What is death?

*The concept of death carries much collective stigma and is potentially a most sensitive & triggering topic. Before you reads this, please let it be clearly heard no information shared here is intended to be misconstrued & twisted in any way as to encourage or make light of death and or suicide. Actuality of Being is about sharing the truth of reality and our infinite being; Unconditional Love, in the intention of ending self-ignorance, self harm and or harm upon others, any groups, and or nations through understanding, compassion, self-discovery and Truth. Further, for the sake of clear communication, if you are experiencing suicidal ideation, immediately discontinue reading this, and contact via Google a suicide hotline and allow yourself to receive help.

What is death?

When asking ‘what is a horse’, an answer can be provided. But when asking ‘what is a unicorn’, the answer is only, there is no such thing as a unicorn - though there can be the thought, the belief, that there is.

That sounds like some vague zen talk. Surely you can offer something more than that.

Hold both hands out in front of you with your palms facing up. Imagine in your left hand you are holding a snow globe. The kind you buy at a drug store and shake, and then it looks like it’s snowing inside.

Surely the snow globe you are imagining you’re holding is lovely. Maybe a little house inside, maybe an ice rink and some people skating, maybe a park bench and a tree or two. But what would be really wild, what would really be mind blowing, would be to experience being inside of this snow globe in your left hand.

Now imagine another globe in your right hand. A clear sphere, a ‘looking glass’ if you will. Imagine that when you look through the looking glass - it is as if you are inside of the snow globe in your left hand. You’re skating. You’re cold! You’re laughing, breathing the cold air, having fun, skating, and freezing your snow globe buns off.

Now imagine that because you “looked through” the looking glass - you forgot that you did.

Then imagine, in this forgetting, that “thoughts” (stuff in the snow globe) appear. Thoughts about yourself & others, about your birth and your eventual death.

Now, ‘zoom out’ a bit. Ground. Notice the room you’re in. Feel the chair you’re sitting on. Feel the air as you breath. Shift focus from imagining this exercise, to perception, and to feeling within the body.

Notice what’s aware of the hands, and of the imagining of the snow globe & looking glass, and of the seeing, and of the breathing. You - awareness, are aware of the hands and the imagined spheres… and you’re fine… you weren’t really “in” anything… and you’re certainly not “dead”.

But no one knows what death is! How can you claim such a thing!?

Exactly. No one knows what death is, just like no one knows what a unicorn is.

But you’re essentially claiming you know!?

No one knows.

Huh?

There aren’t ‘separate selves’. There is no actuality of a ‘knower’ and a ‘known’. No one knows. These are “thoughts” (snow globe stuff). It’s like Horton Hears a Who, and there aren’t really any who’s. There is the sphere / snow globe… and the sphere / looking glass.

It can’t be that simple.

It is that simple. It’s actually simpler, but this is the limitation of language happening inside the snow globe. The ‘limitation’ of thought & therein meaning & language, is that there aren’t ultimately, as in eternally… as in actually - “two”. But recall, the chair is comfy. The exercise is simple, easy & fun… and you’re not really moving, just ‘looking through the lens’. There is no ‘problem’ ‘inside’ or ‘outside’ the spheres - but that snow globe thought stuff can makes it seem so.

(See Meditation, Expression Journaling, and The Emotional Scale)

As there is no vibrational appearance ‘outside’ the spheres, there is no “activity of thought” ‘outside’ the spheres either. Which means, there is not this snow globe activity of “beliefs”, ‘outside’ the spheres.

But what about seeing people die!? Bodies stop breathing and moving! I’ve seen this myself.

Awareness is fundamentally aware of thought, perception and sensations. The term ‘thought attachment’ points to believing thoughts, are perception.

Awareness is directly aware of thoughts.
Awareness is directly aware of perception.
Awareness is directly aware of sensations.

Thought attachment, is believing thoughts define perception and or feeling.

‘Ignore-ance’, points to non-expression, ignoring the guidance of emotion you are feeling, or ‘bottling it up’, or, emotional suppression. The point of this pointing is to communicate the importance of not ‘bottling it up’, and instead expressing and thus allowing clarity & understanding, and love to arise.

How to no longer believe thoughts, and thus ‘see reality as it really is’?

Daily meditation & alignment.

(See Meditation, Expressive Journaling, The Emotional Scale & Aligning Thought With Feeling)

But if we didn’t use thoughts as labels for ‘things’ - how would we even go about anything at all?

Yes indeed. All those “things” are in, of, are the ‘snow globe’, the sphere of somewhere. All those “thoughts of things” are in, of, are the ‘looking glass’. So are all the “thoughts”. So is that “we” thought, and that “use” thought, etc. That unconditional being ‘sitting in the chair’ is infinitely intelligent, is what “intelligence” is - and would have so to speak, seen all this coming and, if you will, thought ahead - designed it all perfectly.

So you’re saying there’s “God’s Design”, “God’s Plan”?

Not quite. God, also pointed to with terms like infinite, and unconditional love, is perfection. Unthinkable, unbelievable… being all thoughts & beliefs. Any “thing” God be’s - is God, and thus in actuality, is perfection.

Doesn’t seem like it. To be honest, sometimes it seems like the whole situation sucks.

The discord felt, is the guidance of our unconditional infinite being, love, in regard to the very love spoken of… focusing upon, the discordant thoughts & interpretations.

Is the point there to appreciate experience? To ‘take ownership’ of the ‘sucks’ interpretation or attitude? To “inspect” it, as you say?

In part, yes. Inspect, rather than suppress & avert from any suffering and or discord. Utilize the tools, specifically of meditation & expression, and understand the emotions you are experiencing are guidance to the manifesting of what you desire to create & experience.

Then why would you say it that way?

This is literally the apparent limitation of language. That a separate, other entity, which is not appearing as the two spheres is saying this, is the “activity of thought” appearing ‘inside’ the snow globe. ‘Inside’, there is togetherness, communication, language and words, and all Is, is ‘made of’, Love.

And here we are.

Oh! “No one knows” is ‘true’ - because there aren’t actually separate selves!?

Exactly. There aren’t actually separate selves. There is not a ‘knower’ and a ‘known’, a ‘thinker’ and ‘thought’, a ‘believer’ and a ‘belief’, an ‘understander’ and a ‘thing understood’. Analogously, the one sitting in the chair is being the snow globe & looking glass, by vibrationally appearing as the snow globe & the looking glass, and therein, vibrationally appearing as all thoughts, beliefs, and understandings.

Is this why God is and yet isn’t like the unicorn?

Yep.

So God’s “looking through my eyes” basically?

Not quite. Infinite unconditional being is being the two spheres.

Well, then what’s God doing exactly?

This. Being the spheres.

So basically you’re saying death is a collective belief? Which is really an assumption?

The first assumption is that there is separation.
Then, that I am a separate self.
Then that I was born, and that I will die.
And so it seems there is death.

But what about losing people you love? Haven’t you ever experienced that yourself? Are you really trying to say death is funny?

Indeed I have, and indeed there is the most difficult emotional experience of loss. Suffering is not humorous in any way. Mourning is often a deep sorrow, and a time for respect, understanding, care, selflessness and compassion. A time for holding space, and not a time for existential questions and answers.

A sorrow so deep in fact, one can feel the comforting of it, the ‘being in God’s hands’ of it, such as with gravity and relaxation. One ‘in the globe’ can feel the other-worldliness comfort of unconditional love, the ‘beyond understanding’ of this tangible, pungent, all-encompassing comforting of sorrow.