Earls Court Exhibition Centre from Warwick Road SW5
During the 2009 London Book Fair
I've brought with me a few copies to be able to show to the agents, publishers, distributors and marketers that attend the fair. It's the wholesaling side of the book industry to which I'm interested in promoting Downloading Spirit.
I'm on an amazing learning curve as I explore the multi faceted and multi layered backend of publishing - what's behind the scenes of selling a book.
I'll be able to give you the date the book will be available to buy sometime in the next couple of weeks.
The e-book will be available soon after the hard and soft cover book is released.
I'll also give you info as to when and where the launch will take place.
Thanks for all the support.
I'd love to see some of my emails translate into comments on my blog.
Feedback from you all, once it's out there, would be great.
There is so much happening and being organised in my life, at this point in time; and yet it's as if I'm watching a pot that never boils.
Never mind, I say to myself,Mercury, Mars and Saturn are retrograde, we can't expect everything to just fall into place. Trust - it will all be fine.Thank heavens for Astrology, it enables me to be philosophical when I feel like tearing my hair out.
The final galley proof for the book has just arrived. I have to check that everything is right. The cover is almost done. The Foreword is written, the Acknowledgements have to be sent to the publisher for inclusion and the Index can then be done.
The book is almost ready for the Printer.
The deadline is one copy by the 16th April which will be presented at the London Book Fair, and the symbolic first sale on the 18th April, also in London. All to happen at what promises to be a most fortunate and auspicious time.
Well that's the plan ... in the meantime, I'm just going to keep living, learning, laughing and loving. It's reached the point where there's not a lot more I can do.
I just have to TRUST.
My overseas trip is almost organised.
The Downloading Spirit website goes live on the 9th April.
Then, there's the e-book.
I'm starting to see the water in the pot bubbling.
For all of the above reasons, together with so many other things, which have been happening in my life, I have not published a blog for quite some time. I really want to be more consistent with my posts. Let's say that that's an Equinox resolution.
Someone once told me that life slows down after 60 ... really ... well not for me. I've even started back at the gym and I'm reviewing and changing dietary habits. I'm getting fitter, losing some weight and I have to say, feeling much better in my physical skin.
All the thoughts that go through our minds when something major is about to happen in our lives, have been playing, like a stuck record, in my mind this last month or so.
Most of my life, I've been the one behind the scenes. In many ways, typical of women of my generation. Me being me, however, much has been atypical. Nonetheless, until I started writing Downloading Spirit, everything I've done in life has been to support and back others in their endeavours and work. Even when I did achieve something at a personal level, it was not for me alone, it was for family and the family business.
Don't misunderstand this. I'm not crying Poor me. There is nothing I'd change. It's the journey that's made me who I am, taught me my lessons, so I could express what I'm here to do. I've been blessed with a wonderful life, but writing Downloading Spirit and having it published is the completion of expressing and fulfilling a purpose only related to myself and Spirit. It is the expression of my soul's journey here this time.With Downloading Spirit, my light is no longer hidden under a bushel. It is shining for all to see. It makes me feel vulnerable, for I have bared my soul for all who read it to see.
For those who buy Downloading Spirit, I hope you enjoy what you read. I know it will be challenging at times, but, may you enjoy an occasional laugh, may you learn a little, may you receive and share the love and dedication within it, and may you live a fuller and more multidimensional life, safely, with health and joy, because of it.
Spirit is with us all. May everyone live their life to the full, sharing their unique gift with the world. May this amazing gift of self conscious life and being be appreciated and shared.
May we all walk through any fears that confront us, with love.
May we preserve and care for our incredibly beautiful planet, Earth. She is our mother and our home.May we also come to realise that whilst we are a unique, non repeatable individual, each of us with a gift.We are also one with everything and every being that exists.
One of the things I'm trying to convey in my blog is the diversity of our consciousness. It is both feeling and thinking. It is physical and non physical. It's light and dark, breathing in and out. Opposites are necessary to function in harmony in our electro magnetic world of illusion. This has required me to take a macro view of both science and spirituality.
I'm just an ordinary woman, with limited training and education in these areas of knowledge.
I have agonised, researched, and I feel I have understood a little bit. At least enough to present a theoretical viewpoint.
In Downloading Spirit I talk about many things. Often my blogs are spontaneous thoughts on things that are happening, or random thoughts that for one reason or another insert themselves into my awareness.
On the 29th October 2011 I wrote a blog called A Little about Downloading Spirit. In this I told you about how the project started.
I asked Spirit:
“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”.
In the blog called Spin 25/11/2011, I mentioned for the first time the mechanism of how it all happens. That mechanism is Spin. Wheels within wheels keep everything turning, and Spirit has created it so that it is self perpetuating. When you breathe in you have to breathe out. When you go up you have to come down. The trick is to do it and stay balanced. The key to it happening is love. There will be more talk on Spin ... and the Tao ... I have also written about this at length in Downloading Spirit.
In Downloading Spirit, I endeavour to convey that opposites are always part of a whole. Without either, the whole cannot exist. Both dark and light are necessary to survive. We need the day to work and feed ourselves, we need the night to sleep, rest and rebuild our strength to have the energy necessary to work and feed ourselves.
Our self is one physical layer surrounded by another six non physical layers of our electro magnetic field.
The first book of Downloading Spirit is about ourselves, human beings and our electro magnetic field. I liken our electro magnetic field to the well known Matryoshka Doll, from Russian folklore, whom I call Babushka.
Our Soul bundles itself into our electro magnetic field. It is separated from our Self, and from our Source, but every now and again, without our realising what is happening, the members of our Soul speak to us. Every now and again, we have a sense of being One with all that is. It's not easy, it's sometimes a bit weird, also a bit challenging, maybe even scary for some of us, but it happens.
If we can re-unite our Self with our Soul, we'll start to use more than just 10 per cent of our brain.
If we can re-unite our head and our heart, amazing things will happen. Parts of our physical body that have atrophied will again switch on. For what we'll actually be doing is re-joining the left and right sides of our brain so they can work together in harmony. We'll be activating the glands of our Endocrine System to their full potential. At last we'll work with love and reason creating positive realities. We'll be creatively conscious.
Light and dark ... there's nothing to be frightened of. We need both.
Positive and negative ... positive can't happen unless it's generated by negative. Negative can't happen unless we make mistakes and learn ... which leads to positive. Breathing in and breathing out ... enables us to be conscious of being physically alive. Living and dying ... is all part of the same thing ... conscious being. Love of being, of life, whether physical or non physical, unites us with the aspect of God we are exploring.
We are animalsoverlaid with Spirit. The fallen angel of light, of self consciousness, Lucifer, present in all of us, re-uniting us with Source and love or Christ consciousness. Re-uniting physical with non physical, science with spirituality.
There's nothing to be afraid of in either living, being born, or dying ... we are immortal. We are not our bodies.
Our Babushka's are our personalities ... a collection of our archetypal energies ... and sub personalities.
The layers of our Babushka's are our interfaces between physical consciousness and non physical consciousness.
So who are we?
We are in the process of evolving from a self conscious person to a soul conscious person. We are becoming multidimensional.
Everything is conscious ... but more on this in future blogs.
In the meantime, all being well Downloading Spirit, Part 1, Babushka, will be published on the 21st April, 2012.
It will be published in traditional book format, but will also be available as an e book.
I shall be launching my website very soon. You will be able to order the book through my website, through Amazon, and many other outlets. You will be able to order it through you local bookshop. You will be able to order it online. There will be more information on all of this as things progress.
I wish to thank all who have supported me through this process of creation. It has been 7 years.
Each day I affirm: "I wish to fulfill my purpose, I wish to be where I am meant to be."
Each morning I wake and I try to remember to say to myself as a first thought ... love.
Each night ... I do actually think love as I drift to sleep.
It's harder I think coming back into physical consciousness ... but I keep trying.
You see I love life ... whatever form it takes. I have no problem with birth or death ... they're just part of life ... you can't have one without the other. One happens ... then the other happens ... and so on ...
Life is not just physical ... it is also every non physical thing that supports the physical. The physical gives expression to the intent and purpose of everything that supports it. They're the same thing.
You can't have one without the other.
We're in the process of re-opening the lines of communication with the totality of being.
Back in November I suggested that it would be a good idea to
Walk through your fear with me.
Understand how amazing we all are.
Walk your talk and create your dream.
In December I suggested that we could change our world to a better place just by changing ourselves and walking our talk.
In January I talked about our thoughts being real, that we create our own reality.
The only problem is that there are many around us who try to influence and control our thoughts. Frightened people who have understood that they can control others by manipulating their fears realise that they have more power. Power makes them feel less frightened.
It seems at this time, some of us are realising that we are sabotaging ourselves with our fear. Often those who have the highest wish for the good of all are the ones who most sabotage themselves because they try to be selfless. Many accept that we have to conform and limit our ability to be, in order to have a safe and prosperous life, so we shall not hurt ourselves or others.
This is not true. Whilst at times challenging, the following video is worth watching and considering. It presents the truth that if people respect themselves, they will always respect everyone else.
Different religions are frequently the scapegoat within society for the wrongs experienced by society at large. Today terrorism and Islam are linked.
I would propose that if the basic teachings of all religions are followed, there would be no terrorism. The essential teachings invariably try to establish acceptable behaviour. However, if people seeking power come into positions of religious power, they will often corrupt and manipulate the teachings to create fear and control the masses.
We do not need to listen to these fanatics and extremists, whatever they claim they believe.
Once there was a man called Jalal al-Din who is also known as Rumi. He was a philosopher and mystic of Islam. His doctrine advocates unlimited tolerance, positive reasoning, goodness, charity and awareness through love. To him and to his disciples all religions are more or less truth. Looking with the same eye on Muslim, Jew and Christian alike, his peaceful and tolerant teaching has appealed to people of all sects and creeds.Rumi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Following is one of his poems.
To me the beliefs and thoughts expressed in these videos, make more sense than any fanatic ever will.
As Rumi said:
The nation of Love has a different religion to all religions — For lovers, God alone is their religion.
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 yourfault. 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.
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.
