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align=center><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>Michael--<st1:date Month="7" Day="26" Year="2010" w:st="on">July 26,
2010</st1:date><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>Marin TM Group--Mill
Valley, <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:State>--<st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">U.S.A.</st1:place></st1:country-region><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>MICHAEL--T/R-JL<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>(Your soul and its
co-author’s point of view)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>(Your conscious self—a
small part of your whole being)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>(One limitation in being
human) <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>(The marvelous rewards
of surviving death)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>(From what do we need to
be free?)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>Dear Michael and Mother
Spirit,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Welcome. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Tonight we have a few newcomers to our
group so we welcome you in their stead too.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For their sake we’d like to acknowledge
that, through your lessons, you’ve invited us to think of you as not only our
spiritual parents, the bringers of life--the originators of life on this world
of ours and a million others, nor think of you as some august and far-removed
enormous spiritual beings. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
invite us to think of you as brothers and sisters, since we are alike, children
of God: we have a mutual Father.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Beyond this you’ve asked we consider you our closest and dearest friends,
someone with whom we can have an informal, playful, spontaneous relationship.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>In spirit you are known
by so many names on earth; in our mostly Judeo-Christian group here you, Mother,
are the Holy Spirit. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is your
Holy Spirit that is a part of us, which gives and sustains our life and even
forms a part of our mentality--our intuition, our courage, our understanding,
our worship and our wisdom. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And
Michael, it is your Sprit of Truth that orients us toward a never-ending
discovery of what is real so far yet beyond our furthest imaginings.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I must confess it took a while for me to
realize that my own mental and spiritual facilities were partly you two. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So once again: Welcome, dear parents and
dear friends. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We open our hearts
and open our minds to entertain as best we can what you have for us
tonight.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Amen.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good evening, this is Michael, and I
delight as always in your welcome. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’re saying to me:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well--come, come be with us.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So let me bounce it right back to you,
my children: Come be with Mother Spirit and me. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We realize how many times each of us use
that word--we. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We tease you with
the idea that we are definitely like an old married couple, we’re so very much
attuned to each other. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We’re both
spirit, pure creative spirit, and, just as with you, we’re delighted in our
creations and--hopefully, like all good parents--we’re especially delighted in
your independence, these unique personalities that God alone gave you. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Think of how you too delight when your
children begin to show forth that uniqueness of their personality, and become
individual.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>On the one hand they
are your children--they literally came from you, and yet they’re not yours at
all. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They belong to themselves and
to God alone. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Every human being has
this utter uniqueness, this God-given quality that is theirs to share with their
Father alone.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And yet by this fact
of existence, of God’s existence and of each one of His children’s existence,
loneliness is only a temporary feeling of time and space beings. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is not the ultimate reality that your
timeless, multi-dimensional soul knows.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>(Your soul and its
co-author’s point of view)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>You realize, my
children, in your theology anyway, that God is omniscient in the sense that He
knows everything. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You may take this
a step further and say God experiences everything, all of existence. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But beyond this universally recognized
essence of His in all of your religions, there is the lesser known fact of an
individualized presence of God which dwells within each one of you. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We call this a Mystery Monitor insofar as
this is God experiencing your life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And further: this individualized presence of God is literally taking on
your life. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you will, it’s the
most perfect, living record--(Michael chuckles)--you could imagine.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Being a living aspect of God himself, it
is also your life seen from His perspective as well, His infinite and absolute
perfection.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is your soul and
it is more, infinitely more than just your memories, your own limited ability to
once again relive part of your life. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your soul is so much more. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just think: to relive a moment of your
life you have to sit down, close your eyes and ears to turn off the
surroundings, and just let it come forth on its own, because the experience is
not only what you superficially remember.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The fullness within the memory is your soul--how some previous moment
looked, how it smelled, how it totally felt. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet you can usually only do this for a
few precious moments to reassure your conscious self, this ever changing
consciousness of yours, that, yes indeed, you do have a soul.<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','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>So our assertion is even
so much more than this, more than you can yet experience in your life, when we
say your soul is this perfect record of all your experiences, all the good and
all the bad as you might consider them: God experiences all that, and from His
understanding as well.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your soul is
full, not so much of all the possessions you’ve come to enjoy; it’s all the
other people you’ve known in your life. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For these people are like you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They too have this infinity and this
absoluteness within them. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They too
have this reality, this cosmic reality of a soul, a unique soul of unique
personal experiences. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is their
life as it was, and is, experienced by a loving presence of
God.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>This is your treasure,
my children. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is what you truly
possess for this is what stays with you--as you. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is what you become when all the rest
falls away, so even the final, impenetrable point of your life here you call
death is truly a new beginning in a fantastically expanded
reality.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>This soul reality you
can experience consciously, deliberately; you can absolutely know it exists in
this life. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But it requires faith to
let fall away in stillness all the relative things you know by way of your mind
alone.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All your knowledge, all your
understanding cannot prove a single fact of your soul to a sincerely doubting
attitude.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It does help though to
think of it the way we do, so you know that it is more than just the memory you
can recall nonchalantly--what you did, where you were on a certain date. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your soul is partly spirit just as you
are partly spirit, and as your soul is also His enormous spiritual record of
your life, so too you can have the spiritual faith-orientation simply to relive
part of your life in meditation, reverie and reflection.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Give up a little of your present life,
in stillness, to let your soul come forth, to, if you will, be reassured that
there is this absolutely priceless record of all your experiences, that what you
are experiencing day to day is not totally fleeting with time.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Everything of spiritual significance, of
value in your life is being captured for you and held sacrosanct by a presence
of God.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is how we--Mother
Spirit and I--are able to see your soul.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>(Your conscious self—a
small part of your whole being)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>Your consciousness,
being tied so much to an ever-changing, mental/physical living vehicle, it’s as
if you can see just one little moving point on a map of your whole being at a
time, shall we say one little tiny spot on a ridge line--that whole elevated
line of your life standing out of your circumstances, whereas we can see the
entire panorama of your God-co-authored soul.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so, my children, soul-awareness is a
spiritual blessing you grow into as you grow older and are more readily able to
access your soul: your life takes on more and more your soul’s values and
meaning.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As your soul-feelings for
other people generate value within you, you see a value in them.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can begin to shine forth and see in
others an equality of character. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is something you acquire as you
live, but especially as you live faithful to all you have been--revealed in your
soul.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are no stranger to
yourself but you project who you really are--soulfully.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have the courage and the nerve to be
who you most faithfully are to others.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You shine forth your soul as character.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>Think of those others
you have met in your life who had this quality of genuine character.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Was it something they too had to earn,
earn by living?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mother Spirit and
I--Creator Daughter and Creator Son of God--this is where we are most
wonderfully humbled by His creativity in each one of all of you. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are our children and yet here you are
with His gift of unique personality/personhood.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is God who set up this whole universe
as a kind of learning ground for all of us.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All of us out here in time and space,
we’re all experiential beings and these lives we are living have no duplicate.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There’s nothing that can stand in
for living experience in all the cosmos, and none of us, none of us shy of our
Father, can perfectly anticipate what’s coming next.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He has set up the universes so that<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>what is coming next is partly--in great
part, I should say--what all of us, and each single one of us, chooses in our
freedom.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We say a human being is a
creature of free will dignity and the whole spiritual community acknowledges and
respects your freedom, especially when the rigors of certain planetary living
renders the future beyond any human being’s ability to
anticipate.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>This is the adventure
set before all of us.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You parents
cannot perfectly anticipate how these children of yours are going to turn
out--as you say. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Neither can Mother
Spirit and I perfectly anticipate what you will choose to do.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To us this autonomy and creative freedom
of yours and ours is a supreme glory of God’s infinite love and compassion, else
this whole universe would just be some shadow-play of His: there would be no
real freedom within it, no deviation from His will.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You parents can see and feel how
infinite and absolute His love must be to set us all free. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We can have a soul. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We can earn our character because there
is no other way except by living experience influenced by our decisions. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is His universal law that sets us
all free and actually gives us ourselves, independent even of Him, even as you,
my children, are independent of Mother Spirit and me.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can ignore us--for a while. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s a little hard to ignore spiritual
reality when you are reborn on another, more soulful world.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>But your very day to day
human experience on this world, this world in particular, is proof that human
beings can and do ignore their spiritual origins, even their own inner personal
spiritual reality. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We look forward
to the day when every person on Urantia is able to feel and experience that they
are spiritual beings endowed that way by God Himself; and see this in each
other.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>This is my message for
this evening: these wonderful souls you have in cosmic reality, these
potentially eternal possessions of yours that you are earning here day by day.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Take some time out of your busy
activities just to reflect and enjoy the enormity of your own soul and all that
you’ve been all these years. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let
yourselves be truly humbled by what you yourselves have experienced. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then will your hearts be overflowing with
recognition of the Origin of all of us and the amazing adventure He has set
before us--forever. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is no end
to you; there is no end to me; because there is no end to Him.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><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','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>Thank you, dear Father,
for giving my children the means by which they may truly have and know
themselves.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>However alone and
unique they are with You, as You are with them: loneliness is truly only a
temporary human emotion. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>Now if you have any
questions or comments this evening, please share them with me. <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','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I don’t have any questions, Father
Michael, just thank you again for your love and support, and your understanding,
and your never-ending care.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Did what I say this evening find some
resonance within your soul, my son?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I understand that there’s no end to me.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Seems like there’s no end any of us
unless they choose to end it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I
look forward to the next life, and to the next lives after that
one.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>(One limitation in being
human) <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>Michael:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, my son, that is one limitation put
upon you in this your first, human life: you really don’t have the ability to
end yourself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is with no
condescension--I say this with all love: you are not yet cosmically mature
enough to cease to exist. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Those of
you who commit what you call suicide, in any number of highly complex ways, for
equally complex reasons--or lack of reason to live, perhaps--you will find
yourself awaking on the Morontia worlds, and looking around and marveling just
like everyone else.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As I have said
before, there will be no dissembling your surprise--and appreciation. (Michael
chuckles) <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>True enough: eternal
life is not forced upon anyone. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Sometime in some far, far future date--as
you would think of it now, you will have one unequivocal, irreducible decision
to make as to whether to continue or not, except you will be making it in the
wider and much deeper comprehension of your own soul, of your own life until
then, seen more and more from God’s point of view as well.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>So this, my son, this
human limitation is another blessing of God’s: to credit that all your decisions
take place within a framework of understanding--that He understands--and so in
this way you cannot literally yet--as a human being--choose to cease to exist.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That has to be a fully soulful,
highly conscious decision to make over on the other side--as you say. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Does this seem to make sense to you?
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It does.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I thought there were certain people who
chose not to go on, but you say that everyone makes it.<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','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s
true.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well, that’s a relief!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(much
laughter)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; DIRECTION: rtl"
dir=rtl class=MsoNormal align=right><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'" dir=ltr><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s, again, one of those instances of
God’s--not only justice, which emanates from the Paradise Trinity--that
impersonal factor which is no respecter of persons but treats all personal
beings the same--that element of justice, of absolute equality His sight; but
this justice is, in turn, overshadowed by God’s mercy.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s His, and the whole spiritual
community’s willingness to give you another chance.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So you do not as yet have the oneness of
your personality and its experience and potential to make that kind of decision:
to choose to cease to exist.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P
style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; DIRECTION: rtl"
dir=rtl class=MsoNormal align=right><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'" dir=ltr><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; DIRECTION: rtl"
dir=rtl class=MsoNormal align=right><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'" dir=ltr><FONT size=3>The most evil
doings of people--you now recognize, with enormous pity, the kind of hell they
lived in to do the things they did.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This does not mean you cannot protect yourself (Michael chuckles) from
them and their actions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But when
you see their souls someday, my son, and what those souls contain, you’ll
appreciate even more what pitiful creatures they became.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For them to see others mostly as
creatures to be exploited; to see the whole of humankind on those terms: that is
in itself already being in hell.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And that very thing is what makes them so dangerous, yet so needy for a
genuine love they have never experienced.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Find it in your heart, if you can.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P
style="TEXT-ALIGN: right; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; DIRECTION: rtl"
dir=rtl class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"
dir=ltr><o:p><FONT size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; DIRECTION: rtl"
dir=rtl class=MsoNormal align=right><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'" dir=ltr><FONT size=3>But yes, they
too will survive to experience, themselves, what is in their souls, and all the
pain and loss they have caused—but from a more soulful perspective.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is also in God’s mercy He would not
deny them the ability to cease to exist and escape that pain if they cannot
stand it, and grow beyond it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So
you see, my son, this is not a human-level choice. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P
style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; DIRECTION: rtl"
dir=rtl class=MsoNormal align=right><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'" dir=ltr><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; DIRECTION: rtl"
dir=rtl class=MsoNormal align=right><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'" dir=ltr><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, thank you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I can see that
now.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P
style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; DIRECTION: rtl"
dir=rtl class=MsoNormal align=right><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'" dir=ltr><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; DIRECTION: rtl"
dir=rtl class=MsoNormal align=right><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'" dir=ltr><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is a very absolute thing we are
talking about here, a personal being, created by God, choosing to truly end
their experience of life: yet that is a final hallmark of the freedom you
have.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can only wonder why some
being would choose to do this.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P
style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; DIRECTION: rtl"
dir=rtl class=MsoNormal align=right><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'" dir=ltr><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; DIRECTION: rtl"
dir=rtl class=MsoNormal align=right><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'" dir=ltr><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, I was wondering what possessed
Lucifer not to be rehabilitated, when he finally knew what was going on?--much
more so than we do.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P
style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; DIRECTION: rtl"
dir=rtl class=MsoNormal align=right><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'" dir=ltr><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; DIRECTION: rtl"
dir=rtl class=MsoNormal align=right><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'" dir=ltr><FONT size=3>(The marvelous
rewards of surviving death)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P
style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; DIRECTION: rtl"
dir=rtl class=MsoNormal align=right><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'" dir=ltr><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; DIRECTION: rtl"
dir=rtl class=MsoNormal align=right><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'" dir=ltr><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have to stretch your imaginations to
wonder about that moment of awakening, a moment your Urantia book assures you,
you will never forget in all eternity--the supreme experience of having
survived.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will have had the
experience of death, and yet, here you still are--on a world so amazing, and
with a kind of body and mind and soul that is beyond description.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So think of rehabilitation in terms of
just that reawakening experience alone, what it must be to walk out of the
Resurrection Hall on a Mansion World and be able to visualize some of the lower
spiritual beings. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P
style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; DIRECTION: rtl"
dir=rtl class=MsoNormal align=right><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'" dir=ltr><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; DIRECTION: rtl"
dir=rtl class=MsoNormal align=right><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'" dir=ltr><FONT size=3>Lucifer never
went through this kind of existential change with its marvelous rewards of
wonder and humility and appreciation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Once his personality became so twisted in upon itself he refused to
acknowledge anything that would challenge his own self-appraisal of having been
right all along, no matter how obviously deluded this situation might be to
another.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In a human being you call
this being all puffed up and self-righteous, a very poisonous attitude with
which to engage anything outside oneself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The greater the challenge to adapt to a changed situation, the more the
warped personality clings to some past mistaken decisions and refuses to admit
any evidence otherwise.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Again, this
comes under the heading of personal choice, even unto eternal ceasing to
exist.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P
style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; DIRECTION: rtl"
dir=rtl class=MsoNormal align=right><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'" lang=AR-SA><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; DIRECTION: rtl"
dir=rtl class=MsoNormal align=right><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'" dir=ltr><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Sounds very interesting—that
reawakening.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P
style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; DIRECTION: rtl"
dir=rtl class=MsoNormal align=right><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'" dir=ltr><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; DIRECTION: rtl"
dir=rtl class=MsoNormal align=right><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'" dir=ltr><FONT size=3>MICHAEL,
laughing:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well, we won’t tease you
any more with that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P
style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; DIRECTION: rtl"
dir=rtl class=MsoNormal align=right><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'" dir=ltr><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; DIRECTION: rtl"
dir=rtl class=MsoNormal align=right><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'" dir=ltr><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you,
Michael.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P
style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; DIRECTION: rtl"
dir=rtl class=MsoNormal align=right><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'" dir=ltr><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; DIRECTION: rtl"
dir=rtl class=MsoNormal align=right><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'" dir=ltr><FONT size=3>MICHAEL: Be in
my peace.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P
style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; DIRECTION: rtl"
dir=rtl class=MsoNormal align=right><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'" dir=ltr><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; DIRECTION: rtl"
dir=rtl class=MsoNormal align=right><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'" dir=ltr><FONT size=3>Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, Michael, you spoke about freedom,
and the choices we have.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Could you
talk more about that—about what we are supposedly being freed
of?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P
style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; DIRECTION: rtl"
dir=rtl class=MsoNormal align=right><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'" dir=ltr><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; DIRECTION: rtl"
dir=rtl class=MsoNormal align=right><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'" dir=ltr><FONT size=3>(From what do we
need to be free?)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P
style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; DIRECTION: rtl"
dir=rtl class=MsoNormal align=right><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'" dir=ltr><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; DIRECTION: rtl"
dir=rtl class=MsoNormal align=right><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'" dir=ltr><FONT size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, my son.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mother<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Spirit and I do face somewhat of a
difficulty in communicating in the English language here, but I do think you
realize what we are sometimes wrapping up in a sentence or two, the Urantia book
spends several pages on.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That being
said: think of your personality—this ultimate reality you are, this unique
creation of God’s—the spiritual part of you that real-alizes your life—makes
your life real.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This part of you is
projecting yourself out into your life, with your plans and anticipations and
expectations: what is originating within you as to how to spend your life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>At the same time, and from the time you
were little babies, you experience also that life is coming at you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the bottomless adventure we
talked about, with no end in time or limit in space.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the whole, dynamically moving
world and universe into which you were born, of personal beings and impersonal
things, and their events.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P
style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; DIRECTION: rtl"
dir=rtl class=MsoNormal align=right><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'" dir=ltr><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; DIRECTION: rtl"
dir=rtl class=MsoNormal align=right><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'" dir=ltr><FONT size=3>From this point
of view, my son, your own body is a living, infinite mechanism you were just
given, with all its abilities and limitations you have to slowly learn—those
fingers and toes out there, and how they’re connected—yours.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You were born into a maelstrom of you
and IT—all that Other out there.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Your personality is endowed with creative spirit, so God is not only
sharing personality itself with you, He is also sharing creativity.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are intrinsically creative.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Every child automatically creates an
inner world of his or her own.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Then, as you live with your family and friends and associates, you try to
express and share your inner reality—the feelings and ideas happening inside,
coupled with the need, and delight, to understand them.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P
style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; DIRECTION: rtl"
dir=rtl class=MsoNormal align=right><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'" dir=ltr><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; DIRECTION: rtl"
dir=rtl class=MsoNormal align=right><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'" dir=ltr><FONT size=3>You develop an
attitude—an ability and desire to relate to all that is not-you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And there it is!—your world, your
people—uniquely yours, as you learn how to be civil with them, more or less
recapitulating civilization in your particular culture as you grow up.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>On the personal scale, think of the
“terrible-twos” when things become—mine!—and the automatic contention between
playmates, yet too the discovery/invention of friendship.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>On a planetary scale, think of hundreds
of thousands of years of nearly incessant warfare, yet too the ways so many have
found of being civil, loving, and mutually supporting--until the world becomes
as interrelated as it is.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P
style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; DIRECTION: rtl"
dir=rtl class=MsoNormal align=right><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'" dir=ltr><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P
style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; DIRECTION: rtl"
dir=rtl class=MsoNormal align=right><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'" dir=ltr><FONT size=3>All this, in
your soul, gives meaning and value to your experience of life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It also determines how you perceive
reality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the conditioning
we’ve talked so much about; where you were born, the family and society and the
larger culture within which you grew up.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>As your free will exists only in your conscious decisions, within this
conditioned encompassing, the more you can be aware of your own inescapable
subjectivity, and its unconscious assumptions, the greater will be your
understanding of yourself and your ability to create the alternatives upon which
your choices depend.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Attitude,
understanding, creativity—these form the basis for individual
freedom.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'" dir=ltr><FONT size=3>As you are
civilized/conditioned/cultured long before you develop the ability to question
and examine these—call them the facts of birth you received when you were
born—your emergence as an individual depends upon, in turn, your curiosity and
exploration of who and what you feel yourself to be somewhat independent of your
given situation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m pointing
here at a growth of free will, and free will dignity, the emergence of an
individual due to his or her growing understanding.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This way you can give of yourself, and
your unique take on things, to the community’s wealth of understanding.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So there need be no end to the
development of this free will dignity of yours.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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it ties in with what I earlier discussed as soul, what you learn by living
experience.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Think again of those
you’ve known with great character.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Did they not also have this quality of dignity, of being true to
themselves and having the inner oneness, the integrity with which to choose how
to live…<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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this student: my apologies for this abrupt end.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Through a computer crash and the
migration (I’m told that’s what it’s called) into a new computer with a
different operating system, I lost the rest of this meeting--about another five
minutes or so, I think.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>JL.<SPAN
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