Experiencing the Next World Now

by Michael Grosso

Book Overview

From the scientific underground of psychic research comes a stunning report on the evidence for life after death. But all the proof in the world is nothing when compared to actual experience with the place beyond. This book takes the reader to the next level -- and offers a more personal kind of journey. If there is a "next world," it must be nearby, and the path leads through the gateways of our own minds. Philosopher Michael Grosso shows us how...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743471059
• ISBN13: 9780743471053
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Gallery Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

The Imagination Survives Death

Imagine The Other Side of Death's Door Will we survive? Will global warming wipe us out? Will the U.S. government go bankrupt? Will New Orleans recover? Will an asteroid, a volcano, an earthquake or Tsunami destroy life as we know it? How much life support can we offer to a person in a vegetative state? Is there life after death? Tremulous times we live it, for sure, and in so many ways to we face the question of survival. No wonder we seek comfort in miraculous reports of transformative miraculous near-death experiences and heart warming stories of mediums reconciling the bereaved with the spirits of their relations recently passed over. We need to believe that life goes on. Wouldn't it be even better to know, from our own experience, that life continues beyond the death of the body? It is such a quest that drove Michael Grosso, Ph.D., to explore how such experientially based knowledge might be obtained. In his book Experiencing the Next World Now (Paraview Pocket Books), he shares with us his discoveries, and they are worth examining. It would seem that we do have the ability to experience the after-life now, even though it may require faith in one's intuitive abilities to trust the validity of the experience. Grosso's exploration of the possibility of survival begins by reviewing the various human experiences that are suggestive of life after death: out of body experiences, ghosts, deathbed visions, mediumship, spirit photography, and memories of past lives, to name a few. Although, as he judiciously points out, these experiences fall short, to a logical mind, of actual proof of an existence after death, we should not underestimate their value in exciting our imagination and enhancing our intuitive sense of an afterlife. He concludes, along with Edgar Cayce, the Tibetans, mystics and poets, among others, that it is our creative consciousness, our imagination, that survives the death of the body. To quote the mystic artist-poet William Blake, "This world of Imagination is the world of Eternity, it is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the vegetative body." In other words, death is a change in consciousness. Equipped with this understanding, Grosso then examines the various techniques, practices and rituals developed over time to alter consciousness so that the subliminal consciousness ordinarily hidden behind the veil becomes clearer in awareness. After examining shamanic ecstasy, lucid dreaming, and yogic practices, His explorations finally focus on cultivating the imagination to discover the inner experience of light. He concludes that becoming aware of the afterlife domain is ultimately a function of attention. Where attention points, there lies our experience. And where attention points, he notes, in agreement with Edgar Cayce and William James, is a function of our will. Grosso's final chapter is not devoted to what you might expect. His focus on the use of the will takes him into the territory of daily life. A

A Fascinating Look

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.

fun book that especially true believers

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