Death and Dying Course Online
The correspondence course in death and dying is made up of 31 lessons, each building on the previous.
The price is $275 and includes postage, handling and preparation of your certificate at the end of the course upon satisfactory completion of the final essay.
But the pictures can be used by anyone who feel they are going through life's numerous birth-death transitions; helping them to attune to the deeper harmony of cosmos.
We are born of light, we live in light, we die in light “ we are made out of light. This has been one of the greatest insights of the mystics of all ages. The scientists have also agreed to it just now, within these twenty years; they had to agree. Now, science not only says that man is made of light but that everything is made of light; all is made of electrons, electricity
The price is $275 and includes postage, handling and preparation of your certificate at the end of the course upon satisfactory completion of the final essay.
Curriculum
You can find the curriculum for this death and dying course included along with a brief description of each lesson below. However to view each lesson you will need to purchase this course which can be done by chosing any of the payment options to your right. If you have purchased this module you will need to login.Lesson 1 - Introduction
The course focuses and in an easy readable style on important aspects of the main areas that any person interested in helping the dying and the dead needs to know regardless of way of working.Lesson 3 - Near Death Experiences
A typical near-death-experience according to Moody's studies: A person is dying, reaching the point with the greatest physical pain, he hears himself declared dead by the doctor. He begins to hear an unpleasant noise, a loud ringing or buzzing, and simultaneously he realises he is moving fast through a long, dark tunnel.Lesson 5 - Elisabeth Kubler Ross
Often the dying person goes through The following stages: Denial and Isolation Anger Bargaining Depression Acceptance. The role of a relative or counsellor will be very different in the different stages.Lesson 7 - Contemplation
Polls and studies support the assumption that the majority of people believe that death is not the end of one's existence but rather a transition from one life to another. A belief in the immortality of the spirit has been present in most religions for centuries. The belief that there is a life after death is one of the oldest concepts of human historyLesson 9 - Will You See Or Will You Sleep?
Are you able to look your life in the eyes? The ability to see - also at the moment of death - depends on conscienceLesson 11 - Exit of Life Energy from the Body
In the process of dying It is very likely that whatever was the focus in the life of a person, also will be the focus in his death. In terms of the chakras, something happens both psychologically and energetic. The energy disappears from below and upwards regardless who you are.Lesson 13 - The Presence of Guides and Guidance
If you have dedicated yourself to a guru, in this or another life, he or she will help and guide you at the time of your death. A guru, being a spiritual master is able to cut through all dimensions.Lesson 15 - The Moment of Death, Light
We are born of light, we live in light, we die in light “ we are made out of light. This has been one of the greatest insights of the mystics of all ages.Lesson 17 - Contemplations on the Zodiac
"Were all religions and all scriptures of the world to be lost, and were there nothing left to us except the starry heavens, the story of the zodiac and the significance of the names of the various stars found in the different constellations, we should be able to retrace the history of man, recover the knowledge of our goal and learn the mode of its achievement."Lesson 19 - Christianity. Hell. Resurrection.
The world is going to end on judgement day. Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken (Matthew 24:29-31)Lesson 21 - What happens after we die, Paramahansa Yogananda
Natural death is nothing to fear. The indwelling soul is immortal. Natural death is a blessing, because it offers the soul an opportunity to exchange a dilapidated, tottering dwelling-place for a new and sturdy one. The soul requires the successive instrumentalities of new and better organisms in order to express itself fully.Lesson 23 - What happens after we die, Per Emhru
Egyptian science, medicine, mathematics and astronomy were all of an exponentially higher order of refinement and sophistication than modern scholars will acknowledge. The whole Egyptian civilization was based upon a complete and precise understanding of universal laws.Lesson 25 - Contemplations on the 3 Zodiacs
Contemplating the zodiac creates a resonance with the causal-spiritual aura, also called the bliss sheath. The transition between the solar system and the zodiac represents the transition between the astral, related to the personality, and the causal, relating to the spiritual or the Self. Contemplation on the Crown Chakra This centre is beyond everyday psychology, it is the centre of oneness. The crown centre is reacting on collective and group energies.Lesson 27 - What happens after we die, Tibetan Buddhism
Bardo means gap; it is not only the interval of suspension after we die but also suspension in the living situation; death happens in the living situation as well. The bardo experience is part of our basic psychological make-up. There are all kinds of bardo experiences happening to us all the time, experiences of paranoia and uncertainty in everyday life; it is like not being sure of our ground, not knowing quite what we have asked for or what we are getting into.Lesson 29 - Tibetan Buddhism 3, Sidpa Bardo
Many that has died will in Sidpa bardo be confused, and try to go on living as before, because they see themselves as they were before, they can see, hear as before, or, if they were deaf or blind while physically alive, they can now hear or see.Lesson 32 - Dharma, harmony with cosmos
ONE day, Hermes, after reflecting on the origin of things, fell asleep. A dull torpor took possession of his body; but in proportion as the latter grew benumbed, his spirit ascended into space. Then an immense being, of indeterminate form, seemed to call him by name. "Who art thou?" said the terrified Hermes. "I am Osiris, the sovereign Intelligence who is able to unveil all things. What desirest thou?" "To behold the source of beings, O divine Osiris, and to know God.Exam
This is necessary to do if and only if you want a formal Starbridge Centre recognition of your study.Lesson 2 - Ethics
A lot of problems come from well meaning friends and professionals giving advice, without being asked for it, sometimes even believing 'guidance told them to'. This advice is all to often coming from the advice givers unconscious, biased by the personal hurts and projections from the advice giver's own life and it is given at a time where the person in the receiving end not being ready to filter the useful from the not-so-useful.Lesson 4 - Guidlines For Being A Helper
Kübler-Ross concludes: You may work eighty hours a week with dying children, with families of murder victims and suicide and with the greatest tragedies that you can barely conceive, without ever, ever getting burned out as long as you have no unfinished business yourself.Lesson 6 - Helping the Dead and the Dying
Science is aware that sound can reach us some time into clinical death. What we don't know scientifically speaking is how long time. What science of course is not yet ready to acknowledge, is that we have a physical body, we are not the body, and that the core of us is eternal -and that this eternal part of can relate to us, even if we still are physical.Lesson 8 - Stanislav Grof: Birth Matrices & Death
Birth and death is exactly the same - In reverse order. The only difference is the subjective, individual readiness.Lesson 10 - Disolution of the Elements
The Tibetan teaching about the processes of dying is using some concepts that the West knows from the Alchemical tradition, that nature and Man is made from four elements: Earth, Water, Fire, and Air.Lesson 12 - The Presence of Pain
It is necessary to be able to confront pain since it is expectable that there will be pain in the process of dying. Heavy usage of painkilling medicine will of course remove pain, but it will also dull the mind, so that one looses the influence on what happens after death. Pain is a strange phenomenon; it is one of the most direct access points to higher consciousness.Lesson 14 - Contemplation on the Planets
Working with the cosmos means that we endeavor to become more attuned to our own blueprint. This series of meditations are specifically meant to help the dying, both by the dying person contemplating them, - and, via the law of resonance, be helped by relatives and helpers meditating on them.But the pictures can be used by anyone who feel they are going through life's numerous birth-death transitions; helping them to attune to the deeper harmony of cosmos.
Lesson 16 - Between Death and A New Rebirth
Some accounts of the bardo describe a judgment scene. The judgement scene also shows that what really counts, in the final analysis, is the motivation behind our every action, and that there is no escaping the effects of our past actions, words, and thoughts, and the imprints and habits they have stamped us with. It means that we are entirely responsible, not only for this life, but for our future lives as well.Lesson 18 - Christianity. Judgement. Heaven.
Christianity holds one central idea, claiming that: By faith in the sacrificial death and resurrection of Jesus Christ individuals are saved from death both spiritual and physical by redeeming them from their sins (i.e. faults, misdeeds, disobedience, rebellion against God) through faith, repentance, and obedience; reconciling mankind to God through sanctification so that man can return to his place with God in paradiseLesson 20 - Christianity. Ars Moriendi.
Our ancestors learned how to die. A typical small educational brochure consisted of eleven woodcuts. In each picture the dying person was shown in bed, an Everyman of about forty, with whom all could identify. Five woodcuts illustrated the five great temptations already mentioned. The corresponding images on another five woodcuts, however, showed the heavenly forces hurrying to his side: angels, saints, and the Trinity. They supported the dying person in his struggle for the soul. Then he died. The eleventh woodcut would show the happy end.Lesson 22 - What happens after we die, Rudolf Steiner
When we have reached the end of the Kamaloka period, we grow farther out into cosmic space, into the whole planetary system. That is to say, after the Kamaloka period we truly feel that we are inhabiting cosmic space.Lesson 24 - What happens after we die, Per Emhru #2
THE NEGATIVE CONFESSION Ani saith: "Hail, thou whose strides are long, who comest forth from Annu, I have not done iniquity." "Hail, thou who art embraced by flame, who comest forth from Kheraba, I have not robbed with violence.""Hail, Fentiu, who comest forth from Khemennu, I have not stolen." "Hail, Devourer of the Shade, who comest forth from Qernet, I have done no murder; I have done no harm."Lesson 26 - Contemplation on the Crown Chakra
This centre is beyond everyday psychology, it is the centre of oneness. The crown centre is reacting on collective and group energies.Lesson 28 - Tibetan Buddhism 2, Dharmata
If he is not liberated by it, then what is called the third bardo, the bardo of dharmata, arises. The confused projections of karma will appear in the third bardo so it is most important that the great showing of the bardo of dharmata is read at this time, for it is very powerful and helpful.Lesson 30 - Contemplations on the 9 pictures
We all know that aesthetics and harmony affect us. This is probably because our own existence is based on laws that create harmony and aesthetics. It is therefore obvious how we can affect a living person and other living beings. That we can affect someone who is DEAD is difficult to comprehend for a Westerner, with our materialism and strong attachment to our bodies. But the reason is that we all, living or dead, share at least some bodies if not the physical, then the astral, mental and spiritual auric bodies, or sheaths, and therefore the law of resonance can work through these bodies, we can affect and guide a dead person via resonance.Lesson 31 - Parrallels in modern physics
We are born of light, we live in light, we die in light “ we are made out of lightWe are born of light, we live in light, we die in light “ we are made out of light. This has been one of the greatest insights of the mystics of all ages. The scientists have also agreed to it just now, within these twenty years; they had to agree. Now, science not only says that man is made of light but that everything is made of light; all is made of electrons, electricity
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