Jacqueline’s Books
1. THE LAST WALTZ - The collective shadow
Second edition
Jacqueline’s first book entitled “The Last Waltz” was written in 1997. Many said they really enjoyed this book as the way it was written helped them to look at a lot of things they otherwise wouldn’t have wanted to look at if the information had been presented by people totally identified with the kind of dramas they were reporting.
A few years after she had written The Last Waltz Jacqueline was doing some work in Byron Bay, Australia when she met a man she had known many years ago in Poona and had actually written about in the book. His name was Paul Lowe, formerly Teertha. They met one afternoon and Jacqueline gave him a copy of the book. The following day he walked by as she was sitting by the ocean. He came over and said that normally he was not willing to discuss the kind of things written about in the book because usually people who wrote such things were so caught up in the subjects they wrote about. Then he said, “But you are not identified with any of it, are you?” Jacqueline smiled at him and said she wasn’t. He bent down and kissed her and then walked on. He knew she was simply observing the role playing through her.
This book addresses what is popularly called “the conspiracy”
. It actually addresses the organized manipulation which keeps billions of people on this planet unaware of and disconnected with their own spiritual potential.
Some quotations from The Last Waltz:
“Remember, we can talk about enlightenment but if people are micro-chipped there will probably be no enlightenment for them. Each individual microchip can be traced and your consciousness can simply be shut down if you are a threat to the elite agenda. This is perhaps the main reason I felt it was necessary to write and speak about such things.” Jacqueline Maria Longstaff
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” Goethe
“Your mind is being stitched up and so, therefore, is the planet”. David Icke.
“Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.” Terence McKenna.
And a few jokes from The Last Waltz::
- Did you hear about the dyslexic devil worshipper?
He sold his soul to Santa!
- How can we be sure that Moses wore a wig?
Well, it says in the Bible that sometimes he came with Aaron and sometimes he didn’t!
- Did you hear about the Buddhist monk who went up to the hotdog vendor and said, “Make me one with everything”!
2. KNOCK KNOCK – WHO’S THERE
More than an autobiography
This is the story of the earlier part of Jacqueline’s life and search and also includes simple tools for integration and awakening. You can connect with her message that we are many today who have incarnated on the planet to realise our full spiritual potential. She suggests that we are moving towards a kind of collective lift in consciousness where millions have the opportunity for Self Realisation. This state is no longer for the ”chosen few”or the ”holy”! Follow her through the sixties and seventies where she progresses from naughty nun to disciple as she dances on the edge of the void with Osho in India. Read about the integration of of seeming opposites such as the Buddha and Pretty Baby . Explore the power of the heart as a tool for integration and inner alchemy.
3. ONLY ONE SKY TO FLY IN
- Embracing the reptiles - Third edition
This is a book Jacqueline was asked to write in order to give another perspective on a subject many were finding distressing. She did not particularly want to write the book but agreed to do so. It is not a book many want, or need, to read. She received much positive feedback from people who needed to deal with the fear certain other writers’ books had triggered within them. This is not a book Jacqueline recommends to many, but it is available.
4. RELATIONSHIP AS A SPIRITUAL PATHWAY
Moving from RelationSHIT to true RelationSHIP -- Second edition
Back in 2003 I was very surprised to find myself writing this book! Years ago I offered courses on relationship as a spiritual pathway and felt this work was finished. However, as I worked with people in different parts of the world I could see how important relationship was for many of them. I could also see that many still ended up in great emotional turmoil because of this.
So I decided to write this book. I felt I could perhaps offer couples a way to be in relationship that would enable them to walk side by side on their journey towards real spiritual awakening. Now today I am very surprised to be putting together the second edition of this book. The first edition is almost sold out and still people want the book.
Years ago relationship was a very important part of my own journey and in this book I share the insights and techniques I used and passed on to people through lectures, courses and radio programmes. I don’t pretend to have all the answers - I don’t believe any of us have. Yet in this very challenging area where many still seem to be so vulnerable, I feel I still have something to share, which could inspire others.
What I write in this book I have lived. In the past I have had many relationships including two marriages and one seven year long relationship. The three men concerned are now three of my closest friends. I also had other long and short term relationships. In the late eighties I met my “animus” - my inner man -and chapter twelve is actually an article I wrote at that time as a result of this meeting.
I can already hear some people protesting and asking why bother at all with the drama of relationships; protesting that the whole of the relative world is just an illusion, just a dream. Well, it is a dream that many still identify with so strongly that it is difficult for them to move beyond it. When one has awakened from identification with the dream it is then possible to again enter the dream and play out parts that actually help to awaken others. As long as we are in physical incarnation we will in some way be playing within the illusion. I often encourage people to be aware of which parts of the illusion can bring them home. As I write this I am reminded of something said by Osho. He said that the Master – disciple relationship was the final game and then added,
“Play it as beautifully as possible.”
He didn’t say do not play it! So let’s play the relationship game as beautifully as possible and with full awareness that it is a game. Then it is possible for the fire of the game to burn you up and to take you beyond the identification with the dream.
5. KALEIDOSCOPE
(Printing should be finished September 2009)
From chapter 1 - Questions and Answers from Satsangs with Jacqueline
Why bother to meditate?
Q. Do I really need to meditate? I went to Satsang with Karl yesterday and what he seemed to be saying was that meditation is a waste of time.
Jac. Yes, I can understand it seemed he was saying that! Karl is such a sweetheart. (Laughter from audience) Really - I mean that - so sweet and funny! But you see, there are no rules. There’s no one up there waiting to give you a diploma after a certain amount of years of meditation. One woman had an awakening because a brick fell on her head. (Laughter) No – seriously – I’m not making fun of her. However, my experience is that for most people meditation is a wonderful tool. It creates a distance to the drama and the mind (same thing really) It also creates a spaciousness that seems to make it easier not to get stuck in that which arises within and makes it easier to witness.
But sooner or later you have to see through the meditator. You have to look deep within and ask, Who is meditating? Being a seeker, a meditator is still just a role playing through you and people can get stuck in this – can build a beautiful identity as a spiritual seeker. Being a spiritual seeker can seem so important – so significant. But Truth shows you the insignificance of it all.
Astrology
Q. Do you really believe in astrology? I think that as people grow in awareness they move beyond astrology and it no longer has any influence on them.
Jac. Astrology is not a belief system. I always tell people not to believe what I say but to feel what seems right and look deeply within themselves until they know. We have had enough belief systems on this planet! Often people are very surprised that I still do astrological readings for people but, as I have said many times, astrology can show you that the part playing through you is exactly as it should be. Then you can stop fighting with it. People say they long to find out who they are but this is difficult as long as they are trying to be someone else! Much energy can go into trying to change aspects of the dream instead of just waking up. Astrology shows a picture of the unfolding dream drama and, as long as we are playing a part in the drama, astrology shows what that part looks like.
From chapter 2 - The Train Song
Some time ago I heard The Train Song for the first time – what a perfect text! Since then I have played it during satsangs and meditation retreats and given people copies of the text. I have actually said that I felt my whole teaching is summed up in this song - everything you really need to know is there. In fact I’d say Truth is summed up beautifully in just 1 line:
“Don’t mistake the weather for the sky of your being.”
What more is there to say? I was going to get in touch with Kirtana and ask if it was fine with her that I included the text to the song and some comments in this book, and then I saw that she was coming to Copenhagen to give a concert. So I went along, and what a beautiful concert it was! Her songs, the poetry and her prescence were a blessing to all of us who were there. Afterwards I talked with Kirtana and she said it was totally fine to include the song in the book. I hope one day she will visit us at the ashram and give a concert there. So, let’s take a look at parts of the text:...........................
6. THE COSMIC AIRPORT
– A vision whose time has come
(Printing should start early 2010)
From these phases certain seeds are sown and thought patterns emerge which are indelibly stamped on the memory of the new born. We need to be able to comfortably shift from one seeding phase to the other without getting stuck because of unhealed trauma from pregnancy and birth. People can be stuck in a phase for months at a time. Ultimately we can get to the stage where we simply witness the imprints we carry as they arise, and simply let them come and go without identification or attachment.
When a woman gives birth much is happening energetically. From up above, down through the crown chakra, through the body and out of the soles of the feet comes a powerful force. It is important to help the woman accept this energy. There are complications if it is stopped. There is also a powerful energy coming up from the earth. Grounding is needed to be able to use it. It is as if heaven and earth meet in a woman when creation begins. These are strong energies and it is important for the woman to be able to embrace them. If she is used to experiencing a strong energy flow before the birth it makes the process much easier. Meditation, Yoga, Tai Chi and other similar disciplines all help with this process.
When I work with the death process I usually compare it to being on a meditation retreat where you really get to meet the contents of your mind. I’m sure many of you here today have been on longer meditation retreats. Is that correct? A retreat is a great way to just sit there and watch as the mind shows all its dramas and fantasies. If, in meditation, you can continue to witness the mind, you will not get caught up in anything it produces – the same in the death process. During the death process you also meet all the projections of your mind. Steven Levine, in his fine book
“Who Dies?”, tells people to die to the mind while they are still alive.
If people have ideas about heaven, hell and judgment they will meet these ideas in the form of inner movies when they leave the physical body. For a while they may believe they see God sitting on a throne, reading up their good and bad deeds. People might then feel remorse and wish to be able to put right what they did wrong and so on. This means they are identified with the part that has played through them and they will begin to be drawn back into incarnation – to another movie – to finish off what they didn’t finish off in the movie they now are leaving behind. It’s a bit like waking up from a dream where you stole your neighbour’s hammer or something, and wanting to go back to sleep so you can return the hammer!
This is what we call karma – going around in circles on the wheel within the dream because you don’t see it is a dream.