{"id":321,"date":"2010-04-21T22:09:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T22:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=321"},"modified":"2010-04-21T22:09:04","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T22:09:04","slug":"guidance-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=321","title":{"rendered":"Guidance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Written in February 2004)<br \/>\nDear Guides and Guardian Spirits, I need some help.\u00a0 I need to feel connected to you.\u00a0 I need to feel loved and approved of by someone whose judgement I trust and respect.\u00a0 I need to know that some good will come out of all this pain.\u00a0 I need to know that it\u2019s OK that I built the house the way I did \u2014 and that if it\u2019s a big mistake, that I\u2019m forgiven for the mistake.\u00a0 Please help me.<br \/>\n<em>Dear Jenny, you are greatly loved.\u00a0 Many spirits gather at Neskaya because we love what\u2019s happening here.\u00a0 You built this building without a lot of concern for ecological principles \u2014 unfortunately there\u2019s not a lot of help from the culture \u2014 most ways you have to do things (build septic system, etc.) are not environmentally sound.\u00a0 Remember that what you do in the physical realm is nowhere near as important as what you do in the psychological\/spiritual one.\u00a0 At this time, you have to support yourself on the physical level because you have been badly wounded and need to devote time &amp; energy to your healing process.\u00a0 Your \u201cecological footprint\u201d is so big because you need help to take care of yourself.\u00a0 You need to see therapists, but that necessitates a lot of driving.\u00a0 Food is very difficult for you because you were traumatized so early, and you need food to be easy.\u00a0 You can\u2019t make the choice to eat less meat and more local vegetables because it\u2019s just too difficult in Northern New Hampshire.\u00a0 You are doing the best you can to make wise choices within these constraints.\u00a0 We support you.\u00a0 We love you, and we approve of your choices.\u00a0 Allow yourself to forgive yourself that you can\u2019t live up to your high ideals for how one should live on the planet.\u00a0 About your house, it is how it is.\u00a0 We spirits are delighted with the great creative gesture that is producing your house.\u00a0 It has been an opportunity for creative input from a number of people.\u00a0 You do not know what kinds of co-creativity and community spirit will be nurtured in that space.\u00a0 Things will happen that you can\u2019t imagine now, just as you could not imagine the things that have been happening here at Neskaya.\u00a0 Be of good cheer, dear Jenny.\u00a0 The work you have been doing has created and supports a beacon of hope for a world full of pain.\u00a0 Do not doubt this.\u00a0 We love you!<\/em><br \/>\nThank you.\u00a0 I\u2019m feeling loved, and warmed by your support.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.neskaya.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Neskaya Movement Arts Center<\/a> is in Franconia New Hampshire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Written in February 2004) Dear Guides and Guardian Spirits, I need some help.\u00a0 I need to feel connected to you.\u00a0 I need to feel loved and approved of by someone whose judgement I trust and respect.\u00a0 I need to know &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=321\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guidance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}