Samsara - The Wheel of Birth, Death and Rebirth: A Journey Through Spirituality, Religion and Asia

This account of spiritual travel in India, Nepal, Bali and Cambodia explores the big questions of everyone's life.
Why do we suffer? What happens when we die?What is consciousness, does it end with death or are reincarnation or an afterlife possible?Does our life, the things that happen to us, and our death, have any meaning?What if any light can samsara, the cycle of birth, death and rebirth, and karma, shed on these age old questions?Where does karma fit with the idea of past lives, and what do mysticism, Hinduism and Buddhism and their gurus teach about karma and reincarnation?Can Indian mysticism, mystics and gurus offer genuine spiritual insights?Are the teachings of the mystics of India compatible with new scientific understandings of the nature of reality and consciousness?How is tantra practiced in India and Nepal in Hinduism and Buddhism?Are we travelling around the ever-turning wheel of samsara, being born, dying, then reborn - again and again and again according to our karma?
This nonfiction exploration of reincarnation and spiritual travel memoir of search for the sacred in India, Nepal, Cambodia and Bali, asks what ideas such as reincarnation, past lives and karma can reveal about our lives and the possibility of life after death.

As an account of reincarnation - nonfiction - it asks what beliefs Hinduism and Buddhism hold in relation to karma, reincarnation, suffering, life and death.

What do Tibetan or Vajrayana Buddhism and Hindu or Indian gurus, mystics and mysticism, reveal about the nature of consciousness, karma and the possibility of reincarnation or an afterlife?

Do spiritual dimensions exist or do we live in a purely material universe?

What, if anything, might spirituality mean in an unpredictable 21st century?

Is spirituality without religion possible?

What light can science shed on consciousness, spirituality, reincarnation?

Do mysticism, parapsychology, Tantra, psychedelics and quantum physics offer clues in relation to spirituality, karma and consciousness?

Travel with the author through the fascinating cultures of Nepal, India, Bali and Cambodia and explore their rich religious traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism along with Indian Hindu mystics and mysticism.
Part spiritual journey, part exploration of religion and cultures, part travel memoir of spiritual search in places of astonishing diversity, this nonfiction account of reincarnation in cultures where most people take it for granted confronts the outsider with many challenges and questions about the possibilities of reincarnation and spiritual dimensions.
As a memoir of spiritual travel and a search for the sacred in India, Nepal, Bali and Cambodia it will get you thinking about your own beliefs, life and death, and where those might fit in to a bigger picture.

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