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.