The Book

Story of A Devotion

You must get done with the blog and the book!

They are essential at this moment!

All that you have on your computer is of utmost value,

and if I had to compare it,

it would be by describing the lost jars in

the desert that filled in so many gaps.

It doesn’t matter who gets the message!

It simply matters that it is

gotten out in a universe run amuck!




The message above came to Jerry Marshall in the spring of 2008, 15 years after the first channeling occurred and six years after he and I began formulating this book.

Over the course of those years I witnessed Jerry’s inspiration and desolation as he continuously struggled with his mission, delighting in it and doubting it, honoring it and anguishing over how to get these words out to the world. His fundamental question was, “Why me?”

Among the many “crosses” the process caused him to bear was that of finding others with whom he could share his experience. When, for example, he confided his fears over exposing his calling to a psychiatrist at the V.A. hospital, the doctor promptly classified him as schizophrenic. Close friends with whom he shared his insights listened respectfully, but seldom grasped the depth or demands of his commitment. He spoke to small groups of other mystically minded individuals and engaged over the internet for a while with a circle of channelers who also received messages from John Lennon. In the end, it was his abject, solitary perseverance – and his wife Gail’s deeply tested patience – that brought the book about.

During this period, Jerry, being an artist, also produced other inspired works that reflected the meaning of his channelings. He wrote plays and composed a powerful piece for jazz orchestra based on Walt Whitman’s poem The Mystic Trumpet.

As a student of spiritual practice for more than 35 years, I have encountered all manner of reports of divine experience. But I must admit even I was skeptical when Jerry first mentioned his relationship with John Lennon – and this was before learning of his channelings of Onan of Neptune, Pope John II, and Jesus Christ. But never once, for even a moment, did I doubt the veracity of Jerry’s experience. Every word he recorded perfectly aligned with all I had learned in my decades of spiritual exploration. And every word was an inspiration, often hard won.

In addition to his great humor, musical gifts, and warm personality, Jerry also has a side. When the agony of where to turn and how to disseminate his message grew overwhelming, he often slid in to depression or a paralysis of confusion and doubt. Inevitably, however, Spirit returned to answer his perennial question, “Why me, Lord?” And that answer was always direct and simple: “Because you’re listening.”

In July of 1998, Jerry channeled these words:

Yes, it is I, God, in answer to your prayer of yesterday. Nothing goes unheard. You cried out in anguish, and your cry was heard.

Could you ever have imagined that you would be sitting in conversation with ME one on one? Yet here We are and you can’t allow yourself the pleasure…. You still can’t accept your hard-earned gift. How many people on earth do you think enjoy this privilege? Yet you still can’t enjoy it. You have worked for this moment all of your soul’s existence!

Why You?! Why not!? You can’t know of all your past incarnations, and so you can’t see the great wall you have climbed. But We can! It’s a painting on Our walls, and it’s about to be signed, if you can but find the courage to come and play with Us.

The gift is in your hands and just waiting to be opened. You are fully worthy. Share it. Spread it around. Let people know the heights to which they can aspire. It’s all available and available to all. It is a glorious sight. You would love to see what it is that We see.

Laura Cerwinske, Editor

www.lauracerwinske.com

www.bluehairlady.com

"One moment in time can define a change in consciousness for all time, and for all of humanity."

Channeled by Jerry Marshall on May 2, 2002

Channeling Instructions From God

The essence of John’s words and thoughts emanate from the same place that all thoughts and consciousness emanate from, namely Me.

Keep me uppermost in your thoughts and in your mind and that power will short circuit the ego’s ploys at every turn. Recognize, without embarrassment or false modesty, that you have been chosen for this mission because of your yearning and longing for a meaningful relationship with God ever since you questioned the meanings of life when you had to say Kaddish for your dad. Nothing goes unnoticed, and from that hurt and anger and remorse you arose and carried ona 50-year war to understand. Now you are on the verge of an understanding, which can also help to illuminate the way for millions of others who too have questioned, held anger and confusion, and sunk to great depths of depression

“Why are you afraid to write my name?”, He asked, referring to the Jewish custom of not spelling out the name of the Almighty. “It is your name as well.”

You must use all of your good efforts to illuminate this thought so that all will understand the workings of consciousness and its importance to the development of the universe. Science is just now beginning to recognize the vastness and the unending possibilities of all that which is before you. There is nothing finite in anything, and I am ever evolving in your consciousness, even as we speak.

Energy is all that this is about. The boundless and endless variations of the uses and configurations waiting to be co-created in the process you call “life.” Life has always been, and will always be, the only thing that changes in form. If you are able to allow the form its freedom to change and rearrange itself, you will have learned a most valuable lesson.

This applies to the process you are currently involved with. Form has nothing to do with immovable objects. And thoughts are no less objects than physical “things.” Allow for all manner of expression to be a part of your consciousness. There are no boundaries in My universe.

You listen, but only with one ear. The other is forever tuned to your mind’s dialogue, which takes you nowhere. Despite how far you’ve come, you remain powerless to claim the fruits of your journey. Reach out and present your gifts to those who would hear you. They are waiting to hear My words, but fearful that they are not worthy.

You have proved yourself worthy through your actions, and will again through the actions that I require of you now. This now, and all of your future nows, are woven of the same fabric. Time. Endless time. Meaningless time, unless it is used in My service, and for the greater good of the universe.

Pay attention to who you are now, and then stay in the now at all times. This means all of your actions be in accordance with who you really are. The soul of Marshall Jerome Rosenkrantz resides in the body of Jerry Marshall, a fabrication conceived of as an escape from an intolerable series of events, but a fabrication that need not remain permanent. Your vision is clear and has been building over the course of the years. It isn’t just the notes that you hear and choose to play. It is the thoughts that you have the opportunity to put into action. Get back to Marshall Jerome Rosenkrantz-land, and become again that searching, creative soul you have always been.

In the words of the Beatles, “Get back, get back, get back to where you once belonged”, that is exactly what I am doing with this entry. Reclaiming my birth name and the power and beauty that spirit has described.

It has taken me a lifetime of over eighty years to break out of the bonds that have encircled my soul, and now allow me the freedom to utilize this new, immediate, and exciting venue to share with you some of the information that has come to me through this medium.

For those of you who have great reservations as to the veracity of this information all I can offer is the opportunity for you to quiet the mind, and simply listen.

That is all God requires of us.

The following are examples of the words I have received:

Imagine - John Lennon

Channeling John Lennon

I hated John Lennon’s music.

As a musician, arranger, composer, and musical director, I considered his music to below even a basic level and I thought the lyrics infantile. Also, to my mind, eyes, and ears, his 1960s mode of living seemed insane. But those were the times, and, of course, Beatles songs were often requested at our engagements. My job was to provide entertainment, so when someone wanted to hear a Lennon-McCartney song, I would simply turn to my guitar player and let him loose. It worked for my band and the party and knowing what would work was my job. Musically, however, playing Beatles music was torture for me. Here, after all the years of studying trumpet, playing and singing, I had ended up as a tambourine player!

Sometime during the 1980’s while playing at a wedding reception, a bride requested the Beatles song Here, There and Everywhere for her first dance. I had never heard it before but having dutifully bought along a Beatles songbook, I performed it. By the end, I realized I had been missing out on a cultural phenomenon. Soon I was reading everything I could about their journey and influences and being reminded of my own epiphanies so long before with Somerset Maugham’s The Razor’s Edge.

Thus, during an early channeling when Onan advised me to “Stand by for Lennon…” (although I thought I was hearing “Stand by for Lenin”) my mind was open for what was about to become a beautiful friendship with John and for us to co-write the song he channeled through me years later.

Dear Jerry, you seem to be just what you are. Amazed at the process and just wanting to be of service. Don’t worry about the ego’s desires because they are, and always have been, driven by an engine different from the one driving your spirit now. Thoughts of personal gain are not to be worried about, for I can feel the need to serve that motivates you.

You will have words that the world needs to hear. Together, across the planes, we will be joined in our common effort to bring these teachings home and bring our fellow beings “home.”

What I would share with you is an understanding of my processes, since many are acquainted with the course of my life as John Lennon. What most are not acquainted with is the thoughts, emotions, and desires that led me to my adventures of spirit.

The forces around a strong willed personality have an equally strong sense of power and it is this fight for power that goes on at every level of existence. All my life I’d been searching for some means of expressing a high idea but I was so caught up in the (material) world that I thought that perfection would be the “perfect line” in a drawing or the “perfect chord” on the guitar. I didn’t realize that the instrument I really needed to express myself through was me!

By the time (the Beatles) encountered the guru, we were well on our way to either madness, due to the overdose of ego satisfaction, or enlightenment, which our backgrounds did not allow for. The pervasive feelings of unworthiness kept us in a turmoil of conflict with the reverence that came our way from our adoring fans.

Once I discovered a connection to my inner being, it was all downhill for the group. How could I continue to be part of such madness, even on a small scale when I knew there was a way out – a way that could help humanity! I began an internal quest which lead to people and places and thoughts I could never have pictured –could never have imagined.

You have not yet achieved freedom from judgment and the forgiveness for all who have done you harm (in your eyes). They have all led you to this place. They are all part of the play. And for you to judge any of them harshly keeps you in their power. That is not where you want to be.

How The Voices of Spirit First Entered My Life

In the early 1980’s I received a Transcendental Meditation mantra. My practice was to sit in a chair in my room and recite the mantra. My purpose was purely to quiet the mind, to free myself from the agitation and distraction that overpowered me. Not only did I have no interest in channeling, I had no idea about it,

Then, one day I was in an otherwise empty train car on my way to a screen writing course in downtown Miami. I heard a voice and looked around. No one else was on the train. Having read many spiritually oriented books, I wondered if I were having some kind of mystical experience. “I can’t handle this right now,” I thought but I swore to myself that when I got home, I would sit and meditate. I did and the words kept coming.

The voice revealed itself to be a guide named Onan: "You are involved in a process as old as time (time, that is, in your concept), he told me. It is definitely nothing new, except to your consciousness. As you become more and more aware, you will drop the barriers to our presence and allow a discourse which can only have illuminating effects on your universe.

"I am Onan and I have been your spiritual guide through many incarnations. I have found you to be easy and likeable, but hard of head. That seems to have eased as of late.

"There are many things I wish to discuss with you and this is a very good time for us to do it."

My immediate reaction was that of amazement. How could this complete stranger know all this about me and articulate it so convincingly? Somehow my mind accommodated the moment and I asked: What is my uppermost project in order to fulfill my mission here on earth?

"First, you must put your house in order. Not that you are leaving that soon, but your disorder keeps us from having this kind of time together.

"You must learn to develop disciplined work habits and allot a proper amount of time for each project.

"You are already fulfilling that mission by speaking and acting in such a manner as to spread the word. Each ripple becomes like a wave when ocean begins to move inexorably towards its distant shore. We are your distant shore and will welcome you home when it's your time! For now, continue along your path and keep in touch."

-Onan-

Friday, April 9, 2004

All 04/09/04

We are you and you are We and All is all inclusive! If that thought could become the password of the universe you presently occupy, peace would reign forever!

Nobody Told Me - John Lennon