Snake Oil/Coming Home to a Place I've Never Been Before
Music has always been a notable influence in my life. It can often act as a powerful trigger for awareness or to shift my emotional state. I was doing some editing work a few months ago with Pandora (Internet radio where you can program the types of music you specifically like) on in the background. Even though I had never programmed it to play any of his songs, Pandora decided to play a John Denver song I hadn’t heard in many, many years. The song was Rocky Mountain High. While listening to the song I found myself feeling very emotional. A long-forgotten memory surfaced and I remembered being in the sixth grade and inviting a school friend over to the house. We weren’t good friends but I thought I should make an effort to make more friends from my elementary school. He brought John Denver’s Greatest Hits with him and we sat in my room and listened to the album on my record player. John Denver was very popular in the late seventies, although some critics often panned his work and called him simplistic. Similar chart-topping artists like Abba, Air Supply, and the Carpenters were very popular but “cool” people pretended to hate it, while secretly most of us really loved a lot of it. What struck me as most profound was a line in the song Rocky Mountain High, where John sings about his decision to move to the Colorado Rockies at age 27:
“He was born in the summer of his twenty-seventh year coming home to a place he’d never been before. He left yesterday behind him, you might say he was born again. You might say he found the key for every door...”
Both as an avid reader in my youth and now as a writer, I have always been impressed by a writer’s ability to say so much in just a few words. This song is clearly an example of this type of talent. All of the most notable experiences in my life were connected to this idea of coming home to a place I’ve never been before.
When I made the decision to move from NY to Arizona at the age of twenty-three, I had never actually been to the state or to the west coast at all. There were symbols and messages that were pulling me to it though. When I flew out here for the first time in 1989 and stepped off the plane, I was excited about discovering the fun of what Arizona had to offer and I immediately felt comfortable here for some reason. A year later I made the move. I had some real difficulties with the friend I brought with me, but quickly made new friends that helped me through those difficult times. Even though I left a family and some extremely close friends behind who I knew I would truly miss, I formed a new supportive “family” rather quickly. I had been doing many past life regressions and dream work to explore my past lifetimes in my early twenties. Many of the people I met in Arizona were people I saw in those regressions and dreams. I had come home to a place I’d never been before.
After moving from apartment to apartment about every two years for the first twelve years of my life in Arizona, I decided to buy my first home in late 2003. I hired a realtor who was also a friend to help me. We spent three weekends looking at condominium homes. We would pick up our Starbucks and hop in her car to check out three to five places each Saturday. There were two homes that could have worked for me. While I seriously considered them, they didn’t feel completely right for mostly practical reasons. But when I first walked up the stairs of the upstairs condo I eventually bought, before I even went inside I turned to my realtor on the stairs and said: “I felt like I have walked up these stairs millions of times. This is where I will live.” Being a metaphysical person herself, she loved this. Even though there were some difficult hurdles to overcome in the buying process, I have now happily lived here for twelve years.
Nearly all of my close friendships and intimate relationships always felt like I was reuniting with people I already knew. The bodies, nationalities, sex, age, and other elements may have been different this time, yet the sense that I already knew them was always there from the beginning. Whether it was past life connections, a future self bringing me to this point, dreams, Deja Vu, compatible Astrology, or any other number of deeper reasons, the feelings of familiarity have generally been a constant. My early work with past-life studies often gave me insight before or after we met about our other connections. This has always added another important layer to my relationships. I once remember going to dinner with a close female friend when we were in our late twenties. We found ourselves spontaneously moving into a heated conversation at dinner that was a mild disagreement from two past selves who seemed to know each other in another time and place, centuries ago where we were husband and wife. Even the room itself seemed to change to another time and place. She had never experienced something like this before and it wasn’t exactly a common occurrence for me either. We laughed about it afterwards and later realized why it was a better fit for many different reasons that we meant to just be good friends in this life.
I have had people try to force friendships and relationships that didn’t seem to fit at times in my life. There was a number of times when I tried to do this as well in my younger days. I have experienced this before with jobs and other significant aspects of life, when it was usually other people suggesting “You should at least try, Jim” and the few times I tried it just never worked. There is a smoothness to events, pets, and people that feel like coming home to a place I’ve never been before. These experiences require no effort or struggle. When I heard Rocky Mountain High, I started to think about an extremely talented man whose music was called simplistic. Someone who wrote something as profound as this at age 27 was clearly talented and insightful. The critics were wrong. That same night I was flipping channels on television and came upon a PBS documentary about the life and death of John Denver. I caught it only ten minutes into the two-hour special. We often try to shape events, and there are times when we need to be assertive. Yet, the aspects of life that come so effortlessly to us are truly the most magical of all.
Jim Ventura 7-2015
Notes
This story/column was originally published back in 2015. I have been living in this condo for twenty-one years now! I am very happy for many reasons that I made the decision, as nervous as I was at the time, to buy and take on responsibility, and “settle down.” It has been a great home and I have no plans to move at all at this time, although I do plan on creating the ability to be able to travel a bit more next summer, and to work and write from much, much physically cooler locales. About 75 percent of my current clients are by phone currently, so I will still be able to have sessions and work while I am away. I have been getting some really amazing ideas and insight into manifesting more abundance and success in all areas of life. I am passing my insight on to my current Regular Clients, and anyone I have seen in the last three months. One of many reasons I suggest joining my Regular Client Program is precisely for this reason; I am always gaining new methods and insights and I really enjoy watching those around me also potentially bloom! More information about this program can be found in this newsletter. While I am always open to new Regular Clients, if you were previously one and have stopped having sessions you can request rejoining. I promise not to ask you to crawl through glass as punishment for lapsing or slipping away :)
I very much appreciate the clients of mine who are telling people about me and sending referrals. Whether directly or through passing along my posts from social media (YouTube, Insta, Tik Tok, and Facebook - info about all of these can be found at end of this newsletter). Some of you have been truly amazing. And while generally only a little less than half the people you recommend come see or call me, many will actually never do so. Know that your efforts do not go unnoticed and are appreciated. A good suggestion, especially for those already in my Regular Clients Program is to also just purchase a gift session for them. Any purchased gift sessions for others are at your already notably discounted rates! If you are not currently a Regular Client but have seen me before, or haven’t had a session, you can use the new client special I currently have at a $10-15 discount off my listed rates to purchase gift sessions. More information later in the newsletter.
June was mostly above average temps. The positive side to this is our monsoon season is showing up earlier than usual. Yeah for some rain! Wishing everyone a happy summer. Cheers, Jim V
One of my latest YouTube videos:
We tend to think of snakes as an animal connected to all things dark. References like “He is a snake” or “She is a snake in the grass” are common with obvious implications. And of course, many people fear snakes. But in Druid tradition, adders are seen in a more positive, even powerful light and connected to healing. Navigational Consultant Jim Ventura discusses how the energy of Snake can be used as animal spirit guide or totem in the new YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wuQOVzqHSo
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Channeled corner. I read many, many books from different trance channeler's in the 80s and 90s. Unfortunately many of them are now out of print, but I still have a huge collection and will share some of the best material I have collected over the years.
Almost all the trance channeler's that I have read in one way or another have the same perspective on this always very controversial subject. Michael does explain it very well and succinctly though:
What about abortion? Wouldn’t that cause karma?
“For over ninety percent of fragments (Michael's term for an individual lifetime), the soul enters the body at first breath. A few baby souls (not having to do with physical age but a reference to an early cycle of lifetimes where the focus is on rigid concepts of right and wrong and establishing order) enter the body at the beginning of full-term labor, but you will all agree that is a trifle late for abortion. There is no karma in ending a pregnancy before that time. In fact, those who compel women to have children they do not choose to have are in more ‘danger’ of karmic consequences than are women choosing to abort a fetus for any reason whatsoever. To compel a woman to have a child the woman has not chosen is a significant interference with her life choices, which is, or course, the requirement for creating a karmic ribbon, not unlike the ribbon created by unjust imprisonment or forced enslavement. We would also wish to add that those who value females only for the children they produce are responding directly to the impact of culture on the chief negative feature (fear), which, as we have said before, promotes anything that destroys true intimacy, which is the source of all essence evolution. To relegate half of the species to being reproductive factories bars true intimacy from the start and leads to fear-laden taboos that define sexual roles and relationships in the narrowest possible manner. This leads to a greater reduction in intimacy.”
From Michael for the Millennium Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
“Let-go means no competition, no struggle, no fight...just relaxing with existence, wherever it leads. Not trying to control your future, not trying to control consequences, but allowing them to happen... not even thinking about them. Let-go is in the present; consequences are tomorrow, and let-go is such a delightful experience, a total relaxation, a deep synchronicity with existence, a total relaxation, a deep synchronicity with existence.” Rajneesh
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