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Many Voices, one journey. Sounds true.com. You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today I speak with Joan Halifax. Joan Halifax is an anthropologist, Buddhist

teacher, and writer. She founded the Ohai Foundation, an educational center in

1979 and also UPAya a Buddhist study center in

Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1990. In 1994 she created the project on being with dying as a way to train health care

professionals in the contemplative care of the dying. Her books include the

human encounter with death which Her books include The Human Encounter with Death, which she wrote with Stanislav Groff,

shamanic voices, and the fruitful darkness reconnecting with the body of the earth.

She's also written a book on Being With Dying, and With Sounds True has released a six-session

audio series Being with Dying,

Contemplative Practices and Teachings.

In this episode of Insights at The Edge,

I spoke with Joan while she was at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. for a period of time

working on a new model of compassion, a model which she shares with us in this discussion.

We also talked about contemplative practices one can do at the bedside of a dying person

and the greatest gift that we can give another person, the gift of no fear.

Here's my conversation with Joan Halifax. Joan, I know that you've spent over 40 years working directly with dying people at the bedside and in many different capacities.

And to begin with, I'm curious to hear a little bit from your personal direct experience.

You know, often I've heard it said that when people are dying that's when they review

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