The Journey Home

Preparing for Life’s Ultimate Adventure

Ann V. Graber, PhD, author of Viktor Frankl’s Logotherapy, has earned the respect of students around the world as an instructor of Franklian Psychology, a meaning-centered approach to living and counseling that looks at our transitioning through life optimistically and calls us to live responsibly. amazon.com – the book has also been published in Finnish: bookplus.fi

Reviews

In particular lately we have seen many friends of our caravanserai leave their bodies. Most of them after long illness, some of them through an accident. Osho has spoken often about death being the only certainty in life and encouraged us again and again to face this reality.

To be with a loved one in the moment of passing is an incredible experience and many friends have commented on this. A little while back we published an excerpt from Ann V. Graber’s book ‘The Journey Home’ where she describes an out of body experience after a mishap that left her paralyzed alone at home. She says about that day, “Although I had believed in life beyond death since childhood, it was largely a matter of faith. Faith became knowing when a window to another dimension or plane of awareness, flew open for me one day. On that eventful day, my life changed dramatically, both internally and externally.”

Certain that she would die, she describes being guided through a life review “that revealed situations from a different perspective than I had viewed them before… This life review led to an acceptance of who I had become as a result of having lived. It also brought me to an acceptance of my impending death.”

The book is immensely sensitively written and the reader instinctively knows that Ann V. Graber shares her deepest experiences in order to help others “lessen their fear of death and dying by sharing what I have learned.”

She says that “a strong and healthy person, who reflects periodically upon life and death, will be far less frightened by life’s approaching end than someone who has not thought about it until death is at the door.” She also explains for example how imagery can be used to guide people to approach and let go of their fear of death and takes away the grey shadows that usually hang around the prospect of dying by saying, “Is it not comforting, even exciting, to imagine that at the moment of death we are able to leave behind the cocoon of a worn-out body and fly free – like a butterfly – to explore other dimensions of existence?”

I warmly recommend this book as being of immense help to caretakers, nurses and medical doctors, all those who might be called upon to be with a loved one in their final moments of departure and for all those who want some compassionate and insightful help in facing the reality of death.

Bhagawati, Osho News