[tmtranscripts] Michael 6.20.05

[JERRY LANE]

Dear Folks,   Here's another invitation from Michael to visit with Him - 
right where you're sitting.  Enjoy.  Jerry - Nytrayn at msn.com

Michael 6.20.05

Marin TM Group

Dear Michael and Mother Spirit,    How wonderful it is becoming to have You 
so near us all through the day.  We welcome You into our lives, but in a 
greater sense You are welcoming us into Yours.  You are introducing us to 
Your greater realm of spirit - introducing us, then reminding us this is a 
dimension of our own, and though it was always there as part of us, given to 
us by God, our Father, still it is so wonderful to be conscious of it, to 
realize we extend into this dimension far beyond what we yet know.  Thank 
You for your gentle teasing us to stretch.  Amen.

Michael:  Good evening, My children, this is your Father, Michael.  What a 
wonderful response I get from your souls!  The essence of the Father that 
lives within you recognizes Me.  There is a part of your soul, part of whom 
you have always been in this journal of your human experiences, that 
recognizes Me.

Just pause a moment and realize alongside Me, your spiritual Mother, 
Nebadonia.  You can feel Us as a very subtle kind of pressure in your mind, 
so subtle it is hard to describe so that you can isolate it.  It’s almost a 
physical tingling, a cottony feeling of ten thousand tiny needles.  But it 
is not a physical sensation as such.  It is a density of Our presence.  To 
feel this you must be very spiritually still, yet so long as you are awake 
there will be some mental activity in your stillness.  You will be able to 
feel Our presence right alongside, or you might think of it as a deeper 
background to, the thoughts or the memories or the wondering that crosses 
your mind.

This sensation is nevertheless very still in itself.  As Mother recommended 
last week, through a process of relaxing you let your mind still of itself, 
rather than trying to hold your mind a blank.  It’s easiest to receive Us 
and other messages from your spiritual teachers by just relaxing any kind of 
effort you may be tempted to make.  Your human curiosity is a wonderfully 
tenacious aspect of your mind; it’s been such a factor in your survival as a 
species.  It may kill a cat from time to time, but in your human life is a 
wonderful blessing, an innate wondering that pops up on its own, looking 
around and trying things.  So as you practice your stillness, your curiosity 
will come up with things, little mental exercises trying to get a grasp on 
the ineffable, and anticipate what’s next.

So as various things come up - one might be trying to focus to a pinpoint in 
your mind, another might be trying to anticipate what you think you need to 
hear - just be patient.  Give yourselves time to settle down and realize the 
importance of what your are striving to do.  You have all the other hours 
and minutes of your life to go about your busy and needful activities.  But 
all these are based on your personality, what you realize as your 
being-ness, your spiritual existence prior to any of these activities.  You 
have to value this essence of yourself in itself.  Once you do this, and 
begin to sense who, and more profoundly – what - you are, this becomes a 
doorway to Us.  This is how you welcome Us into your life.  And true enough 
- in your prayer this evening, this is how We tease you into Our realm.

In My last lesson dealing more specifically with prayer, I mentioned you can 
start with worship, with feeling your heart beating and marveling at this 
gift of our Father of life itself.  If you want to enumerate all the things 
and people you have to be thankful for in your life, this is always welcome 
and gives Us great joy too, but it is not necessary.  It is when your 
feelings come to be moved, My children: this is the reward of worship We 
invite you to experience.  You give yourselves to Us and to our Father by 
setting aside this time and dedication, and We return this with affection.  
This is something you can feel.  This is what brings the tears of gladness 
if you will but allow yourselves to feel it.

Many resist this experience because it can feel initially like a inner 
breaking down: in other words, can you trust it?  And so for you it may be, 
but this is nothing to fear.  Consider this very carefully, My children.  
Whatever within your heart and your mind needs to be surrendered to feel the 
love of your Spiritual Parents can only lead to the most nourishing 
experience imaginable for your soul.  This is another choice that is yours 
to make.  Most of what you feel as a breaking down will be your own 
unconscious defenses, however righteously or erroneously set up sometime in 
the past.  When you come to Us and your Father, there is no need for them.

What we offer you, and what you are offering yourself in accepting, is a 
wonderful opportunity to take a break from any kind of defensiveness, and 
with courage open yourself to the unknown.  There will be time enough for 
defenses later, but here you have a choice to let this defensiveness go for 
good, seeing if it is no longer needed.

This is the power of spirit.  This is what spirit can do in renewing you.  
It can give you a perception, a realization of automatic reactions - what 
you call knee-jerk reactions - which are based on years and years of habit, 
and sometimes deliberate schooling or training in ways to react defensively 
in situations long past.  You can see there is a kind of paradox here, yet 
also the solution to it. How can you become aware of what you are doing 
unconsciously, so you can have this freedom of choice?

This is the power and gift of spirit.  This is another reward of your 
stillness.  You relax and let these old habits come up and be recognized, 
usually with the pure memory of the events that gave rise to them in the 
first place.  Now you can see and understand how you came to be the way you 
are.  Now you are in the spontaneous, creative realm of spirit, really 
feeling all the power of now, and you can choose to continue these defenses, 
or not.  Your consciousness will be approaching your soul, the true 
spiritual journal of what has happened to you.  You can feel and realize – 
now - you truly have had these past events, whereas just a few minutes 
before, they unconsciously had you.

This is how you renew yourself.  This is how you use the peace and the love 
you find in Us.  You open to it, you welcome it, you accept it, you joyously 
let it break down what it will, and you keep finding a larger peace.

Here in our meetings this is a little easier.  There is a kind of group 
consciousness here, more correctly a group super-consciousness.  You find it 
easier to relax and feel My presence all around My words.  Hopefully when 
you are on your way home this evening, you will be enjoying a feeling of 
rebirth.  You can remember these moments as you fall asleep tonight.  But 
then as you go through your days, tomorrow and the next, you need not rely 
on any memory of this evening.  It could become merely a haze of nostalgia.  
The trick is to rediscover what is happening now in your little 
mini-meditations, your small stillness moments all through your days, so 
they will each be somewhat unique unto themselves.  It will only be My peace 
- down on the bedrock of your being where you allow yourselves to rest - 
that will be somewhat the same, growing stronger.  It’s like an ever clearer 
lens.  My peace and Mother Spirit’s love will be cleansing your perceptions 
so as you come through these moments of stillness, the world around you, and 
your own feelings and understandings within you, both will be growing ever 
clearer.

This is the wonderful marvel of spirit.  True growth in spirit is not 
other-worldly. It permeates every aspect of your life.  It transforms your 
physical and mental dimensions and helps your personality unite all these 
various aspects of your being.  And so you find yourself ever more in the 
world, ever more capable of dealing with it, ever more capable of loving and 
becoming lovable.

Welcome to Our realm, My children.  Our arms are always open for you.  Come 
join Us.  If you have any questions or comments this evening, it’s always My 
joy to hear them.

(There followed a long period of stillness and presence)

Michael:  (Later) Well, I see no one wants to break the stillness, and it is 
not necessary.  Either way the peacefulness is always here - you can begin 
to sense, in a way still almost unimaginable to you - nothing really affects 
it.  This is what I meant by spirit permeating all the dimensions of your 
human lives.  The larger you experience this, the more you will be able to 
feel it no matter what you are doing.

Student:  Father Michael, I understand, I’ve been told rather, that we are 
designed to experience Your love and Nebadonia’s love down to the molecular 
level of our bodies.  Is what You explained tonight - how to do that?  I 
believe sometimes I am doing that.

Michael:  Yes, My son, you are correct on both counts.  This is what happens 
very naturally through the mechanisms of your body’s own wisdom.  This is 
the result of what you know of as physiological evolution down to the DNA, 
and back, following a divine pattern and continuous creation.  So just by 
profoundly relaxing, you allow your body to heal itself.  Actually you are 
mostly getting yourself out of the way, especially by allowing this breaking 
down of defenses and inner tension and stress - the feelings you must always 
be on guard - when there may be no real need for this.

The tears of gratitude you feel and shed during your moments of worship when 
you allow Our love to pour over you: nothing is more healing.  At the same 
time it is also true that you may focus this healing power of your and Our 
combined spirit.  First, allow into your stillness anything that is 
unhealthy or ill at ease to come to the surface and catch your attention.  
This might be some old wound grown a little too familiar, or some unhealthy 
condition you long ago too readily accepted, perhaps.  Now with your greater 
understanding of physical healing and spiritual creativity, you can allow 
this old wound to come to the surface of your attention, and then direct our 
combined love and care to that spot.

As I advised once with respect to mental processes, it’s so wise not to 
assume you know what’s going on within you.  Approach yourselves with your 
marvelous curiosity and truly wonder: who and – what – am I?  What’s going 
on in here?  This is the attitude.  Does this answer your question, My son?

Student:  Yes, it does.  Thank You.  I’ve spent a lot of time avoiding those 
injuries and things in the past that I didn’t want to look at, and now it’s 
time to look at them.  So thank You very much once again.

Michael:  Yes, similar to allowing past events to reoccur to you in all 
their fullness before your judgments about them were made, so too it’s 
helpful to allow these old injuries to come up and remind you of the 
adventures - and misadventures - you’ve had.  Don’t assume they can’t be 
healed.  Approach them with freshness.  Above all, direct your love to any 
part of you that is hurting - physical, mental, spiritual or soulful.  Don’t 
abandon any part of yourself, My son.  And be in My peace.

Student: Thank You, Father.

Student:  Heavenly Father, in the quest to feel love right here and to grow 
into higher consciousness, is it most beneficial to, as a practice, to 
reflect on what is transitory in a search for that part of us that is true 
and permanent, or lasting?  I found myself thinking about that today. It’s a 
meditation on a continuing basis, or often to realize how transitory most of 
my thoughts and feelings are, even events.  Will this be beneficial and can 
You suggest other ideas on this that might be of some use?

Michael:  Yes, My son.  I must congratulate you on your growing recognition 
of the difference.  This is what is truly liberating, this spontaneous, ever 
quicker and sharper recognition based on your growing understanding.  You 
are wise not to suppress anything that occurs to you, that you perceive, or 
that you feel - both emotionally and intuitively.  Some of this will be very 
transitory, very fleeting.  But if it is real, why suppress or deny it?

Some of the electronic waves you use in communication are only a 
ten-thousandth of a second long – affecting one little pixel on a TV screen. 
  But it’s real, it’s part of the whole.  So you’re wise to stretch in the 
dimension of this recognition which is based on an ever deeper understanding 
of these relationships between what is more permanent or lasting, and what 
is transitory or ephemeral.  And yes, this understanding does grow from your 
deeper meditative restfulness that you might mistake as an inner immobility, 
or emptiness; but it’s not.  It’s absolutely alive and profoundly dynamic; 
it’s just peaceful.

This may strike you as a bit of an oxymoron.  But this is what We have been 
teasing you with as possible: that as you grow in spirit and become more 
creative and spontaneous, you will be more and more active, less and less 
just re-active.  For as your perceptions begin to clear more and more, so 
you will be able to see and experience more and more all these very 
fleeting, ephemeral bits and pieces of reality.  This can be very 
delightful, like watching all the dancing points of fire in your fireplace 
in the evening.  Could anything be more transitory, yet real?  Does this 
make sense to you, My son, how as you become more and more peaceful deep 
within you, you can take ever more delight in all the dancing, transitory 
elements all about you?

Student:  Yes, ah…thank You for the inspiration!  It’s uplifting and gives 
me a good perspective.

Michael: I must say your wisdom is growing, just to be able to notice more 
and more, and distinguish, discriminate the longer-lived from the ephemeral. 
  But they are all part of God’s creation.  There are movements involving 
not only solar systems, but the sweep of clusters of galaxies, that are 
regular into the billions, even trillions of years.  Then there’s your 
little TV pixel glow with its short little life.  And it’s all real.  Just 
don’t forget to enjoy it all.  And be in My peace.

Student: Yes, Father, a couple of weeks ago when I was last here and we 
spoke about decisions, making decisions and looking at the whole picture, 
You said something about we as humans are absolutely fallible; and I’ve been 
pondering that…since that time.  And I was wondering what You meant by that. 
  Do You mean that when we separate ourselves consciously from God, from 
Universal Mind, that we are fallible and can make mistakes?  We are 
reacting.  But if we allow ourselves to let go and let God, and submerge 
ourselves in this cosmic river, this cosmic flow, then there is a 
knowing-ness of what to do, of what actions to take, of what to say.  Am I 
in the right direction, can I say that?

Michael:  Well, My son, you are expressing very well a whole spectrum of 
being, from one extreme, very much in accord with God’s will – which 
actually is reality, to being out of accord and contrary to His will.  Yet 
what I wanted to point out was a quality of humility, the acknowledgement of 
your human limitations to know the right way - without getting into any kind 
of self-abasement or self-flagellation - beating up on yourself, nor yet 
frozen in indecision.  Life presents you with the necessity to decide, and 
We have reassured you that so much of your human situation was deliberately 
created this way by God to exercise you in this short, intense human life, 
to prepare you for the next few stages to come.

Student:  That was my question I was asking!  I feel I am being prepared for 
something.  (Laughter)

Michael:  I concluded by putting this in a social context, where everybody 
accepts this humility that, even though they may feel so strongly in their 
heart and their mind that they are doing the right thing in accord with 
Gods’ will, they may not be!  Because even in social situations where 
organization is required to accomplish a task, where leadership is a 
wonderful quality and very needful, still there’s nothing so detrimental to 
good will among people as for one of them to assert being infallible.  This 
echoes back to notions of the divine right of rulers.  It goes further back 
to the earliest organizations of large groups of human beings, such as in 
Egypt and before, when the whole society at that primitive stage needed to 
believe there was a human being standing in front of them who was 
infallible, even God-like.

Underlying this realization is the wisdom of the separation of church and 
state, so your political leaders cannot assert some kind of divine authority 
for their human decisions.  It is in this sense I tried to stress a profound 
blessing in accepting for oneself this humility - by staying out of any kind 
of notion that in whatever you do you are somehow infallible.  So even with 
the best intentions, the purest heart, you do not assert this kind of 
authority over your fellows.  As long as you are a finite being and not 
possessed of absolute or infinite wisdom, this will affect your decisions.  
This is the context in which I meant that.  Is this more clear to you, My 
son?

Student:  Yes, very much so.  Do You feel that I had that propensity, or are 
You just warning me or having me look at and see that everyone has the same 
inner wisdom, the same spiritual potential?  So in a sense, if I feel 
fallible, then they may also feel they are fallible?  That we are all human 
and need to honor each person in their stage of development?

Michael:  Yes: exactly.  I did mean it in the general sense of when each 
member of a group accepts their own fallibility, and also does not expect 
their friends to be infallible either.  This is the basis for a genuine 
companionship because each person will recognize their success depends on 
all the others, and at the same time, the others are depending on him or 
her.

Student:  Actually, I’ve been stressing to my daughter and to (Name) how we 
are all depending on each other to make this work within the situation; and 
to be sensitive to each others needs, and shortcomings; but also to 
appreciate who we all are in this little fishbowl of personalities; and to 
be considerate. That’s, I think, one of the main issues - to be considerate 
of each other.

Michael:  Yes, My son.  This is why accepting your own limitations and 
fallibility is a wonderful consideration of each others rights and feelings.

Student:  When you mentioned about leaders who put themselves up as being 
infallible - like the Pope, for example - but what also comes to mind is the 
guru-disciple relationship where so many persons prostrate themselves to a 
guru, give their life to a guru, and see them as being infallible, beings 
masters, being avatars, instead of seeing these qualities within themselves 
– which is what a guru is supposed to reflect.  I’ve noticed how a lot of 
past gurus have experienced quite negative…experiences in their lives, and 
most of them are passed away.

Michael:  As is often the case with human teachers, or gurus: they simply 
cannot resist the temptation of being adored and worshiped.  It goes to 
their head and, if they do not have a strong character and a good sense of 
who they are, and their own limitations, they even lose themselves.  They 
start to believe and act out their students’ projections of infallibility.  
Then it takes only a flight of stairs to precipitate quite a fall from 
grace.  So it is also considerate of the student not to put such a burden of 
infallibility upon his teacher, is it not?

Student:  Yes, so true. This is what You, when You were on this planet as 
Jesus, really stressed.

Michael:  A good teacher with character always enjoys when his students 
surpass him.  Then he knows he has been successful indeed -  he has passed 
the lamp of wisdom and is seeing his own teaching surpassed in the students.

Student:  Thank You.

Michael:  You’re welcome, My son.  Keep up your good work holding that group 
together.  The best leadership is not a fixed thing.  In any good group 
leadership flows from person to person - to whomever has the best ideas at 
the moment.  For it is a wonderfully, flexibly organized group which can 
recognize the best ideas as they occur - to whomever they occur - and so 
will follow them until the next, best ones arrive.  This way everyone is 
open to everyone else, and the full intelligence of the entire group can be 
brought to bear.  And rest in My peace.

Are there any more questions this evening?  (Another very long and pregnant 
pause)

What a wonderful peace you are experiencing, My children.  You are truly 
learning how to let it affect you.  Give this peacefulness permission and it 
will occur to you all through your days, all by itself.  As I’ve suggested 
before, it can happen right in the midst of your most violent activities, 
and be welcome.  For strangely enough, it is when you are most active that 
you need your heart to be at peace.  You need your spirit to be spontaneous 
and free, just to follow the dancing moment of what it is you are doing.  
It’s how the more peaceful you are inside, the sharper and clearer your 
focus can be on what you are doing.  When you are in the groove, and you are 
one with yourself in your activities, they almost seem to be doing 
themselves.  We’re right there with you, My children.  There’s a big smile 
on Our faces too.

Be in my peace.  Good evening.