Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume 3, Issue - 8, 1, February 2019 | Page 10

Wednesday, 30 January 2019
To further complicate matters, there is a doctrine which holds that, within
the 5 stages of soul evolution, there are 35 steps (7 per stage) in the
reincarnation process. In 1979 San Francisco area novelist Chelsea Quinn
Yarbro published the first in a series of four books. Among other things,
these books contained an entirely new way of understanding personality
and spirituality. This new body of knowledge wasn’t hers, however. In fact, it
had been “channeled” over several years from a mysterious entity known
only as ‘Michael’, described by believers as a "group soul”, a collective
consciousness of 1050 essences.
Now known as the “Michael Teachings”, it is a non-theistic spiritual
doctrine that endorses reincarnation and attempts to work out a system of
personality structures that souls choose to experience in each lifetime. As
with other New Age systems, the Michael Teachings believe in soul ages.
Olav Hammer, an expert on new religious movements, describes the
Michael Teachings as a "fairly well-structured set of doctrines, expressed in
a distinct vocabulary" and noted similarities in the events of the initial
Michael channeling sessions to those that led to the famous Seth material.
Let’s take a look at the 5 stages and the characteristics of those persons
going through each particular stage as articulated by the Michael Teachings
and those who have made relevant observations and interpretations
regarding it (myself included). We’ll examine the personality characteristics
of souls at each stage; what forces drive them; what they are tasked to
learn and we shall also consider the question of when the soul is ready to
move on to the next stage. Perhaps you may even see aspects of friends,
relatives, spouses, lovers, associates, even public figures, and, of course,
yourself, in these descriptions.
Indeed, those who counsel others or do therapeutic work might also find
what follows quite helpful in understanding their clients. If you're working
with someone who is at the Baby Stage, for example, it might explain why
they are so rigid by understanding that they haven't yet fully developed
empathy and the capacity to accept all points of view. This also affords us a
deeper understanding of those people in our life we may know and interact
with on a daily basis.
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