When I was very little, my Grandma Joyce died from an aneurysm.  My Grandparents were recently retired and were traveling in their mobile home.  One day while lying together in bed, laughing, joking, and having a good time, the aneurysm burst without warning and my Grandma Joyce died on the spot.  My Grandpa Bill was devastated and began smoking cigarettes before she was even buried.  In a few short months he developed lung cancer that spread through his entire body and he also passed. 

One thing is for certain: my Grandparents loved each other very, very much. 
 
 

Here are seven reasons why people die: 

      1)  They expect to 

      2)  They don’t believe they can live forever 

      3)  Stagnation of energy 

      4)  Emotionally polarized attachments 

      5)  Lack of discipline 

      6)  People want to die 

      7)  Karmic lessons 
 
 

Upon first glance of this list, some of the items may appear cryptic or confusing.  I believe with a little explanation they will begin to make sense. 

1)  Let’s take the first item.  People expect to die.  What more needs to be said?  It is closely tied to the second reason as it lies in belief.  However the expectation of dying is having faith in a belief.  Therefore: faith in death. 
 
 

2)  The second reason is that people do not believe they can live forever, and so they have closed off the reality of it from their minds.  Beliefs write the direction of our destiny.  Those who have thought patterns of victimhood, whereby they make excuses for themselves and defend their self imposed limitations, are less likely to get what they want out of life.  A mindset of victimhood will make us claim that “I am not enough.” 

“I can’t get the job because I am not qualified enough.” 

“That man would never be attracted to me because I am ugly.” 

“I could never afford that because I don’t make enough money.” 

“I can’t achieve that because I am too young.” 

All of these examples are excuses. Poor self talk that becomes limiting. Beliefs that limit a person from achieving their desires.  Our desires are not our beliefs.  People who achieve what they desire to be successful at, believe in themselves and let their beliefs guide the physical manifestations in their life.  They don’t make excuses why the world is holding them, because only we can hold ourselves back.  If you desire to live forever, start by believing that you can.  Then get to the point where you know you can. 
 
 

3)  The third reason people die is the stagnation of energy.  Time equals change.  Our entire reality is based off of movement, exchange, and flow of energy. Even our physical bodies change and regenerate naturally in under a decade.  A stagnation is a deposit that fails to regenerate; a blockage of energy flow. In other words, closed channels, or more accurately:  clogged chakras.  An orgone is a universal type of energy that permeates all things (also called chi energy).  Anyone can see it floating around at any given time.  It is especially easy to notice when looking at a blue sky on a sunny day.  You can see little bubbles floating around chaotically.  Chakras metabolize orgone energy.  They are the primary source of our survival.  When a person falls in love, their heart chakra expands and absorbs more of this universal energy, sending them through the roof with energy.   

Each chakra is vitally important.  A chakra is a series of whirling vortices in a disk shape extending like a cone out the front and backs of our bodies.  Our crown and root chakra are intimately connected for they are the primary vertical oriented chakras, which are often distinguished as separate pieces.  There are also a variety of smaller energy metabolizers in various locations across our bodies. 

Chakras also catch polarized energy from within ourselves, but more on that in the next reason. 

To live indefinitely, one simply needs to open up all of there chakras to their maximum capacity, at which point water would still be needed for survival, but the need for food would diminish, as it is the process of eating that causes our bodies to decay and chi energy that animates us. 

Products such as cigarettes, alcohol, plastics, and drugs can leave toxins in our bodies.  If our chakras are closed or clogged because of emotional baggage then these toxins won’t release.  Then they attach to emotionally polarized energy and help to manifest sickness. 

One reason we die is because of stagnation of energy.  In other words:  closed, damaged, or blocked chakras that eventually lead to sickness. 
 
 

4) Which brings us to the fourth reason which is Emotionally Polarized Attachments a.k.a. sickness deposits. 

The reason why chakras do not function at maximum potential comes from within ourselves.  When we hold opinions or judgments about anything and everything, we polarize the thought energy with a certain charge.  Thereby storing it in our body until we release it later on (whether it is hours, days, months, years, or lifetimes later). 

An example would be:  “I love this person more than anyone” or “I can’t live without them.” One is a positive thought and one is a negative.  But it doesn’t matter which is which because both are equally dangerous.  If you believe you love someone more than anyone, then you have forgotten about yourself.  If you believe you cannot live without a certain person, then you have closed off your mind to the reality that you can.  There is a difference between loving someone and being attached to someone you love. 

We constantly create these polarizations of energy.  Emotional attachments.  It is especially common when we believe something true or false since all opinions and judgments have an emotional foundation.  Austin Osman Spare discovered this principle and came up with a technique called the ‘neither –neither’ in which he would identify something he believed was truth (polarized energy) and find its opposing truth (the opposite pole of that thought energy) and by embracing both as truth and false, it sends the energy crashing back together which in turn allows it to flow once more. 

An example would be.  “I am ugly.” and “I am beautiful.”  Both are truth and fictitious.  Each one is an opinionated truth.  Each one is a thought that polarizes energy.  A healthy replacement would be “I am what I am and I am what I am not.”  Or: “I am beautiful to some people and ugly to others, but I embrace both sides lovingly.” 

Certainly many people have been aware of this process over thousands of years and have given it their own names.  It is a natural process that we should all be aware of. 

Most polarized energy finds that status because of an emotional belief we hold.  Such as the above stated examples.  An emotional belief can polarize thought energy which then becomes deposited in our bodies.  When I say bodies, I mean our entire energetic mass, not simply our physical bodies.  As these deposits build, they clog, damage, or tear our chakras; which in turns leads to sickness.  For it is chi energy that regenerates us. 

Whether it be the thought of “I can’t live without you.”  Or: “Life could never get better than this.”  Or: “Look at that schmuck, he don’t know how to drive!” 

All of these thoughts fester in our body and as they accumulate we endanger ourselves, because an event that challenges the opinion of the emotionally charged energy will cause incongruence in your body.  As with the case of my Grandpa Bill.  He loved my Grandma very much.  I honestly do not remember that much about them, but those who knew them say that he loved her so much and his death was very surprising because he had been so healthy before. 

I believe my late Grandpa suffered from too many positive polarizations.  Too many good experiences (and likely some bad) that had become opinionated or judgmental and stored in his body.  When my Grandma Joyce died it was the trigger of belief incongruence with manifest reality that devastated him.  And when we put toxins into our body to numb those deposits, it feeds the sickness.  Such examples of polarized thought energy could be: “I could never love like I love you.”  Or:  “I can’t go on without you.” 

When the manifest reality forces us to face our stored up energy it can destroy us, unless we can un-polarize that energy and let it flow again.   

One such method is crying.  Our society has put negative connotations on the natural process of crying, but it is one of the most healthy actions we can take because it offers a biological mechanism for un-polarizing energy. 

Sometimes when a lifelong partner dies, we find that the spouse soon follows.  Sometimes when a lifelong partner dies, we are surprised by how well a person bounces back.  Those who bounce back had less stored energy in them and allowed their energy metabolizing chakras to continue to flow. 
 
 

5)  The fifth reason that people die is because of a lack of discipline, or more accurately, a lack of maintenance.  To some readers this might be overly obvious, but to others it may be supremely beneficial.  Maintenance of our self includes emotional, memory, mental, and physical disciplines.  Each piece of us is vital and so we must show equal attention to all.  Some prime examples of discipline include: the eradicating of judgmental thoughts, or truth and false conclusions that lead to the polarization of energy.  By habitually cleansing ourselves of stored energy we open our entire self up to greater energy flow and potential, as well as having energy to focus in beneficial ways. 

Another important discipline is regular meditation.  It is highly relaxing and brings peace to the mind.  Resting our body and mind allows us to unwind stored energy.  Regular meditation has a very long list of health benefits. 

It is also important to keep our memories healthy and accurate.  We have all experienced cases where people remember things completely different because they were struck with different impressions based off of their own network of mental associations.  Diaries are extremely useful tools.  So is spending time throughout each day recalling good and bad moments in our lifetimes and releasing any emotional attachments to those times. 

A seemingly obvious discipline that is often quite lacking is exercise.  Exercise does not necessarily mean stress on the body.  It means movement, because movement loosens stored energy.  Walking is the most ideal exercise.  Do Yoga, go hiking, swim, or whatever it is that you enjoy. 

A healthy diet is extremely important.  Salt, Fat, and Protein are the most commonly over-consumed essentials in the world today.  A balanced diet does not mean you have to follow a chart on the side of some packaging or some pyramid made by the same people who are selling you their ‘products.’  The recommended daily amounts aren’t necessarily needed every day.  Remember, eating causes the body to age.  Cell splitting represses when our bodies are deprived of calories, and since cells can only split so many times, it is best to keep them in stasis if we wish to prolong our life. 

When we eat it is best to have raw organic vegetables, fruits, roots, legumes, grains, and other plant foods, for they have the highest content of vital minerals (vitamins) and other useful minerals.  Plant protein is also a healthier alternative to meat protein, as it is free of cholesterol, a leading killer in America.  Plant foods also contain fewer calories but more minerals which is what sustains longevity. 

Fasting is a means to give your body a break from its cell splitting by purposely depriving your body of calories and in process bringing clarity of thought by loosening the energetic connection between body and mind.  Which in turn helps us apply techniques for un polarizing stored energy in our system.  Long living yogis of the east practice fasting regularly.  It is the most difficult of the vital disciplines needed to become physically immortal. 

The last discipline I would like to broach (but certainly not the last discipline for long life) is crying.  I stated earlier that crying is the natural biological process of releasing stored up energy.  We don’t even have to try and do anything.  We don’t have to try and locate polarized thoughts.  If we simply let our minds focus on what makes us sad we can instantly find and release that energy.  Who has not felt better after crying? 

It is our natural biochemical means for ridding ourselves of stagnate energy.  If the tears just don’t seem to dry up it means that you had an abundance of stored up energy.  It will even out. 

These disciplines are entirely beneficial and can be fun and rewarding.  So why don’t all people maintain themselves indefinitely?  One reason is because of our belief system and emotional associations.  Such as the programming that fast food actually tastes good, when it is terrible stuff.  It may be entirely subconscious, but the reason people don’t maintain discipline is because it is easier to accept expiration. 
 
 

6)  The sixth reason why people die is that people want to die.  Cynical?  Hardly. 

What are the complications of living forever?  Well, we have to find a way to maintain a constant flow of fresh water and food.  We have to humbly maintain our disciplines indefinitely.  We need a way to make money and pay our taxes?  Or do we?  We need to maintain our home.  We would be constantly bombarded by skeptics who want proof and by students who want to understand the secrets of immortality but might not be willing to accept what it takes, but still want the result without the action. 

This is just the tip of the iceberg of challenges.  The most difficult complication would be watching our loved ones die.  Maybe eventually entire families with learn the secrets of prolonged life like in biblical times, but for now it is few and far between that we even hear about a single individual who has been alive for hundreds of years.  One reason is the skeptical media has no desire to report on such phenomenon.  It would take a completely clear body.  Completely clear of emotionally polarized energy to watch lovingly as friends and families pass, knowing you will see them again.  Becoming free of the emotional attachments to others.  Knowing that death is just another part of life, and that even those loved ones will be given a new opportunity to incarnate.  To look at death as a temporary parting of physical vessels, and knowing communication with any soul is possible at any time. 

Again, it is easier to follow the trend and choose to die because living forever is a highly focused activity that takes immense discipline. 
 
 

7)  The final and most important reason that people die (and is intimately tied into all of these other reasons), is Karmic lessons. 

Death is the end of a physical vessel, but not the awareness.  Every awareness is a fragmentation of the one greater being. 

God is a fitting title. 

When a person dies (for whatever reason), they reconnect with the ultimate stream of consciousness to evaluate how their next incarnation into a physical vessel can better suit their divine purpose. 

Everyone is familiar with Karma.  It basically means that what comes around goes around.  In other words, what ever energy you send out into the world, you are eventually going to receive back.  For the energy we send out into the world is what sparks manifestation.  So, when we send out ill intentions they are destined to return.  Karma is very complicated.  Far too much to discuss in this short essay. 

Karma is like a scale.  One side balances what we send out into the world, and one side holds what we receive.  Suffice it to say, this is a poor analogy, but basically karma is a universal balancing mechanism. 

Karma also includes choice.  Our subconscious self is vaster than our conscious minds acknowledge.  When we are born our minds are implanted with a variety of consciousness blockers that make the illusion of living seem real and linear so that we can experience. These are implanted by higher beings who organized our expeditions with us before we engaged in this human experience. 

We are all a fragment of God experiencing life for the greater good of all of existence.  Experience equals growth.  How could we know a good experience from a bad unless we experienced both, and so part of our karmic lessons is to experience pain, for it is a tool to make us aware that something needs to change for the better. 

All of these reasons are greatly intertwined and related.  Death is most commonly a karmic choice.  This essay is not about immortality.  You are already immortal.  It is about prolonging physical life and being more prepared for reaching the ultimate goal.  Is it any surprise that video games are so popular since they are modeled after real life? 

When you “die” in a video game, you always start over.  It is no different.  There are great lessons to be learned in death, and so we choose to die for the wonderful experience and knowledge it brings.  Whether it be from an ailment, an accident, suicide, or murder.  We choose for it to happen.

If we can take responsibility for everything in our life, even those things that we’ve been taught is out of our control, we can start recognizing our power of choice.  Our absolute free will. 
 
 

The entirety of all being is God.  God is omnipotent and omnipresent, meaning everywhere and in all things.  Even those things we choose to emotionally polarize.  Such as good versus evil.  It is all the same thing.  This whole world was created so that God could experience.  So how could one being experience unless it fragments and limits its own consciousness?  Here is my own string theory.  God is like a string.  A human is a tangled knot.  The purpose of living is to unravel and again become how we started.  Sometimes along the way we entangle ourselves more. Sometimes it may take many attempts, but eventually we will all untangle. 

Being that we are God and so is everything else.  We can claim responsibility for anything, everything, and all things that happen in our life, because on some level, we chose it.  Even if it is on our God level, it was still our choice.  For thou art God. 

Even if you don’t believe it.  Think of all the painful things in your life and say:  “I chose to experience that.  I claim it.”  By doing so, we open ourselves up to our highest potential.  The only way someone can deny responsibility for everything in their life, the good and the bad; is to choose to deny it.  We are not victims of circumstance and luck.  We are not subject to Murphy’s Law (unless you believe it), and we are not creatures of chance, but whatever you believe becomes your reality. 
 
 

I had mentioned that there is a divine purpose:  to return to godhood.  That process is called ascension.  The acceleration of body into light. The return home.  Not everyone is trying to reach it for some of us are so tangled up and having so much fun living that the experience is too good to pass up.  All the drama.  But for those who wish to reach their divine destiny, simply apply the five D’s.  First acknowledge the Desire.  Claim it and never forget it.  Secondly, be Determined to reach it.  If you have the desire, you also need the determination to see it manifest.  If you are determined enough then Dedicate yourself to the path.  Force self control and embrace the Discipline it will take.  Once you have reached these four prerequisites, you can be Diligent to the manifestation process, holding steady to the path and eventually the choice to ascend will manifest. 

We do not have to die.  Though it is not always pleasant or easy to accept, it all boils down to choice.  Death and its circumstances are a deliberate choice. 

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None of these texts were directly quoted in this piece, though some ideas matured and formulated from their consumption.  I would like to acknowledge my guides for bringing insight to my observations and bringing forth the sources of information I have been so graced to read.  I would like to give extra special thanks to Albert Thor, whose book has so greatly affected my life and particularly influenced pieces of this essay.  Texts that stimulated this essay include:   
 

Flight Manual for the Soul:  A Practical Guide to Peace of Mind, by Albert Thor 

Hands of Light:   A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field, by Barbara Brennan 

Awaken the Giant Within, by Anthony Robbins 

Sorcery as Virtual Mechanics, by Stephen Mace 

Mad Cowboy, by Howard Lyman 

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, by Richard Bach 

The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho  

A Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein

Jane Joyce is a graduate from the Art Institute of Phoenix where she studied Animation.  She is a writer and a musician.  A light worker using her magick to brighten the world. She is the author of Chicanery Absolved,