Join us at Book Passage for an author event celebrating RamDev Dale Borglum’s profound and compassionate new book, How to Live So You Can Die Without Fear.
In a culture that often avoids talking about death, this bookoffers a courageous and compassionate alternative: learn to live life so fully that death no longer needs to be feared.
RamDev Dale will be joined in conversation by Taj Inayat, the spiritual director of the Hurqalya Center.
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In a culture that often avoids talking about death, How to Live So You Can Die Without Fearoffers a courageous and compassionate alternative: learn to live life so fully that death no longer needs to be feared.
Living/Dying Project executive director RamDev Dale Borglum, the book blends personal memoir with a practical roadmap for spiritual transformation. Drawing on more than four decades of work with the dying, Borglum offers a uniquely practical and accessible map to the healing path, helping readers understand and overcome their fear of death — and, in doing so, their fear of life.
“For most people, “death and dying” is a scary topic, the one almost all of us are reluctant to address in any way,” writes Borglum. “But the truth is, we will all die, so we might as well get on with learning how to live life to the fullest rather than living in fear of the inevitable.”
How to Live So You Can Die Without Fear recounts Borglum’s transformative journey — from the upheavals of the 1960s counterculture and profound psychedelic experiences to his spiritual awakening in India. In the years since, he has dedicated his life to serving those facing death and became a key figure in the conscious dying movement alongside pioneers such as Ram Dass, Stephen Levine, and Elisabeth Kübler-Ross.
At the heart of the book is what Borglum calls “the healing path,” a paradigm that emphasizes the deep interconnection between conscious living and conscious dying. This approach engages three essential channels of healing — body, mind, and spirit — as it guides readers toward a deeper sense of wholeness and peace.
“No one has done more profound work with people who are facing their death, and their families, than Dale Borglum. He is a guide, a therapist, a best friend, a birth coach. This book is brilliant and welcoming, with the potential to change the life of anyone who reads it.”
— Anne Lamott
“This book reflects many decades of brave and sensitive work with those who are dying. This will be a companion to those who care for the dying and also those who are meeting death imminently.”
— Roshi Joan Halifax
“A profound gift of freedom comes when someone offers a presence that is not afraid of death and not afraid of life. Dale Borglum has done this in his living, loving, dying work for decades. Now with the same spirit, he offers his story, his wisdom, and his blessings for all to share.”
— Jack Kornfield
“How to Live So You Can Die Without Fear is an antidote to our culture’s stigma around death and dying. It is an unapologetic call to embrace the mystery of death as a catalyst for awakening, rather than a problem to be solved. It offers a reliable guide for caregivers, a tender hand to grievers, a life-giving refuge for the dying, and an inspiration for all seekers of truth.”
— from the foreword by Mirabai Starr
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. Visit him online at http://www.livingdying.com.
Taj Inayat is the spiritual director of the Hurqalya Center and an initiate since 1967 in the Sufi Order International, now the Inayatiyya Order, a mystical and ecumenical fellowship rooted in the visionary legacy of Hazrat Inayat Khan. She later served as Vice President of the Sufi Order International and co-created programs such as Sufi Retreats and New Rain to continue the lineage’s teachings. A minister in the Universal Worship Church with an MA in Counseling Psychology, Taj’s work draws on decades of experience in Sufism, the Diamond Approach, and Tibetan Buddhism to support spiritual awakening and self-knowing. She is currently writing a book about dying before death.
