[tmtranscripts] Michael--12.5.05

[JERRY LANE]

Michael—December 5, 2005

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

MICHAEL—T/R-JL

(Urantia’s quarantine)
(The Cosmos of personal beings)
(Michael’s and Mother spirit’s confidence in us)
(In-here and out-there)
(Taking responsibility for ones world view)
(Directness)
(Encountering another’s projections)
(Ones free will—inside)
(Accepting responsibility)

Dear Michael and Mother Spirit--Michael especially, tonight.  As we approach 
the season of celebrating Your birth and the life You lived with us, we feel 
ourselves full of gratitude for this example You gave us of how full a human 
life can be, and what can be accomplished, when one is so deeply dedicated 
to searching out, and finding the strength and the courage to follow, God’s 
will.  We are thankful too as we recall what You told us so recently about 
how this life of Yours felt to You, what great value You put on every single 
individual.  Following Your example, help us to realize each other as 
individuals.  We thank You for these gifts, and do our best shine our love 
and our devotion back to You.  Amen.

MICHAEL:  My beloved children, this is your father, Michael, Creator Son of 
Nebadon, parent, with Mother Nebadonia, of so many children now in our Local 
Universe.  I think one of the greatest gifts of the Urantia book is the 
understanding it gives you of what a vast family you belong to, an 
understanding lost to your world for millennia.

(Urantia’s quarantine)

The Lucifer Rebellion occurred several hundred thousand years ago.  Beings 
greater than Lucifer had the power to squash it, squash the rebellion 
instantaneously if They would have chosen to do so.  But They too were 
following our Father’s example by mercifully providing time for all the 
rebel spirits to realize Their mistakes and rejoin the spiritual family They 
had cast Themselves apart from.  So the Constellation level of authority 
chose to isolate the System, which had Lucifer as its head, and sever the 
lines of communication between the System’s Headquarters Worlds and those 
planets whose Leaders chose to follow Lucifer into rebellion.

This was a kind of spiritual quarantine to limit the rebellion.  But all the 
rebel spirits were allowed sway, were allowed to present Their arguments 
without hindrance within this isolated System, until every single 
individual—ascendant human or Celestial on all the architectural and 
evolutionary worlds involved, were able to decide for themselves which side 
They were on.  Only then did the leaders of the Constellation step in and 
exercise the power They had always had, and end the gross manifestations of 
the rebellion; but not of course all the after-effects.  The individual 
planets which had joined the rebellion, of which Urantia is one, continued 
on in quarantine and ever greater darkness and chaos--in the case of your 
own planet, almost thoroughly erasing the three hundred thousand years of 
steady civilization that had preceded the rebellion.  Humanity has been 
severely afflicted ever since.  This was one of My great purposes, one 
mission I was instructed by My brother, Immanuel, to attempt during My life 
on your planet: to do My best to turn around the effects of the Lucifer 
Rebellion, starting My Correcting Time with the help of all My human 
companions.  It has been enormously successful these last two thousand 
years.  More change has come about than in the many thousands of years 
preceding this in terms of individual human rights being recognized by the 
enlarging social groups.  All this is a bit of a digression to explain 
Urantia’s spiritual quarantine.

(The Cosmos of personal beings)

It awaited the advancement of your conceptual scientific and cosmic 
understandings, for you to be presented with the Urantia book’s broad 
outlines of how Urantia is just one of millions of inhabited evolutionary 
planets within Nebadon.  We are very much aware of your current stage of 
scientific discoveries.  We know how you thrill to feel you have discovered 
empirically even another single planet out there amidst the stars.  And here 
We are telling you, you are just one of millions of inhabited planets within 
just one Local Universe, of which there are about seven hundred thousand in 
existence.  And so We give you the concept and the feeling, the spiritual 
feeling of humility, not to make you feel small, but rather to introduce you 
to the glory of the Creation, tease you with some inklings of just how 
enormous it is.  This is why We say humility is a spiritual blessing.  It’s 
the feeling you get in the presence of something enormous.  And so the wise 
person, the inwardly strong person identifies with this greater creation, 
and thanks the viewpoint being presented to help him or her get a greater 
comprehension of the nature of God.

In addition to this introduction to the other worlds with their comparable 
human kind of life, the textbook introduces you to a vast hierarchy of 
extra-human, extra-planetary Celestial beings and lets you know that They 
also are part of your family.  For you too are a spiritual being.  They are 
very much your elder brothers and sisters, who are also joyously 
anticipating the time when the citizens of your world will be able to 
realize--each and every one--what an enormous family they are part of.  This 
is especially true for all the Celestial beings who have labored for 
thousands and thousands of years now to help overcome the most horrendous 
effects of the Lucifer Rebellion on Urantia. They especially are thrilled 
with these times now of the Fifth Epical Revelation, the adjudication of 
Lucifer and those of His cohorts who chose not to rehabilitate themselves, 
and now, with the ending of the spiritual quarantine, the Teaching 
Mission—thousands of Celestial beings volunteering for duty, for contact 
with the human races on Urantia.  This is a stupendous undertaking now well 
under way, and We have devoted quite a few lessons to reassuring you that 
though the times to come may be somewhat tumultuous, the net effect is 
absolutely positive, and not at all in doubt.

This assurance We have, and We communicate to you, is largely due to what 
Mother Nebadonia mentioned last week, the fact that We do not see a human 
being only as an instantaneously changing living being in the present 
moment, but We are cognizant of each person’s entire past from before they 
were born.  Mother Spirit herself experienced your mind contacting Hers one 
Adjutant at a time as your mind expanded so greatly in your childhood.  Even 
the lowest angels can tell the exact moment a fragment of God comes to 
indwell your mind.  We see all the dimensions that influence you, and We see 
how you react to so many of these dimensions which are still too subtle for 
you to perceive, yet which still have their effect upon you.  This is why We 
have no doubt whatsoever of the outcome of the Correcting Time and the 
Teaching Mission.  We see not only the potential that each of you has as a 
child of God with a potentially immortal soul, but we also see the day by 
day glory of your efforts, of your striving toward your ideals.  We see how 
so much of your suffering is caused more by misdirection and immaturity than 
by any kind of fully known, mature self-reflection on your motives.  As We 
have said before, We are following out God’s will in helping Him 
continuously create endless billions of brand new immature beings, just 
starting out in the universe, and having to learn everything right from the 
beginning.

And so We see how seemingly fragile is this thing called civilization, this 
thing called progress, and yet We know from Our experience on these millions 
of worlds of ours how tenacious and all unstoppable is the general trend of 
God’s whole universe; how supreme is the evolution and the growth of the 
Supreme Being, the soul of it all.  This is Our faith in you, based on Our 
perception of your struggles.

(Michael’s and Mother spirit’s confidence in us)

So let Us repeat again, My children, nothing that happens to you is 
superfluous.  Everything that happens is the result of both antecedent 
causality, more or less what you are presented with each moment, then how 
this is understood by you, and affected by your freewill decisions.  This is 
what constitutes you a spiritual being—that you can create something new and 
thereby have a choice.  And so as you come to rejoin the vast family you are 
being introduced to, know that even on those worlds which were not cursed 
with such a system rebellion, even on the worlds far, far advanced 
culturally and technologically to where Urantia will be someday, still the 
human situation is created by God to give meaning to the choices they too 
have to make; and that all trials are to strengthen you for eternity.  This 
is why We say, be of good heart--Mother Spirit and I, and all Our Celestial 
children.  We are right beside you, pulling with you.  You no longer need to 
feel alone, either as an individual human being, or as one of the 
inhabitants of this very special planet.  We bid you welcome to our vast 
Celestial family, and promise you the glorious surprise you will enjoy one 
day when you come to meet Us all face to face.

If you have any questions this evening--or comments, I am always gladdened 
we have these living conversations.

Student:  Father Michael, one of my daughters seems to be having a unusual 
happening in her house.  Do You think there is an energy presence there?  
She and the two children have actually seen something.  I’ve assured her 
there is no such thing as evil spirits around any more, or ghosts, or that 
kind of thing.  But it is still very unusual and no body seems to know what 
is going on.  Would You care to comment on anything like that?

(In-here and out-there)

MICHAEL:  Yes C, you are quite correct that, in the classical meaning of the 
word ghost as the spiritual part of a human who once lived in the world 
still hanging around after death, they do not exist.  You are also correct 
that the rebel Midwayers have long since been gone from Urantia, along with 
their leader, the planetary prince Caligastia.  I call to your mind that 
some of your social religions and philosophies have long made the 
observation, and then taught, that there is no hard line, no demarcation 
between the inside and outside of human experience.  We’ve looked at this 
before in the phenomena of projection wherein you are literally encountering 
your own values, meanings, and interpretations as if they were outside of 
you.  And so anyone who has a inner belief system--and everybody does--you 
all have your own way of interpreting reality--if this belief system 
includes ghosts or any other of a number of psychic phenomena, it is 
possible for them to actually experience these as exterior actualities.  
This is not to be ridiculed for, as I say, you are all doing this to some 
degree.  No one can claim objectivity, at least not for a few million years 
of experience.  And you are just starting out.  (laughter)

But this is why the Urantia book has stated as it does rather categorically, 
that from the time a person dies to the time they are resurrected on the 
Mansion Worlds, the personality resides totally in the bosom of God, and has 
no  existence that can cause any kind of phenomena, even the most spiritual 
and subtle, let alone cause, shall we say, floorboards to creak as they walk 
around.  But someone who has a belief system that includes ghosts, can 
literally experience these things.  They will be just as real to them as 
they are unreal to someone who does not share this belief.  At heart do your 
best to reassure your daughter there is no danger, there is certainly 
nothing here to fear.  See if you can tease her into being truly scientific 
in exploring these happenings, and being open to following the 
truth--wherever it leads her.  Do you think this would help?

Student:  Yes, I think it would help greatly.  She does realize now there is 
no danger, or anything to fear, although it is a bit scary.  At times it is 
so unusual, whatever’s going on, I think…  I don’t know quite how to 
approach the subject of projection because…  You’ve said it before and I’m 
beginning to realize just how much I project my stuff on others, and look at 
it as being real.  I guess the question now is, how can I tell the 
difference between what is really out there, and I’m saying is out there--as 
it applies to just about anything, not just this particular instance with my 
daughter?

MICHAEL:  There is no absolute way of knowing this, My son.  Indeed this is 
a realm wherein relativity reigns supreme.  What We call open-mindedness is 
being willing to entertain a number of proposed causes for any phenomena, 
and then meditating a bit.  After looking at a lot of different descriptions 
or explanations of any phenomena, you can decide which fits in best with 
your whole life’s experience.  Projection obviously refers not to the gross 
physical aspect of the objects in your field of view—the trees, a wall, a 
building, another person—these are definitely there and have an objective 
reality apart from you.  But in the realm of mind, what do they mean to you? 
  For without his meaning you would feel yourself to be insane.  Yet this 
meaning is very personal and unique to you.  It is the ability of great art 
to express this to another person, which is what your writers and musicians 
and painters, and so forth, this is what they do.  They are able to express 
their own inner meaning to others.

On the spiritual level you have the spiritual realization of these three 
realms:  beauty in the physical realm; truth in the realm of mental 
meanings, and goodness in the realm of spirit.  When you see a beautiful 
object, or a beautiful person, you already have the saying that this is in 
the eye of the beholder.  When you recognize the truth in what someone tells 
you, because it relates in so many ways to so much else you know to be true, 
you generally perceive this as if the statement is true in itself. And so 
too this happens when your heart warms to the goodness you perceive in 
another person. This is all projection.  This is all part of what you are 
perceiving.  And it is real.  It’s absolutely real to you.  But it’s origin, 
the recognition, is within yourself.

Some of your philosophers have gone so far in this realization of 
subjectivity to say you never actually experience the thing in itself, but 
only your reaction to it.  This is overstating the case, for there 
definitely is a world out there, with definite features.  This is why We 
encourage you to aware of this whole process, that you are co-creating your 
universe for yourself, along with God.  Therefore you need to take 
responsibility for your universe.  You can also see how this can lead you to 
the greatest humility of all.  Realizing the enormity of what you yourself 
are co-creating and responsible for, can give you pause to ever push this 
upon another.  When you come to think of it, this is exactly what is 
happening in what you call a totalitarian type of society, where a small 
group of individuals is capable of imposing their view of reality upon their 
fellows, usually totally devoid of the humility of realizing this is just 
their own construct--that they are killing others for.  This realization is 
another mark of spiritual generosity--that you accept responsibility for 
your own world view.  Does this help you understand the nature of what we 
mean by projection?

Student:  Yes it does, very clear!  Yes, it makes a great deal of sense, 
especially being responsible for my co-creation with the Heavenly Father of 
my own universe--how I perceive anyway.  Thank You once more, Father.

MICHAEL: You’re very welcome, My son.  I congratulate you on the humility 
with which you realize both the enormity of what you are creating, and the 
awesome responsibility for it.

(Taking responsibility for ones world view)

This marks the slow growth of maturity within the human race, for so much of 
the horror that is done, is done by those who do not realize their own 
subjectivity, and feel justified in doing any number of really terrible 
things in the name of what they are self-assured is absolute reality.  This 
is the totally irreligious notion of, God On Our Side--as if God took sides 
this way.

The living realization of this process is a bit scary at first.  The impact 
is almost as if the whole objective world is nothing but a bubble, an 
illusion.  And indeed some entire metaphysics have considered it to be that. 
  The world is a Maya--an illusion from which only an enlightened soul 
awakes, by this realization.  But I assure you, you do at least approach 
objectivity by being aware of your own subjectivity.  And in this you find 
true peace.  For in this you are using My Spirit of Truth to find Me and My 
Peace.  Keep seeking and praying for the truth, My son, and be in My peace.  
(Thank You, Father.)

Student:  Dear Michael, I would just ask for advice in general, for tonight. 
  Thank You.  (What was that again, My son?)  A word of advice, an 
appropriate encouragement, or practical insight.

MICHAEL (after a long pause):  Well, My son, take encouragement that nothing 
seems to be standing out--(laughs)--as being terribly out of line.  I sense 
you are growing.  You have very strong ideals towards which you are 
striving.

(Directness)

I’d like to recommend one particular thing.  In your relations with others, 
strive to be more direct, more to the point, more fearless in feeling what 
you yourself believe and understand; and not be afraid to express this 
directly as your opinion--rather than usually so round-about by way of 
something you have read, or some other person you know, to emphasize the 
point.

This is a bit what I was just explaining to C.  It’s owning up to your own 
subjectivity, and then expressing it as that: this is my opinion.  So it has 
the great advantage of admitting it is only your opinion.  But it’s also 
more honest this way; it’s more direct.  It gives others more of a feeling 
of who you are, rather than who you’ve read, or who said what--when.  It 
demands of you a greater self-knowledge.  Who is V?   What does he believe?

So I think this will help you in your relationship with your sons, too.  If 
you are more direct with them, you give them more a sense of who you are, 
and that you yourself are here--now.  For you must first be that, in order 
to be there for them.

Does this help you, My son?  Do you know what I mean now by being more 
direct, and less round-about in your thinking, and your presenting yourself?

Student:  Yes. Father Michael, I was beginning to understand that as You 
talked to C.  And I congratulate You on Your ability to, not only give 
encouragement, but at the same time give advice and insight.  It’s a miracle 
to observe that. Thank You profoundly!

MICHAEL:  I think if you put this into effect, you’ll find that you’ll have 
both more for yourself, and more for others, by this kind of emerging--if 
you will, coming into focus.  Directness is really wonderful if it is 
coupled with humility.  These are not contradictory facets of a person.  The 
more you are aware of your own subjectivity, and take responsibility for it, 
and present it as such, this is just a greater honesty.  It’s what you call, 
being up-front: being more of who you are right on the surface.  If this is 
coupled with open-mindedness, this is how you can really learn.  Put your 
own personal ideas and ideals out there.  Be unafraid this way.  Then be 
open, not only to this self-discovery in expressing who you are, but to a 
willingness to be open to the feedback you get from others.  So enjoy this 
new adventure, My son; and be in My peace. (Thanks again, very much!)

Student:  Yes, Michael: a number of things.  One, in relationship to what’s 
being talked about tonight, is that there’s nothing more, at least to me, 
more, for a lack of a better word…annoying than having someone tell me they 
know me; they know who I am.  And whenever anyone says that to me, it’s 
like, how dare they?  Because they don’t know who I am.  What they’re 
expressing to me is their own projection--what You just talked about.  And 
it may give me some insight about what I may do - some pattern which I will 
take into account.  But when someone has read something, or just sees 
something that is familiar to them, that bothers me, because they don’t 
know.  They’re discounting the many layers and levels of my consciousness, 
and of my life.  And I would never have the audacity to say the same of 
another.  You could say, I know who others are--but only in the context of 
spirit, that we are all spirit, we are all children of God.  And they may 
have some understanding of my life history, but not know what goes on 
within, unless they tell me so.  So that’s one thing.  Do You wish to 
comment?

(Encountering another’s projections)

MICHAEL:  You are giving  classical examples of encountering someone else’s 
projections--especially if they just read a book on psychology and are now 
seeing you through all these new ideas and concepts.

The other way you encounter this is when you remind someone of someone else 
they once knew, or the situation is somewhat like one they were in before.  
You encounter their projections intensely when they are literally seeing 
you, and reacting to you, as if you really were someone else.

Student:  Yes, I’ve experienced all that, especially when you’re in an 
intimate relationship, and it seems like there’s a lot of residue from past 
relationships--usually the negative stuff.  And when, in a sense, I may do 
something totally innocent, totally from the heart, but it brings up a 
memory, a pattern within themselves, and so instead of getting positive, 
loving feedback, I get negative feedback, and like how dare I do what I do, 
or say what I say--that kind of thing.  So it takes a lot…  Then I’m 
thinking in myself, I have no concept of what she’s talking about, or he’s 
talking about.  That’s not where I’m coming from, so I don’t have any 
feeling for that.  So it’s quite interesting watching the dynamics of that.

And also, the labeling of people, as You mentioned with psychology: they’re 
so into labeling.  And it’s like in an ideogram--they’re labeling.  They go 
around telling each other, Oh, you’re a four; or, you’re a five.  And I’m 
probably all of that and none of that.  It seems like people want to 
pigeonhole people to understand human beings better.  And it may be true for 
a little bit; but then, it limits; it limit’s the human expression.

MICHAEL:  So now you can understand why We have been emphasizing so much 
lately, seeing individuals as unique creations of God.  We consider it a 
spiritual maturity to go from an adolescent relying upon these 
categories--whether they be religious, or cultural, or metaphysical--what 
Sign are you?--things like this where you feel the need to categorize 
individuals in order to get a grasp on them--to slowly gaining the maturity 
to realize that individuals are ultimately ungraspable.  We’re all parts of 
the living body of God; He is in us.  And so this is the great gift you give 
your fellows: to suspend, as much as you can, all these subtle judgments and 
categorizations.

Student:  Yes!  And I can see, like in the sense of cultural expression, and 
national expression… Like I know a couple of men who are from Afghanistan, 
and so there is that layer of understanding and the cultural experience that 
they have that is foreign to me.  But I want to know that because it’s part 
of who they are.  It’s not all of who they are, but it’s a part of who they 
are.  And then you go deeper, and that we’re men.  And then you go deeper 
than that and find that they are families; and go deeper, and then you just 
go to the source - that we are God.  And so it’s just multi-layers of 
identity.  And they’re all interwoven into this personality, but no one 
alone defines who they are.

MICHAEL:  The peace I mentioned to V, in this understanding, is finally 
achieving the maturity to feel at home with the very un-graspable nature of 
each other; and to marvel at this, and let it be; just delight in this 
uniqueness.  But this relies upon a trust in others, and a way of being 
continuously present yourself, so that when you encounter these projections 
from another, you can more or less recognize and disregard them, and just 
continuously, over and over again, relate to the living person in front of 
you.  Be a kind of example of how to do this, to encourage them to join this 
delightful game of relating to folks as they are in all their unfathomable, 
ungraspable uniqueness.

Student:  Yes, and I notice that when I’m able to do that, I look into their 
eyes, and see the depth of their souls, and see God, and see life.

There is one more thing.  You mentioned about the Teaching Mission, and I 
know from myself over the past three to four years, how valuable and 
important it has been for me in my own growth--the insights I have gleaned 
from the words that have been spoken, whether it be You, Mother, Abraham, 
Welmek, Monjoronson.  And…but I know it has been me who has done the work.  
I mean, one can read, and say, Oh great!--and then that’s it.

The reason why I mention this is because there seems to be a faction of 
people who tend to denounce the Teaching Mission, and think it’s a fantasy 
of the imagination of certain individuals.  And they can be quite vicious 
about it.  I’ve even had a person bring another person to denounce one of 
Your transmitters.  But all I keep on telling these people is, just read the 
message.  It’s always about love, growth, truth, beauty, spiritual 
enhancement.  It’s never about betrayal, or mistrust, or evil.  So it’s just 
unfathomable to me to question the validity of what is being said, 
regardless of who is saying it.  And then, the Urantia book was channeled 
too; so, you know, I just want to say my piece!  And I know everyone has 
free will about what they wish to believe.  Thank You.

MICHAEL:  My son, all these folks just give you such a great opportunity to 
practice the spiritual blessing of tolerance.  It’s especially important to 
practice tolerance towards intolerant people.  (laughter)  Do this 
playfully, and stay light-hearted.  Tease them out of it, if you can, 
because in this way you are showing them--you are literally presenting them 
with an example--the delight of someone who is a free spirit, who is 
ultimately trusting their own inner evaluation of the fruit of the vine.  
You know for yourself, from all your life’s experience, that the Divine--the 
Source, can be determined.  The Divine can be determined by the fruit it 
bears.

(Ones free will—inside)

These are generally folks who are still so uncertain inside, who are still 
in a phase where the questioning of reality--that they feel they need for 
their own inner self-honesty--is so great, they don’t yet realize that it is 
part of their free will to be able to inwardly cut anything down--to destroy 
anything.  Even the most profound truths can be denied.  If this is ones 
orientation, think of the example of Lucifer, this brilliant Being who came 
to the point of denying God himself.  You can wonder, how could such a Being 
be so wrong?  Your text even informs you that many of His followers at first 
believed in Him through feeling that such a luminous Being could not 
possibly be wrong.

This is why tolerance is so essential toward those individuals who are not 
only questioning everything with a cutting intellect, but who are cynical as 
well.  If they cannot realize the truth that you know for yourself, let your 
heart be eased with the knowledge there is no way of proving this.  Don’t 
feel a failure for not being able to do this.   You are correct in realizing 
their free will.  You can only state your opinion, as your opinion, and then 
be the example of someone with genuine humility.  It could be they just 
haven’t encountered this enough.

In this, we never give up on folks. We pray for them, do our best to reach 
them, and also grant them freedom, freedom to be who they choose, or 
sometimes are incapable of choosing--who they are.  And be in My peace.

Well, My children, I think this evening we touched upon an ideal, a vision 
of a peaceful world in which everyone accepts the responsibility for their 
own vision of things; both as a limit to their objectivity, but then too, to 
the glory of realizing what they are creating--what each of you is creating 
for yourself, moment by moment along with the objective reality that is 
God’s.

(Accepting responsibility)

The challenge becomes one of, how can we get folks to relinquish this 
illusion of objectivity they cling to for the power it gives them, the power 
to do things to others, and not accept a responsibility that is theirs, and 
theirs alone?  For them, the realization is a weakness.  Yet to believe that 
one has God on ones side, to experience reality as if generalizations of 
race, or cultural, or sex, are in some way absolutely real, and therefore 
somehow entitle one to act violently upon them: this is the psychological 
foundation of intolerance, and terror.

So, first of all, primarily and fundamentally, do your best not to be a 
fundamentalist yourself.  (laughter)  Never assume you have the absolute, 
final word on anything.  Stay open.  Keep the living touch with life itself. 
  Welcome variety.  Perceive individuals.  Wonder about that demarcation 
between in-here and out-there; and watch as it moves about as a function of 
your consciousness.

What a great and glorious reward there is in humility: the enormity of what 
you can perceive just keeps getting larger.  So be at peace, My children, in 
this living adventure that has no end: no outer limits: no inner limits 
either!  Good evening.

All:  Good evening, Michael.


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