Internal Monad Abdication
Difference Between Abdicating a Monad and Completing One in the Negative Pole
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Apologies for the hiatus. I wound up in the hospital and have been recovering for a month. I awoke one morning and was short of breath. That prompted a visit to the ER. I’ll spare you the dramatic details, but needless to say, I’ve been behind on everything.
For the time being, here’s an older piece of Michael channeling I wanted to include in the archives here. I hope you enjoy it.
Difference Between Abdicating a Monad and Completing One in the Negative Pole
This question has been a source of confusion among many students (including myself).
First, some history. Sarah Chambers introduced the concept of internal monad abdication. Abdication can be found in other aspects of the teachings — abdicating external monads, abdicating agreements and so on — but her work pioneered the distinction between the choice of abdication or leaving a monad incomplete in a negative pole.
From what Michael has repeatedly said, when it comes to abdicating a monad, it is far, far worse to finish a monad in the negative pole. The reason should be obvious. All negative poles are fear-based and allow unfettered entry of the false personality and applicable chief features. That shift, if you cannot right the ship later, leads to psychological and interpersonal life challenges.
Thus, abdicating an internal monad, while not always the best decision, is more favorable than sliding to a negative pole. Abdication is mostly considered a NEUTRAL choice, neither positive or negative. It doesn’t involve a polarity that lodges you in the deceptions of false personality.
In some cases, a person may become so overwhelmed by the challenges of life that an upcoming monad gets set aside in favor of psychologically alleviating the workload; just one less thing on the plate to deal with. In grade school, it's your hall pass; in a popular board game, it's your get-out-of-jail-free card. In other circumstances, essence may consciously choose abdication during the life to make room for other objectives related to the life plan. In a nutshell, you take a vacation from your monads.
Some souls may choose a curriculum that provides a more comprehensive course of life on Earth. It's all choice. Souls can take their time during the reincarnational cycle, others speed through. To take their time, however, they need to slow their progression through the soul age levels to sample those rich, growth-inducing experiences in multiple lives and multiple cultures. Abdication of a monad can be one way to slow the progression.
From the soul’s standpoint, there’s really no race to the finish line here. These respites or coffee breaks along the spiritual path are common.
MICHAEL: Even the internal monads are subject to the eternal dance of duality on your plane. A monad may be completed in the positive or negative pole, with an alternative choice of abdicating the monad altogether, a neutral decision. In occurrences of abdication, indifference marks the process and the life moves forward without addressing the pivotal life lesson. The choice to abdicate is a valid one and may occur during lifetimes when a fragment does not want to feel overwhelmed by too many growth-inducing experiences.
As for possible ramifications, abdicating a monad (except the sixth and seventh) means any successive monads will not be thoroughly examined. This does not mean the lifetime is without purpose or somehow wasted, only that several of the traditional milestones normally experienced are set aside till the next lifetime. Unpleasant side-effects of abdication may leave the soul drifting through life or feeling a little lost.
Completing a monad in the negative pole, however, brings more unfavorable complications. In this scenario, psychological disturbances may plague the soul, compounding the arrival of new monads with the unfinished business carried over from the previous one. Anger, depression and a spiritual malaise accompany those who complete a monad in the negative pole.
The arrival of a new monad does bring an opportunity to continue work on an incomplete monad, but the work is more difficult.
Does Essence or Personality Choose Abdication?
There are two types of internal monad abdication: Personality-driven and Essence-driven.
An abdication of an internal monad by the personality is never ideal, but it proves useful when pressing forward might cause irreparable harm, either on a psychological level to the personality or to others.
Abdication can serve as a useful stopgap when simultaneously navigating a monad and dealing with the pressures of life are unsustainable. Life is unpredictable, of course, and not all contingencies are available for the soul when things become untenable, but when circumstances are right, and those vary, abdication serves a useful purpose. While abdication by the personality is unplanned and not the optimal solution, the life ahead is never lost. Growth opportunities still abound. The itinerary has merely changed and both personality and essence will adapt to any new trajectories that arise.
In a life where the abdication of a monad is essence-driven, all pre-incarnational arrangements are carefully crafted to work in tandem with a life lacking the normal monadal transitions. The milestones from Western psychology may still apply, dependent on the rituals of individual cultures.
Traditional challenges, such as the hand-wringing experienced during the often tortuous ordeals of the third or fourth monads, are shelved in favor of essence fast-forwarding to the life task with less resistance. The reasons for this are many, but typically involve an interest by essence in more thoroughly experiencing a soul age level, or doing concentrated work with a group of souls from that incarnational time period (usually cadence mates).
Abdicating the Internal Monads
The First Monad
With an abdication of the first monad, the infant is delivered still-born. Sadly, the death of a child is a devastating loss for parents, but for an in-coming soul that, for multiple reasons, has had a change of heart, the exit point is convenient. Some souls incarnate too hastily, especially younger souls, and a reality check may settle in just before the first breath. Chalk it up to getting cold feet.
The Second Monad
With an abdication of the second monad, the centering never solidifies in the child, and in most cases, a state of permanent disidentification ensues where the child never connects to the real world, living in a dissociative state similar to autism. Although, not what we would refer to as clinical autism. Abdication of the second monad is rare. It may occur following a prolonged illness or when a lack of bonding exists between the parents or other caregivers in an institutional setting, prompting the child to withdraw into their inner world completely, a more nurturing sanctuary reinforced by a strong connection to the astral. In fact, after an abdication of the second, from the standpoint of the personality, the child permanently has one foot in the physical, and one foot in a higher plane.
The Third Monad
With an abdication of the third monad, the hurdles of adolescence are set aside in favor of survival. At this point, the personality was illequipped to navigate the demands of the monad and neither felt pulled to the positive or negative polarities, choosing to take a rain check on the intensity of inner growth that raced toward them. When personalities side-step the third monad, they appear as ghosts in their own lives, lacking true identities. They may swim from one side of a pond to the other, mimicking the movements of those around them, but they rarely leave ripples.
The Fourth Monad
With an abdication of the fourth monad, feelings that something significant has been lost may ensue, prompting internal questioning, with visits to therapists and self-help gurus, and searches in a physical sense, such as strange impulses to travel or move to unsuitable destinations that only lead to further frustration and disappointment. The characteristic emotional upheaval of the fourth monad rarely manifests after abdication, with no unsettling jaunts into the mid-life crisis, but it casts a pall over the rest of the life that something is missing or was left undone.
The Fifth Monad
With an abdication of the 5th monad, a realization that the life has entered its golden years, that autumn approaches, is not acknowledged and there are attempts to reset the life to what it was before; to keep doing business as usual. On the surface, this may seem like a positive endeavor, a heroic attempt to live life to the fullest, but reality comes full circle in the end and opportunities for a fruitful life review and the benefit that brings are lost.
The Sixth and Seventh Monads
While it is possible for the personality to deny their illness and the inevitable turn of events that will lead to their demise, technically speaking, the sixth and seventh monads cannot be abdicated. Death comes for all, incomplete monads or not.
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