[tmtranscripts] Michael 5.16.05

[JERRY LANE]

Dear Folks,    Ooops!  I forgot to include:

Michael 5.16.05

Marin TM Group

Dear Michael and Mother Spirit:    Well, we’ve just enjoyed a long visit 
with our older brother Welmek, and He left us tuned in with a greater 
sensitivity for who You are as our parents.  So we thank You for this gentle 
pressure of Your presence we can feel and know: it is You, reassuring us You 
are here.  Amen.

Michael:  Good evening My children, this is Michael.  Rest awhile In My 
peace.  It was your older brother Welmek’s purpose and success in getting 
you stirred up, (laughter) - which I see you recognize was what you were 
asking for, and what you needed, so now just rest awhile.  Feel My presence 
in your heart center, radiating out through your body, and then too your 
inner-space – as Mother calls it – everywhere still, everywhere peaceful.  
Notice how when you are deeply at peace within yourself, you really needn’t 
shut out the outside world or go away anywhere.  Generally you have your 
eyes closed just to help relax and let go the visual connection, but there 
is no need to turn off your auditory connection with the rest of the world, 
unless it’s particularly bothersome or distracting.  On the contrary, 
sometimes it is very restful and useful in a spiritual way to incorporate 
all you hear and just let it be.  Let all the world out there have its own 
life.  This is practicing your peacefulness right in the midst of activity.

See if you can feel for a difference between listening – in an active sense 
- and simply hearing.  Notice the difference between your inner-space and 
outer-space.  Notice how hearing seems to combine the two. Your inner-space 
can go out and out and yet contain the sounds of the world, whereas your 
sense of space beyond your body is dependant so much on sight.  Now, without 
opening your eyes, visualize what is all around you.  Pretend you can see it 
to make it more distinct.  Is this not just a persistence of recent memory?  
Since you are in a familiar location where you are meeting tonight, there is 
an even longer lasting memory of what is around you.  These are some of the 
subtle distinctions We have been trying to help you experience for many 
lessons now: how much your seemingly living perceptions are actually the 
persistence of memory - familiarity, and how much it is the fresh, raw 
material energy impacting the retinas of your eyes, or your eardrums.

Recognition means to know something again – to re-cognize something.  And 
yet this happens so instantaneously within your brain you are very seldom 
aware of how your mind functions in recognizing and ordering - putting into 
order and form – all the raw physical data your senses are taking in.  In 
fact you are generally only aware of this process when it breaks down in 
some small way.  For example, those of you who particularly love dogs or 
cats will see them from time to time in what turns out to be, on second 
glance, just a tuft of grass in an open field.  It’s like part of your mind 
is looking to see cats or dogs, and not recognizing things.  So think how 
this operates in any form of pre-judging – prejudice.  In a roundabout way, 
this is why peacefulness and stillness within you is an essential precursor 
to fresh perceptions, because if something deeply unconscious within you has 
to allow you to see what is not expected or desired, it becomes a matter of: 
how do you influence yourselves so deeply, so consistently beyond what you 
can remind yourself to do?  We looked at this once before in terms of the 
very desirable quality of being alert.  There is no way you can force 
yourself through sheer desire and effort to remind yourself to be alert.  
You have to seek and welcome, and then recognize a qualitative enhancement 
in your life, out there in seemingly objective reality.

Interestingly enough, all through history this has been the main reason that 
people used, and continue to use any number of psychotropic drugs.  What you 
call “getting high” – for the very reason you don’t call it “getting low” – 
is an attempt to enhance your life – to feel better, to perceive better.  
But the main requirement for this kind of experimentation is wisdom, and an 
absolutely thoroughgoing self-honesty – a conscious and persistent 
reevaluation, as with all other aspects of your life, of means and ends.  As 
with other activities or other forms of ingested foods – general nutrition – 
you have to ask yourself: what is the cost for whatever effects you are 
experiencing?  Whatever substance or food you ingest, just ask yourself: 
what is the – complete – effect: physically, mentally, spiritually, and 
soulfully?  Is it enhancing or ruining your health; can you think and 
perceive and function better or worse; are your values more or less clear 
and evolving; and are you more or less connected with the whole of your 
life?  This has to be evaluated over a period of time, yet this is 
enormously complicated – this evaluation – by what you call in psychological 
terms – habituation, which is a kind of physical/mental familiarity.  For 
psychotropic drugs, over time it generally takes more of the pure 
biochemical to produce the same special-effect due to the amazing ability of 
your bodies to adjust to different inputs and still maintain an over-all 
feeling of normalcy: a marvelous ability designed to evolve over many 
millions of years to enhance individual survival.

The use must be measured too in the purity of the effect.  Certain drugs may 
enhance certain abilities, but at the expense of numbing other, more subtle 
awareness, while others can be immediately destructive of physical parts 
such as irreplaceable nerve tissue.  There is no hard and fast demarcation 
line between these substances and what you may have inherited from your 
family and immediate culture as daily nutrition and treats.  Here too wisdom 
would have you seek for an ever deeper understanding of what all foodstuffs 
are doing for, or possibly against you.  Fortunately for your ability to 
experiment wisely in what you ingest, there is an enormous wealth of general 
information, however contradictory some of it is in terms of espousing the 
latest diet fad.  We suggest you to make small changes and reflect a lot on 
the effect of these changes.  Be truly scientific.  Stop using any 
concentrated substance for at least a month or so to see if you have become 
habituated, even to the point of addiction where the mere cessation of use 
brings on dis-ease.  But beyond this, to really know what effect anything is 
having in your life - in true empirical-fashion experimentation - realize 
the only way to know what it is like to do without something, is to do 
without it – nothing else.

You are a nodule of experience, My children.  This is your fundamental 
reality.  This is why you were created, and why your Father enjoys so much 
making a journal, a living soul-reality of your experiences for the both of 
you.  So it helps your wisdom grow by using your imagination to sense the 
limitations of your experience, for this gives you a small ability to, in a 
sense, imagine what you do not yet know.  You also pay proper respect for 
what you may have heard about, but have not yet experienced.  And this can 
be a very loving regard for another person’s experience, that you know 
you’ve not had.  It keeps you from belittling or making small of another’s 
suffering and difficulties.  It opens your heart to them by breaking down 
this barrier, this self-pretense that you know how they feel.

This is how you experiment.  This is how you contact – somewhat - what you 
have not yet experienced.  This is how you open yourself to wonder what the 
next step might be.  This is how you consciously change one item at a time 
in your life, and then reflect on it greatly, to know what influence it had. 
  This is how you practice your peacefulness and your stillness to perceive 
how things are really changing.  This is how you stay in touch with Our good 
advice and suggestions.

Some of you bridle at the terminology of Thought Adjuster, forgetting that 
this pure spirit of God himself always makes suggestions as your very 
thoughts themselves, perfectly content to accept your decisions as to 
whether or not you incorporate them in your life.  But this is your way of 
tuning into and receiving suggestions from a viewpoint infinitely vast and 
wise.  So don’t concern yourself with the origin of thought so much as 
feeling for the wisdom in the content.  This is the hallmark of your 
Father‘s suggestions, and all it requires – but no less – is an enormous 
self-honesty to recognize.  So I encourage you, My children, cherish and 
accept the wisdom that is within you completely irrespectively of your 
ability to incorporate it into your life.  Never shut yourself off from 
wisdom, from knowing deep within you what is the right thing to do, whether 
or not you can do it.  Just do your best, and keep in touch with Us.  We 
will never forsake you.  Our forgiveness is absolute.  And so We also 
encourage you to, moment by moment, forgive yourselves and refuse to indulge 
even the tiniest speck of guilt.  Find – imagine - create another way to do 
ever more what is right.  That is the challenge.  And that is why it is so 
full of joy.  However close or far you are from perfection, My children, 
never cut yourself off from the compass of spirit that points the way.  Feel 
yourself stretch to encompass both where you are and where My Spirit of 
Truth in your heart tells you, you should be heading.

And enjoy the journey.  This is one that has no end.  In this case, 
everything is the journey.  Think how many ways human beings have tried to 
express this, how in so many cultures they have shied away from saying 
good-bye, and come up with expressions like: See you again.  So I’ll say 
too: See you again.  I’m here in your heart and your feelings, and Mother 
Spirit is in your mind and all around you.  Come visit Us soon in the still 
reaches within, and stay awhile.  Then take Us with you.