Terrifying Encounters - Notes

1. Rawlings, To Hell and Back, 72.

2. Rawlings, To Hell and Back, 75.

3. Rawlings, To Hell and Back, 75.

4. Rawlings, To Hell and Back, 79

5. F. Max Muller, ed. "Vedic Hymns," in Sacred Books of the East vol. XLVI (Delhi: Mortila Banarsidass, 1967; first published by the Oxford University Press in 1897), 33.

6. "Hymns of the Atharva-Veda," trans. Maurice bloomfield; vol. 48 of Sacred Books of the East (Delhi: Mortila Banarsidass, 1973; first published by the Oxford University Press in 1897), 121, 125.

7. Gita, 85.

8. Gita, 86.

9. Scripture of the Lotus Blossom of the Fine Dharma, trans. Leon Hurvitz (NY: Columbia University Press, 1976), 77-79.

10. Jacob Boehme, "The Way to Christ," trans. Peter Erb. The Classics of Western Spirituality (NY: Paulist Press, 1978), 126.

11. Boehme, "The Way to Christ," 142.

12. W. Scott Palmer, ed., The Confessions of Jacob Boehme (London: Methuen, 1954), 140.

13. Boehme, "The Way to Christ," 141

14. Palmer, ed., Confessions, 31.

15. Palmer, Confessions, 22.

16. The Tibetan Book of the Dead, W.Y. Evans-Wentz, ed. (London: Oxford University Press, 1960), 137.

17. The Tibetan Book of the Dead, 137.

18. The Tibetan Book of the Dead, 138

19. St. John of the Cross, "The Dark Night of the Soul," Kieran Kavanaugh, OCD, ed. In The Classics of Western Spirituality (NY: Paulist Press, 1987), 205.

20. Kenneth Ring, "Solving the Riddle of Frightening Near-Death Experiences: Some testable hypothesis and a perspective based A Course In Miracles." Journal of Near-Death Studies 13, 5-24.