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Tonight I would like to carry a torch of Michael’s a little further on, one he gave you in his last lesson and on the Thursday night before that, when he gave a rough definition of the total personhood of a [[human being]].  I’ll just briefly mention that he started with the [[person]] you know yourself to be right in your own [[consciousness]], your self-consciousness-self.  This is the you that comes into being when you awake in the morning and lets itself be extinguished in sleep each night.  His main point here was that this was by no means all of you.  This “you” exists within a broad field of consciousness that is partly you and partly other, and in which you are sometimes self-aware and sometimes not.  You may be lost in a piece of demanding [[work]], or self-forgetful in the midst of some engrossing pastime.

Tonight I would like to carry a torch of Michael’s a little further on, one he gave you in his last lesson and on the Thursday night before that, when he gave a rough definition of the total personhood of a [[human being]].  I’ll just briefly mention that he started with the [[person]] you know yourself to be right in your own [[consciousness]], your self-consciousness-self.  This is the you that comes into being when you awake in the morning and lets itself be extinguished in sleep each night.  His main point here was that this was by no means all of you.  This “you” exists within a broad field of consciousness that is partly you and partly other, and in which you are sometimes self-aware and sometimes not.  You may be lost in a piece of demanding [[work]], or self-forgetful in the midst of some engrossing pastime.

   

   

* '''''[[Being]]''''' (All that you are)

===='''''[[Being]]====

*(All that you are)

You have your human [[body]] and the type of [[mind]] that comes directly as a result from it, the [[material]] mind of a [[human being]].  Also, giving birth to the [[creativity]] within your consciousness, you have your [[unique]] [[personality]] and the creative/spiritual component of it.  Your personality is the creative aspect of yourself, the creative and unifying aspect of you, the deep and fundamentally unchanging essence of you projecting yourself into ever changing [[time and space]] whose [[events]] you [[experience]] with your [[physical]] body, mental consciousness, and [[spirit]] [[insight]].

You have your human [[body]] and the type of [[mind]] that comes directly as a result from it, the [[material]] mind of a [[human being]].  Also, giving birth to the [[creativity]] within your consciousness, you have your [[unique]] [[personality]] and the creative/spiritual component of it.  Your personality is the creative aspect of yourself, the creative and unifying aspect of you, the deep and fundamentally unchanging essence of you projecting yourself into ever changing [[time and space]] whose [[events]] you [[experience]] with your [[physical]] body, mental consciousness, and [[spirit]] [[insight]].

   

   

In addition, right within this consciousness of yours there is the great spiritual, or should I say, quasi-spiritual entity you are [[literally]] earning out here--your own [[soul]], co-[[author]]ed by [[Thought Adjuster|a presence of God]], lending [[meaning]] and [[value]] to your life as you grow more soulful.  Finally, along with the presence of God there are the presences of your [[Guardian Angel]], Michael’s [[Spirit of Truth]], and my own [[Adjutant Mind Spirits|Spiritual Adjutants]] augmenting various aspects of your own mentality--[[intuition]], [[courage]], [[worship]] and [[wisdom]].  This is the [[complexity]] of the human being, what we refer to as your completeness.  Every normal-minded human being has all these constituent components that make up the totality of their living [[being]].

In addition, right within this consciousness of yours there is the great spiritual, or should I say, quasi-spiritual entity you are [[literally]] earning out here--your own [[soul]], co-[[author]]ed by [[Thought Adjuster|a presence of God]], lending [[meaning]] and [[value]] to your life as you grow more soulful.  Finally, along with the presence of God there are the presences of your [[Guardian Angel]], Michael’s [[Spirit of Truth]], and my own [[Adjutant Mind Spirits|Spiritual Adjutants]] augmenting various aspects of your own mentality--[[intuition]], [[courage]], [[worship]] and [[wisdom]].  This is the [[complexity]] of the human being, what we refer to as your completeness.  Every normal-minded human being has all these constituent components that make up the totality of their living [[being]].

* '''''[[Free will]]'''''

===='''''[[Free will]]'''''====

On the question of [[free will]]: remember we define a human being as a [[creature]]--a deliberately created being--of free will [[dignity]].  No [[animal]] has this dignity of being able to choose its own [[destiny]], its own life day to day.  Yet in considering your [[moment]] to moment [[experience]] of life, think of all the conditioning with which you were raised that can so greatly determine what choices are available to you, even how [[reality]] itself appears to you.  This conditioning, if remaining largely knee-jerk reactive and [[unconscious]], limits your [[perceptions]] and [[interpretations]] of reality, yet, if fully conscious, gives even more [[meaning]] and [[value]] to your life--as you put it: you know where you’re coming from.  Your conscious [[sense]] of the past is more than just your material-mind’s [[memories]]--if you will, just your [[brain]]’s activities; it’s also your [[soul]]--all your experiences [[realized]] as well from the [[perspective|point of view]] of [[Thought Adjuster|God’s presence]] within you--that kind of [[totality]].   

On the question of [[free will]]: remember we define a human being as a [[creature]]--a deliberately created being--of free will [[dignity]].  No [[animal]] has this dignity of being able to choose its own [[destiny]], its own life day to day.  Yet in considering your [[moment]] to moment [[experience]] of life, think of all the conditioning with which you were raised that can so greatly determine what choices are available to you, even how [[reality]] itself appears to you.  This conditioning, if remaining largely knee-jerk reactive and [[unconscious]], limits your [[perceptions]] and [[interpretations]] of reality, yet, if fully conscious, gives even more [[meaning]] and [[value]] to your life--as you put it: you know where you’re coming from.  Your conscious [[sense]] of the past is more than just your material-mind’s [[memories]]--if you will, just your [[brain]]’s activities; it’s also your [[soul]]--all your experiences [[realized]] as well from the [[perspective|point of view]] of [[Thought Adjuster|God’s presence]] within you--that kind of [[totality]].   

Also, consider how blessed you are, my children, living in your modern age of electronic [[media]] being able to portray for you what Michael called all the hundreds of thousands of little mini-[[cultures]] all over the world.  You are able to see and hear at least a little something of other people’s lives so [[profoundly]] different from your own.  There you see poor [[individuals]] literally starving to [[death]], dying of exposure without more than a few rags to cover their naked bodies as they sit on a bare piece of ground; all the way to the most fantastically opulent palaces and life-styles of the so-called rich and famous: all the vicarious experience--hundreds of [[film|movies]], thousands of hours of [[reading]] and TV--you have within you so variously accessible.

Also, consider how blessed you are, my children, living in your modern age of electronic [[media]] being able to portray for you what Michael called all the hundreds of thousands of little mini-[[cultures]] all over the world.  You are able to see and hear at least a little something of other people’s lives so [[profoundly]] different from your own.  There you see poor [[individuals]] literally starving to [[death]], dying of exposure without more than a few rags to cover their naked bodies as they sit on a bare piece of ground; all the way to the most fantastically opulent palaces and life-styles of the so-called rich and famous: all the vicarious experience--hundreds of [[film|movies]], thousands of hours of [[reading]] and TV--you have within you so variously accessible.

   

   

* '''''[[Stillness]]''''' (Accessing your soul--prayer and meditation)

===='''''[[Stillness]]'''''====

* (Accessing your soul--prayer and meditation)

   

   

Tonight I would like to pick up the torch and take it a little bit further on how you can access this totality of your [[being]].  How do you let your soul come forth to augment and [[enlighten]] your [[consciousness]]?  How do you get a [[feeling]] for the [[character]] you’re developing?  As Michael said, this brings you to the [[necessity]] for some kind of [[inner life|inner]] [[reflection]], some kind of [[meditation]] in which you can [[relax]] and take a break from all the more pressing immediate demands of your life, even take a break from those [[things]] which are of the most meaning to you, in order to let something new come in from [[creative]] [[spirit]].

Tonight I would like to pick up the torch and take it a little bit further on how you can access this totality of your [[being]].  How do you let your soul come forth to augment and [[enlighten]] your [[consciousness]]?  How do you get a [[feeling]] for the [[character]] you’re developing?  As Michael said, this brings you to the [[necessity]] for some kind of [[inner life|inner]] [[reflection]], some kind of [[meditation]] in which you can [[relax]] and take a break from all the more pressing immediate demands of your life, even take a break from those [[things]] which are of the most meaning to you, in order to let something new come in from [[creative]] [[spirit]].

Michael mentioned that a [[seraphim]], an [[angel]], doesn’t have to worry about all the [[pain]] and injury that your [[body]] is at risk to experience--the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.  But there is, in meditation, an advantage to being human and having a physical body, a living continuity independent of your personality; so let’s make use of this living mind/body of yours, my children, in your meditation.

Michael mentioned that a [[seraphim]], an [[angel]], doesn’t have to worry about all the [[pain]] and injury that your [[body]] is at risk to experience--the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.  But there is, in meditation, an advantage to being human and having a physical body, a living continuity independent of your personality; so let’s make use of this living mind/body of yours, my children, in your meditation.

   

   

* '''''[[Heart]]''''' & '''''[[Breath]]'''''

===='''''[[Heart]]''''' & '''''[[Breath]]'''''====

   

   

First, you can [[tune]] into your heart center.  If you are still enough you can feel your heart beating in your chest without having to feel for your pulse in your wrist or your neck.  You can [[marvel]] with [[gratitude]] that you are not even keeping your own heart beating.  By keeping in [[touch]] with this living part of you, you are in touch with a [[transcendent]] [[reality]] that so many of you nonchalantly dismiss and very rarely experience so directly.  Consider how so many of the modern peoples of the more developed nations live in really poor health out of such a disregard for the marvelous [[body]] they were given at self-consciousness.  They live in the most terrible conditions of bad health in order to feed that mind-construct of theirs--their [[ego]] image of themselves, even risking their lives foolishly for some [[vanity|vain]] [[glory]].  But if you can be still and feel your heart beating, you can let the [[experience]] swell to suspend that inner, anxious self-clinging.

First, you can [[tune]] into your heart center.  If you are still enough you can feel your heart beating in your chest without having to feel for your pulse in your wrist or your neck.  You can [[marvel]] with [[gratitude]] that you are not even keeping your own heart beating.  By keeping in [[touch]] with this living part of you, you are in touch with a [[transcendent]] [[reality]] that so many of you nonchalantly dismiss and very rarely experience so directly.  Consider how so many of the modern peoples of the more developed nations live in really poor health out of such a disregard for the marvelous [[body]] they were given at self-consciousness.  They live in the most terrible conditions of bad health in order to feed that mind-construct of theirs--their [[ego]] image of themselves, even risking their lives foolishly for some [[vanity|vain]] [[glory]].  But if you can be still and feel your heart beating, you can let the [[experience]] swell to suspend that inner, anxious self-clinging.

Michael mentioned how strange this seeming non-activity must be to someone who is so outwardly oriented and inwardly self-centered and selfish with themselves they are consumed with busily building up and maintaining a sense of [[momentum]] in their lives.  Now to suggest they deliberately bring that momentum to a halt in a [[profound]] [[stillness]]?  <u>How silly it must seem to them if you were to turn around your familiar saying to suggest: don’t just do something, sit there!</u>  You can see how difficult this is, how immediately it brings about a near-[[existential]] [[fear]] of losing themselves, losing control by [[relaxing]] their grip that they so desperately feel they need.

Michael mentioned how strange this seeming non-activity must be to someone who is so outwardly oriented and inwardly self-centered and selfish with themselves they are consumed with busily building up and maintaining a sense of [[momentum]] in their lives.  Now to suggest they deliberately bring that momentum to a halt in a [[profound]] [[stillness]]?  <u>How silly it must seem to them if you were to turn around your familiar saying to suggest: don’t just do something, sit there!</u>  You can see how difficult this is, how immediately it brings about a near-[[existential]] [[fear]] of losing themselves, losing control by [[relaxing]] their grip that they so desperately feel they need.

   

   

* '''''[[Ambition]]''''' (Let go craving ambition)

===='''''[[Ambition]]'''''====

* (Let go craving ambition)

Yet unless one lets go their craving [[ambition]] completely and then discovers they survive the [[event]], how else are they to discover that they are already complete?  Unless something new is allowed to come into their [[Inner Life|inner world]], they’re only going around in the same-old, same-old [[circle]]s and actually starving their [[souls]] of the very completeness that is their birthright to discover.  This is why it takes [[patience]] and [[courage]] to let a hyper-conscious [[stillness]] come into being, for your complete personhood, my children, the totality of yourself, though always real to us, is only [[potential]] to your self-aware experiential self--you.  It does little [[good]] for some religious [[dogma]] to tell you how complete you are if you yourself cannot experience it.  This is what we offer you, a way of testing out what we say.  One of the greatest gifts we can give you, my children, is a way for you to [[discover]] and fulfill yourselves with all you are, a way for you to access your own soul, your own [[higher consciousness]], and your own creative spirit independent of the past.

Yet unless one lets go their craving [[ambition]] completely and then discovers they survive the [[event]], how else are they to discover that they are already complete?  Unless something new is allowed to come into their [[Inner Life|inner world]], they’re only going around in the same-old, same-old [[circle]]s and actually starving their [[souls]] of the very completeness that is their birthright to discover.  This is why it takes [[patience]] and [[courage]] to let a hyper-conscious [[stillness]] come into being, for your complete personhood, my children, the totality of yourself, though always real to us, is only [[potential]] to your self-aware experiential self--you.  It does little [[good]] for some religious [[dogma]] to tell you how complete you are if you yourself cannot experience it.  This is what we offer you, a way of testing out what we say.  One of the greatest gifts we can give you, my children, is a way for you to [[discover]] and fulfill yourselves with all you are, a way for you to access your own soul, your own [[higher consciousness]], and your own creative spirit independent of the past.