Responsibility: complicity to truth

The ideals that our country has professed since the ratification of the Constitution have never really been owned up to and met. Any Hispanic, Asian, black, or American Indian will attest to this. Most women could attest. Yet the myth persists that we’re the good guys.

Our government has invaded, undermined, destroyed, strong-armed, blackmailed, and manipulated many, many individuals and countries purely to forward our own interests, most often to the detriment of the individual or other country. Our lawmakers are too often bent by big money corporate and political lobbies that represent narrow interests, often – consciously and indifferently – to the detriment of the whole of society. The aid our representatives send to assist is too often hijacked by the people who need it least, and used to increase their power and bank over those who are weak or starving. 

Our judicial system has never been fair and impartial. As blatant as its corruption has become through the ultra-conservatives having stacked the courts, it has always bent the spirit of the law against the marginal, underprivileged, and under served.

Power corrupts, and we become immune to our own complicity in the corruption. We continue to agree to the way things are, never actually having to admit to picking up the stone that was thrown at the Nicaraguan farmer, the Eritrean mother, the orphaned child in Indonesia. But make no mistake, the stones that were and continue to be thrown are as much our responsibility as they are the responsibility of our leaders. We keep agreeing to the way things are. We were not rioting in the streets to stop lobbyists buying our congresspeople, and we were not losing our minds over injustices done daily in the courts. We were not standing in front of tanks or jets in the Middle East or blocking construction of oil facilities in the Congo or building shelter for our own homeless and mentally ill. Well, it’s just how the world works. I’m busy with my own life – I can’t monitor all those politicians. 

Most of us are not directly complicit, and so we abdicate responsibility. But I believe that abdicating that responsibility will keep us from creating something better. I don’t advocate beating ourselves up over this passive agreement to what is or was. I do entertain the possibility of seeing it clearly and with brutal honesty, forgiving ourselves and each other, then from that point being able to create something that actually lives up to the ideals that we as a country have professed to be possible.

Now everything that has been present in the background is presented in exaggerated form, exposed for anyone with the presence and mind to admit it. Lies, racism, misogyny, manipulation, kidnapping, bullying, et cetera, et cetera. These have always been present. Now they are exaggerated and growing, to everyone’s shame. And we are quick to point a finger at the ultra-conservatives who are dismantling what we know and are accustomed to. We fear the chaos, and are confused watching the fast-moving destruction of the over-arching organizations that we assumed to be stable.

There are other, more peaceful and sane ways that we could have met the consequences of our own blindnesses, mistakes, and overlooked choices, but this is the one we’ve ended up within. We can point fingers and hate the more obvious architects of chaos, but I think we also have an opportunity here to face our own complicity in and agreement to a governmental history that has trampled on many, many lives. 

I do think every stand to stop the current chaos is valid action. Protest in the streets, call congresspeople daily, donate to organizations taking legal action. Sheild vulnerable immigrants, join forces with others who know how to help. People are being hurt, kidnapped, lied to, and people will die due to the choices being made by people who base their power in lies, deception, exclusion, racism, misogyny, and greed. Stand up – speak and act strongly and in whatever way you know to be yours. I will only encourage two additions to meeting these people. Firstly, before, during, or after that protest, phone call, or donation made to counter injustice, fear, greed, or illegality, close your eyes for a moment and shower those people with love. Imagine you can see the tiny light of divinity within these broken people and brighten that light. And secondly, take a moment to ask forgiveness from our human and earth families for any and all detrimental consequences that have resulted from our own passive agreement and acceptance of the way things were and may be again. 

We are all in this together. Everyone is connected. “What you damn, damns you back,” as Paul Selig’s guides say over and over. A problem can’t be solved from within the problem – when you damn, you place yourself within the problem, perpetuating it. When you damn yourself, you do the same. Healing anyone who is cut off from their essence is an act that will heal everyone. See their light. See your own light.

See your own responsibility – your “ability to respond.” Own the past with brutal honesty so we don’t – individually and collectively, consciously or unconsciously – build that same thing again in what may be the ashes of what we have known. Of course do what is yours to stop injustice, hate, greed, fear, and chaos – please do. And while we’re at it, let’s own what has been our passive agreement to its presence so that we will not claim it again in the future.

We are one. Realize the divine in all that exists. 

Ability to Respond: Responsibility

Any fool can wreck things. It takes insight, care, patience, and wise attention to create things. It’s much harder to do, which may be why foolish people end up avoiding it. Creation is always interesting, so much richer than the brief thrill of destruction. 

In times of destruction, note the spaces between, the overlooked blank areas that are left after the wrecking ball passes. These spaces are opportunities. These are the spaces to use in beginning to build something new, something even better than what was destroyed.

If the institutions that we used to count on to support others on our behalf disappear, we’ll just have to do the work individually, as we’re able. If the leaders we counted on to guide the manifestation of our ideals and hopes are broken people who foment separation in all its forms, we’ll have to look amongst ourselves for the leaders. We’ll just have to take on the responsibility for manifesting actions that express our ideals and fulfill our hopes for humanity as One.

Strategy & Strength

Attributed to Hopi Tribal leader White Eagle (confirm if you know):


“This moment that mankind is experiencing now can be seen as either a door or a hole. The decision to fall into the hole or go through the door is yours. If you absorb information 24 hours a day, with negative energy, constantly nervous, and pessimistic, you will fall into this hole.


But if you take the opportunity to look at yourself, use the time to rethink life and death, to care for yourself and others, you are walking through the portal.


Keep your home, keep your body safe. Connect with your spiritual home. When you take care of yourself, you take care of everyone else.
Don’t underestimate the spiritual dimension of this crisis. Take the perspective of an eagle that sees everything from above with a broader perspective. There is a social issue in this crisis but also a spiritual issue. They both go hand in hand.


Without the social dimension we fall into bigotry. Without the spiritual dimension, we perish in pessimism and meaninglessness.
you ready to pass this crisis. Pack your toolbox and use all the tools at your disposal.


Learn the resistance from the example of the Indian and African people: We are and still are being threatened, extinct. But we never stopped singing, dancing, building bonfires and having joy.


Don’t feel guilty for feeling happy in these difficult times. It doesn’t help at all to be sad or angry. Resistance is resistance through joy!
You have every right to be strong and positive. And there’s no other way to do this than by adopting a beautiful, cheerful and empathetic attitude.


This has nothing to do with alienation (ignorance of the world). It’s a resistance strategy.


When we enter the door, we are given a new worldview because we have faced our fears and overcome adversity. That’s all you can do now:

  • Seek solace in the storm
  • Keep calm, pray daily
  • Make it a habit to meet the Holy everywhere, everyday.
    Show resistance through art, joy, trust and love.

Creation in Chaos

Resistance has intended effect when it applies pressure that acts rather than reacts.

Reactive resistance gives the thing being resisted something to push against, keeping it present. Notice what happens when you go under, around or through. 

Notice what happens when action is taken, rather than reaction being in charge.

As things fall apart, spaces are created for new things to be shaped. Find the spaces and use them.

The work doesn’t change: be truthful, be just, be kind. Be responsible to and for each other. Create for all beings. All my relatives: we are one.

19 January 2025

Close your eyes and imagine sending big love to people that you love.

Then close your eyes and imagine send big love to the people that you disagree with, despise, and fear.

 It is not necessary to be angry in order to stand up to what is wrong. It is not necessary to hate or vilify an individual in order to stand up to the words or actions of that person. It is not necessary to feel self righteous when confronting what is not true or right. 

Imagine that the ones you hate and fear need healing to remember who and what they really are. 

“Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” ~ Martin Luther King

None of this implies passivity. Stand. Speak. Act. But when action moves from an inner basis of Love rather than hate or anger (fear), that action has infinitely more power, because its power is the very basis of all existence. 

If you want to change the world, start by changing your inner world. If you want peace, be peaceful. If you want right action based in Love, base yourself in Love.

In essence, our work remains the same. Be Love in creative motion.

Moving Forward

A fair number of clients and Facebook followers are expressing grief, confusion, shock at the results of the election, as well as anxiety about other things going on in the world. If you are not one of them, I invite you to gracefully pass on this post. It is intended for those who are feeling the need for perspective, hope, and community.

Here’s what my people have given me:

“There’s a place beyond right and wrong where everyone is recognized as of One, and that’s the place of peace. As long as you hold your mind in duality, you will participate in it, perpetuating competition.

“What happens will happen, still each individual has agency. What will come is still shaped by action and response, even action and response to that which feels larger than each individual – and the power of action and response most cleanly arises from a base of Love. You are all responsible to that which you agree to, and the world as it is is the world you have agreed to. What will come will hold difficulty, but also holds the potential for new ways of being, new agreements that move humanity beyond what is known – beyond the basis of fear.”

I’d personally prefer this happen in a gentler way, and a saner way, but I guess we don’t get that option. We’re here now – and from my experience I know that we’ve each chosen to be here, to participate in great change.

And I believe the change will require us, in one way or another, to answer for our actions and beliefs – communally and individually – in real ways.

Every person who voted for the lawmakers down south who have made all sorts of abortion to miscarriage illegal, each of those individual voters (not to mention the doctors) are complicit in the deaths of the women who have died in the last months because of doctors who refused them care. This is our new stoning of women. Each person who voted threw a stone, but they can deny that to themselves because they don’t have to feel that stone in their hand or watch a woman die. We ask, how do they live with themselves? How will they forgive themselves?

Everyone who cast a vote for Trump’s aggression, hate, anger, and irrationality has picked up a stone. Many will suffer, and so we look at all those people who stand with stones in their hands and say, “how can they do this? I could never do it …”

And yet, where do I thrown stones that I’m not owning – maybe not even aware of. What am I not being responsible to, maybe beginning with peace and love. Because many times today I hated the people who think Trump is okay – hated them as sick and violent. I held my stone, feeding the hate, feeding the fear. That is not peace. That is not effective response — effective response can only come from a base of love. Anything less is fueling the divisive aggression, hate, anger, and irrationality – all forms of fear. Fear can only create more fear. Hate can only create hate. Hate doesn’t heal hate: only love does that.

Moving from love doesn’t negate action — moving from love empowers action. So the work becomes this: how do I move from my very soul, trust my very soul, and in so doing, recognize the soul even in those whose actions and words I refuse? Because from that place, any action I take to stop their actions and words will somehow feed love, rather than perpetuating the hate and fear.

We’re really in it now – this is what we came for, this time of change. What makes us think change is supposed to be tidy and well behaved?

We’ve all held the stones. We are all complicit. Everything we’re encountering has been here with us all along — all the hate, insecurity, meanness, danger, aggression, fear — none of it is new. It’s just wholly visible now. It has been brought into view. Good: what is hidden can’t be cleaned up. If a mess is going to be cleaned up, it has to be seen. Now we can see it clearly for what it is.

Think of it this way: we’ve been stuffing things in a closet for a few hundred years while we tell ourselves that we’re good, kind, clean Americans. Meanwhile, racism is rampant and misogyny is intrinsic and fellow citizens starve and children live in sewers and boxes and our government wars and assassinates and strong arms and threatens to extend and maintain power. We are all complicit in these truths. We have all agreed to that closet, passively or actively.

Well, what happens when it’s time to open the closet — the first thing that happens when cleaning out a closet is that you make a huge f’ing mess by pulling everything out of that closet. That’s the only way you’re going to be able to sort through it all – make it visible. In order to get rid of what is rotten or broken or useless, you have to get it out of the closet. Then you can get rid of the rotten and clean up what is useful and good, clean out the closet itself. Now you have things you can use in a closet that is clean.

I think we’re playing the long game now. Many things in life don’t get solved in four years or six or a decade. The whole shape of this reality is shifting and changing — I’m shown that humanity as a whole has agreed to end the exploration of separation (belief that we are separate from source, each other, the stones and trees and wind …) which is a belief that seats us in fear. As we remember who and what we really are — infinite, aspects of the One, souls — the potentials for experience in form must shift, the shape of this reality must shift, everything has to change to come back into alignment, coherence, our natural harmonic with each other.

I suspect this takes decades, maybe generations. I don’t know what it looks like on the ground beyond the present. But I suspect that the most useful question to ask ourselves from within this journey is not why why why, but rather, how do I best handle this? How do I embody love, even here and now? How do I find compassion for those who know not what they do, even now? How do I maintain truth? How do I embody the peace and essence of being, even here and now? That’s the work — to embody the highest self within, no matter what is encountered.

There’s an applicable story: Palden Gyatsu was imprisoned and tortured in China for 33 years. After he was released, he said, ‘It is not that I was without hatred. Especially when I was being tortured by my guards, I had immense hatred against them because I was being hurt. But, as a religious person, after the event I could reflect on what had happened, and I could see that those who inflicted torture did so out of their own ignorance.’ Compassion, a movement from the acknowledgment of each being’s humanity and in fact holy essence, is necessary and an expression of truth.

Be kind. Be peaceful. Be the presence of love, even now, even as you stand strongly for justice, truth, inclusion, and tolerance in whatever way and place you’re given. If you don’t know what that looks like, ask the soul – ask All That Is, God, Goddess, the One, Wakan Tanka, Allah, YWH, the Force, your own essence – ask and then be willing to wait for an answer.

I wonder what will happen, is a useful phrase that can help put some space between expectations and reality – often a highly charged space, as we become very attached to expectations. Ask for what you want, set goals, acknowledge expectations, then say, I wonder what will happen? Allow this opening for something even better than you have imagined.

None of this precludes grieving what is lost, and allowing fear to be felt … acknowledge these emotions, let them circulate then fall away, rise and fall. They can be very strong, but they don’t need to make the decisions — they shouldn’t be driving the car. Put them in the back seat after they’ve had their cry. 

How do I best handle this?

I wonder what will happen? 

May we each be the light we crave.

I’m holding everyone in peace — including myself — as we adjust to something that feels unimaginable.

*For those who would like to act and are not sure how, this group provides a weekly email with action items that are easy to accomplish, and good news to remind us that all is not madness: https://americansofconscience.com/checklist/

Enneagram with Janet: essay

REFLECTIONS ON THE ENNEAGRAM 

Janet Johnston

Enneagram:  A graph of nine.  

The enneagram:  A map of the human condition intended to help us wake up to our true nature.  

My introduction to the enneagram began fourteen years ago.  My husband and I were divorcing, my daughter had gone off to university and I had a serious illness that forced early retirement from a job that I loved.  This trifecta of losses left me stunned and wondering who I was. 

My therapist recommended that I read, The Wisdom of the Enneagram by Don Riso and Russ Hudson. She explained that the enneagram is based on nine personality types but is also a tool for personal growth.  

During my career as a psychiatric nurse, psychology interns honing their craft had given me every psychological assessment from the Myers-Briggs to the Rorschach. The results were dry and left me feeling pigeon-holed and directionless. So, I wasn’t interested in another personality assessment tool, and besides, the word enneagram was off-putting.  It sounded like a combination of enema and telegram. What I wanted was useful information about myself and how best to build reliable self-worth and wisdom. 

But I respected this therapist, so I bought the book and settled onto my sofa with a mug of coffee, and began reading. 

“We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light.”—Hafiz (1315-1390) Persian Poet

The first thing I noticed was a shift away from the clinical, pathology-based tone I was used to. The book melded modern psychological language with the age-old quest to understand our human nature and its relationship with Source.  I appreciated the grand historical context; the reminder that humans have been seeking a way to be reunited with their whole selves for millennia.  This is the heart of all wisdom traditions, and I promised myself that I would return to the history and spirituality of the enneagram at some point. But at that moment, I was lost and hurting and needed practical help.  

My therapist thought I might be a Type Four on the enneagram, so I read the chapter on Fours and found some affinity but no real fit.  Then I took the enneagram assessment and scored high on Point Nine.  

I read a description of what Nines are like when they’re at their best. The description rang uncannily true. I’d known glimmers of that but they always ran ahead to a shimmer in the distance.  

Then I read about Type Nine in the average to unhealthy ranges.  There I was, in depth—what I cared about, what I was trying to avoid and how I was maneuvering through life. My strategies laid bare, I suddenly felt seen which was both comforting and uncomfortably personal. I returned to the description of the very healthy Nine. And even though I only had glimpses of that state, it felt true to who I was.  My heart opened to longing for a sustained experience of this truer self.  And I wondered why I’d lost it to begin with.   

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Do you have a personality, or does it have you?—Russ Hudson, The Enneagram Institute

The enneagram teaches that all nine types have a particular twist on the granddaddy fear of them all—that we’re not inherently lovable. We humans have a way to go in the evolution of our consciousness, and life is painful at times.  Even children from the healthy families encounter traumas that affect them.  The greatest of which is the integration of the belief in separation from the ground of Being. Each generation is born into this experience of perceived separation which a child cannot help but integrate.  Like the Borg from Star Trek, resistance is futile.  One problem with this is the personality self can’t actually know itself as loved. 

The ego, an important part of being human, becomes our dominant experience but it can only create a kind of faux version of the true self. By the time we have acquired language, we already think that we are the personality self.  In the meantime, Source abides in our heart, waiting for longing to bring us home to the experience of Oneness and love that is our birthright.  The longing we feel calls us to remember our whole selves as expressions of the Divine. We go through life sensing that something is missing because, of course, it is. 

Each of the nine personality types, copes with the perceived loss of union in a particular way. The enneagram teaches how to recognize our particular pattern of self-forgetting as well as ways of becoming present to our true nature so that we can tell the difference and begin to reclaim awareness of the whole self that is our birthright.     

When I read about the pattern of point Nine, my mouth literally fell open.  I finally understood why I stayed in unhealthy relationships longer than necessary, why I discounted my own needs and opinions and why I had so much fear of my own anger.  My mind was spinning with the question, Why after all the therapists I’ve seen, am I learning this from a book? But I felt so grateful that I wept.  This was the practical psycho-spiritual information I had been seeking.  

The enneagram helps us on our quest for our essential self in two fundamental ways. The first is by providing psychological information particular to our personality type.  The second is by teaching the art of becoming present to our true nature.  If we only learn the typing information without incorporating the practices, we don’t benefit and, in fact, end up reinforcing our egoic notion of ourselves in greater detail.  “That’s just me being a Three!”  

Knowing our type gives us a detailed view of ourselves, making it much easier to recognize when our defensive, ego patterns are running the show.  The enneagram view is not that the personality self is bad or should be eliminated but that it is a construct, an auxiliary aspect of the whole self.  Personality is needed and can be enjoyable and instructive but letting it be in charge is like handing the car keys to a three-year-old. 

The enneagram is a living map of the human condition.  The embodied mindfulness practices help us return to the present moment where we can experience our Creative Self or True Self—in other words, the whole self in coherence with the Divine.  Each moment, with presence, is always the perfect starting place.  As we return to the breath and sensations, our true nature unfolds within us.  The enneagram also teaches that we are all connected energetically. As we learn to return to our whole selves we support the interconnected evolution of human beings. 

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It’s interesting to note a major, mainstream study of child temperament done at New York University in the 1980’s by the research psychologists, Thomas and Chess. After several years of studying babies they found that there are nine basic temperaments.  Dr. David Daniels, a professor and enneagram teacher, who taught at Stanford University was able to demonstrate that these nine temperaments correspond perfectly with the nine enneagram types.  This research is being expanded by Dr. Dan Siegel, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and executive director or the Mindsight Institute.  

Underlying all the enneagram practices are compassion and respect for each person’s pace.  In fact, master teachers encourage us to take our time.  The enneagram is fascinating, but intellectual mastery is less beneficial than practice that leads to a new experience of ourselves as present to our body, heart and mind. 

“When we are Present, “something” happens that feels compassionate and strong, patient and wise, indominable and of great value.  This something is who we actually are.  It is the “I” beyond name, without personality—our True Nature.” 

—The Wisdom of the Enneagram, Russ Hudson and Don Riso

Fundamental to the enneagram teachings is the idea of experiencing the three basic centers of intelligence: the body/instinctual center, the heart center and the head center.  These centers are parallel with the chakra system but consolidated into three main centers. When we’re only in contact with one or two, we’re not balanced. Besides, if we have three centers why not use them all?  

As months of study and practice reacquainting myself with these centers progressed, I began to have a richer experience of myself.  At first, this felt counterintuitive because I was pretty disconnected, but I kept at it and it has paid off as my ability to be present and to feel more alive has gradually increased.

For me, the enneagram was like the magic wardrobe in C.S. Louis’s, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.  I discovered a doorway to another more meaningful landscape and recognized myself as the protagonist in my own hero’s journey.  Later, I learned that Homer’s Odyssey parallels the enneagram. Many feel they are truly on their own hero’s journey when they use the enneagram for self-growth.

As we practice being present to whatever is arising in us, we gradually experience more grace, resilience and creativity.  Source intelligence becomes palpable within us and we have more opportunities to shift the personality into its proper perspective.  From presence, our choices are fresh and alive rather than scripted by inherited “shoulds”. 

Growth is not a linear process and using the enneagram doesn’t preclude having challenges in life but the depth of understanding supports our psychological growth and the presence practices support our spiritual growth.   

As for learning to choose relationships wisely, I’ve developed the most important relationship I could have—the one with myself.  I continue to heal from the dissociation of my Type Nine pattern and to deepen my relationship with the Beloved.  I have no doubt that my enneagram work was preparation for my work with with Paul Selig and Natalie Sudman.  Because of all of these teachers, I have developed loving relationships I couldn’t have imagined when I began this journey. 

‘Answers About The Afterlife’ by Bob Olson

Bob Olson is a former skeptic and private investigator who began investigating evidence of life after death after the passing of his father in 1997. This event ignited questions in Bob that he never before considered, so he decided to use his skills as a private eye to investigate the afterlife. Bob is the host of “Afterlife TV with Bob Olson.”

Whether you’re grieving the loss of a loved one, curious about what happens when we die, or pondering your own mortality, this book offers perspectives that are well thought out and simply stated. 

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EDITORIAL REVIEWS

Bob Olson’s new book, “Answers About The Afterlife,” is an excellent read. Like his interviews on Afterlifetv.com, Bob’s book is genuine and engaging. He presents his ideas and conclusions with an organic logic, making potentially challenging concepts simple to digest. Answers About The Afterlife stretches beyond belief systems respectfully, eliminating competition and resistance, setting the reader’s own curiosity free. Bob’s work is a true inspiration to keep asking the questions that matter.

NATALIE SUDMAN, author of “Application of Impossible Things: A Near Death Experience in Iraq”


My friend, Bob Olson, has written a wonderful and well-researched guide to the Afterlife. He carefully answers many of the questions and concerns we all have about the other side. The chapter on past lives resonates very much with my own studies of reincarnation and the benefits of past life regressions. I highly recommend “Answers About the Afterlife.”

~ BRIAN L. WEISS, MD, author of “Many Lives, Many Masters”

What happens when we die? This is one of humankind’s most important and enduring questions. “Answers about the Afterlife” brings a fresh and exciting perspective to this ancient question. Bob Olson presents an impressive compilation of many lines of evidence that converge on the conclusion that the afterlife is, in a word, real. Innumerable common questions about the afterlife are addressed. This book is well written and enthusiastically recommended.

~ JEFFREY LONG, MD, author of the New York Times bestselling “Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences”

Congratulations Bob Olson. Your book: ANSWERS ABOUT THE AFTERLIFE is perhaps one of the most in-depth and comprehensive guides I have ever read on the subject of life after death. I would call it the encyclopedia of the afterlife. This should be required reading for every soul who has ever pondered their heavenly heritage.

~ JAMES VAN PRAAGH, Spiritual Medium & author of “Growing Up In Heaven”

Bob Olson has taken his education, experience and passion for being an investigator and applied them to the study of the afterlife, death and dying, and the world of spirit, sharing what these topics can teach us about life. This book is a wonderful map for those seeking their own discoveries as they explore the infinite possibilities.

~ ANITA MOORJANI, New York Times Best Selling Author of “Dying To Be Me”

What a useful book. This is a clearly laid out resource, carefully researched and well thought out. Each topic is considered and approached in a logical and balanced way, and explained in sufficient detail to answer the questions fully. If you want one book to help you understand everything that has been found out about the afterlife, this could be it.

~ JENNY COCKELL, author of “Across Time and Death: A Mother’s Search for Her Past Life Children”

This is a wonderful book that will change the lives of enquirers in this area, who may well be bereaved and lost and lonely, they can rely upon Bob’s vast exploration and understanding to guide them on their journey.

Bob is a colossus in his field and is respected worldwide and this book demonstrates why. I recommend it wholeheartedly to you, as Bob will heal both worlds with this genuine and detailed investigation.

~ MAVIS PITTILLA, Spiritual Medium

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Letters to my Immortal Beloved by Petra Gerda Paul

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Letters to My Immortal Beloved is a short, touching collection of letters that Petra Gerda Paul wrote to her husband after his death.

Petra’s husband had Alzheimer’s, a heartbreaking disease for everyone involved. Petra writes very simply and honestly about some lessons she learned as a caretaker, and about the power of love to heal the deep grief of the loss of a loved one. Her insights are touching and humbly profound.

Well done, Petra … I hope this lovely book will be helpful for others who have had similar experiences, and inspiring for all who read it.

Coming on Bio & A&E this summer …

Quite a few years ago I participated in a program at The Monroe Institute (TMI) that was filmed for a show called “the unXplained” on Bio and A&E channels this summer … as far as I know, this series is no longer available to the public.

I’ve left the Monroe Institute publicity for it posted below. There were a number of episodes with different psychics, mediums, etc. Too bad it’s no longer available – the production was interesting and well done.

The History Channel spends a week at The Monroe Institute!

On March 9th, a group of young cameramen arrived at Robert’s Mountain Retreat to spend the week capturing the experiences of thirteen participants during the Lifeline program.

UnXplained is a new series that is featured on the Biography Channel, as well as A&E. After Executive Producer Russ Stratton, attended a Gateway Voyage Program several years ago, he immediately knew that it was important to share this experience with the world.

After years of planning, he brought his film crew of five cameramen to capture this process in action during a Lifeline program.

For the entire week, thirteen participants from all over the world, were filmed as their journey through the Lifeline program unfolded. Belief systems were reframed, parts of Self were reclaimed, and many experienced assisting souls to the light.

By the end of the week, the crew had become part of the group and even listened to a few of the exercises with the participants. The participants got great enjoyment in the excitement on the their faces as they explained what they had experienced.

Over 100 hours of footage were taped during the week. Now editing and confirming data is in process, the finished film to air possibly this summer.

The bond created between participants and the film crew was nothing short of amazing and some crew members are very eager to return as participants themselves!

The episode is scheduled to air late-July or Early August. Stay tuned for the official date so you don’t miss out on the premiere of a very exciting week caught on film!

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