It's Happening.

It's been a few weeks since my last blog - quite eventful weeks, I have to say.  So whilst I've been remiss in blogging about my book, I've been busy organising its release.

It's happening.  Downloading Spirit is being published.  

All being well it will be launched on the 21st April.

The road to publication is a daunting one for an unpublished author with no media or literary connections.  I've stopped counting how many times I've submitted my book to publishers.  In the last lot of submissions, sent out more than four months ago, I sent to a total of twelve publishers.  All submissions were made according to the published guidelines of each company.  One replied that they had received the submission.  Six weeks later, they informed me it was not what they were currently looking for.  Other than that, not a boo or a baa.

For some time I have felt that it was time to self publish.  Synchronistically a colleague, who's also writing a book, sent me information about an Amazon subsidiary that enables you to self publish.  They also have a great program for marketing and distribution.  I made contact, considered what was being offered, and decided to go for it.

The launch date was decided by using astrology to select a favourable time.  Hence the 21st April.

Why did I select this date using Astrology?

It tells me when the energetic environment is most favourable for me to act.

How to effectively work with it, is in Downloading Spirit.  You can read all about it very soon.  

The book will be distributed online and through Amazon, Barns & Noble, Waterstones, W.H. Smith, Dymocks as well as more than 25,000 resellers.

Briefly, however, if you look at the daily transits and the aspects they make to your birthchart, it's possible to come up with the best possible time, place and way to do a particular thing successfully.

It doesn't give you exact answers, but it gives you the likely probabilities of what is involved.

Personally I have always found it much easier to make a decision if I can fully understand the likely positives and negatives of any situation.

I'll talk more about Astrology and Astronomy in future blogs.

In the meantime,  I saw an encouraging article on Page 11 of the Sydney Morning Herald, January 31,  2012.  It was was written by Peter Hartcher and titled Wars wane: is the world really falling into peace?           

I mention this because of recent  comments of mine about Creating what we think.                    

Hartcher reveals statistics that clearly indicate that war at all levels is definitely waning.  He also cites The Better Angels of our Nature, by Steven Pinker, Harvard professor of psychology. 

In his book Pinker says We may be living in the most peaceable era in our species' existence.                         

Why does this surprise us?  Hartcher asks.

His answer is interesting.  This time he quotes Andrew Mack, leader of the Human Security Report, who tells Hartcher:  It's your fault.  It's partly the media's news policy - 'if it bleeds it leads'.  

The media talks about war a lot, but hardly ever about peace.  The media reports the negative, the tragic, rarely the positive or joyous.  It seems to thrive on fear.  Is it, because this keeps the masses worried and easy to manipulate?

But this is changing with the internet.  It began to change when Marshall McLuhan coined the expressions "the medium is the message" and "the global village" and predicted the World Wide Web.  It is still changing today, with the challenges of people such as Julian Assange and Wikileaks.

Our world is becoming more transparent.  It is harder for the powerful and privileged few to keep things secrets anymore.  This means that people can speak their truth and act to create what they believe is right.

Pinker also puts forward the view that human beings are not intrinsically violent but that we adopted violence as a survival strategy.  As it becomes less useful, he suggests, we are simply discarding it.

There will always be difficulties and challenges in this world, but what this article suggests to me is very positive.

For me it is an affirmation that humanity is not inherently violent.  We only want to survive.  

It is validating my belief that if we walk through our fear,  we can overcome all problems.

If we ensure that all people have enough food, clean water, shelter, education, freedom of religion and freedom of speech, the need for violence to ensure survival will cease to exist.

Dare to dream, walk your talk.  If we act from a basis of love and a desire for peace, we shall achieve peace on Earth.

We do create what we think.

Our Thoughts are Real.

Walking barefoot on soft grass with my two pugs, surrounded by magnificent trees, I'm feeling the earth and her energy ... such beauty.

It's usually at times like Christmas and New Year that one thinks on things past and plans for the future.  Now, these are the thoughts and remembrances of ... this makes me hesitate ... but ... an old woman.

I don't feel old, my thoughts aren't old, I'm not old.  I'm eternal; but my body's getting old.  My body isn't me.  I look in the mirror and I see a vintage model of a human being, the amazing animal, my spirit and archetypal energies have overlaid and moved into.

My body is like my car.  I get into it in the morning and go to life on Earth.  I leave it at night, and go to another life.  I can actually do this when I choose, but this doesn't happen very often, because I choose to live and ground my energies here. It is important that we focus on being fully present in this amazing and beautiful world.  We need to live in and care for it to the full.  This is important so we can make our creative non physical ideas and thoughts real.  Selected thoughts are the blueprints we choose to manifest in this physical world.

If we are not grounded and centred we can lose it, if you like, flip out; we cannot make our thoughts a tangible reality in our world.  That can lead to mental illness. It is essential to know we are experiencing this life here, to create here.  We need to realise that being in a physical body means achievement is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.  To make ideas real requires hard work.

One of the dilemmas with being both self conscious and soul conscious is that we can frighten people if we do not manage these consciousnesses carefully and respectfully.  We can even frighten ourselves. It's only recently that people have started to talk about these things.

While in my body, I must do as much as I can.  When my body is too old, I'll trade it in.  It will be recycled.  But I'll continue ... if only through my children and grandchildren ... in their cellular memory and DNA.  I'm not sure yet what kind of vehicle it will be when I return ... it will be interesting to find out.  I love my body. We've had some amazing times together, but I shall have to leave it behind one day.

The years of our lives pass as do the festive seasons of Christmas and New Year. This annual holiday time can be both wonderful, and difficult for us.  I suspect that in our lives, somewhere along the way, we all experience both the wonder and the difficulties, and possibly most stages in between.

With age, time changes the lenses and the filters through which we see things.

Now, 68, my memories seem to become more and more vivid.  I remember so many different expressions of Christmas and New Year.  Times of little money, times of abundance, times of indulgence and times of abstinence.  Times of euphoria and great joy, and times of unbelievable grief and sadness.

That first Christmas without my husband was when I began to remember.  That year I scattered his ashes with my family and friends.

Throughout my life, one defining emotion and feeling has remained in me.  It is with me every day and will be till I die.  That emotion and feeling is love.

In my last blog I included Sting's Youtube video, the Shape of My Heart, the song begins with the lyrics:-

"I use the cards as a meditation ..."

My memory is of my mother who played solitaire almost every day of her life.  It was her meditation.  It was her time for her self.  Now she is dead, I continue her tradition each day.  For me it can be a meditation of gratitude, of how to deal with a difficult situation.  How to deal with my frustration, my anger, with my pain or hurt.  It gives me time to observe myself, and consider how I can become more aware, a better person.  It gives me time to consider who I truly am.

Learning to observe ourselves is so important.

Simple acts in the physical are essential to being at all levels.

Whilst writing this, my thoughts have brought back to life so many who have now crossed or left me in the physical for whatever reason.

But my thoughts make them alive.  My thoughts are real.  Those on whose shoulders I stand, those who have taught me, and loved me, those who I love ... they never die.

Once a living consciousness and being is manifest, has personality, and explores archetypal energy, we are immortal.  We do not stay in the physical eternally.  We may visit it more than once.  But as Christ said:  "In my father's house are many mansions."                                                                                      

There are so many worlds, not all of them physical.

But our conscious thoughts are real.  They do not die.  The beings we acknowledge ... live.  Our Universe, our Matrix expands on these thoughts, lives and grows on this conscious, physical and non physical expression of who we are.

Our thoughts create this vibrational reality.  Thought creates all vibrational realities - physical and non physical.  I believe that one day, the particle faster than light, will be defined as essential thought, consciousness.

We just have to learn how to communicate thought, without fear, between the physical and non physical realities.  We need to make good things real.  We have to learn how to think, so we can create the most extraordinary realities - whether they are physical or not.  Thoughts are the blueprints for what can be manifested.

Did I think this would go where it has - no.  But then, I did tell you that I was fascinated with consciousness.

So I come back to what I felt as I walked on the grass, with the earth between my feet, and my beautiful dogs, and the trees, even the worms underneath my feet that I cannot see, and the birds - the black cockatoos of the void, the parrots of light and joy.

Walking I move within.  I come to the Tree of Life, the Tao of being.  I  ground the light, the joy of living and being, able to express and create physically through my body onto this plane.

This happens because I am an electro magnetic, conscious being in this body known as Janet Baljeu within the electro magnetic soul who is Rainbow Water, communicating through Lucinda Thunderwand, my Higher Self, connecting me to the electro magnetic Source of Great Spirit.

I'm only one human being, one physical life, but I have the ability to connect this third dimensional world, my planet Earth, with ALL that is; to be a conduit of communication between the physical and non physical worlds.

I am Downloading Spirit.

We all have this ability.  Our thoughts are real.  We create what we think.  Imagine what could happen if we all make this connection.

It is time to change our world.  It is time to make our highest thoughts a physical reality.

We can change our world and make it a better place.

Our thoughts are real.