#429 Everything Will Be All Right

Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Dear Jeanne,
Do you have guidance for us today, as this unusual period of energetic activity continues to be present?

I cannot stress enough that the doorway of opportunity now being presented is the opening to a whole host of other possibilities leading to pure growth on a spirit level, both inner growth and outer growth in that world you live in. This time asks for participation and that is what I have been stressing in my recent messages. This is not a time to lie down and watch the world take off on a new angle. It is a time to participate in the energy, not only for your own benefit, but for the benefit of the world as well.

You live in a time of great change. Such a time is a rare, unearthly occurrence. It carries more significance than you alone will see or experience. Such energy impacts generations to come. You may feel the resonance of decisions made and actions taken now within your own lifetime too, and this is why you are being asked to consider the possibilities that will emerge as you elect to become more proactive in your own life and with your own potential.

As I have said, this is not a time to sit back and observe. It is a time to be daring, but not with abandon. It is a time to learn what it means to be an energetic being and to allow for a journey to unfold, as you acquiesce to your inner spirit intent, rather than be controlled by your outer world, your past, your old habits, and the habits of those around you.

It is a time to push your self to change now. Even while you hear that word spoken all around you, do not leave the changing up to others, for then will you not have the opportunities that you desire, but you will merely feel, in a peripheral manner, the energy as it wafts over you lying in your complacency. In your inability to participate, will you find your self left behind, a dying breed.

During times of great shift, when the distinct mark of evolutionary change happens, so is there always the segment of life that does not evolve, that does not shift, that does not flow with the energy of change. In all times of evolutionary change there are the ones left behind in the sediment, left to become fossils, remnants of an old way of life. Are you ready to become a fossil? Or are you energetically young enough to still carry forth into new life?

I do not mean to imply that this is a time of death, or a time of demise, except in a physical, mental, and spiritual evolutionary sense. If you do not choose to participate in this time of energetic shift and change that is being offered, so will your own spirit remain behind to dig itself out of the mire in lifetimes to come.

If you elect to participate in this grand scheme of change, so will your spirit have the opportunity to evolve beyond the mire, to enhance the opportunities for growth, and to be present for other shifts to come. Your challenges, right now, are your fears based on your past experiences, your trust in the possibilities that await, and your acquiescence to your spirit driven self. Perhaps you have not spent enough time getting to know your spirit driven self? Perhaps you have not listened closely enough to what it has been saying to you? Perhaps you fear the ideas being presented by this inner truth bearer?

No matter what predicament you find your self in right now, understand that you can change by electing to change, by freeing your self of old fears, by feeling your inner calm energy, and by following the true desires of your inner spirit self. You can not only evolve, but live a life based in truth of inner self, inner clarity of knowing connection with the inner self.

My message today is to ponder further your feelings, connecting with this inner spirit based self, not by thinking or questioning, but by allowing your energy self to become more known to you. If you go to your inner energy self, and calmly allow it to speak to you, so will you find that what it has to say may not be in words, but in feelings, in that feeling of knowing what is right, based on your ancient self, your journeying self who knows exactly what path to take, without question or fear. It simply knows, and it knows that you want to be told that everything will be all right; everything will work out, as it should. Can you hear it telling you to have no fear? Saying: “I am with you, your true self. I am present to guide you. I am connected to all things, to all energy. I am your true self, your wholeness awaiting.

Feel you own energy, My Dears, as that grand energy of change pushes you to flow with it. Your progress will be based on your inner energy electing and allowing you to flow with the outer energy. But your evolution is based on your inner truths being revealed and paid attention to. Find your inner connection and you will find your outer connection too. Now that will be how you truly evolve!

Changes Ahead

Dear Friends and Readers,

Over the next week we will be making some changes on the website, some more noticeable than others. The first significant change is that we will be transferring the free e-book version of The Book of Us from our Store page to our Amazon account where it will be available, for a nominal fee, alongside the paperback edition. If you’ve read the book and wish to write a review of it, feel free to do so at AMAZON.

We hope to produce more audio channeling sessions in the near future. If you missed hearing the New Year’s message, it is available in the Live at the Chocolate Factory category in the sidebar on the left.

We’ll keep you posted as to future changes, but for now, good luck with the energy!

Jan and Chuck

#428 Feeling Self/Energetic Self

Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Dear Jeanne,
Today we start a new week. What message do you have for us?

My Dear Ones, on this day, do not ponder or think too much about what is going on in your lives, as a conjunction of sorts now presents you with questions, dilemmas, challenges, and many opportunities for growth. I suggest that you get your selves into a good state of calm balance and that you attune your selves to the outer energy so that you may be able to read, by feeling, what it is offering you.

This time now upon that earth is certainly potent and fulfilling. You are being granted, quite succinctly and easily, the possibility that you have long awaited. Your challenge, however, is to recognize the gifts being presented to you as gifts and not as disturbing episodes or distasteful confrontations. This is a time when inner resonance and the ability to place your self in calm balance is most helpful, so that you feel and understand your inner resonance, the most useful and proper method of utilizing, acknowledging, and acquiescing to your gifts of possibility and progress.

Remember, gifts do not come in pretty packages. More often, the most useful and progressive gifts are wrapped in ordinary brown paper. Your daily lives may at first appear to be routine, but if you allow your selves to go to inner quiet, many secrets may be revealed to you now, during this time of transition.

Transition involves change, and change involves being confronted with something new or different, or having to do something you are not familiar with or wanting to do or confront. Change means standing before your familiar everyday self and understanding that the old way of doing, acting, and processing your life is no longer adequate, helpful, or desirable.

Much energy will now be felt in a restless manner. But do not use this restless energy in a dismissive or over exuberant manner. Do not simply run it off, or use it up with trivialities, or in a wasteful manner. Instead, harness it for your inner process and find out why you are being confronted with this restless energy of change. I ask you to feel it, rather than think about it. This is a time when your feeling self, your energetic self is your best processor of the energy.

In order to best utilize the energy, remind your selves often to go calm and innerly feeling of your own energy. Use this inner energy to guide you in the outer energy that may at first appear abruptly harsh, or challenging. In reality, is it just in need of taming by hooking it up with resonant energy such as you have.

Imagine your self on a busy highway, driving along with barely enough space to maneuver between cars, bumper to bumper traffic that at first appears quite problematic and stressful. But as you adjust to the proper speed, as you calm your self to acceptance of the place you are in, and as you temper your inner stress level to a calm steady flow, you realize that the traffic is moving quite well, people around you are in the same state of steady progress, and there is little reason to exaggerate in thought, feeling, or movement. You have acquiesced to the flow.

Then you realize you now have time to look around, to feel the energy you are flowing in, and you find it quite peaceful and perhaps even invigorating in a subtle way. You begin to feel quite happy, peacefully part of the energy that exists!

You discover that, as you take your energy down to this calmer level, you actually feel happier, more at peace with your situation, even though in reality you are stuck in traffic. You discover that it doesn’t really matter. What does matter is your inner energy, in sync with the outer energy that underlies the traffic jam outside of you.

Who has created that traffic jam? Does it really exist? In your new place of personal calm it may no longer appear to be a crowded highway, but instead a calm stream of energy, flowing quite peacefully, allowing for something new to happen as a result of this state of flux.

This is the position you are in right now. The energy upon that earth is ratcheted up to the intensity of a traffic jam on the freeway. Can you accept that fact, knowing that you are stuck in the middle of it and the only possibility of escape is to slow your own energy down to connect with the true underlying energy of change?

Once you have done that, then will you discover what is being offered to you. For during this energetic confluence many opportunities and possibilities are half buried, half hidden in the folds of your own personal energy system. Only you will notice them. Only you will perceive their significance, and only you will know what to do with them.

So for today, I advise a feeling approach to the energy, an adjustment in your traveling lane so you may feel what is sitting beside you, resonant with your truths, your inner flow of energy, awaiting your discovery. Remember last week, I mentioned that golden door of opportunity? You will only perceive it from your inner seat of gold, your own glowing spirit. This is good for today!

#427 Chuck’s Place: Neutralizing Archaic Structures

Welcome to Chuck’s Place, where Chuck Ketchel expresses his thoughts, insights, and experiences!

This week Jeanne introduced the “Nanny Goat,” who holds in check the evolving spirit, leaving the self feeling like an inferior worthless child, destined to life imprisonment. Who is this nanny goat, and how do we loosen her grip so that we might obtain our rightful pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?

The alchemists undertook this process quite concretely, attempting to purify matter through a series of complex chemical operations to arrive at gold. They knew, however, that the adept, who performed these operations, needed to be in spiritual resonance with the chemical process. In other words, they had to do the inner work to free their spirit from the clutches of the nanny goat. Furthermore, they had to submit to a lengthy process; they knew there were no shortcuts.

Jung recognized that the alchemists were projecting the contents of their own psyche onto matter, thereby clarifying, differentiating, and transforming their inner experiences. Jung proposed a psychology that identified psychic structures, or inner players. These structures competed and interacted with an individual’s emerging consciousness, seeking to be included in experiences of life. He called these players, archetypes, and they could be both positive and negative forces. Jung would identify the nanny goat as the dark side of a parental archetype, hovering over the struggling child who is seeking to emerge as a confident being, to stand on its own, and find its rightful place in the world. For Jung, it is the challenge of the ego to become the hero who can separate itself from the powerful grip of the nanny goat, individuating into a solid, separate being. Jung, like the alchemists, saw this as a long-term process, requiring patience and perseverance; a process he called psychotherapy.

Another school of psychotherapists, the object relationists, focused more on the child’s internalization of parental relationships. Melanie Klein went so far as to suggest it all began with the breast. There were two, the good breast and the bad breast. In other words, sometimes needs were met, sometimes they were frustrated. The balance of met and unmet needs, or which aspect dominated, determines the quality of parental introjects (internalized parental structures). Is one dominated by the critical, rejecting, controlling, undermining nanny goat, or the benevolent parent who supports and gently urges toward independence; cheering on one’s unfolding powers? Like Jung, the object relationists require a lengthy psychotherapeutic process to free oneself of the dominance of the nanny goat.

The shamans approach this dilemma through another metaphor. In the shaman’s description, we human beings are subjected to onslaughts from energetic entities, seeking to feed off our energy. To achieve this they utilize our minds, keeping us obsessed with self-doubt and fears of annihilation, leading to endless energetic spikes in our emotionality, which they find positively delectable. Here the nanny goat is an entity, parasitically attached to our human form, sucking our blood, feasting off our many varieties of depressions, phobias, obsessions, and desires. Shamans have their own set of practices, called the warrior’s way, which they use to free their energy from alien entities. The major focus of the warrior’s way is physical. When practiced regularly these physical movements and intentions succeed in neutralizing the machinations of the mind, releasing the nanny goat.

The Buddhists are equally untrusting of the mind. They prescribe their own set of “alchemical processes” for purifying the mind of the influences of illusion by practicing years of meditation, leading to detachment. Deep Buddhist practice incorporates three to ten year meditative retreats to free one from the clutches of the nanny goat.

All of these paths, and many more, are valid interpretations of our energetic reality. The path itself does not matter. After all, everything is energy and there are many ways to define the same energetic reality and to find the inner pot of gold. It remains for the individual to choose the path that personally resonates. However, all of these approaches have common features:

1. There are no shortcuts. If we expect a quick defeat of the nanny goat, we remain in its grasp.

2. The adept, ego, child, apprentice, hero, etc. must solve the challenge. Although there is support and guidance, freedom must be individually achieved.

3. The nanny goat is not personal. As Jeanne suggests, it is a boring, repetitive other, which needs to be disengaged from.

Investing in our adult self, finding calm, and choosing the practices that gradually fortify this adult position will eventually lead to the nanny goat moving on to new pastures, no longer finding sustenance in our evolving energy field. But beware, the nanny goat may return, when you least expect it. Don’t get caught in thinking you have failed. It’s only a test. Don’t attach!

#426 Into the Land of Opportunity

Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Dear Jeanne,
Today I am leaving the platform open for you to discuss whatever you wish. Okay?

Thank you, but don’t you know I always discuss what I want anyway?

Yes, I realize that no matter what I ask, the replies are always in your unique style, with your unusual perspective. Where are you going to take us today?

Into The Land of Opportunity, My Dear, that is where we are going, for the doors are about to burst open! The light is about to shine through, and clarity of purpose is about to be revealed, if you are ready to recognize it and receive it. That is always the caveat, you know. Opportunities abound at all times, though at certain times are they more forcefully presented and pushed upon you, but your participation is what is required and being asked for, and only you can decide to become involved in such energy.

So today, I anticipate that this conversation will go down this road, leading to those golden doors of opportunity, soon upon you, as you make your way forward through life. Anticipate their presence, each one of you, in your life. Each one of you will find your self facing those golden doors of opportunity soon enough. What they entail, what they signify, will have very personal meaning and you alone must determine what that is. You alone must decide how you will approach what they offer, beyond their glittering presentation, and you alone must determine your course of action.

This time now upon the earth signifies a grand shift. This has been discussed by me quite often, but this is also, excitedly, being discussed all around you, not only in the spiritual realm, but in all realms, especially on the practical, economical, and political fronts.

Keep your awareness open and alert now for the signs in your own lives, My Dear Readers, so that you do not only place your energetic intent upon the functions going on in your outer world. Important and exciting as they may be, so is this time in your life also extremely important, exciting, and meaningful for you personally.

What can it be that is approaching you now to change, shift, and present you with a new opportunity? You must place your self in a good position now to capture your present as it is offered to you, your gift of opportunity. You must prepare your self, even as the world around you has been preparing, in many ways, for this transition. Do not just stumble forward upon your old path now, but make a concerted effort to place your self in a position of confidence and impeccability, so that you are ready to understand what lies ahead. Ready your selves, My Dear Ones, to walk through those golden doors of opportunity into the land of opportunity. As they say, opportunity knocks but once. But I say, opportunity knocks this loudly quite often, but it is up to you to have your ears open, your head on straight, and your energy in alignment with it, in order to grasp the fullness of its meaning.

Are you ready to move forward now? Are you ready to free your self from your old world, your old patterns of behavior, even your old way of thinking? Are you ready to accept that, beyond those doors, things may not be clearly laid out or spelled out? No, that is not the way things will go now. You must be ready to acquiesce now, if you are going to be able to flow with the energy that is ready to sweep you up and carry you forward. (See NOTE below.)

Be aware though, that even as this golden energy is available and waiting for your entry into its light and potential, so will you be drawn back by the old, as it very powerfully attempts to keep you available to its hungry appetite. Even the old may appear to be much stronger now, as its desire to survive intensifies. So be aware that yes, opportunity of an unusual and daring sort is upon you now, asking for recognition and participation on so many levels, but the old means of living life is equally interested in your energy, but for its own purposes.

Awareness of your place in life is now extremely important to you. Are you ready, after all this preparation, to fully embrace your potential? Are you available to accept the possibilities that lie ahead? Are you ready to acquiesce to the fullness of your journey? Can you allow your spirit self to be freed of the old, so that you may allow it to flow forward? Afraid or unafraid, excited or calm, eager or timid, it does not matter.

What you must now focus on is remaining aware. Use this time as a test for your future test of awareness when you will transition from that world, die in your body, and energetically move into another world. This time is the perfect opportunity to train your awareness. You have consciousness now, and you are being offered this guidance and knowledge of the energy that is upon you shortly, offering you the opportunity to jump into a new and greater awareness, much like shifting into new life. Use this time to continue your work in training your self to be alert, to seek clarity of vision, resonance of spirit and purpose, and allowance of spirit self to lead you in accepting your true journey.

I do not mean to throw you into a quandary of wondering what will happen and how it will come upon you. Do not attach to worry or discussion now, but utilize your awareness and your energy to guide you through this time of transition. You can see it happening outside of you quite clearly. Now shift your focus to what is happening inside. What is happening with you, personally, as you go through the next few days of energetic shift? Focus on you now. That’s all you need to remember.

And don’t forget that what matters most is that you evolve. So allow your self to come up to that golden door, feel the energy, and walk right into it. You won’t regret a minute of it. Welcome, My Dears, to The Land of Opportunity! It is being placed before you like never before. Do you see it? It is not an illusion, but it is an invitation to shatter old illusions and enter a new world.

NOTE: During this portion of the channeling, I had a clear visual experience of walking through two very tall and ornately decorated golden doors, as they swung wide open. There was nothing beyond them except light. I felt myself stepping out into nothingness. I think what Jeanne is saying here, is that we are going to be entering a new and unfamiliar world, both in our own inner experiences and in our outer world as well. She is suggesting that we don’t look to the familiar to guide us anymore, because it won’t work in a changing world. She is challenging us to acquiesce to this process, to not even look for the old ways of doing things to get our bearings, but to allow ourselves to learn a new way of being in the world. Good Luck!

Chuck Ketchel, LCSWR