For many years, I dismissed communication with the dead as a serious topic of investigation because I believed I already knew about death. But I knew nothing. I only believed that I did. It is folks like me that made Michel Montaigne write, some four hundred years ago, “Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known.”
My most important step in acquiring the truth that death is not a dead end is also the most pain-relieving step I have taken so far. For that reason, I recommend it highly. Get acquainted with your unconscious beliefs about death. For the full version, see Finding Aaron, a spiritual practice beyond belief. For the sort version,…
The Religious Misunderstanding
When I was a child, I faithfully repeated “I believe in the communion of saints,” as I imagined a lot of godly (dead) people receiving Holy Communion. Later, when I learned that communion means a close and intimate relationship and that saint refers to a (dead) person who has been “properly baptized,” I dismissed it all as nonsense. I only got interested in investigating the Communion of Saints when my son Aaron died. The impulse came from a Benedictine monk in Spain. For the full version, see Finding Aaron, a spiritual practice beyond belief. For the sort version,…
