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align=center><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Nebadonia--</SPAN><st1:date Year="2008" Day="17"
Month="11"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">November 17,
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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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT
size=3>NEBADONIA---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>(We cannot tell you what to
do)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(What is new) <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(The wonderful feeling of genuine
accomplishment) <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Mother Spirit’s and Michael’s being)
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(How can we experience Mother
Spirit)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(More on hints)<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>(Fatalism)<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>(Planetary and individual
progress)<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>(Feeling the effort of
living)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Embracing the purpose)<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>Dear Mother Spirit and Michael,<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Tonight we ask you to help
us still our minds and really open our hearts to take in your words of
inspiration and assurance. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It seems
our economic difficulties as a society are even deeper than we anticipated and
so we welcome your words of assurance that we are creative beings. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’ve taught that in this we are most
made in the image of God, whose greatest power is creativity. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We literately need to, and can, create
our way forward into a future that will be--perhaps has to be--so very different
from anything we have yet known.<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>Circumstances make us realize that we
can become very culturally lazy and, like some ancient peoples, come to think we
have reached a culmination of civilization and that the way of life we have
always known is going to continue on indefinitely relatively unchanged.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So once again circumstances conspire to
press upon us what you have said over and over: that we are involved in a
gigantic, inexorable evolution--all personal beings--all planets, systems, and
Local Universes. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is a
universal evolution for our own good that will not let us stop for long anywhere
along the way. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So help us, we pray,
keep our minds open, and keep a warm heart toward and for each other.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Help us welcome feeling that greater
effort--as you taught us, which may be required.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Help us honor, and return, our Father’s
deep love for us. <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>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good evening, my children, this is
Nebadonia, your spiritual mother. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I
must say, sometimes Michael and I do wish--in a kind of a whimsical way, when we
most closely identify with you, our human children--we do wish we could simply
tell you what to do, and make things so much easier for you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(group chuckles)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is a large percentage of the
requests--(now Mother Spirit chuckles)--that come our way over the spiritual
networks and right within the mentality we share with you. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so tonight, my children, we ask you
keep strong your faith and your love for us, and achieve a deep understanding of
why we cannot, for our very love for you, just tell you what to
do.<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>(We cannot tell you what to
do)<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>For many lessons now, and in a number
of different ways, we have been presenting as a profound gift of God to us all,
what we experience in the way of a challenging, transcendent reality. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I will agree that at times it is coming
down on your poor bare heads like a driving rain, yet the very magnificence of
character and soul that you can bring forth to meet the challenge proves the
point of what a gift this adventure is. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You need only imagine what a hell of
stagnation and monotony an unchanging, predetermined universe would be to
appreciate what you see around you, even if it sometimes comes at you like a
raging storm.<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 it’s not all our Father’s doing,
especially since your societies are composed of the consequences of every
relatively free-willed human being about you, and not only those alive today,
but the consequences and conditioning of your whole human past.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’re experiencing the results of
millions upon millions of persons’ decisions--or lack thereof--that have led to
the present situation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Additionally, this is as it ideally should be only insofar as it means
the net results of free will creatures and not some oppressive dictum from
above.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I would further add--echoing
your Urantia book--all the decisions of those extra-human higher spiritual
beings, from angels on up the chain of command--so to speak, to include all
these other imperfect spiritual/experiential beings giving a hand in working for
the perfection of all.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We remind
you that, in any way you could think of it, for God, or even Michael or myself,
to just step in and make things right by our wisdom of what that should be,
would be nothing less than disfranchising endless trillions of personal
beings.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Last time I teased you with the notion of whether or
not people might even have some ironic fear of </SPAN><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Paradise</SPAN></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For
right on your planet--taken as a whole--there has always been sufficient food
and shelter for the human races to not only survive, but to thrive. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The planet is dotted with works like
great pyramids and stone walls stretching for hundreds of miles, the remains
still of ancient and medieval cities--huge cathedrals, enormous
fortifications.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s impossible to
encapsulate your planetary story in a few sentences like this, but the human
race has always had not only the basics, but enough left over, enough in
addition, enough capital--if you will, to have the gigantic panorama you call
human history.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And still there are
people starving to death and dying of exposure.<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">So consider: what would be a humanly possible
</SPAN><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Paradise</SPAN></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">? <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Which
individual person’s version of that could be applied across a whole society and
not conflict with everyone else’s notions along those lines? <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What I’m getting at is why you have to
work it out yourselves, day by day, and why thousands of years of trial and
error have proven this is a slow progress if it is to hold.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Truth does ultimately prevail as what is
left after all the contention, but those positive advances the human race has
made are because they’re the result of all these contending opinions.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is as it should be if you want all
the voices to be heard, if you want to keep evolving towards an ever more
profound and workable democracy representing
everyone.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(What is new) <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>Right now the whole world is
experiencing enormous disruptions and displacements as more and more heretofore
isolated and independent societies come into economic relationships.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And with your modern global,
instantaneous communications, with the sheer amount of exchange of ideas and the
ability to transmit them and record them for all posterity in an almost
overwhelming detail: this is new. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The ideals of transparency and
responsibility that Michael mentioned last time, these are not new, but they‘re
being brought into focus as never before.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Consider the transfer of governmental power from one generation to the
next.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Think of all the ways that
humankind has tried their best to assure a benevolent and capable leadership
through hereditary bloodlines, through the rule of one political party or
another, through the worship of the multitudes of a charismatic leader to tell
them what to do. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All these are
stages of what we’ve called social immaturity you’ve had to come through, not
only to accept but welcome the fact your leaders are not walking around an inch
off the ground.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They are men and
women much like yourselves, and so can be--need to be rightfully held
responsible to you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your part is
one of paying attention to insure they are response-able.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is government by the people.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><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>Government of the people is still
throughout the world more a matter of specialized political classes who run
things with all the deliberate, self-serving obfuscation Michael mentioned.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are caught up in massive economic
dislocations due to the endless layers of relatively hidden machinations that
are only now coming to light after long years of disastrous fact.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Again I call your attention to the
chapter in your Urantia book on Life on a Neighboring Planet where you have a
true civilian government, where governmental position and power truly serve the
people.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is that government for
the people you are struggling to achieve. <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>Through all this one of the most
hopeful signs that Michael and I see is how more and more individuals are taking
a mature responsibility for their own lives and not, shall we say, getting
caught up in the latest financial fad of bottomless debt, but are trying to live
their lives grounded in a real, sustainable physical, expanding mental and
spiritual reality. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>I speak of living your lives less
abstractly and evermore directly, in direct relationship with material stuff,
creative ideas, and spiritual ideals.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is the genuine accomplishment that is your greatest treasure, my
children.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Michael spoke last time
of the utterly unforgettable, eternal prize that he accomplished through the
Crucifixion, through accepting that ordeal--not as a necessary way, but neither
as a hindrance to feeling his Father’s devotion, and his own devotion to his
Father. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the glory in being
fully human; and so the counterpart to that--the pain, the fear, the anxiety,
the uncertainty: these are also real.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>There is a kind of honorable, humble pride you can achieve in your soul.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is not the only relative,
indirect pride of feeling greater than someone else, walking around with your
nose in the air, disdaining the common touch. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have that wonderful expression that
pride goes before the fall, that, with people so proud, it takes only a small
trip-hazard on a flight of stairs to precipitate a very fatal
come-down.<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 feeling of genuine
accomplishment) <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 wonderful, genuine feeling
of accomplishment, of doing something and changing the world for the better
right in your own sphere of activity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>These are the moments that, as Michael said, become a bottomless fountain
of appreciation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It requires that
effort, that study, that dedication and devotion for genuine accomplishment, for
these become part of your soul, part of your power and ability, part of your
knowledge and understanding, part of your character.
<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>In these hard times, open your hearts
to each other. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Hold out that
helping hand, and don’t be too shy of the need to hold out your hand for
help.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let any phony, arrogant kind
of pride go. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just be evermore
closer to yourself, to your real core. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let your soul come forth. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Open yourselves inwardly, my children, to
your whole life and all that you’ve learned, all that you’ve come to understand,
to bring to bear on the present 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>These days so many people are
unavoidably brought to a kind of meditation through fear and anxiety.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They truly don’t know what to do
next--where to turn for a job, for a payment on their house, even for food on
the table. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But you as a people will
persevere, you will survive, you will even thrive on this adversity because it
will illuminate just what major changes have to take place in your society.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Through your meditations and prayers you
will come to realize what is a sustainable future. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We only wish we could hint a bit more
specifically what some of these changes need 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>That is rightfully your responsibility,
rightfully even your duty of cosmic citizenship, to create these for yourselves.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So it is our assurance to you, as Michael
put it so succinctly last time--even God’s will for you: there is nothing
required of you that you cannot accomplish in whatever situation. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is your response-ability, even
though the situation is, as we said, more than His will. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The situation is the sum total of all of
us working together. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Hard times
call for hard lessons, but we trust you can see the joy, even the glory, right
in the need to exercise such powers of creativity
yourselves.<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,
that’s always been part of our relationship.<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>Hi, Mother.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you for your support and your love
and your understanding and your guidance; and I’m thinking that it’s probably
better not to give us too many hints, then it would spoil all our experiences.
<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 question I have is, do you and
Michael, and your sons and daughters, have an energy system like the chakras of
our human bodies, or is that something specific to us human
beings?<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’s and Michael’s being)
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, my son.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(long pause)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is an extremely difficult question
to answer--(group chuckles)--one that we’ve only alluded to before.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are aware of literally hundreds of
dimensions beyond what you can yet perceive and relate to. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Michael and I do not have physical bodies
made up of a stasis of energy such as you have, nor what you’ve been informed
are the hundreds of modulations you will go through in the next, Morontia phases
of your coming life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet Michael
and I being the architects--if you will--the designers of all those
chakras--(Mother chuckles)--as well as the rest of your body--we are very
familiar with our handiwork. <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>There is enormous creative latitude
given a Creator Son and a Mother Spirit of a Local Universe. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In some degree each Local Universe is
differently evolved, with differently evolved patterns of its more human-type
citizens. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The seraphim and some of
the higher spiritual beings--sons and daughters of Michael and I--are much more
uniform throughout the galaxies. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When you get right down on the
evolutionary worlds--no pun intended--keep in mind even our Life Carrier Sons
are not perfect. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They too are
evolving on each new world upon which they plant or begin life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They too are comparing notes--(Mother
chuckles)--of all their workings, with all their brothers in all the other Local
Universes.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These are all unique
spiritual personalities, and each level or kind of being is yet another
dimension of cosmic evolution within me--as are
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>This is a long, round-about answer, my
son, that in one way, yes, we do have your physiological structure as part of us
in all our billions and billions of sons and daughters.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But very directly and
personally?--no.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are pure
spiritual beings in that sense.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Does that at least partly answer your
question?<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>Yes and no…<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m almost afraid to ask another
question.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’ll have to read the
transcripts, but I kind-of get the gist of it.<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>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It means that Michael and I are truly
your spiritual parents, with all that implies.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We literally designed your physical
beings, and after hundreds of billions of years now we are quite familiar with
every part of you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s another way
in which Michael and I share your life with you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I got a CD from the Center for Christ
Consciousness about you and Michael retuning--I guess is the best way to put
it--my chakras to your frequencies, and that’s what inspired the question.<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>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Keep in mind that using words like
frequencies--which I also did once with your group--are only very rough
approximations of these other spiritual dimensions we inhabit and can help you
tune in to.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Can any human being
really understand yet what it means for me to be everywhere present within
thousands of cubic light-years of space, in the minds of trillions upon
trillions of personal beings?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet I
have a very discrete presence, a kind of body if you will, here on Salvington,
to which all my different children can relate.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For human beings there are so many
experiences and their derived understandings that are either this or that, but
these limitations in no way affect Michael or me.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are both discrete and at the same
time enormously extensive along dimensions you will spend some long time,
working your way up through our Local Universe, encountering and making your
own.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We have focalizations of our
presence and activities throughout our Local Universe, and these could be
roughly analogous to chakras in the human body if you take into account the
vastness of scale.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I look forward to one day meeting that
discrete body of yours.<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>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so you shall.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is within our power to manifest
ourselves in such a way that each of our nearly numberless children of whatever
order can relate to us.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I assure
you it will be appropriate for the time and the place.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But then, my son, so will you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be in my love.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Thank you,
Mother.)<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>Good evening, Mother.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’d like to know how it is we mortals
experience you in our everyday lives.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>How do we contact you?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How
can we personally know you?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I know
I have a direct experience with God the Father, and with Michael’s Spirit of
Truth, and I know the Mind/Spirits come from you, but how is it we have a
personal experience with you?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’d
like to have more of 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>(How can we experience Mother
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>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, my daughter, Michael and I once
mentioned that part of the difficulty of experiencing your Father Fragment--the
presence of God within you, is because it is so much a part of you, and always
has been since your earliest memories of self-consciousness.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>His input has been some of the better
ideas you’ve had all your life, and this very familiarity makes it hard for you
to draw the line between the two of you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And so it is with my presence.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The most difficult thing for most people to credit when they first
encounter the concept of my Mind/Spirit Adjutants is that I’m part of your
mentality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are literally using
me to wonder about how to get in touch with me.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so for the same reason it is hard to
separate me out as a discrete presence or entity within you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m like your eye that sees but cannot
see itself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>You can become aware of a very subtle
presence in your mind as a kind of modulating background of consciousness, but
still, however you begin to notice it and its changes, you’ll have the utmost
difficulty in saying exactly when you became aware of it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It will seem like it’s always been
there, because it has.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s the
mental field within which you think and perceive; and that is us!--both within
you and without.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The presence of
your Father Fragment, Michael’s Spirit of Truth, and my Mind/Spirit
Adjutants--it’s difficult to distinguish between us and our effects upon you
because we are so united in our very natures and influence.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We’re very coordinated, you might
say.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>But any time you think of me, my
daughter, I gladly register it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You’ve only to think of me to address me.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’ve only to be still to hear or feel
the answer.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Again, any question you
address to me will have repercussions within Michael and our Father.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The answer will be this combination of
us.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>So I am literally part of the mentality
with which you recognize and register reality, and then articulate it to
yourself by the mental powers of intuition, knowledge, understanding, curiosity,
counsel--all dimensions of my consciousness that I share with you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So this wondering is most truly me, as
well as it is you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your wondering
is my delight.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can stretch your
imagination and wonder further what it is to be the Holy Spirit of all the
personal beings across our Local Universe, with all its millions of evolutionary
and architectural spheres.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is my
glory I can be me--fully---right in you, every single one of 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>So that’s me.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’ve only to think, Hi, Mom!--and I’ll
get it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That initial desire is
you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have a discrete
personality quite apart from this mentality we share.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So think of me from time to time, and
say, Hi!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And keep feeling my
love.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Thank
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>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, Mother.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When you mentioned how you and Michael
would like to give us more hints--and I know how I’d like to have not only hints
but the whole picture!--I also know that, judging by our history, when we have
been given hints, we tend to misinterpret them.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I also understand that we each need to
come from our own deepest wisdom, and have faith in that wisdom that comes from
you and Michael and God as well.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So
I understand that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It doesn’t make
it easier!--but we need to stand on our own two feet and be response-able for
our lives and how we act.<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>(More on hints)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When I said that Michael and I wish we
could give you more hints, I meant that we fully acknowledge the desire in your
hearts we would do so.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And we do
appreciate you have the wisdom to see why we can’t, why it would be taking
something away from you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Those of
you who have been parents and have learned how to let your children make their
own discoveries know well what I mean.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I can relate to that.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’ve been a father, and now a
grandfather as well.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In the prayer
tonight it was mentioned that we are created in the image of God, and it seems
this doesn’t get talked about enough.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>People seem to think we’re all sinners, or bound by Karma.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But if people could meditate upon this
ideal, they could get a better grasp of our inherent nature.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s just something I thought of when
J mentioned that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If people
understood what that ideal is, then they could be better committed to living
it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>At least that’s my
commitment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>NEBADONIA: <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is in your creativity that you are
most like your Father.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your ability
to create, to come up with that which has not yet been, that is by far God’s
greatest power--that there even is the Creation.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is an assurance of ours, that you
are spiritual, and so, creative beings.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You need not be rigidly bound by previous causes and
effects.<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>(Fatalism)<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 bugaboo--as you might consider
it--the great stumbling block as Michael spoke of it, is the often overwhelming
feeling expressed in the belief system we call fatalism, that people are
helpless and only re-active pawns in someone else’s predetermined chess game, a
game they think they can see all too clearly.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That very orientation--and here’s the
irony--because of the individual’s creativity, that orientation to reality is
able to fulfill their beliefs to a degree.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It becomes a self-fulfilling philosophy of life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But in doing so they are refusing to
develop the potential ability to respond uniquely, spontaneously, to each unique
situation.<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>Fatalism colors every perception with a
pall of familiarity that hides the uniqueness in each moment, and the challenge
of meeting that uniqueness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s
fatalism’s unconscious purpose, to enable someone to think, Yes--I was right:
things are exactly how I knew they would be.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet while it diminishes fear of the
unknown, it’s an illusion and the full consequence is to feel one is helplessly
being swept along by events.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In
failing to develop their creative, initiating ability to step in and change
events, people can live very stunted lives.<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>From our viewpoint of being able to see
their souls, we can see what enormous, genuine drama exists in their lives.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But sadly they will not know this until
they have crossed over and have literally become so much more directly their own
souls.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This larger, spiritual
repository of their lives is theirs, waiting for 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>Student: <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s like what you said earlier about
people being afraid of paradise--how it would change their position with respect
to others.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They’re even afraid of
being human--that it’s a good thing!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You know?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We go through
these superstitious rituals and efforts to be something we already are, that’s
here and now.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>People go through so
much unnecessary pain and suffering in the name of God, because they feel
they’re so much less than made in His image.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet all the various teachings agree that
we are.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Here you can have some appreciation of
the slow evolution of civilization and social maturity.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>First, with respect to Urantia’s special
history, you can see how Lucifer’s doctrine still persists in various degrees
two hundred thousand years later.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Second, keep in mind that each individual, from the time they are born,
more or less recapitulates all the stages of civilization.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Each person, starting from zero as a
truly helpless baby, has to experience and learn one lesson at a time, through
immaturity, hopefully coming up to their parents’ level of understanding and
then taking that a few steps further for themselves and their
children.<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>(Planetary and individual
progress)<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>This is the story of planetary, as well
as individual progress.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>God set it
up this way.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is not that He
cannot create perfect beings and worlds, because He has in the inner universe of
Havona.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But out here in time and
space was a different idea.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Out
here each individual earns his or her growth toward perfection through a
personal accumulation of culture and character.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>None of you are born with this; you have
to earn it all.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It becomes a
genuine soul-possession.<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 yes, my son, when you look at the
positive side you see this enormous growth of all the souls, all the experiences
of all the personal beings of time and space, all culminating in the facet of
God we call the Supreme Being--if you will, the God of time and space
experience.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And He is not only the
culmination of every being’s experience, but, like your own soul, is an active
participant in this evolution.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That
is His glorious expansion!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Mother
Spirit laughs)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Remember when I once
compared total reality to a balloon, but one that is humanly impossible to
conceive without bursting?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It would
seem it has to explode; but it doesn’t!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You don’t.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You and your soul
and your Father Fragment, become one, just keep growing--forever!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I see the problems of the world--the
financial situation, and so forth, and I see that as an opportunity of
self-discovery of another way to live.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>If people could rest with themselves and not allow the fear to take over
their decision-making.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then
they can see their own true interest--if they make that
choice.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Exactly, my son.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is their creativity, that choice is
possible.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is their potential
nature as a spiritual being. <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>And I see in my own life at this time,
because my kids have moved out--yesterday--now I seem to be more open
to…whatever: living by that wisdom; being more beneficial to others.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I desire and pray, as it says in the
Urantia book, to be an extension of that kingdom--without thinking about
it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It would be…just who I am.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s so much a part of who we
are.<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>(Feeling the effort of
living)<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>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well, keep in mind, my son, my lesson on
conscious effort.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is a notion
out there floating around that the fully enlightened life is somehow
effortless.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But I think the
teachers who taught that were only pointing at the psychological dimension, that
only by totally accepting the necessity to feel the effort of being a living
human being--that puts you in touch with reality, be it physical, mental, or
spiritual--can you eliminate a certain existential fear of life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In other words, you actually continue to
grow in your ability to feel; you just don’t worry about it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Practically, you become more
efficient.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><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>Yes, it is a process of self discovery,
self realization.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And this is the
glory in the way human life is set up.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Every personal being out here in time and space has an active and
necessary role to play.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
literally create your own advancing spiritual status as a personal being as you
go along.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s all being
captured--if you will--by a fragment of God himself.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s why we refer to this reality of
yours, when you include your spiritual personality and your soul: human reality
is really transcendent, if not yet entirely consciously to the humans living
it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>That’s the delight you will all
experience some day, and you will not be able to hide your surprise when you
discover all you have become.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These
experiences form great streams in huge rivers, in the concourse of events
sweeping on.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will always be a
discrete being in that: and it is in motion, until that day you step out of time
into eternity on Paradise; and still!--you’ll only be beginning.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Mother Spirit breaks out
laughing)<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>
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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>(Embracing the purpose)<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>My dear children, Michael and I feel
these hard times, and believe me, there is no condescension whatsoever when we
say it is a great learning experience.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You might even say that is the purpose for it all.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s the purpose within all this
experience: keep growing.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Keep
adding to your soul.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, on many
accounts you are still socially immature, you have to construct and work out so
many details of how you want to live, who’s going to be responsible to whom for
what?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But it is all necessary on
this level.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Everything leading up
to this very instant is the past: now is the living resolution of everything and
everyone: but the next moment is partly yours.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can either take it willy-nilly
thinking it’s all someone else’s, or some thing else, or you can enjoy,
consciously, by your choices, some of the glory in determining who you will
become.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is our Father’s
dearest gift, and one we encourage you to claim for your own.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be in my love.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good evening.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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