Dissertation:
Death [Rebirth] – The Continuing Adventure of the Spiritual Journey
Raya Stanley Machupa, 2007
Abstract
The purpose of this dissertation is to assist in alleviating the fear of death by presenting original and researched documentation to substantiate death as a natural and inevitable occurrence, in accord with soul purpose, in the evolutionary process. This study is significant in that it will assist in dispelling erroneous concepts and fears about death and dying, will substantiate death as a natural and inevitable occurrence in accord with soul purpose, and will reveal death as a repeating interlude in the eternal life cycle of embodiment in the evolutionary process.
The literature review illustrates that the ancient wisdom teachings describing many esoteric details about the soul, death and dying, and survival and an afterlife are now being discovered by spiritual and scientific studies.
Three disciplines are explored in order to understand how the relationship of death is revealed through each in the evolutionary cycle.
"Death: Relationship to Spirituality" presents research from past and modern mystics reflecting the spiritual nature of humanity as divine sparks of God whose purpose was to die to the world of spirit by descending into the depth of the substance of the denser planes in order to raise the consciousness of the less evolved kingdoms of nature. Transiting through the involutionary/evolutionary process is accomplished through a pattern of sacrifice, death, and resurrection. Humanity is assisted throughout by a great brother/sisterhood comprised of networking beings in the inner spheres of life who sustain all with love, power, and guidance. Common fears concerning death, substantiating the fact of the soul, reincarnation, karma, and death are discussed.
"Death: Relationship to Science" presents esoteric and scientific investigations regarding survival and an afterlife. Topics include near-death experiences, near-death-like experiences, transformational experiences, reincarnation memories, superconscious spiritual regressions (life between lives), out-of-body experiences, spirit voice recordings, spirit photographs, alternate realities, telepathy, mediumship, deathbed observations, and apparitions of the dead.
"Death: Relationship to Art" presents various aspects involved in the dying process. Comparison is made between an esoteric view of the art of dying to the art of physical birth. Areas researched are esoteric and physiological aspects, psychological aspects, emotional adjustments, techniques for dying, the nearing-death experience, living while dying, and lessons about living shared by the terminally ill.
Additionally, esoteric spirituality reveals the care with which the world of spirit intervenes in the dying process to accommodate a peaceful, merciful, and beautiful transition for the average good person returning to the world of spirit.
Scientific investigations into esoteric psychology and the esoteric aspects of the art of dying reveal the natural manner in which the body and mind have been perfectly designed to accommodate death-the withdrawal or rebirthing of the spirit or soul.
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