“Life is terminal” ~ Emmanuel
“Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.” ~ Henry Van Dyke
Death is big. Really big. It is known and unknown, mysterious, frightening, peaceful, and so darn permanent. We all know we will die - eventually - and yet part of us believes we will be here forever. We think we are invincible, especially when we are young. There is something about death that most of us just can’t grasp.
Some of us think about death alot, and yet most people live in some denial about death. We are afraid of losing control, we are afraid of pain, we are afraid of the unknown. How do we make peace with something that is so inconceivable to us? And so permanent? When a loved one dies, they are gone - never again can we touch or see them. At least not in the physical realm.
Spiritual beliefs often help us make peace with death. Sometimes spiritual beliefs are religious in nature, sometimes they aren’t. I know my (non-religious) spiritual beliefs have helped me tremendously. And that is why I started this website and blog - to share my spiritual beliefs and experiences, and to hopefully help you find peace and healing with the loss of loved ones as well as dealing with your own death.
As an ordained minister of the Healing Light Center Church, Reiki Master and Intuitive Energy Healer and Teacher for over 20 years, I am very comfortable working in the world of energy and spirit. My personal belief is that we are all amazing spirits who have been “alive” before we came into our current bodies, and will continue to be “alive” after our bodies go back to the earth. What is even more amazing and fun to me is that I see our spirits as who we have always been and at the same time, as our highest potential selves.
When we work in the world of energy and spirit, we are working in the world of paradox. Our society seems to value literal, linear, logical thinking – we call this “reality”. To me, “reality” is “both, and”. We can be both dead and alive. And, when we let go, we usually can be closer to a loved one than when we are desperately holding on in grief. And, when we let go of our fear of death, we can be more fully alive and happy now!
This website and blog offers you tools to help you learn more about death from a spiritual, paradoxical perspective. One of my favorite books, and quotes, is from a book called “Emmanuel’s Book” by Pat Rodegast, published in 1985.
Emmanuel says: “Death is like taking off a tight shoe.”
“Even when you are dead, you are still alive. You do not cease to exist at death. That is only illusion.
You go through the doorway of death alive and there is no altering of the consciousness. It is not a strange land you go to but a land of living reality where the growth process is a continuation.
Life and death should not be considered as opposites. It is closer to the truth to speak of dying as an entrance rather than an exit.
What the doorway of death offers is a resurgence of tremendous vitality, for you are entering from what could be described as a watered down version of life into the thing itself, the vitality of primary reality.
If death could be seen as a beautiful clear lake, refreshing and buoyant, then when a consciousness moves towards its exit from a body, there would be that delightful plunge and it would simply swim away.”