DEATH & AFTERLIFE ROUNDTABLE - Academics + Patrons

#death #afterlife #occult 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: [email protected] 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: [email protected] 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. FOLLOW ME: Facebook (Angela's Symposium), Instagram (angela_symposium), Twitter (@angelapuca11). 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 01:27:24 Support Angela’s Symposium Music by Erose MusicBand. Check them out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUFHEVe92vY