Marcia Beachy, MS, LPC, CCHT

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Going Out in Style takes you beyond belief systems and cultural programming to address conscious living and dying. Stories from consciousness research, past-life regression therapy, out-of-body and near-death experiences provide valuable new guidelines for our departure.

In addition, you travel to the afterlife with Marcia’s past-life regression clients for help in updating your understanding, and gathering tools for the journey.

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Part I “What’s Your Style?” offers practical choices on choosing your style of both living and dying.

Would you like to discover what feels right for you and where you might be headed on your amazing soul journey? You can pick from very basic styles of living and dying or travel into high styles of functioning. It’s your choice!

Part II “Why Bother?” invites you to look at the unknown and ask any and all questions.

Questions are answered, humor is encouraged, fears are named and stories are offered. You are given thorough guidance for successful departure, and how to move yourself through difficulties and confusion. For example, in Chapter 6, “Permission Granted,” there is a thought-provoking, fill-in the-blank exercise to see where you are in your departure know-how.

Part III presents “Tools for the Journey” that match your style.

We all use tools for making our lives easier and more pleasant. Now is also the time to gather the tools for making our dying experiences more conscious and comfortable. If you want to keep it simple, a great summary is outlined in Chapter 11, “First-Aid Departure Kit.”

Part IV “Journey Into Love” shares stories that uplift and help heal the wounds around death.

We each play a valuable part in creating a larger understanding of planetary comings and goings. As we journey more deeply into love, there is hope, there is power. As we take simple steps into more conscious living and dying, there is/will be a shift into harmony for the whole planet.

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We already know. We comment on the “school of hard knocks”. We sing, “when will we ever learn.…”. We muse as a friend did recently, about her “higher education in love.” We discover, create, are tested, fail and succeed.

Sounds like school and, of course, it is. Life is a demanding teacher. Earth is a tough classroom. And to what end? Could it be that we are spiritual travelers arriving from distant parts of the Cosmos to attend one of the most challenging curriculums in three-dimensional creation? Does this tough classroom serve to mature us and hone our spirits? Key alchemical processes are occurring now. Various immensely valuable teachings are enveloping us like waves, some of which we ride with grace. Others propel us gasping and sputtering to the depths. Yet at some core level, we know all of life is about learning.

Like the wave on the ever varying sea, change is key to Earth School’s curriculum. Big change shakes and rattles our collective cage. That’s happening now. Immense waves of change are washing through every strata of life. This upheaval cracks us open. We may try to keep the shell of familiarity around us but fractures still show through. Sometimes our reality shatters. We feel adrift and without purpose. We may try to act “normal” but inside we feel like war victims or earthquake survivors. And we are. The human race is under tremendous pressure.

You need no alerting to this. Your relationships are undergoing major changes. You finances feel unstable. You see ineptitude gripping our financial leaders. The challenges of medical care and the mercurial nature of the world arena are difficult to ignore. You may be watching your children cope with unprecedented assaults on their innocence. We long to create stability within this moving wave of change. Stability is a natural desire. Having stability within these changes requires great flexibility and opening the floodgates of clarity and creativity. It requires letting go of much of what we think we must have. It requires we dance with our fears.

Change rides on the waves of opposites. This classroom exists within the embrace of opposing forces. Instead of the oneness and harmony of our spiritual origins, we have the experience of light and dark, of happiness and sadness, of inclusion and rejection. We experience calm and security in the morning and by evening are filled with anxiety. The sun shines and then the clouds oppress us. A friend becomes an “enemy” and we are thrown into anger. The friend apologizes and we love again. Back and forth we go until, with experience, we develop a “middle path”. We discover more acceptance of our anger and a deepening of our love, thereby creating some reconciliation of duality.

In addition to the hard learning tools of change and duality, we have the added challenge of “the veil of forgetfulness.” An enormous dilemma in this spiritual training school, this divine classroom, if you will, is that most of the students don’t know they are enrolled! In fact some traditional religions have taught the negation of Earth and the human body, that they are evil or at the very least, not worthy of honor and certainly not divine. How silly and sad this seems. What a waste we say! But wait. There may be a way in which our unknowing, whatever its origin, serves a greater purpose. Perhaps the enticement of discovery and coming to KNOW is a part of the lesson plan, like the lure of a treasure hunt or the solving of a puzzle. Perhaps we are meant to unravel the mystery of who we are and in the process gain soul wisdom, a gift to ourselves and to our Creator. To remember our true nature and feel it in our bodies and daily life is our quest.

Breaking through this veil is a necessary task in Earth School homework. Suffering is a great way to break through, though not often sought! When we suffer, we question, we probe, we protest, we cry. We go deeper than our present identity. We may touch the soul. In addition to suffering, other veil-breakers are deep meditation and prayer, deep compassion, various altered states and intense relationships. In this work, an altered state of consciousness is our particular avenue through the veil. Uncovering previous existences of the soul and wisdom from the “heavenly realms,” via hypnosis, is the passage we will explore together. Here we will discover how the learning tools of change and duality work as aids for soul growth over time. We will learn to perceive through the eyes of the soul, developing a sense of soul psychology. We will explore the divine classroom curriculum at the present time and the divine human archetype that is returning.

The term for the heavenly realms we use is “interlife.” Interlife refers to the dimensions and experiences encountered after the death of the body (often called the afterlife). From the interlife we will explore what lies beyond death including:

-   Spiritual guides and support staff available to assist us

-   Rehabilitation and retreat centers for recovery after difficult lives

-   Interference or heaviness that can waylay the heaven-bound soul

-   The healing of pain that the soul perspective brings, and

-   The dawning realization that maturation of soul is the effect gained from all of Earth School experience.

The past life stories in the three case studies that follow, are taken from my private practice and represent the story of humanity’s journey and our arrival at this present juncture, this choice point. These stories intertwine with all of our individual stories into a larger human chronicle that weaves into the epic of universal creation. As this grand chronicle unfolds, we are privileged to catch glimpses. Hints of the greater story most often come through from the interlife.

Critical soul choices are being made in the present chapter of our human story. Soul choices might involve following a prompting to move to a new location, or placing ourselves in situations where we experience powerful lessons, or growing the courage to speak our truth. If, for example, we can recommit to expressing love in the face of fear, our soul is being heard. Listening to the soul is a primary challenge as the proponents of fear become noisier.

Our death can also be a pivotal choice. My mother died in July of 2001. After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, my father remarked, “Well, your mother decided to go at a good time. This would have been too hard for her.”  Besides mirroring his own overwhelming sadness, he acknowledged the soul choice my mother made.

My desire is that the material in this book be of help in these soul decisions. And, if by chance, you are in the process of leaving this divine classroom, may you find comfort and guidance for your departure. If you are choosing to stay, flourish, and learn all you can, may you find deepening joy, courage and commitment. If you feel like you are camping out on the planet just watching the human drama unfold, may your curiosity guide you to the passages of interest.

The term “God” is seldom used in this material because it has become a conflicted term for many, implying anything form the greatest love to the greatest judgement and condemnation. It connotes a singular masculine deity, devoid of the divine feminine. This concept gathers no support from consciousness studies, regression work, spiritual research or personal experience. Therefore, I generally utilize more neutral terms, the Divine, Spirit, Source, etc.

This material was inspired by courageous past life regression clients who chose to understand themselves from the perspective of their souls. They discovered lives of service and growth as well as difficult lives that have haunted them for centuries. The healing power of soul understanding and bringing what has been hidden to light, released many ties to the distant past. Their generosity in releasing their stories, with the hope that others might benefit, is most commendable. I am deeply grateful to each one and honored that I have had the chance to work and learn with them.

As you read, may your heart drink in what nourishes you. May you remember what you already know. May your soul open more fully to your own unique expression of divinity so needed in this time of great change.

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Conscious dying arrived on my doorstep in the mid- 1990s. During a past life regression session from around 2000 BC, a client reported having difficulty after she died. Her difficulty showed up as confusion, feeling lost, and being among other souls who had died and were suffering in some fashion. She reported that it was hard to find her way through the “murky place” but with effort, she joyfully found her way into the Light.

This was the beginning of my exploration into the concept of conscious dying.  As we are growing the field of consciousness, we are not surprised that conscious dying is intimately connected to conscious living. The more we understand ourselves, deepen compassion and chart a course of being alive and aware, the greater is our clarity through the dying process and the journey after leaving the physical Earth. We are better prepared as to what to do and where to go after we depart this life.

That “murky place” is alive and well in our time, filled with souls who have been overwhelmed with difficulties, trauma and addictions during life. They can still find themselves in the throes of those mindsets after death. Education is a key for us here. To that end I have continued to explore what happens after we die and the various teachings from spiritual traditions around the world, as well as the many reported near-death experiences.

Some teachers say that nine out of ten people who die have a good death. Those are pretty good odds but obviously there is a great need for improvement. Not only do we want good deaths, we want conscious deaths. We want to have higher and higher levels of consciousness so that we can move into higher frequencies of experience in the afterlife worlds. We have the option then of moving off the karma wheel entirely and being at choice as to whether or not we return to Earth.

To further my own education on conscious living and dying, and with the hope that it serve as assistance for others, I have been putting together this material in my upcoming book, Going Out In Style: A Guide to Planetary Departure.

This work in psychotherapy and hypnotherapy is for support of your self-healing and soul connection.

What enlivens our work together is the sense of a treasure hunt within the dilemmas of life. We are remarkable individuals. Within the troubles of the moment are often clues to the answers we are seeking. These troubles may show up as relationship difficulties, grief, anxiety, depression, co-dependency, health conditions or stress. I believe that the treasure hidden within our pain longs to be uncovered.

I’m here to support you in finding your own treasure. I’m here to help you sleuth out answers and to feel better about yourself and your life. The inner world holds all our neurosis as well as all our joy and creativity. Sometimes it’s simple to get to the joy. Sometimes it’s more hard won. Nonetheless, the joy calls us through our longing. I am committed to being an astute guide for you in finding your own authentic self.

Marcia Beachy, MS, LPC, CCHT, is a licensed psychotherapist, specializing in holistic, heart-centered therapies. Since 1984 she has committed herself to deepening consciousness and helping clients uncover their true nature. She works with adult clients both in individual and couple counseling and resides in Pueblo, Colorado.

Marcia’s experience and training:

• 25 years in clinical and private practice
• Master of Science in Counseling from Northern Illinois University, 1984
• Licensed Professional Counselor, State of Colorado
• Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist with Wellness Institute, Issaquah, WA
• Training in Guided Imagery, Yoga, Bodywork and Energy Work
• Specialist in Past Life Regression
• Specialist in Conscious Living and Dying
• Community College Instructor (Psychology, Self-Hypnosis, Stress management, Meditation, etc.)
• Author: This Divine Classroom: Earth School and the Psychology of the Soul
• Author: Going Out in Style: A Guide to Planetary Departure
• Member of IARRT (International Association for Research and Regression Therapies)
• Member Heart-Centered Therapies Association
• Past President of the Board, Center for Grief and Loss, Pueblo, Colorado
• Past President of the Board of The Healing Alliance, Maui, Hawaii
• Past Program Director, Sunburst Holistic Life Center, DeKalb, Illinois