Sacred
Living, Sacred Dying Foreword by Stephen and Ondrea Levine:
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Stephen and Ondrea
Levine |
(A portion)
From Plato to the Dalai Lama there has been
echoed the teaching, “practice dying,”…
For
some years, we have suggested the experiment in consciousness
described in A Year To Live: How to Live This Year As
If It Were Your Last. Thousands of people have committed
themselves to this life enhancing, business finishing, preparation
for death, which so clarifies the preciousness, and further
potentials for life. Several dozen groups formed together
to share this process of coming more fully alive. And some
came to this experiment in consciousness because it was
indeed their final months or days. I wish I had Sharon Lund’s
Sacred Living, Sacred Dying: A Guide to Embracing Life
and Death to round out the practice with her profound
attention to detail of the practical side of preparing for
death as a means of lightening the burden of worry and concern
about how one might die with their business finished, with
no loose ends, describing to loved ones and caretakers,
to physicians and lawyers, how one wishes to be treated
in the dying process and afterward. That is why Sharon has
chosen in her teachings, books, and groups, to offer the
potential power of combining the processes of the two books.
……. Sharon Lund extends to us all, an opportunity
to live well, to die into the collective heart of loved
ones and leave a sweet after-taste in appreciative memories
of our concern for their well being. Little left incomplete
to confuse the parting, with our life whole and ready for
the next evolutionary step, whether it is holding your children
and lovers of a sweet Saturday evening, or our last breath
on Friday night dying into peace.
Stephen and Ondrea Levine
Authors of:
Unattended Sorrow;
A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as if It Were Your
Last;
Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious
Dying
