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Starting my 25th year of service in the healing arts. And celebrating 40 years on the path of spirit! Infinite love and gratitude! 🌌❤️🔥

If knowledge isn’t just, then it’s just knowledge.
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Vermont To Allow Nonresidents To Use Its Assisted Su***de Law The Green Mountain State is the first one in the U.S. to change its medically assisted su***de law to allow terminally ill people from out of state to take advantage of it.

Spring is right around the corner 🌸🐇🍃
For those of us in the natural burial sphere, we're very aware of how these cycles are all about a life AND death 🌿❤️This sentiment is so beautifully embodied by this piece by artist Oliva Faust 🌼

What flowers are you looking forward to seeing at your local green burial sites this Spring? 🌷

“Birth & Death” by Eric Drooker

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"We know all about death that
we will ever know because
we have all experienced
the state before birth.
Life seems a passage between
two doors to the darkness.
Both are the same and truly
eternal, and perhaps it may
be said that we meet in
darkness. The nature of time
is illuminated by this
meeting of eternal ends.

It is amazing to think that
thought and personality
of man is perpetuated in
time after his passage
to eternity. And one time
is all Time if you look
at it out of the grave."

—Allen Ginsberg
(New York, 1949)

The people who seem to get the most out of their practice are the ones who simply enjoy the act of meditating. This doesn’t necessarily mean that they have exotic experiences. Far from it. Many swear that they have never so much as glimpsed a light or seen a vision or felt their thoughts dissolve into spaciousness. Yet if you listen to them talk about their practice, you realize that they are tasting the richness of their entire meditation experience in all its seasons.

When you approach your meditation with interest, that simple time of sitting becomes enjoyable in itself. You listen to the whisper of the breath, you savor the pulsation of a mantra—a meditative word—as it sinks through the layers of your consciousness. You enjoy the rising stillness, the vagrant images flitting through the inner space, and the gradual shift into a quieter mind. Each moment, whether dramatic or seemingly boring, can be full of fascination. You are with yourself. You are with God. Your meditation is an entry into the cave of the heart, the cave of the spirit.

On the other hand, if you look at meditation as a duty, or if you approach it with impatience and rigid expectation, waiting for an experience and feeling bored or angry with yourself when your mind doesn’t immediately get quiet, you fall out of relationship with your meditation. That is because meditation is anything but a mechanical act. Seeing your inner experience as boring, feeling discouraged when it doesn’t unfold as you think it should, telling yourself “I’m not a good meditator anyway”— all this is actually a rejection of your inner energy, your shakti.

Just as a friend cools toward you when you hold back from her, the shakti that makes your meditation dynamic becomes elusive when you ignore it. But it will leap up to meet you once you
begin attending to it with love.

So one of the secrets of deepening our meditation is to discover how to awaken our love for meditation and to keep it alive—even when our experience is subtle or apparently dull.

May your meditation practice this winter be rich and alive.

Find out more in 'Meditation for the Love of It' - (https://www.sallykempton.com/books-and-audio/)
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How Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Can Help Ease End-of-Life Anxiety According to a noted NYU professor of psychiatry, clinical trials show the calming effects of psilocybin can be transformative and enduring

The Most Beautiful Hand Drawn Video: The Day That Death Fell In Love With Life | Spirit Science This is an entirely hand drawn short video by Marsha Onderstijn, an animator from the Netherlands. This video follows a fun representation of death. Death