7 Spheres of Awareness
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Today's quote sent from the Michael Entity Twitter Account:
"Tao, by extension Essence, experiences more love when what is created (Personality) seeks creator rather than creator imposing on the life."
comes from the following article, originally published in April of 2002.
I'm experimenting with the idea of posting the quotes here so you can always see the original context, if any, but I don't want to keep doing this if no one is really getting anything out of it, so let me know if this is something you enjoy.
ORIGINAL TRANSCRIPT:
04/04/02
Seven Spheres of Awareness of Essence
Hello to all of you. We are here. We understand the topic to be "7 Spheres of Awareness of Essence." We will share what we can in regard to this within the time available.
As many of you are aware, the Physical Plane is not the only Plane of existence. The Personality only exists within the Physical Plane, along with the Physical Body, while Essence exists to some degree in all Planes "at once." In any given lifetime, the Personality is capable of gaining awareness of its own Essence in varying circles of awareness. A Soul Age or Essence Role or Overleaves do not limit the Sphere of Awareness, though it can be said that these things contribute to the ease or challenge of gaining awareness. The oldest soul may have a particularly difficult lifetime that inhibits awareness, while a younger soul may find blissful connection to Essence on all levels. It is the choice of Personality as to whether it wishes to have a connection to Essence on a conscious level and to what degree.
Essence NEVER imposes itself on its Personality. The Personality is too valuable for that kind of relationship. Essence needs the Personality as an extension of itself to explore and learn from the Physical Plane. Essence cannot exist fully where you are incarnated without a body of some sort. For that reason, Essence allows the Personality to seek Essence as Personality sees fit, though Essence is ever watchful and loving to each version of Personality within the Physical Plane. Though Essence is not as attached to the Physical Plane as a Personality, Essence still finds great empathy and ever-growing love for each Personality.
The Tao, and by extension the Essence, finds it to be a far more loving relationship to have what is created seek the creator, rather than the creator enforcing itself on the life.
As Personality and the Body grows within each lifetime, it must "re-remember" all of its Soul Levels and Ages and regain that level of consciousness and perspective all over again. It is stored in the Instinctive Center exactly where you are in your development as Essence, but each new Body must regain consciousness as a means to house the perspective of Essence. Some may or may not reach the previous level of Soul Age.
It is perfectly possible to have a Young Soul lifetime wherein the fragment is technically an Old Soul, depending on several factors in Personality. The difference is that each Soul Level has its capacity to gain up to and through all 7 Spheres of Awareness. It could easily be said that these Spheres of Awareness are the Levels WITHIN the Soul Levels.
The 7 Internal Monads could be said to be the process of INTERNAL rites of passage toward moving through a Soul Level, while the 7 Spheres of Awareness may be said to be the EXTERNAL process of moving through a Soul Level. Both must be completed and experienced within as many lives as it takes before moving to a new Soul Level.
The 7 Spheres of Awareness then could be described as follows:
Sphere One: This is the simplest Sphere of Awareness. This Sphere is basic to any Sentient Being. This is self-awareness on the most rudimentary and mechanical level. You are aware you are alive; that you must feed yourself; that you must protect yourself; that you must interact with life. Sphere One is the most separated, narrow, and isolated of all Spheres of Awareness. There is no real concept of "spirit" or anything more than what is immediately tangible. This would extend into areas of "love" and other such intangible experiences.
The fragment perceiving from within this Sphere merely does what it needs to do to survive and to gain the next experience.
This fragment usually experiences life solely from the Negative Poles of the Personality and rejects all forms of intervention for helping raise its awareness. There is an absolute disconnection from all life forms around this fragment. It is hard for them to even understand the "point of living."
Sphere Two: This is the Sphere wherein you get a glimpse of life through the Positive Poles of your Overleaves. You gain a bit of awareness as to what your Essence is like, even if not fully defined. You decide you must have a soul. That much is at least considered to be possible.
This Sphere of Awareness begins to expand beyond the limitations of the Body and into the realms of possibilities. Imagination becomes more harnessed for creativity, rather than fear and protection, as in Sphere One, and the fragment begins to consider his dreams along with other concepts that are not tangible, yet acknowledged as experienced. It is a Sphere in which the fragment begins to consider his relationship with himself as more than a machine, but a BEING.
Sphere Three: Expanding beyond the Spheres previous to this, Sphere Three allows the fragment to begin to consider the intangibilities between it and others, not just within. The fragment begins to long for and seek deeper intimacy.
This Sphere is marked with the awareness that other fragments share a history with you that extends beyond the current life and Personality, even if this is not quite understood. The relationship to Time begins to change and there is less emphasis on it as a constraint, but rather as a convenience.
Sphere Four: This is the Sphere of Awareness that brings a fragment to the reality its own Past Selves to-date. The fragment becomes capable of acknowledging wisdom gained from outside the confines of the current life and allows influences from Past and Future Lives alike.
This Sphere finds Personality capable of recognizing patterns in the life and the life of others, enabling the fragment to envision probable futures as they are created or as were planned before the life.
The fragment begins to realize that the Personality focused on at any given moment does not diminish the reality of MANY versions of that same Personality across Parallel Universes created by Essence to house all of the choices possible.
This is the Sphere that the fragment truly has the capability for channeling, healing, directing energy, and using psychic tools.
(We will note here that ALL Spheres are capable of Intuition, which is simply the extension and combination of physical senses. True psychic awareness, though, is not the same thing.)
Sphere Four is the first time a fragment discovers a true relationship between the Personality and the life and finds a deep sense of trust and safety as the life unfolds.
Sphere Five: This is the Sphere in which you begin to see others as extensions of yourself. It is profoundly realized that the helping of others to resolve their own troubles will also contribute to you own lessons on many levels.
This Sphere brings with it the realization and awareness that the Personality is a temporary and a beautiful “child” of Essence.
A strange double awareness will be experienced here, wherein the trials and challenges of the life indulged in, while maintaining a consistent awareness through the perspective of Essence that “all is well”.
Sphere Six: This is the Sphere of Awareness that brings with it the realization that the Universe has an awesome structure that can be understood. A new, consistent relationship to what might be called "spirit" then develops. You begin to recognize the "signatures" of different spiritual families, or Entities, and find the lifetime heavily focused on what might be called "the path." This "path" will be, of course, defined and created by the individual fragment, but a deep recognition that ALL are on variations of similar paths will be incorporated into the life.
This is the first time the Fragment begins to recognize the value of life in other species beyond itself. Energy and life force, as expressed in all its forms, begins to become deeply important to the fragment to be in harmony with. While the Fifth Sphere allows the fragment to see other fragments as extensions of self, the Sixth Sphere will build on this and find this extends to animals outside the realm of that fragment's own Sentient Species. The fragment profoundly grasps that other beings are capable of relative fear and have relative emotional lives, too.
From this Sphere a deep longing for what might be called "home" begins to motivate the life.
Sphere Seven: This is the Sphere wherein the fragment finally grasps how to use all of the tools of the Body, the Physical Plane, and the Personality and finds the life unfolding, changing, and being created in profoundly acceptable ways.
ALL limitations of the lifetime are found to be acceptable, while all of the possibilities are recognized as well.
There is no division between Essence and Personality in any way. All Levels of Soul Age gained to that point are used effectively and appropriately.
This is the Sphere where it is difficult to find anything ugly about life. A childlike innocence is regained and everything becomes new and fun again, without fear of anything. We include the "fear of fear" in that statement. Sphere Seven allows Fear as a tool appropriately. If fear is experienced, it is recognized as simply part of everything that is wondrous about the life.
There are, of course, far more detailed descriptions of each Sphere of Awareness available, but we share this for you within the time frame available here. What we have shared should allow for adequate consideration.
<> Can one be aware and functioning on several Spheres at once, i.e., I resonate with Spheres three through seven, I feel as if I've been there and living these Spheres, or is your essence setting up these stages to bring them to your awareness so that when you get there it feels like home.
Different Spheres of Awareness may be present within different contexts of your life. For instance, you may have Sphere 3 Awareness when in relationships, while having Sphere 4 in your Career. Your Awareness will fluctuate throughout the lifetime and you will recognize different time frames having different Spheres of Awareness as well. Although you progress through the lifetime to gain Spheres of Awareness, you will move "up and down" through the Spheres as relative to your experiences.
Sphere One, for example, will ALWAYS be available in any lifetime. It is the Sphere of the heaviest of Karmic relationships. A fragment may have reached the Sphere Seven of Awareness in a lifetime, but a ribbon of Karma may be chosen to burn and the Awareness will then constrict to Sphere One as it is dealt with.
<> What is meant by "to find other animals outside the realm of that fragments sentience"?
In your case, the Awareness would begin to include strong resonance and recognition to beings who are NON-human. The recognition may only begin with the recognition of other ensouled beings, such as Cetacean and Gorillas, but eventually would include those beyond that.
<> How do we regain consciousness, and open this instinctive center to better communicate with essence?
In the interest of using the time available efficiently through this channel, we will say we have answered this question in other chats. These transcripts would be available through Troy or his web site. Troy, or other students, will direct you to those detailed responses. There are different ways each Essence Roles may find to open connections to Essence.
<> If you advance through a soul age level within a life - say Old 3 to Old 4, do you start again at Sphere 1 of awareness and 'lose' the previous awareness, or do you overlap and keep that awareness and start over. How does that work?
These are rare and interesting lifetimes when a fragment transitions within a lifetime without taking on a new body. The Older Soul finds this process to be less confusing, but still have a great deal of challenge in this shifting. When a transition of Soul Age or a Soul Level occurs within a lifetime, yes, the Personality will undergo a great change in some way, even if only over a brief period of time. Considering that the Body will have not lost its memory, it is quite possible to regain those Spheres of Awareness within minutes.
There is a process that occurs for those who move Soul Levels within a lifetime. We refer to that experience as an Octave Ending/Beginning, and would be another topic in itself. But to simplify the response, since the Body will not have been replaced, the evolution through the Monads and the Awareness Spheres will not have been lost when entering the new Soul Level.
<> I thought 6 level was the heaviest level of karmic payback and most psychic not 1or 4.
You are comparing the 6th Level of a Soul Age to the 6th Sphere of Awareness of Essence. They are completely different contexts. When in the 6th Level of a Soul Age, depending on the Soul Age, the lifetime may be submerged in Sphere One of Awareness or not. We realize English is a bit limited in our choices for describing progressions and evolution. We suggest that similar terms do not mean the same thing, necessarily, when in different context.
For most Older Souls, Sphere Five of Awareness is quite common when experiencing the 6th Level of Soul Age. This allows for the life to be lived consciously, while still being free to indulge in the Karma.
<> Therefore essence awareness lags soul age.
It may help to think of the Spheres of Awareness as being angles of perception toward an experience. In other words, as Awareness progresses, you move from only Personality experiencing, to Essence AND Personality being present for the experience.
We are open to suggestions for more appropriately naming these 7 Spheres. And yes, Awareness Spheres may exceed or "lag" behind Soul Age, but eventually Awareness on the 7th Sphere must be reached as a means to move to the next Soul Level.
<> Please expand on the "true relationship between personality and the life" as mentioned in Sphere four.
It is the first time a fragment may consider that life happens FROM them, rather than TO them. It is the first time a fragment may realize that he or she may not only being learning how to choose, but also choosing how to learn.
Diet, Awareness, Consciousness, and Soul Age
Reading time: 10 - 16 minutes
Recently I posted from the MichaelEntity twitter account a quote that raised some questions from a couple of students. The quote was:
"one's choice in diet reveals more about the level of consciousness, manifested soul age, and body/mind harmony than any other daily choice"
The reaction from a couple of students was that this "wasn't Michael." With some elaboration, it was explained that "Michael doesn't take such moral stances of judgment." I was very surprised by that reaction because I didn't read or interpret the quote as anything more than Michael's usual, flat statements of information.
The students and I were limited in our exchanges with each other, so I was left to presume that some took this statement from Michael to be some kind of judgmental reflection of some kind of range of hierarchy between the eating of animals versus the abstaining from eating animals. That's the only thing I can think of that would be seen as a "moral stance of judgment."
Now, most of us who have worked with Michael for any length of time will know that any moralistic stance from Michael would be a clear sign that the information was no longer from Michael. I've never heard Michael take a stance on any issues that I am passionate about, nor have I heard Michael take a stance for anyone else's passionate investments. So if a student "hears" in the statement above a moralistic stance supporting vegetarianism, I can understand why they scoffed. But in all the years I have been passionate about animal rights and vegetarian/veganism, I have never found Michael to "side" with my passion about that subject. They see a much bigger picture than I do, and they are able to grasp the nature of life and the universe in a way that is detached, but not apathetic.
A lot of students turn to a passage from one of the early Yarbro books where someone asked about whether there was some kind of spiritual superiority in not eating animals, and Michael basically said, "no." [if you find the quote, please post it in the comments.] Other times, students quote "all is choice" as a way to show that Michael has no statement about whether to eat animals, or not.
The fact is, Michael has never said that either eating animals or not eating animals is one better than the other, and it's true that Michael emphasizes that to eat meat or not eat meat, one way or the other, is our choice. But what some students fail to consider in the full library of information offered by Michael is that they say the same thing about murder, rape, violence, child abuse, war, etc. They don't have any judgments about the superiority of one person who murders or rapes over one who doesn't, and they emphasize that to do any of those things is our choice.
They also clearly describe an evolution of our capacity for compassion and awareness to a degree that makes participation in murder, rape, child abuse, and war less and less appealing and that those acts do not serve us very well in our older Soul Ages. The more aware we are, the more empathy we gain, and the more empathy, the more our capacity for compassion, and the more our capacity for compassion, the less appealing any kind of harmful act.
That evolution of consciousness doesn't mean we can't choose to murder, rape, kill animals, or war, and it doesn't mean that Michael has an opinion about any of these matters. It just means exactly what Michael says, that evolution of consciousness tends to include an ever-increasing circle of awareness and compassion, and this eventually does extend to species beyond our own. For a lot of people, that compassion and sensitivity translates into actively making choices that help to alleviate as much pain and suffering as possible for ourselves and other species. They've also elaborated upon the fact that while there is no "morality" in the higher scheme of things, there is a sort of "cosmic ethics" that is eventually comprehended, which includes the awareness of how our choices affect ourselves and others; otherwise, there wouldn't be any Karma. They have also commented through channels from the original group to the present channels, that as the soul ages, the move away from animals as a primary resource is a common counterpart to our evolving consciousness. They don't describe that as any kind of superiority, but as a common side-effect of expanding our capacity to care.
So while the quote I posted doesn't make a judgment, and doesn't speak to vegetarianism or veganism, it does speak to the degree of awareness and compassion we evolve in making our choices of what we eat, and that this eventually expands our concern from just the health of our bodies to the health of our bodies as part of the health of our planet.
Below is the original transcript from where I pulled the quote. As you will see, there's no mention of what to eat, just a map of how we eat, and that this can reflect where we are in our level of consciousness and health.
Question: "Michael, you have said that we have to sort of regain our consciousness in every lifetime since it's always a new body that has to adapt to our Essence, and that even if we are an Old Soul, we have to work through each Soul Age as part of growing up. That's why we have a 'manifested soul age' and our 'technical soul age." Are there tell-tale ways we can see where we are in our personal level of awareness and return to manifesting our true Soul Age?"
MICHAEL:
We would first clarify that a Body, or Personality, does not have to do anything more than live, if it chooses to do so. If the Personality/Body choose to embrace the validity of a soul, then it can participate in an accelerated gaining of awareness that matches Essence's level of awareness at the time. It is a misnomer that this would be a "regaining" of consciousness, since this Body/Personalty would have never existed before, and therefore has nothing to regain. Personality/Body can gain, or evolve, in consciousness, either on its own, or at an accelerated pace when Essence is embraced. If the Body/Personality were not capable of doing this on its own, then progress for Essence would be made quite complicated, since Essence's evolution greatly depends on the experiences gathered and comprehended by Personality. Essence can evolve between lifetimes or within lifetimes, but if evolution were only possible between lives, and Personality was not capable of evolving on its own, then the concepts of Soul Age, Agreements, Karma, etc would have little relevance or consistency. As Essence evolves, so does its capacity for creating a Personality/Body that is more inclined to work well with the dynamic of Essence and the intentions of the lifetime, but this can never be guaranteed. At any Soul Age a Personality/Body can go "rogue," if you will, and this is not avoided. Some of the most fascinating experiences can be gained for Essence through a Personality that rejects Essence.
If one were to look for how one is doing in terms of levels of awareness/consciousness, Soul Age manifestation, and Body/Mind harmony, one of the clearest statements is in the way one eats. As long as one has a choice in the matter, then one's choice in diet reveals more about the level of consciousness, manifested soul age, and body/mind harmony than any other daily choice. This is because it is a choice that must be made daily, even multiple times a day, and a choice that must be made over and over by the Body/Personality is a choice that can reveal a great deal about consciousness. There are other choices that must be made every day, but eating is one that is universal if one is a Body/Personality, regardless of who you are, or where one is, or what one is doing. Eating is the single, most-immediately relevant form of nurturing one can do for the Body, and the focus of that nurturing is synonymous with one's level of consciousness, and by extension, can indicated one's Soul Age manifestation, and Body/Mind harmony (health).
We use the term "Mind" here to describe the cohesion of all components of Personality and its use of Chakras/Centers, which could be said to be the spectrum between False and True Personality. Since it is Personality who nurtures the Body, the degree to which one is False or True in Personality can easily be seen in how the Personality treats its own Body. It is not uncommon for there to be a skew between the Mind and Body, since it is rare to live only as True Personality, but the more habitually one is in False Personality, the less likely one would be nurturing to the self, and the more likely the state of the Body would reflect this in accidents, illness, or chronic conditions.
The spectrum of eating as it reflects consciousness is rather simple, and is consistent with what you might understand as relevant to Soul Ages. As with everything, there is a Positive and Negative end of the spectrum for each. In addition, each level can be healthy or unhealthy. The health of the Body includes the Physical, Emotional, and Intellectual bodies, so the more one is eating from the negative, the more likely those bodies are divided, in conflict, or out of balance.
The older one's Soul Age, the more levels will be recognizable below as having been a part of ones own life at various times. Keep in mind that these levels identified below as ranging from Infant to Old do not describe a progression of good to bad, healthy to unhealthy, anymore than Infant Soul Age is better than Old Soul Age. Within each level there are the polarities that can reflect the degree of Mind/Body harmony.
However, the greater the gap between the technical Soul Age and the manifested Soul Age, the more likely that gap reflects a lack of nurturing of the Body so that the Personality/Body, which affects awareness and consciousness. Also, the older the soul, the less static the spectrum below will be, and one might find oneself reflecting a nurturing of negativity on some instances, and a positive level of nurturing in others.
INFANT: Nurturing mainly through food
Positive: Eating to live
Negative: Living to eat
This could be likened to the constantly-foraging animal whose days or nights are spent simply in the search for food. If one is eating to live, or living to eat, one is probably working through Infant Levels of consciousness and Soul Age.
BABY: Nurturing mainly through familiarity
Positive: eating that honors nostalgia
Negative: eating that defends tradition
If one only eats what one has learned is acceptable and familiar, either for nostalgic or traditional reasons, then one is probably working through Baby Levels of consciousness and Soul Age.
YOUNG: Nurturing through satisfaction
Positive: eating for pleasure
Negative: eating to indulge
If one eats whatever one wants, mainly to satisfy oneself, either for pleasure, or for indulgence to fulfill addictions, cravings, habits, specialness, or image issues, regardless of consequence or impact beyond that personal satisfaction, then one is probably working through Young Levels of consciousness and Soul Age.
MATURE: Nurturing through empathy
Positive: eating to increase sensitivity
Negative: eating to display superior group alliance
If one eats with empathy, either through the sensitivity of impact and consequence of food choices on the Body and beyond the Body, or through the need to display superior group alliance, one is probably working through Mature Levels of consciousness and Soul Age. The planet is now entering into a general Mature level of nurturing that encourages empathy in both positive and negative ways.
OLD: Nurturing through adaptability
Positive: eating to increase holism
Negative: eating to resign
If one eats with the awareness that nurturing through food, familiarity, satisfaction, and empathy all play a part in the day-to-day diet, then one will do so through adaptability to the various nutritional needs and desires of the Body and Personality, either through the awareness that life, nostalgia, pleasure, and sensitivity all contribute to a global and local sum that is greater than all of its parts, so to speak, or through sedation of the Body and Personality as a means to resign from the overwhelm of considering the bigger picture that one knows one has glimpsed or has been exposed to.
If one is an Old Soul, then the ultimate form of nurturing, the greatest degree of harmony between the Body and Mind, the manifestation of Old Soul consciousness, would be found in the holistic diet. This simply means that one combines all of the positive poles in a way that each form of nurturing is supported as one needs or desires so as to contribute to an overall state of health and harmony for the Body that is now recognized as part of a larger body. The key to an Old Soul's healthy diet is in his or her willingness to adapt to the variations of life that show up from scarcity to abundance, and still making the most conscious choice possible in that variation, knowing that all of those choices will add up.
If one is an Old Soul and has turned to resignation, this can show up as a combination of eating just to eat, a defense of food routines, a compulsion to challenge or condemn those whose diets are based in compassion and awareness, and a diminishing of the role Sentience plays in the dynamic care taking of life for the individual Body and its larger body.
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