BACK TO SCHOOL with Luana Anders, James Dean and Jennifer Shaffer on the Hacking the Afterlife podcast.

This is another example of the unusual work that Jennifer and I have been doing for seven years. In this podcast, I ask our moderator on the flipside, Luana Anders what she wants to talk about or if she has someone who wants to come forward to speak. She begins by showing Jennifer a “toddler” — literally shows her an image of holding up a child.

Jennifer has no idea what that means, nor do I. Is she asking us to talk about a specific child on the flipside? A specific child on this side? Or about some form of process or how the flipside works? Luana said she wanted to talk about “process.” Which is my way of saying “It’s not a specific person per se, but how the process works.”

She then made Jennifer aware of the topic of how stressed children are… Jennifer assumed she meant “these days, post pandemic.” I did the same, because it is a topic in universities and schools — how distracted people are coming back to school, how the multitasking, multi-focus of social media has “driven some people crazy” making it harder to focus on any particular topic. How the trauma and stress of the past two years — and the fears involved, are affected students and…