Spraggett, Allen, The Case for Immortality, New American Library, New York, 1974.
Swedenborg, Emanuel, Heaven and Hell, tr. by George F. Dole, Swedenborg Foundation, Inc., New York, 1976.
Trobridge, George, Swedenborg: Life and Teaching, Swedenborg Foundation, New York, 1978.
Van Dusen, Wilson, The Presence of Other Worlds, Harper & Row, New York,
1973.
Walker, Benjamin, Beyond the Body: The Human Double and the Astral Plane, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1974.
Weiss, Jess E., The Vestibule, Pocket Books, New York, 1977.
Wheeler, David R., Journey to the Other Side, Ace Books, New York, 1977.
ATTEMPTS AT CHRISTIAN APPROACHES AND EVALUATIONS — MOSTLY EVANGELICAL PROTESTANT
Baker, H. A. Visions Beyond the Veil, Whitaker House, Monroeville, Pa., 1973.
Brooke, Tal, The Other Side of Death, Tyndale House, Wheaton, Ill., 1979.
Eby, Richard E., Caught Up into Paradise, private printing, c. 1978.
Ernest, Victor H., I Talked with Spirits, Tyndale House, Wheaton, Ill., 1975.
Faust, Floyd, Life Death Life, The Upper Room, Nashville, Tenn., 1977.
Ford, Marvin, On the Other Side, Logos International, Plainfield, N.J., 1978.
Graham, Billy, Angels, God’s Secret Messengers, Doubleday, New York, 1975.
Lewis, C. S., Miracles, The Macmillan Co., New York, 1967.
Levitt, Zola, and Weldon, John, Is There Life After Death? Harvest House
Publishers, Irvine, Calif., 1977.
Lindsay, Hal, Life After Death, Christ for the Nations, Dallas, Texas, 1977.
Malz, Betty, My Glimpse of Eternity, Chosen Books, Waco, Texas, 1977.
Myers, John, ed., Voices from the Edge of Eternity, Spire Books, Old Tappan, N.J., 1973.
Peale, Norman Vincent, The Power of Positive Thinking, Prentice-Hall, Inc., New York, 1953.
Rawlings, Maurice, Beyond Death’s Door, Thomas Nelson, Inc., Nashville, 1978.
Ritchie, George C., Jr., Return from Tomorrow, Chosen Books, Waco, Texas, 1978.
Sandberg, Anne, Seeing the Invisible: What Happens after You Die? Logos International, Plainfield, N.J., 1977.
Swihart, Phillip J., The Edge of Death, Inter-Varsity Press, Downers Grove, Ill., 1978.
Winter, David, Hereafter: What Happens After Death? Harold Shaw Publishers, Wheaton, Ill., 1977.
Wilkerson, Ralph, Beyond and Back, Melodyland Publishers, Anaheim, Calif., 1977.
RUSSIAN EDITIONS OF THE SOUL AFTER DEATH
Dusha posle smerti (The Soul After Death), samizdat, Moscow, 1984.
Dusha posle smerti , Moscow, 1991.
Dusha posle smerti, joint publication of the editorial staff of “Skete” and the
Stavropol regional committee of the Red Cross Society, Moscow, 1992.
Dusha posle smerti, “Glagol,” St. Petersburg, 1994.
Dusha posle smerti. Moscow: Sretensky Monastery, 1997, 2007.
Prinosheniye pravoslavnogo amerikantsa. Sbornik trudov ottsa Serafima
Platinskogo (An offering of a contemporary American: the collected works of Fr. Seraphim of Platina) [includes The Soul After Death], Valaam Society of America—Russian Mission, Moscow, 1998, 2001.
Dusha posle smerti, “Palomnik,” Moscow, 2003, 2005.
Dusha posle smerti, Kievo-Pechersky Lavra, Kiev, 2006.
THE SOUL AFTER DEATH IN OTHER LANGUAGES
L’Ame apres la mort (The Soul After Death, in French), Orthodox Monastery of the Archangel Michael, Lavardac, France, 1999.
L’Anima dopo la morte (in Italian), Servitum-Interlogos, Sotto il Monte and Schio, Italy, 1999.
Dusha posle smrti (in Serbian), “Svetigora,” Cetinije, Yugoslavia, 1995.
Dusha posle smrti (in Serbian), “Srpski Sion,” Sremski Karlovci, Yugoslavia,
1995.
Dushata sledsmertta (in Bulgarian), Pravoslaven kosher, Trnovo, Bulgaria, n.d.
Marana Shesham? (in Malayalam [south Indian]), Mar Baselius Foundation, Prakkanam, India, 2000.
E Psukhe meta ton thanato (in Greek), Myriobiblios, Athens, 2003.
Die Seele nach dem Tod (in German), Russisches Orthodoxes Kloster des Hl. Hiob von Pocaev (Russian Orthodox Monastery of St. Job of Pochaev), Munich, Germany, 2000.
Sufletul dupa moarte (in Romanian), Protos. Teodosie Paraschiv, Bucharest, Romania, 1994.
Sufletul dupa moarte (in Romanian), Editura Anastasia, Bucharest, Romania,
1996, 2002.
Sufletul dupa moarte (in Romanian), Editura Tehnopress, Iaşi, Romania, 2003.
The Soul After Death A modern classic of traditional spirituality, read by millions worldwide
What happens to the soul when it leaves the body at death? What is its state from then until the Last Judgment? Do the numerous present-day books on life after death give any real answers to these questions, or are they only hints about a reality which even those who “return from the dead” often misunderstand?
The present book is a presentation of the 2,000-year-old teaching and experience of the Eastern Orthodox Church on the reality of the other world, as contrasted and compared with today’s “after-death” experiences on the one hand, and with the teaching and experience of age-old occultism on the other. On the basis of the divinely revealed knowledge of saints and visionaries throughout the centuries, this book discusses:
• angels, and demons, and their manifestations in this world
• heaven and hell, their “location” and reality
• the nature of true experiences of the other world, and how they are different from occult and psychic experiences
• the “aerial powers” with which many are coming into contact
• the meaning of the contemporary experiences which have been publicized by Drs. Kubler-Ross, Moody, Osis and Haroldsson, and other researchers
• The Tibetan Book of the Dead, the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg, the “astral plane" of Theosophy, and the “out-of-body” experiences of Robert Monroe
The author, Fr. Seraphim Rose (1934-1982), was an American Orthodox monk in the ancient tradition who dedicated his life to reawakening modern Western man to forgotten spiritual truths. From his remote cabin in the mountains of northern California, he produced writings that have had a tremendous international impact. He is one of the most loved and revered spiritual writers in Russia today.