Christ Michael – T/R-JL
(Other-spirit contact)
(Super-mindedness)
(Make it physical)
(Increasing worldwide wonder)
(Come on in—the water’s fine)
(What emerges in crises)
(Sharing and taking care)
(A sense of proportion)
(Super-dynamic economics)
(See the entire culture)
(World cultures)
(Economics and ecstasy; needs and wants)
(Exclusionary folks: my way or nothing)
(Hope and faith)
Dear Michael and Mother Spirit, good evening. At least it’s
evening here on earth where we are and, since you’re here with us: good evening. Tonight I have a special request and
that is, it seems lately--the last few months in our Urantia community online and elsewhere--there’s been increased
curiosity about this whole t/r--transmitting/receiving process. Mother Spirit and you have given a few lessons on it before
so I thought maybe tonight I’d ask you to extend those lessons a bit--fill in the blanks that you think we might have.
You and Mother Spirit have also talked about the fact that, with the lifting of the spiritual quarantine on our planet, there’s
been a number of celestial beings flocking here just to be our friends and our compatriots. And so this t/r process is how
we get a hold of them and actually carry on a conversation with them. So, if you would please, tonight maybe elaborate a bit
more on what’s involved. Thank you.
Michael: Good evening, this is Michael. And yes, Mother Spirit and
I are glad to give you any information we can about this process because we do encourage everyone, everyone who’s even
faintly interested in contacting a celestial being, to wade in. The water’s fine.
(Other-spirit contact)
This
contact is a great gift you can give to your celestial friend, so keep that in mind. It’s not just a self-centered thing,
but it’s a wonderful gift because you’re giving your whole life; not only your attention, but your whole soul,
your whole mind. Everything can be open to your celestial friend. Then they too can give you their take on things, their viewpoint
from their particular life. This is doubly rewarding, what we’ve called before “the two-hundred-percent-ness of
life.” Your reality is not only what you are consciously registering moment to moment, but it is also all the symbolic
resonance of meaning resonating all around you as your interpretation of that reality. This is how your own
experience--your knowledge, understanding, and your soul--adds so much to your present moments. What do they mean!
For a brief review, let me remind you that you do have spiritual presences in your mind which are quite
distinct from your own personality and your own creative spirit. You have the presence of God within you, the Thought Adjuster
that is actually part of you, part of your thinking, and part of adjusting your thoughts spirit-wise. Here we mean by spirit
that dimension of reality which is all-inclusive. This presence of God within you is constantly trying to get you to be ever
more open-minded and broad-minded to escape your own, shall we say, unique, particular conditioning.
Then you have both Mother Spirit and myself within you. Mother Spirit augments your basic mental facilities
of intuition, knowledge, understanding, courage, and counsel. Then there are her super-Adjutants of worship and wisdom that
no other animal has. This is what your Urantia book calls the fact that you are “super-minded” in addition to
your physical brain of billions of cells and their living interrelationships. When you open your eyes you can look around
and see you are taking in a billion little points of information, and the fact your mind is capable of storing this experience
of yours as knowledge. As you grew up and you picked up the culture into which you were born--the language and the way things
were there interrelated--all this became part of your understanding. Mother Spirit and I were very much a part of this.
My Spirit of Truth is an orientation. Think of it as a broad curiosity that’s nudging you to be
open to spirit, be open to that dimension of reality that includes everything. Spirit is not only what you’re living
in the middle of, and that you have a capability to experience—a capacity we encourage you to expand; it’s what
you’re headed for--forever. There’s not only an enormous physical universe out there, but think of all the hundreds
of different orders of personal beings that you will encounter some day.
(Super-mindedness)
This
is your mind, and it’s more than just the physical being you have, your brain and nervous system. You have our spiritual
presences within you. Because of this, because you are, shall we say, like a radio which already has our stations as part
of you, your super-mindedness is the fact you can tune into other stations. You have the means of accessing
that which is greater than you. And here I’m referring specifically to other personal celestial beings who are delighted
to make contact with you, and have these living conversations with you.
As Mother Spirit talked about last time, all you have to do is, in you meditations, send out this request,
this hunger, this desire for contact. Just think, “Okay. Here I am. I’m open. I’m open to whomever of whatever
order of personal being that wants to contact me and share their life with mine,” and a name will occur to you. It may
be some very familiar English word, or it may be something rather strange to you; but just think on it for a while. Absorb
this deep within you and then address this other personal being and ask them to start articulating their thoughts right in
your own mind.
This is essentially what this transmitting/receiving process is all
about. It’s a way of highly consciously setting yourself aside and turning over the language part of your mind to another
being. Again: you can do this because you are super-minded. You have a spiritual aspect, a part of you that can be sensitive
to this kind of input. And this is what t/r-ing is all about.
Now
here it’s essential, it’s very essential that you give this contact reality, just as you give Mother Spirit, and
myself, and the presence of God within you, reality, because, of your free will you have the ability to deny us, or ignore
us: or to give us reality. This is your fundamental choice. This is the essence of your free will that no higher spiritual
being will counteract in any way. You literally have to make us feel welcome.
(Make it physical)
One
way you can give us this reality is by making a physical transcript of what is coming through you. Because once you write
something down, its physical reality is now independent of you, something you can re-read again later and reflect upon. You
just sit down and say, “Okay, I’m open, dear friend,” and start writing down what comes into your mind.
Don’t be surprised if it will be coming from another point of view. In other words, they might say—and you would
write: “Hello, this is…(the name you give them)… Let’s step off here. Let me speak through your mind
to you.” And then you just start writing down what comes to you. Like I say, don’t be surprised if it is from
another point of view, because that’s the whole purpose.
They
can start by giving you lessons on how to do this. They can help train you, if you will, to set yourself aside and let their
thoughts come through, because you will be giving up part of your life in the sense of: you could be doing something else.
You could be out running around with other friends, or making your breakfast, or working on your car. So in this one way of
making contact you are definitely committing yourself, committing part of your life, shall we say, twenty minutes or so every
morning to this activity. You are giving yourself over to them and to this friendship between you.
All of sudden, with this physical reality of it--whether you’re writing it down, or you’re
recording it to transcribe it later, or, if you are facile enough with a keyboard, you can be typing it out on your computer--all
of a sudden you’ll find yourself in the reality of another point of view coming through you. This is the essence of
it. This is the glory of it, the wonder of it.
Maybe
I should underline that word “wonder.” Because even after you’ve done this for quite a while, there will
still be some mystery to it all. Because it is something you will be letting happen; it won’t be coming from your personality.
And that’s the whole value of it. It’s not from your own personality and your own creative spirit, but is coming
from the higher part of your mind, your highest part of mind where you are making contact with that spirit reality which is
more than you.
(Increasing universal wonder)
As Mother Spirit and I have said a number of times, this is happening worldwide. Now that the spiritual
quarantine has been lifted on your world, this is what is happening to a lot of people all over the world, whether or not
they are exactly conscious of it in the same kind of Urantia-book-related way, as we are in these concepts I’m using.
It can be happening in every religious context.
And
again, this is nothing exactly new insofar as this has been happening for centuries and centuries in terms of Mother Spirit
and I. Every since Pentecost my Spirit of Truth has been a rather universal presence in people’s minds. And, of course,
Mother Spirit goes back before Andon and Fonta--the first human beings—far before them in her directing the whole course
of life evolution on earth.
And, of course, God himself is not only omniscient and omnipotent,
but also omnipresent in a way that transcends time and space. We all literally live in his being. Yet also: it’s that
particular, individualized aspect of him that he gives of himself to you as a gift: a particularized, personal aspect of him
that literally becomes part of your mind. This isyour Thought Adjuster, adjusting your thoughts ever more spirit-wise,
ever more inclusive of everything because, my dear ones, that’s what you’re headed for. You’re aimed towards
everything. The sooner you embrace this, the sooner you feel the wonder of it all. It’s a very powerful aspect of humility--the
awareness of that which is so much greater than all of us, yet that we have as our birthright--as an eternity to look forward
to of an unending discovery.
So why not start now? Why wait until natural death to contact spiritual
beings? Why not have this as part of your life right now, this inexplicable wonder that is real simply because it’s
happening. That’s the unmistakable quality of it--the self-sufficient quality of it--it’s independence from you.
Spirit reality is part of the essence of this whole universe surrounding you, my children--the fact that you are involved
in an infinity of infinites; and yet: this is your home! This infinity was made as much for you as for every other personal
being. This is God’s nature of sharing this fantastic creativity of his with every single one of you, for you to have
your own creative spirit as part of your personality. It’s what the Eternal Son of pure spirit delights in sharing with
you, just as the Infinite Spirit, working through Mother Spirit, gives you your super-mindedness.
(Come on in—the
water’s fine)
So, as I say: come on in. This living water of spirit is fine; so
fine beyond your wildest imagination. For that’s what God delights in tickling us all with: we are all encompassed by
that which is beyond our own personal creativity. It’s his creativity. And so, my dears, we offer you this living mystery
just because it is so boundless, so endless, so wonderful.
Give
it a try. In your meditations just give up part of your life to another in order to share part of your life, just like these
precious moments. Share yourself with another celestial being, another spiritual being, and know the reality of it then. Have
it be part of your soul.
Well, enough teasing. Let me open the floor now to any questions or
comments you might want to share with me.
Student:
Yes, I have a comment/question. I know that the tone for this universe is mercy and forgiveness and, in the light of that,
I’m wondering what your thoughts are about returning here. In terms of the human race, I think we’re going to
probably destroy the planet before we evolve to some spiritual consensus on the planet. I don’t think you necessarily
want to see your bestowal sphere in that condition, yet I don’t think that we’re going to be taken off the planet
and brought somewhere else. That only leaves intervention. So I’m just wondering what your thoughts are about this notion
of returning. Thank you.
Michael: Yes, my son. Let me clarify what you intend me to speak on.
Do you mean returning after your natural death, meaning retuning as…
Student: No, your returning--Michael’s returning to the planet.
Michael: Okay.
Student:
Thank you.
(What emerges in crises)
Michael: Yes, my son, I know what you mean, and I must not disagree so much; but some of your assumptions--Mother
Spirit and I cannot go along with because there are certain aspects of human life--human abilities and possibilities--that
do come out in crises. Strangely enough, these are not augmentations of selfishness and self-centeredness, but the exact opposite,
of love and a sharing of hardships that perhaps are not in your general culture; they’re not stressed so much. Yet people
who have been in hard situations do realize this. That’s why we’re saying “when push comes to shove”--one
of your expressions of this—people can then let go an enormous amount of ego activity, shall we say of status, possessions
and so forth, and really start to help each other.
This
is the world situation as it stands right now. People are so wealthy in so many ways, so far, far above mere subsistence in
all the more developed countries that are using up such enormous amounts of energy and material goods, while, as we’ve
taught so often, there are other folks who have only a little piece of bare ground under them, as they’re squatting
there naked and starving to death.
This
is the situation. What these more developed cultures and countries have to discover is the amount of love and sharing they’re
capable of when, as you say, push comes to shove, and a lot of this extraneous, unnecessary materialism falls away under the
hard, hard knife of necessity.
But, my son, never lose sight of the fact of what people can do in
a loving, giving way for each other under these kinds of crisis times. Even in warfare, where people are involved in not only
surviving but actually in killing each--the situation now in various countries throughout the world--don’t lose sight
of the amount of love that is between the combatants, the amount of sacrifice that’s constantly going on as people try
to, not only carry out their mission, but save each other and take care of each other. It’s just that they are still,
shall we say, split into two separate warring camps.
(Sharing and taking care)
Mother Spirit and I can see this amount of sharing and taking care of each other that, from our point
of view looking at the whole world and all the aspects of humanity, so totally outweighs and overwhelms the amount of self-centeredness
and selfishness. We see it more as a process of maturation because so many folks are still in such a kind of sloppy overproduction
and consumption of material goods, they have not yet personally come to the crisis point of realizing the emptiness of all
this material goods without somebody to share their more deeper spiritual life with.
Yet it’s that sharing that’s actually holding everything together. You can go into your supermarkets
and pick up things from all around the world. So don’t lose sight of the fact of the way things are all tied together.
It’s just a process of maturation. There’s still an awful lot of immature behavior and unspiritual materialism
separating people right within themselves as to what is important. And it’s only when push comes to shove, when you
have certain crises, that people can realize they are capable of giving up all this stuff for something called friendship,
and or something called sharing.
We
do not see any kind of necessary worldwide crisis. From our point of view, there is an inexorable evolution taking place within
each individual as they slowly learn what means what, what is really important in life. And when you have whole cultures still
involved in a kind of immaturity as in the case of, shall we say, drug addiction, sometimes this personal crisis is a necessary
thing for people to undergo in order to lose all their material concerns and find out what true friendship is all about.
(A sense of proportion)
So,
my son, keep this in mind. It’s all in a sense of proportion, that even in the midst of this warfare and crime that
is going on, it is so totally, totally overwhelmed by the amount of love and peaceful interaction between people. You have
to look beneath the surface of the wealth, and the politics, and all that going on, to see how each individual needs to learn
these spiritual lessons. Then it’s how whole cultures have to slowly mature by realizing, sometimes through the terrible
cost of warfare, how ages-ages long conflicts are just not worth the cost. I hope this gives you some hope and some faith
in everybody’s ability to adapt to circumstances.
Student:
May I ask a question?
Michael: Certainly.
Student: I hesitate to interject my opinion here. May I ask you, Michael, to direct your comments to
not only that which you just have—the cost of war in an immature economic way, and an immature society and an immature
world. I would like you to address the aggregate decisions, the corporate decisions that are being made that affect the quality
of life and the quality of the ecosphere on the planet. I think many people of good will, people who have reduced their consumption,
have realized the economic dependence and materialism of this planet right now, are more concerned with, not only their own
energy footprint, but the aggregate choices of people and corporations who are inflicting or causing degradation to different
ecosystems--the Alaska area, the Antarctic area, the oceans. These are corporate economic directions—tangents--that
I can understand you saying that: this probably also falls into the category of corporate immaturity. But often we, as individuals,
by making our own individual decisions, we’re still not effecting change because of corporate interests on the planet
that degrade the planet. Could you address that also?
(Super-dynamic
economics)
Michael: Yes, my dear. From our point of view, you have to keep in
mind that corporations are, again, just collections of people with all their different motivations. In other words, as you
look at the situation, there’s nothing frozen. Everything is in a living, constantly changing balance both within and
between corporations--the boards of directions, the CEO’s, the stockholders; in other words, everything that makes up
the formal structure of corporations. They’re still pretty much aimed at producing something; there is some product
involved, whether it’s financial advice, or whether it’s material like cars, or whatever.
These then depend upon someone else buying that product with their labor, or with their own capital;
whatever it is. From our point of view, there’s no sharp demarcation between a corporation and the products they put
out, and the desire of all the other individuals who buy these products by giving up a part of their lives, either in wages
or however they’re earning their money. This is all a totally living/interconnected type of thing moment to moment,
day to day, week to week.
As you know, some corporations have a monopoly on their particular
market. Other ones are in fierce competition with each other, and rise and fall. But it all comes back down to the mass of
individuals, the far greater number of individuals who are involved in buying, giving a part of their life to obtain whatever
these corporations are putting out. Again, it is a complex situation. We’re aware there’s a complex feedback here
insofar as the corporations, through their advertising and through people getting caught up in their television, there’s
definitely a feedback process where people are induced to buy whatever that product is.
(See the entire culture)
But
here, my dear, I want you to look at your entire culture and where it is at this particular moment. You can say no one needs
a three-hundred-horsepower car and the energy it requires to build that, and the amount of imagination and all that goes into
the production—then the advertising, all that’s designed into that car to appeal to someone else--all the sex
appeal of all these products and things. Yet this is part of your culture and this is what has to change.
This is what is changing enormously because, through communication, the developed cultures are learning
and accepting that someone, somewhere, is starving to death for the lack of energy. I mean, apart from all your developed
countries, there are huge areas of the earth where people are literally dying for lack of energy, while somewhere else, someone
is cruising around in their two-or-three-or-four-hundred-horsepower fantastic vehicle, or their hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars
power-yacht: or whatever! All change has to start back down on the fact that people are buying this. This is part of the culture.
This is what people are willing to give up a part of their lives for, in order to get these things. This is where . . .
Student: I hear you. It’s not often I can say, “I hear what you’re saying,” to
the Creator of the universe. So: I hear what you’re saying, Michael.
May I reverse my tone of voice, my point of view, and ask you something different then? Where are we
as a planet? I’m talking about the entire population of the planet Urantia at this time. Where along the growth curve,
the evolutionary growth curve, are we as a planetary population--in yours and Mother’s eyes--in terms of learning to
cooperate on a worldwide basis to contribute to the emerging personality, the emerging cohesion of Urantia Planetary Supreme?
Are we making progress which you and Mother, as our parents, can be proud of?
(World cultures)
Michael:
Oh yes, very much so; and mainly along the lines of communication. As we’ve taught, there’s always been a World
Soul, but profoundly different because of the unique history of Urantia--even unique among all the planets that went into
default. On a so-called normal planet which, as we say, makes up 99.9999% of all the planets in our Local Universe here, you
have a loyal Planetary Prince and the whole world’s cultures are brought along pretty much together within, I would
say, a few hundred thousand years. And as you know, here on Urantia you went almost three hundred thousand years where things
were developing along normal lines. Then, with the Planetary Prince’s default over two hundred thousands years ago,
everything fell apart. That is what has led to this world situation where you do not have a single, worldwide culture being
fostered and brought along with everyone together. So while on the one hand you have the private ownership of a three hundred
million dollar yacht belonging to a single individual, at the same time you still have whole societies which are barely above
the Stone Age--existing at the same time on the same planet.
What
actually brings everything along, and is accelerating at an enormous rate right now, tying all of these peoples together,
is where you have instantaneous worldwide wireless telecommunications. Someone can be off in the woods with their iPad, or
whatever, communicating almost anywhere in the world with someone else who has a similar device. This is what you see right
now, happening all over the world. Ironically, it’s why some of the old folks are talking about, or they’re screaming,
“Everything’s going too fast! We’re moving too fast! All of our old traditions and things are being overthrown
too quickly.” For things are changing enormously fast.
(Economics
and ecstasy; needs and wants)
From our standpoint, planetary evolution--which is inexorable, even
in the case of Urantia--is accelerating because the world is--in one sense you talk about--becoming smaller because you’re
becoming more and more interconnected. All of these things we’ve talked about are being put more and more into people’s
minds, and this is what is really transforming things so quickly. My whole message tonight is: when push comes to shove, when
things are brought undeniably into people’s consciousness, people have an enormous ability to adapt. When push comes
to shove, just because everyone is in economic reality, this is where economics triumphs over the ecstasy of what people merely
want. You are essentially economic beings and everybody is doing their best to get as much as they can from what they have.
It’s that very adaptability, along with what communications are bringing into consciousness, that are the saving graces.
Student: I would like to rededicate myself right now to meeting you in this spiritual sphere surrounding
our planet, this advancing sphere and the desire to participate in this forward development and cohesion. I believe in this
wholeheartedly.
Michael: Well, my dear, I welcome your commitment. This is where it is: in every single human being.
And it hasn’t been that long. It’s only been a few decades since the spiritual quarantine of this planet was lifted,
and things have begun to change so rapidly—spirit-wise.
(Exclusionary
folks: my way or nothing)
You have to actually have some sympathy for those folks who see their
whole way of life--based on exclusion and dictatorial aspects of politics, and society, and religion that have existed--the
power they get out of being able to exclude other points of view; you have to have sympathy even for them because their world
is crumbling. In a world of instantaneous communications, anything that depends on this kind of exclusiveness is doomed to
fail. So you have to have some sympathy even for them.
At
the same time, they’re extremely deadly. I mean, there’s a kind of suicidal folks who would take you down with
them as they see their world crumbling all around them. And so you’re in this position of sending them all your love
and reaching out to them as much as you can, while at the same time you have to protect yourself from them. This is a strange
position for you to be in, but this is how we recommend you orient yourself to these very dictatorial and deadly forces still
on the planet. You send them all your love but also, as I cautioned one time, you be as wise as serpents.
Student: Indeed. And harmless as doves.
Michael:
Right: be in my love.
Student: Thank you.
(Hope and faith)
Michael:
Well, my dears, I hope I’ve given you some hope and some faith in just basic humanity. As you come to know yourself
more and more; as you come into maturity; as you yourself give up those things of childhood and begin to treasure more than
anything else these others in your life--these dear friends and what you’re able to share with them: so you can realize
this is really the glue that’s holding everything together. You can have some genuine sympathy for those poor souls
who are caught up--not only in warfare with all of its terrible, terrible randomness of whoever is under an artillery shell
or a bomb, released from miles away or thousands of feet in the air--that kind of randomness—but also with just the
amount of crime, of people raised in neighborhoods where it’s not even safe to go out and get some groceries.
Really open your hearts to those souls who, through no fault of their own, and beyond their power, are
caught up in these things. Then look around you and ask of yourselves: what can I do? What can I do in my own life, with my
own day-to-day things--my treasure and my friends? There are so many hundreds of good organizations that help tie things together.
What can you give to them? What support can you have?
Maybe
it could come back to what I recommended right to begin with this evening--sitting down in your meditations and opening yourself
to another spiritual personality. See what that is all about. See what that requires of you, and then too, what that contact
gives to you, and how this can change your life. Then you can have the vision, the insight into what is really tying everything
all together.
From our standpoint the love so totally, totally outweighs the fear
and the anxiety. Souls are being co-created by a presence of God, and every soul will be carried on into eternity. Keep your
eyes and your hearts open to this reality because it’s all up to you, all of you. This is the reality of it. This world
we’re talking about is only the individual people in it, yet with all their fantastic variety that not one of you can
even begin to grasp even one hundred billionth of it. But your desire to is the way to my peace. This is the way to doing
all you can and then knowing that peace--knowing that connection--feeling that hug from your friend as you hug them back.
And know too the joy and the laughter.
Student:
Thank you.
Michael: Above all, Mother Spirit and I ask you to think of
us--as we hope you can also think of your dear human parents--as your closest friends. And so: Good Evening. Be in my peace.
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