This interview, on The Numinous Podcast with Carmen Spagnola, explores the nuts and bolts of dying well, being a death doula, and ways to honour the death of animals and trees. [Read more…]
The Hidden Grief of Miscarriage
If you've been through a miscarriage, you know the grief it brings. And yet, there's a cultural message which says, “These things happen.” Yes, these things happen, but there's still incredible loss even when [Read more…]
The Heartbreak of My Cat’s Sudden Death
My beloved cat, Luna, was killed by a car in January of 2019. The shock and grief were enormous, but I’ve eventually found some healing. Here’s the story of her death and our ritual responses to it. [Read more…]
A Yogic Perspective on Death and Dying
This interview explores a Kundalini Yoga perspective on death, dying and the afterlife. If you’re yogicaly inclined, or interested in different spiritual and cultural perspectives and rituals, I think you’ll enjoy this recording. [Read more…]
Keeping Someone’s Ashes in Your House
If you have someone’s ashes in your house, it’s probably for one of three reasons. First, you may be holding onto ashes because it’s the right thing for you to do. You recognize their spiritual significance, and you’re [Read more…]
How Do You Want to Die?
We’re all going to die, but we don’t often really consider the certainty of that statement. Given that your life is most definitely going to end, how do you want it to happen? There are two important parts to this question: How would you prefer [Read more…]
When Death Happens Before Birth
Energetically, the experience of parenting is solidified at the moment of conception, and the energetic contract between souls —mother, father, child, (and siblings if there are any)— may begin even before that. No matter how [Read more…]
The Challenge of Talking About Death
I have a bit of a bone to pick with how “The Secret” is often interpreted. Yes, there’s a relationship between how we hold things in our inner awareness, and what sorts of energies we can then receive into our lives, but it’s a more [Read more…]
What To Do With Someone’s Ashes?
Ashes matter, and it matters what we do with them. The ceremonies around a death are, among other things, designed to bring completion to a person’s mortal existence. Disposition of someone’s body/ashes is [Read more…]
The Grace of Deathbed Visitations
Just as it does at a birth, the veil between the worlds thins during a death, and the other side of the river can become more visible. “Deathbed Phenomena” is the official term for a collection of non-ordinary [Read more…]
The Problem with a Happy Funeral
The problem with trying to have a happy funeral is, that when someone we love dies, we aren’t happy, we’re sad. There can be parts of a funeral that have happiness. But when someone we care about dies, the normal and natural [Read more…]
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