Messages from Jeanne

#631 Today All Things are Possible

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Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Dear Jeanne,
Do you have a message for us as we all head back into our daily routines after a long New Year’s weekend? What is important for us to keep in mind this week?

This is a time of setting forth on new journeys with resolute and steady steps, a time to take upon your backs only that which is necessary to travel with. It is a time to consolidate, to travel lightly, without overdoing or overusing the natural and unnatural resources alike. This is a time to consider not only your resolutions of change, but the greater impact your lives have upon that earth and all who live upon it.

Today, I ask that you consider your personal impact on your personal environment. I ask that you notice how you tread upon the earth, how you mark your territory, how you control your world, and how you consider your self in it. I ask you to notice more closely the impact that you, each one of you, personally have upon the earth and upon the interconnected web of energy that holds you all knit together in its interwoven fibers.

Are you aware that you do indeed impact everything else that exists and not just your self? Are you aware that your place upon that planet is dependent upon all others as well? Are you aware that all of you, though you exist as one single being are in fact multi-beings, energetically and infinitely attached by the energy fibers that you may not be able to see but that, if you allow your self, you may feel?

It is important to remain always aware of the constant flow of energy, of interconnected energy. Even as you do your inner work, which is of utmost importance, do not forget that you are part of a greater whole. But that greater whole will not be correctly perceived in its energetic form until you can connect to the energy of self and fully understand, by your personal experiences, what it means to be energy. Thus I stress the importance of inner work in order to gain insight into the feelings, emotions, and mysteries of others upon that planet too. Only in understanding the feelings, emotions, and mysteries of the self will you be able to fully connect to the source of all things, existing in all things: the energy that you are all comprised of.

So begin your week with fresh resolve to remind your self often that you are a being comprised of energy. Everyone else is too. This is often all you need to sink into inner contemplation and feeling what that means on a greater scale, as interconnected beings who are interconnected in that realm but also in infinity, where energy is not only the source of life, but is the only form of life as well.

In a state of energy all things are possible. In life all things are possible. Today all things are possible. Stay connected to that!

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My New Year Intent

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Greetings! To all our readers, I wish a Happy New Year. In Jeanne’s message yesterday she referred to the New Year and the reality that we find ourselves on the brink of disaster. Of course, she equally reminded us that we are responsible for everything and can turn our intent in a different direction. For my part, my intent for this blog for the coming year is to focus on pragmatic, empowering tools available to all, in simple form, to forge a link to the intent for a different outcome by taking charge of our evolution.

See today’s blog on the pragmatic tool of softening, directly below this post.

Chuck

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#630 Chuck’s Place: Softening: A Gateway to Infinity

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Welcome to Chuck’s Place, where Chuck Ketchel expresses his thoughts, insights, and experiences! Many of the shamanic and psychological terms used in Chuck’s essays are defined in Tools & Definitions on our Psychotherapy website.

On New Year’s Eve, Jan took me to a most unusual yoga class. The entire class focused on softening, just allowing the body to gently and slowly sink deeply into a few asanas. I found my body responding, awakening to an old memory of infinite release.

I first contemplated infinity as a young boy, daydreaming in a grammar school classroom. I reasoned, back then, that a small finite grain of sand was infinite because if you cut it in half, and then cut it again and again the process would never end, there would always be something to halve again. Of course, I realized that the instruments that would be needed to halve the diminishing grain probably did not exist, but this didn’t change the reality that infinity existed in the halving process.

With my body, it’s the same experience. I focus on an area and intend it to relax, release, or soften. Immediately it responds. As it arrives at its new place it presents a new sensation, or boundary, that is actually a new, albeit lesser, level of tension. If I keep my awareness on this new place and once again ask my body to release, off it goes, to a new place, half as tense as a moment before. This process could go on forever, if I could hold my awareness on it.

At the end of the yoga class, I mentioned to the teacher, Nicolas, how wonderful and effortless was the stretching. I was gently reprimanded for my use of the word stretching to describe the process. What he teaches is softening, no pressure or rigor applied to the muscles, simply a deepening of release, allowing the body to find its own way. In my experience, it’s keeping my awareness on the muscle, noticing its level of tension, and asking it to release. It seems always capable of softening to a new level of tension.

Ultimately, I experience this as a gateway to my energy body and infinity. At a certain point in the softening process my body, as a physical form, disappears, dissolving into sheer energy. For me, the sound of energy kicks in at that point, an almost deafening vibratory sound. It feels like an energetic massage and attunement. This is an opportunity to maintain awareness in a sheer energetic state of interconnectedness, awareness without a body.

What I am describing is an extremely pragmatic tool to access the energy body. Bringing your awareness innerly, by focusing on your physical body, sending it the intent to soften, again and again, is a gateway to infinity. It requires no books, no training, no money, simply the honing of awareness to the sensations of the body with the intent to go deeper and deeper into softening. This is a tool anyone can hone, at any time and any place, through a simple shift of awareness and intent. Try it!

As always, should anyone wish to write, I can be reached at: chuck@riverwalkerpress.com or feel free to post a comment.

Until we meet again,
Chuck

Messages from Jeanne

#629 Clarity: The Greatest Weapon of Change

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Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Dear Jeanne,
Today is the first day of a new year, the year 2010. As I write this, I have such a strong feeling that this is going to be a very meaningful year, that we stand on a verge, that efforts to shift will be accomplished, that changes will now happen that have been pending for a long time. I also feel very hopeful. Do you have any comments?

It is right to feel hopeful, for as a new year begins there is always joy at the anticipation of things to come, yet do I also caution that the world, at this very moment, the universe and everything in it, stands beside you on that verge of change, awaiting with bated breath for mankind to determine not only his own fate but the fate of the planet he inhabits. This is not a time to be foolhardy or to take anything for granted. It is a time to be serious. That being said, I do not wish to dampen your spirits, or your feelings of hopefulness, for they are indeed the feelings that will accompany you into this coming time of change, impacting all your decisions, as individuals and as a group of human beings.

A new spirit of awareness, coupled with hopeful joy, will aid you all now as you step out into a new day, a new year, and offer yourselves the opportunity for a new life. Shifting into new life is not accomplished overnight. Though you have awoken to a new year it took the whole previous year to attain this status of newness and it was indeed accomplished through many trials, tribulations, deeds, misdeeds, hard work and equally hard play. Life is continual and though you prefer to section it into segments of time I ask that you look upon your entire past as having led you to this day, this new point, and rely upon your knowledge of the past to show you what not to do, as well as what is appropriate behavior in order for the newness to be lasting and for a shift to truly happen.

What do you foresee for us this year?

I foresee the culmination of many wrongdoings. I see the escalation of war and hatred, yet do I also see it burning itself out, perhaps not in one year’s time, but the fires for finishing it will be laid and set alight. I see that America, the country, though it is made up of many concerned, honest, and good citizens, sits on the brink of disaster, though the energy of the universe wishes her to turn in the opposite direction where hope and purity of vision wait to greet her.

There is much to be learned from this viewpoint, from standing on the brink. One has quite a clear picture of the past and an equally clear picture of the future. This is so for all. You, each one of you, do have clarity today. You know what has transpired. You see clearly the year gone by and you see your future as well. Do not deny that you are capable of this. This clarity is asking you to do the right thing for your self, to be honest and faithful to your vision of heart and insight, to be truthful from this day forth, so that you may truly change your self and your world. This is a day when clarity may actually be the greatest weapon of change that each person upon that globe may take up and truly utilize for good.

Do you see disaster happening in the world if mankind does not change now?

I have seen disaster coming for a long time. I am not alone in this. You too have felt it, all of you. If you allow your truths to be spoken aloud you will hear the underlying truth of imminent disaster being spoken all around you, as well as inside each of you. But I do not predict anything, for you are fully capable of causing shift from the brink of disaster, though you will also have to deal with the consequences of your actions and activities, personally and upon that earth.

I wish to send you into joyous newness, for I know this is what you now feel, all of you, for it is a most auspicious time upon that earth.

Yes, it does feel that way. The year 2010 has such a futuristic feel to it, and I wonder if we are ready to accept a different kind of future, because I see it before us.

It is up to each one of you to attend to your personal brinks of disaster, to turn from the disaster side of the brink, from falling into devastation, fear, hatred, and desire of that which no longer holds up and turn to the other side of the brink where something new, unknown, and yes, fearful, awaits as well. The one side of the brink is very known, and I know you are bored out of your mind by it, by the repetition of the same old stuff being played out. I know you are ready to turn your back on it as you turn toward this New Year. But I ask that you first stand and look back at the old and fully accept your part in it. Take what you learn from it and dare to turn in a new direction. That is how you will face the New Year properly, with maturity and self-acceptance of your own life. In taking full responsibility for all actions may you step into a new year holding onto your hopeful joy, for then are you worthy of its bountiful energy. Then you are ready to use it wisely and well, no matter what comes to greet you.

Do you have a final comment for your readers?

Yes. I do not wish to sound gloomy, but I think you all know me well enough by now to accept that I always ask you to take full responsibility for the self and your decisions in life. Jan’s contention that there are feelings of joyfulness and hope on this day is indeed a correct summation of future prospects as well, energetically speaking. But you must make some choices that will use that energy to shift the self. In time, your own turning from the brink and toward a new plan will certainly impact the world around you as well, because you are all interconnected. Keep this in mind, as you enter this new time: the impact of YOU is great.

Never doubt that you have the power to change what you know must change. Today, you are granted the clarity to see what that is, and tomorrow? Well, tomorrow you must face the first decision that this year offers you.

Messages from Jeanne, Questions for Jeanne

#628 A Third Place of Being

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Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Dear Jeanne,
Today we have a question from an old friend of yours who is studying at The Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland. I must say that this will be quite a test of my channeling abilities because I know little or nothing about the subject he queries you on. Here is his note addressed to you, followed by his question:

Dear Jeanne, greetings from your old world friend to you in your world beyond. My question involves the psychoid nature of the archetypes, the connection between psyche and matter as often experienced through synchronicity. Although we experience synchronicity constantly, the theoretical basis for this phenomenon is not well understood. The following question that I put forth to the I Ching, I kindly ask you to answer. I am seeking to take the next step from experiencing synchronicity to understanding its theoretical basis. Many philosophers and psychologists believe that it is not possible to establish this link, but I believe that it is and ask your kind assistance. Thank you, Donald.

QUESTION: How can man use his knowledge of analytical psychology and modern physics to develop and confirm a theoretical basis for the psychoid aspect of the archetypes?

Greetings in return, My Old Friend! First you must be reminded that the mind of man is limited by what he puts into it, by his age, his propensity for accumulating data and information, and the fact that headstrongly overloaded synapses will only tolerate so much pressure. Taking the limits of the mind into consideration, I suggest that the next step is to allow for an expanded mind, a releasing of thoughts and ideas from doctrine and formulations, allowing for super consciousness to guide one. I encourage, as we take this journey today, leaving the head resting upon your pillow and allowing the body to relax as the subconscious takes a little journey. You are fully aware of the ability of the psyche to experience outside of the mind, outside of the limited conjuring mind that must, by its very nature, remain limited. In order to truly experience synchronicities, innerly and outerly, one must resort to a third place of being, out of body and out of mind.

This third place of being is synonymous with the psychoid state, though until it is truly experienced, many times over, will not be understood. Until the scientific mindset releases its hold, the third place of being will merely be an enigma, little understood, dismissed perhaps for its lack of measurable data.

I invite you, Don and my many readers, to enter this third state or place of being by releasing the thinking mind and finding the self in no place, no now, no body, no thoughts, no grounding, no familiarity, to in fact enter another world beyond the normal everyday world.

In allowing the self to release from the known, by asking the self to trust the universe (so full of synchronistic magic), one offers the self access to another world where the scientific studies of man may be resolved in an instant, simply by experiencing something that has nothing to do with connecting or linking the ideas of man with the ideas of the physical world but truly links all worlds. This involves allowing the self to trust the greater interconnectedness of all things, the facts of energy, of illusion, of matter as energy, of self as energy, of thought as energy, of the world around you as energy and merely created for the process of intellectual study leading to the discovery of all beings, and everything in that world, as energetic components of the same thing: nothing but energy.

I am sorry to keep using the same word, but to say energy is to indeed encompass all things. Now, your contention that energetically all things are connected is indeed my own truth, but such knowledge has been more fully gained as I entered my own state of energy. In life upon that earth I did explore beyond the frailness of the human body, yet did I not attain the fuller truths of all things as energy until I departed that life.

I observe that man, in his fears, limits himself to what the mind is capable of detecting, what the instruments he invents can measure, what mathematics can define and calculate as possible; man’s mind limits experience to only that which his mind is capable of. Expansion of mind is required to not only imagine the greater interconnectedness of all things, but the nothingness of all things as well, which is the energetic purity of all things.

I hope I am not being too confusing. I find that life upon that earth will remain set, defined, and unexplored if man remains bound only by what his mind is capable of connecting together. Beyond the mind lies the greater universe and it is only in experience of this greater universe, with its endlessness, its nothingness that encompasses infinity, that everything that one may achieve understanding of exists, including how synchronicities appear. I suggest that your dear mind, though it struggles to analyze and discover the connection to the phenomena of synchronicities in the universe, must allow for a greater openness to the third place of being in order to fully comprehend the meaning of the interconnectedness of all things.

In conclusion, I wish to state that all who exist upon that earth are fully capable of not only experiencing synchronicities on a daily basis, of experiencing the interconnectedness of all things, of the psychoid aspects of the archetypes as you describe it, but that all beings are fully capable of causing them as well. By energetic intent, all things are possible. By the existence of and by the trust in the existence of a third place of being, one is capable of not only experiencing the energy of infinity but of becoming the energy of infinity while remaining in body and mind upon that earth plane.

The intent of energy is constant. It is interconnected whether man is aware of it or not. It is constantly in flux, in motion, in a vibratory state of awareness. This is the truth of all things, all events, happenings, thoughts, ideas, managed by the mind or otherwise. When mankind allows experience to become his self-analytical tool his universe will more fully allow for the third place of being to become acceptable as a true measure of learning and knowledge.

My Dear Don, I commend you for your work, your exploration, your own ability to flow gently into a new world of thought as you take your new adventure in life. I invite you to leave that world a little more often, to explore the third place of being. It might just be where you need to go, as so many have gone before you, where your scientific mind might just experience things it cannot describe in theoretical terms, already laid out. It might allow for experiences of the interconnectedness of all things, indescribable and known by the facts of experience alone.

The third place of being, the great interconnected web of energy of all things, known and unknown, the world of everything and nothing, awaits!

Chuck Ketchel, LCSWR