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<DIV>Dear Folks, Forgive the excuses but this time it was not
a computer virus but my own to get over--the computer snag was/still is in the
difficult migration--or so it's called--from XP to VISTA, not quite worked out
yet. Special thanks, as always, to Charlie Hicks for transcribing the
first part so I could get it out right away. Jerry.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Michael—</SPAN><st1:date Month="9" Day="10"
Year="2007"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">September 10,
2007</SPAN></st1:date><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Marin TM Group—</SPAN><st1:place><st1:City><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Mill Valley</SPAN></st1:City><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">, </SPAN><st1:State><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">California</SPAN></st1:State></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">—</SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">U.S.</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> A.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT
size=3>MICHAEL—T/R-JL<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(God’s gift of
life)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(The choice of eternal
life)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(God’s mystery, love, and respect)
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Forgiveness, that does so
much)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Live consciously in the present)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(God’s point of view, your point of
view)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Your potential is a pure
gift)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Finding your own
voice)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Dear Michael and Mother Spirit,<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Welcome to your
home-away-from-home with us--actually within us, from where your words of
inspiration and insight emanate. Thank you for your help in our understanding
the impulsive nature of bad habits, and how these unwanted impulses that come
will pass and fade away in time, in the face of our determination to find a
better use of our time. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We do
appreciate your willingness to tell it like it is, and lay the truth on the line
for us. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s a very direct
manifestation, or proof--if you will, of your love for us. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It encourages us to be the same kind of
good friend to those we love as well. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So thank you very much. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Amen.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL: <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good evening.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is Michael, Creator Son of God and
the Eternal Son, Father Spirit of the local universe of Nebadon.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But as a one-time human being like you,
my children, I tell you this is great. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is truly great to be with you, for as
you parents know, and those of you without children can imagine, there is
nothing like being with those to whom you have passed on life. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To have passed on this marvelous
gift from those who have gone before you, and then to hold your own children in
your arms, is the living proof of the continuity of life itself.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It brings you face to face with the
marvelous humility of acknowledging we are but carriers of the life of God, who
originated it in the beginning.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(God’s gift of life)
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>We are truly His children above all,
and we can say with assurance, with confidence in His goodness: this is the way
it should be--even though it may not always be the way it is--this love between
parent and child, between the person who bequeaths life to the one who receives
it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the story of generations, and not
only of humans. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Expand your
imaginations and consider for a while the passing of the lamp of life as it has
been going on for hundreds of billions of years. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>It is interesting to us the way your
scientists trace everything back to a Big Bang about thirteen or fourteen
billion years ago.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They have their
own somewhat limited evidence for doing so, and they will revise their theories
soon enough, but here we come telling you that life has been passed on for
hundreds of billions of years to many millions of inhabited worlds just in our
Local Universe alone.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Tonight I would like you to imagine and
feel, if you can, this enormity of the living universe, and not only of your
human type of life, my children, but think of the fantastic variety of living
creatures just on your own planet.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Then multiply this by millions upon millions of living worlds, every
single one somewhat unique in its life development. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You live in a veritable sea of cosmically
evolving life. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>We’ve mentioned how extremely,
extremely rare it is for a planet such as Urantia to be isolated, to be cut off
from the universal broadcasts that intimately tie all this life together,
instantaneously, across the vast light-years of distance between these living
spheres. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In terms of age, Urantia
is long past the stage where most worlds are connected to the universal
broadcasts. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Indeed, in your own
planetary history it is just so recently--I’m talking only a few decades--that
your international, world-wide telecommunications have been set up to where you
can nonchalantly tune in within minutes to places all over the globe.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Now extrapolate this, my children, to
our whole Local Universe of nearly four million worlds.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Imagine these inhabited worlds that
comprise it being linked so instantaneously across these vast spaces, in time
and other dimensions far, far beyond your imagination, communicating and sharing
their life in ways only vaguely approached in your wildest science fiction.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Just let it blow your minds, my
children.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Rest secure for a moment,
in your imagination, and imagine as you sit here hearing me, or reading these
words, all this is actually going on out there. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>While your scientists eagerly look for
evidence of even planetary existence elsewhere, let your imagination people your
night sky with life. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All the while,
let your souls--fed by the presence of God within you--reassure you of the truth
of what we say.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We say those
star-studded expanses out there are teeming with
life.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(The choice of eternal
life)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>This should help you get over some of
your parochial attitudes. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(chuckles
all around) <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet at the same time
don’t feel like you personally are lost in some strange neighborhood of a vast
city for all the estrangement and isolation of Urantia. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We have assured you, however it may seem
a contradiction, that while your world was deliberately spiritually quarantined
several hundred thousand years ago, this fact has not interfered with the
eternal destiny of a single human being. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Every person who has ever lived on your
world has had a clear and distinct, unequivocal choice of eternal life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>No being subordinate to me, such as
Lucifer or Caligastia, for all their megalomaniacal notions of being in control,
ever had the power to cause a single human being to miss that
choice.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>This is the life that came before you,
that preceded you by hundreds of billions of years all across our galaxy and six
other Super Universes, going back to the very beginning of the time/space
realms. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We’ve informed you of a
universal cosmic expansion and evolution of not only sun systems and material
worlds--all the stuff being presently created out there, but the personal beings
as well. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the true story of
the Supreme Being, that evolving aspect of God the Father who is the soul of
time and space, the repository of all the personal experience of all these
personal beings: to a human being—an infinity of infinities.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Yet here you are, taking your next
breath, feeling your next thought, hopefully realizing your completeness moment
to moment, realizing the tenacity of the profound reality of this life you have,
coming down all these billions of years to you right now.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Each moment adds to all that has gone
before something new, something that has never happened before.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the marvel of God’s creation,
the unfathomable and ungraspable nature of His infinity and His absoluteness of
perfection.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(God’s mystery, love, and respect)
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>This is what constitutes Him mystery,
not that He is hiding away somewhere.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Rather, He is right in front of you, my children, jumping up and down,
waving His arms with a universe.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Realize further this is a universe that He did not even directly create
Himself, but created all the living personal beings—the Architects of the Master
Universe, the Primary Eventuated Master Force Organizers, the Creator Sons and
Daughters, etc--who did, just to share His primal creativity with others.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>He is right inside you, right now.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Here inside, He’s not jumping up
and down and waving His arms, but--in a way--being your servant, acquiescing to
your will, honoring your choices, even His suggestions subject to your paying
attention and welcoming them.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This
is the value and the respect with which He considers you. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is what makes us all His children,
and gives us the prime example of how to relate with each other--with love and
respect, and with the wonder that each of us is unique by His creative power
alone.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>This is what you are all a part of, my
children, as well as me.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Isn’t it great? <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Isn’t it
great to be mothers, and fathers, and children, of such a Father? <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is our worship this
evening.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Do you have any questions or comments?
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I certainly do enjoy them as
well.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It lets me play my
part.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Father Michael, forgiveness has been on
mind the last few days. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m
wondering, how I can forgive myself, and others?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And how do I know when I’ve actually
done it? <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How do I know that I’ve
really forgiven somebody for something I think they did, or actually did; and
also myself? <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How do I forgive
myself for the things I’ve done and things I’ve not
done?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Forgiveness, that does so
much))<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, my son, this is at the heart of
what you call attitude, is it not?--how you relate to yourself and to
others?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Forgiveness is not always a
one time thing: sometimes it is a continuous process, for the quality of the
forgiveness changes the nature of the forgiven. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When you forgive yourself or someone
else, it changes you or them in your mind. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>It’s hard to talk about this
comprehensively because it is so many-faceted, how you or others change with
forgiveness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But with respect to
you, there’s a quality of recognition, an acute ability to put things into
proportion. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To forgive yourself is
to put back into proportion with the whole rest of your life that which you are
forgiving, that was temporarily way out of proportion. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You know it works when you can see
this.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The forgiven act or omission
no longer sticks out, as you say, like a sore thumb.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The forgiven act no longer has you;
you’ve risen above it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Now you can
see it in proportion to its causes and effects. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You know you’ve forgiven yourself by the
fact of understanding yourself: to understand clearly is to forgive. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are clearer now as to what came
about, and why, and what the results were.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And so, much of the fear, or contempt, or anger, or even loathing and
despising of oneself is gone. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Often it’s creatively breaking out of
an all-too-hasty re-action on a solely mental/physical level--what you call a
knee-jerk reaction, by truly acting, by rising to a spiritual level.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are simultaneously deriving a great
spiritual value out of this forgiveness. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s recognizing the spiritual aspect of
your soul that is so unbelievably and profoundly unaffected by what you’ve done
or failed to do. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are no longer
fragmented by some unforgivable act or omission, separated into before and
after. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Now you are continuous right
through by this act of forgiveness. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are whole again, perhaps even more
whole than before, than ever before, for what you’ve learned and now understand
about life. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Now you are complete, my son, you have
this incident well within you, no longer denied, put off, rationalized, or made
excuses for. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’ve forgiven and
accepted another part of your true story.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Now you have it; it no longer has you. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is usually accompanied by feelings
of relief and openness, and a desire to get on with your life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s over: it’s done with: it’s past.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can strike out in a new
direction. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are no longer
tethered like some poor animal to a stake, endlessly revolving about something
unforgiven that had you fixed in place.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>So you see, my son, it is a complex
thing, this forgiving.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But that’s
only because it does so much. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ultimately it allows you to regain, or
even to know better than you’ve ever known before, your essential
completeness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’re beginning to
approach the reality we call your soul--the totality of your life as God sees
it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are closer to your Father
Fragment because of it. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>All this applies as well to your
forgiving someone else. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’re
better able to see them in their wholeness in a non-judgmental way. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Whenever you truly forgive someone for
what they’ve done or failed to do, it’s with the deep humility of realizing you
cannot even begin to know them as God does--but at least you are trying to.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are trying to open yourself up
to all they are, all in and around and before and after the incident. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As we have said before, it requires no
forgetting, but if it’s complete, it changes everything: and this is how you
know. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I can relate to the part where you said
it no longer has me, but I have it. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That last thing I’m going to have to do a
little study on. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m driven by the
fact you forgave a lot of people a lot of things back when you lived on this
world, much, much worse than I’ve had to go through, or will ever have to go
through.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You forgave completely,
and I can’t get that part out of my mind yet; so that’s all I have to say on
that right at the moment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My son, I went into this at such depth
partly because you can reread the transcripts and go through these different
stages over and over again, if you wish, and let them sink in.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>See if you can’t feel every aspect of
forgiveness I’ve mentioned.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Live consciously in the present)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>It is a way of staying present.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Folks do get confused when we mention
living in the here-and-now.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They
forget that all the past—not only your memories, but your soul—is present.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Living fully in the present moment with
all your understanding and foresight gives you the greatest power to predict and
anticipate the future, however much it will be somewhat different because of the
complexity of everything else involved.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>So read the transcripts over and over
and see if you can’t feel all these different aspects of forgiveness, and how
they help you be here and now, and keep the past in its proper perspective.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, it’s a very interesting lesson to
read and reread the transcripts, and learn more about
forgiveness.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I commend your willingness to let my
words affect you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You do me great
honor by doing so.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you, Father
Michael.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are very welcome.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You also touched upon what was for me
the great glory of realizing, myself--as a human being, to be truly my Father’s
son, in my forgiveness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I invite
you to share that glory with me.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I accept!<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Keep seeking my peace, my
son.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, Michael, I was moved by your talk
this evening because I have been contemplating how everything is moving around
something else in the universe, and yet we get caught up in all our petty
grievances and the mundane things that don’t seem so important when you consider
the vastness we are a part of.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It
can be quite overwhelming.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I know I
alluded to this many years ago, that there is a sense of security and comfort in
this vastness, that there is a Source creating all this.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It makes my little life more meaningful
and substantive.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Actually, as you were speaking, I was
thinking, why did God intend me to exist at this time and place, and do I have a
unique purpose?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I get so…I feel so
expansive, yet I also feel so constrained by my life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I know it’s a paradox, but it’s really
uncomfortable to have a sense there’s more to who I am and how I can exist—that
you portrayed to us as Jesus, yet I feel so limited by my own thoughts, my own
limited acceptance of God within me.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>All I can do is go into stillness, because we talked about impatience
too.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I want to go charging ahead
without fully experiencing now.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Part of me is not happy with now.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I better stop here because I know I’ve said a mouthful.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But it all comes down to, why did God
create me?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How can I live from the
place of where He wants me to be?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(God’s point of view, your point of
view)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, my son, we’re back to the conundrum
of, from God’s point of view there is no separation, and yet from yours, you are
caught up in a multiplicity of viewpoints, and wondering, and anticipations that
are often struggling against each other.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You identify exclusively at times with spiritual ambitions and potentials
that seem to make the material world about you constructive, giving rise to the
impatience that takes you out of being fully here and now in the sense of not
appreciating all that you do have, and are.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>From God’s point of view your life is
your purpose.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is what we mean by
your being an experiential being: being a nodule of all this experience is your
purpose.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>True, you are, in a way,
God experiencing you; but even more completely than the monists who believe
everything is God—far beyond their conceptions, you are more completely than
that--you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are moment to moment
completely you--as you--because you are a creation of God.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>God created your personality to
perfectly coincide with your physical/mental potential, and whether you like it
or not, you are experiencing being you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Whether you like it or not is up to you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s your job, your part of the
equation, and essential to an understanding of, and being able to delineate and
appreciate the different levels of personality manifestation.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you want your metaphysics unified,
and your philosophy and understanding comprehensive and consistent of all these,
at times, seemingly disparate elements, this is also your job.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Experience as much as you can.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>And so we’ve tried to get you to be
friends with your impatience, and welcome it as a kind of motivation.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But I realize too, my son, this is not
something taken all in one gulp.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You cannot yet take all of yourself in because you are—from our point of
view—still so much pure potential.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You are just starting out.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>As Mother Spirit said last week, you are planting a lot of seeds that
will not reach fruition for a long time.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Just be thankful you are aware of this process, and that there are so
many unanswerable imponderables (Michael chuckles) buzzing about your head, for
your consideration.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your life is
richer for them, and you are spared the fundamentalist illusion you have somehow
or another gotten, or been given, a wrap on Reality
itself.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My life as it is now, is it as it ought
to be?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My son, this “ought to be” is such a
tiny fragment of “is.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is only a
wondering.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your life is.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What it ought to be is only a tiny
fragment for you to wonder about.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Keep these things in their proper proportion, if you can.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>And you are learning to.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is part of what you sit down in
your stillness to experience and realize, that you are an infinity to yourself
in your very existence.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For only
God can fully realize all that you are.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The potential that you are only unfolds, for you, one moment at a time,
and cannot be hurried.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is
something else you have to learn.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>(everyone laughs)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But is that my choice?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is it my enlightened intent to live my
potential?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When I feel constrained
by the circumstances of my life—how I earn a living—I don’t even know how to ask
the question.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I want more!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I want to live!—freely!—without the
constraints.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>I don’t feel so constrained about living in this body as I used to,
because I see it as a temple.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I see
it as a way to express love, and joy.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>But I don’t know how my life can look.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Which is why, my son, I say that your
reality, your being, is so much more than any particular idea you can have at
the moment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is also why you
cannot recreate yourself from ideas of who you are.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have to still your notions, or
fears, of who you are to let your real, larger self
re-emerge.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There are times when I just want to
stop.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I don’t want to work any
more.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I just want to stop and take
time off.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But responsibilities and
my sense of duty and loyalty override that desire.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Even a week off…<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s why I feel I’m not allowing myself
to accept my potential, although I am participating is a number of teachings…
(heavy sighs and much decompression…)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL (after a very long pause):<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is why you just stop, from time to
time.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You enjoy being still, not as
a duty or a necessity, but just to stop… to rest… to regain your
here-and-now.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so, rest.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Rest assured that God lays no specific
intention upon you, my son.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What does that
mean?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Your potential is a pure
gift)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It means that your potential is a pure
gift to you, to use as you choose.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You have to actively seek His will.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I think when you read the transcript, you’ll see you may not now
appreciate the fact of your own acceptance of your responsibility—your need to
respond to others.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have a
notion of some other demand, some other—even God’s--obligation put upon you, and
I tell you it is in your moment-to-moment existence—that you can only try to be
as fully aware of as you can—that is your responsibility to Him: to experience
as much of everything as you can.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And that’s it!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There’s no
more required of you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your seeking
to know and live His will is your free-will gift back to Him.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Here again, there are so many systems
you’ve encountered in the past that are much confused in their philosophy and
metaphysics, and present their followers with a incomprehensible jumble of
conflicting viewpoints, ideals, ambitions, notions of life being an illusion, or
God or the Universe having some requirement for you--other than you being
you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When we say you are about
ninety-five percent potential, we mean you are just starting out in
eternity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The nature of personality
is its ability of infinite, endless growth; and the way you fulfill your life is
by accepting it as fully as you can, moment by moment.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you are experiencing frustration,
impatience, feelings of incompleteness; these too need to be accepted; they are
not illusions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Seek to understand
them.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This—from our point of
view—is what you are involved in.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is what you are expressing to me.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>As we talked about several weeks ago,
with respect to your teaching ambitions, you’re feeling the need to start making
decisions about which of your beliefs are true and consistent with each
other.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And you can best do this in
terms of your day to day life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It
keeps them from becoming just so many abstractions pondered off in some
intellectual ivory tower, or mere toys—playthings.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is your search for meaning and
value.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is being open to
experience all aspects of life, not only the spiritual, but also the
nitty-gritty necessities, duties, obligations, and commitments.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is no avoiding these if you want
to have a full life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Some teachings
profess the ability to live in a state of continuous bliss.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s absurd!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s like trying to paint a landscape
with one color.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>There is no one thing you can cling to
or hold onto and say, This is it!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I’ve finally done it!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’ve
achieved some final enlightenment, or realization, and it’s all downhill from
now on.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But some systems of
religious thought present that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Some so-called teachers pretend they’ve achieved that.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s why I’ve sometimes voiced my
desire to come from my own experience, my own inner teachings.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We all have access to our own
voice.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Finding your own
voice)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But no one is spared the hard work of
discovering it, and unifying it, making it comprehensive and complete, and
internally consistent.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is the
hard part so many folks simply dodge.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But what if we find our voice and it
suggests we do something different than what we’re doing?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But we’re afraid—I’m afraid.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so I disregard my own voice.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I don’t want to do that.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then comes the hard work of working out
those alternatives--to the best of your ability, the best of your growing wisdom
of what is possible—what you cannot always know is possible until you try.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I remember when you answered someone who
asked about Martin Luther King, that it was his choice to take the path he
did.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That was so important to
hear.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Like it was Gandhi’s
choice…<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It was your choice!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It wasn’t God telling you, or them, they
had to.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It was their
choice.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And because it was their choice, that
very element played such an enormous part in their relative success.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I say relative, for even I, my son, did
not anticipate, and am not in any way responsible for, everything that has been
done in my name.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But if you’ve
studied their lives, you know there was no one single moment from which
everything was downhill for them.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>As a matter of fact, it was pretty much uphill all the way.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>True character is not forged any other
way.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you for all this—it’s really
helpful.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It makes me wonder if I
should continue being a part of these other teachings because they all seem to
say the same things.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But that’s my
choice.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Go toward flexibility.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Keep reaching toward that inclusiveness
that is parallel to what I mentioned before about forgiveness.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Keep gong toward an understanding of how
all these different pieces fit, or don’t fit, together.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s the way out, always—to grow.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Grow in your understanding of everything
that comes your way. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As you know,
neither Mother Spirit nor I require any kind of blind belief.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Rather, put everything we say to the
test.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You know I do.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(much laughter)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you very
much.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are very welcome.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Again, I appreciate the sincerity with
which you approach these things.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I
try to give you some comfort from the fact all these men you venerate lived
their lives too day to day right in the middle of the same quandaries.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And they often had hundreds, even
thousands, hanging on their decisions.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so many were either assassinated, or
executed.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And very consciously realized that was possible.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I know my own followers were so
distraught at my final days, and wondered why I went back to
</SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Jerusalem</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> and through that whole trial and execution.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Why didn’t I just wander about some more
and keep living and teaching?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That
too is an extraordinarily complex answer I must leave for another
time.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But you did have that
choice?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Very much.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Which was why I prepared, as best I
could, my apostles and disciples for what was coming, and the particular destiny
that was mine to fulfill, both as Michael, and as Jesus.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>So carry on, my children.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I think that exhortation takes on a
slightly different meaning each time.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Rest assured I do know the times it is a glorious exaltation, and the
times it is a heavy burden—to just carry on, to accept those responsibilities
that are the price for the glory—to be able to respond.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is all truly single-knit, more
evidence—if you will—of God’s handiwork in the meaning of our lives.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We have our lives together to show for
it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So be in my peace.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good evening.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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