Jeremy Mazák Speaks About The Fear Of Dying

The intimate moments I share with a client who is struggling with the fact that their life on this earth is coming to a close can be very emotional to say the least. Many times the fear is so great that it can prevent someone from enjoying the last days they have. Its these individuals whom I go to work for everyday, for they provide me with purpose and teach me about the strength of the human spirit.

I was asked to place an audio recording on my blog where I could be heard speaking about the fear of death. Frequently, people will ask me where they can go to hear me speak, as I’ve been told many times that people find my voice to be calming  and therapeutic. Since a blog is mostly about reading and some of you have never heard me in-person, this will give you a chance to connect with me in a more personal way.

May this help those in need of recovering from their fears of uncertainty and provide them with the strength for a new day and a new outlook.

~ Jeremy Mazák

My clients and those close to me know that my advise is always connected to the big questions about life, death and the Other Side. I am not one of those psychics who dishes out advise about what rock you should be wearing around your neck or whether the sea-salt your putting in your laundry has been effectively rinsing out the negativity in your life. I am probably one of the most down to earth, non-psychic – psychics you’ll ever meet. I have never bought into the smoke and mirrors effect of the psychic world. I try to be as non-mystical, non-indigo and non whatever else is out there being used to describe psychics. I hate to see all these psychics in the world scrambling to identify with the most “Powerful” words out there. The bottom line is, if you believe in something then it has power and if you don’t, then it doesn’t. Period.

Most of my clients are those who have usually before me, never had a psychic reading. I enjoy people who are skeptical because I believe skepticism can be healthy. I don’t in any way, cater to those individuals I refer to as psychic junkies. I stop that garbage before it ever starts. I only allow my clients to see me one time every twelve months. Yep, that’s right, only one time a year! That’s all anyone ever needs. I should not be used to find out if the married man your seeing is going to be leaving his wife to finally start a life with you. Or, if taking a bath with an egg floating in the water will remove the curse that someone placed on you. Really people?? Really??

First of all, there is absolutely NO such a thing as a curse. The only person who can put a curse on you is YOU! Secondly, if the man your seeing after 11 years still hasn’t left his wife… IT AIN’T GONNA HAPPEN!  Life is about creating, its about design and blood, sweat and tears also. You must MAKE your life happen. You can’t just wait on everything (and everyone), otherwise you’ll be waiting until you die.

I remember the first time I was apart of a psychic fair, all the “psychics” had little tables set up around the room and there they spoke with a client while turning over tarot cards or casting ruins. The first thought running through my mind was “What the hell is going on here?” How was I supposed to provide an intimate quiet moment of healing with any kind of privacy? To say the least, I outgrew that experience very quickly. I know there are some honest psychics trying to make a living at these psychic fairs but for the most part it is a way to bring everyone’s wallet to the same place. Not my idea of a spiritually healing environment. Many psychics I’ve known have more mental illness than you could find at the local psychiatric hospital. As a client, you MUST be careful. The big majority of psychics I’ve found are just clinging to an opportunity to feel self-worth. They want to help someone soooo bad that they cant stand it. Trust your gut and go by referral only and please don’t trust your friends referral who has been to 37 psychics this month!

Dependency on a psychic reading is also a very bad thing. Having a consultation with a reputable psychic should open the doors to new realizations and provide you with answers to the questions that help make you a better person. Psychics who repeatedly see the same client several times a week, a month or even a year are doing nothing but taking advantage of the situation and in no way are they helping the client to stand on their own. I’ve had psychics say to me that they can’t fully help a client after just one reading. First of all, a psychic should not be taking the place of a qualified therapist. If your client needs daily or weekly consultations just to function in the world, then they need those consultations to be with a mental health professional and not a psychic. Yes, it is possible as a psychic to help someone in just one visit, I do it all the time. Only in regards to those clients I work with that are nearing the end of their lives, do I see more often. I never limit the number of times I will consult with someone who is dying, but I will not keep others from living their lives by keeping them dependent on my services.

So many of the people I come across are completely consumed with whether the stars are in the right place for them to begin their lives. So wasteful! Your life is happening now. Right now. You must realize that the seconds ticking away even as your reading this blog post are now behind you and there is no way to get them back. Time is also moving quickly and its all we can do to simply keep up. Don’t sit there hoping that one day your desires will manifest. Psychic readings can be miraculously life changing, but they don’t do the work for you.

Most of us can expect to die in a hospital or a nursing home of sorts. The main role which is played out by the people working in these institutions is:  help find a cure, or if the patient is terminal, try and keep them as comfortable as possible until the end. It seems that these professionals become accustomed to equating the administration of drugs to the comfort of the patient. Of-course drug therapy is necessary and effective for many individuals nearing the end of their lives, but it is not the only way for a professional to provide comfort for a dying person.

Loved ones also find themselves at a loss in regards to how they should provide comfort and support for a dying family member. Many friends and relatives use the excuse that they would just be getting in the way of the doctors or nurses. This is their best attempt to avoid the dying. Sometimes flowers and cards are as close as anyone can get to making a physical effort of support.

The medical community seems to be infected with a determination to keep us alive longer and longer. They constantly push themselves to expand the human lifespan and engineer two more seconds of life for our hearts, livers, and lungs. They seem to forget about the whole of the picture as they stay focused on certain specifics. No matter the level of expertise or how much more life can be artificially given to us, we deserve to be found by those around us as deserving of attention and love on a very personal level.

I see so many people who after a life lived full of determination and will, amount to a pile of needles and tubing, sanitizing foam and handfuls of pills. Not only is this picture a sad one, I also find it to be missing the point entirely. The cycle seems to be one where the families are left wandering from place to place throughout and after the dying process. First to the doctor then to the chaplain then to the funeral director and finally to an empty home where they are left alone with more questions than answers. The families are left with all the “what ifs” and the loved one who died was most likely never given a chance to find or feel a sense of purpose and completion. Dying is not simple, but it is irreversible and permanent so preparation is the key.

I want you to think what it would mean for you to acquire the knowledge that you are not going to live. What would it mean to know that you are going to die? At first, gone is the desire for possessions and future planning. There are no goals to achieve, no power to be had and no use for touting authority. Suddenly there is a complete and total internalization of what life is or better yet, what life was. The sense of inevitable detachment is overwhelming and you begin to fade into and out the not so clear picture of what is yet to come. Regrets are more real and close to your heart than ever before. There is also a huge question mark developing in regards to every thing you do, say, touch and think about. Suddenly the future is no more tangible than a ride to mars.

The family members of the dying also go through many of the same realizations except for one significant difference, they run the risk of living with regrets. So many of the people I speak with bring to me their guilt and regret about the choices made during the last days of their loved ones life. They say, now they know they should have done things differently. Most of the guilt and worry comes from the thought of having done more for their loved one, things would have turned out better. I believe it to be very important to point out that EVERYTHING happens for a reason. Every realization, every thought, every action, every disease, every birth and every death all happen just as they are supposed to.

The best way we learn to die well is by learning to live well. It is difficult but not impossible to learn even on a death bed. I help people learn to live while they are dying and that is what gives me joy as a psychic doing Gods work. When you only have a year, six months or less to live and you meet me, the first common goal we establish is to get you living life. I want you to live through your own death. I want to prove to you that there is no such thing as ceasing to exist. I have an advantage over a therapist or a doctor because I can feel thoughts and see feelings. I am also able to answer the big questions about God and the Other Side, but me answering questions about where you go after you die is such a small part of what I do. The bigger reason for me being with a dying individual is about their ability to find the life that exists in death.

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I buy the Sunday paper mostly so I can clip coupons. Contrary to popular belief I am not rich and so I enjoy saving money just like anyone else. This last Sunday paper however, came with a front page story which I could not ignore. Titled “Seniors For Sale” a picture of an elderly man with massive black and purple bruises covering his body was on the front page of the Seattle Times.

It’s an industry that I have heard very little about but have had similar topics come up in readings with clients. You might ask what a psychic has to do with the exploitation of seniors? Well, in order to answer that you must first understand what exactly I do as a psychic. If you are familiar with my work then you already know I am consumed with the issues of death and dying. I work directly with those individuals who are nearing the end of their lives to help them prepare for their journey from this side to the next. It is of-course natural that I would also come across individuals who are dealing with every aspect of the aging and dying process, including the care of seniors. The people I speak with and read for are the parents of dying children, the wives of dying husbands, the children of dying parents and so on and so forth.

Everyone wants to know that their loved one is being given the best care around regardless of available financial resources. It is then one of the most nightmarish moments in any one’s life to find out that your loved one was abused by the same people you are entrusting their care to. Abuse is disgusting and the sale of vulnerable, frail seniors as though they are a commodity is absolutely mortifying. The story that made front page news went on to read that “The Times uncovered accounts of elderly victims who were imprisoned in their rooms, roped into their beds at night, strapped to chairs during the day so they wouldn’t wander off, drugged into submission or left without proper medical treatment for weeks.” In one home there was a worker who handed a lit cigarette to a resident who was connected to an oxygen tank, setting off a fiery explosion!

As a psychic, a human, and a person who even on their worst day has half a heart, I am disgusted beyond belief but the abuse is only part of the problem. You see, the homes where these seniors live are actually private residences which go from buyer to buyer. They are sold, seniors and all to the highest bidder. There are even placement services that work for kickbacks, thousands of dollars at a time for each senior they place into one of these private residences. Now, I cannot escape the fact that at some point in my life, God forbid, one of those seniors might be me. Why cant we all take just a minute to mentally and emotionally place ourselves in someone else’s shoes? If we stopped for just one second to genuinely and sincerely think about how we would feel, the whole world would be a different place.

As a psychic, my place in this whole mess is as a guide for the living in response to and prevention of, the guilt and regret that exists after these events take place. I am not without tears of my own when a client brings such repulsive stories to a reading. As I always tell those clients who are so concerned with the end result of their choices, feeling as though they were the cause of someones condition; you must look at the intent and not the end result when judging your own efforts. Intention is a matter of the heart. It is only with true and totally positive intent that we can know for sure we were free from blame in the first place. 99% of us do not make decisions out of spite, we do not do things with the real intention of hurting someone else. Therefore when the end result is less than desirable, we must remember that we did mean well in the first place and all events, good and bad are in our lives for nothing less than the opportunity to gain knowledge. After all, knowledge and wisdom are one of the few things that go with you when you die, which makes them some of the most valuable.

If you know of a senior who is suffering from abuse or neglect regardless of the circumstance please contact the National Center On Elder Abuse.

The title is actually referring to a goal of mine. Here, in what is slowly going to turn into a mass of blog posts, I want to always provide these three things in every post (or at least 90% of them).  These three things are “Something to use, Something to think about and Something to cherish.” A blog with a purpose is much better than one without. Its also easier to understand, rather than words which just mumble throughout the pages.

I want to talk to you about aspirations and desire but also about realizations and responsibility.

As a child, do you remember being told you could grow up to be anything you wanted to be? I do. I remember all the boys in the class said that they wanted to be astronauts and all the girls responded with veterinarian and teacher. I also remember sitting in my seat and suddenly feeling as though I couldn’t choose any of them. I knew that I was different. Right there in that little hard wood chair in the middle of the class, I couldn’t put it into words but I knew when I grew up my life wasn’t going to have anything to do with Astronauts or doctors.

The first thing I remember wanting to be was a priest. Yes, you heard correctly… a priest. I can still resonate to that sensation, that first feeling of being called to something. The sensation was so strong that I could have doubled over in my stomach. It was like being pressed up against from every angle. Don’t ask me how, but I knew, in a single moment that I was here for a reason. There was another part to that realization which didn’t hit me until many years later, the part about me being here really has very little to do with myself.

How is it that what’s behind us can heal and hurt at the same time? How do we finally guarantee ourselves that the life we are living is the one that we’re supposed to? The only guarantee in life comes from the moment you have right now. That moment is called opportunity and because you already have it, is the only reason why its a guarantee. In other words, there are no guarantees for anything you don’t already have. In reference to the past, well… its designed to work both ways. It is there to provide you with a moment, an opportunity, and yes, even a guarantee.

Figuring out who we are as individuals, as people of a common source, starts with a realization. Subtle or bold as realizations may be, they are there for a reason and provide us with a foundation unto which we can focus our desires. Acting on desire causes responsibility and responsibility is the what gives us something to see when we look into our past. The past is there to hurt, so we can learn and heal so we have strength for new responsibility in our future. This is the cycle of life and this is the cycle of EVERY life.

Being a psychic makes me no more gifted than anyone else, but what I do with those gifts does separate me from the crowd. At many times for good or for bad it has separated me from those I love and those I wish to help. Had I known that living this life was going to bring the challenges it has, I would have most likely chickened out. It’s my past which so heavily influences my future, the acting out of my desires which causes the responsibility that I learn from.

I believe that we all know who we are on the inside. If ever in doubt look to your past to find out. There it started with a desire and turned into a lesson. Many of us can even answer the questions about our destiny by looking at the patterns which exist behind us. As a psychic, that’s all I’m really doing for someone anyway, I’m experiencing a realization, a desire that burns inside of someone and then watching for the pattern to evolve.

So which part of this post is something to use and what part should be thought about? What if any could be cherished? I’ll leave that up to you. I cant answer everything now can I?

The first time you do something in life, anything at all really, it’s powerful and raw in the same moment. A puppy who hears its bark for the first time will usually freeze in absolute awe of itself. Seeing the ocean for the first time can be a wondrous experience. It was for me. I saw it for the first time in Key West Florida with my late father. I walked out into the ocean with my hands raised into the air, wading into the clear blue liquid as far as I could go. The sun was shining down on me as I stared at the fine line where the sky met the water. The first time you have sex is also very powerful. All the senses seem to be turned up a notch. You remember every smell, every sensation, even every thought. The heart races, the eyes are broad and in a single moment you surrender to being vulnerable and being loved.

There are many firsts in life and with me, right now, you are experiencing one of them. I have wanted to do this for some time and it seems that nothing more than simple procrastination has been holding me back. So here I am, in a way feeling a sense of power and vulnerability at the same time. Understanding just how this project will evolve is what’s going through my mind at this very moment. Ahh… Time will tell I’m sure.

I want to be very honest and those who know me intimately could tell you without a doubt, I am totally comfortable with honesty. I have a passion for answering the big questions about God, about Life, about Death. I love to talk about experiences and I am always honored when someone bestows trust in me when it comes to their personal life. I feel that after 31 years of living, although I’m not 90, I have experienced enough to be of value to others. I have come here to talk about my experiences and put some very personal matters on display for all to see, in hopes of creating a better future, a better understanding, perhaps even a better world.

It is true what they say about helping just one person: “You come into life and if you only help one person, just one at all, you have succeeded.” I believe in that statement. After all, I am just one person myself and even though I am but only 1, I am valuable and I believe that you are too. It is this sense of value that all souls should have. Not just being aware of its existence but making a continual effort to add to it, to help it grow. I feel the best way to do this is by learning about oneself. To dive in head first and discover the sensation of being an observer, a witness to experience, a witness to life.

People call me “The Dying Psychic”.  I help those who are nearing the end of their lives, comprehend the life they just lived so that the transition from this world to the next is easier and better understood. I am a psychic. I am also a brother and a son, a spouse and most importantly a friend. I am not a fake or an exaggeration of fantasy. I go beyond having a belief in something. I am the experiencer, not just the reader. I am a first hand witness to miracles, not just an entertainer of their possibility. I have been seen by some as a saint and others as a sinner. Some say I have been “chosen”, others say I am lucky. However, the truth be known, I am envious. I am envious of the same people who don’t believe in what I do. For they have had the choice in choosing what they believe, where as I… have not.

If you find yourself reaching for something that you cant see… If you find yourself being unsure why life is such a challenge… If you have a “knowing” inside of you but are unable to put your finger on it… Allow me to set into motion some of the most basic truths I have come to witness, and let me share them with you. That way, The First Time “You” See It… you’ll know.

~ Jeremy Mazak . The Dying Psychic