Dear Jeanne,
So here we are, it’s Friday again. Can you offer us some insight and guidance as we go into another weekend? The world situation is continuing to be desperate and in the U.S. we are in the final weeks before the election of a new president.

Anticipate change and you will indeed have change. Anticipate defeat and you will have defeat. Remove fear from your anticipation, allowing intent to flow, and you will ride forward on the wings of your intent with a new openness, gathering about you a new awareness. To anticipate the possibility of change is most impressive now as you go into this time of shift, but even without your focused intent will change arrive to greet you soon enough.

The energy of this time is enough in itself to offer much in the way of change. This I have been talking about over the past few weeks. But you must also keep in mind that as an evolving being, who is learning awareness, so is it to your advantage to practice intent, especially during this time of energetic accompaniment.

As I have stated, change is inevitable now. But do you wish to sit still and allow it to happen all around you, without your participation, but also without your inclusion? You are being offered the opportunity to participate and actively use your intent to move you forward. You are being given the opportunity to get what you want, to move forward in your life in a new direction, invited to change, with purposeful intent aiding you. Do you see?

You can change now. You can actually use your intent to change, to your advantage now, by calling forth your true desires for change. But you must move beyond your fears in order to do so. You must allow your self to leave behind your comforts, your usual methods of remaining complacent and stagnant, in order to enjoy this time of shift.

The possibility for sweeping change is being presented all around you. In your own lives are you being presented with something new. What is it? What are you now being presented with that, if you undertake, will cause a great shift in your life? Each one of you is being given the opportunity to change and grow now. This is certain. You may not be fully aware of what you are being offered, but I can guarantee that it is there anyway. In order to understand what it is, and to accept its possibilities, must you allow your self to contemplate your true desires for change.

Are you afraid? Are you wary of moving forward, caught by some old fears that do not really matter in the long run? Are you creating new fears in order to stall your forward movement? Are you caught by some very old fears that remain deeply embedded in your psyche and in your physical habitat?

Remind your self often that you are a traveler upon a grand journey. The road is wide open, inviting, full of promise, full of positive energy, with guides awaiting your first steps forward upon the next leg of your journey. Keep an open mind, and by that I mean really open, freed of your old ideas, judgments, thoughts; your old chatter. Replace it with your new energy of intent, which says: Everything is possible! Everything is possible! Everything is possible!

With such positive intent may you dare your self to step forward, taking the next step in spite of your trail of fears, still clinging to you, still being carried with you. Your fears must be pulled forward, one at a time, looked straight in the face, and dismantled for what they truly are: old ideas of the self that will not simply go away because they are aspects of truth that must be fully revealed in order to become acceptable as true aspects of self and fully integrated. Once fully accepted and integrated, will those aspects lose their power and become true partners on your journey.

Are you so afraid of learning your truths that you would elect to carry them around, dragging them behind you, a heavy dark cloak that becomes heavier and heavier, weighing you down and denying you access to your energy that they hold captive? I know I present you with many ideas of growth, but this is the most important one. For in order to truly move forward, must you confront your fears, and in order to stay upon the path of growth must you learn to move forward and confront your fears simultaneously. This is a lifelong process. This is what recapitulation is, the process of confronting your fears. But in order to live a life of positive intent mixed with a good dose of recapitulation, must you find a way to constantly prod your self to keep moving forward, in spite of the tremendous burden of fears that you carry with you. As you walk the path of life allow your self to confront those fears as they pop up to steal your energy. That is all they want, you know. They want your energy.

Old fears may be memories of people; of actions taken; of desires; of unfulfilled and disappointing times in your life; of old ideas of the self, long ago dispelled, but still fresh in your mind and in your body. Your attachment to these old ideas and to the truth of their power holds your energy captive. Each fear holds your energy encapsulated in its tight fist. It will not release it to you until you go to it and pry open that fist and see what is there, own it, take it fully as your own energy, your own power, and place it in your present life, as energy worth having on your journey.

So, this time of change is looking for participation with positive intent. Fear holds negative, draining energy, not conducive to the positive direction you are being offered as your focus now. Do you not feel your inner spirit’s desire to really grow now and move forward with the grand possibilities being offered? Your country, the U. S., is reflecting this opportunity. Look all around you at the possibilities now being presented. This is not just being presented outside of you, but also inside of you. And yes, it is time to move forward, in spite of fear.

I know it is not easy to bring your fears forward, to face them head on, to struggle with them, to reveal the truths of them. But you must be brave and face them, or you will not regain your energy that is now so necessary for you to have for your progress and your intent to grow. As you look forward now, remind your self often that, yes, everything is possible and I deserve the opportunity to experience what that means in my own life. What are the possibilities that await me? Well, My Dears, that is what is awaiting your discovery.

Remain positive as you go into your weekend. Find your own pace and your own inner balance, for I do suggest that this is a good time to move forward with your plans of growth. You will be aided. You will be guided. You will be offered energy that is positive and good to accompany you, for this is a time of growth, even as it is also a time of recapitulation. But they do go hand in hand more often than not. So don’t ever let that stop you. Don’t let fear stop you from going forward, as the possibilities continue to unfold. Recapitulate and grow!

Dear Jeanne,
Do you have guidance for us today in how to handle the energies of the world we live in and our own inner world?

Do not thwart your own progress toward growth and completion by being too outwardly drawn. As always, do I recommend staying upon your personal path, using the outer energy to turn inward, but also to reflect what is going on inside you. For if you consider the interconnectedness of all things, so will you be able to understand how what is happening outside of you is also, to a degree, happening inside you, and vice versa.

By considering your own situation, may you achieve compassionate understanding for others, knowing that when volatile times engage you, so do they also affect many others. Some people in your nearness must also be experiencing such times as you now feel. Your inner turmoil may be lessened by your abilities to detach, but your inner work will not let you rest for too long, for now is a good time for such inner contemplation and eventual resolution.

As the next few weeks unfold, so will you continue to be confronted by truths revealed outside of you, but also inside of you. This energy that now visits that earth realm offers quite a powerful push to turn over the old soils covering your old wounds and dark secrets. Consider it as a handy shovel that you have been handed, no strings attached, except that you may choose to use it to uncover, or to continue to bury what must become known in order for growth to happen.

Do you wish to spur on your journey now? Do you wish to evolve a little further? I suggest that you pick up the shovel now being offered to you and that you begin digging the dark soil that has accumulated over your many years upon that earth. Now will you be fully aided as you do your work on the self, your deeply buried and waiting inner self, who desires that you uncover the truths of this self. To remain buried and unfeeling during this time of removal and release would slow you down. It would keep necessary truths buried. But for what reason?

What reason can you come up with for consciously choosing to not do the work upon the self? What purpose would be served? The continuation of denial of hidden truths, kept secret in order to stay the same, in the same rut? Do you choose to remain in such a place of stuckness, glued to your inability to shift? Now? When you are, in fact, being offered quite the opportunity to dig your way out of your pit?

Look around you now. Really open those eyes and see what is being offered. What form is your shovel taking? Who is offering you a hand? Who is speaking words of truth? Who is pointing out a new direction? Who is noticing that you have not budged one inch in many years? Who is suggesting that it is time for a change, even as such words are being spoken all around the world now? Do you really think that this time of change is meant only for political, economic, and governmental issues?

Well, if you think that, then you have not understood the interconnectedness of all things. You have impact upon the world simply by existing, by breathing, and by just sitting still. Your own ability to advocate for change in your own life, to breathe new life into your lungs, to shift the stale air inside your very body is one way to begin.

Then, turn your eyes in a new direction. Erase your old mantras of self, of lifestyle, of place of complacency, and begin to now tell your self new, fresh ideas in order to motivate and guide your self out of your dark place. You may only need one small step of adjustment, or you may need to be ruffled up and tipped out of your place of stagnancy by a greater force than you alone can muster. But know this: This time of opportunity is being offered to all of you. You are all being handed a shovel. You are all being asked to participate in a great shift, a new way of doing, of seeing, of speaking, of acting, and of believing.

You are all being asked to trust that change is necessary for all the right reasons; energetic reasons; even as negative events are necessary for the right energetic reasons. All of these things are necessary for shift to happen.

If you will trust your own journey now, by accepting your shovel, by accepting that, yes, I need to change my self too, then are you well on the way to engaging in this grand shift that is spurring on, in a worldwide fashion, the energy of change.

Interconnectedness to all things also involves your inner self, confronting your deepest hidden truths. So as you go out into your world, go also into your inner world more deeply now. Find your truths, and see how they fit into this picture of change and shift that I have presented to you. How will your own truths interconnect with the great truths being revealed? That is for you to find out. And in so doing, will you understand what it means to be interconnected with all things upon that earth, and then beyond.

I present this guidance to you from beyond your everyday world, My Dears. Do you trust my words, this guidance? Do you strive to achieve such awareness of me, and my world? Well, first must you figure out that world that exists right before your eyes. And then may you begin to understand that I am not too far away, just another part of the great interconnectedness of all things. If you can trust me, why not trust your self?

Trust your self. This is all I ask, as you put your hands upon the gifts being offered to you. Do you see your shovel nearby? Pick it up. And then see what you discover as you begin digging your way to connecting with all energy. Good Luck!

Dear Jeanne,
Chuck and I have been discussing the overall pattern of the content of your messages. You make a statement or point at the beginning, then basically give examples and explanations of those points before wrapping up at the end with a repetition of your original statements. (Good writing techniques, I admit.) Chuck mentioned that this is very similar to the way you operated in your sessions as a psychotherapist, making the same points over and over again from many different angles. I find the similarity between you then and now very striking. I also find your insights very unusual and I like the different perspectives that you offer. I guess my question to you today is twofold. First, why do you find it necessary to be so repetitive when perhaps just a concise statement might suffice? And secondly, are you continuing to work in this manner because you are Jeanne Ketchel still and that is your personal style? Actually, I have a third question. Do we retain our personality after we die; does it transform with us, as we become pure energy?

I will answer your last question first, for in so doing will the answers to your two other questions become more apparent. Personal style does remain intact after death. It has been intact through many lives; that I can attest to. Your personality, although quite plainly focused in this life as Jan Ketchel, for instance, has been present and nurtured through your many lives too. As you have progressed, these and other traits of sameness of character followed with you. By sameness, I mean they remain present. Key aspects of your soul-centered self are with you always, defining who you are now, who you have been, and who you will be.

You carry your personal traits from one life to the next. Gradually, over time, they are more fully developed and utilized in the growing process. In my earlier lives, though I had certain traits, I did not use them all; they remained dormant until necessary; and others that I utilized early on, did not need to be so apparent later, in other lives. You see?

Now, as far as my messages go, I perceive that you are getting bored again? Do I bore you with my long dialogues on one thing and another? Are you wondering how many times I will say the same things over and over again? I perceive this is true. Is it not?

Yes, I tend to get bored if things stay the same for too long. I like change. I am wondering if your repetition may not begin to sound like the same old thing to many people. I wonder if they will miss the finer points of your insights, because I do know that each message is different.

Well, the process of repetition is so necessary, My Dear, because there are far too many people who are not quite getting the true messages, which is that now is a time of transformation and direct growth, if you are ready, aware, and daring enough to take the steps to evolve. But in order to be daring, must one completely trust the guidance being offered. And that is what I am attempting to present to our readers, and to you and Chuck as well.

I offer a process of learning to trust the guidance by repeating my mantras to you so that you may find, over time, that they are indeed not only helpful, but truthful as well. You may not see results for a long time, but if you look back over the guidance that has been offered, and your process of learning to trust by following it, so will you see that it has been quite beneficial, as well as truthful. So you see, it is quite necessary to repeat my messages of guidance, not only often, but in many different ways, in order for you to understand my meanings in your own lives. As you progress, learn, and grow, so will the messages prove true and your trust may grow as well.

I do not anticipate that everyone has read the same thing so many times, as you may think. There are many of you who will read and comprehend ideas only when they are necessary for you to read and comprehend them, only when you are at a point in your life when they are meaningful, appropriate, and timely. You see?

So, although I say things quite often, and I even refer to the fact that I do, I do so in order for all of you to discover something you have perhaps not noticed before because it was not time for you to learn from it yet.

So you see, my method is practical and it is also awareness, on my part, of how evolution works. It is a fact that everyone is evolving, all the time, at different rates. Messages of guidance are always necessary. Many times are they necessary to repeat over and over again and, as Jeanne Marie Ketchel, that is my style. I hope you will not be bored by my means of projecting these messages upon you, for they are meant to aid you as you grow.

Do you have any other guidance for us today?

Do I dare state, again, that the following is so necessary now? I do! Find your calm and your balance, your steady place upon that earth, as you move forward now, trusting your own journey.

I can’t help but see this steadiness and calm balance in Barack Obama, as he moves forward in his presidential bid against John McCain. It is striking how calm and detached he appears. Can you comment, briefly, on this political process now going on in the United States?

If I might be so bold, I say that yes, this man, Barack Obama, does exhibit balance and steadiness. His place upon that earth now is not only in striking contrast to his opponent, but is filtered through many opposing sides. He is a man in solution, a fluid mix of black and white, a resolution of many years of struggle; a chemical balance representative of the inner and outer choices all must confront within themselves. He is not just a man who walks the earth, but a man who represents the future, the evolutionary potential of all beings, a marker of truth to come, a beacon of light, evolutionary light.

Can you not project into the future, a process upon that earth where inner and outer beings, spirit and human, interact and resolve to grow together. This man, this Future Man, represents this process and this ideal of balance. You see it most dramatically in his demeanor, his process of remaining steady upon his path; focused, yet constantly challenged and confronted on all sides by the old ways of doing business. I do not offer political information here, but I do offer this insight: that all of you must look upon this man, who walks now among you, as a man who is truly embodying the evolutionary potential of all mankind. His mix of races, his mix of spiritual self with outer physical ego self, his struggles and challenges in life are grand examples of the potential for all human beings to reconcile the differences within themselves, the two selves who must work together in order to grow. He is a good example, no matter what his politics, of the merging of the two aspects of self in balance.

Continue now your own growth and your own attempts to remain in balance, My Dears. Do not push aside my messages as the same ol’-same ol’. You may have already learned some of the lessons, but I guarantee you have not leaned them all. I’m sorry if I may, at times, bore you, but even that is necessary. Why are you bored, if that is indeed true? There must be something that you are not quite getting, for how could any aspect of that life be boring? Keep going. Keep searching. Keep growing. I love you all! Keep trusting that you are on the journey you should be on, looking always for where to turn next.

Dear Jeanne,
Do you have a message for us today?

Struggles in life are necessary, as signposts and guideposts along your path, offering you opportunities to change your route. Are you upon a path of growth? Do you wish for change? Do you wish for progress, and for enlightenment about how things work, what life is about, and what comes next? If so, then your struggles, confrontations, and challenges are all asking you to proceed with a certain amount of awareness, coupled with alertness to the fact that you are on a journey of purpose and meaning. Can you accept the fact that your life is full of purpose and meaning? Yet must you discover what it is, by continuing to shift and flow with what life offers you.

If you remain stuck, or with little growth, even though you may desire it, so are you not properly reading the signs in your life, or taking them seriously. The process of growth must begin with desire, but without action on your part will there be no fulfillment of desire. And how do you take action if you cannot properly see or read the signs in your life? Well, I can tell you this, life is offering you signs leading to growth all the time.

So how do you become more aware? I ask you, today, to dare your self to notice some thing about your self that has kept you complacent and resting upon your backside for far too long. All of you have some challenge that is overdone, overused, overcompensated for, and overly boring in your life. Look first at some habit, behavior, activity, relationship, agreement, contract, or even your own internal chatter that has been keeping you from changing. You may be stuck, really stuck, or so you think, without possibility to change or remove your self from your stagnancy. So I offer this to you:

You can change, if you want to. You can offer your self the challenge to do something differently, no matter how small. But in order to do so, you must be willing to take on the challenge, to follow where it takes you, keeping always in mind that whatever comes your way is actually leading you to fulfillment of your purpose for living, and offering you meaningful progress as a result.

Now is a time of great confrontation. Energy is present that is proposing change. Yet is there also other energy that is pulling you back to your place of stagnancy. To be between these two types of energies is to be in a place of confusion. But do not allow that confusion to turn to disillusion with life, with your situation, or with your spiritual self. Distance must not be created between your inner spirit self and your outer worldly self, but union must be maintained.

Now is a good time to go innerly, to enjoy your inner work, detaching from the outer turmoil, with compassionate understanding for the journeys that all must take upon that earth. Now, in turning inward, will you be rewarded with many signs, as you become attuned to your own resonance and heightened awareness by your connection to self, to your dreamworld, and to your spirit’s desire for meaningful and positive progress upon that earth.

Find your place of inner/outer balance, your true place of spirit. This is very different from your usual place of stagnancy and complacency. Do not confuse the two. Remove your inner chatter that seeks to confuse you. Then look inside and outside your self, comparing your two worlds, of spirit and of human being. What are they asking for in life, as a unit? What are your two selves truly desiring of that life you live?

By remaining connected to these two aspects of self through this time of magnetic pulling apart, so will you be better able to maintain your awareness through the coming days and weeks. As the world around you continues to appear chaotic, as it continues to create veils of illusion to trick you, and as it proceeds on a well-worn path, so will your awareness speak your own truths, more clearly, if you remain turned toward the truths of the self.

I know I repeatedly ask that you turn toward and accept your own truths. That is the most important aspect of evolution. You will not grow any further if you do not read the signs that your inner self presents to you, and understand them fully as true signs of self and of your life past, present, and future. Accepting them and changing, by what they reveal to you, are your next steps to growth. Where else will your signs of truth come from, except from inside, from your true self? How can you expect to change if you do not accept what you know is true about your self, and actively do things quite differently.

Of course, all of this is very challenging, but do you not realize that once you take on your first challenge, so will your following challenges become easier to accept and easier to flow with? Dig your selves out of your ruts, My Dears. Challenge your selves to get balanced and to practice detachment from the energy that seeks to confuse you. This is truly a time when you can make tremendous progress, if you are willing to give up your old comforts.

That is all I have to say today. Question your self, regarding what that means to you. What are your old comforts that are simply keeping you from growing, from changing, from living a life of true spirit? You have the opportunity to experience new life, based on truth now. How can you deny your self that? It’s waiting for you. Go find it. You won’t have to look very far because you are already in it, living it. Read the signs differently now. Read them truthfully.