[tmtranscripts] Michael Lightline 9.15.16

[Jerry Lane]

Dear Folks, remember you can hear these lessons live on TMArchives.com's website. My thanks again for all who tune in to the Lightline teleconferences on the third Thursday of each month @ 9 PM Eastern, 6 PM Pacific (712.775.7031 then 480.123.484#) to share their comments and questions with Michael and Mother Spirit. It's always good to have different personal viewpoints to appreciate. Jerry.
 



Michael
on September 15, 2016.


Michael—T/R-JL


(To
turn things around)


(Record
your meditations)


(It
is up to you to initiate change) 


(The
spiritual value of democracy)


(The
freedom of personal expression) 


(Have
faith in God’s unique creations—other folks)


(Confronting
physical addictions)


(Appreciating
other folks’ difficulties)


(The
magic of sharing one’s life with others)


(Expanding
to embrace your God co-authored soul)


 


Dear Michael and Mother Spirit: Michael, I have a
special request for you this evening 


and that is, could you continue what Mother Spirit
started last month on a Lightline 


when I asked her if she could address the question of
how do we turn things around? 


She mentioned it is a great spiritual triumph when we
can, first of all, recognize that 


things are going in the wrong direction and we are
either stuck in bad habits and 


getting unhealthy, or our relationships with all our
dear friends around us are 


deteriorating. 


We are getting stuck on ourselves, or other things, and need
to be turned around. Yet 


how do we do this? If you could answer that same request
we would appreciate it so 


much. Thank you. Amen.


Michael: Good evening. This is Michael and I would be
delighted as always to fulfill any 


requests you have for me--equally with Mother Spirit. It
is our privilege to help our 


children in any way at all. It fills our hearts when you
make requests of us for it is an


acknowledgement on your part that we are in your lives,
and we can help you--just as 


you are with your own children. It is such a reward when
they come to you and ask for 


your help, and you are able to help them. It forms a
bond of sharing between you and 


them, as between you and Mother Spirit, and me.


We have talked so often about this quality of sharing
our lives together that is God’s 


greatest gift to all of us. It is part of the reason we
are all out here in time and space—


so he can share himself with all of his children.


(To turn things around)


I’d like to start just by re-emphasizing some of the
points Mother Spirit brought out last 


month. Once you recognize and fully accept within
yourself that things in your life need 


to be turned around, need to be headed off in a more
positive, fulfilling and creative 


direction, one of the main things is to get a base of operations
to act from; and this is a


continuity of your own self. This is especially critical
with what you call bad, unhealthy 


habits that are partly physical and simply re-occur on
their own--the addictions that 


constantly come up over and over again, sometimes every
few minutes. They can 


more or less take you away if you haven’t the
determination, the gumption, the 


where-with-all to stand up against them.


So the first thing is to get a continuity of your own
self. You literally create a stronger


self--for yourself!--that can continue this
determination.


(The need for meditation, open-minded reflection)


The best way--sometimes the only way--of doing this is
through meditation. Really 


take time out of your other activities just to be still
and give yourself over to yourself. 


Just be still with yourself and then, if you can, remind
yourself that you are not alone. 


You have Mother Spirit and me within you, and all around
you. Way, way beyond us, 


deeper and more profoundly within you, you have our
mutual Father: you have God’s 


presence within you. And very definitely--if you can
realize this too--he has already 


helped you acknowledge the need to turn things around and
confront an unhealthy 


habit, or perhaps open yourself to ways of relating to
your dear ones more openly and


creatively.


So the main message that Mother Spirit gave you was about
meditating and doing so 


on a regular basis, so you tune in to yourself. You tune
into your needs. You can 


formulate your deepest prayers to God, to our Father,
and ask, “Dear Father, what do I 


do next?—and I mean today, as soon as I get up from my
meditations. How do I 


address this problem I’m having? How do I turn things
around?”


(Record your meditations)


Then, to continue this daily continuity, don’t hesitate
to use some physical means to 


help. I’m talking about actually taking notes and
writing  down your questions--your 


problems--and whatever answers you get. Or, with your
modern electronics, you can 


have a little recording device, or take notes in your
computer. This is another continuity 


very much like a writer of short stories or a novel, a day
to day history where you can 


re-read these messages to yourself. 


Again: this is creating a continuous, day-to-day self when
you feel lost or helpless in the 


face of a terrible addiction. You get in touch with your
new, determined self again as 


you read your notes. They become a very precious diary,
writing to yourself in the 


future when you may very well desperately need to tune
in again to your effort, your 


determination. This is the easiest and the most direct
way of creating your stronger 


self with a greater determination to get healthy, or
appreciate the situation of all the 


folks around you who might be slipping away.


(It is up to you to initiate change) 


You can break out of a re-actionary, knee-jerk kind of
relationship with others for, as 


Mother Spirit cautioned you, it is up to you, my dear
ones, to initiate this change,


especially with those you have lived with for years--a
husband, a wife, your own 


children or your own parents. 


Do this rather than falling back into a kind of blaming
habit like, “Why don’t they pay 


more attention? Why don’t they do this or that?”
Drop all of that and take it upon 


yourself to initiate what you want to see grow. Exercise
your own creativity. Try things-


-experiment. Be honest with yourself about what works
and what doesn’t. All these 


parts of Mother Spirit’s lesson are so valuable. They
are the place to start.


Now, tonight, I’d like to expand this question out into
society, out into the city or the 


countryside where you might be living--the counties, the
states, and clear up to your 


nations and countries. How do these larger political
units get turned around?—


especially if you feel they are heading off into very
destructive ways, or just getting 


stuck in a growing corruption over the years.


(The spiritual value of democracy)


Let me emphasize the value of what you call a democracy,
a political unit that 


recognizes an equality between all of its adult
citizens, men and women. You put it 


most succinctly as: one person, one vote, with an
honesty and transparency of not only 


who casts the votes, but also who counts the votes. To
have honest and free elections, 


this is still and always the way to go. This is still
the most spiritual manifestation in your 


politics. 


Yet you have only to look at your nightly news to see
how, not exactly rare, but still 


how only a majority of the human race has this ability. You
can still see many nation-


states where there is not the slightest bit of democracy
even pretended. There’s just a 


very ruthless dictatorship that rules with an iron fist
of what we call the most obscene 


kind of relationships between people--murdering folks in
the most diabolical and painful 


ways imaginable. Think of a person’s creativity gone
into devising ever more hideous 


ways of hurting others. This is still taking place on
your world.


You have those most cynical regimes where every so many
years they have a great 


election and 99.9% of the folks vote for the current dictator.
This would all be so 


laughable and hideously funny if it were not for the
terror that exists to hold their 


citizens in such a bond--and then even publish such a
cynical result.


You can see this where men and women are forced into the
most rigid habits of 


public clothing. Their appearance has to be so totally
regimented and controlled, the 


whole culture does not allow even the slightest
deviation for individual taste and 


delightful variety in their clothing, or attitudes, in
their public behavior. The most


regimented law is forcibly instilled.


So for those of you who will come to hear or read my
words, who do live in a relatively 


free democracy where you have a wide variety of opinion
being expressed in your mass 


media, your television, and the internet; or just in
walking down an average city street 


or small town: you can see of such a variety of
self-expression with both men and 


women.


(The freedom of personal expression) 


Think of all your songs, and novels and short stories in
all your entertainment to be 


such a wide expression of human creativity, such
individuality blossoming forth. You 


can know in your hearts that, given the freedom of
expression, this is what the whole 


world would delight in doing. So wherever you see this lack
of individuality you know 


in your hearts that it is only because of a rigidly enforced
cultural determination.


My dear ones, keep abiding in your faith in democracy
and internalize this as much as 


you can so you are free inside. The meditation of
opening your mind in stillness every 


day is where it all originates, right with you. And this
is where, in those repressive 


regimes all around the world, this too is where it has
to start—in each and every 


individual welcoming a greater variety all around them, so
secure in themselves they do 


not demand of other family members, or other members of
their society, to adhere to 


some strict code of behavior.


This is that blossoming of individuality that I taught
even when I was among you two 


thousand years ago. It’s an inner strength, an inner
connection with your own creative 


spirit that creates a strong, determined self of such
self-reliance and self-sufficiency 


that lets others be. You actually encourage them to come
forth with their own unique 


personality right from God.


This is how you turn things around in your own life.
This is how you recognize this in 


others, and encourage them to be themselves. This is the
basis in whatever society we 


consider. It has to start with the people. It has to
start with all the individuals, because 


they are that unique variety right from God.


This is that little seed in every single person, the
unique personality that can be 


acknowledged and encouraged to blossom forth in all its
unique expression. This is 


how, just walking down the average small town or city
street anywhere in the world, 


you can so immediately get this feeling of
individuality--or not.


Recently in one of your cultural revolutions someone
mentioned what a change it was  


to see a little girl in a flowered dress of many colors out
in the street--what a sight


that was!--what a transformation, what a blossoming
forth. What a strange revolution 


that was.


(Have faith in God’s unique creations—other folks)


And so, my dear ones, have this faith in God’s creation.
Delight in it, in all its


expressions. Imagine a world that is--as your Urantia
Book mentions--surrounded in 


Light and Life where any overriding suppression is
totally absent. Imagine the kind of 


trust in each individual that does not call for, or
need, or in any way accept such a 


centralization of power. But rather, as Mother Spirit
and I have called for, imagine a 


decentralization of power of a free people who don’t
need someone else telling them 


and forcing them what to do. 


It’s where each individual is most directly and fundamentally
tuned in to something 


inside them--the presence of God and all his wonder, all
his creative ability to create 


each one of us unique.


Now if you have any questions or comments this evening,
you can express your 


uniqueness.


Student: Hello. Thank you so much. This has been
resonating with me. I got to spend a 


month without computers. I was literally camping in Canada,
outside in the forest under 


the starts with no TV, no drama, and only organic food. 


I’ve come back to a heaviness. I came back to the
Western fires, the ambulances and 


all of that. I am trying--trying to stay healthy and
sane from where I’m at. 


I’m also quitting tobacco, so I’m loving these lessons,
just re-listening to last week’s 


and the one before, the last one Mother Spirit did on
August 18th. That is what I listen 


to in the mornings, lately. That is what reinforces me. 


So thank you--thank you so much for always knowing our
hearts, and our intent, and 


having our backs.


(Confronting physical addictions)


Michael: Oh!--my dear!--thank you so much. I truly
appreciate your thanks for Mother 


Spirit’s lesson. I’m glad her lesson last month had such
a deep resonance within you. 


You can go on your computer and look up “nicotine” and
understand why it is one of 


the most difficult addictions to get rid of. It is a
central nervous stimulant and that is 


one important thing in your human life, so limited as
you are from pure spiritual 


standpoint like Mother Spirit’s and mine. I especially,
because of my human life, 


appreciate what it is to be so physical and, in a sense,
never having a surplus of 


energy.


But it is so good that you do get away and tune in to a
self that exists without all of the 


distractions and even the delightful entertainments that
are yours just for the flipping of 


a switch and spending a few cents of electricity for
your computers, your television, 


your modern movies and so forth. It is so valuable--as
you found out--to get back to 


just your skin, walking through the woods with the
animals, and the way that the whole


presence of the natural world surrounds you. You get
away from the bright cities and 


look up at the night sky and see one arm of your galaxy
stretched across it. That is 


another kind of tuning in.


I am so glad you are finding in Mother Spirit’s lesson
what I wanted to reemphasize


this evening--how to literally create a self that can
tackle such a clinging bad habit, that 


does so much for you physiologically it does have to be
faced sometimes over and over 


again, minute to minute, because it has such a physical
component.


(Appreciating other folks’ difficulties)


It can give you an appreciation then too for how
different peoples can get beyond a 


severe cultural determination that totally squashes such
a wide area of their own


personal expression. You can appreciate what it is to
live under a ruthless dictatorship 


that will go to any means of torture in the most
hideous, obscene kinds of murdering 


people just to terrorize and control them. It can give
you such an appreciation for the 


day-to-day choices that are yours to make.


So I solute you, my dear daughter, and bid you: Carry
on!


Student: Thank you, thank you. And thank you, Jerry, for
taking the time out of your 


life to TR, and be steadfast and be there where we can
count on you.


Michael: Thank you again, my dear. This is such a reward
for Mother Spirit and me to 


find our well-meant words do resonate and get magnified
in a human heart. We are so 


happy to be part of your soul then, part of your soul
memories, part of who and what 


you have been once upon a time. 


(The magic of sharing one’s life with others)


And so on that positive note let me wrap up this
evening’s lesson. Once again I will 


mention that magic word of sharing where we have taught
that one and one makes 


three--with what you and another--let alone a group—what
you and another hold 


together. This is true whether it is with another person,
or with me and Mother 


Spirit in your meditation, or with our Father in your
prayers when you are very sincere 


and earnest in asking for help, if only what to do next.



All of this becomes part of your soul. It’s what you are
internalizing and setting


aside for eternity, with God as the co-author holding
this sacrosanct no matter what 


happens to you physically, mentally, or spiritually on
into the future. These are your 


eternal triumphs, your eternal values you are
establishing and enjoying day to day. You


share them with us, for Mother Spirit and I are part of
you.


(Expanding to embrace your God co-authored soul)


We will meet face to face some day when you have become
one with your soul, 


when your consciousness, your very being, will have
expanded to approximate the 


enormity of the soul of your whole life. This is what you
have to look forward to, my 


dear ones. This is the expansion of your very self that we
have offered a way to get it 


started--this consciousness of yourself, day to day; this
determination to turn things 


around that you know, in your heart of hearts, is a way
to keep growing on to a greater 


health and a greater sharing your life with those around
you.


And so, my dear ones, I bid you to be in my peace. Let
it settle over you, and be still 


within it. Be free and thankful within this peace that
goes beyond understanding, yet 


so need-fully informs your understanding.


Mother Spirit sends you her love, and we both wish you a
wonderful Good Evening.


 		 	   		  
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