What is a healing journey? As I pondered this question it occurred to me that one might just as well ask what is life. After all, our culture is such that a huge amount of resources, time, and energy are spent on healing activities, or at least on the avoidance of the discomfort of symptoms of being 'not well.' But the healing journey I am talking about, and inviting you to join me on, is not the same as getting over or avoiding illness, recovering from trauma, or mending wounds of body, mind, heart, and thought. A healing journey, for my purposes, always ends at the same place, the place where life as we understand it ceases with the death of the physical body. This is the place where, as far as we can tell, our ability to consciously influence the circumstances of our existence ceases, where the body stops functioning and decays back into the baser elements from which it was constructed. The irrecovable cessation of consciousness on the level of human thought for a sing...
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