Archangel Michael
Archangel Michael is a well-known angel who has been actively working with humanity throughout history, and people of various faiths and beliefs are familiar with his name. He appears in ancient stories, and many statues around the world portray the Archangel with his sword. His image has been painted on frescoes and old paintings of grand battles, some historical and others supposedly yet to come. One of the oldest manuscripts that mention Archangel Michael is the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh, written in cuneiform on 12 clay tablets (c. 2150 - 1400 BC). Another is The Book of Enoch, sections of which were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, which are 2000 years old, but the book itself predates these scrolls.
A mummy of a woman with Archangel Michael's name tattooed on her leg was recently found in Sudan. She lived about 1300 years ago.
MUMMY WITH ARCHANGEL MICHAEL TATOO
Archangel Michael has many buildings and sites dedicated to him, with some of the most spectacular ones aligned to the Michael ley line. This ley line runs from the island of Skellig Michael near Ireland all the way south to Mount Carmel in Israel. Many are familiar with the island of Skellig Michael because it was featured in the recent Star Wars movie series as the island of Luke Skywalker.
The ley line continues to Saint Michael's Mount off the coast of Cornwall, the spectacular tidal island Le Mont Saint-Michel in France, the fabulous monastery La Sacra di San Michele in Piedmont, and Monte Gargano where Archangel Michael appeared several times. It then passes through Delos and Delphi, Corfu, and finally reaches Mount Carmel in Israel. More information on ley lines with maps is available here:
The word 'angel' comes from the Greek 'angelos,' which can be considered a translation of the Hebrew word 'mal'akh,' meaning 'messenger.' These beings are responsible for carrying messages between the human world and other realms, acting as intermediaries and mediators between 'down here' and 'up there.'
Predating the Hebrew culture is Sumeria, one of the oldest societies that has left us physical evidence of the winged human motif in the form of stone carvings. They believed each person had a 'ghost,' now called a 'guardian angel,' who remains a constant companion throughout their life.
When durable stone 'angel' motifs started to appear in Sumeria around 3,000 BC, the wings of these beings signified their ability to travel to places ordinary people couldn't reach - other worlds and higher states. As mentioned, these beings acted as mediators and messengers between these worlds.
Altars dedicated to guardian angels have been found in the excavations of ancient Sumerian homes, along with stone engravings and temple wall paintings of human figures with wings. Later cultures continued these stories and made them their own.
The internet is a wonderful tool for those wanting to do more research. I have only touched upon some historical details and concentrated on physical artifacts. There is a wealth of information (and misinformation, so please use discernment). I haven't even mentioned Lemuria and Atlantis, cultures which have not left much physical evidence but feature prominently in channeled works and modern spirituality. These cultures did not leave us written words, pictures, or carvings, but that does not mean they were not advanced or did not exist. Plato referred to Atlantis in his writings.
Similar to the role of a non-physical angelic being is the ancient tradition of shamanism, where a shaman acts as a mediator and a traveler between different worlds/spheres/dimensions. Animal spirits can also act as guides and guardians. Shamans use various tools and methods, including drum beats in their rituals, to facilitate transport and flight into other worlds, sometimes with the aid of their own guardian animals. During such flights, they reach various realms and, upon returning to this world, utilize the information learned during their journey to benefit and help others.
Historical figures like Moses and Enoch also had this ability to travel between the worlds of humans and gods, translating the information given by gods for the benefit of people. They acted as intermediaries, intercessors, and channels between the realms. Priesthoods were created to continue this practice.
In those times, it was considered that everyday people could not directly communicate with non-physical beings, other realms, or their own soul self. Clear communication with their own soul was not considered possible as the veil between realms was thick. Death was a mystery, although some older cultures had clear instructions and rituals to assist the recently deceased in starting their journey into the non-physical state after passing. One such ritual involved being greeted by Charon The Ferryman, who ferried the person across the river separating the two realms.
The common theme across cultures was that everyday people could only hope for glimpses and coded messages from other realms, occurring only at special times in their lives. These codes were encrypted, and one had to guess what their own soul wanted. Alternatively, they could go to specialists like shamans and priests for translations. Faith was considered a virtue and necessary, as direct experience with their own soul did not exist, making intermediaries and interpreters essential.
However, this veil that used to firmly divide the world of humans and other realms has thinned and, in some people, vanished altogether. Many have worked diligently through many lifetimes to allow the presence of their own consciousness to permeate the physical realm. Thousands of people have experienced awakening to their divinity in the last two decades. They have awakened to the reality of their vast inner world, non-physical worlds, other realms, and the presence of non-physical beings. They realize just how much more there is to reality, which is unperceived by the unawakened. They have melted the divide between realms within themselves and awakened to the reality that other realms are real and accessible. They have awakened to their ability to clearly commune with, understand, and interact with their own soul self. The inner world of the individual is where this kind of alchemy happens.
The presence of consciousness opens up the innate human ability to perceive all that was previously hidden. The image of the iceberg, with its small top above the ocean (conscious realm) and the majority beneath the surface (unconscious realm), is no longer true for many people as they become more and more conscious of what was hidden beneath the surface.
During my own intense awakening journey, I consciously met Archangel Michael for the first time in this lifetime. She acted as a representative of the high consciousness of the Michael spiritual family and my own inner mediator between my soul self and human self. Archangels represent the pure and archetypal states of their spiritual families and do not have a gender. She helped me, the human self, to cross the bridge dividing human from soul. It took time, but we did it. We bridged the gap. There is no longer any need to wonder if my soul self is real, if the other realms are real, or what my soul communicates to me. She speaks clearly and precisely, not using a voice but in an all-encompassing way of feeling and knowingness, difficult to describe. The human facet is absolutely able to comprehend its own soul song.
The world of art, poetry, metaphor, and analogy are used to describe these experiences. Another way to describe it is like going for a walk in nature. One can understand the language, the feeling of nature. It speaks clearly of serenity, aliveness, health, rejuvenation, grandness, blessed simplicity, beauty, birth, death, cycles of life, constant change, and the complex interconnection of all things. You understand its language, your body understands its language, as it is part of it all, and you start feeling wonderful in response to the language of nature. Yet, not a word of human language had to be spoken throughout the walk. You communed with nature as your whole self, including the body, you understood what it said to you, and you responded. You heard the song of nature and danced to its tune. Similarly, the human facet of self communes and understands the soul self. The clarity of the communication keeps evolving.
Michael
So what is the difference between Archangel Michael and Michael (Mikael)? Ancient versions of the name Mikha'El translate as 'Who is like God.' There are many versions of spelling the name Mikael, but the experience is more important than the spelling. Michael is sometimes referred to as a particular spiritual family (one of 144,000). The spiritual families played a bigger role in the past, and the Michael family was associated with attributes like truth and protector, among others. Personally, I came to know myself as a member of this spiritual family. For me, Mikael is the presence and awareness of my eternal self, a doorway to the source of my being, the grand creator being, the Oversoul, the I Am That I Am, the We Are that We Are. All of these words try to portray the inner experience.
Before anything existed, there was. There was the One, which felt the desire to experience itself through many different facets and perspectives. Female and Male it became. Many it became. Each of the many became aware of itself. One of these aware ones called itself Mikha'El. This one that was many gave freedom to its own 'many' to experience themselves as creators in their own right and sovereignty. One of these is the one Alexis calls my soul self. It too has a name... the name that sounds like Si-Kah-Ra. The name is a song, and its tone keeps changing with experience.
Archangel Michael represents the archetypal energies of the Michael family. She has never been physical and differs from humans in her ability to always radiate light. Each spiritual family has its own Archangel, who carries the essence of that family so the essence cannot belost in the density of the 3D realm. Like Archangel Michael, I too am a facet of Mikael. Unlike the Archangel, as a human, I possess a full spectrum of light and dark within me. I have the ability to choose and dance with these elements, integrate them, and create a completely new way of being—not of duality, but of new energy. As a human self, I can seemingly disconnect from my source, perceive myself as separate, and sever from my divinity. Like other human beings, I have walked the Earth in separation, disconnected for many lifetimes and centuries of experience.
We, Mikha'El, are a living consciousness. We are that we are, with no name at the source of our being. We are not a single color; we are a spectrum. We have always been, are, and always will be. We span worlds, universes, dimensions, and the vastness of voids. We exist within time and outside of time. We call ourselves 'we' because we are multifaceted and do not have a singular identity. It is our joy to now also walk among you—awake, aware, present. An integrated spirit in a human body. This has been our dream and passion for a very long time, and now it has become a reality.
You, our human counterparts, the parts of ourselves that are physical, are making this possible by going through awakening, integration, and realization. The divine trinity—the blending and infusion of human, soul, and I Am that I Am in the physical realms—is perfect as we are and continually expanding.
The spiritual families have since disbanded, as there is no longer any need for their existence. The individuated sparks are realizing their own sovereign domain and all that it entails—the New Earth.
Written in 2021 and based on the understanding until then. But the story continues its expansion, new understanding, and insights. It keeps unfolding...
And Then What Happened?
And so it happened that Michael asked me to put my sword down, to stop fighting the 'enemy out there' as it kept triggering my own inner trauma. And most of all, to stop battling myself, my own unaccepted shadow parts. Even if the world changed in one day and became a proverbial paradise, my inner wounds would continue to stir drama, hurt, and cause suffering. I needed to step away and heal my inner world instead. This was the first time I started to see and understand my own situation with clarity. Fighting and battling were such ingrained parts of me. Like the great tradition of the Michael spiritual family, I was involved in endless battles for justice, the oppressed, the victims, those in need, freedom, and truth, while ignoring my own inner shadow self and suffering.
I carried the sword and used it regularly. It was my pen; it was my words. I was a fighter in a modern sense. I was engaged in many battles for truth daily—with other people, friends, workmates, and family members. I thought my truth was the only truth and that others should adopt it. If only they would change into what I envisioned for them, then all would be alright, was my way of thinking. I had very defined ideas about light and dark and could only see the dark outside of me—in others, in the problems of the world, and most of all, my own denied parts.
I always took the side of the light as I perceived it, which then cast a great big shadow—my own shadow. The shadow unconsciously co-created so much of my life, my wounded story. It took me a while to realize that I was projecting my darkness onto the outside world, onto other people, and that the real battles were raging inside of me, creating wounds and breaking my heart. There are no winners in this ancient story of the battle between dark and light because one ends up unconsciously battling oneself, one's own disintegrated, unconscious, and unaccepted parts. One's shadow, one's darkness, and behind it all, one's true essence. Trying to suppress it, to destroy it. It took me several years to allow the hidden treasures of my shadow self to be released, to become conscious. For it is the shadow self that holds our divinity, creativity, joy, passion, and true self.
In this inner battle, either the light or dark can destroy each other as they are of equal strength. They are equal parts of the whole self, made of the same stuff. Both are equal parts of you and me.
The journey of stepping out of the battle, of integrating the light and dark within me, took several years and was very involved and intense. It was also full of amazing discoveries, coupled with the newfound thrill of living, and the self-healing of inner wounds. It was full of accepting and then letting go of patterns I thought were impossible to move. Dissolving the old blockages and ways of being that before seemed impossible to change. It would take books and books to describe. This journey of self-love, acceptance, and allowing has taken more courage than anything I have experienced before.
The awakening journey and the time of realization enabled me to melt the veils and walls between the human world and other realms. There is no more requirement for any intermediaries, messengers, mediators, or any rituals to establish the connection between the human, the soul, and the I Am that I Am—the Divine Trinity. The divine was always but a breath away, always present in the realm of unconsciousness. Like the underwater part of an iceberg; the 'iceberg' is always whole but the underwater part cannot be perceived by the 'unawakened' human.
The connection is permanent, the relationship real. My inner world is completely different than it used to be. It has transformed and transmuted. My direct channel to the constant spring of my well-being is open. I feel constant support, acceptance, love, and interaction between my own divine parts. There is not one part of me that can ever feel alone or abandoned again. Or without support. I have found the solution, the healing of all the issues I had. The separation from divinity was the main underlying issue of my suffering. Living in the small box of the separated mind was the underlying issue. The disconnection from my true essence and creating my reality based on that separation was the issue.
The creation, the Earth that we are part of, is a vast space and this vastness of being is here to be enjoyed, to be experienced, to be danced with. There are solutions; there are myriads of choices. This new path is dynamic, challenging, and exhilarating. It continuously stretches me beyond anything I thought I would dare to do, to be, and it keeps expanding. It forever changes the very basis of the human self and how she relates to her existence, to life itself.
The acceptance of self, the self-love. The light and dark that dance together in respect for each other and create new energy, new worlds. The integration of feminine and masculine. The fearless life. The spirit walking the Earth in a human body.
The reassessment of the use of my 'swords'; they are now used to cut through the veils of 3D, veils of manipulation, lies, deceptions, basically all the BS. The clarity sword and ninja skills are incredibly useful to navigating the matrix and its illusions.
And what of the Archangel? Well, he is no longer stuck having to wear the tight and uncomfortable battle gear when relating to me. Or a heavy sword. I don't need protection anymore and I don't need him to destroy any monsters on my behalf because that monster was my shadow. A shadow that is no longer a stranger to me, nor is it an enemy that carries all the darkness that I did not want to acknowledge or accept within myself. I no longer project that shadow on the rest of the world, put the blame on it, or fight it out there. The Archangel can be a brother, a sister, and a friend. An integrated facet of self. It is what she was looking forward to the whole time. To this living and breathing relationship, the intimacy of friendships, the joy of living.
The realization that all is within. The Archangel. The Soul. The I Am that I Am. No longer needing to define self except for the purposes of play in the joy of the moment. Integrated and whole. Realized. I Am that I Am. And so We Are.
Allowing, embodying, getting to know, getting used to, dancing with, exploring, and just being in the radiance of my being. The inner suns. Experiencing this radiance, how it manifests itself, which directions it flows, learning to tolerate its intensity, playing with it, and just enjoying how it feels.
A large stream of radiance is directed at the body, which adores the attention. It enjoys the new movements, new ways of energy flow, and new feelings.
The surprising thing about this incredible time is just how alive I feel and how interested in the world I am. My interest has awakened into so many things again after such a long time of intense inner focus. It seems like a contradiction; on one hand, it is a very private time, on the other, I am immersing myself in the exploration of life and all its facets. The interests keep growing and I can also now see new depths in people and situations that I've never been able to notice or feel before.
I have not imagined life in this way; my human self had no idea. It feels good, it feels happy, joyful. It feels like a butterfly bouncing from flower to flower in the endless abundance of the flowering fields.
This is the life after coming back to self, after bridging the separation between me and me.
Choosing and experiencing different perspectives on all; today, yesterday, and tomorrow. Identification with stories that were, who I thought I was, are like books. When I read a book, I can immerse myself into a story 'completely' and yet always know that I can put the book away and walk away. I can choose another book, a completely different story.
This is what being whole means. The luxury, or rather, the naturalness of being all perspectives and none at all as I Am that I Am. It gifts you with the overview, and as a human, you can then identify and dis-identify with any story. This is the freedom. The ability to not be stuck in anything and at the same time immerse oneself 'completely' into wherever joy takes you. Who knew that such freedom existed.
There can be so many perspectives and stories on our journey of integration, and rightly so.
There is also a perspective of simplicity. The whole process of awakening, clearing, integrating, and transforming can be overwhelming and many times confusing. It is a big job. You often don't see the purpose of it all when you are in its depths.
And when it is done, you see how simple it all really is. All of it had to do with transforming everything that is dividing you from the reality of yourself, from the reality of your being.
And that is it.
Once you exist in the reality of your being, your job is done.
And of course, it is at the same time just the beginning. Always the beginning.
A whole new world opens up for you and in you. A world of free-flowing enjoyment, sensuality, curiosity, aliveness, creativity, play, exploration, and much that has no words. Nor does it need any words. It is a feeling, an experience.
And the story continues...
2022, Alexis Srsa