Tigerlilly - Lobsang Rampa

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
As this little book is now quickly approaching the permitted
number of pages, it seems a good idea to make a few com-
ments with regard to a subject which seems to occupy the
thoughts of a great many readers. A large number of people
have written requesting more comments because the ‘subject is
not generally discussed these days’. Just this morning a letter
was put into my hands, and when I read it I decided it was not
accidental—it was just a reminder of what so many others had
written to me in the past weeks and months. Since the writer
of the letter is quite well known to me it might not be amiss to
quote the relevant paragraph—‘it would be an excellent idea
to write more about death because it is something which
effects each one of us, and it will help to break down the bar-
riers of fear which most of us have’. The writer continues, ‘In
the last century, or Victorian age, sex was taboo, but now this
subject has gone to the extreme. In this period of time, the
subject of death of the physical body is taboo. Let us hope that
subject will be discussed more openly in the not too dis-
tant future, without fear, and I am sure you can help by touch-
ing upon it.’
My thought is that Lobsang Rampa is the person who can
best write about death, and he can go much further by writing
about what happens AFTER death. In his latest book Three
Lives, that is exactly what he has done, and many people have
expressed the opinion that it is the best book of the eighteen he
has written. We all hope he will be able to maintain sufficient
physical strength to carry out his intention of making it to
number nineteen. Judging from his remarks I am sure Three
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