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Charlie Bynar

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Charlie Bynar is an author and international artist whose David Bowie portrait was featured in the Victoria and Albert Museum's five-year traveling exhibition, David Bowie Is. Additionally, after her son died, Charlie founded Isaac's Ant Foundation and installed ant exhibits across the country in his memory including at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. She published her first children's book, Charlie and the Rainbow Trout, in 2021. Through the Darkness is her first work of narrative nonfiction. ...more

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Through the Darkness by Charlie Bynar
" Through the Darkness has received the following awards.
2025 National Indie Excellence Award Winner, Death & Dying category.
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A Course in Miracles by Foundation for Inner Peace
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The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway
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I love many of the short stories, especially The Snows of Kilimanjaro.
Charlie Bynar is reading The Art of Dying: Great research information about the end of life and afterlife.
The Art of Dying by Peter Fenwick
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" Najwa, thanks so much for your kind words. I'm so happy that you enjoyed the book and found it helpful! Helping others on this difficult journey was o ...more "
Through the Darkness by Charlie Bynar
"I was touched and moved by Charlie's story. As a bereaved mother myself, this book gave me hope that my daughter is still out there healthy and happy. Charlie brilliantly described scenes of her son in the afterlife that were so beautifully put toget" Read more of this review »
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“When you go into the heart—not the body’s heart, but the heart deep within your soul—you’ll accept that things truly are as they should be, and you are not alone.”
Charlie Bynar, Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side

“A man cannot offer what he does not have! If a man fills his heart with hatred, he can offer hatred; if he fills his heart with kindness, he can offer kindness.”
Charlie Bynar, Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side

“People intersect many crossroads in their lifetime, and the crossroad your mom faces now will force her to either hold on to her preconceived view that death is the end or reevaluate it. If she chooses to hold on to her views, she will likely take her own life. But Charlie has one thing working to her advantage—love is greater than pain and darkness combined. Since her love for you is unwavering, hopefully, it will give her the strength she needs to reevaluate her views of death and obtain the wisdom she’s seeking—that death is a transition, not an end. If she succeeds, Charlie will know that nothing can truly separate the two of you! She’ll emerge from the darkness, able to find a renewed purpose in life.”
Charlie Bynar, Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side

“Many things—especially the nonphysical—can’t be measured or understood through science. Take the unseen forces of guilt and shame. You can’t measure them, but they can drive people to destruction. The same is true about love. You can’t put your finger on it, but it can cause people to move mountains.”
Charlie Bynar, Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side

“A man cannot offer what he does not have! If a man fills his heart with hatred, he can offer hatred; if he fills his heart with kindness, he can offer kindness.”
Charlie Bynar, Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side

“You know, the ego is very insecure. . . . It uses judgment as armor to protect itself. The ego judges others to shield itself from its own insecurities, which are based on fear. The ego, needing to be special, feeds on constant approval and needs enemies in order to be superior—it raises itself up by putting others down. . . . In other words, by judging others,” Ethel explained, gathering the ingredients for piecrust. “People have a never-ending fear-based dialogue with their egos, which is a source of much unhappiness. They’re afraid of not being good enough, being wrong, not being in control, losing their possessions, being shamed, being judged, not being smart enough, being ugly, being rejected, being destitute, being old and alone. And ultimately, they’re afraid of dying.”
Charlie Bynar, Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side

“Energy is a potential—it remains dormant without time. Therefore, time is the greatest force in nature because, without time, nothing happens. And regardless of whether time is linear or nonlinear, as it is here, it doesn’t matter. The point remains the same: No matter what order you put the past, present, and future in, without time, none of it happens!”
Charlie Bynar, Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side

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