Death, Transition, Remembering, Doors

The passage through a door or window represents death, but it doesn’t represent the end of life. In fact, it represents the rebirth or transition of one’s life into something else; some say something more magnificent or more enlightened. In order to release the opposition of the two worlds gained through the transition, it is necessary to experience loss and remember what has been lost. This cycle of loss, death, transition, remembering and rebirth, by crossing through a passageway, is exemplified by the ancient Sumerian myth of Inanna, and her descent into the underworld. In her journey, she loses everything material and external, allowing her to be reborn with the more important gift of knowledge.

Death Ain't Half Bad?

There is an older woman delivering a manifesto in the coffee shop I am currently studying at. She has cornered some young college students and is talking about the government declaring martial law in MT, secret concentration camps, and other secret conspiracies that we aren't aware of. She is not worried for the older experienced, wiser generation, no, she is worried about the younger generation. I am intently listening for the key to this dissertation and then it comes. "Thankfully, I have found Jesus Christ, the lord our savior. This enables me to sleep at night." Simultaneously while I am listening to this woman spout, I am reading about "doors and windows" and "death and rebirth." I come upon this information, "But death is also something which has been notoriously misunderstood, and in many respects, this misunderstanding has been promulgated, encouraged, and promoted as a means of control by various covert agendas." Then I hear the woman speak of Satan and the moralesness of people. Then I realize things are so interconnected. Death, fear, control, and hidden agendas. Death isn't to be feared, that is what Hillman is trying to repeatedly express in his novel. Death has been given a negative image to illicit fear, to gain control from various parties. Death isn't the end, it is just the decomposition of your material self, the passage to another realm of consciousness. Does this make the year's of programming to view death in a certain light any easier to change? I am not quite sure, but I am beginning to understand how words are manipulated to gain control, everything is cyclical, doesn't have one definition, but is fluid. Now I just have to figure out how to survive amongst the changing definitions.