Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Today, a Reader asks a question.

Hi Jan/Jeanne,
I want to write this without over-thinking or worrying but am afraid I’ll be shot down. I want to know about the big picture and the answers to the “whys” and “hows” of our existence. I know that I probably don’t currently have the right mind or frame of reference to comprehend the answers I am seeking and I know I need to look within. I am in a process of making peace with my newfound (or againfound?) awareness that I am energy and that I will continue differently. I am definitely on a path and am awakening. I just need more of a framework for the purpose of it all. Why do I want to evolve, why should I practice being in my energy body?

If energy is neither created nor destroyed how do we exist? If we are everything and God is everything why do we need to learn anything at all, and why can’t we just remain as one awake consciousness? It’s hard to feel, if all we are doing is awakening to what we are and returning to where we came from, that this is all meaningful. And yet, I know it is. Would you tell me about the way things are in terms I might be able to sort of understand? I know when I am confused or suffering it is because of misunderstanding and I need to accept what I don’t know, but you say we should know everything, so I am asking…

Thank you (both).
Anonymous

My Dearest One, you question your very existence and that is exquisite, yet do I hear your frustration, your eagerness, and your desire to hurry up the process of learning the meaning of your life. This is not a process to push forward, but a process to sit back and slowly contemplate. I see by your questions that you may feel you have missed something and you must hurry to catch up, but this is not so.

You awaken when you are ready to awaken no matter what you have been taught or know. None of it will matter in the least until you are ready to accept it. I will address, first, your question of life’s meaning. Why indeed must you exist upon that earth if you already contain all knowledge, if you are energy, and if you are simply returning to awareness of such?

You are energy. You do contain all knowledge. Your awakening, however, is in order to discover this. You will not evolve, you will not complete your lifetimes upon the earth if you do not gain access to what this truly means for you alone. Each one of you, each being upon that earth, has the potential to fully experience life as an energy being, but how many people actually do? Awakening is not, in fact, gaining access to the big picture, as you suggest. Awakening is being able to move far beyond the big picture. The big picture is as much a construct of man’s as the buildings, the roadways, the cities and communities he designs and lays out.

I must say, My Dear, that to have a firm picture of life and its meaning near at hand would be quite limiting and uninviting. The true meaning of life, of existence, is learning to allow the self to truly be aware that there are no limits to the possibilities and the potential of each one of you.

Life is unending. Energy is unlimited in its potential to evolve. The process of evolution is one of awakening to your personal potential, at this time, in this life. The meaning of this life will be revealed as you allow your self to slow down, to temper your pursuit of all things, and to truly discover what it means to be energy. Your own energy is unique to you, and your access to all knowledge will be gained as you learn how to use your own energy.

In order to truly access your own energy, you must learn to trust that everything is possible and that your own process must be discovered, uniquely your own. No other person will have exactly the same process as you will have. No other life will unfold as your life will unfold. No one else will have your experiences, and no one else will learn the lessons that you will learn. Your life is uniquely yours and this is what you must take into your consciousness, into your intelligent questing for meaning. Begin with the true facts of the self. You are unique.

You are comprised of energy, but have you discovered what it feels like to be you in this form, as an energy being? It is time for you to allow your self to accept your self as an energy being, unlike any other, unlike any description or explanation you have heard or read about. It is time to have a true experience of the self as energy so that you may truly own the self as such.

This process does not belong to the bigger picture. Learning to be energy is being able to totally detach from the world as you perceive it, as you have been taught, as you have thought it to be, and to enter a new state of being. But first you must allow the self to accept the experience. You must allow the self to refuse everything you have ever been taught in order to truly be open to the experience.

Many people have experiences of energy, but they refuse to accept them. Many people prefer to put them into a known context, giving them an explanation that will placate their fears of oblivion. In truth, an experience of energy, though it may feel like death itself, is as familiar as your own body, for it is where you come from and where you go as you reincarnate. Your time of awakening is reminding you of this familiar and known aspect of self, and the jolt of fear is the moment of shift when one reality disappears and another appears.

Your existence upon that earth will not become clear, no matter what I say, until you allow your self to truly experience the self as energy. If you can, without attaching to the known familiar world, have an energy experience, in full waking consciousness, you will begin to understand that most of your questions are both meaningless and the most meaningful questions one could ask. Once you allow your self to experience your true uniqueness, as an energy being, you will find that the answers to your questions will become readily available, but you will also discover that there are many more questions that you do not even know yet.

Your awareness is burgeoning now. I see that you are eager and ready to jump into a new life, yet are you preferring to have it fully laid out and explained to you ahead of time, but I am afraid that this is impossible for me to do. You must take the first step alone, My Dear One, as we all must, and learn what it means to be the energy that you truly are.

Why do you want to evolve? I ask the same question of you. I think the answer is because life, as it now presents itself to you, does not offer enough. Life, as you live it, is not exciting enough and it does not fulfill your eager spirit self. Only by allowing the self to accept the uniqueness of the self, in energy, in experience, and in full potential, will you begin to understand what a fulfilling and meaningful life is.

To find your energy: begin to slowly allow your mind to quiet its busy chatter, its questioning pursuits, and find the door of silence within that will lead you directly to the experience of the energy body. Find it, however briefly, a little each day. Go without question or desire. Go simply for the experience. You do not need anything in order to do this; just the self, the calm self, the quiet body and quiet mind self, the inner self, unafraid, asking simply for a glimpse of the energy self.

I may not have answered your many questions because I feel that my answers will not suffice until you allow your self to get to a quiet place of inner calm and experience the self suspended in nothingness, until you see for your self that there is nothing to fear. Once you overcome your fear of nothingness you will be able to move beyond the world that is so neatly constructed around you and into a world of energy, where everything is possible, where everything is meaningful, and where everything is known. And then you will see that there is no way you will want to stay there either, because you will understand that there is so much more beyond that. As you allow your self to have experiences of energy and journey into the unknown, you will discover that there is always a new unknown to discover. To get to the place of evolution is to get to this awareness. There is always a new world to explore, just beyond the one you are in right now.

Good Luck with your explorations into the unknown self. The first door is already slightly ajar. Are you going to shed the old clothes that have been your protection from the unknown and go into it fully unclothed, as pure naked energy? This is what your awakening is asking of you and this is the first question to ask the self: Am I ready? Do I dare let go of everything in order to have a true experience of myself as pure energy?

Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Dear Jeanne,
Chuck and I have been talking about a very noticeable shift that has taken place over the past week or two. You have, specifically, been mentioning this possibility lately in your messages, and Chuck addressed it in his blog last Saturday in his article regarding Shifting the Assemblage Point. Many people have been reporting to us this week that they are having noticeable experiences of shift, of finally connecting with their inner voice, of channeling other energies, of noticing themselves as energy, of seeing the world differently, and of observing other worlds; in essence, experiencing a shift in their assemblage point. Can you offer us some means of anchoring in this new place, this new slot of the assemblage point, as Chuck calls it, so that the connections forged remain firmly present, perhaps a mantra or a prayer?

My Dear Jan and Chuck, and My Dear Readers, this is indeed an anchoring time and my messages have been offering you the means of navigating through this time of shift so that you may attain this new sense of self in the world and, in awareness, maintain this awakening self. So, yes, an anchoring mantra or prayer is certainly appropriate, but first I would like to add that, although many people have forged their way through this time by trusting their intuition, there are many others who struggle, and I do not wish to by-pass their continuation of awakening.

The awakening process is constant, so do not feel bad if your own process is still in struggle mode, still unclear, or still powerfully present in your life in some other manner. No matter where you are in your life, in your recapitulation, in your attempts to jolt or shift your self, your process is unique. It is necessarily your very own process and it will unfold according to your specific needs, lessons, desires, and proffered method of accepting your journey. In essence, your time of clarity and shift will come when the time is right for you to experience it and when the world around you is ready to offer it to you, and accept if from you as well. You will know when you are ready because you will notice that something in your perception of your world will be different. You may be faced with doubt, a slight inclination to wonder if you are making things up, or even a lack of trust, but in the end your worlds, your inner and outer worlds in cahoots, will keep you newly aware of just enough to tease you into trusting the magic of your spiritual growth and connection.

I ask that you remain open and trusting of spirit and this is the same message I offer to those of you who have experienced a shift. Continue to trust your observations, your inner voice, your sense of connection to higher realms but, mostly, trust your self. It is your innocence that is awakening and if you can hold onto your true innocence, your belief in this aspect of self as guiding, so may you more fully anchor your self in your new place of awareness.

Awareness must be cultivated and this means remaining open and inviting of experiences, without interference from the old voices that will attempt to dissuade you from your newfound trust. Trust in self is your anchoring place. This is the slot, as Chuck calls it, that you are becoming aware of now, if a definite shift has occurred in your life. The slot of self-innocence and awareness is deeply steeped in learning what it means to trust. Your anchor next becomes openness. That may sound quite the opposite of an anchor, but to ground the self in trust requires allowing the self to remain open. If you simply accept that you have shifted and lock into a new aspect of self-perception, what good will that do you if you do not remain open to what comes next? To shift is not synonymous with settling in to a new complacency. Shift requires acceptance, yet it also requires continued openness. It requires you to allow the innocent spirit self to remain vibrantly alive and present in your daily life. It requires a new ability to constantly shift and accept new ideas, new experiences, and new opportunities for furthering your budding awareness. All of this requires the ability to remain open to whatever comes to guide you on your awakening journey.

Today, I offer you, my shifting ones and my struggling ones, this prayer of openness to the energies of life and awareness, so that you may continually grow, anchoring in your truth and in your innocent awareness of the self as an energy being of good and of desire for further growth.

I remain open to my innocence.

I remain open to my own spirit.

I remain open to my abilities to see, hear, and travel in the realms of light and love.

I am an energy being who is learning the ways of true energy, to constantly shift and grow.

I remain open to receiving the lessons I need.

I remain open to receiving the guidance I desire.

I remain open to the love I deserve.

I remain open to giving as much as I receive, for I am an energy being of giving and receiving energy, energy that is positive, growth-oriented, and universally connected to all things.

I am an energy being charged with connecting my own disparate parts, reigning in my scattered desires to the one true desire of my spirit, which is my evolutionary growth.

I trust my innocence.

I trust my journey.

I trust my inner guidance.

I trust my self.

Remain open, My Dear Ones. Your journeys are just beginning. I love you all!

Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Dear Jeanne,
What guidance do you have for us today? Teach us something.

As you make your way in that life, accepting your challenges, conflicts, confrontations, and also your moments of joy and happiness, progress and growth, remain attached to the inner self. This is what I teach you always: to remain aware of the inner self, no matter what appears to aid you in your outer world.

Your outer world is your playing field, offering you everything you need in its environment of assembled purpose and promise. However, your outer world will have little meaning if you do not keep it connected to your inner world. Without attention and attachment to your inner world, your outer world becomes but a drab and lonely place, full of sadness and despair, soon tiresome, heavy, and unyielding.

Without inner connection and outer balance, your worlds will dissolve as worlds of growth and appear as worlds of hardship and duty. Without inner connection, your light will extinguish. This may happen quite quickly, or it may take a long time to realize. Without light your existence will become but a mere automatic situation, your energy on robotic mode, set to continue until drained, without recharging.

Your energy, upon contemplation of its demise in such a manner, will react in tiredness, in exhaustion, in reluctance, and in negligent behavior, dissipating to a mere struggle to go about your day. Without renewal of inner energy your outer life will dwindle to boredom and mundanity. This is certain. Though you may constantly find outer attention, stimulation, and places of interest and intrigue, your inner energy self, seeking to evolve, will remain in deep slumber, a mere hint of untapped potential.

I speak so often of maintaining balance of inner and outer self, for only in truly accepting your place and your journey in that world, while simultaneously asking your inner spirit self to wake up and take on the challenges being presented, will you evolve in your awareness and in your potential to move beyond that realm. Your goal must always be to:

1. maintain awareness;

2. gain access to your fount of inner energy;

3. learn to know it fully; to recognize it; to accept it;

4. and understand how it is available for your personal journey, as you learn to trust and follow the signs in your outer world.

Many of you seek guidance outside of you, and this is good. Until you find that which truly resonates within, you must explore. Exploration is excellent, but it must not become your sole purpose in life. Eventually, you must recognize and accept what your inner self is saying to you. You must stop and rest a while, taking a look at all that you have accumulated and attached to, deciding to simplify, and utilize only that which is most meaningful and has aided you most certainly. Your explorations do not stop at this point, but you will discover that the inner you will now lead you on your explorations in your outer world, showing you where to go next and pointing out what is meaningfully present in your life. To reach this point of trust is essential, and it is also pivotal.

Once you reach this point of being open and aware of your inner self, of its sure and sensible voice, then your journey will turn and take a new direction. New instructions for life and how to face its difficulties will be presented from a new perspective. Your inner spirit self will be available to guide you and aid you as you journey more fully, in balance together, as a team.

Your outer world is your game board; your inner world is your point of command, of decision making, of recognition, and your greatest advisor. I ask that you take a moment, My Dear Readers, to construct the story of your life, even if only a brief sketch of it, as a most necessary journey. Do not wallow in the sorrow of it, but observe the wonder of it. Ask your outer self, your ego self, to accept the challenges of your journey, as a warrior accepts the challenges of battle, going forth as an impeccable partner. Ask your mature inner self to come forth as a wise one, fully aware of your past as a most necessary life story, so that your two selves could meet at this point of recognition and alignment, as a wise warrior.

Your life story belongs to you alone, My Dears, though you meet and greet many people along the way. Your dependence upon others is necessary, yet are you constantly being presented with choices and decisions that only you can make. Only you can truly take your journey. Many elect to slumber through many lifetimes, riding along on the energy of others, never fully taking their own journey, though many attempts to jolt them awake are made.

I ask you today: Are you being jolted awake? Are you being shown, in your outer world, that the only thing you need now is a greater connection with your inner world? Are you balancing these two worlds, these two selves, the warrior and the wise one? Are you ready to teach the self, by allowing for trust in your journey to flourish and guide you?

My questions are many. As teacher and guide I do not give you all the answers, but I pose new questions so that you, My Dear Ones, may awaken to the wise warrior within, who is waiting to guide and teach you how to live, how to love, how to navigate your own life, based on your unique and exquisite story, and on your fullest potential.

Your path ahead is always golden, if you allow your self to trust such an idea, if you allow your inner energy to glow more strongly, and if you maintain energetic balance between your wise inner self and your ego warrior self, in companionable coexistence. Live a life based on the potential to evolve to wholeness, seeking completion of the cycles of reincarnation, so that you may discover what lies beyond.

Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

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

Now is a time of detachment and retreat into the inner self, a time to pull back and assess the energy of the self, now that shift and change have indeed occurred. The time of turmoil, unrelenting aggravation, and testing, now lapses into a time of calm retreat.

I suggest that balance of self become a force and a source of direction and attention over the next few days, so that any changes and any decisions made over the past few weeks may be solemnly solidified, contemplated, and securely owned, as individual and necessary moves on your part.

This is also a time of simplification, best expressed in detaching from objects (material and otherwise) and from attention to the busyness of the world outside of you, and allowing the self to accept the facts of grief and sadness that surely attend to change. With change is there apt to follow a period of happiness and buoyancy, but this may soon be followed by the old friends and foes, of fear and complacency, in habit and condition. If these old attendants come forth to serve your needs, I suggest that you dismiss them immediately, without regret, bidding them farewell, acknowledging their long servitude, but simply saying, no thanks!

Move on now into the new world that lies at your feet. Look around at all that you have freed yourself from and admire the open road ahead with little debris and conflict on the horizon. The next trick to overcome is to avoid becoming trapped by the false idea that you need to replace, refill, or return to a similar life of busyness, clutter, and outward focus. This is not the next step. It is not necessary to pull toward you compensating goods or relationships, treasures or comforts, but it is a time to experience the joy of simplicity and pureness of inner calm, detached, in a new solitude that is energetically beneficial, but also healing.

In the long run, your focus must remain on this ultimate goal of healing the self, through simplification of outer life, stillness, and awareness of inner life, with appreciation for the inner knowing self to speak its words of wisdom to you as you make your way. In detachment will you find your calm inner self, the one who knows and recognizes the correct path. Only in allowing this knowing self to become your next partner and traveling companion will you find your way to the healing path ahead.

Do not focus on what you have lost, what you have turned your back on, or asked to depart, but focus now on finding the best methods of healing the self, so that inner balanced calm may remain your energetic focus. With healing will come clarity so that, eventually, you will emerge from the fog, parting the misty veils, so that you may emerge from the consequences of your decisions and discover that they were, oh, so right. Your healing will come on struggling wings, but eventually will they lift and carry you forward into new life.

Do not be afraid or fearful of leaving something or someone behind, or doubt your self during this time, for this is a carrying forth time. This is the final push forward into new life, soon upon you. Your clarity of self recently gained must be your anchor, and your desire to evolve and experience the magic of life must be your wings. Your energy must affix itself to continued simplification, inner balance and calm, and optimistic peering into the future, for soon the sun will rise and the horizon will clear, the calm of the new day will greet you with its clarity and its rightness of decision. Your healing powers lie within, based on the decisions made in your outer life. This is how you must continue to weigh your decisions and challenges, based on the correct balance of inner hope and outer desire, simplifying your life to its essence, and living in calm and steady healing peace.

It’s not that hard to do. Once you make the decision to move forward, the greatest challenge is to not look back in regret, sorrow, or doubt. Everything lies before you, full of light, love, and fullness of life. Everything behind you is already known, done, and fulfilled. Turn forward now. Look back only for clarity, to punctuate your decisions made, and to acknowledge that your challenges have been well-met, and your journey fully understood as a necessary path toward enlightenment.

Your recapitulation, if done with a sense of wonder and compassion for the self and others you have encountered on your journey, will become your healing path and, eventually, your looking back will not draw you so strongly, but be viewed as the truthful and meaningful path it was always intended to be.

Take your pride at your accomplishments and put it to sleep now. Allow your calmness to guide you through the frustration, anger, and tendencies that will arise and ask for your attention, for that is their job. Invite your newfound balance to hold you steady and your healing intent to lead you to your place of light, which is lying just beyond the next door. Keep going, My Dear Ones; you are all doing well!

Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Dear Jeanne,
Do you have guidance for us today? Your messages are greatly appreciated by many people around the world. Your guidance is sound and we continue to be so grateful for our connection with you.

Today, I wish to stress the implications of not listening to the inner guidance of the self, the quiet voice that also speaks its own sound advice, for all of you have this ability to connect to the greater guidance available.

Tune in first to your inner self and get to know who you are as a spiritual energy being. Begin to recognize the signs of your capitulation to old ways, old habits, and old patterns of behavior, and understand that such regression draws you further from your anchoring and truthful inner self. Such regression, although damaging, is not fateful, but, if further embedding is allowed, your retreat from its talons may be slowed or stopped in its tracks.

Your greatest enemy is your old self. Your greatest ally is your ancient self, newly emerging, as you take your journey into truth. Allow this emerging self, this spiritual self connected to all things, to be your guide. As you attain new awareness, your ability to maintain new heights of attention must be cultivated. Your ability to bring your self back to this achievement of enlightenment is your greatest battle as you progress.

Each step you take must be viscerally logged and remembered, retained for future reference, but also future recall at a moment’s notice. As you take your journey, your latest steps must be recounted, but all your past steps must not be forgotten, or you risk falling into the hands of the old self.

Although your eyes are on the future, do not lose sight of the lessons you have learned, and the daily insights you must attend to. In order to maintain awareness, a new training in awareness of your journey must be a constant reminder of your enlightenment and your actual progress. I do not wish to speak in riddles, but to clearly state that awareness is key to your continued juggling of life’s challenges and life’s guidance.

Do not forget where you have been. Do not lose sight of your goal. Do not lose the insights you have gained, nor the deeper connection to self as motivator, as instigator, as investigator, as proclaimer, as archeologist, creator, and guide to your history upon that earth. Your time now may be your evolutionary time, if you can maintain awareness of all that is meaningfully presented to you, continually holding onto the facts that are showing you why and what for you are granted such lessons and such promise.

Your time now is a growing time, but it is also, absolutely, an awakening time. You are being offered a link to inner awareness so long buried by the outer world’s promises and structures of glory. But, in truth, those outer contexts unseat your inner self from its grounding and force you to project outward that which already exists within. Your growth is attached to reconnecting the thin lines of dialogue and spurring new energy into the inner passageways to the true self.

So today, I ask that you be aware of how you are prompted to forget this inner self, how you are constantly snipping the lines of connection, and how you are offered the fog of oblivion to teach you what you need to know. The fogs and veils that confuse and hide your truths are present as teachers, so do not wish them away too quickly, but use them to hone your skills of clarity and intent. Use them to seek deeper, to turn further inward for your answers to life, rather than allow them to fog your insights and blur your vision of the true path at your feet.

Make practical decisions, take pragmatic steps, remain honest, giving, and compassionately loving in the outer world that gives you everything you need to be allowed to take your inner journey. Learn to trust that the outer world is as much your guide, your protector, your teacher, as your inner world and your inner connections are. You will find what you need in your outer world to point you in the right direction in your inner world. The two worlds are synchronized so that you may grow. They may appear to be in conflict, but I suggest that this is, in fact, not so, for they each seek only to teach you how to evolve.

I hope my guidance may continually aid you, My Dear Readers. If you ask your self to constantly maintain awareness of self as a journeyer upon a new path of magic and enlightenment, with awareness of each step of your travels through life as equally meaningful and full of guidance as the next, so may you always remain open to life’s glory and desire, as well as its true commitment to you as an individual seeking growth.