Category Archives: Chuck’s Blog

Welcome to Chuck’s Place! This is where Chuck Ketchel, LCSW-R, expresses his thoughts, insights, and experiences! Currently, Chuck posts an essay once a week, currently on Tuesdays, along the lines of inner work, psychotherapy, Jungian thought and analysis, shamanism, alchemy, politics, or any theme that makes itself known to him as the most important topic of the week. Many of the shamanic and psychological terms used in Chuck’s essays are defined in Tools & Definitions on our Psychotherapy page.

Chuck’s Place: The Keys To The Quantum Kingdom

The Key to the Quantum Kingdom is on the Wings of Intent!
-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

I assign Quantum Kingdom to be synonymous with the word heaven; borrowing from Matthew 16:19: “I will give to thee the keys to the kingdom of heaven.”

The quantum is a field of energetic possibility that exists beneath the physical, at the subtle dimension of our human being. Quantum physics has demonstrated that human thought and intention influence energy at the quantum level to organize and materialize into physical reality. The quantum level of our being is the birthplace of creativity and change in our lives. Simply put: what we think and believe becomes who we are.

The subconscious mind is the assemblage factory in the quantum field. The suggestions we deliver to the subconscious mind, consciously or unconsciously, are materially constructed through the attractive power of the subconscious mind acting upon the latent field of possibilities available at the quantum level of reality. At that level, everything is possible.

Often, when we rest, we drift into a semi-conscious, hypnagogic state, at the quantum level, where we become characters in lives we know nothing about. If we remain passively conscious in this state, it’s like watching a plethora of coming attractions before the main attraction at the theatre. Here we are spectators, observing many possible lives to be lived.

As fascinating, or downright boring, as these vignettes might be, the first quantum key is in discovering this haven of creative possibility within. Typically, this resource is hidden from waking consciousness in order to protect us from abusing the power locked within it. The atomic bomb, with all its destructive potential, is a warning of the potential abuse of quantum power.

Human beings have been barred from focusing on the quantum field through a fixation upon material reality. If you believe that all that exists is physical, then life is all about acquiring or manipulating the physical to your best advantage. This, coupled with the hypnotic power of socialized suggestions, focuses one’s attention outwardly, onto physical reality, far from the quantum dimension within.

Nonetheless, when we focus on material reality we are still quite actively engaging the quantum field of potential within. However, it is being directed without conscious intention. The next key to quantum possibility is to arrive at the quantum entrance with clear intention, the suggestion that leads to manifestation.

The guard against accessing this key is what the shamans of ancient Mexico called the flyer’s mind. This predatory guard steals the lion’s share of our attention and energy by keeping us fixated upon an internal dialogue about our self-importance.

Feelings of unworthiness, shame, self-doubt, inadequacy, undeservedness, unlovability and unattractiveness can dominate one’s mental space. Conversely, inflated themes of one’s greatness and entitlement again focus consciousness upon self-importance.

Shamans focus upon freeing their energy from self-importance by learning to not be offended by the critical petty tyrants they encounter in their daily lives. This sound advice to all of us allows us to enter the quantum field without the prejudice of a hardened self-definition, available to new possibility.

Joe Dispenza addresses the issue of self-definition in his meditations by leading the journeyer to a purely energetic state, by shedding a time/space identity. Here we become a no one versus a someone; nowhere versus somewhere; in no time versus in some time. With this release of a solid identity, one holds a key to new possibility and deep change being initiated in the quantum dimension.

Bob Monroe suggested that journeyers put their judging mind in a strongly guarded box, to allow themselves the lightness to journey into quantum potential. He developed Hemi-sync® brainwave technology to enable that journey to reach the quantum field. After the journey, the mind is retrieved from the locked box, perhaps significantly changed by the gifts manifested in quantum reality.

Jack Schwarz offers the use of breathing patterns to achieve the deepened brainwave states that provide access to the quantum dimension.

The final key to quantum realization is to enter the quantum field with definite intention, allowing the imagination to take charge and experience the being one intends to become, filled with the emotion of manifesting that being, as opposed to the passive bystander who merely watches previews of quantum possibilities.

The opportunity of our time is to actualize these keys to the quantum kingdom to advance ourselves toward individual and collective health and  fulfillment.

Suspend judgment and intend,
Chuck

Meditations for the Holidays

-Photo by Jan Ketchel

We wish everyone, and our entire world, a happy Solstice, a beautiful and peaceful Holiday Season and a most prosperous New Year. May we all carry the light of gratitude and love within us as we enter into the season of joy and giving, festivities and celebration, and renewal. And may we all walk into the New Year full of hope and promise each day, still carrying that light within, eager and grateful to embrace new life to come. We share some calming practices below and will return to our normal weekly postings on Monday January 6, 2025.

Sending you love,
Jan & Chuck

MEDITATIONS
For Setting Intentions

Wake up to each new day (or any time) to an enlivening meditation with Dr. Joe Dispenza.

Most Powerful Morning Meditation – 35 minutes
You are the Placebo Meditation – 58 Minutes

LABYRINTH WALKS
For Grounding and Centering

Virtually walk around Jan’s Quartz Crystal Labyrinth in the woods on our property. Turn the volume up so you can hear nature in all its glory, in summer, the cicadas and crickets and in winter the crackling of leaves.

Walk the Labyrinth Summer-12 minutes 
Walk the Labyrinth Winter-9 minutes

Note: If you want to watch the videos on your phone you will have to get the Dropbox App. Once you sign in just skip through all the prompts and then come back to this page and click the link and it should open in Dropbox. If you watch on a computer or tablet it should open immediately in Dropbox.

MUSIC
For Peace and Healing

Listen to some Tibetan Chanting, Healing Handpan music or a medley of meditation music from the Monroe Institute.

Lama Gyurme-Rain of Blessings
Seeds of Growth (1111Hz) handpan music by Malte Marten
Healing Frequency (1111 Hz) by Malte Marten & Lynxk
Meditation Music from the Monroe Institute

MANTRAS
For Manifestation
(Originally published in Soulbytes December 9 – 13, 2024)

Monday Mantra: I am whole and perfect, strong and powerful, kind and loving, harmonious and happy, prosperous and successful in everything I do.

Tuesday Mantra: I embrace my fearless beauty, my stunning intelligence, my wild creativity, and my open heartedness. I am safe in my beauty. I am safe in myself.

Wednesday Mantra: I am no longer willing to be comfortable in my discomforts. I am changing my mind, my body, and my life. As I change my thoughts and ideas about myself, I face my fears. I am now fearless in my new approach to life.

Thursday Mantra: I am beautiful. I am in tiptop shape from head to toe. My body is energized, synchronized and harmonized to a new level of energy that is healing and radiant, radical and brilliant, whole and perfect.

Friday Mantra: I step into my splendidly beautiful self and radiate beautiful energy throughout the day. I am whole and perfect, strong and powerful, kind and loving, harmonious and happy, prosperous and successful in everything I do. I am fearlessly beautiful, stunningly intelligent, brilliantly creative, and my heart is open to this stupendous adventure that is my new life.

Chuck’s Place: The Golden Opportunity Of Now

Infinite relaxation…
-Artwork © 2024 Jan Ketchel

I completely daydreamed through grammar school. One day, a quantum thought presented itself to my consciousness. It started with the notion of a finite line, perhaps an inch in length.

I reasoned that if I were to keep cutting that line in half, though I might not have the instruments to do so, that that halving process would go on for infinity. As long as there was a thing, there could always be a half of it. With this realization, I discovered infinity in a finite 1-inch line.

Today, I find infinity in my finite physical body. If I tell my body to relax, I can feel it halve its level of tension in my musculature. Often I’ll do this in accompaniment with an exhalation. I then pause, no breath, and notice the newly reduced level of tension in my body. I then tell my body to hold that level as I inhale and further release upon exhalation, taking the tension level down another notch.

I find that there is no end to a deepening level of relaxation. In fact, at a certain level, the experience is no longer that of physicality but one of pure vibrant energy. Even at that level the deepening relaxation is endless, with a sound frequency that continues to rise in pitch as physicality continues to diminish.

At a certain level, we are all fundamentally infinite quantum-energy beings. When we reach that quantum energy level of our being, with consciousness, we are no longer limited by a mindset of physicality. We are now in an undefined state of pure fluid energy. Here, consciousness of the particle state of physical life shifts to its complementary wave state of pure energy.

Joe Dispenza defines this wave state as our fifth-dimensional realm of existence, the gateway to quantum opportunity. When we are freed from the confines of our defined physical being, we open to the infinite state of possibilities that are all simultaneously present in the quantum realm.

If with conscious intent, while in that realm, we imagine what we want, we set in motion its physical realization at the particle level of our existence, the realm of waking life. As John’s Gospel aptly begins: “In the beginning was the word, and the word was made flesh.” Our consciousness at the quantum level is the creator. The words we utter and the scenes we imagine are the suggestions that the subconscious mind will fashion into the flesh.

What typically interferes with this process is the entrenched hardwired beliefs that resist relinquishing their particle formulations in the mind and heart. Transmuting these solid holdouts is exemplified by the destructive action of The Tower card in the Tarot.

As the Tower card suggests, all new construction requires the complete breakdown and clearing of prior construction before a new building can be constructed. In our current world, even the appropriateness of the polio vaccine is being seriously challenged.  All the basic tenets of science and civilization are currently on the potential chopping block.

We are entering a science fiction novel, with characters from a Gotham-like city assuming control. I say this without judgment. This cartoon-like version of reality, with all its superpowers, is indeed forming into a solid reality. A quantum possibility is manifesting before our eyes.

What made this possible was the destruction of reigning beliefs about the nature of reality, coupled with the incessant repetition of words suggesting a potential new reality.

This incessant, destructive action upon the analytical mind is the entry point for all shamanic journeys into quantum reality. The golden opportunity of now is to employ this current collective energy of outer uncertainty inwardly, asking ourselves to suspend judgment as to what is possible, as we allow ourselves the largess to imagine a new life, freed of the limitation of prior habit.

I encourage saturation in listening to Joe Dispenza’s lengthy meditations as a practical path to quantum access. Repetition alone is extremely powerful, as modeled by the incoming president of the United States. Repetition can eradicate old beliefs and install new beliefs. As always, I suggest the intent in repetition be for the greater good.

I also suggest the practice of infinite relaxation to reach the quantum realm. The ability to relax is the smoothest exit strategy from the womb at birth.

The ability to completely relax is the smoothest transition attitude when it’s time to let go of physical life.

The ability to relax allows us the confidence and fluidity to become quantum creators of a fulfilled life.

Can we allow ourselves the divine freedom to create a new life, just as we are seeing mirrored before us in outer reality?

The year 2025 is the year of a quantum leap. Take advantage within the self to discover that everything and anything is indeed possible! Let there be no doubt.

With gratitude to all,
Chuck

Joe Dispenza Meditations:
Most PowerfulMorning Meditation – 35 minutes
You are the Placebo Meditation – 58 Minutes

Chuck’s Place: The Power In The Mirror

Find heart in the mirror…
-Artwork © 2024 Jan Ketchel

The shamans of ancient Mexico emphatically prohibited the use of a mirror, literally fearing the trapping of a Narcissus-like obsession with self-reflection and self-importance. That trapping is reflected in current world leadership and governance, which strongly favors the needs of the self at the expense of the other.

The “Mirror, mirror on the wall” of the evil queen in Snow White speaks to the possibility of discovering the truth of oneself, if one looks beyond the outer persona and false beliefs, and faces the self in deep, soulful self-reflection.

The human brain and central nervous system (CNS) is full of nerve cells called mirror neurons that are proven to fire in imitation of what we see and imagine. Our behavior, and the behavior of others, forms neural networks in the brains of those who observe us. The influence of these impressions upon the brain creates the foundation for echoing or imitating these same behaviors, for better or worse.

The United States, as the world’s leading superpower, has had a powerful mirroring effect on the behaviors of many nations. The policies, fashions, and values of the United States have greatly influenced world behaviors, in their effort to become fulfilled, like a Hollywood version of America. America’s current emphasis upon self-interest and entitlement is indeed being powerfully mirrored in wars and collapsing governments around the world.

On an intrapsychic level, the power of autosuggestion is greatly enhanced by the use of the imagination to mirror to the subconscious a subtle version, or building plan, of the changes one seeks to substantially manifest in one’s life.

When we imagine something, the brain treats our thoughts and images the same way it reacts to observing outer events. These imaginings are mirrored by firing neurons that replicate and encode these behaviors into neuronal circuits. These circuits prepare the subconscious mind and brain to advance in creating these very changes in physical reality.

If our intentions in our autosuggestions embrace the greater good of the self, and the world, we will manifest healthy changes within the self and the environment. Additionally, our attitudes and behaviors will activate the mirror neurons in others, which will create similar potentials in the thoughts and behaviors of others.

This responsible use of autosuggestion can powerfully evolve the self, and powerfully influence the world, through mirroring. This is a powerful tool for those who are feeling disempowered by the current status and direction of the world.

The key here is not to try to convince or manipulate anyone, but instead to become a more evolved self that mirrors a different possibility, by simply, truly being it. In other words, become the change you seek.

Be empowered to imagine the health and evolution you seek.
Be respectful of the power of the imagination to generate what you think.
Thoughts matter. Thoughts become matter.
Matter in motion is mirrored to all.
Make your loving thoughts matter.
That’s the power in the mirror.

Imagine,
Chuck

Chuck’s Place: How Splendid Is The Adventure!

Thoth Tarot Moon Card

Now is the time for honest reflection. The disavowed shadow of America  has come home to roost. The shadow is transparent now, and has knowingly been chosen to rule. Such is the inevitable karma for a high-minded nation’s persona that denies its self-serving underbelly. To truly arrive at the place of equanimous love we must first square with the needs and demands of our shadow.

The I Ching portended to me, just prior to the election, that the time of stagnation was ending and that the right ruler would be chosen. Indeed, the sweeping, one-sided victories of the election will end the stagnation that has plagued governance for decades. However, true success requires leadership that addresses the true needs of the whole.

We are in the time of the waning moon. DuQuette states, “The moonlight of Atu XVIII (Tarot Moon major arcana card) is that which illuminates the phantasmagoric nightmares of all of us who cannot acknowledge the dark horrors of our own fears. The Moon card shows a path through and beyond this nightmare, but it is not an easy path, and the myths of all ages and cultures prove that this journey through “the poisoned darkness” is an obligatory chapter in every hero’s quest.” (Understanding Aleister Crowley’s Thoth Tarot, p. 147)

DuQuette quotes Aleister Crowley’s suggested correct attitude in such a time as ours: “Whatever horrors may afflict the soul, whatever abominations may excite the loathing of the heart, whatever terrors may assail the mind, the answer is the same at every stage: “How splendid is the Adventure!” (ibid p.147) That is true equanimity.

The journey, so seemingly outer, actually reflects the inner fixation upon survival that currently plagues the human species. Survival threats, real or imagined, cause the subconscious to select the instinctual operating system that outwardly blames and attacks rather than inwardly assuming responsibility.

The hero’s journey requires a consciousness that seeks only the truth, regardless of how tainted it renders the soul. Christianity may have stalked altruistic love, but the human race has hardly budged beyond the reach of narcissism. The hero cannot skip over the needs of self, but is easily defeated if motivated by the needs of self alone. The keys to the kingdom are generally awarded to random acts of kindness.

The hero expands their vision by owning their nightmares. The culprit may be reflected outwardly but resides within. The hero calms the central nervous system with gratitude for all the truth that has been revealed. The hero programs the subconscious to override old unnecessary survival programs. The hero finds joy in the equanimity of the adventure, at every stage of its never-ending story.

The truth of now is that we are individually, and collectively, upon the journey of the dark night of the soul. That journey traverses the span between the solar plexus and the heart, from the narcissism of the ego to the refined love of the altruistic self.

The waning moon takes us through the shadow of our hidden truths. Beyond that necessary stage is the waxing toward wholeness, that which is to come.

How splendid is the Adventure!
Chuck