I have a huge fear
of death... It's hard to describe... I'm not scared of it hurting or
how it will feel... I'm sacred that there will be noting after death.
Every person I have
told this fear to has come straight out with something along the
lines of - “If there is nothing after death then when you die you
wont know it, so it won't matter.” I am aware of that if there is
nothing then once I am dead I will know nothing – but the moments
before I die is my worry...the years before that also! I worry about
it now!
I don't have any
religious beliefs but I do like to think that there is more to life
after death. That this world isn't all there is for us. I won't get
into any of the weird and wonderful things I think about the world
and afterlife in my head. The internet is a horrible breeding ground
where people relentlessly argue about what they believe is and isn't
real. The bottom line is we will all believe what we want.
I bought this book
off of the back of a month where all I could think of was losing
everything I have now after I die.
This is the first
non-fiction book I have read for pleasure and whether you think it's
a completely mad made-up story or you think there is some truth in
it, it makes a very good read.
The book follows Dr
Weiss as he treats a woman suffering with severe anxiety with
hypnosis. The woman begins recalling past lives, and the events in
those lives tie up with some of her anxieties and this helps her over
come them. Other than the recollection of these lives the patient is
able to recall an in-between state where Dr Weiss talks to 'The
Masters' and they tell him how these multiple lives work and what
their purposes are.
I did find some of
the book quite far fetched, but I loved it. So much of the book ties
up with stories we have all heard about what happens when we die, and
beyond that it ties up some of my personal beliefs. I still fear what
happens after death, but with this in the back of my mind I fear it a
lot less. I am intrigued and would love to read more on the subject.
There is so much
more I could say about this book. Towards the end I began to put
sticky notes on pages and highlight passages that mean something to
me, and since then I have gone back to the start to highlight
important passages so I can find them again when I need something to
lift me up. I don't want to give much of the story away as the whole
experience of reading the book was worth not knowing what I was
getting into when I started reading. I recommend this book to anyone
with a fear similar to mine and to anyone else who loves anything
supernatural.
I decided to go back
to fiction for the next book I'm reading. I mentioned in another post
that reading a minimum of one book every two months is a goal I have.
The past few nights I have set aside an hour to read in bed, and only
a few days in I have already found that this is helping me wind down
easier and get to sleep quicker….Like a child with a bed time
story.
