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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal
align=center><FONT size=3><FONT face=Tahoma>Michael--<st1:date Year="2009"
Day="3" Month="8">August 3, 2009</st1:date></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
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 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>MICHAEL--T/R-JL</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>(Illusion)</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>(The eternal now)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>(No pure objectivity)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>(Illusion and projection)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>(Human complexity--all real)</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>(The fullness of Morontia/soul reality)</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>(A metaphor for the soul)</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>(When limbo is a positive achievement)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>(You and your friends are in each others’ souls)</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>(Dimensions we will come to encounter)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>Dear Michael and Mother Spirit; dear spiritual parents,<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As we approach the fifth
anniversary of meeting with you in this particular group, we are reminded of
all the really deep, heartfelt wonder and love we’ve shared together--all the
laughter, all the tears of joy.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>We thank you from the bottoms of our hearts.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You yourself said, Michael, it was the
really deep joy you shared with your followers--as Jesus--that enabled them to
carry on after you had left.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And
so it has been with us. </FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>Even greater than the insights and the understandings you’ve given
us into our own human natures, it’s been our relationships with other people
that you’ve helped us so profoundly transform.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is for our newly discovered
appreciation of them that we want to thank you for showing us the way.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is for all the loving and lovely
people in our lives--our ability to perceive this and appreciate them--we most
want to thank you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As you say,
they are our true soul wealth--all these others we have known and shared our
lives with.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Amen.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good
evening, my children, this is Michael.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Mother Spirit sends her love and her greetings.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let me put all my emphasis behind hers
that you are capable of receiving.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Yes, indeed, it has been fun.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It is filling your souls with real, honest-to-goodness thrilling fun
that you will carry into eternity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>We see those bright and glowing lights in your souls of the people you
have known.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will carry with
you as well your dear relationships with stuff--your homes, your work and
tools----those things you have been most intimate with that have also become
friends in a way.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These are the
things that seem to have acquired a character of their own of all the times
you’ve had together.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But it is
the other human beings, the other walking infinities--as we call you--that in
your souls, just as in your lives, you will find eternally unbounded.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We cannot remind you too many times
just what kind of infinities you are, what pure potential you are just
starting out with only a few years of life compared to that endless stretch
before you without limit either in duration or how much your self-conscious
self can continue to grow.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Also
you are fortunate now in these modern times with your Hubble Telescope sitting
up there as a doorway into the physical infinity of the universe that lies
before you too.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>Your Urantia book puts it somewhat abstractly that the Supreme
dimension of God, of which you are a part, foreshadows the Ultimate.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so your human lives here, my
children, all part of the Supreme Being, do foreshadow this endless life
before you that you will ultimately achieve.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So congratulations back at you!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Michael laughs)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s been wonderful visiting with you
like this.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ever keep in mind
Mother Spirit and I are part of your lives.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Her spirit augments your own mental
abilities; she is literally part of your perception and power.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My Spirit of Truth helps you sort out
the complexity of your lives, helps you orient yourselves toward that unending
adventure of discovery, and gives you some additional desire for it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Our Universal Father’s pure presence
indwells your minds weaving the timeless tapestry of your souls as well as
helping spiritualize your thoughts.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>(Illusion)</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>Tonight I would like to address the subject that has come up so
often in our discussions here, and that is the question of illusion.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Since some of you are familiar with
Oriental philosophy’s use of this term that ordinary life is an illusion, I
would like to present Mother Spirit’s and my views and feelings about this
whole notion of human illusion.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>As with other psychological or philosophical terms, almost every school
of thought has a slightly different interpretation of them.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So for tonight lets say that illusions
are those things that appear genuinely real, as distinct from hallucinations
which are either amusing or terrifying because they are immediately recognized
as being unreal, or gross exaggerations of what is real--something totally
weird.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>Illusions appear real, are taken for real, affect you as real, and
to which you respond--body, mind and spirit--as if they are real.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But then at some time later this
reality is, as you say, seen through, or understood to be less than as what or
how it presented itself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In this,
my children, I will include even how you perceive and understand
yourself--your body, your mind, and your spirit as they register with
you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So to this degree and in
this sense your assigning the assessment of illusion to a one time reality is
a judgment you are making with your whole being; if you will, your perception
of reality has changed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What was
once real is now seen as only an illusion.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is diminished.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It no longer partakes of the full
transcendent reality you are continuing to exist within right now.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It was only an illusion you had of
yourself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It does not reflect
God’s pure creation which is ever transcendent to your present state.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>Although these assessments are usually the gradual results of
considering some earlier and less mature understandings of reality, the term
is often used by those men and women who have had enormous spiritual
experiences and have felt themselves suddenly transformed, grown so greatly in
spiritual insight, this is also a natural and wholly genuine response now
their vision and understanding seem to be so expanded and deepened compared to
how they previously saw life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This immediate comparison can be so great as to render the whole of
their previous lives, and those they associate with them, to seem
illusory.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so they say this
very thing: they were once living as if asleep, but are now awakened; their
previous reality was only a dream.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>This is often, then, extended or extrapolated to explain what they
now call “ordinary life,” extended to all those other folks out there who have
not yet had this great enlightenment of theirs.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Again, this is wholly natural, and
honestly how life appears to them.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>People in general seem to live under great illusions of how real their
reality is until they have an equally great spiritual experience and can begin
to see that life is not all mind and material, but is spiritual through and
through, even to the degree that the physical-ness of the universe itself
seems an illusion.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Suddenly being
able to see with the eyes of faith this spiritual luminosity can, at first,
make the material seem shadowy and incomplete, an illusion, whereas it is
actually, and equally, God’s creation. </FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>Mother Spirit and I offer this understanding based upon how we see
human life as essentially experiential, a matter of experience.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>True, you do have an existential
being, but you cannot as yet directly experience it, or come to valid
conclusions based upon it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
have human experiences that are quite distinct from those of other orders of
beings like angels or Midwayers.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Reflect a bit on all the stages you yourself have come through starting
with being a very small child and mostly outwardly oriented.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You felt hunger or fear or
contentment, but your whole being, as well as that of very primitive peoples,
was mostly oriented toward the enormous and incomprehensible world around you
that was neither understood nor responsive to you--except perhaps for your
loving parents.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s where you
all started.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>After a while you began to acquire a sense of yourself--your
ego--who and what you felt yourself to be and have been, and this grew.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You became aware of yourself as a
physical being, and then that you had an inner reality of mind as well, both
somewhat unique to you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You may
even have tried to submerge this uniqueness to be one of a group, as in early
tribal society where the tribe forms most of everyone’s identity and
safety.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then you may have had a
great enlightenment experience in which you saw through the limitations of
your former immaturity so that, that previous reality now seemed to be only an
illusion you had to outgrow.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And
so your feelings changed about your fellows and the society around you, about
government and the world situation, as you grew from simplicity and pure,
adolescent principles by filling out those abstractions with your own
experiences. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You saw that those
simple forms now appeared as ghostly outlines only.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>(The eternal now)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>But let’s consider this process in the light of the eternal
now--right now.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ask yourself: who
or what in your life that is so real right now is only an illusion?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What is so real and meaningful to you
now, that you are responding to, might you some day consider just an
illusion?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You see the
problem.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Too nonchalantly
assigning this notion of illusion renders only relative what was absolutely
real to you in each moment; literally: your life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If this misconception is not
thoroughly understood it can denigrate your respect for your own soul
experience as a five-year-old, or a fifteen-year-old, or a
twenty-five-year-old.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>Rather, we assure you, my children, your soul contains the full
reality of every age you have come through, including how you experienced
things.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>From our standpoint these
were no illusions: it was all real to you, just as your life is now, as you
live it this moment, real and complete.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Without this understanding, without this deep assurance within you that
you are--you are no illusion--what is happening to you is no illusion--there
is no ground to stand on.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Nothing
is real; it could all be an illusion.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And indeed, some folks do live for a greater part of their life in this
kind of doubt, even believing that this is the way to greater truth.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Whether voluntarily in full
consciousness, or not, they have accepted the teaching that life is an
illusion, and the very power of creativity of their personalities can make it
seem so.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In other words, for them
one can never be certain about anything, even their own existence.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Some schools of philosophy or religion
try to deliberately create this great doubt in their students so that the
escape from it in a profound spiritual realization of actuality--their
enlightenment--will be equally great.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>We would rather have you get in touch with your own soul,
co-created by a pure presence of God, im-mediately--directly without any other
mediation, in your own evolving meditation.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Feel--relive even a few moments of
some previous time in your life in all fullness, for this is what your soul
contains, this spiritual fullness and completeness--just as your spirit is
capable of experiencing now.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This
is what your soul offers: the story of your life that is all real.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Relive--feel for what reality felt
like when Santa Claus was no illusion but thrilled your little soul, and see
if this isn’t more truly who and what you were then.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Honor all your own experiences and see
if this doesn’t expand your respect and wonder at the young, the immature, the
so-called “ordinary folks” in your life who, from a truly spiritual viewpoint,
are totally real, as are you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>No one can stand outside themselves in the present moment and make
the assessment that something is at once real and an illusion.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This takes the dimension of
time--hindsight, in this case based upon a growing or sudden insight.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are no longer who you once were:
your soul has grown and, hopefully, your understanding along with it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is from outside human reality that
Mother Spirit and I can observe the general tendency to take for real what is
an illusion of separateness from the outside world.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the notion of pure
objectivity--that there is some pure object you can perceive from which you
are completely separate and in which you are playing no part. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is dodging the fact of
psychological projection, that you are part of that out there if in no other
way than in your selection of what to perceive in an infinitely detailed
field.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The term projection comes
from the fact that physical recognition takes place in your mind and is
“projected” outward where it more--or less--approximates the object perceived
through sight, sound, touch, smell, taste, grasped by intuition and correlated
with understanding and wisdom. </FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>We have given many lessons now on how to take
response-ability--how to be able to respond--to the fact that you are always
somewhat encountering yourself, but usually on deep, unconscious levels.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This creates the illusion that all
that out there is completely independent of your own inner moods,
conditioning, understandings, and values.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For indeed this is a hallmark of
maturity, first to understand, then be able to experience that in the
instantaneous, largely unconscious relationship of meeting different people,
you are to a degree meeting yourself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>What you are unconsciously projecting is both interpreting and
affecting this other person coming toward you, as are their projections
interpreting you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In this lively
meeting of two living people there can be an ability to respond that, if truly
spiritually understood and engaged, leads to a conscious granting of freedom,
even the invitation, for each to be fully there for the both of
you.</FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>(No pure objectivity)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>So this is one illusion I would have you, my children, contemplate
and think about.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How much of your
seemingly purely objective life is actually partly you, based on your own
understandings and conditioning?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Your life can become an experience that, as your insight and your
understanding grow, so too does that whole universe out there, and all the
personal beings in it, come to respond to you a little more completely and
joyfully.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the reward of
spiritual growth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Response-ability is how your will is capable of becoming more and more
aligned with God’s will, gaining and granting ever more freedom within His
total creation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>These are many things to think about tonight, but I wanted to
address this question of illusion and how one has to be so very careful to
avoid an inherent or implicit condescension in assigning this term to anyone
else’s life, or even your own past.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>In this sense there are no “ordinary” folks living in illusion.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As Mother Spirit and I see you, my
children, you are each uniquely extraordinary, living real lives.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>Now if you have any questions or comments this evening, let’s have
a look at them. </FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good
evening, Michael.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I grasp that
you’re saying that when two people come together each one is projecting part
of themselves out onto the other person?</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>(Illusion and projection)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, my
daughter, this is an instantaneous interpretation.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Each one’s inner reality colors
everything they perceive.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So if you
are aware of this, it becomes part of the creative process with the other
person?</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As you
become aware of your own inner reality, in maturity, and take responsibility
for it, you are able to achieve what we’ve been calling openness.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mother Spirit talked about a kind of
tough inner balance--an equanimity--you can cultivate.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s being able to see how people
present themselves, more and more irrespective of how you know yourself to be
inside.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Conversely, the more
opaque you are to yourself, the less you are aware of your inner moods,
changes, and understanding, and how they are affecting your perception, the
more you are giving objective reality to your own interpretations.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You could be in a foul mood and turn
the most delightful and cheerful person into an enemy instantly.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you are not aware of this, or
refuse to take responsibility for it, you find yourself surrounded by
enemies.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is somewhat the
state of your current worldly affairs.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is that an
illusion?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s real to
the person at that moment, and acted upon as real.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s part of their
experience.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Later they might see
it was an illusion they were creating, and call it so: that was an illusion
that I saw everyone as my enemy.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>But you have to credit that it was a genuine experience at the
time.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Illusion is an
after-the-fact evaluation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In the
present moment you can only be as open-minded as you can be, to the best of
your ability, by being aware of your inner self and the fact you are
co-creating your world and everyone in it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This calls for enormous courage to be
open this way, to be vulnerable this way, coming out of the experience that
you are surrounded by enemies.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It
takes this kind of courage to realize, and accept, that you yourself are
causing this situation.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So when two
people encounter each other, and they each have their own inner life, they put
this out on the other person.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is worse when they don’t take responsibility for it by realizing
that it comes from themselves.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>But if both of them are open-minded to what they are doing, then it
becomes a great adventure between them.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My daughter,
some of these illusions are more commonly understood as “isms”--like racism,
sexism, culture-ism, and your whole world history is the story of different
peoples meeting this way and taking the strangeness they experienced as some
kind of objective reality, as if the others were really inferior.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But by being aware you have this
background--perhaps you were raised by racist or sexist parents--you can in
sense withdraw this prejudice and not see others in stereotypes.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can face your own inner need to
put people in little boxes for your own self-gratification of feeling
superior, or to control so much intrinsic human uniqueness.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Also there is so much arrogance and
hubris involved in all of this, endless hierarchies of religious priest-craft
and such looking down on the “common folks.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>But again, these are real experiences to, say, a person who sees
the opposite sex as some kind of inferior being.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That--to them--is a valid perception,
and everything they encounter in the opposite sex only serves to reassure them
of this prejudice because it does serve a psychological purpose.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the power of projection.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your mind has the ability to pick and
choose--quite unconsciously--to bulwark its own prejudice.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is what your world is involved
in, and this is precisely what it has to overcome, especially in terms of the
major cultures which are still quite distinct.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>To a person who is not a racist, they can say that racism is an
illusion; but it is not for those involved in it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They give it objective reality, and it
takes courage to realize and accept that this is their own doing.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It means, on the practical, personal
level, facing the larger reality of this unique person, then that one,
standing in front of them, bursting as raw individuals out of the comfortable
boxes they’ve been put in.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As the
world gets smaller, as the major cultures are being inextricably shoved
together, this is a big problem.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Yet the actual contact and confrontation is also the way out, the way
of real experience replacing naïve prejudice.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes,
that’s…very clear.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank
you.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be in my
peace.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So, Michael,
women are not necessarily less courteous drivers than men.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But my comment is, since we are
looking at ourselves, and we’re self-aware beings, and
are--obviously--projecting onto ourselves something which is not really there,
we have illusions about who we are.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>So you’re saying that the soul is the real self.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It would seem that to the degree we’re
not being our souls, does that mean that we’re in an illusion about who we
are?</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>(Human complexity--all real)</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Not at all,
my son.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is rather the
opposite.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The soul is just one
part of your total self, and not the only real part.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You also have your own ego, your own
sense of yourself, how you see and feel yourself, and even this is capable of
enormous growth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your
self-conscious self can be aware--if you’ve been reading our lessons--(Michael
laughs)--that you are more than this.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You have a soul.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have
a spirit.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have a
personality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have a body and
mind that encompass you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But
though this totality of you is transcendent to your consciousness at any one
moment, we’re saying that your self-conscious self, and your experiences, do
have a kind of absolute reality to you moment by moment.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>If you are growing then a larger, future you can look back on your
more limited vision now and render the judgment that much of your life now was
an illusion.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But it’s
not--now.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And it’s always now for
your type of being.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There are
those philosophies that deny any final reality to your self-conscious self and
say that your ego is pure illusion and the only real self is the universal
one--God: there is no individualization in true reality, only the illusion of
such.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But we say that there
definitely are individualized personalities that God has created unique to
each, and there are individual souls, and there are self-conscious selves that
are fully real.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the
complexity of human beings we’ve been talking about. </FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So when you
say that the soul is the real you, you meant that in a certain
sense…</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We’re not
saying that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s not the only
“real you.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All these parts of
you that you’re trying to, and need to, unify--your personality has the
function of trying to unify all of you--each one of these parts has its own
distinct kind of reality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your
soul, a Morontia reality co-authored by a fragment of God, is distinct from
your present self-consciousness dependant upon your physical being.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Both are real.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So we’re
like a bag of these parts, and each has its own kind of reality.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A clear understanding of who we are
has to include all of these, not just the soul, or just the ego, not just the
higher faculties.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Right?</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Exactly, my
son.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Think of how much harder it
would be to casually kill someone else if they were realized as not just a
physical body.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If everyone knew
themselves and all others to be transcendent beings, what we call little
walking infinities of personalities and souls with the potential of eternal
life within them--to feel that within themselves, and realize this is also the
case with the person they’re about to kill…<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That might be a different matter then,
to kill another child of God’s.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Back to the
other part of my question: we’re not seeing that, and so there’s this illusion
of who we are, and who this other person is.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That follows from what you’re
saying.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That illusion about who
and what we are is being projected onto others.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, but
again, you are as if standing outside the situation, as was I in my
example.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My lesson tonight was
that the term illusion only applies from a larger point of view.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But: you are never in a larger point
of view!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Right! {and everyone
breaks up laughing})<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are your
point of view moment to moment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>(Right!--good…)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So human
life--as you experience it--is not an illusion.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your soul is the weaving of your human
reality, this human life you know, with how it is experienced and taken on by
a pure spirit of God’s in all its completeness from that point of
view.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That being
the larger point of view.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>(The fullness of Morontia/soul reality)</FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Exactly.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When you
re-experience pure moments from your soul, you are astonished at the fullness
of them--the way things looked and smelled and felt--everything, the whole
encompassing.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There you were at
five years old, and the doorknobs were way up there, and you walked around in
a forest of legs, and your books were full of moo-cows and kitty-cats.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Certainly, now you can see that your
whole feeling/reality of Santa Claus Christmas was a kind of sweet and loving
cultural joke played on you with elaborate illusions, but at the time?--my
goodness, how it all thrilled your soul.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>That was your encompassing reality then, and it’s still there, here in
your soul.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So that is
what is being recorded as your soul, that actual perception.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Not just
perception; the whole human experience.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Your soul is a fragment of God’s capturing your full human experience
in all its completeness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Including
what you’re not aware of.</FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your whole being’s experience is
generally transcendent to your present consciousness.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As we’ve expressed it before, from the
purely spiritual point of view you are whole and complete just as you are,
whether or not you can yet realize this.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Your Thought Adjuster registers this completeness, which is why your
soul is very distinct and so much larger than your memories.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It represents the totality of your
life, but, again, it is not the only real part of you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your unique personality, with its
unique experiences, is also real, as are the experiences themselves.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Are you not experiencing
yourself?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>When you try to conceive of this on a universal scale of the
entire cosmos and all the personal beings in existence growing this way, it
gives you some appreciation of that aspect of God we call the Supreme
Being.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is why it is called
Supreme.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And as the Supreme Being
is the oversoul of the whole time-and-space creation, so your soul is
similarly supreme to your self-conscious self, and why your consciousness has
to grow to some day be at one with your soul and its co-author.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is also why your stillness
meditation can offer so much as a way of at least touching this transcendent
realm--to be able to relax all the pressing needs of the moment and let some
of this story of your life come out in real good reflection.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But even your memories, my son, are
permeated by your soul, and so as you get more spiritual maturity--spiritual
recognition, as you are more able to recognize the spiritual dimension in your
life all along, this soul-quotient within your memories grows.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the character you grow.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are literally earning this realm,
and it can be yours forever.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>Student: <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Michael,
you’ve just put me in a psychedelic state.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(much laughter)</FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well,
insofar as the original meaning of that word was “mind-manifesting,” I’ll take
that as a compliment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>(Yes--please)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Hopefully
spirit-manifesting is what we’re doing here; spirit and soul.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>Let me pop out one little teaser than Mother Spirit and I want to
give a lesson on, and that is how you can add to your soul, and how your soul
can be starved.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There are ways
that people discover about how to stop experiencing, and your human experience
is what you offer this fragment of God’s within you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Conversely, as you have the courage to
keep experiencing the changing, ever new aspect of the creation, this is what
you have to give to your soul.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>But more on that later.</FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I remember a
transmission saying that the apprehending by the Thought Adjuster of an
experience is like a hologram of it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Was that you or Mother Spirit?</FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It must have
been someone else.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I would
hesitate to put it that way.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Holograms are somewhat nebulous, often just images formed by the
intersection of laser beams in a cloudy medium, whereas your soul is quite
contra-distinct from any<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>such
purely light-only form.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s so
much more.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s your life as both
you and a spirit of God’s see it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It’s much more full and solid--in a sense--than many folks’ awareness
of themselves, or even their finest memories.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As I just got through saying, that
fullness in your memories is your soul’s input.</FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Can you
think of a better metaphor than holograms?</FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I would just
call the soul a transcendent reality, that, as you approach it, you will be
transcending your present life’s limits, and your consciousness will be
expanding enormously.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s a
different class of reality, what we call Morontia reality.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is a combination of an eternal,
absolute, existential presence and a unique, personal, temporal
experience--unique in all creation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>That’s what it is.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(much
laughter…)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ooops!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(…and on and on…then, later…)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I was thinking the other day about our
dream life and that if you actually tracked your dreams--as Carl Jung
said--there is an unfolding story in them.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is there a sense in which our souls
are like a story?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s not just a
bag of memories, right?--floating around.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Does it have a…direction?</FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Time itself,
my son, ties it all together.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You’re a temporal being.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Your life is a story told along a dimension of time.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In that sense it is a story, only one
that transcends any story you’ve yet encountered.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Time itself ties you together.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’ve had a real past; you’ll have a
real future.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Time is one of God’s
laws tying things together sequentially.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Personality is uniquely conscious of time and sequence.</FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Oh.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Some people can sit down and write a
memoir, but others may have more trouble because their life is just all over
the map--so to speak.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is it the
case that that’s not how God sees your story.</FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>(A metaphor for the soul)</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>God, and
Mother Spirit and I exist outside of what you know of as time.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As we got into this once before, we
not only have sequence, we are not bound by it in the same way as is a
physically living, rigidly temporal being such as yourself.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We totally transcend your experience
of time.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you want a metaphor,
it’s like you look at events through a living/changing telescope that can view
only one little rock at a time, whereas we are seeing the whole entire
mountain range.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your life is like
a long, linear, ever growing mountain range that we can see all-at-once, as
well as moment-by-moment as you see it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So of course
that would also apply to our Thought Adjusters and how they see our
experience.</FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, that
long mountain range is your soul.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It’s all there, just not yet for you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Depending upon a living physical body
for consciousness you’re still stuck in the moment-by-moment narrow-view
telescope.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Even your hindsight
and foresight, neither perfect, both exist only in your present moment.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But that’s just about as far as we can
go with this metaphor.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(and so
everyone breaks up again.)</FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Whew!--OK,
I’ll pause here--at the foot of the mountain.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be in my
peace.</FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Excuse
me--it’s too much--I need to step out for a minute and walk around.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(he leaves, but comes back in a
bit)</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>MICHAEL, to a new student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Do you have anything you wish to ask, or add, (name)?</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>No, not at
this time.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well, feel
free to step in any time you want.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>As you can see, we’re quite informal here.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be in my peace.</FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes,
Michael.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Everything is so
beautiful tonight--that you said, and so, for me, so moving.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You keep on mentioning that we are
little walking infinities, then why do I feel so limited?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(much laughter)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is that my subjective perception in
the way of being open to that potential?</FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is true humility, my son, to be
aware of all that other. </FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I feel like
I’m in this limbo place--sometimes--of discarding something because it no
longer works for me, it’s illusionary, but I haven’t yet grasped anything
concrete or real.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All I am is:
here I am.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Exactly.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s
like…<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Oh.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>OK.</FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>(When limbo is a positive achievement)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>MICHAEL: <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Not to get a
swelled head or anything like that, but that is quite an achievement.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The fear of this state is what causes
people to cling to what they have, rather than opening to what they might grow
to become--all that scary potential.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s why
people run to fill that up with something--TV, sex, money, or
whatever--instead of sitting still with it, resting with it--meditating, or
just not doing anything.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Sometimes there is that compulsion to do something with whatever it is,
but there really isn’t anything.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I mean: what do I do--there is that.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is reality, without putting a
name on it.</FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And here it
comes--right?--because time is God’s law.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Everything is in motion.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are living: you’re in motion.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’ve a long ways to go before you
achieve <st1:place>Paradise</st1:place> and actually get beyond time…<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Why do you
keep saying that! <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(more
laughter)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m sorry.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>No--that’s
OK: because it’s true.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It gives
you some appreciation of what you are going through, to know that yes, you
have to fill it up.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There’s a
whole eternity here to fill up.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is an enormous requirement--you might say--that God puts upon you
by creating you an experiential being capable of endless experience.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That very fact is a kind of demand
that life puts upon you.</FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But I’m the
one who gets to choose what I experience.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To the
degree you can; to the degree you can realize your free will.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And be
objective in my perceptions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Objectivity,
my son, is something never quite captured.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s an orientation, like my Spirit of
Truth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Part of being objective is
in having a full appreciation of your inescapable subjectivity.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I gave the example of getting beyond a
prejudice by being aware of how you were raised that way, though that past is
real and will always be with you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Having conquered a prejudice puts you in a different position than with
a person who never had the prejudice in the first place.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes--I see
that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s why one goes into
stillness instead of getting caught up in stories that only perpetuate the
past.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In a sense, in that moment
you relax these stories and don’t give them any more power.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You let go that point of view to allow
a pure-er view--that is already there--to be experienced.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A pure-er
point of view is only there in potential, until it’s realized
consciously.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But yes, it’s
opening for your soul; it’s opening for your Thought Adjuster; it’s opening
for my spirit, and Mother’s.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Sometimes we tease you not to feel too crowded inside, but this is
really why spirit influences have to be, need to be, want to be truly
unobtrusive.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We value your unique
personality and your free will too much to impose ourselves upon you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s because you can ignore us, you
literally have to give us reality inside you through a quality of spiritual
recognition.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s why there is
no objective or scientific proof of God, or of Mother Spirit, or me for that
matter.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is only within your
own self we can be known.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So right now
you see all of us here as you say, as walking infinities, and that we can
allow ourselves to experience that as well, and see each other that
way.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, this is
the true course of human evolution.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so also,
if I meet someone again I’ve had a relationship with before, even though
that’s always there, there is a way I can set that aside in order to see her
ever more truly for who she really is, and not get hung up in the
past.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT size=3
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>(You and your friends are in each others’ souls)</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can also have a deep
feeling/reassurance within that both you and her are part of each others’
souls, that your former relationship is being held sacrosanct by a pure
presence of God’s.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This helps in
letting the past be the past, knowing it is part of your soul in all its
original fullness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And you can
visit--if you will--those other times in the past more purely if you have this
kind of courageous openness-attitude in the present.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>This is most easily achieved at first by a kind of stillness
meditation, suspending any kind of heavy, determining issues in the present in
order to get a more pure and complete experience of some relationship in the
past.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Remember that your soul
contains your Thought Adjuster’s point of view too, and it is available to you
with its more complete vision of both you and the event.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the wealth of your
soul.</FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>With this attitude, this courageous openness to spiritual
completeness, when you meet again you can perceive/experience each other as
the new creations you both are because you are both changing and co-creating
yourselves in the present.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>When we call you walking infinities we are giving due credit to
the fact you are creatures of God’s.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>God created your personalities, and there are no limits that can be put
upon personality either in the present or in duration and extension.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>True, each of you are moment by moment
limited by your own being and a universe situation, conditioned and defined by
your very reality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But your
reality within, and that reality without, are both capable of infinite
expansion.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>At each moment in time
you are a very discrete being indeed and utterly complete, and then here is
another moment and your soul has grown.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When does
intention come into play?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Because
all of us here have in one way or another the intention to experience all of
who we are.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet there are those
who don’t even have a clue.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’ve
not degrading them because it’s sad.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>But where does intention fit it--our commitment to wanting to
experience our infinite potential more fully?</FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This, my
son, is also a gift of God’s.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is an intrinsic part of your personality.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your personality has this innate
desire to experience, and the power to real-alize--make real for you, the kind
of being you are.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All personal
beings have this need/innate desire to experience.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But as you correctly notice, mostly
through the conditioning in which they were raised, folks can be thwarted in
experiencing; and this is what I want to go into in more depth sometime,
how…<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>I’ll mention here what you call bad habits, any kind of unthinking
repetitious behavior, shall we say someone who abuses drugs and gets drunk
every evening for thirty years to watch the same TV programs.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have the expression, “the
same-old, same-old?”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is what
is starving their soul of what are potentially/possibly greater experiences of
life in their evenings.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>True enough, the Thought Adjuster sees some uniqueness in each
evening because everything is changing, even the person is getting older, but
what the person could possibly be offering their Thought Adjuster is
enormously dwarfed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Being in a
numbed-out condition evening after evening, year after year, there is so much
wasted opportunity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Every child
born has an innate desire to experience, to live, to feel, yet this can be
thwarted, terribly crippled.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well, thank
you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It was all
perfect.</FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3
face=Tahoma>MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be in my
peace.</FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>(Dimensions we will come to encounter)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>My children--(Michael broke up laughing)--it has been another
delightful evening.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It got a bit
didactic there at the beginning because I wanted to run down the complexity
surrounding that word illusion, and how different philosophies and religions
you’ve encountered sometimes focus on just one part of the full
personhood--the personality, the soul, the moment’s conscious self, without
realizing and including the completeness of that person, however variously
united or not, mature or not.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
temptation is great to see owns own life as having been an illusion, and then
the lives of others as illusory.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>But because all cosmic reality has its being in God there is a profound
reality always here, to endlessly discover as God’s will--existential,
supreme, ultimate, absolute, and infinite.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is what you are living in.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These are the dimensions you will come
to encounter.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But your life now
as you know yourself moment to moment, this is real.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is no illusion.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is what you have to offer that
presence of God within you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
too are the co-creator of your soul.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt -0.25in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Tahoma>Be in my peace.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good
evening.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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