Brief Overview of the Michael Teachings

According to the Michael Teachings, before each of us begins our incarnational sojourn on the planet, we choose one of seven roles which will serve as the blueprint of who we are, and how we interact with others.

These roles fall into three categories:

Priests and Servers are roles that dedicate themselves to the service and spiritual evolution of the soul, and to the physical needs of the people on the planet.

Sages and Artisans are devoted to expression; the artisan through creation, and the sage via communication.

Warriors and Kings are the great mobilizers in society, and they express their nature by "taking action."

Scholars are the assimilators of knowledge. They are profoundly curious and they document all experience.

Although our role remains the same during an entire cycle of incarnations, in order to gather a variety of experiences we choose a set of personality attributes (called "overleaves")for each new lifetime. These attributes fall into the categories of a goal(the significant issues that motivate us),a mode(our means of expression), an attitude(our life perspective), and a center(how we react).

Finally, as we continue through our thread of lifetimes, copiously gathering experiences, learning lessons, and fulfilling agreements, an evolutionary process transpires and this process of development is called soul age. There are five soul ages that we progress through during our cycle on the physical plane. Infant souls deals with issues of survival; baby souls have a need for structure and tend to live according beliefs based on dogma, such as religion; young souls are success oriented and set personal achievement at all costs; mature souls are relationship fixated and tend to grvitate towards emotional drama, and old souls try to seek the larger perspective of life, and have less interest in playing the material game.