End of Life Journey
Making the final journey home to the light
As we make our exit from this life time, we want leave with a peaceful heat.
The job of an End of Life Doula is to assist a loved one on the greatest journey of all, the journey beyond death.
The same way that midwives and doctors receive us when we are born, there are spiritual midwives, relatives, and luminous ones that help us to return back to the world of Spirit. Making this final journey one of grace and beauty.
Many families do not know how to come to closure with the passing of a loved one. Many people die in fear, with unresolved issues, not having said “I love you” and “I forgive you,” words that would be so healing for them and their families. We have tried to make death invisible, thinking that if we ignore it long enough, it will go away.
Death is the ultimate journey of liberation.
When neural activity ceases and the brain shuts down an extraordinary phenomenon occurs, a portal opens between dimensions, enabling the dying person to enter into the world of Spirit.
When a person has unfinished business in this world, they are unable to step easily through this portal, so it is important that we complete our unfinished business and be prepared to enter infinity. We need to take the steps to journey home as cleanly as possible.
The great death rites practiced by the shamanic traditions provide specific steps to bring reconciliation and healing both to the loved ones and to the person dying.
“Dying consciously” – maintaining consciousness intact through the journey of death and beyond – is designed for all persons involved in the dying process: The individual, family members, and friends. Its purpose is to assist the person who is making the journey beyond death to do so in a peaceful manner, full of light.
We can help our loved ones start their Great Journey by giving them the opportunity to tell their story, a step in the death rites known as recapitulation (life review) and forgiveness. All we need to do is be an empathetic listener and encourage them to forgive themselves as they would forgive others, compassionately and without judgment.
Regardless of where we were born, everyone has a skeleton with the same number of bones. Likewise, we all share the same luminous anatomy, which includes the chakras and the acupuncture meridians. Cleansing the dying person’s chakras helps to set their energetic body free by removing toxic energy accumulated throughout a lifetime as a result of trauma.
Another important step in the Death Rites is giving a person permission to die. Many people need to know that there is no reason to worry about the ones who stay behind. Those who do not feel free to leave their loved ones can linger needlessly for months.
Shamans believe the doorway between the dimensions closes forty hours after death, so it is important to perform the rites of the great spiral as soon as possible. This helps the chakras release the luminous threads that once connected the energetic body to events from the past.
Following the great spiral, the luminous body will be drawn to exit through any one of the seven chakras. A tremendous surge of energy is felt as the Luminous Energy Field becomes free of the body.
The final step in the death rites is sealing the chakras which keeps the luminous body from returning to a lifeless physical form.
The chakra clearing process can begin in the final weeks or days of dying. One chakra at the time will be cleared and illuminated to help the person let go, and get permission to go, by clearing the chakras we make the road as clear a possible preparing for the journey of death.
This process also helps the dying person and loved ones go through the five stages of dying, denial - anger - bargaining - depression -acceptance.
Please email maria@wild-nest.com to arrange for a call.
Maria is a qualified with the Spirit of the Inka, Medicine School.
The Death rites are from the Q'ero traditions and taught to my teacher Chris Waters by Alberto Villoldo PhD.