[tmtranscripts] Michael 11.13.06

[JERRY LANE]

Dear Friends,    Ho!--back in business.  I temporarily lost my help 
transcribing so the upcoming schedule of releases may be a bit lumpy, but 
the Monday night sessions are solid.  I have definitely learned to trust the 
Senders.  Jerry.

Michael--November 13, 2006

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

MICHAEL—T/R-JL

(Ah!—being human)
(The sequence of discovery)
(Being eclectic)
(Undoing guilt)
(Trauma and conditioning)
(Just keep bubbling over)
(Ripples in spirit)
(Earning your spiritual triumphs)

Dear Michael and Mother Spirit,    We welcome you to our gathering-in 
tonight to once again feel your presence and hear your words of good cheer 
and inspiration.  I recently had a tenacious bout of the flu and, right in 
the middle of it, without any energy or gumption to do anything, I found 
great strength and comfort in rereading some of your previous lessons.  So I 
thank you again for all you have given us of your viewpoints—the viewpoints 
of a Creator Son and Mother Spirit, reassuring us we are more than just this 
somewhat fragile, fleeting, changing awareness of ourselves.  Amen.

MICHAEL:  Good evening, my children, this is Michael, your spiritual father. 
  Mother Spirit and I thank you in return for using us, for as we have 
reassured you so many times before, your trust in us, your reaching to us 
for help, for strength, for reassurance of the wonderful and rather complex 
kind of beings you are; all this adds to our delight in being your dear and 
loving parents.  So yes, please, by all means, use us.  Come to us in your 
stillness.  Just feel our presence in your mind, in your heart, in your 
super-consciousness, and right in your feelings.  Please do reread our 
lessons.  We hope they are not only singularly meaningful to you, but they 
are structured so as to support each other and lead you step by step into a 
fuller comprehension of God's ways and his will for all of us.

It is our main purpose, my children, to play the part of spirit, to be loyal 
children ourselves of our universal Father, and join in and augment his 
down-reach, just as we too down-reach to you, anticipating and encouraging 
your up-reach to us, so that you may have life, and have it more abundantly.

(Ah!—being human)

You are really complex beings, and the sequence by which each of you becomes 
aware of what you are is not exactly preordained, but does follow a regular 
pattern.  We mentioned in a recent lesson how you are accompanied and 
assisted by representatives of the Trinity—myself representing the Eternal 
Son, pouring out upon you my unique spirit, the Spirit of Truth, to become 
part of your mentality giving you a hunger and drive to discover ever larger 
realms of what is true.  Mother Spirit represents the Third Person of the 
Trinity, the Infinite Spirit, her Mind Adjutants, distinct dimensions of her 
consciousness, directing the evolution of life on the planets--which you 
recapitulate in the womb; and then from the moment you are born, as you 
recapitulate the history of your race, her adjutants, one by one, help you 
think, and understand, give you a gregarious impulse with respect to each 
other, and the courage to seek out this new world surrounding you--until you 
grow into that moment when her adjutants of wisdom and worship can 
inaugurate you into your first moral decision, at which moment your receive 
a Thought Adjuster, the presence of God himself, and become even as a small 
child super-minded.

Yet even before these exterior spiritual influences, my children, your very 
being is reflective of the Trinity.  Your personality, which we define as 
your essential reality, the unique cosmic reality that you are, like no 
other in all of existence, this personality is a creation of God.  Then this 
creation of God the Father is bequeathed a spiritual nature from the Eternal 
Son, the Second Person of Deity.  You are not only part of God’s personality 
circuit, you are also a part of the Eternal Son’s spiritual circuit.  And 
then you are minded, you are extended a portion of the Infinite Spirit’s 
mindedness—the Cosmic Mind, just as part of your intrinsic nature, the kind 
of being you are.  This mind’s main purpose is to link your spiritual 
personality with a physical body that is also unique.  I’m sure you’ve all 
seen pictures of the once rather large families of your particular culture, 
and have marveled at how among a dozen brothers and sisters there is both 
such a family resemblance, and yet too how each face is unique: each 
physical person is unique.  Even identical twins are ever so slightly 
physically unique.

So right in the kinds of beings that you are—in personality, and spirit, and 
mind, you portray the gifts of all three of the absolute, existential 
Beings.  This is what every human being is, and on Urantia, ever since 
Pentecost when I released my Spirit of Truth to the whole planet, as 
distinct from before this time, now every normal-minded human being receives 
a Thought Adjuster.  As of Pentecost, the planet Urantia took a giant step 
forward into its potential future.

(The sequence of discovery)

It is by thoroughly understanding and appreciating the sequence of events of 
how every newborn child acquires its mental and spiritual abilities, yet how 
these are so nearly-totally colored by the family and the larger culture 
into which he or she is born, can you understand how my Spirit of Truth, 
Mother Spirit’s Adjutants of Wisdom and Worship, and even God’s fragment of 
pure spirit within the human mind, can get quite buried by years and years 
of childhood habituation to that culture, to this particular time in the 
development of your planetary civilization.  So much so that the Godly gift 
of free will arising from a true individualization, standing alone and 
essentially apart from all these years and years of conditioning; this 
hallmark of true maturity is not easily won.  And this is especially true 
for so much of the world in which this goal of independent thinking, 
genuinely spontaneous spiritual creativity, is not even acknowledged to be 
possible to strive for.  This becomes another great purpose of Mother Spirit 
and I--to introduce--along with all our other spiritual children whose 
messages you are receiving through these transmissions.

(Being eclectic)

You term this maturity as being eclectic, and we encourage you, my children, 
to reach for that supernal goal.  By all means explore.   Fill your minds 
with as many different versions of the truth as your hearts desire, your 
minds are willing to embrace, and your spirits thrill in the discovery.  For 
every human being has a Thought Adjuster, a presence of God within them, 
doing his pure spiritual best to inform them, to guide them into ever 
greater spirit.  Still, this has to find expression in each individual 
mind--individually.  In this the story of the tower of Babel is merely 
symbolic of the reality that everybody, to some degree, speaks their own 
language, comprehends by way of their own concepts.  Yet here is precisely 
where your own Thought Adjuster, and my Spirit of Truth, and Mother Spirit’s 
Adjutant of Wisdom can help you recognize--as it were behind the 
words—another person’s more fundamental meaning.  This is the ability you 
are all slowly growing, an ability to apprehend and appreciate another 
person’s soul, what they mean by, as you say, where they are coming from; 
what is their own history of experiencing spiritual truths.

And this is quite a challenge.  Just think: how do you bring about a one 
world of peace and harmony while at the same time not loosing anything of 
everyone’s past?  Otherwise you would end up with some kind of cartoon 
caricature missing all the detail of the true history of the planet.  There 
is only one way out, for you as an individual, for you all as a world 
civilization.  You have to keep growing.  At one and the same time, as you 
take in more and more of each other’s cultures and past experiences, if you 
keep discovering those true spiritual values that unite humankind, and grow 
your ability to understand them, to comprehend them, to encompass it all in 
a meaningful way, you will discover ever more your  own limitless 
personality, your own mental abilities, your own all-embracing spiritual 
nature.

It is happening.  The possibility is now bright before you .  Now that goal 
of spiritual spontaneity and creativity beckons to you.  Enjoy it well, my 
children.  It is the very essence of joy.  This is the reward of the ages, 
what the ages have labored to produce.  Just think: all your planet’s human 
past is real.  It really happened.  And it lead to here.  This is your 
wealth, my children.  Value it well.  Stretch to encompass it.  There is no 
limit that can be put upon your personality, your mind, and your spirit.  
This is something you can know, you can experience, you can embrace and 
treasure.  This is our purpose in reaching out to you, and it is our thrill 
when you respond.

Now do you have any questions along these, or any other lines?

Student:  I have a question about the process of learning how to undo guilt. 
  Why are so many people buried in guilt?  Is it truly the cause of most of 
our own suffering.

(Undoing guilt)

MICHAEL:  Yes, my daughter, guilt is both a naturally occurring phenomena, 
but even more, just one more thing you pick up with your cultural 
conditioning.  We see the main function of guilt as a kind of 
self-motivating technique.  It is a way of critiquing what you have done, 
coming to a conclusion this was not very well done at all, and then 
preventing yourself from doing it again.  But insofar as it is introduced to 
you at a very early age, you more or less absorb it as a fall-back 
technique, something that, like so many other things you’ve learned, is best 
dealt with by replacing it with something better.  Guilt is mostly another 
species of habituation, an only half-conscious way of feeling bad about 
something so you don’t do it again.  As such it can even be an indulgence, a 
way of atoning, a price you pay rather than…what?

I ask you this for it leads to a solution.  To get out of guilt you have to 
be decisive.  You have to very consciously accept the effort involved in 
thoroughly understanding what you were trying to do, and what went 
wrong—thoroughly understand the situation.  Pull guilt up out of those 
unconscious depths of a fall-back technique and make some decisions.  This 
gets you out of the realm of guilt as a substitute for action.  And this, my 
daughter, I think is where you intuit guilt does its greatest damage by 
allowing you to wallow in indecisiveness, indulging a habit of feeling bad 
about something, feeling rightfully more and more helpless in the face of 
the need to decide.

So the way out does take courage to reopen old wounds and follow truth 
wherever it leads and, to mix metaphors, let the chips fall where they 
may—just so it’s true—all those complex issues involved.  This forms the 
basis for the understanding upon which your decisions will be made.  In this 
sense, my daughter, a decision is action.  Even if you fail again in 
carrying it out, you can decide again.  You can exercise your determination 
like an atrophied muscle and glory in feeling it coming back, gaining 
strength, living decisively, finally seeing and accepting guilt as a kind of 
indulgence, like the anger we once talked about.  Does this help you see the 
process?

Student:  It’s very well put, and helpful for me.  I’ve been watching myself 
pull away from guilt.  I‘ve watched myself move into days of guiltless 
action, and I feel very good that I’ve had a string of days in which there 
is nothing to feel guilty about.  Now I’m seeing myself having extreme 
amounts of joy for no reason.  It’s like I’m in love with life, and so I’m 
finding all this contentment.  I read a transcript of yours saying, now 
don’t just seek contentment, seek to also make an impact. So these little 
stages of growth I see myself go through, I can look at (Name) and say, how 
can you still live with all that guilt?  But of course I’ve been working on 
my own for four years.  So it’s very helpful—the word decision.  I made a 
decision to forgive myself, for mistakes.

But if we feel we’ve done things to harm another, but it was just—as you’ve 
said—the sheer self-indulgence of anger and hatred we kind-of get used 
to—could some of that stem from, say, childhood things—even things you have 
no recall of?  Perhaps that meanness of spirit that came out towards someone 
else was directly related to something that happened to us we can’t recall?

(Trauma and conditioning)

MICHAEL:  Very much so, my daughter.  This is why Mother Spirit and I have 
asked you from time to time to consider the thousands and thousands of hours 
in which you just absorbed what was around you as a very small child, before 
you had more than a rudimentary self-consciousness.  This is when you often 
learned, maybe not through some traumatic experience that happened to you 
directly, but where you picked up the habit of anger just as a way of life, 
guilt as a way of dealing with mistakes.  To your young mind this was what a 
human being was, and did.  This is why those in a more modern society with a 
larger group of playmates and different families to contact are somewhat 
blessed compared to very primitive societies where the whole tribe will be 
of a certain mentality of anger and revenge and retribution, where life was 
almost an incessant warfare with the surrounding tribes: and completely 
unquestioned.  This was what life was.

So yes, these habits may stem from experiences way before your 
self-awareness, your memories, kicked in; and it could also be just copying 
the behavior of those around you.

Student:  I even went through experiencing a little bit of guilt recently 
about feeling so good for no reason, and so I’m kind-of letting go of that, 
and I’m really enjoying this joy, this level of excitement and appreciation 
of life.  I think my connection with the Urantia book, and the study 
groups—however I got thrown in with these people—someone gave me the book 
years ago—I’m really valuing it now, and appreciating that I’ve gotten to 
this point.  I’ve learned to stop blaming my patents and the dysfunctional 
family I lived in, and tried to understand they didn’t have the tools to 
nurture me at that time.  So now I’m learning to nurture myself, and coming 
here is such a highlight I just…(heavy sigh)…getting to the point where I’m 
really making an impact in other peoples’ lives, so other people can look at 
it this way—for no reason.  (laughs)

(Just keep bubbling over)

MICHAEL:  Well, my daughter, just keep bubbling over!  (much laughter)  This 
is the generosity of spirit we encourage and appreciate so much.  This is 
that accepting all the karma that was handed to you and deeply, deeply 
forgiving those who may have harmed you.  Contrary to those who say, forgive 
and forget, it actually requires a deep remembering--an ever deeper opening 
of memories, and then, as you get more and more spiritually spontaneous, and 
relax even more, little bright moments of your soul can come out and allow 
you for a few precious moments to relive experiences of your past more fully 
than what your memories can provide.  With these reassurances that your soul 
is there, that nothing is lost, comes a profound appreciation 
for—all--you’ve experienced—the good and the bad, the ups and the downs, the 
pain and the joy.  It all becomes of a piece, and that totality is your 
personality.  It is an eternal possession of yours, my daughter.  This is 
your soul.  So keep bubbling over.  Let it wash you clean, and healed, and 
whole.

Student:  I truly feel wealthy.

MICHAEL:  Amen to that.  It seems you’ve found a bit of my peace.

Student:  Thank you very much.  I’m just honored to be here.

MICHAEL:  And I am most honored to welcome you.  Welcome home.  As I said 
before, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.  (much laughter)

Student:  Well, if I’m having this much fun now, and I can have more fun 
than this, I’m really looking forward to freeing up my mind even more.

MICHAEL:  Yes.  Be in my peace.

Student:  Yes, Michael, as usual there are a number things I would love to 
discuss with you.  The first is noticing how a little being like my 
daughter’s daughter, Chatelaine, can affect so many people’s lives directly 
and indirectly, just in being born.  The immediate impact is on my daughter 
and her boyfriend, and me, but also her mother and my mother.  My daughter’s 
boyfriend, Dan, had to move in with me, and so the roommates he lived with 
have to move away too and meet new friends and roommates; and it goes on and 
on.  Also the roommate who lived with us, I had to ask to move to find a new 
place, so she will have a new roommate and new friends, and new experiences. 
  It’s just interesting, like throwing a pebble in a pond--the ripple 
effect.  So it’s just interesting watching how this little bundle of 
awareness has such an impact.

What I’ve noticed for myself over the past few months is kind of gradual 
weaning from the constrictions of the world--the points of view of the world 
that I live in.  I’m opening up to a different, broader, and healthier 
perspective of my place; in a sense, using the idealism and vision that is 
innate within me.  I’ve noticed a different way of being, of living.  I’m 
more at ease in being.  I’m not saying I don’t have my moments (laughs) of 
unease, but that’s only because I’m holding on to a point of view that no 
longer works for me.

So it’s interesting how all that I have come to understand through my own 
introspection, and my connection with You and Mother and the Teaching 
Mission, how it seems to be taking hold.  It’s not so abstract; it’s 
becoming more concrete, and real.  I feel more real, more aware of 
awareness.

(Ripples in spirit)

MICHAEL:   Well, my son, you gave me a  wonderful picture in your analogy of 
a ripple effect.  I envisioned a pond so absolutely still on a bright sunny 
day that you forget it is water.  All you can see is the clouds overhead 
scurrying by on the surface.  So it seems that you are looking through some 
kind of transparent dimension into the sky itself with its clouds flying by. 
  Then you drop in a pebble and all of a sudden you become aware of water.  
It’s not the sky.  These ripples are in something that only a moment before 
was transparent.

So with your little granddaughter landing upon you, you perceive all these 
ripples of life going out to all the folks involved.  And this does give you 
a sense of a very real connecting dimension that is usually 
transparent--what we call spirit--the dimension that is tying everyone 
together no matter how disparate they are, or even unknown to each other.  
These ripples and counter-ripples and counter-counter-ripples are all 
bouncing back and forth and influencing each other.  In your moments of 
stillness you can sense all these ripples bouncing around inside your 
mind--all a wonderful appreciation of the interconnectedness.

Then they subside and are still, until once again you have just one single 
transparent spirit—God--including everything invisibly, until another 
creation of his springs forth and sets the ripples to going again.

And so these invisible dimensions of his become palpable, even concrete, and 
very real.  And since they are not other-than-you, so do you.  This is true 
spiritual growth, not some negative will-of-the-wisp yearning that might get 
it going.  The real thing itself is quite palpable.

Student:  The word that came to mind was responsibility, because if my 
little granddaughter can affect so many people, just by being born, how I 
live my life and how I treat others also has a ripple effect.  That’s so 
important for people to understand--how I treat another human being, say in 
a positive, loving and nurturing way, then they’ll go forth and treat the 
next person hopefully in the same way, and so on, like with my own children.

MICHAEL:  Yes.  This is the power of creativity.  This is the power of 
initiating these good things yourself--just out of your own spirit.

Student:  I guess that’s the definition of service, because I desire to be a 
benefit to those around me in my community and my society.  I desire to be 
of service, and have many ripples.

MICHAEL:  And the marvelous thing is these ripples are a reward in 
themselves because they become extensions of you that you can experience, 
you can feel.  Also note how this particular ripple of your granddaughter 
was welcomed.  Our hearts go out for those children who are immediately 
suppressed, who are not welcomed, who are seen as some kind of curse or 
terrible fate.  This is where our hearts are called forth and our services 
are all the more needed, just to understand what has happened to those who 
are raised in such a suppression of these joyous ripples.  So be all that 
much more thankful, my son, that you can perceive and appreciate the 
goodness going out and bouncing around.  You can envision the possibility, 
the pure potential in such a small creature.  Now you get to relive your own 
childhood through her, as she reminds you of all the stages you came 
through, once upon a time.

Student:  That’s interesting too because I always remember You and Mother 
Spirit saying, we cannot anticipate the future.  She was not anticipated, 
but I wouldn’t trade her, or my daughter, or my son for anything in the 
world, because it’s just marvelous.  Like I said to you at another time, I 
have no idea where my future is taking me, where I am going.  All I have is 
this moment, and the love that I have.  I have no idea!

MICHAEL:  But you can begin to trust and have faith in that spontaneity of 
creativity.

Student:  That’s what’s changed within me.  I sense I’m no longer seeking so 
much as I’m really being.  I know I’m always growing and becoming more each 
and every moment--whatever that is.  But I have a sense of trust, that I'm 
OK, that I am going to be OK.  That’s what’s changed and grown within me.  
It’s a kind of freeing thought that I have no idea where I’m going, but I 
also know that God and the universe is ultimately in my best interest.  I 
talked to myself the other day as I was listening to all this negative stuff 
on the radio because I realized this planet can be heaven.  This planet is 
supposed to be heaven!

(Earning your spiritual triumphs)

MICHAEL:  Well, my son, these are those spiritual triumphs that, once you 
begin to embrace them, even to encompass them, you can with a little bit of 
irony, perhaps, sincerely thank our Father that he did require you to earn 
them.  You have repaid his trust by exercising your abilities.  And there is 
true joy in this without getting a swelled head, for it leads to an even 
greater amount of humility.  You realize that, as big as you’ve found the 
universe so far, you do have this inkling (laughs), this suspicion: it’s 
going to get an awful lot bigger.

Student:  Yes.  And I welcome that.  But in terms of the swelled head, I 
know that will not happen because I was just a moment away of possibly 
destroying my life—a perception away.   So I always have that in the back of 
my mind, knowing that my life could have gone in a totally different 
direction, where I could have lost everything.  This is why I have empathy 
for all those who suffer.
So thank you for our conversations.  I was going to bring up something else 
about the difference between the Buddha and Jesus, but we can wait for 
another time--the Buddha Mind and Christ Consciousness, so to speak.

MICHAEL:  Take it from me, Gautama Siddhartha—some of you know him as 
Sakyamuni—he and I are old friends indeed.  So let your joy be boundless, 
even if you get a twinge of guilt as a kind of brake. (laughs)

Student:  No, I’ve got over that, but I also know that I allow myself to 
feel pain and things; I don’t run away from that.  And sometimes I don’t 
even try to understand it, but just allow myself to experience it and live 
through it, especially if I see the suffering of children around me.

MICHAEL:   Yes, the word is experience--to accept that you are this 
experiential nodule out here in time and space.  This is your most 
fundamental purpose, just to experience all you can; to do your best to 
welcome it, whatever it is, wherever it leads, wherever you are able to lead 
it.  This is your wealth.  This is why God created you.  For even like him, 
you are moment-to-moment complete, and yet too, like him, you can be more 
and more replete--forever.

This is your true destiny.  As I said earlier, this growing by experience is 
the one way out of any temporal dilemma.  This is where the universe--God’s 
creation itself--points.  This is the way it, and he are going.  So we 
welcome you.

Mother sends her Love, and I bid you to find, and thoroughly enjoy my peace 
within you.  Good evening.


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