The Universal Shifts of Consciousness

The Life and Work of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

You are not Your Physical Body; You are Not the Physical Matter: You are Energy !

The mixture of Sun and the Ball of Advanced Thoughts with clearly visible vertical white Beam of Balance, camouflaged by phony pentagons, is in my room. Apr. 2010

The mixture of Sun and the Ball of Advanced Thoughts, camouflaged by phony pentagons, is in our backyard. Apr. 2010

Every day when I wake up I don't know what Earth I would be in today: one of the Parallel Earths or the Original one. Even while walking our dogs in the morning or late afternoon, I noticed that I often change dimensions/Parallel Earths, I see new people, who, sometimes, phase/dissociate and they, like my son, would start changing and jittering, appearing and disappearing. This is the picture of Invisible to the eye Energy of our Advanced Thoughts, of Energy of the New Earth, of Energy of the New Sun and of Energy of the Consciousness of the New Universe! And you can't separate all these Energies, because they are so well mixed up and this process is still going on! This Energy will eventually cover the whole sky!

On this picture is invisible, to the eye, Energy of readers of our website's Advanced Thoughts, which are floating over our Centre, (photo is taken outside from our balcony at daytime, Feb. 2010). Take a notice of one Parallel Earth is superimposing another Earth if you look at the edge of the roof up the top. On the picture below is the same invisible Energy (but visible to the camera). These 2 pictures are taken within seconds from each other.

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Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Because Elisabeth Kubler-Ross was a dear friend of Robert Monroe and Nancy Penn Monroe, his wife, I decided to devote this Page to her. She was one of the first Explorers of the Unknown and an incredible woman.

Selected Quotes from the books of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
And after your death, when most of you for the first time realize what life here is all about, you will begin to see that your life here is almost nothing but the sum total of every choice you have made during every moment of your life. Your thoughts, which you are responsible for, are as real as your deeds. You will begin to realize that every word and every deed affects your life and has also touched thousands of lives.
We run after values that, at death, become zero. At the end of your life, nobody asks you how many degrees you have, or how many mansions you built, or how many Rolls Royces you could afford. That’s what dying patients teach you.
Dying is nothing to fear. It can be the most wonderful experience of your life. It all depends on how you have lived.
If you live each day of your life right, then you have nothing to fear …
Throughout life, we get clues that remind us of the direction we are supposed to be headed … if you stay focused, then you learn your lessons.
There is no joy without hardship. If not for death, would we appreciate life? If not for hate, would we know the ultimate goal is love? … At these moments you can either hold on to negativity and look for blame, or you can choose to heal and keep on loving.
When you learn your lessons, the pain goes away.
When we have passed the tests we are sent to Earth to learn, we are allowed to graduate. We are allowed to shed our body, which imprisons our souls …
We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them.
Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose....
You will not grow if you sit in a beautiful flower garden, but you will grow if you are sick, if you are in pain, if you experience losses, and if you do not put your head in the sand, but take the pain as a gift to you with a very, very specific purpose.
It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth -- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow.
For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.
I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.
We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.
Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms, you would never see the beauty of their carvings.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's book "The Wheel of Life: A Memoir of Living and Dying"

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BOOK REVIEW by Juliana Pleines

From the time she was born, Elizabeth Kübler had to fight for both her life and her identity, because she was born a triplet, weighing slightly under 2 pounds. Raised in a middle-class Swiss-German community, she rebelled against her education at a very early age. She was also very young when she had her first contacts with the hospital environment very negative, and death very positive. As a teenager, she preferred to work for a family as a maid rather than be dictated to by her father who wanted her to work for him as his secretary accountant. She dreamed of being a physician and following in the footsteps of Albert Schweitzer. In France, Belgium and Poland, she experienced real misery while a volunteer for an international peace movement. Subsequently, she studied for many years abroad: first at the faculty of medicine at Zurich where she met Emmanuel Ross whom she later married then in a number of hospitals in the United States where she completed her training as a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. In 1965, she decided to explore her interest in death and people who are dying and she began organizing seminars on this subject. From 1969, she was a celebrity, after an article appeared in the magazine Life and the publication of her first book On Death and Dying. Continuing to work with adults and children, she often faced a lack of understanding on the part of her colleagues who were physicians or administrators, and even her neighbours, which culminated in a fire of criminal origin on her farm in Arizona in October 1994, because she wanted to have children with AIDS live there. After writing many books on death and palliative care, on the eve of her own death, Elizabeth Kübler-Ross looked back on her life. Full of detail and very accurate, this book divided into four parts according to the four main periods of her life is more than her autobiography. It is a true testament to her. Covering a busy life spanning 70 years, the author makes us understand the need for “compassion”, and “to feel with” the person and not only to care for the person. She also helps us understand the meaning of all life and the fact that coincidence does not exist, as hard as that might seem. Rich in her experience, she concludes that the only reason for life is change. The ultimate lesson from life is to learn to love and to be loved unconditionally, because the only thing which is eternal is love. A very beautiful and moving book.

Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth, On Death and Dying, Macmillan Company, New York, 1969.

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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D.: Her Dedication to Death and Dying

http://www.rfmh.org/whps/images/w2004.pdf

"Dying is nothing to fear. It can be the most wonderful experience of your life. It all depends on how you have lived." Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, 78, a Swissborn psychiatrist who taught the world how to speak openly about death and dying and whose best-selling book "On Death and Dying" provided a framework for doing so, died on Tuesday August 24th 2004 at her group home in Scottsdale, Ariz. She graduated from the University of Zurich medical school in 1957. She married a fellow medical student Emanuel Ross, an American neuro-pathologist with whom she migrated to the USA in 1958. They moved to New York City, where she became a research fellow at Manhattan State Hospital on Ward’s Island. She was appalled by the treatment of dying patients; they seemed like untouchables, ignored, isolated and avoided. She wrote that dying patients were kept as far away as possible from the nurses’ station, and doctors refused them pain medication, fearing they might become addicts! "Not really knowing any psychiatry," she wrote in her book "Death Is of Vital Importance," "and being very lonely and miserable and unhappy, and not wanting to make my new husband unhappy, I opened up to the patients. I identified with their misery and their loneliness." In 1962, she and her husband accepted teaching positions at the University of Colorado medical center in Denver, where she began lecturing on the care for dying patients. In 1965, the couple moved to Chicago, where she became an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Chicago’s medical school. She and a hospital chaplain began holding Friday seminars at Chicago’s Billings Hospital, with K u b l e r - R o s s interviewing dying patients while hospital staff members, medical students and divinity students watched. At first, doctors on the staff objected, some of them accused her of exploiting the terminally ill. But she stayed the course, fired with a determination to make the study of the process of death an integral part of the medical teachings. By 1968 her seminars had become an accredited course. She spoke to a culture that had grown reluctant to discuss death and the experience of dying, and to a medical establishment that considered death an affront to medical science. She insisted that doctors and nurses treat the dying with respect and dignity. Her work gave rise to hospice care, which allows a person to die at home, surrounded by family and friends, instead of in an impersonal, institutional setting. She also insisted that patients should have a choice about where to die and an opportunity to participate in the decisions doctors were making about their lives. The interviews with dying patients led her to believe that dying patients go through five psychological phases, beginning with denial. After denial comes anger, at God and the world. Next, the patient bargains with God to postpone fate and then falls into depression. Given time and support, she believed that the patient would arrive at acceptance, the fifth and final phase. Today, most experts in the field accept the notion of psychological phases, although they point out that the phases are not as discrete, linear and predictable as Kubler-Ross suggests. Her seminal work "On Death and Dying," based on interviews with about 500 terminally ill patients was an instant global hit. But the University of Chicago, questioning whether her work was valid medical research, denied her tenure. Thereafter she went into private practice and continued to write and lecture extensively. She also kept up the pace of her seminars, giving "Life, Death and Transition" workshops around the country. She inspired the establishment of hospices in America and overseas. Today, there are more than 3,300 hospices in the United States, serving more than 1 million people. Starting in the 1970s, Kubler-Ross’s work with dying patients led her to explore the idea that life after death may be a reality. She began emphasizing her belief in reincarnation and a spirit world. She interviewed patients who had returned from near-death experiences. They told of being in contact with longdead relatives who also spoke of seeing a light at the end of a tunnel. As with her famous stages of dying, she theorized that humans experience four stages of actual death: floating out of the body; being converted to a form of spirit and energy; being guided by a guardian angel (the part of you) through a transitional phase; and finally a meeting with the Highest Source... She claimed "We have enough absolute verifiable knowledge, and once you know this, then you could share this with people." Her descriptions of out-of-body experiences and her involvement with a Southern California hospice and retreat called Shanti-Nilaya ("home of peace" in Sanskrit) dismayed many who valued her pioneering work on death and dying. She became the focus of ridicules and rejections by the medical establishment. Her focus on the afterlife was so disturbing to her husband that in 1976 he divorced her and raised their two children on his own. Shanti-Nilaya was nearly destroyed in a fire in 1983, and police suspected arson. That same year, she established the Kubler-Ross Center, on a 300-acre farm in the Shenandoah Valley, near Head Waters, Va. She also began working with AIDS patients, particularly infected babies. In 1985, when she attempted to establish a home for children with AIDS on the wooded estate, Highland County residents protested. Two thousand people, almost every adult in the county, signed a petition to keep the center away. In 1994, that center also burned; again, police suspected arson. Along with the estate went notes, journals and photos Kubler-Ross had compiled over the decades. She moved to Scottsdale to be near her son, Kenneth Ross. Her former husband also moved to a condominium near Scottsdale, and she and her son cared for him before he died in 1992. Despite a series of strokes that left her partially paralyzed and near death she continued work on books. Her publications included the following books: On Death and Dying; Real Taste of Life; Death: The Final Stage of Growth; Living With Death and Dying; On Children and Death; AIDS: The Ultimate Challenge; On Life After Death; Life Lessons; The Wheel of Life; To Live Until We Say Good Bye; Questions And Answers On Death and Dying; Remember The Secret; Working It Through; The Tunnel And The Light. She moved into a hospice after a fall in 2002. Her son says that when his mother didn’t die as expected after the strokes, she told family members she was like a plane that had left the gate but hadn’t taken off. He felt she was in the fifth and final stage of the dying e x p e r i e n c e : acceptance. Stephen Connor, vice president of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, has paid the f o l l o w i n g tribute to her:"By raising awareness and taking it out of the closet, if you will, she brought the taboo notion of death and dying into the public consciousness. We’ve learned a lot about grief since then; what she taught us is that we have to listen to patients at the end of life. There is no right way to die, but in reality, everybody dies differently. "The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen." Kubler-Ross

The above words describe Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and her dogged pursuit of the mission she defined for herself.
Syed Abdullah, M.D.

Death and Dying

The article by Lily Schroeppel (about one of the books of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross)

http://www.mbspirit.net/Articles/deathdyingarticle.html

In many settings, people are drawn into a field of study because something that they see affects them deeply and they become passionate about making a change in the way things are done. One search that fits this description is the journey and life of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross was born in Zurich Switzerland, one of triplets. (Ross, 2002) Dr. Kubler-Ross received her medical degree from the University of Zurich in 1957. She began her pioneering work with the terminally ill at the University of Colorado Medical Center in Denver, and is currently Clinical Professor of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. In 1979 the Ladies' Home Journal honored her with a Woman of the Decade Award, after having named her Woman of the Year in Science and Research in 1977. She has also been the recipient of other honors and awards too numerous to mention. (Gorle, 2002) Her first book, On Death and Dying in 1969 made Kubler-Ross an internationally renowned author. "My goal was to break through the layer of professional denial that prohibited patients from airing their inner-most concerns," she wrote. She has spent many years speaking to standing room only audiences and writing over twenty books on the subject, including: To Live Until We Say Good-Bye, On Children and Death, AIDS the Ultimate Challenge and her autobiography, The Wheel of Life. Her books have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. She is also the recipient of more than twenty honorary doctorates. (Ross, 2002) In an interview with Dr. Daniel Redwood, Dr. Kubler-Ross described her strikingly powerful experience as a young woman visiting a concentration camp just after the liberation in 1945, an experience which was to shape the future course of her life. In this context, she addresses the highly controversial idea, first raised to her by a young Jewish camp survivor, that there is an aspect of Hitler in all of us. Recognizing the unspeakable horror of the Holocaust, she raises troubling questions on the nature of human evil and the roots from which it springs. She also shares her thoughts on the fear, denial and uncertainty which characterize much of modern Western humanity's approach to death. (Redwood, 1995). If you have ever walked through a nursing home to see a loved one that is terminally ill, or visited someone at the last stages of their life, you can understand that many advances have been made in the treatment of patients at the end-stages of life. Without the pioneering efforts of individuals, these changes would never be made. People now have the choice to die at home, sometimes with the help of a hospice program. And each individual is honored by their loved ones instead of being isolated in a hospital room or nursing home. At the Hospital where Dr. Kubler-Ross worked in New York, she was appalled by the standard treatment of dying patients. "They were shunned and abused, nobody was honest with them", she says. Unlike her colleagues, she made it a point to sit with terminal patients, listening as they poured out their hearts to her. She began giving lectures featuring dying patients who talked about what they were going through. (Ross, 2002) This was the start of the development of her theories which led to her writing of the very well-known book On Death and Dying that is typically used now as a text for almost all professions that deal with people. This book pointed to our lack of knowledge about, and by extension, our inability to care for, the dying. Her work in describing five stages patients go through has almost entered the 'folklore' of thanatological literature. (Gorle, 2002) Dr. Kubler-Rosss stages of death and dying have been referred to as DABDA by medical students studying for exams. Denial and Isolation, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance are the stages in her theory. The 'Stage Theory' and Kubler-Ross has been the subject of often cynical questioning in recent years. Difficulties with the research method have not been addressed in over 25 years. Nor is there any verification of the existence of the Five Stages or that if they exist, people progress through them in any orderly fashion. The supposed universality of the stages sometimes results in patients being herded along to 'the next stage' by family, support and medical personnel. In other words, the 'description' has become the 'prescription'. The theory denies the individuality of human beings and other needs of the dying such as having some control in their own treatment and destiny, the role of culture, religion, personality, family dynamics and so on. (Gorle, 2002) Kubler-Ross herself, and her theories have become the subject of much recent scrutiny. To some, she is a charlatan who borrowed freely from the works of her colleagues without acknowledging their contribution and whose theories do not bear up under close scrutiny. (Gorle, 2002) In my opinion, when a professional tries to forge a new path in a field there is always an interwoven characteristic of what we have learned (knowledge that others have given us) and what we find out (how we apply that knowledge to new ideas). As a student of Psychology, it is important to me that I realize this and make sure that I am aware of whose theories I am building on. It will make any research more valid, and make the researcher more aware of the thought processes behind the theories that they are presenting. It strikes me that a persons passion for understanding created by a life experience breaks down the walls of discovery and creates the possibility of new theories and practices. I quote Dr. Kubler Ross in her interview with Daniel Redwood, D.C in 1995: It started in Maidanek, in a concentration camp, where I tried to see how children had gone into the gas chambers after having lost their families, their homes, their schools and everything. The walls in the camp were filled with pictures of butterflies, drawn by these children. It was incomprehensible to me. Thousands of children going into the gas chamber, and this is the message they leave behind--a butterfly. That was really the beginning. In this concentration camp there was a Jewish girl, and she watched me. I hope you understand, I was a very young kid naturally, who hadn't gone through any windstorms in life. When you grow up in Switzerland, there is no race problem, no poverty, no unemployment, no slums, no nothing. And I went right into the nightmare of postwar Europe. So I asked her, how can men and women, like you and I, kill hundreds and thousands of innocent children, and the same day they do that, day after day, they worry about their own child at home who has chicken pox. It just didn't compute in my brain, you know, being very innocent and ignorant. This young woman had lost all her brothers and sisters, parents and grandparents in a gas chamber. She was the last one they tried to squash in, and there wasn't room for one more person, so they pulled her out. What she didn't understand was that she had already been crossed off the list of the living. They never got back to her. She spent the rest of the war years in this concentration camp swearing that she would stay alive to tell the world about all the atrocities that she witnessed. When the people came to liberate the camp, she said to herself, "Oh my God, if I spend the rest of my life telling about all these horrible things, I would not be any better than Hitler himself. I would plant seeds of hate and negativity." She made at that moment a promise to whoever she talked to, God presumably, that she would stay in the concentration camp until she could learn to forgive even a Hitler. When she had learned that lesson, then she would be worthy of leaving. Do you understand that? The last thing she said to me was, "If you would only know that there is a Hitler in every human being!" If we can acknowledge that Hitler and get rid of it, she said, we could then become like, what we now would say is, Mother Theresa. And I thought, "She is crazy, I don't have a Hitler in me." A few days later, I hitchhiked back to Switzerland, because I was very sick. I was near death. I never made it. They found me unconscious in a forest in Germany, with typhoid. But before I ended up in a hospital (I was picked up half dead in a forest, unconscious), I had been so hungry. I had no food in my stomach for three days and three nights. I suddenly realized in the midst of this hike, that if a small child would walk by me with a piece of bread in its hands, I would steal that piece of bread from that child's hand. This was like an illumination in my head. I said, "Now I know what she means, that there is a Hitler in all of us." Depending on the circumstances, you can do horrible things, which you would never even consider when you have a full belly. That was the beginning of my journey. When I went back to Switzerland, I said I'm going to study medicine, and I'm going to understand why people, from beautiful, innocent, gorgeous children, turn into Nazi monsters. What we are doing now in our workshops is to get in touch with your Nazi monster in you, symbolically speaking, and get rid of it so that you can indeed become a Mother Theresa. But that was the beginning, and I am eternally grateful for that experience. (Redwood, 1995) Elizabeth Kubler-Ross made a decision to understand and change something she experienced that troubled her. It is apparent to me in the face of the War with Iraq, that more atrocities will soon be unveiled. This fact will remain a part of the human condition. Each one of us has chosen to pursue a profession that involves people and change. Each one of us probably has a story to tell about how we got here and what our convictions for our commitment to pursuing a PhD are. I am thankful for the opportunity to research a dedicated professional that followed a conviction all of her life. With many examples of how one conviction can result in widespread change to the way we understand and apply knowledge, we can all hold on to the fact that we are the next steps to that process. It only depends how you have lived. If you have lived fully, then you have no regrets, because you have done the best you can do. If you made lots of goofs-- much better to have made lots of goofs than not to have lived at all. The saddest people I see die are people who had parents who said "Oh, I would be so proud if I can say 'my son the doctor.'" They think they can buy love by doing what mom tells them to do and what dad tells them to do. They never listen to their own dreams. And they look back and say, "I made a good living but I never lived." That, to me, is the saddest way to live. That's why I tell people, and I really mean it literally, if you're not doing something that really turns you on, do something that does turn you on, and you will be provided for to survive. Those people die with a sense of achievement, of priding themselves that they had the guts to do it.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross (Redwood, 1995) Reference: Gorle, Rev. Howard R, BA, M.Div. (April 27, 2002) Grief Theories, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross. Retrieved April 8, 2003.
http://www.bereavement.org/e_kubler-ross.htm

Redwood, Daniel D.C. (1995) ''On Death and Dying'' Interview With Elizabeth Kubler-Ross M.D. Retrieved April 8, 2003.

The morning Sun, Apr.2010

The mixture of Sun and the Ball of Advanced Thoughts is in my room. Apr. 2010

Invisible to the eye Energy of the New Consciousness of Sun, of New Earth and Advaced Humanity is building up above Elliott Heads rivermouth, Australia, 17 Jan, 2010. The Sun is a way higher in the sky. More on Home Page and other links.

Invisible to the eye Energy of the New Consciousness of Sun, of New Earth and Advaced Humanity is building up above Elliott Heads rivermouth behind the cloud, Australia, 17 Jan, 2010. The Sun is a way higher in the sky. More on Home Page and other links.

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