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Marin TM Group
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Michael
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Spiritual Challenges Bring Change Into Sharper Focus
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February 21, 2005
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===Topic: ''Spiritual Challenges Bring Change Into Sharper Focus''===
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===Group: [[Marin TeaM]]===
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==Facilitators==
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===Teacher: [[Michael]]===
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===TR: [[JL]]===
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==Session==
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===Opening===
 
Dear Michael and Mother Spirit, We thank You for the insights You have been giving us, primarily because they are a gateway on how to contact You and to feel Your presence. Then also, because You know our hearts better than we ourselves, and You know how we want to love and help and share our lives with our fellows, we thank You for showing us how. Amen.
 
Dear Michael and Mother Spirit, We thank You for the insights You have been giving us, primarily because they are a gateway on how to contact You and to feel Your presence. Then also, because You know our hearts better than we ourselves, and You know how we want to love and help and share our lives with our fellows, we thank You for showing us how. Amen.
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Good evening, My children. This is Michael. Things are moving along well on the planet. This may be difficult for many people to credit because the first stages of spiritual contact and growth and expansion result in a polarizing of various aspects in your life. If you think about this, you can see this as a coming into focus of various elements that were before rather hazy or commingled in such a way as to render them too nebulous or vague or abstract for you to get a good hold on for practical use. But by these different aspects of your life coming into sharper focus, even though this may be troublesome at first - long delayed and put-off necessary activities for better health, or a clearer comprehension of the forces impinging upon you, and then clearer ideas of a creative nature – they are showing you the next few steps you need to take.
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Good evening, My children. This is Michael.  
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===Lesson===
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Things are moving along well on the planet. This may be difficult for many people to credit because the first stages of spiritual contact and growth and expansion result in a polarizing of various aspects in your life. If you think about this, you can see this as a coming into focus of various elements that were before rather hazy or commingled in such a way as to render them too nebulous or vague or abstract for you to get a good hold on for practical use. But by these different aspects of your life coming into sharper focus, even though this may be troublesome at first - long delayed and put-off necessary activities for better health, or a clearer comprehension of the forces impinging upon you, and then clearer ideas of a creative nature – they are showing you the next few steps you need to take.
    
All of this requires an increasing clarity in your perceptions, both internal and external, and an augmentation of your spiritual creative powers, your ability to start something new in this ongoing realm of time and space. These are creations right within time and space, that even though they have precedents, there is something absolutely new beyond a mere recombination of older elements. As a personal being created by God, you have this potential. In fact, you are using it constantly, though often unconsciously. You are co-creating your own reality, moment by moment, and it helps to be aware of this so you can take responsibility for your creation. Otherwise you may often feel fatalistic as if you are being swept along by events beyond your control, unaware of how much you yourself are creating the events, and then the immediate post-event interpretation of what just happen to you, which is mainly what you remember.
 
All of this requires an increasing clarity in your perceptions, both internal and external, and an augmentation of your spiritual creative powers, your ability to start something new in this ongoing realm of time and space. These are creations right within time and space, that even though they have precedents, there is something absolutely new beyond a mere recombination of older elements. As a personal being created by God, you have this potential. In fact, you are using it constantly, though often unconsciously. You are co-creating your own reality, moment by moment, and it helps to be aware of this so you can take responsibility for your creation. Otherwise you may often feel fatalistic as if you are being swept along by events beyond your control, unaware of how much you yourself are creating the events, and then the immediate post-event interpretation of what just happen to you, which is mainly what you remember.
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If you have any questions or comments this evening, I would welcome them.
 
If you have any questions or comments this evening, I would welcome them.
 
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===Dialogue===
 
Student: Father Michael, you ’ ve answered some of the questions I had, although once again there ’ s a basic one, that is, something is holding me back and I don ’ t know what it is. I don ’ t know how to access it to get rid of it. I perceive I ’ m slowly growing spiritually, but I don ’ t get involved with stillness. I don ’ t contact my teacher. I would like to be involved in the Akashic Construct, and I would simply like to grow spiritually and access that power potential for whatever use You would care to make of me. But something holds me back from all that and I don ’ t do anything. One more week has passed and I ’ ve done very little - and I have the time. If it ’ s fear, I don ’ t know how to overcome the fear. If it ’ s something else, I don ’ t know what it is. I would appreciate any input You can give me on this subject.
 
Student: Father Michael, you ’ ve answered some of the questions I had, although once again there ’ s a basic one, that is, something is holding me back and I don ’ t know what it is. I don ’ t know how to access it to get rid of it. I perceive I ’ m slowly growing spiritually, but I don ’ t get involved with stillness. I don ’ t contact my teacher. I would like to be involved in the Akashic Construct, and I would simply like to grow spiritually and access that power potential for whatever use You would care to make of me. But something holds me back from all that and I don ’ t do anything. One more week has passed and I ’ ve done very little - and I have the time. If it ’ s fear, I don ’ t know how to overcome the fear. If it ’ s something else, I don ’ t know what it is. I would appreciate any input You can give me on this subject.
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Michael: This, My son, is what all loving children have done for their parents throughout time. Just as parents have raised the youngsters and nurtured them, so too this is an aspect of caring for your mother in her older age when she is not so capable as you.
 
Michael: This, My son, is what all loving children have done for their parents throughout time. Just as parents have raised the youngsters and nurtured them, so too this is an aspect of caring for your mother in her older age when she is not so capable as you.
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Well, there is much to think about, My children. And this is good. This is the business of living. Even more, this is the business of caring. This is the real work in our life for our fellows - truly caring what we do. I offered this evening the tool of how to realize what it is we are doing - to accept the responsibility that we are co-creating a large part of what we perceive to be The Other. Then this example of what happens when we encounter another ’ s projections that we feel do not apply to us, or to the situation at all. What do we do then? How do we defuse the situation and reach across that enormous gulf to another person who might even feel we are attacking them? If, underneath it all, there is this essential caring, this intent to love, and this is real; this is finally – you can believe and have faith, My children – this is what finally carries the day. This is the truer reality of spirit that creates the way forward. Carry on! You are all growing. And be in My peace.
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Well, there is much to think about, My children. And this is good. This is the business of living. Even more, this is the business of caring. This is the real work in our life for our fellows - truly caring what we do. I offered this evening the tool of how to realize what it is we are doing - to accept the responsibility that we are co-creating a large part of what we perceive to be The Other. Then this example of what happens when we encounter another ’ s projections that we feel do not apply to us, or to the situation at all. What do we do then? How do we defuse the situation and reach across that enormous gulf to another person who might even feel we are attacking them? If, underneath it all, there is this essential caring, this intent to love, and this is real; this is finally – you can believe and have faith, My children – this is what finally carries the day. This is the truer reality of spirit that creates the way forward.  
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===Closing===
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Carry on! You are all growing. And be in My peace.
    
Students: Thank You, Michael; Good evening.
 
Students: Thank You, Michael; Good evening.
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