The Will

The topic I’m about to discuss is almost taboo for many. It is discussed as something that needs to be financed, organized, and forgotten about as soon as possible. But something in me insistently wants to bring up and discuss this difficult subject. The discussion is about death, burial, and about all that’s involved with this, including cemeteries, monuments, and so on.

I have many relatives, because my parents are both from large families. And I know many people.

When I was seven years old, my mother suddenly left this life. My grandmother, crying, explained to me why my mother was in the coffin, and that I needed to say goodbye to her forever… Since then I’ve been to many funerals, and observed the traditions many times. Eventually, questions occurred to me about the reason for everything connected with them - the singing, burial, remembrance with alcohol, and with strangers; and also the money spent on a memorial grave marker that’s just as good as the one the neighbor got for her parents, and then the artificial flowers and wreaths, and the visiting of the grave during religious holidays. There is only one reason for all of this - tradition. Ritual. How it’s supposed to be done.

At some point I accepted death as a part of life. Since that moment, I value life more than I did before. I’ve learned to live each day with joy, while remembering that we are all mortal. But observing all that happens in connection with death, I’ve come to the conclusion that the rituals and rites connected with it are absurd, or even harmful.

Twelve years ago, when I was 46, and when my son, who was a student at the time, was home on break, I asked him to listen to my will. And in the presence of my husband, I said the following: “Because I know that I am mortal, and do not know when that moment will come for me, I want to express in advance that which is very important to me. When my Spirit leaves my body, I ask and insist ahead of time, that my body not be cut open, that it be cremated, and that no songs are sung, and no funeral held. I ask that my son put the ashes from the urn in to a hole in the earth, and plant a birch tree in a place that he chooses. Do not place any gravestone or cross. It will be enough for me if my son remembers me, and maybe every once in a while comes to visit the birch tree, but that is not necessary.”

My son calmly accepted my request. I added that I plan to live for a long time, but this is so important for me that I want to express it in advance. My husband’s reaction was somewhat different, but over the past twelve years I’ve repeated my request a couple more times, and he has also accepted my decision.

Now I will explain my choices logically, and in order:

1. Huge areas of our planet are covered with cemeteries, and continue to grow every year. In villages and small towns, cemeteries become huge energetic wounds on the planet.

2. The pollution of ground water near cemeteries is terrible, and in our city the largest cemetery is near the river!

3. The large number of artificial flowers and wreaths are very wasteful.

4. Memorials with alcohol and with strangers - how is this necessary to the Spirit, when it needs to transition to the subtle planes?

5. Cremation liberates the Spirit from the body immediately, and the Spirit does not lose a whole year of stored potential, as is the case with burial in the ground. You can learn more about this in Nicolai Levashov’s book The Final Appeal to Mankind. I found out about this later. Twelve years ago, I decided on cremation because clean ash is useful for the Earth, and I had read that this was the method used by the ancient Ruses, and that they planted trees in the place where they poured out the ashes, or simply poured them out on the ground.

6. Grave markers and crosses - who needs them? The departed soul does not. Nor do the remains of the body. They are only needed by the people who organize all these rites and rituals. And they make a quite decent living exploiting the emotions of family members. I’ve often seen how people will save their money - even on food - just so they can purchase a gravestone for a dead relative.

7. For a person who is weakened and exhausted with grief after the loss of a loved one, trips to a cemetery run the risk of draining life force and increasing chances for illness.

And now my feelings:

1. After my death, I do not want to participate in the pollution of the Earth, which supported and fed me.

2. After my death, I do not want to be a cause of additional problems for my son or grandchildren!

After the New Knowledge appeared in my life, I became even more convinced of my decision. I even dared to speak to close friends on this topic, if the situation was appropriate, and always in private. They have had different reactions, but I never insist, only present the subject as food for future thought.

In November it will be one year since the death of one of the friends with whom I had such a conversation, about four years ago. His widow shared his wishes with me - to be cremated and have the urn buried with his parents, without an additional grave marker. Did our conversation leave an impression on this extraordinary man who was known by almost everyone in town, or did he arrive at this decision on his own? It doesn’t matter. It flew in the face of the traditional ceremony, especially considering that our town doesn’t even have a crematorium. His widow executed his wishes. And our small group of 12 who study the New Knowledge got together, and when his body was being cremated in another city (where there is a crematorium), we had our own ceremony for the departing Spirit. We did as we felt was right: over the course of one and a half hours, we sat in a circle, and remembered this wonderful person as he was before his illness (as he requested before his death), remembered when we learned something from him, thanked him for help he gave, joyfully remembered trips taken together to the mountains and to Crimea. Yes, there was the pain of loss, but gratitude for knowing him, and the wish for his Spirit to have a good journey were stronger.

This past summer, an acquaintance mentioned in passing that her relative became a widow, and the whole family was in shock that the deceased had requested to be cremated and to have his ashes spread on the river Psel, in his favorite place. Without a funeral or grave marker. I didn’t know this person, but it seems that the time has come for new ceremonies that will express gratitude for life; while today’s ceremonies are a worship of death, and of putting on appearances.

That is why I decided to bring up this subject in a wider circle. I hope that those who study the New Knowledge understand how important it is to apply them in life today. And how important, even though it is difficult, to change customs and rituals today as well.

Let’s live long and active lives. And leave them lightly, without creating problems for our children and grandchildren; and without unnecessarily spending the resources of the Earth!

P.S. Maybe, in the future, the place of remembrance of departed Souls will look like this:

Respectfully,

Galina Moskalenko

10.04.2020

It’s Time to Change our Customs