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In this week\'s episode, I am honoured to welcome Dale Borglum. Dale is the founder and Executive Director of A Living/Dying Project. He is a pioneer in the conscious dying movement and has worked directly with thousands of people with life-threatening illness and their families for over 30 years. In 1981, Dale founded the first residential facility for people who wished to die consciously in the United States, The Dying Center. He has taught and lectured extensively on spiritual support for those with life-threatening illnesses, caregiving as a spiritual practice, and healing at the edge of illness, death, loss, or crisis.

Dale has a BS from UC Berkeley and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. He is the co-author of Journey of Awakening: A Meditator\\u2019s Guidebook, Bantam Books and has taught meditation for the past 35 years. He has intensively immersed himself in the practices of devotion, meditation, and contemplative prayer for over forty years, studying with many of the greatest masters of the last century, including Neem Karoli Baba, Suzuki Roshi, Ananda Mayee Ma, Kalu Rinpoche, the 16th Karmapa, Dilgo Khyentse, Mahasi Sayadaw, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, Trungpa Rinpoche, Goenka, Dudjom Rinpoche and HH the Dalai Lama. Dale has taught with Ram Dass, Stephen Levine, Joan Halifax, Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein, Rev. Wayne Muller, and many others. His life\\u2019s work and passion have been and continue to be the healing of our individual and collective relationship with death and using our mortality to inspire spiritual awakening.

In this episode, Dale shares his journey of finding meditation and how he was able to calm his mind and get his ego to be less intrusive. Dale and I also discuss what conscious dying looks like, how people can come to terms with death, and why there is fear when one contemplates death. Dale also explains what the living/dying project is based upon. 

Please check out more Dale\'s work: www.livingdying.org