Spiritual Freedom

In this moment, we take our littleness. We bow it to the ground, our so-called individuality, it's our ego individuality, and we bow it to the ground, saying "not today." And we rise as free souls. We drop the shackles of thought systems and beliefs of the past and lack and limitation.

We join together to say, "this is our destiny, to be the Christ on earth, to be the presence of God on earth." In this moment, we are so grateful that we are somehow called here, attracted to be in this space to hear one another and support one another in our quest for remembrance.

This is our destiny and we accept it today: peace, freedom, and independence on all levels. And so it is. So when we got started, I had asked people to think of, before we actually started filming, because we've got people watching from all over the world, but I had asked the folks here -- "think about something that you've been able to break free from," right? And it could be small or large kinds of things, but it's important for us to recognize that we have broken free. If we don't, if we don't give thanks and acknowledge the

things where we have let go up successfully let go of then actually there to a degree they're still there because the way the universe works in part is when you say thank you got it goodbye you know some acknowledgement of it's done and so it is or as Jesus puts on the cross it is accomplished that means closure without closure you know how people are with that I haven't had closure without closure to a degree that thing you even thought you got rid of but without that last piece of closure at the rib on it to some degree energetically it

still clings to us you know we have to be responsible about that so I'm going to talk today is about for some of us some countries some places Independence Day fourth of July but obviously I'm not going to do it in the typical mundane kind of conversation when a deepen our understanding of these things before I do I have a couple of things I'm supposed to share for everybody here but also watching online first of all we have our Wednesday night class and I want to emphasize that you can attend in person here or watch online and join us

online but we have a Wednesday night online class and that's it's it's really great because later in the year I'm going to do one more online class after this and that's all but the later class is is going to be a real big surprise so I'll do that later but this one's a great precursor to that but of all the online courses I do the one I'm starting now the seven initiations on the spiritual path is the one that's the most diverse it covers the most topics if you're into metaphysics if you're into you know all like a diversity if

you like an eclectic kind of understanding of how everything works and comes together then that that would be great for you and remember I also have the Friends of Michael Moore dad Facebook page you guys any of you you know you're welcome to join us on that as long as you're a nice person yeah I mean we don't we say it in our in the intro line when you try to get on the site no politics no weirdness just love alright just as we should set those boundaries in our life and if you're watching online be sure to like

us which is kind of funny to say that huh please like us but yeah do that that means something on Facebook or whatever and those who don't know we have a special surprise here you call a Native American master man they'll be here next Sunday I'll be on tour in Florida so be here if you can cuz he's magical and they might be filming that I'm not sure how they're gonna do that but if you're watching from afar you can check him out because he's just fabulous on the other hand if you're in Florida join me at the metaphysical center there

it's a fabulous place in Fort Lauderdale but we'll get to that later we'll post some some ads and a couple last couple things whether you're here or watching online if you've read my books or like them or you've seen them read them online or bought them please this is a new thing we're having to deal with Amazon you got to go on please do some reviews we forget these kinds of things but it really helps Amazon to really understand and connect with this kind of material you know because they they use the Internet to register whether people

like spiritual materials or not and then whether or not they'll support such things so check it out okay and oh one last one I just posted on my friends of Facebook page but I might try to do on one of my other pages but there's a really amazing song too beautiful for this world is the name of it written by Craig Terrell and the musician but he was also one of them Seattle Seahawks football player and I met Terrell and I thought he was really a great soul really good guy and he asked me to perform the wedding for him he and his

beloved back in Seattle and we did I did that for them years ago but he told me about this song he had written and I said well I'd love to hear it but at the same time I'm not you know I have no idea whether this song is gonna be really good or not but I thought well you know I'd love to hear it I'm open to it so he sent me a file of it this is a years ago and man amazing too beautiful for this world and it was about because as a football player he was helping kind of an outreach program and in this case it was a young girl who's gonna pass

away I think cat cancer it just might have been 8 or 10 or something and to hear this big football player talk about how to moved he was and sad and tears in his eyes that this beautiful soul that he was sort of mentoring as you know he's a football player and she's like wow you know and and she passes away but but it wasn't like she just massively he felt it I mean he and he wrote the song I think is perfect for every soul we are too beautiful for this world you know so this little girl Dawei and he was just so sad and moved

and yet in the song he's saying but I understand it's somehow it's gonna be okay but the wording instead of just lost lost loss it's a different angle that there are people that more we're all too beautiful for this world but it's more apparent in some of us than in others and I thought it was a very moving you know way for him to to share those thoughts so by all means whether you go online or his website or Facebook do anything you can because it's been a while since I've thought of the song but some folks post it on my friends page

some neat songs and that's the one that came to mind so if you can check it out listen to it and then post all kinds of kudos and say hello to Craig for me all right all right onwards and upwards so independence you know people think of independence Independence Day and fourth of July in these kinds of events we think immediately fourth of July and and some of us just figure oh it's probably not gonna have to go to work tomorrow that's the the real mundane some of us remember to give thanks for a shift in the world

and a freedom this country found and all that I think that's cool too but I always look at things I tend to look at things from a broad perspective so I realized immediately you know there's two kinds of freedom and independence internal and external what we don't usually realize is internal freedom and independence can manifest external freedom and independence not as likely for external to create internal freedom and independence people say I'm working so that I can retire and have my financial freedom or

my independence usually they die a few days later you know so they didn't really get to the benefits of what they thought they wanted we have to learn to find freedom and independence internally now it has to be something we choose and it is a choice but we choose to bring it into our soul now then whether you retire you don't retire we should still feel freedom people do that they tend to build things up for that eventuality and then you know it all too often fails I can't wait until one day I'm married I'll get to have all these wonderful and

and it's still life can't wait till I get a divorce and it's still life if you date more creeps you know after the divorce even you still are potentially gonna that's a testimonial right there if you keep doing the same thing you've been doing then what kind of where's the freedom and where's the independence Benjamin Franklin said disobedience to tyrants is obedience to God he wanted that to be our nation's mob you know the others alike dude that's a bit intense you know we don't want to upset people more than we have to but think about

that statement think about that statement in relation to your own voices of doubt and ego disobedience to tyrants meaning saying no to my ego is automatically saying yes to God you know because God isn't something we have to like actually earn it's there it's it's a consciousness that's here but we can't see it because we're enslaved by the voice of the ego which isn't really a great voice to be enslaved by nothing no in statements good but the ego has no intention of any good for us so we've got the idea of

internal and external independence or freedom the you know the internal freedom is is is the foremost but the external one is the one people focus on the most thinking it's going to get them something and in a sense our both of those are are shackled by the ego whether it's internal external independent that could be it can be held back by ego internally or externally but even when we think I'm gonna shoot for some forms of external independence you know how do we actually achieve it even external how do we achieve it if you

think by working to get there gets you there technically you're still enslaved there's a Zen kind of a way and it's called acceptance but to accept our freedom and independence meaning our true identity it comes love and forgiveness believe it or not love and forgiveness it sounds strange because people think of love and forgiveness as having just one dimension to it it's multi-dimensional love and forgiveness is what shifts us from singular thinking to multidimensionality love and forgiveness has the greatest power of anything on this planet

whatever you want to know you want to just have a little greater income love and forgiveness can provide it but you want oneness with God only love and forgiveness can provide that so that's that's that says a lot for the concept of love and forgiveness so we have these struggles I'm going to read a quote I brought you know but we have to understand that one of the greatest effects of peace and freedom is that we start to find our free will and as you exercise proper free will you start to get more peace and freedom so we have to

understand that free will is a part of this entire conversation independence freedom how do we get it we have to fight for it you have to speak up you have to pick it you have to petition that's not God saying that even though it sounds like it'll pay off because we're gonna get some independence by fighting for it and sometimes that seems to be what we have to do but if you fight for it you forget to pray for it it's gonna be a hollow victory if you have to seemingly fight for freedom and independence like a divorce or a breakup

of a business where people are all messing with each other you know once upon a time the beatles broke up but they were part of a band and so when three of them decided to invest with one particular new manager that was going to be their financial man he was ripping them off one of the four McCartney said this guy cannot be trusted he's stealing from us the other said no no let's just do it so that means he was now losing money because he's part of a unit he had to sue his best friends and bandmates to

get himself out of the Beatles so he wouldn't lose money and he ended up the wealthiest of them did he have to do he actually had to do that to prevent harm so sometimes you have to step up but when we do we can still do so with guidance god I know of no other way help me help me and guide me especially my heart and soul guide me in this that's why the forefathers of our country to a degree they were saying we would rather not have to do this they didn't say this is a great opportunity to have a war they were like it we would

rather not do you know the pain that Abraham Lincoln was in during the Civil War the man was constantly in turmoil because it seems like that's what we had to do so he was just trying to do it with as much Center as possible so sometimes the actions seem like they need to be there but that's only because human beings haven't realized yet the full power of the mind in our minds alone we could have resolved those wars in a day but people haven't completely realized that so the ego will twist even you know that this concept of free will

because you have to exercise free will to find independence you know I have but one life to give for my country right that's my greatest regret that's the voice of someone saying I believe in something great here I believe in something fantastic there's a spirit guiding this but it's not because one country's good and ones bad it's because one is still trying to enslave the wars were greatly about enslavement the reason we were able to get people finally involved in world war two was more and more hearing about the

enslavement that was going on the Civil War of course the wars are about money to money and power you know but greatly especially the psychological support of work came from seeing too much enslavement and in the First World War it's not dissing of any other country Germany England or anybody else on this planet but it's it's a it's a time for us to come out and America we're saying well we're gonna try this new thing and we're gonna have a new level of freedom the Eco doesn't go oh well then I'll just stay out of America and live elsewhere

the ego rides along with every movement we we take every action we take every place we move to the eCos still there because we're there it's in our minds so it's there to sabotage so the ego is gonna say you know I would rather you not exercise free will because that's your spiritual identity and if you discover your spiritual identity one second later the ego will cease to exist so the ego doesn't want us to know free will because we didn't then choose goodbye to the enslavement and yes hello to freedom but when you say ok I'm an

exercise free will the ego will twist even the meaning of free will the ego makes us think that our free will is actually more like individuality like separation from one another it means my free will means I have my own opinions which are coming from my ego by the way but I'm gonna fight for them so the ego will even twist what free will means and then it will teach us what an unhealthy free will looks like so here's a quote I'm going to share this is from a song and it's it's I think it's a hilarious song and it's called I want to be the

boss it's by the band 10cc but there's this one part where this this tyrant that's singing the song that wants to rule the world it's I want to rule the world that's what it is and the tyrant breaks in this one part of the song everyone's going to be free but they have to agree to be free they have to agree to be less free than me because I roll the world you see and that's the ego the ego will even play along to make it look like we're fighting for something righteous when in fact it has its own agenda there the whole time

it'll even make us look like we're you know like I said fighting for something righteous it's right that I I have my own voice that's true but what voice are you going to share the one that's right to have or the one that's still fear-based so when we look at his I think it's tragic that once upon a time there was a sect of people the new new Christians of a new religion being born and the Christians by the Romans were being killed they were being killed not just oppressed a little

killed but oppressed and enslaved in all this mainly because they had this belief in healing that the Romans couldn't understand and spiritual beliefs spiritual beliefs and healing was the reason they were persecuted feel very terrible about that but what's weird about it is soon enough finally the Christians became strong enough in their voice to say independence from the Romans and they got it and then they started killing people for healing beliefs and spiritual beliefs you see what I'm saying and

we're going to get away from that though because that was just some people messing that concept up let's get away from them let's go start our own country it was only a few years later we started burning people at the stake for healing and their spiritual beliefs you see what I'm saying we fight for something and then the ego will take it over anyway and twist it anyway so that's why the external concept of freedom and independence is dangerous without the internal if we have internal peace which comes from freedom and freedom comes

from peace if we have an internal state of peace which comes from one is with God then we start a new country we start a new rock group we start a new we write a song and the ego can't as much infiltrate because it's not an external thing when you try to get external peace it's never lasting because nothing on the outside is forever so we have to find it inside it's almost like saying rather than having a coaching kind of a person to fall a mentor that says fight for it you know tell them what you think you know we're advocates get the signs

tell everybody you know pick it outside your you know your family's house do you know you never love me you'll never love me enough those people that's great because they they might be well intended although usually not but if I could have that versus some somebody like Viktor Frankl a nosh wit survivor saying oh you know what things don't always go well on the outside I was in Auschwitz your mother doesn't like you which do you think was the heavier burden to carry you know if I can survive Auschwitz I think you can handle a family member that's annoying

but he's gonna say I didn't win by picketing I gave up on those people and found it within myself right just like Mandela and others people can do it they've trained themselves they learned to have such strength inside they turn their mind and focus it inside and choose to find the peace that we thought the external was going to give us you know one of the external I brought it up earlier but one of the external things we've seek is the retirement but nowadays when you go to claim it it's not even there anymore so how's that

working out how's that freedom how's that independence we have to realize you know what God and I can create things that this world cannot provide kind of a bummer I would like to have thought I could count on certain things but it's just not so so I better try to find it inside now the inside doesn't mean like well I was hoping for a great life but I guess I'll just find God instead as though they're mutually exclusive you know because that's what we do well prosperity is not working out I guess I'll be a monk and be broke you know

you've probably already done that in other lifetimes anyway so that's redundant instead what we can do is find inner peace the inner peace can create the external freedom because getting in the consciousness of God actually we can create a new life of more abundance by being in the zone people do not understand this anywhere near as much as they should we can have an external blissful prosperous life by being in the zone the guidance can tell you which investments to make or which projects to invest in or whatever it happens to be

project wise the Spirit of God speaks to us it can tell us which which things we're doing where do you think great inventors came from there minds that sat still and said there must be another way to do this there's a way to do this with less effort and a lot of people who are broke love to resent those who have funds but just use your spiritual ingenuity and it still can guide you into having the same freedom financially but a better freedom most likely spiritually so remember that there's this concept of Independence we

have to look at because there's there's a paradox here independence if it's me I'm so glad to be independent unlike you if I turn my back on you and say that I'm independent that's an ego based independence if you're independence means you're autonomous thank God because everybody else is messed up at you then you are not actually independent external concepts of independence are mostly a lie trying to get away from others so you can be independent can't wait to be independent from my

family I mean my family was messed up in a lot of ways and when I was seventeen it's not legal to be autonomous so I had to get papers filed to break free of my family I don't forget the legal name for it but it's some form of an independence and it felt kind of cool except they wouldn't sign the papers and it's kind of weird we're gonna need your family who is a problem just sign these papers you know so I had to fortunately you do what you got to do men hope those records are not available for somebody to come and talk to me about that but no

yeah thank God nobody else knows about it but you owe so but I had to get that autonomy so that I could move on with my life right if I do that with hatred then I'm not free anyway you have to do it with a sense of kind of like saying to the heavens into yourself I wish I didn't have to do it through divorce papers I wish I didn't have to do it by saying no to my child or whatever it is I'd rather it not be that way and taken so strong but it is okay so let me be coming from as much a place of love as possible and

take my actions asked to stay in the center with God while you take your actions that's the key right there not do I do the action or not do the action it's how to do the action with the center in God that's the secret right there well I'm gonna come back to that I would say so about that but there's there's this false independence that we think is healthy and then we think dependence is bad well it is co dependences is unhealthy but there's a paradox here healthy independence is actually healthy inner dependence and

healthy in or inner dependence means we are healthily aware of our dependence on God that's a statement of humility so I actually become independent in the greatest interpretation of the word when I recognize my spiritual dependence on God see when I make my greatest claims of independence I'm most likely not independent at all because it's usually coming from a charge a reaction is that making sense so so there's much to think about here but there's many layers to what I just just that last couple of sentences to really meditate on I want

independence and I'm taking actions for that but I forgot it starts with my Center and God and I depend it's on gun some people wouldn't even like that term dependence on God because we are the child of God because God is our source but it also means not just well we're kind of worthless so we're completely dependent upon God it means when I recognize my position as to created rather than the Creator in my humility I'm tapping into the all I'm given all that I need in other words I made great in God by accepting my

dependence in God the ego will tell you you know that whole dependent thing you and God you know you could be individuating away from God and become a God unto yourself and that is when the fall took place when we said well maybe we of ourselves are all kind of wonderfulness and we forgot I am myself of nothing because there is no individual self in God we are all one so recognizing our dependence on God means our dependence on the fact that we're one look at the paradox see independence is a false way of making you think

you're something special because you're separate separation is what causes every form of pain and suffering on this planet so we've got to clear our minds Eve even hearing that you can say to yourself you know even if you don't totally get what I said you can say but there's something about what I just heard that makes sense it is not independence of my ego that I'm looking for and I'm clear about that now what I want only is the spiritual independence that that I am that I am that comes from oneness with God and you

are never finding peace freedom independence without love so we have to exercise free will which we did as a nation for example you know here and there we have to exercise free will but you are not having free will if it isn't a loving will if you're not being loving when you exercise your will you're not free at all you're captive of your ego and resent and charges and patterns is that making sense free will means completely free true free will is a loving will there's no exceptions

true free will has to be it's centered in love so and freedom the freedom I'm seeking is not a cause freedom as an effect I have to have connectedness with God oneness with peace for me to actually feel free for me to have independence alright so these things they're not as much a cause as we think there are effects so if you say well I would love to be you know free and have financially free and whatever why because then I can do this and this and this you're thinking freedom is a cause that can make things happen in your life

and I'm saying peace is the cause that brings you freedom that then allows you to do some things whatever those things might be so what brings us to this the so so realize this now what if you say well I don't I don't have a big problem with freedom I'm financially free or I live you know online I can choose to date who I want and so on that's that's all great news but do you realize that even a tense muscle is a conflict in your body a tense thought for example you go to the grocery store today as simple as

this could seem do I want this to drink or this to drink you already are in conflict because you think there's two things to choose between this is gonna get weird for just a minute so bear with me as soon as human beings think they have two things to choose between they're in conflict because the world teaches you duality should I get married should I not get married should I get a divorce should I not get a divorce should I date this person or that person every thought should I comb my hair this way or that

way should I get a haircut I don't know all of those Believe It or Not are signs of a lack of peace they're symptoms they might seem totally you know minor and irrelevant they're all symptomatic because divided we fall do you ever hear of a splitting headache splitting headaches come from having such division in our mind where our mind is split that it's now manifesting as pain or the concept of divided we fall that's the same idea we are constantly dismantled by the ego so that we don't have a unified system of mind body and

soul health issues psychological issues these are splits within us people can be dissociated from their body that's a split people commit suicide it's a form of splitting I understand it I totally get it but what happens is the poor souls have said I cannot fight this anymore there's something in them that overwhelmed them and they said I I don't have it in me to fight this anymore and sadly there's not enough people around them that understand what's going on and can explain it instead well let's

not talk about that you're depressed and that's kind of a bummer to talk about or whatever and and they're not getting that support but the splitting headaches the tense muscles what what is what is inflammation is is a seemingly seeming cause to most illnesses inflammations whether it's growths tumors you know whatever those are inflammations that means something inside me was fighting do you actually think that you and your body are separate cuz you've talked holism all the time oh I love holistic mind body and soul then do you not know

that your mind is playing a part in the inflammation in your body oh no that's my body's issue well you own your body it's a reflection of your mind I'm not dissing because we all have them but they're coming from conflict you could say have a vertebra out of place that's because one vertebra wants to go this way and one wants to go that way why is that because the owner has a conflict inside see peace fourth-of-july freedom and I'm talking about vertebra right how does that make any sense it makes total sense

we have conflicts inside guys and they have to be resolved and they're not you know they're not minor issues every conflict is reflecting a conflict the ultimate conflict is there's a this end of that there's God and there's us we forgot our oneness see so human beings will think there's two things to choose between or think about and God saying I am that I am yeah but exactly what are you I am that I am a well what can we call you then I am what color are you I am how told you I am what gender are you I it God's

trying to tell us stop trying to come up with anything else but God is and you're part of God is so we are but God is yeah but what is God I just told you God is we're going that's an incomplete sentence fill it in we want more because we want to split it off God is I am and we are period it's all the same so in this universe our minds are constantly warring between now once we decide there's something other than God is now there's God is and we are not one with God now there's a heaven and then there's an earth or heaven and hell then

there's a god and the devil then there's this into that angels and demons you know people we love people we don't love people we like people we don't like everything just keeps splitting off and what I'm saying is all of our splitting which is the opposite of loving and forgiving results in splitting and all the splitting that looks like it's happening in an external world certain races of people enslaving other races there are not two of anything they're both messed up on some level in consciousness and need heal one is

oppressing another person in my neighborhood there's not two there's one but we can't see it right now because they're living the duality the split what is our job God showed me how to see those two warring people in my neighborhood as one show me how to see this and that has the same show me how to see things through your eyes rather than my two eyes that keep seeing two things two or more things splitting off the opposite is two or more gathered as one is the solution and the healing that doesn't just mean

literally you have to have two people in the same room praying that's what we often interpret it to be no it's two or more gathered with one intention which Christ said there shall I be what he's saying is you think there's two or more going the opposite direction I'm saying gather two or more into oneness and you're healing the separation now you'll see miracles because you're reversing the whole process of the symptoms of separating so in our lives it comes down to this you're always having to make a decision between whatever this and that

it seems rational I was thinking about moving but I'm not sure if I should move here or there or moving or not moving decision-making gosh so many decisions and so little time but so many decisions it's without you knowing it it's causing you to feel split and it even can cause a splitting headache so what do we do Course in Miracles we'll explain it like this it says something to the effect you really struggle and you live in fear and one reason is because you forgot that there's only one one God oneness and one answer to every question you have well

no but you don't understand I was what do I move her don't I there's only one answer there has to be two should I move or not you know like which place is better if I'm choosing between two places or do I get divorced or not so he explains he says look carefully at what you're asking when you ask yourself questions because underneath what you think are harmless questions is this you come up with an answer like you can say money and prosperity as a topic it's a charge to subject so some of us go well I need to create more

prosperity but there's another voice inside that says there's people that don't like you if you're too prosperous which means as soon as you making more money there's another part of you that's afraid to make money so you don't get dissed by people you see what I'm saying this happens all the time without us realizing it as soon as because we're conflicted so in my mind we'll do this okay should I get divorced or not we have a challenging situation with one another what does God want me to do God steps

back nothing to do with this you're not asking for the one answer you're asking which answer there isn't more than one answer and we get into a bit of a struggle about this it's really hard to understand this but this is the route to developing peace and freedom and independence find one answer to questions now what if I get this divorce so Jesus explains in the course he's saying if you try to do everything right let's say for example I've got to do everything right I want to get a divorce but you know for the kids and for this

and that in the other and I don't to upset my ex and then his parents and we have upset and you never know and one of the parents is older they could get sick because I'm gonna neuter so you conflicted yourself so you're trying to behave for everybody's sake but your mind is conflicted because it wish it weren't having to do that your split or you can say fine then I'm not gonna do that I'm gonna go ahead and leave but there's another part going oh should you really be doing that to everybody in other words the ego will not allow you

to be happy without doubting yourself no matter what decision you make and God says when you're ready go ahead and ask me for one answer and the one answer is going to be what answer does the most good for the most people this is a human interpretation of that questioning answering what is the greatest good and then get your mind to say this once you decide you know the greater good will be this divorce the greater good will be for me to move or take this job you know that don't let your mind go but if you're going to do that then you haven't

yet made up your mind so stop until you're ready but once you're ready onwards let's go don't let your mind go yeah but if you still have that then don't call it a decision and sit there and be conflicted for a little longer but once you make a decision be clear this is the right thing this is the most loving thing I can see happening here this is me doing my best to be guided towards the one answer and here's why some people don't like that humans are so weak that they have this tendency to be split and judgmental and then they

learn to go I don't judge anymore because I'm spiritual so you say well but I'm having this fight with this person and I don't know how well you're both right and you're both wrong there's two sides even if one is beating the other up well I don't want to get involved because there's you know everybody has a say-so in this until it's convenient for them to say oh I don't like that one so humans will enable behaviors and I'm like wait a minute wait a second there is something called

God there's the truth of God there's the oneness of God there's the love of God find that and then it's the right thing you don't have to just you know choose there's there's nations that didn't support other nations in wars because well it's not really our fight it is we're all connected and when you don't step up you're enabling the opposite so you still made a decision so make the right the most right decision you can make I've shared the story many times

that I'm coming to a close but I've shared the story many times but our forefathers got together in a room to sign the Declaration of Independence I'm not giving a half history lesson I'm saying this is something we need to learn from they got together they went in this room and they said should we or should we not sign this paper if we don't we're oppressed if we do we're going to be hunted down for treason gee which one should we do and they were conflicted and they say it's actually recorded in history books about this but

they don't have an answer to what happened but the historians don't have an answer but they say that for fathers of our country sitting in that room deciding should we or should we see that's - should we shouldn't we and then a voice they said rang out from a stranger in the balcony when doors are all locked nobody knows how they get in but a voice rings out from the balcony and says you will sign those papers even if there's a rope around your neck an hour later you will sign those papers because this is about

righteousness and freedom and God and love and boom baboom these people these are forefathers of a country these are courageous people that we have birthdays for now and they're all gathered around and their children being told what's right you see it I'm saying you will sign those papers and the history history annals say as soon as the voice stopped the forefathers ran to the paper to sign excited something in them greater than the human self spoke not just the voice up there but inside themselves like I'm not even gonna think

twice about this and that's what we're supposed to be doing do what's right well yeah but you know everybody's wrong everybody's wrong who's what exactly and that's just enabling those are human beings that are so weak they went from originally being judgmental to saying I don't judge anymore and now what they're doing is nothing there's judging there's not judging and then there's judging righteously which is the third step that almost nobody has achieved yet the non

judging is a lie that's weak people justifying something by taking no action step up what is right and if you see on if you you know a schoolyard you're a school teacher and some kids beating up another you go over and you stop it because it's right it's right to speak up for people being harmed saying hey this isn't okay don't hate the other person but say this isn't okay do what's right follow what you know to be the presence of love to the best of your ability and you just say this is the best of my ability I don't know if I'd

got this down perfectly I'm just doing to the best of my ability how do I know it's the best because I'm gonna keep praying for guidance on the best helps also looking for simple cues like what's the greatest good but in in my closing I want to add that that our inner conflicts are a childlike I I myself you know I could just go well I'm an author of a spiritual teacher so because a lot of my colleagues and friends they're authors and they make a living off being authors and they put aside money for kids to go to college

and that's kind of what they do it's just a routine and I'm like there's more to this than just that there's more to this than just writing books and retiring am i living this you know instead of just writing about it selling books sending kids to college I'm like kids you ain't going to college I there's something more to this you know that's their thing but if they want to go that's filling their thing if they got the money so for me it's like there's more to this how do we live this now on earth because I think some of you

can relate to this but I'm just passing up as a speaker teacher and all that for me it's like well I'm a human being but but no I'm a spiritual being as well so I that's a conflict and so I'm trying to live one of the challenging conflicts and bring it to resolution by bringing closure bringing healing to I'm a spiritual being but a human being as well right so I've got people that say well spiritual being Michael you know what you ought to do is you you you got to let yourself be human too so you know here have a drink or have a smoke or

have a because they're trying to convince me that that's what's being human and in my life I'm I was just too odd to be able to even do that and just be okay with it I'm like really huh the few times I tried it you know to to be to try things out whether it's a drinker or to be intimate when I don't want to be intimate I've done that a couple of times in my life and only felt bad about it now that's conflict bringing more conflict but the outer conflict is just reflecting the inner conflict around this in the first place how do I

concil spirituality and materiality it's not an easy order I mean let's start somewhere small like which station to turn on today I'm going for spiritual and material trying to reconcile that and that's big been probably my biggest experience and lesson in this life is that particular because it's it's a conflict but one we all have our conflicts and it's one that I need to reconcile one way we reconcile it is balance how do i balance not choose between two things but how do I bring them to one to be spiritual and yet

material bring them spirit and material and bring the spiritual into the material you see what I'm saying you know how do I spiritual eyes gardening if I were a gardener how do I spiritual eyes bookkeeping if that's what I need to do we think they're separate so we have spiritual people that are broke because they want to be spiritual and they don't know how to be material you get what I'm saying but I've seen on our websites - and Facebook pages and all these things if we talk about prosperity which we don't push that often here but

if we talk about prosperity there's always some nut bag that gets on the the internet and says oh all you spiritual groups are always talking about money you see so then we go oh we shouldn't talk about money and now we bought into poverty consciousness holding us captive so what do we do there's always somebody you know in the Eco that's going to attack and do these things find your own sense of freedom and it's not going to mean that people all of a sudden get you but you find your freedom in your family you find your freedom in

your relationships you find your freedom in any and all things but I'm just letting you know that to be up here and do this you know - I mean my god like I can't just passively just wander through life waiting to retire for me the human sexuality is a big charged issue with abuse and all these other issues and addiction that's a big charged issue I write a book about it and then it becomes always that what he's about now if I'm not about that you have people that are into that saying I'm a hypocrite because I'm not into it enough

like they are but if I am into it you have people over here saying oh you're way too involved with sex while you're writing about sexuality must be a pervert you know those are you know the the religious people so you get these two sides and I'm like wow the world loves no-win situations so that you collapse and are bound in in no freedom so I've tried I've tried I've just tried to reconcile these things and say no what I'm trying to teach is spiritual and yet you're a human being but do things spiritually whether it's cooking

or whether it's love me can do what you do from a spiritual state of mind you see so the conflicts we share collectively beat us up when we try to break free of them but you still have to do it it's our destiny I'm sorry if it's a challenge but it's our destiny to be that voice that says you know what no more that somebody's got to say something different and then you'll live it and I lived that I lived that complex and lived going to spiritual centers to teach and then you know them saying oh he wrote a book on

sexuality let's not have him back because of that you know because they assume if I write a book about it I must be that's what I'm all about I'm about healing it but they don't understand healing it so they're not going to get it so it's going to be this is a in the sutras in the Tantra writings and in even in Scripture that people that are pure of heart will see everything purely in people that are toxic are going to see everything as toxic people see through their own lenses in other words you have to find

your Center and be true to it if you're going to say yeah but it's going to be a conflict and now it will show up for you somewhere somebody's voice or somebody's behavior so you can choose to do nothing or choose but you consciously or unconsciously you're going to have your battles to fight in life I don't mean they all have to be aggressive battles that's turn some people don't like but you're going to have it and if in your family you're into holistic but your family's all into traditional allopathic medicine

you're going to notice a conflict love communication will be one way you can bring those two seeming separate groups into the same place respecting their viewpoints for example instead of conflicting but you don't give up your own viewpoints is that all making sense so peace and freedom how do we find that peace and freedom one way internal love and forgiveness another way find balance between two seemingly separate things even if you're reconciling an argument between two people find the bridge that brings their consciousness together

their their opinions together do what you can to be a bridge and I wish I could say to you when you do that everything goes peacefully around your life but it doesn't work that way sometimes Martin Luther King was still killed for standing up for what was right Kennedy's or what whomever else you want to use as a metaphor it doesn't always go our way and I find that to be a major bummer personally I could say it's all okay children of light know I could non ously say sometimes I find that to be a real bummer because I do what I can but this

what we see happen in my life what I see is also a mirror of my attempt to take for Humanity topics and bring them to peace and I learned you know the hard way a lot of times that a lot of times it's not what they want like oh well I thought that no okay I just assumed no okay not ready so are you gonna wait till they're ready or do you plant seeds in the meantime yeah a man for me it was all just so bizarre to say okay I'm gonna I'm gonna do my best to hold this Center I teach this but yet I'm also very

lean in in my actions about things I don't get all I don't get wasted and all that but I've made jokes about getting high and that sort of thing but but it's not something I choose to do and yet there's people that assume such you know there's people that have gone online and said you know what's with the freaky their long hair dude why don't you get over it you know and and and and I think to myself isn't that funny because what I do quite often I've done it two or

three times in my life grow my hair long enough to cut it off and donate it to children with cancer who lose their hair but nobody cares about that there's just somebody out there who's got their weirdness about long hair and they you know they they do their thing and so there's a part of me that thinks God you know it's not even worth being a good person because people still have their trips that's not the voice of God keep being good even when people have other opinions of you keep being good and do your best to hold the center not over

here not over here but right here and your best in God not just your own opinions but your best in God please take a few centering breaths all the stuff of the world all the thoughts numerous conflicts that the world seems to present let's set it all aside when you inhale hear the words I am on the exhale hear the words at peace over and over I am at peace now don't just hear it don't just say it actually feel it and imagine I am at peace on the exhale really feeling it your best to actually feel that you are in

fact at peace and let come to mind any decision you've had to make in the last hours days weeks months any decision you had to make between this and that doing this or not doing that it's not like you have to intensify them but if they are big notice it but there's still decisions there conflicts it can be you know when I sit in this position it's painful so I need to find another position that still other things to decide simple or not and recognize and own that it's a form of conflict because you're not centered quiet at peace just own that it's a form

of conflict should I take today off work well the boss might get upset that's conflict notice all the varying forms of conflict that happen every day I'd like to sleep in but I probably shouldn't to conflict and they might seem small but they all add up and become inflammations in our body which become illnesses burdens in our mind now go back - I am at peace meaning unwavering imagine and feel unwaveringly you are centered in God like nothing actually matters I'm centered in God nothing matters really get that if you're centered in God you are feeling

peace tranquility call oneness and it's unwavering nothing can move you then what decisions might you make when you go back to thinking about the challenges or conflict decisions don't think between this and that just what is the one that most resonates with the peace you're feeling which decision most resonates with peace and then practice letting that be your decision not yeah but if I'm centered in peace which decision most resonates with that peace because peace is God so if I'm centered in peace I'm centered in God and if I

decide to decision that most resonates with peace it's the one that most resonates with God which means it's probably the one I need to choose now see yourself doing it just imagine with a greater ease divide-and-conquer you just cut away things that are irrelevant that beautiful sort of light of Archangel Michael cutting away all other things and allowing just the one right decision don't analyze it and definitely don't allow the voice of doubt to get in but look at this and then breathe in the accomplishment of this decision I did it this is the

right decision breathe in another one this is right yes and allow it to feel like it's building your Center it's building your confidence I am is building your decisions they feed you so imagine it's a nutritious supplement when you make right decisions you don't have to fight with people that love enabling and making no decisions or they lie to themselves and pretend that they can't choose between this or that because they think it's all got relevance there is one right decision beyond no decision

and beyond the old decisions one right decision singular and I am determined to know that guidance in that voice just a moment longer every decision it's yes and fill up with it draw it into yourself yes got it that is right for me this is right for me and if you're conflicted step back until you're clear and then quietly acknowledge and give thanks for the righteous decisions you've made these are not good decisions versus bad decisions these are not good decisions they are God decisions I'm learning to live in the light of God no

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have all that I give and all that I receive and so it is thank you now they're gonna pass those out it'll take a minute or two max but while they're passing those out can anybody share what they learned or heard today that made the most sense what did you learn or hear that really made the most sense or helps you the most and or people in your life what did you hear about forgiveness or independence or freedom or peace the difference between internal/external and so on yes hmm when you see that you're conflicted its sometimes it's best to not even make

a decision get out of the conflict do you guys get what I was saying that there is a god way not just a good and bad but a God way read on anybody else what did you learn her here that made the most sense yes right right very good conflicted between options do the one that and she said the words brings you the most peace the wording I use is that resonates with peace because nothing brings you anything you already are so what I want is instead something that resonates with the peace that I already know deep inside the peace of God that's right so look for the choice that most

resonates with peace right or builds a sense of peace okay make that decision the one that builds and that brings the most peace or good to the most people there is a way to choose righteously all right anybody else and remember those forefathers any time you're in conflict and you're not sure if you should make a decision you're a little scared I know it's the right thing to do but I'm a little scared try to remember the voice and the balcony which is symbolic of the voice of God up in this balcony within ourselves remember the voice on that

balcony that said sign that document that means look into school for your new career look into saying no to somebody who may not like you if you say no but what they want to do is unhealthy know how to say yes and no at the right times and not care about the externals this group or that group okay all right thank you guys for watching online I and we really appreciate all of you and I've said this many times but some of these folks are living in places that they don't have groups like this in support systems so even though it's seemingly

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