Experiencing the Next World Now

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Summary: fun book that especially true believers
Review: Dr. Michael Grosso uses anecdotal evidence that contends there are paths to the afterlife available for those willing to take a peak or more. He uses some examples gathered under professional observation and others that are more hearsay and not under a controlled environment to provide specific peepholes that a person can look through or for the more daring take a deeper dive into the afterlife pool. The roadmaps Dr. Grosso says exists consist of a wide variety of otherworldly phenomena such as ghosts, reincarnation and past life experiences, seeing the Light, out-of-body events, UFOs, and mystical experiences, etc.

This is a fun book that especially true believers will enjoy for the "true life" tales (some more famous than others) as well as the guide to experience the next world. Besides my read, I asked my husband (a skeptical statistical trend analysis expert) how statistically based is the evidence. He said: that Dr. Grosso uses too few examples (sample of the population not considered) in too many subcategories to draw any generalization/conclusions and that each anecdotal is accepted as truth regardless of the source adding doubt of reliability of the data to the already questionable validity of each subcategory. Still these are interesting stories that readers will enjoy, but for those who want to take that one giant step there is no simple instruction except austere practices that are way outside the norm. EXPERIENCING THE NEXT WORLD NOW is for those who appreciate "true" tales of those experiencing otherworldly events.

Harriet Klausner

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Summary: A Fascinating Look
Review: Dr. Michael Grosso's "Experiencing the Next World Now" contains a wealth of material which, when taken together, suggests that the conscious minds of sentient beings may survive the death of their physical bodies. Its eleven chapters cover such topics as ghosts and spirits, mediums, evolution, mental bridges to the next world and techniques for preparing one to experience in this life what the next world may hold in store for us. It discusses in detail the difficult problems of authenticity when considering evidence which may be suddenly thrust upon an unsuspecting observer. It also presents objections to the survival hypothesis as might be raised by an informed yet sincere skeptic. I found the book to be both readable and thought provoking and believe that Dr. Grosso has fully achieved his stated objective of offering the reader a glimpse of an enlarged philosophy of human faculity or potential. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in seeing what could be waiting for us on the other side of the veil.

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Summary: The Delicate Thread of Hope
Review: Michael Grosso is to my mind, an American Colin Wilson. A polymath when it comes to the exploration of the esoteric byways of human psychology. In reading this work one immediate thing was apparent, he reviews some of the strongest cases for survival from the archives of psychical research/parapsychology. Yet I felt still unconvinced by the data he presents. It neither moved me toward nor away from the question of survival after death. His emphasis on the need for celebrating living itself each day to the fullest, while at the same time "keeping our death before us" as practiced by Tibetan Lamas and other contemplatives is the message of most guides for the living regarding the afterlife. Grosso's analogy of Bucke's "cosmic consciousness" and Maslow's "peak experiences" as a foretaste of things to come leaves me unsatisfied on some level as well. The inevitability of death seems to me to be a message from nature that in the final analysis it does not matter. A life well lived should be open to all possibilities, be it the dualism of Christianity (which I doubt), reincarnation, oblivion or nirvana. As Alexander Pope wrote, "whatever is, is right." All speculative works on the afterlife seem to be an attempt to convey the experience of color to a person blind from birth. I am not convinced that death and what lay after (if anything) is communicable to the living. But this is a vailant attempt in that endeavor.

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Summary: The Delicate Fabric of Hope
Review: Michael Grosso is to my mind, an American Colin Wilson. A polymath when it comes to the exploration of the esoteric byways of human psychology. In reading this work one immediate thing was apparent, he reviews some of the strongest cases for survival from the archives of psychical research/parapsychology. Yet I felt still unconvinced by the data he presents. It neither moved me toward nor away from the question of survival after death. His emphasis on the need for celebrating living itself each day to the fullest, while at the same time "keeping our death before us" as practiced by Tibetan Lamas and other contemplatives is the message of most guides for the living regarding the afterlife. Grosso's analogy of Bucke's "cosmic consciousness" and Maslow's "peak experiences" as a foretaste of things to come leaves me unsatisfied on some level as well. The inevitability of death seems to me to be a message from nature that in the final analysis it does not matter. A life well lived should be open to all possibilities, be it the dualism of Christianity (which I doubt), reincarnation, oblivion or nirvana. As Alexander Pope wrote, "whatever is, is right." All speculative works on the afterlife seem to be an attempt to convey the experience of color to a person blind from birth. I am not convinced that death and what lay after (if anything) is communicable to the living. But this is a vailant attempt in that endeavor.

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Summary: Don't wait for heaven to get your reward!
Review: Michael Grosso, the author of such notable works as the Millenium Myth and Soul Making has come forth with an impressive work on the afterlife and how we can benefit from accessing it in the here and now, sans the default taboos our culture imposes upon us in so many ways. Michael suggests, through his enlightening and scholarly command of the subject matter, that people from all walks of (after)life can access post death wonders without a middle man (of the cloth). Engaging and informative, erudite yet accessible, Experiencing the Next World Now is the perfect key to opening the door to bardo panoramas undreamed of by most of us. The fear of death has created most if not all of the pathologies plaging our world: violence, psychosis, environmental degradation,war, Homeland Security and other forms of alienation from the life force within/out us all, a force that stays with us after our physical bodies die. So check this book out before you check out. In other words, don't wait for heaven to get your reward when you can order this book today!