Even out of context, this is one of the most fascinating concepts of death that I've heard: "scissors are a representative implement of life and death– they “unite by dividing, and divide by uniting.” Reminds me of the word cleave - cleave together and cleave apart.

I found this at BIN, and I've included Jeffrey Pritchart's helpful excerpt from Edgar Cayce on Dreams(1) by Harmon H. Bro with the video below.

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By Jeffery Pritchett

Edgar Cayce: The Unseen Forces, Sensitivity, Boundaries
Friday, October 18, 2019 6:54

In this lecture, Peter addresses the issue of empathy in the context of the Edgar Cayce material and his teachings. He expounds on the premise that karma is the slow lane of spiritual development, while empathy is the fast lane.

America’s great clairvoyant Edgar Cayce offered dream interpretations as part of his readings while in a trance state. On one occasion, while in a trance, he experienced a dream in which he encountered Death, as a personality or individual. Cayce wrote:

I remarked to Death, ‘You are not as ordinarily pictured with a black mask or hood, or as a skeleton or like Father Time with a sickle. Instead you are fair, rosy-cheeked, robust and have a pair of shears or scissors.’
The being explained to him that death “is not the horrible thing” that people typically expect, and the scissors are a representative implement of life and death– they “unite by dividing, and divide by uniting.”

Cayce came to conclude that the death state is a more normal one for the soul than earthly existence, and that the question of whether consciousness survives death was backwards. The significant question for the soul was how much of its creativity and divine essence would survive its birth into a body.

Source:Edgar Cayce on Dreams(1) by Harmon H. Bro

Soul Contact with Peter Woodbury
Peter Woodbury - Edgar Cayce on Sensitivity, Boundaries, and The Unseen Forces

In this lecture, Peter addresses the issue of empathy in the context of the Edgar Cayce material and The New Age. He expounds on the premise that karma is the slow lane of spiritual development, while empathy is the fast lane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4698&v=CCk21wJpWL8