[tmtranscripts] Michael 12.19.05

[JERRY LANE]

Dear Folks,    Merry Christmas!  Here's Michael's message on how to 
experience it all the more deeply and spontaneously--along with everything 
else.  Let's go!  Meet you there!  Take care this New Year.  Jerry.

Michael—December 19, 2005

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

MICHAEL—T/R-JL

(Spontaneity and depth)
(Your home base in spirit)
(Heart-beat; being open)
(Being conscious of prejudices)
(Starting from zero)
(Living without anger or hatred)
(Michael’s Christmas wishes)

Dear Michael and Mother Spirit,    Merry Christmas.  Welcome.  Come join us. 
  Help us all You can to feel Your presence, and keep You in our hearts.  
Michael, we thank You for reminding us just how much this world of ours has 
changed since, and because of, Your life with us, and we feel very blessed, 
as we enter the third millennia, for this change to have come about.  People 
are relating more and more to each other as God’s unique children, in spite 
of the enormous growth of our nation states, and our cultural and racial 
divisions.  We know there is still much work to do along these lines of 
individual recognition, but we accept this charge in our own lives, and 
thank You for it.  Amen.

MICHAEL:  Good evening, My sons.  This is your father, Michael.  How good 
and refreshing it is to be here.  I am always happy to bring you so much of 
My own instantaneous kind of being, and help you expand into now.  For this 
will be the sign and a measure of your growth in years to come.

(Spontaneity and depth)

At earlier stages of maturity as a personality, you can only achieve a real 
spontaneous and instantaneous relationship to your surroundings by giving up 
a proportional amount of depth.  If you want to think of it one way, there 
is only so much of you around, and as you relate to what is immediately 
happening to you, you pay in shallowness for this instantaneous 
responsiveness.  But as you grow, as you mature, your relationship to time 
also expands.  You can maintain a greater depth of soul, a conscious 
relationship and feeling of all that you’ve known, all that has gone before. 
  At the same time you get a more acute perception and an ability to respond 
more spontaneously to a living reality.

We looked at this before in terms of going from generalities to specifics. 
When you are a youth and an adolescent, you simply don’t have the experience 
yet of quite a few different individuals.  You have to think in terms of 
generalities in order to think at all.  You absorb these from your immediate 
family and friends, these generalities which are often prejudices, but they 
provide the context within which you can have some meaning, some way to 
relate to your fellows.  And so it awaits a more broad experience for you to 
outgrow these generalities and begin to see people one by one.

If you are open to this, if you welcome this and look forward to it, it is 
such a reward. This is the true wealth you acquire in your soul, all these 
separate individuals you come to know and with whom you share your life.  As 
you are able to relate more spontaneously and freely, more adequately to the 
person in front of you by dropping the superficial generalities you once 
clung to as a kind of early pseudo-wisdom, so your real wisdom grows deeper 
and deeper.  The present moment expands more and more as these events are 
surrounded by greater reflections of meaning, greater associations and 
relationships on a spiritual, soulful plane.

This reflects in your perception as other individuals having greater and 
greater value to you.  They are no longer just one of a type, but they come 
to stand alone, stark and obvious in their individuality.  This can be yours 
as a general trend of maturity.  And as you achieve it phase by phase, you 
are ever so incrementally adding this to society.  For this too is the way 
the world itself grows towards maturity.  It requires all individuals grow 
in mind and spirit.  As the human world gets smaller, and the different 
nations and cultures come into closer contact with ever more spontaneous and 
instantaneous reactions to each other, they can welcome this great diversity 
that history has provided.

There is a very righteous fear among many peoples of the world of a kind of 
cultural homogenization, a real loss of age-old traditions and meanings.  
The world requires this growth of maturity I’ve been delineating.  Everyone 
has to grow their ability to accept, understand, and welcome diversity, and 
be ever more spontaneous, open-hearted, generous, and relaxed, 
self-confident in the face of it.  This is how a world culture progresses. 
This is the only way to come into ever closer contact with change, and yet 
at the same time, keep all this enormous wealth of the past.  This is how 
you keep in touch with the lives of your fore-bearers with deep respect and 
appreciation for the lives they led.  Just generally, the lives they led 
were so much more difficult than the ones you are capable of living today 
because that initial clash of cultures, all through history, often led to 
near obliteration, the genocide of whole peoples.

(Your home base in spirit)

This is how you stretch yourselves.  Your stillness practice gives you a 
home base with spirit, a continuing contact that builds day to day on 
itself.  This home base you return to helps you grow your self confidence, 
your sense of yourself beyond and deeper than any specific job you are 
doing, or other personal relationships.  As you grow your home base in 
spirit and gain this self-confidence, this literally is the letting go of 
prejudice, the needing to pigeon-hole the next person who comes your way.

This self-confidence is more than what you generally know as ego, your own 
self-perception.  As necessary and valuable as this self-perception is, if 
you are not careful it can grow too inflexible and artificial.  It can hold 
you back like trying to wade through stiff axle grease up to your waist  
This is what sometimes binds people to past mistakes because their 
self-image is not confident enough to accept the living, changing aspect of 
human life.

Your ego can literally become a caricature of yourself, and you need to 
realize its limitations as a self-construct by relaxing more and more into 
the awareness of who you are in spirit, living spirit, spontaneous, 
quick-reacting spirit.  It is this self-confidence that enables you to be 
self-forgetful.  It is subtle.  It is not something you can really possess.  
It’s an ability you achieve by letting go, trusting in this new, growing 
desire to relate ever more spontaneously, and at the same time ever more 
deeply, ever more wisely.  This is the living fountain from which love and 
compassion spring.  When You’re confronted with suffering, you are able to 
respond.  You can realize the spiritual triumph in doing so.  What a 
precious gift, what unforgettable memories of helping another.  What a 
precious gem for your soul.

It all comes from this home base in spirit, this identifying with a living 
presence that you cannot grasp hold of, but which can be yours nevertheless. 
  This becomes your home because you truly earn it.  You pay for it with 
faith.  If you practice your stillness religiously, you can achieve a fresh 
experience of it that keeps going beyond your own notions of what it should 
be.  It is teaching you this because it is what it is, each separate and 
individual time.  It is how you can grow in both spontaneity and depth.  You 
do not have to trade one for the other, and be deep--but ponderous, or quick 
and lively--but shallow.

This is the true reward of growing older.  This is the expansion into 
spiritual wisdom that both your body and your mind need more and more.  Your 
material body especially needs this wisdom in its older age.  You need to 
put this presence of mind, this security of spirit, right down into your 
fingers and toes.  Just as you must often exercise your mind like a muscle, 
so too you have to think yourself into your body, more and more, and not be 
driven out by stiffness or decrepitude.  This is that wonderful oneness you 
can develop within yourself.  It is so critical if you become physically 
injured, you don’t disown and abandon this injured part of yourself, but you 
take care of yourself with real love and generosity of spirit.  Respect and 
cherish your health and see it as Gods’ greatest gift.

All these are wonderful dimensions of being human, to enjoy.  They make it 
possible to have a fulfilled life, a life that keeps growing and expanding 
right up to the moment you consciously let it all go, and take a small step 
across the threshold into the next world.  This is the ideal, and is 
possible.  Each of you can achieve it in your own individual way.  It takes 
faith, for your faith is like a pathfinder who goes out before you, enabling 
you to always stretch beyond what you have accomplished.  This is your true 
home.  It is how your personality continuously rediscovers itself as a 
creation of our Father.  This is the full circle of going out, gathering in 
your soul harvest each day, and returning home.  This is the stillness at 
the heart of your most rigorous activities.

Your Mother Nebadonia and I are within and beside you, always.  But here in 
your stillness is especially where you can find Us.  Come visit Us often.  
Let Mothers’ love and My peace heal you and reinvigorate you, to truly look 
forward to the next adventure.

Do you have any questions or comments, My sons?

Student:  Father Michael, I have a couple of questions, if I may.  One of 
them is, both You and Mother have mentioned, from time to time, that the 
Heavenly Father keeps our heart beating from moment to moment.  Is that a 
literal statement or a figurative statement?  The other question is…I 
suspect that when I re-read and study the transcript I’m going to find the 
answers.  Because I find it’s hard to pay attention when the information 
starts getting close to home.  So I had a hard time paying attention tonight 
because I fear being open to people--both to let them in, and let them know 
me.  I’d like to get over that, and it sounded like tonight You gave us the 
answers.  But I’ll take anything more You’d care to say.

(Heart-beat; being open)

MICHAEL:  Well, C, My son, the way in which Mother and I have referred to 
our Father keeping your heart beating is both literal and figurative.  
(chuckle)  You chuckle because I think you are getting used to being 
answered: all of the above.  (Yes)  It’s literally true that God not only 
creates life but is life itself.  The whole universe is, in a sense, the 
body of God, and we all move and have our being within Him.  If you wish to 
think of it this way, it was His idea in the first place, to surround 
Himself with all these livings beings of so many thousands and thousands of 
different types.

It’s also figuratively true in the sense that not only He alone keeps your 
heart beating, but you yourself have a hand in this.  I referred to it a bit 
ago as your being open and welcoming those inner choices and disciplines 
that lead to ever greater health.  For you have the ability, the free will 
choice of stopping your heart, not only through some rather abrupt suicide, 
but simply through neglect.  Think of the stress that some people put upon 
their hearts through various forms of greed, be it for material possessions 
or gluttony; either mental stress or physiological stress.  We could only 
wish them some pity for their poor body.  So like everything else, your 
heart beating is a co-creation you share with the Source.

As for being open, My son, tonight I pointed at a kind of self-confidence 
that allows you to be self-forgetful, which in turn allows you to let go and 
be open, Partly it’s a way of getting over a shyness you may feel face to 
face with others.  If it comes from a lifetime of your being so, it does 
require a new orientation, and nerve!  But at heart you have to stoke the 
fires of your desire to see people deeper, more distinctly.  Though it’s not 
actually perceptible, it’s almost as if they had a charged space about them; 
so they’re very distinctly there in your sight.  This is a challenge because 
everybody you meet is this oxymoron of a little walking infinity.  Certainly 
there’s space all around them, but it’s infinite inside--they are infinite 
inside--even to themselves, as you are to yourself.

Some people try to see God in everyone, but make the understandable error of 
sentimentality, trying to see a universality that only blurs the 
individuality We have been pointing at.  So it’s a matter of letting go and 
being not afraid.  You just continuously relax inside and find your 
equanimity on the go--looking people in the eye neither aggressively nor 
defensively; setting aside your own thoughts so you can really hear what 
they have to say; trusting you will pop-up again when it is your turn.  
These are abilities, My son that, like all others, you must practice.  So 
keep them in mind as you head towards your next meeting with someone, to 
remind yourself of what you wish to accomplish.  And then, of course, forget 
about yourself in the moment itself.  Any evaluation of how you are doing is 
best left for later, to reflect upon.

Does this help you envision, and feel inwardly what you might try?

Student:  Yes Father, it does quite a bit.  It sounds like You’re saying, 
being present to the moment, and in the moment--forgetting myself, but 
trusting I’m still there?  I can almost picture it, but I haven’t quite got 
the words to express it.  But, thank You!

MICHAEL:  Just let yourself be absorbed by this other person.  Trust the 
somewhat ironic, but real fact that coming from spirit, you are so much more 
for them than some self-generated persona you project as who you think you 
are.  You are always greater than just your own perception of yourself.  
Relaxing enables you to be more for them, more your truer, deeper self.  
This also takes nerve, and faith; but these are helped by your 
understanding.  So your striving tonight, to understand, is itself a 
spiritual enterprise.

Think about it, and be in My peace.  (Thank You, Father Michael, I will 
think about it.)

Student:  Dear Michael, continuing along the lines of what C was talking 
about, and my concept of what Rodan of Alexandria was stating, (Ed: the 
Urantia book) how people sometimes slow down in progress due to deep-seated 
prejudice and fears, I’d like to ask You for help.  I’m probably going to go 
about in the world a little bit more…to help me lower my hidden prejudices 
and hidden fears.  Thanks in advance.

(Being conscious of prejudices)

MICHAEL:  Well V, you’ve already taken the first step of striving to be 
conscious of these prejudices--what I often refer to as generalities.  You 
do value and prize this consciousness itself.  You do understand the 
psychology involved of how you have to be conscious of these prejudices to 
have a choice.  You are then aware you have “them”; otherwise, 
unconsciously, “they” have you.

If you react unconsciously to others, you may have no clue as to why they 
are reacting back to you the way they are.  So it is very much a spiritual 
grace to respect the subtlety with which people relate to each other.  You 
are then paying them the respect of being able to read you.  Otherwise, 
folks who are not aware of their own prejudices can be rather arrogant in 
thinking this attitude is not obvious to others.  Any kind of smug 
self-satisfaction like this only serves to alienate one further.

So a genuine desire to know how you are really presenting yourself, is good. 
  As you see each separate person as they appear before you, just notice 
these general categories, or pigeon-holes you might be trying to put them 
in—racial, or cultural, sexual, even body type, clothing, social status.  If 
you want, think of these as flavors this individual certainly exhibits, for 
they definitely are of a race and a culture, a sex, a body type--generally 
clothed.  But what about this unique individual?  What about their soul 
within all these generalities?  Does this help you, My son?

STUDENT:  Yes, Michael, very much; and it takes some of the fear out of it.  
Thank You.

MICHAEL:  Keep striving for consciousness.  Keep striving to be aware of how 
your awareness shapes others.  Strive to perceive the ungraspable, 
ineffable, living and God-created personality.  This is a reward in itself!

As I just mentioned to C, in doing so you are letting the fullness of 
yourself shine out through any pigeonholes they might be trying to put you 
in! (laughter).  What fun it can be.  And be in My peace.  (Thank you.)

Student:  Yes, Michael.  I’m deeply moved by what You said about seeing the 
soul beneath the generalities, seeing the person’s uniqueness, their 
individual statement of God within them.  This was represented in the movie 
I saw yesterday, a movie called “ONE” by this Yogi who was full of light, 
and full of love, and full of fun, when he said, “There’s been no one like 
us before us; and there will be no one like us in the future ahead of us.”  
There’s only one me; there’s only one V--one C--one J--one Jesus.  And there 
never will, ever again, be someone like any one of us.  And it is so moving; 
it is so awesome to think that.  So I pray that every human being will come 
to see themselves in this light.  I thank You for that, because it puts up a 
whole new way of appreciating every human being, and also appreciating 
myself.

And that’s why, when I mentioned--I think a couple of weeks ago--where I get 
a little upset when people say they know me?  It’s because they’re coming 
from that place of generalities, of projection, of what they think they see: 
because they have a hard time seeing it within themselves--who they truly 
are--this uniqueness.

(Starting from zero)

MICHAEL:  Yes, D, this is why this evening I approached the subject from the 
viewpoint  of maturity.  As Mother reminded you last week, you all start out 
from zero experience; true enough, with a whole world’s history of heredity 
right in these marvelous physical bodies you have.  But in terms of 
experience: those of you who have been mothers and fathers know upon seeing 
that little baby that emerges, it is so awesome--that zero point is.  That 
little creature is dependant upon you to make it through a single day.  
Remember all those years and years of learning--how to stand up--how to tie 
your shoes?  There are so many little stages and steps and phases you’ve all 
come through.

The human mind is so constructed that in the absence of a framework within 
which to think and reason, and have some meaning of relationship; in the 
absence of such a framework, the human mind is capable of inventing its own.
See these generalities as very necessary in the beginning stages of 
reasoning and thinking, and searching for meaning.  We gave the example once 
before of youngsters getting together and wondering excitedly: What does the 
other sex want?--the classical question of: “What do women want?”  “What do 
men want?”--as is there were such a thing as “Men” or “Women.”  They haven’t 
yet the experience to fill in the blanks, to overflow the categories.

The natural process of outgrowing these generalities is often thwarted by an 
insecurity that is not only individual, but cultural, and even racial--in 
the sense of the human race.  The world as a whole is still in its 
adolescence.  Generally speaking, people speak in generalities; they 
perceive in generalities; they think in generalities.  It requires a mature 
self-confidence based on success, on reality, to reach the point of 
welcoming diversity, welcoming this fathomless soul that can be seen in each 
person.

It’s graciousness itself that your art--this movie you speak of--is so 
successful in portraying the reality of soul.  It’s an astonishing 
revelation of God’s creativity when you think of the endless trillions, of 
trillions, of trillions, of trillions of beings there are--personal 
beings--unique beings; from human beings all the way up to the Ancients of 
Days who oversee a galaxy.  These are beings so far beyond human 
comprehension, We can only tease you with the fact they exist--personal 
beings hundreds of billions of your years old.  Think of the soul they must 
have!  And this still only hints at the nature of God.  Do you have any more 
thoughts on this, My son?

Student:  Just the idea that when one comes from those places, the soul, and 
sees another from this place, sees their soul, that is where true connection 
exists.  If we just come from generalities, and prejudices, then there is no 
true connection.

In the movie, yesterday, someone had the analogy that we’re all individual 
pieces of the jigsaw puzzle.  We all have our own uniqueness.  But along the 
edges is our connection to each other, where we all meet.

MICHAEL:  This is the trust, the self-confidence that you—are!  This being 
that you are is always, necessarily, so much more enormous than you can be 
conscious of at any one moment.  And so in this trust, in this confidence, 
you let go of yourself.  You forget about acting out some self-generated 
role to play, and trust your own soul to shine out.

(Living without anger or hatred)

This is what really filled My life, as a human being, as Jesus.  Those folks 
I encountered, mostly loving—but: however inimical (Michael laughs) their 
intentions were, I was so blessed to experience this without needing the 
self-defensive mechanisms of anger, or hatred.  I could truly pity, and 
reach out to those who were so terribly restricted.  There is a presence of 
God’s will and justice falling upon us like a driving rain--every moment.  
Those who see others in terms of prejudices, and generalities, can only see 
themselves, by reflection, as a kind of reflected caricature, and so can 
spend a lifetime missing their own possibly glorious nature .

So we reach out to them, to see them more full, and complete, and soulful, 
than they can see themselves.  What great, glorious fun when they experience 
a spark of recognition, and let themselves go a little bit; and really touch 
another person—you--for the first time.  This is the true glory of spirit, 
the way it reaches out and reclaims another lost son or daughter, for them!  
Rest in My peace.

(Michael’s Christmas wishes)

Well, My sons, I heartily accept your Merry Christmas!  What we talked about 
this evening, this growth of maturity within yourselves, within the world; 
this is that true evolution that never stops, either for you, or for a 
planet, though it’s generally only realizable from the inside—out.  You have 
to be growing in maturity to be able to see it.  But this is one of those 
things you can know absolutely--for yourself.  You can be as certain of it 
as any physical fact, for it can totally illuminate and change all mental 
meanings and spiritual values.  These are the rewards of maturity, the 
rewards of growing ever deeper, and ever more spontaneously adequate to the 
moment: both.

So I wish you a Merry Christmas, My children.  Thank you for acknowledging 
Me in your lives.  I bid you a fond good evening!  And be in My peace.  
(Thank You, Michael.)


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