[tmtranscripts] Michael 5.15.06

[JERRY LANE]

Dear Folks,    Whew!--this was a long session, nearly two hours, but it left 
us laughing and feeling new-born, as usual, all the same.  Hopefully the 
words will let you too spend a longer time in His presence, not that they 
are needed to feel Him, but they do help--me anyway--follow His way of 
thinking and seeing things.  Enjoy.  Jerry.

Michael—May 15, 2006

Marin TM Group—Mill Valley, California—U.S.A.

MICHAEL—T/R-JL

(Grow the spiritual dimension of your personality)
(Things you do unconsciously)
(The glory God has in store for you)
(Michael’s experience with stillness)
(You can derive strength from God’s presence)
(The spiritual unity of the Celestial Family)
(Reincarnation and karma—pro and con)
(How to go about loving folks)

Dear Michael and Mother Spirit,    I have no prayer prepared for this 
evening so I‘ll just bid You, as always, welcome to our group.  We do look 
forward to meeting and talking with You this way; it holds a special place 
in our hearts.  Though all the controversy and upheavals surrounding the 
Teaching Mission, we do know deep in our souls the validity and reality, the 
value of this contact.  We thank You for this is fundamentally Your will 
that we acknowledge.  Without You, this teaching would not exist.  So: 
thanks again.  Amen.

MICHAEL:  Good evening My dear sons, this is your father, Michael.  I too 
look forward to these meetings for they add to Me as well—this group 
consciousness you all were talking about just a bit ago.  Your devotion 
shines forth and does as much as My part in supporting this communication.  
So I want to credit you with this devotion, and acknowledge My appreciation 
for it.  In this group you have experienced this is not automatic or 
universal.  You have had your guest students come and go who were not able 
to perceive or feel Mother Spirit’s or My presence.  And you well know it‘s 
part of Our wisdom not to respond to demands of proof of Our presence.  It 
is within Our power, of course, to meet any kind of proof demanded of Us, 
but We would consider this only a short-sighted assuagement of someone 
else’s need to look deeper within themselves to find within their own powers 
of recognition, the ability to perceive Us and feel Our presence, or at the 
very least, recognize the truth and the love in Our words.  And so like good 
parents everywhere, even on a human level, We cannot in all wisdom and love 
pander to any kind of demand like this.

(Grow the spiritual dimension of your personality)

The whole thrust of Our lessons has been to help you augment your own 
abilities, to realize, then grow the spiritual dimension of your 
personalities that you have innately, but only latently.  Developing 
yourself spiritually is almost wholly a matter of your freewill choice.  You 
develop yourselves physically and mentally because this had always been the 
intention of even the most primitive human cultures.  But spiritual 
development is a super-addition, and it is only after you achieve a great 
spiritual recognition and power that you realize the extent to which Mother 
Spirit and I have always been with you, always been a part of your life.  
Even now after many years of contact with Us, We know and accept with a 
sense of humor that it is still difficult for you to realize how much We are 
a part of your lives.  You are constantly using Mother Spirit’s Adjutants, 
the living dimensions of Her mind, and while you may know and accept this 
objectively, yet it may take awhile for you to realize that what you 
consider your own mind, right now, or any time during the day, is only 
partly a function of your physiological brain responses.

A large part of your mind is spirit, a constant and necessary evaluation of 
every thought, every perception, every memory.  You are constantly feeling 
for a value of what is, or was, real.  And in this you are using Mother 
Spirit’s Mind-Adjutants; so She is much a part of your consciousness, 
augmenting your own personality’s spiritual powers of discrimination.  In 
addition you have My Spirit of Truth helping you in this evaluation—what you 
can recognize as feeling for the reality, the realness of what you are 
thinking and experiencing.  Even your most fundamental perceptions of sight, 
and hearing, and touch, are constantly beset with thousands of little bits 
of sensation that you have learned over the course of your life to weed out 
or disregard as you constantly strive for reality.  This is so pervasive, We 
have given you our lessons on projection, of how what you perceive is so 
processed through a filter of recognition—re-knowing, that you yourself are 
part of what you perceive to be totally objective and outside of you.

Is this getting complex enough for you?  (laughter)  You rightfully see the 
humor in this, but this is your human reality.  It is this complex.  There 
is nothing you know that is purely physical or mental or spiritual: 
everything you experience is a mix of all three.  There is no such thing as 
a purely physical human world such as a materialist conceives it, and 
subsequently perceives it to be.  Nor can you in your present human state 
reduce everything to mental phenomena.  Your type of mind is primarily a 
connection between the spirit reality of your personality—this unique 
creation of God, and your physiology—the world it senses.  So you are a part 
of everything you perceive, and everything you’ve known is a part of your 
soul.  Your sense of freedom within this mix is largely dependant upon the 
quality and extent of your consciousness.  As your Urantia book puts it: 
this is one of God’s wiser provisions, that you are only free within the 
realm of what you can be conscious of.

(Things you do unconsciously)

Because you do, of course, do things unconsciously.  Much of the maintenance 
of your body is totally unconscious—how you digested your last meal, how you 
reach out and pick up an object, get up and walk.  Then too, so much of your 
overt behavior is culturally conditioned.  It is what you absorbed during 
all those years of growing up with your family, and then your friends and 
schooling; all those thousands and thousands of hours of listening to the 
radio, and watching television, reading your magazines and newspapers.  You 
have the mental ability of necessarily keeping this conditioning 
unconscious, of clearing your consciousness for what you choose to focus on. 
  You are all familiar with the experience that even something new you 
encounter, say the smell of popcorn at the theater, or the ocean at the 
beach, is very quickly moved to an unconscious state if it is repetitive or 
persistent. This is also true of the social aspects of your surroundings.

So how do you achieve a freedom to choose within this mix, within this 
enormity of what is unconscious, and necessarily so?  How can you choose to 
become conscious of repetitive habits, or addictions?  This is the 
fundamental, basic need for stillness.  You stop doing as much as you 
possibly can, and this itself is a long learning process—a cessation of 
activity—highly consciously—that can only be developed over a period of 
time.  Indeed there is no bottom to this depth; there is no limit to the 
extension of this inner stillness, both in the times you set aside to do 
this exclusively, and then how it extends into your activities throughout 
the day.  Mother Spirit mentioned last week the irony of how detaching 
yourself from activities for a certain period of time actually allows you to 
perceive yourself better, and more consciously reconnect with the world.

This is simply because all perception is a matter of contrast between object 
and subject.  The greater you establish a still home base of spirit within 
yourself--an ever more pure state contra-distinct from other activities, the 
more these activities become perceptible by this very spiritual contrast.  
Then the more your physical world is imbued with spirit, the more you 
experience this as a general increase in the quality of what you see, and 
hear, and taste, and feel.  The more at peace within yourself you are, and 
the more you can feel Mother Spirit’s love surrounding you and nurturing 
you, the more Her love can heal you, can work right down into the cells of 
your body and augment your own personality’s function of uniting this wild 
mix I just spelled out.

This has been the purpose of almost all of humanity’s forms of meditation 
throughout the ages—to give your personality a greater sense of itself alone 
with only God, and Mother Spirit and I, for company; being complete unto 
ourselves—you and the Three of Us, if you will, combined.  This is the basis 
for your choice to do, or not, what then becomes more perceptible, more 
obvious to you.  As We have mentioned before, We find it quite humorous that 
so many, when they first start meditating, and practicing their stillness, 
are immediately bombarded by so many good ideas of things to do, they jump 
up again after only five minutes… (laughter) and get busy again.  So they 
really have to grow their patience too, or, as We have suggested, take a 
notepad along so their fear of losing these good ideas doesn’t overly 
interrupt the process.

On a larger level in terms of your human societies—families, neighborhoods, 
larger communities—think of the social benefits when more and more 
individuals realize their individuality; when fewer and fewer simply go 
along with the crowd.  Think of how society benefits from the individual 
creativity springing from each person’s unique life: it always has.  Think 
of how the more gross kinds of copycat behavior, simply aping what the 
current celebrity or power-figure is doing, will fade away as people become 
more interested in what they themselves are uniquely endowed with creating.  
Think of the world that will become through this process of individual 
blossoming.

Your Urantia book paints you marvelous pictures of other, more advanced 
societies on other worlds that can be your own on Urantia some day, clear to 
the point when individuals become so self-creative and -determining, and 
wise, that much of what you now know of as law and government will also fade 
away in that far distant future on your planet too.  It does you well to 
think of these ideals that point you the way to take the next step tomorrow, 
right within your own family, your own community.

(The glory God has in store for you)

This is the glory that God has in store for you, and it starts the moment 
you are willing to give up some small part of your usual routines and 
comfortable familiarity of what you’ve done these last few days, or weeks, 
or years, step off your well-worn rabbit-path of habit, be still, and open 
your mind to the real essence of your soul’s experience.  Rediscover the 
trace of what was new in each moment of your life; then--for generally 
speaking, only then can you look forward to, and welcome with open arms, 
something new again.  Only then can you welcome and not fear the fact that 
everything is changing, the complex mix of your living human reality is 
unique each moment.

For this is nothing to fear.  Rather, it had been the basis of your health 
and your strength all along.  You are merely getting out of your own way and 
giving consent to the spiritual forces that renew you.  This is what 
stillness offers: conscious contact with our Father; and then Myself and 
Mother Spirit as your spiritual parents.  This is what We are always 
offering.  Feel Our love for you coming down like standing out in a driving 
rain.  Rejoice in getting thoroughly wet this way, clear to the bone, down 
into every cell, and every thought, and every memory.  Be a well-watered 
soul.  Rejoice in your own blossoming.

Then spread your freedom abroad.  Be the example of a free, welcoming, 
loving soul for those around you.  Funnel Our inexhaustible love through you 
to them, and show them how to tap into the Source themselves.  What fun this 
is!  What self-sustaining joy we find in our Father’s arms.  Now you have 
the key to unlock the door, as We have asked of you before--for Us, for our 
Father, and for yourselves: pray for the courage to walk through into that 
brighter world.

If you have any questions or comments this evening, I’m always happy to 
share them with you.

Student:  Hello Michael.  It’s good to be back with You.  I wanted to ask 
You more about stillness, and in particular, where in the Urantia book does 
it talk more than once or twice about stillness?  Once it mentions when You 
were off in the hills as a youngster, you were breathing in with one eye to 
the glory of God—Not my will but Your will be done—and part of that passage 
alludes to something like stillness.  There is only one other passage I 
remember, about relaxation and meditation, in the whole text.  I think it’s 
wonderful You’re  amplifying it tonight, and I wanted to ask You, what was 
it like for You when You were in human form on Urantia, and how did you do 
it at that time?

(Michael’s experience with stillness)

MICHAEL:  Yes, My son, as has been mentioned before in different 
transmissions, encouraging stillness has always been one of the main 
purposes of the Teaching Mission--which We have compared to a college 
professor giving lectures on the text to further spell out that which the 
text may have overlooked.  When the Urantia book was given to mankind, it 
was felt that you already had so many meditative techniques in every culture 
of the world, this was not so necessary to include.  Yet We soon realized 
the Urantia book was becoming almost too much an intellectual curiosity, and 
Our most loyal and fervent students still needed a technique to ground 
themselves in their day to day life in order to avoid getting a dichotomy 
between what they felt was a spiritual revelation that might not apply to 
the greater world of men and women for quite some time, and what they 
themselves were capable of realizing in their immediate daily lives.  And so 
We taught the practice of stillness, which is quite similar to these other 
techniques in all your different cultures.

We simply coined the term “stillness” to separate it somewhat in your mind 
so you could approach it with a sense of newness, and not merely categorize 
it and associate it with something else.  In this the Teaching Mission is 
following right in the steps of the Urantia book which, so many of you have 
noticed, takes some pains and sometimes uses rather bizarre syntax, as well 
as creating and using new terminology, to present totally new ideas and 
ideals to humankind in a unique way, rather than just reshuffling old phases 
and concepts.  Hence you have Our lessons all these years of the Teaching 
Mission on what stillness is, and how to achieve it; and even what it is 
not--not simply a total blankness of mind, or a kind of emptiness.

As for My own experience, this was initially just an awareness of a presence 
so friendly, so supportive, so enlightening and creative and connective in 
terms of helping My understanding, that I just naturally felt it to be a 
father-presence.  This was in no small way a tribute to My own human father, 
Joseph, so even though Joseph was often puzzled at My behavior and what I 
was doing, and then doubly so when I talked to him about having talks with 
My other father, My Heavenly or Spirit Father, I’m not certain he always 
understood My implied, devout compliment to him as a superb human father.  
This is why it is so necessary for you to be good fathers yourselves, so 
when we refer to God as our Father, this immediately strikes some 
unfathomably deep chords within your children’s souls.  Hopefully for those 
human children who have not known such a loving, and supportive, and wise 
human father, stillness can lead to a perceptible spirit in such a way as to 
compensate for this tragic loss in their own personal lives.

I was aware that this was somewhat unique to me, as I grew up, insofar as 
most of My playmates had no similar experiences.  I was also aware of the 
degree to which this gave Me a power of leadership among them, yet I never 
felt compelled to be in any way stand-offish, or removed because of it.  
Rather I became aware of what I taught you tonight, that the deep 
stillness--in the sense of feeling the completeness within yourself, is 
actually the spiritual connection by which all your mental and physical 
experiences become ever brighter, more real.  Does this answer most of your 
question, My son?

Student:  Most of it.  I wonder if…I just can’t hold back…can I ask You 
about how the Apostles practiced this, and did they have degrees of success 
with stillness as well?

MICHAEL:  Yes, this is something I taught all My followers from the very 
first, primarily by example.  This is the spiritual fragrance your Urantia 
book speaks of.  It is always the most powerful way you influence others.  
If you truly love others, if you are able to perceive them as the unique 
beings they are, and welcome this, this just naturally elicits such a love 
in return, they are then able to accept what you are doing as part of their 
own ideal of what manhood is.  The power of your love reaches them on many 
levels.  When they feel this power you have, and you yourself acknowledge 
that the Source of this is the Universal Father who makes us all His 
children; and then they see you spending some time alone with Him, it simply 
becomes part of what a good man does.

And so they tried it, with My invitation.  And like every other human being 
who ever has tried this contact with spirit, their success was quite 
various.  Yet through the years of our association they became very adept at 
it, considering they were full grown men when they started, with only, for 
the most part, traditional and ritualistic forms of prayer and worship.  
This was a large part of My message, that God is not only the most powerful 
Being, but He desires to be a friend you can talk to.  The power of His 
divinity is His ability to be with you as you are, to love you as you are, 
to walk and talk with you as you are.  This is His greatest delight, as it 
is Mother Spirit’s and Mine.  Every loving parent knows this.  We live in 
our children, and yet encourage them to have—truly--their own lives, to 
realize their own freedom—even from us.

(You can derive strength from God’s presence)

My followers and Apostles were very human, and experienced quite a lot of 
sheer terror both right before and after My crucifixion.  So consider the 
courage they showed in the teaching they went on to accomplish, that changed 
the world.  This they were able to do largely through their own contact with 
our Father, deriving their strength from His presence--just as I did--just 
as you can.

Is there anything more you wish to discuss?

Student:  You’ve covered it so beautifully…  Thank You so much…

MICHAEL:  You‘re very welcome, My son.  Now that you feel My peace, feel 
welcome to stay in it…  (Student breaks out laughing) …as much as you can, 
then, in your present human situation.  (Michael joins him in laughing)

Student:  Michael, there is somewhat of a paradox I’d like to discuss with 
You this evening, if I may.  I know the way to the Father is through You, 
yet at the same time I have this direct connection to Him.  So this sets up 
a paradox in my mind.  Perhaps You can give me some words to help me 
understand this more fully.

MICHAEL:  My son, you need not differentiate between Us.  So rest easy on 
that score.  Again, your Urantia book puts it objectively as the fact the 
spiritual community is united in such a transcendent way that you will spend 
some time, both in this life and in the phases to come, before you can fully 
realize this.  For this is yet beyond most humans’ abilities to credit, 
while at the same time realizing the uniqueness of each member of the 
Celestial Family.  In other words, this spiritual unity is not some kind of 
uniformity.  Do not concern yourself if you cannot distinguish between 
different spiritual sources.  I’m trying to put this in terms of how you 
feel Us subjectively, how you experience the spiritual truth of Our unity.  
Is this understandable to you?

(The spiritual unity of the Celestial Family)

Student:  The way I understand it, You and Mother give the Absolute Father 
personality, to me.  You make Him reachable.  When I try to conceive of Him, 
just alone, it’s almost impossible for me to do this.  But when I try to 
conceive of Him through Your personality, through Your love, through the 
relationship I share with You, it’s much easier to understand Him, His 
personality.  So that’s what it is for me at this point.

MICHAEL:  My son, all this is well and good, even highly desirable--in the 
conceptual realm.  But concepts will always fall far short of the reality of 
Our presence.  And it is this presence--Our presence, and our Father’s 
presence coming through Us, as Us—yet as Himself as well, as the Supreme 
Being, totally surrounding you and supporting you, that is, if you will—the 
background, the essence of what life is, what living beings are.  Our life 
is in our Father.  Existence Itself is our Father.  You feel Him, and Us, 
most directly as a kind of spiritual presence, an experience beyond any 
concept because concepts, insofar as they are expressed within time and 
space, either by thoughts—words, or as spatial images in your mind, are 
inherently limited and contra-distinct from the living presence of spirit 
itself.  These are still just mind constructs, and in themselves can be 
quite lovely and enlightening, but they are more or less the construct of 
the individualized, experiential part of your mind, and limited by 
comparison to the spiritual part of your mind—which you can experience most 
directly as Our presence, for most people un-differentiated.  Does this help 
you understand the relationship between concepts of the divine, and the 
divine presence itself?

Student:  It does, and it does because I do experience this presence within. 
  And I experience Mother Nebadonia’s presence; I experience Your presence.  
At times I feel I can…feel the difference of personality in each.  And so 
through experience I believe I understand what I’m using words to convey.

MICHAEL:  Then this is very good.  You are feeling Our presence directly.  
You needn’t give up your concepts!  Just be aware of their limitations, as 
with any comprehension of deity which is always highly conditioned by the 
unique moment within time and space it is expressed.  Literally, concepts 
are mental events, and like all events, they change with time and the means 
of their expression.  You are truly blessed My son, with your ability to 
distinguish the different flavors, if you will, of spirit personality.  Does 
this satisfy your curiosity?

Student:  For the moment, yes.  (much laughter)

MICHAEL:  Good!  I’m glad to see it springs up anew, however it may torment 
you with paradoxes from time to time.  (more laughter)  It takes a strong 
personality to welcome the prodding of an insatiable curiosity, and to 
realize it is truly a saving grace, is it not?  Be in My peace.  (Thank You)
Student:  Yes Michael, You said something to me last time we were together.  
You mentioned accidents of my birth, and I was wondering what You meant by 
that?  And where was I before I was born?

(Reincarnation and karma—pro and con)

MICHAEL:  Yes, My son, the question of where you were before you were born 
implies a lingering notion of reincarnation from some previous existence, 
and you can review the lessons I’ve given on the general subject.  If you 
are coming from this viewpoint, you cannot always recognize--because you are 
so familiar with it, some of the implications of this viewpoint.  One would 
be that you had a conscious existence in which you chose the circumstances 
of your birth.  In other words, your parents, your family, and then the 
surrounding society and location into which you would be born, would not be 
an accident to you.

Student:  Usually it’s to fulfill some karmic debt.

MICHAEL:  Exactly: that’s the idea.  And so it takes an act of creative 
imagination to transcend this familiarity, and entertain the 
possibility—putting this in a very non-coercive sort of way, to give you a 
choice—entertain the possibility that your essence, your personality, your 
unique being in all creation, had a starting point in time and space 
coincidental with your conception.  Even though your personality comes from 
God and is not conditioned or determined by time and space events, as your 
physical body that began at conception is, still and all your personality 
had no previous existence before this, indeed no self-consciousness before 
your birth and for some time afterward.  You are all familiar with the 
stages of embryology, and then that of a baby from the moment it’s born and 
only slowly gains self-consciousness.

You have to entertain this definition of human personality and carry it 
alongside your other notions of some pre-existence before, like any other 
fact that humankind has had to accept to replace a previous notion of 
reality, it takes hold.  You have to get used to it.  You have to rethink 
your life through again from this viewpoint: you are just starting out now 
as a totally fresh, unique, brand-spanking-new personality endowed with a 
physical body with which you can contact impersonal reality—what you call 
the material world.  From the standpoint of this brand new personality with 
no previous choices, the whole circumstance of your birth is an accident--to 
you.  It was not a choice.  Your parents, your family, your society, your 
place of birth—these are all “accidents of birth.”

The process of your individualization, as you mature, is to transcend and 
achieve a realization of your unique personality over and above these 
accidents—of family, race, ethnicity, sex, culture; so that you have some 
degree of freedom, some way of expressing your free will irrespective of 
them.  Prior to these freewill decisions, these conditions--condition you.  
They are simply what has happened to you.  You absorbed them for thousands 
and thousands of hours, all the years of your youth and adolescence, before 
you achieved a maturity of consciousness by which you could make a choice as 
to what you would do, independent of this conditioning.

And so We introduce the technique or meditation of practicing stillness to 
help you do this.  Get some detachment from all this conditioning that is so 
thoroughly pervasive, right down to the language and the concepts with which 
you think.  The very notion of self-determination implies rising above the 
accidents of happenstance and coincidence.  You recall Mother Spirit’s 
lesson last week on how uncomfortable it is to feel yourself to be a mere 
pawn of circumstances.  It strikes at the dignity you have as a freewill 
creature.  A human being is defined as a personal creature of will dignity, 
having the dignity of self-determination, a creative partnership with God 
himself.

Student:  But if I myself am not an accident, is where I am born into this 
world… just random?

MICHAEL:  No.  You yourself are a creation of God, so your association with 
a particular physical conception, a uniquely combined living cell, is His 
doing.  (Yes)  It is an accident to you—your consciousness.  To the Supreme 
Being, the aspect of God in time and space, there are no accidents.  (Yes)  
But from your standpoint, indeed to all sub-absolute personal beings, there 
are truly accidents in a gigantic happenstance.  The universe is a big 
place.  There is only one Supreme Being, and only He experiences the 
universe with absolute knowledge and understanding, and acts—creates with 
absolute appropriateness.

Student:  But we can tap in to that, and commune with that Divine Being, and 
feel His presence, and tap into His mind, His intelligence.

MICHAEL:  Yes.  This is the stillness We invite you to try.  This is one way 
in which you avail yourself of His universal, cosmic intelligence, using 
Mother Spirit as a conduit of the cosmic mind of the Infinite Spirit.  As 
you start out taking baby steps mentally and spiritually, you start out by 
establishing a home base, discovering the uniqueness of your own personality 
irrespective of these accidents of your birth and the conditioning you 
absorbed long before you had any power of self-determination.  Without some 
kind of spiritual exercise and contact, without some way of tapping into and 
developing the spiritual powers of your own personality, you never become a 
creative, free-thinking individual.  You remain just a cog in the social 
machine.  As you are aware, there are many totalitarian societies and forms 
of government who try to keep their subjects in this state of unrealized 
potential.  They teach you have meaning only with respect to the group.  
Whereas We teach you have meaning and completeness in yourself as a child of 
God, as well as socially.

Student:  And that can be experienced here and now in this life.  (Yes)  But 
regardless if one believes or not in reincarnation and past lives, or karma 
and all that, what is the most important thing is here and now in this life, 
in this moment.  We can experience that presence, that God-self.  It’s not 
that we have other lifetimes; it’s here and now.  We can feel it; we can 
embrace it.

MICHAEL:  This is a human possibility

Student:  Yes--I also understand we have to grow and evolve into that.

MICHAEL:  It’s interesting that all teachings of karma as a kind of 
total—physical, mental, spiritual, and soulful—cause-and-effect are aimed at 
bringing you to the point of freedom here and now.  You study this karmic 
cause and effect, which I’m calling conditioning from the past, in order to 
rise above it.  The whole purpose of understanding karma is to be free of 
it, to escape its imposed “round of birth-and-death”--the cyclical 
unconsciousness this conditioning creates.  If you do not understand your 
past conditioning, you cannot rise above it; you continue to be 
unconsciously determined by it.

This is the wisdom in the karmic view of life, but its exoteric or outward 
teaching of a karma extending from one human lifetime to another has an 
esoteric meaning as well.  You go to sleep at night and extinguish that 
phase of your conscious life.  When you arise the next morning, how much you 
are determined by what you did yesterday depends inversely on the degree to 
which you understand what happened.  This is a twenty-four-hour cycle of 
karma, if you will.  (laughter)  It is why We say achieving a highly 
conscious here-and-now, being free of unconscious conditioning by 
understanding it, by being open to your whole past and what really happened 
without any denial or blank spots; this is the only way you become 
self-determining.  This is being free to choose, somewhat independent of the 
past.  Does it all begin to fit together?

Student:  Yes—slowly.  (laughter)  It’s just the idea…I had a tough time 
with the word “accidents.”  And I’m thinking about people…  I guess I’m one 
of the fortunate ones I was born in the situation that I was.  But there are 
people born into situations that are really deterrent to their own growth 
and evolution.  I know it’s all conditioning, but they don’t know any other 
way--even someone born into royalty, with all the wealth they could imagine. 
  In one way reincarnation just kind-of…fits.  But I am willing and open to 
looking at the ideas You’ve presented.

MICHAEL:  The most negative aspect of reincarnation theory is the 
fundamentalist idea that an individual is somehow responsible for everything 
that happens to them on a level of total causality.  This is not intended to 
be evil, but that is its outworking; that somehow, shall we say a child 
being accidentally killed by forces beyond her, or anyone’s, comprehension—a 
car wreck, a random consequence of modern warfare--somehow this small child 
deserved this, or was responsible for this because of some previous life.  
In My life as Jesus I was asked this about a blind man: what did he do, or 
what had his parents done that he was born blind?

It’s also an enormous, if unintended, pretension--that somehow you know why 
an event is happening—totally.  Whereas We suggest that to credit that 
accidents—unforeseeable and inexplicable events--do happen—from a human 
standpoint, is to acknowledge the magnitude of the creation, and that only 
God experiences the totality of existence with perfect understanding.  You 
can put yourself intellectually into God’s point of view, and know 
conceptually that from His point of view everything is One—even the physical 
universe, the cosmos, is simply His body--but this is still just a human 
intellectual construct.  Only God experiences it as such.  It is only to the 
Supreme Being that there are no accidents.  To pretend to know why certain, 
specific things happen to individuals is, fortunately, for most folks 
unintentional.
So these are just some of the negative consequences of concepts of 
reincarnation.  They impede a humble recognition of the enormity and the 
complexity of this universe we are involved in, with all its unfathomable 
mystery you should not so nonchalantly gloss over.

Student:  And also the  power of this very…of this present moment, of now.

MICHAEL:  Indeed.

Student:  Hmmm…  This is great!  (much laughter, then everyone joined in)  
This is good!  Wow!  This is pretty good!  I love this kind of stuff.

To move on to something else: Saturday I went to a special gathering where 
we were celebrating Buddha’s birthday, and there was a full moon, and we 
were talking about Christ-consciousness; and we were all experiencing a 
really delightful…  The person who was leading us—her name was C—said we 
could now ask the Celestial Beings who wanted to give us a message.  My 
message I got, and I’ve had it before, was I am being a conduit of love.  I 
felt really powerful, and so when we got out of the meditation, I felt this 
love, and I wanted to be kind-of quiet, but I also wanted to connect with 
people.  What I noticed was a sadness in my inability to connect because the 
others were so...for lack of a better word, so self-involved?  I really 
wanted to know who they were as human beings, as expressions of God.  When I 
got home I felt this sadness again because I wanted to love these people, 
not because they were healers, or whatever they were doing in their 
lives—You know, what they were talking about, but because of who they 
are—beyond their culture, beyond their religious upbringing.  I just wanted 
to express that.  I couldn’t put my finger on why I felt so sad.

(How to go about loving folks)

MICHAEL:  My son, I asking you to consider if your sadness might have been a 
kind of disappointment that you couldn’t love them the way you wanted to.  
Sometimes love is best expressed by containing yourself, and simply 
listening, letting them tell you that they’re an accountant, or doctor, or 
truck driver, or whatever.  Also, love does not force itself upon other 
folks.  A greater part of love can be recognizing that this person is, as 
best they can, signaling to you that it is not the right time for them.  Any 
assertion beyond this would be overriding this message you should be 
perceptive enough—if you are open to them—to read: it is simply not the 
right time or circumstance.  They are not open to receiving the love you 
want to give them, the way you want to give it.

Your orientation is correct, wanting to get a sense of them through or 
beyond what they are presenting—the way they see themselves, their egos--so 
persist in this desire, and be open to the subtlety that can come through.  
In addition, there are so many things happening on a super-conscious level 
of Thought Adjuster-to-Thought Adjuster contact that can only be perceptible 
to you once you have achieved an inner home base or sense of who you are.  
You will be surprised you can get valid intimations within yourself of who 
another person is by an automatic process of elimination, by knowing this 
intimation is not you.   You can recognize these Thought Adjuster 
communications, these impressions you get about someone, irrespective of how 
they are presenting themselves.  I think if you reflect on this a bit, you 
can recognize some of these impressions you had all along.

Student:  Yes—that’s so true.  I guess what I was missing was this true 
connection.  After experiencing something so deep, the contact I got 
afterward seemed too…superficial.  But then I even thought to myself as I 
was driving home, it had been wiser to just be quiet.  I wondered if I 
should bring this up—the gathering and my idea of connection.

MICHAEL:  Wonderful spiritual experiences like you had can, quite humanly, 
elicit certain expectations.  These expectations, like I discussed earlier 
about concepts, you have to realize are partly a function of your own 
desire, and true love transcends this kind of need.  Your love for our 
Father, and feeling His and Mother Spirit’s and My love for you, frees you 
from too much need for another’s response.  You simply love them and let 
them be, and be content in how they are, whether or not they are capable of 
acknowledging you at all.  This is the unconditional love We invite you to 
grow into.  As you say, your own wisdom did suggest this to you on your way 
home.

Student:  Yes…yes, I will do so.  Thank You.

MICHAEL:  You’re welcome.  Well, we’ve come quite a way this evening, My 
sons.  I thank you for your attention; I thank you for your love.  What a 
blessing we are able to move each other.  What a true dance of love--when we 
find we are moving together.  It is proof enough of our mutual presence, 
with each other, and for each other.  I love you all very, very much.  
Remember to stay in My peace, as best you can.  But don’t worry if your 
human events sweep you away from time to time.  Just remember to come back 
home, and rest in Me.  Good evening.


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