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A Letter to Rachel
Ram Dass wrote a letter some years ago to a family who had lost their young daughter, Rachel. Although he wrote it to these two parents specifically, everything in this
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Featured Teacher: Stephen Levine
Featured Teacher:Stephen Levine Stephen Levine is a poet and teacher of guided meditation healing techniques. He and his wife and spiritual partner, Ondrea, have counseled the dying and their loved
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Viewing Suffering as Grace
Artwork by Martin B The fact is, I can’t take away people’s death and suffering when I’m working with their death and suffering. But I can be a presence where
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Shifting the Perception of Suffering
The way in which you are part of the web of life, of incarnation, is around the dimensions, you could…
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Giving Up Isn't Failing
My stepmother Phyllis and I went to the doctors together and we did the whole thing of getting all the reports and dealing with all the emotions. Now she was
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A Metaphor for Dying
Ram Dass on Changing Our Metaphor for Dying I sit with a lot of people who are dying these days because I am very interested in seeing whether we can
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An Environmental Awakening
Environmental Concern Question: I am the father of a three year old. It appears that, given the current trends, the planet will become uninhabitable before he can live out a
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Dying is Absolutely Safe – Awareness Beyond Death
People ask, “Do you believe that there is continuity after death?” And I say, “I don’t believe it. It just…