In this episode of Talking to the Dead, I’m drawn back—unexpectedly—to the Sūrth- Rodenkirchen Cemetery near Cologne, a place I visited before where meaningful encounters once occurred. What begins as a quiet bike ride into familiar ground unfolds into a deep exploration of death, consciousness, and what it really means to be human. As I walk the graveyard, I reflect on the idea that death isn’t an ending at all, but a transition into another sphere of consciousness. Graveyards, far from being empty places, feel alive with residual energy—imprints left behind through memory, emotion, and connection. The more recent the grave, the stronger that presence feels, while older energies slowly fade unless they are continually remembered. Throughout the visit, impressions and messages emerge: of lives lived in constant urgency and stress, of love crossing borders and generations, of individuality dissolving back into a shared, collective awareness. Different cultures, religions, and identities lie side by side here, and yet the overwhelming sense is that in death, all distinctions fall away. The episode closes with a powerful reflection: the way we memorialize death is a purely human construct. In truth, there is no separation—only a return to a unified consciousness where connection is never lost. For those grieving, the message is clear and comforting: there is no death, only transition, and no one is ever truly gone. Please write to me at: talkingtothedead@gmx.de The books of Talking to the Dead 1 & 2 (a novelisation/biograpy of the discoveries made in the podcast,) are available on Amazon in printed and Kindle formats. Volume One. Talking to the Dead - Philip Skitch https://amzn.eu/d/4zUp4ou Volume Two. Talking to the Dead - Out and About - Philip Skitch There Is No Death There is no death,only a loosening of form,a quiet stepping sidewaysinto another room of awareness. The graveyard is not empty.It listens.Stone remembers hands,earth remembers names,and time moves differently here. Lives once hurriednow rest without urgency.Deadlines dissolve.No clocks tick beneath the soil. Each grave insists on difference—a curve, a symbol, a chosen word—yet beneath the carved identitieseverything becomes the same breath. Languages fade.Borders soften.Belief systems fall like coatsno longer needed. What remainsis not silence,but a shared knowing—a collective warmthwhere no one is alone. The living think separation begins at death,but it begins at birth,when we learn our namesand forget we were once whole. Here, in this quiet place,nothing has ended.Nothing has been lost. Only transformed.Only returned. There is no death.Only transition. The books and audiobooks of Talking to the Dead 1 & 2 (a novelisation/biograpy of the discoveies made in the podcast,) are available on Amazon in printed and Kindle formats. Volume One. Talking to the Dead - Philip Skitch https://amzn.eu/d/4zUp4ou Volume Two. Talking to the Dead - Out and About - Philip Skitch https://amzn.eu/d/fgH1f0Z
