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Here’s a link to this week’s audio tip entitled “The Magic and Mystery of Death.” Click on this link to hear this week’s message (make sure your sound is on or you plug in your head phones to your computer). Enjoy!
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June 30th, 2011 at 7:02 am
[…] The Magic and Mystery of Death — Audio […]
June 30th, 2011 at 8:19 am
My condolences to you Mike and your family. Thinking of you at this difficult time. Thanks for your thoughts on death and life.
Bonnie G
June 30th, 2011 at 8:43 am
Death hit us hard 19 years ago on a rainy day in 1992 when my father-in-law died. I have been part of this family since I was eleven, so the sudden death by a trucking accident, sent a shock through us that no one knew could exist. Yesterday, it rained again for the first time in 19 years in Sonoma County. Our memories surfaced more than ever and family members shared their thoughts and dad was celebrated after all these years. The truth is, it feels like yesterday. And in some ways, I feel that he has been with us all as we journeyed through life raising our kids. Mike, my heart goes out to you for the loss of your beloved mother. My husband lost his dad at around the same age..he was 35. Life is different, it hurts for a long time and really never goes away, it just finds it’s place below the surface of everyday life, but slowly the pain lessens and we are left with the wonderful memories we hold close to our hearts. With deepest sympathy, and gratitude for your insight to living…Tina B.
June 30th, 2011 at 8:48 am
Hi Mike,
Well done on confronting a tough subject. As I get older I find myself thinking more and more about it. Not in a morose way but as an inevitable thing that I am going to experience in the future. I thing it was Victor Hugo who said ” We are all under sentence of death, with a temporary reprieve” Your may remember that I am Lara Fernandez’s Dad. Good job. Bill
June 30th, 2011 at 9:24 am
It sounds like your mom’s illness was difficult and painful, and for that struggle to be over must be of some comfort to you. Having had the time you did with her before she passed was such a gift! As a mother to 3 adult children I can say with certainty that you brought much joy, pride and love to your mom. My wishes for peace and healing go to you and your family.
June 30th, 2011 at 10:00 am
This posting came in ample time. My father is in intensive care with lung disease. He is not able to breathe on his own any more. This is very hard because he was not only my Dad, but my best friend also. I haven’t been able to talk to him or should I say he has not been able to communicate with me in a month because he can no longer talk on the resporatory. The doctor’s have called my family in to tell us to prepare and be strong. I’m trying but it is hard. Thank you for sharing this information. I really needed it at this time.
June 30th, 2011 at 10:45 am
Hello Mike - my deepest condolences to you and your family in what must be an incredibly difficult time in your life. My family does not deal with dying and death well. I plan to share your article with those closest to me. Maybe your article will help them see it’s ok to feel pain, be scared, angry, confused by death - but to “not talk about it and avoid it” only causes more pain and anger. As you mention in your article, if we take the time to think about what we learned from those important people in our lives, both in their life and in their death, we will learn, grow and thrive.
Mike, I have no doubt you brought your mother much joy and happiness, and a great deal of pride. Thank you for being you.
Joann T.
June 30th, 2011 at 11:38 am
Wow Mike, this is so powerful and beautiful. I’m so present to appreciating my life RIGHT NOW. This also offers me another level of inspiration in regards to the work I am doing with those in their twilight days of life. AND, to that, they all say the same thing to me, Life’s short, enjoy it. Appreciation. I find the elderly I talk to have such a big appreciation for life and living it and acknowledging it’s beauty and gifts. I really, really see where I am at service for others through your words here. Thank you. This deepens my commitment to bringing that sharing out into the world.
June 30th, 2011 at 12:39 pm
First off, my condolences on your loss. Your mom sounds like a wonderful woman. I found your article came to me at a good time. Being a new survivor of breast cancer has made me aware of how much time we waste being afraid, of talking about tough issues like death and for me in my work, teen suicide. Why does it take so much for us to learn that facing our fears realy does take away their powers. Though I admit to still working on that one myself. I have found that the more I focus on people and my truth and less on the superficial, the better I feel and the more positive interactions with others I have. It is a daily struggle to live spiritual in a material world, but it pays off more often than not. thank you for sharing.
July 1st, 2011 at 9:07 am
i have complete peace with the idea and freedom from the fear of physical expiration. just as a bud becomes a leaf, falls from a tree to the ground, decomposes and becomes the energy that fuels the cycle of the earth’s being, so it is with our bodies (to the “Earth”) and the spirit energy contained within them (to the “Heavens”). we don’t “cease being” when we “die.” we transform and become something different, and if we learn and align ourselves rightly in this life, something better and bigger. this world is the illusory world of reflection that’s separated from the true and actual reality in which “we” exist. as unreality is the dynamic governing this world, “death” is unreal. life is eternal.
nothing to be afraid of, no reason to stress. why many people do is because they’re conditioned by a ubiquitously aggressive philosophy to believe that this world and this life are all there is to reality and that physical expiration is an end to be feared, instead of a transforming step to prepared for by learning and to be embraced.
July 1st, 2011 at 3:31 pm
Dear Mike,
My deepest sympathy to the loss of you dear mother.
I am also involved right now with the dying process of my husband, so I appreciated your thoughts and words.
Mia
July 2nd, 2011 at 11:56 am
For me, Death is part of a Life Continuum: Live - Death - Rebirth. It is not an end point. Though religion fancies itself the keeper of the door of our Eternal Soul Being, this is not the truth.
I agree that this is a learning place, but I would add that we have the opportunity to develop our own innate abilities to commune with Spirits of all kinds that are constantly in our presence here on planet Earth, whether we acknowkedge them or not.
The human is a multi-dimensional being and we have just begun to realise just what powerful co-creators we are.
All this doesn’t in any way lessen the tears and the loss. My mother was a multiple near death experiencer and in our time we actively and consciously developed a very strong telepathic bond. When she took her last breath, our bond was and has never been broken. It doesn’t make me miss having tea with her any less, but in facing the loss and learning to let her go as I knew her, I have been enriched beyond words at our new relationship now developing.
Thank you for your courage to bring this out on the table. It really is time!
July 2nd, 2011 at 12:26 pm
[…] this week’s audio podcast, click here.) In the past few weeks, two important people in my life suddenly passed away. These deaths have […]
July 3rd, 2011 at 1:35 pm
Dear Mike,
My deepest condolences to you and your family on the passing of your mother.
I, too, was at my mother’s side when she took her last breath in December 1996. The nurse came into the room and she indicated that the hearing was the last to go. It gave me the opportunity to tell her how much I loved her and that we would be all right. Throughout that year, I watched her health and energy levels diminish.
In November 1996, my brother and sisters were at her bedside and we assured her that we would watch over each other and not to worry about us. We wanted to give her permission to go.
I hope these comments help others through their ordeals in dealing with the death of a loved one.
Donna Miyashiro
July 20th, 2011 at 3:37 pm
Dear Mike,
My heart felt condolences to you and your family. Thank you for sharing your insights in your message as it is indeed a challenge to “start the conversation” about end-of-life wishes. I feel lucky to be apart of a non-profit organzation, Coda Alliance, that focuses on advance care planning and conversations with family and friends about values and what it means to “live well” at the end of your life. We use a tool called “Go Wish” cards that help facilitate end-of-life care conversations. Again, thank you for sharing.