Update on the Update ... thoughts from a very tired me.

There'll be another post tomorrow.  One that is more exciting and elated.  The amazing things I've learnt and been blessed with whilst I've been here.

But now, tired and processing my impressions and experiences I consider what I've seen as I walk the streets of London.

It's fascinating the different aspects of life we encounter when we travel ... the things that are good, and the things which are not so good.  They exist in every country.

Here in London, UK, many things necessary to basic life are similar, many very different.

Toiletry items, processed foods ... are similar, even with the exchange rate ... but ...

Food, fresh food, wine, in most cases is decidedly different.

It's the fresh food where I find the greatest disparity (and you all know how I love good food and wine).  To some extent the difference is in the price ... but mostly in the quality.  It looks ok ... but there is no freshness or flavour, despite the appearances.

For convenience, I've taken an apartment while I'm here.

Whilst I've been at the book fair, I've come back to the Tesco's on the corner, to get my evening meal.  Tesco's is a Coles or Woolies equivalent.

I've been too tired to go out, so I've had a taste of what the local people experience.  I always like having that experience.

Where I'm staying is probably one of the better parts of London, but it's kind of a melting pot between the haves and the have-nots.  It seems to me that the have nots are increasing in numbers.

You see emaciated guys ... probably homeless ... covered with clothes almost falling off them.  They check the ash trays on top of the rubbish bins, to pick up the buts, and wander off with the crotch of their trousers flopping around at their knees.

You see respectable looking women from their 40's on, stressed and carrying so many bags ...  not meeting your eye, or your smile ... their mouths turned down, no sign of a smile ... then you look at their feet and lower part of their bodies.  You realise they are wearing sneakers and old, shoddy trainer pants, with dirty cuffs ... you look up and see an old, out of date coat ... no more warmth ... and in spring it's wet, and 6 degrees celsius.  They're cold, and trying to preserve a sense of dignity.

This is London, a city of  7,825,200 people.  This is in Kensington ... in Earls Court ... not far from Harrods ... not that far from the Palace ... but a world away.

We have this in Australia, but  they don't seem quite as many, and not in the more middle class areas.  They don't seem quite so cold or skinny.  Admittedly we only have a population of 4,504,469 (2010).

What to do about these problems?

As for the food ... unless you go to Harrods Food Hall and pay GBP 1.55 for 1 piece of Sushi, you don't get to eat food with any taste.  We can buy a 6-8 pack of Sushi for AU$5.  Made with fresh products with at least as much taste.  

Fruit and veg. is either imported from the tropics, or greenhouses,  grown hydroponically.  By the time you eat it ... it's like eating dead food.  There is no flavour.  There's no natural vitamins ... they're fed in artificially.  Even more, there is no sense of life in what you consume.  I wonder how much nutritional value there is ... ?

I see people going from the supermarket with 6 full bags of shopping waiting at the bus station ... having stressed out conversations with ???? on their mobiles.

They look tired ... it's been a busy day.

Supermarkets in inner London, don't have car parks where people can park their cars, and take their groceries home easily ... it's all public transport, sometimes with one or two changes. 

People can't afford cars ... or more importantly, petrol ... or parking ... and still there's pollution and noise.  The sirens, screaming, make me jump.  I've just heard the fifth wailing banshee tonight.

Yet there are still so many wonderful things here to experience.  The cabbies are a joy, even when they're fed up.

But what about the people?  The people who create the life of this city.

When are we going to solve these problems of inequality???

Soon I hope.

I'm not talking here about the gifted and trendy people who get out there and find the rewarding lane of life ... the ones constantly shrinking in numbers.  

I'm talking about people ... who work, and lose jobs, and fall from grace.  Good people from all walks of life, who try to cope with so many challenges ... people who get tired, who give up, who accept mediocrity, but still keep trying ... trying just to live.

All of us have these thresholds which exhaust us ... or somehow we overcome. 

To overcome them we have to walk through fear ... some of us just get too tired ... or do not have enough support or wealth ... not quite enough resilience.

To lift ourselves above, to achieve higher levels of consciousness ... some how we have to resolve these problems of inequality ... for ... here but for the grace of god go I.

We are all one, living in a world of challenges and extremes ... 

We need to remember ... he ain't heavy, he's my brother.

May our consciousness expand, and raise to a level where we can create change and improvement.

Then, we can at least move on to solving the next challenges of our world and our species.

We live in a world of extremities ... a world whose purpose is to teach us.  Our life here is to learn.

Let us learn to love, and forgive, and share.  Then love a little bit more.

Let us walk through our fear of losing our sense of identity.

Let us understand this is not possible, if we so choose.  

Let us remember that we are one with all that is.

Nama Amida Butsu.

Update from the London Book Fair.

This is an amazing, fascinating and exhausting experience.

As I slept in my lucid night talking state, I was mentally running over what I would write on my blog today.

It went like this:-

People everywhere - stressed, smiling, bored, polite, dismissive, curious, tactful, patronising, focussed and intent ...

The scene in EC2

Two exhibition halls on the ground floor -so large - at least two or three times larger than the Sydney Exhibition Centre.
Extended escalators going up to the 2nd floor where all the agents are - the IRC area - as it's known.

The IRC area.

If you're an author even with a badge you can't get up there.  You have to be some kind of wholesaler or middle man.

Don't kid yourself that you'll be able to just go up and have a look.
The security is extraordinary.

Guys in black, with wireless receivers in their ears, wearing coats or jackets hiding guns, looking like ex paratroopers, patrol all the vital areas, e.g. the IRC level.  Even a couple of interesting, hot (I think is the term today) James Bond types. You have no hope of getting past them.  They see nothing, yet everything.

They parade through the Pavilions, especially the feature country area - this year it's China.
There's much debate about freedom of speech.

The big name publishers don't even have editorial people on their stand, only marketing, distributing and sales.  It's the business side of publishing - not the creative.

Checkout this link:-                       http://www.londonbookfair.co.uk/live

also                                               images for the london book fair - Google Search


My guardian angels are looking after me:-

Amazon's CEO is here.  Seeing him today.

Llewellyn's CEO is here.  I was introduced to him, showed him Downloading Spirit.
When I told him my experience with book submission not even being read, he asked me to re-submit direct to him ... and he guaranteed to have one of his editors read the book.

Wandering down Aisle H, I encountered a group of Scottish publishers.
Remembering one of my psychic friends saying to me ... You'll find a publisher in Scotland ... I went to their reception desk.

I was referred to two of the publishers ... again their CEO's.
Both were women, efficient, matter of fact, knowing immediately if the book was suitable to their lists.
In a few moments one politely and tactfully said: Not what we'd publish.
The other looked at the back cover, saw what John Woodcock had written in the Foreward:
Janet belongs to the stream inaugurated by Rudolph Steiner ... and immediately asked me to submit a PDF to give to her specialist editor who'd be in Edinburgh working for her over the summer.  This publisher specialises in anything that evolves from or is related to the thinking of Steiner.

A good back cover definitely draws people in.

I left at 5.30 pm.  I felt both exhilarated and exhausted.
Went back to my apartment for asparagus and scrambled eggs, a glass of wine and slice of bread, and found I'd shaken off about three hours of jet lag.  Slowly acclimatising.

The Australian Self Publishing Group I employed to represent me here, and enable me to get my entrance pass, showed Downloading Spirit to different wholesalers and distributors, but no success there.  However, tomorrow they're going up to the sacrosanct IRC where the agents hold court.  They're seeing a Chinese agent ... who knows?  I can't help but wonder what Downloading Spirit would look like in Mandarin.  Let's face it, I've explored the Tao in my book to some extent ... who knows, they might be interested.  We'll see.

So far serendipity has been very kind to me ...

Guess I'd better go and get dressed in my best business clothes and, God help me, high heels.
I haven't done this kind of thing in years, like thirty years.  It's a shock to a 68 year old's system.
But I have to say, I'm enjoying this experience ... and I'm learning so much.

I'm off for now, to shower, put on the glad rags and war paint, and venture forth again into the world of publishing, wholesaling, distribution, marketing, digital publishing and promoting.

Wish me luck.  Whatever happens today, I feel the effort has already been worthwhile.

In London for the Book Fair ...

I'm back in London for the first time in years.

I have to admit ... I'm a little excited.

I've come to attend the London Book Fair ... to promote Downloading Spirit.

The Book Fair is being held at the Earls Court Exhibition Centre.

Earls Court Exhibition Centre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia

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.

Wish me luck.

I'll keep you posted on what is happening.

Oh by the way, my website has also been launched.

Check it out at Downloading Spirit

It's Happening ... who'd have thought?

What to say?

Where to start?

A dream, and 7 years work to make it real.  

The dream is about to become a physical thing that can be touched, seen, and hopefully, bought.

My dream is soon to be a physical reality.

Downloading Spirit will be available for sale in May.

Look for this cover.

I hope it will be bought by people of all beliefs, all races, all backgrounds.

Bought by people who want to know who they are, why they are here.

Whilst I am the  conduit, I am not the Source.

Merely the messenger.

Perhaps the message will not be heard by all who read - 

but, hopefully, the book will challenge and make people think.

If only one person understands, the effort will have been worthwhile.

Downloading Spirit will be available in bookstores and on line.

My website, www.downloadingspirit.com goes live on Monday 9/4/2012.

You can also order the book from there.

On Wednesday, I am going to London, for the London Book Fair, where Downloading Spirit

 will be promoted and be able to be seen by all who attend.

I've taken a quantum leap ... it's time to fly ...

off the 33rd floor ...    

off this 3rd dimensional virtual reality ...

and there's nothing underneath.

I have made public why I am here ... who I am.

This is more than posing nude ... that is just the body.

I'm communicating my Soul.

I've never felt so vulnerable in my life.

But as always, I shall walk through my fear...

Trusting ...

Loving ...

For the moment, there's nothing else - just a huge sigh.

I have expressed my feelings, exposed my soul, which is what the human journey is about.

May every one of us be strong enough to shine our light and show who we are.

Live, Learn, Laugh, Love...

What's around the corner?

So often it's a surprise everyday.

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.

Who are we?

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 animals overlaid 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.

OMG ... how great is that.


Nama Amida Butsu.

The Nation of Love is Universal.

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.

Let us all be lovers ...