Here you will find past issues of our monthly newsletter
dating back to November 2014.
The newsletter was originally called The Afterlife Advocate,
but when we changed our focus in July 2021 and became
The Conference on Death, Grief and Belief,
we stopped using that title, and are now simply
The Death, Grief and Belief Newsletter.
Our newsletter continues to serve as a one-stop source
for up-to-date news, articles and research on the spiritual quest
from the perspective of death, grief and beyond.
October 2021- Spiritual But Not Religious | What the Bible Says About Abortion
September 2021 - Can Religion Give you PTSD? / Spiritual Bypassing
August 2021 - The Biology of Grief / Research on Religious Beliefs/ Varieties of NDEs
July 2021 - Mediums and Seers in Victorian Times/Dreams and Visions of the Dying
June 2021 - Our Last Afterlife Conference
May 2021 - Great Sources for Afterlife Research/An Interfaith Approach to The National Day of Prayer
April 2021 - Children's past lives/ Recovering From Religion
March 2021 - Deep dive into NDEs/Comparative Religion
February 2021 - 11th Annual Afterlife Conference announced/Dissolving the Dead
January 2021 - The Nature of Death/Conspirituality/Bereavement and the Buddhist Afterlife
December 2020 - Grief in the Holiday Season/ The Work of a Shaman
November 2020 - Religious Trauma Syndrome/Mormon Afterlife
October 2020 - The Ego's Desire for Deathlessness / Update on the 2021 Afterlife Conference
September 2020 - Survey on Consciousness After Death/ Ancestral Medicine
August 2020 - Near Death Experiences are Culturally Subjective / Facing Death as a Young Adult
July 2020 - Why Did You Bring Me Back? / What Flowers Teach Us About Death
June 2020 - How dogs help with grief/How Consciousness leaves the body
May 2020 - Shamans in the ICU/ NDEs and Suicide
April 2020 - Grief During the Corona Virus Pandemic
March 2020 - Introducing the Podcast Parlor/Celebrity Deaths
February 2020 - Teaching Doctors to Talk About Death/Advantages of After-Death Communication
January 2020 - Scientific and Spiritual Implications of Psychic Abilities/Resuscitation Medicine
December 2019 - What People See and Say When They're Dying
November 2019 - If it's Not Evidential, it's not Mediumship/Meet John Pavlovitz
October 2019 - Short videos about dying/Should Catholics talk to the dead?
September 2019 - About Religion/Death Education in Schools
August 2019 - Dreams and visions of the dying/Terri Daniel's new book
July 2019 - Conference wrap-up/Why all NDEs are different/How I Want to be Dead
June 2019 - Toxic Theology and Complicated Grief/Shared-Death Experience
May 2019- Scientific testing of mediumship/NPR explores the afterlife
April 2019 - Our four-legged soulmates/Dr. Daniel/Near-Death experiences across cultures
March 2019 - Talking to ancestors while dying/Birth, death and the journey of the soul
February 2019 - NDEs in mainstream media/Psychedelic therapy
January 2019 - Community Grief/Can animals see spirits? /Euthanizing our pets
December 2018 - Metaphysical movies/My first deaths/2018 conference wrap-up
November 2018 - Grieving for pets/Hearing voices
October 2018 - Celtic grief rituals/Grief in indigenous cultures
September 2018 - Mediumship and Bereavement/ Life & Death on the Roulette Wheel
August 2018 - Spirituality and Bereavement class/couples at end-of-life
July 2018 - Another side of suicide/Toxic theology
June 2018 - Reincarnation in the Bible/Death as a Miracle/Seatbelt Psychic
May 2018 - Complicated Grief/Cremation vs. Burial/Talking to Children About Death
April 2018 - Fowler's Stages of Faith/Revising Your Death Plan/A Year of Reading Dangerously
March 2018 - Mushroom death suit/New Age v. Christian beliefs/Become an Afterlife Ambassador
February 2018 - Ian Stevenson/Why some people don't die peacefully/Bereaved is not your identity
January 2018 - DNRs/NDE research/2018 conference announced
December 2017 - Grief and the holidays, grief and mass shootings
November 2017 - Messages from the Divine/Banned TED talks
October 2017 - Dr. Sam Parnia/No Hard Feelings
September 2017 - Assisted death in Canada/NDE research study/Psylocybin as a healing tool
August 2017 - Confessions of a funeral director/Hospice care for pets/Study on transcendent experience
July 2017 - Conference wrap-up/Being present at your own wake/Greatest mediumship story ever told
June 2017 -I know you love me, now let me die/Is mediumship real?
May 2017 - Now that we know, what can we do? | Five tips for quality at end-of-life
April 2017 -Creative Cremation/A Dying Woman's View of Physician-Assisted Death/Extremis
March 2017 - Phone calls to Heaven, Suicide, The Pitfalls of Prolonging Death
February 2017 - The Broken Heart Syndrome, Spiritual Perspectives Survey
January 2017 - Spiritual But Not Religious, Is Mediumship Real?
December 2016 - Music at the bedside, Multi-Cultural Afterlife, Morse & Moody movie
November 2016 - Is Death the New Sex? Spong article on hell, Chris Kerr documentary
October 2016 - David Kessler tribute, Stafford Betty on religion & afterlife/Maire's Journey/Ram Dass lecture
September 2016 - Steven Hawking/hospice myths/Colorado right-to-die legislation
August 2016 Forgiveness at end of life/beautiful short films about death
July 2016 Terrorism is not a religious act/Ram Dass letter to grieving parents/Therapy dogs
June 2016 - Conference wrap-up/ Mysticism and Religion/ The Truth About NDEs
April 2016 - How to Define Death/ Grief in the Body/ A Nurse's Point of View
Mar. 2016 - Origins of Easter Traditions/ Dreams of the Dying/ Being Mortal
Feb. 2016 - Interview with Dr. Sam Parnia/History of Valentine's Day
Jan. 2016 - Helping a Grieving Friend/ End-of-Life Telesummit
Dec. 2015 - Winter Solstice History/ Grief and Resilience During the Holidays/ Out-of-Body Experience
Nov. 2015 - Maire's Journey/ Why Study Death/Buster the Dog
Oct. 2015 - Autumn Equinox History/ Tell me Something New/ Near-Death Experience on FOX news
Sept. 2015 - The Final Words Project/ NDEs: Mystical Experience or Psychotic Episode?
August 2015 - The Terrible Texts of the Bible/ Loss, Trauma and the Expansion of Consciousness
June 2015 - Grief and Mediumship/Animals in the Afterlife/Grief as a Mystical Journey
April 2015 - Easter and Passover Scholarship/Inducted After-Death Communication
March 2015 - Spring Equinox Rituals/Shamanic Work in the Afterlife/The Power of Prayer
February 2015 - What is Romance/Many Mansions/The Power of Love
January 2015 - Out-of-Body Journeying/Movies for Starting and End-of-Life Conversation
December 2014 - What is real mediumship/A Shaman's View of Life Beyond the Body
November 2014 - Aya Despacho; a Prayer Package for the Dead/The Collective Inheritance of Grief