ABOUT THE CHANNEL, AUTHOR, or SITE:
Michaelteachings is an actively proliferating and doing well channel network with regular channeling sessions twice a month on the first and third Sundays (9 pm est), regular get-along meetings of Michael students (Michael students night) at every Wednesday, has 18 official Michael channel groups, nearly 20 official Michael channels, 143 classified Michael students, and according to Michael (Nancy Gordon, session 04/30/06), ‘approximately 300,000 followers of the teachings world wide’. Michaelteachings is a veritable master spiderweb of various activities and sites to draw maximum number of devotees inside that web, among them
Live Chats with Michael, Michael Teachings Web Board, Michael Teachings Gatherings, An open discussion list, Michael Educational Foundation, Michael Student's Website, Michael Options, Michael Casting Database, Michael Teachings interactive discussion group, Michael Teachings Zine (web), Michael Land (web), TrueView3000, Gateway Michael Forum, Michael Teachings Web Ring and a special Michaelteachings glossary
http:/(/www.michaelteachings.com/glossary.html
Michael on-line groups list with urls here
‘Michael’ is a group of entities of a mid-causal plane, a collection of 1,050 'essence fragments' who completed their final lifetime in ancient Greece and thus graduated 3D lessons and who created the ‘cosmic atlas which helps earthlings get to their destination’. In the book Messages from Michael, Michael was quoted as saying, "We are an ancient entity that comes to all who ask" which mimicries C’s. The Causal Plane is described as an eight dimensional realm of consciousness above the Astral Plane in spiritual hierarchy (adding ‘spiritual’ to term ‘hierarchy’ doesn’t free it from being a clearly STS concept, a pecking order of domination, control and pyramidal hierarchy).
Michael claims that these teachings were first taught through the Oracle at Delphi in 500 BC, and claims legacy of Eastern philosophy, especially Sufism, Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, and also Rodney Collin, a Gurdjieff / Ouspensky student, author of The Theory of Celestial Influence [probably therefrom distortion and twisting started as his late Theory of Conscious Harmony and The Mirror of Light promote new age pillar stones of faith, acceptance and forgiveness]. Michaelteachings appeared in mid 1970-th in San Francisco Bay Area; first channelers –Sarah Chambers, Dru Simms, JP Van Hulle. Not much info is available on Sarah Chambers, as she didn’t publish any book. According to wiki, Sarah Chambers was one of late Gurdjieff students, in mid-1970 started experimenting with using a Ouija board to see if they could get channeled information. After a period with at least one guide, Michael ‘entities’ started to come through. Then the original group broke up due to a conflict between a group member and Sarah Chambers. Novelist Chelsea Quinn Yarbro joined the group sometime in this period, and published the first book Messages From Michael, a fictionalized version of Sarah Chamber's group, identifying her under the pseudonym of Jessica Lansing. Yarbro bought the copyright to the group's work from Sarah Chambers and published three more books on the subject, containing edited channeling transcripts.
Channelers and Michaelteachings sites:
http:/(/www.michaelteachings.com
Main michaelteachings site is maintained by Dave Gregg, nickname – oldartisan, a professional freelance musician (sax, flute, clarinet). Online since '95.
His profile: http:/(/www.geocities.com/~oldartisan/mland.html and http:/(/dmoz.org/profiles/oldartisan.html
- Causalworks, Emily Baumbach (San Francisco Bay Area, CA)
http:/(/www.causalworks.com and http:/(/shell10.ba.best.com/~emilyb/
is an astrologer and author of several Michael books, including Celebrities and Parallel Universes; Causalworks offers a newsletter, tapes, and channeling services.
- Aaron Christeaan, (San Francisco Bay Area, CA)
Michael channel, and co-Author of book Michael-The Basic Teachings
- Ted Fontaine, (Davis/Sacramento, CA)
channels multiple entities: Michael, Yesu and Daniel
Ted channels ‘Michael Lines,’ http:/(/www.cal.net/~tedfont/ (on-line book of new Michael information), has newsletter ‘Channeling Arts’, conducts professional channeling sessions.
Swift twisting of C’s strategy:
graduate of the University of Oregon in Music Education, a songwriter, singer, and actor. Michael channel since 1986 and author of 2 Michael books, offers channeling private sessions and intuitive readings.
Readers praise Shephard’s book The Journey of Your Soul: A Channel Explores Channeling and the Michael Teachings as ‘the most complete Michael book; a miraculous gift, a virtual encyclopedia of marvelously detailed information, inspiring insights, an expansive view into the inner workings […]. Chapter on channeling covers such ground as what channeling is, ways to channel, who can channel, intuition, the quality and plane of the source, what channeled entities see, predictions, recognizing truth, the purpose of channeling.
Flight of the Hawk, Victoria Marina-Tompkins, (Half Moon Bay and Oakland, CA) http:/(/www.flightofthehawk.com
a professional violinist is a Shamanic practioner and Michael channel, a student of the Michael teachings since 1980. In 1996 she co-founded The Gateway Associates (http:/(/www.gateway-assoc.com/) with Sarah Chambers, the original Michael medium, and Paul Avellar. She does private readings, e-mail readings, Michael Retreats, Michael tapes, workshops, soul retrievals and shamanic healing. She conducts monthly Michael channeling groups that meet in Half Moon Bay. Valeria Marina co-hosts seaangels cruises with Dorothy Campbell, hypnotherapist and a certified hypnosis instructor with the National Guild. A wise combination of cozy cruise atmosphere, comforting and self-reassuring Michael word and handy hypnotherapist ‘all-in-one’ may make wonders to ensure that Michael’s word gets through!
http:/(/www.seaangelscruise.com/newsletters/newsletter-issue3.html
Lori Gilbert, (Sacramento, CA)
Lori has been channeling Michael since 1994. She currently is a California Licensed Acupuncturist and does intuitive medical readings and healing.
Nancy Gordon, (Boulder County, Colorado)
worked for the US Congress, Shah of Iran, and State of Indiana, has degrees in university administration, anthropology, comparative religion. A Michael student since 1997. A computer channel, as opposed to a vocal channel, as based on an ‘agreement’ made with the Michaels in 2004. Nancy does private channelings. Nancy has 5 married kids (like Carolyn Evers, Archangel Michael conclave channel - http) and 9 grandchildren. Another peculiar coincidence!
Kay Heatherly (San Francisco, CA) http:/(/www.amt.to
has been channeling Michael since 1989. She has two on-going Michael Groups which meet monthly: one in San Francisco and another in Marin County. Speaking about coincidences she is a certified hypnotherapist who specializes in Past Life Regression Therapy.
Michael Educational Foundation, JP Van Hulle, (Orinda, CA)
JP Van Hulle is a professional Michael channel and author of several Michael books.
From reader review on Michael's Gemstone Dictionary: Utter nonsence. Said to be channelled by a group from the Pleiades, I truly think that the writer needed to change the channel.’
Rainbows & Miracles, Barbara Taylor (Orange County, CA) http: http:/(/www.itstime.com/michael.htm
a Michael channel who applies the teachings to the business world and mainstream settings. Specializes in Michael Math and Michael business.
Eileen Haisler (Manor, TX)
Michael student since 1990.
Carol Heideman (Dallas, TX)
Carol is a professional Michael channel and author of Searching for Light: Michael's Information for a Time of Change through Twelve Star Publishing
From editor: ‘For those who are aquainted with Michael's work, reading this book will be like a reunion with an old friend. It greatly compliments the work of Seth and the Pleiadians.’
Caris Palm Turpen, (Ft. Worth, TX) http:/(/www.lightcatcher.com
‘My True Work is, ‘Telling people what they don't know.’ A Michael student since 1980, a professional channel since 1997.
Karen Murphy (Boulder, CO)
Karen has been a Michael student since 1981 and a channel since 1999. Also a Reiki Master, offers channeling sessions and intuitive readings, specializing in past-and current-life connections and relationships.
Open Gate, Kay Kamala (Santa Fe, NM) Kay Kamala: http:/(/www.amt.to/kamala
is a professional Michael channel and visionary artist, specializing in relationship dynamics, essence roles and overleaves. Offers personal readings, workshops, and complimentary newsletter.
Pivotal Resources, Jose and Lena Stevens (Santa Fe, NM) Pivotal Resources: http:/(/www.pivres.com/~pivotal/
are authors of several Michael books, including Tao to Earth, Earth to Tao, and Transforming Your Dragons. Michael teachings abridged for business leaders, lawyers, and entrepreneurs. Dr. Stevens, is a Basque-Mexican-Irish American psychotherapist with over 20 years experience in personal growth counseling, and founder of Essence Psychology and The Integral Personality System.
Joya Pope (Fayetteville, AR) members.aol.com/joyapope and http:/(/www.spiritweb.org/michael-teachings/joya.html
Author of two Michael books, including The World According to Michael, and a co-author of The Michael Game
-- What is the channeling method (conscious, light trance, unconscious trance, automatic writing/typing, spirit board, pendulum, alone, with a group, etc.)?
Channeling occurs through what Michael calls the ‘higher centers,’ which can connect with ‘universal love, truth, and kinetic energy but are dormant and can be opened with practice’. Channeling method likely is light trance state reached with guided breathing/ guided meditation with ‘you are already a perfect being’ gloss
Probably conscious voice channelling format is used (+ light trance?).
Question and answer format from audience during live Michael chats is used, majority of questions is about this lifetime task, purpose, past lives, and personal relationships problem ‘reading’. Michael’s ‘personal readings’ rely on evoking affirmative emotional response and are as vague as one can imagine, resembling gypsy ‘predictions’ with pseudo scientific terminology gloss all over it. One wonders how easy people fall prey into such pseudo-scientific pseudo-psychotherapeutic counseling. There is plentiful harvest of lonely-feeling people with lack of attention (and appreciation?) from their family and friends, with baggage of personal relationships problems on their shoulders so I wouldn't be surprised if many fall prey in Michael ‘personality game’.
-- Does the channel comment on the material, research it, etc.?
I would say NO. They transcribe and pass it on to informational-garbage hungry audience.
-- Are there any other clues that indicate a relationship to or influence by other channels, groups, organizations, etc.?
Self-calming proliferating on ‘personal readings’ new age guru
Book Authors
-- Don't read it, of course, just look up the book on sites that sell it, see what the descriptions are, look for reviews on the web, including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc. Basically, find out all you can about the content.
More than 20 books, many out of print. Book list
-- Can you tell if they have a "major" publisher?
No
-- What are reviews of their books like? Are there reviews on sites that promote a certain point of view, theory, prophecy, etc."
In general books especially new Michael revelations are praised as detailed, pragmatic, not puff-ball New Age spirituality??, gritty, astonshing in its capacity to convey the message, a 'must read' for anyone working to be truely successful in their business and personal life.
-- Are there links on the site to other known people or groups? Who?
Shephard Hoodwin has links to guru Deepak Chopra, Neale Walsch, Gregg Bradden.
-- Does there appear to be an organization behind the site?
10 out of 16 Michael channels are residing in California.
Coincidence? California has the largest number of military installations in US -- 36 major and 25 minor facilities, including military installations, U.S. Department of Defense laboratories, and testing facilities. Among them 7 key space installations with highest level security clearance
http:/(/www.californiaspaceauthority.org/html/government_pages/military-support.html
We shouldn’t disregard the fact that Since 1988, a process known as Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) has closed 97 major US military installations, 29 in California. So, overall number of California military installations with security clearance was much higher in 1970-ies when Michael channeling started. A peculiar way to secure income.
ABOUT THE MATERIAL ITSELF:
Overview
-- overleaf (personality attributes that overlay one’s ‘essence’) personality system, which is claimed to help in understanding individual’s inner and outer motivations in this lifetime and to assist in understanding and acceptance of self. Claiming being descendants of Gurdjieff’s legacy Michaelteachings promote wishful acceptance of false self, inner (=false self) calming and acceptance of others and the world ‘as it is’ and induces spiritual blissfulness, self-love, self-esteem of false / mixed self, not real I.
In Michael’s glossary false personality is a false ego; the part of self motivated by fear.
Core of Michael Teachings has some similarities to Abraham Maslow theory of human motivation and basic human needs http://www.deepermind.com/20maslow.htm.
Overleaf personality system is heavily glossed with number 7:
7 soul ages (infant, baby, young, mature, old, transcendental, infinite) as for individual ‘fragments’, and for countries; spirituality of humanity slowly (automatically) rises, leading to socio-economic and cultural positive changes
7 personality roles (Artisan, Sage, Warrior, King, Server, Priest, Scholar)
7 goals (Growth, Retardation, Acceptance, Rejection, Submission, Dominance, Stagnation)
7 modes of action (caution, power, reserve, passion, perseverance, aggression, observation)
7 attitudes (stoic, spiritualist, skeptic, idealist, realist, cynic, pragmatist)
7 chief negative feature (greed, arrogance, stubbornness, self-deprecation, impatience, self-destruction, martyrdom)
6 centers (intellectual, moving, emotional, Higher Moving, Higher Intellectual, Higher Emotional)
Four Pillars of life: Four essential activities in life required to realize health and happiness - true work, true play, true study, and true rest
Popular NA division of Man into planetary body / personality types based on illusory personality of many little ‘i’s, new age profanation of Enneagram.
-- concept of reincarnation and rejoining the Tao in the end. Ensouled beings incarnate solely into human beings, the cycle of rebirth continues with increasing wisdom until the fragment (individual in Michaelteachings is called ‘a fragment’ – ‘an individual essence, or soul. The term conveys that each of us is a fragment of the whole, and particularly, a fragment of our entity, with which we will recombine when we have completed all our lifetimes on the physical plane’) is finished with the lessons learnt here.
Most important:
-- What is the central message(s), if any? This will usually be repeated often.
to identify one’s personality type in order to accept self, others and the world ‘as it is’. ‘Thou are very special’ message is emphasized, mechanical rising of consciousness upon reaching ‘understanding’ of self and others; before you can accept others, you must study, understand yourself to accept yourself.
true personality is when person occupies positive poles of his/her overleaves. The negative poles are fear driven, the positive poles are love driven or essence driven. Individual is regarded as a spark of the Tao which can express itself only through love. Fear being the absence of love then is not a self, but a false personality.
Michael on truth:
consider truth as what is, without judgment. See if you can remove human personality from your vision of truth and connect with it as a pure universal force.
Truth is more of the higher intellectual center; facts are more of the intellectual center. Both, of course, are needed. Truth allows love to manifest as beauty. Truth is higher mind. In humans, it manifests as wisdom. Ask your essence to connect directly to the truth force and see what you experience. What do you feel?
passive / mechanical learning encouraged:
Enneagram is briefly discussed in Ouspensky’s ISOTM, chapters 14 and 18, and in Mouravieff’s Gnosis, volume 3.
Ouspensky in ISOTM, Chapter 4 writes about 7 stages of development of man,
which is totally different from 7 ‘personality types’ Michael’s Enneagram (1 -a man of the physical body, 2 - a emotional man, 3 - a man of reason whose knowledge is based on scholastics, 4 - a man who has ideals, 5 - a man who has reached unity and has already been crystallized, 6 – a man very close to the ideal man, but some of his properties have not yet become permanent, 7 - the man who had reached the full development possible to man. I can’t see Gurdjieff there. In Michaelteachings, Gurdjieff is proudly displayed on the Michael’s cover wherever inside a skeleton of a sheep resides.
Are there comments on current or recent events?
Michael presents plentiful emotional and scientifically nonsensical word salad, evoking emotional calming comments of Michael entities, who is supposed to already complete 3D lessons and pass their knowledge on to poor earthlings through
to cite several examples:
Or these on Jesus:
Jesus is recognized in the Michael Teachings as one of a small handful of first rank spiritual teachers [7th old King who had an agreement to bring the Logos into physical manifestation through his body]. Jesus did not bring the Infinite Soul into his body until very late in his life, around thirty days before his death. The distorted record of his work is considered to be made up of these two perspectives.
Michaelteachings is an actively proliferating and doing well channel network with regular channeling sessions twice a month on the first and third Sundays (9 pm est), regular get-along meetings of Michael students (Michael students night) at every Wednesday, has 18 official Michael channel groups, nearly 20 official Michael channels, 143 classified Michael students, and according to Michael (Nancy Gordon, session 04/30/06), ‘approximately 300,000 followers of the teachings world wide’. Michaelteachings is a veritable master spiderweb of various activities and sites to draw maximum number of devotees inside that web, among them
Live Chats with Michael, Michael Teachings Web Board, Michael Teachings Gatherings, An open discussion list, Michael Educational Foundation, Michael Student's Website, Michael Options, Michael Casting Database, Michael Teachings interactive discussion group, Michael Teachings Zine (web), Michael Land (web), TrueView3000, Gateway Michael Forum, Michael Teachings Web Ring and a special Michaelteachings glossary
http:/(/www.michaelteachings.com/glossary.html
Michael on-line groups list with urls here
‘Michael’ is a group of entities of a mid-causal plane, a collection of 1,050 'essence fragments' who completed their final lifetime in ancient Greece and thus graduated 3D lessons and who created the ‘cosmic atlas which helps earthlings get to their destination’. In the book Messages from Michael, Michael was quoted as saying, "We are an ancient entity that comes to all who ask" which mimicries C’s. The Causal Plane is described as an eight dimensional realm of consciousness above the Astral Plane in spiritual hierarchy (adding ‘spiritual’ to term ‘hierarchy’ doesn’t free it from being a clearly STS concept, a pecking order of domination, control and pyramidal hierarchy).
Michael claims that these teachings were first taught through the Oracle at Delphi in 500 BC, and claims legacy of Eastern philosophy, especially Sufism, Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, and also Rodney Collin, a Gurdjieff / Ouspensky student, author of The Theory of Celestial Influence [probably therefrom distortion and twisting started as his late Theory of Conscious Harmony and The Mirror of Light promote new age pillar stones of faith, acceptance and forgiveness]. Michaelteachings appeared in mid 1970-th in San Francisco Bay Area; first channelers –Sarah Chambers, Dru Simms, JP Van Hulle. Not much info is available on Sarah Chambers, as she didn’t publish any book. According to wiki, Sarah Chambers was one of late Gurdjieff students, in mid-1970 started experimenting with using a Ouija board to see if they could get channeled information. After a period with at least one guide, Michael ‘entities’ started to come through. Then the original group broke up due to a conflict between a group member and Sarah Chambers. Novelist Chelsea Quinn Yarbro joined the group sometime in this period, and published the first book Messages From Michael, a fictionalized version of Sarah Chamber's group, identifying her under the pseudonym of Jessica Lansing. Yarbro bought the copyright to the group's work from Sarah Chambers and published three more books on the subject, containing edited channeling transcripts.
Channelers and Michaelteachings sites:
http:/(/www.michaelteachings.com
Main michaelteachings site is maintained by Dave Gregg, nickname – oldartisan, a professional freelance musician (sax, flute, clarinet). Online since '95.
His profile: http:/(/www.geocities.com/~oldartisan/mland.html and http:/(/dmoz.org/profiles/oldartisan.html
- Causalworks, Emily Baumbach (San Francisco Bay Area, CA)
http:/(/www.causalworks.com and http:/(/shell10.ba.best.com/~emilyb/
is an astrologer and author of several Michael books, including Celebrities and Parallel Universes; Causalworks offers a newsletter, tapes, and channeling services.
- Aaron Christeaan, (San Francisco Bay Area, CA)
Michael channel, and co-Author of book Michael-The Basic Teachings
- Ted Fontaine, (Davis/Sacramento, CA)
channels multiple entities: Michael, Yesu and Daniel
Ted channels ‘Michael Lines,’ http:/(/www.cal.net/~tedfont/ (on-line book of new Michael information), has newsletter ‘Channeling Arts’, conducts professional channeling sessions.
Swift twisting of C’s strategy:
Shepherd Hoodwin, (Laguna Niguel, CA) http:/(/www.summerjoy.comTed Fontaine said:In Michael's "words" about the channeling process, "We help form an alignment where we connect you (the audience), the channel and ourselves (Michael) into a triad where your personal game rules become clearer. It is our objective to help clarify issues, events and relationships for you and therefore help you make clear and conscious choices. Again, all questions are valid, even ones contrived to create a deceit since the [/b]deceit will eventually be exposed to reveal the truth[/b], however, we do not encourage deceptive questions. Questions asked sincerely provide the best results and allow a greater opening for healing and self awareness. Keep in mind that we will not tell you what to do. We will ask you to consider our answer and make your choices upon your own common sense and good judgment.
graduate of the University of Oregon in Music Education, a songwriter, singer, and actor. Michael channel since 1986 and author of 2 Michael books, offers channeling private sessions and intuitive readings.
Readers praise Shephard’s book The Journey of Your Soul: A Channel Explores Channeling and the Michael Teachings as ‘the most complete Michael book; a miraculous gift, a virtual encyclopedia of marvelously detailed information, inspiring insights, an expansive view into the inner workings […]. Chapter on channeling covers such ground as what channeling is, ways to channel, who can channel, intuition, the quality and plane of the source, what channeled entities see, predictions, recognizing truth, the purpose of channeling.
Flight of the Hawk, Victoria Marina-Tompkins, (Half Moon Bay and Oakland, CA) http:/(/www.flightofthehawk.com
a professional violinist is a Shamanic practioner and Michael channel, a student of the Michael teachings since 1980. In 1996 she co-founded The Gateway Associates (http:/(/www.gateway-assoc.com/) with Sarah Chambers, the original Michael medium, and Paul Avellar. She does private readings, e-mail readings, Michael Retreats, Michael tapes, workshops, soul retrievals and shamanic healing. She conducts monthly Michael channeling groups that meet in Half Moon Bay. Valeria Marina co-hosts seaangels cruises with Dorothy Campbell, hypnotherapist and a certified hypnosis instructor with the National Guild. A wise combination of cozy cruise atmosphere, comforting and self-reassuring Michael word and handy hypnotherapist ‘all-in-one’ may make wonders to ensure that Michael’s word gets through!
http:/(/www.seaangelscruise.com/newsletters/newsletter-issue3.html
Lori Gilbert, (Sacramento, CA)
Lori has been channeling Michael since 1994. She currently is a California Licensed Acupuncturist and does intuitive medical readings and healing.
Nancy Gordon, (Boulder County, Colorado)
worked for the US Congress, Shah of Iran, and State of Indiana, has degrees in university administration, anthropology, comparative religion. A Michael student since 1997. A computer channel, as opposed to a vocal channel, as based on an ‘agreement’ made with the Michaels in 2004. Nancy does private channelings. Nancy has 5 married kids (like Carolyn Evers, Archangel Michael conclave channel - http) and 9 grandchildren. Another peculiar coincidence!
Kay Heatherly (San Francisco, CA) http:/(/www.amt.to
has been channeling Michael since 1989. She has two on-going Michael Groups which meet monthly: one in San Francisco and another in Marin County. Speaking about coincidences she is a certified hypnotherapist who specializes in Past Life Regression Therapy.
Michael Educational Foundation, JP Van Hulle, (Orinda, CA)
JP Van Hulle is a professional Michael channel and author of several Michael books.
From reader review on Michael's Gemstone Dictionary: Utter nonsence. Said to be channelled by a group from the Pleiades, I truly think that the writer needed to change the channel.’
Rainbows & Miracles, Barbara Taylor (Orange County, CA) http: http:/(/www.itstime.com/michael.htm
a Michael channel who applies the teachings to the business world and mainstream settings. Specializes in Michael Math and Michael business.
Eileen Haisler (Manor, TX)
Michael student since 1990.
Carol Heideman (Dallas, TX)
Carol is a professional Michael channel and author of Searching for Light: Michael's Information for a Time of Change through Twelve Star Publishing
From editor: ‘For those who are aquainted with Michael's work, reading this book will be like a reunion with an old friend. It greatly compliments the work of Seth and the Pleiadians.’
Caris Palm Turpen, (Ft. Worth, TX) http:/(/www.lightcatcher.com
‘My True Work is, ‘Telling people what they don't know.’ A Michael student since 1980, a professional channel since 1997.
Karen Murphy (Boulder, CO)
Karen has been a Michael student since 1981 and a channel since 1999. Also a Reiki Master, offers channeling sessions and intuitive readings, specializing in past-and current-life connections and relationships.
Open Gate, Kay Kamala (Santa Fe, NM) Kay Kamala: http:/(/www.amt.to/kamala
is a professional Michael channel and visionary artist, specializing in relationship dynamics, essence roles and overleaves. Offers personal readings, workshops, and complimentary newsletter.
Pivotal Resources, Jose and Lena Stevens (Santa Fe, NM) Pivotal Resources: http:/(/www.pivres.com/~pivotal/
are authors of several Michael books, including Tao to Earth, Earth to Tao, and Transforming Your Dragons. Michael teachings abridged for business leaders, lawyers, and entrepreneurs. Dr. Stevens, is a Basque-Mexican-Irish American psychotherapist with over 20 years experience in personal growth counseling, and founder of Essence Psychology and The Integral Personality System.
Joya Pope (Fayetteville, AR) members.aol.com/joyapope and http:/(/www.spiritweb.org/michael-teachings/joya.html
Author of two Michael books, including The World According to Michael, and a co-author of The Michael Game
-- What is the channeling method (conscious, light trance, unconscious trance, automatic writing/typing, spirit board, pendulum, alone, with a group, etc.)?
Channeling occurs through what Michael calls the ‘higher centers,’ which can connect with ‘universal love, truth, and kinetic energy but are dormant and can be opened with practice’. Channeling method likely is light trance state reached with guided breathing/ guided meditation with ‘you are already a perfect being’ gloss
-- What is the format? Is it question-and-answer from the channel or an audience, or is the channel simply taking dictation?Karen Murphy session 2/19/06
Be, then, the whole. Remember from whence you came, what you are a part of still. Be the spark that creates new life within you. Be what generates more from without you. Be. Breathe now, and become what you are. Each of you is perfect and beautiful. Breathe again, and remember that you are not alone. We are ready for the first question.
Karen Murphy session 1/8/06
[short guided meditation]. Take a deep breath. While doing so, imagine yourself at the very center of a swirling mass of energy. … You feel yourself getting smaller, and being lifted off the earth while remaining within this protective mass of swirling energy. … The swirling mass of energy continues to rise, and you are carried away within it. You rise higher and higher, and now are one with the stars. … The swirling mass of energy that contains you expands as well. Soon you realize that you are the Universe. You continue expanding, and become then the multi-verse. The expansion continues, and you see that you are indeed the Tao. You rest within this knowledge. You see all. You are conscious of all. You are one with all. Take this feeling, then, this sense of oneness, as you find yourself once again in your own seat by your computer, your link now to the All around you. You feel peace from knowing who and what you are. Ready for the first question.
Probably conscious voice channelling format is used (+ light trance?).
Question and answer format from audience during live Michael chats is used, majority of questions is about this lifetime task, purpose, past lives, and personal relationships problem ‘reading’. Michael’s ‘personal readings’ rely on evoking affirmative emotional response and are as vague as one can imagine, resembling gypsy ‘predictions’ with pseudo scientific terminology gloss all over it. One wonders how easy people fall prey into such pseudo-scientific pseudo-psychotherapeutic counseling. There is plentiful harvest of lonely-feeling people with lack of attention (and appreciation?) from their family and friends, with baggage of personal relationships problems on their shoulders so I wouldn't be surprised if many fall prey in Michael ‘personality game’.
-- Does the channel comment on the material, research it, etc.?
I would say NO. They transcribe and pass it on to informational-garbage hungry audience.
-- Are there any other clues that indicate a relationship to or influence by other channels, groups, organizations, etc.?
Self-calming proliferating on ‘personal readings’ new age guru
Book Authors
-- Don't read it, of course, just look up the book on sites that sell it, see what the descriptions are, look for reviews on the web, including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc. Basically, find out all you can about the content.
More than 20 books, many out of print. Book list
-- Can you tell if they have a "major" publisher?
No
-- What are reviews of their books like? Are there reviews on sites that promote a certain point of view, theory, prophecy, etc."
In general books especially new Michael revelations are praised as detailed, pragmatic, not puff-ball New Age spirituality??, gritty, astonshing in its capacity to convey the message, a 'must read' for anyone working to be truely successful in their business and personal life.
-- Are there links on the site to other known people or groups? Who?
Shephard Hoodwin has links to guru Deepak Chopra, Neale Walsch, Gregg Bradden.
-- Does there appear to be an organization behind the site?
10 out of 16 Michael channels are residing in California.
Coincidence? California has the largest number of military installations in US -- 36 major and 25 minor facilities, including military installations, U.S. Department of Defense laboratories, and testing facilities. Among them 7 key space installations with highest level security clearance
http:/(/www.californiaspaceauthority.org/html/government_pages/military-support.html
We shouldn’t disregard the fact that Since 1988, a process known as Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) has closed 97 major US military installations, 29 in California. So, overall number of California military installations with security clearance was much higher in 1970-ies when Michael channeling started. A peculiar way to secure income.
ABOUT THE MATERIAL ITSELF:
Overview
-- overleaf (personality attributes that overlay one’s ‘essence’) personality system, which is claimed to help in understanding individual’s inner and outer motivations in this lifetime and to assist in understanding and acceptance of self. Claiming being descendants of Gurdjieff’s legacy Michaelteachings promote wishful acceptance of false self, inner (=false self) calming and acceptance of others and the world ‘as it is’ and induces spiritual blissfulness, self-love, self-esteem of false / mixed self, not real I.
In Michael’s glossary false personality is a false ego; the part of self motivated by fear.
Core of Michael Teachings has some similarities to Abraham Maslow theory of human motivation and basic human needs http://www.deepermind.com/20maslow.htm.
Overleaf personality system is heavily glossed with number 7:
7 soul ages (infant, baby, young, mature, old, transcendental, infinite) as for individual ‘fragments’, and for countries; spirituality of humanity slowly (automatically) rises, leading to socio-economic and cultural positive changes
7 personality roles (Artisan, Sage, Warrior, King, Server, Priest, Scholar)
7 goals (Growth, Retardation, Acceptance, Rejection, Submission, Dominance, Stagnation)
7 modes of action (caution, power, reserve, passion, perseverance, aggression, observation)
7 attitudes (stoic, spiritualist, skeptic, idealist, realist, cynic, pragmatist)
7 chief negative feature (greed, arrogance, stubbornness, self-deprecation, impatience, self-destruction, martyrdom)
6 centers (intellectual, moving, emotional, Higher Moving, Higher Intellectual, Higher Emotional)
Four Pillars of life: Four essential activities in life required to realize health and happiness - true work, true play, true study, and true rest
Popular NA division of Man into planetary body / personality types based on illusory personality of many little ‘i’s, new age profanation of Enneagram.
-- concept of reincarnation and rejoining the Tao in the end. Ensouled beings incarnate solely into human beings, the cycle of rebirth continues with increasing wisdom until the fragment (individual in Michaelteachings is called ‘a fragment’ – ‘an individual essence, or soul. The term conveys that each of us is a fragment of the whole, and particularly, a fragment of our entity, with which we will recombine when we have completed all our lifetimes on the physical plane’) is finished with the lessons learnt here.
Most important:
-- What is the central message(s), if any? This will usually be repeated often.
to identify one’s personality type in order to accept self, others and the world ‘as it is’. ‘Thou are very special’ message is emphasized, mechanical rising of consciousness upon reaching ‘understanding’ of self and others; before you can accept others, you must study, understand yourself to accept yourself.
YCYOR message, alignment with truth, love and beauty:Karen Murphy said:you may receive tenfold from this experience if you choose to simply be there and take what occurs for what it is, and release the expectation from the experience that it will "fix" you. You are already whole, as is.
You are already a perfect being, your pain is temporary and joy is permanent:Karen Murphy 01/21/07 said:You create the YOU at all times. You are doing this now. You also create the future-you, and the past-you. This is all done simultaneously. Therefore, everything you do, feel, think, and breathe reverberates not only through all your lifetimes but also through the lifetimes of all other humans. Think about this. This is what some mean by "We are One." For, surely, you are.
There is always the opportunity to fine-tune consciousness in various ways. There is a balance to be found as you align your thinking, feeling, and action with truth, love, and beauty. On the one hand, these quintessential energies do not stamp down their less elevated manifestations--they raise them up. So in taking responsibility for creating one's reality, there is a sort of alchemy as the higher heals the lower. It isn't instantaneous. It isn't "Put on a happy face and have a good attitude, no matter what you feel, goddammit!" It is a gentle process. On the other hand, there *is* sometimes hard work to be done, facing the mirror and making changes in ways of being that may be deeply entrenched. .
Taking personal responsibility is always the best course of action.Michael said:You are already a perfect being, you are worthy, valid and you are loved always. We (Michael) seek to help allow you to open to this truth. … Love is your power and it comes from inside of you. No where else. If you want somebody to love you then you must find the love from inside yourself. The love you feel is the energy of the perfect being you already are, will be, and have been all along. Since this being, essence, is always within you then within you is as the worth, validity and love you will ever need.
You are your highest authority.Michael said:By acting freely you then create the conditions for your freedom.
Of course, you may end up in a quagmire but it will be a perfect quagmire and exactly what you needed.
Ted Fontaine claims that first Michael group had previously studied the Gurdjieff teachings, which use some ideas and terminology similar to some of those in the Michael teachings. (Michael has been channeled as saying that Gurdjieff was also one of their channels, although he was likely channeling unconsciously.) However, the majority of the material was wholly original, and even when Michael "recycled" from Gurdjieff, they often altered the material and used it in new ways. Indeed.Michael said:The final goal in the teachings is to learn unconditional love for all of humanity. Life itself is the only lesson plan needed in order to move forward. From this continual dance, we eventual learn the following tenet: we are here to learn how to choose, and to choose how to learn.
Michael on true personality:Michael on self-observation said:Simple and easy: self-observation — becoming fully aware of yourself. No effort. No exercises. No traumas. No fuss. You don't even have to know how you got to be the way you are […]Self-observation transcends the Polarity of good/bad — and all other Polarities. It is totally neutral. It neither condemns for the "negative" nor praises for the "positive". There is neither repression nor sublimation. There are no shoulds or shouldn'ts. There is only vigilant watchfulness about everything within your being and in your response to everything outside your being. Nothing is beyond the scrutiny of self-observation: every thought, every feeling, every action is up for investigation.[…] The purpose is not to reprogram — it is to deprogram. Simply stated, self-observation leads to disidentification with the personal self that suffers and rejoices, remembers and forgets, philosophizes and rationalizes, laughs and cries, succeeds and fails — the self that is bandied about between Polarities. Self-observation leads to identification with Essence, which has no preferences. One of the results of self-observation is objectivity — Truth. This is most important when it comes to examining our motives. Why do we do the things we do? Parts of the personal self lie to other parts all the time. We don't always know when there are lies at the time it happens, but later when reality intrudes we can be objective with 20-20 hindsight. We may choose to examine the self-deception and learn from it, so that it does not happen again. This process will gradually increase our objectivity. We will begin to see when our rationalizing or fantasizing or wishing or emotionalizing or desiring or whatever is leading us astray. By objectifying ourselves we jump out of neurotic "loops" we may have — thoughts, feelings and behaviors that repeat continually.
true personality is when person occupies positive poles of his/her overleaves. The negative poles are fear driven, the positive poles are love driven or essence driven. Individual is regarded as a spark of the Tao which can express itself only through love. Fear being the absence of love then is not a self, but a false personality.
Michael on truth:
consider truth as what is, without judgment. See if you can remove human personality from your vision of truth and connect with it as a pure universal force.
Truth is more of the higher intellectual center; facts are more of the intellectual center. Both, of course, are needed. Truth allows love to manifest as beauty. Truth is higher mind. In humans, it manifests as wisdom. Ask your essence to connect directly to the truth force and see what you experience. What do you feel?
passive / mechanical learning encouraged:
Michael system of body / personality types and use of Enneagram therein is claimed to descend from Gurdjieff teaching, probably came from late Rodney Collin’s The Theory of Celestial Influence (or Gauquelin?) , classifies all humans into seven basic personality types. It connects antropocosmos of an individual to the solar system (Sun, Mercury, Venus, Moon, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn). 7 Personality types enneagram is propagated on internet http:/(/blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-b8J0Gvo1eaqVB97cFovu?p=110Michael-Dave Gregg 25/12/06 said:every person you meet is a true teacher. There isn't a soul on the planet who doesn't have something to teach you. The very nature of existence provides a multitude of experiences, and no matter how mundane or trivial, the opportunity to learn always exists. Nothing is ever wasted. You are literally learning every second you exist; it cannot be avoided. In this regard, LIFE is the truest teacher.
Enneagram is briefly discussed in Ouspensky’s ISOTM, chapters 14 and 18, and in Mouravieff’s Gnosis, volume 3.
Ouspensky in ISOTM, Chapter 4 writes about 7 stages of development of man,
which is totally different from 7 ‘personality types’ Michael’s Enneagram (1 -a man of the physical body, 2 - a emotional man, 3 - a man of reason whose knowledge is based on scholastics, 4 - a man who has ideals, 5 - a man who has reached unity and has already been crystallized, 6 – a man very close to the ideal man, but some of his properties have not yet become permanent, 7 - the man who had reached the full development possible to man. I can’t see Gurdjieff there. In Michaelteachings, Gurdjieff is proudly displayed on the Michael’s cover wherever inside a skeleton of a sheep resides.
Are there comments on current or recent events?
Michael presents plentiful emotional and scientifically nonsensical word salad, evoking emotional calming comments of Michael entities, who is supposed to already complete 3D lessons and pass their knowledge on to poor earthlings through
Uuups, facts contradict that claim!Michael/ Ted Fontaine said:a particular kind of channeling, focused in the intellectual center, allowing them to bring through highly concentrated, precise material.
to cite several examples:
Or these self-calming notes on aliens and alien abductions:Shepherd Hoodwin on current situation (session 10/01/06)
<ShepherdHoodwin> We wish to address the current situation. … Especially in the U.S. as it moves toward an election, there are many people who feel that they don't know what to think or who to believe. They want to trust their leaders, just as children want to trust their parents. Many people right now are at a point where they on the cusp of letting go of their denial. What each of you can do to help is to breath long and deeply, both literally and figuratively. Notice right now if you are breathing freely. If not, deliberately do so. Focus on transmitting a vibration that says, ‘Don't worry. All is well. Trust what you know.’
Shepherd Hoodwin on 9/11: http:/(/summerjoy.com/September112001/september112001.html
On Islamic fundamentalists, Israel and sentencing of Saddam Hussein to death <ShepherdHoodwin> We think that the United States can only make this situation worse by maintaining a strong presence in the Middle East. It is likely that U.S. leaders will finally realize this and stop trying to manipulate events there, instead increasing charitable work. We don't see the sentencing to have much influence here: our impression is that the fundamentalists have mixed feelings about this. They don't like Hussein but they don't like the U.S., which was behind the trial, either. Peace with Israel becomes more likely when the U.S. shows goodwill by mostly pulling out of the area and positive help is offered to countries who want non-military help with their infrastructure, in exchange for peace treaties with Israel and regional cooperation in general.
Ted Fontaine on Bush:
Bush ‘lives partially in a world of fantasy about his own power’, expendable, Bush is a lesser player and owes his position to members of the group, is not part of the power structure
Comment on Irak invasion:
this is less of a war and more of a raid. The US will again provide less than credible information. They will provide enough truth but much of it will be what is called, a bald faced lie. Note that this type of lying is more convincing than one that has a shadow of guilt. We see for Iraq a breakdown then a division into three states. An oil baronship in the east, a northern region held by the Kurds and the rest which will be somewhat of a no mans land. This will be the poorer and more chaotic of the areas similar to Bierut or Somalia. It will be a region where US forces will be playing cat and mouse with terrorist groups.
Has the US government ever launched a terrorist attack against its own people? When and where?
<KarenMurphy> Yes. For effect, for various purposes. Several times, as have many governments around the world through the centuries. This is not uncommon. These are small-scale actions designed to take place unobtrusively.
On the the crisis in Israel and Lebanon
Nancy Gordon 07/30/06
Regarding question about the fighting between these two countries leading to a world conflagration, we put the likelihood of this at not more than 5 %. Remember, this is a family quarrel. … Therefore we would say that given the circumstances, a World War III is not on the agenda. If circumstances change significantly then there would have to be a reassessment of this outcome.
[Michael Dave Gregg chat 06/18/06]
<John> Does President Bush plan to start a war with Iran this year and possibly occupy it? What insights does Michael have on the subject of a U.S./Iran war?
<DaveGregg> We will not predict if there will be a war between the United States and Iran, but will say that the strategic plans for such an action have indeed been drawn up, as they have been with many countries that pose a potential threat.
Whether or not President Bush will launch a military strike is a decision that teeters on several factors currently being monitored. The president's advisors, however, have warned him against the use of military force in this situation, and at the moment he is listening.
More so than with Iraq, a war with Iran would sprout seeds of hatred that could carry on well beyond the initial engagement. A birth of new terrorist leaders would inspire continued martyrdom, and as violence fuels nothing but more violence, the flower of democracy might finally wilt from the heat of its own destructive force.
Nobody can be the victor when the sole means of ending violence is the use of reciprocal amounts of force. We see that masquerading behind the guise of the noble cause here will only result in a self-perpetuating system of hated and fear, not the state of peace that many in the world so desperately desire.
Climate changes - melting of the ice caps faithful gypsy ‘predictions’:
Michael – Dave Gregg 07/16/06]
<DaveGregg> We see a ponderous row of dominoes tumbling down, creating a momentum that could be difficult to stop. All is not lost regarding your environmental concerns, but we do wish to alert you that while your government officials and much of your populace slumbered in denial, certain events were set into motion.
The probability that the melting of the ice caps can be reversed is 50/50 at this point. You have been poor stewards of your planet and a domino-like effect is in play. The time to make amends is now.
A change of leadership would be a positive step forward, but with self-serving politicians in both of your political parties, there is no guarantee this will make a difference. On the other hand, the powers that prevented an elected presidential candidate from ascending to leadership in the 2000 election, partially blocked an agreement he had to lead the world in making sweeping environmental changes. There are many other fragments with similar agreements, but getting them into positions of influence can be difficult. There currently exists a duality in your country that has hindered efforts to move forward on this issue. Both sides are making choices commensurate with their perspective of the truth. Barring a global catastrophe, finding the common ground is the only solution we see that will result in much progress.
Regarding possible scenarios, there are too many probabilities to consider. We will say, however, that climatic predictions about global warming are being underestimated.
Climate changes:
Nancy Gordon 04/30/06
There are changes in the earth that are part of its own cycle. Economic recessions come and go, climate changes do also. The last great climate change occurred in your 15th century when much of the northern hemisphere of this planet experienced unusual seasons of great cold. Your history books refer to it as the Little Ice Age. We do not see that any such change in temperature is a part of your future. There is, however, the very real possibility that coastal regions all over the planet will find that they are being reshaped. Since these areas include a number of very large metropolitan areas with their vast populations, it may be incumbent on those living there to re-think their residence and to take appropriate steps toward moving to higher ground. No amount of diking, walling, sea gating, will hold back the oceans.
What is the time table for this possibility? Over the next 50 years or so.
On economic collapse:
Nancy Gordon 04/30/06
As for economic collapse, there is a strong probability that the whole financial structure of the planet will undergo reorganization. This will result in hardship for many, especially those with much to lose. For those who are presently existing in a marginal financial world anyway, there will be less trauma. We offer this as a likely, that is to say, a probable situation. The planning for a financial reconstruction of the planet's monetary foundation is already being addressed. One of the signs of the beginning of this is the reorganization of the monies of the countries of the European continent. There will be other, probably different, decisions over the next 10 to 20 years which will result in a greater easing of restrictions on international trade and the prosperity that will follow that.
The shadow of capitalism will continue to cover many emerging markets, simply because there is little understanding of alternatives, but here and there alternatives are already in place and are working. We have said in the past and we say again, there is very little likelihood that there will be a total collapse of civilization as you know it.
On bird flu:
Karen Murphy 3/19/06
<KarenMurphy> Although there is and has been a real possibility and occurrence of viruses transferring from one species to another, in this case, with the current level of watchfulness, we see that the probability for this happening in the next five years is 17%. Beyond the five-year window, the possibility increases somewhat, but there are too many variable at this time to make an adequate analysis of the possibilities. We would say that if this does occur, however, the effects could be horrific.
On AIDS government conspiracy:
Dave Gregg 12/25/06
<DaveGregg> It is not a conspiracy. … soul groups use AIDS as a vehicle to focus more attention on the often ignored and indigent segments of society. The devastating poverty that plagues Africa, for example, requires an antidote, and while the remedy may seem counterproductive, the enormous attention to AIDS has both attracted the media and galvanized activists to beat the drums of change. It is true that lessons of survival are being explored in these third-world regions, but the magnitude of poverty and suffering has gone beyond the level of conditions many souls feel is tolerable, and the experiences are no longer considered productive.
… the disease has certainly been used as a crucible to foster greater awareness towards the plights of others. … It is true that pharmaceutical companies have leveraged themselves into positions of huge profit from this disease, but they are merely taking advantage of an existing opportunity. …What you choose to believe, however, is ultimately a matter of your own personal validation.
There are more of nearly ‘scientific’ comments of 3D graduates on Atlantis, crop circles, el Chupacabra, Bermudas, Egypt pyramids, Stonehenge, Newgrange megaliths, Mohenjo Daro / Harappan civilization, Kundalini, etc., etc….Michael - Dave Gregg: said:Visitations by extraterrestrials have been exceedingly rare. Much of the contact is in the form of astral interaction, and while the Universe is indeed abundant with life, we do not see a high probability of physical contact with any extraterrestrial civilization in the near future.
In many ways extraterrestrials now serve as the latest archetype of fear, mirroring the beliefs and mindset of your culture. In earlier history your society was haunted by hallucinations of evil spirits or the devil, and not surprisingly, impressionable towns folk then believed they had been possessed by demons. Technological advances in your world have simply updated the phenomena in the guise of alien abductions, giving a new face to old cultural fears and beliefs.
We assure you that extraterrestrials have never abducted any life forms from your planet. They would have no reason to do this. Their technology could extract everything they need to know about your world in one infinitesimal sample. Nightmares, hynogogic states, sleep paralysis, astral projection, are all valid explanations to take into account when reviewing this data.
We ask you to consider the following: What lessons have you learned from history that you do not wish to repeat? How many steps removed do you feel you are from the phobias that gripped societies in the past? Alien abductions are simply a cultural reincarnation of the same anxieties and fears that once led to the wide-spread persecution of pagan cults and accusations of witchcraft. It is your choice, of course, what you ultimately choose to believe. We just wish to remind you that there are other choices to consider.
Or these on Jesus:
Jesus is recognized in the Michael Teachings as one of a small handful of first rank spiritual teachers [7th old King who had an agreement to bring the Logos into physical manifestation through his body]. Jesus did not bring the Infinite Soul into his body until very late in his life, around thirty days before his death. The distorted record of his work is considered to be made up of these two perspectives.
-- Are there specific predictions of the future events (and are any kind of dates given)?Karen Murphy 12/18/05
There was a man known as Jesus, yes. Legend has sprung up about him since his death, but he was a fragment of awareness and compassion.
Nancy Gordon 01/26/06
The birthplace of the man Jesus was in a village that no longer exists. In order to maintain the fiction of the prophecies, Bethlehem was promoted, with its tale of inns and shepherds. The man Jesus was born in the reign of Augustus in what is now known as the year 4 BC. It has been said that the year 6 BC is the date, but this is off by two years. We also say that there is no truth to the story of a midwinter birth. It was an ordinary spring night. No angels, no kings, no danger.
Karen Murphy 04/30/06
The fragments Jesus and John Baptist had spent a previous lifetime as brothers near the Red Sea. There was quite an attachment between them and the love that bled through into their next life together, the one you ask about, was palpable. There was, additionally, an agreement between these two fragments. The man John was a Sage-cast Scholar, the man Jesus of course a King. They each shared many elements of life task and worked in concert for several years, even when not working together in the physical sense. However, only the man Jesus had the agreement to facilitate the manifestation of the Infinite Soul. There was never any question as to which man would perform this.
The conflict between the two camps that evolved from these two men is well-known. […] This conflict, however, did not seem to dampen the message that was brought to the physical plane on earth at that time, and each fragment, the man John and the man Jesus, each played a primary role in bringing that message to bear.
Gypsy-like predictions of Michael for 2007:Michael on specific predictions said:Although no one can really predict, we would think that 2007 will be a more comfortable year than the past two has been for many of you. There's a readiness not to struggle so much and allow life to flow more easily.
We do not know for a certainty what the future will bring for ourselves or for you. That makes the game of life much more interesting and challenging. If everything could be predicted ahead of time, we would all have to be automatons, and if we are expressions of the Tao, then the Tao would likewise be an automaton. Fortunately, this is not the case. We cannot predict what others will do with assurance because others themselves do not know what they will do, and even if they think they know, they might change their minds. We can only give our best projections based on where things appear to be going, taking into account the relevant agreements and karmas. This is an art we are learning.
Imminent events are easier to predict. If an object is teetering precariously on the edge of a shelf, one could safely predict that it will fall. However, even in such a situation, someone might come along and move it. [CD: yes and no in the same bag]
It is a great fallacy that you need to predict the future to choose well now. Relying on predictions of the future weakens your capacity to make good choices. When you think that you have everything figured out, you may start to drift by on your preconceived notions rather than playing the game in the present moment with all the skill and attention you can muster.
Karen Murphy 01/21/2007 said:We have noted before that this year can be considered one of great change, both on a personal level for many fragments and on a more global scale. This can be interpreted to mean that there will be bloodshed or an end to bloodshed, or political upheaval, or other grand-scale noticeable changes. We would like to suggest that while the change and transition occurring now and over the next twelve months will indeed likely have long-lasting effects, those changes may not be noticeable until much later, a time when fragments can look back and see the great changes that were wrought within the scope of their lives and then hold the awareness that they were a part of this massive shift. We suggest, then, that fragments seek to make their particular corners of the globe a more comfortable place, a place of haven and safety and warmth, and to trust that those small changes will help bring about the larger shift that will occur.