The Pagan Book of Living and Dying : : Practical Rituals, Prayers, Blessings, and Meditations on Crossing Over

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List of Rituals, Prayers, Songs, Chants, Poems, and Meditations -- Acknowledgements -- How This Book Came to Be:Reflections on My Mother's Death -- How to Use This Book -- Introduction -- Part One -- Pagan Tradition -- 1: The Sacred Cycle -- 2: Current Practice -- 3: Practices and Meditations -- 4: Myths of Descent and Return -- Part Two -- The Pagan View of Death -- 5: Lessons from Death -- 6: The Land of the Dead -- 7: Karma and Reincarnation: Embracing the Wheel of Birth and Death -- Part Three -- The Dying Process -- 8: Preparing for Death -- 9: Working with the Dying -- 10: The Moment of Death -- 11: What We Must Do for the Dead -- 12: Funerals and Memorials.
Part Four -- Death Has Many Faces -- 13: AIDS, Children, Violence, and Sudden Death -- 14: Death and Choice -- Part Five -- Carrying On -- 15: Making Room for Grief -- 16: Practical Work -- Appendix A: How to Make a Mask -- Appendix B: Books on Death and Dying for Adults and Children -- Appendix C: Example of a Living Will Declaration -- Appendix D: Example of a Health Care Proxy/ Durable Power of Attorney -- Glossary.
In response to her own mother's death, Starhawk, the bestselling author of the classic Spiral Dance, along with other Pagan authors, created in inspiring collection of essays, original prayers, blessings, and meditations that present the Pagan way of dying. In the tradition of such bestsellers as How We Die and The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, it offers a new understanding of death and the rituals that surround it, adding insight and depth to spirituality. An inclusive, respectful, and deeply spiritual guidebook for those in the Pagan community and beyond, this powerful resource will help the dying make the transition between life and death, and their loved ones will find spiritual comfort and strength through the grieving process. It shows us that death can be a process of renewal and transformation.

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