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Chuck’s Place: The Messiness of Birth

That which once held life decomposes as new life takes form…
– Photo by Chuck Ketchel

New life is contained in a sealed casing as it completes its readiness to burst forth onto the world stage. In humans this is the placenta, in butterflies it is the chrysalis, in corn it is the husk. Strikingly, the old order, that which new life emerges from, is vastly different from the consciousness and values of the new life struggling to take form. Once new life manifests, that which so prominently contained it quickly loses purpose, and decomposes into the soil of the Earth.

The New Age, with its evolved human consciousness, continues to birth, as its placenta, the casings of the dominant old world material values, which grip as tightly as possible to counter the forward thrust of new age values. This is tragically evident in the recent New Zealand massacres, where old world, misguided white-separatist values virally asserted themselves.

White is the ultimate absence of all color. White, therefore, is the assigned ‘color’ of innocence, a blank slate entering life. All humans are subject to the loss of this childhood innocence through worldly encounters in the developmental process of growing up. Life on this planet is conditioned with the progressive loss of innocence through the interruptions of trauma, standard socialization, or simply the demand to leave childhood and become an adult in this world.

Jesus remarked that only the Child is ready to enter heaven. As I unpack the meaning of this lesson, I see the child as the ultimate symbol of innocence. What Jesus is likely suggesting is that all must retrieve their innocence, not become the small blank-slate child again. Innocence must be refined, at an adult level, to encompass the trials, traumas, losses, and disappointments that are the inevitable facts of life in human form.

The restoration of lost innocence at an adult level requires a total integration of all experiences, all parts of the self, all parts of the human community. Psychologically, this is the process of recapitulation where one faces their own deepest fears by coming to know and accept all parts of their life experience and their multidimensional self. Adult innocence is reflected in the full color spectrum of the rainbow, not in a return to the blankness of pure white.

The encasing white supremacy energy of now has misguidedly projected, concretely, this quest for the restoration of innocence through the keeping out or extermination of the darker shades of the human family, as well as migrants, as it seeks to preserve its purity and old way of life. In the recent tragedy in New Zealand, in true Hitleresque fashion, we saw the extermination solution acted out and suggested as an option, via social media.

This misguided, powerful wall of energy cannot forestall, indefinitely, the birth of an advanced awareness that knows the true needs of survival for both humanity and the planetary being. This new life of innocence knows that purity is composed of the interconnectedness of all life, as One Life. Love is its operative energy in its embracing of all life. Truth is its acting cognition, unsullied by the illusion of separateness.

The messiness of birthing this all-inclusive loving consciousness is reflected in the massacres and environmental disasters of now. Though horrific, they are not apocalyptic. They are the labor contractions and messes of a major birth, an evolutionary shift, so ready to take charge of human navigation. Even those leaders who so boldly instigate hatred are serving to awaken humanity from its deeply entranced sleep, to take personal responsibility for the fate of the world. Strong hints of that evolved intelligence and loving compassion are evident in the person and actions of Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand, as she guides her nation and the world to be ruled by love, for all.

Holographically, all humans have the opportunity to participate in this great metamorphosis, in the homogenization of all the hidden parts of the self. We are all compositions of white and black. The issue is to accept all parts of the self through bringing light, not white, to all the hidden recesses of self. When we can see and accept all that we personally are, we are ready to navigate and contribute to what is truthfully needed now for all.

I am saddened for all the innocent victims of New Zealand, as well as by the almost daily environmental disasters that erupt upon the planet. May these sacrifices be well-served in the quickening to birth of the coming ruling values of love, truth, and interconnectedness as the real solutions to survival.

Humbly facilitating,

Chuck

Soulbyte for Thursday March 14, 2019

Stay on the side of goodness and love though the shadows of hate and evil fall nearby. The power of love overcomes any hate. The intent of goodness far exceeds the intent of evil when love is its message. Keep your heart primed, sending its message that love is all you need, for indeed it is the greatest power there is. Sparked from spirit, spread through the human heart, it really can conquer all. Keep the love flowing.

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Thursday February 14, 2019

Let love surround you and bind you to its intent to bring peace and calmness to all that is. Let love find its way to you from without and from within, meeting you on the single strong line of its intent. Love is the universal SOUL that permeates all that lives, the energy of your own spirit, the intention of your own life. The purpose of your own existence is to find this universal love and align with it, to experience its oneness. Let love in and know its fullness in this way, as natural as the full moon, as the bright sun, as the air you breathe. Love simply is. Let love in so that you may be more fully capable of letting love out, one breath at a time. Breathe love. Be love. What more could you ask for? It’s not what you get but what you give. That’s real love.

-Happy Valentine’s Day from the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Tuesday February 12, 2019

Let your love flow. Like waves on the shore, let your love flow. Like rain from the sky, let your love flow. Like sunlight from the heavens, let your love flow. Like gentle breeze, let your love flow. Nothing is more natural. Nothing is more appropriate. Nothing is more beautiful. In all circumstances, let your love flow. Love is always appropriate, and yet how inappropriate that it is so rarely called upon, scarcely shared. Let your love flow. It’s so simple and yet so powerful. Everyone understands it. It’s the universal language, shared by all beings. Begin a new conversation. Let your love flow.

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Wednesday February 6, 2019

Watch out for negative collective energy seeking to feed you mounds of worry, plates of anxiety, bowls of fear. It’s out there, looking for a place to land. Don’t become its pantry. It will leave you alone if you refuse it, if you don’t look at it, if you protect yourself against it by forming a shield of light around you, if you stay alert and guard against it, if you stay attuned and aware of energy that does not belong to you or feel right inside you. Stay alert. The times you live in are the perfect feeding ground for bottom feeders. If you become infected, sweep yourself clean until you feel like you again, until you can breathe and think normally again. Until then, breathe and breathe and breathe, and release, release, release. Self-regulate your energy in this way. Eventually you will be well again. It’s collective and very powerful energy, but that doesn’t make it right. It’s negative and hateful, derisive and unkind. Get right within the self. It’s the best way to be, an emancipated free individual, with love and kindness at the center of your being, with spirit fully awake and working on your behalf, filling you with the positive, calm energy of love.

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne