The Goal of Growth is Spiritual

Compilations from the transcripts of the original Michael Teachings group.

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Many students of MT gravitate to the structural teaching as a “non-religious/non-spiritual” system which can help them grow as individuals into a place of greater awareness and compassion.  It is easy in this case to forget that the teacher was pushing the members of the original group to something beyond temporal application of the Work.  

A review of the Goal of Growth makes this point.

 

 

In the Goal of Growth, does one review all the other Goals? It seems I’m in and out of all of them [with the Goal of Growth].

• The Goal of Growth causes the soul to search, sometimes restlessly, for the answers to questions of a philosophical and religious nature almost from the time the first breath is drawn. In the early Cycles, this sometimes causes grief and guilt, as there is often a split with family members over untenable views held by them. The “review” [of the other Goals] is a phenomenon that we believe to be universal in the older Cycles. We see this in all of you, but far more pronounced in those in Growth. This endless searching often produces both Acceptance and Submission; then when the flash [of insight] comes, the student in Growth often becomes temporarily Dominant in order to spread the word he has received. This is entirely natural.   [01/03/1974]

We are not likely to become adepts when we are working for K____. The satisfaction for the yearning for knowledge is interfered with by having to work.

• The thirst for pure data accumulation is almost insatiable in the older Scholar. Yes, your lifestyle is interfering with the Goal of Growth. This teaching is not well understood in solitary.

What can I do?

• Make substantial strides toward affecting the synthesis.   [12/31/1973]

 

Are those who are going to Oregon mainly Idealist and in tight control of their feelings?

• Many are, but some are in Growth, which gives them the option to go into the Emotional center.

Must one be in Emotional Center for you to come through?

• In order to feel the vibrations and act upon them, one needs Emotional Center to go into Balance.

Will a person be able to change to Growth?

• No. It is a different principle altogether. It is simply that the Goal of Growth gives you a better diving board.     [02/18/1974]

 

Do you go faster in a Goal of Growth? When is the Goal of Growth chosen? Is it because of karmic reasons that it is chosen?

• It can, of course, but is usually not desirable. The Goal of Growth is usually chosen, M____, to complete a Monad.    [02/20/1974]

 

Is my Goal Growth?

• Most of you have Growth as a Goal. This is what makes C____such a fine seeker. [snipped]     [12/25/1973]

 

[Snipped from a larger conversation]

• We have a method by which all of you can choose to achieve a modicum of growth on a spiritual plane. Many of you can even use it as a springboard toward becoming an adept. This is entirely up to you. We will find many vehicles through which we can teach the logos — this does not present us with a problem. We answer all calls for this teaching.

What is the method?

• We have been transmitting this to you, but many have not heard. This teaching has implicit within it the method of which we speak.

The method is to live the teaching in an attitude of love.

• Individual verification of the given material is perhaps the most vital precept upon which this teaching is based, for this process alone opens the door to expanded perception, which is, of course, necessary in order to experience agape, and thus grow spiritually.   [11/24/1974]

 

[… and as to the different aspects of the teaching, and what Spiritual Growth effects:]

• After all, yours is, as you have said many times, a verbal culture, and the words are eventually what you will hear, and then they can be translated into the action.  R_____ has hit upon the meaning of this teaching, but his understanding is still basically intellectual and philosophical rather than emotional and transcendental. [11/04/1977]