“Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying” by Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush is a wise guide for end-of-life living, loving and grieving. The authors, well-known spiritual gurus and friends, share in the most personal fashion about how best to support the dying, how to leave a spiritual legacy, and how to walk this final path together. This poignant and illuminating book explores how to live and how to die consciously, treating this final stage as perhaps one’s most important spiritual work. Highly recommended!

Pub Date 04 Sep 2018

Thanks to Sounds True Publishing and NetGalley for the review copy. Opinions are fully mine.

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This is a powerful book full of wisdom and love. I have not read any other books by these authors but I certainly will seek them out next. I love the fact that the book was written as a conversation between the two authors as they sought to ponder the topic of death and why we are so afraid to talk about it, think about it and except it. It felt like I was right there with them, experiencing their time together and their conversation, which made the book easy to read even though the topics are difficult to digest.

I especially appreciated the parts about dealing with fear of death, and the suggestion to go back in our memories to Explore our first memories that have to do with people around us dying. I found this a very helpful exercise in relation to my own fears of death, and the whole book very gently walked me through letting go of these fears. The layout is gorgeous, and the illustrations are delicate, elegant, and just right for the tone of the book.

Thank you to NetGalley, the authors and the publisher for an advanced reading copy of this book in exchange for my honest opinion.

I had hoped for a better book, but found this one disappointing. It just did work for me. had hoped for a bit more on accepting death, maybe, or understanding it. Hmmmm, I guess we all have to figure it out ourselves. Just to New Age-y for my tastes. But I am sure it will have a ppeal as it is very personable and an easy read. Just not for me.

So wonderful to receive more knowledge and grace from Ram Dass and Mirabeau Bush! The focus of this book is on the subject of death, and living with the fact of impending death as one lives with the fact of life each day. Engaging writing, cannot recommend highly enough.

This book didn't resonate with me as much as some of my favorite Ram Dass books (Polishing the Mirror and Be Here Now). That being said, it is one of his better books and a book most people familiar with him will be sure to love. My main complains about this book are that it repeats some stories from earlier media and is a bit less dense than it could be. I think most people will not mind these problems as the love and wisdom that come through this dialog is likely to overshadow these flaws.