Dying is Okay.

Dying is Okay.
How many times, when we have heard that somebody has died, have we said, "Well, it must have been their time." Or, "When it's your time to go, it's your time to go, and there is nothing you can do about it." Who decides when it is time for an incarnation to end? In the West, this subject is surrounded by myth and conjecture. However, the process does exist, and is known.

As the West slowly catches up with the teachings of Eastern mysticism, more and more of the mechanics of how the universe works is gradually being introduced into the western psyche. For instance, it is widely accepted in the Eastern philosophies that man incarnates over and over again into earthly existence until such time as he has mastered the third dimensional plane. This concept is a cornerstone of the Ancient Wisdom, which is now being widely taught throughout the West under the guise of Reiki and other healing modalities.

Even in the West the concept of the soul is debated, but what it actually is and its origins and framework is very rarely discussed either in conventional religion or even esoteric metaphor.
So what exactly is the soul?
Everything that we know and perceive is an expression of the One Life in manifestation. If we try to keep it simple, it can be said of the Divine that it has two aspects; one which is in permanent stillness, and one which is in perpetual motion. It is the interplay between these two aspects of the Divine which causes evolution as we understand it. It is the prime duality. That which is in perpetual stillness contemplates itself as the Divine. This contemplation causes a reflection of the Divine to be created within the matter of the universe. This reflection as it is projected into the matter of the universe, causes that matter to structure itself according to the patterns in consciousness which is the perception of the Divine, of itself. The Divine is then stimulated by its projected self so that it forms new concepts as to what it is. It is these new concepts which issue forth from the central stillness, gathering matter of the different planes of existence to themselves to form composite bodies, which journey through the projected universe to experience that projection, and then return to the central stillness to integrate with the Divine in order for the Divine to evolve internally. These concepts, which are projected from the Divine central stillness are known as Divine Sparks and have the ability to evolve separately from their creator. Humanity is such a wave of Divine Sparks.

The patterns in consciousness which are created by the divine contemplating itself are known as archetypes. All of creation, as it turns around the central stillness, consists of a small number of Divine patterns or archetypes. The archetype which is synonymous with consciousness and its manifestation in matter is the musical Octave. Each octave has 12 different vibrational levels, the highest being indistinguishable from the most refined, and the lowest vibrating at the densest, heaviest level. We, as a race, manifested on the Earth at this time are a fifth dimensional consciousness, centred in the fourth dimension, and inhabiting a third dimensional body. It can be said of our Soul Self that it is permanently on the sixth Dimension and exists simultaneously, as do all the bodies of manifestation throughout the 12 levels going back to the central stillness. It can also be said of the Soul Self that it is eternal viewed from our limited perception here on earth. It was created and came into total balance during a previous manifestation of this galaxy and solar system. For us, it is the perfection that we constantly strive for and seek guidance from.

Having talked about the soul, and its origins, it poses the question, "Where do we come from? What causes our manifestation here in 3-D?".
As we have stated above, reality turns on a small number of archetypes, and we have shown the prime archetype which causes manifestation. Thus an entity, our Soul, contemplates itself, and through that contemplation creates a mirror image of itself in the lower dimensions to where it exists. The same archetype comes into play at soul level and it is our Soul, contemplating its nature and asking the question, "Who am I?", which causes our manifestation to occur.
This process can be compared to the dreams that we experience in this lifetime. It is widely recognised that if we are working through some problem of self-identity, it will cause a dream to occur around that questioning. When we have a dream, we project a persona that would look like us or not, but will go through an experience that we create in order to resolve a point of contention as to what is right for us. In the Ancient Wisdom sleeping is known as the Little Death, this is because when we go to sleep and temporarily leave our physical body to experience a higher plane, the process is identical to when we take our last breath in this incarnation. The difference being that in real death it is permanent.
So when would an incarnation come to an end? This would happen when the Soul, through it's created manifestation at the third dimensional level, resolves the issue which caused that manifestation to be created in the first place.
As the soul resolves the issue, it starts to call back the projection that it has created in the lower three dimensions to where it exists. In the manifesting bodies which exist on each of these dimensional levels, this recall is felt as a tremor which ripples through the energy body of each manifestation causing energetic shifts which will ultimately lead to the disintegration of that particular body.

As the ascension process integrates more and more into humanity, it will cause latent empathic tendencies to surface in everybody. As this ability emerges, people will start to perceive the impulses being directed into their incarnation by their own soul. They will start to perceive why they were created and the goal of that particular incarnation. They will also perceive when that goal has been reached and when the incarnation is drawing to a close
They will recognise that they have completed their mission successfully. They will gather their friends around them and celebrate a job well done. As the time to leave the incarnation approaches, there will be much celebrating as their beloved brother or sister returns back to the Masters on the sixth dimensional plane. There is no grief, only joy of the merging back into Spirit of their friend.

The work of getting death to be recognised as an acceptable part of life is still in its infancy in the West. Even amongst lightworkers, there is still an attachment to the physical body. To contemplate a life without the connection to the physicality of a loved one still causes great pain.
Where cancer is concerned, to accept that the cancer will end the incarnation is viewed as a defeat in the West. One has to constantly battle to keep ahead of the illness as it tries to spread throughout the physical body; anything less than this battle is viewed as a failure. However, one has to die of something, and when the appointed time comes to each of us, when our Soul calls us back, how much more peaceful would we be and content with our lot if we recognised it was all part of the plan?
For those of us who recognise the call, but who are in relationship with a person who does not embrace the spiritual perspective, this can be a particularly difficult time. On the one hand, we are ready and willing to return back up the planes, to merge with our Soul and to become one with our friends in spirit, and on the other, being aware of the great pain that our partner is in due to our imminent demise.

My feeling is that this situation will not change in the foreseeable future. All we can hope for is that the knowledge and wisdom about death and dying is vigorously put forward into the world to alleviate the fear and suffering which is generated around death.