Embracing Death with Tony Ærcyus Christie

Summary

Mystic and labyrinth teacher Tony Ærcyus Christie joins Jeffrey Mishlove to argue that death is not an ending but a transition the soul chooses, part of a continuum running from the 'here before' to the 'hereafter.' Drawing on near-death experience accounts, deathbed visions, and between-lives hypnotherapy, he claims we plan our lives in advance, face a compassionate life review rather than judgment, and are always greeted by loved ones when we die. He also describes guiding lost souls on with the labyrinth and suggests that reincarnation is really one infinite consciousness living many past, future, and even extraterrestrial lives at once.

Key takeaways

• 1Christie's book 'Death, You Gotta Love It! Choosing Love Over Fear in Life's Greatest Transition' took about seven years to write; he also wrote 'Labyrinth, Your Path to Self-Discovery' and created the Labyrinth Wisdom Cards
• 2He cites Michael Newton's 'Journey of Souls': a man in a between-lives session recalled a past life as a fire-and-brimstone preacher, saw the devil on dying, and learned it was his spirit guide wearing a mask as a joke
• 3He recounts an early-1900s case in a Dublin hospital where a woman dying after childbirth saw her dead sister, whose death two weeks earlier had been kept from her
• 4He claims Hindu master Lahiri Mahasaya announced 'I'm going home,' turned around three times, sat in the lotus position, and left his body, and that Swedenborg also predicted his own death
• 5He says he clears 'lost souls' from properties, including the spirit of a 10-year-old boy killed in a car accident, by walking them through a labyrinth, and that labyrinths heal geopathic stress
• 6He says his triple-spiral labyrinth design is inspired by the Newgrange passage tomb in Ireland, where the winter solstice sun lights the inner chamber

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Transcript excerpt

it resonates with me that we choose to come here to have experiences. Now, if, if, if it's only in the context of one life, what we choose might not might seem unfair. Or when you look around and see some people appear to have drawn a very short straw in, in the different experiences and different circumstances they have, whether it is poverty or disability or, and, or, you know, just the life events that they're experiencing. But in the context of many lives that re re reincarnate to advance our consciousness, well, then in certain lives, I will choose difficulties or difficult situations just to see how I will choose. So I would almost make life analogy. I was thinking, oh, we only last day or two in relation to computer games that in a computer game, if you're playing, even if it's a motor racing game or a fighting game or a shoot them up game, you invest some of your awareness or consciousness into the character and you choose the character and you choose, you know, what abilities they have or whether they're fast to recharge their energy or come back to life or whether they're slow and deliberate, but they have a big bomb or whatever it might be. And, and we choose, we choose. And then we play the game. Keep watching to learn more. You can now download all nine copies of the New Thinking Allowed magazine for free or order beautiful printed copies. Go to newthinkingallowed.org. New Thinking Allowed is presented by the California Institute for Human Science, a fully accredited university offering distant learning graduate degrees that focus on mind, body, and spirit. ...

Excerpt from New Thinking Allowed, Aug 24, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.