Deepen your spiritual understanding of the internal journey of the dying and the adventurous after-death journey to come
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Describes the Celtic rituals of honoring death and dying and offers
prayers, meditations, and blessings for the time of transition
• Offers reflective questions and exercises to explore your beliefs, attitudes, and fears around your own death
• Includes the sacred meditation of traveling with the dead as offered by an anam-áire or Celtic soul carer
THE
CELTS BELIEVED in the transmigration of the soul, in the magical rhythm
of life with a particular order of coming and going for each soul. As
they celebrated every new stage of their lives with a ritual, they also
honoured the passing of a soul--the death of the physical body.
In
her decades of work with the dying, Phyllida Anam-Áire has revived the
ancient Celtic tradition of watching with the dying and traveling with
the soul after death. Integrating the wisdom of her Celtic ancestors
with modern knowledge of the death process, she shows how a peaceful
transition for the leaving person is possible and how this process can
be consciously supported by relatives or friends.
Reflective
exercises and meditations help us become aware of our beliefs and fears
around dying and acknowledge our own death as a natural transformation,
allowing our essence to move on into love. Once we come to terms with
our own mortality, we will find it easier to assist family and friends
in their last hours in this life. Rituals, prayers, and blessings in
this guide offer compassionate support for the one transitioning and for
those left behind. Phyllida also shares the sacred meditation of
traveling with the dead as held by a Celtic Anam-Áire, or soul carer. In
addition, she addresses many practical questions around the care for
the dying and their environment during and after the process, stressing
the importance of silence.
A practical yet soulful guidebook, A Celtic Book of Dying
deepens our spiritual understanding of the internal journey of the
dying and the adventurous afterdeath journey still to embark on. Dying
is the most natural step we will ever take.