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Patience rewarded–The Buddha in Hell is on Amazon!

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You thought I was kidding! Well, the hot news is that the Kindle version of The Buddha in Hell and Other Alarms has just gone up on Amazon in the U.S.

Whereas I think of Dancing Past the Dark as a comprehensive overview of distressing NDEs, this second book is more evaluative. Its tone is more conversational and personal, as befits a creation built from rewritten blog posts of the past four years, unpublished writings, conference presentations, and articles from guest authors.  If Dancing is a roast, The Buddha is a casserole. You can check it out at Amazon, even read a sample.

Within the next two to four weeks–as soon as the distributor gets word out to to major international retail outlets–the non-Kindle ebooks will be available pretty much wherever digital books are sold, followed by the paperback version, due out also within the next month. List price of the ebook is $9.99 USD and paperback $16.95, but if you wait for discounting to take place the price will go down.

Once you’ve read it, please do leave a review! With no budget for marketing, the book will get by with a little word-of-mouth help from its friends. As always, you can also feel free (please!) to come here to ask question or make comments.

The Buddha in Hell Redux: Intro

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As promised, here is a chunk of the first chapter of the new book, The Buddha in Hell and Other Alarms: Distressing Near-Death Experiences in Perspective. Target date for the ebook version is May 31, 2016.

Chapter 1: The Buddha in Hell Redux

A flurry of agitation accompanied the Internet news that a former Buddhist monk in Myanmar (Burma) was claiming that in a near-death experience he had seen the Buddha in hell. He said the deity Yama, king of the Buddhist hells, had shown him a terrible lake of fire which held not only the Buddha but famous spiritual and political figures who were much loved throughout the country. Goliath was in the lake, too, the giant from the Bible. They were there, he said Yama told him, because they did not believe in the Christian God. They did not accept Jesus.  [Read more…] about The Buddha in Hell Redux: Intro

New Book Almost Here!

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You haven’t seen much from me in the way of blog posts recently because I’ve been obsessing over the next book. Now it’s near enough to done that I can come up for air and say something about it.

 The Buddha in Hell and Other Alarms:
Distressing Near-Death Experiences in Perspective.

This book is less about specific research data and more about interpretation of NDEs, especially where questions of hell are concerned. I’ve pulled together everything I’ve ever written which circles around the question, “How can we understand these things?”–blog posts, conference presentations, other articles, and drafts, all now greatly expanded to be workable as a book. The result is more conversational than Dancing Past the Dark, as much of it was written in response to questions or comments on the blog. For richness, you will find the amazing essay by Sheila Joshi and Barbara Croner, “The Descent Experience,” which you may remember from a couple of years ago.

Look for the ebook to be available before June. There will be a paperback also; stay tuned for more information.

I will very shortly be posting part of  the opening chapter “The Buddha in Hell Redux,” which has been substantially rewritten since it appeared on the blog back in 2012. It’s a taster!