Death is the ultimate journey of transition and a powerful point of transformation, not just for the person that is journeying onwards, but for all those involved in the dying process: the individual, family members, and friends.

Death is not a topic that most people want to acknowledge, much less discuss. Understanding death and allowing it to become like a dialogue with a lover allows us to be fully alive.

The Great Death Rites practiced by historic traditions allow us to understand the kind of psychological, emotional and energetic closure needed. They provide specific steps to bring reconciliation and healing both to the loved ones and to the person dying.

These practices do not only apply to death of the physical body. At this time, numerous places around the world are experiencing the death of old paradigms, structures and maps - in governments, economics, health care, housing, religion, and politics. This death is necessary and natural to create space for the birthing of a new paradigm.

We are dreaming the world into being. If we clear those places where we are stalked by death - releasing the death that is part of our genetic makeup, our karmic story and let go of old stories and unfinished business - we can be fully present and awake while we dream, and we can dream a new world unconstrained by the past stories and limitations!