We could do this for everybody who dies. There is no reason why we can't. My grandmother lived in a nursing home for the last two to three years of her life and those places are not the best places in the world to take your last breath in either. In England , they are manned by very young girls who are paid very low wages and they have no idea of what death and dying is about at all. They are very fearful of it but they cannot get any other job. So a person who is dying ends up in a place where nobody has any idea about what's going on with them at all, and when a person is ready to die, everybody clears out of the room and leaves them to it. Nobody is there with them at all. So again, if you think how many nursing homes there are now in England alone, and this happens in every Western country, how many people are dying every day in that space? This causes us to wonder why the Western psyche, the Western consciousness is so traumatized, because remember even though those people who are leaving the incarnation are coloring all of humanity by their experiences. Every one of those people who are dying in a very bad space has an effect on humanity as a whole. A lot of the fear around is coming from this one place so this is why we need to look at it and do something about it.
The Hospice Movement arose from a recognition that people need to die in a place which is more conducive to where they want to be in that time. When I worked for that movement they would not allow any spiritual work to be done in that place because hospices are funded specifically with regard to political correctness and they did not want to be seen as having anything to do with anything like healing, or spiritual work at all. I have been to about three or four hospices where they have a small chapel which is always set aside from where everybody is and I feel it is there for political reasons to be seen. Since that time, I have now heard that a small number of hospices in the Bradford area are allowing healers into their space in a limited way.
When I worked in the hospice in 1995, that was the situation then. Any kind of spiritual work was not allowed at all. It was very much frowned on and the new one which opened in Bradford about five years ago was the same . The main reason why I had to leave the hospice in 1995, was that somebody found out that I was a healer, and as soon as the administration found out this fact I was asked to leave as a volunteer, even though I had been working there successfully for four years. I had to leave a job which I thoroughly enjoyed because they were totally fearful that the media and the trustees would get to know that there was a healer in the hospice.
At the time of writing this article I have to say that it feels as though the times and changing. I have heard that some of the hospices around Bradford are now allowing healers to practice. This has occurred, however, only in the last couple of years. As far I am aware there is no structure in place for allowing the healer or a spiritual guide to be present around the dying person at the moment of their death in order to facilitate a perfect exiting from this incarnation.
So the situation is changing slowly but nobody is doing the work that needs to be done. In my studies of the death and dying process one of the best sources of information was the American spiritual teacher called Ram Das. He has done a lot of work since the 60s in America but again not very successfully because America is very closed, always has been and very much so even now to this kind of work and he has tried to set a few projects off and to my understanding they have never really met with any success. Also, a friend of his call Stephen Levine has also worked with this and has published a number of very good books on the death and dying process, and on grieving. However, there is a new wave coming through now and we really need to look again at the process of death and dying again.
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