Through self-awareness, we understand something non-verbally about ourselves. The conventional mindset is governed by identification with people, things or ideas. Such an identification is necessary for the ego to maintain its continuity. That is how it ends up with emotional attachment to those items of identification. The ‘I’ thus formed by the conventional thought process is afraid of its ending. That is where the identification gives it a semblance of security. It is also the reason why people become very disturbed when their religion is criticized. Dependence on religion for psychological security is the basic factor that leads to fanaticism and violence - thus, ironically, denying that very security!Under this scenario of habitual neurology, reflective people understand the fundamental source of unhappiness - falling prey to emotional attachments and the associated fear of losing them. The fear of mortality also has its origin in that mindset. As our self-awareness deepens, we see the process of being caught by the vortex of habitual thought driving us towards emotional attachments. That sensing brings about an alertness helping us weaken the power of habitual neurology. It sustains an inner clarity that keeps us company and prevents us from being taken over by attachments. We see a door in the wall which the ego builds around us. That door opens and it throws a significant light on what is meant by psychological mortality.
In his book “Stillness Speaks”, Eckhart Tolle says that the secret of life is to end before you end and know that there is no mortality.” Obviously, the first ‘end’ in his statement refers to the psychological mortality. Some people intuitively sense the ‘soul-value’ in that transformation. They apply themselves to the inward journey through self-awareness and understand the difference between the psychological mortality and one’s physical demise. The psychological mortality reveals the sacredness behind one’s true Essence as different from the ego-self sustained by thought. Simultaneously, one feels the deathlessness of that Essence and that is how people who go through a mortality experience (NDE) lose the fear of mortality.
During the NDE, the mind is temporarily freed from the ego-self allowing it to experience the vast universal consciousness of which one’s Essence is an integral part. Messages from NDEs can help us understand the meaning of psychological mortality.
The following NDE from Denise V (Episode No. 3221) published by the NDE Research Foundation (nderf.org) is relevant to the above matter:
Shining down upon this sea of humanity was a blindingly beautiful light. Pink, golden and white - brilliantly luminous. A sort of "voice" or realization arose within me and spoke. Although nobody appeared, I felt the presence of something immense and eternal standing to my right. It informed me that the people I was seeing, were all those who had ever lived. Yet here they were - alive! It told me that all of them…..were me! Not only that... but I was each of them! I understood this presence was "God". And then God made it clear that all these people - and I - were God. And that He was us. He told me that there was no "mortality". I was seeing life's continuance. A never ending flow of humanity, moving within the stream of Life - a beautiful, eternal flow which we're forever part of.
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