After the Caregiving Ends – NYTimes.com

After the Caregiving Ends – NYTimes.com.

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For a Hospice Pioneer, Still a Tough Call – NYTimes.com

For a Hospice Pioneer, Still a Tough Call – NYTimes.com.

I knew Paul Brenner, what  a wonderful gentle man. I took a walk through Jacob Perlow Hospice with him back in the ’90s and had a good interview for our newsletter The Great Adventure. This was a time when hospice was flourishing. Complementary therapies were very active…massage, music therapy, water and light therapies, you name it. Paul was very open to including all of these holistic approaches in the institutional framework. A  very intelligent generous man and a great soul, we will miss him!

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LRS Course starting; Learn a very simple, effective, time-honored way to help others

Labyrinth Reader’s Society Class starting this week (07/01/2014)!

Learn how to help others, including those who are overwhelmed, stressed, ill, or near the end of life.

Following is a brief description of our ongoing online activities taken from an email that I recently sent  to someone:

The best place to start is to join our very active discussion group the LRS Forum on Facebook where we talk about doing readings for the benefit of others, post requests for readings, and discuss the new virtual healing and spiritual environments, the orbs. You will see a full schedule of events on that forum, I believe it is posted daily. 

We have several study groups which meet live on the internet in various chat venues. On Wednesday evenings there is a free class at 7pm Pacific time on www.justin.tv/gorebaggtv where there’s a discussion about the material in the American Book of the Dead. On Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays there are classes currently active at the Prosperity Virtual Ashram which is hosted on the second life platform. If you don’t know about the ashram you can read about it here: http://www.idhhb.com/worklines/pva/ashram-work.html  It’s easy to get to the Ashram, go to secondlife.com and choose an avatar. Download the free environment. Go to prosperity//the link below, (which will be at the ashram) then please send us your avatar’s name. We will help you learn how to navigate in the SL platform.

One location where we offer an open meeting and discussion (at the ashram) on Tuesday evenings 7pm PST is:  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/prosperity/113/207/2011 

I am generally at this informal meeting and would be happy to see you and answer any questions.  

 As mentioned above, we also offer classes which deal with doing readings and the American Book of the Dead on Sunday afternoons and Friday evenings. The Sunday (3pm pst) class is the actual Readers course.

Finally, we are in the process of developing a home study course for working with the readings.  You can let me know if you are interested in that. If  you want to visit an excellent website which has instructions for doing runs and readings please see: http://www.theclearlight.com 

I hope that this gives you enough information to get started, and I hope that I didn’t give you too much! I just want to convey again that if you have any questions please contact me through our contact page. I am more than happy to help. 

Visit the Clearlight website, the LRS Forum, or the Caregiver website for more details.

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Keeping Patients Out of Hospitals – Excellent Article

Keeping Patients Out of Hospitals: A Private-Sector Approach to Health Reform – Adam Wolfberg – The Atlantic.

This is such a good article I had to post it right away. I work in a busy hospital and see the revolving door of patients that these systems are trying to slow down. If more patients at the end of their lives can die peacefully at home then this is a true benefit of these care systems.

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Spirituality at end of life: Practitioners remain hesitant

Spirituality at end of life: Practitioners remain hesitant | The Life Matters Media Newswire.

This is an interesting website to know about, a good resource for end of life care articles and thoughtful posts.

 

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Weighing the End of Life – NYTimes.com

Weighing the End of Life – NYTimes.com.

We are going through the exact scenario described in this article with our little puppy Choco. I’m amazed at the number of folks I’ve talked with who’ve had similar experiences with an aging pet. I’ve also learned a lot from the process that she is going through and am very thankful for this thoughtful and well written article.

Living and dying are great mysteries. When we fully realize this we will treat every person and animal with the greatest of respect…at all times.

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