Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 21:05:43 -0500
From: Aida P.
Subject: More YOU KNOW YOU'RE AN OLD SOUL WHEN...

(Dave, mine are not as gross as yours - but they are FACTUAL!!! A.)

YOU KNOW YOU'RE AN OLD SOUL WHEN...

23) in order to satisfy your need to buy something new you go shopping and charge a bunch of stuff on your credit card, and next week you go and return it all and have it credited back - and you actually feel like you accomplished something!

24) when you find yourself enjoying a conversation with someone about how you never get anything done and can't seem to get a grip on your work life, and you hear yourself saying, yes, yes, that's right, and laughing as you go...

25) when you face the parent of a young child who is urging the kid to eat, and tell him "Hey, leave the kid with me for a while, and take a break before you give the kid develops an eating disorder..."

26) when you decide you're not going to wait for the next holiday to happen, and bring out your Christmas lights and invite your friends over in August to string lights on each other and have a beer..[this is the only one I have yet to do...]

27) when you go to the dog pound to retrieve your shaggy dog who took off for a hike, and come home with 2 new dogs in addition to the one you already had...

28) when you go to the theater to see CONTACT twice, just because you feel so very HAPPY and PLEASED that Carl Sagan wasn't a total scientific materialist and came out with it in the end...

Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 18:35:23 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: telling it like it is (Michael Land)

In a message dated 97-09-12 16:15:22 EDT, Lori writes:

<< BTW: No one has any exclusive rights to Michael IMO, go with your
intuition on that, as you would with any channeled material....>>

Yeah, as I was telling Lori in a private letter, "it seems that Michael now has territorial rights." Makes you wonder if he was a vacuum cleaner salesman in his past incarnation. ;-p Now perhaps the individual who is the sole member in this Michael club could rent his services out to interested, and paying channelers. Hey, a "Michael franchise" could even be started! (Eyes popping out) This could be bigger than McDonalds!!! People could drive up to a fast-food styled building like the Golden Arches, but instead of getting a greasy slab of dead animal flesh, they would receive info on their past lives, their overleaves, the allotment of toe cheese between their ears, some Michael action figures thrown in for the kids, and the relative age of their soul; of course, old souls would immediately be dragged out of their cars and beaten senseless with wet noodles, but this would only prove that the young souls are still in charge. Geez, the possibilities of this are limitless. I can even envision this mega corporation expanding into a huge entertainment center like Disney World, but with a slight spiritual twist. Here's an exciting promo.......

WELCOME TO MICHAEL LAND!!!

With the dawn of New Age awareness, and the realization from extensive Michael teachings that life is merely a game that you can always play again in the next lifetime, the philosophy was adopted that "why not take some risks? Who cares if you accidentally become disemboweled by a rectal itcher or find a barbecue fork inappropriately lodged in your skull, you can always win the game in your next incarnation!" Thus, Michael Land is the newest craze in entertainment attractions. Conveniently located on the beautiful coastline of Antartica, it is quickly becoming the least populated amusement park in the world. Please include us in your next vacation intinerary. We'd love to shove you in....uh, er....I mean, introduce you to our lovely cryogenic chamber of din, where kids are frozen free of charge. First time guests also receive a complimentary dead penguin that oozes pus. See you soon!!!!

EXCITING RIDES AND ATTRACTIONS (with apologies to David Letterman)

The Cordless Bungee Jump - One word: Splat.

The Human Blender - YOU strap yourself in...WE call the paramedics!

The Mystery Log Ride - Come float in our medicinal toxic waste.

Parade of Elves with Hideous Infections - They love to be cuddled.

Giant Wasp Petting Zoo - Lick the nest. They love it!

The Michael Lick-off - 1050 souls will annoint you with raw veal.

The Industrial Waste Flume - Can you say pungent?

Decapitated Horse Carriages - A Sicilian delicacy

Hot Buttered "Michael" Massage Booth - Over 1050 hands of pleasure.

The Cryogenic Drool Rink - Made of the finest spit from "genuine" transients.

Hall of Infant Soul "Cereal" Killers - Come help them earn karmic points.

Tramway Thru the Digestive System - Watch us digest a live puppy.

The Electricution Parade - You only need to it see once.

Lice Mountain - Join our infestation.

Kiss a Tasmanian Devil - Disgruntled animal souls finally get their revenge.

It's a Tall World - The ride to infuriate midgets.

The Scratch and Sniff Museum of Flatulence - A warrior's favorite.

Michael's Haunted Sock Drawer - Explore the static cling generated by over a million, tiny white socks.

Mengele's Dental Delights - Strap yourself in for the pain of your life, as the good doctor performs a root canal with a blow torch and an ice pick.

SHOPS TO PERUSE

Candy Palace - Featuring "Gummi Entrails!"

The Candle Shop and other Pleasure Seeking Attachments - Never have to say "you're sorry" again.

Eat a Cricket Family Restaurant - Dave's personal favorite.

Abcess Julius - Freshly lanced while you watch.

"Things That Ooze" Snack Shop - Try our snot slurpees.

Toxic Waste Scent Shop - Can you say pungent - again?

The Mummify Your Mother-IN-Law Store - Easy ten step procedure.

Michael-riffic Lice Cream Shop - Flavor of the month --- Chocolate Chip Cigarette Butt

Dave ;-p

Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 00:11:20 -0700
Subject: Re: Channeling Michael - for Lorraine & Dick

Lorraine,

Thanks - I definitely received the light you (or someone) sent! I honestly don't normally give into anger like that - I tend to keep my Warrior in check pretty well - but in this case, it felt like my friend was being personally attacked and I blew it. I mean, she put Alma's name up on the 'net in a very demeaning and condescending manner. Geez...

Your telling me to stay in my circle is exactly the type of thing that Alma herself tells me, so I should know better! (Especially since I'm constantly telling my husband to do the same.) Ironically, Alma just recently channeled Michael as saying that anger is one of the emotions that has it's basis in fear. I obviously didn't apply the lesson they were trying to get across - to stay in love, not fear. I'm working on it though!

Thanks for your message!

Dick,

Thanks for posting the message for me, nasty as it was. I'm finally back online, hopefully not temporarily. I'm starting to believe that the psychic fireworks I had going on Wed. morning regarding this is what caused my system crash. Better be more careful! Can you see what Alma's reaction to that message would be? I see it now and it makes me smile! She's great :-)

Take care,
Janet

> Janet,
>
> Wow! This subject certainly created a lot of anger and
> hostility, which, by the way serves no good purpose.
> Everyone who is involved in these kinds of "channeling
> feuds and uproars" knows their own intentions and
> integrity. Stay in your circle. Why let someone
> else's reality, perceptions, deceptions, or whatever
> deplete your energy? If it is what they need at the
> moment to learn a lesson, let them be with it. Do not
> judge, keep it simple and let it go. Maybe even send
> them a little light if you feel they need. I know I'm
> gonna' send you some!
>
> Love
>
> Lorraine

Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 19:01:47 -0600
From: Gloria C.
Subject: [Fwd: Re: Conference]

From: John S.
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 97 14:36:00 EST

You wrote:

> I'd miss the opportunity to meet other people who are bonkers over the M. Teachings
> and their overleaf system. It seems the next step for me in my own
> development,

... thats the suprising thing for me Gloria, it seems my guidance is prompting me to prepare for some other things as the next step in my own development. Its a bit of a dilema for me because the M. teachings have such a huge impact on me, and i really though this was it for this life - - - just hunker down and bury my head in it for the next half century of so. And I really went at it with feverish priestly energy.
... but now that the tide of the last 2 years have passed am beginning to hear strains of a different tune.
I cant make out all the music yet, but it sounds different. Its almost as if I might already be completing my agreement with Micheal. Maybe thats why I hesitate to go to the conference ... its such a sweet romance I want to keep dragging it on at a low key & am somehow apprehensive that going might trigger events that spark off a new fire; I'm feeling somewhat lazy & would like access spiritual energy of a slower frequency than the ones i've been tapping from recently ...

I feel you will do well in Taos even if you went with just a few bucks in your back pocket.
Wow, what would I give to live in a place with just 5000 people ! Its beautiful here in Europe but its so Crowded.
As you know Holland is full of old souls as well ... but there are mostly in the rural North ... relaxing and hiding away from the rest of the world & those of us who have to make a living are crowed into a small dense part of the South West. There you find a lot of very troubled mature souls ... Belgium is full of mature souls, pleasant but busy.
Its more fun than Holland though ... much more warm and emotional. The old soul flavour in Holland is the detached, cold sort. They really dont care about anything anymore, they are mostly shy and reculsive and prefer to be left alone. Not very nice & not very easy to connect with.
It amazing how the different soul'd populations are flavoured by the history/geography/radiations of their country.
The mature souls in Germany are of the deeply burdened, depressed, angry sort. Unpleasant but very genuine ... meeting and observing people in Germany filled me with so much compassion ... you see people on the streets every day almost bursting with the weight of dark difficult emotions they are trying to process.

I like the feel of North American old souls. I sometimes fantasize about moving but you and I know I shouldnt really do that now ... I should proably first concentrate on recovering from all these moves ive made already.

I love talking to you so much. Stay in touch.

Lots of love,
John

Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 19:02:13 -0600
Subject: [Fwd: Re: Conference]

John S. wrote:

> ... thats the suprising thing for me Gloria, it seems my guidance is
> prompting me to prepare for some other things as the next step in
> my own development. Its a bit of a dilema for me because the M. teachings
> have such a huge impact on me, and i really though this was it for this
> life - - - just hunker down and bury my head in it for the next half century
> of so. And I really went at it with feverish priestly energy.
> ... but now that the tide of the last 2 years have passed am beginning to
> hear strains of a different tune.
> I cant make out all the music yet, but it sounds different. Its almost
> as if I might already be completing my agreement with Micheal. Maybe thats
> why I hesistate to go to the conference ... its such a sweet romance I want
> to keep dragging it on at a low key & am somehow apprehensive that going
> might trigger events that spark off a new fire; I'm feeling somewhat lazy &
> would like access spiritual energy of a slower frequency than the ones
> i've been tapping from recently ...
>
> I feel you will do well in Taos even if you went with just a few bucks in your back pocket.
> Wow, what would I give to live in a place with just 5000 people !
> Its beautiful here in Europe but its so Crowded.
> As you know Holland is full of old souls as well ... but there are mostly in the rural North ...
> relaxing and hiding away from the rest of the world & those of us who have
> to make a living are crowed into a small dense part of the South West. There you find
> a lot of very troubled mature souls ... Belgium is full of mature souls, pleasant but busy.
> Its more fun than Holland though ... much more warm and emotional.
> The old soul flavour in Holland is the detached, cold sort. They really dont care about
> anything anymore, they are mostly shy and reculsive and prefer to be left alone.
> Not very nice & not very easy to connect with.
> It amazing how the different sould populations are flavoured by the
> history/geography/radiations of their country.
> The mature souls in Germany are of the deeply burdened, depressed, angry sort.
> Unpleasant but very genuine ... meeting and observing people in Germany filled me with
> so much compassion ... you see people on the streets every day almost bursting with the
> weight of dark difficult emotions they are trying to process.
>
> I like the feel of North American old souls. I sometimes fantasize about moving but you > and I know I shouldnt really do that now ... I should proably first concentrate on recovering > from all these moves ive made already.
>
> I love talking to you so much. Stay in touch.
>
> Lots of love,
> John.

My dear John S.:

What agreement did you have with Michael that you might be completing? I can certainly understand the need to take a break from teachings, specific to a system as they are. I also comprehend that what the Tao is, and what the Tao has to offer us in our current embodied states is vast, and absolutely awesome in its vastness. To be sure, you are not the first voice I've heard that, having studied richly the M. Teachings, are feeling a need to incorporate something else. This is right, and this is appropriate. It is about making choices, exercising your right will, and taking back your power.

The brief message I sent you regarding the massive changes taking place in your life (it's everywhere, and not confined to a specific area or manifestation) as shown in your natal astro chart are definitely unfolding. And we both know that that unfolding has only begun to show itself in concrete ways, and has far from shown where it will take you, or what things will eventually look like. This is always hard to determine, as we keep weaving and re-weaving our future probabilities with every choice we make, or don't make. I am not surprised to hear you speak thus. You are ever one who will keep moving, lest you get dragged along the ground by your hastening essence. I will confess that I momentarily felt as though I were behind in grasping truth (since I'm so intrigued by the Teachings) but I know that Truth has many facets or ways of telling itself, and that one system is not ahead or behind another. Truth, being what it is, is always what it is. No matter the experience or style. Or name.

I am definitely excited about seeing where your guidance leads you. It's so important to stay in touch with your own inner knowing. I don't have powerful clarity for myself at this time on certain crucial and heart-squeezing issues, but neither do I feel the clock ticking, forcing me to make an unreadied decision. I confess the only thing I feel strongly about is quitting my job--now. And that's insane from a practical point of view. I want my cats, and I want my Lah-ti who I keep trying to give away to my sister in Ohio and then call to say I can't--I'm about to do it again--no clarity. (There's some shame now, and some embarrassment.)

I had a conversation with my good friend Sharon J. (a practicing spiritually-oriented psychic) who just contradicted some crucial stuff I got from my last channeled session with Michael. She doesn't think I should try to sell this condo at all. And she says--if you feel isolated now, what the hell are you thinking moving to Taos where you don't know anyone! I didn't bother to bring up the concept of finding old soul familiarity. She believes in the godheads God and Christ, but channeled stuff is at best iffy to her. So, I've never discussed the M. teachings with her, but with every other friend I have. It's interesting, as she does function as a spiritual counselor to many, many clients. I genuinely believe she has everyone's best interest at heart, and has done a lot of good, pulling quite a few through crisis.

I guess, John, what we're left with, and what we really only ever have is INNER KNOWING. If we don't access it and honor it, we'll be totally at the mercy of the advice and insights of whatever guru we happen to be attracted to, intrigued and impressed by. That's not to say the g's haven't been helpful. They may even be helpful in the confusion they create. However, I am now so confused, I have no one to turn to but myself. And who knows better than me. I need to detach, somehow, from my need to have certain outcomes, and from my fears that call me a major fool. I am going to absolutely have to go within. I'm so damn comfortable with real conversation and the profoundness found in books, and so used to going there to find out what's really going on with me. Now it has to be me I turn to. Gloria has to tell Gloria what Gloria needs to do. Gloria needs to take back her power. If she needs help, she can ask for it. It's OK to ask for help--but very sabotaging to seek assistance prematurely.

I feel like a fool. OK, so I am a fool. What's next?

Lots of love,
Gloria

Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 19:42:34 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Ed on Lori L. on Janet on Tricia

Whether Janet is angry or not, and whether or not anger is appropriate, I completely agree with her opinions on the posting about Tricia S. and "A.P." (who has a website at www.spiritguide.com).

Having been around the subject for a decade in which I've read everything and met about ten of the Michael channels including Aaron, JP and Alma, never once had I ever heard of Tricia S. I would speculate that she had some fleeting encounter with the M.E.F. and some sort of personal upset or disagreement with them which she evidently walked away from without patching it up. If this were true, not just speculation, I would take it as a bad indicator on Tricia's work, for old souls usually know that it is good work and good sense to communicate with an intent to repair upsets, for letting them sit unhandled has lingering bad effects.

All the best, Ed

Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 23:29:41 +0200
Subject: Re:Parallel Lives

Hi all,

I got three replies concerning Parallel Universes, from Ken, Ed and Dean (I think Ed's may only have come to me) and all three supported the concept. The unanimity of the responses and the low turnout make me think this isn't such a hot topic after all. Oh well. I got something out of the exercise anyway... a better understanding of where people are coming from when they talk about parallel universes. So thank you all for responding. Strangely, though Ken's response was the most subjective it makes me think the most... it reminds me of an experience I had that I could not explain by in my understanding of the "classical" Michael teachings, but which I "know" is true. So I respect that kind of knowing.

As to consensus, it doesn't mean unanimity, it means everyone is agreed to work in a certain direction together. It also doesn't mean majority rule. If one person feels very strongly on some point the rest of the group may decide to go along with that person even against the majority (i.e. the majority agrees to stand aside for that one person). It means that every person has a voice (a real voice, not one vote) in every issue. (I didn't come to this entirely on my own, I was deeply influenced by Starhawk's book, DREAMING THE DARK (the concept is also much better explained there)) In terms of parallel universes; I see that the issue means more to other people here than it does to me so I will choose not to belabour the point on this list. I might perhaps have hit upon a better topic to work on, one where there is a more widespread disagreement that needs to be worked out. However, when that topic surfaces I shall still be here... In the meantime thanks for humouring me.

Katherine

Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 16:15:11 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Michael 2

Dear Bill -- First, as to whether the Michael people are channels or not -- everyone channels. All it is is the opening of a connection with one's essence. Everyone does that in times of creativity, sometimes in physical action, whenever there seems to be a perfect alignment. I think of when the painter steps back from the picture and wonders "what next?", lets the mind go blank and suddenly there comes the message to "put a little blob of green down there" or something. Such a message is often not verbal but just a concept or feeling that you can act on without even having words pass through the mind.

Within that there is the less common subset of "channeling" where the essence allows a contact (which essence mediates and is the ultimate gatekeeper for) with other beings, which can be of many different types and planes. Even 30 years ago this contact was quite uncommon, mostly practiced by Spiritualists. Now this kind of channeling has proliferated as have teachers of it. Both as individuals and as a culture our vibrations have dramatically lightened up so that people are much less afraid or inhibited; also there are a multitude of good loving sources to connect with and fewer of the lower astral, not so nice ones.

If you're an intellectual person you may have found channeling happen when you write, or solve problems, or answer questions, and something just pops into your mind unexpectedly that is just right.

Anyone's own essence is a complete source of anything, information or otherwise, we can ask for. It is what we call "God" and "pray to" if as in conventional religion we believe we are lowly and God is far away.

The "Michael" entity group has an agreement with 12 cadres (about 100,000) of their "students" to serve as discarnate teachers. Their "job" is to learn how to do this and do it well. When we cycle off and our entity groups recombine we will probably serve as teachers in this way for other groups of newer students coming along. Bear in mind that these relationships don't entail any attachment or commitment to any specific dogmas or doctrines; it's above such details.

So within this list there are various channels who have varying amounts of experience and specific talents. Some do it professionally, some for fun. There are lots of "students", like me, who, after discovering and becoming familiar with the material, just seem to be well-versed in it. I can often know how Michael would answer some general question, but I don't have the feeling of being a channel even when I know that what I am saying is just what they would say. So I don't know whether it's just my own personality's familiarity with the ideas, or my essence's, or whether my essence is in contact with Michael. It all feels the same to me.

A lot of channeling activity involves being "psychic" and learning to pick up on information about other people, the important people in their lives, their past lives, and specific advice for them, etc. But channeling doesn't have to focus on this sort of work. It is whatever is the way in which you express your essence in life, and all such ways are valid and wonderful. My advice for most people would be to note the physical or other cues that connect with times when you are "on" and to then get more "onness" time in your life. The more you do, the easier everything gets and the better all of life flows.

All the best, Ed

Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 02:13:08 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: You know you're an OLD soul when....

In a message dated 97-09-13 01:37:16 EDT, Lori Tostado writes:

<< Hahahahahahahahaha....:-)

19. You find out that there IS something out there that's better than sex! But you're too lazy and tired to find out what it is. <---Lori..you mean to tell me that my ambition in life should be more than just breathing? ;-p

20. Your chakras start giving into gravity: "They've fallen, and they can't get up!" <---and here I thought your chakras were perky and defied all laws of gravity. :-( <--Yes, I'm an old soul pervert. Of course, if I didn't have an interest in female anatomy I'd be called a fudge packer. Geez, you just can't win with women.

21. You get all excited when you're watching the Borg on Star Trek as they say, "Resistance is futile! You will be assimilated." And you're going, "Oh yes, yes, please...assimilate me!" <---Oh, yes, yes..GOD yes!!!!!! ;-p

22. You now are old enough that you even take full accountability when you release your flatulence: but you tell the victims of your expression around you that you were "making a melody." <--- Listen to Lori's gaseous children of the night. Ah, what sweet music she makes....:-)

----- >>

Dave - Just adding an addendum to my sick and twisted sister...;-p

Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 15:52:36 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: random acts of kindness

To all the angels on this list (or even one's who aren't ;-)

Would you like to participate in a small random act of kindness for someone that you don't know, but who is a friend of mine who really needs to be reminded that there truly are angels in this world, and that the universe is abundant and can be trusted?

E-mail me PRIVATELY please if you would like to participate. You'll feel like a kid again... ;-) I'll collect e-mail addresses for 2 days and e-mail you the details.

Thank you....Love,
Lori

Date: 15 Sep 1997 16:50:25 -0700
Subject: Re: telling it like it is

Lori said:

I don't like it when people tell me not to be angry, or not to hate
something, because I have found that I really have to move through
the emotion. Emotions pass, but when we deny them they stay stuck.

This is very timely stuff for me. I was just going to ask what Michael says about anger. I have been recently feeling huge amounts of anger at my signficant other because he is trying to "save" a gutter-punk junkie who has decided to camp out in our back room. I have huge (apparently) unresolved issues regarding addiction (my ex was an alcoholic) and I get extremely angry when I see others stuck in their addictions. Part of me wants to help her get clean (if thats what she wants) and part of me is so unsympathetic that I feel like kicking her out on the street. That part of me plays a tape that says things like: I'VE had crap in my life too and I'M not a junkie, I'VE worked since I was 16, put myself and my ex through college and I'M not a junkie, if I can live through my pain and still stay sober SHE can... and if SHE Can't she needs to get OUT OF MY HOUSE!

Wow and I hate that attitude in me. SO SELFISH... but the anger is still there even after exploding on my boyfriend for 5 hours last night about her.... you'd think I'd have gotten it all out. It's not. I realize they are My emotions to control but I seem so out of control when it comes to certain issues. Any thought? Anyone?

Thanks for listening to me rant again,
I'm really not this angry and bitter all the time!
I'm usually really fun! (yeah, I know, tell it to the judge) *smile*

Peace
Jen

Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 20:35:15 -0400
Subject: Ed's Post on Channeling

Ed,

Really enjoyed your post on "everyone channels." Well said. :)

Kate

Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 20:42:56 -0400
Subject: Channeling Overleaves on the List

To anyone who may be waiting/hoping for me to channel their overleaves for the list:

It was a good experiment, but I think, for now, it's run it's course, and I won't be posting any more readings at this time. My apologies if I've disappointed anyone. :)

For anyone who would like a not-free but very reasonably priced reading such as I was posting (that is, a listing of just the overleaves with no explanation in a one-page typed format either by snail-mail or e-mail), you can get this from multiple channels, including: Shepherd Hoodwin, Joya Pope, Emily Baumbach, and Kay Kamala, to name a few. (I can post their e-mail addresses or Lori can--or anyone else who wants to, the addresses are readily available to potential clients.) Prices range from $20-40. If you want a more complex reading, prices range from $90-200+/hour.

BTW, if you are looking for a good astrologer who is also a Michael Channel, I just found out this week that Emily Baumbach fills the bill, and very well, too.

Kate

Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 17:41:37 -0700
Subject: on parallel universes....

Hi Katherine and everyone,

I think parallel universes is a great topic. I've both been giving it some time and consideration before sharing and also I've felt some recent hesitancy to post, I must admit. But after spending some time thinking and writing about it -- here are some of the thoughts and feelings that occured to me.

The idea of parallel universes seems to be a topic of discussion from science fiction to science fact and so it has found its way into the michael information too.

I must say it doesn't have much real resonance with me either. I find it often being used to explain things that could be explained in much simpler (and more ordinary) ways. I do understand what Katherine means by the concept negating choice. After all, if you get a chance to experience all the major choices, what difference does it make what you choose? I also understand people saying it allows for greater choice, because it allows all choices. But again, the discrimination/discernment and learning of having to make a choice and see what it means is definitely shifted if there are all these infinite spin-offs.

I think for me, the whole idea comes from science's inability to conceive of the nature of potentiality. From chaos theory to parallel universes, I think there's a lot that's currently off the mark a bit. It comes back together and makes a lot more sense for me in the intuitive understanding/knowing of the nature of Tao-stuff, the nature of creation and our part in it. Whatever it is that is the underlying nature of everything is of infinite creative potential. We know that how we view something, the colors of glasses we wear without realizing it, the prism-like aspects of our current natures, mold the potential into a current form or expression and our experience. The Tao-stuff has the potential to constantly shift and change, in fact it doesn't really stay still at all and it isn't really solid. But I don't think the infinite potentiality of the Tao means it's creating everything at once. (Gosh, there are a lot of issues wrapped up in this one.) Yes I think time is simultaneous at some level, no I don't think there are infinite personal, particular me's living out all of the major options of me. Somehow it seems like a need of a me to begin with, because in a way, all the options are being played out, just through all the different personalities that will someday experience themselves again as one.

On a more intuitive level, I experience a lot of bleed through in terms of what I love, what creates a feeling of comfort for me and what frightens me, from experiences in other lives and possibly even memories from systems other than earth. I came in talking to my parents at 3 and 4 years old about how I chose them as my parents and had lived in China as a peasant rice farmer before I came to them. (I told them how old I was, when I died, how many children I had, which ones had died. I even still remember the look of that valley.) It's possible that it was just the work of a vivid imagination, although it doesn't feel like it. One personal experience that points to reincarnation not being linear and sequential, (which I don't believe it is) is that when I was watching the silent movie Metropolis, made in Germany I think around the time of world war one, I suddenly felt that I knew a lot of that group who acted in the movie as well as some feeling of familiarity with Antonin Artaud, another actor of that time, in Paris. (At the same time, I knew "I" was in China.) But whether the insights about the Metropolis period was my "own" personal memory, or whether I was picking up on someone else's thoughts, either possibly an entity or cadre mate, or just feeling into someone else's life (which does happen as oneness becomes more palpable and boundaries fall away) I can't say. But it led me to feel that our current view of time as sequential and linear is too limited. As you can see, so much of this is affected by our current definition of I.

About the same time, I had senses of an event in time being like a pebble dropped in a pond. The ripples go out from the pebble (the event) and are larger closer to the pebble and smaller -- more subtle --further away. The ripples don't just go in two directions, but out in all directions. With sensitivity and awareness, often as we approach a probable event, we can pick up on and "read" the ripples coming out as we approach the moment, getting a sense of what might happen. In a sense, we see/feel a potential future.(People can still choose to act differently, but there are strong tendencies and probabilities -- which is how there can be knowledge of the future and free will existing simultaneously.) I think sensing these waves coming off of events is really little different than having good eyesight and being able to see a distant mountain from far away. Except currently we think of it differently. I imagine that will change when it happens that this world moves into its old soul phase.

But I've never yet, that I know of, experienced bleed through from parallel lives (not that this in any way necessarily means it's not possible.) Unless, it's such a common feeling, I might not recognize it for what it is. (So far, I've just been able to find other simpler more direct explanations.) I know what it feels like when a potential agreement doesn't happen. Some of these would have had major impact on my life. I can't honestly say on any level that I feel I am also living these lives. In fact, there's a lot that has needed to be processed and dealt with around missing out on that potential life experience, often major grieving and adjustment. I know what it feels like when there are probable future events that are to include me, that I need to go out of my way to be a part of, and do so because I feel/know I'm to be a part of it. I've had feelings of potentials in my life that have been held out to me for years as a sort of carrot to help me persevere through difficult times. I just don't have even the remotest hit that I'm currently living lives with different mates etc. Sometimes I know there are other things I'm capable of doing, and I know this with such a strength, it might be easy to imagine I'm already doing it somewhere. In a sense "I" am, depending on who I am. But whether this particular woman, with this particular personality is currently out there doing it somewhere else??? I don't know. Possibly.It just doesn't feel that true to me.

During moments of expanded awareness, it seems to go the other way. All the multiples become clear as being just one.

It's almost as if the old classic teaching that this world is just a dream is spinning off wildly into multiple dreams in people's minds that will all again unite as one dream, then to a whole different reality of awareness of our Oneness and finally that sleep was just a dream to begin with. I guess if we're dreaming, it doesn't matter how many dreams we awake from. We're still dreaming or awake.

I do have the sense of all the various planes of consciousness coinciding at our particular point of awareness, and that we can draw more of other planes into our reality through choice and our focusing on them and living more in their perceptions. But this still isn't a feeling that there are universes where Elvis Presley still lives and that's why people keep seeing him or Gandhi lived and India stayed one country or Princess Diana survived the accident or or or....Sometimes I wonder if when Nostradamus looked into the future, he confused our realistic Hollywood disaster movies for the real thing. I mean, not knowing about movies, who would imagine that as a future idea of a good time? Maybe in a parallel universe....

I've certainly heard parallel universes being used as an explanation and excuse for all sorts of things. But bringing it back to the basics, of choice, focus, responsibility -- works better for me, a lot less glamorous though.... Seems more grounding, especially since one of the self-karmas of artisans is getting lost in their own creations and not knowing the difference between what is imagined and what is real....whatever real is.

Best to everyone,
Brin

(which, for those who've inquired, in this case is a woman's name....however maybe in other universes....)

Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 20:42:02 -0500
Subject: Re:Parallel Lives

This is a concept that resonates deeply with me.
I've lived in Minnesota all my life..I like it here because of
the pronounced seasonal changes.. and as a result I do not
look at life as a continuing linear kind of existence.
I live it in sections, sort of. Like the seasons.
Every season here is different, and I have different memories
associated with each. When a new season begins, I change. I have
a whole new set of feelings with memories attached to each. I can't
experience autumn the way I experience spring.
I can't help but look at the whole of my life this way.
If, for every season I'm operating from a specific set of memories
defined by that season, isn't that how it would be for each "branch"
or parallel life? Do I know what I'm talking about? No. I started
out with this big grand thing I wanted to say and now I have
confused myself.
(sigh).
I don't doubt that there are parallel universes out there.
I've made totally radical painful life altering decisions expecting to
feel like hell afterwards only to find that I feel great.
I feel like new! My friends expect me to be crying on their shoulders
when I'm actually laughing with glee. They get disturbed. Well, actually
that's only happened once that I recall. But it was so unexpected.
All the baggage was gone. I'm not sure what that would be an indication
of.. maybe I was getting off of a karmic branch or something.
I have dreams about still forging through with that particular
life and to my surprise I am really starting to get myself together
anyway. Sort of. I'll keep an eye on it if I can.
So anyway, I'm glad that the topic was brought up because it's
something that I've been really interested in..

Melissa.

At 20:11 15.09.97 -0000, Katherine wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I got three replies concerning Parallel Universes, from Ken, Ed and Dean (I
> think Ed's may only have come to me) and all three supported the concept.
> The unanimity of the responses and the low turnout make me think this isn't
> such a hot topic after all. Oh well. I got something out of the exercise
> anyway... a better understanding of where people are coming from when they
> talk about parallel universes. So thank you all for responding.
> Strangely, though Ken's response was the most subjective it makes me think
> the most... it reminds me of an experience I had that I could not explain
> by in my understanding of the "classical" Michael teachings, but which I
> "know" is true. So I respect that kind of knowing.
>
> As to consensus, it doesn't mean unanimity, it means everyone is agreed to
> work in a certain direction together. It also doesn't mean majority rule.
> If one person feels very strongly on some point the rest of the group may
> decide to go along with that person even against the majority (i.e. the
> majority agrees to stand aside for that one person). It means that every
> person has a voice (a real voice, not one vote) in every issue. (I didn't
> come to this entirely on my own, I was deeply influenced by Starhawk's
> book, DREAMING THE DARK (the concept is also much better explained there))
> In terms of parallel universes; I see that the issue means more to other
> people here than it does to me so I will choose not to belabour the point
> on this list. I might perhaps have hit upon a better topic to work on,
> one where there is a more widespread disagreement that needs to be worked
> out. However, when that topic surfaces I shall still be here... In the
> meantime thanks for humouring me.
>
> Katherine

Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 03:04:11 -0700
Subject: The "real" Michael?

Since posting a response from Janet B. to the thread, "Channeling Michael", I have felt a need to set out a few words of my own. As I mentioned in my preface to her post, I was offline for a few days and was unaware of the thread (and at least one derivative, "Exclusivity").

I have not seen the post quoted by John R. on Tricia's Web site, but am confident he has quoted it accurately, and will use it as the basis for much of my answer.

First, a little history might be in order. About the middle of August Janet visited Tricia S.'s Web site, then sent an email to Ms. Sullivan to comment on her site and channeling Michael. Janet shared with me Ms. Sullivan's reply, which is virtually the same as the Web posting except for the addition of the question at the beginning. Janet did not, and indeed would not, pose such a question; therefore, though it appears to be genuine, it is merely a mechanism by which the author attempts to legitimize the following...ah, "information".

After having read this several times now, the only conclusion I can come to is that Ms. Sullivan, if she is channeling at all, is channeling a being other than the Michael we all know and love. The following is in support of this conclusion.

First and surely the most important - the Michael we know is inclusive and expanding, not exclusive and withdrawing. Especially now, at the time of the planetary shift from the Young soul age to the Mature, they are working to bring people together, not isolate themselves from us. Indeed, they are working to help us get to the day when we don't need channels per se at all; that is, working with discarnate beings (or non-physical beings, NPBs) will be a normal activity for many people.

There are several places in Ms. Sullivan's words that tend to substantiate the conclusion that her "Michael" is not our Michael. Here are a few of them.

First, though, I have to comment on -

Q: Who do you channel through? I mean, can anyone contact and
channel your information? Does A??? P???? really channel you?

This thinly disguised attempt to evade taking responsibility for naming someone you are speaking about is tacky, tasteless, crude, and just plain juvenile. Those who do it are, at best, lame.

...those who would study our works.

Interesting - in all the Michael books I've read, and that includes almost everything in print and two that no longer are, I've never known them to refer to their "works"; it is always their "teachings".

The "Dear Michael" channelers, Van H???? and Ch?????, are the only
...............................^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ones truly in touch with me, other than yourself.

This was added since the letter to Janet (which was, BTW, a forward of a letter to several other recipients). And our Michael refers to themselves as "us", not "me".

We were paraphrased when we said that we would "talk" to all that
ask, for we will, but only 29% of the world's population have the
abilities to contact us, and only about 19% of them have developed
and use those abilities regularly.

How convenient, refuting a statement of enablement. Makes it start to appear like a deliberate act rather than just being misguided. Looking at it another way - this is obviously an attempt to usurp our Michael's following, otherwise why refute published information? Subterfuge is an aspect of maya, which is present only on the physical plane. Therefore the source of the misinformation must lie with Ms. Sullivan.

We are not like a radio frequency that you can easily readjust
yourselves to.

Of course not; there are references to methods of learning to channel in several of the available books. Shepherd Hoodwin's _Journey of Your Soul_, for example, has some detailed words on this subject WRT channeling Michael, and _Opening To Channel_ is an entire book devoted to channeling in general.

For there are concepts and perceptions that need to be tuned as well
as techniques of communicating that need to be established.

Implying, "...before one can channel us." Well, not exactly. One's concepts and perceptions will change as one becomes more familiar with the teachings, but nothing in the books mentions needing a specific set in order to channel. Of course techniques of communicating will evolve as one channels more; this is a natural phenomenon applicable to all methods of communication.

For we are not of your plane, and you are not of ours.

Gee, really? What a startling piece of news! Is this supposed to lend authenticity to their words?

This is a skill that has taken each of our channelers years (in their terms) to perfect.

Perhaps, maybe even likely. But one doesn't have to be "perfect" in order to do it.

We do not come just to human students. We also have cetacean
students, as well as others from different "planets" within the
physical plane, and some located on the astral plane.

So? What's the point? More words to feign authenticity? And why is the word "planets" quoted? Is it not a common term?

So, this is not a spontaneous act that we do.

"Spontaneous" in reference to what? It may appear spontaneous to those on the physical plane, but as any serious student knows, all is planned in advance. That, of course, is not to say that all plans eventually manifest (in one lifetime, anyway).

We have agreements with only 127 fragments, only 12 of which are
located on Earth.

Very possibly. That would tend to support the conclusion that they are not "our" Michael.

That includes all "portions" of us, for we are also students as well
as teachers, and there are lessons we also partake in just as you
do, so this occupies our other "portions" that are not teaching.

That computes, for both whoever they are and our Michael. Contrary to Seth Cohn's take on it -

Nope, since "Michael' is fully cycled off, there are no 'portions'
or fragments to teach...

...when they speak of "portions", I assume they mean fragments (though I've never known our Michael to use the word "portion" when referring to any fragmented being). Even though they (our Michael) are teaching from the mid-causal plane, they are not fully reunited and still have fragments. It is documented that when a channel communicates with Michael, only a few of their fragments are involved. But this does not imply that those fragments are still incarnating.

As to being students as well as teachers, of course they are. First, it's logical since they are not fully reunited yet; and second, they have said so many times.

I'll now address Ms. Sullivan's deliberate attempt to cast doubt on Alma's ability to channel Michael. I have been to 24 group and two personal sessions in which Alma channeled "our" Michael in a very clear and understanding way. Their manner and information through Alma are consistent with what is seen in the many available books, and quite unlike that described by Ms. Sullivan's "channeling". All personal information Michael provided through Alma rang very true.

Maybe Ms. Sullivan is channeling some being named "Michael". I think it's evident, however, that whomever she is channeling is not the Michael whose words appear in books, and who we consider to be "our" Michael. There is nothing "wrong" with that, of course; it is her choice. As our Michael has said, there is more than one NPB going by the name "Michael".

I visited Ms. Sullivan's site several months ago after seeing a link to it on Lori Tostado's page. When I saw Ms. Sullivan's references to "Lail" as an alternate name for Michael, I had the feeling it was likely not our Michael. In all the books I've read and all the channeling sessions I've attended, Michael has never referred to themselves with an alternate name.

In closing I would like to say I think the words from Dave G. and Gloria C. in their followup posts are well-spoken.

Regards,
Dick [2.1(3)/5/4.2-144=4.7.3<5.150/4.5=26/0.4.11>]
----------------------------------------------------
Dick Hein / Mountain View, California.

Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 09:35:09 -0400
Subject: Re: telling it like it is

Jennifer S. wrote:

[clipped]

> Wow and I hate that attitude in me. SO SELFISH... but the anger is still
> there even after exploding on my boyfriend for 5 hours last night about
> her.... you'd think I'd have gotten it all out. It's not. I realize they
> are My emotions to control but I seem so out of control when it comes to
> certain issues. Any thought? Anyone?

It might help to understand that you are not your emotions. You experience emotions. You have emotions. You are not emotions. You are a wonderful and immortal fragment of the Prime Creator/Supreme Being/Etc. Now and then I have to remind myself that this is what I am, inspite of whatever pissed off, dirty word, emotions I may be experiencing at the moment.

Maybe also you're experiencing the addicted person's repressed anger. I have lived with addicts of various types, and it seems to me that no matter how weak, insipid, self-pitying, or stoned they may seem to be, there is a HUMONGOUS anger and frustration within them that they are using drugs to try and hide from.

So, maybe some of the anger that you're experiencing may not be totally yours, and when you get it off it comes back from somewhere out side of yourself. Better to protect yourself in and out with the Great White Light of Your Highest Self. The hatred of "that attitude" in yourself only serves to strengthen it. Try not to "resist" inner stuff you don't like, but rather, once you clearly recognize it for what ever it is, then "de-energize it" and "replace it" with whatever goodness you would prefer to feel.

Your intense emotions re an addict in your house seem normal for a 6th Level Mature Scholar in Growth, and especially frustrating for a Pragmatist in the Moving Part of the Intellectual Center who tends not to want to deal emotionally with other people's heavy-duty emotional "stuff", and who is intellectually "always clear" <smile> about what to do (moving part) to get to wherever she needs to get to. (maybe everybody else too) <another smile>

I really respect you folks in Growth for your courage in choosing to grow this fast, this way. And too I greatly respect you Jenn for telling it like is about your own stuff. :>)#

> Thanks for listening to me rant again,
> I'm really not this angry and bitter all the time!

Hey, Jenn, thats how we are learning from each other. You asked for ideas/help. You didn't just rant.

Peace and Light to You and Yours,
Kenneth Broom, Columbia, MD, USA
aka I.A.M. Research

Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 09:10:56 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: telling it like it is

Jennifer S. wrote:

> > Thanks for listening to me rant again,
> > I'm really not this angry and bitter all the time!

Personally, I think you own your stuff very well. Most people never even get to this level of awareness! And, I think a good rant once in a while, around people who understand and don't judge you, is good for the soul.... :^) In some of the Michael classes I was in, Michael said to say, "Thank god, there it goes, off for healing." (Or you can change the phrasing to suit you.) Basically, don't resist your emotions, but allow them to move through you. Surrender is the key. We like to be in control but when things are getting rough, that's when we want control the most, and that's when we have to let it go. It's hard, but I found that by taking a deep breath and saying to myself, "OK, I surrender," then things begin to flow again, somehow, even surprisingly sometimes.....

Blessings,
Lori

Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 12:37:09 -0400
Subject: Re[2]: telling it like it is

In response to Jennifer's post, Kenneth wrote:

So, maybe some of the anger that you're experiencing may not be
totally yours, and when you get it off it comes back from somewhere
out side of yourself. Better to protect yourself in and out with the
Great White Light of Your Highest Self.

Being very sensitive myself, I often have to stop and try to discern whether what I am feeling is my own stuff, or someone else's that I have picked up (which, by the say, I do very easily). Sometimes, when I know I'm going to be close to folks who, historically have given off negative energy or if I just feel a little vulnerable, I close my eyes and see the white light surrounding me. After a few moment I see it turning all around me in a clockwise motion, sealing me off. At the same time, imagine your feet are standing on black light. Black is for grounding. Let the swirling white light disappear into the black light through your feet and ground you. This is an incredible tool to help with outside energies mixing with your own.

Kenneth wrote:

Better to protect yourself in and out with the Great White Light of
Your Highest Self. The hatred of "that attitude" in yourself only
serves to strengthen it. Try not to "resist" inner stuff you don't
like, but rather, once you clearly recognize it for what ever it is,
then "de-energize it" and "replace it" with whatever goodness you
would prefer to feel.

AMEN! THE LIGHT WILL HEAL THE ISSUES IN THE TISSUES!

love,

lorraine

Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 15:23:51 -0400
Subject: Re: telling it like it is

Jennifer S. wrote:

> This is very timely stuff for me. I was just going to ask what
> Michael says about anger. I have been recently feeling huge
> amounts of anger at my signficant other because he is trying
> to "save" a gutter-punk junkie who has decided to camp out
> in our back room. I have huge (apparently) unresolved
> issues regarding addiction (my ex was an alcoholic) and I get
> extremely angry when I see others stuck in their addictions.
> Part of me wants to help her get clean (if thats what she wants)
> and part of me is so unsympathetic that I feel like kicking her out
> on the street. That part of me plays a tape that says things like:
> I'VE had crap in my life too and I'M not a junkie, I'VE worked since
> I was 16, put myself and my ex through college and I'M not a
> junkie, if I can live through my pain and still stay sober SHE can...
> and if SHE Can't she needs to get OUT OF MY HOUSE!
>
> Wow and I hate that attitude in me. SO SELFISH... but the anger is
> still there even after exploding on my boyfriend for 5 hours last night
> about her.... you'd think I'd have gotten it all out. It's not. I realize
> they are My emotions to control but I seem so out of control when it
> comes to certain issues. Any thought? Anyone?

Jennifer,

If my significant other ever tried to do this to me I'd tell her to either get the person out IMMEDIATELY or to get out with them (or I would leave myself). It is in no way a selfish attitude to protect your living space. Your anger is totally justified in this case.

Christopher

Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 00:42:07 -0400
Subject: Re: telling it like it is

Christopher M. wrote:

> Jennifer,
>
> If my significant other ever tried to do this to me I'd tell her to
> either get the person out IMMEDIATELY or to get out with them (or I
> would leave myself). It is in no way a selfish attitude to protect
> your living space. Your anger is totally justified in this case.
>
> Christopher

What Christopher said. As his SO, if I were insensitive/abusive enough to do to him what has been done to you, Jennifer, I'd deserve to lose his respect and companionship.

IM, perhaps, NSHO, a shared living space is just that, *shared*, as are the decisions about who and what will enter that space. If only one person has the say, it isn't a partnership, it's a dictatorship.

I personally believe that anger in and of itself is not "evil" or a plague to be gotten rid of. It is a natural, very useful signal from our bodies (mind & emotions) that we have been violated. It isn't a particularly new thought, but I believe (and experience) that emotions arise spontaneously (involving little or no conscious volition). We do, however, have a choice about how we choose to *express* them. In the case of expressing anger (the emotion people in our culture seem to dread the most) our means of doing that can be effective or ineffective. And, of course, at the ineffective end of the continuum, you can get downright destructive/abusive expressions of anger such as rages, tantrums on up to actually physically attacking the other person.

I tend to agree with Harriet Lerner (The Dance of Anger) that women (or men) who yell to get their point across often look (and feel inside themselves) as powerless as women (or men) who "wimp out" and won't speak up for themselves. One possible way to take back one's power (to be "assertive" vs. "violently aggressive" or "wimpily passive") using the housemate situation as an example: the roommates could sit down together and arrive at mutually agreed upon house rules (about house guests, chores, food and utility bill payment, etc.), which are decided upon in a spirit of mutual respect and co-equal partnership.

IMO, when the ability to negotiate in this sort of co-equal, respectful manner is not present in *any* sort of roommate situation (romantic or otherwise), this can lead to a great deal of painful, unresolved--and often unremitting--conflict.

Kate, tossing in her two cents

Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 08:29:34 -0700
Subject: Re: Channeling Michael

Dick,
Thanks for your very "scholarly" post on the authenticity of Michael channels. As more and more people are drawn to this body of teaching, we will see more misuse of it as well by younger souls who want to get in on a good thing.

We all need to remember to validate what we hear, what we see and who we encounter.

About channeling Michael ... somewhere (in one of the early books, I believe), Michael discussed "who" could channel and said that the accurate channels are advanced students of the teachings. Yes, everyone channels someone. However, to do it well enough to use it for other people requires extensive work, personal discipline and time.

When I first asked Jose Stevens about whether I could learn to channel, he said yes, if I was willing to spend 5 years of diligent work learning how. At first I was rather discouraged, but after spending that amount of time, I can see the difference. By the way, I don't channel in the same way most Michael channels do. This is because of my own life tasks and goals this lifetime. Therefore, I do not promote "channeling" as part of my professional work. This is in spite of many years of diligent spiritual work and very specific training. I am trained and licensed to do spiritual counseling.

I am very skeptical of those who "spontaneously" channel Michael and do not follow a rigorous training program designed to help them get clear of their own "stuff" and develop the skills to really help people in their channeling work. Being perfect is not necessary -- however, any counseling profession has a code of ethics and agreed behaviors to adhere to. Counseling, psychology, ministers, social work, etc are regulated through specified training, ongoing educational requirements, state licensing, etc all designed to keep people from getting hurt.

Channeling is not regulated (that I'm aware of), so none of those "earthly" protections are available for the public. There was at one time a code of ethics used by many of the Michael channels. I hope the new AMT will reinstate such professional ethical guidelines and announce them publicly to help differentiate the professional channels from others who are not willing/able to adhere to the guidelines.

My understanding is that the entire Michael entity does not enter the channel -- it would destroy their body!! One fragment of the Michael entity is usually assigned to be the contact point for the channel. When a channel calls "Michael" they are actually getting their contact point within the Michael entity. The vocabulary of the channel's knowledge of the teachings is what the channeled fragment works with. Channels who have not done their study work, don't have the ability to translate what they might get from Michael, therefore, inaccuracies result.

Other complicating or supporting factors that arise are the agreements and past life connections between the channel and Michael, between the channel and the inquirer, etc.

Rarely does a channel make contact with the Akashic records as Edgar Cayce did (he was a very unusual channel), since that takes a tremendous amount of energy.

Barbara T

Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 17:56:42 -0400
Subject: Re: Channeling Michael

Barbara T wrote:

[clipped]

> We all need to remember to validate what we hear, what we see and who
> we encounter.

Absolutely!

> About channeling Michael ... somewhere (in one of the early books, I
> believe), Michael discussed "who" could channel and said that the
> accurate channels are advanced students of the teachings.
> Yes, everyone channels someone. However, to do it well enough to use
> it for other people requires extensive work, personal discipline and time.
> When I first asked Jose Stevens about whether I could learn to
> channel, he said yes, if I was willing to spend 5 years of diligent work
> learning how.

I recently contacted a group I called "The Masters of Galactic Astrology". This subject matter was about astrology, numerology, psychology, mathematics, and geometry. There was no way that someone not familiar with that "related" subject matter could have understood what we were communicating. Apparently the source can only use the words, definitions, and concepts that are wired into the brain of the channel. When I first tried channeling overleaves I got nothing because the overleaf words and phrases were not in my brain. As I became very familiar with the concepts and meanings, the words started coming into my consciousness before showing up with the pendulum.

I don't think this holds true with psychics and unconscious channelers. I am neither of these.

[clipped]

> I am very skeptical of those who "spontaneously" channel Michael and
> do not follow a rigorous training program designed to help them get
> clear of their own "stuff" and develop the skills to really help people
> in their channeling work.

I remember when I first tried channeling via a typewriter about 25 years ago. It was so much garbage, yet looking back at the words, it was not garbage, it was just "garbled" thoughts and letters. The words were "trying" to mean something, but the word spellings were garbled and the ideas were hazy, confused, and intermixed. Jose says 5 years. It took me about 10 years of personal work just to get fairly clear enough of my own "stuff" just to be able to "listen clearly" to "humans", not to mention non-carnates like my own "entity", and "The Michaels". I found that as I learned to really "listen" to, and to really "care" about people, then I started to attune much more easily and clearly to the non-physical folks.

> Being perfect is not necessary -- however,
> any counseling profession has a code of ethics and agreed behaviors to
> adhere to. Counseling, psychology, ministers, social work, etc are
> regulated through specified training, ongoing educational requirements,
> state licensing, etc all designed to keep people from getting hurt.

I remember we had to go through a 4-hour, twice-a-week, 32-week, training period to learn to how handle a volunteer hotline service. And even after training being on the phones was a bunch of lessons all by itself. The hardest part for me was just non-judgemental listening.

> Channeling is not regulated (that I'm aware of), so none of those
> "earthly" protections are available for the public. There was at one
> time a code of ethics used by many of the Michael channels. I hope the
> new AMT will reinstate such professional ethical guidelines and announce
> them publicly to help differentiate the professional channels from
> others who are not willing/able to adhere to the guidelines.

I fully support this idea. I know of astrologers who have grossly mis-counseled clients, and had to call their teachers in to put their client back on center. It goes along with client self-validation. If it "feels" wrong, it probably is wrong.

However, I am not in favor of regulation or control of any kind. I feel that full public awareness is the best safety measure.

> My understanding is that the entire Michael entity does not enter the
> channel -- it would destroy their body!! One fragment of the Michael
> entity is usually assigned to be the contact point for the channel.
> When a channel calls "Michael" they are actually getting their contact
> point within the Michael entity.

My entity has many groups within it that serve specific interests. Some call themselves "Healer", "Truth", "Tabor", "Love", etc. Who you get depends on who you specifically ask for, and what your questions are. I have "felt" the energy of the whole entity. It's like a big huge cloud of love and knowledge that surrounds me. How do you talk to a cloud? The Michaels that I get the overleaves from is only a few of the total Michaels.

> The vocabulary of the channel's knowledge of the teachings is what the
> channeled fragment works with. Channels who have not done their study
> work, don't have the ability to translate what they might get from Michael,
> therefore, inaccuracies result.

Like I said before.

> Other complicating or supporting factors that arise are the agreements
> and past life connections between the channel and Michael, between the
> channel and the inquirer, etc.
> Rarely does a channel make contact with the Akashic records as Edgar
> Cayce did (he was a very unusual channel), since that takes a tremendous
> amount of energy.

Why is channeling usually so tiring? I just asked, and my higher self said that the subconscious and the physical body get really insecure and stressed out when the mind focuses for too long in non-physical realities. I have seen my mind's representation of the akashic and it is absolutely mind-BOGGLING. It's like an infinite physical, emotional, and mental database that can be sorted any way you want. Even every "false" impression and every "mistake" is in there. It is really really difficult to home in on a particular piece of "truth". So I usually leave it to the Michaels.

Peace and Light to You and Yours,
Kenneth Broom, Columbia, MD, USA
aka I.A.M. Research

Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 18:24:12 -0400
Subject: Re: Channeling Michael

Barbara T wrote:

> About channeling Michael ... somewhere (in one of the early books, I
> believe), Michael discussed "who" could channel and said that the
> accurate channels are advanced students of the teachings.

This makes sense.

> When I first asked Jose Stevens about whether I could learn to > channel, he said yes, if I was willing to spend 5 years of diligent > work learning how.

> I am very skeptical of those who "spontaneously" channel Michael and
> do not follow a rigorous training program designed to help them get
> clear of their own "stuff" and develop the skills to really help
> people in their channeling work. Being perfect is not necessary -- however,
> any counseling profession has a code of ethics and agreed behaviors to
> adhere to. Counseling, psychology, ministers, social work, etc are
> regulated through specified training, ongoing educational
> requirements, state licensing, etc all designed to keep people from getting hurt.
> Channeling is not regulated (that I'm aware of), so none of those
> "earthly" protections are available for the public. There was at one
> time a code of ethics used by many of the Michael channels. I hope the
> new AMT will reinstate such professional ethical guidelines and
> announce them publicly to help differentiate the professional channels from
> others who are not willing/able to adhere to the guidelines.

I ask this respectfully: What about the first Michael channels who spontaneously channeled them? They had no training, nor have many, many mystics throughout the ages.

This also I ask as someone who highly respects Jose's work: how did he come up with his training program and who trained him?

> Channels who have not done their study work, don't have the ability to
> translate what they might get from Michael, therefore, inaccuracies
> result.

I agree with this and mentioned it in one of my posts as a possible reason for inaccuracies. It makes sense to me. :)

> Rarely does a channel make contact with the Akashic records as Edgar
> Cayce did (he was a very unusual channel), since that takes a
> tremendous amount of energy.

I'm curious as to your source for this statement. I have not heard it before, anywhere else.

Kate

Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 19:12:20 -0400
Subject: Re: Channeling Michael

Kate M wrote:

[clipped]

> I ask this respectfully: What about the first Michael channels who
> spontaneously channeled them? They had no training, nor have many, many
> mystics throughout the ages.

An excellent point, Kate. I wish I had thought of it. Could these folks have been trained or experienced in other related ways? or born with a natural talent? I'd love to know the answers these questions.

per Barbara:

> > Rarely does a channel make contact with the Akashic records as
> > Edgar Cayce did (he was a very unusual channel), since that takes a
> > tremendous amount of energy.

Unless I stand corrected, Cayce also channeled his information from a mid-causal source, who in turn got their info from the akashic (just affirmed by the Michaels).

I also wonder where Nostradamus got his training/experience and his knowledge. I read somewhere that he had a darkened mirror in which he "saw" future events. and I think he had his psychic abilities from childhood. I don't know where he got his mirror from, but I'd sure like to get one like it. <smile>

Peace and Light to You All,
Kenneth Broom, Columbia, MD, USA
aka I.A.M. Research

Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 01:43:54 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Advanced degree in Michael?

Ken Broom:

<< I recently contacted a group I called "The Masters of Galactic Astrology". This subject matter was about astrology, numerology, psychology, mathematics, and geometry. There was no way that someone not familiar with that "related" subject matter could have understood what we were communicating. Apparently the source can only use the words, definitions, and concepts that are wired into the brain of the channel. When I first tried channeling overleaves I got nothing because the overleaf words and phrases were not in my brain. As I became very familiar with the concepts and meanings, the words started coming into my consciousness before showing up with the pendulum. I don't think this holds true with psychics and unconscious channelers. I am neither of these. >>

I'm fairly new to these teachings, but I find this concept kind of suspect. Hasn't a channeler been described as a human telephone? Most of the words used in the Michael pedagogy are not foreign to the average person, so even if the channeler didn't understand the underlining concept, why couldn't Michael still construct sentences and phrases using familiar words such as artisan, scholar, entities, goals, attitudes, and leave us to decipher them at a later time? I suppose I'm a skeptic, but I always favored Jane Roberts' Seth Material over other metaphysical offerings because she relayed information that would have been impossible to originate from a person of her background and technical expertise. In addition, the individual who originally channeled Michael must have had to learn the new material as it came through, and didn't have the luxury of reading the latest Shepherd Hoodwin or Jose Stevens book in order to grasp the latest concepts.

I beg your pardon if I'm missing a crucial component here, but this simply doesn't make sense to me at the moment. I can't believe that one would need an advanced degree from the "School of Michael" in order to channel the material.

OK, I just read the last entry in Ken's paragraph concerning how it isn't applicable to unconscious channelers; however, I don't see how that would make any difference as the Michael phraseology is simply not that complex, even for the conscious mind.

Dave - vigorously scratching head and wondering if the only thing he is contributing to this topic is "dandruff..." ;-p

Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 03:22:39 -0400
Subject: Re: Channeling Michael

Great post, Kenneth! Like you, I've been channeling for a long time (about 20 years, consciously, before that, all the way back to my childhood unconciously). The more knowledge and education (self- and formal-) that I acquire, the more sophisticated my channeling grows. I've found when mentoring channels, or in being mentored myself, the time issue varies from person to person. It may be that there are certain definite steps that, maybe, most channels might agree on as being necessary to learn the "trade," but the length of time in mastering those steps can vary drastically from channel to channel.

BTW, speaking of Kenneth's channeling, I recently suggested the names of some Michael channels for those who are still hungry for overleaf readings. Kenneth is also available for one-page overleaf readings at the very reasonable rate of $20 and also does astrology. I'm getting in line for my reading. :)

Kate

Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 04:02:22 -0400
Subject: Re: Advanced degree in Michael?

Dave G wrote:

> if the channeler didn't understand the underlining concept, why
> couldn't Michael still construct sentences and phrases using familiar words
> such as artisan, scholar, entities, goals, attitudes, and leave us to decipher
> them at a later time? I suppose I'm a skeptic, but I always favored Jane
> Roberts' Seth Material over other metaphysical offerings because she relayed
> information that would have been impossible to originate from a person
> of her background and technical expertise. In addition, the individual who
> originally channeled Michael must have had to learn the new material
> as it came through, and didn't have the luxury of reading the latest
> Shepherd Hoodwin or Jose Stevens book in order to grasp the latest concepts.
>
> I beg your pardon if I'm missing a crucial component here, but this
> simply doesn't make sense to me at the moment. I can't believe that one would
> need an advanced degree from the "School of Michael" in order to channel
> the material.
>
> OK, I just read the last entry in Ken's paragraph concerning how it
> isn't applicable to unconscious channelers; however, I don't see how that
> would make any difference as the Michael phraseology is simply not that
> complex, even for the conscious mind.

Dave, I can't speak for all channels, but for myself and others I have talked to and worked with the concensus seems to be this: it is very draining to be a full-trance channel, and it is getting rarer to find channels these days who choose to do it. The one person in recent years I have personally sat in on who does trance channeling has increasingly moved to light-trance (fully conscious) channeling in recent years. She finds it easier to channel almost any odd info unknown to her conscious self in a full trance.

What happens to many channels I've met who do light trance (and it's happened to me from time to time) is that when something highly unfamiliar comes through there can be a response. The conscious self can start to interfere in the process and say, "Can this weird unknown thing possibly be right?" OTOH, when the light-trance channel starts to channel something that sounds like information right out of his/her own brain, then thoughts can again come up such as, "This can't be the right--it sounds like me!"

In regard to the latter: I think in a light-trance channeling session it is possible to channel pertinent information which is exactly what the client is seeking from out of our own magpie memory banks. By this I mean that in light trance we can reach (in a precise and useful manner) parts of our mind that aren't normally readily accessible to us. To wit: we have all read and studied an enormous amount, but only those with "photographic memory" can access, instantly and consciously, every jot ever read/learned. In a light-trance channeling state, though, we can access our own inner, mini "akashic records" of all we've learned this present life.

In addition, and similarly, I've also found that it is possible to channel in light-trance, the memory banks of incarnate people (not just the incarnate spirits which are more usually channeled). For example, once I was helping an international friend write a paper for an all-French class in French lit and was able to channel information about the book he was writing his paper on which he had read in French, and which I had never read in English and definitely not in French (I speak a miniscule amount of French). Interestingly, maybe because he's bilingual, I got the info on the book in English, though he had read it, as I say, in French. So, in this manner, I was able to know the story and major themes of a book I'd never read.

I've also done this kind of channeling helping friends write injury reports for work, helping them by channeling out of their brains/memory jargon of their field and descriptions of equipment and surroundings I had no personal knowledge of which were involved in the injury incident. In several cases this information was stored in a rather-inarticulate person's brain as images. I had to use my own vocabulary creatively to describe what I was seeing, and then would assist me in whittling that down into the right jargon.

Here's another thought on this whole topic of training for channeling that occurred to me today: many have remarked over the centuries on the fact that if one wishes to become an adept at any particular discipline, several factors are required: (1) innate talent for the particular field (music, mathematics, dance, writing, counseling, whatever), (2) the drive to acquire the "techniques" involved (a solid knowledge of the history of adepts in one's chosen discipline, acquiring the "howto" to be an adept oneself). It is often hotly debated (another version of the nature-nurture question) as to which of these two sides are is most crucial. Often a rough paraphrase of the famous Edison quote is trotted out such as, "Genius is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration."

I got to thinking today that maybe we need to add two other things to the above list: (3) good mentors/examples--which can be examples of the kind of work we want to do, as for an artist, great works of art she/he can study and emulate; and/or mentors in the flesh (or even disincarnate spirit mentors). Finally, and this may be the most important factor in the whole puzzle: (4) an innate generalized ability to learn. People vary in their ability to learn new skills. Meaning, some people (I'm thinking Scholars, esp. those in observation <G>) are geniuses at learning in general--they revel in acquiring new skills and information. The rest of the population is somewhat below that astounding potential. <G>

People also vary in their ability to learn within any given discipline. For example, writers. As a fiction-writer who has mentored many fellow writers, I've found that many times a person will very much want to become a fiction writer but, for multiple reasons, simply cannot absorb the many complex rules of the genre. Something never quite "clicks" inside and that person, even though quite determined and involved with the fiction art form, never can seem to get beyond an awkward, painful-to-read attempt at fiction writing.

Kate

Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 07:10:37 -0400
Subject: Re: Advanced degree in Michael?

Dave G wrote:

> Ken Broom:
>
> < < I recently contacted a group I called "The Masters of Galactic
> Astrology". This subject matter was about astrology, numerology,
> psychology, mathematics, and geometry. There was no way that someone not
> familiar with that "related" subject matter could have understood what
> we were communicating. Apparently the source can only use the words,
> definitions, and concepts that are wired into the brain of the channel.
> When I first tried channeling overleaves I got nothing because the
> overleaf words and phrases were not in my brain. As I became very
> familiar with the concepts and meanings, the words started coming into
> my consciousness before showing up with the pendulum.
> I don't think this holds true with psychics and unconscious channelers.
> I am neither of these.> >
>
> I'm fairly new to these teachings, but I find this concept kind of suspect.
> Hasn't a channeler been described as a human telephone?

Dear Dave,

There are various degrees and definitions of channeling.

1) A "trance" channel can be accurately described as a human telephone because he (as essence) is no longer in his body during the communication/channeling process and the source actually inhabits or uses part of the channeler's body in order to communicate.

2) A "conscious" channel, if she has removed her mind (to whatever degree necessary) from participating in the transmission process, can also be described as a human telephone, or

3) if fully conscious and participating, the "conscious" channel can also just mentally converse with the source and write/type the conversation onto a piece of paper or a typewriter or a computer.

What I normally do is a combination of the second and third type of channeling. I can either type/repeat verbatim what is told me (and have to read it to myself), or I can type my comprehension of what is told me. When I repeat verbatim my eyes tend to stay glued to the keyboard, and to not look at the computer monitor. That's why I have to read the stuff I just typed.

I normally choose to do the latter because it is more edifying and more participatory, and I can ask relevant questions immediately without having to re-read what I've just typed. When I type something that the source feels is incorrect then there is an "immediate stillness/disconnection" that settles around the process like "Hey, that is not what we mean!"

> Most of the words used in the Michael pedagogy are not foreign to the average
> person, so even if the channeler didn't understand the underlining concept, why
> couldn't Michael still construct sentences and phrases using familiar words such as
> artisan, scholar, entities, goals, attitudes, and leave us to decipher them
> at a later time?

It depends on whether the channeler wants to dialog during the process or to just be a telephone. I expect that those first Michael channels choose to be conscious telephones. or maybe they had agreements with the Michaels?

> I suppose I'm a skeptic, but I always favored Jane Roberts'
> Seth Material over other metaphysical offerings because she relayed
> information that would have been impossible to originate from a person of her
> background and technical expertise. In addition, the individual who
> originally channeled Michael must have had to learn the new material as it
> came through, and didn't have the luxury of reading the latest Shepherd
> Hoodwin or Jose Stevens book in order to grasp the latest concepts.
>
> I beg your pardon if I'm missing a crucial component here, but this simply
> doesn't make sense to me at the moment. I can't believe that one would need
> an advanced degree from the "School of Michael" in order to channel the
> material.
>
> OK, I just read the last entry in Ken's paragraph concerning how it isn't
> applicable to unconscious channelers; however, I don't see how that would
> make any difference as the Michael phraseology is simply not that complex,
> even for the conscious mind.

When I first started contacting Michael or my own entity re overleaves the words were not complex, but the system was new and foreign to my brain back then, i.e. it wasn't in my "conscious memory". There were very few "overleaf circuitry connections" in my brain. This was crucial to my consciuosly channeling accurately. Plus there was a part of my consciousness that would/could not get out of the way of what was being transmitted. The overleaf circuitry is now fairly well in place and the overleaves come through fairly clearly.

When consciously channeling stuff about which I have no brain circuitry connections then I must remove myself/ego from the process and just watch what comes through. I think that's where a lot of the "I didn't know I knew that." stuff comes from.

> Dave - vigorously scratching head and wondering if the only thing he is
> contributing to this topic is "dandruff..." ;-p

Dave, your questions are clarifying questions. They are very valuable to me, and I suspect to many others. I thank you for your questions. I feel like I am a library, not a teacher. I don't teach easily or well, but I will give up all the knowledge that I have in response to good questions. Maybe this is part of being a scholar/idealist in observation. See, see, this is what I mean! I could not have said, much less understood, that last statement when I was first into overleaves.

Tao Bless You my Brother,
and
Peace and Light to You and Yours,
Kenneth Broom, Columbia, MD, USA
aka I.A.M. Research

Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 08:09:04 -0700
Subject: Re: Digest No. 1997-09-18 of Michael Teachings List

Kate asked:

> I ask this respectfully: What about the first Michael channels who
> spontaneously channeled them? They had no training, nor have many, many
> mystics throughout the ages.

Jesus, one of the greatest mystics in our times, spent many, many years in training, in Egypt, India and in the temples, starting as a young child.

Mother Teresa didn't suddenly become a saintly person, she worked at it her entire life.

Both by the way were 7th level old souls. Jesus had a Infinite Soul walk-in near the end. For that to work well, the body had to be well-trained beforehand.

The first channels to channel Michael worked for a long time learning how to do it well and accurately. They continue to work on themselves constantly and have their own teachers. For example, see (http://www.pivres.com/~pivotal/lenajose.html) for a description of the Stevens' background and training.

Barbara

Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 07:54:49 -0700
Subject: Re: Digest No. 1997-09-18 of Michael Teachings List

Dave wrote:

> I'm fairly new to these teachings, but I find this concept kind of suspect.
> Hasn't a channeler been described as a human telephone? Most of the words
> used in the Michael pedagogy are not foreign to the average person, so even
> if the channeler didn't understand the underlining concept, why couldn't
> Michael still construct sentences and phrases using familiar words such as
> artisan, scholar, entities, goals, attitudes, and leave us to decipher them
> at a later time?

Dave,

I disagree about being a human telephone...a channel is more like a translator. If they don't have the vocabulary, training, words and concepts to work with, they can't translate what is coming in.

Channels receive messages in many different ways. Some get pictures, some get emotions, some see words as if written on a blackboard, some can write and have the words come out on the paper, some speak directly what they "hear" or "feel." The more someone works at learning how to do it and verifying their accuracy, the stronger they become. It's like anything else...a beginning piano player may bang out some sounds, but a master pianist is rarely that when they first sit down to play.

I'd suggest you study up a bit on channeling. There are a many places to get such information. "Earth to Tao" Chapter 4 has a good overview, and there a quite a number of other references in other Michael books. "Opening to Channel" is another good one, as is "Channeling" by Joe Klimo.

Barbara

Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 01:54:17 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Decimated archives

I was just checking the latest Michael list archives, and I noticed that my post entitled "Advanced Degree" was completely chopped up. Actually, I've noticed this on many letters from the archives. Question: what's the deal???? ;-p

Dave

Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 08:45:11 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: Decimated archives

On 18 Sep 1997 Dave wrote:

> I was just checking the latest Michael list archives, and I noticed that my
> post entitled "Advanced Degree" was completely chopped up. Actually, I've
> noticed this on many letters from the archives. Question: what's the deal????
> ;-p
>
> Dave

Hi Dave--I checked it out and it's working fine from my Netscrape. Must be a problem with AOL's browser or something (I could make wicked jokes about AOL and stuff but I'll mercifully refrain for now.)

Have a great day!
Lori

Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 14:13:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Dave
Subject: Re: Decimated archives

In a message dated 97-09-18 12:00:05 EDT, lorazz@crl.com writes:

<< Hi Dave--I checked it out and it's working fine from my Netscrape.
Must be a problem with AOL's browser or something (I could make wicked
jokes about AOL and stuff but I'll mercifully refrain for now.)

Have a great day!
Lori >>

Yes, it's probably AOLHell's browser. As they sometimes say, "ya get what you pay for..." ;-p

Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 12:11:15 -0400
Subject: Did Jesus travel to India?

Barbara T wrote:

> Kate asked:
> > I ask this respectfully: What about the first Michael channels who
> > spontaneously channeled them? They had no training, nor have many,
> > many mystics throughout the ages.
>
> Jesus, one of the greatest mystics in our times, spent many, many
> years in training, in Egypt, India and in the temples, starting as a
> young child.

Hi Barbara,

I'm curious as to where this information comes from. I was not aware that there was any documented evidence of Jesus' life other than what is commonly known. I know there is channeled info out there (such as Elizabeth Prophet's book on the lost years of Jesus), but I'm not comfortable with trusting it as "the word of God". <G> Channeling overleaves, insights, etc, is one thing, but because of the number of parallel universes out there, I don't trust info channeled about "history". The channeler may be bringing historical data from a parallel universe. (E.g., in one universe, Jesus died on the cross, on another he lived and moved to India and got married, etc...)

Christopher

Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 12:20:11 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: re: Channeling

Hi ALL!

I would like to thank everyone - especially Kenneth and Kate (a bit of alliteration there) and Dave - everyone! On the past discussion re Channeling!

The small group in my area began channeling about a year ago and to my knowledge, no one has ever asked about the "mechanics" of how it is done. I found much information in Shepherd's book and this satisfied me for that point in time, but now they are asking. And to tell them to read a book on The Michael Teachings is just not their "thing." They are coming from another place, as it were.

I CAN however share with them this discussion and illustrate the various "ways it is done!" With your permission, I would very much like to do so.
Any objections?
By anyone?

Thank you again! I have learned much!
<3 pmp* :-)

Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 13:22:57 -0400
Subject: Re: Did Jesus travel to India?

Christopher M wrote:

> > Barbara T wrote:
> >
> > Jesus, one of the greatest mystics in our times, spent many, many
> > years in training, in Egypt, India and in the temples, starting as a
> > young child.
> >
> > [clipped]
>
> I'm curious as to where this information comes from. I was not aware
> that there was any documented evidence of Jesus' life other than what is
> commonly known. I know there is channeled info out there (such as
> Elizabeth Prophet's book on the lost years of Jesus), but I'm not
> comfortable with trusting it as "the word of God". <G> Channeling
> overleaves, insights, etc, is one thing, but because of the number of
> parallel universes out there, I don't trust info channeled about
> "history". The channeler may be bringing historical data from a
> parallel universe. (E.g., in one universe, Jesus died on the cross, on
> another he lived and moved to India and got married, etc...)

Christopher,

Your point is well taken about channeling history, and points up the difficulty in correctly accessing the akashic "records" rather than from the akashic "level". They aren't the same thing. At the akashic level the akashic records has been pulled together, by akashic orderlies and others, into a more coherent, orderly, and accessible format.

The Urantia Book has several chapters (approx 200 pages) on the travels of Jesus during the so-called lost years. This is channeled information, and to be trusted, or not, as with any channeled info. The whole 1st part of this book struck me so powerfully that I actually had to read it one page at a time. So I have no reason, yet, to disbelieve the part about Jesus' life. Whether that info came from the akashic records or the akashic level I have no idea at this point in time. Seems like an excellent subject for research, tho.

Peace and Light to You and Yours,
Kenneth Broom, Columbia, MD, USA
aka I.A.M. Research

Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 13:35:12 -0400
Subject: Re: Channeling

Pmp wrote:

> I CAN however share with them this discussion and illustrate the various
> "ways it is done!" With your permission, I would very much like to do so.
> Any objections?
> By anyone?

No objections from Kenneth Broom.

Peace and Light to You and Yours,
Kenneth Broom, Columbia, MD, USA
aka I.A.M. Research

Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 16:00:41 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Did Jesus travel to India?

In a message dated 97-09-18 12:46:14 EDT, Kate M writes:

<< I'm not comfortable with trusting it as "the word of God". <G> Channeling
overleaves, insights, etc, is one thing, but because of the number of
parallel universes out there, I don't trust info channeled about
"history". The channeler may be bringing historical data from a
parallel universe. (E.g., in one universe, Jesus died on the cross, on
another he lived and moved to India and got married, etc...) >>

This is very interesting. I have had many readings of my past lives and have often wondered how many of them pertained to my current spiritual lineage. It makes me wonder if during the cold war our paranoid nations' didn't destroy the planet via nuclear holocaust. If something like this occured, what effect would it have on our present existence? Can we destroy our world, but still have a completely untouched one in a parallel universe? I recall Michael stating that the destruction of our planet would result in the loss of the physical game for many entities, but if there's numerous alternate realities, does this mean that it wouldn't be a total loss?

Curious Dave - without the sloping forehead and big lips.

Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 23:35:08 +0200
Subject: Re: Advanced degree in Michael?

Hi Dave and all,

Dave wrote:

> Most of the words used in the Michael pedagogy are not foreign to the
> average person, so even if the channeler didn't understand the underlining
> concept, why couldn't Michael still construct sentences and phrases using
> familiar words such as artisan, scholar, entities, goals, attitudes, and leave
> us to decipher them at a later time?

As far as I can tell it isn't the words that are important, it is understanding the essence of the concept... My understanding is more that when Michael says that someone is an Artisan what they "send" to the channel is not the word, but Artisan type energy (frequency, wavelength, whatever) which the brain of the channel translates into the word Artisan. The more the channel understands about what an Artisan is and what Artisan energy feels like the more accurate the channeling is likely to be. Part of becoming a better Michael channel is in depth study of the material already given and practise in applying it in practical ways.

Cheers,

Katherine

Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 17:33:59 -0700
Subject: Re: Channeling

Greetings, Namaste, Love and Light to all,

I am moved to put in my two cents worth. With the help of Jose Arguelles, I hope to add to this subject. Hopefully, you will follow this to the end before trashing it.

The modern name for galactic focusing and transmission of information(or channeling) would be called 'the principle of harmonic resonance'. What is resonance? Electricians, physicists,musicians,healers,etc. all refer to resonance. Resonance means the quality of sounding again. To resonate is to reverberate. Reverberation implies give and take, the definition of communication is always simultaneous and between at least two agents. Any communication implies an exchange of information. What is information? From the perspective of resonate harmonics, information is the thought-form qualities of energy passing between at least two agents. As a sounding again, resonance is information. The essence of information, then, is not it's content but it's resonance. This is why feelng is so important. To sense the resonance of incoming information co-creates a resonant field. If we try to conceptualize experience before we have actually resonated with the experience, the field is off or even broken. If the field is broken, we have actually stopped feeling and have damped the resonance of understanding. When people speak of resonance, this implies frequency and tones. Frequency refers to rate of vibration. As everyone knows there are higher an lower rates of vibration, while all vibration is pulsation of waves. A frequency held but for a single wave cycle is known as a beat, becomes a tone. A tone then is any sustained frequency, whose level determines which of our sences may be affected. In other words touch has it's tones, perfume is a tone in our sense field "smell", and even mind experiences high-frequency sensory tones.

Inclusive of all sense-fields, harmony is the synchronization of two or more tones. The skill in synchronizing tones and synthesizing sense-fields is an art as much as it is a science. The practise of science yields such things as flying airborne is the passage of the physical body between two points. What if flying is a capacity to identify conciousness with resonance and ride the frequencies of different realities? What if the frequencies you hear are something to tune yourself to? If you mearly experience the tone you hear and sense whether or not this frequency has a particular meaning(or harmonic to you), that thought-form will come to you. This is channeling.

To me, Channeling comes in the form of sound, sometimes that sound is formed into words. When I write these words down, they do not always mean something to me at this point in time. As my search for the experience of life goes on, channelings of 2o years ago take on meaning. The vocabulary is of no concern. I have directed my mind to find meaning where there is a need to experience my highest purpose. If it has no meaning to me now then it falls by the wayside until the time comes for me to understand. In other words I do not judge the meaning until I have experienced the resonance, then if the meaning is there, I experience understanding. Nothing is ever dismissed as having no meaning, it is mearly placed in the file called not understood yet.

Jeez, do I sound like a 6th level old, scholar, in the observation mode with the goal of growth and the attitude of a pragmatist? LOL LOL

With love and light to all,

Dave W/Nada

Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 21:17:16 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: RE: Channeling

Thanks (((((((((Kenneth)))))))!

I'm certain this will help !

<3 pmp* :-)

Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 22:15:52 -0400
Subject: Re: Did Jesus travel to India?

Dave G wrote:

In a message dated 97-09-18 12:46:14 EDT, Kate M writes:

<< I'm not comfortable with trusting it as "the word of God". <G>
Channeling overleaves, insights, etc, is one thing, but because of the number
of parallel universes out there, I don't trust info channeled about
"history". The channeler may be bringing historical data
from a parallel universe. (E.g., in one universe, Jesus died on
the cross, on another he lived and moved to India and got married, etc...) >>

This is very interesting. I have had many readings of my past lives
and have often wondered how many of them pertained to my current spiritual lineage.
It makes me wonder if during the cold war our paranoid nations' didn't
destroy the planet via nuclear holocaust. If something like this occured, what
effect would it have on our present existence? Can we destroy our world, but
still have a completely untouched one in a parallel universe? I recall Michael
stating that the destruction of our planet would result in the loss
of the physical game for many entities, but if there's numerous alternate
realities, does this mean that it wouldn't be a total loss?

Curious Dave - without the sloping forehead and big lips.

Dave,

Check out Shepherd Hoodwin's book, The Journey of Your Soul, p. 360 & 361. The chapter is on parallel universes...

"If the earth is destroyed from nuclear war in a parallel universe, what does that do to us in this universe?

If you are affected, the effect would probably be subtle.  You might find that your resolve to prevent nuclear war strengthens if a parallel self experienced nuclear destruction. Incidentally, you will probably not have a nuclear holocaust in this universe.

Was the earth destroyed in a parallel universe in 1986?

Yes. In about five of them. Earth has been destroyed many times in other parallel universes, in various ways."

That's a good book. Highly recommended. :)

Christopher

Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 00:18:21 -0700
Subject: re: resonance

Hi Dave and everyone,

Dave, thank you for sharing your wonderful piece on resonance. I think it's also a great description of the essence of communion, communication, the basis of relationship and relating and why we are magnetically drawn to certain people and things and not to others.

That's why when something feels off, even if there are no words for it, there is so much implicit knowing transmitted. It has always felt like awareness comes and then needs to be translated into words. Or a work to be created feels like it comes whole in essence, like a feeling tone, or maybe sensing a whole body of tones that we can retain and then find ways to express through various forms.

Your words just keep reverberating....and sparking off connections, such a pleasure. Thank you,

Brin

Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 01:05:21 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Ed: Did Jesus travel to India?

Since we have broached this fascinating topic.....

I heard that Shepherd Hoodwin at one time had researched about 30 non-Biblical accounts of Jesus. There are lots of them and lots of variations, so the parallel hypothesis may be valid here to some degree.

My favorite is "Life and Teachings of the Masters of the Far East" by Baird T. Spalding, Jr. In Vol. 2 Jesus materializes his body in a temple inside a mountain. He talks extensively. He explains basically everything the Western world of about 1900 needed to hear to correct the very extensive misinformation about and misunderstandings of Jesus's life that have prevailed since then. His words ring true to me.

Numerous channeled "ascended masters" sources including Mark and Elizabeth Prophet generally agree and correlate with the view of Jesus and the other masters in L & T.

(Incidentally, the Prophets ripped off the original I AM group which published many books by Godfre Ray King (Geoffrey Ballard) of messages from St. Germain in the 1930s. When the original group failed to renew their copyrights the Prophets published their "public domain" material as if it were their own creation.)

The Urantia book is very impressive seeming; for one thing, I couldn't find one single typo in 1500+ pages of it that I read. The part about the life of Jesus did not ring true to me (it's pretty similar to the Bible) and doesn't fit with other stories. Urantia seems to be off in several other important ways, too. Martin Gardner, professional skeptic formerly of Sci. American, has published a fine book detailing the history of the Urantia channeling and the people involved with it.

Michael gets into Jesus's story in the Yarbro books somewhere...I don't feel like looking it up.

Probably most channels good enough to have a following have been asked about Jesus's life and have come up with their own versions. Many people channel Sananda (the name that Jesus's essence goes by) and other ascended masters and their messages seem to cross-correlate roughly as well as the various Michael channels do.

Too bad there isn't a place where I could be a professor of this stuff....

All the best, Ed

Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 02:03:43 -0400
Subject: Barbara Taylor's post on channeling

Barbara T wrote:

> constantly and have their own teachers. For example, see > (http://www.pivres.com/~pivotal/lenajose.html) for a description of > the Stevens' background and training.

I zipped over there. Nice site, thanks!

BTW, I took his test and came up a Scholar primarily, secondarily a Warrior and least a Sage. Interesting.

Kate

Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 02:00:25 -0400
Subject: Re: Channeling

Dave W wrote:

> something to me at this point in time. As my search for the experience
> of life goes on, channelings of 2o years ago take on meaning. The
> vocabulary

Good points, Dave, esp. this about not always understanding what we are channeling. That's why the Scholar knows better than to throw out any records. ;>

> Jeez, do I sound like a 6th level old, scholar, in the observation
> mode with the goal of growth and the attitude of a pragmatist? LOL LOL

You do, and I can totally relate. Keep it coming. :)

Kate

Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 01:40:56 -0400
Subject: Re: Channeling

Pmp wrote:

> I CAN however share with them this discussion and illustrate the
> various "ways it is done!" With your permission, I would very
> much like to do so. Any objections?

You can use anything I've written with my blessings. :)

Kate

Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 21:49:44 -0700
Subject: parallel Earths

Christopher M wrote:

> Was the earth destroyed in a parallel universe in 1986?
>
> Yes. In about five of them. Earth has been destroyed
> many times in other parallel universes, in various ways."

Christopher,
Strange, your message came through with lots of html tags on my e-mail. Oh well, anyway, I find this quote above really fascinating, because back in the early to mid- '80's I was really into future prophecies and asking for my own spiritual guidance about what would happen in my future. Nuclear holocaust was one of my greatest fears. Back in 1984 when I was 14 or 15, I had a premonition that this would happen in the summer of 1986. I even asked for a dream to tell me what was going to happen, and I got it. That night I dreamed that I was travelling across Arizona with my dad and my brother in my dad's 5th-wheel trailer. I don't know where my mom was--feeling was she had died. We were listening to reports on the AM radio about where the nuclear fall-out was going to be, so we were driving down this highway to get as far away as we could, but picking up people who were stranded along the highway because they had nothing and nowhere else to go. When I woke up, I felt such a gut-wrenching. I got up and asked my dad what nuclear fall-out was. He told me and it was pretty much what it was in my dream. It bothered me a lot.... But still, I wasn't counting on it, as I knew that many of my premonitions didn't happen. I prayed that this one wouldn't. I walked to school each day and looked at the sky...I didn't want to see this beautiful planet destroyed, and then again, I didn't want to be too attached to it either. So I kept doing all the stuff in school that I would have anyway, still not being able to imagine it would last much longer.

As the summer of 1986 approached, and it was decided by my mom and dad that we were going to travel back east for the summer (not to Arizona like in my dream) I began to feel that the premonition wasn't going to happen, that the world wasn't really going to end that summer. I don't know where things began to turn, but the Chernobyl incident sure had me scared there for a while.....

As it turned out though that summer was very traumatic for me, because the day we returned home, I found out that a friend of mine from school and his best friend were both killed in a car wreck the previous week. This one boy Jim who was my friend was such a wonderful person, I had had a big crush on him almost all through high school, but never had the courage to tell him how I'd felt about him because I was too afraid of being rejected. I had had a lot of time to think about him and my other friends who I had kind of lost touch with while I was on vacation with my family, and was determined that I would contact them, and Jim, as soon as I got home, because I missed them. Then the week we were on the road driving back home, we were going through Montana and I felt Jim's presence there near me, and he was asking me how I'd felt about him, and I remember thinking how I loved him, very innocently, and I missed him. So when I got home I was really shocked, but it made sense to me then why I'd felt contacted by him in Montana, the day after he'd died. I was so sad for so long and regretted so much that I'd never told him how I'd felt about him while he was still alive, that I vowed never to do that ever again--that I'd always make sure the people I loved knew it, even if I got rejected.

So after all this, I just thought that my premonition about 1986 was really just a heavy personal lesson for me....I'd never read that part of Hoodwin's book yet. Funny huh....

Oh yeah, I was always a big fan of NASA, and always dreamed of being an astronaut. I kept up on the space missions since we had a satellite dish at the time and I could watch the NASA TV channel on it. About a month before the Challenger incident, I had dreamed that something was going to really go wrong with the space shuttle on some mission, and in my dream it exploded. After that I had a really bad feeling...but when the accident happened, I wasn't surprised, but I felt devistated. I think it was at that point that I decided I didn't want to have the psychic ability to see these sorts of things. They were too scary, and it was too much of a burden to see these possibilities, never really knowing which ones were going to happen, and which ones weren't. And then having to make the choice of whether I should tell someone about them or not, because it left some responsibility on me that if I did tell the right people, perhaps some of these things could be changed.... But I didn't want that responsibility--my own life was hard enough to handle then! So I decided to stop allowing this. It was too painful and I couldn't handle it. That was 1986 too.

I guess it wasn't until after I read a lot of the Michael books that I began to understand my psychic/channeling abilities, and have been able to refine them further, and feel when parallels are splitting/merging, but I can't always tell when they are just mine or bigger than that. I don't really connect to my other parallels, so I can't say that I really know for sure they are out there, but I know other lives are, as I can connect to them pretty easily.

To Dave W, I found your descriptions of channeling very fascinating, and to Brin, your description of parallels was really interesting to me as well--I love multidimensional stuff. :)

You guys are all really great and I want you to know I love you all.... :)

Lori

Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 16:22:45 +0000
Subject: Re: Advanced degree in Michael?

> the whole puzzle: (4) an innate generalized ability to learn. People
> vary in their ability to learn new skills. Meaning, some people (I'm
> thinking Scholars, esp. those in observation <G>) are geniuses at
> learning in general--they revel in acquiring new skills and information.
> The rest of the population is somewhat below that astounding potential. <G>

<click, buzz, whirrrrrrrrr> Wow, what an astounding observation<G>. This overleaves stuff is really starting to click for me. Coming from another scholar in observation -- I have always been an extremely fast learner. For example, after leaving the Army I lied my way into a deckhand job. I bluffed my way through the first couple of days, and through (what else?) observation, I was quickly right up there with the best of them. When the skipper commented some months later about how pleased he was, I confessed (with a cynical attitude, of course), and he thought it was hilarious. On the other hand though, I find that being an old soul, I quickly become bored. Or maybe it's laziness. I learn quickly, but once that curve peaks out and it takes more effort to improve, maybe I'm just looking for something new and easy.

> People also vary in their ability to learn within any given discipline.
> For example, writers. As a fiction-writer who has mentored many fellow
> writers,

Kate, would you be willing to talk to me offline in regards to this?

John R

Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 16:39:04 +0000
Subject: Re: Ed: Did Jesus travel to India?

> My favorite is "Life and Teachings of the Masters of the Far East" by Baird
> T. Spalding, Jr. In Vol. 2 Jesus materializes his body in a temple inside a
> mountain. He talks extensively. He explains basically everything the
> Western world of about 1900 needed to hear to correct the very extensive
> misinformation about and misunderstandings of Jesus's life that have
> prevailed since then. His words ring true to me.

As a side note, this series of books is incredible and I highly recommend them.

> Too bad there isn't a place where I could be a professor of this stuff....

What a concept. I'm not so sure there isn't. Oh, what the heck, just go start your own school. Ed's Institute of Jesusology. I hear Sally Struthers does endorsements for cheap.

John

Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 19:21:11 -0700
Subject: potential futures and parallel lives

Hi Lori and everyone,

Really enjoyed your sharing. Thinking back to around that time, I can remember some pretty vivid