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Soulbyte for Friday September 10, 2021

Stick with love. It’s the answer to what ails you and your world; love as right action, right doing and right thinking. In this way love becomes not only an emotion worthy of your utmost attention but it becomes the most powerful activity you could undertake for change. Let love rest in your heart, in your mind, and in your little everyday activities so that it becomes your first thought, word and deed. You can’t go wrong with love if used in this manner.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Thursday September 9, 2021

Maintain certain standards of respect, love and kindness towards others. Let your love shine through in everything you do, for it is not a show of weakness to be loving and kind but the greatest show of positive force you can exhibit. In being loving you show the world how to heal, and that’s a very good thing!

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Wednesday September 8, 2021

Let love guide you and show you the way. To be loving is to know and understand that the energy of love is the cure all for what ails one and all. Love, the silent medicine that you need send merely by intent, is capable of permeating the strongest barriers, even through hatred, greed, and narcissism. It works its magic subtly but piercingly, softly but determinedly, silently but with such power that there is no denying its good outcome. Send love into the world, to those you know and those you don’t, and see what happens. You won’t be disappointed!

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Tuesday September 7, 2021

Do not downplay the importance of right mindedness, right thought, and right action. Though you may have a heart of gold it does no good if you do not use if for good in every thought and action, and if your overall mind is not at peace with the world and what is. Strive to get in synch with what surrounds you so that you are in alignment with the changes that are happening now and those that are coming. Put your heart of gold to good use in everything you do and bring yourself into fuller alignment with all that is. You can’t escape the truth, so you might as well accept it and do something about it, as only a loving being can do.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Chuck’s Place: Apocalypse Is Literally Unfolding

Tough nut unfolding…                              – Photo by Jan Ketchel

Inspiration for this blog comes directly from my reading of my dear friend, and noted Jungian analyst, Michael Gellert’s recently published book: Far From This Land  A Memoir about Evolution, Love, and the Afterlife,  which includes his soul’s profound interactions with the spirit of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. His book also provides a serious exposition of Jung’s technique of active imagination, in combination with dreams and visions, to interact directly with the inner contents of one’s psyche, as well as the greater Spirit.

Rest assured, this is not a dire blog. The Greek roots of the word apocalypse are apo, meaning away and kalyptein, meaning to cover. To take away the cover of something is to unfold its inner truth. To remove the shell of a nut is to reveal the seed of new life.  Apocalypse is, literally, the action of the unfolding of truth and new life.

The dark foreboding cataclysmic connotation of such a pure and promising event that the word apocalypse actually depicts can be traced to its biblical usages. The ancient title for the Book of Revelation, the last book of the New Testament, is Apocalypse. This book depicts apocalypse as Armageddon, imbuing it with end of the world scenarios.

Certainly, the unfolding of new life can be a violent process. The labor that brings forth new human life is often accompanied with cataclysmic contractions, perineal lacerations, and bleeding. Sometimes, thankfully rarely, the unfolding of new life can be fatal for both mother and fetus.

Indeed, the apocalypse of birth is not without great risk. Nonetheless, apocalypse, with all its lethal propensities, is the bringer of new life, not the consummate punctuation of life’s end.

The apocalyptic chaos of birth is the condition addressed in hexagram #3 of the I Ching: Difficulty at the Beginning. The images that form this hexagram are thunder and rain, the elements that combine to generate a great storm, the prelude to a change of conditions.

“Times of growth are beset with difficulties. They resemble a first birth. But these difficulties arise from the very profusion of all that is struggling to take form. Everything is in motion: therefore if one perseveres there is a prospect of great success, in spite of the existing danger.” –I Ching, Wilhelm edition, p.16

Hurricanes, fires and floods abound. Great migrations of people escaping uninhabitable environments or conditions of aggression dominate world decisions. Threats of viral infection impact every world citizen. To remain persevering in this time of obvious apocalypse is to maintain an attitude of awe and love as these rigorous energies, channelled through nature and human nature, bring forth new life.

To succumb to the current apocalypse, as if it were armageddon, is understandable but misguided. Indeed, there is much in the world that must change. We must let go of old ideas and ruling principles that are unsustainable. The unfolding of our new world will, and is, shaking off  that which stands in the way of necessary growth.

However, one ruling principle is far from being shaken off—in fact, is ever refining in this current time of apocalypse—and that is, the rule of love. The obvious polarization of people, even intimates within the same family, is merely the clash of energies generating irrationality in this time of great change. These polarized opposites are stages of differentiation and refinement that must, of necessity, find ultimate union. That can only happen through the refinement of real love.

Love based upon the truth and the interdependent needs of all is the seed that is being planted from this current apocalypse. Nonetheless, the shell of that seed is one tough nut to crack!

Hold on tight, for love is, indeed, coming to us all.

Unfolding,

Chuck