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Why Are There So Many Differences Between People? |
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There are many reasons why you are so different from other people:
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Your Core Personality
When the TAO fragmented, it produced us. We are sometimes called "fragments" of the Tao. Fragments,or persons, can be inter-changeable terms.
When the Tao fragmented, the fragementation produced different characteristics for different fragments. The characterization of these fragments resulted in core personalities or archetypes within each of these fragments.
Some call these characterizations “roles”. According to "Messages from Michael", a mid-causal group of recollected beings, there are essentially seven different core personality’s roles that a fragment may have:
- Server,
- Priest,
- Artisan,
- Sage,
- Scholar,
- Warrior
- King
Each of these roles has certain long term characteristics that are continually a part of who that fragment is. It is a way the fragment typically processes and presents themselves throughout their lives. |
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Each of us chose the type of life we need and desire. To do this, we selected different personality traits that came with us when we are born.
These personality traits are sometimes called “over leaves” and they can help us obtain the life experiences we seek and desire on the physical earth.
- goal
- mode
- attitude
- center
- chief feature
The Over leaves come from http://www.michaelteachings.com/overleaves_index.html
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GOAL |
MODE |
ATTITUDE |
CENTER |
CHIEF NEGATIVE FEATURE/FEAR |
Definition |
Every person has one of seven Goals. The Goal causes the general sense of a lack in a person's life. Therefore, it determines what the personality seeks, desires, wants, pursues, and aims for. When the Goal is not fulfilled, the person feels frustrated, and life seems meaningless. The Goal gives the person a purpose, a direction, an overall intention. |
The Mode is the way in which people pursue their Goal. It is also their general manner of conduct or deportment. It is the underlying behavior pattern or "modus operandi" of the personality — the standard operating procedure. It is how people do things: their style, their path. |
Attitude concerns the way people regard the world. It is the perspective people have on things around them. It is the stance from which people view things.
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The Centers are parts of oneself, parts from which one responds or reacts to life situations. They are different "places" in one's personality where experiences are "processed". A person does not have just one Center. All Centers are present in a personality, but in various strengths. These are ranked in sequence from one, the strongest, to seven, the weakest. Usually the two strongest Centers dominate the response pattern of the individual. For instance, a person in the Moving part of Emotional Center will react to situations emotionally and feel driven to do something about it.
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This concerns a person's image — the self-image, and the image one presents to others. Every person has a chief Feature, and one or two others of lesser strength. There are no good Features. All of them are driven by fear; all of them are contrary to love. The Features operate against the desires of what many call the "higher self" but which Michael calls the "Essence". The Features are most likely to flare up in situations perceived as threatening to the self-image. Otherwise they quietly control the ego. According to Michael, enlightenment results from the extinguishments of the Features.
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Types |
Re-evaluation
Growth
Discrimination
Acceptance
Submission
Dominance
Flow |
Reserve
Passion
Caution
Power
Perseverance
Aggression
Observation |
Stoic
Spiritualist
Skeptic
Idealist
Cynic
Realist
Pragmatist |
Emotional
Intellectual
Physical
Moving
Instinctive
Higher Center |
Self-deprecation
Arrogance
Self-destruction
Greed
Martyrdom
Impatience
Stubbornness |
In summary, the goal influences what we do, the mode influences how we do it, the attitude influences why we do it, the center is the part of self from which we do it, and the chief feature is what tends to block or distort our doing.
Soul Age; It Affects Your Life Experience and Perception |
Another impact on a person is what has already been learned and what has already been experienced in previous incarnations. There are essentially different phases in a person’s soul age and the soul age presents itself with certain characteristics.
Here is a summary of the basic life stages and basic characterizations of the different phases from the website:Michael Teachings website. |
SOUL AGE |
TYPICAL CHARACTERISTICS |
Infant Soul |
An appropriate motto for the Infant soul is, "Let's not do it". They do not know how to confront the world effectively.
The Infant soul Age is to the soul as the first decade of a life is to a person. Even as children are learning to walk and talk, so Infant souls are learning the basics of getting around in the world. Children are new to the world in a physical sense. In a psychological sense, Infant souls are new to the world, and consequently they do not know very much about what is going on.
From Phillip Whittmeyer http://www.michaelteachings.com/infant_soul.html |
Baby Soul |
According to Michael ("Messages From Michael", page 90), an appropriate motto for the Baby soul is, "Do it right or not at all". With this perception, Baby souls typically are clean and neat. They keep the house and automobile tidy. Their desks at work are orderly. They are proper and mannerly, following the rules of etiquette. They associate with the right people. They do things the correct way. They borrow simple concepts of right and wrong from the rules of society, or better yet, what they perceive to be the laws of God, and then stick doggedly to them all their lives.
According to Joya Pope, a channel of Michael, Jerry Falwell is a prominent religious leader with Baby Soul beliefs; Oral Roberts and Jimmy Swaggart, two others. Idi Amin, Hitler, Khomeini, and, in the United States, Richard Nixon, Evan Mecham, Jesse Helms and some of our more rigidly conservative Governors, Congressmen and Senators are examples of Baby Souls putting out their world views on a larger scale. Pat Boone is one of the few Baby Souls peopling the entertainment business. http://www.michaelteachings.com/soul_ages.html |
Young Soul |
The Young soul perceives "me" and "you", and wants to change "you" into "me". The Young soul wants to organize people into a society, a civilization, or a company. Young souls are enamored with the glamour of the physical realm — new cars, fine homes, fancy clothes, an so on. They want to look good to others. From Philip Whittmeyer,
http://www.michaelteachings.com/young_soul.html
Many, many people rise to fame and prominence during the young soul period; we find movie stars, TV anchors, singers, comedians, politicians, executives, religious leaders, Nobel prize-winners, Hollywood producers, authors, and people like Donald Trump and J. Paul Getty, who get so rich they get famous. Clarence Thomas, Ed Meese, Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakker are examples of men at the very beginning of their Young Soul adventures and growth. |
Mature Soul |
Mature souls seek to comprehend everything. There is very little that escapes their view or scrutiny. They truly want to understand. It may not always be in a formal or institutional setting, since this can seem too structured and limiting (too Young-soulish) to them. They often pursue knowledge on their own. Mature souls are in a searching mode all their lives. There is an itch to "find themselves" and "express themselves". Personal fulfillment is their constant quest. This they never quite achieve to their own satisfaction. From: Philip Whittmeyer http://www.michaelteachings.com/mature_soul.html
This, like the Young Soul phase, is a time when many people rise into prominence, though less now through ambition and power, and more from vim, verve and dash. Notice that the individual's character tends to be full, usually quite interesting and creative in the Mature period. Painter Vincent Van Gogh suffered continually from the intensity of his feelings, while Paul Gauguin hoped to find solace from them in the peaceful South Seas.
From Joya Pope, The World According to Michael. |
Old Soul |
Old souls are individualistic — they believe that people should basically do whatever they want to do, so long as it doesn't hurt anyone else. The motto of the Old soul is, "You do what you want, and I'll do what I want". They rarely campaign for anything. They do not want to change the world — they just let it be. You might say they have the ultimate "laissez faire" (leave it alone) attitude — let nature take its course and don't interfere with the system. "Live and let live" is another appropriate motto for the Old soul. At the end of a full life comes the time of old age. Much that can be said about an Old soul is what would be said about an old person. Usually old people have traveled to many places and done many things. They are a storehouse of wisdom and understanding because of this range of experience. But in spite of their competence they do not usually accomplish very much. From: Philip Whittmeyer http://www.michaelteachings.com/old_soul.html
According to Joya Pope, Mark Twain, John Muir, and Albert Einstein were all Old Souls with a mission. Some musicians typifying an Old Soul are Joan Baez, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Sting, Judy Collins, Jerry Garcia, Bob Marley. Goddess researcher Jean Shinoda Bolen, Shirley MacLaine, Robert Redford and Phil Donahue are some pretty active Old Souls currently doing work on our culture. |
Because there are so many famous people and they are often in the press, you may feel you know a celebrity's soul level. You can visit the Michael Teachings website to compare your assumptions against what soul level may have been channeled by various Michael channels.
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