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Mourning and Instagramming the Death of a Pet

By Preston Gannaway — 2018

In 1998, photographer Preston Gannaway and her college roommate answered a newspaper listing that advertised kittens. They drove out to a house and found a man waiting in the driveway, carrying a kitten in each arm.

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Cults: Faith, Healing, and Coercion

From the mass weddings of Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church to the ritual suicides at Heaven’s Gate, charismatic cults and their devotees have become facts of American life.

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Marc Galanter
1999
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The Dark Night: Psychological Experience and Spiritual Reality

Reading St. John of the Cross’s Dark Night can be daunting; living the dark experience of purification it describes can be much more so. The description of the dark nights (yes, there is more than one!) which St.

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Marc Foley
2019
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The Denial of Death

Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life’s work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker’s brilliant and impassioned answer to the “why” of human existence.

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Ernest Becker
1997
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Meetings at the Edge: Dialogues with the Grieving and the Dying, the Healing and the Healed

Based on his extensive counseling work with the terminally ill, Levine’s book integrates death into the context of life with compassion, skill, and hope.

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Stephen Levine
1989
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The Ultimate Journey: Consciousness and the Mystery of Death

Beyond personal history and archetypal themes, a comprehensive psychology must also address the fundamental significance of birth and death. Stanislav Grof, M.D.

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Stanislav Grof, Huston Smith (foreword)
2006
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