Our existence is the time at our disposal between birth and death. No-one knows in advance for how long anyone will be allowed to exist, yet to be able to live a life of meaning and without fear, we believe that we will not die today, in a week or a year, but be able to have a full life. On our path through life we are accompanied by beloved people, family and friends who give us affection and support in the wayless vastness of existence. Yet each one of these beloved persons is ephemeral. - Suddenly your own son is torn from the center of your life, you lose hold on life, nothing is able to catch you, there is no comfort, no comprehension, your situation is unfathomable, senseless, unacceptable. Why him? Why now? Why before me? We do not know the answer. The emptiness of his absence swallows you, you retreat inside yourself, lose all sense of yesterday or tomorrow, no¬thing concerns you anymore, every breath you take is mockery, ago¬ny - you grieve unspeakably. Yet outside of space and time, of language and consciousness, a transcendent door to an immaterial sphere may open, which in the book is named "Weltenseele" (world-soul): Here, we can be close to our beloved lost one once more, communicate with him, and this meeting may ease, even heal, as Dorothea Stockmar illustrates in an account of her own - somewhat accidental - after-death communication. Juliane Grodhues describes IADC - a method recognized by psychologists as a way to allow a grieving person to reconnect with a dead loved one and thus to grasp death as an integral part of life. Surveys have shown that experiences of spontaneous "After-Death Communications", through which "contact" with deceased persons might be experienced, can considerably lessen the grief of the bereaved person.

JULIANE GRODHUES Born in 1953, degreed psychologist with her own psychotherapeutic practice focused on healing trauma and grief, based in Saarbrücken. Many years of experience working at different insti¬tutes and personal spontaneous after-death communication followed by training in Induced After-Death Communication with Allan Botkin in 2006 in the US. Ever since then she has been working as an IADC therapist, since 2009 also training other therapists in IADC. By founding the Allan Botkin Institute Germany in 2011 she assists the spread of this new therapeutic method. DOROTHEA STOCKMAR Born in 1953, artist based in Celle, focuses on symbolic-creative impulses for healing grief by way of audiovisual installations based on themes like picture of language - language of pictures, Hea¬ling and the Art of Healing, in a different Light. Trained death and grief counselor with many years of expe¬rience as a volunteer in the hospice move¬ment. Internship at a Buddhist hospice in Japan in 2005. Processed her grief after her youngest child's sudden death by writing a book: "Ein Netz, das trägt" (A Net That Holds), published by Santiago-Verlag in 2010.