It's the End of the World As We Know It

I know, I know – that title is being way overused these days as we have been coming up to the end of the Mayan Calendar. But I’m using it and I am not going to apologize, because this is the perfect interpretation of what the Akashic Records have to say about December 21, 2012.

It’s not the end of the world. It is the end of the world as we have known it to be for thousands of years. It is time for a new way of living and working together, and I really don’t think this is news to anybody at this point in time.

You have probably read a lot about the spiritual meaning of this date. I certainly have, even though I try to avoid that kind of thing.

But I figured it might be nice to get an update from the Records on what’s happening now that December 21 is upon us. You can find that channeling here.

When I did this channeling today, I was most impressed by the way the Keepers really talked about current events. This is something they rarely do. I guess this is part of the benefit of doing a last minute channeling. Most of what is going to happen has happened, so we are no longer waiting for the potentials. We can actually discuss what is occurring now.

Enjoy!

Superstorm Sandy

I never really know quite what to say when something tragic happens. Something like Superstorm Sandy, which hit the U.S. east coast this week, is so big that words just don’t really hit the mark.

My heart goes out to everyone who is suffering physically and emotionally this week from the storm. Even though there isn’t much I can do to soothe your suffering, I can provide a bit of information that came through the Akashic Records this week.

During three separate individual consultations this week, people asked about this storm and what they are meant to learn from it. Some of the answers to these questions are relevant to everyone, and with permission from those individuals, I will share some of what I channeled so we can all benefit.

Here are the highlights that I think might be relevant to at least a few of us:

1. The potential for this storm was set at the beginning of hurricane season. It was meant to be an especially brutal season, and because the need for large storms did not arise in other places earlier in the season, all that potential built up for Sandy.

2. It was always planned that Washington DC and New York City would experience natural events to shake things up around the time of 2012. Last year’s earthquake in this region was part of the same spiritual system as Sandy, and there is likely to be one more catastrophe in about two years for this region. How big it will be is yet to be determined.

3. This storm is not a punishment, it is a wake up call for everyone in the U.S. to recognize your connection to one another and develop more humility for your place in the larger picture of Planet Earth. You are smaller than you want to be, because being small feels vulnerable. But recognizing that vulnerability will allow you to move with the flow of nature rather than to resist it.

4. Once the physical potential for Sandy developed several weeks ago, it was set to hit the coast later in November. The development and approach of the storm were increased in order to hit before the U.S. elections. This is part of the wake up call. It is important that you vote from a place of humility and a recognition that you all need to work together to heal the world. You must engage in voting and helping, rather than in complaining or waiting for your leaders to fix things. This message is meant for every U.S. citizen at this time, regardless of where you live.

Part of that last message reminds me of the channeling I did when President Obama was first elected four years ago. I will post that channeling for the public this week and next week, and otherwise it can be found in my website archives which you can access with membership.

I am grateful for the individual clients who gave me permission to share some parts of their Personal Consultation channelings here. I always find it interesting when people ask about general topics in their individual readings, but I rarely get a chance to share it!

 

The Art of Asking Questions

I’ve been thinking about how much I appreciate the people who call in for my Live Channeling events and who submit questions for online topic channelings.  I appreciate your interest and the energy. And I really, really appreciate your questions. Without questions, I couldn’t really give you much from the Akashic Records.

Yup, that’s right. Your questions are the only way that information can effectively be drawn from the Akashic Records. The Records are so big, there is no way I can see them all at once. Even the Records of something very small and specific, like a spider, are far more vast than my mind can comprehend. I can only comprehend one answer at a time, and even then the information is overwhelmingly vast.

Questions are necessary. They are the keys that unlock the information. And without all of you, those questions would never be asked!

Autumn Chill

It’s that bittersweet time of year when the air turns cooler and I bring out the first sign of autumn – my trusty space heater. This little puppy is in my office nearly ten months of the year because Seattle is almost always just a little chilly. I go through the ritual of packing it away in July and August just to help myself really believe that it’s really summer. 

I switched from a forced air heater to a radiant heat unit when I realized that I have to take better care of my voice. Talking all day, most days, has actually caused my voice to become lower and creakier than it used to be. I thought about taking voice lessons to help me manage it better, but for now I just avoid forced air and drink a lot of water and special tea.

And I sometimes warm up my voice before a long day of channeling. Only instead of singing something like “La, la, la,” I typically sing something from a Broadway musical or a happy pop song instead.  OK, maybe I do that not so much to warm up my voice but to wake myself up in the morning, but it serves both purposes.

This is one of the strange aspects of my work that I never would have guessed -- that being a channeler means special tea and potential voice lessons.

I would love to hear from other Lightworkers – healers, teachers, and others. Have you found unexpected physical consequences from doing your work? What have you found to help keep you healthy and strong?

September 11

Don’t tell anyone, but I’m about to break the rules. I’m going to share a channeling that is usually reserved only for members of my website, because I just realized something that stopped me in my tracks.

Every year when I channel the Daily Message for September 11, I always pay a little more attention because it is such an important day in our history as a country and across the world. Two weeks ago when I channeled ahead for this day, here is what I got: 

“September 11, 2012: There is a sense that everything changes today, like a revolving door. Be prepared to try something new.” 

So, why am I telling you this? Why is this message for September 11 so special? Because it isn’t special at all. I am sharing this message because it is so unbelievably mundane that it reveals something remarkable. 

I looked back to last year’s September 11 Message and here’s what it said: 

“September 11, 2011: The collective energy of this day for 2001 still resonates. It is time this year to roll up your sleeves and move forward. This day on the calendar is ending its contract to hold collective trauma. Do your part to step into an empowered stance by taking positive action in your life, rather than dwelling on your regrets. You have healed what you can by sitting still. It is time to heal by acting with integrity, compassion, and empowerment.” 

Did you catch that? This day on the calendar is ending its contract to hold collective trauma. In other words, starting last year there is no longer karma held by this day in regard to those heartbreaking events in 2001. This means that whatever feelings we still carry from that terrible day are being carried by us as individuals and BY CHOICE. If we are still resentful, fearful, or otherwise traumatized, it’s up to us to heal it. The time-space continuum held a vibration for this for ten years. I think it probably did so to hold that collective trauma for us so we could deal with it one step at a time instead of all at once. But now, according to the Records, that collective space in time is done with holding trauma. 

Does this mean we are to forget those events? I don’t think so. Do we have an excuse to feel traumatized and resentful every September 11 from here forward? According to the Records, not anymore. 

As usual, our healing is in our own hands and what we choose to do with our heartbreak is up to us. 

And that, my friends, is the thing that inspired me to break the rules today. I just had to tell you because, at least for me, this information is liberating. I can stop feeling a little guilty and sad every time this day rolls around and finally let it be just another day. Do I still cry sometimes when I think about September 11, 2001? Yes. Will I ever forget? No. I became a different person on that day and I am still working to transform my fear into love. I’m just going to do it throughout the year when my heart calls me to it instead of when it appears on the calendar. 

What about you?  How do you approach September 11 each year? 

Disembodied Voice No Longer

Most of my work involves talking, and most of the talking I do for my job is recorded. Lots and lots of people have listened to audio channelings on my website or received personal consultations from me over the past ten years, and after all that talking I forget that most you have never seen me in action. Unless you've had the chance to meet me in person, I've been a disembodied voice. But that's about to change. You can now find me on video!

This week, Steve Crow at Soul Adventure TV interviewed me about the Akashic Records. We spoke via Skype and he used fancy technology to make that interview into a video that anyone can watch. I had a wonderful time speaking with him once I got over feeling incredibly awkward about speaking to the little green dot above my laptop screen.

(I mean, really, wouldn't you feel a little weird looking at this as you converse with someone?)

Luckily, I got over it thanks to Steve and his great questions. As you know, I love to talk about my work in the hope I can make the Akashic Records more accessible for everyone.

So grab some popcorn, sit back, and enjoy the video at: www.AkashicTransformations.net/video-library

On second thought, don't sit back too much because it turns out I spoke almost as fast on this video as I do in my channelings. Hang onto your hat!

Times They are 'a Changin'

Dear Lightworkers,

I have spent more time in the past month consoling friends and loved ones than I ever have before in my life. It seems like everyone is being flung out of their comfort zones by the Universe all at once. And this time around it is including my dearest, sweetest friends.

Are any of you experiencing this? Are the things you thought you could count on suddenly becoming very shaky?

When big change comes along, it often feels like we need to figure it out all at once. But it never really works that way.

Who decides to leave their marriage in one moment or one day or even one week? Who finds their perfect home immediately after realizing they want to move? Hardly anyone. We might have moments of sudden realization, but those really big changes? They take time. And few of us are good at feeling like we can have all the time we need.

The Records have told a us a few times that Enlightenment comes in stages, and there are times when we collectively hit one stage at the same time.  So, just in case it’s not a coincidence and some of you are going through some big, scary changes, too -- I just want to say to you, as I’ve been saying to my dearest friends:

You Have Time. Life Is Long. Sure, there might be consequences if you delay, but you won’t be able to think clearly until you calm down. And you can calm down a lot more easily if you decide to take the time you need. Don’t wait for someone to give you that time. Don’t try to take care of everybody else when you have lost your own center. Take that time and use it to feel your feelings, think your thoughts, and feel a little more like yourself again. Then decide what to do about those big changes afoot.

Much love to those of you in the midst of change, and those of you who are feeling just fine,

Jen

That Awkward Feeling

It’s been awhile since you’ve seen me here and I’m feeling that awkward sense that I’ve been so quiet that now if I finally speak, I must say something profound and wonderful. And, of course, no one can say something profound and wonderful under that kind of pressure. Someone just needs to say something so we can all get over the awkward moment, reunite, and get on with it. 

 (cartoon courtesy of democraticunderground.com)

If you’ve been following, you’ll know I dropped off the blog last winter when I had surgery. During recovery from surgery, I felt physically terrible. Then as I healed and felt better physically, I began to feel terrible emotionally for being so late on the blog. Then my guilt-driven procrastination cycle began and all was lost. 

 

Procrastination.  It is not fun at all.  I'm not the worst at this, but it does sneak in there and grab me sometimes -- and this year the blog took the hit. 

I’ve started a new blog post nearly every month since January, and this is the one I will finally post. No matter what. I think the collective input of sunlight and summer flowers has finally overcome the shower of guilt I had poured on myself all those winter months and I’m capable of conquering the cycle – maybe not forever, but at least for now.

So, I’m back. And I can’t wait to tell you all kinds of things about what’s happening at Akashic Transformations and some new insights I’ve had recently about working with the Akashic Records. Come back soon.  I promise I'll really return this time!

Long Winter's Nap

My recovery from surgery is going really well because I have been asleep. I'm not kidding, I've really been asleep. For days and nights I’ve been snoozing and napping. I feel like a bear in a den, completely quiet inside and content to live with a slow, steady heartbeat and just a few hours of daylight. 

I know this long winter’s nap is a natural way my body has to heal from the trauma of surgery. And I can’t help but wonder if it is also my spirit’s way of embracing the energy of winter. There is nothing better than to create warmth and quiet on a cold day.

The December 2011 Message says: “This is an important time to take very good care of your bodies. It is

an important time to take a deep breath and slow down. If you try

to rush around this month, you might find that you get into accidents

and make mistakes. Because you are not very grounded, you need to

be extra careful to be mindful and thoughtful about your body and the

things that you say and every action that you take.” 

I don’t always follow the advice in the Monthly Message. For better or worse, I tend to have my mind a couple of months ahead because that is the time I am actively channeling. (I just completed the Looking Ahead Message for February 2012 and am excited to share it with you soon!)
Because I don’t always remember to look at the message during the month at hand, I am grateful for the events in my life that have forced me to slow down and pay attention to what is needed this month. For me it’s sleep, quiet reflection, and healing. Healing from surgery has led me to an ongoing state of the long winter’s nap and I love it!

Twas the Night Before Christmas: 
A Visit from St. Nicholas

By Clement C. Moore
 

Pictures by Jessie Willcox Smith




How are you working with the deeper energy this month? With the holidays, it’s not always an easy time to find an extra hour. I hope if you do find one that you spend it doing the thing that most feeds your heart and nourishes your soul. It feels like we are all shifting and preparing for something big, so take this chance to be grounded and rested! 

 

Surrender

I had surgery last week. I’ll tell you a lot more about that later, but for now I have to share a channeling that just came through this morning.

I’ve been very curious, and a little nervous, about how general anesthesia would affect my ability to do channeling work. On top of that, I used narcotic painkillers for several days after surgery, which is a far cry from the caffeine-free, alcohol-free, aspirin-or-any-kind-of-drug-free life I usually live. I try to avoid stimulants and depressants when I can because I never want to wonder if something I’ve channeled was influenced by them.

My plan was to wait four or five days to make sure the drugs were out of my system physically, then for my energy to adjust to having them gone. Then I would try channeling. Instead, two days after ceasing those drugs, I woke up to a channeled message coming through me like a voice in my mind that definitely wasn’t my own.  I got out of bed, wrote it down, then formally accessed the Records to make sure it was real.  It was real, and here it is:

“You are the ones you’ve been waiting for. We talked about this several months ago, and too few of you are acting on it. You can no longer afford to live with the emotional and behavioral patterns that hold you back – that tell you there is something wrong with you or that you have to prove something.

Don’t you understand? If you are reading this, you are one of the enlightened ones. It is time to start acting like it.

Today, map out a plan for the next day, week, month, or year. Think of something you want to accomplish, big or small, and map out what it will take to get there. Then take note of the few things on that map that you can control or influence, and make a plan to do those things.

Finally, and most importantly, take note of the many things on that map that you cannot control or influence much. List those, and decide right now to surrender. Know in your heart what you hope for, and then surrender those to your higher self and the angels watching over this plan.

It is time to stop trying to prove your worth, or to attain something different from the divine path you are walking now. You are here to help lead humanity to a new age, and your leadership will not occur because you have achieved something in particular. It will occur because you develop a deep sense of peace as you go about your plans, and that peace becomes something everyone wants to follow.

You do not need to work so hard. Humanity cannot afford to have you indulge any further in self-hatred or criticism. You are the ones you have been waiting for, and the people around you are waiting to learn from you how to surrender the fight and step into peace and joy right now!”

This is one of the first times I have ever received a channeled message without formally accessing the Akashic Records, and honestly I didn't really like it. For one part, it felt a little bit like getting a lecture from the Keepers right when I wanted to be snuggling and sleeping!

But the dislike goes deeper. For years I have resisted any channeling that comes without my conscious consent. I’ll admit it – just like the channeling tells us, I prefer to feel as if I am in control of how Spirit moves through me. So I suppose this is my opportunity to surrender to what is rather than to strive to create what I think it should be.

I remain curious about how my recent surgical adventure will continue to affect my channeling. Did the spontaneous morning message come because I had just removed the narcotics from my system? Were those kinds of messages there all along and I was just too tired to block them out this time? Who knows, but you can bet I’ll keep you updated on what I find out!

New Age Grammar Lesson

I laughed at myself today as I was updating my website with the Daily Message. I think I spent about ten minutes deciding how to capitalize the word “love” in the message for November 30. It’s not that I’ve forgotten the basic rules of English grammar. It’s just that grammar gets a bit confusing in the New Age.

There are certain words – Love and Enlightenment, for instance – that have become ideographs in the New Age movement. They’ve taken on a gravity and persona all their own. We capitalize them in the same way that more conventional religious folks capitalize the word God. We strive to have the letters in the word help us hold reverence for what we’re writing. And I think this is great. Until I find myself writing something like this:

Daily Message -- November 30, 2011
The energy of Love is very strong today. Find a way to show Love for everyone around you. Spend time meditating on the people and places you Love most, and build a sense of Love in your heart that reaches beyond your body. Live in a field of Love today.

After I typed this out, I felt uncomfortable. It’s one thing to occasionally break the rules of classical grammar in order to add emphasis. It’s an entirely other thing to write the word Love with a capital L five times in only four sentences. The inner grammar critic inside my mind just started spinning and I couldn’t do it.

So I rewrote the whole thing with no capital-L Loves:

Daily Message -- November 30, 2011
The energy of love is very strong today. Find a way to show love for everyone around you. Spend time meditating on the people and places you love most, and build a sense of love in your heart that reaches beyond your body. Live in a field of love today.

That looks better to my inner critic, but it doesn’t fit at all with the emphasis on love that was coming through the Records when I channeled this message several weeks ago.

Finally, I decided to use a little grammar rule of my very own – one I’ve come up with over the course of typing out many channelings from the Akashic Records that use the word love in so very many ways. This rule dictates that I capitalize Love when it is used as a noun, and leave it small when it is used as a verb.

So here’s the variation that finally posted on my website today:

Daily Message -- November 30, 2011
The energy of Love is very strong today. Find a way to show love for everyone around you. Spend time meditating on the people and places you love most, and build a sense of Love in your heart that reaches beyond your body. Live in a field of Love today.

I feel fine with this for now, and I’m glad I’ve come up with my own little rule for New Age grammar. Sometimes I feel like I am overcapitalizing in the channelings when I post them online. Other times I wonder if I’m not doing it enough to emphasize the importance of certain concepts coming through the Records. Whenever I channel a message, it comes through as a set of ideas and concepts. It’s up to my and my brain to figure out how to put them into language.

I think all channelers and healers must face a similar conundrum. How do you put these huge, nonlinear concepts into words? When do words fail to convey, and when do words come through so powerfully that they have the ability to heal? I’d love to hear about your experiences.

Lightworker Scavenger Hunt

The Keepers have been talking a lot lately about Lightworkers.  Last month’s Live Channeling event (now a website download) was on the topic of “Leadership and Change: You Are the Ones You’ve Been Waiting For” which was all about how we are learning to lead by example, rather than leading by bossing each other around --  though the Keepers said it a bit more nicely than that!

I posted a channeling last week about Lightworkers that said:

“It is time to expand your definition of what it means to be a Lightworker.  It is time to expand your identity as a Lightworker to include everyone around you.  It is time then to start looking around and noticing that the most mundane situation can be filled with Light.  It is time to look around and start noticing that the most unassuming, quiet person in the room might be the one who is bringing the most Light.” 

Most of the channelings and most of what you’ll find online about Lightworkers tell us how be Lightworkers ourselves.  But what the Keepers have focused on lately is how much everyday life events are really expressions of Lightwork -- how we don't necessarily need to be involved in spiritual or energy work to be Lightworkers.

In that light, I’m going a Lightworker scavenger hunt and I’m inviting you to join me.  Every time I enter a new social situation, instead of asking myself how I can bring more Light, I’m going to start hunting for those magical souls who are bringing more light – each in their own way.  Then I'm going to help them, or celebrate them, or just sit back in awe and admiration as they work their mojo!

It’s easy to pick out the obvious ones -- the minister at the pulpit or the healer giving someone a hug over in the corner.   It’s not so easy to spot the stealthy ones --the kind soul who slows down while crossing the street in order to protect an elderly stranger, or the teenage boy making jokes in the hospital waiting room in order to ease the tension. 

I’ll give myself extra points for the ones I spot who have probably never even heard the word Lightworker -- the ones who show kindness in everyday moments because it’s in their nature, it’s just who they are.  Because “just who they are” is a Lightworker. 

It doesn’t matter what language you use or what social movement you are part of – if you sense the hearts of others and strive to make those around you just a little lighter, just a little more at ease – then you’re a Lightworker.

Hunting for hidden Lightworkers is fun.  It give me a sense of hope to realize that I am surrounded by them, and that whatever I’m striving to do to make the world a better place is supported by countless moments across the world in which others are doing the very same thing.

So let's make the Comments field for this blog post be a place where you can tell us about a hidden Lightworker you've spotted.  I can't wait to see what you discover in the months to come! 

What's Up With October?

Has anyone else noticed that this month feels little weird? For a long time now, I’ve been struggling to see ahead to October. Back in June when I channeled the topics for the year’s events, I couldn’t get a topic for the October Live Channeling event. The Keepers gave topics for November and December -- but for October they kept saying, “Ask us later.” The energy for this month was twisty and difficult to predict.

The October Message states clearly that this is an unusual and changeable month:

"The energy this month is difficult to predict. The reason for the difficulty is that a major turning point occurs in September of 2011. As you cross the threshold into October, much of what will happen will depend on the choices that you made in September. The energy for the year 2012 has been on its way into Planet Earth for the last couple of years, but the actual energy of the very year itself arrives in October. While your calendars mark the year beginning in September, the true energetic beginning of the year is in October of 2011..."

When I channeled all the Daily Messages for this month and I saw something I hadn’t seen when I channeled the Monthly Message back in August. As I watched the days unfold, I could see that the entire month moves like a spiral. Every day brings more change, like a curve in the road, so that eventually the energy swirls around on itself. From above, the energy this month looks like a cyclone.

Maybe that cyclone is the reason I’m feeling so strange. Every time I choose a direction, I seem to spin around on myself and get lost all over again.

(This is Hurricane Ivan from 2004, courtesy of hurricane-facts.com)

I finally did get a topic for this month, just a few days ago. And, no surprise, the topic is Change!  More specifically, it's “Change and Leadership: You Are the Ones You’ve Been Waiting For.” Be sure to visit my calendar and sign up if you want to join us. It will be fun to learn more about becoming leaders in the midst of change, especially when we are right in the middle of it!  

Wiped Out, But In a Good Way

The Live Channeling on the Year 2012 took place this week, and it was a doozy! What an amazing year we have ahead of us!

Participants asked wonderful questions, and I remember being surprised by some of the answers. The strange thing about channeling is that I see the answers so clearly when they come through, but once I’ve closed the Records it all slips out of my mind like a dream. So, just like the rest of you, I can’t wait to listen and learn what the Keepers have to say about this much-anticipated year. The recording will become available on my website beginning October 1.
 

Until then, here are a few of the highlights:

- This is the Year of the Wheel, or the Year of Choices. This is the time when we decide what direction humanity will take in the next age.

- Our ability to make choices this year makes us incredibly powerful. The consequences of our choices will happen more immediately and intensely than ever before, for better or worse. (Don’t panic: If you’re paying attention and doing your best to be honest with yourself and others, it will be mostly for the better.)

- Most people will be changing their minds and directions often during the year. Lightworkers are called to have patience and avoid getting caught up in the drama surrounding you.

- The energy of 2012 begin in 2009, so if you’ve been paying attention and doing what you can to heal and wake up, then this year will bring more empowerment and joy. If you have been avoiding anything, this year will make that thing come crashing down on you so you can finally deal with it.

- I also remember that the Keepers addressed movie and media portrayals of the Year 2012, and how those are related to real life dynamics.  Can't wait to be reminded about what they said.. thank goodness this was recorded!

- I remember seeing more clearly how the Mayan Calendar was accurate in predicting this shift, and exactly how those predictions have changed…. But I can’t remember what came through. ARG!  Again, with the recording. 


Another highlight for me was the moment when all the callers said good-bye at the end of the call. I usually have between ten and twenty callers for events. This time there were over 60 people on the line! It was so lovely to hear a cacophony of voices saying farewells and blessings. Thank you to everyone who participated in that channeling event.

And, after channeling the energy of the Akashic Records, the Year 2012, and all those lovely participants -- I was wiped out. So, true to form, I made a huge bowl of very salty popcorn and watched an episode of Glee.

There is something about song-and-dance that enables that blank stare I require after intense experiences. It’s probably not the best way to get grounded, but it sure is fun.

Of course, I could manage that only after lying in the grass outside my office and staring wide-eyed at a nearby tree for at least 30 minutes. I think my neighbors might wonder about me sometimes…..

(No, sadly this is not the view from my office. The trees in Seattle are far more coniferous and prickly, and the sky is far more gray, but I love it anyway.)

Native Family

 

I’ve just returned from a visit with my native family. They are native as in my first people – the ones who raised me and were raised with me. These are the people with whom I built my deepest fears. Fears like, “What if I am not loved? What if I am not good?” They are also the people who taught be to love and be loved. They are the ones with whom I developed my strongest attachments – some healthy, some not so healthy.



Over the years we have all made many mistakes together, and our patterns of behavior fit together like puzzle pieces. My tendency to swallow my words molded itself perfectly around my brother’s childhood bravado; my desperation to be admired and respected grew right alongside the skeptical looks my little sisters gave me when I tried new things. 

No matter what kind of family, every single one of us is molded by the shapes our loved ones took as we grew up together.

 

 

As we navigate our spiritual paths as adults, it can be tempting to imagine that we can think our way out of those childhood limitations.  It can be tempting to expect that we will take our enlightened spirituality into our family visits and somehow make those relationships work perfectly.  But those old puzzle pieces still fit together, so that when I visit, I find I am not myself. I say things I would never usually say. I feel things more strongly than I usually feel. And I struggle to keep my center more than in any other situation in my adult life.

I know I’m not the only one who feels this way. We all know that family relationships can be complicated and confusing. Yet these are the people we keep going back to, because amidst all that confusion there is a deep and profound potential for love. After all, if this is the place we learned our greatest fears, just imagine what could happen if we heal our fears in those very relationships where they started?



Luckily, I ended the trip with a clarifying visit to Grand Teton National Park. There are few places that clear my mind and set my senses soaring as much as the high mountains of the Rockies and Great Basin.

Beautiful!

It's Decision Time Again

Making decisions is one of the most fundamental activities in our lives. Decisions and their consequences are unavoidable. Even when we avoid making a decision, the choice to avoid it is a decision in its own right and carries consequences just like any other decision. There is no escape!

Having choices is part of what defines freedom and gives us a great deal of joy.  I don't know too many people who consciously give up their free will.  (I do know some who unconsciously do, but that's a story for another day.) So why do so many people struggle to make decisions?

We all have our favorite way to deal with decision overload. Mine is procrastination. And I always feel bad about it, and I always thing there must be something wrong with me. (And there probably is, but that is between me and my therapist.)

All of this felt a bit better the other day when I found this article in the New York Times.

It turns out I’m plagued by too many decisions – which I recognize is a luxury of excessive use of free will. (And I really do mean that it’s a luxury to have the opportunity to choose so much of my own circumstances) This phenomenon even has a name, Decision Fatigue. And it’s not just me, and it’s not my fault, and just considering that I could limit the unimportant decisions in order to improve the important ones is really helpful.

After reading the article, I decided to stop visiting the World Wide Web unless I have a specific task to perform there. No more browsing, no more surfing. I think this alone will eliminate dozens if not hundreds of unimportant decisions from my daily roster. And it will free up time to walk barefoot in the grass, sit in meditation, and talk to friends that I treasure dearly but never call or visit anymore!

What will you eliminate? How will you free up your mental space for those important decisions that really matter? I can’t wait to hear about it!

Finish All the Things!

Well, I keep trying to post something about the US economy, but I just can’t find words to express how complicated my feelings are on this issue. So that post can wait for another day. (If you want to think about the economy this week, go read the channeling for this topic!)

Instead, I thought I’d share the image I have hanging in my office this week. 
 

I am very good at starting things, like this blog, and not so good at finishing them. Astrologers tell me that it’s because so much of my natal chart is on fire. The Records tell me it’s because I spend so much time channeling that I don’t track time very well in my everyday life.

But sometimes I think I’m still just running away from homework. I find myself with that old feeling from school. You know the one? That feeling of homework perched weightily on my shoulders, pushing on me when I’m playing, resting, and even when I’m actually working on the homework. I feel guilty, embarrassed, and trapped. It’s heavy-duty mental baggage, and I’ve been trying to shake it since I was about twelve years old.

So I love this image because it is just silly enough, and just triumphant enough, for me to believe that I actually WILL finish all the things!

Dumbledore's Right

Whenever I try to explain why I can’t predict the future using the Akashic Records, I always struggle to explain very clearly how very complex the very idea of the future can be. Luckily, someone else has found an elegant way to express this for me:  

“The consequences of our actions are so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.”

-- Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

The future always appears as a set of possibilities and probabilities. Much can be seen, but nothing can be predicted until the very moment it occurs. This is the only way it can be if we have free will. And, based on absolutely everything I have ever seen in the Akashic Records, we do indeed have free will.

Sometimes I wish someone could predict the future. It doesn’t have to be me. It could be anyone, as long as they could tell me exactly what to expect and how to plan for it. Especially these days when so much is changing and so much is at stake.

But, when I really think about it, I’m grateful the future cannot be predicted. I am glad that what is coming is continually being rewritten according to our choices and intentions. This means I still have the honor of creating an effect in the world around me, and so do you!

 

Akashic Channeler Rescued from Black Hole

This Just In – Jen Eramith was swept into a cyber black hole two weeks ago, and found emerging just this morning. The black hole was created when her website host decided to change their system completely, sucking Jen into a whirlwind of telephone call-center muzak and long, complicated tests of website functionality.

Jen’s mysterious disappearance from the blogosphere left many puzzled. Readers wondered, “Why did she start a blog when she isn’t even blogging? Doesn’t she care anymore?”

While channelings and events continued to appear on her website, Akashic Transformations, Jen herself seemed to have disappeared completely from blog-land.

That changed early this morning when Jen was spotted crawling from the black hole looking bewildered and relieved. She announced that the new website template has been fully integrated, save one last little glitch preventing her from posting the newest audio download to the library.

“That’s OK,” she stated bravely. “This gives people more time to download the special double feature we offered in July – two titles for the price of membership.”

As the new month begins, Jen hopes to stand firm on the new website template, with all systems up and running. The black hole is closing quickly, with website members and the public, alike, enjoying Jen’s channelings more easily than ever.

“Now if only I could get that call-center muzak out of my head,” Jen stated longingly.

The Records of Many Names

I often tell people that there is nothing special about the Akashic Records, or at least about the term itself.  The actual Records are very special.  But what we call them?  Well, you don't need to be too particular about that.  

There are many terms that describe the very same thing – this idea that there is more information available to us than our minds are consciously aware of. This idea is ancient and New Age, and it’s also just plain common sense.

Almost everyone has had the experience of knowing something without really knowing how he or she knows it.  And most people have a story or two about how they followed a hunch and something miraculous followed. Most people believe that intuition exists, which logically requires that we acknowledge there is something “out there” we tune into when we listen to our intuition.  And that's the Akashic Records.

And because the presence of that ethereal library has been known throughout history in all parts of the world – well, of course there are many terms used to describe it!

Here are the ones I’ve heard of so far. Do you have any to add to the list?

Akashic Records
Book of Life
Book of Knowledge
Mind of God
Akashic Library
Universal Library
Hall of Learning
Hall of Knowledge
Hall of records
The Time Lords
Your Souls book of knowledge
Akashic Field
Energetic Records
Eternal book of Life
The DNA of the Universe
Cosmic Mind
Super Conscious Mind
Universal Computer
Cosmic Consciousness
Collective Consciousness
Collective Unconsciousness
Collective Subconsciousness
Light Library
The Memory of Nature
Knowledge of Time
Book of Remembrance
Wisdom of the Ages
Zero Point Field
Records of the Soul
The Akashic Chronicle
Universal Mind

(Thanks to my friend, Meryn, for helping complete this list for me. You are a wonderful researcher!)