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What is Death?
We could think of death as the Soul disengaging from the body, while
processing and integrating all of its life experiences into feelings
that becomes a permanent part of the Souls core essence. The Soul
as a form of subtle energy uses the body as a means of expressing within
the physical realm. The Soul comes into a particular lifetime with
a purpose that serves its growth in an optimal way. At death, the Soul's
purpose is fulfilled, and like graduating from school, it moves on to a
new purpose that will acquire a whole new set of experiences in order to
evolve it through self-knowledge. Death is a form of Soul
transitioning from one plane to the next.
What happens when we die?
While there is a general idea or universal process that everyone seems
to experience, "how" they experience it in terms of interpretation is
based on the individuals belief system and perceptual lens. While there are some
differences, how and why those differences occur may be significant to
the individual. The experience of death, strangely enough, like life, is
based on how we create experiences of what would otherwise be called an
objective or neutral reality. We create meaning in death just as
we do in life. Our mind as the "experiencer" doesn't seem to change
much. The witnessing faculty is apart of our eternal consciousness
and remains fully in tact through the death experience. We
actually perceive and witness not only our own death, but our funeral
also. We stay with our body for approximately 3-4 days as a means of
processing our life experiences. This is why it became traditional
to wait 4-5 days after death to bury or cremate the body.
What is the purpose of life?
The most basic purpose of life is to grow and evolve the Soul to a
higher state of perfection achieved by acquiring a broad range of
experiences that allow it to know itself through specific conditions,
circumstances, and personalities. The over-all purpose is
self-perfection to a god-like state of virtue and moral purity that
releases its attachment to emotional patterns that keep it tied to the
physical realm by identifying with the body.
What is Karma and how do we resolve it?
Karma is the fundamental law of cause and effect. Its unconscious
patterns that we repeat that creates themes and behavioral dynamics that
we do without full awareness. We have a story built around
perceptual patterns that keep us acting them out without direct
awareness of how we act to create them. They are fundamental
beliefs that form tendencies that develop as apart of our basic
personality. Because they are unconscious, they come as impulses, urges
or qualities that are stimulated in us from outside sources that have
whole perceptual patterns as behavioral dynamics inherent within them.
To resolve karma is to
bring awareness to our own tendencies and reactive patterns that allow
us to recognize them and consciously choose in the moment to respond in
a new and more productive manner. Self-realization and awareness
provides us with the basic foundation for transcending perceptual errors
that lead to unproductive behavior and form new perceptions that empower
us to create new perceptions that empower us in our own life allowing us
to tell new stories that shape our experiences while developing us at
the same time. Whatever karma we don't transform through choice
and personal will power, we carry forward and repeat the same dynamic
interactive patterns in continuing lives.
What does it mean to "prepare" for a
"good death?"
Preparing for death means to approach it from a conscious perspective
and making sure you have resolved unconscious tendencies to the best of
your ability. It's undergoing the forgiveness process so that you let go
of any hard feelings, resentment, anger, feelings of betrayal, etc., as
well as ask for forgiveness from anyone that you have wronged. It's can
also mean not being afraid because you know what to expect and have
thought it out so that you can respond to the experience in a conscious
manner without becoming frightened and confused. Death is in reality a
continuation of life and has to be approached in as conscious a manner
as possible. Anytime we are afraid and allow fear to take hold, we go
unconscious and begin creating an illusion in our mind that expresses
the fear. We can create illusions in death just as we do in waking
life.
The ego as our identity is
the conscious mind which is created out of the subconscious personality
and is associated with the body. Our identity is about our current life
and physical existence. The conscious mind as the ego/identity passes
away with the body. So if we don't let go of our ego as a means of
preparing for death, we have a sense of extinction or annihilation which
is in fact an illusion in and of itself which can create a pervading
feeling of terror or dread. Yet the subconscious mind and the Soul
transcend death and integrate this life's experience into energetic
essence called subtle energy as vibratory intelligence that becomes the
basis for forming our future personalities. Whatever knowledge we
have obtained through this lifetime that we don't integrate, or whatever
unconscious tendencies we carry forward because we were not able to
bring them into conscious awareness gets carried forward as karma.
Patterns of behavior as feelings that form tendencies.
If we undergo the process
of fully integrating experiences into feelings, work through issues
around forgiveness, and let go of our attachment to material possessions
and roles that we have played in this lifetime, we can resolve
unconsciousness, carry forward the progress we have made and not have to
repeat similar themes and behavioral dynamics that are imprinted in our
mind as deep seated, habitual memories. If we cling to our
identity/ego of this lifetime then we mourn our own death and often form
a tremendous amount of fear around dying. Yet the true reality is that
death is a beautiful experience where we release all emotional pain and
suffering and move back into our eternal existence as a Soul which
continues evolving.
How do we escape death?
We don't necessarily escape death but rather transcend it. Yet in order
to do this we must have a working understanding of the evolutionary
process and how we gather, accumulate and process the various
experiences that we have from life-time to life-time with different
personalities, external conditions, gender, cultures and eras, and life
circumstances. Death is in reality a birth into another dimension.
The actual experience of it is remarkably similar to the experience of
being born . . . the tunnel (birth canal) and the light (coming out of
the darkness of your mothers body) and into the world, probably shocked,
cold and crying. Until you see your Mothers loving gaze and realize
you're simply in a new reality.
The idea of transcending death really has more to do with not having to
be reincarnated back into this dimension and undergo what is in reality
mostly about emotional traumas, unpredictable conditions, illness,
disease and various forms of suffering by your own hand and acting out
unconscious tendencies.
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