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When grief contradicts religious teachings about death

My husband died last month and I keep feeling like he's trying to communicate with me but I was raised to believe that's impossible.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Direct experience of ongoing connection with the deceased conflicts with inherited beliefs about the finality of death and proper boundaries.

Ideas that help explain it
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