Author: Dieter G. Gedeik
Publisher: Baker eBooks Publishing
ISBN: 1625692145
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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THE PROCESS OF DYING AND OUR JOURNEY BEYOND What really happens when we shed our physical body! By Dieter G. Gedeik Why should you care? What would you do if your manager at work tells you that she is sending you to a foreign country next month to open a new branch? Would you immediately start preparing for this? Would you quickly check on? Visa and inoculation requirements, transportation, currency, prices, local & labor laws, housing, etc. Of course, you would! Whether you shed your physical body tomorrow or in 60 years, you will go to a place you might, right now, know little about. This book sheds some badly needed light on what really happens to various types of people as they discard their physical bodies and their journey through the astral and mental planes, until all that is good merges into the Soul. Look at the book's content page for the many topics addressed in this important writing. For two thousand years the Westerner has relied solely upon his faith in Christian teachings that man survives beyond the grave. For many of us the words “Faith” and “Believe” are no longer good enough. They imply “not knowing” whereas younger people, born into the age of Aquarius demand to know and to experience. The search for the purpose of life and the very important subject of life after death has been with the author since the age of nine. Much research was done and plenty of personal experience recalled to make this little book possible. May this information encourage you to research further and bring desperately needed Light and Love to this planet.
Author: Christopher Kerr
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525542841
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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The first book to validate the meaningful dreams and visions that bring comfort as death nears. Christopher Kerr is a hospice doctor. All of his patients die. Yet he has cared for thousands of patients who, in the face of death, speak of love and grace. Beyond the physical realities of dying are unseen processes that are remarkably life-affirming. These include dreams that are unlike any regular dream. Described as "more real than real," these end-of-life experiences resurrect past relationships, meaningful events and themes of love and forgiveness; they restore life's meaning and mark the transition from distress to comfort and acceptance. Drawing on interviews with over 1,400 patients and more than a decade of quantified data, Dr. Kerr reveals that pre-death dreams and visions are extraordinary occurrences that humanize the dying process. He shares how his patients' stories point to death as not solely about the end of life, but as the final chapter of humanity's transcendence. Kerr's book also illuminates the benefits of these phenomena for the bereaved, who find solace in seeing their loved ones pass with a sense of calm closure. Beautifully written, with astonishing real-life characters and stories, this book is at its heart a celebration of our power to reclaim the dying process as a deeply meaningful one. Death Is But a Dream is an important contribution to our understanding of medicine's and humanity's greatest mystery.
Author: Dieter G. Gedeik
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781625692153
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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THE ART OF DYING AND OUR JOURNEY BEYONDWhat really happens when we shed our physical body!By Dieter G. GedeikWhy should you care?What would you do if your manager at work tells you that she is sending you to a foreign country next month to open a new branch? Would you immediately start preparing for this? Would you quickly check on?Visa and inoculation requirements,transportation, currency, prices,local & labor laws, housing, etc.Of course, you would!Whether you shed your physical body tomorrow or in 60 years, you will go to a place you might, right now, know little about.This book sheds some badly needed light on what really happens to various types of people as they discard their physical bodies and their journey through the astral and mental planes, until all that is good merges into the Soul. Look at the book's content page for the many topics addressed in this important writing. For two thousand years the Westerner has relied solely upon his faith in Christian teachings that man survives beyond the grave. For many of us the words "Faith" and "Believe" are no longer good enough. They imply "not knowing" whereas younger people, born into the age of Aquarius demand to know and to experience. The search for the purpose of life and the very important subject of life after death has been with the author since the age of nine. Much research was done and plenty of personal experience recalled to make this little book possible. May this information encourage you to research further and bring desperately needed Light and Love to this planet.
Author: Diane Goble
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780963860651
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Diane Goble had a near-death experience in 1971 and received specific information to bring back with her to share with others. For the past 35 years she has been involved in the field of death and dying as a spiritual counselor and hospice volunteer, and is the author of several books, a blog "Let's talk about death and dying..." and a major NDE web site since 1996, BeyondtheVeil.net. She created a training course to teach paraprofessionals to be Transition Guides for those who are getting ready to leave their bodies and return to their spiritual home according to their own beliefs. Her message is that we don't die, only our bodies die but we don't need them any more. Our soul consciousness existed before we were born into a body and continues beyond the death of our body. We are beautiful spiritual beings of light on an eternal journey and shedding our skin is part of our spiritual growth and the evolution of consciousness. In "Beyond the Veil: Our Journey Home," Goble condensed her Transition Guide Training Program into this handbook for caregivers and patients. It offers a simple, non-denominational method of meditation and guided imagery practice to help us remember who we really are while still in our body. "By practicing to die consciously before we die physically," she says, "we are prepared and aware of what's happening when we find ourselves out of our body no matter how it died. This book is for every one because we are all, after all, going to make our transition one day, but it is especially germane to anyone who has received a terminal diagnosis and for adult children caring for their aging parents. It will help you and your family to have the conversations you need to have about end of life care and your last wishes. It will help the person leaving reconcile this life and prepare for a peaceful transition on their own terms. You'll find information about palliative and hospice care, final arrangements, and Death With Dignity laws. You'll delve into the subject of near-death experiences and the current research into the survival of consciousness, and the ancient mysteries that gave birth to our understanding of death and the afterlife. This is no ordinary book and it is guaranteed to change your life!
Author: Greg Pacini
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1504329112
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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In Journey Beyond Hardship, author Greg Pacini offers a down-to-earth and compelling manual for making your way through difficult times. You may be fighting with all your might to leave an abusive relationship or to recover from an addiction. Your body may be altered by illness or injury, and the adjustment may seem more than you can bear. Miscarriage may have you mourning more than you imagined possible. You may be picking up the pieces of your life after a natural disaster. You may be heartbroken. You may be a target of prejudice. You may be in terror at the news of a diagnosis. You may be struggling after months without work. Your life may feel empty for some clear reason or no reason at all. Whatever the source, if something continues to be hard for you, then it is hardship. Difficult thoughts and feelings come with difficult times. As a guide for these tough times, Journey Beyond Hardship not only provides a road map for the tripit offers concrete tools for making your way. One technique called Reading the Edges allows you to experience emotions without being overwhelmed by them. Hope can be hard to come by during times of trauma and tragedy. Journey Beyond Hardship introduces a science-based means for generating hope. Hardship is part of the human condition. So is the human spirit to overcome.
Author: Susan Ducharme Hoben
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999749807
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Dying Well is an inspiring love story telling of how a man celebrated life while facing his death with grace and dignity. His widow guides you through decisions made and actions taken on their nine-month journey from diagnosis through celebrations and goodbyes, to a peaceful death free of fear and regret. She shares lessons learned as their family came to terms with her husband's impending death and found ways to make this last stage of his life as loving and joyous as possible. This uplifting end-of-life story offers a thought-provoking perspective on dying, one that may help you and those you love achieve what's most important at the end of your lives.
Author: Simcha Paull Raphael
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 153810346X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 529
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Originally published in 1994, Jewish Views of the Afterlife is a classic study of ideas of afterlife and postmortem survival in Jewish tradition and mysticism. As both a scholar and pastoral counselor, Raphael guides the reader through 4,000 years of Jewish thought on the afterlife by investigating pertinent sacred texts produced in each era. Through a compilation of ideas found in the Bible, Apocrypha, rabbinic literature, medieval philosophy, medieval Midrash, Kabbalah, Hasidism and Yiddish literature, the reader learns how Judaism conceived of the fate of the individual after death throughout Jewish history. In addition, this book explores the implications of Jewish afterlife beliefs for a renewed understanding of traditional rituals of funeral, burial, shiva, kaddish and more. This newly released twenty-fifth anniversary edition presents new material on little-known Jewish mystical teachings on reincarnation, a chapter on “Spirits, Ghosts and Dybbuks in Yiddish Literature”, and a foreword by the renowned scholar of Jewish mysticism, Rabbi Arthur Green. Both historical and contemporary, this book provides a rich resource for scholars and laypeople and for teachers and students and makes an important Jewish contribution to the growing contemporary psychology of death and dying.
Author: Ram Dass
Publisher: Harmony
ISBN: 0517543052
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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Beloved guru Ram Dass tells the story of his spiritual awakening and gives you the tools to take control of your life in this “counterculture bible” (The New York Times) featuring powerful guidance on yoga, meditation, and finding your true self. When Be Here Now was first published in 1971, it filled a deep spiritual emptiness, launched the ongoing mindfulness revolution, and established Ram Dass as perhaps the preeminent seeker of the twentieth century. Just ten years earlier, he was known as Professor Richard Alpert. He held appointments in four departments at Harvard University. He published books, drove a Mercedes and regularly vacationed in the Caribbean. By most societal standards, he had achieved great success. . . . And yet he couldn’t escape the feeling that something was missing. Psilocybin and LSD changed that. During a period of experimentation, Alpert peeled away each layer of his identity, disassociating from himself as a professor, a social cosmopolite, and lastly, as a physical being. Fear turned into exaltation upon the realization that at his truest, he was just his inner-self: a luminous being that he could trust indefinitely and love infinitely. And thus, a spiritual journey commenced. Alpert headed to India where his guru renamed him Baba Ram Dass—“servant of God.” He was introduced to mindful breathing exercises, hatha yoga, and Eastern philosophy. If he found himself reminiscing or planning, he was reminded to “Be Here Now.” He started upon the path of enlightenment, and has been journeying along it ever since. Be Here Now is a vehicle for sharing the true message, and a guide to self-determination.
Author: Joanne Harvey Msw
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1452047510
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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A collection of empowering stories about real people living with a terminal illness; stories that help embrace life and release fear.
Author: Monika Renz
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 023154023X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 181
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This book introduces a process-based, patient-centered approach to palliative care that substantiates an indication-oriented treatment and radical reconsideration of our transition to death. Drawing on decades of work with terminally ill cancer patients and a trove of research on near-death experiences, Monika Renz encourages practitioners to not only safeguard patients' dignity as they die but also take stock of their verbal, nonverbal, and metaphorical cues as they progress, helping to personalize treatment and realize a more peaceful death. Renz divides dying into three parts: pre-transition, transition, and post-transition. As we die, all egoism and ego-centered perception fall away, bringing us to another state of consciousness, a different register of sensitivity, and an alternative dimension of spiritual connectedness. As patients pass through these stages, they offer nonverbal signals that indicate their gradual withdrawal from everyday consciousness. This transformation explains why emotional and spiritual issues become enhanced during the dying process. Relatives and practitioners are often deeply impressed and feel a sense of awe. Fear and struggle shift to trust and peace; denial melts into acceptance. At first, family problems and the need for reconciliation are urgent, but gradually these concerns fade. By delineating these processes, Renz helps practitioners grow more cognizant of the changing emotions and symptoms of the patients under their care, enabling them to respond with the utmost respect for their patients' dignity.
