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| Preface: The Design in the Sand | |
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| A Long, Personal, but Necessary Introduction Explaining How I Came to Write This Book | |
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| Ancient Egypt, the Origins of the Afterlife, and the Birth of the Idea That Each of Us Is a God in Training | |
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| The Egyptian and Tibetan Books of the Dead, the Mortal and Immortal Parts of the Soul, and the Key Difference Between the Eastern and the Western Views of the Afterlife | |
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| The Need for a Single Map, the Imaginary and the Imaginal, What the Brain Does (and Doesn't) Do, and the Nonlocal Nature of Consciousness | |
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| Different Kinds of Reincarnation, Different Kinds of Evolution, Why Flying Saucers Help Us Understand the Afterlife, and Why the Romantics Are Still Important | |
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| The Transcendentalists, Reincarnation Reenvisioned, and What the Universe Was Really Created For | |
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| The Age of Science and the Age of Spiritualism, the Unsung Discoverer of the Human Unconscious, the French Schoolteacher Who Spoke to the Dead, and the Botanist Who Mapped the Afterlife | |
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| Death on the Slopes, the Initial Stages of the Afterlife Journey, the "Silver Cord," "Ghost Clothing," and What It's Like to Emerge from Physical Space | |
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| The Removal of the Coat of Images, More on Life as a Movie, and the Real Significance of the Life Review | |
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| A World Much Like This One, the Waning of the Etheric, the Rise of the Astral, the "Second Death," and Connectivity, Spiritual-Style | |
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| Private and Public Postmortem Worlds, the Zone of the Earthbound Spirits, the Dangers of the Lower Astral, and the Continuing Power of Thought | |
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| Seven Planes, the Judgment, to Be Reborn or Not to Be Reborn, Life as a Movie Worth Watching, and the Concept of the Group Soul | |
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| The Pulse of Life, Keeping Heaven in Your View, What Lies Beyond the World of Form, and What Waits Beyond the End of Time | |
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| Acknowledgments | |