“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
Blessed Angel of Death
Proud of my new pacemaker…age 70.
“As the Buddha said, We are but guests visiting this world, though most do not know this. Those who see the real situation no longer feel inclined to quarrel.”
Margret Coberly, Sacred Passage
“The events of one’s life often appear to be accidental happenings, disconnected footprints on the sands of our experience. But if one looks beneath the surface, connections appear, singly at first and then in a tangle that, as it becomes sorted out, makes clear that everything is interconnected. These interlocking events gradually reveal a pattern, not exactly a cause-and-effect connection but an interrelationship, so that early events time-wise become hooked into later events and vice-versa.”
Winnafred Lucas, Regression Thereapy, a Handbook for Professionals
“For someone who has prepared and practiced, death comes not as a defeat but as a triumph, the crowing and most glorious moment of life”.
Sogyal Rinpoche, quoted in Preparing to Die, by Andrew Holecek
“Most of us spend our lives looking out at the world, chasing after thoughts and things. We’re distracted by all kinds of objects and rarely look into the mind which is the ultimate source of these objects. If we turn our mind and look into the right direction, however, we will find our way to a good life- and a good death. Instead of being carried along with external constructs of mind, we finally examine the blueprints of mind itself.”
Andrew Holecek, Preparing to Die
Changing the Hypnosis Course dates;
It’s unfortunate, but due to the ongoing outbreak of the COVID plague, I’m going to postpone the Hypnosis Certification Training Course until next spring 2023. Although hypnotherapy can be performed audio visually, or even over the phone, the training for hypnosis really is best in-person. Over the 100 hours, there’s a repetition of exercises involving close proximity. Wintertime, closed indoors is less then ideal compared to the warmer temperatures and open windows for ventilation. I’ll be posting the new proposed dates soon.
Death of the Jamaican woman, courtesy of Joe Black
“It is truly a great cosmic paradox that one of the best teachers in all of life turns out to be death. No person or situation could ever teach you as much as death has to teach you. While someone could tell you that you are not your body, death shows you. While someone could remind you of the insignificance of the things that you cling to, death takes them all away in a second. While people can teach you that men and women of all races are equal and that there is no difference between the rich and the poor, death instantly makes us all the same.” from The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer
“The power of the mind is extraordinary. With our mind we make our world. The mind-the ground of both life and death-is an inner treasure of clarity and self understanding that we can draw upon, even to ease the suffering of death. Yet, sad to say, it is an inner treasure often recognized in extremity. But the treasure is always there, its discovery imminent in any moment. It is not dying that reveals it, but awakening.”
Margret Coberly, Sacred Passage
“….It would be well for us were we taught from our earliest years to think of our lives as rising and falling like a boat on the crest of a wave. Now descending into matter through the gates of birth: now re-ascending into the invisible world through the gates of death, ever and anon to return again and withdraw again in the rhythmical cyclic tide of evolving life.” says Dion Fortune, Through the Gates of Death.
When Bill Parrish first meets Joe Black in the library, finds out he has only days to live.
Quote from Dion Fortune
Perhaps we aren’t alone.
“…And many wanderers eventually find a ‘‘place’’ that seems lighter and warmer than the chilly darkness of the earthbound state in which they have been, and they move into what turns out to be the body or aura of a living person, and become attached entities of that person, often without either the living host or the invading souls being aware of the relationship.” Louise Ireland Frey, MD., Freeing the Captives
Sunrise or sunset?
Everything life brings to us, life takes away. We move from celebrating to grieving, over and over again through the cycles of life. Grieving is inevitable. Maybe we should cultivate acceptance after the protest and become good at it.
Suffering and martyrdom arise from how we view our existence. Is the glass half empty or half full?
Roger Woolger – Bio
Beyond Death: Transition and the Afterlife
ROGER WOOLGER, PH.D 1944 – 2011
was a Jungian analyst, regression therapist and lecturer with degrees in psychology, religion and philosophy from Oxford and London Universities. He trained as an analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich. Born in England, Roger Woolger lived and taught Jungian and transpersonal psychology and comparative religion in North America and England. He has been a Guest Professor at Vassar College, where he gave the Mary Mellon Memorial lectures in 1988. He also was a Visiting Professor the University of Vermont (1975) and Concordia University, Montreal (1979-80). He led workshops at the New York Open Centre, Esalen Institute and Omega Institute, and lectured at a broad range of conferences internationally.
A gifted psychotherapist and teacher, Roger Woolger had the ability to bring people through deep transformative experiences with deep compassion creating an atmosphere that is safe and contained. In addition, he had an extraordinary (and much commented upon) ability to illuminate the broader spiritual picture—everything from Sufism to Western mysticism to Shakespeare–-teaching with humour through poetry, music, story and meditation
“If you live long enough, you die of everything.” said Kenneth A. Handcock, who died in 1987. He was right.
“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.” Buddha
“Slowly it dawns on us that all the heartache that we have been through from grasping at the ungraspable was, in a deeper sense, unnecessary. At the beginning, this too might be painful to accept because it seems so unfamiliar. But as we reflect, slowly our hearts and minds go through a gradual transformation. Letting go begins to feel more natural, and becomes easier and easier. It may take a long time for the extent of our foolishness to sink in, but the more we reflect, the more we develop the view of letting go. It is then that a complete shift takes place in our way of looking at everything. Sogyal Rinpoche, quoted from Preparing to Die by Andrew Holecek
