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The only real certainties in existence are death and taxes, based on Benjamin Franklin. Therefore youad believe that as we're certain that death will certainly occur to us, one-day, we'd make pretty darn sure that we understood a of a lot about this. But no. We've every type of training, in-formation, assistance and direction on how to stay a' but nothing on how to die. And in the West, we reside in denial about death. We conceal our useless bodies away and if anybody discusses death, they're accused to be dark. It wasnat always therefore. Returning into prehistory, the shaman of the group might behave as the psychopomp, and manual or bring the spirits of the dead into the next measurement. She or he appears in the mythology of pretty much every old civilisation, while you can easily see out of this Wiki site on psychopomps. The reason being shamanic practises were global and people were shown just how to die. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopomp Several beliefs incorporate a specific nature, angel, or deity whose obligation would be to take newly-deceased spirits for the afterlife. These animals are named psychopomps, in the Greek term IIIIIIIIII (psychopompos), actually meaning the "guide of souls." Their function isn't to evaluate the dead, but merely offer safe passage. Often portrayed on funerary art, psychopomps have now been connected at different times and in different countries with horses, whippoorwills, ravens, pets, crows, owls, sparrows, cuckoos, harts, and dolphins.Charon was the Greek ferryman, or psychopomp, who ferried the souls of the dead from the property of the living to Hades. The particular trip isnat such a thing such as this painting of it, by Luca Giordana. However it shows exactly how we, within our ignorance about death, came to see this rite of passage like a disorderly and terror-filled headache. The Barque of Charon Probably the newest fictional psychopomp is Virgil, who performed Dante through the eight circles of hell in Danteas Inferno. But that work is political significantly more than religious and even worse, you are able to perhaps not even enjoy the composition since it was created within an obsure Tuscan language that no longer exists. Nevertheless, returning before the Greeks and Dante, these legendary stories were actually used to show the death trip... the journey the spirit could simply take at death. And the exercise was continued within the Neolithic and onwards by the Indians, the Tibetans and the Egyptians at least... and perhaps the others that people donat yet learn about. Unfortunately, previously two thousand years, the historicisation of fantasy a' creating metaphor literal a' has ruined this human anatomy of understanding. We're taught nothing about the death trip since no body appears to know such a thing about it aside, that's, from people who return from having a Death Experience (NDE). But itas still very little help. If your individual "returns from the dead", this means that they never got any more than the first entrance out a' the tube, or the chain of String Theory that takes us in to the next measurement. Detail in The Last Judgement by Hieronymus Bosch You canat return, until youare a who has all the appropriate aopen sesamesa and who knows the way in which, if you get any more than the canal. Therefore NDEs however canat give us much in-formation. Itas like in the event that you were caught in a club cellar and tried to flee. You get so far as the home at the the surface of the steps, however the bouncers change you back. Then, in your reunite, you exclaim: aOh my God! You ought to have seen it! It had been so heavenly! There was an excellent, luminescent, other-worldly light glistening within the door,a when actually it was only the blinking neon sign saying EXIT. The main reason there are not any teachers now on the best way to die is basically because empirical research has debunked literal Judaeo-Christianity. We realize thereas no heaven with harps and angels, or perhaps a nightmare with a Devil who roasts sinners who all complain and gnash their teeth. Therefore place denied the entire lot today. Imo, place declined it very appropriately as literal reality about this reality, since it's a a and poor fiction at that. But that poor fiction (for instance, the Genesis creation account, Noahas Ark, the Exodus over the Red Sea, the Crucifixion... and also the account of Atlantis) was centered on a lot more ancient stories that endured for an extremely real objective. They composed various phases of the death trip. That trip was taken at evening by the Egyptians, where the deceeased used the arc of the sun from sundown to its ultimate dawn in the Land of Manu (the East or India). That's as The Coming Forth In to Day why this night journey of the spirit of the deceased is famous to the Egyptians. Whilst the spirit is reborn with sunlight at birth, It's a tale of death and rebirth. Quite simply, it had been the guide for making the move to the next measurement at death. It had been the guide on the best way to die. Therefore in this line, over the next couple weeks, Iam planning to take a look at what these death trips really were about by getting the Pyramid Texts and the Coffin Texts. The other guide quit to us, of course, is the Tibetan Book of the Dead. And I'll also use my very own experiences like a shaman and psychopomp to produce interpretations, if it's useful and related. But please feel liberated to stop me anytime, if something doesnat make sense, or even if itas simply to make a remark or a laugh or to inform me I'm talking lots of garbage or something. While you all know, Iam perfectly effective at speaking with myself for long periods of time... but itas good to possess business!