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Chuck’s Place: The Interplay Of Black And White Magic Now

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Turn the moral compass to the higher power of love & the greater good of all…
-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

It has been suggested that the fall of Atlantis parallels the state of our current civilization. Plato introduced the story of Atlantis, crediting its origin and transmission as having been handed down from generations of ancient Egyptian priests.

Atlantis was a spiritually and technologically advanced civilization that lost its moral compass as it exercised its psychic powers in the form of black magic. In modern terms, black magic could be defined as the use of the subconscious mind for malevolent purposes.

The karma of such abuse of its powers was the total destruction and sinking of this island continent into the Atlantic Ocean around 10,500 BC. The modern psychic, Edgar Cayce, has confirmed the validity of the downfall of Atlantis.*

Judge Hatch, as channelled by Elsa Barker in 1916, observed that many old souls from Atlantis had incarnated back into human form and would continue to do so in our modern era, particularly in America where new spiritual ideas so quickly can take root. America is thus a major player in the karma and interplay of psychic powers exercised through both black and white magic.

Black and white magic are distinguished by the quality of the intent behind the suggestions one poses to the subconscious mind. Black magic refers to suggestions issuing from self-serving, narcissistic intent. White magic refers to suggestions in alignment with the purity of truth and love, directed to the greater good of all.

The power of suggestion, as applied to the subconscious mind, is the most influential psychic power of our time. The birth of autosuggestion in the early 20th century, from its older parentage in hypnotism, empowers any person to potentially heal themselves, to manifest in physical reality any changes they have imagined and desired from the subtle dimension of their mind, and to telepathically influence the subconscious mind of others.

What is known as distance healing, whether through healing prayer or directed healing intention for another, is actually the power of the mind to telepathically present a healing suggestion to the subconscious mind of a person in need. If the subconscious mind of the recipient is impressed by the suggestion, the desired healing may result. Ultimately, though we might have a healing intent for someone else, actual healing is a function of their own subconscious mind choosing to actualize the suggestion. Healers intend healing but we ultimately heal ourselves.

This is the same mechanism as in the placebo effect. If someone believes the suggestion that they will be healed by the ingestion of a pill, the subconscious mind may indeed generate the expected healing through its power to influence physical reality.

Our thoughts and beliefs are incessantly sending suggestions to both our own subconscious mind and that of others. What the world is presently experiencing is a plethora of negative, self-serving suggestions, the stuff of black magic. These have galvanized mass movements of genocide, displacement of peoples, appropriation of people’s property, and a worldview of hatred and self-interest toward all others.

The outcome for the advanced but self-serving civilization of Atlantis warns of similar consequences for our modern world. Fortunately, the advance of autosuggestion empowers every individual to utilize the power of white magic for the health and healing of our planet, and the human race as well.

For white magic to be effective, our intentions must be rooted in love. Love knows only one race, the human race. Love spares no one. Love loves all, even those who hate, pillage and kill. No one is excluded from love’s purview. When I think of those I’m most tempted to hate, my conscious mind states, “May they discover love for the greater good of all.” This is my intention for all burdened with the passion of hate.

Let not my emphasis upon love suggest that any soul should escape the justice, or karma, that must necessarily be meted out upon all for the choices they have made. How helpful could it possibly be for one to be spared the learning opportunity of feeling the effects or outcomes of the causes they have generated? But let the decision to not help someone come from love of the truth, as well as the intent to allow them their full opportunity to discover what they need to learn, without interference.

If we indulge hatred, we invite black magic, through the power of thought, to influence those who surround us in our interconnected family of One. Responsible use of our thoughts and feelings positively impacts the suggestions we impress upon the subconscious mind of our human race.

Foundational to the use of black and white magic is the power of the subconscious mind to change the world based upon the intention of the conscious mind. It is my intention that all humans will acquiesce to the truth of the heart in making their suggestions to the subconscious mind.

Never be discouraged. We simply have no control over how the subconscious chooses to realize our dreams. If we get angry or push too hard, we may find ourselves unwittingly tempted into the mood of black magic. Of course, this then gives us the opportunity to feel compassion for those who similarly struggle.

Exercise your psychic power of suggestion by keeping love, truth and the greater good of all in mind. Express your gratitude for this power and intend the patience needed to stay the course.

That’s white magic,
Chuck

*Whether the story of Atlantis is a myth or a fact does not alter the similarity to what is happening in our world now.

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Chuck’s Place: Transmogrifying Default Karmic Reactions

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Take me to the Oneness of it all…
-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

At the level of the physical body, karma is simple cause and effect. For instance, if, during dental work, a nerve is touched, pain is the default effect. I discovered, however, that pain is only one interpretation of energy, and so, during dental work, unaided by anesthesia, my mind interprets pain as a sensation that signals me to go deeper into calm. The typical karma of pain associated with dental work has transformed the once dreaded treatment chair into a place of deeply calming meditation.

The ability of breath guru, Wim Hof, to sit in an ice bath for nearly two hours is a very similar phenomenon. Wim visualizes an inner fire, which he then directs to different parts of his body to arrive at warmth rather than frozenness. The default karma of freezing, in response to lying in a tub of ice, is transformed into warmth and comfort by a strong mental impression delivered to, and manifested by, the subconscious mind.

These experiences validate that the threads of karma, which we have generated through beliefs and actions, can be fully transmogrified into positive outcomes. Typically, we manage the discomfort of karma through suppression or repression, which results in the physical body storing a charged experience by restricting the muscles or the breath. Many physical conditions we suffer with are karmic conditions, held in the body, restricting the free flow of our vital energy.

We can unravel these energetic knots through the conscious mind’s imagining, feeling and believing that its intent to heal is possible, as it delivers it to the subconscious mind, for manifestation. Of course, one’s suggestion must be directed toward the purest and highest good for self and other to truly balance out a karmic thread. Suggestions that merely silence a symptom, but don’t address it, actually continue to store it in the physical body with its original karma perhaps more remote, but remaining charged and intact.

Many spiritual practitioners, such as Buddhists, focus most of their days repeating positive suggestions such as loving kindness and compassion to constantly generate positive karma and release negative karma. Such a practice enables instinctive reactions, such as anger at a transgression by another, to be quickly transmuted at a higher energetic chakra, such as the heart center, into genuine compassion for a fellow flawed human being.

The instinct of the heart is to tell the absolute truth. The ultimate truth is that we all share in the oneness of everything. Such a genuine compassionate feeling unburdens one from mentally and physically carrying a charged karma of hatred. One’s vital energies flow freely and radiate a loving energy, to the benefit of self and the greater world.

Of course, if we are fearful of feeling and expressing our instinctual reactions, we must thoughtfully and creatively allow these primal karmic reactions, imprisoned by the body armor, to be safely expressed. Primal screams in the ocean or forest might serve such a need. However, as the energy lodged in these lower chakras is released, our vital kundalini energy moves up the spine to higher energetic chakras for spiritual processing. Our soul is released from the karma of negative emotions by the dissolving power of love and acceptance of All That Is at these higher subtle energy centers.

Though the conscious mind has the power to suggest, it has no power to direct the healing strategy that the subconscious mind will choose to employ. The expression, “let go and let God” is particularly relevant in this context. The conscious mind must have no attachment to the outcome; it must completely surrender control to the wisdom and way of the subconscious mind.

To transmute karma beyond the default effects of karma, the subconscious mind may take us through an energetic journey of squaring with memories we have avoided, or old habits we still cling to. The way of the subconscious mind may take much longer than we desire. We are challenged to remain positive, truly having faith in the power of the subconscious mind to manifest the intent we suggest.

As we master the challenges presented to us at various chakra centers, our energetic viewpoint is broadened widely as we approach the greater truth of our interconnected oneness with all things. From this position we are likely to accumulate mostly positive karma. Negative karma usually stems from stuckness in the polarity of the lower chakras that leaves us feeling offended, victimized and entitled.

Ultimately, we arrive at the awareness that there is nothing to forgive. We take full responsibility for all we have experienced in this life and  appreciate fully all those who have accompanied us on our journey, with equanimity. The karma of such a perspective is total freedom, particularly from old default karmic reactions.

Transmogrifying,
Chuck

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Chuck’s Place: The Inexhaustible Wealth Of The Subconscious Mind

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We reap what we sow, so watch the words you put into your head…
-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

I have been a serious student of the psyche for the past 50 years. By my early 20’s I had amassed a substantial portion of Jung’s Collected Works, some of which I’ve yet to fully read!

I’ve spent an equivalent amount of time immersed in the shamanic world of Carlos Castaneda, which provided me the tools and knowhow to explore the energy body, what religious traditions have called the Soul.

Both Freud and Jung explored the therapeutic utility of hypnosis, which accesses the power of the subconscious mind. Ultimately, they both abandoned hypnosis in favor of more reliable outcomes obtainable through their new discipline of psychotherapy.

Ancient knowledge of the power of trance and suggestion can be found in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Hindu literature is filled with warnings about the power of suggestion to control and manipulate human behavior. One is coached to choose one’s guru wisely.

Beyond these concerns about the potential limitations or abuses raised about hypnosis, the more fundamental truth that hypnosis reveals is that the human mind operates largely through the power of suggestion. What we tell ourselves and truly believe is what we become. Our lives are run by autosuggestions that we deliver, or take in from others, to our subconscious minds

Joe Dispenza’s book, You Are The Placebo, is a testament to the power of belief and autosuggestion to heal. The placebo effect is what truly heals. If you truly believe something can happen, it will. Mainstream scientific experiment emphasizes placebo as evidence that something didn’t work, rather than absolutely marveling at, and delving into, the power of the mind to make something happen.

Healers and philosophers of  the 19th and 20th century New Thought Movement in America believed that Christ was a teacher who emphasized the divine in all individuals versus a divinity unique to himself. They culled the secret to his healing power in biblical stories: an individual must believe within themselves that they can be healed, and only then shall it come to pass. The secret: the placebo effect.

As surmised by New Thought practitioners, the power of this simple truth so threatened religious institutions that they withdrew the notion of divine power from humans and instituted the reigning power of dogma, with dependence upon institutions outside the self being the only way to be guided in wisdom and healing.

We are currently living through a time of unraveling, where core beliefs that have sustained the human race for centuries are being replaced with new beliefs, suggesting a whole new world. The role of the thought police, in controlling what can be stated, written and talked about, is increasingly evident. Suspending all judgment, it is truly a remarkable example of how suggestion and belief create a world.

The subconscious mind has the absolute power to manifest a physical reality, for better or for worse. Although it is largely suggested to by the accumulated wisdom of the instincts and the archetypes, the subconscious is powerfully impressed upon by the beliefs and desires of the conscious mind. Thus, the inexhaustible wealth of the subconscious mind is best accessed through a mature conscious mind.

The ultimate check on how we exercise our power of suggestion is karma. The divine power of the subconscious mind will acquiesce to any belief impressed upon it, but it does not control the outcomes of these effects. We reap what we sow, for better or for worse.

The subconscious mind records and stores every bit of experience we have had in this life, as well as in past lives, and, at the deepest levels, the entire history of the universe and beyond. Edgar Cayce provided diagnoses and healing prescriptions for thousands of  unknown patients while in trance. Everything is accessible if one believes it to be possible.

In shamanic recapitulation one can access all the details of a forgotten life, as one intends a healing journey and trusts the guidance and promptings of the subconscious mind.

The subconscious mind is our greatest means of invisible support. If we approach it with faith and gratitude for all that it does for our physical and mental bodies, we are surely to be supported in the changes we seek.

Never to be underestimated is the power of the conscious mind, which is solely responsible for the life it suggests and manifests through its suggestions to the subconscious mind.

Please note that my affirming always the suggestion of the greater good is hardly the shallowness levied at positive affirmations somewhat in vogue now as expressed in the phrase toxic positivity. What I have outlined here is a paradigm shift in the understanding of the structure and dynamics of the psyche which highlights the power of divine action taken by the subconscious mind in response to human desire and true belief. That action is undeniably real and with it comes the divine responsibility to be in alignment with the truth.

Intend always the greater good, for self and other,
Chuck

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Chuck’s Place: The Real War Of Now Is Within

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Let the reconciliation begin…
-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

Opposition within our human mind is being reflected, and physically enacted, in all the destructive events currently unfolding on the human playing field. Thought is the prime cause of physical reality. What we believe is what comes to be.

This opposition in mind is rooted in two rival attitudes within the conscious mind. In one corner is the rational mind that holds that seeing is believing. Logic is law, and observable reality is the only fundamental truth.

In the other corner is a conscious attitude that believes in supernatural powers inherent and programmable in the subconscious mind. This attitude does not dismiss the value of the rational mind but broadens it to include a conscious relationship with the spiritual dimension of the subconscious mind.

A conscious attitude that embraces the existence and power of a subconscious mind is the enemy of rationality. Nietzsche expressed simply the truest belief of the rational mind: “God is dead.” Reason has no place for unseen powers and spirituality. Reason lives in a material world—period. Beyond physical life is lights out.

Everyone is challenged with these two attitudes. Who doesn’t turn to material solution when confronted with a physical issue? Who can state, with certainty, that unseen spiritual forces exist and can change physical life? These conflicting attitudes are in a war without compromise. As reflected outwardly, we see no war on the current human stage  amenable to compromise.

Perhaps the greatest institution of rational thought and scientific discovery in the modern world is Harvard University. Look at the current full-throttle attack on Harvard, as well as all similarly established institutions of higher learning.

Of course, we can point to actual personalities causing this standoff, but at the deepest level this struggle is the physical expression of the battle raging within the human psyche for control and exercise of the human mind. The irrational is deeply challenging the rational at the university level.

Pure reason’s arch rival is called the power of suggestion, which holds that through the employment of conscious suggestion to the subconscious mind, physical reality is impacted. In this paradigm, the subconscious mind is imbued with divine power and is in divine obligation to manifest the word, or intent, impressed upon it by the conscious mind.

This warring backdrop of mind is actually an evolutionary struggle in a developmental process of maturity of our collective mind. At the early stages of human evolution the subconscious mind was the only mind that directed life, through manifesting instinctive suggestions impressed upon it. This level of control still largely runs the systems of the human body.

With the advent of consciousness came the rational mind with its ability to override the automatic instincts lodged in the subconscious mind. Reason gradually took dominance over decision making, which, through its unknown power of suggestion upon the subconscious mind, generated our current world of dominant rational belief. This dominance of the world’s mind by reason is now flagrantly being challenged upon the world stage, and we are all experiencing it.

The developmental stage we are currently embroiled in insists that the power of reason and spiritual potential be reconciled. Many a journeyer into the deeper realms of the collective unconscious has been overwhelmed by encounters with non-ordinary reality at the subtle energy dimensions of our being.

I personally, as a young boy, was terrified nightly by the disintegrative impact of such encounters. Had I not my rational mind’s ability to create a structure that allowed me to navigate the vastness of infinity, my fragile ego would have surely disintegrated into nothingness.

Paranoid schizophrenics are telling the truth when they say that television characters are speaking directly to them, as they are experiencing the synchronous interconnectedness of all things. Unfortunately, the impact of such a broader view overwhelms their narrow ego foothold upon reality and they succumb to psychosis, flitting about in infinity without a captain at the wheel of their floundering ship.

Without reason we are severely handicapped at the spiritual dimensions of our being. With only reason, we can never know and experience the fullness of all that we are.

We also need conscious reasoning to assume responsible control for the suggestions we submit to our subconscious mind. The world at present is experiencing the effect of impulsive suggestions controlling the world’s subconscious mind, manifesting incessant changing realities on a minute-to-minute basis. The power of the subconscious mind is available to deliver both balance or chaos.

The developmental challenge at the moment is for the rational mind to choose right action in its directives to the subconscious mind. This is bringing truth to power. We are all challenged to choose the greater good over the equal potential of choosing all for self-interest only.

Be empowered to realize that the outer state of things has its roots in the inner state of things. We all have the ability to solve the state of the outer world by solving the state of the world within. And as you explore your inner powers be like a true alchemist, share your findings with no-one. When we share our beliefs and experiences we invite the thought police.

Just as the world of journalism is losing its ability to express free speech, when we share our experiences we invite the reactionary beliefs of someone else’s conscious and subconscious minds, which then impacts our own subconscious. We are then barraged telepathically, as well as outright verbally, with beliefs that instill doubt or burden us with the hostility of others.

When engaging the power of your own subconscious mind, tell your rational mind to suspend judgment. Allow that mind to release its grip as you relax the body and become groggy. Then state your suggestion and allow your imagination and emotion to impress your subconscious with its desire.

Note your results privately over time. As you discover the validity of the process via your results, your rational mind will step up to the plate and embrace the greater truth of its former rival attitude. This is how these two attitudes are reconciled. Ask your growingly confident rational mind to stay suggestive only to the intent for the greater good for all.

This reconciliation of warring attitudes within will ultimately reflect in a changed world without, as we evolve consciousness to further include all that we truly are.

To reason and beyond,
Chuck

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Chuck’s Place: The Truth About The Absurdity Of Now

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Hang onto your hats!
-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

We are on a quantum joyride, without seatbelts! The only choice is to let go and go with the inevitable flow. In truth, it really isn’t a choice, for we have already blasted off into the cosmos. Hold on as tightly as you will, for the ride is already fast and furious. No one can stop our present ride into the realm of quantum possibility.

Suspend judgment. Rationality cannot forestall this absolute power of absurdity. Judgment is a desperate attempt to hold onto the security of a known reality. Our known world of physical certainty is disintegrating into the fluidity of energetic possibility. With nothing to hold onto we have nothing to lose, and possibly, everything to gain.

Non-speaking autistics have been mirroring this human transformational process.* Locked into physical bodies, with limited functionality, they opened to quantum possibility. Non-speaking autistics have created a consensus reality called The Hill, where they meet and commune telepathically, defying all the laws of Newtonian physics that construct the known physical world we have lived in.

This is our destiny. All physical certainty is in jeopardy. The knowns of science and medicine, the boundaries and alliances of countries, the security of ownership, savings, and reliable currency are all losing their solidity. Like the non-speaking autistics, we are all being challenged to expand beyond physical certainty into the new possibilities latent in quantum reality.

Back to the hologram of Self. As without, so within. We all want something to change. For change to happen, the energy we have condensed to create the security of a known physical reality for ourselves must be freed in order to flow into new life. The habits our subconscious minds have solidified, to create our physical bodies and lives, must break down and be overridden for new suggestions to take shape.

Can we be as radical inwardly as the current world is outwardly? Can we let go of the security of the known, and ride instead the wave of new energetic possibility? Rather than rage at the unfairness and incredulity of the outer world, can we follow its insinuation and boldly suggest a whole new self to the subconscious mind? 

Radical breakdown of the known is the suggestion being mirrored outwardly. What is also being mirrored is the exercise of divine right, albeit as both divine tragedy and divine comedy. Can we acknowledge and exercise our own true divine powers to manifest what we so desire, without falling prey to the inflation of Icarus? Are we willing to simply stop and ask the High Self, “What is truly right?”

“And what,” as many ask, “can I do about my blocking belief, which compromises the strength of my divine suggestions?”

If your suggestion is a defensive attempt to override a disowned truth, the power of that truth will likely remain the dominant suggestion to the subconscious mind. Face and integrate the truth, whereby nullifying its blocking impact and freeing desired manifestation.

And yes, even the truth can at times be overridden by suggestion, but the karma of such action is ultimately the fate of Icarus. Nonetheless, even such a fall is instructive to future development.

Perhaps the most insidious of blocking beliefs are those that doubt our divine capabilities. These may have their origin in protecting us from the fate of Icarus, yet, in so doing, they deeply bury us in deflation and limitation.

Blocking beliefs are also installed by reigning powers that seek to control us like chickens in a chicken coop. But truthfully, the worst offender is our own reluctance to change, as we secretly defeat the threat of moving beyond the security of the known, however stifling it may be.

Taking another cue from without, the tried and true way of overcoming a blocking belief is constant repetition of the same message. We have seen how effective such a strategy has been in influencing a majority of people to sign up for the reality we are currently experiencing.

Design your suggestion in consort with your High Self. Then, saturate your life with its constant repetition. This is pure rote repetition, pounding away at the door until it finally opens and takes the seed to root. Perseverance, without attachment to outcome, never fails.

Such is the truth of the pounding absurdity of now: it is inevitably taking us to the door of quantum possibility. This is the opportunity for a quantum leap, within and without.

Ready or not, the time for that leap has arrived.

In free fall,
Chuck

 *Listen to The Telepathy Tapes podcast for further explanation.