“A Guided Tour of Hell”

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Although this is a book and could be put under the product reviews here, I felt compelled to share this here, given that it would like have more attention.

Samuel Bercholz is an enlightened guy whose one of the cofounders of Shambhala Publishing out in Colorado. He studied under one of the very well known Tibetan adepts that came to the West during the 60s, 70s, and 80s, Trungpa Rinpoche. This book is an account similar to Dante’s Inferno where Sam shares about his NDE and his personal vision of the hell realms. It is a graphic account, which is to say that he actually hired artists to draw and actually express a display what he actually saw in these visions. There are differences as to the status of hell realms between traditions and also individuals. Sam doesn’t make any claims as to the actual nature and status of the hell realm itself but really goes in depth to communicate the qualitative characteristics of the beings that were found in hell realms and the experiential quality (texture if you will) of these different realms. Though his training was more in Tibetan Buddhism he doesn’t even ascribe this to be a depiction of Buddhist hell realms. To me this was smart and actually gives greater insight. We know that many of forms and deities that were created in yogic and Buddhist cultures often don’t tend to resonate with western minds because there’s no context for the Western European mind because there was no thousand armed god of compassion in those cultures. That said, the very qualitative nature of the form is the same. This is to point out that how we may experience hell realms or any such realm (assuming we do at some point in our life), the manifest content of such a realm may be contextual to our individual finite minds that pertain to the incarnation of the body mind that is having the experience. Which, as far as I can tell, is new and novel in the world today. 
 

You can get a copy of the book and audiobook here:

https://www.amazon.com/Guided-Tour-Hell-Graphic-Memoir-ebook/dp/B01M9EMEO2/ref=sr_1_1?crid=LMS86LFWL88J&dchild=1&keywords=guided+tour+of+hell&qid=1621282828&sprefix=Guided+tour+of+%2Cdigital-text%2C218&sr=8-1