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<p>Dear Folks, remember you can hear this and previous lessons live on Ron Besser's website TMArchives.com, and read it there and on Rob Davis' website Daynal.org.</p>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Michael Lightline on October 20, 2016.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Dear Michael and Mother Spirit: Michael, again I would like to have you</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">answer a very specific request. That is, it occurred to me that we use</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the word “spirit” casually and in so many different ways. We</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">talk about a
<i>spirited </i>horse, or even a <i>spirited </i>football team. Sometimes</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">it refers to loyalty--the Esprit de Corps--in a military unit. I appreciate</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the way you and Mother Spirit give a new depth to these words that we almost too
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">casually throw around. So if you would tonight, would you give us your meaning of how
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">you understand what this word “spirit” refers to? Thank you very much. Amen.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Michael: Good Evening. This is Michael and I would be delighted to</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">examine—probe--explore all the dimensions that single word refers to in</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">its spiritual sense--in the religious sense, in the sense your Urantia Book gives it. It has,
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">as you know, that chapter called Personality Survival where it gives a wonderful,
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">comprehensive definition of what a human being is.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">***(Personality, spirit, body, mind, and soul)
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Primarily you are a living personal being with a unique personality that comes directly
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">from God the Father. Then you have other dimensions: a body--a physical body, and a
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">mind that is partly your own, and partly collective in all the language and cultural
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">meaning you were raised in, and that you share with those around you. And then you
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">have a personal spirit, and soul of all your experience from birth.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">All personal beings have this uniqueness to them. It’s what “personal” means. Now to
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">fulfill your request to get a new depth of what “spirit” means, let me state again: All
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">spirit is personal. It is an endowed part of a living personal being. In this sense: There
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">is no impersonal spirit abroad in the universe. It literally does not exist. Yet this causes
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">us to go deeper and explore what we mean by a “personal.”
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">***(Personal and impersonal)</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The most fundamental distinction, difference, and delineation of Reality Itself--all that
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">exists--is the distinction between personal and impersonal reality. We just said that
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">personal reality refers to individual persons whose unique personality comes directly
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">from God. Only the Supreme Being can bestow personality upon a living system such as</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">yourself, or such as Mother Spirit and me, or even such as the head of a Super
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Universe. The Melchizedeks, the Seraphim--the angels: these too are individuals not
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">identical to any other in all the trillions of trillion of trillions of personal beings in
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">existence.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">This is contra-distinct from impersonal reality which is absolutely uniform. It is what you
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">call matter and energy--all the physical-ness of existence in the whole physical
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">universe. It is the chair you are sitting on, the house you are living in. It also applies to
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">all the plant and animal life that you know that is not human. This is a surprise and
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">maybe disappointing to some--that their favorite cat or dog or pony does not have a
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">true personality. Certainly they acquire a kind of rudimentary personality as they live
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and gain their own knowledge and understanding, but they do not have a kind of soul
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">that can survive death. They are not so individual but are more distinguished and
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">determined by their breed and what function they served, evolved over thousands of
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">years to fulfill different roles. But they have no true personality in the sense of a human
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">being or the higher personal beings. They do not survive their physical life here on
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">earth. Their continued existence is simply part of your soul, is it not?</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">***(All spirit is personal)</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">So this is impersonal reality, and there is no impersonal spirit abroad in the universe. All
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">spirit is personal. This is the distinction of the origin of personality, God himself. We can</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">say correctly that God is spirit, and of all his characteristics, the primary one we all rely
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">on is his creativity, for without this there would be nothing else but him. The whole
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">time-and-space universe, the universes of Havona and Paradise: all of this comes from
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">God.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">He shares this creativity of his with all his personal beings that either he creates
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">directly--such as Mother Spirit and I coming from the Trinity--or, in turn, our children.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">He bestows personality and creative spirit on our children. Just as Mother Spirit and I
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">were given creativity, so are you--all of our children. All of our Melchizedeks, all our
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">angels: all personal beings are co-creative. You exist in a reality that is not only given to
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">you here on earth, but you yourselves are partly creating your reality and everything,
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">absolutely everything, in it.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In this way, for a human being, objectivity--in some abstract sense of a reality that is
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">devoid of your own subjective interpretation--does not exist. It is an illusion. As a
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">matter of fact, it can be the most arrogant illusion. Some folks feel they have such a
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">grasp on an ultimate objective reality that, for its ends, they can use the most obscene
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">means with their fellows, claiming they alone know what is totally, universally,
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">absolutely true.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">***(Spirit = Creativity)</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And so for a human being especially, another word for your kind of spirit is creativity,
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and it is part of everything you have known. You have creative spirit, and this is actually
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">what enables you, as a personal being, to keep up with--if you will—a living, ever-</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">changing reality both interior and exterior to you. God not only created everything to
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">begin with way back when…(There never was a big bang. Even our own local universe
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">is over 400 billion years old since Mother Spirit and I came out from Paradise and got
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">things started here)…in a very profound way, God is not repeating himself, but is</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">continually creating something new.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">All of reality is not repeating itself; only in its impersonal sense. You know for sure the</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">sun is going to come up tomorrow because your whole planet is rotating and going
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">around your sun. That absolute uniformity of physical reality--matter and energy--is
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">repeating. But there is something else happening, some spirit creativity right within
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">time and space, and it comes from all the personal beings who exist--from God the
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Father right on down to us.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Ironically, your own life can seem repetitious, even boring. This is--super ironically--an
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">unrealized function of your own creativity. It is what we call “a bubble of familiarity.”
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">You are so creative you can gain such control--for a time--over your own functioning
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">reality around you that you can be bored and totally miss the fact that every day is
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">somewhat new.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">This is God not repeating himself. This is the fact that this present moment is changing
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">not only in ways that are absolutely reliable in all its physical manifestations, but you
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">yourself are changing and, hopefully, growing--growing a soul of experience. Yet this
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">creativity of yours is so profound, and so seamless, most folks are not aware of it. They
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">can get caught up in something called fatalism where they feel they are just a helpless
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">pawn of something totally outside their own control. Or even worse, their life was
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">written out sometime in the past. Like a train running on rails, their personality
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">somehow or another got programmed and put on a track that they themselves cannot</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">deviate from. They have no sense of their own spirit, their own creativity. They cannot,
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">in a very profound sense, be responsible. They have literally lost their
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">ability-to-respond right from their own bubbling creativity--were they only able
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">to tune into it.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">That is the purpose of these lessons that Mother Spirit and I give, to give you a feeling,
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">a taste, as you look around you, that all of that is partly your response. You can sit side
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">This sum total of all personal experience literally is that aspect of God that is growing.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">of you. It is given you so you yourselves have the ability to keep up with and respond
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">the ability to act, rather than just blindly re-act by habit to what is coming your way.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">***(Personal freedom depends on creativity)</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">My dear spiritual children, Mother Spirit and I are so delighted in this creativity that
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">you can be a free-willed being enjoying something coming right out of your own self.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And if not God our Father in all his infinity, then certainly Mother Spirit and I can be
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">ever so delightfully surprised and rewarded by what our own children come up with.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">endowed with. Now if you have any questions or comments this evening, let them
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Student: I have a question. So then: Spirit is not One—with a capital “O”? It</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">***(Personal creative spirit is unique)</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">creativity is as unique as your personality. Does that solve the paradox?</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Student: Yes, yes… So in what sense then are we all one?</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Michael: We are all one in God.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">***(Even universal spirit—God—is personal)</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Michael: He is the one personal being in whom we all share. So this</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">experience dimensions—in all these aspects human beings are very unique.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Student: Good. Thank you.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Michael: No one else has your identical body, mind, spirit, soul, or personality. This very
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">thing, experienced as loneliness, is what leads many to a point of desperation and
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">share with any other because you are not yet perfect in your expression of yourself. So
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">personal beings with whom you can share everything.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The presence of God is right within you, literally making a record of everything you
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">you can share everything. So thank you, my son, for the question.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Student: You are welcome; and thank you for the answer.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">***(Absolute physical continuity & non-repeating spiritual newness)</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Michael: If there are no more questions or comments; tonight I hoped to give you some
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">deeper understanding and appreciation for this living continuity. Something is
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">continuing that is both absolute and universal in a physical sense, and yet is unique in a
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">time sense. Each moment that you experience has never happened before because
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">make each moment unique.
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">You know this in your own world history in the fact that there are more folks all the
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">and embrace this as God’s way of doing things. Trust in him because so much of life</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">make provisions for your future and that of your loved ones.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">This is why there is a truly dramatic thing happening. Like I said: it is a</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">supreme irony that some folks are almost dying of boredom because they</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">by God’s will that their little bubble will not last for long, if for no other reason than the
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">an entirely different dimension of reality.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">himself—this situation within and without you that you yourselves are sharing in
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">creating a portion of.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It gives you the responsibility--the ability-to-respond right from
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">your own unique self.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Be in my peace. Mother Spirit sends her love, and we wish you a good night.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Student: Thank you Michael.</span></p>
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