The Last Frontier: Exploring the Afterlife and Transforming Our Fear of Death

by Julia Assante, Larry Dossey (Foreword by)

Overview

Knowledge of the afterlife can trigger dazzling transformations in body, mind, and spirit. It unleashes our authentic selves, radically resets our values, and deepens our sense of life purpose. From it we discover that the real nature of the universe is the very essence of benevolence. In this comprehensive work, Julia Assante probes what happens when we die, approaching with scholarly precision historical and religious accounts, near-death experiences, and after-death communication. She then presents convincing evidence of discarnate existence and communication with the dead and offers practical ways to make contact with departed loved ones to heal and overcome guilt, fear, and grief.

* Winner of a 2013 Nautilus Gold Award in the category of grieving / death & dying

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781608681600
Publisher:	New World Library
Publication date:	11/06/2012
Pages:	424
Sales rank:	269,098
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Julia Assante, PhD, is both a mystic and a scholar. She has been a professional intuitive, medium, and past-life therapist for over four decades, offering workshops throughout the United States and Europe. Her accuracy in telepathy has been clinically tested at Columbia University. As a scholar, she has taught at Columbia, Bryn Mawr, and the University of Münster (Germany) and given talks at universities worldwide.

Table of Contents

Foreword Larry Dossey xi

Introduction: It's Simply Out of This World! 1

Part I The Evidence for Survival

1 Can Survival after Death Be Proved? 23

2 How Real Is Real? 33

3 Near-Death Experiences 43

4 After-Death Communication 53

5 Reincarnation 77

Part II The Social Construction of the Afterlife

6 A Comparative History of the Afterlife 95

7 The Genesis of Sin 123

8 "Spiritual Evolution," Nontime, and the Ego 137

Part III Dying, Death, and Beyond

9 The Fear of Death: Causes and Cures 167

10 Preparing to Die 193

11 Going through the Threshold and the Period of Adjustment 221

Part IV All about Contact

12 It's Okay to Talk to the Dead, but What Happens When the Dead Talk Back? 253

13 Familiarity: The Key to Successful Contact 279

14 Ghosts, Thought Forms, and "Earthbound Spirits" 299

15 Telepathy: Your Tool for After-Death Communication 309

16 How to Make Contact 327

Conclusion: What Would the World Be Like without the Fear of Death? 365

Acknowledgments 371

Notes 373

Index 393

About the Author 407

Editorial Reviews

Death. We fear it, we plan for it, we do all we can to forestall its coming. And yet, neither faith nor science can keep death from grabbing hold of each one of us. Social historian Assante, who is also a medium, has penned what may be the most important book on the enigma of death since the groundbreaking work of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. Some will disagree with Assante's conclusions that there is life after death, and that the living can communicate with those who have passed on. She buttresses her arguments with numerous accounts of near-death experiences and reported communication with the dead. Add to this a concise but fascinating survey of how the ancients viewed death, the nature of sin and salvation, and the pervasive belief in reincarnation, and the result is a body of evidence that merits serious discussion. All of this culminates in a fascinating question: "What would the world be like without the fear of death?" Perhaps a world filled with loving, nurturing, positive, life-affirming people? An outstanding read.
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Publishers Weekly

“Social historian Assante, who is also a medium, has penned what may be the most important book on the enigma of death since the groundbreaking work of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross....An outstanding read.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Throughout history, the fear of death has caused more suffering for human beings than all the physical diseases combined. You are holding in your hands the cure for this suffering. Some books transform lives. This one may transform a planet.”
— Larry Dossey, MD, author of Healing Words and The One Mind

“A convincing glimpse of nonlocal reality, which may be the essence of our immortal being.”
— Deepak Chopra, author of Spiritual Solutions and The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success

“The Last Frontier presents a brilliant combination of three categories of evidence for survival of consciousness after death — the science, the history, and personal experience....Exceptionally well grounded and accessible, it offers an important contribution to our understanding of death, dying, and beyond.”
— Dean Radin, author of The Conscious Universe and Entangled Minds

“Unveils the afterlife as a realm of unlimited possibility, expanded awareness, and ineffable love.”
— Dianne Arcangel, author of Afterlife Encounters and coauthor (with Raymond Moody) of Life After Loss

“Julia Assante helps us to approach death in ways that enlarge life, and to grow our ability to step between worlds and have timely and helpful contact with those who are living on the other side....She succeeds magnificently in a venture that is of urgent and essential relevance to all of us.”
— Robert Moss, author of The Dreamer’s Book of the Dead and Dreaming the Soul Back Home

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