Earth Ancients

Deepen your spiritual understanding of the internal journey of the dying and the adventurous after-death journey to come• Describes the Celtic rituals of honoring death and dying and offers prayers, meditations, and blessings for the time of transition• Offers reflective questions and exercises to explore your beliefs, attitudes, and fears around your own death• Includes the sacred meditation of traveling with the dead as offered by an anam-áire or Celtic soul carerTHE CELTS BELIEVED in the transmigration of the soul, in the magical rhythm of life with a particular order of coming and going for each soul. As they celebrated every new stage of their lives with a ritual, they also honoured the passing of a soul--the death of the physical body.In her decades of work with the dying, Phyllida Anam-Áire has revived the ancient Celtic tradition of watching with the dying and traveling with the soul after death. Integrating the wisdom of her Celtic ancestors with modern knowledge of the death process, she shows how a