Death: Beginning or End: Methods for Immortality

Dr. Jonn Mumford brings us a most thought-provoking book which brings to the forefront a subject we all seek to the answer to: What is beyond death... Death: Beginning or End? was born from lectures he has given. Learn why what we do today, in this lifetime, will have an impact on our life after death. Give your mind a refuge with a wonderful Hindu meditation. Learn and practice a mantra that can free you from blind incarnations to learn who you really are, for only then can you break the cycle and guide yourself to a better journey.With beautiful meditations and exercises, along with quotes and poetry from around the world on death. Death: the Beginning or End? will bring you on a journey of self-discovery. M.L. Benton, Publisher, Echoed Voices. Copyright © December 2001

Death: Beginning or End is worth the price for its meditation instruction alone. I'm an experienced meditator, and the Gayatri So Hum is among the most powerful techniques I've encountered because it incorporates breath, movement and visualization in a way that must profoundly affect the brain. The other exercises in the book will be of value, even to the most hardened skeptic. In addition, Jonn Mumford has an extraordinary ability to explain complex Eastern philosophical concepts in a simple and direct manner.

Dr. Mumford has certainly shed light on the difference between Death And Dying and the associated myths. Some people live, some folks exist whereupon they die a daily death. The concepts in this book are succinctly educational. I have broadened my awareness and understanding on a wholistic east-west level about the very matter that confronts each individual when we come to our mortal ends. A soul-broadening experience and a jolly good read. The grim-reaper is not to be feared!

This amazing book should be required reading. It's an important book. Science has turned us into skeptical creatures. Believing in God is not so much an act of will as a state of grace. And what happens if we are not fortunate enough to attain this state of grace? Dr. Mumford from his vast esoteric knowledge of both the Eastern and Western traditions helps the reader to move in the direction of that state of grace. In this book he gives us detailed instructions on how to prepare for death, that one certain event in our lives. The result is a more relaxed and happier life. I wish I had read this book before my husband died.

Dr. Jonn Mumford is a man who lives in two worlds. Having first begun studying in India while he was practically a child, he eventually became a Swami in one of the most respected and ancient religious orders on earth. But Mumford is not Indian. He was born and raised in the United States and Australia. Eventually returning to the west, Mumford took up that most respected of western professions--he is a physician. This puts him in a very unusual position--he is steeped in the esoteric lore of two very deep traditions, Indian yoga and western medicine. But Mumford's understanding of yoga goes far beyond books--he is a highly accomplished yoga master who has proved his bona fides in western laboratories by displaying control over his heart and brain waves that, a few decades ago, was believed impossible by western medicine. In his new book, "Death: Beginning or End" he addresses the one area that is the terror of all people and all cultures, death. For the first time, westerners who practice yoga meditation are openly taught a way to prepare for death that is accessible but also very powerful. He discusses such issues as how meditators should view the use of morphine when the end comes (as it will for all of us). These people (the Saraswati order of Swamis) understand the mind and they understand the body. ( Let anyone who doubts buy this book and learn their method for drastically deepening your meditation by lifting one finger synchronized with your breathing!) St. Paul wrote, "Death, where is thy sting." This book should help take at least some of the sting from death for those wise enough to practice what it so clearly teaches.