The Book of Theanna: In the Lands that Follow Death [Paperback]

Ellias Lonsdale (Author), Theanna Lonsdale (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 4, 1996

Before she died, Theanna (then Sara Lonsdale) developed a means to continue communication with her husband Ellias. The Book of Theanna contains Ellias' daily transcriptions of her words through Death's doors. In the course of these epistles she discusses the scenery of Death; the denials and delusions of the recently dead; and the nature of sexuality, violence, and power. The Book of Theanna is not just another account of life after death; it is not a channeled book in the sense that that is usually understood. It enacts a virtually unknown and ignored method of spiritual communication. Theanna's principal task is to make this process available collectively so that from this point in history people will be able to come back from the dead and recognize where we are and the we are.

Product Details

• Paperback: 344 pages
• Publisher: Frog Books (January 4, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1883319374
• ISBN-13: 978-1883319373
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,303,674 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars essential tonic for a rocky world, September 22, 2005

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Purba (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Book of Theanna: In the Lands that Follow Death (Paperback)

I purchased this book some four years ago, when I found it in the Death & Dying section of a local bookshop. I had no idea what I was about to read.

The author of the book is Theanna Lonsdale, deceased wife to widower Elias Lonsdale, who writes through her husband in the manner of that otherwise often laughable New Age invention, "channeling." Reader beware: in the case of this book, the result is a voice of such breadth and astonishing vision that you may find yourself at a loss as to how such vivid, warm and living wisdom could be speakable at all.

Upon her death in the late '90's, the now-deceased Theanna speaks of her transmigration into subtler dimensions, in a Dantean-like tour of heavens and hells that left me quietly transformed by her reports in a way I still have not been able to quite come to grips with. Among her many meetings are included meaningful encounters with Rudolph Steiner, a most heartbroken and despairing Jesus Christ, and "The Lord of Death," with whom Theanna engages in a spiritual battle that leaves her immune to hell and able to tell about it, and many other beings and cosmic realities besides.

What Theanna has returned to Elias to say to the world is that this world, this Earth, is spiritually "blasted" and ready to give way to its spiritual rebirth. In the meantime, the drama that must play out is the difficult exhausting of the possibility for life upon it, with all too much in the way of human suffering, amidst a burgeoning birth of spirituality in its midst nevertheless. According to Theanna, we are here to navigate this bifurcation and find our way into the future against its heightening drama.

The quality of articulation that Theanna displays about the subtleties of spiritual suffering defy the rarest dharmas I have personally encountered. Though I cannot say one way or another whether Theanna is really a living being or not, the razored edge of fresh truth that flies off these pages leaves me more in a state of informed wonder than any kind of skepticism I could otherwise muster.

Most importantly, Theanna's voice itself acts as a strengthener to the soul, encouraging us to withstand our greatest suffering here and to value it as such. Part of why we are here, she says, is to carry the most destructive information about this dying planet beyond its lifespan (and our own), and to take the imprint of its failure (at the hand of mankind's historical condition of being overrun by the demonic) as primary information to carry with us beyond our stay here, in order to share it outward into the wider reaches of the cosmos -- yet untouched by the particular and devastating sorrows that our now ours to endure for as long as we are here.

Where has such a radically honest and yet altogether affirming wisdom as this ever been made available at large? Trust me, this book is at least as alive as it sounds, and well worth the read. Buy it used for a dollar or two and just read the first page....I only hope that it may inform your trust in our place here on this brutalized earth in this unbearable time a fraction as much as it has informed mine, and encourage you thereby to hang on and hold out through whatever lies ahead -- for the sake of everything that lies beyond.

From the opening pages of this extraordinary book:

"A Personal Note

"Our hope and dream is that we can encourage each willing reader to follow a path of destiny that is truly your own. We do not think of death as just the final curtain. It is instead the opening act into the next realm. Each one dies and lives on, changes and evolves, loses everything and finds what they did not know they could ever find again. Our story is your story. Take in it what you make your own and let the rest be for now. This is not meant to weigh you down, but to set you free. If the medicine is a bit strong, self-administer the dosage according to your tolerance. This is a supercharged path we are on and it does need to be taken up wisely, with inward attentiveness. We send you so much love with the words in this book that you can key on that love and imagine that the journey you are taking is entirely here for you. Let death be more life in you, a path into closeness to this Earth. For this is a book of dreams that just keeps on coming true. Whatever your apparent condition, you are beloved of the gods, now and always. Bless you."

For some, the above probably still sounds like New Age pap. So be it. It is but a taste of the reality living inside.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The bigger picture of who we are and where we are going, April 17, 1999

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This review is from: The Book of Theanna: In the Lands that Follow Death (Paperback)

Ellias and Theanna's (his deceased wife and soulmate)story is an inspiring journey into who we really are : spiritual beings who have temporarily incarnated. As we enter the aquarian age,there is more communication with the other realms than ever before. The lessons are about love and suffering, this earthly planet with its gifts and pitfalls, the freedom and evolution of the human race.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Profound insights about Life and Death, May 5, 2009

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Chetan Parkyn "21st century Mystic" (Idyllwild, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Book of Theanna: In the Lands that Follow Death (Paperback)

An extraordinary work of love and dedication. At times not easy to read without backtracking and sitting to muse on what has been related. But truly a singular story that can bring great relief and comprehension to many people.