Thank you for this invitation to us all to share our work. I often drop links to my relevant essays in comments but many are loathe to do this for fear of being seen as a self promoter so thank you for doing this and pointing out that it's really about having a conversation. My default would have been to share my work on suicide and my relationship with the soul of my friend who committed that act but I checked and you have already read it, so I'm going with this piece, https://medium.com/illumination-curated/marriage-of-philosophy-and-spirituality-742dc1d639f6 , which, as you discuss here, also was inspired by reading the works of others and includes links to their work.

I'll be back later to read links provided by other readers.