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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal
align=center><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Michael
Lightline--November 26, 2010<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">MICHAEL—T/R-JL<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Transcribed
by Kathleen Huntley<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Dear
Michael and Mother Spirit,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Welcome--welcome dear parents; welcome dear friends.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Once again we gather together and look
to you with bright shining eyes, opening ourselves to your presence both within
us and among us.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Help us appreciate
these lives we have and this wonderful time of being able to converse with the
two of you this way.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So thank you
for the Teaching Mission.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you
for all your various sons and daughters of the spiritual community who are right
here riding along with us.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Welcome.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good evening, this is Michael.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let us give thanks.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Dear Heavenly Father, thank you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you for this creation, this
infinite encompassing with no end, this endless adventure you lay out before us
that only reveals itself moment by moment at your pace.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you for us--for each of us
individually so that each of us can say: Thank you for me.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you that I am.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you that I am unique in all of
creation and have the ability, by your good grace, to have myself--to have my
life and to know my life; to love and appreciate my life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you for all of us.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you that we can know each other
and share ourselves with each other, and that we can carry each other on into
eternity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">My
children, I would like to say a little bit this evening about some of the things
that Mother Spirit brought up in her last lesson through this t/r, which so many
of you enjoyed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It did cause a bit
of reflection and thinking again about some of your suppositions.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I know it helped a lot of you to once
again read parts of the Urantia book with new eyes, just for having absorbed
each other’s points of view.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It
helped you be aware of these different points of view arising from a single
text.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Think
about your Urantia book sitting there on the shelf, or the coffee table or your
desk.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There it is.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It has an existential existence, a
cosmic reality if you will, obeying all of God’s material/energy laws you call
Natural Law.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You too have an
existential existence in the very fact of your being.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You definitely are, whether or not you
can fully realize this or even feel it at times: you are!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But you are also an experiential
being.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We like to call you a nodule
of experience out here in time and space, not only as your unique personality,
but also for being a focal point in a particular time and space which gives you
a uniqueness of experience as well.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">So
when you pick up the Urantia book, what you are registering in your mind is your
response to this existential object; i.e. for every one of you it is an
experiential object.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Some of your
philosophers have realized that you never touch the thing-in-itself.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It may help you to realize this by
imagining picking up your Urantia book and opening it to discover it is in some
totally indecipherable language with different symbols even.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are suddenly aware it is, in this
instance, just ink symbols on paper.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>But the moment you start to read it in English, instantaneously you are
responding to it in a way very unique to you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">This
is the reality of the book to you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Also, as you just discovered in your exchange of points of view, is how
very different that response can be because each of you is not only unique, you
have unique backgrounds.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You come
from slightly different cultures.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Your conditioning is different because of the very conditions in which
you were raised.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And while this
conditioning at the same time gives meaning to what you read, yet it can also
limit your responses, your response-ability.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">It
is almost impossible to keep this fact in mind--of your limited objectivity, or
if you will, your intrinsic subjectivity--or you should be doing nothing
else.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Like enlightenment itself,
this fact is not a state of mind you can carry with you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are much too directly involved in
what is happening to you to think of carrying some state of mind, some
awareness, no matter how subtle or how tenacious.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To live your life you have
to let go of any such notions that would merely keep you from being fully
engaged.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So to live moment to
moment, especially in your very busy technological lives, is a constant process
of forgetting yourself, engaging something else or someone else.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet it is nevertheless true that the
Urantia book and all it holds is an experiential reality--for
you.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I
would like to extend what Mother Spirit said about the book existing in a very
particular space and time which are not repeating.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is a view that every moment in
time is as unique as is every place in space, especially that space right inside
you. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But while she meant this more
or less as the time and space in which the book was originally conveyed to you,
tonight I am pointing out the changing space and time every time you read the
book. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Some
of you who have re-read the chapter on the colored races, then gone back to
re-read Mother Spirit’s lesson, found that both had changed in the
meanwhile.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You were sharp enough to
pick this up, that a lot of your discussions helped you get over or see through
your original take, and take it somewhat anew.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the nature of human reality, not
only that all the world around you is changing and evolving, but so are
you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So even this existential
object with fixed ink symbols on paper will change slightly as you read it, over
and over again. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">We’ve
used the classical example of two people standing in front of a painting and,
because of their backgrounds, seeing two entirely different things.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Or take two people, one who knows the
schematic of a computer or a piece of electronic equipment, and the other one
totally ignorant of this.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They are
actually seeing two completely different things of one object, one objective
reality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The more full appreciation
you get of your own subjectivity, my children, the more you can appreciate the
degree to which you can exchange and share so much, that there is that in you
which does respond, even on a spiritual level of not only meaning and
relationships, but value.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It also
points up the degree to which communication fails and how difficult it is to be
what we constantly recommend: be open-minded.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">We
use one word to help you get a grasp of this, the word “entertain.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What does it mean to entertain another
point of view--especially in the light of the psychological phenomena of denial,
the very fact that you can approach, shall we say a piece of writing, a new
person, a point of view, and right from the onset be set against it?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Think of some commentator on television
expressing a very contrary point of view to your own.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can feel yourself arguing with the
slightest little thing he says right from the onset--poking holes in his
argument.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So you can see the
difficulty in truly entertaining something new, something even contrary to your
own beliefs.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To be open-minded
takes courage to do this, a courage of letting go that is more than
self-forgetfulness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have
to really entertain, really allow yourself to follow along and believe, if only
momentarily, believe that this is true; this is a valid way of seeing
things.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have to trust that
there is within you an intelligence that desires a broader truth and will simply
emerge all on its own.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You forget
yourself and really entertain this foreign point of view, this contrary point of
view, maybe even this hated point of view.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You will pop up again to yourself, only you will have changed.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will have grown.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That growth might be towards a little
insecurity about having had the grasp of truth already in your hand.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That growth might be a bit painful
because it brings in all kinds of uncertainty about what you already
believed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Again,
you have to accept this intelligence of yours that what is emerging--what you
are giving a chance to emerge--is a more holistic and all-inclusive, more
spiritual point of view.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It now
includes this other person.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Don’t
fear this uncertainty.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Don’t fear
this transition.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Know it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Feel it deep inside yourself as a
necessary thing to do, this opening of yourself.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Because, my children, there is a whole
universe out there before you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It
helps to have a deep desire to get out of any parochial attitude you may simply
have inherited for, as we said in a recent lesson, this is what you are raised
with--points of view, prejudices, meanings wrapped up in certain cultures and
conditioning, the very things that give your life meaning.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be willing to feel their incompleteness.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is a difference between
contextual validity and truth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I
hope this clears up a lot of the difficulties that you may have experienced with
that chapter in the Urantia book on the coming and then the dispersal of the
colored races; first of all helping you see it from the point of view of the
Life Carriers. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What amazing, truly
amazing beings these are who, with the help of the whole spiritual community,
started life on this planet and then helped evolve it towards creatures of will
dignity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you have any difficulty
with this kind of material go back and read it again for, as they say at the
very opening, this is the story of the colored races from the time of their
emergence to the latter ice age, the last ice age.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There have been many, many hundreds of
years of great race mixing since then.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>As Mother Spirit said, at the time of the Age of Exploration when you
started to have direct contact between races--no longer just overland over the
ages-old trade routes between Europe and of the Far East, Africa and India--all
of a sudden you had direct contact.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You all have experienced this contact through endless, first, writings,
and now television and movies.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So
to this degree the statements of the Life Carriers about the different cultures
that evolved among the different races is simple historical fact.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It accounts for how, shortly after this
initial contact, the European nations pretty much carved up and colonized whole
continents, all with the force of arms predicated on enormously different
cultures.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can only wonder how
these different peoples actually saw each other.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In some cases where they had great
artists on both sides of that cultural divide, you can be astonished at how they
so totally exaggerated each other’s features.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then look at your United Nations today
and you wonder where all those enormous racial differences went.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">But
then, inside each of you personally, strive to be that open-minded, truly
independent person who values your own common humanity transcendent of any
differences whatsoever--sex, or age, or race.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You get so much more out of history if
you truly entertain the points of view of everybody.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is a way of not taking offense at
some indisputable fact of history.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is what happened here on this planet, and it is such a story!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are delighted your more modern
civilizations have begun to see things from all these different points of view
and what it must have been like on each side of those cultural divides--simply
why people reacted the way they did.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is your heritage.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This
entire planet’s history is your heritage and this orientation helps you treasure
all of it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be unafraid.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is no limit to what your minds can
encompass.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is no limit what
your spirit can value and appreciate.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>So entertain all of these points of view.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is one for every living
person--actually one for every historical person as well.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is what is being offered to you,
but it is up to you to entertain this.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It is up to you to entertain what I am saying to you right now.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are giving me reality.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">So
thank you, dear children.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you
for this reality you give Mother Spirit and me right within yourselves.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It gives you the ability to contact us
and it gives us the delight of being contacted.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is our joy and this is our
glory.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And, in time, you will be
able to see yourselves and enjoy yourselves as we do. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will even be able to see and enjoy
each other as we do.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is a very
humbling thing, this fact of each of our uniqueness.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Each of us is a God-created being.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Each of us is--in this sense--alone, but
alone with Him, our Father.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In this
we are very much like Him, for he too is singular and alone.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But as he has those companions of his
with whom he shares his absoluteness and his infinity, so too we have each other
in the shared knowledge that this very uniqueness each of us has, is what we all
have in common.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is not a
paradox.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is not a
contradiction.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is what we see in
each other’s eyes. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The very thing
that makes us unique and separates us, unites us in our essence.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So, my children, have no fear in this
regard.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Have the courage to open
yourselves.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is for your own soul
wealth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Give of yourselves in
self-forgetfulness, trusting that you will come back to yourself a little more
full.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Now
if you have any questions or comments this evening, we can do that too.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Student:
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Michael, I would like to ask a
question of you?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Certainly.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Student:
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I really appreciate your broadening
our perspectives on the Urantia book because I know that each of us has a
different perspective--because of our lives and the things we have gone through
in our lives.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And I know that when
I read the Urantia book, just as you said, I could have read something once or
twice, then read it a few more times; and then on the tenth time I read
something I looked at that same thing in a unique way.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is really the realities that it
points to, not just a dry text but also something real.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Unless I actually become one with the
reality it is pointing to, I really don’t understand it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I’d
like to go off on a tangent--just a little bit.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I know a lot of people in the world are
suffering today because they have lost a loved one.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Urantia book of course speaks about
the Mansion worlds, which is such a great thing for all of us to look forward
to.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We know when we die we are
going to end up on one of the Mansion worlds.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">My
question is: I know there are some people who have tried their best to look at
some of the details in the Urantia book.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>They have made a decent effort about where they think some the
architectural spheres are, but I don’t personally think they have.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They have made a good try, but I don’t
think it is as accurate as it could be.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I’m just wondering, if people of the world really knew where the Mansion
worlds were, if they could locate them in space, would that make any difference
about how they feel about the death process?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Would that enhance their faith, or would
that make any difference at all?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I
personally think it would, but we would have to actually know where they are and
then have the ability to somehow find them in space.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I was just wondering if you could talk
about that--as far as the death process goes.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How can we overcome the grief that, not
only ourselves, but that others have so we can share the knowledge we have--so
we can make them feel a little better about that.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, my son, I understand your
question.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Personally I don’t think
it would help to try to fix these in space because, as you were asking the
question, I once again realized how much of the Urantia book is not empirical,
not demonstrable--perhaps 90% of the book.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Some of it can…<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As a matter
of fact there are a number of individuals who are busily engaged right now in
proving empirically some of the statements of the Urantia book along the lines
of cosmology, even some of the history--shall we say--of the location of the
Garden of Eden, and so forth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">But
in terms of the Mansion worlds and what happens after you die, none of this is
empirical; none of this can be proven.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The Urantia book’s appeal is mainly to your spirit, your overall sense of
value.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is why, as Mother
Spirit said, the book was deliberately designed to include so many of what you
call separate disciplines of human understanding and endeavors--to be
self-validating, to give you the feeling that the personal being—God--who
created all of this, also created death.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>He also created real separation as a part of life, as in those statements
that loving couples who go on to the Mansion worlds and stay together for a
while, still there will come times in their futures in which they will be
required to separate.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">This
is not to diminish in any way the reality of the suffering, to suddenly feel
that half of you is gone.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It points
up the very ability to share your life with someone and feel half of you--this
other person--is as you say, a hostage to fortune, to chance: your loved
ones--your children. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">So
it is a matter of faith, understanding, and trust in the totality of the
revelation that I don’t think would help by pining it down anywhere.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Morontia worlds are not
visible.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is no way of proving
those statements are true any more than, like I say, 90% of the rest of the
book.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is just within yourself
and your trust in God, and in his design of life and death, that there is this
necessity for separation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is not
some whimsical thing or afterthought.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This may help you to some degree in handling the genuine grief.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Does this help you, my
son?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, it does, Michael.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I think I got a different perspective on
it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have a few things also--just
as you were speaking.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There
is no way that you really can prove, except through faith, that you…<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It starts with faith then.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’ve been developing a stronger
relationship with my own piece of the Infinite Father, which has grown stronger
over the last couple of years.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I
know that is where my faith is increasing so I don’t have any doubts about when
I die I’m going to the Mansion worlds.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So I suppose that is where a
person’s direction needs to go rather than go to the words in a book.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I realize the words in a book are
static, and the reality of the Father is dynamic.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And his truth is dynamic as it comes
through us, just as your Spirit of Truth is dynamic.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is not static.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So it is not like the words on the page
of a book that are just staring at you and not doing anything until, as you were
talking about, you live through it and experience what you are reading.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But I really appreciate it because
I think I gained a different perspective on it.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And as you said, my son, those
words aren’t really static are they? <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Student:
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>No.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The tenth time you read those words they
were different.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The static
existential reality of the book is a bit beyond you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Every time you read it, especially with
real heart, real longing to understand it, it does change because you have
changed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is a bit
paradoxical-seeming there--how a book has both an existential existence, and yet
for you is an experiential reality too.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Student:
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I thank you very much,
Michael.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I appreciate these few
minutes to have a talk with you, and I’m definitely going to think about what
you told me tonight.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I will
try and put that into practice in my own life.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">MICHAEL:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For us--we cannot gainsay nor in any way
diminish the requirement for faith.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is your choice.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is
up to you to cultivate, and be willing to step out and do things in trust.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is no way we can deprive you of
that, just like we—hopefully--are good parents in that sense--just as you are
when you let your own children step out and stumble and fall from time to
time.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">One
thing this discussion about the Urantia book has brought up is the degree to
which we let you be.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We even let
the authors of the book be, trusting that if not for this particular time and
space, parts of the book may not be readily assimilated and understood for a
while yet.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There are parts of the
book which have been more or less generally disregarded and passed over.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But this is why it is a revelation, an
epochal revelation designed to inaugurate a new epoch of understanding.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So: that existential
object--(Michael laughs)--that collection of writings will continue to change in
the experience of the people of the future.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is the strange nature of human
reality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So thank you, my son, for
your questions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And be in my
peace.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Were
there any more comments or questions this evening?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(a very long
pause)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I
know.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is a marvelous stillness
we have generated here.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It might
seem, on your part, a shame to disturb it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>But in an even greater sense, my children, nothing does disturb it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Then
let me bid you all a good evening.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It has been a time of thanks-giving so once again let me give thanks to
our Father for all of us--both in your stead and, for me, I thank him for all of
you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Come invite me and invite
Mother Spirit to be part of your conscious lives.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Give of yourself for both of us.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Give part of your life over to
stillness, then be as open-minded as you can.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Hunger and thirst for that greater
encompassing of which you are an integral part.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Yes,
my children, you are constantly encountering yourself in everything you
perceive.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet, there is a way,
there is an orientation, my Spirit of Truth can help you to a way of deeply
desiring this openness, this receptivity and this curiosity about all that is
not-you, even what might seem to be the antitheses of you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">This
is the way to grow--with curiosity and encouragement.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can welcome the adventure that is
coming your way.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is God’s
will.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so we embrace it
and say, “Thank you, dear Father. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you for this very necessity--for me
to be a part, a creative part of my own life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you for putting so much of me in
my own hands.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good
evening.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be in my
Peace.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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