Death is customarily regarded as a taboo, a forbidden concept, not to be touched, the ending experience of life and of its connected feelings of pleasure.

Quite differently, Bhaktivedantic tradition teaches not to see birth and death as opposite ends of life, rather as an endless, dash-dot curved line, representing the whole of existence; this psychological view of the life cycle offers a significant elaboration of the death event to those who face it, whether directly as a patient, or indirectly having to take care of someone sick.

The eternal concept of man and existence leads to a different understanding of death: who dies for real? 

According to the  Indovedic psychological science, the human being consists of a variety of elements: the physical body (made of flesh and bones) and the psyche (the false ego and the human mind); but there is also a non-material part believed to be the most important living identity: the soul.

The person  who submits under the control of strong attachments acquired through reincarnations, remains  prisoner in the cycle of birth and death, life after life.

Only through the acquisition of a higher level of consciousness, will the person be released from the distorted images of the self (false ego) and find his complete spiritual identity.

The embodied soul, being able to control its own impulsive instincts, has the chance in life to choose from luminous evolutionary patterns or regressive ones; the death event, likewise any other crisis that may occur in life, is an opportunity to make a change in order to begin or accomplish a luminous evolutionary journey.

What kind of assistance to give to the patient in the phase before and after death, is a priority task for family members and doctors. In order to help and prepare all the people involved (relatives, psychologists, nurses), they should elaborate the concept of death themselves and look at the event as a whole, with the aim to enable the departing soul to reach a high sense of discernment, to focus on the self and on his destination.

This preparation should be started at once, in the here and now, because we are not meant to know how much time we have left and do not know in which psycho-physical condition our body will be at the time of starting this journey. Our sympathetic nervous system cannot tell the  difference between a visual (guided) meditation experience and a real life experience; the more intensively  we visualize a positive event in relation to death, the more effective this passage to a new dimension will be.

Marco Ferrini’s lecture was very well elaborated and ended with a practical experience. This Seminar was a high educational experience which provided a new vision of life, birth, death and mankind with antique origins, yet  contemporary for today society, especially for medical workers and those who look after terminally-ill patients or people who suffer from psychological disorders.

The participants showed a lot of enthusiasm and made many different,  interesting questions. They were impressed by the practical experience, a very helpful therapy for themselves and beneficial for the others too.