Every life is like a wheel, encompassing spokes that go in all directions in relation to the center hub. Too often you can feel uncomfortable as your wheel turns, aware of only a few spokes and perhaps missing some so our wheel is not stable and strong. Joining Janet is Lynn V, Andrews, bestselling author of the 21 books of the Medicine Woman series. We are the hub, the center of our wheel, our universe. She will be sharing about the ageless tools we can use to feel honestly and bring our wheels into balance, harmony, and wholeness.
Janet Barrett blogs about using consciousness technologies to play with our realities and enjoy our many journeys into enlightenment. Also find news of events, workshops and classes.
Monday, October 5, 2020
Sunday, October 4, 2020
JIE Episode 46/The Power in a Deck of Cards
Podcast releasing Tuesday Oct 6, 2020
Ep 46 Blog The Power in a Deck of Cards
There are many ways to engage wisdom in the world. One way can be as simple as a deck of cards. I am not talking about those you will find at the blackjack table and such. That is about a different kind of wisdom.
I am talking about the kind that serve as empowered objects
to assist us on our journeys of enlightenment.
What decks you may be drawn to is because something in you
resonates to it, just like the other things in your life. What appeals will be
unique to you and that is good. The deck may call up old memories, in this time
or another or it can serve to awaken and develop new sensory ranges in you.
There are more different decks of cards to play with and
enjoy than ever before. Remember it is always about enjoyment. Encode awareness
with enjoyment and those things that we each deal with over the course of our
lives get easier.
I tend to enjoy decks that reflect different bodies of
knowledge and thoughts. What they have in common is they all reflect a
lightness of being about them for me. Could be Angel cards, Messages from the
Universe, Creative Actions, Thought of the Day, different Abraham decks, BEing
Present, What to be grateful for, The Power Deck and the Sacred Inner Oracle
cards. All kinds of decks. I even have a children’s deck of Disney heroines
that represent for me, different shades of feminine models. I think I have 16
decks out on my console to be enjoyed. I use them together, separately, in
conjunction depending on the occasion. Sometimes I draw one card, sometimes
combinations, just depends. I use different spreads at times. When working with
another I might tend to draw from a certain deck, what ever is showing up in
that moment.
For me they are all powerful as I hold them to be powerful
tools of awareness. I have made up cards out of books of knowledge at times for
they represent different ways of embracing energy functions and dynamics. I see
them as extensions of wisdom in easy clear patterns of information sometimes
just out of reach that can gain and guide my attention. I can spend a fleeting
moment on my way out the door or I can sit with them and play in awareness.
They can be a focus of meditation and my day’s orientation. They serve me at my
whim and discretion, just waiting.
I have empowered them to serve me. I respect them. I like
the feel of them in my hands. They connect and open me up to avenues of modalities
and teachings beyond my personal knowledge and experience. They represent the
expanded interactions of human senses, out beyond. They connect with our core awareness,
our intuitive range and capacity. They can bring into focus what is present,
what was past, what to be aware of, what the future is open to and where I am
right in this moment. They help bring into the immediate what is not always
right in one’s face in that moment.
If I am drawing cards for another not present, I sit and
let them be present in my minds eye. If I hand you the cards, we are in a state
of respect for will come to pass. I am not flippant with them though the
recipient might initially hold that viewpoint. I always respect what comes up
as I know it is truth in that moment even if it is out of the individual’s
awareness and liking.
I allow my wisdom to speak in my approach and I honor that.
Not my attachment, my wisdom. Cards are fun for me and embody truths in our
actions and thoughts and illusions, mostly of our illusions. For if one is not liking what is showing up, we
are in our illusions that are blinding us.
They bring one back to center.
Janet Barrett
Podcast host Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet
janetandbeyondpodcast@outlook.com
Monday, September 28, 2020
What is Different Today From Yesterday?
My birthday was last Friday. I am now 66 years old. What a difference a day can make. Because having reached this point in my life is a reward to be treasured. My journey with Consciousness Technologies started when I was 50 and dying. These years of rethinking have made all the difference. When I was 65 I was impressed to have enjoyed the reality of 65 and now, a couple days later I am in a new reality, if I let myself move into it.
Because 65 had plenty of challenges in its reality, it is easy to stay attached to it, even if I don't want to. Any stirred up emotion is powerful and can hold us in its thrall. This last year has opened up new normals in awareness that can benefit all of us.
I want my now to be different but unless I allow myself to reorient, my now will be just a continuance of what was, leading to a predictable uncertain future. Sometimes it might be hard to tell when something is degrading, as in aging and not dissolving as into something wonderful as ageless.
At this age I know this better than I did when I was younger: Shifting skill sets and priorities and interests do not have to be encoded as losses collecting and getting older and worn out. Our bodyforms have a wonderful ability to use different systems to help when one system might become stressed more than another.
It can be about wisdom being recognized, present and utilized.
Our stories of being in a form are powerful. The realities we can sometimes be in relation to, like disease and mayhem and tragedy can run us ragged. So we stop. Choose to stop. Realize what we have aligned ourselves with and what it would be like for them to ease within our hearts. It is okay to fulfill destinies in our stories of bodyform. It is okay to have no answers or justice or fairness as much as it is okay to have answers and justice and fairness. All have roles to play.
Sometimes we think love hurts. Sometimes those we love do not know what love is or how to love back. What we are holding as love is wound not love. For love does not ever hurt. It may only be for a moment or it may be for a lifetime or many lifetimes as it beyond space and time. It is.
Sounds simple to state. To do? Maybe not so simple. For Life can offer complexity, which is built upon a whole lot of simple. So do not do. Just BE. Accept you are worthy without doing.
Thanks to all of you who have helped me in these last 5 weeks with my health concerns. It was love tenfold plus to be embodied. In all the clamor that our daily lives have been subjected to, you made time to lend not a helping hand but a helping heart. I appreciate it very much and know I am better for it in all the variables my life encompasses.
Let me share this moment with you as a thank you. Access your sense of the Infinite with me.
Notice your breathing. Just breathe. Do not make it anything special because every breath is already special. Breathe and now notice your heartbeat. Be aware that you have added it to your breathing now. Allow them to sync up. Feel your awareness of your core essence sheltered in your breath partner with your body's form in your heart's beat. You are alive. You are BEing alive.
Now let. Let what was yesterday be yesterday. Let all that rises up in you and says that you need to hold on to yesterday just BE. Do not judge, do not react. Just be. Love it like the child's attachment to the moment. Something happens. They may cry to release the energy. And then, they stop and are on to the next thing forgetting what was so important just a moment ago. Know that what was, was. Know that what is, is. Know that what will be is free to BE, whatever that may BE.
Just BE Love no matter what you feel.
Just BE Kind to those different looking.
Just BE Open to possibilities.
Just BE Curious about your world and what you find there.
Just BE Respectful as the given. .
Just BE Appreciative for having reached this moment and what this moment holds for you.
Just BE Emotionally warm to those who challenge you.
Just BE Aware that challenges exercise us, form us, bring us into awareness of what our biases are.
Just BE No matter what you are told, what you hear, what you judge to be your truth.
This is my reality of 66. May seem like my reality of 65 but since I experience evolution as active transcendent reality something is different.
Janet Barrett
Life in the Beyond/Journeys Into Enlightenment
www.janetandbeyond.com
janetb@janetandbeyond.com
Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Our Sacred Inner Oracle with Lynn V. Andrews
Being present, we may access our inner oracle. An oracle can be anything that awakens a vision or a voice of wisdom that helps us find our way to our own truth and harmony in life. Joining Janet is Lynn V. Andrews, internationally bestselling author of the 21 books in the Medicine Woman Series. A shaman, healer and mystic, she shares her wisdom and her new Sacred Vision Oracle Cards that can guide us to inner peace.
Monday, September 21, 2020
Breathing in Appreciation
It was like living in a movie and not a happy movie. Sort of like one of those black and white nuclear fallout movies of the 1960's that I grew up watching when young. Even more surreal for this was sepia, brown and white colored fallout.
I live in Portland Oregon across the river ten minutes from downtown. We have been hit with forest fires up and down this beautiful state of Oregon, ditto Washington and California the last few weeks.
On Monday early last week or maybe it was the week before, time expands, we sat outside and enjoyed the warm fall breeze, clear skies and the air crispness and sunlight we experience here in the Northwest. It was delicious. Starting a couple of days earlier, the news started warning of conditions of fire that the warm winds could help foster. How could that be? And then I looked to the south and witnessed a brown sky. And looked to the north and saw blue skies and clouds. Reality was shifting and quickly.
That wonderful warm breeze with the dryness of air created havoc for the next several days in the forests. Between man creating arson and nature and her elements at work that was the last clear day as land became inflamed. It would lead to the worst air quality in a city in the entire world for nearly a week. It was quiet. No people, no birds chattering. No wildlife to be noticed. And, we would be wearing masks on top of masks when outside. Those Covid protection masks had to have another mask on top to clear out the particles burning and filling the skies.
It was layers of surreal. Sealing the house from outside air. Setting the air conditioning to recycle air. No going outside unless essential, leaving the television on all day for the ongoing news updates and reports and listening for the stage of your evacuation alert for your neighborhood. And knowing that the amazing countryside that we all enjoy and gives us reason for living here was being leveled along with homes, livelihoods, families and livestock compromised. The logistics of moving livestock and their haybales etc. to shelter in a city.
You don't know how much you have until you lose it. Until you have to move it, until you have to choose and be out in 10 minutes of someplace you may have lived a lifetime. Doesn't matter if it is a forest fire or the the house next door with an electrical fire.
The population had sore throats, compromised breathing and headaches. Not to be confused with Covid symptoms.
And to drive anywhere? We could see two blocks and less in distance here in the city. Surrounded by fires in outlying counties every direction it seemed. Brown fog that was not fog made of water droplets. but fog made of soot etc. Every morning we would look out and the brown fog was still there. The sun would come out as there was light but there was no breeze that is usually present. Waiting for the rain and breeze to move things. But the brown fog settled down and in and covered our states to at least 10,000 feet up and 1000 miles out into the ocean. A solid blanket that kept planes from dropping retardant and water from taking off.
And, we waited. Drove past the man at the bench outside the sports bar that had finally opened. He was vaping, the people sitting there smoking as they ate in the worst of that brown. A different sense of air quality than mine.
We waited for the first signs that the air currents and rain to do what they do and move and break down it all and push eastward into neighboring states and spread across the Midwest. That was the following Monday and it didn't happen. It would be a couple more days. And then it rained and the air cleared.
Daily television reports stopped, daily newspaper postings of 37 fires burning disappeared. Fires shrank, people went to find the remains of their lives and deal with the shock. Lives not only interrupted but forever different. There is no going back to what was even if one's property was safe.
Surreal as people started showing up places and traffic started up again. I sit outside in my yard again. It is so lovely outside. No longer sepia tones but bright greens of new growth from the drenching rain. Colors here, landslides there. People everywhere.
We lend support where we can. I breathe in appreciation. I share my breath with you and yours. Thanks to all of you who called to ask how we were doing.
Janet Barrett
Life in the Beyond/Journeys Into Enlightenment
Monday, September 14, 2020
We're Back
Hello All,
Zoom Groups are back starting this week. I hope you will join me and others in exploring the wonder that Life can be. Just because it is wild and wooley out there doesn't mean there is not bliss available to experience.
Please RSVP to join Tuesday evening 7-9 pm, Wednesday 10 am or Thursday evening 6 pm. All times are Pacific. If you are new please email me at janetb@janetandbeyond.com for the registration packet. All groups are sliding scale donation per weekly group. Please have registration packet returned by Tuesday 3pm pacific so i have time to send the Zoom invite just before the scheduled group meet time.
All the best to you and yours,
janet
Janet Barrett
Life in the Beyond/Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet
www.janetandbeyond.com
janetb@janetandbeyond.com
Tuesday, September 8, 2020
Afterlife: Everything You Always Wanted to Know Part 2 with Hollister Rand
How many of us have experiences with those who have passed from this physical realm? World renown medium Hollister Rand will provide new insights into the awareness of what comes after death in the continuum that Life is. Her new book is Everything You Wanted to Know about the Afterlife*But Were Afraid to Ask. Hollister has been in communion and communication with the spirit realm as a medium for over 25 years. Find peace and solace in the knowledge that our loved ones never truly leave us.
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