The Travelers

About the Book

From the creative and highly imaginative author Joseph Lima Sconce comes a highly engaging and deeply meaningful volume that believes that death should not be feared. Instead, it is something to be celebrated for. The Travelers deems that death is the gateway to another world. It is the transition to real, substantial, eternal, and wondrous afterlife. It tries to show to readers that death does not exist. When one dies, he goes to an afterlife but soon, the reward will become immensely more worthwhile and joyful if one chooses to go to heaven. This book reveals that the afterlife is real and substantial, and that all of humans, when they arrive there at some point, will soon realize this. Their spiritual bodies are very much like natural bodies, except that the spiritual bodies are in perfect shape, in addition to basic telepathy and the speaking of a universal language. People in the spiritual world live in real places: beautiful cities or country location in Heaven, noisome slums in hell. People there work like on earth; willingly and happily in heaven, not so in hell, and also enjoy time off from work, which are marvelous in heaven and within strict limits somewhat enjoyable in hell. They are full human beings in the afterlife, in every aspect. But in the spiritual world, time and space function differently, being fluid and connected to a person’s thoughts and emotions, that deception and lying are nearly impossible and the economy is a moneyless one.

About the Author

I was born in San Salvador, El Salvador on July 28, 1964. My father was an American Diplomat and met my mom on his first overseas assignment, Brazil. I spent my first fifteen years as a “diplomatic brat”, living in: El Salvador, Colombia, Costa Rica and Ecuador. While baptized in the New Church, (the largest Swedenborgian denomination) I only started learning about it in Costa Rica, after my best friend, Cathy Osuna died of heart failure at the age of 13. In 1979, the U.S. State Dept. relocated us, permanently to the U.S. I have been living in Fairfax Co., Virginia since then, except for two years in my religion’s college, The Academy of the New Church, (1983-1985) and three years in San Diego (1996-1999). I got a B.A. degree in History from George Mason University in 1989. I worked for ten years in the book retail industry, (1985- 1995), but after a car accident, lost my job and my brother in San Diego suggested that I try for an accounting degree, because of my love for numbers. I studied accounting in SDSU and started working on accounting in San Diego. But I am a dyed-in-the -wool Northeasterner, and on January 1999 went back to Fairfax and the wonderful Northeast. I worked in accounting for three years, but quit to take care of my parents on Sept. 2001. After I was in a position to work again a year later, I decided to leave accounting, since financial accounting showed no respect for the rules of mathematics, and that bothered my sensibility of the beauty of numbers. I decided to go back to retail, this time in Trader Joe’s, which I knew was a great place to shop for great food, and soon found out that it was a great place to work. I have been with Trader Joe’s for 10 years, and love it.