Rave Cosmology 3: Dying, Death and Bardo

Dying, Death and Bardo is Ra Uru Hu's most detailed teaching on how a body leaves life and what happens to the personality afterward. It runs 13 hours across 11 lessons, in audio with an ebook. Ra treats death as a mechanical process with a sequence, a timer and an order, and he is open that the Bardo itself cannot be proven.

The first half follows the dying sequence. Every month the Moon moves through five gates in a fixed order, 10, 3, 2, 29 and 14, and Ra teaches that each month carries a coordinate for our death. He takes each stage in turn: behavior at Gate 10, the pulse at Gate 3, the magnetic monopole in Gate 2 aligning the body to its final place, Gate 29 as the decision gate, and Gate 14 as the energy to surrender. Serotonin runs through the whole sequence as the body's timer. Ra also looks at how the not-self meets this process, and at approaching death with the same authority a person experimented with in life.

The second half moves to death itself and to the Bardo. Ra describes the relationship between the design crystal and the monopole at death, and he shows how the Bardo sequence is seen through transiting Earth. He gives the keynotes of that sequence and explains why its timing differs from one death to the next. He closes with a modern book of the dead, the stopping of the wheel, and the mechanics of a mystical death. Nothing in it tells anyone when they will die. It describes a process.

The free Bardo page and the case studies on this site draw on this teaching. When I teach it, we follow the Moon through the dying gates each month and notice how the sequence touches each of us personally, which turns an abstract teaching into something observed.