Some Random Channeling About the Centers
Greetings everyone!
Here’s some random channeling I did about the Centers. If you’re new to the Michael teachings, you may not have enough background to fully understand this, but I will send the full chapter in two weeks that puts it all together for you. It will make more sense. This is still in a draft stage and I may change my mind on a few of the concepts as more information from Michael comes through. I’m still sorting things out. But I thought for some of you, the channeling might be interesting.
The centers have been a little controversial, with two camps of opinion going on. I am very much aware of them. As I write this, I’m still on the fence regarding the discrepancies. That’s the reason behind the assorted channeling. I’m hoping to get to the bottom of the stickier concepts, but I’m not there yet. The centers have slowed down my progress.
With that said, here’s the channeling on the centers that I recently did. The last piece, partly written and partly channeled, is about the elusive and always controversial Physical Center (sometimes called the Sexual Center). It’s still an incomplete draft, as well (with garden variety grammar issues and typos galore), but you can see what I have thus far. I hope to finish the entire chapter in a fortnight.
We shall see. ;-)
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Dave
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The Channeling
How are the centers different (if they are) from the other overleaves?
MICHAEL: The centers differ in several ways. They are not chosen pre-incarnationally in terms of a life plan, but they are partly intuited before the life begins. Meaning, the chosen center is usually not a surprise. However, the incoming fragment ultimately adopts the center most suited for the developing personality as the circumstances of life unfold. This allows for any adjustments needed that may not have been anticipated pre-incarnationally. It also allows the evolving fragment to gauge the impact of how a potential primary center might interact with the other overleaves and its suitability for the life task. Because the centers can all be experienced to certain degrees before making the final purchase, so to speak, this flexibility provides a test drive of these energies after the life has begun.
The other overleaves, with the exception of the chief features, are activated and fixed at birth.
A common misunderstanding with the centers is that they do work that's similar in nature to the other overleaves. But the goal, attitude, and mode are instigators in life, the cause of things that happen, while the centers are the effect, the reactions to what life brings. To illustrate, in a figurative sense, the cards are shuffled by the dealer and the centers react to the hand that was dealt.
The centers also operate as regulatory stations in the way energy is distributed throughout the body. Chakras are partly responsible for this job, but the centers are more fine-tuned to the demands of the personality, where split second adjustments are made to route needed energy to the most appropriate center for the task. The centers, in this respect, are personalized and configured to react moment-to-moment, whereas the chakras are like mini power plants that feed energy to the centers, acting as transformers along the grid. The chakras do correspond with the centers on some levels, but the centers have more specific tasks. The chakras are location specific, but the centers are somewhat amorphous in the body. The emotional center, for instance, tends to follow nerve networks that are wired throughout the body, which explains why intense emotions pulsate at full length, not one location.
The most obvious difference between the centers and other overleaves is that all the centers can be experienced in life, especially if they are balanced. The primary center still remains, but where the overleaves in their common pairings are typically served like a soup du jour and entrée — where reevaluation pairs with growth, discrimination pairs with acceptance, and so on — the centers are like a smorgasbord.
Why are there only two higher centers and not three?
MICHAEL: The concept of higher centers has been a chronic source of confusion in our teaching, partly due to a lack of symmetry where some channels felt the lower centers should have higher counterparts that match: for example, emotion/higher emotion, intellectual/higher intellectual, moving/higher moving. Even if incorrect, this conclusion was logical and had merit. However, intellectual bias from some of our channels distorted the actual truth and cemented false conclusions into books and other sources of information.
In short, only two higher centers exist, and for a simple reason: the higher emotional center is energetically aligned with astral energy, and the higher intellectual center is energetically aligned with causal energy. The moving center, which is sometimes referred to as a higher center, is not connected to the energy of a higher plane. It is earthbound. A more correct attribution of its qualities would be as the cardinal action center. Therefore, it is easily accessible, whereas the higher emotional and higher intellectual are not.
Understand that the higher centers are portals to essence, and essence connects to you through the higher centers. Contact with the higher centers is therefore contact with essence. This is not just a form of communication, like sending text messages to and fro, but where you momentarily merge with essence at the very level of essence. The higher centers are then a conduit to a greater state of awareness, the means to be at one with your highest potential, or authentic self.
The sheer intensity of this connection, however, that bridges your three-dimensional world with something higher, may only sustain itself in short bursts lasting no longer than mere seconds to several minutes. It would be similar to plugging an American appliance into a European outlet with a voltage two times stronger. This would fry the circuits. With your soul, no physical damage results, but after a short period, the sheer magnitude of the exchange, perpetually ecstatic and profound, severs the connection.
The glimpse you get of essence — a life with the capacity to live beyond the restrictions of false personality — is a model of what you could strive for in life and who you could be. Essence is not only a potential, it is a germinous seed that sprouts within as you awaken to higher states of consciousness.
Difference Between the Action Centers
MICHAEL: We are aware of the confusion regarding the action centers. We have not intervened to any great extent because the deliberation that ensued around this topic led students to look at the centers more objectively. The other overleaves have often overshadowed the centers, so we welcomed the review. Some clarity, however, is needed.
First, you must understand the distinctions between ordinal and cardinal energies. We could say the ordinal axis conserves energy; the tortoise withdraws into its shell. Whereas the cardinal axis expends energy; the fleet-footed hare boundlessly exerts its presence expansively. Both energies, though, emanate from the same well. Meaning, the distinctions are not as diverse as they seem.
Like the expressive qualities of the artisan and the sage, which operate as two sides of the same coin, the action centers are united on the same front. Namely, action. Thus, to understand the difference between the physical center and the moving center, look at how they run their energy.
Our ordinal tortoise spends part of its day either in a contracted state, deliberating its chosen actions in the comfort of its shell. Meanwhile, our cardinal hare is a blur of activity, racing to and fro, striving to make his presence known in the world. Both expressions of energy eventually reach the same destination.
The physical center generates energy that remains in the body. It's activated, it's energized, and more importantly, it's alive. This animating quality cannot be underestimated when describing the life force of the physical center.
What is the difference between the positive and negative poles of the higher centers?
MICHAEL: This may surprise you, but the difference is greater than you might expect.
First off, essence and the higher centers are beyond the influence of the law of opposites and any semblance of polarity. The standard definition of positive and negative poles does not apply. The poles, as connected to essence, could be called tier one and tier two. Tier one represents the portion of essence outside the physical plane that is connected to the Tao, and tier two, the portion inside that is more intimately connected to the soul. Call it a coordination of one foot in, one foot out.
The positive pole of a higher center is what we often refer to as essence contact, but at the level of essence. The contact, because you are momentarily reaching beyond the confines of physicality and penetrating a higher realm while still in a human body, is, for want of a better word, intense. Visceral, exhilarating and expansive are other words. This is the closest you will ever get to a higher plane while still lodged in the familiar comforts of the physical. The experience is rarely forgotten, and for some people it is so life changing that it becomes spiritually addictive.
As mentioned already, the higher centers, especially when accessing the positive poles, serve as reminders of your greater potential as a soul and a human being. Anything you see, feel or realize during the experience is possible to you and within your grasp. You are not glimpsing ice castles of imagination, but merging with a representative of yourself that simultaneously exists within you already. All things are possible in this realm. You are gazing into a mirror that reflects a higher you. The reason the experience resonates in a visceral way is because it is occurring in real-time. The realm you have cracked occurs beyond time, of course, but your presence as a living, physical being provides the grounding found in the present.
In the negative poles (tier two) of a higher center, the experience is more subtle. The connection is not direct, and the exchange of energy is on a subconscious level. Without a direct connection, the higher center operates like a sequence of energetic tidal currents, with gentle waves transmitted over time, offering gifts of insight and the means of knowing something greater without knowing it in a conventional sense. This is not a way of accumulating knowledge like what you find in libraries or academic institutions. The higher centers are not about thinking, feeling or doing. The higher centers are portals to essence and the energies of truth, love, and beauty.
What makes the cardinal action center different or special?
MICHAEL: Understanding how and to where the centers align is the key to that question. The ordinal centers work best when they align with each other. They traditionally act as independent spheres of energy that handle specific tasks and, within those parameters, do those tasks well. But when they work in coordination with each other, together in unison, they create a harmonious fusion, which leads the centers to function together as a whole. This is the most desirable outcome.
We have previously said the higher emotional and the higher intellectual centers are energetically aligned with the astral and the causal. The reason we sometimes refer to the cardinal action center as the higher moving center is because it also plays a part in alignment, but in this case, the alignment of the lower centers.
Think of the cardinal energy of the moving center as a turn of the century traffic cop that stood in the middle of an intersection and directed the flow of traffic to avoid collisions and pile-ups. Since the jurisdiction of the cardinal action center is the physical body, which includes the lower centers, this king-aligned center acts with governing powers, in a way, the boss, so to speak, and leads the lower centers, or at least energetically helps them, to work as a cohesive unit.
Regarding how the cardinal action center accomplishes this is the answer to what makes it special. As chairman of the board, if you will, the cardinal action center, by virtue of its natural proclivities for movement, adds the wheels to the cart, so to speak, and pulls the cart, as well. This is not necessarily a conscious endeavor, but a byproduct of the influence its energy has on the other centers. It helps to pull them together, grease the wheels, and avoid ruts in the road that leads to getting stuck. The takeaway here: the other centers have a static quality if not exposed to any moving center influence.
A moving center trap, for this reason, can be a daunting obstacle to dislodge. The wheels of the cart have come off. Refer to exercises we once suggested as a remedy to this hurdle.
Peak performances, those physically focused highs that top athletes ecstatically describe, where they feel totally in sync with their body and part of something greater than themselves, is another special quality, a higher moving experience not uncommon with the cardinal action center.
THE PHYSICAL CENTER (+Amoral -Erotic)
People in this center are active and finely tuned to physical sensation. Out of all the centers, the physical is most likely to have the strongest visceral reactions.
This is the ordinal center of the action axis.
With this centering, due to its ordinality, most repercussions to events are accompanied by an inward thrust of energy, like a chain reaction of little implosions. Physical sensations associated with emotion, anxiety, and other hormonal and chemical responses are unusually heightened in their effect.
The typical amalgam of physical manifestations are some of the following: feelings of peace and joy may radiate through the body with intense pleasure; sexual arousal and release may be profound or even sublime; clenched-fist bouts of anger, sickly waves of anxiety or emotional upset often sit menacingly in the pit of the stomach, causing nausea or a need to vomit. Guttural reactions are common to this centering.
This awareness of the body and its inner mechanisms differentiates this center from the others. The body, with its intricate network of systems, both autonomic and somatic, becomes a touchstone for deciphering the mixed signals in the world and uses these physical impressions to help make sense of it all, incorporating a variant of gut logic to any interpretation.
Overall, this ordinal action center then serves as a barometer of physical sensations. The body tingles, throbs, buzzes, shimmers, trembles, flutters, along with a docket of other internalized kinetic reactions.
The focus of the physical center is often vibrational, the energy of a wind chime or a plucked string, for example. In that sense, the pulse of the center resonates like a musical instrument — a violin, per se, and life is the bow. But on a more practical level, the center acts as a tuning fork in the body, an internal compass that, through close monitoring, can help assess the mental and spiritual health of a person, and whether a course correction is needed. For instance, is the energy expansive, aglow, flowing, and warm, or is it heavy, untethered, knotted and explosive? A daily tally of these sensations offers important clues.
Originally called the sexual center in the Yarbro books, the term was later changed to the more neutral, physical. The excitations of sex are certainly governed by this center, with the elevated heart rate, increased blood flow, and the reward of pleasurable sensations, but to illuminate only the carnal aspect of the physical center is limiting.
Some channels have argued that the physical center is cardinal (or exalted) in energy, even going as far as to call it the higher moving center. But when you examine how the center manifests in a personality, all the earmarks of ordinality are evident. Whereas the moving center is outward and expansive, with an impetus to take action, the physical center is internalized and withdrawn, focused more on interior sensations; the action occurs within. Even sex, although the act often facilitates a slide to the moving center, is one-on-one.
Compared to the cardinal action center, the ordinality of the physical center is narrowly focused and contracted. Rather than the muscle and brawn of physically directed enterprise seen in the moving center, where dancers and athletes seek peak performances, the activity of the physical center is more corporeal, with agitated states that vibrate down to the molecular level, and further, to the electromagnetic spin of subatomic particles.
These physical excitations, which include sexual highs, states of anxiety and what adrenaline junkies call a rush, are the key to understanding the physical center. The manifestations exist within the body; internalized movement that does not stir the air or burn calories. The energy is contained and, by its nature, more importantly, ordinal.
In the positive pole of BEAUTY, people in the physical center are animated by the simple fact of their existence. There is beauty in being in a body. There is beauty in having experiences. Living life feels like enough.
In the negative Pole of DESIRE, a yearning for heightened sensations may lead to unhealthy avenues of stimulation, such as addictive disorders, quick-fix gratifications, and erotic fantasies. Sexual objectification may create ego formations that fragment the personality and take on a life of their own.
Channeling from Michael:
When speaking of the physical center, it is important to contrast the differences with the moving center. Both centers involve the body, but the moving center is like an extension of the body, with a drive to be outwardly physical and engaged to face the challenges in the world. Inversely, the physical center involves fully inhabiting the body and being immersed in the sensations of the physical form. We view the moving center as a vehicle to meet the physical demands of life, while the physical center is more about being at one with life.
The physical center has an inner-directed quality, lending a greater awareness to the more passive side of being physical, as if the body is a computer-driven mechanism and the operator is merely reading the code that allows the internal programs to function. This instills a sort of hypersensitivity to the inner workings of the body, and an intuitive knowledge of the instinctive center running in the background. Thus, people with physical centering are often the first to know when the body is not functioning at optimal levels. They immediately sense the imbalance.
As expected, aside from varied influences from overleaves, bodily sensations are more pronounced with this centering, which sometimes results in a psychological array of yearnings that may border on obsessions.
Instinctive-driven negative emotions, in particular, because of the magnitude of unsavory sensations generated, can be overwhelming. But they are also easier to remedy given the body-memory of those with this centering. In other words, the root cause of the sensations are easier to track.