[tmtranscripts] Nebadoia 7.31.06

[JERRY LANE]

Nebadonia—July 31, 2006

Marin TM Group—Mill Valley, California—U.S.A.

NEBADONIA—T/R-JL

(Urantia returns to the spiritual community of the Local Universe)
(God’s will)
(Becoming independent thinkers)
(Transparency in all social institutions)
(What to question, and how)
(The difference between self-questioning and self-doubt)
(Something of value to earn)

Dear Mother Spirit and Michael,    We thank You for Your lessons encouraging 
us to be more along the lines of independent thinkers and free spirits; and 
light-hearted to boot.  We welcome Your assurance that we need to feel the 
effort involved in stretching within these endeavors--for we certainly do at 
times.  You have let us know that through feeling this effort we can, in 
Your words, get a fine measure of the value of our projects, and this adds 
to the depth and weight of our souls.  So we thank You for Your 
encouragement, Your insights, and Your assurances that accompany us through 
our days.  Amen.

NEBADONIA:  Good evening, My sons, this is Nebadonia, your spiritual 
mother--directly so; and I might remind you I am mother, too, to all the 
Ministering Spirits that delight so in helping you--your Guardian Angels, 
and including all the ranks of the Planetary Helpers here on Urantia.

(Urantia returns to the spiritual community of the Local Universe)

Imagine, if you will, being the mother of such a vast host of angels, as 
well as being a co-parent with Michael of the higher beings, the Bright 
Evening stars, the Melkizadeks, the Vorondadek and Lanondadeks Sons in the 
Constellations and the Systems.  What a wonderful family we have here in our 
little niche of the Superuniverse—just over three million, eight hundred 
thousand inhabited evolutionary worlds.

Especially now that the spiritual quarantine of the rebellious worlds of 
Satania has been lifted, We invite you to feel Our welcome in returning to 
the fold, so to speak.  Urantia is being certainly, step by step, 
reinstalled in the spiritual circuits of the Local Universe.  So also, ever 
keep in mind My children, how very few planets have rebelled within this 
vast family, and how nearly unique is your planetary history.

Most of you who have read the Urantia book have intimated by now this was 
one of the main purposes for giving this revelation to mankind at this time. 
  It awaited a gradual evolution of concepts and ideation in order to 
express even partially some larger truths within the revelation, and 
thoroughly, as best We could within your language, account for why your 
world is as it is.  We hope you have received an enormous reassurance of 
Spirit’s more normal ways, not only of our Father throughout His vast 
creation, but also of Michael and I, your spiritual parents here in our 
Local Universe.

Michael mentioned last week that you can think of God’s will as 
Reality--with a capital R--the totality of creation, so long as you keep in 
mind that this will ever, throughout all eternity, be a transcendent 
encompassing for your soul.  This is why Michael’s peace, and God’s 
presence, are the compensating factors that do surpass understanding.  These 
you can know absolutely in a way you can never fully know the creation 
itself.

(God’s will)

Yet you must understand that not all aspects of what you experience are 
directly God’s will, but some only indirectly--insofar as He has endowed His 
children at all levels with freedom of will.  Much of the suffering the 
human race on Urantia has experienced was due to some disastrous decisions 
of your System Sovereign and your Planetary Prince, as well as all the 
subordinate beings, the Angels and Primary Midwayers, who joined the 
rebellion.  These decisions are obviously part of Reality written large.  
They are not God’s will insofar as what He would have His children do to 
live full, rewarding lives being responsible for how their actions might 
affect others.

So too the Supreme Being, the Soul of time and space, contains everything 
that has happened to all the personal beings out here, including all the 
pain and suffering.  Keep in mind that God’s will, as well as God Himself, 
as well as His creation, is a transcendent reality that necessarily involves 
you in the adventure of discovering what it is.  Michael mentioned how 
questioning yourself, especially of your certainties, is a very healthy way 
of reminding yourself that you don’t quite yet have a thorough grasp on 
everything that is.

In a teleconference last Thursday Michael introduced the notion of how 
thoroughgoing this self-questioning and, you might say, other-questioning 
should be.  Not to repeat what He said, but since the transcript may not be 
out for a while, to recapitulate: your own Declaration of Independence 
states that a just government derives its authority from the consent of the 
governed; and this is true.  We ask you to extend this principle to all 
human associations, not only to governmental organizations at whatever 
level—city, or state, or nation, but also to those social organizations of 
religionists, what you normally call religions.

(Becoming independent thinkers)

We ask you to think about and understand how all human organizations and 
institutions derive an inordinate power from the unconscious identification 
of their followers.  While on one level you have the truism that all power 
resides in the people--that is its origin, it is also true that a great 
percentage of folks give this power away unconsciously and unintentionally, 
since doing so was never a conscious choice in their life.

Without a thoroughgoing questioning of yourself and the accidental cultural 
heritage you were born into--all the institutions that affect your life; 
without this conscious, thoroughgoing questioning there is no way you can 
withdraw, if you wish, this unconscious identification.  As long as you 
automatically think of yourself as a Republican or Democrat; a Christian, a 
Jew, a Muslim, a Buddhist—to name a few; a Northerner or Southerner; an 
American or a Englishman: as long as you so automatically identify yourself 
this way, to that very degree, My children, you endow various leaders of 
these organizations and institutions with an inordinate power.  You are 
allowing them to act in your behalf without any well-thought-out feedback 
from you.

So yes, by all means, literally in ever which-way you can imagine, We 
encourage you to be independent thinkers.  This is not only how you grow and 
change and become conscious of the cultural heritage you have grown up with, 
this is also, ironically--for how much these organizations resist your 
independence, this is what they need as well--to grow and to change, to keep 
up with and be appropriate to an evermore rapidly changing world.

So We ask you to accept this as part of your response-ability, your ability 
to respond adequately to the necessity of being your own person, as totally 
as you can imagine this now, as well as accepting you have this 
responsibility towards these various organizations or institutions with 
which you have been identifying.

Do not worry, My children, this will not cause any kind of sudden collapse, 
even if almost everybody involved were to engage in this.  In a way this is 
an ideal I’m painting for you, an ideal world in which the leaders of 
government, of religions, of different social organizations, are highly 
responsive to their members because the members are giving them this 
back-pressure, this feedback, this demand for responsibility.  This is just 
one more facet of the more perfect world We would point you toward.

Here, My children, let Me caution you about a type of hubris that can creep 
into your thinking.  Through your mass media you can look abroad at various 
conflicts happening about the world and overly-credit yourself with being 
relatively more free-thinking than what appear to be masses marching in 
total lockstep in other societies or cultures who do not enjoy such a 
benefit of a pluralistic society free to express such a wide spectrum of 
opinion.  Rather, send them your love and your prayers, and just do your 
best in your own sphere of influence, right within yourself and without.

Serve your own institutions and organizations well by your emotional and 
intellectual detachment from them.  If you stay open to the past, especially 
your own personal past, you needn’t fear that anything of value will be 
lost.  Anything of true value cannot only withstand, but will actually 
invite scrutiny.  Neither Michael nor I have ever, nor will We ever ask of 
you any kind of blind belief, nor acquiescence in any kind of dogma.

Rather We seek to invigorate you to challenge and test what We offer you.  
Merely entertain Our suggestions so the test is valid.  From now on your 
intellectual and spiritual ears should prick up at even the merest 
suggestion, the slightest coercion, that you not question what someone tells 
you, for again ironically, you will be letting them down, as well as 
yourself, if you do.

(Transparency in all social institutions)

You are well on your way in this.  The concept of transparency in government 
and other social institutions is a wonderful one.  A free press is rightly 
called the fourth estate of government, for only by giving full voice to the 
plurality inherent within a people can you tap into the creativity of each 
individual.  We caution that a certain amount of apparent chaos is often an 
intermediate step to go through from a very rigidly controlled society to 
true democracy.  But in evaluating this transitional cost, often measured in 
blood, We ask you to consider too the cost of trying to maintain any status 
quo, by force, in the face of the general, world-wide evolution.  When you 
seek to evaluate the full cost of what you call totalitarian governments or 
rigid mono-theocracies, keep in mind what this autocracy does to a peoples’ 
soul.  It is an invitation, even the demand for a whole people to stay in a 
stage of immaturity and accept the self-proclaimed benevolence of a 
paternalistic leader, without question.

So accept this lesson of Mine tonight, My children, as trying to flesh out 
your concepts of what a more ideal world and society would look like.  
Ultimately, as your Urantia book delights in pointing out the next several 
stages of planetary development, as a people become more and more mature, 
independent, and self-governing, much of what you know as governmental and 
religious institutions will slowly fade away, transitional scaffolding no 
longer necessary once a more glorious freedom, a truly response-able 
freedom, blazes out from each individual soul.

You have it within you, My children.  Practice your stillness to find it, 
and then let it out.  You will not be standing alone when you forsake your 
unconscious identifications.  You’ll have more fully joined your spiritual 
family, and you will be even more able to feel Their and My love.

If you have any comments or questions this evening, let them come from your 
heart.

Student:  Mother, I’ve questioned myself and my life in the past and wound 
up very confused.  I didn’t know which way to go, once I…lost certainty.  
Could You explain a little bit more about how to question, or what to 
question?

(What to question, and how)

NEBADONIA:  Yes, My son.  Tonight I tried to express the whole process and 
what is involved at different steps, so as to prepare you for some seeming 
contradictions, one being that this uncertainty you feel is not necessarily, 
but can be, a move towards greater truth.  It depends on where you are 
coming from.  If for a long time you’ve identified with what you were simply 
raised with—a certain political party, a certain religion or church, certain 
social beliefs concerning race and sex, and if these were never questioned 
or examined consciously, We’ve talked often about how they influence you.  
Through the phenomenon of psychological projection you can even believe, 
with all your heart, that these are objective facts you are perceiving, that 
this religion is better than that, that one sex or race is superior.

So this is what We would have you question.  You can start by imagining 
someone asking you: What are you--in terms of political affiliation, racial 
or sexual stereotyping, religion or membership in a certain church?  And 
just extend this as much as you can worldwide to include different cultures. 
  Think of your two major World Wars of the last century, fueled largely by 
sentiments of national and racial superiority.  In the previous century your 
own nation’s bloody Civil War was also fueled by regional and racial 
prejudices and stereotypes.

As you slowly lose these unconscious identifications, My son, you will find 
your spiritual home base, and your own soul swelling forth consciously.  You 
have had your own individual unique life.  This is your possession, and the 
more you are open to the wonder of it, the less you need these other 
unconscious props to hold you up.

By all means, support whatever political party you want.  Enjoy any church  
affiliation, and company, and companionship, and society that fills your 
heart.  Just do so consciously.  Does this at least begin to answer your 
question, My son?

Student:  Yes, it does.  When You were speaking I began to see that I was 
fearful of the chaos--not chaos, but fearful of the uncertainty that 
questioning my life left me with, and I was looking for a certainty that I 
was doing the right thing.  I think that I was doing the right thing but I 
wasn’t… I don’t quite know how to express this last feeling.

I believe I was doing the right thing because, here I am!--sitting here 
listening to You, which not very many people are willing to do.  It doesn’t 
elevate me above anybody else, it’s just: Here I am.  And a lot of that 
chaos and uncertainty have gone away, a little bit because I was fearful, 
but more because I was running out of things to question.

What do I do with questioning a political party, or a church, a religious 
institution?  How do I judge them, that they are not quite right, or not 
quite wrong?  It seems to me I’m putting too much personal judgment on a 
particular institution, or even a person, and I’m not sure my judgment on a 
person is valid.

NEBADONIA:  Well, good!  (student chuckles) You’ve thoroughly understood Our 
lessons on not judging other individuals.  As for organizations and 
institutions, just be open to all viewpoints.  Be curious about all 
viewpoints.  Be aware there are so many different viewpoints swarming like a 
cloud of angry bees around every issue.  (Yes)  It’s only by 
not—unconsciously--identifying with one particular point of view can you 
really, honestly entertain all the others.  Fortunately it works both ways.  
By trying sincerely to understand all viewpoints, you become aware of your 
own, and its origin.  And so you make your decision to, shall we say, back a 
particular candidate in a political race.  At the same time try to give him 
and his party as much feedback--constructive critique as you can.  Seek to 
make your leaders responsible to you.

(The difference between self-questioning and self-doubt)

Michael had an interesting and critical distinction last week about the 
difference between self-questioning and self-doubt—which is largely an 
unconscious kind of anxiety that casts a pall of uncertainty over your life… 
  (Yes, I can identify with that)  …yet you need to, rather than being 
afraid of it, courageously wade into it.  In your stillness, let yourself 
feel it so your mind can articulate what it is.  This is how you bring it 
into consciousness, so you can question the validity of it.  It might be 
some hangover from years before, some previous pain you suffered; but that 
was then and this is now.  This is the meaning of catharsis, of letting 
these doubts come into your mind so you can see what they are.   This is 
opening to your own feelings to get to the root of their causes.  This can 
happen in your stillness, especially when you use stillness as a way of 
questioning your habits.

Before you initiate some habit you know is bad for your health, sit down and 
take ten deep breaths, feel your heart beating—reconnect with your physical 
body, treasure and cherish it.  See what this unhealthy habit is doing to 
it.  Rather than, say, plopping down for a nightly routine of several hours 
of meaningless televised entertainment, sit down and just feel the push of 
that habit to fill the time, and resist it.  See what that is.  Wonder what 
you might do tonight, differently.  Is there anything you’ve been letting 
slip-slide along for a while, that really needs your attention?  If this 
seems to take some great effort, then feel it.  This is your life.  This is 
how you reestablish contact with it.

Trust Me, My son, the specific ideas will come to you if you give yourself 
the opportunity.  Keep a notebook and jot things down.  These are ways of 
reinvigorating yourself from the inside-out, starting in spirit, being 
articulated in your mind, suggesting activities for your body.

You just put your finger on it, My son, how you from time to time get the 
feeling of that thread—actually a steel cable when you get down to it—that 
has tied your life together, that has brought you to here.  That steel cable 
of your soul is there to be discovered, cherished, and enjoyed.  This is not 
ego; this not vainglory.  This is just the truth of who and what you are.  
Can you feel that strong connection, My son?

Student:  Could You say it again like that, please?

NEBADONIA:  Can you feel that strong connection that got you to here?

Student:  Yes, I can.  And I’m constantly recognizing how amazing this life 
is—the possibilities inherent in it; when I stop to look, instead of just 
whizzing by.  It’s very satisfying.  I don’t know if I realize that steel 
cable yet; but if You ask, here I am.

NEBADONIA:  It takes a while to feel the enormous power of spirit, 
especially for so many in your culture who can barely credit the reality of 
it at all.  Here We come suggesting that spirit is the most fundamental 
reality, the origin of both the mental and the physical dimensions.  As you 
say, you have to stop your whizzing by.  You have to stop.  As Michael said, 
it takes great courage to accept that stillness is one of the most 
important, necessary things you can do.  There is nothing else happening 
somewhere else that is more important.  But this too, My son, is something 
you have to earn, is it not?

Student: Yes, Mother, it is.  Thank You.

(Something of value to earn)

NEBADONIA:  And so we end facing the glory within the fact there is truly 
something of value to earn.  Imagine what a hell there would be if there 
were not, if there were no way of measuring the value of  things.  (Yes)  
There is a way of crediting your steadfastness, your commitment to these 
Monday night evenings—the effort involved in the travel, the transcribing.  
It is valid to feel good about these contributions, without getting a 
swelled head.

Student:  Thank You, Mother.

NEBADONIA:  You’re welcome, My son.  This brings us around to worship, to 
thanking our Father for setting things up this way, for giving us such 
freedom of opportunity, even the freedom to miss it…(both laugh)…or 
disregard it, or devalue it.  Amazing freedom.  (Life is amazing)  It truly 
is, My son, and you have a feeling now of what soul is—the capturing of this 
living, moment by moment; the fact you are growing something for all 
eternity, and it is part of a Totality of all personal experience.  You’re 
part of the Supreme Being, and your soul is vouchsafed by a fragment of God 
himself, as co-author.  So be in My love, My son.  Just be kind to yourself. 
  Give yourself the opportunity to feel these things--in a way--on your own 
as well.  Good evening.


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