“You are never, ever alone.”

Here’s a passage from the text of one of the lectures contained in Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, On Life after Death (Berkeley and Toronto: Celestial Arts, 2008).  Dr. Kübler-Ross, who died herself some years ago, was a Swiss-born physician and psychiatrist who became very famous for her revolutionary work with dying patients:

At the moment of this transition, you are never, ever alone.  You are never alone now, but you don’t know it.  But at the time of transition, your guides, your guardian angels, people whom you have loved and who have passed on before you, will be there to help you.  We have verified this beyond a shadow of a doubt, and I say this as a scientist.  There will always be someone to help you with this transition.  Most of the time it is a mother or father, a grandparent, or a child if you have lost a child.  Sometimes it is people you didn’t know were “on the other side” already.

We had one case of a child, a twelve year old, who did not want to share with her mother what a beautiful experience it was when she died.  No mother likes to hear that her child found a place nicer than home, and that’s very understandable.  But this child had such a unique experience that she needed desperately to share it with somebody, so one day she confided in her father.  She told him that it was such a beautiful experience when she died that she did not want to come back.  What made it very special, besides the whole atmosphere and the fantastic love and light that most of them convey, was that her brother was there with her, and held her with great tenderness, love, and compassion.  After sharing this she said to her father, “The only problem is that I don’t have a brother.”  Her father started to cry, and confessed that she did indeed have a brother who died three months before she was born.  They had never told her.

Do you understand why I am bringing up examples like this?  Many people will say, “Well, you know, they were not dead, and at the moment of their dying they naturally think of their loved ones, so they naturally visualize them.”  But nobody could visualize a brother they never knew about.  (27-28)

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