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align=center><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>Nebadonia—January 20, 2011<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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Teleconference, Mill Valley, California—U.S.A<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>NEBADONIA—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>(Personality: inception
and survival)<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'"><FONT size=3>(Personality and
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'"><FONT
size=3>(Reincarnation)<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>(Origin of
personality)<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>(Astrology as
psychology)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-language: EN-US"><FONT
size=3>(Monism VS. truly individualized, free-willed beings)
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>Dear Mother Spirit and
Michael,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Welcome;
welcome especially Mother Spirit.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>There have been many requests for you to give the lesson tonight so we
will give Michael a break and ask you then to, oh… do as you always do.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just talk to us, your children, and let
us enjoy your point of view for a while--the way you see things and see us.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We do enjoy your continuing chapters on
the Handbook for Being Human.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And
we do try to take to heart, especially in our relationships with our friends and
others, these amazing aspects of being human--especially being human on this
particular planet at this particular time. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This time has never happened before and,
as you say, will never happen again.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>So thank you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you,
dear Nebadonia, for these lessons.<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>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good evening, my children, this is
Nebadonia, your Mother Spirit.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And
indeed Michael is right here with us; always, actually.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He is as much a part of you as I
am, and we do enjoy so much sharing our lives with you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is our delight when you choose
consciously, with the full force and power and creativity of your own
personality; you offer to have us understand, experience, and feel your
life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So in this exchange we
give to each other, we delight in each other.<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>(Personality: inception
and survival)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><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>For many years now we
have been giving this Handbook on Being Human and there are some very tricky
parts to it, coming as you are to this handbook from each of your own separate,
individual and unique points of view.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What is important is that you feel
these realities within yourself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Initially this is not selfishness nor self-centeredness for what you
cannot experience within yourselves, and give credence with your whole heart and
your whole soul, you cannot experience in others.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So this is where it starts.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are not only, as we say, a focal
point of experience--a nodule of experience out here in time and space, you are
also a participant.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are in
reality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are reacting and, out
of your own essence, acting.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><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>A lot of discussion
lately, I notice, has been on this quality of personality. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What is it?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When does it start?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What are its functions?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What are its limits?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What are its abilities?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In this, my children--those of you who
are familiar with the Urantia book, I encourage you to read and then, after it
has soaked in for a while, read again the chapter titled Personality Survival,
for therein it gives the most comprehensive and detailed description of what you
are.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To review this fathomless,
bottomless… I should say this unfathomable mystery, miracle, and marvel of what
personality is, it helps to read that chapter over several times because it is
so condensed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For as you bring
various notions of personality to this, it may take several readings to really
absorb and not just pass over those aspects you may might not be familiar with.
<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>There has been some
wonder as to when personality is created, and some of you have forgotten that
God not only exists in a very personal sense on Paradise, but he is also
everywhere omnipresent in a transcendent way and fully ubiquitous within time
and space.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Personality is not
created in Paradise and then sent out into time and space.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Personality is bestowed upon a living
system that includes mind or spirit; in other words, your human order.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Even beings like the Solitary Messenger
who wrote that chapter and are pure spirit are living pure spirit with
personality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><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>One of the hardest
concepts to wrap your mind around is how personality is devoid of identity but
has the ability to unify that identity it gets from whatever living mind, or
material, or spirit--in your case all three--whatever living vehicle it is
bequeathed upon.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is
where it gets its identity, and this identity exists not only within every
single reproductive cell, but when a sperm and egg get together that is also a
unique cosmic event--a real event.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>That fertilized egg has identity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>As we used this example before, look at one of your old-fashioned
photographs of a large family with ten or twelve children.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There you see the family
resemblance, and you also see the individuality, the identity of each one of
those brothers and sisters.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They
are distinct even on a physical, body/mind level.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So God in his everywhereness, in his
absolute and infinite omniscience, comes up with/creates the personality to be
associated with that unique living human being there.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Upon birth the personality begins to
experience and, though this experience is yet shy of being counter-parted with a
Thought Adjuster as a full soul, you have also been informed that in those
individuals who are not capable of Adjuster fusion, yet who arrive on the
Mansion Worlds without a Thought Adjuster; there is still that quality of
personality that does retain experience so they are slowly able to regain so
much of their life experience even in the absence of a Thought
Adjuster.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>(Personality and
soul)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><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>For most of you with
Thought Adjusters, this is the origin of your soul.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The personality--as a focal
point--is a unique focal point of experience.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is, like the Thought Adjuster,
eternal, so its association with a living mind and body is a very temporal,
provisional kind of arrangement. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As
your Urantia book puts it, the personality is changeless.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It does not change and neither
does the Thought Adjuster.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But the
relationship between them in the soul is incessant
change--growth--evolution.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is
what the soul is.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The soul is this
repository of the personality’s experience woven together with the Thought
Adjuster’s experience of that experience.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>In other words, the soul is just more than your memories.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It has this extra dimension: it is a
Morontia reality. <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>We had to introduce that
word that had no previous existence in your world literature to designate this
profound cosmic reality that comes into existence.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so we have given so many lessons on
the enormity of your soul and its being very contra-distinct from your
memories.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can think of your
memories as what your brain, what your material mind comes up with: where you
were on such-and-such of a date, at such-and-such a time.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet when you sit down in your stillness
and your meditation, you can go back to that time in the past and just let it
swell forth, and be astonished that all that is still there--of that time in the
past.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Right down to not only what
you saw and heard and related with, but how it <U>felt</U>: how it felt to be
five years old, or fifteen, or twenty-five; what your whole take on reality was
then.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><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>And so, my children,
your soul is the fullness within your memories.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You need never fear that, even though
your memories fade through dementia, or Alzheimer’s disease, or
whatever--whatever happens to your physical body and what you normally think of
as your memories: whatever happens!--your soul is being held sacrosanct by an
individualized presence of God.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is what your soul is.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And so your personality is what you are.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can understand why in so many
philosophies and religions the soul is considered to be the fundamental
reality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In so many of these
systems of concepts and thoughts there is no clear idea of what we mean by
personality.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>(Reincarnation)<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>There is some question
as to what influence some kind of previous existence of either the personality
or the soul might have on your present life in this eternal now in which you
exist.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Here we have to reassure you
that the freedom of choice you have, the free will you have in this present
moment, is only influenced by your own personal life, this particular life you
are living now.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is a great
relief to so many because they are free from the interpretation that what is
happening around them is being somehow beyond their control, somehow beyond
their freedom of choice because there is this other operative, this other
influence functioning in their life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Any influence is strictly their own memories and their own soul, along
with the creativity of their personality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is that unfathomable aspect of you, my children, that is so hard to
grasp: your own creativity and how, with certain concepts, certain ways of
looking at life, your life—(the interpretation and the understanding of
which)--can be so profoundly affected.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>We like that expression that the personality is like an eye that sees but
cannot see itself--your own creativity is so seamless, so much a part of
you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is often so hard to credit
just how much of your reality is coming from you as an interpretation of what is
happening.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><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>This is why we have to
reassure you that the only thing operating in your life is your life--the life
that began when your mother and father conceived you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You had no previous existence that has
any influence upon you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As your
Urantia book states in that instance where Michael, when he was Jesus,
approached a man who had been blind from birth and was asked, “What caused
this?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Was this some sin his
father had done?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Or some sin
his mother perhaps had done? Or even some sin he had committed in some previous
time;”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>it states what difficulty
Jesus had in convincing those around him that a human being has no previous
existence.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But you do have
the ability to interpret reality along the lines of those beliefs in which you
were raised.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><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>So tonight I would like
to address that question of reincarnation by showing how much it has in common
with what we have taught.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>First and
most important is: there is life after death.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your physical death here on Urantia is
not the end of your personality or your soul.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your changeless personality finds
identity in that soul: your soul is what you carry with you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is your only possession, your only
necessary possession.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the
life you have lived and earned.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is you: you carry forward and keep adding to it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is how the personality, though
changeless, learns, adapts, and gains abilities.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><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>The other thing that is
common with reincarnation is this process; we are just saying it begins
here.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You do go on to life after
life after life on worlds beyond number, even hundreds of changes in your
body/mind makeup as you go through the Morontia realms.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It just simply begins here. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And, as various concepts within
reincarnation hint at a kind of universal, almost cosmic justice—i.e. if you
live a good life here, the life you go on to live, the next life will reflect
that goodness; or, if you are evil here, that next life will reflect that
evil--the Urantia book breaks it down for you a little more specifically in
terms of levels of connection with Deity.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These are the Psychic Circles that
explain, to a very small degree, granted, what this next life will be for you.
<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>Where the concepts of
reincarnation go wrong is, as I just suggested, in their attempt--with this
feeling of cosmic justice--to explain everything that happens to people in terms
of some previous existence.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Think
of what we call “true accidents of time and space”--shall I say--the people that
are killed or terribly injured in an earthquake; or recently in a Tsunami: there
is no way that those people “deserved this.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This was in no way a kind of punishment
for something that happened before.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>As Michael said, it was a geological disturbance; and an impersonal wall
of water went toward the land.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><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>So this attempt to
explain everything in terms of some previous existence can, as the Urantia book
says, lead to notions of almost a loss of freedom, an inability to know what is
happening—if you will, a too facile explanation of what happens to people.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Open your minds to wonder deeper, yet
also with the courage to accept there are truly accidents from the human point
of view.<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>But: enough for the
lesson this evening.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I sense there
are some questions out there to be asked, or comments to be made about this or
anything else on your mind, so please feel free to join the
conversation.<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>Questioner #1: <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Nebadonia, this is ….<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have a question. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’d like a little bit more clarification
if you would please.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You mentioned
personality is identified when the egg and the sperm meet, and you also
mentioned the birth is where it gains its first experience.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is personality imbued more at the
point of birth or at the point of conception?<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>(Origin of
personality)<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>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>At the point of conception because
this is where you have a living…<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It
is not like a being, but it is a fertilized egg that is unique.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It has identity, and so the
personality is associated with this living… it is a body in a way.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is a living creature.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It has identity, and this is what
it takes for the personality to be associated with.<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>Questioner #1: Thank
you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That does answer my
question.<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>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you think of it this way: there
is no limit to what God knows in terms of that sperm and that egg.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Even in your modern science you
get right down to the DNA.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I
used the illustration of a large family to say that even though this is coming
from the same mother and father, that union of a sperm and an egg has identity,
has individuality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is what is
required.<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>Questioner #1:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I do have a follow-up question about
personality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It has to do
with some of the changes that have to do with how we think of personality as it
relates to the study of astrology and personality.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is personality at all influenced
by motions of planets and their position in relation to other celestial
bodies?<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>(Astrology as
psychology)<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>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>No.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Except… (much laughter)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then again, this is an enormous
exception.<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>Somewhat parallel to
what I taught on concepts and whole ways of interpreting things in terms of
reincarnation; for those who believe in astrology, it is a centuries-old, highly
complex psychology if you will.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And
in relating human behavior to the position of the stars, it has evolved.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It has evolved to a psychology
explaining human behavior that has been growing and evolving ever since it was
first introduced.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is no minor
thing.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A person who believes in
astrology can, in other words, interpret reality in that way and learn a great
deal from it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It gives a way of
expressing cause-and-effect on a psychological level; a way of explaining human
behavior.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Like any other belief
system, the more it is believed in the more it has influence--what you call a
self-fulfilling theory or a self-fulfilling philosophy. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But there is no direct causal
relationship between the position of the physical universe around you and the
qualities of your personality or soul that come out as
behavior.<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>Questioner #1:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Are there patterns of personality that
we may see relationships between?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Different patterns between people and relationship as to when they were
born or when they were conceived?<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>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Only insofar as what we call…<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We have given so many lessons on the
enormity of culture, right down to language, words, and concepts: all this you
absorb in your first three, four, and five years of your life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is what influences the individual
more than anything else.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Suppose
you have, shall we say, a number of people in a neighborhood who have no
knowledge whatsoever of astrology.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It has no influence on them.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Does that make sense?<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>Questioner #1: I don’t
understand your last comment there.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>If you had a group of individuals who didn’t know about astrology, they
would not…?<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>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If they do not know about astrology,
they are not interpreting their own human behavior in terms of what sign they
are born under with whole different parts of their personality as they are
defined in astrological terms.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>They have no knowledge of this whatsoever so they don’t interpret what is
happening to them as in, shall we say, what sign are you?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What is your rising sign?--all the
different constellations and things.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>If they have no notion, there is no way astrology is affecting their
life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is only a belief system:
and has all the power and limitations of a belief system.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For those who believe in astrology, it
is obviously apparent this is what is determining so much of what is happening
to them and to others.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But it is
only a belief system.<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>Questioner #1: A belief
system would have nothing to do with a scientific
reason.<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>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Exactly; it has no...<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It cannot be empirically demonstrated in
that sense.<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>Questioner #1: So if
people that were born on the same day and may be exhibiting some kind of common
personality trait, that is something we are reading into it, not something that
is actually there?<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>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is both.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is both there, but it is also your
interpretation of what is there.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So
as your experience it is both; you aren’t actually “making something up.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are interpreting behavior in a
certain way according to a certain understanding of cause and effect for there
is that implied causal relationship.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Shall we say: if you were born under a certain sign--the heavens were in
a certain relationship when you were born; there is that implication that is
somehow affecting you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The stars do
not compel; they imply but they do not absolutely determine who and what you
are.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Of course throughout all of
this you have free will.<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>Questioner #1: So there
is no repetitious pattern to personality at all relating at all to
time?<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>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Relating to
time?<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>Questioner #1:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Time, yes, as in cycles of earth: yearly
cycles, monthly cycles, and anything to do with a time
base?<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>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Oh: no.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is another whole thing.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I was thinking of astrology strictly
with respect to the stars--the position of the stars and
things.<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>Questioner #1: I’m
talking about time as maybe the planets fall into certain patterns that relate
to different cycles.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I just think
of the planet, and stars, and how it cycles—personality.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Does it have cycles that are
consistent….in a time basis where people would have certain personalities - have
similar characteristics on a certain time base?<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>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>No, in this case, my son, it is like the
seasonal changes, and what the climate is, and things like this: what part of
the earth they are born and raised in.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>These kinds of cycles have enormous influence, you know, over childhood
development, shall we say.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When you
talk about just the relationships of planets and empirical forces--gravitational
and so forth like those on the earth now--you are getting out of astrology and
getting into actual astronomy.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But
I can say with the respect to the starry heavens of the stars and the planets,
there is no direct causal relationship between them and human behavior that is
implicit.<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>Questioner #1:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Take away the planets and I’m just
talking about cycles of personality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Are there cycles of personality where a particular trait may be greater
or lesser than individuals that are born at a particular time?<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>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes--that is: what I meant to
answer.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are getting back to
heredity and environment in the sense of just the general environment: where you
are on earth, what the seasons are; this sort of thing has a lot to do with
childhood development and behavior.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>But that is all.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is no
other implied causality.<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>Questioner #1: I don’t
want to mix personality with nurture.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I’m talking about the imbuement of personality with nurture.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Maybe I don’t
understand.<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>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have to keep in mind that each
personality is unique; and also, the changelessness of personality.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Personality does not change--ever! <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Personality gains identity by way of
growing a soul.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As we say: you earn
experience through living.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>By
living experience you are growing a soul, and that is what constitutes your
identity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The personality itself
does not change.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Personality does
not come in types or anything like that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It is changeless and in each one, unique.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When you get into astrology you are
talking about influences of behavior.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>So I am not sure what you mean by cycles of
personality.<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>Questioner #1:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’d say cycles of personality having to
do with whether people have a certain personality trait like as defined by
astrology: more stubborn; or more fixed or emotionally wavering--just
personality traits that seem to have cycles.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Does that make sense?<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>NEBADONIA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, my son, that is what I referred to
as human behavior.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And also:
astrology is a highly complex and very comprehensive psychology--which is the
explanation of human behavior--what gives rise to what, and the
inter-relationships.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So you are
asking if all Virgos or all Gemini exhibit, because of that, certain identical
kinds of traits that give them identity as a Virgo or as a Gemini.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And I am saying: insofar as they believe
in that system of behavior-interpretation, if you
will.<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>Questioner #1:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you very much.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I don’t want to dominate all the
questioning.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>(long pregnant
pause)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>NEBADONIA: Are there any more questions or comments this evening? <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Michael mentioned before that sometimes
there is hesitancy to disturb this marvelous stillness that we can
share.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>Questioner #2: I think that you just gave us so much to think
about. I'm trying to understand the personality being unchanging and
unique. It must be that part of us that comes together when the sperm and
the egg meet. When we're told we're unique, that must be the unique part
because if I understand your conversation tonight, Mother Spirit, that
personality is constant and unchanging.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>NEBADONIA:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, my daughter,
the personality is…you could call it bequeathed or associated with a living… in
this case, a living fertilized cell that has identity. This is the hardest
thing for so many folks to realize, that the personality itself is devoid of
identity, but it has the innate ability and function of unifying whatever living
organism it is associated with. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>Questioner #2:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you,
that is very helpful.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>(Monism V.S. truly individualized, free-willed beings)
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size=3>NEBADONIA:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We call you a
nodule of experience, a focal point of experience. In some systems called
monism where everything is One--everything is God, Everything--that shows
you…<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Every experience or every
perception that something is not God, or is even dual, is a kind of an illusion,
like: God forgets Himself in order to be an individual.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Upon death--or an enlightenment
experience like those that gave rise to these concepts--the individuality and
the personality go back to God: God just realizes He's been acting as this
being.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Upon death the individuality
and the personality just go back to God as a drop of water to the ocean.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Whereas we're saying: no, there is
an enduring entity here.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is
an enduring cosmic quality of individualized being--this personality.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>Even in the Urantia Book there is the statement that it would be
presumptuous, even for the Solitary Messenger who wrote that chapter, for this
pure spirit being to try to exhaustively define personality.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Like you say: there are certain things
we know about it because personality is an eternal, discreet individualization.
In other words: it is endowed with this potential for free will, even to
go against God's will, for you do have some very ungodly behavior that comes
right out of the personality’s creativity. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>This personality, being eternal and changeless, does however evolve by
gaining a soul.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So the personality
and the soul are distinct from one another.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I think the Urantia Book puts it:
personality is the one thing that can be added to spirit, showing the primacy of
the Father over the Eternal Son of Spirit.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>God is personality. He's not only a personal being, He is the
origin and the essence of personality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is where personality comes from.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He is able of His creativity to create
an individualized personality and, in this sense, set it free.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So while you have that statement that
God is beyond time--He sees the end from the beginning--He inhabits eternity; at
the same time you have that statement that God's will obtains in the whole
because literally He is creating the parameters for each order of personal
being: yet God's will does not obtain in the individual except by that
individual’s free will choice to discover and follow God's will.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>Which gives rise to all the ungodly behavior of personal beings. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That's the freedom, that's the
individuality or the uniqueness of every personal being. It's not just God
pretending to be some other being. That is the eternal prospect that you
have as a personality. You need never end as a discreet being growing a
soul forever. That is God's gift to you. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>God's gift, my daughter, is you.
You get to have your life forever.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You are real. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>Questioner #2: Thank you very much, you have been very, very
helpful.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>NEBADONIA: Again, we are dealing with some unfathomable mysteries
here, but I hope it teases you to wonder and marvel and bring forth your other
most wonderful gift of God’s--curiosity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Who am I?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What am I?
That is why the Urantia book gives you so many orders of personal
beings—seraphim, and Midwayers, and Melchizedeks, and on and
on.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>One of these days Michael and I will have to give a lesson on time, of
the eternal now.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The only thing I
would tease you with tonight is that, through all your marvelous science fiction
of going back in the past, or going up in the future, and looking around, and
dodging all kinds of time-paradoxes that have been around since, I guess it was
Mr. Wells that started this whole thing; it is very difficult to conceive that:
the future does not exist!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It has
not happened yet. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>So I will leave you with that. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Are there any other questions or
comments? <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>Well now, my children, let me bid you all a good evening.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I hope you've had as much fun as I've
had.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is our delight.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are our delight and we are blessed
to experience you--your personalities--your soul--and still: as you can give a
gift to God of seeking His will and doing your best to live by it, and actually
become more real by doing so, so too we delight when you turn your minds to us
and simply say,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“Hi, Dad.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Hello, Mom.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you for me.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you for being with me.”
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>It really does set us aglow. I bid you a good evening.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be in my
love.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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