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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Southern Colorado TeaM, #8<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Pueblo, Colorado<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Teacher:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><B>Sondjah Melchizedek</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>(TR, Daniel)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Topics:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Q&A:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Perspectives on
war<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN>Changing the paradigm<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN>Mother Earth as an energetic entity<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN>Reaching balance of Earth’s energy<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN><SPAN
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</SPAN>Changing weather patterns<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN>Group lessons<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN>Intention & sincerity<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Life styles in
the afterlife<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN><SPAN
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</SPAN>What is it like to live on a mansion world?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN><SPAN
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</SPAN>Parenting experience<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN><SPAN
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</SPAN>Seeing your own life in review<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN><SPAN
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</SPAN>Need for making decisions<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN>Associations with peers<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN><SPAN
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</SPAN>Overcoming challenges<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN><SPAN
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</SPAN>Successes & failures<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN>Whose children are in the nursery?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN><SPAN
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</SPAN>Why three children?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN>Empowerment in decision-making<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=5>September 25, 2004</FONT></H1>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">[NOTE and REMINDER from Daniel:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Our beloved transcriptionist cannot
share your questions when you do not speak loudly enough to be recorded.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So, please <I>speak more loudly</I> so
your questions get on the tape.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Thanks!]<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">SONDJAH:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Good afternoon, this is Sondjah.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It is good to be with you once more.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just as you note the increased vibration
and activity around you today, so too is your world’s vibration increasing.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The hunger for peace will evade many and
that is why it is so important for you to have moments of stillness, time for
stillness, and you will need this several times a week.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It would be good if you were able to
practice this daily.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>On your small
world of so many activities and so many difficulties, you will need to find a
space, make a space, make a time when you can be still and quiet.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Just as I am a Melchizedek Teacher on the Mansion
Worlds, and prepare the lessons for my classes, so too, you must prepare
yourselves, your lesson plans for your life so that your activities are
developed and fulfilled and these have a much better possibility of occurring
when you are still, when you are quiet.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You can be in-filled through the guidance of your Thought Adjuster, who
subtly whispers into your mind’s ear and guides you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The subtleties of guidance from on high
within you are very slight, undetectable.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Yet there is a constancy of eternity that resides within the center of
you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Know that it is always there,
that it is one with you, and desires a oneness with you that will eventuate in
fusion, oneness of being in [purpose] with you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be at peace.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Before we begin the lesson today, let us have a time
of questions, if you have questions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>[Late arrival.]<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let us take
a few moments for our new guest to become settled.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Pause.)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I had just opened the forum for
questions and provision for answers, if you have any
questions.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I would like to offer my thanks to Persephone for the information that
she brought to us last time.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It was
very informative and useful.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">SONDJAH:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>We are very pleased that it was useful for you and that you were able to
apply it.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>What is really happening in the world with all the wars and is there a
perspective way to look at it?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">SONDJAH:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>A way of looking at the wars is the last chest beating of archaic global
maneuvering.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We could add the
phrase “by men,” as it seems as though these activities are male driven, rather
than female driven.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It will not
develop quietly or easily—the methods, time, and the passage or transition for
the inclinations of the male gender to become subdued and familial and communal
in his orientation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These are
difficult times for your world, as your world is in transition, your genders are
in transition, your nations are in transition, the economies that are going
through a global upheaval.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
might call it progress, but it is the disintegration of the old patterns of
living, which will be reformed into new patterns of living.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Change is essential for a new paradigm, for a new
formation, for a new world in which you will live.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Change, even violent change, change that
is demonstrated against by those who want peace, is sometimes—not a
necessity—but a precursor for peaceful relations later, as it is always proven
that war does not make right and might does not make right.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Only peaceful agreements make right, and
all conflicts will end in peace, all conflicts will end in resolution to the
tensions one day, one week, one year, one decade or one century or longer,
later.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The inevitabilities of
destruction, of war, of global competition are apparent from our perspective,
but for those who have so much invested in the markets, in political forces,
power structures and alignments—peace is elusive; peace is not seen as a way of
improving your position.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet peace
will come.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">You have a phrase, which seems to make no sense to
us, “Peace will come at a cost.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>But truly, peace is free; it is war that is so costly.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The mindset of war-makers is much
different than those of peacemakers.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The new mindset must parallel and match the new gender alignments.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And when will it end?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When it is so readily apparent that it
is futile, when it is so readily apparent that it costs more than peace, and
that there is far more to lose through war and in war mongering and aggression,
than there is through peace.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank
you for your question.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The island off of Haiti that the English (?) call Turtle Island has
disappeared and 126,000 people…what happened?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">SONDJAH:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I have no answer for you.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>What is really going on with the…(inaudible).<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">SONDJAH:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>What is occurring here is apparent to you, yet it is occurring so much
all over the world.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is hard to
explain fully what our planet really is.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You call it Mother Earth, and Gaia—some of you recognize it as an entity
of its own, and truly it is.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
humans on this planet are puny in comparison to the planet, but you have
immense, immense energy—living energy with consciousness, consciousness and
will, where individuals can project their wrath or their peace, or their harmony
or their songs of joy, or their war chants—towards the world or towards others,
and it is very powerful.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What you
live on, Mother Earth, Urantia, is a planet of immense energetic inertia.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It does not respond rapidly to the
environments of consciousness, which are upon it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet when that energy is powerful and
directed, intentional, and ongoing, it is cumulative.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The energy of your species is affecting your
world.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your world is, yes, a
peaceful place, but as I said, it is a world, a planet, and an energetic entity
of great inertia.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your world is not
a personality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is not a
person.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is not a consciousness,
but it is a state of being.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is
an energetic entity —an evolutionary world that came into existence through the
developments of universe evolution.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>When I speak about Mother Earth, I am speaking about an energetic
entity—you could call it living, in that the energy has an ebb and flow, there
is a balance to it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is more
than a positive and negative—there is a flow.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And as the current returns, your world
is reclaiming her own.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I use that
pronoun—I do not mean a person or personality, but simply to identify your world
as a being, an energetic being.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This being is now coming back into balance; it is reclaiming her
own.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">As was told to you by other teachers, your world’s
population exceeds itself by half as much as it should be.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is twice the size of what it can
sustain nicely, comfortably, easily, where everyone prospers.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your question really is about an
energetic system, a world—even the population of this planet is a system, and it
is out of balance.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And it will
continue so until its size develops to the point where it will bring itself back
into balance.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>No, your world is not
a malicious, or malevolent place to live—in fact it is quite the opposite—it is
generous, it is bountiful, it is a good place to live, and the projections of
evil or harm or intention of hurting you through weather patterns, through
earthquakes, through the many things that occur on your planet, that affects you
as individuals, may be interpreted as harmful, but they are not so with
intention.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Your world is an environment of balance.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Building houses on low peninsulas is
hazardous, even in good times.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your
world has experienced a wonderful era in the last three centuries, where there
has been balance, abundance, sunshine in places where there is usually not good
weather, but wonderful conditions for prosperity, for development, for
growth—and yes, everyone—most everyone on your planet likes to or enjoys living
by the sea, the warm sunshine, cool breezes and plentiful fruit and produce—a
peaceful environment, idyllic in many ways and in some ways, a shadow of
paradise.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But it is fragile, and
you are fragile.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">When you build your houses on sand, shifting soil,
you can anticipate great problems.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And to continue to do so, even in the history of destruction, is at best,
foolish.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And as your old documents
say, build your houses on firm soil, upon rock, and build them strong and you
will prosper much longer.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What is
occurring in your world?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is
simply a balance.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You may be seeing
even worse weather in the future, as the great amount of heat that your
industries have poured into the atmosphere cause the shifting of cold to warm to
become more swift and violent.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This
is not the wrath of God this is simply a planet exercising its currents of
energy.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And in the end, there is
always balance.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Cold places become
warmer and the warm places become cooler and the process for doing that is the
shifting of currents of water in the ocean and the shifting of air currents in
the atmosphere.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And as you see
where hurricanes are spawned in the south Atlantic, they move northwesterly, and
this has always been so—sometimes more violent, and sometimes less so.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have enjoyed an extended era of
peace and good weather, and now you may experience an era of worsening
weather.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">This is most visible in a nation that has
telecommunications in an advanced state where news throughout the world is
dominated by those with the most money and the most visible technologically
developed cultures.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet there are
other cultures that are devastated equally and more so than your own, yet do not
receive the publicity that yours has, and their plight is as difficult, their
sorrow is as deep, and their deaths as real and as permanent.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And you all will wake up in my classroom
one day and I will greet you again.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I have heard that …(inaudible)… Saint Germaine, many, many years ago
created something called massara (spelling?).<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Do you know of this and if it’s true and
will come into reality?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">SONDJAH:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>There are numerous documentations of other theories or practices of
spirituality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Saint Germaine, while
I validate his existence and his cohorts as well, we do not make reference to
their documents or to their structures or their developments.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is not that we are ignoring it, as we
do not, but each strain of belief has its own, and you will find similarities
between different strains.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The more
truth that they contain, the more consistent you will find them to be.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I will not validate or disprove your
question.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Sondjah, is there something that you can tell us that we should know as a
group?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">SONDJAH:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Yes, certainly, there are actually several things to tell you as a
group.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>First of all is that you are
most beloved.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You as a group are
held in great esteem.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is not a
comparative description this is a description for your group.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are beloved as a group, and your
group is being prospered and individually your lives are finding new centers of
peace and prosperity and harmony.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>As a group, know that you are safe, and besides being loved, you are
protected and guarded.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And you, if
you listen well within yourself, you will know of things to come in your
life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is not a special thing
for your group, but I make this announcement to your group, so that you will be
aware of it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is an aspect of
the stillness, which many do not know of or are little aware of, but as you
become centered, you become more receptive to the quiet forces and vibrations
around you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Yes, it is a time for your Thought Adjuster to speak
to you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, it is a time for your
guardian to be with you and to whisper in your mind’s ear as well, about your
daily plans and the course of your life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Know too, that you are here for a purpose, and a reason.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You alone may know this; others may know
it as well, but you have drawn yourself to this group for a reason.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You may be here only one time, and that
would be sufficient to adjust your course in life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You may come many times, and never
adjust your life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are here for
a reason, and you are listening, and you are open.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are to be commended that you have
not closeted yourself in one sole belief system, but are open to be flexible to
many ideas.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Being open you are able
to listen more carefully to that which is around you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Know that you are being guided
individually in your life’s course.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Know too, that there is a purpose and meaning for your life, and these
must be worked out between yourself and your Thought Adjuster and your
guardian.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">For this region it is a particularly beneficial place
to live.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Many have been called to
the mountain states and many know the reason.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is not that others are not called,
for many have been called, only a few respond.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are glad you are
here.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>…(inaudible)…. My question is, does this technique of meditation
interfere with …(inaudible)…?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">SONDJAH:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>When in communion with spirit, when in communion with your Thought
Adjuster, your guardian, with the Creator, with Christ Michael, with Nebadonia,
myself—it is not so much your words that we hear, but your intention and the
measure of the sincerity in your heart and your commitment to your orientation,
to your intention.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These are
measurable to us.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These are readily
identifiable to us.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We see this in
your morontial persona, in your aura.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>These are registrations about your consciousness, which you project.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When you enter into stillness, examine
the reasons for doing so.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Examine
your commitment to your higher relationships, and your earthly
relationships.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ask yourself, “Why
am I doing this?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What is my
intention?” and “How sincere am I in my commitment?”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“Is it a matter of one out of a scale of
ten, ten being the best?”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“Or is it
a ten?”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For millennia, religionists
have continued to confuse their words with the intent and the commitment that is
within their heart.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This may
include those at the highest echelons in any religion, to the novice who enters
in.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Jesus spoke to adults becoming
as children.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He was speaking to
sincere commitment, authentic, genuine intention for personal benefit and for
the benefit of others.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is my
answer for your question about words.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Now, let us take a few moments of stillness before our lesson
begins.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>(Pause.)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Today I will speak to you about something [of which]
I am familiar, “Life Styles in the Afterlife.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What is it like to live as a morontial
being on morontial worlds?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What do
you do during your day, and what do you do during your “night?”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What do you do for activities, and what
do you do for recreation and rest?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>How do you live in the afterlife?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>What is it like? <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In a word,
it is very simple, and that is the primary attribute of the afterlife that you
will live, for your first several transitions.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I would like you to compare your
lifestyle now, to that of the afterlife.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>For those of you who have not raised three children from birth to
completion, to their departing from the family home, you will be introduced to
the nursery world.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will not
have to worry about changing diapers, and there are no changing tables.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>No, you will not be nursing your baby
either.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For you mothers who have
nursed children that may seem awfully different, unusual, even strange.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Caring for infants, you will see infants
as another being in potential.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This
is a very important lesson to learn, for you are all spiritual beings in
potential.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are all finaliters
in potential.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When you compare
parentage on Urantia to parentage on the nursery world, it is hoped that you
would have learned something that would carry over to you in the afterlife as
parents, as caregivers, those who take care of children in the nurseries.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But you are more than caregivers —you
are sources of nourishment, [and] you will learn the essentials of human
nourishment, mortal nourishment on those worlds.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">You will learn to accept this little bundle as a
grown up adult, a fused morontial being, who will eventually become that, if
they so choose.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What would you give
such a person to fulfill that potential?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And you would say, “love.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>But you will learn the components of love in great detail.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will learn patience, for they will
act as children, and they will have tantrums, and they will have ego
difficulties, and they will mirror you in many ways, for the nurseries are a
mirroring environment that reflect you and your state of being.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Now it is true that after your daily
term at the nursery, you may return to your domicile and say in so many words,
“Whew!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Wow.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m glad that’s done!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That was a tough day. Those little guys
were monsters today!”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>and they will
be.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And then, you will spend time
with other guardians—morontial guardians, as yourself (I am not talking about
angelic guardians right now,) and you will discuss your day.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will discuss the behavior of the
children and your reactions to that, and you will reflect upon those experiences
and you will ask yourself, “What is the wisdom to be gotten from today’s
activities?”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Fortunately, you have your own tutors, mentors, your
guardian [and] you have a full complement of advisory staff to assist you in
your own growth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Many of you bemoan
the fact that you have not three children [and] that you will have to go to the
nursery world, as though this were some form of punishment.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is a very unfortunate perspective
and attitude to have, for you in many ways will be much blessed with the rapid
and incredible growth that you will gain by dealing with these small souls,
these immature beings.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will
learn a lot from them and about yourself, and they will learn a lot from
you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will learn a lot about
service.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will learn a lot about
giving, and serving yourself, for in the end, if you do not serve yourself, you
cannot serve the Creator, for to serve yourself is to serve yourself with
growth, with the nourishment of growth and development that prepares you for
your next transition, to the next morontial body and state of being.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">When you are in the nurseries and you are conscious
of what is going on and why you are there, you can augment your growth rapidly,
so that you learn quickly.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, you
will be there through the duration of these children’s lives until they grow to
the time of separation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Though this
may seem like a long time, but I will let you in on a secret—you have all of
eternity, and there is no rush.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Yes, it might take twenty earth years or longer, but that is a small
amount of time in the infinite duration of your own ascendant career.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, you may go to the library—we will
call it a library—and reference your own history, review all the scenes and all
the people, and all the sounds, and voices and words and emotions—you will view
yourself as you were a child, and you will wonder, “Why did I ever act that
way?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What was wrong with me?”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Those are very good questions.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They will assist you in understanding
the children, and further, they will assist you in understanding how to be more
mature with the children, more mature in ways to help yourself.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">You will have an opportunity to see in your own life
review, how you were treated.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And
yes, you can review all these things with your mentor, your tutor, [and] your
guardian.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can ask questions of
scenes and situations that you had long forgotten about and understand why you
became who you became and what you became, and why you reacted as you did and
why you were so active or inactive in your mortal life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Further, this review will offer you an
opportunity to examine your present state of existence, to ask, “What do I need
to do to overcome this?”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well, from
a teacher’s perspective, it is to learn the lesson.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Some of you must learn them
experientially, and most of the training you will experience in your first
morontial experiences, lives, will be experiential.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When you can learn from others and have
an emotive reaction to that, then you are learning the lessons through other
people.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Vicarious learning is a lot
easier, yet it will not allow you the opportunity to make decisions when you are
faced with them.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Only experience
gives you that ability, and experience is the proof, the evidence of your growth
or your immaturity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">You cannot avoid making decisions.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And yes, you will have time with your
peers to discuss your decisions, those insurmountable moments in your morontial
life when you feel you do not have the resolve or the courage or the reserve, to
take the next step.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They will
exhort you to take it when you are ready, to make the step when you have the
resources to do it successfully.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And if you hold back too long, you can be assured that they will exhort
you to move on and get off your position and to grow.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>One of the saddest lifestyle situations
you will encounter is when you or one of your classmates is unable to move
ahead, but the class does move ahead, leaving them behind to participate with
the next class and to be out of sync with their own class’s
progression.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">You will associate with those of similar body types
and world types, as your own, so that you can feel acquainted and to get used to
the “strangeness” of others.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In the
universe, there are no aliens—they are all natives.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In the universe, you are all seen as
one, unique in every way, but each individual is one of potential.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It has been difficult for you to
understand on your world the reactions of others from other cultures, yet to us
you all look alike.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And you will
have an opportunity in the morontial worlds to associate, come to know, all of
the cultures on your world, intimately, and to feel a oneness with them.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And soon, your sphere of acquaintances
will enlarge to include those of other planets and other types of planets, and
other types of mortals, those who came from other worlds who are now in the
morontial form as you are.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Before too long, you will be saying, “We are all in
this together.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are all going to
the same location, the same place, [with] the same status.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are all the same.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And it is up to you to become
acquainted, to participate.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you
are shy and receding and reclusive here, those tendencies will remain, and they
will be there as a challenge for you to overcome.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I hope that through this discourse
today, you have begun to feel the presence of others around you in the
morontial, a new status.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you are
able to visualize others around you, and ask them, “How is your day going?” and
yes, you will ask them that—“How’s it going?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Tell me about your successes.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Here, as you meet others in the grocery
store, “How are you today?”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“Oh,
I’m feeling miserable.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m feeling
bad[ly], I just lost my job, foreclosed on the house [and] the kids are
sick.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will say, “How’s your
progress; how’s your journey?”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Of
course they will know exactly what you mean, and they will tell you about their
successes.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And then you will ask
them about their challenges:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“What
have you had to work on lately?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I
want to learn from you, how you overcame those challenges.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">You see the way of living there is not about
suffering together, it is about succeeding together.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The service factor is always existent in
the morontial realm.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will
always have the possibility, the opportunities to be teachers and students, and
to serve.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is no competition
between you and the person in the next domicile, there is a sharing.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And is there TV?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We would call it that—it is the
broadcast you can tune into parts of the universe in a broadcast, and you will
find that almost all that exists and all that occurs in the afterlife and the
morontial realm, is oriented towards growth, towards learning, of you moving
ahead, moving up, moving in.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">You will revel in successes —you will be dismayed by
failures.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And you will be much like
Job, on occasions when you live out your disappointments, for there will be
disappointments.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are not
perfect —anticipate that there will be disappointments, and [that] those are
already planned for.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can
forestall those disappointments by inquiring within yourself, inquiring with
your mentor, your tutor and your guardian.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>“What do I need to work on?”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>“What is hidden from me that I do not see?”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“Where can I grow?”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And they will disclose to you, as you
need to, in the way that you need to hear, at the time that you need to hear,
and they may say, “Well, after you are back from your holiday, from your time
off, from your travels away, your vacation—why don’t we talk about it
then?”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In the meantime, as you are
away enjoying yourself, you will have some ideas yourself, won’t you, for you
have asked the question and your Thought Adjuster will assist you in coming to
understand yourself more clearly.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">What I find most heartening to tell you today is that
there are no secrets about the curriculum.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The master quiz that you will get will be accompanied with the answer
book.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is not a situation of “we
know and you don’t,” because we want you to know.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We want you to know all that we know,
and with the capacity, and the confidence to make decisions that prove
that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you ask a question, you
will receive answers.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And if you
are forestalled in hearing an answer, ask another question:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“What do I need to learn before you are
able to tell me the answer to my question?”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And you will be
told.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">You live in a developmental, progressive—yes,
evolutionary—environment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are
evolving yourself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is our job,
our pleasure and our service to assist you to do that.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You, who struggle so hard on this
planet, cannot imagine—and if you cannot imagine, then you cannot appreciate in
advance, the life that you will have.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The regimen for your life into infinity will be one-third work, one-third
study and one-third rest and recreation —always learning—and no dirty
laundry!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A free bus system, all you
need to use it is permission.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
can go anywhere that you want to, where you have permission.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are not encouraging you to join the
afterlife early, however.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have
very important mortal, material lessons to learn on this planet.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When you begin to appreciate where you
live and the lessons you learn, the clarity of your life will become much more
explicit.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And with that, we will
leave that for another lesson.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In
closing, we ask if you have any questions relating to today’s lesson?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>these children that you talk about, whose children are they in the
nursery?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">SONDJAH:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>They are the aborted fetuses, they are the children born at stillbirth,
they are the children who died before they are able to make moral judgments,
those who are without parents, [and] those who have not known how to be
children.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The status of children is
much broader for us than it is in your definition.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We define "children" as those who did
not, were not, able to enjoy the environment of a loving, helpful family.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Some of you who came from abusive,
neglectful families will also revisit the nurseries, not so much as service that
is obligatory, but as service that is necessary for your own growth, your own
maturity to learn those early life lessons that come with nurturing fragile
beings into a full life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Does this
answer your question?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Yes, and then you made a reference that if you didn’t have three
children….um…<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">SONDJAH:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>That provides an experiential base for passing out of a class without
having to take the exam.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Lessons of
parenthood are not necessarily learned from raising one child.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Raising two children in a family creates
a much different dynamic between the siblings, and three changes the equation
even more greatly.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To parent three
children successfully—and successfully does not mean that you are responsible
for their decisions that they make, their moral decisions that they make for
their lives—but to successfully parent three children into early adulthood is
significant.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is a major
accomplishment, nothing to be dismissed as insignificant, for in those struggles
of parentage you also must relive your life as a child.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And to give when it is necessary to
give, and withhold when it is necessary to withhold —even when you feel that you
cannot do so and it breaks your heart to do so.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The three is not an arbitrary number,
but a significant number based upon the potential experiences that you [could]
learn as a parent with [that] number of children.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The reference is from <I>The Urantia
Book</I>, [and] there are other references in other religions which speak to a
family number as being optimum for learning experiences as a growing
soul.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Can I ask a personal question?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>(Sondjah:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I can say
no…)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Okay.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(So ask.)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have a seven-year-old granddaughter
who is very intelligent and getting in a lot of trouble at school.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is there anything I can do, not living
near her, to help her?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">SONDJAH:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Yes, you can pray for her.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>(Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I do that
already.)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can project peaceful
environments in your thinking to her.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You can project peaceful activities for her to participate in.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>She is bored and she is resentful of not
being engaged that empowers her and her potential.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can do much to encourage those
around her to assist her and to have her evaluated, perhaps placed in more
appropriate environments.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These are
only a partial list of suggestions.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Thank you, I do think she is particularly bored.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I have a question on parenting.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Probably I am not the only one who
has…(inaudible)….<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">SONDJAH:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Yes, strive to empower them to make decisions for themselves, not to
abandon them in the decision making process, but to engage them in evaluating
their situation, advising them of more options for thinking, more options for
action, than they speak to, and encourage them to make a decision and state
their reasons why they wish to make that decision.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then of course, you must share your own
acceptance or non-acceptance, and the reasons for doing so, and then let them
decide to carry that out.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
parentage which we speak to, is to empower capable souls to grow into their
adult selves early, it is not to abandon them, it is not to give them more
resources than they can manage or handle, it is not to withhold them because
they must go through the rigors that you perhaps went through, but to empower
them to make decisions with full knowledge of the consequences of their
decisions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They will eventually be
in that situation on their own.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>They might as well—and should be guided—to learn those skills early,
while their mistakes can be padded through their parents’ presence.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Yes, I see some of you some day, one day in the long
duration of your careers, returning to your former worlds of learning and
returning and thanking us for the lessons that you learned.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And we in turn will congratulate you for
the lessons that you learned on your own, through our assistance.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Life will be so much easier, so much
more of an adventure with consistent challenge at the levels of your competency
in the afterlife.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will have the
resources you need, the counsel you need, the time you need to make right
decisions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Do not rush your life in
these material days, but give yourselves space to make decisions, to make
successes, to make mistakes and learn from your mistakes, for they are as
fruitful—they simply say, “not this way.”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Blessings to you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It has been a pleasure to be with you
today.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good
day.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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