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align=center><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Michael--</SPAN><st1:date Month="12" Day="29"
Year="2008"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">December 29,
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>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>(The nature of personal
time)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Personal, individual freedom)<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>(A simpler, easier Urantia
book?)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(A mountain of
revelation)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Warfare, terrorism, crime: faith)<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 perpetuation of conflict)<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>(Limitations and how to transcend them)
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Ultimate decisions and
meditation)<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>(Sublime
uncertainty)<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>As we rev ourselves up and
focus ourselves down these next few days, getting ready to party on that
admittedly arbitrary moment between calendar years, we ask you help us stay
still and calm at heart. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Help us
realize what we’ve been informed, that just as God in His absolute and perfect
memory becomes the oversoul of all creation, the Supreme Being, so too our own
souls, co-authored by the presence of God within us, hold for all eternity our
human experiences which seem to run past us so swiftly and are gone.
<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>Help us be aware of this deep mystery
that personal time is.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What does
the Urantia book mean when it says we realize space by a process of synthesis,
yet we realize time by a process of analysis?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>However: it assures us that both time
and space are our true home; so help us feel at home in this living mystery for
whatever pain or sadness it may hold. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Help us keep our faith
that--ultimately--this eternal now contains unbounded joy in simply being
alive.<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, my children, this is
Michael. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mother Spirit and I do
wish you a happy new year. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It
gladdens our hearts when you reach for that deeper happiness that you express as
joy. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Some of your metaphysicians
have correctly discerned this is truly part of our Father’s basic nature, this
deep and abiding joy in creativity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>So too this is your innate nature as a spiritual being. Yet within this
first stage of your eternal life, involving a largely unconscious quotient of
your creativity, you might wonder how much you are generally aware of
co-creating this present moment, this eternal 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>(The nature of personal
time)<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>With any corresponding inability to
respond to that quotient that is your own creation, your own doing, this leads
inevitably in the fullness of time to pain and sadness, to what you call
mistakes, misperceptions, and misconceptions. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As your Urantia book puts it, and we’ve
mentioned a few times: the endowing of imperfect, immature beings with even a
relative degree of creativity and free will, leads inevitably to tragedy. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is part of God’s response-ability,
and He does respond to the sheer potential for all the harm that personal beings
are capable of doing to themselves and to each other. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you will, it’s within His existential
parameters that such things are even possible. <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 possibility is necessary for
personal beings to be free to express themselves along a whole spectrum of
goodness to evil as part of their basic nature, so primal you do have the
existential possibility for both to occur. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet this mere possibility is only
realized and compounded when it is intentionally performed by personal beings
capable of distinguishing between right and wrong. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is tied to another great distinction
some of your human laws consider, the whole dimension of intention, for in this
you recognize that much of the evil and harm that is done is unintentional, the
consequence of unconscious misperceptions and misconceptions coupled with a
lack of thinking. <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>Mother Spirit spoke last time about the
deep mystery here as you confront particular, discreet acts.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Partly it’s the humility she spoke
of--realizing your inability to finally judge anyone--that can, however, be a
source of wonder and amazement as you pause to consider another person and
wonder about that balance within them of unconscious and conscious
intention.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Where exists the
dividing line of responsibility? <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 psychological cause and effect
called projection means you more or less evaluate what others are doing based
upon your own understanding of yourself. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Feel and judge yourself by rather
immature narrow principles of black and white--all right, all wrong--and you
will tend to see others the same way. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But if you are capable of feeling
yourself to be a living balance of abilities and inabilities, conscious choices
and unconscious habits, open-mindedness and cultural conditioning, then you will
be able to comprehend and see yourself and others with a greater degree of
fullness of your common human estate.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And so grows your comprehension of human history, and the present.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Both become much more transparent and
understandable.<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>(Personal, individual freedom)<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>With this ever greater understanding
you’re capable of suspending any kind of superficial, knee-jerk judgment.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You begin to perceive that not only you
yourself but all others too are somewhat impenetrable and incomprehensible for
the very uniqueness of their being personal creations of God. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This becomes unbounded freedom of
expression into ever deeper mysteries when you can realize yourself and just let
yourself, and others, be unique.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Personal, individual freedom of every man and woman becomes your
measuring stick of societies: how can you grow this?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The expression of yourself while being
able to respond fully to others--allowing them to express themselves, might come
out just fine.<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 touching that deeper joy of
recognition that lies beneath the surface of happiness and sadness. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is that true intention that is
contra-distinct to just re-acting to whatever comes your way. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the deeper self you have
mentioned, calling it God’s will and intention for you. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Seeking to know God’s will and intention
literally feeds your power of choice. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are growing in accord with reality,
and not only with that which has been and is, but also more and more into that
which is possible in an expanding, growing, ultimately personal universe, God’s
and yours. <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 is a mystery and we can only tease
you to envision a world of evermore free-willed individuals coming from a highly
conscious and fully accepted ability to discern what is right and what is not,
what is supportive and what is harmful, what is progressive, what is regressive.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let this discernment, this
curiosity, this search for the truth of what is right and what is wrong, what is
better, what is the best to do in each living situation--give this free reign
within yourselves, irrespective of whether you choose to do it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just make the choice to be open to your
own better nature.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let that nature
and all your soul have free expression within you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then choose what to do in the light of
this. <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 the way forward, my
children.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the way to avoid
denial and seeing yourself in somewhat simplistic black-and-white terms. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is also the way to grow and mature
in your understanding of the inevitably of this living balance between right and
wrong--fully accepting this will be a component of your life forever. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There will never be a time in which this
discrimination is not necessary, for this discrimination ever points the way
towards God’s will and His intention for you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will continually, endlessly grow
into greater life, and in doing so will not only keep pace with, but be a
contributing part of cosmic evolution.<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 embrace this aspect of your
personality, my dear ones.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Welcome
it even though--on a human level--it may be somewhat a nag as you reach for that
next small portion of a bad habit. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Embrace your full humanity so that you
may embrace your true soul, your life seen in part through God’s eyes: that kind
of totality. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As several of you have
expressed so many times before: what a great blessing it is just to beam love
towards everyone you see without exception; how this simple yet profound
intention introduces you to all those around you, right through your prejudices,
your generalities; it lets their individual, unique personalities come through.
<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 that transparency you wondered
about last time that is directly tied to a gladness of feeling your own
soul--this totality of your life--informing and giving your life meaning and
value.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So too this can be reflected
in everyone’s uniqueness as you let them be, and marvel then at what comes
forth. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All these positives
qualities of transparency, and spontaneity, and creativity, and discernment are
all tied together in the living bundle that you are. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They are all mutually supporting. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They are little signposts teasing you:
come this way. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Enjoy us and spread
the joy around. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Find the ever
greater way of just letting yourself be, and others be, and be tickled at the
unfathomable, unending mystery that is the real hallmark of God’s creation.
<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>We once compared it to one of those
surreal paintings of yours of a fountain bubbling forth out in the middle of the
air. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For this is truly God, this
continuous creation of all of us.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>So on this cusp of another year coming along, in the full awareness of
this impenetrable, bottomless mystery of an eternal now in motion, Mother Spirit
and I wish you a happy New Year. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We’ll be right alongside and within to
enjoy it with 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>If you have any questions or comments,
better hurry.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Time’s passing!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(much laughter)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But of course time holds everything as
well. <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: Hi, Michael. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you for your support in all these
years, and future support.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Before
the transmission we were talking about a simpler, easier version of the Urantia
book to read. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is there going to be
an easier one to understand?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is
there one of those things in the works?<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 simpler, easier Urantia
book?)<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: no. (group laughs)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But I enjoyed your discussions before
the transmission.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Stretch your
imagination to wonder about the different orders of beings--dozens of them--that
composed the book.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Remember that
nothing can be put into a concrete human language but help being a limited
expression to a very particular time and place if it is to be even partly
understandable. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As your Urantia
book informs you, there were quite a few hundred years involved in organizing
this presentation that plainly tells you it is an Epic Revelation, somewhat
comparable to only four others in which the celestial family decided to present
revelation like this to the human family of Urantia.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m counting your Planetary Prince, Adam
and Eve, Machiventa Melkizadek, and my life as Jesus--in those cases actual
living beings to help you along; in this case something put into the English
language in the mid and late 1930’s. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The authors were fully cognizant of your
thousands of religious and metaphysical works representing so many cultures and
sub-cultures all over the planet.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Remember it was into this mix they decided to drop a presentation which
claims to be authored by extra-human sources, discrete personalities of dozens
of orders you’d never heard of before. <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>They faced the immediate problem of
validation--spiritual evaluation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Human beings know things both directly and by comparison, so you have the
Urantia book as it stands within its own context, plus how it is unavoidably
compared to similar types of material. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It was the intention that the very
complexity of the revelation--its unifying comprehensiveness across dozens of
fields of human understanding--would have the effect of being self-validating.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It was literally designed to
impress as well as inform you, and so its very complexity is a compliment to
your evolving intellectual abilities.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>While it may be beyond the capacity of some, it is also well within the
capacity of most, given the desire and the effort. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Keep in mind too the way in which you
earn this revelation through spiritual effort, and how that effort is required
for your soul’s growth. <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 effort you make is your
participation in the Supreme Being. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So again: the complexity of the book is
this tribute to your ability.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If
you will, it’s offering you an intellectual/spiritual mountain to climb, not
just some small hill to nonchalantly roll over.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As the very size of this mountain is a
challenge to your climbing abilities, so too, hopefully, it gives you no small
measure of humility, and even some comprehension of the extra-human beings that
do exist--all the way up from your planetary Midwayers and angels, to the higher
personalities of our Local Universe, on to the Super Universe, Havona, and
Paradise levels of reality: hundreds of orders of personal beings administering
creation. <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>Without its enormous detail delving
into and unifying all your human intellectual categories of theology,
philosophy, psychology, cosmology, geology, history, physics and chemistry,
biologic evolution--on and on--without this impressing you--if you will, we
couldn’t hope to convince you of the other things we tease you to imagine.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We had to strike a balance of how to
invite yet not overwhelm your human curiosity, but rather count on that part of
you, and your soul-recognition, to keep you reading.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have to arbitrarily stop here, my son,
(Michael chuckles) because there is no end to explaining the complexity of the
Fifth Epical Revelation--were it to do its work and be that challenging mountain
for you to climb. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But does that
help a little?<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>It does indeed--help a lot; puts it in a
very good perspective. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I hadn’t
thought about climbing a mountain, but the word stretch comes to mind when you
mentioned the complexity making me continue to reach out, continue to stretch
out to better and deeper understanding. <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>(A mountain of
revelation)<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>You are very welcome. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is quite a mountain for most who have
climbed through it at least once.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>There’s still a second, and a third, and a fourth, and a fifth, and a
sixth time…(Michael laughs)..as well.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>That mountain of revelation has many routes of ascent. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Even those who have read it many times
are delighted to find little nooks and crannies it seems they are encountering
for the very first time.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Yes)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So keep stretching.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are definitely fulfilling its
purpose.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be in my peace. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><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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<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>First off, we talked about discernment
last time with Mother, and the choices one makes--whether beneficial to oneself
or others, or progressive or not.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It saddens me, what is going on the county of your birth.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It seems never-ending, with no
discernment at all.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I was thinking
yesterday about having faith in God’s perfection, and our own--of God’s
perfection within us.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That word
gets misrepresented and turned around as well.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I would like to deepen my own expression
of faith.<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>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, my son, perhaps because of our
dwelling so much on the mystery of time tonight, it strikes me when you mention
the events happening in Palestine, and a seeming lack of discernment; it’s not
so much that as being fixed and held tight by the past.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Both the Palestinians and the Israelis
have individuals acting out of a sense of outraged justice, where, in their own
minds, to balance out some terrible things done to them in the past, they must
avenge this wrong in the present on a tribal level--that is, randomly against
the enemy people as a whole irrespective of the individuals involved in the
past.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I.e. this is not a lack of
discernment but of discrimination--indiscriminate warfare and
terrorism.<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>(Warfare, terrorism, crime: faith)<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>To understand this you must have some
appreciation of the incessant warfare for territory which has been going on,
right from the tribal level on up to that of nation/states, for hundreds of
thousands of years now.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Up until
very recent times--especially in the last few centuries of the blossoming of the
Correcting Time on your planet--notions of the progressiveness of human nature
and relationships were nonexistent: war was a common feature of immutable
Fate.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet this Correcting Time led
in time to the hope for a better future.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This was somewhat new in human reality, something to counterbalance
that--getting even--that again, you must appreciate was the ironclad rule of the
past, just to keep from being enslaved.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Any tribe, any group of people you might think of who did not avenge the
slights or attacks made upon them, would soon be overtaken and enslaved by the
surrounding groups.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And this is
still true over much of the world down to the neighborhood by neighborhood level
of the daily lives of people.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There
is such a thing as valid self-defense, not letting bullies and tyrants of all
sizes have their way.<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>And so you have this sense of
justice.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But you also see a kind of
stalemate in reaching that hope-filled and progressive better future if the past
has too much sway, for while it may seem simple-minded on one level to ask when
will the crime and the warfare end, that question goes to the heart of your
wondering what is faith.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We say
faith is nearly synonymous with the meaning and feeling of the word trust.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To have faith and trust in a Universal
Father you cannot empirically demonstrate, you cannot prove to another--and be
content with that; to have faith in what your greatest men and women have taught
does open the possibility in your heart of this progressive evolution that we
tease you with, this notion that things can get better between peoples.<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>It depends on individual creativity,
not being bound by the past but with an ability to create something new,
including better human relationships.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is precisely what is needed in these head-butting situations where
so many on each side of the divide in that contention are consumed with the past
and are all too simply just excitedly re-acting.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As we point out, this gives meaning and
value to their lives, so they must have the courage to let that go and find in
their own creativity a better way for themselves, turning around from the past
and looking to the future with faith and trust and hope for their children’s
sakes.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>This is that living tipping-point, that
balance within each one of you moment by<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>moment, that ability of discernment of
relative good and evil, better and best, temporal means and results.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It helps to pray for folks, pray they
find the courage to step forward, naked in their hope, and throw off the
centuries of hatred projected outward on the enemy; find the courage to start
anew in their own lives, right in the presence of their hate-filled
fellows.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is where peace has to
start.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That does that seem to ring
true, my son?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Yes, very much so.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m glad
you added courage because one needs the courage to act on the faith and the
trust.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I know in my own little
life, I’ve had to make decisions which were not very popular with those around
me--my own family; in a sense, acting on a higher outlook of how we were created
to be.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As Anne Frank said in her
dairy--I’m paraphrasing--despite what had been going on, she still believed in
the goodness of man.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And that’s
always there.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s what we have
to cling to.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Despite what is going
on--this tragic mess in </SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Israel</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> and </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Palestine</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">, God’s will and the truth will prevail, somehow,
because it is there underneath the veil of prejudice and ignorance, illusions
and emotionality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you’re a
prisoner of the past, I don’t see that as free will.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Free will is being conscious of who we
are as creations of God, and living from that
place…<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>Sorry…I’m going off on a tangent…<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I had this warmth of energy going
through me and wanted to express that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It’s been on my mind.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s
like endless generations there!--born into this; and that’s all they know.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Anyway, I do thank
you.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(The perpetuation of conflict)<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>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’re right on that mark.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We say free will is actually defined by
not being bound by the fetters of antecedent causality, or if you will, simply
the past.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>No matter what led up to
this moment, there is something in you that can come up with something else
which has not yet been.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
difficulty is in convincing people of the degree to which they themselves are
causing the impasse, when their notions and feelings of the enemy are precisely
their invalid and unconscious projections, seemingly--out there--and not
inside.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As Mother Spirit said last
time, it’s people wrapped up in evil and, through misperception and these
projections, getting more and more detached and removed from any kind of
objective reality as they create and cling to their own self-generated and
closed-minded notions of what is happening.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have the irony that they can
fearfully feel themselves to be less and less secure--which is true--but that
the situation is entirely someone else’s fault and can be solved out there.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Add to this personal dynamic the
enforced indoctrination by cynical, self-serving, power-seeking leaders and you
have the seemingly endless perpetuation of conflict you see.<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>All through history a small number of
dedicated men and women, ten percent or less, have been able to control the
larger number of their fellows.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So
that dedication, that discipline can work for good or evil.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A tiny but recalcitrant minority can
keep the hatred going and sell out everyone’s children’s future.
<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>What can I do in my little life?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All I’m doing is painting the walls in
my apartment and waiting for the next adventure, the next prompting: and
participating in these teachings--which I do feel are very profound.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Our basic nature is being compassionate,
and acting out of love.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But there
are times when I do feel limited by time and space, and I ask myself why.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Why do I feel so limited?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These are things that come
up.<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>(Limitations and how to transcend them)
<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>Remember what Mother Spirit said last
time that it is your very concrete/material/animal aspect--that is limited in
this first phase of your eternal life, yet moving and changing and spiritually
alive--that also gives each moment its uniqueness.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So not only cosmically/universally this
moment never happened before, and will never happen again, but also for you
personally.<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>As to what you can do, you can always
start by consciously focusing on your inter-personal relationships.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is where all your understanding,
and your desire for understanding the truth of these world events: this is where
it originates.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your personal
experience with people is the basis for your understanding and insight of human
nature across cultural/racial differences; if you will, the common ground of
humanity as you feel it to be.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When
you meet that other human being: this is where all the courage, all the faith,
all the trust, comes forth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This
makes the spontaneous, lively dance of love and consideration possible.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is where you have the greatest
effect on this whole world of yours, my son: right in that next person you
meet.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is essentially what I
did as Jesus.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So feel my peace in
these moments too.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just let go and
pay attention, and you can enjoy a bit of our Father’s spontaneity and
creativity.<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>Like this world was created for
us!<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>Amen.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And you for each other.<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>Thank you very
much.<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, Michael.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I understand you to mean that each
individual needs to turn to their own creativity; and then another phrase about
being naked with themselves?<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>I mean stand naked of all your cultural
conditioning that is so comforting to cling to and wrap around you; stand naked
in your own uniqueness and personal hope--right within that conditioning that
demands you do this or that, yet out of what interpretation of the past?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This takes inner
courage.<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>It certainly does!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(much laughter)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It reminds me of something I’ve been
trying to work on for quite a while now, to go to that place where it’s my own
creativity, my own self--in a sense reclaim it from my conditioning, and the
past, and my upbringing.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Parts of
that were deadening, weren’t allowed free expression.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So I certainly have sympathy for those
individuals who are in that situation where they have such an automatic reaction
to survival.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There isn’t any
charted pathway when you get to that place.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I know from my own past experience that
it’s possible to take really creative action, but at the same time, I get there
and a lot of the times I get frozen.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I have a vague sense of what is the right thing to do, or the wrong
thing, but I get kind-of confused and it’s hard for me take action from that
place.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I don’t have either a strong
enough emotion, or a clear enough vision to compel me forward.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m not sure really what it is.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Using my own free will is so rusty I
don’t know how to use it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So it
would be helpful for me if I could get a fuller understanding of what the
process is, what to be aware of.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I
feel I could break through what feels like a block to taking the right
action.<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>(Ultimate decisions and
meditation)<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 daughter.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>OK.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let’s do it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just relax a minute and open your mind
and feel all of us gathered here.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Here we are in this moment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Now entertain the possibility that what you’ve been doing just might be
the right thing.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m very deeply
impressed, my daughter, with how familiar you are with that moment of decision,
or indecision.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I could hardly
describe it any better.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is
what it is.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And you know it
well.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So you’re not doing anything
wrong…(much laughter)…you’re doing the right thing: why don’t you know it?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Why can’t you feel 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>It could be--and these are just
possibilities for you to entertain--I’m not trying to tell you what to do
here--as you approach being creative and not being bound, but being decisive,
you become aware of how much you are creating your life--what part you play, and
how you feel you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This aspect of
subjectivity appears when you see how much you are always interpreting each
moment’s this and that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet you, my
daughter, yearn to grow, to have this process of real-a-lization be more
conscious, decisive.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You want to be
aware of how much you are co-creating your life through mere reacting to past
conditioning, so you can take that into account and be free of it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You yearn to be objective, to reach some
objective and certain truth, however impossible you humbly accept this to be in
any absolute sense, your being human.<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>The humbling essence of this is a bit
like facing a blank wall, a block, of no path ahead, because you’ve just very
rigorously eliminated to the best of your ability all the general conditioning
of the past, to get to and feel the unique present moment of decision. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There no longer is any sure path from the
past continuing through the present: there is just you continuing.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You rightfully feel no
compelling--emotion or vision.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>As you feel for: what should I do?--you
keep running out, for nothing can tell you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’re getting down to your self.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can even arrive at an ultimate point
where the question arises within you: what do you want to do?<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>Are you ready to embrace this real
freedom of deciding what you want, and accepting then the full
responsibility--personally--for that conscious decision?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is something I don’t--(Michael
laughs)--need an answer to right now.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It’s just something to consider, maybe read over a few times in the
future--when this is all transcribed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>What you described, my daughter, is an occurrence for those who do
achieve a great deal of sensitivity to the point where they can feel everything
tipping back and forth, and as they try to arrive at a decision of what to do
next, and their minds keep reaching--seemingly ever more futilely--for something
to tell them what to do--what is the right thing here: this may happen to
them.<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>Usually to decide you need to stop or
slow down for only a few minutes and the answer will come, seemingly
automatically: one consideration largely outweighs the others.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet if you get into what we’ve been
suggesting--meditating for a certain amount of time and just writing these good
suggestions down, and not immediately acting upon them; as you get more and more
still, and deeper and wider in your mind to ever greater truth, you can arrive
at a point where it seems you’re stuck.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Nothing is telling or compelling you what to do.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Not even us.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Not even our Father.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We respect your autonomy, even as we
offer the answers to your prayers.<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 where you have to just step off
into the unknowable, and do, and accept the full responsibility--if even for the
first time in your life--that you are doing what you want to.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mother Spirit and I can only wish every
human being could arrive at this point, and often, of accepting the full
responsibility for what they are doing.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>So congratulations are in order.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>We can only suggest that you be not afraid of these moments.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Don’t run away from them, but rather,
let them happen: deeper, wider.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Continue your meditations; continue feeling in every way you can for what
is the right thing to do, then embrace the responsibility for the degree to
which you are doing what you want to.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>We hope that all your brothers and sisters across this world of yours can
learn to do the same, and realize what they are determining--by conscious choice
or only by compulsion.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Does that
help?<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, it does.<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>(Sublime
uncertainty)<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>Well, you touched upon an essence
there.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You beautifully, humbly
expressed the mystery of being right on the cusp of free will, and yet not
always being able to realize it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is a valid spiritual experience.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We only wish more of our sons and
daughters could get to that point, and not be afraid of it--that your very
uncertainty points the way and opens the door to conscious choices.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So: no fear!--that’s the watchword.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are reaching to take responsibility
for what you are doing, and in that you have all our blessings, and all my
love.<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>It will be another year--happy and sad,
up and down and in and out and all around.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is your human nature, by your Creator; this is your encompassing, as
well as is His presence within you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Thank you, dear Father, for their human experience of time.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Help them appreciate it, and acknowledge
its deep mystery--the hallmark of Your handiwork.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My children, Mother Spirit sends you her
love, and I bid you be in my peace.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Good evening.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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