Volari Dissertation

By Sarina Volari

THE PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT OF SPIRITUAL TRANSCENDENCE:
A STUDY OF AFTERLIFE CONSCIOUSNESS
VIA LIFE BETWEEN LIVES HYPNOTHERAPY

A dissertation submitted to:
The Wright Institute Graduate School of Psychology, in partial fulfillment
of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Psychology

Introduction – Statement of the Problem

To be conscious of existence is to be aware of death. Evidence for the awareness of death dates back to over 200,000 years ago—far prior to the evolution of Homo sapiens—when Homo naledi were burying their dead (Madison, 2018). As consciousness evolved and humanity developed, the awareness of death turned into a pressing existential curiosity. What happens when we die? Ancient texts that are most impactful today, including the Bible, the Vedas, and the Quran, to name a few, center more on the premise of afterlife experience than what happens as we live. Humans are fascinated by questions of death and what comes after, yet a fundamental property of being alive is that there are limitations to what we can know about the universal experience of death.

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