As the candle burns brightest in the darkness, we are most
truly alive when we cultivate a minute-by-minute love for life by feeling our repressed pain about our eventual death. Such a life-affirming death awareness can increase our energy, love,
life-purpose, creativity, spirituality, and life-span- and help reduce societal violence
and biosopheric neglect... (cont.)

I. Dare we be truly alive?
Sustained true aliveness requires affirming life by feeling our pain about death

III. The societal journey
Life-affirming death awareness can lead to meaningful work, social service and political action.
Life-affirming death awareness can lead to meaningful work, social service and political action.

IV. The Spiritual Journey
Facing death spurs spiritual awakening and direct experience that enlivens
Facing death spurs spiritual awakening and direct experience that enlivens





