Member-only story
The Joys of Death
The importance of dying on a regular basis
We live in a dimension of duality. Everything has its opposite. You cannot have death without birth, and you cannot have birth without death. When we die to our physical bodies we are born into the non-physical spirit realms and when we are born into physical bodies we are experiencing a death from the non-physical spirit realms. It is a matter of perspective, but you cannot have one without the other.
Most people consider life and death to be opposites but they are not. The opposite of death is birth, not life. Death and birth are opposites. Life is the ongoing experiencing of death and birth.
Birth is generally considered a joyful event. Since every death is also a birth there should be some joy in death, too, no? And since every birth is also a death, births can be painful and fearful, too. Birth can actually be more of a traumatic event than death. Imagine dying to your life in the non-physical spirit realms then entering a helpless little body and shooting out of the birth canal. And then you are stuck in that little helpless body and all your memory is gone.
Dying in the spiritual dimensions is similar to dying in the physical dimension. First, you lose your body then you go through some kind of tunnel-like thing, and then voila, you are in a different…