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Inspiration

Fear Has a Voice,but Faith Claims Authority

Michael Beckwith
Michael Beckwith
Sep 8, 2026
6 min read
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When fear comes knocking—when doubt whispers its what-ifs, when anxiety catalogs all the ways things could go wrong—something deeper in us can choose a different response. This isn't about denying fear or pretending it doesn't exist. It's about recognizing that fear, while loud and insistent, doesn't have to be the one steering the ship. Faith, by contrast, carries an authority that fear can never claim. This distinction between having a voice and having authority forms the beating heart of spiritual practice: the choice, made moment by moment, about which inner authority we'll obey.

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The Voice That Isn't the Authority

Fear speaks constantly. It narrates. It constructs elaborate stories before anything has actually happened—stories about failure, rejection, judgment. The voice of fear asks: What if it doesn't work? What if I fail? What will people think about me? It's a voice shaped by conditioning, trauma, and experience, one that has learned to protect by projecting catastrophe. This conditioned self, the personality forged by time and circumstance, becomes the default door-answerer whenever uncertainty appears.

But recognizing that fear has a voice is different from recognizing that fear has authority. A voice gets heard. Authority means something actually follows. Authority is what we obey. When we mistake fear's voice for authority, we organize our lives around avoiding its scenarios. We shrink. We hold back. We ask permission from a part of ourselves that was never meant to lead.

The teaching hinges on a simple but transformative question: When fear knocks on the door, who answers? Is it the wounded self? The limited personality? Or do we pause—and in that pause, refresh our consciousness enough to let something else respond?

The Practice of Pausing

Spiritual practice, at its core, is about learning to pause. Not to suppress fear or fight it, but to create space between the stimulus (fear's arrival) and the response (who answers the door). In that space lives choice.

The teaching describes this practice clearly: when fear appears, we don't allow the conditioned self to answer immediately. Instead, we pause and breathe. We ask ourselves that crucial question about who is going to respond. This isn't willpower or positive thinking. It's a shift in consciousness, a deliberate alignment with a different inner authority—one that faith activates.

When faith answers the door, the response changes entirely. Instead of What if it doesn't work?, faith says: The Universe is friendly. It is ever-unfolding. Everything is working together for our good. Instead of What will they think?, faith knows: The Presence, power, and love of God is right here with me right now. This isn't denial. It's a different reading of reality, grounded in a part of us that hasn't been touched by time or experience—a timeless dimension of our own being.

Something Beyond the Conditioned Self

The teaching emphasizes a radical truth: there is something about us, something around us, and something moving through us that transcends our personal history. This isn't escape from the human condition. It's recognition that the human incarnation—with all its learning and wounding—sits within something vastly larger. We are, as the teaching frames it at the outset, "a timeless, eternal, immortal being" having a human incarnation, not the reverse.

This reframing matters enormously. When fear speaks from the conditioned personality, it speaks from a self that believes it knows what's coming and that disaster is probable. But faith speaks from alignment with something that already knows. Not in a magical sense, but in the sense of intuition, synchronicity, the quantum field's mysterious responsiveness. When we can answer the door from that alignment, the entire tone of our response shifts.

The teaching describes this as "manufacturing faith"—not in the false sense of pretending, but in the active sense of calling forth. It's an invocation: Answer the door, faith. When we say this, we're not trying to create faith from nothing. We're invoking something that already exists within us, something that's been there all along beneath the noise of fear's constant narration.

Authority in Practice

This distinction between voice and authority plays out in real life whenever we face uncertainty. A job opportunity we doubt we can handle. A relationship requiring vulnerability. A creative project with no guarantee of success. Fear absolutely has a voice in these moments. The voice is loud, detailed, and utterly convinced.

But authority is something else. Authority is what actually governs behavior. If fear has authority over us, we don't apply for the job. We don't risk the relationship. We don't create. We contract. If faith has authority, we apply, we risk, we create—not from recklessness or naiveté, but from alignment with something larger that knows how to move through obstacles we can't yet see.

The teaching points to a specific practice: when fear arrives, pause. Refresh your consciousness. Let faith answer instead. This is the moment when spiritual practice becomes embodied action. It's not a one-time achievement. It's a practice, something we do repeatedly, each time fear knocks.

The Intimacy of Presence

Throughout the teaching, there's an emphasis on immediate, intimate presence. The Presence, power, and love of God is right here with me right now. This isn't about distant divinity or abstract theology. It's about recognizing that the presence we seek isn't somewhere else, sometime else. It's here. It's now. The quantum field doesn't deal in distance or time. Neither does God, in this framework. So when faith answers the door, it does so from the recognition that we're not alone, we're not abandoned to our conditioning, and we're not separated from the resources we need.

This immediate presence is the authority that faith invokes. Not a presence we have to earn or summon from far away, but the fundamental aliveness and intelligence that's already moving through us. When the conditioned self answers the door, it speaks from isolation and separation. When faith answers, it speaks from connection and unity.

Where to Go From Here

The practice is simple to name, demanding to live: the next time fear knocks, pause. Notice the voice. The stories it tells. The what-ifs it spins. Then ask yourself: who answers? Will I let the wounded personality take over, or will I refresh my consciousness and let faith respond? In that pause lies everything—not because faith will make things turn out exactly as we wish, but because faith aligns us with a larger intelligence and invites a different kind of response to an uncertain world. The practice isn't about never feeling fear again. It's about letting something larger than fear have the final say.

Transcript

[0:02] [music]

[0:07] [music]

[0:08] Thank you, Agape International Choir,

[0:11] our magnificent house band, Maryanne

[0:15] Lewis, and all of these sweet beings.

[0:17] Once again, just embrace yourself for a

[0:20] moment

[0:22] and have an inner realization

[0:24] that you are a timeless,

[0:27] eternal, immortal being.

[0:31] You have a human incarnation,

[0:34] but your genesis

[0:37] is the mind heart of the infinite.

[0:41] Your life really had no beginning and

[0:44] will have no end. The incarnation

[0:48] will end at some point,

[0:50] but your life is forever.

[0:53] Say, "My life is forever."

[0:55] >> My life is forever.

[0:56] >> I am an infinite timeless being. I am

[1:01] >> here to reveal more love and peace on

[1:04] the planet.

[1:08] >> So we begin this service with an

[1:10] awareness of our timeless nature which

[1:12] allows us to dip into the vibrational

[1:15] frequency of compassion

[1:18] with the awareness that compassion and

[1:19] love and peace do not need a passport to

[1:22] travel around the world.

[1:24] And so allow for your imagination and

[1:27] your spirit to go right to Nepal right

[1:30] now.

[1:32] It's not distant. We're all one. There's

[1:35] no distance in love. There's no distance

[1:37] in the quantum field. There's no

[1:39] distance nor time in God. So as infinite

[1:43] beings, our consciousness is expanded to

[1:45] embrace our brothers and sisters in

[1:47] Nepal. Those who have been swept off of

[1:51] the earth plain into another existence.

[1:55] Those that are feverishly looking for

[1:57] family members.

[1:59] The rescue individuals who are looking

[2:02] to save lives.

[2:04] We stand in proxy for these beings right

[2:07] now. We do not turn away.

[2:11] We do not spiritualize it away. We take

[2:14] spiritual action.

[2:17] We become keenly aware that we are one

[2:18] with all of these beings right now. They

[2:21] are BROTHERS AND SISTERS SHOT from the

[2:24] eternal flame of all existence.

[2:27] And we release a prayer of compassion.

[2:31] This is the moment of compassion

[2:35] of love.

[2:39] Let us embrace these beings now.

[2:43] And let us realize that as we are having

[2:45] this service today and we have the

[2:48] privilege of praying together, singing

[2:50] together, meditating together, listening

[2:52] to a message together, we look upon it

[2:55] now not as a luxury but as a privilege

[2:58] because we are not dodging bombs right

[3:00] now. We're not under siege of a

[3:04] mudslide.

[3:05] We're not in a drought necessarily.

[3:08] We're not under the sur eeges of of

[3:12] survival. We're in celebration mode. So,

[3:14] we want to not feel privileged about

[3:17] this or or or exempted from the human

[3:20] condition. We want to realize we have

[3:22] work to do. Practitioners know this.

[3:25] They've already begun to pray as soon as

[3:27] we heard.

[3:29] And so we're inviting our entire

[3:30] community right here in this sanctuary.

[3:34] And those who are tuning in from around

[3:35] the globe to right now expand your

[3:37] awareness, embrace the beloveds in in in

[3:40] Nepal now,

[3:42] parts of India, parts of China, all

[3:45] those beings. And let us just pour

[3:48] our love into those seeking to rescue

[3:51] and those who have already passed over.

[3:52] Let us invite angels that need an

[3:55] assignment to usher these people that

[3:57] have been suddenly swept out of the

[3:58] human condition into another existence,

[4:01] another plane of existence to help them

[4:03] acclimate.

[4:05] If they're suddenly have to adjust to

[4:06] another remembrance that they are alive

[4:09] in another dimension of reality.

[4:13] And let us just give thanks that we have

[4:16] the spiritual wherewithal

[4:19] to be here and there at the same time.

[4:23] Because here and there is now together.

[4:27] We feel this in our bones, deep in our

[4:29] soul.

[4:30] And we give thanks.

[4:33] We give thanks that through the power

[4:38] of meditation and prayer, we can be

[4:41] anywhere at any time uplifting and

[4:45] healing, sustaining.

[4:47] And we allow this event that take took

[4:50] place to activate compassion in our

[4:53] hearts.

[4:55] Say out loud, I am willing to allow my

[4:58] compassionate nature to be revealed.

[5:05] >> I am willing for compassion to be

[5:07] activated in me.

[5:11] >> That my frequency make a mighty

[5:14] difference on the planet. that our

[5:15] frequency might

[5:18] >> that our that our frequency in this

[5:21] community may make a mighty difference

[5:23] on the planet.

[5:28] >> And now it is.

[5:29] >> And so it is.

[5:31] >> Amen.

[5:32] >> Look at somebody. Just give them a high

[5:34] five. Just embrace each other in this

[5:35] spirit

[5:37] of oneness and togetherness

[5:40] as we are transcending space and time

[5:42] not only in technology but we're

[5:43] transcending space and time in our

[5:45] collective prayer work and meditation

[5:48] work that allowing us to have an insight

[5:50] into our union with all beings on the

[5:53] planet. Those that may be suffering

[5:55] under survival and those that are having

[5:58] enlightening moments about their oneness

[5:59] with God. We're all one and we're

[6:02] lifting humanity up through every

[6:04] insight and revelation that happens

[6:05] within us through spiritual practice.

[6:08] This month we're completing the theme of

[6:10] fear. Faith empowers aligned response

[6:13] and we have created that particular way

[6:17] of looking at fear. and was transmuting

[6:20] it into faith. The dynamic harmonizing

[6:24] healing tone that the presence of God is

[6:27] here that the universe is unfolding. It

[6:30] is progressive. It is friendly and

[6:33] constantly working together for our

[6:34] good. There's a dynamic faith that we

[6:37] have activated throughout the course of

[6:38] this month. And faith empowers it

[6:40] empowers a a a an aligned response. That

[6:45] is our response in the world becomes

[6:47] aligned with as we are aligned with our

[6:50] real nature and our real being which is

[6:52] the presence of God according to our

[6:54] uniqueness being activated then our we

[6:57] live as responsible beings not merely

[7:00] reactive beings to circumstance

[7:03] conditions and situations but we have a

[7:05] diff different learning curve on how to

[7:08] respond at any given moment as we are

[7:12] coming to a close of this particular

[7:14] theme And though we'll cover it over

[7:16] again in different ways, the topic is

[7:19] faith has a voice, but faith has has the

[7:22] authority. Say that fear has a voice.

[7:27] >> But faith faith has authority.

[7:30] >> Faith has authority.

[7:31] >> Now, we we want to hang into that

[7:32] vibration because we don't want to fool

[7:33] ourselves and say we're never going to

[7:35] have fear again. We're not saying that.

[7:37] Fear does have a voice, but our faith is

[7:41] beginning to take over the authority in

[7:43] our life.

[7:44] faith. I mean fear. We have to ask

[7:47] ourselves the question whenever fear

[7:49] whenever fear comes upon us, we have to

[7:51] ask ourself when faith knocks when fear

[7:54] knocks on the door, who answers? Is it

[7:57] the conditioned self that's answering?

[8:00] Is it the wounded self that is

[8:01] answering? It is the personality self

[8:03] that's been forged by time and

[8:05] experience and trauma and drama and

[8:07] constantly thinking about what other

[8:08] people are thinking about them. I mean,

[8:10] though, even though other people aren't

[8:11] thinking about them, they're thinking

[8:12] about themselves and what they're being

[8:13] thought about. Who's answering the door

[8:16] when fear is knocking?

[8:18] >> So, we learn how to we learn how to

[8:20] pause whenever there's fear. And we

[8:22] learn and we ask ourselves, who's going

[8:24] to answer the door?

[8:26] >> We don't allow fear to answer the door.

[8:27] We don't allow the conditioned self to

[8:29] answer the door. We don't we don't allow

[8:31] a limited personality to answer the

[8:32] door. we begin to pause and breathe and

[8:36] we allow the dynamic of faith to begin

[8:39] to answer that door. This is a moment in

[8:43] which we are stepping into spiritual

[8:45] practice. So there is a a dynamic inner

[8:48] feeling tone

[8:50] that answers the door of fear. But we

[8:53] have to stop because often times the

[8:56] conditioned mind will feel some fear and

[8:59] begin to create all manners of stories

[9:02] around it. Fear will begin to say what

[9:06] IF IT DOESN'T WORK WHAT IF I FAIL WHAT

[9:08] WHAT WILL PEOPLE THINK ABOUT ME? WHAT

[9:10] ARE THEY GOING TO SAY ABOUT ME? Fear

[9:12] will give a narrative

[9:15] to the to the emotional feeling tone

[9:18] before anything ever happens. So we have

[9:21] to ask ourselves who's going to answer

[9:23] this door and THEN WE HAVE TO pause and

[9:26] refresh our consciousness and allow

[9:29] faith to answer the door and we answer

[9:32] in a different way. The universe is

[9:33] friendly. IT'S UNFOLDING. EVERYTHING IS

[9:35] WORKING TOGETHER FOR OUR GOOD. The

[9:36] presence of power and the love OF GOD IS

[9:38] RIGHT here with me right now. I may not

[9:40] know how to do a particular thing, but I

[9:42] know there's something about ME AND

[9:44] SOMETHING AROUND ME, something moving

[9:45] through me, something that wants to

[9:47] SPEAK THROUGH ME THAT'S NOT BEEN TOUCHED

[9:48] BY TIME OR EXPERIENCE. ANSWER THE DOOR.

[9:51] FAITH, YOU ALLOW FAITH TO ANSWER THE

[9:54] DOOR.

[9:55] >> This is practice. I'm thinking I was

[9:57] thinking earlier about the story of

[10:00] Ernest Holmes

[10:02] and the story has been told over the

[10:04] years but at a major conference.

[10:08] There was a major conference of all of

[10:10] the different churches coming together

[10:12] and it was I think it was extremely cold

[10:17] in the room. Could have been hot but I

[10:19] think I the story the way I heard it was

[10:21] extremely cold and the heater wasn't

[10:24] working.

[10:25] People were getting upset.

[10:29] They they're bundling up. I remember we

[10:31] had some moments like that here.

[10:34] [laughter]

[10:36] And they couldn't quite listen to the

[10:38] speakers cuz they were And so [laughter]

[10:40] Ernest Holmes went up to the microphone

[10:43] and said, "God,

[10:45] this is me. Need I say more?"

[10:48] And [clears throat] the heater started

[10:50] working. Now that moment

[10:54] was uh it wasn't the words, it was the

[10:58] consciousness behind the words.

[11:00] >> That faith wasn't manufactured in that

[11:03] moment. That faith was revealed in that

[11:06] moment. Meaning as you begin to develop

[11:09] a full-on spiritual practice, building

[11:11] your awareness around faith and

[11:13] conviction and an inner awareness of the

[11:16] power and the presence and love of God

[11:17] is for you. You're not merely

[11:20] manufacturing faith whenever there's an

[11:21] emerging coming coming up. You are

[11:23] revealing it when an emerging come comes

[11:26] up. But your way of life,

[11:29] your way of life that you BUILT

[11:32] IS CARRYING THE vibrational frequency

[11:34] that allows for the response to come.

[11:37] Whenever there is some kind of

[11:39] misgiving, some kind of some kind of

[11:41] experience, some kind of condition, some

[11:43] kind of something that shows up in your

[11:45] face, uh, your faith is revealed in that

[11:49] moment. Often times, uh, people will

[11:52] move into a prayerful moment and a

[11:54] moment that something bad happens. And

[11:57] so, the first thing that's answering is

[11:59] their fear. What? I don't know what to

[12:01] do. Everything's going bad. But with

[12:04] spiritual practice and a love of

[12:06] spiritual practice, you begin to live in

[12:09] a different space. And the vibrational

[12:12] frequency that you're carrying may not

[12:16] be you standing on the street corner

[12:18] with a sign saying follow me, follow

[12:21] Jesus, follow whatever. You're just

[12:23] living in a quiet sweet repose that

[12:25] everything is working together for your

[12:26] good. Something comes up you don't like.

[12:28] There is a response not from fear but

[12:30] from faith.

[12:32] Fear thinks it has the final word. Faith

[12:36] says [laughter] that's a draft.

[12:39] That's the first draft, baby. [laughter]

[12:44] And so this kind of alignment that I

[12:46] just talked about is not arrogance. It's

[12:50] alignment.

[12:51] It's not arrogance that that Ernest Con

[12:53] can go up and say, you know, God, this

[12:56] is me. Need I say that was arrogance. It

[12:58] was alignment with years and years and

[13:00] years of spiritual practice of loving

[13:02] the practices as I was saying in the way

[13:04] of meditation service and it was

[13:06] mentioned yesterday when I was in Salt

[13:09] Lake City. It was brought up through a

[13:11] teacher by the Christian and it was

[13:13] brought up by many of us the fact the

[13:17] fact that you don't have to be um you

[13:21] don't you don't have to be pushed

[13:24] into doing something that you love.

[13:27] You don't have to be pushed into

[13:28] discipline. That if you love music and

[13:31] you love the piano,

[13:33] nobody have to beg you to go up there.

[13:35] You love it so much that you develop the

[13:38] discipline into a bliss because you love

[13:40] music. I want you to love the presence

[13:43] of God so deeply

[13:46] that you love to go into the secret

[13:48] silent place of the most high. You love

[13:50] to pray. You love to meditate. You love

[13:53] it. So, it's not like, "Oh, I've got to

[13:55] meditate today. Shoot. [laughter]

[13:59] I've already taken a shower and brushed

[14:00] my teeth. I've done all I've put my

[14:02] clothes. I picked the clothes I'm going

[14:03] to wear today. Now, I got to meditate,

[14:05] too." No, no, no, no, no, no, no. You

[14:08] want to fall so deeply in love with the

[14:10] spirit of the living one

[14:13] that you're pulled to sit for a few

[14:16] moments of silence, a few moments of

[14:19] connection with the infinite so that you

[14:22] can say in substance when fear comes up

[14:25] and fear thinks it has the final word.

[14:27] You're saying a substance. No, that's

[14:29] the first draft. The spirit of the

[14:31] living one has the final word and you're

[14:33] living in a whole dynamic awareness. You

[14:36] may remember the story of uh of the of

[14:39] the two ministers that were speaking at

[14:41] a magnificent conference.

[14:43] I know Jason Mitchell knows this. We've

[14:46] talked about it from time to time. And

[14:48] that is the uh the young minister had

[14:53] the opportunity to open up the

[14:55] conference by reciting the 23rd Psalm.

[15:00] And he did it impeccably.

[15:04] and people he even got a light level of

[15:06] applause because of it. The end of the

[15:09] service, the end of the conference, they

[15:10] they called up one of the veterans and

[15:12] he came up there. He kind of stumbled

[15:15] over the words a little bit, but there

[15:18] was not a dry eye in the house when he

[15:21] completed the 23rd Psalm. So the young

[15:24] man goes up to the elder and says, "I I

[15:26] I don't quite understand what happened

[15:28] here. I got up and did the psalm

[15:31] perfectly.

[15:32] you got up and stumbled over a few words

[15:34] and people were crying. What? What?

[15:36] What? What is that? And the veteran

[15:39] looked at the young man and said,

[15:40] "Listen, you knew the psalm, but I know

[15:43] the shepherd.

[15:47] >> We

[15:49] want to know the shepherd.

[15:52] The Lord is my shepherd.

[15:56] I shall not want." We we want to know

[15:59] the interfing tone OF THE PRESENCE OF

[16:01] GOD. SO deeply

[16:03] that we can say just a few words. It is

[16:06] packed with consciousness

[16:09] we don't have to SAY ANY WORDS AT ALL

[16:10] BUT WE HAVE AN AWARENESS THAT THE

[16:12] PRESENCE OF GOD is for us and not

[16:13] against us.

[16:15] Now that that brings me to a memory I

[16:18] remember at the behest of my mother

[16:20] Alice Beck with and at the behest of

[16:22] Lisa Sprinkles at the time she was not a

[16:25] practitioner she was to the family

[16:26] member she was Lissa's she was Aunt Lisa

[16:30] when she became a practitioner I bought

[16:32] her I bought her uh cards kind of what

[16:35] they called business cards I was her

[16:37] first client I made her pray I made her

[16:41] take money from me she said I can't take

[16:43] any money yes you

[16:45] Anyway, I can remember going to the

[16:48] guidance church of religious science

[16:49] under the spiritual leadership of Dr.

[16:51] Daniel M. Morgan

[16:53] >> and I'm I'm new there, you know, but

[16:56] there was an anniversary going on and it

[16:59] was an anniversary of either United

[17:01] Church of Religious Science or Guidance.

[17:02] I can't remember what anniversary it

[17:04] was, but they had a bust of Ernest

[17:06] Holmes in the front of the church. And

[17:09] so I walked out and I saw the bust and

[17:12] I'm like 23 24 years old and I said I

[17:15] know him. I I know him. And the elders

[17:17] looked at me and said you don't know

[17:19] him. He passed away in the 60s. I said I

[17:23] know him. I see him every night. They

[17:25] said what are you talking about? I said

[17:26] I go when I leave my body at night I go

[17:28] to these classes. He's one of the

[17:30] teachers and he teaches me along with

[17:33] other teachers. I I that's my that's my

[17:35] relationship to these individuals. And

[17:38] they looked at me like, "This boy is a

[17:40] little nuts." So I remembered at that

[17:42] moment, I never ever shared any of my

[17:46] spiritual experiences again because I

[17:49] was aware that though they were

[17:51] believers of what they were practicing,

[17:54] they didn't really know the deeper

[17:56] levels of the mystic the mystical uh

[17:59] connections to the present. They thought

[18:01] I was nuts.

[18:03] But I would leave at night, leave my

[18:06] body and I'd go to this place and

[18:08] oftentimes Ernest, I didn't know his

[18:10] name was Ernest until I saw the bust

[18:12] would be there teaching and one night

[18:15] he said tonight the the class is going

[18:17] to be taught by Michael Beckwith and I

[18:19] was like what what I'm sitting what? So

[18:23] I found myself walking to the front of

[18:25] the room and I turned around and I said

[18:28] he he's going to speak to us about the

[18:30] nature of the of the universal law,

[18:32] something like that. And I said, "Okay."

[18:34] I said, "It can all be broken down into

[18:36] eight words. It is done unto you as you

[18:39] believe." Then I counted. It is done

[18:41] unto you as you believe. Eight. I said,

[18:44] "Oh, hey, I'm really here. This is

[18:47] really happening." And a bead of sweat

[18:49] rolled down the side of my face. And I

[18:50] woke up in bed sweating because it was a

[18:54] realization that all these lucid dreams

[18:56] I was having, they weren't dreams. It

[18:59] was my excursion into being taught by

[19:02] the presence of God, by these wonderful

[19:04] teachers all around me. Walter Russell,

[19:06] it was a number of people that were

[19:08] there I was having conversation with on

[19:10] a regular basis. Matter of fact, I was

[19:11] talking to Walter Russell a couple of

[19:12] months ago as I was in a lucid dream and

[19:16] and and I woke up and it took me weeks

[19:19] to get back because it was a shock to my

[19:21] system. What I want you to know right

[19:23] now, when you go to sleep at night,

[19:26] there are people around you teaching

[19:27] you.

[19:29] I want you to know when you go to bed at

[19:30] night and you dream you're flying, you

[19:33] really are.

[19:34] >> I want you to know right now that you're

[19:36] not alone. That right now in this

[19:39] instant there are beings around you that

[19:41] assigned to you to assist you. They

[19:44] speak through your intuition assisting

[19:46] you, nudging you into a spiritual

[19:49] direction. Meaning awakening doesn't

[19:51] mean going doesn't mean becoming

[19:53] religious. It means having some level of

[19:54] practice in which you are more and more

[19:56] available to the insights and

[19:57] revelations of the spirit and a deep

[19:59] reminder of why you chose the

[20:01] incarnation in the first place so that

[20:03] you can develop an inner dynamic of

[20:06] faith that leads to conviction that

[20:08] leads to a divine knowing so that you

[20:11] can walk in this world. This is a

[20:13] simulated world. It's not a permanent

[20:15] world. It's not a forever world. It's a

[20:17] condensation of thoughts, beliefs,

[20:18] perceptions, positionalities that have

[20:21] condensed itself into a world and

[20:22] different world views.

[20:24] But they your your whole movement of

[20:28] having a human incarnation is walking

[20:31] into this simulation but being free of

[20:33] it so that you can transcend it and then

[20:37] bring that which is transcended into

[20:40] this realm changing the conditions as

[20:43] you are walking. I want you to

[20:45] understand there are many people that

[20:47] have adapted to this realm and they

[20:50] become successful in this realm which

[20:52] means they've become successful in a

[20:55] realm of dysfunction

[20:59] but beyond this realm of dysfunction

[21:01] there is an order harmony a peace of

[21:03] love there is a real world that I've

[21:05] seen [laughter] a real world and so one

[21:08] stage is to become successful in the

[21:10] realm of dysfunction another stage is to

[21:12] transcend this realm and to live in the

[21:15] REAL WORLD. SECRET PLACE of the most

[21:16] high. To live in THE REAL WORLD, GOD IS

[21:19] EVERYWHERE. TO LIVE in the real world,

[21:21] love is everywhere. And that means you

[21:23] are to forge a relationship. It's about

[21:25] relationship.

[21:27] A relationship with the presence, which

[21:30] is your own life and being, by the way,

[21:31] a relationship with the teachers that

[21:33] are around you. Because it's not about

[21:36] you walking alone. It's about you

[21:37] walking in relationship.

[21:40] Woo. And you are fostering a

[21:41] relationship. Every time you pray,

[21:44] you're fostering a relationship. Every

[21:46] time you meditate, you're fostering a

[21:48] relationship with your higher self.

[21:50] You're fostering a relationship with

[21:51] those that are around you cheering you

[21:52] on. You're fostering a relationship. So

[21:54] then you're able to walk in the

[21:56] simulation,

[21:58] but you're of a higher calling. So yes,

[22:00] you can be successful in it, be

[22:02] prosperous, be healthy, you can have all

[22:03] the good stuff, but you know that what

[22:06] you're doing is allowing the real world

[22:09] to seep into this world. Oo, you got to

[22:14] catch this. You're allowing the real

[22:15] world to seep into it.

[22:19] So, I have been given permission, you

[22:21] know, to to not only allow more

[22:24] activation to come through, uh, but to

[22:26] absolutely speak about

[22:30] this realm of so much good. It's so real

[22:33] to me.

[22:36] So that with a relationship,

[22:41] with a way of life, you can walk in the

[22:45] world, but to be of the higher

[22:47] frequency, not denying the human

[22:50] condition, but being around that you can

[22:52] transcend a condition and then

[22:55] conditions will be transmuted. Oo, I

[22:57] like that.

[22:59] You can transcend the world and

[23:02] transcend the conditions and then the

[23:03] conditions will be transmuted because

[23:06] your frequency. Oh my god.

[23:09] If you can really catch this this

[23:11] sometimes people are afraid. You know I

[23:13] have so much negative thinking

[23:17] thinking that I'm afraid that I'm going

[23:19] to produce all these negative results in

[23:21] my life.

[23:23] Well, mystics have known, metaphysicians

[23:26] have known. And now science is showing

[23:30] us that a thought that emerges from a

[23:32] field of oneness and unity is way more

[23:34] powerful than a thought form emerging

[23:35] from a fear a feeling tone of fear or a

[23:38] domain of fear. So if you begin to have

[23:40] a spiritual practice,

[23:43] your particular moments of connection

[23:46] with the presence of God will begin to

[23:48] dominate and all of those other thoughts

[23:51] that come up from time to time or on a

[23:53] regular basis that are of a lower

[23:54] frequency will have less and less sway

[23:56] over you because you're you're you're

[23:59] having the feeling of connection with

[24:01] God. Oh, the feeling tone of connection

[24:04] with the spirit. So that you begin to

[24:07] have a level of observation of the

[24:10] seeming negative thoughts that are

[24:12] moving through you and then something

[24:13] happens. You begin to be more identified

[24:16] with that which is watching rather than

[24:18] that which is experiencing. You follow

[24:21] that?

[24:21] >> Yes.

[24:23] >> And as you become the watcher,

[24:26] you begin to be aware, oh this is my

[24:29] identity.

[24:30] I am awareness. I am the light. The same

[24:34] light that's that comes to every being

[24:35] that enters the planet on that light.

[24:38] And now because of your relationship

[24:40] with the Almighty, your relationship,

[24:44] you can declare and decree in this

[24:47] simulation what will be because it's

[24:50] already in existence in the quantum

[24:52] field. You must first obey before you

[24:55] can command. And if you obey the basic

[24:59] teachings of pausing, breathing,

[25:01] connecting on a regular basis, then you

[25:05] can command, "Let there be light in my

[25:07] life. Let there be more abundance. Let

[25:10] there be wellness. Let there be

[25:12] well-being. Let there be love. Let there

[25:14] be safety. LET IT BE." [screaming]

[25:16] BUT YOU'LL be speaking not from begging,

[25:19] pleading. Fear won't be speaking. your

[25:23] faith and conviction and your

[25:25] relationship with the Almighty will be

[25:27] declaring and decreeing and THEN YOU'LL

[25:30] WATCH conditions transmute. You'll watch

[25:34] things dissolve and what will remain

[25:38] will be your pristine nature shining so

[25:42] bright THAT IT BLINDS A PEOPLE. MEANING

[25:45] THAT SOME people won't be able to stand

[25:48] your light. Some people will love it.

[25:50] Some people say, "Oh, I don't know.

[25:52] Whenever I get around her, I just don't

[25:53] feel good." YEAH. BECAUSE YOU GOT SO

[25:55] MUCH TOXICITY THAT'S COMING UP THAT IT

[25:58] JUST YOU JUST CAN'T HANDLE THE LIGHT.

[26:00] AND and and you will walk as a feeling

[26:03] tone of loving everybody, loving people

[26:05] that don't like you, loving people that

[26:07] talk about you, loving people that love

[26:09] you. You'll just be a lover of God and a

[26:11] lover of humanity. and you will be an

[26:15] anchor point for the emergence

[26:19] of the next stage of human unfolding.

[26:22] Now, that may sound big, but I'm just

[26:24] here to remind you what you said to

[26:26] yourself before you got here. I'm here

[26:28] to remind you that before you got here,

[26:31] you said, "I'm leaping into an earth

[26:33] incarnation. I'm going to put on some

[26:36] earth clothes. I am God in drag.

[26:40] >> [laughter]

[26:41] >> I'm putting on some earth clothes.

[26:45] >> I mean, God is the first transgender.

[26:47] You know what I'm saying? [laughter]

[26:51] God is beyond gender. God's beyond all

[26:53] of that. [laughter]

[26:54] You leap into the earth incarnation.

[26:57] But you've got a mission.

[27:00] And your mission is to reflect and to

[27:02] reveal the fundamental order of the

[27:04] universe while you have a body. It used

[27:06] to be an old religion. You say when you

[27:08] die you're going to heaven. Remember

[27:09] that. Is he still around?

[27:12] >> When you die, you're going to GO TO

[27:13] HEAVEN. NO, THAT'S NOT WHAT HE SAID. He

[27:16] said the kingdom of heaven's at hand

[27:17] now. Kingdom of God is within. I'm going

[27:19] with him. I don't know about you. I'm

[27:20] going with the guy, you know. So, you

[27:24] have come with a mission, an assignment.

[27:28] I'm here to remind you that with your

[27:31] lowly listening,

[27:34] your inward prayer,

[27:37] stop blaming your unhappiness on other

[27:39] people. Stop complaining.

[27:43] Stop giving up your power to an external

[27:46] condition and saying, "Oh, that makes me

[27:49] no. Nothing can't make you anyway. It's

[27:51] already within you." Stop doing it.

[27:55] Instead, stand with your back straight.

[27:57] Feel that the entire universe is for

[27:59] you. Feel that all your ancestors are

[28:01] for you. Angelic realm is for you. Your

[28:03] teachers are all around you. Feel all of

[28:06] that. Have a relationship with the

[28:08] Almighty. Cultivate the relationship. As

[28:11] you would cultivate a friendship,

[28:12] cultivate it

[28:14] until when a condition comes up, you'd

[28:17] be able to say, "God, this is Michael.

[28:20] Need I say more?"

[28:23] Matter of fact, think about a condition

[28:24] right now. And I want you to use your

[28:25] own name.

[28:27] But I want you to build in something. I

[28:28] want you to close your eyes for a

[28:30] moment.

[28:32] And I want you to feel how much you love

[28:36] the presence.

[28:39] However you define the presence of God

[28:41] in your own way,

[28:43] we we we don't have fear of God. We have

[28:46] awe of God.

[28:49] It's an awe. [sighs]

[28:51] Light so bright it blinds us. Bliss so

[28:55] magnificent sometimes it knocks us out.

[28:59] Just feel how much you love life.

[29:04] Connect with that.

[29:08] Feel in this moment that all of your

[29:09] needs are met. Connect with that.

[29:13] Feel in this moment that you are

[29:14] divinely supported

[29:17] by a presence that's never an absence.

[29:20] If it's difficult to feel that, imagine

[29:22] what it would feel like

[29:25] to be loved so deeply.

[29:28] In my early 20s when I had that had my

[29:31] first adult awakening, the love that

[29:34] penetrated my being and the beauty that

[29:36] surrounded me and my consciousness of

[29:38] being one with everything was a it was

[29:44] beyond words. It changed everything for

[29:46] me.

[29:48] It's It's real.

[29:50] Just feel that or imagine it. Feel that

[29:54] connection. Now,

[29:56] put your right hand over your heart and

[29:57] your left hand around your belly.

[30:03] And using your own name, I want you to

[30:05] say,

[30:08] "Spirit

[30:10] this." You can say, "Spirit, this is me.

[30:13] Need I say more?" Just start there. Say,

[30:14] "Spirit, this is me. Need I say more?"

[30:19] I call forth light and love.

[30:22] >> I call forth.

[30:23] >> I call forth beauty and joy.

[30:25] >> I call forth beauty.

[30:26] >> I call forth harmonious prosperity and

[30:29] abundance.

[30:30] >> I call for prosperity.

[30:32] >> I call forth divine health and

[30:34] well-being.

[30:35] >> I call forth divine health.

[30:37] >> I call forth divine joy.

[30:39] >> I call forth divine.

[30:40] >> This is me.

[30:41] >> This is me.

[30:41] >> This is me in alignment.

[30:43] >> This is me in

[30:44] >> I SAY MORE. NEED I SAY MORE?

[30:48] >> And as the young ones say today, say

[30:50] less. [laughter]

[30:53] >> Say less.

[30:56] Take that laughter. Take that laughter.

[30:58] It's taking you It's taking you It's

[31:00] taking you out of the paradox of

[31:02] humanity where where we laughter takes

[31:04] us out of the paradox into an awareness

[31:07] of something's wonderful happening. Say,

[31:08] "This is me. Need I say more?

[31:10] >> This is me. Need I say more?

[31:12] >> This is me. I call forth divine

[31:14] wholeness. This is me. I call

[31:16] >> this is the real me. I'm calling forth

[31:18] divine joy.

[31:19] >> This is real.

[31:20] >> This is me. I'm calling forth harmonious

[31:22] prosperity.

[31:25] >> Ideal employment.

[31:27] >> Ideal

[31:27] >> divine and compelling right action.

[31:30] >> Everything working together for my good.

[31:33] >> It's happening now.

[31:34] >> When?

[31:35] >> When?

[31:36] >> When? When?

[31:38] >> NOW.

[31:41] >> NOW. This is what's going to happen.

[31:42] This is the promise.

[31:46] Your faith will not be manufactured in

[31:48] emergency. It will be revealed.

[31:51] Your faith will not be standing on

[31:53] arrogance. It will be standing on

[31:55] alignment.

[31:58] Fear says

[32:00] I am the final word. What can go wrong?

[32:04] Everything is going bad. Oh no. Oh my

[32:06] god. Faith says that's the first draft.

[32:11] spirit takes out the red pen, crosses

[32:14] that out and says, "In the beginning,

[32:17] God.

[32:21] This is our beginning now.

[32:23] This is our beginning. This is our

[32:26] beginning."

[32:27] So, we take this opportunity with our

[32:30] hand over our heart and our left hand

[32:32] over our belly to just breathe into an

[32:35] everexpanding awareness of our oneness

[32:37] with pure spirit.

[32:39] This brings forth a dynamic feeling tone

[32:41] of gratitude.

[32:43] Oh, we're so grateful. We're so

[32:46] grateful. We're so grateful. Say, I'm

[32:48] grateful.

[32:49] >> I'm grateful.

[32:50] >> Sing it. I'm grateful.

[32:52] >> I'm grateful.

[32:54] >> I'm grateful.

[32:56] >> I'm grateful.

[32:57] >> I'm

[32:59] so grateful.

[33:01] >> I'm so grateful. Oh, it's difficult to

[33:04] be in depression when you're singing

[33:07] saying I'm grateful.

[33:11] >> I'm so grateful. [singing]

[33:16] >> So in this consciousness of gratitude,

[33:19] we're now whole soul receptive

[33:22] to the more good than we've ever

[33:24] imagined in our life. We're so very

[33:27] grateful. So very grateful. So very

[33:29] grateful that the acute recognition

[33:32] factor takes us over. Meaning we cannot

[33:35] help but see the presence of God

[33:37] everywhere. We recognize it. We re know

[33:40] it. We recognize it

[33:43] in each other as each other.

[33:46] And now we feel a deep

[33:50] connection to the presence that is never

[33:52] an absence. We're one with God. Say, I'm

[33:55] one with God. I'm one.

[33:57] >> It's from this consciousness of oneness

[33:58] that I have the privilege and the honor

[33:59] to speak the word for each and every one

[34:01] of us here in this transformational

[34:03] sanctuary of love. And for all of those

[34:06] tuning in and beaming in from all around

[34:07] the globe, I speak the word for us

[34:09] knowing there's only one of us here. One

[34:11] power, one life, one love, one

[34:13] intelligence, one beauty, revealing

[34:15] itself as the myriad, as the many. And

[34:18] as I am speaking the word, it is the

[34:20] vibrational frequency of let there be

[34:23] light. is a vibrational frequency of in

[34:25] the beginning God. And this frequency is

[34:27] now taking over. I'm calling forth

[34:30] divine health and well-being. I'm

[34:31] calling forth divine joy and true

[34:34] happiness, not based on a condition, but

[34:35] based on our intrinsic nature and our

[34:37] connection and our deep inner

[34:39] relationship, our atonement with the

[34:41] spirit of the living one. I'm speaking

[34:43] the word for us to have the inner

[34:44] feeling tone that everything is working

[34:46] together for our good because it is.

[34:50] I'm speaking the vibrational word of

[34:52] freedom. Not the freedom that a country

[34:55] may give you, but our innate freedom as

[34:59] spiritual beings. I'm speaking the word

[35:02] that something magnificent is happening.

[35:04] Say something magnificent is happening.

[35:06] >> Something magnificent

[35:07] >> right here, right now.

[35:09] >> Right here, right now.

[35:10] >> I'm speaking the word. And this word is

[35:12] now serving as a law of elimination and

[35:15] transmutation of anything that would

[35:17] hinder, delay, obstruct or deny the

[35:19] fullness of life from moving through us.

[35:22] And it is dissolving and transmuting

[35:25] fear into a dynamic excitement.

[35:28] Transmuting that excitement to an

[35:29] enthusiasm, transmuting that enthusiasm

[35:32] to divine at one minute. Faith is

[35:36] empowering an aligned response.

[35:39] Fear may have a voice, but our faith now

[35:42] has the inner AUTHORITY TO SAY NOT SO.

[35:48] Something wonderful is happening.

[35:51] And we feel this in our bones.

[35:54] Feel this in our soul.

[35:57] We feel it. We feel it. We feel it. We

[36:02] feel it.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Rather than trying to eliminate fear, the teaching suggests pausing when fear arrives and asking: who will answer the door? By creating space between fear's voice and your response, you can choose to let faith (or alignment with a larger presence) answer instead of your conditioned, wounded self. This practice of pausing and refreshing your consciousness is what gradually shifts authority from fear to faith.
Faith, in this teaching, isn't about forcing optimistic thoughts or pretending problems don't exist. It's about aligning with something real within and around you that transcends your personal history and conditioning—something the teaching calls the presence, power, and love of God. When faith answers the door, it speaks from connection to something larger, not from denial or wishful thinking.
No—and that's not the goal. The teaching explicitly states we're not saying we'll never have fear again. Fear is part of the human experience. The practice is about shifting authority: learning to pause when fear arrives, so that something deeper (faith, presence, intuition) can respond instead of allowing conditioning and past trauma to run the show automatically.
In crisis, the teaching points to immediate practice: pause, breathe, and remind yourself that there is something about you, around you, and moving through you that hasn't been touched by time or experience. Faith answers from this place of larger presence, not from a magical belief that nothing bad is happening, but from alignment with a reality that includes both difficulty and an intelligence greater than your conditioned fear-self.
Refreshing consciousness means stepping out of the automatic, conditioned response patterns and reconnecting with your deeper awareness—the timeless part of you beyond personal history. In practice, this often involves pausing, breathing, and consciously shifting your attention from fear's narrative to the present moment and the larger presence available right now.
Authority means what actually governs your behavior. If fear has authority, you shrink from life. If faith has authority, you move forward in alignment with something larger. Faith becomes an authority through repeated practice—each time you pause and let faith respond instead of fear, you're training yourself to obey a different inner authority, one grounded in presence rather than conditioning.

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