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Chuck’s Place: The Truth About Error

You ARE all that is…
-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

As I have many times referenced, the Nagual, don Juan Matus, explained to his apprentice, Carlos Castaneda, that indeed, the world of solid objects that we live in, is real. However, he pointed out that a greater world of infinite, undifferentiated energy underlies this solid world, the world of all that is. Though challenging to reach, we all have access to the energy of the oneness of all that is, always.

Don Juan explained that our everyday world is but one potential interpretation of the energy of that infinitely vaster underlying world of energy. Our interpretation is our mental blueprint, formed by our belief, desire and demand, as envisioned in our imagination, and then assembled, by this intent, into solid physical reality.

We intend both the creation of our lives and the world we live in.  What we believe, we are. However, what we are, is relative. Changing a belief can completely change who we are, though it does not ultimately free us from the karma of the experiences and actions of the characters we have been.

Nonetheless, even with scores to settle with the personality we have been, we can be freed to fully stalk a new life and come back later, with an enriched perspective, to complete that which must be completed from a former belief state.

Our beliefs fixate our energy into a solid world that is definitely real. However, it would be an error to say that it is the only reality. For instance, life in the finite world of the Earth suggests a world of definite limits. The notion of scant resource and how it should be distributed is a driving concern upon the Earth plane at present.

The rightness of prosperity in the midst of limited resource and overwhelming need is a legitimate concern. There is no error in this truth. However, if one opens to accessing the ocean of infinite energy that exists beyond one’s interpretation of everyday life, through the intent of autosuggestion, one can tap that infinite resource of all that is and receive a prosperous life, without depleting any resource upon the finite plane of Earth.

Thus, though scarcity is a truth, it is also an error from the point of view of infinite possibility, latently accessible through conscious intent presented to the subconscious mind. What we place our intent upon can generate a separate reality, such as a physical healing, actualized by a healing affirmation.

Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, the healer who healed Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, discovered that fixated beliefs can actually generate disease. When he worked with patients, he educated them as to how their thinking, though true from the premises issued from their interpretation of physical reality, also limited their access to a greater Truth; that at an energetic level anything is possible.

The error, or limitation in their thinking, generated the real outcome of disease but veiled their access to an alternative healing belief. If his patient was able to see the error, or limitation in their thinking, and open to the power of energetic Truth, they healed. Such is the potential power of suggestion to the subconscious mind.

Carl Jung grappled with the dilemma of error and truth by designating two centers in the personality, the ego and the Self. The ego is the center of the conscious personality that is informed largely by the five physical senses and the rational mind. The Self includes the ego but opens, through the subconscious portal, to the vastness of the collective unconscious and all that is. The Self also brings intuition and psychic powers to the personality, though the ego’s fixation on rationality can often dismiss its access to them.

Thus, the ego is real and part of the Self,  but due to its limited skills and purview it is frequently in error in its assessments, which blocks its access to deeper Truth. Fortunately, as ego matures and becomes humbled by the greater knowledge and capacity of its Self, it raises its vibration and can develop a working relationship with the Self.

The Self operates at a finer energetic vibration than dense matter, and so the ego must learn to reach alpha and theta brainwave states to open the portal of direct communication with the Self.

Robert Monroe created the storage box metaphor, where one could deposit into the storage box one’s denser, thinking, beta brainwave mind, and thus be freed, with the assistance of higher brainwave entrainment, to explore deeper Truths and possibilities in infinity. Regardless of knowledge and fluidity gained in these journeys, one must ultimately re-associate with the contents of one’s storage box. In so doing, karma is neutralized and no longer a hindrance to radical change.

The point of the time we all spend in Earth School is for the ego to mature and gain support from the Self as it navigates the journey of resolving karma and the challenges it chose, at the level of Self, to fully explore in this lifetime.

The ego can begin a more definite relationship with the Self through its suggestions to the subconscious mind. One begins by shifting the energy state of the physical body through statements of relaxation, starting with the feet and progressing to the head, as the whole body is progressively relaxed, saying, for instance:

“My feet are relaxed, my calf muscles are relaxed, my thighs are relaxed, etc.”

Next, an autosuggestion is repeated several times to the subconscious mind. Here is an example of such an autosuggestion, but you can make up your own:

“I express deep gratitude to my subconscious mind for its unflinching support for the intentions I present to it. My subconscious mind is linked to Infinite Intelligence and Divine Love and has access to my High Self. I ask that my High Self guide me in ways I will recognize, with the ultimate goal being to achieve fulfillment and enlightenment in the lifetime I am in. I trust my subconscious mind to bring forth this connection.”

Relaxing one’s body to reach a higher vibration, then stating this affirmation several times a day, will reach the Truth of the Self. Breathe deeply as you relax and say your affirmation, releasing all fears and doubts. Be patient and know that your request will be answered. Instruct the ego to suspend the judgments that keep it locked exclusively in error.

The truth about error is that errors are truths, but lower case truths. Capitalized Truths are far more comprehensive and magical because they issue from the more expansive Truth of the Self.

To life ever increasingly beyond error,
Chuck

Chuck’s Place: Accepting The Truth

The truth will set you free…
-Artwork © 2024 Jan Ketchel

The greatest challenge of all, in this life of physical form and beyond, is accepting the truth. For one thing, truth is relative.

In childhood we believe we are responsible for everything. Mature adulthood allows us to accept the separate existence of others, including their contributions toward our difficulties.

Wisdom, the next level of truth, takes us full circle. Reflecting objectively upon life, from the  pinnacle of spiritual acuity, we see ourselves in everyone. From this perspective our oneness is restored.

Our evolutionary journey requires that we traverse successfully these developmental stages of truth.

The Buddhists suggest that we reincarnate into bardos, into dreams of our own construction, until we are at peace with the full truth of the lives we have lived, which then enables us to be open to life beyond them. This is the true achievement of detachment—the freedom to move into new life, fully resolved from dilemmas of previous lives lived.

Frequently, loyalty to unresolved issues results in counter-suggestions to the subconscious mind around changes we intend to make in our lives. For example, if one fundamentally maintains the belief that they are unworthy, a suggestion for prosperity may be cancelled by this blocking belief of unworthiness.

In this case, the subconscious may generate incidents to reinforce one’s loyalty to the felt undeservedness. Detaching from this belief will require recapitulation of formative experiences that reinforced this belief. This may expose distortions that were formerly needed to protect a significant other, or a part of the self.

This recapitulation may also lift the veil of narcissism shrouding the belief that dates to the primary narcissism period of childhood. From this view, one is able to assign responsibility for events where they should be truthfully assigned, unseating younger interpretations of reality. From this perspective one is able to accept the fuller truth of self and other.

Ultimately, one might reach a perspective that once again assigns one full responsibility for the life one is in. This might include realizing one’s decision to enter life in the time period, and family constellation, one was born into, as one’s contribution toward one’s greater soul’s journey of infinite growth and awareness.

This does not absolve a perpetrator from responsibility for their behavior. However, it might explain the choice of a victim-experience as part of one’s spiritual growth.

Accepting the truth also requires that we face the ulterior motives within the self. From a holographic perspective we are comprised of the same everything as everyone else. If we attempt to solve the polarities that live within the self via projection onto others, we lose the thread of our fuller inner truth.

Fuller acceptance of our shadow self, with all of its desires, manipulations, cruelty and greed, allows us to be in full truth with ourselves. Acceptance requires that we live our wholeness as responsibly as possible.

Every day we are offered countless opportunities to be in truth with ourselves. We just need think about the world and our relationship with others; what truths are we being asked to face each day, in each moment, as we live out our lives.

From a place of higher truth, we are quite likely to manifest the kinds of experiences that will bring us fulfillment, as we eliminate negative counter-suggestions from an unknown shadow self. And then we can fully own our whole, integrated and wise self.

Be in truth. The truth will set you free.

Truthfully,
Chuck

Soulbyte for Tuesday October 31, 2023

-Illustration © 2023 Jan Ketchel

Misunderstandings occur when there is a failure to communicate accurately. This can lead to devastating consequences, both in the world between any two or more people as well as within the self. The only way to overcome misunderstandings is to be truthful, but being truthful is often a tricky proposition, for there is often a lack or inability to be truthful within the self. How then can truth be told outside of the self? Seek to be truthful, as you face your own dilemmas, and seek first resolution within. The truth can be a hard truth or it can simply mean taking a look from a different perspective. Either way, some form of acceptance will be required, within and without.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Chuck’s Place: The Collective Energy Burning Through Us All

Trial by fire…
-Illustration © 2023 Jan Ketchel

An angry God once flooded the Earth in retaliation for broken laws. Afterwards, that God humbly promised to never destroy the Earth again in that way. That power was turned over to humans, which gave rise to  Oppenheimer’s world, the world we now inhabit.

Oppenheimer’s world is the reign of the human ego, with its power to both create and destroy. That great God in the sky transmuted into the High Self, the Spirit in everyone. The challenge today rests in the relationship between ego and its High Self. That relationship is in the midst of trial by fire.

Fire was originally the sole property of the gods. It took the hero, Prometheus, to steal it from the gods and deliver it to the human psyche. That deliverance was the birth of the human ego, in the form of the fire’s light of consciousness, with its ability to see and act beyond the dark control of instinctual unconsciousness.

With knowledge came independence and the ability to choose, create, destroy, dominate and be greedy. Ego has so dismissed its Spirit’s guidance that the Spirit of nature has been called in to adjust and refine the hubris.

The collective unconscious is creating fires in the passionate verbiage of pundits, who in turn are stirring the masses with similar aggressive passions. At the physical level, fires are raging around the globe.

The fiery energy of the collective unconscious is simultaneously burning through physical nature and human nature. This dual expression of fire, within and without, is what Jung called synchronicity, an expression of the psychoid level of reality, where psyche and nature similarly reflect a moment in time, as it reverberates through all of creation.

This is the same action that gives rise to an I Ching reading, where the physical action of throwing of coins creates an image that reflects one’s spiritual predicament, at that very moment in time. The oracle reflects the oneness of Matter and Spirit at a specific moment in time.

The collective energy of nature expresses this oneness, within and without, as it burns through the hubris of ego, which has abused its royal privilege, to restore the rule of the wisdom of the High Self. This is the refining action of the trial by fire we are all now living through.

On an individual level, it is important to notice that this current of collective energy is running through all of us. Be mindful to not get ensnared by this fiery energy, or take it personally, acting it out in your social interactions. Nonetheless, we must apply the fiery light of consciousness to burn through our own defenses and illusions.

All fires require fuel to continue burning. When we don’t throw more fuel on it, it won’t keep burning. When we don’t attach to an illusory story or feeling, we will not be consumed by it.

The fire is burning off all that stands in the way of Spirit truth. To attempt to defensively reason with fire merely fans its flames. Seek refuge in the truth; let others burn their way to it. Some just have to go deeper through the trial-by-burning to get to the truth.

Bring one’s ego into alignment with High Self. Understand that the trial by fire is really the proving ground to mature the ego by burning off its excesses and illusions, and shifting its attention to address the true needs of our Great Collective Spirit Self.

Transfiguring through trial by fire,
Chuck

Soulbyte for Thursday October 27, 2022

                                   -Illustration © 2022 Jan Ketchel

Find balance within the self rather than looking outwardly. What is outside of you is merely reflecting what you think you need, while what is inside you is the barebones truth. Sometimes the truth is too hard to accept so time is spent avoiding it. But in the end, the only place to go for real and deep resolution to what ails you is inward.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne