Julia Assante PhD - The Last Frontier: Exploring the Afterlife and Transforming Our Fear of Death 

The willful ignorance is all about fear. Most people feel that even thinking about death is like inviting Dracula through the window. That fear has us in a stranglehold. It makes us wide open to exploitation, especially by the industries of health, news and entertainment.

 

The documented fact is, real knowledge of what happens after we die triggers dazzling transformations in body, mind and spirit. Life is lived in better health with playful intensity. Dying is peaceful and usually pain free. With fear out of the way, we see it for what it really is—not life’s greatest failure but a creative act brimming with wonders. This recognition alone lifts an intolerable burden on the terminally ill, freeing the sick to live more fully to the last. Death is not what separates us from the departed, fear is. The terrible finality, the deep grief and remorse we now experience would vanish once we truly realize that our departed loved ones are still alive and communication with them can continue. Above all, contact with the departed brings us face to face with immortality. Once you experience the reality of immortality everything falls into place.