Dickens’ Christmas Carol: Preparing for a Good Death

In Dickens’ classic Christmas tale of redemption, Scrooge finally is shown his Shadow, the repressed aspects of his personality. He is shown his lonely, abused, abandoned, and neglected inner child, his longing for the love of family and friends, and his choice to love finance more than his fiance. The Spirit of Christmas past, present, and future intervenes (as Dream visions) showing him where his life choices are taking him. Scrooge is terrified with the dream mirroring of his cold, lonely death. Then he awakens to the beauty of the present moment. The inner visions have affected him profoundly and he changes. He takes action to change not only his own life, but the lives of all those around him, his employees as well as only nephew’s family. We, like Scrooge, have the opportunity to change our life direction.

We are told that the love of money is the root of evil (not money per se, but the love of it). Dickens illustrated that well. He also showed us how dreams can lead us on the path of redemption and ultimately to the transformation of our lives. Wake up and pay attention to what Great Spirit is telling you. Today may be the last opportunity you have. How do you want to live? Who do you want to love? How can you show it? Act now. Say what you need to say and move on. That is what it means to have Death as an advisor. Live today as though it were your last.

The Self teaches us many things, which we can acknowledge.  If we listen to our dream messages, and integrate the archetypes into ourselves, to the extent possible, we leave this life as whole persons.  And we return to Source with the information gained on the Soul’s Journey.