You are going to die. Everything you own, everyone you love, all of existence is going to disappear. It might happen today. Yet how often do any of us really look at what this means, or speak of death? What is the truth of death? Should we be afraid of it?

These are vitally important questions, and yet few people ask and even fewer seem to have an answer.

While society concerns itself with living, it is left to the mystic to look into death. Barry Long is a contemporary western mystic. He speaks practically of the five great mysteries: love, life, death, truth and God. He speaks with the authority which can only come from a deep realisation of the nature of life. While most of our notions of death are secondhand, from religion and speculation, Barry Long introduces us to original knowledge.