In the Heart Lies the Deathless

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Summary: Another Gem from Levine
Review: A wonderful exposition that pulls together many disparate threads together into a comprehensive approach to life & death. Levine's sense of balance, life experience, depth of soul, & droll humor are a pleasure to listen to. I found the concept of "soft belly" applicable from the moment I heard it, yet it was something I never would have come up with on my own merry way. I like the way Levine presents his ideas & experiences without pushing them. The "do it this way, which is my way, or else" school doesn't work with me. Levine is a practicing Buddhist: I am a practicing Christian. Despite an acute awareness of the differences in perspective and understanding, I still find Levine's approach very helpful & complementary to my faith.

Rating:
Summary: Another Gem from Levine
Review: A wonderful exposition that pulls together many disparate threads together into a comprehensive approach to life & death. Levine's sense of balance, life experience, depth of soul, & droll humor are a pleasure to listen to. I found the concept of "soft belly" applicable from the moment I heard it, yet it was something I never would have come up with on my own merry way. I like the way Levine presents his ideas & experiences without pushing them. The "do it this way, which is my way, or else" school doesn't work with me. Levine is a practicing Buddhist: I am a practicing Christian. Despite an acute awareness of the differences in perspective and understanding, I still find Levine's approach very helpful & complementary to my faith.

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Summary: Stephen Levine is Awesome
Review: Although the kind of information contained in these tapes can be found elsewhere, the particular presentation given (as lecture with questions/participation from the audience) for me is quite moving. These are the kind of tapes that can make you cry, and might teach you how to drive and cry at the same time. These are the kind of tapes that you can listen to again and again, at different times and throughout the years of your life - and still get something from; that you perhaps didnt need to hear at an earlier listening. These are the kind of tapes that I'd have buried with me when I die, because wherever it is that I'd be going then, I'd want to have this information, in the way it is presented, with me. These are the kind of tapes that can change your life, or at least profoundly effect the general direction you are headed in. I think at one time I sat and typed out word for word the entire content of the first of these two tapes, because I wanted to study what is said with that degree of focus, that degree of attention. Then the kids wrecked the first tape and I have gone for several years with only the second in my audio tape collection, until a friend recently lent this set to me - and, true to form - I was still amazed at what I was able to clarify within my own personal understanding, by hearing this material again, at my present point on the path. Although the material presented is over 10 years old, it is still at the cutting-edge of where many people, bored and frustrated with "consumer" or "mass-market" level spirituality, long to be in their own personal journey. Beautiful ideas presented here can be extended beyond the specific contexts within which they are discussed; opeining myriad possibilities for application in your own way, to your own personal issues and even an approach to experience the events that comprise the living part of life itself. This reviewer clearly rates an enthusiastic "MUST have"!

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Summary: A must have for those in Recovery
Review: I bought this set for myself after ordering it for my friend. I listened to these tapes in my car and then again at home. The subjects include suicide, losing loved ones and forgiveness meditation. It was especially helpful for me since I have undergone various changes in my life. The information does not all sink in at once, one has to listen at various stages to fully understand the spiritual and psychological significances. If one is seeking a viewpoint other than that found in traditional Judeo-Christian beliefs, here it is!

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Summary: A live workshop on fear, grief, anger, and pain.
Review: IN THE HEART LIES THE DEATHLESS Stephen Levine

The happiest people, Stephen Levine says, are those who have fully investigated their fears. But what is fear? And how is it related to grief, anger, and pain? Levine addresses these issues on this live workshop recording, originally presented at the 9th Annual Common Boundary Conference. Within each of our hearts, he begins, there is a sacred emptiness that we share with the divine spirit and with all life. The quality of this space is love, kindness, and mercy. But a "hardness" of the mind, which he describes as a layering of grief, prevents us from accessing our natural love and kindness.

In his work with the terminally ill, Levine has explored why people who are dying are often the most loving, the most generous people of all. Profound loss, he says, gives people permission to grieve, which in turn brings unconscious issues to the surface. As these are faced and resolved, love floods into our lives. In the Heart Lies the Deathless is Stephen Levine's inward look at how profound loss provides an opportunity for spiritual growth. Especially recommended for listeners working through grief. Our most popular Stephen Levine recording. Includes two guided meditations.

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Opening meditation "Soft belly and hard belly" meditation concepts How to release fear Anger and joy as attachment Psychological momentum The nature of pain and how to overcome it The hardness of the mind and the openness of the heart Buddhism and philosophies of the temperament Divine anger Heart as the essence of nature Why we go to therapists Layers of the unloved self Letting grief float The heart as essence The gift of healing, and more.

Stephen Levine is a poet and teacher of guided meditation healing techniques. He and his wife and spiritual partner, Ondrea, have counseled the dying and their loved ones for more than 30 years. Stephen Levine's bestselling books Healing into Life and Death; A Gradual Awakening; and A Year to Live are considered classics in the field of conscious living and dying. He is also the coauthor, with Ondrea, of the acclaimed To Love and Be Loved; and Who Dies?

Ondrea Levine has worked with dying and healing for more than 30 years. Her counseling of the terminally ill and work with those in coma has served many. For some years she was the mainstay of the 24 hour-a-day free counseling phone established as one of the many projects she and Stephen collaborated on as co-directors fo the Hanuman foundation Dying Project during 30 years of shared experiments of the heart.

The Levine's work is said to stretch from the most painful experiences of the human spectrum to the furthest point on the human horizon, from hell to heaven, from pain to ease, from our ongoing sense of loss to the legacy of our unending interconnectedness. Their experiential "Conscious Living / Conscious Dying" workshops are a meditative investigation of what it means to be fully alive, cultivating the qualitities which heal the mind and heart, exploring the nature of what it is that dies.

Presently Stephen and Ondrea live in the high mountains of the Southwest; attempting to practice what they preach in the silence of the deep woods, seeking the healing they took birth for. They no longer have a telephone or do individual counseling as their energies, for now, are mostly directed inward. To continue their work they have created Warm Rock Tapes as a separate business, which also distributes past productions, to share their guided meditations and talks from the few times a year they go out to teach, but they are not available directly. To order other programs by the Levines, write to:

Warm Rock Tapes PO Box 100 Chamisal, NM 87521

Or phone [phone]-HEAL

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Summary: A cut and paste assembly of well worn concepts.
Review: It is remarkable to me that anyone would ever buy more than one of this man's work product. His style of assembling well known concepts in quasi logical order, then making up a series of nonsense words (or sounds) to describe them appears to be an attempt to demonstrate creativity or alternately to somehow convince the reader that his thoughts are original. It is very bad. I intend this review as a public service, not as an affront to the author.