[tmtranscripts] Michael 7.18.05

[JERRY LANE]

Dear Folks,    Well, here is the next message from our Parents in the new, 
suggested format by TMArchives.  I may not have all the elements included, 
so I'll read the instructions a few more times.  Hang in here with me 
through the transition.  I always enjoy whatever feedback you have for me.  
Your love and support come shining through.  All my love, 
Jerry--Nytrayn at msn.com

Michael 7.18.05

Marin TM Group--Mill Valley, California, USA

MICHAEL—T/R-JL

(Mother Spirit’s adjutants of wisdom and worship: Michael’s Spirit of Truth)

(Stillness and “home base”)

(Stillness as building a pure spiritual potential)

(The search of truth)

(The focus of worship)

(Your soul is your means of survival)

(What you can perceive with the power of humility)

Dear Michael and Mother Spirit,    How we do treasure these visits.  We look 
forward to them each week.  We thank you for explaining certain spiritual 
truths that come across to us as ironic, as when we take up our life more 
and more in the present, we are less driven by the past or tempted to sell 
out our own futures.  Then as we practice spiritual detachment from our 
bodies and our mental processes, we can actually perceive them more 
distinctly and clearly, and are able to commit ourselves more fully and 
unselfconsciously to what we are doing.  So we thank you for these 
discoveries.  Amen.

(Mother Spirit’s adjutants of wisdom and worship: Michael’s Spirit of Truth)

MICHAEL:  My dear children, Good Evening.  This is Michael.  Just as Mother 
Nebadonia wishes you to relax and feel Her loving support, Her dimension of 
worship giving you a thankfulness and appreciation of all our Father’s great 
creation, and Her adjutant of wisdom helping you use all you have learned so 
far in your lives, and apply it to the present moment to give you this 
priceless quality of recognition in an ever changing reality; so too I would 
like you to consider My Spirit of Truth as it impacts your lives.  This is a 
kind of presence of mind that, very much like Mother’s presence throughout 
our Local Universe, My spirit too resides here independently of My own 
coming and going.  So you can consider it a very stalwart and faithful 
guide.

I ask you to feel for Me in your heart, which means not only your physical 
heart beating--as a way of tuning in to My presence and My spirit, but more 
extensively your whole realm of feeling as contra-distinct from thinking.  
We gave a lesson a while ago on the different dimensions of feeling and how 
so much of your thinking is based on feeling, and simply articulating it to 
one another.  But you also have feelings of intuition coming from your 
super-consciousness, the over-riding field of consciousness that is not what 
you are aware of and have control over, but a broader field that can inform 
you at times from a summation of all your perceptions.  This intuition can 
inform you of certain subtleties that are beyond your present notice.  For 
this very reason it is sometimes hard to pin down the source of these 
intuitions and you wonder where they are coming from, or how much you can 
trust them.  Here a practice of stillness, quieting the intention to grasp 
hold of something, allows your present consciousness to relax and this 
broader super-conscious field to lead you back to the perceptions which gave 
rise to the intuition.

(Stillness and “home base”)

This is similar to what you asked about last week as--home base--the 
transcendent home in your being that you can visit from time to time and 
find reassurance and rest.  You are probably already, but only 
half-consciously touching on this many times during your day.  Think of the 
times you are facing the complexity of a problem, and though you understand 
all the component pieces, you are not sure where to start first.  You have 
learned you just clear your mind for a moment and make room for something to 
suggest itself, rather than worrying or fretting or getting anxious in the 
face of such complexity.  You relaxed and trusted in: what is it now?  What 
is it you are trusting to suggest a solution?  This is your larger mind.  
You touch upon it by relaxing, clearing your mind--if you will.  This is a 
way of touching home base.

So what We are suggesting in your stillness is intentionally staying there, 
and just enjoying this feeling of existing, of being aware you have a body 
and a mind, and thanking God for this life.  Because ordinarily it is just 
touch and go.  You touch home base only long enough to get the next good 
idea, and off you go again.  For an active, busy animal, part of being a 
human being, stillness suggests a departure from this busy animal life.  You 
not only touch upon home base to get the good idea, or the next step to 
take, but you will linger awhile.  For this reason, so many schools of 
meditation suggest you begin by keeping a pencil and pad of paper handy to 
jot down these ideas, or else your fear of losing them becomes such a 
distraction you lose your place here.

(Stillness as building a pure spiritual potential)

So when you practice stillness you are going somewhat against the grain of 
deep instincts to keep moving.  But I think you can see how this is an 
assertion of your full human being, the spiritual dimensions of your 
personality which set you apart from the animal kingdom.  There is no 
denying this is an exercise of willpower—to return to home base and not act 
immediately upon the great ideas that can occur to you there.  This is what 
makes it a deepening experience, for it is a spiritual effort that leads to 
a spiritual ability.  It’s like growing pure potential; not the potential to 
do some specific thing, but pure potential, pure spiritual willpower.  For 
it is in incubating this power, highly consciously, that enables you to rest 
and recharge yourself by not immediately using it.

This is where My Spirit of Truth comes in.  This is how you access Me.  As 
various ideas, and feelings, and possibilities come to you here at home 
base, you use My power of spirit to sort them out, to feel for which has the 
greater reality, the greater possibility of coming to fruition.  These are 
all very subtle feelings—spiritual evaluations.  This is why My Spirit of 
Truth has been known as the Comforter because over and above a desire to 
find the truth are those wonderful moments when you are assured of having 
it.  As you put it: everything clicks.  Everything comes into a beautiful 
alignment.  You own personal creativity finds a perfect augmentation with 
Mother’s adjutant of wisdom.  Your own soul suggests that this new idea is 
really possible and in accord with what you know to be true.  My Spirit of 
Truth puts the final seal of approval upon it.  All of this you recognize as 
a kind of depth, an assurance that: Yes, this is going to work.

(The search of truth)

The search for truth is a wonderful thing, My children.  Truth is not only 
an ideal and something to hope for, and to work towards, it is something to 
courageously test, something to apply to God’s greater creation and then 
have the further courage to be open to the results: to engage with reality 
and accept deeply what it is telling you.

This process has no end, for as you—alone--have limitations, if your 
precious attitude, your orientation is open and willing to accept what the 
greater creation is feeding back to you, there is no limit to how much you 
can grow.  This is the real stuff of life.  This is the genuine reward of 
temporal success along the way to eternity.  This is returning home, not 
just to touch and go, but to linger awhile.

Can you feel the broad peacefulness here?  Won’t you stay awhile?  Come be 
in My peace.  If you have any questions or comments this evening, I welcome 
them.

Student:  Dear Jesus, I was reading Urantia the other night and how after 
Your baptism You didn’t mind the Apostles being in an attitude of worship 
towards You.  I find as I read the Urantia Book the gratitude of knowing 
about Your personality creates a feeling of worship, but I was under the 
impression that it should be directed to the Father on Paradise; but 
however, it’s easy for us to aim our worship through You.  Is that a mature 
way of doing it?  And I’d appreciate any comments on that.  Thank You in 
advance.

(The focus of worship)

MICHAEL:  Yes, My son, I think it always helpful to keep in mind, because 
you have so many ideas and definitions of worship that you’ve encountered 
all through your life; it is helpful to keep in mind that, fundamentally, 
worship is a feeling and awareness of being thankful.  First this an 
awareness of something to be thankful for.  This could be some particular 
thing that is happening to you, or it could be very general, just a 
wonderful feeling of being alive--for some reason being very hyper-sensitive 
to the fact you are living.  Maybe perhaps you are aware of the mystery of 
life itself, of how powerful and tenacious, yet delicate it is.

All life proceeds originally from our Father in Paradise, but then as your 
studies have informed you, it is shaped in so many ways by intermediate Sons 
of His—The Eternal Son on Paradise; and then, coming through Myself—a 
Creator Son of the Eternal Father and the Eternal Son.  So it is not so 
important where you focus this giving of thanks as it is just to profoundly 
feel it.  You are in the Father’s personality circuit, and through His 
presence in you that suggests thoughts for you to consider, this presence 
also gives Him an instantaneous experience of whatever you experience.  And 
so your thankfulness registers with Him immediately.

And so it is also with Mother Spirit and Myself.  You can specifically 
direct your worship to Us if it is in your heart to do so.  We rejoice and 
give thanks in return for your love.  This is the essence of worship, this 
giving thanks for all the enormity of God’s creation, and then too the gift 
of eternity—all the time there is for you to explore it.  Does this answer 
your question, My son?

Student:  Yes, dear Michael and Jesus, a very fulfilling answer.  Since my 
prayer is answered so rapidly with the question, it gives me great hope that 
my Thought Adjuster realizes that it’s a question that’s appropriate, and is 
in the scope of my understanding, and I’m  profoundly thankful for that—the 
full answer that You gave.  Thank You in a worshipful manner…

(Your soul is your means of survival)

MICHAEL:  You are very welcome My son.  Always remember that your soul is a 
true spiritual record of your experiences.  Here you and the Father are 
already one.  You are both co-authors of this cosmic reality that has as 
much true existence as you, and is the very means by which your 
personality—you—can survive.  Whatever you experience of spiritual value 
becomes your possession that instant, and remains yours forever.  So you are 
always in the most intimate touch with this Mystery Monitor of God’s within 
you.  But you are right to address this Fragment of God with love and 
respect, for your soul-reality is worthy of both.  Rest now in My peace.

Student:  Thanks again for those wonderful answers.

MICHAEL:  (After a long pause)  Do you have any questions or comments this 
evening, (Name)?

Next Student:  Hmmm…  I was just experiencing the depth of Your presence and 
feeling Your peace…  (Heavy sigh…)  The answer that Mother gave to me last 
week was really profound, and very…affirming in my vision and quest to live 
as I was intended to live—as we all are: the idea of being a reflection of 
absolute reality, of God, of God’ reality in the people who are around me.  
The deeper understanding I come to what that means—the more in-sync my life 
is.  That sense of agony I was feeling because of my own judgements and 
evaluations of people—peoples’ unwillingness to change—kind of dissipated; 
even though there was compassion and love towards these people.  It seems 
like everything I’ve been reading lately seems to strongly affirm my own 
understanding, and how much more I need to understand.  It just goes deeper 
and deeper…  So I wish to thank Mother for that.  And feel Your presence 
within me…

MICHAEL:  Yes indeed, My son, what we are capable of sharing—you and I—goes 
beyond words.  (Long pause)

(What you can perceive with the power of humility)

Now I want to thank you, and (Name), and (Name)--you three especially—for 
the courage you have been showning to stand so spiritually naked here in My 
presence and the presence of each other, to truly ask and share what is in 
your hearts.  This is a true, living example of the courage to worship that 
puts you in touch with so much.  This is why you have this wonderful feeling 
from time to time of being in-sync.  Your spirit has expanded to touch that 
single thread of the Divine that runs through every tiny little speck of 
creation.  You experience another irony—the magnificent power of humility 
that is there in your soul in devout prayer, in asking for help, for this 
very opening allows you to perceive that which is so much greater than 
you—which can rebound back to you and reassure you, you are also a 
God-created part of it all.

For you are having this perception!  This is now included in your abilities. 
  When you are at the beach you can feel abject at how tiny you are, but 
then Look!—there is the ocean.  If it’s a clear night, there’s the galaxy!  
Mother sends you Her love, that you take Her words to heart , and let them 
move you.  Rest in My peace.

END


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