<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"><FONT SIZE=2>DATE: November 3, 2001
<BR>LOCATION: Spokane, Washington
<BR>T/R: Gerdean
<BR>TEACHERS: NEBADONIA, PAULO
<BR>TOPIC: Be brave
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<BR>NEBADONIA: I am your mother, the Divine Minister, Michael's Consort, Nebadonia. I reach out and take you in my arms and here you feel my presence envelope you. Here you are safe. Here in the shower of Mother's love you can do no wrong. Here it is so easy for me to perceive you as babies, but you do well to recognize your growth, and so how can we help you realize you are loved even as one who has experienced so much of life that you can no longer regard yourself as innocent or blind to what travesties avail around you?
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<BR>The innocent is so ready to cast off burdens of blame, but those who have walked through the valley of experiential living have weighed carefully the factors, resulting in wisdom, which convinces you; having insight, reveals itself as a burden.
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<BR>While I hold you close to me and see you as my babes, I also must see you in your potential. I must also perceive your future in order to help you prepare yourself, to guide you in ways that will serve to direct you into the course of action that is perfect for you. Here I send my teachers in order that you may better know and understand balance and relativity and grow your capacities to be a love-saturated soul, exemplifying the essence of Father God in heaven.
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<BR>I am going to offer you time now to consider among yourselves your qualities and instruct the teachers to help you grow into those qualities which you believe to be the representation of your sonship. Let us reach your capacities.
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<BR>Always you will come to me for the comfort that I can provide. I hope you will always need my mother touch, but remember that you, as adults, are also the reflection of the mother love ~ that has provided for you and given you the advantages of sonship ~ so that you can make me proud. Yes, I say to you, "See those children? They are mine." but you need to believe it. You need to know this in order for you to carry your torch into the darkness. Thus I urge you, my little ones, to be brave and strong.
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<BR>Run along now and consult with your soul and the souls of your fellows as to who you believe you are and who you believe you can be. [Conversation off the record.]
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<BR>PAULO: Uncle Paulo here. I'm hearing you say you heard your voice. You recognize your scale and you enjoy it when your voice has expression in harmony with others. This is a depiction of your qualities, your integrated self. That's a good beginning. That's a good goal, as well. It seems you spend a lot of time warming up your instrument, or seeking out the value of your note, before you allow it to ring out. It takes trust, you see, to do that and then to enjoy it so much that you - almost by default - realize your fellows are ringing forth their note all at the same time, and you know when you've attained harmony and when someone is off-key.
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<BR>THOROAH: Even if it's me.
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<BR>PAULO: Even if it's you. This is insanity-inducing, inasmuch as it is often the case that you believe you are correct and everyone else is wrong when the reverse is true, but if you truly are true to yourself and you know what your note sounds like, you will sing it, even if you are the only one. That requires courage. There you are brave -- what Nebadonia might call brave.
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<BR>Yes, indeed, in the spirit you are safe and you've all given meditative time to the concept, "What does it matter if all things earthly crumble to those who love the Lord?" Knowing you have a cluster of molecules that give you existence, knowing that your spirit Adjuster is eternal, in faith of God's promise of your success, you can afford to feel safe. But yes, certainly, the material life is not so secure.
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<BR>The physical life is bent on worrying about itself. The emotional needs relationship. The intellectual requires a sounding board. So in those areas you are "at risk". And since most people live their lives almost entirely in the material consciousness, they have reason to feel fear and anxiety.
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<BR>I find it nteresting that this current global problem is philosophically presented asa war on terrorism. Isn't that rather what Correcting Time is all about? Taking the kingdom by spiritual assault ~ in faith, overcoming fear? The material world is collapsing, philosophically speaking. (You) Might as well lend a dimension to the philosophic thread running through your global environment and acknowledge that the real issue is a war, a battle in which faith will triumph over fear. "Faith in what?" is the question.
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<BR>This must be why President Bush is indicating this could go on for quite some time.
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<BR>The work is apparent. The arena is decked out like a stage production upon which you are players. Find your script. Clear your throat. Rise up. And sing. Orate. Witness. Testify. Announce. Express. Triumph over fear. War on terrorism, indeed.
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<BR>I've seen the souls of mortals who were lost, estranged from spirit reality, who had no way home, not a friend. It's funny because I have to acknowledge that so many who find themselves in this position will opt to avenge themselves by being babbling fools rather than to acknowledge how afraid they are without something to believe in.
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<BR>Brave. What does that mean to you, to be brave? I'm going to be the stage manager and direct you to portray brave. When we next meet, I want you to tell me what you know about being brave.
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<BR>Other than theatrics, then, are there any questions? Or subjects on the table for discussion?
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<BR>THOROAH: The script that you suggested that we find ... interesting symbolism there because I've tried to figure out which script out there is the one that I need to be following. Because there is so much going on that doesn't meet the eye. At least I suspect that's going on. I have been given reason to suspect that it's going on. I don't know whether President Bush is doing the Father's work or if he is impeding Father's work. I can't get a reading. So that's kind of confusing to start with.
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<BR>PAULO: You are smart, kid. You recognize the inevitable, that you cannot know the mind of another. You cannot know whether bin Ladin is doing the will of God either, for that matter. You don't know these people personally. You cannot see their personal trials, only the depiction dictated by the media. The fact is, son, you can't find your script from anyone out there.
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<BR>THOROAH: I knew that! I'm fishing around for clues, though, I tell you, Paulo.
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<BR>PAULO: Yes, I tell you it's a big arena. A lot of work out there to be done.
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<BR>THOROAH: Well, I appreciate the inference, or the reassertion that it's not up to somebody else's script what I do, because I know that I have a hard time getting in line with a bunch of other people. I have an aversion to that. I don't know how to explain it.
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<BR>PAULO: Let's talk about that barbershop quartet again. You have your voice and you sing your note, then you observe the others are in harmony by singing their note. This is what feels good to you. It's what sounds good to others. However, the skill of harmonizing is one that requires a great deal of practice. When you are an individualist with your own parameters and guidelines, you of course do not want to lose yourself in a collective that will act for you. This would be usurping your free will and of course you would balk. But when you can work cooperatively and intelligently with other will creatures -- individualists all – then your harmony really speaks to how hard you've all worked to attain such music. You know how much you've all practiced to develop your own voice and to have it perfectly attuned to the surrounding voices. This gives great credit to the Master Conductor, the Producer, the Director, the Publisher, the Chef....
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<BR>The practice of "doing it the hard way" is not a reflection of bravery. "Doing life the hard way" is a rotation exercise toward finding independence. Independence is necessary before individuality. Conformity is a response to the terror of being an individual. Thus those of you who are able to discern who you are and be yourself, even when you stand out in a crowd or look like the only one floating upstream, in a sense, is a depiction of bravery because you had to reach a point somewhere along the line when you said, "No, I'm not going to go along with the pack. I'm not going to do this because everyone else does it. I'm not going to conform to be part of the status quo and find the comfort zone. I'm going to stand up for what I believe in." Which essentially is the Self.
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<BR>THOROAH: Sometimes I think there's more bravery in quiet reservation, accepting that what you believe is not necessarily what somebody else is going to accept, but then you don't worry about it. You don't have to take a stand, necessarily, either. You can just feel comfortable with that knowledge.
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<BR>PAULO: That's what I said.
<BR>THOROAH: Quiet bravery.
<BR>PAULO: Alright. I was noisier about it.
<BR>THOROAH: Okay.
<BR>PAULO: I was making a point, but your point also is well taken.
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<BR>THOROAH: But I don't think of it as bravery because it seems like I don't act on things unless I know them pretty well. I mean, I have to be convinced in order to act on those so it's not necessarily a sense of bravery when you do those things. I don't think.
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<BR>PAULO: This is false humility, the reverse of false pride. If it did not require bravery for you to become yourself, why do you fidget? Why do you become irritable? Why do you take comfort in food, drugs, or alcohol? Why do you, like the ostrich, keep your head in the sand? It requires bravery! It doesn't have to mean that you're a hero, but if you can accept that your soul is brave, you can perhaps hollow out a deeper note, a more resonant reflection of reality.
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<BR>Perhaps you don't want to think about being brave because you don't think of God as being brave, and if God isn't brave, it's not necessary for you to understand bravery, but remember "there are no atheists in foxholes" and there is just where God may need to be, and you may need to carry Him in there with you for His expression of His love.
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<BR>The mandate has been handed down to actively pursue fields in which you may become a gardener, planting seeds for a future harvest, or a fishermen, a fisher of men. Those who pause to reflect on their capacities as sons of God, being all that they can be, even while mortal, are strengthened and enabled by their own experience, their own personal interpretation of a spiritual reality, a spiritual experience brought on, bestowed, because of your capacity and your willingness to walk the second mile, to appreciate the extent of the intelligent effort, embarking you on the high seas of eternal adventure.
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<BR>Now let's not stay in that foxhole. Bravery can be had/ known/ appreciated in many, many ways. The assignment is to learn bravery from the inside out. Not necessarily academically, that you can site examples of, but as a quality which seems to have its own substance, its color, its odor, its texture. Go forth bravely. If it didn't require bravery, what are you waiting for?
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<BR>Yes, well I've got to tell you I had a marvelous time last week at the psychic fair. Your spouse, Gerdean, was rather dumbfounded to find we showed up in such profusion and were so able to make real contact and impress upon the minds of those many listeners the joys of sonship in some manner or other that was a seed, a faint lesson of mota mindedness. It was our opinion that if these people were going to attend the psychic fair, they might as well hear something that would stick to their ribs, as it were. It was a fun adventure. I'm looking forward to what you can come up with next. Yes, I see you saying it did not require bravery, but you lie. Even now you are concerned about your peers' opinions. Be brave.
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<BR>And be creative!
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<BR>Well, it feels like a lull in the atmosphere. I'll let you go. Enjoy your evening. Bye!
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