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(SUPERHUMAN MINISTRY Service Sector)
Michael Lightline -- September 20, 2012.
T/R—JL
(God’s relationship to
us)
(Spiritual generosity)
(The real gift of tongues)
(The new children)
(Humans on other worlds)
(Thought Adjuster control)
(Being still, highly consciously,
and still thinking)
(Dreams—asleep and awake)
(Michael: thank you for attending,
and giving us your attention)
Dear Michael and Mother Spirit,
we gather together once again to receive your messages, whatever they may be. This is fun, just opening ourselves--opening
our minds, opening our hearts--to, almost by definition, what we can’t anticipate. For how can we anticipate what illuminable
spirit beings have for us? That’s precisely why we get together and enjoy so much this gift of yours to us. We delight
in the notion that you are part of us. Along with the complex being that we are, we have three great spiritual presences right
within us: you, and Mother Spirit, and our Father. We further appreciate the fact that you do not impose yourselves upon us,
but in all humility of incomprehensibly powerful beings, in all humility you wait upon our free will. You do not demand, you
offer, and leave it up to us to make the final decision, even whether or not to listen to you. And so for this absolute confidence
in us, we do humbly thank you in return. Amen.
Michael: Good evening, this
is Michael, and Mother Spirit and I do welcome and enjoy your invitation. You are very correct, and our Father leads the way
in this, the idea of loving someone so much that you’re willing to set them free. On a positive note, not a selfish
kind of feedback thing, it’s being wise enough to realize that what you desire most and enjoy most, really at your core,
is their genuine personality. This they can only express to you if you very overtly signal to them that this is what you want.
You want them to be free to explore and express themselves.
(God’s relationship to
us)
This is God’s relationship
to his whole creation and all the hundreds and hundreds of orders of beings, personal beings, that he either directly creates,
or endows his Creator Sons and Daughters with the ability to create, themselves.
This is like a final test of
love for a human being because it doesn’t always come naturally. Some folks are raised with parents who have only a
possessive kind of love, so that is their pattern. That is their example to follow as they go out into life themselves. But
even they have creative spirit. Even they, like everyone, are endowed with the ability to learn, to try things and see whether
they work or not. Everyone has this intrinsic ability to grow by their experience and escape, you might say, the more rigorous
strictures and limitations of their upbringing, even to the point where they can turn around within themselves and show to
their, perhaps, unloving parents just what genuine love is.
In this way of looking at things,
no one is ever written off. No one is put beyond the pale of redemption. Again, this is what our Father does. He is always
here, immediately present every moment of your life, to share as much of your own life with him as you care to. The choice
is yours.
(Spiritual generosity)
It’s from this essential
reality of being a personal being you’re endowed with creative spirit so you can have some choice in things. You yourself
can originate, right out of your own being, a genuine choice. This is what gives you your life. This is why your life is yours.
And this gift is something you can give to others. We’ve called it something that comes out of spiritual
generosity, something that comes out of your own creative spirit just for the joy of it. It’s knowing for certain
that you are giving of yourself, you’re putting yourself out there, naked as it were, to take in this other person,
this other unique being. And so your openness, your desire and your welcoming someone else to share your life with you, is
the greatest gift; and it’s what feeds your soul.
The intention has to be pure.
This is not some game you’re playing. This is not some kind of manipulation to get something from someone more than
what you are giving out. This is in the spiritual realm where one and one makes three, where what you can share with another
person, genuinely share, becomes a gift for both of you. It fills both of your souls.
This is something that we tease
you with; we kind-of dangle it out in front of you. If you don’t know it yet, we say, “Reach for it. Give your
heart to it. Try with all your heart and all your soul to be spiritually generous.” And then, ironically, not because
this is your intention, but just because it is God’s way of setting things up--this whole human situation; this is what
gives you strength, this giving of yourself, this tapping into your own bottomless, infinite potential. You’re finding
just a little bit in there of all that’s going to lead you into eternity. You have this dimension of potential in you.
But just for here and now, this moment, you’re coming up with something that you can share with someone else. Then the
two of you have this third thing now in your souls, tying you together.
This is the fun of it all. This
is the joy of life. This is what truly fills your soul for all eternity--these other unique beings of God’s that you
can relate to and enjoy.
Tonight this is only an introduction
because I wanted to keep my lesson kind-of short to get into more exchanges, more conversation with all of you. So at this
moment, if you wish to unmute yourself, you can go ahead and come forth with a question or comment for me.
Student: Michael, this is C.
from California. I just want to thank you so much for this privilege and this honor. I have a question that’s very dear
to my heart. I have a very dear experience spiritually from my Christian--predominantly Christian--upbringing, and it is the
baptism of the Holy Spirit. Now in the Urantia Book there isn’t much mentioned of the gifts that were given at the outpouring
of the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost. One of those was the gift of tongues, and I wasn’t able really to reconcile
the purpose or the necessity of that gift within my own life because I wasn’t able to find an answer in the Urantia
Book for that.
Because I do operate in that
gift. I feel led to pray in tongues during my meditation at times. And I can feel, like, power coming into me to emanate.
I don’t know; I just feel electrified when I do pray in tongues as if there is some kind of spiritual charging taking
place. And so my question is: you know?--is the gift of tongues something necessary for where we’re going, and is it
something I should I be teaching people that I will be disciplining? In truth--because for me it changed my whole life--it
helped me to tap into the supernatural realm at that point. Other than that I had no real gifting abilities until that point
of being led by the spirit, in the traditional concept of the Christian church, though. Can you help me understand if this
is a necessary thing and what exactly the purpose of that is?
(The real gift of tongues)
Michael: Well, yes, my daughter.
To answer your basic question first: this is not necessary, but it ties in with what I said about spiritual generosity. It
comes from an overabundance of good feeling about life, and this is something that you wish to share with others. It’s
also a challenge to you, to be open to whatever comes through you. It’s a little bit like this T/Ring that is going
on right now. You have your own personality, which is creative, which can express itself. At the same time you have Mother
Spirit’s presence within you—like--if you would think about it--funneling the Cosmic Mind of the Infinite Spirit
down into you; and I want to remind you that this too is a kind of inner infinity you have, of expression. Part of it is coming
from your own personality but also, since you literally have the Thought Adjuster, the presence of God within you, and you
have my Spirit of Truth as an orientation towards an endless discovery of what is true: believe me, these necessitate you
keep growing because you’re just starting out on an unfathomable journey in which you will have to be constantly open
to, let’s just say, to all ways and means of expression.
This is where this gift comes
in of being able to converse with people, because in a sense this points out everybody. Everybody you meet has somewhat their
own language, somewhat their own way of relating to things. This is coming from their background, coming from their general
experience. Just being open to this, you can be surprised with yourself. You can put yourself in a very trying situation and
you yourself can be surprised with what you can come up with to meet that look in their eyes, that needy hunger for some contact
with another person. You can be that person. You can answer them if you are open to their language and how they express things,
because this is part of their personality.
So while it’s not absolutely
necessary that you get this ability of, as you say, speaking in tongues, by allowing yourself to express yourself in answer
to their unique being: while this is not absolutely necessary, it is a great joy. It’s a great gift you have for them--to
be this flexible and open within yourself. This is definitely in the realm of creative spirit that Mother Spirit augments
within you. Now does this answer what you mean--because it’s both a challenge, and yet it can point a way to an enormous
reward, as you’ve already found out within yourself?
Student: Yes. I’m probably
going to have to read over it and meditate on everything that you’ve said because I just wanted to really see--yeah.
I do understand for the most part what you are saying. So it’s really not a necessity; but yeah, I will enjoy the freedom
of that particular expression, you know--that I’m overflowing with, being infused with, you know, with Mother Spirit.
Michael: Well, believe me, it’s
not just a play on words to say that a sense of freedom is almost going-beyond-necessity. There are those necessary aspects
of God’s law--mostly what you call Natural Law, that you find absolute--the physical laws of the world. But when you
get into a realm of spirit, you’re into this realm of generosity, of getting beyond just tit for tat and trading this
for that. It’s this very outpouring of your openness to another person and how they express things, and taking that
in and growing because of it: this is the basis of strength, spiritual strength.
Student: Okay.
Michael: And it should help
you actually connect. This is the reward then of having this genuine real contact with other people. You’re getting
beyond your own projections of what you think you need, and really answering them where they are.
Student: Got it. Thank you.
Michael: Okay. Be in my peace.
Student: Hello Michael.
Michael: Hello.
Student: This is George. How
are you?
Michael: I’m actually
very good. I wish I had more ways of expressing just how wonderful it is being me--having a companion like Mother Spirit,
and having, you know, so many children on so many worlds. It’s wonderful. And I thank my Father for this opportunity,
just this moment, to talk to all of you.
Student: Fantastic. My interest
today is about the indigo children that are being, shall I say, born on our planet. I have a four-and-a-half year old son
who is just miles beyond where I was when I was ten years old. I imagine they are being prepared for something special because
of the way he behaves and the way he is interested in things that we didn’t have access to. So, if you want to help
me understand better, you could speak a little bit about the indigo children that are coming into being on this planet.
(The new children)
Michael: Yes, my son. Not to,
shall we say, pat you on the back or give you a swelled head about what’s happening, but I’m sure an enormous
amount of your son’s abilities do relate to the way you are raising him with the kind of respect, and love, and space
to evolve. And teasing him into doing this or that. This joy you find in his abilities? This I must congratulate you on, for
this could be the larger part of what you’re experiencing.
It isn’t necessary to
categorize the children coming into the world now as being either of this type or of that. It’s more a question of finding
ways of parenting, and this involves your whole society, your whole culture. It’s evolving ways of parenting in which
the intrinsic abilities of each child are more fully developed. Again, that’s part of the delicate balance between controlling
them enough simply so they don’t hurt themselves--being that kind of an over-control that realizes when they are headed
towards something actually dangerous. But then shy of that, having enough wisdom to contain yourself as a parent and not,
as you say, lay yourself and your own trips and your own desires and your own ambitions and all of that on them. Instead of
putting that on your child, you’re actually seeing what’s in your child. This is how you want them to develop.
But stay in what I sense in
you, my son, is a genuine experience of wonder at this young being--his being like a sponge and taking everything in so much:
and allowing him to express himself. This is so critical for every child being born on this world. So much of what is the
credit now being given to the advancement of what you might say is the biologic basis of human evolution--which you point
out, you call it the indigo children coming into existence--so much of this all over the world: though it’s more important
how every little child born into this world is given the same opportunity to express themselves within the bounds of their
parents’ love and concern for their safety. This alone is what would help turn the world around--help it continue to
develop, more than anything else. So again, not to give you a swelled head, but I congratulate you on your sense of wonder
of what this little creature is capable of.
Student: Thank you.
Michael: Right. Carry on. Carry
on in this marvel of wonder. It is wondrous, is it not, these beings that come right out of your own self? It’s the
way you and their mother are actually--not originating life--but passing it along and helping it really, genuinely flower.
So carry on, and be in my peace.
Student: Thank you.
Student: Michael. This is Coco.
I have another question.
Michael: Go ahead.
Student: I just was curious
to know if there are, you know; we have a lot of planets with life on them. Do we, are we different-looking than the other
children that you have on other planets? Do they look anything at all like us?
(Humans on other worlds)
Michael: Well, yes, my daughter:
some do and some don’t. If you want to study this question, the most comprehensive dealing with this subject in all
your world literature is in the Urantia Book where it talks about all the different kinds of what are essentially human beings
like yourself, but come in many, many varieties, physically. That is the most comprehensive way to look at this. The book
does make a general statement that they are for the most part erect bipeds. But then that can lead you into all kind of Star
Trek types of beings. Yet even that science fiction series does capture a kind of essence-of-humanity that does exist whether
you’re human or Klingon, or all those other varieties.
That chapter in the Urantia
Book gives you a good sense of the one, the two, and the three-brained types, even the most radical variety of human beings
developed to live on planets with no atmosphere--if you can imagine that--the non-breathers: on and on. On a question like
this I hardly know where to begin or stop. Yes, there are so many, many planets on which your essential type of human being
is quite common. It’s a pattern that even Mother Spirit and I derived from the inner universe of Havona. As it states
in the Urantia Book, all the various types of human beings out here in time and space have their antecedents. And, as you
know, Mother Spirit and I decide on the plans that our Life Carriers come up with in their laboratories, and we are in very
close contact with the Trinity for those beings we promote. So, yes, you have a lot of cousins out there, and you will be
rubbing elbows with most of them in your Local System when you reawaken on the mansion worlds. They will be your immediate
compatriots--another big surprise, believe me.
Student: Will we ever get to
a place in technology where we can actually go and visit other planets that are able to sustain life on them, or is that something
that is not allowed right now?
Michael: Yes, the last is correct
here. There is no technology in existence that allows living physical beings to use what I guess you’d call a kind of
transport machine, one that allows a physical being to be disassembled right down to the molecular level, and then reassembled
somewhere else.
First of all, my daughter, it’s
not necessary. Keep in mind that, except for a very, very few planets, of which, unfortunately, yours is one, they have something
called Universal Reflectivity where there’s an enormous amount of information sent and received. You can think of it
somewhat like your television, but even more where now, with your computers, you can actually see and talk with each other.
There are mechanisms like this where peoples are so attuned to the spiritual realm that Universal Reflectivity is just part
of the ordinary life on their planets. And so in one way it doesn’t occur to them that they actually need to be physically
disassembled and sent through time and space to be reassembled somewhere else. In one way it doesn’t happen because
it’s not necessary.
Student: Okay. Thank you.
Michael: And again, my daughter,
keep in mind that right within you spirit communicates with spirit. You have three great spiritual presences right within
you that, if you are open to them, can actually--your Father fragment can give you actual thoughts with which to deal with
and enjoy your present situation. You yourself are a spiritual being, and you do have this possibility of spiritual contact.
Student: Okay. Thank you.
Michael: And be in my peace.
Hopefully, you can actually feel this.
Student: I do.
Student: Yes--Michael?
Michael: Yes.
Student: Yes. I had a question
in that, in order to communicate with other spirits--or spirits that are supposedly assigned to us or near us--does the Thought
Adjuster have to okay that in order for any contact to be established?
(Thought Adjuster control)
Michael: Yes, my son, let me
say: yes and no. (laughter) Yes in so far as there is agreement. In other words, there’s no conflict between your Thought
Adjuster and my presence within you, and Mother Spirit’s presence within you. The only way you can conceive of this
is as a kind of absolute unity, and yet this unity is a natural intrinsic quality that is not enforced in any way. Think of
all we’ve talked about God actually giving you freedom to be yourselves, even to disregard his presence as much as you
want. Spirits don’t need his permission, in a sense; it’s that all spirits are in accord with his fundamental
nature in order to be effective this way.
As you know there have been
rebel spirits on your world, and even these were subservient to a person’s own will. Their being bereft not of his permission but of hisnature,
people still had control over them. So in this sense spiritual beings do not need his permission. They are already enough
of his nature that the question doesn’t arise. Does that make sense to you?
Student: Yes, it does in a way.
So it’s ourselves that actually have more . . . What else do we have to do, so to speak, to make contact, or is it that
we’re not that far advanced yet, or, you know, spiritually attuned? I still have trouble grasping that concept.
Michael: Yes. It’s a little
bit of that--a question of maturity, which sometimes means running around and trying everything else until you finally find
the thing that works. The most common way, the most universal way among people is prayer, where you are actually asking--you’re
very self-consciously right within yourself, opening yourself and asking--what you really don’t know, what you really
need help on.
As I’ve taught on so many
times, part of the difficulty can be that when you ask a question of God within you, your very next thought can be the answer.
Because it’s so instantaneous, and perhaps out of your normal realm of what we call a “bubble of familiarity,”
it’s just as instantly disregarded.
So on this, my son, you have
to bring yourself to the point of almost knowing what you don’t know. In other words, when you’re in a genuine
quandary, we say one of the most sincere prayers is, “Dear God, what do I do next? I mean: I’m going to sit down;
I’m going to sit here in stillness until I get a really firm sense, a real firm feeling of what your answer is, and
the best thing to do next.” So that’s one way.
Student: Right. And a stillness
problem is that, like they say, to quiet your mind and, you know, be totally relaxed and put your mind into a state of total
clarity, or concentrate on one thing; that it stills your mind. But the hardest thing is, that’s the trouble I have.
No matter how hard I try to concentrate on quieting my mind, it still randomly fires off on so many different things at a
time. I guess I just need more practice then.
(Being still, highly consciously,
and still thinking))
Michael: Yes, and also, my son,
why do you immediately assume that what you are experiencing is in some way doing it wrong? In attempting to be still you
do run into a paradox that meditators from the very beginning--in all religions and philosophies of the world--have run into:
there’s no way you can make yourself
be still.
I would offer the technique,
if you will: first of all set aside so much time. It might seem the thing’s arbitrary--maybe ten minutes to begin with,
and then maybe twenty minutes. But what you’re doing is disconnecting yourself from a certain response--“I’m
going to sit in this chair and be still until I get a certain thing happening, until I feel peaceful, or until my mind is
a blank”--whatever, however you conceive of stillness. This can lead again to this paradox: you get super busy trying
to be not-busy, trying to be still.
Student: Right.
Michael: It’s better just
to have the courage and determination that you’re going to sit there for twenty minutes, right?--and simply observe
what’s happening. This is genuine stillness. You are just observing whatever. You are allowing to come into your mind
whatever wants to.
Now something that I often recommend,
especially when you begin, is taking notes. Always have a notepad and a pencil standing by because you can have wonderful
things come into your mind--solutions, ways of looking at things--and you can be so anxious about losing that insight that
it will disturb you for the next five minutes. You’ll be trying to hang on to that and stop the flow of all the other
things coming in. So keep a little note pad there, and when these marvelous things occur to you, jot them down. And then let
them go. You can look at them later. Reopen your mind to whatever wants to suggest itself. For some folks that’s even
a little bit scary.
Student: Okay. Thank you. I’m
going to try that as a constant routine. I seem to do certain things for so long and then I feel like nothing’s happening.
I’ll change to a different routine and try something different.
Michael: Well, you could even
wonder: what is the origin then? Is it coming from you, or is it coming from some spiritual presence within you that wants
to suggest this? In other words, what I’m saying is, it’s not something you have to come up with. Your whole focus can be just experiencing what comes next and
getting beyond any kind of previous notions. Now this takes a while, but getting beyond your own notions coming out of your
past as to what’s valuable or not, what’s good or not, what’s useful or not; that’s still the past,
right, this judgment?
So in one way, my son, in stillness
you’re practicing being open to whatever happens. Yet that is an ability, though. This is an ability you have to cultivate
and grow, of being open to what’s happening--whatever it is. What could be more valuable to get through life, right?
Student: I’m getting it.
(laughter)
Michael: Well, this is how you
get beyond yourself by just being yourself and opening up to something new that, who knows—right?--it could be coming
from your Father presence. It could be Mother Spirit augmenting part of your understanding. Or all of the above.
Student: I think Monjoronson
has said that the most problems we’re going to have is with our own selves.
Michael: Right. This is where
it helps to have a specific amount of time. Also we usually recommend the morning, as one of the first things you do when
you get up. Just be still for a while and see where you are, not yesterday, not last night: where are you now, today? Allow
whatever wants to, to come up that you might be repressing. You might have a whole backlog. You might be at a point in your
life where you have a whole backlog of things to reflect on. So you’re behind in your reflection. But as one of your
philosophers said, “A life without reflection is not worth living.” So allow that to happen.
Student: Okay. Thank you very
much, Michael.
Michael: And enjoy.
Student: I’ll definitely
try it.
Michael: There’s that
wonderful poet’s line: “Therein you find yourself more truly, and more strange.” It takes a nerve to open
up to yourself; and be in my peace.
Student: Thank you.
Student: That was fantastic.
I have to jump in here because I’ve always had the problem of being still, or meditating, or stopping thoughts from
coming. I’m resigned to the fact that with me, it’s impossible. So that approach that you explained, I’ve
been practicing for some time to the extent that my dreams are now so dynamic it’s as if I’m having another existence
when I’m asleep. It has now flowed over to my times of being awake. Once I’m quiet I start to go into a dream
state of experiencing things that are beyond the realm of the dreaming. It is so dynamic, sometimes I wonder who controls
the will of the people or personalities in my dreams. That is the question I would have answered, if you could.
(Dreams—asleep and awake)
Michael: Keep in mind, my son,
that as the Urantia Book states, dreams can have such a wide range of expression. Your dreams can actually have, sometimes,
practical purpose. Your dreams can be working out problems in your waking life. At the same time they can be filled with the
most fantastic type of images and meanings and things. This is something you have to; shall we say you don’t have to,
but it’s very good: during your waking hours reflect on them and decide. This calls for you to decide, in your waking
hours. You yourself have to decide what they mean. I don’t think it helps much as when, during Freudian times and Freudian
analysis, there was such a concentration on dream interpretation and analysis that, I think, did more harm than good because
it was just promulgating a lot of generalities.
When you wake up, and in your
meditation--in your stillness, you may find it’s intrinsically valuable for you to reflect on your dreams. Because you
yourself have to answer these questions. This is within the realm of your freedom. This is within the realm of you deciding
what is the meaning and the value of things. Because, like I say, dreams run the whole gambit of being good critical information
for you, to just phantasmagoria, just the most fantastic stream of images and things like that. So it’s up to you. You
yourself have to decide what things mean. I’m sorry if this dumps it right back in your lap, but that is where it is.
Student: Well, it is certainly
a fascinating exchange to feel the imagery, and sometimes I wonder if my Adjuster is trying to bring something into my consciousness
by the use of this technique. So I do pay a lot of attention to it, and I do hope it continues.
Michael: Well, first, yes--in
terms of your Thought Adjuster, especially in terms of the symbolism in your dreams. In other words, it’s when you realize
that this dream you’re reflecting on has a certain feeling to it that seems to be so much greater than simply what the
action itself is. This is your internal sense of symbolism, of what this means. Often this is the case by which your Thought
Adjuster does convey meanings to you which are beyond the surface.
You get this by feeling. As
you know, in a dream you can be terribly filled with fear with no apparent reason for it. You can be filled with joy and delight
with no apparent reason for it. It’s like they’re independent of what’s happening. But this is the way the
symbolism is conveying value to you.
So yes, by all means reflect
on this. Keep in mind, my son, that it’s for your waking life and for your ability and your need to decide these things.
This is what interprets value for you. What are your values today? Do you see how this is applicable?
Student: Yes. The experiences
are great.
Michael: Well, good! (laughter)
That right there is your own evaluation of value. You know what these mean to you. And so long as your dreams don’t
interfere with or become a substitute for your waking moments, they’re wonderful to explore and enjoy.
Student: Amen.
(Michael: thank you for attending,
and giving us your attention)
Michael: My children, it’s
getting kind-of late now in this session, so if there are no further questions or comments, let me wrap up by thanking you
all. It does my heart good to feel your affection--the love and the respect you give Mother Spirit and me. It is our most
sincere desire to reflect it right back to you. It’s by way of us, by way of our reflection, if you will--our valuing
you, you are able to feel this value, this joy, this appreciation of your own life, which is essentially and fundamentally
God’s gift.
It is he who created your very
essence, a unique essence that will be yours--you will be yours--to the very degree that you can raise your consciousness
to this level. And then beyond that, to be not only self-aware, to be not only consciously seeking to feed your soul with
what is really fun and joyous and of meaning; but then, once you feel this in yourself and experience this in yourself, go
that next step and be able to see it in all those around you. It’s to realize that yes!--every single one of them is
the same kind of being, whether they are conscious of it or not. They are there in their completeness. Again, whether they,
or whether you realize yourself to be complete, to have the faith that in our sight, and in God’s sight, you are! Moment
by moment you totally are complete, even though it might take a lot of stillness to slowly catch up with yourself and be totally
complete for yourself.
That’s an ability you
have to slowly earn. But the delight is, then, you can see it in everyone else. One of your great philosophers said, “To
the enlightened man all others are enlightened.” And this is the greatest reward of all, is it not, all these others
around you?
So we thank our Father. We thank
our Father for having such an infinity of being that he can create an infinity of personal beings that we will spend an eternity
getting to know, getting to share our lives with. So we thank you, Father. And Mother Spirit and I thank you here tonight
for coming to us and opening yourselves so wonderfully to us. We bid you good evening. Mother Spirit sends her love and I
bid you, be in my peace.
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