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Flip the Script on the 80’s and beyond
Day Sixty-two
The 80’s and beyond
3rd Solar Return
Endings and Beginnings — Keys To Conscious Elderhood by Ron Pevny
The journey into a conscious elderhood is one that very much involves recognizing and dealing with both dying and living, ending and beginning. It is a journey of recognition of these powerful dynamics as intimately woven together while we concurrently prepare for two endings and two beginnings. Both physical death and the passage into conscious elderhood are, for the psyche, a death to an old way of being. And they are both doorways into new chapters in life’s journey of growth. One of the core tenets of conscious or spiritual eldering (two names for the same transformative inner work) is that the work that prepares us to be at peace as we leave this life is the same work that prepares us to become conscious elders. It is the work of healing our past and leaving behind our self-identification with our previous life stage so that we can move without encumbrance into the mysterious next chapter that awaits us.
When death enters your life as a child with the death of a sibling, parent, or peer, it stays with you throughout your life. Death is experienced as something that can happen at any time and any place. The gift of witnessing death is that it also gives you…
