 126 Alison, James, 62n16 Classical Yoga and, 209 All Souls’ Day, 236 Shakta corpse ritual and, 194, 199 All-That-Is, 88, 89, 91–2 Atwater, P. M., 156, 170 alterity, 113 Augustine, St., 99, 241 alternative healing circles, 97 autobiographical narratives, 35–46 amrta (non-death), 192 see also near-death experiences Ancient and Mystical Order of the Rosae Crucis, 97 Baer, Rabbi Dov, Great Maggid, 184 Angela of Foligno, 28, 32n15 Baily, Alice, 97, 100n3 anger stage of grief, 66, 80 bargaining, 66, 80 270 Index

Barrett, D., 122 Blackmore, Susan, 138 Barrett, Marvin, 44 Blakely, Mary Kay, 44 Basil of Caesarea, 4, 6, 9, 13n7 Blavatsky, Helena, 97 Baugher, Matt, 143 bliss, 186, 187 Bayless, R., 124 Bollandists, 29 Baylor religion survey, 143 Bonaventure, 25–7, 33n36, 33n37 beatitudes, 51–3, 62n7 Boniscambi, Ugolino, 20 Becker, Ernest, 203–4 Bonnke, Reinhard, 138 Bedard, Jim, 39 Book of Common Prayer, 238 Being Brett (Hobbie), 45 Borromean knot, 115n34 Benedictines, 28 Bostelman, Patricia, 140 Bengal Boucher, Sandy, 39 Gambhira corpse dance, 194 Bowlby, J., 117 Patanjala Yoga, 214 Brahma, 185, 195, 199 Shakta corpse ritual, 192–201 brahman (ocean of consciousness), bereavement 189, 193, 217n28 anomalous experiences and, 117–31 Brahms, Johannes, 236 duration of, 118 Bregman, Lucy, 35–47 Requiem Masses and, 244 bridge personality, 92, 100n8 Berlioz, Hector Bridgman, Richard, 68 Requiem Mass (1837), 236 British Charismatic Renewal, 47n5 Bessa, Bernard de, 20, 24, 32n19 Britten, Benjamin, 236 Beyond Death’s Door (Rawlings), 138 Broken Connection, The (Lifton), 46 Beyond the Pleasure Principle broken heart syndrome, 118–19 (Freud), 108 Brown, Candy Gunther, 133–51 Bhagavad Gītā, 212, 217n29 Brown, Michael F., 88–9 Bhagavata Purana, 191 Buddha, 186, 205, 216n14 bhakti (devotional religion), 190, Buddhism, 138, 183, 185, 206, 207, 192–3, 195 216n15 Bharati, Agehananda, 180 American, 38–9 Bhattacarya, Narendranath, 193 Canadian, 39 Bhattacarya, Siva Chandra first Noble Truth, 216n15 Vidyarnava, 196 buoyancy, 73, 75, 80 Bhattacharya, Vasudeva, 196 Burpo, Colton, 133–4, 139–44, 145–6 bhutas (spirits), 194 Burpo, Sonja, 134, 141, 143 Bible, 10, 133 Burpo, Todd, 133–4, 140–3, 145 Corinthians, 53 Burton, J., 120–1 Genesis, 79 Butts, Robert, 87–91, 98, 100n2 Isaiah, 38 Byock, Ira, 41 John, 25 Luke, 2 Caine, Lynne, 36 Mark, 50 Calderon, Matilde, 221 Philippians, 41 Calvinists, 73 Psalms, 238–9 “Canticle of the Creatures” (Francis Black Elk, 160 of Assisi), 15 Index 271

Cappadocian Fathers, 6, 9, 13n7 Council of Nicaea, 4 Carolingian Empire, 235 Council of Trent, 235, 242 Casale, Ubertino da, 20 Coyle, A., 127 Cayce, Edgar, 97 creative activity, 165, 167, 171 channeling, 88 cremation, 190, 194, 196, 198–9 Charles VII, king of France, 235 Crescentius, General, 26 Chiesa, Lorenzo, 105 Cressy, Judith, 158, 167 China, 183 Critique of Pure Reason (Kant), 10, Chitragupta (secret pictures), 190 64n33, 135 Chopra, Deepak, 98 crown of thorns, 230 Christian Art of Dying, The crucifixion, 49, 53, 101n22, 142, 230 (Berhey), 41 Cusato, Michael, 31n9 Christian missionaries, 199 Christianity, 2 Dalarun, Jacques, 26 afterlife and, 208 Dark Thoreau (Bridgman), 68 early, 4–5, 9 das Ding (real thing), 109–11 Heaven Is Real and, 143–6 Davids, Caroline Rhys, 216n19 metanarrative of death and, 4 Daview, Douglas, 240 NDEs and, 139, 143 Day of the Dead, 222, 224 new mystical dying and, 41–2 De Anima et Resurrectione (Gregory reincarnation and, 207 of Nyssa), 4, 6–7 Seth/Jane and, 101n18 De Hominis Opificio (Gregory of Thoreau and, 73–4 Nyssa), 5, 9 see also Bible; Jesus Christ; and De Laudibus Beati Francisci specific denominations (de Bessa), 20 Christology, 5, 11 De Principiis (Origen), 6 “Civil Disobedience” (Thoreau), 68 death awareness movement, 35, Civilization and Its Discontents 38–41, 44–6 (Freud), 109 death drive clairvoyance, 165, 167 Freud and, 108–9 Clare (nun), 26, 28 Lacan and, 103–5, 107–13 Clarke, James Freeman, 159 “Death of Ivan Ilyich, The” colonization, 66, 71–3, 76 (Tolstoy), 3 Conscious Self, 164 deceased, encounters with, 119–26, consciousness 156 Lacan and, 107, 113 decreation, 49, 60 NDEs and, 157 Deeds of the Blessed Francis and His Patañjali Yoga and, 211–13 Companions, The (Boniscambi), Seth/Jane and, 91, 94–6 20, 24–5 Conti family, 18, 34n38 DeMille, Agnes, 42–3 Cooper, Callum E., 117–31 denial of death, 204, 240 Cooper, Sharon, 156 denial stage, 66, 80 “core experience,” 159, 167 depression stage, 66, 80 five stages of, 137 depth experience, 162 corpse ritual (sava-sadhana), 192–201 depth psychology, 98 272 Index desire Weil and, 51, 53, 55–6, 60 Lacan and, 103, 107, 108, 113 see also void Weil and, 50–1, 54, 56, 58–9, 61, Endings and Beginnings (Albertson), 64n33 43, 45 Devers, E., 122–3 environment, 66, 72–3, 76 Devi (vision of goddess), 195 Epictetus, 65 devil. See also Satan Epicurus, 8 dharma (cosmic order), 190 ESP (extrasensory perception), 89, Discourses (Epictetus), 65 101, 166 divyabhava (beyond purity and evangelical Christians, 137–8, impurity), 194 142–4, 147 Donne, John, 214–15 Exodus (film), 144 Dr. Who (TV series), 98 extra corporeal perception (ECP), dream encounters, 122–3 154, 162–71 dream state, 93–4 heuristic model, 162–9, 164, 172n1 Dreuilhe, Emmanuel, 40 see also out-of-body experiences Drewry, M. D. L., 126 (OBE) Duruflé, Maurice Requiem Mass, 236, 237 Facebook, 90 Dustan, Hannah, 79 fantasy, 107–8, 110 Dying Well (Byock), 41 Fauré, Gabriel Requiem in d minor, 236, 237, 243 Eadie, Betty, 44 Fear No Evil (Watson), 37 Eastern Orthodox Church, 180, 181, fear of death, 118, 203–4 183 female subject, 111–14 Eckhardt Meister, 181–4 feminism, 81n4 Eclipse of Eternity, The (Walter), 37 Fernandez, Justino, 231n1 Ecrits (Lacan), 104–6 Ferrer, Jorge, 170 Edict of Milan, 5 Five Addresses for the End of the ego Millennium (Penderecki), 240–1 consciousness and, 107, 113 Foot, Phillipa, 62n8 jouissance and, 110 Forman, Robert K., 159, 160 Lacan and subject vs., 107 “Forms of the Implicit Love of God” Seth/Jane and, 91–2 (Weil), 56 ego ideal, 106 Fox News (TV network), 143, 144 Egyptians, ancient, 125 Fox sisters, 97 Ekechukwu, Daniel, 138 fragment personalities, 101n13 Embraced by the Light (Eadie), 44 Francis of Assisi, St., 15–34 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 67, 69, 73, 87 ambivalence toward women, Emerson, Waldo, 67, 78 31n7, 33n34, 33n35 empiricist school, 10 canonization of, 25 empowered imagination, 161–2, 165 Franciscan Order, 15, 18–19, 27–9, emptiness, 39 34n39 loss of self and, 178–9, 182, 184, Frangipane clan, 18 187 Free Fall (Smith), 40 Index 273 freedom NDEs and, 44, 133–48, 205, Patañjali Yoga and, 208, 209, 212 217n26 Thoreau and, 73, 75, 80 Patañjali Yoga and, 205–6, 208, Freud, Sigmund, 105, 108–9, 111–12, 212 203 Seth/Jane and, 94, 99 “Function and the Field of Heaven Is for Real (book and Speech and Language, The” movie), 133, 136, 139–48 (Lacan), 104 Heiler, Friedrich, 38, 39 hell, 133, 134, 143–5, 147–8, 190 Garber, Elizabeth, 232n1 Hellenism, 7, 10, 183 Gdansk dock-workers, 240 Heller, Joseph, 36 Giddens, Anthony, 244 Hendin, D., 118 God’s Not Dead (film), 144 Hermeticism, 97 Gomez Arias, Alejandro, 225–7 Herrera, Hayden, 231n1 Gravity and Grace (Weil), 55–6 Hexaemeron (Basil of Nyssa), 6 Gray, Caroll, 139 Hidden Spring (Boucher), 39 Gray, T., 122 high grief death, 118 Greeks, ancient, 125 Hinduism, 2, 185 Greeley, June-Ann, 219–33 folk tradition (parloka vidya), 190 Gregorian Requiem Mass, 235–6 Patañjali’s Yogasutra and, 204–18 Gregory IX, Pope, 25, 34n38 Shakta corpse ritual and, 189–201 Gregory of Nazianzos, 13n7 Hitler, Adolf, 49 Gregory of Nyssa, St., 4–12 Hobbie, Douglas, 45 Greyson, Bruce, 137, 155–7, 166 Hogan, Cynthia A., 87–101 grief, five stages of, 66, 80, 136 Hogan, R. C., 127 Groundwork of Metaphysics of Holden, Janice, 156 Morals (Kant), 11 Hollenback, Jess, 160–2 Grundmann, Herbert, 33n32 Hoondert, Martin J. M., 235–46 Guided Afterlife Connections, 127 hospitals, 36, 135 Guillan-Barré disease, 36 Gurney, E., 119 ideal ego, 106–7 imaginal capacity, 160–2, 166–7, “Hallucinations of Widowhood, 171, 174n43 The” (Rees), 121 imaginary, 103, 106–7, 110, 115n34 Haraldsson, E., 120, 122 immortality, 192, 243–4 Hardy, Sir Alister, 177 “Instance of the Letter in the Hastings, A., 126 Unconscious, or Reason since Hatha yoga, 206 Freud, The” (Lacan), 105 Heard, Gerald, 44 Interior Castle, The (Theresa of Heart Sutra, 182, 217n30 Avila), 184 heaven, 133 International Association for beatitudes and, 52–3 Near-Death Studies (IANDS), 137 Francis and, 25–6 Irwin, Lee, 153–74 Hinduism and, 189–92, 200 Isaac, Levi, Great Maggid, 182 Kahlo and, 231 Ishvara (Hindu god), 195 274 Index

Islam, 179, 183 kaivalya (isolation of consciousness), It’s Always Something (Radner), 42 206–7, 212, 214 Kali, 189, 192–6, 199–200 Jabala Upanishad, 190 Kali Tantra, 197, 200n8 Jainism, 206 Kalischuk, R. G., 127 James, William, 38, 39, 87, 159 Kant, Immanuel, 4, 10–12, 64n33, Japanese haikus, 242–3 135, 136 Jenkins, Karl karma, 190, 209 Adiemus project, 242 Katha Upanishad, 185 Requiem, 235–6, 241–4 Kedushat ha-Levi, 182–3 Jenkins, Philip, 97 Kellogg, Wilfred, 98 Jesson, Stuart, 49–64 Kelly, Edward F., 156 Jesus Christ, 97 Kelly, Emily W., 156 Francis as alter Christus and, kendo, 187 16–17, 23–4, 27, 31n5 Khanna, Surbhi, 157 Gregory of Nyssa on, 11 Khond tribals, 200n9 Kahlo and, 230 Kierkegaard, Søren, 78 Kant on, 11, 12 Kim, Jin Sook, 103–14 medicalized autobiographies and, Kinnear, Greg, 145 40–4 Kivy, Peter, 236 NDEs and, 134, 138–42, 145, Kneedler, Joel, 143 147–8 Kramarik, Akiane, 142 salvation and, 50, 133, 143 Prince of Peace, 142 Seth/Jane and, 97–8, 101n22 Krippner, S., 124, 127 suffering and, 2, 41 Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth, 35–6, 43, 45, see also Resurrection 65–6, 117–18, 136, 137 “Jesus Prayer,” 181 Kumari (Hindu goddess), 196 John of the Cross, St., 113, 158 John Paul II, Pope, 240 La Scena Musicale, 241 John the Baptist, 134 Lacan, Jacques, 103–4 jouissance, 103–4, 107–12 Lakota tribe, 160 Other-, 111–14 Law of the Seed, 74 phallic, 111–12 Lebeaux, Richard, 69 Judaism, 183 Left Behind (film), 144 Judas figure, 222–3, 229 L’Engle, Madeleine, 43–4 Julian of Norwich, 41 L’Engle, Ted, 43–4 Junayd, Abū l’Qāsim al-, 184 Leo, Brother, 19–21 “Letter to a Priest” (Weil), 49 Kahlo, Frida, 219–33 Levine, Stephen, 39 “The Dream,” 228–9 liberation final painting, 231 Hindu moksha, 183, 185, 189, “For Inhabitants of Mexico,” 222–3 192, 200 “Girl with a Death Mask,” 223–4 Patañjali Yoga and, 208 “Thinking about Death,” 229–30 Thoreau and, 75, 77 Kahlo, Wilhelm “Guillermo,” 221 libido, 110, 111 Index 275 life Mary Magdalene, 23–4, 32–3n21 Thoreau and transformation of, Mashan Chamunda Kali (Hindu 78, 80–1 goddess), 194, 200n12 Weil and reorientation of, 50–1, materialists, 63n26, 139 53–5, 61 Mathers, Cotton, 79 Life after Life (Moody), 44, 134 matter, spirit vs., 210–13 Life at Death (Ring), 137 McDaniel, June, 189–201 life drive (eros), 109, 112 McGee, Sr. Mary, 29 life review, 137, 147, 155–7 medicalized dying, 35–46 Lifton, Robert J., 46 NDEs and, 135, 154 Ligeti, György, 236 meditation, 161, 177, 204–5 light mediumistic trances, 179 Hindu visions of, 189 Mexico, 222, 224, 229–30, 232n2 mystic experience and, 181–2 Miller, Jacques-Alain, 109–10, 112–13 NDEs and, 155, 170 Millman, Dan, 98 Requiem Mass and, 238–9 mind Little, J. P., 60 -brain relationship, 167, 168 Little Flowers of Saint Francis Patañjali Yoga and, 209–11 (Boniscambi), 20 Seth/Jane and, 92–3 Lloyd Webber, Andrew, 236 miracles, 21–3 Lommel, Pim van, 162 Mirror of Perfection (Brother Leo), 20 loss miscarriages, 141, 145, 146, 219 Thoreau and, 66, 80–1 Mitchell, Graham, 117–31 Weil and, 50–1, 53, 61 Moody, Raymond E., 44, 125, 134, see also bereavement 136–7, 139, 155 loss of self, 178–86 Mooney, Edward F., 75, 81n4 Lotus in the Fire (Bedard), 39 Moore, Lawrence, 101n26 Louis XI, king of France, 235 morality, 11, 12 Lovewell, Captain, 71 Morgan, J. C., 118 low grief death, 118 Morgan, R. L., 118 Luther, Martin, 38 Morse, Melvin, 135 Lyons, Oren, 73–4 Mortal Embrace (Dreuilhe), 40 Mozart, Wolfgang A. Macrina the Younger, St., 4–10, 12 Requiem, 236 Magi, 23–4 Murray, M., 128 Maharishi, Sri Ramana, 2 Music Alone (Kivy), 236 Maier, Frank, 38, 40, 45 Myers, F. W. H., 119 mantras, 190, 192–5 Myers, Frederick, 163 Margaret of Cortona, 28 mystical dying, 41, 45–6 Marseilles notebook (Weil), 50, mysticism and mystical experience 58–9, 63n26 death awareness movement and, Marx, Wolfgang, 240 38–40 Mary, Virgin ECP model and, 163–9 Heaven Is for Real and, 134 Kahlo and, 220 Kahlo and, 232n2 Lacan and, 103, 107, 112–14 276 Index mysticism and mystical Nietzsche, Friedrich, 62n8 experience—Continued Niffari, 181 NDEs and, 153–75 nirvana nothingness or self-loss and, 179–86 Buddhist, 183, 185, 187, 205, Patanja Yoga and, 204–18 207–8, 216n10, 216n19 prophetic vs., 38–9 “principle,” and Lacan, 108 religion and, 158–9 No Laughing Matter (Heller and scientific view of death and, 203–4 Vogel), 36 Seth/Jane and, 87, 97, 98 Noah, Son of God (film), 144 Thoreau and, 67 Nowatski, N. R., 127 Weil and, 49–64 Mysticism of Paul the Apostle, The object à, 110–12 (Schweitzer), 40 Ochs, Donovan J., 238 Ockeghem, Johannes Nahm, Michael, 156 Requiem Mass, 235 Name-of-the-Father, 106–7 Oedipus complex, 106 Narayana (Hindu god), 190, 191 Olcott, Henry Steel, 97 Nārgārjuna, 187 On Death and Dying (Kübler-Ross), Native Americans, 66, 69–71, 73, 76–9 35, 41, 136 natural world, 66, 72–9 Onondaga Nation, 73 Nature of Personal Reality, The Orff, Carl (Roberts), 92 Carmina Burana, 243 near-death experiences (NDEs) Origen, 6 Alexander and, 217n26 Other ECP model and, 162–71 Lacan and, 105–8, 110–13 functions of, 146–7 Thoreau and, 75–7 Greyson scale and, 137, 155–6 Otto, Rudolf, 205 Heaven Is for Real and, 133–51 Ouija board, 89 Kahlo and, 232n2 out-of-body experiences (OBE), medicalized autobiographies and, 138–9, 154–5, 161, 165–7, 205 44–5 see also extra corporeal perception Moody’s criteria for, 137, 155 (ECP) mystical knowledge and, 153–75 Oxford Handbook of Psychology and negative, 137–8, 155 Spirituality, The (Greyson), 157 OBE vs., 167 Ring’s five stages of, 137 Paper, Jordan, 177–88 Shakti corpse ritual as, 192–8 paranormal, 155, 160–1, 163–70 transcendental and, 155–65 Parikshit (Hindu king), 191 Neo-Hellenism, 5 Parker, J. W., 127–8 Neo-Platonism, 5, 97 passions New Age spirituality, 44, 87–8, Gregory of Nyssa and, 7–10, 12, 100n3, 137–9, 147 13n15 New Thought movement, 97 Shakta ritual and, 194, 197, 199 “New York Notebook” (Weill), 62 Patañjali Yoga, 204–10, 212–15, Newsweek, 205 217n23 Index 277

Paul the Apostle, 41–3, 53 psychonoetic consciousness, 154, Paulu, Athet Pyan Shinthaw, 138 167–8 Paz, Octavio, 231n1 pure consciousness (puruŴa), 159–60, Penderecki, Krzysztof 171, 208–14, 217n23, 217n28 Polish Requiem, 235–6, 240–1, 244 pure life, 210 Pequot War, 70 Puritans, 70 Persecuted (film), 144 personality, 91–2, 94–5, 99 Quakers, 43 Pew Research Religion & Public Life quantum theory, 98, 162 poll, 143 Qushayrā, ‘Abd al-Karīm ibn Pflueger, Lloyd W., 203–18 Hawāzin al-, 184 phallus, 111–13 Phantasms of the Living (Gurney, Radner, Gilda, 42 Myers, and Podmore), 119 Raised from the Dead (documentary pharmakon, 13n15, 55 film), 138 Piper, Don, 144 Rama (Hindu god), 190 Plato, 7, 96 Ramprasad Sen, 197, 199–200 Platonic imperative, 57 Randall, J., 124 pleasure principle, 108–10 Rawlings, Maurice, 138 Podmore, F., 119 real, Lacan and, 103, 110, 113, Poland, 240 115n34 postmodernism, 4, 12, 135, 147–8 reality poststructuralism, 103–4, 107 Islam and, 179 posttraumatic stress disorder Seth Paradigm and, 88, 98–100 (PTSD), 108 Thoreau and, 74–5 poverty, 52, 62n7 reason prana (vital breath), 190, 198 Gregory of Nyssa and, 5–9 precognition, 165, 167 Kant’s pure vs. practical, 10–11 preservative care, 66, 69, 75–6, 78, rebirth 80, 81n4 Francis and, 27 Privatio Boni, 99 Hinduism and, 189–90, 192, 199, probable reality, 95, 99 200 probable selves, 91, 98, 99 Kahlo and, 220 Proof of Heaven (Alexander), 144 Seth/Jane and, 93 prophetic, 38–9 Rees, D., 121, 126 Protestants, 207. See also evangelical Regula non bullata (Francis of Christians Assisi), 28 Pryds, Darleen, 15–34 reincarnation, 39 Psalm 23, 238 Hinduism and, 192 Psalm 130, 238, 239 Requiem Mass and, 242, 243 psi, 167–8 Seth/Jane and, 87, 88, 93–9 psychokinesis (PK), 123–5, 165, Urantia Association and, 98 167–8 Weil on, 63n26 psychomanteum (apparition booth), Western belief in, 207 125–6 see also rebirth 278 Index

Religious Experience Research asamprajñāta (final noncognitive Centre, 178–81 state), 205, 210–11, 213, 214 “Remarks on Fatal Falls” samprajñāta (preliminary states), (von St. Gallen Heim), 136 208 Renaissance, 97 Samkhua of Ishvarakrishna, 217n23 “Report on the Census of SāŔkhya-Yoga, 204, 208–18 Hallucinations” (Sidgwick, samsāra (cycle of life and death), Sidgwick, and Johnson), 119, 183, 187, 190, 194 121 San Francesco basilica (Assisi), 19, Requiem Masses, 235–46 25, 32n13 Resurrection Sarvananda of Mehar story, 196–7 Gregory of Nyssa and, 7 Satan (devil), 9, 134, 143, 145, 148 Heaven Is for Real and, 144 sava-sadhana (corpse ritual), Hellenistic cults and, 183 192–201 Kahlo and, 230 Schmidt, Leigh, 158 L’Engle and, 43 Schoolcraft, Henry, 136 Requiem Masses and, 238–40, Schweitzer, Albert, 40 243–4 science, 101n22, 203–5 Weil and, 49–50, 53, 57–9, 62 science fiction, 98 Rhees, Rush, 64n32 scientific naturalism, 137–8, 147 Rig Veda, 189 Screaming Room, The (Peabody), 37 Ring, Kenneth, 137, 156, 170 scrying, 125 Rivera, Diego, 231n1 second growth, 66–7, 69, 76, 78, 80 Roberts, Jane, 87–101 Seeing the Seer, 210 Robinson, David, 67 self Roe, Chris A., 117–31 loss of, 178–83, 186 Rogo, D. S., 124 Seth/Jane and, 88, 90–2 Roman Catholicism, 39, 158, 207, Thoreau and, 81 235, 236, 242 Weil and, 60 Romantic poets, 97 self-consciousness, 107 Rose of Viterbo, 28 self-help, 98 Rosicrucians, 97 self-realization, 12 Rudra (Hindu god), 195 Seminar VII (Lacan), 104–5, 110 Ruehl, Robert Michael, 65–85 Seminar XX (Lacan), 110, 112 Rugilo, Joseph, 29 “Seminar on Purloined Letter” Rutter, John (Lacan), 105 Requiem, 235, 237–40, 243–4, sensory mysticism, 164–5 245n12 Seth Awareness Network, 98 Seth Center (website), 90 Sabatier, Paul, 32n12 Seth Institute (website), 90 Sabom, 155–6 Seth Learning Center (website), 90 Sadashiva (Hindu god), 195 Seth Material, The (Roberts), 87 Saddharmapundarīka, 185 Seth Material (Seth/Jane), 87–101 samādhi (meditative states), 203, Sethnet International (website), 90, 98 205–15, 217n23, 217n25 Settesoli, Lady Jacopa dei, 16–34 Index 279 sexuality Sufism, 40, 165, 181 Lacan and, 104, 111–12 Sukadev, 191 mysticism and, 165 superconscious, 163–4, 169 Shaivites, 192–3 Super-psi (SPSI), 168 Shakta tantra, 192–200 Supra-Sensory Mysticism, 164, 165, Shaktas, 192 167 Shakti (Hindu goddess), 192–8 surplus value, 112 shamans, 161, 165, 179, 224–5 surrender, 40, 43, 157 Shiva (Hindu god), 192, 194–5, 198 survivalists, 168 Showings (Julian of Norwich), 41 Suskyens, P., 29 signifier, 106, 109, 111 Swedenborg, Emmanuel, 97 simulation, 168 Sweet Reprieve (Maier), 38, 45 Smart, Ninian, 160 symbolic Smith, Joanne Kelley, 40 denial of death and, 204 Smith, M. D., 119 Lacan and, 103–7, 109–14, Society for Psychical Research, 119 115n34 “Some Reflections on the Love of Symeon, St., 180, 183 God” (Weil), 57, 58–9 soul Tagore, Rabindranath, 3 Gregory of Nyssa and, 8–9 Tanous, A., 122 Hinduism and journey of, 189–91 Tantra Tattva, 195 Spare Days (Barrett), 44 tantric yoga, 192–7, 199, 206, Speyer, J., 128 215n6 Spiritual Franciscans, 20, 32n15 Tao Qian, 180 St. Gallen Heim, Albert von, 136 taraka mantra, 190 Stace, W. T., 38, 39, 160 Tart, Charles, 165–8 Star Trek series, 98 Tassell-Matamua, Natasha, 157 Star Wars series, 98 telepathy, 165, 167 Stargate series, 98 Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 177–8, 180 Steffen, E., 127 Teresa of Avila, St., 113, 158, 184 stigmata, 16, 22, 24, 30–1n4, 32n21 Terror Management Theory (TMT), Stoics, 8, 65 203–5 structuralism, 103 terror of death, 207, 209. subjectivity, 103–13 See also fear of death sublimation, 112 Thalbourne, Michael, 164 subliminal capacities, 163, 164, 168 Theology of Death, The (Davies), “Subversion of the Subject and the 240 Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Theosophical Society, 97, 100n3 Unconscious, The” (Lacan), 106 Thomas, Dylan, 2 suffering Thomas of Celano, 19, 22, 24–7, 29, joy and, 52 32n18, 32n21, 33n25, 34n38 Lacan and, 109 Thoreau, Henry David, 65–83 Patañjali Yoga and, 207–11 Thoreau, John, 66–70, 76, 78 Seth/Jane and, 99–100 Tibetan Book of the Dead, The, 39 Weil and, 54, 60 Today Show (TV show), 143 280 Index

Tolstoy, Leo, 3 Vishnu (Hindu god), 191, 195 transcendence, NDEs and, 156–64, visionary encounters, 121, 160–1, 169–70 166, 192–200 Transcendentalism, 97, 157–9 Vita Apostolica, 17–18, 27–8 transpersonal event, 167, 170–1 Vita Macrinae (Gregory of Nyssa), 5 transphysical awareness, 163–7, Vita Major (Bonaventure), 25, 26 169–71 void, 53, 55–6, 59, 63n18, 179 Travels in the Central Portions of Vyāsa, 207, 209, 215n4, 216n16 Mississippi Valley (Schoolcraft), 136 Wadding, Luke, 32n12 Treatise on Miracles of Saint Francis, Wade, Jenny, 165 The (Thomas of Celano), 19, 22 waiting, patient, 57–9 Trinitarian controversy, 5 Wake Me When It’s Over true death (samādhi), 204–14, (Blakely), 44 217n31 Walden (Thoreau), 68, 83n49 true person, 206 Wallace, Randall, 144–5 true suffering, 206–7 Walter, Tony, 37 Two-Part Invention, A (L’Engle), Watson, David, 37, 47n4 43–4 Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, A (Thoreau), U.S. News & World Report, 135 66, 69–73, 78–9 uncommon sense, 77 Weil, Simone, 49–64 unconscious Weintraub, Karl, 36, 37 Lacan and, 107, 113 Whicher, Ian, 207 Seth/Jane and, 92 Who Dies? (Levine), 39 Unitarians, 73 Widow (Caine), 36 unity of body and soul, 7, 9–10, 12 widows and widowers, 119, 121–2 “Unnamed,” 73, 75, 78, 80–1 Wilber, Ken, 98 Upanishads, 181–3, 186, 189, 204, Wilder, Gene, 42 206, 211, 217n28, 217n29 Wit, Antoni, 241 Urantia Association, 98 “Withers, Frank,” 89, 101n13 Urantia Book, The (Kellogg), 98 women Urner, Carol Reilley, 34n38 Christian Middle Ages and, 16–18, 21, 27–30, 31n6 Vaishnavism, 190–2 Francis and, 33n34, 33n35, Van Swieten, Baron, 236 34n39 Vatican Council, Second, 242 Lacan’s jouissance and, 104, Vauchez, André, 19, 33n24 111–13 Vedic scripture, 189, 204, 206 Woodroffe, Sir John, 195 Venus idol, 222–3 Word Verdi, Giuseppe of God, 5 Requiem Mass, 236, 243 Lacan and, 104–5, 109 Verhey, Allen, 41 Wright, S. H., 123–4 Vincent, Lynn, 143 Wulff, David, 158 violence, 79–80, 99 Wyschogrod, Edith, 76 Index 281

Yama (Hindu lord of death), 190–1 Zaehner, R. C., 178 yantras, 190, 195 Zaleski, Carol, 158, 161 yoga, 180, 181, 191–2 Zen Buddhism, 39, 187 Classical, 205–18 zero-experience, 179–80 modern postural, 204, 206, Zhuangzi (ancient Chinese text), 215n7 180–1, 182, 184 Yogasūtra of Patañjali (YS), 204–18, Žižek, Slavoj, 104–5, 111–13 217n23 Zukav, Gary, 98