E.J. Gold - American Book of the Dead
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Alchemical
Sex American Book of the Dead, Practitioners Edition (2004)
Angels Healing Journey
The Book of Sacraments
Creation Story Verbatim
The Great Adventure
The Hidden Work
The Human Biological Machine as a Transformational Apparatus
The Invocation of Presence (Private Publication)
The Joy of Sacrifice
Life in the Labyrinth
The Lost Works of E.J. Gold (Limited Edition)
Practical Work on Self
The Seven Bodies of Man
Tanks for the Memories (with Dr. John C. Lilly)
Visions in the Stone
On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the American Book of the Dead, Gateways Books would like to acknowledge the special contributions made by the books first trade publisher, Sebastian Orfali (1946-1997) of And/Or Press; the illustrators of the first two public editions, artists Lauren Elder and George Metzger; and all those individuals over the years who have contributed to support this profoundly beneficial publishing project, whether they contributed money, skilled labor, enthusiasm, dedication, or energy in any form. Thanks and blessings also to everyone over the years who has read the guiding instructions for any Voyager. We hope you will continue this practice and become one of the Labyrinth Readers of the American Book of the Dead.
E.J. G OLD , D EATH C OMES AS A L OVER , C HARCOAL ON A RCHES P APER , 1987.
Copyright 2005 by E.J. Gold
Illustrations 2004 by E.J. Gold
30t h Anniversary Edition
Some material in this book has appeared in its present form
or in earlier textual versions in the following publications:
American Book of the DeadFirst Edition, limited, 1974
The American Book of the DeadRevised Standard Practitioners Edition, 1975
American Book of the DeadTrade Edition, And/Or Press, 1975
American Book of the DeadStandard Revised Edition, Doneve Designs, 1978
New American Book of the DeadPractitioners Edition, 1980
New American Book of the DeadTrade Edition, 1981
The Lazy Mans Guide to Death & DyingLimited Edition, 1983
The Lazy Mans Guide to Death & Dying Trade Edition, 1983, 1984
The Original American Book of the Dead, 1987
The American Book of the DeadTrade Edition, Harper San Francisco, 1995 The Original American Book of the Dead, Revised Edition, 1990, 1993, 1999
All Rights Reserved, Printed in the USA, Tenth Printing
Published by Gateways Books & Tapes
IDHHB, Inc., PO Box 370, Nevada City, CA 95959
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No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review written for inclusion in a magazine, newspaper, web publication, or broadcast.
Gold, E.J.
American book of the dead / written and illus trated by E.J.
Gold Nevada City, CA : Gateways/IDHHB, c1987
xx, 196 p.: i ll.; 22 cm.
Cover title: The original American book of the dead
ISBN: 0-895 56-051-8 (pbk.): $15.95
1. Future life. 2. Death. 3. Reincarnation. I. Title II. Title: Original American book of the dead.
BF1311.F8G64 1987 133.9dc19 87-82942
AACR 2 MARC
Library of Congress
E.J. G OLD , T HE R EALIZATION , C HARCOAL ON R IVES BFK, 1992.
Behold a child
Naked is he,
He comes not into the world
For he is not of woman born,
He is called Oldest.
Havama, Norse 9th Century Bardic Lay
Its when you first get up in the morning
And smell your own breath
And sit on the john to let out
The days first blast
Of methane and sulphur dioxide
That it hits home the hardest
The whole system
Operates on rot.
It isnt just the body,
That fabulous human machine,
That tip-to-toe mass of organic decay
in seething fury to survive,
One microorganism over another,
Fighting like fury to stay on top,
Dominating the dung heap for a single moment
And succumbing the next,
That walking, talking
Semiplastic garbage bag
With the slim semblance
Of Intelligence and Purpose.
And here you are
Sitting smack dab in the middle of it all,
Right in the center of the swamp,
A king or queen riding the wild horse of rot,
And heres another box of cereal about to
Become one with the human host,
Another few hours of fodder
For the great compost heap,
Fueling it for the day ahead.
Steeling itself for meaningful deeds,
Girding its loins for the far-reaching,
Earth-shaking events,
The sky-piercing thoughts,
All-embracing transdimensional visions,
The subtle shadings of emotional delights,
Lover and beloved
Gazing with rapturous lustful wonder
A swooning, sweeping, swaying dance of love,
An interlude of romance,
A moments brush with beauty,
Another afternoon of love,
Another sexy bag of rot.
20th Century North Ame rican Bardic Lay
All of us at Gateways Books & Tapes are proud to publish this 30th anniversary edition of E.J. Golds American Book of the Dead. This was the first book by the author to achieve national distribution and international prominence. It was the first book from Gateways (then IDHHB Publishing, in 1974) to be printed by another trade publisher. By the time it was issued as a reprint in 1995 by Harper & Row, it had achieved the status of a consciousness classic. We would like to thank Mr. Gold for his ongoing efforts on behalf of all Beings everywhere. After thirty years of keeping his influential and beneficial book continuously in print, we anticipate continuing its run through our own era and beyond for the children of the twenty-first century.
Ill repeat here what I wrote for the 1993 Gateways edition: a Book of the Dead is not strictly a book for the dead but a book for all labyrinth voyagers, all those who wake up dead, deep in one kind of sleep or another. We are all voyagers. In one part of the voyage we are attached to a biological machine. In another part of the voyage, we find ourselves without a biological machine to refer to. But it is all the same labyrinth, and all the same voyage. And that is why a book of the dead is not only for the organically dead but for all voyagersno matter what dimensional level of the labyrinth they may be exploring at the moment. If we are able to make this voyagers book our own, we may be able to bring its transdimensional technology into the world beyond organic life, and to be of service to other voyagers as well as ourselves.
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