Journeys Into Enlightenment Episode 33 Blog/ Going Deeper Into BEing

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releasing Tuesday April 7, 2020

 Episode 33 Blog   Going Deeper Into BEing  

Many things are happening in the world as I sit to focus and write this blog for this Episode 33 with George Thomas. It is easy to be distracted by the emotional turmoil present in those who are compromised to pay their rent and my medical friends on the front line dealing with the realities of those in distress. All doing their best to keep themselves mentally and physically healthy and the rest of us safe.

My sense is to go deeper, below the clamor to my sense of my own Essence for the quiet and sacred I hold within. Which is what this episode and every episode in this podcast is about: going beyond the clamor of Self into Consciousness. And the going beyond is not so much an outward experience but an inward sense. Within.

This is what we all can know. That what we are looking for in connection is not out there but in here. In our social distancing more are becoming aware of our true nature as Oneness. How, without the distractions of busy and doing, what things look like, we share in this collective experience we call Consciousness.

We invite what we have not been paying attention to, to express. It is our fears, it is our love and appreciation about life and being present in what we have collectively created in our clumsy ways this reality we find ourselves in.

It is a time of immediacy, not something to think about. There is no time to process except in real time and it feels like time can be running out. It is not. We can expand it instead. Shift to our inner Essence where our time and space senses are malleable. As the days tick off the calendar, as illness gestates for some and passes by others. Create time to catch up with breathing into awareness twinkle lighted particles of wonder. Breathe in wonder and Life, breath out the dissolving stickiness of fear and compromise. Interesting. Compromise is in the air.

We are experiencing what happens when we don’t listen. When we let the fear in Life dictate our thoughts and manifest into reality.

This is a great time to sit in awareness.

Many were so busy during our formally regular days that we lost awareness of our internal messages at the time they were happening. In these non regular days we are now in, what are you thinking about? Just hear your self talk. What did you just think? Then notice how you feel when the thought repeats. Does it upset you? Does it calm you? Does your gut tighten, does your heart twinge, does your neck ache now? All are clues to your inner health and harmony.

You can go deeper. Your breath will take you there without thinking.

IF you knew, in tangible ways that what you sense and feel and think produced results immediately would you pay better attention to those senses, feeling and thoughts? IF you understood that we are all creating our reality together?

You may have your rules about life set to follow others in their awareness and you might check that setting. Life is about immediacy, in the moment. We organize with our senses of time and space to slow things down and create a sense of over time. Shift and change can and do happen in a moment and a week is lots of moments.

In particular this episode is about how it can be easier than you think to Love and Appreciate yourself in new ways. That it can be easier to let loose the fear and sense of entitlement that has blossomed in the air as virus.

If we use our wisdom and pay attention now we will see around us those who think small, think keep out, think that they come before others, that worthiness has a price. We need to remember that future projections are just that, projections and not fact. They are playing the odds. They are set in the reality is that IF NOTHING CHANGES THIS WILL HAPPEN.

So join me and George and others in understanding what it takes to get from here to there. Feel. Without attachment to what we think we know, into your inner realm that IS. Right in this moment your truth.

WE ARE THE CHANGE. IT IS HAPPENING NOW. BE PRESENT NOW.

Janet Barrett

Podcast host of Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet

www.janetandbeyond.com 

janetandbeyondpodcast@outlook.com 

JIE Episode 32 Blog/Today's Chivalry

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Releasing March 24, 2020

Episode 32 Blog/ Today’s Chivalry

My youthful awareness of Chivalry was of stories of King Arthur’s court and a code of behavior and of a knight in shining armor participating in jousts with the acknowledgment of a favor from an observing lady. And it was important as it was a signal to the others watching of her strength as he represented her. He was her knight, a symbol of her power and strength among the court.

I was reminded of it again this past winter in the people of the military and diplomatic corps speaking their truths without question, demonstrating fearlessness, willing to take the consequences from powerful forces around them. It struck me deeply these heroic men and women of all backgrounds and accomplishments, their heads held high, their gazes direct. Sitting not in defiance but in Grace. It went beyond gender.  

Chivalry is really an umbrella word in meaning. It encompasses many desirable qualities including Courage, Honor, Courtesy, Justice, and a readiness to help the weak. In my conversation with Bill Protzmann of Music Care Inc we found our conversation also was inclusive of Love, Kindness, Compassion, social behaviors and gender concerns.

Courage, honor, courtesy, justice, a readiness to help the weak never go out of fashion. They help define us as a society filled with individuals living together. Our evolution of our awareness of Chivalry comes in recognizing all those before mentioned qualities to include what happens between the sexes and that it is not only men who demonstrate Chivalry. We all are and can be champions for our partners, the elderly, children and community.

We each know when someone has helped us in some small way be it holding the door or the anonymous donor or have our boo-boos kissed and we feel better. It may be the highlight of the recipient’s and giver’s day. We are demonstrating an enriching connection between each of us. Compare it to rudeness and non-engagement. They feel different. 

I don’t think of Chivalry as dead or just happening only in the Middle Ages. My sense is that out of that time in history of civilization it came into being recognized as a powerful social endeavor. Life was as dicey then as it is now but without the technologies we enjoy. Culture was building around those in power and dictating behaviors and forming societies based on that marshaling of title and power and the holding of resources.

Many of the quotes I looked up for the Ageless section of our podcast episode seemed to focus on the current loss of Chivalry. As though it was a long-ago forgotten concept in our age of mechanization and technology.

Since the women’s movement in the late 60’s we gained much in male/female disparities but maybe also a loss in gender courtesy. Women are still being treated as second class citizens in many fields of endeavor and Rape is nothing new in society. But the rules that we look to govern our civility between the sexes are updating in this age of #MeToo.  

Our challenge would seem to be bring it into the modern era of interacting with one another. Gender contains so much bias and its changing awareness in influencing modern societies is slow in manifesting, in recognizing our biases in others and how that is reflecting our own. How the sexes treat each other comes out of internal directives of hormones and behaviors, values, learning and socialization.

How do men treat women and how do women treat men? How do both men and women say one thing in social intercourse and mean another? How do we behave towards each other?

Men and women balance each other. One is not better than the other. We embody the same qualities in our different forms. Men will protect women and children. Women will protect their men and children also. As will children trying to protect their parents and families. What ever we love or have a sense of connection to we will do our best to keep safe.

Bringing the qualities of Chivalry into this moment: Courage, Honor, Courtesy, Justice and extending a helping hand to one another is not that difficult. Not when Love and Kindness and Compassion and the willingness to stand in front, on the front lines of human interactions and life around us is present. 

When BEing in our truth comes from within where there is no self-agenda or fear, there is only the triumph of Spirit. Not the pettiness or righteousness of Self disguised as Spirit but the Grace of BEing.

Janet Barrett

Podcast host of Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet

www.janetandbeyond.com

janetandbeyondpodcast@outlook.com 

JIE Episode 25 Blog/Being Willing to See in the Mirror

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          Releasing Tuesday Dec. 17, 2019 
Episode 25 Blog Being Willing to See in the Mirror

All of us have worth. Some may be in disguise.

When we are in judgment of others we are operating from within a separated sense of Self. Let go of our judgments and be it homeless, presidential, your boss or company, your neighbor or family member we all have worth in some way. The trick is in being free of our judgments and biases to know in what way. Could be as support, learning, trauma, all are serving each of us in being. It may be in helping us to be compassionate, challenged, appreciative, or supportive.

We each contribute to the whole of Being. We are the collective we call Consciousness, the many individuals experiencing and expressing what we call Self. We share in genetic memories and create this reality by our thoughts. This is Morphic Resonance. 

Nothing is outside of Consciousness. Unless, you think it is. In this physical realm of contrast a sense of separation in Self is easy to manifest as it is the contrast of Being. This illusion has permeated our Western culture. We have become doers. We put value not on how we contribute to society but on how much we make our way in society. We are feeling compromised and conditioned in our expression of life and love.

We seem to be living in The Emperor’s Clothes and turning on our children for speaking the truth that we are too afraid to speak ourselves.

This quote came into my awareness this week while crafting this episode of Ubuntu and the Separated Self. So, I will pay attention and share it with you. The separated Self is in disconnection from its source, itself as Essence that has been waiting.

“Love After Love The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.”  Derek Walcott

Want to make a difference right now in the world? 

Make the time to sit for a few moments and notice your relation to someone in the homeless population. Doesn't have to be someone you know. It maybe the guy in the tent at the freeway overpass you go by every morning or someone sitting on the street. Sit with them as they are the elephant in the room. 

Just sit. 

Feel your connection to being present in Heart Centered Awareness. 

In sitting with them you give them voice and worth. Breathe and notice what is happening to the elephant. All of us have worth and may be in disguise. Just sit and let what is present engage you. How they look and behave is illusion. Let it drop. And you, drop yours. 

If you are judging, you are in your story of separated Self. Don’t judge. Be with them, be them and see what happens.

What are you reflecting to them as their mirror?

Janet Barrett

Podcast host 

Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet

www.janetandbeyond.com

janetandbeyondpodcast@outlook.com 

Consciiousness and the State of Your Heart

How is your heart doing these days?

The Field of the Heart is made up of three distinctions. We have our physical heart, our emotional heart and our core essence when we talk Heart. They work together in harmony, keeping balance, always.

When issues appear in one distinction it is reflecting in the other two.Since the heart is the first organ to develop in the embryo the circulation and communication it provides is everywhere. It is the physical manifestation of Being. So if you have a pain, whether it is physical, or emotional or at our essence level as our connection to Consciousness, you will be relaying the information to the whole body and mind field. The same goes for Joy. And any emotion.

On the electrical and magnetic level of awareness you are also accessing and affecting those around you and across the world if you tune in. Also the time and space is malleable so you are resonating in both past and future realities. There is a lot out there that is an extension of Essence affecting your current physical form.

I am, among other things, a clearing house energy. Perhaps you are too.  You may feel in some sensory data input those "others".

I heard, years ago when I was first time in a Matrix Energetics seminar, the Voice. You know the one I mean, the internal one who has been in there for years. It said, as I was being present, "What is it like to be a toxic waste dump? And down the rabbit hole I went. I knew I was in for a bumpy sliding ride.

I would later come to realize that being a toxic waste dump is a very dynamic place to be. It did not have to be the horrible thing death sentence I had been projecting it to be. Where does humanity release their toxic thoughts and emotional states? How do we get rid of the garbage? We certainly are happy to share with others.

Certainly Western societies can generate massive amounts of physical waste. Most of which they dump someplace and expect it to be all okay. Blindly. For it can take thousands of years before decomposition starts to take place. What about the energy of emotions and thinking? It can leave an energetic impression on the generations that follow, on their objects and the ground they walk.

Now, nobody likes to think that this is their relation with others on this planet. But facts are facts! This is the reality I have created. So how to make it work, how to enjoy life, how to find the value in life with such a gift has been my Journey of Enlightenment. It was not a surrender. It was a coming into alignment with my unique gifts and a win/win.

You upgrade the machinery you provide service with and give back what others need in order to become who they can become. I don't judge the shit. I don't judge the creator of such. You are a Bridge of Transcendence. It is a capability we all have and most don't hold in awareness.

There are ebbs and flows in how one might experience being alive and what meaning one's life has. Along the way you will feel and fall into patterns of thinking and behaviors. Some you will enjoy and some you will resist, some you will deny. Those that you resist and deny will stay with you until you quit resisting the information as you think you know it to be and let it reveal itself as your hidden truth and treasured awareness. .

We have been in a collective uproar for a long time in our humanity. We are all learning how to be Spirit in a human form with Love and Grace and a sense of Oneness for as long as there has been an awareness that it is helpful to think and live this way. It has come and gone many times in civilization and still it is there.

How is your heart doing? Take a moment or two and notice. Access Heart Centered Awareness and just listen and feel what is present. Breathe through your heart. Notice your garbage. What do you do with it? Do you judge it? Recycle what you can, go through it looking for missed treasures or let the bacteria and microscopic life forms that are designed to break it down be present? Let nature do it's thing with supplying the means to deal with what you have created. Leave the world a better place, cleaner than you found it. Sweep up your emotional excesses and free the energy into potential again.

Let yourself breathe and feel your heart beat.

Janet Barrett
Life in the Beyond/Journeys Into Enlightenment
www.janetandbeyond.com
janetb@janetandbeyond.com 

JIE Episode 22 Blog/ I N T I M A C Y

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Episode 22 Blog  I N T I M A C Y

What constitutes intimacy? Picture a baby snuggling to its mother’s breast. Picture father holding the baby, inhaling the baby’s scent. We are designed to be intimate. 

We use the word intimate in a sexual context or to describe a moment between two that share a sense of closeness or maybe space in a restaurant. I am sure other situations come to mind. Intimacy is possible anywhere and everywhere one person meets another energy be it human or some other form.   

We have all probably experienced how you can be physically intimate with another but not mentally, emotionally, psychically or spiritually intimate at the same time.  You can feel disconnections clearly that can create separateness.  And it can be uncomfortable when one is inclined to being intimate and the other is not. 

What is it like for someone to know us, our secrets, our dreams, to “get” who we truly are on a personal level? For them to love us warts and all, to put us first?  Sounds nice. How often we offer it and experience it is another thing.

What is it like to be open with another, accepting? The opportunity is there. Especially in heart centered awareness, the field of Unified Consciousness. It happens all the time in the various consciousness technologies groups I have offered the last fifteen years.  

In a state of Oneness there is no difference between each other at heart. We are all sharing the core of Consciousness. It can feel like love and it may be. It is witnessing each other in their truth and bringing out their best with warmth, support and non-judgment. And each person’s truth is simple. Each of us is Wonder in action

Many may shy away, or reject, or joke their discomfort with being seen in their truth, beyond their veils of social barriers and behaviors. Even when it is what is wanted.

What happens when it comes to the inner male/female directives or Divine dynamics?

If it is two dynamics locked up together and having different agendas life is not so much fun. Taking out the adversarial energy of our relating to one another goes a very long way to creating intimacy and what manifests out into our shared realities. The tension is thick out here around us and it is coming from within us. Adversarial energy makes for great theatre and sagas. It is also all illusion and presentation, performance art.  

Essence forms here to explore what happens when one is in form, the body. This is the physical realm of contrast and that contrast can manifest in the male/female directives. Part of our Journey of Enlightenment may be the development of the state of unity that the body can represent and foster.  

We can hold the viewpoint that our male and female are prisoners sharing a cell or. OR, we can shift in our perspective and realize that each is essential to the other and celebrate what is possible in being present with each other. I didn’t say work together. I didn’t say play together. It is about just recognizing the other as the matching expression. We lose our sense of separateness. Then our inner energies merge as a dance of movement sharing Life’s moments.

There is no work. It is not about labor. It is about natural dynamics free of human definitions. Take out all the competition and thinking in terms of differences between the two and you have intimacy.

Realizing that we are intimate with Mother Earth and her inhabitants of flora and fauna every time we go out our front door might be a new thought. It is a given we may take for granted. Hugging a tree, throwing a frisbee with your dog, petting your cat, digging for fossils are all examples of being intimate with our world. We are intimate with the air that we breathe.

We each have our stories of being alive, being human, being spirit. When we embrace the individual over the Collective, we are embracing the individual out of the Collective. There is always the Collective. There is always Consciousness, the sharing of the One. One heart. Not one mind but one heart.

This is intimacy.

Janet Barrett

Podcast Host

Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet 

www.janetandbeyond.com

janetandbeyondpodcast@outlook.com

JIE Ep 16 Blog/ Hello, My Other Self

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Ep 16 Hello, My Other Self

"Hello, My Other Self" is the traditional greeting between the Unangen Peoples. Stop in this moment and notice what happens when you speak it. Oneness is present. There is no state of separation. 

You are a child. Your world is a 360-degree view of perspective. You are on a 12 mile by 5 mile island in the Bering Sea with only 450 other humans with you. You are a child of Spirit and brought up with the awareness of your culture’s journeys from Egypt 10,000 years earlier.  Millions of seal, whale, marine life surround your island. You step out and eat fresh. There is no storage of food. There is no tree line, and probably not a lot of vegetables either.

We are living inside out. Instead of Heart connecting us to everything as one, mind now directs the heart into doing. We have become doers instead of beings. We are taught and told to stuff our concerns and wounds.

Find your courage within. Trust in Life, the Universe, Trust. Embody Trust. Don’t think it. Embody it. When you come from a sense of spirituality, of Consciousness in human form, this is much easier to do. Is there a need to be afraid of what you feel, what you think, what you don’t want to notice? This is separation as Self.

No matter your references you can always just ask “Is this life affirming, is this life sustaining?” Listen and be guided by what your heart shares with you. So often we know the right thing to do or say or what is really going on and we don’t want to lose our illusions. We settle for less self- worth and respect when we might be gaining in income or title.This is separation.

Listen. Ask your heart what to do in response.  We must take responsibility for our actions.  Healing ourselves starts with acknowledging that we are bleeding. Helping ourselves requires us ask for help of ourselves from our Essence and from others.

Isolation is not anyone’s friend. I know of no one who enjoys isolation or separateness that is forced on them or as a reaction. It is a demeaning state. It creates a solitary confinement for anyone, and we use it for those in prison who threaten others’ safety.

What have we created in this time and space of history and daily life? Systems are not working. Evolution is being held back in many ways for different reasons. Often it is fear in change as a loss of position. In order to not break down in anarchy we are having to come to terms with ourselves in ways we have not before so our systems can reflect society better.

We are energy beings. What we put out in the world is our energy.

Self-talk is vital to pay attention to, your internal running commentary. Don’t judge it negative even if you interpret it that way. Allow it to reveal to yourself your directions of thoughts what-ever they might be. Make choices. Change your thinking when it is not life affirming, life sustaining. Saying one thing and feeling another is separateness.

My friend Ilarion mentions that we can learn much about ourselves and those around us by observing and feeling. If you look at others in judgment pro or con, you are doing it from the outside. This is separateness.

Emotions are key in how they are acknowledged and used. They are what gives us as human life impetus of expression. Of all kinds whether you like them or not. We are ruled by them. Logic is often a reactive state, defending one against a potential hurt.  Appreciating and demonstrating our emotions in healthy ways will go a long way in a life. As they are present in every moment of a life. They are what people remember when you have left the room, the feeling of you. Emotions empower our stories and foster separation or dissolve it.

Watch a two-year-old child Ilarion suggested. They are masters of energy. They don’t store it. They express it. They don’t swallow their energies and feelings. Put two together and they can play, fight, cry and make up in the blink of our eyes. They work it all out without our interference. Interfering out of our own needs and emotions is stifling. 

Great parenting is being able to let our children explore their world as love in action and in balance with safety. Don’t stifle their emotions. Don’t dictate behavior and position. Or they will grow up just like you are. Is that what you want for your children? To be like you or to be the best they can be?

According to the Wisdom Weavers, we are the generation to decide the fate of humankind. We are that powerful. They are that concerned with what we have empowered, the state of separation that has become dominant in our dealing with life, in our unknowing.

Hello, My Other Self. It is very nice to meet you.

Janet Barrett

Podcast Guide
Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet

www.janetandbeyond.com 

janetandbeyondpodcast@outlook.com 

JIE Ep 14 Blog/ Our Pledge to Engage in Love and Kindness

Ep 14 Consciousness and Pledging Love and Kindness with Sheryl Hirsch-Kramer

Our Pledge to Engage in Love and Kindness

When we pledge or commit to engage in Love and Kindness we are really talking about the power in informed choice and Wholeness in Being. We are not talking pie in the sky or Pollyanna kind of thinking. We are not talking about denial of the stuff that Life encompasses. We are talking about choosing to engage and acknowledge love and kindness as our choice in response to events that challenge us.

Humans have zoom lenses about life. Our day to day realities can be dictated by our emotions and sensations of our experiences which are close and personal perspectives to the body and mind. When we go inward and access ourselves as Consciousness, we gain much needed context and perspective.

We feel experience, we absorb it and make decisions based on how we feel about our experience of feeling. It will direct our next experience. When we view the world from our bigger perspective, we can go from reacting and triggered behavior to responding to what is happening. It brings us present into the moment and not our past story of biases in our experiences.

We want to engage informed choice. People report how time seemed to slow down and senses heightened, and clarity was present in an event where one had a moment of choice.

Every experience includes choices. We can do what one always does or do something different. Too often we expect different outcomes when we push the same buttons in the same order as before. Challenges and emotions arise when we feel there is limited choice, no choice or too many choices, whether it be which apple or in life and death situations.

In the millisecond of time that is often all that is present we choose how we react or respond. It does not mean denying what we are experiencing. It means acknowledging and choosing how to respond to the horror we are facing. It is how we take the negative and irreconcilable dynamics and acknowledge them in the same space.

Sometimes we want to vindicate our sense of loss and this takes us in a certain direction in the spectrum of Being. When you feel less than it doesn’t enrich ones’ sense of being. It is not designed to. It is the contrast and we can get stuck in it.

When I choose to be kind and appreciate myself and another, I feel enhanced, enriched, relaxed, loved, all kinds of things come to mind. I like to feel this. It helps me to be able to deal with the times and experiences that don’t feel this way.

(Technical} TSGT Donald Malarkey was 22 when he became part of Easy Company described by Stephen Ambrose in his book” Band of Brothers” during WW2. Awarded numerous medals during those days he was to later state:

 “There is not a day that has passed since that I do not thank Adolf Hitler for allowing me to be associated with the most talented and inspiring group of men that I have ever known.” This is a remarkable statement.

TSGT Malarky was able to transcend his personal experience of horror into what it could be, a salute to those he served with and thought of every day the rest of his life. He lived to age 96.

Humanity demonstrates ugliness, cruelty and suffering easily. Humans demonstrate endurance and resiliency and tolerance in response, transcending all into Love and Kindness.  

Janet Barrett

Podcast host Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet

janetandbeyondpodcast@outlook.com

www.janetandbeyond.com 

Consciousness and a Man of Transcendence

Donald Malarkey's story caught my attention during the 75th anniversary of D Day a few days ago. The Oregonian newspaper here in Portland, Oregon did a nice piece of a few of the stories and remembrances of survivors. I took the time to read about these people before us, in a different America and their comrade in arms. I wanted to honor them for what they gave up for us then and now. 

What struck me different about TSGT Malarkey's story of service is what he was to later say about his time in the war. He, in essence, expresses the Wholeness in Being that we can demonstrate. How we transcend beyond the suffering and the pain and cruelty that humans can inflect on others and show our capacity of human endurance and resiliency. There are always sides in any conflict.There are no sides in Oneness. 

TSGT Donald Malarkey was just a regular Joe, from small town America, like so many others. He was awarded several medals during World War II. They include and are not limited to a Bronze star for heroic actions, Purple Heart, Presidential Unit Citation, Good Conduct Medal, Parachutist Badge with 2 jump stars, and the French Legion of Honor Medal for military merit.

His story of service was as a member of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne. Malarkey, age 21, was one of the legendary Band of Brothers who jumped behind enemy lines to destroy German artillery on D-Day, 1944.  His unit took part in the assault on Brécourt Manor. He was awarded a Bronze Star for his bravery that day. But it was a long slog for Easy Company. Marlarkey was a sergeant by the time they took part in the ill-fated Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands. They also fought in France, Belgium, and the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944, the last major German offensive.

Malarkey was haunted by memories of combat and the devastation of losing fellow soldiers and friends, his family members said. Author Stephen Ambrose’s “Band of Brothers” and the subsequent HBO series were cathartic for him, his family told AP.

“There is not a day that has passed since that I do not thank Adolf Hitler for allowing me to be associated with the most talented and inspiring group of men that I have ever known,” Marlarkey once said.

I was in tears. For him, being a shining example showing the rest of us what Grace is and the potential in Being. I am sorry I did not know him. He sold insurance after the war. He lived to age 96 and there probably was never a day he did not remember the men and their shared experiences.

I know of others like him who have graced us with where the wounded human, going beyond his emotions, reaches into its essence at core never forgetting his connection of something bigger. I see it demonstrated around me all the time in the people I share this work with, my life with. They are my neighbors and countrymen and others from other countries. Many are in our past and some not yet in form. Some I know, some I like, some have titles of distinction, some do not. Most are strangers to me. Some come as the other side. 

Giving in to pettiness and separateness, fear and loathing is easy. 

Challenging ourselves to go within and find Oneness is also easy when you appreciate Wholeness in this physical realm of contrast. Just a shift of focus. Just make the choice.

We each can be transcendent.   


Janet Barrett
Life in the Beyond/Journeys Into Enlightenment 
janetb@janetandbeyond.com 
www.janetandbeyond.com 

Ep 11 Consciousness and Death is Only an Illusion of Final

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Episode 11 Blog

Death is only an Illusion of Final

Wholeness is appreciating that Death will happen at some time to us physically and that is as it should be. We set the length and conditions of life by our biases and our physical choices. It means that we understand that Death is essential and a vital element to living in the flow of what we experience in totality of Being. We can live in relation to Death as denial, resistance, out of sight out of mind. But not really. That is illusion.

Death will register in many ways. Can be a physical death or it might be of an idea, an ideal, a belief. It is always going to be the end of some illusion. About what we thought was important. About what we felt was valuable.  It can abrupt and not planned for or we can be given notice of it coming up sooner than later. And someone or some thing might be dead a long time before we find out about it. It can leave us settled or unsettled. This is illusion.

Life is like a Mobius strip. The point where the strip or pattern turns on itself is going to be either life in form or life out of form. That point we will call birth or death is a moment of transcendence. The looping in either direction is that time and space of transition one finds in form and out of form. For life in either reality is motion, flow, sense, state.  

Many have complaints about being in form, about being stuck in a body, being alive. This is illusion.

And, in the same space, there may be a fear of death. This might be a contradiction. This is illusion.

We can have many stories about death. Which are illusions of how we think we would want it to be and not as it is. We might like to think someone who has been a miserable person to deal with, will. all of a sudden see the light of their behavior and repent and pardon and apologize. That is a nice story that can be true or not. We might think in terms of suffering and salvation elusively beyond reach in life and that is a nice story too.

How is death more about us and confronting our own fears and sense of self than it is about the person who is passing from us? Do you catch the hook there? They are not abandoning us. They are on their journey which you shared time with on your journey. You may have enjoyed that time or not and maybe only after this part is over does it come into clear view of what was and not what you thought it was. This is illusion.

So, l sit. I sit and feel my breath and my opening into Heart Centered Awareness. I don’t hard focus on the breath so much as I let my sensory being be present. Mind is all about construct and story. So, I let my awareness of being more than just human drive and mind to share with me what is present about Death as an energy and movement.

How I am relating to it?  From a gut feeling, a sensation of some sort, a thought or stories flashing through? All are valid. I can feel what holds my attention and just let it. I don’t try to make or fix or think or go to that all powerful ‘do something’ space. There is nothing to do anything with. This is illusion.

I just let myself be present with it. No need to let go. Just let. Let it be. In the letting is the lessening of resistance that I might be holding in so many ways, in so many patterns and layers of story or visions, in my story of illusions.

I breathe. I let myself feel emotions or aches or pains as only trapped energy looking to move through that is not yet doing so.

We are each in our story and we are always in our story as we are generating our story. If we are clued into our beings as much more than what we think we are, we can then be more present to others in their stories and how they might be running tandem and parallel and crossing over only now and then. They are not in the same mind sync as you. Which is as it should be. But you can have plenty of crossover when you stop your story from running and you can hear them in theirs.

That can be one gift that Death provides. It stops us in our story often. It clears the decks of belief and false truths and projections and emotions that may have been holding us in their grip for years.

Sit with someone dying and just be present. Just be and notice.  

Sit with someone who has already passed over.  And just be present. And just notice.

And then, just sit with yourself and just be present. Just be, realizing that this is illusion. 

Janet Barrett

Podcast Host Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet

janetandbeyondpodcast@outlook.com

www.janetandbeyond.com