You know at the time of death a lot of support to the release of departing souls can be given if folks are sympathetic to what is spiritually going on. Sounds like those folks there down south then were just ignorant or unfamiliar with what could be done, doing their best personally in grieving and then also leaving it to the family nurses up front or hoping for the clergy to do it in the end by custom. Certainly a lot of folks are not equipped for this themselves and that is understandable. Cultural Traditions of religions are certainly formative in people's lives and being sympathetic to that can be helpful even within the particular tradition to pick out the transcendental. You kind of have to swing with what you have at hand. The Lord's Prayer probably would have been extremely helpful to that old and great auntie in her end. I have seen that. For other more spiritually cultivated, mantras and their vibrations can be good for transition and release in field effect. I had a relation who was extremely well educated, modern and scientific, professional and humanitarian in extreme ways like formulating the WIC program and getting it through Congress and other things in large concept pediatric health care in a lifetime career. In experience was with the first medical unit to come in to the Auschwitz camp after the infantry got there, on the radio hearing, “Hey, you ought to come up here and see this.. .”. After a lifetime of disciplinedc good and great works this person was terrorized in the very end by his more formative influences of early life on the Kansas prairie with larger than life ideological Christians, like MJ's Cross-roads Preacher and such. Unbelievable fear. Even this person of great science learning and great humanitarianism, The Lord's prayer worked real good with this relative getting him ready and transitioned. Remarkable really as he saw it then given the opposition of early years with some really extreme and nutty Christian Kansas compatriots of temperate Molly Hatchet. Wow for the Lord's Prayer for composing a subtle system at death for (christian) westerners. Jai Guru Devs, -Buck, meditating not uncommonly in the Death Watch Room
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <Buck> wrote: Om, best FFL post of January 2014. Makes you think really hard about things. I'll get back to you about this later. Actually, I have to go out and help wrap a body at a nursing home for a departed soul now. -Buck
