Celestial Ascent

Unit 1: Introduction

Ancient Cosmological World View
Model of the Celestial Ascent
Shamanism

Unit 2: Ancient Near East (to 500 BC)

Egyptian
Mesopotamian
Iranian/Zoroastrian

Unity 3: Old Testament and Pseudepigrapha

Unit 4: Greek and Roman

Unit 5: Chinese

Unit 6: New Testament and Psuedepigrapha

Unit 7: Indic

Hindu
Buddhist

Unit 8: Neoplatonic

Astral
Hermetic
Mandaean
Pagan Gnostic
Plotinus

Unit 9: Medieval Judaism

Merkavah
Haykhalot
Kabbalah

Unit 10: Early Christian

Church Fathers
Christian Gnostic
Augustine

Unit 11: Medieval Christian

Mystical Ascent vs. Celestial Ascent
Visions of Heaven and Hell
Dante

Unit 12: Islam

Mi'raj
Sufism

Unit 13: LDS and conclusions