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I got a comment about the cancer/death issue which I would like to address because the topic of death (along with the idea of causing sickness) comes up quite a lot and I would like to shed some light on it.

Hi Lisa
I do enjoy your blog Gorgeous for God …I mean, how could I not enjoy words of light and love…
but you know, I have a problem seeing the world that way… it all sounds fine and dandy until you hit the rough spots in the road. How can I live todays lesson about healing when I saw a loved one die in front of my eyes with ‘a disease called’ cancer’?
“If you see sickness, then the only place that healing needs to occur is in your own mind. As you are healed, she will heal. Heal your friend by seeing her as she truly is: healed and whole and perfect.” ???
How can it be more than words to me?
Thanx a bunch

This is a big topic for a lot of people and the major confusion/block/obstacle is that words get in the way. Symbols deceive. The five senses deceive.

The one thing that is difficult for most people to accept (even though it’s true) is that NO FORM ENDURES. It just doesn’t. This is a fact. All form will fade away eventually. Most people can accept it on a fundamental basis - we all know we will die someday. We try to prolong it and have the best possible conflict-free life possible, until that final moment.

But do you notice that you never die??? People around you die, but you never die. Take a look at this. It will flip your mind. This is the beginning thought that death really is just an idea in your mind. You read about death, you see other people die, it’s in all the history books, we have all the evidence that death is a fact, and you are anticipating your own inevitable death someday … but you never die. It will amaze you to your core when you look at it reasonably. The only thing that never dies is you.

Have you ever died? Have you had that experience?

There is not a single person on this earth that knows what death is because no one has ever died.

We hear about people who have death experiences and they all say exactly the same thing, regardless of religion, race, color or background … that they didn’t die. Their descriptions are identical, which means there must be something universal going on here. They went into the light, they had happy experiences of meeting friends and family, and then ZIP they were back here.

So we’re in a condition in which form fades, shifts and does not endure. Everything is changing all the time.

What has a beginning must have an end. I seemingly have a beginning in a body which means I will seemingly have an end in a body. When, Where or How? I have no idea and I’m not concerned about it. My marriage has a beginning which means my marriage also has an end, whether it be in divorce or death. Jobs have a beginning which means jobs have an end.

NO FORM ENDURES.

So we know fundamentally that all things will “die” eventually and yet we try to manipulate and control how that occurs. In acceptance, sickness and death can be your greatest friends.

If you have the opportunity to be around someone who is dying, please pay close attention. In their death, they will teach you about life. It is a gift to be in the presence of death.

These individuals are our greatest teachers.

My stepmother Jean passed away from cancer and I was there for the 10-day death episode. She wanted to die at home (she’d been dealing with cancer for over 10 years) and she did not want to be taken to a hospital or resuscitated and so for 10 days I watched someone die. It was the most beautiful eye-opening experience I’ve ever seen in my life. She stayed in bed the entire time, refusing food or water. For a few days she was in a coma (caused from a stroke) but then suddenly her eyes popped open and for the next few days she was like a child, full of wonder and grace. I have never seen anyone so beautiful in my life. She was present and accepting, without defenses, without judgment, and filled with love.

She was perfect like a child: innocent, quiet and trusting.

She was no longer suffering. She was incapable of speaking and I’m not entirely sure she knew what was happening. She seemed to be going in and out of consciousness. I don’t get the sense she was afraid. She would just lie there in bed with these big beautiful eyes, just looking at me (or whoever was sitting with her) in awe. It was not a sad event at all.

All my senses were heightened during those 10 days. It was like I was seeing her for the first time in my life, and she was seeing me for the first time in my life. Who can express the magnitude of an event like this? Who can say it’s bad or wrong?

And then she “died” at night before I went to bed, and I slept in the next room and in the morning I went into her bedroom and the body was lying in the bed, but there was no one there!

Have you ever seen a dead body?? There’s no one there!

The morgue guys came to get the body, all the family members left, and I was alone in the house, kinda tripping out that the whole thing was over. It was like a dream. One minute the house was filled with family, hospice, meal-planning, bedside vigils and conversation … and the next minute it was over.

Her form is no longer here but SHE’S still here. She didn’t go anywhere. I am remembering her as clearly right now in this moment as if I could pick up the telephone, call her and talk with her. She’s here with me. Every time I make fresh baked muffins (which is not often enough), she’s standing right there with me. Every time I thumb through my cookbooks, I think of her. She loved the kitchen, she loved cooking, she loved gadgets (my dad has the most well-stocked kitchen on the planet, thanks to Jean) and she’s constantly with me, forever.

There is no death. There is no sickness or health. There is no good or bad. There is only appearances, and the body’s eyes reporting changed conditions (fat/thin, sick/healthy, rich/poor): states which are false and illusory.

But behind the appearance is truth, untouched by sickness, death or destruction.

So I can say with absolute certainty: there is no death.

See no one as a body. See only the light. See only the truth. Get past appearances and you will see the eternal, that which never dies.