"The first lie is unconditional love" - Susan Lynne Schwenger (1974)

i am NOT sure what you mean by
"remember you wrote this"
i didn't write anything about unconditional love of jesus or a mother and child ?

• Susan Lynne Schwenger

Susan Lynne Schwenger - THE eXchanger aka WHiTE LOTUS STAR aka 13
TALKS with THUNDER with THUNDERS

 

A friend of mine wrote this article:

An Overview of the Michael System

BY EMILY BAUMBACH
OF www.causalworks.co
www.causalworks.com ?


Long ago you faced a dilemma.

You were about to start a grand journey,
a new cycle of lifetimes in a human body.

In your cycle you would sign on for approximately 10,000 years,
or 50-200 lifetimes,
in order to learn about the physical plane and about sentience.

You were told that in order to become sentient you needed
to be one of seven personality types, or "Roles":

Server, Priest, Artisan, Sage, Warrior, King, or Scholar.
Your Role, to be chosen by you,
would be your underlying personality type
through all of your lifetimes in the cycle.

You knew this was a big decision,
one you'd have to live with for a long time.

Should you be a kind, loving Server?

An inspired Priest?

A creative Artisan?

A fun-loving Sage?

What about a brave Warrior,

masterful King,

or intelligent Scholar?

To make things easier for you, the universal life force or Tao
created a system of personality traits called overleaves,
to be worn like a cloak over your true Role.

You would stay the same Role through each of your lifetimes in the cycle,
but every lifetime you would change your overleaves for variety.

Overleaves would give you a chance to experiment
with the energy of all the other Roles, modify your life experience as needed,
and enable you to be complex and sophisticated.

When you began your first lifetime as whatever Role you wanted to be.

You chose a Goal for that lifetime:
Re-evaluation, Growth, Discrimination, Acceptance,
Submission, Dominance, or Relaxation.

You also chose a Mode:

Repression, Passion, Caution, Power, Perseverance, Aggression, or Observation.

And an Attitude:

Stoic, Spiritualist, Skeptic, Idealist, Cynic, Realist, or Pragmatist.

You chose one or two Chief Features:

Arrogance, Self-Deprecation, Self-Destruction, Greed, Martyrdom, Impatience,
or Stubbornness;

and a Centering:

Emotional, Higher Emotional, Intellectual, Higher Intellectual, Moving,
Higher Moving, or Instinctive; like a Chinese dinner.

Once you completed that first lifetime

and learned all you could about that set of overleaves,
you went on to another lifetime with another set.

Staying your same Role,
you chose a new Goal, Mode, Attitude,
Chief Feature and Centering.

Most people choose a partner with whom to share their entire cycle,
called an "Essence Twin."

Your Essence Twin is one other person who goes through lifetimes
just like you do, with varying overleaves, all the while staying their same Role:

Server, Priest, Artisan, Sage, Warrior, King, or Scholar.

Your Essence Twin is the one person who always "gets" to you, each lifetime,
and the person with whom you will develop the most karmas.

As you progress through your cycle, with more and more lifetimes of experience,
you make your way through what are called "Soul Ages":

Infant, Baby, Young, Mature, and Old. Eventually you complete your cycle
at the end of the Old Soul phase, and unite once again with All That Is, The Tao.

Each and every person you know is one Role or another, one Soul Age or another,
with a chosen Goal, Mode, Attitude, Chief Feature, and Centering for the lifetime.

For instance, let's pretend your Role is Server.

Your Essence Twin happens to be a Scholar.

You might be a successful nurse practitioner, an enjoyable,
inspiring profession for you.

You like serving people by healing their illnesses.

Your ability to handle the details
of medical treatments comes from the bleedthrough of your Scholar ET's energy,
whether or not your ET is in your life.

Perhaps this lifetime you have chosen Goal of Discrimination
to help you learn discernment,
giving you a knack for diagnosis of illness and skill
with treatment recommendations.

You might have chosen the Mode of Observation which gives you the ability
to survey patients quietly, looking for flickers of symptoms otherwise easily missed.

In addition, you chose the Attitude of Pragmatist, providing you with a good sense
of efficiency on your busy hospital ward.

Your Chief Feature or trap might be Greed fixated on snacks from the cafeteria,
something of a professional embarrassment as you are supposed to be a role model
for a healthy lifestyle.

These "overleaves" or layers upon your Server Role give you the personality traits
you need to fulfill your life task, that of working within the medical system to heal people.

But you haven't always had those overleaves.

Last lifetime you may have wanted to travel a lot, socialize, be silly
, believe in the goodness of the universe, and work on self-karmas.

You were still a Server with a Scholar Essence Twin, as you will always be.

But you might have chosen Goal of Growth, with Passion Mode, Attitude of Spiritualist,
and Chief Feature or trap of Self-Deprecation.

Next lifetime you might want to go into politics. You may choose Goal of Dominance,
with Power Mode, Attitude of Realist, and Chief Feature or trap of Stubbornness.

These strong, rather masculine overleaves will support you through the buffeting
you're likely to get as a public figure.

In sum, you are the same Role in each of your lifetimes within a 50-200 lifetime cycle.
Each lifetime you grow in Soul Level and Soul Age, choosing a new arrangement of Goal,
Mode, Attitude, Chief Feature and Centering.

Let's start with a description of the seven Soul Ages.

Soul age

As you progress through your cycle, you naturally grow in experience.

Your world view changes according to a systematic plan, which corresponds to your Soul Age.

Soul Age is usually determined by the number of lifetimes you've had, start to finish,
however some people are speedier learners than others, and can become Old Souls
with fewer lifetimes than the norm.

Here are the seven Soul Ages and their attributes:

Infant: Raw, simple, wild and unmanageable, instinctive, animal-like in some cases,
frightened look in eyes, limited frame of reference due to small number of lifetimes.

Simple people in tribal cultures, survivalists in the woods, psychopaths, mass murderers.

Not too many Infant Souls become famous, but here are a few:

Richard Allen Davis (killer of Polly Klaas), David Carpenter (serial rapist/killer),
Richard Ramirez (The Hillside Strangler), Larry Singleton (rapist/killer).

Baby: The phase where people learn to live with people.

Can be loving, yet simplistic in thinking; see things in black and white terms,

Good versus Evil; like the security of church or political party membership;

like to live in small, insular towns without a whole lot going on.

Rules make life seem easy to understand. Love big families.

Religious churchgoers, God-fearers, evangelists, PTA and NRA members.

Examples: Jerry Falwell, Adolph Hitler, Jesse James, Rush Limbaugh, Timothy McVeigh,
Mike Tyson, Brigham Young.

Young: Sophisticated, worldly-wise, like to be rich and famous, to collect things.

A karma-building level. Not too deep, love power, worship youth, don't like to look old.

Examples: Cher, Sheryl Crow, Rebecca DeMornay, Kirsten Dunst, Newt Gingrich,
John Grisham, Nicole Kidman, Ralph Lauren, Bob Packwood, Claudia Schiffer,
OJ Simpson, Nicole Brown Simpson, Sharon Stone, Donald Trump.

Mature: Interested in deep relationships and philosophy, thrive on emotional intensity,
learning about their impact on the world, striving for ecological and social balance.

Examples: Murray Abraham, Isabel Allende, Maya Angelou, Michael Bolton,
Kevin Costner, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Bob Dylan, Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich,
Bill Moyers, Sinead O'Connor, Martin Sheen, Gary Trudeau, Robert James Waller,
James Woods.

Old: Retired, relaxed-looking, puttering around, usually happy,
not getting excited about too much, unambitious, learning to teach and love,
finishing off karmas.

Examples: Werner Erhard, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Robert Bly, George Carlin,
Whoopi Goldberg, James Earl Jones, Dalai Lama, Gary Larson, Nelson Mandela,
Abraham Lincoln, Bill Murray, Jack Palance, Ram Dass, Bernie Siegel,
Patrick Stewart, Jessica Tandy, Mother Teresa, Alice Walker,
Marianne Williamson, Frank Zappa.

Transcendental: Bodhisattvas, religious leaders, prophets
who predict coming of Infinite Souls,
represent their cycled-off entity.

Meher Baba, Mahatma Gandhi, Pope John XXIII, John the Baptist, Hazrat Khan,
Mother Meera, Ammachi, Mohammed, Socrates, St. Francis of Assisi,
Paramahansa Yogananda, Zarathustra.

Infinite: Manifestation of the Tao incarnate, comes about every 2,000 years,
can have the flavor of any of the higher planes. Gautama Buddha, Jesus Christ,
Confucius, Krishna, Lao Tsu, Ra the Egyptian Sun God, the Hindu God Rama.
Mother Meera of Germany, currently alive, is looking at signing
on for Infinite Soul manifestation.

Soul level

Within each Soul Age are seven levels of awareness and lessons.

As with any cycle you start out as a beginner,
go through the intermediate stages, and end up a pro.

Generally you are most comfortable with people who fall
within seven Soul Levels younger or older than you are.

For instance, if you are 1st level Old, you'll feel comfortable with most Mature Souls
and most Old Souls.

If you are 3rd level Mature, you'll feel most comfortable around 3rd to 7th level Young Souls,
and 1st to 3rd level Old Souls.

You may find it difficult but not impossible to relate to Baby Souls or late level Old Souls.

Here are the seven Soul Levels within each Soul Age:

1st: The Ingenue level. You're just beginning your experience at the new Soul Age,
and have a delightful innocence about you.

You will tend to make friends with people who are older than you within your Soul Age.

Examples: Prince Andrew, Sonny Bono, Tammy Fae Bakker, Rodney Dangerfield,
Joe Montana, Hugh Grant, Eric Clapton, Macaulay Culkin.

2nd: The Explorer. At this level you feel more grounded in the new consciousness,
and send yourself out in the world. Here you work most strongly on your self-karmas,
testing your personal habit patterns and working on your self-discipline.

Examples: Jerry Garcia, Barbara Marx-Hubbard, Jay Leno, Mary Kay Ash, James Taylor.

3rd: The Renunciate. You're solidly into your Soul Age now,
and take some time to pull back from your outer growth.

You might prefer to live a quiet life where your thoughts can remain undisturbed.
Examples: Alice Walker, Greta Garbo, J.D. Salinger, Stephen Hawking, Walt Whitman.

4th: Full Steam Ahead. You've done your contemplation for a lifetime or two,
and now you're rarin' to go.

You thrust yourself into outer activity, probably to change the world according to your vision.

Examples: Deepak Chopra, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Joseph Campbell, Mario Cuomo,
Jane Fonda, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Jefferson.

5th: The Hippie. Your last lifetime was rather suit & tie, working within the system
to change it.

Now you rebel against authority, and make your own (eccentric) rules.

Examples: Bob Goldthwait, Tom Waites, Jimi Hendrix, Wolfman Jack, Pablo Picasso,
Truman Capote, Geena Davis, Willem Dafoe.

6th: The Martyr. An incredibly intense level; you'll want to take more than one lifetime
to get through it all. In the Infant, Baby and Young Soul Ages you create more karma
at this level than any other.

In the Mature and Old Soul Ages you pay off more karma.

Examples: Martin Luther King, Marcia Clark, Werner Erhard, Adolph Hitler,
Timothy Leary, Charles Manson, Mother Teresa, Michael Jackson,
The Elephant Man, Elizabeth Taylor.

7th: Resting Assured. This level is a plateau, a relaxing point after the 6th level storm
and before the growth to the 1st level of the next Soul Age.

Here you feel self-assured, having mastered most of the lessons of the Soul Age
you just completed.

You'll probably act as teacher for people still working through the lessons of the Soul Age
you're leaving behind. Examples: Lynn Andrews, Meher Baba, Clarissa Pinkola Estes,
Bob Hope, Ram Dass, Ruth Westheimer, Thich Nhat Hanh, Boutros Boutros-Ghali.

Role

The Role is the main personality archetype we choose for the entire cycle.

We remain our same Role through each lifetime, giving us a basis of experience
on which to draw.

Our Role sets the theme for the cycle, and indicates something our inner essence
wants to learn about.
Here are the seven Roles:

Server: Sweet, service-oriented, soft and luminous, dedicated, loving, heals suffering.

Like to be nurses, veterinarians, social workers, office workers, moms and dads.

Some celebrity examples: Ingrid Bergman, Phil Donahue, Laura Dern, Mia Farrow,
Dalai Lama,
Robert MacNeil, Kelly McGillis, Eleanor Roosevelt, Chelsea Clinton, Albert Schweitzer,
Queen Victoria.

Priest: Inspired, visionary, zealous, instigates global or mass healing, leads congregation.
Political or religious spokesperson, troubleshooter, preacher, holy man/woman,
spiritual teacher, founder of nonprofit organization, a soul who wants to save the world.

Examples: St. Francis, Joan Baez,
Adolph Hitler, Joan of Arc, Timothy Leary, Rasputin, Nancy Reagan, Martin Sheen,
Lily Tomlin, Malcolm X, Frank Zappa.

Artisan: Delicate, airy, vulnerable, unearthly, dreamy, highly creative, artistic, musical,
fluid and flexible. Actors, dancers, fine artists, fashion models, carpenters,
construction people, architects, musicians, poets.

Examples: Nicholas Cage, Kurt Cobain, Macaulay Culkin, Leonardo DaVinci, Johnny Depp,
Albert Einstein, Dennis Hopper, Whitney Houston, Kato Kaelin, Mozart, Brad Pitt,
Keanu Reeves, Christopher Reeve, Jennifer Tilly, Marisa Tomei, Andy Warhol.

Sage: Funny, jokester, lifts everyone's spirits, likes to make play out of work,
lightens up the crowd. Flamboyant actor or actress, delightful ham, salesperson,
politician, TV announcer (especially sports and weather), comedian.

In negative expression, buffoon. Examples: Dan Aykroyd, Lucille Ball, Sandra Bernhard,
Mel Brooks, Brett Butler, Bill Clinton, Tim Curry, Rodney Dangerfield, Danny DeVito,
Fran Drescher, Placido Domingo, Whoopi Goldberg, John Goodman, Mick Jagger,
Jay Leno, Groucho Marx, Bette Midler, Jack Nicholson, Vincent Price,
Mark Twain, Jesse Ventura.

Warrior: Solid, brave, has valor and strength, good protector of the kingdom.

Lawyers, police officers, military personnel, prison guards, run shelters for battered women/children
and the homeless, mountain climbers, athletes, professional boxers.

Examples: Tom Brokaw, Barbara Bush, Diane Delano, Richard Gere, Norman Mailer,
Demi Moore, Martina Navratilova, Janet Reno, Nicole Brown Simpson, Oliver Stone,
Mike Tyson, John Wayne.

King: Natural leader, masterful, regal, solid. Head of country, CEO of corporation,
entrepreneur, football coach.

Examples: Sean Connery, Mario Cuomo, Queen Elizabeth I, William Randolph Hearst,
Madonna, Aristotle Onassis, Ross Perot, Bill Walsh, Orson Wells, Madeleine Albright.

Scholar: Neutral, research-oriented, collects and sorts information for everyone,
likes to study systems whether philosophical or scientific.

Astrologers, doctors, scientists of all types, academicians, writers, university professors,
legal counsels, mapmakers. Examples: Ken Burns, Carlos Castaneda, Michael Crichton,
Galileo, Pee Wee Herman, Lance Ito, John Lennon, Bill Moyers, Faith Popcorn,
George Washington, Kenneth Starr.

Essence twin

Your essence twin is someone who was cast out from the Tao the very same time you were.

You follow each other around lifetime after lifetime searching for each other,
obsessed with each other, and sometimes trying to get away from each other.

You and your Essence Twin mirror each other like no one else.

The intensity you feel and the focusing you do on your Essence Twin
causes you to channel his or her energy as a secondary Role expression.

For instance, if you are a Scholar with a Warrior Essence Twin,
you will do the things Scholars usually do (research, compile lists)
but will likely use it in a competitive situation, such as a business.

If you are a Warrior with a Scholar Essence Twin, you might be a police officer
with a penchant for collecting unusual boxes.

If you are an Artisan with a King Essence Twin, your career as a rock musician
will be successful,
since you channel the mastery of your Essence Twin's Role, the King.

Here are some examples of famous people with their Essence Twins.

Note the similarity of "feel," as if it's one person sharing two bodies.

As well, see how the flavor of the Role bleeds through to the other Essence Twin:
Warrior Ferdinand & Priest Imelda Marcos, Sage Hugh & Warrior Christie Hefner,
Artisan Jean-Paul Sartre and Warrior Simone de Beauvoir, King Madonna
& Artisan Sean Penn, Sage Mikhail & King Raisa Gorbachev, Sage Richard Burton
and Artisan Elizabeth Taylor, Warrior Sam Shepard & Artisan Jessica Lange,
Artisan Sylvester Stallone & Warrior Brigitte Nielson, King Jesus & Priest John the Baptist.

Goal

Each lifetime you choose one of seven Goals, themes for the lifetime to focus on.

For instance, you might need to learn about leadership, so you choose Dominance.

The following lifetime you need to learn how to follow orders, so you choose Submission.

Then, wanting to get out and explore the universe, you choose Growth.

You can choose any Goal you want, but you will have every Goal at least twice
during your cycle of 50-200 lifetimes. Here are the Goals and their attributes:

Re-evaluation: Likes simplicity, one or two issues for the lifetime, likes to stay in one place.

Examples: Albert Einstein, Buddha, Marlin Fitzwater, James Joyce, Edgar Allan Poe,
George Shultz, Stephen Hawking.

Growth: Likes complexity. Typically, 3-6 careers for the lifetime, many relationships,
moves a lot.

Examples: Tom Hanks, Shirley MacLaine, Steven Spielberg, Dana Carvey,
Jerry Brown, Tipper Gore, Tom Hanks, Kevin Kline, Susan Sarandon, Jerry Seinfeld.

Discrimination: Sophisticated, likes to reject what comes to them, meticulous, analytical,
refined sense of taste.

Examples: David Byrne, Julia Child, Bob Dylan, Peter Jennings,
Jason Alexander, Adam Arkin, Mr. Blackwell, George Bush, Roger Ebert, Ralph Fiennes,
Larry King, Miss Manners, Rob Morrow, Gene Siskel.

Acceptance: Open to things that come to them. Want to love everyone
and have everyone love them.

Examples: Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter,
Linda Evans, Bill Clinton, Christie Brinkley, Sandra Bullock, Bobby McFerrin, Diane Sawyer.

Dominance: In positive pole, likes win/ win situations. Developing leadership abilities in the lifetime.

Examples: Lee Iacocca, Mike Tyson, Fidel Castro, Newt Gingrich, Maya Angelou,
Hillary Clinton, Jodie Foster.

Submission: Likes to devote self to a cause, family, or group.

Examples: Jane Fonda,
Dian Fossey, Princess Diana, Mr. Rogers, Oliver North, John Bradshaw, Tom Cruise,
Robert Dole, Jaime Escalante, Mia Farrow, Mahatma Gandhi, Joan of Arc, Ralph Nader,
Pat Nixon, Tim Robbins.

Relaxation: Vacation lifetime. Things come easy usually, not a whole lot of struggle.
Bottom line: Taking the path of least resistance.

Examples: Ringo Starr, George Hamilton, Sheryl Crow,Antonio Banderas, David Crosby,
Bhagwan Rajneesh, Louis Rukuyser, Claudia Schiffer, Christian Slater, Dweezil Zappa.

Mode

You choose one of seven Modes each lifetime, which are ways you express your body:

Repression: Elegant, refined, sophisticated, delicate, self-controlled,
look great in a tuxedo or formal wear. Ballet dancers, neurosurgeons, fashion models,
ladies and gentlemen.

Examples: Lloyd Bentsen, Candice Bergen, Pierce Brosnan, Prince Charles, Princess Diana,
David Duchovny, Ralph Fiennes, Joanna Lumley, Priscilla Presley.

Passion: Bubbly, full of life, vital, enthusiastic, animated. Comedians, stage actors,
musicians, bon vivants.

Examples: Leonard Bernstein, Sonia Braga, Nicholas Cage, Kathie Lee Gifford, Mick Jagger,
Dolly Parton, Sarah Jessica Parker, Dick Van Lesbian, Debra Winger, Weird Al Yankovic.

Caution: Sensitive, deliberate, careful, cautious, shy, can't be rushed. Cops, librarians, IRS auditors.

Examples: Bob Dole,Winston Churchill, R. Crumb, Dan Rather, Suzanne Vega, Vanna White, Humphrey Bogart.

Power: Generates nuclear power, takes charge, likes control, has intensity and power, charismatic. Organization CEOs, leaders of countries, movers and shakers.

Examples: Marlon Brando, Willie Brown, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, L. Ron Hubbard, Raul Julia,
Ross Perot, Colin Powell, Rod Serling, Rod Steiger.

Perseverance: Never gives up, sees project through to completion, digs teeth in, holds on.
Researchers, social workers, inventors.

Examples: Kevin Costner, Katie Couric, Walt Disney, Thomas Edison, Elizabeth Dole,
Carrie Fisher, John Glenn, Mahatma Gandhi, John Grisham, Pope John Paul II,
Jack Kevorkian, Nelson Mandela, Ralph Nader, Martina Navratilova, Jack Palance.

Aggression: Hard-driving, breaks through barriers, dynamic, likes competition,
volcanic, enjoy a good battle.

Martial arts experts, military personnel, boxers, lawyers, politicians, large machine operators,
athletes.

Examples: Tom Arnold, Tim Curry, Willem Dafoe, Judy Davis, Michael Douglas, Bob Hoskins,
Michael Keaton, Harvey Keitel, Tommy Lee Jones, Ray Liotta, Axl Rose, Nicole Brown Simpson,
Richard Simmons, Tina Turner, Bruce Willis.

Observation: Look somewhat distanced, neutral, observing the room from an unobtrusive place,
look Scholarly. Can slide to the other Modes. Computer programmers, book editors, writers,
cultural commentators.

Examples: Tim Allen, Larry King, Liam Neeson, Gillian Anderson, Brian Boitano, Eric Clapton,
Michael Crichton, Robert Downey, Jr., Robert Fulghum, Bridget Fonda, Jerry Seinfeld.

Attitude

Your Attitude is your most basic problem-solving style. It's how you go about handling information,
and is your normal mindset.

Because it is based on the mind, the Attitude is the one overleaf you can change,
perhaps using the other six Attitudes as you go through your day.

Here are the seven Attitudes, with their attributes:

Stoic: Keep emotions inside, handle crises silently and bravely, facial expression doesn't change
a lot (can be an asset in wartime or in business).

Confidence men or women, diplomats, prisoners of war, soldiers, doctors, First Ladies of countries,
poker players.

Examples: Marlon Brando, Buddha, Rebecca de Mornay, Clint Eastwood, Al Gore, Alfred Hitchcock,
Abraham Lincoln, John Lennon, Colin Powell, Lisa Marie Presley-Jackson, OJ Simpson,
Jimmy Smits, Charlie Watts, George Washington.

Spiritualist: See tragedies as opportunities, soft and watery eyes, dreamily optimistic,
seeing God in everything and everyone. Ministers, healers, drug addicts,
followers of leaders, holy men and women, artists, musicians.

Examples: Lisa Bonet, Nicholas Cage, Geena Davis, Gerard Depardieu, Mahatma Gandhi,
Whitney Houston, Magic Johnson, Andie MacDowell, Bob Marley, Julia Ormond, Ram Dass,
Marianne Williamson.

Skeptic: Check things out before believing in them, ask penetrating questions,
hard to convince of something. Auditors, critics, debunkers, journalists, lawyers.

Examples: Danny Aiello, Jason Alexander, Connie Chung, Marcia Clark, Glenn Close, Katie Couric,
Robert Duvall, Roger Ebert, Sigmund Freud, Peter Jennings, Jim Lehrer, Rob Morrow,
William Shakespeare, Mike Wallace.

Idealist: Like to really believe in something (sometimes without checking out the details first),
have strong sense of fairness and equality, like to get involved in schemes,
start nonprofit organizations around a favorite ideal. Salespeople, TV commercial actors,
spokespersons, theory people.

Examples: Sonny Bono, Bill Clinton, John Denver, Phil Donahue, Jane Fonda, Holly Hunter,
Thomas Jefferson, Diane Keaton, Jack LaLanne, Timothy Leary, Harvey Milk, Sinead O'Connor,
Robin Williams.

Cynic: Acerbic wit, sophisticated sense of contradiction, personally disappointed
by whatever is wrong with the world; tendency to see negatively.

If sense of humor, can be great comedians. Examples: Sandra Bernhard, Boy George,
James Carville, R. Crumb, Willem Dafoe, Bob Dylan, Bob Goldthwaite, Harvey Keitel,
Sylvia Miles, Jim Morrison, River Phoenix, Stephen Rea, Lou Reed, Keith Richards,
Roseanne, Martin Scorsese, Harry Dean Stanton, Hunter Thompson, Christopher Walken.

Realist: Objective, weighs all sides, cuts through dross to get to heart of the issue,
matter-of-fact.

Comptrollers, financial experts, scientists, plumbers, judges.

Examples: Tom Brokaw, Elizabeth Dole, Dianne Feinstein, Lance Ito, Katherine Hepburn,
Ann Landers, Cokie Roberts, Greta Scacchi, Gene Siskel, Maggie Smith, Judge Wapner.

Pragmatist: Efficiency experts, know how to cut corners to save time, schedule-oriented,
like to make lists. Time management experts, economists, industrial designers,
accountants, nutritionists.

Examples: Gillian Anderson, Lloyd Bentsen, Cindy Crawford, Joycelyn Elders,
Werner Erhard, Bridget Fonda, Lee Iacocca, Margaret Mead, Tim Robbins,
Susan Sarandon, Martha Stewart, Donald Trump.

Chief feature

The seven Chief Features arise from what is called "false personality,"
a symptom of maya
or universal delusion.

False personality is the inauthentic, delusory part of ourselves,
coating the true inner Self
or essence with a false cloak of unreal communication.

We become caricatures, odd and bizarre,
unable to communicate the perfect, illuminated soul essence.

That essence is who we really are: a pure, perfect light of consciousness
linked to the Tao itself.

False personality, and thus the Chief Features, have their roots in fear.

When we're anxious about not getting enough love, acknowledgement,
life force, food, or time to spare from the universe, we get stuck in habitual,
nonproductive behavior patterns.

These patterns, we think, protect our vulnerability.

They ward off our fears and alleviate our anxiety, if only for the moment.

But like any adapting device, they don't heal the roots of fear,
and become unconscious habits
which keep us blind to our own irritating quirks.

Here are the seven Chief Features. Most people have a primary Chief Feature,
and a secondary Chief Feature. This means we all have more than one.:

Self-Deprecation: Learning lessons of humility for the lifetime,
not wanting to appear arrogant.

Self-critical, not believing in self, refreshingly humble. Greatest fear is of being inferior.

Examples: Bill Clinton, Albert Brooks, Geena Davis, Laura Dern,Gerard Depardieu,
Hugh Grant, Dennis Hopper, Chris Isaak, Magic Johnson, Joe Montana, illie Nelson,
Christopher Reeve, Winona Ryder, Donald Sutherland, Daniel Stern, Forest Whitaker,
Gene Wilder.

Arrogance: Proud, self-confident, vain, uppity, secretly self-deprecating.

Greatest fear is of being merely normal or mediocre. Examples: Kevin Bacon,
John Cleese, Sean Connery, Brian Dennehy, Salvador Dali, Shannen Doherty,
Newt Gingrich, Marvin Hamlisch, Val Kilmer, Kevin Kline, Dave Letterman,
Madonna, Bob Packwood, Jack Nicholson, Jack Palance,
Jeremiah Tower, Denzel Washington.

Self-Destruction: Hard time adjusting to life, often abused as children,
not given positive validation from parents, oftentimes want to die, suicidal.

Alcoholics, drug addicts, chain smokers, motorcycle and car racers, anorexics,
heavy metal enthusiasts. Greatest fear is of life itself with the pain it brings.

Examples: John Belushi, Lennie Bruce, Drew Barrymore, R. Crumb, Jim Morrison,
Lou Reed, Keith Richards, Hunter Thompson, Jean Paul Sartre, Andy Warhol.

Greed: Appetite for life, hungry looking, look like they need a lot of love or money
or food
or experience, bottomless pits in some cases, voracious, lack of control, zingy eyes.

Greatest fear is of starving or being left with nothing
(often comes from recent previous life
where that actually happened).

Examples: Tom Arnold, James Cagney, Jim Carrey, Katie Couric, Jenny Craig, Tim Curry,
Michael Douglas, Andy Garcia, Adolph Hitler, Graham Kerr, Ricki Lake, Meatloaf,
Roseanne,
Richard Simmons, Martha Stewart.

Martyrdom: Selflessness, missionary zeal, dies for a cause. Can make others feel guilty.

Greatest fear is of being victimized or taken advantage of by others. Examples: Kurt Cobain,
Billy Crystal, Olympia Dukakis, Mia Farrow, Martin Luther King, Pat Nixon, Abraham Lincoln,
Nelson Mandela, Regis Philbin, Yoko Ono, Stephen Rea, Mother Theresa, John Turturro
, Elie Wiesel, Sean Young.

Impatience: Daring, tries to do too many things in a short amount of time,
hates to be late for anything, intolerant. Type A's, freeway tailgaters, schedule freaks.

Greatest fear is of being late, or of missing out on whatever is going on.

Examples: Tim Allen, Kathy Bates, George Bush, Danny DeVito, Holly Hunter, Demi Moore,
Paul Reiser, Dean Ornish, Rod Steiger, Patrick Swayze, Quentin Tarantino,
Marisa Tomei, James Woods.

Stubbornness: Determined, hard to move, refuses to change, obstinate.

Greatest fear is of being pushed around. Examples: Barbara Boxer, Glenn Close,
Robert Duvall, Chris Evert, Dianne Feinstein, Jane Fonda, Mahatma Gandhi
, Don Henley, Charlton Heston, Ross Perot, Janet Reno, Zecharia Sitchin,
Margaret Thatcher.

Centering

Centering adds an interesting angle to the overleaves. It is flexible,
in that you pick one favorite Centering and Part of Center for the lifetime,
but can use the other Parts of Center in situations when you need them.

Your Centering reflects your first response to stimuli; your Part of Center
is your second response.

For instance, you might have Emotional Centering with Intellectual Part of Center.

You cry at movies and funerals, keeping Kleenex handy wherever you go.

If someone insults you,
your first response will be emotional.

Later on, you'll use the Intellectual Part of Center
to obsess about what they said, what you said in return, what you should have said,
what they would have said had you not said what you said, etc.

On occasion, however, you will slide to the Moving Part of Center from Emotional Center.

You'll take up an exercise regimen to help you slough off depression.

Or, you'll go dancing to express your emotional joy.

Here's a short synopsis of each of the seven Centers and Parts of Center,
with their attributes:

Intellectual Center: Born think tanks, rarely losing their cool in emotional situations.

You can almost see the gears spinning in their brains.

They do well in academia, and the computer and banking industries.

With Emotional Part of Center: They think coolly first, then express their emotions
later on in private.

Examples: Patty Hearst, Katherine Hepburn. With Moving Part of Center:
They think first, then act on their thoughts
without considering the emotional consequences.

Examples: Newt Gingrich, Joseph Goebbels, Lady Godiva.

With Instinctive Part of Center:

A cool first response which gets funneled through their primal needs.

Examples: Hunter Thompson, James Michener, Henry Miller.

Emotional Center: Compassionate, empathetic, sympathetic, vulnerable.

They feel what you feel, and do well in healing professions where a kind word is important.

Schoolteachers, therapists of all kinds, artists, musicians, charity volunteers.

With Intellectual Part of Center: They like to funnel their emotions through their thoughts,
perhaps enjoying writing or talking about their personal crises.

Examples: Woody Allen, John Bradshaw, Regis Philbin.

With Moving Part of Center: They funnel their emotions through their bodies,
enjoying dance therapy, movement-oriented growth seminars, or stage performance.

Examples: Paula Abdul, Janis Joplin, Chuck Berry. With Instinctive Part of Center:
Panic disorder, phobias, eccentricity, primal sensuality. Example: Edgar Allan Poe,
Jeff Goldblum.

Moving Center: Always on the go, these people seem like perpetual motion machines.

They love athletics, dancing, anything which gets them up out of their chairs and moving around.

With Intellectual Part of Center: They funnel their perpetual motion through their speech.

If athletics-minded, they like prescribed dance routines like classical ballet or aerobics,
enjoying the structure of sports rules.

Examples: Sandra Bernhard, David Byrne, Cher, Howard Cosell.

With Emotional Part of Center: They love freeform movement: Brazilian samba,
modern dance, belly dancing.

Can be attracted to the emotional intensity of athletics, channeling their rage
or depth of feeling into the competitive aspects of the sport.

Examples: Bonnie Blair, Brian Boitano, Charles Bronson. With Instinctive Part of Center:
Hyperactive or autistic child, sensualist, charismatic actor. Example: Pee Wee Herman,
Harvey Keitel, Ray Liotta, Martin Luther, Jim Morrison, Timothy Dalton.

With Higher Parts of Center (Higher Emotional, Higher Intellectual, Higher Moving):

The body moves, and the mind is free.

Instinctive Center: Instinctively centered people are hard to find. Look in their eyes
and you get an uneasy feeling, like you're looking into some altered reality
which makes you uncomfortable.

Many Instinctively Centered people are labeled "schizophrenic,"
but you can be Instinctively Centered without being mentally ill.

Instinctive Center gives anyone a pipeline to their animal nature: scents, sounds,
primal survival instincts, sensuality.

With Intellectual Part of Center: Experimental surgeon, occultist, forensic specialist, power freak.

Example: Leni Riefenstahl, Rasputin, Rod Serling. With Emotional Part of Center:
Eccentric actor, uncontrolled angry criminal, survivalist.

Examples: Ted Bundy, Curtis Sliwa. With Moving Part of Center: Hunter, soldier of fortune,
wild animal trainer, violent charismatic leader. Can be cruel, lacking in emotional warmth
or intellectual reasoning. Examples: Pol Pot, Rudolf Hess, Richard Ramirez, Charles Manson.

Higher Centers: The Higher Centers take us out of our egos,
and into a state of merging with the cosmos.

These states are rare, and considered to be the goal of all spiritual practice.

Because the energy is too strong to hold in the body for a long period of time,
most of us get only a taste of it once in awhile, perhaps at an enlightenment seminar,
in a peak emotional release, or an intensely transcendent meditation session.

People who have higher centering as their primary center have chosen an unusual lifestyle
of spirituality with much outer support, perhaps taking vows as a renunciate in a monastery,
or leading the life of a guru.

Higher Emotional Center allows you to channel unconditional love from the higher planes.

Founts of this Centering like to take their devotees with them into a high state of divine ecstasy,
to share the egoless love all around. Examples: the saints Ammachi, Jesus,
Ramakrishna, St. Francis, Mother Mary, Muktananda, Maharishi
and Paramahansa Yogananda.

Higher Intellectual Center appeals to Zen Buddhists, Vedantists,
quantum physicists and Western philosophers, all of whom like to sit and think.

The goal is to reach a state of pure thought, which is no thought.

Once that state is achieved the ego falls away, and pure telepathy is possible.

Examples: the Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh, Lao Tsu,
Zen Master Suzuki.

Higher Moving Center: Here you dance your way to enlightenment
with repetitious movements combined with mind-stilling mantras or chanting.

Most ecstatic religions use this technique: Shaker, Sufi, Pentacostal, Hindu,
Native American, Santeria, and tai chi, which release the ego
from condensed daily reality and into divine ecstasy
through the vehicle of physical release from contraction.

Sexual climax brings in the Higher Moving Center as well,
albeit for only a short time;

rarely does it transform the soul for more than a few moments.

Healers of the physical body,
massage therapists, tantra practitioners and kundalini experts
often channel this Centering.

Examples of saints with this primary Centering: Buddha, John the Baptist,
Sri Krishna and the Gopis.

* * * * *

Remember, the Role describes personality traits rather than vocations.

For example, a King in this system isn't always the leader of a country,
but may (like Madonna)
choose the field of entertainment; or he may just be your neighbor's gardener.

A Scholar isn't necessarily a Rhodes scholar or academician,
but might be someone doing a lifetime task as a concert pianist or fashion model.

Your local artist might be a Warrior like Picasso.

Your Sage butcher might regale the waiting customers with operatic arias.

It is helpful to remember in studying this system that it is just a shortcut,
an abbreviated version of who we really are.

Overleaves define only our temporary or false personalities, lifetime to lifetime.

In truth we are infinite beings, beyond definition or labeling.

• This article is an excerpt from Celebrities:
• The Complete Michael Database by Emily Baumbach, Causalworks 1996

www.causalworks.com

POSTED BY:
Susan Lynne Schwenger - THE eXchanger aka WHiTE LOTUS STAR aka 13
TALKS with THUNDER with THUNDERS

CHART of SUSAN LYNNE SCHWENGER
C1E7 6th OLD KiNG CAST SAGE - RAW #343
LAST KING CAST TO SIDE OF TRUTH in Cadre 1, Entity 7 Soul Family
CHANNELED BY:
Sally Jo "Sarah" (McCord) Chambers of The Original Michael Group (1979)
SHEPHERD HOODWIN
& Emily Chaya Baumbach
(who re-checked our chart, and, channeled the chart of Sal Rachele
of www.salrachele.com c1e7 #1029, 6th/7th old King Cast Pirest-Side of Energy)

Life Task:
It would take more than a paragraph <LOL>
True Study: Alternative realities and invisible worlds.
How I found the Michael Teachings:
I was lead to the Michael teachings,
thru an astrologer/radio-tv personality in Los Angeles, CA
who knew the original Michael Group
i rec'd a signed Yarbo Book, with a sheet of paper
that said KING/SAGE, The Book was called Messages from Michael
back in 1979, the chanel was known to Yarbo as Sarah,
albeit, her 'real name' was Sally Jo "Sarah" (McCord) Chambers
she was a teacher from USA, who was born in 1937, and, died in 1998,
she was the original channel of this body of work
that became known as, The Michael Teachings...
this dove-tailed with a psychic friend,
who had stated we should look for past life connections
thru a system that used roles, and numbers.

​

---

OVERLEAVES​

​

Role:​

Sage​

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Essence Twin:​

Priest

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Casting:​

King - 7/1/1​

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Cadre/Entity:​

1/7 (seat 343)​

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Soul Age:​

Old 6​

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Grand Cycles:​

12​

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Past Lives:​

?​

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Male/Female:​

35/65​

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Frequency:​

50​

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Goal:​

Dominance​

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Mode:​

Power​

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Attitude:​

Spiritualist​

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Center:​

Intellectual/Moving​

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Chief Obstacle:​

Impatience​

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Body Type:​

Venusian​

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Secondary(ies)​

10% Solar, 10% Lunar​

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Needs:​

Expression, Adventure, Freedom​

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Side:​

Truth (seat 343)​

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Motivation:​

Mastery​

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Global Job:​

Completion​

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Community Job:​

Prosperity​

TASK COMPANIONS:
KING CAST PRIEST #686 (DISCARNATE-iN SPiRiT)C1E1, Side of Love
C1E7 #1024 ARTISAN CAST KING (DISCARNATE iN SPiRiT)C1E7, Side of Energy
C1E1 #1024 ARTISAN CAST WARRIOR (INCARNATE)C1E1, Side of Energy
C1E7 #1029 KING CAST PRIEST (INCARNATE)C1E7, Side of Energy
C1E7 #669 KING CAST PRIEST (INCARNATE)C1E7, Side of Love
​

http://www.michaelteachings.com/michael_students/schwenger_susan.htm



Back in 1979, novelist Chelsea Quinn Yarbro published a little book containing
a whole new way of understanding personality and spirituality.
This new body of knowledge wasn’t hers, however.
In fact, it had been received over several years from a mysterious entity known only as ‘Michael’.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro‘s book, called Messages from Michael,
compiled information that had been gathered by a group of spiritual seekers
based in and around the San Fransisco Bay Area.

The group, who had been meeting regularly since the early 1970s,
had started using a Ouija board.

They weren’t interested in contacting ‘dead people’ however.
Instead, they hoped to connect with some kind of higher intelligence
who could guide them in their personal and spiritual lives.

Their wish came true after a dinner party on 12 August 1973. The energy in the room had changed, felt by everyone. And when one of them took hold of the board it spelled out:

WE ARE HERE WITH YOU TODAY​

And then the new information started pouring through in torrents.
Eventually someone had the presence of mind to say:
“Before I ask any more questions, I would like our entity to give us a name.”

THE LAST NAME A FRAGMENT OF THIS ENTITY USED WAS MICHAEL​

(‘Fragment′… ‘Entity′… These terms are explained below.)
The name ‘Michael’ stuck, purely out of convenience. Over several years, the group went on to ask ‘Michael’ thousands of question. Some questions were private and personal, some were philosophical, some were deeply spiritual. And, rather like a cosmic version of Google or Wikipedia, ‘Michael’ would simply answer every single question — directly, clearly and dispassionately.
Gradually, many others came along to the group sessions to ask their own questions. Some also found that they could connect with ‘Michael’ in a trance state and serve as a live channel receiving the answers.
The Ouija board is now long gone but the questions and answers have never stopped. The same source has continued to give us a detailed, mutli-faceted system of psychological and spiritual insight. It is a body of knowledge that contains just about everything we need to know in order to understand who we are at every level.
The general teachings are freely available all over the internet. If you want a personal reading,
however, you must contact of the many channels (see bottom of page).

There are now many people around the world who can channel Michael. I’ve even done so myself on the odd, unexpected occasion.
So where to begin?

Let’s start with…
Exactly who, or what, is Michael?

To answer that we have to start with a fundamental but controversial concept: reincarnation.
When the messages first came through, the source explained that the human soul “
enters the physical plane as many times as is necessary to experience all aspects of life.”

In doing so, the soul gradually evolves in consciousness, becoming more aware and self-aware,
more capable and in control,
more loving — and less fearful, less isolated, less unconscious.

To that end, each of us is going through a long and often difficult process of reincarnating,
living many different lives in many different circumstances.

At the end of this learning process, when all there is for us to experience as a separate being has been experienced, our soul unites with others — about a thousand other souls who emerged into being at the same moment with us. This is our group of origin, known as an “entity“.
Each of us is a part of a fragmented whole, a fragment of our own entity. As we evolve individually, our entity evolves collectively. Eventually, the 1,000 or so souls making up an entity will form an integrated whole, a far greater body of consciousness and intelligence than any single soul.
After re-integration, our soul is no longer a separate fragment but an integral part of a higher intelligence.
The being we call Michael is one of these—an integrated entity. Not a single being, but a group, a collective. This is why the source refers to itself in the plural: “we”, “us”.

The name we are called is Michael. That is a convenience and not a truth. Only a small fragment of this entity had that name. We are integrated fragments of a larger entity and we come to you from the Causal plane.​

To be exact, the group consists of precisely 1,050 souls who have all completed their own process of reincarnation.

We have been artists, bankers, barters, barristers, comedians, cemetery guards, dilettantes, governors, guards in many shapes and sizes, grave diggers, horsemen, jugglers and clowns, lute players, maids, mercenaries, merchants, misanthropes, military strategists, noblemen and women, peasants, priests, prostitutes, rebels, revolutionaries, robbers, students, teachers, temptresses, viceroys, waifs, and witnesses to the most unspeakable acts of cruelty and to the most loving acts of kindness and devotion.​

And according to Michael, having evolved beyond the cycles of reincarnation,
they no longer reside not on the Astral plane of existence (which is our home between lives),
but on the higher, Causal plane,
a level of pure thought and intelligence.
Their mission, for now, is to teach souls like us how to evolve — not how to get out of the human experience, but how to get more out of it; how to evolve within it and through it:

We offer a way to human understanding based on our own experience, first as humans ourselves in both tranquil and troubled times and now as the reintegrated fragments of a Causal body no longer alive as you know it but still with keen awareness of what being human entails.​

We have communicated this way for approximately 100 years. Our purpose is to teach some understanding of evolution on the physical plane so that a student can reach some insight into human behavior which will enable him then to stop brooding over interpersonal relationships, or the lack thereof, and concentrate on personal life plans.​

Michael likes to tell it straight. With impeccable grammar.
A summary of the Michael teachings – key concepts

Perhaps the best way to summarise the Michael teachings is to simply introduce the key concepts one at a time and in an order that makes sense. Let’s start with essence.


ESSENCE

Essence is just another word for spirit or soul; it is the innermost being of a person; it is our true nature. Your essence is your true self; the ego is a false self.


SOUL TYPES (ROLES IN ESSENCE)

There are seven soul types or roles in essence: Kings, Priests, Sages, Scholars, Warriors, Artisans, Servers.
Each has a particular archetypal quality and brings specific abilities or attributes into life:
Warriors: assertive action
(e.g., Julius Caesar, Salma Hayek)
Kings: commanding action
(e.g., Elizabeth I, John F. Kennedy)
Servers: moral duty
(e.g., Mother Teresa, Dalai Lama)
Priests: moral vision
(e.g., Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama)
Sages: communicative expression
(eg., Oscar Wilde, Dolly Parton)
Artisans: creative expression
(e.g., Michaelangelo, Björk)
Scholars: objective understanding
(e.g., Marie Curie, Ken Wilber)
Soul type does not change from one lifetime to the next.

From a soul’s first incarnation to its last, the role in essence remains constant.

REINCARNATION
From the soul’s perspective, reincarnation is the process of undergoing life in physical form again and again in order to evolve, becoming increasingly self-aware and a unique expression of divine love.
Evolution of the soul comes about by experiencing life in many different ways, making important choices within those life experiences, and learning from the consequences of those choices. Key experiences and choices are set up by the soul in spirit before each lifetime (see life plan). One life is not enough to experience the full spectrum of life circumstances and choices, however, so an evolving soul will reincarnate many times over (typically 100+).
See: 10 things everyone should know about reincarnation


SOUL AGE

Souls evolve through five stage of reincarnation:

• Infant
• Baby
• Young
• Mature
• Old

Each stage has a distinct focus that requires particular learning experiences:

• Infant souls focus on physical existence. Lessons relate to ‘being a body’
• – basic physical needs and drives; symbiosis versus separation; impulses versus consequences; survival, physical vulnerability, safety, mortality.
• Baby souls focus on social existence. Life lessons relate to ‘being one of us’
• – conformity to rules, predefined roles, strict moral codes; order versus chaos;
• morality versus savagery; doing right versus doing wrong; the authority of religion,
• law and order, crime and punishment.
• Young souls focus on individual existence. Life lessons relate to being ‘a somebody’
• with a mind and will of their own – independence versus conformity;
• individuality versus belonging; asserting personal opinions, persona agendas; competitiveness, self-interest, opportunism; seeking material success, achievement, glory, self-advancement.
• Mature souls focus on co-existence. Life lessons relate to being
• in ‘right relationship’ to self, others and everything else
• – interdependence versus independence; heart versus ego; collaboration and compromise versus personal triumphs; positive relationships, self-awareness,
• sensitivity, integrity, empathy.
• Old souls focus on being – fully being themselves as part of all-that-is
• while allowing all else to be as well. Life lessons relate to
• autonomy versus identity; authenticity versus respect; letting go,
• non-attachment, non-investment; wisdom; self-actualisation
• and self-transcendence.

Each of these stages actually involves seven levels, from start to finish.
And each of those takes at least one lifetime to complete.

So there are 35 “steps” to the whole reincarnation process, from the first level
of the Infant soul stage to the seventh level of the Old soul stage.

Typically it takes well over a hundred lifetimes to complete the sequence.

(Incidentally, I am a Mature soul, currently at the fifth level of the Mature soul stage.)

Souls also progress through further stages beyond the cycle of physical reincarnation.
These involve taking on a teaching role (as is the case for the “Michael” entity).
Entities themselves evolve into greater levels of integration and higher consciousness.



THE 35 STEPS


LIFE PLAN

A life plan is the outline plan of key events and circumstances for a given lifetime,
formulated by the soul (with its guides) while in spirit, before taking birth.

The life plan is designed to ensure that certain desired experiences and choices are encountered during the life, with the agreement and cooperation of other souls involved.

For example, the soul may desire to learn about abandonment,
and so will plan an experience of abandonment by a parent in early childhood.

Another soul will make an agreement to be the abandoning parent,
and will incorporate this event into their own life plan.

Once in physical, human form, there is little or no memory of the life plan.

The incarnate soul undergoes a kind of temporary amnesia.

This ensures that each planned event (such as early abandonment)
is experienced “as real”, with all the shock and suffering that naturally goes with it.


LIFE TASK

A life plan will often include a specific task to be undertaken in the second half of life.

For example, mine is “To acquire and share knowledge in a spirit of joy”.

This life task is usually the main focus of the life to come,
and much of what is set up in the first half of life is actually preparing
the personality for this undertaking in the second half.

That early experience of abandonment, for example, might have been chosen
to support the later life task of (say) “Healing parent-child relationships”

– the early experience would help to instil the developing personality
with the appropriate knowledge, intent and compassion.

When a personality begins to search for their “true purpose” in life,
typically around 35-45, this is the calling of the life task
( the seven internal monads).

Quite often, the pull to realise and begin the life task puts the personality
through a crisis.

THE SEVEN INTERNAL MONADS

In every lifetime we undergo a sequence of seven major transition points, or “monads”.
Each one involves a significant transformation in the self that is largely unavoidable:

1. Birth – from spiritual existence to physical embodiment
2. Self-awareness (age 2 approx) – from physical interactions to social interactions
3. Coming of age (approx 15-20) – from socially-defined identity to self-defined persona
4. Mid-life (approx 30-40) – from false personality to authentic self and purpose
5. Retirement (approx 60-80) – from purposeful activity to restful activity
6. Decline (terminal process) – from continuity of life to approach of death
7. Death – from physical existence to non-physical consciousness

Each of the seven monad-transitions is like a mini-death-and-rebirth.

On each occasion, the inner self must let go of an old identity and accept a new one.

This can go more or less smoothly or it can throw the personality into a crisis
and even a rebellion.

The outcome can be a successful transition to a new level of being or
, at worst, the transition is “abdicated” and the personality remains stuck

— a case of arrested development.

Even so, the personality will have the opportunity to revisit the abdicated transition
in later monads. For example, a person approaching mid-life
might suddenly face unresolved issues connected
with coming of age or even earlier.

The 4th monad is particularly notorious as a time of inner turmoil,
as it may involve undoing 20 years of “hard work” on the false persona
as well as 40 years of cultural programming.

A soul “normally” remains with a physical body from its birth to its death.

Not all lives include all monads, however. A life that ends in childhood,
for example, will pass through the first two monads and then skip to the last two monads.

We often live shortened lives for various reasons

– because it is our karma to experience an early death, for example,
or because we want to help another soul experience the loss of a child,
or simply because of an unplanned accident.
To complete a level of soul growth, however,
it is necessary to undergo all seven monads in one life.

OVERLEAVES



The “overleaves” are a set of personality characteristics
that are adopted by a soul for a particular lifetime.

They include a goal (lifelong motivation),
a mode (way of acting) and an attitude (way of perceiving).

A person’s overleaves shape how that person thinks, feels and acts in life.

They are selected by the soul before birth specifically to help the human personality
perform the life task to come.

Overleaves are what make up a human being’s true personality.

It is certainly possible to ask a Michael channel to get your overleaves for you.

I, for example, was told that I have a goal of growth, a mode of perseverance
and an idealistic attitude.

Having observed myself (and others) very closely over the last ten years or so,
I completely agree with all of these.


GOAL

The goal is the personality’s underlying motivation or basic desire in life. There are seven options:

• Dominance: desire for power; drawn to opportunities to take the lead.
• Growth: desire for stimulation and wisdom; drawn to novel experiences and insights.
• Acceptance: desire for communion; drawn to social interactions and loving relationships.
• Relaxation: desire for effortlessness; taking life as it comes (the “goal of no goal”).
• Submission: desire for duty; drawn to opportunities to be of service.
• Rejection: desire for independence; drawn to being ‘different’, highly selective.
• Retardation: desire for peace and solitude; drawn to simple, restricted lifestyle.

Whereas the life task is a specific objective,
such as “Learning to run a business with compassion,”
the goal is more of a general a direction to take.

For example, if the life task involves being in a leadership role then the chosen goal
is likely to be dominance.

MODE

The mode is the personality’s approach to life, its way of acting on the goal.

It involves the inner or outer use of energy. There are seven options:

• Aggression: acting at “full throttle” with totally externalised energy
• Passion: acting with a sense of vision and emotional charge
• Power: acting with inner confidence and certainty
• Observation: watching rather than doing (the “mode of no action”)
• Perseverance: channelling one’s energy into completion of the task despite difficulties
• Caution: focusing one’s energy on careful prior planning to eliminate problems
• Repression: holding it all in, reserving one’s energy

ATTITUDE

The attitude is the personality’s overarching perspective or way of perceiving life. There are seven options:

• Realism: focusing on facts and likely implications
• Spiritualism: focusing on higher meaning and purpose
• Idealism: focusing on inherent possibilities
• Pragmatism: taking each situation as it comes (the “attitude of no perspective”)
• Cynicism: focusing on gross contradictions
• Scepticism: focusing on subtle inconsistencies
• Stoicism: focusing on absence of meaning

Centering

The personality’s preferred way of processing its moment-by-moment experiences in life,
usually set in early childhood (around age 2-3).

There are seven centres in all: emotional, intellectual, moving (physical),
instinctive, higher intellectual, higher emotional and higher moving(higher physical).

In normal life, however, the personality tends to adopt either the emotional, intellectual or moving centre to assimilate its sensory experiences.
In addition, there is a secondary centering by which the personality processes immediate reactions
to those experiences.

For example, if sensory experiences are processed emotionally and then reactions are processed intellectually, one is said to be operating “in the intellectual part of the emotional centre.”

This means that one experiences life, moment-to-moment, with feeling
but one expresses those experiences by talking about them.

FALSE PERSONALITY

If the overleaves chosen before birth make up the true personality,
the other traits and habits instilled into the person during childhood
and beyond make up an artificial or false personality.
False personality consists of two main components:

• Early programming or “imprinting” from one’s family, culture and social environment.
• The false identity (ego, persona) adopted in or after adolescence as a way to break into adulthood.

Whereas the true personality reflects the wise choices and higher consciousness of the soul,
the false personality reflects the ignorance and immature perspective of the young person.

Whereas the true personality knows no fear, the false personality is riddled with it.

One of the key challenges in life, at the 4th monad, is to overcome your false personality
and begin to manifest your true personality—your overleaves, your soul age and your role in essence.

CHIEF FEATURE

The “chief feature” is a false personality trait, an entrenched character flaw
driven by fear and illusion.

Its purpose is to protect the person from whatever he or she fears the most as a social being,
such as a sense of personal vulnerability, inadequacy or worthlessness.
An incarnate soul can have various bad experiences in childhood and may exaggerate
or misinterpret their meaning. These can crystallise into a specific lifelong fear,
such as the fear of change.

The growing child then adopts certain behaviour patterns to avoid
or eliminate the thing feared at all costs.

In late adolescence, emerging into adulthood, the fear and negativity
become cloaked in a false persona.

There are seven possibilities, and we all have one of these as our chief feature:

• Impatience: rushing through life (fear of missing out)
• Arrogance: feigning perfection or superiority (fear of vulnerability)
• Greed: compulsive acquisition/consumption (fear of lack)
• Stubbornness: refusing to accept anything new (fear of change)
• Martyrdom: playing the innocent victim (fear of worthlessness)
• Self-Destruction: compulsive elimination/annihilation (fear of loss of control)
• Self-Deprecation: trying to be invisible to others (fear of inadequacy)

Actually, all adults have a primary character flaw which distorts their goal
and related life decisions, plus a secondary one which distorts their attitude
and hence internal perceptions of life.

If like me, for example, your primary is Impatience,
you will be anxious about missing out on opportunities to achieve your life’s goal.

And if your secondary is, say, Self-Deprecation, you will tend to perceive your life
in terms of your own inadequacies.

Chief features operate as vicious circles,
unconsciously creating the very anxiety
they are supposed to prevent.

Throughout much of life they cause internal conflict,
working behind the scenes to thwart all attempts at fulfillment.

Learning to manage your chief features is one of the greatest possible achievements

in personal growth.


Putting it all into practice

The Michael teachings give us a coherent framework for understanding
the many different ways in which human life unfolds
— both on a grand scale (historical, global and spiritual)
and at the most intimate level.

I for one now appreciate how every aspect of humanity in all its diversity
and variety is perfectly valid. Every human being on the planet, past and present,
is in exactly the right place for them given their soul type, level of evolution,
life task and overleaves.

The Michael teachings explain how the whole of life, in all its ups and owns,
revolves around choice. From the private decision to have a baby
to the collective decision to go to war, choice is woven throughout every moment of life.

The choices we face, and our ability to make such choices, are our reason for being here.

The Michael teachings serve as a bridge between the deepest Truth of our being
and the mundane reality we all experience in our daily lives.

But given that finding and choosing our own sense of meaning and purpose
is precisely how we evolve, taking any of this on faith would defeat the very purpose
of the teachings.
The very core of these teachings is:

• All is chosen.

And that includes what we choose to believe.

 

There are 7 levels
of soul ages,
which each have 7 levels:

Soul age

1) infant
2) baby
3) Young
4) Mature
5) Old
6) Transcendental: Bodhisattvas, religious leaders, prophets who predict coming of Infinite Souls, represent their cycled-off entity. Meher Baba, Mahatma Gandhi, Pope John XXIII, John the Baptist, Hazrat Khan, Mother Meera, Ammachi, Mohammed, Socrates, St. Francis of Assisi, Paramahansa Yogananda, Zarathustra.
and,
7) Infinite: Manifestation of the Tao incarnate, comes about every 2,000 years, can have the flavor of any of the higher planes. Gautama Buddha, Jesus Christ, Confucius, Krishna, Lao Tsu, Ra the Egyptian Sun God, the Hindu God Rama. Mother Meera of Germany, currently alive, is looking at signing on for Infinite Soul manifestation.

Soul level with each of the above 7 levels of souls..

Within each Soul Age are seven levels of awareness and lessons. As with any cycle you start out as a beginner, go through the intermediate stages, and end up a pro. Generally you are most comfortable with people who fall within seven Soul Levels younger or older than you are. For instance, if you are 1st level Old, you'll feel comfortable with most Mature Souls and most Old Souls. If you are 3rd level Mature, you'll feel most comfortable around 3rd to 7th level Young Souls, and 1st to 3rd level Old Souls. You may find it difficult but not impossible to relate to Baby Souls or late level Old Souls. Here are the seven Soul Levels within each Soul Age:

1st: The Ingenue level. You're just beginning your experience at the new Soul Age, and have a delightful innocence about you. You will tend to make friends with people who are older than you within your Soul Age. Examples: Prince Andrew, Sonny Bono, Tammy Fae Bakker, Rodney Dangerfield, Joe Montana, Hugh Grant, Eric Clapton, Macaulay Culkin.

2nd: The Explorer. At this level you feel more grounded in the new consciousness, and send yourself out in the world. Here you work most strongly on your self-karmas, testing your personal habit patterns and working on your self-discipline. Examples: Jerry Garcia, Barbara Marx-Hubbard, Jay Leno, Mary Kay Ash, James Taylor.

3rd: The Renunciate. You're solidly into your Soul Age now, and take some time to pull back from your outer growth. You might prefer to live a quiet life where your thoughts can remain undisturbed. Examples: Alice Walker, Greta Garbo, J.D. Salinger, Stephen Hawking, Walt Whitman.

4th: Full Steam Ahead. You've done your contemplation for a lifetime or two, and now you're rarin' to go. You thrust yourself into outer activity, probably to change the world according to your vision. Examples: Deepak Chopra, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Joseph Campbell, Mario Cuomo, Jane Fonda, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Jefferson.

5th: The Hippie. Your last lifetime was rather suit & tie, working within the system to change it. Now you rebel against authority, and make your own (eccentric) rules. Examples: Bob Goldthwait, Tom Waites, Jimi Hendrix, Wolfman Jack, Pablo Picasso, Truman Capote, Geena Davis, Willem Dafoe.

6th: The Martyr. An incredibly intense level; you'll want to take more than one lifetime to get through it all. In the Infant, Baby and Young Soul Ages you create more karma at this level than any other. In the Mature and Old Soul Ages you pay off more karma. Examples: Martin Luther King, Marcia Clark, Werner Erhard, Adolph Hitler, Timothy Leary, Charles Manson, Mother Teresa, Michael Jackson, The Elephant Man, Elizabeth Taylor.

7th: Resting Assured. This level is a plateau, a relaxing point after the 6th level storm and before the growth to the 1st level of the next Soul Age. Here you feel self-assured, having mastered most of the lessons of the Soul Age you just completed. You'll probably act as teacher for people still working through the lessons of the Soul Age you're leaving behind. Examples: Lynn Andrews, Meher Baba, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Bob Hope, Ram Dass, Ruth Westheimer, Thich Nhat Hanh, Boutros Boutros-Ghali.


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• We are an OLD SOUL
• 6TH LEVEL of old
• IN THE LAST LIFETIME
• MOVING iNTO STAGE 1 OF 7 STAGES AT 7TH LEVEL OLD
• and, started into The 5TH PHASE or, 5th monad
• which is about doing the 'real' work your soul originally inteneded to do
• this is about missons, purposes, and, tasks
• the 6th phase, is a prelude to the 7th level of dying/transation to next cycle
• our 3rd NDE= near death experience, happned in 2007
  when we became very frustrated that NO one seems to help others
  or, understand the importance of support circles
• and, some souls break their soul contracts too

- Susan Lynne Schwenger

 

devakas on Mon Jan 28, 2013 11:31 pm

there are many part time self half educated philosofers on internet.

no worries for publishers anymore.

 

magamud on Tue Jan 29, 2013 9:28 am
Thanks for the insights Exchanger, can you post more of your material?

Devakas your no mind philosophy is just one side of the coin. Your contrasts to people have resentments due to this problem.

This apparent unconscious anger then reinforces this feedback loop due to projection. This translates into a contradiction and hypocrisy.

I am sure it is not easy protesting mind speculation when you use your mind in this portal.

But degenerating any content to justify your position is philanthropy?

Perhaps cooling off that fire in your gut before preaching your faith would be apropos?

I appreciate your position D, it shows the scales in practicing Zen. On the other side, people are aloof, and high on unconditional love?

 

oliverclay on Thu Feb 07, 2013 3:19 am
The six stages of life have different kind of attractions and loves, so the whole life it differ.

 

THEeXchanger on Sat Feb 09, 2013 2:55 pm
devakas wrote:
We all should serve Krishna, all demigods do and if we have our own POViews, those could be very much accepted in hell.

smile Susan!

We do NOT choose to serve anyone
and, the only place you can choose to create 'hell' is in "The Pivot of The Now" - your NOW !!!

~ have you ever been to places like India
and seen how these so called highly religious people 'serve' 3D 'living people'
and, hold them up as if they were actual gods, shameful & sinful (in my opinion)
- Susan Lynne Schwenger

 

Brook on Sat Feb 09, 2013 5:10 pm
I would think it depends on your definition of love which can vary. If you equate it to emotion that can be loosely defined as a subjective conscious experience.

A subjective conscious experience can have conditions depending on reaction, expression or mental state.

On the other side of the coin...lack of conditions....hence... unconditional.

Example:

I have three children....one can make me mad as hell, one can make me beam with pride, the other can lack in areas I find important.

But I still love them all the same...to the very same degree. So no matter what condition they evoke in my emotion...I love them equally as a mother without conditions...hence a "mother's love"..which in my case as a mother is "unconditional".


That is not a lie.

There is nothing "new age" about that.

 

That is a very good point Brook

- however, you do weave love through virtues

i hope to have a chart on that done
within the next week

thank you for your input

you are always a wealth of good information

thanks for your eXchanging & sharing - it is appreciated

 

oliverclay on Wed Feb 13, 2013 2:50 am
I never found a valid definition for love in my life.