This is certainly what needs to happen because in our society we are very energetically encouraged to believe that what is before our eyes is the only thing that truly exists. There are all sorts of reasons for this, none of them to do with Spirit at all. It is more to do with how the society is structured, and why. It is part of the illusion which is created by this society, but it has a catastrophic effect on the whole of human consciousness because of all the fear and anger it anchors there.
Death itself is a process. Everybody goes through the same process, whether it's a person dying, a planet dying, a solar system dying, or a galaxy dying, or anything dying. The process of dying is a transition into higher level of existence. Whatever it is that is making that transition goes through a set of reactions; reactions to the event. A lady called Elizabeth Kubla Ross was a lady who did the foundation work in the 60s on death and dying in the West. She spent her life's work working with people who were dying and observed and helped them through that process, and tried to understand the process itself. She observed that when you are dying you transition through six emotional states. The first one is relief. This is relief that you actually know what is happening. Circumstances occur where somebody will actually tell you that a condition exists in your life which is going to bring that life to an end.
The next one is denial. This is the belief that what you've just been told is wrong. It cannot happen to you. Other people die, but how can this happen to you? You are not ready to die. You do not know how to do it. You do not know the rules.
The next one is blame. You give yourself a hard time for finding yourself in this situation.
Another is resentment. Why should this happen to me? Why can't it happen to that person over there, or that one over there?
Then there is despair, anger, frustration.
The other thing that comes in is grief. Your perception tells you that you are about to lose your life. Your life is who you are, who you perceive yourself to be, your identity; and you are about to lose it.
All of these emotions constantly arise, sometimes quite rapidly over a short period of time so it feels that you are on an emotional rollercoaster.
In the West this can be a traumatic experience because it is the one thing that is going to happen to all of us, and there is no manual. You feel totally disempowered because there is nowhere to go where somebody can tell you how to deal with the situation. This is where the fear comes in. Nobody wants to talk to you about it, and nobody will tell you how to do it well. The other hurtful thing is that most of your friends and family will not want to go anywhere near it. They will not want to talk about it in your presence, because it will bring up their own fears of their own mortality. So you find yourself totally alone, facing the most important thing that will ever happen to you in this lifetime, with no help coming your way at all. This is why the spiritual perspective on death now needs to be circulated worldwide to those who want to hear.
So the person who is dying is going through the most traumatic experience they will ever have in that lifetime with nobody to give them any support. This is where, in the future, people who choose to do this work in service will help these people and dispel the energies of fear surrounding death in the West. We know the process. Elizabeth Kubla Ross knew the process. The Tibetans have known the process of death and dying since Atlantian times, 14,500 years ago, but this knowledge is just not put out in the West. However, this is now changing. You can get the book "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying" by Sogyal Rinpoche which gives the knowledge held by the Tibetans about the process of passing through the veils of death. We can read and understand this material, become familiar with the process, and help these people get through it.
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