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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">DATE:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></B>March 4, 2010</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">LOCATION:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></B>LIGHT LINE</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">T/R:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Gerdean </FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TEACHER: <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></B>TOMAS</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOPIC:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Experimental Life Stations</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOMAS:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good evening, friends and
neighbors.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am Tomas.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am glad to be here.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As you might say in your culture, “It is
good to see and be seen.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Social
intercourse takes two and so we have a forum here; indeed, we have a party, a
dance hall in which to circulate and exchange vows and prayers and messages
which serve to uplift and encourage you in your daily path. Yes, there are
frustrations along the way.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is
not always easy.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But the important
thing is that you continue to try, that you don’t give up, and so let us
commence.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>Greetings and
welcome to you all again.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am
Tomas, your teacher.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have thought
that I would like to talk to you about experimental life stations, just to focus
on the concept.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As you know, those
of you who are students of the Urantia text, every tenth planet is an
experimental world.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The others
provide continuity throughout the universe; they don’t have the adventures and
glitches that you have here that make your life so very rugged and such a
challenge.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They have challenges, of
course, but not to the extent that you have here [where] there are so many
variables and so many unscheduled developments -- unscheduled as far as your
perception is concerned although they are of course quite in hand, quite under
the control of those who take care of the living laboratories of time and
space.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>The idea, though, of
life experimental stations, or experimental life stations, whichever way you
choose to consider it, is an opportunity to think about the flexibility that
life provides. When you go beyond here, when you leave Urantia and enter into
the greater community of Mansonia, you will meet with many people who have no
idea what it’s like to be from a sphere such as this.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The very fact of your experiences here,
even without the rebellion and the default, would render you unique and
different, but I have some question in my mind as to whether you truly
appreciate what it is to live in an experiential life station such as
Urantia.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>Let’s bring it down
to a manageable size so that you might consider it more immediately.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Take your society, for example, your
global society. It is organized into different countries with different
governments, and they handle themselves differently accordingly.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Different cultures have their ways,
their climates, their languages, and each one is its own life experimental
station.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>Perhaps when you
were a child you understood what your experimental life station was – your home,
your family, your culture, your ways.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You were familiar with the foods you ate, how your relatives looked, more
or less what they wore, how they smelled, how they laughed, how they talked, how
they worked.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And then visiting
another culture might have introduced you to people of a different color, or
people who dressed funny/strange compared to your family.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Perhaps their food smelled different and
strange, foreign/exotic, and you reacted or responded to that difference.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The same will be true on Mansonia when
you encounter people from other worlds.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And you will have similar reactions and responses.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>One of the things that you can learn now
and save yourself and everyone else the trouble later on is to recognize that
there are inherent differences at different levels of development … and for a
good reason.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>Furthermore, in your
lifetime you might look back and see that you yourself have enjoyed several
different life experimental stations.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>As a child you lived with your family, likely a nuclear family; in
college you may have lived in a dormitory; as a newly married couple, you shared
space with your wife/your husband, and it expanded to include children --
another experimental life station where you dealt with the vagaries of
child-rearing; and perhaps as an elder you find yourself in a nursing home, yet
another life experimental station – each one providing purpose and value,
accommodating the needs and the temperaments of those they serve.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>I meant to also
point out that in your culture you recognize apartment living as well as
residential neighborhoods, rural environments and urban communities, and each of
these provide their own flavor and their own challenges and to some extent they
are each an experimental life station.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Some people never change their station.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They just grow up in it and really never
move from it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And there are some
who move willingly and eagerly from one to another.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In some ways it could be said that Jesus
did that. He enjoyed going around seeing how other people lived.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He was investigating their experimental
life stations, helping them improve upon it by bringing a new dimension of
truth, beauty and goodness to that station where people had planted themselves,
where they lived.</FONT></P>
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size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>And yet another
observation along this concept of experimental life stations is to be found
within your own mind, in your own character.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Because the way you behave around some
people under some circumstances may or may not be the same way you would speak
and act in yet another experimental life station as relationships tend to
be.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If friendships are an end in
themselves, they too have created an experimental life station.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And they can be moved in and out of,
just as on a bigger scale you move in and out of neighborhoods or nations and,
cosmically speaking, you move around … not galaxies so much as life stations,
morontia worlds -- hundreds of them -- and later on, other areas and worlds for
you to explore.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>It is difficult to
let go of an experimental life station once you have adapted to it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“Breaking up is hard to do.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Saying good-bye is never easy.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Change is difficult.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And yet, it cannot serve to stay forever
in one paradigm.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“Welcome to
change” is the motto of this movement. And so, in order to effect change, you
need to know what you are trying to build, what you hope to construct, what you
are leaving and what you seek to enter into.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Or, in faith, simply step forth and
realize that one will be provided for you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Such is always the case.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>I am rather
intrigued by the span of consciousness that this topic allows. The pockets
within the mind of beliefs which become a real construct in which you live can
have a very firm grip on your life, on the way you deal with others, and the way
you regard yourself, and it can be very, very difficult to change from your
existing mind set. Sometimes it takes a shock or a trauma to get you to open up
to another way of thinking, a new way of perceiving, and at the same time, it is
necessary that you learn to discern when change is good and when it is simply
change for change sake.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Much is
required of you - each of you - fledglings.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But you have far greater capacities than
you give yourself credit for and you certainly have far more assistance than you
can imagine.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>Because you have
been reared in an environment that has reinforced the sense of isolation, your
quarantine, you tend to consider yourself an island, an experimental life
station out in no-man’s land somewhere, and many of you in your fear of
isolation surround yourself with busy-ness and noise and activity in order to
soothe that sense of isolation … while many of you have learned to go within and
seek solace and companionship in the citadel of the spirit, the most sublime of
all experimental life stations.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Your personal experiment with your own God fragment is truly the
adventure of the ages.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It knows you
well.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It knows you better than you
know yourself and it provides for you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It holds your hand as you ponder the things of today and reflect on those
of yesterday and anticipate that of tomorrow. You are truly in God’s hands, in
His care.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>I personalize that
by saying “his,” using the word His and using the pronoun and speaking of God as
if he were a personality, for He is, but I am comfortable with that.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There are those, too, however, who are
more comfortable with God being energy – omniscient, omnipotent energy – and
they have found peace in that, for there is order in the universe, and so again
we come back full cycle, to the universe filled with worlds that are peppered
with experimental life stations, so as to constantly improve upon the existing
paradigms of evolving life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>It’s an interesting
concept.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It causes me to admire our
Creator even more for the variety of opportunities available to those of you who
do endure the vagaries of life on an experimental life station such as
Urantia.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is not boring here! You
don’t really have time to grow dull. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>Yes, the time has
come to open the circuit to your input.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>If you would like to engage in discourse or ask questions of your
celestial friends, I am here to accommodate your needs.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How may I serve you?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Jerry:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, Tomas, if you would please just
accept my love and appreciation for your service.</FONT></P>
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size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOMAS:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you, my friend.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I could say the same.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have come to recognize the camaraderie
of those of us who have been engaged in this process for awhile.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There are indeed different levels of
comprehension, teaching, preaching, understanding.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Everyone does not grow at the same
pace.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There are new students coming
in all the time, even as there are more weathered students in the field already
harvesting their season’s crops.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We
begin to have a picture of the whole of the process, and it is such a comfort to
all of us when we look around and see we are doing what we are supposed to do –
diligently, lovingly, steadfastly – plodding along through the field, gleaning,
reaping, sowing.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Indeed.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is a comfort.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Jerry:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And a whole lot of fun.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOMAS:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Indeed it is a lot of fun.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is not only amusing but it is
gratifying.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is not only
singularly joyous, it is socially vitalizing. Sharing the inner life could be
called “fun.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is certainly, I
would suspect, fun for our Parents to observe us engaged in work and play
harmoniously. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have not been sent
to the corner lately so I expect I am doing something right in their
eyes.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Jerry:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If I know myself when I seek to ask of
Michael or Mother Spirit, the answer I get back is affirmation of “Do what you
think best, my son.”</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOMAS:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well, that is how you learn.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That does<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>not mean that what you are going to do
is wise or even right, but that is how you will learn, and there is really
virtually nothing you can do that will damage the plan.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There are fortunately build-in
limitations so you cannot go too far, and furthermore it has been promised that
you shall not have any more rebellions now that Michael is our Master Son, and
so no matter how dire it may seem, it is not as bad as it could be.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>Yes, go ahead and
enjoy yourself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>By this time you
have some degree of wisdom to know when you have gone too far into recklessness
or self-destructiveness and wouldn’t choose to go there.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is how it is that we can have such
faith in you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Still, it is only
fair to say that there are casualties.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And yet we do proceed in good faith.</FONT></P>
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size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Jerry:</B> <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you again, Tomas, and thank you for
this -- I like this concept of this experiment.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It kind of reminds us that we are in an
adventure here and the true meaning of adventure remains somewhat opaque; it
remains each moment to reveal itself. </FONT></P>
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size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOMAS:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, it is not just in the worlds
ahead.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is tomorrow and today, as
well.</FONT></P>
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size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Jerry:</B> <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I remember asking Anatolia one time if
there was still something, as advanced as she was, if there was still something
that she could not quite anticipate and she said, “Oh yes, you never outgrow
your need for courage.”</FONT></P>
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size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOMAS:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is a testimony to the gift of will,
of selfhood.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You need to make your
decisions all the way through, and some of them do indeed require a leap of
faith and a leap of faith requires courage, otherwise you would stay there where
you were until you ceased to exist or until you were pushed to act, and so yes,
courage is a stand-by. Even in the Corps of the Finality, I understand, courage
will be an essential part of the character, the nature of those of us who will
set sail for new horizons in the Grand Universe.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
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size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Jerry:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOMAS:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you, my friend.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p><FONT
size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Mike:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Hello. Tomas?</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOMAS:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Mike:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Hi, this is Mike.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOMAS:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, Mike.</FONT></P>
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size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Mike:</B> You mentioned something that sort
of tickled me a little bit regarding how some people are comfortable thinking of
the First Source and Center as the personality of the Universal Father and <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>others are comfortable with the idea of
an energy, an impersonal energy, and of course it has been revealed to us the
duality of this nature, that He that we name, that personality that turns His
face towards us that we can love and understand is but one aspect and this other
energy, which is the stage upon which all these beautiful universe adventures
unfolds, and I have been sort of thinking a lot about this lately, trying to
coordinate my perspective of having a material vehicle, a material body that is
quite literally electrons and atoms and flesh and blood and this understanding
of energy and mind coordinating with spirit I thought maybe you could elaborate
a little bit on this play, this coordination that’s happening, this stage that
has been set for us in contrast to how we enact our adventure upon that stage.
</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOMAS:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Are you asking me to discuss future
worlds and future experiences?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Future experimental life stations you might find yourself
upon?</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Mike:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Seeing that that is the topic, you could
address it in regards to that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s
sort of a philosophical perspective of trying to understand this interplay
between the Universal Father’s original thought being on the one hand spirit and
personality and on the other hand paradise and energy and how we are interfacing
with all this and yes, as relating to experimental worlds, it seems to me that
the creation of these experimental worlds is meant to expand the creative
capacities, to push the boundaries of progress and of growth, and I’ve been
thinking a lot about this lately and you mentioned energy versus personality and
it tickled me a little bit because I’ve been thinking deeply on recently.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOMAS:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well the truth is, of course, God is
both: personality and spirit.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And
there are times when either definition is perhaps more appropriate or is more
telling.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It really doesn’t serve to
venture too far into future worlds with that duality concept.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All of us want to grow up and
participate in the creation of new universes and new worlds in the Master
Universe.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But before we get there,
we have a lot of work to do even here.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And I would rather take that aspect of duality in your own constitution
and see how that can be applied to experimental life stations here on
Urantia.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>There are certainly
constructs in existence that have tremendous hold on many, many people.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You needn’t look further than your own
political system to see how the experimental life station of a mind-set
multiplied by a million people can affect not only each individual but the
entire world.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I would much rather
help you focus on how to create an experimental life station from your faith
that would be something in which you could all live compatibly.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If it is born in the spirit and
constructed in the mind, all of you can embellish it and populate it …
eventually to overpower the existing, lesser paradigms. But you must dedicate
yourself to this task and not waste overmuch time pondering elusive futures of
other worlds and other dimensions.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>I realize that such
activity is alluring and does, in fact, serve to provide great escape from the
burdens of the material life and the rigors of such an existence, and so they
are lovingly tolerated.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But it is
also true that the adventures that lay ahead on this planet in terms of creating
what this experimental life station was intended to be is a far more
invigorating and thrilling and meaningful adventure than any external worlds of
time and space, and you do need to have both personality and energy to
accomplish this task. Do you see my point?</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Mike:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes. Yes, thank you very much. And what
has been in my thoughts a lot lately is the reality of my physical being in
association with my spiritual and my mind aspects and the world in which I live
in now, you know, interacting with it and coordinating with it, appropriately,
not just intellectually and not just in intention but to understand the aspects
– I use the analogy of the stage on which we enact our drama and that stage
being that energy foundation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s
been a concept I’ve been thinking a lot about, trying to balance my own physical
energies, not just in thought, not just in spirit, but physically as well and
it’s such a wonderful mix that we have been given here, this opportunity to live
this life, to feel our feet in the soil, so to speak and to feel the value of
our feet in the soil … it’s just phenomenal.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOMAS:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are a young man. How old are
you?</FONT></P>
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size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Mike:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thirty-one.</FONT></P>
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size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOMAS:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have a tremendous future ahead of
you here … for yourself and for those you will impact.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have an opportunity to be a
hero.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And I say this fully
understanding that you think in terms of Superman or Spiderman or one of those
superheroes when I mention hero, or even Ulysses, but really I mean the kind of
hero who will stand up and represent what is right, not what is popular, who
will do the right thing by women and children and his fellow-men, even if it is
not going to put money in his pocket or earn him an award.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These are the heroes that are needed for
the work about to commence … and in some cases, already having
commenced.</FONT></P>
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size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Mike:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well, thank you very much for that. That
is incredibly inspirational to me, and it helps to boost my confidence in my own
abilities to do just that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That has
definitely been on my mind as well.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Just to do the Father’s will. </FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOMAS:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s right, and to be the best that
you can be, understanding that you will make mistakes but you will learn from
them, and no matter what, it will not be so off-the-wall as to not be
useful.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“The act is ours; the
consequences God’s.”</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Mike:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well, I thank you from the bottom of my
heart for your words as a reminder to me because you know, we all have to keep
reminding ourselves. </FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOMAS:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Indeed.</FONT></P>
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size=4> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Mike:</B> <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In times of difficulty, especially, and I
thank you very much, Tomas.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOMAS:</B> You are welcome, Mike.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And I would like to add that in a
construct of the kingdom such as this world will become when it matures as an
experimental life station, you will find much encouragement and support and
camaraderie from and with your peers.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Right now there seems to be a tremendous amount of vying for position and
much of the old competitive paradigm is still imbedded in your collective
consciousness, but this is passing away, and an era of cooperation and mutual
support is on the horizon.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Not a
negative support, not as in ‘enabling’ or ‘rescuing’ or ‘coddling’ but in real
support: in speaking man-top-man, working shoulder-to-shoulder, loving
face-to-face.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the true
grit.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the real fun.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the kind of stuff that makes
your soul smile.</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4>We are indeed coming
up at the end of our hour, the hour that was extended because of the delay
getting started, but I will pause for one more opportunity to share if there is
what you might call a “burning desire” [Pause] In that case, my friends, I will
close the session with my thanks and the thanks of my T/R for being here and
sharing this liaison experience, this experimental life station that we have
created and enjoyed this evening.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Go in peace.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Amen and
farewell.</FONT> <SPAN
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