2025 Overleaves and Overview

• Role: Artisan

• Casting: Warrior – Toughens the determination, steadies the work
• Goal: Discrimination (aka Rejection) – Discern then discard
• Attitude: Cynic
• Mode: Power
• Chief Feature: Martyrdom – Shame, denial, then Self Pity = Hate.
• Center: Emotional / Intellectual Part
• Frequency: 64
• Masculine/Feminine Ratio: 61/39
• Realm: Techno – Working to replace the organic with mechanical
• Scope: Ordinal – Work at the smaller more manageable and inner aspects

• Part 1: 2025 Overleaves and Overview Part 1

• Part 2: Question and Answer for 2025 Overview

Overall Quick Description: Erratic, Divergent, Adaptive and Pressured

2025 Overleaves January 4, 2025

Transcript by ZOOM – Compiled by Susan Flow

Edited by Stephen Cocconi

Stephen:

Hi everyone and welcome to this evening’s presentation of the 2025 Overleaves.

I want to apologize to everyone in advance. I’ve had bronchitis this week. My voice is liable to crack and do whatever it’s going to do. Yeah, I am probably likely to sound pretty rough. And again, I apologize for that. Please feel free to ask me to slow down and repeat. If I’ve said something that you didn’t make out because of my voice cracking. By the way, ‘the gang’ feels fine. As a matter of fact, I think they like some of the cough medicine, because it tends to shut me up and let them come through. 😊

Book Recommendation and the Infinite Soul Influence

For those of you who are readers of actual books, I’ll recommend a person who I think is just who may be one part of the Infinite Soul energy. His name is Yuval Noah Harari, and his new book “Nexus: On Information Networks.” Timely because it deals with the way we have and do share, transmit, interpret and connect information. The reason it comes to mind is because one of the things that he says is that most of us, AI should be called AI: Alien Intelligence. (Addendum: This is significant because part of the Mature Soul Era threshold we must crossover will be to confront other Realms.)

Because it’s gotten to the place where it’s trained itself so thoroughly and it will continue to build on it, that it is actually a different way of thinking from human thought. And in every real sense of the word, trying to track it, or predict it, or make sense of it is literally like trying to tap into another race of being’s thought process. I thought that was a powerful observation.

And I’m well into it and I’ve read his two previous books (Sapiens and Homo Deus), and he’s a 7th level Old King, Scholar Cast with Priest ET. His tone is clear, brilliant and readable and his narratives are incredibly thoughtful, as far as the way he’s piecing things together. His scholarship is impeccable! He is an authority worth reading and listening to. He is informing, not condemning, but educating and warning us about the world we are creating. So, just a recommendation there. (Addendum: The Infinite Souls are likely to be a collection of people and each message will be informative about the state of humanity.)

Stephen Opens:

So welcome to 2025’s first presentation of the year. And… with it, as always, we’re following certain conventions that I use and hopefully you’ll find this instructive, informative and  interesting. If they become distractive, I’ll just turn off the slides and then continue to speak. Structure usually is, as we have done every other time for these ZOOM presentations: I will… start tonight, eventually dealing with the subject at hand but of course this little introduction is but of course the subtle introduction and it is descriptive in itself.

The channeling will be approximately half of tonight’s presentation. And then I’ll turn it over to y’all. So you can have question time with them. And follow up anything that you might want to pick apart or find out about in specifics.

As always, you are welcome to ask anything, although my request would be, given the fact that I’ll be sharing this transcript and this recording with people who aren’t here, to focus more on the subject matter.  Perhaps you can put your questions in a more general frame of reference before launching into more personally focused questions.

So just to remind you and to say aloud as always, Michael’s Consortium loves you all, as do I, and appreciates you all. They are luckily at a point of existence that they don’t take offense at anything. Isn’t that lovely? Wouldn’t that be a wonderful place to be? And so there are no “off” questions. In other words, you can’t say anything that is in any way wrong or not allowed or anything, so please allow yourself to be as genuine in the way you’re formulating and the way you want to state things.

Now, sometimes, as many of you know, they will take the point that you make and elaborate on it or even rephrase it a little bit to extract what they think might be also relevant in there.  One suggestion would be is that many of you who are tuning in is to mute yourselves until the Q&A period. When the Q&A period does happen, you’ll notice that there is a hand figure that comes up and I’ll see that and there’s Kathryn raising the hand. Thank you, Kathryn.

And if I click on that it’ll allow you to come to the forefront in my screen so that we can all feature you and getting the proper attention for your questioning. Otherwise, you can also literally, while sitting behind your computer, raise your hand like we did in good old-fashioned school years and years and years ago. And I will look for those as well.

Let’s see, is there anything else they want me to say? Oh, I guess there is one other thing. As some of you know, I have been using the transcript feature and I’m using AI to transcribe this material. I’m also recording. And every once in a while Susan or anyone, say “Hey come out of channeling and save the transcript”.

Let me make one final statement and then jump right in. Needless to say, I use the language of the Michael Teaching. That’s why you’re all here. For the 2025 Overleaves. I just wanted to offer a useful comment. And that is…when you think about the Overleaves of the year, obviously many of them will not be your own personal Overleaves that you chose when you incarnated.

But nonetheless, they will have an influence upon you. And what the purpose of these talks are is to compare and contrast how these energies might influence, enhance, agitate or modify your own. Some of you may get a chance to explore what they actually are and we can answer questions about how you might utilize them for yourself.

Michael’s Consortium Begins

Again, welcome to 2025. And as this introductory slide indicates. Henceforth, I’ll try to note which slide I’m referring to as we speak about it.

The humor that we start off with tonight to try and diffuse some of the tensions and the potentialities of this talk is to acknowledge that for many people, especially with the Grand Shift in orientation that this parallel on this Earth did with the election of Donald Trump and the end of the Chaos Node, that it puts you, of course, in a what we described as a “walking backwards” going into the Mature Soul Era. So we realize there’s a lot of timidity and feelings of uncertainty about the year.

The part of the juncture and critical point that we mentioned in the advertising of tonight we borrow the term the “Poly-crisis.” To use it in context of tonight, and what we want to acknowledge about entering the Mature Soul Era, as we have said before, is that one of the big underlying intellectual gift-challenges for all humanity, which is very uncomfortable for many, is the is the intellectual reorientation out of the simplistic binary of human thinking, good-bad, right-wrong, better-than or less than dualities, easy to digest but often far too limited in depth; and into complexity which requires critical thinking.

And complexity is a multi-dimensional, multi-level, multifaceted way of dissecting systems which affect reality. Because reality is an animal with many aspects that operate concurrently and often do not conform to the convenience of reductionistic categories or singular processes. It never has, but human perception has usually stuffed it into bookend notions for convenience and karmic learning. (Addendum: One of the challenges of being an Old Soul is to stop thinking in binary, two-dimensional terms, which is naïve and overly reductionistic.)

This notion of the poly-crisis, as we are using the term (it is present in many publications these days – do your Internet search for further deepening the topic), is the fact that there are multiple systems and conditions in existence going on simultaneously and most people simply feel overwhelmed by them.

And with that overwhelm there is a general groping for just which direction to go and how do you/we do this transition in the face of so many factors to consider? So we start off by doing what this Teaching is one of the best things about it is its definitional qualities. And so we’re going to start off by trying to define some of the components that people are facing. And it will help always in your discernment, in your personal discrimination/selection process sharpening and broadening your understanding of what’s going on, as we name the complex parts.

And as you’ll see in a few moments, when we talk about some of the Overleaves of this year 2025, Goal of Discrimination is one of them. And the best utilization of that energy is to name the parts and refine their meaning to deepen your understanding of the nuances present on the Physical Plane.

• Political – Rise of Authoritarian and Totalitarian Gov’t and Leaders. Also, the increase of “rogue” actors and destabilizing forces with weapons.
• Corporate – New institutions of Control. Shedding any regulation or taxes. Concentrating wealth into few hands and capture all resources.
• Economic – Creates pricings that makes rents, food, fuel, and credit so expensive as to be unattainable by the average person. (Displaced people.) More reliance upon credit for necessities.
• Financial – Concentration of wealth and transactions. Stock market fluctuations will be dramatic by late 2025 and 26. People’s nest eggs will be shakey and have much more negative impact on pensioners and regular investors. Digital currencies are working to replace cash and thus reduce the anonymity of purchases.
• Technological – More than AI. The incursion of machines to replace human labor. Using automation to separate people from each other.
• Environmental – Tipping Point of Climate Change. Effects are floods, droughts, hurricanes, fires, desertification, polar melting and extinctions.
• Psychology – The struggle of people to feel connected to each other. Isolation. Too much stimulus and inputs. Insecurity from uncertainty and overwhelm.
• Biological – Human created toxicity in both environment and food supply. (Every species food supply – plastic waste and forever chemicals) The increase of infectious diseases in both human and animals. (New pandemics)
• Democratic – Decline of participation. Increase in oppression and incarceration.

So the first one, of course, is the Political Crisis that you have going on. It goes on beyond just the United States. It goes well into many countries in the world and many circumstances that people are dealing with. An area of crisis that many people are experiencing and the change of power structures. What does that change the power structure going do to the corporate entity?

And why this is important is we’re talking about the Young Soul-oriented of the institution of corporations as you see them now in the mega-transnational context. And why that’s important is because for the first time in history, you are seeing the emergence of non-governments coming onto the world stage as major players. And in doing so, they do not have any kind of external regulatory or control over them on behalf of governments or their citizens. And of course, that’s a new step for humanity to have to cope with.

The next part of the poly-crisis is the Economic one. And we phrase it here, really for you from the consumer level. And that is the fact that across the board in the world both as greed and resource prices go up this makes things like rents and loans, food, fuel, and credit so expensive that it becomes unobtainable to the average person. Then what you see is this kind of disintegration that happens to begin the Mature Soul Era and that happens at any soul age transition.

But in this Mature Soul Era, you’re really seeing its prominence because in this poly-crisis, you can also think of it as multi-disintegration and multi-reorganization. And all these people, whether they be unhoused people here in the United States or in other major cities across the world are becoming the political, economic, and environmental refugees.  So all of those are reshuffling vast numbers of populations around.  And that is causing multiple levels of problems but also multiple levels of potential opportunity.   We can talk more about the specifics of that specifically the technological one.

Now, the Technological crisis….., You know, when we talk about the Techno Realm being the realm that is descended of the Four Realms, i.e.. the Angelic, the Fairy, the Techno, and the Terrestrial realm. The Techno realm is the one that’s present this year. And it’s having, as you can tell, a huge influence and it has been for the era since the 2000s. But why this is significant is because, folks, we want to tell you, in some ways, hopefully put your minds at ease at the idea of AI is not to be feared at this point.

It’s what you can think of…. however this  AI as a concept, as a business model  is overwhelming. It’s crowding out human beings. That’s what it’s trying to do. And it’s doing it. And we said “business model” because it is not just these algorithms and not just these supercomputers, and so forth. It is the attempt by large scale institutions to distance human beings with automation and machines, to replace human labor with machines and robots; all for the profit of a relative few i.e., the 1% .

One of the things about this change from the Young Soul to the Mature Soul era is this reorganization of human connection. And one of the whys that all these disconnections are happening is that automation, whether it’s that phone tree you get stuck on trying to talk to a human, or getting routed all around in a website and so forth. They are putting greater and greater barriers between humans getting the services they need. And that’s by design! Not by accident, and not just from the appearance of complexity.

What makes it complex, or more specifically complicated, to most of you is the fact that there are so many layers and so many levels, it’s difficult to just learn it, let alone endure it. This growing rift between understanding and useability is one of the biggest issues but it’s seldom talked about. But these issues are becoming more and more evident to many of you, even as your inner animal-side is feeling frightened, disillusioned and alone against the world.

And the tipping point is Climate Change, (the Environmental crisis). As you see we have listed here, this list of effects: you know, floods, droughts, hurricanes, fires, desertification, and polar melting and then the resulting extinctions that go along with that. Air and water are becoming more tainted as a result. All of you are in animal bodies and instinctively detect it.

Now, why that’s significant is because that plays on your human psychology. With everything we’re talking about here, the 20 of you or so are in attendance tonight. All of you feel this to certainly one degree or another. But the major thing is, is why we’re trying to help you understand this is not just for you, but for your ability to have conversations with people.

And even use this list, if you will as a bridge to help them to be able to articulate the parts of this complexity and for you and them to be able to actually narrow things down and have some common ground and figure out ways to at least speak your anxieties.

Now, we mentioned the Psychology and we mentioned the Environmental and we dropped down to the Biological which we could have put, of course, next to the Environmental but this is in some ways a separate issue. Because this rests a great deal with human industry and the way humans do their living. And so you notice we mentioned the fact that whether you’re talking about the way that you create your food supply with umpty, umpty artificial herbicides and pesticides and growth enhancers that literally supercharge it.

And also really wreak havoc with its nutritional value. You’re also wreaking havoc with the biology and food supply of every other creature out there. And then, of course, the ideas of plastics, which by the way, every one of you here has microplastics in your body. It’s now endemic in the human biological system. And many of you will experience these things as eventual changes in the risk factors to your disease susceptibility.

And then the last one is, the crisis that has to do with Democracy in general and the idea of participation. Of these eight things that we’ve talked about in this list, we tried to segment this down in an effort to help you grasp the enormity of it all. And yes, while each or any of these are huge in terms of themselves, you can cognitively and at least define these in such ways as to be able to narrow them and home in on them specifically so that they don’t become so absolutely overwhelming.

Even muted, you can laugh at this next slide. You know, one of the big assumptions (and catch phrases) if you will, has been the religious premises that many of you find yourself in any of the spiritual pursuits. And of course, our Michael Teaching comes under the heading of a lot of these alternative spiritual pursuits, you’ll notice the idea that “you’re here to raise the vibration of the Earth.” Yet, many of you are pooped!  You’re tired and we just want to acknowledge this.

And hopefully tonight, when you hear our interpretation of these 2025 Overleaves, we can give you a way to keep moving forward and to account for your tiredness.

2025 Overleaves List and Overview of Effects and Influences

• Role: Artisan
• Casting: Warrior – Toughens the determination, steadies the work
• Goal: Discrimination (aka Rejection)
• Attitude: Cynic
• Mode: Power
• Chief Feature: Martyrdom – Shame denial then Self Pity makes Hate.
• Center: Emotional / Intellectual Part
• Frequency: 64
• Masculine/Feminine Ratio: 61/39
• Realm: Techno – Working to replace the organic with mechanical
• Scope: Ordinal – Work at the smaller more manageable and inner aspects

As we’ve given them through this channel, are the Role of Artisan, the Expressive Ordinal. Now, it’s Casting is Warrior, which is also Ordinal, but it’s Action Ordinal. As you can see, it shapes or toughens the Artisan energy, kind of contains it in a way to make it more steady sturdy and potentially more focused. Which is really useful because as you can see the Goal is of a very, very determined and often tough one: the Goal of Discrimination. And you notice we use the old terminology for folks for those of you who’ve been with this teaching for a long time, you notice our original designation for Discrimination was the term Rejection.

And in many ways in the Negative Pole that Prejudice, exclusion bias, Rejection will be very prevalent in the world and it will be part of your opportunity, internally, to really go and investigate where you use those and why.

By the way, we want to give you the caveat of saying, the objective of this investigation is not to just say “I’m no longer prejudiced.” That would be nonsense. Rather, understand where they are in you and where those biases and where those may have come from because you may be absolutely right for you. The key is not to just shut down and transfer them out onto the world. But rather, to become more aware of them, and how it shapes your frame-of-reference toward world circumstances. Ordinal qualities will offer you the chance to focus on forming your own, or in a contractive way, over-personalize them and become overly Ego collapsed.

And the way you’re going to have help doing that is nothing more pushy and forceful than the Attitude of Cynic. Cynic, as you know, again, is the Warrior Attitude and it is the butt kicker! Because it is so, it is precisely rejecting of nonsense. It does not like bullshit, as it were. And on the positive side of it, it challenges itself to say, “Oh, come on. You know, is this really true?”

And so that energy with Discrimination and you see down there the Chief Feature of Martyrdom. Those are all Warrior energies that could feel pretty hard inside. But they can be really useful in that process of refinement; of jettisoning beliefs, attitudes, and emotional reactivity, you’ve used to indulge your Ego, instead of toughen it and grow it up.

Now the Mode is one that you can make good use of. And it’s Power Mode. And we want to make sure that you’re clear about something, ladies and gentlemen, and that is, and we’ve had this discussion as well as many of our channels prior to it. For those who see the word power here, understand we’re talking about how you adjudicate your personal use of energy, your personal expression, your assertion of rights in the world, not actions you impose upon others.

And sometimes that can be or feel like power over. But let us differentiate that from the Action oriented Goal of Dominance. Dominance is one that usually has the quality of wanting to be in some kind of hierarchy and or if not necessarily competitive at least having a level of control that involves potentially being over others or establishing themselves in a ranking.

Power is going within yourself. And finding out where, what your truth, what your principle, what your standard is.  And then being willing to stand in it and just hold your ground, stand your ground, or sometimes assert yourself.

Sometimes it is literally to… go beyond a former limitation and boundary that you had.

So that’s Power Mode. It’s mostly about internal for you. The Centering, we want to tell you that the Emotional Center Intellectual Part. We went back and forth in this because you’re going to find that your minds, especially with the Goal of Discrimination, are going to want to be very, very active.  That sorting process, that “this or that” energy is in fact a mental process.

But why we elected to signify that emotional quality first is that the emotional quality of Discrimination, especially in the Negative Pole, is a very powerful allure to hold on to your prejudices. We’ve often said, and we will reiterate right now, judgment is not the issue. As a matter of fact, if you didn’t judge the difference between your car and a bicycle people would be dead. If you didn’t judge the difference between rot and freshness, you know, you’d be really sick.

You need judgment! You need that discernment. The question not whether judgment is bad nor good, per se.  It is what is useful in differentiating, not in condemnation. Condemnation is where you have that emotional hurt, that emotional pain that is governing and rejecting others. So we just make that distinction.

Understanding that both will be very active. Now you’re coming off of a Moving centered year where last year you saw that that Growth Goal and the Moving center activity. There was a lot of things shuffled about. So we would tell you that this year, with all that shuffling about and the end of the Chaos Node and the beginning of a of a new era, is really cutting away a lot of the debris, a lot of the flotsam and jetsam that are not serving you anymore.  And just cutting it down to the real basic necessities will be really useful. And if you don’t, you will feel stuck, bogged down and probably fall into the Cynic/Martyrdom self-pity and blame cycle that happens when creature comforts don’t work or aren’t available anymore. Because in 2025, the Moving Part is the last aspect, of this year. Meaning, motion, action or change will only happen with actual determined efforting: not wishful thinking – which is actually and avoidance strategy.

Now, the Frequency, Frequency of 64.  As you know, Frequency is essentially the pace or the rate of change or how quickly things will revolve in your own mind and so forth, let alone potentially in the outside world. In the outside world, you may see this faster Frequency most evidence by how quickly the news cycle turns over; from one concept to or one story to the next. That’s the way you can see it in the world. For instance, it doesn’t mean they’ve gone away but it’s the kind of the news cycle sort of the Intellectual Center of the collective.

So with a 64, what you’ll feel inside is sometimes, not so much necessarily an impatience, but a feeling of harriedness, especially in an Artisan year many competing thoughts and feelings are going on in a milieu of many forced choices. And, you know, you may feel troubled or anxious and so forth about just what to do. And what we would just tell you is the best healing simple method, and one of the oldest guidelines, is to take one thing and just do it to its completion! And when you do any of this, you’ll find that you will tend to calibrate to your own innate, or embedded, frequency.

Now, the people who are likely to be affected by a 64 Frequency negatively, if you will are those people who happen to be say Joe or Nan who both of whom you know have their Frequencies on the low end of the scale. It doesn’t mean it’s that’s a good or bad thing. It just means that you are likely to experience this tendency we just described a little bit more often.

Also, we would say that what you will notice is in having communications with people it’ll be a lot more likely because of this emotional centering and this higher frequency that people will feel flustered.  So you are being invited to not go into fluster with them trying to make sense of what they say. And so when you’re having conversations like that, here’s the phrase “Wow, it really sounds like you’re processing a lot.”  Saying that, you’re going to see a lot of collective sighs.

Or “Oh, man. Thank you.” And we can tell you at that moment, you will evolve at least disengagement from the rapid pace of this Frequency. And then you can start having what we showed you by example Poly-crisis notion. A breaking down of layering and making distinctions between the parts of your communication. Because we realized we meant the word breakdown is to disassemble, not that it collapses.

So Masculine/Feminine Energy Ratio. It’s more balanced than it’s been. It’s still once again more biased toward Masculine energy. That means those of you who tend to utilize or be more feminine, or Feminine Energy, you will feel a pull, especially with this Warrior Casting influence, tighten up and be at least a bit more concise, if not clearer, not repetitive. And certainly in the Power Mode, if the Power Mode is pushing on you in the Negative Pole, can mean feelings of self-oppression with Martyrdom going on there. Understand that the Masculine Energy here is meant to just help you tighten up. It’s not here to beat you up!

Now, as far as the world’s concerned, ladies and gentlemen, you will see a good deal of that beating up energy. And you will be invited with a Chief Feature of Martyrdom to step into that poor me or self-pity place that feels beat up. And why we showed you Bugs Bunny earlier looking all tired and ratty is because if anything, our invitation to you under these Overleaves is to step back. To actually be in the world, but not of it.

And the part of the world we want you to be in is not just your own personal refuge that shuts people out. But rather the part we want you to be more forthright in is the part where you are laying the groundwork for new relationships, new community new associations, new coalitions. And by the way we’re not talking about obviously the romantic or sexual ones. We’re talking about just literally being able to start talking to your neighbors. You know, having phone conversations more often or joining groups.  And fortunately, there aren’t any further pandemics, yet, which prevent that. They are coming in the future.

So the Masculine/Feminine Energy Ratio is up and that’s the work with it. Balancing these will represent most tricky and the most perhaps challenging competitions that you will see out there in the world. But there will also be a piece inside yourself to deal with is that, as we said, the Techno Realm will be featured.

Now, many of you know that technology has been a tremendous boon in many ways. And with the Techno realm descending and influencing more than ever this year, you’re going to see society and culture wanting either to rebel against or there are powers that want to totally enshroud society under technology and its control.

And so that is a really important place for you to understand and the biggest thing that we can say, and we’ve given you this admonition because it will be ongoing for years to come, but it just so happens that 2025 is exaggerated and enhanced with this energy. Even more so with the Artisan year, you know, it’s okay to use technology to create but be really, really careful to minimize its use and stop letting it corral you into its field. You get disabled and dependent that way; and more distant from your organic, animal, human nature.

If you’re using the technology to try and go find information because it’s really biased, really skewed, you’re liable to go down the rabbit hole.  So just know that up front and get a lot of different viewpoints because remember, in a Discrimination year, is important to make your decisions with what’s in and what’s out. And in 2025, the Goal of Discrimination is really about finally coming down to a narrowed list of, what’s in and what’s out.  What am I excluding? What am I getting rid of? And what am I really winnowing down to.

Scope: Ordinal vs Exalted

And therein lies this idea of Scope, as we call it. You know the idea of Ordinal versus Exalted (Cardinal) qualities of Overleaves. We’ve called them scope in that we’ve introduced and made comparison that the micro level or Ordinal is usually about the individual, the inward the personal the immediate around you, even the short term.

And why this is important is because many have gotten so caught up and distracted by last year’s very Exalted year.  This year try to bring it down, get everything back into personal management as much as you can. And that includes what vibrations you allow in your space and work with. As well as, again, what you control.

Now, one caveat for most everyone here is, with the exception of a couple of attendees. All of you here are at least over 50 most over 60 and a few of you over 70 years of age. So as we’ve said, and you’ve heard us use this phrase, you are on the Love portion or last chapter of your lifetime. Meaning that we are using our conceptual framework of: Truth, Love, and Energy from our Teaching.

Well, you are all in the Love phases of your lives. Truth being the beginning part of your existence, Energy being the major central part where you built yourself, did your acquisitions and now you’re in the Love phase. Now, however that looked for you, this is a time to really once again recultivate whatever and whoever you love, art, beauty music, the synthesis of just being alive.

Even if you have trials and tribulations bring that Love into your into your space as much as you can and make it personal. This is not about using external standards for those evaluation. It’s about being okay with your own and not feeling like either you have to reject other people’s or feel self-pity because yours don’t line up with other people’s. So those are the Warriors.

To Recap 2025 is a Warrior cast Artisan Role year. Attitude of Cynic. Power Mode. Martyrdom Chief Feature. Centering Emotional Part of the Intellectual Center or the Emotional Center of the Intellectual Part. Frequency is 64. Masculine/Feminine Energy Ratio of 61/39. Influence in the Technical Realm and then the scope of the year being Ordinal.

In the spirit once again, of trying to keep this outlook of this year a little more lighthearted is realizing that the Artisan is often just trying to you know reconstruct, repurpose, not necessarily inventing anything anew not necessarily trying to create from scratch. And it’s certainly more than arts and crafts. It is literally just trying things differently. And with the Artisan energies or the Artisan subordinate Overleaves specifically of Discrimination Goal that’s going to be doubly enhanced is those rearranging of things. So we offer you this just like this little kid.

Experiment, with a child’s mind there’s even when the thing goes boom it’s manageable.

So this idea here is to discern and choose. You don’t have to know in advance. In fact, what we would say to you is the very nature of the rejection part of the Discrimination Goal is to eliminate things and eliminate ideas and just eliminate crap out of your life. So you don’t have to have a plan in advance just continue to improvise and rework and do things.

Now, of course, so often when we do this presentation we have been talking about ever since 2021 and will probably continue through the remainder of our time here on the Physical Plane interacting with you, we will be talking about humanity’s evolution into the Mature Soul era.

And of course, many of you felt this tremendous blow and this tremendous uncertainty with the again the seeming regression by the election of Donald Trump. But what we said when we did the special presentation, remember the dividing line between humanity is really, really, really close. Even though the Mature Soul energy has actually shifted.

What happened was a lot of restive and non-participative folks sat on the sidelines and allowed them to stay at the forefront. But those beings, the humans that are still out there and they just need to be coaxed and moved and motivated i.e., brought back into the fold, so to speak. But again, we could bring this back to trying to redefine things in a way that is useful for our terminology.

The metaphysical viewpoint that we and Stephen present, as well as try to use bridge, by using terminology, so you may have conversations with anyone out there in the outside world. So we bring up these two concepts again, one which we created and then one of historical use.

And that is the idea of Soul-Ciology™ which is the influence of Souls(Essences) looking at human history and the orientation of the steps in Soul Age evolution and how that has influenced things. And then compare it to actual Sociology, which is the academic discipline of the way that human beings organize themselves in groups: societies; which includes their politics, their economics, and so forth. Now, the reason we put this here and we use this nicely pyramid description that we took off the internet is because we thought it was actually useful to help you understand where things are at now and how they do represent an attempt to take Thought Forms and structures from the past and actually superimpose them on today.

And you can see at the bottom, the lowest paid workers, the unemployed, they’re called the serfs and the peasants. And as you move up, merchants, farmers, craftsmen. What we want to tell you folks is from a useful standpoint, what you got to realize is that those three bottom levels of the pyramid really represent human beings and contributing their own individual labors to things. And what is an evolution? Is whether or not people will utilize, or can utilize, their own positions within a social structure to contribute their labors in a way that not only earns them some money back, but literally advances a society as a whole. It is a CHOICE! Notice, it is the founding concept of this teaching. It is grasping what kinds of choices there are and how you do, or do not, implement them, that is the key to first self-awareness, which contributes to personal power, and then the spreading of change, via behavioral example, to larger groups.

The step backward, of course, is that a lot of the energy that got redefined and will tried to be reworked, “tried”, emphasis “tried”, will be reworked in the next four years and they are at the top two tiers. And interestingly enough, they actually represent the Negative Pole movement forward of the Mature Soul energy.

And why do we say that? Because the corporations, the Billy Boy billionaires may be people, but the fact is they rely on money and this abstraction acts as a non-direct trade for their labor and control over things. That actual deconstruction or disconnection between the way that they exert control and power system, not directly from their own labor is an intellectual move forward.

But in the meantime, the way you’re likely to feel that you’re treated is kind of, you can refer back to this and say, “Oh, that’s kind of what’s going on here.”  You don’t have to buy into this or feel subjugated by this. What you do have to know is the outer world is focusing back in the structures and the systems that are out there. You are experiencing this.

So what’s the key? Literally talking to each other, not retreating, not going silent, not falling prey to more of the loneliness and more of the isolation that the energy of the Techno Realm and that authoritarian and totalitarian people try and cultivate within populations. Because the more that you feel separate and alone the more that they are able to convince you of your powerlessness. And then, you know, operate their systems to continue to control you.

So we just want you to understand that the Mature Soul Credo of Involvement which is, by the way, the Positive Pole as we define it with our Michael Motivation cards, that social bonding and interconnectedness, this is going to be so important for all of you. It’s okay if you use connection to start the process. But don’t just use it, solely, as the forum.

Go beyond that. And part of the invention of the Artisan energy is just to make it up all new.  Not through reinforcing the old lines of your political choices or beliefs. Dump those all in the toilet, not your principles mind you. But all of these structured things that you’ve used to reject one another. And just see where you can find new places for interaction and to actually speak with one another.

Because we got to tell you folks, you’ve heard us say over and over and over again that we are trying to promote in you the idea of paying attention to the energy of vibration which is not directly about emotion or feeling or sensation. But rather, it is about that greater sense of the unseen background integrity or resonance, that actually you may internally call that sense of expansion.

Let’s face it, folks, expansion does not always feel comfortable. It doesn’t. And that’s the point here. When you’re talking about Power Mode this this year.  You’re going to have lots of opportunities to as they say, “step out of the comfort zone.” And it won’t feel safe. But discomfort doesn’t mean that you are unsafe. It just means that you feel awkward.

And acting with courage as part of the taking the authority, which is the Positive Pole of Power Mode. And implementing an act of courage doesn’t have to be that you put on your superman Cape or Wonder Woman’s shield or shield any of that stuff. It just means you do something that steps outside of that comfort zone, what’s familiar.

I will leave you a moment, do any of you know the famous Ralph Waldo Emerson?  And you notice our title there is the “Expansionary Poles of Cynic and Martyrdom.” We use that term, “Expansionary Poles,” particularly in 2025, in regards to vibration.

 

In regards to vibration, because folks, we’re suggesting to you that expansion is in your heart, the Emotional Center. You will find ways to just bring more love to the world. And even Cynic can do that. It just says, “don’t show me a lot of fluff and stuff.” It says, “you don’t necessarily have to become fresh with lofty ideals.” Oh, just be raw and real. And of course, the Positive Pole of Martyrdom is Selflessness. Which just says “Okay I’m taking the lead here. I maybe smacked by somebody who feels reactive. But it’s not about me. And I’m not going to just go into hating them or feeling sorry for myself as a result. And if you can actually consciously hone-in upon, and approaching this as an exercise in self-development you’ll find that it will be really, really liberating.

And the way to do that and we’re visiting back again, our friends the Chief Features. Ah, yes. So now we’re homing in on Martyrdom because Martyrdom’s Positive Pole is Selflessness and in the Negative Pole is Victimization. But let us just remind you all folks, the Chief Features are not just usually one thing or one reaction. They’re an entire context behind a way of thinking about whatever’s happening to you, a way of filtering fear.

So what do you do? As a way of constructively dealing with that and in an Artisan year, you’re talking about reworking your own palette of presentation, your own way of doing things, your own, you could even think of it as reworking your own persona. And that is when you notice that you have a reaction and then some kind of an automatic justification or rationale or should we say, go looking for them because they’re back there!

Try just naming it. And when you name it, you’ll interrupt it. You’ll pause it for a moment. And by doing that you might say, “Okay, so if I were to put this under a different context does my reaction still stay the same?” And generally, emotionally, if you look at this silly and rather loud, because Chief Features often are really loud but very subtle in their background, the main emotion that often goes on with Martyrdom is shame. And the main reaction in Martyrdom to that shame is often blame. It can be blaming the self it can be blaming others.

Getting a hold of those things, and this is where we talk about the personal growth, the metaphysics, the individual psychology of all this. When you see it out in the world, realize that this is one of the main tools that you will see being utilized in the population. The more that you can help people name this and the operation of this and those manipulative leaders who are wanting to use this, the more you can help bust its power.

Once again, we mentioned the Techno realm and folks, this is a really illustrative image:

Because notice, all these people are right next to each other. And yet they’re buried in their phones. And there’s plenty of you out here in this audience who find yourself not buried in your phone; it may be your computer screen. It may be even your Kindle or whatever electric mechanism you use. (A popular term of warning of too much screen time is the “Black Mirror.”)

All we’re asking you or suggesting to you is get out from behind the black screens as much as you can. And utilize them as only as necessity. And when you use your phone, this will make you laugh use it as a phone, not as a text agent, but as a telephone.

Call your friends. Forget texting them unless it’s texting them and say, “Hey, you got 10 minutes let’s talk.” Because that vibration of talking is so much more powerful for establishing and reinforcing connection and community than any amount of texting, let alone going on social media.

One comment about Ordinality, in other words, that personal one that needs to be mentioned

in this particular history. And notice many of you are, as we’re going through our slides we’re simply… mentioning by individual topic you know all the pieces that we mentioned in those Overleaves.

So when we talk about the Ordinal in scope. One of the parts of Ordinality that could be really, really helpful to you and liberate you and really be valid and useful particularly to this set of Overleaves is the Artisan rebuilding, the Goal of Discrimination, trying to sort and get rid of a lot of the junk and the attitude of Cynic that says, “What really is nonsense that I’ve been you know promulgating in my life under positivity or ‘shoulds’ or whatever that really isn’t truly me.” And by the way, you may discover that you really don’t know, in which case, “Hey. Go look.” The Cynic is a lot more okay with saying, “All right, you don’t know.” than hearing people put up a whole lot of ideas and arguments and even contradict themselves.

The point is that many of you, and we have said this in the last couple of talks, have been in personal growth now for 20, 30, 40, 50 years, you know yourself well enough. You don’t need to be looping back to what your astrology says is going to be happening next week.  Make your own decisions for what’s happening with your self-knowledge, but not constantly rehashing.

You know, breaking yourself down into increment parts and then getting lost in that. Because ultimately, in years to come you’re going to be asked to come out of this and start presenting yourself more.

The best way to do any of this is, you know, to eliminate the false Negative Pole of the Emotional Center’s belief  that, “my emotions tell truth.” Your emotions show you a reaction inside you. That part is factual about the nature of emotions. But… there are a few, out there, who have really confronted this falsehood, and we congratulate you inside of your own lives. But you’ll see that reactivity all over the place. How many people react when they have a bad feeling come up in them and they report, “I’m offended.”

It’s that sense of taking offense that keeps the division going. And what we were saying to you is, “Look in this year, try and disconnect from emotional reactivity by honoring what emotions are truly there”, but then using the Cynic to go through there and say, “Okay, what are the beliefs in there? How many of them are bullshit? And how many of them do I need to really let go of?”   But how many of them are actually true? And I could rebuild with them, aka the Artisan energy.

Last thing, we want to just the last couple of things we want to mention is you know there are many folks who use the strategy of positivity and end up doing a lot of invalidation. And we just want to offer to you to pay attention to when that comes up. That form of band-aiding not only helps you to avoid things, but you can really lose track of what’s going on.

So we’ll just skip through a couple of the rest of these slides. And get to this one because we think it’s a useful one. We will put this in the transcript because we think it’s really useful. A fellow by the name Jim Lanctot created this Virtue Continuum.

And we thought that this was very appropriate for the Discrimination year to help you understand a lot of what is going on in the world and what people are actually dealing with. Notice the center column is the very useful set of values that human beings are pursuing.

Now, when people erroneously, and you see on the right side of this, conflate, and confuse, monetary worth as being representative of social values, you’ve really missed the point. And of course, that’s what Baby and Young Souls do and have in their entire lives and in their entire history. (Addendum: Part of the MAYA’s prominent in these Soul Ages, to see people as objects of production instead of unique agents of value unto themselves.)

These have got to be broken apart. And you can actually help by being change agents by saying, “Hey, let’s look at this.”  And we’ve told you that. You notice there’s an excess side and a deficiency side. We prefer that people see either side has a dysfunction when unbalanced. Rather understand that these are not Positive and Negative Poles, they’re not; they are just what it says: excess and deficiency, too much or too little. Meaning that you can see when they are being overbalanced to either side. The balance point is in the middle. Yet, people must identify the importance of the middle concept and hold it as a societal value, not something to be bought and sold, exercised by some and not others, but a duty and aspiration for each citizen and being. (Addendum: Personalities are Citizens in whatever country they inhabit. As an Essence (being) you are always being confronted with the Universal comprehension of values that are explored in being not only in your own body, but as a member of the body politique in which the theatre of your life is set.)

And so we just want to mention this for you to have some further study this year, because it will help you to understand the polarities, not even the polarities when there’s too much and too little.  And then where you can then balance for yourself. And again, we mentioned this. Some of you recognize this little cartoon as being a spoof of the movie: Planet of the Apes. And be careful.

Positive (approving or agreeing statements, does NOT automatically translate into useful, meaningful, or corrective action. i.e. rhetoric instead of problem solving.

You know much of the right wing are full of so-called optimists and that optimism. Just as many of those on the left wing use over positivity. Be leery of both. Because a lot of times what it’s trying to do, and what the positive Cynic can actually help you do is get Warrior grounded, to try and clear away the crap of being overly or falsely, optimistic. That too is self-deception.

And trying to say that there is hope about something that you draw from being alive. Just being alive and the fact that you know people, the ideas and the processes like that you make those happen which is our recommendation then when you’re out there in the world.

Connect into this year by reforming or making things anew. Don’t worry about what went wrong, or what’s might go wrong, except for what you can learn from those events and correct your precision.  But rather focus on all these organizations and processes and programs and groups of people that are inventing and doing things and striding in a Mature Soul grassroots way to make things happen. And there are tons of them. There’s lots of new success out there. They tend to be small, new, more “grassroots”, groups or approaches, and don’t get much mainstream attention or press.

So this is not a year for necessarily sitting on the sidelines and just watching. It is about pulling in and making personal connections and personal decisions. And we got to tell you, you know, every bit of these Overleaves call for interactivity, not isolation.

So, you know, testing things, coming up with questions, all that is going to be really useful because the more you can do that this is how 2025 is going to feel the vibrationally the most uplifting to you. And that is, doing things with people in small groups with as much personal contact as you can make.

And with that, we thank you. Now we’re going to turn it over and give you the time for questions.

Question and Answer Session

Michael Entity continues:

And what we can see here is that Sally is going to be our first questioner, and then Susan. Sally, and would you like to have the first question.

Sally:  Yes, thank you.  First of all, for the last several years, I have really been struggling with respiratory issues, asthma, and so forth. And yes, I’m getting various treatments for it including established medical things. But I find that I find that physically I cannot interact or go out very much like I used to.

And therefore, my interaction with people is quite limited. And I am not happy about that.

Anyway, what I’ve ended up doing, I wonder if the fact that I do meditation and so forth and visualize better things for the world and for others and so forth. Is that enough? I don’t know how else I can do more.

Michael Entity: We want to, first of all, acknowledge your physical limitations, as we could everyone here including the channel who’s been wearing a mask all week for the few times he has gone out.

We just want to hesitate to say, to comment on your phrase, “Is it enough?” Because notice how quickly you can jump into shame if somehow we said, “No, Sally, it’s not enough.”

It is, if it’s the most you can do with the greatest intention then it is enough. If you can be an inventive, creative Artisan, right? And say, “You know what, I’m going to wear a mask and I’m going to have a couple of friends over for tea. We’ll only do it for an hour.” Or “ I’m going to call up Susan and we’re going to chat.” Or “I’m going to go to, you know, and just give myself a half hour to go sit at the park.”

Those kind of things where you minimally tax yourself.  And you take precautions. We think you’ll find your vibration will compensate for your physical limitations in some very real energetic ways.

Sally:  Okay, thank you!

Michael Entity:  Certainly. I hope that answers your question. Okay. Thank you, Sally. Susan, you want to go next?

Susan: Sure. Hi, Michael. You indicated we’re going into an Artisan year with Warrior casting,

you mentioned that there’s going to be continued “disintegration”. And then you mentioned “rebuilding”. I’m wondering if you could share where the biggest disintegrations and rebuilding might be occurring this year in relation to institutions such as organized religion or governments and in which countries?

Michael Entity: All right. Well, that’s a tall order, but we’ll do our best. In terms of the tearing things down, breaking things down in the United States, this first is going to be the fiasco of watching the new administration trying to attack and dismantle as many of Federal institutions as are there.

And we said trying because here’s the good news. When you have Artisan energy against Artisan energy. It’s always a humorous fiasco. And when you have Warrior cast Artisan energy, then you can see there’s a lot of intimidation, a lot of feather fluffing going around.

Some have predicted more violence and arguments. We actually think that unlike the Aggression Mode, which also can be very assertive as Power Mode, can be. We saw Aggression last year in a lot of areas and in both ways that it broke out. But we don’t see it as much this year.

The incidences of violence that you saw just in the last few weeks whether it’s Luigi Mangione or the trucks blowing up or running over people. They’re going to continue to happen even though this is not predominantly violence here.

Now coming back to the point, okay, so those are the major institutions corporate institutions and governments that we see on the brink.

We actually see the Russian Federation and oil prices in the world actually being really unstable.

Really unstable. And why this is significant is because the two are interactive. That is to say, oil as a fundamental underpinning of your economic systems has largely been held in place because of the collusion between the United States and Russia as the two biggest oil producers. Right?  Because they are bigger than OPEC, even if OPEC maybe gets more press than they do, or at least once did. OPEC has a lot more dependent governments.

 

So if there is an oil price collapse… Why that’s significant is that first of all, on a consumer level.

You will see a lot more people go, “Yay, Donald Trump supported us and you know lowered prices for a little while.”  What it’ll come home to roost for them will be the falling dominoes of a loss of jobs and currencies around the globe destabilizing.

And with those destabilizations, then having the effect of people seeing other consumer items and other areas of their things like just prices go up and their 401ks come down. Which, by the way, we will actually do something a little unusual and that is to say, according to the energies as we read them, ladies and gentlemen, one of the things that we would suggest to most of you who are successful at or like to play in stocks and bonds and you know all that kind of thing.  We would tell you that the kind of energies that are present usually lead to very erratic markets.

And so for those of you who like to manage your funds or know how to do it. We would say hold on to your cash for a while or take some more out and put it in as safe of instruments as you can. At least through 2025. Granted, you may not make some of those spiking big interests but most of the people who are making money on those anyway are on those top two levels of the pyramid that we showed you.  And many of you are not going to necessarily get anything out of that.

We’ll pause for a moment. Susan, are we answering some of your question?

Susan: You’re doing a great job! Thank you.

Michael Entity: Thank you. Okay, very good. In the United States, some of the rebuilding that we’re seeing is this real robust energized albeit for now reactionary, but still really, really enlivened uh… what’s the word we want to say kind of the enlivenment and re-energizing of local and state smaller segments of government in the United States.

Well, outside the United States, particularly in South America, we think you’re going to see really robust and yeah, probably even socially very reactive. And they’re prone to it anyway because you know most of South America is pure Passion mode. But nonetheless, they’re going to be really reacting to a lot of what goes on in their economies, which will be very dynamically, probably negative and contractive.

So in the United States these re-energized local entities and why will they be? Because they’ll be honing-in on more local small town neighbor to neighbor kind of things. Now, why this is significant is you will also see why that group of people that they call themselves the MAGA folks. You know, who thought that Donald Trump is their savior, many of them are having cold feet.

Because they’re already seeing the ripple effects. And Donald Trump hasn’t even taken office yet, but they’re starting to see the ripple effects of the instability that he has ushered in.

By the way, Joe’s comment (in the chat: Maggots) is illustrative, by the way, of when you get Cynic Discrimination and Artisan… oh, and the Emotional Center all working together. It’s called sarcasm.  Snarky. And sometimes bitter sarcasm. And we just want to point out to you folks, it can be very fun.  But believe it or not, try and be as inclusive with your sarcasm as you can. Because otherwise, it’ll trigger the kind of butting heads that many of you tried to avoid in the last year.

Anyway. Let’s see. What else? So one of the things that you will invariably see is the continued rise of the billionaire class. It’s interesting. Jillian just said it. I was working and about to start to say it or ask the question about the influence and the overt manipulation.  In the case of Elon Musk, he represents something that’s really sadly a reversal and the first time it’s ever happened in an overtly in American history and that is that a non-elected person is being given actual power to make governmental decisions.

Trying to not get confused with the upper class of income earning levels, and the ultra-millionaires of previous times in the Gilded Age. They had influence. And yes, they would pocket some but they didn’t have direct power like Elon Musk and this guy Rami Vivekananda or whatever his name is. And we apologize. We don’t mean to sound particularly racist by mispronouncing his name.

But those two men are literally being given power to non-elected persons. And that’s a first in the United States. And that represents a reversal in democracy, by the way. You don’t have to stand for it. You don’t have to lay down for it. And the best way to torment Donald Trump and the Republican party is call them, essentially … what do they call it, their stooges.  Because Donald Trump hates his ego to be bettered by somebody else. And of course, he already is. He already is getting… beaten and beat up by Elon musk.

So in any case. The whole technological realm will try its best. It won a victory just you know the other day after two decades. With the striking down of the internet neutrality rules. The corporatization and commercialization, not to mention the increased censoring of the internet has now been sanctioned.

So… Let’s see, is there anything else we would add to this for right now? Susan, more may come, but certainly that was an excellent question. We hope at least that’s given you some scope and some parameters.

Susan: Yes, and some of it is very positive, Michael. Thank you!

Michael Entity:  Certainly. There is a lot of room for new building even as there is disintegration and there’s room for resistance.  You know that is just about making sure as the adage has been going around, “Don’t agree in advance.”  That’s what Power Mode in the Positive Pole is. So, all right uh Richard uh you’re up next.

Richard: First, thank you. Very great. Very inspiring. I saw the sun set over a city I’m very inspired coming in here and I got a lot of inspiration from things you were saying too.

So there’s a thing with the pyramid that we’re getting to a point of basic physics like….the CEO got popped by Luigi right?  But then everybody for the next several weeks got it.

(Referred about Elizabeth Warren giving testimony….Elon Musk trying to get his immigrants by…)

I mean, it’s like… We’re down to the tectonic plates of Governance, I believe. So there’s a reason you have a bureaucracy. There’s a reason that there’s a rule of law. There’s a reason like basically this is so consumptive that it can’t stand. So there’s a thing called the internal contradictions of capitalism. And that’s when the gears, when you don’t put oil in the gears.

It’s unfortunate. A lot of people get hurt. You can’t beat the house. It’s it consumes itself…

Be afraid it sort of changed to this is physics this is just getting to be like physics it’s like, okay, this is beyond you know like 50 guys own everything.

Okay, this is what the system is. I mean, here we are, right?  We’re all like in this train station watching now. You know, like, but they got everything. So, um. It’s down to physics.

Michael Entity:  Is there a question? Is there a question about with your commentary?

Richard: No, Sorry. Yeah. So basically, no. My question was in the dynamics of it because it was in the dynamics the two top layers of the pyramid are basically consuming the base of it. It’s not just like that the base I mean.  The base is being awakened. So basically my question is

there a dynamic of the top of the pyramid consuming the base and what kind of a cycle does that set up?

Michael Entity: Well, of course. First of all, the graphic image that you’re mentioning (Social Economic Pyramid) is not a new one. It was actually put forward in the 19th century and it’s just been redone.  That’s one part. Second part is, is that the way it the new labels on there have been added in.

It comes from the book of a Mature Sage fellow by the name of Yanis Varoufakis. But anyway, the point being is the only reason we’re trying to just get this said is that you’re talking about physics. Well, what the image also implies, just like anything that has gravity to it.

When the weight, the sheer gravity builds up on top to do too much, it eventually collapses.

And so, yes, the collapses of these natures often happen. Especially in empires and there are competing empires at the earth at this time, as well as social structures, which is that difference between government systems and corporate systems.

That event, you know, the Soul Age transitions are very likely to find weakness and break down. And that’s true of this, but it will take some time. And as we said in the fourth quarter overview, whatever you guys came out of the end of the year will be what the trajectory you’ll be working with the next 25 years.

So all of these things are spanning a 25-year period. And people whether they’re Musk or Putin and so forth they are not either going to go away, but also they are not going to be bosses of the human race ultimately.  But you will be seeing them prominently in the short-run interplay of this.

Remember that the dynamics of the Artisan energy? This is for you, Richard, we realize you know our teaching from afar, but not necessarily an active interpreter of it. When we talk about the Overleaves of these years or Overleaves in general, we’re talking about influences that are showing, you want to use your physics, a state of either equilibrium or disintegration or acquisition or, you know, in other words motion.

And why this is useful to try and take your analogy and utilize it and try and reinterpret the way we’re doing, is to say that this is both the beginning of a very active period, and it is also the beginning of a very disorganized period. And some of what will happen is before things break down, things will build up.

And, you know, they will be by doing a lot of the things that Donald Trump and his people and administration seek to do or just even unleash they won’t be successful in all of them, but they’ll still unleash them. And then the rest of everybody will be scrambling with them and they’ll be tripping over themselves. And all of that kind of thing.

And by the way, folks, when we talk about the Artisans and their energy try to remember that Artisan, of all seven of the Roles, is the most dynamic (and sometimes erratic) because it has five concurrent channels of input.  Now, when you’re descending that onto the human race, it means that there’s whole lots of competing ideas some of them even very contradictory.

And they get in each other’s way and they trip each other up and you know, this administration is one of the most incompetent in history   I mean, in every way and so it will do more to shoot its own feet than most people will ever have to do to try and take it out. But the ineptitude of the system, capitalism itself is coming to that crisis point because, and we had a slide there that we decided to skip over.  Because capitalism assumes a closed and almost perfect interaction between production and consumption. And notice that the image below tries to illustrate that interaction. (Workers consume items and feel satiated – yet they gain little real value yet they are psychologically reinforced by Pavlovian Conditioning to want more and more. Owners consume money and gain more power through increased financial worth and property. They are naturally co-dependent upon each other.)

And of course, the reality is, is that they both rely on the Earth and its irreplaceable resources. And the Earth is coming to the edge of its end point where it can supply all this stuff. And as soon as that reality hits everybody no matter if you used every resource on the planet, it stops. It stops. And then, and while we don’t see as yet Mad Max happening on the planet that is the kind of logical end. That it goes without mitigating and without altering and so forth.

I hope that answered some. But I’ve got other people. Okay. Thank you. Jillian, you were next and then Angela.

Jillian: I have two areas but you started to answer it when you were talking about it going into another 25-year period. And it seems to me that there’s no short-term turnaround for maggots and others who are on the Trump train. I think that they may get disillusioned with him, but I think that kind of anger lacks productivity. I suppose, I think of them but over the next 25 years  I won’t be here. Most people here won’t be here. I think the thing that I look at is what led to the MAGAs. And a lot of it, from my perspective, is from ignorance that they weren’t well educated about government and a lot of other things.

 

So if we could if we could work on education over the next 25 years, how much effect would that have in what comes next is one of my questions.

Michael Entity: Excellent question. First instead of anger, we’ll use the term bitterness – from shame and resentment. The best “education” will be personal. It will come are from actually educated people who will turn to their neighbor and say, especially when they’re feeling scared and disgruntled and say, “It’s interesting. there’s a lot more information about how these things work that maybe you have or haven’t considered?” And of course, you’ll know full well they haven’t considered because since Reagan, in the United States, there has been a systematic destruction of cognitive stimulation. A regression back into propaganda, nostalgic mythologies, and nationalistic oversimplications. In other words, they have been training people, indoctrinating people, instead of educating them on how to think critically. We have termed this the “transmission of what-to-think (believe) instead of how-to-think (critique and analyze.) And, the biggest sabotage has been reinforcing binary stereotypes and then subtly condemning them whether they are masculine/feminine, gay/straight, or ethnic stereotypes.

Unless you’re a person is at the higher tiers of exposure to thinking as in higher education, expanded awareness and compassion cannot grow and mature. In the US, the monetization and business-fication of higher education, has locked out those people who could not self-finance higher education, like many of the average worker or poor or socially disadvantaged. And thus, you are absolutely correct! They never got exposed to it and they don’t even know what they don’t know. And while it is simple to stereotype by Soul Age expectation of openness and capacity to comprehend, that would not be accurate.

Jillian: Right. And the people who voted for Trump, the people who got information from their neighbors or from their churches were like voted for Trump by 25 points. So it’s like talking to your neighbors, I don’t see as being reversible.

Michael Entity: And that’s one of the things that progressively if you want to have some influence is being civil.  And one of the things we can say about the left that they may or may not have known about it themselves because it was invisible to them. And we term this as a front, not every individual in it was pretty smug about it. “Well, don’t you see this? It’s so obvious.”  No, it wasn’t.

These folks couldn’t see it. And they never dealt with the resentment, why these people or how their fear turned into resentment. Turned into self-righteousness. And so it became that people met it with more self-righteousness on both sides.

One of the deconstructions we said and why we emphasize learning not to take offense it’s just realizing that a lot of these folks are super emotionally reactive And the only way to maybe even make small inroads is to be humane to the degree you can. And to the degree you can’t, you have to be honest with yourself saying, “Okay. Are there places in me where I’m supporting some true principle? Or is it my own emotional reactivity that’s still in place?”

Because as Older Souls and Mature adults (the second does not have to be the first) you guys can only deal with that. It’s not about manipulating these other people. Then the next thing is, is going on with your life, living as good a life as you can, putting your energies in places that are working and things that are working. By working, we mean moving the goalposts forward, so to speak.

Because for you to sit down with a blue-collar worker and have an intellectual conversation about the construction of government, you’re right. That’s just going to fail. That’s like going to be hitting your head against you know a brick wall. And so, it’s not effective. You know being kind to those blue collar workers who are working at the supermarket, just hearing things and saying things to them like, “That must be scary”  and  “There are still ways we can change that” or whatever.

Efforts to just build the bridges rather than continue to erect your own walls. That is what’s going to happen. We can tell you, Jillian, that the American education system is one of the institutions that’s trying to be even further dismantled. And the clown car of cabinet persons that this guy has coming in are going to do everything that they can to do that. Here’s the irony though in some states and in some places they may get away with it.

There’ll be other places that they’ll look at this with horror and not even necessarily liberal places, but just places where they’ll go, “What do you mean?” We’re not going to get money for funding the school lunch or things like that, people who depend on it, who aren’t necessarily minorities. You know, like in the white middle class or I mean, excuse me, the white middle America we’re in the south who are equally dependent. And you’re right, but they will be more than just disgruntled.

They’ll be in panic. And so being able to just say, “Okay, well, let’s see, how do we go around and work around this.”  And that’s the kind of thing that’s going to help to bolster and at least soften the otherwise kind of march towards craziness. We can tell you that when MAGA won, there was a collective sigh of relief on their side. And by the way, we’re talking about those bottom three tiers.

We wanted to use that pyramid as illustrative because there are two top tiers of MAGA.  Who are absolutely self-involved, self-important, narcissistic, egotistical, and absolutely don’t care about the bottom.  But those three tiers from the bottom, they do care. They just think that the old way of putting on blinders and going to the oversimplification binaries of the past is what the solution is, even though it’s totally erroneous because they have been willing to be manipulated to believe it and it reinforces and at least gave them a sense of being okay even while instinctively they knew their ignorance was, and has been holding, them back and holding them down. But it was “safer” feeling than a scary unknown they don’t have a clue how to cope  with and have therefore been determinedly avoiding…As if, it will just go away.

So this is a long-term process beyond this year. But we’re just laying out a few things that will go on beyond this.

Jillian: I have another question, but I’m going to have people ask their first

Michael Entity:  Okay. All right.  Then we’ll go to Angela and then we’ll come back.

Angela, your question next.

Angela: Hi. This is in response to some things that Richard was saying.  It reminds me of a question that somebody asked. What happens in a consumerist society when consumers can no longer consume?

And so… You know, you have the people at the top, the Elon Musk, but… as they love to as they love to drag wages down and not people what they’re worth and fire people and replace them with cheaper workers. Eventually… it is collapsing because people aren’t able to consume and pretty soon they’ll run out of money and credit and everything else.

And… You know, then where do they go? I mean, maybe they don’t care because they’re looking at other areas of the world which may be coming up and have more money than we do. I’m not sure about that.  It’s an interesting question to ponder.

Michael Entity:  We can tell you that looking along this major parallel, certainly a lot of those outcomes are more probable. But they are not in any way the predominant possibility. When you said there is a collapse under consumerism and a depression that will come of this, we agree. There will. It will probably be with even within this four years of Mr. Trump. But, nonetheless. The process that you described is accurate. You can only have a capitalist society because you have a consumerist society. And, if you strip away democracy, and the ability of most workers to own property, then it is a slide backward into a Feudal System. But you will not be land serfs or peasants, you will simply be reduced to complete dependency and subjugation.

Now, one of the ways they’ll deflect this, of course, is they’ll ramp up and continue to use military industrial complex and the prison industrial complex as a way of augmenting both.

As long as they have military goods to sell and then therefore make a profit on, which would therefore also include computer technology and all the rest of that stuff the upper portions will be fine. And then when you talk about enough workers; you will see the restructuring to the bottom 3 -tiers of Artisan workers and builders, Warrior users and enforcers, and Scholar bureaucrats to keep count and track everything.

It is really interesting. That there are still so many people who talk about human populations collapsing when we say there are way too many people on the planet anyway.  Because it’s the mentality that’s not being addressed that under the Young Soul era of capitalism the notion of creating waste is not only a part of the system it is a required outcome of the system.

So if you go and you look at all the waste that’s being created, there’s a lot of resources there that can be recaptured, especially human resources. But those have to be repurposed on a greater sociological level. That’s what repurposing under the Discrimination Goal can facilitate.

On the sociological level, not the spiritual level. And on the Soul-ciological level these systems usually have to go through collapse before they’re reconstructed. And these persons have to lose power before those systems then get rebuilt. That is what happens at change over in World View i.e. shift in Soul Age Consciousness like there is now from Young to Mature.

Now, as far as what they’re concerned about and so forth, we could tell you that Social Security is actually a lot safer than most of you could fear. Why? Because it is a place where people get their income, and the income they use for consuming the products of the owner class. Many social programs will be privatized so that somebody else can make a buck off them, but they’ll still be there. For the simple reason, because they’ll be distributing some levels of money so that people consume the products from the people upstairs. And that will go on for some level of time.

We can tell you the positive way that this happens are in those countries that have universal basic income. Because when you cut away all the nonsense, all universal basic income is

people having enough resources to acquire money resources to acquire material resources, like housing, food. In transportation. Those are physical things that people need to survive, right? Money and the way it’s been conflated, as we said in an earlier slide is now way beyond the rationale and reality. (Addendum: The concept of Universal Basic Income – a term that has been largely ignore or buried in the public discussions of the corporate media, IS a Mature Soul, inclusive way of realizing that all humans must have some source or means to function in socio-economic environments. Remember, as automation replaces human “jobs” living people will still need to be fed. One of the Young Soul hierarchical ways to do that is through incarceration or slavery.)

And that is one of the learning processes that has to happen and the collapse that has to come between the Young Soul Era and the Mature Soul Era for the mature soul era to build anew. Because humans have been presented with this question for well over a century. And then with climate change for well over 50, 60 years. And they’ve still chosen to go along with the old traditional standard reductions and simplifications because they are psychologically familiar, i.e. comfortable and comforting, and thus keep people’s wearing blinders to the actuality of looming systemic complexity.

So the only other options are various forms of collapse. The powers that just got back in know that and they’re going to try and stranglehold everybody to keep it in place. And that won’t last very long. That won’t be successful into the future but it has legs that historically have worked at least for a period of time.

So anyway, and so we hope that’s, you know, responded in some way. And then we’ll go back to Jillian for her second question.

Angela: Okay. One more quick question and that is will a draft be reinstated?

Michael Entity:  Not this year, but… the probability that you’ll have conscription again in the United States in some form by the end of this four years is a lot higher. And we’d say we’d say even probable. What will be interesting is when you see it being used actually like they use it in China and then the Soviet Union, Russia because Soviet Union was technically gone.   That is a way of trying to regularize the entire population, but then also use it as a form of job training, let alone bodies to throw at a potential front. And in actuality, we would say as a process that could be very useful. That’s what we’re actually meant or stated to do as opposed to a secondary or tertiary agenda.

So complete. Okay. Jillian, you wanted to finish your second question.

Jillian: Yeah. It feels like there’s a devaluation of old people. Definitely, there’s been a devaluation of children. You know, we’re letting children die for gun rights. But for old people, I think that you know I’ve listen to a number of conversations recently about that we should only really have productive people, that people need to be productive or need to not be here.

And I wonder like about Social Security, which you’ve talked about, but also Medicare, which is being more and more privatized, but there’s a sense in which I definitely see what my daughter is involved in analyzing, teaching, advocating around health care. And… there’s just such an inclination to not approve more and more things that come with age. And I just  the conversations I have heard recently on television I found shocking. It’s like, well, people have to keep being productive. You can’t expect people to retire at 65 or 68. Or even 70 if they can still work. And if they can’t still work, why should we pay for them?

And my response, of course, is I’ve been paying into the system for 45 years. But anyway, just your thought. Or Michael’s thoughts?

Michael Entity:  Well, since we’re the ones basically answering your questions will come from our point of view.

You know at the one of the ways that the grand contraction into the object-oriented acquisition mode of the end stages of the Young Soul Era is to reduce any life. But now, finally, you’ve done it with animal life, for God knows how many centuries.  But now human life is reduced to commodities.

To even name a human being as “productive” or not, represents an example of what we spoke about earlier: that conflation of monetary worth to human values, or to values itself.  And by values, we mean, if you will, spiritually important, agency, and held aspirational principles or beliefs; real practiced morals, infused with Love and devotion and affiliation. Not where some policies and procedures get substituted for them.

These are all rocks out of the unconscious that have to be turned over and exposed. And spoken out loud. And… it doesn’t mean that gain, you don’t have to agree in advance. You pointed out one thing that’s absolutely factual and that’s why it’s going to be very interesting the way the courts and the places of arguing over intellect, because that’s what the courts are,  they’re essentially your collective mind (its Species Intellectual Center) for rationalizing things, will play out particularly over the next 25 years.

Because… Even though right now the Conservative and Republican elements appointed have been very influential and basically closed their eyes and their minds, there was also a huge influx in other areas and other elections where they’re not quite as rigid. And as conditions change, a lot of those ideologues will be realizing, “Oh, wow, this is more intense. And maybe I can’t stick to this line anymore.”

As far as that you know what evaluation is, especially “if it’s my mom” Or in your case and almost everybody here yourselves Right?  But as long as that ugly side an exploration of objectification, dehumanization and monetization of human beings isn’t brought up from what’s been operating all along, it has. It has been operating informally and unstated all along. They just never been openly spoken to: the dogmas, the social ideologies, and the media conditioning of whatever commercial memes serve a ruling class.

And now, cork has been removed from any kind of filtering, let alone reasoning abilities, let alone an evaluation if the more so-called morals somebody holds about what the real tenants underneath them are. Yeah, don’t start getting into facts. Anyway, the point being is it has to be vented as ugly as it is, to be able to confront it.

And how much that will take, well, if you mean outside the United States, it’s already taken hold on many levels. When you’re talking about children and elderly, all you have to do is look to Gaza to see that all those people are fodder. And it’s not because they’re necessarily children enrolled in karma, but that rather because they are racially discriminated against. There are many up-to-the minute choices being made that either advance the race or hinder its advancement. For the TAO, all are acceptable. Remember, you have collective choice on the Physical Plane.

And therefore, the pariahs, the fact that women and children I mean elderly and children aren’t seen as having any extra value than the terrorists doesn’t stop it. So you’re getting that kind of by default as an example. And the fact that you have not just the reorientation of child labor potentially on the horizon more and more.  But also you have more. Children as homeless and less programs to serve them and so forth. And the same thing is true with elderly on the other end.

Now, we would say this to try and help you all put something into perspective that is not social and it is not personal to you. The Earth as a collective living entity and the TAO wants to get rid of a lot of human beings. You are the scourged species here. Ironically. And yet you are also the one that it is most curious about to see if you evolve. Thus, a reduction of numbers will contract the pressure on the Earth but also compress the seriousness of the remainder to change their ways or go extinct.

And one of the ways that it knows that if you evolve, you’ve got to have less of you consuming. You’ve got to have less of the crazies at the top as much as and we hate to sound pejorative, but it will, the so-called flotsam and jetsam at the bottom. And we don’t mean that as beings they are any less but rather from this point of view that you’re talking about worth and productivity and all that kind of stuff.

Let’s also add in some humane qualities just their ability to survive in increased devastating climate circumstances and increased reduction of available resources to them you know a lot will succumb to this. Just like a lot of the people who are climate refugees around the world will succumb. Even though you’re mainstream media is hardly reporting that at all. And will not start reporting it.

Jillian: Well, they report it as people of color, essentially people from Africa or from the Middle East or places that are from, places that are absolutely impacted by climate change.  And that they are going into Europe. And that’s why there’s disruption in governments there.

I mean, when people talk about us not having enough population, that we need to repopulate, people need to have more kids. They’re talking about white people.

Michael Entity: Yes. Homogeny of outward appearance has always been a simplistic visceral way of maintaining the binary categorization of an us versus them.

Jillian: And they don’t look at everybody as equal anyway. But, you know, when they talk about people leaving because of climate change. They’re talking about people of color and they see them as unwanted. It’s disgusting.

Michael Entity: Yeah. And one of the things about the Negative Pole of Discrimination, prejudice, bigotry with a Cynic year is it’s all going to come out as the ugly, dirty laundry that it is. And the importance for many of you to realize, it will make many of you react emotionally volatilely. But what we want you to understand is, folks get a grip on yourself for one thing. This has been going on a long time. It’s just finally being flushed out into the open.

Now, that doesn’t mean it necessarily make you feel bad. What we are trying to say is, Don’t collapse under it.  And don’t pretend it’s new. And don’t pretend it’s just happening because it’s been going on a long time. Now it’s just much more naked to see.

Most all of you here still have the luxury, the privilege, of having enough education, enough resources, that you can follow these so-called “kooky” New Age religions, just as ultra religionists like to say about them, right?  And we smile because obviously it’s humorous and sarcastic. But still, you do. You have the freedom to exercise it, and the means to be exempt from many of the permeant consequence. So you’re in better shape, so to speak on a lot of frontiers than a lot of people. (Addendum: It is completely understandable and honest to admit to feeling overwhelmed by the enormity i.e. complexity and exalted scope of the magnitude of these changes and the chaos the will wrought. You are sane to be frightened, even wanting to avoid or deny them. But, that is NOT the way you will best weather them nor personally advance.)

And so many of you are not going to be feeling the overt effects. You know immediately or directly and so forth. But you will see them. And what you can do is not hide from them. And also not dive into the kind of, again, rejection and condemnation of a lot of those folks who thought that was the best path to take and are now regretting it.

They screwed up, no question! But their lesson – and your joint consequence. You don’t have to forgive, you don’t have to forget. But you can forge anew if you’re willing. Because actually we can tell you, it’ll make your lives easier.

So, all right. So we hope that’s been… While we realize that there’s a last commentary we want to make.  We realize that many of you come to this in hopes of finding hope. And we want to tell you that there is hope out there but it is hope as we have said on several occasions over the last couple of years, there is hope in the actions you take.

If you are looking to the outside world you are being passive and reactive. And you were liable to go into despair. And as of tonight’s talk. If you listened to this talk from a frame of reference like Martyrdom says, “Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, I need to hear something positive or, you know, or else I’ll feel terrible.” Then what you’re doing is up your only power to at least… affect your own reality.

And I mean, isn’t this one of the biggest stated attitudes of the self-help New Age concept, that   “You create your own reality”? Well, we’ve already told you we don’t espouse that. But you can create or at least you can have impact and effect on what it is and how you feel about what reality is and how you go about it by standing in your own power.

And as the poet said, absolutely declare that you “will not go quietly into that good night.”

And with that, we will say good night. And we will say our apologies for this recording not coming out, but at least we have a transcript. And it’s been saved and unless it’s not been saved.

By the way, I guess one last commentary. Many of you are familiar with this teaching know that the Artisan energy of all the several Roles in other ways of looking at it is Mercurial. It’s the Trickster, it’s the Heyoka, it is the potential for the erratic.  It’s all those qualities and it’s not unusual.

Let’s call it what it is. The channel was not paying attention and something clicked off and he didn’t get to it. So ownership is mine. But at the same time, the fact that it happened in the first place is humorous, in that it’s an expression of the kind of energy we see in Artisan ways of being and showing up.

So with that, having said that, we will bid you good night. And thank you all for coming. And at least, if nothing else, I hope that’s been of use to you, even if tonight it hasn’t been very entertaining or particularly educational.

So thank you again once again.

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