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Concepts of Afterlife, Death and Near-Death Experiences across religions and cultures.

SPEAKERS

Chris Deacy, Head of Religious Studies at the University of Kent. Currently leading a module/course focused on Death, Afterlife and Near-Death Experiences.

David Wilson, Religious Studies PhD at the University of Edinburgh and author of the book ‘Redefining Shamanisms’. David specialises in Spiritualism & Western mediumship as forms of shamanism.

Giorgio Scalici, Post-doctoral Researcher at Nova universidade de Lisboa. He specialises in Death rituals in Indonesian shamanistic traditions.

email: scalicigiorgio@gmail.com and website www.giorgioscalici.eu

Jeffrey Albaugh, program manager for the Conference on Current Pagan Studies and the co-chair for the Pagan Studies Unit of the American Academy of Religion, Western Regional.

Jennifer Uzzell, Doctoral Researcher at Durham University. She specialises in death rites in Druidry and owns a Progressive Funeral home!

email: j.s.uzzell@durham.ac.uk

Shanell Papp, Canadian video and textile artist. Her research and art are focused around death images, the grotesque and labour.

https://shanellpapp.com/art/textiles/

Veenat Arora, Lecturer at Chandigarh College, India. She is a Sociologist of religion, specialised in Death philosophy within Indian traditions.

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00:00:00 Introduction: 10 000 subscribers celebration

00:01:44 Panel members from academia

00:04:02 Inner Symposium (Patreon) members

00:06:09 Afterlife beliefs in Pagans

00:13:26 Reincarnation

00:20:48 The possible influence of Christianity on afterlife beliefs

00:23:09 Afterlife beliefs in an indigenous culture in Indonesia

00:27:50 The idea of linear vs circular time in concepts of eternity

00:30:16 Marriage in the afterlife

00:42:23 Relationships between the living and the dead

00:44:59 Art’s role in dealing with death

00:48:38 Methods of body disposal

00:51:54 Spiritism

00:53:46 Manipulating death with pacts and ritual

01:11:16 The Hero’s Journey

01:17:04 Hauntings

01:20:27 Obligations of the living toward the dead

01:25:54 The prevalence of negative NDEs

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DEATH & AFTERLIFE ROUNDTABLE - Academics + Patrons

ANGELA'S SYMPOSIUM 📖 Academic Study on Witchcraft, Paganism, esotericism, magick and the Occult