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Recalling Ones Purposeful Events In One’s Dying Process – A Letter

What will you recall of past events and happenings at the end of your life if you have an Aware Dying Process to go through?

• It could be a list of regrets of things you wish you had done but didn’t?
• It could be fond memories of being with certain friends or members of your family?
• It could be a list of your fears in going out of existence through your dying?
• It could be a list of things you still want to get done before you die?
• It could be a list of things popping into your awareness you want to avoid?
• It could be great moments and events in time you have experienced?
• It could be a list of people and things that have had the most value for you?
• It could be something else, even terrible stuff and images? Sorry! But some of this kind of stuff does come up for most people.

Some of the above is age related of course. For myself at age 75 I found that what flashes into my awareness, especially when I am just sitting quietly as the cancer symptoms slow me to a halt, are those special people and events that have marked the chosen purpose of my life, which is to help people develop their own value-centered purpose to live in their lives as well as to heal themselves where blocked or one-sided. These two are not the same.

I have been a therapist-psychologist to many, using primarily dreamwork processes, and many of these have gone through healing changes to new growth in themselves and in their relationships.

Yet only a few of these got the point to also change spiritually and live a purposeful life following the greater source that does show up in dreams with all our issues and with all our dream ego is and is not doing as revealed by dreams and life.

For myself I went through extensive Jungian analysis and therapy in my twenties and thirties. It’s what you did in those days when we were all repressed severely in childhood during and after the War Years. Now hopefully it is different for many. I see the new generations are more expressive and confident than we were.

Yet the next step for me was also part of the therapeutic process, and that was the commitment to follow a greater source of meaning than ego can produce.

Now I find in my old age and dying process that the events of greater purpose people and Greater Purpose Creations is almost all that I recall from the past. Maybe all, actually, because I am not giving any energy to anything else, like regrets at not doing something I value, or not relating to someone I value.

All is being accepted as it is now as I enter into The Land of Only Experiencing The Possible Now.

Just passing it on to you! The following copy of a letter I just sent out is an example of how I am using this new insight for myself.

So for those of you in your forties, or midlife, and older, hello again and here is your issue, if you choose it, to also relate to in living fully now and in preparation for Final Days …

Dear Friends

If you don’t know it already, I have serious lung cancer that may end me sooner than later, but who knows?

Despite serious symptoms I am still purposeful, but how slowly I move!

You can read about my daily cancer experiences, and reflections upon these, with insights I make for myself in handling cancer suffering and practical things.
I am putting together a book on it all from the blog entries, if I can.

I continue the blog entries as long as possible at: http://strephonsays.com/blog/

My many thanks to each of you for special contact in my life and yours. These memories come back to me, not with regret, but showing me the significant events that have happened because of my commitment to my purpose in life, and sometimes “my cunning little desires as well!”

I can’t help thinking that what are lives can be, or are marked by, are the events we have participated in or created that have the greatest value to ourselves and to others.

All the best,

Strephon

Strephon Kaplan-Williams

author of The Dream Cards

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