[tmtranscripts] Nebadonia 10.9.06

[JERRY LANE]

Dear Folks,    I decided to try some of Mother Spirit's suggestions on 
re-examining habits and methods, and then accepting too her "need to 
experiment;" so here goes: normal capitalization.  I think it works.  What I 
capitalized before--all references to extra-human personalities--can be 
inferred from context.  I kind-of miss Michael and Mother Spirit 
specifically including us with themselves, sometimes--"we" as contrasted to 
"We"-- but perhaps this too can be detected by our own spirits.  Enjoy.  
Jerry.

Nebadonia & Monjoronson—October 9, 2006

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

NEBADONIA & MONJORONSON—T/R’s—JL & Rick Voss

(The early days of the Correcting Time)
(Abstractions and generalities)
(The real difference between good and evil)
(Your free will depends upon your creativity)
(To what do words refer)
(The persistence of the Lucifer Rebellion)
(Good and evil, and war)
(There is cause for hope)

Dear Mother Spirit and Michael,    Welcome.  Welcome to our one-hundredth 
session in this particular configuration, meaning we enjoyed several years 
of your messages through Donna D’Ingillo (of the Center for Christ 
Consciousness) before she left for Oakland.  It may seem silly the way we 
attribute a kind of anniversary feeling to round numbers, but we do.  It 
helps us remember all the wonderful times beyond counting when, after you 
signed off, there was a long, super-still moment we hated to disturb, then a 
lot of laughter and a few very sincere “Wow’s,” our faces wet with tears of 
joy for our having so directly experienced your love, our souls tickled to 
have found the two of you, above all things, so playful.  So please accept, 
dear parents, our hearts full of gratitude.  Amen.

NEBADONIA:  My sons, this is your mother, Nebadonia, and all I can say is: 
We give up!  We surrender!  We accept your heartfelt gratitude and 
love--unconditionally.  Just as we beam our own to you, unconditionally.  
Yes indeed, what fun this is.  What joy and cheerful attitudes we can bring 
to meet all the serious challenges of a new day.

These are your spiritual triumphs that warm our souls too.  You give such an 
inestimable amount of value to our lives.  Know that God and the whole 
celestial family meet their work without hesitation, with good cheer, thus 
suffusing all of reality with a kind of glow, a spiritual light everywhere 
as real as these physical photons you experience bouncing around.  This joy 
of good cheer is the very essence of spirit, and when you can perceive it, 
and receive it, even during your darkest hours, your most intense 
pain--whether physical, or psychic, or spiritual, this is the reassurance of 
our presence.  This is the sure knowledge that our Father shares our life 
with us.  From his side, as well as from ours, there is no separation.  We 
are able to perceive the totality of your personalities, and your souls.  So 
thank you, my children, for your appreciation of this.  Now I would like to 
pause to give another one of my sons the opportunity to transmit yet another 
of our celestial family.

(The early days of the Correcting Time)

MONJORONSON:  Greetings, my friends, it is with great pleasure that I am 
among you tonight to celebrate your one-hundredth anniversary of bringing 
forth our love, our guidance, and our joy.  Feel our joy in co-creating with 
you these wonderful moments that we share together.  For it is deep within 
you that our love fills you.  We will always remember these early days of 
what has become known as the Correcting Time.

These new relationships that we forge with you are special to us, just as 
they are to you, and we will continue to build upon them throughout 
eternity.  So tonight I would just like to say: carry on.  Enjoy yourselves 
with this wonderful gift from our Eternal Father, this sharing of our 
personalities, and the joy and the growth that comes from it.  I will take 
my leave now and allow Mother Spirit to cradle you in her arms.  Good 
evening.

NEBADONIA:  My dear children, much has come up in the last few weeks’ 
sessions about the nature of this tool of language you must use, right 
within yourselves, to think, to express your experiences to yourselves as 
they become your memories.  We have invited you to try, in stillness, to 
contact your souls, which are very distinct from your own memories.  Your 
soul transcripts, being spiritual, bring with them such a fullness of your 
original experiences--the sights, the smells, the way reality felt at that 
particular age, whereas your memories are not usually quite so comprehensive 
and fulfilling.

(Abstractions and generalities)

Your memories rely upon how you think about what is happening, and what has 
happened, so permit me to go another step deeper into what may appear 
initially to be rather academic or abstract.  Consider something as 
commonplace and useful as the concept of cold.  On the surface of it, it 
seems absurd to suggest you have never experienced pure cold, yet you never 
have. You’ve always experienced some cold thing, whether it was the air you 
were in, or a tool you’ve picked up, or the clothes you put on first thing 
in the morning.  So the word “cold” is an abstraction, a general designation 
derived from all these specific situations and experiences.

Deeper still, in your present situation every experience of yours is a mix 
of physical perceptions, mental meanings, and spiritual values.  You very 
rarely, if at all, experience any of these pure and unadulterated by the 
others.  True, your spirit is capable of direct perception of other spirit, 
but you only approach this possibility by relaxing as best you can--another 
learned ability--your physical and mental busyness and associations, and 
settle into an experience of stillness.

Michael has recently given two lessons on these considerations, one last 
week at this time, and one during a Lightline teleconference, respecting the 
nature of good and evil.  There was a suggestion made that they are somewhat 
akin.  The expressions used were: “two sides of the same coin,” and “beneath 
the surface of good and evil, there exists, of course, God’s more 
fundamental reality.”  But they are nowhere so allied, not even as 
opposites, for they are of a totally different nature, origin, consequence 
and persistence.

(The real difference between good and evil)

Though you may not yet be able to experience this directly in its pure 
state, God is goodness.  This is why He is sometimes referred to as the 
First Source of reality.  He not only creates goodness, he is the thing 
itself.  Like him, goodness is beyond time with no real beginning and no 
end, as it is with all his qualities.  God is absolute love, infinite love, 
and is not, in and of himself, the creator of evil.

Evil does not have this same spiritual essence.  Like the word “cold,” it is 
an abstraction, a generalization of specific acts that some spirit-endowed 
personal beings have committed, have done.  It is a consequence of a 
deliberate intention, which means its use is reserved to self-conscious, 
personal beings.  When your dog chews up your slippers, you say, ”bad dog;” 
you don’t say, “evil dog.”  No animal has the creative ability to construct 
for itself a reality so contrary to God’s essence and will.

It is because you are a spiritual being with an innate creativity that you 
co-create your own personal reality.  This is generally thought of as a 
function of your ego, but your ego is just your perceptions and notions of 
yourself within this much larger self-generated, self-created world view.  
Your reality is not identical with God’s reality, neither in quality, nor, 
obviously, in quantity—the universe.  Compared to most celestial 
personalities, your initial human life is but a flicker of time, an initial 
spark of a flame that can burn throughout eternity. This is what we mean by 
designating you an immature being.  And we merely say you are imperfect by 
the same kind of comparison to perfect beings who actually do exist because 
they were created that way—for example, the Havona natives.

(Your free will depends upon your creativity)

You are real.  You have an experiential starting point, even though your 
personality is linked to a physical vehicle that has recapitulated the 
evolution of life on your planet before your time.  It’s your spiritual 
creativity that gives you the ability to deviate from God’s will and ways.  
Your own co-created reality gives you an alternative, to general reality, 
upon which your ability to choose, your free will, is dependent.  No 
sub-human animal is creative enough to be able to depart from its own 
Spirit-created/evolved nature.  But you can.  Your nature is different.  And 
this is the origin of those deliberate intentions whose consequences 
inevitably harm another.  This is the essence, the reality of evil.

Every intention and consequence by a personal being has a definite 
beginning, duration, and end.  You’re all still experiencing the 
consequences of a rebellion by your System Sovereign and your Planetary 
Prince over two hundred thousand years ago, that greatly exaggerated and 
prolonged certain stages of general planetary development.  For even before 
this rebellion, the planed-for, deliberately created separation of humanity 
into the different colored races brought about a kind of warfare that nearly 
annihilated some of these early races.

Primitive man has to compete with the whole animal kingdom for his food and 
life, so he must be ferocious indeed.  Your Urantia book has informed you 
how primitive men and women so loved to fight, the early tribes often got 
involved in warfare through some merely imagined insult when the peace 
became too oppressive. This is why the true story of the evolution of your 
civilization and cultures is so necessary for you to understand, to truly 
appreciate how far you’ve come.  And it is also nice to study the stages of 
general planetary evolution as the Urantia book delineates them, so you can 
have some ideas of what is possible, what comes next.

So think about these things, My children.  Realize the nature of your own 
creativity.  This co-creation you experience—your world, though mostly God’s 
laws and ways—physical, and mental, and spiritual--is not however the 
totality of his reality which you will not exhaust in all of eternity.  
Consider the billion worlds of Havona and the time you will spend on every 
single one of these personalized, somewhat unique worlds before you achieve 
Paradise, then to turn about and look out upon six other Superuniverses to 
explore.  But for now, it is, ironically, only by understanding the origin 
and nature of spiritual qualities and temporal consequences, like good and 
evil, that you get beyond superficial comparisons, and truly enervating, 
confusing duality of thought.

As Michael said last Thursday, you are now many thousands of years from the 
initiation of writing and preserved philosophies, and altogether too used to 
their abstractions.  The way forward in your understanding is not “going 
back” to basics, but going on to them.  For these more basic understandings 
penetrating the concepts the past has given you lie in your future, just as 
the past itself is a future territory for exploration.

But enough for now.  I’ll set my school teacher’s orientation aside and 
entertain whatever comments or questions you have for me.

Student:  Mother, as I understand it, evil does not exist until somebody 
chooses to bring it into existence, but love always exists and has always 
existed because it’s a function of the Father.  But I don’t understand the 
illustration about cold.  I’ve never had any experience of cold?  What is 
it, then, that I experience?  It’s obviously a lack of heat, and I 
experience it and use the word symbol “cold.”  But I don’t quite understand 
your illustration.

(To what do words refer)

NEBADONIA:  Yes, My son, I was trying to impress upon you the unconscious 
habituation you have to word symbols that only have meaning from what they 
can derive from your own personal experience, or what you may have heard 
about.  Yes, you can define cold as a relative lack of heat, molecular 
motion, whatever.  But you never experience a pure reality of “coldness.”  
That word symbol is an abstraction, a generalization of cold objects, 
physical objects, whether it’s the air, or a tool, or your clothes, as I 
mentioned.

I will agree, My son, it seems on a certain level absurd to say you’ve never 
experienced cold.  But I want to point out that words only have meaning when 
they refer to specific experiences you’ve had, or know about.  I can make up 
a word and say, “suchandsuch,” but it has no meaning to you.  What does it 
refer to?  Getting on to basics, when you think of concepts like good and 
evil, ask yourself, to what do these refer?  For much of human history 
people have thought the word evil referred to something real beyond what 
personal beings did, something co-equal with goodness in the cosmic sense.  
Does this help your understanding?

Student:  It looks to me it comes down to my own experience as to what these 
words symbolize.  It makes more sense than it did before.  Thank you, 
Mother.

NEBADONIA:  You’re welcome, my son.  This is correct.  This is why we remind 
you from time to time you are an experiential being.  In your present human 
situation all your experience is a combination arising from this rather 
complex kind of being you are.  So be in my love, and enjoy pondering on 
these things some more.

Student (laughing):  Thanks, Mother—I will.

Student:  Mother, I have a question.  You presented such a wide-ranging 
discussion, I wondered about the Rebellion and its consequences in the 
present day—the Luciferian (sp?) culture.  I guess you could say there was a 
party of Lucifer and his followers, and having all been adjudicated, all 
have been removed from the planet, by virtue of their free will to agree to 
go—if I understand right.  In the current situation we face, where there are 
forces--as Monjoronson said in a transmission last week--who are conspiring 
against the trend of others for truth and beauty; can we say that the party 
of Lucifer does not exist as such?  Are there still beings specifically in 
that party who are following Lucifer and his rebellion, or is it just 
individuals who are not even aware they are living in a culture which was 
once led by extra-human personalities?

(The persistence of the Lucifer Rebellion)

NEBADONIA:  Yes, my son—the latter; but about the adjudication of Lucifer 
and his followers who had not accepted the constant pro-offering of 
Michael’s mercy and rehabilitation; this annihilation was not by any means 
agreed to by their free-will choices.  For thousands of years they had the 
choice to rejoin reality, get back in step with God’s progressing universe, 
by simply acknowledging his will and his ways: and many did.  But for many 
of these beings, their personalities became so warped, so committed to their 
own view of things, they became—in your parlance—supreme ego-maniacs who 
chose to the very end of their existence to identify with their own so much 
tinier view of reality.  They were so devoid of the humility which could 
have given them the perception and appreciation of this enormous universe 
they found themselves in.  That was their choice, as it is with every 
personality.  Do you cling to and identify with your own creation—your 
world-view, or do you accept that it is only your own creation, and 
fantastically miniscule by comparison to God’s?  This turning about and 
seeking to know his will is what we call being open-minded.

After Pentecost all the rebel spirits were shorn of their powers, but even 
before this, as your Urantia book has informed you, when Caligastia and his 
rebel Midwayers had relatively full sway on the earth, even then they could 
only influence those normal-minded individuals who deliberately sought to 
ally themselves with evil.  Now they are no more.  The persistence of what 
you call the consequences of the Lucifer Rebellion is not being carried on 
by extra-human personalities.  It persists solely in behavior--human 
behavior as it is perpetuated by your cultures.

But this perpetuation, my son, these traditions, these ways of handling 
situations, your expectations about what tomorrow brings with respect to 
your fellow humans, based upon your own experience so far; all this 
continuing behavior is what gives a large part of meaning to life: but not 
the only part.  This is why you have our lessons that the God-created 
reality about you is not only continuing, but is also ever new, ever fresh.  
Roughly a whole half of God’s reality—this universe about you—is not 
repeating itself, making every moment in time unique.  This is why we say 
that true progress of civilization and culture is more surely accomplished 
by evolution, rather than by revolution, which often throws out the baby 
with the bath water.

Rest assured, my son, the evil-intentioned personalities of the Lucifer 
Rebellion are no more.  You can only look deep within yourselves, and ask 
yourselves what of your own behavior might be better utilized or changed to 
promote the good.  We introduced the notion one time of absorbing and then 
grounding all the bad, unjust karma that comes your way, and not pass it on. 
  It is only when you are all motivated and capable of doing this, that 
human society will be fantastically changed.  So remember, all this 
continuing behavior and tradition does give meaning to life, and has to be 
transcended to greater meaning that actually incorporates it, that remembers 
all of the past, yet creatively introduces something new, something better.  
In doing so you will have taken one more step towards perfection, one more 
step toward being God-like.  Does this answer your question, my son?

Student:  It sure does. (laughing)  Thank you…very much.

NEBADONIA:  Then, my son, be in my love.  (I shall)

Student:  Mother Nebadonia, my sister—I guess—that’s what you said a few 
weeks ago: we should look upon you as our sister.  I would like to talk 
about a film I saw last night called Days Of Glory, ironically called Days 
Of Glory since it was about war and the grim reality of war.  In my mind, to 
mutilate another human being such as is done in battle, is evil.  This is 
something I cannot bring myself to do, although there have been situations 
where this has become necessary to protect a society or country, or a 
culture.  But today in our modern world there are many who go off to fight, 
and they bring harm to another human being in the name of war.  But I’m 
confused.  Is this evil?  Are these men and women evil who do this, who 
fight battles for our country?  Can you help me understand this better?

(Good and evil, and war)

NEBADONIA:  Yes, my son, the most succinctly this answer has been put, which 
I am certain you are familiar with, is that God looks at the individual--the 
personality, and the act, as two distinct things.  For your own part, simply 
getting through the day, we recommend you separate in your mind the 
difference between judgement and assessment, which is largely, perhaps 
strangely-seeming, a matter not of quality but of quantity.  An example is, 
during a conversation you have the conviction someone is not telling you the 
truth.  This is a necessary assessment for you to make, yet if you expand it 
to include the entire person before you, his or her essence/personality, you 
could say this is being judgmental, and a bit of arrogant hubris since you 
cannot know this other personality as we or our Father can.

And so it is with each individual who gets caught up in warfare.  This is 
just no way, my son, to generalize from one to another.  Since the very 
beginning of the human race, ever after man was able to meet and conquer the 
ferocious beasts around him with some degree of success, he became his own 
greatest danger, the origin of his own greatest fears.  For man is capable 
of, and does do things no animal can conceive of.  But there is such a real 
thing as defensive warfare.  There is such a thing as righteously defending 
yourself from aggression and violence.  Yet obviously when this involves 
something more than what is immediately in your face, when you think about 
this in terms of larger societies with their crime and police forces, then 
contending nations with their armies, you can see how complex this 
assessment becomes, and how only God himself can judge an individual’s 
specific act in any final, spiritual way.

When you think of active warfare, the actual confrontation is so strange 
compared to other human interactions, and generally so unique, and 
startling,  and terrifying to those engaged; so full of ferocity and yet too 
the most tender and courageous moments of self-sacrifice and love and 
support among the combatants; so humanly absolute, in these moments, between 
“us” and “them”—my friends beside me, and the enemy we face--not only what 
he can do to us,  but what we need to do to him: I think it is best, my son, 
if you keep your wonder open and not try to generalize this situation.  
Within combat a single individual can go in moments from one extreme of 
love, or ferocity, to the other.  So now you have to tell me if this helps 
answer your question.

Student:  Yes, it does, it answers it quite well.  Often times I just become 
overwhelmed with the cruelty this world has had to go through.  But I do 
understand  what you’re saying.  Thank you for that explanation.

NEBADONIA:  If you keep this essence of warfare alive in your mind you will 
not nonchalantly rationalize what this essence provokes so much among the 
combatants.  You can keep your mind all the more focussed, all the more 
clearly concentrated on the complex question: how to put an end to it.  For 
this includes the individual motivations and choices which lead to war 
across all the different levels of society, and are by no means limited to 
the combatants.  This is the only way to keep your focus on how to prevent 
war.

We must admit, for you human beings with such enormously divergent ideas, 
and notions, and concepts about the past--in your different cultures and 
their historical origins, there is coming about on Urantia today a meeting 
of these cultures such as makes this moment unique, for all your history 
gives you no sure guidelines.  The whole world is involved as never before 
in a gigantic experiment to find out what works, what leads to the greatest 
peace.  No single human, apart from Michael, as Jesus, has had that answer.  
There is much you have to be humble about, and so we encourage you to see 
the positive aspect of humility, the enormity out there you have to keep 
leaning into, stretching yourself and letting go your surety, to embrace.

Keep feeling, my son.  Even the existence of movies with their new-found 
realism is a matter for hope.  It was not so long ago you had a Civil War 
and two World Wars where whole societies got all excited and fired up and 
couldn’t wait to go and show those others out there—you know—how soon it was 
all going to be over; and “we,” of course, would triumph.  Is there anything 
else you wish to discuss about this?

Student:  No, Mother.  I would ask for your embrace, your love, your purity, 
that I may continue to find hope, and be a part of bringing hope to this 
world.

(There is cause for hope)

NEBADONIA:  Then let it be so.  I wrap you in my love, and I feed your hope. 
  There is true progress here on Urantia.  You’ve come such a enormous way 
that the appreciation of this can also feed your hope.  As Michael says, we 
can see this hope and faith burning in every human soul.  It is a matter of 
maturing through hard-earned experience even more than it is well-meant 
intention.  There are few individuals totally associated and identified with 
evil.  It is mostly the unthinking habituation to certain kinds of behavior, 
certain feelings of what you must do, that have to be examined afresh.  This 
can most effectively be done deep in stillness, deep in prayer, opening 
yourself to your own creative abilities to take in all the past and yet come 
up with something new, something that includes everyone.  As you do this, my 
son, you feed your hope, you re-connect with spirit.  This is where you, and 
I, and Michael most profoundly share company.  Michael sends you his peace 
to restore you, to give you a genuine experience of what it is you are 
working toward.  And my love serves to connect you, especially in 
understanding and reaching out to those you call: the enemy.  Good evening.


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