Death

THE LAUGHING MAN VOL. 8. NO. 1

©1988 The Free Daist Communion.
‘The Heart of Understanding’ (KNEE).
A Moratorium on The Laughing Man magazine, by the editors.
Editorial Introduction: the Contemplation of Death.
“NOW THEY ARE ALL DEAD” (10/10/87).
Attention, the Cosmic Mandala, the Seven Stages of Life, and the
Death Process, by Ty Koontz.
Section One: Death and the Body:
“THE BODY WANTS TO DIE” (11/30/82).
Death, the Body, and the Western Psyche, by Carolyn Lee:
Introduction.
The Egyptian View of Death.
Traditional European Attitudes to Embalming.
Embalming in Contemporary America.
The Mummification of Yuya, by Laurel Patterson.
“WE WILL TREAT ONE ANOTHER DIFFERENTLY IN DEATH” (10/15/82).
Section Two: Death and the Psyche:
From Alpha to Omega: Ancient Mysteries and the Near-Death Experience,
by Kenneth Ring:
The Egyptian Mysteries.
The Osirian Initiation Rite.
The NDE in Light of the Osirian Mysteries.
The Promise of the NDE:
From Alpha to Omega.
St. Patrick’s Purgatory:
the Story of the Knight Owein:
The Knight in Purgatory.
The Messengers of God Welcome Owein.
First Meeting with the Devils.
First Torment.
Seventh Torment.
Tenth Torment.
The Knight Receives the Heavenly Manna, The Knight Returns to
Earth.
Liberation and the Bardos: the Tibetan View of Death and Dying, by
Jeffrey Fitzsimmons and Carolyn Lee.
“VISIONS ARE A KIND OF WASHING” (7/14/87).
Reincarnation, Psychic Awakening, and the Transcendence of Rebirth,
by Carolyn Lee.
‘And You Will Awaken To The Eternal Self-Domain’ (DHT).
Musical Sacramental Midwifery: the Laughing Man interviews Therese
Schroeder-Sheker.
‘BLOOD SACRIFICE AND THE DEATH OF JESUS’ (BoT).
A response by Bede Griffiths: Salvation through the Blood of Christ:
the New Testament Tradition.
Section Three: Ego-Death:
The Great Unborn Self.
The Graceful Communion of the Unborn.
Ego-Death and the Illusions of the Sixties, by William Stranger.
Stanzas on the Avadhuta, from the Siddha-Siddhanta-Paddhati,
translated by Georg Feuerstein.
“THE DEATH AND BIRTH OF THE GOD-MAN” (7/12/76).
Reviews:
The Kundalini Experience, by Lee Sannella, M.D..
The Nectar of the Lord’s Feet: Final Teachings of Sri Nisargadatta
Maharaj-Discourses January-February 1980, ed. by Robert Powell.
The Company of Truth: Offerings of The Free Daist Communion.