Healing, Yoga and Qigong

I want to share with you today an extraordinary excerpt from the great teacher  J. Krishnamurti on death and why we fear it .  In addition, I want to suggest a particular experiment on death , which I feel was incredibly helpful in my own spiritual evolution. I hope this experiment will be of great value to you as well.   This experiment, which I call the Death Experiment will help you understand what the spiritual masters have been trying to teach you about living moment to moment , and will give you a taste of the freedom that comes with such enlightened living.   First is the excerpt from  Krishnamurti's book "Think of These Things",   a nd following that is the experiment he proposes for you and my thoughts on it. Questioner: What makes us fear death? Krishnamurti: Do you think a leaf that falls to the ground is afraid of death?  Do you think a bird lives in fear of dying?  It meets death when death co...

Mellen-Thomas Benedict is an artist who survived a near-death experience in 1982. He was dead for over an hour and a half and during that time, he "rose up out of his body and went into the Light." Curious about the universe, he was taken far into the remote depths of existence, and even beyond, into the energetic Void of Nothingness behind the Big Bang. Dr. Kenneth Ring has said, "His story is one of the most remarkable I have encountered in my extensive research on near-death experiences." THE ROAD TO DEATH - a personal story "In 1982 I died from terminal cancer. My condition was non-operable. I chose not to have chemotherapy. I was given six to eight months to live. Before this time, I had become increasingly despondent over the nuclear crisis, the ecology crisis, and so forth. I came to believe that nature had made a mistake -that we were probably a cancerous organism on the planet. And that is what eventually killed me. Before my death,...