Life After Life, Another Glimpse at Grief, 'Til Death: Never--Do US Part, a true tale of initiation

By Marsha Jane Orr

Orr relates, in straightforward prose, the ways in which her grief propels her into past-life regression therapy and alters her perception of her own spiritual path....Readers might find this book useful as a companion piece to more traditional texts on coping with death, such as Kubler-Ross’s seminal On Grief and Grieving....Cathartic and emotionally relevant for readers who have recently suffered a loss.

—Kirkus Reviews

• Language: English
• Publisher: Marsha Jane Orr
• Release date: Apr 22, 2012
• ISBN: 9780987260802

Marsha Jane Orr

Formerly Extension Faculty at Cornell University, Industrial and Labor Relations School, and ad hoc mediator, fact finder, and arbitrator for the NYS Public Employment Relations Board and the American Arbitration Association, in 1992, Marsha Jane Orr began building client engagements as founder of Intrepreneur Coaching (IC). Since then, she has partnered with other consulting firms serving academic and corporate clients in HR, change, strategic reorganization, and lean design efforts. In 2009, with a M.ED. in hand, she made a mid-life career change to become a primary Learning Support teacher with Rudolf Steiner/Waldorf schools in Perth, Australia. “My students teach me about what it means to ‘show up with presence.’ Their gifts call me toward sustained excellence every day.” Over ten years, Marsha participated in the faith community of the Saint Germain Foundation, and resided on Temple grounds in Chicago and Massachusetts. Besides a Masters in Education from Lesley University, Marsha has two others, a Masters in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica and another from the ILR School, Cornell University. In her current coaching practice, Marsha focuses upon her “Harmonizing Difference” conflict resolution approach, as well as providing voice and host talent for radio and industrial/education film. In addition, she creates ESSENTIAL VIEW biographies that acknowledge organization leaders. She has authored two other Intrepreneur Coaching books: My Little Companion Book on Love (2004) and Teachers Survival Guide (2012).

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Life after Life

Another Glimpse at Grief ‘Til Death Do Us Part—Never—A True Tale of Initiation

Marsha Jane Orr, MS, MA, MEd

An Intrepreneur Coaching Book

Published by

Intrepreneur Coaching Press

Mackinac Island, MI, USA

Intrepreneur Coaching

Published by

Intrepreneur Coaching Press

P.O. Box 1219

Mackinac Island, MI 49757 USA

www.AWayOfLove.com

www.intrepreneurcoaching.com

Text copyright © Marsha Jane Orr 2012

Cover and back includes original mixed media painting by:

Vivian Bonder

Artist and Art Therapist par excellence

Perth, Australia 2009

For some past life contributions, Ross Miller, The Mystic Way, www.themysticway.com

Conceptual ideas derived from, among others: The University of Santa Monica Masters program in Spiritual Psychology, www.gousm.com; The Saint Germain Foundation, www.saintgermainfoundation.org; Creativity Consultants Worldwide, Horst and Jennifer Kornberger, www.sofia.net.au; Wm. Tweed Kennedy, PhD, I-Factor, Cambridge, MA; Works of Rudolf Steiner.

This is a book of fiction. The ideas about my own life story are my own. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without the written permission of the Publisher, except where permitted by law.

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ISBN: 978-0-9872608-0-2

National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry Author: Orr, Marsha J., 1951-

Title: Life after life, another glimpse at grief [electronic resource]: ‘til death do us part—never—a true tale of initiation / by Marsha Jane Orr

ISBN: 9780987260802 (ebook)

Subjects: Grief—Fiction.

Loss (Psychology)—Fiction.

Autobiographical fiction. Dewey Number: 813.92

Dedicated to … all those who have come before and all those yet to come, I am so grateful.

Special thanks to editors: Jon and Erica from Editing For Authors:

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Web designer: Mitchell Dahood

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eBook design: Rob Reid

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Marsha Jane Orr

Perth, Australia

May, 2012

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Conclusion

Epilogue

Author Praise

Introduction

AWayOfLove

This book is not an instruction of what AWayOfLove is—it’s not a how-to or a self-help per se. It is this other thing—this personal memoir of grief and what I learned about life as a result of my grief. What follows is a hybrid of sorts because I uncovered, developed, and used the tools of AWayOfLove in healing my grief. So many of the terms in bold that follow (like Mini-Me’s—that are small aspects of self) are never fully explained in the pages that follow. Sometimes, in these pages, the reader will encounter terms—but without offering you specific insights. To learn those, and to share your own, we invite you to participate with us at AWayOfLove.com. The real grist of what I have to share here is my own personal memoir of grief that I believe will resonate deeply with yours and help us both heal.

I am a coach whose WayOfLove involves the framework I have outlined below, which I forged from my own personal experience over twenty years out of the realization I was unprepared for my husband’s death and what subsequently followed. This book is a recounting of how I used some of the tools of AWayOfLove, and some of my own intuitive experiences, to make my peace with the events that happened. It is my hope this story will inspire you to look into AWayOfLove by visiting our website and sharing your own WayOfLove that, like me, you too have forged out of your own personal journey.

It seems I had to learn the hard way, twenty years crying in the wilderness. But why should you? Can’t I share my tale and you take from it what you may find helpful, possibly cutting years off your own search? I hope so.

AWayOfLove is just that, one way among many ways that as humans we know how to express, how to share, and how to accept love. After all my trials, failures, and occasional triumphs, I share with you AWayOfLove that I have learned, nearly an oxymoron of what I have seemingly had to fight through to come to understand this very basic human way of being. And still I learn every day, course correct, and choose again, AWayOfLove. Again, and again, and again, I choose it. I invite you to choose it, too—your way of love, as you define it. It seems the whole world has forgotten AWayOfLove. How unkind we seem.

Just recently I witnessed a man on the highway attempt to keep a motorcycle rider from passing his van. As the cyclist attempted to go around his right side, the van moved right; the cyclist moved left, the van moved left. At the stoplight, the cyclist motioned to the van driver to roll down his window. Whereupon the cyclist got off his bike, put his bike standard down, walked over to the man driving the van, and socked him square in the face three times. Then he got back on his bike and raced on down the road. I am so sorry for all that we draw to ourselves through our own actions and hatred. May I suggest another way is available that represents true mastery, strength, wisdom, and power?

AWayOfLove offers a possibility to live the life you know you deserve but that seems to elude you. Despite every circumstance to the contrary, you are truly all that you know you are inside that practical daily life often seems to belie. AWayOfLove helps you uncover and access the truth about who you are and offers ways to draw more of yourself out and into the world. It also offers tools for dealing with conflict that fairly resolve matters for the last time, with justice, in ways that release karmic ties that no longer serve you.

There is nothing new in AWayOfLove as I suspect civilization itself has relied upon some aspect of love just to survive over the ages. Indeed, principles underlining AWayOfLove, as any one of us might define them, when operating in the world, are so powerful that whole governments have been known to topple, offering paths toward social reform and transformational political, community, and family life. I hold the picture that together employing the tools of AWayOfLove, however we define them for ourselves, we can shift the whole world toward loving kindness with one another, a basic human attribute of community with each other. It’s so simple as to be laughable, but oh so worthy a