Separation is an Illusion

I've heard truly amazing stories over the years, about almost every human situation. Conflict, defeat, triumph, resilience. Recently, I heard something that left me in awe. I haven't stopped thinking about John Diaz's story. He was on my show telling of his escape six years ago from Singapore Airlines flight 006. Eighty-three people perished in the flames. John and 95 others survived. John—who describes himself as a very straightforward, competitive, and pragmatic kind of guy—now walks with the help of a walker and endures the physical pain of his injuries every day. But in other ways he is more alive than he was before he literally went through the fire. ~ Oprah Winfrey

"The inside of the plane, John said, "looked like Dante's Inferno, with people strapped to their seats, just burning. It seemed like an aura was leaving their bodies—some brighter than others … I thought the brightness and dimness of the auras were how one lives one's life."

"John says that experience—seeing what he could only describe as auras, an energy of light leaving the bodies and floating above the flames—changed him, made him a more empathetic person. And although he still won't call his close call with death a miracle, he does say, "I want to live my life so my aura, when it leaves, is very bright.

Source: oprah.com/omagazine

At our physical transition from this dimension to the next, we're stripped of the EGO; stripped of the human brain. This allows us to have a 360 degree perspective of the bigger picture and we realize, beyond a shadow of any doubt that, all is well.

Most of us have a rather morbid and intimidating take on our mortality (which is actually immortality). So much so that we avoid the subject of our pending physical demise until we're practically on our death bed. As someone whose mom transitioned suddenly, at the age of 54 (I was 19), we are doing a tremendous disservice to our loved ones (especially our children) when we ignore the inevitable. 

The human body is approximately 99% comprised of just six elements: Oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon, calcium, and phosphorus. Plants and animals use oxygen to breathe and return it to the air and water as carbon dioxide (CO2). CO2 is then taken up by algae and terrestrial green plants and converted into carbohydrates during the process of photosynthesis with oxygen being a by-product (photosynthesis is the process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water).

Nitrogen is the most abundant element in our atmosphere, and is crucial to life. It moves from the atmosphere to earth, through soils and back to the atmosphere in an endless cycle. Nitrogen is found in soils and plants, in the water we drink, and in the air we breathe. It is also essential to life because it is a key building block of DNA, which determines our genetics, is essential to plant growth, and therefore necessary for the food we grow.