TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION - Death. Then what? Where do we go after we die? What will heaven be like for you? . . . Just what WILL we be doing 1,000 years from now? . . . .Many philosophers, religious leaders, celebrities, and political leaders have written their answers to this fascinating question. Excerpts from some of their published observations follow. . . The views of the hereafter held by the people next door fascinate us as much as the views of the famous. By computer modem, THE question was asked of people around the world. . . Views of hell are not the main focus of this work, but the subject is unavoidable when talking about the hereafter.
CHAPTER ONE - NEWSWEEK, various writers.
CHAPTER TWO - Aeschylus, "Unforgiven," Martin Luther, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Billy Graham, Abraham, "Foxdorf," Matt Oholendt, Ronny van Tongelen, Joseph Smith.
CHAPTER THREE - Dante Alighieri, Buddhist Doctrine, William D. Montapert, Alfred A. Montapert, Belline, Erich von Daniken, Joseph Smith, Mareli, "The Never," James Tran, Gordon L. Anderson, Luther Burbank, Plutarch, Archibald Rutledge, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Victor Hugo, Norman Vincent Peale, Angela Morgan.
CHAPTER FOUR - Buddhist Doctrine, Dr. Brian Weiss, Bhagavad-Gita.
CHAPTER FIVE - Tom Oakley, Ann Whitesides, Tim O'Neil, Clint Walker, Jacob Woodbury, Roz, William Hsiao-Wei Lo, Ralph Waldo Emerson.
CHAPTER SIX - Christopher Columbus, Alexandre Dumas, Aristophanes, Bruce R. McConkie.
CHAPTER SEVEN - Rene Descartes, Jeffery Ng, Moses, Benjamin Franklin, John Lightfoot, D.H. Lawrence, Charles Frohman, Helen H. Jackson, Mendel of Kotzk, Matthew Arnold, Elbert Hubbard, Bede Jarrett, Flavius Josephus, Katha Upanishad, Mahomet, John Masefield, James Montgomery, Plautus, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Saint Augustine, Sydney Smith, Emanuel Swedenborg, Talmud, Thomas Jefferson, Carol Lynn Pearson, H. G. Wells.
CHAPTER EIGHT - Angelo Joshua V. Roma, Chad Simmons, Herbert Cruz, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Kirsten Hughes, "Bad Karma," Bruce R. McConkie, Shirley MacLaine, Carl Jung, Immanuel Kant, Louisa May Alcott, Francis Bowen, Walt Whitman, J. W. von Goethe, Thomas Edison, Lafcadio Hearn, Moses, Jessie Brown Pounds, Ruby Berkley Goodwin, Kerry Livgren, John Lennon, Carol Lynn Pearson.
CHAPTER NINE - Thomas Carlyle, Joseph Smith, Douglas Adams, "Cobra," Kerry Hales, "Ironwolf Odinnson," "Happy Dog Potatohead," Steven A. Cantrell, John Bennett, Michael Wohlfahrt.
CHAPTER TEN - Geoffrey Chaucer, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Thomas Campion, Joseph Addison, Robert Browning, Lord Byron, Sir Walter Scott, Gerald Massey, Mohammed, George Pettie, Confucious, Christina Rossetti, George Santayana, Thomas Fuller, Sir John Suckling, H.D. Thoreau, Amos Bronson Alcott, Babylonian Talmud, Niccolo Machiavelli, Shaw, Swedenborg, Milton, Goethe, Mark Twain, Henry van Dyke, Hugh Hamilton, Spencer W. Kimball, David O. McKay, Charles W. Penrose, Stephen L. Richards, Joseph Smith, Donald Cargill, James H. Wallis, Isaac Watts, Eliza R. Snow, Naomi W. Randall, Carol Lynn Pearson, Billy Graham, Pat Robertson and Bob Slosser, Adjuvant A.C. Ferber.
CHAPTER ELEVEN - Joseph Joubert, Finley Peter Dunne, Christian Morgenstern, Mark Twain, Confucius, Winston Churchill, Rainer Maria Rilke, Samuel Butler, Ramakrishna, Andre' Gide, Montaigne, Socrates, Goethe, Bertrand Russell, Cervantes, Marcus Aurelius, Marcel Proust, James Oppenheim, John Oxenham, Marcus Aurelius Antonius, Brain Doyle, "Moon Kitten," Frank Byron Jevons.
CHAPTER TWELVE - Immanuel Kant, Milton Steinberg, Katha Upanishad, Maltbie D. Babcock, Fedor M. Dostoievski, William Law, Lawrence P. Jacks, Moses Maimonides, Isaac Watts, Solomon, Chandogya Upanishad, Henry Van Dyke, M. Raymonds, Jean Danielou, George Bernard Shaw, Elbert Hubbard, William J. Lampton, David Ben-Gurion, Saint John Chrysostom, Catholic Bishops of the United States, Baruch Spinoza, Boethius, Eugene E. Brussell, Will Herberg, Mohammed, Richard Henry Dana, Jules Lagneau, Saint Francis de Sales, Walt Whitman, Lucian, John C. Murray, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Franz Werfel, William Osler, Boris Pasternak, Epicurus, Abraham Kook, Joaquin Miller, William Penn, W. Winwood Reade, Steven Stiles, Saint John Chrysostom, Gower Champion, Thomas Campbell, William Morris, Henry F. Amiel, Saint John Chrysostom, E. I. Watkin, Rudyard Kipling, Edwin Markham, G. P. Malalasekera and K. N. Jayatilleke, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John O. Hobbes, Ludwig Lewisohn, Antonin Sertillanges, Friedrich W. Nietzsche, Marcus Aurelius, Pliny, William Sharp, William Jennings Bryan.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN - Lao-tzu, Confucius, Euripides, Mencius, Huai-nan Tzu, Horace, Marcus Manilius, Chang Heng, The Sayings of Jesus, The Koran, The Primary Chronicle, Thomas a Kempis, Christopher Marlowe, Genesis, Chronicles, Psalms, St. Matthew, Colossians, Revelation, John Milton, Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Claudel, Richard Purdy Wilbur, Joni Mitchell, Algernon Charles Swinburne, William James, The Wisdom of Solomon, First Corinthians, Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, William Wordsworth, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Gerard de Nerval, Charles Robert Darwin, Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevski, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Lee Masters, Vladimir Nabokov, Hannah Arendt, Sophocles, Plato, William Shakespeare, Sir Thomas Browne, Philip Doddridge, Theodore Parker, George Eliot, Herman Melville, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Richard Jefferies, John Keats, Ernst Heinrich Haeckel, John Muir.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, Charles Lamb, Edward FitzGerald, Sir Winston Spencer Churchill, Jean Paul Sartre, Epictetus, The Book of the Dead, Suti and Hor, Job, Psalms, St. Luke, St. John, Pindar, Plato, Lucan, The Koran, William Shakespeare, John Milton, Blaise Pascal, Angelus Silesius, John Tillotson, Benedict Baruch Spinoza, Sir Isaac Newton, Edward Young, Alexander Pope, Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet, Jean Jacques Rousseau, William Cowper, Thomas Paine, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Lorenz Oken, Alphonse de Lamartine, Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Sand, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Henry David Thoreau, Cecil Frances Alexander, Emily Dickinson, Petroleum V. Nasby, William James, Robert Bontine Cunninghame-Graham, Sigmund Freud, Clarence Seward Darrow, James Weldon Johnson, Albert Einstein, Joyce Kilmer, T homas S tearns Eliot, Marcus Cook Connelly, Robert E mmet Sherwood, Wolcott Gibbs, Paul Simon, North American Indian, Pindar, Plato, Bhagavad Gita.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN - Sallust, Thomas Ady, Edward Taylor, The New England Primer, William Wordsworth, David Hartley Coleridge, Walt Whitman, Matthew Arnold, Algernon Charles Swinburne, William Ernest Henley, Sigmund Freud, Ohiyesa, William Butler Yeats, Carl Gustav Jung, D avid H erbert Lawrence, William Faulkner, Keith Richards, The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, William Shakespeare, Sir Thomas Browne, John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Heraclitus, Miguel de Cervantes, Walt Whitman, Max Planck, Clarence Day, J ohn B urdon S anderson Haldane, E dward E stlin Cummings, Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Man Who Was Tired of Life, Revelation, Suttapitaka, Plato, Bhagavad Gita, Amulek, Sextus Propertius, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Sir Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, William Shakespeare, Julius Wilhelm Zincgref, Henry Vaughan, John Dryden, Joseph Fouche, Alphonse de Lamartine, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Cullen Bryant, John Keats, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi, Mark Twain, Sir William Schwenck Gilbert, John Muir, Rossiter Worthington Raymond, E dward E stlin Cummings, Anais Nin, Suttapitaka, William Shakespeare.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN - Mark Twain, Gerald Kersh, H. G. Wells, H. L. Mencken, John Milton, Evelyn Waugh, Jonathan Swift, Joyce Cary, Sir Thomas More, Friedrich Nietzsche, Francis Thompson, John Milton, Sir Richard Steele, Friedrich Nietzsche, G. D. Leonard, Christopher Morley, Moliere, William Wordsworth, Harley Granville-Barker, William Shakespeare, Woody Allen, Henry David Thoreau, Leo Tolstoy, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Mark Twain, Martin Luther King, W. R. Inge, Thomas Fuller, Omar Khayyam, J. A. Primo de Rivera, George Bernard Shaw, Thomas Gray, George Eliot, Gautama the Buddha, Joseph Heller, Anatole France, George Bernard Shaw, Ralph G. Ingersoll, Blaise Pascal, Woody Allen, Samuel Butler, George Bernard Shaw, Susan Ertz, Andre Maurois, Dag Hammarskjold, Sir Winston Churchill, Jonathan Swift, Socrates, Robert Browning, Colonel Muhammar Qaddafi, Jean Rostand, Stendhal, Honore de Balzac, John Chrysostom, Thomas Reid, David Jenkins, A. H. Clough, Joseph Conrad, Lily Tomlin, Father John Lafarge, Erich Fromm, H. E. Fosdick, Bishop Desmond Tutu, Subhadra Bhikshu, Alan Watts, George Gallup, Miguel de Unamuno, William Blake, Saint Augustine, Martin Luther King, Joseph Ernest Renan, J. B. S. Haldane, Rudyard Kipling, John Osborne, Eden Philpotts, Christopher Morley, Saint Paul, Edward Young, Victor Hugo, H. G. Wells, epitaph on a gravestone, Woody Allen, Sir Winston Churchill, Dylan Thomas, Cornelius Nepos, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Arthur Schopenhauer, Leo Tolstoy, Helen Hayes.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - Elbert Hubbard, Walter Parker Stacy, Methodist preacher, Felix Frankfurter, Horace James Bridges, Clarence Darrow, Mary Baker Eddy, Eric Hoffer, Jim Jones, Morris Joseph, Eugene O'Neill, George Santayana, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, Albert Einstein, Woddy Allen, Samuel Butler, A.E. Housman, H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, John Masefield, Rupert Brooke, Robert Frost, Dylan Thomas, T.S. Eliot, Charles Frohman, Vladimir Nabokov, Sir Ronald Ross, Tom Stoppard, Lord Mancroft, Francis Thompson, Bob Snead, Al Young, Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm.
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN - Shirley MacLaine, Jack London.
CHAPTER NINETEEN - Pat Robertson.
CHAPTER TWENTY - Joseph Fielding Smith.
CHAPTER TWENTY ONE - Elizabeth Evans, Brian L. Weiss, Raymond A. Moody, Jr., "Cheech Wizard," C.S. Lewis, Karl Grossman, Tuli Kepferberg, David Citino, Karl Grossman.
CHAPTER TWENTY TWO - Rumi Jalaluddin, Thomas Howard, Phil Hart, George Carter, "Eagle Master," Christopher Marlowe, Henrich Heine, Francis Bacon, Hans Kung, Ransom Stark, Melvin Morse.
CHAPTER TWENTY THREE - Rabelais, Pope John Paul II, " Jerusalem, My Happy Home," "Sinjin Hawk," "Secular Atavist," "Fog," "Scribbler," "The Phoenix," "Lycanthrope," Hans Christian Andersen.
CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR - Emanuel Swedenborg.
CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE - The Egyptian Book of the Dead excerpts.
CHAPTER TWENTY SIX - Dr. Stephen S. Corder, Saint Teresa, Thomas a Kempis, Kenneth Guentert, Kathleen Fury, Edwin Arnold, "Nagel," Robert Kraske on Houdini.
CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN - Juanita de Long, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Leya Zeke, Worldwide Church of God, Kevin.
CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT - Brigham Young, Beatty Eadie.
CHAPTER TWENTY NINE - The Tibetan Book of the Dead, excerpts.
CHAPTER THIRTY - Julia Roberts, Marc Ian Barasch, "Hraesvelg," English church leaflet, "Damiana," Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dante Alighieri, Benvenuto Cellini, Thomas Carlyle, "Andara Bledin," Clean Living, Joe Diffie.
CHAPTER THIRTY ONE - George W. Meek, R.W. Raymond.
CHAPTER THIRTY TWO - Larry Tooley, Janet Christensen, Heber Q. Hale, Elizabeth Whitehead, Arthur Ford, Kent Johnson, Robert Ashford, Nancy Lee Minter, Muriell Baldwin, Sherida Riggs, Ronna Lackey, Barbara Ross, Thelma T. Huffman, Mary Hales, Charles John Lambert, Sharon McQueen, Marc Shelton, edited by Lee Nelson.
CHAPTER THIRTY THREE - Carrie Moore, Jane Drake, "Bigbear," "Bitman," "Blackthorne," "The Brain," "Count Zero," "Lambshead Squeegee," "Love and Light," "Medicine Woman," Brad Peterson, "Proger," "Quark," "Snake," "Waylander," Father Andy Costello.
CHAPTER THIRTY FOUR - Douglas Adams.
CHAPTER THIRTY FIVE - "Eulogy for Steve," "Upon my mother's death," by Vincent O'Neil.
CHAPTER THIRTY SIX - "The End" by Vincent O'Neil.