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Episode 2 — Stephen Berkley:
The Reluctant Lightworker

What if grief is the door? Stephen Berkley on loss, after-death communication, and finding your mission Conversations That Illuminate · Global Lightworkers United Podcast.


He went to law school. He worked for MTV. He never expected to become a grief advocate. Then his father died and a neighbor named Ethel changed everything.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN


How feeling like an outsider as a child quietly shaped Stephen's openness to the unknown.
The pivotal chain of events, an injury, his father's death, and neighbor Ethel, that led to a seven-year investigation.


What after-death communication actually is, and why a grief counselor's dismissal sent Stephen down a research rabbit hole.


The Dewey Reese study: 50,000 people, 24 countries, 112 years of data and what it says about how most people actually experience grief.


Why Stephen resisted the "Lightworker" label and what changed.


How his film Life with Ghosts grew into a podcast, courses, and a community of pioneers.
The role of GLU in giving creators and advocates a place to belong.


Stephen's daily gratitude practice and his life-changing reframe of "life doesn't happen to you, it happens for you."

ABOUT STEPHEN BERKLEY


Stephen Berkley is a writer, director, and producer with over 30 years in media. His work, Life with Ghosts, grew out of a deeply personal experience after his father's passing when his mother began reporting ongoing contact with his spirit. What started as a film became a seven-year investigation into love, loss, and after-death communication, and has since expanded into a podcast and a series of courses.


Stephen is also a member of the Global Lightworkers United Wisdom of Light Council.

Find his work at: https://www.lifewithghosts.com/

RESOURCES MENTIONED


Film: Life with Ghosts (film, podcast, courses)
Study: Dewey Reese’s research on after-death communication
Wendy Zammet: Friday Afterlife Report
 

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