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#796 Paul Harris - Child Psychology in Twelve Questions

The Dissenter

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The Evolution of the Afterlife in Children

Children increasingly realize that death is inevitable it's something that you can't rehearse and they increasingly make sense of it in terms of what's happening inside the body. Between four and ten children will increasingly master this biological story but alongside that unanswered by the biological story is well that's all very well but what happens to the the person's soul or spirit or individuality? Children I think just as I was saying before will receive guidance from the surrounding community and they will for better or for worse start to believe that nothing death is followed by nothing, he says.

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