Just read through the 15 pages of this thread. We've not had direct communications, still I'm touched by the river of love and connections flowing from and to you. I am moved by your presence and the questions you asked Carol, and all of us. Even though none of us gets out of this (life) alive, In my experience there's nothing quite like coming face to face with the reality of our own mortality.
Tomorrow I take my handpan to play for a friend who is nearing the end. She's been writing a blog for the last 3 years, sharing her thoughts and journey of living on the edge of death and dying, which she has done for most of her 50 plus years. Two years ago she was told she had a couple of months. Now she has been told that again. At this time her words are increasingly about releasing. She, like you, is generous in reminding us to deal with death....even as the very naming of it sparks resistance. The taboo's of western culture are like vines, choking us, keeping us separate. The fear you've mentioned, that somehow if we look into the eyes of someone who is "sick" we will be sucked in and caught in the web of death. When the truth is, as you've said, it is the connection of eye to eye, being seen, known, heart to heart, that is the access to the healing of love and relatedness. It is possible to be in the process of dying with more health than some live with.
As I play for her, I'll send the music of being with our living and dying across the world to you as well.
Much love, peace, harmony, and gentle soothing music to you, Michael of the gentle soul and heart full communications
Judith
