#407 The Collective Intent has Good as its Ultimate Crown

Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Dear Jeanne,
Thank you for the last two messages, #405 and #406. Chuck mentioned that your fairy tale analogy was very Jungian. I like Jung’s idea that we are all living a fairy tale, myth, or archetype. I would like to continue more conversations regarding confrontations and experiences in other worlds. However, I don’t have a lot of time today, so I was wondering if you could briefly address my previous questions regarding getting stuck in other worlds. Is it possible for someone to get so caught in another world that they cannot get themselves out? You mentioned that it was our choice to make, but what if an evil entity has us captive? What are the possibilities of rescuing someone who seems doomed?

Well, My Dear Jan, you ask too many questions for just a brief answer, but I will give you some nuggets of information to chew on and mull over. When you ask about being in other worlds and getting out of other worlds, so do I contend that yes, the choice to enter and exit is present, but may not be conscious. Awareness may not be the driving factor, but spirit intent to grow, to recapitulate, to experience something of value may be directly behind why people have entry into other worldly encounters. In your case, you were being presented with a possibility, but you were not ready for it, and that became very clear as you ran in fear from your pursuers. Little did you know that your pursuers were offering an unusual opportunity to follow your spirit on a different journey. But you were not ready at that time to encounter the spirit world. You were only ready to do what your outer self had determined was necessary for you to have experience of, in order to grow. So your running out of that situation was a personal battle. They were not an evil or sinister group, as you perceived them, but they were your own worlds of possibilities being simultaneously presented to you.

On the other hand, if someone is seduced into another world by evil intent, so must that evil lurk inside them, needing an outlet. To go into darkness, to test the very core of the self, to pull out of the self the darkness, is also an aspect of spirit growth. What lies hidden inside all of you, at your deepest cores, is everything that you could possibly imagine. You are all capable of everything. You are neither clearly cruel, heartless, despicable, nor holy, spiritual, or clean alone, but a true mix of everything. That being said, your lives upon that earth, your many lives, are lived in order for all aspects of the self to emerge, to live fully, and to recede, no longer necessary for spiritual renewal to happen. Once an aspect of the self is fully lived, so is it no longer enticing to the spirit, nor to expression by the ego self either, and the two parts of the self find new aspects to live fully instead. Does that make sense?

Yes, it does. But what happens to people who seem to be caught in dark places, not necessarily evil, but perhaps perceived as damaging, unfulfilling, such as addicts, thieves, murderers, liars, cheats, etc.?

As I mentioned, those lives are chosen because they are necessary. It is your judgment that they are caught, but perhaps it is just their time of expression of the dark side. Each one of you is no better or worse off simply because you are not limited to such darkness. No, each of you are equally challenged to fully live what your spirit deems is necessary. Your spirit pushes you each day, in many ways, yet do you notice? Do you interpret your spirit intent correctly? In your long ago episode, Jan, did you not choose to interpret it one way, when in fact it could have gone in a totally different direction?

You must also remember that all of this intent and choice and possibility that I speak of, is energetically driven. Your awareness may not be in tune, but your energy is always in tune and available. So, your energy directs the way things go, until your awareness is trained and conscious, or at least more often so. If someone is energetically caught in another world, so do I still contend that they are energetically choosing to be there, for reasons that only their spirit and their spirit guides may know about.

Should people be rescued?

Oftentimes, are rescues undertaken, but I maintain, that these rescues be also energetically undertaken by collective intent. If you slip into darkness, (as you did many times, My Dear One) your collective energetic intent, by which I mean your spirit, your spirit guides, your life necessities, as dictated by your spirit at choosing that life, and many other factors, all would play a part, in both your position of being in darkness and your removal as well. Were you not kept safe, even as you experienced the most dire of circumstances? Were you not energetically supported, as you took your journey through that life? Were you not energetically provided with everything you needed in life, to get you where you are now?

I maintain my contention of choice, yet do I also extend that choice beyond your conscious choice and place it in the capable hands of collective intent. You are all on journeys of the utmost meaning. You are all guided and protected, yet are you also challenged, each time you enter life upon that earth, to fully live the aspects of the self that must be allowed full expression. If you do not, so will you return to give them another opportunity to manifest.

It is often said, and by many prophets: do not judge others, for they are but the same poor sods as you once were, as you are capable of being, and as you must be. Place not your selves in either superior places, nor in denial of your own darkness. Accept your archetypes, your myths, and your fairy tales as aspects of the self that must be fully lived, explored and, when ready, laid calmly aside, another costume taken off, no longer necessary.

Your inner and outer worlds are collectively joined by intent of spirit purpose. Do not doubt this, but fully live who you are, so that you do not have to waste time doing it again. Use your recapitulation process to discover who you are, to discover all the hidden aspects of self, your dark parts, but also your good parts. That is your job upon that earth, to meet those murderers in the fog, and ask them who they seek. They may be simply seeking to alert you to an aspect of the self that you are unaware of, such as your mighty king upon the throne, dictating your life, though your spirit was aware of other possibilities.

This has perhaps gotten to be a long message after all! Good Luck, My Dear Readers. Keep flowing; and remember, the collective intent has good as its ultimate crown.

#406 A Fairy Tale

Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Dear Jeanne,
Today, I would like to follow up the “other world” experience that we discussed the other day with a few additional questions. On that day, in June 1977, when I had that experience in the horse meadow, I had been, as I mentioned, sewing my wedding dress. I had, in fact, pricked my finger with the needle as I was doing some hand stitching and gotten blood on the white fabric. I remember trying to wash it out, thinking that it was a bad omen, a foreshadowing of something, though I couldn’t quite figure out what it meant. But I knew it had to do with the fact that I was soon to be married.

My question today is, what did all of this mean? What did it mean that as I was sewing my wedding dress, I pricked my finger, got blood on the gown, then went for a walk and stepped into that medieval world where something sinister was brewing? Can you offer me some more insight into the process and the experience?

I am inclined to use a fairy tale analogy to explain your situation since it so nicely fits that format. You, a young woman about to be married, were sitting and sweetly sewing, blissfully unaware that evil lurks, always waiting for the opportunity to hatch a plan. Your red blood dropping onto your white wedding gown was innocence spilled, but also about to be challenged. Your desperate attempts to wash it out, to hide it, were, in fact, your deepest desires to remain in your own world, untouched by what was waiting for you, yet knowing that it was inevitable. You could not control the process, but you could, by your actions, deny to your self that change was upon you. Your requirements of your self, at that time, were that you move forward, no matter what, that you proceed as planned, in spite of the dire warnings you had given your self in numerous ways.

Your entry into another world, also on that day, attempted to introduce you to the fact, and I stress the word fact, that in spite of your controlling efforts were you, in fact, not in control. As you walked a path that you had been on many times before, so did you resolve to shake off the disturbing facts that were coming to you. Remember? You walked to get away from the consequences of your decisions. For as they were unfolding, you were losing control of your truest self, and your truest desires. Were you not being shown another world of possibilities?

Yes, you were being shown the magic that exists right before your eyes. You were the princess in the fairy tale who must marry because it is determined by another. The king says, “You may marry my daughter, worthy knight!” Yet were you, the princess, aware that you were not in agreement. And this was true. Your entry into the medieval setting was showing you the other option, opening a door to awareness, offering you a way out of your predicament. But the king, your own inner king, was not going to allow you to break your word, your code of conduct. Your determined self was in control of the situation, making sure that all was perfect. Even down to every tiny, even stitch upon your wedding gown was going to be done properly, by you alone.

So you must admit, you not only chose your path, but you also paved it piece by piece with stones that you hand-selected and placed at your feet. This was your challenge at the time. Many others have walked the same path; ashamed to admit that they were making a mistake, yet equally determined to do it right. To make a mistake, yet make that mistake a work of art is quite a common goal!

As you walked to shake off your truths, My Dear, your inner truth was not willing to be silenced so easily, or so finally. Your spirit self had other desires that had nothing to do with marriage. You resided in one pretty foggy world, yet was the day, as you described it, quite clear and beautiful. You could not allow your own clear truth to be seen. However, your spirit allowed you to be a part of some magic that day, in an attempt to offer you knowledge of things to come in your life, yet also knowledge of things hidden, and as yet unrevealed. Your life was being presented to you in the analogy of the scene, the murder about to be committed. Was it not what was happening to your spirit? Was it not about to be murdered?

The horses and riders chasing after you were but your innermost desires attempting to catch up with you, to show you that what you were about to do was going to murder your spirit, stifle it, keep it locked down for many years to come.

You had to keep the experience a secret, for your lover was not your true one, no connection to your inner truths could be found there. Your secrets remained hidden, as you told no one of your experience, but simply returned to your seat and continued sewing diligently upon your white gown. You were the perfect princess, resolved to duty, the inner king in control, while in the shadows lurked the truth.

The murderer was you. The deed done at the moment of escape from the medieval scene, as you leapt back into your sunny June day. Yes, you achieved a sense of safety, but it was but the decision to remain upon the path as laid out by the king, rather than face the truth of what you were doing to your spirit self. You see? It is not really so complicated. Yet at the time, were you but a child still, in many senses, but a child under lock and key, locked in by the king, who was the self as well.

Your journey into timelessness was, as I said previously, very necessary. You held onto that vision from that day forth, a nugget of gold inside, given to you on that day, a wedding gift, knowledge of things to come. When I speak of timelessness, do you not see how it all comes together again, as if no time had passed? Your world then parallels your world now, the two worlds of that day, and all the worlds since. See how nicely they all fit together?

Your puzzle is fitting together quite nicely, but perhaps it is no longer quite a puzzle, My Dear One? Take your pieces now, all the bits of knowledge about the self. This I advise all My Readers to do. Accept all your parts; your inner parts; your king, your princess, your dutiful child self, and your spirit self who is so capable and available to have experiences. Allow them to coexist in truthfulness; acknowledging, accepting, and allowing them to be present in this time of timelessness, with this gift of knowing who you are. For you are all those pieces; and your fairy tale is not over yet either. You have many more experiences to come!

#405 Invitations into Other Worlds: Shifting into Heightened Awareness

Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Dear Jeanne,
Today I have some questions about experiences in other worlds. Recently my seventeen-year old daughter, Maggie, related an experience of literally walking into another world. I have also had many experiences of crossing over a line that clearly delineated one world from another. Her experience was very recent. She was at a park near a lake with some friends. It was night, around 9:30. As they entered the park she was aware that something did not feel quite right, that there was something weird about the energy there. She remained aware of this uncomfortable feeling, a little uneasy. She recalled standing on the edge of the grass where it met a small sandy beach at the swimming area on the lake. As she stepped over the line onto the sand everything changed. She was very conscious of the shift, as everything visually turned wavy, like rippling water. She also experienced a rushing sound in her ears, pressure in her head, eyes, and chest, and the feeling that she was under water, almost as if she were drowning. She knew that she only had to step back again onto the grass to stop the encounter. She didn’t panic, but it scared her.

When she told me about this I was reminded of an experience I had when I was twenty-four. I was living in Sweden and was about to get married. In fact, that day I had been sewing my wedding dress, something that I know is taboo in a lot of cultures, but nonetheless I made my own wedding dress. I went out for a walk in the early afternoon. It was June 1977, a beautiful sunny day, clear and lovely, the sky a crisp blue, not a cloud in sight. I walked along a path I had walked many times before and would walk many times again. It went through an area that was fondly known by everyone in the rural neighborhood as the “horse meadows” because at one time, though no one could ever tell me how long ago, horses had been kept there. The meadow was now overgrown with trees, shrubs, wildflowers, and tall grasses. About halfway across the first meadow there was a tractor path, which defined the beginning of the second meadow. On this day, as I crossed over the tractor path I entered another world. The atmosphere shifted. It was no longer a beautiful, clear, and sunny June day. It was now damp, cool, and misty. In my ears was a rushing sound and I could perceive voices in the distance, almost as if they were coming through a radio that was not quite tuned to the right station. My vision was blurry, shimmering, that underwater feeling that Maggie describes. As I perceived three or four people on horseback in medieval dress, under a cluster of trees, I was suddenly aware that I should not be seen. I knew that if they saw me I would be in grave danger. I stood as still as possible behind a small bush, trying desperately to hear and see, but couldn’t maintain clarity. Every now and then a few words would become clear and my sight would take in a detail. There seemed to be an aire of intrigue about the whole situation. I had the feeling I was eavesdropping, that I was privy to the final plans for a murder. This was a rendezvous, with a definite overall feeling of negative intent. Suddenly, I was aware that they could see me and I knew I had to get away. I also knew that if I could get back over the tractor path to the other side I would be safe. I ran as fast as I could, with them in pursuit, the horses’ hooves beating the ground behind me. I literally threw myself over the line, falling into the grass on the other side of the tractor path, back into sunlight, the same June day I had left only moments before, out of breath, my heart pounding, and totally amazed at what I had just experienced, wondering what it meant. I had no explanation for it. I didn’t tell anyone about it at the time, and it never occurred again, no matter how many times I walked through the meadows.

In subsequent years, I have had many experiences of crossing over a line. On one occasion, I did not return to conscious reality for several weeks. Then all of a sudden, the feeling of being immersed in another world abruptly lifted when I had a car accident. I consciously woke up, back in this world, when I hit a deer. I instinctively knew the deer was necessary to get me out of the world I had been caught in for so long. I still thank that deer for giving its life so I could return to this reality.

Maggie and I both wonder if you could explain to us the meaning of entering such worlds. What are we meant to learn? How does that line appear to be so definite? And is it related to specific spots? Maggie discovered that other people at her college have had similar experiences at that park. And another girl who was with her that night felt the same weird energy, though she did not have the same experience that Maggie had. It is rumored that someone drowned in the lake and she felt as if she were experiencing that person’s death. Are we in fact entering another world when we have these experiences?

I will begin by answering that last question. Yes, you are entering another world, a world that shifts you into heightened awareness. As you enter through the veils, so to speak, as you step through the veils, that action shifts you into heightened awareness. As you pass through that veil, it is removed. Your awareness is sharper now and you are able to perceive what you normally cannot perceive, since the veils block it from you. I would elect to call it entering another world, but in reality are you entering into a state of another awareness, tapping into your innate ability to perceive, see, feel, and know without forethought, or involving a thinking process. You simply know, by your acutely aware state, that something has shifted. You know, intuitively, that you have crossed a line, and yes, that line you speak of does often exist in the same spot. It is available for those to access who are at a place of openness and awareness, living a life that is more energetically aware than many people dare to admit. Your young daughter has the trust in her own energetic experiences to retain the details because she accepts that they are real; without judgment she trusts her experiences as being real. And that is quite a gift!

Many people are too quick to dismiss their encounters in other worlds, even though they have such vital experiences as you and your daughter have had. I know that you, My Dear Jan, have had many more experiences than you like to admit, and I also know that the process of leaning to trust those experiences as being necessary and vital to your evolutionary growth must be accepted and learned from. When you step into heightened awareness, your normal perceptions and mechanisms will not work as they do in your everyday world. Your hearing does not hear as it does normally, but it becomes heightened, along with your overall energetic awareness. Your hearing becomes ultra-sensitive, as you hear everything, until it hones in on the world you are entering and being shown. Your “knowing,” as I call it, is also ultra-heightened. You do not think or perceive in quite the same way as normally, but without a shadow of a doubt you are aware of everything that you are experiencing in a different way, instinctually, as an animal is aware. Even your body awareness is heightened, as you experience your energetic self. So even the feeling of choking, or difficulty in breathing, and pressure upon the body that Maggie experienced, although frightening, may still be experienced energetically, more than physically. When entering another world, all of your normal sensations increase in value and potential and, if you retain your calmness, you can have quite an experience.

Why are we offered these experiences?

In most cases, one is offered such opportunity in order to grow. For in no other way will you be able to understand what energy is all about without having experiences. Without experiences will you not understand good and evil. You will not understand how communication and guidance is possible. You will not be able to trust your own journey if you do not understand that such opportunities are available. But also know that you do have experiences, and quite often.

Many times are the lines into other worlds less defined than what you speak of. Often is awareness not increased to such a heightened state, yet are you in another world. In such cases, dullness is more likely experienced, a void, or a state of waking sleep, where you clearly cannot shake your self out of a state that has you caught. Such occurrences are also meant to offer you the opportunity to recognize that the world you live in is not so clear cut and tactile as you might want to believe, but that it is, in fact, quite amorphous.

If you can perceive of your self, and everyone and everything in your world, as energy, vibratory energy in constant motion, so can you perhaps more easily understand what I am talking about. If you look around you at your solid world and say: “Okay, that chair is not really solid, but is, in fact, simply defined by my perceiving it as solid,” so perhaps can you also imagine that you can perceive energy as anything you like. Keep in mind that energy is all around you, in formless presence, as well as in the concrete world you have created because you know it as such. You know a chair is a chair because you have learned that it is so. But if you are in a state of heightened awareness then everything will be perceived as energy. This energy is not seen, but it is known, which is a different seeing perception. Knowing is awareness of energy. It is awareness of perceiving other energy beside your own, and this is what you have described in your experiences.

Why and how did I enter a world that appeared to be medieval? What was I specifically being shown in that encounter?

You were being offered the opportunity to experience timelessness; no time; the experience of pure energy, without the definitions of time and space, as you know it. I have often imparted the knowledge that time and space do not exist, that everything is and has always been, that all worlds are one world, existing simultaneously. As awareness is trained and heightened, so are you more able and available to experience all worlds. You entered another world, one that you had learned had happened a long time ago, one that was labeled “medieval,” yet could you enter it in present time, for there are no time zones, there are no centuries and years where energy is concerned. Those things, those definitions, are merely well-utilized in your concrete world of learning, in order to teach you the difference once you have experienced timeless energy. All worlds are simultaneously in existence. When I speak of being right with you, yet in another world, so is it true, but you will not understand this until you experience it. You, Jan, have already seen me in your world, though I exist in another.

Many among you have had energetic experiences that you could not explain. You have gone into other worlds, and returned from them. But you have often returned confused, or electing to disbelieve, to push aside your encounters with energy, as too absurd, too frightening, or too troubling to retain awareness of. But I seek to tell you, now, that these are the experiences you need in order to evolve. How can you evolve to another world, when you die, if you are not ready to accept that such worlds exist? By your experiences, you are being given the opportunity to track and study how these shifts to other realities take place, so that, as they happen again and again, you may retain your awareness of them. And so you may begin to live differently as a result of them too.

I can say, that as I gained awareness of other worlds, and as I recapitulated, I realized that throughout my life I have entered many worlds, and do almost every day, in some way. Sometimes a shift is very subtle, but it is experienced nonetheless. But, I think I would not have gotten to such a place of acceptance, trust, and awareness if I did not dare myself to push through my doubts and fears.

Yes, the human is burdened with fear and doubt. They are your greatest gifts and challenges. If you look at your life, what else has truly challenged you? You will find that they are at the root of everything. Fear is your first biggest block, and then must your doubt be hammered down and broken through in order for you to regain the awareness, innocence, and trust that you are born into that world with. You did not enter that world clothed in fear and doubt, but you entered it naked, with awareness, and knowing, able to see all worlds at once. But as you grew your awareness was taught over, that the world is concrete, tactile, and limited. It is your challenge to hold onto, to re-discover, the awareness that you were born with, but that was immediately clothed in the perceptions of the world you live in.

These ideas of energy and awareness have I spoken of often. Your experiences, My Dearest Jan and Maggie, are simply your lessons in awareness re-igniting and re-awakening. Your wings of knowing are being offered to you each time you have an experience that so jolts you. But keep in mind that each day are you also having tiny jolts that may not be quite so abrupt or noticeable, but they are happening nonetheless.

In conclusion, I suggest that you, and all of My Readers, attempt to anchor your selves in your awareness, reminding your self that you are in training, that you are a student of other realities. Remain open to experiences, but retain your anchor in your world, always, in order to keep your balance. You are in control of when you elect to step back over the line that defines one world from another. But as you step back over, please do not dismiss or forget the experiences you have had. For they are extremely meaningful and valuable, teaching you about energy in its purest form, without the confines of time and space, as defined by the minds of men who fear and doubt their own experiences.

I don’t feel that I did have control of stepping back over the line in my experience of hitting the deer. I felt it was the deer that jolted me back. Did I in fact have control? Could I have gotten back on my own?

Yes, My Dear, you could have, yet do I know that you needed that valuable time lost in that other world. Do not doubt that you elected to hit that deer, as much as that deer elected to stop you from continuing your forays into the other world. It was time for you to return and you both knew it.

What about people who get caught in dark places, by dark, negative, or evil energy?

That is another story, which we will discuss another time. But be aware that just as it was your choice to return from one world by violent means as you crashed into that deer, so is it a choice to enter and experience the dark side. Many of you may have that experience in this lifetime, while others of you may already have had your full experience of the dark side in other lives. Do not doubt that your experiences in other lives are also meaningful. Your accumulated experiences are part of your growth. I can see we still have many things to talk about, but this is enough for today, My Dear One!

Continue your journeys. Do not reduce your experiences to frightening encounters, but accept them as invitations into other worlds. You must be ready for such experiences or you would not be receiving such enticing invitations. Stay calm and balanced as you continue to go forward. And remember, you are surrounded by good. Awareness of this will keep you safe. Your own strong energy will be your protection, if you keep it alive and strong with this intent of good. Trust what you are being shown, My Dears. It is reality. It is energy. And it is valuable and meaningful that you allow your awareness to grow and be practiced in this manner. Good Luck!

#404 Chuck’s Place: Crossing the River

Welcome to Chuck’s Place, where Chuck Ketchel expresses his thoughts, insights, and experiences! We open first with Jimmy Cliff reverently stirring our souls with Many Rivers To Cross.

Many rivers to cross
But i can’t seem to find my way over
Wandering i’m lost
As i travel along the white cliffs of dover

Many rivers to cross
And it’s only my will that keeps me alive
I’ve been ripped, washed up for years
And i merely survive because of my pride

And this loneliness won’t leave me alone
It’s such a drag to be on your own
My women left me but she wouldn’t say why
Guess i’ll just break right down and cry

Many rivers to cross
But just where to begin
I’m playing for time
There’ve been times i find myself
Thinking of committing some terrible crime

Still this loneliness won’t leave me alone
It’s such a drag to be on your own
My girl left me but she wouldn’t say why
Guess i’ll just break right down and cry

Many rivers to cross
But i can’t seem to find my way over
Wandering i am lost
As i travel along the white cliffs of dover

Many rivers to cross
And it’s only my will that keeps me alive
I’ve been ripped, washed up for years
And i merely survive because of my pride

For three years prior to our wedding night, Jeanne and I had had sex hundreds of times, however, as I mentioned in The Book of Us, it was not until that night that the tide of orgasm swept over her ego controls in monumental release. That experience had indeed been prepared for through countless efforts, but for Jeanne it was the ritual of matrimony that enabled this dramatic transformation. Transformation means literally, a new formation. In energetic terms, a new circuit is created. Energy can flow in new ways. In Jungian terms, the deep power of the collective unconscious benevolently overwhelms and reshapes the personality in a numinous experience. In shamanic terms, we discover how to shift the assemblage point and enter a different world. We can gain access to, or remain in, that world at will. In effect, we learn to merge our worlds by dropping a veil: all worlds are one.

In ancient societies, the tracks of ritual were deeply laid for all to traverse at major life transitions. Some transitions were forced and violent. Pubescent rites of passage, in many tribes, required boys to be stolen from their family homes in the night by the village men who then physically mutilated them through circumcision and other forms of painful torture. Undergoing these rites ushered these young boys into adulthood, never to be returned to their family homes. They entered a new world, energetically transformed.

The youth in our modern world remain largely uninitiated. The ancient practices have long since receded deeply into the collective unconscious, where they may be encountered as symbolic dreams beckoning transformation. Physically, our youth undergo and display tattoos and piercings, undoubtedly and unknowingly drawn by these stirrings of the collective unconscious. They seek desperately to discover and experience these ancient energetic pathways by breaking down ego control, with its constraints of rationality, through journeys with alcohol and psychedelics. There are many casualties in those journeys, as hidden behind those elixirs are entities that seek bondage, forever feeding off the energy of the would-be initiate, now frozen in addiction.

How do we help our youth cross this river to adulthood in our deregulated world, currently in a state of collapse? After Reagan, the forces of greed were unleashed to feast upon the “youth market.” Cartoons became the vehicle to manipulate children’s needs by attaching them to products in the market. Families would, ultimately, break down, forced to work more and more, as the forces of greed found cheaper slave labor throughout the world to replace an honest wage in America. Phony wars, like Vietnam and Iraq, have led to deep distrust by the youth of an adult world’s ability to legitimately help them cross the river to adulthood through military service. An adult world, which lacks integrity, has to be rejected.

This is the opportunity that President-elect Barack Obama presents. The youth are galvanized by this man. Something deep within them senses integrity. Barack Obama must now re-regulate society. This means creating structures of integrity to allow life to move forward. Obama speaks of service for the youth. I view this as potential new initiatory channels, based on right action. The youth will submit to initiation in an adult world they can trust.

Rituals do not guarantee transformation. Sometimes only part of the self makes it across the bridge over the river. There are many river crossings, where we are offered the opportunity to retrieve all parts of the self. I have had many dreams in my life where midway across the bridge the river rises, washes out the bridge, and I am forced to turn back. Sometimes we are stuck between worlds and we must undertake the ritual of recapitulation to affect a crossing.

Life itself, the ultimate tidal wave, forces us into adult roles, whether we are really ready or not. And so we perform like chameleons, with the deepest truths concealed: that we are mostly pretending and that our deepest needs go unsatisfied. What to do? The shamans suggest that our greatest challenge is to overcome self pity and self doubt. They suggest that our attachment to those habits upholds a familiar, constricted, comfortably uncomfortable self. This in itself, they contend, is a magical act, molding the body through repetitive physical actions, constructing a world to inhabit. Essentially, we physically encase those beliefs and walk the earth in movements that reinforce that world. The shamans suggest that we stalk a new self, that we play the ultimate game of dress up, acting as if with conviction, thoroughness, and most of all, persistence. This can be translated as creating our own rituals, or practicing, with devotion, ancient rituals that have heart or resonance. Be thorough and disciplined in your practice, without attachment to the outcome and yet, with certainty, that at the right moment you will be transformed.

One of my own moments of transformation, also mentioned in The Book of Us, came at my initiation into the “clan of hunters,” in the sea of Jamaica. I sheepishly and foolishly shot many spears, as many fish amusingly swam away from my youthful uncertainty. But, I continued to return to the sea. One day, the alignment happened. The world stopped. I merged with my fish, which lay still, awaiting my spear, and I was initiated into a new world. And yes, I had to suffer a deep physical wound in this altered state. From then on, I lived the ways of the hunter, rarely missing; shooting with sobriety and deliberation, only what I needed.

The world now is undergoing a period of collapse, reformation, and transformation, as we seek to discover the pathways to the true wellsprings of life. On a collective level, we need adult leadership, founded on integrity and right action, to re-regulate genuine access to those wellsprings of life and allow for needed transformation.

To personally prepare for transformation, we can stalk our needed changes by performing the necessary preparatory actions, impeccably, and with persistence. We perform these actions with a calm certainty that at a definite moment, which we cannot predict, a deep alignment will kick in, and transformation will occur, as we are swept across the river into a new world. We are calm Riverwalkers walking with awareness, awaiting the crossing.

Until we meet again,
Chuck

#403 Powerful Energy Will Be Tugging At Your Heart Strings

Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Dear Jeanne,
Do you have some guidance for us today?

Allow yourselves to enjoy the stirrings of love and compassion as the universe pushes for such activity. However, do not feel let down if your own experiences are not of this sort, for not all will feel such energy. This type of energy is available for those who are ready to receive it, not because they are special, but because they are at a place to learn from it, and to use it wisely, with awareness. If you are feeling stirrings of compassion, be aware that, during this time now, you can get your self into quite a fix if you follow your impulses. Far better to remain aware but distant as this energy now gets somewhat tricky.

I speak today of feelings of love, of sexual feelings, of stirrings of desire, for those are the attributes of this energy that you may feel and wish to act on. If you are in relationship transitions, so is it wise to be careful, for the energy is apt to take over, and this is what you must be aware of. When I suggest that you might be better served by remaining distant, so do I mean this in the sense of your outer world. For if you are not sure of your feelings in a relationship, if you are on the verge of either commitment or break up, so will you be tested and challenged now. This weekend will surely test your emotions, your decisions, and your place as relates to love partners, potential love partners, and past love partners.

I suggest that awareness of the energy will aid you, but I know also that it is often impossible to stay focused on the possibilities when you are in the midst of affairs of the heart. If you find your self stranded in the land of no return, briefly captivated, and placed in the hands of that deeper physical self, so must you perhaps go there in order to learn what you must learn. And the learning may be good, even an excellent growing experience. Or the learning may catapult you to a moment of recapitulation, or it may solidify your already made up mind. All of these possibilities, and others, will aid you; so do not shrink from your encounters and your experiences of self in the energy system that now affects the planet earth.

Be aware that this time is fraught with dual emotions and many mirrors. You may feel quite confused, even as you are feeling tender, loving, gracious, and accepting. But look also around you at the rest of your life so that you can maintain a balance, seeing the bigger picture regarding your decisions that will most likely be made on an emotional level during this energy time. When relying on emotions alone may you have experiences that you may not otherwise allow for, and although this is good, so is it also risky. Look outside of you often over the next few days in order to achieve balanced awareness, and in order to see your reality more clearly.

Take time to breathe. Take time to step back and say to your self: “Hey, wait a minute. Where am I?” Because you will be deeply drawn into one world and you may forget your other world, and although this is a valuable experience, so do you not want to stay caught in just one world. You want to have experiences, but you also want balance.

So as I said in the beginning, keep your self alert. Keep your self aware that there is powerful energy that will be tugging at your heart strings. There is a grand feeling of love and relationship brewing. But it is up to you to remain aware of where you are now in your life. What are you ready to risk? What are you ready to experience? And what position are you going to allow your self to end up in? Are you balanced enough to go for it? Or are you feeling uncertain about your place, as far as relationships go?

Make your choices based on this knowledge of the energy. Remember that it is powerful, that it will pull at you and nudge you, but that it is up to you to decide what you will do as you feel its definite tug. Are you not a sexual being? Yes, you are! But you are also smart and ready to grow. Your challenges, My Dear Ones, are going to be between these two aspects of self, the sexual self and the intelligent knowing self. These two aspects must consciously make some decisions together. Keep also in mind that love of self is also called for during this time. Turning inward and offering the self some longed for love and compassion may be the best alternative to the outward pull. It’s up to you!

Personally, if I were any of you, I would have some fun with this energy, but I would keep it focused on my inner sexual self, rather than my outer sexual self. By that I mean the sexual creative energy that will be quite charged this weekend. What else can you do with it? Where else can you utilize it, if you are not certain that this is the time to leap into an affair of the heart? Perhaps this is the time to reach your hand to your self and embrace the tiny self inside who has been asking you to come and play, to come and talk, to come and reacquaint your self with each other?

Find your love of self now too. A powerful use of this energy would be to spend some time alone with your true self, your tender self, your inner self, your good self, your knowing self, your accepting self, your trusting self, your best friend self. Find out who you are now, no matter what your experiences may be. It is a good time for exposure of truths of the self, but also a good time to embrace those truths, with love and compassion for the self who experiences them.