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Dr Edi Bilimoria - Promoted into the Light: The Secret of Death Lies in the Heart of Life
Why are we so afraid of death? Is it just because mainstream science tells us that brain-death equals the extinction of consciousness? Why not instead turn to poetry, literature and music to understand that death is both transition and release from earthly bondage. This talk outlines the esoteric philosophy on the three principal transitional stages involved in the cycle of reincarnation: physical death, post-mortem existence, and rebirth. We illustrate our case by drawing upon great works of Art, primarily the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, the poems of Goethe, and the words and music of Schubert and Beethoven that provide a treasure mine of inspiration and solace on understanding the true place of death during life.
Edi Bilimoria, D.Phil. is an award-winning engineer and consultant to the petrochemical, transportation, and construction industries, but he has also been an ardent student of the Wisdom Tradition and the Arts for more than 50 years, giving courses and lecturing extensively in the UK and abroad.
Edi is also a pianist of concert standard having trained at the Trinity College of Music in London and subsequently with international concert pianists. He has produced a CD of music by Chopin and Liszt, and is also a choral singer, currently with the Godalming Choral Society and previously with the Brighton Festival Chorus, one of the UK’s leading symphony choruses.
Edi’s book The Snake and the Rope was awarded a prize by the Scientific and Medical Network in 2008, and his latest four-volume work, Unfolding Consciousness: Exploring the Living Universe and Intelligent Powers in Nature and Humans contrasts Science with the Perennial Philosophy on Consciousness and Man. In 2023, this work was awarded the SMN’s Grand Prize.
Short Talks
Dr David Furlong – Consciousness and wave/particle duality: Underpinning the phenomenology of transpersonal psychology
One of the challenges of materialism is explaining how phenomenal consciousness emerges from physicality. The theory of panpsychism has been proposed to answer this question by suggesting that consciousness is ubiquitous within the Universe, that the Universe is a mental construct, and that even the atoms and sub-atomic particles manifest a rudimentary form of consciousness or proto-consciousness. If panpsychism or one of its derivatives is true, then evidence of consciousness must exist within simple quantum mechanical atomic structures like the hydrogen atom, which expresses wave/particle duality. Furthermore, it is likely within the wave state that rudimentary consciousness resides. Significantly, if the concept of wave/particle duality is then applied to human consciousness, that our consciousness expresses both a particle state and wave state, then through its ripple effect and quantum entanglement, anomalous psycho-spiritual human experiences that hitherto cannot be explained in terms of physicalism can now be better understood. There is no need for new physics; we only need to reframe what we already know.
Prof Kim Penberthy – After Death Communications: Impact on the Living
Recent global events such as the pandemic, wars, and environmental disasters have led to increased illness and death, resulting in widespread grief. For each death, around nine individuals experience significant loss. Despite ongoing occurrences of death and grief, effective treatments for fear of dying and grief remain limited. This study investigates After Death Communications (ADCs), where mourners report sensing the presence or receiving messages from deceased loved ones. ADCs are common, with 30-34% of the general population experiencing them. A Pew Research Poll (August 2023) in the USA found that 53% of Americans reported an ADC in their lifetime, and 44% in the past year. This paper focuses on ADCs experienced by those who have lost partners or spouses. Data from 70 individuals showed that ADCs significantly aided emotional healing and acceptance of loss, without intensifying grief. The results highlight ADCs’ therapeutic potential and the need for further exploration across cultures for grief therapy implementation.
Dr Deborah Erickson- Telepathic Communication with Dogs and Horses
Dr Mary Neal – How Dying Taught me to Live a Joy-Filled Life
As related in my second book, 7 Lessons from Heaven, the biggest question I could ask myself was: How does knowing heaven is real change our lives on Earth? In this talk I will speak about my otherworld journey that includes encounters with angels, a journey to a “city of light”, and what it was like to meet Jesus face to face. I will also share how I was sent back with the absolute knowledge that the God we hope for – the one who knows us, loves each of us as though we are the only one, and wants us to experience joy in our daily life – is real and present. I will offer practical insights and inspiration for how each of us can experience this God every day and begin living without regret, worry, anxiety, or fear.
Dr. Mary C. Neal is a board-certified orthopaedic spine surgeon who drowned while kayaking on a South American river. She experienced life after death. She went to heaven and back, conversed with Jesus and experienced God’s encompassing love. She was returned to Earth with some specific instructions for work she still needed to do. Her life has been one filled with miracles and intervention of God. Her story gives reason to live by faith and is a story of hope.
Dr. Neal was born and raised in Michigan and graduated from the University of Kentucky before attending the UCLA medical school. She completed her orthopaedic surgery training at the University of Southern California after which she lived in Sweden, Switzerland, and Los Angeles while undergoing 1 1/2 years of specialty training in spinal surgery before becoming the Director of spine surgery at USC. Five years later, she left the University for private practice.
She currently lives and works in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where she and her family enjoy everything the outdoor world offers, especially all forms of skiing, bicycling, boating, and hiking.
Bruce Greyson interviewed by Prof Marjorie Woollacott
Bruce Greyson, M.D., was one of the founding members of the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS), and served for many years on the Board of Directors, as IANDS’ President, Director of Research, and for 27 years, Editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies. Bruce graduated from Cornell University with a major in psychology, received his medical degree from the SUNY Upstate Medical College, and completed his psychiatric residency at the University of Virginia. He practiced and taught psychiatry at the University of Michigan and the University of Connecticut, where he was Clinical Chief of Psychiatry, before returning to the University of Virginia 27 years ago, where he was the Carlson Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Division of Perceptual Studies. Bruce’s near-death research for the past five decades has focused on the aftereffects and implications of the experience, and have resulted in more than 100 presentations to national scientific conferences, more than 200 publications in academic medical and psychological journals, and several research grants and awards. His most recent book, After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and Beyond, is his first trade book bringing his scientific research to a popular audience.
Marjorie Woollacott PhD is an Emeritus Professor of Human Physiology, and member of the Institute of Neuroscience, at the University of Oregon. She was chair of the Human Physiology Department for seven years. In addition to teaching courses on neuroscience and rehabilitation, she taught courses on complementary and alternative medicine and meditation. She is Research Director for the International Association of Near-Death Studies (IANDS) and is President of the Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences (AAPS). She was also a research professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Umeå in Umea, Sweden, and in the National Center for Scientific Research in Marseille, France.
She has published more than 200 scientific articles and written or co-edited eight books. Her award-winning book, Infinite Awareness (2015) describes her research as a neuroscientist along with her self-revelations about the mind’s spiritual power. Between the scientific and spiritual worlds, she breaks open the definition of human consciousness to investigate the existence of a non-physical and infinitely powerful mind. She is Co-Chair of the Galileo Commission, co-editor of Spiritual Awakenings and an Honorary Member of the SMN.
Music by Kristin Hoffman
Kristin Hoffmann is a Juilliard trained singer, conscious musician, and producer. A strong advocate for peace and Earth/Ocean conservation, Kristin opens sonic-emotional heart spaces in which powerful new awareness, connection and healing can flourish. She works regularly with other thought leaders and change-makers to amplify important wisdom for our times through the powerful vehicle of music.
Kristin trained in opera with acclaimed teachers Lorraine Nubar and Zehava Gal and composition with Rob Mathes and Behzad Ranjbaran. After spending multiple years in her early career on major labels, Capitol Records and Interscope Records, Kristin concluded that in order to be in highest alignment with her life’s mission, she would need to think outside of the traditional music industry box and embark on a road less travelled. Fascinated with music’s regenerative and transformational capabilities, she went on to study with French sound healing pioneer, Fabian Maman, and in most recent years with legendary harmonic overtone singer, Timothy Hill (of the Harmonic Choir).
Kristin has performed throughout the world, from environmental concerts to peace symposiums. Her Song for the Ocean was performed at Sydney Opera House by a choir of 800 Australian children. She is currently an active member of The Evolutionary Leaders, and a musical ambassador for the organization UNITY EARTH.
Most recently, Kristin composed and produced the new anthem for The Holomovement, supporting radical collaboration in action, and welcomed a brand-new album into the world entitled, RainShine ~ Sonic Alchemy for Soul Awakening. She hosts an inspirational online event on the 3rd Sunday of each month at 6pm ET called SONIC SOUL FAMILY GATHERINGS, combining live music and deep dialogue around a theme. All are invited to join by becoming a “Core Member” on her website: https://kristinhoffmann.com
Prof Adrian Parker: What we have learned from Telepathic Experiences between Twins
Between 2010 and 2019, Adrian Parker was involved in various projects concerning telepathy and related experiences amongst twins. The inspiration and encouragement for this work derives the writings of the author and psychical researcher Guy Lyon Playfair. Most of the projects were carried out with the access to twins being provided by the Twin Research Unit at St Thomas Hospital London and with the financial support of the BIAL Foundation. Colleagues included Drs Göran Brusewitz, Christian Jensen, David Luke, and Annekatrin Puhle.
Twins are potential sources not only of telepathy but of rich and diverse psychic experiences, so when we examine these in the laboratory and in real life, we can potentially learn much about the true nature of psychic experiences. The results, while confirming that these experiences can be consistently replicated in the laboratory, are not without some reservations and preconditions. Taken as a whole, the evidence from this work gives support for a view of psychic experiences as part of a psychological and physiological connectedness between humans who are closely attached.
Prof. Adrian Parker is a clinical psychologist educated at the Tavistock Clinic and with a medical education from the University of Gothenburg where he is now professor emeritus. While the recipient of the Perrot Warrick Scholarship from Trinity College Cambridge, he became the first at Edinburgh University to gain a doctorate with a thesis on psychic phenomena and altered states of consciousness. This led him to being a co-founder (with Charles Honorton and William Braud) of the now standard laboratory technique for inducing dream-onset states known as the ganzfeld technique.
Having received state funding, he went on to develop the current “state of the art” version of the technique whereby remarkable correspondences between dream imagery and external events are recorded in real time. Adrian has a wide interest in altered states of consciousness, medical psychology and the mind-body relationship. He is author of the book States of Mind and co-author with Annekatrin Puhole of Shakespeare’s Ghost Live. He received in 2014 the Gothenburg Student Award in Pedagogics for teaching open-minded scepticism and in 2019 was an Axel Munthe scholar at San Michele, Capri. Adrian is currently the President of the Society for Psychical Research and is on the faculty of the Scandinavian International University, Örebro, as well as being a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.
Gary Lachman: Consciousness and the Western Esoteric Tradition
Discussions about consciousness usually involve neuroscience, philosophy of mind, quantum physics and perhaps the judicious use of mind-altering substances. But there is another approach that we might call the ‘secret history of consciousness studies.’ This is the forgotten, lost heritage of ‘rejected knowledge’ making up what’s known as the ‘western esoteric tradition’. My talk, based on my book The Secret Teachers of the Western World, will look at some points of contact between contemporary consciousness studies and some of the insights of our often dismissed but nevertheless central body of ‘inner knowledge.’
Gary Lachman is the author of several books about consciousness, culture, and the Western esoteric tradition, including Dreaming Ahead of Time, The Return of Holy Russia, Dark Star Rising: Magick and Power in the Age of Trump, Lost Knowledge of the Imagination, Beyond the Robot: The Life and Work of Colin Wilson, and, most recently, Maurice Nicoll: Forgotten Teacher of the Fourth Way. He has written biographies of C G Jung, Madame Blavatsky, Rudolf Steiner, Emanuel Swedenborg, P D Ouspensky, and Aleister Crowley. He writes for several journals in the US, UK, and Europe, lectures around the world and his work has been translated into more than a dozen languages. In a former life he was a founding member of the pop group Blondie and in 2006 was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Before moving to London in 1996 and becoming a full-time writer, Lachman studied philosophy, managed a metaphysical book shop, taught English literature, and was Science Writer for UCLA. He is an adjunct professor of Transformative Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He can be reached at https://www.gary-lachman.com/, www.facebook.com/GVLachman/ and twitter.com/GaryLachman
Dr Marina Weiler - What do Out-of-body Experiences Tell us about the Mind beyond the Brain?
Out-of-body experiences, or OBEs, are an intriguing phenomenon where individuals feel as though they are detached from their physical bodies. These experiences can have profound effects on a person’s beliefs and attitudes, ranging from a newfound belief in the separation of the mind from the brain to a heightened belief in life after death. Marina Weiler will be delivering a lecture discussing the various ways in which OBEs can be explored concerning the mind and brain connection. This lecture promises to shed light on the complexities of these experiences and their potential impact on our understanding of consciousness.
Marina Weiler is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS), University of Virginia. She’s a trained neuroscientist with a background in neuroimaging, brain stimulation, and basic neuroscience. Marina’s contributions to the field have earned her prestigious awards from institutions such as Fundação Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES, Brazil), the Brazilian Academy of Neurology, the National Institutes of Health (NIH, U.S.), the Templeton World Charity Foundation, and the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Research.
Dr Marieta Pehlivanova – Children’s Memories of Past Lives: impact in adulthood
The phenomenon of young children recounting memories of apparent past lives has fascinated researchers and the general public alike for decades. Some of these accounts raise the possibility that consciousness may persist beyond physical death. Formal investigations into these cases began at the University of Virginia (UVA) in the 1960s and continue to this day, with a special focus on American children. Although children typically stop talking about the past life around school age, these memories can have a profound effect on their psyche and behaviour while active in childhood. However, we know less about the long-term impact of childhood past-life memories on individuals’ lives. This short talk will outline some findings from the first follow-up study of American adults who were interviewed as children by UVA researchers regarding these memories.
Marieta Pehlivanova, PhD is a Research Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences within the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Marieta earned her PhD in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Statistics from American University. Her research primarily focuses on near-death experiences and children who report past-life memories. She is interested in various aspects of these experiences, including factors contributing to their occurrence, their effects on individuals, cross-cultural comparisons, and the development of support resources for those who undergo such experiences within healthcare settings.
Dialogue between Federico Faggin and Prof Stuart Kauffman moderated by Dr Vasileios Basios
Federico Faggin is an Italian-American physicist, engineer, inventor and entrepreneur. He is best known for designing the first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004. His company Cygnet Technologies, Inc. introduced a pioneering personal communication product for voice, data, and electronic mail in 1984. His companies also developed artificial neural network chips to perform pattern recognition, and advanced image sensors and digital cameras for mobile devices. Federico Faggin has received many prizes and awards, including the Marconi Prize and the 2009 National Medal of Technology and Innovation, from President Barack Obama. He is currently president of Federico and Elvia Faggin Foundation, dedicated to the science of consciousness. He is an Honorary Member of the Scientific and Medical Network. His autobiography Silicon was published in 2021 and his latest book Irreducible in 2024.
Prof Stuart Kauffman MD, PhD, FRSC (Canada) is an American theoretical biologist and complex systems researcher who studies the origin of life on Earth. Kauffman graduated from Dartmouth in 1960, was awarded the BA (Hons) by Oxford University (where he was a Marshall Scholar) in 1963, and completed a medical degree (MD) at the University of California, San Francisco in 1968. After completing his residency in Emergency Medicine, he moved into developmental genetics of the fruit fly, genetic regulatory networks, and origin of life, holding appointments first at the University of Chicago 1969-1973, National Cancer Institute 1973-1975, then at the University of Pennsylvania from 1975 to 1995, where he served as Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics. Kauffman held a MacArthur Fellowship, 1987–1992. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He also holds an Honorary Degree in Science from the University of Louvain; and was awarded a Gold Medal of the Accademia Lincea in Rome.
Recently, Kauffman and Andrea Roli have published “The World is Not a Theorem”, in Entropy (2021), and “A Third Transition in Science?”, J. Roy. Soc. Interface 4/14/2023, maintaining that the evolving biosphere is a propagating construction, not an entailed deduction, and that no mathematics based on set theory can be used to deduce the diachronic emergence of adaptations in evolution. The implication is that there can be no Final Theory that entails the becoming of the universe. Dr. Kauffman has published over 400 articles and 6 books: The Origins of Order (1993), At Home in the Universe (1995), Investigations (2000), Reinventing the Sacred (2008), Humanity in a Creative Universe (2016) and A World Beyond Physics (2019). He is an Honorary Member of the Scientific and Medical Network.
Alef Trust and Students Short Talks
This session features presentations on research and scholarship by members of the Alef Trust’s faculty. It weaves a tapestry of themes, exploring contemporary expressions of spiritual path-finding, lucid dreaming, and esoteric science. Collectively we will consider the meaning and role of spiritual practice and esoteric wisdom in our world today.
This session is curated by the Alef Trust, a global leader in transformative education in the areas of consciousness, transpersonal, integral, and spiritual psychology. We provide university-accredited Masters and PhD Programmes, as well as Professional Certifications, and Open Learning Courses, all of which promote holistic psychological frameworks and perspectives, nurturing the development of human consciousness and culture. The Alef Trust is a non-profit social enterprise and at the heart of our work is a commitment to building transformative learning communities, supporting people to grow as change makers in their lives and their work. We recognise that these unprecedented times call for a deeper presence, uniting spiritual practice, academic learning and multi-disciplinary research with a profound sense of service in the world. We believe that we need to re-envision our ways of being, so that humanity may find greater peace and may thrive in harmony with Earth and her diverse ecosystems.
- Les Lancaster: “As above, so below”: So, what’s “above” the brain?
Correspondence across different realms of being— “as above, so below”—is a fundamental principle of esoteric ‘science’. The question I address concerns the extent to which ‘modern science’ may be supportive of this principle. In structural terms, correspondence across the scale of things is evident, with the human brain effectively a microcosm of the universe as a whole. And, in terms of process, a principle of reflexivity appears to operate in both individual human brains and in the cosmos at large. Are these lines of evidence sufficient for us to substantiate the core esoteric principle in scientific as well as more mystical terms? And, if the answer to this question were affirmative, then how might we begin to think of the “archetypal” brain of which the microcosmic human brain is reflective?
- Tadas Stumbrys: Dreaming within or beyond the brain?
Dreams have fascinated humanity since the earliest times. By falling asleep and disengaging from the outer physical world, we embark on nightly adventures within inner non-physical worlds. While our dominant Western culture seems to disregard dreams simply as illusory experiences, modern dream research – the science of oneirology – shows that our dream experiences are processed by our brain and the sleeping body just alike our waking experiences, giving credence to the more ancient view that acknowledges dreams as ontologically real experiences and a valid source of epistemology about the nature of reality. In lucid dreams the dreamers – oneironauts – gain the ability to consciously explore the dream space from within, enquiring into the nature of dream reality and the deeper potentials that lie beyond the ordinary dream experience, with some embracing this inquiry as a spiritual path. What can we learn from oneirology and oneironautics – is dreaming happening within or beyond the brain?
- Ellis Linders: Spiritual Pathfinding: The meaning and navigation of Self-agency in contemporary spirituality.
This presentation explores self-directed spirituality in secularised culture and asks what spiritual self-agency means and how it manifests in today’s world. Contemporary spiritual seekers are characterized by choosing pathways not bound by traditional conventions, teachings, and practices. They typically take a hybrid approach drawing on multiple perspectives, and combine psychological inquiry alongside spiritual practices. Their choices are largely determined through personal resonance and intuitive ‘inner’ guidance. This subjective focus provides opportunities but also brings complexities around ethics, discernment, and self-responsibility. The stereotype is that this is an ‘easier’ option which requires neither rigour nor accountability. More recent research into the subjective experience of the Spiritual but not Religious (SBNR), alongside psychological profiling suggests otherwise. The inquiry draws on the perspectives of those with long-term engagement in self-led spirituality, where a transpersonal understanding of the human psyche provides the key to a deeper understanding of what motivates the contemporary spiritual pathfinder.
Dr Marc Wittman - Altered States of Consciousness: Experiences out of Time and Self
First, I present a conceptual framework suggesting that body feelings underlie our sense of time. This is the long-sought solution to the mystery of subjective time: the sense of the bodily self is the functional anchor of conscious self-awareness – and of subjective time. Second, the entanglement of self-reflective consciousness and emotions with the experience of time is prominently disclosed in altered states of consciousness such as in experiences of flow, in meditative states, when relaxing in a floatation tank, under the influence of psychedelics, or in near-death experiences. In peak experiences of such states, people report the feeling of ‘selflessness’ and ‘timelessness’. At the extreme end of temporal phenomena, the usual concepts of time do not seem to play a role, such as in precognition or remote viewing, when individuals seem to sense the future. I will present a series of my experimental and brain studies (fMRI, EEG) ranging from ordinary to altered states of consciousness and anomalous phenomena.
Marc Wittmann, Ph.D., studied Psychology and Philosophy at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) Munich, Germany. He received his Ph.D. (1997) and his Habilitation (2007) at the Institute of Medical Psychology, Medical School, University of Munich. Between 2004 and 2009 he was Research Fellow at the Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego. Since 2009 he has been employed at the Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health, Freiburg, Germany. His research in the field of Cognitive Neuroscience is focused on the perception of time in ordinary states of consciousness, such as related to cognition, emotion and bodily feelings, as well as in altered states of consciousness such as induced through meditation, Floatation-REST, and psychedelics. He is author of the books Felt Time (2016) and Altered States of Consciousness (2018), both published by MIT Press.
Shulamit Elson - MediSounds~ Beyond Words
Shulamit Elson is a profoundly gifted healer, mentor and spiritual teacher. She guides individuals in the use of the vibration of their own voices to a deepening self-awareness and an expanded consciousness using MediSounds®, a powerful meditative practice based on an ancient system described in 13th century literature.
She offers a revelatory connection to other worlds, and enables an insight into the interconnection of all things, bringing the peerless gift of joyous living.
Shulamit works with private clients throughout North America, Europe, Asia and the Holy Land, and she has taught at seminars and workshops in venues as diverse as Esalen and Omega Institutes, as well as Tibet House, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and the Ronald McDonald House in New York City.
She is the author of the highly acclaimed book Kabbalah of Prayer~Sacred Sounds and the Soul’s Journey, published by Anthroposophic Press, and is the creator of several apps to encourages sleep, as well the audio CD Vibration ~ Shulamit & the Drepung Gomang Monks. She holds an MA and a BA from New York University.
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Dr Joan Borysenko interview with Marjorie Woollacott – My Scientific and Spiritual Path
Joan Borysenko, Ph.D. has been described – by Dean Ornish MD – as “a rare jewel: respected scientist, gifted therapist and unabashed mystic.”* Her vision for the past 50 years is bringing together science, psychology and spirituality in the service of healing and peace. Joan completed both doctoral and post-doctoral studies at the Harvard Medical School in cancer cell biology and behavioural medicine, returning later in her career as an Instructor in Medicine. After defecting from academic medicine in 1988, she founded Mind-Body Health Sciences, LLC. A licensed psychologist and spiritual mentor, Joan is the author or co-author of seventeen books on integrative medicine, psychology, spirituality and women’s studies. She lives in the sacred mountains of New Mexico with her husband Gordon Dveirin and their two standard poodles, Mitzi and Lola. You can find out more about her work at www.joanborysenko.com.
Gregory Shushan: Culture, Religion, and Near-Death Experience: A Historical Perspective
In this talk, award-winning author Gregory Shushan, PhD, will review his decades-long research into the historical, cultural, and religious dimensions of near-death experiences. Shushan reveals the symbiotic relationship between such experiences and beliefs about an afterlife, exploring and explaining both differences and similarities across cultures. In addition to being a neglected area in the history of religions, Shushan’s findings have profound implications for the possibility of an actual afterlife and what it could be like, and also present challenges to both materialist and metaphysical paradigms.
Gregory Shushan, PhD, is the author of Near-Death Experiences in Indigenous Religions (winner of the Parapsychological Association Book Award), The Next World: Extraordinary Experiences of the Afterlife, and Near-Death Experience in Ancient Civilizations (forthcoming from Inner Traditions), and editor of Mind Dust and White Crows: The Psychical Research of William James. Dr Shushan is Visiting Research Fellow at University of Winchester’s Centre for Death, Religion and Culture, Adjunct Professor in Thanatology at Marian University, Research Fellow of the Parapsychology Foundation, and candidate for a second PhD at Newman University, Birmingham, with a project on near-death experience in Classical antiquity. He is also the founder and commissioning editor of Afterworlds Press, an imprint of White Crow Books.
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