1. What can I expect in a session with James?

2. How do you get your information?

3. How would you compare what you do to a tarot reading?
   

4. Do I have a soul mate?  When am I going to meet him/her?
   

5. So then what is a "soul mate"?
   

6. You mean to say that if I resolve all of my issues with my spouse we will no longer feel a connection?
   

7. Do you believe in past lives?  Why should I care about them?
   

8. What then is one possible constructive perspective on past lives?

9. What does "designing your life" have to do with a consultation?

10. I notice that in my family, for generations, the women almost always end up in difficult relationships.  I don't want that to happen to me.  What can I do?
    

11. If I don't have a past life connection to my current biological family, why should I be concerned with my ancestors in this lifetime?  Shouldn't I be more focused on where I came from on a deeper soul level over the long haul by focusing on my past lives?
    

12. How do I tune into the message imprinted in my DNA?
    

13. So designing the life I've always wanted involves tuning into my body?

14. How is your accuracy rate?  Do your "predictions" usually come true?

15. What can I do to get a better consultation?
    

16. Could you please tell me about my "script" and how that relates to your work?

17. Do you do candle burning, spell casting, or magic?

18. Why do you call it The January Project?

^: What can I expect in a session with James?

^: In a consultation, I go into a light trance similar to a daydream, but on a whole different level.  It's like putting physical/conscious reality into the background and bringing the under-the-surface reality into view.  As you speak to me, images begin to move on a giant screen in my mind's eye.  As you ask your important questions, your voice moves the images forward.  It's like a giant invisible holographic record of your current living script and the scripts of those around you.   In a reading, looking at the future is much like engaging the fast-forward button on your VCR; only I'm playing the tape of your invisible script. Some of the images are literal; some are symbolic.  Where appropriate, I tell you about these symbols and what they mean.  Sometimes I quickly create hypothetical alternate futures and fast-forward or re-wind those tapes to see what's possible − especially given the scripts of those around you.  In doing so I can mediate between you and the future you want to experience − perhaps instead of the one that's coming at you right now, by default. 

Think of that giant screen as a multi-layered movie, one in which the images of those around you are interwoven into your own images.  So in that sense, the entire movie is holographic in nature.  When asking a question about yourself or another person, the images of all individuals involved will be affected, and so the total effect can be seen and then relayed to you.  This includes asking "what if" questions to explore possible outcomes based upon hypothetical actions ("What will happen if I.....").

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^: How do you get your information?

^: In my work I like to go beyond what most people would expect.  I like to show my clients the direction in which they are currently headed, and also I like to show them how to redesign their life path entirely to create the future they want.  I don't use any "divination" system; nor do I believe the future is fixed or carved in stone.  Instead, I believe everyone has a living script − an invisible set of scenarios that compel the future, or that can be changed at the snap of the fingers once you simply become conscious of them.  In a private consultation, I assess your personal situation and the issues involved, and then provide you with an insight to your personal script as well as that of others who may be involved.

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^: How would you compare what you do to a tarot card reading?

^: The tarot is a set of symbols that are then synthesized in a consultation and, hopefully, combined with the reader's intuition to apply the archetypes and symbols appropriately to the matter at hand. Over many thousands of years, those symbols have been imprinted with the mass consciousness in a way that makes them meaningful and, to some, sacred. I believe very much in symbolism and therefore I appreciate the meaning of the tarot.

However, I do not use tarot cards or any divination tools.  If my work were compared to a tarot card reading, imagine that instead of 52 cards, there are millions of ever-evolving cards that are imaginary instead of physical, and each of those cards is really a video screen....perhaps with premium cable.  The imagery I work with in a consultation is so fluid that if it were to somehow be embodied within a deck of tarot cards, each session for each person would have its own unique deck.

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^: Do I have a soul mate? When am I going to meet him/her?

^:  The simple answer is YES.  I do not subscribe to the idea that there is just one very special person roaming the earth, hopelessly trying to find you and make all of your problems go away while you both fall into a state of eternal bliss.  The very good news is that there are currently nearly 6 billion people on the planet.  The possibilities in that size of a crowd of people are unlimited when you consider the average life span.  And yes, you do have many soul mates, not just one.  Consider, however, that you may have killed them in a past lifetime or vice versa.  Perhaps they were your resentful butler.  Or maybe you were the controlling evil stepmother and they were the compassionate beautiful child of vision held back by you.  It could get interesting this time around.  That burning passion you feel for someone may be concealing something unexpected.

^: So then what is a "soul mate"?

^:  A "soul mate" is usually someone with whom you have unresolved issues that need to be worked through and released.  Often "soul mates" end up in very beautiful long term relationships.  Sometimes they are the people you dislike the most, the people that press your buttons.  Sometimes a "soul mate" is someone with whom you experienced great joy previously and you are continuing the deepening process this time around.  Sometimes the relationship needs lifetimes to unfold completely.  The connection you feel is a soul-level memory.  The key is to see your relationship to them as a learning experience and find the release point(s) so both of you can evolve and move on, lest you repeat the experience. I don't generally use the term "soul mate" because of how it is commonly perceived, therefore.

^: You mean to say that if I resolve all of my issues with my spouse we will no longer feel a connection?

^:  Sometimes this is possible, though not probable.  The real purpose is to move to an even deeper level of intimacy.  You might think of it as a sort of spiritual gift for doing the work.  On the outside chance you don't end up staying together physically, you are still linked at a soul level.  In that case you may very well meet someone else with whom you share that bliss − perhaps even another "soul mate". Relationships never really end, they just evolve and change.  They are here to teach you and to help you to evolve, if you are open to that.  All too many people try to possess the one they love.

^: Do you believe in past lives?  Why should I care about them?

^:  I believe in evolution, and therefore I subscribe to the idea of past lives.  Therefore reincarnation makes sense to me.  It's helpful to your current experience to know about past life patterns that helped you evolve to this point.  It is not wise to obsess over who or what you used to be -- in any lifetime.

^: What then is one possible constructive perspective on past lives?

^:  Remember that the patterns you see are good indicators of what you need to be looking at now.  Consider that every person you meet has likely evolved across many lifetimes.  In other words, no longer are they just the homeless person begging you for money, or the musician who inspires you, or your pre-adolescent child; they are the culmination of many lifetimes embodied before you now.  Think of the opportunity and the great honor that brings to any given moment. Then remember that you are a mirror of that same evolution, if you choose to be.  It is a two-way street.  Likely, you were once a homeless person, or an inspired musician or artist, or even a child.  Imagine that.

Seventy-five percent of who you are now relates to who you were in previous lifetimes -- much more than what happened in your childhood.  By the same token, you wouldn't want to live in the past -- particularly not a past lifetime.  After all, it is indeed a past lifetime, and you came this far.  Why go back?  What did you learn from it that can help you now?

^: What does "designing your life" have to do with a consultation?

^:  Designing your life is precisely what a consultation is all about. Remember, the future is not carved in stone.  As you change, so does your future. Designing your life is a philosophical idea that you have the power to make anything happen.  It speaks to the promise and the possibility that you can experience great joy and purpose.  It means that you make a spiritual commitment, a contract, with yourself.  This is not like a schedule you put in a day-timer and feverishly work towards.  It is more about perspective first, and then purposeful action that comes out of that perspective.  The key is the perspective  It's primarily about being, followed by doing.  For every "be" there is a corresponding "do".  Ever hear of the Doobie Brothers?

^: I notice that in my family, for generations, the women almost always end up in difficult relationships.  I don't want that to happen to me.  What can I do?

^:  That is a very large question.  The simplest answer is that what you are referring to is a family legacy, which is almost like a memory at the DNA level...that gets passed down through the generations. At it's keyed into the larger community of humankind.  The solution to this problem is to resolve it within yourself so it doesn't continue.  In doing so, you actually help other people in your family release the same issues.  This is much more effective than trying to rescue them.  In a much larger sense, we as a community of humankind are right now being presented with the opportunity to re-engineer the DNA of the human race, thereby making a quantum leap forward in understanding and consciousness forever.  Perhaps instead of focusing on past lives, it would be more helpful to understand what your current ancestors experienced.

^: If I don't have a past life connection to my current biological family, why should I be concerned with my ancestors in this lifetime?  Shouldn't I be more focused on where I came on a deeper soul level over the long haul by focusing on my past lives?

^:  Again this is a very large question.  The simplest answer is that the evolution of our entire soul level experience is so encompassing that it spans many lifetimes. You can't possibly resolve everything in one lifetime, anymore than you could finish your entire college degree in one term.  So each lifetime is like a new set of classes and learning experiences.  It's like you are using each lifetime to specialize in a particular set of experiences, but not everything at once.  Therefore, since you chose this lifetime to work through a specific set of issues and experiences, your current biological family is of utmost importance now.  Their very DNA, and your own, has an important message for you.  Tune into it, and make peace with it.

^: How do I tune into the "message" in my DNA?

^:  Let me help you design that process.  The key is in communication, first with your body.  Your body is a living testimony of your biographical experience.  Every experience you have ever had is recorded in your body.  Thanks to cellular memory, your body "remembers" even when your conscious mind forgets. There are layers of timeless wisdom imprinted in every cell of your body, always there, ready for you to access: an intimate personal body of universal knowledge.  Your body can teach you about yourself and the world around you.  There is a unique and individual road map within you, waiting to guide you to wherever it is you want to go − and to show you new places you may never have imagined.

^: So designing the life I've always wanted includes talking to my body?

^:  It absolutely does, and for all the reasons described.  Your body is a microcosm of the entire biosphere.  The smallest unit of matter has imprinted within it the same pattern as the entire biosphere.  Indeed the world is not only at your fingertips, it is in your fingertips.  Your body (like every cell in your body), is a perfect living system existing within a perfect living system existing within a perfect living system, ad infinitum.  it's like a "community of cells" − self-organizing, self-maintaining, and self-transcending.  You can become an inspiration to others by changing yourself.  By changing yourself, you can send a powerful wave of energy out into the larger community that causes a compelling and definite shift.  There is a definite and scientifically proven physical connection between you, every person, and every thing else.  You don't even have to say one word or do anything else besides making that shift within yourself.

^: How is your accuracy rate?  Do your "predictions" usually come true?

^:  That depends upon you and those around you.  In reality, a consultation is for a given moment in time only.  Many people, having garnered the insight from the session, immediately or soon afterwards set out on a new course, and everything changes − especially now that they see how the future really depends upon them.  The idea of accuracy feeds into the age old idea of the candle-burning gypsy with a sandwich board on the sidewalk and a whole lot of pictures of saints on the wall.  Some of those people are really interesting, and many are gifted.  But I have discovered that, for me, the mysterious nature of it all is no longer appropriate.  My job isn't to mesmerize you with trance-like mystery; instead, it is to turn the light on so that you may see yourself more clearly.  In doing so, you may even decide to make changes, i.e. take an active part in creating the future you always wanted.  For some people this can be distressing and frustrating.  For others, it's exciting because it means they have a certain level of control over the future.  This is what I refer to when I talk about your "script". Your life is like a huge design lab with a multitude of tools.  When you really get in touch with that concept, every day becomes exciting!  As the Microsoft motto says, "Where do you want to go today?"

^: What can I do to get a better consultation?

^:  It helps tremendously when you come to the session with specific questions.  Think of a consultation like looking into a magical pond that reflects back to you what you put into it: if you ask a specific question, the answer is specific; if you ask a general question, the answer comes back general; if you ask a question about something non-existent or made up, your answer will be equally non-existent or unreal!  It's all about illusion and reflection, and the law of relativity: you get back exactly what you put out.

In almost any session, the information comes through at lightening speed.  If you want to know about a particular person, for example, just say the person's name, ask the specific question, and let the message come through.

^: Can you please tell me about my "script" and how that applies to your work?

^: My consultations are about looking closely at your living script: an invisible set of if/then scenarios that continually changes as you change your thoughts and perspectives.  Almost everyone has a primary "default" script that brings the future back to them and into the now, creating their everyday experiences, mostly unconsciously.  The key to creating the future you've always wanted is to become conscious of your living script and then to change it.

^: Do you do candle burning, spell casting, or magic?

^:  No, I do not believe in this, nor is it a part of my work or even my life.  No one can change the course of events in your life – for good or bad – through spells or magic (often spelled "magick") or any of that type of gimmick like burning of candles.  Nor can anyone use such activity to turn your life into misery or make someone love you against their will or "reunite" lovers. (Besides, don't you want to be loved openly and freely because it is meant to be, and because the timing is right?) I do believe, however, in the power of the mind to affect change, insofar as matter follows thought.  "Prayer" or positive thought (i.e. sending someone warm feelings of love and kindness), definitely make a difference.  Ultimately, it is your mind that affects change – mostly through changing your perspective, not bending the rules or going into denial or stuffing feelings that need to be addressed.  It is possible, using alchemy and symbolism, to empower those positive thoughts and prayer-like meditations to affect real change in your life and therefore those you love (since we are all connected). 

^: Why do you call it The January Project?

^: The name "January Project" is intended to symbolize new beginnings, such as the first month of the year.  Also, I wanted it to reflect a modern world view, since that is the world in which we live, here and now, 2007.

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