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Stephen Berkley, Battling Grief With After Death Communication |539|

02.08.2022 - By Alex TsakirisPlay

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Stephen Berkley’s new film explores the science of healing grief through after death communication.

 

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Movie: LIVING WITH GHOSTS. SCIENCE WEIGHS IN ON THE HEALING POWER OF AFTER-DEATH COMMUNICATION.

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[00:00:00] Alex Tsakiris: On this episode of skeptiko… Grief. And a movie about how some very clever scientists, including some frontier scientists that you may have heard on this show before. I have found a way to combat it.

[00:00:16] Clip: That whole year after I found out what happened was just a blur. I don’t remember it. I think maybe subconsciously I suppressed it because I didn’t know how to deal with it, or I didn’t want to accept what happened, but she was a mess.

[00:00:33] Alex Tsakiris: the movie is totaled living with ghosts. And in a minute, you’ll hear my interview with the movies, creators, Steven Berkley. It’s a movie about science consciousness science as well as being a movie about grief and a movie about how families. Can become entangled in this battle with grief. Including Steven’s own family here’s a clip. And at the end of it, you’ll hear his one and only very brief appearance in the film where he’s talking to his mom and he’s very concerned because his mom is considering this very wacky after death communication thing.

[00:01:09] Clip: We’re used to getting gutter, we’re being sold, all kinds of stuff to make us better, but nothing prepared. My mom, if you’re living alone, having conversations with ghosts, that’s my business too. People

[00:01:29] Alex Tsakiris: family stuff is tough. We all get that. Here’s a clip from my upcoming interview where Steven describes how the whole thing got started.

[00:01:38] Stephen Berkley: what happened was my dad died. My dad. It was about 10 years ago. My father passed and my mom pretty much, she felt. We did everything we could, we , got her into a support group, grief counselor got her own therapist and nothing really did the trick. Uh, nothing was really helping her get through it at all. Fortunately, she had a neighbor, , who’s a very sweet woman, came over and said, uh, you know, Irene, I been doing this thing.

We haven’t talked about this much, but I correspond with my husband, my late husband. I write to him every night, it really helps. And he writes back and my mother was like, wow. You know, and my brothers were actually pretty upset by this too, because who is this cookie woman that’s came over and is now a costing our mother with this offer.

[00:02:34] Alex Tsakiris: now as, you’re about to hear in this interview and what you’ll see when you watch this movie. Is that this automatic writing thing they’re talking about. Turns out to be just one way of accessing this . After death communication process, that we don’t fully understand, but , some very good scientists like Dr. Jan Holden from the university of north Texas. Can measure. .

[00:02:56] Stephen Berkley: The important thing is what Jan did was she said, okay, let’s compare out. Botkin is the one who made the discovery that this EMDR therapy that was used for the Vietnam vets when he was working in Chicago bed hospital, ,

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