{"id":6331,"date":"2019-09-19T11:46:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T15:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=6331"},"modified":"2019-09-19T11:46:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T15:46:17","slug":"there-is-no-planet-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=6331","title":{"rendered":"There is no Planet B"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>3rd cup.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I see that the killing of the planet is what\u2019s making looking at my own life and death be more meaningful than struggling to get my taxes done.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It makes everything I have to do to keep going have no point.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/secure.avaaz.org\/campaign\/en\/global_climate_strike_photos_loc\/?bvrsjab&amp;v=119303&amp;cl=16235091755&amp;_checksum=9873f6209300b397f8f64d83106260ce042857726efce5102d138dc7c0d07d51\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Avaaz<\/a> sent out a variety of statements &amp; pictures, encouraging you to take a picture of yourself with a sign if you can\u2019t get to a march and send it to them.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>A lot of signs saying \u201cTHERE IS NO PLANET B.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>One said \u201cThere&#8217;s no point educating our kids for a future that doesn&#8217;t exist.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It makes me more determined to be on that bus at 6:42.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I can\u2019t say that turning inward and being occupied with death and grief is more important or more worthwhile than joining a group to do something real, physical, visible.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>What I feel is a tremendous tug down and in, into the North, the darkness, wrestling with the demon in the dark dark wood.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Grieving that PTSD made it impossible to really enjoy the little moments of beauty or kindness.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Grieving that PTSD and aging killed the good life I had in Franconia \u2014 maybe it\u2019s truer to say that PTSD wounded my ability to live a good life, and it got to the point where I couldn\u2019t keep going by myself.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Why did I choose this for myself if that\u2019s what I did?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I look forward to talking over Jenny\u2019s life with my \u201cfamily group\u201d in the astral realm (or wherever they are).<\/p>\n<p>Instructions from a dream I had long long ago: \u201cGo down, under, and through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I badly need a lift of the heart.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The bus at 6:42 AM is the one that&#8217;s recommended to Kendal residents, because the gathering for the chain of people from the high school in Hanover to the one in Norwich starts at 7:30AM. \u00a0Getting up that early is very tricky for me.<\/p>\n<p>Why did I choose this for myself&#8230;? \u00a0The idea is given in books by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newtoninstitute.org\/books\/journey-of-souls-dr-michael-newton-1994\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Newton<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yoursoulsplan.com\/index.php\/about-robert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert Schwartz<\/a> who have done research through hypnosis and psychics. \u00a0John Newton had many clients who remember a similar process for the time between one life and the next one. \u00a0This process involves getting together with a number of souls who have been together for thousands of years and often incarnate in the same life where they interact. \u00a0I call them a &#8220;family group&#8221; because that&#8217;s what happens in the mornings at Kindred Spirits. \u00a0We all get together and each person speaks truly about their life, and they are listened to with love and without judgement.<\/p>\n<p>One of the ways I image my death is that I stop breathing and wake up, sit up, and say &#8220;Wow, I was Jenny. What an intense lifetime!&#8221; \u00a0It will be like the final night of a performance of a play. \u00a0You will be sad not to play that part again, but you will have learned a lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3rd cup.\u00a0 I see that the killing of the planet is what\u2019s making looking at my own life and death be more meaningful than struggling to get my taxes done.\u00a0 It makes everything I have to do to keep going &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=6331\">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":[12,9,11,14,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-journal","category-present-day","category-spirit","category-trauma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6331","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=6331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}