There is a famous quote: “Death is not the opposite of Life, Birth is the opposite of Death. Life is eternal.” by Eckhart Tolle.
Life is a constant state of ever-being and ever-changing, and ever-existing. Of course, it sounds a bit abstract, but people confuse the inevitability of Death with suffering. They misinterpret suffering from health issues, injury, or other misfortunes with the ultimate ending to one cycle – Death. Thus this creates a habit of living in fear and not unfolding their hero’s journey and blocking their true great potential. It also involves silencing their intuition and straying from their path.
Death happens to us regularly. We die for friendships, connections, jobs, habits, and people in our lives. The minute we stop investing our time and energy into something, it dies out for us. And we die for it too.
Those energies flowing that exchanged before stop existing. It is one of the reasons we feel relief after quitting a job or ending a relationship. We feel free, but when we think about Death, that light feeling doesn’t happen because we always consider that Death will happen to not FOR us. Meaning we don’t see the beneficial aspect to it. I had one friend who died after a long sick period. By the end of the suffering, it got quiet around him, and he died peacefully. I guess he finally understood that Death happened FOR him, to release him of this agony.
The unknown aspect of Death and the knowledge of its inevitability is the paradox that keeps people paralyzed in a cognitive dissonance on the subject. The brain couldn’t comprehend these two equally valid contradictions. It will happen, and it’s known it will, but the “ending” is unknown. People substitute “What” with “How”. Meaning “What will happen?”, becomes the same as “How it will happen?” And, of course, they fear the unknown.
Fear from Death is not the core fear
Actually, fear of falling and fear of loud noise are the core fears. Once the elusive fear of Death integrates, it dissolves, true life begins.
I’ve unlocked some secrets regarding this aspect. It has allowed me to take a risk and live according to my intuition’s signals and not operate from the state of doubts and fears, not even from Faith, which is the opposite of doubt. I make decisions with Subtle Knowing. It is not exactly that, but this is the closest I can describe it, and it has no opposite.
I still have a few little fears left because I’m very stubborn. However, I combine personal spiritual methods with an academic approach towards fear now in a state of flight through my life, which is different.
To make it clear of what I’m talking about: In the past two years, I quit my job, I divorced a rich husband (not taking a dime from him, and there was no prenup, my intuition told me so), I changed my tax status and started a small freelance consultation business, part of which is this, and I’m also a part of a startup team that creates handmade jewelry. I also started writing a book in English, which is not my mother tongue, and I sold my old apartment from when I was a student and bought and moved into a new place, which took a few months to renovate during the spring lockdown.
It all began when I started releasing myself from the fear of Death and some other fears. I don’t fear germs and dirt like I used to. I guess I just had to be on the opposite side to the mass madness, but it worked.
As you see, these experiences also indicate a type of Death and Rebirth within the cycles of existing.
Regretting Not Living
You probably met people who are full of regrets about choices they didn’t make. Almost all of the mature people I know regret things they didn’t do. Not long ago, I listen to a tirade by my grandmother. She was so sorry she didn’t divorce my grandfather and let him abuse her for decades.
She regrets not taking a chance, not leaving him and freeing herself from him, and living another life. She sometimes even imagines with tears in her eyes what it could have been.
Lucid Dreaming
Lucid dreaming is knowing you are dreaming while you are in the dream. I’ve always had real, vivid dreams and a thirst for knowledge. Only in the past few years, I learned that my dreams were called Lucid dreams. They were always like that. It took me a while to realize that others don’t have them often, whereas I have only them.
I battled with severe depression after physical and mental abuse from two of my family members, and I tried to commit suicide when I was 18 years old. It was my first meeting with Death. I had an NDE, and ever since then, I began asking questions. It’s been 14 years since then. I’ve had a lot of internal experiences after that.
I do not fear the Inevitable passage. It is A PART of LIFE.