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align=center><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Michael—</SPAN><st1:date
Year="2007" Day="29" Month="10"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">October 29,
2007</SPAN></st1:date><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Marin TM Group—</SPAN><st1:place><st1:City><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Mill Valley</SPAN></st1:City><SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">California</SPAN></st1:State></st1:place><SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">U.S.A.</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">MICHAEL—T/R—JL<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">(On walking and talking; and roller-coasters
{again})<BR>(To whom do you belong)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">(Deep calls to deep)<BR>(Keep growing)<BR>(Inner
growth)<BR>(Assessing claims of extraordinary powers)<BR>(Realizing who you
are)<BR>(Laws of attraction)<BR>(Visiting with Mother Spirit and Michael, and
God) <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Dear Michael and Mother spirit,<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As we gather together
tonight to feel your presence and hear your cheerful words of inspiration
and hope, we gladly remember all the hours and hours we've shared with you,
and all the tears of joy we've known, all the times when our sincerest and
most genuine response was, <BR>"Wow!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>What was that?" And then we'd all break up laughing, shake
our heads, and wonder.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><BR>So we thank you for all those happy, happy
moments we've know, all the inspiration and the guidance we have received,
and how our lives have changed both within us and without--especially in
our relationships with all of our dear friends and even all those
others out there we might only have chanced to meet. We thank you for
giving us all of them too. Amen.<BR><BR>MICHAEL: Good evening,
my dear children, my brothers and sisters, my very dear friends. This
is Michael, and while I am very literally your father and your brother,
most of all from my own heart, I am your very dear friend. I want you
to take that super-literally without any kind of condescension from a
superior being--none of that whatsoever, but just your dear friend with whom you
can relate most informally. As I put it once before, I wish we could
go fishing together, or just take a walk.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">(On walking and talking; and roller-coasters
{again})<BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">I think you've noticed--some of you who have
considered how Mother Spirit and I have been parents to worlds millions
and millions of years more advanced than your own—how still I chose to
serve out my human incarnation on a world such as Urantia was two thousand
years ago, where I spent most of my time just walking and talking with my
apostles and disciples and all the others who would come and visit with us
for a while. But this is something that you yourselves can cherish
most dearly; that it is the simple visiting time you can spend with each
other that fills your souls.<BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">I'm sure so many of you delight in what you might
call "visiting dreams,” those times when you dream of simply sitting
down and visiting with old friends or acquaintances you haven't seen for
many many years, and are wondering what they're about. It's
interesting that sometimes when all the high points and the low points have
dissolved into each other, just the everyday getting together and living
our lives is what remains closest to our hearts.<BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">We once mentioned that human wondering if perhaps
our Universal Father--God doesn't have some innate love of roller-coasters;
or if it's simply closer to your own human nature--all the ups and downs
you go through: indeed, whether or not this is just a facet of youth and
adolescence before you have yet acquired the experience and the wisdom
necessary for a greater balance as you go along, often buffeted by
circumstances beyond your control.<BR
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style="mso-special-character: line-break"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Mother Nature herself is another force to be
reckoned with as you live on an as yet somewhat geologically unstable
planet with earthquakes and the resulting landslides and tsunamis; and
then also your floods and, recently in your United States here, the
great firestorms that are just part and partial of a certain kind of
landscape where they can come quite regularly. These are all circumstances
far beyond any human control. They do remind you, from another angle that
I mentioned in my last lesson, how much the future that seems so solid to
you at times is so much a social construct, susceptible to all the
varieties of Mother Nature's catastrophes, small and large.<BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">When the social contract breaks down between you,
not only on a nation/state level of warfare, but even personally in your
own lives, all those well-laid plans you shared with your loved ones can
all of a sudden change, not only through circumstances but just simple
human emotion, and be thrown totally awry. What was once such a
positively welcomed future can become full of such fearful wonderings
and apprehensions. In all these times, my children, both in the ups
and the downs, to find your balance as you go along it is good to take
a break from this ongoing sense of time rushing along, the
future coming at you helter-skelter, and in a way remind yourself,
from your spiritual level, just how much you always
are.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">(To whom do you belong)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">A very wise poet of yours put it once, "…to keep in
mind and not forget: it is not he, nor she, nor them, nor it--that you belong
to.” You belong to yourself and your Father: you belong to yourself
and God. In God and in yourself you are whole and complete. In
the most profound sense that you may not yet grasp fully, but only
intellectually and with the spirit of faith, there is no need for time.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is no need even for a
future. It is all God's will, and God, and His total creation are
complete moment to moment--just as are you, also His creation.<BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Along (with this concept of completeness) comes the
concept of replete-ness, of how you can add to what is already 100%.
And so we tease you with the notion that the only way out, ever, is to
grow, to simply add to what you already are. <BR>And this is
possible because you are God's creation. In this most profound sense
you are made in His image. Though you are whole and complete from His
standpoint and the standpoint of your soul--the summation of all your
experience; and there is a kind of eternity right within now, still: here
comes the next moment by God's will. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Out here in time and space this whole cosmos of
His is in motion, quite contra-distinct from </SPAN><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Paradise</SPAN></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">, His home. Out here it's all in motion,
even—especially--right inside you. You cannot even know your exact
thoughts some few minutes from now. You can focus on a subject; you
can concentrate; you can decide that the next five minutes will be spent
thinking of whatever you choose. But the exact thoughts themselves
almost happen to you as much as do day and night, as much as the earth is
moving around the sun to create the seasons, and your whole solar system is
swinging about the center of our Local Universe.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">All this is in motion by God's will; but he doesn't
need it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He chooses it. It is
His free will. And it can be yours too, my children. Right
within all this motion--inside and outside--you can know calmness and an even
more perfect balance by becoming ever more one with it. We've alluded
to this as "swimming perfectly along within the stream of life.” It's
kind-of dog-paddling along with it, along with the flow, even
sometimes--just for the shear fun of it--turning around and heading back
upstream, getting into some really vigorous activity just to glory in your
own power.<BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">This is our glory too. This is how Mother
Spirit delights to be within you and, even more correctly, it's how you can
delight in realizing you are always within her. We call this human
mentality you have the Spirit/Adjutant kind of mentality of the Local
Universe Mother Spirit. And I am always by your side, your spiritual
father, your human brother and friend.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Together the three of us make another
kind of completeness, for just as Mother Spirit and I together represent
the Trinity--the Universal Father, the Eternal Son, and Infinite Spirit--so
you too, together with Mother Spirit and me, we three also make a different
kind (of completeness).<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>With your God-given (unique) personality, it is a unique kind of
wholeness and completeness. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">But you are an experiential being; so come to us
when you wish to feel this, when you wish to experience this. Take
time out from all your other human connections and activities and
visit with your spiritual parents.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">(Deep calls to deep)<BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">You have a wonderful expression that "deep calls to
deep.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is how you rest,
how you sink down into us, and into yourself, while the walls fly away and
"now" begins to expand. You come to feel us and yourself more and
more--a very real presence, a really strong connection. This is where
you feel Mother Spirit's love nurturing and healing and loving you.
This is where you feel my peace in your soul, giving you back to yourself,
giving you this assurance: My dear sons and my dear daughters: this is your
life. Do what you think best.<BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">This is how you expand, my dear children. This
is how you become at one and the same time both decisive and yet ever more
open. If you think in terms of a zero sum game of life, being
decisive is constantly closing off alternatives: it has to be either this
or that. And here we come saying that you can decide, you can
commit yourself to a course of action, to an understanding, to
a realization, yet be open the very next moment to a greater future,
a fuller growth of possibility and potential. And so if this
sounds like a contradiction, you are not taking your ability to grow
into consideration, of how you grow by that decision, by that
momentary acceptance/definition of who you are. That very quality can
put you in touch with a spiritual dimension.<BR
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style="mso-special-character: line-break"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">And so you grow, and in that growth more is
possible--more decisions are possible. You don't worry about being
determined moment by moment. For also, moment to moment, you are
becoming more free to exercise your will, more open to see the true and
more complete results of your decisions. You slowly emerge from
denial and inner dishonesty to embrace this being
determined--self-determined and defined moment by moment, realizing this
very thing is adding to your soul.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This being who and what you are moment by moment—consciously--sets you
free. Soon you no longer avoid but you begin to discover who you
are. You are a child of God. You are a unique being taking his or
her first few steps into eternity.<BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">And so you come not to fear but to rejoice that
there was such a roller-coaster back in your youth and adolescence.
You cherish all those narrow escapes from near disasters.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You come to trust in our Father's will
for you. For as you discover what it is, you will grow in
your ability to choose it for your own.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">(Keep growing)<BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">So keep growing, my children. Do not fear to
feel how each moment does define and determine you. Embrace it.
Embrace all that you are--as much as you can feel and realize that you
are. For in feeling this definition and determination of who you are,
however paradoxically it might strike you, this is the way to your
freedom. This is that "true discovery" I mentioned before, and how
the quality of it grows as well. This is the way to go. Lean
into it. Embrace it. Thrill with glory in it. This is the life
that is His will for you, joyously expanding. This is the organic
life of your soul—if you will. <BR
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style="mso-special-character: line-break"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">If you have any questions or comments this evening,
I certainly welcome them.<BR><BR>Student: Yes Michael, I just feel
really relaxed tonight.<BR><BR>MICHAEL: Well, good, my son, that was my
intention for you tonight, and for those who will read these words--just to
follow along as I gently stretch your souls.<BR><BR>Student: It is a
shame though that more people don't participate in these gatherings.
I mean, I don't mind being the only one, but I do miss the conversation and
community spirit when others are around to exchange ideas, and realizations, and
things, you know, because basically I'm by myself most of the time.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am fortunate that I do participate in
other gatherings and am able to exchange that way.<BR><BR>But also I’m
becoming more and more familiar with my own true nature, and not beating myself
if I fail to meet an expectation, nor get so high and mighty if I feel like
I have grown.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I just have to
temper my impatience as we've talked about before. I do see the world
changing, so much darkness being exposed—so to speak. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I just try to do my little part of
sharing the career of life that I am able to share.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">(Inner growth)<BR><BR>MICHAEL: Yes, my
son.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mother Spirit and I wish to
continually reassure you that it's the inner growth that is so
important.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Even as your Urantia
book has reassured you, a lot of this true spiritual growth is
unconscious.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You don't always
immediately see the results, for it's a slow but cumulative qualitative
change.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You learn with your slowly
growing patience that the incremental changes in your inner life, and then in
your outer life, are the most secure.<BR><BR>So you relinquish your overreaching
ambitions to change yourself totally overnight. You see: through the
school of hard knocks of trial and error you learn that monumental,
melodramatic changes just don't hold. And so this is also the growth
in your faith, in your trust.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Knowing it within yourself, my son, you can begin to extend it out
there to others and trust that they too are growing--whether this is immediately
obvious or not.<BR><BR>There are universal spiritual truths, not only for the
human race but those which transcend it, which people can,
in transcending themselves, come in contact with.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These universal truths do slowly
evolve individuals. There is this universal evolution taking place not
only on your planet but even cosmically.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You are all a part of this.<BR><BR>It's reassuring to know this, to feel
this.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Sometimes
the polarization that is part of this process throws everything into
ever sharper relief.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As you
said, the darkness and the error becomes more exposed to the light.
It is only ones fundamentalist arrogance that needs to be relinquished.
First, whenever you can detect and embrace the consciousness of it
within yourself, be that shining light, be that example of how to
live without it, how to live even in doubt and unknowing with trust and
faith.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Eschew all the
fundamentalist, egotistical and arrogant assurance that you have Total
Reality completely in your grasp.<BR><BR>Student: Yeah, a lot of material
I’ve been reading from different sources has been focused upon how every
human being is already enlightened, is already living their true
nature.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It's just that they don't
know it; or we don't know it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It
gets circumvented--in a sense--by our own points of view and
misperceptions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But underlying all
that is our true nature, is our enlightenment. So if we go around, as you
have mentioned, seeing people as little infinities--God as God sees us--for
we are all God in that respect--that's what needs to be claimed and
professed. So that's what I'm looking at: that's what I'm allowing
without doing anything.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In a sense
it's already here--kind of like allowing the cream to rise to the
top--just allowing.<BR><BR>MICHAEL: Yes, my son, different systems
put it in different ways. We <BR>point at a God-created personality
which is already spiritual and, in a kind of scientific way, outside of time and
space, and complete.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It's His
perfect creation, and contra-distinct from your ego--the person you are that you
can be aware of, including all of your inner perceptions, all your
memories, everything you think and feel you are right now.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Yet this object of consciousness is not to be
slighted. It's your most useful tool.<BR>We once compared your ego, you
remember, to your bathroom mirror in which you are able to get some
reflection of yourself. You just don't mistake it for the totality of
your being that is your personality and your soul--both aspects being
creations of God and His Fragment within you.<BR><BR>This was also your prayer
the other evening of how to see through people's unconscious and unintended
impulses and even bad behavior towards you--see their true original
personalities shining forth, rising to the top with your help as you are
able to see this and reflect it back to them.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can meet people with perfect
equanimity, strangely enough, because you do not need them.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Because you are complete in yourself,
you can meet them with equanimity and reflect their wholeness back
because you are not trying to use them in any way. Whereas, if you go
out into the world a little too needy, you could find yourself being a
little too greedy for a certain response, a certain affirmation they may
not have within them that moment. It's when you feel whole and
complete that you can be generous with yourself.<BR><BR>Student: Yeah, I
can see that; having no expectations as well.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We talked about potential last week and
just being open to a greater experience of my potential, to actualize
that. I know that takes time, but the potential is here to be
accessed. I feel like this world...<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I would love to meet somebody who has gone beyond what we think is
normal, and who has experienced a greater degree of potential than what I
see in this world.<BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">As I alluded to in some of my past readings of the
Masters in the Himalayas, I would love to meet these people, meet a person
who has accessed a greater degree of potential, so that I can see and
access my own God-given potential to do good in this world, and be more the
human being that God created. But I know it takes time, and I know it
takes rest, and silence, and stillness.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">(Assessing claims of extraordinary
powers)<BR><BR>MICHAEL: This is a great challenge within you my son: how
to deal with those who claim to totally transcend time and space while
they are still human. How do you assess this?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How do you evaluate some of these
people’s claims to be in two places simultaneously, hundreds of miles
apart; to walk through solid walls; to read people's thoughts; to control
the wild animals around them with their minds alone? How do you
evaluate this kind of thing?<BR
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Because you are an experiential being--this is your
truest nature--your soul is the summation of all your experience, as you
read these things I bid you stay open. You're standing with one foot
on the dock and one foot out there in a boat bobbing around; and you'd be
wise to acknowledge the stretch. You're standing on your own solid
experience and yet, as you say, you would delight in meeting someone who
can, in a way, empirically/scientifically prove/demonstrate to you they
have this ability to transcend time and space while still human.<BR><BR>It
almost seems like a contradiction, but that would be a delight--we agree.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It would be a delight having such a
thing demonstrated. Yet we caution you, you do need to stay true to what
you yourself have known.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Stay true
to your subjective time, the time you know inside, quite apart from
that ticking machine on your wrist or on the wall, quite apart from
what you share with everyone else about what tomorrow is or
will be. So yes, by all means--stay open. We even tease you
with how delightful it would be to walk out some morning and meet
some mystical, mythical creature like a friendly elf perched on the
nearest rose bush.<BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">So stay open to all possibility. At the same
time be ever more decisive. Avoid that bugaboo of feeling freer just
by putting things off, by being indecisive--the illusion of freedom that by
avoiding decisions you are opening up the future.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You're actually closing it
down. And this too is a matter of wisdom, of
experience.<BR><BR>Student: Yeah, because my question is: how do I know if
I'm doing that?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I know there's
a time and a place for things, for action and non-action, and to sit still
or, in a sense, push the envelope--so to speak. But it seems like my
greatest fear is becoming complacent, or missing the ability to grab the
brass ring as I go around in the carousel. There's always that fear
that I’m holding back, that I'm missing out on really, truly expressing
or experiencing my potential, my God-given potential and gifts.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But at the same time I know patience and
humility are also important because I've seen people who have had realizations
and experiences, put themselves out there and then get burned, or become
too high and mighty and forget where it all came from. So there is
some trepidation.<BR><BR>MICHAEL: But all along, my son, you are capable
of knowing real events.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As I
told our friend C one evening here, who wondered, "Well, how do I know if
I've forgiven someone, or forgiven myself?"--you know because you and they
have changed: something has happened. Whether you are sitting in your
stillness or engaged in the most vigorous activity, this is
all decisiveness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are
deciding to be active; you are deciding to be still. In that decision
there is something happening.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
are not adrift in some kind of limbo, some kind of queasy, uneasy nothing
happening. There is always something happening, and as you become
more and more still, that happening can get larger and larger.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That's where we
are.<BR><BR>Student: Sometimes, though, circumstances can dictate what is
going to happen, what needs to happen--you know?<BR><BR>MICHAEL: Very
much.<BR><BR>Student: Yeah, well, as we see what's going on in the world,
what's going on in </SPAN><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Southern California</SPAN></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> with the fires, and
everything, unfortunately…<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Two
more things: one, why, when I decided I didn't want to become a teacher in
this organization, at least at this time, it dawned on me that I have a hard
time being part of any organization, even though the teachings are
compatible with what you're speaking of.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It seems like I have no desire to be part of an
organization.<BR><BR>MICHAEL: Well then, that's who you
are.<BR><BR>Student: Ah!--okay.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">(Realizing who you are)<BR><BR>MICHAEL: That
decision led you to this discovery of who you are. You can choose to
change that: that's another decision. That's who you were at that
moment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That decision at that
moment led to the discovery of that aspect of yourself, and that very
decisiveness gives you the ability to become something else. That's
your choice.<BR><BR>Student: But at the same time I don't want to limit my
choice.<BR><BR>MICAHEL: That's what I'm saying, my son.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>By being decisive you
are increasing your choice. Your choice depends upon your
willpower.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Choice is willpower, is
decisiveness. I'll put it again in a slightly different way.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is an illusion that by
postponing decisions you keep your options open; but that is only an
illusion.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can decide to keep
your options open.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can decide
that you are not yet ready to choose between this or that, and that
decision informs you who you are that moment.<BR
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">There is another something very akin to inner
denial, a refusing to face realities, that is also a kind of unconscious
growth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It can be a simple matter
of following the example you are raised with by the immature souls about
you. You're introduced to this way of living as a kind of dropping
off into unconscious habits. As you know, there's a whole class of
recreational drugs that deliberately bring this state on, that you call
downers or depressants.<BR><BR>So: as you choose, as you make the decision
you do not want to be part of this organization, it leads you to reflect:
do you want to be a part of any organization? And that is who you are
at that moment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then you could
decide you do not want to be that kind of person. If you wanted to,
you could decide to grow towards being a member of an organization.
Or it could lead you to ways of being more productive and self-fulfilling
by yourself. You could start your own organization. But all
these are decisions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All these
lead to consciousness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All
these lead to being able to control who you will be.<BR><BR>Student
(laughing): But what is the most beneficial, what is the most
perfect?--you know?<BR><BR>MICHAEL: That is your
choice.<BR><BR>Student: Ah!<BR><BR>MICHAEL: That is your
choice! You can ask and pray for guidance, but it will be your
choice.<BR><BR>Student: It's funny too, because I remember when I
mentioned this, about the possibility of becoming a teacher, you remarked,
"Well, isn't this what you want? You said you wanted to travel, and
you wanted to help people, and do this and do that, and now you do not want
to do that."<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I thought about
that and I just have a hard time being part--even though the teachings are
great--they're really beautiful and life-altering and -changing because they’re
talking about who we are: but I have a hard time being part of an
organization. And maybe that's just my own ego, my own existence, so
that's all part of self-discovery, I guess.<BR
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">MICHAEL: Yes, keep exploring it, my son.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Keep trying to understand
<BR>why. Why is this?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What is
there about organizations…<BR><BR>Student: ...Or institutions, or
churches...<BR><BR>MICHAEL: Yes. And is there a way of personally
transcending this, coming up with your own different kind of
organization--livelier, organic, and less dogmatic?<BR><BR>Student:
But why can't I just be myself?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Why
do I need to create?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>See, that's
what I've noticed with people who have these realizations or these profound
experiences, who come across these great teachings.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They obviously want to express them to
other people, but they have to do it in an institutionalized or organized
way, or create a church or something.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>We have enough of that.<BR><BR>MICHAEL: Yes, but you said just a
few minutes ago it'd be nice if our own group right here were a little bit
larger because you have this desire to share what is wonderful and
beautiful to us. And who's to say? <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">You wonder who you are.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Don't you feel you've been all
these people all along? This is who you've been all along, all these
separate persons moment to moment. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is your soul.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This
has been your experience. This is who you are in terms of your soul,
as contra-distinct from who you are momentarily, this
moment-by-moment right now. This is who you have been.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But in--this now--you get to
choose, to the limit of your own ability, who you will become.<BR><BR>Defining
your own voice starts with making it concrete somehow, writing it down,
thinking it through. As Mother Spirit was saying, how do you know you
are not exactly like these other individuals?<BR><BR>Student: Well, they
say--the people would say, we are alike. We are all God's
nature. Yes, that's the point.<BR><BR>MICHAEL: Right, yes. And
you are teaching by carrying on these conversations with me. There
are many out there who enjoy our conversation--you know, learn from
it.<BR><BR>Student: That is true, (laughing), that is true. One last
thing, because I know it's getting late. Is there a law of
attraction? The reason why I bring this up is because this has been
talked about so many times in so many different books about manifesting,
and stuff. And on the radio today there was an advertisement for
someone who wrote or participated in making the book The Secret, which
got worldwide accolades, and whatever.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Now he has a book in
<BR>conjunction with The Secret that is called The Key.
There's another secret that he has the key to, and it has to do with the
law of attraction. Of course you have to buy the book to get the
answer, to get the key and how it all has to do with the law of
attraction. And so--you know--you tell me.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">(Laws of attraction)<BR
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">MICHAEL: Well, my son, again: there is such
profound connection between all aspects of God's creation, it's hard to
know where to start. On the physical level there is universal
gravity--what </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Newton</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> tried to express once upon a time. Since all
matter/energy is created by God, it exhibits what you know of as
attraction: everything is attracted to everything else. On the
largest scale all creation is circling around </SPAN><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Paradise</SPAN></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">. All the Grand Universe of the seven
inhabited Superuniverses, then on out into these millions and millions of
galaxies; all are circling, all are held in the absolute grasp
of </SPAN><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Paradise</SPAN></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> and God's presence there.
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Similarly, all personality is held within the
grasp of the Universal Father's personality circuit--if you will, all
personality is drawn towards its Creator. All spirits--all
spirit reality, even pure spirit personalities, are drawn towards
the Eternal Son, the origin of spirit. All cosmic mind manifestation
is drawn towards the Infinite Spirit.<BR
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">On all the levels you human beings know of: body,
mind, spirit, personality, soul; all dimensions of your being are drawn
towards their origin in the Trinity. Now, as you manifest these in
your interpersonal relationships, you are drawn to each other.
This strongest binding force you give the name of love--affection,
attraction. So it exists in many dimensions. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">There is definitely a law of attraction.
It is the most profound reality that all manifestation is drawn towards its
origin. All personality will find its way back to its Source, either
by individual choice--your own free will to discover the Father, or, even
in your refusal thereof, in choosing to cease to exist, your soul will
simply be swallowed up in the Supreme Being. In that sense your
personality will return to its Source, you will just not be a conscious
participant of that.<BR><BR>So even this law of attraction, my son, is subject
to your own free will not only interpersonally—human-wise, but even
absolutely with respect to God's desire, and love, and attraction for
you. That is the absolute you-ness of you, because you are a creation
of God.<BR><BR>Student: So that kind-of explains when Jesus said, "Seek
first the kingdom of heaven and everything else will be added unto
you…"<BR><BR>MICHAEL: Yes.<BR><BR>Student: ...where we don't even
have to think about manifesting because we are so immersed in our true
nature.<BR><BR>MICHAEL: Well, you have to think about it, my son, insofar
as it has to be a conscious choice.<BR><BR>Student: Yeah--I
understand.<BR><BR>MICHAEL: And that usually involves a lot of thinking, a
lot of choosing, a lot of deciding, a lot of creating--spiritual
creating.<BR><BR>Student: Where you're coming from a perspective of
God-consciousness, not some egocentric...<BR><BR>MICHAEL: Or as we would
say, coming more from your personality and your soul, which is the greater
part of you--you know, compared to your ego. But we always like to
emphasize how useful and necessary your ego is. Your ego has to
mature and become wise and except its
own limitations.<BR><BR>Student: It seems like when people talk about
the law of attraction they're talking about material attraction, or
romantic-relationship attraction, or monetary--all
that.<BR><BR>MICHAEL: Remember, these various attractions are weighed
against each other, weighed on the balance scales of time.<BR><BR>Student:
But it's not incorrect to want these things?<BR><BR>MICHAEL: That depends
upon the circumstances, and the wisdom in the
weighing.<BR><BR>Student: Yeah, because what this person talked about when
he said, you need to buy my book, the Key was why some things
are manifested and some things are not.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We talked about this before
in terms of prayer, and I said, "Well, maybe it's because it is
not beneficial to us, you know, maybe there is something
else, something better out there." Sometimes it's better not to have
that five bedroom mansion or something like that, or want to
manifest millions of dollars, or have that perfect relationship.
Maybe one needs to seek first the kingdom of heaven, or first be the
kingdom of heaven.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I think
from that point we are really, truly living, truly creating, and truly living
our intended purpose.<BR><BR>MICHAEL: Yes, my son, this is what we mean
when we say, don't make now dependent upon anything in the future.
Realize your completeness and wholeness now, and then the future is one of
becoming more replete.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are
not dependent upon it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are
not--in a sense--waiting to live.<BR><BR>Student: You even mentioned
that--at least in the bible, you mentioned--I don't know the exact words,
but: don't think so much about tomorrow; think more of today. You
know the quote, you said it (laughing), something to that effect, you
know.<BR><BR>MICHAEL: All this--as long as you keep in mind: all the
really good, necessary planning and provision is also now, is in the
now. You just don't say, I cannot be complete until I have this or
that; I cannot begin to live until I have this or that or until
I'm accepted by this or that other person; or, until I have this love
or that love, I cannot live until that happens. You're putting
yourself on hold. Often this is simply avoiding
decision.<BR><BR>Student: Well, thank you.<BR><BR>MICHAEL: You are
welcome, my son. These are seeming contradictions, seeming paradoxes that
have captured most of the human race in its immaturity, and still capture
individuals until they achieve the wisdom and the desire to trace out in
their understanding all these true spiritual causes and
effects.<BR><BR>Student: I wish we could walk together and just talk, man
to man, friend to friend, just talk like this.<BR><BR>MICHAEL: Well,
give it a try, my son, from time to time throughout your day.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mother Spirit and I have both invited
you to do this. Just address either one of us and see what
happens. Don't assume we can't.<BR><BR>Student: Yeah, well, I
know Mr. Burbank did! (laughing)<BR><BR>MICHAEL: Just say hello, and
ask a question, and then see what comes next. Don't forget our
Universal Father, the Father of both of us, is right with us both, right in
your mind as a creator of thought. Very distinct, individual thoughts
are from His origin within you.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">(Visiting with Mother Spirit and Michael, and
God) <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">So let's close on that note. I invite you to
give it a try. Just say, "Hello Michael, are you here?" Ask a
question and see what answer comes up; see if you can detect its origin,
because I teased you a little bit ago with the truism that all
the movement right inside you, all the thinking going on--what is
its origin if you cannot determine your exact thoughts five minutes
from now? Where do you begin and Mother Spirit leave off? What
is the limit of God in your own mind?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I'll leave you with that query… (laughing…) and hope it leads you to my
peace.<BR><BR>Student: Thank you.<BR><BR>MICHAEL: Good evening.<BR
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