Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Dear Jeanne,
I have intuitively known that when I connect with you I really am connecting with Jeanne Ketchel, the person you were in your last life. Since 2002, when you first showed yourself to me in energetic form, I have noticed an evolution in you as you have related your process of growth on different levels. Often I have heard your laugh, a very distinct one that I instantly recognized when watching a video tape of you as a young girl with your adult voiceover comments, remarks, and laughter. I have also come to know you, through our channeling times, as instantly energetically recognizable. When I connect with other beings the process is not as smooth and flowing as when we are engaged, and I immediately sense different energy than yours.

Chuck has been re-reading Jung’s memoir, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, and although we understand that Jung certainly channeled, his descriptions of his process are often cloaked, as if he were afraid to boldly admit it. It is, however, quite clear that he channeled, even though he prefers to refer to the sources he interacts with as coming from the “collective unconscious,” within himself. It is still a mysterious process for me at times, as I know it is for others, but I would not dismiss it or cease engaging in it because of doubt or uncertainty. Once begun it becomes almost an invaluable necessity, regardless of where the information is coming from.

Jung suspected that at least two of the sources he contacted remained in a sort of timeless limbo when he was not interacting with them. It was only when he questioned them that they awakened and learned anything; in between contacts nothing happened in their world, nor did they evolve, as if they needed his energy in order to exist. To contrast that, I know that you have been evolving independently of our connection, that you have said you are learning all the time.

My first question is: Am I really connecting with you, who I have actually seen and felt in my presence, who Chuck has seen and felt, and who I feel energetically connected to, or am I dipping into the impersonal collective unconscious, as Jung contends? Secondly, are you able to continue growing without human contact; are the dead continually evolving, or do you need human connection in order to learn and grow, as Jung also contends? I hear your laughter as I pose these questions, so that is my third question: Is your identifying laughter also available through the collective unconscious and do we all have access to everything in this so-defined “collective unconscious?”

My Dear Jan, these are quite interesting questions! Do you doubt still that it is I you speak so closely with? Our process together has certainly been evolving as we have both learned how to communicate and how to translate into words what we are experiencing.

No, I do not doubt, I merely question.

I learn as you learn. We do help each other. As I evolve so do you evolve and vice versa, but I am not dependent on you nor are you upon me. The process of stagnation that Jung interpreted as lack of growth may relate to the different levels of awareness that must be interacted with by us in energy form in order for growth and evolution to take place. Each of us stays at each level as long as is necessary before moving on or reincarnating into new life. The dead are not slumbering in timelessness per se, for although we no longer inhabit the physical we are very much alive. This you know, for we have constantly talked about being pure energy, that which you are and that which I am as well. Our Dear Jung was learning what this meant, as well, and would contend that it is true even now. As energy we are all able to enter other worlds and other times. Timelessness does not exist as an absence of time, but as all time now. All time is now means the co-existence of everything that ever was and ever will be. This is what you access, and others access while channeling or traveling out of the physical body. This is why I say that everything is possible. If everything exists simultaneously then everything is quite possible! Perhaps this is what Jung referred to as the collective unconscious, a timeless mix of everything constantly in motion, in energetic motion.

Many are beginning to understand this now. Many are allowing for the possibilities that have often been stated by the mystics and that many of you upon that earth naturally accept as quite normal. The teachings that come to you from myself and others are part of this awakening to the truth of energy, the great force that exists in you and around you, in everything you see and everything you cannot yet see.

So, to more fully answer your first question: yes, you are truly connecting with me and it is my laughter as well. At this very moment my energy is in alignment with yours. When we are not so directly connected and as you go about your day so do I go about mine, energetically speaking. You are learning about being an energy being while in the physical body, as I once did. I am learning about being an energy being in an energy body at all times, and I have many adventures, experiences, and processes separate from attachment to those of you upon that earth. When I contend that as you grow we grow, and vice versa, I am relating that as you human beings evolve, the energy now spent in teaching you is freed up for us to do other things. (See NOTE below.) For there is much work to do in the process of awakening and continual evolution. This, I believe, answers your second question?

Yes, it does. Now what about the Jungian term collective unconscious? How would you describe that, or perhaps you already have by your descriptions of energy and timelessness?

The collective unconscious, Jung’s term for awareness of everything and the knowing that is achievable is fitting, yet is it also limiting in its definition, as understood by many, for such awareness and knowing are not finite. How can you define infinity, endless and timeless as it is? Infinity is perhaps a better term than collective unconscious, for it holds no barriers to either imagination or thought processes. It is infinite awareness and knowing, which all have access to.

So you, My Dear One and Chuck, have experienced me in my infinite state of energy, in visual and emotional energy forms. This is not at all uncommon and, as you know, Carl Jung himself had quite a lot of experiences with infinite energy as well. Our job at this point, as energy beings, is to aid you, those who remain in physical human form at this time, in accepting the paranormal as quite normal parallel world states, available to you as you continue to break through the construction barriers blocking your energetic view. Beyond those barriers, those beliefs that such things are impossible, frightening, abnormal, or that you are crazy, lie the truths of energy, of everything as energy, infinitely available, now, as we speak and communicate.

I wish for energy to be experienced by all, with acceptance of the truth of it. For only in allowing the self to accept the occurrences of energy as part of true reality will you, more fully, gain trust in what I speak of. One day, you will leave that human body and more fully gain the knowledge that now remains somewhat mysterious. Be brave my young energy beings. Though you have lived many lives your process has continually been a learning process and that is what you must remain always aware of, you are learning about true life; life as energy.

Keep always in mind that everything exists. Everything is meaningful. Everything is possible. You are everything, as well, because as energy beings you have access to everything. Keep training your awareness. Keep testing your every hypothesis. Keep teaching your self what it means to be energy. Keep seeking connection.

Thank you.

NOTE: Jeanne has talked about this before when describing the mission of her soul group. She goes into it in more depth in some earlier messages that are contained in the second half of The Book of Us.

Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Dear Jeanne,
Do you have a message of guidance for us today?

Energetically speaking, pay attention to what is happening inside you as you go about your day. Pay attention to your reactions, judgments, feelings, emotions, and the physical manifestations of the issues that own you. Allow that which transpires outside of you to lead you constantly back into the self, requesting contemplation of the self, by the self, and for the self.

This is a good time to gain clarity on your own issues still unresolved, those that crop up over and over again, like weeds in the garden. Constant weeding of your garden will produce a beautiful result. Learn how the weeds creep in and attack the vital plants that you have tended so carefully, seeking sustenance that does not belong to them.

I use the metaphor of a garden today because each of you is fertile ground upon which beauty and sustenance may flourish if properly nurtured and cared for. Your gardens do grow best when well tended. Liken the self to whatever type of garden you most often visualize. Perhaps you are a flower garden, an herb garden, a vegetable garden, or an exotic sculpture garden, or the simplest of paths upon the ground.

Perhaps your garden self requires much attention and nurturance or perhaps your garden is, at this time in your life, well prepared and self-sustaining. No matter what type of garden self you are, or attain to be, so must you always pay attention to the needs of the garden self, for nothing but weeds may grow if left unattended.

Pay attention today to your garden. Ascertain what is most necessary to accomplish in order to keep a flourishing and bountiful self. Determine what nourishment and care are necessary, as you reflect upon this garden self that is mirrored by the outer world, as you pay attention to the busyness of the world in relationship to your inner work.

It is a time of inner work, a time of cultivation, assessment, self-study, and contemplation. Only in deeper connection to the self will you discover what gardening methods are best for the self and what fertilizer is required for continual growth. Even when the growing season wanes, a garden must be tended and prepared for constant inner work, for even in dormancy the garden still lives. Pay attention to this garden self as the outer energy continues to reveal and guide, as it continues to point out the issues of the self and the challenges that must be attended to as you continually nurture and grow.

Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Today a reader asks a question.

Dear Jeanne,
I am currently at the hospital where my Mom has been in critical condition for two weeks now. Most of the time she is sleeping, waking only occasionally when it seems she is in pain or to reach for my hand. It seems like her spirit is still strong, yet her body is struggling for every breath. As I am sitting here next to her, I am terrified for that moment when she will stop breathing and, at the same time, wanting her not to “suffer” any longer. I do believe that we choose the moments of our birth and death, but I am haunted by the question as to why we would choose to continue like this. Also, I wonder where her spirit is at this time. There have been times when I feel like I am communicating with her outside her body, then I wonder if I am hallucinating or something.

Thank you always for your gifts of love and continued guidance.

Thank you Jan and Chuck too.

Love,
Debbie

My Dear One, you describe the in-between state quite well in your question. This can be a lengthy process as the moment of death is awaited by the recipient and those who are left to ponder. Death comes at the right time, at the moment when it is most necessary, but also at the moment that has, indeed, been predetermined, for we do all choose our moment, as you propose. However, how we reach that moment and in what condition we live out our last breaths are determined by how we have chosen to live our lives. So you see, though we choose our lives upon that earth, we also choose many scenarios and give ourselves many options in which to choose enlightenment and evolution. To determine the outcome of our lifetimes we must gain awareness of something greater, beyond ourselves, and this process takes place right up to the moment of our death.

Your mother now lies upon the shores of new life, waiting for her time in one life to end, finalized as she has chosen to complete it, and yet is she also aware of new life to come. In this in-between stage of existence one is open to experiences and aware, in a vague and dreamy way, of two worlds. This is the time of shift, a nebulous time of awareness of two worlds, so one is both present and absent, in body and out of body, in conscious state and in unconscious state. But do not take that to mean lack of awareness, for awareness at this time is both waning and awakening.

Awareness of the world that you, My Dear Debbie, exist in is waning for your mother, who knows of your presence as an engaging spirit, connected for many lives, holding historical data shared by the two of you, yet awareness of your present world has already ceased to be important to her. It is the connection to energy of that world that now holds her to you; her hand reaching out to you in energetic awareness of the world that she is leaving. Her energy body is seeking new awareness as she lies upon the shore, on the edge of a new sea of awareness, the waves gently lapping, inviting her to remember this other world, this other awareness where she has been many times before in energetic form.

If she appears out of body and holds you in her gaze with loving tenderness, or distant remoteness and detachment, do not ponder your own state, for you are not hallucinating or in distress of mental breakdown but, in fact, being invited by her to experience the glory of the disembodied state, the energy state. You cannot deny that its energy is interesting to you, though your rationality wishes to dismiss it.

Allow your self to have the experiences that you receive, for they are gifts from a mother who has not had an opportunity to give you anything that is so meaningful for your future. Although the past is not her intention at this point, you must find a way to attend to her present and future selves for your own resolution. As you watch, wait, and experience your mother’s passing be aware that you are in the presence of transforming energy as it seeks both release and relief in one world and new awareness and new life in another world.

The in-between time is full of interesting tidbits of information for both the waning one and the waiting one. Use your own awareness to understand the questions you pose today, for only in your own experiences will you fully grasp what is being enacted and intended for both you and your family in the presence of transformational energy. Each of you who are present will have a different experience, though each of you must seek to discover what your own lesson is.

What are you being shown by this woman you call mom? What is she showing you alone, for others may not see the same things you see and experience? What is her present state that she seeks to show you, and why does she do this now, at the hour of her death?

You are present at the moment of catalyst. Why? Hold onto your own awareness of two worlds, My Dear Debbie, as you are also in-between now, available to experience two worlds, being shown energetic awareness as it manifests in its many possible forms. Look for energy and you will find clarity. This is also your mother’s process, to look for her own resonant energy, to maintain her awareness of self as energy, and to allow her process to continue, as she holds onto knowledge of her own lessons learned in one life while grasping at what are necessary lessons in new life.

One life does determine the next life. It does determine the process of the in-between state and the process of the time between lives as well. Each life is significant. Each life is fulfilling. Each life is evolutionary. Do not judge another’s journey, but be open to the profound significance of energy as it travels now onward, gratifying it freedom to move on, releasing it to its future.

All life is future life, even as the past must be reviewed, assimilated, and gained perspective on. Even as resolution and acceptance must be gained regarding a life lived, so are the final moments doors of awareness that new life awaits.

I hope my answers and my guidance will open your own doors of awareness as you are granted access to the transformational energy that resides in the body and out of the body of this woman who is, and once was, your mother. Now it is time for you to understand what “mother” means in your present life as she goes into new life, at the moment of her grand transfusion of energy from one state to another, as simply enacted as a slipping away into the waves of awareness as they draw her further from the shores of two worlds and into her new life of awareness in another world.

Her spirit is in her energy and in the choices she has made and now makes. Let her have her experiences, as you also now accept your own experiences of her as an energy being. Watch her closely, with your own energy being, and beware of the conjuring mind, which will seek always to detach from such energy experiences. Stay connected.