Quoth the Raven: Bereavement and the Paranormal

1995 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur S. Berger
Keyword(s):  
Professional Counselors ◽  
Life After Death ◽  
Physical Research ◽  
The Dead

The bereaved often have paranormal experiences: they feel the presence of or see the dead. This article examines the relevance to bereavement of the experiences and of the belief in a life after death. Many professional counselors dismiss the experiences as hallucinatory and the belief as a mark of superstition. This article, however, presents surveys of paranormal experiences and data from physical research that can be used to validate the experiences and belief and to help the bereaved restructure their lives.

scholarly journals LIFE LIVED IN LOVE: KONSEP JÜRGEN MOLTMANN MENGENAI ESKATOLOGI PRIBADI | LIFE LIVED IN LOVE: JÜRGEN MOLTMANN’S CONCEPT ON PERSONAL ESCHATOLOGY

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 139
Author(s):  
Jessica Novia Layantara
Keyword(s):  
Intermediate State ◽  
Eternal Life ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
Life After Death ◽  
Main Thesis ◽  
Resurrection Of The Dead ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Personal Eschatology

<b>Abstract</b> This article will focus on describing Moltmann’s view of personal eschatology, which includes his view on death, the intermediate state, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal life. The main thesis of this article is that Moltmann’s view of personal eschatology is more relevant and applicable to the Christian life here and now. At the end of this article, the author will give two applications of Moltmann’s doctrine of personal eschatology. First, Moltmann’s view of personal eschatology motivates Christians, that they must live their lives in love, hope, and faith, for they already have been resurrected and given eternal life, here and now. Secondly, Moltmann’s focus on the new earth and new heaven in this world, more than life after death and the traditional concepts of heaven and hell, should make Christians care about this world and the life in it. <b>Keywords:</b> Jürgen Moltmann, Personal Eschatology, Death, Intermediate State, Resurrection of the Dead, Eternal Life. <b>Abstrak</b> Artikel ini terfokus pada deskripsi pandangan Moltmann tentang eskatologi pribadi, yaitu mengenai kematian, keadaan peralihan, kebangkitan orang mati, dan kehidupan kekal. Tesis utama artikel ini ialah pandangan Moltmann tentang eskatologi pribadi yang lebih relevan dan berlaku untuk kehidupan Kristen di sini dan saat ini. Pada akhir artikel ini, penulis memberikan dua aplikasi dari doktrin Moltmann tentang eskatologi pribadi, yaitu: Pertama, pandangan Moltmann tentang eskatologi pribadi memotivasi orang Kristen supaya menjalani hidup mereka dalam cinta, harapan, dan iman, karena mereka sudah dibangkitkan dan diberikan jaminan kehidupan kekal. Kedua, pandangan Moltmann mengenai bumi dan surga baru di dunia ini yang lebih dari kehidupan setelah kematian dan konsep-konsep tradisional tentang surga dan neraka, membuat orang Kristen peduli terhadap dunia dan kehidupan di dalamnya. <b>Kata kunci:</b> Jürgen Moltmann, Eskatologi Pribadi, Kematian, Kebangkitan Orang Mati, Kehidupan Kekal

scholarly journals INTERPRETATION OF DEATH IN THE CH. PALAHNIUK’S ARTISTIC WORLD

2017 ◽  
pp. 216-222
Author(s):  
E. R. Chemezova
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Physiological Process ◽  
The Body ◽  
Art World ◽  
Contemporary American Literature ◽  
Life After Death ◽  
Fight Club ◽  
The World ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Different Levels

The article is devoted to the interpretation of the phenomenon of death in contemporary  American  literature  on  the  example  of  Ch. Palahniuk’s  novels. The article analyzes the approaches to the phenomenon of death in different fields of knowledge such as philosophy, sociology, medicine. We describe the overview of the “life after death” theme in native and foreign literature. The place of the phenomenon  of  death  in  the  artistic  world  and  the  influence  of  this  phenomenon on the attitude of the characters to each other are in the focus of our attention. Death in the artistic world defines the characters’ relations, their presence / absence on different levels of the artistic world, the process of transition from the world of the living  to  the  world  of  the  dead  and  vice  versa.  The  process  of  heroes’  formation in the world of the living and in the world of the dead depends on the representation of the phenomenon of death in the works of Ch. Palahniuk. The boundary between the world of the living and the world of the dead is almost invisible and the transition between the worlds is done according to certain laws of the art world, followed by the characters of the novels. This article discusses several Ch. Palahniuk’s novels written  in  different  periods  of  his  oeuvre.  The  article  examines  the  differences and similarities  in  the  author's  interpretation  of  the  death  and  its  significance in the early (“Fight Club”, “Lullaby”) and the latest (“Damned”, “Doomed”) novels. In the early novels of Charles Palahniuk death is a physiological process with anatomical details, but at the same time dying is the soul leaving the body. The latest novels of the author differ from the early ones as they demonstrate to the reader not only the life and its ending, but also the life after death. 

Belief In Life After Death Among The Zeliangrongs Of Northeast

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 177-185
Author(s):  
Dr Kamei Budha Kabui ◽  
Dr Oinam Ranjit Singh ◽  
Dr. Th. Mina Devi
Keyword(s):  
Human Soul ◽  
Indigenous Religion ◽  
Physical Body ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Life After Death ◽  
Form Of Life ◽  
Good Will ◽  
The Dead

The Zeliangrong people who follow the indigenous religion believe in life hereafter, land of dead, Thuntadijang and Heaven. It is believed that Buh, soul is not born and does not die since it originates from Tingkao Ragwang, the Supreme God. The life and death of man is indicated by the presence or absence of soul. After the disintegration of physical body, human soul goes to Taroilam, the land of death where he will face the judements given by Taroigwang, the king of the dead based on his past deeds. The pious soul will be sent to Tingkao Kaidai, Heaven where he will remain in peace forever. While the good soul who did less bad and more good will be permitted to live in Taroilam. The sinner will be sent to Thuntadijang, a stage of degraded form of life which is almost equivalent to the extinction of life. However, there is no concept of hell and permanent extinction of life in Zeliangrong indigenous religion known as Tingkao Ragwang Chapriak.

Remembrance of the Deceased in Annual Rituals in Poland

Anthropos ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 115 (2) ◽  
pp. 527-534
Author(s):  
Zdzisław Kupisiński
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
The Other ◽  
Theological Interpretation ◽  
Folk Beliefs ◽  
Life After Death ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
The People ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Other World ◽  
Christian Beliefs

The article presents beliefs and rituals related to All Souls’ Day typical for folk Catholicism in Poland. It is based on the results of the ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the author in Radom and Opoczno regions (central Poland), in the years 1980-1983, 1990-1993 and 1998-2005 (a total of 414 days, 650 interviews with 998 informants), as well as on the literature concerning this and other regions of Poland. The popular remembrance of the dead and care for their graves is noticeable throughout the year. Cemeteries in Poland are often visited by people whose relatives passed over to “the other world,” who place flowers and candles on the graves, tidy them up, and pray. Commemoration of the dead takes on a special dimension such days as Christmas, Easter, All Saints’ and All Souls’ Day. Many old All Souls’ rituals disappeared already in the Middle Ages as a result of Christianization and eradication of pre-Christian beliefs. Still, until the 1970s one could observe or reconstruct (relying on the memory of informants) many pre-Christian beliefs and customs that used to be regulated by the ancient ritual calendar based on the solar cycle and the worship of ancestors. The presence of those ancient elements in folk beliefs and rituals indicates a strong faith of the people in life after death, exhibited also by the inhabitants of the area under study both in past centuries and today, although today those customs are given a Christian theological interpretation.

Ghosts and Ghostbusters in the Middle Ages

2009 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 143-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. N. Swanson
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
The Body ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Silent Majority ◽  
Life After Death ◽  
Medieval Church ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Middle Ages

The dead are the silent majority in the Church’s history – as they are, indeed, in humanity’s. The life after death is a matter of faith and conjecture more than tried and tested certainty, predicated on a soul which survives the death of the body. That raises issues about the nature and structure of the afterlife, its pains and delights. For the late medieval Church, the afterlife raised particular concerns and anxieties, its complex division into heaven, hell, and purgatory promising a future which had to be planned for. Strategies for eternity were a major force in religious practice, with death as the threshold to something unknown until experienced.

scholarly journals Die opstanding in die Jodedom, die Grieks-Romeinse wêreld en die Nuwe Testament

2004 ◽  
Vol 60 (1/2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernest Van Eck
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Life After Death ◽  
Progressive Development ◽  
Roman World ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
Resurrection Of The Dead ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Dead ◽  
To Come ◽  
Immortality Of The Soul

Resurrection in Judaism, the Greek-Roman world and the New TestamentThe article shows that in the Jewish and Greco-Roman worlds’ belief in the afterlife underwent a progressive development. It focuses on a “belief” in no life after death in pre-exilic Judaism, which developed into the belief that the dead did not cease to exist in the afterlife. This view again developed into a belief that the dead still lived, but only as a shadow of the living existence. In post-exilic Judaism the belief in a general eschatological resurrection was held, a conviction that was the result of the understanding of martyrdom in especially the Maccabean period. In the Greco-Roman world the conviction initially was that there was no life after death (Homer), and later a belief in the immortality of the soul (Plato) set in. The mystery cults also upheld a belief in the resurrection of the dead. Interpreted from a Jewish perspective on afterlife in the New Testament, the resurrection of Jesus was seen as an individual resurrection before the general eschatological resurrection that inaugurates “the age to come”.

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