24. To Death!

Most of Modern Western culture abhors, shuns, and deeply fears Death. But what if Death is holding the key to the full unblemished experience of Life, and by turning away from Death, we are limiting our ability to live as the full, complete, perfect beings we deep down know ourselves to be? Continuing the contemplation started in Episode 14: Death is Safe, this episode ventures, safely in our breathing bodies, to the doorway that honoring Death can lead us through. When we allow Death to sit at our table... or rather, when we recognize that Death is the one who prepared and is in fact the table, we can relax into more of the fullness and grandeur of life, here and now, than we may have ever thought possible when we tried to live without Death.

In this episode:

• Embracing and honoring death to fully embrace and honor life.
• A story of a compassionate chicken slaughter.
• The natural necessity of death in life.
• Death's portal into ahierarchical freedom.
• Duality, Binaries, and Masculine / Feminine Energies.
• Death as a feminine force.
• The purpose of life is to fully participate in life.
• The Western approach to hiding death and a more participatory approach to celebrating it.
• On loving through grief, and grieving as the most appropriate response to life.
• We're already living and loving through a field cleared and made by death.
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King's teachings on death.
• Embracing the great battle of your time.
• Beyond binaries, good / bad, into pure engagement with the dance of life and death.