New Casting Information (Channeling)
New Casting Information (Channeling)
Additions to the Cadre/Entity Page
Here's some odds and ends I recently added to the Cadre/Entity page at the MT site. I occasionally update it or make corrections where needed. It's always a work in progress. I'm currently putting together a new section on the page that details the structures behind how essence is involved with the reincarnation cycle. That should be ready by next week or so. Watch for it.
These two casting systems, btw, have accrued different names over the years. There's Yarbro casting (which is aligned with Michael math), and there's JP's casting (which is used to find your raw number). Non-Michael students won't know the names Yarbro or JP, so Yarbro has been called soul casting, initial casting, essence casting, and Michael-Math casting. I'm pondering if Tao-casting might be a better term? It's specific, and it implies the action taken. I'm currently torn on JP's system, where both the names Raw Number casting and Incarnational casting have their individual merits. I tend to use both terms synonymously. But I'll sort it out at some point.
In the meantime, if you're new to this concept of soul groups and casting, read the page at this site. It guides you through the most important concepts.
https://www.michaelteachings.com/cadre_entity_index.html
Questions About Casting
I asked the Michael Entity if they could explain how the role influences differ between the two casting systems. Here is their reply.
MICHAEL: The role energies of the global job and community responsibility are more subtle than the fixed, deep-seated schematic that's wired into the soul when essence is initially cast. And the role influences seen in the blueprint of raw number casting are ephemeral. The underlying motivation of the job is the true catalyst. The nature of the work itself, the accompanying impulses, the total immersion, awakens the role energy that corresponds with the particular job, and at that moment, an outer layer of the resonating energy is temporarily imprinted onto the personality and sometimes detected by others. It's not a ubiquitous influence as experienced with the role, traditional casting, or the overleaves, but short-lived bursts of recognition, like a flash of lightning behind the clouds. Again, the underlying motivation is the key.
In your world, there is a saying about wearing different hats. Certain occupations require a wide variety of hats, uniforms, and other accouterments. When someone is engaged in one of the global jobs then and focused on that incarnational mission, they are temporarily wearing the hat of the role influence that corresponds with that job. If you have a global job of the archivist, for example, you are wearing a scholar hat. If your global job is humor, you are wearing the sage hat, and so on. Although, the community responsibilities, as a rule, are not as detectable in an outward sense, and mostly perceived as a soft patina.
Overall, to summarize the two casting systems and compare their impact on the personality, essence casting is predominant and pervasive at all times; raw number casting is more temporal, depending on when those energies are activated by the global job that corresponds with those role influences.
Q: While you acknowledge the temporary nature of the incarnational role influence, would it be accurate to consider it a secondary role influence, given its impact on personality and its potential interaction with the primary influence of essence casting?
MICHAEL: Your secondary role influence is the position in your cadence, derived from essence casting. Your essence twin also clamors for attention, depending on its incarnational status. As alluded to before, any role traits activated during incarnational casting could be considered softer hues of the roles or more subtle shades of expression. An exception occurs when a role energy in Incarnational casting is duplicated by a role in Essence casting. This may add more solidity to the energy, but it still doesn't transcend the influence of Essence casting, which embodies your core nature. In contrast, Raw Number (or Incarnational casting) is a situational focus related to the task at hand.
Remember, just as you wouldn't expect earth and air to behave against their nature, these two casting systems have unique purposes and functions. Expecting homogeneity here would be akin to trying to breathe earth and walk on air.
In short, raw number casting should not serve as a model to represent the initial casting from the Tao, as described by Yarbro and other channels. Attempts to force the two systems together or expect them to perfectly align in symmetrical union is akin to pounding the proverbial square peg into a round hole. It does not work unless the intention is to master the art of convolution.
Both casting systems have well-defined tasks and are highly useful tools, but the intended purpose of the two should not be confused. As most carpenters know, using the right tool for the job is crucial. You don't pound a nail with a screwdriver. This truth also applies to the Michael teachings.
Summary of the Two Casting Systems
ESSENCE CASTING
Defines your core identity, fundamental values, and inherent inclinations. Influences emanate from your position in a cadence of seven souls, the effect of the cadence itself, the entity (your soul family), and, to a lesser degree, the greater cadence. Like the deep-rooted foundation of the roots in a tree, this is a permanent influence.
Essence casting governs the energetic framework of the soul. It's the starting point, a single drop from the ocean of the Tao that makes an initial ripple on the surface of the water, enabling the unfolding of the soul's potential and overall characteristics.
Influence:
• Deeply Embedded Throughout Life and Beyond: A pervasive influence that hones the approach to life, including daily decisions and interactions with others and the world.
• Naturally Inherent Qualities: Revealed in personality traits, likes and dislikes, and underlying needs and unconscious motivators.
• Examples: The assorted role flavors of essence casting may grant someone a penchant for creativity, compassion, leadership, or exceptional erudition. One of these primary qualities is hard-wired into the soul, literally stamped by the Tao, and shapes the soul's journey and contributions made to the world.
INCARNATIONAL (or RAW NUMBER) CASTING
Aligns with tasks related to the "global job" or "community responsibility." Allows one to focus on different facets of themselves while contributing to the greater good. Only relevant to those that choose to incarnate into physical form. The specific global jobs and responsibilities are not universal, but uniquely adapted to the needs of a planetary species.
Raw Number casting governs the soul's growth and development during the incarnational cycle. Through this journey, the soul's evolution and self-actualization are realized, bolstered by the lessons of soul age, the internal monads, and other physical plane experiences.
Influence:
• In the Moment and Situational: Task oriented and only engaged when the need arises. Requires a specific trigger or situation to activate.
• Precise and Concentrated: Relevant skills are brought to bear, often focused on a global job or community responsibility.
• Examples: Working as an Archivist (Global Job), the scholar influence might drive greater attention to detail, instill a thirst for research and the acquisition of knowledge, and confer an ability to logically synthesize information.
Casting Contrasts in Manifestation
• Duration: The influence of essence casting is pervasive. Along with the influence of the role, it defines your core being. The influence of raw number casting is situational and activated as needed. It fades when not in use.
• Finer Details: Essence casting is all-encompassing, a broad foundation that not only includes subconscious influences but core values and inherent proclivities related to role energy. Raw Number Casting is context specific and related to skills and abilities. A focused engagement.
• Consciousness: With essence casting, there's an inherent knowing, an awareness of a fundamental nature that states, this is who you are at your core. It's an integral part of the blueprint of the soul. In contrast, Raw Number Casting is present-moment engagement with an activity connected to the global job or community responsibility, including other areas of soul development.
Final Note: This is perhaps more anecdotal and not as relevant, but after examining countless photos of students and clients it became apparent that the role energies of essence casting are visible and leave an impression in facial expressions; whereas, with raw number casting, they do not. Which in a figurative sense, draws the conclusion that the ingredients of essence casting, if you will grant a culinary comparison, are slow-cooked at a simmer and allowed to become a permanent part of the stew, while raw number casting is more like those delicate herbs and pantry staples you add in the last minutes of preparation to avoid losing their flavor.
Namely, essence casting is permanent and wired-in for the entire grand cycle, whereas raw number casting is only relevant to those lives on the physical plane, impermanent and make-shift, like the things you carry in an overnight bag on a road trip.
MORE DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN ESSENCE AND INCARNATIONAL CASTING
- Q & A -
How do the goals and principles of these two casting systems contrast?
MICHAEL: It would be instructive to cite the functional differences.
To illustrate, imagine the Tao as a cosmic gardener, his clothing rumpled and worn from daily toil, and in the Universe, there are an infinite number of fertile patches of ground suitable for tilling. The Tao, however, is not sowing crops, but sowing the seeds of consciousness.
Thus, in these gardens of the Universe, the Tao is planting potential. This is essence casting.
Essence casting (which uses the numerical order based on Michael math) involves the role, the overleaves, the soul groups, and anything concerning the soul’s energetic framework. The seven chakras, for instance, an intrinsic part of the anatomy of the soul, are set during essence casting.
Conversely, Incarnational (or Raw Number) casting is about germinating the seed (or, in this case, the soul). It sinks its roots deep into the soil of experience and sprouts tendrils of awareness and yearning. Valuable lessons and experience are amassed over a series of lifetimes. Soul age, the levels and the internal monads are under the jurisdiction of Raw Number casting.
Working in tandem, the dual casting systems support a two-prong process of potential and expression; spark and flame; casting and evolution. This is how growth happens.
Essence casting, to bring things full circle and make the point clear, concerns the casting of the soul (or the initial seeding of consciousness), launching it on its way; Raw Number (or incarnational casting), guides the soul’s overall growth and evolution. It’s a symbiotic relationship that charts the soul’s journey from initiation to fulfillment, from potential to self-actualization.
Q: It’s been said that the overleaves remain with the body after passing. They do not accompany the soul to the astral. Could you tell me why then are the overleaves considered part of Essence casting, which includes the roles? You said earlier that essence casting only concerns things related to the energetic framework of the soul.
MICHAEL: Within a note played on a musical instrument, if you listen closely, other notes can be detected. These are the harmonics (or overtones) of that note. They contribute to the inherent richness and overall resonance of the note's tonal qualities.
A role (or soul type) also contains its own series of harmonics, adding deeper facets of expression to the energies of the role. These vibrate as overleaves.
Each role embodies a unique set of natural overleaves. Strike a tuning fork pitched to the role of artisan, and within that vibration resonates the overleaves of the goal discrimination, the attitude of skeptic, the mode of caution, the intellectual center, and the chief feature of self-destruction.
When a role is cast from the Tao, it comes preloaded. These overleaves are an integral part of the role, sewn into the fabric as an equivalent resonance. Therefore, because the seven roles all contain their own unique sets of natural overleaves, they are part of Essence Casting.
Q: As most Michael students know, the Michael math chapter in Yarbro lists the order of the roles for essence casting as server, artisan, warrior, scholar, sage, priest, king. What is the significance of this order? Wouldn't other numerical orders work just as well?
MICHAEL: The sequence follows the order of the seven chakras, from 1 to 7. That is, if you’re referencing traditional interpretations. We suggest the natural order first implied in various 15th century Yoga texts, and now prevalent in many new age books and studies.
The roles are essentially a refinement of chakra energy.
This energy is abundant and flourishes ubiquitously in the Universe. It permeates and invigorates everything with its life force, from the most advanced souls to primitive bacterial colonies. The energy can be remolded and repurposed in a variety of ways, all of them awesome outpourings of creativity and expression.
When used as a refinement of role energy, each expression is unique and infused with a mix of the role’s characteristic traits integrated with a personal brushstroke from the Tao. Like fingerprints, not one energetic signature is ever the same.
During a new incarnation, since the energies needed to draw from already exist in the etheric layers of the body, the dispersion of chakra energy activates the chosen overleaves, in a process we mentioned before, similar to unlocking a door with a hotel keycard.
Also, the importance of the Pillars of Vitality (or the Four Trues) is now more easily understood, since an individual focus on the trues has a direct influence on healing and balancing the chakras. The first and sixth chakras respond to true rest; the second and fifth chakras, to true play; the third and seventh chakras, to true work; and the fourth chakra, to true study. Any trues that go beyond these four pillars are not part of this structure. They are incidental.
To dispel potential misunderstandings, chakra energy should not be confused with a role in the sense that seven distinct roles occupy a body. The chakras bear the same energetic signatures of the roles, but lack the refinement to make them fully functional and distinct. While roles are indeed molded from the same clay, the chakras, as energy centers, serve their own unique purpose and function.
Q: Explain more about the natural order of the chakras. Why does it apply to Yarbro (or essence) casting?
MICHAEL: The energy centers that animate life forms in the physical world follow natural laws, where the life force energy flows through a cycle of predictably increasing or decreasing graduations. The order of the chakras, without question, follows this sequence, similar to the way bands of light display the same pattern of spectral colors in a rainbow. This is how the energy circulates without impedance. Switch the order of a chakra and it’s like passing through a void. An electrical wire has been severed. In short, the flow is disrupted, and so is the life.
More flexibility exists in other casting systems, where the energy is used in developmental models designed for growth and evolution — such as soul age or the internal monads. These energetic expressions (and the assorted challenges they bring) don’t rely on sustaining a life form. They are part of the incarnational curriculum.
Examples of a natural order can, of course, be found throughout your physical world. Despite the prevailing instances of order and chaos in the Universe, a crazy alphabet soup of not knowing which letters will appear on the spoon, patterns and sequences exist in both the natural and unnatural worlds.
DNA, in particular, the very blueprint of life, follows a natural order where nucleotides encode genetic information. The result: living organisms. In the science of photosynthesis in plants, a natural order of steps is involved in converting light into chemical energy. Plants grow. In the field of chemistry, the elements in a periodic table are arranged in a natural order based on their atomic number. An unexpected result: ill-advised mixtures sometimes blow up. And illuminations drawn from the electromagnetic spectrum reveal a natural order based on frequency/wavelength. Cite our earlier mentioned example of a rainbow.
These are all demonstrations of how natural order follows underlying laws and manifests in diverse yet predictable patterns. The seven chakras and the natural order of the roles, although not verifiable by science, are of the same breed, analogous to patterns found in other scientific disciplines. The sequence provides the best free-flowing conduit of life force energy.
Q: So Essence casting follows the natural order of the 7 chakras. The order seems set in stone. Why is that?
MICHAEL: The energy found in essence casting, that animates and sustains the life form and the elements of the personality, is fixed on that task. It cannot be diverted without diminishing returns. A river, for example, cannot run uphill. That defies certain laws of physics, and, in perhaps a metaphorical sense, the nature of a river. In a similar vein, the energies of essence casting function according to an inherent order. The energy follows an intended purpose, much like the energy of our river that flows according to its nature. And not surprisingly, its nature is to flow.
Q: Concerning the "doubling back" reference mentioned about casting in the Michael math chapter of MMFM. Doesn't that imply that the ordinal and cardinal roles should be symmetrical or a mirror image?
MICHAEL: That passage could have been worded better. We meant that the function that governed those roles, or in that example, the cardinality, is the part that doubles back. The cardinal roles become ordinal and vice-versa.
Q: Regarding any hierarchical structures within these casting systems, are all entities considered equal?
MICHAEL: Like the differences in casting, entities formed during essence casting are permanent; soul groups formed during the incarnational cycle are temporary and more specialized.
Imagine a symphony orchestra, for instance, whose grandiose size fills an entire stage, producing a majestic sound, with a rich sonic palette of individual textures and tonal colors. This represents the vast expanse of essence casting. In other ventures (of the Raw Number variety), instrumental sections in the orchestra, in a figurative sense, break free to form chamber groups that specialize in small brass ensembles performing Baroque music, or a unique blend of woodwind instruments that challenge the ear with difficult 20th-century compositions. Souls groups from incarnational casting are like this. They offer unique perspectives individually tailored to the aspirations of the whole.
Q: How do entities from the different systems transition from one to the other?
MICHAEL: Similar to our discussions about the two casting systems mentioned in earlier channeling, they don’t transition in a literal sense. The entities formed during essence casting are considered home base. They are vibrationally fixed to these groups. The assembly of souls taking part in the ad hoc entity overlay that is formed during incarnational casting are striving toward a united goal together. They are at work. Their unified focus is the bond that holds the entity together. It’s an exhilarating experience.
We would describe the process as an energetic displacement, but when we say energy, we infer consciousness. A shift occurs not unlike the way essence retains its astral presence when fragments of itself live physical lives.
Eventually, our incarnating souls retire from these groups, or as we have colloquially described it, cycle-off, where their work resumes recombining their entity formed during essence casting in the upper levels of the astral. This leads to another casting model that follows a reverse process, which we would call Ascension Casting.
Q: Have channels known about these different casting systems and properly notated them?
MICHAEL: Most channels have incorporated elements from both of these systems, but never realized they were distinct. There's been many instances of lost in translation here, but these structures have always been metaphorical at best. They are approximations only, and the information channeled so far, with a few exceptions, has conveyed the subject sufficiently. There are always finer points to be made, though.
Q: This is something I’ve noticed and wondered about for years. Is there any inherent significance that the pillars of vitality (the four trues) are found in a Michael Septenary?
MICHAEL: The structures you have noted, neatly embedded within the septenary, hold significant meaning.
These energetic frameworks are the building blocks for the cosmological structure of our teachings. These principles are foundational. They are not just the mortar that holds the stones in place, but metaphorically, the very elements that hold the stones, the mortar and entire buildings together.
This is the energy of consciousness. It permeates all living forms, at the physical and soul levels. It's the very essence of the Tao, made manifest in all things.
That the four axes act as a binding agent in a septenary should come as no surprise. These ordinal and cardinal versions of universal energy provide the necessary foundation, while the assimilative port (an energetic harbor, figuratively speaking, for docking, traffic, and storage) is the bridge that connects these foundations together as a whole. This balancing agent is vital for cohesion. Without these components that both equalize and yield paths for expansion, everything collapses on itself, like the spiritual equivalent of a black hole.
In terms of practical use of this information, understand that within a septenary there exists a perfect balance of the four axes (or the four expressions of consciousness), and within that, the pillars of vitality, the universal standard for organizing and quantifying vital force energy.
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BONUS
A couple newly channeled celebrity charts.
Here's a chart for the film auteur with the highly distinctive visual and narrative style, Wes Anderson. You know him from films like Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Grand Budapest Hotel, to name a few.
1) WES ANDERSON (Channeled 3/22/2024)
2nd old artisan, discarnate priest ET, scholar casting (4/2/2),
flow, pragmatist (slides to spiritualist), reserve, intellectual/emotional, martyrdom/no secondary, solar/mercurial.
Here's a chart for the American playwright, August Wilson. Some of his plays are The Piano Lesson, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, and Fences.
2) AUGUST WILSON
2nd old scholar, discarnate scholar ET, sage casting (5/2/7),
dominance, stoic, perseverance, moving/intellectual, stubbornness/arrogance.
I love August Wilson's plays and his flair for colorful vernacular and the complexity he brings to his characters, all of them black men struggling against the system.
I watched "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" the other night on Netflix. It's about jazz musicians, set in a recording studio during the 1920s.
The acting throughout is superb. The play itself is mostly episodic with no linear narrative structure; more of a slice of life approach designed to portray his character's experiences in a given moment. But it works dramatically. Of course, with Wilson, this microcosm always reveals broader social and cultural dynamics.
For Michael students, I thought the character Levee, a young and aspiring trumpet player, was a typical artisan. Creative and expressive, but oblivious to practical matters and the mundane aspects of life. I totally get that. He's probably in the passion mode, emotional center, and a mix of stubbornness (he struggles with authority) and arrogance (extreme hubris). Maybe late young or early mature. Although, he's also deeply wounded by his past. It hints at self-destructive tendencies. Either way, a fascinating and troubling character.
One of the powerful scenes from August Wilson's "Fences."
Wilson not only captures the vernacular of the period and the culture, but he magically infuses the language with a heightened sense. It's musically rhythmic, perhaps drummed out of the very bedrock of the blues. And take this with a grain of salt, but when I asked if August had previous lives as a writer, Michael commented, "Yes, numerous lives. The most notable as William Shakespeare." Who knows??
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Dave