Confronting the Mystery of Death
While at OSHO International Meditation Resort in early 2020, Philip Ansel mentioned how helpful our website was when he was supporting his father through his recent body-leaving. He agreed to…
My Mother’s Last Days
On my final trip to visit her, my mother Joyce no longer recognised me. As on my previous visit – soon after my sister had moved her into a quaint…
Validating Me
I recently attended a two-day Practitioner Skills’ Programme in London, titled “iCARER, Validating Me” – on “understanding and enabling therapeutic interaction with people experiencing dementia.” It was facilitated by Julia…
With the End in Mind
The New Statesman’s review featured on the back of this book reads: “Any reader will come away with the wish that they will be cared for at the end…
To Live and To Die
These days there are a lot of books being written on death– people’s accounts of their own dying process or that of a loved one – and documentaries of…
The Unexpected Gift: A Carer’s Experience of Death
I never thought that I would ever be a carer for an old person. I had always worked with children. Any colour, shape, size and age up to about 17,…
The Birth of a Death
This is an excerpt from a diary Savita Brandt kept while living in Osho’s ‘Pune One’ ashram in the 1970s Anunada is going home to England because he’s dying. Skin…
Dying at Home – my first experience
After participating in the Osho Sammasati Facilitation workshop in Pune of February this year, my life took a new direction. Instead of continuing to work in the local hospice, where…
Dying with Awareness
Pim originally worked in the corporate world but at some point it became clear that ‘I wanted to guide people in the last phase of their lives,’ she says. ‘At…
Meditation in Palliative Care
Discovering ‘OSHO Bardo: Right-Mindfulness in Living and Dying Meditation’ filled me with joy! I feel I have found the perfect meditation, for this present moment, for the remainder of this…