In the recent series of Knowledge and Being, Laura discusses a lot about attachments, which I find very useful to know about. In the video series, Laura further mentions how religion is one of the main culprits in hindering people to properly go through the death process and thus end up becoming dead dudes or as the Chinese would call them, hungry ghosts.
So what should be a totally natural thing, that of dying and recycling, transitioning from one phase of life to the next, thus becomes a major bottleneck experience of getting stuck in a no-mans land, due to a lack of knowledge and preparation.
There is the Egyptian book of the dead" and there are the "Tibetan book of the dead" as well as "The Tibetan book of living and dying", but that does not make any of them authorities on dying. They are part of religious belief systems that are for foreign for most of us.
Gurdjieff also put a lot of emphasis on dying, as is evident when reading "The last hour of life."
So the simple question is: How does one die properly? How does one make the transition that takes place, when leaving this mortal coil?
This should be the most common knowledge and yet it isn't. I looked up "dying" in the search engine on this forum and got 17 replies, which were all from the "Tickle me section", which in itself is a bit amusing.
Death will come to us all sooner or later. It could come from plaque, meteor bombardments, but it could also just come from old age or a traffic accident. Are we prepared and if not, shouldn't we be? How can we help not only ourselves, but also those around us, so that they/we, when death happens don't end up as dead dudes or hungry ghosts, but actually make the transition and go to the light?
And if we go to the light is that enough? I remember the C's saying something about this to the effect of having no expectations whatsoever. Further I have read from various books on near death etc., that Christians will see Jesus, Muslims will see Muhammad and so on, BUT that these are just traps as that is what they expect to see.
I know that I have put a few questions up in this post and hope that it is not too confusing. My thought was actually to ask if this issue about death and how to die, doesn't merit a youtube video all by itself, where these questions are addressed for a wider public. A natural next episode of Knowledge and Being. Especially since religion is not helping and the rejection of the spiritual nature of man, in other words materialism, isn't either. Both groups are likely to end up as dead dudes, confused as to what happened and where they are.
So what should be a totally natural thing, that of dying and recycling, transitioning from one phase of life to the next, thus becomes a major bottleneck experience of getting stuck in a no-mans land, due to a lack of knowledge and preparation.
There is the Egyptian book of the dead" and there are the "Tibetan book of the dead" as well as "The Tibetan book of living and dying", but that does not make any of them authorities on dying. They are part of religious belief systems that are for foreign for most of us.
Gurdjieff also put a lot of emphasis on dying, as is evident when reading "The last hour of life."
So the simple question is: How does one die properly? How does one make the transition that takes place, when leaving this mortal coil?
This should be the most common knowledge and yet it isn't. I looked up "dying" in the search engine on this forum and got 17 replies, which were all from the "Tickle me section", which in itself is a bit amusing.
Death will come to us all sooner or later. It could come from plaque, meteor bombardments, but it could also just come from old age or a traffic accident. Are we prepared and if not, shouldn't we be? How can we help not only ourselves, but also those around us, so that they/we, when death happens don't end up as dead dudes or hungry ghosts, but actually make the transition and go to the light?
And if we go to the light is that enough? I remember the C's saying something about this to the effect of having no expectations whatsoever. Further I have read from various books on near death etc., that Christians will see Jesus, Muslims will see Muhammad and so on, BUT that these are just traps as that is what they expect to see.
I know that I have put a few questions up in this post and hope that it is not too confusing. My thought was actually to ask if this issue about death and how to die, doesn't merit a youtube video all by itself, where these questions are addressed for a wider public. A natural next episode of Knowledge and Being. Especially since religion is not helping and the rejection of the spiritual nature of man, in other words materialism, isn't either. Both groups are likely to end up as dead dudes, confused as to what happened and where they are.
