Chuck’s Place: Constructing An Ark In A Flood Of Energy

Construct an Ark…
-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

Introversion can be defined as the quest for divine relationship in the solitude of inner focus. Extraversion is the seeking of that divine communion through connection with energy outside the self. Though most people are dominated by either an innerly or outerly  focus, both attitudes and realms of experience are present in some proportion in all individuals.

The genius in Mark Zuckerberg was his intuition of the latent hunger for extraverted connection that Facebook could facilitate. Social media now dominates human energy and human connection. With the development of AI, with its consumption of all human knowledge, we are nearing the projection of divine wisdom and connection onto ChatGPT.

We also live in a time where the ability to infiltrate the divine relationship between the conscious and subconscious minds, within the individual human psyche, through the influencers of political and social media, is commandeering a person’s ability to think for themselves. Mesmerized conscious minds absorb the suggestions flooding from without, which are then materialized by the subconscious through their beliefs, actions and relationships. We become what we absorb.

When our souls project from our physical bodies in our nightly sojourns into the subtler dimensions of life, we are equally confronted with other souls as influencers. The state of our minds as we launch into sleep will largely determine the kinds of encounters we will attract in our dreaming. Like attracts like.

If befuddled or emotionally charged upon entering sleep, one is likely to find oneself in dream milieus that intensify these unsettled states, thus robbing both body and waking mind of the repose and rejuvenation needed to calmly enter and flourish in the new day.

The ancient wisdom to never go to sleep angry is an ark of safety as we navigate the subtler realms of energy in sleep. Equally valuable, in constructing this ark, is the stated intention, as we enter the hypnagogic transfer station from physical to subtle energetic life, to only have interaction with beings committed to our own greater good and the greater good of all. Thus stated, we are primed in our dreaming to receive wisdom and guidance in the calm waters of those at or beyond our level of spiritual development.

This same ark of safety can be constructed as we navigate the flood waters of waking life. First and foremost, we can exercise our will to be healthful in our choice of the amount of time and the type of content we expose ourselves to in the floods of media.

As thoughts are energetic things, which telepathically can enter us, we do well to choose wisely the thoughts we entertain. Thoughts attract like thoughts from without. Attract and absorb only those that promote the greater good of self and other.

As with thoughts, emotions attract like emotions. Strive to be in a steady current of compassion for all life, without judgment, but avoid sympathy that absorbs problem and emotion that is not yours to bear. Send loving support but maintain firm boundaries.

Trust in the divine relationship between conscious and subconscious minds in all beings to solve all challenges. Empowering suggestions, telepathically sent to others, are of invaluable service to their own mastery of life’s energetic floods.

In both the introverted and extraverted playing fields that we enter, the tide waters are quite high. And, though these waters are naturally cyclic, flooding still abounds on all fronts. The divine connection we are drawn to reflects in all worlds, though we must focus according to our predilection. Ultimately, we will discover that all worlds are one.

To construct our ark of safety to navigate all life, the stated intent for the greater good of self and other is sure to deliver us to smooth sailing.

To the greater good of self and other,
Chuck

Soulbyte for Tuesday May 20, 2025

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

Take a deep breath and remind yourself of your beauty, your health, your happiness, your prosperity, and your harmoniousness. You are a part of all that is, of all that is beautiful and all that is happy. You are a part of the great force of life on Earth and that same great force is within you. Keep it alive with thoughts of positive measure and inner certainty that you are more than worthy of taking your place in the world, just as much as the next person. All that exists is there for you too.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Monday May 19, 2025

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

Reach for the stars they say! Reach for your highest potential! Everything is possible! Well, the truth is that all of those saying are absolutely true, the only caveat is that you have to put your own energy behind them, your own faith and trust in yourself in order for them to work for you. No one else can give you the energy you need to propel your forward. You have to instigate it within yourself. Yes, someone can certainly inspire you to change, to move in a new direction, to go for it, but only you can bring forth the energy that will sustain you and the belief in yourself that is so necessary to move forward in life. Part of the process involves acknowledging and resolving what keeps you from achieving what you desire. Look at the flower that blooms, that struggles from deep inside the earth, a tiny seed. Notice how it does not stop. It does not have thoughts of lack or depletion, it simply strives for what it knows belongs to it; the sunshine that will nurture it, the rain what will feed it, the earth that will support it. It does not ever doubt or think negatively; it just grows. So too are you a creature of the same world and so too will you be fed, nurtured and supported, if you believe it.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Friday May 16, 2025

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

It won’t be long before you have mastered your own mind! Every day as you remind yourself of your commitment to strengthen your power of thought by using the power of your own mind to step away from the usual banter, the chatter within yourself, you strengthen your spirit and its ability to lead and guide you. Every time you say no to the chatter of worry and failure and lack and loss and turn instead to the language of thanks and gratitude, to the prayer of peace and the stillness of heart, you step away from the old. Every time you stir the imagination to think positively, you bring forth new life. All of this is possible within yourself, by the words you say to yourself and the thoughts you elect to think. Change your thinking today and see what happens to your mood and your emotions, to your blood pressure and your heartrate. Give yourself a health cure, simply by thinking differently. No need to go to a spa, just change your words from the old negative to the new positive.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Thursday May 15, 2025

-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

How is it that time seems to stand still when you are busy doing something you love or something that takes all of your attention? Have you noticed how time ceases when your mind is off yourself, off your worries, and off your personal tragedies? With the mind occupied elsewhere, time ceases and all that time carries with it ceases as well. Busyness is one of the best ways to absent the mind of its worry. Take your mind off yourself for a while and see what happens. You might discover that everything you think and feel about yourself disappears. You might have to question if they were ever real to begin with? Thoughts do have great power of persuasion, both good and bad.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Chuck Ketchel, LCSWR