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People have requested me to bring back my descriptions of the Overleaves in the last 3ish years. Whenever someone brought up how they helped them, I shed a tear inside because I like that stuff I write can help. It's a bit sensitive for me to repost them publicly, but I am pretty done living in any sort of fear as a default, so I'm gonna bring them back. These descriptions are my own summaries of all compiled information on the Internal Monads. Our Internal Monads are basically Rites of Passage as we grow up and evolve. They can match up with our body biologically, but Older Souls who tend to remember much earlier and quicker, might opt to start and finish them whenever they want. Everyone has their own pace with these. The Internal Monads, shortened to IMs, move through the process from Birth to Autonomy to Independence to Self-Definition to Recreation to Comprehension of Death to Death itself. Each Monad will have its own positive and negative poles. And each Monad has 7 Stages, each with their own positive and negative poles. Thanks to various TLE Members asking questions over time, we have a comprehensive overview of every single one of these stages and poles, which is great! It can be useful for guidance in our growth. Note: I used this transcript as the primary reference and then built around it:: The 7 Internal Monads. --- BIRTH (1ST INTERNAL MONAD) (Reference: The 7 Stages of the Internal Monad) The 1st Internal Monad is the process and orchestration of conception through birth. It is always relative to the host mother's acceptance of this development, or in non-parental terms, the Caretaker of the evolving body. At this stage, mother is intimately linked with her infant. It is resonant to the Instinctive Center, to securing our existence and basic functions of memory so we can live. In Biological Terms, the Hormonal Wash we undergo here is fairly simple. SURVIVING BIRTH equates new experiences and continued existence of our species. But of course, that cannot come if our body can't heal any imbalances from damages posed by other people, our environment or its own processes that threaten our early development. 7 STAGES (These stages can move from -Pole to -Pole, or -Pole to +Pole. If one stage is stuck in its -Pole, all taken on after it will default to the -Pole as well: but once that stuck stage moves into its +Pole, the next stage can now move into its +Pole.) STAGE 1- INITIATION This IM is symbolized and initiated by the -Orchestration of events in life, leading to our +Conception. STAGE 2- INTROSPECTION As the process of fertilization occurs, our Zygote -Invades our mother's body and feeds off of her resources as it gradually +Forms into an Embryo. STAGE 3- REALIZATION The -Disruption is now felt and realized by our host mother's body, and she either chooses to reject/abort it, or allows in the child with +Awareness of the impact it will have alongside her plans, hopes and fears. STAGE 4- MANIFESTATION This starts from -Division. Either the mother aborts, dividing the child from her; or the Infant continues to -Divide in the Gestational Period, and the mother explores her resentment over this, or her obligation to birth. Eventually, she must accept the child's +Presence. Once this happens, we're truly allowed to grow. STAGE 5- CONTENTMENT The Infant -Develops through the Embryonic Period unless stopped. Both mother and child come to experience the benefits of their +Mutual presence, efforts and acceptance. There is a rapport and exchange of love now between both bodies, selves and souls. STAGE 6- MAGNETIZATION Minimal -Cooperation and tolerance occurs between us and our mother in the 2nd Trimester. This is a time in which all who will be involved in guiding/supporting our birth through death must be in +Agreement for playing a part in our coming existence. So feelings of celebration, spirituality, synchronicity, surrender and unfolding can heighten once this is in place. STAGE 7- EMANATION The 3rd Trimester begins, placenta -Disintegrates, umbilical cord is cut and we are born from our mother. The surrounding environment must bring +Vitality and Essence to our body and help us survive by around Age 3 for us to complete the 1st Internal Monad. If not, this time can feel very heavy, remorseful and even insane. As we adapt to our mother's womb, pre-birth choices, the actual birthing process and our first years alive in physical reality, the only true obstacle to our body is the threat of -Disintegration or Death. In the 1st IM, we will resort to Tyrannical Tantrums, Screaming, Brutality and Absolute Refusal if we feel our sense of trust and touch isn't secured. And our caregivers (parents) can potentially be hooked into Postpartum Depression. Ultimately this IM is incomplete if we die before the Age of 3. If any infant dies via abortion or natural death before Age 3, then the mother will tend to process the 6th and 7th IMs of Evolution for them, as the infant lacks the conscious awareness. If the death is processed in ways that are lonely, with strong Attachments, the death process will remain incomplete. While if there is Trust/Support and Transcendent Understanding, it will be completed. A complete 1st IM is marked by staying alive and well after a successful birth, and feeling a surge in our body’s +Vitality and relatively good health (considering environmental, psychological or genetic influences) by Age 3. Once our body is secured in this vitality, we are officially "between monads" and begin reflecting and embodying our caretakers' personalities and fears through our behaviors and health. AUTONOMY (2ND INTERNAL MONAD) The 2nd Internal Monad is the process of establishing our capacity for intimacy, and awakening our sense of autonomy. This is simply part of being able to do things ourselves, but with the guide of our caretakers. It is resonant to the Higher Moving Center: to our ability to move in unison. In Biological terms, this is marked by CHILDHOOD. The Hormonal Wash we undergo here helps emphasize our sense of Balance and Body-Structure, as well as create stability in our Self-acceptance, Self-exploration and Recognition of Social Roles and Structures. Here our value systems and sense of self grow, and we discover through our Caregivers and Environment what we can and cannot do; all while we explore our body’s Sex, Gender and Sexual Orientation and learn to live in harmony with the people around us. We develop and live according to our Public Persona in this Monad. In other words, by the laws/expectations of how others see us. This is also the first time we stop acting like those who raised us. Around Age 3 we choose our Centering, by playing with how we want to take in the world. And around Age 7, we choose our Part of Centering, developing habits and interests to express what's going on inside of us. (Reference: Michael Speaks 2001: Centers) We then begin our Blooming of Personality, by starting to manifest our basic personality traits and letting the first of those set the stage for how we want to experience our life. (ie. If our Attitude develops first, life might become more intellectual and philosophical. If our Mode develops first, life may emphasize themes of relationships and intimacy. If our Goal develops first, life can be focused on gaining experiences for the point of that goal.) (Reference: Overleaf Development in 2nd IM and Growing into Overleaveshttps://our.truthloveenergy.com/articles.html/library/personality-dynamics/internal-monads/second-internal-monad/growing-into-overleaves-r615/) 7 STAGES (These stages can move from -Pole to -Pole, or -Pole to +Pole. If one stage is stuck in its -Pole, all taken on after it will default to the -Pole as well: but once that stage moves into its +Pole, the next stage can now move into its +Pole.) (Reference: The 7 Stages of the 2nd Internal Monad) STAGE 1- INITIATION This IM is kick-started by a sense of -Division from others as we realize we can walk on our own two feet in life and feel surprisingly different or separate as a result. So eventually we come to +Differentiate ourselves from our caretakers as an independently mobile self-governing person. STAGE 2- INTROSPECTION We move into -Agitation and frustrations about our differences from others. Until we shift into a sense of calm, peace and balance by +Observing how the differences in others around us help us understand ourselves. STAGE 3- REALIZATION Now we -Mimic others in authority to entertain ourselves, figure out how to do things right, and as a way to secure our sense of safety or place in the world. With practice, we come to learn new skills about social agreement, harmony, physical sensation and responsibility through +Consonance. STAGE 4- MANIFESTATION A wave of mindless/reckless -Activity arises in us to constantly "do do do", until we use and direct this activity into a purpose, something of benefit to expanding our +Mobility. STAGE 5- CONTENTMENT We begin to -Provoke and obnoxiously annoy others, or feel continually provoked and angered by others behaviors; perhaps becoming discouraged from pursuing any sense of personal autonomy because of shame or guilt. But this gradually lightens as we see how our -Curious impulses help us learn and discover more and more about how things work in the wondrous world. STAGE 6- MAGNETIZATION -Demanding occurs. We either demand more answers from others and test/demonstrate our range of power, choice and understanding over everything by demanding. Or others pressure & demand more of us, leading to bouts of shyness and hiding as our sense of self and personal rights/boundaries develop. Eventually we shift into +Asking all the whys and whats instead, as we come into our own more confidently and harmoniously by understanding the necessity for mutual consent, discussion and operant conditioning. The answers we get now help us feel even more fulfilled and autonomous. STAGE 7- EMANATION To successfully complete the 2nd IM, we must move away from any unwarranted -Violence, force and needless destruction against ourselves or others, becoming aware of the value +Coordination has in social and intimate affairs. As we explore creating a sense of Autonomy & Harmony, we can easily develop states of -Co-Dependency with those who raised us, or strong attachments to authority figures. In this state, we’re unable to do anything on our own, or move in any kind of harmony with others. If we stay here, we can become extremely Entitled, Demanding, Rebellious or Violent as we move into Adolescence. We begin to feel Sexually Conflicted, and may have sex just to have it or for attention or acceptance; without concern for consent or boundaries. And we may develop various co-dependent disorders, and feel debilitated or defined by the Autonomy Issues these can give us. When this carries further into our Adolescence and Adulthood, this often shows as lingering intimacy issues, bowel problems, a complete lack of social skills and a strong preoccupation with remaining under someone giving parental care. In extreme cases, psychopathy, sociopathy and psychological disorders of childishness can even develop. (Reference: Second Internal Monad - Confidence and Codependency) A complete 2nd Internal Monad is marked by an inner +Confidence and willingness to try anything at all that’s unfamiliar, slightly interesting or known to be good for us- even if we don't want to do it. Upon Adolescence we are able to move harmoniously through Healthy Exchanges, Dating, Consensual Sex, Intimacy and Affection. And we finally consider our caretakers (and everyone else) as people, rather than resources or reasons for who or how we are. Once this IM is secured, we are officially "between monads" and can sustain healthy interactions with ourselves and others, while being a part of our society with this mark of confidence. (Reference: Second Internal Monad - Confidence and Codependency) INDEPENDENCE (3RD INTERNAL MONAD) The 3rd Internal Monad is the process of developing self-sufficiency and independence as we free ourselves from being defined psychologically by the influences of our primary caretakers (ie. parents) and authorities. We now learn how we can use things and people in our own way, as resources for our growth. This is resonant to the Moving Center; to our ability as a self-governing person, to move and choose independently based upon our own definitions of freedom. In Biological terms, this is marked by ADOLESCENCE. The Hormonal Wash we undergo here helps emphasize our Sense of Individuality, and our urges for Breeding and Attraction for the purpose of Sex, Stimulation and Affection. In other words, puberty hits. Our brains become capable of comprehending the impact of our choices and we start to develop Defensive Habits against Fears rooted in our upbringing, social pressures and personal experiences, otherwise known as "Chief Features". We also feel a greater need to pursue our own Goals and develop a newly Private Persona based on who we see ourselves as or wish others would see us as. 7 STAGES (These stages can move from -Pole to -Pole, or -Pole to +Pole. If one stage is stuck in its -Pole, all taken on after it will default to the -Pole as well: but once that stage moves into its +Pole, the next stage can now move into its +Pole.) (Reference: The 7 Stages of the 3rd Internal Monad) STAGE 1- INITIATION This IM is prompted by a distrust in everything we previously depended upon, and a newfound -Rebellion against all authorities we face. This can result in a lot of incoherent, ugly and chaotic drama if we stay here. But eventually we see this process as a necessary step, as it helps us find, create and +Explore new sources of trust in friends, networks and interests we now choose on our own. (Reference: 3rd IM Rebellion) STAGE 2- INTROSPECTION A dip into self-absorbed -Self Consciousness occurs now as we see everything as threatening, shaming, debilitating or embarrassing authorities over us. That is, until we shift into +Consciously including those we must turn to in life for help, support, resources etc. and gracefully navigate our needs with others. We begin to learn that how we access, use, manage and contribute resources, matters more to our independence than mindlessly, belligerently and hastily taking to serve ourselves. STAGE 3- REALIZATION We realize our needs, wants and -Demands for something that represents our fulfillment, effectiveness and independence. This brings up high expectations that others must comply to & work around these demands for us. We quickly learn that is not possible, as we find what we are/can be responsible for, and how to work with those who are/can be responsible for us. In this process, +Ideals, visions and a sense of purpose for our long-term future potential come into place. The steps to the goal are seen and we bring together the resources needed in support of this vision. STAGE 4- MANIFESTATION Now we feel -Helplessly Angry over how much action, time, energy etc. is needed for us to have what we want and fulfill our sense of purpose and independence; overwhelmed by the daunting tasks ahead of us. that is, until we remember that we have a power of +Choice. We remember what can happen from our choices to do or not do in any situation. Our range of choices are clear now, and we can't ignore them. STAGE 5- CONTENTMENT -Resentment kicks in as we blame others or ourselves for the state of our life, or realize how harmful vs helpful our choices have been. We can sink deeper into our weight, lack, or poor use of power to the point of feeling exhausted, regretful and always making stupid mistakes. But at some point, we start to see +Responsibility isn't an obligation we must uphold just to show we're independent, strong and capable, but is a power that can do many positive, loving things too. We then become capable of consciously responding to all influences that affect us; because we remember our choices can also help to heal, and better shape, create and transform everything in our & others lives. We own our response-ability. STAGE 6- MAGNETIZATION -Loneliness arises for how far we've pushed others away from us, or how far we'll need to go to nurture support for our ideals and directions. So we start to feel utterly alone and even fearful of having to separate ourselves from others just to be self-sufficient. We might protect ourselves from depending on others as a way to be independent, in a way that puts them at a distance from us. Ultimately, this will remain until we realize the truth of +Support in our directions or from our relationships. We must eventually embrace our efforts toward independence and responsibility not as a way to be separate- but so we can know the value of being there FOR OURSELVES while caring for/being cared for by others who matter. STAGE 7- EMANATION To successfully close the 3rd IM, we must address anything we -Conclusively believe about ourselves and others. A continuous effort to define our life by a need to fight against anyone/thing that "makes us" feel ineffective or trapped, can arise. As this is where we realize how we feel stuck with threats our status, authority, position or value. We might also remain spinning, questioning and uncertain about making aour responsible, self-sufficient choices, because we're distracted with or paralyzed by all our "I should have done this instead" and "What if I did that". Once we assess these, we naturally choose to nurture +Confidence in navigating our life and its obstacles, rather than feel restricted by forces and authorities outside our control; so we work with these things, not against them. As we explore creating a space for our Psychological Independence from those who raised us, we come to fear being alone and undergo a sense of feeling completely -Separate from everyone around. We fight and struggle against anything that we feel holds us back or suggests any authority over us; and feel a desperate need to rally others up to support and validate these feelings. (Reference: Poles of the Third Internal Monad) We’re preoccupied with getting attention or acceptance despite our Destructive Behaviors. We strongly resign to the Responsibility of Caring for ourselves and others. And we need to constantly establish our differences through Conflicts, or Absolute Conclusions about what’s true and right: without any room for input, exchange or facts. (Reference: Third Internal Monad) As such, there can then be many irrational mood swings in response to anything anyone offers as help and support. When this carries forth into our Adulthood, this often shows as painful, confusing and drawn-out power plays with loved ones. Or we may establish a mighty authoritative role, belief system or career that protects us from ever being questioned. (Reference: The 7 Stages of the 3rd Internal Monad) A complete 3rd IM is marked by feeling confident in our sense of +Differentiation- as we uphold and understand a state of personal responsibility for our choices. We become peaceful about & detached from authority. So we're able to negotiate with others or at least sidestep confrontation and move away from conflict. (Reference: Poles of the Third Internal Monad) We accept and value our own and other's Differences. They exist, so we just deal with them using the resources we have- rather than fight them endlessly, or feel they make us separate & alone. And we're able to both ask for help and know how to receive it, even if we didn't want or seek it. (Reference: Third Internal Monad) When this is secured, we move "between monads" and all we've learnt is used to support our ability to live on our own with the responsibilities of "adulthood". We start to build strength (not defense) around our capacity to navigate life and provide for ourselves and those who matter. And if we ever have struggles, we know what/who's there to support us. (Reference: The 7 Stages of the 3rd Internal Monad) SELF-DEFINITION (4TH INTERNAL MONAD) (Reference: 4th Internal Monad Process) The 4th Internal Monad is the process of assessing what we planned to do in life, and what's actually been done & will likely be accomplished now based on our current momentum. This is an opportunity for us to move past seeing ourselves through the eyes of everyone who raised, nurtured, challenged or harmed us, so we can grow into our own ideas of us, and regain a sense of innocence and personal meaning about who/how we are and why/how we live. It resonates with the Emotional Center then- as we discover how often we're manifesting personal happiness here. (Reference: Difference between the 4th and 5th Internal Monad) In Biological Terms, this is marked by ADULTHOOD. The Hormonal Wash we undergo here helps turn us within to look at how we can BE more, bringing greater emphasis to our Peak of Life and physical ability, nurturing projects, raising a family and the fulfillment of our career life. This IM blows open the door to our inner-most core self: our Essence. We can begin to feel a sort of mid-life crisis about living life as an honest reflection of who we truly are. (Though, this crisis doesn't always happen at mid-life, because we can begin and end each IM at any time.) (Reference: Early 4th Internal Monad) We move from living based on who we thought we should be/were told we were, to living as who we decide we are/want to be. In this way, it reveals the truth of our relationships and actual sense of inspiration in life. We open up to deeper revelations around our Mode. 7 STAGES (These stages can move from -Pole to -Pole, or -Pole to +Pole. If one stage is stuck in its -Pole, all taken on after it will default to the -Pole as well: but once that stage moves into its +Pole, the next stage can now move into its +Pole.) (Reference: The 7 Stages of the 4th Internal Monad) STAGE 1- INITIATION This IM begins with a kind of -Indifference toward how we choose to define ourselves, as we don't care about how removed we might feel from our self/life, or distrust and ignore those feelings if we do. With awareness though, this builds up into an +Enthusiasm that "something" IS different about us. We feel a new anticipation for our potential future, accomplishments and the process of defining ourselves on our own terms. We start to feel impulses to take action in ways that will change our life, make it better, make a difference, make us happy; but whether those changes come or not, we find this wave of ideas helps us focus on how much we like our life. STAGE 2- INTROSPECTION A plummet into -Brooding over our past achievements with relentless self-examination and criticism occurs here, potentially leading to implosion, self-degradation or blame (often from a scary parent or authoritarian voice we carry within that constantly belittles our mistakes, decisions, expression etc). This is only shifted when we become +Aware of a more supportive, parental source of Guidance that helps us realize our personal worth and positive life impact. (Reference: 60M fourth internal monad. be who you are x see who you are and Separation from my wife who is my task companion, scholar intimacy, major karma theme of revenge, internal monads) STAGE 3- REALIZATION We -Separate (Pull Back) from the future and all who reflect parts of us we don't want to confront now; hiding within as we probe our beliefs. Until we +Free ourselves from forced identities and ideas of who we think we are, or have been told we are, to create new ones. We realize with certainty that something must be done that finally breaks our old patterns. (Reference: Separation from my wife who is my task companion, scholar intimacy, major karma theme of revenge, internal monads and Internal Monad Report) STAGE 4- MANIFESTATION Feelings of -Otiose arise now. We start to feel empty, hollow, lost, floating, uncertain, ineffective, meandering etc. We don't feel present because we're waiting for someone/thing else to define our direction/purpose for us; or we're struggling with life's demands, impositions and burdens while dismissing anything new that could change things and desperately holding onto comforts we've always known. Eventually, a renewed sense of +Purpose must emerge where we realize how we're fueling, opening and evolving ourselves. We start to choose what's important, meaningful, trusted & progressive for us, and begin to more comfortably express all of our daily endeavors and activities as an honest reflection of us. (Reference: Calming down with your Heartbeat, My Internal Monad Report and A much needed session on my life plan, 2020, and current IM) STAGE 5- CONTENTMENT We start to question ourselves through inner -Contention, combative arguments, debate and even grief. Questions come up like: "Why am I resisting this?", "What does my rejection mean?", "Am I actually happy with this?". We even look at what choices we've made that were part of our big plan/life purpose or were supposed to be good for us, but are not working nor satisfying to us anymore. Eventually this self-questioning turns into a sense of +Satisfaction and gratitude for what we've learned, how we choose to live & releasing what no longer serves us that's been programmed into our heads. We start to enjoy the truths these inner arguments bring, and lighten up about our movement and intentions. What matters is what decisions now bring personal happiness- not whether we're good on others terms at our own expense, or have done enough & completed/accomplished a looming task we set out to fulfill. (Reference: 4th IM 5th Stage and Eric's Internal Monad Report - Note: I also used a deleted session from a TLE member that left that I cannot link to) STAGE 6- MAGNETIZATION As we face the truth of ideas that are no longer valid about us and own what we've now decided is true of us, others seem to challenge, conflict with, reject and contradict these truths- leaving us with a sense of -Repulsion, isolation, depression and deep longing that arises from extremes of emotion, mood and tears. Over time, we begin to +Attract relationships and paths that do support us (whether those be new or old); learning how to strengthen, refine and fully embody our new truths using others input. We create a more accurate, long-term view of the life our efforts are shaping, and start building our better future alongside any current "demands" of life. (Reference: My 4th IM Part 2, Internal Monads and Eric's Internal Monad Report) STAGE 7- EMANATION With the close of the 4th IM, we fully commit to assessing all directions, values, feelings and things that are -Incongruous with who we truly are: differentiating what IS ME from what is NOT ME. This is a necessary process, as it helps us +Align with being in our essence, and living from our power of choice so that we can create greater presence, peace and wholeness in our self, our life and our terms. (Reference: 4th IM at 6th Level Old, Internal Monads, 4th IM completed in Negative Pole and My Internal Monad Report) As we explore Defining Ourselves on our own terms rather than by what we learned was true of us from our Imprinting (all beliefs/roles/standards taught or learned from our past, family, culture, society, relationships, spirituality etc.), a sense of -Acquiescence, great fear or apathy arises about this. We give up on ourselves, Resigning, Complying and Succumbing to who/how we are- but not really liking who that is. So we let anything but us rule over who we are. (Reference: The 7 Stages of the 4th Internal Monad) We feel defined and fixed by Disappointment and Destructive Criticisms- needing to constantly Hide from what reflects us. We feel Conflict is the only way to win and be right about our terms. We try to Recapture or Replicate our Past- feeling that we've lost our innocence and/or need to make up for it- perhaps by trying to be/feel recklessly youthful again. (Reference: 4th Internal Monad and the Past) And we desperately seek Meaning, Purpose or Importance in life, always feeling unfulfilled. When this carries forth into our Elderhood, this often shows as a rise in pure resignation, constantly voiced resentments and preoccupations with the aches and pains of life. A complete 4th IM is marked by a +Self-Realization that we like ourselves & who we've chosen to be, and want to be involved in creating & responding to our life's choices and changes again. It’s a freeing from what others think we SHOULD do/be, to discover what we LOVE to do/be or feels personally meaningful for us to follow up on and manifest in life. (Reference: What remaining issues need to be addressed to close the 4th IM?) We begin to appreciate our and everyone else's core Innocence in even the most trying times. We return to participating in, contributing to and creating our life more flexibly, rather than based on everyone else's presumptions and expectations of us. (Reference: The 7 Stages of the 4th Internal Monad) We realize Disappointment doesn't Define our self or moment, it only informs us. We realize that engaging in Conflict is not the same thing as needing to win, be right or hurt another- it's a way of speaking up about our valid terms/standards. We no longer feel the need to defend our ideas of us against those who have differing ideas; because we presume differences are a natural part of life, and we don't have to bump up against or agree with others terms to define who we are and what we prefer. And we begin to Forgive that what's happened can't be undone or unhappen; so comfortable concern, measured risks, trust and peace with ourselves become a part of who we are. Once we comprehend this we move "between monads" and suddenly feel unshaken by experiences; because we're confident in, appreciate and love ourselves, our choices (no matter what we've chosen) and the fact that our life is now unfolding from us rather than happening to us. Upon initiating the 5th IM then, a desire for travel, exploration, adventurous new moves, beginning new projects & being in groups sharing like-minded activities can often arise. (Reference: Navigating the Fourth Internal Monad: Do I like me? and How to tell when the 4th IM is Finished?) RECREATION (5TH INTERNAL MONAD) The 5th Internal Monad is the process of embracing and simply being who we are. It is about releasing ourselves from even our ideas, demands and expectations of who we should be- and recreating & enjoying our life by re-discovering who we are again. It is resonant to the Intellectual Center- to our ideas and concepts of being/living as us. (Reference: Start of the 5th Internal Monad) In Biological Terms, this is marked by ELDERHOOD. The Hormonal Wash we undergo here helps to shift emphasis from reproduction to Propagating Information & Expression; emphasizing Empathy and Resolutions of Truth to free and recreate the self and community, as well as carry forth philosophies and teachings for future generations. Unlike the 4th IM which is a process in Defining the Self, the 5th IM is a process in Recreating the Self. It can be difficult to realize how our aging/evolving has affected our attachments and self-image, so this is a process in revitalizing our self/life and simply having fun again. It could be said to then activate our life philosophies, truths and overall Attitude. (Reference: Difference between the 4th and 5th Internal Monads) 7 STAGES (These stages can move from -Pole to -Pole, or -Pole to +Pole. If one stage is stuck in its -Pole, all taken on after it will default to the -Pole as well: but once that stage moves into its +Pole, the next stage can now move into its +Pole.) (Reference: The 7 Stages of the 5th Internal Monad and 7 Stages Part 2) STAGE 1- INITIATION This is begun by an extremely debilitating or mildly concerning sense of -Anxiety that we have aged. But this cascades into a sudden or gradual +Awareness that we can now recreate & relieve ourselves from pressing concerns, not just live under personal expectations and impositions. STAGE 2- INTROSPECTION A sense of -Regret and grief for any missed/wasted opportunities, "should/could have's" and "what if's" arises, as we project all of our feelings, longings and failed expectations onto our past. So we find ourselves needing to release any regret through +Appreciation, reflection, understanding and nostalgia for that past; building upon any hurt with acknowledgement, and learning more about ourselves through this. STAGE 3- REALIZATION -Resentment sets in for our past or present conditions, leading us to blame, shame, complain and disengage from any responsibility for being who we are, or using what we have to create change. We think we should be or have something else than we do, and our status, circumstances, relationships, past etc. are at fault because we're clearly not that way or don't have that. Eventually, we +Accept and come to realize our past, conditions, circumstances, relationships etc. are a part of our life, not things that limit & contradict our enjoyment. We begin to remember that we are who we are & have what we have because of what we needed, created or wanted in the past. So we then begin to own our past choices. STAGE 4- MANIFESTATION Our aim to blame, shifts to a need to -Punish. So we start to harm, distance everyone through cantankerous anger and feel others must pay for all they've done to us; or we punish ourselves through self-imposed isolation, depression and even a resignation to memory loss and other inevitable changes. We might even realize we have punished/wished to punish ourselves or others in the past- but any which way, something is "paying for it", and we lose focus on living life in favor of tearing it down. Here we must learn to release the anchors of the past that tie us to ideas of "what went wrong" that are no longer relevant and are weighing us down, to +Revitalize our body, psyche and memory with an enthusiasm for new life, activities, pursuits and better ways of remembering. (Reference: 7th Level Old) STAGE 5- CONTENTMENT -Overwhelmed about the complete lack of possibility or huge range of possibilities to recreate life, we measure what we expected from life against what it actually is now. This can feel deflating, defeating and overwhelming because we must finally see what's actually here, and present in our life now. But eventually, we open our eyes, awaken with heightened awareness and learn to renew our life with +Vibrancy and curiosity. We become aware that every little choice truly MAKES the day, and are sensitive to every bit of appreciation, realization, recognition and gratitude we experience and create. (Reference: 5th Internal Monad, 5th IM: An Embrace of the Past and Return to Me, Now and Internal Monad Report) STAGE 6- MAGNETIZATION Now we start to wonder and question what we can actually do from the position we're in. So we either deny or bury ourselves in the feeling of being a -Burden, feeling burdened by others and fear how they'll impact us; or we have to manage very real burdens because our life, body, resources, energy etc. are different now. Something feels like a waste of air, space or life. The reality of -Bonding, support and care is what breaks this burden as we realize openly & consciously helping and being helped creates such a difference in inspiration, peace, creativity and motivation. And we uncover/embrace important, meaningful and necessary truths we've ignored, denied or rejected through these profound networks of bittersweet honesty and authenticity. (Reference: 5th IM and Cluster Lifetimes, Internal Monad Report and Tex's Internal Monad Report) STAGE 7- EMANATION Some part of us that can no longer hold up, -Collapses, gives up and no longer cares to be responsible. So we're trapped by an outdated idea of how things should be as we relive our past, or we check all the ways we are still weak, unsure, needy, ill and insecure. If we're chronically stuck in this IM, we will now feel our memory completely deteriorate as we chronically regress into our history and completely forget the present over and over. To resolve this, we must truly Embrace the Awe of our whole life, and the beautiful surprises it can bring about who/how we & others are; freeing ourselves from all rigorous, restricting, exhausting or prejudiced ideas and expectations we ever imposed on/expected of ourselves and others. This is +Transcendence. When we do this, our memories feel comforting, healed and complete, as our focus turns to simply enjoying life and being who we are, rather than trying to heal or fix those into what they should be/should've been. (Reference: Shimmering my way through the 5th IM and Tex's Internal Monad Report) As we explore Recreating Ourselves from the purpose, expectations and life goals we longed to fulfill, we evaluate our life as a whole, with a rising sense of -Resentment, disappointment, disregard, guilt and regret. We feel Angry, Disgusted or Bitter about missed opportunities, betrayals or mistakes as we constantly look into our present and past conditions, seeing how our aging and evolving has affected our body, self-image and cherished attachments. When thinking about following new impulses, ideas, desires and visions, we do not find these relevant or informative and instead believe we are “Too Old” or it’s “Too Late” to follow them. (Reference: Start of the 5th Internal Monad) And we Conclude there’s no point to anything, or Condemn all else that seems remotely meaningful. When this carries forth into our 6th IM, this often shows as a rise in senility, stereotypical and eccentric elderly behaviors, Alzheimer's and a loss of focus on the present due to the weight of all this resentment- as we emotionally regress into our most deeply rooted memories. (Reference: Dementia and the 6th Internal Monad) A complete 5th IM is marked by a newly profound +Appreciation and enthusiasm for simplicity, wandering, coasting and experiencing: living life anew where we didn’t before. (Reference: Fifth Internal Monad completion) We free ourselves from even our own demands and expectations, alive and eager for the pure exploration of ourselves, our relationships and our world. We feel a Soft Self-Love growing in life for our own potential and a veritable rise in lighthearted curiosity. So we deeply know now, that we can recreate ourselves in any image we feel reflects us. (Reference: Fifth Internal Monad completion) We share our wisdom through Stories/Anecdotes, teaching younger generations about our values. And we might experience waves of Wild Philosophical Explorations through our memories (even if we do have memory loss) that can lead to psychic events & breakthroughs. To comprehend all this means we move "between monads" and continually enjoy and recreate our life again and again on multiple levels and layers; in ways that are no longer restricted, entrenched or longing. (Reference: Post 5th Internal Monad) COMPREHENSION (6TH INTERNAL MONAD) The 6th Internal Monad is the process of dying to death, and our subsequent life review. It can be a very quick process that takes seconds, but the experience of time takes on an entirely different dimension. (Reference: Hospital Psychosis) (This is usually physical but can be a major, pivotal or transformative psychological death and rebirth too that happens within waking life. Particularly if one has a Plutonian Body Type.) (Reference: 7th Internal Monad on Non-Physical Death) It is resonant to the Higher Emotional Center- to our recognition and experience of love in life. Biologically, the Hormonal Wash we undergo here activates our awareness of the Threads of Memories, Dreams and Love in our life, and engages the body to resist and keep us alive, because that is its job. Eventually surrendering to the cause of death when physics "overpower" it, the body releases a surge of Endorphins to comfort, heal and numb our pain. 7 STAGES (These stages can move from -Pole to -Pole, or -Pole to +Pole. If one stage is stuck in its -Pole, all taken on after it will default to the -Pole as well: but once that stage moves into its +Pole, the next stage can now move into its +Pole.) (Reference: 7 Stages of the 6th Internal Monad) STAGE 1- INITIATION The 6th IM is initiated by a sense of -Grief that we're going to lose something, and is marked by the onset of what will cause our death. Eventually then, we shift into +Nostalgia for all that we've experienced. STAGE 2- INTROSPECTION We -Negotiate with the truth that we will die, perhaps discussing it with others, bargaining with it or siding with our lack of worth and just letting it happen. Until we see there's a sense of +Meaning to our life lived. The energy of what's causing our death begins to spread to other organs now and affects/alerts our whole body. STAGE 3- REALIZATION -Grudging sets in, as we or our body tries to prevent the death from occurring, or circumvents and avoids its truth. Until we come to terms with our +Acceptance of what's happening. STAGE 4- MANIFESTATION Immense -Panic is felt as our body and self resist our demise. But if our/others choices successfully prevent or treat our trajectory toward death, or we survive to tell the tale of a near-death experience, this process can be "halted", with our final breath set aside for another time instead. At some point in our life however, we will return to our mortality and realize we're truly +Dying. (Reference: Have I entered my 6th IM?) STAGE 5- CONTENTMENT As we -Resign to the inevitability, there comes a sense of +Surrender to what we can't control about our death. STAGE 6- MAGNETIZATION Finally, an onslaught of -Suffering sets in, either from the pain and decline of our body, or the processing of all our mistakes and regrets. This brings others to help care for us in ways that we no longer can, relieving us from this emotional struggle and suffering. So at some point we surrender to the awe, wonder, curiosity, intimacy, affection, rest etc. in the experience and are either held in comforting +Hospice, or mentally create one. STAGE 7- EMANATION To complete the 6th IM and truly comprehend our mortality, -Numbness from our body or personality towards this process, must transform into a sense of +Peace, release and deep rest. As we explore the reality that we are Going to Die, we recollect our thoughts, feelings and experiences while moving through a -Solitary phase. Death feels bitter, threatening, unfair and isolating, or we direct these feelings to others involved in or around our death. It makes us feel alone. We reject our mortality through some kind of resignation, apathy, delusion, dementia and/or denial. Death-bed Wishes & Confessions swell up that we've long kept in, or never knew we were processing, and even when we reveal these they do not soothe our panic and fear. We search for Desperate Reconciliation and Forgiveness, profoundly realizing we have never known or accepted love and support. If this lack of comprehension continues into the 7th IM, our life may even be Re-lived in the Astral like a "Ground-hog Day", looping and playing out in some way we are unconscious of to deny our death or account for missed opportunities, mistakes, regrets, betrayals etc. (Reference: Sixth Internal Monad and Seventh Internal Monad) Ultimately, if our death occurs in any Monad that hasn't yet been completed, the 6th IM will remain incomplete until we complete the Monad we were in at death. This is because if one is stuck in a -Pole, it's addictive and demands all attention to be addressed. Having a Monad chronically stuck in the -, contributes most often to a dying individual reliving their life. A complete 6th IM is marked by a trust in this process, and a sense of +Support, intimacy or union with those trusted to experience the death too. We feel Full Peace and Surrender for the reality of our mortality. In reviewing our life, we realize we've lived and Truly, Deeply Loved, and now we're simply dying. So even if we don't want this to happen, we know it's OK. These simple realizations calmly bring us to a space of understanding "between monads". (Reference: Sixth Internal Monad) DEATH (7TH INTERNAL MONAD) The 7th Internal Monad can be processed while we're dying or post-death, but it revolves around the impact of our death on us, and our friends and family. The quintessential concept of "life flashing before your eyes" happens now and the infamous review that follows it. (Reference: Seventh Internal Monad) (This is usually physical but can be a major, pivotal or transformative psychological death and rebirth too that happens within waking life. Particularly if one has a Plutonian Body Type.) (Reference: 7th Internal Monad on Non-Physical Death) It is resonant to the Higher Intellectual Center- to our capacity for embracing the truth of our existence. Biologically, the Hormonal Wash we undergo here is designed on a physical level to allow entropy and return our body to the Earth as material for new life to feed on and grow from. And while this happens, our Spirit/Personality detaches from its etheric bind to the Physical Universe, to resonate with the energy of the "Astral" or Emotional Realm: a fluid, less-dense counterpart to the Physical. When our life ends then, we go on and enter a Deeply Emotional Review-like Process to truly assess all the LOVE, TRUTH and BEAUTY across our entire life. This can take "ages" and cycle over and over as we come to terms with our life and death. (Reference: Is Death a Rude Awakening?) 7 STAGES (These stages can move from -Pole to -Pole, or -Pole to +Pole. If one stage is stuck in its -Pole, all taken on after it will default to the -Pole as well: but once that stage moves into its +Pole, the next stage can now move into its +Pole.) (Reference: The 7 Stages of the 7th Internal Monad and The Seventh Internal Monad) STAGE 1- INITIATION The 7th IM begins when we start to process our -Attachments to our body and those people/things we love, and our loved ones start to process their attachments to us. We and our body resist this, resist our death. So this can only be shifted when we realize we've died and start our +Transition to the afterlife. STAGE 2- INTROSPECTION As we and our loved ones -Deny and resist the truth, and hold on dearly, the +Grief of this change must be processed. As such, everyone carefully wavers between the tragic feelings and hilarious feelings they have about our life and death, allowing any levity, humor and nostalgia we find to rise up and out from our hearts. This is when we meet our loved ones and see our loved ones, who help us to adjust to and accept the death. STAGE 3- REALIZATION Now we feel a growing necessity to -Return to our past, relationships or physical reality, while our loved ones feel the need to return to us and our graves/memorials too. We constantly relive our experiences. This eventually helps create room for +Detachment, as everyone (including us) come to feel we're safe, at peace and letting go of the life once lived. STAGE 4- MANIFESTATION -Devastation sets in over the impact of our death, influence, choices and any missed opportunities, and our Etheric Body that bound us to the physical is destroyed as we settle into the Astral. As this happens, we and all who knew us now will +Review our life to assess all its truth, love and beauty. STAGE 5- CONTENTMENT At this point, we might get stuck in -Haunting pockets of space-time that meant something to us, or feel haunted by the poignant memories and replays of our life's experiences seen in review. Eventually, we move towards +Reuniting with our loved ones, other Essences and our own Essence for understanding, play and comfort. STAGE 6- MAGNETIZATION We now realize all of the -Fragmented parts of us scattered across these pockets of space-time, needing to invest great time and energy into tending to and healing them. So we learn how to +Integrate all of the parts, events, people and experiences that made up our life, by remembering, seeing and embracing them. STAGE 7- EMANATION To successfully complete the 7th IM, any -Dependence we have on those parts, events, people or experiences we orbit around must be realized, lest we can reject and resist moving on until someone or something else comes to heal and help us. We must start to depend on new parts, events, people and experiences to come, and any feelings of being lost, trapped or lonely in the universe, must transform so we can +Transcend our physicality and our past, with profound insight to newly experience whatever is "next". As we explore accommodating to our Death and the Afterlife, we must move through and process all our -Attachments: whether they feel good or bad. We deny our death and reject moving on, holding on to the physical world by "Haunting" Family, Friends, Objects, Time Frames or even our own Body. And our loved ones are left Uncontrollably Devastated by their grief, becoming deeply attached and desperately tied to us for great, lengthy periods of time. (Reference: The 7 Stages of the 7th Internal Monad) A complete 7th IM is marked by our capacity to +Transcend the range of attachments we have to our physical body and existence, by understanding ourselves as greater than the sum of our parts. We come to Embrace the beautiful truth and meaning of our life and death. We Integrate with Others in and beyond our lifetime- such as by meeting those who died before us, creating agreements with those who will be part of our next life, or remembering and contacting connections we forged in past lives. And if needed, we safely and peacefully Comfort and Visit loved Friends and Family, dearly reviewing our life together with them and with/as our Essence/Soul. (Reference: The 7 Stages of the 7th Internal Monad)

در کل دو نوع دوره گذار درونی و بیرونی داریم: دوره های گذار بیرونی مربوط به روابط مختلف ما با دیگرانه. در حالی که دوره های گذار درونی مربوط به رابطه ما با خودمونه. هر دوره گذار درونی یک نوع نشونگر برای ذاته که بفهمه در زندگی در چه مقطعی قرار داره، و بفهمه که چه چیزی طبق برنامه پیش رفته. ذات و شخصیت گاهی تجربیات متفاوتی از یک زندگی دارن و این نشونگرها یا دوره های گذار به شخصیت اجازه میدن تا همه تجربیاتشو "آپلود" کنه ، تا ذات بتونه در ایجاد زندگی نقش بیشتری داشته باشه. در طی این دوره ها برنامه های جدیدی ایجاد میشن، تغییراتی در نظر گرفته میشن ، افراد جدیدی وارد زندگی میشن و توافق ها و کارماهای جدیدی ایجاد میشن. فرد در قطب مثبت می‌تونه خودشو با زندگی و این تحولات وفق بده. اما در قطب منفی از سازگاری و وفق دادن خودش با تغییرات جدید مقاومت میکنه. در طول هر زندگی 7 دوره گذار درونی وجود داره که هر فرد در طول رشدش از اونها عبور میکنه: تولد، خودمختاری، استقلال، تجلی یا ثبات، بازآفرینی، بازبینی، مرگ هر فرد بسته به سطح درک و تجربیاتش می تونه به راحتی یا به سختی از این گذارها عبور کنه. هیچ روش درست یا غلطی برای عبور از این دوره های گذار وجود نداره، ولی "گیر کردن" تو قطب منفی یکی از این گذار ها، می تونه از خیلی جهات روی زندگی فرد تأثیر بذاره و معمولاً برای شخصیت خوشایند نیست. بعضی ها از "گیر کردن" در جایی که هستن لذت میبرن و از اون موقعیت بهترین استفاده رو می‌برن. تکمیل نکردن یه دوره گذار جرم نیست. در واقع تقریباً 80 درصد روح ها در اولین تلاش و در طول یک زندگی نمیتونن دوره گذار چهارم رو تکمیل کنن و ممکنه چندین زندگی طول بکشه. اگه دقیق تر بخوایم تعریف کنیم، "دوره های گذار" مثل همه چیز قطب مثبت و منفی دارن. و تو این کشمکش بین قطب مثبت و منفی تجربیات خیلی خوبی به دست میاد. عملکردش به این صورته که وقتی یک دوره گذار رو شروع میکنین احساس می‌کنین که انگار "دو جبهه" درونتون شکل گرفته. یک طرف موضع مثبت تری رو اتخاذ میکنه، در حالی که طرف دیگه براتون چالش ایجاد میکنه و موضع منفی تری رو اتخاذ میکنه. این کشمکش ها در طول یک دوره گذار میتونن تنازع زیادی درونتون ایجاد کنن. نتیجه نهایی و تکمیل دوره گذار وقتی اتفاق میفته که درون خودتون تعادل پیدا کنین و خودتونو با تغییرات جدید وفق بدین و باهاش صلح کنین. نکته: یک تصور غلط بین دانش آموزان مایکل وجود داره که تکمیل موفقیت آمیز یه دوره گذار خوب و تحسین برانگیزه و به نوعی به شما اعتبار بیشتری میده ، در حالی که تکمیل نکردن یا مقاومت در برابر فرایند یه دوره گذار نامطلوب و بده ، و اعتبار اون فرد رو پایین میاره. این حقیقت نداره. هر کسی تو بخشهای مختلفی از زندگیش موفقه و تکمیل کردن چهارمین دوره گذار عامل تعیین کننده ی ارزش یک فرد نیست. همونطور که گفتیم به ندرت پیش میاد که یه فرد هر 7 دوره گذار رو در اولین تلاش تکمیل کنه. معمولاً فقط کسایی که تو سطح ششم یا هفتم‌ یک سن روحی قرار دارن میتونن این کارو بکنن. وگرنه معمولا تکمیل کردنشون چندین زندگی طول میکشه. همونطور که میدونین ما برای تکمیل چرخه تناسخیمون روی زمین ۵ سن روحی رو طی میکنیم. ( ۲ سن دیگه هم خارج از سطح فیزیکی وجود داره) سن روحی نوزاد، کودکی، جوان، بالغ، پیر، (ماورایی و لایتناهی) هر سن روحی ۷ سطح داره. و هر سطح ۷ دوره گذار داره. برای تکمیل یک سطح روحی، شخص باید هر 7 دوره گذارو با موفقیت تکمیل کنه، و مهم هم نیست چند زندگی طول بکشه. هر فرد در ابتدای هر زندگیش، این دوره های گذارو از اول مگیذرونه. اما ذات حاصل تلاش های هر شخصیتو حفظ میکنه و لزوما همه چیزو از اول شروع نمیکنین. مثلا ممکنه ذات شما در زندگی قبلیش تا دوره گذار چهارم پیش رفته باشه، در نتیجه در زندگی بعدی عبور از دوره گذار اول تا چهارم آسون تر میشه. و اگه بتونین پنجمین دوره گذارو تکمیل کنین، ذات یه مرحله به تکامل نزدیک تر میشه. یک دوره گذار وقتی تکمیل میشه که شما سوالات مخصوص اون دوره گذارو تو خودتون حل کرده باشین و باهاش صلح کرده باشین. لازمه بدونین که همه ی دوره های گذار از طرف قطب منفی شروع میشن و اگه بتونین قطب مثبت رو هم بپذیرین، تکمیل میشن. اگه یک دوره گذار ناقص باقی بمونه یا تو قطب منفی گیر کنه، روی زندگیتون تأثیر زیادی میذاره و همه گذار های بعدی به طور پیش فرض در قطب منفی باقی میمونن یا حتی اصلاً تجربه نمیشن. البته یه دوره گذار ناقصو میتونین در هر نقطه ای از زندگی تکمیل کنین. یعنی اگه شما درون چهارمین دوره گذارتون هستین ولی دوره گذار دومو با موفقیت تکمیل نکردین (که در نتیجه روی سومین دوره گذار هم تأثیر میذاره) ، میتونن یکجا به تمام این مشکلات بپردازین و دوره های گذار دوم و سوم رو باهم تکمیل کنین و در نتیجه دوره گذار چهارم رو هم تکمیل کنین. به ندرت اتفاق میفته که ذات وسط زندگی، دوره گذار هفتم (مرگ) رو بدون مردن تکمیل کنه. تو این شرایط نادر، این شخصیت تمام دوره های گذار رو تموم کرده، و سپس زندگی رو از یک سطح جدید روحی شروع میکنه. این مثل داشتن "دو عمر در یک زندگی" عه. انگار میتونین زندگی اون فردو تو ذهن خودتون به دو قسمت تقسیم کنین. وقتی که این اتفاق میفته شخصیت نوعی مرگ و تولد "روانی-احساسی" رو تجربه میکنه. اگرچه در اینجا هر دوره گذار رو با بازه های سنی مشخص کردیم ، اما همیشه توی این بازه های زمانی خاص اتفاق نمی‌افتن. فرهنگ ها و جوامع مختلف و انواع مختلف بدن، روی روند این گذارها تأثیر دارن. تکمیل کردن دوره های گذار تو فرهنگ هایی که طول عمر افراد فقط 20 ساله، با فرهنگ هایی که طول عمر افراد ممکنه 100 سال باشه خیلی فرق می‌کنه. اون دسته از فرهنگ ها و جوامعی که متراکم ترن و کمتر عمر میکنن، روح های نوزاد، بچه و جوان های سطح پایین رو به خودشون جذب میکنن. در حالی که روح های جوان سطح بالا، بالغ و پیر بیشتر به فرهنگ ها، جوامع و بدن هایی تمایل دارن که طول عمر بیشتری دارن. ۱. تولد این دوره گذار درباره سازگاری بدن و شخصیت با چاکرای ریشه یا کانون غریزی (نیروی زندگی) هست. بعضی از واسطه های مایکل فکر می‌کنن که اولین و آخرین دوره گذار همیشه با موفقیت تکمیل میشن چون به طور طبیعی اتفاق میفتن. این شاید منطقی به نظر برسه چون شما نمی تونین از مرگ فرار کنین و اگه متولد شدین، خب ، فقط متولد شدین و در کنترل شما نبوده. این حقیقت نداره. چون نحوه متولد شدن، تأثیر محیط بر بدن، حتی ضربه زدن به نوزاد برای جیغ کشیدن میتونه به سازگاری بدن با چاکرای ریشه آسیب برسونه. کانون غریزی تنها کانونیه که از زندگی های قبلی به شما منتقل میشه. مثل یک دیسک فلاپی که از یک زندگی برداشته میشه و در زندگی بعدی "وارد" میشه و حامل خاطرات عمیق، پرونده های کارمایی ، برنامه های شما برای این زندگی و غیره اس. تصور کنین یه کامپیوتر جدید گرفتین و یه سی دی نرم افزاری توش گذاشتین، بعد اون کامپیوترو پرت کنین، یا بهش لگد بزنین. حتی اگه کامپیوتر شما درجه یک باشه ، همچین ضربه ای میتونه کل سیستمو خراب کنه. هدف از تکمیل اولین دوره گذار اینه که اطمینان حاصل بشه که کانون غریزی دست نخورده و هماهنگ با بدنه، وگرنه ذات نمیتونه "وارد" بدن بشه. یک روح به ندرت بلافاصله وارد بدن میشه، بلکه ازش مراقبت میکنه و به رشدش کمک میکنه و به تدریج در طی 7 سال اول وارد بدن میشه. از اونجا که متولد شدن بارها و به روشهای مختلف اتفاق میفته ، ذات و شخصیت ها واقعاً تو این کار ماهر و خبره میشن. به همین دلیله که برای بعضیا منطقی به نظر میرسه که تولد و مرگ همیشه با موفقیت تکمیل میشن. چون جنبه های فیزیکی این رویدادها بخشی اجتناب ناپذیر از انسان بودنه. این روند برای یک روح پیر تر کاملاً آشناس. اما اوایل چرخه تناسخی، این دوره گذار میتونه خیلی چالش برانگیز باشه. در اکثر موارد فردی که دوره گذار اولو تکمیل نکرده باشه قبل از سه سالگی می‌میره. و اگه فرد به دوران کودکی برسه، کج خلقی های مستبدانه، جیغ زدن، وحشیگری و امتناع کردن توش برجسته میشه. و اگه فرد بتونه به بزرگسالی برسه، نشونه های تکمیل نکردن این دوره گذار میتونه: بی ثباتی روانی و ناتوانی در فعالیت کردن در جامعه ، وابستگی به یک موسسه یا سرپرست برای اساسی ترین نیازها که شمارو از "دنیای واقعی" جدا میکنه باشه. به عنوان یه بزرگسال ، نشونه های تکمیل دوره گذار اول زنده و سالم بودنه ، و اینکه به طور کلی بتونین در زندگی نقشی ایفا کنین. ۲. خودمختاری (حدودا سه سالگی) این دوره گذار مربوط به سازگاری شخصیت با کانون جنبشی برتر، یا چاکرای خاجی هست. با شروع دوره گذار دوم، کودک درباره همه چیز سوال می‌کنه و دنبال "چرا ها" ست. و به طور کلی کنجکاوه و میخواد از همه چیز سر در بیاره. اگه کودک این دوره گذارو تکمیل کنه به این‌ معنیه که دیگه وابستگی شدیدی به سرپرستش نداره و هویتی پیدا می‌کنه، و در دوران بلوغش معمولا روابط سالمی داره. به عنوان یک بزرگسال ، تکمیل کردن گذار دوم معمولاً به معنی توانایی ایجاد روابط صمیمی و محبت آمیز و روابط سالم جنسیه. و والدین رو به عنوان افرادی مستقل میبینه، نه منبع یا دلیل زنده بودنش. نشونه های ناقص موندن دوره گذار دوم به محض بلوغ ظاهر میشن. خشونت ، عصیان کامل علیه همه چیز ، فحاشی جنسی (یعنی داشتن رابطه جنسی فقط برای جلب توجه)، و تجاوز و کناره گیری از هر نوع موسسه ای. (مثل مدرسه) در بزرگسالی نشونه های ناقص بودن دوره گذار دوم شامل: مشکل در صمیمیت، فقدان مهارت های اجتماعی ، مشکلات رودوی ، تحت حمایت پدر مادر ماندن (نه فقط از لحاظ مالی) یا نیاز شدید به تأیید دیگرانه. ۳. استقلال (حدودا ۱۲ - ۲۰ سالگی) این دوره گذار مربوط به سازگاری شخصیت با کانون جنبشی یا چاکرای قدرته. نشونه های تکمیل گذار سوم در بزرگسالی اینه که فرد بتونه در اکثر مواقع از رویارویی اجتناب کنه، و معمولاً از اول هم خودشو وارد دعوای الکی نکنه. در مورد اختلاف نظر ها مسالمت آمیزه. اگه کاری بهش نداشته باشن، "افراد مقتدر" و زورگو هارو به حال خودشون رها میکنه. و به کسایی که می‌خوان اقتدار خودشونو به رخ بقیه بکشن اجازه این کارو میده، و درگیر جدل و مبارزه دائمی با اونها نمیشه. نشونه های ناقص موندن این دوره گذار شامل: مشکل داشتن با هر مرجع قدرتی، خشم و رویارویی های مداوم میشه، و اینکه علیرغم رفتار های مخربشون به دنبال پذیرفته شدنن. ۴. تجلی یا ثبات (حدودا ۳۰ - ۵۰ سالگی) این دوره گذار مربوط به سازگاری شخصیت با کانون احساسی یا چاکرای قلب هست. نشونه های ناقص موندن دوره گذار چهارم شامل: افسردگی ، نداشتن "هدف" ، احساس سردرگمی ، "تسلیم شدن" ، اضطراب ، ترس و/یا بیماریهای شدید ، بی تفاوتی و ماندن در گذشته ست. نشونه های ناقص موندن این دوره در پنجمین دوره گذار تشدید میشن، و فرد به طور کامل تسلیم میشه و دائما از نارضایتی ها و مشغله های دردناک زندگیش حرف میزنه. نشونه های تکمیل چهارمین دوره گذار شامل: دوباره بدست آوردن معصومیت، حس شگفتی، الهام گرفتن و داشتن هدف، پیدا کردن انگیزه برای ابراز وجود خود و زندگی کردن به طور دلخواه فرد میشه، که باعث میشه زندگی برای فرد معنا پیدا کنه. این نشونه ها در پنجمین گذار مشخص تر میشن و فرد احتمالا به دنبال سفر، اکتشاف و ماجراجویی های جدیده. پروژه های سرگرم کننده برای خودش شروع میکنه و با افراد همفکر رفت و آمد میکنه. ۵. باز آفرینی (حدودا ۴۵ - ۶۵ سالگی) این دوره گذار مربوط به سازگاری شخصیت با کانون فکری یا چاکرای گلو هست. نشونه های ناقص بودن دوره گذار پنجم در اوایل دوره گذار ششم دیده میشن، مثل پیری زودرس، از دست دادن حافظه، آلزایمر، تبدیل شدن به یه فرد مسن عجیب کلیشه ای، و برگشت کامل به خاطرات بچگی و تجربیات دردناک. نشونه های تکمیل پنجمین دوره گذار اینه که فرد داستانها، آموزه ها و حکایاتی برای گفتن داشته باشه، خاطراتشو به اشتراک بذاره ، و در زندگیش یک نتیجه گیری کلی و آرامش وجود داشته باشه. حتی اگه حافظه شروع به از بین رفتن کنه ، به جای تبدیل شدن به یه "پیرِ فرسوده"، به دنبال کاوش های فلسفی در خاطراتش میره. و روحش در بعد های مختلف زمانی و مکانی ماجراجویی میکنه. ۶. بازبینی (حدودا ۶۰ - ۸۰ سالگی) این دوره گذار مربوط به سازگاری بدن و شخصیت با کانون هیجانی برتر یا چاکرای پیشانی هست. نشونه های ناقص بودن دوره گذار ششم در حسرت های بزرگ، نا امیدانه به دنبال حلالیت و بخشش بودن، گفتن آرزو ها و اعتراف کردن ها در بستر مرگ مشخص میشه. فرد فکر می‌کنه به اندازه کافی در زندگیش عشق یا حمایت دریافت نکرده و از مردن می‌ترسه. نشونه تکمیل کردن این دوره داشتن آرامش درونی و بیرونیه. فرد با مرگ اجتناب ناپذیرش کنار میاد و میفهمه و عمیقا درک میکنه که عشق رو در زندگیش تجربه کرده و زندگی معنا داری داشته. ۷. مرگ این دوره گذار مربوط به سازگاری بدن و شخصیت با کانون فکری برتر یا چاکرای تاجی هست. نشونه های ناقص موندن دوره گذار هفتم شامل: رفت و آمد مکرر روح در اطراف خانواده، عزاداری عمیق و طولانی و غیر قابل کنترل خانواده و دوستان و رها نکردن فرد فوت شده، و دوباره حلول کردن فوری در یک بدن جدیده. تکمیل کردن دوره گذار هفتم‌ به این معنیه که "شما" بدون توجه به نحوه ی مرگتون به راهتون ادامه میدین ، زندگی تون رو مرور میکنین ، و اگه نیاز باشه برای مدتی کسایی رو که هنوز روی زمین فیزیکی هستن تسلی میدین و اونارو ملاقات میکنین. بعد از تکمیل این دوره گذار، خیال خانواده و دوستان آسودس که جای شما امنه و در آرامش هستین. و قادرین که با در نظر گرفتن زندگی های قبلی، برای زندگی بعدیتون برنامه ریزی کنین. منابع:

MICHAEL SPEAKS - June 14, 2009 - OPEN FLOOR [Michael Entity] Hello to all of you. We are here now. [QUESTION] Michael. This may seem terribly "basic;" however, due to discussions amongst students, I've become confused about how the various Soul Age Levels apply to Essence's growth and development. When Essence first starts incarnating as an Infant soul, is it actually an Infant soul that then grows and develops as each level is achieved? In other words, do completing Internal Monads in positive pole, Soul Level, and Age, apply to Essence's development? Could you please clarify? [Michael Entity] We think we understand your question and will attempt to respond appropriately. What we would remind you of, first, is that what evolves is the ROLE in Essence. We realize that the terms "Essence" and "Role" are used interchangeably, and fairly so, but they are quite different in technical terms. Much like your Personality and Essence are truly "one," they are still not the same things, technically. For the sake of this response, we will use the terminology of Essence for the part of you that exists with or without a Role. We will use Role to refer to the specific medium through which Essence experiences itself in relation to other fragments sharing a similar agenda, and sharing an intent to be a part of the spiritual ecology of a particular system, such as Earth, all of its life forms, and more specifically, Human Sentience. The PERSONALITY experiences evolution within a single lifetime, from its Infancy to Death. Within that time frame, it goes through rites of passages relative to its physical and psychological age progression and our channels refer to those as Internal Monads. The ROLE also goes through stages that our channels refer to as Internal Monads, which is a different scale than that of the Personality. To help in clarifying this differentiation, we think it would be a good idea to refer to the Internal Monads of the Personality as "The Seven Rites of Passages" as a means to differentiate from the Seven Internal Monads of the Role. The Seven Rites of Passage are still, technically, Internal Monads, but specific to the Personality. Not all stages, or Rites of Passage during a life will be experienced or completed within a single lifetime because of physiological or psychological interruptions, limitations, and interferences. ROLE experiences evolution from its first physical lifetime through its last physical incarnation, even if by proxy (Transcendental or Infinite*). Role's evolution is measured by Internal Monads, as well, but these are relative to the progression through the Soul Levels that you find in the Soul Ages. The Role's evolution through each Level is dependent on each Personality's efforts to progress through its own Rites of Passages. The further a Personality can progress through its Rites of Passages in the positive poles, the further the Role is progressed through its own Internal Monads. The 7 Internal Monads for the Role are the 7 stages of EACH LEVEL of the Soul Ages. Since it can take several Personalities (incarnations) to finally get through the 7 Life Stages, both physiologically and psychologically, it goes that it also takes that many lifetimes for a Role to progress from one level to the next in a Soul Age. With this understanding, you could say that it takes 7 successful Rites of Passages to equate the 7 successful Internal Monads of the Role. The process for the 7 Rites of Passages takes place within the physiological and psychological boundaries of the Personality, whereas the 7 Internal Monads take place within the levels of Essence/Role and is built upon the processes of the Personality. [ADDITIONAL ELABORATION from TROY] There are a couple of ways this evolution happens: COMMON PROCESS (classic process) Let's use a 5th Level Old Sage who is just starting the 5th Level. 5th Level Personality # 1 : lives to 12 years old; finishes the 2nd Rite of Passage (positive pole) 5th Level Personality # 2 : lives to 25 years old; finishes the 3rd Rite of Passage (negative pole) 5th Level Personality # 3 : lives to 50 years old: finishes the 3rd Rite of Passage (negative pole) 5th Level Personality # 4 : lives to 52 years old; finishes 3rd Rite of Passage (positive pole) 5th Level Personality # 5 : lives to 60 years old; finishes 4th Rite of Passage (negative pole) 5th Level Personality # 6 : lives to 45 years old; finishes 4th Rite of Passage (negative pole) 5th Level Personality # 7 : lives to 55 years old; finishes 4th Rite of Passage (positive pole) 5th Level Personality # 8 : lives to 72 years old; finishes 5th Rite of Passage (negative pole) 5th Level Personality # 9 : lives to 65 years old; finishes 5th Rite of Passage (positive pole) 5th Level Personality # 10 lives to 25 years old; finishes 6th Rite of Passage (positive pole) 5th Level Personality # 11 lives to 17 years old; finishes 7th Rite of Passage (positive pole) 7 Rites of Passages Completed; 7 Internal Monads Completed = 5th LEVEL Completed NEXT LIFETIME = 6th Level; and a completely new cycle through the 7 Rites of Passage/7 Internal Monads as a process toward the next soul level/age. Notice that a "short" lifetime can still quickly build upon the collection of past Rites of Passage as a means to "quickly" move into the later Passages. It is often the case that if only the 6th and 7th are remaining, a child will generate a terminal illness early in the life, speeding the process of awareness of mortality and impending death as a means to sum up the Rites of Passages, Internal Monads, and Level. RARE or NON-Classic Process: In some lifetimes, it is of interest to the Older Soul to transit a Level WITHIN the lifetime. This is rare, but not so rare for Older Souls. When this happens, the lifetime is quite literally "two lifetimes in one." There are a multitude of reasons for choosing this process, and here's how it works: Let's use a 5th Level Old Sage who decides to transit Soul Levels within a lifetime. Only the 6th and 7th Rites were not completed for the 5th Level, so rather than have a short life, or die when the 6th and 7th Rites are completed, the lifetime continues into a new cycle of Rites of Passages. When this happens, the Personality literally goes through a phase of deep awareness of its mortality and senses an impending "death." All Rites of Passages are physiological and psychological. We often think of these as relative to the physical age, but that just so happens to be a classic pattern. The actual Rites can happen at any physical age. It's the psychological levels that are the important dimensions. That's why someone can be stuck in the 3rd Rite of Passage, but be 80 years old. It's also why a 12 year old can be processing the 6th Rite of Passage. So when a person is transiting Soul Levels during a lifetime, it means they are also completing in the positive pole the 7th Rite of Passage. When that happens, the person undergoes a kind of psychological death (7th Rite), the Soul Level transit happens, and a psychological rebirth (1st Rite) happens, regardless of physical age. The following Rites of Passage will now add an interesting process to the lifetime as the person, regardless of physical age, now processes this rebirth, and then attempts the 2nd Rite of Mobility, the 3rd Rite of Independence, etc. as far as they can go with what years are left within the lifetime. Sometimes they only get through the first or second Rite, sometimes further. [END NOTE FROM TROY] [QUESTION] Does this mean that Essence can have multiple Roles incarnating -- what makes up Grand Cycles? [Michael Entity] With all of this being said, the ROLE starts as an "infant" because it is relative to its current cycle of exploration within a specific species, but the Spark who is Essence existed long before this current Role and species. There are other species and systems through which an Essence/Spark has already explored, from the initial choosing of a Role to its reunion with Tao. We refer to the entirety of this process as a Grand Cycle. Your Role does not change during one of these Grand Cycles, but once that Grand Cycle is completed, the Role is discarded, along with all of its dynamics, such as Frequency and Male/Female Energy Ratios, Essence Twins, Task Companions, Entities, Cadres, etc. and when a new Grand Cycle is chosen, all of those elements are chosen anew. [COMMENT] so, it's the Role that cycles off [Michael Entity] The Grand Cycle is to your Essence/Spark, what each Personality is to your Role. Most fragments within the Human Species have an average of 3 Grand Cycles. Most of our students, which is one Energy Ring, or 12 Cadres, share an average of 9 Grand Cycles. Essence does not evolve without the Role and the Role does not evolve without the Personality. Personality does not evolve without the 7 Rites of Passages. We realize we meandered through a response as a means to help provide context for our response. Did this answer you sufficiently for now? [COMMENT] Oh, indeed! Much more than I expected . . .everything clicked into place; thank you! [COMMENT] for me too!:) [COMMENT] Same here [COMMENT] wow; this is amazing good stuff - thank you [Michael Entity] In conclusion, the Essence/Spark DOES evolve, but it is on a different scale of measurement. There is a time when the Essence/Spark is an "infant," so to speak, but it inherently retains all of the qualities of Tao. The Essence/Spark's scale of evolution is of such a scale that the results would be difficult to comprehend. From what we understand, each Essence/Spark eventually runs its own universe, eventually fragmenting itself and continuing the spectacular creativity that is Tao, becoming its own "god," if you will. But this is not something one need concern oneself with as you consider how to pay your bills and get along with your loved ones. The number of Grand Cycles does have some effect on the way a Role will show up, even in its first Infant lifetime. Those with higher Grand Cycles can tend to seem much wiser than those with fewer Grand Cycles, which is why Entities and Cadres who share an average of Grand Cycles tend to incarnate quite tightly at first so that no one "sticks out." As the Role evolves, the Entities and Cadres "spread out" and are more capable of blending in with other fragments who may have more or less Grand Cycles. [COMMENT] Sometimes, I think we incarnate to escape the complexities of it all...we come here to stop and smell the roses so to speak [Michael Entity] We would agree, especially for those lifetimes having a Goal of Flow or Re-evaluation. Next question. [QUESTION] Back to basics 101 - I need a refresher on how to break the hold of the negative pole of Flow - Stagnation/Inertia. Would Michael offer some practical suggestions on dealing with this problem when it is hard just to do/start anything? I hope this is general enough - dealing with the negative pole of Flow. ( And yes, I see NCF playing a role in this as well, :) ) I think I'm stuck smelling the roses in only one place, hehehe [Michael Entity] One of the most effective ways of breaking Inertia is to surrender to it. This may seem counter to the intent, but one of the things that keeps a person locked in Inertia is the sense of "running in place," or "doing a lot of nothing." When one can surrender to the gravity that seems to keep one in place, the footing can be regained, or the sense of productivity and fulfillment can be regained. The point of having a Goal of Flow is to learn how to navigate within the currents that are natural to the life, and often those currents swirl, so to speak, or slow, or eddy. [COMMENT] . . . or get stuck on the rocks, hehe [Michael Entity] One of the greatest challenges for those in Flow is to overcome the pressure to show evidence and justification for their presence. [COMMENT] and NCF gets you on that part, for sure [COMMENT] oh boy do I get that... [COMMENT] me too [COMMENT] same here [COMMENT] It certainly affected me and I'm not in Flow [COMMENT] definitely me too [Michael Entity] When a fragment chooses Flow as a Goal, it is because there is an interest in the nuances and subtleties of existence and this increases the sensitivity of the Personality. [COMMENT] a big Ah [COMMENT] I second that! [COMMENT] So, smell that rose until it blackens, shrivels, and dries :) [COMMENT] .... and then make potpourri! [COMMENT] hehehe [COMMENT] yes! [COMMENT] lol [Michael Entity] This sensitivity is heightened so as to develop an intuitive grasp of the life and its natural flow, much like one might have when navigating a boat, skateboard, or other vehicle of momentum that pulls all of the senses together to calculate navigation without having to over analyze. [COMMENT] I understand this completely [COMMENT] hmm, maybe why this is why I think well while driving, lol; driving alone that is [COMMENT] I absolutely understand the idea of subtle navigation [Michael Entity] However, this sensitivity then leads to an awareness of all of the subtleties of one's "insides," so to speak, so all of the areas within oneself that are not flowing freely are felt, too. [COMMENT] perhaps that is part of the problem - a feeling that the natural flow is being blocked and feeling uncomfortable with that and wanting to 'flow' again - and not quite seeing how to get back there. [Michael Entity] Often, the Personality will turn to external environments for the solution to the lack of freedom within. [COMMENT] hence the inertia... [Michael Entity] Flowing externally and can help the flow, internally, but often it can take internal adjustments, as well. [COMMENT] ok [COMMENT] empty the well - so; it can be refilled [Michael Entity] Both the internal and external are connected, and one can help the other, but when one is neglected over the other, it can cause the sense of inertia, no matter how productive and free the life can seem in one area over the other. One of the most effective ways we've seen our students understand the concept of FLOW is to set alongside it the concept of PERMISSION. [COMMENT] ah to allow the flow...... [Michael Entity] When one feels the life is not flowing, internally or externally, it can help to ask where one has limited his or her sense of Permission. And often that permission is the barrier to the very simple and freeing experience of Relaxation. To relax. To embrace. To allow. To Be. Without apology or proof. [COMMENT] oh geeze, yes [COMMENT] thank you! [Michael Entity] We have more to say about this, especially in terms of how the negative pole can be shifted by using the positive pole of the other Goals, but we will elaborate on that in other sessions. Next Question [COMMENT] thank you very much, Michael [COMMENT] that was excellent; thank you :) [COMMENT] it was very freeing for me [COMMENT] quite excellent! :) [COMMENT] :heart: it [COMMENT] Today is a joy! [QUESTION] Hello Michael, my question has to do with choosing overleaves. In reviewing [between lives] does the fragment look over the whole series of incarnations to decide, or find a particular lifetime where something got missed... could you give me an example of how I chose this life's overleaves? [Michael Entity] There are basically three ways a fragment will choose its Overleaves: Randomly, Out of Curiosity, and Through Calculation. Earliest Personalities of the Infant Soul are a product of Randomness, with "random" simply meaning that no intent or calculation was involved in the choice, though choice was still involved. Late Baby through Early Mature bring Personalities that are products of Curiosity, meaning that there is more involved in the choice of Overleaves, but often with an "I wonder what would happen if..." kind of perspective. Mid Mature through Late Old can bring the most calculated Personalities, as the intent for final comprehension, integration, and commitment to the path for that fragment ensues. 7th Level Old is a free-for-all, which is why many who are truly 7th Level Old do not appear to be Old at all, since the Personalities are not of those you would presume to be so wise. But that is a perk of "getting older," in that one is no longer constrained by fears, obligations, ties, etc. and one can finally play with lifetimes in a way that are thoroughly understood as safe. [COMMENT] the perks of Old Age.....:) [Michael Entity] Some of the oldest souls on your planet are simply annoying and bring nothing of obvious value to society or to their social circles. Some of the "wisest," most spiritual and grounded of souls on your planet are far younger in soul age than one might presume, but many of these guru-like fragments are caught in the maya of what "wise" should look like, and play the role quite well. [COMMENT] I have always felt I planned all this since I was a kid [Michael Entity] The mapping of a lifetime, and the adherence to that map, vary from fragment to fragment, Personality to Personality. It would be accurate to say that you are of the more calculated choice in Overleaves and that your Personality found the mapping of your life to be of value, and adheres to that map within reason. Next question [QUESTION] abandonment - we all do this a lot , we come together, we go apart , that is life, as we know it... so, what can you tell me, that would help all of us, with this type of issue involved with our passages through our lives -- i am sure, it is a theme for many -- how deeply rooted is ABANDONMENT/does it have 7 levels; and; how do each of the 7 chief dragons affect it, like impatience, arrogance, self dep; self destruction, etc [Michael Entity] True Abandonment is of such popularity for exploration by souls that it is within the 30 "Classic" (external) Monads: the Abandoned and the Abandoner. It is quite popular for the same reasons that the other relationships are popular: it is an accelerated experience that holds great potential for learning about oneself. True Abandonment is an experience that eventually leads to a discovery of self-value and empowerment that, when discovered, is unprecedented. True Abandonment is antithesis to the truth of your resonance with others, and to experience it pushes one to question the value of oneself in ways that few other experiences push one to question in that way. The process of being abandoned, and the process of questioning, can be extremely painful until the lies are worked through and the truth is finally comprehended: that the value of self is never dependent upon the relative position one is within a relationship; and that the experience of abandonment is, ironically, due to the overblown value one has placed upon another fragment over self. [COMMENT] BINGO! [COMMENT] wow [COMMENT] (no wonder why sometimes, it is so easy to just detach) [COMMENT] what will the wind blow in next LOL sort of the like the ocean tide that deposits its treasures [COMMENT] I learned a lot of that in this go-round with my Father was a double-edged sword understanding intellectually why but an emotional hile [Michael Entity] There are 7 Circles of Abandonment that one can initiate or experience: Survival Abandonment: which is the abandonment of a position that is necessary for the survival of another, such as a mother abandoning a baby in a ditch. Sexual Abandonment: which is the abandonment of a position that nurtures another in an intimate way, either literally sexually, or simply as embracing the Other as Oneself. Physical Abandonment: which is the abandonment of a position that was necessary for the mobility and productivity of another fragment. Emotional Abandonment: which is the abandonment of a position that embraces another fragment with room to Be without explanation or apology. Intellectual Abandonment: which is the abandonment of a position of communication and exchange with another. Intuitive Abandonment: which is the abandonment of a position of encouragement for upholding the fulfillment of visions, dreams, and wishes. Spiritual Abandonment: which is the abandonment of a position of guidance and clarity for the bigger picture and pattern of the life. [COMMENT] wow-this is very deep stuff--you are writing a book of great value troy/michael-as, you do this [COMMENT] that alone gives me mucho food for ponderings [Michael Entity] In instances of True Abandonment, Karma is often created. When we say True Abandonment, we mean that one has instilled oneself as a provider for a particular context, and then bails on the responsibilities of that position upon which another became dependent. When one experiences True Abandonment, the effects are valid and we do not mean to suggest that they are not, though we do suggest that most of the contexts can be overcome as the individual fragment finds his or her own sense of value. In the first context of Survival, the exploration of value is dependent upon Essence, not the Personality. The Essence will either let the life go as a means to start again in another life, or find a way to get help to the Personality that has been abandoned, if the Personality is receptive to that help. [COMMENT] And all the 7 seems to relate somehow with the 7 chakras and centers too [Michael Entity] Yes, there is a relevant parallel to the Chakras. [COMMENT] (you can NOT make someone else into something of value-they must learn to do that for themselves-otherwise, they do NOT appreciate it , as, they would, if they earned the rite of passage for themselves) [QUESTION] Every Personality can experience many abandonments which are only experience -- not Monadal levels of True Abandonment? [Michael Entity] The Monadal process of Abandoned/Abandoner would focus on a single Circle, or context, emphasizing, for instance, Sexual Abandonment or Intuitive Abandonment. The Monad of Abandoned/Abandoner can be played out multiple times across different relationships for emphasis on the different Circles, or contexts. We would also wish to clarify that we use the term True Abandonment to refer to the legitimate relinquishing of responsibilities for a position that was originally, mutually agreed upon. This is to differentiate from the INTERPRETATION of Abandonment that is merely a reaction to the disappointment that someone did not fulfill your expectations. Most instances of True Abandonment are thoroughly explored by mid to late Mature. Most instances of abandonment after that are those of interpretation and directly related to self-karmic issues (personal, internal divisions within) that one is working on resolving. Last question. [QUESTION] An Infant soul has certain characteristics. Are these Infant Soul characteristics similar to what is experienced at each level. So that a person at a level one Old soul age, will be orienting to this new Age with some of the perspective of an Infant but specifically to the Old Soul experience. [Michael Entity] That is a valid observation. It could be said that the First Level of any Soul Age is the "infant" level of that soul age, and so on. The 6th and 7th Levels of a Soul Age would resonate to the Transcendental and Infinite Soul Ages, wherein the 6th Level is a process of opening to the collective experiences of your Essence for guidance through the life, and the 7th Level is a process of openness to one's Entity for guidance for the life. While this is not a strict correlation, it is one that can help lend understanding to each Level. We will conclude here. Good day to each of you. Goodbye.

MICHAEL SPEAKS 091309 Open Floor [Michael Entity] Hello to each of you. We are here. We will begin with Martha's question. [QUESTION] I'm curious about how Essences organize concurrents these days, with so many, in terms of ETs, TCs, etc. Seems like a lot of threads to keep untangled, can't wrap my brain around it. It's not "normal" in human history to have so many concurrents as we do now, is that right? Confused and curious. [Michael Entity] The "how" of organizing Concurrents is no less complicated than trying to explain the patterns of branching in a tree that is part of a forest; what you see as PART of the tree is, in fact, what IS the TREE. By this we mean the organization and branching is not complicated to the Tree, nor is the branching out in time and space complicated to Essence. The leaf's understanding of how it can exist as itself among all of the leaves would always have to go back to the trunk, so to speak, and understand that its "individual" existence is PART of its entirety, not its entirety. And so it is with you, as Personality. You can only truly comprehend the vastness of yourself if you comprehend yourself as a FRAGMENT of who you are. It is not necessary for the individual leaf to comprehend the entirety of the Tree for itself to be "whole," and it is not necessary for the Personality to comprehend how Essence functions across and through time. For those Personalities who wish to explore this comprehension, it can be done. Most of that comprehension would come through analogy and metaphor, but it can be done. For instance, the whole of who you are as a Personality is a fragment of your entirety in the sense that you think of as "fragmented." Most of you can comprehend the reality that your body is not just skin, or just bone, or just a finger, or a hand, or foot, or a tongue, or a cell. Your body is that entirety, though each of those things exist as themselves, too. "You" have no problem bringing your attention to your fingertip right now, or to the weight of your tongue, or to the tension in your cheeks under your eyes, or to your ears as you hear the ambient sound around you, etc. No part of your body ceases to exist by focusing on any one part, and "you" do not cease to exist, nor are you less-"real," when Essence is focused on other "you's." There is an awesome order and structure to the universe and we are in the process of comprehending this on larger scales than even we suspected while living from the Physical Plane. To help you glimpse how your Essence manages all of the versions of itself, ponder how your body is whole, while being all of its parts, and then apply that to the larger patterns of your Essence's existence across time, through time, and among many bodies as parts of its wholeness. For the more metaphysically adventurous: in the same way you know your entity members as individuals with whom you resonate and love and find, so is the relationship between you and other you's within your Essence. Your entity members are ultimately the same as you: just other versions our Entity. Your cadre again is the same, and so on. All of us, are You. On a more intimate and personal scale, "you" can also grasp how your Essence manages itself among so many bodies, concurrent, simultaneous, and linear, by seeing how easily you manage yourself through time. You do not exist MORE because you exist today vs yesterday, and you do not exist LESS because you do not yet exist tomorrow. You do not exist LESS when you are physically in an office, while daydreaming about lunch. You do not exist MORE when you finally get to lunch. You are simply where you are at the moment. It is the same for Essence, except the capacity for multitasking by Essence exceeds anything one Personality can do. On a more practical level of understanding, some comprehension can be had when thinking of the Concurrents as similar to how one might raise several children at the same time. Your children exist independent of you, even while being your creations and completely dependent. You have the arcing agenda of nurturing for the children, as well as the specific attention to those moments and individuals who require it. Yet, on a whole, this is your family, a whole body in itself. We realize this can seem a complicated line of thinking to comprehend, but we think what we shared here in these various ways of understanding can lend some insight to that reality. [QUESTION] Hello Michaels, in the Sept energy report ..."September 5th through the 7th is a NEXUS for many of our students, but just as many will experience their Nexus at various points (individually) over the days between the 15th and the 20th. This means some may be the 15th through the 17th, while others may be the 16th through the 18th, etc., but most will be around 3 days....This Nexus is a Community Nexus, which usually means that this shift occurs in pockets of time close together that eventually "add up" to the collective shift of your community. A "Community" would be anyone remotely meaningful within your social or family circle. If you communicate with that person, he or she is a part of your community. This means that those within your more immediate circle would most likely move through the Nexus together, or close together. Keep in mind that having contact with someone is not the same thing as communicating. Not everyone with whom you have contact, even on a regular basis, is someone with whom you communicate (engage in meaningful exchange)." Could you expand on this please, how has the energy changed from the May Nexus to now and how it pertains within this group? [Michael Entity] Though we know Troy and other channels refer to our sharing of perception of patterns as an "energy report," which is a valid description, we can also suggest that it be seen more as an "emphasis report." Following that line of thinking, a Nexus could be understood as a pattern leading to a growing emphasis, or into a scattering of emphases. In this case, with this month's Nexus, there is a scattering of emphases. Nexus points occur regularly, so they are not magical windows of transformative change, though they can be experienced as such during some years. The emphasis, or energy, of May was focused on relationships, and issues of surrender, regret, flow, resentment, and an overall examination of how even the worst of experiences/relationships are contributing to your life in potentially beneficial ways. The emphasis, or energy, now is focused on your internal philosophy about life overall, and what you can DO about fulfilling your ideals, dreams, desires, etc. How it pertains to this group is directly. Each of you are in some way participating in the energies/emphases of the world around you, so it would not surprise us if each of you are internally confronting yourself about your personal philosophy, or interpretation, of life and experience and self. This internal confrontation is the source of the Nexus. The questions that have come up within you will align you more with some people than with others, and this is why it is a Community Nexus. Not only is the questioning happening individually, but along with many who feel the same way, and the outcome of this would be a clarity of direction individually, which adds up when in a group. Most of you will have come to some sense of clarification about your life in a way that might be captures in the phrase, "I can do it!" and this would help to move you forward with an openness that draws you to those whose "doing" is compatible, supportive, and even directly and mutually benefiting each other. Of course, the divergent aspect of this Nexus is that there will also be versions of you who say, "I can do it! But I won't." and this will move groups together in directions of mutual grief, defeat, and general boredom as the comfort in the lack of will is chosen over the effort needed to follow your will. It could be said, then, that May was about grasping the fact that you are in a boat with others in a current that has others in their own boats, and that none of these can be completely controlled. September is about grasping the fact that you do have a means of steering, using an oar, motor, or even a stick if you have to. Just because one cannot control, does not mean one cannot navigate. For some of you, it is exciting to find that oar, and for others it may be a disappointing discovery because steering is not enough, and you preferred the comfort of justified complaint and confusion and may "accidentally" toss that oar off the side. Some simply find the current to be fine as it is. This is why we said in our report that the extent to which you determine the oar is of use is the extent to which your next three months might be relieved of the feelings of Impatience and Martyrdom. Choice is always the "oar." Or more accurately: Choice is always the "current," and Decisions are always the "oar." In terms of "cooperation" vs "isolation," we might use the words "wholeness" and "division," as "cooperation" implies an imposition. The only cooperation most need to be concerned with in a life is the cooperation among the various parts of oneself, or a sense of wholeness and trust, vs a sense of division and conflict within, with one "lazier," or frightened, or angry part dominating other parts. If you desire to DO one thing, but DO another, you are divided. Desire is your navigational alert to where all of you want to go, including Essence. And including the angry, lazy, resentful, and screaming, kicking parts, as well. [QUESTION] Michael has said that some parallels were VERY different than others and won't re-merge back into the total until well into the Causal. Can you give me several examples where history went off on completely different tracks, besides the nuclear war that occurred in one parallel back in our mid-1980s? I was told that I have several parallels that will never merge into this trunk or branch until we've all cycled off. I realize that each parallel considers itself to be the "true trunk." [Michael Entity] Not all parallels consider themselves to be the "true trunk." It is natural to live as if it is, of course, which is exactly how it is designed to be experienced. The older the soul, and the more exploration of this concept, the more likely the sense of such solidity begins to dissipate, which can make for some very interesting lifetimes for a Personality. When conscious awareness and observation of the literal shifts and changes in parallels are explored by a Personality, it can be terrifying and exhilarating. Much of what is experienced as discrepancies among parallels is ignored, briefly noted and then dismissed, or simply experienced as a private confusion. [QUESTION] Schizophrenia? [Michael Entity] In a very few cases, Schizophrenia might result, but that condition is more a result of an internal breakdown of communication among various sub-personalities assigned to different emotional components of the Personality. In response to your broader question: there are a multitude of parallels that have spun off at various points in your history to become fairly incomprehensible to the Personalities experiencing "this" parallel. Some of those examples would be: 1) Your world as a result of the North of America losing its Civil War, wherein slavery is still common, though with compassionate acts passed to protect the well-being of the slaves. The business of buying, selling, breeding, and exporting people has escalated to a scale fairly difficult to imagine or convey. 2) Another branch has emphasized a move away from all physical contact among people and focused on methods for sustaining that lack of contact, particularly through electronics, personal pods, and egg-shaped, stacked housing that holds only one person. "Families" are clustered together, but even babies are encapsulated upon birth and fed through a means that is built in to the pods. Procreation is done through laboratories and children are assigned. 3) Another branch has emphasized a taboo on "celebrity," which has become illegal. Those who gain notoriety beyond a certain population count face various forms of punishment, including death. 4) Another branch has never put to use anything beyond the use of natural elements as they occur naturally, or as close to "naturally," as possible, meaning that living is found in natural creations, such as caves, tree canopies, and some simple structures. There is no electricity and communication is only within shouting distance. The examples can continue, but we can safely suggest that if you can imagine it, it exists in some form. An aside: all parallels have access to each other through that single bridge: Imagination. Imagination is far more a tool than a novelty. The examples we cited today are examples of parallels generated from various points for specific, pivotal reasons: The first example is rather obvious and recent. The second from a point in time you might see as a time of the "Black Plague." The third originated from a Nexus around 2000 years ago as Christianity gained its footing and the taboo of self-serving positions in society were outlawed below the levels of the church, but another Nexus generated from a massive wave of suicides and stalker/murders in the 80s, merging into each other. The fourth from the impact of weather patterns not moving to any extreme to encourage nomadic behavior. The examples could extend into off-planet contact and integration of alien populations, to a parallel where only 4 bodies remain of your species. [QUESTIONS] Greetings Michael, my question is about the Internal Monads; following is from a private session with Troy: "In fact, the completion of Internal Monads in the negative pole are vital to the process of evolution for the soul. Each Internal Monad will have a lifetime with a completion in the negative pole before a completion in the positive pole....A successful completion of a Soul Level means the successful completion in the Positive Pole for ALL Internal Monads within one life. This can take several lives to figure out how to build through each Internal Monad relative to that Soul Level." Does every IM actually need to experience a lifetime apiece with each of the 7 IMs incomplete?! Any elaboration of this would be much appreciated. [Michael Entity] Before the late levels of the Mature cycle, it is fair to say that there is a completion in the negative pole for each Internal Monad as part of the evolution. After the 4th Level of the Mature cycle, this is no longer a consistency. In fact, before the 4th Level of the Mature cycle, there are often a multitude of Negative Pole completions of an Internal Monad before a completion in the Positive Pole. We speak in general here, but this is of such consistency that it is fair to speak so generally. There are exceptions to this consistency, but no rules. It simply seems to be the nature of how Essence builds upon experience. Many have heard the cliche that says one cannot appreciate the light without having experienced the darkness, and this is true for most for a long time, but eventually this is found to be an absurd concept. Any child can tell you that he or she does not have to drink soured milk to appreciate ice cream. And so it is that most of you eventually find your means of comprehending that does not require such fracturing, such pain, and struggle as a means to experience wholeness, joy, and ease. [QUESTION] In the later mature, and old cycles, is it necessary (usually) to have many lives to process the first 3 IMs? [Michael Entity] The variations after that point are across the board, so to speak. The variations become a matter of creativity, and not confined to any default. This is because the "negative pole" is experienced differently than before. It is not always experienced as a "bad" thing, or a painful thing, but as a matter of experience that brings as much benefit as any other, and it is not avoided anymore than it is preferred. It is simply a matter of choice, or a matter of allowing room for Personality to go as "awry" as it chooses. Some of the most exciting and creative adventures have been experienced by Essence through the Personalities who were the most "rogue." However, the negative pole does not always feel so great to the Personality. In older soul Personalities that are most rejecting of Essence, the Personality always suspects "something" is not quite valid in that rejection and keeps an eye open for Essence, which allows room for Essence to help navigate within that lifetime. [QUESTION] Hello, Michael. You have begun to answer these questions in many ways throughout this chat. Perhaps, though, you could elaborate more specifically. 1) Are you aware of another mid-causal teacher who calls itself Abraham? They teach about the law of attraction and how we create our own reality/experience. 2) How do your teachings about karma and essence choices relate to their teaching? They teach about how we create our own reality through our vibrational offering and how we can control much of what comes into our experience by guiding our thoughts in a certain direction and paying attention to how we feel. They teach that what shows up in our experience is always (without exception) a match to our vibrational offering. My main question is 3) How much can we "control" from this PERSONALITY perspective? For example: if essence wants to learn lessons about poverty, would I be able to co-create wealth by my conscious, NOW focusing of my thoughts and attention? [Michael Entity] In response to your questions: 1) Yes, we are aware of this entity, who acts as a "channel" themselves for other entities. The entity who is identified as Abraham is of the Astral Plane, however, and acts as a medium for Causal Plane entities who are the source of the teaching. 2) We find our teachings dovetail quite well with the source of Abraham's teachings, but we see some of that validity is lost in the translation through the channel and furthermore in the reception by the students. The emphasis on emotion and feeling is an emphasis of the Astral entity who is learning all about the dynamics of emotion on that plane, so that entity is teaching what it is learning, but leaving out some key elements that the Causal sources are offering. The emphasis on "vibration" is an Astral teaching, because that is the direct medium of experience in that plane, but this is a difficult and rather intangible term for most to find useful to any extent while Physical. It often leads to frustration and further division within the self as it seems this should be such an easy concept to harness and use. This is not to say that many do not "get it." Many do. But those who truly grasp the teaching also grasp the limitations. In answer to number 3: you have COMPLETE control over your lifetime as Personality. This is said, of course, with the caveat that "complete control" is meant in terms of CHOICE, and choice is often confined to certain parameters imposed by the nature of the Physical Plane, and the impact from others who choose to impact you. However, Essence NEVER imposes. Essence does not impose a lesson of poverty, for instance. Instead, it learns from the choices of Personality when those choices lead to a life of poverty. It is true that Essence may be curious or want to learn about poverty, but it does not impose those lessons. Essence may choose to be born within the conditions of poverty, but from there, the Personality is in control. Everything leading up to the first breath is the choice and creation of Essence. Beyond that first breath, everything is a result of choice made by the Personality. The entire concept of "lessons" is a misnomer, by the way. Essence does not impose lessons, and neither does the universe, god, or any other force. Instead, "lessons" are simply what one chooses to gain from an experience. Twenty children can be in the strictest of classrooms with the greatest of impositions to learn a certain subject, and all will leave having learned something varied, even if all of them can now add 4 plus 4. You can create what you want with this life, within the parameters of what tools you have, what tools you gain, with your intentions, with your call for help and your openness for support, and your use of energy in a direction that is aligned with your desires, and your willingness to deal with the obstacles that arise from within and without. [QUESTION] What are some of those key elements that are left out of Abraham's teachings? [Michael Entity] What is missing is too much to explore here, but can be summed up in being the Causal aspects. The equation of creation that requires Cause, Force, or Action to be a part of it. The emphasis from the entity known as Abraham focuses on vibration, thought, and feeling, with some emphasis on doing, but the doing is then stripped from the teaching in the recipients' interpretation as they are left presuming that reality is created merely from positive feelings and proper thinking. For those who realize that reality is not simply something you wish into existence around you, but is one that is generated from your force in the world that is generated through your acts of choice, and your choice in action, then the teaching can be of great use. [QUESTION] Are there any karmic scenarios that would make it difficult for personality to create what it wants? [Michael Entity] In answer to the reality of karmic scenarios making it difficult for personality to create what it wants: Yes, that is the nature of Karma, which is not only the interference of choice, but the intensity generated from the reaction to that interference. However, as the soul ages, some of what would have been a most karmic scenario simply becomes just another thing. For instance, in early lives if one were to lose his legs because of the impact of choice from another, this could effectively "end" the life and all of the intentions of Personality, but in later lives, this would simply be an obstacle that is tended to on the way to fulfilling those intentions and no Karma is generated. Of course, murder (the most extreme Karma) is difficult to overcome in terms of being able to be overcome by the Personality, so those Karmic scenarios are explored long before the concept of "creating reality" even comes into conscious possibility of a Personality. In other words, in most instances where Karma is the interfering force that limits the intention and choice of a Personality, they are experienced as part of the haphazard navigation of that Personality through a life, but when the Personality begins to conceive of creating reality from choice, vibrations, feeling, thought, to an extent that could be considered "metaphysical," then that Personality is usually beyond the influence of Karma to the degree that it could hinder all choices. [QUESTION] Thank you. Right now we are in a period of 'mercury retrograde'. All sorts of problems/issues involving communications, electronics, transportation, etc. are blamed on 'mercury retrograde'. How much, if any, does the 'appearance' of a planet revolving in reverse direction around the sun really have? Is this a real influence or is this a case of 'finding something because you are looking for it'? Or do we 'create' these incidents by our expectations? [Michael Entity] In the same way that our Energy Reports could be read at any point in the year and find some validity, so can the symbology of Astrological influences. Planets are symbolic representations of general emphases, but they are not literally the causes. Electronics, communication, and transportation issues can be found at any point in the year, as can, in our case, issues of emphasis represented by Goals, Relationships, Attitudes, etc. However, observing synchronicity among patterns, and extracting meaning from those patterns, is valid and an evolutionary perception. In other words, while Mercury does not cause electronic or communication issues, it does symbolize the period of time when awareness toward those areas of life can be most clear. Our Energy Reports do not tell you what will happen in your world, or what is causing it, but what is most obvious and capable of being explored with some amount of clarity, based on valid patterns we perceive. [COMMENT] Ok, so we 'find' those incidents because we are 'looking for' them [Michael Entity] Yes, to some extent that is true; the patterns of clarity in observation of those breakdowns coincide with the movement of the planet, so that "more" of them seem to occur during that time, but more did not happen, it is only that more of them are seen. Keep in mind that the symbology of Astrology is ancient, and the patterns were adapted long ago. This would be true of most planetary systems with different planetary configurations. "In the beginning" these forces were not as aligned, but as observations began to be noted and shared, the Sentient species begins to use the planetary configurations as a kind of clock that will extend through the existence of the species. Planetary configurations, or Astrology, could be said to help with the bridging between Essence and Personality in terms of "keeping track" and planning. The first place this is utilized is in the Body Types, as your Body Types are generated from planet closest to the midheaven upon conception of your body. [QUESTION] and that is more than 'coincidence' or just coincidence, that the patterns leading to those breakdowns coincide with the movement of the planet? [Michael Entity] We would not call any significant connection between the symbolism of Astrology and your real world experiences as being merely coincidence. [QUESTION] so the patterns are not caused by the planetary positioning but have been aligned in human thought to take advantage of the planetary positioning? [Michael Entity] That is close. We would not contain it to human thought, though. It would be more an Essence perception. It is a momentum that is utilized effectively. The clock is turning, so to speak, and Essence has learned how to use that clock for various aspects of creation of the life, Agreements, Karmic patterns, and potentials of Personality. Though this is extremely simplified, think of how the Sun comes up every day and how one times his or her life to work with that cycle. It is not that the Sun causes your day, or your experiences, but one does know that one can see better during the daylight, find sync with more people actively during the daylight, and rest, or play in the night. The Sun does not decide this or cause this, but it is used as a means to emphasize certain areas of life. And so it is with all of the planetary "influences." Mercury does not cause the breakdowns of electronics and communication, but it has been assigned as the symbol and pattern associated with your species exploration and emphasis of what it symbolizes. It is known to some that the more one truly studies Astrology, the less the influence is seen. This is similar to how one can find one is ruled by the momentum of the day's clock, or eventually see the clock as simply indicating opportunities and potential, but it is never the influence in itself. The recognition of patterns is a Higher Moving Center positive pole of Beauty, or Energy. As one recognizes patterns, one begins to comprehend that the current pattern is within other patterns. From the most personal level of omens and signs to astrology to "Michael Math" and beyond, the patterns are valid and exist. We can discuss this further as this then moves into discussion of fractals and their place in understanding the nature of reality. [QUESTION] What benefit is studying the Michael teaching now - from the point of view of future lives - if we shall presumably be completely ignorant of it then? In rare instances it may have helped to deal sensibly with a karmic etc. situation, but otherwise it seems to be mainly theory for most, and thus forgotten after this life. [Michael Entity] We cannot predict how a future life of yours will see a past life of itself, or what a future Personality will allow into its life that was gained from the comprehension you gain in this life, but we can say that the effort to gain comprehension of your life is not a wasted effort, because the concern is not about the future life; it is about you,now. Reincarnation is valid. Simultaneous (parallel) lives, Concurrent lives, Past lives, and Future lives, even "adjacent" lives (which we have barely begun to explore with our students) are all valid, but these have no bearing on what you choose to do for you. Now. In this life. No matter how many lives your Essence lives, this life is yours. It begins and ends in a profound way that is unique only to you and what you do between those points is your choice. However, in terms of how a future life might benefit from what you learn in this life, we can only use you as an example of a future Personality of your own Essence's past. You found us again. You are studying with us again. And you are using what you learn again. You found us faster in this lifetime than in other lifetimes, and you call us by a more accurate name this time. From our perspective, what "you" did as "Madge" or "Buford" in your past is clearly showing up as part of what "you" are building upon in this life. But we would also say that for most, this claim would mean little to the current Personality. [QUESTION] The teaching is mostly just words. [Michael Entity] The interpretation of our teaching as being merely words is a matter of interpretation and application. Some of our students do not choose to apply our teaching, but simply choose to study it, or explore it. For those who apply it, our teaching becomes something very different. All interpretations are valid, as far as we are concerned. We find the truth to be that "everything" is theory, or just words, until it is applied. Keep in mind that many children sit for hours in classrooms learning subjects that are of little interest or understanding of their real world application until they are in situations where that learning is activated and applicable within context. Learning CPR is something many may never have to apply, but the learning was not lost, nor was it merely "words," simply because it was not necessary to apply it somewhere in the future. Many things learned may never have any bearing on your current life in the end. For many of our students, the exploration of our teaching is a wide net that catches what might be used, and a lot of what might not be used within the current lifetime. We can only say to you that what you choose to explore, study, and/or apply is always added to Essence's knowledge, but we will never be able to "prove" this to you, and we would not wish to, anyway. What we wish to emphasize is that you have a choice. A choice in what to explore, a choice in what to apply, and if the power of your choice is the only thing any of you ever learn from us, you have learned what we came to teach. The rest of our teaching is simply our suggestion of tools for how to utilize Choice. We will conclude our session with you here. Good day to each of you. Goodbye.

OMW - Mar 5, 2011 - Choice Vs Circumstances Troy Tolley, Michael Channel MEntity: Hello to all of you. We are here. We understand that we have been asked to discuss the sometimes-confusing subject of Choice, and how this may or may not conflict with the subject of Circumstances. First we will discuss the concept of Choice: this concept has been discussed to a great extent in our body of information, but much of the concept has been discussed in terms of its foundation, and not its "structure," so to speak. Choice is the most-powerful and immediate tool any consciousness has, and all forms of consciousness have Choice. That is an example of a foundational statement. This is a factual statement. But what is built upon that is often inaccurate and misleading. That fact that Choice is available to every fragment and every form of consciousness does not elaborate upon the DEGREE of Choice that a fragment or form of consciousness may have at its disposal. It also does not account for the degrees of consciousness that a fragment may have to have as a means to increase the capacity for choice. It also does not account for the restricting factors of any given life, relationship, or event. So the concept of choice becomes a painful, confusing, delusional, dishonest, and harmful structure built upon an empowering, clear, aware, honest and healing foundation. We clarify the difference between the "foundational" and the "structure" because there is no paradox and no conflict between the two, but when one is confused for the other, the conflicts and confusion can come. The concept that "All is Choice" is a foundational statement, but not a structural statement. ALL is Choice, but this does not elaborate upon the fact that there are variations on the dimensions of "you" who make these choices, and that while a choice may be made in one dimension, it is not one that is made in another. ALL is Choice, but this does not elaborate upon the fact that this is not a statement of permission, but a simple foundation of existence. It does not elaborate upon the evolution of choice-making, and that fragments learn how to choose in ways that match their growing consciousness and manifestation of Essence. This is why the choice between "murder" and "not murdering" becomes an easy choice as one evolves. So while "All is Choice," and "Choice is the most-powerful tool you have" are true, it will help to understand the structures that are built upon those concepts in variations that can make sense. All forms of consciousness have Choice, from the subatomic to the complexity of Sentience. The degree to which a consciousness is closer to Sentience is the degree to which that consciousness makes choices that range between atomic and anatomic, or put another way: in a range between reactionary to creative. Bacteria have Choice, but can only react to stimuli. Humans have Choice, and that can range between reaction to stimuli all the way to conscious, creative problem-solving and beyond. The more one only reacts to stimuli, the more one is bound by the atomic, or the lack of consciousness. The Soul Ages describe this process of learning how to choose, and choosing how to learn. The Soul Ages describe the widening range of realization for a Sentient Being to exercise its capacity for Choice. The Infant Soul does not have the same capacity for Choice as does an Old Soul. It must be LEARNED. And in a microcosmic reflection, the newborn child does not have the same capacity for choice that an adult has. The Old Soul child does not have the same capacity for choice that an Old Soul adult has. This is because that capacity must be REMEMBERED. The Internal Monads are a description of that remembering process. Every lifetime is a remembering process, and every new Soul Age is as well. Every new Soul Age is the equivalent of a new Personality, in many ways, because it is a new paradigm upon which the Essence must now build from an old paradigm. The first 3 Levels of any Soul Age, and the first 3 stages of the Internal Monads are entirely about regaining consciousness, or "remembering." The 4th Level/Stage is about the application and building upon that memory. The 5th is about the experimentation with those new structures; the 6th is about the integration of those experiments; and the 7th is the comprehension/archiving of all of the experiences gained across that Age or Lifetime or span of lifetimes. We share this with you because it is helpful to understand that process and why it is a part of our mapping of existence, but also because it can help you understand the spectrum that you may have as choice at any given time, in any given circumstance. CIRCUMSTANCES is a term that Troy chose, but we can work with this as a term that describes situations, scenarios, conditions, limitations, etc that appear to be, or are clearly beyond your control in any obvious way. CHOICE will ALWAYS exist in some form in ANY CIRCUMSTANCE. That range of choice will ALWAYS range between atomic to anatomic, or between reactionary to creative. It might even be fair to call the range as being between Reactionary to Conscious, and while that is fair, it is slightly misleading because there would still be some degree of consciousness to your reactionary choices. For instance, your compulsions: doing what you know you do not want to do, but doing it anyway. Compulsions are reactionary. Impulses are Creative. To return to the ideas of Foundation and Structure, like the statements about Choice, it would be true to say that one is born into Circumstances that are not the choices of the Personality, but that would be a foundational statement. It does not elaborate upon the fact that the Personality is a beautiful and brilliant extension of Essence who created the Personality through its capacity of choices, and that the circumstances were chosen as Essence's ideas for how best to explore the life as you. It could be argued, then, that the life is not "your" choice, and that would be true to some degree, but only as true as "you" are not manifesting or allowing Essence into the life. The more one aligns with Essence, manifests Essence, the more the life becomes a creative process, and not a pinball game of reaction to stimuli. Therefore, while Circumstances may be limiting, and your Choices restricted to the context of Circumstances, the CAPACITY for Choice is never limited. Within the most extreme of Circumstances, you will always have the choice ranging between reaction and creativity. You may not "choose" to die from a long-term illness in any way that seems obvious to you, but you CAN choose to react to that experience as a form of survival, or choose creative ways of dealing with it in a way that evolves you. You may not "choose" to be poor in any way that makes sense to you, but you CAN choose between constant reaction to the circumstances, and creative responses to the circumstances. You may not "choose" to grow old in a way that hurts, but you CAN choose between reacting to that pain, and being creative through it, around it, beyond it. You may not "choose" who challenges you, and who may die on you, or who may assault you, or who may praise you, but you CAN choose to default to reaction or to creative response. All of this is summed up in the cliche, but valid, statement that you may not choose what happens to you, but you do have a choice in what to do with what happens to you. The most extreme form of Circumstance within a life is what we will call SUFFERING. Suffering is a relative term, so we will not define any conditions for it beyond the fact that anyone can Suffer for any reason that he or she deems circumstances are beyond their control. SUFFERING is a natural part of being alive. It cannot be avoided, and it will happen to all of you in some way, some how, some time. Not because it is imposed upon you, but because each of you will go through a process of interpreting experiences in a way that cause Suffering. Each of you Suffer in every lifetime in some way. Even the Transcendental and hosts for the Infinite Souls suffer. This is because there will ALWAYS be Circumstances beyond your control in some way. In the same way that we described the Learning and Remembering process of Soul Ages and Internal Monads, so does the approach to Suffering evolve. Suffering is avoided at all costs as an Infant Soul, and as an infant child, but Suffering is eventually and actively embraced as the soul ages, and as the adult comes into maturity. To avoid Suffering is a Survival Reaction, and a valid one within context. To embrace Suffering is to embrace your Creative Force. This is why it is well-known that those who suffer within a lifetime tend to be the most creative. Suffering is one of the most fertile of experiences for generating a return to a Creative Force within. It is NOT the only way, but it is a way that is so often a part of the life that it has come to be counted upon by Essence in many ways. When one abdicates Choice, Suffering is painful and overwhelming. When one enlists Choice to any degree closer to Creativity, Suffering becomes a rich resource, and often a direct path back to the self, and to Essence. All Infinite Souls embraced Suffering in its entirety. All Transcendental Souls, as well. This is NOT because Suffering is "noble," but that it is a part of life, a part of living, a part of being alive, in a body, and within the structures of limitation that are built upon various foundations. To avoid Suffering is to remain locked in Survival Mode. To consciously embrace it as a part of life is to Evolve. This does not mean one must seek it out, though we doubt we need to warn of this since suffering is often found without "looking for it." There are three types of Suffering: Survival Suffering, Denial Suffering, and Conscious Suffering. Survival Suffering is a closed loop of Suffering that is often generated through circular blame, guilt, shame. This is not a "true" suffering, but one that is brought upon the self and can be broken at any moment, though may require support and intervention. Survival Suffering tends to cut one off from others, the world, relationships, and life. Denial Suffering is an open loop of Suffering that drags others into it as a means to help the fragment continue its denials, lies, refusals, delusions. This is not a "true" suffering, but one that is brought upon the self as a means to avoid responsibility and accountability. Denial Suffering often leaves a trail of broken relationships, hurt people, and can lead to sociopathic behaviors. Where Survival Suffering isolates the fragment, Denial Suffering creates closed allegiances and alliances that become defensive fences between the self and "reality." Conscious Suffering, or True Suffering, is when one recognizes that there is nowhere else to go, so to speak. When one "loses" a loved one, there is nowhere to go but to suffer the grief. When one struggles with illness, there is nowhere to go but to suffer the challenges. When one struggles with pain, there is nowhere to go but to suffer the endurance. Conscious Suffering is the willingness to stand in that, and let it be. Conscious Suffering is the willingness to be present for the experience. Willingness to be present is a willingness to own what power one has in the circumstance, regardless of how limited that power may be. Owning the power that one has in the most limited of circumstances is the embrace of Choice and Creativity. Embracing Choice and Creativity means allowing for uncertainty, and paves a rich path back to the core of the self and to Essence. While Suffering is not a "noble" thing, it does lead to noble characteristics that every fragment eventually embraces and evolves. The 7 Nobilities, if you will, are: PRESENCE or Self-Authority; STRENGTH or Endurance; INNOCENCE or Wisdom; CREAVITY or Solvency; EMPATHY or Self-Reflection; FORGIVENESS or Self-Responsibility; and TRUST or Experience. The first two are Action Oriented, resonating to King/Warrior respectively. The second two relate to Expression Axis, and Sage/Artisan respectively. The third set of two relates to the Inspirational, and Priest/Server respectively. And finally the Assimilative and Scholar. The "Nobilities" will tend to be emphasized in various degrees depending on the predominance of Overleaves across the Axes, and, of course the Role and Casting. We will OPEN THE QUEUE here for your questions regarding what we have shared so far. Type three asterisks *** to indicate that you have a question, and we will call upon you in order. QUEUE IS NOW OPEN [Maureen] What comments would you make re: the axiom — “If you have the choice choose to enjoy” related to today's material? MEntity: Maureen, we think that is a valid statement, and in MOST of life circumstances, that choice for \enjoyment is present, but it would be a lie to say that it is a choice in every circumstance. It is rare that a fragment would or could choose to "enjoy" Suffering, itself, but one CAN choose to find moments of joy, or to allow moments of joy, however fleeting, to count, even in the midst of Suffering. If someone suffers from cancer, it would be irresponsible to tell that person to choose to enjoy the cancer, but it would be helpful to remind them that there is joy beyond the suffering, or alongside the suffering. Does this response offer some insight, Maureen? [Maureen] move towards inclusion rather than exclusion - yes thanks MEntity: Yes, Maureen. That is a valid elaboration. [Corinne] Could you explain further the differences between structure and foundation from the beginning part? MEntity: The difference between Foundation and Structure is the difference between what IS the concept and the DETAILS of that concept. The concept of a foundation for a home is fairly standard, for example, but what the details of that home may be as built upon any foundation is varying. It could be also be said to be the facts within the facts. CHOICE is a foundation for any form of conscious, but the details of how that choice is built, evolved, utilized, applied, etc is as varied as any home. Does this help clarify? [Corinne] Ok...it's clearer. Is this distinction relative to choice similar for the essence and the personality or different? MEntity: Another example might be that you have a LIFE, and that is a Foundation, but what you DO WITH THAT LIFE is the structure built upon it. [Corinne] AH! I see. MEntity: You will always have a range of Choice between Reaction and Creativity within any Circumstance, but you will not always understand or consciously choose your Circumstances. [Oscar] Hello Michaelses Would you care to elaborate on "...any way that seems obvious to you", which you mentioned in relation to possibility of Choice? MEntity: For example, one may not "choose" a certain illness, but the choices made over time during the life may end up resulting in that illness. To that extent, one DOES CHOOSE the illness, but it is no way an obvious process. Another example might be that one may not "choose" to be attacked by a murderer or rapist, but the choices that lead one to be in a certain place at a certain time resulted in being accessible to the attacker. To that extent one DOES CHOOSE the path that leads to the attacker, but in no way that is fair to call an "obvious choice" made by a person. One may not choose to live with the aches and pains of growing older in a finite body, but one DOES CHOOSE to grow older, and thus the inherent conditions that go along with age must be included in that choice. Do these examples help to clarify? [Oscar] yes very much so, thanks [DanR] Michael, could you comment on a bias seen in fragments where they view their own suffering as arising from unfortunate external circumstances while they view other fragments' suffering as arising from poor choices? For example, “I am poor due to a bad upbringing and lack of opportunity while they are poor because they chose not to work hard.” Does overcoming this bias help with Essence evolution? MEntity: The first example is one of Survival Suffering: blame on the past, on the upbringing, on the past. Survival Suffering is wrought with comparisons for the sake of excuses and alleviation of self-reflection and self-authority, self-responsibility, etc. Comparing Suffering is never insightful. It is about as useless as defining a line between Art and Not Art. By this we mean that while there are three types of Suffering that do have symptoms and behaviors distinct to each, they are still Suffering. Anyone who Suffers can use your help, and if you suffer, you can always use your own help. Therefore, yes, the transcendence of comparisons will always help one to tend to his own Creative solutions for his suffering, rather than to ensure them because they are justified when compared to others'. Comparisons are helpful for navigation, but if not used for navigation, they become the parameters of centrifugal vs creative force. Does this help in answering your question? [DanR] Yes, thank you very much Michael. [Bobbi] Having recently been dropped by a friend of 35+ years, I am left wondering if my change from uneasy ally in her Denial Suffering to offering self-empowerment/self-love suggestions caused the freeze-out. Do I try to get back in, or let her evolution continue without me? MEntity: Your observations are valid. The "freeze-out" is often the modus operandi of those in Denial Suffering, and if we see the correct fragment, your assessment is valid. As mentioned before, Suffering is Suffering, regardless of Denial, Survival, or Conscious, and any Suffering person can use your help. The choice is yours to make, but there is a risk that it could lead you to your own Suffering in some way. And if you are willing, then that can be a path of Creative Force. We would say that it would be helpful to continue what you have already done, which is to continue along lines that are on your own terms, and not catering to the perceived delusions. [Bobbi] Would the risk be rejection? [Bobbi] Again. MEntity: There is a way to return to the friendship with more offers of support and intervention without it being consuming, and that would be through calling upon one of the 7 Nobilities that come naturally to you, or that you wish to take on as a challenge. [Bobbi] Thank you. Very helpful. MEntity: When one moves into uncertainty, risk, and limitation of choice, but recognizes that choice is still an option, then calling upon one of the 7 Nobilities can help one to focus the choices. [Bobbi] Good to know and have in the holster! MEntity: For instance, in your case, you can make the choice to take the risk because you are willing to challenge your Empathy, or to utilize your Forgiveness, or to encourage her Strength by exemplifying it in yourself, etc. As we said, Suffering is not the Nobility, in itself, but from Suffering comes the 7 Nobilities, and one eventually learns to call upon those actively and willingly in the lifetime. When one actively calls upon a Nobility, then Suffering is minimized, if not diminished entirely. [Bobbi] I must have missed that in the other books. MEntity: It is not there. Our teaching is not completed in any book. [Jill] Would it be accurate to say that someone who is highly sensitive is highly reactive due to interpretation of experiences? MEntity: Highly Sensitive does not automatically equate Highly Reactive, though the phrase "highly sensitive" is often imposed upon those who are more obvious in their reactions or creative responses. Highly-sensitive people simply react OR respond quickly. Those who are highly-sensitive require more downtime for calibration and recalibration, since their sensitivity equates quickness. On the surface, and often, yes, this is reactionary, but it can evolve into a quickness of consciousness and creativity just as easily as anyone can. Does this lend insight to your question? [Jill] Is sensitivity due to Overleaves, imprinting etc.? MEntity: Sensitivity can be a result of any number of combinations, but most-often it is the result of AWARENESS. When one is "sensitive" in the sense that one is offended by the slightest thing, it is NEW, or RAW Awareness, whereas one who is "sensitive" in a sense is intuitive and transcendent of the senses, it is INTEGRATED Awareness. [Jill] Thank you. I have been struggling with the distinction for quite some time MEntity: Sensitivity is a state that every fragment strives for, and cycles through in terms of rawness vs integration. Being easily upset or offended only means that one has not found acceptable solutions to the awareness that has come to be, and this can be the case in a spectrum of situations. For instance, one can be sensitive to the behaviors of others in a way that upsets one because this emphasizes the differences between oneself and another. What to do with that awareness is then a process of Integration. [Jill] So we can truly feel empathy on the way to agape? MEntity: One can be sensitive to the plight of animals, or the oppressed, and but raw awareness will be ineffective and reactionary, often exacerbating or defeating the awareness, but integrated awareness will be responsive, effective, creative, and educational on behalf of that awareness. Jill, one cannot be in a state of agape without empathy. We will conclude this workshop with a suggestion for each of you to examine the 7 Nobilities and to look at which ones are more challenging, which ones are natural to you, and which ones have not been considered. Look at the risks you may be willing to take in the life, and call upon one that you feel could help minimize the potential for suffering. Examine where and how in your life you feel you suffer because of circumstances, and see if you can stand in it Consciously so that it is transformed into a path to your Creative Force. [Corinne] What are the differences between the Nobilities you capitalized and those you didn't? MEntity: While there may be variations in the limitations and freedoms relative to Choice, you will ALWAYS carry with you the spectrum between Reaction and Response/Creativity. Corrine, we added a more personalized sub-description for convenience. It could be said that the capitalized is the foundation, and the lower-case is the structure; or put another way, the concept and the application. [Corinne] I see. Thanks. MEntity: We must conclude here today. Good day to each of you. Goodbye.

Michael Speaks Live How Reincarnation Works -- Part I June 28, 2014 Channel: Troy Tolley MEntity: Hello to everyone. We are here, now. We can begin. Today we will talk about reincarnation, and how it works. Many of our students come to our teaching with presumptions of how reincarnation works, and most never ask about it. As our teaching is built from the questions of our students, and not from our simply deciding what you should know, the subject of reincarnation has been overlooked, despite its being such an intrinsic premise of this teaching. Much of what we will share today will not be new, but it may come together in a succinct way that is new for many. The primary understanding of how reincarnation works is quite accurate, but is simply not the whole story. Reincarnation IS linear. It does move forward in a way that reflects an evolution. So what has been shared in terms of this linear progression is certainly not misleading. It is just that there is more to it than that. So we will not be contradicting anything you already know from us. If there were no linear progression there would be no Soul Ages. So we will begin in our elaboration by saying that time and space of the Physical Plane are profoundly alive, made of an energy that does not "die," and is dynamic beyond what is currently understood as fact in sciences. It is speculated in many ways through mysticism and quantum physics, but as Essence, it is not speculation or magical. As we deliver this through Troy, there may be pauses as he unpacks new concepts or rearranges them into meaningful ways. Delivery speed will increase as we go. To help you understand how reincarnation works, we will use familiar tools and experiences as analogy. In this case, to start off, think of the Physical Plane as something more like an ocean into which one dives for an incarnation. If the ocean is the Physical Plane, then its container and depths are "space" while currents and movement of waves are "time." When you incarnate, your Essence never truly "dives" into that water. It is represented by its creation. "You." The vessel through which the dive is made possible. The beacon with which Essence remains connected to the Body is the Instinctive Center. Essence cannot swim, so to speak, so it can only "watch" from a distance, metaphorically speaking, of course. Once the body/Personality is created, those first 7 years are almost entirely in the hands of the caretakers raising the child, acting as extensions of the caretakers/parents. Those 7 years are the only years in which the choices of the Personality are not fully its own. There are either choices being made from an anatomic state, or being made on behalf of the child by the caretakers. This anatomic state is the negative pole of the Instinctive Center. It is based on a combination of the programming from Essence, and the survival mechanisms of the body. Over the course of those 7 years, the brain is then capable of generating the field that will be understood as the consciousness of that Personality. But it can take between 3 and 7 years for any body, regardless of Soul Age, to generate the capacity for consciousness to be sustained by the Body and Personality. Until that spark of consciousness lights up, the brain is only remembering in terms of sensory perceptions relative to survival, even if it is storing a great deal more. Anything stored beyond the necessity for survival can be retrieved once the consciousness is activated. To simplify this picture, it is as if Essence programs a disc, pops it into the body as it is being formed, and upon first breath, that body is on its own until it gains its first spark of consciousness. As consciousness expands in that Personality/Body, so does its capacity to give space and time to Essence. As "you" begin to expand in awareness of Essence, then Essence is no longer relegated to a passive position. It can begin to experience the world with you, through you, AS you. This is important to understand as it speaks to the process of the Internal Monads we describe. As each Internal Monad is fulfilled in the Positive Pole, a greater window of time and space is given to Essence through you. The Internal Monads describe how you allow Essence to exist through you, as you. Soul Age, on the other hand, describes how YOU progress toward existing through Essence, AS Essence. In Infant Soul lifetimes, the gap between Essence and Personality is the farthest, if you will, while the gap between Essence and Personality in the older Soul Ages closes. Within each Soul Age, the gap between Essence and Personality is farthest during the 1st Internal Monad, and closes as one moves through the 7th. This will be important to understand in a few moments. The Instinctive Center is something that is born of every Body. It is a blank disc, or "drive," if you will, in every body. Essence does not separate itself from the disc that is "inserted" into a body, but rather gives a COPY to that body. The "original" version remains with Essence. The "copy" is left with the Body/Personality. This is from which the Life Plan, Life Task, Agreements, genetic emphases, and Overleaves will arise for that body. The "copy" and the "original" are on a Frequency that is exactly the same as the Frequency of Essence, which is unique to that Essence and no other. Each of our students are fairly familiar with Frequency in terms of how one processes experiences, and so forth, and you may know your Frequency as 70 or 35 or 55, etc., but in terms of Essences, your Frequency number includes a massive string of decimal points beyond that number, entirely unique to you. That Frequency keeps Essence linked to the Instinctive Center "disc" that was inserted into a life. Regardless of how the brain will function for that Personality, that Instinctive Center will record everything experienced. Everything. It is the local Akashic Records of the body. In even the most resistant and limited of Personalities, the Instinctive Center "uploads" all new data to Essence every 7 years. So even if a Personality actively and effectively rejects Essence, that Essence will still get its updates about that Personality and those updates will "write" onto the original copy of the "disc" that is with Essence. That original copy that is with Essence is always with Essence and is updated in each of these 7 year Reviews, and in after death Review. However, that "copy" that was given to the Personality is forever unique to that Personality. It will not be destroyed, nor lost. Over the course of your incarnations as Essence, the Personalities that "you" were never die, either. In the same way that Entities are comprised of fragments who are Essence, Essence is comprised of fragments who are Personalities. "You," as Essence, are everything you have ever been, while "you" as Personality are utterly and entirely unique to who you are, every single lifetime. There will never be another "you." In either sense of the word. In those early incarnations, and soul ages, when Essence and Personality are at the greater distances apart, this is why the idea of having one life is emphasized. It is not inaccurate. You, as YOU, live but once. But even this is a bit of a misnomer. And this is where we will be venturing into some difficult territory for some. As each lifetime is generated, each Personality brought to life, each copy of a disc made for a Personality as a beacon for Essence, and even as each body dies, Essence is never limited by this in terms of its existence through any given Personality. Every Personality remains "alive" and existing for Essence along the way, easily revisited. It will not matter that for that Personality, it has experienced death of the body. Essence can simply "rewind" without losing its linear progression and revisit each and every Personality. There is a reason for this. Because every single Personality has choice, there will be many along the way that do not choose Essence. Many more than one would think. As part of the process of moving from one Soul Age to the next, it becomes a priority for Essence to scan back across the lifetimes lived as that Soul Age, and "collect" as many of those Personalities as possible. By the time one reaches the 7th Level of any Soul Age, the Personality that is at that 7th Level, even if 7th Level Infant, has expanded its consciousness enough to give room to Essence to move through the Plane of Time and Space to look for those Personalities that had rejected Essence. The 7th Level Personality lives as a kind of conduit, not only for its relationship with its own Essence, but also for all of the Personalities that came before it within that Soul Age. Because of this, not only is Essence linked to all of those previous Personalities and their copies of Instinctive Center, but that 7th Level Personality is, as well. The process of leaving a Soul Age, then, is like a telescoping reunion of sorts, bringing home any Personality that could not do so on its own. Until that happens, regardless of the experience of death for that body, that lifetime is literally being lived, over and over, looping, continuing in multitudes of variation. Because of that looping of the lifetime, the Instinctive Center that is unique to that Personality continues to be filled with data. Continues to transmit to Essence. That Personality evolves on its own. In its own time, at its own pace, and by the time there is a Personality at the 7th Level of that Soul Age, many of these previous Personalities that were locked into a loop of learning are now accessible to Essence, enough so to bring them home. Each Soul Age will often continue to have a handful of Personalities "left behind" regardless of that process of reunion because they simply have not expanded in consciousness to the point of allowing Essence to collect them. So at the 7th Level of each Soul Age, it is not only a process of collecting those within that Soul Age, but also a process of collecting from any Soul Age already completed. The 7th Level Old Soul, then, is extremely busy in this regard, linked to every remaining Personality across time that has not yet come to be collected. This is part of why it is difficult for us to give you Past Life information without some qualification, and often only in terms of distinct qualities that defined that lifetime. Because if there is a past life with which you resonate, it is likely a part of you still incarnating, having looped multiple times so that the variations on that lifetime are profound. This becomes more likely the further back in time and space we must look, while more recent lifetimes are fairly clear. That is because, as older souls, there are fewer of these looping anchors in "your" past. When you "cycle" off the Physical Plane, your Essence is then every single Personality it has ever been. Every Personality has come home. Every Personality has evolved to a point of consciousness that allowed for its ride home. This is important to understand because each of you are vital to that process. You are not merely a stepping stone for Essence. You ARE Essence. This is why suicide is useless, as well. It ends nothing. And even if the appeal of "starting over" is high, the disc that is unique to you is loaded back up and you must learn from within that all over again. We have said to our students that each Soul Age LEVEL is the completion of 7 Internal Monads. That is true. And it will take as many lifetimes as necessary, since not every Personality will complete the set of 7 Internal Monads. But Essence does not progress beyond a LEVEL within a Soul Age until at least one Personality completes all 7 Internal Monads within that single lifetime. However, with this new understanding you may have about how Personalities remain locked in a loop of incarnations, building upon its unique Instinctive Center, we can now tell you that every single Personality ever created will, eventually, complete every Internal Monad. That is how each of them go home, reuniting with its source, Essence. We have much more to say on this subject, of course, and we have yet to address concurrents and parallels, but this is a start. We will open the floor now for a few questions, but must conclude fairly soon for Troy. ***QUEUE IS NOW OPEN*** Janet: if the 'spark of consciousness' never lights up before the death of a child, what happens to the child's copy of its Essence 'disc'? Is it still a personality to be collected? MEntity: Yes. That incarnation will "loop" again and again for the sake of eventually living a full life. Keep in mind that there are parallels where that child may not have died, and this helps allow for the looping to be avoided, if possible. We misread your question. If the child is under 3 years old, or that spark of consciousness does not ignite, there is almost always a parallel where the life is longer, and the spark ignites. However, when that is not the case, and there are no parallels generated to accommodate the life, that "disc" will be used as "the next life." This is often the case in crib deaths, for instance. Does this answer your question? Janet: Yes. Thank you. BillG: Question: what is the fate of the focus personality after death of the body since it is the essence, not the personality, which is reincarnating? MEntity: For those Personalities who complete Review and reunite with Essence, it is quite similar to how one reunites with one's Entity as an Essence. The Essence houses the Personality in a way that allows for that Personality to continue evolving, but on the Astral Plane. It basically gets to "do whatever it wants." It is how the concept of "heaven" came about. The Personality gets to play, explore, create, and generate fantastical worlds to share. In many cases, a Personality will come to be the contact point for another fragment still incarnating, and that is how your own Essence can act as a "guide" for others. That is also how guides can often still have "personality.” The mid-Astral Plane is where your Personalities "live" once they are done in the Physical Plane, and they become accessible to "you" as part of your own network of support, guidance, wisdom, etc. as you expand your consciousness. You are never alone, in that regard, and what is "Essence" is forever changed by each one that comes home. Does this answer your question? BillG: Yes., thank you. Just wondering if those personalities include future selves as well as past ones MEntity: It can be complicated to explain, but yes, there are "future selves" there, as well, especially for those Personalities that are looping in their incarnations. That is a topic in itself, but the concept is valid. There is more to say, and we can always elaborate upon all of the various things a Personality can do after Review. Paulyboy: Hi Michael – Bill's question answered my original, so – Could you expand please upon the various things a personality can do after review? Like, have other lifetimes, be born as a dragon in some fantasy world, fly a starship in some sort of “Star Trek” like universe, be born a different gender on an alternate 20th century Earth, etc.? Expand please I find this awesome and interesting Rather, in the mid Astral plane, after "coming home" Thank you Watch versions of your favorite movie where the ending didn't "suck" from a slightly different parallel? Etc.? Anyway, just prattling on here. MEntity: All of the above, and then some. Keep in mind that this will have been within the Astral Plane. It is as real as the Physical Plane, of course, but simply in a different way with different physics. In addition to all of the creative ways one can live in the Astral, the Personality can also visit any of the previous Personalities still incarnating, act as a guide, support, etc. This is often the case for most who are 6th Level. This is why those at the 6th Level feel a bizarre sense of feeling protected and safe, even if life crumbles around them. There is a knowing that is new, and that is partially because that Personality is connecting with the truth of its many selves beyond any challenges. Surprisingly, many Personalities find themselves eager to help, support, and learn in ways that are not escapist. There are phases of adaptation that we can delineate that each Personality goes through once residing in the Astral. We can explore this in further exchanges with you. ConnorB: What role does a Personality play, if any, in the planning of a subsequent lifetime? MEntity: Connor, they play a vital role, if there is reunion. If the Personality remains in a loop, then Essence will use the data gathered so as to evolve itself and create further lifetimes, but in the case where a Personality returns to Essence, or when a Personality is manifesting Essence, then there is high involvement in creating "the next" lifetime. That is, if they choose to be. ViP1: I hope this question doesn't come across the "wrong" way but I've had it queued up for some time. Some spiritual teachings hold that it is possible, while physically incarnated, to cut the experience of reincarnation short by bringing oneself (through meditation or possibly other practices) into a state of experiencing oneself as being the "creator", or I suppose what would be called Tao in your teaching, and training oneself to stay in that state, even as the physical body and what it experiences via the senses is still perceived. And that there would eventually come a point where that state would become self-perpetuating, with no further individual effort required. And that upon the death of the physical form, one will remain in the experience of oneness with Tao, with no further reincarnations or experiences on any of the planes. (Not including Grand Cycles.) Is such a thing actually possible, irrespective of whether it might be considered desirable or not? If not, then what would you say these teachings might actually be describing, if it would be something you could comment on? MEntity: First, the concept is absurd. There are no shortcuts. Second, the concept is generated to bring false comfort. It is the equivalent of spiritual suicide. Those who would subscribe to the concept will be in for a big surprise. Bobby: By the time there is a Personality at the 7th Level of that Soul Age, many of these previous Personalities that were locked into a loop of learning are now accessible to Essence. Does the review only take place at the 7th level or does it happen for each personality just after death? MEntity: Review will happen after every death, but that Review determines if there is return to Essence, or continuation in the loop. It is not *quite* that simple, but it is the response we can get through for now. We must conclude here for tonight. We have exhausted our channel. Good evening or good day or good morning to each of you. July 6, 2015 Question asked during Ask Michael session JanaK: I have a followup question regarding the talk on the topic of Reincarnation. It’s about the “stuck” Personalities. There have been a couple of “teasers” thrown out, which I would like more clarification on. I will state how I understood it, so please correct anything that I have misunderstood. So if I understand it correctly, what determines whether the Personality is stuck, is whether they do or don’t complete the Review and reunite with Essence. If they don’t complete it and don’t unite with Essence, then they keep literally reincarnating, living through variations on the same lifetime (presumably this happens in separate parallels). They keep doing this, until they evolve enough to be able to reunite with Essence, in which they sometimes need to be helped. You have also said, that in this way they all do get to eventually complete all 7 IMs. Yet, I also thought one can complete Review and reunite with Essence without completing all 7 IMs? Are all personalities stuck until they have lived in some way (parallel or looping) till 7th IM in positive? MEntity: Here is the distinction we may have not clarified in our initial delivery: Those Personalities that fulfill an Internal Monad in the Positive Pole, regardless of whether the First, the Second, Third, etc., will likely NOT loop, but go through Review and gather on the Astral, being "collected" in the final Level of that Soul Age. Those Personalities that fall into a loop are those that do not complete an Internal Monad in the Positive Pole, or resign to the Negative Pole of an Internal Monad. That Personality will "loop" until it has completed the Internal Monad relative to what it had been trying to complete, and then it can move into Review. However, it is quite common that these Personalities will just continue to completion of all 7 Internal Monads, however many loops that would take. It Reviews, but mostly for the sake of updating Essence. The Personality is not quite capable of full comprehension until there is at least one Personality that has completed all 7 Internal Monads. Then the gathering of all Personalities from the Soul Age compile experiences for Review that launches the Essence into the next Soul Age. Because of the uniting of experiences and processes, then all Personalities that are a part of that benefit and, technically, each completes all 7 Internal Monads relative to their own lives. Those Personalities in a loop will have done so for themselves by this time, and will join the evolution into the next Soul Age, or will remain and continue in their loops, until either the completion of the 7th Internal Monad on their own, or help comes. Each of you will likely have several "loops" that will need to be collected from across your Soul Ages when you get to your 7th Level of the Old Soul Age. How Reincarnation Works -- Part II

Originally posted June 24, 2014 [MEntity] INITIATION: When one activates the 5th Internal Monad, it often comes with a wave of Anxiety, the Negative Pole. It is the realization that one is not just aging, but one HAS aged. [MEntity] Depending on the individual, this can be nearly debilitating in the Anxiety, or simply a concern. [MEntity] If the fragment moves out of the initial Anxiety about having aged, he or she then shifts into the Positive Pole of Awareness. [MEntity] Suddenly or gradually, there comes to be an awareness of the potential relief from all of the expectations and impositions one had been carrying over the self for so many years. [MEntity] There comes to be a keen sense of perspective, a clarity that one can begin to re-create the self, not just live under the momentum of personal expectations. [MEntity] As the 4th Internal Monad is the shedding of imprinting of others' ideas about who you are and should be, the 5th Internal Monad is about shedding the ideas you had about yourself about who you were and should have been. [MEntity] This Stage is an exploration of the Instinctive Center, and emphasizes a move from Distrust to Trust in one's capacity for re-creation, or put another way, one's capacity to work with what one is and has, not with what one was or expected to have had. [MEntity] From Awareness or Anxiety, one then moves into Regret, the Negative Pole of Introspection. [MEntity ] If one moves into this from Anxiety, then Anxiety comes to be mixed with Regret, and the life comes to be plagued with all of the "should haves" and "what if's" and "could haves" and a grieving begins for the sense that the life was wasted or missed. [MEntity] If one moves into this from Awareness, then there is still an exploration of Regrets, but these are approached with a sense of perspective and understanding about how one cannot judge the past based on the present Awareness. That Awareness is used for releasing the Regrets, rather than amplifying them. [MEntity] The Emotional Center is emphasized here, and one begins to look at his or her past as a source of Inspiration. [MEntity] If in the Negative Poles, then that Inspiration is experienced as Projection. One simply projects onto the past what it could have been, what it should have been, and then uses this against the self. [MEntity] If in the Positive Pole, then this is experienced as Reflection, a means of learning more about the self and building upon that. Looking back at one's life in Reflection can be freeing, and help to release the weight of poor decisions, "missed" opportunities, etc. [MEntity] Eventually one then moves into Realization, the 3rd Stage. [MEntity] This is entered through the Negative Pole, Resentment. [MEntity] If this is entered from the previous Negative Pole, then it brings with it Anxiety and Regret. This experience then will turn to blaming, shaming, and generally disengaging from any responsibility for who one is or what one has in the life. It comes to be someone else's fault, built from the "should haves", "would haves" and "what if's". [MEntity] It can be blamed on vague complaints, as well, such as circumstances, status, etc. [MEntity] When Resentment is entered after having completed the previous Positive Pole, then it is approached in a way that examines where and how one might blame the past, but this is moved into Acceptance, the Positive Pole. Any Resentment for one's status, circumstances, past, relationships, etc. comes to be embraced as a PART of who one is, and what one has, but not as contradictory to who one is or has. [MEntity] The Intellectual Center is explored here, looking at one's beliefs about the form one has come to have taken, and what contributed to that. [MEntity] The Realization here is that one is exactly who one created, needed, or wanted, whether done in reaction to others, to circumstances, to status, etc.. It was still a reality that you are who you are because of you. [MEntity] Eventually, there is the move into Manifestation, the 4th Stage. [MEntity] The Negative Pole here is Punishment. [MEntity] If this is entered from the Negative Poles of previous Stages, then it comes with Anxiety, Regret, Resentment, and someone must pay for that. [MEntity] The search for who or what to blame shifts into who or what to punish. [MEntity] This can become very distracting, and turn inward toward the self, if something external cannot satisfy the compulsion to punish. [MEntity] The level of self-punishment can be quite painful, and begin to manifest as ailments, such as memory loss, isolation, and anger. [MEntity] This is where the Moving Center is emphasized, and it shows up in the body, and in one's actions toward others. This is where the cantankerous begin to show up. [MEntity] When this Pole is entered from the Positive Poles of the previous Stages, it is a look at how one may have wished to punish, or how one has been punishing, and this is released through Revitalization. [MEntity] New life is infused into the past, into memory, into the body in a way that decides that one will no longer carry the weight of punishment for the self, or for others. [MEntity] Nostalgia is implemented and a sense of reverence for one's past comes to be allowed, and better memories, or better ways of remembering are used to help bring vitality to the present. It is a release of anchors to the past that are no longer really relevant. [MEntity] A shift in health tends to happen here so that one begins to feel enthusiastic about new lines of activities and pursuits. [MEntity] The next Stage is that of Contentment. It is entered through Overwhelm. [MEntity] When this is entered from the previous Negative Poles, it is when the past starts to consume the self in a new way. It is relentless. The life as it is now is trapped by everything that happened in the past. [MEntity] The wish to go back and fix things can be Overwhelming, and the prospect of re-creating the life is beyond daunting. It is often rejected as even possible to do so. [MEntity] When entered from the Positive Pole of the previous Stage, it is experienced as more of a range of choices that must now be made. Suddenly, everything seems possible, and this can be Overwhelming. This is often experienced as a kind of pleasant overwhelm, but an overwhelm, nonetheless. [MEntity] The Higher Emotional Center is emphasized here, so one begins to resort to intuition and measuring choices against what makes one happy. The parameters become very simple and clear for how to move through the new spectrum of choices. This leads to Vividry. [MEntity] This is when everything turns brighter, renewed, intriguing, curious, and there is an acute awareness of how the simplest choice in the day actually MAKES the day, and how making a shift in choice toward Awareness, Appreciation, Acceptance, Revitalization, makes tremendous impact. [MEntity] Contentment comes because the nature of the day is owned as being in one's hands. [MEntity] The next Stage is that of Magnetization, and this is entered through Burden. [MEntity ] If this is entered from the Negative Poles of the previous Stages, it brings with it all of the previous Negative Poles, and begins to see others or the self as being a Burden. You are not what you expected, and no one else is, either, so all of it becomes a burden. [MEntity] One begins to feel as if a waste of air, space, life. [MEntity] Or that others are. [MEntity] Health continues to decline here, and memory fades fast. [MEntity] If this is entered from the previous Positive Pole, it is an exploration of Burden in terms of what you no longer can manage on your own, and how to ask for help in that. Part of the process of re-creating the self is in allowing a profound embrace of support and networking that helps care for all that can be cared for. [MEntity] This Stage explores the Higher Intellectual, and it is a process of facing the truth. [MEntity] It is either a process of learning how one must now manage very real burdens, or to go further into denial and bury oneself in the fear of being a burden, or seeing others as burdens. [MEntity] When there is a move to the Positive Pole, Burden comes to be a means of Bonding. [MEntity] The burdens of others are helped by you in a way that you know you can help, and your burdens are allowed to be helped by those who can help. [MEntity] This is a new level of Magnetization of Agreements, focused on a network of honesty, authenticity, and the embrace of variations of truth. [MEntity] Eventually one then moves into Emanation. This is entered through Collapse. [MEntity] If this is entered from the previous Negative Poles, Collapse comes in quite tangible ways. Mental collapses, material collapse, emotional collapse, or a combination of all of the above. [MEntity] Something in the self gives up. It no longer cares to be responsible. It is done. [MEntity] It will live from the Negative Poles of all of the Stages. [MEntity] If this Negative Pole is entered from the Positive Pole of the previous Stage, it is more like a quick check of all of the ways that one is weak, unsure, insecure, ill, in need, etc. and building upon the embrace of help and Bonding of the previous Stage. It is a look at the infrastructure of the self in all levels, and honoring what needs to be addressed. [MEntity] Collapse is not a "bad thing," but a natural thing that happens over time as a means of making room for the new, the evolved, the more natural. Entropy is a beautiful way of understanding the potential of Collapse. [MEntity] In fact, that is what this Stage is about. It is an emphasis on the Higher Moving Center, and an embrace of the awe of who you are, who you have become, and there comes a sense of Transcendence, the Positive Pole. One is now no longer confined by even the personal expectations of the self, but is free to allow the day to bring surprises about who one is, how one is, and this is allowed to be beautiful. [MEntity] This becomes true of others, as well. They are no longer confined by your expectations, but become beautiful in their own right, contributing to a dance of life that is all but invisible in its awesome choreography. [MEntity] This fragment begins to Emanate beauty, insight, joy, delight, authenticity, etc. that is represented by their embrace of who they are, without pretense or prejudice. [MEntity] Or apology. [MEntity] And while we can always elaborate upon these in future exchanges, we think this is a fair map for students to begin validating and considering. [MEntity] We must conclude here for today. [MEntity] Good day to you, Claire.

Michael Speaks LIVE "Soul Age Levels" August 25, 2013 Channel: Troy Tolley MEntity: Hello to all of you. We are here, now. We understand the subject is further exploration and review of the Soul Age Levels, and that there is an initial question you would choose as a starting point. We can begin our exchange. [Maureen] DESCRIPTION: By request: an exploration of the Soul Age Levels and how these work as descriptions of where one is in the process of expanding consciousness. Michael, would you provide a description for each of the Soul Age Levels focusing on the progressive elements or perceptual states that come into play as we work our way through all the Soul Ages, with emphasis today on the Old Soul Age, with a follow-up of Mature if we have enough time. Would you elaborate on how learning and insight can be complemented, at the same Level, across Soul Ages. For example, are the same Levels at a different Soul Age complementarily equal? Would a Level 4 Mature Soul and a Level 4 Old Soul be in an advantageous position to learn from each other? MEntity: Each Soul Age has 7 Levels. Each Level has 7 Internal Monads. To progress through a Soul Age LEVEL, one must complete/fulfill each of the Internal Monads. Internal Monads may take several lifetimes to fulfill, progressively. This is fairly simplistic and is review for most of you. If one were to complete all 7 Internal Monads in a single lifetime, the Essence took only one lifetime at one Level. If one takes 21 lifetimes to work through all of the Internal Monads, then it took 21 lifetimes to progress through that Level. Common across ALL Soul Age Levels is this process. This is because there is no lifetime that starts completely intact with its memories, experiences, and consciousness. It must be regained, rekindled, accessed, activated. In short, every lifetime is a process of remembering. This loss of memory is not on the scale of Essence, but relative to the new body. A new brain with new cells means that it will take time for that body to represent the consciousness/sentience. The first 7 years of a life is almost entirely about this fusion. So in every lifetime, one must be born and stay alive (first internal monad), then activate independent mobility (second internal monad), then activate self-sufficiency (third internal monad), then shed imprinting and activate self-definition (fourth internal monad), then free the self from self-imposed limitations and recreate the self from wisdom and experience (5th internal monad), then profoundly embrace and comprehend one's mortality (6th internal monad), then exit without attachments (7th internal monad). Some of these are more difficult to complete than others, depending on the Personality, but once one is completed, even if no others beyond that are completed within the lifetime, it is done, and only the remaining would be required for progress through the Level. For example: if one were to complete the 3rd Internal Monad, but not complete any beyond this in that lifetime, then the next lifetime will not only have an "easier" time of moving through the first three, but now only has to complete the 4th (and beyond, if possible.) However, even if that subsequent lifetime only completes the 2nd Internal Monad, it is not a setback for progress through the Soul Age Level. It may be a lull in progress, but only technically. Every lifetime contributes. We know of one fragment who took over 100 lifetimes to move through one Internal Monad. We share the details and review of the Internal Monads as they relate to the Levels because where one is in his or her Internal Monads can help give you an idea of where one is in the Level. Essence is in no hurry, so this information is not to be used as a means for pressure and measurement, but more as a means for orientation and expansion of choice. Of course, if one chooses to use this information against himself or herself, or to use it as a means of feeling better than someone else, it is up to them, but that is a fairly useless use of the information. So these Internal Monads are common among ALL Soul Age Levels. The reason everything is reset upon progression into a new Soul Age Level so that one must now cycle through the progression of Internal Monads for each Level is because each Level is a new context and perception. Though this is a bit misleading, since no grading or approval is involved in any way. Another commonality among all Levels is the polarities of each Level: Regardless of one's Soul AGE, these Polarities will help to define the emphases of COURSES, if you will, relative to the Soul Age. The FIRST LEVEL is always about the spectrum between PURPOSE and SIMPLICITY. The SECOND LEVEL is always about the spectrum between STABILITY and BALANCE. The THIRD LEVEL is always about the spectrum between ENTERPRISE and VERSATILITY. The FOURTH LEVEL is always about the spectrum between CONSOLIDATION and ACHIEVEMENT. For many, there is a pivotal lifetime that we refer to as MID-CYCLE, which combines the elements of the Third and Fourth Levels. The FIFTH LEVEL has as its spectrum the polarities between EXPANSION and ADVENTURE. The SIXTH LEVEL has as its spectrum the polarities of HARMONY and CONNECTION. The SEVENTH LEVEL has as its spectrum the polarities of INCULCATION and ECLECTICISM. All of these are relevant to every Soul Age. Since your interest is in starting with the OLD Soul Age, we will start there for some combining that can help one to see how all of this comes together in helping describe where one is in the process of evolving contexts, perceptions, and consciousness. Because this is an incarnational process, it is not just a process of accepting oneself as BEING Essence, it is a process of accepting the creation of Essence that is YOU. On an Essence Level, this acceptance of BEING is about comprehending one's place in the vastness of the cosmos. This is difficult to comprehend while a Personality is rejecting itself. In order for Essence to learn to accept itself as a creation, it must work through the experiences of Personalities accepting themselves as creations. So every lifetime across the Old Soul Age is about self-acceptance, and this is played out through a multitude of ways. It could be said that every Soul Age, or fragment, works toward self-acceptance, and that is true to some degree, but it is the Old Soul who seeks to accept the unacceptable, to embrace totality of Being, both as Personality and as Essence. The Old Soul does this not through relationships as much as they do through exposure to "the world." This is because the Old Soul has already worked through the myriad forms of relationships during the Mature Soul Age to learn about empathy, but now seeks to work to resolve contradictions, paradoxes, and discrepancies regarding TRUTH. So the Old Soul gets preoccupied with how there are so many different truths when the greater truths are now being seen and comprehended. What is the truth, then? How can one be so invested in "this" truth, when there are "better" truths? It could be said, then, that the "school" of the Young Soul is Energy, and the "school" of the Mature is Love, while the School of the Old is Truth. The Old Soul must make sense of a multitude of conflicting, contradictory, dichotic, and paradoxical truths as a means toward acceptance of one's Being, and the unacceptable. Keeping this larger context in mind as the Old Soul AGE, or this School of Truth, then the Levels are one's map of exploration through that school of truths. So a FIRST LEVEL OLD SOUL would tend to emphasize "the truth" of one's PURPOSE. This tends to be explored through SIMPLICITY, first, and then moves into a sense of direction. It is utterly horrifying to have come "this far" and then find that "we did this just for the fun of it?" That phrasing is in jest, but it is fair. Most fragments who arrive at this Level, or are manifesting at this Level, will succumb to a sense of exhaustion, of a daunting sense that one just wants to "go home," and is dreading the work of making sense of it all, and making sense of the self. Now, adding in the Internal Monads within the Level, one who is, say, at the 3rd Internal Monad within the 1st Level of the Old Soul Age will be a combination of challenges and experiences around Self-sufficiency, Purpose/Simplicity, and Truth. Or put another way: discovering one's Truth of Purpose through Self-Sufficiency. The 4th Internal Monad would be something like refining one's truth of purpose through self-definition. And so on. This gives you the gist of how the combination of terms and levels within levels can have more personal sense made of them. Continuing on, then, the 2nd Level of the Old Soul Age would be about the Truth of Stability, or the Stability of Truth vs the Balance of Truth/Truth of Balance. The 3rd Level would be about the Enterprise or Versatility of Truth. Enterprise here is meant as a term to describe the comprehensive work that is required in an undertaking or project. Versatility is meant here as a scattering of the focus that would otherwise be Enterprising. The 4th Level would be that of the Consolidation or Achievement of Truth. Consolidation here is meant as the full expression of the whole Truth, whereas Achievement is the accomplishment of reaching and expressing the next truth. (We can return to each of these for further elaboration during questions and answers.) The 5th Level is about the Expansion of Truth and the Adventure of Truth. The 6th Level is the Harmony of Truth through the Connections of Truths. The 7th Level is about the Inculcation of Truth and the Eclecticism of Truth. Do each of you see how these simple combination of terms can be relevant to your own Soul Age, presuming it is accurate, and presuming one is not manifesting strongly in focus through a different Soul Age? The Old Soul, even if manifesting at a younger Soul Age, tends to find some conscious resonance to the Soul Age Level. [Maureen] Yes, I do Michael [Kathryn41] yes [MikeClev] yes [Bobby] yes MEntity: We will open the floor to questions now as they relate to the topic. We know the elaboration today has been rather synopsized, but it is packaged so that the terms can be explored by you as students to discover on your own some of the meaning of your Soul Age and Level. QUEUE IS NOW OPEN [DianeHB] Could you elaborate more on what is meant by the "Enterprise of Truth"? I'm not understanding how those two go together. MEntity: As one explores one's relationship to Truth, and the concept of Truth, it tends to be done in steps, or as "Achievements." "I now believe this." "I know this to be true, now." "I understand this, now." "This suddenly makes sense to me." Achievements are the steps, the individual truths upon which greater truths are built. Enterprise is the growing form that is chosen/created through which those truths are expressed. In many cases, this tends to be "the life." The life begins to model the wholeness of the truths. [DianeHB] Ok, I'm starting to see it now. :) MEntity: The 1st Level of any Soul Age is about the exploration of the new perceptions and context. The 2nd Level is about the experimentation with the new perceptions and context. The 3rd Level is about owning those new perceptions and context. The 4th Level is then about bringing that back out into the world in some way. For those who are 4th Level Old, there may be this understanding that one has progressed in the lifetime in definitive steps that lead to plateau, then more steps, another plateau, etc. The steps are achievements; the plateau are Enterprise. It is when one takes a break from learning and moves into applying. Neither is at the expense of the other, of course, but there is emphasis in cycles. Does this help? [DianeHB] Do you mean 3rd Level or 4th Level in that last metaphor? [DianeHB] And yes, it helps MEntity: Correction: we were describing Mid-Cycle, the combination of 3rd and 4th. The Enterprise of Truth as the 3rd Level is the cohesion of one's sense of the truth from all of the Versatility of Truth that one collects across the lifetime. Those at the 3rd Level are learning to own the new perspective and context, but they struggle with many different truths about themselves, about others, about life, the cosmos, etc, eventually pulling them together into a wholeness that is the Enterprise. This is much like the 3rd Internal Monad in that it is one's departure from depending on the truths of others, and collecting one's own. [DianeHB] I see MEntity: This then propels one forward into using one's own truths (enterprise). [DianeHB] I can see this in me as I go through the 4th IM MEntity: The Enterprise aspect is like the infrastructure built of parts collected through Versatility. [royce] I guess what I am looking for is a good definition of what makes adventure more narrow than expansion. for instance, i throw myself into very unfamiliar situations like a recent gathering i went to and from that adventure i feel like a lot of truths came to surface. Adventure leads to truth leads to expansion leads to clearer insight of same truth? thanks MEntity: Polarities often refer to "narrow," but they just as often refer to "divided," or "fragmented." Often these are the same things. You are correct in stating that Adventure can lead to Expansion. It is only when one stays focused on Adventure does one reject Expansion. Expansion will always include Adventure, but Adventure does not always include Expansion. Keep in mind that we are limited in selection of words in various languages, and keep in mind that our use of terms in different contexts can give them different meaning, so the use of Expansion and Adventure here as it refers to the polarities of the 5th Level is different from the use of those terms as Needs. One reaches the Positive Pole "through" the Negative Pole. Only the Negative Pole can be exclusive. The Positive Pole is inclusive. So if you are going on Adventures as means for Expansion, then your Expansion is built from Adventures. For some, though, the emphasis on Adventure is only for stimulation, for distraction, or indulgence and addictions and fetish. Does this help? [royce] very much so, thank you [brian_] Michael could you expand more upon details of the pivotal lifetime that you refer to as MID-CYCLE. What makes it pivotal, why is it important, what tends to occur during this lifetime, what effects does it have in Essence evolution? MEntity: Our earlier response to Diane was for this question, in that the Mid-Cycle is a combination of both the 3rd and 4th Level Polarities because those Polarities are so similar. They are so similar because one is about the cohesion of the infrastructure, or the underlying foundation, upon which, and through which the expression will come. It is unique in that two Soul Levels overlap, if you will. This makes the lifetime and Personality a bit confusing as there is a dance between the introspection and the expression, often as extremes, or at least as contradictions and inconsistencies. It can be a pivotal lifetime because it "makes or breaks" the infrastructure that was secured during the 3rd Level, and there would tend to be a Review within the life, or after, that pulls it apart and rebuilds it. [Maureen] Please elaborate on what is meant by the Inculcation of Truth and the Eclecticism of Truth at Level 7 MEntity: This might be understood as the difference between living your truths as a means of teaching, healing, contributing, versus using them to differentiate yourself from, above, or below others. Inculcation comes from repetition of application and modeling of your truths. Eclecticism is deriving the truth from various sources, often then adjusting one's truths to adapt to others' truths. Eclecticism is also an inconsistency in one's truths so that some are traded for more convenient ones, or appealing ones, or comfortable ones, etc. Eclecticism is that fragmentation of one's truths so that one begins to wonder what the hell one actually really knows. Inculcation is the ownership of the responsibility one now has that comes with wisdom. It is not just something that makes one special, or unique and different. Does this help? [Maureen] Yes it does, Thanks Michael MEntity: We can take one more question, but we must conclude after that. [GeraldineB] As Sage-casted Sage in the 4th Old Soul Level, I can't distinguish which plays a bigger role in my near obsession with truth. In fact, I can see this as a problem with all Old Sages. How do Sages validate being Old Soul vs other Soul Ages? MEntity: Sages tend to always be focused on some exploration and play with the "truth," but it is in the Old Soul Age that INTEGRITY and truth become synonymous. Another way to put this is that honesty becomes priority. By the time one is an Old Soul, or an Old Sage, the spectrum of definition for "the truth" is well-known and understood, so it becomes far more important to the Sage that there is integrity and honesty in one's truth, whatever that truth may be. This sense of honesty and integrity becomes extremely nuanced and sensitive to the Old Sage. More accurate meaning can often be found between the words and behaviors of others than the Sage often cares to deal with, but it grows like a "sixth sense." Does this help? [GeraldineB] Yes -- especially belief systems MEntity: That is one way for how the Old Sage can validate his Old Soulness: the sense of priority for Integrity and Honesty. [GeraldineB] When that is all one has, it's all one knows. [GeraldineB] so, it's not really a validation MEntity: To match that internal validation, it can also be of help to observe or be open to the feedback from others about one's own integrity and honesty. These may tend to be prominent areas of discussion, challenges, or sensitivity from others for the Sage, as well. For many Old Sages, this is a familiar area of defense because others may bring it up about the Sage, as well, in some way. We can elaborate on each Role within the Soul Ages in further exchanges.

Michael Speaks - Soul Ages and Levels (01/09/11) Troy Tolley, Channel [MEntity] Hello to each of you. We are here now. We will begin with the discussion on the topic of Soul Ages and Levels. We realize we have shared a great deal of information and insight into this concept, but every aspect of our teaching has dimensions that may resonate at different points in the life, and to different students and different times, so our returning to "basics" does not have to be a review, or rehash, but a new spiral or layer of that concept. One of the reasons we think it is helpful to return to the basics at various points is because our initial sharing of this teaching in the form that you currently understand it was shared in a highly generalized and simplified way, and through the perspective of the average Soul Age of Young at the time. Our teaching does not change, but the understanding of it changes depending on the perspective that is interpreting it. For instance, there is a very basic way to understand the Role of Sage, in general, and then there are the differentiation of layers or evolution that bring dimension to that Role. For example, understanding the Sage as a goofy, obnoxious, self-indulgent, talkative, attention-seeking Role is highly generalized and, though accurate as a single dimension of that Role, only describes the Sage as the average Young Soul might manifest the Role. The description, or dimension, of the Role of Sage as an Old Soul will include this Young Soul version, but age affects how a Role is played or manifested, and the Old Soul Sage is often nothing like the general description, or the Young version. Whereas the the Young dimension of the Sage can be a clown and an attention-seeker, the Old version is the wise child whose emphasis is more on the integrity of communication and meaningful exchange, than on the attention that it would bring. And so it goes that the Soul Ages carry within them dimensions that might be filtered or highlighted by your own Soul Age. So, for instance, the Young Soul to an Old Soul looks and feels and is experienced quite differently from how a Young Soul would experience another Young Soul. What we will do today is discuss with you the Soul Ages as they may be experienced by our Students, who are more often Mature and Old, and this may help build upon the generalized concept. Your questions will help us to shape the information more relevantly. First, we will mention the underlying pillars for Soul Age that are relevant regardless of perception: Soul Age is an Essence's self-measurement for EXPERIENCE. Nothing more. Soul Age is an Essence's self-measurement of Experience based upon that individual Essence's agenda only. There is no one, or no thing, monitoring this beyond that single Essence. To elaborate: one fragment's movement through a Soul Age may include completely different experiences than another fragment's experiences through that same Soul Age. That is because Soul Age is a measurement of evolution/maturity of the Essence, and any experience can be used to propel that evolution/maturity. Soul Age is ONE INTERPRETATION of the evolution of experiences of Sentience, but is not a singular map that all find relevant or meaningful. It is a map for older souls, and is useless to most before that level of maturity. There are other maps used by younger soul ages. In other words, sharing this map "with the world" would not solve the problems of the world, nor would it encourage awareness beyond the capacity that is already present in younger Soul Ages. Presuming that this concept is as profound a map for the young or baby soul as it is for the mature or old soul is like presuming that a map of Disney Land is as useful and meaningful for the toddler or teen as it is for the adults. We can go further to say that even many adults, or older souls, may not find the map useful or meaningful. Continuing - Soul Age is not a map that is imposed upon Sentience, any more than the aging body is imposed upon a Personality. It is simply part of the nature of evolution and maturity. In other words, there are no requirements for that maturity and evolution, only markers. Soul Age is a map that we generated from learning about how our Essences learn and evolve, though that evolution was already long in place before the map was generated. The map of Soul Ages is cyclical, and not linear, despite the apparent progression. Regardless of Soul Age, EVERY Personality is born "reset" to an Infant Soul status of consciousness, and must, if the Personality chooses to do so, find its way back into whatever Age and Level of consciousness and maturity the Essence has reached previously. To some extent, the same could be said for the Essence at every new LEVEL within a Soul Age, and especially at every new Soul Age. For the Personality, this may make sense, since the vehicle is completely new; a new brain and body that must adjust to and share the life with Essence, if it chooses to do so. However, for every new Level, Essence also "resets" and cycles back through what it has learned to that point, and must then build upon that, much like the Personality must regain consciousness over the lifetime to a point that can then draw upon Essence's history. Before we elaborate further, we will take up to 3 questions relevant to what we have shared so far. ***QUEUE OPEN FOR 3 QUESTIONS*** [Question] "Cyclical, not linear" - I visualize the "levels" as being in line with each other, e.g. all 6s "above" each other - a spiral MEntity: That is "exactly" how it is. We qualify the word "exactly" because we mean it only in terms of a visual interpretation. That is a fair and accurate visual. When one is in the 6th Level of any Soul Age, all other 6th Levels are activated and explored. That "activation and exploration" are on an Essence level for the most part, but would also be relevant to which lifetimes tend to be resonant to that lifetime. We think some insight might be gained from the recursive sequence of what has come to be called the "Fibonacci Spiral." [Question] I would like to ask for an elaboration of Essence resetting when a new level is achieved within the same lifetime, i.e., as XXX did. Is this why she is recycling through earlier levels as Essence resets? MEntity: That "resetting" is relevant to what we have come to describe as the Internal Monads. There are Internal Monads that the Physical Body and Personality build through, and Internal Monads that Essence builds through. Every Level of Soul Age is a pass through 7 Internal Monads. Every Personality's progress through its own Internal Monads contributes to the progression of Essence through its own Internal Monads. Every Personality starts over with the First Internal Monad in every lifetime, no matter how far a previous Personality has progressed in a previous life. Every Essence starts over with a First Internal Monad in every new Level, because each Level is a completion, or cycle through, 7 Internal Monads. To help clarify: Every Personality goes through a progress of "waking up" within a lifetime because it is a completely new lifetime. Every Essence goes through a progress of "waking up" within a new Level, because it is a completely new Level. A simple metaphor might be that Essence entering a new Level from a previous Level is like an evolving Personality might enter a new relationship after having been in a previous relationship, or moving to a new city after having lived in a different city before. It is not that all is lost, so much as that all that has been learned must now be applied in a fresh context. [Question] How does one explain the soul that remembers a prior life under 5 years of age? Did these essences choose to remember their soul age? MEntity: It can take UP TO 7 years for a new Personality to embrace and bring through, so to speak, Essence, but for the older souls, that time is often much shorter. The greater the level of maturity or consciousness that Essence brings to a new life, the greater the resource that the new Personality can access, if it chooses to do so. Depending upon the culture and imprinting that is the environment for the new Personality, the child may not only bring Essence in more quickly, but that child's filters may also allow for those "memories" to flow freely. In some societies, such as some within India, reproductive imagination is encouraged in children and they are "allowed" to voice memories that defy reason. In other societies, such as in the United States, those memories are not encouraged, and creative imagination is encouraged over reproductive imagination. Every lifetime, regardless of the fact that it is new, with a new body, and new Personality, will always be built upon the Instinctive Center of the "previous" lifetime, carried forth like a disc from one body to the next by Essence. That Instinctive Disc, if you will, is the mini-Akashic Records of that particular Essence, and depending upon the level of consciousness accessible to the new Personality, can be read and accessed by that new Personality. [Question] Follow up: how do we create a stage for the child to bring in essence and allow memories to flow freely? MEntity: There is no real way to create that stage in a way that prompts the memories, but there are ways that one can encourage the exploration of those memories when the child begins to speak of them, if he or she does so. A child will either speak of them, or not, depending upon that Personality's personal process of regaining consciousness. If the environment is open to that, and the Personality speaks of these memories, then the validation can occur. However, to prompt a child to speak of past life memories, rather than simply allow for that child to speak of them if he or she does so, can often lead to false memories, confusion, and delusions. In short, simply paying attention and being open is enough. Responding to "Dracula": The impact and extraction of knowledge from experiences is subjective, but the markers are static. [Question] Static, not "objective"? MEntity: This might be understood through the metaphor of passing through a city that has specific streets that will crossed on the way through, but different speeds and vehicles may be used to pass. In addition to that, some may rest, some may crash, some may backtrack, some may sight-see, but all of those variations will not change the terrain. We chose the word "static" because, though the markers may remain in place, even the interpretation of them will be subjective. Much like the fact that a city may have a definitive terrain, but many maps to highlight various ways through it, depending upon the interest of the one choosing the map. We will continue with the topic and return to questions in a moment. We have already mentioned this in response to questions, but we will elaborate here on the Soul Age process: One Internal Monad is a level of maturity, awareness, consciousness gained by a Personality or multiple Personalties over lifetimes; 7 Internal Monads = 1 Level of a Soul Age; there are 7 Levels within a Soul Age; there are 7 Soul Ages for Essence. An Internal Monad is a process of resolving a division; a kind of return to wholeness that is greater than the sum of its parts. For instance, the 1st Internal Monad is the resolution between Physical and Essence that is "life." By the way, just "being born" is not necessarily a completed 1st Internal Monad, but we will elaborate upon the Internal Monads in another discussion. Understanding that Soul Ages are built from these processes of resolution can help one to see the vast beauty and magnitude of what it means to evolve, growing from fragmentation, through resolution, and returning to wholeness. Every Level then is one layer, or one dimension, of fragmentation "healed" for Essence, or more accurately put, "regained." When your Essence chooses a Role, it carries forth its own kind of "disc" into that new Grand Cycle of lives as that new Role and new sentient species, but in every other sense, it fragments itself and loses all "memory" of anything "before." Therefore, it could be said that every fragment is in a process of collecting itself back from the universe in which it is exploring. In the same way that we exist as fragments of Tao that eventually return, so are each of you fragmented "out" into your Grand Cycle "ahead of you," and then the compulsion toward wholeness propels the cycle. In a very simplistic and crude description, every Essence "hides" fragments of itself throughout the universe, and the process of evolution is the recovery of those fragments. That process of recovery is different for every Soul Age. For the Infant Soul, this process comes from tangible contact with the world, a kind of feeling around in the dark, and relies greatly upon TOUCH as the navigating tool. For the Baby Soul, this process of recovery comes from extremes of experiences, a kind of tight-rope walking that can find most of itself in every fall from the rope, relying greatly upon BALANCE as the navigating tool. For the Young Soul, this process of recovery comes from opportunities and investments, or indulgences, toward its greatest idea of itself; a kind of constant following of a frequency or tone, making HEARING one of its primary tools for navigation. For the Mature Soul, this process of recovery comes from recognition and empathy, finding and recovering extensions of the self that reside in others, making SIGHT a primary navigational tool. For the Old Soul, this process of recovery comes from pleasure, reunion, happiness, and play, because it can now recover the parts of self that never stopped to enjoy so many things along the way, making SMELL/TASTE a primary navigational tool. When we associate these senses with the Soul Ages as navigational tools, they are not always so direct and literal, but often they are. For instance, in a Young Soul society, music tends to blossom and evolve as a primary medium because "hearing" is so pronounced. Other Soul Ages enjoy music, of course, but for other reasons. For instance, in the United States, the "music industry" is heavily populated by Young Souls, and Young Souls are attracted to that medium of recovery in droves. The phrase "marching to the beat of a different drummer" is a Young Soul phrase because Identity is so important to the Young Soul. This is NOT to say that music is synonymous with Young Souls, but that Young Souls tend toward SOUND, both literally and figuratively, as a means of recovering fragments of Essence, or finding themselves, so to speak. Young Souls are often the loudest among you. A Mature Soul may use music to explore himself, express, or heal himself, but not necessarily as a way to recover or find himself. As your world moved into Mature Soul consciousness, you can see the shift from Radio to TV, for instance, or from music to videos. Even the phone is on its way to being replaced by video conferencing because the Mature Soul uses SIGHT as a means of navigating for recovery of itself. The Old Soul recovers itself through remembering how to enjoy living and being in a body, so two very primitive senses are called upon: smell and taste, which are fairly dependent upon each other, and help the body and Personality toward that which feels good. Smell and Taste affect the entire system that is the Body and the Personality, bringing a synthesis when allowed. In other words, the more an Old Soul allows itself to enjoy, love, accept, and live through its body, the more it recovers its fragments of self and returns to a wholeness. Briefly, the Transcendental Soul uses Orientation and the Infinite Soul uses Relationality as navigational tools for the recovery of fragments. Of course, on the scale of the Infinite Soul, those fragments are all Essences relative to that species of Sentience. Another way to understand the Soul Ages from a student's perspective, and not necessarily as a generalized perspective, would be by seeing the polarities of the Soul Ages and how those may manifest through a Personality. To accommodate the limitation of time for this chat, we will quickly share those: The Infant Soul manifests Positively as INNOCENCE, and Negatively as DISSONANCE. The Baby Soul manifests Positively as REFLECTION, and Negatively as REJECTION. The Young Soul manifests Positively as ACCOMPLISHED, and Negatively as ENTITLED. The Mature Soul manifests Positively as PERCEPTIVE, and Negatively as PROJECTIVE. The Old Soul manifests Positively as INCLUSIVE, and Negatively as EXCLUSIVE. Though we can elaborate upon all of these, we will quickly say that the Mature Soul, when manifesting Positively, is capable of seeing beyond the obvious, the logical, the superficial, and does not require "reasons" for what is known. It simply Perceives. It can truly SEE. The Mature Soul manifesting Negatively loses its capacity to Perceive and simply Projects, turning everyone into props and players for his or her own drama, never truly seeing others because of the preoccupation with seeing (finding) the self. The Old Soul manifesting Positively is Inclusive because everything and everyone is experienced as a part of the greater whole, including all of the previous Soul Ages within itself. This leads to an adaptability that allows for finding parts of the self in places and people it never would have thought of on its own, if you will. This Old Soul can draw upon its previous tools for navigation at will because it has accepted those tools, and will use them appropriately to navigate or understand those in younger Soul Ages. Everything is experienced and interpreted as "food for the soul," so to speak. The Old Soul manifesting Negatively become Exclusionary, aligning itself only with the "like-minded," seeking refuge and intimacy only those who feel "safe," and even then keeping a wall of isolation around the self as part of the interaction. This dependence upon the condition of safety never allows the Personality and Body to enjoy the life to the fullest, often resorting to the forming of secrets, imaginary relationships, and the equivalent of soul masturbation. Keep in mind that the Negative Poles we describe are a part of the spectrum and process for any term we are describing, and do not indicate what not to do or be. They simply describe the more limited end of that spectrum, as well as the end through which all will enter in that context. For instance, ALL Old Souls will go through an Exclusionary phase before it will move into an Inclusionary phase. That is natural. [Question] You mean within a single lifetime? MEntity: ALL Mature Souls will move through a Projective phase before it can Perceive. That would depend upon the individual, but for the most part, yes. Every Old Soul within each of its Old Soul lifetimes will still have to regain the consciousness of that Old Soul awareness, and that means the Personality would go back through a phase of Exclusion before Inclusion. As every Old Soul in this "room" can attest, if there is an honest assessment, the Exclusionary phase is all too familiar. We will open the floor for questions, but will end our responses in 15 minutes to accommodate our channel's and students' time limitations. ***QUEUE IS NOW OPEN*** [Question] You said in an earlier chat that Religion was the playground of the baby soul and Politics was the playground of the Young soul. What are the equivalent structures for the other ages (especially Mature Soul)? My guess is "Community" MEntity: We could say that RELATIONSHIPS are the playground of the Mature Soul, and IMAGINATION is the playground for the Old Soul, and THE UNKNOWN is the playground of the Infant Soul. By extension, "Community" would be included in Relationships. [Question] Hello Michael Could you elaborate, or give pointers as to (learn) how to access our mini-Akashic disc you mentioned? MEntity: The greatest direct access each of you have to your Instinctive Centers/Akashic Records is IMPULSES. Impulses are prompts that stem from the Instinctive Center in a way that each fragment eventually learns to read/interpret, and trust. Impulses are not the same as Compulses, as Impulses always include Choice, whereas Compulsions feel as if one has no choice. Impulses will always lead the Personality along paths that are a part of the higher pattern of its existence, and of Essence. Those Impulses are directly from one's Instinctive Center and directly relevant to the current lifetime in some way. Impulses are not indications of a "right" way to do something, or a "right" thing to do, direction to go, choice to make, etc., but simply indicative of possibilities relevant to what is active in those personal records. [Question] Would that be what feels like that "little voice inside" - same as intuition? MEntity: Yes, that is often how Personalities interpret the Impulses, however, there is a difference between Intuition and Impulse. Intuition is a synthesis of information gathered from various senses and sources that then must be interpreted, whereas an Impulse is a kind of immediate Knowing. For instance, one might use Intuition to help decide which city or part of city to move to, or which home "feels" right, but an Impulse would be the Knowing that it is time to move. It could be said that Intuition can be a navigational tool for fulfilling an Impulse. [Question] I am 7th Level Old and my husband is 7th Level Mature -- I have been thinking for some time that this is not a coincidence -- from the perspective of our soul levels discussion today and in a way that would be relative to everyone -- please comment. MEntity: That would be valid, Maureen. Fragments will often find themselves in association with, relationship with, attracted to, repulsed by, those who share the same LEVEL, but different Soul Age. This is part of the process for a fragment to cycle (back) through a Level. Though an Essence may be a 5th Level Old Soul, clearly having moved beyond the 5th Levels of the previous Soul Ages, it does not mean the value of revisiting or exploring those levels within is meaningless, concluded, or lost. This is part of the spiral we described earlier. For those who did not get a question in for us, we can suggest posting your question to the forum where this transcript will eventually be posted, and then it will be there for Troy to offer to us as he can for our response to be added. We must conclude here. Good evening to each of you. Goodbye.

Michael Speaks 051009 OPEN FLOOR [Michael Entity] Hello to everyone. We are here. We will begin with a response to the question from Geraldine. [Geraldine] Hello, Michael. I've been reviewing information on concurrent incarnations and would like some additional information about their mechanics--such as: 1) what soul age primarily utilizes them; 2) if one concurrent finishes the IMs in positive pole, does this cause the others to undergo a level change; 3) if one concurrent causes karmic ribbons, does this affect the other concurrents; 4) do concurrents have substantially different overleaves, trues to accomplish, and agreements; 5) do concurrents finish out a round of incarnations before beginning a new round of incarnations or is there a more or less continual launching of a new concurrent as another one dies; and/or, of course, anything you might add to explain how concurrents work. [Michael Entity] We will respond to each question: In response to question 1: Though there is no rule to the use of concurrents by an Essence, there does tend to be more use of these in the Mature and Old Soul Levels. Another factor that can contribute to the use of more concurrents is the amount of land that is being utilized by that sentient race. If many fragments from that species are spread in many directions, this can tend to influence any Essence, regardless of Soul Age, to incarnate in multiple bodies. In response to question 2: Keep in mind that Internal Monads happen on two different levels and we will work with our channels to help encourage a clearer differentiation. There are Internal Monads relative to the aging of the body, and there are Internal Monads relative to the aging of the Soul. With that in mind, the Internal Monads of the body are specific to a concurrent, but the Internal Monads relative to Essence are contributed to by all bodies. In response to question 3: While the concurrents are incarnated, the karmic ribbons generated are specific to those bodies and have no bearing on the other bodies incarnated at the same time; however, those unburned ribbons will carry into other lifetimes as usual. In response to question 4: Each concurrent is no different from the idea that you may have for the more linear incarnations. They are each their own. Each will have its own set of Overleaves, "Trues," and Agreements. The degree to which they may be similar or different is simply a matter of agenda for the Essence choosing to incarnate in these multiple bodies. In response to question 5: To Essence, incarnating through multiple bodies is no different from incarnating in a more linear fashion, so the evolution will occur on the terms of Essence, however we do tend to see a pattern of concurrents exiting for the sake of review before launching a new "round" of concurrents, if that would be the choice of Essence to do so again. [luluaussi] does good work by one concurrent affect the progress of the essence as a whole? or is that too specific to the concurrent doing the work? [Michael Entity] In response to Toni: The "Good Work" of a concurrent is relative to that Personality's Life Task, and by extension, the fulfillment of any Life Task is beneficial for Essence. [luluaussi] ok thanks [Martha] IMs relative to the soul - what are those? How we progress through soul levels? [RabidNelson] I think they mean the "External Monads", the teacher/student, master/slave, etc. kind of experiences [Martha] ooohh [Michael Entity] In response to Martha: Yes, each Soul Level is only able to be transited when completing 7 Internal Monads. As many of our students know, there are several lifetimes involved in processing an Internal Monad. The body and Personality may have reached 40 years old and moved on into retirement stages, for instance, but this does not mean the challenges of the 4th Internal Monad were completed in terms of contributing to the evolution of Essence. In fact, the 7 Levels of any Soul Age Level ARE the 7 Internal Monads. In response to Jonathan; no, we were speaking of the Internal Monads, the 7 rites of passage that each fragment passes through in relation to itself as a means of evolution, not only of the body, but of the soul. [luluaussi] Then if I am understanding this, our casting placements in concurrents are the same, but with the "lifetime" particulars different, each having the same global job but through a different lens; the multiple lives serve to accelerate the essences development? [Michael Entity] In response to Toni: Everything relative to the design of Essence remains consistent. Only the Personality dynamics would change. [luluaussi] ok [Geraldine] I definitely would like to see additional differentiation on IMs . . .as I thought that if one incarnation of Personality didn't complete a particular IM in positive, the next incarnation had to complete it before progressing to the next IM -- this would imply that concurrents would then do additional incarnations to complete IMs [Michael Entity] Next Question: "Feisty" [fiestycappy78] I have recently had an inner realization reading a book on Adviata/Non-Duality (The Outrageous Myths of Enlightenment by Stephen Wingate). Where do your teachings fit in with the main teaching of Advaita, which says that Consciousness Is-And we are THAT. There is no separate self. The separate self is an illusion. My question, specifically, is around the idea of CHOICE and FREE WILL. Michael always speaks of CHOICE, but who has CHOICE if there is only ONE...? Isn't choice by the personality/Ego merely an illusion? [jon] good question ? [Michael Entity] Our response to this would be that there is validity to that philosophy, but as with many higher philosophies, they are rather tunnel-visioned. Of course, if one were to look at the original source (Tao, God, All-That-Is, etc.) and see that this ultimate force generated this universe, it could be easy to say, "where was my choice in this?" However, we encourage you to look at your current lifetime for that answer. It may be true that your parents birthed you and therefore, "you" had no choice in being born, but what you have done since that point HAS been your choice. With that in mind, we suggest looking at the parameters of Choice as being more accurately understood as Choices WITHIN. In other words, "you" may not have chosen to be created as a Personality, but you DO have choice WITHIN the life that you have. You may have limitations on certain aspects of life due to physiological, psychological, geographical, socio-economical parameters, but you do have choice WITHIN those limitations. Choice exists on all levels, even down to the cellular and subatomic levels, however the magnitude of impact and parameters increase the "higher" one goes. On cellular levels, for instance, choice is atomic, simply used as a matter of navigation. [fiestycappy78] Who has this choice? The personality/Ego? I have seen that the personality/EGO is not real...it is a collection of memories, thoughts, ideas, beliefs, self-image. So, who has the choice? Essence? [Michael Entity] The "who" of the choice-making is relative to the context. The more limited the context, the more linear the choice-making. The broader the context, the higher the consciousness used, and the more non-linear the choice-making. In the end, it is ALL "you," though the more linear aspects may disagree. And that is their prerogative. The more limited the choice, the more power the choice-maker has in that context. Think of the horse and rider, with the rider being Essence and the Personality being the horse. The horse will always have the specific details about the more limited contexts of where to step next, and can always buck the rider, if he chooses to do so. Or they can work together with one seeing the higher perspective for guidance, while the more focused perspective can navigate the terrain. Within a lifetime, both Essence and Personality have choice. However, Personality has the ultimate power of choice within the lifetime. Essence will not interfere with the choices of Personality. Personality can choose to reject Essence and navigate the life completely "on its own." However, Personality eventually learns how to manifest Essence and co-create the life through choices that are made on the levels of Personality, and leaving the higher patterns to Essence. If any of you choose to see yourselves as illusions and that your lives are merely the products of some higher force's choices, you are missing the point. But that is your choice. We would not agree with the philosophies that render the ego, the personality, or the lifetime as merely illusions. That is a perspective lacking in compassion and awareness, as your collections of memories, thoughts, beliefs, self-image are as "real" to YOU as any other level of reality is "real" to the observer that is "there." We are certain that "Tao" knows of all of us as being as "real" as itself, much like any creator of expression or art, or builder of plans, or teacher of thought would think of the creation, structure, or impact as having as much life and validity as the creator, builder, teacher, etc. We would think it very difficult for any of you to prove you and your experiences are merely illusion, which is not to say that many of you cloud the experiences and often sensationalize the journey with unwarranted fears, but that is part of the human experience and you eventually clear the way. Until you clear the way, even the clouding and distortion is as "real" as it is to you, until it is not. [fiestycappy78] Okay...I understand both perspectives, and I think that I will have to keep looking into my own experience... [Michael Entity] "Feisty," that is a fair analysis: that both perspectives hold valid truths. Next question: Martha [Martha] Last week you talked on TLE radio about it getting uncomfortable for older souls around feeling "authentic". This is something I am currently working on. It feels wrong somehow to not be myself, especially at work, or social settings, but then if I am completely myself in all situations then I out myself as being "not normal". And it's hard to have to deal with that over mundane issues, seems like it would add unnecessary complexity to some aspects of life. Can you elaborate on this issue? [Michael Entity] Martha, this is a common dilemma for the Older Souls and is rooted in what we refer to as Self-Karma, the internal divisions within the self that seek resolution. This particular Self-Karma can be described as a battle between honest expression and censorship. To most Older Souls, censorship feels repulsive, and this is amplified for the Expressive Roles. In fact we would be hard-pressed to find any valid Old Soul who supported any form of censorship. Censoring oneself as a means to "fit in" feels like one is a "walking lie," or liar, and enforcing censorship upon others is something we have never seen an Old Soul impose. [Martha] yes it does feel like that [Michael Entity] How others see you has no bearing on who you are. It is not always a matter of integrity in expression that your Being be clearly reflected back to you through those around you. In fact, being able to adapt to certain social contexts is a skill implemented by the Older Soul (begrudgingly, but a skill, nonetheless) and not a curse. The feeling of "not being yourself" has no bearing on your levels of honesty, nor your integrity of Being. Ultimately, all fragments extant will find themselves in contexts where they can say, "This is who I am," and other contexts where they say, "This is who I must be." In those instances where one feels one "must be," it would then be up to you to determine if this is a context worth sustaining in your life, or if it is time to move from that context. For many, the "must be" context is required for the self to draw an income, maintain peace in a relationship, fulfill responsibilities, etc. Many fragments "must be" a parent, even when they do not want to be. Many fragments "must be" at work, even when they do not want to be. The experience in sustaining these contexts, even through those bad days, is the implementation of your higher perspective, or manifesting of Essence, since you can see the payoff and the necessity of your choice. In those instances that you have decided that the context is worth it, then it would do you well to recognize that you have made an honest choice, ironically upholding the integrity of your Being, your soul and personality, since you know this is a context that gives back to you in a way that is valuable for other areas where you feel you "can be yourself." Eventually, the Personality will find little discrepancy in itself between one context and another, especially as one owns the fact that those contexts are being sustained by choice, even if only "for now." We will also note that every fragment can find at least one other fragment in which to confide and "be herself" in any context where one feels limited. This relationship is one that can be found with some amount of discernment and patience, provided one is not being held captive and against one's will, which is a karmic situation, not a situation of choice. [Martha] clearly then it's crucial to have some areas where you can be yourself [jon] Is it ever truly required for a fragment to stay in one of those contexts? For example, you may need a job to eat and stay alive, or one could be a slave, required to act a certain way or die [Michael Entity] Jon, Slavery is often not a matter of choice, but the same concepts would apply within those stricter limitations: one's imposed environment does not destroy who one IS, even in the most horrific conditions lacking choice, and confidence in at least one other fragment is often available even within those conditions. [Martha] thanks [Diane_H] Great question Martha [Michael Entity] Next question: Toni [luluaussi] hello Michaels. in regard to the approaching nexus: It seems that fear and greed is running neck and neck during these economic times with events such as the bulldozing of foreclosure properties in California which seem not only wasteful but without any real thought to "creating" only destroying ...could you comment on this in terms of the upcoming Nexus....does the radical restructuring of the global economy and our connections to each other, how people view their participation in this process come into play with the new platform? [Michael Entity] In terms relative to the upcoming Nexus and these situations that seem to indicate such destructive factors and forces, the Nexus toward the end of the month may actually bring about some relief, as it appears to be a movement toward generating realities of solutions, choices, and footing. However, in the larger scheme of things, this force of destruction is, so far, a result of resistance by Baby and Young to the Mature Soul paradigm. However painfully or dramatically the evolution moves, we do not see many probabilities where a new paradigm of Resource-Based Economy does not take root in your world.. [luluaussi] how can we proceed to as older souls to navigate through these times most effectively [Diane_H] (Thank God) [luluaussi] yes! [Michael Entity] The loss of so much property, prosperity, and the experience of this being in the hands of forces beyond those of "the people" is no longer of interest to your average level of sentience. [Geraldine] My observation is that most old souls were likely least affected by much of the economic turmoil as they are less material-oriented [fiestycappy78] that is certainly true in my case. I had nothing to lose! [Michael Entity] What we would suggest for the Older Soul as a means to navigate what might seem to be the tougher, challenging times of your economy and society is for the Older Soul to choose the higher perspective of trust in the evolution of your species as a whole, which is in evidence at every turn, despite the media emphasis on the more entertaining snags and dragging of feet, as well as a focus on how to increase the joy in your own life as a means to be a source of what you might consider to be a "positive force" in your world. [Geraldine] me, too -- I already was at the bottom due to early parts of the turmoil a few years ago -- and had already changed my perspective -- my volunteering will continue [luluaussi] ah ....you have indicated to me earlier that my own platform choices have been about balance between responsibility and playfulness I can see where this makes sense [Michael Entity] It is true that many of our Older Students see the impending changes and "destruction" as something that is happening "out there," in much the same way that the parent may see the growing pains of a teen, doing all one can to encourage a healthy direction, but knowing that the teen will do what he will do to learn. [luluaussi] thank you Michael [Michael Entity] Next question: Cheryl [oceancheryl] Could you please share your perspective of the recent Twin Oaks gathering? The energy felt very intense there, and I am wondering what kind of work we all were/are doing on levels other than the physical. I still feel like I am doing a lot of processing from the gathering. [Michael Entity] There are a multitude of levels, agreements, and exchanges that are too many to go into here, but we can say that the overall theme for all involved was one of increasing the experience of, and the implementation of, Agape. To the extent that one may have felt challenges in feeling loved, or being loving, in the true sense of the word, Agape, is the extent to which one may have continued to feel the effects from the gathering. A great amount of healing was generated during the gathering, and this sense of encouraged alignment left one with a clearer internal perspective as to what is inspiring in one's life, what is not, and what one wants to do next, if that internal perspective is willing to be explored. [oceancheryl] thank you michael [Michael Entity] Next Question: Tuija [tkmppi] What is the greatest possible difference in Soul age and level between Essence Twins? [Michael Entity] Tuija, we have never seen the Soul Ages between Essence Twins to be more than 3 Levels in difference, but knowing the flexibility of our universe, there are probably exceptions. Last Question: Jon [jon] What is stress? And what are good ways of reducing it (or at least its harmful effects)? [Michael Entity] We would define Stress, in this case, as Unwarranted Pressure, outwardly or inwardly. Outwardly, this could be said to be Resistance. Inwardly, this could be said to be Anxiety. Resistance and Anxiety are forms of defensiveness against that which has been deemed an imposition of Time or Space. Resistance is a defense against the demands of Space, or your environment, and Anxiety is a defense against the demands of Time. Ways of reducing Stress would be to update your perceptions and actions to relieve you of this unwarranted Pressure. Much of what is experienced as Stressful are situations that are more anticipatory than real. When one can update the perceptions to focus only on that which is tangible, then navigation through time or space can move more comfortably and freely. Friction is a natural part of life. In all lifetimes, through all Soul Ages and by all Essences, Friction will be experienced until the "end." Friction is the experience generated by opposing forces in the life, and in the Positive Pole, it could be said to be Evolution, and the Negative Pole could be said to be Stress. Evolution is the resolution of those opposing forces as a means to move onward; Stress is the defense against those forces as a means to remain in a pseudo state of safety. There are many ways one can relieve stress, such as walking, eating well, meditating, dancing, having outbursts, etc, but the most effective way is in updating the perceptions to manage only that which can be managed, and to allow room for your awareness of the forces of time and space, without the need for defensiveness against them. A more elaborate response might be in order here at some point, but we think this is some food for thought in regard to your question. [jon] Thank you [Michael Entity] We will conclude here. Good day to each of you. Goodbye.