This poem by Hafez reflects on the everlasting questions of truth and the meaning of life.
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How to imagine the experience of eternal life? Would we sense ourselves? How would we feel? Whom would we know? What would we do? What would God do? Living forever seems so absurd, yet eternal life is the promise of almost every religion.
According to Islamic doctrine, between the moment of death and the burial ceremony, the spirit of a deceased Muslim takes a quick journey to Heaven and Hell, where it beholds visions of the bliss and torture awaiting humanity at the end of days.
In this work, Dr Wesselman reveals what it means to be a mystic and a medicine man in an age of high technology and super science.
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