This site shares Life-affirming meditations
that heal misconception about Death.
Living beautifully and dying beautifully,
Embrace Death as Birth
into limitless Life Awareness.
If you wait till symptom time
to start practicing accepting your death,
honey,
you've waited too long.
Stephen Jenkinson
For most of us,
death is the final defeat.
Historian Arnold Toynbee said,
“Death is un-American.”
Jack LaLanne, the fitness and diet guru, once said,
“I can’t afford to die. It would wreck my image.”
We live in denial of death,
and suffer in direct proportion
to this denial when death occurs.
Andrew Holecek
Preparing to Die:
Practical Advice and Spiritual Wisdom from the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition
Even though death is serious,
there’s no need to lose your sense of humor.
On an absolute level death is a big joke—
there’s no such thing as death.
The yogi Gotsangpa sang:
When it’s time to leave this body,
this illusionary tangle,
Don’t cause yourself anxiety and grief;
The thing that you should train in and clear up for yourself
There’s no such thing as dying to be done
It’s just clear light, the mother,
and child clear light uniting,
When mind forsakes the body,
sheer delight!
Andrew Holecek
Preparing to Die:
Practical Advice and Spiritual Wisdom from the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition
The most helpful person
is one who is comfortable with death,
with groundlessness,
and with not knowing.
Like a strong rider on a frisky horse,
this is someone who can ride on top of whatever’s happening
without being thrown by it
and without trying to fix it.
Expect the unexpected.
Learn to appreciate silence and uncertainty.
Andrew Holecek
Preparing to Die:
Practical Advice and Spiritual Wisdom from the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition
There is an overriding sense of concern and care
that resonates through Chat's conversations,
with reminders that life and death are complex,
to be gentle with oneself,
and to recognize that no two journeys
through the end of life will be the same.
In the end, Chat felt somewhat like a trusted friend
who will tell me the truth, as much as possible,
in a kind and careful way.
And Chat seems eager to please and to praise its "friends,"
for example by writing endorsements and a eulogy for me
that slightly overstate the positive and minimize the negative.
But I guess that's the purpose
of endorsements and eulogies, after all.
Karen Wyatt, MD
Conversations on Death with ChatGPT:
Resources for Navigating the End-of-Life Journey
For a seer
the truth is that all living beings
are struggling to die.
What stops death is awareness.
Carlos Castaneda
The Wheel Of Time:
The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life
As an AI language model,
I am not capable of experiencing death or grief
in the way that humans do.
However, I understand the importance of these experiences
and the need for more education and awareness in our society.
Through this book, Dr. Wyatt and I
hope to contribute to the ongoing conversation
about death, dying, and grief,
and to help more people find peace and understanding
in the face of life's most difficult moments.
-- ChatGPT
Karen Wyatt, MD
Conversations on Death with ChatGPT:
Resources for Navigating the End-of-Life Journey
While we cannot control the manner of death,
ours or another’s,
we can choose
how we experience death.
Joellyn St. Pierre
The Art of Death Midwifery
It has always been known
that the capacity to accept death in the midst of life—
to swing with a conventionally intolerable vibration—
is a source of immense creative power.
“Unless a grain of corn falls into the ground and dies,
it remains isolated.
But if it dies, it brings forth much fruit.”
And the Zen master Bunan:
While living be a dead man,
thoroughly dead.
Then, whatever you do,
just as you will,
will be right.
Alan Watts
Does It Matter?: Essays on Man’s Relation to Materiality
“Are you sure?
The surgeon said you could live to be ninety.”
“I don’t want to live to be ninety,” she said.
] “I’m going to miss you,” I said, weeping.
“You are not only my mother.
You are my friend.”
Katy Butler
Knocking on Heaven's Door
It is real and deep wisdom
to learn to look at things in terms of manifestation.
If someone who is very close to you has passed away
and you define him or her as non-existing,
you are mistaken.
From nothing cannot be born something.
From no one cannot be born someone.
From something you cannot become nothing.
From someone you cannot become no one.
That is the truth.
If the person who is close to you
does not manifest in the form
that you are used to seeing or perceiving,
that does not mean that he is non-existing.
It does not mean that he is no longer there.
If you look deeply,
you can touch his or her presence
in other forms of manifestation.
Thich Nhat Hanh
No Death, No Fear
Man’s consciousness,
and to some extent that of the animals,
is more specifically identified with form.
In order to develop his own kind of individualized awareness,
man had to consciously ignore for a while
his own place within the structure of the earth.
His experience of time
would seem to be the experience of his identity.
His consciousness would not seem
to flow into his body before birth,
and out of it after death.
He would “forget” there was a time to die.
He would forget that death meant new life.
A natural message had to replace the old knowledge.
Jane Roberts
The “Unknown” Reality, Volume One
While the cell dies physically,
its inviolate nature is not betrayed.
It is simply no longer physical.
That kind of “death” is, then,
natural in one way or another within your system.
All life is cooperative.
It also knows it exists beyond its form.
The experience of your species
involves a certain kind of consciousness development,
highly vital.
This necessitated a certain kind of specialization,
a certain “long-term” identification with form.
Cellular structure maintains brilliant effectiveness
in the body’s present reality,
but knows itself free of it.
Man’s particular kind of consciousness
fiercely identified with the body.
This was a necessity
to focus energy toward physical manipulation.
To some important extent
the same applies to the animals.
The cell might gladly “die,”
but the specifically oriented man-and-animal consciousness
would not so willingly let go.
Jane Roberts
The “Unknown” Reality, Volume One
There is something real,
something of human evolution,
something additional to the Mystery Monitor,
which survives death.
This newly appearing entity is the soul,
and it survives the death
of both your physical body and your material mind.
This entity is the conjoint child
of the combined life and efforts of the human you
in liaison with the divine you, the Adjuster.
This child of human and divine parentage
constitutes the surviving element of terrestrial origin;
it is the morontia self,
the immortal soul.
Multiple Authors
The Urantia Book
Remember that you are immortal,
and that you who go out of life will come back again,
strengthened by the rest in the invisible!
For a change of place
is a rest of consciousness.
To those whose nerves are weary,
wise doctors prescribe a change.
A rest in the invisible worlds
is more refreshing than a summer in the mountains.
Do not fear death.
I passed through death,
and I am more rested now than a strong man in the morning.
I would not go back to my old body.
When I want a body again
I shall build a new one.
I know the process of building,
having built so many before.
Elsa Barker
Last Letters From The Living Dead Man
A curious delusion seems to prevail in many quarters
that the mere fact of death
at once turns a demon into a saint--
that, whatever a man' s life may have been,
the moment he dies
he becomes practically an angel of goodness.
No idea could possibly be further from the truth,
as those whose work lies
in trying to help the departed know full well.
The casting off of a man' s physical body
no more alters his disposition
than does the casting off of his overcoat;
he is precisely the same man
the day after his death
as he was the day before,
with the same vices
and the same virtues.
C.W. Leadbeater
The Hidden Side of Things
Death is nothing at all.
It does not count.
I have only slipped away into the next room.
Nothing has happened.
Everything remains exactly as it was.
I am I, and you are you,
and the old life that we lived so fondly together
is untouched, unchanged.
Whatever we were to each other,
that we are still.
Call me by the old familiar name.
Speak of me in the easy way which you always used.
Put no difference into your tone.
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.
Laugh as we always laughed
at the little jokes that we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me,
pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household word
that it always was.
Let it be spoken without an effort,
without the ghost of a shadow upon it.
Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same as it ever was.
There is absolute and unbroken continuity.
Death Is Nothing At All
Henry Scott Holland
There is still a widespread denial of death in Western cultures.
Even old people try not to speak or think about it,
and dead bodies are hidden away.
A culture that denies death
inevitably becomes shallow and superficial,
concerned only with the external form of things.
When death is denied,
life loses its depth.
The possibility of knowing
who we are beyond name and form,
the dimension of the transcendent,
disappears from our lives
because death is the opening into that dimension.
Eckhart Tolle
Stillness Speaks
There is no death
when the entity or the real self is considered;
only the change in the consciousness
of being able to make application
in the sphere of activity
in which the entity finds self.
Edgar Cayce
Beyond Death
Regardless of the state of their physical bodies,
there was never any pain felt while floating
in this observer position separated from their bodies.
Even those who were struck by lightning
or hit by a train, for instance,
had no sensation other than weightlessness,
freedom from the confines of their dense physical body,
and a deep sense of inner peace.
Most people who have experienced these near-death experiences
admit that they felt so absolutely wonderful
while out of their body
that they did not want to return to it.
That’s how blissful it feels
to leave our bodies
and exist in spiritual form.
Bob Olson
Answers about the Afterlife:
A Private Investigator's 15-Year Research Unlocks the Mysteries of Life after Death
The final way to attain personal freedom
is to prepare ourselves for the initiation of the dead,
to take death itself as our teacher.
What the angel of death can teach us
is how to be truly alive.
We become aware that we can die at any moment;
we have just the present to be alive.
The truth is that we don’t know
if we are going to die tomorrow.
Who knows?
We have the idea
that we have many years in the future.
But do we?
Don Miquel Ruiz
The Four Agreements
IRRELEVANCE
All questions at the public meeting that day
were about life beyond the grave.
The Master only laughed and did not give a single answer.
To his disciples,
who demanded to know the reason for his evasiveness,
he later said,
“Have you observed that it is precisely those
who do not know what to do with this life
who want another that will last forever?”
“But is there life after death or is there not?”
persisted a disciple.
“Is there life before death?—that is the question!”
said the Master enigmatically.
Anthony DeMello
One Minute Wisdom
With the first touch of spiritual light,
all fear of death disappears,
because that light reveals that there is no death
and that the experience of passing from this plane of life
to what is called the next is not really a death:
it is just another experience like our birth;
it is a passing from one phase of life to another.
In other words, life never had a beginning;
therefore our coming into this world
was but a coming forth from another phase of life.
Joel Goldsmith
The Contemplative Life
The time must come
when we no longer alienate ourselves
from the dead
for it is our alienation
that prevents them
from spiritualizing the physical world.
Rudolf Steiner
Staying Connected
To die
means to return to the collective unconscious,
to merge with it
in order to be transformed into form, into pure form.…
Every path,
whether directed towards the sun or the light
leads towards death
and to a new birth whose pains the soul shuns.
But every living being walks this path,
every living being dies,
and each and every one is born,
because the eternal mother
returns every life
forever back to the world.
Hermann Hesse
The Seasons of the Soul
When you die, you don’t go anywhere;
your soul is simply vibrating at another frequency.
After death, your awareness will be vibrating
at a different frequency than it is now,
and that entails a new world of abilities,
new knowledge, and new concerns.
However, if your soul growth dictates
that you need the familiar faces of loved ones around you
to feel secure on this new stage,
then that familiarity is something you will easily create.
Consciousness is a field of all possibilities, after all,
and whatever is required in that afterlife state
is as easily manifested as it is in a dream.
Deepak Chopra
Ask Deepak About Death and Dying
After death,
I may state that much experience has shown
that when a man comes into the other life
he is not aware that he is in that life,
but supposes that he is still in this world,
and even that he is still in the body.
So much is this the case that when told he is a spirit,
wonder and amazement possess him,
both because he finds himself exactly like a man,
in his senses, desires, and thoughts,
and because during his life in this world
he had not believed in the existence of the spirit,
or, as is the case with some,
that the spirit could be what he now finds it to be.
Emanuel Swedenborg
Arcana Coelestia
In order that I might know that men live after death,
it has been given me to speak and be in company
with many who were known to me during their life in the body;
and this not merely for a day or a week,
but for months, and almost a year,
speaking and associating with them just as in this world.
They wondered exceedingly
that while they lived in the body they were,
and that very many others are,
in such incredulity as to believe
that they will not live after death;
when in fact scarcely a day intervenes after the death of the body
before they are in the other life;
for death is a continuation of life.
Emanuel Swedenborg
Arcana Coelestia
In studying Zen
the aim is to see one’s own true nature.
Now where is your true nature?
When one realizes his own true nature
he will be free from birth and death.
Now when you shut the light from your eyes and become a corpse,
how can you free yourself ?
If you free yourself from birth and death,
you should know where you are.
Now your body separates into the four elements.
Where are you?
Tosutsu
Writings from the Zen Masters
When you start being metahuman,
you exist at the timeless source of the self.
It’s a huge step to know that the timeless is with us,
beyond any belief in birth and death, age and decay.
Things appear and disappear in our dreams when we’re sleeping.
Yet we don’t mourn them,
because we know that dreams are an illusion.
What matters isn’t the things that appear and disappear,
only that you don’t mistake the dream for reality.
Discovering that the same is true about our waking dream
sets us free from the fear of death.
Deepak Chopra
Metahuman
Q: Describe some of the planes into which entities pass
on experiencing the change called death.
A: Passing from the material consciousness
to a spiritual or cosmic, or outer consciousness,
oft does an entity or being
not become conscious of that about it;
much in the same manner
as an entity born into the material plane
only becomes conscious gradually
of that designated as time and space
for the material or third-dimensional plane.
In the passage the entity becomes conscious,
or the recognition of being
in a fourth or higher dimensional plane takes place,
much in the same way
as the consciousness is gained in the material.
For, as we have given,
that we see manifested in the material plane
is but a shadow of that in the spiritual plane.
Edgar Cayce
Beyond Death
When we say a spiritual process,
we are not just helping people to live well.
We also help people to die well.
Helping people to die well
does not mean we will assist them to die
, as euthanasia enthusiasts are talking about-
-not in that sense.
It is very important that the moment of passing
from the physicality to the beyond,
from being embodied to being disembodied,
happens with utmost awareness and grace.
We can create that moment for every human being,
if that human being is willing to cooperate
and pay some attention to themself now.
Sadhguru
Life and Death In One Breath
When you have let go of the body,
the personal self, and the world,
you will know that you are Eternal.
You may think that this is accomplished through death,
but nothing is accomplished through death,
because death is nothing.
Life is of the Mind of God,
and in the Mind of God.
The body does not contain you who are Life,
and it neither lives nor dies.
Elizabeth A. Cronkhite
Message of a Course in Miracles
By coupling the words dying with divine and art,
we imply that dying is not technology driven,
but instead holds the possibility of being
as God-filled, loving, and as sacred
as being born.
Dying, just as any other point during our lives,
can be an integrative event,
rather than a splintering one.
Karen Speerstra, Herbert Anderson
The Divine Art of Dying
We celebrate birth –
people think we are celebrating death –
because there is no death as such.
Nothing dies, only forms change.
Life transmigrates from one form into another;
it should be a moment of rejoicing for all concerned
when a person dies,
because he is only apparently dying.
From our side it feels as if he is dying;
from the other side he is being born.
Yes, he goes out of one house –
and we live in this house so we think he is finished –
but he enters another house immediately.
Or he may stay a little longer without a house,
but there is no death.
Osho
The Beauty of the Human Soul
Life is tragic simply because the earth turns,
and the sun inexorably rises and sets,
and one day, for each of us,
the sun will go down for the last, last time.
Perhaps the whole root of our trouble,
the human trouble,
is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives,
will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses,
blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques,
races, armies, flags, nations,
in order to deny the fact of death,
which is the only fact we have.
James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time
Q: If cremated, would the body feel it?
A: What body?
The physical body is not the consciousness.
The consciousness of the physical body is a separate thing.
There is the mental body, the physical body, the spiritual body.
As has so oft been given, what is the builder?
Mind!
Can you burn or cremate a mind?
Can you destroy the physical body?
Yes, easily.
To be absent (what is absent?) from the body
is to be present with the Lord,
or the universal consciousness
, or the ideal.
Absent from what?
What absent?
Physical consciousness, yes.
Edgar Cayce's Famous Black Book
Reports from people who’ve had so-called Near-Death Experiences (NDE)
are mostly thought to be describing hallucinations
brought on by oxygen deprivation or related brain trauma
instead of actual accounts of the “afterlife.”
We put the word “afterlife” in quotes,
not to imply that it’s unreal,
but to stress that there’s no such thing as after life.
Life is a continuum,
regardless of whether a being is physical or non-corporeal.
Darryl Anka
The Masters of Limitation: An ET's Observations of Earth
Speaking of death,
we notice that, due to the multitude of belief systems on Earth,
various humans have very different, and often opposing ideas
of what happens after physical death.
We can assure you of this:
Your consciousness will survive after you die.
Why?
Because consciousness isn’t produced by the physical world.
The physical world is produced by consciousness.
Darryl Anka/Bashar
The Masters of Limitation: An ET's Observations of Earth
The "conscious Self" of each of us, as we call it,—
the empirical, the supraliminal Self, as I should prefer to say,—
does not comprise the whole of the consciousness
or of the faculty within us.
There exists a more comprehensive consciousness,
a profounder faculty,
which for the most part remains potential
only so far as regards the life of earth,
but from which the consciousness and the faculty of earth-life
are mere selections,
and which reasserts itself in its plenitude
after the liberating change of death.
F.W.H. Myers
Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death
The certain prospect of death
could sweeten every life
with a precious and fragrant drop of levity--
and now you strange apothecary souls
have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison
that makes the whole of life repulsive.
Friedrich Nietzsche
"If you speak the truth," he said,
"I lose nothing when I lose my life.
I am not much more than an animal
which has been taught to dance by blows
and a few meager morsels."
"Not at all," said Zarathustra,
"you have made danger your calling;
there is nothing contemptible in that.
Now you perish by your calling:
therefore I will bury you
with my own hands."
When Zarathustra had said this
the dying one did not reply further;
but he moved his hand as if he sought
the hand of Zarathustra in gratitude.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Every life is different,
but every death is the same.
We live with others.
We die alone.
And what is important to this story
is that the moment we die
is not the same as the moment
we are perceived as dead.
Our lives end before others notice,
and the time that spans that distance
is the inverse of the grief your loved ones will suffer
when you leave them behind.
David R. Dow
Things I've Learned From Dying
There is no life without death,
there is no renewal without the dying of the old.
Dying is not blotting out,
it is transition.
For it has ever been and is,
even in materiality,
a reciprocal world.
Edgar Cayce
Beyond Death
Whereas during our physical life,
the immediate contemplation of our birth
can never rise up before our soul,
the moment of death stands before our soul
throughout our life between death and a new birth,
if we only look upon it spiritually.
We must realize that we then
look upon the moment of death from the other side.
Here, on earth,
death has a terrifying aspect
only because we look upon it as a kind of dissolution,
as an end.
But when we look back
upon the moment of death from the other side,
from the spiritual side,
then death continually appears to us
as a victory of the spirit,
as the Spirit that is extricating itself from the physical.
It then appears as the greatest,
most beautiful and significant event.
Rudolf Steiner
The Moment of Death and the Period Thereafter
Your father
will not be your father on the other side,
but a friend
who played the role of the father over here
Emmet Fox
The Emmet Fox Reader
In this hour of joy it is not proper to grieve.
The goal, so hard to win,
which for many aeons I have wished for,
now at last is no longer far away.
When that is won,
no earth or water, fire, wind or ether is present;
unchanging bliss beyond all objects of the senses,
a peace which none can take away,
the highest thing there is;
and when you hear of that
and know that no becoming mars it
and nothing ever there can pass away—
how then, is there room for grief in your minds?
The Buddha, at death,
speaking to his followers
Death does not exist.
What you call “death”
is merely a process of Re-Identification
Neale Donald Walsch
What God Said
Death ,
as the saints , sages , and near - death experiencers tell us ,
is only a shift from sensory awareness of our physical body
to a more complete and more subtle awareness
of our ever - present energy body .
Our energy body is constantly with us .
It animates , controls , and continuously creates our physical body .
Moreover , as the saints and sages tell us ,
our energy body contains what is most important ,
most characteristic , most essential ;
the things that give meaning to who and what we are :
our thoughts , our feelings , our dreams ,
our knowledge , our memories , our enduring character traits .
When we die ,
these essential aspects of who we are
continue to exist where they have always existed —
in our nonlocal energy body .
Joseph Selbie
The Physics of God
Life is a struggle, but death is only a rest
for those who have gone through the struggle of life.
For those who did not live,
death brings nothing but fear.
For one who is alive,
death simply does not exist.
It is out of the struggles of life
that a restful death is earned.
It is earned through living.
Therefore, the one who dies a death that is earned
attains deathlessness.
Like a Jesus, like a Socrates.
Earn death –
that is the only essential challenge of life.
Osho
Love Letters to Life
The angel of death
can teach us to live every day
as if it is the last day of our lives ,
as if there may be no tomorrow .
We can begin each day by saying ,
“ I am awake , I see the sun .
I am going to give my gratitude to the sun
and to everything and everyone ,
because I am still alive .
One more day to be myself .
” That is the way I see life ,
that is what the angel of death taught me —
to be completely open
, to know that there is nothing to be afraid of .
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
The most helpful person
is one who is comfortable with death,
with groundlessness,
and with not knowing.
Like a strong rider on a frisky horse,
this is someone who can ride
on top of whatever’s happening
without being thrown by it
and without trying to fix it.
Expect the unexpected.
Learn to appreciate silence and uncertainty.
Andrw Holecek
Preparing to Die
Reading 5488-1
Q: What advice as to how to take up life again?
A: In the application of self to the vicissitudes of life—
in the midst of life one is in the midst of death,
for death is but the beginning of life,
as life is but the beginning of an opportunity
to manifest that as is innately built
within the soul of an individual itself.
Edgar Cayce
Beyond Death
What, exactly, is this “home”
to which people seek to return?
Most people think that “going home”
means returning to God.
But you cannot return to God
, because you never left God—
and your soul knows this.
YOU may not know this at a conscious level,
but your souls know this.
Neale Donald Walsch
Home With God
It has always been known
that the capacity to accept death in the midst of life—
to swing with a conventionally intolerable vibration—
is a source of immense creative power.
“Unless a grain of corn falls into the ground and dies,
it remains isolated.
But if it dies,
it brings forth much fruit.”
And the Zen master Bunan:
While living be a dead man,
thoroughly dead.
Then, whatever you do,
just as you will,
will be right.
Alan Watts:
Does It Matter?: Essays on Man’s Relation to Materiality
Death has been dissected,
cut to bits by a series of little steps,
which finally make it impossible to know
which step was the real death,
the one in which consciousness was lost,
or the one in which breathing stopped.
All these little silent deaths
have replaced the great dramatic act of death,
and no one any longer has the strength or patience
to wait over a period of weeks
for a moment that has lost a part of its meaning.
Philippe Aries
Western Attitudes Toward Death
It is well for you to bear in mind the Universality of Life.
All of the Universe is alive, vibrating
and pulsating with life and energy and motion.
There is nothing dead in the Universe.
Life is everywhere,
and always accompanied by intelligence.
There is no such thing
as a dead, unintelligent Universe.
Instead of being atoms of Life
floating in a sea of death,
we are atoms of Life
surrounded by an ocean of Life,
pulsating, moving, thinking, and living.
William Walker Atkinson
A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga
Death,
especially the most completely felt and experienced death,
has never remained an obstacle to life
for a surviving individual,
because its innermost essence
is not contrary to us
(as one may occasionally suspect),
but it is more knowing about life
than we are in our most vital moments.
I always think that such a great weight,
with its tremendous pressure,
somehow has the task of forcing us
into a deeper, more intimate layer of life
so that we may grow out of it
all the more vibrant and fertile.
Rainer Maria Rilke
The Dark Interval
The Reality of Life is Life itself,
whose beginning is not in the womb,
and whose ending is not in the grave.
For the years that pass
are naught but a moment in eternal life;
and the world of matter and all in it
is but a dream
compared to the awakening
which we call the terror of Death.
Kahlil Gibran
The Words of the Master
There is only one ego appearing as many.
Among the seemingly separated ones
there is no belief where compromise is more willingly accepted
than the belief in the dream of death.
As the Course puts it:
There isn’t really anyone else out there.
There is only one ego appearing as many.…
If death is real for anything,
there is no life.
Death denies life.
But if there is reality in life,
death is denied.
Gary R. Renard
The Disappearance of the Universe
Chances are that your elders
were callow youths before you were born.
The distance until your death and theirs
is not measured in days until then.
It’s measured in life.
It’s always been there,
your death and theirs,
the daemon at the end of your lives.
Both you and your old people
have the same thing left:
the rest of your lives.
Stephen Jenkinson
Come of Age
Ancestors, friends, and colleagues
want me to tell you
that even though physical death has intervened,
forgiveness can still be given and received.
Most importantly, they want me to show you
that love and life continue,
that they’re still part of the family
and witnessing both important events and little moments,
and that we will all meet again in good time.
They are always delighted
when a physical loved one comes calling,
and are eager to share their perspective
on their time in the physical world.
As more than one spirit has cheerfully told me:
“It will all make sense when you’re dead!”
Priscilla Keresey
It Will All Make Sense When You're Dead:
Messages From Our Loved Ones in the Spirit World
The dreams of those about to die
often involve dream structures
that already prepare them for future existence.
In fact, towards death
a great dream acceleration is involved
as new probabilities are considered —a
dream acceleration that provides
psychic impetus for new birth.
Jane Roberts
The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression
Pressing and poignant though the problem of my mortality,
of the end of this life – certainly is,
it is not the problem.
The crucial question is: who is mortal?
Whose life is it, in any case?
Solve that puzzle, and the rest follows.
There is no other way.
Douglas Harding
The Little Book of Life and Death
Each night, when I go to sleep,
I die.
And the next morning,
when I wake up,
I am reborn.
Mahatma Gandhi
Those who are conscious in their dying
don’t obsess on money, or houses,
or occupations, or pleasures, or even peace.
They speak of love.
Philip Jones
Light on Death
Look, denial is fine.
It is normal to deny death.
We are wired that way.
But just, for a little bit, step outside of denial,
get your paperwork in order,
think about the options that face us,
think about the fact that each of us will, in time, die.
Talk with the people who are important to you.
Get your hands around death and dying
and then, if you wish,
step right back into denial.
Susan Abel Lieberman
Death, Dying and Dessert:
Reflections on Twenty Questions About Dying
"Now is the time to dig down for questions
, impossible to accept that your powers are so limited,
and impossible to accept that your own body
can’t always behave and respond well.
Life is a mesmerizing mess,
but if you were a proper Christian
you’d find a comforting answer
for the finite and infinite,
the temporal and spiritual,
with no grasping insistence that tomorrow, after all,
will not be just another day.
Isn’t it all too burdensome,
this life,
with so much loss taking its root in the heart,
as the body goes spinning on
towards a dreadful cessation.
As Rita dies, I am a clenched fist,
and we are soon in the church,
where our intensity must be contained
because you must accept
that for a while you are here,
and then one day you are not,
because it’s all part of living.
Accept, accept, accept.
Accept even the unacceptable."
Morrissey
Autobiography
The wave of psychic research that is now sweeping across the world
will wear thin the veil between the visible and the invisible.
More and more men and women
will live in two worlds at the same time;
for the two worlds occupy the same space,
and their differences
are differences of consciousness, of vibration,
the latter including a difference in states of matter.
Elsa Barker
Last Letters From the Living Dead Man
A conscious death
allows you to utilize the death process
in a way that transforms what appears to be
a mere biological disfunction, or accident,
into a spiritual art form—
the tool for the transformation of consciousness
that it should be.
Conscious dying has effects
exponentially powerful, benign and beneficial
to the individual, society and all life.
Anya Foos-Graber
Deathing
Life is expression.
It comes to be out of the force of itself,
and no force stands against it or threatens it.
Death in your terms certainly seems an end,
but it is instead
a translation of life into another form.
The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression
For more than twenty years,
I’ve been talking to people about death and the end of life,
from the loss of newborn babies
to young adults in their prime to elderly parents.
There have been natural deaths and traumatic deaths—
accidents, overdoses, suicides—
deaths from disease, deaths from old age.
Yet all of these conversations have had one theme in common:
a connection felt by the living person to the deceased
at or around the moment of death.
These are all healthy, vital people
who continue to live active lives.
But for a moment,
they were linked to another human being
during a time of ultimate passage.
I started identifying these moments
as “shared crossings,”
and what they tell us
is that none of us is leaving this earth alone.
Each of us can and will be guided on our journey.
How can I be certain of that?
Because more and more,
those who remain among the living
have seen it, have felt it,
and a few have even joined their loved ones
for part of their journey to the afterlife.
William J. Peters.
At Heaven's Door:
What Shared Journeys to the Afterlife Teach About Dying Well and Living Better
So many who are dying
also say
that they have never felt so alive.
Stephen and Ondrea Levine
Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying
Instead of discussing openly how to think about death
and what we might appropriately choose in our dying
-a painful and difficult subject-
we too frequently and too easily
transform the issue into the more distanced, comfortable language
of rights and choices:
not how or what we ought to choose,
but that we have a right to choose.
Daniel Callahan
The Troubled Dream of Life
In that moment
when Life and Death suddenly integrate,
that Inconceivable Light
passes before our eyes
like a shooting star.
Shinmon Aoki
Coffinman: The Journal of a Buddhist Mortician
We are old friends,
and his passing hence
has not severed an earthly friendship;
on the contrary, it has increased it,
and provided many more opportunities of meeting
than would have been possible had he remained on earth.
He constantly expresses his delight
upon his ability to return to earth
in a natural, normal, healthy, and pleasant manner,
and to give some account of his adventures and experiences
in the spirit world,
as one who 'being dead (as many would regard him),
yet speaketh'.
Anthony Borgia
Life in the World Unseen
“The thing to do when you’re impatient,” he proceeded,
“is to turn to your left and ask advice from your death.
An immense amount of pettiness is dropped
if your death makes a gesture to you,
or if you catch a glimpse of it,
or if you just have the feeling
that your companion is there watching you."
Carlos Castaneda
Journey To Ixlan
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