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A Guided Tour of Hell: A Graphic Memoir

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Take a go back and forth through the realms of hell with a man whose temporary visitor’s pass gave him a horrifying—and enlightening—preview of its torments.

This true account of Sam Bercholz’s near-death experience has more in common with Dante’s Inferno than it does with any of the preferred feel-good stories of what happens when we die. In the aftermath of heart surgery, Sam, a longtime Buddhist practitioner and teacher, is surprised to find himself in the lowest realms of karmic rebirth, where he’s sent to gain insight into human suffering. Under the guidance of a luminous being, Sam’s encounters with a series of hell-beings trapped in repetitious rounds of misery and delusion divulge to him how a person’s own habits of fiery hatred and icy disdain, of grasping desire and nihilistic ennui, are the source of horrific agonies that pound consciousness for seemingly endless cycles of time. Comforted by the compassion of a winged goddess and sustained by the kindness of his Buddhist teachers, Sam ultimately emerges from his ordeal with renewed faith that even the worst hell comprises the seed of wakefulness. His story is offered, along side the modernist illustrations of a master of Tibetan sacred arts, in an effort to share what may also be learned about awakening from our own self-created hells and helping others to find relief and liberation from theirs.

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