[tmtranscripts] Jerry Lane: Nov. 26, 2010

[Kathleen L. Huntley]

SUBJECT:  LIGHTLINE TELECONFERENCE   November 26, 2010

TEACHER:  Michael

T/R:  JERRY LANE



  Jerry:   Dear Michael and Mother Spirit.    Welcome – Welcome dear  
parents, welcome dear friends.  Once again we gather together and look  
to you with bright shinning eyes, opening ourselves to your presence,  
both within us and amongst us.    Help us appreciate these lives we  
have and this wonderful time of being able to converse with the two of  
you this way so, thank you for the Teaching Mission.   Thank you for  
all your various sons and daughters of the spiritual community who are  
right here riding right here along with us.   Welcome.



Michael:            Good evening, this is Michael.   Let us give  
thanks.   Dear Heavenly Father thank you.   Thank you for this  
creation, this infinite, encompassing with no end; this endless  
adventure you lay out before us that only reveals itself, moment by  
moment, at your pace.   Thank you for us, for each of us individually  
so that each of us can say, thank you for me.   Thank you that I am.    
Thank you that I am unique in all of creation and have the ability, by  
your good grace, to have myself and to have my life and to know my  
life.   To love and appreciate my life.   Thank you for all of us.   
Thank you that we can know each other and share ourselves with each  
other and we can carry each other on into eternity.

             My children, I would like to say a little bit this  
evening about some of the things that Mother Spirit brought up in her  
last lesson through this TR in which so many of you enjoyed.  It did  
cause a bit of reflection and thinking again about some of your  
suppositions.   I know it helped a lot of you to once again read parts  
of the Urantia book with new eyes, just for having absorbed each  
other’s points of view.   It helped you be aware of these different  
points of view arising from a single text.

             Think about your Urantia Book sitting there on the shelf  
or the coffee table or your desk.   There it is.  It has an  
existential existence.  A cosmic reality if you will, obeying all of  
God’s material energy laws called natural law.   You too have an  
existential existence in the very fact of your being.   You definitely  
are, whether or not you can fully realize this or even feel it at  
times.  You are – but you are an experiential being.    We like to  
call you and nodule of existence out here in time and space. Not only  
your unique personality, but also being a focal point in a particular  
time and space.    You have a uniqueness of experience as well.

             So, when you pick up the Urantia book, which you are  
registering in your mind, is your responses to this existential object  
for every one of you it is an experiential object.  Some of your  
philosophers have realized that you never touch the thing in itself.  
It may help you to realize this by imagining you picking up your  
Urantia book and opening it and you discover it is in some totally  
indecipherable language.   Different symbols even.   So, you are  
suddenly aware it is, in this instance, just ink symbols on paper.  
But, the moment you start to read it in English instantaneously you  
are responding to it one way or another, in a very unique way to  
you.             This is the reality of the book to you, as you just  
discovered in your exchange of points of view.    How very different  
that response can be because each of you is not only unique, you have  
unique backgrounds.   You come from slightly different cultures.    
Your conditioning is different because of the very conditions in which  
you were raised.   And this conditioning, at the same time, gives  
meaning to what you read.   Yet, it can also limit your responses,  
your response ability.     It is almost impossible to keep this fact  
of your limited objectivity if you will, your intrinsic subjectivity  
or should be doing nothing else.    Like enlightenment itself, it is  
not a state of mind you can carry with you.   You are much too  
directly involved in what is happening to you to think of carrying  
some state of mind, some awareness no matter how subtle or how  
tenacious.    To live your life you have to let go of any such notions  
that would merely keep you from being fully engaged.

So as to live, moment-to-moment, especially in your very busy  
technological lives, it is a constant process of forgetting  
yourself.   Engaging something else - someone else.    But it is never  
the less true that the Urantia Book and all it holds is an  
experiential reality for you.

             So, in this case I would like to extend what Mother said  
about the book existing in a very particular space and time that are  
not repeating itself.   It is a view that every moment in time is  
unique as is every place in space.   Especially that space right  
inside you. She meant this more or less as the time and space in which  
the book was conveyed to you.   Tonight I am pointing out the space  
and time in which you read the book.

             Some of you who have re-read the chapter on the colored  
races then gone back to re-read Mother Spirit’s lesson found that they  
changed in the meanwhile.   You were sharp enough to pick this up.   A  
lot of your discussions help you get over or see through your original  
‘take’, and take it somewhat anew.   This is the nature of human  
reality.   Not only all the world around you is changing and evolving,  
but so are you.   So, even this existential object, with fixed ink  
symbols on paper, will change slightly as you read it, over and over  
again.

             We use the classical example of two people standing in  
front of a painting and because of their backgrounds see two entirely  
different things.   Or take two people, one of them who knows the  
schematic of a computer, or piece of electronic equipment, and the  
other one totally ignorant of this.   How they are actually seeing two  
completely different things of one object - one objective reality.     
The more full appreciation you get of your own subjectivity my  
children, the more you can appreciate the degree that which you can  
exchange and share so much.    There is that in you which does  
respond, even on a spiritual level of not only meaning and  
relationships, but value.   It also points up the degree of which  
communication fails.

             How difficult it is to be what we constantly recommend,  
being open minded.    We use one word to help you get a grasp of this  
…  the word “entertain”.  What does it mean to entertain another point  
of view?   Especially in the light of the psychological phenomena of  
denial.   The very fact that you can approach, shall we say a piece of  
writing, a new person, a point of view and right from the onset be set  
against it, shall we say some commenter on television expressing a  
very contrary point of view to your own.    You can feel yourself  
arguing with the slightest little thing he says right from the onset.   
Poking holes in his argument.   So you can see the difficulty in truly  
entertaining something new.  Something even contrary to your own  
beliefs.   To be open-minded - it takes courage to do this.   A  
courage of “letting go”.   It is more self-forgetfulness.   You really  
entertain, really allow yourself to follow along and believe if only  
even momentarily. Believe that this is true, this is a valid way of  
seeing things. You have to trust that there is that within you, that  
intelligence that desires for a broader truth, that will simply  
emerge, all on its own.    You forget yourself and really entertain  
this foreign point of view, this contrary point of view, maybe even  
this hated point of view.   You will pop up again to yourself, only  
you will have changed.   You will have grown and that growth might be  
towards a little insecurity about having the grasp of truth already in  
your hand.   That growth might be a bit painful, because it brings in  
all kinds of uncertainty about what you already believed.

       Again, your intelligence – you have to accept this intelligence  
of yours as to what is emerging, what you are giving a chance to  
emerge is a holistic, all-inclusive, more spiritual point of view.     
It now includes this other person.    Don’t fear this uncertainty.     
Don’t fear this transition.    Know it, feel it deep inside yourself  
as a necessary thing to do, this opening of yourself.    Because my  
children, there is a whole universe out there before you.   It helps  
to have a deep desire to get out of parochial attitude you may simply  
have inherited.   For, as we said in a recent lesson, this is what you  
are raised with.  Points of view, prejudices, meanings wrapped up in  
certain cultures and conditioning, the very thing to give your life  
meaning.     Be willing to feel their incompleteness. There is a  
difference between contextual validity and truth.

         As the hope clears up a lot of the difficulties that you may  
have experienced with that chapter in the Urantia Book on the coming  
and then the dispersal of the colored races.   First of all helping  
you see it from the point of view of the Life Carriers. What amazing,  
truly amazing beings these are.  That, with the help of the whole  
spiritual community, started life on this planet then helped evolve  
towards the creatures of will dignity.   If you have any difficulty  
with this kind of material go back and read it again.   For as they  
say at the very opening, “This is the story of the colored races from  
the time of their emergence to the latter ice age, the last ice age.”   
Then there are this many many hundreds of years of greater race mixing  
since then.    As Mother Spirit said at the time of the Age of  
Exploration, when you started to have direct contact with races, no  
longer overland over the ages old trade routes between Europe and of  
the Far East -Africa and India.   All of a sudden you had direct  
contact.    You all have experienced this contact through endless  
first writings and now television and movies.   So, to this degree,  
the statements of the life carriers, about the different cultures that  
revolved among the different races is a simple historical fact.    It  
accounts for how; shortly after this initial contact the European  
Nations pretty much carved up and colonized whole continents.    All  
with a force of arms.    Predicated on enormously different  
cultures.   As she said to even what is real.

             You can only wonder how these different peoples actually  
saw each other.  In some cases where they had great artists on both  
sides of that cultural divide you can be astonished as how they so  
totally exaggerated each other’s features.    Then look at your United  
Nations today and you wonder where all that enormous racial difference  
went.    But then, inside each of you personally, strive to be that  
open minded, truly independent person who values your own common  
humanity.   Your transcendent humanity of any differences what so  
ever: sex, age, or race.    You get so much more out of history if you  
truly entertain the points of view of everybody.    It is a way of not  
taking offense at some of the indisputable fact  of history.   This is  
what happened here o this planet.   And it is such a story we are  
delighted your more modern civilizations have begun to see things from  
all these different points of view.    And what it must have been like  
on each side of that cultural divide.   Simply why people - people  
reacted the way they did.   This is your heritage.  This entire  
planet’s history is your heritage and helps you treasure all of it.    
Be unafraid there is no limit to what your minds can encompass.    
There is no limit what your spirit can value and appreciate.   So  
entertain all of these points of view.   There is one for every living  
person.    Actually one for every historical person as well.   This is  
what is being offered to you.  But, it is up to you to entertain  
this.  It is up to you to entertain what I am saying to you right  
now.   You are giving me reality.

             So, thank you dear children.   Thank you for this reality  
you give Mother Spirit and I right within yourselves.    It gives you  
the ability to contact us.   And, it gives us the delight of being  
contacted.   This is our joy and this is our glory.    And, in time,  
you will be able to see yourselves, and enjoy yourselves as we do. You  
will even be able to see and enjoy each other as we do.   It is a very  
humbling thing, this fact of each of our uniqueness.    Each of us is  
a God created being.  Each of us, in this sense is alone, but alone  
with Him, our Father.   And with this we are very much like Him, for  
he too is singular and alone.   But, he has those companions of his  
with whom he shares his absoluteness and his infinity.    And we have  
each other in the shared knowledge that this very uniqueness each of  
has, is what we all have in common.    It is not a paradox.   It is  
not a contradiction.    It is what we see in each other’s eyes.      
The very thing that makes us unique and separate unites us.  So my  
children have no fear in this regard.  Have the courage to open  
yourselves.   It is for your own soul wealth.     Give of yourselves  
in self-forgetfulness.   Trusting that you will come back to yourself  
a little more full.

             Now if you have any questions or comments this evening we  
can do that too.



Questioner #1: Michael, I would like to ask a question of you?



Michael:    Certainly



Questioner #1: I really appreciate you broadening our perspectives on  
the Urantia book because I know that each of us has a different  
perspective because of our lives and the things we have gone through  
in our lives.     And I know that when I read the Urantia Book just as  
you had said I could have read something once or twice, then read it a  
few more times, and then on the tenth time I’ve read something I look  
at that same thing in a unique way.  And it is really the realities  
that it points to, not just a dry text but also something real.    
Unless I actually become one with the reality it is pointing to I  
really don’t understand it.

             I’d like to go off on a tangent, just a little bit.   I  
know a lot of people in the world are suffering today because they  
have lost a loved one.    The Urantia Book of course speaks about the  
Mansion Worlds, which is such a great thing for all of us to look  
forward to.    We know when we die we are going to end up on one of  
the Mansion Worlds.

             My question is - I know there are some people that have  
tried their best to look at some of the details in the Urantia  
Book.    They have made a decent effort about where they think some  
the architectural spheres are but I don’t personally think they  
have. .   They have made a good try, but I don’t think it is as  
accurate as it could be.   I’m just wondering if people of the world  
really knew where the Mansion Worlds were?   If they could locate them  
in space.    Would that make any difference about they feel about the  
death process?    Would that enhance their faith or would that make  
any difference at all?

              I personally think it would, but it  would have to be  
where we would have to actually know where they are and then have the  
ability to somehow find them in space.   I was just wondering if you  
talk about that and as far as the death process.   How can we overcome  
the grief that not only ourselves, but that others have that we can  
share the knowledge we have so we can make them feel a little better  
about that.



Michael:    Yes my son, I understand your question.    Personally I  
don’t think it would help to try to fix these “in space”.   Because,  
as you were asking the question I once again realized how much of the  
Urantia book is not empirical.   It is not demonstrable, but 99 % of  
the book - some of it can…as a matter of fact there are a number of  
individuals who are busily engaged right now in proving empirically  
some of the statements of the Urantia Book along the lines of  
cosmology.   Even some of the history shall we say - of the location  
of the Garden of Eden and so forth.   In terms of the Mansion worlds  
and what happens after you die.

             None of this is empirical.   None of this can be  
proven.    The Urantia Book, in its appeal, is mainly to your spirit;  
your overall sense of value.   This is why, as Mother Spirit said, the  
book was deliberately designed to include so much of what you call  
separate disciplines of human understanding and endeavors, to be self- 
validating.   To give you a feeling that the personal being, God who  
created all of this, also created death.   He also created real  
separation as part of life.   As in those statements that loving  
couples who go onto Mansion Worlds and stay together for a while.    
Still there will come times on in the future in which you will be  
required to separate.

             This is not to diminish in any way the reality of the  
suffering to suddenly feel that half of you is gone.   It points up  
that very ability to share your life with someone and feel half of you  
is this other person as you  say - hostages to fortune.    Your loved  
ones - your children. So it is a matter of faith, understanding and  
trust in a totality of the revelation that I don’t think it would help  
to pin it down anywhere.     They are not visible.   There is no way  
of proving those statements are true or not anymore than like I say  
90% of the rest of the book.     It is just within yourself, your  
trust in God and the design of life and death, that there is this  
necessity for separation.    It is not some whimsical thing or  
afterthought.    This may help you to some degree handling the genuine  
grief.   Does this help you my son?



Q #1: Yes, it does Michael.    I think I got a different perspective  
on it.     I have a few things also – just as you were speaking  
about.   There is no way that you really can prove – except through  
faith, that you  - it starts with faith then.    I’ve been developing  
a stronger relationship with my own piece of the Infinite Father which  
has grown stronger over the last couple years.   I know that is where  
my faith is increasing so I don’t have any doubts about when I die I  
‘m going to the Mansion Worlds anymore.   So, I suppose that is where  
a person’s direction needs to go rather than go to the words in a  
book.    I realize the words in a book are static and the reality of  
the Father is dynamic.  And his truth is dynamic as it comes through  
us just as your spirit of truth is dynamic.   It is not static.    So  
it is not like words on a page in a book that just staring at you and  
not doing anything until you  as you were talking about, live through  
it and experience what you are reading.   But, really appreciate it  
because I think I gained a different perspective on it.



Michael:   And as you said my son those words aren’t really static are  
they?



Q #1: No



Michael:   The tenth time you read those words they were different.     
That static existential reality of the book is a bit beyond you.   
Every time you read it, especially with real heart, real longing to  
understand it does change, because you have changed.   So, that is a  
bit paradoxical there how that book has both an existential existence,  
yet for you it is experiential reality.



Q #1: I thank you very much Michael.  I appreciate the few minutes to  
have a talk with you and I’m definitely going to think about what you  
told me tonight.   I will try and put that into practice in my own life.



Michael:   For us we cannot gain say, or in anyway diminish the  
requirement for faith.   This is your choice.   It is up to you to  
cultivate and be willing to step out and do things in trust.   There  
is no way we can deprive you of that just like we hopefully are good  
parents in a sense.   Just as you are when you let your own children  
step-out and stumble and fall from time to time.  One thing this  
discussion about the Urantia Book has brought up is the degree to  
which we let you be.   We even let the authors of the book be.    
Trusting that it is not in this particular time and space.   Parts of  
the book may not be readily assimilable for a while yet.  There are  
parts of the book, which have more or less generally disregarded and  
passed over.  But, this is why it is a revelation, an epochal  
revelation designed to inaugurate a new epoch of understanding.   So,  
that existential object (laughter), that collection of writing will  
continue to change in the experience of the people of the future.    
That is the strange nature of human reality.  So, thank you my son for  
your questions and be in my peace.  Were there any more comments or  
questions this evening?

             I know there is a marvelous stillness we have generated  
here  - it might seem on your part a shame to disturb it.   But, even  
in a greater sense my children, nothing does disturb it.  Then let me  
bid you all a good evening.    It has been a time of Thanksgiving and  
once again let me thank our Father for all of us, both in your stead  
and for me, Thank him for all of you.    Come invite me and invite  
Mother Spirit to be part of your conscious lives.   Give of yourself  
for both of us.   Give part of your life over to stillness, then be as  
open minded as you can.   Hungry and thirsty for that greater  
encompassing of which you are an integral part.   Yes, my children,  
you are constantly encountering yourself and everything you  
perceive.   Yet, there is a way.   There is an orientation my spirit  
of truth can help you.   Away of deeply desiring this openness, this  
receptivity, and this curiosity about all that is not you.   It might  
even seem antithecle to you.

             This is the way to grow.  With curiosity and  
encouragement.   You can welcome the adventure that is coming your  
way.    This is God’s will.   And so, we embrace it and say, ‘thank  
you dear Father’. Thank you for this very necessity, for me to be a  
part – a creative part of my own life.   Thank you for putting so much  
of me in my own hands.   Good Evening – Be in My Peace.



  
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