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align=center><FONT size=3><FONT face=Tahoma>Nebadonia--<st1:date Year="2009"
Day="6" Month="7">July 6, 2009</st1:date></FONT></FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma>Marin TM Group--Mill Valley,
<st1:State><st1:place>California</st1:place></st1:State>--<st1:country-region><st1:place>U.S.A.</st1:place></st1:country-region></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma
size=3>NEBADONIA--T/R-JL</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>(The spiritual co-author of your souls)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>(How to see others as Michael and I do)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>(Your personal spiritual creativity)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>(The battle of ego presentations)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>(Delightful self-forgetfulness V.S. compulsion)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>(Taking the initiative)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma size=3>Dear
Mother Spirit and Michael,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>We thank you for this ongoing series of lessons on what constitutes a
human being, and all the physical, mental, spiritual, and soulful realities we
inhabit--whether consciously or not.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You help us face our persisting mistakes and mal-adaptations, laziness,
weaknesses, and unhealthy habits, with a renewed strength of heart and an ever
resurgent hope to achieve, someday, your offered spiritual goals of truth and
beauty and goodness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So we thank
you for your view of us, and your faith in us.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We hope this relationship with the two
of you is also something which has no end.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Amen.</FONT></P>
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size=3>NEBADONIA:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good evening, my
children, this is your mother, Nebadonia.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You know how I do value in turn your own appreciation of Michael and me,
and what we have to offer.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These
last few lessons we have tried our best to reassure you of your human
reality--just as you experience yourselves day to day.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is no illusion, and it does have
lasting spiritual significance in your souls.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ever remember, my dear children, the
co-author of your souls is a pure fragment of God’s own spirit.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your souls are the portrayal of your
lives right from the beginning with all the completeness and spiritual wholeness
that characterizes God himself.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>(The spiritual co-author of your souls)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face=Tahoma>We
hope we have addressed some of the ages-old paradoxes involved in your
philosophies and religions by at least trying to delineate some of your
complexity and the ironies in starting out, as you do, simply as a
self-conscious self with all the inherent limitations of a just-beginning
personal being.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Remember that your
consciousness that is, in this sense--you, can continue to grow forever.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Indeed, your consciousness needs to grow
for you to--some glorious day--be able to appropriate your own soul, just
because it is such a spiritually co-authored reality.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This will be simultaneous with becoming
one with that fragment of God which has been your life-long companion.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma size=3>We know
how strange it sounds, that you have to grow to become one with your own soul
while at the same time, this living, also growing soul of yours, my children,
has an ever greater influence and impact and contribution to your conscious
self.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Think of the great sense of
character you get from old folks who seem to have been there and done that--seen
it all; lived through it all; and still have a youthful, wistful smile playing
about their faces from time to time.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is also that true and ever so valuable reminiscence you are capable
of yourselves, so distinct from mere sentimentality which is more or less the
blurring over of sharp distinctions and true events.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Rather, keep in mind that any felt
spirit that has real meaning for you, must mean all-inclusiveness.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>God is spirit, and literally experiences
everything in cosmic reality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
are utterly transparent to Him, and to us, your immediate spiritual
parents.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the basis for both
His and our faith in you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We see
and feel the potential you have just as one of His children, one of our
children.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>(How to see others as Michael and I do)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>And so we invite you to appropriate our viewpoint of not only you,
but also of all your fellow human beings.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This cannot only help you forestall any snap judgments and pre-conceived
prejudices in the present, but also remind you of the shortcomings of your past
having done so.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It can help you be
aware that what you are seeing in another person is just an instantaneous
snapshot of an equally illimitable personal being.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They too, my children--every single one
is more than you can ever perceive or even imagine.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Look with the eyes of curiosity and
wonder.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Look with the eyes of faith
in their greater spiritual reality. Look even with the eyes of assurance--in
them--perhaps far beyond what they might have in themselves.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then you will begin to see as Michael
and I see.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will begin to see
that eternal potential in this just-beginning son or daughter of God’s.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>Further: we invite you to play our role.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Put simply: if you love, you’ll
tease.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’ll tease all you meet
into realizing they are even more than they know, especially those poor,
fearful, ego-maniacal, self-centered folks who are missing so much, not only of
you, but of all the others around them.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Be playful.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Avoid butting
heads with any ram-like persons who’re seeking nothing but confrontation and
impact to feel alive.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Use a little
judo and delightfully side-step; tease them into a little wonder at your very
graciousness that you do--not--return their behavior in kind.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the delight in a spiritual
orientation toward Michael’s Spirit of Truth, his all-inclusive truth which
contains everyone; and in inviting others to do the same.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma size=3>Whenever
you encounter a lack of character is when you are most needful of offering some
yourself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Always take the
inter-personal game to a higher level.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>So many folks can be unintentionally insulting; you do them a great favor
in being a little thick-skinned and not taking offence.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then see what a welcome relief it can be
on their faces when you don’t take the offence that is their usual reply.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Return any unintended slight with a
welcoming smile.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Some folks are
simply too distracted, or without the mental facility, to return a well-meant
welcome.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just extend them a pass;
let it go.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Meet whatever comes your
way with genuine equanimity.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face=Tahoma>It
is a delicate but powerful balance, my children; to be there for everyone you
meet without requiring any specific response whatsoever.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet this is the very openness to not
only your own but also their potential, we invite you to walk through the world
with.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Seek to find this on a
genuine level far beyond any kind of game-playing or simple trading as in: I’ll
be good if you’ll be good.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just
practice goodness for your own heart’s sake.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What great and glorious realities of all
these other people you can begin to enjoy.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This can change not only your life, but this is, in its essence, what
will change the world--and nothing else!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>Right now the human race on Urantia lacks for nothing else--in
total.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is enough land and
food, enough shelter and other resources for all.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Only a profound change in human
relationships could reap an immediate reward in the lessening of all the
offensive and defensive preparations for war and crime that still impoverish
humankind.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Michael and I have
spoken before of the supreme irony that it is almost as if the human race,
coming out of all the tooth and claw of nature, and a million years of warfare,
were fearful of a worldly paradise which would so readily come about with this
change of attitude.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But the
requirement is for even more courage to be friendly, to be kind, to be generous
and love unconditionally.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face=Tahoma>We
know it seems so utopian, but it is only from such a perspective, my children,
that you can appreciate all the strife and fear and preparations that still
plague your world and stunt your common future.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can have some appreciation for all
that terrible and terrifying past that was and still is your universal
heritage.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Think of how much of the
Urantia book is devoted to explaining why the loss of a loyal Planetary Prince,
and then the aborted mission of Adam and Eve, have been so important in your
world history.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As Michael said last
time, you can have some appreciation, if not downright awe, for all your
forbearers have had to come through.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma size=3>It helps
you make sense of what is happening day to day, that there is no human behavior
that does not have some sufficient cause.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Rather it is the lack of conscious personal creativity and courage that
allows the same old patterns to persist, some indeed going back to the Lucifer
Rebellion, two hundred thousand years ago, that thwarted a divine plan.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is only by encouraging and helping
your children develop their own individual sense of personal creativity that you
break out of these ages-old warring and parasitic patterns and
attitudes.</FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma>(Your personal spiritual creativity)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma size=3>So be of
good cheer, my dear ones.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The way
out is always right in front of you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It comes from your own personal creativity, your own spirit, your own
willingness to meditate and reflect, and open yourself to possibility.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is what provides the light for you
to see through those limitations you may be taking for immutable, but which you
can bend to your will.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
literally grow out of them.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
take everything you have and have been, and add to it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the movement of spirit, the
movement toward wholeness and completeness and all-inclusiveness.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You open your heart and your mind and
your soul to everything!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then, with
your wonderful humility in the face of that, be unafraid to let it compel you to
grow.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It means welcoming the
challenge of human consciousness-and-soul growth God has set before
you.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>Yes, it is true we have every faith in you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We know what you are capable of.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We see you co-creating your own reality
every day, moment by moment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We
just encourage you to be aware of that, and glory in it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Glory that God made you just such a
creative being, able to respond anew to His ever new creation, with no end in
sight.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have so much to be
thankful for.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>God, our universal
Father, does appreciate this worship, all the more since it is not in any way
required.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is your pure gift to
Him, and to us.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Michael and I most
humbly thank you for this spiritual generosity of yours, your appreciation of
us.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma>Now if you have any questions or comments this evening, on these or
any other subjects dear to your hearts, bring them forth. <SPAN
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face=Tahoma>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good evening,
Mother, I do appreciate what you are saying, though I couldn’t feel too much
farther away from it than I have these last couple of days.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Instead of finding that people are full
of riches, I end up feeling exhausted by them for being so much the same as
they’ve always been.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I know I must
process this…not being able to have a more creative perspective myself, but it
wears me down.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So there are other
times when I can feel what you said, but tonight I don’t.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I don’t feel generous--very generous
anyway.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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size=3>NEBADONIA:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My daughter,
thank you for your honesty; and I commend you on your self-honesty.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>True enough, human life is not all up
and up and up.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We must admit that
in our teasing you to be of good cheer, we understand it is quite impossible to
be that all the time.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is much
more important for you to be honest and at one with yourself, no matter what
is--as you say--coming down.</FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma>(The battle of ego presentations)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face=Tahoma>If
I would have any advice to offer you, my daughter, it would be, don’t take
people entirely for how they present themselves.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can get caught up in their ego-trips
and find yourself bound up in your own ego response to theirs.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So you have this battle of
presentations.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I hoped tonight to
illustrate a way out of this head-butting dilemma.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Use a little judo on their
presentations, especially their aggressive or possessive ones, by seeing the
larger part of them.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m talking
about an understanding you are capable of, but might be denying yourself out of
shyness or even a well-meant desire not to be standing above anyone and judging
them--all very commendable.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma size=3>We
pointed out one time the distinction between prejudice, pre-judging someone,
which pretends to a kind of God-like ability to totally determine who and what a
person is, and how this is very distinct from the moment to moment assessments
you need to make in all your relationships.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Consider the example of assessing that
someone is fibbing or exaggerating a bit on some minor manner, and making the
judgment they are a total and complete liar.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So don’t deny yourself these assessments
of who they are as totally as you can perceive, but also intuit with subtle
impressions within yourself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In
meeting another person you stay with the kind of equanimity I mentioned; you
still contain yourself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
literally don’t need this contact: you are whole and complete in yourself.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so you can keep yourself from being
possessed, or attacked, and still be there.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As you talked about with Michael last
time, this preserves your energy so you don’t feel drained, even after some ugly
confrontation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’re able to
forgive all those slings and arrows of outrageous fortune as you let them slide
off you.</FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma>(Delightful self-forgetfulness VS. compulsion)<SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face=Tahoma>So
think about your own notions of loving others, and whether or not they compel
you, in some way, to lose yourself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is a tricky balance because we’ve also recommended
self-forgetfulness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There’s another
distinction here in being self-contained and not desperately needing the
contact, which gives you the freedom to let yourself go.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma size=3>I know
these are very subtle distinctions, but they are very real ones.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They can mean the difference between
being exhausted by a relationship and being able to guide it, to tease it into
something more spiritually free and fulfilling.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Does any of this make any
sense?</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, it
does.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I guess part of it is feeling
this duty I’m supposed to be there.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I’m supposed to show up and I know I’ve been giving too much of myself
away in doing that--I’m not sure how.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Part of it comes from long-time unmet needs where the relationship is not
reciprocal.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I don’t know if that
makes any sense to you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>NEBADONIA:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Oh!--very
much so.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are, again, expressing
very well where you are right now.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Also, my daughter, I don’t expect you to respond fully to what I’m saying
in your present, exhausted state.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>(both laugh)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These are just
things to think about.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m pointing
to a way out with the very nitty-gritty observation that it is up to you to take
the initiative, because in so many of these situations I feel you are in, the
other person, or persons, are simply not capable of doing so.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma size=3>Student,
breaking up laughing:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Yes!</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>(Taking the initiative)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>NEBADONIA:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So how do
you take the initiative and contain yourself--be sufficient unto
yourself--enough that you can then forget yourself, and still not be taken
advantage of?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I think you know the
principle of “tough love” in which allowing yourself to be taken advantage of
really helps no one at all, neither you nor them.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have to watch your instinct to
always reach out and keep someone from stubbing their toe.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Sometimes you have to let them, for
their own need to experience, to stand on their own two feet, whether they are
yet capable of this or not.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is
love.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is that holding in your
mind the awareness of the greater potential they have, and need to
exercise.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma size=3>These
human relationships are a true measure of your own spiritual growth, and why it
is so helpful to see others as Michael and I, and our Father, see them.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But enough for now.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have quite enough to digest.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be in my love, my daughter; and get some
rest.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Yes…thank you)</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma size=3>Student:
37:33 </FONT></P>
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Dear folks, please excuse another “to be continued.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A little back problem lately keeps me
from sitting at the computer for long, and I wanted to get Mother Spirit’s
lesson out, late enough as it is.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Thanks for your consideration--JL)<SPAN
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