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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Ho!--here we go again, this time with the complete Lightline teleconference with Mother Spirit on the 25th of February, 2016. Please excuse the overly-wildly spaced lines as I'm not sure why this happens, or how to prevent it. It's why I send both a text and attachment of the lesson. Enjoy!--Jerry.<BR> <BR> <font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Mother Spirit
Lightline - <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>February 25, 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Nebadonia—T/R-JL<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>(Companionship-sharing
your lives)<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>(Escaping
the prison of self)<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>(The
blessing of curiosity)<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>(The
mind-spirit of courage)) <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>(Courage
to welcome the unknown)<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>(Courage
contra-distinct from fool-hardiness)<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>(Foolish
impatience)<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>(Intuition,
knowledge, understanding)<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>(Where
courage leads)<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>(Trust,
faith, and spontaneity)<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>(Respecting
a child’s spirit and autonomy)<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Dear Mother Spirit and Michael, welcome. Welcome.
Come and be with us, although<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>we know deep in our hearts--as we open our
hearts and minds to you--that you are<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>always already here. Your presence is within
us and all around us. <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Still and all, we do admit to ourselves that
your very nature is nigh incomprehensible in<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>spite of all the ways that the human race
has personified you, in all the goddesses of<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>all the religions and cultures of the world.
This is why we are very thankful for our <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>wonderful Urantia Book with its whole
chapters on you and Michael, giving us all of <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>your attributes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Yet you are still nigh incomprehensible! We
can only imagine what it is having a<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>soul of experience of hundreds of billions
of years now, so many times more than what<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>our science tells us is the age of the
universe. We can only imagine what it is to be <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>spread out over so many thousands of cubic light
years of space, attending to your <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>children on nearly four million inhabited
worlds like ours--plus on all the architectural <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>spheres of our local universe. <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>You have invited us so often to go out on a
clear, star-lit night when there is no moon <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>to out-shine all the little ones, just see
and open our minds and hearts to the Milky Way <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>out there in the whole sky. We can imagine
you spread out across all of that. Then <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>to think you are right within us, part of
us, part of our minds, part of our own creative <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>spirit. <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>So, dear personal being who is on the very
edge and beyond of our comprehension, <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>we do sincerely appreciate that you can talk
to us. You delight in transmitting to us, <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>and you have let us know so many times that
any of us—not just me and other <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Transmitter-Receivers--but any of us with a
mind to do it, can receive you. Anyone can <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>open their little recorder and record what
you have to say. In this too you are truly <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>universal. For all of this we do thank you.
Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Nebadonia: Good evening, my children. This
is your Mother Spirit, and I thank you for <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>your kind and generous invitation. As
Michael and I have taught so often, it is a good <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>thing for you to be humble, for it is a
spiritual blessing to acknowledge that which is so <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>much greater than yourselves. It helps you
keep in touch with us, for Michael and I, like<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>any proud parents, delight when you address
yourselves to us and say hello. We really <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>enjoy that, so again, this is an open invitation
that just anytime, anytime it occurs<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>to you, day or night, we appreciate it when
you set aside a few minutes in your busy <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>lives to be quiet, and still, and say, “Hello
Michael. Hello Mother Spirit. Thank you <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>for me.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>(Companionship-sharing your lives)<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Tonight I would like to talk about a few of
your attributes, a few of your dimensions<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>of being human. I think the greatest of
these is the way you are so much like our<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>universal Father, like God himself. It is
the way you can share your lives with others. It<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>is called companionship--your ability and
desire to have companions with whom to<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>share your days and your nights. This is
part of God’s great nature, this whole notion<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>of sharing oneself, or none of us would
exist. We can know that each of us shares a <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>little spark of his infinity. <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>As you have been told, and it is so true,
that your very personality, your<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>uniqueness coming right from him--as does
Michael’s and mine--cannot in any way<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>be finally or ultimately captured. In this
we are most like him, and we belong not only <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>to ourselves, but to him as well. We share our
inner lives with him.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Then you can choose to share your lives with
the others around you. This is that <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>magical one-and-one-makes-three because, first,
you have your unique personality like <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>no other. Second, your companion is like you
in this, in that he or she too is utterly <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>unique among all other people. When the two
of you get together, you both share <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>another third dimension that is equally
unique to just the two of you. <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>This is companionship--this friendship, this
shared soulful quality, because you are now <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>in each other forever. Your souls are as
open to yourselves and to each other as you <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>acquire the ability to tune in--tune into
yourself and tune in to each other. You can <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>share your histories, your actual living
experience.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>(Escaping the prison of self)<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>True companionship gives you so much. Above
all it gives you a way of escaping what <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>we sometimes call the <i>prison of self</i>.
I am sure you all know some poor, unfortunate <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>soul who is so self-centered, so totally
insecure in themselves and in their life, they are <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>desperately clinging on to themselves and
can hardly be companionable at all. You try <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>to carry on a conversation with them and all
they are doing is waiting for you to<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>be quiet so they can express themselves. No
matter what you say to them, if it<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>doesn’t directly relate to them in some way
or another, it is meaningless to them.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>By their example you can know in your own
self, in your own soul, what a terrible <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>prison this is. Your own companionship and
your own delight in sharing yourself and <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>enjoying other folks can be the most
precious experiences of your life. Because if you <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>can let go, if you do have the wonderful
quality of self-forgetfulness, you can take in<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>another totally. Then if they too have this
wonderful quality of self-forgetfulness, this <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>third dimension of the-two-of-you, the
companionship, becomes a very lively dance all <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>by itself, does it not? Who knows where it
will go? Who knows what it can encompass?-<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>-because you are both bringing your own
unfathomable souls to the present moment.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>For remember: you are both somewhat infinite
to yourselves. This is the state of <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>your existence, my children: you can only know
your own souls kind-of moment-by-<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>moment. You await that magical
transformation, sometime in the future, you will have<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>that promised moment of becoming one with
your own soul and the presence of its co-<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>author, God himself. This will be the fusion
of all that you are and have been, wrapped <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>up in this unfathomable soul of yours. <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>But until that transformation, what a wonderful
thing to let your soul come forth <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>and remind you of all you’ve been. This humility
of realizing all that you are and <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>have been gives you the ability to
acknowledge all that your companion is too. <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>This is the promise and the actual reward of
companionship, of having real, honest-to-<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>God, living and breathing companions with
whom to share your life.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>(The blessing of curiosity)<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>All this comes about with the help of
another great quality I’d like to talk about<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>tonight, and that is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">curiosity</i>. Let’s pause a moment to wonder: what is it? (I must<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>confess I am teasing you with the very thing)
What is curiosity? What is it that<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>catches your attention, sometimes even in
spite of yourself--especially when you<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>were younger and didn’t have that much
control over yourself. What is it that captures<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>you and says, “Look here! What is this?” <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>It could be whole world all around you,
strange and new and maybe even a little scary. <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Think of your delightful little furry creatures
and the nursery-rhyme notation that <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>curiosity kills the cat. Of course as you
grow older, you realize that curiosity is just part <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>of their nature to examine everything,
though perhaps the more cynical among you <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>would say that it is just their hunting
instinct, looking for some other little furry thing to <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>pounce on and eat. Or maybe you have seen
cats prowling around and standing up to <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>look out the windows like some nervous gun-fighter,
wondering about some bigger cat <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>that might eat them.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>But in human beings, curiosity is an innate soul-hunger
to know what is out there. What <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>is all around you? Even at a very young age
it includes wondering: what am I? What <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>are these little wiggling things on the end
of my arms; then exploring and finding<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>you have hands and feet and even a stomach
that gets hungry. All this curiosity leads<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>you to discover everything you know,
everything you contact to understand. <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>It is a wonderful hunger because it can be
satiated. It can be fulfilled. It can lead you to <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>a kind of ease for a while as you sit there
with all you have come into contact, and <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>know, and understand. You can let it all go
in a good-night’s sleep and even dream of <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>it all in all its mystery.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Curiosity led you to the others all around
you. As you let go of your family, your <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>mother and father, and maybe brothers and sisters,
and headed out there to school—<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>your first, second, and third grade, your
class room; remember all the others you met <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>your own age, and the curiosity. Who were
they? What was this sex thing? What<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>were boys? What were girls? Why were you and
they the way you were?<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>What a wonderful blessing curiosity is. And
what a terrible tragedy it is with those who <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>feel they are cursed with curiosity, that
some way or another they have to numb out <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>to shut it off. They just want to close in
upon themselves and not be curious about <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>others because, perhaps, they never acquired
the social skills to satisfy, to share <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>in joy with others and satisfy their curiosity.
So think of the satisfaction, my dear ones, <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>that has led you to know so much.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>(The mind-spirit of courage)) <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>I would like to mention one other attribute
that I actually help increase right within<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>you. If you will, I augment another real
ability of yours. As I mentioned companionship-<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>-what your Urantia Book calls my Mind/Spirit
of Counsel—helping you enjoy each other <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>as you counsel together and share your
experience—this is the mind/creative spirit <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>quality of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">courage</i>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>What is courage? If new experience it is one
of the most crucial, welcome, and <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>valuable of attributes, the ability that
enables you to do difficult things is itself so <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>precious. Seen in this light, you can never
have too much of it--not the real stuff. <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Instead you might have a kind of fake
courage you call fool-hardiness, a lack of<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>acknowledgement and respect for the
situation where you just charge blindly into <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>something, and perhaps get wiped out for
that very reason.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Genuine courage is not being fool-hardy. It
is exactly the opposite. It means with all<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>the fear and trembling that fills your soul,
your mind, your spirit, even your whole body,<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>you are still able to act. You still to have
the determination to do the right thing. <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Think how this necessary attribute feeds and
supports your curiosity, to not only be <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>curious, but to have the courage to explore
it. For that exploration can extend to all the <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>aspects of you. Physical courage is needed to
get out there and do whatever it is, <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>perhaps even risk your life and limb--as you
say. <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Then to follow your curiosity about “what
if…” or “wouldn’t it be nice to…”—you can fill <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>in the blank—it takes mental courage to be
open-minded and not just cling to what you <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>have already known and experienced, but to
let all that go, put it all on the line because <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>something new suggests itself. Or you are
simply in an honest experiment and you <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>have to find the courage to be open-minded
to whatever comes out.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>(Courage to welcome the unknown)<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Some of your famous scientists have said
that they suddenly encountered some new <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>fact that challenged everything they
believed up to that point. They had to have the <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>courage to let all that investment in time
and energy go in order to follow this new <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>thing that appeared to be negating
everything they had known up to that point, and <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>simply, but profoundly, step off into the
unknown. So this is another dimension of mine <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>that I share with you, this thing of
courage, of determination, of the ability to do what <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>your heart, your mind, and your soul
suggests.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Now, my dear ones, if you have any questions
or comments on these attributes of <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>being human, or anything else, let us both
open our minds and welcome them. Come <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>forth, if you will.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Student #1: I have an idea on courage that
seems to involve a lot of faith. You just<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>can’t know everything so you have to have
the courage of your faith to jump into<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>something and do it. But I also like the
idea of fool-hardy, actually, because after a<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>kind of spontaneous thing you have to have
the courage to go out there and<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>try something new. If you can’t know
everything, you can think to yourself it is<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>fool-hardy. I was wondering if you could
talk a little more about the difference of being <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>fool-hardy, and courage.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>(Courage contra-distinct from
fool-hardiness)<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Nebadonia: Yes, my son. Courage--to me—is
the human ability to act or to do, the<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>determination to do what you feel is right--all
the while admitting and feeling all the <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>fear that might be keeping you from doing
that! It means staying open, moment by <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>moment. You have a commitment, a
determination, to understand moment by moment <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>that your fear that can be a righteous caution.
<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Think about traveling a very dark, winding
road at night with only that oncoming<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>road dancing in your headlights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are determined to go somewhere and you
know <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>you have to be very attentive moment by
moment. You can feel, not just the fear, but <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>the caution that keeps you from going too
fast and throwing your life away by ignoring <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>the present situation and all the threat
that it contains. <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Whereas fool-hardiness is saying “Well, to
hell with this caution, I’m just going to rush<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>into whatever it is. Whatever scary thing it
is, whatever threat is coming at me, I’m <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>just going to let myself go.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>It’s called <i>fool-hardy </i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">because yes, you </span>may be very hardy,
but you’re a fool because <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>you’re throwing your life away. You’re refusing
to acknowledge the genuine fear and <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>threat in the situation. You’re refusing to
feel. You have a saying about your alcoholic <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>drinks that “courage comes in a bottle,” but
it doesn’t always take some strong booze. <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Some folks haven’t the courage or nerve to
stay with the situation moment by moment, <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>but can only throw themselves into it. The
reason <i>fool-hardiness </i>has such a negative<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>connotation is because of the result.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>(Foolish impatience)<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Impatience often leads to this kind of
fool-hardiness, whereas courage means the ability <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>to not just react right within that feeling.
Fear may sometimes be overwhelming, but it <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>can be a wisdom coming from your whole self,
your whole sense of past experience and <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>your soul--all your deeper knowledge and understanding.
These can give rise to a fear <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>that is simply caution. You need to do your
best to feel it, acknowledge it, and respect <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>it. And still act! <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>That takes courage. Does this give you some
notion? It’s not being a fool, but the exact <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>opposite.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Student: Yes, a little bit. Still… I guess
I’m kind of impatient and spontaneous, and I<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>kind of rely on… I get myself in trouble,
but I kind-of rely on your spirit of intuition. I <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>just jump into things and hope my spirit and
intuition are going to guide me through. It <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>is kind of an adventure, and I do feel kind
of a fool because sometimes I end up in <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>something I wasn’t expecting. But I am
always learning.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Could you talk a little bit more about the
spirit of intuition and how it guides our<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>courage?<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>(Intuition, knowledge, understanding)<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Nebadonia: Yes, my son. Intuition has a lot
of different connotations, but we mean it <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>as your very most basic, direct, immediate
perception, your experience of life itself in<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>all of its dimensions. It’s your ability to
know both yourself and others--the essence of <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>experience itself. You store that living
experience as knowledge; you know something <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>because you’ve done it. And of course you
have vicarious experience, the way your <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>intuition can give you an experience because
you’ve read it in a book. <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Yet even that is a creative, learned art
because, as you know, some folks can get an <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>enormous amount of experience from reading,
while others who have not learned that <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>particular art cannot.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Sometimes intuition can be led by curiosity
to an openness, a wondering about what <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>something is, that leads you to more
experience. Also sometimes, the intuition of your <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>whole being can present you with certain
feelings, such as fear. All of a sudden, you <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>don’t even know where it is coming from, but
you hesitate or stop because you have <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>this feeling. It may take you a few moments
to realize what is causing it. As I said <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>before, it’s wonderful to be open to caution,
where to be fool-hardy is to deny any kind <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>of fear.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>It does not take courage to feel impatient,
or the inability to experience fear. But my <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>son, the very fact that we are here, talking
together, means that most of your fool- <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>hardiness has been genuine courage, or you
simply would not be here. Every person in <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>their life--especially in your highly
mechanical age now—has experienced more than <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>one time the impulse to throw their life
away; yet here you are. Does this give you a <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>deeper notion?<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Student: Thank you for exploring that with
me.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>(Where courage leads)<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Nebadonia: Thank you. Again, my son, I
congratulate you on your courage, especially <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>with those things that were a total surprise
and you could not anticipate. That is the<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>very purpose of courage--to lead you to
things that you have not yet encountered. <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Consider what happens after this human life
of yours. Go out on a starry sky at night <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>and entertain the notion that that is where
you are headed. That is where your curiosity <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>will be leading you, and all the courage,
all this ability you will have acquired, will stand <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>you in good stead. So be in my Love.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Student: Thank you. (long pause) If there is
not another question, I have another one <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>for you.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Nebadonia: Of course. Go ahead.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Student: Imagine two people coming together
in a third dimension. I got an idea that <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>as two people come together, there is always
a medium between the two, kind-of like a <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>quantum affect in the sense that Paradise is
the center. So any interaction between two <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>people always goes through Paradise first,
then goes to the other person, which gives it <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>that one-plus-one-equals-three. Can you
explore that a little bit?<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>(Where one and one make three)<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Nebadonia: Well, yes, my son. You definitely
have your finger on it insofar as each of<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>you is unique, right from God. That means
that any time two of you get together, that <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>combination, that living dynamic, is also
unique.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>But believe me, it doesn’t have to go
through Paradise. It is right down here on earth, <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>and im-mediate—no intermediary--because each
of you has your own intuition of<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>each other. Obviously your intuition of each
other is enormously complex, depending on <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>how long you have known each other. Are you
brand new? What prejudices—pre-<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>judging--are each of you bringing to the
meeting? But because the meeting is itself <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>unique, it’s why I called it a “third party”—the shared
companionship that can arise. <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>And of course you can have more than two. You can have
three, or four, or a whole <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>group that is unique to themselves. <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Think of religion mainly as your personal
relationship to God. Yet this can be socialized <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>in what you normally called “religion” as a
group of people coming together to share <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>and enjoy their religious and spiritual
experiences. The different religions of the world <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>vary according to the different cultures
that people are raised in. So this is the extra <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>something that comes about when people get
together. <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>What we call companionship concerns the
dearest true companions that you’ve had in <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>your life—what you call your closest
friends--those with whom you’ve shared the <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>broadest and deepest experience. This is what
I mean by that “third something,” that <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>living companionship that arises that is
just as unique as the two of you are. Does that <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>fill the bill?<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Student: Yes, that is pretty good. I feel it
seems that always when people interact<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>they are transcending the frame or
background--sort of what you are saying. I was<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>thinking: there is always a background
there. You are saying we transcend the frame <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>we are working in--and our
circumstances—when we are into pure communication.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>(Trust, faith, and spontaneity)<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Nebadonia: Yes! When each person is open-minded
and sufficiently curious, the third<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>thing, the relationship, can be very
spontaneous. It can transcend what either one can<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>anticipate. That is really the delight! Two
friends who have known each other for fifty<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>years or more, can still get together and have
something spring up all by itself. It’s <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>that very “something else” that is actually
holding them together. It’s something that <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>spontaneous arises which is beyond what
either one can create by themselves alone.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>It comes about when each lets themselves go,
not controlling the situation, but with an <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>earned deep trust and faith in their basic
humanity, this basic incomprehensible part of <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>another person you can never throw a loop
around. Rather, you can simply respect it <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>and have a humble, delightful attitude
toward another person. You appreciate them so <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>much you let them be. And they let you be. Then
something spontaneous arises. We <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>call this spirit because it is alive and
creative. It is capturing the aspect of now that has <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>not happened before and will never happen
again.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>I pointed out poor souls that cannot let go
of themselves and actually know this. It is<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>tragic indeed when they have to control everything
to be sure that nothing spontaneous <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>does arise, they are so afraid of others. So
it does take courage to really enjoy <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>spontaneity and let it come about.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Student: Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Nebadonia: Thank you, my son. These are fun
things to explore are they not? Be in<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>my love.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Student: One more comment I have, and that
is: one beauty of personality is that it is<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>made to interact with other personalities.
That is its purpose; and that is a kind of<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>beauty.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>(Respecting a child’s spirit and autonomy)<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Nebadonia: That interaction is the great
ability of those who were fortunate enough to <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>have had wonderful parents. If the parents
are this way with each other, and with their <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>children, it is the way they give their
children autonomy right from the very beginning. <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>They can recognize that yes, although this
little creature, this little boy or girl definitely <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>came from all their efforts, his or her personality
is coming from God. What a gift to <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>enjoy and acknowledge this even to a very
young child, and respect that this little <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>creature of theirs has his or her own
autonomy: and relate that way!<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>What a blessing. What a total blessing for a
child to have this kind of parents who<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>can enjoy and enter into a spontaneous
exchange, encouraging and acknowledging <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>their child’s creativity.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Well, my dears, if there are no further
questions or comments, this has been a long <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>lesson--getting together this evening. I’ll
go ahead and wrap things up with my blessing<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>upon you all. <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Thank you so much for attending these sessions,
and creating what you call the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">gestalt</i>-<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>-the shared mind that we have during these
lessons, with these marvelous <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>technological inventions of yours--these
telephones.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>So bid you all Good Night. Be in my love.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
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