Title: Encyclopedia of the Spirit World: How Humanity Encounters and Interprets the Otherworld Across Time and Tradition: An Intercultural Lexicon of Invisible Realms and Their Messengers
Publisher: Cineris Multifacet
Publication Date: 2025
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9798897600823
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE SPIRIT WORLD

How Humanity Encounters and Interprets the Otherworld Across Time and Tradition:

An Intercultural Lexicon of Invisible Realms and Their Messengers
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Over 1,200 Spirit World Terms Within
in a 500-Page Encyclopedia

The Encyclopedia of the Spirit World is a complete guide to the unseen dimensions that cultures across the globe have described for thousands of years. This book is an essential resource for seekers, scholars, storytellers, and anyone interested in understanding how humanity has encountered, named, and navigated the invisible realms of existence. Covering more than 1,200 entries—from ancient myths to modern spiritual practices—this encyclopedia provides concise, reliable information on each term’s origin, cultural role, and symbolic meaning.

It includes descriptions of realms of the dead and heavens of the gods, spirits and deities, sacred practices and objects, and gateways between worlds. With its wide coverage and cross-cultural approach, this book is an indispensable tool for navigating the vast landscape of the spirit world.

Concepts Included:

Aaru – Egyptian Fields of Reeds, Paradise of the Afterlife
Abaton – Greek Sacred Island of the Dead
Ancestor Worship – Worldwide practice of honoring the departed
Bardo – Tibetan intermediate state between death and rebirth
Djinn – Islamic beings of smokeless fire
Elysium – Greek paradise for heroes and blessed souls
Loa – Haitian Vodou spirits and intermediaries
Moksha – Hindu liberation from the cycle of rebirth
Nirvana – Buddhist extinction of suffering and final release
Otherworld – Celtic realm of faeries, youth, and immortality
Purgatory – Catholic realm of purification before Heaven
Shamanism – Cross-cultural practice of spirit journeying
Tree of Life – Axis of connection between worlds
Yggdrasil – Norse World Tree linking nine realms
Zoroastrian Heaven and Hell – Realms of reward and punishment

...and over a thousand more.

Perfect for readers of Manly P. Hall, Mircea Eliade, Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, and those drawn to world mythology, esotericism, and sacred studies.

The portals to the Spirit World are all around us -

learn to identify more of them in order to step through the gates to the otherworld more often.

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