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Dear Michael and Mother Spirit, We want to thank You for visiting us in this particular way. We enjoy so much hearing your insights and understandings because we realize at the same time, this does not affect our own communication with You; does substitute for our own inner connection. There has been voiced some question about the Teaching Mission interfering with our own personal prayers, but You have assured us they are complementary, not in any way whatsoever in contention. So we thank You once again for these very special visits. Amen.

Dear Michael and Mother Spirit, We want to thank You for visiting us in this particular way. We enjoy so much hearing your insights and understandings because we realize at the same time, this does not affect our own communication with You; does substitute for our own inner connection. There has been voiced some question about the Teaching Mission interfering with our own personal prayers, but You have assured us they are complementary, not in any way whatsoever in contention. So we thank You once again for these very special visits. Amen.

MICHAEL: Good evening, My sons, this is Michael. Just relax yourselves for a few minutes and soak in My peace. (pause) Just pretend you are lowering yourselves into a hot-tub of spirit. (long pause)

MICHAEL: Good evening, My sons, this is Michael. Just relax yourselves for a few minutes and soak in My peace. (pause) Just pretend you are lowering yourselves into a hot-tub of spirit. (long pause)

 

(What is spirit)

* Spirit (What is spirit)

Lately We have been trying to help you realize just what spirit is. Once you accept that this is a very natural part of human life, and you are surrounded by personal spirit beings who have your welfare very much at heart, you naturally wonder, perhaps, why you have not noticed this before. And so a good part of Our lessons and even your textbook, the Urantia book, is designed to help you realize what this dimension of reality is.

Lately We have been trying to help you realize just what spirit is. Once you accept that this is a very natural part of human life, and you are surrounded by personal spirit beings who have your welfare very much at heart, you naturally wonder, perhaps, why you have not noticed this before. And so a good part of Our lessons and even your textbook, the Urantia book, is designed to help you realize what this dimension of reality is.

And so in this way your spirit is right within your space with you, surrounding you in everything and everyone you perceive. There is this value, even to the point where, if you have experienced moments of nothing seeming of value, you know how painful this can be. This for most of you would be equivalent to insanity, everywhere as much as if things lost their meaning and their relationships. If you were to suddenly lose the value of things, and people especially, about you, very shortly life would not be worth living. The pain would be too great.

And so in this way your spirit is right within your space with you, surrounding you in everything and everyone you perceive. There is this value, even to the point where, if you have experienced moments of nothing seeming of value, you know how painful this can be. This for most of you would be equivalent to insanity, everywhere as much as if things lost their meaning and their relationships. If you were to suddenly lose the value of things, and people especially, about you, very shortly life would not be worth living. The pain would be too great.

(Spirit as value)

* Value (Spirit as value)

Are you getting a sense now of what We mean by value? It is something which separates you from the whole animal kingdom, which in their own way have bodies and experience meaning. An animal can learn from its trial and error how to accomplish a certain goal, and you are ever more delighted in discovering just how intelligent animals are this way. But no animal can evaluate the goal itself. This whole dimension is missing in their experience. This experience of spirit marks you as a human being, a spiritual being. This sense, or perception if you will, is part of your personality, it’s part of you. It’s a dimension you enjoy as much as those of space, and all your mental powers of reasoning, memory, association, and so forth.

Are you getting a sense now of what We mean by value? It is something which separates you from the whole animal kingdom, which in their own way have bodies and experience meaning. An animal can learn from its trial and error how to accomplish a certain goal, and you are ever more delighted in discovering just how intelligent animals are this way. But no animal can evaluate the goal itself. This whole dimension is missing in their experience. This experience of spirit marks you as a human being, a spiritual being. This sense, or perception if you will, is part of your personality, it’s part of you. It’s a dimension you enjoy as much as those of space, and all your mental powers of reasoning, memory, association, and so forth.

So what does it mean to grow in spirit? What does it mean to have more value in your life as a conscious perception? Think about this. What would it mean if your dearest, closest friend suddenly had more value to you? Here you can glimpse how spirit is the primal antecedent to both mind and matter/energy. As another person grows in value to you, this will be immediately reflected in both their physical appearance and your mental understanding and sharing with them. When you think of a friendship truly growing, this is what is growing. This is one way in which spirit transcends time, when two old friends get together and see each other not only as they are instantaneously in the present, but they can literally visualize with the eye of spirit each others’ soul—all those years of all the experiences they’ve shared. As all these personalities go hurtling through space on all the billions and trillions of worlds, the spiritual record is what is growing for every single one, and for God himself—that aspect of our Father we call the Deity Supreme, the Supreme Being, the soul of the universe. If you cannot yet perceive this directly, My children, do your best to imagine it. Imagine: nothing of true spiritual value is ever lost. This is the nature of reality, as our absolute and infinite Father creates it.

So what does it mean to grow in spirit? What does it mean to have more value in your life as a conscious perception? Think about this. What would it mean if your dearest, closest friend suddenly had more value to you? Here you can glimpse how spirit is the primal antecedent to both mind and matter/energy. As another person grows in value to you, this will be immediately reflected in both their physical appearance and your mental understanding and sharing with them. When you think of a friendship truly growing, this is what is growing. This is one way in which spirit transcends time, when two old friends get together and see each other not only as they are instantaneously in the present, but they can literally visualize with the eye of spirit each others’ soul—all those years of all the experiences they’ve shared. As all these personalities go hurtling through space on all the billions and trillions of worlds, the spiritual record is what is growing for every single one, and for God himself—that aspect of our Father we call the Deity Supreme, the Supreme Being, the soul of the universe. If you cannot yet perceive this directly, My children, do your best to imagine it. Imagine: nothing of true spiritual value is ever lost. This is the nature of reality, as our absolute and infinite Father creates it.

(The spiritual cosmos)

* Cosmology (The spiritual cosmos)

But enough for this evening, for there is no exhausting all the different meanings and values of spirit. For so many people the surprising aspect of the Urantia book is not the cosmology, or the history, but the delineation of so many orders of spiritual beings, the concept that the whole physical universe of millions of galaxies—all this material/energetic creation is being administered by personal spiritual beings who are antecedent to, and directly creating and administering all this "stuff." This is probably the biggest surprise of all. So as you go out and look up into a clear night’s sky, and experience the reality of the cosmos, now you can see it as the home of an enormous, nigh incomprehensibly infinite family. And be reassured that though a few of the spiritual personalities of your local System, and your own dear planet, went astray in the exercise of Their personal freedom, with dire consequences for all of you ever since, still you can be reassured--for here is where your faith and your knowledge can actually ease your heart--that that whole starry realm out there—your future--is in good hands. And so are you. You are spiritual beings. Welcome home.

But enough for this evening, for there is no exhausting all the different meanings and values of spirit. For so many people the surprising aspect of the Urantia book is not the cosmology, or the history, but the delineation of so many orders of spiritual beings, the concept that the whole physical universe of millions of galaxies—all this material/energetic creation is being administered by personal spiritual beings who are antecedent to, and directly creating and administering all this "stuff." This is probably the biggest surprise of all. So as you go out and look up into a clear night’s sky, and experience the reality of the cosmos, now you can see it as the home of an enormous, nigh incomprehensibly infinite family. And be reassured that though a few of the spiritual personalities of your local System, and your own dear planet, went astray in the exercise of Their personal freedom, with dire consequences for all of you ever since, still you can be reassured--for here is where your faith and your knowledge can actually ease your heart--that that whole starry realm out there—your future--is in good hands. And so are you. You are spiritual beings. Welcome home.

If you have any questions or comments this evening, let’s do that again.

If you have any questions or comments this evening, let’s do that again.

 

Student: Father Michael, thank You for Your support this last month, and thank Mother also for Her support. I notice that I’m not doing things alone any more. And I also thank all those who have supported me that I’m not fully aware of. So thank You very much.

Student: Father Michael, thank You for Your support this last month, and thank Mother also for Her support. I notice that I’m not doing things alone any more. And I also thank all those who have supported me that I’m not fully aware of. So thank You very much.

(Spirit never compels)

* Free will (Spirit never compels)

MICHAEL: You are very welcome, My son. And it is We who thank you. We thank you for your faith. We thank you for opening yourself and asking for help. We thank you for acknowledging Us. This, My son, is very literally how you add to Us, when you give to Us what only your free will is capable of giving. The value of this gift—your trust in Us—is so great in its nature; this is why spirit in no way ever—whatsoever--compels. The gift of freedom and the exercise of it are too precious. So again, My son, We thank you for your faith and your trust, and We trust in turn, We truly have been of help to you . Thank you for all the loving help you’ve given your friend through these very trying times. Your prayers have helped you stay very clear in our mind in analyzing and understanding what should be done, what is helpful and what is not. So rest in My peace.

MICHAEL: You are very welcome, My son. And it is We who thank you. We thank you for your faith. We thank you for opening yourself and asking for help. We thank you for acknowledging Us. This, My son, is very literally how you add to Us, when you give to Us what only your free will is capable of giving. The value of this gift—your trust in Us—is so great in its nature; this is why spirit in no way ever—whatsoever--compels. The gift of freedom and the exercise of it are too precious. So again, My son, We thank you for your faith and your trust, and We trust in turn, We truly have been of help to you . Thank you for all the loving help you’ve given your friend through these very trying times. Your prayers have helped you stay very clear in our mind in analyzing and understanding what should be done, what is helpful and what is not. So rest in My peace.

STUDENT: Dear Michael, earlier we were all talking about becoming more serviceable by learning what the great masters have achieved in the Far East. It reminded me of one of Your favorite Old Testament quotes, "Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me." And then You add, "Purge me of secret sins". And I’d to ask You to elaborate on that a little bit. I know by becoming a little bit more self-understanding, we’d become more serviceable to Your program, and a more stable platform of service. So help us with having a little more insight into being "purged of secret sins" and of course the "presumptuous transgressions" that You mention as well.

STUDENT: Dear Michael, earlier we were all talking about becoming more serviceable by learning what the great masters have achieved in the Far East. It reminded me of one of Your favorite Old Testament quotes, "Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me." And then You add, "Purge me of secret sins". And I’d to ask You to elaborate on that a little bit. I know by becoming a little bit more self-understanding, we’d become more serviceable to Your program, and a more stable platform of service. So help us with having a little more insight into being "purged of secret sins" and of course the "presumptuous transgressions" that You mention as well.

(Repression and denial)

* Fear (Repression and denial)

MICHAEL: Yes V, this is more understandable to you in terms of modern psychology as repression’s. These are your secret sins that you indulge in generally with a sense of guilt, and so are somewhat torn inside. Essentially you do not yet want to face an ultimate decision of ending these secret sins and so you try not to think about them. This is very much to what that specific passage was alluding.

MICHAEL: Yes V, this is more understandable to you in terms of modern psychology as repression’s. These are your secret sins that you indulge in generally with a sense of guilt, and so are somewhat torn inside. Essentially you do not yet want to face an ultimate decision of ending these secret sins and so you try not to think about them. This is very much to what that specific passage was alluding.

True enough, your life is hanging on a thread physically, yet I’m sure you’ve all read amazing stories of just how tough and resilient those human bodies you have, have at times survived the most amazing challenges. And your minds too can become ever more tough and in their flexibility and adaptability. The more you read, and talk about, and experience, the more lively and tenacious your mental facilities can become.

True enough, your life is hanging on a thread physically, yet I’m sure you’ve all read amazing stories of just how tough and resilient those human bodies you have, have at times survived the most amazing challenges. And your minds too can become ever more tough and in their flexibility and adaptability. The more you read, and talk about, and experience, the more lively and tenacious your mental facilities can become.

(The gaps in your life)

* (The gaps in your life)

Noticing the gaps left by your suspended habits is very much a spiritual appraisal. You accept the challenge that so many small habits--like smoking cigarettes, or drinking coffee--are used like little dabs of glue to hold your day together. They are small connecting links without which you at first feel lost, because all of a sudden you notice all the separate pieces. And so We suggest a little mini-stillness meditation whenever you seem to be suffering a gap. Accept it into your consciousness. Seize the opportunity to re-evaluate what ordinarily-familiarly comes next. Something more interesting and valuable might suggest itself, if you give it a chance. Your perception of a growing stillness is a realization of a new continuity now entering your life. This home base We speak about, that you find in your stillness--so very tenuous and fleeting at first—it’s the continuity, the thread that you are feeling, more and more connecting all the separate events.

Noticing the gaps left by your suspended habits is very much a spiritual appraisal. You accept the challenge that so many small habits--like smoking cigarettes, or drinking coffee--are used like little dabs of glue to hold your day together. They are small connecting links without which you at first feel lost, because all of a sudden you notice all the separate pieces. And so We suggest a little mini-stillness meditation whenever you seem to be suffering a gap. Accept it into your consciousness. Seize the opportunity to re-evaluate what ordinarily-familiarly comes next. Something more interesting and valuable might suggest itself, if you give it a chance. Your perception of a growing stillness is a realization of a new continuity now entering your life. This home base We speak about, that you find in your stillness--so very tenuous and fleeting at first—it’s the continuity, the thread that you are feeling, more and more connecting all the separate events.

As you know we’re approaching what we call the Holiday Season, and in the spirit of this, I would like to come and sit on Your lap, and I’d like to tell You what I’d like for Christmas. (laughter) For Christmas, Michael, I ask for the gift of Union with Spirit. And that’s what my heart desires. That’s what it’s always desired, even when I was a young boy. I simply want union with You and my Father within. That’s what I ask for, for Christmas this year. MICHAEL: O, My son, why wait! (hearty laughter) You have it now! Just take a few moments and feel My presence within you. (long pause)

As you know we’re approaching what we call the Holiday Season, and in the spirit of this, I would like to come and sit on Your lap, and I’d like to tell You what I’d like for Christmas. (laughter) For Christmas, Michael, I ask for the gift of Union with Spirit. And that’s what my heart desires. That’s what it’s always desired, even when I was a young boy. I simply want union with You and my Father within. That’s what I ask for, for Christmas this year. MICHAEL: O, My son, why wait! (hearty laughter) You have it now! Just take a few moments and feel My presence within you. (long pause)

(You are never separate from spirit)

* Unity (You are never separate from spirit)

So you see, it is ever thus. We never really separate, though it is more Mother Spirit’s lap you are sitting in. Yet I’m always standing close beside; and We do form a beautiful family, if I might say so.

So you see, it is ever thus. We never really separate, though it is more Mother Spirit’s lap you are sitting in. Yet I’m always standing close beside; and We do form a beautiful family, if I might say so.

So here’s your Christmas package, this evening. Open it whenever you wish. And be in My peace. (Thank You, Michael, it’s a beautiful gift!) This is one gift that exists completely in the appreciation of it, so you’re very welcome.

So here’s your Christmas package, this evening. Open it whenever you wish. And be in My peace. (Thank You, Michael, it’s a beautiful gift!) This is one gift that exists completely in the appreciation of it, so you’re very welcome.

The evening goes late, My children. Yet there is a fullness here I hesitate to disturb. Let us bid each other a Good Evening, in this encompassing of love. Rest tonight in My Peace. (All humbly say thanks.)

The evening goes late, My children. Yet there is a fullness here I hesitate to disturb. Let us bid each other a Good Evening, in this encompassing of love. Rest tonight in My Peace. (All humbly say thanks.)