At some point, each of us will find ourselves in the landscape of death.\u00a0 Some of us will be introduced to death through a medical diagnosis (for ourselves or a loved one); others work daily with death in the medical and hospice industries.\u00a0 We may meet death for the first time through the multitude of endings offered throughout a lifetime \u2013 the end of a relationship, a job, or a home situation.\u00a0 No matter where and how we enter this landscape, we will need help navigating the terrain.\u00a0 We need information, we need guidance, and we need support in order to die consciously.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, this is one of the oldest areas of human inquiry and includes the most
\nconsistently asked questions of all peoples from all times and places: \u00a0What happens to us when we die?\u00a0 How does it feel to be dying?\u00a0 Where can I learn about all this? \u00a0 As we encounter death, we find ourselves seeking manuals that can help guide us through this territory.\u00a0 And these manuals exist everywhere: \u00a0in religious traditions, in psychology, in spiritual rituals, in philosophical debates.\u00a0 The challenge is not in finding sufficient information and guidance as we create conscious death.\u00a0 Rather, the complexity arises when we attempt to integrate the vast amount of information available to us.<\/p>\n

The Way of Conscious Death helps us find the assistance we need as we create our own experiences of dying consciously. The goal is to integrate the conversations, to weave together the vast amounts of information from all realms: \u00a0medical, psychological, spiritual, and social in order to grapple with the question, \u201cHow do I do this dying?\u201d \u00a0The Way of Conscious Death acts as a gateway through which to explore all the avenues of assistance available to us as we journey this pathway of conscious death and dying.\u00a0 It gathers together the most pertinent and valuable guidance from contemporary medical sources, from hospice education, from the world\u2019s wisdom traditions, and from modern spiritual guides.\u00a0 May all who find themselves meeting death (for the first time or as a reunion) find help with dying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At some point, each of us will find ourselves in the landscape of death.\u00a0 Some of us will be introduced to death through a medical diagnosis (for ourselves or a loved one); others work daily with death in the medical and hospice industries.\u00a0 We may meet death for the first time through the multitude of endings offered throughout a lifetime \u2013 the end of a relationship, a job, or a home situation.\u00a0 No matter where and how we enter this landscape, we will need help navigating the terrain.\u00a0 We need information, we need guidance, and we need support in order […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"yoast_head":"\n