[tmtranscripts] Michael 4.18.05 - The Presence Of Spirit

[JERRY LANE]

Dear Folks,    Wow! - no comment on this one.  Enjoy!  Jerry.

                                                 Michael 4.18.05

Marin TM Group

Dear Michael and Nebadonia,  There’s a big wind outside tonight, coming in 
off the ocean, gusting through the trees and combing out all the branches.  
Then we have Your spirits inside us blowing through our souls: creating, 
freeing, empowering.  Thank You for Your invitation for us to renew 
ourselves, to feel You coming to us from every direction and dimension.  
Welcome to our lives and thank You again.  Amen.

Michael:  Good evening, My faithful sons and daughter.  What a joy it is to 
be with you again and to feel your love for each other.  This is Michael.  
Yes, yes indeed, what a season, what a time of renewal.  What a miracle it 
seems for these new buds to be bursting out of…where?  What is this beauty 
bursting forth seemingly out of just a pin-point?  What is this, bursting 
into time and space all around us, right within us?  Where is it coming 
from?  Why is it doing this?  Is there any plan to all of this or is there 
just some enormous, intrinsically creative Being who can’t contain himself?  
Or could it be both?  Could it be this is the nature of God?  And He’s so 
absolute, so infinite, so dependable that we, who are His sons and 
daughters, understand it for ourselves as an unfathomable plan, a divine 
intention which will never be exhausted in all of eternity?

Recently, your Mother and I have been addressing what sometimes appears to 
you as two seemingly irreconcilable differences in your human lives you feel 
you are forced to choose between - one or the other.  We have been assuring 
you that in many cases this choice is not necessary.  You do not have to 
feel yourselves as incomplete beings of God’s handiwork in order to enjoy, 
at the same time, a great potential you have for endless growth.  Conversely 
you do not need to shut down or deny this hunger within you for experience 
in order to feel complete moment by moment - an actual living existence.

Not all of you are capable yet of this achievement, for it is a kind of 
spiritual triumph to be able, not only to identify with the absolute reality 
of God, but to actually experience being a part of it.   You have to rise 
above youthful and adolescent insecurities, deep existential fears that in 
some way you are never quite fully here, for to a degree this had a validity 
in your youthful and adolescent relationship to reality. There was a truth 
in this, and this insecurity drove you until you came to a point of 
realization and acceptance that: Here I am.  All of existence is not some 
ephemeral, constantly only-partial state or illusion that never quite 
reaches being real, but rather: God Is.  His creation Is.   And I am.

Now think of all that is continuing on moment to moment, all the profound 
cause and effect of not only physical energy and matter, and life, but also 
all you know of as mind, a great cosmic mind helping human beings tie body 
and spirit together.  For you do realize this in some of your expanded 
notions of psychological as well as physical cause and effect.  Still I 
would invite you to realize further that as profound and enormous as you can 
conceive this continuing reality, this is still only half of what is 
happening.  Equal to it, counterbalancing it, is a continuous creation 
everywhere.  This is the blossoming, the bursting forth - seemingly out of 
nowhere, yet real and continuously adding to what already exists.

So the Supreme Being is expanding.  You are part of this. You share in some 
of His dimensions: you will encounter more  There’s part of you that is not 
strictly limited to time and space.  This is your essence, your God created 
personality.  Then there’s part of you that does obey very strict physical 
law and though, in your childhood and adolescent years, this physical part 
of you could seem such a limitation, such a drag, such an anchor to your 
soaring imagination, once you realized that you fully and completely are, 
you could appreciate these marvelous bodies you have as the means by which 
you contact the world during this phase of your life.  A Daughter of the 
Infinite Spirit, Mother Nebadonia, helps your individual minds connect not 
only with your physical bodies, but also with the presence of God, the 
mighty wind you mentioned blowing through your souls, capturing and 
maintaining these irreplaceable experiences He created you to have.  Now 
even He too can expand by enjoying being with you.

Everything and everyone bears the hallmark of its or his or her Creator.  
You have long marveled at snowflakes, but no two grains of sand are exactly 
alike either.  Let alone two living personalities.  Now put all this in 
motion out here in time and space, and realize no two events are the same.  
Tomorrow will be different than today, and we will all be different in it – 
on and on forever.  You can remember how the first inklings of this seemed 
to precipitate you forward as if you were still not quite…here…but only 
becoming something else.  You were always about to fall over the edge of a 
cliff into the unknown, stumbling forward, just barely catching yourself as 
you stumbled and almost fell again, and again.  Can you feel this now?  Look 
deep in your souls and remember what it was to be a child or an adolescent, 
and be utterly swept away from time to time.  Now take a deep breath, heave 
a little sigh and realize once again: You are.

You are standing on the edge of that yawning chasm of the unknown, perfectly 
secure.  It was just you driving yourself along and there is no longer a 
need for this.  You can stop and be still to feel the enormity and the 
absoluteness of existing.  You can feel how you yourself are effortlessly, 
continually bursting into time and space.  This is what it is to be alive.

Now for some of you, this stillness is only momentary.  You are kind of new 
at this and so you forget yourself and find yourselves engaged again – 
memories, plans, worries, desires.  You may need to set up a regular 
schedule to remind yourself to stop again, to pause and enjoy Gods’ pure 
gift of life itself.  But as you find yourself more and more at home here, 
as this experience of Our nature becomes its own reward, you begin to choose 
what you will do.  You are more and more capable of discovering what you 
want to do from an expanding awareness of your totality – physical, mental, 
spiritual, soul, and contact with all of Us and our Father.  For just so, 
you create the very alternatives which give you choice.

Then, goodness! - look around.  Where did – they - all come from?  You’re 
surrounded and…yes! - every single one of them is as unfathomable as you 
are.  And what is this flowing between you, between us?  What is this we are 
capable of feeling for each other?  What is this affection bursting in our 
hearts?

Thank You, Father, for sharing so much of Your nature.  I can’t contain it 
either…

(There was a very long pause here, and many tears of gratitude all around)

Bless you, My children, for opening to feel Our love.  If you have any 
questions or comments this evening, this too is included.

(And again many minutes passed before anyone felt like disturbing the peace)

Student:  Michael, I just want to say tonight…sometimes it’s overwhelming 
–feeling my gratitude for Your divine plan and what You and Mother have 
given to us – having actively been co-creators with us - to awaken us from 
the spiritual slumber we’ve been in out here in time and space.  It is truly 
nothing short of miraculous.  There’s nothing greater than Your true soul’s 
love, creating these little miracles of the Father in our everyday lives, 
and destroying our unspeakable transgressions.  I appreciate all those 
things with every fiber of my being.

Michael:  Well, My daughter, I hardly needed to say, Bless you – because you 
are feeling this so directly. You seriously share Our joy.  How thankful 
your Mother and I are that you are now maturing to the point where We can 
share so much of Our nature with you, especially this quality of wonder that 
most of you have so rarely, as human beings, realized that We too – your 
Mother Nebadonia and I – live in a state of wonder.  It would seem from your 
standpoint that We are all-knowing and all-powerful, yet knowledge and 
wisdom and power do not in any way preclude wonder, for you or Us.  Wonder 
is an emotional, re-active response of awe to the infinity of God’s 
creation.  Yet it is also our individual active curiosity which is the 
prelude or precursor to our own creations – as in, say: Did you ever wonder 
what to do?  So bless you, My daughter.  Rest in My peace.

Student:  Father Michael, I’m slowly getting a better understanding of our 
Heavenly Father from being here with You and the things You and Mother have 
said to us, but also the life You lived on earth.  It’s hard to describe at 
this moment, but You, and Mother, and God are…nice Guys!  Thank You very 
much for all of this.

Michael:  Well, My son, We love you too!  Can you see what a gift you are to 
Us, as we all are, in turn, a gift to our Father?

Student:  I am beginning to see that more and more.  I think all of us are – 
not just this circle, but all the personalities in Your universe.

Michael:  Yes, this is how and why We belong to you.  We are yours, just 
like God is all of ours.  All together, would we have it any other way?  
Some of your philosophers have tried to portray this connection as an 
enormous net with a little glowing point of light, like a star, at every 
intersecting line; and how every little point of light, like a spherical 
mirror, reflects every other one.  We can all definitely be glad that God 
had this idea of us to begin with.  And it is quite a challenge for your 
somewhat necessarily time-and-space-conditioned minds to experience more 
than momentarily the realization that Everyone is expanding – the soul of 
every personal being in existence - as well as all of our numbers 
increasing.  Yet this is the true picture of the reality we were all born 
into.  And this is our home.  Welcome home, My son.

Student:  Thank You, Father.

Michael:  And be in My peace.

Student:  Yes, Father, about returning home – the idea You said to the 
Apostles about: seek you first the kingdom of heaven and all else shall be 
given to you – and the sense that home becomes the kingdom of heaven within 
us and around us – that God created and sees in every moment of life.  In 
fact we have never left the kingdom of heaven.  It is our reality, as You 
have said.  So I choose to be in this place, this kingdom, and to see from 
this place, no matter what I look upon.  The kingdom exists here, and in the 
White House, and Iraq, and each and everyone’s heart.  When I go home 
tonight I choose to dwell in this place, and to live from this place, and 
see the people who I live with in this place, because they live here too.  I 
thank You for Your words tonight.  I only hope and pray I live here 
consciously, from here on, as I expand to God’s vision for me, and everyone…

Michael:  Yes, My son, to this I’ll add a hearty: So be it!  Yet there is 
one more step.

Don’t fear losing this awareness of being spiritually home.  In one way, 
this is the final step, the greatest faith, the deepest trust.  I include 
Myself in saying: we are not yet perfect.  But people especially have at 
times projected onto God or The Universe their own human process of losing 
their awareness of themselves for the sheer delight of rediscovering who and 
where they are.  This projection is a deep insight into your nature in one 
of its most finite or limiting aspects: you sometimes have to lose yourself 
- to gain the consciousness of everything and everyone else.  But with 
faith, with trust during these times when you are at home, you can joyfully 
relinquish and let go even this awareness.  You can forget yourself as a 
supreme act of confidence, and in the pure trust you will find yourself - 
home again; and again.  So that, for however long it may be, you can release 
yourselves - to serve each other.  You can be wholly and completely there 
for another, unselfishly.  Only incidentally will you realize what a gift to 
your own soul this other person has been.  We have every confidence in you, 
My son, and it does Our hearts good to have you feel this in yourself.  Rest 
in Our peace.

Student:  Dear Michael, some of us have read a book - The Power of Now - by 
this man - his last name is Tolle, and he seems to have hit on some sort of 
communication with his Thought Adjuster or all-around sense of beingness 
(sic), and to many methods of staying present in time.  Some of us talked 
about it over the last few days.  I wonder if anything could be elaborated 
on that, and also how to keep our attention-units on this time, or to act 
with what he calls a fuller sense of beingness below our body sensations 
even, and become even more alert in the process?

Michael: Yes, My son, I believe this is the theme We have been elaborating 
on for many months.  This is why We have been trying to help you feel so 
many living aspects of your nature – your being extra-ordinarily human.  
This is why Mother Nebadonia has run the risk of seeming to try to 
encapsulate in a few dozen sentences thousands of years of your sincere 
efforts at philosophy to express the almost paradoxical double nature of 
being here and now.  We have pointed at the potential for your freedom by 
way of your own individual creativity.  This is what I meant tonight by 
saying that in addition to everything pouring into now – this living present 
moment – from the previous moment, there is equally within now a new 
creation going on that you can participate in.  This, if you will, is the 
power of now.  This is why fully experiencing yourselves being here and now 
is an achievement - an accomplishment of getting the faith to let go and 
forget about yourself in the full and highly conscious use of the present 
moment – whatever it is.  And simply, profoundly trusting you will pop up 
again, look around in surprise, and find yourself self-consciously home once 
more.  Now don’t you think our Father has a sense of humor?  Enjoy this 
power of His, anytime.  And be in My peace.

Student:  Thank You – that was wonderful.

(There followed another very long and full stillness, a very large Presence)

Michael: Well, My children, what we have shared tonight was always beyond 
the words.  Be in My peace.

Students:  Thank You…  Thank you, Michael…