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Chuck’s Place: Act Only From Love

Waiting patiently for the right time to push…
-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

I was struck by an allusion to the current state of the world as Gaia’s late-stage pregnancy, in a podcast with defrocked priest and spiritual master Father Sean O’Laoire. Ten years ago, I co-wrote a blog, with Jan, about the state of the world, suggesting then that Gaia was in the early stages of Her pregnancy and that we, as a human race, were best served by the utter stillness of patient waiting.

Father Sean, fully acknowledging Gaia as the feminine face of God, speaks to Her matured state of pregnancy now. The guidance continues to be one of continued patience, but also one of attunement to Her real contractions.

Gaia’s contractions are Divine actions that will bring forth new life. Gaia can be likened to the High Self, the Divine spark in the human personality. When the call for action issues from the dimension of the High Self, it represents the truth of the heart and signals that it is indeed time for the ego to join with the High Self in a mighty push to bring forth new life.

The challenge for the ego is to distinguish the true High Self from the false gods that preach their wares. These can take the form of powerful emotions that demand retribution. If action is motivated by less than love it is simply not right action. Act only from love. Even powerful reactions of self-defense should issue from love alone—love for all thy neighbors.

Actions that issue from the mental plane are equally suspect if they are not in alignment with Gaia’s contractions. If we push without nature’s affirmation we act from our own free will, but we may not be aware that we are under the sway of our own shadow, or the manipulative suggestions of others.

How often when in the grip of desire or inspiration do we get calm and ask the heart, “Is this the right thing to do?” If the heart answers, “Yes,” and Gaia’s Nature responds with synchronistic affirmation, then it truly is time to push, to take action. Nonetheless, the ego must assume sole responsibility for its decision.

Free will should only acquiesce if it knows it is right to do so. It is not right to act if we are truly uncertain. Sometimes we have to go it completely alone. Such is the trial of human existence.

The quickening of events in outer reality now are hastening the breakdown of the world as we knew it. What I labelled a miscarriage, in our blog ten years ago, has proven to be an enduring, disintegrative phenomenon that America and the world were destined to experience.

The karma of America’s shadow has come home to roost. World leadership has fallen from high ideal and devolved into ugly meanness. In full transparency, and with heated passion, America is now living out its shadow of entitlement and primitive instinct.

Tragic as the consequences of this breakdown are, they are truly necessary. Unless we openly encounter the full breadth of our shadow we won’t find our way to responsibly act from the light of truth. As Socrates stated, “The unexamined life is not worth living.”

Nonetheless, there are many entities in this world, and beyond, that luxuriate in the suffering of others. I encourage that we use these petty tyrants as opportunities to lose our self-importance so that we may be fully energetically available to parent the coming New Age of spiritual advancement.

The wars and battles of now are materialist last stands of souls competing for world dominance. They are powerful and destructive, but they serve the completing of karma from human history. The human race must reconcile with its shadow before it can truly be born as an awake spiritual being.

I have written many times that responsible use of the subconscious mind is the spiritual awakening that is heralding the birth of the New Age. This awakening is intimately associated with Gaia, as it is only She who can create that which we intend to manifest.

The true warriorhood of now is to fully reclaim and refine the masculine side of God, that which plants the seeds of suggestion into the subconscious mind.

When those suggestions are for the greater good of all, you can be certain that Gaia will fully contract and bring forth a world powered by love. That’s the contraction to truly push for.

Act only from Love,
Chuck

Chuck’s Place: Love With Wisdom

Let love with wisdom radiate…
-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

We are in a time of short-lived truce. Threat of violence has favored conformity over the challenge of liberty. The I Ching, in hexagram 37, depicts our time as one of the Darkening of the Light or Wounding of the Bright. Energetically, the dark forces predominate and movement is ill-advised.

In such times, we are counseled to maintain the brightness of our candle in the hidden sanctuary of our hearts, with the resolute conviction that the sun will indeed rise again, and that sanity and morality will prevail. Though outwardly yielding, inwardly we act through love with wisdom.

More powerful than an armory of weaponry is the substance of our thoughts and feelings. When we consistently state to ourselves an intention, with the gusto of true desire, our subconscious mind will be drawn to this charged suggestion and ultimately bring it to fruition. Our confidence increases as we experience the truth of this divine conscious/subconscious relationship and as we receive the gifts of all that we have requested.

This is not about wishing, pining, envying or empty imagining for that which we desire, but truly living, in the mind, the knowing and tempered excitement that our seed of desire has been planted, and whose growth is well-attended. Love with wisdom grants to all, without discrimination, the full materialization of their own desires, with the stated caveat that it be for the greater good of all.

Love with wisdom also recognizes the need to prune last year’s deadened remains to allow for new growth. If we hoard old habits that no longer serve us, there is insufficient space for new life. Detachment is pruning that frees the energy for latent and desired new growth to come to life.

Love with wisdom knows that good and evil are equal members of all that is. Love with wisdom knows that the interplay of these forces in the times we are in is essential to the higher refinement of love, the greatest opportunity for life in human form. I quote, in depth, from a book entitled Your Forces And How To Use Them, written by Prentice Mulford in 1887:

“Force by the same law may now be acting on you, but force bringing mainly unhappy results; for being so surrounded by evil or immature thought, we unconsciously open our minds to it, and send back more or less of gloomy, despondent, peevish, or other unhealthy thought. It is almost impossible to avoid this, since we live in a cloud of such thought-element, and our minds may be trained by life-long habit to give way to it. We are unconsciously daily co-operating with this order of thought. We now seek to turn this thought into a higher, better channel; and it is turned into such channel when we, if but for a moment, desire the welfare of all people, and exclude not from such blessing the person to us most repulsive, hateful, and disgusting; for every thought of ours, as sent out, is a force in nature; and the more freighted it is with good to all, the greater is that force; and the more of good it sends to others, the more good through its re-actionary effort comes back to us. A thought is not an “idle breath,” here one moment, gone into oblivion the next: and if but once a day we say in all sincerity, “May the Infinite Spirit of Good bless all men and women!” we shall find, when the grand sum-total of all our life is footed up, that the moment so occupied was of all the most profitable; for the force we sent out in thinking this may have been the only one which penetrated the murky thought atmosphere so prevalent all about us, and, reaching upward, brought down to us its corresponding ray of higher, purer, life-giving and constructive force; for every thought of real good brings to us its like in return.”

Love, expressed with the wisdom here so eloquently described, is how we advance ourselves to higher love rather than be consumed by the flames of hatred, revenge and blame. Thoughts of ruin are indeed all about us, but we have the power to exercise love with wisdom as we train our thoughts upon the greater good for all.

May the efforts of all who feel such in their hearts collectively restore the light to our world.

Love with wisdom,
Chuck

Soulbyte for Tuesday January 7, 2025

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

If allowed, compassion knows no bounds. If practiced, love has no limits. If started, kindness spreads like wildfires. The human potential is unlimited and yet it is often not even given a chance. Begin with the self to turn on kindness, love and compassion. A little more each day goes a long way. One person’s input into making the world a better place really does matter.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Chuck’s Place: How To Love & Be One With Everyone*

Loving reconciliation of the opposites…
-Artwork © 2024 Jan Ketchel

This much I got right from my second grade religious instruction: God is everywhere. God is everything. Nothing that is, is not God. God is, simply, All That Is. Everything and everyone in our world is part of All That Is. We are all one. All includes both good and evil, in everyone. 

We are a holographic universe. Shine a light on any one of us and all of us will appear. As within, so without. As above, so below. Our supposed individuality is simply what we emphasize in All That Is. Though we may emphasize the good, we are all equally, latently evil. 

When we rigidly identify with the good, we project our evil outwardly, where someone else must vicariously live that side of our wholeness for us. This is the stalemate of extreme polarization: We hate our disowned shadows yet remain hopelessly, negatively bound to them, as they reflect in the faces of our supposed enemy. 

To become whole beings we must include all that we truly are. Our personal drama for the life we are in reflects our attempt to reconcile the particular constellation of All That Is that we chose to experience in this lifetime. The ideal is a union of all our discordant parts into a balance that best serves the greater good.

Truthfully, sometimes the balance achieved is extremely volatile and destructive, as is quite evident in the greater world, particularly in America this very day. Nonetheless, for all of its unsettledness, our current world is fully an equal member of All That Is:  All With Equanimity (AWE).

This wholeness does not mean that boundaries and limits are not to be exercised. As the Dalai Lama once answered when questioned, yes, he would use a gun to stop another from killing him. His caveat, however, was that he would not shoot in anger but with total loving compassion for the person trying to assassinate him.

To love everyone, we must begin with ourselves. We are tasked with loving every aspect of ourselves, even the body parts that we try so hard to hide. We must even love the part of ourselves that hates and judges ourselves and others. We must love that part of All That Is. Through loving that part we bring better stability into the dream we are in.

Can we love the greedy, unforgiving, entitled, self-serving, bitter part of ourselves that seeks release through vengeance and retribution? Can we allow ourselves to know and accept that part of our being that is so consciously rejected and buried alive within?

Can we love the mercenary, deceiving, selfish, power hungry materialist within that we dress over with generosity and random acts of kindness? To face the truth of, and love this part of self, we must remove its stigma and find its rightful home within, refining the  personality to reflect its greater wholeness in better balance.

Outwardly, we are tasked to reclaim ownership of the parts of ourselves that we project onto others, those whom trigger us to rage and embroil us in a battle of opposites. Can we have compassion, even feel gratitude, for those who play such a vital mirroring role in our own journey of self discovery?

And yes, we may need to stop them or ignore them, but can we do it from a place of love versus hate? When we hate, we reject a vital part of All That Is. Short of full acceptance, that which we hate becomes our karma and our destiny.

When we can be in love, we raise our energetic vibration to a frequency that gives us direct access to our subconscious mind. The neural networks in our brain expand with harmonious neuroplasticity, as our emotions are elevated and calmed with in-body dopamine and serotonin.

Our brainwaves flow cohesively as our thoughts are calm and collected. Outwardly, we manifest positive vibrations that invite greater social cohesion. Even when all opportunity for outer connection is denied, we rest contentedly within, knowing that all things will pass.

I am particularly grateful to be able to participate in the leela, or Divine play, of now. I hold all epochs in AWE, but truly appreciate the unique opportunity of now, in this Age of Aquarius, to refine love to such subtle levels, as we manifest the next stage of our evolving dream.

With love and gratitude,
Chuck

*NOTE: I threw the I Ching, asking for a reading for America with respect to the outcome of the election today. I decided to suspend interpretation but share the hexagrams obtained, for review by anyone interested: Hexagram #12, Standstill, with the 9 in the 5th place highlighted. The future of this reading is #35, Progress. Do be sure to explore the 9 in the 5th place, which is the key to the whole reading. There are many I Ching interpretations, including the classic Wilhelm translation. A search online will reveal many options. 

Soulbyte for Monday December 11, 2023

-Artwork © 2023 Jan Ketchel

Keep your heart still and your mind clear, and remain open to all that life offers. With a calm heart everything is more acceptable, easier to assimilate and more likely to have a positive outcome. A calm heart is a meditative heart, and a meditative heart is open and available to love. Keep your heart on the loving channel. Meditate on being open and available and loving. There is nothing better than that!

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne