Geography of Heaven: Travels to the hereafter

´A magnificent, heartfelt love story: a quest both ancient and entirely original´ Jay Griffiths ´An epic of travel and a rich testament to an enduring love´ Colin Thubron Five years ago Rory MacLean set out on a path with no idea of where it would lead, of how long it would take or that his life would change forever. When his wife died, he couldn´t imagine living without her. So he set out to find where she had gone. Over the years he searched, tracing across history and around the globe mankind´s ideas of the afterlife, seeking out places where the veil is thin. Places where our mortal world touched the divine. He spent a night on Jacob´s Rock where the Biblical patriarch had seen a ladder to heaven. In Kerala, he watched gods walk on fire. On the Great Plains, he sundanced with the Lakota. At Jerusalem´s Temple Mount, he laid his hand on the stepping stone to another world. In Delhi, he was told ´the universe will keep sending you loving souls to guide you on this journey´ and it did, opening doors, revealing wonders beyond his imagination, until - in five truly inexplicable moments - his wife was beside him. Geography of Heaven: Travels to the Hereafter is the story of that extraordinary journey, of moments of astonishment and awe, of steps taken with hope and love. Hope ´that leads to blissful end´ wrote Dante. Hope that ´is of the joy to come´ as the light from many a star. At the same time, his journey through grief is explained by the latest neuroscientific research. The result is a life-enhancing travel book like no other that leads to the realisation that none of us are created for naught.