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Chuck’s Place: Take Charge Of Your Mind Now!

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Come into your true power…
-Artwork © 2026 Jan Ketchel

The fundamental dynamic of our New Age is the intentional use of the conscious and subconscious minds to manifest reality. The inherent power of this creative relationship of dual mind has always been there, but until recently its divine powers of manifestation were largely unknown, or innocently disowned.

In the New Age, we are claiming and exercising these divine abilities, which were previously projected onto divine beings above and beyond the human self. The key to using these powers resides in the volitional use of suggestion, or command, to the subconscious mind to physically, emotionally and mentally create the outcome one intends.

Suggestions can be delivered intentionally to the subconscious mind, from the conscious mind, through planned and often repeated autosuggestions.

Unintentional suggestions might also impress themselves upon the subconscious mind through the incessant internal dialogue of thoughts, beliefs and judgments that constantly play in the background of the mind.

What we think, believe and state, consciously or unconsciously, we become. The phenomenon of placebo is hardly an aberration. It reflects the normal divine action of the subconscious power in the human mind. As we believe within, so we create without.

Suggestions can also be delivered to the subconscious mind from sources outside the self, which impress themselves upon the subconscious mind with powerful emotions, manifesting in how one sees and relates to the world.

World leaders are presently demonstrating this power of influence in their incessant, redundant words that act as suggestions that impress themselves upon the subconscious minds of the masses. They become an actual interpretation of reality, often in spite of proven facts to the contrary.

The divine power of the human subconscious mind is that it will accept, as fact, what it is told, if the suggestion is powerful enough to impress itself upon it. That accepted fact then becomes expressed as physical reality.

The subconscious mind will never question a premise it is given. Stage hypnosis readily demonstrates this fact. A hypnotic human subject, who is told they are a dog, will bark and pant as if they genuinely were one, in full acceptance of this suggestion, by the hypnotist, as being the absolute truth.

The phenomenon of trance, which facilitates suggestion being delivered to a hypnotic subject, is actually universal. Contrary to an early psychological misconception, which defined and limited trance and hypnotic states to pathological expressions of hysteria, it turns out that hypnosis is one of the most normal, fundamental states of the human mind. It’s a natural brainwave state that we enter frequently, allowing our thoughts to reach and impress the subconscious mind.

When driving a car, most people enter a state of trance called highway hypnosis, where the mind is in two places at once—both driving the car, with an automatic awareness, while simultaneously off on a thinking adventure. Similar trance states are entered when we are tired, particularly before sleep.

Even in fully aware, active beta-brainwave states, the drone of the internal dialogue creates a neural pathway to the subconscious mind that leaves it receptive to the thoughts one is thinking about. These thoughts manifest as moods and actual perceptions, as the subconscious mind creates, in physical reality, the essence of our thoughts and beliefs.

This effect is particularly enhanced by the excitation of the Central Nervous System (CNS) by the mental ingestion of postings from social media. The intent of outside messaging is to excite our CNS to impress the subconscious mind, while we are seduced into the addiction of excitement.

To navigate the flood of messages that deliver us daily to our identity and state of being, we do well to severely limit outside messaging. Such messaging, now aided by the power of AI, constantly infiltrates our thought space, honing its suggestions to fit our unique lifestyle and preferences, seeking to influence our subconscious mind to adopt its causes.

Instead, I suggest choosing activity that promotes inner calm and harmony. Calming music, calm breathing, meditation, and being mindful during all activities protects our brainwave states from exhaustion and takeover by outside energy.

Thoughts are also things that telepathically can invade our mind-space. The trick here is to not take the bait of excitement nor engage the intrusive thought in inner dialogue. Refocus attention instead upon thoughts of gratitude and love.

A thankful, loving focus raises our brainwave states to deep calm and contentment, as we become impervious to the agitation of invasive thoughts seeking to plant themselves in our nourishing garden of mind.

Furthermore, the subconscious mind will attract to us outer conditions that match our inner feelings and brainwave states. Like attracts like. Positive feelings attract a positive outer reality.

The malevolent matrix of now is an attempt to steal our mental energy for its own construction, but we are fully capable of freeing the mind and destroying the errors of thought that keep us temporarily waylaid.  Unleash, instead, the positive divine power of creation within the self.

Finally, take full charge of your our mind now! Take back its power and suggest, with utter confidence, that your subconscious mind deliver you to the world of your dreams, for yourself and your world, but also for the greater good of all.

Mind your words, with loving intention,
Chuck

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Chuck’s Place: Honing A Relationship With Your Supreme Being

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The Two and the One…
-Artwork © 2026 Jan Ketchel

Carl Jung posited that human beings have an innate religious instinct, as distinct and powerful as the instincts of hunger or sex. This religious  instinct drives us to experience transcendent existence beyond the limits of human form.

At different epochs in human history the religious instinct has manifested as both wrathful or loving supreme beings, whom human beings have felt accountable to and sought support from.

With the rise of logic in the modern mind, the rational mind, for many, has become the current tenant of the religious instinct. Heaven, for the rational mind, is creation in the material world, its one and only true world.

Our current breakdown of civilization is actually a war on the god of rationality, as the power of the irrational breaks down the former dominance and felt stranglehold of the rational mind. We are actually experiencing the supreme power of just one person, one mind, manifesting an irrational, whole new world.

What is being mirrored for humanity, in this example, is the religious instinct being embodied as the supreme being within the human psyche rather than being projected outward onto some separate, invisible supreme being. Though this, of course, raises clinical concern around the consequences of a supreme ego inflation, let us not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

This caricature of the supreme human being, graphically projected upon the current world screen, also reveals the structure and potential impact of the human mind. The human psyche has a resident divine being within, in the person of its subconscious mind. The subconscious mind has the power to heal body and soul, as well as attract to it and manifest  suggestions that impress it deeply.

The subconscious has the power, as mimicked by AI, to search all of human history, and beyond, in an instant. The subconscious mind is non-local, capable of remote viewing the past, present, and future . All things are present in the subconscious self; it is one with everything. This is Omnipresence.

The interesting thing about the subconscious mind is that it puts itself completely at the beck and call of suggestion, particularly from the conscious mind in the form of its beliefs, thoughts, and intentions. The subconscious does not question the morality of the wishes presented to it. It manifests good as well as bad, self-serving impulses as well as magnanimous intentions.

The only check upon the power of the conscious mind to get what it wants from the subconscious mind is the law of cause and effect. The subconscious mind, for instance, cannot erase the impact upon the body and mind of the action of one choosing to minimally sleep. Eventually, a psychotic process will threaten the perception, judgment, and functioning of a conscious mind that refuses to sleep.

The subconscious mind appears to be a god that will grant us all our wishes, without judgment, leaving us to grow by having us experience the full impact of our suggestions. Thus, the impact of the disruptions to our current world order, as driven by the subconscious effects of one person, sows the seeds of its own destruction. What goes up will come down.

Many people are frustrated with the challenge of influencing the subconscious mind to manifest their intent. Actually, in many cases this reflects powerful beliefs, often unknown to consciousness, but deeply embedded in the subconscious mind that nullify the effect of one’s conscious intent.

In this case, the subconscious mind is manifesting the more powerful suggestion it is receiving or has received in the past. If, for instance, I want to feel attractive but have always hated my body, the suggestion of longstanding hate is the more likely to be manifested.

Our world leader demonstrates par excellence the rote method to have suggestions reach the subconscious mind. The incessant repetition of the same suggestions, accompanied by powerful emotions, will ultimately attract the attention and action of the subconscious mind. Word and emotion impress, perseverance furthers.

To counter the potential negative consequences of suggestions, it is wise to restrict one’s suggestions to the intent of the greater good for self and all. The subconscious mind, like all relationships, is highly receptive to positive emotions, like gratitude and genuine love.

Make it a practice to express gratitude often to the subconscious for the experiences of its responsiveness to a request. This can be as simple as having a name or word pop into your mind that you have asked to remember: Thank You Subconscious Mind!

As our world leader models, confidence that one’s suggestions will manifest is a critical quality in attracting the attention of the subconscious mind. Many feel a lack of confidence in their ability to impress the subconscious, particularly as they feel they are not seeing their suggestions manifest.

The gratitude practice for small requests being responded to will accrue to a growing confidence as the more rational side of the mind sees results. This will begin to bring genuine and greater confidence to such requests.

The 12-Step program wisdom, to “let go and let God” is particularly apropos in strengthening one’s relationship to the divine intelligence in the subconscious mind. The challenge for the conscious mind is to ask for what is truly right, then trust its divine partner to bring it to physical life as it knows best. No attachment to the outcome.

The human mind is one of a divine relationship between the conscious and subconscious minds, the two made whole. The current world is discovering this inner manifestation of its religious instinct. What now remains to be achieved is a loving relationship between these two sides of supreme being that responsibly exercises its divine power for the greater  good of self and all.

Wondrous are the works of the infinite intelligence within,
Chuck

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We thought we would share the drawings Jan has made so far to meet her 2026 New Year Challenge of drawing one drawing a day, with a wooden stick, in small scratchboard pads. Originally, we gave the scratchboard pads as Halloween treats and Jan soon began drawing in the leftovers. She loved it and has not stopped since! In fact, most of the drawings she has now been doing to illustrate our posts are done on the same scratchboard pads. Her New Year’s intention is to keep drawing, one a day, while meditating. So check back often to see how it’s going!

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Chuck’s Place: What Is The Matter?

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Reach out to Lady Wisdom…
-Artwork © 2026 Jan Ketchel

Matter comes from the Latin word materia, which means the physical substance that is born of mater, who is mother. Our physical body, our physical lives, and the life of our times is the creation of the father-of-suggestion in union with mother, the material substance of the subconscious mind.

Mother brings forth all physical life. The state of that life reflects the quality of the suggestions it has been impregnated with; are they of wisdom or are they of error? Wisdom is infused with impartial truth, error is filled with one-sided opinion.

Our current world is largely defined by the instant reactions of social media, from the White House on down, where the play and battle of opposites vie for dominance of public opinion, which serves as the ruling suggestions to the matter of our time.

Prior generations have struggled to establish union in response to this volatile battle of opposite opinions, often resorting to suppression, or to passing on to the future the insolvency of unrealized truth.

The founding fathers of America knew very well that slavery was immoral, but did not address it in the Constitution, forcing the future America, some 75 years later, into Civil War to resolve the issue. And though the outcome of that war ended slavery, the North and the South never came into real union.

The discontent over this imposed solution was suppressed and housed in the body of America, giving rise to a diseased nation, at war with itself, once again seeking solution in one-sided rule.  Such is the karma of unsettled solutions, yet to be resolved into the peace of true Wisdom.

These unsolved issues—be they the equality of the sexes and races, an equitable outcome of Zionism, the divine might-makes-right of kings in imperialist acquisition, or the racist intent of Naziism that seeks its alchemical gold through the destruction of its projected shadow—have all broken through from the body of the world’s suppressed unconscious, once again begging completion, as we prepare to receive the advanced wisdom of the Aquarian age we are now physically living in.

The stupendous overarching truth of now is that human consciousness is on the cusp of a major evolutionary leap that requires a clearing of all the errors and opinions that have formed the ruling suggestions to our subconscious minds, and created our current reality. Take for instance the power of suggestion itself. Once an individual awakens to their personal power to create their physical life, the sky is the limit.

Donald Trump, a master hypnotist, astutely aware of the power of suggestion, recently offered this guidance when asked about the limits on his own global power: “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.”

This is indeed a fundamental truth for everyone in relation to their subconscious mind. The suggestions to the subconscious mind are all powerful. Mother subconscious will produce in matter that which is suggested to her. The question, as Donald Trump points out, is the state of one’s morality. Is it based on the wisdom of truth, or the error of opinion? Either way, those suggestions will be manifested.

The unsolved matters of prior times, currently living through us, cannot find peace until we face them squarely and submit to the truth of Wisdom. We cannot revert to old defenses or old beliefs. These unsolved matters demand truthful resolution before we can evolve.

Resolution requires that we suspend the judgment of blame. Full acceptance, of what was and what is, is the precursor to a morality that will produce suggestions to materialize our creative potential for the greater good of all.

Inwardly, we must face the isms that have ruled our sense of self and our sense of the world. Inwardly, we must ask: Is our morality narcissistically dominated by the desire of ego for its own aggrandizement, or is it serving the wisdom of what is truly right? Inwardly, we must free our beliefs from internalized false opinions about ourselves based upon the thoughts and actions of others.

I close with this matter, the guidance and support of Lady Wisdom from Proverbs 3:16-18:

“Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.
Her ways are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace.
 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.”

Reach out to Lady Wisdom,
Chuck

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Chuck’s Place: Think It Forward With New Thought

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Create some New Thoughts in the New Year…
-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

While both Freud and Jung dabbled with hypnosis, each ultimately abandoned it as a tool to explore and heal the human psyche. Each would go on to offer his individual gifts to psychoanalysis and analytical psychology, but their abandonment of the exploration of hypnosis closed an important door to an essential gateway to knowledge of the anatomy and dynamics of the soul.

In the mid-19th century, an informally educated American clockmaker and mesmerist from Maine, Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, abstracted from his hypnotic healing work a metaphysical working model of the psyche. While practicing mesmerism, his fervently inquisitive mind discovered the role of telepathy and the power of thought in creating physical reality, particularly physical illness.

Quimby ultimately abandoned mesmerism and spent the later part of his life as a healer. He would just sit with patients, himself in semi-trance yet also consciously present, thus in two places at once. He would then connect to the subconscious mind of his patient and have revealed to him the beliefs that caused their affliction.

Invariably, Quimby would discover that the root of the problem lay in a powerful belief, which the patient was often quite unaware they held in their subconscious mind. Quimby also discovered that the subconscious mind automatically manifested that belief, both physically and psychologically, as expressed through the patient’s symptoms.

Quimby would then explain to his patient the validity of their current condition, whose etiology was the physical manifestation of their belief. Quimby was also able to show them the limitation of their current belief in defining the deeper truth of their being, which was one of health. Fully embracing this new positive belief often led to a physical healing, largely through the mysterious but definite action of mental thought upon the physical manifestation capacity of the subconscious mind.

Quimby determined that the psyche is filled with powerful beliefs either internalized from significant relationships in one’s life or generated by  conscious thinking. Thus, for example, if one believes that they should be punished or limited because of something they have done, they might experience some kind of physical paralysis. Once freed of this limiting or punishing belief one’s paralysis could be lifted.

Quimby came to believe that the power of suggestion was fundamental to the human mind, which he believed to be of divine origin. The conscious mind holds the key to creation through the power of suggestion, while the subconscious mind has the divine power to physically manifest these suggestions received from the conscious mind.

In fact, every part of human life is generated by this dynamic relationship. Though apparently wide awake, we live in a state of constant trance, manifesting physically, at every moment, what we believe to be true.

For Quimby, health was achieved by taking conscious control of suggestions, based upon the truth of one’s divine origin rather than on the errors of opinions or suggestions not in alignment with truth. Quimby emphasized the human power of free will to create either physical problems or health and success, all based upon beliefs.

Quimby discovered a core shamanic truth. For shamans, humans are energetic beings who mentally generate a physical existence through the power of intent, or the power of suggestion. Though our physical life is quite real, it would be an error to say that it is our ultimate truth. Ultimately, we are energetic beings, with unlimited possibilities of physical expression.

Shamans call our physical life an interpretation of energy. There can be many interpretations of that energy, as Quimby points out, that generate physical illnesses. We have the ability to change our belief, whereby interpreting energy in a new physical way, through the manifesting power of the subconscious mind.

Unfortunately, Quimby died young, at the age of 64, in 1866. At that time, he was treating upwards of 500 patients per year. I surmise that his early death was caused by the same technical error that uninformed shamanic healers often make in soul retrieval healings.

Often, it is the shaman that literally takes possession of their patient’s lost soul, which had been caught in the grip of an unhealthy suggestion. The shaman then takes on responsibility for reconciling the tormented part soul within themselves, which they then return to their patient, who is healed through this restoration of their wholeness by the shaman.

The side effect for the shaman, via sympathy, is to also experience the symptoms of their patient’s tormented soul, which takes its toll upon the healer’s health. Carlos Castaneda taught that, in modern shamanism, the shaman is a guide but does not assume responsibility for a patient’s troubled soul. That healing must be fully assumed by the patient’s personal process of reconciliation with their lost soul, in recapitulation, for instance.

Although Quimby died prior to the formal naming of the New Thought philosophical and spiritual tradition, his work is credited universally as the birth of that movement. The ‘new thought’ of New Thought is that human beings are an active part of divinity, evolutionarily destined to discover and exercise their own divine power, in alignment with the greater good for self and all. Thus, in the New Thought tradition, the life of Christ, and other Bodhisattvas and Old Testament prophets, is revisioned as a teacher introducing humans to their divine powers.

Our current world could be characterized as a flurry of divine errors that reflect human experimentation with the power of suggestion to the subconscious mind. These errors are having the effect of the breakdown of civilization, as we have known it.

On the other hand, new life, or new interpretations of energy, require a clearing of old beliefs that must give way for new divine possibilities to take root. The atrocities of now are real, but suggestions are coming so rapidly that nothing in this interim period of transition is likely to achieve permanence. On the other hand, our world is unlikely to ever return to the comfort of a familiar past.

The opportunity for now is for all of us to individually and collectively state suggestions that align with the greater truth and good for all. That is a sustainable interpretation of energy. That is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius that we all share in. It’s why we are here now, to assume divine responsibility for the world dream we are in the midst of dreaming forward. How momentous!

Do think this New Year forward, with New Thoughts of love, truth and wisdom.

Happy thoughts for this Happy New Year,
Chuck

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Chuck’s Place: What Is The Matter With Me?

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Anima Mundi, the world soul…
-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

Spirit and Matter are inseparably One. Yang, the creative, finds its physical expression in Yin, the receptive. In this moment, as I write, a son of mine texts me that while driving his car last night the word star unthinkingly escaped his lips, and suddenly, a falling star appeared before him!

Every word we say, positive or negative, is spirit, which is then physically expressed, like my son’s falling star. The star is the radiant spirit of pure truth, expressed through the matter of the star, the anima mundi, or the soul, of the world.

Everything that happens in our lives is of divine origin, that divinity being both the mental thought and the subconscious substance that brings it to physical life. We might indeed object to the suggestion that we intend negative events in our lives. In fact, we might argue that we consciously intend only positive occurrences. Yet, we must face the fact that like attracts like, and only what we attract will materialize in our lives.

This brings us to the question, when things materialize not as we intend, “What is the matter with me?” The matter, of course, is what we physically manifest.

If we begin by suspending the judgment of blame and instead assume the innocence of Dorothy, in the Wizard of Oz, we next pull back the curtain within and identify the true wizard/spirit behind our current manifestation in matter.

Very often, we may then discover that a very old thought that we have long forgotten has taken up residence in the habit section of our subconscious mind, and continues to automatically shape our physical lives according to the instructions imbedded in its belief.

This now unconscious belief acts as interference to the conscious suggestion we are currently seeking to manifest in our lives. Once we are aware of this blocking belief, we become enabled to defy it!

One approach to defiance is to engage the old belief and express gratitude to it for its necessary role in our past, when it shaped our reality to best protect us and secure our growth, however constricted. This belief is then awakened to the changed circumstances of now, where we are ready to advance beyond an old construction of self into new vistas of creative fulfillment.

This approach may neutralize the energy of the blocking belief, which now excitedly joins in the present suggestion of change to the subconscious mind. However, if it remains reticent to change, the conscious mind might aggressively flood the subconscious mind with emotionally charged positive suggestions that, once the energy accrues to the necessary level, causes the subconscious mind to abandon the old habit and manifest the new.

Beyond the issue of blocking belief, is a more basic relationship issue, what I call the Gemini Challenge, as Geminis foundationally confront  reconciling polarities, particularly the ultimate relationship between spirit and matter. This is, of course, a challenge presented to all of humankind, but for Geminis this may be the central challenge of a lifetime.

If we favor the spirit personality in the fundamental bipolar oneness of spirit and body, we tend to be dominated by mind, and can tend to live outside the body, in illusory states of inflation or, at the opposite extreme, in deflated states of mental rumination. At times this can devolve into a state of intense mental cruelty, where the spirit weeps for its supposed failures in physical form.

When identified more with the material side of the dual personality, we might be drawn into obsession with physical concerns, or imagined limitations generated by spirit thought. These, of course, are very likely to physically manifest, as body is governed by thought. The Gemini challenge is heightened by, at times, abrupt shifts to opposite perspectives that question what is real and right.

The resolution to this unsettling marital relationship between mind and body lies in mutual respect and equanimity. Spirit is not superior to body; they are full equals, reflections of each other. Matter exists and is real, even if it is ultimately but an interpretation of energy. Beneath a solid interpretation of matter is simply free-flowing energy, without definition. Divinity is dormant if it can’t be experienced in the adventure of form.

The answer to the question, “What is the matter with me?” is ultimately  the question of, “What spirit am I manifesting?” If I am under-appreciating or negative toward either my spirit or physical self, I will constellate the spirit of aggression and the matter of an inner civil war.

If I direct my spirit’s attention outwardly, toward the star, and engage my spirit for the greater good of self and other, my physical manifestations will happily reflect such love, for self and other. The matter with me is then confidence, contentment, and fulfillment in the full radiance of physical form.

Spirit Matters,
Chuck