Chris H. Hardy Ph.D. - Living Souls in the Spirit Dimension: The Afterlife and Transdimensional Reality

LIVING SOULSIN THE SPIRIT DIMENSION

Chris Hardys latest work follows a series of provocative but well-researched and brilliantly written books on fringe consciousness topics. But this is more than a personal history of her remarkable experiences in what she calls the transdimensional reality. Hardy cites serious research that supports the importance of near-death experiences, out-of-body experiences, after-death communication, and similar topics for a full understanding of the many dimensions of human nature. Living Souls in the Spirit Dimension is written in a reader-friendly manner that clarifies the complex phenomena she describes.

STANLEY KRIPPNER, PH.D., COAUTHOR OF PERSONAL MYTHOLOGY

Chris Hardy is a natural mystic as well as a fine scholar. In this delightfully readable book she shares her experience on both sides of the veil and gives us an image-rich history of attitudes and beliefs about death from throughout the world.

ALLAN COMBS, PH.D., PROFESSOR OF TRANSFORMATIVE STUDIES AT THE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES

Chris Hardy, the anthropology pioneer who has expanded our discipline to embrace the spiritual dimension of human existence and the coherent field generated by spiritual practices, opens our discipline even more with this new book that I highly recommend.

SASHA ALEX LESSIN, PH.D., COAUTHOR OF ANUNNAKI EVOLUTION OF THE GODS AND ANUNNAKI: GODS NO MORE

The oldest known map is from ancient Egypt. Interestingly enough, it depicts the afterlife. For the modern traveler to other worlds, I recommend Living Souls in the Spirit Dimension by Chris Hardy.

MARK MIRABELLO, PH.D., AUTHOR OF A TRAVELERS GUIDE TO THE AFTERLIFE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

With this book, I want to acknowledge the Great Work that is accomplished by the lovers of Sophia-Wisdomthe questers, philosophers, scientists, and artists of the Deep Reality of the Self and the World Soulthose of the past who have enlightened us and those of the future who are illuminating the other side of our collective face, that of our emerging potentials.

To all these questers who are now dwelling in the hyperdimension of souls, some temporarily so, my deep gratitude for your ceaseless caring and for your inspiring (and sometimes visible) presence, prodding us and making usthe ones living on Earthmore attuned to the soul dimension.

My heartfelt gratitude to my publisher, Ehud Sperling, and to Jon Graham and Christian Schweiger for welcoming this book and for their support in launching it.

I would like to thank Jamaica Burns Griffin for her excellence in editing and her deep understanding and respect of my text that made this work as smooth as an author could ever dream of. Thanks as well to Elizabeth Wilson for the highly competent and smart reviewing and editing.

And finally, I want to express my thanks and deep appreciation to the whole team at Inner Traditions Bear & Company for their professional talent and great synergy, especially Patricia Rydle, Jeanie Levitan, Maria Loftus, Kelly Bowen, Aaron Davis, and the ubiquitous gate-opener Manzanita Carpenter-Sanz.

By the mere light of reason it seems difficult to prove the immortality of the soul. Some new species of logic is required for that purpose and some new faculties of the mind that they may enable us to comprehend that logic.

DR. RAYMOND MOODY QUOTING EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SCOTTISH PHILOSOPHER DAVID HUME, PARIS, JANUARY 17, 2017

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

. Unveiling the mystery of the dimension of souls

. (a) Jazz funeral style procession in New Orleans; (b) Jazz funeral in Memphis

. Deaths Door, drawing by William Blake

. Hermes as psychopomp: (a) supervising a burial; (b) conducting the deceased

. Praying Hands, by Albrecht Drer

. The Meeting of a Family in Heaven, drawing by William Blake

. Charcot giving a clinical course on hypnosis

. Swedenborg at the age of seventy-five

. Poincar and Marie Curie at the first famed Solvay conference

. The alchemical Grand-oeuvre, as V.I.T.R.I.O.L.

. Giordano Bruno: (a) portrait; (b) woodcut from Articuli centum et sexaginta

. Boschs Ascent of the Blessed; detail of the tunnel

. The Soul Hovering over the Body Reluctantly Parting from Life, drawing by William Blake

. Reunion with the loved one after death

. Henry Sandhams illustration for Poes poem Lenore

. Three Saints rising from the dead

. A Vietnamese altar for ancestors

. Offerings of copal and incense while spending the night with the ancestors in Mexico

. The St-Michel sacred line in Brittany

. The Nagaraja protector of the Buddha

. Ruins of Nalanda University, India

. Walter Evans-Wentz and Lama Kazi Dawa Samdup

. Family altar in India

. Balinese flower offerings (canang sari): (a) in front of shops; (b) on the beach

. Zeus as Meilichios, with snake form

. Lar Familiaris (household protector spirit)

. Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi, philosopher of illumination

. Angel of Grief, the Story monument in Rome, Italy

. Wheel of life with Avalokiteshvara present in each realm

. Apsara appearing to a meditating yogi, Borobudur temple

. Tibetan Dakini statue

. The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, by Bernini (detail of face)

. Clermont Cathedrals south rosacea: (a) exterior view; (b) interior view

. Golden rectangles delineated by sacred lines in Paris

. The four elements in alchemy (quaternary)

. The Resurrection of the Dead, by Blake

. The ecstatic regard of St. Jerome in the Wilderness

. The hyperdimension interlacing with the 4D spacetime

. Sunflower: the living based on the phi ratio

. The cosmic spiral (ISS) at the origin of our universe

. Plotinus

. The dimension of the One as a nine-pointed star

. Appeal to the Great Spirit, by Cyrus E. Dallin

. The tesseract

. Supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy

COLOR PLATES

. Egyptian Book of the Dead: The weighing of the heart

. Hermes brings back Persephone from Hades

. The philosophers stone represented as a hermaphrodite

. Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversations with God, by Jan Matejko

. Hieronymus Boschs Ascent of the Blessed

. Day of the Dead at a cemetery in Almoloya del Rio, Mexico, 1995

. Siberian woman shaman with drum, calling on spirits

. Mont-Saint-Michel, a sacred site through time

. Saint-Michel Fountain, Paris

. The king and queen of Nagas, interlaced

. Mahasiddha Tilopa practicing Mahamudra

. Ancient Roman house altar for the Lares

. Angel of Grief on the Pool Monument

. Yesh Tsogyal, Padmasambhavas first disciple and Dakini

. Two liberated masters, the Headless Sisters: (a) Mekhala; (b) Kanakhala

. Vajrayogini (also called Vajradakini)

. Mahasiddha Ghantapa flying in tantric embrace with his Dakini

. Erik Pigani playing piano in the choir of the Royal Chapel

. Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, by Bernini

. Carl Jungs Bollingen Tower

. The Birth of Venus, by Sandro Botticelli

. Vajrayogini mandala

. Sainte Chapelle, Paris, the nave

. Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris, north rosacea

. St. Jerome in the Wilderness, by Albrecht Drer