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The Michael Teachings
The Michael Teachings is a body of channeled New Age ilar terminology, making it easier for readers to accept
spiritual doctrine as articulated in Messages from Michael, the new material as part of a doctrines.[1] Jon Klimo,
published in 1979 by novelist Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, professor of psychology and parapsychology author stat-
which was the first in a series of four books chronicling ed that the Messages from Michael book series helped to
the three-decade-long conversation between a group of make Michael-channeling into one of the best known ex-
friends and a channelled spiritual entity known as amples of channeling during the 1970s and early 1980s,
Michael. As of November 2007 this conversation contin- and noted similarities in the events of the initial Michael
ues, as that Michael group continued to conduct closed channeling sessions to those that led to the Seth Mater-
sessions in the San Francisco Bay Area. After the first ial.[2] Klimo reported that more than a dozen people in
Yarbro book, other Michael channels appeared and con- the San Francisco bay area claimed to channel the same
tributed to a more or less consistent body of thought "Michael", using a variety of methods, ranging from au-
that, unusually in the history of religion or spirituality, tomatic writing to speaking while in a trance.[2]
has no central authority, no gathering place, no scrip-
ture, and no apparent desires for same.[citation needed]
Broadly, the Michael Teachings are a non-theistic
References
spiritual doctrine that endorses reincarnation and at- [1] ^ Hammer, Olav (2004). Claiming Knowledge:
tempts to work out a system of personality structures Strategies of Epistemology from Theosophy to the New
that souls choose to experience in each lifetime. As with Age. BRILL. pp. 396–398. ISBN 900413638X.
other New Age systems, the Michael Teachings believe in [2] ^ Klimo, Jon (1998). Channeling: Investigations on
soul ages. One core concept is, spiritually speaking, that Receiving Information from Paranormal Sources. North
"all choices made are equally valid".[citation needed] Atlantic Books. pp. 48–49. ISBN 1556432488.
An expert on new religious movements, Olav Ham-
mer, describes the Michael Teachings as a "fairly well-
structured set of doctrines, expressed in a distinct vo-
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by believers as a "group soul, a collective consciousness • TruthLoveEnergy
of 1050 essences". Hammer states that the channelers of • Messages from Michael
Michael study the earlier "transmissions" and use sim-
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