The
S
wan Letter
Summer 2009

A quarterly missive from
Terri Daniel and Danny Mandell,
authors of

Greetings everyone!

I've just returned from a promotional tour through Oregon and California, accompanied by my guides and teachers, who are always close at hand. We met hundreds of beautiful people and shared some very profound experiences with those who attended our workshops on after-death communication. We're now busy planning some exciting new projects, including our new book and a five-day Conscious Grieving Retreat in Hawaii. Scroll down for more information.

As always, this issue of the Swan Letter contains a channeled message from Danny and other useful tools for helping with your grief journey or your study of interdimensional communication.

Many thanks and blessings to you all!                   Terri
Sacred Grieving:
Transforming Loss Into Love


A five-day healing retreat in Hawaii

Whether you're mourning the physical death of a loved one or a traumatic loss of any kind, please consider joining us for a week of reflection and healing in one of Hawaii's most beautiful retreat locations.
 
During this extraordinary retreat you'll learn to transmute the pain of grief and separation into new forms of love and awareness. Guided by Terri Daniel and Dr. Anna Noe Bonas (a practitioner of Ho'oponopono, a traditional Hawaiian form of emotional healing), you will have the opportunity to move beyond pain while honoring the sacredness of grief for its transformative gifts.

This will be small, intimate gathering to allow each person special care for working through his or her grief journey. Click HERE for details.

Honoring Milestones and Life Passages

I'm often asked to recommend simple rituals that the bereaved can perform on important milestone dates, such as the birthdays and death anniversaries of their loved ones. One thing I suggest for those who've chosen cremation is to use the ashes (also known as "cremains") in a variety of different ways throughout the years, rather than keeping them in an urn or scattering them all in one place. There's no reason why we can't be creative and reverent at the same time, and I encourage people to find imaginative uses for cremains and other sacred items. For an example, please visit The Danny World Tour.

 DANNY'S MESSAGE

Foreword from Terri: When Danny died I donated his brain to an international tissue bank to be used specifically for research on the disease that he had... Metachromatic Leukodystropy (MLD). For two years there were no requests for the tissue, but I recently learned that at long last, a research project is underway using our precious donation. Here's what Danny had to say about it:
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"We are lovingly watching over this project. The decision to share my body with the scientific community opened up a space for the guides and teachers to participate in this work. We are sending light and power to the researchers and to the materials involved.
 
As you know, there is no separation anywhere in the universe. Every thought form, every organism, every action and every experience is part of the whole, and all work together to create growth and expansion. Disease is part of this mass learning activity, and people who choose to come to earth with disease volunteer to act as teaching tools for the collective. I was no exception, but I also chose to serve as a guide and healer from the higher realms. When you heard that my brain tissue was being used in a research project, you experienced the odd sensation that my body had been "re-animated" in a sense, as if it was alive again. All the cells and imprints, neurotransmitters, memories, emotions, past life images... all of it is contained in that tiny specimen. It's full of information, like a library containing everything from my soul's Akashic Record. Someday scientists will understand how to extract much more than just physical information from brain tissue.
 
It is absolutely possible for science to understand the link between physical and non-physical realities, but at this time in human experience, the medical establishment is far too fearful of death to venture beyond the physical plane. We are sending, through that piece of tissue, as much information as we can. We are standing beside the researchers guiding them, leading them to ideas and discoveries. They are not working alone. All research is thus blessed, and you are correct when you say that your heavenly "parents" are gently guiding and teaching you at all times, as we have since the beginning of human time."
OUR NEW BOOK TO BE RELEASED IN SPRING 2010!book
Image by Michael Green
We just completed our new book, "Embracing Death: A New Look at Grief, Gratitude and God." The book examines cultural myths about the afterlife and offers a path to alternative perceptions via meditation, visualization and after-death communication. Click HERE to read a pre-publication excerpt.
 
Image by Michael Green
USEFUL LINKS

. Our first book, A Swan in Heaven

. Terri's website: www.AfterlifeAwareness.com

. Workshops and presentations: Conversations in the Spiritual Voice

. An interactive online forum where you can meet others who are interested in exploring and understanding the afterlife: THE DANNY DIALOGS

. Terri's is now the "Death and Afterlife Examiner" for a website called Examiner.com.
  Click HERE to read articles and comments.

Contact Us:

(541) 549-4004
terri@danieldirect.net