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Marin T/M Group—Mill Valley, California—U.S.A.

 

Dear Michael and Mother Spirit, We who have been following and enjoying your words for several years now feel blessed to be alive in the time of the Teaching Mission, and aware of it. We want to thank you for these opportunities--unique in all our experience--to talk with a Creator Son and a Mother Spirit. So often you seem to know the best next step for us to take, and you offer for our consideration your insights which go wonderfully directly right to the heart of the kinds of beings you know us to be—sometimes even better than we know ourselves. So it’s for these very unique gifts we are thankful. Amen.

Dear Michael and Mother Spirit, We who have been following and enjoying your words for several years now feel blessed to be alive in the time of the Teaching Mission, and aware of it. We want to thank you for these opportunities--unique in all our experience--to talk with a Creator Son and a Mother Spirit. So often you seem to know the best next step for us to take, and you offer for our consideration your insights which go wonderfully directly right to the heart of the kinds of beings you know us to be—sometimes even better than we know ourselves. So it’s for these very unique gifts we are thankful. Amen.

MICHAEL: Good evening. This is Michael. Tonight I would like to get even further back to basics and reemphasize the several most important considerations we have offered.

MICHAEL: Good evening. This is Michael. Tonight I would like to get even further back to basics and reemphasize the several most important considerations we have offered.

 

The first will always be the supreme fact of the existence of God: that there is a single, primal personality who is absolute and infinite, and whose omnipotence is expressed through the power of creativity. He is truly the father of reality in the most total sense you can conceive of and appreciate. If he had no other powers or attributes, this alone would make him worthy of our love and appreciation. The fact that there is a creator personality at the very center and origin of all that exists puts to rest in our hearts the fundamental need to know there is a Supreme Person with whom we can relate as personal beings ourselves. We can only assure you, my children, that both Mother Spirit and I do know that his primal nature of creativity of personal beings means that you are, each of you, unique in all creation.

The first will always be the supreme fact of the existence of God: that there is a single, primal personality who is absolute and infinite, and whose omnipotence is expressed through the power of creativity. He is truly the father of reality in the most total sense you can conceive of and appreciate. If he had no other powers or attributes, this alone would make him worthy of our love and appreciation. The fact that there is a creator personality at the very center and origin of all that exists puts to rest in our hearts the fundamental need to know there is a Supreme Person with whom we can relate as personal beings ourselves. We can only assure you, my children, that both Mother Spirit and I do know that his primal nature of creativity of personal beings means that you are, each of you, unique in all creation.

So these are the two main cosmic facts we offer for you to treasure: the fact there is a personal God at the center of everything whose divine nature is one of unifying and holding together his whole creation, and even continuing to add to it out here in time and space—both in material and personal beings: thus making all personal beings related. All personal beings are worthy of mutual love and respect, and even have that delightful quality of a smile-equivalent of recognition of one kind to another.

So these are the two main cosmic facts we offer for you to treasure: the fact there is a personal God at the center of everything whose divine nature is one of unifying and holding together his whole creation, and even continuing to add to it out here in time and space—both in material and personal beings: thus making all personal beings related. All personal beings are worthy of mutual love and respect, and even have that delightful quality of a smile-equivalent of recognition of one kind to another.

The third most important fact we have been offering you in different ways so you can get a feeling of these dimensions we know you to have, is the fact that you yourselves are spiritual beings. You are obviously embodied with impersonal materials and energies in the special God-given state we call alive, and you are enabled with a level of consciousness due primarily to the billions of neurons that make up your physical brains and nervous system.

The third most important fact we have been offering you in different ways so you can get a feeling of these dimensions we know you to have, is the fact that you yourselves are spiritual beings. You are obviously embodied with impersonal materials and energies in the special God-given state we call alive, and you are enabled with a level of consciousness due primarily to the billions of neurons that make up your physical brains and nervous system.

This is the ironic situation of a sincere and devoted materialist feeling she or he has achieved a comprehension they intrinsically value for its seeming applicability, its apparent truth to them, not realizing this value they give to their construct is itself a manifestation of their spirit. Which is partly why we offer these basic definitions of what we consider spirit to be, what part it plays in your live, what constituent part it actually is of you. We do hope that in the primal experience of your life--this living quality of feeling that forms the moment to moment encompassing of your consciousness--you can begin to feel these dimensions you inhabit. The presence of spirit can become an object of perception. Your spiritual nature can be known, even understood. And as you understand more and more of the origin within your nature of all that you are, you can begin to perceive this in others too. It adds a precious quality to your life, this appreciation of all these other little walking infinities about you, every single one of them a God-created unique personality giving rise to what you perceive. Go ahead and let it blow your minds. Spirit is greater than mind and will surely test you.

This is the ironic situation of a sincere and devoted materialist feeling she or he has achieved a comprehension they intrinsically value for its seeming applicability, its apparent truth to them, not realizing this value they give to their construct is itself a manifestation of their spirit. Which is partly why we offer these basic definitions of what we consider spirit to be, what part it plays in your live, what constituent part it actually is of you. We do hope that in the primal experience of your life--this living quality of feeling that forms the moment to moment encompassing of your consciousness--you can begin to feel these dimensions you inhabit. The presence of spirit can become an object of perception. Your spiritual nature can be known, even understood. And as you understand more and more of the origin within your nature of all that you are, you can begin to perceive this in others too. It adds a precious quality to your life, this appreciation of all these other little walking infinities about you, every single one of them a God-created unique personality giving rise to what you perceive. Go ahead and let it blow your minds. Spirit is greater than mind and will surely test you.

Further, I would like to add along these lines something Mother Spirit and I have been saying for a while, yet you may not fully comprehend; and that is when we say that you truly are. You participate in the Absolute by your very existence, whether you know it or not. For many of you this has been an incomprehensible puzzle, for you think that: Certainly, I know I am! But so many people don’t feel and act as if they really were. Their psychology is based upon an anxiety of their very being, and because this anxiety is so all-pervasive, it is largely unconscious.

Further, I would like to add along these lines something Mother Spirit and I have been saying for a while, yet you may not fully comprehend; and that is when we say that you truly are. You participate in the Absolute by your very existence, whether you know it or not. For many of you this has been an incomprehensible puzzle, for you think that: Certainly, I know I am! But so many people don’t feel and act as if they really were. Their psychology is based upon an anxiety of their very being, and because this anxiety is so all-pervasive, it is largely unconscious.

There is no single great experience, ever, from which point everything is fixed and settled. The reward for your courage, my children, is to be given an eternity of situations which will call it forth again. If that seems a bit scary, we have our trust in our Father, whose wisdom sees fit to provide this necessity.

There is no single great experience, ever, from which point everything is fixed and settled. The reward for your courage, my children, is to be given an eternity of situations which will call it forth again. If that seems a bit scary, we have our trust in our Father, whose wisdom sees fit to provide this necessity.

This is the nature of the eternity of now: that God is free, unconditioned, absolute and infinite, and he delights in bestowing as much of his nature on us as we ourselves decide we want, and are willing to work for, and can stretch ourselves to embrace. It has always been, and will always be, my children, a question of: How much life do you want? We sincerely thank our Father for giving us such a choice. If you have any questions or comments this evening, feel free.

This is the nature of the eternity of now: that God is free, unconditioned, absolute and infinite, and he delights in bestowing as much of his nature on us as we ourselves decide we want, and are willing to work for, and can stretch ourselves to embrace. It has always been, and will always be, my children, a question of: How much life do you want? We sincerely thank our Father for giving us such a choice. If you have any questions or comments this evening, feel free.

 

Student: Yes, Michael, a large portion of your lesson really grabs hold of me. How much life do I want? I don’t know how to even approach that, to fathom that…

Student: Yes, Michael, a large portion of your lesson really grabs hold of me. How much life do I want? I don’t know how to even approach that, to fathom that…

MICHAEL: My son, the question is not rhetorical: it’s real: but you don’t have to answer it right away. Student: Yes, but I think it is necessary. We don’t tend to question things, or ask ourselves the right questions. I mentioned to Mother Spirit last week a book I read—The Secret--that seems to be a New-Age flavor-of-the-month kind of thing, that is not really a secret—it’s been around for thousands of years. But the majority of it was on creating the kind of stuff you want. I’m not against that, but who is doing the asking? Who is doing the creating? Is it the expansive self, or is it something else, something constrained that sees only a desire to have expensive things and perfect relationships? That might be possible, but there seems to be something missing. Some deeper, more profound question is not being asked.

MICHAEL: My son, the question is not rhetorical: it’s real: but you don’t have to answer it right away. Student: Yes, but I think it is necessary. We don’t tend to question things, or ask ourselves the right questions. I mentioned to Mother Spirit last week a book I read—The Secret--that seems to be a New-Age flavor-of-the-month kind of thing, that is not really a secret—it’s been around for thousands of years. But the majority of it was on creating the kind of stuff you want. I’m not against that, but who is doing the asking? Who is doing the creating? Is it the expansive self, or is it something else, something constrained that sees only a desire to have expensive things and perfect relationships? That might be possible, but there seems to be something missing. Some deeper, more profound question is not being asked.

MICHAEL: Yes, this is why I asked the question, partly to get you to feel comfortable in the need to question your assumptions, and not always assume you have penetrated to the bottom of your own cultural conditioning—especially along these materialistic lines you are rightfully balking against.

MICHAEL: Yes, this is why I asked the question, partly to get you to feel comfortable in the need to question your assumptions, and not always assume you have penetrated to the bottom of your own cultural conditioning—especially along these materialistic lines you are rightfully balking against.

But in a larger, spiritual sense it is a way of dying. It is losing touch with the living nature of your being, your ever-changing nature, and identifying with something that is self-created from the most limited part of you—your own ego awareness, and who you think you need to be—and think: This is it now. For some folks it will be it, for this lifetime, and they will have to wait until their Morontia life when things will be so utterly, marvelously changed they will have a chance to start again.

But in a larger, spiritual sense it is a way of dying. It is losing touch with the living nature of your being, your ever-changing nature, and identifying with something that is self-created from the most limited part of you—your own ego awareness, and who you think you need to be—and think: This is it now. For some folks it will be it, for this lifetime, and they will have to wait until their Morontia life when things will be so utterly, marvelously changed they will have a chance to start again.

But to keep your beginner’s mind, to keep open, and to have the security within yourself that this is the best way to stay in touch with life—the dynamic of it.

But to keep your beginner’s mind, to keep open, and to have the security within yourself that this is the best way to stay in touch with life—the dynamic of it.

Student: I will do so. Thank you.

Student: I will do so. Thank you.

MICHAEL: My son, thank you for taking this challenge head-on and wringing yourself out so thoroughly to do your best to come up to it, and embrace it. It is something all personal beings are confronted with—their very freedom, the enormity of the choices God has entrusted into their hands. It is a worthy focus for our worship, our deep thankfulness and unfathomable awe—even to ourselves--that such a Being—is! And is our Father. So… (Michael laughs) Carry on, my son. It only gets bigger..

MICHAEL: My son, thank you for taking this challenge head-on and wringing yourself out so thoroughly to do your best to come up to it, and embrace it. It is something all personal beings are confronted with—their very freedom, the enormity of the choices God has entrusted into their hands. It is a worthy focus for our worship, our deep thankfulness and unfathomable awe—even to ourselves--that such a Being—is! And is our Father. So… (Michael laughs) Carry on, my son. It only gets bigger..

Student (laughing): Yeah, I guessed that…

Student (laughing): Yeah, I guessed that…