Dying In The Arms Of Myself
Ben O’Donnell
Author Bio
Ben O’Donnell –
I was born in the U.K. and lived in Alaska and currently I am residing in Australia. I have travelled extensively. As a dyslexic writer I have been challenged and I am incredibly thankful for the time my profession has given me to work in solitude in my own company to have these realisations.
Description
‘Dying In The Arms Of Myself’
Being uncomfortable with an experience presents us with the truth of our vulnerability. This is the unknown and it exists within each of us in all of our experiences. The blessings from life are as much a part of a dying and death experience and every experience has this reality.
If we can relate that there’s dying and death in all our daily experiences we can have a greater consciousness within our final solitary dying and death experience.
Take the anxiety away and forget about religion, atheism, new age, spirituality, memories, an afterlife, grief, regrets, or any other emotional expectations we have as a connection to our final experience. Our dying experience depends on how willing we are to study ourselves with a completely different awareness. We’re not actually walking into this experience accepting the demise of the physical body and the mind. It’s the taboo very few of us are willing to talk about or address until it’s suddenly thrown upon us. We don’t fully relate to the consciousness from our dying death experiences, but we actually have far more happening for us consciously than what’s previously been understood.
Dying and death have a consciousness that’s very integrated with intuition, consciousness and love that universally binds us together. These all have their origins in the present moment.
We’ve all got intuition but how awake we are to this gift is different for everyone. For many it’s just a hunch or a gut feeling while for others it’s far more than that. Our final experience is the solitary journey where every individual is forced to detach from the life that they’ve known. We find this uncomfortable when there isn’t another distraction from a subsequent experience. Understanding this comes through developed intuition.
Every one of us has the ability to expand our consciousness beyond our daily thinking and activities. Unfortunately it’s through our conditioned thinking that we’re indoctrinated to connect dying and death with pain, discomfort and disconnection from life. True consciousness has absolutely no connection with this. We all have the potential to open ourselves to a higher consciousness through our intuitive abilities. Understanding dying and death can be our greatest experience for the freedom of expanded consciousness.
Book excerpt
How can death be love?
To really discover the meaning of this we need to understand consciousness. We
are conditioned to intellectualize consciousness through our thinking creating a basic consciousness. We develop this from birth when we’re impressed with the teachings and beliefs of our parents and peers. This helps to condition us in our nationality, culture, education, religion, political beliefs etc., affecting our daily activities and our personal opinions. It creates perceptions and is a consciousness always limited by our experiences. We all operate from basic consciousness but it doesn’t come without attachments. These are evident in the dying experience where we’re forced to relinquish our attachments creating the question ‘what’s it all been about?’ It is inevitably the end to all we’ve known in this life.
No one grieves their own death and the experience of it isn’t the easy journey we’d all want to embrace. Dying is a solitary path with a detachment process where there’s often an inner struggle as feelings and thoughts no longer have the strength to work through the physical. Throughout our entire life we all acquire various feelings about love but what is the truth of love? Our emotions always have some attachments to love through our experiences, beliefs and conditioning but we are not always aware of this. Proving how death is love in the dying experience can be established when there’s more understanding and consciousness of the detachment process. We all understand love as a feeling, but suppose it is provable how love without attachments to one’s emotional wellbeing is also possible? What is unattached love and how can it be experienced outside the feeling realm? Love in the context of pure consciousness doesn’t have attachments. There’s a far greater consciousness. For the purpose of this book its termed ‘conscious awareness’.
Conscious awareness is gained in life when basic consciousness is transcended. It is accessed through the present moment and doesn’t hold the attachments created through basic consciousness. The present moment is a major factor. Consciousness changes as the present moment becomes more immediate through transition into death. There aren’t any attachments in the present moment and this is where we can begin to connect with the pure consciousness of love. Death and love are thought of as separate experiences but actually aren’t in the final experience. It may be easier to accept if the word ‘death’ is exchanged for ‘the present moment’. In death, or the present moment, there is no past, with attached memories, and no future to project into because everything we’ve acquired as attached feelings and thoughts are gone. We’re totally in the present moment where basic consciousness with its attachments can’t exist. Conscious awareness without attachments is a small part of the present moment of pure consciousness. The challenge is to differentiate between basic consciousness and conscious awareness particularly in the dying experience. Dying, if the journey is to be understood does present us with this possibility but it’s doesn’t have to happen in just this experience alone.
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