Bob Olson: Answers about the Afterlife

Bob Olson indicates he begins his book by telling everybody, “Don’t take my word for any of this. I want to inspire you to have your own experiences and do your own investigation of the Afterlife. What the book does is sort of tell you where you can go to investigate it [the Afterlife] on your own. I say I have been investigating it for 15 years, but it was actually 17 years, but the first two years I didn’t know where to go. I didn’t know how to investigate it, and so I didn’t find any evidence. I don’t count those first two years. I didn’t have a book like this to guide me to where to go to look for that evidence. In that way, that is why I wanted to put this [book] out there, but I definitely want people to make up their own minds.” He continues by saying, “This whole spirit/soul thing plants a seed in people’s minds. If it is new to them, then they might not be ready to accept it right away. The seed is planted so they can think about it as time goes on and then they can see how it actually applies – to their life, to their spiritual experiences and spiritual beliefs. What many people are finding is that it actually helps to better define and answer their questions that they have.”

There seems to be a lot of fear associated with the topic of death, dying and the Afterlife, whether this is from conditioning, religious teachings or whatever it may be. In essence, the passing of Bob’s father was the catalyst for his initial exploration into what happens when we die. He indicated that over time, his discoveries offered him inner peace because he no longer feared death. He realized that “many of the fears and maladies both physical and psychological that we have in life occur because of our fear of death and of not being able to understand it. With people who are grieving – I feel like my book and this understanding that I have now about life after death isn’t going to take away my grief entirely, but it certainly will comfort a lot of the fears that I have that will add to my suffering and that’s where I think it can help out a lot.”