{"id":2664,"date":"2014-01-02T01:53:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T09:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/?p=2664"},"modified":"2016-09-16T16:42:29","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T23:42:29","slug":"tibetan-book-of-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/?p=2664","title":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0670858862\/ericallen-20\">Tibetan Book of the Dead<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source material from Tibetan Buddhism. The cosmology is fascinating, and the concept of spirit passing between lives works for me. I also like the vivid imagery. I have a tape of Richard Gere reading this. I used to listen to it in the car. It&#8217;s really great stuff. I&#8217;m not 100% sure it&#8217;ll be like this, but it&#8217;s so vivid, and the concept of how energy is dissipating after death is great, so in my mind, part of it is right, and worthwhile just for that. I&#8217;m closer to the Steiner way of looking at things now, where you go through a dissipating then rebuilding process in concert with higher beings as you make your way around the wheel of the ecliptic\u00a0and fashion\u00a0a new physical existence-the Tibetan one seems a little abbreviated, and more about managing terror at the inbetween.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source material from Tibetan Buddhism. The cosmology is fascinating, and the concept of spirit passing between lives works for me. I also like the vivid imagery. I have a tape of Richard Gere reading this. I used to listen to it in the car. It&#8217;s really great stuff. I&#8217;m not 100% sure it&#8217;ll be like &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/?p=2664\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0670858862\/ericallen-20\">Tibetan Book of the Dead<\/a>&#8220;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bibliography"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7409,"href":"https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions\/7409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}