This is a true story that could change your life ... and death. What would happen if an atheist visited the afterlife? A spiritual awakening like no other. *Winner of the Gold Medal in Readers’ Views, Reader Choice Awards 2022/2023 Best Classics - Religion/Spirituality *Winner of the Bronze Medal in Readers’ Favorite, International Book Awards 2022 Best Non-Fiction Spiritual/Supernatural *Named to the Top 100 Best Notable Indie Books of 2022 by Shelf Unbound *Named a Semi-Finalist in the 2022 Publishers Weekly, BookLife Prize Awards Follow one man's lifelong, extreme, transformation in this multifaceted memoir, which brings you through a life filled with trauma, death, denial, personal development, paranormal experiences, mediumship, spiritual gifts, true love, and triumph in his ultimate search for enlightenment. Embark on a journey as he transforms from an unswerving atheist into one who is certain of an afterlife. The book includes the details of his experiencing death firsthand (NDE) in which he describes his death as the best day of his life. This event sparked a journey spanning many years of researching the science of life, death, the afterlife, energy, consciousness, quantum physics, and pursuing the development of his intuitive abilities. A skill that he says anyone can develop and utilize for their own personal wellbeing. As each paranormal event unfolds, you will be able to follow them in real time. Each story is taken directly from Ray's personal journal and written with humility, sarcasm, and humor. Although the subject matter may be quite serious and a little gritty at times, it is the author's wish that, those who can relate to having these types of traumatic experiences, learn that regardless of your past, nothing can stop you from achieving your goals in the future and accomplishing everything you set out to do. This book takes you from the very beginning of this realization and through the events that transpired, for him to learn and accept the laws of the universe, and the fact that they were undeniably real. Although the book discusses metaphysical and paranormal activity, this story at its core is about the pursuit of happiness, love, and enlightenment when the odds are stacked against you, of having any of that. We wish you peace, love, and light throughout your journey. Based on real-life accounts of the author. -This book contains sensitive subject matter that may not be suitable for all ages and contains a list of triggers that you should review before reading this book. -The books in the "Awakening Series" by Limitless Publications, authored by Ray Catania, are not intended to be Religious in any way, nor do they support or denounce any forms of organized religion, overall.

This is a book that could change your life ... and death. What would happen if an atheist visited the afterlife? Once an atheist, now a clairvoyant medium. Follow one man's extreme transformation in this multifaceted memoir, which brings you through a life filled with trauma, death, denial, personal development, paranormal experiences, mediumship, spiritual gifts, true love, and triumph in his ultimate search for enlightenment. From atheist to clairvoyant medium; Ray Catania's The Atheist and The Afterlife is the first book in the Awakening series. This is a book that can change your life and death, or at the very least, the way you envision both to be. Follow along one man's extreme transformation from a complete non- believing atheist to the undeniable confirmation of an afterlife. The book includes the details of his experiencing death firsthand in which he describes his death as the best day of his life. This event sparked a journey spanning many years of researching the science of life, death, the afterlife, energy, consciousness, Quantum Physics, and pursuing the development of his 6th sense. A skill that he says anyone can develop and utilize for their own personal wellbeing. You will read along in real time as these paranormal events took place, including speaking with the dead. Each story is taken directly from Ray's personal journal and written with humility, sarcasm, and humor. Although the subject matter may be quite serious and a little gritty at times, it is the author's wish that those who can relate to having these traumatic experiences, learn that regardless of your past nothing can stop you from achieving your goals in the future and accomplishing everything you set out to do. By tapping into the universal collective consciousness structure, all can be yours for the asking. This book takes you from the very beginning of this realization and through the events that transpired for him to learn and accept the laws of the universe and the fact that they were undeniably real. This book is not simply about becoming a medium. Although that aspect of the book certainly adds some comic relief, it is about the pursuit of happiness, love, and enlightenment when the odds are stacked against you having any of that. We wish you peace, love, and light, throughout your journey. Based on real-life accounts of the author. This book contains sensitive subject matter that may not be suitable for all ages and contains a list of triggers that you should review before reading this book.

Read the memoirs of a former modern-day warrior turned spiritualist. Dubbed as, “bad ass spiritualism for dummies”, this is certainly not your mom and dad’s spiritual book! Catania returns with a collection of more unadulterated, compelling true-life stories that detail his own enlightening transformation from atheist to spiritualist. *Winner of 2nd Place (Runner-Up) in The San Francisco Book Festival 2023 (Spiritual/Religious) This is the follow up book to the multi-award-winning title, The Atheist and The Afterlife – An Autobiography. It is the second installment of The Awakening Series. Take a second look at spiritualism for the modern-day human. This exciting book is both practical and enlightening. It is an easy-to-use guide to life for anyone interested in spirituality and science in the 21st century. Just as in the first book, all the concepts, experiences and principles are taken from real life events. Catania, now a strong believer in the afterlife, searches for answers. A vigorous, intense, search is on to connect science and spirituality and find how they align. Motivated by a will to understand what is happening to himself, he embarks on a quest to fill in the blanks of what makes it so. Blind faith isn’t an option, as a former atheist, he continues to be his own biggest skeptic. Through training and studies, both formal and informal, he begins to piece together a puzzle, bringing himself closer to the acceptance of his newly found reality. Uncovering universal principles and laws, learning how to use them, he writes of them in a way, in which most anyone can recreate them to enrich their own lives. You’ll read about the four principles of ascension, the laws of attainment, how to use your higher consciousness to create and manifest. How to read the signs you are being given each day and how to decode and utilize them without fear or apprehension. Understand aspects of consciousness and the mind, including its multiple layers and parts that create a struggle within us, causing a constant battle for superiority. Learn to remove the self-struggle within, to be harmonious with your higher self. As a student of consciousness, life, death, and the afterlife, Catania writes of his own experiences with these concepts so you can view them from a practical perspective. Written with humility, humor, and sarcasm, each story is based on real life events that are sure to surprise and entertain you. The books in the "Awakening Series" by Limitless Publications, authored by Ray Catania, are not intended to be Religious in any way, nor do they support or denounce any forms of organized religion, overall. These books contain sensitive and adult subject matter, which may not be suitable for all ages and contain a list of triggers that you should review before reading.

Because every single one of us will die, most of us would like to know what—if anything—awaits us afterward, not to mention the fate of lost loved ones. Given the nearly universal vested interest in deciding this question in favor of an afterlife, it is no surprise that the vast majority of books on the topic affirm the reality of life after death without a backward glance. But the evidence of our senses and the ever-gaining strength of scientific evidence strongly suggest otherwise. In The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life after Death, Michael Martin and Keith Augustine collect a series of contributions that redress this imbalance in the literature by providing a strong, comprehensive, and up-to-date casebook of the chief arguments against an afterlife. Divided into four separate sections, this collection opens with a broad overview of the issues, as contributors consider the strongest evidence of whether or not we survive death—in particular the biological basis of all mental states and their grounding in brain activity that ceases to function at death. Next, contributors consider a host of conceptual and empirical difficulties that confront the various ways of “surviving” death—from bodiless minds to bodily resurrection to any form of posthumous survival. Then essayists turn to internal inconsistencies between traditional theological conceptions of an afterlife—heaven, hell, karmic rebirth—and widely held ethical principles central to the belief systems supporting those notions. In the final section, authors offer critical evaluations of the main types of evidence for an afterlife. Fully interdisciplinary, The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life after Death brings together a variety of fields of research to make that case, including cognitiveneuroscience, philosophy of mind, personal identity, philosophy of religion, moralphilosophy, psychical research, and anomalistic psychology. As the definitive casebookof arguments against life after death, this collection is required reading for anyinstructor, researcher, and student of philosophy, religious studies, or theology. It issure to raise provocative issues new to readers, regardless of background, from thosewho believe fervently in the reality of an afterlife to those who do not or are undecidedon the matter.

This non-fiction book with contributions from scientists, examines the strange case of apparent afterlife communication from Forrest J Ackerman, a luminary in the early history of science-fiction who was a noted atheist. The case provided evidence of afterlife communication in the form of physical phenomena, highly improbable synchronicities, communications via some of the best research mediums, instrumental trans-communication using technological devices which produced measurable effects. Ackerman was a mentor to co-author Paul Davids for over 40 years. Co-author Dr. Gary Schwartz, of the University of Arizona in Tucson, has studied evidence for life after death at his Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health for over 15 years. Chemist Dr. John Allison (The College of New Jersey) determined after 3 years of research that physical evidence in the case was a genuine mystery to science, and he himself began experiencing unexplained phenomena while researching this evidence.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed comes a brave, frank, and exquisitely written memoir that will change the way you see the world. Barbara Ehrenreich is one of the most important thinkers of our time. Educated as a scientist, she is an author, journalist, activist, and advocate for social justice. In Living With a Wild God, she recounts her quest-beginning in childhood-to find ""the Truth"" about the universe and everything else: What's really going on? Why are we here? In middle age, she rediscovered the journal she had kept during her tumultuous adolescence, which records an event so strange, so cataclysmic, that she had never, in all the intervening years, written or spoken about it to anyone. It was the kind of event that people call a ""mystical experience""-and, to a steadfast atheist and rationalist, nothing less than shattering. In Living With a Wild God, Ehrenreich reconstructs her childhood mission, bringing an older woman's wry and erudite perspective to a young girl's impassioned obsession with the questions that, at one point or another, torment us all. The result is both deeply personal and cosmically sweeping-a searing memoir and a profound reflection on science, religion, and the human condition. With her signature combination of intellectual rigor and uninhibited imagination, Ehrenreich offers a true literary achievement-a work that has the power not only to entertain but amaze.

Does Buddhism require faith? Can an atheist or agnostic follow the Buddha’s teachings without believing in reincarnation or organized religion? This is one man’s confession. In his classic Buddhism Without Beliefs, Stephen Batchelor offered a profound, secular approach to the teachings of the Buddha that struck an emotional chord with Western readers. Now, with the same brilliance and boldness of thought, he paints a groundbreaking portrait of the historical Buddha—told from the author’s unique perspective as a former Buddhist monk and modern seeker. Drawing from the original Pali Canon, the seminal collection of Buddhist discourses compiled after the Buddha’s death by his followers, Batchelor shows us the Buddha as a flesh-and-blood man who looked at life in a radically new way. Batchelor also reveals the everyday challenges and doubts of his own devotional journey—from meeting the Dalai Lama in India, to training as a Zen monk in Korea, to finding his path as a lay teacher of Buddhism living in France. Both controversial and deeply personal, Stephen Batchelor’s refreshingly doctrine-free, life-informed account is essential reading for anyone interested in Buddhism.

The voice announced, "I am God." For Jerry Martin, that encounter began a personal, intellectual, and spiritual adventure. He had not believed in God. He was a philosopher, trained to be skeptical-- to doubt everything. So his first question was: Is this really God talking? There were other urgent questions: What will my wife think? Why would God want to talk to me? Does God want me to do something? He began asking all the questions about life and death and ultimate things to which he--and all of us--have sought answers: Love and loss. Happiness and suffering. Good and evil. Death and the afterlife. The world's religions. The ways God communicates with us. How to live in harmony with God. God: An Autobiography tells the story of these mind-opening conversations with God.Jerry L. Martin was raised in a Christian home. By the time he left college, he was not a believer. But he was interested in the big questions and so he studied the great thinkers. He became a philosophy professor and served as head of the philosophy department at the University of Colorado at Boulder and of the National Endowment for the Humanities. In addition to scholarly articles on epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and public policy, he wrote reports on education that received national attention and was invited to testify before Congress. He stepped down from that career to write this book.

This is an autobiography of a life played out against the historical events of his times and family circumstances. This collection of diverse stories is linearly grouped into eleven segments/elements of Wayne’s remarkable life. By the time you have scanned the Contents page and read the brilliant Foreword authored by Wayne’s British friend, Mike Wright, your curiosity will be piqued. You will find out how, while playing marbles at the age of seven, Wayne learned that if he wanted something, he would have to go out and get it as no one was going to hand it to him. Wayne’s inner drive was to “do the right things right and then improve on them.” This endeavor was about inspiring others by showcasing what one man can accomplish for himself, his family, his friends, and for mankind. Wayne is very proud of his book and looks forward to get cracking on part 2 of his autobiography.

Growing up in a strict Muslim community in south-east London, Alom Shaha learnt that religion was not to be questioned. Reciting the Qur'an without understanding what it meant was simply a part of life; so, too, was obeying the imam and enduring beatings when he failed to attend the local mosque. But Alom was more drawn to science and its power to illuminate. As a teen, he lived between two worlds: the home controlled by his authoritarian father, and a school alive with books and ideas. In a charming blend of memoir, philosophy and science, Alom explores the questions about faith and the afterlife that we all ponder. This is a book for anyone who wonders what they should believe and how they should live. It's for those who may need the facts and the ideas, as well as the courage, to break free from inherited beliefs. In this powerful narrative, Alom shows that it is possible to live a compassionate, fulfilling and meaningful life without God.