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<p>Ham 7-4-04</p>
<p>Ham: Greetings my friends, I am Ham and I welcome you each this
evening.</p>
<p>All of your efforts to make spiritual progress do truly bear fruit
eventually. Sometimes the immature mind is impatient and wants to see
immediate, spectacular results. The way of the spirit is the way of
natural growth and time is required in between the time of decision and
the eventual flowering and fruit resulting from that decision. </p>
<p>Staying with this gradual program of spiritual lessons, implementing
them in your lives and the gradual results which come about in years,
rather than days, is a testament to your dedication to truth and the
spirit. It is human nature to be discouraged. It is human nature to be
put off by the effort required when so many other enticements abound.
But you my friend have set yourselves upon the spiritual path with a
quiet determination and a steadiness of focus.</p>
<p>Each of you has certainly experienced the flowering and fruiting
stages of the spirit. You are gradually becoming aware that you have
more and more to offer others in terms of this fruit. Furthermore, you
are each beginning to pull in the wisdom that comes from experience and
you are truly achieving greater and greater spiritual status through
the tests of time. Increasingly you are growing steadily more confident
and more at peace with yourselves.</p>
<p>Certainly you are each experiencing a gradual reduction of fear and
this can be said to be a measure of growth. As you grow in the spirit,
fear will lessen and love will replace it. This love for your fellows
is also a measure of your growth. The less you love the more you fear.
The less you fear the more you love. The two go together. Oftentimes
when you find yourself not loving someone it is because they
unwittingly trigger some inner fear. You can experience this reaction
as a personal disliking, but it is fear.</p>
<p>Hatred and fear are two sides of the same coin, like the Master
said. Hatred is simply a mask of fear. You my children are experiencing
and helping to create a world order with its basis in love. You are
attempting to make service and love the basis of your social order. And
this is truly part of the flowering and fruit of the Master’s message.
The freedom from fear is the goal of the Christian life. To be entirely
dominated by love and motivated by love is the essence of the Master’s
gift to your world. </p>
<p>Freedom and equality can only come into existence where there is
loving trust among the people. Even now fear is the primary motivating
force throughout much of the world. It is the basis upon which all
authoritarian systems are constructed. Replacing fear with love is the
cause of your generation and your country. Truly on this your
independence day is a time to reflect on your heritage and to find
there inspiration for your future. As you citizenry plots the course
your nation will take, it is best to trust each other and to refrain
from the sowing of distrust, for the basis of your republic is the
trust in its citizens. </p>
<p>Each of you in your lives has experienced a great deal of turmoil
and change, and it is your own steady hands that will guide your
country’s future. My little children, though you may disagree over one
thing or another you must never be tempted to lose trust in your fellow
citizens. Always must you defer to the common wisdom and accept victory
or defeat with grace and calm. This great step forward in human
achievement will continue to bestow its blessings for many generations.
Human freedom, in increasing measure, is what will prepare the way for
entry into light and life. Your world cannot enter light and life half
free and half enslaved to authoritarian systems. </p>
<p>All the world must eventually embrace free self-governing systems
and religion must be an inspiration and a guide. When love is the
dominant motivation for all human society, culture, prosperity and
progress will truly bloom. The Master truly came to free the spiritual
chains and his spirit is still working for that end. Love is the most
powerful force on earth. Love will not be defeated by the forces of
fear and of hatred. Truly you are helping to bring the Master’s world
into the Master’s fold within the universe. As you work and worry, as
you have success and defeat, as you strain against seemingly
unsurmountable odds and obstacles, know that love will make for you a
pathway. And know that you will find the very best way forward for the
Master’s spirit is leading you and showing you where to put your feet.
You are an example not just for this world, but for many, for you dare
to believe in his promise. You dare to gamble it all on the promise of
love not just once but many times. </p>
<p>The Master’s spirit will guide this country forward, as you fulfill
the promise of its founding and as you trust in his good guidance for
each step along the way. Deepen your faith my friends. Deepen your
trust in God and trust in your neighbors. Deepen your love of God and
your love of your neighbors. Have peace in your hearts.</p>
<p>Q: Rebecca?</p>
<p>Ham: My daughter you are doing very well. You are growing in the
spirit every day and so you are finding ever greater courage and
confidence for your task. You have always shown great courage my dear
and we are very happy with your progress and your work. Have faith
moving forward for at each step along the way you will have what you
need.</p>
<p>Q: Jarad?</p>
<p>Ham: Yes my son. You are also being carried forward and you are
learning to relax and to enjoy the process much more than you have
before. You are learning to trust the angels and to release anxiety and
concern. Have peace my son for you are doing very well.</p>
<p>Q: Some counsel please?</p>
<p>Ham: Of course my son. My son you do well. You have peace and a
measure of contentment now that has alluded you all your life.
Gradually, you are slowing down and you are beginning to plant your
feet more solidly in reality and its slow movement, rather than fleeing
into fantasy and its instant gratification. Grounding yourself in the
now time through meditation and quiet reflection is very important for
you. It is also advised that you begin to give prayers of thanksgiving
more consistently so that you are more grounded in reality and what is
good in the now. My son, you are continually beginning to experience
greater measures of love. Allow yourself full surrender to this love.
You are doing very well.</p>
<p>Q: Counsel for me tonight?</p>
<p>Ham: Yes my son. You are also doing well. Have tranquility and
gratitude together in your heart. Little by little the old fears are
dissolving into the background as you find greater and greater measures
of love and wonder in your life. Gradually it is beginning to dawn on
you that like the prodigal son the father has prepared a banquet upon
your return. You have thought of yourself as one of the Master’s black
sheep, but this is not so. You are coming now to see yourself as fully
welcomed, as fully accepted, as fully embraced, not only by the spirit
but by his other children as well. Gradually as your sonship sinks in
you will feel ever more at home in this world and society. You are
making the transition in your mind as a person on the fringes to one in
the center, from someone looking in the window to the honored guest at
the party. This reorientation is a blessing for you. Continue to make
this spiritual change and the way will open for you. Continue to be
immersed in the living water and you will be a source of refreshment
for all. The Master said many time "I am the vine and you are my
branches." Come to see yourself as a visible representative of that
which is invisible. Be true to your inner most self and you are true
then to the Master, true to the vine.</p>
<p>Q: Personal message for Marije.</p>
<p>Ham: Yes my dear, you are doing very well. It is wonderful to see
motherhood blooming so beautifully. You are doing just fine in the
spirit and you and your husband will continue to grow closer as you
experience the greatest of human joy and fulfillment, the raising of
your children. Don’t worry my dear but continue to grow in love and
continue to forge the greatest of human partnership through good times
and bad. For it is all part of your spiritual journey.</p>
<p>Q: Personal message for Norbert.</p>
<p>Ham: Yes my son. Gradually you are growing in faith and you are
coming into greater awareness of love as time goes by. Love your
brethren even those who create hardship and trouble for you. Loving
human beings in spite of their human tendencies is the great gift of
Christ Michael. Follow him and you will never be lost.</p>
<p>Q: Virginia Kelly asks about her swollen, tingling hands.</p>
<p>Ham: It is advised that you should take up exercise to strengthen
the heart. A regular walk for thirty minutes or so a day will much to
increase your circulation and decrease swelling in the extremities. It
is time for you to make your health a priority and so regular exercise
is an essential step. This is not a serious problem yet, but it will
develop without steps to correct it. The Master is with you my dear.
Let him help you in this effort. You are doing very well.</p>
<p>Q: Anything for me?</p>
<p>Ham: Of course my dear. You are truly making wonderful progress. You
are finding the way to be easier and also somewhat harder than you had
imagined. The important thing is your dedication to moving forward. Yes
it is wise to work on therapeutic writing, this will be a great help.
You will have all you need moving forward my dear. Have faith and trust
in the Master. He is there for you at all times. Trust in him and all
is well.</p>
<p>My love and prayers are with you each, farewell.</p>
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David G. Schlundt, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology
Vanderbilt University
301 Wilson Hall
Nashville, TN 37203
Phone: (615)322-7800
Fax: (615) 343-8449
Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:David.Schlundt@Vanderbilt.edu">David.Schlundt@Vanderbilt.edu</a>
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To science God is a possibility, to psychology
a desirability, to philosopy a probability, to
religion a certainty, an actuality of religious
experience
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