Fascinating link

Elessar

I thought you all should check out this link. It's a book which has been transcribed to the net from Geraldine Cummins' "The Road to Immortality". She received it through automatic-writing from a man called Frederic Myers who died in 1901.

It's a description by Myers of the afterlife, the different planes of consciousness and the human soul. I certainly found it absolutely fascinating and wether you believe in the afterlife or not it's a great read.

I've read a lot of books on this subject and they all seem to point to the same conclusions about existence, including this one, which makes it all the more fascinating for me.

Check it out:

http://www.freewebs.com/1library/immortality-cummins.htm

P.S. There is also a second book Myers wrote through Cummins, and it goes into a lot more depth. I can give you the link if anyone wants it.

[Jackass]

fascinating read indeed! Do you know does the author make any money off these publications? if so it would greatly take away from the credablility for me...

Elessar

The book is now in the public domain and is free on the net. The original print version is out of print (it was released in or around 1950 I believe). No money is being made now, tho I assume since the internet wasnt around back in the 50s people would have to pay something for a print copy.

What's interesting is that Frederic Myers came through other automatic writers at the time as well as Cummins to prove Cummins wasnt writing it herself . He was one of the founders of the Society for Psychical Research is 1882 which dealt with the paranormal and tried to find some evidence that consciousness survives death. He wrote a book on it too.

To quote a passage on Myers "Within a few weeks of Myers's death in 1901, some very strange communications began to be received by psychics in England, the United States and India. They came through automatic writing to a total of a dozen psychics and continued for a period of thirty years and then later by his fellow leaders of the Society for Psychical Research, Professor Henry Sidgwick and Edmund Gurney as they too died."

If you liked this stuff I would advise you to check out the Seth books. Seth, like Myers, came through automatic writing in Jane Roberts and is probably the most renowned. Myers and Seth's materials are remarkably similar.

Stark

The whole distinction between "Animal man" and "soul man" is interesting and is something that crops up again and again in texts. Most don't give a reason for "animal man"'s existence, he just "happens to be".

There's a site http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/organic_portals.htm that gives a paranoid view that they're placed on Earth to keep souled humans from reaching their spiritual potential through a combination of draining their energies and by keeping material goals to the forefront of human endeavour.