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on issues related to death, grief and belief.
Current Issues from The Conference on Death, Grief and Belief
September 2023 - Exploiting vs. Helping the Bereaved | The Failures of Modern Medicine
August 2023 - Spiritual Bypassing | Bart Ehrman | Invisible Women in Israel
July 2023 - Physician Attitudes Toward Hospice | Disability and Bad Theology
June 2023 - The Pitfalls of Prayer | Laughing About Loss
May 2023 - Brain Damage and Religious Fundamentalism | What We Get Wrong About Death
April 2023 - Fearless grief | Children's Grief
March 2023 - Think You're Certified? Think Again!
February 2023 - Pet care at end-of-life | Dying in America | Bart Ehrman
January 2023 - The Problem with Death Doula Training | Psychedelic Chaplaincy
December 2022 - Cultural Appropriation | No Stages of Grief | America's Religious Landscape
November 2022 - Dia de los Muetros | Pondering the Death Penalty
October 2022 - Psychedelics and Near-Death Experiences
September 2022 - Misinformation About Physician-Assisted Death | Spiritual People as Activists
August 2022 - Conference highlights | Thanatology education | God ignores violence
July 2022 - Psychedelic death | Childhood religious trauma | Secular ritals
June 2022 - How doctors die | Yoga Barbie | Memorial tatoos
May 2022 - NDEs are not hallucinations | Grief camps | Power vs. Empowerment
April 2022 - Separating myth from meaning | Psilocybin | Easter origins
March 2022 - Shared-Death Experiences | How Religion Imprints Us
February 2022 - Survival of Consciousness After Death | Spiritual But Not Religious
January 2022 - Why Americans Are Uncomfortable With Atheism/Grief After Divorce
December 2021 - A More Conscious Christmas | Santa Claus vs. God Almighty
November 2021 - Terrible Texts of the Bible | Covid and Spirituality | Deathbed Visions
October 2021- Spiritual But Not Religious | What the Bible Says About Abortion
September 2021 - Spiritual bypassing | Can religion give you PTSD?
August 2021 - Varieties of Near-Death Experiences | The Problem with Research on Religion
July 2021 - Mediums and Seers in Victorian Times | Dreams and Visions of the Dying
Archives From The Afterlife Conference
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