Confronting Death: An Experiential Imagery Exercise
Anees Ahmad Sheikh
Routledge eBooks October 26, 2018 DOI: 10.4324/9781315224480-10 (opens in new tab)
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| Key points | The text describes a guided imagery exercise in which participants imagine their essence merging with a universal energy after death. The author reports that the procedure almost always elicits profound reactions, particularly from adults in their late thirties and older, and that the experiences are profoundly positive and resemble those reported by near-death experiencers, psychotherapy subjects under LSD, and survivors of life-threatening emergencies. The author contends that such experiences can enhance appreciation of one's potentials, relationships, and blessings. |
Abstract
This exercise, the group first is engages in a general discusses of death and dying and the life–giving qualities that ensue from an encounter with death. The simple procedure almost always elicits profound reactions, particularly from adults in the late thirties and older. Imagine that as body is buries or cremated, essence merges with the source of the universe, with the universal energy, which lies beyond the reality that has known in earthly life. The experiences are profoundly positive and, in many ways, similar to the experiences reported by the near–death expedients, by subjects in psychotherapy under the influence of LSD, or by individuals surviving life–threatening emergencies. The experiences have the power to lead to an enhanced appreciation of one’s potentials, of one’s relationships with others, and of the countless blessings in one’s life. The imagery exercise is in part inspired by the works of a number of individuals.