Transition Of The Soul - A Death Story

August 29, 2008 · Filed Under Spiritual Health · 3 Comments 

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There are two transitions a soul goes through in a lifetime. Birth and death. When someone is dying we can really get a glimpse of the soul that we all have within us. The spirit that I call our true self. Looking at death from a different perspective than the usual sadness and grief will allow both you and the person dying some proof of the existence of the true self and what happens to our soul after our body dies. I had an experience yesterday that I wanted to share. It adds more validation that the soul is more than just pretty words.

Geriatric ward doctors and nurses probably have many of these types of stories. There have been lots of books written about near-death experiences and anyone who has had a loved one die can also tell their own stories about witnessing “different” behavior of a loved one close to death.

I got on the bus yesterday and the driver, Kathleen, was there. I had not seen her for a couple of months so I asked her how she was. The last time I had seen her she told me that she visiting her brother in the hospital a lot but never discussed his condition and I didn’t ask. I asked her how her brother was. I don’t usually talk much to any drivers other than hi, bye but Kathleen speaks English so I have spoken to her more. I hit the “on button” when I asked about her brother.

She proceeded to tell me that he had died and then poured out her heart describing the last few days of his life. She loved him very much and would visit him daily, often staying over night to be with him. She told me that a few days before he died he would point his finger to the ceiling and ask if she could see Mama or Uncle Gilles or whoever. All the people he talked about were dead. Kathleen would just calmly tell him that she did not see them.

One morning she got to the hospital and he told her that he had spent the whole night with his cat, Mimille, who he loved dearly and was also not living. He said she slept on his bed with him and he petted her and she purred all night.

Her brother was unable to walk because of his advanced condition or even raise himself out of bed. She described to me that a few hours before he died he started to get very agitated and was trying to get up from the bed. He was very upset with Kathleen saying to her, while pointing up to the ceiling,

Our soul is formless. Our soul is energy and energy can’t die. Having this knowledge sure makes living each day a lot sweeter and easier. We can all live each day with the knowledge that the story never ends.

“Don’t you see them. They are waiting for me. I have to go. Help me up. There standing there in the light.”

Kathleen and the nurse kept trying to settle him down and were holding him in bed as he was struggling to get up. They gave him shots of sedatives that had no effect on him. Finally they gave him enough that he stopped struggling and died 20 minutes later.

A pretty familiar story for anyone who had experience with watching a person die.

With Overlight there is a segment that works with people who are dying. Helping them with the fear that many experience surrounding this transition. I also know that there is one person that we designate before we come into a lifetime that agrees to be there when we pass. They also agree to give us “permission” to leave. It is a sacred contract that we have all made. It can be anyone. A nurse, a son or daughter, or in Kathleen’s case, a sister. Many will fight death until they do receive that “permission.” Permission may sound like weird word to use but that is in essence what happens, even though it may not be spoken that way.

I asked Kathleen if she gave him permission to leave? She stopped talking, looked at me straight in the eye and said,

“Yes, I did.”

She was the only one present when he died. His wife and other family members lived in a nearby town and Kathleen could feel his death was coming but was unable to reach them before he died.

Now that, for me, was very cool stuff. Not only that she opened up to me like that but that her description of her brother’s behavior was another example of us being eternal beings. He knew he had to go. He knew where he was going. Her brother’s soul was fully present for her to connect with and I know she did.

Why do I keep talking about our real self? Like this post or this one about Paul Potts. Because I want to give you some real life examples. Not just flowery words and concepts that sound nice but are too abstract to relate to.

Plus, I love to connect to another’s real self. Heart to heart. Soul to soul. Kathleen gave me that feeling. That connection. I knew that she had also experienced it with her brother. That kind of stuff juices me up.(weird huh? bet you thought it was girls)

I am not sure how anyone can believe that we’re born, we die, end of story. Anyone who has been present during a person’s death and who really opens their eyes to observe what happens can take away from that experience, if they didn’t know already, a belief that there has to be more to the story. Often witnessing the death of a loved one can be a life altering event that opens us up to a wider perspective on life and on who we truly are.

Death is not an end. We are eternal. We are just changing form. We’re leaving our bodies behind and returning to our true state. If we eliminate our ingrained fear of death and know that we are not our bodies but our true self is our soul, then the transition of the soul can be a glorious event. It can be a celebration of our return to home.

Image credit sylph @ Deviat Art

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Awakening To Oneness - The Global Oneness Project

August 25, 2008 · Filed Under Humanity · 1 Comment 

Humans have spent centuries trying to separate themselves from the rest of nature. We have lived with the concept that we are above every living thing. That the earth and it’s creatures are there for us to use and we can treat them any way we choose. We’ve done a pretty good job of creating that separation. The results of our dis-connection with nature and each other seems to be coming to a head. It is time to awaken, or really it’s just return, to oneness.

Oneness is not new. Aboriginal cultures have always acknowledged oneness as a basic component of human experience. Even science using quantum physics is recognizing this connection. I have devoted many words on this blog to the concept of unity being a major part of our collective awakening. What will it take for all of us to not only hear these words, or say them ourselves, but to live them?

Mainstream initiatives like Global Oneness Project is one organization that is contributing to the spread of this message. It is a project supported by the Kalliopeia Foundation and is an offshoot from the movie ONE, The Movie. It is a web-based video project where they travel the world interviewing people from all cultures discussing how oneness is expressed for them. They make the videos available on their site for viewing and distribution.

This trailer for the project will to give you a taste of what is on the site.

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee is a Sufi sheikh who in 2000 awoke to the concept of global oneness. The Emerging Consciousness of Oneness.

Here’s his views on our awakening to oneness. Awakening The World.


The Global Oneness Project is one of many that are being formed around this key factor to our awakening. The more we hear this message the better the chance of global consciousness changing. In one of the videos a comment was,

We have to make the structures of society unable to bear separation as a way of approaching things, much like we do of the practice of slavery today.

Now is the time for us to return to the knowing that we are one with not only each other, but with the earth and by extension the universe.

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