~ Sister Joan and Mom at J + G's wedding in 1997 (ish) ~

A wise and perceptive friend wrote "You are still in a state of deep grieving" the other day, and I thought "Am I?"

Of course I am.

*Flowers and Ritual

Flowers used in the death ritual enable the Luminosity Angel of the one who has died and the Resurrection Angels to work with those who grieve for the dying. To omit flowers for the dead produces an austere and sterile ritual.

During the ritual for the dead, the fragrance and the life emanation from flowers enable the angels working with the dead to shower a blessing of faith, and also enable the angels of the dead to come closer to those grieving—thereby comforting them.

Men who ignore the floral kingdom—in life or death—fail to unite themselves with the harmony and the blessings given of God.

Flowers have been used by the knowing since time immemorial, because they have intuited that flowers are close to the soul within the life of all living things.

To place flowers upon the grave of a person does not earth-bind the one dead. Such tokens of love are received in heaven as a communication, and as a confirmation of the belief in a spiritual life after death.

*from Watch Your Dreams, by Ann Ree Colton. This book is pretty far out there; "esoteric" is the word that comes to mind. I lack the ambition to articulate a considered review.