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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center"
align=center><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Michael--</SPAN><st1:date Month="4" Day="7"
Year="2008"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">April 7,
2008</SPAN></st1:date><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><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></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT
size=3>MICHAEL--T/R-JL<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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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>(Tenacious, spontaneous spirit)
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Who you are to
yourself--self-conscious self)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Wasting
energy)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Monjoronson’s message of
mercy)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Free will is a progressive growth)
<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>(Each individual recapitulates the
evolution of life and civilization)<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>(Having emotions vs. their having
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"><FONT size=3>(Breaking through barriers of fear to
relate with others)<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 Michael and Mother Spirit,<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Welcome. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We’ve enjoyed your series of lessons on
what constitutes being an individual within the spiritual encompassing of
God.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’ve explained some of
the seeming paradoxes of how gaining self-confidence actually allows us to
forget ourselves and be devoted more fully to what is happening--not by trying
to hold onto some notion of being blissful all the time, but trusting in our own
adaptability.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>At the same time we
can slowly acquire a self-awareness of our living presence that is far more
tenacious and subtle than any anxious ego-awareness. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is that good company we can keep
ourselves, and this spontaneous part of us can be encouraged to just pop in and
help us reflect on what we’re doing.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>We can bring spirit to bear for a fresh re-evaluation. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So we thank you for these lessons and
examples that we do our best to imagine, or remember events in our lives that
match--in order to really feel what you mean. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you very much. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Amen <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL: <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good evening, this is Michael, and Mother
Spirit and I definitely welcome you all as well. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We invite you to be--just as much as you
can allow yourselves to be--in our world. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We engage in these longer sessions with
this particular group just so by hearing or, later, reading our words, you can
stay in our point of view as long as possible.<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>(Tenacious, spontaneous spirit)
<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>Yes, we do hope to give you actual
experiences through these lessons, if you can trust us and let your creative
spirit provide the experiences that our words suggest. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This can also give you somewhat of a
respite from your own point of view. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So, my children, I suggest you just
take us in and let what we say sink in a bit and do its good work, for we are
informing you on very deep levels. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You may not feel the full effect for
quite a while, consciously, but we do hope it will help you in your
intra-personal relationships by an ever increasing security of
feeling/experiencing yourself as a spiritual being.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This can stick with you through all the
different states of mind, the different learned mentalities of how to go about
your day to day lives--all those practical abilities you’ve acquired.
<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>To emphasize what Mother Spirit spoke
of last time, there is no particularly blissful state of mind you can maintain
at all times.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Sometimes the very
real circumstances of your life call for a commitment you can achieve only by
courageously letting yourself go and trusting in your own spontaneity to rise to
the occasion.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Again, as she said,
no matter how very strange or self-contradictory it seems, spontaneity can
become a new tenacious continuity in your life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The emergence of spontaneous spirit can
surprise you most delightfully. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
may experience it as, all of a sudden, something new is working. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>People begin to emerge as individuals.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is simply more spirit
around--yours and theirs.<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>After a while it is possible to
experience consciously how your spirit can be aware of spirit, your personality
can be directly be aware of other personality. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is in part a function of
self-knowledge for the more you know yourself, the more you can trust an inner
kind of reflection.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How you are
changing inside can tell you about what is happening outside. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the main reason we caution you
against suppressing emotion, even though, obviously, as you grow up you must
struggle mightily not to be captured by emotion. <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>Most of you do go through an adolescent
period of practicing indifference, deliberately becoming callus as the only way
at that time to get some freedom from the emotions blowing you this way and
that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But in time you will find
that your inner emotions can very accurately reflect the situation about you.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can begin to trust that vague
fears or anxieties are a righteous caution that in some way or another you’re
getting out on the edge of something dangerous you may not yet recognize. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Perhaps if you are driving along it
simply means: slow down; there’s something your whole being and higher
consciousness realizes in the situation.<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>By the same means you can become a more
loving person just by trusting more and more in Mothers Spirit’s Adjutant of
Counsel augmenting your impulses of gregariousness, your inner delight in
company. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It helps to assuage some
of the distrust and confrontation that is endemic in certain social situations,
for it takes courage to put yourself out there this way, to trust the upwelling
desire to be the cheerful, supportive person you yourself want to find.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Someone needs to take this initiative,
and there is a wonderful spiritual reward when it is you.
<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>These are all delightful aspects of
what you think of as self-confidence and, true enough, they do not come about
from hanging onto yourself for dear life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>That only fills you with you. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’ll be so busy watching yourself, so
carefully monitoring everything you do, there’ll be no room for anyone else.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ironically, this can lead to a
terrible boredom when an individual does not recognize that relief is in loving
and trusting those others about, and realizing they are what we call little
walking infinities. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Rather, you’re
letting your spirit and your personality register theirs so you can literally
see in them, and recognize through the confrontation with their uniqueness, a
kindred soul, a fellow human. <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 is a living balance that you
cannot hold still, you cannot capture in some fixed formula for living that will
be good for all time. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is why
we assure you that much of your human life is unpredictable, much cannot be
anticipated--even though this does not relieve you of the necessity to try.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s just that so much time can be
wasted in being overly anxious and trying to evolve or develop some modality
that will suit all situations. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These anxieties are still functions of
your ego awareness of yourself, your formalized ideas and notions of who you are
and who you’ve been.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In terms of
time they are all coming out of the past. <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>Mother Spirit recommended in her last
lesson that if you are losing yourself too much in the moment by relying on some
past nostalgia of what worked before, you need to take a break. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You need to call on us for a few minutes.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Take a deliberate break.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let your more spontaneous, creative
nature come out, even if it may be quite disturbing. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your spirit might be telling you, stop!
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Don’t do this anymore! <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are living your life as if walking
backwards, using a rearview mirror of past reactions to see where you are
going.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Because of this mirror
function of your ego, always relating to the past, you keep backing into
things.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In this too it takes nerve
to be open to the possibility that changes are called
for.<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>Consider letting your spirit come
forth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then take them seriously,
these suggestions from your higher consciousness or from your Father Fragment,
you can feel inside when your prayers are answered.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Take your spirit seriously and follow
it. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Otherwise it will just turn
off. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your spirit’s function is not
to nag or annoy you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have to
credit what it offers. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is how
you transform yourself, my children.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is how you bring into consciousness the more tenacious and heartfelt
continuity of a bubbling wellspring of energy and ideals. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the source of spiritual strength,
the ability to do the right thing. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You do have to stop and ask: Father, what
is the best thing to do next? <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>You may be pleasantly surprised with
how quickly the answer can come. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We
encourage you to do this inner asking often, my children, irrespective of
whether or not you can follow the answers. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is another whole level of
self-honesty, a way of staying in touch with the ideals you receive, and
admitting to your spirit, if you will: Thank you very much. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I just can’t do it yet, but I will keep
your suggestions in mind and lean in that
direction.<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>(Who you are to
yourself--self-conscious self)<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>Mother Spirit and I have tried to give
you a sense of what we and the Urantia book mean by your self-conscious self,
your real, evolving self based on your conscious life and memories and, deeper,
your soul.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just because you are,
hopefully, growing and evolving, you may look back and see that much of what you
once believed now seems illusory. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This pertains not only to your own
childhood and adolescence, for now, with your great multi-media--television and
the internet and your movies, you’re more and more able to look back into the
history of the human race in so many cultures all over the world, and get some
notion of what folks once believed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It may appear that how they lived was also childish or illusory--very
primitive across enormous sweeps of time in terms of the different ways people
experienced their 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>Yet, as Mother Spirit cautioned, be
very much aware when you are looking at either your own past or another person’s
life, be aware you are looking at it from the outside-in, and as such, it is
your own, present construct and therefore very limited.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Whereas you, and everyone else who ever
lived, actually live your life viewed from the inside-out.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And every moment--as it is lived--is
complete, even transcendent, being encompassed as it is in God’s presence, like
now. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is how you are actually
living your life moment to moment; and it is real. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your self-conscious self is no illusion,
but real, my children--to God, to Mother Spirit and me, to your personality and
your soul--even if it seems to you to be fluctuating wildly at times and
somewhat an illusion in retrospect.<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>There is a difference between an
illusion--something that appears real at the time and affects you, however it
may later prove to be just some temporary appearance you’ve outgrown; there is a
difference between this and a conscious hallucination that you are fully aware
of--something not quite right in your visual or perceptual world.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mother Spirit and I and, of course, our
Father, can see your life as you see yourself, and we do honor that because it
is real.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Consider: it is within the
realm of your conscious mentality, my children, that you make those critical
choices that do determine whether or not you desire to know and be in accord
with God’s will--the very trend of the universe.<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>Keep in mind our Father’s outreaching
mercy, His ultimate justice in limiting these critical choices to your
consciousness. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The potential of
your eternal survival is finally determined by your own highly conscious
individual choices. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the
reality of your individual self. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the power of spirit you are
capable of progressively knowing. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So be not afraid, my children, to be who
you are and who you can grow to be. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is a natural thing. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is God’s will for you--to grow into
your true individuality, both for yourself and as the most precious gift you can
give to others, and to Him.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can
trust in His Supreme Being that set up this human adventure. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can trust Him--who decreed that
you be the complex being you are, and ordained you will some day lose this
physical body of yours to gain an even greater, more subtle and real, spiritual
one.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>This is you trusting His creation--life
itself, as a living being, no matter what befalls you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so Mother Spirit and I humbly
acknowledge you, my children--especially as you know yourselves. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the kind of being you were
created to be.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>If you have any questions or comments
this evening, let them too spring from your individual self.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Father Michael, is what we’re being told
about global warming being caused by people as dangerous as it sounds, or is it
just a natural cycle the earth is going through?<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>(Wasting
energy)<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>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, my son, it’s both, and even other
causes like sun cycles. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But the
enormous increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is directly due to human
consumption of fossil fuels.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you
look at this from a long term historical perspective, you can realize that the
hundreds of horsepower you nonchalantly toss around out on the highway is a very
recent phenomenon. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Think too of the
way your fear of crime drives you to light up your cities and pour billions of
watts of energy out into space all night long. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is a really fantastically enormous
waste involved in your modern civilizations compared to any time previous, even
a hundred years ago.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And it started
just recently with the use of coal, natural gas, and petroleum, a kind of
geometrically progressive increase that cannot last for
long.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>But as we have commented before, my
son, human beings are economic creatures, always living within limits of
necessity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But by that very token
they are capable of enormous change when it is needed. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The supreme irony is that a world with
much less waste in the so-called advanced cultures of the world would lead to
much more spiritually rewarding, fuller lives in those very cultures. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When the human ego looks less to how many
hundreds of horsepower it can casually toss about, and thinks more of getting in
shape to ride a bicycle around where possible, this could be a net increase for
that human soul to, as you say, stop to sniff the flowers along the
way.<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>From our point of view we see the more
mechanically advanced cultures being driven along by literally hundreds of
millennia of the general racial past of never having enough power. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is the human past you are all
standing on, and that is the source for all this greed--if you will, this
reveling in such enormous waste. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For all of human history there was never
enough power, never enough energy.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Aside from the wind and running water it was all organic, all living
human and animal muscle--hundreds of thousands of years until someone built a
fire under a boiler, connected a steam line to a piston, that to a wheel, and
then watched as it spun merrily along--indefinitely.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What a wonder that was, and what dreams
and ambitions it gave rise to. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>So we encourage you to look forward to
a time when energy is more respected than it is now.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Hopefully these changes in your climate
will help convince you of that sooner than later. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Meanwhile just do what you can in your
own individual life to curb your own greed for unnecessary power. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Does this help answer your question, my
son?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Indeed it does, it puts it on the
individual level and it also gives me a glimmer of hope that the human race is
going to make it after all. <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>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well, there is a very real decimation
going on constantly. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In the same
nation/states with such enormous waste you have such a high degree of human
suffering caused by, ironically, freely chosen life-styles.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>People are literally doing themselves in
and taking themselves out of the game: but what a waste.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Yes) <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But you are in our love, and we hope to
help guide you to finding<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>our peace.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you, Father Michael.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Hello Michael.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>On the note of human adventure and where
we’re all going, I wanted to ask you to amplify, or just add anything you’d
like, in regard to the message from Monjoronson this past weekend. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>By its nature it caught everybody’s
attention and really raised eyebrows when he said the Adjudication has
begun.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Adjudication has begun,
and further, what sounds like a kind of separation of, well, to quote the bible,
the sheep from the goats--so to speak.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It seemed an invitation, actually a requirement for people to make their
decisions now, that this is a time of decision and that what’s at stake is
whether they’re going to remain on the planet.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I couldn’t tell but it seemed like it
might have been a metaphor.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He said
those who would not be willing to go with the Father’s will, the Father’s plan
for the planet, would be removed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>He actually said they would be removed from the planet, which strikes me
as being almost like a Rapture, but like a reverse of the Christian Rapture
where the sheep remain and the goats are taken off.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So I wonder if you can help us validate
this, and add anything that your divine mind and loving personality wants to add
to this. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>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>(Monjoronson’s message of
mercy)<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>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, my son, if I’m not mistaken, I just
did. (group laughs) Monjoronson is issuing a clear clarion call to help
everybody wake up to the dis-ease that is infesting you by way of your own
freedom of choice.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But this too, my
son, is very complex.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mother Spirit
and I have tried to address this issue by showing you the various ways your free
will is limited by so much cultural conditioning.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is what I meant by being able to see
the terrible waste stemming from long outdated cultural attitudes of never
enough energy.<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>Remember it’s been so very recent--the
discovery of enormous sources of energy in fossil fuels that led to lifestyles
that cannot be sustained in such cruel disparity.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>On the most basic levels of nutrition,
while you have a third of the world’s population dying or living enormously
stunted lives for lack of good food, you have millions and millions of folks
riddled with disease through obesity or poor nutrition within their choice.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is such a thing as gluttony, not
only with food but with all aspects of human life that require energy.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A lack of freedom of choice--from a
spiritual standpoint, is being so caught up in the cultural habits of the family
and larger society.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>People cannot
grow out of this conditioning because they have yet to get in touch with their
own spontaneity and creativity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is what it takes to break out of the patterns they were born
into.<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>Monjoronson reminds you that these
choices will be forced upon you simply because the world is a finite place with
limited resources.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ironically it’s
with a kind of spiritual justice that those who cannot decide to live a fuller,
healthier life are being taken out, yet not exactly by their own choices, but by
their inability to choose.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is
happening; the decimation is coming down.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>We emphasize it is within the realm of each individual’s consciousness
that freedom exists, or not, and why we’ve given lessons on how to increase your
conscious contact with liberating spirit.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Once you’ve made contact, you must cherish and credit it; you must obey
it for, being spirit, it will not compel you but will go
away.<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>God is spirit and His will, stemming
from His love, is no other than the best way for you to live.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mother Spirit’s Mind/Spirit Adjutants of
worship and wisdom are here to augment your own natural abilities.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My Spirit of Truth is here to help you
sort through this maze of what is better and what is not.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But yes, the whole universe is
progressive by God’s will, and you do have to keep up.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(much laughter
{Ouch!})<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So the removable of those who are not
choosing the better way is really a self-removable and we needn’t project into
that the notion of anything like a Rapture, some exponential speeding-up of what
is already happening.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So there will
be a self-elimination of those who aren’t living spiritually, along with a
kind-of caldron boiling out factors that don’t belong.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Am I on the right track with this
interpretation? <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>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Very much so, my son.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This has been the case right from the
beginning with the first humans, Andon and Fonta; and ever since.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have given this process the term
Social Darwinism, the weeding out of unfit biological and behavioral
strains.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mother Spirit mentioned
last time the civilizing benefits of warfare, one of which was the elimination
of the less fit to survive that way.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It’s difficult to think of any harder Darwinism than that, except that
modern warfare is so indiscriminate it takes out individuals
haphazardly/randomly.<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>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If I may clarify a bit more…<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In the separation that Monjoronson
speaks of, it would appear he is playing some role in this…separation of the
sheep and the goats, and so it’s not just the natural forces, but it’s something
extra being injected by him.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It
sounded like what the Urantia book means by a judgment of the age that is now
occurring--not the adjudication of the Lucifer Rebellion--that’s already
happened--but the judgment of the age is what the Magisterial Mission is
for.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So there’s also action from
him and not just the planetary evolution speeding up.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Could you throw more light on his role?
<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>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is most fundamental that you keep in
mind his mission is one of mercy.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is critical for it steers you away from ideas that any of
us---including my brother Monjoronson--would directly negate or supervene your
individual freedom.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This we do not
do.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is not in our nature.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Intervention does nothing to advance
your true spiritual growth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Again,
Monjoronson wishes to get you all to wake up!--to make the necessary
decisions--to bring all these concerns into consciousness and begin to think
outside your habitual conditioning.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Start thinking in terms of this whole world and all the peoples on
it--those billions I mentioned who are suffering and perishing beyond your
wildest imagination, just by the accident of where they were born.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>There are great turning points looming
near with respect to how you can continue using energy so wastefully.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are beginning to speak of peak
oil--the leveling off of new discoveries of crude oil and natural gas.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You notice the phenomena of global
warming due partly to carbon dioxide buildup in the atmosphere faster than the
plant life can use.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is no
other way than conservation but, beyond that, what we call spiritual
generosity--curbing your own greed and waste so others might simply live.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is part of God’s law, this Social
Darwinism that comes into effect following basic physical limitations you do
well to respect.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These
considerations are another aspect of loving your neighbors as yourself.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is the only way out.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can choose to share your wealth, or
be driven to it.<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>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’ll just comment and say it appears
there isn’t any sense in looking for an overt event of divine intervention per
se, but a process of acceleration of the need to make decisions that lead to
sustainable living for all of us.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>There could be a point of acceleration that would be intolerable, that
would force everyone to decide one way or the other--maybe catastrophic
conditions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But we’re not going to
see an intervention amidst this; although we’ll certainly have individual input
from spirit.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There won’t be a
planetary event in our day for all to see, but rather something more
subtle.<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>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Essentially--yes.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is still a sign of immaturity to
expect to be saved from yourselves…(much laughter)…and hope that Daddy will
intervene and take care of you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Keep in mind God is already inside you, and can show you the way as soon
as you are open to Him--and have the nerve and the will to act in accord.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Remember to seek my peace as
well.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, Michael, I remember hearing someone
say that true humility is obedience to the unenforceable, and that if we humble
ourselves and allow ourselves to hear the Father’s will within us, then we
become more truly ourselves.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I
remember Mother Spirit addressing us to take the time in our day--little
stillness breaks--and some of these teaching also practice resting naturally at
certain moments; in essence the same thing.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In time these moments become one long
moment if we let go the habits, the illusions, the notions we hold onto so
dearly.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>There seems to be a veil over this
planet that promotes separation from the Father, instead of oneness and
unity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But if we allow ourselves to
take those moments of stillness and rest, and experience our innate wisdom, and
let go the conventional mind that casts this veil, then the choice is
evident.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Our freedom, which is our
natural state, is assured.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So
that’s our individual responsibility.<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>(Free will is a progressive
growth)<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>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, my son, that is very much to the
point.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I emphasized tonight the way
in which your freedom of choice is a progressive growth in your life, starting
from almost none when you were a small child, you were surrounded by such
enormous forces over which you had no understanding, and therefore no
control.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This growth of freedom
will continue on into your Morontia phases, indeed on into eternity as you
encounter and understand more and more of the Father’s creation.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mother Spirit reminded you, you will
always find more to discover and know, even about yourself.<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>It is in this sense these are not
individual choices, but the lack of them stemming from cultural conditioning
that can be traced back to the Lucifer Rebellion and the thwarting of divine
plans that would have had Urantia far more advanced in social equality than it
is.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Keep in mind that all
evolutionary planets are just that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>They all start out in primitive imperfection and slowly grow their
civilizations.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is also true of
individuals.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The individual does
not choose to be separated from God.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is a stage you go through.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>We explained the process a few lessons ago of how you leave the magical
oneness of childhood of the undifferentiated physical, mental, and spiritual
aspects of life, much like very primitive folks who perceive even the trees and
rocks are alive with spirits--for there is some truth in that.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But there comes an adolescent period of
the maximum separation of individualization as each person tries to achieve a
grasp of his or her own uniqueness--first from their parents and that
generation, then from the general cultural at large, and this includes religious
beliefs about God.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This often
entails practicing indifference and callousness--insensitivity and rebellion,
just to get some sense of freedom from social constraints.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It takes time and the maturity of
experience to learn that insensitivity also cuts you off from what is worthwhile
in life as well, and you seek to be reconnected with what can now be appreciated
on a higher level with all your hard-earned soul wealth of the
process.<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 this process is a civilizing thing
of oneness--separation--mature connection.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The estrangement from ones source is not something the individual chooses
because it is a kind of suffering.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The individual has to grow a more mature and genuine freedom to have a
choice--to tune in to their Father Fragment, to trust their increasing wisdom
and have the nerve to step off and live it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You all start out from scratch in a
relatively unenlightened culture from which you need to differentiate yourself,
but you can see how many individuals are arrested at different stages along this
path to becoming enlightened, some never leaving the realm of magic, others the
attitudes of indifference and callousness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Hopefully each generation takes genuine progress a bit further than where
they encountered it.<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>I like your definition of humility, of
choosing to do something you aren’t forced to.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We say it comes about by the perception
of something enormous--God’s will manifested in His creation.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have the choice of feeling very tiny
and humiliated, or you can glory that you can have such a perception.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’ll choose the latter.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’ve been reading in the Urantia book
about the nature of God, the personality of God, the mystery of His
infinity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It mentioned the choice
we have between the material and the spiritual and how we seem to run aground in
our material ways of life, and if we continue that way we cease to exist.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It reinforced my drive to be more
spiritually open-minded to the expansiveness of who we all are.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But it seems so odd we’re inundated with
all these beliefs, we’re not even given the chance to think for ourselves.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So we experience suffering.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Because I suffered I started asking
questions about what I believed and who I am.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I still am.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I look around and I think we’re living
wrong.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We’re not living in harmony
with our Father, our Source.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, my son, but consider it’s the
natural tendency of an animal/primitive nature to expand until stopped.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Animals are territorial, and with humans
this includes not only land but knowledge and religion--you’ve gone to war over
disputed facts and beliefs.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
develop in a certain direction until you hit a wall--figuratively speaking.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You experience a limitation, and that is
suffering.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Hopefully you learn by
the experience; you find a way around the limit by understanding
it.<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>(Each individual recapitulates the
evolution of life and civilization)<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>Every individual has to recapitulate,
not only as an embryo the evolution of planetary life, but as a child and
adolescent the evolution of civilization.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>A little two-year-old is kind-of like a small cave man walking around,
and when you thwart them…(much laughter)…thank goodness they don’t have the
power or hardly a parent would survive.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is the story here, and you are just pointing out the world is still
only in the early stages of a planetary-wide united civilization.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There was an enormous miscarriage of the
divine plan, and everyone is still suffering the effects of that in the
disparity I mentioned.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet this can
be overcome only one person at a time through the realization of free will fed
by creative spirit.<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>Never despair.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This universe was set up so individuals
could learn, could take a hand in their own, progressive evolution.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are co-creating your own life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are a creative part of this
adventure.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are an active
component of what you are experiencing.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>(Thank you)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be in my
peace.<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>Michael, you touched on so many things
tonight.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For me it was so many
yesterdays to walk in and so many tomorrows to fuss with, and I’m just beginning
to feel, now and yesterday--I’m going to tell this without crying--what you said
about emotion causing us to suffer--what turmoil--they can lead us by the
nose.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But I’m learning they are
like clothes we’re wearing, and we can take them off, and not become cold and
uncaring.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I can care for the world
without crying.<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>Yesterday, overlooking the apple
orchard blossoms and the sky I felt your goodness so strongly it was like the
clouds were speaking.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I could
breathe in the clouds speaking: You are a piece of me.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are a part of the whole.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can feel now.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I can’t put it into words because now I
understand how words can’t touch this sometimes, but I’m so moved in this I just
wept--you are so good!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are so
good!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I felt all the goodness, and
everything was just sort-of washed clean--all my little worries and stuff.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I felt so refreshed and alive and awake
and thankful--and I’m still riding this.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It’s just pure joy; there’s no judgment.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I was looking at the world unclouded; it
was just pure me without all the emotion. <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 yet it’s like you say, we can’t--I
don’t expect to remain in this bliss all the time.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have to be focused.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But I have so much love, and I choose to
serve our world in any way I’m guided.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And you were right.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When I
ask how to serve, you always place someone right in front of me; or something
happens and I am creating and writing because of this awareness.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I honor you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you so much for nudging
me.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is I who thank you, my daughter, for
receiving me so directly.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That
takes enormous courage, because you don’t know what is going to happen next, do
you?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(laughing, No!--but I’m
prepared…)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And yet it can be
glorious, can it not?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(long
pause…)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I hate to disturb this
peace you’ve already found.<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 just wanted to comment on emotions and
how we can step aside from them at times and observe such wonderful things,
instead of being tossed around.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>That’s what’s really going on with me now.<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>(Having emotions vs. their having
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>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, this is very true.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’ve discovered a critical difference
between when you have emotions, and when emotions have you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s a true perception.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When you’re taken by some emotion and
just shaken around like a proverbial rag doll, and all you can do is ride out
the storm until whatever caused it ceases, the feeling of helplessness, of being
humiliated is a true one.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
do well to credit it and strive to understand it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For only by doing so can you reach that
wonderful state I mentioned where you have emotions and, because they come from
a totality of your self, they can caution you about some genuine event happening
around you, you may not have noticed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>As I mentioned, perhaps you’re out driving and fall into daydreaming
about some other time.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The fear can
be to wake you up, and you do well to respect it, and find its source.<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>A subtle play of emotions within you
can tell you very accurately about the person standing in front of you, because
your spirits and personalities may be in touch, but this has to filter down
through your super-conscious mind, through your physical/mental being.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So what you are feeling with these
subtle little zithers of emotion can tell you much about another person.<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>This is what you discovered, my
daughter.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’ve gained an ability
to choose, to set emotion to the side, and the freedom that comes about because
of that makes you feel one with everything around you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Yes!)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And you are right not to cling to
this.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But enjoy it, and see if you
can’t invite it to come back, again and again.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you for sharing that with us--it
was truly glorious.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Continue to be
in my peace.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(heavy
sigh)<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, Michael.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For me the question is, when I get to
this place where it requires some initiative to reach out to other people from
that Spirit of Council you spoke of earlier, I find I come up against a dead
space in me that comes from my past relationships--especially with my mother,
and I’ve found it easier to live in a world of imagined relationships because
that is what I did with her--to replace her.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Now in order to fulfill myself and do
the Father’s will I need to find a way to break through it, because there’s a
lot of fear there.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The fear isn’t
as great as the love, but what can I keep in mind, what kind of prayer would
help me break through 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>(Breaking through barriers of fear to
relate with others)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, my daughter.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I congratulate you on the courage and
the self-honesty it takes to see the situation so clearly.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This has been a great accomplishment so
far.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The prayer would be: Dear
Father, let me beam as much love as I know is within me; let me beam this love
at this person in front of me, irrespective of whatever result.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Give me the strength to have this
spiritual generosity--just to beam love out.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And let me experience how this is
strengthening me.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>This will be exercising you, my
daughter, just like going to the gym and working out.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>By beaming your love out, by giving it
away like this, you find the source of it, you find the freedom in it of not
being bound by results.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It takes
spiritual nerve because it goes against all the physical/mental economy of
trading this for that, of giving only to get, of wondering if you‘re not being
made a fool of, or being taken advantage of--now not quite so strictly, so
judgmentally.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just feel a pure
out-flowing of love for this person; then try to do this for everyone you
see.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This will help get you over
any kind of prejudices or superficial evaluations you’re making about them.<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>The wonderful result of this can be
breaking through this barrier you feel, by starting to notice a blossoming of
individuality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’ll be breaking
through your own screening process, you own pigeon-holing of others.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then you have to have the nerve to take
the next step and welcome what may be a little overwhelming at first.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But this is that deep contact and
response, my daughter, that your soul is dying for.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is what really feeds you--living in
a world of unique individuals, each with his or her own story, each with their
own character and soul.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As you
said, you are feeling the need for initiative.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You just have to beam your love right
straight through any barriers; just give, and trust that this is what makes you
strong.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Letting love flow through
you is what gives you spiritual strength, and makes you less dependant.<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 also helps to credit that other
people are subtle and sensitive beyond either of your conscious selves.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They respond to you on a spiritual,
personal level too.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have to
trust this, that as you beam your love out there, it is being received.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It will show results in time.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But you have to have the courage and
strength to go first, without trying only a little bit to see if it immediately
works.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(much laughter)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the faith it takes; but that’s
why it works.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s why nothing
short of faith will.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Wow)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is what it is.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’ve very correctly analyzed what’s
happening: this is you prayer:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Dear
Father, give me the courage and the strength to just beam my love out
there.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Help me be more like
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>Student:<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>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you, my daughter.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I do salute the courage it takes to see
things so clearly.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Keep my peace
all about you as you go forward.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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whose outpouring creates a universe.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>That is spirit.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s how
it works.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is also why its
unity is so contra-distinct from the multiplicity of the strictly physical.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We’ve gone around and around a lot
tonight on how you, not only as individuals but this whole world of yours, gets
caught up in the fragmentation/separation of materialism as a stage of
development, and how you and everyone else must slowly evolve--both beyond and
yet respectfully inclusive of material reality in order for this world to
evolve.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can come to trust in
the creative flexibility of yourself and your fellows.<SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>As the material changes come along--the
turning around of the energy glut we talked about--this can be a spiritual
Renaissance, hopefully not only out of necessity; hopefully too out of spiritual
generosity, mutual regard, and love.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Life is a lot less painful that way.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For that is also one of God’s
spiritual laws, and one of your free-will choices to make.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Make it wisely.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Don’t forget, we are here, Mother Spirit
and I, and our Father.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are right
here inside you and beside you, to help.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Call upon us, and then credit and treasure what we have to offer.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Keep hope alive.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Never give up.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is still just another phase in
eternity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be in my peace.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good evening.<SPAN
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