Or, Has Michael Gone Mental?

By Shepherd Hoodwin

 

Is Michael still on the causal plane or have they moved up to the mental plane?

The answer is complicated and requires some background. You might want to preemptively take an aspirin now.

Time as we know it on the physical plane relates to Earth’s orbit around the sun (a year) and rotation on its axis (a day). Marking these divisions is convenient for us but increasingly irrelevant the further away you get from this planet even on the physical plane. What would those on another planet care about the orbit and rotation of ours? So time is a subjective experience for us relative to our immediate circumstances and how our bodies are wired—for example, our sleep/wake and eating cycles. Even within this rigid frame, sometimes it seems to pass more slowly if we’re bored and more quickly if we’re lost in the moment.

Events do progress in order, one after another, within the same time frame, but stepping outside of time frames, there is simultaneity. Our time frame is not an absolute by which all others are measured. It’s not so straightforward to describe galactic events, for example, in Earth years. For one thing, it can take light “years” for us to even observe them. Do we really know how to take that into account?

Many science fiction authors grapple with time. If we traveled far from Earth and then returned, how many Earth years would pass? It would depend on the mode of travel. Could we bend time so as to come back to the world we had left? I suspect that just about anything is possible.

It’s said that time is an illusion. That is not entirely true. Time is real to itself. It is a convenient construct for us on the physical plane because our brains are not complex enough to easily accommodate multidimensionality. Furthermore, linear time allows us to zero in on one thing at a “time.” However, reality is far more complex than our simplified models can accommodate. Think of quantum physics. The movie Everything Everywhere All at Once comes to mind.

Our essences can and do accommodate multidimensionality. On an essence level, we can process past, present, and future lifetimes, for example. On the physical plane, however, a breakdown of the ability to keep timelines straight can be a symptom of mental illness in someone not equipped to handle multidimensionality. Still, humans can always access multidimensionality through a deep immersion into the now.

In past-life regression, we can visit another time frame that, relative to us, is in the past, yet psychically, we can touch into its timeline in various places. You might say that it’s just a memory or record, but it’s a living record: nothing dies. We just shift focus. When we focus on a past life, we reactivate something that went dormant from our point of view because we were not focused on it anymore. In addition, those past-life selves continued to exist and evolve on the astral plane, so it’s possible to communicate with later versions of them that track with our timeline.

We each have potential future selves. We can communicate with them, and they’re real to themselves but less tangible to us in our here and now. If I were to channel a future version of myself, it would be more abstract to me because, from my point of view, it hasn’t yet manifested and it would be impossible to say which parallel universe it will eventually manifest in, if it ever does—it might not end up being MY future self in this parallel; it’s just a potential. Still, it could be illuminating to communicate with it.

Some extraterrestrials are said to be from the future, including future versions of humans. The theory is that their crafts crossed time rather than space.

Infinite souls are representatives of reuniting cadres on the high planes. (Transcendental souls are representatives of reuniting entities on the upper causal plane. I prefer to say “reuniting” rather than “reunited” because it is a gradual process that doesn’t have an end point except in the Tao.)

The infinite soul through Jesus was a representative of his own future reuniting cadre. (This is not always the case with infinite soul manifestations.) Prior to the last thirty days of his life, he was a seventh-level old king who was a very capable spiritual adept and teacher. When the infinite soul manifested, the energy from his whole cadre on the messianic plane, a future self relative to his incarnation as a fragment of it on the physical plane, was stepped down into his body to provide a big boost in his energy output. It wasn’t a radical change, just an amplification, especially since it was his future self. (Ideally, all infinite and transcendental soul manifestations are fairly seamless as the candidates increasingly blend their energies with the higher source prior to the manifestation.) Infinite and transcendental souls are largely about providing what Facebook calls “pokes” to humanity.

There are six higher planes that often interact with us on the physical plane and necessarily work with our timeline to do so. However, the higher the plane, the less their own reality is defined by these divisions. On the astral plane, where many of us go occasionally when dreaming as well as between lives, time seems more fluid than on the physical plane—a dream or OBE (out-of-body experience) that lasts minutes of physical plane time may seem like hours, or vice versa. Even so, the two planes are closely aligned because souls go back and forth between them a lot, so our timeline is more of a factor for those on the astral plane than for those on higher planes.

From our point of view, time is still more fluid on the causal plane, and is almost irrelevant to those on the still-higher planes except when they are interacting with us in our timeline. Our timeline is important to them because a lot of their growth is linked to ours. We’re all in this together, working toward expanding the Tao, and the physical plane is the front lines.

Incarnating souls can have more than one lifetime in our time frame since there are over eight billion human bodies to fill. We call these “concurrents.” On your Michael chart, however, it lists your essence twin or task companion as being either discarnate or incarnate (male or female). It is possible that that soul has several incarnations in our time frame. The chart is telling you that you are linked to a particular one, or if discarnate, directly to part of the soul rather than to one incarnate fragment of it. This concept of linking also applies to which version of the multidimensional Michael someone is channeling.

Michael introduced themselves to us as a mid-causal entity in 1973. Our Michael linked to us from the fourth level of the causal plane. That is convenient because four is the scholar level, concerned with teaching, and Michael is teaching us. (As an entity, they are also in the fourth position of their cadre.) As our teacher, it might be convenient for them to continue tracking with most of us in our timeline from the fourth level of the causal plane so that there is continuity. I (and I think most other Michael channels) still work with Michael from fourth-level causal.

However, none of us ever stop being multidimensional; there are past and future versions of Michael that are also real, though less tangible to us when they are not directly linking to us at this moment in our timeline. Someone channeling a mental-plane version of Michael is probably accessing a future version of the Michael that first connected with us in 1973, one more reunited with its cadre than mid-causal Michael. The causal plane is one of the three ordinal (or tangible) planes; the mental plane is one of the three cardinal (or abstract) planes, so information coming from the mental plane might be more abstract or expanded, but maybe not all that different since it is still Michael.

Some have understood this as Michael “graduating” from the causal to the mental plane. It is theoretically possible that the mid-causal Michael that began tracking with us in 1973 then moved through the fifth, six, and seventh-levels of the causal plane and is now focused on the mental plane. (The akashic plane is next but it is a resource, not a plane where we have experiences.) However, that would be an extremely compressed evolution from our point of view. It can take ten lifetimes for a human to move in soul age from, say, third- to fourth-level old. So it seems more likely that the essence of a channel connecting to a mental plane version of Michael decided to link differently to them for a different result.

When we first study things like metaphysics or science, we have to start with simple models representing it and gradually work up to more complex ones. Perhaps you now have a better sense of how Michael could be channeled both from the mid-causal plane and the mental plane. And I hope your head is feeling better.