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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Nebadonia—</SPAN><st1:date Year="2007" Day="24"
Month="9"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">September 24,
2007</SPAN></st1:date><SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Marin T/M Group—</SPAN><st1:place><st1:City><SPAN
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size=3>NEBADONIA—T/R—JL<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>Dear Mother Spirit and Michael,<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you for your wonderful
lesson on forgiveness. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Now, in
retrospect, I can understand how, by holding a grudge against a person, I was
seeing them more as a caricature than who they really were.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And true, it was only by forgiving them
that I could restore them to something fully human with, like myself, both
strengths and weaknesses. <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>It brings to mind a previous lesson of
yours on appreciation, and how it is passive in the sense of an unconscious
projection: we literally see spiritual value “out there” in a person.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet it is also active. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We can willfully seek to discover the
spiritual value of another.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is
this active participation in our own spiritual assessment of ourselves and
others that can change both them and us. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So thank you for these insights into
appreciation and forgiveness that change our inner and outer worlds. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Amen.<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>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good evening, my dear sons, this is your
Spirit Mother, Nebadonia, and as always, I say you are very welcome.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is my joy as well to be able to
express these things that help you in your self-understanding. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I want to echo and second Michael’s
statement last time about the correlation between forgiveness and
understanding.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So much of a lack of
forgiveness is a kind of superficial, judgmental quality you lay on someone
else, and it is only by understanding them and seeing everything in its proper
perspective of causes and effects--all that goes into an incident—that you can
truly forgive.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This also creates a
special goodness in your soul of both the willingness to forgive and the
humility of not being judgmental. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Every time you forgive you learn
something about yourself as well as someone else.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And by accepting your own limitations,
you are welcoming, as Michael said, the fact you do not have a grasp on Total
Reality itself. <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>Another part of forgiveness, my
children, is harder to deal with because it comes from a sense of justice. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Sometimes you refuse to forgive someone
for you think it is your moral duty to uphold a judgment in order to achieve
justice. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In other words, you don’t
feel it’s right to forgive this person or yourself for something that
happened.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You feel a duty to
remember it, to keep it fresh in your mind to insure it doesn’t happen again.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This certainly seems logical
enough. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You feel you certainly have
to let them know you are not going to forget this, so they don’t do it again.
<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>But here I appeal to your sense of
fairness and, as strange as it may seem, efficiency, as to whether this is the
best way to go about insuring this bad behavior does not happen again.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Rather, the situation is best handled
with a kind of a non-confrontational discussion of the incident with this person
or, in the case of yourself, sitting down in your stillness and, as thoroughly
and with as much equanimity as you can muster, honestly relive the situation.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>With another person this takes
enormous strength and balance to discuss some injury done to you in a very
wholesome and spiritual way, a way of actually creating some means of
reconciliation. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As you know, it’s
hard not to let all kinds of sarcasm, innuendo, double meanings, or snide
remarks creep into your voice to inflict some punishment on this person for what
they’ve done to you. <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>You may feel you have to let them know
you’re not being some kind of patsy, some easy mark, some chump who’s going to
allow yourself to be walked over. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is why the reconciliation has to
rise above the initial behavior to genuinely offer this person a way of apology.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This also means you have to be
ready to accept their apology if it is genuine. You cannot back them into a
corner in order to wreck your vengeance upon them and let them know what a
lying, loathsome, evil creature they are. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Rather, keep in mind what Michael said:
you want to restore them to their full humanity, especially in your own
eyes.<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 this is what you offer. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You let them know you are willing to
forgive them, willing to see the whole incident in a new light, see them in a
new light.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Remember this is a
spiritual gift you come bearing, even while you are hurting inside, even while
your notions of justice may be screaming for vengeance. You want to achieve
closure. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You want to be able to
leave this event in the past and heal your wounded feelings by restoring your
inner completeness--independent of any particular incident whatsoever.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Regaining your own spiritual
completeness, my children, is the best way to see this bad behavior—your own or
theirs--does not happen again.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
have to be the example.<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>Let us think for a minute or two if
this is what your tired old world needs so desperately. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All around the world you have cultures
coming into contact as never before, and so often that contact only renews old
disputes that have been going on, in some cases, for centuries. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ask yourself: How do you put an end to
this? <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How can you keep from butting
heads together on the same plane of revenge for wounded feelings, along with
notions of forcing each other to behave?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>We of your spiritual family realize this is not easy when so many camps
are armed to the teeth with the feeling they must maintain a defensive attitude
and capability to prevent things from getting even worse. <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>You all know well the ironic acronym of
MAD, or Mutually Assured Destruction that served as a balance of power
throughout the Cold War.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The threat
of the sheer power of violence must be taken into consideration. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s not an illusion.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s very real, and it will take some
time for the various nation/states of the world to each back down from its felt
necessity of overwhelming armaments.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>But meanwhile you have on the international stage the same individual
need for a spiritually creative context and this is best accomplished, my
children, again as strange as it may seem, with genuine curiosity. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let your curiosity blossom, each culture
for the other. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Open your minds to
the true wonder that is there for you to discover in these centuries of
isolation and estrangement. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ironically enough, it is this
estrangement that now promises you the wonder of discovery.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Insofar as your different cultures have
evolved along different paths, you now have so much to offer each other of this
very specialization.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Indeed, it was the enormous conflict between the
Judeo-Christian culture of </SPAN><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Europe</SPAN></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> with that of Islam, during the Crusades, that
helped give rise to the European Renaissance.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The European development of mathematics
and medicine--so many different kinds of science, were given a great shot in the
arm by this contact. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet at the
same time the contact also created the reaction of isolation between the
cultures that is now coming to a head. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>My children, this is another case where
the microcosm of your own relationship to someone you feel offended you is
perfectly reflected in the macrocosm of international world affairs. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just as you have so much to gain by the
rediscovered humanity of yourself and this other person who has offended you, so
too the nations of the world have so much to gain by doing their utmost best to
contact and dialog with each other.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is the only way to create a genuine world culture that is absolutely
inclusive of all the peoples of the planet. <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>This can only come about one person at
a time because forgiveness has to be real for each individual person, as part of
their experience, before it can be believed in and pursued as an international
goal. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is just one more
instance of how you in your day to day life, in your relationships with those
you encounter, determine your own ideas of what is possible on your state,
national, and international stage of human affairs. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So let this realization motivate you, my
children.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let your curiosity and
your wonder blossom and embrace everybody you meet, even those you pass by for
only a moment on a busy sidewalk.<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>Beam your love out to everyone. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Do your best to perceive and accept the
full humanity the every person you meet, and then every person throughout the
world you become aware of, no matter what their culture, what their
beliefs--however strange to you. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is your true wealth, all these other
individual souls with whom you share this great world. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Forgiveness and, as you noted in your
opening prayer, appreciation, both have an unconscious component that you do
well to recognize. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Recognize the
value, the spirit you see in others is partly your own projection on them.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be responsible for it. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Realize the judgments that seem so
objectively “out there” are partly your own. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For in doing so you will have stepped out
of the realm of pure reaction, the kind of head-butting on an equal plane of
action and reaction. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will have
stepped into a spiritual, creative realm, to be truly active from a greater
totality of your soul.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As God
himself, as our spiritual community, you’ll be seeking out, reaching out to
others. <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>It’s not for nothing that the Urantia
book points out that Jesus of Nazareth was a very aggressive person--a word so
seldom found in Christianity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Like
your great reformers all through the ages, these men and women did not change
the course of human history by being passive. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let your love and your recognition of a
common humanity be an active and vibrant, ongoing force in your life. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have all of humanity--in the sense of
individuals; you have all these wonderful people to discover and enjoy. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is your true
wealth.<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>If you have any questions or comments
this evening, my children, this is my mother’s wealth in you. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mother Nebadonia, I was wondering what
it means in the statement, to be grounded, especially to be grounded to Mother
Earth, as opposed to, like, being grounded in a discipline of some sort like
physics, or chemistry, or sociology? <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I always wanted to be grounded, but maybe
I’m missing something.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, my son, the word grounded stands in
contrast to words like flightily, or baseless, or one you use now--spaced, as
in--out in space. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So it points at
completeness, in being aware of the totality of your being as contra-distinct
from being flightily or spaced-out or, as Michael used last time, of living in
an intellectual ivory tower of purely abstract considerations.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Within yourself grounded means
perceiving and joyfully accepting those only seemingly limiting aspects of you,
the physical and mental abilities you have so far. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Whereas not being grounded means to
identify exclusively with your more indirect qualities like material
possessions, or your social, political, or academic position, etc; or
spiritually, your ego-inflating notions of great accomplishments. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is what Michael meant when he talked
about the transformation that occurs within you when you fully accept all that
you are, especially those nitty-gritty duties and obligations and commitments
you’ve made. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In a very literal
sense these give you some weight. They stick you to the earth. They also help
you keep aware you have a physical body and a physical health, as well as a
mental and a spiritual health, to maintain. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>In terms of forgiveness, we talked about going off in your mind with a
kind of knee-jerk re-action, getting all worked up over some real or imaginary
wrong done you, and how it is only by forgiveness do you regain your intrinsic
completeness which includes all aspects of yourself—physical, mental, and
spiritual. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So being grounded in
reality means to feel, to experience this completeness you have in reality.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>True enough, only God can see
fully, but it is your job, and your joy, to see as much as you can of both
yourself and others as He does. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is what we mean by being grounded,
realizing and enjoying your essential completeness as a creation of God. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Does that seem to fit the
bill?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>Student (laughing): Yes, Mother, it’s very understandable. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I was wondering also, do we have any
actual connection with Mother Earth--like a spiritual one?—other than walking
around, and being born here on this planet? <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>NEBADONIA: <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Very much so,
because Mother Earth, as you designate her, also exists in all the dimensions
that you do. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Obviously there is a
physical planet here covered with both plant life and animal physical/mental
life, all the way up to including the human. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is a kind of world soul you can tap
into, the true history of all the life and people, but one you will not be able
to know fully, my son, until you actually reawaken on the Morontia spheres and
can access the complete records of Urantia’s past. But it is here nevertheless,
and you can tune into her—this world soul. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN"><FONT
size=3>Think too of the Midwayers who have been here for their tens of thousands
of years as the more permanent inhabitants of the realm. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Think of the vast spiritual community
that is also stationed here, and all the hundreds of thousands of student
visitors that come, drawn in large part because this is the world of Michael’s
final incarnation and bestowal. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So
there is this spiritual community abiding here that you can have some cognizance
of, and that the Teaching Mission has so greatly facilitated this—if you
will—inter-species contact. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>Right within your own physical body, my son, the spiritual dimensions of
this world infuse your mental and physical reality. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All the tens of millions of
extraordinarily strange creatures living here from the bottom of the ocean
depths to the tops of the mountain peaks, all that fantastic life your marvelous
media is bringing to your attention, strange creatures not matched in your
wildest fiction; all that is part of this world. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so it is indeed a
physical/mental/spiritual marvel that encompasses you day by day. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We welcome your curiosity and wonder to
explore this as well. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s been
here waiting for you. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN"><FONT
size=3>Student: The exploration of life on this planet sounds like a pretty good
idea, more so than just the spiritual aspect alone.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN"><FONT
size=3>NEBADONIA: <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s the way the
spiritual aspect of value permeates the mental and the physical. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your natural-science and historical
channels on television with their presentation of world-wide native peoples,
animals and plant life, is a long, progressive way from, say, the 1920’s copies
of National Geographic. (Yes) You’re living in an enormous explosion of
knowledge and its distribution. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your technology enables you to capture
wildlife as it streaks through the undergrowth, or across the sky over mountain
ranges, and down into the ocean depths. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It helps you appreciate the intelligence
and the design of all this life—plant and animal. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And you’ve still only scratched the
surface of the fuller comprehension you will have some day of this planet’s
life. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN"><FONT
size=3>Student: <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you, Mother.
It’s very exciting.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN"><FONT
size=3>NEBADONIA: <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We congratulate
you as a people and a world community on your curiosity and wonder. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The human mind just naturally reaches out
to invent tools to use in its further exploration out into the cosmos, and down
into the microscopic. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Enjoy your
discoveries well, and be in my love. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN"><FONT
size=3>Student: <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, Mother, I’m
feeling quite grounded right now. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I
really don’t have any burning questions this evening about forgiveness, although
I have been guilty of holding back forgiveness, and being sarcastic and saying
snide remarks. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But more and more
I’m becoming aware of when those moments occur, and I allow myself to go into
stillness to rest, knowing they serve no purpose
whatsoever.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN"><FONT
size=3>I’ve been enjoying a book called Spiritual Peacemaking, and it’s been
inspiring, going through the daily lessons and attempting to live them. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I really want to go beyond only reading
about truth, and actually live it. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Sometimes I get a little…irritated, I
guess is the word, when I feel I’m not living to the best of my understanding.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I really do know that only love and
truth are what matters. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So that’s
kind-of where I’m at. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you have
anything I need to look at, feel free… <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN"><FONT
size=3>NEBADONIA: <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well, now you’ve
asked for it… (laughter) <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN"><FONT
size=3>Student: <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I mean I really do
want to live my life in truth and…<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN"><FONT
size=3>NEBADONIA: <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>No—I’m just
teasing you, my son. (Yeah…{and more laughter}) <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Michael and I do have a sense of humor,
and if it weren’t for God’s sense of humor, we’d all be in trouble. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Even the highest beings have the greatest
need not to take themselves too seriously. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So I’ll pour heaps of humor upon you and
encourage you to do the same for yourself. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN"><FONT
size=3>But you do have this task before you of approaching what you mean by
truth, and that is being at one and the same time open-minded and welcoming all
these various disciplines, and viewpoints, and notions of what reality is, and
yet finding your own voice by weighing one thing against another to see what is
consistent within each, and where they agree and do not agree. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As Michael once said, this is a Herculean
task. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>No one is spared this effort
to find their own voice, listening within and constantly broadening their
understanding of why things agree or not. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN"><FONT
size=3>This is a further extension of the need of the major cultures of the
world coming into contact with each other, to ultimately evolve a common
language to communicate different viewpoints of reality that do not always
coincide. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When some of these first
contacts were made a few centuries ago, the early translations were often wildly
wide of the mark, for example equating the Christian word God to some Oriental
concepts that were not similar at all. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s taken these few hundred years, and
libraries full of books, and thousands of persons’ lives, devoted to
understanding the nuances of how these viewpoints do differ. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As I mentioned this evening, there is so
much to welcome and gain from the understanding of that very difference. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This we would ask you to keep in mind as
an orientation, how the differences between concepts of reality are what they
have to offer each other.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN"><FONT
size=3>Part of the task before you particularly, my son, is, as Michael
mentioned, understanding the different levels of personality manifestation from
the human, up through the divine family, all the way to God himself, the Eternal
Son, and the Infinite Spirit. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This
gives you a proper perspective and a sense of proportion so you do not make the
mistake of thinking you can literally be God, or nonchalantly assume what any of
the Trinity is thinking, or requires of you. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For you are literally swimming in a sea
of endless centuries of so-called religious teachers telling people what God
wanted them to do, what God expected of them--so much so we’ve referred to these
individuals as politicians, more interested in very temporal and material power
rather than in the true spiritual growth of themselves, and their students and
subjects. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So you have all this to
wade through, just as you have every kind of deliberately obscene, disgusting,
and/or violent notion available in your mass media, or online on the internet,
to deal with.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN"><FONT
size=3>We encourage you to be open-minded in spite of it all, to earn your own
tough inner equanimity that can confront anything and still forgive, still
maintain and develop your grounded-ness, your sense of being complete. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So I would offer you the watchword and
the tool of--consistency. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Think of
all these notions you entertain: what is consistent within each, and between
each? <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And that’s a handful
enough.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN"><FONT
size=3>Student: <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I seem to be drawn to things that have a
common thread of consistency. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They
may say things differently but there is a common thread I seem to latch onto.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When I find something that is too
out there, for me, my mind goes numb—so to speak. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My burning question is: what is reality?
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What is unadulterated reality?
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Who am I; who are we all beneath
all these projections and beliefs we’ve been inundated with, for centuries—as
you just said? <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Even the concept of
God is so misunderstood and misused: the ideas of love and forgiveness as well.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Sometimes when I walk into the
metaphysical bookstore I just want to turn around and walk out again. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s too much. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have to come from my own sense of
what’s real. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN"><FONT
size=3>NEBADONIA: <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In this, my son,
Michael and I are both happy to offer you these evenings to explore that very
thing. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You do us a great honor in
realizing how, within this context of our presence, we can help you discover
this. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We encourage you to seek us
and find us in your stillness as well. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN"><FONT
size=3>Student: <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN"><FONT
size=3>NEBADONIA: <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’re very
welcome. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is such an
exploration for us too, my children, for you have to understand how Michael and
I do not anticipate your lives. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>True, we have our wisdom, and our
oversight, and our insight, and our millions of worlds, and our trillions of
personal beings—human and above; yet for us also each human life only unfolds
moment by moment. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In this we share
this reality with our Universal Father: we are riding right along with you.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Of course we have a much deeper and
more profound assurance of your ultimate triumph than you can yet begin to
imagine, because you are more to us, and infinitely more to our Father, than you
can yet realize of yourselves. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
have to take our word for this, truly, on faith. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are riding right along with you. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so we thank you, my dear children,
for the courage you show us in living--not knowing, moment to moment, what is
coming next. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We salute you with all
our love. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good evening.
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