The Return

Gideon J Paull

ISBN 13: 9798996941131

Published by Maor IS, 2026

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - You are carrying two souls. Only one of them is going anywhere.Every tradition that ever looked closely at the soul agreed on something the modern world has forgotten: that a human being is not one self but two - a mortal soul, bound to the body and built for its survival, and an immortal soul, on loan from somewhere else and always, quietly, trying to return. When the body ends, the first self ends with it. The second goes home.The Return follows that second self past the threshold. It draws together the Kabbalah's detailed map of the soul's ascent, the Tibetan and Egyptian and Islamic accounts, Plato and the mystics, and the modern clinical evidence of near-death experience - and argues that these are not competing myths but independent witnesses to the same territory. Along the way it asks the questions most books on the afterlife avoid: What is hell, if not punishment Why do some souls fail to leave What does the soul carry across - and what, like a fortune in the wrong currency, is worth nothing on the far shore And then the questions that matter most while we are still here: how to let go, when to let go, and how to die well.It claims no certainty. No one has returned with a verified report, and this book never pretends otherwise. What it offers is the convergence of everyone who looked hardest, read through a single coherent lens - and that is more than almost any account of death can honestly promise.The third book of The Soul Framework series.What death strips away was never you. What it cannot touch is.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Return
• Publisher: Maor IS
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798996941131
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 8D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 8 millimeters depth
• Weight: 209 grams

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Synopsis

You are carrying two souls. Only one of them is going anywhere.

One soul is mortal, bound to the body and built for its survival. The other is immortal, on loan from elsewhere and always, quietly, trying to return home. When the body ends, the first ends with it. The second goes on — and it does not leave empty-handed. It carries everything you made of it.

The Return follows that second soul past the threshold. It draws together the Kabbalah's detailed map of the soul's ascent, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, the Egyptian weighing of the heart, the Islamic barzakh, Plato's Myth of Er, Swedenborg and the mystics — and the modern clinical record of near-death experience — and argues these are not competing myths but independent witnesses to the same territory.

Along the way it asks the questions most books on the afterlife avoid:

• What is hell, if not punishment?
• Why do some souls fail to leave?
• If there is no outside judge, who writes the soul's verdict?
• What does the soul carry across — and what, like a fortune in the wrong currency, is worth nothing on the far shore?

And then the questions that matter most while we are still here: how to let go, when to let go, and how to die well.

The Return claims no certainty. No one has come back with a verified report, and this book never pretends otherwise. What it offers is something rarer: the convergence of everyone who looked hardest, read through a single coherent lens. Death reframed — not the end of you, but the end of everything that was drowning you out.

The third book of The Soul Framework series. Having defined the soul and explored the soul-mate bond, Gideon Paull turns to the final question: what happens when the body ends? The answer reframes death as a homecoming — and reframes the whole of life around what the soul will carry home.

For readers of comparative religion, Kabbalah, and near-death studies — and for anyone facing death, their own or another's, who wants clarity instead of comfort, and finds that the clarity comforts after all.

What death strips away was never you. What it cannot touch, you are shaping right now.