A little about Downloading Spirit.

Writing Downloading Spirit has been an amazing and, most of the time, solitary journey sometimes taking me to exhaustion, obsession and epiphany.  I've lost count of the number of times I've re-written and edited it.  Altogether it's taken six years.  From 2005 to 2006, quite a lot of time was spent doing the channelling and "night talk" processes of Downloading Spirit.  Paula Klavins helped me greatly with the research (I guess that's what you could call it) during this time.  Then came the fateful day when Spirit told me to "extrapolate".   That's when the obsession became overwhelming.  Extrapolation continued until I finished the book when I was in the Languedoc in France, June/July this year.

Brian Cook of The Manuscript Appraisal Agency has also been incredibly supportive, encouraging and constructive at different times between 2008 and 2011.  Brian was the person who introduced me to my editor, Leigh Blackmore, who has also been of enormous support.  His assessment of the manuscript gave me insights as to how to structure Downloading Spirit.  It's structure was my greatest challenge.  Editing with Leigh was completed by September, and Downloading Spirit was sent to publishers on the 26th September.  Now (let's be positive here - we all know we create what we think, no believe), I'm waiting to see who takes it up.  As I said in my previous blog, I'm hopeful, optimistic and positive, but very nervous and impatient to learn the outcome.

Now, I guess it's time to give you a brief overview of what it's about.  Believe it or not, I always get tongue-tied if I have to talk about something I've done, so maybe I'd be wise here to just quote what Leigh said when he sent the manuscript for me to the publishers.  He wrote:-

"Downloading Spirit Book One: Babushka is the book on how to understand and access superior levels of consciousness for the rest of us.  And it’s long overdue.


Understanding how consciousness operates, at a metaphysical level, is one of the most important tools able to be used by the human race to further the evolution of Spirit. 


Yet, among the many books about Spirit and spirituality, few have been really geared to help people interested in deepening their understanding of consciousness to develop the fundamental understandings of how DNA, the chakra system and astrology tie in to the picture – until now. Downloading Spirit offers not only the author’s extensive personal experience with communicating with Spirit and with issues of concern to the soul, but an integrated picture of how the disparate elements that make up our Spiritual world fit together. Included are dozens of insights drawn from Janet’s voyages into the spiritual realms and her many years experience as a counsellor and psychotherapist, crystal healer and worker with animals. 


Rather than being an academic treatise, Downloading Spirit Book One takes a detailed approach to matters of consciousness and metaphysics which incorporates a wide range of scholarly study into a text which will be accessible to the average reader. 
If you were to give a reader wanting a book on going deeper into their understanding of their own consciousness, and the role of consciousness in the evolution of a more aware and loving humanity, Downloading Spirit would be the one."  


The time is almost upon me when I shall learn if I have fulfilled the task Spirit gave me.  In the beginning, when I asked the question:

“What is the purpose of this book?  What am I supposed to be communicating?”

Spirit answered:

“You’re certainly not to talk about consciousness.  It’s what’s going on behind the facade of consciousness that we want to communicate.  The DNA, genes, consciousness levels, dimensions and their realities, all tie together.  For the average human, none of this makes any sense.  Conveying the information as you have pulled the threads together is what it is about.  We only need the essence, the DNA, the history and how it all happens.  What energises it.  How it works and how it just keeps working, this mechanism for being.  And it works for everything, absolutely everything.  Tie the threads and information together.  Do not use quattrains or arcane language.  We want all people to understand this clearly”.

Writing Downloading Spirit has been one of the most difficult and important things for me to achieve in my life.  Now I've put it out to the Universe.  I pray I have fulfilled the instructions of Spirit satisfactorily. 

Hello again. It's been a while.

Orlando

It's been a while since my last blog.  So many things have been happening.  After I returned from Malaysia, I travelled west to a where my horse Orlando is living for the moment with his  band of beautiful mares.

Horses are very important to me, and guide me on many of my journeys.  In a sense they are my power animal.  Together we travel far.

Owl of the west.

At the magical place where Orlando lives is another who always waits for me.  This is a representative of my bird totem, Owl.

Indeed, wherever I go, I always seem to encounter an owl.
Owl is to me a teacher and a guide.  He first came to me when I was on my farm, Killibinbin.  I had a critically ill horse who needed treatment in the early morning hours for about six months.  Every time I went down to the stables to administer his medicine, Owl would be waiting just outside my home, sitting on a fence post.  Each day he flew down to the stables with me; stayed with me while I medicated the horse, then flew back with me as I walked up the hill.  He'd go back to his fence post and watch me safely into my home.

From that time Owl is always with me.

Even when I cannot be in their presence, these animals are with me in spirit meeting me at night in my dreams.

Entrance stone to Rennes Le Chateau.

Not long after my trip west to see Orlando and Owl, I was off to Europe for further research on my book, Downloading Spirit.  I wanted to understand more about the Cathars, and why the Catholic Church mounted the only Crusade in Europe against Christians.  It's fascinating story, but more of this another time.
So I found myself in the Languedoc, in Southern France, visiting places like Carcassonne and Rennes Le Chateau.     During this time I finished Downloading Spirit, Book 1 Babushka.






After 6 years of writing, the book has now been sent to publishers, and I wait, with great anticipation, for the replies.  Even if a publisher does not take it up, I have decided to self publish.  However, I'm optimistic, and my editor agrees with me that it's ready to go out into the world.

I started my blog to help me to promote the book, and tell the world of its existence.
Slowly, I'm learning the skill of networking and now post on Facebook, Twitter and Linked In.   Links will shortly be made with these sites from this blog.
My website is complete and I'm currently setting up the content of the pages.  Once this is complete the Downloading Spirit website will go live.  When this happens, you will see that my website has a category for my blog.  Just click it and it immediately takes you to this site.
That, in a nutshell, is much of what I've been doing since my last post.

I was prompted to write this today because of an email sent to me by a friend.  It's a video of an owl and it seemed to say to me that it's time to strike.  Time to go out to the world.

I'd like to finish today's post by sharing it with you.  I hope you find it as extraordinary and amazing as I did.

Well, bye for the moment.  I'll write again soon.  May Spirit be with you.