Description

The Future of Man is a book by Edward C. Randall, first published in 1908, exploring profound questions of life after death and the unseen spirit realm. Randall presents the idea that earthly existence is but a preliminary phase in an eternal journey of the soul. Drawing on near-death experiences, psychic phenomena, philosophical reasoning, and spiritualist inquiry, he contends that consciousness transcends the physical form and continues evolving in higher vibrational planes. Emblematic of early twentieth-century spiritualism, the work influenced contemporaneous metaphysical thought by advocating a rational exploration of the afterlife grounded in purported empirical observations and moral optimism.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Afterlife, reincarnation, and near-death experiences, Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics, Parapsychology and psychical research, and Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling.

Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling
Retained metadata contains “Spiritualism” in the description.
- “Spiritualism”· in description
Afterlife, reincarnation, and near-death experiences
Retained metadata contains “afterlife” in the description, “Life after death” in the description, “near-death” in the description, and 1 additional metadata match(es).
- “afterlife”· in description
- “Life after death”· in description
- “near-death”· in description
- “Near-death experiences”· in description
Parapsychology and psychical research
Controlled discovery queries from global-grey matched “Paranormal and Mysteries”. Retained metadata contains “Paranormal and Mysteries” in the subject metadata.
- “Paranormal and Mysteries”· via Global Grey ebooks
- “Paranormal and Mysteries”· in subject
Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics
Retained metadata contains “Consciousness” in the description.
- “Consciousness”· in description

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