2007-04-23-Michael

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Topic: Michael

Group: Marin TeaM

Facilitators

Teacher: Michael

TR: JL

Session

Opening

Dear Michael and Mother Spirit, we find ourselves evermore deeply immersed in both social and political moral evaluations, and so we ask your help. We ask you, Mother Spirit, help us feel your Spirit Adjutants of Worship and Wisdom; and Michael, help us experience your Spirit of Truth, so we can come to this greater spiritual sense of proportion you speak of eventually, or ultimately, reaching for a world-wide inclusive sense of value and meaning. Help us be open-minded and bring it all back home to where we can continuously re-evaluate our own lives and what steps we need to take to be more healthy, more spiritually sensitive. Amen.

MICHAEL: Good evening, my children, this is Michael, your spiritual father, Creator Son of Nebadon our Local Universe here in the galaxy.

Lesson

Let's pause a moment and feel ourselves to be citizens of such an enormous realm of God's creativity. For it is all real out here. All this actually exists, moment to moment, along with your own lives. This is your true home, these vast starry realms. They are your true future. You will come to know them, intimately. This is another one of those teasing proportions we invite you to enjoy.

And yet here we are moment to moment feeling ourselves living, all the past and all the future encompassed and tipping on our next breath. Can you feel this actuality, this completeness now? For every moment not only leads to the next, but is a fulfillment of all that has ever been. And it is yours.

Indeed this present moment is in motion, especially for your order of living being. Yet you can rest right in this motion. This is not an exercise of imagination, my children. Stillness is not something you have to pretend exists. Rather it is letting go even that most subtle activity in discovery. This is the closest you can come to being aware of yourself as a pure time-and-space transcended personality. You are the eye that sees, but cannot see itself. You are this kernel of experiential being, this God-created focus upon which is built an eternal soul-the story, the summation, by a fragment of God himself, of your unique experience.

Don't be discouraged, my children, when you discover this stillness is still, at your stage of development, so very relative, along with everything else. You cannot yet know either your physical, or mental, or spiritual dimensions in anything approaching a pure state, as if they were isolated from each other. But this is due to the power of your personality, whose main function is to unite all these disparate elements of such a complex being. The very unity of the life you experience is itself a spiritual triumph. It puts everything in a living context so that everything eventually, ultimately, does make sense, even those seemingly senseless or meaningless events--so-called you must grapple with, and try to understand.

But your ability to experience stillness, to experience--when all else is relaxed and allowed to fall away--there is still something there: this is you. This in itself is an ability you must slowly and patiently learn by trial and error. For it is an article of faith that in this one endeavor there is no failure so long as there is a heart-felt attempt. So long as your try your best to achieve this stillness, as it appeals to you, and as you perceive it each particular time for it too is an evolution this attempt is spirit.

Think of how radical this is compared to any other human activity, and how it necessarily transcends an innate animal fear of doing nothing so consciously; which is why it is a spiritual exercise, this attempt to simply relax any and all activities as they arise spontaneously. Consider how difficult, even impossible, this is for some people, how it can bring up an insurmountable terror of ceasing to exist. These are those folks who are precariously committed to hanging on to every desperate thought they fill their minds with in order to maintain even the thinnest sense of self-value and -justification. There are even those who can no longer hold on and are swept away in a terrifying deluge of hallucinations, and are truly suffering with various psychoses. For them there is no stopping, no pause, no peace.

And so you can see how the achievement of stillness must be developed to where you have some choice, some way of relaxing right in the midst of the most demanding situation. Think what enormous freedom, what genuine spiritual creativity this gives you. This is the way you can take a break, refresh yourself in your actuality, your real existence, and then start afresh not only from the blissful unconsciousness of sleep, but in the highest consciousness where you can connect with Mother Spirit and myself, and with the fragment of God that indwells your being.

Last week Mother Spirit introduced certain notions, certain concepts to help you understand the nature of evil actions, for it is our contention, our sure knowledge that evil is inherently different from goodness, and is only a transient reality born of a twisted mind that willfully embraces it. Also there was some question last week after the events at Virginia Tech as to whether, on balance, it was good to show the videos that the killer himself made. I can only ask you to see from our viewpoint how this was beneficial, in spite of the pain it may have cost some people. It is necessary for you to confront the reality of how such a person thinks, and sees himself and the world around him.

Here you are face to face with the universal need of every individual to see himself or herself, if at all possible, as sane, as living a meaningful and justified life however distorted or spitefully painful that meaning is. Here you can get some idea of what sense this individual made of things, and perhaps from that, understand how this came about. For there is a distinct difference between a psychopath, who remains fully functional, and a psychotic, who cannot. You even have a useful term of social-pathology, or a sociopath, to designate those who single-mindedly, and with great intelligence and planing over quite a period of time, carry out such horrific anti-social acts.

We applaud how quickly within your mass media you did regain some composure and sought to know the true psychological causes for such an event, how you struggled to make sense of what at first seemed so senseless. You are striving to be open-minded as to the causes and the possible ways of preventing such occurrences in the future.

This is quite a challenge, for each individual's inner need for meaning and sense require such self-justification, I'm sure you can feel the main difference here is that most of you, very early in life, accepted the necessity of conforming yourself, by admitting within yourself, the viewpoints, and feelings, and attitudes of others. You accepted the pain of rejection involved when your advances were rebuffed, or you failed to get any advances from others—all the way back in the sandboxes of childhood.

Yet for some excessively shy and inwardly fragile individuals, this risk of failure is not acceptable. On deep and unconscious levels very early on they are determined not to so engage their fellows, and thereby miss all the social skills that come of this trial and error. They end up justifying themselves as having the true integrity, for to them this social intercourse is a compromise of weaklings they are not willing to make. They see themselves having the strength to be alone, and can only regard with a growing contempt and disdain what they consider to be weak people who need each other. Deprived of the feedback from dozens upon dozens of other viewpoints, all this wealth of individuality you have to offer each other, they become arrested and locked up in their own world, meeting the fundamental demand for growth by cultivating excessive self-pride and self-flattering cynicism and narcissism. They end up masking their real insecurity by denying their most essential nature that of being an experiential being by refusing broader experience and genuine growth.

Sometimes such individuals willfully and consciously embrace notions of evil actions just for the thrill and self-satisfaction of it. Others indulge a bottomless hatred and anger toward the more socially successful individuals around them.

I only go into this, my children, to show you what is needed to contact such a person who had spent years in this kind of mentality, who willfully rejects as weakness or compromise your overtures of friendship. You can only appreciate the challenge as they would see it--of having their whole world collapse by acknowledging how many years were wasted ducking this larger social reality. If you apply this challenge to your own life, it would be like admitting that from very early childhood on so much was a horrible mistake, a tragic and stubborn, stunted nowhere-ness. But this is empathy, my children, this is appreciation for the lives some folks live, and why they are so terribly dangerous.

Closing

I thank you for opening your hearts and your minds, to feel and try your best to understand what I had to offer this evening. You can feel truly blessed if you can touch upon what is meant by peace of mind, for indeed, what a triumph of spirit this is. If you have any questions of comments, let us welcome them.

Note

TO BE CONTINUED. Once again, dear folks, my apologies for running out of time: there's another whole hour of questions and answers to transcribe. But I did want to get out Michael's, as well as Nebadonia's, response to the events at Virginia Tech. I'll be away for a few weeks but should have the rest of this evening's lesson, as well as Mother Spirit's of 4.16.07, when I get back. Take care, JL