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—Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Our Messages from Jeanne category began as a platform to bring our channeled messages to a wider audience. The earliest messages were written missives, so if you go back in the files you will find hundreds of written messages. Later we went to an audio format so more recent messages are spoken. To search by theme or special interest, use the search button in the navigation bar. Our hopes are that all of the messages, no matter the format, offer helpful guidance in navigating the waters of life.

Messages from Jeanne

#753 Who Is My Teacher?

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Written by Jan Ketchel and including a channeled message from Jeanne Ketchel.

Recently, while reading one of my favorite books, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, one that I dip into quite often, I came upon the chapter regarding the need for a teacher or master in order to maintain a proper spiritual practice. According to Buddhist tradition everyone needs a teacher, for how can you know you have reached the true nature of mind if you are not guided in some way by someone who has gone before?

I have never liked the idea of a master and I just could never personally accept the idea of a guru. But as I read this chapter I began to worry that I might not actually be doing my studies to the fullest. As I read a little further, however, I learned that the Buddhist teachers would often speak to the old masters who appeared before them in visions. They sat and spoke for many hours on end, listening to these masters who had lived in ancient times, in one case described as the second incarnation of Buddha. Eventually, these teachers begin to sound like the masters. They channel them. The author describes his own students coming up to him after a talk, telling him he spoke with the voice of his own teacher, long dead.

I laughed when I read this, my worry about having a teacher immediately melting away as I realized that I have had a teacher for the past ten years, a very good one: Jeanne! She has been most present—receptive, challenging, confrontational—pushing me to evolve. I have indeed been her pupil and gone through many stages of growth with her gentle and sometimes not so gentle prodding. I suddenly felt so much better, experiencing a real aha moment. For some reason, I had not fully grasped this idea before. Although I have always called her my teacher, in this moment I got it. She is my guru and as much as I have never liked that term, as much as I could never imagine myself aligning with a guru per se, I now acquiesce to the fact that she is indeed my master teacher.

I began to ponder the idea that we all have a master teacher or guru somewhere in our lives. We may not recognize this teacher in those terms, because the terms themselves don’t really matter. But what I also finally realize is that I did indeed need a guru of some kind to help me get where I am now. I was so caught in an old world that it seemed it was the only one that existed and I could not have gotten out of it without some help. And, I still need a guru to teach me how to continue evolving.

In The Tao of Physics Fritjof Capra writes on page 88: “A Bodhisattva is a highly evolved human being on the way to becoming a Buddha, who is not seeking enlightenment for himself alone, but has vowed to help all other beings achieve Buddhahood before he enters into nirvana… not simply to enter nirvana, but to return to the world in order to show the path to salvation to his fellow human beings.”

When Chuck read this statement to me the other day we both immediately recognized Jeanne as a Bodhisattva. Her messages from the very beginning have stressed that she is present to help others to awaken to the truth that all things are energetically interconnected and alive. This is her mission and that of her group.

Today, I explore with Jeanne this realization that struck me as funny at first, but then as fascinatingly true, that she has been my guru for the past ten years, and an excellent one at that. I am deeply grateful for all I have learned as her pupil. I have stayed connected to her through many uncertain and painful moments of self-discovery and awakening. Through it all, she sat calmly as I made my way back to her again and again asking for help. Over time I learned that she always had the answer, in some form. And indeed, as I evolved, I learned to channel and now her voice flows through me quite easily, though I had to go through many seasons of doubt.

I truly believe that she is available as a Bodhisattva to others as well. Several people have told me that she guides them and I am so happy whenever anyone reveals this. I know how good a teacher she is. And since it is her mission I can only hope that others will find the strength and innocence to reach out to her too.

So, I ask all of you to investigate the possibility that you may already have a teacher in your life. Perhaps one that is very much alive, or perhaps one you speak to as I do Jeanne, in quiet moments of inner work and study.

The Buddhists, Hindus, Shamans, Quantum Physicists, and others agree that what we consider reality does not, in fact, exist; that it is illusion created by our needs, desires, and fixations, and that true reality is an interconnected web of energy. We are all part of this interconnected web of energy, one nature. Within this framework we all have access to the masters, teachers, and gurus who are just waiting to guide us to understand energy and the oneness of all things; the Bodhisattvas who are ready to help us understand also how everything we perceive as real is not really there.

I have learned through my work with Jeanne to dissolve the world of solid objects into flowing energy. Through the practice of meditation I have more deeply grasped what I have learned over the past ten years as her pupil. And each week, as I write this blog, I am challenged once again to accept Jeanne as a Bodhisattva and appropriately express what she teaches.

Today, I ask her to offer us a teaching along the lines of recognizing or finding a teacher. I know that we all have access within; that we don’t have to look too far outside of ourselves. So, I ask Jeanne: How can we all recognize the voice of our true teacher? Can you also offer some guidelines on setting a practice in place with the teachers we already know and trust? As our world changes rapidly now, I believe we need to connect with our inner and outer teachers and guides more than ever. There is a pressing need for spiritual practice based on energetic interconnectedness. Because the truth of nature is that we are all the same.

How can your readers recognize their teacher? How does one begin to listen?

Here is what Jeanne says:

As you know, Jan, often the best moment to access your spiritual advisor is at a moment of despair, collapse, calamity, at the moment of breakdown when an old self is breaking apart. At such a moment, when the old rules you have set for yourself just cannot uphold your world any longer, you are open and ready for contact. However, breakdown or abruptly painful moments are not the only time one has access to the beauty of true life. In a moment of joyful enlightenment the way is cleared as well. In moments of clarity, in brief seconds of “getting it,” whether it be a personal issue finally falling into place or a universal issue finally making sense, at such moments the energy of each one of you is attuned and in alignment with all energy.

These moments of enlightenment are brief, so fleeting that it is almost impossible to hold onto them, profound though they may be. It takes a whole string of such moments, for the most part, before one learns to grasp onto them as the most meaningful moments in a lifetime.

How often, I ask each of you, have you had such moments of clarity, whether blissfully delivered or painfully presented? And how have you dealt with them? Have they faded away, been forgotten as you have gone back into reality? I ask that you each make a note, mental or otherwise, of all of these moments in your life, the moments of magic, of mystery, of clarity and of enlightenment. How many times have you, in fact, already been prodded awake in your life?

I guarantee that everyone has had more than a few such moments. However, so used are you to sleeping through life that the cloak of slumber quickly snuggles you back into the illusion of normality and you forget that you have experienced oneness with all things.

The first challenge to the self in your quest for a teacher is to become alert to your wake up calls. Become a student. Note how these wake up calls come to you and how you have received them in the past. Recognize them as wake up calls and train your awareness to become more alert by reminding yourself throughout each day, to remember, remember, and remember this: I am a being who is energetically connected to all other energy; alive or dead we are all the same. Remember this always: We are all the same energy.

In putting together your moments of awakening to the greater picture of the self as energy you will eventually string together enough moments to build a practice upon. A practice must be in tune with your everyday world. No matter what your situation you can begin a practice, because the practice is within. You carry the tools of your practice always with you. The first tool is awareness. And this is what you will hone as you remember. But you will also hone it by utilizing it daily to gain new moments of enlightenment. Even a simple instruction to the self to notice how the events and signs in your world seem to line up is a way to begin. What are you being shown each day that you have been missing?

Placing your attention on a new means of being in your life, by remembering your moments of awakening while asking yourself to stay awake for a little bit longer each day, should work to further you on your path.

Do not worry so much about who your teacher may or may not be. A teacher will not reveal him or herself as such. It is not how a true teacher works. He or she will never say: “I am your teacher.” This is something that you alone will discover when you are ready to realize it.

I interrupt the channeling as a moment of enlightenment occurs!

Yes, I concur with you Jeanne. Although I have spoken of you as my guide for ten years now I have sort of relegated you to an inner place, a guide related to my inner work, but now I more fully recognize you as my master teacher. I have achieved a big moment of enlightenment today, at this moment, as you help me to more fully grasp that my inner world and outer world are one. You have been asking me to more fully integrate them, to awaken to the fact that I must live outwardly what I have learned inwardly. This is another big aha moment. I thank you and ask if you have anything else to teach us today.

Jeanne continues:

A teacher will be of your own discovery. Only you will energetically be able to align with and determine the process and the teacher that will awaken you. This may take some trial and error, but the end result will be enlightening!

I ask that you begin to more fully accept yourselves as energetic beings. It is difficult to face your death if you consider it the end of the self, if you consider the self only as flesh, blood, bone and organs. But, if you consider the self as only energy you will have a far greater opportunity to push ahead to accepting death as life. They are one and the same. Keep in mind that you all die a little each day as you forget those moments of awakening; you die energetically.

In pulling yourself into alignment with energy you gain life; you gain the awareness you need to navigate through the lifetime you now inhabit with far different insight than in past lives. If you are truly ready to evolve, the concept of the self as energy will not puzzle you for long because you will experience it. Then you must be open to the truth of such an idea as the one true fact of life. That is how you will discover who your teacher is.

In conclusion: Practice remembering. Practice remaining aware.

Do not be angry or disappointed if you can only hold onto a moment of awareness. It is enough for that moment. But then ask the self to notice the next one. Do not give up. Eventually you will wake up more fully. And each day, and even each night, you have the opportunity to do it again!

Stay connected to the idea of everything as energy and you will have learned the beginning teachings that all Bodhisattvas must learn. Start with that!

Thank you to Jeanne for this lesson today.

Most humbly offered,
Jan

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Messages from Jeanne, News and Notes

Japan Quake: Shift in Earth Mass

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Here are a couple of links to articles that seem to be what Jeanne is referring to in the message posted today, March 28, 2011, when she suggests that “Subterranean caves will collapse as this happens inside and outside the earth. The shape of the earth may slightly shift and become oblique, so that perfect planet will be slightly askew, and the resulting revolutions of the planet will be a-kilter.” (Originally from a message channeled on July 1, 2006)

Apparently this also happened in the Chilean earthquake of 2010, as you will read.

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#752 Become Again A True Walker Upon the Earth

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Written by Jan Ketchel and including a channeled message from Jeanne Ketchel.

Today, I present a few earlier messages from Jeanne. In 2006, over a period of months, her messages warned of coming change, of many natural events that would force mankind to rethink how he lives and the necessity for all of us to simplify our lives and realign with nature in the wake of these natural phenomena. At the time, we did not have a forum for presenting the channeled messages. I was still in the learning process, trying to figure out how best to utilize what I was receiving from this sentient being once named Jeanne Ketchel.

Chuck and I took the guidance we received to heart, as I gradually accepted the challenge to more fully embrace it as a way of life. Shortly after that, by the end of December that year, we did begin to send the messages from Jeanne out into the world. We have repeatedly seen how accurately she portrays mankind and the truth of where we now are. So, in light of recent events, it feels appropriate now to present some of these earlier messages, mostly in an effort to underscore that we are indeed in changing times. Jeanne’s mission group is concerned with reawakening the ancient spirit of knowing in mankind, but she often mentions other groups oriented toward enacting other awakenings, including a group whose mission is the environment.

On June 28, 2006 Jeanne said the following:

Watch as things begin to slide away and disappear, as towns and villages tumble down into the mouth of the angry earth. Watch as hunks of land drown in the thirsty ocean and the balance that is so upset turns upside down… This time on earth is crucial for all… This is not just going to happen in nature. It will also happen in the hearts of man. Be aware that nature reflects in its turmoil the inner turmoil of mankind. There is a need for abrupt change and although man is perfectly capable of enacting this badly needed change, he has waited too long, so it will be done for him. Too late to have control now; await what happens.

This is from June 30, 2006:

As humanity faces the most devastating of human disasters worldwide in the times to come, there will be a replacing of many values with true spirit, and this true spirit will be the one who shares sameness with others. This sameness will be unspoken for the most part, for it will not have adequate words in which to describe itself, but there will be acknowledgement of it.

There are other forces, other mission groups that wish to return the earth to its original state of pristine balance with ecosystems in total acceptance of each other, functioning properly, and with man’s place among them accepted as visitor and not as owner. If man can get to this point and treat the earth itself as the greatest phenomenon in perfect functioning order, needing no interference, no tweaking, no taking from, and no destruction, then perhaps that ideal planet could possibly exist.

In order to alert the many who are asleep and unable to awaken, our mission is being enacted in combination with advanced systems (missions) on many fronts: spiritual, biological, physical, ecological, and emotional. Do not discount any of the signs that are around you. Do not dismiss the facts that daily are presented in the dismal state of affairs of the world, of the Untied States, of the Arab world, of the wars between lands, between religions, between races, and between peoples, both one or two or hundreds. These things—interspersed with greed for power and money, for wealth that has no bounds, for amassing larger and larger fortunes, of unstoppable desire—is not at this time anything more than the enormous sign that change is being forced upon you all. Because change is what the earth, the air, the universe desires. Accept this fact and then see what happens…change will cause new insight. New insight will awaken new truths and thus will there be hope; and when there is hope there is possibility.

On July 1, 2006 Jeanne said:

Household wise, each household must be prepared for outages of electricity and times of isolation and devastation, so be prepared for lengthy times of unavailability of the staples of life… This is the beginning of a new independence that will be forced upon mankind… It will present a new way of life and the skills of the forefathers will be necessary to study… The potential for natural disaster to overtake the best proposals of man to hold back the waters will happen around the world.

She went on to say that it could not be stopped for the following reasons:

It is wild in its process once begun and it has no cause to stop. It is planned now to further along the evolution of man and earth, and the swirling waters will be the first step. After that many things will change and there can be no saying what will happen as people react. My impulse it to instill goodness in man, so that there becomes not greed and not fear, but true spirit awakening and caring for all mankind.

Aside from the flooding waters there will be famine and widespread death. Masses of people will perish as the earth undergoes rigorous changes and shifting of plates. Subterranean caves will collapse as this happens inside and outside the earth. The shape of the earth may slightly shift and become oblique, so that perfect planet will be slightly askew, and the resulting revolutions of the planet will be a-kilter. This will have further impact upon the life of the planet and a new age will be upon the physical earth.

Apparently, this happened with the earthquake in Japan that caused the tsunami, the shape of the earth changed. I will try to find the reference to this later.

Jeanne then went on to say the following:

Man will survive, but in a greatly diminished fashion. He will not rule in order to gain power, but will be forced to live upon the earth as a grateful guest. This is the only way he should live there. This should begin now being the way of man. Do not destroy anymore that lovely place full of such potential. Do not inflate the possibilities of man, but instead allow man to sink down to the level of the animals and the knowing creatures of earth and become again a true walker upon that earth. To seek empowerment over nature will never win out. To seek instead involvement with nature as the guide is to begin a process of becoming once again the visitor that man really is.

As a visitor, one stays only briefly and then moves on. As a visitor, one must abide by the rules and regulations of the host and hostess. Mother and Father earth are the host and hostess and their rules are dear. Do not injure, do not take more than you need, do not stay too long, do not take control, do not steal the power that does not belong to you, the visitor. The earth belongs to the earth. The water belongs to the water. The air belongs to the air and the sun belongs to the sun. We humans are merely allowed to utilize them for the short time we are there and if we learn the right way to live and we learn why we are there and do our job of life well, then we have been good guests and the earth will thank us for being there. To take little, yet to fully enjoy the fruits of that life and to be capable of distinguishing between that which is available and ready for our use and that which is still in incubation for another generation is our challenge. There can be no other generation at the rate that man now consumes and uses up the foundations of earth’s stores. Man has become a poor guest...

If a return to the beautiful garden is to take place then the hands of man must be removed from the soil and all that he has put there as well. Nature will replace itself in its own fashion and this will be the way that the garden will return in all its beauty. Then will man have to learn again what it means to be a guest.

These messages are meant to alert the many who are ready, to tell you that it is time for global caring and global kindness, but first you must give those gifts to your self. Break down your own internal earth and allow the devastation of that which inside you prevents you from actively addressing all the issues you hold yourself from. Do not be afraid to crumble the old walls that block you from your own truth. First this must be undertaken. Then, from this new place, can you begin to pare down and simplify the life you each lead and find your true needs, keeping only that which is necessary.

In this way, you will be able to conscientiously become a part of the movement that will, in fact, be a gathering of spirit energy that will know the rightness of every move and be able to engage far-reaching compassion and caring, so that all who walk upon the earth will have access to that which remains to be carefully divided and used properly. On the other hand the extremists will perish, for there will be no need of them… and their demise will eventually free the planet and the ability of nature to reinvigorate and give to those who have learned the lessons it teaches… Man must learn to react (to the changes) with heart rather than hardness; this ability will be tested.

This morning I asked if she had anything to say now, as many of her predictions have begun to unfold. Here is what she says now:

My Dear Ones, as I have spoken of many times, the world cannot, by its very nature, remain static; it must by its very potent process of birth, death, and rebirth, constantly evolve. Mankind must learn to evolve as well. The first challenge to humankind is to become one with nature rather than assume superiority over that which is far more evolved and brilliant than the mind of man.

Look, as I have said in the past, to nature for your answers as to how to proceed now in life. Nature holds all you need. Even compromised nature rejuvenates and evolves, adapts so that life may continue. Man must adapt, first by acquiescing to the truth that nature now presents: that it is unstoppable.

Water, so soft and caressing, carries also the power of destruction. A few drops upon a baby’s body are a gentle and peaceful experience, and yet that same water has the ability to cut through mountains and wash away villages.

Man too has proven his ability to both love and destroy, synonymous with nature. Yet he holds his future in his hands. Man has choice and that is what must now come into play if man and nature are to preside in symbiosis, in right alignment. Man must choose to turn now to nature, not only for the sustenance she offers, but for the guidance she offers as well.

All things reside in your knowing, My Dears. You just have not woken up to this truth yet. Wake up my sleepy ones and find within your ancient minds the truth of where you have arrived and know the truth of where you must go next. Ancient mind knows.

Listening Intently: Buddha in the Bardos

Here is a picture I took of Buddha. Often referred to as the sleeping Buddha in this lying down pose, he is actually dying, in the bardos between life and death. This is where we too are now, in the bardos, being asked to wake up and be aware of everything that is happening to us. These moments of awakening are the moments when we can reach enlightenment; with awareness we can truly evolve. This is what we are being challenged with, right now. Happy waking dreams!

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Most fondly and humbly offered.

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#751 We Are All Responsible

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Written by Jan Ketchel and including a channeled message from Jeanne Ketchel.

It’s early Sunday morning as I write this. Chuck woke me as dawn was breaking and I got up to see the first orange sweep of the rising sun in the East and the luminous globe of the enormous “supermoon” setting through the trees in the West. The birds were already stirring and, as we sat by the woodstove and looked out the windows to the South, I saw deer grazing in the field across the road while the robins swept across the front yard, as they worked on nest building, and the squirrels ran around gathering edibles; nature awakening and going about the natural course of things. I could not help but think about what nature had enacted on the other side of the world: devastation and continued danger of high radiation in Japan, as well as the energy of revolution continually escalating in the Middle East.

Here I sit, I thought, quite happy and contented, my world in order, nature doing what nature does. It goes on as it has every spring, nesting, preparing for new life, the crocuses and daffodils emerging from the frozen ground, the sun warming the earth and, yet, I cannot forget what has been happening in our world.

Already a little more than a week has passed since the earthquake and tsunami in Japan rocked our world and we all felt the reverberations in some way. There are people who choose not to attach any importance to events taking place so far away, however, who choose not to know, who feel detached and unaffected, simply because they are not personally effected by something happening in a foreign country. The media has already gone on to new news, for the most part; the Libyan conflict—revolution equally important—now taking the headlines again.

It is appropriate that we not turn from the truth of the revolutions taking place in our world, yet I fear the nuclear disaster in Japan will be swept from our knowing, suppressed, covered in lies. We will be told again and again that there is no immediate human health danger to be concerned about, until we accept it as truth and return to our old ways. Meanwhile radiation has been released into the atmosphere, it is in cow’s milk and green leafy foods in Japan, and it is being washed into the oceans and carried on the winds. Yet we are lied to in order to keep down the panic.

Panic is necessary now. This is the time of revolution, after all. We must not listen to the voices that tell us to “go shopping” as President Bush did after 9/11, or the Japanese authorities who say they have everything under control and that there is really nothing to worry about, while at the same time radiation is spreading. In the face of the truth they blatantly lie, expecting us to acquiesce to the lies as we have always done in the past. It is not time to pull back into secrecy but to keep exposing the lies along with the real truths of what man has done to our world, to Mother Earth.

And yet, I know that inner calm is utterly necessary at times like this, that the truth must be balanced with inner pragmatism while we look deeply within and search for the true path for man to take, now more than ever. As I look upon nature itself on this beautiful morning, I receive one answer by its example. Nature tells me that life does indeed go on.

This is nature at its best, just as destruction, misery, and suffering are nature at its best. There must be death for there to be new life. Can I accept that what is happening is right for our times? Can I accept the release of radiation, the revolutions, the deaths in so many forms as right, knowing that it is forcing us to a new evolutionary possibility, for mankind to do more than just survive what he himself has wrought? This is nature in true balance. Can I be in alignment with this side of nature too?

I ask you today, Jeanne, to lead us now to a new level of understanding and consideration, as we take in the truth of what is happening, for I fear that the media will be moving on to the next crisis in the world, leaving the smoldering mess of contamination in Japan to “the experts,” while the planet suffers, and each one of us too. While baby dolphins die as a result of last year’s fiasco in the Gulf of Mexico and the fish in the Hudson River contend with heavy PCB contamination, while nature pushes us to remember, we move on so easily to the next big news item, forgetting that we too are nature.

What can we do to stay bound to the truth now? It is time to stay connected to what we have forgotten, that decay is necessary, as well as new life. I must remember, while I watch the birds building their nests, that in the woods lies the carcass of an enormous deer, rotting, its rib cage bleaching white in the sun, picked clean by scavengers. I must remember this balance in nature and be honest with myself about death.

Can you talk today about making personal choices now, as the attention to recent disasters shifts and the status quo reasserts itself, as we get back to business as usual, as I see reflected in nature on this early morning? Because that is the other truth: life does go on.

Here is Jeanne’s response to my questions:

I ask you to enjoy your moments of bliss and delight, yet maintain awareness of death, for it is true that they go hand-in-hand. But do not either forget that they are not separate activities, opposites perhaps, but in concert nonetheless, for you cannot have one without the other. This Jan points out, and yet it is what is most often forgotten as one goes about “business as usual.”

There can no longer be business as usual. You, My Dear Readers and Journeyers, if you are to be the new generation of seers upon that earth, must never return to complacency and business as usual. It is time now to remain awake, alert to the realities of your world as you have made it. You may say that this had been done by others, that you have no skills in the development of nuclear science, that you have no dispute in the war zones, but that is not so: You are all responsible.

I charge each one of you with the responsibility for your world and until you accept this responsibility you will not be a true citizen of change, nor hold the seers potential in right alignment with its proper meaning or intent.

I ask that there be no stopping the human potential to realign with nature, to rebalance with nature’s intent, for in order to evolve and come into alignment, mankind, all humanity, must react as ferociously as Mother Nature does. I do not advocate destruction without—except in the form of change—by making decisions that will be revolutionary in enacting personal and worldwide change.

Do what is right for the planet and you will do what is right for all living things. Nature goes about her business, but do not think it is business as usual, for nature contends each moment of each day with change. Nature must adapt to herself and to what man had done to her air, her waters, her soils, her growing flowers and fruits, to her creatures, and yet she does not stop. Her energy is as powerful as ever. Nature does not sleep, except to rejuvenate herself, and this is what man must learn to do as well.

Man must learn to rejuvenate his energy, so that his natural power is ready each moment of each day. If a bird falls asleep in the middle of the day it will not be in alignment with nature. If the birds all slept, instead of doing what they must to live, the balance of all nature would suffer.

Man sleeps too often when he should be awake. It is time now to shift to a more natural alignment with nature, with the rising sun and the setting sun. Learn now to work in the proper moment, to rest in the proper moment, and to act according to the laws of nature in the proper moment, all of which can only be accessed if in alignment with all things.

Accept the truths of life and death as intertwined. One without the other leads to chaos and this is where mankind, especially in the West, has faltered. He has chosen only to live. He has chosen to forget about death and thus he has created an impossible situation.

An earthquake is only the beginning of his shake up, for mankind needs to be reminded of the basic truths of his reason for being upon that earth. And what is that?

Man is a sentient being. This means he is, in truth, a spiritual presence and not a conquering presence. Man has sought to conquer nature, forgetting his spiritual self, as he sought only to feed his ego self. Now man is asked, by nature herself, to return to his sentient roots, in alignment with nature, and learn once again what nature offers: the true lessons in evolutionary growth.

Look now for personal inner balance. Seek a place of calm observation while awake and rejuvenating energy replenishment while asleep. Restore first that balance, the sleeping-waking cycles, as nature does, and you will begin to realign with man’s true intent. When in balance, you will find that you each have within you the answers you seek.

Take responsibility for the self and you take responsibility for the entire world. Remain alert to the moment, to the energy of the moment. And do not forget that in order for life, including your own, to evolve, there will be destruction and death. It is necessary and unavoidable.

A seer knows this at all times. A seer seeks balance at all times by remaining aware of his death, just as the birds and other animals do. Their instinct is strong. They know how to live and they know how to die, with dignity, in proper alignment with nature, constantly adjusting to what life presents, respectful of all other life, always on the move in natural consort/concert with evolutionary energy.

In ending, I suggest that each one of you look upon your own life, your habits, and correct your misalignment with nature as much as you can, just as you expect the rest of the world to do. And then see what happens!

Thank you Jeanne. Please feel free to post comments or respond to this message in the post/read comments section below. Also check out our facebook page at: Riverwalker Press on facebook. And thank you for passing the messages on!

Most fondly and humbly offered.

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#750 Thank You, People of Japan

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Written by Jan Ketchel and including a channeled message from Jeanne Ketchel.

I decide to channel Monday’s message to humanity a day early. I seek commentary from Jeanne on the devastation in Japan, the earthquake and tsunami that have caused massive devastation, loss of life, catastrophic environmental damage, and feelings of great sadness for the people of Japan the world over. As we are brutally confronted with the reality of impermanence, I ask Jeanne: What can we learn from this natural disaster?

Jeanne responds:

Impermanence, as you mention, Jan, is the first thing to recognize. This is a big blow to man’s insistence on controlling nature, yet the overall message is this: Nothing and no one is safe from death.

It is not enough to sit back and declare that this is happening in another part of the world and lucky for you that you are not there. More must be expected of all of you now, for the earth itself is continually shaking you to awaken. I do not wish to continue along negative lines, for in order to shift into what comes next one must accept that this earthquake and its aftermath are meant to produce a new way of life.

Man has indeed come far from his spiritual roots and purpose. This does not make man bad. It merely presents a dilemma and sometimes such a dilemma requires outside help in causing shift.

I pause, feeling a need to shift the direction of this channeling and ask Jeanne another question. Can you give your readers one important message regarding the situation in Japan?

Here is what Jeanne says in answer to that question:

Treat the world differently from this day forth.
Treat the earth differently.
Treat the people you meet differently and the people you will never meet.
Treat your self differently.
Allow your spirit self to emerge more fully and partake in life.

Accept the truth of your personal impermanence in order to understand the massive loss of life upon the coastline of Japan. Do not stay in sadness, but use it to change how you act, how you pray, how you set your intent. Turn from sorrow to release the self from all that flows so negatively out of this destruction. Turn to the power of change that comes into human lives with such force of nature.

Nature is at the core of each one of you. You have this same power inside you. This is what you are being shown. It is the energy of the times you live in that has so interrupted the land of ancient Japan, but ancient Japan knows it cannot swim against the tides of change. It knows it must accept that this is how nature has decided to send the message that energy is more powerful than man’s progress upon that earth.

It is not time now to bemoan the destruction, but to learn that, although man is weak before such power, man does have this power also within. Perhaps it is time to use it again, but not in revolutions of destruction, of greed, of self-interest, whether personal or national, but only in revolutions of inward digging and excavation, on inward progress.

Start a personal revolution of change. Do not turn from Mother Nature in fear, but turn toward her in love and acceptance that everything you need is in her, keeping in mind that she is each one of you. You hold all you need within.

This is not a simplistic answer nor is it meant to disregard or minimize the impact of this turmoil in the world. No words can do that, for you all feel this. You must feel it. This is the truth you must face: your personal destruction, your impermanence. And to really face that, truthfully, you must change.

You must pay attention to the messages coming from the earth itself. You will find them within. During the coming week go inside the self, each one of you, and begin to clean up the debris in your lives. You have the pictures of what devastation looks like, flashing before you everywhere you look, so you know what needs to be done. Do not look away in horror, but face the horror and work at how it makes you feel.

You must change now. That is the disturbing message.

You live. Do not let the people of Japan die in vain. Take their message of impermanence, delivered so impersonally, and use it to change how things are done. Thank them for their sacrifice to nature’s call to change.

Now it is up to each one of you to carry on, and no matter where you live on that earth: Live differently now.

Thank you Jeanne. Please feel free to post comments or respond to this message in the post/read comments section below. Also check out our facebook page at: Riverwalker Press on facebook. And thank you for passing the messages on!

Most fondly and humbly offered.