How much influence do we have for our next life? What are the conscious ways we can choose our future lives?

Question: How much influence do we have for our next life?  What are the conscious ways we can choose our future lives?

Answer: [I felt the answer coming strongly before we finished with the healing circle, so started with that and did the healing later.]

We are here with you tonight.  We ride the waves of energy with you at all times.  We especially enjoy your work with your little group as it gives “time” to more deeply and consciously connect together with all of us focused in the same way.

We are your entity, as a collective, helping to support you, teach you, guide you and to speak through you as the opportunities arise.  You have noticed that more and more as you become more consciously aware of our connection.

We help with the healing work you do and are grateful for the focus on healing you do in your circle.

Your world is changing rapidly as you know, as you said earlier today, it is time for the elders to step forward and make their presence known and felt more deeply (** see footnote).

It is time.  The time you and so many others have waited for.  Right here, right now, in this moment is all the power and influence you will ever need.

To think about the future lives is an exercise of stretching your mind and energy forward in a positive way as it gives you an opportunity to expand your awareness, which is always good.

As you expand into the future, you bring back ideas, thoughts and feeling that can help you in your life now.

There are very many factors that go into choosing a “future” life and all that contains.

The primary choices happen between lives when you meet and confer with those other souls who will share the life with you.  Your parents, your children, your friends, your helpers, your teachers, your other “players” in your own game of life.

There are many, many choices to be made.  Your personality in this life is affected by your essence to some extent and it has its own agenda as well.

[I was starting to feel some resistance here.]  As humans, you like to be “in control” of your life.  That is part of the human experience.  

In truth, the personality is playing the game it was created to play.  It does not like to be told that it doesn’t have control so we will avoid that.  We will say that it can have influence though keep in mind that the “future” lifetimes will have different personalities and they may want to “do it their way” just as you want to do it your way this time.

 The dance is a mutual one between essence and personality so be careful not to put too much burden on the “choice” you might make today that might serve as a noose to a future personality.

We feel that you are receiving the intent of our message though your personality isn’t really liking it.

We won’t push the point too hard.  Trust that you do “get it.”

We leave you with much love and joy at your progress.  Many doors are opening now and much will come to you to make our life feel wonderful.

We bid you adieu until we meet again in your dreams.

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For the healings, I wrapped them both in Love and safety and protection, and just let that be without trying to get any more.  

** Footnote: Last night, I sent a note to Hank Wesselman asking if I could use one of his articles for my website.  I got a response this morning, and when I wrote back to thank him for agreeing to let me do that, I closed with, “With all the challenges our world is facing, I believe it’s time for the “older souls” and the “elders” (physical or non-physical) to step forward and make themselves known to assist in making our world a better place.  We’ve held back for a long time and let the younger ones run things, and we can see that they now don’t know how to fix the messes they’ve created.  Thank you for all you are and for all you are doing to make the world a better place :)”

I was conscious of the words coming through me rather than being written by me.

I just finished reading Hank’s three books: Spiritwalker, Medicinemaker and Visionseeker.  Someone had highly recommended them to me earlier this year.   Once I started reading them, I didn’t want to put them down so was very tickled to hear from him in person and for him to agree to let me use one of his articles. 

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Who do I hear in the listening sessions?

Question: Who do I hear in the listening sessions?

Answer, with a playful feeling:

And so, tonight, we are here again with you.  You have asked who we are.  We are One and we are Many.  Your usual name for us is Michael and you connect to parts of us at different times.

You also connect with your own guides.  The several who you have worked with at different times.  You also connect to the one you know as Sam or Samantha originally though not as much as before.  [When I first started automatic writing many years ago, I asked for a name and they said I could call it “Sam” for Samuel or Samantha, whichever way I want to think about them.]

You also connect with others you have known in physical life before.

You remember your former boyfriend who became a guide until he/she came back in this life as someone you know.  You remember others who have come to be with you at different times.

You have contacted the “spirit” side of your task companion and your essence twin when those were appropriate. 

You can contacted “the chorus” as you used to call them — that is more in line with the Michael entity energy and your own entity energy coming through to you.

So the answer to your question is many and various.  You also connect to your own essence and to your higher self.

All of these are part of the Allness and its many permutations.

It is like trying to separate your toe from your foot.  Yes, there can be “names” for these bits and pieces but they are part of the whole physical body and all parts are connected. 

Even your physical body being separate is an illusion created to help you where you are now.  Energetically, you are connected to all else and to everyone else.

There is only One and you are part of us, just as we are part of you.

There is no magic line that separates us from you — only in your own mind can you imagine the separation.  It is the game you play where you are now.  When you are not in a physical body, you merge back into the Oneness and know that we are all One.

The physical world allows you to experiment with separation and gives you the opportunity to appreciate the parts for their qualities.  When you only see the Oneness, you miss the individualization aspects.

To appreciate the individuality is why this game was created. 

[At that point, I just relaxed into the pleasant feeling and felt very relaxed, like I could just stay there for a long time.  I’ve been working on a project this week and struggling with it, and was feeling sleepy and very tired before the session.  Several times this week, I’ve called for support to help me “get” what I was struggling with.  After our session, I feel wide awake and very energized, and also like I want to go to sleep so I can rest in that lovely energy some more during the night :)]

8/12/2011: more info from my morning meditation:

Good morning!  We are your entity greeting you.  We are so close to you and so connected to you that you don’t feel us as “different” so you forget that we are here.  You can think of us as “Purple” and think of Michael as “Blue.”  When you see those colors, know that we are here with you.

[Wow!  I also noticed that I use blue and purple as my color scheme in my home with green for accent, so I see those colors all the time all around me :) What a great visual reminder!]

What are “angels”?

Question: What are “angels”?

Answer: We are here with you tonight and welcome you to our circle.  You have asked for connection and we are bringing those you would call angels into the circle.

They are beings who have taken on the task of helping humanity in many ways. They now fill your circle with love and peace and deep joy.

They are accessible to you or anyone who asks.  They do not live physical lives as their primary focus though some do choose that path to gain experience for their helping work.

You may notice them in your dreams, your may feel their energy during times of need or you may occasionally “see” them with your eyes if you look in a certain way.

They wait, they watch and they respond to calls for help.

Many of your spirit guides or other off-planet “friends” may be considered as angels by some people.

To others, WE might be considered to be angels.  For the person you referenced [someone who posted a comment on the MT list that she was an angel], she is having a physical lifetime though her primary purpose is to be the caring, helping presence for those in need throughout most of her existence.

Your question is a good one and can help you open a new doorway of understanding to allow you to help others who may want to believe but are afraid the angels don’t really exist.  

They very much do exist and are an important part of the spiritual realm.  Every group of souls has some number whose job is to provide loving, caring support for others in the group.  [I had a vague sense at the side of my brain that there are some number of angels allocated in each entity/cadre, though couldn’t quite grasp the details.]

Many people — including yourself — have experienced angels and seen them and felt their present when they are needed.

If you relax and ask for them to visit with you, they are willing to do that now.

[So, I laid down and immediately heard the song “Amazing Grace” — one of my favorites — and “saw” them has a huge chorus. At first, it seemed like they filled an entire concert hall then I realized it was larger than that — as if I was standing in a valley surrounded by mountains and they filled the valley with their light and songs and energy.  

  They sang to me, rocked me and surrounded me with light feathery touches.  It was very pleasant and I didn’t want to come back when time was called.

Many years ago, when I was feeling like I was at the “end of my rope,” I woke up in the middle of the night and saw an angel standing at the end of my bed.  She was golden, surrounded by light and sort of “fuzzy” – I don’t know how to describe it.  As if she was there but not there in solid physical form.  I could feel the loving energy of others all around me.  It was enough to give me hope that I would get though that time.  And, of course, I did.]

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What can you tell us about the Virgin Mary sightings?

Question: What can you tell us about the Virgin Mary sightings?

Answer: For many people, the Virgin Mary represents Love and Motherhood and Purity and Innocence.  All are qualities that seem to have been pushed aside in the busy pace of life in today’s world.

Many people are familiar with the image of the Virgin Mary and so when they seek help, she is a comforting symbol for them.

Keep in mind that people will create whatever they need in the image compatible with their belief system.  

The veil is thinning between the physical world and the non-physical world, which allows for people to more easily reach out beyond themselves.

Imagine if you will how hopeless people might feel if they could not connect with or “see” something outside themselves.  Even if people say they do not believe in “miracles,” most really do secretly yearn for the feelings that come from connecting with All That Is.

The image of Mary in her Innocence, gives great hope and great comfort to many people even when they themselves do not have the physical experience of making the connection with her.

Baby Souls and Mature Souls are more likely to see the Virgin Mary than Young Souls, who tend to scoff at such ideas.  Older Souls will connect with images of a greater variety and a more diverse pool of possible visual “sightings.” 

The image is just that – an image, a symbol for the greater connection that is All That Is.

Anyone who seeks to connect can do it easily.  All that is needed is the desire to reach out.

Human bodies are built with an inherent connection that can be hidden by beliefs but cannot be disconnected [except through death] because without that connection, there would be no “soul.”  Without a soul, the human body cannot function.

The image of the man Jesus is another image that many people could connect with if they desired.  What holds that back is the religious dogma that people have been taught that only priests and such types are “good enough” to connect with Jesus.

Yet, many do connect with that image of Jesus though they do not tell others for fear that they will be ridiculed or not believed.

Again, the image is only a symbol.  The same energy is being reached whether it is called Mary or Jesus or Aunt Louise or God or Michael or any other name or label one might want to place on it. 

Everything is connected to everything else always and forever.

It has always been so and will always been so.

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About Aliens

Question: About aliens

Answer: I got sort of a laugh, with something like this:

Of course, they are all around you, occupying the same space.  Just as the Akashic Plane and the other Planes of existence are in the same space you are, so too are all sorts of other things that you can’t see.  They are operating at a different frequency than you are.  It takes a shift in your perception to see them.  Some people can do that.  If more wanted to learn how to shift their ability to see them, they could also see.  It’s no big deal.  Just like you share the same space with the air, the sun, dust, etc.

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How do we make the best use of the new moon and solar eclipse energy right now?

 

[Comments: When we started the meditation, as I connected with everyone in our little group, I noticed others coming in: close friends, family, friends, and then a whole huge group of people I know — too large to count and keep track of. 

I did the prayer for the fires and for Linda’s friend, wrapping them in love and safety and drawing in moisture to the fires to help rebalance the Earth.]

Question: How do we make the best use of the new moon and solar eclipse energy right now?

Answer:

Be aware.  Be present.  We are with you all tonight.  What a large group of folks you have drawn in tonight. [I felt a bit of a chuckle at this as they noticed how large the circle had grown.]

Your life is changing and accelerating.  You already know this.  It will continue for some more of your years in Earth time.  The more flexible you can be, the easier your life will be.

Try to get “into the flow” and the rhythm of the changes so that no matter what happens, you still feel safe.  When you connect as you are tonight, you build and strengthen that web of support that helps you to feel safe and connected.  [I could visualize a huge web, like a gigantic spider web or sparkling safety net underneath our huge group.]

It is this web of support that will become more important to you as you depend less on external and physical things for your safety.  There are hard times coming for some people.  Those in this group have — for the most part — “done their time” and should not suffer as much as some others who have not yet had those experiences. 

Be careful to get good sleep and take care of your physical body as that is your vehicle for living the physical life.  Be aware of your own needs and your own weaknesses and do what you can to help your body stay healthy.  Keep your emotional, psychological and intellectual body well, too.  Pay attention to the stresses around you and don’t let yourself get caught up in other people’s karma [or drama]. 

Take time to love, to laugh, to feel silly, to feel joy and to experience beauty — every single day.  These will help you cope with the many demands that will be growing for older souls who will step into more and more leadership as the younger soul culture and way of living disintegrates.

Know deeply that things are moving exactly where they need to move.  Allow yourself to let go of whatever no longer serves you and help others to do the same.

The frequency of energy is rising.  Major new breakthroughs are coming and life will seem to be moving faster.  It is really [moving faster] as the frequency rises.  You will find it very exciting at times and sometimes may gasp in amazement at what seem like miracles.  This is part of the shift.  

Be very aware of the power you have for good and use it whenever you can.  The collective will benefit greatly as older souls “tune in” in positive ways. You have so much power that is yet untapped to make the world a better place. 

Watch not to allow negative thoughts or become afraid or worry, as your power can magnify the negative very much also.

[Pause.  I was out of paper, so started writing up the side.]

Bless you all for your diligence and persistence and commitment to doing what you are all doing.

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[It was very nice energy and felt very, very supportive:)]

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What can you tell me about themes from past lives?

 

[Comments: When we started the healing session tonight, I immediately started doing an “energy dance” with my hands.  This is something that first started after I returned from Egypt in 1995.  It feels like the conductor in the movie Fantasia – using the color, light and energy to “conduct” an energy symphony.  Sometimes, I can hear music or feel like I actually become the music or the light or the colors of the energy.  When we were in Egypt, several of us could actually hear music in our ears in one of the temples, though there was no physical music present according to the rest of the group.  The energy dance comes spontaneously, sometimes when I’m doing shamanic journeys and more recently, when we did the monthly full moon fire circles in Washington.  

Anyway, I used that energy to dance, call in the group’s energy and then to wrap the group energy all around those in the healing circle, over and over and over until time was called on that part.

As we started into the listening, I first felt that the dancing energy was a form of healing from past lives.] 

Question: What can you tell me about themes from past lives?

Answer: 

We are here with you and you have felt our energy strongly tonight through your body and your movement.

You have used energy to heal many, many people including yourself.  You have been a dancer in Egypt as you remembered when you were there.

You used energy dances as a Native American shaman to heal the members of your tribe.

You have used energy in your monk lifetimes to draw in the healing presence for yourself and others.

You have been a teacher and a student of friends you know in this lifetime in past lives and blended your energies together in different ways to teach and to heal.

You have been in Switzerland and used your voice to call in Spirit energies for healing. 

You have been in temples and churches and other similar places to call in great energy through dance and physical movement. 

You have lived in jungles and deserts and mountains and plains – all over the world.  Where ever you were and what ever you were doing, you have used energy to help you in your life for most of your lifetimes.  

Your very early lives were about learning to be present and cope with the life.  You have had good parents and bad parents, no parents and foster parents, and many other family configurations.  In all of them, you were able to find ways to connect with All That Is.  It is what Priests do, even before you had any idea what Priest-ness was about. 

In most recent lifetimes, you have honed this natural ability so that you can call on it as needed or when asked to help someone.

When asked – as you know now – you immediately go into “healing mode” and connect with All That Is to pull in that healing energy.

As you move toward the end of your physical lifetimes, you will be using the entire entity as well to help support your healing work.  Your own healing ability is greatly magnified [by that entity connection] and you feel the surge even though it feels very gentle and very easy for you to do.

[pause]   

Rest – and allow it to heal you as well. 

[Comments: At that point, I laid down and let the energy wash over me, then used it to wash over each person in the circle several times, then moved to my family, close friends, etc. to give them an energy wash.  

As I mentioned on the call, for the Solstice, I attended a very special ceremony.  The leader is Native American and leads a drumming circle that I have attended several times.  For the Solstice, she brought Tibet bowls – about 75 of them in great variety - metal, crystal, alchemy.  She played them for us and talked about the bowls, how they are made, the different types, etc.  Then, she had each of us sit in front of a huge crystal bowl while she started it playing so that we each got an individual energy bath from it.  Afterward, she said the sound was different for each person because the bowl magnifies our own energy and plays our own unique “sound.”  There were about 50 people there so it took a while and we got to listen to each one.  After that, she let each of us choose a bowl and we got to play them as we formed a healing circle then played the bowls as each person asked for healing.  I had never played a Tibet bowl before or even touched one.  The small one that chose me had a very beautiful sound even though it was only about the size of my hand.  I was astounded at how beautiful the sound was when I struck it.  I’m sure that Solstice ceremonial energy was still with me for our listening practice.]

I'm very grateful to all of you for being part of this group. An extra big <<< THANK YOU >>> to our leader each each week. 

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