these are fantastic… I will share them 
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It is a dream that requires significant context in order to really appreciate. I am glad it manifested, and now you are sharing this with the world. ( I did not realize you hadnt before). I think it will not only hit home with many people, but also be a powerful teaching moment on how not only dreams use symbols, but these symbols and themes around Death may be archetypes in the collective consciousness as well. Jung may have been right.
I think it would do your book a disservice not to. PG is the real deal, and any reader who wishes to explore the topic of Death dream interpretation deeper, will be greatly appreciative for you referencing, summarizing, or even quoting her work.
If you can get permission to replicate the dream she shares on page 77 & 78 of the book with the rocket ship, I would highly reccommend that as well. Another one of my favorites.
Amen Sister
It was a very powerful gift. And I am very grateful. The Lord works in mysterious ways.
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“There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This has called on me for revenge. I have sought it: I have killed many: I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country, I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear. Logan never felt fear. He will not turn on his heel to save his life. Who is there to mourn for Logan? Not one.”
Haunting words, what a terrible tragedy.
Had not heard of him before, glad you let me know.
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“deer” @NightHawk999 tonight I dreamt I was saying this poem to someone…
it felt so warm, deep and full of light… 
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could you share it with me? can be privately… so that I decide to put it or not (after asking for permission)
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this video gives me power and courage to ask you… when you had your car accident… were you alone?
(I had thought of this before)
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I was alone and no one was injured, Thank God!
This week was my first time watching that music video, it packs a punch. I have a bad habit of ‘Shoulding’ on people and telling them to “buckle up”, so you can imagine how powerful of a synchronicity that video was for me. Very appreciative for Matt posting the other A+ music video of Coldplays, that lead me to the Scientist video. Had heard the song years ago and loved it when it came out but never saw the video until this week.
I dont think I have the book, I gave my original copy away as a gift to a loved one on their birthday. They had had a very meaningful death dream, which I will share later in this thread. I might have bough a copy to replace it, but cant remember. 
If I have the copy I will try to type up the passage here just cuz it is a very important dream , and because it not Patricia’s dream to own, it was shared with her from someone else.
If I cant find it do you want a cliff notes version of it, or do you want to wait to read the passage on your own?
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I am so happy you told me this, for 2 reasons, yesterday and the day before that, this poem was on my mind, and of the 3 I listed, this was my favorite ( even though all were A+++)
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@BlessingsDeers very happy you liked Dr. Kerrs TEDX video, it is one of my favorites!
Not sure if you caught it in the video, but he quickly says 60% of people with death dreams have dreams that involve some form of TRAVEL! Patricia Garfield spends an entire chapter of her book talking about this. It is one of the most common symbols in death dreams.
I really like the gems of Wisdom this lady shares:
The three secrets of resilient people | Lucy Hone
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Well worth everyones time listening to what she has to say. Much of her advice is echoed in Andrews book.
What happens as we die? | Kathryn Mannix
Why Don’t We Talk About Dying? | Dr. Kathryn Mannix
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Such a powerful teaching, one of my favorite Buddhist parables:
" Kisa Gotami and the Parable of the Mustard Seed
A famous parable of Buddhism is called The Parable of the Mustard Seed. It is found in the foundational texts of Theravada Buddhism. It revolves around a woman named Kisa Gotami, who lived during the time of Buddha’s life when he had already achieved nirvana and was traveling to impart his teachings upon others.
Kisa Gotami
Kisa’s only child, a very young son, had died. Unwilling to accept his death, she carried him from neighbor to neighbor and begged for someone to give her medicine to bring him back to life. One of her neighbors told her to go to Buddha, located nearby, and ask him if he had a way to bring her son back to life.
Bringing the body of her son with her, Kisa found Buddha and pleaded with him to help bring her son back to life. He instructed her to go back to her village and gather mustard seeds from the households of those who have never been touched by the death. From those mustard seeds, he promised he would create a medicine to bring her son back to life. Relieved, she went back to her village and began asking her neighbors for mustard seeds.
All of her neighbors were willing to give her mustard seeds, but they all told her that their households had been touched by death. They told her, “the living are few, but the dead are many.”
As the day became evening and then night, she was still without any of the mustard seeds that she had been instructed to collect. She realized then the universality of death. According to the Buddhist verse her story comes from, she said:
“It’s not just a truth for one village or town, Nor is it a truth for a single family. But for every world settled by gods [and men] This indeed is what is true — impermanence” (Olendzki, 2010).
With this new understanding, her grief was calmed. She buried her son in the forest and then returned to Buddha. She confessed to Buddha that she could not obtain any of the mustard seeds he had instructed her to collect because she could not find even one house untouched by death.
Here is a passionate interpretation of what Buddha imparted upon Kisa Gotami at this point from The Buddha: His Life Retold, by Robert Allen Mitchell:
“ Dear girl, the life of mortals in this world is troubled and brief and inseparable from suffering, for there is not any means, nor will there ever be, by which those that have been born can avoid dying. All living beings are of such a nature that they must die whether they reach old age or not.
As early-ripening fruits are in danger of falling, so mortals when born are always in danger of dying. Just as the earthen vessels made by the potter end in shards, so is the life of mortals. Both young and old, both those who are foolish and those who are wise – all fall into the power of death, all are subject to death.
Of those who depart from this life, overcome by death, a father cannot save his son, nor relatives their kinsfolk. While relatives are looking on and lamenting, one by one the mortals are carried off like oxen to the slaughter. People die, and their fate after death will be according to their deeds. Such are the terms of the world.
Not from weeping nor from grieving will anyone obtain peace of mind. On the contrary, his pain will be all the greater, and he will ruin his health. He will make himself sick and pale; but dead bodies cannot be restored by his lamentation.
Now that you have heard the Tathagata [a term Buddha used to refer to himself], Kisa, reject grief, do not allow it to enter your mind. Seeing one dead, know for sure: ‘I shall never see him again in this existence.’ And just as the fire of a burning house is quenched, so does the contemplative wise person scatter grief’s power, expertly, swiftly, even as the wind scatters cottonseed.
He who seeks peace should pull out the arrow lamentations, useless longings, and the self-made pangs of grief. He who has removed this unwholesome arrow and has calmed himself will obtain peace of mind. Verily, he who has conquered grief will always be free from grief – sane and immune – confident, happy, and close to Nirvana, I say” (Allen, 1991).
Kisa entered the first stage of enlightenment from her experience. She decided to become a disciple of Buddha’s and went on to become the first female arahant.
Reflections on The Parable of the Mustard Seed
What can we take away from this parable? Losing a child or any dear loved one to death is a tragedy no one wants to face. When faced with such painful loss, we can feel like Kisa, with grief so unbearable that we wish for anything to make the death not be real.
But as Kisa learned when she could not collect a single mustard seed, death is universal. Nearly everyone at some point in their life loses a loved one to death. This is part of the impermanence of things that Buddhism speaks of.
Despite the fact that nearly all of us experience the loss of loves ones, this does not make the pain of these losses any easier to bear. How do we cope? It is different for everyone, but we typically find ways to carry on. For Kisa, it was her epiphany that she came to through the Buddha’s lesson that helped her cope.
It is one story among countless throughout human existence of how a person has suffered great loss and yet learned in their own way to move forward. Grief can often leave a person feeling isolated, confused, and as if they will never be able to cope. But reading stories like Kisa’s show that even long, long ago, others have felt the same way, and yet they found a way through. For the griever, it is a reminder that you are never truly alone in your experience."
https://christicenter.org/buddhism-parable-mustard-seed/
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so happy to know this 
I am contemplating now to buy the book. when I decide, I will let you know. thanks
telepathy is always so fresh…
I hadn’t seen it yet but I knew I was gonna like ti. Just watched it, inspired by you and LOVED it. it’s incredible that what we fear the most is public speaking and dying - I would add LOVE and LIGHT, which is what makes us truly alive, all these together 
I love his humor, humbleness and vulnerability. Also from my experience death chooses us to work on this topic and he mentions it with such delicacy. I have come in contact with other stories about dying and there’s a certain magic to dying in a story, like he mentioned with his father. I had a case of a man who received such a beautiful story on his hospital bed, that he decided to die - and it must have been such a beautiful passage…
also loved how he so simply described how death is simply defied in the medical context.
the stories he shares are simply amazing! “the end-of-life experiences” is an expression I didn’t know before.
Jeanne’s pillow with Merry Christmas somehow touched me - and her sharing also
Indeed our “need to love, to be loved, nurtured, forgiven” is very present, for most people, in the end of their lives… now more and more, it’s becoming more present in the everyday life
1400 interviews with dying patients is AMAZING… so much LOVE… and dedication to this continuity as he calls it.
I think I will use the “Content of dreams/visions” chart data and the next ones in my book I didn’t know that when approaching death, people have more dreams with common themes and meanings, giving them comfort… I also LOVED how he ends - “think about your greatest loss, greatest comfort and greatest wonder”… 
I dream A LOT with traveling… it’s one of my dream themes
UAU! you found a video with a Portuguese doubling her!.. you are awesome @NightHawk999 infinite gratitude to you.
she’s amazing. love how it starts - highly inspiring - this is how I love interacting with the public, using psychodrama techniques.
she’s very expressive… one can see what she will say just by looking at her… I LOVE that… it0s very touching!..
I did the process she describes in those steps, with the shamanic tradition… learned it with Homaya Amar, from the Curanderos Lineage of Vera Cruz Mexico, who was my teacher and is today a friend. Part of the process at some point was giving healing to others in this area - from 2011 to 2015 - this because of the so many synchronicities of his death passage - I was chosen to give this soothing to other people in grief. And indeed HOPE is a very important part of this- directly linked with the power of the heart that activates signs and miracles for those who are opened to receive them. From my experience this energy should be activated from within… I was thinking the other day that when I am able to be in the presence of someone and that person opening their heart with me, the most important is not the sharing with me… it’s that God listens to them. God here can be their higher self or their Divine Presence - that’s really the most important - a luminous source that from this sharing can then activate the miracles 
this woman is SO strong… being able to do this in front of SO many people is U-A-U
her first strategy reminded me of the mustard seeds story 
brilliant!
second topic also brilliant - one of the principles of magic that I learned also with Homaya Amar.
love how she explains it in such a simple way - for all kinds of audiences (from my perspective). in this topic I reminded myself of this video that was just released: https://youtu.be/KuqSHi-yXAI?si=-Q6rSKQm2kAcicrG
in my case, registering all the magic of daily life for several months was blowing away my doubts. also consulting weekly my intuition, meditating and visualizing are other good bases for this.
Strategy number 3, I was thinking about it last week when I decided to invite another person for helping me facilitate a retreat in June - this person nurtures all my systems and what I give to the world she will help! (just by being there).
also Vesta was thrown away from the Olympus…
I didn’t know about this sequence/pattern of events before death… brilliant!.. this lady is outstanding… I watched this happening with Nina… harder and harder to be able to do things; recharging not so much by drinking and sleeping but by sleeping; sleeping more and being less awake; being not just asleep, but being unconscious; changing breathing cycles; the final breath out, I wasn’t there…
I was deeply touched by this video…
I think @Parhelion will enjoy these videos very much
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take a look at this goodie…
" Orphic instructions for the Bardo
I have carried in mind since boyhood this version of words the Orphic initiate was coached to say when approaching the Spring of Memory on the other side of death:
I am born of earth and of starry sky
My race is of heaven alone.
Sone 30 lamellae with instructions for navigating a Hellenic bardo have survived. They are written on gold foil; sometimes the thin sheets are shaped like leaves. In the inscriptions there is a white cypress, and sometimes a spring to be avoided as well as one to be sought. There is the all-important statement of identity. The lamella in the photo is in the Getty museum and Roy Kotansky’s translation runs as follows:
(Initiate): I am parched with thirst and perishing!
(Spring): Then come drink of me, the Ever-Flowing Spring. On the right there is a bright cypress. Who are you? Where are you from?
(Initiate): I am the son of Earth and Starry Heaven. But my race is heavenly."
source - Robert Moss
@Agama you might enjoy this
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this one has brought me to tears also.
thank you.
I love you
yes, you, that are reading this. I love and bless you.
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The love is mutual my dear friend. 
I am very happy you appreciated it. I agree with what she said that this is truely a major “Public Health Crisis”, and ALL people need to know about this information and the road map to end of life.
I remember on my Grandmas death bed, I was given a book by the nurse, and it walked me through the dying process. I was so deeply GRATEFUL for that wisdom and map in such a painful and uncertain time.
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Agreed. I also think @jessicamurby will enjoy it as well.
One of the most important Goddesses in those times, unique in that I think her temple was not only with the Vestle Virgins, but also in every Roman household where there was a hearth for fire.
I think her insights will greatly help your future book(s). I will try to post the dream from it, if I dont have the book, I will do the cliff notes version.
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