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In the West death has always considered to be something to be avoided, in fact most people don't even like talking about death. If you have ever been in hospital where people are actually dying they always pull the curtains around that person so nobody sees the death. It is always considered to be something to be hidden, and in the old days they even placed that person in a room separate from everybody else. My grandfather, when he died in a hospital in Lancashire , England , in the middle of the night, he died alone, with the curtains pulled around him, because they didn't want the rest of the ward to be upset by the fact that he was dying. This is pretty sad really because death is part of life and we all go through it, not just people go through it but everything dies or let's go of one form so it can be reborn in another form, and it's just part of the cosmic process.
But again it seems like Western society has again taken what is natural and shunned it or put it to one side or perverted it into some kind of fearful thing to be avoided at all costs. Part of the Ascension is that the whole thing around death and dying is being looked at so that humanity can recognize that there is a spiritual aspect to death and dying, and that's really what this article is about.
I also remember when I was a child, and most of you probably do, that when a relative died the fact that that person had died was mentioned in hushed whispers if you were around. I personally was told to go upstairs or go to another room so they could talk about the death of a person I was very close to because they had died. The whole situation creates a mystique around it and the fact that when people go to funerals, they go into great grief and misery because they believe that that person has just disappeared, never to be seen again. The whole situation generates fear around death. Now, I have to say in some societies in the world this is not true. In fact the majority of the world; this fear of death seems to be felt more in the West than in any other place and they have this very limiting view. In Ireland they welcome all of the family into a room where the person who has just died is laid in a coffin and they have a three-day wake. Three days is important as I will try to explain later. The wake is open for friends and relatives or anybody to come and view the person as they lie in their coffin and they celebrate that person's life. This is really not done in the West generally.
One of the reasons why this is so important is that viewed from Spirit, death is not considered to be a death at all. When you leave the physical body to raise your consciousness to a higher level, Spirit does not see this as a shock, horror event at all. In actual fact it is the mirror image. It is viewed by Spirit to be the most wonderful thing that has ever happened to that person because in Spirit, you leaving the higher realms of Spirit to incarnate on the earth is considered by Spirit to be death. When you are on the higher planes you are totally aware of who you are, in the sense that you have a perception of all the lifetimes you have ever lived on this planet and others, your origins, where you came from before you became part of the human race on earth, because most of us are eternal beings of light. That full knowledge is anchored into your consciousness when you are on the higher dimensions.
To incarnate here you have to go through bands of energy which wipe your memory clean so that when you are born here you start off being totally disconnected, as an earthly consciousness, from any knowledge about who you are on the higher planes, and from Spirit that is considered to be a death, which it really is.
So you start here with no perception at all about why you are here or what this reality is all about. The only thing you have to go on is what you are told as part of your childhood, and what's actually anchored into your DNA, and societal values. The society we live in has gradually disconnected from spiritual knowledge and the information we are given as children has slowly distanced itself from the truth, spiritually.
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