blue eyed snake

[Apech]

I bring some very sad news which I just received from her son, that @blue eyed snake (Janneke) passed away on the evening of Good Friday.

 

To quote her last request to her son - “After many years of illness she let go and disappeared into the light.”

 

She was a person of great and gentle wisdom and I will miss her very much, as I believe many on here will also.

 

Prayers for her.

 

May she rest in profound peace.

 

 

[liminal_luke]

She always struck me as a person with a lot of knowledge and a lot of heart.  She´ll be missed.  Thanks for letting us know.

[Cobie]

Thanks for letting us know.  I am sad to hear this. 
 

 

Edited 11 hours ago by Cobie

[zerostao]

/\  /\

[Giles]

🙏🏻

 

[stirling]

Janneke was definitely a thoughtful, calm, and reasoned influence on so many threads. Seeing Blue Eyed Snake on a thread posting was always a welcome sight. 

 

Deep Deep Bows, Janneke. _/\_

[Mark Foote]

Saddened. I love how the Sufis celebrate the return to the One, I will think of Blue Eyed that way.

[Nungali]

As soon as I saw the thread title I was  ...... oh no    

 

Many a good converse I had with 'blue eyes'   ... some times it was even like she understood me !   

 

 " Unto them from whose eyes the veil of life hath fallen may there be granted the accomplishment of their true Wills; whether they will absorption in the Infinite, or to be united with their chosen and preferred, or to be in contemplation, or to be at peace, or to achieve the labour and heroism of incarnation on this planet or another, or in any Star, or aught else, unto them may there be granted the accomplishment of their wills.  "  

[oak]

I can easely imagine her feeling very free and loved at the moment.

Thank you so much for your company, thoughts snd shared experience Janneke ❤️🙏

See you sometime soon.

Edited 5 hours ago by oak

[Cobie]

Janneke with one ‘k’.

[Geof Nanto]

Janneke and I were friends from our early days of forum membership when we briefly corresponded via email. Hence I know much more of her personal story than she’s ever shared on the board. We hadn’t corresponded for a number of years though until early January this year when she told me she had stage four cancer and only months to live. I asked her if she was okay about me telling a forum friend (Steve) who I imagined would like to contact her and offer her genuine caring. However she told me she already had a small number of support people nearby and that’s all she wanted. She said she appreciated my concern but didn’t want anyone else contacting her. She wrote:

 

“You misinterpret my needs, I am craving solitude to walk the last phase of this life. In that solitude the last tasks as I see them can be performed. I have reduced contact to the close circle around me as any communication, whether by mail or in real life depletes my cognitive energy, physically I am mainly sitting in my comfy chair, soon I'll be bedbound. The slightest activity is exhausting, walking to my frontdoor has become an enormous task.”

 

In an earlier message this is how she informed me of her approaching death: 

 

“I am mainly looking for closure and have no energy for writing. last summer it was found there is a tumor in my body and metastases everywhere. So I will leave the physical plane and go on to what comes next. It's alright, I am good with it. either my son or my sister will inform the daobums after I've passed away” 

 

For me, her brief stoic words hide so much pain. To honour her legacy, I’d like forum members to reflect upon the reality that behind her strong and wise-sounding persona was a vulnerable human like us all; a persona she maintained even as she approached death. No one would have an inkling of her real situation from what she wrote. Even before her cancer diagnosis she was virtually home-bound for years with devastating chronic fatigue. To me it also speaks volumes about the nature of the forum itself. It is more a place to develop or display strength than be supported in working through vulnerabilities. There’s plenty of posting here, especially from some of the more vocal members, with the subtext, “This is why I’m great, this is why I’m right”; or for those less ego-bound: “This is why the teaching I follow is great, this is why it is right”.  And this sort of posting certainly has its place as a counterbalance to our inherent human vulnerabilities; our shadow....but surely harmful for progress on a spiritual path when in excess. 

 

(I write these words not as criticism of this forum which is excellent for what it is and has helped me enormously over the years of my membership. It’s more an objective assessment tinged with sadness about the limitations that all public sharing must have.)  
 

[Apech]

39 minutes ago, Cobie said:

Janneke with one ‘k’.

Thanks I have amended the OP.  Sorry for the error.

[doc benway]

One of my most treasured members of our little community. She was indeed wise, gentle, and generous. She will be deeply missed and remembered. Thank you for sharing this update @Geof Nanto

 

[Sanity Check]

On 1/13/2025 at 12:28 PM, blue eyed snake said:

 

I've known several though and after a near death experience as a teen i do want to go through  that gate. Entrance was denied me back in the day when i was young. But when my time has come i will go willingly without fear.

 

please do not revive me in whatever way, the idea is repulsive to me.

contrary to my way of living

 

 

I don't know them.

 

But I do remember them making the above remarks.