Author: | Stephen Levine |
ISBN13: | 978-0717133413 |
Title: | Meetings at the Edge: Dialogues with the Grieving and the Dying, the Healing and the Healed |
Format: | mbr doc lrf rtf |
ePUB size: | 1700 kb |
FB2 size: | 1136 kb |
DJVU size: | 1764 kb |
Language: | English |
Category: | Death and Grief |
Publisher: | Gateway (February 2002) |
Pages: | 264 |
Capturing the range of emotions and challenges that accompany the dying process, he offers unique support to readers dealing with this difficult experience. From the Inside Flap. extensive counseling work with the terminally ill, Levine's book integrates death into the context of life with compassion, skill, and hope. Capturing the range of emotions and challenges that accompany the dying process, he offers unique support to readers dealing with this difficult experience. I bought the book as a gift so have not read it but it arrived quickly and it was such a deal.
Я. said: This book was given to me while I was very sick. We are not the "fixer" We are called to "face" our true self, our own intuitive path. It's okay to make mistakes, this is your journey, don't compare it to someone else's journey.
Some of the conversations in the collection were with people grieving the loss of loved ones, some with people working closely with the dying, and some with people nearing the end of their own lives. Most of the conversations took place over the phone – he calls it the dying phone. For years, Stephen Levine and his wife Ondrea directed the Hanuman Foundation Dying Project, at the invitation of Ram Dass. Ondrea and he have spent years counseling people through their grief, and Meetings At The Edge allows us a glimpse into their process.
Based on his extensive counseling work with the terminally ill, Levine's book integrates death into the context of life with compassion, skill, and hope. Home All Categories Self-Help Books Death & Grief Books Meetings at the Edge: Dialogues with the Grieving and the Dying, the Healing and the Healed. ISBN13: 9780385187862. Meetings at the Edge : Dialogues with the Grieving and the Dying, the Healing and the Healed.
The dialogues are presented as if they were transcripts of phone calls or bed-side conversations. However shattering their grief, Levine's interlocutors air their feelings and then gradually work them out with articulate ease (they're almost all literate in psychology, and some have read Levine's books), while the master himself pours out his soothing message: ""It is very understandable that there is pain at times as the body falls away. But you aren't that body. The body is sick, but the nature of being is not sick,"" etc. For the predisposed.
Bibliographic Citation. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press, 1984. Healing and Being Healed: a Christian Perspective. Pellegrino, Edmund D. (1999). Related Items in Google Scholar.
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dialogues with the grieving and the dying, the healing and the healed. 1st ed. by Levine, Stephen. Published 1984 by Anchor Press in Garden City, .