You're your own Grandpa
(Excerpts from Expansion newsletter, April 2010)

One of the basic teachings in the Michael system is that our personality traits, called overleaves, surround a closer layer of personality, called our Role. It's easy to learn our Role and overleaves by reading Michael books or going online, or going to someone skilled in seeing them.

Rarely, however, do we pay any attention to a bigger, vaster piece of ourselves: our Essence. We know it's there inside somewhere, and we usually put off exploring it until some unknown time in the future when life winds down, or we're 7th level Old, or we get through our karmas. Our procrastination seems sanctioned by the levels of Soul Age, which seemingly depend on how many lifetimes we've had (and how many are left in our cycle).

The invitation is for all of us, right now, to go directly to Essence. It's not only OK, it's our calling.

Being in Essence means going back to our original self, before identification with our name and gender and Role and overleaves. Returning to Essence frees us from the trap of what's called false personality: the pretentious outer layers of identity.

We can return to Essence simply by watching ourselves move into our false personality --- our Role and overleaves. Watching is freeing. With practice, we begin to shift our focus from outerness to everythingness.

This isn't a huge explosion of enlightenment. It's a simple and natural stepping back from the drama into quietness. This takes you to a deeper relaxation that is not dependent on outer satisfaction or the completion of karmas or the fulfillment of burgeoning ideas. Remembering Essence is freedom.

At first this practice seems absurd and disconcerting. Our patterns aren't used to living a patternless life. But the profound fulfillment and freedom we get soon feel more natural than our former patterns ever were. Then Silence shows up as our Home.

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At first when you step into Essence, all you want to do is stay there. You can't believe you spent all those past lifetimes in masonry --- avidly constructing walls and pathways and differences and separations. Then your mind takes off: "Why did I ever do that? I must be a bad student. I'll never be enlightened." Because that is so uncomfortable, your hair trigger response is to project it outwardly onto someone else: "Thank God I'm not like them: Look at how stuck they are." We get picky and annoying, like spiritual cops. Our Intellectual, Emotional, Moving and Instinctive Centering grinds into gear, and the next thing we know we're back in it. This is called the Super Ego.

Then we get arrogant again: "I am a God Man/Woman, and you can feed me now." We lose our beginner's mind, then our egos expand with our awareness.

Great-grandparenting for beginners: Or Original Self is lovely, true, fearless, simple and relaxed. Like a happy great-grandparent at a family reunion, it reposes with satisfaction while it watches the play of its own emanations. It is asleep while awake and awake while asleep. It is always there in its comfy chair even in the midst of this exquisitely complicated game of Hide and Seek. It relates to others as its own Essence. It is simple, sweet and open. Relax into it now.

The Great Acceleration, the Mayan Calendar, and 2012
(Excerpts from past issue of Expansion newsletter, November 2008)

Q: You mentioned [in the October newsletter] 'The Great Acceleration.' I have not heard you talk much about 2012 and what is coming from your perspective, or an astrological, Michael system perspective. Many of us can feel something coming, and in fact, have known since we were children that we were here for this special time! Can you tell me what your beliefs are about what this special time means and what it might bring for us all? (P, via email)

The Great Acceleration is a speeding-up of karmic creation and burnoff. It's a Soul Age catch-up where we're moving through the pipeline faster than before. Think of it as God drinking coffee.

As we get closer to the end of the Mayan Calendar on Dec. 21, 2012 at 11:11 Universal Time, the pace of life events is getting frantic. From sheer necessity and immediate karmic feedback, we're dropping our outworn behavior patterns more quickly. Some are getting 11:11 connections as a reminder to remember our inner Home. We're starting to step back from familiar and convoluted living patterns and we're moving into lovely okayness. Many of our realizations are coming not so much as grand sweeping ecstasies but more as a simple but karma-shattering "oh." More and more we're seeing through the veil of personality. We're going from sludgy cluelessness to clearly clued, then beyond that to openness and presence - a way of living that is innocent, spiritually courageous and constantly fresh.

We're also starting to visit alternative dimensions more frequently. As we get bored with the illusions of mundane living, we're getting unstuck from our own stuff, like newly-freed blood cells moving quickly through universal arteries. We're starting to shoot through hyperspace, and we're doing it in the ever-shifting vehicles of our minds.

Because the current challenges of the Physical Plane (health, survival, money, paying the mortgage) are overwhelming, we're retreating subconsciously to the higher planes in normal daily life. It's not that we're moving toward the higher planes - we're actually starting to come from the higher planes. This trend will get stronger in the next four years.

Here's the pattern of increasing awareness, according to the Michael Teachings: Complicated physicality is getting too difficult to deal with, so we've been retreating to our emotional self for answers - watching Emotionally Centered movies and evening news, getting involved in soap opera family relationships, and so forth. Then we get overwhelmed with drama, and move to causal plane awareness to see universal patterns of astrology, weather, physics, personality systems, Great Ages (Yugas) and so forth, to try to figure out how to control life around us. We then get bogged down in too many thoughts and intellectual patterns (especially if we read a lot of blogs and internet forums), and we end up in the mental plane for relief: looking for simplicity of meaning and ultimate truth.

Mental plane existence means we open to authenticity. We start having a low tolerance for lying. We start telling people about truth, but we're not listened to - and we can end up looking patronizing and arrogant. In frustration, we seek even deeper meaning by sliding to messianic plane compassion and love and worship of the divine. We come from this sweet place until life crucifies us with a big test of some kind: death of a loved one, a heavy illness, abandonment, imprisonment, etc. From a place of suffering, we reconfigure our momentum and appeal to the biggest, highest part of our inner being: the buddhaic plane - the place of transcendence. In this place we see life as our personal, private dream, and realize that there is no "there" out "there," that it is all In Here. The constant opportunity is to recognize ourselves as the origin of All.

Enough people are reconfiguring their consciousness along these evolutionary lines that we're creating new collective patterns of being. We're bravely admitting our mistakes more quickly and taking responsibility for our actions, then moving on. We're actually listening to (and getting) immediate feedback, not like before. Now we're paying attention. Evolution during this acceleration means sacrificing comfortable delusion and being spiritually courageous in the face of truth.

Calendars and Prophecies

The Mayan Calendar also talks about various ages of evolution. We start out as cells, then progress to mammals, then go through a familial phase, then a tribal phase, then cultural, national, planetary, galactic and universal phases. According to Mayan scholars, around 3,100 BC the "national" portion of evolution began, which was the beginning of the current Mayan Calendar. Then in 1755-1759 AD we entered the "planetary" age, in 1999 the "galactic" age, and in 2111 we'll enter the "universal" age.

Interestingly, 7th Old King/ Scholar guru Sri Yukteshwar tells us the age of darkness and violence, the Kali Yuga, began around 3100 BC and ended around 1699 AD - close to the Mayan Calendar "planetary" age, above. He says we're now in the easier, nicer Dwapara Yuga: a time of atomic energy and mass awakening to spiritual realms, where things start to feel better. The downside of the Dwapara Yuga is information overload and long-term Growth and Passion Mode just to keep up.

The Mayan Calendar continues on to say in 100 years we'll enter the "universal" age. This resembles the patterns of the Dwapara Yuga as well.

So, in the coming hundred years new discoveries will explode our world views. We'll stop believing in time and space as constants, and we'll live in spacious No-Time. We'll see our Role, Soul Age and other overleaves as liquid blurs moving in infinity; and we'll learn how to live in hyperdimensional reality. We'll familiarize ourselves with silence: the timeless, spaceless reality underneath all our stories.

Because there are (and will be, with increasing complexity) too many choices with this speeded-up evolution, we'll get burned out unless we go on retreat. Individually and globally we'll slide into Reevaluation and Observation more often as a way to put on the brakes and catch up with ourselves. Reevaluation looks like withdrawal (letting phone calls go into voicemail, forgetting to answer emails), and Observation looks like pulling back into what mystics call the Witness State.

The actual events of December 21, 2012 will depend on what we all dream up. If we need an asteroid in our mass dream, we'll have one. If we need open, plain-as-day alien contact, we'll have that. If we need an Instinctive Center purge through massive climatic or geologic events, we'll have that. If the Hopi legends are correct, fire "will rain from blood-red skies," indicating the possibility of an asteroid or volcano. It all depends on what the collective secretly yearns for.

It's pretty obvious the collective is yearning to push the Reset button, which raises the probability we'll create some hugely mind-shattering, shocking event - including our ceasing to believe in consensus reality. Come December 22, 2012, we'll probably still be here, although by that time we will have redefined "we" and "here." Thanks for your question.

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