Tradition 14 of 33
Afterlife, reincarnation, and near-death experiences
Survival after death, reincarnation, near-death experiences, and accounts of the afterlife.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 3,175
- Earliest
- 1298
- to 2026
- Read free
- 37%
- 1,159 with public full text
- With covers
- 50%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match2,987
- Metadata match115
- Query match69
- Source classification (retained through merging)4
Every placement records its evidence — the controlled subject queries that found the book at its sources and the bibliographic metadata retained through merging. Each book page shows its own. How the rationale system works.
Key subjects
- Future life1.1K
- Immortality735
- Reincarnation359
- Early works to 1800276
- Death218
- christianity216
- soul215
- Fiction194
- Philosophy152
- Sermons147
- Social Sciences126
- Near Death Experiences121
- History119
- Psychology114
- Heaven110
- Spiritualism108
- Religious aspects99
- Bible97
- Social Psychology87
- Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs81
- Epistemology71
- Eschatology70
- resurrection69
- Future punishment67
Top languages
- English1,879 · 59%
- German498 · 16%
- French200 · 6%
- Latin108 · 3%
- NOT84 · 3%
Notable authors
All authors- Emanuel Swedenborg26 in this tradition66 books
- Richard Baxter22 in this tradition29 books
- Yoesoep Edhie Rachmad21 books
- Moses Mendelssohn19 in this tradition21 books
- Jens Schlieter15 in this tradition17 books
- Religious Tract Society13 in this tradition34 books
- Pope Gregory I13 in this tradition15 books
- Rudolf Steiner12 in this tradition153 books
- Isaac Watts12 in this tradition20 books
- Dolores Cannon12 in this tradition15 books
- Ian Stevenson12 in this tradition13 books
- Πλάτων11 in this tradition13 books
3,175 books
A disquisition concerning the state of the souls of men, (especially of good men) when separated from their bodies
Increase Mather
1707
A dissertation on the religious knowledge of the antient Jews and patriarchs
Stephen Addington
1757
A dying mother's counsel to her only son
American Tract Society
1832
A funeral address delivered at the internment of the Right Rev. Benjamin Moore, D.D., Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of New York
John Henry Hobart
1816
A funeral sermon occasioned by the much lamented death of the late Reverend Mr. Matthew Clarke who departed this life March 27, 1726, an aetat. LXII
Daniel Neal
1726
A funeral sermon preached upon the death of the Reverend and Excellent Divine Dr. Thomas Manton, who deceas'd Octob. 18, 1677
William Bates, Thomas Manton
1678
A future world in which mankind shall survive their mortal durations, demonstrated by rational evidence from natural and moral arguments against the atheists pretentions
William Smith
1688
A genetic study of immortality
Jacob Richard Street
1899
A history of the doctrine of the soul
Dudley Marvin Canright
1882
A letter in answer to one from a free-thinker occasion'd by the late Duke of Buckinghamshire's Epitaph
Richard Fiddes
1721
A letter to His Grace, the Archbishop of Canterbury, on that portion of his recent pastoral letter which affirms 'The everlasting suffering of the lost'
H. H. Dobney
1864
A letter to Mr. Dodwell concerning the immortality of the soul of man
John Norris
1709
A letter to Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. on the subject of a future state
John Taylor
1787
A message from the world of spirits
J. G. H. Brown
1856
A modest enquiry into the state of the dead
John Beach
1755
A philosophical discourse concerning the natural immortality of the soul
John Norris
1708
A pilgrimage into the land of promise, by the light of the vision of Jacobs ladder and faith, or, A serious search and prospect into life eternal
Henry Vane the Younger
1664
A platonick song of the soul
Henry More
1647
A preliminary defence of the Epistolary discourse concerning the distinction between soul and spirit
Henry Dodwell
1707
A prospect of eternity
Thomas Doolittle
1709
A remarkable dream, or vision, which was experienced on the night of the 20th May, 1799
Aaron Warner
1802
A reply to The grand question debated
W. Kenrick, Thomas Hollis
1751
A scientific basis of belief in a future life
John Page Hopps
1881
A scientific basis of belief in a future life, or, The witness borne by modern science to the reality and pre-eminence of the unseen universe
John Page Hopps
1880