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<p>July 25, 2004</p>
<p>Ham: Greetings, children, I am Ham and I am grateful to have this
time with you. This evening let us discuss wisdom once again. Each of
you is growing in the spirit and attaining new levels of spiritual
insight. And, as you find insight, so too must you find self-control in
equal measure. Wisdom is largely a measure of the balance of those two.
Both spiritual insight and the self-control to use it effectively
combine together in a wise human being. </p>
<p>Neither knowledge nor cleverness can be substituted for wisdom.
Where knowledge denotes an awareness of the outer world, wisdom denotes
an awareness of the inner world. Know yourselves in order that wisdom
may begin to take form in your souls. Know yourselves, and you will
understand humanity as a whole. </p>
<p>Wisdom comes through the real appreciation of life experience.
Wisdom grows through self-reflection and through the sincere
endeavoring to understand another fully and completely. Wisdom comes
often with spiritual growth, but it is not necessarily directly
correlated. Wisdom requires mental discipline and wisdom is not
complete without virtue as its corollary. </p>
<p>As in the parable of the sower when a seed lands in poor soil
sprouts up high and tall then dies for lack of root support, so to can
spiritual growth momentarily outpace one’s overall personality
unification. With unification, wisdom, virtue, and spiritual insight
are balanced. With this balance there is no limit to your growth but
all must keep pace and all must remain balanced together for your
growth to be steady and strong. Spiritual insight, alone, without these
counter balances of virtue and wise self-control soon veers into
fanaticism. </p>
<p>You, my friends, have avoided this fate by taking each step slowly,
by remaining open to group wisdom, and by working hard in every day
life and remaining grounded in the world as it is. It is important to
resist the urge to isolate when undergoing spiritual work. Meditation
should be balanced with social interaction. Your lives should be
allowed rest and relaxation as well as work and effort. You must have
time for reflection as well as time for self-assertion in the work
place. It is very important for all of you to have a day here and a day
there devoted to self-reflection, prayer, and meditation, rest and
relaxation. For your days are often filled with work and worry, stress
and pressure. Even your vacations become planned events and can be a
source of added pressure rather than a time of rest. </p>
<p>You may need to consciously set some time aside when you can rest
without guilt, when you can reflect without worry. Only by being
increasingly aware of the need for balance can wisdom ripen and become
a fruit of the spirit, a gift to others. </p>
<p>Each of you is gradually becoming more wise as time goes by. In your
lives and in your hearts, all things are truly becoming new. You have
all been through a process of shedding the past. You have all been
through a process of accepting yourselves and now you must realize how
wisdom can be part of your life experience. Recognize this within
yourselves. You each have a strong anchor in spiritual wisdom. </p>
<p>This anchor to reality will prevent the unfortunate veering into the
fanatical that has so plagued this world whenever human beings have
been contacted in the past. You are proving how spiritual contact to
higher realities can be accomplished safely, solidly, and over a
lengthy period of time. This, my friends, is a great step forward and
this working relationship you have each developed with those of us who
are further progressed will prove to be a great blessing for mankind as
a whole. </p>
<p>Reach new levels of wisdom, my friends. You are truly examples of
the next step in religious development for your world. You are proving
that ever more advanced teachings can be safely transmitted with
relative clarity and without the unfortunate side effects we have so
often seen in the past. Rejoice then and be exceedingly glad for you
are truly spiritual pioneers and you are truly blazing a trail that
others will follow, even hundreds of years from now. </p>
<p>What are your questions?</p>
<p> </p>
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<p>Q: Do you have anything for Rebecca?</p>
<p>Ham: Certainly, my dear, you are growing daily in wisdom and
balance. As your balance increases, so will wisdom. You have an
unquestioned devotion to truth. Wisdom is more than love of truth.
Wisdom is putting oneself in the supreme service of truth. Gradually,
all the facets of the personality become mobilized and nothing is
holding you back. Recognize that this is so, that there is nothing
holding you back. Then rejoice, and be exceedingly glad for your work
is just beginning and you will have wisdom growing up within you to
handle every circumstance. </p>
<p>Q: Jarad?</p>
<p>Ham: Yes, my son, you are also now strong enough to court wisdom.
Many years you spent in the company of knowledge or cleverness or skill
only visiting wisdom sporadically. But, now you have within you the
strength to unify your personality in such a way that wisdom is second
nature and balance comes more easily. Every day you are opening your
heart to greater levels of love and unification. Love is that power
which allows all things to be transformed. Continue then to embrace
love in all its levels and dimensions. Grow increasingly secure as you
grow in love. </p>
<p>Q: Yes Ham, do you have any advice or answers concerning this
constant nausea and head aches I am experiencing? </p>
<p>Ham: My son, this is indeed unfortunate. It could be the result of
something caused by drug interaction or the left overs of drug
interaction. Sometimes this can be a delayed reaction in the body from
a cause from months ago. It is perhaps also a sign that the liver is
healing and is giving off some chemical resulting from this process. In
other words, the liver is throwing off toxins and beginning to function
more normally as a result. In other words, we see this as something
more as a positive sign than a negative one. Continue to rest and allow
your body to go through this process. Your diet is also improving. Be
conscious to eat fairly lightly, by that I mean fruits, vegetables,
nuts, grains with a lower consumption of meats. In other words, give
your body the least problems as far as digestion and having to
metabolize foods as you can. Overall, we see much improvement. Be at
peace my son, you are doing well. </p>
<p>Q: Do you have a message for me this week?</p>
<p>Ham: Yes my dear. You are doing very well and we are very pleased to
see your progress continue at such a rapid pace. Be careful not to push
yourself too hard. You have a habit of pushing yourself toward what you
might consider productive activities. But right now, you need
reflection time and rest as well. Psychological and spiritual healing
takes every bit as much energy as physical healing. You must sometimes
just sit back and allow your unconscious mind its work. You don’t have
to figure everything out in the conscious mind for their to be healing
taking place. Relax my dear, for you are doing very well. </p>
<p>Q: Do you have any counsel for me tonight Ham?</p>
<p>Ham: Of course my son. You are also achieving ever greater levels of
balance and ease. As you have grown in self-acceptance, so have you
grown in comfort, peace, and spiritual security. As your spiritual
security increases, so too will your material security. The spiritual
life is like the template. It is the corner stone upon which all else
is built. As you grow in spiritual stability, so too will your out life
stabilize and settle down. Realize and recognize that you will have
just what you need, when you need it so long as your spiritual purpose
remains true. Look neither to the left nor the right, but focus upon
each day’s work and each day’s struggle one day at a time. Allow your
overall course to be set by the Master. Trust increasingly in his
guidance for you are doing very well. </p>
<p>Q: Yes Ham, could I please have some counsel?</p>
<p>Ham: Yes my son, you are doing well. You are also beginning to see
your glass as half full rather than always as half empty. You are
wisely taking stock of your blessings as well as your troubles and you
are growing in an inner peace and gratitude, a feeling of joy and
abundance within so that you are beginning to recognize the eternal
mercy inherent in every human condition. All is well. You are finding
the value of self-reflection and that this cannot be skirted or
substituted. You are finding that in reality you are not trapped in any
way nor are you saddled with anything you do not desire to carry. The
Father’s gift of freedom is profound and intense. Be at peace my son.
You are doing well. </p>
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<p>Q: Bob wants to know if you have any counsel concerning his new
roommates.</p>
<p>Ham: Of course. My son the Father brings you into contact with
others for many reasons. These lessons are not always immediately
apparent. But what human beings learn through and from each other
cannot be substituted or learned in any other way. Simply give thanks
for what they can teach you and be a humble conduit for the Father’s
love to them. You are doing just fine my son. Be at peace.</p>
<p>Q: From Marije: I would like to ask for a personal message on this
special Day of events.</p>
<p>Ham: My dear, you do very well. You are a great joy and a blessing
to many people. Continue opening your heart to loving acceptance of
all. Know that the Father works within you and do not worry about what
you should do or say for when the time comes, he will give you the
words. </p>
<p>Q: Marije's friend Tessa is wondering what kind of job she should
choose to serve the world, but that also fits her personality and her
spiritual path. Ham, could you please give some insight?</p>
<p>Ham: My dear, it is not so important what work you should choose for
all work is valuable. What is important is choosing always the Father’s
will over that of your own needs or imagined needs. Gradually over time
as you become more and more your true self, as you bloom in the spirit
and bear the fruits of the spirit, your work will come to reflect your
greater spiritual self. Do not be in a hurry for the growth of the
spirit is the work of a lifetime. Simply pray that all parts of this
path reflect the Father’s will for you and you will be fine. </p>
<p>Q: Jennings wants to know if you have any counsel concerning the
dream he had the other night and if he could have a private session
regarding this. </p>
<p>Ham: My son, I cannot discuss the specific symbolism in dreams for
dreams are always highly personal. Vivid, profound, life changing
dreams are often a way for the though adjuster to sound an alarm and to
make conscious some unconscious things that are not being dealt with.
Sometimes it is through the most profound fears that the most profound
healings can occur. You my son are going through some spiritual changes
that cannot be simply dealt with in a perfunctory manner. Take your
time. Gradually begin to sort out the meaning of the dream and its own
personal peculiarities. Think about what it means to you, how you felt
at each stage of the dream, what were your emotional reactions? You
will be able to work through this. Have patience with yourself. But no,
it does not require a session to discuss it. </p>
<p>Q: Do you have a personal message for Charlie B?</p>
<p>Ham: Yes, of course my son. You must also continue to emphasize
patience for wisdom is not acquired overnight and a spiritual journey
is only accomplished over a period of time. Whenever you are tempted to
feel yourself superior or out ahead of your fellows, something will
come along to bring you back to earth and this is as it should be. Walk
each step humbly with your hand firmly in the Master’s hand. Focus on
the step ahead of you and let the future steps take care of themselves.
</p>
<p>Q: Do you have any feedback for me this week?</p>
<p>Ham: Yes of course. As always, you are doing well. Have courage as
you move forward. Do not worry where you have been nor where you are
going. Rather, find a peaceful and serene calm in the now. Work but
rest. Reflect and play. Balance your energies and things will be much
easier to tackle. Allow yourself the time to truly appreciate your
blessings. Ponder the thought of if this were my last day, would it
have been well spent? Tell those you love how much you love them and
appreciate them in your life. Allow yourself to take stock of your life
and to give yourself a pat on the back and a well done. This is
something you don’t do enough of. So give thanks for the blessings that
surround you. Thank the Father for his steady guidance and unending
love. You are doing well my friend, be at peace. </p>
<p>Are there any further questions at this time? Very well then, until
next week, as always, my love and prayers are with you each. Farewell. </p>
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Associate Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology
Vanderbilt University
301 Wilson Hall
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Phone: (615)322-7800
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