#die wise

This isn't an idle contemplation.

I wonder where they go?

To heaven, hell or another realm?

Do we give it much consideration? I doubt it; but imagine if we could commune with the dead. What would we learn? What would they teach us? And how would it change our lives?

But of course, in our death-phobic world we're never going to move towards the ending of our days, are we?

Blessings,

Julian

We die in the manner that we lived.

Sadly, for too many people they never come to their death with any true sense of knowing, and mostly it's a morose canticle where something -- i.e. the future -- has been stolen from them.

Death, our death, should never be news, even of the unexpected variety.

But of course, in a death-phobic world, no one is going to talk about death; in fact, they'll do a volte-face at the merest whiff of the thought.

In my case, it's becoming clearer by the day that my fate is to be that gloomy guy who wants to bring out into the open an honest, broken-hearted conversation and endings-orientated question/answer approach to try to get people -- even my close family -- to change their relationship to death.

In simple terms to not see death as an executioner but as an angel they must wrestle if only to know death a deity and not something to hold at arm's length.

And I make no apology for this direction of travel. In fact, I know now that it's been there for a very long time.

Blessings, blessings to you all.

Love,

I'm bound to be out of touch with the world of spiritual excess but it wasn't that long ago that there appeared on the scene (I don't know if they are still here) a slew of fairly orthodox non-dual teachers.

I wasn't quite sure what they were selling but, for a while, I did think it might be something helpful to my unnerved sense of this thing called 'life'.

But it didn't last -- my enthusiasm, mostly.

Instead, I came back to the exegesis of this life which I've come to call animism but could just as easily pass as god. (I'm not religious in case you're wondering.)

That's shorthand for saying I am one with everything holy -- as much as 'I' can discern these things -- i.e. in case it's not already obvious everything we see, feel and experience is an abstraction.

Beyond this one-ing, nothing else exists or that's how I opine on life etc.

You?

How do you see life, the world, the universe?

I'd love to know.

Love,

Julian

It's Sunday; I'm up at the crack of dawn. It's like I want to make the most of the light, which is always special first thing.

Today's question builds on my theme of our death phobia. I hope to move onto something a little less "deep" (as my wife would say) over the coming days; but don't bank on it!

Where do we come from? Where do we go to? Is this the whole deal, or is there something else? (OK, that's technically three questions but they're all related.)

Love,

Julian