[tmtranscripts] Nebadonia 4.16.07

[JERRY LANE]

Nebadonia—March 16, 2007

Marin T/M Group—Mill Valley, California—U.S.A.

NEBADONIA—T/R-JL

(A sense of proportion)
(How do you put an end to crime?)
(Proportional response)
(Fear of change)
(Smothering creativity)

Dear Mother Spirit and Michael,    After a short break we return, refreshed 
and extra-mindful of just how great it is to have the Teaching Mission in 
our lives.  We get a positive reassurance when we think of how the T/R 
groups, and all those who will come to read the transmissions, form a 
spiritual community who have their faith and hope inspired by the power and 
truth of your words.  Help us, we pray, inspire our friends and our 
acquaintances as you have inspired us.  Amen.

NEBADONIA:  Good evening, my sons, this is your spirit mother, Nebadonia.  
Tonight I feel I will be trying to communicate through all the shock that 
has gone through your society today because of the horrific event that very 
quickly filled all the news media, not only in your own country, but around 
the world.  This is now a world community, at least in the more 
technologically advanced countries where single events are very quickly 
shared by a great number of people, and this is a historically unique and 
ongoing development with both positive and negative effects.  It points at 
the great truth of how much human society on Urantia is becoming evermore 
single knit, evermore tied together by your mass communications.

(A sense of proportion)

Your Urantia book does have the statement that a great hallmark of wisdom 
and maturity is a sense of proportion.  This is most severely challenged 
when a seemingly meaningless event takes place, one that is all the more 
truly obscene for the reason a single individual can so wantonly inflict 
such an enormous amount of suffering on so many people.  It takes a while to 
regain your sense of proportion, to be able to see such an event as this 
within a number of different contexts, and realize the proportional value it 
has in each.

So while we do not in any way minimize the suffering this has caused 
specific individuals, still and all, my children, your own sense of value 
and meaning requires you to fit it into some context where it does make 
sense, even if this means realizing and accepting with an open mind that 
truly evil things can happen.  This can be for you a great truth of the 
human situation.  Not only today but throughout humankind’s entire history 
there have been individuals who engaged in truly criminal acts, persons 
whose souls and minds became so twisted and full of hatred, so carried away 
with self-indulgence, they were willing to do horrors that were limited only 
by their imagination.

All through history and continuing throughout the world today, you’ve had 
these individuals drawn to those situations where they could mask and 
indulge their hatred under any number of political, social, religious, or 
cultural banners.  These individuals are drawn to situations where they can 
indulge these terrible perversions of power and, in a sense, get away with 
inflicting suffering for no other reason than self-gratification.  We ask 
you to see this incident that happened today in this context and realize it 
is not so isolated after all.  It’s happening all over the world every day 
in far greater numbers and proportions.

Consider for a moment this is one true meaning of crime, or that species of 
crime that occurs with a kind of wantonness.  Here I’m not speaking of 
simple theft of some food or shelter to get through the day.  There is such 
a thing as gratuitous violence, violence for pure self-indulgence.  As odd 
as it may seem, this too, my children, requires you to open your minds, open 
your ability to feel and accept this part of human reality.

Once again you must ask yourself: is it true?  Disregarding all other 
considerations, what is the truth here?  How can I understand it, even: what 
is there about this that I cannot understand, that must simply, humbly, be 
acknowledged?  This is the way you heal yourself, and help others heal from 
this terrible wound inflicted upon your notions of what human beings are, 
and are capable of, and not in any way diminish or nonchalantly disregard 
real facts.

We do see evidence of this, my children, amidst all the sensationalism of 
the news.  We do recognize a growing, genuine social consciousness and 
conscience. True, a very small part of this is just political correctness, 
knowing one cannot applaud such obscene acts, but that does not diminish the 
heartfelt concern within all segments of your society, including the news 
people, to understand and come to grips with these events, and extend 
genuine sympathy and comfort to the injured and the families of the slain.  
There is a desire to understand why it happened, and to hope for some way, 
some means by which an individual so minded could be reached in time to 
prevent another occurrence.

Let me repeat, this one act, preplanned and deliberately carried out, is 
surrounded by a million-million-fold of genuine love and caring and concern 
for everyone affected.  So we ask you to see that proportion and, with that 
understanding, open your heart further to those around the world to whom 
this is almost a daily occurrence, whatever the ostensible guise or reason.

Today you had a very shocking demonstration of how truly single-knit human 
society is becoming, of how close--spiritually speaking--it is to a single 
living body.  Just as within your own organism there is a great need for a 
careful, loving consideration of every part, so there must be within society 
an outreach, especially to those criminally-minded souls festering and 
self-seemingly thriving within themselves on hatred and anger.  Reach out to 
them, open your hearts to feel their pain.  Question too all those various 
elements in your society, your mass media and, perhaps, even your own soul, 
that thrive on the thrill of violence, or passively accept it.

(How do you put an end to crime?)

Wonder anew and afresh, how do you put an end to crime, this preying of one 
individual on another, on every scale?  For this too is a highly complex 
challenge to you all.  Begin by being as able to respond as you can within 
your own life.  But above all, my children, keep your hearts open, keep 
feeling for the answer.  Stay in touch with the presence of God within you, 
to inspire you to cut through the maze of conflicting notions.  Open your 
hearts to Michael’s Spirit of Truth to help you find the way forward.

If you have any questions or comments this evening, I open myself to receive 
them.

Student:  I have no questions, Mother, just once again I thank you, and 
Father Michael, and all of your beings who are in my life, for giving me 
support, and giving this world support.  Thank you.

NEBADONIA:  You are very welcome, my son.  This is our greatest pleasure, 
and our great purpose.  We delight so when you can feel it.  Be in my love.

Student:  Hello, Mother.  Thank you for being here tonight.  I recently read 
an article about crime in America, and it said—amazingly—that the crime rate 
has gone down drastically in the last fifteen years or so, and it’s not well 
understood why.  We do know that many more people, almost twice as many, are 
in prison, but it is not known if that is the sole reason.  Also the article 
stated how tragic the prison system is, with many who are only drug 
offenders, with crowded conditions, and especially the lack of any 
rehabilitation training.  It also said that about six percent of the 
population is responsible for most major crime, and it is kind-of built into 
society.  Anyway, I was just citing some of these things and I wondered if 
you have any comment about them?

NEBADONIA:  Yes.  Human beings often tend to separate themselves along lines 
of short-term and long-term solutions to the problem of crime.  We can only 
hope these two camps get together and arrive at a more humane way of 
incorporating both viewpoints.  For example, it is true that in the short 
term you can indiscriminately lock up a lot of folks and have a temporary 
drop in the crime rate, but without rehabilitation you are actually creating 
a regressive, dog-eat-dog jungle in your prisons.  You have to wonder what 
kind of people you are creating, who will be released some day.

(Proportional response)

In terms of justice, you can assert your right of self defense,  but again 
the wisdom of proportion must enter the picture.  This is obvious when you 
realize it is not just to seriously injure someone with, shall we say, a gun 
or a ball bat, who is merely trying to steal a bicycle.  You are slowly 
accepting this concept of proportional response.  And your point is very 
well taken of separating out those who are addicted to physical violence 
upon their fellows, from those guilty of petty crime, even though the latter 
do cause suffering.  You need to make this distinction, and save your 
incarceration for those who are truly dangerous.

One of the great long-term challenges facing every society is the problem of 
providing worth-while employment.  That alone would have the greatest impact 
on crime.  But that, coupled with a genuine social acceptance of the great 
need, the great quality of life to be had in good employment, plus a kind of 
social discipline and insistence upon it, can only come about when it is 
provided.  You cannot insist upon something that does not exist.

(Fear of change)

If you think about it, to say there is a lack of good work to be done, is 
absurd.  We even approached, one time, the seeming paradox there is in 
humanity as a whole almost some weird fear of paradise, or utopia—the 
changes that would require.  This is the true measure of what has developed 
since the revolt of Lucifer, and how things went so terribly awry because of 
it.  You students of history, consider for a while the enormous productivity 
of the human race gone not only to offensive warfare but defensive 
preparations as well.  Think of those enormous stone walls built around 
cities.  Think of the great fleets of ships, the great armies, continuing up 
to the present day.  Think of the hundreds of millions of lives lost not 
only in direct combat, but ten times as many in all the collateral effects 
of starvation and death from disease and exposure.  It staggers your 
imagination to consider what the world might have been, or even could be in 
a very short while, if all this criminal activity, and the defenses against 
it, were put to constructive, lasting and enduring, beneficial effect.

And so we get back to our lessons on how even crime and conflict and warfare 
do give meaning to peoples’ lives on all sides of any event.  The only way 
out of this going on into the future is for individuals to open to other 
possibilities—grow their ability to let the past be the past—appreciate it 
for all it has given you—but then hope and prepare for a better tomorrow, 
and work toward that; accept the enormous changes implied.  It is quite a 
challenge, is it not?  It is one every individual faces, because that 
totality of humankind is only all the individuals.  This is why love, and 
hope, and creativity, are the only ways out.  Does that fulfill your quest, 
my son?

Student:  In the broadest possible way!  Love, hope, and creativity…thank 
you.

NEBADONIA:  You are very welcome.  Be in my love.

Student:  Mother, I just heard you say the word creativity, and that applies 
directly to why we’re seeing so much senseless violence in our educational 
institutions.  It seems there has been an effort to stifle creativity, 
especially in this country, and allow only a few creative possibilities.  
The rest are trained to be obedient to those who hold the power.  So when I 
hear things like this happening more and more, it becomes clear we have to 
find a way to allow the individual more creative freedom in their education, 
so they don’t become so hopeless, they don’t get so far from who they truly 
are.  They could learn how to foster their own creativity.

Sometimes it becomes very difficult to continue to have hope when I see so 
much deteriorating at such a rapid pace everywhere I look.  But thank you 
for bringing  up such a difficult subject this evening.  We are faced with 
this on such a daily basis world-wide—this kind of senseless violence 
between us.  I would hope this is very rare in the universe—a planet that 
gets to this point of such high technology with such unnecessary violence.  
I know it must hurt you.  I’ve often wondered how you are able to deal with 
the pain of watching your children continually do this to one another.  I 
myself have a very difficult time dealing with it—most of the time.  I 
wonder how you deal with it on such a broad scale?

NEBADONIA:  Well, my son, to answer your question, we do it as we ask you 
to—by opening our hearts and feeling, right along with our children, what 
they are suffering.  This is our promise to you: we will not abandon you; we 
will not forsake you.  Your experience is our experience.

We very rarely bring up in this context your life to come, for we do not 
wish to minimize your suffering in our regard.  But it is nevertheless a 
great truth, my son, that with respect to your ongoing life, even in the 
first few Mansion Worlds, let alone your continuing development in your 
Local System, and Constellation, and on Salvington here with us; with 
respect to all of this, it is a great truth that your first human life is, 
by comparison, but a short while of very intense challenge and response.

(Smothering creativity)

As to the cause of any smothering of creativity: it is unavoidably a matter 
of courage.  Whenever administrators or teachers opt for control over 
nurturing creativity, you are simply face to face with a lack or nerve.  
This is why we once challenged you to think of a world in which you have 
very creative, self-fulfilled and self-determining individuals, spiritual 
individuals with a high sense of social responsibility.  To many folks this 
is a recipe for chaos.  They simply have no faith in their fellows.  They 
can only think of peace on earth in terms of ever greater control, relying 
upon a kind of universality of weakness, an inability for violence.  Which, 
unfortunately—actually fortunately, from our point of view—this is an 
impossibility.  This is why we say, More power to you.  Hopefully there is a 
dawning recognition that some of the most horrific and obscene acts done all 
through history have been done by truly pitiful individuals who were willing 
to sacrifice anyone else just to assuage their own sense of powerlessness.

And so, my son, understanding this, and taking it to heart, can only 
encourage you to keep your faith, and your hope, alive.  Do your best to 
inspire those around you with your example.  Don’t be discouraged.  There is 
a good fight here to be fought.  There is always good work to be done.  Be 
profoundly thankful for that.  Ultimately that is what counts.  Is there any 
more you would wish to add?

Student:  I would just like to thank you for your words of encouragement.

NEBADONIA:  You are very welcome.  You truly wish to see things clearly; 
just be aware of how your own attitude and situation sometimes colors 
everything you perceive.  It may not always be quite as bad as it seems.  
This is that increasing sense of morality your personality is capable of.  
But also you have to welcome it, and recognize it, as it begins to pervade 
all aspects of your life.   This is why Michael and I will be there beside 
you every step, helping you determine the next one to take.  So be in my 
love.

TO BE CONTINUED.  My apologies, folks, I’ve run out of time insofar as I 
wanted to get this out before tonight’s meeting: there is one more student 
and answer to go.  I’ll send it along ASAP.  JL.


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