Winter Olympics luge competitor Nodar Kumaritashvili died in an accident on a bend in the track at the Whistler Sliding Center, Vancouver, Canada, before the opening of the games. The sled he was riding came off the track and the young man was catapulted into an unpadded metal support beam and perished.
According to his father, David, the 21-year-old Georgian team member had previously expressed his fear of the track in a telephone conversation they had after a practice run in training he had made. The Wall Street Journal reported that he said, “Dad, I’m scared of one of the turns.” The young man is known to have been a relatively inexperienced slider.
The luge, a Swiss invention from Savoy, is a small coasting sled for one or two athletes. In Nodar’s case it was designed for one person; the young man lay on it, face up, steering the sled’s runners with his feet. Lugers do not race physically against each other, but seek to win on a timed basis. Speeds of up to 90 miles (150 km) an hour are common in competitions. Taking the high-banked bends at that speed increases the centrifugal pull on the body, estimated as being up to a force of 7G. Despite this challenge, after Nodar’s death lugers in other teams expressed their conviction that the Canadian slide was not unusually difficult or dangerous.
WODEN SAYS: My condolences go to Nodar’s family, friends, and team mates in their loss of this talented young man.
As usual, the spiritual comment I need to make will appear sharply different from the sort of response with which many of you are familiar. We should express gratitude that Nodar’s soul achieved its objective in fulfilling the contracts it made prior to coming down to planet Earth, and we honor it for its achievement. We are grateful to learn from our guides that Nodar’s soul has returned Home to unconditional love. It is now on track to comfort parents and friends alike in this time of grief.
Once again, we need to review the whole basis of why we are all here. Our objective as souls is to learn lessons that will teach us more about our own loving nature. These lessons are chosen in advance in line with the need each one of us has for negative experiences. Not only do we freely choose the lessons we want to take on in our next lifetime, we also commit ourselves to learning those lessons, so that if we fail to do so in one lifetime the same lessons will be presented to us again in a subsequent lifetime. We freely commit ourselves, but once committed, we must do it.
Next, we involve other souls in our life-lessons, and they in ours. If a soul wishes to experience abuse, another soul must volunteer to be that soul’s abuser; if tragic loss, then another soul must be the one to die. Souls are like actors playing roles. Sometimes the roles are like the baddie in a Hollywood movie. Sometimes, as with a little baby dying in its cot, the soul’s life is over soon after it has begun. We all volunteer to take roles on one side or another during the procession of our lives. We do so to grow in knowledge and wisdom.
Life-lessons are chosen, but the actual experiences that present them to us come as a surprise, with the possible exception of some lessons inherent in getting older. We have amnesia, which is deliberately given to us, concerning our choice of lessons. When we have a lesson presented to us it is usually largely negative. The death of Nodar Kumaritashvili causes widespread grief, some anger, fear, depression, and the other human reactions we all experience. It may on the positive side also result in safer luge tracks, better training, and so on.
The contracts made by other souls with the young athlete did not wickedly cause his death. In spiritual terms there are no accidents. His soul voluntarily agreed to make a speedy return Home. Only the body died, the soul did not. You cannot kill the soul. The fears he expressed to his father may have been Nodar’s soul preparing itself for its own transition. But the young man consciously knew nothing of that. In no way did he willingly give up his physical life. But when it happened, his soul was speedily out of the body well before his physical death—of that we may be certain.
So we are grateful that Nodar’s soul did this for us. It gave life-lessons to millions of people. Lessons we will not forget, and which will help us all to grow in wisdom—which is the purpose of our being here. Thank you, Nodar. Well done!
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Death at the Olympics
Winter Olympics luge competitor Nodar Kumaritashvili died in an accident on a bend in the track at the Whistler Sliding Center, Vancouver, Canada, before the opening of the games. The sled he was riding came off the track and the young man was catapulted into an unpadded metal support beam and perished.
According to his father, David, the 21-year-old Georgian team member had previously expressed his fear of the track in a telephone conversation they had after a practice run in training he had made. The Wall Street Journal reported that he said, “Dad, I’m scared of one of the turns.” The young man is known to have been a relatively inexperienced slider.
The luge, a Swiss invention from Savoy, is a small coasting sled for one or two athletes. In Nodar’s case it was designed for one person; the young man lay on it, face up, steering the sled’s runners with his feet. Lugers do not race physically against each other, but seek to win on a timed basis. Speeds of up to 90 miles (150 km) an hour are common in competitions. Taking the high-banked bends at that speed increases the centrifugal pull on the body, estimated as being up to a force of 7G. Despite this challenge, after Nodar’s death lugers in other teams expressed their conviction that the Canadian slide was not unusually difficult or dangerous.
WODEN SAYS: My condolences go to Nodar’s family, friends, and team mates in their loss of this talented young man.
As usual, the spiritual comment I need to make will appear sharply different from the sort of response with which many of you are familiar. We should express gratitude that Nodar’s soul achieved its objective in fulfilling the contracts it made prior to coming down to planet Earth, and we honor it for its achievement. We are grateful to learn from our guides that Nodar’s soul has returned Home to unconditional love. It is now on track to comfort parents and friends alike in this time of grief.
Once again, we need to review the whole basis of why we are all here. Our objective as souls is to learn lessons that will teach us more about our own loving nature. These lessons are chosen in advance in line with the need each one of us has for negative experiences. Not only do we freely choose the lessons we want to take on in our next lifetime, we also commit ourselves to learning those lessons, so that if we fail to do so in one lifetime the same lessons will be presented to us again in a subsequent lifetime. We freely commit ourselves, but once committed, we must do it.
Next, we involve other souls in our life-lessons, and they in ours. If a soul wishes to experience abuse, another soul must volunteer to be that soul’s abuser; if tragic loss, then another soul must be the one to die. Souls are like actors playing roles. Sometimes the roles are like the baddie in a Hollywood movie. Sometimes, as with a little baby dying in its cot, the soul’s life is over soon after it has begun. We all volunteer to take roles on one side or another during the procession of our lives. We do so to grow in knowledge and wisdom.
Life-lessons are chosen, but the actual experiences that present them to us come as a surprise, with the possible exception of some lessons inherent in getting older. We have amnesia, which is deliberately given to us, concerning our choice of lessons. When we have a lesson presented to us it is usually largely negative. The death of Nodar Kumaritashvili causes widespread grief, some anger, fear, depression, and the other human reactions we all experience. It may on the positive side also result in safer luge tracks, better training, and so on.
The contracts made by other souls with the young athlete did not wickedly cause his death. In spiritual terms there are no accidents. His soul voluntarily agreed to make a speedy return Home. Only the body died, the soul did not. You cannot kill the soul. The fears he expressed to his father may have been Nodar’s soul preparing itself for its own transition. But the young man consciously knew nothing of that. In no way did he willingly give up his physical life. But when it happened, his soul was speedily out of the body well before his physical death—of that we may be certain.
So we are grateful that Nodar’s soul did this for us. It gave life-lessons to millions of people. Lessons we will not forget, and which will help us all to grow in wisdom—which is the purpose of our being here. Thank you, Nodar. Well done!
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