BOOK "LIFE BEYOND DEATH" BY WILLIAM ATKINSON

This book was published by William Atkinson for the first time in 1909 in Chicago, under the pseudonym "Yogi Ramacharaka", and below you can see the cover and the first page of the first edition.

 

 

 

In the middle of the page he put the following sentence:

 

"What we call death is just the other side of life."

 

 

 

Below appears the publisher: The Yogi Publication Society, Chicago, Illinois.

 

 

The copyright and the table of contents appear on the next two pages, and you can read the twenty chapters that make up the book at the following links:

 

  1.   “The other side”

  2.   “There is no death”

  3.   The planes of life

  4.   The astral plane

  5.   After death

  6.   The soul-slumber

  7.   The soul’s awakening

  8.   Astral plane geography

  9.   Primitive soul-states

10.   Astral religious experiences

11.   Astral Heavens and Hells

12.   Astral self-expression

13.   Astral plane occupation

14.   Astral companionship

15.   “Spirit communication”

16.   Earth bound souls

17.   Astral shells

18.   The second soul-sleep

19.   Re-birth

20.   Beyond reincarnations

 

 

 

 

 

 

MY OPINION ABOUT THIS BOOK

 

William Atkinson wants his readers to believe that a Hindu sage named Ramacharaka is passing them on the yogi philosophy about what happens after death, but it is false and what Atkinson really did was:

 

-      partly he took what Master Kuthumi taught.

-      partly he took what Charles Leadbeater taught.

-      partly he took what Max Heindel taught.

-      and partly Atkinson added his inventions based on his own speculations.

 

And unfortunately the result is that William Atkinson's explanation of what happens after death is grossly distorted, incomplete, and full of errors and falsehoods.

 

And this shows that William Atkinson did not investigate seriously because if he had studied more closely what the instructors that he read wrote, then he would have realized that Charles Leadbeater was based on what Master Kuthumi taught, but he distorted him and added his own inventions.

 

And Max Heindel was based on what Leadbeater taught, but distorted him and added his own inventions as well.