018 What Michael Jackson Reveals About The Human Experience

This episode looks past the music, entertainment, celebrity, and hype around Michael to focus on the person behind it, arguing that talent doesn’t appear out of nowhere; it’s something you’re born with, and life simply reveals what was already inside. It suggests that every moment unfolds as planned, and that Michael didn’t “become” Michael Jackson; rather, his dreams were insights into what was destined to happen. 

Chapters: 
 00:00 Beyond the Hype
 00:11 Born With Talent
 00:22 Destiny Revealed
 00:31 Dreams Foretold

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018 Michael Jackson

[00:00:00] I saw Michael, the film about Michael Jackson, and it touched my heart. I found it so deeply moving for a couple of reasons. One, it's a really beautifully produced film, and the depiction of Michael is accurate to what his life map indicates. And of course, there is the brilliant music. It crushed my heart though observing this intensely sensitive, inherently soft-hearted child [00:00:30] so vulnerable to the frustration of adults who didn't understand.

I went to see it again yesterday so that I can share my observations 

through what I developed through SoulLife psychology. People are fascinated by celebrities. I'm fascinated by the person. And when I look at Michael Jackson, I don't just see a phenomenal entertainer, I see the phenomenon of him, his inherent wiring, what he allowed the public to see compared to the real [00:01:00] person.

I see a planned life map. I see sensitivity and creativity, and I see his emotional bruising. I see purpose. I see predestined legacy. Let's explore what Michael Jackson reveals about the human experience

Welcome [00:01:30] back to the SoulLife Psychology Podcast. I'm Dr. Toni Reilly, founder of SoulLife Psychology, where intuition meets logic. Here, we explore who you are and why you're here, why you do what you do. Today, I'm doing something a little bit differently. I'll be using Michael Jackson as an example of how SoulLife Psychology interprets life.

Join me to explore what happens when an extraordinary nature encounters [00:02:00] extraordinary pressure to understand what his life reveals about personality, sensitivity, emotional bruising, purpose, and self-awareness. This is not an opinion piece. It is not to judge him or diagnose him. It's to showcase that Michael Jackson's life played out in accordance to the blueprint he was born to live

The foundation of SoulLife Psychology is that you're born with a precise life mission, a [00:02:30] master plan that plays out with precision. Even though life feels random, like it's out of our control, you do arrive with an inherent nature, a personality, strengths, vulnerabilities, a way of experiencing life, and certainly a distinct purpose, and we call this your Life Map.

The foundation of Life Map is your birth date. Michael's birth date is the 29th of August, [00:03:00] 1958. Let's have a look at that. I have a board here, so I'm going to attempt to show you his Life Map just so you can see what one is. Let's have a look at this I've got... I'd love to have a better setup, but this will do us for now.

Hopefully, this microphone's gonna pick everything up. Anyway, let's look at Michael's date of birth. It is... Let's go like this. [00:03:30] Michael. Okay, so his birthday is the 29th of August, so the 8th, 1958. Now, how

you work out your Life Map or your life mission is you add all these numbers together. Michael's add up to 42. What we have to do is reduce them to one number, unless, of course, they add up to 11, [00:04:00] 22, or 33, then you leave them. In this case, we're gonna add four plus two, which gives us six.

So Michael is Life Mission Six. Let's have a look at how this looks as a map. So here we go. Here's our map. It's just like, oop, it's just like noughts and crosses. I'm just going to distribute the numbers into the map, and then I'll come back and talk to you a little bit more about it. [00:04:30] So all of the nines go here.

I'm putting nine, nine, eight, eight. He's got two eights, one, one. He's got a five. Five in the middle. He's got a two. That's all of Michael's numbers distributed. So with Life Map, each placement means something. Where there's no numbers means something. Where there's numbers that run in a line, it all means something.

Where there's numbers that run in a line [00:05:00] here, where there are numbers missing, they all mean something. Also, this day number that he's born on, if you're born on this day, if, if you're born even on this date, there's going to be many similarities. Individual circumstances will change things a little bit but it will all come back to the same purpose. that's what Michael's map looks like. You have one [00:05:30] as well. Now you know what I'm talking about. Even if you don't know exactly what the placements mean, you can see how and where I get the information by interpreting that birthday. Let us keep going. Michael's life mission six, so will many of you be. In Life Map, he's called the harmonizer.

Now, the motto for anyone on life mission six is, "I'm a [00:06:00] lover, not a fighter." And this is so fitting for Michael Jackson. It could actually be his byline. Life mission six people have this elegance about them. The way they move, the way their hands move, the way they hold themselves. They personify beauty and grace, and in Michael, you can see all these things.

Beyond his physicality, he was born extraordinarily sensitive, extraordinarily creative, deeply humanitarian, [00:06:30] deeply connected to love of family and people, animals, children, and deeply connected to something much larger than himself. Some look at Michael and see the music, the entertainer, the celebrity, the hype.

I see the person who was born capable of creating it

Talent does not magically appear from out of nowhere. You're born with it. Life [00:07:00] reveals what already exists within the person. In other words, every minute of every day is playing out as planned. And Michael didn't become Michael Jackson. His dreams were insights into what was destined to happen. Knowing his dreams were intuitive peeks into his life plan, they were previews into who he was here to become and the legacy that he was [00:07:30] here to leave

when I say born sensitive, what I mean is the capacity to pick up on what's going on around you and the way that other people sense you. All of these things are to do with your sensitivity. You might notice this in yourself, some people have a natural, um, attraction for animals, where animals are drawn to them.[00:08:00] 

Children as well. Children and animals are gonna be the telling sign of your sensitivity. So if you find that they like you or they're not afraid of you, then it's an indication of how sensitive you are. When you're born creative, the way that I would explain this is there is this connection.

It's connected to your soul actually, your soul energy is driving through or [00:08:30] streaming through, is how I like to put it, information. And it creates things like music, like cooking, like... You don't have to be famous like Michael Jackson was. It doesn't have to be for that type of a legacy, creativity is certainly strong in many people, and it's that connection to your soul where that - information and energy can come through. [00:09:00] So humanitarian qualities that Michael had come also from being life mission six, what you can see in him is this inherent drive or pull to help people. In the film, you see him visiting children in hospitals, visiting people in hospitals when there's no cameras around. He genuinely felt, good to be uplifting people who were unwell or [00:09:30] struggling. when you see someone with a very deeply feeling nature, they are basically in tune to the feelings of other people, maybe the feelings of animals as well, and certainly children , babies even, who can't tell you what's going on.

So it's this connection. When we say connection to people, some people really like people. It doesn't mean that you want to be around them all day every day, but some people have this [00:10:00] drive to make things better for people, or to influence them in a positive way. Number six people have an inherent commitment to family.

I usually say they default to family because for some people who are on life mission six, the family may be not blood family. It might be people who you've become close to. Depends what your circumstances are. , With Michael, there's this phenomenal capacity to [00:10:30] forgive because we know that later, even though he had a violent dad, he forgave him after he had children himself. A number six person is very much about equality, trying to, if not always at some point, being able to see both sides to someone or to any situation.

Let's now talk about the creative stream.

Michael's relationship [00:11:00] with creativity might fascinate you.

I have this same creative stream, which is why it's easy for me to understand and to empathize with. Michael spoke about songs channeling. He was listening to this streaming download rather than creating it. Highly creative people like musicians, artists, entrepreneurs describe the same experience.

They experience creativity as something they connect to rather than something they manufacture. [00:11:30] His creative downloads were streamed from his soul. They're natural, effortless, and it flowed through him

Creativity as connection is this stream connected to your soul, and intuition is also connected to that same stream

This stream of creativity brings through things like fully formed songs. With someone who is so sensitive, solitude is a [00:12:00] real inherent need

With Michael, unless he was performing, he was most comfortable away from noise, away from big lights, away from crowds, and away from demands. The constant attention would have been unsustainable for him. He needed solace to regenerate his energies, and he needed space to reflect, to create.

Some people process life externally. Others process [00:12:30] life internally. Michael was an internal processor. His time alone wasn't lonely, it was a blessing. It was how he reconnected with himself to regulate and to hear the lyrics and beats that came to entrance the world With internal processing 

it means that somebody retreats to think about what's happened, to think about what they want to say. They [00:13:00] reflect deeply. It's quite intense, everything's going on in their own mind. They're making sense of life and their thoughts, their beliefs, everything. They're making sense of it through themselves.

Some people really dislike being by themselves, whereas internal processors, they like solitude, and they would not see it as a lonely thing. They would be in their element, [00:13:30] sensitive people need this solitude to give themselves the space to process, to regulate themselves if they're emotionally, challenged or just generally.

And any sort of creativity requires a certain amount of that space

Now let's talk about emotional bruising. This is where SoulLife psychology differs from traditional psychology. Trauma is viewed as something that started here [00:14:00] after we're born, caused by a parent or something undesirable that happens. Life Map demonstrates that bruises are integral to the human experience.

Bruises are the foundation for how we experience trauma. They are the lens through which emotions are processed and expressed. They form the processes that we live through. They are the reason why we grow, why we can't make things happen quicker, or we can't slow [00:14:30] them down or speed them up just because we want them to.

Within Michael's Life Map, I see the bruises of rejection and injustice. Rejection because he's fundamentally different. In the film, it's mentioned quite a few times. His mother even says she knew he was different from the day he was born. People with rejection spend their lives feeling different from people around them.

Though they don't necessarily care what other people think of them, [00:15:00] they certainly do experience life differently, and that kind of differently is all that they know

When Michael's mother says he's different, and more so later when people are observing him as different and judging him for it, what I see is spectrum. , It's very common now and there's a lot more known about it and a lot more Understanding of it. This is something that [00:15:30] was barely known of then, if at all.

And what you see with people who are as creative as he was, as sensitive as he was, and indeed if you are as well, there's some form of spectrum there's some form of neurodivergence. In fact, in my observations, people who come here and do anything that is quite [00:16:00] extraordinary have a certain level of neurodivergence because it gives people extra energy.

It gives them extra creative connection, and those things are needed to do extraordinary things.

Let's look at the bruise of injustice. It explains Michael's perfectionism, the high standards, the pressure he placed on himself, the discipline that he had, and the relentless pursuit of excellence. [00:16:30] The courage to call out unfairness, injustice gave him all of these inherent capacities, and also the self-control required to maintain the facade required for such a public life

People without neurodivergence don't feel the same way, don't feel as sensitive to noises light people, emotions, they don't get it. So [00:17:00] they can see something's different, but they don't know what, and they don't understand it.

Whereas the person who is different, it's all they've ever known. Being misunderstood is a side effect of that. There's nobody who's in the public eye who can possibly show everything to people or you get cut down and extra judged, extra looked [00:17:30] at.

Public life is a big deal, and I think that people can't comprehend what it's like to be in the public eye, such as it was for him. And there's a paradox as well because the performer in them thrives on that energy of being in public, certainly at performances, whereas the aftermath where people actually can touch and get a piece of you and overcrowd you, that's [00:18:00] hard.

Let's talk about perfectionism. Perfectionism is a side effect of the bruise of injustice. It's not a flaw. It might feel hard for the person who's the perfectionist, but it's not a flaw, it ensures that these high standards. People with perfectionism put these standards on themselves.

Nobody else does it. You do it to yourself. So you're living up to these high standards. Sometimes you never can [00:18:30] live up to them because they're just too freaking high. Anyway, from that, trying to live up to your own expectations of yourself, there's this internal pressure. Nobody really sees that because generally you come across very calm, but inside there's this pressure to keep these standards.

Purpose and impact. This is the most important part. Michael Jackson's life demonstrates that meaning and pain coexist. [00:19:00] The purpose of life is to experience emotion, and for this to happen, circumstances transpire to ensure the full gamut of emotions are experienced. His mission was to leave a legacy.

Purpose is not what he achieved. It was every moment of his life, just as it is for all of us.

Purpose does determine what you are here to contribute. Michael's contribution reached across countries, cultures, religions, [00:19:30] generations. People who had nothing in common still connected through his work. His contribution extended beyond entertainment. He brought people together. He created shared emotional experiences, and he left people feeling something.

And decades later, people still do being able to leave people with something that makes them associate an emotional experience makes a humanitarian such as Michael really [00:20:00] special,, what artists do for us to help us remember moments in our lives, remember phases in our lives, to give us comfort when we are struggling, or to uplift us and have fun.

Music is just such an influence. Someone like Michael Jackson, as his story goes on, his influence goes so far beyond music. . Of course, later events became about something very [00:20:30] different, and that legacy asks us to think for ourselves, to not automatically trust the media, to see a celebrity as a real person.

Michael Jackson's life shows us that extraordinary gifts and emotional pain exist within the same person. Sensitivity and strength coexist. Purpose and pain coexist. Creativity and solitude coexist. The lesson isn't about how Michael Jackson was special. The [00:21:00] lesson is that he was a person at the core, no different to any other person with feelings.

The real lesson is that understanding yourself is what matters most. Your life is what you are responsible for.

 What if the one thing you spent your life trying to change about yourself is actually part of who you came here to be?

It's all about perspective. If you're interested in understanding your own life map, I'm teaching Life Map [00:21:30] Foundation starting June 22nd. It's a 10-week program designed to help you understand your personality, purpose, strengths, vulnerabilities, and the plan that you were born with. I'm teaching it live online.

You will love it. Self-awareness positively impacts how you experience life. In upcoming episodes, why some people feel responsible for everyone else, why they carry other people's emotions, why they struggle to put themselves first. [00:22:00] And what SoulLife psychology reveals about the emotional bruise that drives those behaviors.

Thank you for joining me for another episode of the SoulLife podcast. Until next time, keep learning about yourself. Self-awareness is the ultimate activism