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 […]
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How We Learn About Death – Part 1
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 […]