Trusting the Process of Life AND Death

By Kari Kovick

According to Stanislav Grof, our society’s relationship to death is unnatural. In The
Ultimate Journey: Consciousness and the Mystery of Death, Stan writes that Western
industrial civilization up until the late 1960s showed “an almost complete lack of interest
in the subject of death and dying.” This was not only true in the general public, but also
in the fields of medicine, psychology, anthropology and theology. Stan supposed that
this could only be explained by “massive denial” and a “psychological repression of
everything related to it.” By contrast, ancient and preindustrial cultures accept death “as
an integral part of life,” and differ from our culture in how they “spend time around dying
people: handling corpses, observing cremation, and living with the remnants of their
relatives.”

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Kari Kovick: Kari is a Certified Dreamshadow Transpersonal Breathwork Facilitator and a member of the Dreamshadow Board of Directors. She lives in Floyd, VA where she has taught social and emotional learning to early childhood ages for 26 years through her program Heart of the Child Music Education. She lives on 25 acres of woods with her husband, two daughters, two grandchildren, a dog and a cat. She can be reached at kari.kovick@gmail.com