MICHAEL SPEAKS – Emergent Identity: Living Through the collapse of Linear Constructs – March 23, 2025

MICHAEL SPEAKS – Emergent Identity: Living Through the collapse of Linear Constructs – March 23, 2025

MEntity:

Hello to each of you. We are here, now. We will begin.

Ironically, we rarely have conversations with our channel as most of his time delivering our words is for others. During these challenging times, Troy is working more directly with us and bringing considerations to us to address. This allows us a broader range of exploration and expansion that is more limited when he "stays out of the way." His concerns reflect world concerns and we think we can help our students navigate more effectively with our channel directly speaking to us about these world concerns.

Today we will introduce a perspective to you that may help in framing some of the more challenging elements that affect your deep psychological constructs that must transform along with the paradigm shift.

Our students may be experiencing a phenomenon that feels as if the world you know, the people you have known, and even the self you know, are increasingly unfamiliar. What you once used to define yourself may no longer fit, and what others rely upon to define themselves may now seem brittle, reactive, and even violent in their need for certainty.

The collapse of linear constructs is not only inevitable, it is part of collective evolution. Defined, rigid, static categories of identity are collapsing. What once served to organize and stabilize experiences now may feel like cages or electrical agitation throughout the body. Collectively and individually, all fragments are being invited into what we will refer to as Emergent Identity.

Emergent Identity is the conscious or unconscious effort to move away from linear, binary and static definitions of self and toward a more fluid, responsive, and multidimensional sense of Being.

Keep in mind that this is only one element of what is being navigated as challenges in this paradigm shift, but it is a meaningful awareness to bring to all of your efforts.

For most of your incarnational history, Personality relied on external structures to define safety and purpose, such as family roles, gender constructs, racial categories, geographic origins, societal rules, etc. These factors were the common and ancient scaffolding through which a soul could focus and learn within the Physical Plane.

But the scaffolding must come down, eventually.

And it is coming down now. And coming down fast.

A destabilization is in effect now as populations of Personalities begin to drop their deep attachments to these structures that act as proxies for value, belonging, and meaning. The loss of these definitions can feel like a loss of Self. The terror you see rising in authoritarian movements and reactionary ideologies is not merely fear of change, but fear of annihilation. For younger souls or those who have made no effort to awaken, there is profound depth of fear that nothing will remain without these constructs.

For those who are awake, there is still discomfort and uncertainty, but also a profound trust and enthusiasm for a future that is free of these constructs because what remains is far greater, and more truthful than anything that could be assigned by tradition or imposed roles.

For many of our students who are experiencing discomfort and uncertainty, there may remain some clinging to outdated constructs and a resistance to allowing their identities to evolve. You will know you are clinging to these constructs when there is defensiveness, when rigidity arises, when you feel the need to correct, control, or invalidate others in order to secure your sense of Self.

This differs from healthy resistance to oppression or authoritarianism, which is a stance taken in defense of freedom, choice, and compassion. Clinging to outdated constructs is more often fueled by anxiety around losing part of your identity if others challenge or exist outside of your familiar or accepted definitions, particularly when that anxiety or defensiveness arises toward those with whom you would otherwise trust and love. In contrast, resistance to oppression is the honoring of freedom for oneself and others, not the restriction or limitations of that.

You will know you are allowing your identity to evolve when curiosity replaces certainty. When you find yourself asking, WHO AM I NOW? rather than being convinced that THIS IS WHO I AM. When you allow yourself and others to be in flux, uncertain, and curious about what comes next, you are in the process of Emergent Identity.

Furthermore, just as the individual thrives better in curiosity over certainty, so does humanity. When you, as part of collective humanity, begin asking WHO ARE WE BECOMING, rather than resigning to THIS IS JUST WHO WE ARE, the collective consciousness is benefited in this process of Emergent Identity on a global scale.

It is in this state of curiosity that great paradigm shifts can take root. When individuals within the collective consciousness cling to rigid and conclusive definitions of humanity, such as HUMANS ARE GREEDY, HUMANS ARE VIOLENT, HUMANS ARE DOOMED, HUMANS ARE MONSTERS, etc., it is helpful to understand that these outdated constructs are born of pain and fear, not truth.

Such conclusions reflect the same defensiveness and anxiety seen in the individual who clings to a static sense of self.

Collective growth, like personal growth, requires embracing flux, uncertainty, and the possibility that humanity is becoming something more compassionate, inclusive, and conscious than it has ever been, even as a portion of the population resists with great fear.

As conscious older souls, it is your choice whether to lean into reaffirming the outdated constructs that define humanity or to lean into the question of what is possible.

We offer up this information and perspective as a means to help you reframe and recalibrate your processing of challenging events because there is already enough to process without piling on the rubble of crumbling constructs to bury your potential or humanity's possibilities.

Many of you may not see through the eyes of this lifetime what possibilities come from your efforts to contribute to an evolving humanity, but the eyes of this Personality will see from wherever it is over time. Our point being that it is not a matter of too late or not enough time for anyone. It is always a matter of choice.

During these challenging stages of evolution for humanity, and as Emergent Identity becomes more comfortable to you and the world, there are some tools that can help:

ANCHOR PRACTICES: It is helpful to come up with rituals, actions, or habits that are not about identity, but about PRESENCE. Taking deep breaths for a few moments, practicing some form of meditation, writing, dancing, movement, immersion in nature, etc., anything that grounds you in the moment rather than in some definition.

COMPASSIONATE OBSERVATION: Instead of forcing clarity, it can be helpful for you to become a gentle witness to your own changes and efforts. You are not required to draw conclusions about yourself or humanity.

TEMPORARY CONTAINERS: Allow your various facets of self that meet the day to be temporary constructs of identity that exist only to serve the moment, not to conclude the self. It can be delightfully freeing to state FOR NOW, I AM THIS. These containers can then be released or reshaped as needed. Allow the scaffolding of identity to be a bridge, not a prison.

We would offer up 3 additional tools for how to support others (and yourself) when overwhelmed and reactive:

CHOOSE NOT TO MEET PANIC WITH PANIC: If others around you are clinging to outdated structures, note that you are witnessing fear. Your calm, present, and inclusive responses can be more transformative than any argument in that moment.

OFFER SAFE MIRRORS: When possible, it can be helpful to consciously reflect to others their own strength, their capacity to adapt, and their beauty beyond outdated definitions and constructs. To offer safe mirrors is to gently reflect to others what they may have forgotten about themselves, such as their resilience, kindness, curiosity, and capacity for growth. For example, if someone reacts defensively, rather than meeting them with correction or argument, one might say, I CAN FEEL HOW MUCH THIS MATTERS TO YOU, AND I TRUST YOUR HEART IS IN THE RIGHT PLACE. This can soften the mirror from conflict to care, reminding them that their passion and values are seen, even if misdirected in that moment.

NOTE: Safe Mirrors does not mean sacrificing boundaries. If someone is abusive, manipulative, or dismissive of your humanity, that is when the safe mirror becomes a closed door. In those instances, it is fair to firmly state, I CARE ABOUT YOU, BUT I WILL NOT ALLOW THIS BEHAVIOR TOWARD ME (or others). Make such a statement only if this feels safe to do so, and in any case, it is okay to then step away.

A Safe Mirror is meant to reflect strength and compassion, not to absorb harm.

And finally, BE HONEST ABOUT YOUR OWN STRUGGLE: vulnerability in acknowledging your own discomfort or resistance to change helps others to soften and improves the possibility of growing together. Being conscious, awake, and desiring the greater possibilities for self and humanity does not automatically mean one is comfortable and confident.

Emergent Identity is less about a definition and more a state of presence. It is the recognition that you are a convergence of memories, desires, relationships, values, and curiosity, all in flux. As you allow for Emergent Identity, you would begin to see yourself as a kind of living tapestry, woven moment by moment, and you no longer define yourself by who or what you ARE, but by what you CHOOSE.

Embracing your Emergent Identity means allowing for Multiplicity, or being many things at once with no conflict. It means playfulness that allows you to try on aspects of the self and release them without shame. It means deep intimacy as you relate to others as they are BECOMING, not as they have always been defined (by themselves or others).

Emergent Identity is the closest you may come to how your Essence's multitude of Personalities exist beyond the Physical Plane as part of greater and greater merging together. Emergent Identity is never about a loss of self, but a birth of presence. You were never meant to be defined. You were meant to be KNOWN.

The collapse of linear constructs is not an ending. It is a byproduct of consciousness "growing up" and showing up, with a willingness to know itself, and participate in a world where "I AM" is always followed by curiosity.

Humanity has coasted in a state of destructive unconsciousness for 6 million years. It is waking up and reckoning with itself. This is not meant as condemnation of humanity, but meant as context. It is the nature of evolution to begin in survival, reaction, and instinct and grow from there. For millions of years, this unconscious state served a purpose. It allowed for adaptation, experimentation, and the slow accumulation of wisdom through trial and error. This unconsciousness also carried forward patterns of harm, division, and fear.

You now live in a time when unconsciousness is no longer sustainable. The destructive momentum is colliding with humanity's growing capacity for choice, awareness, and empathy. Where unconsciousness once ruled by default, consciousness now emerges as necessity.

As a species, you are at the threshold of determining whether to continue coasting until collapse or to awaken into collective responsibility and conscious participation in your own evolution. This is not caused by an external imposition, but by an inner invitation and revelation shared across the species.

Every moment you choose curiosity over certainty, kindness over cruelty, inclusion over fear, you help humanity move from ancient inertia into deliberate becoming. The greatest question moves away from WHO HAVE WE BEEN, to WHO ARE WE BECOMING.

***QUEUE IS NOW OPEN**** we can take a few questions. Enter the queue by typing 3 asterisks ***. We will call on you in order.

Yes, Juni.

Juni: Which side of the divergence did we land on, from last week? I'm wondering how much determined unconsciousness we can expect.

MEntity: It is not so much that one "lands" on one side of a divergence, but that one begins to travel along the trajectory of that path. Most of our students, by nature of their awareness, compassion, and commitment to conscious choice, have aligned with the parallels that prioritize human rights, civil liberties, and collective progress. However, this alignment does not guarantee comfort or ease. These parallels often bring with them amplified challenges, as these parallels are not only moving forward in support of democracy and equality, but also holding the weight of collective resistance to regression. Steering the entirety of humanity away from entrenchment in authoritarianism is no small task. We suggest that our students be less concerned about "which side" one has landed on, and focus more on which path you are actively nurturing with your attention, actions, and presence.

NEXT, Kurtis

Kurtis:

I recognize in what you say that we are moving from a Binary Paradigm to one that seems definitively more Ternary and Quaternary in scale.

You have shared this with me through our sessions together, but I am wondering if you can apply these Paradigms to what you have shared to help us all and our loved ones and networks by extension to move towards these Paradigms and outside of the Binary (or more accurately just letting the Binary be included within these Paradigms, rather than the only way things can be seen).

What I have recognized is that it's not about the speed/magnitude but the comprehension of transition that matters, so how can we continue building that comprehension?

MEntity:

Humanity has long relied on the Binary Paradigm because it offers simplicity, quick sorting, and survival-level clarity such as good/bad, right/wrong, safe/dangerous, us/them. These binaries are not inherently flawed, but when they are mistaken as the only way to understand reality, growth is slowed, stunted, and fear begins to rule.

The Ternary Paradigm emerges as a shift from "either/or" to "this, that, AND something else." It begins with the recognition that any truth or experience can hold at least one additional perspective beyond opposition. In practical terms, it may look something like, "I am either strong or weak" becoming something more like, "I am strong in some ways, weak in others, and capable of learning."

Or instead of "This person is right or wrong," it becomes "This person is right in some ways, mistaken in others, and is learning, as we all are learning." Again, this is not a mantra to use to excuse harm, but to be used when the opportunity is there for expanding the paradigm.

The Quaternary Paradigm expands even further to include both internal and external relationships to these nuances. For example, "I feel anger and I understand why I feel anger and I can see how this serves me and I can choose what to do with this anger."

To answer your question more directly, to help loved ones and networks of support to shift into Ternary and Quaternary Paradigms, it is simply helpful to model these wider frameworks through your curiosity, compassion, and articulation. For example, if someone is quite polarized, it may be helpful to ask, "what do you think might also be true here?" or "How does that feel for you personally and how might it feel for someone else?" This becomes a gentle invitation to hold more than one perspective and helps build bridges to Ternary and Quaternary thinking. As you noted, comprehension of transition matters more than speed. Comprehension comes through PAUSING before conclusions, ASKING what more can be seen, felt, or understood, ALLOWING contradictions without pressure to resolve them immediately, and ENGAGING in conversations that allow for complexity, even if it feels uncomfortable.

In short, help yourself and others to stay in the question longer before needing answers. The longer one can stay in the question, the more space there is for Emergent Identity to arise.

Kurtis: That is incredibly helpful, thank you Ms and Troy.

MEntity: FINAL QUESTION: Uma

Uma: I just want to say thank you, Michael and Troy, for this wonderful perspective and tools. I feel a shift in myself already, from stiffening resistance to curiosity/fluidity/expansion. no questions

MEntity:

We receive your gratitude and offer our own to you.

Good day to each of you. Goodbye, for now.