Crossing Over

How does it work?

Over the past few hundred years, since the advent of the Undertaking profession as well as long term elder care facilities and hospitalization, the general public has become several steps removed from death and the dying process. We don’t see it coming, often we aren’t there when it happens, and before we know it the remains are whisked away and we are left with nothing but a sense of loss and incompleteness. Unlike our ancestors and elders we have no cultural map of what goes on with a person, no sense of the steps involved, the process, or any cultural support for the changes which occur afterward. We have a brief memorial, possibly some family time, and then it’s over like an amputation which we are too shocked to deal with and yet we must. However, the dying process needn’t be a mystery. Most professionals in the fields dealing with our elders, with the departing, and with their remains are more than willing to talk with anyone who wishes to understand or learn more.

The body and the soul are not separate units. They are two half’s of a whole during the embodied life and strive to be in harmony with each other throughout the lifetime. They are intricately linked in a myriad of ways and cannot function without each other. Without a body the soul has no means of interacting with the physical world and a body without a soul is not animate. Any removal of a significant portion of the soul from the body for more than a fraction of linear time triggers the body’s shut down and dying process. This is a feature, not a flaw. Once the soul no longer inhabits the body its purpose is complete and it returns to its constituent components.

Crossing over, the ending of a life and return of the soul to the Akashics is, like any other process, unique to each individual and can be swift and to the point, stripped down to the essentials, or it can be a deep, thorough completion of the embodied life. For endings which are abrupt such as accidents, swift moving diseases or violence, there are no preliminaries beforehand, not subtle transitions, no gentle slipping from one state to another. The body becomes unable to sustain the soul which is therefore succinctly released to begin the transition back to the Akashics. In the case of a death which comes either naturally through aging or through prolonged illness crossing over begins before the body…