The Peacock is also associated with the Phoenix and resurrection. The Phoenix, a symbol of fire and divinity, which rises and is reborn anew from the flames and ashes of its funeral pyre. The Peacock's loud and raucous call reminds us to laugh at life.  For century's shamans, priestesses, spiritualists and practitioners of the occult have used Peacock animal medicine to transfer the powerful magical healing energy of this animal to themselves and to others in need of this commanding animal magic. The feathers were and are used in healing ceremonies and magical rituals to clear and cleanse. The round "eyes" of the feathers are said to give the Peacock vision into the past present and future, and they are seen as the sacred all seeing eyes of the magical world.

Links

Home and family directed funerals, in Southern CA: The resources page has good links for more information and other alternative funeral type services in the US

http://www.thresholds.us/

 -Includes links to article, news report and movie

http://www.finalpassages.org/

On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. Instead of the friendly union, of life and death so apparent in Nature, we are taught that death is an accident, a deplorable punishment for the oldest sin, the archenemy of life.

                But let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life, and that the grave has no victory, for it never fights. All is divine harmony.

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Interesting Facts

Every day across North America alone, 6000 plus acres of open space are leveled in an ever widening and endless swath of highways and airports, condos, malls, and factories. While the costs of purchasing, restoring, monitoring, and preserving land keeps steadily climbing, millions of acres of natural beauty are lost. Glendale Memorial Nature Preserve, however, is an enclave of escape from that trend. 

TRADITIONAL - for thousands of years:

• DIY: Direct burial by you, the family.
• Simple shroud, blanket, or locally-made caskets OK.
• Ecologically sound and inexpensive interment.
• Room for everyone, including your pets.

NON-TRADITIONAL - the last 50 years:

• Burial by a for-profit corporation.
• Your loved one is injected with expensive, toxic chemicals
• Expensive caskets and useless concrete vaults usually required.
• Multiple, side-by-side plots but no room for your pets.

Did you Know?

-Your body or that of your loved one can lie in honor at home

-Embalming is not required by law

-Refrigeration is not necessary

-Legal documents can be prepared by family or agent

-Family can transport the body to crematory or cemetery.

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Each year, 22,500 cemeteries across the United States bury approximately: ~  embalming fluid: 827,060 gallons, which includes formaldehyde ~  caskets: 90,272 tons of steel ~  caskets: 2,700 tons of copper and bronze ~  caskets: 30-plus million board feet of hardwoods ~  vaults: 1,636,000 tons of reinforced concrete ~  vaults: 14,000 tons of steel (Compiled from statistics by Casket and Funeral Association of America, Cremation Association of North America, Doric Inc., The Rainforest Action  Network, and Mary Woodsen, Pre-Posthumous Society)

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