Death is not the End – Online Launch

TAKING ON THE LAST TABOO

‘Death is not the end but a new beginning,’ insists a new group bridging science and spirituality

The subject of death and dying has, for a long time, been avoided as a topic for general discussion. Today, however, as awareness of the continuity of consciousness after death is increasing, there is scope for a wider sharing of information and experience.

A major new international initiative aims to deal a fatal blow to the lingering taboo topic of death – and counteract what is many people’s greatest fear.

The newly-formed Death is not the End group believes that prevailing morbid notions of death as oblivion and annihilation need to be urgently re-evaluated. We aim to change attitudes by de-mystifying death and redefining it not as an end but the beginning of a new journey and adventure.

The website – https://deathisnotend.com/ – explores both scientific and spiritual aspects of death, drawing on both contemporary studies and ancient traditions.

We look in detail at near-death experiences, after-death communications, shared death experiences, terminal lucidity, mediumship and survival, and reincarnation and karma.

On the website, you can find expert briefings on all these topics as well as links to key resources.

We hope that this initiative will stimulate wider discussion and debate on a subject many wish to avoid.

We warmly invite you to register below for this free online event, either attending on the day or watching the recording, which we will post on the website.

David Lorimer and Felicity Warner will introduce the project, and there will be short presentations on the six highlighted areas, followed by Q & A.

• Evelyn Elsaesser on After-Death Communications
• William Peters on shared death experiences
• Jan Holden on NDEs
• Chris Roe on Mediumship and Survival
• Marjorie Woollacott on Terminal Lucidity
• Tim Wyatt on Karma and Reincarnation

you will receive a zoom link in your inbox once you register

Evelyn Elsaesser is an independent researcher and author in the field of death-related experiences, notably after-death communications and near-death experiences. She is a team member of the research project “Investigation of the Phenomenology and Impact of Spontaneous After-Death Communications (ADCs)”, as well as a founding and current member of the Board of Swiss IANDS (International Association for Near-Death Studies). Her latest book Spontaneous Contacts with the Deceased – A large-scale international survey reveals the circumstances, lived experience and beneficial impact of After-Death Communications (ADCs) (2023) has been awarded a 2023 Scientific and Medical Network Book Prize.

William Peters, M.A., M.Ed., is the founder of the Shared Crossing Project and director of its Research Initiative (SCRI). He presents on extraordinary end-of-life experiences (shared crossings) and the benefits of conscious dying. William teaches methods designed to enable shared crossings for the dying and those who attend to them. He is a psychotherapist at the Family Therapy Institute in Santa Barbara. His two near-death experiences and various shared death experiences (SDEs) inform his work. William is the author of At Heaven’s Door: What Shared Journeys to the Afterlife Teach about Dying Well and Living Better (2022), the first research based general public book on the SDE.

After earning her Doctor of Education degree in Counselor Education in 1988, Dr. Janice Miner Holden served 31 years on the University of North Texas (UNT) Counseling Program faculty—12 of those years as chair of the Department of Counseling & Higher Education. In 2019 she retired as professor emerita. Dr. Holden’s primary research focus has been near-death experiences, after-death communication, and other transpersonal experiences—those that transcend the usual personal limits of space, time, and identity. In this research area she has over 50 refereed journal publications and over 100 national and international presentations. She served as lead editor of the 2009 Handbook of Near-Death Experiences: Thirty Years of Investigation, and she co-edited the Association for Spiritual, Ethical, and Religious Values in Counseling’s (ASERVIC’s) 2017 Connecting Soul, Spirit, Mind, and Body: A Collection of Spiritual and Religious Perspectives and Practices in Counseling.

Chris A. Roe, Ph.D., holds a Chair in Psychology at the University of Northampton, UK. He is the International Affiliate for England of the Parapsychology Foundation and is a Vice-President of the Society for Psychical Research. His research interests are around the phenomenology of paranormal experience, particularly as it affects wellbeing, as well as experimental approaches to test claims for extrasensory perception and psychokinesis, particularly where they involve psychological factors. Recent research has been concerned with the relationship between altered states of consciousness and psychic experience, and phenomena associated with survival of bodily death, including near-death experiences, terminal lucidity episodes, after-death communications, and mediumship.

Marjorie Woollacott, PhD, is an Emeritus Professor of Human Physiology, and member of the Institute of Neuroscience, at the University of Oregon. 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 has published more than 200 scientific articles and written or co-edited eight books. Her latest book, Infinite Awareness (2015) (winner of eight awards) her research as a neuroscientist 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.

Tim Wyatt is a journalist, writer, broadcaster, musician and actor with more than four decades’ experience in all sections of the media. A keen esotericist, he has been researching the Ageless Wisdom since the 1960s. He is a regular lecturer at TS lodges throughout England and also runs the School of Applied Wisdom at Leeds Lodge. He is co-founder of the esoteric publishing house Nosegay Books. A current member of the National Council, he is a former member of the National Executive and company secretary of Tekels Park. He is a former BBC, ITV and Sky reporter and an award-winning documentary film maker. He currently is a freelance writer and founder of the new music production company and label Hummadruz Records.

Felicity Warner, founder of the global Soul Midwives Movement, lectures both nationally and internationally and runs The Soul Midwives’ School, based in Dorset. Its unique training programme teaches holistic and spiritual care for the end of life. She has won many awards for her work with the dying and created the idea of soul midwifery after sitting with many hundreds of people at the end of life. Her pioneering work has brought a new dimension to holistic and spiritual palliative care, both in the UK and abroad (there are now soul midwives working in the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa). She was named “End of Life Care champion” by the National Council for Palliative Care and also in “End of Life Doula”in 2017 as well as being of the year and was named an Inspirational Woman of the Year by the Daily Mail. She is author of four acclaimed books – Gentle Dying and A Safe Journey Home, The Soul Midwives’ Handbook and Sacred Oils- 20 Precious Oils to heal Spirit and Soul and was made an honorary knowledge exchange fellow of The University of Winchester in 2014 .