Die Without Fear: Dale Borglum and Dawson Church in Conversation

RamDev Dale Borglum is the author of How to Live So You Can Die Without Fear and the executive director of The Living/Dying Project. A pioneering figure in the conscious dying movement, he has spent decades helping individuals face death — and life — with greater awareness and has collaborated with leaders in the field including Ram Dass, Stephen Levine, and Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. Drawing on his background as a mathematician, meditation teacher, lover of God, and devoted practitioner of both Eastern and Western healing traditions, Borglum offers a uniquely practical and accessible map to the healing path.

Here he and Dawson discuss:

Why it’s hard to feel safe where the world isn’t supportive

When we focus on what we’re afraid of and not what fear feels like in the body

Exercise 1: What do I fear, and where to I feel it in my body

Meditation

The Tantric Three-Step

Step 1: Can I feel it in my heart

Step 2: Is compassion keeping your heart open when there’s suffering

Step 3: It’s all part of life; pleasant and unpleasant

The fundamental spiritual practice: to identify with who and what we really are

Exercise: Feel warm, connected, compassionate, spacious heart?