Extraordinary Awakenings by Steve Taylor

Author:Steve Taylor
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781608687688
Publisher: New World Library
Published: 2021-07-30T00:00:00+00:00

The Process of Dying

We can’t say anything certain about death. We will never find out for sure whether the light is a fundamental reality of the universe or whether beings of light (or angels) really exist until we actually die ourselves.

At some point — when we are seriously ill or old and infirm, or if we have an accident or sudden injury — we are all going to have an intense mortality encounter. And interestingly, there is evidence to suggest that this encounter will be transformational for most of us. In 2015 the Swiss psychotherapist Monika Renz led a team of researchers who investigated the experiences of 680 dying patients in hospices. The researchers found that most patients went through a transition into a different state of consciousness, moving beyond anxiety and pain and into acceptance and peace.

Based on her findings, Renz has identified three stages of the dying process: pretransition, transition, and post-transition. In the pretransition phase, there is fear and resistance. But as patients move through transition, the structures and attachments of the ego fade away, and there is a growing sense of trust and well-being. This intensifies through the post-transition phase, where there is a state of liberation from the ego, with tranquility and bliss. As Renz describes it, “Patients feel free and at the same time somehow connected, a connectedness with the universe, with a transcendental sphere.”13

These findings are supported by the relatives and caregivers of dying people. It is surprisingly common for people to die peacefully and serenely, in a state of acceptance. Many dying people appear to see — and speak to — deceased relatives, as if the relatives are greeting them. It is almost as if, on the verge of death, people are already at home in another world. They appear to be experiencing something of the intense feelings of love, bliss, and freedom described by David and Zak above.

Renz found that more than half of the dying patients proceeded to the post-transition phase and so experienced a spiritual opening. She believes that the true figure may have been higher but that a number of other patients were “either unable, or too shy, or too tired to contribute” to her study.14

These findings suggest that most of us will experience spiritual awakening when we come to face death. Even if we don’t return from an NDE or IME earlier in our lives, the enormous spiritual potential of death may well transform us eventually, in the final days, hours, or minutes of our lives.

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