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<DIV>Dear Folks, here's Mother Spirit answering a few questions posed by
members. Get yours too in by the first of each month, to be addressed in the
first Wednesday's meeting.</DIV>
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align=center><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=3>Nebadonia - August 7, 2013.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=3>Marin T/M Group—Mill Valley,
California—U.S.A.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=3>Nebadonia – T/R – JL<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=3>(Four questions)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=3>(Naming your celestial friends) <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=3>(Psychic circles) <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=3>(Thought Adjusters and art) <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=3>(Art and healing)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=3>(Post script)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=3>Dear Mother Spirit and Michael, here we are again, back in one of our
familiar settings, and once again it is such a delight to feel you within us and
all around us. We have your assurance that the two of you have always enjoyed
this contact, this way. We know you are always with us, but this is kind-of
special, this giving you voice to let us ride around for a while in your point
of view and see things from your perspective.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=3>(Four questions)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=3>Tonight I would ask a few questions of you that have been submitted by
folks who aren’t here physically. The first is with respect to our guardian
angels, and perhaps even more so to other spiritual beings, other personalities,
who have volunteered to come here to the earth to be our companions, to be our
guides, and above all to be our friends. For they have let us know that they
treasure this contact just as much as we treasure their company. It’s a way of
training ourselves to be receivers of what they transmit to us. Also as with you
and Michael, they give us a chance to see ourselves as others see us. So one of
the questions tonight is: do our guardian angels and these teachers that come to
the earth now, do they have a name that we can recognize and refer to in our
communications?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=3><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=3>Another listener/reader wanted to know if we can determine some way--if
you could tell us—or if we can determine within ourselves just what level of the
psychic circles we are on. And then a further question is: in our artistic
abilities, what part does our Thought Adjuster play in these? Finally, again
with respect to our artistic endeavors, are they healing in some way or another?
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=3>And so tonight, if you would, Mother Spirit, would you address these
questions? Amen.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=3>Nebadonia: Good evening, my children, this is Nebadonia, your Mother
Spirit. And Michael and I are definitely tickled that you can come up with these
questions, because we do not consider them any kind of a superficial,
mere-curiosity-kind-of-thing that you are just playing around with. Actually, we
thank you for good questions. They are one of the gifts you can bring to us: to
open yourselves to what you really don’t know, but you would be delighted to
find out. All of your questions tonight are wonderful because they directly
address the spiritual community and your relationship with us and with our other
children.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=3>(Naming your celestial friends) <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=3>With respect to your teachers--your guardian angels and others that you
can request to be your guide, to be a friend to you, and with whom you can have
a real conversation--yes, it would be nice to have a name for these other
personal beings that you can address and talk to. But here, my children, is
something that I ask you to simply accept: the fact that this is very much
between the two of you, just as your communication will be.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=3>Angels and assorted other celestial beings have a variety of names
depending on the relationships they have with different orders of beings. When
they come in contact with you, this is something that will be particular between
the two of you. And so, if you would, look upon names as the very first part of
your contact. The very first thing you can do to make that contact is, in your
meditation, ask for a celestial helper, a celestial friend.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=3>Accept my word that they are here in abundance. They have been notified
that Urantia is now open for this kind of contact, this kind of communication,
and so they are flocking here from various orders of beings. If you will,
there’s a little bulletin put up in their headquarters asking for volunteers. As
I say, you have as much to offer them when you open your whole mind and your
human soul of experience to them. This is just as valuable and priceless to them
as they can be to you. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=3>And so in your mediations, just open your mind and ask for this name to
come to you. It will be a name that is very precious, perhaps even unique,
between the two of you. This name will appear in your mind. This is one of your
initial gifts to give to them. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=3>Yet I can feel some of your intellectual, mind-only kind of reaction: how
do you know if this is their right name? Well, ask yourself this as it occurs to
you because it should be rather indelible. Yes, you can think of it as a pet
name or nickname, but believe me, it is something that they will treasure; it
will be that desired point of contact with them. So very definitely, your
spiritual helper can have this name that you will both treasure and perhaps even
some day, when you meet face to face, you will never forget the moment when this
name occurred to you.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=3>(Psychic circles) <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=3>With respect to the psychic circles, I would ask you to, once again, read
that part of your Urantia book that deals with this particular subject for it
goes into a kind of detail I can’t merely repeat tonight, nor is there any need
for me to do so. And again, this is not just a pure curiosity question because
it’s a matter of great interest and wonder to you: “How am I doing? Where
exactly am I on this whole continuum from the seventh through the first? I hope
I’m not stuck somewhere down around the six-and-half mark. And I’m sure if I
entertain notions of being on the first part--that would be some kind of pure
hubris, some kind of egotistical notion of my own that I am so exulted.” But as
your Urantia book so beautifully details, it is none of these.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=3>The most important thing--with respect to your psychic circles--is that
this addresses the totality of you: your personality or, we should say, your
personhood--the totality of your being--being not only your personality but your
body, your mind, your intellect, your creative spirit—that part of you
personally that can create. It includes your soul, this part of you that’s being
co-authored by a presence of God within you of all your worldly
experience.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=3>Your psychic circles refer to this totality of you, and the Urantia book
also cautions that it’s a balance of all of these facets. It mentions those who
are, shall we say, only advanced physically. Think of a great athlete who, poor
soul, hardly ever has an original idea in his mind but only thinks pretty much
in terms of stereotypes he’s heard before. Then you have the over-weighted
intellectual type of person. This can lead to so much hubris, so much arrogance,
that he sees everyone in a subordinate position to him just because they do not
have his depth and range of association--which is pretty much what your mind
does. It’s what your intelligent-quotient tests reveal—your IQ. This is that
pure intellect that can go into a holy book of whatever religion and recite it
chapter and verse, yet completely miss the spirit of it all in the very use of
their intellect. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=3>Then you can have what might be hard to conceive, but an overly stressed
spiritual part of a personality that identifies with the spirit and distains the
physical and the purely intellectual. This is the person who can be led into
fanaticism and another kind of condescension to those around him or her.
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=3>So the psychic circles depend upon the good balance of all these human
facets. With respect to your soul, how much is your soul and the presence of God
within you informing your day-to-day life? <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=3>We can see and understand, and even encourage the curiosity and the
wonder of: “Where am I on this whole continuum?” But as your Urantia book
states, this is something so personal and various. By this they mean that as you
go through life, you can slowly accumulate a kind of value in your soul, and in
your spirit, and in your understanding--those aspects that I augment within you
with my Adjutants. And yet, something can happen. Shall we say you’re out
driving your car and someone cuts you off in traffic and you fly into what you
call “road rage.” All of sudden, you’ve just momentarily dropped about five
circles. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=3>Your circle is what you normally spend most of your time in. Things like
real good meditation help, where you can open yourself up to, not some kind of
rote repetition, but actually open yourself and say, “Okay, Michael, Mother
Spirit, my dear presence of God within me: what have you got for me today, this
moment?” And if you’re maintaining a good healthy body with clean habits; and
your intellect is open, curious, wondering, valuing what you can gain--your
knowledge and then your understanding; and moments from your soul pop into your
mind and for those few precious moments you’re reliving a previous part of your
life: this is when you’re pretty high up on that continuum of your psychic
circles. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=3>Every now and then you’ll flash into that very first circle when
something will pop into your mind, as we’ve said, “Like a bolt from the blue.”
Perhaps you’ve been wondering about something for a while. Or even in some
crisis moment you have a pure unmistakable word right from your Thought
Adjuster, a very pure thought that encapsulates and comprehends the whole
situation. You have an overwhelming feeling of oneness with your Source, the
Source of everything within you and surrounding you. It leads not to some pride
of: “Wow! I guess I’m on the first level here, the first psychic circle!”--but
rather: “Thank you. Thank you, God, for this gift, for this comprehension. Thank
you for speaking so directly to me.”<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=3>(Thought Adjusters and art) <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=3>That leads right into your next question of: what does the Thought
Adjuster within you, what does this presence of God have to do with your
creativity, your artistic endeavors?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=3>Here, let’s keep in mind that your whole life is a kind of art. You’re
co-creating everything you experience. There is no pure objectivity shy of God,
not even for Michael and me. What you are--who you are--who you’ve been--is part
of everything you experience. On this level of art your Thought Adjuster has a
big and incessant part to play. We’ve even teased you with the fact that it’s
hard to know what your Thought Adjuster is contributing to your life and your
art because this presence is always here. It’s always been here from your
earliest memories. Consider all those thousand and one little flashes that you
called satori or enlightenment. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=3>This is especially true in your artistic achievements, when you focus on
some particular endeavor--a painting, playing the piano, writing a novel or a
play, something like this--all your standard notions of art. Your Thought
Adjuster plays very much a part. Think of a novelist sitting down and wondering:
where are all these half-a-dozen characters he’s got interrelating, and talking,
and running around: where is all this coming from? <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p><FONT
size=3> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=3>Well, definitely, it’s partly your own personal creative spirit; but, my
dears, there’s no sharp demarcation where your own creative spirit leaves off
and the presence of God within you begins. Rather, think of a broad, broad
overlapping of you and this part of you that you will actually join with
someday. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>So with your Thought Adjuster, I would say the greater the artist you
are, the more you are in communication with, and on a good working relationship
with, this infinite part within you. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>(Art and healing)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>As to the final question of: What does art have to do with healing?--I
almost have to wonder: need I go on? It has very much to do with healing for all
the reasons I just gave about creativity. First of all, from the standpoint of
the artist himself, or herself: what could be more healing than to be fully
engaged with all of you--your personality, your
body…<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>(Post script)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=3>JL: Rats!—I checked the battery in my recorder beforehand, but it failed
anyway. I lost the last five or six minutes of Mother Spirit’s lesson. As I can
best recall her points:<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>1. Sudden and often severe function changes, brought about by either
injury and/or illness, tend to challenge ones inner unity. Think of the sudden
crippling of an arm or leg, the lungs or kidneys, the reasoning facility or
emotional control; the evaporation of mental meaning and spiritual value from
life. Almost all art requires the creative personality simultaneously use their
body, mind, spirit, and soul, together, and this very co-ordination is the most
healing. It restores the inner balance of functions by a person’s discovering
their body, mind, spirit, and soul in the new, changed reality in need of
healing. That special element of creativity known as analysis is critical for
this discovery. You creatively analyze your changed situation and re-establish
what you are still capable of doing--through your art. It’s a way of regaining
your healthy unity once again by using all your functions to the fullest of your
ability. That’s just another name for art, whether painting a picture, playing
the guitar, preparing food, singing and dancing, and/or enjoying your work every
day, and healing too.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
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size=3>To the degree this creative process also happens in another recipient of
the art--where like calls to like, and likely responds--to the degree the art is
enjoyed by another; this too is an artistic achievement on their part and is
healing as well. It’s what people have been doing for themselves and with each
other since the beginning. Don’t forget that the essence of divinity—God’s
nature--is <U>sharing</U>. Something has kept the human game not only going but
actually thriving these last million years or so… <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=3>…or something like that. I do remember her exact final words were for us
to be in her love.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
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