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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Dear Folks, remember you can hear these lessons live on TMArchives.com's website. My thanks again for all who tune in to the Lightline teleconferences on the third Thursday of each month @ 9 PM Eastern, 6 PM Pacific (712.775.7031 then 480.123.484#) to share their comments and questions with Michael and Mother Spirit. It's always good to have different personal viewpoints to appreciate. Jerry.<BR> <BR><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Michael
on September 15, 2016.<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;'>Michael—T/R-JL<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>(To
turn things around)<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>(Record
your meditations)<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>(It
is up to you to initiate change) <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>(The
spiritual value of democracy)<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>(The
freedom of personal expression) <o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>(Have
faith in God’s unique creations—other folks)<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>(Confronting
physical addictions)<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>(Appreciating
other folks’ difficulties)<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>(The
magic of sharing one’s life with others)<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><BR><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>(Expanding
to embrace your God co-authored soul)<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;'><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;'>Dear Michael and Mother Spirit: Michael, I have a
special request for you this evening <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 that is, could you continue what Mother Spirit
started last month on a Lightline <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;'>when I asked her if she could address the question of
how do we turn things around? <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;'>She mentioned it is a great spiritual triumph when we
can, first of all, recognize that <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;'>things are going in the wrong direction and we are
either stuck in bad habits and <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;'>getting unhealthy, or our relationships with all our
dear friends around us are <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;'>deteriorating. <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;'>We are getting stuck on ourselves, or other things, and need
to be turned around. Yet <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;'>how do we do this? If you could answer that same request
we would appreciate it so <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;'>much. Thank you. Amen.<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;'>Michael: Good evening. This is Michael and I would be
delighted as always to fulfill any <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;'>requests you have for me--equally with Mother Spirit. It
is our privilege to help our <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;'>children in any way at all. It fills our hearts when you
make requests of us for it is an<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;'>acknowledgement on your part that we are in your lives,
and we can help you--just as <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;'>you are with your own children. It is such a reward when
they come to you and ask for <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;'>your help, and you are able to help them. It forms a
bond of sharing between you and <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;'>them, as between you and Mother Spirit, and me.<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;'>We have talked so often about this quality of sharing
our lives together that is God’s <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;'>greatest gift to all of us. It is part of the reason we
are all out here in time and space—<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;'>so he can share himself with all of his children.<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;'>(To turn things around)<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;'>I’d like to start just by re-emphasizing some of the
points Mother Spirit brought out last <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;'>month. Once you recognize and fully accept within
yourself that things in your life need <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;'>to be turned around, need to be headed off in a more
positive, fulfilling and creative <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;'>direction, one of the main things is to get a base of operations
to act from; and this is a<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;'>continuity of your own self. This is especially critical
with what you call bad, unhealthy <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;'>habits that are partly physical and simply re-occur on
their own--the addictions that <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;'>constantly come up over and over again, sometimes every
few minutes. They can <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;'>more or less take you away if you haven’t the
determination, the gumption, the <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;'>where-with-all to stand up against them.<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;'>So the first thing is to get a continuity of your own
self. You literally create a stronger<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;'>self--for yourself!--that can continue this
determination.<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;'>(The need for meditation, open-minded reflection)<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;'>The best way--sometimes the only way--of doing this is
through meditation. Really <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;'>take time out of your other activities just to be still
and give yourself over to yourself. <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;'>Just be still with yourself and then, if you can, remind
yourself that you are not alone. <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;'>You have Mother Spirit and me within you, and all around
you. Way, way beyond us, <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;'>deeper and more profoundly within you, you have our
mutual Father: you have God’s <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;'>presence within you. And very definitely--if you can
realize this too--he has already <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;'>helped you acknowledge the need to turn things around and
confront an unhealthy <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;'>habit, or perhaps open yourself to ways of relating to
your dear ones more openly and<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;'>creatively.<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;'>So the main message that Mother Spirit gave you was about
meditating and doing so <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;'>on a regular basis, so you tune in to yourself. You tune
into your needs. You can <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;'>formulate your deepest prayers to God, to our Father,
and ask, “Dear Father, what do I <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;'>do next?—and I mean today, as soon as I get up from my
meditations. How do I <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;'>address this problem I’m having? How do I turn things
around?”<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;'>(Record your meditations)<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;'>Then, to continue this daily continuity, don’t hesitate
to use some physical means to <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;'>help. I’m talking about actually taking notes and
writing<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>down your questions--your <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;'>problems--and whatever answers you get. Or, with your
modern electronics, you can <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;'>have a little recording device, or take notes in your
computer. This is another continuity <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;'>very much like a writer of short stories or a novel, a day
to day history where you can <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;'>re-read these messages to yourself. <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;'>Again: this is creating a continuous, day-to-day self when
you feel lost or helpless in the <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;'>face of a terrible addiction. You get in touch with your
new, determined self again as <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;'>you read your notes. They become a very precious diary,
writing to yourself in the <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;'>future when you may very well desperately need to tune
in again to your effort, your <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;'>determination. This is the easiest and the most direct
way of creating your stronger <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;'>self with a greater determination to get healthy, or
appreciate the situation of all the <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;'>folks around you who might be slipping away.<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;'>(It is up to you to initiate change) <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;'>You can break out of a re-actionary, knee-jerk kind of
relationship with others for, as <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;'>Mother Spirit cautioned you, it is up to you, my dear
ones, to initiate this change,<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;'>especially with those you have lived with for years--a
husband, a wife, your own <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;'>children or your own parents. <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;'>Do this rather than falling back into a kind of blaming
habit like, “Why don’t <u>they</u> pay <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;'>more attention? Why don’t <u>they</u> do this or that?”
Drop all of that and take it upon <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;'>yourself to initiate what you want to see grow. Exercise
your own creativity. Try things-<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;'>-experiment. Be honest with yourself about what works
and what doesn’t. All these <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;'>parts of Mother Spirit’s lesson are so valuable. They
are the place to start.<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;'>Now, tonight, I’d like to expand this question out into
society, out into the city or the <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;'>countryside where you might be living--the counties, the
states, and clear up to your <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;'>nations and countries. How do these larger political
units get turned around?—<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;'>especially if you feel they are heading off into very
destructive ways, or just getting <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;'>stuck in a growing corruption over the years.<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;'>(The spiritual value of democracy)<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;'>Let me emphasize the value of what you call a democracy,
a political unit that <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;'>recognizes an equality between all of its adult
citizens, men and women. You put it <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;'>most succinctly as: one person, one vote, with an
honesty and transparency of not only <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;'>who casts the votes, but also who counts the votes. To
have honest and free elections, <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;'>this is still and always the way to go. This is still
the most spiritual manifestation in your <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;'>politics. <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;'>Yet you have only to look at your nightly news to see
how, not exactly rare, but still <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;'>how only a majority of the human race has this ability. You
can still see many nation-<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;'>states where there is not the slightest bit of democracy
even pretended. There’s just a <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;'>very ruthless dictatorship that rules with an iron fist
of what we call the most obscene <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;'>kind of relationships between people--murdering folks in
the most diabolical and painful <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;'>ways imaginable. Think of a person’s creativity gone
into devising ever more hideous <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;'>ways of hurting others. This is still taking place on
your world.<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;'>You have those most cynical regimes where every so many
years they have a great <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;'>election and 99.9% of the folks vote for the current dictator.
This would all be so <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;'>laughable and hideously funny if it were not for the
terror that exists to hold their <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;'>citizens in such a bond--and then even publish such a
cynical result.<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;'>You can see this where men and women are forced into the
most rigid habits of <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;'>public clothing. Their appearance has to be so totally
regimented and controlled, the <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;'>whole culture does not allow even the slightest
deviation for individual taste and <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;'>delightful variety in their clothing, or attitudes, in
their public behavior. The most<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;'>regimented law is forcibly instilled.<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;'>So for those of you who will come to hear or read my
words, who do live in a relatively <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;'>free democracy where you have a wide variety of opinion
being expressed in your mass <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;'>media, your television, and the internet; or just in
walking down an average city street <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;'>or small town: you can see of such a variety of
self-expression with both men and <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;'>women.<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;'>(The freedom of personal expression) <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;'>Think of all your songs, and novels and short stories in
all your entertainment to be <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;'>such a wide expression of human creativity, such
individuality blossoming forth. You <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;'>can know in your hearts that, given the freedom of
expression, this is what the 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;'>world would delight in doing. So wherever you see this lack
of individuality you know <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;'>in your hearts that it is only because of a rigidly enforced
cultural determination.<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;'>My dear ones, keep abiding in your faith in democracy
and internalize this as much as <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;'>you can so you are free inside. The meditation of
opening your mind in stillness every <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;'>day is where it all originates, right with you. And this
is where, in those repressive <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;'>regimes all around the world, this too is where it has
to start—in each and every <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;'>individual welcoming a greater variety all around them, so
secure in themselves they do <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;'>not demand of other family members, or other members of
their society, to adhere to <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;'>some strict code of behavior.<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;'>This is that blossoming of individuality that I taught
even when I was among you two <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;'>thousand years ago. It’s an inner strength, an inner
connection with your own creative <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;'>spirit that creates a strong, determined self of such
self-reliance and self-sufficiency <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;'>that lets others be. You actually encourage them to come
forth with their own unique <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;'>personality right from God.<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;'>This is how you turn things around in your own life.
This is how you recognize this in <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;'>others, and encourage them to be themselves. This is the
basis in whatever society we <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;'>consider. It has to start with the people. It has to
start with all the individuals, because <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;'>they are that unique variety right from God.<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;'>This is that little seed in every single person, the
unique personality that can be <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;'>acknowledged and encouraged to blossom forth in all its
unique expression. This is <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;'>how, just walking down the average small town or city
street anywhere in the world, <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;'>you can so immediately get this feeling of
individuality--or not.<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;'>Recently in one of your cultural revolutions someone
mentioned what a change it was <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;'>to see a little girl in a flowered dress of many colors out
in the street--what a sight<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;'>that was!--what a transformation, what a blossoming
forth. What a strange revolution <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;'>that was.<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;'>(Have faith in God’s unique creations—other folks)<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 so, my dear ones, have this faith in God’s creation.
Delight in it, in all its<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;'>expressions. Imagine a world that is--as your Urantia
Book mentions--surrounded in <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;'>Light and Life where any overriding suppression is
totally absent. Imagine the kind of <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;'>trust in each individual that does not call for, or
need, or in any way accept such a <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;'>centralization of power. But rather, as Mother Spirit
and I have called for, imagine a <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;'>decentralization of power of a free people who don’t
need someone else telling them <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 forcing them what to do. <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;'>It’s where each individual is most directly and fundamentally
tuned in to something <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;'>inside them--the presence of God and all his wonder, all
his creative ability to create <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;'>each one of us unique.<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;'>Now if you have any questions or comments this evening,
you can express your <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;'>uniqueness.<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;'>Student: Hello. Thank you so much. This has been
resonating with me. I got to spend a <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;'>month without computers. I was literally camping in Canada,
outside in the forest under <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;'>the starts with no TV, no drama, and only organic food. <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;'>I’ve come back to a heaviness. I came back to the
Western fires, the ambulances and <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;'>all of that. I am trying--trying to stay healthy and
sane from where I’m at. <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;'>I’m also quitting tobacco, so I’m loving these lessons,
just re-listening to last week’s <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 the one before, the last one Mother Spirit did on
August 18th. That is what I listen <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;'>to in the mornings, lately. That is what reinforces me. <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;'>So thank you--thank you so much for always knowing our
hearts, and our intent, and <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;'>having our backs.<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;'>(Confronting physical addictions)<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;'>Michael: Oh!--my dear!--thank you so much. I truly
appreciate your thanks for Mother <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;'>Spirit’s lesson. I’m glad her lesson last month had such
a deep resonance within you. <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;'>You can go on your computer and look up “nicotine” and
understand why it is one of <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;'>the most difficult addictions to get rid of. It is a
central nervous stimulant and that is <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;'>one important thing in your human life, so limited as
you are from pure spiritual <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;'>standpoint like Mother Spirit’s and mine. I especially,
because of my human life, <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;'>appreciate what it is to be so physical and, in a sense,
never having a surplus of <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;'>energy.<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;'>But it is so good that you do get away and tune in to a
self that exists without all of the <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;'>distractions and even the delightful entertainments that
are yours just for the flipping of <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;'>a switch and spending a few cents of electricity for
your computers, your television, <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;'>your modern movies and so forth. It is so valuable--as
you found out--to get back to <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;'>just your skin, walking through the woods with the
animals, and the way that the 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;'>presence of the natural world surrounds you. You get
away from the bright cities and <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;'>look up at the night sky and see one arm of your galaxy
stretched across it. That is <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;'>another kind of tuning in.<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;'>I am so glad you are finding in Mother Spirit’s lesson
what I wanted to reemphasize<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;'>this evening--how to literally create a self that can
tackle such a clinging bad habit, that <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;'>does so much for you physiologically it does have to be
faced sometimes over and over <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;'>again, minute to minute, because it has such a physical
component.<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;'>(Appreciating other folks’ difficulties)<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;'>It can give you an appreciation then too for how
different peoples can get beyond a <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;'>severe cultural determination that totally squashes such
a wide area of their own<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;'>personal expression. You can appreciate what it is to
live under a ruthless dictatorship <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;'>that will go to any means of torture in the most
hideous, obscene kinds of murdering <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;'>people just to terrorize and control them. It can give
you such an appreciation for the <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;'>day-to-day choices that are yours to make.<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;'>So I solute you, my dear daughter, and bid you: Carry
on!<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;'>Student: Thank you, thank you. And thank you, Jerry, for
taking the time out of your <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;'>life to TR, and be steadfast and be there where we can
count on you.<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;'>Michael: Thank you again, my dear. This is such a reward
for Mother Spirit and me to <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;'>find our well-meant words do resonate and get magnified
in a human heart. We are so <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;'>happy to be part of your soul then, part of your soul
memories, part of who and what <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;'>you have been once upon a time. <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;'>(The magic of sharing one’s life with others)<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 so on that positive note let me wrap up this
evening’s lesson. Once again I will <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;'>mention that magic word of <u>sharing</u> where we have taught
that one and one makes <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;'>three--with what you and another--let alone a group—what
you and another hold <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;'>together. This is true whether it is with another person,
or with me and Mother <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;'>Spirit in your meditation, or with our Father in your
prayers when you are very sincere <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 earnest in asking for help, if only what to do next.
<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;'>All of this becomes part of your soul. It’s what you are
internalizing and setting<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;'>aside for eternity, with God as the co-author holding
this sacrosanct no matter what <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;'>happens to you physically, mentally, or spiritually on
into the future. These are your <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;'>eternal triumphs, your eternal values you are
establishing and enjoying day to day. You<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;'>share them with us, for Mother Spirit and I are part of
you.<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;'>(Expanding to embrace your God co-authored soul)<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;'>We will meet face to face some day when you have become
one with your soul, <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;'>when your consciousness, your very being, will have
expanded to approximate the <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;'>enormity of the soul of your whole life. This is what you
have to look forward to, my <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;'>dear ones. This is the expansion of your very self that we
have offered a way to get it <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;'>started--this consciousness of yourself, day to day; this
determination to turn things <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;'>around that you know, in your heart of hearts, is a way
to keep growing on to a greater <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;'>health and a greater sharing your life with those around
you.<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 so, my dear ones, I bid you to be in my peace. Let
it settle over you, and be still <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;'>within it. Be free and thankful within this peace that
goes beyond understanding, yet <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;'>so need-fully informs your understanding.<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;'>Mother Spirit sends you her love, and we both wish you a
wonderful Good Evening.<o:p></o:p></span></p><font face="Times New Roman">
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