Journeys to heaven and to hell - Rodney Davies

While death, that great and inexorable leveller, lies ahead of us all, it is but a staging post on this journey we call life. Beyond death is the next realm, wherein that which survives our physical body, the soul or wraith, continues to exist, perhaps indefinitely. Tradition divides this mysterious domain into two distinct and separate regions, one of which, called heaven, is reputedly light-filled and beautiful, the other, known as hell, is dark and awful. In this fascinating and uplifting, yet also frightening book, Rodney Davies examines the testimony of many of the unwitting visitors to both places, most of whom made their remarkable journeys while undergoing a near-death experience (or NDE). He charts the gradual unfolding of the geography of the next world during the past three thousand years, and he describes what we will all one day see and experience, both en route to and within, the bliss that is heaven or the horror that is hell. His analysis also reveals that as our post-mortem destination depends upon how we have lived our lives, we therefore exist in a moral universe.