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Chuck’s Place: Constructing An Ark In A Flood Of Energy

Construct an Ark…
-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

Introversion can be defined as the quest for divine relationship in the solitude of inner focus. Extraversion is the seeking of that divine communion through connection with energy outside the self. Though most people are dominated by either an innerly or outerly  focus, both attitudes and realms of experience are present in some proportion in all individuals.

The genius in Mark Zuckerberg was his intuition of the latent hunger for extraverted connection that Facebook could facilitate. Social media now dominates human energy and human connection. With the development of AI, with its consumption of all human knowledge, we are nearing the projection of divine wisdom and connection onto ChatGPT.

We also live in a time where the ability to infiltrate the divine relationship between the conscious and subconscious minds, within the individual human psyche, through the influencers of political and social media, is commandeering a person’s ability to think for themselves. Mesmerized conscious minds absorb the suggestions flooding from without, which are then materialized by the subconscious through their beliefs, actions and relationships. We become what we absorb.

When our souls project from our physical bodies in our nightly sojourns into the subtler dimensions of life, we are equally confronted with other souls as influencers. The state of our minds as we launch into sleep will largely determine the kinds of encounters we will attract in our dreaming. Like attracts like.

If befuddled or emotionally charged upon entering sleep, one is likely to find oneself in dream milieus that intensify these unsettled states, thus robbing both body and waking mind of the repose and rejuvenation needed to calmly enter and flourish in the new day.

The ancient wisdom to never go to sleep angry is an ark of safety as we navigate the subtler realms of energy in sleep. Equally valuable, in constructing this ark, is the stated intention, as we enter the hypnagogic transfer station from physical to subtle energetic life, to only have interaction with beings committed to our own greater good and the greater good of all. Thus stated, we are primed in our dreaming to receive wisdom and guidance in the calm waters of those at or beyond our level of spiritual development.

This same ark of safety can be constructed as we navigate the flood waters of waking life. First and foremost, we can exercise our will to be healthful in our choice of the amount of time and the type of content we expose ourselves to in the floods of media.

As thoughts are energetic things, which telepathically can enter us, we do well to choose wisely the thoughts we entertain. Thoughts attract like thoughts from without. Attract and absorb only those that promote the greater good of self and other.

As with thoughts, emotions attract like emotions. Strive to be in a steady current of compassion for all life, without judgment, but avoid sympathy that absorbs problem and emotion that is not yours to bear. Send loving support but maintain firm boundaries.

Trust in the divine relationship between conscious and subconscious minds in all beings to solve all challenges. Empowering suggestions, telepathically sent to others, are of invaluable service to their own mastery of life’s energetic floods.

In both the introverted and extraverted playing fields that we enter, the tide waters are quite high. And, though these waters are naturally cyclic, flooding still abounds on all fronts. The divine connection we are drawn to reflects in all worlds, though we must focus according to our predilection. Ultimately, we will discover that all worlds are one.

To construct our ark of safety to navigate all life, the stated intent for the greater good of self and other is sure to deliver us to smooth sailing.

To the greater good of self and other,
Chuck

Chuck’s Place: Gathering Within And Slowing It Down

Go within and slow it down…
-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

In the late 19th century, the deeply insightful ophthalmologist, William H. Bates, discovered that the best method to improve all errors in vision was to simply relax. The demands of the then ‘modern civilization’, such as being asked to read print in its smallest font, crammed upon a page, invited the reader to strain and squint, as the eyes stressed to read outside their normal, fully relaxed receptive mode of seeing.

What became known as the Bates Method is a series of practices that restores the eyes to the autonomy of complete relaxation with the consequent effect of improved vision. Bates suggested that if we try to see anything, we are in error.

The speed and demands of our current modern civilization, as it wrestles with its pressing shadow of annihilation, is one of constant bombardment of the nervous system, with its deeply arousing thoughts and consequent emotions of anxiety, fear and fretful anticipation. Beyond the eyes, all the organs and structures of the physical body are subject to disease and dysfunction in this stressed mental atmosphere of turmoil.

Meditation is a practice which restores relaxation to the mind. When the mind is at ease thoughts are few, and largely ones of choice, versus the typical state of free association, driving a non-stop train of thought. We are hardly exempt from intrusive thought when meditating, but we do learn to calmly and definitely withdraw our attention from the unwanted thought invitations that confiscate our focus and tax our central nervous system.

When we meditate, we gather in our power of intent. Intent is the power of thought, as exercised, for instance, in the power of autosuggestion to the subconscious mind. We increase the power and effectiveness of intent through retrieving and re-channeling the energy wasted in attention to fragmented thoughts that siphon our vital energy and deliver mixed messages to the subconscious mind.

We live in a universe of thought. From without, our plugged-in generation is incessantly deluged with the thoughts of others, both human and AI generated. At the subtle level of what the shamans call inorganic life—beings or souls with mental powers but not a physical form—we are also telepathically surrounded by the thoughts of others seeking to influence our beliefs, actions and emotions.

We do have the power of intent to cast off these parasitic thoughts, but we must first purify our intent. Here, we must face our own attraction to the excitement that thoughts bring us, yes, even by religiously following the behaviors of those we find obnoxious and absurd. Like does attract like. If we want excitement, excitement will definitely find its way to us.

If we exercise our intent to detach our attention from that which excites and drains our vital energy, it slowly but definitely releases us, as the emotional food of calm that we produce is tasteless to its desire. As with the Bates Method, we are here not trying to do anything, but instead releasing ourselves from programs of thought that disrupt our true state of calm.

As we gather in our intent and power of controlled thought our nervous system slows down. Freed of activating thought impressions it releases the tensions locked in the body from the play of old thoughts, or those of others, that take up residence in the drone of our internal dialogue.

We may be naturally drawn to deepen our breath as our bodies open naturally to the oxygen and subtle prana that feed our minds and bodies. This attention to the breath takes us deeper into alpha and theta brain wave states, where, with intent, we might obtain guidance from our Higher Self, or other higher beings whose wisdom we are open and available to.

When we gather within and slow it down, all things are possible.

Intend it all,
Chuck 

Soulbyte for Monday May 12, 2025

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

Your personal energy matters. How you go about your day matters. Are you angry today? Are you sad, pensive, regretful? Are you consumed by worry? All of these emotions affect your energy, both within yourself and in the world outside of you. Those you meet today will feel your energy. How do you wish to be perceived? Even if someone doesn’t immediately sense your emotional state it will affect them so that they may not be fully available to you and you will not be fully present and available to them either. Begin the day with a little prayer for peace and calmness within, saying something simple to yourself to readjust your inner emotional state so that you are more ready for your day, both within yourself and as you prepare to interact with others.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Wednesday April 30, 2025

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

When issues arise in your life, whether they are personal issues, universal issues, or issues involving others in your life, they are showing you that something needs attendance, that something needs to change, that something is in need of new energy, new life or new direction. Let what comes to guide you become the most important issue for the time being. The world outside of you will present you with plenty to focus on, but the most important thing to focus on is within the self. What is going on inside of you that needs attendance? What are you being asked to address, to solve, or to resolve? What needs to change? In turning eyes inward even the most complicated of outer issues will soon resolve as well, for all that is outside is also inside.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne