Sacred Passages

Musings of a Death Doula On February 27, 2014 during a routine heart catheterization I had a cardiac arrest with total loss of life functions. This blog is a document of my near-death experience and my spiritual journey since being returned from the light. It is dedicated to the merciful and divine Kwan Yin who restored me to this life.

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What is needed is a new way and new tools of measuring consciousness. 

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The simple way doctors can make their patients feel understood

Walking with a patient from the exam room back to reception is the kind of small gesture that can make a big difference.

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7PUssV9oNo)

“We are a spark of life. We are our consciousness.” 

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2IhwsTtXzA)

The realization of humans is that we need to be human. The refusal to die needs to end. 

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Get Busy Dying: Reflections from a Hospice Buddhist Chaplin.

By Joseph Rogers I have a sticky note on my desk, it reads: I am of the nature to grow old. I cannot avoid aging. I am of the nature to become sick. I cannot avoid sickness. I am of the natu…

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"The real object of our love is not outside of us, the real object of our love is ourselves. We have to know how to love ourselves, know how to return to our true nature, to see the wholesome, the good, the true and the beautiful within us." Thich Nhat Hanh

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Why is it so hard to die the way we want?

What's on the horizon for end-of-life care?

Have the conversation about your end of life preferences with family and friends now.

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpSuO8DtiMM)

A very clear and helpful documentary that captures my experience and the majority of NDE experiencers. Iinterviewees have captured both the experience of NDE and the associated sensitivities and clairvoyance. 

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What witches have to do with women’s health

Women used to be charged with witchcraft essentially for practicing medicine. We haven't come that far

Women used to be charged with witchcraft essentially for practicing medicine. We haven't come that far. Having crossed over and returned, I stand here now, straddling the veil and practice death-care. Go ahead, burn me.  

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Shining kiss of two merging galaxies: NGC 2207 and IC 2163

Just like our Milky Way galaxy, NGC 2207 and IC 2163 are sprinkled with many star systems known as X-ray binaries, which consist of a star in a tight orbit around either a neutron star or a stellar-mass black hole. The strong gravity of the neutron star or black hole pulls matter from the companion star. As this matter falls toward the neutron star or black hole, it is heated to millions of degrees and generates X-rays. These special objects are in a category of objects known as ultra-luminous X-ray sources (ULXs) and have been found using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Space Observatory. This Image is a mix of the optical and X-ray wavelength, with the optical showing the galaxies structure and the bursts of pink and purple representing concentrations of X-rays. Credit: NASA/Chandra/Cal Tech/Harvard

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“I am a thin layer of all those beings on [samadhi level] 3, mingling, connected with one another in a spherical surface around the whole known universe. Our "backs" are to the void. We are creating energy, matter and life at the interface between the void and all known creation. We are facing into the known universe, creating it, filling it. I am one with them; spread in a thin layer around the sphere with a small, slightly greater concentration of me in one small zone. I feel the power of the galaxy pouring through me. I am following the programme, the conversion programme of void to space, to energy, to matter, to life, to consciousness, to us, the creators. From nothing on one side to the created everything on the other. I am the creation process itself, incredibly strong, incredibly powerful.” - John C. Lilly

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“Suppressing the fear of death makes it all the stronger. The point is only to know, beyond any shadow of doubt, that "I" and all other "things" now present will vanish, until this knowledge compels you to release them - to know it now as surely as if you had just fallen off the rim of the Grand Canyon. Indeed you were kicked off the edge of a precipice when you were born, and it's no help to cling to the rocks falling with you. If you are afraid of death, be afraid. The point is to get with it, to let it take over - fear, ghosts, pains, transience, dissolution, and all. And then comes the hitherto unbelievable surprise; you don't die because you were never born. You had just forgotten who you are.” - Alan W. Watts

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In death I am become the Crone on the road with one foot on each side of the veil. I am Crone, teller of stories, conjurer, seer, escort to death. I travel with you in final days, and see you through the veil to the place where your ancestors await your return.

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Today is a brand new day. A day to love A day to care A day to heal A day to forgive A day to laugh A day to encourage A day to start fresh …

Dare to Live Inspired! Our Journey to Balance

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Consciousness is non-localized vibration and light matter.

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Physicists Say Consciousness Might Be a State of Matter — NOVA Next | PBS

Theoretical physicist Max Tegmark says that consciousness might be a state of matter, which he calls perceptronium.

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Physicists Claim that Consciousness Lives in Quantum State After Death

Does quantum mechanics predict the existence of a spiritual "soul"? Testimonials from prominent physics researchers from institutions...

In my death I discovered yes, we are “ body-soul duality that is an extension of the wave-particle duality of subatomic particles”.