Episode 338: Constance Brenneman and Susan Brittain: "Afterlife: Beyond the Light"
End of the Road Podcast (Immanence = Transcendence)
Release Date: 04/01/2026
Episode 338: Constance Brenneman and Susan Brittain: "Afterlife: Beyond the Light"
End of the Road Podcast (Immanence = Transcendence)
Constance Brenneman is an award-winning filmmaker, actor and producer in studio and independent film. In recent years, she has devoted her work to documentary filmmaking, creating projects that inspire, transform, and uplift. Her feature documentaries include Finding Inner Hero (2022), Built Different (2024), and Afterlife: Beyond the Light (2026--Vision Films). Afterlife was born from Constance's fascination with the culminating factors of phenomenal end-of-life experiences. Partnering with friend and producer Susan Brittain, she set out to explore both the science and the...
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Episode 337: Jeremy David Engels, PhD: "On Mindful Democracy: A Declaration of Interdependence to Mend a Fractured World"
End of the Road Podcast (Immanence = Transcendence)
Jeremy David Engels, PhD, is a Liberal Arts Professor of Communications and Ethics at Pennsylvania State University. He is also a longtime teacher of mindfulness, meditation, and yoga, having studied in both India and the United States, and he is certified to teach mindfulness after completing an intensive two-year training program under the direction of Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield. Since undertaking a pilgrimage to walk in the footsteps of the Buddha in India and Nepal in 2018, he has been a student of Thich Nhat Hanh. He is dedicated to bringing the practice of...
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Episode 336: Aaron Breidenbach: Quantum Physics/Animism II
End of the Road Podcast (Immanence = Transcendence)
This is a follow up interview with Dr. Aaron Breidenbach. In our first episode (EOTR 326), we discussed the crystals of Zn-Barlowite and Herbertsmithite that he grew and studied in his PhD at Stanford. These crystal have the potential to be used in applications in future quantum computers. See our first episode here: These crystals also grow naturally in the Atacama Desert in Chile. Aaron recently returned from an expedition with Chilean Anthopologist Vincente Carrasola Vega. They were successful in finding natural crystals of Herbertsmithite. These...
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Episode 335: Ronnie Pontiac (& Tamra Lucid): The Unobstructed Way/Death=Life
End of the Road Podcast (Immanence = Transcendence)
Ronnnie Pontiac is an author who worked seven years as Manly P. Hall's research assistant, screener, and designated substitute lecturer. He is the author of American Metaphysical Religion (EOTR episode 251) and, along with Tamra, Sacred Music/The Magic of the Orphic Mysteries (EOTR episode 270). Tamra Lucid produced documentary films including the Emmy nominated End of the Line: The Women of Standing Rock, and is the author of Making the Ordinary Extraordinary (EOTR episode 208). She is the former writer and art editor for Newtopia Magazine and her work has appeared in...
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Episode 334: Dr. Jennifer Reid: "Guilt Free: Reclaiming Your Life From Unreasonable Expectations"
End of the Road Podcast (Immanence = Transcendence)
Dr. Reid is a clinical assistant professor at University of Pennsylvania and an associate professor at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University. She attended medical school at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and completed her psychiatry residency at UCLA. This podcast will focus on her new book, Guilt Free: Reclaiming Your Life from Unreasonable Expectations. Dr. Reid also writes and podcasts on Substack at A Mind of Her Own focused on helping individuals nurture a deep and lasting self-trust. She is also a regular contributor to Psychology Today...
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Episode 333: Lynn Pardie, Ph.D: (mini) "Chop Wood/Carry Water"
End of the Road Podcast (Immanence = Transcendence)
Lynn is a clinical psychologist and professor emerita of psychology at the University of Illinois Springfield. She has published work on stress-illness relationships, program evaluation, and bias in treatment and research. Lynn also has a long-standing interest in transpersonal psychology and Buddhist perspectives on personality and human development. Hopefully, Lynn will be gracing future episodes of the podcast as a co-host. This mini episode is available on your favorite podcast platform, or here: Have a blessed week! P.S. Cover art by the fabulous Wendy...
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Episode 332: Judith Dillon: Alphabets/Mystery Traditions/"Futhark Rune Mysteries"
End of the Road Podcast (Immanence = Transcendence)
Judith is an author whose research has focused on the history of alphabets, runes, oghams, Hebrew, and ancient Phoenician as well as its relation to number magic. She is the author of Alphabets and the Mystery Traditions (2024) and Futhark Rune Mysteries: Origins of Magic & Divination in the Primal Alphabet (2026), the latter being the subject of this podcast. In Rune Mysteries, Judith reveals the spiritual and divinatory attributes of each rune by examing the physical characteristics of the objects chosen to represent them. For more information about Judith's academic work,...
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Episode 331: David L. Kahn: Lucid Dreams/"The Oneironaut's Odyssey: Discovering Ancient Wisdom through Lucid Dreams""
End of the Road Podcast (Immanence = Transcendence)
David L. Kahn is an author, oneironaut, and has been a member of the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) since 2006. He is a regular contributor to The Lucid Dreaming Experience magazine and has participated in several lucid dreaming research studies. Much of his published work and many of his presentations focus on trauma dreams, particularly those of genocide survivors and LGBTQ+ youth. He also contributed an entry to the Encyclopedia of Sleep and Dreams on dreams related to the Holocaust and the Rwandan genocides. His books include The...
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Episode 330: Charles Shaw/2025/Connecting to Time and Place
End of the Road Podcast (Immanence = Transcendence)
Charles Shaw is an author, documentary filmmaker, journalist, activist and psychedelic therapist who saw his focus change in 2025 to trauma informed care/peer support as a public mental health professional on the front lines of Chicago. His previous works are highlighted by Exile Nation (2012); Release Us(2013); Soldiers of the Vine(2017) and The Shadow People, which was highlighted in episode 246. More info at: This podcast is available on your favorite platform, or here: Many blessings to you and yours in 2026.
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Episode 329: Banafsheh Sayyad: Sufism/Mysticism/Divine Feminine Embodiment/"Dance of Oneness"
End of the Road Podcast (Immanence = Transcendence)
Banafsheh Sayyad is a master sacred dancer and visionary spiritual embodiment teacher whose forthcoming book, Dance of Oneness (Sounds True, March 2026), offers a revolutionary invitation to embody love through conscious movement. Drawing from her signature Dance of Oneness modality, a Divine Feminine lineage that fuses Taoist wisdom and the mystical traditions with flamenco, Tai Chi, Persian dance, and Sufi whirling, Banafsheh guides readers to awaken their light body, dissolve constriction, and rediscovery vitality and purpose. Dance of Oneness traces Banafsheh's own awakening,...
info_outlineConstance Brenneman is an award-winning filmmaker, actor and producer in studio and independent film. In recent years, she has devoted her work to documentary filmmaking, creating projects that inspire, transform, and uplift. Her feature documentaries include Finding Inner Hero (2022), Built Different (2024), and Afterlife: Beyond the Light (2026--Vision Films).
Afterlife was born from Constance's fascination with the culminating factors of phenomenal end-of-life experiences. Partnering with friend and producer Susan Brittain, she set out to explore both the science and the deeply human stories behind near-death experiences (NDEs) and shared-death experiences (SDEs).
The film features powerful firsthand accounts alongside compellling interviews with two of the worlds leading experts in the field: Dr. Raymond Moody and William Peters. Both are internationally recognized pioneers whose decades of research and bestselling books have shaped modern understanding of these experiences. Additionally, Constance partnered with the Coming Home Channel to incorporate deeply personal testimonies from individuals who have directly encountered these phenomena, expanding the emotional and spiritual depth of the film. To create a sense of flow and visual poetry, Constance collaborated with a professional modern dance company to develop original movement pieces that align with prose, stories and interviews. The film further weaves in animation to visually interpret NDEs and SDEs as they have been documented across cultures for centuries.
The film is available for download later this week on all platforms such as Itunes, Vimeo, and Amazon. Social media links: https://www.instagram.com/afterlifebeyondthelight/
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Have a blessed week!