Theme(s): I think the author is trying to get across that even in death happiness can be found, but not so much about life-after-death, even though the book’s title is, “The Afterlife.” If you’ve ever hoped that there is an afterlife, you may enjoy these 40 possible takes on life after death. Some stories are clever, some sad, and many contain metaphors to inspire the living. When a biologist talks about how endorphins and vivid hallucinations might happen in the brain at the end of life, philosophy focuses more on the symbolic. Leaving Time is a novel that guides the readers through a story about life after death. In Leaving Time , Alice Metcalf can’t stop thinking about her mother, who mysteriously disappeared over a decade ago.

A classic and iconic self-help book, The Road Less Traveled is considered one of the best books for spiritual awakening. It combines the author’s expertise in psychiatry with various scientific and spiritual perspectives to lead us to a new fullness of life. It offers advice on the most important pieces of life, from love and parenting to overcoming life’s challenges. She understood that Spirit has tremendous power to intervene down on Earth and that while the doctors were amazing and gifted at what they do, it was really the will of her Spirit Team that allowed her to survive. After all, her chances of survival according to experts was less than 1 percent. James Van Praagh has been conducting spirit communication and readings for over 25 years. In his book, he shares advice and personal stories from the departed who have used him as a medium. Setting: “The Afterlife” takes place in smaller city called Fresno, in what I gather to southern California, near Mexico. It’s a nice city, but seems to have a lot of slums and “cholos,” or gangsters. The scene doesn’t change much except to Crystal’s house, on the outskirts of a town named Selma. Her house was on a vineyard, a nice white house with a big porch – a classic country setting. The bright light, the tunnel, and the idea that our loved ones are waiting for us on the other side are all things you've seen before.

Cherie said that from the afterlife, you can feel all of what your loved ones are feeling on the deepest levels and can understand where their true intentions lie. If they are in prolonged periods of pain and suffering, it does make it hard for the souls of their loved ones to continue on. In The Lovely Bones , we experience the pain and loss of Susie’s family as they hunt for their daughter’s killer. We also get a peek into life after death, with Susie’s version of the afterlife. He wrote the best-selling book Tuesdays with Morrie. In this book, Mitch Albom, the author of Tuesdays with Morrie, talks about the idea that heaven is more than just a place. When Liz moves to a place that isn't very different from Earth but is still very similar, she has a hard time adjusting. Susie talks about her tragic death in the smart voice of a teenage girl, from a strange place that looks like a school playground.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross is a pioneer in the death and grief world. Offering insights into the grieving process, she is perhaps most famous for her work on the five stages of grief. In this book, she shares her stories and thoughts on death, based on her studies of over 20,000 people who had near-death experiences. Fiction books on life after death and spirituality These lessons are not ones that are forced on us, but rather they are lessons that our soul wants to learn and wants to be able to understand, and earth is almost like a “testing ground” for these lessons. Different religions also talk about NDEs in different ways. If you go through the near-death experience, it will give you different spiritual interpretation from each religion's point of view, as well. Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin This powerful spiritual book argues that there is a middle ground between rationality and spirituality — that we can find the answers to life’s big questions beyond both religion and science. Taking a deep dive into the philosophy of the mind, Waking Up is a great starting point for those who are new to spirituality.After you die, you undergo a life review where you get to “experience” all of the lives that you have lived to date. Cherie said she was made to watch and even live through multiple past lives and even her present life. The experience was so real, it was like she had to live through each one of her lives day by day. In the Afterlife, the story is really all about Chuy and his process of learning to be a ghost and his discussion of his life. There isn't a lot of focus on the crime itself (though we do get to see the killer several times) - but the focus is actually more about the neighborhood that Chuy grew up in, the community that he was surrounded by, and generally exposing readers to the experiences of a young Latino. As we age, our questions about and interest in what happens after we die may intensify as we begin to face our mortality. Whether you believe we only have one life or feel that our souls live on, a variety of books about life after death explore the topic from many angles. Fiction or nonfiction, spiritual or religious, scientific vs. emotional — these 18 books run the gamut when it comes to exploring what comes next. If you are interested in learning more from life after death books, read below for our suggestions. In this memoir, the author shares revelations she uncovered during a near-death experience. Moorjani explains what she has learned about illness and the Universe’s miracles. Whether you believe or are a skeptic, this spiritual book on death is an interesting lesson on her theory that we have the power to heal ourselves. On Life After Death provides expert, in-depth research on life after depth, as well as Dr. Kubler-Ross’s personal thoughts opinions about the topic.