Michael, Children and God

"I confess that there is nothing to teach:    
no religion, no science, no writings  
which will lead your mind back to Spirit.
Today I speak this way, tomorrow that,
but always the Path is beyond words and beyond mind."

- Lao Tzu

Too often it is the mind,the thoughts and the beliefs that we have formed that get in the way of our true divinity.  These again are the patterns at work in us.  I used to tell my students that maybe God knew what he was doing with me because I was blonde and my mind was empty so it was easy for me to pick up things psychically sometimes! It sounds funny, but it really is true.  That's why sometimes it's good to meditate to clear the mind.  Too often we find ourselves thinking about the past or the future, missing the present moment.

Getting inside of ourselves really is not about "thinking" our way there.  Even in yesterdays post we outlined some of the types of soul mates.  The purpose was to plant seeds of understanding on how we all came to be.  Real truth, however, will be felt within, and it is within that each one of us must go to obtain it. No blog writer, person, or spiritual guru can tell you absolute truth.   All people will have a tendency to filter through their individual life stream the words of the perfect being.  If we were pure source energy then of course the truth would always be absolutely revealed through a teacher or person.  But we are not.  We are still working on obtaining our purest form, less we would not be here.  Others may "guide" you, give you information that is true, but I do caution the true spiritual seeker to weigh all things with a grain of salt. Real truth will be revealed within, your true path, your true nature.  This is the true path of any being seeking enlightenment.

Michael practiced meditation to do this, but he also did many other things in his life that led him to the discovery of our true selves.  Although many people thought it was strange, Michael knew that by being in the company of children and playing with them, he would remain in a more pure state of mind.  It was Jesus himself after all that said the statement "Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven". Seeing as a child, without judgement, being like a child without conditioned thinking.  Without the "patterns" placed upon us.

During his 1991 Ebony/Jet interview this is what Michael himself had to say about it: 

"Well, there's a certain sense that animals and children have that gives me a certain creative juice, a certain force that later on in adulthood is kind of lost because of the conditioning that happens in the world. A great poet said once: "When I see children, I see that God has not yet given up on man." An Indian poet from India said that, and his name is Tagore. The innocence of children represents to me the source of infinite creativity. That is the potential of every human being. But by the time you are an adult, you're conditioned; you're so conditioned by the things about you--and it goes. Love. Children are loving, they don't gossip, they don't complain, they're just openhearted. They're ready for you. They don't judge. They don't see things by way of color. They're very child-like. That's the problem with adults: they lose that child-like quality. And that's the level of inspiration that's so needed and is so important for creating and writing songs and for a sculptor, a poet or a novelist. It's that same kind of innocence, that same level of consciousness, that you create from. And kids have it. I feel it right away from animals and children and nature."