Reframing death: life-affirming messages from the dead through the lens of Spiritualism and tarot
Mortality October 25, 2024 Sara Mackian
Death in Western modernity is predominantly experienced as challenging and destabilising, bringing uncertainty, loss, and pain. However, from some contemporary spiritual perspectives, death represents not just an ending, but also facilitates new ways of experiencing our embodied being. Based on participatory fieldwork in the UK, this paper explores constructions and encounters with death...