{"id":6913,"date":"2020-12-20T12:24:54","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T17:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=6913"},"modified":"2020-12-21T16:24:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T21:24:33","slug":"something-totally-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=6913","title":{"rendered":"Something Totally New"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading Thomas Zinser&#8217;s book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.soulcenteredhealing.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Soul-Centered Healing<\/a>. \u00a0While I drank my coffee and read the Chapter called The Quickening, Mocha started squeaking.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I was determined to finish my coffee and the Chapter before I took her out, but her squeaking was slowing me down.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 Generally, she only keeps squeaking like that if she has diarrhea. \u00a0<\/span>As I write, I wonder if Mother was trying to stop me from reading the Chapter.<\/p>\n<p>Zinser talks about different manifestations of spirit, such as Earthbound Spirits who are people who don&#8217;t realize they have died and wander around confused, and &#8220;attached&#8221; spirits who are people who have attached themselves to people living now. \u00a0Usually these beings are causing trouble for someone who comes for therapy, even if that isn&#8217;t their intention. \u00a0Zinser talks about having to convince the Earthbound Ones that they need to go to the Light. \u00a0 Often, they know exactly what the Light is, and with gladness and relief, make the choice and leave this world for the next. \u00a0But sometimes they refuse to do that, usually because they believe that the Light will judge them instead of welcoming them. \u00a0Zinser says you have to speak to these ones very firmly, try to convince them that they won&#8217;t be judged, but sometimes you just have to close the door. \u00a0Usually he does the speaking, but because of my experience with <a href=\"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=5285\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contacting and bringing back various Little Jennys<\/a>, it seemed easy and obvious to talk to Mom myself. \u00a0Another suggestion was to remind them that there might be someone who has passed on who would be able to help them.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>from my journal for yesterday:<br \/>\nSo when I was coming back with Mocha,\u00a0I started talking to Mom.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I told her she had to go toward the Light, that I can\u2019t do it for her.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>That I had tried, but it\u2019s not possible to do the inner work for someone else.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I told her that if she was jealous of someone else, it didn\u2019t do any good to try to destroy what they had.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>If she wants it, she has to do the work.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sitting here writing, I have a sense that she\u2019s afraid of God\u2019s judgement.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I tell her God isn\u2019t like that.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>But of course she probably had some awful childhood experience, maybe she was even traumatized, and learned that God was punitive.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>So then I told her to ask Mama Greene for help, Mama Greene loved her.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I said it more than once, with force.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Imagined turning her around and giving her a little shove.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Saw Mama Greene appear in the distance, arms open.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that will help.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The first signs that something may have happened: I slept well last night, despite a nap in the afternoon, I enjoyed walking with Dulany &amp; the dogs around the plowed road in Rivercrest, and I felt held in a field of love in Quaker Meeting this morning, which is something I&#8217;ve never felt. \u00a0Energetic connection, yes, but loved? Something totally new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading Thomas Zinser&#8217;s book Soul-Centered Healing. \u00a0While I drank my coffee and read the Chapter called The Quickening, Mocha started squeaking.\u00a0 I was determined to finish my coffee and the Chapter before I took her out, but her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=6913\">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":[5,9,11,14,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healing","category-journal","category-present-day","category-spirit","category-trauma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6913","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=6913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}