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!)  

None of Your Beeswax

Many people have asked me to do a channeling on the Casey Anthony trial. Last week I tried to access the Akashic Records of the case, and they didn’t open. (This does happen sometimes. I just talked about it in the Q&A with Jen session last week, and I’ll probably tell you more about it in a future blog post.)

So then I tried accessing the Akashic Records of current news. This was a little overwhelming, but it did give me a place to get some information. I asked -- What can we know about the outcome of the Casey Anthony trial?

Here’s the answer:

“This trial and its outcome cannot be accessed by you because it is none of your business.”

Seriously – that is exactly what I first saw in the Records! They went on to say:

“The trial itself is part of the personal path of those involved, and the Akashic Records for this event are protected by the very laws that govern and protect everyone’s Akashic Records from infringement. The information that is available for general viewing is in regard to the meaning of the trial in the collective consciousness.”

This led me to think about what we see in the news these days. When there isn’t much real news going on, or when we are looking for the next distraction from the real news, then these news stories pop up that are very similar to gossip. We focus in on the personal lives of people who are going through something interesting, and usually very difficult. 

Remember the Terri Shiavo case that finished in 2005? That trial and the Casey Anthony trial draw so much public attention because they tap into important aspects of our collective psyche. And that’s the part where the Akashic Records can give us a great deal of information, because what is held in the Records is always based on meaning. It’s always based on what we need to understand about a situation, because that is what helps us grow.

I didn’t have time this week to do a longer channeling on the collective meanings for the Casey Anthony trial, but I’m guessing that each one of us can find what we need to learn from it just by noticing what parts of the story touch us. What parts make our hearts break? What parts make us angry? And how do we need to grow in regard to those emotions and stories in our own lives?

Let's Talk

I usually host one Live Channeling event each month, but this week brings two extra events. Last night I hosted a channeling called “Year 2011: What’s Next?” It was fascinating (and a little overwhelming) to take a look at the energy for the year now that we are halfway through.

Tomorrow night I will be hosting an unusual event. I’ll be on the phone for an hour or so to talk about the Akashic Records. There will be no channeling -- just me as a regular person talking to you about what it's like to work as a channeler. This is something I’ve wanted to do for a long time and I’m really excited to speak with some of you and answer your questions about my work, the Akashic Records, and any other spiritual topics you’d like to explore.

You will be able to ask me questions about the work I do with the Akashic Records, and about the Records themselves. You can also ask about how the Monthly, Weekly, and Daily messages work, or about other channelings on my website. We will have a group conversation about how the Akashic Records fit into the New Age movement and how you can work with them in your everyday life.

I’m excited for the chance to speak with you, person-to-person -- something that doesn’t really happen when I am channeling.

If you can’t make it tomorrow night, feel free to send your questions via email. If tomorrow’s phone call goes well, I will likely host another chat in the coming months, so be sure to watch for that, too!