Soulbyte for Monday June 7, 2021

Let change become your motto, your word of reminder each day, so that every action becomes an action of change, so that every thought becomes a thought of change, so that every idea becomes a new idea on your road to change. Change is good. Let it guide you into new life and the experience of the bliss of your spirit, which will travel with you on any road you take but which surely does love to travel a changing path of heart.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Friday June 4, 2021

No worries. The worst thing you can do to yourself and your lovely spirit is to worry. Worry gets you nowhere. You just sit still spinning your wheels. Far better to use your energy in hooking into your spirit, asking it to guide you and show you what to do with your mind, that which wants to attach to something, anything, just to keep busy. Let your spirit calm your mind and empty it, and then be okay with an empty mind. For if your mind is empty your heart is full, and that’s the best way to be, full of love!

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Thursday June 3, 2021

When the mind begins to spin, telling you tales of worry and woe, when it speaks of disaster and intrigue, of sorrow and loss, when it tries to hook you into believing what it has to say, remind yourself that the mind in that case is but an old recording and that it does not have your best, evolutionary intentions in mind but only seeks to keep you its captive. A captive of the old mind is a lost soul. Instead of playing its old recordings switch it off and bask in the bliss of new ideas, new thoughts of positive and enchanting change, for change is good and it is what will ultimately set you free from the captivity of your old ways. And remember, use love for yourself as your fuel of change, for that too is the way to freedom.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Wednesday June 2, 2021

Hold yourself in the highest esteem and with gratitude acknowledge the great journey of life that you have been upon, for you have already come far and done much. Accept that, and with that perspective in mind look forward to continuing your journey with new awareness, conscious of all that you choose to do, knowing that every day and every decision matters. With your spirit in the fore now, do more than just carry on; travel now with love in your heart for the good struggle you have had and the joy of knowing that with love comes a new appreciation for all that you are and all that you can be.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Chuck’s Place: Advancement

Advancement… seeking ever higher…
– Photo by Chuck Ketchel

Memorial Day invites our attention to connect with those who have passed beyond physical life into pure spirit existence. In fact, we are all currently in spirit existence, for the soul that will someday pass on from physical life is alive and operational now, deeply attached to the physical body, at this very moment.

Those souls that have released from the physical body awaken to discover that their soul body, though lighter and brighter than their former physical body, is its exact replica or blueprint, the reason shamans have always called it the double. The desire of the soul body to sojourn for a life on the physical plane attracted to it the dense matter that clothed its soul during its earthly life, in the form of a physical garment.

Souls beyond physical life are often shocked to discover that nothing has changed. The soul and character that they lived in mortal life is the exact same soul and character they arrive with in the afterlife. The first great task in the afterlife is to fully recapitulate the life just lived, in the fullness of truth. Deeds and misdeeds must be acknowledged and reconciled before the soul can truly advance into the subtler possibilities of life in the afterlife.

What separates souls in this evolved position, from most people still in physical habitation, is the lightness of being and higher vibration of soul states beyond the sensory spectrum of the physical body. Nonetheless, these souls innervate our world and readily communicate through the medium of synchronicity, dream visitations, and, for those whose psychic channels have opened, clairvoyance and clairaudience. The spontaneous thoughts that arrive to us daily, through song or creative inspiration, are often the suggestions of guiding souls.

Those who reside in the higher vibrational dimensions, concentric with our Earth, are frequently dedicated to lives of service, the key to advancement on all planes of existence. Life on the Earth plane is socialized, from early on, to accumulate material wealth as its most important goal. The byproduct of this emphasis is a narrow narcissistic worldview that veils over our more fundamental interdependent whole.

The transparency of interconnectedness prevails in the afterlife, where everyone is confronted with the shadow of their former earthly life. That which remains unfulfilled must be completed. The burden of wrongs accumulated must be righted. Advancement demands completion and restitution. This is the law of compensation, cause and effect, and karma that prevails in all dimensions. This is not about being judged by anyone; it’s about living the necessary balance required by the truth of life lived.

Service at the soul-body level, delivered to the greater good for all, is both a means to give back that which was wrongfully taken and, more importantly, to refine one’s relationship to love, the most crucial factor to advancement on all levels of being.

Those of us still in human form do well to listen to the promptings of our own spirit, as well as to the suggestions offered to us through the spirit channels of those we memorialize, who live across the bridge we will all someday cross.

Granted, not all spirits have awakened to their greater potential and some may even seek human accomplice to their cravings. We must be careful how we interact, and so it is good to exercise keen judgment and assume full conscious responsibility for all our thoughts and actions.

Nonetheless, the guidance to be of service, to be fair, and to be loving in this life, particularly toward the promptings of our own spirit, who seeks only our advancement, is surely the road to fulfillment in this life, and beyond.

With love,

Chuck

Chuck Ketchel, LCSWR