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align=center><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Michael--</SPAN><st1:date
Month="2" Day="11" Year="2008"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">February 11,
2008</SPAN></st1:date><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Marin TM 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
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">MICHAEL--T/R-JL<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">(Your individual lives--as you see them)
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">(Stages of individualization) <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">(God’s absoluteness and infinity)
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">(Mystical experiences; lucid dreaming;
ESP)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">(More ideals) <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">(Thought and feeling--analysis and ineffable
experience)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">(Keeping yourself good
company)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Dear Michael and Mother Spirit,<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We feel so peaceful here in
your presence. We’re always happy to acknowledge your presence here with us, yet
it does give us pause to consider the kinds of beings you two are. We confess we
cannot begin to comprehend personal beings dozens of times older than what our
science says is the age of the universe--maybe a hundred times older than this
planet we are living on; and then too your extent over so many millions of both
evolutionary and architectural worlds peopled with all your children of so many
different orders, some nearly as old as yourselves. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">But while we can’t honestly comprehend your natures,
we must admit they are fun to imagine. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So we thank you for your light-hearted
laughter, and teasing, and your deep abiding joy; and marvel that you offer us
an equality of genuine friendship straight across. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It fulfills our faith that you are truly
our beloved spiritual parents.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let
us say with our whole hearts, Amen--let it be so.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">MICHAEL: Good evening, my children, this is Michael.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I most heartedly agree: and it is
so. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are here, and we are here
for both you and ourselves. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We do
delight in you and it gives us such great joy when you can say the same thing,
that you too fill yourselves full to overflowing with your awareness of
us.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">(Your individual lives--as you see them)
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">We have assured you before, and have actually tried
to demonstrate, our understanding and our sharing of your human lives more or
less as you see yourselves; although this, of course, obviously varies
enormously from one person to another in terms of their general spiritual
development--how much of themselves they can be aware of from our point of view.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So we do honor and take delight in
the way in which you exist for yourselves--that is to say--consciously. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is no less than the story of your
lives, my children, as you know and remember them. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">I would like to talk a bit tonight about a subject
that has come up over and over again, and that is the nature of your reality as
an individual person. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let us look a
little more closely at this individualization that you can realize within the
living encompassing and continuity of God himself. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Your individuality is based primarily, but not only,
on your uniqueness as a personality, and this you can understand most fully by
thinking of God as that sole Supreme and Primal Personality--personality
itself--who has sufficient absoluteness and infinity, if you will, to create a
near infinity of individual, unique personal beings throughout His vast
universe. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But to realize your own
individuality, you somewhat recapitulate the evolution of civilization, from the
most primitive to the most advanced, as you grow up. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mother Spirit touched on this last time,
noting that for children and very primitive, un-self conscious folks, there’s no
separation yet in their understanding between body, and mind, and spirit, let
alone unique personality. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They
pretty much just identify with their conscious self which is not yet
differentiated into physical-ness, mind, and spirit. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They live in a very magical, mystical
world because so much of it is truly inexplicable in all their various notions
about what constitutes reality, and these notions are no way demonstrable. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As one of your fictional characters once
said: Sometimes the magic works, and sometimes it doesn’t.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">We’ve mentioned before what an enormous leap forward
it was to develop and gain acceptance for what you call the empirical method, a
way of agreeing among yourselves on what constitutes a demonstration of natural
law that, within a specific context, can be unfailingly repeated over and over
again across the centuries. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This
scientific method literally created in human consciousness a separation between
the material world and other, mental and spiritual causes and effects. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Indeed it has proven so successful in the
physical realm you have folks walking about who could be considered
materialists, who believe with their whole heart that everything in human
reality can be explained in terms of matter and energy in different states,
including living. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">But when you include the fact of living personal
beings, for most folks there is still something left over, something that cannot
be explained in terms of strict physical cause and effect.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>More recently you’ve evolved a further
separation of inner human reality into mind and spirit, if you will, psychology
and religious experience. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And
while, historically, as mankind’s developing science analyzed the world outside,
and they build up their inner reason and logic based upon the causes and effects
that could be demonstrated, now to a large degree, with your statistical
analysis of hundreds of thousands of cases, you can deduce certain psychological
truisms that have a wide validity.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">For some, religious experience, isolated this way,
is what they feel is left over, what cannot be demonstrated or proven to be
predictable. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is almost their
definition of that inner experience which is uniquely personal and, being
unique, seems to contain some irreducible kernel that will forever remain
ineffable, ungraspable, and unable to be articulated and shared completely, even
with kindred souls. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Again we’re
back to a nub of uniqueness when you attempt to understand and really feel what
your personality is on the inside.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">(Stages of individualization) <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">So as an individual person, you go from this magical
state of undifferentiated oneness that is a complete blending of the physical
and mental and spiritual that the young child experiences. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then you encounter a kind of a
fragmentation in the seeming separation of these aspects into objective and
subjective. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ironically, a lot of
our lessons have added another complication--(Michael chuckles)--of the
personality- and soulful-dimensions of human reality as well.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet there is no way of avoiding this
discrimination: it is part of your culture, part of your evolving
civilization.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It was and still is
essential for the weeding out of that species of error you call
superstition--imaginary notions that pretend to a true cause and effect meaning,
but are found under examination to be utterly unreliable. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s necessary to leave this stage of
magical innocence of an undifferentiated wholeness and run the gauntlet of
fragmentation and separation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This
is the very angst of adolescence and immature civilizations.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">So often in these social and cultural contexts
ignorant of or in doubt of some final unification, you find the existing wide
gap in so many peoples’ minds between science--the study of that out there, and
religion--the experience of this in here: and never the twain shall meet: they
war against each other still. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet
here we come encouraging you to bring them together.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Like your two eyes that give you
binocular vision and the perception and appreciation of depth, so too you need
an equal understanding of the physical sciences and the reality of your personal
religious experience. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These not
only can but need to be unified in order to inform and critique each other.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">I said seeming fragmentation, as a conscious
experience, but consider that even at the height of this process when you seem
to have a very distinct separation between the physical, the mental, the
spiritual--materialism, psychology, and religion--because your particular
family, or larger society or culture emphasizes one over the others; we ask you
to notice that there is no complete separation, no true objectivity, due to the
fact of projection.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As Mother
Spirit put it last time: you surround yourselves; you encounter yourselves “out
there.” <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You experience meaning and
value out there, though the recognition is literally taking place in here, in
your mind.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">In this you are somewhat like a movie
projector.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Although you know that
light is bouncing off those exterior objects because they are really out
there--the objective world is not an illusion, that light is being interpreted
in your brain.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What you are
actually experiencing is the interpretation of those light waves.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We gave the example of how, say, a
complicated schematic of the inner workings of a computer can appear as curious
doodles to one person, yet to another be obvious and precisely meaningful,
intrinsically valuable.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">This process of projection works so well, so
instantaneously and unconsciously you may seldom pause to think of how spirit,
the origin of value in human reality, interpenetrates your physical and mental
aspects and seems to exist in both the living physical world and your inner
reasoning and understanding: you’re constantly evaluating everything.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This spiritual unity is always present,
even, ironically, in the mind of the most devoted materialist who gives mental
meaning and spiritual value to the very notion that he has risen above these
supposed superstitions. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Here I’m pointing to the spiritual unity of your
personality that is continuous, that all through childhood and adolescence and
young maturity can present to you a unified reality.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But because your reality is growing and
changing, however much it is fraught with uncertainty, anxiety, sadness and
suffering, no one who aspires to be an individual and have some real feeling,
some deep experience and understanding of their personal uniqueness, is spared
this gauntlet.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Granted, there is a
true sweetness to the innocence and magic of childhood, but like everything else
in your lives, my children, you cannot cling to it for long. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You cannot insist upon it for your
children. The sweetness and charm of innocence is offset by the fundamental need
for experience.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so you grow,
you embrace the seeming discrimination of the physical and mental and spiritual
aspects of your life for the necessary understanding comprehension of the human
condition.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Now you can understand further some of the olden
religious teachings from those who often failed to distinguish between the
points of view of ones God-created total self--including ones personality and
soul--which they assumed, and ones limited conscious self--which they were;
sometimes referring to both in the same sentence. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So, my children, you can see why you are
not spared running this gauntlet of seeming fragmentation and separation for
your own good understanding. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s
the only way you can recognize meaning and value in such a plethora of truth and
error from all the past that, as Mother Spirit said, is the living sea of
information you’re swimming in. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">This is a thousand times more apparent on Urantia
where you have almost all the stages of civilization--in terms of mankind’s
understanding of himself--coexisting at the same time; where different cultures
encounter and try, or not, to understand each other.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For millennia now this is what explorers
ran into, and yet history is not repeating itself: every new day is also
unique.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Now primitive or medieval
cultures have right within them the technological products of the most advanced
civilizations yet. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They had no
television and computers back in the original medieval times. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The primitive tribes of thousands of
years ago could not crank up a generator, point an antenna at the sky, and bring
in the world. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">This is the adventure you’re in the middle of, so
keep wondering what particular stage you are in along this continuum of
childhood innocence and oneness, adolescence estrangement and fragmentation,
then, hopefully, the re-unification in wisdom and worship truly crediting your
inner life with the reality of religious experience, the contact with and
developing that dimension we call spirit which is inclusive of everything.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">This is the marvelous story of how the evolution of
civilization in a planetary race is recapitulated by every child born into
it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It points out the necessity for
each generation to absorb all that is given it, and then carry the torch of
understanding and true spiritual embrace one step further along than where they
were given it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What great fun this
is!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We thank our Father for setting
such an adventure before us.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">(God’s absoluteness and infinity)
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">This is the way of being appreciative of His
absoluteness and infinity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Even
though we may truly contact Him, feel Him, converse with Him deep within
ourselves, we can also in all humility acknowledge that He is truly absolute and
infinite beyond what our concepts can ever able us to comprehend. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He will forever be our encompassing.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He is that which continually creates and
sustains us so, as your great old hymnals put it, we can rest in His everlasting
arms. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He is the unity we seek, and
our faith can allow us to rest in the assurance that that which is
incomprehensible to us really exists, manifesting Himself as the greatest
beauty, the most profound truth, a real goodness.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so we acknowledge you, dear Father
of all of us.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We thank you for your
love that gives us this freedom to acknowledge you so--not out of force or
coercion, or even necessity, but of the free will of our love for you. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Amen.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(students: Amen) <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Now let your questions and your comments pour forth.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m all
ready.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Student: Good evening, Michael.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That was so very thought-provoking I’m
really looking forward to reading this back.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It was deep, and I’m not very educated.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I really have to read all of this
back.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But I hope what I’m hearing,
I was thinking of in the car on the way here--about individuality, and
personality, and identity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I was
thinking how I probably wouldn’t be here even buying any of this had I not had
the experience of actually being separate from my physical body and still
alive--not dying, but out-of-body--whatever. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I mean, I’ve always been fascinated about
the physical, and then the mental, and the, I guess, the spiritual--the soul or
spirit of what I’ve experienced once when I woke up from my dreaming I was
hovering around the room, and I realized, wow, OK, this must be my--(Michael
chuckled at this)--my truer self.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is the real me that’s formless right now.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">That experience taught me to stay so open. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I can’t explain everything but I can
witness it, and I can be amazed and thrilled by this adventure.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So my question is: you know, of course,
fear is the big limiter, and as I’ve worked on fear in my life, when these
experiences happen again I’m very, very curious and very amazed. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m not so frightened any more in the
sense that my truer nature is: that’s OK.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Now I get a sense of what dying is going to be like and it’s not so
serious.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I really think that the
universe is this giant playground and I’m getting, you know, the idea that I
will be able to pick and choose where I want to go--although I need to read more
of the Urantia book about the Morontia level, and exactly understand it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But I do get the sense of my own
personality and everything that my life has been that makes me unique from you,
from D, from J.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m unique.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I truly get the sense now it’s not all
illusion.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Everything out there is
real.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’ve been in a formless state
where I’m traveling through this physical dimension, but I’m not physical.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So that experience stirred up in me a
whole lot of excitement.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m really
thankful for that experience.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So
your speaking about personality tonight was really great.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">But if I find my self really out there, am I
supposed to go and meet other entities that are outside their bodies?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s really a scary realm.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I know I’ve asked you this before: what
should I do with these experiences?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Just think of you and don’t let the fear overtake me?--and just see what
happens?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">(Mystical experiences; lucid dreaming;
ESP)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Essentially: yes!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There are
so many wonderful states of mind that are such an alteration or different
species of normal consciousness that, as you become conscious of them, they
disappear: your normative mind reasserts itself.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So to remain highly conscious in one of
these states is very tricky.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s
why we suggest your practice of stillness be one of relaxing and allowing.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">With respect to these experiences you’ve had, my
daughter, you might be surprised to consider there’s a paradox here because at
the same time they give you an appreciation of how unique you are, they are well
nigh universal.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Almost everyone has
had them to various degrees.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They
might be the import of your Father Fragment that introduces so many actual
thoughts, suggests so many connections, and can even provide experiences that
you can only infer meaning from later on as your logical, normative mind
evaluates them.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The experiences
remain ineffable in themselves, as do you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Similarly, while you cannot consciously experience unconsciousness by the
very definition of these two states, you acknowledge its existence by practical
notions of taking in a lot of information and then sleeping on it, giving it
over to some kind of mind that is going to digest and organize it, all by
itself.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">So we offer you all these different distinctions to
give you some reference points that you can infer from your mystical/spiritual
experiences.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Once you have these
humanly boundless touches of the absolute and the infinite, usually in the warm,
living aftermath of these experiences you rightfully hesitate to over-think
them, let alone talk about them, because they seem so beyond normal thought or
words.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Some of the wise teachers
who lead you to these experiences suggest just that, that you spend some time
just being quiet and basking in the afterglow like soaking your weary and
fearful soul in a hot tub; and be content with that for a while.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Inexorably you normative mind--(Michael
chuckles)--has to reassert itself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Like your body unconsciously worrying at a sore tooth, your irrepressibly
curious intellect will do its best to express this ineffable experience to you,
and others.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This in turn
precipitates language, culture, and historicity--the entire living unique
context of whatever age the individuals find themselves.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then, if they’re not careful, come the
arguments, the discussions, the comparing and contrasting.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">This is why, my daughter, I suggest you rest in
these experiences as much as you can recall them in their pristine purity, and
keep that sacrosanct right along with all your probing curiosity and human need
to express them in words--as you say, to get a handle on them.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Keep them separate if you can, and
welcome more!--as often as they wish to occur.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They can just pop up spontaneously in
your stillness as you relinquish your hold on the outside world and the let the
inner realities come forth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are
on the edge of your unknown so there is an element of fear involved.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But then there is possible an element of
triumph, of discovery.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">The final thing I would offer is that in each stage
of your development there is a need to reevaluate your larger context of meaning
and value, yet the greatest mistake of so many philosophies, and metaphysics,
and formalized religions is<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>the
unconscious habit of illusory Monday-morning-quarterbacking--the stubborn
insistence that if only this or that had gone otherwise, some desired outcome
would have happened; forgetting everything then was also in flux--like now.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is, in essence, clinging to some
game plan of life, some grand notion of reality, even after it has been proven
inadequate by facts.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Nothing that
ever happened was unnecessary, but was the resolution of living existents.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">An outgrown illusion is only a reality that ceased
to exist and was so judged after the fact.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It may have played a large part in a person’s life, and be part of their
soul.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Even a cartoon character like
Mickey Mouse has a certain reality and, like superstitions or wishes, expresses
human feelings.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is no need to
arrogantly and with condescension consider the outgrown notions--you yourself
had to come through--with egoistic contempt, forgetting that, just as the game
had to be played on Sunday, it is only after the fact that some things are known
for sure.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Reevaluate as you must,
glean what meaning you can, but find a way of respecting the past and letting it
be.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Now did you have another
question?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>My experience with lucid dreaming?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I just want to know I’m kind-of on the right track here with this
understanding.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And I will
definitely rest more in stillness more often.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But I found myself one morning
evidently dreaming I was waking up and finding my piano gone, whereas if I had
actually been in an out-body-experience the room would have been just as it
should have been.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That was puzzling
and I couldn’t determine if I was awake or dreaming I was awake.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So is there a real difference between
dreaming you’re awake and actually being out in the
Astral?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Yes, my daughter, pretty much so.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>There are so many different states of consciousness: keep them separate
as much as you can, as separate experiences.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Respect their unique qualities.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Wonder if you can validly compare them
when each has its own validity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>At
the same time none of them possess absolute truth.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can deduce certain uniform-seeming
spiritual laws from all your experiences, and extrapolate them into the future
to test against your insight, but for all these various psychic experiences,
just remember each one and let it be, independent of whether or not it may be a
lucid dream or ESP.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What is each
telling you in itself?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you think
is might be genuine ESP, check it out.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>How much truth did it contain?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>But enjoy them all--everything.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Thank you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Speaking of
telepathic things, I’ve felt I could pick up on my sister’s thought waves, and
she’s a thousand miles away--you know, if something was going on for her.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then once--I know everyone sees faces in
the patterns in rugs or similar things--wood grain, shadows, but once I saw her
face in a carpet and she seemed really stressed out.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I called her the next day and she’d had
an experience out hunting.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then I
did it three nights ago with my other sister--her face was about the size of a
quarter--and it was just very odd, but because it had happened before, I called
her the next day.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And sure enough,
she’d had like a crying spell.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So
is this really common, where you can pick up on loved ones and their thought
waves when something’s wrong?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Keep in mind, my daughter, your Thought Adjusters--the pre-personal
Fragments of God in both your minds--can communicate with each other, yet this
is hard to evaluate as to their validity because you have the psychological fact
the human mind can also pick one instance out of many and give it extraordinary
meaning.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is outside the
scientific realm of proof because you would have to make very strict notes on
all the times you’ve had these intimations--whether visual or whatever--and then
compare them to the times they were valid, or not.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I would just keep an open mind about all
these phenomena and, if you want, within yourself, if it seems like a fun thing
to do, keep track of how often they seem to be valid, and how often they seem to
be only coincidence.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Certainly they
are part of your loving connection with your two sisters.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So keep adding to your
collection.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Is there an ability to follow or develop that could actually do some
good?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There was a crime in my
neighborhood recently and so I wondered if I should try to develop this to
help.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I just keep asking for your
guidance.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Then let me ask: why not?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Explore.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Extend yourself out
into every dimension you can.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This
is definitely stepping off into the unknown, and I can feel under your questions
your wondering about an objective validity, a demonstrable, predictable validity
to these phenomena.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Insofar as they
are so unique to the individual, and to each circumstance, this is something you
are going to have to decide for yourself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>But keep exploring, keep wondering.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Welcome these experiences.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I do!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>With less fear I do
welcome them.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">MICAHEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I might say, about other people who experience the same kind of spiritual
influence in their lives--this kind of connection with those they love--that it
expresses itself differently within their belief systems.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Some interpret it as nostalgia or
memory, this presence of a friend or sibling who is far away, yet they might
wonder if they are picking up some essence of their soul.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So keep exploring; keep seeking my peace
throughout.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And keep being
unafraid.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I will.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you,
Michael.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">MICHAEL (after a long pause):<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Come in D…!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Student (laughing):<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m here!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Everything you said tonight kind-of flew
right over my head--but that’s OK!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I’m also looking forward to reading the transcript.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’ve been thinking about some of the
past conversations we’ve had, and I think it was you, talking about what our
ideals are. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What are my ideals for
tomorrow and a year for now--for me and my family, for my community, and for
this world?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We ought to talk about
these things more.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I see the
validity of that--that we need to stretch ourselves more to think beyond our
assumptions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">But sitting in front of my computer and asking
myself this, I kind-of drew a blank beyond, you know, world peace and that kind
of thing.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It seemed so
superficial.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For me, those things
are given.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I couldn’t write
anything down.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Maybe I don’t want
to put words to my conceptions because that diminishes them.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Maybe my ideals are indescribable.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So I guess my ideals are…God.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And I don’t want to diminish Him by
defining Him.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But I’ll still try to
put it to words (laughing).<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I
guess.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">I’m just trying to stay open to reality--the idea of
reality; the reality of reality--what that really is for me.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It goes hand in hand with finding my
voice that is not independent from the One Voice of the universe.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How can I put this?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In my musing over reality, I’m trying
not to be bound in by any points of view.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I’m not tied down to what I might have thought once.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s more open-ended.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But it’s wholly possible, and
beneficial.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So… <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(sigh)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">(More ideals) <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Well, my son, I think you’re going to enjoy reading your latest discourse
here, because you started off wondering if there were any ideals you could put
your finger on and articulate, and then went on to do so quite well.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This can be a wonderful ideal to pursue,
being able to differentiate between your wondering and what you already
know.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can do this by keeping
sacrosanct those experiences of a pure reality that are ineffable. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These are like those other ideals I
teased you to imagine--the most wonderful things happening, irrespective of
possibility or probability--and just let them fill your mind.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They too will be somewhat ineffable, but
that’s great: they’re alive.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Reach
for them.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The pure feelings will
filter down in time to what can be expressed in thought. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">You’re beginning to sense this. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You already have, if you will, the ideal
of an ideal being ungraspable, being open-ended, being out ahead of your own
consciousness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s where you’re
trying to approximate as best you can with your human ideals what God’s might be
for you.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The idea just crossed my mind that maybe I’m living my ideal without even
realizing it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Maybe I’m putting
forth my ideal with each step, learning to relax more with whatever arises.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I mentioned before hearing Alan Watts
saying that nirvana is just being open--perceptually open without defining,
without grasping, without holding or clinging.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When points of view or emotions come up,
like anger or irritability, or even positive ones like love or joy; just relax
with them and try not to hold onto them.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Just be aware.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">(Thought and feeling--analysis and ineffable
experience)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Yes.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Grow the ability to
have both of these aspects simultaneously in your conscious mind, both the
experience and the detachment, which is again a further differentiation within a
vast, open-ended wondering that is content to feel things without needing to
express them or grab hold of them with past associations that, in a way, deny
their living newness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just see the
flow of thought alongside these feelings, and let each be.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is what you were expressing, how
not to let your ideas, mainly your reactions coming from previous definitions,
affect the flow, the pure awareness of what’s happening now.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They can both be there together, and you
can see the purpose of each.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your
thinking, analytical mind is necessary, and can be taught to respect the
spiritual, however ineffable.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Simultaneously, your spiritual experiences can be developed to the point
you don’t have to shut out thought in order to have them.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So I’ll put that one out ahead of
you--(laughing)--to aim for, to enjoy.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Keep in mind some of those thoughts might be from the Father within you,
and most appropriate.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">You are realizing the ideal of having these
distinctions in consciousness.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I used to define myself and my spiritual progress with what was being
displayed, so I got frustrated because I wasn’t able to do certain things; my
life wasn’t going like I thought it should.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But when I let that go, the relief was
totally…(laughing)…wow--was really felt.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It’s beyond seeking; it’s more like living, allowing myself to experience
this ground of my being, this awareness.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>We could call this the reality of religious experience, the inner proof
that cannot be demonstrated to another person.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s the inner proof there is more to
you than any single moment of comprehension can contain.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The very practical and useful
comprehensive aspect of your mind, the way it comprehends things by grabbing
them conceptually, needs to relax to allow this larger self to swell forth so
you can become aware of it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What
you become aware of is this pure curiosity, this pure wondering, this insight of
openness that can allow something totally new to pop in.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This in turn leads to a growth in
thought and comprehension.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You go
along in these pulses, approaching the ideal of having both simultaneously.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is why we recommend never holding
your mind a blank in meditation, but let what thoughts that want to happen,
happen.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The stillness must come
about of its own accord, and will, given time.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Yes, I’m learning how to relax with a thought without doing anything
about it. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>These are real abilities, and they are transforming your life inside and
out--within you and with the others you meet.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It’s interesting.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There’s a
possibility my little family--my daughter and her baby, and her boyfriend, they
may be moving out if they get accepted by this housing development.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Anyway, noticing how I feel about that,
seeing the possibility, when I’m open to whatever might happen, who I am doesn’t
change.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The circumstances might
change, but the ground of my being doesn’t.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I will be alone, but that’s OK.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m just open to whatever might be.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s where I feel I really am
transforming.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m more alive, more
curious.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And I don’t worry about
what’s not in my control.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I told my
daughter that whatever is beneficial for all of us is OK.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I think this is what a lot of the formal religions of the world mean by
the end of suffering when you have faith.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It doesn’t mean that if you cut your finger or stub your toe there is no
pain, but you don’t worry about it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The whole psychological component of suffering; as you just said, there
is such a relief when this ceases, when you can feel whatever it is directly
without a lot of uncontrollable reaction happening.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You get to a much purer, tougher and
tenacious state of awareness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s
a strength, the strength of courage to just accept whatever comes along and
allow it to register.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s an inner
confidence of your abilities to handle whatever happens.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Even though you may get overwhelmed from
time to time with some physical pain or mental sadness, you can ride along with
it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can know a diminishing of
suffering right in the middle of that stubbed toe or sadness.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That can be nirvana
enough.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Right--without running away from it, or trying to change it, or indulging
it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">First student again:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s like the pain is mandatory but the
suffering is optional.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>There’s a quality of soul, a courage in the detachment that you do
earn.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I think too it’s what we identify with.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m trying to identify with the
indescribable.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So I’m
indescribable!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(much laughter)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There’s no attachment to anything, no
clinging.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">First student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It’s the difference between feeling empty and feeling full.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Sometimes I go through a craziness for
companionship, and then all of a sudden I think, wait a minute.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s up to me as to whether I feel empty
or full.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It really is about taking
my own life and learning my own perspective.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">(Keeping yourself good
company)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It’s that deep inner confidence that there is a you there, that Mother
Spirit and I keep reassuring you: you absolutely are!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But you must learn a way of letting this
reality come forth to keep you company.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I don’t want you to feel schizophrenic here--(much laughter).<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We did tease you once before about
having a whole crowd inside, what with Mother Spirit’s influence and a Fragment
of God, plus your soul with all the people you’ve known.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And yet there is also that unique,
irreducible you as well, you are learning not to identify with anything in
particular at all, but letting yourself be free.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be a democracy inside.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I think you will find there can only be
a democracy outside--socially and governmentally, when all the individuals are
little democracies inside: they’re actually perfectly parallel points of
evolution.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Thank you, Michael, for all we’ve talked about this
evening.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You’re welcome.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s so very
enjoyable for me when my students begin to get the point and start to enjoy,
themselves, the benefits of an expanded truth.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Truth itself is God’s alone, but we
approach it closest when we pay it the greatest respect of letting it be,
letting it bubble up from His deep wellsprings of absoluteness and infinity we
can touch inside.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I do know He
wants us to use Him this way, to definitely rest in His everlasting arms, and
even, from time to time, find His hands on the ends of our own arms.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is the equally real
individualization, if you will, that He created us to enjoy.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So dig in.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Get a hold, and hang on; and then let
go.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Wheee…)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Right!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Michael laughs along)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And be in my peace.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good evening dear children, dear
friends.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
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style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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