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Karmic Implications of Death and Dying
By Stephen Proskauer MD | October 21, 2009
While intense pain and fear may be experienced just prior to death in a past life, the passage into death itself comes as a relief and release from attachment to the physical body with its painful emotions and sensations. The process of recalling and letting go of the fear and pain associated with deaths in past lives tends to reduce the dread of dying in the present life and also to diminish resistance to life changes and transitions. Vows made at death’s door seem to have a critical effect upon the direction of future lives.
How can we understand this phenomenon? As personal memory fades into quantum memory at the moment of death, consciousness housed in the body returns to virtual existence as a formless cloud of probabilities associated with the quantum wave function of the soul. The final thoughts before death appear to carry over strongly, perhaps exerting their effect, as Goswami suggests, by modifying the pattern of probabilities and thereby influencing the possible form that another lifetime will take. This formulation has to be abstract because we don’t know for certain how the transition between life and death actually works. In retrospect, whatever is happening in our minds at this point of major transition seems to have enormous karmic implications. That is one reason that Tibetan Buddhists place a strong emphasis on preparing for death.
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Chapter 2 The Wheel of Birth and Death
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