What Is Being and "more"?

Part II

by Lorraine Michaels

July 2003

The Great Divine Director had started out his teaching to Kim and I on God, being and more, suggesting we draw upon our I AM Presence to take us to study with the renowned philosophers of the world in the Great Central Sun.

He said,

“The people of the earth have turned a gruff eye on their [philosophers] works and yet they have still incorporated their knowledge to some degree in the philosophies of your modern times. Philosophers took their ascensions because they embodied the philosophy they teach - they speak from knowledge from within; not without.”

Therein lies the key—we must go within for the knowledge that will bring us our personal victories. We can travel the world around and study the world’s knowledge base, whether from our own computer via the internet, or sit at the feet of the gurus God sends us periodically, or through our self-education in the colleges of the world, but unless we take this knowledge and embody it, outpicture it, we cannot be who we are.

He went on to say:

Embody the I AM Presence - being the part you are outpicturing.

Be who you are: The God flame I AM THAT I AM. The I AM THAT I AM carries all the God flames - yours is unique to you.

The I AM THAT I AM carries a special flame you can embody for the earth. When you are the flame, you can impart it to the earth. Thus being is the God flame in action.

The God flame in action is your I AM Presence acquiring to itself all that you are in the earth.
Therefore, being is a word that means you are a unique God flame in action.

Alpha Therapy - Knowing who you are
Several years ago I was directed by the Brotherhood to take a hypnotherapy training course. I had taken several healing courses and was quite familiar with hypnosis and regression therapy used by many prominent individuals, to great success it had seemed. And yet in the Teachings of the Ascended Masters, hypnosis was not endorsed whatsoever.

I had read Dr. Shakuntala Modi’s book, “Remarkable Healings” which I recommend highly. It is a study on the unsuspected roots of mental and physical illness. She discovers accidentally that while under hypnosis many of her clients were healed. The discovery she made was they had attached to their four lower bodies outside forces that did not belong there: discarnates, entities, and demons. Upon removing these outside forces, they were often immediately free of their prior mental illnesses and diseases.

Some time ago I came across the book, “In Search of Taylor Caldwell” by Jess Stearn, Taylor's past lives under regression. Taylor Caldwell was a prolific writer and wrote such books as "Romance of Atlantis", "Dear and Glorious Physician" and "I, Judas". The Ascended Master’s have told us she, and others like her, have been given the gift of tying into the akashic records to give us keys and all sorts of invaluable information to past civilizations of great light, such as Atlantis. These writers have also shown a teaching and a path and an understanding for each individual soul to find their true roots all the way back to their birth in the heart of the Great Central Sun and then onto their descent into incarnation here on earth.

So in this book, Taylor Caldwell discovers who she is and where she came from. It was said that Taylor Caldwell was the mother of Mary Magdalene and that remarkable story comes out in this book. Mind you, she did not believe in reincarnation, but by the end of this regression work with Jess Stern, she became enlightened to this truth. At the age of 14, she wrote “The Romance of Atlantis” which did not get published until almost 50 years later, but tells the most spell-bounding story of the times of Atlantis.

Many of her books are truly remarkable and have been examined by professional doctors and learned men who claim that she could not possibly have known the information she recorded in her books as the information was not available to laymen such as in “Dear and Glorious Physician”.

I also read another work in “Many Lives, Many Masters” by Brian L. Weiss, M.D. Another story of a prominent psychiatrist, and the past-life therapy that changed both their lives, giving them keys to their being.

So it had been in my consciousness that hypnosis or hypnotherapy has been used for great benefit to the people involved, as well as the readers, such as I, who have discovered remarkable teachings and ancient truths through these activities.

Yet the practice of hypnosis, and that would include regression therapy, was not endorsed by the Ascended Masters. Understanding the spiritual reasons to stay away from hypnosis and mind control that could happen is cause enough to stay away from this therapy. Yet there could be reasons these individuals were helping people and possibly not in any way conscious or subconsciously using mind control with their clients. But all I knew was I was being directed by the same Brotherhood that told us not to partake of hypnosis for any reason, to take a study of hypnotherapy.

I proceeded to pray in earnest as to the truth of this matter. Meanwhile, I looked for what was available and discovered a course in California by an individual who believed in the ascended masters, utilized the concept of the Higher Self, Angels and inner child work.

In the process of meditating with my Higher Self on what I was being inner directed to do and questioning how best to proceed, I discovered that this method was not hypnosis, but actually very similar to what a prominent psychologist on staff at the Summit Lighthouse used. It is a form of meditation that I had personally experienced by the ministers in our inner child workshops. [Today I call this healing work Alpha Therapy, and teach others how to do it in my Inner Communications classes.]

This experience was a pivotal turning point in my life. I took the course over a period of three months. I thought the Brotherhood wanted me to train to do this work to help others, as I was a healing practitioner and wanted to continue to help people with the highest healing methods on the planet.

But the tables were turned, I was healed! I discovered a greater purpose and connection in my being as I touched upon prior lives that came up from my Higher Self. While in training and practicing with others, I was taken to several important issues and shown the purpose I had come to do.

The Brotherhood continued to work with me to fill in the gaps that I didn’t receive in my training. I was given what evolution of God I came from. I was given the outer knowledge of the Great Divine Director as being my twin flame. I was just beginning to understand what twin flames meant beyond the soul twin flames that we had been taught in prior dispensations of the Masters.

I met masters in the inner chamber of my being and my I AM Presence was always there giving me the answers I sought. I saw many things about myself. I felt loved. I felt loving towards myself, forgiving myself for my mishaps and misunderstandings. I was able to let go of so many limiting beliefs about myself, life and people.

This was why the Brotherhood directed me to get this training. This was a prerequisite to being: to know who you are and where you came from. And this was one method that helped to discover these important keys to being who you. It is your foundation on earth of Being God because you connect with your beginnings, the God flame that you are.

Being a Martyr
One example of something that I was able to let go of after discovering my Real Self was martyrdom. I was a closet martyr and I had been that way my entire life. It started as a young child and from my earliest memories, so it was not created by something that happened to me in this life. But I was driven by it nevertheless.

Each night before I went to sleep, and that was every night, not just occasionally, I would create a story in my mind. The story would be similar to heroine stories of Victorian novels, which I discovered as a young adult and took to reading them to create the stories for me. But the story was always the same theme with many different characters over the years. But I was always maligned, hurt, accused and mistreated in some manner. And the goal was to be "found" at some part in the story ending, to be innocent of the character assassination that occurred against me. But I always fell asleep before the ending. In later years the novels always had the heroine redeemed of her innocence, but it was never enough. As soon as the one novel was finished I hungered for the next story.

This is a typical mindset that has no ending. I never understood what I was doing. But it is the same as one who is caught in a nightmare that they live over again and again that never seems to end in the finish that would set the victim free from the nightmare.

So I lived this way for thirty years. No one knew my hidden nightmare that I lived a thousand times over, always needing to recreate it.

It was not until I started my healing practice that I discovered the word "martyr" connected with myself. Frankly, I immediately turned it down as fallacy. But one day while listening to a Masters' dictation, I immediately awoke to the reality of my martyrdom activity. I saw completely the trap I had created and lived my entire life. And I made a vow to give up that behavior and I did.

But it was not until years later that I connected with why this happened. During my Alpha Therapy training, I was taken by my Higher Self back to glimpses of scenes from prior lives. I had asked to discover why I was always being condemned and maligned for things I did not do. I asked what was my past karma causing this? But scene after scene did not show me karma, but a self-created life again and again. No matter how far back, I could not find a physical thing I had done to deserve this mistreatment.

I finally asked my Self, "Why was this happening? What had I done to deserve this?" And my God Self replied, "You wanted this." He then told me that I wanted to serve God and I hoped that by taking on suffering, in any manner, that I would teach people compassion.

This was a shock to me. I looked back over my present life and I saw this behavior. I also saw that I did not want this anymore. And I prayed to God to take this from me. I realized that my suffering in those past scenes I was shown had not changed but a handful of people at the most - if any. I was suffering needlessly in many cases.

This was not who I was or who God created me to be. And coming to this realization with the visions that I was shown, as well as my Higher Self giving me the knowledge of what I was doing, I was able to let this entire pattern go.

Why would someone create such a pattern to begin with? I saw this in many clients that I worked with over the years. Some chose to get karmicly tied to individuals because they wanted to save them. Some because they felt they owed others and even gave them their soul, or portions of it to help them.

None of these types of behavior are God Being through us. They are imitations of our wanting to be, because we are unable to be who we really are. They simply fall away from us when we return to being who we are. They disappear as unnecessary creations by our soul seeking to become more of God and yet actually we are becoming less.

Knowing who God Is
The next step in being, is knowing who God Is. So after I had done this inner work, the Great Divine Director started helping me understand the next step, under-standing who God is.

He took us into this concept by confounding us in our old belief system that was created from religious philosophy based on part truth and part fiction. He told us:

There is more to being than God intended, therefore being is love endowed with Spirit and set free to be more than it is. God is more than love.

So we understand that we have come to earth to be the more. When we ascend back to God, we bring the individualized God flame in the I AM Presence, with the more, back to God.

Continuing, he asked us a series of questions and the “A” below signifies our answers.

What is God?
A: God Is.

Think again. What is God in form?
A: Everything.

No, he is not. God Is. [in everything]

What is God outside of form? (We tried to describe God as we knew Him. But does anyone really know?)

You can describe God if you think you can because words are God in action. [So we cannot describe God with words. God is beyond words. But we always try. But God will always be more. He cannot be contained by our mere words, although they are God through us trying to express being. The Word is God but more. The Word is a part of God and not the complete God. Therefore an incomplete cannot describe a complete.]

Now describe God outside of form.
Would he be Light?
A. No.
Would he be Spirit?
A. No.
Would he be consciousness?
A. No.
Would he be energy?
A. No.

If he was pure being would that being come from anywhere?
A. We answered that we understand God to be like a cosmic egg, expanding and contracting, but no beginning and no end.

So if he has no beginning and no end, where did God come from?
A: God just Is.
If God Is, where did Is come from?
A: From Is?

Wrong. There is no is in God. There is only being. Being comes from where?
A: Being is God.

Being is not God alone. Being is a manifestation of God belonging to himself. Therefore, God is being without form or action. It is alone the aspect of Light coalescing into Being that creates Is.

Is your head swimming yet? Ours was. We had never thought of the more through us. I had always believed God was everything and everything came from God. So that was the “is” concept we both had. That God was everything. But that "is" was from in the world of form, and here we were being asked to understand God Is in formlessness. Our minds were being stretched from the limiting concepts of human perception to the God consciousness and more.

The Great Divine Director continued:

God is a formless Being without any predisposition to be anything and yet everything.

Can you see that you have created an idea that God is a Being of formlessness endowed with consciousness, light, energy, love, wisdom, power and yet you know not what God Is, because you see him with your mind instead of with your heart?

Go in the heart and experience God through being that aspect of God individualized. Now you see God in what he is through you rather than what you see him as outside of you.

Take this knowledge and go find God in yourselves.

That which you are you will never be unless you think you are.

Do you see what he was teaching us? We had conceived the idea that God was something outside of ourselves i.e. love, power, light, or energy. Where had we taken the time to consider that God was ourselves? Yes, we thought we could manifest aspects of God in these things as love and power, we could move energy and maximize light in our temples, but was that not just a part of God that was working through us or that we garnered to us for use?

Where was God in this picture? Who was God and why did he create us? Were we not different from the animals of this world, endowed with consciousness that was God? If we aligned ourselves with this consciousness of God, would we then not know God in ourselves? What has kept us from knowing God?

I am not talking about our I AM Presence here. The Presence is a portion of God individualized with all the potential power of the whole of God and all the other attributes we associate with God. But what we are talking about here is God, the Creator of all things, the source of the One, the Almighty I AM THAT I AM. The image of this Being sitting on a throne in some Central Sun of this Cosmic Egg of God is to some degree rightly so. God, in all his purest essence, Is at the heart of himself and we cannot know him and see him in all that he Is, for we would be consumed by him.

We are in the world of form and far from that perfection that he is. But does that change the fact of who we are or where we came from? There is one place in the center of your being that is a replica of God in the center of his being - our sacred hearts. Here we may be. Here we may be One with him. Here we can be in the consciousness of God and here Is God in us.

Where we are in consciousness aligns us either with Being or not Being. Choose this day whom you will serve—the not-self of the carnal mind, the dweller-on-the-threshold, the anti-Christ or do we choose to serve God in Being the Christ, embodying the Word and oneness with God?

We, who have studied the Teachings of the Ascended Masters, know that we are Gods, created in his image and likeness, endowed with the potential to be co-creators with him. We know that we were given the Christ individualized to help us obtain oneness with our I AM Presence. We know that he does not reside in the realm of the finite, but a portion of him is locked in the Secret Chamber of our hearts to go be with whenever we, by free will choice, raise our consciousness out of the finite, into the infinite realm of the consciousness of God.

We have the concepts. We have the truths of God given to us in keys that we only have to look and find in the many Pearls released to us. But how many of us truly believe we are God? Why was it that God has spoken through me many times in giving dictations and not through the messengers Mother or Mark? I certainly was not asking for this in my outer awareness. But the times and cycles have changed from prior dispensations. We are rising now into God consciousness and we must step up to the task. God spoke to the prophets of old, he will do it again today because we have raised our consciousness back up to that God consciousness level.

I never gave it any thought why I heard God in my inner being. But when I did hear him, he would tell me one thing in many ways, "go be". But the more I heard him, the less I heard my Higher Self speak to me. Until one day I realized I did not hear the voice of I AM in me anymore. How could I? That would separate him out from me, I AM HIM! Do you see the goal?

Where God used to speak to me and also Cosmic Beings, they rarely do now. I sometimes receive from the I AM THAT I AM direct guidance and occasionally from a Master. And that is because the goal here is being who you are in God. If you see yourself as outside of God and needing to hear God, a Master or your Higher Self, you are not Being God I AM.

If you see God outside of yourself, he is. If you see the Presence as apart from you, he is. If you hear the masters as Beings of Light over there who are talking to you, they are. But if you know, believe and understand that you are God, is not every part of God, including the ascended hosts, a part of you as well? Are they not walking and talking through you in every moment of the day, if you stay in the consciousness of God?

Today, instead of reaching for the goal of the ascension, we have an opportunity to reach for a higher goal. And that is the gift of life as God. That is a gift I hope everyone reading this can realize. The best gift we have to give back to God is to be who we are and stay on earth in that state of Being God - and then he Is through us, and more! God needs those in embodiment who are willing to be the I AM and will be instrumental in anchoring that I AM to change the consciousness of death on this planet to the consciousness of Life. So be it! I will be who I AM, will you not be with me I AM?

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