[tmtranscripts] Michael 8.30.10

[warren smith]

Wonderful, most powerful session, indeed!


Warren/Marshall

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:09 PM, JERRY LANE <nytrayn at msn.com> wrote:

>  Michael—August 30, 2010
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> Marin TM Group—Mill Valley, California—U.S.A.
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> MICHAEL—T/R-JL
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> (Free will dignity)
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> (Social requirements for having an ego)
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> (When the adventure gets rough)
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> (Motivating others)
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> (Balancing potential and actuality)
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> (Feeling you are not of the world)
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> (The God-created uniqueness of each personal being)
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> Dear Michael and Mother Spirit,    Welcome once again.  Welcome dear
> friends, dear divine parents.  We wish we could take you up on your
> invitation, Michael, and go fishing with you.  Maybe we can someday.  We
> really appreciate how the two of you do your best to make us feel at ease in
> your presence.  You even ask us to let you slowly earn our trust, and so
> we have these many weeks, these many years.  We’ve learned to put our
> souls in your hands and open our hearts and our minds in these sessions to
> follow along where your point of view leads us to see ourselves and see each
> other.  It is your viewpoint, that we cannot anticipate, that we find the
> most rewarding and the most valuable.  This is essentially what we cannot
> fully do for ourselves, although we try.  As one of our poets said, “What
> a gift God could give us--to see ourselves as others see us.”  And so in a
> general way you do this for us.  You help us more fully realize our human
> condition.
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> Your lesson last time on freedom was very appropriately addressed to what
> one of us asked: what is this freedom from?  You pointed out it is mostly
> freedom from our limiting viewpoints and prejudices, even the mental poisons
> of hatred and anger.  This is what we need to be free from, in order to be
> free within ourselves.  Then we can have the ability to make conscious
> choices about what we want to do, what we are trying to accomplish.  You
> also pointed out this is a  never-ending, never-completed movement,
> towards freedom, towards realizing what it is we are doing both with
> ourselves and others.  So thank you for this loving touch, dear parents,
> that, hopefully, helps us be more loving with ourselves and take greater
> cognizance of what we are doing with others.  Amen.
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> MICHAEL:  Good evening.  This is Michael and I certainly welcome you to
> share some time with Mother Spirit and myself, for we’re both definitely
> here.  Perhaps you can feel Mother Spirit’s Holy Spirit all around us, and
> right inside you.  Perhaps too you can feel me right beside you, your
> lifelong companion.  Those of you who have not been so fortunate as to
> have had a loving, considerate father can find just that in me; and so
> please understand, my children, the trust I have in you to let you be and
> not impose myself upon you.  It is my desire to let you be free to live
> your own lives, for this too is my idea of an ideal parent.
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> (Free will dignity)
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> Mother Spirit and I are here to give you a little boost from time to time,
> to help you realize--make more real--this very life you’re living this
> moment.  Yet we want to let you be, and so in our lessons here that we’re
> speaking out loud, we do our best to encourage you to be free.  Realize
> and enjoy this potential that our Father himself has ordained: that human
> life, your life, encourages you to grow into the full estate of being a
> creature of free will dignity.  If you’ve read and followed our lessons
> we’re certain you can make the distinction between this inner awareness of
> freedom and a kind of blind, ego-driven, narcissistic emphasis on just me,
> me, me all the time which actually cuts you off from genuine contact, not
> only with your own larger self and your soul, but also from the love and a
> genuine touch and sharing with other folks.
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> This free will dignity we speak of is your rightful estate of
> soul-possession because it gives you the possibility of realizing a true
> individuality of unique experiences.  You can realize not only your
> superficial notions about yourself--which is more or less your ego--but have
> the wonderful humility of realizing that you are more than this.  You are
> so much more than you can hold in your consciousness as your own,
> self-created ego formation.  This is the humble dignity of being truly
> your self, your larger self.  This is being true to your real personality
> and its potential that God created, as well as your soul.
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> To do this it helps to accept our definition of your personality as the
> persisting essence/reality of you that makes you unique in all creation.  You
> are complete in each moment of time as is the rest of God’s creation, and
> yet not perfectly realized and unified within yourself so far, so you’re
> living a kind of constantly unfolding discovery of yourself and your
> potential.  In addition you were dropped right into the middle of an
> adventure relating to an enormous, dynamically living and moving universe,
> right down to your personal world.  You absolutely are, yet this dynamic
> adventure is constantly coming toward you to be handled, to be dealt with,
> calling you out of yourself.  Even this body/mind of your own is an
> adventure of discovery, not only as a baby and a child, but throughout your
> life for it too is changing with living experience.  One part of the human
> dignity we speak of is your freedom and ability to embrace with your will
> this adventure which may, at times, be full of pain and uncertainty: your
> choices exist within these very challenges.
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> So the dignity we speak of is your ability to realize who you are right in
> the midst of an adventure which is only partly what is coming from you, and
> partly all of that out there coming towards you.  We’ve spoken of
> individuals who’ve undergone a lot of life experiences with this courageous
> acceptance and so have a deep, wonderful soul they shine forth as character,
> something that can be recognized and cherished by others.
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> This is the purpose of the cosmic adventure: that personal beings can grow
> to ultimately know what God himself experiences by way of the abilities He
> has given them.  This certainly is part of His omniscience, His ability to
> experience what each of us is experiencing.  Your Urantia book puts it
> poetically as God’s “escaping the fetters of infinity” by also experiencing
> what it is to be an independent, free-willed, finite created being.  Yet
> too because He has created each of us so, each of us has His gift and
> hallmark of creativity.  There need be no end to any of us because, in
> this creativity, we are most like Him; and this too is the essence of our
> freedom.  This too is our choice: whether or not to continue this personal
> adventure that He has set us down into the middle of.
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> And so as you live and love and learn, entertain as best you can a thousand
> different viewpoints on a thousand different subjects.  This way even the
> limited view of yourself you normally identify with--your ego--your
> moment-to-moment, momentarily changing attitude towards this whole complex
> structure you think of as yourself--who you are and who you’ve been; even
> this ego structure of yours is capable of growth and development and
> enlightenment.  You could say it’s a way of consciously choosing not to
> stand in your own light.
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> (Social requirements for having an ego)
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> In order to be a social creature and relate with those around you, you do
> have to have this ego structure.  You do have to have some notion of who
> you are and who you’ve been.  Think back on some of your earliest
> childhood adventures with others and all the dozens of ways you presented
> yourself, experimenting, discovering not only who you thought you were, but
> who you were accepted as.  I’m sure you can recall dozens of times when
> your playmates definitely let you know that who you though you were was not
> quite how they saw you.  Your budding ego got trimmed back a bit,
> sometimes rather painfully, when your playmates let you know in no uncertain
> terms you were puffing yourself up at their expense: and so you learned.
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> From time to time you would be astonished about something that came right
> out of the blue, wonderfully astonished at yourself.  You could suddenly
> do or understand something that you couldn’t the day before.  We tease you
> with the notion that this is not only out of your own creativity, your own
> spiritual nature and potential, but some of these ideas came from the
> presence of God within you--your Thought Adjuster, merrily adjusting your
> thoughts towards something a little more all-inclusive, holistic, a
> broadening and deepening of your perspective.  This is true, my children,
> even to the point where there is no ultimate separation within your soul of
> what you yourself have created and what this presence of God has suggested
> to you.
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> This too can be a wonderful ego-recognition: that this encompassing within
> which you live is partly your Thought Adjuster, a presence of God not only
> devoted to you, but an intrinsic, living part of you.  This too your ego
> can recognize: that you are always more than you can realize in the moment.
>  This awareness of time/space limitation is very humbling, righteously so.
>  It’s a spiritual blessing.  You can’t ultimately stand outside yourself.
>  That would be just another grandiose, puffed-up illusion.  Moment by
> moment you are who you experience yourself to be.  It’s only in
> retrospect, even instantaneously, you can, as it were, stand outside
> yourself and make some assessment of what’s just happened, including you.
> But in the living here and now--this unique moment in time—the full
> encompassing in which you live is an aspect of God’s will you can recognize
> and orient yourself towards.  It is also in part your greater, creative
> self, the true personality and full soul that you are, responsible for the
> co-creation of your life.  So welcome this humbling understanding.
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> This is how you will yourself to grow.  This too is an intrinsic potential
> God has endowed you with.  As we said in our last lesson, this inner
> freedom of yours depends upon your attitude, your willingness and your
> ability to relate to all that is not-you, however you think of that or
> encounter it.  It depends upon your understanding, for all your conscious
> decisions take place within a framework of both conscious and unconscious
> assumptions.  Yet as a creative being yourself, you are not necessarily
> bound by these assumptions in this living moment, this here and now.  You
> have the potential for something new to come out of you, out of the
> life-force that God has given you, that is unique to you.  It is your own
> creativity, my children, that presents alternatives within these assumptions
> from past experience.  It gives you some choice.  You are not absolutely
> bound by all that has come before, all the past, all that you’ve feel you’ve
> been.  In your confrontation with this living present moment, you can have
> the ability to come up with something new.
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> So welcome this creativity; depend upon it; take responsibility for it.  Let
> yourself be humbled by this gift of God’s and the way He shares not only
> personality with you, but creativity itself.  You are only free to choose
> to the degree you can rise above all of your conditioning, all of your
> culture, all that actually gave your life meaning and value up to this
> moment: you need not be bound by it.  Else there would be nothing new in
> human reality and human history.  All of mankind would be going round and
> round on a rabbit-path of inescapable familiarity; whereas actual planetary
> human history has been one of the incessant evolution of thousands of
> cultures over hundreds of thousands of years.
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> (When the adventure gets rough)
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> I say all this for your understanding so when the adventure gets a bit
> rough at times, as it does, and we most humbly acknowledge that, Mother
> Spirit and I; we most humbly acknowledge the pain, the fear, the uncertainty
> even to the point of agony that human life has known: still you have this
> kernel of freedom to reach out to us and to our Father for help.  Welcome
> the adventure of your life as much as you can but never fear, my children,
> to pray and ask for help.  Then, in the fullness of our Father’s
> blessings, let your hearts overflow with the appreciation of worship to get
> even closer to Him.  Let yourselves be enlightened, and help shine this
> light out there for others to see by.  Give of yourselves in
> self-forgetfulness to fill your souls with them, the most priceless
> possessions you can have--each other.  This is your freedom.  This is your
> choice.
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> We thank you, dear Father, for setting up the universes this way.  We are
> truly humbled by each and every single one of your children who have right
> within them this kernel of Your boundless infinity, the hallmark that they
> are indeed Your children.  Now if you have any questions or comments this
> evening, let them spring forth.
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> Student:  Hi, Father Michael.  How can I motivate my grandson to reach his
> full potential?
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> (Motivating others)
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> MICHAEL:  Yes, my son.  Can you remember where your Urantia book talks
> about a person’s spiritual fragrance?  (Vaguely)  This totality of your
> being is what truly motivates others.  You have another way of saying it:
> lead by example; especially from one generation to another, from an oldster
> to a youngster, if you will.
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> Consider these aspects I talked about tonight--your attitude, your
> understanding of life as you’ve lived it and learned from it, your
> creativity right in the moment.  These are most important, my son, because
> you are demonstrating to others what is possible. This is not only with
> physical things, say in teaching a craft requiring some physical ability,
> but also in the mental and spiritual realms.  It’s how you approach
> things, how you yourself are handling the adventure, what you can come up
> with.  This totality of your being is what they are absorbing like a
> sponge, not only in their conscious minds and ego-sense of themselves and
> how they relating to you, but also in the broadest super-conscious realms of
> theirs registering meaning and value.  Topping this, their personality can
> recognize another kindred soul.  To truly encourage others, it helps if
> you stay true and honest to your deepest self.  I feel you know this
> instinctively.
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> Sometimes you call this tough love, making decisions not just for a
> momentary reward of gaining someone else’s pleasure, but by staying true to
> what you know of as life, and how it works, and what its deepest rewards
> are.  You encourage others by remembering and talking about those you’ve
> known who realized their human potential, who had real character.  Recognize,
> yourself, when your youngsters are being fulfilled with their own
> creativity, because it might well be going against the grain--(Michael
> chuckles)--of what you were expecting.  So: be open-minded.  Recognize
> every other person is a child of God’s with this unique personality all
> their own within them, right along with the absolute and infinite presence
> of God--their Thought Adjuster--being a living part of them.
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> As I spoke of earlier this evening, be willing to let them be.  You often
> think of this as being not-overly-protective.  Let them make their own
> mistakes and help them, as you’ve done with yourself, learn from these
> experiences.  Finally: just enjoy them as Mother Spirit and I so dearly
> enjoy each one of you.  Be thankful and appreciative, if you will,
> worshipful within yourself, of this particular person of God’s creativity.
>  Now does all of this seem like it might bear good fruit?
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> Student:  Yes, it does. It sounds an awful lot like: lead by example,
> teach by example.
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> MICHAEL:  Indeed.  Just keep in mind this huge encompassing--(Michael
> chuckles)--that we all live within.  I mentioned this evening how you can
> be enlightened and, though you never escape it--you can never, in a sense,
> stand outside your own subjectivity, you can learn.  You can be humble in
> this wonderful awareness of the great encompassing of God’s we all live in.
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> Student: Thank you, Father Michael.
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> MICHAEL: Thank you, my son, for being such a good grandfather.  Be in my
> peace.
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> Student: Yes, Michael, last time Mother Spirit talked about freedom as
> well, about living the adventure and putting oneself out there to experience
> ones potential--to take that leap, so to speak?  The question is: when
> does one kind-of like push the envelope, so to speak?  When does one take
> that leap?  There are times when I feel I want to do something different
> with my life, although I know each moment is a new moment, and each
> experience, even though familiar, is a new experience.  But sometimes I
> feel this pressure pressing me to do something more with what I have come to
> understand.
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> Maybe this is my own idealism, my own imagination, but all I can do is just
> take one step at a time.  But I can’t seem to when I’m really, really
> tired, or I feel despondent.  I feel like I’m in this circular pattern and
> even though I do stillness and rest, I just sense there’s more to gain to be
> a complete human being than what I am experiencing.  Is there any balm for
> that?--(Michael and students laugh)--for that kind of…pushing, that wanting
> to express more of that potential?
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>  MICHAEL:  Yes, my son: you keep sitting right in the middle of the
> paradox. (Hmm--I feel that!--student laughs)  On the one hand you know
> yourself very well and this is a result of a lifetime of thinking and
> contemplating and wondering, reading and exploring.  You’ve had a great
> deal of fun and enjoyment in this.  At the same time you do feel this
> inner push, this intrinsic desire to keep growing, yet you are rightfully
> fearful of any kind of just petty dissatisfaction.  This is a righteous
> fear because no one wants to feel this dissatisfaction with the infinity of
> God’s miracle--(Michael chuckles)--in which we are living.
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> (Balancing potential and actuality)
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> There is a balance here, a living balance, moment to moment, between your
> intrinsic need to keep growing and extend yourself out into life, and fully
> appreciating all that you already are; what Mother Spirit taught you as your
> potential and your actuality.  Your life is both your own and what is
> coming towards you with people, places, things, events.  It has
> requirements in terms of energy--physical, mental and even spiritual
> energy--so you righteously feel being overwhelmed with what you call
> tiredness, and how it changes things.
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> To deepen your understanding, consider: when you feel this incompleteness
> coupled with an almost painful uncertainty of where to grow next, where next
> do you apply yourself, what could be new for you, you are making an
> assessment of risk and reward with what your own imagination can come up
> with.  You only have to think, Wouldn’t it be nice…  A lot of folks play a
> game within themselves to explore possibilities in terms of winning the
> lottery.  If all the economic considerations of life were suddenly whisked
> away, what would you do?  That’s one way you can explore and realize
> limitations.
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> In other words, let your imagination roam free for a while even though it
> may be painful to think of all the things you could have done, yet haven’t
> so far.  Think of the times you’ve plunked down your dollar to give the
> lottery a try, and when the right numbers didn’t come up for you, there you
> still were.  With all potential this is the risk you have to take.  You
> have to take the risk of failure, failure as it will occur to you in your
> moments of tiredness, moments being overwhelmed with life coming at you with
> things to handle, like necessities not only for yourself but for your loved
> ones too.
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> This is the risk you run by giving your imagination a little freer rein in
> all aspects of your life--physical, mental and spiritual.  So ask
> yourself: what is it you are afraid to try?  This is just a tool, if you
> will, something to point you at: Wouldn’t be nice…and yet too: what would be
> painful if it didn’t work out?  One irony or aspect of a lifetime’s wisdom
> you can have is: a superficial take on this wisdom can get you down.  So
> go deeper.  Don’t feel you’re too wise to try something new and
> unfathomable.
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> Student:  Yeah, right!--because sometimes I do feel like that.  Even
> though I have my daughter and granddaughter and others who live with me, I
> am basically by myself.  And I am comfortable with my own company: but
> like you said, sometimes a false kind of wisdom keeps me at bay from
> interacting with others.
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> There’s a couple of things I’ve been expressing to others, you know, like I
> said, all I can deal with is what’s in front of me.  That’s where life is:
> right here in front of me and inside of me right now.  That’s all there
> is--so deal with it.  But the other experience I had, which is kind of
> fascinating, was after what I was experiencing with this other teaching in a
> gathering on Sunday morning, I would be filed with so much love.  But then
> I’d be by myself; so what do I do with it?  What’s the good of wisdom and
> love if you can’t share them with others?  At least there was a different
> attitude when I went about doing my regular things.
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> So I’m coming to an understanding that these things really mean something
> when they change my everyday living.  I don’t need to do anything
> grandiose, you know?  It is true, like you say, that life also comes to
> me, and there’s life in me to meet it.
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> MICHAEL:  My son, if you don’t mind me putting my finger right on it, let
> me ask you: are you lonely?
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> Student, laughing:  Yes and no.  There are moments when I do have those
> pangs of desiring companionship, but not at the cost of truth and wisdom—in
> a sense, my soul.  Each time I try to initiate something, it’s like it
> doesn’t happen.  The stars aren’t aligned so far.  The time is not now.  In
> reality I just feel…hmmm…I just feel not of this world.  I live in the
> world but I don’t feel of the world.  I feel like that song by the
> Beatles, The Fool on the Hill.  So I just feel…different.  But seven
> billion people are my company, so I don’t feel lonely that way; maybe just
> alone in my own wisdom and understanding.  It hurts sometimes not to be
> able to express love—nonconditionally—that’s a word I coined a while ago,
> where love is just love.  It doesn’t require that other people feel it
> too.
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> MICHAEL:  We have talked before about the human condition being like
> having one foot on a solid dock, and the other foot out in a bobbing boat:
> one foot in the continuous real and one in the ever-changing but possible
> ideal—something you can imagine if not yet realize.   You are expressing
> well your understanding of that.  You do understand and feel the risk
> you’re taking to have someone else ideally deeper inside you, at the same
> time staying true to your own soul.
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> (Feeling you are not of the world)
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> As for your feeling of being not quite of this world, remember when we
> spoke of giving due respect to the real, as contrasted to what you imagine
> could be?  Which one you perceive and treasure the most does determine
> your orientation and your feeling of life itself.  Just do your best to be
> aware of this orientation and make you choices as consciously as possible.
> That way you are for the most part living in freedom, living with the sense
> of having some choice.
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> Student:  I’ve tried, you know, to approach people with the desire of
> having a more complete connection.  There is one person I do care for a
> lot.  But who knows?  Maybe it’s my own expectations getting in the way.
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> MICHAEL:  And sometimes that more complete connection is something that
> takes time to grow.  Love at first sight is often so illusory there’s
> nowhere to go but to grow apart.
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> Student:  Yes, but it’s interesting though.  There are times when I do
> feel a strong…I mean my heart just stops!  Or my heart just wants to
> embrace them.  Obviously I can’t do that, but it just wants to do that.
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> MICHAEL:  Or!—you might forget yourself and go over and give them a big
> hug.  That’s a risk, isn’t it?  (Michael laughs)
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> Student, sighing:  Yeah…  I have…sometimes.  Sometimes it works and
> sometimes it doesn’t.
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> One last thing: it seems like when people get enlightened, or think they
> are, there seems to be a compulsion to start an organization of some sort.
> You know my thing about organizations.  It all seems to get diluted or
> something, and I just wonder--what I’m hearing from you and Mother
> Spirit--that it’s more one’s own experience that is important—than being
> part of a group.
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> MICGHAEL:  Yes, that’s a good subject for another time: the balance
> between the collective and the individual.  There are very few self-chosen
> hermits—very rare: everyone does live in different kinds of communities all
> at the same time.  Yet these communities are no other than those
> individuals who comprise them.  The term religion usually refers to an
> organization, but the basis for any community of believers is each person’s
> relationship with God; the group is just the socialization of that inner
> relationship.  Without the individuals sharing their inner relationship
> with God, the group is not truly religious but only a social
> organization—not that there is necessarily anything wrong with that except,
> perhaps, the pretense.
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> It goes both ways.  People can get caught up so much in their own
> ego-aggrandizement they are only using the group for that purpose—a mirror
> for their vanity.  On the other hand, all throughout human history there
> has been the slowly growing recognition and acknowledgement of the
> individual, beginning at the tribal stage where everyone, without exception
> and right within themselves, unconsciously identifies with the group for
> security and a sense of belonging.
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> Student:  I think sometimes the original purpose for getting together is
> pure and complete, but then the organization becomes an entity unto itself
> and people lose perspective about the reason they’re there.  It becomes
> more about upholding the organization than living the individual essence
> that started it all.  So I’m always having this inner battle with those
> groups I’ve participated in.  I understand it like the difference between
> a drop of water and the ocean of consciousness it is part of.
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> (The God-created uniqueness of each personal being)
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> MICHAEL:  Yes, this is why Mother Spirit and I are careful to emphasize
> the absolute, God-created uniqueness of each personal being and their
> continuing individual existence, even into eternity.  In this sense the
> drops do not, at death, automatically return into the ocean from which they
> came, as some folks believe.  That giving up of individual existence would
> be another personal choice.  (Thank you)  Be in my peace.  (long pause)
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> Are there any more comments or questions?—my daughter?
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> Student:  No questions, but a lot of good feelings—more amazing: it was
> brilliant tonight, positively brilliant.  Thank you.
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> MICHAEL:  Well, thank you, my dear.  It is your light that I am merely
> reflecting, and it is your soul that recognizes the glow.  So thank you
> very much.
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> This is definitely a wonderful stillness we can enjoy together, because we
> are freely choosing to be here.  From my point of view—and Mother
> Spirit’s—this is one good reason true religionists, though they may realize
> their completeness in God, and even within themselves, still there is this
> extra-wonderful thing that comes about when they get together.  You can
> thank Mother Spirit in part for her Spirit of Council, for your being able
> to sense and recognize the experience of each other’s souls, each other’s
> character in this marvelous expansiveness we create together.  It is not
> its own reward for being?
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> Good evening, my dear ones.  Be in my peace.
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