Question: I am moving to a new country to start a new life and studying new things,do you see this as serving some higher purpose in my life, if so in what way?
From Michael
Often we begin a reading by adressing word usage and again we will do so. We do this because of the importance of the words you use. For example, in English it is popular to say, "I am off for the weekend" or "I am taking a few days off". Off is a preposition that is the opposite of on. So, if you were to read this literally, then it would mean you were "off of a few days". This makes little sense figuratively. How can anyone be off of a day. Normally you may, "fall off of something" such as a chair.
We are not complaining about your English - it is very good. We bring up word usage because essence in its much larger realm of communication uses language very literally. Dreams often make the translation. Which is why they can make little sense until you begin to talk about them. So when you say "higher" the image that is communicated is that of something that has a higher location and thus necessitates a lower. So, by creating a higher location for yourself you thus create a lower. In the reality of essence all things are equal. The higher and lower are adjustments to the whole. If you desire a higher, then essence will oblige you and create a lower, but they are simply locations in space. (we will add here that when the higher self examines the lower it sees the terrible conditions it has created and weeps until they become as one)
Now, essence does not live in sequential time as you are accustomed and entrained to live in. Essence experiences time in a much more global form. It lives you in all your incarnations simultaneously. This is impossible for personality to grasp, personality needs to put events into cause and effect sequences. Thus we have the creation of Karma to make the process work.
You serve no purpose. You only serve essence and essence serves you. The service is mutual and thus selfless. There is no give and take, there is only the love that it expresses through you. Thus your trip serves essence but serves it so equally as before. All of your life is an expression of essence. Even that which you find disagreeable about yourself.
There is a veil, film or separation between you the incarnation and essence. However it is a one way membrane. Essence can pour through but you cannot perceive pouring back. Thus we have separation. A reality system that sets you apart from all that is. The personality cannot conceptualize the other side. It cannot conceptualize being equally here and there. There is however a way around the separation. We will call this spritual intent. You need only make the intention to weaken the separtion between yourself and all that is and experience life as essence rather than a limited personality.
We suggest that when you begin your journey that you offer the experience to essence and that you ask essence to place you in the moment. That way the communication will be enhanced and you will be able to see more of your life through the energy of essence. This is the "highest" gift you can have.
Blessings to you -- Michael & Ted
Question: I would very much like to know what I may view as to the direction my life will take before and after the final hearing on my divorce. I had inherited money from my father and others in my family. During my 6 year marriage to M, I placed her name on these moneys and property with good faith in the marriage. Now she is claiming by law her right to the assets. I can't help but feel that I am being stripped of moneys that my father gave to me. Can I recover my money?
From Michael
We will say here that by asking us for the outcome that you have not yet faced the reality of your problem. In a more direct way we will say that you are in denial about your loss and the sooner you begin to accept the fact that half of your assets will go to your wife the sooner you can recover. This is the place were the spiritualist must become the realist.All is not lost since she cannot by law take all of your family money but you will have to accept the likelyhood that she we be awarded half of all your shared assests. However, even if you had kept your assests a secret, she would have had right to a share of those assests so do not kick yourself for sharing.
Even if she could collect nothing this money would not last your entire lifetime. Money is losing energy and love will be the replacement currency. Perhaps in twenty years or more, but this is an eventuality. Thus, your money, unless investing well, would eventually lose its energy. In ten years or so it may take $1000 to purchase a cup of coffee. What you are able to earn in the moment will become more valuable that what you can save. This is due mainly to the transformation of consciousness to a more creative level. Those that can accept their power to create reality will be those that will lead others into the new way or new approach to wealth. How much love you can "transmit" will be the measure of your wealth.
You will find your situation more bearable if you can forgive your wife for whatever she has done and forgive yourself for what she has accused you of. If you decide you want to keep your inheritance we would suggest ending the divorce proceedings and offering a reconcialiation.
Finally, most successful artists do not have an inheritance package to provide them with income. It is their need to create that provides for them. Many will live a minimal existance while others will take on work that provides some creative time.
Blessings to you -- Michael
Question: I have gone out on a disability retirement due to a complicated spinal surgery. I am trying to trust in the process of the universe providing for my needs which is hard work for someone who had a strong need to control outcomes. I believe I am developing more faith, but I could use some insight right now. Please talk about the source of my present situation.
From Michael
Almost always in a lifetime there are numerous complaints. Whether it is having to rise to early in the morning, or if it is a disagreeable mate, or simply bad food, humans will find something to complain about. Unfortunately complaints which become habitual tend to lodge somewhere in the body. For you, it appears that you complained about having to pick up after others. Of course picking up does involve use of the back and constant use can result in difficulty. However the complaints add to the problem. Complaints are like an affirmation. If you say "my feet hurt" and your feet do hurt, then the complaint, the affirmation, feeds that pain and adds insult to injury. The feet do not want to be reminded that they hurt, they simply want to feel better. They become starved for love. Afterall, who is this being who the carry around all day, and when they need a little love and attention, the being just complains about them. Thus, like the feet, the back, "oh my aching back" wants the same love.
Notice that primates spend a great deal of time grooming each other. This is a way that they share affection and take care of their bodies. Many humans have lost this habit. Instead of spending their evenings grooming each other, rubbing feet, rubbing backs, massaging hands, rubbing heads, they sit in chairs away from each other, involved in an activity such as homework or television. Thus bodies tend to be love starved.
Massaging, rubbing, hugging is the love that the body feels. Ego's may not need it, however bodies do not understand the subtlties of ego talk. They hear the message very literally. Thus, my aching back does become the aching back instead of the healing back. The ego, because it wants to appear strong, because it knows it is really weak, tends to shirk too much body contact. The ego asks, "what's in it for me". The ego always asks this question. Thus in your case, the ego calls for control because it fears loss of control. Consider your profession. Is your class in control? This is an issue presented to teachers. Are the children thoroughly confined by the rigidity of the system? Thus, as the channel says, the public school serves the system, not the child.
Exorcising imprinting can be difficult. We could ask you though to change that belief. Basically, you are not your thoughts. Affirming this brings you closer to your core self that will create the right messages for every moment. If you find yourself complaining, the core self will make an adjustment and encourage you to change the statment, my aching back to my healing back. However beginning with the back, since the back is the end result and not the beginning, could be difficult. This is why we ask you to consider that you are nothing. That everything you are you have borrowed from someone else. You have learned who you are and what you have learned are misleading statements. The statments in your mind do not lead you to the truth of who you are, they only lead you away. So simply take some time and acknowledge the purity of your spirit and allow her to dissolve the thoughtforms you have collected.
We will say that some people are packrats when it comes to thoughtforms. Their closets are stuffed with them, their garages overflowing. Is it time to do some housecleaning? Imagine a dumptruck coming to your "house of self" and you throwing eveything away. They examine your house of self, completely cleaned. You may want to find some areas that need repair, or perhaps you might want to repaint. Either way, this type of thoughtform cleaning exercise can be helpful in gaining the clarity that helps with the healing process.
Blessings to you
Michael
From Michael
Since you are so sensitive to other people, animals, and even plants you will feel the lowered energy levels that are endemic at this time. You are sensitive and your sensitivity is more powerful than THE ARTIFICIAL ENVIRONMENT that you now find yourself in. You cannot be fooled by it no matter how hard you slide into SELF DELUSION. The dissatisfaction you feel cannot be masked by self depreciation either. Note - it is not you but a condition that you have come to believe is yourself. You can separate from it and feel yourself whole, which is WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN DOING ANYWAY AND WHAT IS THE CAUSE OF YOUR FEELINGS ABOUT YOUR LIFE. Don't expect your essence to be enthusiastic about what this channel calls the STUPID WORLD. It is a world of IGNORANCE. We ask you to acknowledge that daily. Your work leads nowhere because it leads nowhere. Once you begin accepting this you will be able to DEtach from it and see it as a TEMPORARY RESOURCE for AQUIRING YOUR NEEDS.
You would much prefer the hunt - even if you are a vegetarian you by nature have been a hunter and this is what you miss most. You want to experience the cold of the night, the solitude of the moon, the sound of elk as you stalk them in perfect quiet. You have been forced to civilize and you remember it constantly with disdain and loathing.
You wild nature has been arresting and it complains. We suggest you find a group of people that likes to dance naked around a fire at night. This will encourage you to become more free in your TRUE WORK. We are being blunt but it was your suggestion. If you cannot dance naked around a fire at night there are alternatives. Singing and drumming can be helpful in bringing this energy through. After all, it is an energy block you are suffering from.
Blessings to you -- Michael and Ted.
I have this friend, in fact I had her as a friend for almost four years, last year she fell in love with one of my friends. At first I think that I was even quite supportive, but later I've realised that I loved her too. I would like us to get back together. Is there some chance for us to be united again, if so then what should be done on my part ? M
From Yesu
Sometimes you tend to see yourself as the knight in shining armour. We would like you to let go of that vision of yourself. Your friend sees that in you and she tends to shy away from it. She feels she does not need that kind of protection and she feels stifled by it. She likes her space and her independence. It is important to her not to feel dependend.
She also sees a more vulnerable part of you. There is a conflict here also since with her desire for independence she does not want to be with a weak person. So, she sees you both as a bit too domineering with some qualities of weekness. It does not matter if this is true about you or not, it is simply how she sees you - at times. Obviously she does not always see you this way, only on occasion - however, when she does see these qualities she feels a desire to escape the relationship.
The best way to maintain this relationship is to let go of the desire to hold on to it or maintain it or perpetuate it. It would be best to feel it as immediately real and not as something that needs to be developed. The part she has enjoyed, the part she has been attracted to, is the spontaneous, immediate and momentary quality. In some ways she will escape into you - however when you try to develop it the relationships loses the very escapist quality she is seeking.
She also wants you to feel a longing in your heart. She cares not for honor. She seeks passion. But it is in the passion of the heart that desires the unatainable. She would cultivate this in you.
She desires also to see the fruits of her work. So you can rest assured that you will again continue where you left off.
Now you may say, "I don't want to continue this process". We will tell you that there are different ways to love and that each time she leaves you she learns more about love. As she learns the desire for stability may prove more powerful than the quickness of the hunt.
Blessings to you -- Yesu
I am increasingly feeling anger towards the treatment director (B). His behavior towards the clients has been in my opinion emotionally abusive and control issues in general are running rampant. I find his treatment of employees in general to be condescending. Another part of my growing intolerance of this situation however has to co with a personal issue: An individual named (A)was channeled to be my ET. (Warrior/artisan/priest cast.) He left employment at the facility and desired to return. We have not finished with our current agreements according to previous channelings. However the treatment director has not rehired him despite being incredibly short staffed and new hires being in short supply. I am looking for the aformentioned Truth in this situation.
I am wondering if my increasing desire to leave this job is appropriate and being pushed by the situation described above or if i am simply looking to "payback" what i consider interference with my agreements with ET to the detriment of essence plans for my work with clients. (My ability to decieve myself is large). Also wondering if I am projecting father issues on treatment director.
From Michael
We will say that you should acknowledge your own ability to recognize when you need to leave a situation. We are not saying that you should leave, we are only asking you to recognize and acknowledge your ability. This is what you are after - you ability to consciously create your reality. We say consciously because most reality is created in a sleep state.
Now, consider that your ET has decided to move on to new territory. On an essence level this is the appropriate move, however, being without a job is always frightening to the limiting ego.
There is no interference in the agreements and most of all - punishment or pay back is always counter productive. You do not create anything new through punishment.
Another way to look at this is to consider how you create the situation. You have a man, a director, who is unhappy and you want to punish him for it. What he needs is to realize the consequences of his actions and desire to create a more harmonious environment around him. If he did would you support him? Would you request that this happen in his life? If you cannot do this sincerely then perhaps you are attached to the emotions that the situation creates. Does the anger make you feel righteous? Perhaps this is the underlying desire in the relationship.
If possible, talk about the director with your ET. Carefully observe your emotions. Then realize that you are creating the emotional condition in yourself. Then ask yourself if this is what you really want. It is important not to feel that you have to be "good". If you do so you will be avoiding the Truth - you will be trying to alter the situation to make yourself a better person.
We are not telling you to let go of your anger toward the director. You may want to confront him and fight with him. This is also an appropriate course of action. By taking this risk, in an honest way, you grow closer to essence - or in other words, you remove a layer of barrier that separates you from essence. You may want to let him know, in the clearest way you can, that you do not think that his methods are productive. Again, he may want to fire you. That is the risk you take.
Finally, what emotional state of being to you want to feel. Try to remember the times you felt that way. Try not giving it words, try to remember the feeling and all the events surrounding it. Then realize that the events had less to do with the feeling that your ability to feel that way. Decide then that you can choose to feel that way and ask for it. Perhaps the solution to your need to make a change in your life will come to you in a way that you cannot resist.
Blessings to you -- Michael & Ted
Could you and/or the Michaels tell me about entity 7, cadre 1, the sweethearts?
From Michael
It would be wise to note that any description of an entity is not necessarily indicative of any single member of that entity. What we describe is a character that would represent the individuality of that entity. Because of the variance that the collective past life information will bring, the entity can look different in a collective later soul age.
One of the first qualities that come to mind is the calmness under duress that this entity has collectively learned. They are one that have a sense of reward from being able to walked emotionally unscarred from any brutal lifetime, or for that matter, any violent event. They are the ones who would go back into the building to rescue the last possible survivor. They did so in past lifetimes for the recognition of heroics that this would bring them, however in recent lifetimes this entity simply likes the thrills in life and have been able to obtain thrills from the most insignificant of events. This can be annoying to members of other entities who may feel that gushing over a dandelion may be a little too much - and all from being the first into battle.
This entity also has obtained some expertise in healing, whether it be using technical tools to facilitate natural healing or directly with psychic/energy healing. You will find enough of them working in the counseling field, listening to the chatter of their clients, and busily sending currents or calm through their heart chakra - this while their minds are away somewhere preparing a dinner for friends - another interesting aspect.
You won't really find them enjoying service such as going on a peace march, or saving whales, or what ever. Not that they wouldn't, it is just that they would rather serve others in a more intimate way, mainly, serving a good meal to a group of friends. They will spend hours planning and preparing some delicious feast and be the last ones to dig the spoon into the mashed potatoes.
They can be though at times indirect. They will beat around the bush and never really get their point across. Life is too interesting to commit to any single way of doing things, or to any single way of thought. They are more eclectic intellectually and would rather sit back and study an idea for a lengthy time and compare it to all the other ideas they have learned. If they embrace any way of philosophizing they will compare and contrast ideas rather than choose a following.
They are not followers - nor are they great leaders. They do not like to commit and will embrace individuality. They do not make good communists, collectivists or coop members. Opening a small business where they are in charge is just fine however.
They do not go for the big, the bombastic, the great, the all mighty and tend to step back skeptically at anyone who makes great leadership claims. In some ways they are like the midwesteners who say, "show me". Now, if it interests them they will be your supporter unless you some how fail in the integrity scale.
They are easy to forgive but they will remind you of your transgressions. They have not use for punishment but they will do what they can to demonstrate the error of your particular negative behavior.
They are strong family members and often will take family leadership roles but will only take them on if their main issues are taken care of first. That is, they will not make a decision for another person unless they feel they have made that choice themselves, tested it and proven its worth.
Although much more can be said to describe this entity, we will leave you here.
Blessings to you -- Michael & Ted
I like your web site and you sound very nice. I have had a few Michael readings before with Aaron and would like one with you if possible.
I'd like to send you $20 for a short e-mail reading at your convenience. I'd send more but I'm a full-time student. If you e-mail your address, I'll do that.
My question is concerning a friend I made recently at school. I'm 42, female, artisan/sage, married 18 years to a warrior/artisan. I'm sure I've already met my twin flame - sage/artisan 37-year-old male who doesn't feel comfortable about further contact with me. We met over 8 years ago and I haven't seen him for over 6 years.
This guy at school (Jim) is 32 and was enrolled in the Master's Counseling program, as I am. He's now going to be a teacher. He spent 1991-1998 as a "ski bum" in Vail. He's very nice and we have a very strong connection. I'd like to know what it is, what it has been in past lives, and if we've made an agreement to have contact beyond this past semester.
Can you help??? Thanks a lot. I really feel good about your abilities and your sense of humor. Thanks.....L.
From Michael
No need to send any money. You can send three tons of astral gold however. Simply think of a hugh block of gold against a deep blue background and send it my way.
After a while you will start realizing that all the people in your life are connected to you in some way to a past life. Which one is doesn't really matter - we just keep coming back over and over again and tend to magnetize to the same essence fragments. Just think of the billions of people that you have never met or will ever physically see.
These attractions keeps us comfortable. Familiarity is familiarity. However it makes it difficut to break away from old habits. That wonderful lover keeps coming back to be wonderful - at first - then shows you his same old humanness after a while. The surface features are always thin and familiarity can bring with it a degree of contempt. You see this often enough in the many failed relationships of your friends. It looks like you have one in particular that you are observing this lifetime. She has been through too many relationships as far as you are concerned and you have a desire for her to slow down a bit and settle down.
Your questions speaks of one who is looking for permanancy in a relationship. You can look at this two ways however. There is permancy in all relationships since as essence you are permanent. OR you will notice that all relationships eventually end. We suggest that you get to know both ideas. It helps let go of any attachment that might be distorting the truth of the relationship.
Notice that you and Jim are already honoring an agreement to get together and be with each other. We will say here that he is more likely to end the relationship after the semester and any attempt you make at trying to change it, or make the relationship permanent, will cause him to retract even more. He does not at this time want to be tied down - as he sees it. He is also feeling tied down enough with his commitment to the masters program. He has more romantic inclinations concerning himself. That is, he in not lover searching, but he has ideals that go beyond the realities of his present situation. He sees himself as more exhalted and even "other worldly" than the PRAGMATIC imprinting that has been endowed upon him by his father. Counseling is a way for him to approach good work but he would prefer to do his good work in the jungles of the Amazon.
He is though, comfort addicted enough to remain in the safety of civilization. We are describing his fantasy world which has a tendency of infiltrating his reality.
If the present agreement comes to completion it will be because issues of work will carry you both into different directions. The departure is not about ending the relationship for the sake of ending it. This is not a break up. Considering the connection that drew you together it would be difficult to break. There is no desire to wound the other here. You are not about paying back the death in battle through male/female energy. Take into consideration that many of the battles that begin on the battle field will play themselves out again as the lover scorned, betrayed or abandoned. You and Jim are not about this. But it looks likely from here anyway, that you will both need to go into your separate directions. This separtion will make it more difficult for you to physically be together. Other events will dominate your life. This is not about leaving each other, it is about change in your life.
We hope this is helpful to you.
Blessings -- Michael & Ted
I have been considering quitting my job I am very unhappy there and have a lot of baby-sitting challenges for my handicapped daughter. I would like to quit and go back to school do you think my husband will be able to provide for us? There has been time that I have not been able to rely on him, and I am afraid to rely on him now.
From Michael
He appears, from here anyway, that the situation you are in will not change at a rate that you would prefer. You are in a situation where risk taking at the level that you need to find another position is out of the question. You do not have a window of opportunity available to you at this time. When it comes, on its own accord, it will be a long awaited disappointment. We are not saying this to be cruel, we are offering a description of your situation.
You have the ability to change the situation, however, it is limited by the agreements you have with your daughter and husband. So, as you know, and as you stated to us, you have agreed to include them in the changes and choices that you have included in your life's plan.
Along with your life's plan was the study of overcoming obstacles. You have some rather large ones to overcome but happiness is your birthright as it is the birthright of all souls on the planet.
We would like you then to begin pretending that you are creating opportunities for yourself that will fall within the risk limitations that are required of you. We will ask you to start with something very small. That is, perhaps you would like to create a happier day at your work place. A day where you really feel valued, respected and full of energy. Before you go to work then, pretend that you are going to a workplace that offers you these feelings. Then even if you are having a miserable day, look for those brief moments when you are feeling energized and happy. When you feel them, tell yourself that you chose to be this way and it is all your doing. You are completely responsible for this wonderful feeling. You opened the door.
If it passes in a few mintutes and the misery returns, then let go, it will return, but when it does tell yourself that you brought it into your being.
This happiness, if you nuture and cultivate it, will begin to create conditions in your life that will support it. We will say that misery has the same ability, as does hatred, as does sorrow, as does excitement. Emotions are powerful reality creators.
By cultivating happiness your husband will either leave you or he will join you in the cultivation. This is when you will be able to rely on him. He feels rejected in some ways. His feeling is also habitual and difficult to change. We advise you not to try to change him. This will create more resistance and he will be less reliable. This is how he has power over the world.
You path is not easy. We will not try to convince you of this. We do ask you to consider what we suggest. It will cost you nothing. May joy grow inside you.
Blessings to you , Michael & Ted
A friend gave me your name and email address, and said you will answer one question for free. If you can will you help me? Have my angels/spirit guides been talking to me the last couple of days...I have been hearing from someone--just want to know if it's really them, the angels who have been taking care of me for centuries,for sure and not someone else...thank you....Sincerely, T
From Anonymous Spirit
Well, today I am driving to a meeting and upon looking to my left I see a water spot on a wall in the symmetrical shape of an angel - you just happen to be the first letter I am answering tonight.
So, to answer your question. Angels, if indeed they exist, which I believe they do, but not in the traditional notion of white people with golden wings, are in a constant state of broadcast. To explain, these energies, and I do want to emphasize the word energy over the word being or personality, are constantly awake and conscious. You could say they are super conscious energies that exist with the sole purpose of serving All that Is. They do not differentiate themselves from All that Is. They have been and always will be integrated within the whole or the one consciousness. If they differentiate at all it is to serve a select band of creative energy.
They are not humanoid and will never be. They cannot become individuals but they are in service to individuals such as us.
If we desire the help of an angel we attune ourselves to the "broadcast" of energy that the angel provides. During certain types of singing or chanting people often fall inadvertently into the angel consciousness and become part of that bandwidth. It is here that the greatest attunement is reached and the service provided by the angel is transferred to the individual. The individual then becomes an agent of service to that particular angelic realm.
This happens also on the astral plain and spirit guides, lost in the rapture that an angelic realm provides, will be inspired to act in a capacity of service. They will listen to the call of those in need and act to provide what ever knowledge, comfort, blessing or healing that has been called for. These astral beings, who are in service to the angelic realms, will take on an energetic appearance which resembles the particular signature of the angel, thus we have the traditional look of an angel.
When you ask for spiritual help you will tune into a particular Angel Agency and those in service will assist you. If you are a good listener you will receive more of the energy. Energy is received by being intellectually and emotionally open or very basically, being receptive. Creating a shape for the energy, that is a thought form, can also be helpful in bringing the energy into clear focus and thereby helping ease pain, discomfort or even creating a so called "miraculous" healing.
It is important to realize that you are being receptive to energies that are already available to you. You are the one who is creating the conditions for healing - not the angel. They cannot interfere. You are using energies that are already being channeled by your spirit which could not exist without them. The difference lies in being conscious or unconscious to the Universal Life Giving processes.
We hope this answers your question.
Ted and his spirit friends.
How do I become more aware of my connection to my higher guidance and God concerning my purpose for being here?
From Michael
Obviously there are many different approaches to gaining access to information about yourself from any of many so called higher sources. We will say this, and we say this often, that God does not send messages. You do however, receive messages often enough from a variety of sources. For you though it is a process of throwing out what is useless information and selecting that which you recognize as truth.
You can easily enough with a daily "remembering" make clear communication with your higher self. Once you begin to recognize communication, even if it is a brief sense of knowing, you will begin to improve your reception of the energy of essence. This is far better than asking God for anything. God, as we understand the idea, provides nothing. You do not have to believe us on this one, however, it is how we now understand how the Universe works. This understanding can be achieved on any level of being - however it is not altogether popular since many people would prefer to have a saviour to help them out of their various predicaments.
We are obviously digressing here so, continuing on...once the Higher Self reception is learned you will gain a trust about your own choices. This trust will help essence maximize merging into your personality. We say maximize because no incarnation at this time can channel the amount of energy that essence brings.
As essence communication or communion continues you will begin to re-describe your reality. It is quite possible that your previous expectations about your life will have little importance. Here you will understand and realize that what ever you are doing in the moment has a purpose.
We will suggest that at this moment, ask for essence to help you gain insight into your the meaning and purpose of your lifetime. Do not try to force an answer based on your desired outcome. Simply let go of any desire for an immediate answer. Ask the question and let it rest. Assume that the answer will come to you when you are ready to hear the answer.
To contradict ourselves somewhat. When you ask a question of essence you will receive an immediate answer - however, and this is a big however, most of the time the personality has not learned the language of essence and what you will "hear" will be like static on a radio. You can though allow it to flow into your life on its own terms.
Blessings to you -- Michael & Ted
I am certainly finding that this year has been heralded by some sudden and major changes in my life. I was curious about why there was no specific comment about what the new millenium year will hold
for sages (and scholars).I am a fourth level mature sage, and would like to know if the changes I have made are going in the right direction.Can you (or Michael) comment?
From Michael
It is quite appropriate for a fourth level mature soul to not really know where they are going. They will certainly invent a way and find a group to follow along with, most likely mature souls who are busily reinventing a religious pathway they have already been following.
Mature souldom is a testing time. Think of the alchemist experimenting with different methods to produce gold, although all of them seem to fail in the end. The outcome though is some other magnificent compound which was purely unintended.
Mature souldom is a time of doubt about everything that was done in the previous lifetimes. It is a sorting out time. It is like cleaning out the attic and keeping only WHAT YOU ARE VERY ATTACHED TO. And with this comes some of the folly of the mature soul. They are quite attached, almost too much so. They have a more difficult time letting go than the 7th level young warrior with a CF of greed. It is a sentimental time in the cycle. You may want the white picket fence and the rose garden and you will most certainly avoid shoveling out the manure which is the task at hand and the road to spiritual fulfillment.
You will not get it from the rose garden. You cannot depend on the roses to bring you what you need. They only last a short time and end up in the mulch anyway.
You are preparing those old soul lifetimes and we would suggest to think in those terms. Every action feeds the lessons of your latent old soul. Your old souls will be digging deeply into their collective psyches to gain the wisdom that you are collecting.
The energy that is coming in is about letting go (release). If you prepare yourself to make a release then you will be well prepared. Look at your surroundings and pretend that they are your thoughts. Then do an inventory of what thoughts your have surrounded yourself with that you could best let go of. Ask essence to help you release them. They will come lose however they will release a emotional feelings of attachment that you did not realize where there. This is to be expected but with a little practise you will begin to let go of much unwanted baggage and thus feel very, very light.
You are always going in the right direction, however this is like the fish either swimming against or with the current. Find your areas of least resistance this year and you will be going in the right direction.
Blessings to you -- Michael & Ted
Should I go back or not ?
The question itself looks for a yes or no answer in regards to you destination. It also implies a level of guilt or regret. We do not encourage either so we will not give you an answer that will perpetuate either. With either option, to remain or return, you will have a degree of regret. However take note that it is not possible to go back. The idea of being able to return to a moment in time, or to a memory is a false notion. You are only in a moment and the location has a way of changing around you. These changes around you are caused by your ability to make choices.
With that in mind, we offer you what we know about emotional conditions. People chose circumstances to create a reality that supports the emotional condition that they desire. Now we do not ask you to believe this, we simply are stating our observations. We could be wrong, but we offer this to you because we think you may find value in it. There are two methods for creating these emotional states of being. You can do it unconciously with Karma or you can break the Karma habit and begin a conscious practise or reality creation.
Karma is in some way soothing and comforting. It takes the responsibility out of reality. You can say your suffering is because of your Karma. However Karma is the default method of creation and certainly not the norm for most sentient beings. Many choose to do both and in some ways this is unavoidable. Afterall, what would the Universe be without cause and effect.
Putting that aside, consider that you are the creator. You create everything in your time/space Location. The mountains, your mother, your dog, your country. All these things you are creating with your mind. You create all things in your life and you draw within your Location the advice, counsel, love, support and most of all, the Dramatic Interplay of other Creators. If you need Drama to support your emotional conditions then you will draw them into your Location.
Now, to make your choice ask yourself what it is you are seeking by going back. Is it what you want? If it is not, then you should stay - if it is then you should go.
Doing what you want has the greatest risk. Most people will not consider living life this way. It appears too dangerous. But we suggest that you at least consider that it is possible to do what you want.
Finally, after asking what it is you want, decide what emotional condition this will bring you. Then ask if it is the emotional condition that you desire? Here we will say that you are not sure what emotional condition you want. You do not appear to be one that explores emotion since the consequences are too risky. This may be an area for you to examine. Ask to feel joy. This is what all beings desire to feel because it is feeling the Self within.
Blessings to you -- Yesu & Ted
I am a gay man. I have been having problems of panic reactions, anxiety & anger towards women which has been ongoing over the past eight years. My counsellor tells me it is due to issues with self esteem, sexuality and society's expectations. I've been struggling to try and find a solution to undo the debilitating psychological effects it's been having on my life. Can you offer any help or advice on why this has happened and how to find the way out of my paranoia? B
You may have already realized that although your reactions are a product of your mind they are still quite real to you. This is somewhat stating the obvious however you provide a good example of how powerful the mind is and how little control we have over some of the events that it creates.
It would be nice to have some kind of mental control panel somewhere where we could adust our thoughts and resultant feelings. I had a very vivid dream about this years ago, however the controls were all rusted from age or atrophy. Perhaps fear acts like rust upon these mechanisms which we once had precise control over.
One thing that is coming up around you is a past life where you were a monk in a monastary and taught that women were basically evil. This feels very medieval and extreme in the emphasis of denial of sexual and sensual pleasure. Consider the greatest pleasure was physical punishment and the resultant endorphins.
We will often choose these lifetimes as atonement for past life misdeeds however it is always realized in later lifetimes that there is no sin, nor is there antonement for something that does not exist. Somehow I think that we choose to create a belief in sin to create conditions that prove it false - but this is another story.
Your problem however is this lifetime and there was something in your childhood that sparked the reaction you are having. (I have a few phobias myself and I have yet to remember the first fear).
From Yesu
WE would first like to mention that all sentient beings in bodies have a five association to them. This can be viewed in different ways depending on the system one is studying. There are many ways to describe a cat. The way we describe begins with one spirit which divides into polarites of male and female. The male and female polarities have both a negative and positive quality to them which brings us to a five. You have then, male+, male-, spirit, female- and female+.
It is the habit of most humans beings to choose to look at only one quality, isolating it from the rest of the whole. It is somewhat unfortunate for happiness sake to isolate the energies. We say somewhat since it does provide a learning, or study of the polarities. Although in separation they can be seen clearly but they are seen without their relationships to the other.
You are in many ways involved in the study of the negative female energy which is by far more mysterious and interesting then the positive form. More stories are told about the whore than the mother and Lilith is somewhat more interesting than Eve, although Eve has been given the burden of carrying sin around with her, though Eve's responsibility for sin is a false notion.
What you are searching for is a nuetral feeling toward women, both in the form of the whore and the mother. It would do you well to see them as equals since they simply are parts of a larger energy. They both have their place and both can be divided further into their negative and positive counter parts.
Look upon your fear then as a study. This is not an intellectual study, it is an emotional study and one that as you know carries with it a good deal of pain that you hold. If you were not in pain with this study you would not seek to have the pain healed. However, with the pain gone you resort to intellectual study which for you has gone in too many circles over too many lifetimes. This is a lifetime where you wanted to feel some extremes with your emotions in order to study them. In this way you are able to isolate and learn.
We will say that your therapist has much to learn from this study and looks forward to talking with you. You are doing the grunt work so to speak.
We suggest then that you begin a process of letting go of the shame you feel about the fears you have. There is nothing shameful about reactions that you have no conscious control over. You did not consciously choose to fear the whore or the negative aspect of the female energy. In a way it was chosen for you by forces outside of your waking personality. You could say that your Dream body has more influence over choices in this area.
Now that you realize that you have no control over your fears you can ask that you find a way to overcome or overpower the fear with a higher form of energy. We would like you to study the mother energy somewhat. You do not have to go to a day care center or adopt a child, we would simply ask you to perhaps look at a film of a woman giving birth, or a woman breast feeding an infant, or if this is too much, watch a film about caring for newborns. It is important to see as much nuturing as possible, since this is the positive pole of the female energy. While you watch the films notice your breathing. Pay close attention to it and allow it to go to parts of your body that are constricting. Say to yourself that the healing and nuturing power of the positive, female, mother energy is going to these points. Feel these places expand.
You cannot make the choice to not fear from the intellect. It needs to take place from the source of feeling. This is why we suggest the exercise above. We also suggest that you congratulate yourself for the difficult struggle you have taken on with your study
Blessings to you -- Yesu & Ted
I am feeling very stuck and bound to a future I don't really want, one that was outlined for me in a "future reading" by a psychic with whom I seem to have a lot of incompatible karma. The predictions keep on coming true and I feel helpless to change anything, except perhaps to make things worse. What can I do to extricate myself from this seemingly hopeless and very unfunny dilemma?
Reading the future is a problem because they set up our subconcious to create the conditions for them. If she said you will find love from everyone you would probably find love everywhere. This might not change the Karma that is placing you in the circumstances, but you would find them much easier to deal with.
You create your reality, however I still believe it is not just the little "I" of our personality that is doing the creating. Our little "I" is another chess piece of a greater array of players who are also us.
A technique to take over your reality is to medidate on spirit and ask the spirit of yourself to begin creating your reality. You will probably have the same events, but you will be living them as Spirit rather than the small "I".
The question could be, "What if you could live your life without fear of the future and regrets about the past?" How would this change your present moment.
Spirit lives only in the present moment which is where most of us little "I's" need to spend more of our time. It is here that we create our reality. Past and future are both memories.
A good psychic doesn't make predictions. She looks into your aura and helps you determine the source of a problem and looks for a solution that you also have there. You have all the information you need and the psychic helps draw it out so you can see it more clearly. They should be like mirrors.
It sounds like she has implanted these predictions into your subconscious. You may want to remove them. Think about what you want. Think about happy, healthy, friendly and loving people surrounding you. These thoughtforms will help heal your aura and attract the energy to fulfill them.
From Yesu
We would like you to outline your own desires for your reality rather than letting your friend do the work for you. She has been a caregiver to you in previous lifetimes and this lifetime you need to let go of that pattern. There is an anger around her for you "taking off on your own" so to speak. Much like an overbearing mother who is displeased with her daughters choices but who would also be displeased with any choice her daughter made.
Outline your desires in writing. Be specific about who you want to come into your life. Do not ask for things not to happen, only ask for people that will help you be your true self. You are asking for people who will help you feel higher levels of joy and this joy will transform the Karma pattern that has been programmed into your subconscious mind.
These programs are difficult to break. A good astrologer can show them to you and caution you when a particular event will come to be. However, the events have both positive and negative forms. You can exapand under the most oppressive circumstances if that is your desired outcome. Be sure of this and be clear of what outcome you desire.
Blessings to you -- Yesu & Ted
I wonder if you could give some answer about my health. The reason for it and what I can do to get well?
From Michael
Almost all incarnate fragments will choose some weakness before entering the physical plane. Weakness provides a growth opportunity. Chief feature is the "weakness" overleaf but chief feature is primarily concerned with fear, or the contraction of essence. Essence, when encased in chief feature, cannot expand and has little power in the incarnation. The fragment is thus left on its own through condition reaction of fear.
Physical disabilities are of two types. One is chief feature induced the other is chosen before incarnation. The second are weaknesses of the body that you, as essence fragment, chose to work through. Most often however, chief feature will influence the weakness you are born with. The two conditions rarely act separately.
You can then improve your condition by looking into your chief feature. Notice that your concern about your heart will perpetuate its condition and even make it worse. The more negative attention you give it the more energy is taken away from healing.
What you have need for then is healing rather than treatment. Whether this condition was created lifetimes ago or whether it was created this lifetime makes little difference, it is the condition that must be dealt with. Looking into a past life where you made great sacrifices for others and still were betrayed - "breaking you heart" - will matter little at this time.
Since the channel is not a medical professional he cannot give medical advice, we will say though that if you investigate into your diet you may find a mineral deficiency that at least aggravates the condition. These conditions are subtle, but a change of diet could offer some relief and give you more energy. It looks like you do not absorb calcium well and you should find another source other than dairy. Changing your diet to include steamed, fresh, leafy greens especially kale or the leaves of broccoli may give you a feeling of more energy.
Remember this is channeled information, so what you read may not be accurate for you, however we suggest that you examine your own intuitive ability - that is, does the recommendation feel right to you? Do you have an aversion to this type of diet. If so that would be a clue that you are lacking in it. We also suggest that you have an intuitive ability to find the diet that will be best for you, however you need to look at your chief feature which is probably impatience. Chief feature studies can last several years but they will give you wonderful results, that is, you become very conscious of your fears. Your fears come out in the open for you to examine and discharge. This alone, although not fully healing your condition, will alleviate it substantially - why? Because you will have more energy when you are relieved of the burden of chief feature.
Blessings to you -- Michael & Ted.
What connection, if any, do I have to the fragment that was my deceased brother, M., in this life? (i.e. - essence twin? task companion?)
From Michael
Essence twins have energetic/psychic attraction that goes beyond what you might call the norm. You will notice that some people you have not met before have a familiarity about them. This would be the energetic/psychic attraction we talk about. Among family members the familiarity is there with proximity however. If you are with a person long enough, even one you do not like, psychic energy chords will develop that will connect you at unconscious levels. You will feel each others emotions more easily. You will empathize more even if you do not want to.
First with you brother, it looks like you both have overleaf complements which make it easier for you to psychically share. This makes it easy to "read" the other person. You also have numerous shared memories which appear to be similar in their descriptions. You do not see it one way while he sees it the other way.
Task companions also have this similarity but task companions work together to support the others life task. Lets say you are a baker your task companion may be the one who works the counter all during your task completion which was to bake bread for the thousands. Your task companion may have set up a task that involved the maintaining and distribution of energy in the form of currency or it could have been to greet people every day and say thank you often. Tasks are not quite written up in astral contracts as you might expect. Saying, 'thankyou' a certain number of times is a viable life task.
Essence twins can be much more stormy. They will transmit feelings and emotions to each other constantly. You can read their thoughts easily. They are not always valuable and many have conflicts and will avoid each other. Essence twin relationships are not selective. They see all, feel all and know all about each other. They do not keep secrets from each other and they will know when the other is lying.
It feels like you are not living near your essence twin this lifetime. You are on opposite sides of the country doing different things and leading very different lives. It is often just as valuable for essence twins to be separate as together.
If M.does not fit into the description of task companion we gave you, then we would say that the connection you feel is based on familiarity and overleaf complements. This is not inferior to the other two, it is just as valuable. To locate task companion try looking at people in your life that are constantly helping you. Also, you do not have to have a task companion during any given lifetime. They are usually around for twenty years on average but some overleaf combinations do well without them.
Blessings to you -- Michael
Dear Yesu:
In the past year I have made and perpetuated a serious error in judgment--probably my greatest mistake of this lifetime. I am looking at the resulting guilt, shame, and fear as a valuable (if painful) learning experience. But it is the fear of further repercussions that prompts me to ask you for any reassurance you can offer. I know that I have forgiving ones who are "there for me" both here and on the spirit side, yet never have I felt so alone.
From Yesu
We will talk briefly about life event potentials. These are time determined events in your life or what most call destiny or fate. If you were to look at these from outside the physical plane, you would see them as bulges on an otherwise smooth, hollow tube. Incarnating is like entering a hollow tube and squeezing through it until you reach the end. Along the way you gain the experience that each tube is coded for.
Buldges happen at varying frequencies depending on what type of lifetime you chose to develop the potential your karma has to offer. Karma offers both positive and negative results. We emphasize both. You do not receive one or the other. There is no separtion of positive and negative, they represent the polor opposites of the same sphere. Without them there is no sphere.
You have probably realized that we are saying that you are in a bulge. Bulges have high event potential but the event is almost always predetermined. If you have the potential for an accident then no matter where you are or what you are doing that accident will occur. It could be severe or minor though, depending on you what you have learned previously in the lifetime. So, if you had the opportunity to do self work, it is unlikely that you will have an accident while driving drunk. Instead, you will have a close call, or fall off your bicycle while avoiding a cat.
Some people are able to predict these events by channeling, or by the study of astrology, or by intuitive means. It is important to note that you have this information already. It is coded into your unconscious mind and can be symolized to you through your dream world.
We want you to realize that the physical plane is very, very impersonal. It is a mistake to be sentimental about it. Form here is permanent only through the passage of one body to another. That is, individuals must sacrifice their form for the benefit of the continuation of the form. The sky, the soil, the ocean does not care about you. They will swallow you up in a very impersonal, detached way. This is because from their conciousness they understand and accept the mechanics of the earth.
Human beings become attached and sentimental because they need to survive in an impersonal world by living together. Love thus is a tool to survive on the physical plane. It is a fact that a mother will not question protecting her child and she will sacrifice herself to protect her child. This is not the spirit though that is protecting spirit. The spirit knows it needs no protection. The body knows that it needs protection and the body, through instict, knows how impersonal the physical plane is.
We offer you this because we would like you to take the charge off of your feeling about making a mistake. The event occured because you had potential to create it and in an impersonal physical plane, no remorse is necessary. Remorse will not cure remorse.
This is a time to move away from your human instinct and into pure spirit. Spirit will allow you the mistake because it learns through it, whether or not the negative or positive result is emphasized. Spirit will take both since spirit understands the necessity of both. Spirit will accept the lesson your lifetime provides and it will process it and give you the best solution. Asking for this will release much of the guilt you are feeling although it looks like you will have to persevere with yourself and constantly ask. Keep spirit in your mind as much as you can. If you find yourself dwelling on your mistake, then think of spirit and this will slowly dissipate the energy your are giving the mistake.
Blessings to you -- Yesu & Ted
I've really enjoyed poking around your web site, especially the questions and answers from Yesu. You're doing a wonderful service here!
I've always wanted to know why I chose to play the flute, whether I should have actually played another instrument, and why sometimes I feel burnt out when playing the flute.
Many thanks, and be well!
From Yesu
We will say that choice is for the most part predetermined by the desires that spirit has for the incarnation. thus, flute playing was chosen for you rather than you choosing it. Notice how it came into your life. As a child your were attracted to the instrument and you asked to play it.
If you were to actually play another instrument than you would be playing that instrument. Notice though that you would prefer to sing and flute playing is closest to singing of all the instruments. Notice its simple and direct way of putting air into a windpipe.
For you singing has been both a joy and a distress in your lifetimes. You have been badly burned by it because of its very direct emotional contact with the audience. Flute playing rarely brings an audience to tears, but singing will and does draw out finer forms of sorrow from the audience. Singing is a greater pleasure and this is the reason for your burn out feeling. You want the emotional contact with the instrument that has become intellectually detached for you. There is little passion in it where singing, which you are somewhat afraid of, has that unbridled passion.
We suggest that when you play that you stand up and allow your body to move with the instrument even though this is against classical techique. Pretend that it is a saxaphone. Let go of some of your training. Feel free to make unpleasant sounds.
This is only to explore other ranges of the instrument. It is a fifth chakra instrument which is intellectual in nature. Singing is very fourth chakra and tunes to the emotions.
Blessings -- Yesu & Ted
I was married at a young age to a boy that was younger than me. Being a very shy person, he was insrumental in opening me up to the world, altho I was much too dependent on him during our 20 years of marriage, at the end of which he died of Cancer. I have been a widow for 21 years now and have yet to find another person I could care as deeply for as I do him. My ques tion is to ask if we were meant to be together for some purpose that has not been fulfilled in our time together? G
From Michael
We would like you to consider that he was also dependent on you. He was not doing you service by being your mate. We are not speaking of a mutual codependence and all its negative conotations. We are saying that the feeling was mutual and that you acted as a complement. What you feel as dependence is simply your lack of confidence in dealing with the world, which he appeared to be much more competant in. However, everyone has a unique part to play in the physical plane. We enjoy reminding people of this for often they protest especially when we give value to the villans of the world. They are simply players in the total world picture.
In your small way you were a player in his life. Now he is gone and you are lacking your complement. You are being called upon now to understand and create a self worth that will give you the indepence that you believe you do not have. We say here believe since it is a believe. You have been independent for some time now. You know he is gone from this world but you also know that he is in another world, not so far away, and that he is aware of your need. This desire for a complement is also his need and he too must let go.
We suggest that you let go of the attachments you still have. Know that spiritually you are together but that physically your purpose together is over this lifetime. This is simply to help you free energy that will transmute into a feeling of acceptance and the resultant contentment. We suggest that you visualize your husband and say goodbye. See him walking down a wooded path and that his form grow smaller and smaller until it disappears. Note that the resistance you feel around this is also his resistance but the visualization will help complete the agreement. Try this a few times and notice how the scene will change each time. Remember your goal is to feel acceptance of yourself exactly the way you are, and not the recreate the past.
blessings to you -- Michael & Ted
It was mentioned there were beings incarnating from all over the astral plane with all types of belief systems and it sounds like different goals for the earth. I was wondering how one would charcterize the goals of the group of aliens which I am descended from? Is it the same as everyone or are we actually a bunch or spiritual races coexisting and evolving together? N
From Michael
First we would like to say that there are no aliens. but please do not be dissappointed by this - the Universes are full of individual units of consciousness (IUC's if you will). The beings you are associated with are a group of IUC's that inhabit a reality system. Although we, and many others have been using belief system in our terminolgy, we will use reality system in this case. All beings on earth are aliens.
Reality systems go beyond a belief system. Simply stated, a belief system is rooted in belief and a reality system is rooted in actuality. There is no doubt about a reality system. For example, you may have beliefs about your spiritual origin, but in a reality system your spiritual origin is as real as your breath. You do not speculate that you breath, yet you speculate about your spiritual origin.
Dogma is a false reality system. That is, it requires the participant to accept speculation as truth. Many religions are dogma systems.
One aspect of your particular group is their disdain for dogma systems. you have all been put to the torch many times when you go against the status quo or estabilishment. In many ways you and your partners feel that you must remain hidden and thus you have become hidden from each other. One goal you all have now is reuniting but you will have to do so through meditation and astral travel since most of you fear becoming too open in your beliefs. That is, it is unlikely you would announce your beliefs to your aquaintances at work (although it looks like there are two or so that you communicate with regularly.
The goal of all IUC groups is to complete their cycle of incarnations and share the information/experience with other IUC's to create more reality systems. there really is no other goal. Earth Reality Sytem does provide a powerful learning experience since you lose the memory of where you come from. As you well know, you are regaining your memories of your IUC group.
As we implied, the personal touch of your group is to redefine rigid structures so that the barriors they create become passable. You create small openings in these belief fields that allow for change. Many of you find yourselves in positions where you must make a sacrifice for the opening.
Blessings to you -- Michael & Ted
My daughter is a very powerful beautiful being and we named her Kayla, but after 2 years since her birth I strongly feel that this name does not belong to her and wonder if there is some karmic significance involved?
From Michael:
Often a child will be born into the world as a blank slate. It says to the world, "create me so I can create". Many childred do not have preconceived ideas and designs about what they will be doing in the world. We are not saying that there is no plan, there is a life plan for every being on the planet, however, to play the Physical Plane Space Time Game it is necessary to forget what you are here for.
So as your daughter unfolds into a person all her own, she hears the repetive sound of her name and must decide whether or not it suits her unfoldment. We will say here, again, that she does not know where, who, why or what she is. These questions will come at the appropriate time. However, as she comes to regonize that she is an Individualized Unit of Consciousness with her unique identity, she will begin to associate a sound that mirrors her IUC identity.
Babies often become very frustrated when their normal mode of communication is not perceived by others. "what do you mean that you do not hear my thoughts?" From a place of completely open thoughtforms came the energy that creates them and they find themselves trapped in a helpless space where they can no longer communicate.
However, mothers do communicate telepathically with their babies, that is, mothers that allow it to happen. To put this simply then, what you are hearing is the input of your childs thoughtforms concerning a name that best fits her mission this time around on planet earth.
She will be trying a few more sound configurations. You may want to wait before any official name changing takes place. Perhaps you can develop a nickname that suits her and one that she can later drop. Also, since she has already begun to speak, you may want to listen to names that she chooses, she may even begin choosing a name for herself.
Most name choice is guided by the spirit/energy/IUC that creates the incarnation. We would suggest that the choice has been made and you allow any changes to unfold through the desire of the child.
Blessings to you -- Michael & Ted
Are there any agreements between my girlfriend and me to have been fulfilled in our lifetime? I went for years intensely desiring her. Now it seems to be dissolving. R
From Michael
Mating agreements are very common and not always long lasting. They usually are accompanyed by a very intense desire to be with the partner. The intense desire can last anywhere from a few days to three years, but rarely does it remain after that period. The average lenght of the intense infatuation is about six months. Just enough time to get into trouble.
Sexual desire can be recharged and revisited often, but the intense longing usually fades. Often long lasting relationships do not even begin with this longing. They will begin casually and continue on for years with or without sexual pleasure.
Mating agreements do not have to result in children. The agreement is about mating and not about raising children. mating does not have to result in children either. You may be feeling the call of another mating agreement. It would not suprise us at all if you begin to become infatuated with another woman.
We will ask you to look at the relationship and evaluate your contentment with it. Do you feel comfortable with this person? To your have conversations that interest you? do you enjoy her friends? Do you willingly share money and possessions? If you are answering no then we would suggest that it may be time for the two you you to discuss your differences and negotiate a continuation or break away from each other.
blessings to you -- Michael & Ted
What is my soul age?" N
From Michael
Most people interested in soul age are late mature and old. later olds don't care too much though. Young souls don't believe any of this and Baby souls are afraid of it.
This puts your soul age either at mature or old. We know you are not an infant soul, they would prefer being alone in the forest rather than working a computer.
If you find yourself needing the drama of group dynamics you are most likely mature. Consensus, consensus consensus, we must do what we can to reach consensus. That would be our mature soul mantra. Also, there is an interest in saving the world or planet for that matter.
Old souls are more resigned about these things. They have been through the battles and know well Hegel's thesis/antithesis/synthesis rule of human political movements. The one becomes the other.
Old souls have a way of being in the world but not of the world. they will often be content being alone. Mainly, if they haven't covered up their telepathic abilites they are, when alone, communicating with their multiple astral selves. In other words, they have the big picuture and they are just developing the perceptions to really see, know and understand it.
We are getting here that you are an old soul, very much into second level, this gives you an insecurity about being old. You know you are, but you would really not want to deal with it at this time. Your imprinting for mature soul is strong and although you are ready to let go of it you still have some nostalgia about those big groups you fought political dramas with. You are beginning though to understand the power of the insight that silent intuition brings. We sugges that you allow this to grow and develop. Ask for it to be revealed to you in a way that you will understand.
Blessings to you -- Michael & Ted
Why have I chosen the particular obstacle I face in this life, or, more specifically, how does this obstacle impact my goal for this life?
From M\ichael
In the Michael Teacher there and specific goals and obstacles. Obtacles are called chief features.
The seven goals are:
Discrimination/Acceptance
Dominance/Submission
Revaluation/Growth
Stagnation (or Flow)
7 Chief features are:
Self Destruction/Greed
Martydom/Impatienc
Self Deprecation/Arroganc
Stubborness
If your goal is growth, and you have a chief feature of self destruction. Then your motion to grow will be impeded by obstacles about self loathing in the extreme. If good things happened in your life then you would thwart that by finding ways to destroy your growth, such as taking large amounts of drugs.
If your goal was acceptance and your chief feature martydom, then you would find yourself alienating your friends and family. Since you want to accept others unconditionally, you would find yourself complaining about how nobody likes you, or that you must do everything for everyone.
Chief feature is less of a monster than it seems. The more energy we give it, the larger it grows. So give it less energy then it has less to work with. Focus on the positive pole of your goal. Ask to see evidence of it. Put your attention there.
It feels like you have a goal of growth. Positive pole is evolution, negative pole is confusion. Your chief feature feels like stubborness with a secondary of self deprecation. Thus you feel unworthy and will resist not feeling unworthy. As we said, focus on your goal. Above all, if you have the desire to investigate an idea or technique then do it. The more you do toward your goal, the easier it will come together.
Blessings to you -- Michael & Ted
I am at a very pivotal time in my experience now, where I know I must make important life choices involving my profession and life's work, yet I am so disabled with fear and anxiety, that I feel lost and without direction, as never before in my life. Before, I realize now, I seemed to feel some sort of divine guidence. Michael, can you please offer some guidence as to why I feel so lost now and how I can get out of this sad, dark time.
From Michael & Ted
Since two months have passed since you asked your question, "we" hope that your psychic condition has improved and healed. From here it does feel like you are feeling some improvement.
An "energy" or more precisely a "lesson set" that is coming up for many people is the understanding that they are the creators. To learn this lesson and make the advance the lesson offers we must "go it alone" for a time. This means letting go of the forms that we created around the energies that we call spirit guides.
It is somewhat like growing up spritually or an inner passage that is painful but will eventually help us use the power that we already have.
To help you along, and it does feel like already you have been receiving help, we suggest that you make the decision with the belief that you have the truth to make the best decision. In reality you do have the truth and the knowledge to make a decision. Often, with older souls, the opportunity for decision only occurs when all the elements are put in place. That is, you have already constructed the reality that will allow for the choice.
Again, when making the choice you are not making a choice between opening two doors in separate buildings, you are opening a number of doors that all lead to the same place in the same building. However, you have already constructed the building. On any decision, the view may be different but the outcome will be the same.
Notice that the result of indecision is the feeling of not being guided, or being alone, and of general sadness. Thus you know the feeling that indecision brings. Indecision is another form of choice.
However it is our sense that you are now moving right along on your way. Blessings to you.
Michael & Ted
Can Michael tell me anything about my painting career and how to make it more of a working part of my life to derive income from.
As you might guess, I don't do these first come, first serve. I collect them and randomly answer when i have time or better statement, at the right time for the answer.
I visited a local art store a few days ago, and among the usual fare they had hanging was a most remarkable painting. Rarely do I see paintings I like this much. I contacted the artist, who is only 22. He says he spends 18 hours a day painting and plans to go to New York - eventually. I will probably purchase one of his paintings as soon as I make it to his studio.
I want to share this with you since I went the artist route some twenty five years ago. I have not found the kind of success that I know some of my artist friends and aquaintances have found. But it has provided me an interesting inner life and probably has had much to do with channeling and reality creation ideas. I did manage to find a job teaching art which some consider a good "gig" but I still miss having the one person shows that I pursued in my early thirties.
Back to the young artist. If anybody is going to find success purely from creating paintings this young man will probably find it. He is 100% dedicated to his work. Nothing gets in his way. He paints whether or not he will ever sell a piece. Where he gets his income I do not know yet but perhaps when I visit his studio he will volunteer that information.
You may also want to research galleries. I can't tell you too much about that since it is something I personally neglect. But it is important to get your work out so people can see it.
That is all my point of view, having had experience both creating and exhibiting. I made money doing other things until the other things became what was imporant. I do find a few hours a week to paint.
As far as Michael goes, I would be interested to hear what immerges from that communication process.
From Michael:
In a practical sense we would concur with the channel, that deriving ones income from the creation of artwork is perhaps a nobel ideal but not a sustaining habit. For some artists it is a working solution to use the gallery system, however, this has its own pitfalls and in many ways the artist is "taken for a ride" by the dealer.
You will note that the artwork of choice in the average home, and we will go as far as to say 97% of homes is the television set, followed by a variety of low cost posters. It is the homes of the artists that contain the art.
The artist faces the lack of aethetic education which goes well beyond not understanding art history. The general public lacks the ability to see beyond what is familiar. If your painting does not contain forms that they recognize they will not see anything and they will move by.
We ask you to examine your own work. First, does it give you pleasure to create a painting. Obviously this is true for you however are you finding other emotions while the work unfolds. This process of discovery is what is most valuable. Whether or not your object is a beautiful decorative piece is irrelevant. You are competing with the multitude of beautiful, mass produced, artifacts that stoke the desires of the culture.
Again, make the art for yourself first. Make the art for the purpose of personal self discovery and be willing to share it. This willingness will help you find an audience for your work.
We will go on to say that art has its roots in magic and not in decoration. We would ask you to examine this direction and use the art for a magical tool rather that something that decorates your wall. The decorative quality should be secondary to the magical quality. True magic will connect you to the visions of higher levels of self, or it can connect you to the multiple parts of self you call past lives. There is great power in producing work this way that will draw income from other sources. In this way you need not sell your work. You are using your work to become in touch with power in yourself that remains latent.
Blessings to you -- Michael and Ted.
I had my back hurt a year ago. I have not been able to walk , sit or stand. I was in the best shape I had ever been in ...in my life. Now...my body looks like an S and One year in bed has made me 20 lbs heavier and pretty bad looking...:o) :o( Doctor's are baffled with why I am not getting better. They really do not want surgery because of my abnormal small spinal column. I have tried everything I know...from traditional healing to alternative. I have cleaned out a lot of STUFF (old issues) during this year and have been able to have constant communication with the All that Is. They have chosen the name of "Friends". I have the ability to hear my Guides/God but on this issue, I seem to hear nothing and i so desire to get back to my health again. I do not know what else to do...so I saw your name and I felt to write to you...hoping you may have some insight for me to apply, to help me stand tall again. My one question is: Will you help me hear something more on my personal body/mind healing?
From Michael:
We do not want to discourage you in your healing process, however we will emphatically say that information alone will not allieviate your condition. Information will only serve as a guide post but to a destination that you will eventually find regardless of the information.
Now, it is through this information process however that you will be able to tune into a process that will eventually heal your spirit enough to heal your body. We are going to describe a spiritual situation that is somewhat unusual. If this does not at all seem right to you then we ask you to put it aside since believing it will have little to do with your healing. If it provides you with the "aha" experience of recognition then it has served its momentary purpose of giving you a flavor of they type of energy that you are looking for that will aid you in your healing. Again, it is energy that will heal you and not informaiton. Once you learn to recognize the energy that is already in you you can begin a process that will eventually restore your health.
You have been linked psychically and very intimately to an out of body spirit that has given you energy or lifeforce. This being has also shared experience in your body and through your body. It is not parasitic but truly symbiotic. You have though come to rely on it more than you should have. The being, realizing that it was intruding to far into your incarnation decided to withdraw and in doing so you felt a void which manifested as your present condition.
We realize that it was an "accident" however if you watch closely when accidents occur you will notice that it is really your attention that was lacking in the present moment. Accidents do not happen to anyone who is completely present in the moment. This is an impossibility. When you are completely present you are invincible.
The withdrawal of the energy from this being had the effect of shortcircuiting your psychic wiring for a few weeks which put you into the vulnerable position of an "accident waiting to happen". Thus it did.
The being in question however knew the consequences of withdrawal but it had to be. If feels remorse and has accepted the remorse but it is now limited in helping you. This is simply astral law which concerns the governing of identity. Your identity is unique to you and intereference is considered trespassing. (We might add that this trespassing occurs quite regularly between physical plane beings but that is another story).
As we said, this is information and information alone will not help you. There is energy available to you that will help heal you however you will need to learn how to pull it into your body. This cannot be learned from an email reading. You will need a personal contact with a teacher. We ask you then to visual yourself in the presence of a teacher especially a Reiki teacher. Reiki is channeled energy and if you are attuned to it it will help you begin to reclaim the lifeforce that you have lost.
Blessings to you -- Michael & Ted
"What is my next step toward getting my manuscript published?"
From Michael
We would like to explain one little rule that is used to create belief systems in your physical plane reality. That is, you believe you are a seperate being from all other beings and that you reside in, or even are, your physical body which is the perceptual vehicle for the physical plane. Now we realize you just want to publish your manuscript, however we must emphasize that this is your manuscript and it is up to you whether or not it will be published. We bring up this metaphysical ditty because this belief actually prevents people from doing what ever they want to do.
The belief that someone else has power over the publication is so strong that you must create somebody to publish it for you. So, this is the next step - create the conditions for publication. This could mean creating a helper who understands the trade or a friend who has created a similar path.
What we advise is to understand and acknowledge that you have already published your document, however you are only reviewing it in its juvenile condition rather than its adult condition. So, we advice that you begin to see it as a complete project that includes its publication.
Note the similarity between complete and whole. We would like you to use that definition of complete rather than the definition that says something is finished. Complete rather than completion -- complete meaning that all the component elements are together.
Also note that you should be very definite about what you mean by published. It is very simple to self publish a work on a web site. However, you may want to define an income around the completeness of the work.
Blessings to you -- Michael & Ted