by Allan and Christine Jonas & Larry Krantz
Allan Jonas: A warm welcome to everyone, and I mean a warm welcome. We actually hit 50 degrees Fahrenheit yesterday in Calgary, so I have shed my winter coat.
It’s a real treat to be with you and also to be able to work with Larry this morning. In this moment, we find ourselves, as many would say, in challenging and trying times. There’s a lot of fear, angst, turmoil, and uncertainty out there. But we bring calm, perspective, and assurance. “Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.” (Song of Solomon 2:10)
Here in Canada, spring is on our doorstep. The other day I looked out our kitchen window. We have a mountain ash tree, a beautiful tree, and it puts out berries in the fall, big clusters of orange berries. The deer come and feed on them in the autumn. The other day, though, I looked out and I’ve never seen so many robins in one tree in my life. And they were happily feasting on the berries. It truly was a robin tree, the sign of spring in this part of the world.
Our prayer today is, in essence, may our thoughts be your thoughts. May our words be your words.
To begin, I go back to our last meeting in which Christina Pivarnik introduced us to Radiant Conversation. She mentioned that people were sensing a new cycle, an evolution from what we had called dialogue. She alluded to more of a family conversation. What would spirit bring forth now? New forms may appear. So in the spirit of what Christina brought on behalf of our coordinating group, we’re going to bring a new form of Radiant Family Conversation to you this morning: podcasting. Currently, social media channels are continuing to decline across all channels, and people are gravitating to what are called microchannels. They’re getting tired of the noise and the constant scrolling. They want to be with other people who they know, trust, and like. Isn’t that interesting? So welcome to today’s first edition of the Intelligent Life Detective Podcast, coming to you exclusively through this Tone of Life channel.
My special guest today is Christine Jonas. I’m going to take a look into her current insights and feelings as she navigates a very full life of connections and service. And I’m sure she’s going to afford me the same opportunity as well. So, welcome Christine. I must say, I always appreciate your warm and energetic spirit. You laugh and smile more than anyone I know; I’ve heard it described as being infectious.
Previously, you and I worked together for over 30 years in a nuts, candy, and chocolate business, and you were a business owner. Now, after moving out of that business, you are working in a high fashion women’s clothing store. You often refer to this as your secret service. What do you mean by that?
Christine Jonas: First of all, why work in a high-end clothing store? I’ll tell you the honest truth. It was the only reply I received from about 200 resumes I sent out in a four or five month period. I thought this must be the one, and so I took it and ran with it. My job is no longer in management or being a boss or in ownership, as Allan said. (I was right out there in our company for many, many years.) Now, I’m “just” an employee. So I thought, let’s let my light shine in secret here and see what happens in this store. It didn’t stay secret for very long, as you might imagine. I heard comments like, “Where have you been the last number of years? We’ve been searching for somebody like you for a long time.” And, “I’m so glad you’re here today. I’m not feeling so good, I’m a bit depressed, I need a little boost. Your positivity is always wonderful.” A couple of days ago the computer system crashed while we were trying to process five clients’ purchases. The owner, who happened to be there said, “Let Christine deal with the IT guy. She’s always so calm and never gets flustered.” Didn’t I have them fooled? I was the hero, but I didn’t do anything. I was on the phone with the IT guy with this very, very direct radiation that all will be well, while all around me were flustered people. And guess what? Presto, press a few buttons, done! So I was a hero in secret.
The store is located in a shopping mall, which brings many challenges, as you can imagine, emotionally and physically speaking, and I thrive on that. I thrive on the seemingly innocent, mundane interaction with the lady in the coffee line, or the seemingly insurmountable task of getting the computer system back on. I love it all.
Allan, I noticed that you’ve got a tiger behind you. Can you tell me about that?
Allan: You noticed? Yes, this is Tara, the white tiger. I’ve invited her today as a symbolic representation of the wild animal kingdom, and it’s in response to a program I was watching on TV the other day. Wildlife conservation projects around the world are reeling from the U.S. administration’s abrupt decisions to shut down funding for nature and wildlife preservation. Presidential executive orders are expected to affect national parks and wildlife conservation, particularly by staffing cuts, and, quite likely, ending the Endangered Species Act. Also, the administration will apparently be allowing new permits for oil and gas drilling on public lands. Their new mantra is, “drill baby drill.”
You’ve heard the story about the tariffs that are being applied. Apparently, there was a listing of countries who would be receiving these new tariffs. These included Little MacDonald and Heard Islands, which are off the coast of Australia toward Antarctica. These islands have been assessed with a 10% tariff and, interestingly enough, the only life on these islands are penguins and other seabirds. So, if these penguins start making stuff and try to export it, somebody’s going to pay for it. Some would say that all this funding that’s been done in supporting wildlife conservation habitats worldwide, is just window dressing anyway. Well, I say, even if that window is open a little crack, that’s how the light gets in. I have a brief little video to show you. https://toneoflife.org/recordings/Amazing-Kid-Britains-Got-Talent.mp4
Christine: What a beautiful little boy in that video. Allan, you also mentioned in your intro that you are an Intelligent Life Detective.
Allan: When people ask me what I’m doing now after we sold our business, I say to them, “I’ve been repurposed, I’m an intelligent life detective.” It’s a fun way to start conversations, for one thing. It goes something like this quite often. People ask, “Are you looking for intelligent life out in the universe?” I say, “No, I think the universe is totally brimming with intelligent life.” Then they say, “Well, are you trying to hook up with people with high IQs or something?” I say, “No, no, it’s not that.” They say, “What is it then?” I respond with, “I want to connect up with people who sense and identify with the true tone of life.” Of course I’ve lost some people by then, but in a lot of cases, people respond really well to the tone of life.
There are so many ways to work with the tone: music, emotions, and qualities of character, to name a few. This is how I spend a lot of my time now. Of course, detectives do a lot of investigating, observing, and reporting. That’s what I do a lot of. I document things as well. I tend to make a lot of notes. I visit mainstream media, documentary films, and spend quite a bit of time on YouTube podcasts. There’s a lot of great programming on YouTube these days, but I’m always looking for the tone in expression. I’m happy to report that there’s a lot of it going on.
Christine and I are involved in something like ten different and unique Zoom gatherings, all carrying and dedicated to the tone of life expression, but right here is home base for us.
I would mention as well, and you may find this also, my neighborhood is a great source of connection. We live in a condo complex—not a large one, about 60 units. Over the years, Christine and I have been quite involved with serving on the board, and that’s a great way to meet a lot of the people. Serving on the board last year, for example, I met a very fine lady who is an immigrant from Turkey. At one point, she asked me if I would like to have coffee with her. She explained that her partner of 18 years had left her almost overnight without any warning. She was really feeling a lot of very strong emotions around this, understandably. For me, it was a great opportunity. This woman has an incredibly open heart. And moving our conversation into looking at angelic identity with her was just so natural. I know it made a lot of difference to her. She said, “Allan, you’re the only person in my life I can talk to like this.” We are now getting together quite regularly.
Another example: there’s a young man who lives two doors away, who comes to live with his mother for a while each year. He is in his early 30s and was born with cerebral palsy. It’s affected his gait very much. He walks off balance, and he struggles quite a bit with that. It’s also affected his speech. You have to be patient when listening to him speak. I connected up with him, and he started coming over to sit with me on my deck out back, and we would have lunch together. Wow, this young man, having been through so much, has such an open heart, and a deep interest in hearing about my life experience. In fact, being with him at times I felt like I was downloading all my experience and he was just welcoming it. He mentioned the same thing, “No one’s ever been able to talk to me this way. I’ve been looking for someone for so long that I could talk to in this way.” He told me everything about how his father left when the young man was a child because the father couldn’t handle the situation. He spoke of many deep things about his life. So, now I have a deep heart connection with this young man. This is my neighborhood.
I’ve been thinking a lot about how we often say, we’re not alone. We’re certainly not. We know the very, very important role we play in things. But I also love the term, Transcendent Nation. I believe it was introduced by Martin Exeter about 40 years ago, and things have moved on a lot since then. There is a transcendent nation. As things seem to be falling apart in the world, there is something being born and I celebrate that with you.
Christine, I hear you talking a lot lately about the magic of emotion. Tell us about that.
Christine: I have been thinking a lot about our emotions, and I’ve come to the fact that they are magical. Emotions connect us in ways I couldn’t even begin to understand previously. So, of course, in preparation for today and other things, lots of emotions come up, and I want to be real about the emotions and what they can do for us.
Last August, two young hockey players, Matthew and Johnny Gaudreau, were sadly killed by a drunk driver in their little town outside of Philadelphia. Some of you may remember this, but the reason I bring it up is that Johnny Gaudreau played for the Calgary Flames for a number of years, and was a very bright, authentic, philanthropic young man. He surprised many, many people with his givingness at such a young age. When he was killed there was a collective grief that gripped our city. John Gray and I corresponded a bit on this, and his last comment in the email stream that we had was, “Grief is a gift.” Wow, mind blowing! What does he mean? So, I set out to explore this, and I want to play a little piece for you. I think you’ll recognize the people in the interview. https://toneoflife.org/recordings/Steven-Colbert-Anderson-Cooper.mp4
Allan: That’s quite something, Christine. Can you elaborate a little on what you feel about that statement, “What punishments of God are not gifts?”
Christine: That line, as Stephen Colbert says later on in the video, is a quote attributed to J.R.R. Tolkien, who wrote the Lord of the Rings books and The Hobbit, plus many other books we may be familiar with. A priest once told Tolkien that his stories were not theologically correct, because he presented death as a gift and not as a punishment for sin after the Fall. Mind blowing for me yet again! Tolkien wrote back to the priest asking the question, “What punishments of God are not gifts?”
If we are to be grateful for all the joy and love, we need to also be grateful for all the rest of it, as Colbert expresses in the video. It connects us. In the end, it is ungrateful to not take everything as a gift.
Allan: This reminds me, Christine, of a Zoom session we recently attended, and there were some very interesting questions posed to the participants.
Christine: This is part of what sparked my desire to explore emotions more. Lloyd Meeker and his team who put on the Attunement Equinox Summits and Cross Quarter Summits came up with these questions. Here are a few of them:
1. What if our emotions contained important messages from the Field that we could not otherwise receive?
2. What might happen if we welcomed every emotion that rose in us without distrust?
3. What if our emotions were our primary points of contact with the rest of the world as we know it, that might shed some light on what’s happening as a collective?
Honor what comes. It is a gift. Thank you.
Allan: Thank you, Christine, for what you’ve brought here today. Thank you, everyone.
Larry Krantz: There is intelligent life here on earth. In fact, we see increasing evidence of awakening ones, even amidst great turmoil in the world, for these ones live above the fray. The veil that separates heaven and earth in human awareness is thinning. These days, I think of the veil less as a curtain and more like a dust storm such as we had a few days ago east of Tucson. Visibility was greatly reduced on the interstate causing so many accidents that the road was closed. It can be worse north of us where there is open desert. There, winds can blow up a blinding sandstorm, often called a haboob—an Arabic word for the sand storms in North Africa. Visibility can be reduced to zero. When that happens, drivers are told to pull off the road and turn off their car lights to prevent anyone who sees their lights to assume they are in a lane of traffic and crash into them.
Metaphorically, humanity functions in a blinding sandstorm. It blocks the light of understanding. Not able to see, without visible landmarks, they have no sense of direction. Politicians and religious leaders implore people to accept their take on human government and spiritual beliefs. It is considered good to be a person of faith, often called to believe something said centuries ago, which has been interpreted and twisted this way and that. No one knows if they are right or not, so it is the blind leading the blind. This trap of accepting false beliefs and leaders who are just as ignorant as they are, will only be broken when people come into the light themselves, when the dust is cleared away and they see the truth.
This veil is self-created, evidence of the working of the law of cause and effect. When a person accepts attitudes and behaviors contrary to spirit, it kicks up dust vibrationally—an eddy, a disturbance. When I worked with Bill Bahan giving talks, we used the “Magnetic Man,” which was a wooden box with a series of magnets on the back forming the outline of a man. On the front were iron filings that took on the shape of the magnets in the back, resembling a person. We had poster boards with labels of ill attitudes like envy, anger, hatred, resentment, jealousy, and we slid them between the front and the back, which weakened the magnetic pull. The more wrong attitudes we put in, the more the iron filings fell away, until the man’s shape was lost. It was a good visual aid to see the harm of wrong attitudes on health and the necessity to align with what is true. When there is alignment, when people choose generosity and kindness and empathy, for example, they are no longer at a cross-current with life. Consequently, dust settles and light filters through. The truth was always there but not seen because of the disturbances in human minds and hearts.
When we move in the way of ascension, the ignorant state gives way to understanding and connection with what is right and eternal. We no longer live in an unending circle, with a death grip on their human beliefs and opinions, going round and round, getting nowhere, until they die. Anyone may ascend a golden spiral of spiritual understanding; gold is, of course, a symbol of the divine. We come back around to similar life experiences but at a higher level of understanding. Right attitude is the start. From there, life will lead us through purification of heart and mind and into more refined levels of divine intelligence. Ultimately, we find that we are love. It is who we are. I am love. No human judgment is needed, and we are at ease, at rest, fully present. The human part of us blends with our eternal reality and there is complete trust of what is higher. The shape of external situations no longer loom so large, for we are much larger, and they no longer control us.
Christine talked about emotions. In the way of ascension, we understand that emotions are necessary. They add color to our lives but should not be in control. We feel what we feel but are free to choose how we behave. Anything may be used to creative advantage, even grief. We uplift what comes to us and make it whole, for we see with the eyes of love.
All people may awaken to the truth, but a particular call has gone out to the elect, who play a central role for humanity. It is an essential step if we are to return to divine function. Consider our solar system. It has a sun at its center, a fiery ball of intense radiation. The sun’s radiation and gravity encompass all the planets and objects in our solar system. It is a focus of love. The sun holds the solar family together in a magnificent, creative design. So it is with mankind. A core must be established capable of handling intense levels of vibratory essences, from which lines of force extend into the body of mankind. The way of ascension is more than a personal journey. It requires the emergence of a spiritual core to stir awake all humanity that we may remember our true selves.
Change is continuously coming, whether anyone likes it or not. The false human state cannot be sustained, for it is at odds with the truth of life. If we are to survive as a species, mankind must be lifted up and transformed. We lead the way to remembrance. No human beliefs or systems are needed once the truth is known. Wisdom comes in many forms, as people come into the light. Here are words attributed to—of all people—Meryl Streep: “What is meant to leave will leave, no matter how desperately you try to hold on. What is meant to stay, will find a way no matter how uncertain things seem. Life always finds a way… even when we can’t see how.” Let us continue in the way of ascension and release what does not ring true. We merge with our divine selves, for we are so much more than the human form we once thought ourselves to be. It is wonderful to share this with friends, to do the job we were born to do.