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Clear Light Orb Released...
2013 Marks the release of Prosperity Path's Clear Light Orb. This Orb provides a quick easy to run method for working with beings in the Bardos.
Many folks have asked, "What can I do to continue my service for the being after death (terminus)?
The answer is: run the Clear Light Guiding Orb. This is a video game-like program that you can install on most any Windows computer.
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How To Be With Those Who Are Dying
Being with those who are dying is a most rewarding experience -- an act of love. Whether hospice caregiver at home, a hospice volunteer, or perhaps a caregiver for elderly your gift of presence is important.
ABOUT BEING THERE -- Click here for more information.
To be means to exist, to live. Being there is to live with one's full presence in the present. To be with someone is to be silent inside and to be in rapport. You can read all the death and dying books can find -- to learn how to help someone who is dying -- and when you get right down to it everything starts with Being There.
ABOUT DYING -- Click here for more information.
The verb "die" comes from the Indo-European base dhue-, which means to pass away, become senseless. Dying is a natural part of living. Dying is the personal experience of the being letting go of its physical body.
No matter what your picture of the afterlife bardo, prayers for the dying -- guiding the being -- is a form of spiritual care that any spiritual caregiver should look to as a first line of service.
HOW TO BE THERE -- Click here for more information.
Don't desert. In being there with the patient be open, simple and in the present. Listen with your heart, not your mind. There's often anger, denial and fear before acceptance of the inevitable.
Don't try to fix the pain. The key to dying is allowing oneself to relax. Embracing our natural fears of the unknown with acceptance and joy brings one through difficult moments expanding our capacity to surrender and let go.
Permit the terminal patient to remember their essential being. The attention is designed to carry through the transitions of death and birth. The state between death and birth for which our western culture has no words becomes visible to the terminal patient as passage approaches.
Be sincere and constant. Being honest and speaking directly to the being helps maintain their connection to the purity and strength of their being, enabling them to meet passage with serenity.
Be a terminal midwife. The experience between death and birth carries with it forgetfulness and ego disintegration. Someone who is not experienced at remaining attentive through death may feel very disoriented. Being there as a midwife is an act of compassion toward the being, assisting them in remaining as conscious as possible through the ensuing unsettling transition.
READING THE AMERICAN BOOK OF THE DEAD -- Click here for more information.
"This is really the book I didn't want to write...It wasn't until 1974 that I discovered that this teaching had been neglected completely, and then finally lost, in the western world." (from the author's introduction to the American Book of the Dead, by E.J. Gold)
The readings from the American Book of the Dead for the being are the direct teachings of the guides - you may think of them as teachers, sufis, arhats or bodhisattvas - and the instructions have been rendered into modern American English.
It isn't necessary to understand the readings. Shortly before transition as well as passing through, the being has an all embracing clarity of vision and understanding. The reading will reach the part of the person that's actually passing into the macrodimensional domains and in that state understanding comes naturally.
SIGNS OF PASSING -- Click here for more information.
There are observable indications that transition and/or passage is near at hand:
- Loss of control over facial muscles.
- High-pitched whistling, buzzing sounds, low rumbling thunder, or complete loss of hearing.
- Visions, hallucinations or complete loss of sight.
- Breath coming in gasps, Cheynes-Stokes breathing.
- Cold sweats, teeth chattering, uncontrollable shivering.
- Extreme agitation, anxiety, irritability, depression.
- Lethargic calm, sudden inexplicable apparent absence of previous pain.
THE PEACEFUL PASSAGE -- Click here for more information.
In a culture which has a taboo against even knowing about death, relaxing into a peaceful attentive passage takes the help of a dedicated guide. A dedicated guide can be anyone who cares enough to assist a loved one or even a stranger through transition.
To use The American Book of the Dead is a small effort to help the being not resist or be distracted by the perceptions, sensations, and cognitions that dawn upon one when going through transition.
To guide and concentrate a being's attention on recognizing their true essential nature is an experience you will cherish and remember your whole life and beyond.