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align=center><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Nebadonia--</SPAN><st1:date Year="2008" Day="28"
Month="1"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">January 28,
2008</SPAN></st1:date><SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 382.8pt"><FONT
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Marin T/M Group--Mill Valley,
</SPAN><st1:State><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">California</SPAN></st1:place></st1:State><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">--</SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">U.S.A.</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT
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>(Soulful ideals)
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Inner unity)
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(The necessity for
experience)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Spiritual promptings--or
coincidence?)<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>(Being a spiritual
bedrock)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Are you what God intended?)<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>(The sea of truth and
error)<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>Dear Mother Spirit and Michael,<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We thank you for kicking off
the New Year with some very vigorous sessions; Michael, you were here two weeks
ago, and Mother Spirit, you had a Lifeline conference last Thursday. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We thank you for your messages of hope
and inspiration, and also some good challenges to help us clarify our ideals as
to what exactly we are aiming for--or aiming for at all--to point us in the
right direction, to really think through what could be our contribution. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We have come to understand that a world
in Light and Life utilizes the full creativity of every person, where every
person is pulling their weight and having their say as to what will constitute
human reality on that world. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So we
accept your challenges, and look forward to fleshing out our ideals--with your
help. <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 children. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’ll say that again; it just feels good
to say that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good evening, my
children. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(group: Good
evening)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are very literally
Michael’s and my children. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is
your mother, Nebadonia.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And as
Michael keeps inviting you so often, so do I invite you to be dear friends of
mine.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let us be as much on an equal
footing as we can reach across the divide of the different kinds of beings we
are, and just be good friends.<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>(Soulful ideals)
<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>This way we can flesh out another ideal
that, hopefully, you parents and children have grown into yourselves. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A good equality of genuine friendship is
not always easy to establish.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>On
the one hand it means relinquishing the authority of being a mother or a father,
and on the other, outgrowing the natural rebelliousness of being a son or a
daughter.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To see each other as dear
friends, we recognize and realize that together we fill each others’
souls.<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>As we’ve hinted before, your souls, my
dears, do not contain every hamburger or hot dog you ever ate, however
delicious. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But they certainly do
contain the other souls you have known, the other unique personalities with whom
you have shared your human life. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Think of them.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As your Urantia book puts it so
lovingly, so much of the materials of your life, even necessary things like food
and shelter, the tools of your work, your vehicles and other possessions; all
are means to an end. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But the
personal beings you’ve lived with, they are ends in themselves. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is what you carry with you, right
though the transformation of natural death to the Morontia state.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Though the fullness of this next
existence is far beyond any possibility to convey to you, we assure you: you
will recognize each other.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Even
beyond this there is what your Urantia book has called a--smile
equivalent--between personal beings of vastly different orders, so you have no
question as to the intentions of the Seraphim or Melkizadek suddenly before you.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m always tickled with that
expression of a--smile equivalent--between personal beings.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Mother Spirit chuckles) <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s true.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s what you’ve already found between
yourselves.<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>(Inner unity)
<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>Reflecting a bit myself, I realize
we’ve used the words unity, and unify, a lot lately.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the function of your personality
because your personality, your personal being, is part of the Deity Absolute.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The easiest way to get a grasp on
this concept is to realize we use the word symbol--deity--to represent unity
itself, and absolute insofar as the word God certainly means the personal aspect
within total reality. <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>The one God is the First Source of all
creation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Everything flows from Him
either directly or indirectly through creative beings such as Michael and me,
such as the beings who actually create the physical stuff out here in time and
space.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are all part of the Deity
Absolute, as are you. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is the
function of every personality to thus mirror God himself as the First Source who
unites all of creation. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So you
might think, my children, that on a microscopic scale this is what you are doing
with your own co-created human reality. <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>Keep in mind your personality contacts
impersonal reality--all this stuff, all this physical universe of matter/energy
around you--through the physical senses of your body.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And your personality is rather new at
this even though most of you who read these papers are well into your mature
years.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So remember back into those
first few years of your life, your beginning childhood. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is where it is such a great
advantage for those of you who have been parents and raised your own children
from birth; you’ve seen how life starts out with this small creature who is
barely cognizant of his or her reality at all to begin with.
<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>You marvel at how these little babies
first begin to hear and see, and connect with the outside world.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They’re like little sponges just
absorbing everything, so full of interest and curiosity.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They’re rather blank slates to be
written upon, in addition to having a whole planet’s evolution of life right
there in those little bodies. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then
comes what you call the Terrible Twos--two-year-olds, (group chuckles) and the
budding of self-awareness, the beginning realization of a self, of a me that is
contra-distinct from all that other out there that is not.
<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>All of a sudden the realization begins
to capture that struggling little mind: Me!--and of course, Mine!--That’s mine!
(Mother Spirit chuckles).<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In the
usual sequence of events this small and rather un-self-limited ego is fairly
well developed by the time the first genuine expressions of thankfulness or
worship can take hold in that young mind, and instantaneously!--the Thought
Adjuster, the presence of the Father arrives.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In other words, by the time there is an
impulse towards the altruism of limiting the personal self of immediate
gratification for the sake for some larger ideal, some greater notion of others
and their well being too, the individual self is already very well
developed.<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>And so begins the struggle between the
immature ego--self-identified almost exclusively, to begin with, with the body
and its senses, and its individual mind--and the just burgeoning spiritual
impulses of worship and wisdom, thankfulness and insight.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To resolve this struggle is what we mean
by the necessity for unity. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is
not just given.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It does not just
happen haphazardly or accidentally.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>For most human beings it is a real struggle, and one that is not often
accomplished in the first human life.<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>(The necessity for
experience)<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>This unification is the function of
your personality, and being experiential beings, the only way it can come about
is through living experience.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There
is no substitute. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Always remember,
my dear children, that neither Michael nor myself, for all of our hundreds of
billions of years of existence, for all of the unimaginable--to you--trillions
of evolutionary sons and daughters--of all the different orders we’ve had, that
we’ve seen all the way to Paradise and back to us again; in addition to all of
that, or should I say, to crown all of that, Michael himself needed to have a
human life, needed to graduate, if you will, by way of his own personal, human,
living experience--for the both of us.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>So you can see there is no condescension whatsoever when I say you are
experiential beings and your personalities must, step by step, piece by piece,
bit by bit, learn how to do this unifying through living experience.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The possibility for this unending
individual experience is what you call eternal life.<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>Last time Michael talked with you about
what it might be to be a perfected, fully realized human being.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You bring all the aspects of yourself
you’ve experienced into consciousness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You let your physical and mental life become unified with your
self-reflective spirit and the Spirit of God within you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>More and more your conscious self begins
to approximate your soul.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And
insofar as your soul is itself a spiritual creation, a spiritual record of your
experiences from God’s point of view, to approach your own soul is to approach
and bring into consciousness the Father Fragment that indwells you. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Indeed, it is possible for a human being
to become totally one with their Father Fragment even while in a physical body,
although that eternal fusing with a Fragment of God immediately extinguishes
that body and translates them to the Morontia state, the full soul-state of
being.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For most human beings at
your planetary stage of development, this is a rare occurrence. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It usually does not happen until you’ve
gone through several Mansion Worlds of development and further inner
unification.<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>Though we cannot guarantee for you this
ultimate union with a Fragment of God, my children, we can assure you that if it
is your deepest desire to grow in spirit, to identify less and less with the
temporal part of your being and more with the soulful, then you will make it.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You definitely have it to look
forward to.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The main reason we
cannot guarantee it at this time is because this is your choice. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have to choose eternal life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>With your whole heart you have to desire
this unification, this bringing into consciousness--to unify--all that you are
and have been--physically, mentally, spiritually, soulfully, personally. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><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 for your understanding
comprehension we’ve drawn distinctions between your personality, your soul, your
physical and mental being, the spiritual dimensions of your personality and the
Father Fragment that has been your companion from your earliest childhood, and
then your conscious self.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For those
children who have not yet, and those folks who have never, had an introduction
to distinct spiritual realities, their conscious self is all they know or
acknowledge themselves to be. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Apart
from those dreams they can remember upon awakening, they feel they somewhat
cease to exist--(Mother chuckles)--every evening when they fall asleep, and
somehow, mysteriously, are reborn again the next morning, considering only their
persisting physical body to have bridged the gap; their minds went asleep. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Like children and primitive,
un-self-conscious folks, they have little true awareness of how their own mind’s
concepts contribute to their reality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Immediate necessity focuses their attention exclusively outward.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They have yet to cross the threshold
into full, spiritual self-consciousness and awareness of their own
co-creativity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For security they
generally identify with the prevailing group or tribal consciousness. <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>So you see, my children, with respect
to your social group, the process of unifying yourself in full consciousness of
all you are is the same as what has been called individualization--becoming an
individual.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As we put it once
before, though you are raised by authority--your parents and your surrounding
society--through the process of maturation you come to the point where you
yourself must decide for yourself what is unconditionally true, again and again.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As Michael said last time, this is
your effort, your decisiveness, your creative contribution to yourself and
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>Although the different aspects of your
human being are and have always been real and determining/influencing your
perceived reality, we use the word--realization--to mean their being brought
into consciousness for consideration, and embraced. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the fully realized person.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You need not be daunted you have not yet
gotten there; you may still have a ways to go. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then too you have the whole physical,
minded, and spiritual living universe full of personal beings in front of you to
encounter, to encompass, to bring into conscious realization and make your own.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Michael and I have every confidence
in you. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We know what you are
capable of.<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, let’s bring them out into our shared consciousness here.
<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">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Thank you for your confidence, Mother.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Earlier this evening we were talking
abut the </SPAN><st1:time Hour="11" Minute="11"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">11:11</SPAN></st1:time><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> signs and various number combinations—555 and so
forth, and I was just wondering what to do about it?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is there something more to it than…just
something that’s interesting?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s
going on quite a bit.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I know what
the numbers mean but I don’t know what to do about
it.<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"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Spiritual promptings--or
coincidence?)<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>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, my son.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well, I’m not going to let you off the
hook.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(much laughter)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I suggest every time these subtle, or
not so subtle, reminders of the United Midwayers of your planet pop up--on all
your digital clocks?--I suggest you just stop and wonder what to do, and see
what comes up.<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 (laughing):<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s too simple.<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>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>No, my son, I’m afraid you’re going to
find it very, very complex, because each time will be unique and there’s nothing
you can decide here and now in terms of some kind of uniform response.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let these incidents call forth from you
at that moment what your response should be.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In other words, keep asking yourself
what is an adequate response to the promptings of the spiritual realm?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Could it possibly be something that you
yourself not only can, but need to create?—on 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>Again, I have every confidence in
you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will find a way if you
simply let go any notions of needing to decide beforehand.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Things of the spirit, my son, cannot be
anticipated that way.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are all
too spontaneous and of that personal aspect of reality that is not repeating
itself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is our creative choice
to be one with the unfolding of God’s plans: and so we invite you to join
us.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Discover what that adequate
response of yours might 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>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you once again, Mother.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That puts those things right in the
moment of now.<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>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The little prompts you perceive as
spiritual in origin—whatever they are!—that is where they are happening, is it
not?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Yes, Ma’am!)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then be in my
love.<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>Good evening, Mother.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I feel your presence so strong
tonight.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I feel your peace.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m listening to you, and the word that
echoes in my mind is--contribution.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Sometimes I think I’ve come a along way and made changes in life; and I
judge people less; and I try to practice that feeling I have of love for my
immediate family: I try to practice it—keep it going.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But here tonight I’m asking myself, How
am I contributing?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How do I
contribute in such a short little span of time?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But I’m getting to a level now where I’m
feeling peace, and getting ecstatic, and loving nature, and getting in love with
life. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m feeling this now and I
think maybe a few words of wisdom on how can I feel I’m really
contributing?<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>(Being a spiritual
bedrock)<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>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, my daughter, might I suggest what
you just expressed?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The greatest
things you can contribute to those around you—peace, and love, consideration,
acknowledgment, enthusiasm—these are what occupy the citizenry of a world of
Life and Light.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These are the
greatest things you can offer others.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is what you can be--a spiritual bedrock for others and, if you will,
take in all the “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” that come your way,
and ground them, not bump them back with a little extra spin.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just absorb all the evil and error that
comes your way day to day, and not reflect it back, but come back creatively,
come back with a whole heart, come back ever so fresh and spontaneous that you
offer others, over and over again, a new beginning.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Because you yourself can have this
ability to begin again and again.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>After some insult, or other bruising of your feelings—whatever comes your
way—just take it in and respond creatively to those around you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is what it is to be a spiritual
bedrock, a spiritual anchor for others.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is irrespective of how much they might consciously recognize
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>Also, my daughter, consider how this
kind of practice in turn gives you the most accurate reading on what works and
what doesn’t.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So it’s for you own
information: what is spiritual?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>What is not short-sighted?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>What does last?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What does
truly contribute to others?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>(Yeah!)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This takes a
constant, fresh, open mind to be fully aware of your influence, to take full
response-ability for what you are doing.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This way you grow, you learn, you become better at developing a kind of
charm. This is what Michael had so greatly as Jesus, for so many: a deep
spiritual charm that led folks to feel peaceful, and so strangely,
inexplicably—complete—in his presence.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Does this give you some inklings?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>(laughing)<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>Oh…<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you; I’m just filled to the depth
of what you’re saying.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s just
delightful; it’s just the words--spiritual bedrock.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I see how I am peoples’ bedrock
sometimes.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am into that.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have people telling me they notice the
changes in me.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They like being
around me—these things I overlook sometimes.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I could be doing more good than I
realize.<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>That feels good!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you, Mother.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just delighted to be
here.<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>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, my daughter, it’s a continuous
process of imagining good ideals, and doing your best to live up to them, yet at
the same time not overreaching yourself and setting yourself some too-abstract
goal, some kind of imaginary great influence.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just allow yourself to be humble and
content with knowing you are this good presence in your everyday life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So many folks get distracted by
grandiose notions of changing everything in their future before they’ve taken
their first few steps of noticing what effect they’re having immediately,
directly.<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>That’s the difference between intention
and action.<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>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes; and bringing into consciousness as
much as you can of your full life’s experiences, the spiritual story of your
soul.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let it shine forth and call
forth the deepest soul of others.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And what fun!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(laughs)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What deep joy this is.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Yes…)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be in my love, my daughter, and shine
forth your own.<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 (very hesitant and feeling his
way along throughout):<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, mother,
a while ago you or Michael said to me—I was inquiring as to how I would like to
live as God intended me to live—and you or Michael asked: What made me think I
was not doing so right then?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(much
laughter all around)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Upon
reflection, as you asked us to do, and through all the teachings I have
experienced over the past few years, I’ve come to realize the truth of
that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I can understand the depth of
what you were asking.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I was always
going after the brass ring, and never reaching it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m realizing I am the brass ring.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And the carousel.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And all 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>I am the reality that you speak of,
that I am this grounded being that we all are, that is only colored by my own
beliefs and perceptions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If I allow
myself to be still, and let just whatever arises, I’m being perceptively
open.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’ve come to understand that
nirvana is being perceptively open.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>That is the basis.<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 if I allow myself to become more
and more familiar with this ground of my being, this awareness, then I live as
God intended me to.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am my
intention--with no, in a sense, creating this: as if it were already
created.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There’s no dwelling upon
it because there’s no need to: it is.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>If I allow myself to become more familiar, more still, and to rest in the
grounded-ness of who I am--without any contrivance, without any destination,
without any goals…<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I just
allow.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then… (pause: everyone
chuckles) I am that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I can
contribute from that place—that is no-place.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s all beneficial, with no greater or
lesser good, with no inspiration because there’s no un-inspiration, no
boredom.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I can’t even be bored!—you
know?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(more
laughter)<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 seems like everything I’ve come to
read, no matter what teaching it is, they all kind-of say the same thing: be the
reality; and we cannot be untrue to our nature.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s always present.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We just have to allow.<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>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you, my son.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I enjoy your feelings, and your reaching
for expressions, of what unity is all about.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you very much.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I enjoyed
that.<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 enjoy it all.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(much laughter all around)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.<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>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is wonderful to have these times of
what I mean by realization, having all this unity you can perceive in even the
most disparate things--see the connections.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>See in spite of all the disagreements,
the lack of uniformity of expression; see the unity of spiritual desire, the
wondering, the getting lost and then getting found again.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s good to just rest in this a
while.<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>(Are you what God intended?)<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 was Michael who asked you that
question: what made you think you were not as God intended?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you are open to it, I’ll tease you
with the fact that can be taken on many levels.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>One, the most apparent, and which
occasions the most humor, is to consider the question rhetorically.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Another, deeper level, as you just
expressed so eloquently and joyfully, points you at the reality that is an
encompassing for your conscious self: the God-created personality you are.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Like your soul, your personality is an
encompassing for your consciousness. Spatially, you are all around you.<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>Taken further, literally--what makes
you think you are not?--is the function of the ideals you’ve not yet reached,
but which you equate with God’s intentions for you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the self-questioning, the
self-wondering.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It need not
necessarily be disquieting--though it usually is.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is another living balance between
the real and the ideal on the human level, the wondering if, perhaps, there is
not something more to life, something not yet realized, some untapped potential.
<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 that itself--answering Michael’s
question quite literally--can be what makes you think that you are not yet all
that God intends for you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But that
too is very real, is it not?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ideals
are real; they really exist and influence people.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To wonder which is the greater, the real
or the ideal; the real already is and includes the potential ideal.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In human life the real and the ideal are
not yet one; they are almost contra-distinct from one another.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But in God, in the Holy Spirit, the real
and the ideal are one, and both are provided for your use--to know where you
really are, yet show the light to where you ideally might choose to go.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Not to play on words but, in this sense,
the ideal will become more real as you approach spirit.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is realizing the ideal of becoming
more spiritual.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You approach where
the real and the ideal are one.<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>Yes, and it’s important because the
reason why I was having such consternation about not living as God intended me
to live, was because I was putting the ideal ahead of the real--that I was
somehow less that I actually was.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>In one way the ideal can never be reached because we’re always expanding
and becoming fuller.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But I was not
living who I am now, because I put myself up to something before I could
actually realize it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Do you
understand?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(more
laughter)<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>(laughing too):<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Very much so, my son.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have just described the process of
realization.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is very
true.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is a process.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is an accomplishment.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is something you earn.<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>Like a baby; like my granddaughter.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Before she walked she crawled; and
before she crawled, she rolled.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And
before that she just lay there.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I
was like rolling but wanted to run.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>But you know, that’s a simple metaphor.<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>This is why we’ve drawn a distinction
between being perfect--perfectly unified within--which is your goal, your ideal,
and being complete, which you always are in your fundamental, transcendent
reality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>At every moment of its
existence all of reality is complete in God, yet it is capable, by God’s will,
of expanding, of growing, of becoming more replete, more perfect--as He
is.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Second student again:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I think we run ahead of
ourselves.<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>As Michael pointed out, there are those
philosophies and metaphysics that do get mixed up on this point.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Putting the ideal, the potential as
greater than the already real, puts you in the position of never being
complete.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can come to feel
there is something real missing.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And this can be a<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>terrible,
very cruel taskmaster.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Their very
definition of enlightenment, or completion, is always out ahead of them, and
people can spend their lives like a small animal chasing its tail, and miss the
glory within every moment.<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>It’s like setting yourself up for
failure, by definition.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But it was
so<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>great hearing about nirvana--I
heard once from Alan Watts--it was on an archival program--that it is just
perceptual openness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Whatever
arises, whatever you’re experiencing: don’t run away from it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just experience it and understand its
true nature.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If we make it less
than it really is, we’re lost.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But
if we understand our true nature, then we’re free. We’re living as eternal
beings already.<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 I rested in what you were saying,
the ideal was here.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And it’s out
there as well.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And that’s OK.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m going to live--now.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><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>This understanding is indeed a reversal
of orientation, a true event in peoples’ lives.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is earning your wisdom through
experience.<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>I always have these questions in my
head.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I ask myself: what if we’re
living our lives incorrectly?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(a
lot of laughter)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Not judging by how
we are, but what if the belief systems we have are coming from that place of
there is so much more--we could be so much more?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We can experience joy and heaven on
earth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s here.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s very, very real--when we rest; when
we’re still.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What is all this other
stuff we create that seems incongruent with our true nature?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We don’t have to get into that now.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s another lesson.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But those are the kind of thoughts that
come up in my consciousness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>So…thank 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>(The sea of truth and
error)<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>You’re very welcome, my son.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We can go into it at greater depths
later, but a lot of this is simply the history of your race, the history of
thought, the history of philosophy and the ways human beings have tried to put
it all together over the endless millennia--and have passed on the good and the
bad, the truth and the error.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s
the sea you swim in.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And you must
recognize it all, or you are forced into a fundamentalist position of trying to
shut it out.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet here come all the
opinions you’ve ever heard, knocking at the door of your soul again.<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>I also understand the nature of it
all.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And there’s great relief in
that.<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>And this only comes from being open to
everything.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>See it all.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Embrace it all in your
understanding.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Never forget that,
as a personal being, you have an innate moral sense.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Never let yourself be talked out of that
but rather, develop it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All the
while you keep the humility of realizing how young and just-beginning a
potentially eternal being you are.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>That’s the difference between your self-limited, humble assessment of the
present situation, and assuming any kind of judgment about a person’s whole
self--your own or another’s.<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>We’re all little infinities, little
realities.<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>We like to think you’re all nodules of
experience out here…<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>…Better than
tadpoles…<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>…created for that very purpose.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When you think about it, that which adds
to experience, that enables you to experience, is in keeping with God’s purpose
for you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Whereas that which reduces
experience, reduces consciousness to mere habitual repetition; any refusing to
open yourself to experience more, even that which might be contradictory to your
most cherished beliefs; this is a kind of dying right in
life.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>This challenge is what Michael welcomed
as a Creator Son of God, this necessity for him to have a human life and
experience the dust between his toes, the sun on his face.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So enjoy it well, my children.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Each moment of this life you know is
unique in all of eternity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Embrace
it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Experience it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Know the deep joy of that
acceptance.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be in my love.<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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