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The Basic Teachings

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JP Van Hulle
M.C. Clark
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 Michael: The Basic Teachings

"This teaching presents the concept that all of life is a circle or spiral
of experience, and that no point on the circle is better than any other.
Each point is merely a different perspective with a different lesson
behind it. We are all equally part of the whole . . . regardless of our
degree of awareness. The role of a teacher is really to remind you of
what you already know."

"We are giving you information regarding the structure of this

universe so that you can more fully understand the part you play,
and your relationship to the whole. We are also giving you
knowledge to show you where you are on the circle of experience.
Having this knowledge and using it in your life facilitates...
growth.”

Learn to remember what you already know

and facilitate your own growth with...

The Michael Teaching

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 MICHAEL
The Basic Teachings

by
Aaron Christeaan
JP Van Hulle
and
M.C. Clark

Edited by Michael Friday Illustrated by Lisa Locke

Second Edition

Michael Educational Foundation

Orinda, California
1990
 Michael: The Basic Teachings
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by Aaron Christeaan, JP Van Hulle and M.C. Clark

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Dedication
We dedicate this book to all the older souls who have struggled
to maintain an integrated sense of self while living in and working
with a Young Soul society with all its demands and imprinting.

Grammatical note
From Michael's perspective, having seen both matriarchal and
patriarchal societies and knowing that Essences spend many lives on
the Physical Plane in both male and female bodies, quibbles about
language and sex seem irrelevant. From our Physical Plane
perspective, living in a culture where we are changing from a
patriarchal society to one where the sexes are more equal, we see a
certain sexual prejudice in the language: i.e., in our constant use of
"he," "him" and "his" when we are referring to both sexes. We have
rejected the colloquial and clumsy "they" as a replacement for third
person singular; nor are we happy with s/he as an alternative. The
exclusive use of "one," on the other hand, sounded too formal and
high-blown. So, we have opted to even things out a little by using
"she" and "her" in these cases.
All uses of the name "Michael" refer to the entity Michael,
composed of 1050 souls. Thus, the pronoun we most appropriately
associate with Michael is the third person plural — i.e., "they,"
"them" and "their" — even though this disagrees with their third
person singular name.
We trust these two grammatical eccentricities will cause our
readers no difficulty in comprehension.

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Acknowledgements
The list of people who have supported and added to our
experience of the Michael Teaching are too numerous to mention.
Instead we will content ourselves with naming the handful of people
who have been of particular support in putting this present volume
together.
First of all, our sincere thanks to Anne Henly, Elizabeth Bennett
and Joya Pope — Warrior, Warrior and Sage — who were willing
to pitch in with their commentary and proofreading skills when we
were too overwhelmed by the project to bear looking at the copy
"one more time.”
Gratitude also goes to Mark and Arlene Dalton (Artisan and
King) of Gamma Graphics, Dublin, California, who were so
generous with their technical advice on layout, paste up, printing
methods, page composition and all those other technical details we
thought we knew about, but didn't.
An acknowledgement belongs in every Michael book produced
by "this branch of the Teaching" for Joy and John Perasso whose
Sage advice and Warrior steadiness have a good deal to do with the
way the Michael Teaching has flourished in this area.
And a special thank you from M.C. to Robert Van Hulle who
idealistically saw the possibilities and was willing, Artisan fashion,
to create the space to allow them to happen.

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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Vv
List of Illustrations ix
Preface xi

Introduction
Who is Michael? Michael introduces "themselves" il
The Aim and Purpose of the Michael Teaching 5
Part 1: Overview of the Michael Teaching
Chapter 1 Cosmology 9
Chapter 2 The Planes of Existence 13
Chapter 3 Soul Perception on the Physical Plane 21
Chapter 4 The Planetary Shift 37
Part 2: A Profile of Essence and Personality
Chapter 1 The Seven Roles 43
Chapter 2 Focused and Creative Energy
and Frequency 61
Chapter 3 The Seven Goals 67
Chapter 4 The Seven Modes 79
Chapter5 The Seven Attitudes 89
Chapter 6 The Seven Chief Negative Features 99
Chapter 7 Centering and the Seven Centers 111
Chapter 8 Body Types 133

Part 3: Relationships with Others 163

Chapter 1 Karma and Agreements 165
Chapter 2 Your Life Plan 173
Chapter 3 Essence Twins and Task Companions 181
Chapter 4 Monads 187
Chapter 5 Support Circle 197
Chapter 6 Other Groups 203

Afterword 209
Glossary 213

Appendix
For more information Doo
About the Authors 235
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List of Mlustrations
The Planes of Existence Vili
The Akashic Record 6
A Diagram of the System 8
The Circle of Experience 14
The Planes of Existence 16
Choosing Your Overleaves 20
Roles: Basic Characteristic of Essence 42
*Composite Overleaf Profile: Scholar 46
*Composite Overleaf Profile: King 60
Goals: Primary Motivator 66
*Composite Overleaf Profile: Sage 74
Modes: Means of Obtaining the Goal 78
Attitudes: Stance From Which You View Life 88
*Composite Overleaf Profile: Priest 92
Chief Negative Features: Primary Stumbling Block 98
*Composite Overleaf Profile: Server 104
Centers: Primary Energizers 110
Example of a Trap:
Emotional Part of Intellectual Center 114
*Composite Overleaf Profile: Warrior 118
Body Types: Planetary Influences on the Body 132
Progression of the Body Types 135
Lunar Bodies 138
Venusian Bodies 140
Mercurial Bodies 142
Saturnian Bodies 146
Martial Bodies 148
Jovial Bodies, Male, with and without Exercise 150
Jovial Bodies, Female, with and without Exercise [52
Solar Bodies 154
Unusual Body Types, Faces 156
*Composite Overleaf Profile: Artisan 180
Marriage Monad 190
The Support Circle 198
Passionate/Repressive Monad 202
Overleaf Chart 212

*Composite Overleaf Profiles: These ficticious characters

demonstrate how you can recognize roles and overleaves as well as
body type at a glance.
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Preface
The Michael teaching sets up a different filter though which you
can look at life and, in our opinion, one that helps it make a lot more
sense. It is useful not only in looking at your own life, but also for
looking at and understanding what other people are doing. You look
at life's basic questions: Who am I? What am I doing here? What are
my relationships about? And what am I going to do with all that?
The Michael Teaching shows you a way to find those answers.
Michael is one of the few teachers we've found who, along with
encouraging you to see the Truth and be emotionally balanced, says
you should learn to work with and use everything on the Physical
Plane. When you combine all of these elements you will be an
integrated and contributing member of the human race —
philosophically, psychically, logically, physically and emotionally
balanced. That is the way to profit completely from this lifetime
you've arranged — and to move forward in soul age.
We are adding this book to the already existing literature about
Michael because we wanted a definitive treatise of the Michael
system according to our understanding. This is how we see the
Michael teaching.
Aaron Christeaan
JP Van Hulle
M. C. Clark

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 Introduction

Who is Michael?

Michael introduces "themselves"

"We are an ‘entity’ of 1050 souls who lived our Physical Plane
lives on this planet. We have completed our lessons on the Physical
Plane and have moved through the Astral Plane to the Causal Plane
where we now reside and teach. We use the name Michael, since
that is the last name of the last ‘fragment' of our entity to live on the
planet. The teaching we give you is the truth as we see it from the
point of view of the Causal Plane. Our teacher is the Infinite Soul.
"This teaching is made available every few thousand years on
those planets which are undergoing intense transitions in the content
of their awareness (soul perception) and in the structure of their
civilizations. The planet Earth is now undergoing such a transition.
We have made ourselves available to you in order to facilitate this
planetary shift and to awaken those souls who are ready for a more
advanced level of soul perception.
"This universe of which you are a part is a highly-structured,
living organism, whose goal is the accumulation of new experiences
that aim toward growth and self-knowledge. This is its bottom line
purpose, as we know it. The universe is structured as a highly
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organized game plan that allows for growth and expansion along the
parameters it created for itself at the time of the game's conception.
The structure of this game has a beginning and an end. When it has
fulfilled its usefulness, it will complete itself and flip over into a new
structure.
"We are giving you information regarding the structure of this
universe so that you can more fully understand the part you play and
your relationship to the whole. We are also giving you knowledge to
show you where you are on the circle of experience. Having this
knowledge and using it in your life facilitates your Essence and
personality in its growth.
"This teaching is not a belief system and is not meant to be taken
at face value. This information does not require your belief in order
to be valid. What we do require is that you validate for yourself
from this material what part you can use and what part you cannot.
Blind faith will not help you grow, but verification and application
of those principles that work for you will.
"We are not infallible. We, like yourselves, are on a path of self-
discovery. We do not know everything because we have not yet
recombined with the total consciousness of the universe. We are,
however, able to offer the experiences of an entity who has
completed its Physical and Astral Plane lessons and has complete
memory of those lives and experiences.
"We are individually connected to each of our students, i.e., to
those who have agreed to work with us. We assist you by means of
that connection to the degree that you are willing to be open to it and
listen to it. We work not only with individuals, but also with groups
of students who are handling similar lessons. For those who have
agreed to work with us in groups, we provide the energy and the
lessons; you provide the experience.
"We teach through mediums or channels — people who agree to
set themselves aside long enough for us to say what we want to say
 Introduction

through them. One of the values of teaching through channels is that

each one develops his or her own particular specialty and ability to
channel truth, love or energy from us and from the universe. Having
a variety of channels with different talents, who are not necessarily
going to receive exactly the same information, is one way of keeping
this teaching from becoming dogmatic.
"Another element of this teaching is there is no visible authority.
We believe that humans have evolved to the point where they can
take charge of their own lives, rather than give that authority over to
others. We seldom give advice. We have found through our
experience that souls grow most quickly through their own
guidance, rather than modeling themselves after another. What we
do give you is the ability to see the greater possibilities. We also
offer you methods of studying your Essence and personality so they
may develop to their fullest extent.
"We recognize all paths to spiritual growth as valid. In this
teaching, there is no right or wrong, good or bad; those concepts are
purely Physical Plane inventions. What we recognize is that
everyone grows at his or her own pace. We merely state things as
we see them. We also recognize that the experiences of the Physical
Plane are as valid as the experiences of other planes.
"Being on the Physical Plane involves agreeing to forget
yourself and experience separateness in order to grow. Separateness
encourages growth. As you become an older soul and complete your
lessons on the Physical Plane, you begin to drop your sense of
separateness. At that point, you prepare for the next cycle of
lessons, which are Astral.
"This teaching presents the concept that all of life is a circle or
spiral of experience and that no point on the circle is better than any
other. Each point is merely a different perspective with a different
lesson behind it. We are all equally part of the whole or the Tao,
regardless of our degree of awareness. The role of a teacher is really
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to remind you of what you already know.

"In some teachings, one advances by rejecting the physical. In
this teaching, there is no point at which you become ‘enlightened,’
because enlightenment is a state of awareness and you can always
increase your awareness. We encourage our students to be aware of
their physical existence as well as their spiritual balance and integrate
the various aspects of who they are in order to experience
themselves more fully. We also train them to have those
‘enlighented’ moments of perception more often while they are
functioning in their normal lives.”

— Michael, channeled through JP and Aaron

November, 1984
 Introduction

The Aim and Purpose of the Michael Teaching

The aim of this teaching is to develop your ability to understand
and accept yourself and others, and to help you find the path of
agape, or unconditional love, which is the final goal. The state of
agape is that acceptance of self and others which includes knowing
we are all following our appropriate paths and are learning the
lessons which we have set up for ourselves, regardless of what that
may look like. This state varies in degree from mild tolerance to
complete acceptance and love. The path of love, or agape, is the path
that you ultimately follow as you advance in soul perception.
Before you can accept others, you must learn to accept yourself.
It is a universal law that you can only love others to the degree that
you are able to love yourself. So, in this teaching, you begin by
studying yourself. Through this process, you develop a greater
understanding of yourself and what challenges and agreements you
have set up to fulfill in this lifetime. Through this process, you can
also develop a greater tolerance toward yourself and attain the
balance that allows you to act as appropriately as possible and to
actualize your fullest potential.
While learning to appreciate yourself, you learn to appreciate
others. The information that Michael gives allows you to understand
people are correct for being the way they are and to have insight into
the challenges they have provided for themselves.
Michael teaches that souls evolve through different levels of soul
perceptivity and that, at any time, you will be working on lessons
related to a particular perceptivity. Knowing this makes it possible to
accept that people are working at the levels they need to complete.
For yourself, studying soul perceptivity can allow you to
achieve the highest soul level that you reached in a previous life and
possibly move on. It is also important to recognize that in two out of
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The Akashic Record is an energetic "computer" which stores all

 Introduction

three lives, most souls do not choose a life of spiritual advancement.

Even when people are not working directly towards spiritual
advancement, however, they are growing through the pursuit of
other Physical Plane phenomena.
This teaching recognizes all paths as valid and does not make
any claims toward being the only path. Michael acknowledges that
certain people make agreements before they are born to absorb a
certain amount of this teaching. There is no compulsion to believe
anything. There is no penalty for disbelief or for not following any
of Michael's teachings. Michael has found through the ages that
people do whatever they are going to do, regardless. For that
reason, Michael does not give advice but simply tries to state things
as "they" (all the fragments of that entity) see them.
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A DIAGRAM OF THE SYSTEM

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The Michael System works as a model of the universe and operates

according to the same laws. The system provides a means of
studying yourself and the universe because the same laws that
operate within man (the microcosmos) can be observed in the
universe at large (the macrocosmos). Two of the laws we shall
encounter continuously are the Law of Three and the Law of
Seven, also known as triads and septants. Briefly, the Law of
Three says that for any phenomenon there are three forces present:
affirming, denying and neutral. The Law of Seven states that for all
phenomena there are seven levels of vibration or manifestation.
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Chapter 1: Cosmology
Michael refers to the total consciousness of the universe as the
Tao. There are many universes, each learning their own lessons and
dealing with their own particular game plans. The universe of which
we are a part developed along the lines of having focused and
creative energies in duality and combinations of energy patterns, the
number patterns three and seven being particularly significant. In
accordance with the Law of Seven there are seven Essence roles,
seven planes of existence, seven levels of soul perception and so
forth. The Law of Three manifests as ordinal, exalted and neutral;
affirming, denying and reconciling; active, passive and mediating.
These patterns repeat themselves in many different forms.
The motivating force is that the universe wishes to know itself.
All growth increases self-knowledge and awareness. For this
purpose, the universe creates games through which it can have new
experiences and thereby come to know more about itself. One of
these games is called the experience of separateness, i.e., the
experience of the Physical Plane.
The Physical Plane is created by slowing down energy to the
point where it vibrates slowly enough to be solid. Thus you are able
to experience having your own body, identity, and consciousness as
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separate from that of the universe as a whole.

All activity within the universe is governed by individual and
collective choice. No one is ever made to do something she really
does not want to do. Those who wish to do so can remain in the
Tao, in contact with its total consciousness. A certain percentage of
the Tao (about 5% at any given time) agrees to take on new
experiences by coming to the Physical Plane. We are part of this
5%. The individual parts are called fragments or Essences.
A fragment is a tiny bit of the Tao that takes on the pioneering
work of experiencing itself as separate and limited, moves through
the seven planes of existence and, eventually, returns to be united
again with the total consciousness of the Tao. This is called the
circle of experience. Once the fragment has reunited with the
Tao, it can remain there, play a different game, or return to the
Physical Plane — most likely on a different planet.
The universe itself passes through planes of existence as do
individual Essences on the Physical Plane. Generally speaking,
there are seven planes, and seven levels within each plane. Once the
Physical Plane, the first of the seven, has been created, the Tao
seeds various planets with organic life suitable to the different
environments. Then it watches as those species develop and evolve,
waiting until the point where those species can sustain sentient
consciousness. What is required is that the species develop the
capacity to use the intellectual part of the Intellectual Center. This is
where self-awareness ("I know that I am") first originates. At this
point, the Tao sends sentient fragments (Essences, or souls) into
those creatures, and they become a sentient race.
The fragments that decide to go to that particular planet first go
to a holding zone. This is not a separate plane of existence, but an
astrally experienced part of the Tao where you go before you come
to the Physical Plane. It is there that the entities are formed, groups
of about 1,000 fragments who agree to share their consciousness

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and experiences throughout an entire cycle of experience through the

seven planes of existence. Seven of these entities form together
into a cadre. Most of your relationships will be with members of
your cadre.
At this time, you also choose what role or basic characteristic of
Essence you will have. If you decide to have an essence twin, ee
connection is made. :

The entities vary. Sometimes they will be composed of only one

type of Essence role, and sometimes they will have all the roles
represented. It is most common to have a majority of two or three
roles and a sprinkling of a few others. (The entity Michael, for
example, is made up of mostly Warriors and Kings.) The entire
entity shares the same consciousness. After having fragmented and
completed the experience of the Physical Plane, it will later reunite
on the Astral Plane.
The entity fragments do not all come to the Physical Plane at the
same time; some will forge ahead and others follow later. Essence
twins, however, do come at the same time so that they can be
together and share the same experience.
In the process of incarnation, from your first through your final
life, you choose your parents, what kind of body, and into which
culture you will be born. Before you get here you have the most
control over what circumstances you will be born into. You also
choose your sex and your overleaves — the basic personality
characteristics from which you wish to operate.
Coming to the Physical Plane means making a commitment to
working through an entire cycle of experience: that is, moving

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through the different levels of soul perception in a series of lives on

the Physical Plane, and then moving through the levels of the other
six planes (or cycles) as you advance towards the Tao once again.
The choice to make an appearance on the Physical Plane while
retaining full consciousness is made by the Tao itself, rather than by
individual fragments. That appearance is called the manifestation
of the Infinite Soul. The Infinite Soul comes not to learn but to
teach and to assist souls and entire planets in their soul perception
transitions. The Infinite Soul can manifest from any of the seven
planes of existence and in whatever form it wishes.
The normal process taken by figment Sone is to agree to
forget connectedness to the Tao on the Physical Plane. Forgetting
your relationship with the Tao is what allows you to take on new
growth experiences. Separateness encourages growth here. Not
having all the answers encourages you to experiment with new
methods. Each sentient race is a new experiment in the development
of consciousness.
As the fragment ages and accumulates experiences on the
Physical Plane, the forgetfulness wears thin and it longs to reunite
with the consciousness of its entity and the Tao. This drive becomes
quite strong in older souls as they complete their experiences here.
Eventually the fragment "cycles off" the planet by not taking on any
more bodies here and moves on to lessons on the Astral Plane.

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Chapter 2: The Planes of Existence

As you pass through the planes on the circle, you recombine
with the rest of your entity, then with other entities, becoming more
and more merged with the total consciousness of the universe. You
slowly release the separateness that you took on in order to
experience the Physical Plane as you learn to accept and tolerate
others as being part of yourself. In the "higher" planes (the Mental,
Messianic and Buddhaic), you are in contact with the Tao: first
intellectually; then emotionally; and, finally, energetically, becoming
part of the Tao itself.
Although our present experiences are on the Physical Plane, it is
useful to study the purpose of the other planes in order to get a
perspective on the structure of the universe — and to learn
something about the lessons of entities who might be our teachers.

The Ordinal Planes

The Physical Plane

The Physical, the first of the planes, is where you experience
solidity, separateness and forgetfulness. You agree to forget your
past experiences here in order to experience something new. Most of
the discussion of this book deals with the phenomena of the
Physical Plane.

The Astral Plane

The Astral Plane is where you recombine with the other
members of your entity and deal with emotional lessons. It is also
where you begin to experience true sexuality, i.e., the complete
combining of two or more Essences in thought, feeling and being.
You are in complete contact with your essence twin on the Astral
Plane where you share all your experiences between lives.

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THE CIRCLE OF EXPERIENCE

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The first level of the Astral Plane is where you go when you are
asleep, out of your body, or between lives.
The second level of the Astral Plane is where you go when you
are "cycled off," having completed the Physical Plane. This is the
level from which you contact your healing masters, guides and those
in your entity who have completed their Physical Plane experiences.
Those on the lower levels of the Astral Plane learn how to contact
those who are still on the Physical Plane, and assist us in our
growth.
After all the members of a particular entity have cycled off, they
move to the higher levels of the Astral Plane where they work on
combining with each other. This is where you truly begin to shed
the ego which keeps you separate from others.
When the entity is completely recombined, it can move on to the
Causal Plane.

The Causal Plane

On the Causal Plane you have the first direct contact with the
Akashic Record. (See Akashic Record.) By tapping into that plane,
you learn intellectual lessons regarding the structure of the universe.
You teach Astral beings in order to assist them in their emotional
lessons. You also tap into the Physical Plane to give intellectual
assistance to those on that plane. Your entity learns to operate as one
consciousness and begins sensing its relationship with other entities.
On the higher levels of the Causal Plane, an entity chooses one
other entity as an "essence twin entity," sometimes an entity with
which it has many essence twin connections. The combination of
these two entities pushes the recombined entity toward the Mental
Plane.
The entity Michael teaches from the Causal Plane.

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THE PLANES OF EXISTENCE

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The Neutral Plane

The Akashic Record

The Akashic Record exists solely for the purpose of record
keeping. It is an energetic "computer" which stores all experience in
the universe. It provides a place where the memories of everything
that happens: all thoughts, emotions and kinesthetic experiences are
stored and can be looked up later for reference.
The Akashic Record is that neutral place that observes the
games that take place on the other planes and provides a reference
source which entities on the other planes can tap into. In a sense, it
is the Instinctive Center for the universe as a whole.The Instinctive
Center in the human body remembers and records all experiences
from life to life. The Akashic Records remember all experiences in
the universe from its conception to its completion.
When the universe completes its cycle and is ready to spin off a
new "baby" universe, it is given a copy of the Akashic Records as
its parent's "seed." Thus, one of the purposes of the Akashic
Records is to provide for the procreation of the universe as a whole.

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The Exalted Planes

The Mental Plane

On the Mental Plane, you have direct intellectual contact with the
Tao. You continue combining with other Essences and entities to
experience the total merging of being. On this plane, you have an
intellectual perception of the whole.
Lao Tsu was a manifestation of the Infinite Soul who taught
from this plane.

The Messianic Plane

The Messianic Plane is where you experience total agape and
love toward other beings. The largest amount of blending and
combining of entities occurs on this plane. You have direct
emotional perception of the Tao. Your group of entitites continues
combining until it reaches the level of about 100,000 souls, the point
at which its consciousness begins to grasp the infinity of the
universe. At that point you move on to the Buddhaic Plane.
Jesus Christ was a manifestation of the Infinite Soul teaching
from the Messianic Plane.

The Buddhaic Plane

The Buddhaic Plane is where you merge with the totality of the
universe on an energetic level. On the lower levels of the Buddhaic,
you combine with all other souls at your level of that plane. On the
higher levels of this plane, you combine with all the non-sentient
matter of the universe, which is also part of the Tao, including
plants and animals, the planets, the suns, and the spaces in between.
In the final levels of the Buddhaic, you combine with the total
consciousness of the Tao and merge with it completely, while
keeping your individual memories intact.

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Buddha was a manifestaton of the Infinite Soul teaching from

the Buddhaic Plane.

When you return to the Tao, you have completed the cycle that
began with the Physical Plane. You can remain there indefinitely,
but at any point you have the opportunity to begin another cycle.
Those who do go on to new cycles most often choose to experience
the Physical Plane from the point of view of a different Essence
role, in another entity, with a different essence twin, and on a
different planet. This variety gives you and the universe depth of
experience. According to Michael, the average number of cycles
completed by human beings (fragments) on this planet is three.

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Choosing your overleaves: Each overleaf modifies the basic

characteristic of Essence (role) until you have a fully rounded
Physical Plane personality.

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Chapter 3:
Soul Perception on the Physical Plane
As the fragment evolves in consciousness, it operates in the
world from different levels of soul perception. On the Physical
Plane, there are seven cycles of soul perception. Five of these cycles
are completely subject to the rules of a physical body: Infant, Baby,
Young, Mature and Old. Within each of these cycles there are seven
levels. The other two cycles of soul perception relate to
Transcendental Souls and the Infinite Soul.
When you first come to the Physical Plane, you arrive as a first-
level Infant Soul. You progress over lifetimes to second-level Infant
through seventh-level Infant, then to first-level Baby, and so on.
During each life, you begin again as an Infant Soul and progress
through the levels more quickly until you reach the highest level you
achieved in a previous life. You do not reach that level every life,
however. Some lives you allow yourself to become stuck at earlier
levels.
In each lifetime, the cycle and level of soul-perception you
display or "manifest" depends upon your actual soul age, your
chronological age, your experiences and the situation. People do not
manifest consistently. In each life, you give yourself experiences
which will get you in touch with the Infant, Baby, Young, Mature
and Old parts of yourself. Then, depending upon your state of being
and the circumstances, you will act out from older or younger parts
of yourself. "Older" is not synonymous with "better" because you
will give yourself challenges at all soul ages. Because of this,
someone who is struggling with her lessons as a late-level Old Soul
may look less competent than someone who is appropriately
handling tasks at a younger soul age.
On the average, it takes three lives to advance to the next level.
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their Physical Plane lessons in 50 lives, while others may take over
300. You will advance to the next level whenever you are ready and
feel the urge to move onward, whether you are between lives or in
the middle of a life. Some quick-moving souls will move more than
one level in a particular lifetime if they focus on their spiritual
development. Changing soul levels can be quite dramatic: the
shifting perception brings on changes in your life and how you live
it. There is no particular value, however, to speed. Each entity
fragment proceeds at its own pace.
The following describes the nature of the different cycles and
levels of soul perception as well as how to use all soul perceptions
appropriately.

The Seven Cycles of Soul Perception

The Infant Soul
You come to the planet as an Infant Soul. In this cycle, you are
self-concerned while you accustom yourself to a new type of
existence (physical) and learn how to survive here. Infant Souls
usually choose lives in primitive conditions or cultures that stress the
survival element. Infant Souls are survival-oriented, curious about
the Physical Plane, and have little ability to perceive that others'
wishes could differ from their own. They do not open themselves
emotionally because their emotional natures are not yet fully
developed. They are truly self-centered.
Infant Souls in a more advanced culture can appear instinctive
and perhaps out of place because they do not fit into society at large.
Infant Souls are still close to the Tao and have a mystical sense of
religion, which can manifest as worshipping the sun or nature in
general.
When you are born, you manifest your Infant Soul aspect,
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This aspect deals with the primitive, instinctual part of yourself and
learning how to survive in a human body. There is a close bond to
the Earth, particularly the Earth-Mother, the feminine part of
oneself. You can see in children's attraction to playing in the mud,
with bugs, insects, toads and lizards the manifestation of this
instinctual Infant Soul part. Adults often get in touch with their
Infant Soul part through ritual: for example, music, dancing,
shamanistic ritual, sex, drugs, drumming, wearing face paint and
ornaments.
The Infant Soul part can also be evoked through a bodily
experience, such as illness, accident or through an enlightenment
experience that taps into the primal energy centers. You will
experience your Infant Soul part when your survival is threatened or
when there is a perceived threat such as losing a job. Warfare,
hunting, walking alone in the dark, scary movies and situations
which evoke primal fears will put you in touch with that aspect of
yourself.
When you can detach from the belief in fear, these experiences
give you "highs" that take the form of instinctive adrenal rushes or
chills and an acute awareness. The heightened awareness is the
result of your Instinctive Center opening up to your Essence so that
it can immediately perceive any possible danger and be alert enough
to act on it. Generally, Infant Soul experiences are physically
intense, primitive as opposed to refined, and mystical in the sense of
getting one in touch with forces greater than oneself.

The Baby Soul

By the time you have reached Baby Soul perception, you have
handled survival on an individual level. The emphasis in Baby Souls
is toward developing and maintaining civilization and order. They
learn how to harness their creative energy in this direction.
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to provide that structure. In religion, they prefer large, organized

belief systems that provide ritual and standards of behavior. They
like cleanliness and medical care (i.e., having rules and authority in
charge of their bodies and their health). Baby Souls are afraid of
anything out of the ordinary.
Baby Soul societies are rigid and have strict hierarchies of
authority: for example, the Roman Empire. These souls are less
violent than Infant or Young Souls, and look to the survival of the
group, as opposed to their individual survival. This is the soul level
at which the conscience, or a sense of the morality or immorality of
certain acts within society, is developed.
Your Baby Soul aspect is the part of you that has learned to deal
with structure and authority figures and to relate to the world in a
more civilized manner, whether you are a Baby Soul or not. The
civilizing influence that parents and society imprint on children is
that which evokes the Baby Soul aspect to control the raw Infant
Soul aspect. The first major experience for that part of you is toilet
training. It is where you are told to control your natural instincts in
order to please the existing authority (your parents). Next comes
controlling your eating habits, controlling your anger and fear and
controlling your speech. (Parents often experience this phase as
making "real people" out of little barbarians.) As you continue to
grow up, you have your behavior modified by teachers in school,
by your peer group and by authority figures such as police, doctors,
ministers and politicians.
Your Baby Soul aspect is that part of you that is conscious of
following the rules such as: "Make your bed in the morning."
"Bring a sweater." "Don't accept candy from strangers." "Drink
plenty of fluids." Your Baby Soul aspect likes cleanliness, order,
and structure, and is flustered by the lack of it: "Why didn't you
clean your room?" "Why didn't you tell me we were going to eat
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Your Baby Soul aspect feels it needs to control instinctive

behavior such as eating, bathing, dining, sleep and having sex.
Also, all social behavior is primarily influenced by the Baby Soul
sense of propriety: when to cross the street, how to dress and act in
public, how to behave at social gatherings, how you use your
words, and so on. You will notice it come out most strongly during
instinctive social gatherings such as holidays, weddings and
funerals.

The Young Soul

Young Souls have learned to handle survival on the Physical
Plane and have mastered order and civilization. They now begin
establishing themselves as the authorities that the Baby Souls look
to. This soul perception is in the middle of the soul's experience on
the planet and is the most oriented towards the physical. Young
Souls are heavily identified with their bodies and their egos. They
will have the most problems admitting their true age and will be the
most likely to resort to cosmetic surgery to preserve a youthful,
attractive appearance.
Young Souls are also the most skeptical when confronted with
any experience beyond what is subject to "scientific" proof. They
usually do not concern themselves with mystical or religious
experience except to the extent that it makes them acceptable in the
world. They often will regard the idea of life after death as
preposterous and, therefore, fear death.
These souls are the most highly motivated toward success in
whatever field they pursue and will work the hardest to achieve it.
The prototype Young Soul is the attractive, rich, successful person
most often portrayed on television. To a Young Soul, what you own
is what you are. They see the world through the perspective of right
versus wrong and good versus bad, and so those who do not agree
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punishment or contempt.
They often have strong political feelings and involvements.
Young Souls such as Alexander the Great, William the Conqueror
and Genghis Khan were the founders of the great empires. The
Ming Dynasty, the British Empire and the United States (especially
in its early years) are examples of Young Soul empires. This planet
is currently populated with mostly late level Young Souls.
Therefore, the dominant political, social, and cultural systems reflect
these values.
Your Young Soul aspect is the part of your Essence which has
learned how to make decisions for itself, whether you manifest
mainly as a Young Soul or not. This aspect is capable of leadership,
particularly in the area of handling the Physical Plane. You use your
Young Soul aspect when you take charge of yourself, discipline
yourself and become determined to succeed. For this aspect, what is
"right" is that which promotes its goals, and what is "wrong" is that
which is detrimental to its goals. This part of yourself is less
emotionally connected than the Baby and Mature parts. It tends to be
goal-oriented and egocentric.
Because we live in a predominantly Young Soul society, we are
constantly bombarded with Young Soul values. Those values tell
you to be success-oriented, to be ambitious even to the detriment of
others, to make sure you know what you are doing and why. People
who do not accept Young Soul values are often judged as inadequate
or strange. A good example of Young Soul political ideology is the
arms race. The thinking behind this says that if you don't get ahead
someone else will. Survival becomes competitive.
The advantage of cultivating your Young Soul aspect is that it
has the motivation and self-confidence to be achievement-oriented
and to give you success when dealing with other people, particularly
in your career. Older souls who neglect this aspect feel that their
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physical. Thus, this aspect needs to be in balance with the others in

order for you to function well on this planet.

The Mature Soul

The Mature Soul has handled her issues of success and authority
and has reached the point where she begins to open herself to
emotional issues. Mature Souls are less self-concerned and orient
themselves toward others, especially in groups. Rather than opening
themselves up to the world as a whole, they begin with intimates
and family, feeling that their relationships with others are more
important than personal success or career.
Mature Souls feel their connectedness to others by identifying
with them and by seeing others as mirrors of themselves. This
quality gives Mature Souls an aura of sincerity not found in other
soul perceptions. The worst offense to a Mature Soul is to do
something to her that she would not do to you. Mature Souls are
less warlike than younger souls because they see others as
themselves. Often, however, they give themselves lives of
emotional turmoil and drama in order to open themselves
emotionally. It is at this soul perception, therefore, where you find
the most incidence of drug abuse, suicide, and wasting terminal
disease.
Your Mature Soul aspect begins to develop after your Young
Soul aspect has peaked in its achievement. It begins with the feeling,
"There must be more to life than just this." Sometimes people feel
the need to sabotage their Young Soul aspect by giving themselves
times of poverty, tragedy, great loss or ill health in order to open up
the Mature Soul part. Usually this is achieved through being in
relationships of great emotional intensity. For Mature and Old
Souls, this period is often experienced when they are in their
twenties.
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your Mature Soul aspect as that part which has an investment in

your relationship to others and to the planet. "Others" can include
intimate friends, family, people you work with, the community, a
political group, or humanity at large. The value of the Mature Soul
aspect is in the full development of conscience, compassion and the
ability to be emotionally connected, fulfilled and to give and receive
love. Those who neglect this aspect will feel unfulfilled in their
emotional expression and will appear aloof, callous or estranged
from others.
The group consciousness of the Mature Soul aspect desires to be
"like" others and therefore seeks to be understood and accepted into
the group. This can be seen in its means of expression: clothes,
speech, values, where you go and what you do and how you
behave. From this point of view, Mature Soul behavior is a further
evolution of Baby Soul behavior, as they both operate with group
consciousness.
As the planet shifts towards a more Mature perception we see
people acting out of group consciousness and becoming interested in
the emotional harmony of the planet as a whole. With the acceptance
of Mature perception will come an increase in spiritual awareness
and the ability for Mature and Old Souls to manifest themselves
more readily at their appropriate soul ages.

The Old Soul

The Old Soul has learned how to emotionally connect and puts
her attention toward spiritual growth. Old Souls learn to detach from
the emotional intensity of the Mature Cycle and then gradually
detach from the Physical Plane entirely. They have a more
intellectual approach to existence than Mature Souls, and are able to
conceive of the greater whole of which we are all part. Old Souls
need to complete all their Physical Plane experiences and karmas
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Early Old Soul behavior is characterized by a period of

internalization, soul-searching and a feeling of no longer fitting in
with the mainstream of society. Once this aspect has been
"discovered" and fully internalized, the next step is determining,
"How am I going to show up in the world?" For the older soul, this
means finding a way of expressing herself in her personal life and in
her career that is in alignment with her inner purpose. Because each
soul is unique and wants to make its individual contribution, there
are not many role models for olders souls in a Young Soul society.
Old Souls in this society also have a tendency toward self-
deprecation; they know they do not fit the norm and can find
themselves unworthy as a result. Older souls usually investigate
various spiritual teachings that are available, but, in the end, create
their own belief system from a combination of many different
spiritual perspectives.
Your Old Soul part has the ability to rise above the mundane
events of life and put you in touch with the greater purpose of being
here. It does not become "stuck" or identified with the difficulties
and tragedies of human existence but is able to see itself more
objectively and with a greater sense of humor. It cultivates a sense
of philosophical detachment, humor and non-identification while
attaching itself to the sense of something greater and beyond itself.
Old Souls learn to flow with life as it happens as opposed to
resisting and fighting with it.
Your Old Soul aspect is the part of you that has the agreement to
teach and assist others along their chosen paths of spiritual
development. Most Old Souls teach by being an example. Along
with teaching is the commitment to complete existence on the
Physical Plane by integrating and balancing all of the different
aspects of your entire being, Infant through Old.
The last lesson for an Old Soul is agape, or unconditional love,
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means self-forgiveness as well as being able to love others to the

extent that you can give them permission to be on their own chosen
paths. Once all aspects of human existence are fully accepted, an Old
Soul becomes eligible to move on to the other planes of existence.

Summary: The First 5 Cycles of the Physical Plane

Knowing about the different aspects of soul perception is being
aware that each fulfills its own purpose. This is why in each lifetime
you give yourself imprinting from individuals of different soul ages
and experiences to remind yourself of each of the previous levels.
It is difficult to give up the impression that "older is better" and
to see the value in the different aspects. Older souls often feel
misunderstood by younger souls and find them difficult. The
antidote for this is for the older soul to take responsibility for having
had more experience and to learn to be compassionate about the
other person's point of view without trying to change them, "grow
them up" or make them different.
Recognizing that we all have these different aspects and seeing
the value of each makes it easier to achieve a state of balance. For
example, when we see ourselves acting out of our Baby Soul parts,
we can recognize that we are probably in reaction to a fear of being
out of control. This can lead to a recognition that being in control
leads to a more civilized society.
If everyone acted out as an Infant Soul, life would be
survivalistic and uncivilized. If everyone acted out as a Baby Soul,
life would be structured and orderly, but constantly in fear of
retribution by some greater authority or power. Ifeveryone acted out
as a Young Soul, a lot would get done, but from the point of view
of competition and with little compassion. If everyone acted as a
Mature Soul, life would be very emotional and people would do
what felt right, but often without regard to common sense. If
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lazy and it would be hard to get much accomplished.

The way to balance the different aspects in oneself is first to
begin identifying them. The second step is to see their usefulness
and to weed out some of their negative characteristics. The third step
is to find the right function of each of the parts so they can be
useful. Then you can evoke different functions intentionally when
you see the opportunity to use them.
For example, you can use your Infant Soul aspect to feel in
touch with the Earth, the seasons and cycles which affect us. You
can use it to heal your Instinctive Center. Your Baby Soul aspect
provides a structure to situations that otherwise would seem fearful.
You can use it to be polite to others. Use your Young Soul aspect in
the areas where you want to be successful and goal-oriented, such
as your career, or to raise your self-esteem. Your Mature Soul
aspect helps you feel emotionally fulfilled and connected. You can
use it to understand other people and to have compassion for their
position. You can use your Old Soul part to seek spiritual
fulfillment, to relax from intensity, and to feel connected to
something greater.
When working on trying to achieve the greatest potential in soul-
perception, remember to try to stay in balance with all the aspects.
The tendency is to swing from one extreme to another. The person
who is in balance with all aspects will be able to feel competent in all
situations and will be able to relate to people of all soul levels. From
this sense of balance, you can make positive contributions in all
areas of your life.

The last two cycles may be experienced on the Physical Plane,

but are not necessarily subject to all the rules of the Physical Plane
as are the Infant through Old cycles.

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The Trancendental Soul

The Transcendental Soul is a representative member of an entity
that has completed its lessons on the Physical Plane and has
recombined all its fragments astrally. One of the fragments of this
recombined entity takes a body in order to teach their (the entity's)
students directly about the greater connectedness of the universe, as
seen through a higher center. Transcendental Souls can come from
any of the higher planes: Astral, Causal, Mental, Messianic, or
Buddhaic. All entities do this at least once in at least one parallel
universe.
Transcendental Souls will sometimes come into a newborn
child, but most often they use the body of a departed seventh level
Old Soul who has agreed to this exchange. Usually they will only be
in a body about three or four years because they are so habitually in
higher centers that it wears out a physical body to have that much
energy going through it. They might be in the body up to 10 or 20
years, but almost never a whole lifetime.
In times of transition, such as we are experiencing now, there
will be more Transcendental Souls appearing, preparing the planet
for the manifestation of the Infinite Soul. Examples of Trancendental
Souls from the past are Mahatma Ghandi, Yogananda Paramahansa,
Meher Baba, Hazrat Khan, Mother Cabrini, Pope John XXIII and
St. Francis of Assisi.
Trancendental Souls are not necessarily self-aware. Unlike the
Infinite Soul, Trancendental Souls do not necessarily display
“superhuman” attributes. Mainly, they just look like fine examples
of balanced human beings who identify with a group consciousness.
Since Trancendental Souls are a group, they tend to see themselves
as members of humanity, rather than feeling they are on their own,
personal path.

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The Infinite Soul

The manifestation of the Infinite Soul retains the consciousness
of the Tao when it enters the physical body. Thus the Infinite Soul is
self-aware, knowing its purpose and its superhuman abilities. The
Infinite Soul will occasionally manifest through the personality of a
seventh level Old Soul who has cycled off. The Infinite Soul comes
to teach and to assist the planet in its soul level transitions.
A recent well-known manifestation of the Infinite Soul was
Jesus Christ, who was a 7th level Old King until the last years of his
life. During that incarnation, the Infinite Soul assisted the planet in
its transition from Baby to Young Soul cycles. In future
incarnations, the Infinite Soul may manifest through more than one
person, in order to assist the planet in its transition from Young Soul
to the group consciousness of Mature Soul.

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The Seven Levels of Soul Perception

First Level
This is the level of introduction, in which you experiment with
your new perception. First level souls operate from their previous
level of perception about two-thirds of the time. For example, if they
are first level Old, they operate mainly as late Mature Souls. A first
level Infant Soul will be closely in contact with the Tao. This is one
of the growing-up levels.

Second Level
The second level is difficult because you are torn between the
comfort of your old perception and the opportunities and growth
available in the new perception. Second level souls manifest from
their new perception for a period, then revert. Toward the end of the
second level you must weed out the habits and acquired tastes that
belong to your old perception in order to move on to the new.

Third Level
When you reach the third level, you are operating entirely from
your appropriate perception, except that it is internalized. You look
inward and deal with the internal issues that have come up around
your new level of perception. Third level souls tend to be more
inherently introspective and quieter than those of other levels.

Fourth Level
In the fourth level, you take your new perception out into the
world. It is a level where you are busy and visible. It also is a
karmic formation level, where you reach out to others and form
relationships with them that can be karmicly intense. Fourth level
can be similar to sixth: in fourth level you deal with karmic
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Fifth Level
The fifth is the eccentric level. It is where you first begin to get
glimpses of your next level of perception. For example, this is
where a Mature Soul gets a glimpse of the Old cycle, where Young
Souls glimpse Mature and so forth. The experience of fifth level is
similar to having climbed the Himalayas and finally reached the top,
only to see a whole mountain range ahead of you, ready to be
climbed. In the fifth level you feel unstable, you feel that you have
lost the security of your normal perception, and you feel the drive to
prepare yourself for incorporating a new level of activity.
Fifth level souls have the feeling they do not quite fit in and need
to find ways to deal with their eccentricity. The more solid roles —
Warriors, Kings and Scholars — like to pass through this level as
quickly as possible. The more fluid roles — Priests, Servers and
particularly Artisans and Sages — can learn to revel in it because it
gives them the opportunity to explore the unusual side of their
natures.

Sixth Level
Sixth is one of the busiest levels because it is where you
complete the karmas accumulated earlier in this cycle or in previous
cycles. You feel driven to be out in the world, meeting those people
and completing those unfinished relationships with them. Sixth level
souls are often on the move and do not usually settle down for long
periods of time unless their karmas dictate that they must do that.
This is one of the levels where you may be more outgoing than is
usual for your Essence in order to reach the right people.
Sixth level Mature is one of the most demanding of all the soul
levels. A pitfall of the sixth level is that you may lose the awareness
of the need to take care of youself in the midst of dealing with so
many external relationships. Toward the end of this level, you begin
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Seventh Level
In the seventh level, you relax from the activity of the sixth and
find an appropriate method of teaching what you have learned
during the cycle. It is one of the more enjoyable levels because you
can separate from the karmic intensity of the sixth and learn to flow
with life again. In the case of seventh level Young, you may find
yourself advising people on how to make their lives successful. For
seventh Mature, you would be likely to do emotional counseling of
various sorts. At seventh Old, you find a way to teach something
about the total knowledge you have accumulated during your lives
on the planet. One of the requirements of completing your
experience on the Physical Plane is that you successfully teach
someone else. Essences return as seventh Old for as many lives as
they wish until they cycle off the planet.

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Chapter 4: The Planetary Shift

Although all soul ages are represented on this planet, it is
populated mostly with late level Young Souls and early level Mature
Souls. The time is ripe for many of the souls here to change levels in
their soul perception. As the shift progresses, many of those late
Young Souls will move into Mature perceptivity. When a majority
of the planet is populated with Mature Souls, the shift will be
complete.
Nineteen eighty-four was a significant year in this shift because
many Essences agreed to undergo an Instinctive Center re-evaluation
in that year. This is a process that you undertake every ten to twenty.
lifetimes. In it you examine your patterns on an instinctive
(unconscious mind) level, and your Essence makes decisions that
will affect how it will alter those patterns in the future. The
Instinctive re-evaluation undergone by many people on the planet in
that year will speed up the planetary shift in upcoming years, when
those new patterns begin to manifest themselves.
The Harmonic Convergence of August 1987 marked the point in
history where Mature Soul consciousness began to have more
planetwide acceptance than the Young Soul point of view. Since that
date there have been more Mature Souls than Young Souls on the
planet. Although it is impossible to predict exactly how this shift
will manifest, it is certain to continue with great intensity during the
next decades and into the next century. Then, over the next few
centuries, civilizations will begin to adapt to their new perceptivity
levels.
Because a planetary shift is such an interesting phenomenon,
many souls wish to be here on the Physical Plane at this time in
order to experience and facilitate it. That is one of the reasons for the
population boom in recent times. A second reason of great interest is
that the Infinite Soul is likely to manifest in the near future in order
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to guide the planet in its shift. There are many opportunities for
spiritual advancement during this time, and souls wish to be here to
experience that growth.
Because most areas of the world are populated with Young
Souls, the predominant cultures are structured and imprinted
according to Young Soul values. Young Souls value success and
competency over the emotional or spiritual areas. They also see the
world from the point of view of a black-and-white, good-and-bad,
right-or-wrong mentality. This mentality is easily viewed in the
predominant political systems. Most of television and mass media
also reinforce this Young Soul perception. Because people are
strongly imprinted by their parents and their culture, older souls
have a hard time manifesting at their appropriate soul perceptions
and tend to become stuck at early levels.
Those late level Young Souls who are approaching Mature
perceptivity will vary between trying to see themselves as right and
at the same time feeling that those strangers over there are also
recognizable human beings like themselves who deserve to be
treated as such. So it is a painful transition as the world opens itself
to being more emotionally connected and begins to drop old
authority patterns of "might equals right." These changes will be
reflected in government and economic structures, in the basic values
of civilizations, and in changing social structures and family
relationships. Mature Souls also deal with each other on a group
level, rather than from a sole authority, so Mature Soul governments
and businesses will organize themselves around group structures
rather than hierarchies of authority.
While a majority of souls are shifting from Young to Mature,
souls at other levels will also shift to higher perceptions. So, Infant
Souls will be moving to Baby, and those primitive areas of the
world in which Infant Souls tend to congregate will be civilizing
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moving to Young, and structured societies will be becoming more

independent, productive, and materialistic. Those who are already
Mature will find the world a more comfortable place in which to
experience Mature perceptivity, as this way will be more respected.
Some of those Mature Souls will move to Old, where they will learn
to detach from the Physical Plane and begin to teach what they have
learned here to others.
Around the end of the century, no more Infant Souls will come
to the planet to begin their cycle here. Eventually, those Infants
already on the planet will mature and more Old Souls will cycle off
the planet, having completed their Physical Plane lessons. At some
point in human development, probably a few hundred years from
now, we will begin to make contact with and relate to other sentient
beings from other planets — extraterrestials. What is required for
extraterrestials to be in contact with us (there are many who visit the
planet "on the sly" now) is for humans to have advanced enough to
not want to kill and/or dissect the first extraterrestials we meet.
Humans would need to be less aggressive, so we will probably be
mid-Mature cycle before that happens. We would also need to be
more technologically advanced in case we ran into a more aggressive
extraterrestial.
Toward the end of the cycle, there will be mostly Old Souls
remaining and the planet will move to Old Soul perceptivity. At that
time, the planet will begin to take a more metaphysical attitude
toward life. People will learn to develop those powers and psychic
abilities that currently are not widely accepted and that they learn as
children to repress.
It will be at least 6000 years before the last Old Soul humans
cycle off. That is a relatively short amount of time, considering the
first Infant Soul humans were seeded on this planet over 6 million
years ago. There is a geometric progression in the spiritual
development of the human race because of the influence of the vast
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quantity of older souls on the younger souls. When the last human
has completed her lives on the Physical Plane, the use of this planet
by humans is then complete. The planet can then be used by other
sentient creatures who have either developed here or who have been
seeded here from some other planet, if that is desired.

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Chapter 1: The Seven Roles

What Is a Role?*
Essence's role is its "primary beingness" or the underlying
perception through which it chooses to experience its lessons in a
cycle of lifetimes. There are seven different roles for Essence to
choose from in this current game.
The choice of role determines the nature of experience and
perception, the part which the Essence will play throughout its
cycle. The role is not limiting, however, since all of life can be
experienced through any role. With the addition of overleaves, body
type, centering, choice of imprinting and culture, each Essence
experiences a great variety in all its lives. The role determines the

*Authors' Note: One of the most common initial objections to the Michael
system is, "I don't like being put in a box,” or "I don't like systems that label
people as being limited to this or that." We would like to remind you that the
purpose of the system is not to limit or confine anyone to specific behaviors.
Rather, Michael gives insight about which of all possible pattems we will
habitually use. Remember that you are not limited by one particular overleaf;
rather, in combination, the role, goal, mode, attitude, chief feature, centers and
body type work together to define who you are and how you interact with others.
Furthermore, it can be mathematically determined that there are more combinations
of roles, overleaves and essence twins than there are human beings on the planet.
So, if you feel you are in a category, that category is individual to you alone.

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underlying nature and basic characteristics that an Essence will act

out in each life. The interaction of the seven roles provides for
everything eventually getting accomplisthed and nothing being left
out in the total experience of the universe.
Choosing a Role
From the time the Essence leaves the Tao to come to the Physical
Plane until it travels through the six other planes of existence and
returns to the Tao, it remains one role. After the cycle is complete
and the Essence returns to the Tao, it remains in that role, merged
with the total consciousness of this universe, until it feels the urge to
grow further by taking on another cycle. At that time, the Essence
will most likely choose to experience another of the roles and will
combine with a new entity and come to the Physical Plane on a
different planet.
The Seven Roles
As with the overleaves, there are two inspiration roles, two
expression, two action and one assimilation. Of these seven roles,
three are exalted, three are ordinal, and one is neutral.
Priests and Servers are inspirational in that they are more
spiritual and compassionate. They concern themselves with the
welfare and nurturing of people and the planet. Their orientation is
towards growth, service and dedication to a higher good. They are
the most ethereal in their approach to life and in what they strive
towards. Priests are the exalted side of the inspirational "axis," and
Servers are the ordinal.
Sages and Artisans are the exalted and ordinal expressive
roles, and they tend to express, rather than do, their lives. Artisans
express through their creations and their moods; Sages through their
speech, humor and ability to be "on stage." These roles provide an
emotional ambiance in their environment by creating the mood or
setting the stage for themselves and those around them.
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Kings and Warriors, the exalted and ordinal action roles, can
be recognized by their natural orientation towards and ability to
resort to action — in their desire to "do" things. This can manifest as
an ability to organize, to be direct or "hands on" in their approach to
life, and/or an ability to be great producers, to accomplish a lot.
They also are more physical in their approach to life, enjoying the
experiences of the senses and the experience of the Physical Plane in
general.
Scholars are the assimilative and neutral role. They retain and
digest their experiences to a greater degree than the other roles and
provide others with a resource of knowledge. They have an
insatiable thirst and curiosity for new information and experience.
Scholars have the ability to remain the most neutral because they
tend to see all sides of a situation. They also have the ability to act
either from an ordinal or exalted point of view.
The Ordinal Roles
Servers, Artisans and Warriors tend, in most lifetimes, to prefer
close or intimate ties, as opposed to dealing with large numbers of
people. They will tend to be quieter and more withdrawn in a crowd
and sometimes are uncomfortable in large groups. They structure
their lives around their internal experiences and their relationships
with their intimates, and will have more experience in this area than
exalted roles.
The Exalted Roles
Priests, Sages and Kings are more comfortable dealing with
larger groups of people and will, in most lives, touch more people
with their influence than the ordinal roles. They will tend to organize
their lives around exalted causes such as teaching, preaching,
healing, organizing groups or businesses. The exalted roles will be
less comfortable working as a subordinate to someone else,
particularly an ordinal role.

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Servers and Priests

The Inspirational Roles

Servers
Servers inspire and care for others by serving them, even when
they are not aware of it. The presence of a Server can seem like a
special gift because they are so willing to take care of others' needs
and are inspiring to be with. They are the people about whom love
songs and poetry are written. Servers know on an Essence level that
the quickest way to advance spiritually is through serving others,
and they know that the person who serves is the "cause" of the
Situation. Servers comprise the largest portion of the human
populaiton: 30% of the worldwide population are Servers, although
this amount varies regionally.
Servers are most like Kings in that they are controlling. A Server
with a goal of dominance or a mode of power, for example, can
easily be mistaken for a King. The difference is that they control ina
manner which is not always obvious. They can be very busy
keeping their lives under control and may not want to leave things to
others who may not handle them appropriately. When their sense of
control is frustrated, they become very uncomfortable and nervous
and they may feel enslaved by the situation.
Servers will often be so busy taking care of others that they
spend little time on themselves. Compared to Priests, who feel
responsible for your spiritual growth, Servers will take care of either
your bodily or spiritual needs. Being ordinal, they prefer dealing
with others on an individual level in most of their lives. They inspire
love and affection from their intimates and family.
Servers often find themselves in the kind of work where they
take care of people directly; for example, in medicine, nursing, food
service, mechanics, computer programming, accounting, politics, or
social services.

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Servers, Positive and Negative Poles

Positive Pole
Serving. Nurturing. Caring. Warm. Sweet. Loving. Inspiring.
Spiritual. Other-directed. Competent. Capable. Practical.
Trustworthy. Friendly. Devoted.

Negative Pole
Frustrated. Enslaved. Victimized. Martyred. Manipulating.
Domineering. Underhanded. Covert. Over-extended. Self-denying.
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Priests
The concern of Priests is the spiritual welfare of the people.
Priests remind people that they need to consider the growth of their
Essence. They are ready at any moment to tell others what they need
to look at in order to progress and to inspire them to do so.
Priests are a high-frequency role and they move quickly through
lives and lessons. They enjoy using the Emotional and Higher
Emotional Centers because of the sense of connection which comes
from being in these centers.
Priests are so willing to move ahead to the next lesson that they
often do so without having examined the consequences. They are
usually trying to convince the slower roles to jump ahead with them.
Their disregard of Physical Plane practicality sometimes leads them
into trouble, especially with the solid roles: Warriors, Kings and
Scholars.
Priests, like Servers, sense the unity of all creation and have
innate compassion for others. They make excellent healers and are
also willing to play the role of "goad," the one who propels others
along because of her ability to see where others are "blocked." Like
Sages, Priests make excellent promoters, although they are more
concerned than Sages that you take their advice for your own good.
In their negative pole, they become zealous, over-enthusiastic and
frenetic, promoting causes without due reason.
Universally, Priests have the role of propelling souls toward
spiritual advancement and of reminding the other roles that the
Physical Plane is not all there is. As with all the exalted roles, there
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Priests, Positive and Negative Poles

Positive Pole
Inspirational. Compassionate. Caring. Striving. Enthusiastic.
Guiding (spiritually). Emotionally connected. Healing. Warm.

Negative Pole .
Zealous. Overly-enthusiastic. Fanatical. Feverish. "Buzzy.
Unthinking. Disregarding reason or practicality. Unworldly.
Evangelical. Proselytizing. Irrational. Vague.

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Artisans and Sages

The Expressive Roles
Artisans
The job of the Artisan is that of creation. They bring to the
Physical Plane everything that has not existed here before. This
includes not only physical objects, but also ideas, emotions, moods
and concepts.
Artisans are the most fluid of roles; that is, they vibrate at the
highest frequency. They have feelers out in many directions, so they
can perceive what new creations can be brought to the planet. For
Artisans, the Physical Plane can be the most difficult because of its
solidity and slowness. On other planes, their creations can appear
instantly.
Artisans will create the mood in their environment. They are
extremely powerful because of their innate capacity to create, though
they often hide behind unassuming or eccentric personalities. Being
ordinal, they are usually quiet and prefer one-on-one relationships to
large crowds. Because creativity is so important to this planet,
Artisans make up a relatively large portion of the world population,
a total of 20%.
Artisans are the most eccentric of the roles. They can appear to
be like any of the other roles, if they wish. As Artisans age in soul-
perceptivity, they feel more and more outside the mainstream of
society. They also "go to seed" in the sense that they lose interest in
the Physical Plane and can become very "laid back."
Artisans sometimes have lives in which they are artists of some
sort but this is not a necessity. They do, however, bring a unique
and creative twist to whatever they do. They are often governed by
chance, and create around or about whatever falls into their path. In
this society, Artisans are generally more comfortable during their
female lives, as it is more accepted for females to be creative.

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The essence twin relationship with an Artisan is quite affecting,

in both directions, to the character of the Essences involved. In their
negative pole, Artisans are self-deceiving, in that they can re-create
their own reality around any circumstances and end up with
something that is far from the truth.

Positive Pole
Creative. Innovative. Unusual. Spontaneous. Broadly-
perceptive. Eccentric. Self-sufficient. Imaginative. Paternal.
Visionary. Inventive. Mood-enhancers. Gamesters.

Negative Pole
Self-deceptive. Artificial. Self-deprecating. Emotionally callous.
Irresponsible. Flaky. Despondent. Invisible. Easily thwarted,
influenced or victimized. Moody.

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Sages
Sages are the informers, disseminators and truth-tellers. They
tell the other roles what is going on. Their job is to keep us
informed, but, unlike Priests, they do not demand that others grow
spiritually from the information they have given. They do, however,
expect others to pay attention. Sages are the expressors of the
universe, and each Sage gives great attention to correct expression.
Sages enjoy the medium of speech and can be extremely
talkative. They are the most humorous and fun-loving of the roles,
and they make excellent entertainers and media people. They teach
enlightenment through humor, showing people that life can rise
above the mundane and dull. They enjoy having an audience and
reaching as many people as possible. Although only 8% of the
people on the planet are Sages, they are so visible that they seem
more numerous!
Sages have an innate ability to know what is true. They are
quick-witted, perceptive and can be quite emotional. They make
good sales people and authors. Sages are good listeners and are
always eager to find out something new they can pass on to others.
Sages also make excellent gossipers and critics. They love to
create scenes and dramas to entertain their friends and give them
more to talk about. In their negative pole, Sages can be verbose or
overly-dramatic. Sages like written material and can be great
collectors of articles, magazines, and anything informative.

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Sages, Positive and Negative Poles

Positive Pole
Expressive. Truthful. Inquisitive. Entertaining. Humorous.
Perceptive. Dramatic. Enthralling. Wise. Friendly. Concerned.
Affable. Bright. Colorful. Informative.

Negative Pole
Orating. Talking too much. Deceiving. Attention-craving. Loud.
Tasteless. Overly-dramatic. Arrogant. Hypochondriac.

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Warriors and Kings

The Action Roles

Warriors
Warriors are the organizers, defenders and persuaders of life.
They make life function in a practical manner. They express
themselves through action or force. They are the doers.
Warriors are strong-willed, focused and can be single-minded in
purpose. They dislike chaos. They are the glue that holds society
together. Like Artisans, Warriors also make up 20% of the
worldwide population.
Warriors make excellent teachers, especially of children, because
it is in their Essence to persuade, mold and imprint life into
established patterns. They are also maternal, nurturing, protecting
and caring, especially of their loved ones.
The best strategists are Warriors. They are excellent in business
or industry because of their ability to organize and to be productive
and goal-oriented. They take their ability to form matter and
persuade people into every field including the arts, sales,
management, crafts, the armed forces and law-enforcement.
Warriors are highly principled and willing to fight for their sense
of justice. They tend to be conservative in their principles. They are
also very blatant. This lack of subtlety can make them poor liars or
diplomats.
With a tendency to want to do everything on their own, Warriors
can be workhorses. They are capable of working or fighting until
they die of exhaustion. Warriors make excellent generals and
corporate leaders, although they usually would prefer to have
someone else in the position of final authority. In their negative
pole, Warriors can become coercive and even violent.

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Warriors, Positive and Negative Poles

Positive Pole:
Persuasive. Good organizers and promoters. Productive.
Energetic. Resourceful. Straight-forward. Focused in attention and
purpose. Strong-willed. Maternal. Nurturing. Protective. Skillful.
Principled. Deliberate.

Negative Pole:
Coercive. Bullying. Narrow-minded. Overly conservative.
Blind. Emotionally withheld. Pushy. Violent. Explosive.
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Kings
Kings strive to master and perfect themselves and their
environment. They often become authorities in their chosen field.
They are natural leaders and good advisors. They attract great love
and loyalty from people through serving them, usually in an exalted
manner. They are often gentle, kind and benevolent.
Kings have a natural ability to see the overall picture and are able
to lead people appropriately by stating what needs to be done. They
lead people to action. They have an intuitive sense of balancing
energy and will master situations by noticing where the energy
needs to be balanced. Kings are perfectionists and can be relentless
with themselves while striving for mastery of whatever area they
choose. They make good organizers and are efficient at directing
others toward getting things done. They have a natural flair and a
commanding presence.
Kings can be quite dispassionate in their evaluation of situations.
This can seem like ruthless compassion or, in its negative pole,
heartless and cruel. They make good popes, politicians, corporate
leaders and founders of dynasties. Since leaders are in much less
demand than followers, there are very few Kings on the planet —
only 1-2% at any one time.

Positive Pole:
Masterful. Expert. Gentle. Commanding. Informed.
Comprehensive. Good strategist. Natural leader. Benevolent.
Powerful. Charismatic. Trouble-shooters. Objective. Arresting. Self-
assured. Composed. Poised.

Negative Pole:
Tyrannical. Over-bearing. Heartless. Intolerant. Demanding.
Inflexible. Haughty. Extravagant.

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Scholars
The Neutral Role

Scholars are driven to know and to assimilate knowledge.

Their nature is innately curious. They provide the service of
recording, on an Essence level, everything that happens in the
universe so that nothing is forgotten or left out. Scholars, being the
neutral role, are the facilitators through which the others roles can
connect. They also understand the other roles better than anyone
else. When a Scholar is present, things move more smoothly, since
they provide the stability which allows the other roles to perform
their own tasks. People go to Scholars for information and for a
neutral viewpoint. Scholars accumulate a vast store of knowledge in
their Essence.
Scholars tend to be more ordinal than exalted in most lives so
that they can remain quiet and unobtrusive and gather knowledge.
However, in the lives in which they choose to be exalted, they can
be very powerful. This is because they have such a great store of
knowledge to draw upon.
Scholars have the greatest physical endurance of any role and
can endure extremes of climate. They absorb experiences
kinesthetically to the extent that a strong experience will show up as
a physical manifestation somewhere in their bodies, up to six
months later. For this reason, they can have physical difficulties
despite their endurance. Because these physical manifestations can
be carried from life to life, Scholars, more than other roles, can
benefit from past life regression.
Scholars will have a number of hobbies or interests related to the
different centers: intellectual, emotional and moving. Except in lives
in which they are moving centered, they will generally have a strong
intellectual bent. Scholars make up about 15% of the population of
the planet.

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Scholars, Positive and Negative Poles

Positive Pole
Innately knowledgeable. Curious. Honest. Truthful. Com-
prehensive. Diligent. Thorough. Unassuming. Methodical.
Thoughtful
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Hypothesizing. Theoretical. Confused. Overly intellectual.
Passive. Reclusive. Pontificating. Exhaustive. Overbearing. Slow.

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Chapter 2:
Focused and Creative Energy & Frequency
Focused and creative energy balance and frequency are not
overleaves. Like the role, they are characteristics Essence carries
from life to life. Although the personality (overleaves) is the
machine that Essence creates to carry out the Physical Plane karmas
and agreements planned for the lifetime, the focused/creative energy
balance and the frequency of the individual Essence lend a certain
flavor to the quality of those experiences.

Focused/Creative Energy Balance

Everything in the universe that has an energy has a focused
component and a creative component, sometimes also referred to as
a male and female component. A body without an Essence would be
higher in the energy that matches its sex; i.e., a male body would be
focused and a female body would be creative. This is noticeable in
animals because they (for the most part) are not sentient. In humans,
however, this bodily tendency is overwhelmed by the energy
components of the Essence in that body.
Creative energy (female energy) is diffuse and explosive. It
has a volcanic force to it. Because of its explosiveness, you don't
know where it is going to go. Even though people tend to think
focused energy is more formidable because it can be directed right at
them, creative energy can actually be surprisingly intense; it is more
dynamic. Creative energy can feel "lighter" than focused energy
because it is not all concentrated on one point. However, this is a
false feeling — neither energy is "lighter" or "heavier."
People with a high amount of creative energy have a tendency to
be more detail-oriented; they are able to notice five or six things at
once and handle a lot of cycles at one time. In the negative pole,
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lot of different directions at once. When it is used inappropriately it

can look non-prioritizing and chaotic because of the huge volume of
information creative energy can handle at one time.
Focused energy has a tendency to focus more strongly and
directly to a particular point — like a speeding locomotive. It goes
from point A to point B.
Focused energy helps you to be more productive and look at one
thing at a time. It is more perservering and directed. You can use
your focused energy to memorize something for a test or to stick
with a boring and monotonous task for a long time but still pay
attention. Focused energy keeps you aware that you are in a body.
In the negative pole, focused energy can look too much at the
goal without considering any of the side issues — just blundering
along on a path, not noticing other details. In this way, it can look
unintelligent. Focused energy can get too concentrated all on one
little spot and not notice everything it needs to notice.
Most people will fall into the category of between 40-60% of
either focused or creative energy. This is the most comfortable mix.
A person with this mix will be in balance and tend to have a
balanced amount of lives as male and female as well. If you have
high amount of focused energy (more than 60%), however, you
have a tendency to like to have more male lifetimes; those with a
high amount creative energy tend to be female more often.
People with more extreme amounts of focused or creative energy
are very noticeable, whether they are in a male or female body. It is
more comfortable to be in the middle range and it is more
comfortable to be around someone in the middle range of
focused/creative mix. High creative energy can be exhausting to be
around while high focused energy can feel very "heavy" or
ponderous. If you've chosen to be more than 60% focused or
creative energy, you've chosen it as an additional challenge to deal
with in your Physical Plane lifetimes.

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There is an overall balance of focused and creative energy on the

planet. Averaging the percentage of focused/creative energy of the
entire population on the planet at any one time will yield 50/50.

Frequency

Frequency is the rate of speed at which your Essence vibrates.

This rate has nothing to do with the individual body that the Essence
is in. However, your body, because it is housing that Essence,
Starts to express your Essence's frequency the longer you live in that
body.
Essence vibrates like a musical note. Essence is a piece of
energy and that piece of energy can be compared to a note played on
a piano or a violin string. Some notes sound like, "boom-boom-
boom;" others sound like,"beep-beep-beep.” You can actually feel
the frequency of other people on an energetic level.
With frequency, as with focused/creative energy mix, more
people tend toward the center. However, with frequency there are a
lot more extremes. About 50% of the people are in the middle of the
frequency scale, which is measured from 0 to 100. However, 25%
are lower than 40 and 25% are higher than 60.
When you are around a lower frequency person, it feels calmer
and mellower, even if the person is not calm and mellow. It can feel
slower, sluggish, deeper, heavier, more ponderous. And all that can
be an illusion. Those with lower frequency often move more slowly
and look like they have more thought behind their actions even if
they do not. The intensity of a low frequency person can be
compared to the intensity of a stalking hunter.
High frequency is often dizzying, buzzy, feverish, scattered, out
of the body, frenetic. Those with high frequency tend to move
quickly, talk faster, zip and buzz around the room. They look like
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the amount of energy and frequency; it is just a different way of

expressing that energy.
Priests and Artisans tend to have high frequency. Sages,
Servers, Scholars and Kings vary between high and low. Warriors
tend to have lower frequency.
As with focused and creative energy, the entire population
averages out to a frequency of 50. Extremely high and low
frequency are even more uncomfortable to be around than high/low
focused and creative energy.
You cannot change your focused/creative energy balance. You
can use more of one or the other for a particular occasion: for
example, you can pull on whatever creative energy you have if a
situation requires a creative rather than a focused solution, even if
you have a high percentage of focused energy. This is called
"wearing more of your creative (or focused) energy on top."
However, your basic balance remains the same.
With frequency, on the other hand, people are constantly trying
to match each other's balance every minute, not just for a special
occasion. You can lower or heighten your frequency by about 20-
30 points at any time. You do this to be more comfortable around
people of other frequencies. Nevertheless, it would be difficult for a
person who has a frequency of 20 and someone with a frequency of
90 to get to each others' comfort zones. You are most comfortable
when allowed to revert to your natural frequency level.
In sexual relationships, opposites in frequency and
focused/creative energy balance often attract. The energies may be
difficult to blend, but they do balance each other out, in an explosive
sort of way. Someone who has the same or close to the same
frequency or focused/creative energy balance will give you a
comfortable feeling. Essence twins often have inverse amounts of
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Each entity is composed of a certain percentage of focused and

creative energy, and certain frequencies as a whole. But each
fragment is whatever balance of that energy that it decided to bring
to the planet the first time.

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Chapter 3: The Seven Goals

Of all the overleaves (goal, mode, attitude, chief feature, and
centering) an Essence can choose during a particular lifetime, the
choice of goal is the most significant. The goal is the underlying
accomplishment that the Essence aims for in that life. It determines
the bottom line issue in every experience during the life. The biggest
challenges that Essence gives itself are related to the achievement of
the goal.
The most commonly chosen goals are growth and acceptance.
Next are dominance, submission and relaxation. The rarest goals are
discrimination and re-evaluation. As is true of all of the overleaves,
each Essence eventually tries all the goals, sometime during its cycle
on the Physical Plane.

Sliding
An action, expression or inspirational overieaf will slide to, or
use, its action, expressive or inspirational partner, given
circumstances, karmas and agreements. For example, in the
inspirational axis of goals, a person with a goal of growth will slide
to re-evaluation in order to rest. Or, someone with a goal of
submission will learn to use dominance to promote her cause.
Often times, when a person "slides," she will tend to go to the
negative pole of the opposite overleaf. Thus, someone with a goal of
acceptance will become rejecting when she slides to discrimination,
or a person in growth becomes withdrawn when using re-
evaluation.
A neutral overleaf, such as relaxation (goal) or observation
(mode), will be able to slide to any of the other overleaves.
Nonetheless, the person with the neutral overleaf will have her
favorite places she slides to. This system is not rigid, for individuals
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does, however, explain why it is that people have their habitual

patterns and ways of acting.
Sliding happens only with overleaves; techniquely one role does
not slide to its opposite on the axis. Thus, a King does not slide to
Warrior to get things done. The imprinting of parents and mentors
and the use of essence twin energy is usually the reason that one role
appears to be influenced by another.

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Growth and Re-evaluation

The Inspirational Goals
Growth
To choose a goal of growth is to have a lifetime in which growth
is the foremost issue. A life with that goal is set up as a series of
challenges and obstacles provided for the tempering of
Essence's character and spiritual nature.
An Essence who chooses this goal will set up a life of challenge
after challenge to be dealt with and overcome. The personality will
feel driven to take on new learning experiences and will seldom be
given a rest. With this exalted inspirational goal, the person in
growth will feel drawn to a busy and visible life dealing with people
and varied situations, and will also feel the inspirations of challenge
and spiritual growth.
The experience of the positive pole of growth is evolution, the
uplifting feeling of spiritual comprehension. The negative pole is
confusion, not knowing where life is going nor how to cope with
difficulties. People with this goal like to appear intelligent,
knowledgeable and motivated. People in growth will slide to re-
evaluation for rest and relief.
Those with this goal are oriented towards their own growth.
Their own challenges will often take precedence over being available
to other people.

Positive Pole:
Evolution. Comprehension. Upwardly-directed. Willing to take
on challenges or to overcome obstacles. Eager. Essence-directed.

Negative Pole:
Confused. Driven. Absent-minded. Ignorant of or callous
towards the needs of others. Afraid of appearing ignorant or
unmotivated.

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Re-evaluation
Re-evaluation is the opposite of growth in the sense that it
limits the scope of life in such a way as to examine one or two
major issues fully. Being an ordinal goal, it is inner-directed and
also past-directed; the re-evaluator reviews an issue left incomplete
in the past. People with this goal will often experience being stuck at
an earlier soul-level than they had achieved in an earlier life. They
stay at that level until they feel they have resolved the issues they are
examining.
Personalities with a goal of re-evaluation are often introspective
and, in their negative pole, withdrawn. In the positive pole, they
reach a state of childlike simplicity in which they can experience a
feeling of oneness with creation. For instance, they could become
enraptured in the beauty of a flower or a cloud in the sky. Re-
evaluation is in many ways the opposite of the positive pole of
discrimination, sophistication.
It benefits people with a goal of growth to cultivate moving to
the positive pole of re-evaluation for rest. Another term which
describes this goal is "circumscription," which is to limit for the
purposes of examination. Re-evaluators can slide to growth in order
to expand and take on new challenges.

Positive Pole:
Simplicity. Naive. Circumscription. Inspection. Evaluation.
Review. Atavism. State of awe or wonder. State of unaffected
simplicity.

Negative Pole:
Withdrawn. Internalized. Stuck. Bewildered. Not completely
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Acceptance and Discrimination

The Expression Goals
Acceptance
Acceptance is the second most commonly chosen goal, after
growth. The life-long issues for those in this goal are being
accepted by others and accepting their life and those in it.
Acceptance people are usually outgoing, friendly and easy to be
around. People in acceptance will usually adopt a cheerful
disposition because they want to make themselves acceptable to
others. As an expression goal, acceptance makes people seem more
outwardly emotional.
Acceptance is a spiritual goal in that it confronts the Essence
with accepting life and people the way they are. In the positive pole,
the acceptor strives toward agape, which is unconditional acceptance
and love for others. In other words, someone in acceptance strives
to accept that others are on their chosen path and that they are right
in their choice of action and circumstance.
In the negative pole, acceptance slides to ingratiation, which is
trying to please others so that they will like the "acceptor." Someone
in acceptance can be insincere and resentful towards those she
ingratiated. This can lead to subtle forms of lying in order to cover
up the underlying feelings.
Acceptance can also borrow from or slide to the other expression
goal, discrimination. This can look like picking and choosing what
to accept and what to reject. A person in acceptance will usually
slide to the negative pole of discrimination when threatened, in order
to reject another before being rejected herself. For people with any
goal, being rejected is one of the most uncomfortable experiences,
but this is particularly true for those in acceptance.

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Acceptance, Positive and Negative Poles

Positive Pole:
Agape. Love of humanity. Friendly. Outgoing. Warm.
Understanding. Self-accepting.

Negative Pole:
Ingratiation. Insincerity. Afraid of not being liked. Oblique.

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Discrimination
Discrimination is chosen for the purpose of picking and
choosing what one does or does not want in one's life.
People with this goal develop their critical faculties and learn to
express reasoned opinions on any matter of judgement. The process
of learning to use this goal includes eliminating the things one does
not want in one's life and forming or completing karmas related to
discrimination and rejection. It is often chosen after a series of
lifetimes in which Essence has been overly accepting or
indiscriminate.
Because they are using an expression goal, people in
discrimination usually express their opinions about things and
people around them. They feel quite justified in upholding those
opinions. People with this goal will occasionally slide to acceptance,
although they will remain highly discriminating as to what they are
willing to accept.
In the positive pole, this goal looks sophisticated and worldly,
with refined taste and judgement. In the negative pole, it can be
prejudiced, unreasonably opinionated or outright rejecting of others.
Thus the negative pole of discrimination could be said to be the
opposite of the positive pole of acceptance. People in acceptance
have a difficult time being around someone with this goal because of
feeling that at any moment they could be rejected.

Positive Pole:
Sophistication. Refinement. Perfectionism. Worldly. Highly
discerning.

Negative Pole:
Prejudiced. Rejecting. Judgemental. Opinionated. Aloof.
Snobby. Devoid of simplicity or naturalness.

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Composite Overleaf Profile: Mature Soul Sage, goal of

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Dominance and Submission

The Action Goals
Dominance
For dominance, life is a win or lose game, and people with
this goal want to win. Dominance works well with submission,
because dominance wants to lead and submission wants to follow.
In the positive pole, this goal says, "I want to win and I want you to
win with me." In the negative pole, it becomes, "I am going to win
and I don't care if you lose."
People in dominance feel driven to win whatever game they have
set up for themselves in that particular life. For some it is
Overcoming a particular self-karma or difficult challenge. For others,
it involves leading and guiding other people.
Since Essence wants to learn to use both the positive and
negative pole of its goal, it will be difficult for a personality placed
in a situation where exercising both poles becomes impossible.
Thus, if a dominance person is continually placed in a "no win"
game, or a game where only one person can win and the other must
lose, she will become extremely uncomfortable. War, for example,
is a continual crisis for a person with a goal of dominance.
When dominance is chosen by a "fluid" role (Artisan, Server or
Priest) it makes her appear more grounded, determined and "in her
body” than she would if she had another goal.
Dominance is the exalted action goal and it can look like leading
people to action or directing them. It is important for people with
this goal to feel like they are in control. People in dominance are
usually determined, outgoing and capable. In the negative pole, they
can be dictatorial, demanding or insensitive to the needs of others.

Positive Pole:
Leadership. Authoritative. Determined. Outgoing. Capable.
Negative Pole:
Dictatorial. Demanding. Pushy. Overwhelming. Insensitive.

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Submission

Submission is a goal which allows an Essence to be devoted to a

cause or totally supportive of another person or group of people.
The key for this goal is "I want you (or this cause) to win, and I am
totally behind it." This goal makes personalities sensitive to the
needs of others and, in the positive pole, selfless in their application
or use of it. One way exalted roles use this goal is to lead others
toward devoting themselves to a cause. Thus they can be exalted —
reaching many people — and still "submissive" or devoted.
In the positive pole, people in submission want to "win" through
their support of another person or cause. In the negative pole, the
person in submission can be subservient or victimized: "I want you
(the cause) to win, and I don't care if I lose." In the negative pole,
someone in submission becomes victim to people and
circumstances, rather than in control of life or the universe.
Submission gives the individual an "inspired" feeling because of
its "other-orientation" and selflessness. Because it is an action goal,
submission finds its fulfillment through activity, striving to support
those causes which the person finds worthy.

Positive Pole:
Devoted. Caring. Helpful. Having a "cause." Sensitive.
Selfless.

Negative Pole:
Subservient. Helpless. Martyred. Victimized.

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Relaxation
The Neutral Goal

The purpose of having relaxation as a goal is to take a "rest" life

and to learn how to "go with the flow." Essence will set up this goal
in order to recuperate from a series of difficult lives. That Essence is
intending to rest is not necessarily apparent to personality.
The aim in relaxation is to have life flow. If the relaxors "go
with the flow," they will get what they want out of life. In this
sense, relaxation is the opposite of the goal of growth, in which the
personality is constantly confronted with obstacles and challenges
that need to be overcome. Essence will give personality difficulties
in relaxation, but there will also always be the attitude that these
difficulties can be dealt with.
The exalted roles have a more difficult time relaxing because
they are so used to being busy in most lives. Just as with the other
goals, it is possible to choose this goal and not achieve it, in this
case by failing to learn how to rest or how to flow with life.
Relaxation, being the neutral goal, can slide to the other six.
Relaxors will slide periodically for the purpose of doing something
other than resting. This can be appropriate, given the occasional
karma or agreement, but it is inappropriate — or at least contrary to
the goal of relaxing — if the relaxor is constantly sliding to
somewhere else and never staying in relaxation.
In the positive pole, relaxation appears to be unstressed and
easygoing. In the negative pole, it can be inert. People who
recognize they have this goal often feel relieved that they can pursue
the rest they feel they deserve.

Positive Pole:
Freeflowing. Unstressed. Easygoing. Fun-loving.
Negative Pole:
Inert. Lazy. Uncommitted. Ignorant. Too busy to rest.

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MODES
MEANS OF OBTAINING THE GOAL
EXALTED POSITIONS

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Chapter 4: The Seven Modes

Description
The mode is one of the most visible overleaves because it
determines the primary means of expression. It is the modus
operandi, the means of obtaining the chosen goal. Your mode is the
way you live your life — e.g., passionately, cautiously,
aggressively. The mode affects the nature of the personality, how it
operates in the world, and how it is perceived by others. Of all of
the overleaves, the phenomena of sliding is most noticeable with the
mode.

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Passion and Repression

The Inspirational Modes

Passion
Passion, the exalted inspirational mode, gives the personality the
tendency toward strong emotional reactions. People in passion live
their lives with energy and enthusiasm. They are outgoing
and expressive. Passion mode people also learn to deal with
identification, which is the tendency to lose your perspective in the
emotions of the moment. Many Mature Souls will act out of the
negative pole of passion mode, believing that the immediate situation
is all that is real.
People in passion express their immediate reactions to situations,
rather than merely observing and trying to control or contain those
reactions. So, passion mode lives closer to the surface in its
immediacy and inability to be hidden. People in passion inspire
others by their enthusiasm which says, "Let's do this!" and in their
ability to express their enjoyment of the moment.
In the positive pole, passion becomes self-actualization, which is
the ability to realize one's ambitions. People in passion will slide to
repression mode when they feel the need to inhibit their emotions.

Positive Pole
Self-actualization. Realization. Re-creation. Spontaneous.
Lively. Enthusiastic. Open. Emotional. Involved. Dramatic.

Negative Pole
Identification. Loss of identity. Taking the part to be the whole.
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Repression
Repression, the ordinal inspiration mode, is used in order to
be refined, polished, or more civilized. It is one of the more
difficult modes because the personality needs to find an outlet to
express emotions in a refined or restrained manner. Some do this by
developing a skill or art — such as ballet, music or poetry — which
requires a precise degree of refinement. Another method would be to
develop an appreciation of culture, where raw emotions have been
refined and expressed in a more restrained manner. People in
repression usually have an appreciation for beauty.
Repression mode is the opposite of passion in that it hides
immediate reactions or contains them. This gives people in
repression an air of reserve. They are uncomfortable around those
who express themselves coarsely, without dignity. They are usually
polite and proper, not extravagant in their behavior.
Repression is usually chosen for the purpose of compensating
for a past life of extravagance, or for the pursuit of elegance.
Repression mode can look similar to a goal of discrimination. In
repression, there is an element of internal refinement; in
discrimination, there is an element of picking and choosing among
things outside of oneself. In the negative pole, repression looks like
inhibition or the inability to express emotions.

Positive Pole
Restraint. Refinement. Tempered. Elegant. Sublime. Graceful.
Civilized. Cultured. Tasteful. Self-controlled.

Negative Pole
Inhibited. Suppressed. Constrained. Blocked. Anxious.
Depressed.

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Power and Caution

The Expression Modes

Power
Power mode is the most noticeable of all the modes. This is
because people with this mode carry an aura of power and
authority with them, regardless of whether they are aware of it or
not. When a person in power mode walks into a room, others can
feel her presence. This is also true of the other expressive mode,
caution, although the ordinal mode is more internalized.
Power is about how one relates to others; i.e., someone in
power achieves her goal by being an authority whose word is
listened to, or by being recognized as someone with whom to be
reckoned. Power mode is more blatant than the goal of dominance,
even though the two overleaves are often confused. Dominance
works through specific issues and goals, while power affects
everything and cannot be hidden. A person in dominance says,
"This is how I can manipulate the situation to obtain my desired
result." Power mode says, "I am in control of the situation and it
will fall in line with what I want."
In the positive pole, power mode expresses itself as the authority
— for example, the person you would go to when seeking advice.
In the negative pole, power is oppressive and uncomfortable to be
around. When someone in power mode is in a bad mood or is
displeased, it is apparent to everyone around her. Whatever she feels
emotionally is expressed through the power mode to the people
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Power, Positive and Negative Poles

Positive Pole
Being an authority. Knowing what one is talking about. Having
a powerful presence. Being the person that people look to for
answers. Self-confident. Powerful. In control.

Negative Pole
Oppressive. Domineering. Evoking fear in others. Taking or
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Caution
Caution, like power, is on the expressive axis, and expresses
itself as a kinesthetic presence that can be easily sensed. The motto
of caution mode is "look before you leap." People with this mode
are cautious or wary in their approach to situations and
prefer to know exactly what they are getting into. They will have a
tendency to feel that something may go wrong before things go
right.
A lot of times caution is chosen because Essence has seen, over
lifetimes of experience, that jumping into situations can be
dangerous. In this sense, caution is the opposite of passion mode.
In the positive pole, people in caution will deliberate before they act.
In the negative pole, they are fearful or phobic for no apparent
reason.
A person in caution can slide to power mode occasionally when
she knows what course of action works for her and takes authority
with it. When someone in caution slides to power it can be a very
effective means of reaching her goal, since those around her are not
used to seeing her take authority and, therefore, offer no resistance.
The main reaction to being around someone in caution is that she
looks afraid of something, but you're not sure what. Caution can
evoke timidity in others because it expresses a subtle mood of fear,
and people can begin to mirror those fears in their own behavior.

Positive Pole
Deliberating. Cautious. Safe. Quick to recognize danger.
Tactful. Diplomatic.

Negative Pole
Phobia. Unreasonably fearful. Unable to move or act. Feelings
of hopelessness and anxiety.

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Aggression and Perseverance

The Action Modes
Aggression
Aggression and perseverance are on the action axis and,
therefore, manifest particularly through behavior, as opposed to
feelings or thought. The positive pole of aggression mode is
dynamism — living dynamically, or actively pursuing
one's goals. Aggression mode people are willing to step in and
take action where others would not. Aggression mode is often loud
and noticeable, giving its people a "cutting" quality to their
personality. It can be handled more subtly, in which case you will
notice the person is more willing to take a stand and to act out her
beliefs than someone with another mode would be.
In the positive pole, aggression mode is dynamic, action-
oriented, and active in achieving the personality's goals. In the
negative pole, it is belligerent, pugnacious and insensitive to others.
In the negative pole, there are literally no lengths to which an
"aggressor" will not go. An aggression mode person will give no
thought to logic or physical danger while belligerently pursuing her
goal.
People in aggression are able to achieve a lot when they direct
themselves toward being productive. Also, by being in aggression,
a person who has been passive for a number of lifetimes can learn to
be more assertive. She can also create difficulties with others by
being overly pushy, manipulative or intolerant.

Positive Pole
Dynamic. Assertive. Action- or goal-oriented. Taking a stand.
Enthusiastic. Able to lead others. Energetic.

Negative Pole
Belligerent. Pushy. Selfish. Obnoxious. Violent.

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Perseverance
Perseverance is the mode which is chosen when Essence wants
to create a personality with endurance, stick-to-it-iveness,
and the ability to complete long-term tasks or karmas.
Perseverance works by choosing goals and then accomplishing all
of the steps necessary to complete that goal. Once in motion,
perserverance builds a kind of momentum which can be difficult to
stop even if the goal is no longer important. This mode is often
chosen along with being Moving centered.
Compared with (for example) passion mode, perseverance
appears somewhat dull, although passion mode people wiil usually
admire the endurance and persistance they often lack. Perseverance
can also slide to aggression mode to appear more dynamic and
assertive.
In the negative pole, perseverance can be immutable, or
unwilling to change, despite the fact that a decided course of action
may now be inappropriate. Although perseverance mode can carry
the personality through long and harrowing karmas, it makes it
difficult to let go of a karma when it is finally complete. Because it is
an action mode, people in perserverance can form physical habits or
addictions which can be difficult to break. Perseverance sets the
body in motion and gives it persistance but, at the same time, it
makes it difficult to change a course of action once it is chosen.

Positive Pole
Persistent. Enduring. Goal-oriented. Able to carry out long-term
projects, aims, goals. Able to see things through to the end.

Negative Pole
Immutable. Unchangeable. Dogged. Lacking spontaneity.
Driven.

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Observation
The Neutral Mode

Observation is the most commonly used mode. The advantage of

observation is that it allows you to "look before you leap,"
to observe before acting. It also has the advantage of being able
to slide to any of the other modes. You can use observation to see
where you stand and then use one of the other modes to act. People
in observation will have a favorite place they slide to; for example,
from observation to passion or to power.
Because observation is a "neutral" mode, and since the mode is
the most visible of the overleaves, a person in observation can seem
quite unassuming when she first walks into a room. She can be
recognized by the way she quietly looks about, missing few details,
before she slides to a different mode, or way of acting, in order to
interrelate with others.
The person in observation will seem somewhat detached and
passive, absorbing the energy of her environment rather than
actually participating in it. Observation is often chosen with
Intellectual centering. When observation is combined with other
neutral overleaves, the observer may spend a large portion of her
time looking rather blank.

Positive Pole
Clarity. Awareness. Attention. Absorptive. Spectator. Observer.
Having a neutral perspective.

Negative Pole
Surveillance. Scrutiny. Removed. Inactive. Withholding
emotions or information.

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ATTITUDES
STANCE FROM WHICH YOU VIEW LIFE
EXALTED POSITIONS
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Chapter 5: The Seven Attitudes

Description
The attitude determines a person's primary perspective on life.
Although the attitude mainly influences the personality's intellectual
perspective, that in turn affects the emotions and the way we act.
The attitude is also pivotal. If a person is in the positive pole of
her attitude, she is more likely to remain in the positive poles of the
other overleaves. A positive attitude can even neutralize the chief
negative feature.
This teaching encourages students to try to stay in the positive
pole of the attitude in order to avoid becoming trapped in
unproductive patterns. Because attitudes are related to our ways of
thinking, and the intellectual center is the easiest to control of all the
centers, we have more control over our attitude than we do over
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Spiritualist and Stoic

The Inspirational Attitudes

Spiritualist
"It could be."
Spiritualist is the attitude that brings one to consider higher
possibilities, leading to a "spiritual" point of view. Spiritualists are
more oriented towards the higher planes than toward the Physical
Plane. They tend to look at life from the point of view of what
"could" exist. In one sense this attitude takes idealism to the
extreme. Spiritualists see the world in terms of its perfection and are
perfectionists in their accomplishments. Some of history's most
powerful and effective leaders were spiritualists.
Spiritualists remind people of the interconnectedness that exists
beyond the Physical Plane. They also see the larger picture,
including possibilities that reach far into the future. Spiritualists,
however, have the most naive of all attitudes as to the realities of the
Physical Plane, and they tend to neglect the mundane in order to see
the greater possibility.
In the positive pole, this attitude verifies the possibilities that it
perceives and brings those possibilities into fruition. In the negative
pole, it takes things on faith, or through naive belief. Those with
this attitude can be disappointed or confused when life doesn't work
out according to their expectations.

Positive Pole
Verifying what really could exist. Seeing the greater
possibilities. Understanding of one's spiritual nature. Feeling
connected to the higher planes of existence. Perfectionism.

Negative Pole
Taking things on faith or belief. Naive to the rigors of the
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Stoic
"Whatever."
The stoical attitude is the enduring approach to life which says,
"I can deal with whatever happens — I can handle it." The stoic will
not express her feelings openly, so it is difficult to tell what she is
thinking. People who are stoics are able to pass through difficult
situations unscathed because they are willing to not make a big deal
out of it.
Stoic, like spiritualist, is an inspirational attitude and allows the
personality to see the larger picture. Stoic will slide to spiritualist to
see how life "could be." While most attitudes give one the tendency
to make something out of life, the stoic is more willing to accept the
world as it shows up.
In the positive pole, the stoic is tranquil and accepting. In the
negative pole, she is resigned, or has surrendered without complete
acceptance. The stoic in the negative pole says, "Things aren't
great, but what can you do about it?"

Positive Pole
Tranquility. Surrender, in the positive sense. Accepting the
world the way it is. Willingness to make the best out of life the way
it is. Understanding of the other attitudes.

Negative Pole
Resigned. Emotionally withheld. Not willing to confront
situations and deal with them. Overly quiet. Not willing or able to
express.

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Idealist and Skeptic

The Expression Attitudes
The idealist-skeptic axis encompasses the attitudes that would
most like to see the world be different than the way it is. As a result,
the skeptics and idealists are the people who effect changes in the
world more than the other attitudes. The idealist views the world
from the point of view of how things "should be," ideally. The
skeptic views the world from the point of view of how things
"might not be" what they appear to be.
Idealist
"It should be!"
Idealism is one of the most popular attitudes; it is used by about
30% of the population. Idealists see the world through the eyes of
how it "should be" — in other words, their ideal pictures.
Idealism is the most energetic attitude and affects the idealist on
an emotional level. Idealists are noticeable because of their high
energy and the enthusiasm behind their approach to life. Even when
thwarted, the idealist will not stay in a slump for long, but will
bounce back with new energy.
In the positive pole, idealists create the world into something that
satisfies their pictures. In other words, they make their pictures and
what really happens "coalesce." In the negative pole, they do not see
that things are not working out according to their expectations.

Positive Pole
Having the ability to coalesce ideals and manifest them.
Persuasive. Having a marked effect upon the world around them.
Able to see the brighter side of life. Optimistic. Good-willed.
Negative Pole
Naive. Having false expectations. Being disappointed.
Unrealistic in outlook. Unable to achieve or meet their pictures of
how things "should be."

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Skeptic
"It might not be."
Skepticism is that intellectual attitude that stimulates the mind to
doubt, question and investigate to find out what lies at the base of
appearances. Since the skeptic believes things "might not be" as they
seem, she will not take anything on blind faith, but will doubt the
validity of what has been said or presented until it has been
investigated to her satisfaction.
Skeptics are the people who remind others that things might not
work out the way they expect. They will encourage others to look
for unforeseen difficulties. They are, therefore, often the people
who make breakthroughs in science and knowledge in general,
because they are not willing to accept things at face value. In the
negative pole, however, skeptics are suspicious without
investigating to find out if their suspicions are valid.

Positive Pole
Investigation. Questioning. Not willing to take things on faith or
at face value. Looking deeper to see what is really there. Pointing
out unforeseen difficulties to others.

Negative Pole
Suspicious. Having a doubtful attitude. Argumentative. Having
the tendency to make things seem overly difficult. Adding problems
where they do not exist.

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Realist and Cynic

The Action Attitudes

Realist
"It is."
Realist is one of the most common attitudes, along with idealist
and pragmatist. Realists see the world as it really is, and accept it as
such. This is different from the other attitudes in that realists do not
add their own personal judgements and expectations onto how they
see life. For realists, things are not necessarily good or bad, they are
just the way they are.
Realists are generally the people who are able to point out the
fallacies in other attitudes. Because this attitude is on the action axis,
realists (cynics, also) are more action-oriented than the other
attitudes and generally are able to accomplish a lot.
In the positive pole, realists can see the world objectively. In the
negative pole, they see the world subjectively, that is, how it really
is from their point of view. Realists will sometimes slide to cynicism
saying, "This is the way it is, and it is terrible." As is often the case
when people "slide," realists do not handle the cynical attitude as
well as a cynic does.

Positive Pole
Objective. Seeing the world as it really is. Non-judgemental.
Clear-headed. Grounded. Action-oriented.

Negative Pole
Subjective. Not willing to see other points of view. Having the
feeling, "What I say is right and you don't know what youre
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Cynic
"It probably isn't."
Cynics look at life from the point of view that things will
probably not work out. In one sense, they take skepticism to the
extreme: rather than being just doubtful, they are sure that they
should expect the worst. Often their attitude works for them because
they make their lives prove their point.
Cynics have a distinctive sense of humor — what is called
"black humor." They expect the worst and are pleased when their
expectations prove true. They are not as upset about a negative
outcome as skeptics, since they don't expect to be able to change the
world into something better.
In the positive pole, cynics are wary and apprehensive, but
mildly amused. In the negative pole, they will denigrate others and
situations without cause. Being an ordinal attitude, cynics are less
outgoing than those with exalted attitudes.

Positive Pole
Apprehensive. Willing to accept the worst. Not disappointed
when things don't "work out." Not naive or easily fooled. Good
sense of the absurd. Good at business dealings.

Negative Pole
Denigrating. Sarcastic. Refusing to see the brighter side.
Thinking everything is terrible with no possibility of improvement.
Not able to listen to other attitudes.

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Pragmatist
The Neutral Attitude
"It must be."
Pragmatist is the practical attitude which sees the world from the
point of view of how it "must be." There is a tendency for
pragmatists to form rules, regulations and structures around how
they think the world must be. They often end up being the people
who also enforce those structures.
Pragmatist is the neutral attitude and is able to slide to the other
six, giving it a degree of flexibility. Because of this flexibility, they
can occasionally “hide out" in one or two of the other attitudes.
In the positive pole, pragmatists are practical, organized and
competent. In the negative pole, they are dogmatic, overly structured
and can seem boring.

Positive Pole
Practical. Worldly. Organized. Methodical. Structured.

Negative Pole
Dogmatic. Stodgy. Pedantic. Boring (from the point of view of
those with other attitudes.) Inflexible.

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Chapter 6:
The Seven Chief Negative Features
Description
The chief feature is the only overleaf that is not chosen before
birth. Children experiment with the different features and then settle
upon one favorite sometime before age 35. Everyone uses all of the
features occasionally, although you choose one from which you
chiefly operate. It is also possible to switch chief features during
your lifetime. People usually switch by sliding more-or-less
permanently to the feature that is opposite theirs on the axis. There
are different degrees of using the features; some people use them
often and strongly, some people use them mildly or hardly at all.
All features are based upon fears. You pull in your chief feature
when you are in the negative pole of the emotional center, i.e.,
sentimentality or emotionalism. (Since everyone can use all centers,
even Intellectual and Moving Centered people get a "chance" to use
their chief feature!) Features retard growth by pulling in additional
challenges and difficulties. People will use their features to protect
themselves during times of stress. Chief feature is the favorite
device of false personality, i.e., the personality that is projected
when you are using the negative poles of all your overleaves.
Features can also be used appropriately to strengthen personality
by using them in the positive pole. This teaching encourages people
to move to the exalted side of the axis if they are using ordinal
features, as a first step to softening or erasing their features
altogether.
The way to minimize your use of chief feature is to see that you
can function without it and to strengthen your sense of self-agape
(love, forgiveness and tolerance for yourself). When you are
worried, stressed or afraid, you have fallen out of self-agape and
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Chief features affect the personality intellectually, emotionally

and energetically. Intellectually, they project an attitude about the
personality. Emotionally, they make it difficult for others to connect
with someone using a chief feature heavily. On the energetic level,
they project a wall which signals others to stay at a distance.
People can use their chief features to facilitate karma formation
and karma payback. When you are not in karma and are on a path of
spiritual advancement, it is possible to minimize the use of the chief
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Arrogance and Self-Deprecation

The Inspirational Features
Arrogance
Fear of vulnerability.
Arrogance is an exalted feature and therefore brings attention to
the person who uses it. Ironically, what is usually at the base of
arrogance is shyness. Arrogance is a barrier which prevents a
person from finding out what people really think of her. The person
in arrogance attempts to do this by making herself appear to be
something other than who she really is. Arrogance and self-
deprecation both deal with the issue of, "How much am I worth in
the universe?"
It is common for teenagers to experiment with arrogance by
making themselves attractive or noticeable, while at the same time
creating barriers to mask their fears. Arrogance is judgemental both
of itself ("Am I acceptable?") and of others. Judgement is always a
major obstacle to agape.
In the positive pole, this feature can be used to develop real pride
and make yourself more worthy in your own eyes. In the negative
pole, someone in arrogance feels she is right and others are wrong
and can be intolerant of the behavior or existence of others. Those in
arrogance tend to spend an inordinant amount of time on their
personal appearance, in front of the mirror or worrying about the
kind of impression they are making or not making. People in
arrogance can try to appear to be someone or something they are not
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Arrogance, Positive and Negative Poles

Positive Pole
Pride. Self-esteem. An antidote to self-deprecation. Feeling of
worthiness.

Negative Pole
Vanity. Shyness. Haughtiness. Snobbery. Seeing oneself as
unacceptable. Judgemental of oneself and others. Creating barriers
between oneself and others. Worrying about others' opinions of
you. Shyness in crowds or intimate situations. Having false
pretenses. Lying.

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Self-deprecation
Fear of inadequacy.
Self-deprecation is the feature which says, on some level, "I am
not worthy." This feature limits the development of Essence because
of the difficulty in "having," whether it be not allowing one's talents
to manifest; seeing oneself unworthy of love (relationships), truth
(knowledge) or energy (including money); or not feeling worth the
benefits of spiritual growth. In this teaching, people are encouraged
to give up their self-deprecation, either by sliding to arrogance, or
by finding themselves more worthy.
Self-deprecation is a favorite chief feature for older souls
because by the time you are an Old Soul you know how little you
know relative to the whole universe. Also, control issues and having
possessions become less important than having philosophical and
self-worth issues at that stage.
In the positive pole, self-deprecation is appropriately humble —
i.e., humble when there is a cause or need to be so. In the negative
pole, people in self-deprecation abase themselves by dressing
poorly, not attending to their appearance, not taking care of their
health or their possessions. Someone using self-deprecation heavily
will not be able to maintain appropriate relationships, satisfactory
employment, necessary material objects, nor will she be able to
manifest or develop her own talents. In addition, she will not
spiritually grow since she will even be unwilling to accept her
lessons in life.

Positive Pole
Humility. Unassuming. The reverse of haughtiness and
snobbery. Gentle.
Negative Pole
Self-abasement. Making oneself unworthy. Giving a poor
appearance. Not feeling capable. Dishonest. Not being able to
communicate clearly and directly.

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Greed and Self-Destruction

The Expression Features
Greed
Fear of not having.
A chief feature of greed gives one a huge appetite for life.
Although it can manifest as miserliness, greed often shows up in
Young to Old Souls as a voracity for possessions, emotional and
spiritual experiences, adulation and physical highs.
People with this feature have large egos and no limits as to how
much can satisfy them. Greed is the opposite of self-destruction,
since someone using greed feels that it is her right to have whatever
she wants, and that it is the obligation of the rest of the world to
provide it. Both greed and self-destruction, however, are self-
oriented.
In the negative pole, greed can get caught up in worldly desires
to the detriment of any spiritual pursuit. Also, greed in the negative
pole fears to lose what it already has and can become miserly and
hoarding.

Positive Pole
Having a large appetite for life. Ambitious. Loving and
appreciating possessions and experiences. High appreciation for the
Physical Plane. Heightened ability to have.

Negative Pole
Voracious. Unable to be satisfied. Selfish. Hoarding. Miserly.
Finding it difficult to give authority to others. Money-hungry.
Feeling the world owes you a living.

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Self-destruction
Fear of worthlessness
Self-destruction is the feature that is used when people feel too
unworthy to exist or to have what they really want. In self-
destruction, the personality becomes suicidal or self-destructive.
This can appear in the form of actually ending the life, or in the form
of self-destructive habits: alcoholism; drug abuse; illnesses; severe
depression; suicidal thoughts; being unable to support oneself
(monetarily or emotionally); bulemic or anorexic behavior.
The thinking behind this feature is that you are unworthy of
surviving or that life is so difficult that it is not worth continuing.
Everyone uses this feature on occasion, but those who use it as their
chief feature literally go about destroying themselves either quickly
(e.g., taking life threatening chances) or slowly (e.g., by extreme
substance abuse).
In the positive pole, this feature can look like dying for a cause
— for example, suicide missions in wartime. It is possible to escape
from this feature by sliding to greed and allowing yourself to have
the things you really want more often.

Positive Pole
Self-sacrifice. Dying in order to save others. Using this feature
for karmic payback where your death is owed.

Negative Pole
Suicidal behavior. Self-destructive habits or beliefs. No self-
esteem whatsoever. Giving up. Despondency. Not being useful to
yourself or others.

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Impatience and Martyrdom

The Action Features
Impatience
Fear of missing something important.
Impatience is the feature that has the personality ruled by time.
Someone in impatience has a difficult time being in the present
because she is always thinking about what needs to be done next.
She also feels like she is going to miss out on something that has not
happened yet.
People in impatience feel rushed. They are in a hurry to handle
the next task or the next lesson, instead of whatever is happening
now. They feel pressured by the limitations of time.
In the positive pole, impatience appears to be audacious, willing
to push ahead and try something new. In the negative pole,
impatience is intolerant of others, of situations, of itself. Allergies
are often symptoms of intolerances built up from the use of
impatience as a chief feature.

Positive Pole
Audacious. Daring. Plunging ahead. Willing to take chances.

Negative Pole
Intolerant. Hurried. Pressured. Not being in the present.
Worried about the future. Finding situations, others or oneself
unacceptable.

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Martyrdom
Fear of being out of control
Martyrdom is the feature that gives you the feeling you are out of
control, victimized or have given yourself over to the power and
control of another person, situation or authority. Someone in
martyrdom is not able to see she is really in control of her own life.
It is difficult to be around someone who uses this chief feature
heavily since we all know on an Essence level that being out of
control is a lie, an illusion of the Physical Plane.
Control is an issue for both martyrdom and impatience. The
person in impatience strives to be in control of that most ephemeral
of elements, time. The person in martyrdom, while believing she is
out of control, strives to control others by making them feel guilty
for her supposed misery.
In the positive pole, the person in martyrdom can appear
selfless, helping others without giving a thought to her own needs.
In the negative pole, she feels life is unfair, it isn't working out, or
that she is abused. She can also feel that she is being controlled,
stepped on, used or victimized.

Positive Pole
Selfless. Giving time and energy over to the care of those close
to you or to a spiritual cause or ideal.

Negative Pole
Victimized. Humiliated. Long-suffering. "Guilt-tripping" others
for one's own misery. Not taking care of yourself or others in an
appropriate way.

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Stubbornness
The Neutral Feature

Fear of new situations

Stubbornness is the neutral chief feature and can slide to all the
other six. People with this feature can end up using the other
features quite often and freely. The feature is used as a braking
mechanism to slow down the growth process when situations seem
threatening. In the negative pole, stubbornness is obstinant and will
say "NO!" to any suggestions from others. It is a place where
people dig in their heels. In the positive pole, it is determined, and
will pursue the direction it has set out for itself despite any
obstacles.

Positive Pole
Determination. Having the power to get what you want. Being
able to pass through obstacles. Steadfast in one's opinions.

Negative Pole
Obstinancy. Unbendable. Unable to listen to others, particularly
to their suggestions or advice. Immovable. Unyielding.

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_ Chapter 7:
Centering and the Seven Centers
Centering is not like the other overleaves. First of all, when you
are in balance you can be in any of the centers, whichever is
appropriate at the time. With the other overleaves, you choose one
and use it and its opposite pole almost exclusively — or, if you have
a neutral overleaf, you choose one or two favorites to slide to. Even
with centering, however, Essence will still choose the centering it
will habitually use, and it is not necessarily a bad or inappropriate
habit. You can respond appropriately to any situation from any
center. It is, however, very difficult to break the habit pattern
Essence has chosen, and when you use that habit pattern
inappropriately, it becomes your "trap."
Essence chooses only from the three ordinal centers. No one is
centered in one of the higher centers. The energy in the three exalted
centers is so intense that the physical body cannot stand having that
much energy run through it all the time and would quickly burn out.
Also, we are here to do Physical Plane lessons with more solid,
slower, lower amounts of energy -- not to use higher center energy
to that degree. Humans can step into the higher centers momentarily,
then step back out of them and remember this as an enlightened
experience, but they don't stay in higher centers all the time.
You can be instinctively centered, but it is very rare. Someone
who is centered in the Instinctive would be medically defined as
insane. To have instinctive centering, the body would have to have a
hormonal or biological imbalance to keep you there. Instinctive
Center is where you have your primal fears and your survival
lessons. It's not a place you are supposed to live, although people
step into it when they are eating, sleeping, meditating, or when it is
evoked through danger, fear or threat. Less than .01% of the
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Planetwide, people divide up into three equal segments: one-

third intellectually centered, one-third emotionally centered; and one-
third moving centered. However, in the United States the
proportions are 20% moving centered; 35% emotionally centered;
45% intellectually centered.
The seven chakras, the energy centers in the body which
govern different aspects of your individual behavior, relate to the
centers in the following way:

1st chakra (base of the spine) = Instinctive

2nd chakra (genitals) = Higher Moving
3rd chakra (stomach) = Moving
4th chakra (heart) = Emotional
5th chakra (throat) = Intellectual
6th chakra (brain) = Higher Intellectual
7th chakra (top of the head) = Higher Emotional

Note the progression moves upward from ordinal to exalted, with

the exception of the Higher Moving Center. If there were not a
higher center down lower in your body, you could not experience
kundalini types of energy. The feeling would just stay physically in
your head and your body would never experience that
connectedness to the universe. Kundalini energy travels from the 7th
to the 2nd chakra. The Instinctive Center, down below it all, keeps
the body grounded.

Parts of Centers
Centering is also unique as an overleaf in that each of the centers
breaks down into 3 different parts: the moving, the emotional or the
intellectual part of that center. When choosing centering, an Essence
will choose to be in a certain part of one of the ordinal centers. Since
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Center) does not lead to any useful interplay, this will never be
chosen. What is chosen is a center and a different part to slide to.
Moving between the center and its part becomes the
personality's habit, but it can also become the trap. For example,
someone in the emotional part of the Intellectual Center will
habitually think, then feel something about that thought, later
moving or doing something about the feeling (Intellectual to
Emotional to Moving Centers). When under stress and/or trapped,
that same person will think then feel; the emotion will spur another
thought, which produces another feeling and so forth. This habit can
be broken by purposely going to the third center (in this case
moving), and thus breaking the pattern, completing the circle of
centers and getting balanced again.
The best way to think about the parts of the centers is to use the
analogy of a deck of cards:

HEARTS = Emotional Center

SPADES = Moving Center
DIAMONDS = Intellectual Center
KING = intellectual part
QUEEN = emotional part
JACK = moving part

King of Hearts (intellectual part of Emotional Center) is not the

same as the Queen of Diamonds (emotional part of Intellectual
Center). Nor is the Jack of Diamonds (moving part of Intellectual
Center) the same as the King of Spades (intellectual part of Moving
Center). In this deck, the Queen of Hearts (emotional part of
Emotional Center), the King of Diamonds (intellectual part of
Intellectual Center) and the Jack of Spades (moving part of Moving
Center) represent pure emotion, pure thought and pure movement.
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EXAMPLE OF A TRAP
EMOTIONAL PART OF INTELLECTUAL CENTER
INTELLECTUAL CENTER EMOTIONAL PART

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an appointment with af accountant.

Rummaging in the refrigerator

Going to the third part breaks the trap

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their centering or trap, they usually go there very appropriately. That

is because they only go there when they have to for a specific
reason.
The higher centers and the Instinctive Center also have parts, but
the distinctions are minor and not necessary for a basic discussion of
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Instinctive Center
The Neutral Center

Instinctive Center rules automatic functions: circulation of

blood, breathing, growth of the body. The five senses come through
the Instinctive Center, even though they also stimulate the other
centers. All that you are born with — past life memories, survival
instincts, instinctual fears, reflexes — is lodged in the Instinctive
Center.
You keep your Instinctive Center (on an Essence level) from life
to life and you pick up where you left off with instinctive lessons
from one life to the next. Energy patterns from the last life are read
into the Instinctive Center and carried into the next life. If you have
not yet handled, for example, the fear of heights, that fear will
remained lodged in the Instinctive Center until, in one of your lives,
you learn that lesson. Similarly, if you die by drowning one life, the
fear of death by drowning will be recorded in your Instinctive
Center until you process through it during another life. In that way,
your Instinctive Center is like a little personal piece of the Akashic
Record.
Instinctive Center rules emotions that are not based in reason or
experience — such as being attracted to someone without reason, or
being repulsed; liking or disliking certain smells; pleasure and pain.
The drive for survival of the race is an Instinctive Center impulse.
The Instinctive Center also governs your pheromones: smells
perceived on a subconscious level which determine your instinctive
reactions to others. Your pheromones, in fact, will broadcast your
karmas, agreements and challenges for the life. When you enter a
room, these are apparent (on the instinctive level) for all to read.
Thus Essence programs the Instinctive Center and it will give you
the impulses to go out and meet your karmas and agreements.
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past lives to advise or warn you of possible similar dangers. This

sort of information will often come up in basic survival situations:
new job, new home, new relationship. For example, throughout
your past lives you have often had aggressive relationships with red-
headed females — and here comes one walking in the door! So the
situation arouses an Instinctive Center reaction. Or, you decide to
take a vacation and your Essence gives you the impulse,
programmed into your Instinctive Center, to go to a certain place
where you "happen to" (i.e., had planned on an Essence level to)
meet someone who will be significant in your life.
When you are working on an Instinctive Center issue, the
process of recalling and working through a past life memory,
emotion or fear will continue on a subconscious level for whatever
time it takes to resolve the issue and learn the lesson: a day, a few
weeks, a couple of months, even years. During this time the
personality will feel "in process," vaguely uncomfortable and in
transition, often for no specific reason. Past life regression can often
facilitate and shorten Instinctive Center processing, as can a
meditation practice, massage therapies and, for some, work with
crystals.

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The Three Ordinal Centers and Their Parts

Moving Center
The Ordinal Action Center

Moving Center governs learned functions, i.e., movement you

learn after you are born. This includes learning to walk, talk, use
your facial expressions, body language, posture and the mechanics
of sexual intercourse. Any movement requiring sustained attention
comes under the province of the Moving Center.
Someone who is moving centered will be more in touch with her
body. A moving centered person will feel things in her body before
she feels them emotionally and intellectually. She will know in her
body what is the right thing to do in a situation. Everyone has this
ability, it is just more acute in a moving centered person; she will be
much more aware of this phenomenon and she will rely on it more.
For example, a moving centered person will get a pain in the pit of
her stomach and know something is not right in the room. Or a
moving centered farmer can wake up in the morning feeling really
hungry and know it is a good day to harvest the wheat. They often
can't verbalize why they know what they know because it is not an
intellectual or emotional concept— and their very centering makes it
difficult for them to explain what is happening in intellectual or
emotional terms.
People rely on their centering for a feeling of stability. If a
moving centered person is in touch with her body, she will feel like
she is doing the right thing and she is in touch with reality. Her
body tells her kinesthetically what is happening in the environment.
An emotionally centered person, on the other hand, will rely on
what she feels is going on, while an intellectually centered person
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Emotional Part of Moving Center

The emotional part of Moving Center governs movement which
expresses or evokes emotion: dance, sports, or any type of exciting
movement like skateboarding or skiing.
People who have the emotional part of Moving Center as their
basic centering do movement not just for the exercise, but because it
makes them feel good, gives them a certain high or rush. They do
well as professional sportspeople. Movement stimulates their
emotion. If they are upset, they will clean the kitchen or do some
sort of activity to make themselves feel better.
In the negative pole, this centering governs obsessions like
gambling; compulsive shopping; ritualistic behavior (such as
throwing salt over your shoulder); nervous or eccentric twitches.

Intellectual Part of Moving Center

The intellectual part of Moving Center governs movement
requiring concentration or thought — for example, knitting an
intricate pattern that requires keeping count or paying attention.
Imitation and mime also fall into this centering.
Inventors often have this centering. They feel (physically) what
exists and what doesn't exist in the universe and they come up with
a concept about it. They can walk down the street and see a need and
they suddenly get an idea of how it could be filled; someone with a
different centering wouldn't even have recognized a need.
People with this centering are very project oriented; they do well
in fields such as architecture. They like to tinker around with a
project, such as fixing the car or programming the computer. A lot
of actors also have this centering. It allows them to think of how to
move in order to look like a different person.
Often people with this centering look pretty well put together.
They have a good idea of how to make their bodies feel good. They
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In the negative pole, those with this centering can get trapped by
frenetic, useless movement, getting more and more detached from
their emotions. Instead of going to the party to have fun, they'll
work on their chess game. They will tinker with the car endlessly,
long after it has been fixed. They have intellectual compulsions
about getting a certain number of activities done. Playing video
games for hours on end is a intellectual part of Moving Center
activity.
The trap for someone with this centering is having "second
thoughts:" doing something and then thinking, "Oh, I shouldn't
have done that" then doing something else and thinking about that.

Moving Part of Moving Center

Although no one has this centering, it is possible to visit the
moving part of the Moving Center. A moving part of Moving Center
activity is one in which you are moving without thinking or feeling
anything about the movement — for example, raking leaves when
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Emotional Center
The Ordinal Expression Center

The Emotional Center governs all emotions; here emotions exist

in their pure form (in the emotional part of the Emotional Center).
Perception — knowing the truth on a non-verbal, non-physical, non-
intellectual level — also comes through the Emotional Center.
Perception and pure emotion (without reason) are the positive
poles of the Emotional Center. You can have a perception about
something and be neutral about it. In the same way, a lot of
emotions actually have no cause; they are just for their own sake,
just as some thoughts have no cause and some movements have no
cause. People know that they have thoughts or movement without
reason, times when they are effective or ineffective in thought or
movement, phenomena that are just there to exercise that center. The
Emotional Center will expand and contract, people will be
introspective or extroverted, happy for no reason, sad for no reason.
Often what people will do with the Emotional Center is try to make
up reasons for their emotions.
In the positive pole of Emotional Center, you know what is
going on: you perceive relationships, events, truth, or just the fact
that you are feeling a certain emotion. Sentimentality, the negative
pole of emotional center, is when you have a perception or an
emotion and you make a judgement about it. Judgements blur
perception. With sentimentality, you feel yanked around by your
emotions, good or bad; they control you. All of a sudden you are
not just feeling an emotion or perceiving a situation, but you have
also made certain judgements about cause and effect, good and bad,
whether they are true or not. When the judgement actually becomes
a thought, then you are in the intellectual part of the Emotional
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Intellectual Part of Emotional Center

In the positive pole, the intellectual part of Emotional Center
governs value judgements and prioritizing. In the Emotional Center,
you perceive what is true for you: that one task is more important
than others, that one food, article of clothing, color or other object is
more appropriate for or pleasing to you than another. The intellectual
part puts that perception into a choice or plan. People with this
centering, guided by their perceptions, can cut to the heart of a
problem or a discussion by intellectualizing a perceived truth.
In the negative pole, the intellectual part of the Emotional Center
becomes rationalization: intellectualizing on your judgements about
the emotion or perception you are having, thinking up reasons for
what you perceive or feel. In their trap, people with this centering
will have an emotion, make up a reason for it, feel more emotions
because of the reason they made up, which lead to further
reasoning, and so forth.
Identifying your emotions with what you think about them is a
function of the negative pole of this centering as are jealousy,
prejudices, holding grudges and repetitively reviewing problems.

Moving part of Emotional Center

The moving part of Emotional Center governs actions which
directly follow an emotion or perception. Mass emotions, such as
everyone in the stands rising and shouting at once over a fantastic
play at a football game, are a function of this centering. In this part
of the Emotional Center, you have a feeling and then you act on it.
When it is used appropriately, you act on a perception -- which you
know to be true — without any intellectualizing in between the
perception and the action. For example, if you know on a perceptive
level that a car is going to swerve into your lane; move to avoid it;
then notice intellectually, "Oh, there is a car swerving into that space
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Automatic reactions to children and animals — perception or

emotion, then action (such as hugs or petting) — come from this
centering. Going out to the movies, coffee, dinner are moving part
of emotional center activities. The emotion is, "Let's go out and do
something fun;" then you act it out with your activity. Acting from
your imprinting (automatically acting on an emotion that is not even
your own) comes from this centering.
In the positive pole, people with this centering have a perception
and then act on it without pausing to think. In the negative pole, they
act on their judgements about an emotion or perception. A lynch
mob is an example of the negative pole of this centering. Temper
tantrums, wailing and babbling, driving too fast, crimes of passion
and other action based on sentimentality or emotionalism fall into the
negative pole of this centering. Other negative pole activities include
self-destructive habits such as alcoholism, drug abuse, eating too
much or any other substance abuse in reaction to feeling a certain
way.

Emotional part of Emotional Center

In this part of the Emotional Center exist pure emotion and pure
perception. An example of this is an emotion — joy, happiness,
sadness — that just rises up out of nowhere.

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Intellectual Center
The Ordinal Inspirational Center

The Intellectual Center governs ideas, use of concepts, words

and language. The positive pole of the Intellectual Center is thought.
Thought involves a gathering of data. Often people think they
learned or know something by means of data they gathered, when it
was actually a perception that became rationalized. Emotional Center
perception is an non-rational element — although it can be truly
what exists. Intellectually centered people can also confuse the mass
of thoughts they have about something or someone for their
emotions. The distinction between thought and perception becomes
blurred and people interchange the phrases “I think" and "I feel"
without relationship to whether they are communicating a feeling or
a thought.
In the positive pole of the Intellectual Center, people have neutral
thoughts: "I state that what is, is." In the negative pole, reasoning,
an intellectual construct that is not based on accurate data, or
necessarily any data at all, is put forth as truth.

Emotional Part of the Intellectual Center

The emotional part of the Intellectual Center governs desires,
interests, thinking of something and then getting excited about it,
having an emotional reaction to a thought. For example, selecting a
book to read is usually an emotional part of Intellectual Center
activity: you have the emotion of desiring to read it because of an
intellectual thought about the topic, the author, or even the way the
cover is designed.
Debating — getting emotional about ideas — falls under this
centering. It also covers optimism and pessimism — emotions based
on the idea that something is going to be good or bad. People with
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with this centering would think about her bills, then get upset, or
think about her grandson, then get happy. By way of contrast,
someone in the intellectual part of the Emotional Center might feel
upset, then think about her bills, or happy, then think about her
grandson.
Anxiety, depression, guilt, emotional reactions based on the
idea, "I shouldn't have done that," or, "It shouldn't have worked
out a certain way," fall into the emotional part of the Intellectual
Center. Embarrassment, an emotion based on an idea about an
event, is also in the negative pole of this centering. In their trap,
people with this centering are not able to act. They get stuck in their
feelings about a thought and don't know what to do about it.

Moving part of the Intellectual Center

Scientific inquiry, the building of civilization, communication,
list-making, doing tasks and any other action based on thought are
based in the moving part of the Intellectual Center. Non-emotional
memory, such as remembering to do a task, or remembering a
scientific formula, come from this centering.
People with this centering can seem quite unemotional and are
usually quite busy. They don't react emotionally, but rather
intellectually. They often have the concept that emotions are
something to be set aside and only enjoyed when you can really be
appropriate with them. They like to set emotions aside, figure out
what is right or appropriate to do and then go do that, and not let
emotions get tied in. In fact, they sometimes mistrust emotions or
look down on them. Many times early level Old Souls will use this
centering to give themselves a break from the emotionalism of
Mature Soul level.
In the negative pole, people with this centering can do so much
that the overview is sacrificed. They will seem to be on a treadmill,
each movement getting equal intellectual value with no Emotional

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Center value judgement or prioritizing. They can act without

perception or on false premises. They can also become busybodies,
uncovering data and then spreading it around without thought to its
emotional content.
Going to war over an idea is an example of the moving part of
the Intellectual Center in the negative pole. The whole concept of
war — moving on a thought without allowing yourself to feel the
emotional impact — is a negative use of this centering. Intellectual
crimes with no emotional motivation, like tax evasion, shoplifting
and maliciousness (thinking then acting without considering the
emotional impact) fall under this centering.
The negative pole of this center also involves acting out negative
ideas about yourself, for example, buying clothes that don't look
very good or talking about yourself in a negative way. The concept
of "self-worth" is, in itself, an emotional perception.

Intellectual part of the Intellectual Center

This is where sentience begins: a thought about a thought, "I
think therefore I am." Self-awareness, the conscious mind,
formation of concepts and coming up with a new concept to describe
something are all governed by this part of the Intellectual Center.

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The Three Exalted Centers

The exalted or "higher" centers basically correspond to the three

elements of the universe: Truth (Higher Intellectual); Love (Higher
Emotional) and Energy (Higher Moving). The three exalted centers
are a higher degree of the lower centers, thus their name. The
positive pole of the lower centers is very close to the negative pole
of the corresponding higher centers. For example, the positive pole
of Emotional Center, perception, is close to the negative pole of
Higher Emotional, intuition. The negative pole of the higher
centers do not describe what would be called "negative"
experiences, but rather transcendent experiences that are less
conscious than the experiences of the positive pole.
Although the higher centers are available for anyone to
experience, no one is basically centered in higher centers since the
body cannot sustain that state adequately. To go to a higher center,
you must first be balanced in the lower centers, i.e., using the
appropriate center at the appropriate time.

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Higher Moving Center

The Exalted Action Center

In Higher Moving Center there is a sense of being connected to

the energy of everything.
When people are in Higher Moving Center, they feel good in
their bodies. They are often extremely productive and creative. The
enjoyment of speed — driving or skiing really fast, for example —-
can lead to a Higher Moving Center experience.
Recognizing karma is a Higher Moving Center experience. The
feelings of awe when you see or recognize something that is
beautiful in a physical or energetic way — for example, when you
see and recognize the beauty of the Grand Canyon or a perfect rose
— also come from the Higher Moving Center. You are taking in the
energy of the object, not just loving it but actually absorbing the
energy/chemistry of it. This feeling comes in through your body and
senses, as opposed to your emotions.
The positive pole of the Higher Moving Center is beauty, a
higher perception of the connectedness of the universe, leading to a
feeling of ecstasy. This is where people experience their "oneness"
with the universe. In the negative pole of the Higher Moving, there
is a sense of the desire for beauty but you don't feel quite like you
can find it. You know you can get to that high feeling, but don't
recognize that you are there.

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Higher Emotional Center

The Exalted Expression Center

In Higher Emotional Center, you feel complete love or agape

(unconditional love). You recognize your connections on an
emotional level to other people or to animals and plants.
Really enjoying music, poetry or other fruits of civilization and
creations of humanity is a Higher Emotional Center experience.
Recognizing past life connections with others is done in the Higher
Emotional Center. Emotional healing also comes from the Higher
Emotional Center.
The positive pole of the Higher Emotional Center is being in
agape, unconditionally loving. The negative pole, intuition, is
having a sense of connection, but without totally being the
connection, i.e., sensing the greater whole but in an incomplete
way. An example is the feeling, "I knew you were going to call,"
which is sensing a connection but trivializing it. The feeling of
falling in love is another example — identifying agape with one
person and her particular habits.

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Higher Intellectual Center

The Exalted Inspirational Center

Higher Intellectual Center is where people get the greater concept

of why they are here, what life is about and why it is going a certain
way. In the positive pole of the Higher Intellectual there is sense of
what is really so, truth that is profoundly, exactly right, not in just
a specific circumstance, but so large that it could be applied to a
wide variety of things.
Seeing how life fits together comes from the Higher Intellectual
Center. Conscience, i.e., living in the truth and knowing what is
deception and what is not, is seated in the Higher Intellectual.
Contentment or an intellectual sense of happiness also comes from
the Higher Intellectual Center.
Philosophy, informational channeling and true self-knowledge
are Higher Intellectual experiences.
The negative pole of the Higher Intellectual is telepathy or a
partial sense of the truth. Mind-reading is an example. It is knowing
the Truth but just on this particular level of having the same thought
at the same time. This is, needless to say, trivial in comparison to
the whole.

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Chapter 8: Body Types

Although the body type is not part of the personality and,
therefore, technically not one of the overleaves, choosing a body
type is similar to choosing an overleaf. It is chosen astrally and in
some way will facilitate the lessons and karmas for that particular
life. The body type works together with astrology to determine the
predominant planetary influences which will affect the personality.
However, the effect of astrology and body type is less than that of
the overleaves in that their effect can be neutralized somewhat by
becoming aware of their workings.
The body type will influence personality traits, physical
characteristics (strengths and weaknesses), and psychological
tendencies, including emotional and intellectual capacities. Your
body type is often chosen as a self-karma or to facilitate karmas with
others. Many Essences will choose favorite body types during a
particular Physical Plane cycle.
The universe is divided up into orders of magnitude or layers of
worlds within worlds, each of which reflects the unity of the whole.
The universe as a whole can be viewed as a hierarchy of laws upon
laws. Humans are a microcosmos which mirrors the greater cosmos
of the universe. Thus there are seven body types which correspond
to the Sun, Moon, and the five closest planets: Mercury, Venus,
Mars, Saturn and Jupiter. These seven body types, like overleaves,
divide into three exalted types, three ordinal types and one neutral
type.
These seven "heavenly bodies" also correspond to the glandular
or regulatory systems in the human organism. Each of the major
glands is keyed magnetically to the emanations of a particular planet
and is subject to its influence astrologically. If all the glands were
perfectly balanced, the influence of the five planets and the Sun and
Moon would be harmonious. However, when you choose a body

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type, you choose to be subject to a dominant glandular influence, in

which one or more of the glands is more active than the others.
When one gland predominates, you are said to fall into that
particular type, and it is named according to the ruling planet for that
particular gland. Because of the increased activity of one or more
glands, you take on the physical and psychological characteristics
which correspond to the increased output of those glands.
Most fragments will choose a body which comes under the
influence of two or more body types. For example, the body can be
70% Venusian, 20% Mercurial and 10% Lunar. Pure body types are
rare and are found mainly in mythology, fairy tales or archetypes.

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Progression of the Body Types

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The body type(s) Essence chooses will "progress" over the

lifetime or lifetimes in the following order: Lunar, Venusian,
Mercurial, Saturnian, Martial, Jovial and Solar. Lunar is the most
"immature" type and Jovial the most "advanced." With this
progression, the body type(s) you start out with will move towards
the characteristics of the next in line. Every Essence gives itself the
opportunity to try all types and continue along the progression.
This progression will occur gradually during a lifetime and more
radically between lives. Because a body is generally a combination
of types, each aspect will move in its particular progression. For
example, in a Lunar-Martial type the Lunar develops in the direction
of Venusian and the Martial develops in the direction of Jovial. So,
later in life and in the next life, this body type would progress

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towards Venusian-Jovial. Although this is the general rule,

sometimes Essence will choose to retain one of the body types over
several lives while progressing the other(s). Major life shifts are
often accompanied by shifts in body type.
Body types also progress in fashion in each culture. A majority
of women seen on TV at this time are the Saturn-Mars type, but the
fashionable type is now moving to Martial, as is seen by more
aggressive and athletic energy in the media. In an earlier generation,
small, thin, quick bodies (evinced by Fred Astaire) were in style.
Before that, at the turn of the century, voluptuous Venusians were
the rage.
By becoming aware of your body type with its corresponding
strengths and weaknesses, you can work consciously to achieve
balance. The way to do this is by drawing upon the positive qualities
of the next progressive type and by pulling in the balancing
influence of the complementary type (i.e., the body type on the same
axis). [SEE chart on page 132.] For example, the Venusian with its
dominant parathyroids, has a tendency towards passivity and
lethargy. It could draw upon the speed of the thyroid type,
Mercurial, and the energy and passion of the adrenal type, Martial.

Genetic Influences
In order to be born a certain body type, Essence needs a certain
amount of genetic material from the parents chosen for that particular
lifetime. This accounts for the fact that many cultures are primarily
one or two types. A person with Venusian parents would have a
hard time pulling in a Saturnian body. It is possible, however, to
move along the progression from one's parents, say from Venusian
to Mercurial. In addition, the following complementary types are
often born into the same family: Lunar and Saturn; Mercurial and
Martial; Jovial and Venusian.
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difficult type to achieve. Older souls learn a degree of genetic and

energetic manipulaton which allows them to manipulate and change
their body types more rapidly.

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Characteristics of the Body Types

Lunar
Used often by Artisans and Scholars or for lifetimes of
intellectual pursuit or creative, abstract thought.

Governing Characteristics; The moon is the closest planetary

body to the Earth and thereby the most affecting. The moon pulls on
the water element. The influence of the moon makes the type
particularly subject to lunar phases.
Lunars are governed by the pancreas and the lymphatic system
which, in partnership with the liver, controls the digestion of food.
Lunar types are subject to poor digestion. The "water" of the moon
tends to quench the "fire" of the adrenal (Mars) system, making
Lunars slower to react and more cool in their emotions.

Physical Characteristics: Luminous. Pale skin. Fleshy, round

form. Moon-faced. Poor digestion: lower tract, constipation.
Develops slowly.

Psychological Characteristics
Positive Pole:
Passive. Patient. Tenacious. Sensitive. Imaginative. Maternal.
Sympathetic. Receptive. Calm. Methodical. Solitary. Detail-
oriented. Mathematical. Can have genius intelligence.
Negative Pole:
Moody. Introspective. Cold-hearted. Uncommunicative.
Willful. Unforgiving. Depressive. Destructive.

Examples: Truman Capote, Andy Warhol, Albert Einstein, Mao-

Tse Tung, Freddie Prinz.

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Venusian
Work well with people and food. They are often good cooks and
passionate lovers.

Governing Characteristics: Venus traditionally represents the

Goddess of Love. Venus is a warm planet surrounded by an
atmosphere of gases and clouds. Venus often appears to us as the
embodiment of femininity: passive and loving, seeking harmony and
peace. Part of the attractiveness of the Venusian is the aura of
mystery, softness and warmth which can surround this type.
The Venus type is ruled by the parathyroids, the glands which
complement the thyroid by stabilizing the metabolism and producing
calmness and adaptability.

Physical Characteristics: Full-bodied, voluptuous, soft and

warm. Large, often dark eyes. Hips wider than chest. Thick hair.
Olive or dark skin. Wide feet and hands. Broad bones. Health
generally good.

Psychological Characteristics
Positive Pole:
Earth Mother. Warm. Loving, kind, approachable. Easy-going,
friendly. In pursuit of harmonious relationships. Gentle, non-
judgemental. Sensual. Love of pleasure. Extremely loyal.
Appreciative of beauty.
Negative Pole:
Lazy, inert (lack of stimulus), overly passive. Vegetative.
Indecisive. Non-existent, dependent on others. Careless, slovenly.
Venusians will sometimes develop the emotions to the detriment of
intellect. Overly emotional, lacking practicality.

Examples: Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley (Venus-Mercury),

James Dean, Jean Harlow.

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Mercurial
Ideal type for Sages.

Governing Characteristics: Mercury is the closest planet to the

Sun and moves with the greatest speed. Traditionally, Mercury is
associated with communication, speed, wit and agility. Because of
its proximity to the Sun and Earth, the influence of Mercury is
somewhat more visible than that of the slower-moving planets. This
is particularly true when the planet is poorly aspected or in
retrograde, as this influences communication and mechanical
devices.
Mercury influences the thyroid gland which regulates
combustion in the organism and therefore affects the speed of the
whole mechanism. A strong thyroid produces quickness and
nervous energy in a person, whereas a weak thyroid produces slow
movements and tiredness.
Mercurials, at their best, are known for their cheerfulness, wit,
good humor, and quick mental perception. Mercurials are also
famous for their cleanliness and good grooming. They make good
entertainers.

Physical Characteristics: Bright, clean appearance. Usually

dark. Hair and eyes often dark, but less body hair than Venusians.
Classically slender and quick moving (eg., the messenger Hermes).
Skin is darker than average, and unblemished. The limbs are long,
slender and agile-looking. The Mercurial voice is often deep or
resonant. This type will retain its youthful appearance.

Psychological Characteristics
Positive Pole
Intellectually active and perceptive. Clever, versatile. Able to
communicate clearly through speech. Clean, well-groomed. Sunny

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Mercurial Body Type, Continued

disposition. May be quick to anger, but will not hold a grudge.

Cheerful. Witty.

Negative Pole
Inconsistent. Nervous. Impulsive, with the tendency for
explosive crises. Self-centered. Argumentative. Can be sarcastic and
cynical, or hypercritical. Hypochondriac.

Examples: Fred Astaire, Anwar Sadat, Napoleon I (Mercury-

Venus), Mata Hari.

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Saturnian
Often used by Scholars, Priests and Kings.

Governing Characteristics: In classical astrology, Saturn, the

ringed planet, takes the role of the teacher. Saturn can also be like a
father figure, doling out lessons, restrictions and discipline. Saturn
works well with abstractions, ideals and profound thought. The type
is constructive, patient and reliable.
Saturn rules the anterior pituitary gland, which regulates the
skeletal system and the function of abstract thought and reason. It is
one of the dominant glands in the organism.

Physical Characteristics: With the anterior pituitary influencing

the development of bones, those who have this gland predominating
will usually develop long bones and a large frame, a long head with
prominent nose and jaw, projecting cheekbones and yellow teeth.
Saturnian types tend to be tall, with a serious but gentle appearance.
Saturnian types can be well-balanced because the dominant gland
keeps the other glands in good working order.
The Saturnian type has good reasoning ability with a tendency to
grasp the larger picture. This shows up as slow-thinking and
speaking, slow movements (thinking before moving). Saturnian
types will often subtly dominate the environment with their
presence. Saturnian types can suffer great hardship and depression;
they can also be heartless and cruel.
Uncle Sam is a classic Saturnian type. He knows what is best
for you and the country — relating the part to the whole. Although
Saturn is a masculine planet, the current ideal female model is a
Saturn-Mars machine: tall, thin, fair, strong-boned, with a little
Martial temper, flair and sex appeal.

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Saturnian Body Type, Continued

Psychological Characteristics
Positive Pole:
Self control. Leadership, diplomacy. Good natural leaders.
Moderate, trustworthy, paternal. Great endurance. Humble and
rarely aggressive. Close-mouthed, secretive, tactful. Capacity for
long-thought and good memory.
Negative Pole:
Intellectually inflexible. | Despondent, severe, aloof,
condescending. Immutable. Overworked. Not forgiving of
weakness. Self-deprecating. Cynical.

Examples: Abraham Lincoln, Henry Fonda, Eleanor Roosevelt,

Lyndon Johnson.

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Martial
Good for Sages and Priests in dominance. Also good for action
roles.
Governing Characteristics: Traditionally, Mars, the Red
Planet, is the god of war. The aggressive and passionate energy of
Mars reaches the body through the adrenals, the glands of self-
preservation. The slogan of the Marital type is "Fight or Flight." The
adrenals protect the organism by sending needed energy when the
instinct is threatened. A predominance of adrenal energy produces a
fiesty, energetic individual, quick to self-defense, passionate, with a
strong sex drive. The traditional Martial is small, fierce and warrior-
like.

Physical Characterisctics: Among Caucasians: Red, pink or

fair skin, usually with marks, freckles, blemishes or swarthiness.
Red or strawberry hair. Among other races: Coloring different from
the norm.
Average or shorter height. Muscular, firm body. Round face.
Eyes not large. Small mouth. Very active physically, emotionally
and intellectually.

Psychological Characteristics
Positive Pole:
Decisive. Freedom-loving. Direct, brutally honest. Strong leader
in crisis. A defender of the weak. Vigorous, energetic, passionate.
Highly sexed.
Negative Pole:
Easy to anger, rage and pugnacity. Over-reacting. Overly
defensive. Quarrelsome, brutal, rude, boisterous. Overhasty,
lacking forethought.
Examples: James Cagney, Dwight D. Eisenhower (Mars-Lunar),
John F. Kennedy, Amelia Earhart (Mars-Saturn).

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Jovial
Good leaders, teachers, lovers of humanity.

Governing Characteristics: Jupiter is the largest and most

evolved of the planets, having the greatest mass and a large number
of satellites. Jupiter is the only planet to produce its own heat and
light. It is on its evolutionary step to becoming a sun. The type
reflects these qualities in that it can be highly evolved in its
appreciation of life, fondness of the arts and compassion towards
others.
The Jovial type is often large and will metaphorically give off
her own light by being able to support and educate a large number of
friends and relatives who serve as satellites.
The Jovial type is ruled by the posterior pituitary gland which
influences maternal qualities such as the production of milk and
bladder and uterus functions. Jovials tend to be maternal in their
outlook whether male or female.

Physical Characteristics: Usually large, especially around the

waist. Short, stout, with a large head, little body hair, including on
the head, if male (with the exception of a thick beard). Fleshy, full-
bodied. Large, short necks. Jovials prefer good wine and company,
poetry and philosophy.
Santa Claus and Falstaff are classic Jovials.

Psychological Characteristics
Positive Pole:
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caring and maternal. Philosophical outlook. Breadth of vision. Well-
directed mental powers. Knowledgeable in many areas. Good
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Negative Pole:
Subject to sudden change in interests of points of view over
time. Self-indulgent, extravagant. Conceited. Wasteful. Craving
attention. Poor health, eyesight. Overweight. Over-indulgent.

Examples: Orson Welles, J.S. Bach, Arnold Schwarzenegger

(Jovial-Mars), Falstaff, King Henry VIII of England, Ethel
Merman.

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Solar
Good for Artisans or creative lifetimes.

Governing Characteristics: Radiant energy. A mechanical

example of the next, higher world, a world of suns.
Ruled by the thymus gland which governs the immune system
and growth, especially for children.

Physical Characteristics: Refined features, clear skin, slight

figure. Child-like, sometimes fairy tale, appearance. Subject to weak
constitution and frailty. Poor digestion, upper tract. Weak
respiratory system. Broad eyes. Slender or oval face. Looks
younger than her age group.

Psychological Characteristics
Positive Pole:
Radiant. Creative. Lighthearted, cheerful. Elegant. Dignified.
Fun-loving. Child-like. Innocent.
Negative Pole:
Aloof. Intolerant. Naive. Indiscriminant. Greedy.
Androgynous.

Examples: Judy Garland, Ranier Rilke.

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Unusual Types

Occasionally, Essence will choose to fall under the influence of

the more distant planets, such as Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. These
influences would be used for more obscure karmas. Although a
body can be up to 30% of an unusual body type, Essence seldom
chooses more than 5%.

Neptune

Gland: Hypothalamus
Corresponds to Higher Emotional Center
These glands are associated with regeneration, inspiration and
imagination. Neptunian types tend to be dreamy, creative and
unworldly in appearance. The predominant Neptunian trait will be
large, dreamy, saucer-like eyes. This type is used for artistic
creation and religious inspiration. Neptune types are remembered,
and have an impact after their death.

Positive Pole:
Idealistic. Spiritual. Imaginative. Sensitve. Subtle. Artistically
creative.
Negative Pole:
Deceitful. Diffuse. Impractical. Unworldly. Uncertain.

Examples: Anna Pavlova (Solar-Neptune) James Dean (Mars-

Neptune), Marilyn Monroe (Venus-Neptune).

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Uranus

Gland: Gonads
Corresponds to Higher Kinesthetic Center
The Uranus type is often albino or pale or has unusual skin.
This type has a large body and head, and is often bald or, if female,
has unusual hair. There is a natural drive toward fame in the Uranus
type. This influence ads much energy and inventiveness. People
with really unusual bodies have some Uranus in their makeup.

Positive Pole:
Independent. Original. Loathing restrictions. Strong-willed.
Versatile. Inventive. Sensuous. Humanitarian, good-willed.
Negative Pole:
Eccentric. Ego-maniac. Rebellious. Abnormal, deviant or
perverse, particularly in sexual behavior.

Examples: Yul Brenner (Mars-Uranus), Otto Preminger (Jupiter-

Uranus), Alfred Hitchcock (Lunar-Uranus).

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Pluto

Gland: Pineal Gland

Corresponds to the Higher Intellectual Center
The energy of the planet Pluto is cold, calculating, and exact.
The energy of Pluto is death and transformation. Nothing can exist
there that is not exactly in place. Pluto types tend to eliminate
anything that does not fit the scheme. They are emotionally
detached, but intellectually brilliant and aware of how things work
together. They can be described as severe and cerebral.
The Pluto type has an almost inverted, V-shaped head. The
forehead is larger than the rest of face. The eyes are very
penetrating, seeming to notice what is going on around them, and
somewhat unworldly looking.

Positive Pole:
Intellectually brilliant. Able to see the big picture. Transforming,
able to evoke transformation in others. Able to see through
deceptions or conventions.
Negative Pole:
Emotionally detached or aloof. Overly critical. Seemingly
judgemental. Cruel. Intolerant with others and self. Invasive of
privacy (by blowing others' cover).

Examples: Rasputin (Saturn-Pluto), Rembrandt van Rijn

(Saturn/Jovial/Pluto), Adolf Hitler (Martial-Pluto).

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Cultural Types
Although all types will be represented in each culture, there is a
cultural/genetic tendency towards one certain body type as their
representative.

Chinese Lunar
English Saturnian
German Mars-Jovial
Latin Venusian-Mercurial
Greek Mercurial
Eskimo Lunar
Hawaiian Venusian
Irish Martial
(North) American Saturn-Mars
Mexican Venusian-Mercurial
Asian Indian Mercurial
Japanese Mercurial
Polish Solar-Lunar

Types Commonly Portrayed by Artists

Rubens Jovial
Michaelangelo Jovial-Venusian
Rodin Jovial-Solar
Impressionists Venusian
Gauguin Venusian-Mercury
Van Gogh Lunar

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Representatives of the Classical Types

Solar Peter Pan, Snow White

Lunar Betty Boop, Mr. Magoo
Venusian Venus di Milo, Boticelli's Venus
Mercurial Hermes
Saturn Uncle Sam
Martial Popeye, Donald Duck
Jovial Santa Claus

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The Physical Plane is where the energy is the slowest and where
we experience separateness. From the moment you reach the
Physical Plane as a first level Infant Soul in your first life, you are
working towards, longing, to reunite with your entity, with your
cadre, with the Tao. What are the steps that Essence follows to
achieve that goal?
Up to now we have discussed how this universe is structured
with separate planes of existence and different levels of soul
perception. We have examined the fragments, with their particular
roles, frequencies, energy mixes, overleaves and body types. But
how do the players interact to learn lessons, gain experience to bring
back to the Tao and advance in Soul perception?

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Chapter 1: Karma and Agreements

When you come to the Physical Plane each life, no matter what
your soul perception, you have lessons you wish to learn, tasks you
want to complete and experiences you want to have that lifetime.
You pick your parents, you know their roles and overleaves and
often you have a history together from a past life or a past cycle.
You have a general idea of who your siblings will be Gif you have
any), you know who your grandparents are, and probably where
your parents are going to raise you. You know all this because, with
the help of your Causal Plane guides and teachers, you have
examined their life plans, which are filed in the Akashic Records.
And you decide to become a part of all that. Although their plans and
yours can change somewhat according to circumstances, generally
the plans you decide on before you are born will be followed.
You get a general type of regional upbringing and a general type
of imprinting from your parents which helps prepare you for the life
you set up in your life plan. You plan to bring people and
circumstances into your life at certain ages to work on lessons which
pertain to your particular soul level and your particular set of past
lives. The major vehicles by which your plan is carried out, and
people are drawn in to do lessons with you at certain ages, are
karma and agreements.

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Karma

Karma is an emotionally intense experience which causes a

sense of imbalance in the participants. The law of karma is that
when you have an emotionally intense experience with someone,
then you eventually experience that emotionally intense experience
from the perspective of the other participant(s). If you punch
someone in the nose, eventually (some life) that person will punch
you in the nose, so both of you get to experience both sides of the
intensity.
The one unchanging rule is karma. Part of being on the Physical
Plane is having intense experiences so you can learn from them. The
whole point of coming to the Physical Plane is to learn. You take on
different personality traits (overleaves), you take on a certain
imprinting and a certain role so you can learn various lessons from
different perspectives. The way that you learn those lessons is by
having intense experiences that teach you in a dramatic way. You do
not get every karma paid back in one lifetime. So you need many
lifetimes to pay back all your karmas. That way you learn balance
and the universe stays in balance. You always get both sides of the
coin of every karmic experience before you are completely done
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When people are in karma they are often acting illogically and
sometimes even out of character. They feel driven to do the karma,
nevertheless, and are obsessed with continuing until the end.
Anyone outside of the karmic situation can tell the person in karma
what she should or could be doing differently, what might work
better. Those in the karma, however, are incapable of taking any
advice to change their actions or the karma until it is complete.
Usually people play out a karmic payback right on the line, the
way it was done before. It will also take about the same amount of
time to replay the karma as it did to play it originally. It might speed
up a little, but there is only so much karmic intensity that a human
being can process and still function in her life.
There is no positive or negative to karma — it is all just
intensity. There are, however, karmas that the personality enjoys
more and karmas it enjoys less. You may be intensely happy and
have an intense feeling of salvation when your real estate agent finds
you the perfect house in time for Christmas; the agent may
experience an intense feeling of satisfaction beyond her usual joy at
receiving a commission and feel strangely like she has somehow
saved your life. It is still a karma -- a payback of the life where you
discovered the perfect cave for her and her family which sheltered
them before the Winter Solstice ritual. Once you and your real estate
agent entered into this karmic payback, you were strangely
compelled to work with each other, no matter what friends, relatives
and colleagues advised either of you to do differently.
On the other hand, a karmic experience might include being the
victim of a drunken driver, a soldier on an alcoholic binge. That
driver happens to be the same citizen you ran over in a chariot in 40
B.C. after a night carousing with fellow soldiers in your legion of
the Roman army. Neither side of that intensity is usually judged
"pleasant."
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towards a karmic situation, you can stop and decide not to pick up
that karmic thread — whether it is a creation or a clean up. Once you
begin a karma, however, you will stay with it to the end. The only
choices you have in karma are putting it off until later (that life or
another), if it is a payback; not getting involved in the first place, if it
is a new opportunity for karma; or going ahead and doing it. Once
you begin a karma, you will do it all the way until the end. When
you are in the middle of a karma, you really can't judge what the end
will be if it is a payback, or how long Essence has agreed to do this
situation if it is a creation. You will, however, notice when it is over
because the intensity will be gone.
You cannot "forgive" karma or let someone off from paying you
back. There is, however, sometimes a certain amount of "karmic
transmutation" that occurs if you are paying back an Infant Soul
karma as an Old Soul. Perhaps instead of taking a life to pay back
when you were murdered, the person in karmic debt to you might
save your life or somehow give you a life by giving birth to you.
Both parties will still, somehow, experience the opposite side of the
situation they experienced before, in order to come to balance.
You can look at a karma as rationally as possible with as much
of a positive, "in agape" viewpoint as you can, or you can make
yourself utterly miserable and let it spill over into non-karmic areas
of your life while you go through it. A way of ameliorating karma is
to know you are in karma and try to act within the karma's limits
instead of acting in some additionally unpleasant way. You do this
by not embellishing the karma, making it worse, struggling or
making it more difficult than it needs to be. You can make your
karmic intensity as pleasant and enjoyable as possible by accepting
your choice in the matter: knowing that you obviously need to have
some intensity in your life in this area right now or you wouldn't be
embarking on it, you would be avoiding it.
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busy creating a lot of karma to be cleaned up in your later cycles,

mid-Young through Old. However, you do clean up some karmas
within the same lifetime and/or within the same cycles. Some
karmas are just particular to one lifetime or to a cycle. For example,
an Infant Soul type of karma would focus on survival, perhaps
killing and being killed.
You create most of your karma for a cycle at 4th level and you
clean it up at 6th level. Still, you do some creation and some clean-
up in every level of every cycle. On the whole, Old Souls do much
more clean up than creation, while Infant Souls do much more
creation than clean-up.

Sexual Karma
The most intense and obvious type of karma is sexual karma.
People do sexual karma all the time: one person gets obsessed with
another; she cares about this person and has no idea why. They have
nothing in common, yet she can't stop being in relationship. And
then, suddenly, at some point, it is complete, over. In a non-karmic
sexual relationship, you have choices, but when you are in a sexual
karma, you do not. You may be hating it, you may be loving it, but
you really can't stop.
What most people consider "being in love,” heart palpitating,
totally obsessed by the object of desire, is sexual karma. They are
not really loving a person for her special qualities, they are loving
the fact that they feel in a drugged, karmic state. It has nothing to do
with the person at all. When you really are in love with a person and
it isn't a karma, you are seeing her clearly and admiring her
qualities.
A sexual karma can turn into a non-karmic relationship after the
karma is over, but that does not often occur. Once the karma is done
and the relationship would have to be based on other factors such as
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do not want to continue. Once the karma is over, oftentimes the thrill
is gone.

Self Karma
Self karma is an intense challenge you have provided for
yourself to work on this lifetime. Self karmas can involve just
yourself or can include your relationships to other people, but not
involve them. For example, you always wind up getting attracted to
arrogant, shallow men (or women). Your lesson is that you want to
learn how to relate to shallow, arrogant people — how to handle
them, how to get something out of the relationship, how to avoid
them, how to keep your self-esteem around them — so you keep
introducing shallow, arrogant person after shallow, arrogant person
into your life. Some of them may be in mutual karma with you and
some may not. The way you can tell the difference is to see if the
person is engaged in the intensity or not. If she is also intense about
you, there is mutual karma going on. If she is someone who may
not even know that you exist, or who feels neutral about you, she
isn't in karma with you. You just have a self-karma around that type
of person.
Other self-karmas can relate to your personal habits. You might
have a bad habit or bodily condition about which you have an
intense feeling: smoking; an overweight/underweight problem; an
uncontrollable drug or drinking habit; gambling or using credit cards
too heavily; being too physically beautiful for anyone to notice you
have a brain; insomnia; or inability to get the job you want. Any
personal challenge that you cannot seem to overcome and about
which you feel intensely about is a self-karma.

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Agreements

Unlike karmas, agreements are non-binding contracts: they can

be broken or changed at any time. Although you do have a certain
attraction towards fulfilling your agreements, there is not the
intensity that is present in a karma.
With agreements, you decided when you set up your life plan
that you would like to work with another person in some capacity.
You could agree to form a business, to see if you would be good
mates for one another this life, to take a certain journey together, to
teach together, to be lifetime friends, or to do just about any other
project you can think of. At the time you make this plan, you have
not started the life yet and you have not yet grown up in the society
you chose; you are extrapolating who you are going to be by the
time you meet the person, given your overleaves and the imprinting
you have planned for yourself. You are not certain that this part of
the plan is going to work. So when you meet the person the
agreement can be fulfilled or not, depending on whether it serves
both of your purposes at that time.
It is not unusual, therefore, to meet a person and take an interest
in doing something with her, but then, after you get to know her
better, find out she is not the right person after all. So, you pass on
the agreement. For example, you may have marriage agreement with
someone. You meet. You date a few times. There is an attraction,
but not an overly intense one. Then, you choose one way or
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Sometimes agreements are vague and you have to search around

for exactly what you want to do with a person. But often
agreements are fairly specific: "We're going to meet when I'm 37
and you're 33 and see if we can do business together because we're
both going to be interested in spiritual work. We will try to work on
New Age consciousness together." Then you give it a shot and see
if you can do that. If an agreement does not work out, you normally
don't end up feeling intense (karmic) about it. You are willing to set
it aside and do something else, try to fit that person in somewhere
else, or part ways mildly disappointed.

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Chapter 2: Your Life Plan

Now that we have looked at the basic tools of learning lessons
— karmas and agreements — we can examine the pattern according
to which fragments generally use those tools in their lives. The
human life divides into seven-year segments or cycles, during which
certain physiological and psychological changes take place. In the
larger scheme, therefore,.each seven year cycle has a different set of
lessons associated with it. Although there may be some variations
on the following pattern, the plan of seven-year cycles is the most
natural given human physiological development and is usually
followed with a fair degree of rigidity.
Seven Year Cycles
Ages 0-7: You are born on the planet with a set of parents or at
least someone older than you who takes care of you and makes sure
you survive. During this time you get your major imprinting and
learn most of the skills you will use as an adult in society.

Imprinting
Your imprinting is the training that you get from your
parents/caretakers and society about what type of adult you should
grow up to be. You learn these lessons mainly in the first 14 years
of life. Imprinting sets up your morals, conscience and
idiosyncrasies, and the development of the use of your talents and
skills. Your imprinting is what will make you unique. It sets you
apart from those of similar role, overleaves and culture. Your
parents, your birth order, your past life relationships with those in
your family, your grandparents, your teachers, other influential
adults, the things you read or watch on TV, what is influencing the
culture at the moment: all these "random" influences add up to you
being the unique individual you are (and planned to be). You set
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you to have a certain outlook on life later on.

Your imprinting prepares you to do particular types of karmas
and agreements. For example, if your father is a very dictatorial type
(perhaps a King who overuses tyranny or with a goal of dominance
sliding often to the negative pole) and your mother is very soft,
martyred and submissive (eg., a Server with a goal of submission or
using martyrdom as a chief feature), you are going to learn to
identify with either one or the other. The training to act out both
roles is going to be imprinted into you as well. These influences will
set you up to be able to go through the karmas you have in your 14-
28 year old period. Perhaps the way you use your goal of
dominance will get you into trouble when you dictate to those
around you. Or you may have karma with submissive Servers. You
may get rid of these learned habits or tone them down later on if they
no longer serve you.

Ages 7-14: You learn the last 20% of your imprinting and start
perfecting the basic "form" your personality will have as an adult.
In the 0-7 year old period, while you are confused and allowing
yourself to be malleable, your parents/caretakers make sure you act a
certain way consistent with their idea of survival in society. In the 7-
14 year old period, you become a person who is basically running
her own life, while still using your parents and other imprinters as
strong mentors and guides or visions of what you do — or do not
— want to be. During this period, you begin to take charge and
control of your life.

Ages 14-21: This is the pre-adult stage. This is when you do

your "heaviest" karmas. The hormonal shifts and changes you go
through as you are growing into adulthood help further your ability
to be in karmic intensity. You are stepping out into being intelligent
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are still young and unformed enough to go ahead and allow yourself
to get into karma that, when you are older and wiser, you probably
would sidestep.

Ages 21-28: You are still in the heaviest karmic period in your
life, but not quite as intense as 14 to 21. You are a little more in
control and adult, you know a little more about what you want and
who you are. You are often "out on your own" and use fewer
"props" — other people like parents, teachers, friends or peers — to
influence your karmas. A lot of mating and sexual karmas come in
during this time. Also, you may bring in karmic child agreements
during this period. Non-karmic child agreements can come in as
well, if you are at the point where you are ready to have children,
but the ones with whom you or your mate have the most karma
come in first.

Ages 28-35: During this period, you examine yourself, look at

your imprinting, figure out who you are and drop old patterns that
helped you get through your 14-28 year old karmas but do not really
serve you as an adult. You start to stand up as who you are really
going to be out in the world, as an adult in society.
After 28 you pull in much less karmic intensity. (If you are at the
6th level of a soul age, however, you will still do a fair amount of
karma for the rest of the lifetime.) You focus less on karma and start
pulling in more of your agreements. The period from 28 to 35 is
when you start examining who you are in relationship to your
parents. Also, you often look at who you are as a parent yourself,
because often you might have become a parent by then. You get a
sense of yourself in that middle ground.

Ages 35-42: You start manifesting who you are really going to be
as an adult in society. You start living and being a success,

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according to your viewpoint of success, usually handling life

monetarily and being stable in some type of job or employment.
Some settle down in a mated relationship during this period, if they
haven't done that yet. A lot of people split up relationships that were
heavily karmic in this period, perhaps ones they started between the
ages of 14 and 28. The most appropriate relationships are formed in
this time. Most of the less karmic or "positively karmic" child
agreements are brought in.
After 35, you work more on your own issues. Most of the
karmas you have are challenges you have given yourself, i.e., self-
karma. In the second half of your life, you do a lot more
agreements and self-karmas. You also feel a lot more like you have
a choice about the people and events in your life.

Ages 42-49: You serve as a guide or mentor, a mainstay of

society. You devote yourself to your community, to your family, to
your friends, to being the foundation or pillar of society that you are
going to be for the lifetime. During this time your Essence examines
its life task and looks toward the ways and means of actualizing that
task.

Life Task
A life task is a major lesson you want to get completed during a
lifetime, one of the purposes or foci of that life. Everyone has one or
two or more life tasks. A life task can be related to your career. For
example, you might want to be a great healer, a task which will pay
back karma and be good for mankind. Often, however, life tasks are
about handling an emotional, philosophical or attitudinal problem
you have not handled yet in any other lifetime. Your life task may be
learning to be a good parent or how to be an optimist. You may have
a task of working on your sexual or family relationships. You may
want to learn how to be really good with plants or animals this life.
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world. Your life task can be four or five of these things at the same
time. You can tell what your life task is because you keep noticing
you are drawn to do lessons about it over and over again.
People start noticing their life task in the 21-28 year old period.
They start focusing in on seeing what it really is in the 28-35 year
old period. Most people bloom into doing their life task in the 35-42
year old period although they do not usually perfect their skill in it
this early. In the earlier periods, you do certain things moving
towards your life task but you really aren't that accomplished at it
yet. You get much better at it after 42 and are fully embroiled in your
life tasks after that point.

Ages 49-56: You feel like you are coming to the culmination of
who you basically are. You feel proud of yourself, good about
yourself, like you have fulfilled most of what you wanted to do
when you came to the planet this life. If there are still things that
need to be fine-tuned — for example, you never managed to get the
job, relationship, body shape that you wanted — you come to terms
with that. Either you decide to like yourself anyway or you decide
that you are going to go for those things now. You hit your stride of
feeling like a competent, comfortable leader in some areas. Nothing
can ruffle or rile you like it did when you were younger.
There is a sense of completion. If a person dies at the age of 56,
the lifetime is considered complete, as far as the universal plan goes.
You have examined all the main phases of a life. Almost all karma
can be completed by this time although, because of the longer
lifespan now, people might hold off a few of their karmas if they
have planned a longer life. There is a sense of settling in to who you
are. You enjoy life the most during this period.
Alternatively, if you are a person who never gave yourself what
you wanted, or who never looked at your imprinting during the 28-
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it necessary to break dramatically away from your life patterns. It is

during this period that people often mate with someone much
younger than they are, in order to pull themselves back to a youthful
place and start all over again. They want to get back into that
mindset, to handle the things they did not handle back when they
were in their 20's and 30's. It is only people who are really
dissatisfied with their lives who do that. Otherwise, it is a very
satisfying period where you can really bloom and people can look to
you as an authority on what life is about.
If you die before age 56, you usually come back and do a very
similar lifetime in order to complete. (Once in a while, you manage
to be complete before that — even as young as your late 40's.) It is
usually karmic when you die before 56 — formation, a payback of
an abandonment karma, or self-karma. You usually come back fairly
quickly in the same or a similar culture — usually having the same
sex and the same sorts of parents (if not the same ones!) — and start
all over again, changing circumstances enough so that you can make
the lifetime successful.

Ages 56-63: This is a period of re-evaluation. Life is quieter.

People look at winding down. During the 35-56 year old period,
you are enriching society with what you are contributing. From 56-
63 there is an energetic reduction where you are calming down, you
are slowly withdrawing from the mainstream scene, getting more
internalized. You are getting prepared to relax for the latter period of
the lifetime, doing a lot more looking at who you are and what you
are, becoming a lot more philosophical. A lot of people pick up the
religion or spiritual practice of their youth, find a religion they can
believe in or get back in touch with their philosophy of life,
whatever that is. You start turning things over to your children, the
younger generation. You feel like you can relax. You begin to be
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generations all the time. By age 63, most people want to stop
working altogether.

Ages 63-70: The re-evaluation intensifies. You withdraw from

your societal position, you spend a lot of time alone or with very
few intimates and friends. Most people feel like that is enough for a
lifetime and die in this period.

Ages 71 and beyond: You are enjoying the fruits of your labors
for the lifetime. Also you are learning some specific lessons about
health, dependency/independency issues, caretaking karmas (people
who owe it to you to take care of you in your old age). Or perhaps
you Owe it to someone to hang on longer and imprint them or take
care of them, for example, in the case of the succeeding generation
dying or deserting responsibility.
Most people feel complete at this point and only live this
long if they have something specific that is keeping them here, like a
long-term karma or self-karma they have not handled yet. People
who want to get so many things learned and worked through — so
many challenges handled — that it is taking them a long time to get
through it all will live longer than age 70.
In the future, more people are planning longer life spans,
now that this option is available with improved nutrition and health
care. They want to have the total release time where they are not
responsible to anyone but themselves, they are past their karmas,
and they can relax. They want to have a rest break where they can
totally enjoy themselves and do just a few self-karmas about their
bodies deteriorating and not being able to be as active. That way
they can have some fun and enjoyment so that when they die they
will feel ready to come right back to the Physical Plane. They use
this time to let their Instinctive Center energy patterns get unblocked,
unraveled and processed.

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Chapter 3:
Essence Twins and Task Companions
How do you decide, on an Essence level, what fragments to
make agreements with and with whom to form karma? Who will be
your parents, relatives, teachers, major imprinters and friends?
Naturally, the majority of your relationships will be with the
members of your entity and, beyond that, with the members of your
cadre — the group of seven entities, including yours, that forms
agreements to do Physical Plane lessons together. But among those
nearly 7000 fragments, there are a few dozen who will be in your
lives again and again: your essence twin, your task companion(s),
fragments with whom you have agreed to do monads and your
particular support group.
Two of the major relationships you can have are with your
essence twin and your task companion(s). They usually wind
up in your life, life after life. Most people who have essence twins
or task companions are with them for two-thirds to three-quarters of
their lifetimes. Your twin and your task companion often are people
you end up dealing with in an intimate fashion, as your mate, in
your family or in your circle of close friends.

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Essence Twin

Your essence twin comes to the planet at the exact same moment
you do your very first lifetime on the Physical Plane during a cycle,
so you have exactly the same planetary time of experience. Often, in
that first lifetime, you are identical twins or babies born at the same
moment. Usually you are not in the same entity, and usually you are
not the same role. Your twin is often born into most every lifetime
with you, near or around the time you are born so that you have a
similar history together. If you were in Greece in 40 B.C. and
Mesopotamia in 10,000 B.C., your twin was probably there, too.
That is the technical definition of an essence twin, but, after
lifetimes of experience together, a twin comes to mean much more
than that. Your essence twin becomes a person who is the other
side of your coin. She is like a mirror image of yourself, with all the
lessons that this can bring up for you. She mirrors your flaws for
you extremely well. She often has similar or corresponding flaws.
Your twin knows you well and can see what goes on for you
just as you can see what goes on for her. Nothing is hidden,
everything is disclosed, and has to be dealt with because you cannot
ignore issues in her presence. There is an inability in this
relationship to let things lie if your twin does see something wrong
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the relationship is to focus attention on where each other is growing

and also where you are not doing what you have set up.
This does make for a more difficult relationship. A lot of essence
twins are terrifying to one another because the relationship is so
intimate that it brings up all the things they don't want to look at.
Sometimes twins get to know one another very intensely for a while
and then draw back. It may be that they only see one another once
every few years. Or they may run in the opposite direction, only
knowing each other for a short time in that lifetime and then never
meeting again. But usually your essence twin will stick around in
your life and work out some kind of semi- or totally compatible
relationship with you. Older souls can often work out a compatible,
friendly, intimate and loving relationship with their essence twins,
even marrying them or having a very close parent/child relationship.
Often familial essence twin relationships are the ones that work
out the best. It is difficult to desert your family, so you have to stick
around and work the intensity out. You work out your intimacy
issues quite well by the time you have 18 or so years to grow up
together. In earlier times, it was easier to work out your relationship
with your essence twin because people did not have the same
mobility; they did not leave their tribes or their own little
communities. When humans lived in small villages of only a few
hundred people, you could not avoid any members of your
community — you had to work out how you were going to get
along. In this society, it is easier to escape.
Having an essence twin gives you more variety of experience
on the Physical Plane due to bleed through — you take on some
of the qualities of your twin, after many, many lifetimes, through
Astral sharing, your intimate connection, and the energetic link
between the two of you. You "borrow" from her Essence qualities
and sometimes even her overleaves for a particular lifetime,
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Soul, the bleed through is so strong that even if you haven't met the
person yet but she is on the planet this lifetime, you are already
using some of her qualities in your personality, and vice versa. Once
you have met, there is a big increase in the bleed through.
It is a good learning experience to have an essence twin. Some
people are really attached to their essence twins and feel that it is the
best, most intimate relationship and has the greatest potential of
anything they have experienced on the planet. About 5-10% of
people on this planet choose not to have an essence twin. People
without essence twins have arranged a cycle where they are going to
be more independent and rely on themselves.
There is often a sexual draw between essence twins, even if the
person is older, younger, the same sex or not normally someone
who would physically attract you. The exception is a lifetime where
essence twins have arranged deliberately for that not to be so
(usually by having a familial relationship, for instance). The reason
for this sexual draw is that it pulls essence twins together.

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Task Companion
Everyone has at least one
task companion. This relation-
ship is about getting together
like two oxen under the same
yoke and performing one or
many tasks together. A task
companion relationship is very
compatible, without a lot of
arguing, bickering or dealing
with intense (karmic) issues.
Task companions make great
business partners and good
marriage partners. They are
good at investing with one
another. It is a very enjoyable
type of relationship with less
agony and incompatibility than
other relationships. It does not
have as much intensity to it nor
does it wind up being as karmic as an essence twin relationship.
You start out your first lifetime on the planet with one person as
your task companion, usually someone you have known from a
previous cycle (an entire circle or experience) who is in your cadre
again, although not necessarily in your same entity. Down through
the centuries, as you progress through your cycle, you pick other
task companions with whom you work well on an Essence level.
Often, by the time you reach Old Soul level, you have developed
four or five task companions.
There is less of a chance for incompatibility between task
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their minds and talents dovetail very well. As long as task

companions have something to do together, they like being around
one another. Sometimes, however, task companions who do not
choose a long term task (such as a marriage or familial relationship)
will lose touch with one another. If they do not have any tasks to do
together or they complete the tasks they had set up, they must decide
on other tasks or the relationship loses meaning.

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Chapter 4: Monads
Aside from essence twin and task companion, you form many
other one-on-one relationships that may or may not be karmic. Many
of these one-on-one relationships, drawn together either by karma or
agreements, are monads or relationships between two Essences
which are experienced fully in both directions around a specific
issue. A monad is formed for a learning experience, but it is not
necessarily a karmic one. There are an infinite variety of monads,
invented for very specific circumstances; however, the monads
which are usally experienced fall into one of the 30 classic patterns
listed at the end of this chapter.
The general pattern of a monad is that after it has been
experienced in one direction, the Essences switch positions and
experience the other half of the monad, either later in that life, or
perhaps in another life. Then the monad completes and the Essences
can choose to work on another monad or a different lesson. The
only monad that is repeated with the same Essences is the Teacher-
Student Monad.
It is also possible, though less common, to have both halves of
the monad beng worked on at the same time. For example, in a
Leader-Follower Monad, one person could be leading the other in a
particular area and simultaneously following in another area. This
can also be seen in Pivotal-Facilitator Monads, in which both parties
are facilitating each other in pivoting their lives around certain
issues.
It is possible to have many monads going at once with different
people in any particular life. It is also possible to have more than
one monad going with the same person at the same time, and you
can usually notice that by the complexity of the relationship. The
exalted roles will generally work on the most monads, particularly
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Essences you are most closely related to from life to life. The
completion of many monads with another Essence brings with it the
feeling of intimacy of having shared many experiences together and
knowing each other in all of your different facets and personalities.
Two Essences who have experienced all the basic monads
together in both directions have what is called a Love Monad. This
is the feeling of complete trust and connectedness which comes with
having known each other in every type of basic relationship that is
possible on the Physical Plane. Considering that there are thirty
basic types of monads often requiring several lives to complete each
one, you would need to have spent at least fifty or sixty fairly
intimate lives with one other Essence to achieve Love Monad status.
Because of the amount of work and time necessary to experience
every monad together, the Love Monad is unusual and is found only
between Old Souls.
Most other monads are subcategories of the monads listed
below, but people can also invent monads for specific
circumstances, cultures or because of the desire to try an unusual
relationship with another Essence. When two people are together,
they often fall into one of the following monadic patterns, even
though they are not "doing a monad together" this lifetime. If they
are truly working on a monad, they will consistently operate out of
the monadic pattern each time they meet until that pattern is fully
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The 30 Most Common Monads

(from most to least common)

Teacher-Student: One person teaches the other something which

is life-affecting and which helps the Student to go down a more
appropriate life path. The Teacher is important in helping the Student
get her life clear in general or in some specific area. It is rare to find
a school teacher with whom you have a Teacher-Student Monad
although if you do find one, you will remember her for the rest of
your life.

Parent-Child: This is an intense parent/child relationship which is

examined at length in all its aspects. Not every parent and child have
this monad; in fact, it is possible to have many children and not have
a Parent-Child Monad with any of them. The subcategories of this
monad are Father-Son, Father-Daughter, Mother-Son and Mother-
Daughter.

Imprinter-Imprinted: The imprinter is someone, other than a

parent, who has the role of imprinting in any life. This can happen
between relatives -- for example, uncle-niece or grandmother-
grandchild -- or the Imprinter can be a family friend or employee
(like a nanny) who is instrumental in the formative years of 0 -14.

Sibling Monad: The relationship between these siblings is usually

very strong and they remain prominent in each others’ lives
throughout the lifetime. : :
Brothers-Sisters: In one life both will be brothers and in another
both will be sisters.
Brother-Sister: In one life, one is the brother and the other is the
sister. These positions switch when they experience the other side of
the monad.

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Marriage or Husband-Wife Monad: a lifelong mate agreement

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Marriage or Husband-Wife: A couple who has a lifelong mate

relationship.

Leader-Follower: This monad can be done in a few different

ways. The Leader can be someone the Follower feels compelled to
follow -- like General Patton, or Hitler. The Leader can also lead the
Follower on a more intimate basis, e.g., as a business mentor. Or
the Leader can be someone whose every major lifetime move
anticipates the Follower's actions: The Leader marries a butcher; the
Follower marries a butcher two years later. The Leader goes to law
school; the Follower goes to the same law school four years later.
The Leader has one son (8 years old) and two daughters (ages 5 and
4); the Follower one son (5 years old) and two daughters (ages 2
and 1). This monad need not be in constant contact for these
similarities to occur, but the participants usually check into each
others’ lives periodically to note the parallels. This monad can last a
lifetime or for only a few months.

Attacker-Victim: This can range in intensity from mildly

annoying verbal attack all the way to rape, murder or mutilation.

Healer-Healed: The Healer can psychologically heal, but usually

the monad involves physical healing that is in some way life-
affecting, like a doctor who heals cancer, or a friend or relative who
nurses the Healed from the edge of death to total health.

Rescuer-Rescued: The Rescuer saves the Rescued from either a

life-threatening situation (like drowning) or one that affects the way
she lives her life (like a stifling marriage).

Integrator-Eccentric: One person (the Eccentric) comes up with

the original creative ideas and the Integrator gives these ideas

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practical application. If this monad falls into a quadrant with two

other people, the Eccentric will take the Love position and the
Integrator will be Knowledge. Added onto a quadrant, these two fall
to their natural positions (Integrator and Eccentric) to make a very
effective sextant. (See "Other Groups")

Hopelessly Loving-Hopelessly Loved: One person is head-

over-heels in love and the other remains neutral, but has to learn to
deal with the situation. The Hopeless Loved often feels blocked
from loving the Hopelessly Loving even if she would want to
respond.

Passionate-Repressive: A garrulous, charismatic, outgoing,

impulsive person teams up with a calm, stable, refined, structured
person.

Independent-Dependent: This often takes the form of one

person who is literally dependent on the other for survival. Often the
Dependent will be physically handicapped or mentally retarded and
need a caretaker; less often the dependence is psychological.

Pivotal-Facilitator: The Facilitator is someone whose appearance

causes a pivotal shift in the other person's way of being. Sometimes
the Facilitator takes an action or says something that changes the
other person's life. Sometimes she is someone whose appearance,
unrelated to what she does or says, energetically foments great
change. People will often bring in a Facilitator to pivot their lives
(literally turn it in a different direction) if they want to break up a

sexual relationship. The Facilitator can check into the Pivoter's life
once or periodically over years. If a Facilitator is constantly in the
Pivoter's life, that life could become a whirlwind of change.

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Slovenly-Meticulous: This monad was perfectly portrayed in

Neal Simon's The Odd Couple by the characters Oscar Madison
and Felix Unger: one person is overwhelmingly sloppy and the
other obsessively tidy. This monad can be surprisingly intense -
- and it can be specific. Many times the partners in this monad are
only concerned with the neatness or sloppiness of each other, rather
than being generally concerned with this issue.

Passive-Aggressive: One person is hot-tempered, the other

quiet, calm and enduring. The Passive can be either oblivious to or
not bothered by the other person's aggressions, or she can be
terrified and martyred. This monad is often seen in the workplace or
in marriages. One example: Bob Crachit and Scrooge in Charles
Dicken's A Christmas Carol.

Adept-Apprentice: The Adept has mastered a skill that the

Apprentice needs to learn this lifetime in order to feel happy and
balanced. The Adept teaches this skill to the Apprentice. This monad
is different from Teacher-Student because it involves a skill instead
of life-affecting truths.

Artist-Patron: The Artist is a creative person whom the Patron

markets or publicizes. The Patron can also set the artist up so she
can create for a living, e.g., by giving her a stipend, scholarship or
grant or by giving her a show in the Patron's gallery.

Deserter-Abandoned: A person on whom the Abandoned's

survival or stability depends runs out on or abandons her with no
warning, leaving an immediate vacuum. This could be by divorce,
abandonment as child, or abandonment in a life-threatening
situation.

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Profligate-Temperate: This monad usually centers around

money. One person is wildly extravagant and the other is moderate,
restrained, or even austere. The Temperate controls the Profligate
and teaches her how to restrain herself. The Profligate can also be a
person who has self-destructive habits — drinking, drugs, gambling
— and the Temperate is the person who cures her of that habit. The
Profligate is always in the position of giving away what she needs to
survive.

Innocent-Sophisticate: A perfect example of this monad would

be a person with a goal of re-evaluation (Innocent) and a person
who has a goal of discrimination (Sophisticate). One person sees life
very simply and the other sees life as very complex. The
Sophisticate teaches the Innocent the complexities she needs to
survive, while the Innocent brings the Sophisticate back to the truth
and simplicity of life. The fictional characters Don Quixote and
Sancho Panza were doing this monad in tandem.

Promiscuous-Impotent: In this monad, the participants are

usually drawn into a marital or sexual relationship. The
Promiscuous needs a lot of sex to be balanced; the Impotent's
response to that person — perhaps to that person uniquely — is lack
of sexual desire, frigidity, an inability to respond. The more
violently the Promiscuous desires, either badgering the Impotent or
going out and having other affairs, the more the Impotent
withdraws. Nevertheless, the two are drawn to be around one
another.

Master-Slave: Some people make this very enjoyable. One person

is literally enslaved to the other—legally, monetarily or emotionally.
This can happen in marriages, where one person controls the money
or has the emotional upper hand. This monad is not very prevalent

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in Western society anymore because it has been rejected on a cultural

level. In other societies and in other times, this monad was done
between literal masters and their slaves. Pimp-Prostitute is one
modern day version of Master-Slave.

Player-Pawn: One person manipulates the other. Without the

Pawn being aware, she is being used in a larger game. The Player
can be a leader in a large company or a national leader, the Pawn a
go-between between factions who can be sacrificed if circumstances
so dictate. This monad can also be played out in personal
relationships.

Defender-Defended: This monad is between someone who

cannot defend herself because she is too weak, too young or lacking
in appropriate skills and a person who defends her. In the United
States legal system, this relationship often arises between lawyers
and their clients. Accountants can also take this position when they
defend their clients against the IRS. The Defender can also be a
bodyguard. A knight and his fair lady are another example of this
monad.

Hidden-Disclosed: One person has a secret and the other

uncovers it. The Watergate scandal of the 1970's was an example of
this monad, the major players being President Richard Nixon
(Hidden) and "Deep Throat," the major source of information about
the scandal (Disclosed).

Slanderer-Slandered: One person, the Slandered, does

something innocent that could be interpreted critically. The other
person, the Slanderer, disseminates her colored, negative and
inaccurate interpretation of what the Slandered did.

Jailer-Prisoner: One person literally jails the other. In this

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society, prison guards are the best examples of Jailers, although

occasionally a person who illegally imprisons another for a period of
time will come to public attention.

Love Monad: The two Essences have experienced every major

monad together in both directions over a series of lifetimes and are,
therefore, able to achieve agape towards each other at last.

Tandem Monad: This is similar to a Leader-Follower Monad in

that one person's life parallels the other's. With the Tandem Monad,
however, there is no time lag. People in a Tandem Monad find that
they have been doing similar things in their lives at the same time:
One moved to Colorado in 1983 and so did the other. One got a job
as a nurse in 1984 and so did the other. Both got divorces in 1981
and read Gone with the Wind when they were 12.

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Chapter 5: Support Circle

Each fragment develops a support circle during its cycle of lives
on the Physical Plane, and the Essences it works with most closely
from life to life fill the 12 supporting positions of that circle. Each
person develops a primary circle and then a number of secondary
circles. In any particular life when the Essence has not met all the
members of the primary circle (those Essences it works with best),
members of the second or third circles can fill the gaps.
Having a support circle means that an Essence has developed
close relationships with other fragments and has reached a level of
maturity in which it is willing to receive support from others. For
this reason, a complete support circle will not usually coalesce until
the Mature cycle. At an earlier soul perceptivity, the Essence is less
willing to give others the amount of trust necessary to rely on them
for support in different areas and chooses self-reliance instead.
There are 13 positions in the support circle. Twelve positions are
filled by the supporting fragments. The thirteenth position is taken
by the person being supported and corresponds to the Power
Position. You are the person in power in your own support circle
because you are in control of how you are getting supported in your
life, how you use these other people to make sure that you are taken
care of.
The extent to which you are willing to be supported is an
indication of your prosperity in the various areas of your life:
career/productivity; familial relationships; relationships with friends;
and spirituality. It is also a measure of your self-agape. Most
people, even those of older soul age, really only allow themselves to
be supported by two or three people — a mate (who could be
someone who is not even in your support group, just a karma), a
child and one parent. To really open up to your support group
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THE SUPPORT CIRCLE

COMPASSION HUMOR

KNOWLEDGE DISCIPLINE

LOVE ANCHOR

CHILD HEALER

BEAUTY ENLIGHTENMENT

MENTOR MUSE

After many lives, fragments gather a support circle of 12.

The Essence being supported is in the 13th (Power)
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you, see who you really are (on both a personality and Essence
level), and support you in your greater life task.
If you do not have your support group around you, it is not
necessarily because your support people have not shown up in your
life yet, but may simply be that you cannot allow their support. Or it
may be that they have not shown up yet because, unwilling to be
supported, you have not yet pulled them in energetically. On an
energetic level, you may not have even realize that support is
possible.
If you do not learn to use your support group, then you are not
able to understand and achieve real intimacy with others. You will
not have enough of the varying types of support you need to feel
like a valuable, special person who has something valuable to give
to society and others. You wrap too much energy into taking care of
yourself to have the energy to go out and be prosperous on different
levels such as having really good relationships and friendships,
having all of the material goods you want in your life, or having a
healthy relationship with your own inner self.
Below are the 12 supporting positions of the support circle.

Love: The person in your love position teaches you the most about
love. She supports you by allowing you to love her and by being
willing to love you in return for who you are. This is not necessarily
someone with whom you have a sexual relationship.

Knowledge: In your knowledge position is someone you can

generally rely on for accurate information. She will be willing to
provide you with the "know-how" resources to assist you in your
life. She will also be willing to give you information and feedback
that could help you know yourself.

Compassion: You rely upon your compassion position to be

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understanding and supportive of you in good times as well as in

crisis. Your compassion position is someone who will be willing to
see your point of view and yet will be able to give you a sense of
objectivity about yourself.

Mentor: Your mentor is someone to whom you can go for advice,

counsel, and wisdom. She is often someone older than you who has
already experienced what you are going through now.

Beauty: Your beauty position is someone who brings beauty into

your life and represents beauty for you. It may be someone who is
beautiful in your eyes or who brings to your attention the beauty in
the world.

Child: Your child position is someone who gives you the

experience of parenting. Around that person you are the planner, the
protector, the one who takes responsibility. She is not necessarily
your own child or even someone younger than yourself, although it
is likely that in many lifetimes she has literally been your child.

Humor: Your humor position brings humor into your life, either
by being amusing to you or by pointing out the lighter side of life to
you. Some people who are experts at being in this position become
professional comedians and, thus, fill this slot for a larger audience.

Discipline: Your discipline position provides you with the

Opportunity to be disciplined and also points out where you need
self-discipline. This could be in the form of someone actively
reminding you to be disciplined or it could be someone who evokes
your need to control yourself because you find her difficult to
handle.

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Anchor: Your anchor provides you with stability and grounding.

She is someone you feel you can rely on to be there, solid and
stable, when you need her.

Healer: Your healer is someone you can trust to heal you

physically, as well as spiritually and emotionally. Your healer may
be someone who specializes in the healing arts in many lifetimes or
merely someone whose presence heals you.

Enlightenment: The person in your enlightenment position puts

you most often into higher centers and therefore "lightens" your life.
This position will sometimes be filled by someone who is being a
spiritual teacher this life, or by someone who is no longer alive, but
whose memory or writings puts you in touch with truth, love and
beauty. Most often it is a friend around whom you touch into higher
centers frequently and get inspired.

Muse: Your muse is whatever you have devoted yourself to in this

life. It is not necessarily represented by a person but can be a
concept or ideal. For example, liberty, justice, happiness, God and
success are often-chosen muses in this society. When your muse
position is a person, you will have the tendency to put that person
on a pedestal and not want to look at her faults.

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Passionate-Repressive Monad: an outgoing, impulsive person

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Chapter 6: Other Groups

Whenever people get together in groups, the number of people
present determines the energy that group will have. Beyond seven
people, there is a crowd, a number too large to be assimilated as a
particular energy. Humans cannot deal with more than seven pieces
of information at once, and, therefore, cannot relate to more than
seven people at once. Groups over seven will break into smaller
numbered groups, each of those groups having a particular energy,
depending on the number in it. Eight people, for example, will
almost always break down into two groups of four.
A group can meet casually, one time only, for an evening, a day
or an hour. Or the members can form a long-term relationship, the
same people meeting again and again, over months or years,
perhaps with a specific project in mind. The Three Musketeers were
a fictional group of three who knew each other over years without a
specific purpose. With the addition of D'Artagnan, they became a
group of four and became much more "project-oriented." The
Beatles were a non-fictional group that met for a very specific
purpose — playing music — although the quadrant had a deep effect
on all aspects of the members’ lives, as well as on the culture.
Whether a group meets casually or for a specific purpose, for a
long or short amount of time, there are certain positions in groups of
two through seven that can be noticed and certain numbers which
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Monads

If two people meet casually, for a short time, they will often fall
into a pattern which follows one of the 30 classic monadic patterns.
(SEE "Monads") If the relationship continues over time, they
probably do have a monad that they are working on.

Triads

This group functions well to work on karma and to learn

lessons. There are three positions in a triad: Affirming or Positive;
Denying or Negative; and Neutral or Assimilative.
Affirming: "Let's do this!"
Denying: "Let's not!"
Neutral: "What are the good points in both these plans?"
People in a triad will take turns being in each of the positions.
You can also have a triad energy without having three people
present. Two people and an issue can form a triad. For example,
two people trying to decide whether or not to get married are
working in a triad. This group usually starts out with the two people
taking the affirming and denying positions and the issue being
neutral. These positions change, however, if one person goes to
neutral and "circumstances" put the issue in an affirming or denying
position.

Example: I want to get married on September Sth (affirming), you

think that date is as good as any other date (neutral) but the church is
not available on that date (denying).

Example: I want to buy this house (affirming) , you don't want to

buy this house (denying), the house is neutral. Later, I still want to
buy this house (affirming), you will go along with it (neutral), but
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Clearly these triadic situations can be intense (karmic) and/or lead to

lessons being learned.
You can also have a triad with just one person and two opposing
sides of an issue or a choice. It could be one person and two job
offers. She is neutral about the two jobs, and one job is saying,
"Choose me!" (affirming), while the other job is saying, "No,
choose me!" (denying). Then she could take the affirming or
denying position, "I will or won't take this or that job." The taken
job becomes neutral, the other stays in denying permanently, the
lesson is learned and she moves on to a new lesson, or a new stage
of the job lesson (e.g., having/learning the job).
Denying force, the third triadic energy, is an important concept.
Most people would like to deal with only the affirming and neutral
energies, but no lesson can be learned without looking at the
denying force. When you give in to denying force, you end the
lesson. If you affirm that you can have a new job and the denying
force of a slow job market presents itself, your choice is to either
come to a neutral or assimilative position which takes both affirming
and denying energies into account or to put this lesson off until later.
Coming to neutral is the only way to learn the lesson. Otherwise the
lesson still awaits you down the road, later this life or even in
another life, and you must start over again from where you started
last time.
Example
Affirming: I want a new job.
Denying: There is a slow job market.
Neutral: I am going to keep looking anyway and know it will
take a long time to find what I want. I will improve my postion by
learning new skills, learning to present myself better, or learning
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Quadrants
While a triad is good for karma or lessons, a quadrant energy
works well for getting things done. There are four positions in a
quadrant: Love (Initiation); Knowledge; Power and Compassion
(Support). Love is the person who comes up with the game plan:
"Let's do, talk about or consider this." Knowledge talks about the
pros and cons and generally gives information about what Love
initiated. Power makes sure that the finalized game plan (after it has
been altered and modified by Knowledge) gets acted upon. She
takes action herself or pushes everyone to take action.
Compassion makes sure everyone gets along smoothly and
eliminates the difficult, triadic energy. She judges fights, neutralizes
conflict, helps everyone see each other's point of view and helps
with any service that needs to be done.
The quadrant is the most comfortable, stable and productive
group. People tend to fall into quadrants, if they can, when they are
in a group of people. The larger groups — pentangle (5), sextant (6)
and septant (7) — are much more unusual. They also tend to break
down into a quadrant and something else: a quadrant and a person
who goes to sleep or leaves the room, a quadrant and a monad or a
quadrant and a triad.
The four positions of the quadrant describe the social roles most
people take when they are in a group. Everyone will have her
favorite quadrant position that she tends to fall into, with one or two
backup positions. Everyone is good at at least one of the positions.
Very few people can do all four positions well in any one lifetime.
You fall into your position in a group so automatically that you don't
even notice it.
If you want to get something done, start a business or project, it
is best to get together a basic core group of four to bring in quadrant
balance and energy. The most stable family units are either two
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Pentangles
A pentangle adds one more person (a "fifth wheel") onto a
quadrant, and that person takes the Eccentric position. The
Eccentric comes up with even more innovative and unusual ideas or
plans than the Love/Initiation person and throws a quirk into what
everyone is doing. Pentangles are very unstable and they don't stay
static very long, usually either dropping one person or adding a
sixth. It would be fun to go to a party in a group of five because of
the exciting and unusual energy, but it is an unstable working
group.

Sextants

A sextant keeps the five positions of a pentangle, but adds in an

Integrator who stabilizes the Eccentric. The Eccentric in a sextant
will feel the freedom to come up with even more bizarre or
innovative ideas than an Eccentric in a pentangle. The Integrator will
tone these ideas down and make them workable for mass production
or popular usage. An Integrator and an Eccentric will take whatever
a quadrant is working on, add to it unusual and creative ideas and
come up with a way to make the work noticed on a large scale.
Sextants are the next most stable group after quadrants.
Quadrants are good for doing the mundane tasks of life, while
sextants are more outward and noticeable. People in sixes tend to get
together and do large scale projects. You will often find six main
movers and shakers at the head of a large company, perhaps
comprising or participating in the Board of Directors or each
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Septants
The first six positions of a septant parallel those of a sextant,
while adding the more dynamic flavor of one of the seven roles:
Love/Sage: "Here's something that is going on. Why
don't we get involved in it?"
Knowledge/Scholar: A natural, investigative position for
Scholars.
Power/Warrior: Makes sure things get done.
Compassion/Server: Serves the group project.
Artisan/Eccentric: Comes up with new, innovative ideas.
King/Integrator: Leads the work out into world on a large
scale.
The seventh position in a septant corresponds to Priest and is
known as the Goad position. This position adds spiritual energy
and religious/philosophical context to whatever project the group
undertakes. The person in this position will be concerned with how
the group can best grow, learn, connect and be good members of the
universe with the work they are doing.
Although each position corresponds to a role, there need not be
seven people of different roles to make up a septant. A Sage might
do Knowledge position, for example, if Love is already taken, or a
Server easily could work in the Power position.
Septants will work on projects that benefits mankind on a large
scale. It is not often that a septant forms, although they will be more
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If you have read to this point in the book, you have probably
found the body of this information at least interesting. The question
that comes up now is how do you apply the Michael Teaching to
your life?
The first place to start is by determining your role and
overleaves. Study the overleaf chart on page 212. Where do you
think you fit in? Mark your most likely choices and try them on fora
week to see how comfortable they feel. If you want to know your
role and overleaves with more certainty, there are two possible
methods for getting feedback about them.
1) Get in touch with the Michael Educational Foundation or The
Michael Connection (see Appendix, page 233) to find out how to
contact a Michael channel. The Michael Educational Foundation's
purpose is to provide consistent, high-quality information as a
resource which will assist people in their personal development. The
Michael Connection exists to support those who wish to use the
Michael Teaching to become more effective players in the game of
life.
2) Get a copy of The Essence and Personality Profile. This test
was developed by Michael teachers to help you determine your own
overleaves. When tested against Michael channels it was found to
have a 90% degree of accuracy — or at least degree of agreement

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between Michael channels and test results. It is available through the

Michael Educational Foundation. (See ad page 239)
You, of course, are the ultimate authority about your own
overleaves. You chose them before you started this life and you are
in the best position to know your own imprinting and the way you
really are, underneath your "social self."
Once you know your overleaves, you can use that information
for further insight into who you are and the way you act. Then you
can start looking around at the overleaves of your friends and
relatives. See why they act the way they do. Perhaps you will just
be able to identify one particular overleaf, but knowing that overleaf
— "Oh, yes, this person has a chief feature of impatience" — can
allow you to be more in agape about who that person is.
For example, you might tell yourself, "Aunt Matilda is a Baby
Soul. She needs a lot of structure. She's not insisting on an exact
schedule for dinner in order to get on my nerves, but because going
on without one is difficult for her. I'll deal with the situation by
giving her structure when she is around." In that way you can use
the Michael Teaching.
Once you determine your overleaves, or even before, start
looking around at your relationships. You will probably find your
task companion somewhere among your friends and acquaintances,
especially if you are older than 35. You also might find your essence
twin. (If so, you probably knew it when you read that section.)
Write down the support group positions and see which are filled for
you. Allow yourself to get support in the positions that are empty.
Look at your intensities in terms of karma, see what agreements and
monads and "other groups" you can find in your life.
In short, use this book to understand yourself better and increase
your self-love; and to understand other people better and increase
your love towards them. Use this book to help your life work better.
This book outlines the basics of the Michael Teaching. We wrote

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it so that it could be useful in the lives of our readers. We don't

expect anyone to take it whole Cloth. We expect you to examine the
book — even the parts that sound correct to you — with a skeptic's
eye, verifying, of course, not denigrating.
Feel free to use the parts you like and discard the parts you
don't. However, these are the basics of Michael's system. We
request that you not change it to suit your philosophy and then
declare that your transmutations are also part of what Michael
teaches.
We hope you will have found this book valuable and that you
can use it in your life. We are willing to be a further support if you
would like to be part of the community that studies this system and
makes it a part of their philosophy. The community is located in
Northern California, but you can be in contact with it via the
resources listed in the Appendix.
Welcome to the community of Michael students!

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acceptance: One of the seven goals Essence can choose to use for
a lifetime. The exalted goal on the expressive axis. This goal
includes wanting to find the good in others and in situations and
wanting to be approved of and received favorably by others.
action axis: Roles and overleaves that express themselves through
movement, how one behaves in the world and what one does.
agape /ah-gah-pay or ah-gah-pay/: Unconditional or unqualified
acceptance of self, others and life in general. Accepting that others
are on their appropriate paths and that they are all right for who they
are. This acceptance can range from mild tolerance to overwhelming
approval.
aggression: One of the seven modes Essence can choose to use
for a lifetime. The exalted mode on the action axis. Acting in a
dynamic or belligerant manner. Being the active force in one's own
life.
agreements: Plans made between Essences to do something
together during a specific lifetime. These plans are like non-binding
contracts: they can be abandoned with no karmic consequences.
Akashic Plane: See Akashic Record.
Akashic Record(s): One of the seven planes of existence. The
storehouse for all experience in the universe. Entities do not live out
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reference. Entities must reach the Causal Plane before they can have
direct access to the Akashic Records.
arrogance: One of the seven chief features Essence can choose to
use for a lifetime. The exalted feature on the inspirational axis. Fear
of vulnerability. Trying to make a favorable impression.
Artisan: One of the seven roles Essence can choose to use for an
entire circle of experience. The ordinal role on the expressive axis.
Artisans create all that is new and innovative.
aspects of soul perception: Although a personality will live life
mainly from one of the five levels of soul perception —- Infant,
Baby, Young, Mature and Old — it still retains the capability of
using younger soul perceptions. Using or acting from a younger
aspect of soul perception can be appropriate given the situation.
assimilation axis: The hub of the wheel position. Can slide to
either the ordinal or exalted positions of any overleaf.
assimilative: Absorbing all action, knowledge, emotion. A
historical, preservation, gathering-of-experience stance.
Astral Plane: One of the seven planes of existence. The plane
where Essence goes when it leaves the body, when the body is
asleep, between lives or after completing all lessons on the Physical
Plane. On the Astral Plane, Essence learns true sexuality, the
complete combining of two or more Essences in thought, feelings
and being. Entities recombine on the Astral Plane after all fragments
have completed their Physical Plane lessons.
astrology: The influence of the planets on human events. The time
of birth and the resulting astrological chart is chosen by Essence
each life just as the overleaves are. Overleaves determine your basic
personality while astrology is a map of karma, agreements and
imprinting.
attitude: One of the overleaves Essence chooses when it takes a
Physical Plane body. The perspective or way of viewing the world.
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spiritualist, skeptic, idealist, cynic, realist and pragmatist.

axis: Overleaves are grouped into three pairs of one ordinal and one
exalted each, along three axes — inpirational, expressive and action
— which correspond roughly to Truth, Love and Energy. The
fourth axis, assimilative, has one neutral overleaf (able to be either
ordinal or exalted) and encompasses the other three.
Baby Soul: The second of the five ages of soul perception
experienced on the Physical Plane. Baby Souls are concerned with
the control of Instinctive behavior through structure, civilization,
hierarchy and rules. This is the first level at which a fragment
becomes oriented towards others.
belief system: Your way of viewing the world, reality. The stance
from which you view life. The structure and context of your
thinking that assumes some things to be true. There is an inherent
inflexibility in a belief system. The Michael Teaching is not a belief
system but rather information that includes an encouragement to
continue to question all beliefs.
bleed through: Contact over years or lifetimes with another
Essence causes you to start using some of that other Essence's
characteristics. This phenomenon is observed most often between
essence twins. You also occasionally experience "bleed through" of
your own past life memories and characteristics into the present.
body type: Essence chooses the balance of planetary influences on
the physical body's glandular system each lifetime. This balance
manifests as certain sets of physical characteristics, depending on
which influences are dominant. There are seven primary planetary
influences (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn and Jupiter)
and three secondary influences (Neptune, Uranus and Pluto). Since
the body type is not part of the personality, it is not technically an
overleaf; it can, however, have a similar if somewhat lesser effect on
Essence's experience on the Physical Plane. Only rarely does
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the influence of two or three planets.

Buddha: A manifestation of the Infinite Soul who taught using
Buddhaic Plane energy, emphasizing lessons about merging with
the totality of the universe on an energetic level.
Buddhaic Plane: One of the seven planes of existence. The last
plane Essence passes through before reuniting with the Tao.
Lessons of the Buddhaic Plane concern merging with the totality of
the universe on an energetic level.
cadre: A group of seven entities. Each entity belongs to a cadre.
Most of an individual Essence's lessons, karmas and agreements
will be done with the members of its cadre.
Causal Plane: One of the seven planes of existence. The plane
Essence goes to after completing Astral Plane lessons. On this plane
Essence, reunited with its entity, deals with intellectual lessons
concerning the structure of the universe and first taps directly into
the Akashic Records. The entity Michael teaches from the Causal
Plane.
caution: One of the seven modes Essence can choose to use for a
lifetime. The ordinal mode on the expressive axis. Dealing with the
world through the foresight that minimizes risk. Acting with
deliberation, somewhat wary of the consequences.
centering: One of the overleaves Essence chooses when it takes on
a Physical Plane body. The habitual manner in which an individual
uses the three ordinal Centers — Emotional, Intellectual and Moving
— and their parts. See parts of centers.
centers: The seven chakras or energetic foci through which we
experience the universe: Intellectual, Emotional, Moving,
Instinctive, Higher Intellectual, Higher Emotional, and Higher
Moving.
chakras: The seven centers of energy, emotion, intelligence and
instinctive behavior which operate in the human body.
channel: A person who agrees to set herself aside (her lessons,

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karmas, agreements and, to a greater or lesser degree, her opinions

and prejudices) for long enough to let another Essence or entity send
information through her. This information is then translated in some
way by the channel, often into a verbal message but sometimes
through physical contact or emotional healing.
channeling: opening oneself to influences, energy or information
from higher planes or higher plane entities. See channel.
chief feature: One of the overleaves Essence chooses when it is in
a Physical Plane body. The primary stumbling block or difficulty in
the personality. The seven chief features are self-deprecation,
arrogance, self-destruction, greed, martyrdom, impatience and
stubbornness.
circle of experience: When a fragment makes the decision to
leave the Tao, it embarks on a circle of experience — starting with
the Physical Plane and continuing through the six other planes of
existence — until it returns to the Tao with the knowledge and
experience it has gained.
cosmology: The study of how the universe works, the laws by
which the universe operates.
creative energy: One of two types of energy in the universe:
creative and focused. Creative energy is intuitive, diffuse,
explosive, chaotic, and looks in many directions at once. Also
referred to as "female" energy since female bodies (with no Essence)
are composed of creative energy.
cycle: Essence moves through many cycles. The word "cycle"
refers primarily to the circle of experience, but is also used to refer
to each of the following in this book: seven year cycles; levels of
soul perception; and a sojourn on an individual plane of existence.
See the individual definitions of each of these terms for clarification.
cycled off: An Essence (fragment) who has completed its Physical
Plane lessons and karmas, and has returned to the Astral Plane after
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cynic: One of the seven attitudes Essence can choose to use for a
lifetime. The ordinal attitude on the action axis. Having the point of
view of expecting the worst to happen, being wary and
apprehensive. Viewing life from what "probably isn't."
discrimination: One of the seven goals Essence can choose to use
for a lifetime. The ordinal goal on the expressive axis. Carefully
picking and choosing among all that life has to offer. This can range
from being highly refined in one's taste to being outright rejecting.
dominance: One of the seven goals Essence can choose to use for
a lifetime. The exalted goal on the action axis. Wanting to win in the
game of life. Leading others to win with you.
ego: Belief in your separateness from the universe and the Tao.
Emotional Center: The energy focus or chakra related to
perception, feeling and sentiment. Correct use of the Emotional
Center gives one innate knowledge or perception of the truth. All
emotions and feeling come the Emotional Center.
Energy: One of the three elements of the universe. All that exists
whether it is in the form of matter (e.g., the physical body) or not in
the form of matter (e.g., sound). All things that exist in the
universe. Corresponds to the Physical and Buddhaic Planes.
energy balance: Essence's percentage of creative and focused
energy components.
enlightenment: Raising one's state of conscious awareness to a
higher level. Using higher centers.
entity: a group of approximately 1000 Essences or souls who
come to the Physical Plane at approximately the same time and agree
to share their consciousness on other planes. Members of the same
entity (entity fragments) share a strong bond and usually recognize
each other as old friends when they meet.
Essence: The soul or spirit, that part of each individual which is
immortal.
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the exact same moment and agree to be in each others’ lives over and
over again. Essence twins share experiences while on the Astral
Plane and, after many lives, begin to also share Essence and
personality characteristics. (See bleed through.) Essence twins also
act as mirrors for one another in which each other's flaws and good
points appear. This is the most intimate of Physical Plane
relationships and therefore the most challenging. Essence twins can
be the same role but they usually are not from the same entity.
exalted: Having a quality that puts one out in the world in a more
noticeable fashion. Feeling comfortable dealing with larger groups.
expression axis: Roles and overleaves noticeable because of their
expressive quality. More emotional in nature. Flamboyant.
false personality: Operating from the negative poles of your
overleaves. False personality increases the illusion of separateness
and prevents life from flowing smoothly. False personality is not
always an inappropriate place to operate from, since it can facilitate
karma.
female energy: See creative energy.
fluid: The quality of being flexible, quick-moving, light and airy.
Connected to the outer edges of the cosmos.
focused energy: One of the two types of energy in the universe
— creative and focused. Linear, directed, perservering, productive
and concentrated on one point. Also referred to as "male" energy
since male bodies (with no Essence) are composed of focused
energy.
fragment: An individual Essence member of an entity. Each
Essence or soul on the Physical Plane is a fragment of an entity.
frequency: a quality belonging to Essence. Frequency is
Essence's speed of vibraton measured on a scale from 0 to 100.
goal: One of the overleaves Essence chooses when it takes a
Physical Plane body. The primary motivator or underlying aim for
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acceptance, submission, dominance and relaxation.

greed: One of the seven chief features Essence can choose to use
for a lifetime. The exalted feature on the expressive axis. The feature
which gives one a great desire and capacity for experiences of all
sorts. The fear of not having enough.
growth: One of the seven goals Essence can choose to use for a
lifetime. The exalted goal on the inspirational axis. To choose a life
of challenges and obstacles to be overcome for one's spiritual
advancement.
guides: Essences who have already completed their Physical Plane
cycle and are presently on the Astral Plane (or, more rarely, who are
on the Astral Plane between lives) who, because of their past
associations with you, are willing to guide you along with their
energy to do better than you would normally do, or send healing
energy your way from higher planes. They usually do not give you
information but rather lend energy and help you to feel better about
your lessons and karmas. Often these are members of your entity or
your cadre who have recently cycled off and who are thus not that
far away from Physical Plane experience.
healing masters: See guides.
higher centers: The three energy foci where Essence on the
Physical Plane can experience its connection to the greater whole
through the three elements of the universe: Truth, Love or Energy.
Using higher centers is a rare experience since it takes Essence out
of the illusion (game) of the Physical Plane. This experience is often
identified as "enlightenment."
Higher Emotional Center: The energy focus where Essence
experiences its connection to Love, i.e., all there is to feel about the
universe, once you know all there is to know (Truth).
Higher Intellectual Center: The energy focus where Essence
experiences its connection to Truth, all there is to know about the
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Higher Moving Center: The energy focus where Essence

experiences its connection to Energy, all that exists in the universe.
idealist: One of the seven attitudes Essence can choose to use for a
lifetime. The exalted attitude on the expressive axis. Having
expectations that need fulfilling. Viewing life from the point of view
of what "should be."
identification: Losing the perspective of the whole in the events
or emotions of the moment. Believing in the reality of personality
and the Physical Plane while losing sight of the greater reality of
Essence and the Tao.
illusion: Belief in the reality of the "game of life." The game
Essence plays on the Physical Plane in order to have new
experiences and gain knowledge is the "game of separateness." This
game is illusion since we are all one, all part of the Tao.
impatience: One of the seven chief features Essence can choose to
use for a lifetime. The exalted feature on the action axis. The
personality is ruled by time and fears missing something important.
imprinting: The training a personality receives in the first 14 years
of life from parents, caretakers and society. The lessons learned
range from how to act in society to how to use your overleaves
and/or act like your parents. Imprinting helps set up life in order to
do the intense karmas of ages 14-28.
Infant Soul: The first of the five ages of soul perception
experienced on the Physical Plane. Infant Souls learn how life
works in a physical body and will often live out their lives in this
cycle in primitive cultures and conditions to facilitate these lessons.
Infant Souls are self-oriented, as opposed to group-oriented.
Infinite Soul: The Tao. A manifestation of the Tao that takes on a
body while retaining full consciousness of the interconnectedness of
"all that is" is also referred to as "The Infinite Soul." The Infinite
Soul comes to teach and assist the growth of a planet. Jesus Christ,
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inspiration axis: Roles and overleaves that lend to more

philosophical, spiritual, healing or caretaking pursuits.
Evolutionary, connected to other planes, expansive energy.
Instinctive Center: The energy focus in the body that governs
automatic functions, past life memories, survival, instincts,
instinctual fears and reflexes. Karmas, agreements and challenges
for the life are also recorded in the Instinctive Center.
Intellectual Center: The energy focus in the body that governs
thought, ideas, use of concepts, words and language.
Jesus Christ: A manifestation of the Infinite Soul who taught
using Messianic Plane energy, emphasizing total agape and love
towards other beings.
Jovial (Jupiter) body type: The body type which emphasizes
the posterior pituitary gland. Characterized by being large-bodied
and surrounded by satellites. Classic type: Santa Claus, surrounded
by his elves. The exalted body type on the expressive axis.
karma: An emotionally intense experience which causes a sense of
imbalance in the participants. When karma is "created" it must be
"paid back" some life in order that balance can be restored.
King: One of the seven roles Essence can choose to use for an
entire circle of experience. The exalted role on the action axis. Kings
lead and master life.
kundalini energy: A surge of creative energy that connects the
three centers for higher energy in the body — the second, sixth and
seventh chakras.
Lao Tsu: A manifestation of the Infinite Soul who taught using
Mental Plane energy, emphasizing lessons about having intellectual
contact with the Tao, an intellectual perception of the whole.
lessons: The motivating force of the universe is the desire to know
itself. Thus, each fragment or Essence works on lessons or gaining
knowledge on the Physical and every other plane of existence in the
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levels of soul perception: See soul levels.

life plan: The general outline of karmas, agreements, monads,
lessons and life tasks Essence plans to accomplish during a specific
lifetime. The life plan of each personality is on file in the Akashic
Records. This plan is only a general outline of intention and may be
altered at any time. Thus, each individual has free will.
life task: A major lesson Essence wants to complete during a
lifetime. One of the main purposes of a lifetime.
Love: One of the three elements of the universe. Everything there is
to feel about everything there is in the universe (Energy) once you
know everything there is to know (Truth).
Lunar body type: The body type which emphasizes the pancreas
and lymphatic system. Characterized by being moon-faced and
round. Classic type: Betty Boop. The ordinal body type on the
inspirational axis.
male energy: See focused energy.
manifest (i.e., soul level): To show up or act in the world as. For
example, personality manifests a certain level of soul perception on
the Physical Plane by acting from that perspective.
marriage agreement: A plan to possibly marry made between
two Essences prior to a lifetime. Since it is an agreement and not
karma it may or may not happen.
Martial body type: The body type which emphasizes the adrenal
glands. Characterized by unusual coloring (e.g., red hair and
ruddiness in a Caucasian) and aggressive energy. Classic type:
Popeye. The exalted body type on the action axis.
martyrdom: One of the seven chief features Essence can choose to
use for a lifetime. The ordinal feature on the action axis. Feeling
victimized. Fear of being out of control of your life.
Mature Soul: The fourth of the five ages of soul perception
experienced on the Physical Plane. Mature Souls begin to see their
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its hold. They are concerned with opening to emotional issues and
working with groups of people.
maya: Operating under an illusion that you are operating correctly.
Self-deception. Each soul age has a particular maya associated with
it. The maya of the Old Soul, for example, is that she has achieved
enlightenment and is, therefore, detached from the karmas of the
Physical Plane.
medium: See channel.
Mental Plane: One of the seven planes of existence. On the
Mental Plane Essence has a direct intellectual contact with the Tao.
Lessons concern intellectual perception of the whole.
Mercurial body type: The body type which emphasizes the
thyroid gland. Characterized by being slender and quick-moving.
Classic type: the Greek god Hermes. The ordinal body type on the
expressive axis.
Messianic Plane: One of the seven planes of existence. On the
Messianic Plane Essence has a direct emotional connection with the
Tao. Lessons concern the experience of total agape towards other
beings.
mode: One of the overleaves Essence chooses when it takes a
Physical Plane body. The primary way of acting. The means by
which to accomplish the goal. The seven modes are repression,
passion, caution, power, perseverance, aggression and observation.
monad: A relationship between two Essences that is experienced
fully in both directions around a specific issue. Monads are usually
played out over several lifetimes before the lesson is complete.
Moving Center: The energy focus in the body which governs
movement you learn after you are born.
negative pole: Each of the qualities of Essence (role, frequency
and energy balance) and personality (overleaves) can be polarized in
a positive or negative way. The negative pole is the use of these
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separateness.
Neptune body type/influence: One of the three secondary body
influences. Governed by the hypothalamus. Dreamy and unworldly.
neutral: Taking no stance. Holding the space, observing what is
happening, making no judgement. Taking neither a positive nor a
negative stance.
observation: One of the seven modes Essence can choose to use
for a lifetime. The assimilative mode. After seeing clearly,
observation slides to one of the other modes in order to act. Looking
before you leap.
Old Soul: The fifth of the five ages of soul perception experienced
on the Physical Plane. Old Souls put their attention on spiritual
growth and begin to gradually detach from the Physical Plane. Old
Souls are concerned with the perception of the greater whole of
which we are all part, teaching what they know to others and
learning the ultimate lesson of agape.
ordinal: Dealing with life on a more one-on-one level. Quieter and
more withdrawn.
overleaves: The elements of personality which Essence chooses
each lifetime which overlay, mask, or modify its essential nature
(i.e., the role, frequency, energy balance and particular past
experiences). These elements are goal, mode, attitude, chief feature
and centering. Although body type is not an overleaf, it has a
similar, if somewhat lesser, effect on Essence.
parallel universe: Universes which co-exist in the same space
but in different space/time continuum than this one and which are
subject to the same laws. A new parallel universe spins off at each
major decision point of each individual's life. (Each lifetime contains
only about four or five of these decision points.) Thus all the
possibilities of each personality may be played out. There are
billions of parallel universes existing at the same time, but all are
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parts of centers: Each center breaks down into three different

parts: intellectual, emotional and moving, what you think, feel and
do about that center. This allows an individual to choose her
centering — the part of the center to which she moves most easily.
passion: One of the seven modes Essence can choose to use for a
lifetime. The exalted mode on the inspirational axis. Living life with
energy and enthusiasm. Leaping before looking.
past lives: The personalities and experiences that Essence has
accumulated prior to the present life. The lessons and experiences of
past lives are part of Essence and are recorded in the Instinctive
Center. Thus there is a certain thread of continuity from life to life,
even though one personality does not have direct and easy access to
the qualities and accomplishments of a former one.
pentangle: A group of five. This grouping has an exciting and
unusual energy but is also very unstable. The five positions in the
group are Love, Knowledge, Power, Compassion and Eccentric.
perception: Using the positive pole of the Emotional Center to
reach the truth. This is often faster and more accurate than using the
Intellectual Center, since the Intellectual Center contains the belief
system, which tends to color your view of the truth.
perserverance: One of the seven modes Essence can choose to
use for a lifetime. The ordinal mode on the action axis. Persisting
and enduring to reach the goal. Working through life step by step.
personality: The combination of overleaves and imprinting which
Essence uses to play the game of life. Essence's tool on the
Physical Plane.
pheromones: Smells perceived on a subconscious level which
determine your instinctive reaction to others. Your pheromones
broadcast your karmas, agreements and challenges for the life.
Physical Plane: One of the seven planes of existence. On the
Physical Plane Essence maintains the illusion of separateness and
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presently on the Physical Plane.

planes of existence: Essence moves though lessons on seven
planes of existence — the Physical Plane, the Astral Plane, the
Causal Plane, the Akashic Records, the Mental Plane, the Messianic
Plane and the Buddhaic Plane — as it moves through a circle of
experience and back to the Tao.
Pluto body type/influence: One of the three secondary body
influences. Governed by the pineal gland. A severe and cerebral
quality.
pole: Each of the qualities of Essence and personality can be
polarized in a positive or negative way. The ability to choose
between these two poles makes the game of the Physical Plane
worth playing since the outcome cannot be predetermined. (See
positive pole, negative pole.)
positive pole: Each of the qualities of Essence and personality can
be polarized in a positive or negative way. The positive pole is the
use of the qualities which help life flow most smoothly, feel the best
(physically, mentally and emotionally) and connect the personality to
others and the greater whole.
power: One of the seven modes Essence can choose to use for a
lifetime. The exalted mode on the expressive axis. Living life from
being in authority and in control.
pragmatist: One of the seven attitudes Essence can choose to use
for a lifetime. The assimilative attitude. A practical, organized
attitude which views life from how it "must be" and forms rules and
structures around that.
Priest: One of the seven roles Essence can choose to use for an
entire circle of experience. The exalted role on the inspirational axis.
Priests inspire, compassionately guide and goad others to spiritual
advancement.
quadrant: A group of four. This group works the best for getting
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Compassion.
realist: One of the seven attitudes Essence can choose to use for a
lifetime. The exalted attitude on the action axis. Seeing life as it is —
either objectively or from one's own point of view.
relaxation: One of the seven goals Essence can choose to use for a
lifetime. The assimilative goal. Learning to have life flow. Often
chosen for a rest life.
repression: One of the seven modes Essence can choose to use for
a lifetime. The ordinal mode on the inspirational axis. Acting in a
reserved, refined, restrained or civilized manner.
re-evaluation: One of the seven goals Essence can choose to use
for a lifetime. The ordinal goal on the inspirational axis. Limits the
scope of life to one or two major issues.
role: Primary beingness or basic characteristic of Essence. In this
universe, Essence chooses one of the following seven roles from
which to experience its lessons when it undertakes a circle of
experience: Server, Priest, Artisan, Sage, Warrior, King or Scholar.
Sage: One of the seven roles Essence can choose to use for an
entire circle of experience. The exalted role on the expressive axis.
Sages express, entertain and disseminate information.
Saturn body type: The body type which emphasizes the anterior
pituitary gland. Characterized by prominent bone structure, patience
and reliability. Classic type: Uncle Sam, Abraham Lincoln. The
exalted body type on the inspirational axis.
Scholar: One of the seven roles Essence can choose to use for an
entire circle of experience. The assimilative role. Scholars study and
assimilate knowledge.
self-agape: Love, forgiveness and tolerance for oneself. Learning
self-agape is the first step on the path to agape.
self-deprecation: One of the seven chief feature Essence can
choose to use for a lifetime. The ordinal feature on the inspirational
axis. Fear of inadequacy. Not feeling worthy to have what one

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wants in life.
self-destruction: One of the seven chief features Essence can
choose to use for a lifetime. The ordinal feature on the expressive
axis. Fear of worthlessness. Feeling too unworthy to exist and,
therefore, taking action which could lead to the end of one's
existence.
self-karma: An intense challenge Essence provides for personality
to work on during a lifetime, e.g., a weight problem, poor health or
an inability to have good relationships. Others can be included in the
scenario of a self-karma, but they will not be involved.
self-validation: Verification of lessons or truths for one's own
self. No lesson can be learned without self-verification or validation.
sentient race: A species that has developed the capacity to use the
intellectual part of the Intellectual Center, i.e., they can think about
their ability to think.
separateness: The illusion of the Physical Plane that each Essence
is individual and disconnected instead of a small part of the greater
whole.
septant: A group of seven. This group rarely forms, but when it
does it works on projects which benefit mankind on a large scale.
The seven positions correspond roughly to the seven roles:
Love/Sage; Knowledge/Scholar; Power/Warrior; Compassion/
Server; Eccentric/ Artisan; Integrator/King; and Goad/Priest.
Server: One of the seven roles Essence can choose to use for an
entire circle of experience. The ordinal role on the inspirational axis.
Servers nurture and care for others and inspire individual love and
affection.
seven year cycles: Essence reaches a new stage of lessons every
seven years on the Physical Plane. These cycles correspond
generally to changes in the physical body.
sextant: A group of six. After quadrants, sextants are the next most
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the Board of Directors of a large corporation. The six positions are

Love, Knowledge, Power, Compassion, Eccentric and Integrator.
sexual karma: The most obvious and intense type of karma. Two
people are obsessively drawn into intense sexual desire for each
other, irrespective of mutual interests or admiration. "Falling in
love," in its most popularized form.
skeptic: One of the seven attitudes Essence can choose to use for a
lifetime. The ordinal attitude on the expressive axis. Seeing what
"might not be" in life. Believing life should be doubted, questioned
and investigated.
sliding: Using the overleaf on the opposite end of the axis or, in
the case of an assimilative overleaf, using one of the other six
overleaves.
Solar body type: The body type which emphasizes the thymus
gland. Characterized by child-like appearance and frailty. Classic
type: Peter Pan. The assimilative body type.
solid: The quality of being stable, organized and what is
considered to be average and normal. Forming a basis for things that
need structure. Connected to the mainstream of the cosmos.
soul: That part of each individual which continues from life to life;
Essence.
soul levels: Essence's position on the circle of experience. There
are five soul levels or levels of soul perception experienced on the
Physical Plane and seven steps within each level. See soul
perception.
soul perception: The amount of Essence's experience which
personality accesses. At each level of soul perception Essence gains
a wider perspective of the whole. Generally we refer to soul
perception or soul levels on the Physical Plane. The levels of soul
perception experienced on the Physical Plane are Infant, Baby,
Young, Mature and Old.
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for a lifetime. The exalted attitude on the inspirational axis. Seeing

the higher possibilities in life. Looking at what "could be" in life.
stoic: One of the seven attitudes Essence can choose to use for a
lifetime. The ordinal attitude on the inspirational axis. The point of
view that you can deal with whatever life hands you.
stubbornness: One of the seven chief features Essence can choose
to use for a lifetime. The assimilative feature. Fear of new
situations. Putting on the brakes to slow down growth.
submission: One of the seven goals Essence can choose to use
for a lifetime. The ordinal goal on the action axis. Devoting oneself
to the triumph of a cause or another person.
support circle: Essence tends to gather specific other Essences
for help or support during lifetimes on the Physical Plane in 12 basic
positions: Love, Knowledge, Compassion, Mentor, Beauty, Child,
Humor, Discipline, Anchor, Healer, Enlightenment and Muse.
Receiving support is an advanced lesson on the Physical Plane, so
the support circle usually does not coalesce until the Mature cycle.
Eventually Essence gathers a primary and several secondary support
circles.
Tao /dow/: The Infinite Soul. The total consciousness of the
universe. The whole of which we are a part. In Western philosophy,
the Tao is thought of as "God."
task companion: A compatible, productive relationship with
another Essence with whom you perform tasks or work on lessons.
Everyone has at least one task companion.
Transcendental Soul: A representative member of a recombined
entity who takes on a Physical body in order to teach.
Transcendental Souls are not always self-aware, although they do
stand out because of their teaching mission and their orientation
towards group consciousness. Mahatma Gandhi, John the Baptist
and St. Francis of Assisi were all Transcendental Souls.
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move to the third center in order to resolve an issue or lesson. See

centering, parts of centers.
triad: A group of three. This group is best for working on karma
and lessons. The three positions of a triad are affirming, denying
and neutral. These positions can be held by three people, two people
and and issue or one person and two sides of an issue.
true sexuality: Complete combining of 2 or more Essences in
thought, feeling and being. True sexuality is a lesson of the Astral
Plane and is not fully experienced on the Physical Plane.
Truth: One of the three elements of the universe. All there is to
know about everything there is in the universe (Energy).
Corresponds to the Causal and Mental Planes.
universe: a highly structured living organism whose goal is the
accumulation of new experiences that aim toward growth and self-
knowledge. The physical and finite manifestation of the Tao.
Hypothetically, other universes exist that obey different laws than
those described by the Michael Teaching.
Uranus body type/influence: One of the three secondary body
influences. Governed by the gonads. Unusual and inventive.
Venusian body type: The body type which emphasizes the
parathyroids. Characterized by being full-bodied, voluptuous, warm
and loving. Classic type: Boticelli's Venus. The ordinal body type
on the action axis.
Warrior: One of the seven roles Essence can choose to use for an
entire circle of experience. The ordinal role on the action axis.
Warriors take action and organize life.
Young Soul: The third of the five ages of soul perception
experienced on the Physical Plane. Young Souls are oriented
towards success. They see themselves as the ultimate authority. This
soul age is the most enmeshed in the illusion of the Physical Plane.

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 Appendix

For Further Information...

Once you have been introduced to the Michael Teaching, it is

natural to want to discover exactly how you fit into this system and
how to contact other people who are familiar with it. A personal,
channeled reading with Michael in which you can ask any questions
pertaining to yourself, your relationships or the world-at-large can
be very helpful. You can receive valuable insight into your past
lives, your life plan and what your lessons are in your relationships,
your career and your personal life. Many people find this to be a
highly rewarding experience.
But how do you go about finding a Michael channel? The
following organizations can direct you to a variety of resources in
the Michael community.

The Michael Educational Foundation was formed in 1984 by

JP Van Hulle and Aaron Christeaan to expand public awareness of
the Michael Teaching. Its purpose is to provide consistent, high-
quality information as a resource which will assist people in their
personal development. The Foundation also serves as a nexus of
individuals who come together seeking a grounded and practical
philosophy to guide them on their life paths. M.E.F. serves this

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purpose by disseminating information in seminars, groups and

private sessions, as well as publishing books, tapes and videos.
You may contact the Michael Educational Foundation at P.O. Box
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About the Authors...

The Authors (left to right): Aaron Christeaan, JP Van Hulle, M.C.

Clark

Aaron Christeaan, a healer, educator and Sage, draws on his

background in art and psychology to bring fresh meaning to the
concepts presented in the Michael system. He is a fully accredited
Michael channel who gives private readings as well as teaches
seminars and groups.

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JP Van Hulle, a Bay Area native, is a teacher, seminar leader,

private consultant, author, channel and Warrior. She and her
husband, Aaron Christeaan, founded the Michael Educational
Foundation in 1984. She is considered one of the leading experts on
the Michael Teaching.

M.C. Clark, a native Californian, writer and Sage, graduated

from the University of California at Berkeley in 1975. She
discovered the Michael Teaching in 1982 when she became involved
with a Michael group. Since April, 1985 she has been editor-in-chief
and publisher of The Michael Connection.

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 Back issues of The Michael Connection
The Michael Connection, a magazine by and for Michael students, was published
from 1985 through 1989. Each issue contains an in depth look at the basics of the
Michael Teaching, plus articles of interest to Michael students and all others in the
metaphysical community. The following back issues are available.
April/May ‘85: Summer 1987:
1st issue. Articles on self-validation, re- The expressive goals: Acceptance and Dis-
gression guidance. Sade Evolution through Essence con-
June/July '85: ac
What is the Michael Teaching? Michael in Fall 1987:
Amarillo, Texas. The inspirational goals: Growth and Re-
August/September ‘85: Sey Michael Speaks on the Infinite
Featuring Essence Twins. ou
October/November ‘85: Winter 1987:
Featuring healers, healing techniques. The action goals: Dominance and Submis-
December '85/January ‘86: sion. Michael Speaks on the Harmonic Con-
Featuring acknowledgements, "How To Tell vergence
Others About the Michael Teaching." Spring 1988:
February/March ‘86: The neutral goal: Stagnation. State of the
All about walk-ins, contacting Essence Planet, 1988. Old Soul Ethics, part 1.
through meditation. Summer 1988:
April/May '86: The inspirational modes: Passion and Re-
1st Anniversary issue, featuring Warriors. pression. Old Soul Ethics, part 2. Life Quad-
June/July '86: rant Positions.
Featuring Artisans. Dune Planet, part 1. Fall 1988:
"How to Achieve Intimacy," part 1. The expressive modes: Power and Cau-
August/September ‘86: tion. Healing with Humor. Origins of the
Featuring Servers. Dune Planet, part 2. Orinda Michael Group.
"How to Achieve Intimacy," part 2 Winter 1988:
October/November ‘86: The action modes: Aggression and Perse-
Featuring Scholars. "Your Body and Your verance. Self-karma. The support circle.
Health" (part 1). Fatherhood. Spring 1989:
December'86/January ‘87: The neutral mode: Observation. State of
Featuring Sages. "Your Body and Your the Planet, 1989. Michael on sexuality.
Health" (part 2). Gemstones. Introducing the Summer 1989:
Teaching. The inspirational attitudes: Spiritualist and
February/March '87: Stoic. Jose Stevens on prosperity.
Featuring Priests. "The Difference between Fall 1989:
Men and Women." The world in 1987. The expressive attitudes: Idealist/Skeptic.
April/May '87: Spiritual Causes/Physical Ills, Part 1. How to
Featuring Kings. Romance. "Being Male or relax.
Female in this Society or Others."
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 Essence Role ‘Tapes
Your Role reflects your deepest essence. However, it can be obscured by who you think you ought to be.

Here are some statements that reflect styles of being in the world. You may identify with more than
one of them. This can be because you were conditioned in childhood to be a way that is different from
who you truly are. What we are looking for is who you are beneath the social fabric or veneer.

By listening to these tapes you will learn about yourself and how to relate to other roles more
effectively and compassionately. By listening to more than just your own Role Tape you will learn to
recognize and understand the roles of your friends and loved ones.

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Thate to have my communication misunderstood. I often feel a strong urge to tell people what I sce is best
I love to have the last word. for them.
I secretly (or not sosecretly) love to be on stage andto be My spiritual path is of higher importance to me than
noticed. my relationships or material needs.
1 often mentally correct others’ communication, Sometimes I get pretty zealous in my efforts to set
whether written or verbal. others on the right path.
I have a little voice in my head that almost never ® I feel responsible for the spiritual guidance of my
shuts up. “flock",even if I am not a minister.
Iam renowned for my wit and sense of humor. @ [have a natural ability to see where people are
People can't really hide the truth from me, If there is blocked and I have the urge to save them from
some juicy new gossip around, I won't feel comfortable themselves.
until I've heard the details. @ Compassion is the force that motivates me to relate to
the world.
Warrior $20.00 @ My friends consider me to be an inspiration to them,
1 like to get things organized. even if I'm not sure why.
I don't mind taking charge of situations to get results. 2
The one thing that really makes me furious is an attack King $20.00
on my principles - even an unwitting one. @ [like to be the person who is put in a leadership
I get so focused in one direction that I sometimes do not position or ultimately responsible for a project.
see the side path. @ [like to grasp the big picture and then deligate chores
When people irritate me they see my sword come out. to see that everything is accomplished.
I will quietly but relentlessly work toward something! | I don't stop until I've really mastered what I'm
know is right. attempting.
I know I'm basically a strong person, and I am quick to @ | get frustrated if I cannot do something perfectly the
defend the weak and innocent. first time.
@ Jam responsible for the action flowing smoothly in
Server $20.00 whatever situation I'm in.
1 like to work behind the scenes making sure that @ When things go wrong,
thebuck ultimately stops here.
everything runs smoothly. @ Jam only interested in "A" experiences, "A minus" is
Nurturing people is what inspires me most in life. not quite enough.
Sometimes | feel trapped in a caretaking role.
1 like to quietly wees situations to make other Scholar $20.00
people happy. @ 1am innately curious and love to study what interests
I frequently perform little services that go unnoticed me.
I love to take care of people and see tho it that they @ 1am known for being objective, and I make agood
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@ 1 don't like important information to slip away
Artisan $20.00 unrecorded.
lam most stimulated by inventing and remodelling, @ People value my opinion because they know that I can
I love to influence the mood or flavor of what's going see any point of view objectively and fairly,
one: oe! nave an inne compulsion to experiment and risk for
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People see me as artistic and doing things with an
unusual flair.
Ilike to invent things in my mind that have never been $20.00 EACH
thought of before.
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