BEYOND 63
IMAGINING YOUR RIGHT AGING AND YOUR BLESSED DYING.
Can we live into death rather than die into death?
What we witness too often is the slow dying into death. Unconscious, lacking any beauty in the process, failing to wonder at the mystery, ignoring
the moments of deeper incarnation, neglecting the opportunities for illuminating initiations. Aging and dying are met with fears, doubts, and anxieties that blur vision, dull enthusiasm, and silence the songs of freedom and love.
The Signs, Fears, and Questions
I know you often think of aging and dying. I do when I look in the mirror (why do I think I should still look the way I
did in my 40's?). When I see my grandchildren growing up. When I lie in bed awake at 3AM. When I find standing up a painful awkwardness. When crystal clear memories from 60 years ago pop into my head but I can’t remember what I did yesterday. The list goes on. Those are the signs of aging.
Then there are the fears, all the dread, the doubt, the threats. I’ve made a list of those, too. Have you? Diminished capacities to think, to move, to speak with clarity. The possibility that what I developed in my first 21 years will fade, even be lost in my last years. Losing enjoyment and motivation, being bored, being uncertain, becoming frail. Being despondent, anxious, agitated, and so lonely. Feeling
guilty about becoming a burden to those we love. Living our last years and dying in a care facility that has no guiding spiritual reverence and devotion for our individuality, the nobility of our souls.
Then
there are the questions that come beyond 63. What goodness has come from my existence? Why did I suffer they way I suffered? Can I be forgiven for my failures to love? What has been the point of it all? What do I want to do with the time I have left? If there really is heaven, why do I fear death? Is it death, or is it the recognition that I am powerless over the process of dying?
Make your own list of signs, fears, and questions. It can be very calming to write them down, to keep a journal of your aging thoughts and feelings. Journaling is an act of self-agency. It brings empowerment to your sense of self. Journalling is also an act of self-kindness. When I journal
I imagine it is a dialogue with my angel. When I find myself writing thoughts that don’t feel like they are my thoughts, I've learned to see them as a loving, illuminating, liberating guidance from my angel. Through journaling and conversing with your angel (maybe you are more comfortable thinking of your higher self than an angel), you can find your way, reveal your truth, and contemplate the meaning your life.
Each of us has a karma and destiny with aging and dying. How do we resolve the karma and fulfill the destiny?
Can we build up heartfelt, courageous, and self-aware agency for the end of life? Can we actively imagine a right aging and a blessed dying?
The Living and Empowering Imaginations of Beyond 63
Selfhood, the spiritual presence of I that exists beyond our identities and stories, deepens and breaks through to a new level of consciousness every 21 years. With each breakthrough, we find the possibilities of new questions and new
intentions about our existence and our inner life drawing our attention. The fourth 21 year stage that begins when we reach the age of 63 brings these inner tasks:
- Imagine reflecting on your life with a series of lenses that bring life’s meaning into focus.
- Imagine spiritually choreographing your soul’s dance toward death rather than stumbling into it.
- Imagine meeting the difficulties of becoming old in body and the possibilities of growing wise and vital in soul and spirit.
- Imagine naming and fulfilling the moral and creative responsibilities of your last earthly
years.
- Imagine consciously shaping a sweet passing into the Great Sleep of Death.
- Imagine the heavenly life beyond the limitations of space and time and letting go of the burdens of our senses, our stories, our judgments, and our desires.
- Imagine creatively and courageously preparing for a next
lifetime.
Imagine having an enlivening and meaning-making process through which to build all these imaginations.
These imaginations are the design and purpose of Beyond 63 - Imagining Right Aging and Blessed Dying.
And imagine doing this with the support of sacred and safe community. One of the great benefits of Beyond 63 will come not from me but from your fellow participants. The co-inspiration will be so amazing. You will be transforming your own approach to aging and dying while supporting and being supported by others. And I am certain there will be a gathering of angels shining
light on our strivings.
In the next email, I will share the main elements including the dates and the cost of the course. Please send me any questions, just reply to this email.
Registration will open on Saturday, September 17th. The course begins on Thursday, September 22 with a live zoom session at 1PM Eastern.
Why Me as Guide?
Beyond 63 strives to awaken thanatosophia, the wisdom of death. This wisdom grows out of anthroposophia, the great wisdom of being human brought by Rudolf Steiner.
For the last 33 years (about 5 years after I met anthroposophy as a Waldorf mom) I’ve been devoted to bringing new ways for fulfilling the inner task of self-knowledge. I’ve created and guided over 30 courses on all the mysteries of selfhood. And now I
have come to the fierce challenge of imagining and offering a course on the life and soul tasks that we meet after 63. I feel like all the earlier courses were getting me ready for this one.
Lynn is a kind, inspired, creative guide who is constantly learning and questioning along with those she guides. She shares her wisdom without requiring one to obey or believe what she says. Instead, shares her soul experiences and listens to those of others so all benefit. Her grasp of anthroposophy is practical, comprehensive, and applicable to life in the 21st century. An understanding of anthroposophy is
not needed to engage with her work. Peg Carmody
The seven modules of Beyond 63 offer you lenses and maps and mirrors to focus, find, and reflect on your own very unique end of life realities
and intentions. Each module is full of questions, encouragement, and surprises to support you.
Registration opens on Saturday, September 17.
