Dying Into Life: A One Year Pathwork Mystery School
Mystery Schools are designed to raise a person’s consciousness and “reveal the secrets of life and death,” so that life is lived at a higher consciousness than before.
In ancient times, there was a deeper awareness of death in the midst of life. We all run from this awareness, yet the journey of life is a psycho-spiritual passage every living creature undergoes. Our individual powers and capacities emerge, flower, and fade in an undergoing none of us can escape.
This program will consciously explore the Mystery, helping us to live more fully in the midst of life and death.
We face many emotional deaths throughout life. Learning to die, or surrender, to these “little deaths” in the midst of life, we learn to be reborn.
“It is only when you accept death in its undisguised nakedness without running from it that you can truly live; only then will you find that there is no death and no duality. You experience this in the infinitely great and ultimate issues when you learn to experience it first in your daily little “deaths.”
Pathwork Lecture 81.
Learning to be with what is, death and life flow into a movement of grace, connection, and affirmation of the sacred Medicine Wheel of incarnation.
You may be part of the aging population beginning to realize that death is no longer so easily pushed into the distance, or perhaps you are stuck in your mid-life crises, undergoing a death of the you, you wanted to be, or even a young person already seeking to learn the wisdom of dying into life. No matter where you are in the cycle of life, participants will gain a new and expanded perspective on their own unique journey and come away with useful skills for living and dying fully and freely.
Goals of the Program:
To learn you are not your story. You will discover your eternal nature
To see & cherish your story as your path of awakening.
To learn what is really important; what your soul is working on.
To complete the past, finishing what is unfinished so you can be now.
To learn to be with what is arising moment to moment.
To learn to hold & be with yourself especially in life’s difficult moments. To learn how to die.
To be inspired to act; to become an instrument of spirit. Surrender is not a passive state.
To learn to connect with nature and the beauty of being in a body. To leave time to smell the roses.
To explore your mission; to find your gift of service previously & going forward; to understand how we are completely incomplete at death
To make a deeper connection to the transpersonal dimension & experience the influence between the material and spiritual worlds.
To discover your spiritual resources that you can draw on to help you continue your life and death from a new state of being.
Participants commit to 4 four day workshops with interim teleconference meetings, reading, and meditation in between. Participants must also have individual sessions with a Pathwork Helper during this period.
Themes for each 4 Day Weekend Retreat:
1)The Story
Explore the story you have created out of your life experience.
Discover where you are on the journey at this time in your life.
Understand this story from the perspective of the soul journey as an evolutionary learning experience.
Learn to recognize your eternal consciousness and presence.
2) Befriend Yourselves on this Journey
Learn to connect to the Light within and around us.
Learn to hold all of who you are in the light.
Learn the difficult act of surrender:
Hold regression & struggle in service of healing & transcendence.
3) Death & Rebirth Ritual
Many deep passages and wonderful surprises. A true mystery school experience. A ritual experience of death and rebirth. A powerful way of coming back into life with more of yourself. Part Shamanic Soul Retrieval and part role-play, this 4-day process is very powerful with the preparation leading up to it.
4) Living an Awakened Life
Returning to the Story from the larger reality of Life & Death.
Being in but not of the story; Dancing with life.
Sweat Lodge and Completion Ceremony.
Wrapping up the class. Another beginning within an ending.
Register for the Dying into Life program by clicking here.
Your Teacher and Guide, Pathwork Helper Darlene Rollins.
Darlene Rollins is a Pathwork Helper with 25 years of experience. She has taught this mystery school program for 10 years as the 5th year of the Pathwork Transformation Program. She is the founder of Earthwalkways Forest Therapy Institute and Retreat in Fredericksburg, VA. Nature is her other main teacher.