Charting Death: Radio Host Breaks Old Barriers

Radio host Scott Simon never intended to tweet his mother's final hours to 1.2 million followers, but her dying moments were among the most emotional in his public life.

"I have covered 10 wars and been around the world," Simon told ABCNews.com. "But I am telling you, the 48 hours we stayed up together was one of the most exhilarating in my life. And she was also, for the benefit of her family, giving a really great performance, and no less sincere, rallying herself to be strong to relieve our anxieties."

For the past two weeks, Simon, of NPR's "Saturday Weekend Edition," has been tweeting about the looming death of his 84-year-old mother, a former "show girl" who died just short of her 85th birthday in Chicago of undetermined causes.

His tweets -- beginning July 16 when he learned about her emergency surgery to her death July 29 -- resonated around the world and drew praise from those who had similarly experienced the death of a loved one.

From the ICU at Northwestern University Memorial Hospital, he tweeted until the "Heart rate dropping. Heart dropping" moment, sharing his 140-character view of life's final journey.

Simon, 61, told ABCNews.com that he hadn't intended to tweet about his mother's death during the many monotonous moments in the ICU.

"I didn't expect it to be my mother's death bed," he said through tears. "It wasn't my frame of mind. I felt it could be the end, but I had one big reason to fight like a lion for her. ...I am her son and we were going to beat this together.

"I don't want people thinking I was holding my mother in my arms and tweeting. [As in] war, there are often seconds of panic and anxiety and terror between hours of tedium."

As Simon put it so emotionally over Twitter: "The heavens over Chicago have opened up and Patricia Lyons Simon Newman has stepped on stage."

Ethicists have taken note.

"This is the tip of a very big iceberg shift in thinking about privacy and intimate moments, when someone that prominent does that," said Art Caplan, director of medical ethics at NYU Langone Medical Center.

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"It's not that he should or shouldn't do it; that's for him to decide and discuss with his mom and other relatives," he said. "But it's clear to me that one of the last places -- sex, birthing and dying -- are not off limits anymore. There aren't many spheres left, and that's a really notable shift."

Simon said his mother may not have understood what Twitter was, but she told her son after learning of the millions around the world who had tweeted him in support, "How very nice of them."

He said he was not grieving until the end. "Not only had we kept hoping, we did until her last breath," he said.

Simon described holding his mother's hand: "Haven't held it like this since I was 9." And shares her pain: "Will this go on forever?"

He jokes about one of the "great little things in life" is flossing her teeth. Then he tears up when his mother reacts to the birth of the royal baby.

"She had so many flabbergastingly insightful and funny things to say: 'Look baby, I tell you all great death-bed speeches are written in advance.' She was hilarious."

Newman had been a model -- the Jon James hair spray girl -- and did television commericals. Simon said he got his own in the public eye appearing with her in an advertisement for Archway cookies when he was about 8.

"She had lied about her age to work nightclubs to work at 16," he said. "My dad, Ernie Simon, was a comedian."

And one of the last goodbyes: "Mother cries Help Me at 2:30. Been holding her like a baby since. She's asleep now. All I can do is hold on to her."

Simon also tweets about the difficulty of delivering the sad news to his daughters Elise, 10, and Lina, 6: "Worst: telling our daughters. Oldest was flinty, youngest sobbed."

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Meanwhile, Simon's heartfelt messages have gone viral, encouraging strangers to respond and share in his grief.

One follower, Steve McLaughlin, tweeted, "I haven't held my mother's hand in a long time, thank you for reminding me that time is fleeting and that I need to do that."

Other public figures have shared similar moments, but not in real time on the Internet. In 2004, the photographer Annie Leibovitz documented the death of her partner, writer Susan Sontag. Her son later called the photos, "carnival images of celebrity death."

"Social media has changed the way many people do lots of things," said Dr. Stuart Youngner, the Bioethics Department chairman at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland. "Why not grieving? Scott Simon is a public figure and may well find that pubic expression of what many consider private feelings is helpful to him."

"After all," he adds. "Eric Clapton wrote a song about his young son who fell and died from an open window."

Philadelphia psychologist Ann Rosen Spector agrees that social media are "just a fact of life now."

But when it comes to grieving, sharing can be helpful, "as long as people don't feel pressured into doing it," she said. "Some people share every time they buy a new pair of shoes or sneeze or cough. Some people share medical updates. It's a whole new world. There is not a standard of care to grieve."

Kenneth Doka, a senior consultant to the Hospice Foundation of America and author of "Beyond Kubler-Ross: New Perspectives on Death, Dying and Grief," calls the support system that Twitter created around Simon "an incredible phenomenon."

But he said he was "curious" why Simon's mother was in so much pain, given scientific and medical advances in hospice care. "I wondered if we did all we could for this woman in pain," said Doka, who's also a professor of gerontology at the Graduate School of The College of New Rochelle in New York.

Simon said his mother had received morphine for her pain in the end. "Those people were ICU heroes," he said. "I am grateful to them and my family owes then a permanent debt."

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James Bomar of “The Resistance” Tonight on The Bob Tuskin Radio Show

Tonight on the Bob Tuskin Radio Show we will be covering some of the days top headlines from around the world.

Also be sure to catch tonight’s guest, James Bomar.

Click here to listen live at 10PM-11PM eastern standard time on April 5, 2013

James Evans Bomar III born on October 22, 1978 in Detroit Michigan is the Author of the Code to the Matrix, Developer of The Planetary Resistance and The Wholeness Foundation. He is deeply involved in universal transformation and currently resides in Costa Rica. He is also involved in spiritual activation for all organic species.

James’s involvement with advanced states of consciousness came quite early in his life. The son of a spiritually advanced mother he grew up in Mosques, Temples, and Church’s examining religions from a vast perspective. Being raised in the spiritual world had both positive and negative effects on his life he reveals. James learned that a great deal of the activity taking place in the religious centers were in fact being conducted by resident spiritual Beings of various persuasions unknown to most and accepted as allies. Due to a great deal of spiritual contact when reaching adulthood this made him well versed in spiritual knowledge but somewhat callous towards the generalized outlook the masses were encouraged to have in regards to spirituality. James sites as an example him being baptized 9 times due to the irrational demands made on his mother by each church she wanted to join which made this a prerequisite for admittance.

Through life he continued to seek inwardly the meaning to all things while outwardly James lived a very diverse life. He has been a Computer Engineer, Gang Member, Pastor, CEO, Prisoner, Enlightener, Telemarketer, Clothing Designer, Convenient Store Clerk, Promoter, Inventor, Cipherist, and many other rare and sometimes controversial positions to arise as a Quickener that can relate to people from all walks of life.

By age 12 James reports using his ability of lucid dreaming to bring other things into this dimension. Assuming everyone was doing this he never brought it to the attention of his peers. Growing up without television, salt, toys, and other things a child commonly has by instruction of his mother he was given spiritual books as a form of past time. James quickly fell in love with spiritual lore and often imagined the world on that pretext alone.

Unfortunately later in life the general idealism of spirituality accepted by the masses began to completely fog his once clear view of the Path. It was during these times that James began to delve into more external feats using his sharp intellect and prowess to catapult himself into fields of external recognition. During these times which James spent in Atlanta Georgia he met many individuals such as Nas, Marlon Wayans, Patty Labelle, Missy Elliot, Dallas Austin, Terrence Howard, Sean Combs, Jay Z, and many others sometimes in passing and on many occasions for prolonged periods.

He says this did not propel his outlook on life in a more positive way but instead had more of a dismal effect on him when seeing that even with great wealth such individuals still did not have a inkling of an answer to the meaning of our existence. He says it was at that point he conceived the idea of devoting his life to bringing such revelations to this Planet in a vivid way, an idea that remained fledgling for awhile but was gaining life.

Then something happened. Through a chain reaction of events James lost his physical freedom and was facing prolonged imprisonment. In the face of all odds it was at this point he began to reestablished contact with the spiritual force that he was once able to so easily weld as a child. This force, he explains, was subtle at first but then began to flood in more than ever. Jail he claims had the benefits of a seclusive environment along with the habitation that allowed one to study for prolonged periods without interruption.

“ALWAYS REMEMBER OFTEN BENEFIT IS DISGUISED AS MISFORTUNE”

Utilizing this misfortune as a benefit he poured through novels with comprehension such as The Pseudepigrapha, The Apocrypha, The Keys to Solomon, The Nag Hammadi Library, The Book of Abramelin the Mage, The Holy Tablets, The Number 19 Koran, The Dogma and Rituals of Transcendental Magic, Aish Mezrath, The Sword of Moses, The Jerusalem Bible, and many other highly acclaimed occult works. At a certain point James mentions he ran out of books and proceeded to read the Encyclopedias that were provided reading them page after page until he came to the letter “F”. He says at that point more spiritual books began to pour in.

It was during this time that his lucid sleep was more active than ever. James says it was then he realized a great deal of the identities and inner workings of the Beings that proclaim themselves as Lords over the human race. James mentioned that calling the hidden names of many of these Beings while in the lucid plane caused them to appear as they truly were and that it was in that plane they became omnipotent, not in this one. Further James began to recognize most religions as part of a hierarchy or pantheism of malevolent forces that controlled humanity as if they were to be domesticated and made to be slaves when in fact they were in many instances much greater than these Beings.

After a year and a half of incarceration James was released only to come out to a very strangely manipulated world. Despite being finally free again James remarks that he still felt that somehow all the masses were prisoners but could not see it. Prisoners of the language, fear, circumstance, scarcity, etc. but he also knew these misfortunes were brought about by real forces that went about generally unexpected and actually admired, worshiped, and praised.

James says it was not long before once again the weight and density of the world began to drag him back into an external life. He denotes this also being the time that the New Age movement began to pick up quite a bit of steam. In shear fascination he began to look at the materials and propaganda that was being circulated only to discover that more Entities that few knew the true identities of, such as Ashtar Chiron, were making a plan to take over humanities total consciousness. Daily he found himself deeply troubled by this whole situation while being able to divine very little of what to do about it.

It was during this time that James was conducting an experiment with Ultra Violet light which involved trials. During one of the final interactions he says that his mind turned a complete circle somehow. When looking at the corner of the room James went into a 5 minute deja vu. In this James saw that many were in a cycle, including himself, and that the only outcome would once again be success and then failure unless her somehow discovered a way to implement balance in his life. But that was not all, it seemed the Being that was conveying all of this information had excessive knowledge in regards to the English language and how it, along with almost all other languages, were being used to control us unknowingly.

After receiving and cultivating a great deal of instruction and spiritual energy James set out on a real time mission to enlighten humanity to all of what he had experienced and continues to experience. It was then the Code to the Matrix was written and The Resistance Website was developed. This he says has led to major breakthroughs in regards to the Innerverse, the roles of Organic and Inorganic Life, Spiritual Contact, Ancestral Covenants, Healing Elements, and most importantly Universal Energy.

“WHATEVER HAPPENS WITH THE WORLD WE WILL BE TOGETHER THIS IS THE JOY”

James is currently working in Costa Rica developing a community and virtual institute with the primary focus of Neo-Universalism, or finding the common integers of all Species in order to learn how to build bridges to balanced Minds, Bodies and Souls. In addition he works to further the discovery of the knowledge contained within organic life such as Trees. This comes with what he calls the Organic Communication System.

He continues that man and woman have the ability to communicate with highly intelligent forces that contain endless amounts of essence and advanced languages based on light codes which program the higher levels of realities. He says that basic chemistry has been a major key due to that fact that most elements can be taken into their first monatomic state and then ingested giving the administered the ability of that element. Bomar claims this has always been known and thus many unseen factions and societies have already gained high levels of knowledge about our working Innerverse and how to navigate our consciousness with total control.

He now works in the field of Universal Energy and studies its relationship to Kundalini or what he calls The Universal Mother which James says is conscious and responds according to the individual not any said dogma. He encourages all to reconnect their roots and “powerup” using the awesome force coursing through this Planet and he gives instructions on how to do so. He finally remarks that this force is the only one that can render the malevolent Entities powerless and catapult humanity collectively or individually into higher levels of existence using such energy as a springboard or launch pad for consciousness.

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J.G. Vibes is the author of an 87 chapter counter-culture textbook called Alchemy of the Modern Renaissance, a staff writer, reporter for Intellihub.com and Executive Producer of the Bob Tuskin Radio Show. You can keep up with his work, which includes free podcasts, free e-books & free audiobooks at his website www.aotmr.com

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