Messages from Michael [Mass Market Paperback]

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1980

For more than 20 years, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and her group of friends have faithfully recorded the messages of the spiritual essence known as "Michael". In this book, Michael offers comforting insights on such issues as reincarnation and how it perpetuates the endless lessons the soul can learn in each new life.

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group (October 1980)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0425065332
• ISBN-13: 978-0425065334
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,769,226 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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44 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Messages from Michael, December 12, 1999

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Pamela Howell (Ft. Stewart, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Messages from Michael (Paperback)

I first read this book years ago when my then-boyfriend handed it to me as something to consider. The Ouija board on the cover of the paperback made me skeptical and hesitant to read what I thought would be a book of 'hocus pocus.' I put my skepticism on hold, and was amazed to find a book so useful as I tried and tested some of the information in my day-to-day life. All is chosen. Messages from Michael further explains choice, ramifications of choice, agreements between fragments ('people,' in laymen's terms), The seven essence roles (Warrior, King, Slave, Scholar, Artisan, Sage and Priest), each role's overleaves, their polarities (positive and negative), centering, and modes. All of these aspects affect choice, and depending upon one's overleaves, some choices will be easier than others. Also covered are the seven levels of love and the seven levels of disagreement. Fear and maya are the obstacles to overcome in love, agape. This book has helped me to become more aware of myself, my maya, and the world around me. I highly recommend this book. If you can, also try to get the two books that follow in this series: More Messages from Michael (five stars), and Michael's People (five stars).

33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Non-conflicting, understandable, sensible answers, July 12, 1999

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This review is from: Messages from Michael (Paperback)

This book is compiled from information claimed to be channeled from an entity from a higher plane. Regardless of the source, and whether or not you believe this, the information is difficult to challenge, and has alot of validity. I first read Messages from Michael 8 years ago, and since have read it a couple of times, and referred back to it countless times. I have not found a conflict with any of the information given in any of the four Michael books by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and the info works for me, everday. I changed quite a bit after first reading the book, because it made me think so intensely about my beliefs & positions on many ideas. Some of the information presented is: Reincarnation. The non-existence of heaven or hell. The hows and whys of how people relate to each other through many lives. The things that make up your personality, and how they relate to others. And a thousand etc's. I learned very many things about myself since I read it, and I think back upon the info almost daily. I HIGHLY recommend this book, and "More messages from Michael", "Michaels' People", "Michael for the millenium", all by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, if you are searching for answers that religion does not provide.

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Michael books are among the best., August 22, 2001

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John R. Conway (Niles, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Messages from Michael (Paperback)

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Michael books (Messages from Michael, More Messages from Michael, Michael's People, and Michael for the Millennium) are among the best examples of "channeled" wisdom. They are similar in some ways to the "Course in Miracles", the Seth books of Jane Roberts, and several other such bodies of work dictated to mortal human beings by disincarnate teachers. The source of the wisdom in "Messages from Michael" and its sequels is a supposed integrated causal plane spiritual entity who borrows the name "Michael" from its last-incarnated individual human soul fragment. Each such entity, according to Michael, comprises about 1,000 such fragments or souls.

Michael describes a system by which all human souls, themselves fragments of some causal plane entity similar to the Michael entity, are cast into existence by the Tao; and how each soul fragment has as many physical incarnations as it takes for the fragment "to experience all of life", that is, to absorb all of the wisdom that life is designed to give to each of us. Each fragment is cast in one of seven "roles in essence" which it retains throughout its evolutionary path. For each incarnation it may choose a different set of "overleaves", characteristics that will profoundly color the fragment's personality and the kind of experiences it is likely to have in that particular life. Michael describes in lucid detail the system of overleaves, giving plenty of examples of how they work together to create a particular kind of life experience. Michael also describes the major life lessons ("monads") that each fragment must complete and the workings of karma.

The number 7 pervades the system that Michael describes. There are 7 roles in essence, 7 modes, 7 goals, 7 centers, 7 soul ages, 7 levels within each soal age, etc. It is not an arbitrary number. When the complete system is delineated you can see that it appears to be comprehensive. When you consider the 7 roles in essence described by Michael, it is very hard to imagine there being an 8th role or only 6 roles. Seven seems to cover it exactly.

The Michael teachings will not give you all of the wisdom you need for a fulfilling life, but when you are ready for them they can help you form a more coherent picture of why you are here and how everything fits together.

And, as Michael says, "Belief is not required."