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align=center><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Michael--</SPAN><st1:date Year="2010" Day="19"
Month="4"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">April 19,
2010</SPAN></st1:date><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Marin TM Group--Mill Valley,
</SPAN><st1:State><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">California</SPAN></st1:place></st1:State><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">--</SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">U.S.A.</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT
size=3>MICHAEL--T/R-JL<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(The mystery of individual personality)
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(The mystery of willpower and choice)
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Caring for others)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(God’s guiding lights
within)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(The battle of good and evil:
judgment)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Creative reflection/meditation)
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Full of soul, or devoid of
spirit?)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Abilities are your true
soul-wealth)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Dear Michael and Mother Spirit,<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Once again we gather
together from near and far, leaving the rest of our lives to come and hear your
kind words of encouragement and truth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>We look forward to these times with great anticipation for we have known
such joy and downright good fun and cheer in these sessions.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>We ask you to help us at this time
tonight. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Help us open our hearts to
feel. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Help us open our minds to
recognize and respond to what you have to offer. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We do treasure that which we ourselves
cannot anticipate, so help us realize now, as well as in the rest of our lives,
that each moment of time, each moment of life out here in time and space, is
unique: that a great part of our human reality, even reality in general, is not
repeating. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is springing forth
like a fountain from God’s absolute and infinite creativity. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Help us recognize this and thank Him by
living the fullest lives we can. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Amen. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good evening, my children, this is
Michael. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In your last session with
Mother Spirit a student expressed his awe and amazement with the sheer fact of
individual personality, and that this realization opened doors he couldn’t even
explain.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s a good definition of humility:
being aware of that which you can perceive somehow, opening, but is still beyond
explication.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As for personality
itself, while Mother Spirit and I create these enduring patterns of living
energy that you are too, these bodies that give your personality conscious
contact with reality, your personalities are your own.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They are God’s gift of you--to you, as
well as to the rest of everyone else; just as everyone else is also God’s gift
of them to you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the great
personality circuit, your participation in the Deity Absolute, the supreme fact
that you absolutely are!<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(The mystery of individual personality)
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>In our last series of lessons we’ve
tried our best to give you a feeling of this self of yours that is, in every
moment, antecedent to your ego-awareness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>In other words, even though you cannot literally hold your pure self as
an object, you can get some intuition, some deep sense of this enduring, unique
continuity that you are.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In
addition, you have not only your ego awareness of who you feel you are and who
you’ve been, my dear ones, you have a soul.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have an enormous, extra-dimensional
reality that is also alive, and growing, and lending itself to giving meaning
and value to your day to day life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>So in spite of the ever-changing feelings you have about yourself, this
object that you are for yourself called your ego--necessary as a social
construct you can present as someone and something to others, there is this
persisting reality of you that’s truly timeless, even space-less, almost as if
you were looking in on your life from somewhere outside.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet there is no “outside” of
reality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are definitely in it
and of it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s just because you
are so changeless, so permanent, so endowed with the potential for eternal life,
your pure personality is a subtle thing you can only intuit. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is why you are somewhat of a mystery
to yourself, existent, yet also a single unfathomable potential that only
manifests in the life you demonstrate as you moment by moment.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Now perhaps this enduring mystery
explains to you so much of otherwise inexplicable human behavior.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>People absolutely are!--and yet they
have this need to constantly rediscover themselves.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>We call you a creature of free will
dignity, first of all because you are a deliberately created being.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s the creature part.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are endowed with creative spirit,
the ability to create for yourself alternatives unique to you, you can choose,
and this is what gives you freedom from mere circumstance.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have a potential freedom from
everything that led up to this moment. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can create something new in time and
space, and have a choice.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>An even
deeper and mostly unconscious mystery for so many who do not pray or meditate
regularly is that this creativity of yours is incessant and has been part of you
from the very beginning of your self-consciousness. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Some people denigrate this spirituality
and call it mere subjectivity and treat it with contempt because it cannot be
empirically demonstrated like a material fact. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>My children, you can have a really
wonderful, fulfilling feeling of yourself that is not just what you call an ego
trip. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s not just puffing
yourself up.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Rather it’s taking
responsibility for your own creativity, taking responsibility for how you have
always shaped reality as best you could just to make sense of it, just to have
some control over what was happening to you. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For this decisiveness that gives you the
dignity of choice, of freedom, only exists in its usage. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It has no other manifestation.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s a living thing that cannot be
captured and held, let alone stored up.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>We’ve compared it to a flowing river coming out of you, you cannot hold
any more than you can hold the river in a cup. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can hold only memories and wonderful
soul feelings of willpower that you’ve exercised--choices you’ve made--before in
the past.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(The mystery of willpower and choice)
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>And so willpower is always a mystery
too, even to you: where it comes from. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In a sense you just do things--or
not.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet you’re always exercising
your intention of self-will to the best of your ability in order to get some
sense of personal freedom.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A
failure of this is what gives you the feeling of being held down or imprisoned
by circumstances, thwarted in some way when your creative spirit seems to have
failed or abandoned you, leaving you stuck.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>With respect to our ongoing discussion
of how to handle stubborn unhealthy habits, consider the feeling you have right
now of who and what you are, and ponder the mystery of how you suddenly are
capable, perhaps after a long struggle and many failures, you are suddenly
capable of exercising your will power to choose another way of life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Think of how many times you’ve tried and
failed, and yet suddenly here it is, you’re capable of deciding: you decide and
do it. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’re capable of changing
your life for the better.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And
though each decision itself is always here and now and somewhat different and
unique, your intention builds on itself so you not only have vicious circles,
you have great beneficial ones too.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>The more you exercise your will power,
the more you feed your soul with these positives results in the new life that
emerges. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Something just seems to be
growing all on its own: that’s your soul. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’re suddenly in accord with something
greater than yourself--its co-author, a presence of God. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’re choosing the good, the true, and
the beautiful. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’re suddenly
enabled and it’s a growing thing, the very thing that leads to a fuller life, a
longer life of joy and happiness, and greater service to your fellows.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’re more able to discern God’s will
and do it yourself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’re more in
accord with Him.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’re using some
of His power by letting it flow through you for goodness, for truth and for
beauty. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>This is intrinsically fun. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the essence of happiness, this
amazing mystery of what springs forth when each of you, in your own unique way,
tries to be in accord with the supremely universal--our Father.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Even those who go so terribly astray and
end up being so destructive to themselves and others, Mother Spirit and I, and
our Father-- we see them in their completeness.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We see their innate desire, their
yearning to be free, their yearning to be in accord with what leads to eternal
life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s the essence of the
saying that we hate the sin but love the sinner. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>This is the sense of yourself, my
children, that will be so enormously enhanced over on what you call the other
side when your spiritual sensitivity and more soulful nature will not require
you to deny a single thing that has ever happened to you: the full possession of
your soul. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will have this
vision, this perception of the wholeness and completeness of your living
personality. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>So ponder these things. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Allow yourself to be thrilled in wonder
from time to time with who and even what you are.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s what your Urantia book calls cosmic
consciousness, teaching you about so many other orders of personal beings that
you may have a comprehension of what you are as distinct from an angel, a
Midwayer, a Melchizedek, a Lanonandek Son.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Welcome this mystery; or should I should say, welcome the awareness of
it, for this is real, not some kind of mystery-mongering like a little boy with
a new flashlight looking for dark places use it. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>This is just another unfathomable
dimension of you that worries some, yet sets others free in wonder. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is your spiritual creativity and
decisiveness, seemingly springing out of nowhere, that sets you free. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Reach for it and let it happen. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Treasure your response-ability, your
ability to respond not only to yourself and what arises within you, but also to
all those hungry, pain-filled eyes out there looking to you for love and comfort
and simple companionship. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be here
for yourself and for them. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mother
Spirit and I will be right within and beside you every step of the way.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Now if you have any questions or
comments about these things, or anything else in your heart, bring them forth.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Dear Michael, I am so privileged to be
hearing you this evening. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’ve been
trying to understand what my feelings are when I try to help folks along who
really need me, and I’m afraid that it’s mostly fear and sadness.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m afraid I can’t really help them and
that their sadness will defeat me.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Whatever you could offer that could help me I would
appreciate.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Caring for others)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, my daughter, as strange as it may
seem, I have to congratulate you for feeling this sadness. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is a true response to these
situations and it takes a great deal of courage to accept these folks and to
feel their sadness. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is a true
response that even Mother Spirit and I feel as well. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is a great deal of truth in this
and so we only ask you not to feel sad about yourself and your reaction to what
you see as genuine suffering. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Your own feelings of helplessness could
be your identifying with individuals who are experiencing their own lack of
freedom.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They may not understand
this, but you can see in them. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So
fear not about perceiving this. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Don’t let it cripple you in your own
behavior towards them, but rather let it continue to soften your heart so that
you can reach out and take them in. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Sometimes it is only their seeing a pair
of friendly eyes that can give them some small respite from the predicament
they’re in. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Beyond that, do your best to gently
suggest, perhaps, the next step they might take. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Tease them into taking it. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be as playful and light-hearted with them
as you can be for in doing so you will be showing them a truly liberating
attitude. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This sadness you feel is
your tie to them, it’s your bond, it’s your true inner feeling, and so let it
motivate you and continue to let my Spirit of Truth be your orientation.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Trust your perceptions.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be open to lead the way, whatever
that is, whatever that living way is each next moment. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It might be a smile, or just a little
hug, a hand on the shoulder.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It
might be what you are very good at, my daughter--listening, taking them in and
letting them know they are accepted. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So carry on.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Keep up your spirits. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Trust these feelings you have.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be not downhearted for these feelings
for they are your connection to folks.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Does this seem like something you could do?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A very good
answer.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you, my daughter, for all the
goodness, and all the love, and all the compassion you’ve shown others.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be in my
peace.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you, Father Michael, for all the
things you do for us, even all the things we don’t know about.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m wondering if your Spirit of Truth is
a being like we can contact, or is it just a force or a
pressure.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(God’s guiding lights
within)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My son, to a large degree it depends
upon you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Our Father, Mother Spirit
and myself: we are always here.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As
we’ve introduced the notion before, it is by your very ability to ignore us--an
essential part of your freedom that God gives you, your ability to ignore even
Him--for a while!--you are caught up in His creation, are you not?--(Yes)--yet
by this ability of yours, you have to choose to give us reality.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have to allow our reality to impinge
upon you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have to entertain the
goodness that our Father can present to you with real, discrete thoughts.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is especially true when you
desperately need them.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the
courage that is required of you to accept His guidance, His comfort, His
council, for it is essential that you do your best to live by these guiding
lights.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They are always
shining.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But if you do not act upon
them, they do not diminish their glow, but you are less able to register and
heed their light.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>This is why I call for an ever
progressing self-honesty.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Like the
good intentions I talked about earlier, your present honesty stands upon all the
honesty you’ve known before, yet it’s not so much a habit as a continuous and
highly conscious choice.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can
simply address us in your mind and ask: Dear God!--what do I do next?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And wait for the answer.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It will come, and you will recognize it
by the feeling of goodness it gives you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>As we’ve said, it may come like a bolt from the blue--an idea, a concept,
a notion, a realization that seems to perfectly answer or clarify the situation
you’re in.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Then comes the faith part, the ability
to act on things as yet unseen, the mystery I talked about when all of a sudden
you are simply capable of doing things that were impossible before.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I think you will feel a big smile coming
from all of us, and you will know you have ascertained, you have literally
touched another part of God’s will for you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Have you ever felt moments like this
before?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, I have.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I think I felt one yesterday and today
when I had a problem and the answer just kind-of came.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It turned out to be a very good answer
too.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m thankful the beacons are
always there--no matter where I am.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It can be a very subtle thing.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It may be coming from your own higher
consciousness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You needn’t worry
about the exact origin.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For a human
being most spiritual presences represent such transcendent unity, they come
through as one.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You just need to
listen in all your little mini-meditations throughout the day.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Relax the tight grip that might have you
stumped for a while.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Relax that
with a deep breath or two and say, Hi Mom!--Hello Dad!--Thank you for me and
this life of mine.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That alone can
let us come through.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then we can
say, Thank you, our son, for once again acknowledging us, for having us in your
life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is your gift to us, and
it brings a big smile on our faces.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is what we live for.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>So keep reaching, my son.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>See if you can recognize these moments
when we are here with you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you, Father Michael.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’re welcome.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Keep finding my
peace.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Michael, my name is B, and I’ve been on
my own journey of faith, the Christian journey of faith.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As you’ve said, and they say, we have
freedom of choice, freedom of will; but then they also say that one day this
place will no longer be, and that there will be a great battle, and there will
be those who are left behind.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Those
who confess you as our savior will be able to continue the journey, and the rest
will just…disintegrate, or go to hell.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I don’t believe that, but I hear it so often.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Could you walk with me a moment on
this?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(The battle of good and evil:
judgment)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, my son.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I think it is important to see how, for
many of these individuals, they are expressing in outward metaphors what they
are going through internally.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These
are often very tortured souls who are moment to moment fearfully tipping back
and forth and feeling swept along in forces over which they have little
control.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They objectify their
internal situation in order to get some slight control over their lives, here by
putting their feelings in terms of a great battle between good and evil.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Essentially they’re objectifying the
inner moral decisions that everyone needs to make by seeing this necessity as
desperate battles with evil spirits for their souls.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>The free-will one has is only potential
apart from its actual, living use--what I spoke on this evening--in each
separate decision.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Objectifying
this need for decisiveness and seeing it outside oneself as a war between other,
warring spirits can be, unfortunately, a way of denial--of ones own
responsibility.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is true
because many have lost, or not yet learned, an ability to respond to another
unique human being in front of them in a unique situation that has never
happened before.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They overlay this
essence of reality and cast so much of everything and everyone they encounter
into the drama of their own internal battle, their own--ironically
correct--inner feeling of no freedom, and no adequate response from life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Then that projected battle is carried
even further.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We gave a lesson once
on how, as you go through your social life day to day, you have necessary
assessments to make.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Maybe your old
friend here is fibbing a little bit; and that could be a necessary
assessment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But to suddenly in your
mind condemn him for being an utter liar: that’s judgment.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s playing God.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s filling yourself with some ego
notion that you yourself can, like your notion of God, judge another person in
their totality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This ego puffery
carries over into the smug self-satisfaction that you can determine which folks
will go to heaven, which to hell--neither of which exists in reality.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What you have in the next phase of your
ongoing eternal life is a rebirth in such a transformed body and mind that no
one will dissemble their surprise upon awakening in such a more soulful reality
with a more spiritually all-inclusive ability to suspend all these arrogant
judgments.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will be more able to
see each other as the little walking infinities you are--all that soul and
character--far beyond any kind of superficial judgment you might be tempted to
make.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>The great glory here, my son, is that
prejudiced people will be given this new opportunity to get beyond their own
notions and start to be response-able, with humility, with all these others they
can finally appreciate.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That larger
perception and appreciation is humility.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>As for the battle for their soul, that is up to each, for no one is
forced to accept eternal life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Everyone will have the opportunity to choose whether to continue or
not.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Does that answer your
question?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So they will never have to be eternally
punished for the misdeeds they’ve done in this life, but they’ll have the
opportunity to go in a new direction.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Yes!--that walks with my life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Thank you, Michael.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are very welcome, my<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>son.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Try teasing these folks into letting go
a little bit--(Yes)--all their desperate need to judge everyone--and
themselves.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Point out the wonderful
spiritual blessing of humility in perceiving the enormity of God’s creation of
other personal beings, rather than feeling so little, with the need to belittle
everyone else.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Keep walking the
good walk with me, my son, and be in my peace.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, Michael.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Glad to be back here again.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I think one need not wait to go to the
other side to experience their full humanity and the potential that exists in
every moment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In ones stillness one
has access to the true nature of oneself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>We can be open to both your creativity and our own.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Right here and now the kingdom<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>of heaven exists in our consciousness,
but it gets clouded or colored over with our erroneous notions of what it means
to be a human being, maybe past experiences with others.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Right from birth we’ve not yet
experienced what being a full human being is, and the ideal gets lost.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>God’s primordial intention for us never
gets tried.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>I read something yesterday that the
here and now is very good at what it does, and it’s not constrained by past or
future, or even present.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is
perfection in each and every moment if we allow ourselves to be still and
relaxed and let go, and see what opens up.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>All we have is here and now.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It’s always here; we needn’t hold onto it; we can’t anyway.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>It felt like yesterday…I did a lot of
dying yesterday.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But I wasn’t
afraid of it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s like every
moment is a kind of death, and you move on to the next.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s where my commitment lies, in my
moving on to the next.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I don’t even
have any idea what exactly it’s going to look like.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So…(and a little
chuckle)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Creative reflection/meditation)
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, my son, that’s very well
spoken.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’ve articulated your
orientation very well.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In
expressing what goes into each moment, you also mention what, in a sense, keeps
people from experiencing and realizing the new and spontaneous nature of God’s
creativity--that this present moment contains that which has never happened
before, and will never be again.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>All the while each individual human mind, coming out of its infancy and
childhood, coming out of all the social and biological conditioning he or she
was born into and with, goes through a long process of emerging from that
conditioning in order to realize an individual free will that is only potential
up to the moment, and only realized within the living moment it is actually
used.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>So yes, each becomes aware of his or
her conditioning through sincere reflection--and discovers how this conditioning
can be overcome by tuning in to their own spontaneous, spiritual creativity;
reflection and creativity arise together: that’s the mystery I addressed this
evening.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s the great mystery of
individual personality itself, endowed with creative spirit.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are the eye that sees but cannot see
yourself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are that fount of
realization--making reality real for you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You are that little god co-creating your world--along with God’s
contribution of a universe situation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You are like a fountain in a surreal painting, gushing forth right out in
the middle of the air.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But that is
the true nature of the infinity of spontaneous creativity.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There it is!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Here it is!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Here’s another moment that has never
happened before and will never happen again; however captured in your memory and
soul; how captured perfectly in God’s memory and soul--the Supreme
Being.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Full of soul, or devoid of
spirit?)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Yes, many individuals have realized
they already have a foot in the next, soulful realm, what we call Morontia
reality, this part existential-spiritual, part creature-experiential reality
that is your true possession.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
can let more of your own soul into consciousness.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In your stillness you can relive moments
and marvel at the completeness of some incident in your life; not only how you
remember it had looked, but actually: how did it feel?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What is this soul-quality of
all-encompassing reality equal to that you are experiencing now?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How does that time out of the
past--feel!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This you will have over
there more by choice.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>We also addressed this evening those
individuals who have never achieved any great degree of individualization, who
do go through life and on into the next phase rightfully feeling just swept
along with little choice or freedom, no fun or happiness; no--them--there, with
little or no companionship with spirit.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Think of the poor but convinced materialist who cannot realize it’s his
own spiritual creativity that has produced for his understanding such a
compelling and seemingly-comprehensive physical universe, devoid of spirit.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But this too is possible,
else you would not be free in your creations.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Our materialist could well be seeking
and following his spirit of truth as best he can; and still learning.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The physical universe too is infinite to
any sub-infinite being.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Yes, it is kind-of scary--from a human
point of view--this yawning chasm of the unknowable mystery of such a
transcendent creation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can’t
even know the exact thoughts you will have five minutes from now; the subject,
perhaps, you can concentrate upon and hold, but not the exact thoughts.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And yet, my children, being so much an
instantaneously changing consciousness, can’t you marvel at this persistence,
this continuity of personhood, and this growing soul, that you are!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are more than a living, persisting
pattern of energy with a related animal consciousness.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are a creation of God’s, and each
one of you is unique.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The very
degree to which you are capable of realizing this is a large measure of your
freedom from all else.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Mother Spirit and I can only suggest
and tease, and say: We are right here with you, helping you realize this moment
and create that better future.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But
beyond this it is your choice because it is your future.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Claim it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Lay hold of it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are co-creating it, either
consciously or willy-nilly.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s an
awesome thing our Father has put in your hands.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mother Spirit and I can only try our
best to help you appreciate it, and be able to respond to it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>So carry on, my son.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Keep enjoying this here-and-now you’re
bringing into better and better focus.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be in my
peace.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Here and now!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(and everyone
laughs)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My children, as you wiggle around and
experience all your various realities of body and mind and spirit, you are
growing this tail. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Michael
laughs)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are growing a path back
into your past, and through understanding, back into the past. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are growing a soul that is vouchsafed
by a presence of God.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What do you
want to put in it?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What do you want
to carry with you into eternity?--especially, as we’ve assured you, you will
always have a direct perception and relationship with this material realm you
are literally earning by living with it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It’s this human realm with which no angel, not even a close-by Midwayer,
no other order of personal being can have quite the same intimacy of
experience.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It was why I myself,
after hundreds of billions of years of life with Mother Spirit, and being with
her the Creator Parents to the inhabitants of millions of worlds we created, I
was blessed with the opportunity to have a human life myself.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In all humility I was able to thank my
Father for that life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is what
you have, my children.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is your
opportunity.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>(Abilities are your true
soul-wealth)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>I don’t want to scare you with this
freedom you have, but here it is.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Do your best to be able to respond.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Like everything else you earn, we call these abilities your true
soul-wealth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ability is another
thing you grow through eternity as you learn how to respond and dance with the
infinity God presents you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And here
it comes, always. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><FONT size=3>So be of good cheer.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is your life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Lean<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>into it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Feel it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Love and enjoy it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Do your best to be not-afraid.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The fear is real; it serves a purpose,
like pain.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s information.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But still: you can be not-afraid.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mother Spirit sends her love.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And I bid you continue to be in my
peace.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good evening.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
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style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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