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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>Michael Lightline – May
19, 2011<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>T/R--Jerry Lane<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>Transcribed by Dawn Horn<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
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; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>(Self-power and Other-power)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>(You and you Father Fragment) <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>(God’s continuous creativity, and yours)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>(Creativity in a restricted body)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>(Being with someone) <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>(The marvelous, marvelous thing of courage)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>(This is love) <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
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; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>Dear Michael and Mother Spirit, welcome--always and forever: welcome.
Welcome to be with us. Welcome to help us know you are here and feel your
presence right within us and all around us.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We get together like this for wonderful
company and to greet the two of you again, to open ourselves and just enjoy
hearing from your perspective another chapter in the <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Owner’s Manual for Human Beings</I> that we
enjoy so much.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So thank you very
much. Amen.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
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; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good evening, this
is Michael.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As always, Mother
Spirit and I are happy to be here with you. Though you are all scattered about
in space around this big continent of yours and out in the islands; for Mother
Spirit and I, we’re all together. We have this wonderful kind of inner
dimensional, or should I say maybe extra-dimensional presence. You can imagine
it as being all spread out thru time and space, and all of our children are like
little glowing spots right within us. Imagine you were space and all the stars
you see were right within you. So we register you--you register within us, and
it’s how you respond to us that does please us so much.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
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; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>As
we’ve said before, when you take time out of your busy lives to say hello and
tune in to us and send us your love, that just warms our hearts.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For yes, definitely, we too have a warm
beating heart. So, my children, you are right within us and we are all around
you. We are as close as your next thought, your next prayer, your next taking a
moment or two to say hello. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
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; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>Tonight as always I would like to speak directly to you, to your
personality, to the essence of who you are, and give you some more tools, some
more concepts with which to work on this reality that you find yourself in,
right in your body and your mind and on outwards to that world surrounding you.
This is what we have always tried to do, help augment your faith and trust in us
by giving you the insightful ways to contact with us and feel us right within
you. We can help you understand and delight in this human adventure you’re
caught up in.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As we’ve taught in
the last few lessons, this reality is coming towards you, always. There is
always something happening right within your own body and mind, right within the
world around you. You’re caught up in a dynamic situation and it’s important how
you relate to this. Essentially, your attitude is your willingness and your
ability to relate to all that you are, and all that it is in the situation
around you.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
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; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>(Self-power and Other-power)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
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; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>Right within you, my children, you have this division, if you will,
between Self and Other. Mother Spirit and I, and our Father’s presence within
you, you can think of as this Other insofar as we are distinct from you. We are
your creator parents and God is literally the Father of your personality--the
essence of who you are.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So another
tool you can use to get a handle on the ungraspable living being that you are,
you can think of having both Self-power and Other-power right inside you.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
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; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>We’ve teased you with the notion so many times before, you do have an
absolute reality whether you can realize it or not. Whether or not you might
feel anxious for your very being: you are! You are an absolute cosmic fact. You
have power. You have the power that was given to you by your Father, his power
of creativity, his ultimate, absolute, and infinite power that he shares with
you, and gives you a portion. This is also the unbounded potential you have that
will carry you on from here, forever. This is your Self-power of creativity, of
bringing something right out of your own self and trying it. You are the
originator of most of your thoughts, most of your attitude, most of your
desires. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
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; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>True enough, a lot of these come from this living body you have. In one
way you are sitting on top of millions of years of evolution in the physical,
animal nature of you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then there’s
your whole mentality, your psychology, part of which you inherited from the
society around you, your family, your friends, the culture you were raised
in.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But even this animal/mental
part of you, this mind and body you have, my children; they are also spiritual
as you experience them because it’s how you, as a personality, are interpreting
and relating to them. You as a spiritual being have so much within your own
power as to how you take things--even your own body, even your own mind.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
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; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>So
this is the Self you have been given by God with these powers of creativity, of
originating something of your own right in time and space. You two are both like
fountains right out in the middle of the air, constantly bubbling forth in ways
you experience as reality, and so your life is a co-creation within which you
with your Self-power are always a part.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Philosophically you would say that you never experience any pure
objectivity, any pure object. Yet this inner subjective reality gives you
adaptability, flexibility, choice, freedom. This is the basis for your free
will. You’re not just some automaton merely reacting to things. Even a
narrow-minded, prejudiced human being is in the middle of a co-creation of their
own making whether they are aware of it or not.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
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; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>But also, my children, right within you, you have Other-power. The
highest of this is your Thought Adjuster, God’s Mystery Monitor experiencing
your life, taking on your life. This is the co-creator of your soul, this
presence within you. We call this power, this Other creative power, a Thought
Adjuster because it can actually make discreet thoughts; it can make
suggestions. There is no one listening to my voice tonight, or reading these
words later, who has not experienced the enormous gift of these thoughts.
They’ve been with you, and a part of you from the very beginning. A large part
of your understanding and your ability to deal with reality comes from this
Other presence within you.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
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; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>(You and you Father Fragment) <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
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; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>In
fact we’ve teased you so many times with the idea: the difficulty in isolating
exactly what your Father Fragment is doing--what thoughts are coming from this
divine presence, and what thoughts are coming from your own highest intelligence
and consciousness, is because right on that borderline of your highest self is
where you are touching and co-mingling and enjoying this Other-presence. In any
case, it comes back to your personality, your Self-power of choice, as to
whether or not you choose to embody and put into use whatever thought occurs to
you, from whatever origin. So again: it’s your free will, for it is ever true
that spirit suggests, it does not compel. If you will, in a humorous way: God
did not go thru all the trouble of creating you and then setting you free,
endowing you with creative spirit, just in order to tyrannize over you. This is
God’s absolute gift, your freedom, your creativity that enables you to be
free.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
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; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>Still, that being said, you can most easily or precisely detect this
Other input by the quality of it. Sometimes when you are really stumped and have
no way within yourself of grasping the situation and how to deal with it, these
are those bolts out of the blue. These are the ideas that can suddenly occur to
you and seem to encapsulate and comprehensively deal with the situation. It’s at
times like this you can say: Thank you, Father; I’ll definitely consider that
one! This is a presence so close to you, so much a part of your soul, so much of
your memory, so many of all the great ideas you’ve had all your life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
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; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>Another great power within you, yet less distinct from you, is Mother
Spirit because you literally are using her kind of bestowed mind--Spirit
Adjutant mind. She too is a creative spirit within you and all your wonderful
abilities of intuition, being able to perceive things directly-immediately, and
gather them in and hold them as little nuggets of knowledge. Then she augments
all the ways that these are interrelated in your understanding. She helps give
you courage, the ability to do difficult things, the ability to step off into
the unknown precisely because you can’t see the end from the beginning, though
you are compelled to begin again, and again. She augments your gregariousness
and the way we enjoy these times we get together just for the sheer joy of them.
There’s her Mind/Spirit of Worship, your thankfulness for existing, your
appreciation of this life that you have. And then, ultimately, there’s your
ability to use all of these abilities in wisdom, to bring all that you are to
bear on the present moment. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>All of these innate abilities you feel are just part of being human,
Mother Spirit is in you giving a little boost. So just by being aware and
thankful for these, you’re sending a little blessing to her; you’re realizing
her Other-power within you.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
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; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>Then my Spirit of Truth is also a creative ability, a spiritual ability
of my own, a kind of little nudge to help you along and keep you oriented toward
the truth in this adventure you’re caught up in. This is a further ability for
you to choose what feels good, what feels true, for we definitely know how you
are being bombarded with a thousand and one versions of what is true, especially
from of all your modern media. As you say, you have a gut feeling something is
true. It’s actually an encompassing feeling, almost as if the truth is
encompassing you. Or not.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
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; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>(God’s continuous creativity, and yours)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
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; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>My
children, tonight I want to keep my lesson a little short. There are many people
out there, I feel, with questions to ask.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I just wanted to present you with this gift of yourself and of your own
Self-power, and that too, right within you and part of you, this Other-power.
Think of how you can maintain a beautiful balance between them, to fully use
them both: Self and Other. Essentially it’s how you can restore your
appreciation of all that you are, and all you have been given, and are being
given, of God’s continuous creativity. Because here comes another moment that
has never been before, and will never be again. Not only is God constantly
originating all of creation, so too are you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This knowledge, this wonderful feeling
of all that’s happening, and all that’s coming out of you, gives you the ability
to respond to it. For yourself, this might be your ultimate power because it
connects you with everything else, especially those other people coming toward
you, looking to you for response, for love, for support, for fun. Will you,
won’t you join the dance?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Will you,
won’t you spread God’s favor and God’s gift, spread it out to all those you meet
by giving them power, by recognizing their unique personalities?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Recognize that they too are children
with the same creative power from the same Father.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Now if you have any questions or
comments.........<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
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; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And fun is
important too. I like that. And I like knowing who I have to thank for all my
wonderful knowledge, memory, courage, wisdom. Sometimes I feel an overabundance
of all of that, and I say: Wow!--you know? It’s almost like I’m unprepared. But
I’m definitely ready once I balance myself and realize the good place that it
comes from--which is God. So thank you for illustrating where those wonderful
gifts come from.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
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; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>(Creativity in a restricted body)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
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; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>Michael, I would like to ask you something. Stephen Hawking struggles
with Lou Gehrig’s disease. He has such a great mind, but he speaks like a
machinist, or like someone who feels very much alone. He recently said about
God: “He made a human being with whom one can have a personal relationship.” I’m
reading what he was also quoted to have said: “When you look at the vast size of
the universe and how insignificant and accidental human life is, that seems most
impossible.” Yet when we ever chance to see pictures of this incredible mind, we
see he doesn’t look very happy.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
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; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>How can one have so much of the creativity that you speak of, that we’ve
been given in abundance--especially in this person in particular? How can he be
more animal than spiritual, and then how can we--if we ever were fortunate
enough to encounter such a human: how can we convince someone to even believe,
to think of what real power it is<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>to connect with God? <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
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; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>I
really believe that if he only believed a little bit, say the size of a mustard
seed, he would be somewhat cured; anyway, as to say, he would be more flexible
and then realize more freedom. He’d probably be much more comfortable, more
joyful.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so basically my
question is: so that how does it happen that such an intelligent mind, while
he’s building, building, building in one arena--such a gift of Mother Spirit,
constantly dims the truth and chooses to be more animal? And again, when you see
that, how does one gently nudge someone whose had a lifetime of, I guess you
could say, of being crabbed in that little space that he’s in--that wheelchair,
and he’s all hunched over; and yet he has so much potential. Where do you
start?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
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; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>MICHAEL: Yes, my daughter, you start by just turning on your empathy as
fully as you can; being one with him as much as you can; just to take him aboard
to feel as much as you can, to feel what life is like for him from the
inside-out. This gives you at least some inkling as to what he’s experiencing,
of what he’s going thru.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
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; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>(Being with someone) <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
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; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>As
we’ve said so many times, the difficulty sometimes in a person realizing their
own co-creativity--the fact that they themselves are a spiritual being? It’s too
familiar. It’s how they are taking everything, even the room they’re sitting in.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
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; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>As
I’m talking to you now, as you look around that oh-so-physical room with walls
and chairs and everything: it is how you are taking it. For as you know, if you
have a really, really severe toothache or stomach ache, it all changes, even
your own body. You realize that you are, out of your own creativity, how you are
able to identify that. You can even identify <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">with</I> almost anything. This is the basis
of all your joy of going to a movie and identifying with the characters there on
the screen, or identifying with a political party, or a religious group, or with
a national group. All of these abilities your personality has in order to seek
and find identity. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
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; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>For someone who is very crippled physically, you can just help them to
compensate, help them get as much enjoyment out of their mind and what
connection they do have. But ultimately, yes, he is, just as you my daughter
are, flying that vehicle. He’s in there making these choices. You can just do
your best to be in there with him, to really relinquish yourself. The blessing
of self-forgetfulness is to be totally with a person like this as much as you
can, and give him, give anybody in that situation, as much as yourself as you
can. Set yourself aside and really listen. Set aside any fear you might have.
Take this person in and give them yourself. Acknowledge that they themselves are
co-creating and responsible for what is happening to them insofar as how they
take it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But beyond introducing
these concepts, these powerful tools of understanding, it’s up to them. That’s
their freedom.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
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; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, Michael, I
understand. The most powerfully radiantly healthy person I ever saw was a
homeless man. As I gazed at his face--he was at a church altar rail, he was
worshiping; and you might say: he’s not powerful at all! But he sure was!
(chuckling) And when I looked at him, it was almost as if the sun was on his
face, he was so radiant and beautiful. And so: that was something…Wow!--really
powerful when I saw him.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
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; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Bless you, my
daughter, for being able to recognize that. Wasn’t that a marvelous
thing?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
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; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Oh my gosh, it was
awesome to see him. I didn’t even know he was homeless. It was like I was almost
blinded for a moment, and then when I turned back to the altar and looked again,
he had gotten up to move. And then that’s when I noticed that he was sort of
shuffling away.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And
Wow!<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
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; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>(The marvelous, marvelous thing of courage)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
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; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s that
marvelous, marvelous thing of courage. One definition of courage is: that
this—whatever--this spiritual quality--this spiritual power, just lets you do
things that would otherwise be impossible. It’s wonderful to see it shining out
of someone’s face when it seems like there is almost nothing else there. It’s
their final courage: just beaming some joy at you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you, my daughter. Be in my
peace.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
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; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you, thank
you.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
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; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>MICHAEL:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is there someone
else with a question or comment? (long full pause) <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
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; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>Well, my children, if there are no further comments, we will wrap this
evening up.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am always a little
reluctant, as I feel some of you are too, to break this stillness, to disturb
anything so precious.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet, as I’ve
said before: its equally wonderful to know that nothing ever really disturbs the
stillness. Sprit is all-inclusive.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Everything embraces everything and is not disturbed by it. It is the very
background of consciousness. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
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; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>Mother Spirit and I do hope that you can feel us within you, even though
we are so<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>subtle it is very rare
that we would actually speak aloud in your mind.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As I’ve said tonight, it is our Father’s
input, this other presence right within you, that can actually give you thoughts
for your consideration, to accept or reject.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is up to you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Sometimes it is so hard to distinguish
these thoughts except for their sheer appropriateness.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is such a blessing when you do
recognize them, as well as those little nudges from Mother Spirit and myself.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
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; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>(This is love) <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
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; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT
size=3>Those ideas from our Father when you so desperately need them? They may
drop into your consciousness like a reverse bombshell--something that goes off,
but then just kind-of calms everything.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Once again you have power, power to do something riding on that thought,
that understanding, because it’s real, because it works.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is not a token of love, my
children, this is love itself: when you give another what they truly need. When
you give yourself. And what a glory. What a glory for you and for them.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Even though you may be a hobo kneeling
at the rail for communion, you can just beam your love out there.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
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; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><FONT size=3>So
thank you for being here. Thank you for being the occasion.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mother Spirit sends her love, and I bid
you: be in my peace. Feel it. Enjoy it. Good
evening.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>