Host: Sheryl Glick R.M.T.
Special Guest: Diane Goble (http://www.beyondtheveil.net/)
In today’s episode of Healing from Within, your host Sheryl Glick author of The Living Spirit: Answers for Healing and Infinite Love welcomes Diane Goble, author of Beyond The Veil. Diane is a near death survivor who shares the art of conscious dying that can help people live a more peaceful and joyful life. She will share how the patients and their caregivers are able to learn more about themselves and life during the end of life process and increase their awareness of death as a spiritual process of rebirth We will also share more about palliative and hospice care dealing with death with dignity, the process of transition, life review questions, communicating with the dying, letting go and grief and mourning.
Diane thinks back on her childhood… “As a child I remember having an intense fear of death and no idea of what death really meant…We all know we’re going to die—someday ..We just don’t want to talk about the monster, “The Grim Reaper” who is coming to take our loved one or us away..I began to fear my parents would suddenly disappear and my sister Bobbie and I would be orphaned I was born during World War 11…my father was in the Navy..there was talk about the Holocaust, Pearl Harbor, and the atomic bomb…then just before my 11th birthday my sister Bobbie died when hit by another 8 year old who swung a club…it was my first funeral and I had nightmares about being buried alive and put in a coffin like my sister.. Nobody talked about death or Bobbie again. It was as if she never existed.We moved to another house in another city and didn’t bring anything with us from the past…My parents had 2 more children I found some solace in Catholicism, got married, had 3 children and then left the church after a disagreement over the birth control issue when after the 3rd child my doctor told me not to get pregnant again because I had fibroid tumors…..I became more of an agnostic, a secular humanist, not believing in anything….until I drowned on July 18, 1971….almost before my 30th birthday.”
At the beginning of the book, Diane a poem by Mary Elizabeth Frye…
“Do not stand by grave and weep
I am not there, I do not sleep
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sun on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning’s hush, I am the swift, uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circling flight
I am the soft star-shine at night.
Do not stand by my grave and cry.
I am not there, I did not die.”
Sheryl tells Diane a story. “My sister recently left the earth plane and the last time I saw her I asked her to give me a sign that she would use to let me know she understood what I had been trying to share with her for years but which she was resistant to believing…. that we are spiritual beings having a physical life…. nothing is random…. and we are guided by those above throughout our life… She told me the message was her very sweet faced white fluffy dog a Bijon and every time I saw that type of dog I was to think of her….I got many messages but the one that moved me the most was an Amazon commercial with that little white dog with a blue cast on his leg who couldn’t run like the other dogs so his thoughtful and otherworldly kind young owner ordered a baby carrier and carried him and then he was happy. At the end of the commercial I thought it odd that there was music and the words….”I was born among the stars”….and I started to cry…for that is the truth I was trying to share with my sister…the nature of our immortal life force or soul energy coming from a divine source.”
Diane tells us about her near death experience and how it changed her life. “A group of eight of people took two rafts out on the Chattooga River and we made a little mistake that trapped our raft in a hydraulic at the bottom of a waterfall surrounded by large boulders….
