#379 Do Not Fall For Anything That Looks Too Good To Be True

Dear Jeanne,
Can you offer us some guidance for today?

My Dear Ones, remain innerly centered now during this time of continued turmoil. Your place will not be disrupted, your flow not blocked if you remain innerly concentrated. I do not mean doing this in an obsessive, stuck way, but as a calm and observant being who knows that all difficult situations pass, things do begin to change, and shift will come.

These are good things to keep in mind as you go through your days and as you pay attention to your own world, your world of family, work, and play, but also your outer world and what is going on in the community in which you live. There will continue to be disruptions and many excuses will be posed. Do not listen to the excuses, but look instead for the truths behind the excuses. This is what all must do now, as they consider not only what is going on in the world outside of them, but also in the inner world that is so important.

Your inner world may now reflect the turmoil and disruptions of the outer energy. This is common. Do not get caught feeling dismayed or puzzled or lost. Allow your inner seeking self to sit back from the fray, observe it truthfully from a place of no attachment and then see what your feelings are. To be able to detach from circumstances that are conflictual is quite a necessary and reasonable stance to take. In detachment will you observe a new awareness that you may not be able to achieve if you remain in your tumbled world of rationality and reasoning that holds you captive in repetitive thinking, and thinking that cannot quite leap beyond the norm.

It is time to think differently now about just about everything in your world. But it is also time to sit back and observe, notice, and begin to make plans for doing your life differently. There is a new energetic shift now that asks for truth to be spoken and acted, but it also warns of catastrophe if you do not act from a place of detachment. It is far too early to get caught in this teasing energy that now sweeps in to confuse you even more!

Do not attach to yet more strange and unnatural tales of deception, but sit back and see what else will be revealed. For this continues to be a revealing time and more news is to come, but it may be unclear and slightly deceptive in how it is presented, so do not fall for anything that looks too good to be true.

Do not listen to stories of grandeur and overflow. And do not jump to conclusions in your own life either, but wait out this hailstorm of controversy, confusion, and conflict that is about to rain down on your world. This process is inevitable, unstoppable. Your best course of action however, in such times, is to remain steadily calm, pragmatic, and continually looking ahead to long-term affect, questioning always your inner self.

Where do you want to be in your life in one month’s time? Where do you want to be in your inner world? Well, you will not achieve either dream if you listen to the nay-sayers, or even the truth-diggers outside of you. Yes, their predictions may be correct in the long run, but what does that truly have to offer now? You must remain innerly focused now, strong upon your warrior legs, your feet firmly planted in the truth of your reality, no matter what is presented to you from without. Remain steady now, My Dears, that is the best advice I can give you.

On the other hand, please do not forget to enjoy every minute of your life upon that earth. You are there to learn about your self, but it is not a bad idea to enjoy your learning experiences too! Continue your hard work on the self; maintain your diligent awareness of the signs in your life, but pay attention to the inner you who does truly know when it is time to work, when it is time to resort to a calm inner place of contemplation, and when it is time to play and be in the energy of the world around you. This inner you is the one to listen to.

Good Luck as this new energy bursts forth upon you and then comes to a grinding halt, throwing you all forward with an abruptness that will wake you up. But will you wake up clearheaded and truthfully aware? Or will you wake up dazed and confused? Unfortunately, I do not have an answer for you. That is what you must take care of answering your selves, by going innerly and solving your riddles by listening to your hearts.

#378 Accept Your Appointment with Evolutionary Growth

Dear Jeanne,
Do you have a message for us as we begin a new week? What can we expect from the energy and how can we continue to use it rather than be confused by it?

Do not be so troubled by the intense energy shifts and the revelations now and soon to be made known to you. Your intent must remain upon growth, personal growth and evolutionary growth. It is most advisable to remain strongly heart-centered as you go forward now.

Yes, there is much turmoil around you now, and even inside you, as the energy continues to push you in a direction of change that will matter, asking you to make decisions that will also matter, though they may also disrupt the flow of your life and appear to shift you in the opposite direction. But this is right, if you know that your heart yearns for such shift in direction. You will know by the balance of inner calm knowing and outer anticipation and excitement, as you elect to make a change that may at first appear to be drastic and challenging.

Do not hold your self back from accepting your appointment with evolutionary growth. In order to embark on this journey must you be ready and able to encounter the shifts in direction that must be taken note of and actualized. It is not enough to take a journey that simply notices the signs that point the way for you. But you must elect to move in the direction they point out to you when you know, by your inner resonance, that such a direction is right for you.

This is definitely a challenging energy time. It will be so for quite a while, long enough to offer many opportunities to change direction and to move in new directions, if you so desire. And that is the main issue here. You must each confront, within your selves, whether or not you truly desire to change? Are you ready and willing to take on this boosting energy that will, in fact, send you on quite a journey if you accept it as your impetus, your companion, and your ever-present enlightening force? Do you really wish for such change in your own life now? Even as you observe that change is needed in the world around you, so must you elect to participate by putting your self out into the flow of it.

I see so many of you confused in your lives right now. This confusion is also part of this energy; for it is so pushy that you cannot help but feel it. It may be more apparent to you than your sense of direction, or your noticing of signs, or your sense of self at this time. This is very common. So do not worry that you are losing your sense of direction, or that you are just a totally confused mess. The energy is letting you know it is available, and that is all you really need to know at this point if you have not found your focus, your direction, or your equilibrium.

By simply accepting that the energy is available can you relieve your self of its intensity. This is what I have been suggesting that you do and I continue to suggest this activity. Say to your self: “Okay, I accept the fact that the universe is offering tremendous energetic support. But I will not simply allow myself to be drawn in to it and risk being sucked away by its intensity. I prefer to monitor my own sense of well being, my own sense of place, and my own inner knowing based on who I know I am. I am a conscientious, mature, and intelligent being who is in the process of discovering my spirit intent and this is where I will place my focus. I will not get drawn out to the energetic craziness that is playing out all over the world. I prefer to stay calmly centered now, aware of my own needs to use this energy properly, so that I can allow myself to move forward, with my intent to evolve as my goal. Rather than simply jumping into the energy because it is present, I elect to sit a while longer and contemplate which direction of change really resonates with me.”

My Dearest Ones, this is a time of deep reflection. It is a time of inner searching. It is also a time of uncovering. What is being revealed must be further examined and accepted as truthful revelations that have thus far driven the world you live in. And in spite of the direction thus far taken, so is there always the possibility to elect a new direction, a change that will turn you around in a completely new direction. But as I say, you must elect this change based on what is clearly being shown to you now.

What you don’t like, what you see that is wrong, irresponsible, immature, and utterly and clearly corrupt must be fully acknowledged and left behind. Your own intent must remain focused on personal growth now in order for greater change to happen. All of you must reject negative activities, dishonest and irresponsible acts of personal, professional, and social injustice. You must all clean up your acts and rid your selves of confusion regarding what is right doing and what is wrong doing. You must become aware that every action you take in your lives affects everything else around you.

So for today, and to begin this week, I continue to advise inner contemplation based on outer truths now being revealed. Question your intent, your purpose in life, your meaningful activities versus your wasted energy. Find your resonance now, your inner resonance, during this time of great outer turmoil and you will be well on your way to making the right choices. Your inner you will not fail you, though your inner you may certainly challenge you! And that, My Dears, is what you must confront–the challenges that you are placing before your selves! Good Luck!

#377 The Energy Will Play Out Where Most Necessary

Dear Jeanne,
This has been quite a week. I understand that this is a time of great energetic shift. Can you offer us guidance on how to deal with this energy over the next few days?

Allow your selves the understanding that you cannot control the energy around you, but you can control how you choose to engage it. Your attachment to the energy is your greatest discordant action at this time. By this I mean that if you remain focused on what is happening around you, so do you risk discordancy in your own life.

The energy will play out its intensity where it is most necessary. Keep this in mind: it will play our where it is most necessary. This will be so on the political, social, financial, and internal fronts, but it will also do so within your own framework. So on an individual level may you now be confronted with your own greatest fears and conflicts, which are about to crumble or are in great need of shoring up. But realize that you are in control of how you react. Do you elect to fall down upon the ground, a great weeping heap of debris? Or do you elect to remain standing, stiffening your legs with your inner strength, and preparing your self to not only take on, but handle from a new perspective, your fallibilities?

Where are you personally structurally unsound? Where do you need to place your intent? Where are your weak points and the gaps in your positive intent to grow?

Please use this time of turmoil well, by searching your selves, your hearts, your homes, and your daily lives for the truths of how you have chosen to live. Now is a time of revealing, as the energy rips off roofs and covers and shows what is underneath. Have you not discovered, lately, some truth about your own life that does truly need attention? This is what the energy seeks to show you, but you must elect to look at it from a spirit growth and evolutionary perspective, rather than a financial security perspective, or from the point of view of a collapsing structure. Yes, structures may be unsound, but what does it all mean from an evolutionary standpoint and, most importantly, what does it mean for you?

Your personal growth is now affected in some way. Are you ready to take the evolutionary journey in a new way now as this time of disruption offers you the opportunity to shift?

You are all being offered the opportunity to do things differently. Your countries, your individual lives, and your very planet are being offered a new door to select as your next pathway. Or do you elect to take the same path, stay with the current situation, placing band-aids upon your cuts and bruises, shoring up your flimsy structures with temporary beams? Or do you say: “Hey, wait a minute! This isn’t right! This has been going on for long enough! I’m not prepared to keep up this facade of stability based on old tactics, old fears, old habits, and pretty old and worn out structures that just aren’t able to hold up any more. This is absurd!”

Are you ready to admit that things have gotten out of hand; that it is time to change? Are you ready to admit that life needs to be lived, not only differently, but with spirit intent now? I ask all of you to take a leap of faith here, to offer your selves the opportunity to move forward in a new direction that will undoubtedly change your lives, the lives of those around you, and the world at large.

You are being offered a new door now. You are being shown that life can and should be lived differently because it will not continue as it does. No matter what you think will happen, so will it be different. Your process must now be one of acceptance of the true facts being revealed to you. This is your first step in making changes, accepting the inevitability of change happening all around you, against your will, but happening nonetheless by energetic force, unstoppable energy. You are being asked, most forcefully, to change your life in some manner. Depending on who you are and where you are in your life so is this request for change present in some fashion. No one is exempt from this energetic proposal to make a big shift now. There is not one place on earth that is exempt; not one person relieved of this duty. In some manner is every single human being affected by this energetic shift now taking place.

As a great tidal wave of energy asks you to change your life what will you do? Will you try to run and hide; pull the covers back over your head? Well, you won’t be able to stay hidden under the covers because the energy will continue to rip them off you. It will continue to blow aside your attempts to stay hidden. This energy is asking all of you to participate in the change that is now rattling your doors and windows and shaking you to your very cores.

Your heart knows this is so. And even though you may be afraid, even though you may feel on shaky ground (which is true!) so must you accept the inevitable, whatever it may be in your life. Go forward now with your intent placed forth ahead of you, your own intent to gain control of your life, with your spirit guiding you now, rather than your old habits and your old ideas.

Shift from your head to your heart now. It is the only aspect of self that will make sense as the declines continue and the shake-ups reverberate, revealing yet more catastrophes around the world. The greatest uncovering has yet to come.

Be prepared by strengthening your own conviction to remain centered and calmly heart balanced. For even as the world around you may tumble, its own greed consuming it, so may you stand tall and stable, a spirit warrior intent upon change and restructuring your life based on truth revealed, with right action as your new building blocks.

So hold now in your awareness your firm spirit intent to proceed forward, no matter what may be predicted. It is the only way to enact real change that will be evolutionary for all.

Our Book Signing Event is Cancelled

Dearest Readers,

We will not be having a book signing on September 27, 2008 as we had planned. Energetically, it is just not the right time for such an event. The paperback edition of The Book of Us, with a new final chapter, may be ordered at Amazon. It will also be available in its new updated version on the website by October 1, 2008, remaining as a free download for those who prefer to access it in that manner.

We look forward to meeting you at another time.

Most sincerely,
Jan and Chuck

#376 You Are But One Breath

Dear Jeanne,
Our world is experiencing the chaos you predicted last week. There has been a devastating hurricane in Texas and the financial sector of the United States is in grave condition. This is a time for us all to make some decisions about how we can change our country, and ultimately our selves. What advice and guidance can you offer us as this energy of change continues to push us along?

You are right, My Dear Jan, change is being requested of all of you. Not only change that will protect, but also change that will transform and really make an impact around the world. This is not a coincidence that such failures upon the shores of the US are being exposed now. Structurally is that country no longer the sound and domineering strength it once was, but it crumbles at its base, revealing weakened supports, liable to collapse at any time. The hurricane you speak of is but one example of what can happen when heed is not taken to either shore up or retreat from the impact of inevitable natural disaster.

The financial situation in your country is another natural disaster, My Dears; so do not take it personally. Do you find your selves now penniless, or even simply stunned at the outrageous and irresponsible tactics taken by those whose hands are in the coffers and realizing that there is not much security in such gold? So what do you do without money? How will that country run if out of oil, gas, and money?

What about abiding by the rules of nature and allowing nature, energy, the sun and moon, night and day to once again determine your actions? You know that winter is soon upon you. Have you prepared? Or have you forgotten how to prepare? Do you simply know that you will survive because it has always been so? Well, things have already changed and they will continue to change in the US and around the world. This is a time to live an active life, to get off your high stools where you have had the privilege to sit and observe life around you for so long. Now it is time to realize that you are not in a privileged position, not an observer of life, but that you must in fact actually partake in life.

This is not only true for my many Friends and Readers in the US, my own country of origin in my last life. This is true for the advanced civilizations around the world who have lived privileged lives based on a worldwide economy that can no longer bear the weight of the needs of those privileged countries. Your needs have outpaced the world’s resources, My Dears, and this is true in so many areas.

In order to return to a pace of life that is more in sync with nature, with the tides, with the abundance of earth’s bounty (and it is truly bountiful) must you determine what is most important to you in your lives. Who are you really? Why are you there? What is your mission? Once again, I return to these basic questions of purpose for living. How can you continue to live lives of meaning if you have not truly investigated the meaning of your own existence?

I do not mean to imply that you, My Dearest Readers and Journeyers, are responsible for all the devastation upon that earth. But you are; in fact, by being part of that human race of course part of the problem. Even in your evolved state so do you perpetuate the initial injuries by not actively changing the way you do business and utilize the world’s resources.

In order for true change to happen, so must you remind your selves each day that you do not own the world, but that you are but one breath, one slight human form, one energetic being who needs that world for your very survival.

You cannot plant your self in soil that is contaminated and expect to flourish. You cannot breathe air that is putrefied and expect to have pure breath. You cannot eat and drink of earth’s bounty if you have not cared for it properly, for there will not be any. Your sustenance does not come from financial markets but from farmers’ markets and the markets that provide you with your spiritual sustenance.

In order for change to truly happen, My Dears, must you return to the earth, for that is why you are there, to experience life upon that earth. Do you wish to experience the plastic movie set of earth, where everything is unreal, distant, and untouchable because you sit upon your director’s stool? Or do you wish for real experiences of real people upon real ground that rumbles and trembles and blows apart in hurricanes? Now that is real energy of real earth; and only such real power can offer real shift!

I suggest that drastic measures may be the only means by which change can really happen. Only the most abrupt of circumstances will shake you awake enough, and I fear that you have not yet had enough shaking up. The energy is intent upon its mission of awakening.

Notice what is happening in your own lives, My Dears. Where are your own disasters and awakenings taking place? Where are your feet? Are they upon the rungs of a director’s stool, or firmly upon the ground? What choices for change are you making? Do you trust the energy to lead you correctly? I certainly would.

This time will not end softly, but firmly, with a thud. And this you must prepare for, even as you now must prepare for winter. Be one with nature, for it is trying to tell you something. Watch what is going on around you. The critters of the earth and the creatures of the sky work hard just to survive now. Observe and take action. It is your opportunity to not only change, but to become a new kind of inhabitant of that earth. Your leaders cannot do this for you. You must all do it for your selves. Then will you have the change you so desire.

Good luck, My Dear Ones. Life is very exciting, don’t you think? Abide by new laws, new thoughts, new seeing, and new actions now. Be different. Be aware. Be earth bound. Be alive upon that planet in a new way!

Chuck Ketchel, LCSWR