[tmtranscripts] Michael 6.19.06

[JERRY LANE]

Michael—June 19, 2006

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

MICHAEL—T/R-JL

(Personalizing God)
(The limitless immediacy of stillness)
(Ask Us any moment of your life)
(Relinquishing oneself)
(Escaping sentimentality; finding a spontaneous, present reality)
(Be a person, not a thing, and help others do the same)
(Initial challenges of stillness)
(Turn your orientation from the past to the future)
(Michael’s omnipresence)

Dear Michael and Mother Spirit,    We thank You for Your insights on the 
nature and causes of impatience, especially so we do not inflict our own 
upon others.  It seems You are suggesting we might need to welcome patience 
as a discipline.  If so, then we ask for Your further help in utilizing Your 
highest Mind/Spirit Adjunct, that of wisdom, so we can bring the depth of 
our hard-earned experience to bear on the present moment.  For this and all 
Your other gifts, we thank You.  Amen.

MICHAEL:  My beloved sons, this is Michael.  As Mother introduced herself 
last week, I too ask you to think of Me as your close buddy, your help-mate, 
someone you can rely upon. For isn’t this true of any dear friendship?  It 
enables us to give ourselves away, to forget ourselves, if only momentarily, 
and put the welfare of someone else above our own.  While this is obviously 
a gift, it’s also such a reward, for this truly feeds our souls, this 
ability to take in another, this opportunity to touch another unique living 
reality, another living creation of God.

(Personalizing God)

Every time we do so this finds resonance within our own personality.  It 
becomes a transcendent connection of one personality to another.  It reminds 
both of us of our common Origin.  In realizing another personality, it helps 
you so much in personalizing God.

This is still quite a challenge for you with your present day scientific 
orientation.  You are not pantheists, but many of you still consider much of 
God’s creation to be somehow inherent in the physical universe: perhaps some 
kind of self-generating qualities.  This is why We teach that qualities you 
feel as values are of a spiritual nature and not inherent in physical 
reality, or even strictly mental associations--meanings.

When you forget yourself to take in another person--even more, when you act 
from a center that is somewhere between the two of you, you are able to more 
fully personalize God by realizing that His spiritual qualities resonate in 
the shared dimension of your two personalities.  This is the love that no 
man or woman has greater but to give of themselves, even their life, for 
another.  But you can do this in a day to day way by giving up your ego, 
your sense of yourself, and trusting that you will still be there, you will 
return to yourself when that time becomes appropriate.

Last week Mother talked about the dimension of time and one way of giving of 
yourself that is highly rewarding: recognize and relinquish your specific 
expectations about what the future, sometimes the very near future--the next 
few moments, will be so you can welcome whatever happens.  This is included 
in what We have been referring to as the bottomless-ness of now, the fact 
that for human beings there is no limit to how much you can expand to 
experience the uniqueness of the present moment, your present company.

You generally experience this only in moments of sheer terror, in other 
words, during that adrenaline boost when you suddenly find yourself skidding 
on ice, or about to fall over a precipitous drop; or in moments of 
ecstasy--being out of yourself with sheer pleasure.  These experiences 
illustrate just how imminent or immediate the present moment can be.

(The limitless immediacy of stillness)

But you can touch upon this dimension, this limitless immediacy, in your 
stillness.  It’s just, as you say, it’s own thing.  As Mother mentioned, 
this profoundly deep, bottomless stillness is not something you directly 
create.  There is no magical button you can push to bring it about.  It too 
comes about by relinquishing yourself, by relaxing, by not actively shutting 
out thoughts but just observing them, detached.  For thoughts, when deprived 
of your identification with them, lose their impetus and just slow of 
themselves.  Your consciousness begins to broaden, often to the point you 
can have the sensation of how enormous it is there inside your mind--even 
though this is just your mind’s attempt at a spatial representation of your 
spirit, which actually transcends space.  How big is it in there?  It’s 
interesting to wonder.

Many of you have encountered the timelessness of the Eternal Now.  Here you 
can have a conscious perception of Mother’s and My presence.  It would give 
Me great pleasure, My children, to be able to define or explain Our presence 
to you, but any definition would get in the way of actually feeling Us.  We 
can only liken it to the most subtle pressure or tingling you can imagine, 
yet even these are physical events, and spirit really precedes the physical. 
  In your philosophy, you refer to this as essence preceding existence: the 
essence of who you are, your unique personality, actually precedes your 
conscious awareness of yourself existing.

Not to make a mystery of this home base, it’s just a conscious recognition 
of your profound reality.  This is--something there--that does stick with 
you, and changes all your other perceptions.  Spirit generates 
time-flexibility so you do not need to exercise self-discipline in order to 
be patient.  Think about it.  Discipline is a positive quality of being able 
to make yourself do something you know is right.  This implies you are 
somewhat split in your attitude towards something. Part of you is reluctant, 
yet you have an ability to carry through in the face of this reluctance.  
This is a great ability for a just-beginning personality still a long way 
from being united in all the living aspects of your being.  In spite of this 
lack of unity within, you can decide to do what feels right.

And so conversely, the more you are united within yourself, the stronger, 
the more complete is the function of your personality.  The greater your 
ability to relinquish yourself in order to stay with a living, dynamic, 
changing present moment, the less you need to make yourself do 
something--like exercising patience.  In this you approach being like the 
more purely spiritual beings who are so attuned to the fullness of the 
present moment as a transcendent, God-created reality, they have no need for 
a human type of patience.  You’ve all known moments of this, of being right 
in sync, fully a part of something happening where, fortuitously it seems, 
you’re doing the right thing effortlessly.  And so these moments seem 
magical. This is being a part of something transcendent to you, and 
realizing it.

This is a kind of living reflection, not after the fact but right in the 
moment, as if you were surrounded by a lot of little spiritual mirrors 
helping you realize what is happening in such a subtle way you are not 
disturbing the process. You have that famous saying by one of your ancient 
philosophers: a life without reflection is not worth living.  That is a bit 
overstated, for life itself is always of supreme value.  But to enjoy this 
reflection, this magnifying enhancing of an event right while it’s 
happening, is to know that part of this reflection comes from your deep 
meditation, helping you achieve this wonder.

This, My children, is the reward of faith, of being out there, of going 
where you have not gone before, and finding the reward of that courage.  For 
the essence of faith is this extending yourself where you are not yet 
certain, extending yourself forward without any specific expectations but 
just from a general, wise sense: this is the right thing to do now.

(Ask Us any moment of your life)

This is what you can ask of Us any moment of your life: Dear Michael, dear 
Mother, dear Heavenly Father, what’s the right thing to do, right now?  The 
only price required of you, My children, is sincerity. You must strive to do 
what you know is right.  Your personality, your soul, needs the feedback 
that ensues.  You extend yourself in order to get the reward, the answer 
from Greater Reality whether this actually was the right thing to try.

It may not have been.  So you have to be open to reality’s answers.  You 
have to accept that this was who you were, and what it was--this time--and 
let this become part of your soul, part of your wisdom.  Even your ideals 
must be open to this quest for reality.  For even your most cherished ideals 
can be inappropriate: too much, too soon, out of sequence.  Mother mentioned 
you must be based on the real.  I’m just giving you some means of 
distinguishing it.

So consider your stillness is this reflection, this augmentation of your 
being you cannot directly create, but you can let it come about because, 
ultimately, it is God’s desire for you to grow this way.  He wants to share 
His spirit with you, and you were created with this latent ability, this 
potential.

This was never hidden from mankind, but to conceive of, and then actually 
carry out this at first strange activity of relaxing into an ever higher 
consciousness, is something only very few discovered on their own.  
Stillness has remained for the most part, part of revealed religion.  Mother 
and I are a part of that continuing revelation, pointing you at this way you 
can discover so much for yourselves, right within yourselves.

Now: if this lesson has stirred up any reflections within you, let’s have a 
look at them.

Student:  Father Michael, thank You for Your lessons and for Your support in 
my life, and Mother also, and all the other Beings involved.  Just when I 
think I have a handle on something, You or Mother say something that expands 
it quite a bit, which is fine.

I don’t understand what You mean by relinquishing yourself so you don’t 
color the next moment.  I can’t quite remember exactly what You said.  I’m 
thinking when I leave here tonight I have a ways to go home, and I’ve been 
doing it pretty much the same way for almost two years.  I know all the 
twists and turns, and all the speed limits of the road.  I don’t think 
that’s what You’re talking about, but I’m not sure what You’re talking 
about.  Could You clarify about being in the moment, or relinquishing 
yourself, especially when you’re dealing with someone else--relinquishing 
myself so I can be there for them in the moment?

(Relinquishing oneself)

MICHAEL:  Yes, My son, you recall the lessons where We pretty much defined 
your ego as simply your own sense of yourself, and yet how this changing, 
shifting, living sense of yourself is only a tiny fraction of who you fully 
are?  How do you contact and use this greater part of yourself?  An oriental 
philosopher/painter put this quest as: after painting bamboo for many years, 
I finally, simply become the bamboo, and let it paint itself.

Student:  Yes--I understand that, I think.

Michael:  Well, think about doing something not quite so much fun.  There 
you are at the kitchen sink, washing dishes, highly aware of yourself doing 
something you would rather not.  Yet the dishes get dirty; they’re piling up 
in the sink; they need washed.  How do you get out of this drudgery?

I suggest that seeing yourself having to do this onerous, boring chore—as a 
concept--stands in the way of having fun washing the particular dish in your 
hand right now.  That particular little grease spot, that piece of stuck-on 
mashed potatoes never happened before.  The pattern of bubbles in the 
soapsuds is unique to this moment.  You are not who you ever were before, 
for you too are changing.  Yet your notions of yourself standing there 
suffering some interminable boredom gets in the way of all these 
perceptions, fills your consciousness—all this drudgery you have in mind.  
This monumental self-pity… (Michael chuckles) is what you have to relinquish 
in order to have fun washing the dishes.

With respect to being with another person, you own ego, your own sense of 
yourself, overlaid with pretensions of who you want to be, or various 
personas you want them to think you are; all this fills your consciousness 
with yourself, so who and what they are is greatly diminished.  You are 
clinging to some repetitive former reality like going down the road looking 
in a rearview mirror of the past, and missing to a large degree what is new 
in your company.  This can become such a social convention that both 
partners end up mutually creating for each other a bubble of familiarity, of 
nothing happening.  This is most obvious where you have a group of very 
excited people all talking at once, everybody expressing themselves, but no 
one listening: no communication: nothing being exchanged.

Mother mentioned last week it is such a blessing, such spiritual fragrance 
when a person has the nerve, the insight, and the wisdom to let go their 
affectations and pretensions and stand naked, letting their soul shine forth 
directly, un-self-consciously, so they can really listen, really take in 
another person.  This way you can tease someone out of the social convention 
of nothing happening—same old, same old, and step into a marvelous, 
renewable reality—God’s creation—something unique and new coming down every 
moment like a pouring rain.  Does this answer your question, My son?

Student:  It clears it up a lot.  I feel I’m afraid of opening up to people 
because they’ll find out who I am, and won’t like it.  But I see that that 
is just a projection and not a reality—except in my reality.  I look forward 
to standing in front of someone naked in spirit—as You say; and see what 
happens.

MICHAEL:  Yes, My son, this is the faith it takes to extend yourself, to put 
yourself out there devoid of specific expectations, open to whatever 
happens, trusting in your own innate ability to accept, to create, to adapt, 
to grow to meet the challenge.  You begin to see how your ego--helpful as 
this sense of yourself often is--can hide the greater reality of your 
soul—from another, or even from both of you.  What a precious gift this is 
to present instead.  Think of those people you deem to have a lot of soul.  
What is it about them that is so beautiful, so appealing, so valuable?  Let 
this shine forth, as it will do when you just forget yourself.  Become 
interested in them.  Change your focus and concentration.  Let go the social 
conventions of familiar personas bouncing off each other.

So tonight I suggest, on your way home, you feel for a sense of this 
particular night, not last week, or all those weeks before, but 
tonight—going home.  Play with it.  See if you can actually, physically 
perceive how that road tonight has never been traveled on before.  You’ll 
find this is where the fun is.

Student:  Thank You, Father—a very interesting challenge, creating a new 
road—a new experience of the road: a new experience of myself.

(Escaping sentimentality; finding a spontaneous, present reality)

MICHAEL:  You can actually do this.  Try it with some old, familiar piece of 
music.  Feel for the…dimension--if you will, of hearing it for the first 
time.  I’m talking about a qualitative enhancement of the music, a real 
exercise in suspending your expectations, your familiarity with what’s 
coming next.  Try this.  See if you can develop it as a conscious ability.  
It’s very similar to stillness.  Instead of just hearing/re-experiencing 
mostly your sentimental memories of the music, you will be approaching the 
fullness of a spontaneous present reality by doing so.  This ability has 
enormous potential to change your day to day life.

Student:  I will do that, Father.  Thank You.

MICHAEL: You’re welcome, My son.  You can find that ability right along the 
line of feeling and experiencing My peace, which is also ever new.

Student:  Yes, Michael.  I was thinking how people see through their filters 
of race and social status—especially in this county.  I’m up against that in 
the people I work for, and come across.  Sometimes it’s hard to deal with, 
if I feel less because I’m just a gardener.  It’s not considered high 
status—I don’t make a lot of money.  It seems certain doors are closed to me 
in terms of friendships or other relationships.  So I feel that in my soul, 
even if I know better.  I know there’s more to do with them—who these people 
are.

So that’s one thing.  Secondly, what You talked about tonight reminded me of 
a friend who says she always has trouble connecting with the Father—His 
spirit, because of the way she was brought up.  So I wanted to help her 
experience herself, her own spirit; and afterwards I had the idea that this 
was what I wanted to do with my life.  I want to help people become 
re-acquainted with themselves.  That feels certain within me.  So what You 
talked about is a way of doing that.  If I relinquish myself of my agendas, 
of how I see a person, so I can reflect back to them their own connection 
with spirit.

(Be a person, not a thing, and help others do the same)

MICHAEL:  Well D, let’s see if we can kill two birds with one stone.  
(laughter—Yes, they are related)  Yes, we can put part one and part two 
together.  You have the right orientation of how not to buy into other 
people’s stereotypes of you.  Here you are escaping a subtle net they try to 
throw over you, first by not seeing yourself as they see you—and this is 
largely a matter of forgiveness.  Forgive them for this may be to a large 
degree unconscious—they know not what they’re doing.  Put a little more 
effort in being a person to them.  Offer a bit of your personal life, some 
interest or hobby.  In other words, give them something of yourself you 
think they might be interested in.

The other thing is to help them escape their own persona, without being too 
intrusive.  This takes a knack.  There’s a way to go about offering to be 
interested in something personal about them, so they too escape being only a 
thing—an employer.  You’re looking for a genuine interpersonal kind of 
relationship.  And I want to assure you this is, unfortunately, very 
widespread throughout the whole world.  Every society, every culture has 
these social pretensions and classes.  No matter how much certain political 
theorists tried to create classless communities, communes, communism; it 
never worked.  Even the attempts to have everyone dress the same, like in a 
futuristic movie where everybody wears the same coveralls with a big V on 
the front—you know what I mean…  (Yes…) it didn’t work.  It goes against the 
essential reality of everyone’s individual uniqueness.

So offer a little bit of yourself, and offer to be interested in a bit of 
them too.  And forgive them.  You might even pity those who are so hampered 
or limited by their own ego status.

For those of your friends who are disbeliever’s through being jaded, or 
cynical, or disillusioned--disappointed; just being who you are, just 
sharing with them your enthusiasm, and your interests, and curiosities, your 
own sense of mystery: these are all facets of the spiritual fragrance with 
which you entice them out of themselves.  I think you already know that this 
is avoiding like the plague any kind of missionary zeal, which only turns 
folks off.  Just being a healthy, vibrant, curious example of someone who 
has a true religion—a real, direct connection with God—is always what 
convinces.  Ultimately, nothing else really does.  This is what is operating 
in any kind of a conversion where folks are encouraged to try, one more 
time, to have faith—themselves.

Student:  Yeah.  What I said to my friend yesterday was, I wanted to help, 
and I would pray for her, but there are four billion ways to God, and you 
have your own unique way, your own connection.  I can only support you and 
offer my own guidance, my own path—what works for me.  So I’m not 
indoctrinating her in how I do things; I don’t even do that for myself.

MICHAEL:  This is where you can offer a means, call it stillness, or 
meditation, or reflection, or wondering—curiosity, relaxing.  You just offer 
these as what works for you, so if she has some little fingertip grip on 
something to do--which is, as you’ve noticed, what We offer you—neither you 
nor I can anticipate what she will find.  That’s the point of it all.  So We 
share with you how, from a certain viewpoint, this can seem very strange, 
which is why so much of humankind has missed this simple exercise.  Just to 
sit down and reflect is far too simple for so many—just to set aside part of 
your day, and relax, let what thoughts come that may--and stick with 
it--until something begins to emerge out of this singular activity.

Student:  When You say we can’t know what we will find, that’s where the 
faith is.  But we know that whatever we find will be profound, and will be 
for our good.

(Initial challenges of stillness)

MICHAEL:  Yes.  But ironically, this is why meditation, or stillness seems 
so pointless to some folks: why should I sit down and do something when I 
deliberately can’t know what’s going to happen?  It brings all their general 
anxieties into crystallization, and they don’t realize this is also part of 
the point: so they can deal with them—consciously.  Other times it can 
precipitate so many good ideas of things to do, their impatience gets the 
best of them after a few minutes and off they go to do something.  Just 
being still is directly thwarting your animal impulses to be busy—or asleep. 
  To do nothing—highly consciously—brings you immediately face to face with 
your animal heritage.  To an animal this represents a kind of death, or 
paralysis.  You might think of some poor animal with a broken back trying 
desperately, highly consciously, to move, yet unable to do so.  This is what 
stillness represents to that aspect of your being.  And to your normal state 
of consciousness in which you are identifying with the current thought 
passing through your mind, to detach from thoughts seems impossible.

Student:  There’s even a fear of loosing my identity; and then who am I--in 
a negative sense?  And there’s a greater, deeper fear of annihilation, of 
not even existing.

MICHAEL:  Yes, My son.  This is the requirement of faith, for as your 
Oriental philosophies say: Netti, Netti—you discover you are: Not this, Not 
that.  This is a simultaneous process of paring away all the heretofore 
unconscious pretensions and personas, to let your soul come forth.  You get 
through all your familiar ideas of past experiences to get back to the real 
events.

Student:  I remember what my friend said to me yesterday, that because she 
was not properly parented—definitely not mothered—she never knew what the 
real thing was.  So she has no...guideposts, no guidance.  Just like someone 
brought up in a house with no happiness, how does one know what happiness 
is?

MICHAEL:  This is essentially a lack of confidence in her own creativity, 
thinking that everything has to come out of the past, and cannot be 
spontaneously generated from the depths of her own personality, her own 
spirit.

Student:  That’s what I feel is the fear of letting go of one’s identity—of 
that past.  It’s really insurmountable—to her.

MICHAEL:  Yet she has been surrounded her whole life with thousands of 
examples of motherhood.  These are in her soul, if she could only tap into 
them.  Strange as it may seem, stillness takes nerve, determination, faith, 
persistence.  These become real abilities you only get by exercising them.

(Turn your orientation from the past to the future)

If you review Our answers to questions over the years, one thread connecting 
them is Our encouraging folks to turn about and open themselves to the 
future, orient themselves this way, not with specific expectations from the 
past, but just with enthusiasm and hopefulness.  They need to trust in their 
own abilities and adaptability’s, and in God’s creativity renewing the 
universe moment by moment.  With others, the more you can be this new 
phenomena, an unanticipated, spontaneous person right in the face of their 
inability to be so themselves, what a precious gift you’re offering them.  
Don’t forget to tease.

Student:  Well, I do, do that. (both laugh) There seems to be so many 
“healers” out there, in this area, of various qualities and intentions, I 
sometimes wonder if they don’t get caught up in these labels, instead of 
just…healing.

MICHAEL:  I think you are sensing here a kind of subtle one-ups-manship 
where there is an implicit attitude of, “I’m healthier, or more healed than 
you.”  There could also be a refusal to enter a relationship unless one has 
this advantage: I’m the healer and you are the one in need of healing.  
Whereas there can be a greater overall health if one offers to be a 
spiritual equal; and both learn.  Otherwise this is just another “game”—as 
you say--that people play.

Think of the spiritual generosity in seeing people as not needing you.  (Say 
that again?…)  This is an offer of equality in your perception of not seeing 
people as being so needy.  You avoid looking about and seeing everyone 
desperately needing—you. (And here’s my card…{both laugh})  Exactly.  And 
even this is not to say there are not genuine healers who do offer their 
services for pay, right up front.

Student:  I just wonder, with respect to all these ministers and 
self-proclaimed spiritual persons, how much of that is God-inspired?—or ego 
motivated?  Sometimes people do have a huge experience of glimpsing God’s 
reality, and want to heal the world.

MICHAEL:  It runs the full spectrum from genuine healers who may be going 
about doing this inadvertently, to those on the other extreme who are 
deliberately, consciously wounding others, creating the need for their own 
ministrations for sale.  They may be tearing folks down by offering to 
accept them only if they become dependant.  These are the founders of what 
you call cults, that exist to enslave other folks to their own perverted 
wills.  These are the most direct representatives of Lucifer and 
Caligastia—Their true disciples, capable of the most horrific obscenities.

The true teachers and healers are more than delighted when their students 
surpass them and outgrow the need for them.

Well, My sons: the time grows late.  So if it’s OK with you, we’ll bring 
this to a close this evening.

Student:  OK, but if You were not just transmitting through J, but were here 
in all Your glory, we would stay here all night.  (much laughter)

(Michael’s omnipresence)

MICHAEL:  My sons, I am here all night, for you: any time, any place.  This 
is My joy too.  (Thank You, Michael.  Thank You, Father)  You are so 
welcome.  I hope I’ve given you a few more hints and examples of how to 
find, and be in My peace.  Good evening.


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