Dying and death pathways

We live in an era that operates under the illusion that when a person moves into the active dying phase, they, in all their dimensions, die too.

Under that illusion it appears appropriate for a person to advance from being sick, to being dead, to being in the morgue, and to being cremated without an interruption or an acknowledgement of their Beingness.

Unless a person’s family interjects into that timeline with their personal, traditional, and/or faith-based consciousness, there will be a great poverty of meaning as to that person’s life, death, and afterlife.

It is becoming an accustomed trend for folks to agree on “no funeral”, “Mom didn’t want anything.” “We can’t afford it.” This is an understandable choice. Still, the human life in transition deserves, and some would say requires, meaningful attention. For the person who is new to being dead and for those being left to grieve it is essential to their well-being.

A Home Funeral

is family-led deathcare. This practical and reverential process of applying love and grief into the gaps between the living and the dead restores the continuum of Life. The time taken in those spaces is tended with physical, spoken, and felt messages into the forms of Life/Death/Life.

My spiritual practices are a shape-shifting temple framed by the allies and mentors of my mongrel heart. I am mentored and practiced in Vedic Yoga, Western Tropical Astrology, Rosicrucian Spiritual Tools, and attuning to the ancestor fields, including the Cosmos and Gaia.

I am passionate about participating in community spaces that draw strength together out of the arising truth-telling stories that grieving bodies carry.