2020-02-27-Becoming Ever More Real
Lightline #558
Contents
• 1 Heading
o 1.1 Topic: Becoming Ever More Real
o 1.2 Group: Lightline TeaM
• 2 Facilitators
o 2.1 Teacher: Michael
o 2.2 TR: JL
• 3 Session
o 3.1 Opening
o 3.2 Lesson
o 3.3 Dialogue
o 3.4 Closing
Topic: Becoming Ever More Real
Group: Lightline TeaM
Facilitators
Teacher: Michael
TR: JL
Session
Opening
It’s another good “2020” for a whole year, so I guess we’ll have great vision. Hopefully our inner vision is as good. We will see.
Dear Michael and Mother Spirit, once again we thank you for transmitting to us this way, and enabling us to receive you. Though I must confess, it has been a strangely long day and my head seems both heavy and empty. Maybe this is a good thing—there won’t be so much of me to get out of the way to let you come through.
With respect to this transmitting/receiving, let me follow yours and Mother Spirit’s example and tease those who will come to hear this, or read the wonderful transcripts that are provided by a very dear and faithful friend of yours. It’s possible for folks, especially with all these modern I-phones and stuff we talked about this evening, to do this transmitting/receiving and be a T/R themselves. Although we know we have you–and even our Father–in our minds, it is good to make an objective, physical-contact record. So again, I invite everybody to meditate a while and think of some questions, and say them out loud. Record whatever questions you have for Michael, or Mother Spirit, or our Father. Then see what they have to respond right through you. It is a strange experience, but it is also delightful and a lot of fun. So with that invitation, I will say “Amen” and turn it over to you.
Lesson
MICHAEL: Good evening, my dear ones. This is Michael and, as mysterious as these means might be, they are definitely real for Mother Spirit and me. I will back up what this T/R offered tonight, and that is, to make a physical recording of our contact. First of all it gets you to reach deep inside yourselves, credit the contact, and then wonder: What would you ask or comment to Mother Spirit or myself? So many of you do this already as regular meditation and prayer, and that is good, but now that you have these marvelous little recording devices, make an objective, physical record of this. It can be something you listen to five years from now, shall we say, to bring you back to this time in this place. It is something that we tease you to try. Try to bring spirit down into a physical realm, because these sound waves coming from a human throat are definitely physical–as is so much of this life you have.
(Becoming ever more real)
One other thing we tease you with is that, in your lives to come–though you do transit from what you think as physical to something more spiritual–the one thing really challenging your imaginations to get a hold on is how you will become ever more real. You are not just some diaphanous thing wearing a halo and playing a harp on a cloud. Rather, your wonderful Urantia Book goes into such enormous detail to help convince you that you will be living a very physical life at first, on a definitely real physical world. This transition to what we call ”morontia” is a reality that is both physical and spiritual. Yet it is already what you now call your soul—the spiritual record of the experience you have of your rather physical life. And even in your present situation, being a living human being, there is an enormous range over which you can feel more or less real.
This is what your philosophers and some of your religious teachers have called “realization—enlightenment—satori–or samyak sambodhi.” It’s not to just know things intellectually, or physically, or imaginatively, but to have these all combined to really impress upon your consciousness all these different aspects of your being. To realize something is to go beyond only book-learning or imagination.
Realization is how our Father–the presence of God right within you–has the greatest impact on your conscious life because, again, that word morontia/soulful comes into play as the presence of God within you creates a spiritual counterpart your own physical and mental experiences as your soul. It is also where Mother Spirit gives you her greatest strength, her greatest input in your dimension of wisdom which, somewhat like soul, is the way you apply all your previous experience to the present moment. These are the dimensions of being human, my dear ones. So it is true that as you get more and more spiritual and creative, and as you acknowledge and realize what you yourself are putting into this present moment–sometimes simply designed as “subjectivity”–you being a subject to your own self—you also realize how this colors the objective world you are living in.
(Spirit = creativity)
Being spiritual enables you to notice among all the thousand-and-one things vying for your attention how your own creativity is involved in realizing things. It is the way you can grow in this ability, which occurs in everything you do, but especially in the things you call art–your music, dancing, painting, or even building a house or making dinner for the evening. It is how your creative spirit adds to your realization of something coming right out of you, right out of your unique personality, and manifesting itself in all these different dimensions of your body and your mind. Realization means you are becoming more real to yourself.
So we both tease and assure you this is what you are headed into. This is that wonderful growth you can have all through eternity. It is simply “more”–more of your personality growing, more of your soul/experiences growing. Someday you will look back on this world, this first life of yours, as being a bit embryonic. This will be just your first world’s experience–when you have hundreds under your belt–if you are still wearing a belt, that is. Maybe this is the biggest tease of all, this idea of your life continuing to be more real. Maybe it is just what you call “maturity.” Keep an ever more open mind as you expand your experience and get out of the little niche of your own family and friends. Get out into the world, especially as the world is now coming to you with all your electronics. Keep growing. This is the essence of soul.
My dear ones, fear not that you will in some way be diminished as you go forward. True enough, there are things that can befall you in this first life of yours, especially physically, for some day you will grow old and a number of little things can gang up on you and ultimately bring about your huge transition over to the mansion worlds. As your wonderful Urantia Book says, there will be no dissembling your surprise upon awakening in that realm and knowing you have survived.
(How big is it—in here?)
Bring all of that promise into this present moment. Close your eyes and feel yourself breathing, and wonder: How big is it?–in here–in here where Mother Spirit and I and our Father dwell along with you. You even have guardian angels who are also teasing your every step to help you grow. They too will have such a large part in this next person you will become.
My dears, cherish all these dimensions of being human and realize you were deliberately created. Your kind of being was deliberately created by our Father. The sum total of your being is still, and will be for a long time to come, beyond yourselves, beyond present consciousness and this enormous present moment, this Eternal Now you live in. Even you yourselves are so much more than you can get ahold of at any particular time. But this is what you have to grow into–to be more and more self-aware, more and more secure and open-minded to let all the rest of this marvelous universe come in. But enough for one evening. Let me open this present moment to any questions or comments you might have, and let you exercise your imaginations, creativity, and wonder.
Dialogue
Student: Hello Michael.
MICHAEL: Good evening.
Student: You said something that intrigued me when you were describing us as we develop our soul. Did I hear you say that we are creating spirit?
(Co-creating everything experienced)
MICHAEL: Oh yes, my dear. One of the mysteries of being human is how much you yourselves are involved in everything you are experiencing. In one way–to some philosophers–it seemed like a cage. You can never achieve pure objectivity. You are always somewhat subjective. But this is just a necessary recognition to be responsible. As your Urantia Book puts it, personality is co-creative of everything experienced. You yourself are a creative being who is involved in everything you perceive. This realization can be difficult, especially for folks who feel fatalistic and so bound up in something they actually have no say, no control or power over what is happening to them. It is hard to get them to realize how much their own attitude towards their life is affecting their life.
Student: Right! Abraham Hicks says that you create your own life with your thoughts, so it never changes. It is just because you are creating the same thing all the time.
MICHAEL: Yes, my dear. Of course you are in a situation that is changing, yet some folks devote so much of their time getting into what we call a “bubble of familiarity.” Their life to them is just the “same old–same old”—even boring. They don’t realize that, ironically, it is a supreme achievement of having one day after another seem the same.
Of course your body is changing, and the world around you is changing. Mother Spirit and I like to point out that aspect of human reality that is not repeating itself. You have all your science telling you what is repeating–all the cause-and-effect you are involved in—yet you yourself are changing, and the situation around you is changing, and it is nice to be aware of this.
Student: So can you explain to me what is creating spirit? What kind of a substance or something is it that that we create?
(Personal creative power)
MICHAEL: Let me I point everyone to that chapter in the Urantia Book called Personality Survival. There it explains that creativity first of all starts with God our Father, who is the First Source of everything happening, including you–your personality, your uniqueness of being. There is only one of you in all of existence, simply endowed with a portion of his power. It’s an ability, a power that you have to introduce something new, out of your own uniqueness, which is itself unique. That subjectivity I mentioned is what you yourself are contributing to your own life.
You are endowed with this creativity by the Eternal Son. God creates your personality; the Eternal Son of Paradise endows you with creativity as part of your personality. It is part of who you are. With a fatalistic person who might be doing terrible things, it is hard to get them to take responsibility for themselves because they don’t want to realize they are creating whatever mess it is for themselves and others.
Student #1: Right—OK.
MICHAEL: So this is a power you have intrinsically.
Student #2: Hi, Michael. We’re hanging out on this physical plane and I certainly have, talking to you, a spirit-connection feeling. But I know people who don’t have a spirit connection feeling. Is there anything that we can say or do to encourage their interest or curiosity in spirit? What do you recommend?
(How to recognize spirit)
MICHAEL: First of all, my son, just be yourself to the best of your ability, and take them into yourself—accept them–where they are. Try to share as much as you can what you consider to be spirit. In other words, spirit is already a part of them, but they just don’t know how to label it. Maybe they don’t want to realize the degree to which they are creating their own reality. This is especially so with people who are very fateful and caught up in something, like being on a track that they can’t change. Give them this definition of spirit as their creative part, and then say that it is up to them.
The other great truth is that higher spirit beings do not in any way attempt to control them overtly. They themselves have to be open-minded to welcome other spiritual influences–shall we say mine, or Mother Spirit’s, or the presence of God within them. They have to invite this influence to manifest itself in their life. So these are the two great things: their own creative/spiritual nature, and other influences.
In terms of contacting myself or Mother Spirit, it can be through prayer or just by having a talk. As Jesus I tried to tell all my followers just to have a talk with God. Get away from the notion that prayer had to be some kind of a formal, stylized thing. Just have a talk with your Father. Like I suggested tonight, get out your recording device and do it out loud. Do it as transmitting/receiving yourself, then share what it is to you.
Student #2: Good. Thank you.
MICHAEL: That is why Mother Spirit and I call it teasing, dangling something out in front of them and saying, “Give it a try. Realize this power you have and, at the same time, be responsible–be able-to-respond to what you yourself are doing.” This is taking responsibility for your life for, as you know, this is where so much of your power comes from. You have all experienced folks who are so deeply into denial–shall we say someone terribly drug-addicted, or addicted to power, they don’t want to admit to themselves how much of this is their own doing.
(Something new into everything continuing)
So this is the realm of spirit. Spirit is that new thing that is coming into all that is continuing. Your science gives you this continuity right down to the nano-second in the sub-atomic realm, clear out to stars and galaxies and the whole of outer space. All this is a continuing material/energetic reality. But then the Urantia Book talks about all the different levels of spiritual beings and their personal creative power, and what they are doing. Within all this physical continuity, every moment there is something new. There is something that never happened before, and this comes from spirit. This is the power you yourself have, and everybody alive is actually using.
Student #1: Thank you. That is wonderful.
MICHAEL: Yes, it is something you can continue to grow in. Your own inner sense of freedom depends so much on this–that you are an active participant in your own life.
Closing
MICHAEL: One final thing too is that this is wonderfully humbling. You are acknowledging–if only to yourself–that you cannot be truly objective. Only God in the final sense–not even Mother Spirit nor I–only God is aware of everything, all powerful and all knowing. Only God is the Supreme Being with the experience of every other personal being there is. Only this one single being is purely objective for all the rest of us subordinate beings.
(Realizing subjectivity = approaching objectivity)
We have to acknowledge our own limitations to, ironically, by doing so, at least approach objectivity by being aware of what we ourselves are doing. When we can take that into account, suddenly there is the whole rest of the universe that is not our doing. Keep in mind too what we always say: Our Father has a loving sense of humor or we’d all be lost.
Student #1: Thank God!
MICHAEL: Yes. Our Father is very subtle, and yet here is his creation all around us–including us. It is this wonderful gratitude we can have that keeps us in touch with so much that we ourselves are, and all we are involved in–this whole universe of trillions and trillions of other living, personal beings.
(The Spirit of Truth)
Well, my dears, it is always fun. Mother Spirit and I enjoy this so much, and so remember we are right in your mind. My Spirit of Truth is like your inner compass pointing everywhere, both outward and inward. What is actually happening is always kind-of mind-blowing, even for us. It is the delight of being alive and involved in something subtle beyond grasping, yet my goodness!–here it is!–sustaining us moment to moment. Mother Spirit sends her love and I bid you, Be in my peace. Let it wrap you up and give you rest. Good night.
