Soulbyte for Tuesday May 10, 2016

Nature is composed of night and day, light and dark, the opposites that create the tensions and the sparks of life. So too all human beings have similar natures, the opposites within. How seamlessly nature flows between the two, each taking its turn. So is the challenge of all human beings, to reconcile the opposites within themselves, to know fully both what lives in the light and what sleeps in the dark. Nature is alive no matter what phase it is in, the creatures of the night as alive and active as those of the day. Nature never sleeps. And yet the human being sleeps through much of life, barely aware of the awake self.

Strive always to fully know the true nature of self, to understand the inner creatures—seen and unseen, heard and unheard, light and dark—for it is there that your salvation, your creativity, your truths lie, and your reconciliation too! Know thyself.

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Chuck’s Place: Why We Matter

On an individual level, the deepest question we can ask ourselves is, “Why am I here?” On a collective level, the deepest question we can ask ourselves is, “Why are we here?”

After years of focused exploration in the spiritual realm, seeking proof of and versatility in life beyond the body, I found myself drawn powerfully back into this world. I know my focus needed to first be in the spiritual world because I could not avoid exploring the question, “What comes next, is there life beyond this life?”

We are all dreaming this dream together... - Photo by Chuck Ketchel
We are all dreaming this dream together…
– Photo by Chuck Ketchel

Recently, however, I was drawn powerfully back to focus on life in this world. In fact, for the past several months I have been drawn to volume after volume of notes taken at Jung’s seminars in the 1920s and 1930s. I realize that the energy of now mimics the energy of that time and that Jung was thoroughly engaged in comprehending its questions and attempting to provide answers. Those questions were answered but not solved in his time. We live in the further unfolding of the seeds of that time and are asked, in our time, to provide the next evolution of answers.

The stakes are indeed much greater now. Though the horror of Hitler still hovers, it pales in significance to the threat of total world annihilation, which is the truth of our current predicament. To soften that blow I refer to a dream Jung had where he met a yogi in deep meditation. This yogi was, Jung realized, dreaming his, Jung’s, life. When he looked closer at the yogi he realized it was an exact replica of himself. He also realized that once the yogi awoke from his dream Jung’s life in this world would be over, though life itself would go on in another realm, in a another dream.

That is our predicament now, we are the collective participants of God’s dream. We are the incarnation of God’s dream. That makes us all, like Christ, God made human, set down in our collective world to freely explore the evolution of God’s dream.

Our world dream, Earth, has been an epic dream that has managed to never end because we, in the dream, have always found a way to keep it going, to both create and solve innumerable challenges that continue to evolve the dream. And it’s a beautiful dream, one we’d like to keep going!

In our time, we have forced this dream to epic challenges. Can we rescue ourselves from the clash of forces that scream out for a major evolutionary advancement? Hitler heralded an attempt to maintain purity of line at all costs. That motive has fully matured on the world stage at this very moment. Tribalism, purity of line, separation of races, religions, classes and sexes are all at war with the ultimate world melting pot that we must evolve into if we are to continue our dream on a more secure footing.

The truth is, God is indifferent to the outcome. Here I speak of God beyond incarnation, eternal God. For that God, whom we are the seeds of, all is forgiven because the outcome of our dream was left to us to freely and creatively grow and discover. That is how God grows. We are the creative side of God and we are here to discover things.

If this dream ends, God will not be angry or disappointed. God grows and learns regardless of the outcome. All outcomes are seeds of future eternal dreams. Nonetheless, this is a beautiful dream and it presents fascinating challenges.

From the perspectives I articulate here, I arrive at detachment. For me, detachment is merely having a fuller perspective that enables access to true solutions to problems. Detachment requires, however, that we fully suffer being in finite, human form. Only from that place can the true answers arrive. God outside time and space cannot provide the answers. Only incarnated God, in time and space, can provide the answers. And that’s us!

So, from inside the dream, feeling the full weight of endgame time, waking up now, I find that love in the form of suspending judgment appears as the clear resolution. To suspend judgment is to erase hierarchy; all are equally valuable, good, bad, and ugly. We are all necessary parts of the same whole. Each of us is necessary and vital, playing our unique part in the struggle to evolve the dream.

Love is embracing every aspect of the interconnected whole that we are, each of us trying desperately to solve the problem of a higher level of integration. And those that fight it the most must be loved and embraced for their role in forcing all of us to solve the issue our parent’s generation could only shelve.

It’s fully off the shelf now and WE MATTER, because without all hands on deck this dream will be shelved as the yogi comes out of meditation.

In meditation,

Chuck

 

A Message for Humanity from Jeanne: Who Is Speaking?

Who is that nattering on and what's it got to do with me? - Photo by Jan Ketchel
Who is that nattering on and what’s it got to do with me?
– Photo by Jan Ketchel

Here is this week’s audio channeled message. Perhaps it’s time to pay more attention to those voices rattling on in our heads. We all have them and what they tell us can help or hinder us. Have a great week getting to know them!

Soulbyte for Monday May 9, 2016

You are a container, a vessel. All that you are resides inside you. You are responsible for taking care of your vessel of you, inside and out, not only the physical but the mental, emotional, and spiritual self as well. All that you are needs care and attention. A healthy attitude, a lively presence, and good intentions are all part of keeping the container of you in tiptop shape. But don’t forget to keep it calm, its energy flowing and in good shape too. It’s all important, and so are you!

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Sunday May 8, 2016

Moods come and go. Clouds descend and smother awareness, judgment, attention; interactions suffer and full presence is greatly compromised. Coming out of the clouds one realizes just how far away one had been, how distorted reality, how compromised one’s focus. It’s a good learning experience to be moody, cloudy in the head, removed from reality.

Next time try to remain aware of the self during such cloudy and moody phases and note how mysterious the world becomes, how what one says and does can seem surreal and unintentional. Try to snap out of it and come back to reality, to the present moment and the true self, but if that is not possible enjoy your time in the clouds and learn what you can while there. One day you will need the lessons again, for at some point you will be called upon to put the experience to good use, if you can remember!

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne