[tmtranscripts] Michael 10.15.07

[JERRY LANE]

Michael-October 15,2007

 

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

 

MICHAEL-T/R-JL

 

(Time) 

(Welcoming asking what is best to do)

(True discovery: living on the edge))  

 

Dear Michael and Mother Spirit,    We thank you for your lessons on how to realize and then transcend our unconscious conditioning to achieve a greater freedom of will and living by tuning in to the spontaneous, creative realm of spirit.  We ask you to help us achieve this not only in ourselves, but help us see this in others; help us see through their unconscious and unintended impulses and habits that mask their own original personality.  Help us to help them achieve a greater freedom of will, and give us the courage to welcome this whether their will coincides with our own or not.  In other words, help us grow to be more like the two of you--our divine parents, and our Universal Father.  Amen.

 

MICHAEL:  Good evening, the two of you.  This is Michael.  I want to thank you for your persistence and for your loyalty, your dedication to these meetings, and what each of you brings in your own separate way to them.  For as you, D, bring your uniqueness of personality, and you, J, are able to  suspend yours to transmit, I really enjoy this combination, this special energy we can create together.  Once again I offer the two of you and all who will come to read these words my own invitation to visit with Mother Spirit and me in your stillness as regularly, on the one hand, and then just as spontaneously, on the other hand, as it occurs to you during your days.

 

(Time) 

 

Whether of the longer periods we've recommended--setting aside a certain amount of time irrespective of whatever effect you're experiencing, or the little mini-meditations you can use for punctuation all through your days--remembering to sit down and tune in to us if only for a few minutes; this invitation opens the door to what I would like to address this evening, your concepts of time and temporal reality, and how they affect your life.  For this too is a continuing chapter of learning about your unconscious conditioning that comes from the various notions and usage's of time you were raised with and accepted as matters of fact.  

 

Your Urantia book states, and it is true, that your personality is endowed with its own realization of temporal sequence, and this was true as well hundreds of thousands of years ago in those primitive men and women who had little sense of duration, or future, as you do now.  So this sense of time, of one thing following another, of before and after and next, is inherent in your God-given personality.  You've even had your imaginations stretched when the book mentioned that on Paradise there is no time as you know it, since all motion/activity is volitional, but still the citizens there have this innate sense of sequentially along with the other hundreds of dimensions of existence you have yet to encounter.  

 

I would like to compare this mental time as you know it, as the human race has developed it over just the last few millennia, compare this to the physical development of your metal alloys, the really fine steel you've learned to make.  For just as this material helps you form the most exquisite tools that you use to make your modern world, so too it can make the strongest bars of a cage that can imprison you most securely.  And so it is with your concepts of time.  These concepts are your most useful tools for organizing and directing and controlling your ever more complex lives, and yet at the same time form the most rigid bars that determine your lives-I'll offer this notion-quite unnecessarily.  Mother Spirit brought this up last week in terms of how, for so many of you, the future seems to exist in a way it really doesn't.  In the most profound way, the future does not exist at all; yet this statement will seem to some fatalistic souls radically improbable, almost silly.  You have all your plans of what to do tomorrow and you are very assured that, baring some improbable catastrophe like an airplane falling on your house while you are asleep, you are definitely going to meet your friend at exactly 11:35 at a very precise place out there in the world.  And you probably will.  

 

But all this only exists now as you are thinking about it.  In this sense the future never happens-ever.  It is always now.  But in this everlasting now you have as a race developed such a facility with measuring duration, with fragmenting sequence with your creative, spiritual imaginations inventing time-measuring machines, you've created a wonderfully shared reality called the future.  With first the written word, and then printing presses and books and magazines, and now the enormous expansion of detail with your digital machines, this agreement, this social contract between you all in the living present has taken on a reality quite independent of any one, or even any group, of you.  All nation/states of your world have an unconscious agreement as to what day it is, and even some rough agreement as to what going to happen tomorrow, though of course in the competition between them there is some disagreement about what they would like to have happen.  

 

That competition and contention can lead, as it has so often in the past, to very active warfare.  Indeed, it is right within actual warfare when each side is doing its best to surprise the other and come up with what is not expected that you can experience the greatest terror of not knowing what is going to happen next.  The increasing randomness of modern warfare where your future can be destroyed--you can be killed or horribly maimed from someone flying at six hundred miles an hour, forty thousand feet above you--is a rather gruesome but all too real demonstration of my point tonight that time, as you know it, is a largely unconscious social convention.

 

(Welcoming asking what is best to do)

 

I would ask you to bring this point home and feel it within yourself.  In my last lesson I mentioned how so many of you would consider it a failure to be brought to a moment of not knowing what to do.  You consider it only an ultimate lifeline to cling to, your ability to sit down and ask God: What do I do next?  Yet I would like to offer the radical suggestion that this can be instead a marvelous spiritual achievement if sought voluntarily long before desperately needed.  This is a way in which you can break those rigid steel bars of conventional or habitual assumptions and with a joyful heart and a gleeful anticipation ask: Father, what is the best thing to do today?  You can see how welcoming this suspension of your normal, conditioned concepts of time can open up the reality you call the future by realizing it does exist only as a shared mental projection.  

 

That future you experience inside as so objective, so out there, so absolute and determining, is your own construct.  You can transcend it so you have it consciously, rather than it having you.  This is an expansion of consciousness for these notions of time only have you through your own habituation.  They have no other reality.  If you wish to be free from this social conditioning you must take the time-no pun intended-to break free.  You must devote part of your life to freedom, to sitting down and realizing just how much you are-now, and just how plastic, how flexible is that projection you call the future.  

 

This is another aspect of your maturity, my children.  This is yet another dimension in which you need to stand unique within yourself in your spiritual essence, independent from all those around you, to be of greatest service to them as well as yourself.  For in a way you are all in this situation together, and until and unless one of you breaks free of unconsciously held assumptions of an immutable future, none of you will.  With this freedom of realization you can help fulfill your prayer this evening.  You can help others be free in this same way, first by being the example, then by expressing to them these same truths I'm offering you now.

 

(True discovery: living on the edge))  

 

What exactly is it you will discover when you sit down to ask of yourself and our Father's presence within you: What is the best thing to do today?  That is precisely what I cannot answer now because of the very glorious, wonderful, delightful essence of it is: you cannot know until you try.  True discovery is a qualitatively progressive experience you cannot second guess or only half-heartedly anticipate.  So the better you are able to accomplish this, the more spontaneous and liberating will be each separate time.  You will realize to an ever greater degree what we've been offering as the notion that time is not repeating itself.  Each separate moment is unique, and there is an enormous quotient of this uniqueness you can realize within it--of what has never happened before--and so is open to your will, your determination, your ability to influence.  

 

You are capable of emerging from your past conditioning and living ever more in an eternal now, letting go more and more of those steel bars of your own imprisonment in notions of what has to happen.  In your own personal life you will be helping along all those around you in what is another facet of a general, racial evolution.  First for yourself, then for all the others, you will be approaching a greater truth, a fuller consciousness, a far deeper and broader reality of possibility and potential.  This is how you increase your potential, my children, how you develop your flexibility, how you delight in bringing yourself to the edge of the vast chasm of the yet unknown, and enjoy standing on the edge, more and more open to whatever may come next.  Whatever will come next will seem more amenable to your will, while at the same time you will be more open to the vast concourse of cosmic events, and their evolution, that is our Universal Father's will.  For this freedom is His will for you, just as it is Mother Spirit's and my own.  We literally enjoy your greater freedom with you.  And so we do our best to lead you up to the edge and get you comfortable just being there, unafraid, wondering and delighted that it is all now.  So, much of that unreal future you seem to have needed once upon a time, you can see clearly now was just a temporarily necessary illusion you've outgrown.

 

So take a break, my children, from this ongoing push you feel.  Sit calm and open in your stillness and let it all fall away.  Realize ever more this marvelous, infinitely expandable now that contains all your freedom, all your life.  

 

If you have any comments or questions, let them spring forth in this present now we share so fully.  29:56

 

(Questions and answers to follow)             
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