"Death, Near-Death and the Afterlife" is the topic, and I'm currently reading it. There is a pattern to this book - even and odd chapters carry different content. Odd chapters describe research, cross-cultural comparisons, are more theoretical in nature. Even chapters describe Kurt's "adventures in consciousness", his explorations of the Afterlife.

Kurt's own adventures are - as always - described clearly, lucidly, well-written. They always inspire me and are the main attraction in this book to me. For an example how Kurt writes you can look here on AD or "Search Inside" the books on Amazon. I like authors in general that have explicit long adventures fully fleshed out in their books, and Kurt is in one line here with Robert Monroe or Bruce Moen.

The odd chapters started out boring, I must admit. I'm not very interested what skeptics think or what science has to say (or not to say) about projection or the NDE itself. Kurt sounds a bit apologetic here, even though his honesty is admirable. I think the current chapter will prove more interesting, as the cross-cultural comparisons start here with the Tibetan concept of Bardo - the "between" states and life as a series of interchanging states - including death, after-death, and so on. It immediately caught my attention.

The outline of the book says that different beliefs about the Afterlife will serve as triangulation aids to convey something about it. This includes the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Egyptian beliefs, and so on. And of course Kurt's own explorations. This is a nice continuity from "Otherwhere", where he compared his experiences with Dante's and Robert Monroe's writings. It is actually the successor of "Otherwhere" in terms of his adventures, IIRC.

So far, a good book.

Oliver