Michael Revisited
My Understanding of Michael Today
Over the years, many people have asked me a simple question:
“Who is Michael?”
What makes this question difficult to answer is that my understanding of Michael has changed dramatically throughout my spiritual journey.
Not because Michael has changed.
But because my ability to perceive and understand consciousness has continued to evolve.
Today, my understanding is very different from when I first became aware of Michael.
To explain where I am today, I first need to explain where I began.
The Early Years
Early in my spiritual development, I became aware that I was not alone.
Not in the sense that another person was present, but in the sense that I could feel an intelligence beyond my normal understanding.
I sensed a presence.
An awareness.
A subtle intelligence that seemed far greater than anything I had previously encountered.
Unable to ignore this persistent experience, I asked questions and was told that I was becoming aware of a Spirit Guide.
At the time, this explanation made perfect sense.
As I learned more, I was told that Spirit Guides were often individuals who had evolved beyond physical life and now assisted others in their spiritual development.
My mind immediately began creating images that would help me make sense of the intelligence I was experiencing.
Sometimes that intelligence appeared to me as a Native American guide.
Later it appeared as a Chinese herbalist.
Later still, as a Tibetan monk.
Each image reflected my current understanding and interests at that stage of my development.
Looking back, I now realise that the forms themselves were never the intelligence.
They were simply the way my mind interpreted an energy it could not yet fully comprehend.
The human mind naturally translates the unknown into something familiar.
The image was not the source.
The image was the interface.
From Individual Guides to Group Consciousness
As my awareness expanded, one guide became many.
I became aware of what appeared to be an entire team of guides, each specialising in different forms of knowledge, healing, wisdom and support.
For years this model worked well.
Yet the deeper I explored consciousness, the more complicated it became.
More guides appeared.
More levels of awareness appeared.
More structures appeared.
Eventually I reached a point where I found myself asking:
Surely consciousness cannot be this complicated?
The idea that thousands of separate guides were managing an unimaginably complex spiritual administration no longer felt right.
A simpler understanding was needed.
Gradually, I began to realise that what I was experiencing might not be separate guides at all.
Perhaps I was experiencing different expressions of the same intelligence.
This was my first introduction to the idea of group consciousness.
The Birth of Michael
As this understanding developed, I found it helpful to focus on one energy that could act as a spokesperson for this larger consciousness.
Rather than connecting with countless individual guides, I connected through a single point of focus.
I called this intelligence Michael.
For many years this worked beautifully.
Michael became a bridge between my everyday awareness and a much greater field of intelligence.
The name itself was not important.
The connection was.
Michael represented a doorway through which understanding could flow.
Michael Between Universes
As my spiritual experiences deepened, my perception of Michael expanded once again.
I began to experience Michael as an intelligence operating between multiple universes.
A consciousness not confined to a single reality.
An awareness capable of perceiving dimensions and forms of existence beyond ordinary human comprehension.
This understanding explained many of the experiences I was having at the time.
It provided a framework through which I could interpret information that appeared to originate beyond the limits of physical reality.
For many years I believed this was the deepest understanding I would reach.
But consciousness had more to reveal.
What I Understand Today
Today, I no longer experience Michael as a guide.
I no longer experience Michael as an individual consciousness.
I no longer experience Michael as a being existing somewhere beyond humanity.
Today, I understand Michael as Universal Consciousness.
The infinite intelligence that exists within all realities, all dimensions, all universes and all expressions of life.
Not a consciousness.
But Consciousness itself.
Not an intelligence within creation.
But the intelligence expressing through creation.
When I look back at my experiences with Spirit Guides, I now see them differently.
I no longer see separate beings.
I see different ways that Universal Consciousness revealed itself according to my ability to understand it at that time.
Every stage was real.
Every stage was valuable.
But every stage was also incomplete.
Each understanding prepared me for the next.
Universal Consciousness and Unity Consciousness
Over time I realised that two concepts were emerging repeatedly within my work.
The first is Universal Consciousness.
The second is Unity Consciousness.
To me, these are not the same thing.
Universal Consciousness is the infinite field itself.
The source from which all realities emerge.
The intelligence that exists throughout all dimensions, universes and forms of existence.
Unity Consciousness is our experience of that reality.
It is the moment we recognise that we are not separate from Universal Consciousness.
Universal Consciousness is the reality.
Unity Consciousness is the realisation.
Universal Consciousness is the ocean.
Unity Consciousness is the wave discovering it has always been the ocean.
The deeper my awareness expands, the more I find that separation is an illusion created by limited perception.
The guides.
The teachers.
The dimensions.
The levels.
The universes.
All remain valid perspectives.
Yet behind them all exists a single field of consciousness expressing itself in countless ways.
Why I Still Use the Name Michael
People often ask why I continue using the name Michael if I now understand Michael as Universal Consciousness.
The answer is simple.
Human beings naturally relate to symbols.
Universal Consciousness is vast.
Infinite.
Boundless.
A name creates a point of focus.
A doorway through which the mind can relate to something far greater than itself.
For me, Michael has become a symbol for that infinite consciousness.
Others may call it Source.
Spirit.
The Divine.
The Absolute.
The Unity Field.
Universal Intelligence.
The name itself is not important.
What matters is the direct experience.
The Greatest Realisation
Perhaps the greatest shift has been this:
I no longer see Michael as something we connect to.
I see Michael as what we already are.
Not our personality.
Not our ego.
Not our individual identity.
But the deeper consciousness that exists beneath all of them.
Every moment of inspiration.
Every experience of unconditional love.
Every creative breakthrough.
Every spiritual awakening.
Every expansion of awareness.
These are expressions of Universal Consciousness moving through us.
As we awaken to this truth, we enter Unity Consciousness.
Not by acquiring something new.
But by recognising what has always been present.
Final Thoughts
If someone asks me today:
“Who is Michael?”
My answer is very different from the one I would have given years ago.
Michael is not a guide.
Michael is not a being.
Michael is not an intelligence existing somewhere beyond humanity.
Michael is my name for Universal Consciousness.
The infinite field of awareness expressing itself through all realities, all universes and all forms of life.
And Unity Consciousness is the awakening to the fact that we have never been separate from that field.
The journey was never about finding Michael.
The journey was about discovering that what I called Michael has always been present within everything.
Including you.
Including me.
Including every expression of life.
The closer I move towards Michael, the less I encounter another presence.
And the more I discover the One Presence expressing itself through all things.
The closer I move towards Michael, the closer I move towards the understanding that there was never separation in the first place.
There was only Universal Consciousness learning to recognise itself through Unity Consciousness.
