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How We Learn About Death – Part 2

March 12, 2021 By Dr. Terri Daniel, CT, CCTP

How We Learn About Death – Part Two Excerpted from Embracing Death: A New Look at Grief, Gratitude and God By Terri Daniel   We’ve all heard the cliché, “nobody’s ever come back from death to tell us about it, so there’s no proof that the soul lives on.” But that’s not true. Countless people […]

How We Learn About Death – Part 1

March 11, 2021 By Dr. Terri Daniel, CT, CCTP

How We Learn About Death – Part 1 Excerpted from Embracing Death: A New Look at Grief, Gratitude and God by Terri Daniel   The way we perceive death is a choice. When my 10 year-old son Danny was diagnosed with a degenerative illness that would end his life sometime within the next 10 years, […]

Death Has Many Names

February 23, 2021 By Dr. Terri Daniel, CT, CCTP

This article is from the New York Times, Feb. 14, 2021 By George Yancy Photo Credit…Devin Oktar Yalkin for The New York Times This month’s conversation in our series exploring religion and death is with Jacob Kehinde Olupona, a professor of African religious traditions at Harvard Divinity School. He is the author of “City of […]

Bereavement and the Buddhist Bardo

December 27, 2020 By Dr. Terri Daniel, CT, CCTP

I shared this article by Pema Khandro Rinpoche  in the January 2021 issue of our newsletter, The Afterlife Advocate, and want to also post it here, because it’s one of the best pieces on death and grief that I’ve ever seen: Breaking Open in the Bardo

Death is a Miracle

May 15, 2018 By Dr. Terri Daniel, CT, CCTP

DEATH IS A MIRACLE: A Channeled Message by Rev. Terri Daniel, MA, CT Excerpted from Embracing Death: A New Look at Grief, Gratitude and God Death is a miracle. People often say that birth is a miracle, and certainly it is, because the system through which we come to earth through each other’s bodies is […]

Beyond Near-Death Experience

April 24, 2017 By Dr. Terri Daniel, CT, CCTP

beyond near-death experience

Now That we Know, What Can we Do?  Death awareness is increasingly becoming a trendy topic, and this is great news for those of us who promote conscious dying and life beyond the physical body. Legendary researchers like Dr. Raymond Moody and Dr. Melvin Morse opened that door for us in the 1970s, and contemporary figures […]

It’s a Multi-Cultural Afterlife

December 2, 2016 By Dr. Terri Daniel, CT, CCTP

Photo from South African Tourism Our Images of the Afterlife are Culturally-Subjective   One thing I’ve learned from years of studying comparative religion is that our mystical experiences are influenced by our cultural references. Afterlife experiences and beliefs are vastly different across cultures, and the “new age” theology that many of us embrace has latched […]

Worldwide views on life after death

December 1, 2016 By Dr. Terri Daniel, CT, CCTP

afterlife beliefs around the world

It’s a Multi-Cultural Afterlife     One thing I’ve learned from years of studying comparative religion is that our mystical experiences are influenced by our cultural references. Afterlife experiences and beliefs are vastly different across cultures, and the “new age” theology that many of us embrace has latched on to a particular view of the […]

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