DEATH, DYING, AND BEYOND 

Healing The Light Body - Session Four

Life ends with the last breath, just as it begins with the first.

As the physical body returns to the Earth, the soul prepares for its great journey home. When the brain shuts down, the electromagnetic field created by the central nervous system dissolves, and the Luminous Energy Field disengages from its former home. As this happens, the Luminous Energy Field grows into a translucent, egg-shaped torus that contains the other seven chakras, which continue to shimmer like points of light for the first few hours after death. If all proceeds smoothly, this luminous orb, which is the essence or soul of the individual, then travels through the axis of the luminous body, to become one with Spirit again. This occurs very quickly once the Luminous Energy Field is free from the body. The torus of the Luminous Energy Field squeezes through the portal created by its central axis, like a doughnut squeezing through its own whole.

When a dying person retains his awareness after death, he enters the light easily. My mentor compared this light to the dawn breaking on a cloudless morning, a state of primordial purity – immense and vast, defying description. The blackness of death, caused by the collapse of the senses, recedes and is dispelled by the light of Spirit.

My mentor prepared all of his life for this journey. Shortly before he died, he explained to me how the steps of the journey were different for him as a shaman that for someone who was unprepared to meet his death. He fully expected to attain the freedom that is possible at the instant of death, during the dawning of the light of Spirit. At that moment, he explained, you perceive the dawn as if from the top of the world itself. You are taller than the highest mountains. Not only is the breaking dawn occurring outside you, but you simultaneously feel the sun rising in your belly and all of Creation stirring within you. You recognize that you are one with the dawning light. You surrender to the luminosity around you, are enfolded by it, and become one with it. During this stage you encounter luminous beings, medicine people who assist you in surrendering to the light.  Inka legends say that we are all star travelers, and at this point in the dying process we can re-embark on our great journey through the Milky Way.

If the person fails to recognize the dawn as the awakening of his own consciousness, the sun continues to rise in a million blinding dazzling colors. All of nature comes alive in a stunning display of sound and light. It is as if the first day of Creation were replaying itself. In this stage, the forces of nature manifest in their pure essence. Already the one has separated into the many. Water appears as fluid as light; the Earth appears as light; all of the elements are represented in their luminosity and coalesce into balls of energy. In this stage we have a second opportunity to recognize our luminous nature, to see that we are not separate from the dazzling light and energies around us. A shaman who has been preparing her entire life for this moment can attain liberation through the complete unfettering of consciousness during the first two stages of death. Others, however, may experience an instant of complete enlightenment, and then slip back into unconsciousness. For them this process will go by in a flash of blinding light. They might not even realize they have passed through it.

The windstorm of death is so mighty that many people become unconscious and awaken only at the third stage of the journey. We observe that we still have a form, that we are a man or woman, that we can be young and unaffected by disease. But the dawn of consciousness has passed, and we are not in the twilight of the day. The colors are not as sharp or well defined, even though our awareness is tremendously heightened. Our ordinary senses are not separated from each other. We sense synesthetically with the totality of our being, and everything around us is alive. At this stage we go through our panoramic life review, in which every action, word, and deed we have performed appears before us and must be accounted for.

After the life review process we meet those who have died before us, including parents, friends, and people we may have hurt or wronged. My mentor explained to me that this domain has various levels, each one vibrating at a higher frequency than the one below it. The lower levels are very dense, associated with the domains of the Stone People and the Plant People. Persons trapped in these lower domains are undergoing purification in a world of darkness, where they have no eyes to see with or hands to feel with. They only sense the vague presence of others. These are Earth-bound domains for humans (although they are perfectly nice places for the Stone People). Here we relive our pain and suffering. The higher levels are joyful and filled with peace. We rejoin our loved ones and bask in the light of Spirit until our next incarnation. We naturally gravitate toward one level or another, depending on how we lived our life. We can see those in the levels below but cannot be seen by them, and we can speak and interact only with those in our level. The fourth level is our spiritual home, where we meet our ancestors and families.

The fifth world is the domain of luminous beings dedicated to assisting all humankind. Shamans who have mastered the journey beyond death return to this level. Long ago, when the shamanic death rites were first developed, this was a difficult level to attain. Today it is much more accessible. Trails have been blazed by the courageous men and women who have come before us. The prophecies of the Hopi and the Inka speak about our entire planet emerging into the fifth world. They refer to our entering the domains of angels. My mentor used to say to me, “we are here not only to grow corn, but to grow gods. I’m convinced that this is what he meant.

WHEN WE DIE

An extraordinary phenomenon occurs at the moment of death. When neural activity ceases and the brain shuts down, a portal opens between dimensions. The veils between the world part, enabling the dying person to enter into the world of Spirit. When a person has unfinished business in this world, she is unable to step easily through this portal. The biblical parable of the camel passing through the eye of a needle more easily than a rich man can enter heaven, likewise addresses the difficulties met by those who have neglected the spiritual dimension in their pursuit of material gratification. We cannot carry our worldly identity into the beyond.

A person who is weighed down by heavy emotional baggage, remains bound to the Earth. This soul has to go through a very intensive life review as soon as she arrives on the other side. Some people who have had a near-death experience recall a panoramic life review – a very detailed and comprehensive judgment day – even though the experience occurred in only minutes of Earth time. When the person does not return to the physical body, the life review can seem to take years, as the toxic energies in the Luminous Energy Field have to be combusted in an atmosphere where there is little air, which makes this clearing more difficult to accomplish.

After death, the Luminous Energy Field uncouples from the physical body. Two forces link the Luminous Energy Field to the body. The first is the electromagnetic field generated by the nervous system. When the field intensity drops to zero as the electrical activity in the brain ceases, the primary electromagnetic force that binds the luminous body to the physical body dissolves. The second link is the chakras, which secure the Luminous Energy Field to the spinal column. During the Final Rites we release every one of the seven bodily chakras, separate the luminous body from the physical, and seal the chakras so that the soul cannot reattach itself to the corpse again. When we disengage the chakras from the physical body we can return to the Earth what has always belonged to nature, and to the Heavens what has always belonged to Spirit.

On several occasions while training with my mentor I had the opportunity to visit a funeral home to observe the Luminous Energy Field of a deceased person. Every time I noticed that the luminous body remained connected at the belly to the corpse. Days later, when I visited the cemetery, I found the luminous body still hovering above the grave, attached to a decaying physical body that was no longer its home. Shortly before death, the doorway between the worlds opens. The shaman with whom I trained believed that forty hours after the last breath this portal shuts down. The soul then has to travel through all the planes where those who have not died consciously go to purge.

PREPARATION FOR PEACE

I feel that people should be allowed to die at home, where they are most comfortable and surrounded by a familiar environment. It is not as common nowadays for people to die at home. Most often death will occur in a hospital. Many doctors and nurses are as bewildered by death as the rest of us, but may have become jaded by having to face death daily. Make sure that the hospital staff knows and respects the wishes of the dying person and her family. When the hospital staff has no explicit instructions from the dying person or next of kin, they must take whatever measures are necessary to prolong life. This legal mandate is designed to protect the hospital from potential lawsuits, and not to ensure the quality of life of the dying person or her family.

If your loved one is in a hospital, once you know there is nothing more that can be done medically, request a private room and have all monitors disconnected. Be sure that there are specific instructions in the chart that indicate her wish not to be resuscitated or have any extraordinary measures taken to revive her. Your written instructions and quiet fortitude will let the medical staff know that no heroics are necessary.

When the person is in the final stages of dying, request that all injections and invasive procedures be discontinued, except for medication to relieve pain. Invasive medical procedures can cause the dying person pain, anger, and confusion. If you are the next of kin you have the authority to instruct the physicians to administer enough medication to alleviate pain but not so much that your loved one becomes unconscious.

People should be allowed to die in tranquility. A peaceful death is the most precious gift that we can offer a loved one. The person’s senses are heightened, particularly her sense of hearing. Small noises can be painfully amplified and cause anxiety and confusion. Make this very difficult transition as gentle as possible. Your loved one’s room should be a temple of peace at the time of her passing. Speak lovingly and frequently to her. If she is in a coma, and even after she has stopped breathing, the sound of your voice can be heard by her soul. Your love can reach her in dimensions you would never imagine.

Leave the body undisturbed for as long as possible after death. This is very difficult to do in a hospital, but with some creativity and ingenuity, you can secure at least a few hours of calm. The Luminous Energy Field of the deceased undergoes tremendous flux when it disengages from the chakras. The luminous body expands in a whirlwind of energy and then contracts violently into the physical body, yet cannot reanimate the body. In Tibet the body is watched over for three days. Hospital regulations do not allow the body to remain without embalming for this length of time, which is another reason why the procedures that follow are so important.

When my father died, I felt his luminous body float in the air for two days until his funeral service, even though he was free from his physical remains. My mother had organized a simple service at a local church, and at the end of the ceremony I felt a breeze waft past the altar; I sensed my father departing in a rush of light. When we arrived at the cemetery an hour later the coffin felt devoid of any energy.

THE DEATH RITES

The Death Rites help the dying person return to infinity. There are three steps to the Death Rites.

• Recapitulation and forgiveness.
  

  We want to assist a loved one in coming to closure with her life prior to death. It is as difficult to say, “I forgive you” from the Spirit world and be heard by a living person, as it is to say, “I forgive you” to someone in a dream and have the real person hear you. When a person comes to closure with their worldly existence they transit effortlessly through the domains beyond death. Recapitulation and forgiveness bring completion to a life. Then, events from the past do not have to be forgiven during the life review that happens on the other side of life. The vast majority of reports in the literature on near-death experiences recount positive experiences. Yet cardiologist Maurice Rawlings interviewed individuals on the operating table immediately after they were resuscitated and found that nearly half of the people reported hellish encounters. Rawlings believes that many people have hellish visions that they repress in the days after resuscitation. Other researchers believe that these hellish visions may be self-inflicted. Raymond Moody, one of the foremost investigators of near-death experiences, states: “The judgment in the cases I studied came not from the being of light, who seemed to love and accept these people anyway, but rather from within the individual being judged.” We are the accused, the defendant, the judge, and the jury all at once. How ready are we to forgive ourselves -- Forgiveness and closure while we are still living is the focus of Recapitulation.

  It is important for the family to give voice to the forgiveness and love that have not been expressed during the course of a lifetime. Atonement with the family is essential so that the person can pass on in peace. You would be surprised at the healing power of a simple “I love you” from a dying parent to a child or vice versa. This is not always easy, of course, yet a lifetime of mistakes can be undone through forgiveness even at the end of a life. 

  Recapitulation offers your loved one the opportunity to tell you her story. Having the opportunity to tell one’s story has cathartic and healing power. It is the equivalent of doing your life review before you have actually died. Recapitulation is not a time for recriminations about past events. It is a time to listen to your loved one’s story. The sooner you engage the Recapitulation, and the more extensive the life review you accomplish, the easier the transition will be. Sometimes it is difficult to begin this conversation, especially if you have not had an intimate dialogue with your loved one in years. Find an entry point for dialogue. For example, ask your mother to recall the day she met your dad, how they courted each other, or what their first date was like. Engage her feelings by asking specific questions. What was her future husband wearing that day? Did she know he was the one when she met him? Be a good listener and ask questions. You will be surprised how readily a person will tell her story to someone who shows interest. Ask your loved one about her parents and her childhood. Where did she go to school? How did she dress? Whom did she have a crush on when she was in high school? What was her home life like? Gradually lead the conversation to more personal topics: Whom does she need to forgive? Remind your loved one that she can forgive anyone through a prayer or a blessing. Ultimately, the dying person needs to forgive herself and know that she is fully forgiven by life. Lastly, ask her how she would like to be remembered. What are the stories she would like her grandchildren to remember her by? Recapitulation brings closure through forgiveness. Assist your loved one to let go of any feelings of having been wronged or having wronged anyone else.

  In the weeks before my father passed away, we sat together every day while he told me the story of his life. At the beginning he was hesitant, but soon he was flooded with images from his past. It was as if a dam had broken, and reflections and feelings flowed freely. It began with an exercise in guided imagery in which we envisioned ourselves sitting on a large boulder beside a river. He described the images that he saw floating down the river. At first the water was gray and murky. Then after a few days scenes from his childhood drifted by, and he described these to me as if he were seeing them in a dream. Sometimes he sobbed quietly. Later he told me about a man whom he had wronged during his adolescence but whom he hadn’t thought about in decades. I encouraged him to feel forgiven and to forgive this man in return. Lastly, images of my mother and their children appeared. He recounted all of this in great detail before dozing off tranquilly.  This was a private process shared only by the two of us, yet at the end he was able to call our family together and tell each one of us how much he loved us. This was the first time any of us had heard him say, “I love you.” He had wanted to express this all his life but had never been able to bring himself to do so before.

  Tremendous forgiveness can occur in the Recapitulation. But do not expect to be a miracle worker and think that you can achieve in a few hours the healing that could not be accomplished in a lifetime. People tend to die in the same way that they have lived. It’s natural for your loved one to experience anger when faced with the end of his life, and you can easily become the target of his resentment. Be careful not to react to it or to take it personally. Powerful realizations often come uninvited as one approaches death. One of them is understanding that we could have lived differently, loved more fully, and forgiven more readily. This anger is not being directed toward you personally. Make it okay for your loved one to voice his feelings, and respond to his anger with physical comfort and support. Hold your loved one’s hand as he cries or expresses his ire. Be an unshakable source of love and unconditional support even in a storm of rage. The more willing your loved one is to forgive himself, the more quickly his rage will turn into compassion.

  If your loved one’s condition is critical and he has not been informed of this, by all means let him know. Most people know anyway. They can feel the change in attitude among the family members present – the new quietness in the room, the hushed voices, and the forced smiles. It is best to be direct, yet gentle and compassionate. Your straightforwardness will give your loved one permission to be open and disclosing with you. He will know that he can count on you to speak the truth.

• Granting permission to die.
  

  Perhaps the most important step in the Death Rites is giving a loved one permission to die. Let them know that there is no reason to worry about those who stay behind. A student of mine named Diane sat beside her dying mother for weeks. The older woman was unable to let go, despite the fact that she was in a great deal of pain and could no longer eat. Diane had performed several Illuminations on her mother, and she and her sister had begun to forgive each other and heal the lesions of the past. It finally occurred to Diane that she and her sister had not let their mother know that it was all right for her to leave. She finally said, “Mother, we are here with you and love you very much. We want you to know that we will be okay. We will look after each other and keep our family together. Even though we will miss you, it is perfectly natural for you to go. We will treasure all of the beautiful moments that we had together, but we don’t want you to suffer anymore, or to continue to cling to life. You have our full and complete permission to die. You know that we will always love you.” A few hours later her mother took her final breath and died peacefully.

  Without your permission to die, your loved one might cling to life for months, enduring unnecessary suffering and causing great anguish for the family. Permission must come from the immediate family, and ideally there should be a consensus. If there is a dissenting family member who won’t let go, encourage him to express his love and forgiveness nonetheless. I have observed that the family members who have the hardest time letting go are the ones who have the most unfinished business with the dying person or who are the most frightened of their own death. Every voice in the room must count and be heard. If you are working with a client, make sure that all immediate relatives voice their feelings to the dying person. As the healer, you can add your consent as well, but remember that permission from those closest to the client carries the most weight, even if this happens to be a personal friend and confidant and not an immediate family member.

• The Final Rites.
  You do not need to be a shaman or a priest to perform the Final Rites. You can hold the space for a loved one to be touched by the hand of Spirit. There are two parts to the Final Rites: the Illumination Process and the release of the Luminous Energy Field. I’ve had many clients tell me that they’ve felt the presence of their deceased relatives as well as luminous beings around them during the Illumination Process. It’s as if spiritual midwives on the other side are preparing to receive the dying person.

  Through the Illumination Process you can create the space where a loved one can experience grace and liberation. It is easy to feel overwhelmed by the idea that you must accomplish a lifetime of healing in a few days. It is even more overwhelming if the loved one is close to dying. Remember though, that it is never too late for healing. With the immediacy of death comes the realization that we have no time to waste. There is no tomorrow in which to attend to the healing we have put off all our lives. A friend who is a Roman Catholic priest once commented to me that the confession a dying person makes is the most important one, because it is the most sincere. You will find this healing to be one of your most powerful life experiences.

  It is best to begin the Illumination Process some time before your loved one passes, as it can require several sessions to clear the toxic energy around a lifetime of imprints. Do not be afraid that you will pick up any toxic residues adhering to the person’s chakras, as these are combusted and turned into light. You are in no jeopardy whatsoever. The process happens at an energetic level and not psychologically, so these energies do not surface as anger or resentments.

  Should you find that a loved one’s religious beliefs do not allow her to experience an Illumination, do not force it upon her. You are not there to convert anyone to your beliefs. You are there to help the person find the strength, guidance, and spiritual fortitude to embark on the greatest journey of her life. I remember attending a friend’s father, a very religious man in his early eighties. When my friend explained the healing work that I did, his father stared at him in disbelief. The old man thanked his son but let him know that his priest came by his hospital room every morning to pray with him, and that this was enough. The father was well traveled, and we struck up a conversation about the Peruvian rain forest, which he had visited as a young man. We began to exchange stories about river ports in the Amazon. He would doze off after a few minutes of conversation. On my third visit I asked him if he would mind if I prayed with him. He indicated that it would be fine, and I took his hand and closed my eyes in prayer. I had noticed that his wife was the only person who touched him; all the children kept their distance, even while taking part in animated conversation. It was as if they were afraid that dying might be contagious and did not want to risk infection through physical contact. Every time we closed our eyes to pray he would grasp my hand and be asleep within minutes.

  It is essential that you obtain your loved one’s permission before you perform an Illumination or any part of the Death Rites. My friend’s father had given me permission to pray with him. This was all I needed to perform an Illumination. It as very awkward to reach behind his head to hold the deepening and release points, as the hospital bed was against a wall. I performed the Illumination by his side, simply holding his hand, silently asking his body-mind to activate the deepening points every time I pressed a point in his hand and to activate the release points every time I pressed a different point. My client was ready to take part in the healing. His body-mind readily complied, making the necessary luminous connection between the points in the hand and the back of the head.

  The points I work with on the wrist are on the same acupuncture meridians as the deepening and release points. The deepening points in the hand are located on the outside of the wrist, on the wrinkle of the wrist joint. The release points are located about one inch above the wrist, on the top and bottom of the forearm. I opened the chakra we were working on and closed it when we were finished. In three sessions we completed Illuminating all seven chakras. My friend’s father would wake up after each illumination and tell me how restfully he had slept, or how he had dreamed. I taught my friend how to perform the Final Rites on his father because I was going to be away. On my return, I learned that he had passed away during his sleep.

  The Illumination Process combusts the energy in the chakras and erases imprints from the Luminous Energy Field. This alleviates the life review process in the Spirit world, as most of the charge has been drained from emotional memories. Since you will be Illuminating all seven chakras, you do not need to test for a compromised chakra. When you’ve cleared the sludge from the first chakra, balance it by spinning it clockwise again, and proceed to the second chakra, following the protocol in the Illumination Process. You will probably not be able to Illuminate all seven chakras in one session – the process can be lengthy.

  The body knows how to die in the same way that it knows how to be born. Nine out of ten times the Luminous Energy Field returns to the world of Spirit with ease. Similarly, nine out of ten births happen without complications. During childbirth, one in ten is not an acceptable level of risk, and even natural births are generally planned to take place in a hospital within easy reach of a physician. The disengaging of the chakras during the Final Rites is necessary only when the process does not happen naturally. These are the rites you will perform after the person has died. You release the Luminous Energy Field and seal the chakras immediately after death so that the luminous body does not reenter the physical shell or become contaminated by the energy residues in the body.

Open sacred space, calling in the four directions, Heaven and Earth.

Expand your luminous body over yourself and your loved one.  It is important to work within this doubly sacred space. The sacred space protects your loved one from disruptive outside energies. The legends of the rain forest peoples say that at the moment of death the hungry ghosts of all those whom we have hurt or offended gather around our deathbed to claim their due. They follow the deceased until they have achieved retribution. I prefer to interpret these hungry ghosts as psychological demons representing all of the unfinished business from our past. That’s why it is so important to reach closure with our life. Once we do so, the hungry ghosts are dispelled; forgiveness dissolves them into thin air. When you expand your luminous field over your loved one, you are creating an island of tranquility in the middle of a storm. In this island, relatives who have passed on and healers from the Spirit world assist the dying person. There is a saying among the shamans of the upper Amazon, that the purpose of all their training is to learn how to leave this life alive. This doesn’t mean that they intend to take their physical bodies with them, but that they seek to maintain their consciousness intact through the journey.

After your loved one stops breathing, disengage the chakras. Ideally this step    should be preformed immediately after the person passes, and in any case no later than forty hours after the final breath. Immediately after death the chakras begin to release the luminous threads that once connected them to events from the past. The rhythm of the chakras change. One can feel the frequency and vibration of each chakra, increase. They begin to disengage from the body but are hampered by the sludge within them.

Because the energy of the chakras is changing very rapidly, we disengage them following the arc of a spiral, with the heart at the center. Each chakra must be spun counter clockwise. Place your hand over your loved one’s heart chakra, then, spin your fingers counterclockwise three or four times to unwind this center. Continue to the solar plexus, then the throat, next the second chakra, then the sixth, next the root chakra, and last the crown in the steps described below. As you unwind the chakras, imagine that you are making a great spiral with the heart as its center. Follow these steps carefully.

Draw an arc of spiral with your hand as you move to the third chakra or solar plexus, repeating the procedure above. When you have unwound the third chakra, go back to the heart, feel that chakra, and retrace the arc of a spiral down to the third and up to the throat chakra.

Repeat with each chakra, returning to the heart after you disengage each energy center. The last chakra that you release will be the crown. By this time you will have drawn a great spiral over the person’s body multiple times. Your loved one’s luminous body may exit through any one of these seven chakras.  

Push energy through your loved one’s feet to “nudge” the luminous body free.  Place the palms of your hands on the soles of your loved one’s feet, so that your right palm is resting on his left sole, and vice versa. Visualize energy gushing out of your hands into his body. The Luminous Energy Field sometimes adheres to the chakras even after they have been unwound. This step nudges the Luminous Energy Field so it breaks free from the body. In most cases the luminous body exits immediately after the chakras have been disengaged, and it becomes unnecessary to perform this step or the next.

Draw out the luminous body. Move to the person’s head and cradle it in your hands. Hold the head gently for a few moments, letting her know that it’s okay for her to let go. Tell her that you will be fine and that you love her. Remember that she can still hear you. Speak these words softly yet firmly. Draw your hands back, exerting gentle pressure on her head, and draw out her luminous body through the crown chakra. You will feel a tremendous surge of energy as the Luminous Energy Field becomes free of the body. One student reported that he and his siblings went from despair to joyful tears when their mother’s luminous body became free. The entire room was filled with a peace that they could not explain. The luminous body may not always exit through the crown. It will exit through whichever chakra it is most ready to depart from. I have seen cases in which the luminous body has departed through the second chakra or the heart chakra.

Seal the chakras by making the sign of a cross over each center with your thumb. Sealing the chakras keeps the luminous body from returning to a lifeless physical form. You can use holy water or an essential oil for this. Remember that the cross is more ancient than Christianity. It represents the sealing of a doorway into a physical body that will never be used again.
In the Christian traditions one finds a similar practice associated with the last rites, except that the meaning of these rites has largely been forgotten. The priest anoints the forehead and heart, making the sign of the cross on them with holy water. He is likely to be unaware that he may be trapping the person’s Luminous Energy Field within the physical body, binding spirit to matter in a lifeless shell. When this happens a person can continue identifying with a decaying physical body. If he is the one in ten who did not return to the Spirit world naturally, he may not be free until the body completely decomposes and there is no matter left for the luminous body to adhere to. 

The first time I administered the Death Rites, outside of assisting my mentor, was when my father died. I was with him when he entered into a coma. My sister, my mother, and I kept vigil by his bedside, holding his hand for days and letting him know he was loved, that we would be okay, that he need not worry about us. At the end of one of these sessions my sister and I stepped out to get a sandwich. On our return we saw that he had stopped breathing. A young Roman Catholic priest was standing over the bed administering the last rites. I gently nudged the priest out of the room and locked the door. As I disengaged my father’s chakras, I observed his luminous body exit through his heart. As soon as his chakras were free, his luminous body broke free from the physical. All it took was a nudge of love through the soles of his feet. The quality of the room changed. We felt a serenity that I associate with cathedrals more than with hospitals. My mother stopped crying and the three of us hugged each other. We sensed my father’s presence in the room and felt that he was free from the crippling pain he had been in for the last year. I sealed his chakras, opened the door, and invited the young priest to complete his ceremony.

SPIRITUAL ASSISTANCE

The healer must render spiritual assistance to the dying in as unobtrusive a manner as possible. Keep in mind that everyone around you is in need of healing, not just the dying person. Sometimes the family will want you to assume the leading role simply to avoid dealing with death. Be careful not to become caught in this predicament. The most important task of the healer is to hold sacred space. During the dying process every feeling is amplified. Painful events from the past, the confusion of dying, and the grief of family members in the room, all add to the chaos. When you hold a loved one within your Luminous Energy Field, you are creating an oasis of peace. In that calm, it is possible for the dying person to regroup, recognize loved ones, and discover the luminous healers waiting on the other side.

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