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Teacher: Michael

 

 

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Prayer: Dear Michael and Mother Spirit, well here we are again, all gathered in on these little electronic devices here, that we know we are all connected through you. So welcome, come join us. Let us follow where you lead along the ways of your spirit, your truth, you're hopefulness and steadfast faith in us. We do love this so. So feel our love. Thank you, dear Father and Mother. Amen.

Prayer: Dear Michael and Mother Spirit, well here we are again, all gathered in on these little electronic devices here, that we know we are all connected through you. So welcome, come join us. Let us follow where you lead along the ways of your spirit, your truth, you're hopefulness and steadfast faith in us. We do love this so. So feel our love. Thank you, dear Father and Mother. Amen.

Michael: Oh my beloved children, good evening. This is your father, Michael, Creator Son of Nebadon, Jesus of Urantia. How your faith in me warms my heart! And so I call upon you, my children, just to tune into me, to Mother, whenever it crosses your mind. This does not in any way have to be a formal thing, for you know when I was among you how I had to instruct all my followers and get them away from notions that spirit is something so far removed and so austere it took some kind of formal petition. Rather, we are your closest friend. I am there in your heartbeat for you to feel me, and in feeling me simply allow me to help you feel. Feel these human lives you are living, all the ups and downs, all the joy and sorrow, everything. This takes some nerve, my children, and Mother and I know that full well. Just to open yourselves to whatever may come, it takes enormous trust that this is the best way always to be ready, to be here now. For sometimes your life comes at you as if you are in that rushing stream, just a little cork bobbing along, half underwater at times. So you go in with a swirl and come out with a whirl. Just feel the stream carrying you. Feel this life you are living. This is your most fundamental purpose, my children, this is why God had the idea of you. Just feel.

Michael: Oh my beloved children, good evening. This is your father, Michael, Creator Son of Nebadon, Jesus of Urantia.  

 

How your faith in me warms my heart! And so I call upon you, my children, just to tune into me, to Mother, whenever it crosses your mind. This does not in any way have to be a formal thing, for you know when I was among you how I had to instruct all my followers and get them away from notions that spirit is something so far removed and so austere it took some kind of formal petition. Rather, we are your closest friend. I am there in your heartbeat for you to feel me, and in feeling me simply allow me to help you feel. Feel these human lives you are living, all the ups and downs, all the joy and sorrow, everything. This takes some nerve, my children, and Mother and I know that full well. Just to open yourselves to whatever may come, it takes enormous trust that this is the best way always to be ready, to be here now. For sometimes your life comes at you as if you are in that rushing stream, just a little cork bobbing along, half underwater at times. So you go in with a swirl and come out with a whirl. Just feel the stream carrying you. Feel this life you are living. This is your most fundamental purpose, my children, this is why God had the idea of you. Just feel.

Over the last few weeks, in the discussions, both here in California and even those about the country, I have been sensing a bit of a disconnect in my children's philosophy as they struggle to make sense of their lives, to find those strong, coherent spiritual threads that tie it all together and make sense. And this disconnect comes when you are not always aware of how many thousands of years now your language of philosophy and wondering and speculating has been such a primary focus, whether conscious or unconscious. And so sometimes, my children, your orientation has to be how to get grounded again, how to start all over again, get back to basics. For your philosophy can become so abstract, the word symbols you are trying to use to get a hold of something substantial have lost their meaning. So bear with me while I teach a little lesson here.

Over the last few weeks, in the discussions, both here in California and even those about the country, I have been sensing a bit of a disconnect in my children's philosophy as they struggle to make sense of their lives, to find those strong, coherent spiritual threads that tie it all together and make sense. And this disconnect comes when you are not always aware of how many thousands of years now your language of philosophy and wondering and speculating has been such a primary focus, whether conscious or unconscious. And so sometimes, my children, your orientation has to be how to get grounded again, how to start all over again, get back to basics. For your philosophy can become so abstract, the word symbols you are trying to use to get a hold of something substantial have lost their meaning. So bear with me while I teach a little lesson here.

 

Words just point at different aspects of reality. And when you get to words like good and evil, you must remember what they are pointing at, what they stand for. A very sincere question came up the other evening where a student was trying to grasp this meaning and mention was made of good and evil being just opposite sides of the same coin. And I am sure you have all heard this sort of attempt to relate these two. Then you have to ask yourself, "What is this coin?" The most profound difference between good and evil is that goodness itself has a spiritual reality in our Father, where as evil is more or less an abstraction derived from specific, concrete acts that some personal being has committed, has done. So there is almost no similarity between them at all, except they are at times actions that in your sphere human beings do. Otherwise there is no relation.

Words just point at different aspects of reality. And when you get to words like good and evil, you must remember what they are pointing at, what they stand for. A very sincere question came up the other evening where a student was trying to grasp this meaning and mention was made of good and evil being just opposite sides of the same coin. And I am sure you have all heard this sort of attempt to relate these two. Then you have to ask yourself, "What is this coin?" The most profound difference between good and evil is that goodness itself has a spiritual reality in our Father, where as evil is more or less an abstraction derived from specific, concrete acts that some personal being has committed, has done. So there is almost no similarity between them at all, except they are at times actions that in your sphere human beings do. Otherwise there is no relation.

You have that wonderful saying that a man never stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child, out of the simple goodness and joy of his heart. And you have all probably heard of recently, you had a terrible act where a man, for whatever reason, or whatever state of mind he was in, did the evil act of murdering a number of young children whom he had no other connection with before that terrible time. So when you wrestle with these concepts of good and evil, keep your philosophy down to earth. Think in terms of specific acts that people do.

You have that wonderful saying that a man never stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child, out of the simple goodness and joy of his heart. And you have all probably heard of recently, you had a terrible act where a man, for whatever reason, or whatever state of mind he was in, did the evil act of murdering a number of young children whom he had no other connection with before that terrible time. So when you wrestle with these concepts of good and evil, keep your philosophy down to earth. Think in terms of specific acts that people do.

 

I mentioned several weeks ago that another profound difference between good and evil is that goodness does represent, along with beauty and truth, these are the manifestations of higher spirit that human beings are most capable of recognizing, and respectively, the physical, the mental and the spiritual realms, beauty, truth and goodness. These spring as from a fountain from the Father himself, this is his nature. But endowing men, immature imperfect beings with a degree of freedom, of free will, in other words, freedom from His will, the ability to do other than what He would do, carries with it the ability, first of all, to conceive out of your own creative spirit. You are capable of conceiving acts that are quite apart from God's will. This, if you will, is the very proof of your free will, that you can depart from His. And we needn't concern ourselves with any hard and fast final definition of evil. Suffice it to say this would be the deliberate, conscious harming another. This is quite sufficient, and it is possible. This is in the realm of how God created individuals that can do such things out of their own creative ability to come up with an individual intention.

I mentioned several weeks ago that another profound difference between good and evil is that goodness does represent, along with beauty and truth, these are the manifestations of higher spirit that human beings are most capable of recognizing, and respectively, the physical, the mental and the spiritual realms, beauty, truth and goodness. These spring as from a fountain from the Father himself, this is his nature. But endowing men, immature imperfect beings with a degree of freedom, of free will, in other words, freedom from His will, the ability to do other than what He would do, carries with it the ability, first of all, to conceive out of your own creative spirit. You are capable of conceiving acts that are quite apart from God's will. This, if you will, is the very proof of your free will, that you can depart from His. And we needn't concern ourselves with any hard and fast final definition of evil. Suffice it to say this would be the deliberate, conscious harming another. This is quite sufficient, and it is possible. This is in the realm of how God created individuals that can do such things out of their own creative ability to come up with an individual intention.

If you have any questions or comments this evening, I always look forward to these.

If you have any questions or comments this evening, I always look forward to these.

 

Student: Yes, Master, S here in Salt Lake. I am real grateful about just living life, and looking forward to Father's will unfold. I used to think I have to know everything now, and real anxious about how much time there is and being in a hurry. I am really grateful for your message tonight, it really helps to enforce Father's way, at least as I feel it is unfolding in my life. I just really thank you for your words tonight. Do you have any other words to add along those lines? Thank you so much.

Student: Yes, Master, S here in Salt Lake. I am real grateful about just living life, and looking forward to Father's will unfold. I used to think I have to know everything now, and real anxious about how much time there is and being in a hurry. I am really grateful for your message tonight, it really helps to enforce Father's way, at least as I feel it is unfolding in my life. I just really thank you for your words tonight. Do you have any other words to add along those lines? Thank you so much.

Michael: You are welcome, my son. Up there where your arms are, you see those hands. Those hands were made to reach out and get a hold of things, and work with things, and enjoy working with things. But you have to remember to relax them and let them open. It is a wonderful thing just to sit there in your chair with your hands open and upheld, and feel our Father's love coming down like a pouring rain. And it helps you remember to relax, and feel, and relax. Because when those sharp bends and those frothy rushing rapids come upon you it kind of makes you tighten up and brace yourself and you have to remember you are just that cork floating along. The stream is actually holding you up. So just relax and be still right in the midst of it. We even tease you a bit that if you are really paying attention, you don't need so much patience. So just let yourself be absorbed in what's coming at you. Pay attention and you'll find you'll just naturally go to meet it. And I think you are finding that out. So we you are very welcome, my son. Be in my peace.

Michael: You are welcome, my son. Up there where your arms are, you see those hands. Those hands were made to reach out and get a hold of things, and work with things, and enjoy working with things. But you have to remember to relax them and let them open. It is a wonderful thing just to sit there in your chair with your hands open and upheld, and feel our Father's love coming down like a pouring rain. And it helps you remember to relax, and feel, and relax. Because when those sharp bends and those frothy rushing rapids come upon you it kind of makes you tighten up and brace yourself and you have to remember you are just that cork floating along. The stream is actually holding you up. So just relax and be still right in the midst of it. We even tease you a bit that if you are really paying attention, you don't need so much patience. So just let yourself be absorbed in what's coming at you. Pay attention and you'll find you'll just naturally go to meet it. And I think you are finding that out. So we you are very welcome, my son. Be in my peace.

 

Student: Master Michael, thank you for helping our philosophy develop, and those wonderful encouraging words. Perhaps you can help me understand something that I've recently discovered. I've read it many times but it had new meaning for me this time when I read Paper 110 about that wonderful gift of our Thought Adjuster and how they volunteer for service. They volunteer based upon their experience in perceiving the pattern that we will get genetically in order to match up well to be of most service. What I read that surprised me in a good way, but as I always thought about it, my philosophy of pre-determinism versus having a choice and having our path unfold as we make choices, it said that they come with a plan. It led me to believe that rather than the choice that we make and the path as being determined as we go. That the path is somewhat described and it is more for us to choose that divine way that the Thought Adjuster has perceived for us. Can you share any insights on that?

Student: Master Michael, thank you for helping our philosophy develop, and those wonderful encouraging words. Perhaps you can help me understand something that I've recently discovered. I've read it many times but it had new meaning for me this time when I read Paper 110 about that wonderful gift of our Thought Adjuster and how they volunteer for service. They volunteer based upon their experience in perceiving the pattern that we will get genetically in order to match up well to be of most service. What I read that surprised me in a good way, but as I always thought about it, my philosophy of pre-determinism versus having a choice and having our path unfold as we make choices, it said that they come with a plan. It led me to believe that rather than the choice that we make and the path as being determined as we go. That the path is somewhat described and it is more for us to choose that divine way that the Thought Adjuster has perceived for us. Can you share any insights on that?

A pure fatalism has everything already happened, and since there is no time, there is no future as you normally think about it, it's all laid out, God knows everything, the Omega from the Alpha. And all you are doing, you are just a little nodule of consciousness kind of following along this predetermined path. That is kind of pure fatalism, and it doesn't imply that at all. It just means that your Thought Adjuster, being of such a pure essence, can help you determine what is the best thing to do at every moment of decision.

A pure fatalism has everything already happened, and since there is no time, there is no future as you normally think about it, it's all laid out, God knows everything, the Omega from the Alpha. And all you are doing, you are just a little nodule of consciousness kind of following along this predetermined path. That is kind of pure fatalism, and it doesn't imply that at all. It just means that your Thought Adjuster, being of such a pure essence, can help you determine what is the best thing to do at every moment of decision.

 

But you have the personality; you are the personality. And even though at your stage of development, most of you get relatively mature, experienced Thought Adjusters, still they are totally subservient to your decisions. They just represent this God's gift of what you are ideally capable of achieving given, as you say, the whole heredity that you represent when that sperm and egg get together at that moment of conception. All that DNA coming together and making a unique individual, even quite distinct from your brothers or sisters you may or may not have. The choice is always yours, and even the most powerful spiritual beings with personality respect that choice, that free will of yours. Does this help you?

But you have the personality; you are the personality. And even though at your stage of development, most of you get relatively mature, experienced Thought Adjusters, still they are totally subservient to your decisions. They just represent this God's gift of what you are ideally capable of achieving given, as you say, the whole heredity that you represent when that sperm and egg get together at that moment of conception. All that DNA coming together and making a unique individual, even quite distinct from your brothers or sisters you may or may not have. The choice is always yours, and even the most powerful spiritual beings with personality respect that choice, that free will of yours. Does this help you?

Student: Yes, it does. Thank you, Father Michael, for that insight and clarification. I appreciate it.

Student: Yes, it does. Thank you, Father Michael, for that insight and clarification. I appreciate it.

 

Michael: This is why, my son, one of the wisest decisions you can make is in your stillness, simply speak to your Thought Adjuster, and then listen. Keep in mind it is a Thought Adjuster. So very often the next thought that occurs to you has this source. It is not some voice, shall we say, speaking in your mind, it's just the thought. And they are there all the time. This is part of you are thinking, just as Mother’s spirit adjutants are part of your thinking. So don't feel too crowded in there, it's still mainly you. You have to welcome these spiritual inputs. So give it a try. When you fully realize what's been happening within you all along, it's one of the great delights of all. Be in my peace.

Michael: This is why, my son, one of the wisest decisions you can make is in your stillness, simply speak to your Thought Adjuster, and then listen. Keep in mind it is a Thought Adjuster. So very often the next thought that occurs to you has this source. It is not some voice, shall we say, speaking in your mind, it's just the thought. And they are there all the time. This is part of you are thinking, just as Mother’s spirit adjutants are part of your thinking. So don't feel too crowded in there, it's still mainly you. You have to welcome these spiritual inputs. So give it a try. When you fully realize what's been happening within you all along, it's one of the great delights of all. Be in my peace.

Student: Christ Michael, this is very interesting, this last comment. For example, I'm a volunteer with hospice, and I have a patient now very near death. The patient has Alzheimer's, is totally deaf, and it's very difficult to communicate. And recently I tried to, and I did I think, and I feel assured that I was able to contact my Thought Adjuster with her Thought Adjuster, and communicated in such which was a combined prayer, because I don't know where she is coming from. I understand that she has had a very difficult life and so forth, and perhaps might not even be too religious. But it was an extremely beneficial fact that she responded by squeezing my hand, and as a matter of fact, pushed me forward and kissed me on the forehead. I just about broke out in tears on that. I believe that this solidifies the fact that it can be a communication between any type of situation. I would hope that this might inspire other people. I would like to share a little bit of comment on that as well.

Student: Christ Michael, this is very interesting, this last comment. For example, I'm a volunteer with hospice, and I have a patient now very near death. The patient has Alzheimer's, is totally deaf, and it's very difficult to communicate. And recently I tried to, and I did I think, and I feel assured that I was able to contact my Thought Adjuster with her Thought Adjuster, and communicated in such which was a combined prayer, because I don't know where she is coming from. I understand that she has had a very difficult life and so forth, and perhaps might not even be too religious. But it was an extremely beneficial fact that she responded by squeezing my hand, and as a matter of fact, pushed me forward and kissed me on the forehead. I just about broke out in tears on that. I believe that this solidifies the fact that it can be a communication between any type of situation. I would hope that this might inspire other people. I would like to share a little bit of comment on that as well.

 

Michael: Well, my son, the next time this happens don't hesitate just to go ahead and let those tears flow. I think that might be a very big part of what's happening that moment, so don't hesitate at all. As you were mentioning this situation, the first thing that I thought to suggest is a matter of loving touch. Sometimes on a very, very deep and profound level, sometimes just petting someone, just very soothing strokes can carry this message of love, of company, of someone there, of intention. And it's something you have to experiment with and just try, but the fact that she recognized your intention, your company, and found a way to express her love and her appreciation for that. You have to be very delicate so you don't, your first impulse just might be to pick her up and hug her for dear life, and that might be a little terrifying. So you have to easy does it, be very gentle, but just try things. It's just surprising what this deep intention you have within you can come across. But I congratulate you on your service, my son.

Michael: Well, my son, the next time this happens don't hesitate just to go ahead and let those tears flow. I think that might be a very big part of what's happening that moment, so don't hesitate at all. As you were mentioning this situation, the first thing that I thought to suggest is a matter of loving touch. Sometimes on a very, very deep and profound level, sometimes just petting someone, just very soothing strokes can carry this message of love, of company, of someone there, of intention. And it's something you have to experiment with and just try, but the fact that she recognized your intention, your company, and found a way to express her love and her appreciation for that. You have to be very delicate so you don't, your first impulse just might be to pick her up and hug her for dear life, and that might be a little terrifying. So you have to easy does it, be very gentle, but just try things. It's just surprising what this deep intention you have within you can come across. But I congratulate you on your service, my son.

Student: It's nice to feel part of a community, and I have worked towards that and hope it keeps growing. Thank you for much insight.

Student: It's nice to feel part of a community, and I have worked towards that and hope it keeps growing. Thank you for much insight.

 

Michael: Well my son, don't forget that the deep community is right inside you. That's been so much the real essence of our message these last few years is how much wonderful company you have right within you. And it's just a matter of taking the time to say hello and realizing to what degree you are capable of giving us reality within you, or you have the very power of ignoring us, or perhaps no one ever told you we were here. And so our contributions over the years you've just always assumed were part of your own mind, or own organism. So stay with your stillness, and little by little you'll get kind of a subtle sensation, so hard to describe. I can only say it's something there, a sense of company, a sense of spirit trying to let you know we are here, we are with you. And we enjoy it so much when you acknowledge this and delight in our company and just say hello, just any time during the day, or whenever, you just say, "Hi Dad, Hi Mom." And then for our Universal Father, just "Thank you God, thank you so much for this life I'm living, and for all these totally unfathomable creatures all around me, my fellow human beings, every single one of them just totally unfathomable." Right there, right there. So feel our company at all times, my son. This is the spiritual community of which you are a part, and we are delighted you are finding that out.

Michael: Well my son, don't forget that the deep community is right inside you. That's been so much the real essence of our message these last few years is how much wonderful company you have right within you. And it's just a matter of taking the time to say hello and realizing to what degree you are capable of giving us reality within you, or you have the very power of ignoring us, or perhaps no one ever told you we were here. And so our contributions over the years you've just always assumed were part of your own mind, or own organism. So stay with your stillness, and little by little you'll get kind of a subtle sensation, so hard to describe. I can only say it's something there, a sense of company, a sense of spirit trying to let you know we are here, we are with you. And we enjoy it so much when you acknowledge this and delight in our company and just say hello, just any time during the day, or whenever, you just say, "Hi Dad, Hi Mom." And then for our Universal Father, just "Thank you God, thank you so much for this life I'm living, and for all these totally unfathomable creatures all around me, my fellow human beings, every single one of them just totally unfathomable." Right there, right there. So feel our company at all times, my son. This is the spiritual community of which you are a part, and we are delighted you are finding that out.

Michael: You're very welcome. You are truly our children, and so you reflect great glory back to us. Thank you very much, my son. Be in my peace.

Michael: You're very welcome. You are truly our children, and so you reflect great glory back to us. Thank you very much, my son. Be in my peace.

 

Student: Michael, this is J. An important thing that I have learned from reading the Urantia book is that our universe is orderly. But I am a little bit conflicted about some things that have been happening to me more and more. Sometimes I probably wrongly call them coincidences, or chance, or different things we might try to describe as synchronous. When these things happen, and it usually feels like a gift or at a minimum an opportunity. Would you consider addressing coincidence or synchronicity? Thank you.

Student: Michael, this is J. An important thing that I have learned from reading the Urantia book is that our universe is orderly. But I am a little bit conflicted about some things that have been happening to me more and more. Sometimes I probably wrongly call them coincidences, or chance, or different things we might try to describe as synchronous. When these things happen, and it usually feels like a gift or at a minimum an opportunity. Would you consider addressing coincidence or synchronicity? Thank you.

Well then let's just take a measure of this peace along with us. And we do this most strange seeming by just letting it go. After all it is nothing you can cling onto, it's nothing you can make happen. There's no way to define it to remind yourself to do it again. It's too subtle for that, it's too powerful for that. Your stillness is just a way of practicing letting it happen, just feeling.

Well then let's just take a measure of this peace along with us. And we do this most strange seeming by just letting it go. After all it is nothing you can cling onto, it's nothing you can make happen. There's no way to define it to remind yourself to do it again. It's too subtle for that, it's too powerful for that. Your stillness is just a way of practicing letting it happen, just feeling.

 

We thank you, Father, for making us in such a way that we can experience this essence of You, this absolute security in the midst of our uncertainty. That certainty by just being a living creature of yours, not knowing, truly not knowing what tomorrow will bring, but being secure in that. We thank you for giving us of this living truth, and we delight to feel it carrying us along, buoying us up, supporting us, rushing us along at times, and then we become so much one with that stream. It's almost as if everything just stops. The whole universe is holding its breath. And then we find it's just us, and we heave a little sign and start breathing again.

We thank you, Father, for making us in such a way that we can experience this essence of You, this absolute security in the midst of our uncertainty. That certainty by just being a living creature of yours, not knowing, truly not knowing what tomorrow will bring, but being secure in that. We thank you for giving us of this living truth, and we delight to feel it carrying us along, buoying us up, supporting us, rushing us along at times, and then we become so much one with that stream. It's almost as if everything just stops. The whole universe is holding its breath. And then we find it's just us, and we heave a little sign and start breathing again.

Thank you, my children, for your love and your devotion. Thank you, Father, for allowing Mother and I to participate in the creation of these children. Good evening.

Thank you, my children, for your love and your devotion. Thank you, Father, for allowing Mother and I to participate in the creation of these children. Good evening.