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Do You Have a Healthy Relationship With Death?
How often do you contemplate passing on?
Whether we appreciate it or not, we are all just one step away from death. In our culture, it seems to me that death has been so glamorised, fantasised and above all sanitised, that we’ve buried its true meaning under mountains of conditioning. It’s either surrealised for Hollywood movies or pushed under the carpet of drug-induced, idealistic health-service longevity. It causes people to fear it, to deny or to ignore it.
Paradoxically, such activity takes away the true meaning of life itself. It constrains and limits us. However, when we can constantly embrace the close proximity of death, without fearing it, I’ve discovered it’s an incredible liberation. It sets us free to accept the moment fully, as it is, and to soar on the out-stretched wings of empowerment….
The blade edge of life
I’ve just been watching episodes of “The Human Planet”, have you seen it? It is an amazing 2011 BBC documentary about how indigenous cultures survive in some of the most extreme conditions and environments across the planet. One episode stood out for for me the most: a tribe living in the heart of the Sahara Desert, where water of course is so incredibly precious. It felt like they were living continually on the blade edge of life.
Eyes wide in wonder, we watched as a small party of women set out on a typical three-day journey across the barren wilderness in search of a small well just a metre or so across. Within a vast sea of endlessly shifting sands, navigation is supremely tough and yet without compass, they must be as precise as a Swiss watch. The desert’s timeless accuracy is unforgiving, get it slightly wrong and you die. And what amazed me most, was that for the final 10 hour leg of this arduous journey, the leading lady handed responsibility over to her 10 year old daughter!
Evolution’s fine attunement had taught the tribe perfectly, yet even as they found the well with seeming effortlessness, there was still an evidently palpable sense of relief and joy spread across beaming faces. Can you imagine just what that must feel like? How incredibly real that is? The sense of accomplishment must touch deep inside the soul.
Source: http://truthisscary.com/2014/02/do-you-have-a-healthy-relationship-with-death/
