The Atlantic

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When a routine echocardiogram revealed a large mass next to my heart, the radiologist thought it might be a hiatal hernia—a portion of my stomach poking up through my diaphragm to press against the sac containing my heart. “Chug this can of Diet Dr.

Chat It's Fate

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Popular Netflix thriller Behind Her Eyes got everybody talking when it premiered in February, thanks to its creepy supernatural plot about a single mum who begins an affair with her boss and gets drawn into a strange world of lucid dreaming and out-o

Fortean Times

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A History of the Afterlife Bart D Ehrman Oneworld 2020 Hb, 352pp, £20, ISBN 9781786077202 Many Christians believe that their doctrines sprang fully-formed from the Jewish origins of Christianity. But if this were so, many beliefs would be very differ

Fast Company

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“Are you okay?” That’s the first question that managers at Qualtrics, a leading experience management company, asked employees when lockdowns began in the spring of 2020. It’s a question that came naturally to a company devoted to fostering cultures

Fortean Times

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“Life after death will hardly be worth calling life if it remains merely static. That is one reason why nobody believes any more in the playing of harps.” So writes our chosen author, the late Paul Beard – reminding one of the excellent Rabbi Isodore

PEARL

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According to man's spiritual state in the Gross Material World as well as in the Ethereal World, the spiritual man, the real ‘ego’, must either move upwards or remain chained to the World of Matter. The serious longing for Truth and Light will, by

People

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Growing up in a family of conservative evangelical Christians in Tomball, Texas, Julie Rodgers heard constant talk about life after death. One possible future home was heaven. “If I had been pleasing to God,” Rodgers, now 35, remembers her mother tel

The Atlantic

45 min read

Grief, conspiracy theories, and one family’s search for meaning in the two decades since 9/11

Woman's Weekly

3 min read

Q My dog got into a fight with another dog, and its owner intervened and got bitten. Both dogs were on long leads, which I can see was a mistake. The other owner is asking me to have my dog put down. I honestly can’t see why I need to. She’s threaten

Mysterious Ways

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Psychiatrist Bruce Greyson has interviewed more than 1,000 people who say they died and left their bodies, and then were given a glimpse of what awaits us in the hereafter. But it was an encounter not long after he began his psychiatric residency tha

Mysterious Ways

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William Peters has dedicated his life to the study of end-of-life phenomena. He holds master’s degrees in education and counseling psychology, and is the founder of the Shared Crossing Project, an organization that educates people about mystical happ

Viz Magazine

1 min read

Have you thought about how your loved ones will cope after your death? Of course you have. But have you thought about how YOU will cope after you die? Afterlife Assurance is the UK’s biggest post-death insurer, with thousands of satisfied customers i

Scootering

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Scooterists are complex characters. The owner of Ghost Hunter, Martin Reeves, is no exception. “So many things have happened in my life that I can’t believe in anything other than an afterlife,” he explained. To understand Ghost Hunter it’s necessary

The Big Issue

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If you don’t know where to start, map out your skills and experience. Even if you’ve come from a completely different background, you will still have gained relevant abilities. Start with a blank sheet of paper and write down as many skills or passio

PC Gamer

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World of Warcraft is more than just an institution – after over one and a half decades of enduring popularity, it’s practically PC gaming bedrock at this point. Which makes it all the more amazing that it’s still finding ways to break new ground. In

American Survival Guide

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Reality is based completely on personal experience. Our bodies are just imperfect tools used to analyze the world around us. What I see as “blue” might appear as “purple” to others. Because of this, it’s challenging to completely and identically comp

Tennis Magazine

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IT’S always interesting seeing someone make the transition from player to coach. Your mindset as a player doesn’t necessarily translate to the next stage, and everyone you coach is different in the way they handle instruction. I have some first-hand

The Art of Healing

2 min read

Even if it’s hiding amid a pile of pain, we can always find something that will shift us into a positive state of mind. There is always a reason to smile. I know it may seem like the world is falling apart, but you can also look at it from the persp

TIME

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GEORGE SAUNDERS, THE COMIC empath, introduces President Abraham Lincoln as he unwittingly enters a bardo—a Buddhist limbo, here populated by ghosts he cannot sense. These specters travel around the cemetery where Lincoln’s son Willie has been interre

TREAD

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As I fly home from an exciting weekend out in Uwharrie, North Carolina, I can’t help but reflect on all that happened over the eventful weekend. While there, we attended Overland Challenge and also spent time with Overland Experts (OEX). We grabbed s

The Millions

17 min read

Heaven and Hell have always been located in the human mind, along with God and the Devil, but the mind is a vast country, full of strange dreams and unaccounted things. The post Conquering Hell appeared first on The Millions.

Post South Africa

4 min read

THAT the world, as we know it, fundamentally changed with Covid, is not seriously debatable. It was often said in jest between relatives and friends, that they found time to see one another only at weddings and funerals. Now, with grandiose weddings

Planet Mindful

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Tell us about the experiences that have shaped you… My life was difficult from the get-go. My dad died six months after I was born, leaving my mother with me and my two sisters. We moved around a lot, living in hotels, housing shelters and with famil

New Philosopher

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Earlier this year an older friend, a philosopher, call him M, decided to end his life. He had been very ill for many months, and the prognosis was bad – only further decline and then death. Worse perhaps, he had become depressed, could no longer conc

WellBeing

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My sister and I have always had our tattoos done together. It’s a ritual of sorts. But a few months ago, my beloved big sis decided to throw a curveball and travelled down the ink path solo. I was initially very confused by the fact she wanted to sha

WHO

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A ghost story with a twist, Hungry Ghosts follows four families that find themselves haunted by souls from the past. The four-part drama series starts when a tomb in Vietnam is accidentally opened on the eve of the Hungry Ghost Festival – a tradition

Chat It's Fate

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The seahorse is a deeply symbolic creature – one of the only species where the male is the one to give birth! The Ancient Greeks thought the seahorse guided the souls of drowned sailors to the afterlife, and it’s widely considered lucky. Call on the

Literary Hub

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My soul mates Have yet to be conceived Underneath the mating Of surrogate spirits  vacating bodies By the minute Directed To live by, but I Want to live By the future Ordure I want to eat it     I want to feed it A pool-like visage On the crumpling h

PEARL

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We are born, we live for a time, then we die. We can plan our lives in accordance with this self-evident truth, or we can suppress any thought of it and live our lives as if death did not exist. By so doing, however, we are just deluding ourselves be

How It Works

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Stone Age people may have deliberately ventured into oxygen-depleted caves to paint while having out-of-body experiences. In the 19th century, researchers discovered a series of decorated caves that date back between 14,000 and 40,000 years to the Up