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===Topic: ''Inner Compasses''===

 

===TR: [[JL]], [[RV]]===

      (Spiritual Perceptions; Inner Compasses)

      (Taking Our Work Serious, Not Ourselves)

 

MONJORONSON: I would like to take this opportunity to speak with you, if I may. It has been awhile since we have spoken, and I wish to once again greet you and ask you if you wish to get to know Me. (All: Yes) For I wish to get to know you. It is My desire to become one with each of you, for there is much work to be done. I am gathering up all of those who are willing and ready to do this work. If you feel you are ready for this, then simply come to Me during the course of your day, any time you wish, call My name and I will be there. I will answer, and I will speak to you.

MONJORONSON: I would like to take this opportunity to speak with you, if I may. It has been awhile since we have spoken, and I wish to once again greet you and ask you if you wish to get to know Me. (All: Yes) For I wish to get to know you. It is My desire to become one with each of you, for there is much work to be done. I am gathering up all of those who are willing and ready to do this work. If you feel you are ready for this, then simply come to Me during the course of your day, any time you wish, call My name and I will be there. I will answer, and I will speak to you.

NEBADONIA: Good evening, My sons, this is your mother, Nebadonia. I appreciate your heartfelt response to Our brother Monjoronson, and I pray to our Father that He gives you the strength in these coming days to rededicate yourselves--to deepen your devotion, and strengthen your resolve just to open yourselves a little more each day. Just relax deep in Our love and, very consciously, allow yourselves to feel. This is all it takes, and yet, My sons, it takes no less than this. We’ve put this in various ways to you--how you have to feel and credit the spiritual perceptions are capable of.

NEBADONIA: Good evening, My sons, this is your mother, Nebadonia. I appreciate your heartfelt response to Our brother Monjoronson, and I pray to our Father that He gives you the strength in these coming days to rededicate yourselves--to deepen your devotion, and strengthen your resolve just to open yourselves a little more each day. Just relax deep in Our love and, very consciously, allow yourselves to feel. This is all it takes, and yet, My sons, it takes no less than this. We’ve put this in various ways to you--how you have to feel and credit the spiritual perceptions are capable of.

 

 

You have to allow them to move you, because it is also a part of the cultural heritage you grew up in, that you’ve had to steel yourselves against so many kinds of aggression—physical, and mental, even pseudo-spiritual fraud. You’ve had to steel yourselves and build up your own inner ability to defend yourselves by indulging in callousness and anger and rage. So it is quite an accomplishment to allow yourselves to feel, to allow yourselves to register deep in your souls this presence of Spirit that is in everyone--however, or how little, friendly they appear.

You have to allow them to move you, because it is also a part of the cultural heritage you grew up in, that you’ve had to steel yourselves against so many kinds of aggression—physical, and mental, even pseudo-spiritual fraud. You’ve had to steel yourselves and build up your own inner ability to defend yourselves by indulging in callousness and anger and rage. So it is quite an accomplishment to allow yourselves to feel, to allow yourselves to register deep in your souls this presence of Spirit that is in everyone--however, or how little, friendly they appear.

So many of your religious teachers are so afraid of that word--the whole notion of having fun, and yet Michael assured you, and wished to share with you: this was the essence of His life among you. This is what He and His closest friends shared, to sustain them in their life’s’ work once He was gone, when they went on to change the world as no other teachers have. So keep in mind this is what you truly wish for yourself, a joyous, happy, rewarding life. For this is what our Universal Father wishes for us all.

So many of your religious teachers are so afraid of that word--the whole notion of having fun, and yet Michael assured you, and wished to share with you: this was the essence of His life among you. This is what He and His closest friends shared, to sustain them in their life’s’ work once He was gone, when they went on to change the world as no other teachers have. So keep in mind this is what you truly wish for yourself, a joyous, happy, rewarding life. For this is what our Universal Father wishes for us all.

In the minds of so many there is such a stigma attached to this word—morality--so many associations of something imposed from without, this means a stifling straitjacket of dos and don’ts. Whereas We’re encouraging you to follow the deepest reality, the home base within yourself where your heart and your mind, your feelings and your intellect both agree: this is the way to go. You will know it because it works.

In the minds of so many there is such a stigma attached to this word—morality--so many associations of something imposed from without, this means a stifling straitjacket of dos and don’ts. Whereas We’re encouraging you to follow the deepest reality, the home base within yourself where your heart and your mind, your feelings and your intellect both agree: this is the way to go. You will know it because it works.

Student: Mother Nebadonia, I do have a question. I had a recent experience using what we call breath-work to reach a very high energy level. One of my teachers called this the life-force, this energy level I experienced within me. I would like to ask You this evening to illuminate more what breath is in our bodies. What physical manifestation of the spiritual world is this act of breathing, this breath that we breathe in? We can’t see it, but it does seem to contain enormous energy, and I would like to know more about this, if I may.

Student: Mother Nebadonia, I do have a question. I had a recent experience using what we call breath-work to reach a very high energy level. One of my teachers called this the life-force, this energy level I experienced within me. I would like to ask You this evening to illuminate more what breath is in our bodies. What physical manifestation of the spiritual world is this act of breathing, this breath that we breathe in? We can’t see it, but it does seem to contain enormous energy, and I would like to know more about this, if I may.

NEBADONIA: Yes R, this is something that has been known for many millennia. As you are aware, there have been whole schools of yoga--or union--built upon this as the key to a door. The fundamental reality that this door opens onto is the intrinsic unity of body and mind that you as a human being can experience consciously. They are absolutely inseparable--so much so, We tell you to exercise your mind like a muscle, and at the same time in all your physical activities, put your mind right into your body--especially when your body is experiencing pain through sheer effort. You don’t abandon your body with your mind, but right then, above all, you feel what it is saying to you, and respect this deeply.

NEBADONIA: Yes R, this is something that has been known for many millennia. As you are aware, there have been whole schools of yoga--or union--built upon this as the key to a door. The fundamental reality that this door opens onto is the intrinsic unity of body and mind that you as a human being can experience consciously. They are absolutely inseparable--so much so, We tell you to exercise your mind like a muscle, and at the same time in all your physical activities, put your mind right into your body--especially when your body is experiencing pain through sheer effort. You don’t abandon your body with your mind, but right then, above all, you feel what it is saying to you, and respect this deeply.

Student: I welcome this Company with great joy. It was a very pure experience for me, and I cherish it.

Student: I welcome this Company with great joy. It was a very pure experience for me, and I cherish it.

NEBADONIA: Well, now you have the key in your hand, My son, and you have opened that door, I’m sure you won’t be hesitant to use it again. It took faith to go where you went. This is a most wonderful example of what We mean by actual experience fulfilling your faith. And so your faith goes out ahead of you again, first by continuing to credit this real experience you’ve had, for as you also know, some folks fall into doubt and lose a precious key of experience they’ve actually had. Other folks can continue to believe in a deep spiritual experience they once had, and yet they falter in their faith and rest content in a past experience which, sadly, continues to fade. But how wonderful to feel your faith going out ahead of you again, suggesting the next step. This is how you keep your faith: you keep looking forward to the next genuine spiritual experience, and trust in the marvelous Company you’ve found.

NEBADONIA: Well, now you have the key in your hand, My son, and you have opened that door, I’m sure you won’t be hesitant to use it again. It took faith to go where you went. This is a most wonderful example of what We mean by actual experience fulfilling your faith. And so your faith goes out ahead of you again, first by continuing to credit this real experience you’ve had, for as you also know, some folks fall into doubt and lose a precious key of experience they’ve actually had. Other folks can continue to believe in a deep spiritual experience they once had, and yet they falter in their faith and rest content in a past experience which, sadly, continues to fade. But how wonderful to feel your faith going out ahead of you again, suggesting the next step. This is how you keep your faith: you keep looking forward to the next genuine spiritual experience, and trust in the marvelous Company you’ve found.

And so, My son, I encourage you to keep exploring. You’ll forgive Me if I tease you a bit and let you know: there is still a lot to learn along these lines. This wonderful realm of healing you are all encountering has no limits that you can yet discern. More and more you are discovering that these are genuine facts, these instances of what you call faith healing, for they point to the fact that the body/mind unity is itself spirit. You are a spiritual being, and it is a function of your God-given personality to unite all these disparate elements. Since your personality, your personal spirit originates with God, there can be no limits put upon it. We may only humbly seek to discover His ways, and not dissemble the surprise and joy of doing so. What fun it is, is it not? Do you have any more questions, My son?

And so, My son, I encourage you to keep exploring. You’ll forgive Me if I tease you a bit and let you know: there is still a lot to learn along these lines. This wonderful realm of healing you are all encountering has no limits that you can yet discern. More and more you are discovering that these are genuine facts, these instances of what you call faith healing, for they point to the fact that the body/mind unity is itself spirit. You are a spiritual being, and it is a function of your God-given personality to unite all these disparate elements. Since your personality, your personal spirit originates with God, there can be no limits put upon it. We may only humbly seek to discover His ways, and not dissemble the surprise and joy of doing so. What fun it is, is it not? Do you have any more questions, My son?

 

Student: I feel quite full. Thank You, Mother.

Student: I feel quite full. Thank You, Mother.

Student: Mother, I had a lot of questions with Welmek earlier, so I’m temporarily out. Thank You for Your invitation to join our Celestial Family. I accept.

Student: Mother, I had a lot of questions with Welmek earlier, so I’m temporarily out. Thank You for Your invitation to join our Celestial Family. I accept.

NEBADONIA: Welcome aboard, My son. Yes, Welmek is indeed a charming soul, is He not? (Yes) He does so love to be of help. You can all look forward to some day when you too may be volunteering to go out to an evolutionary planet, there to help those struggling mortals find a happier and healthier and fuller life. We talk about how the Supreme Being—that aspect of our Father out here in time and space—is growing, not only physically with more and more inhabited planets coming online all the time, and more personalities of every order being created, but how life itself is blossoming in all the personalities already in existence. This is that fantastic explosion of God’s creativity you can only entertain for a few moments until, as you say, it blows your mind. What fun! (Yes—what enjoyment!) So keep your hearts light, My sons. This is serious work we do, but part of that very serious work is convincing others, as well as ourselves, we do it best with a light heart, never taking ourselves too seriously. (Yes) I’m sure Welmek feels your love, C. (Thank you) Just do your best to move in those directions you yourself are beginning to feel. (Yes, I will) They are possible. Keep the faith and be in My love.

NEBADONIA: Welcome aboard, My son. Yes, Welmek is indeed a charming soul, is He not? (Yes) He does so love to be of help. You can all look forward to some day when you too may be volunteering to go out to an evolutionary planet, there to help those struggling mortals find a happier and healthier and fuller life. We talk about how the Supreme Being—that aspect of our Father out here in time and space—is growing, not only physically with more and more inhabited planets coming online all the time, and more personalities of every order being created, but how life itself is blossoming in all the personalities already in existence. This is that fantastic explosion of God’s creativity you can only entertain for a few moments until, as you say, it blows your mind. What fun! (Yes—what enjoyment!) So keep your hearts light, My sons. This is serious work we do, but part of that very serious work is convincing others, as well as ourselves, we do it best with a light heart, never taking ourselves too seriously. (Yes) I’m sure Welmek feels your love, C. (Thank you) Just do your best to move in those directions you yourself are beginning to feel. (Yes, I will) They are possible. Keep the faith and be in My love.

Secondly, even though (Name) is gone, and I have my daughter in my house, we have another roommate. We’re giving her a month’s time to see how things work out, because she’s supposed to have had some difficult experiences rooming with others. So I was wondering why was this person here, living with us; and further, something I have to deal with since she is a beautiful young woman…(laughter)…is my own sexual attraction and energy. Because of my expansiveness--of my consciousness, and my awareness of sensitivity, and my empathy towards other human beings, when I do experience this passion, it can be quite disconcerting. I have a difficult time handling it, or re-focusing it. And so I do ask, what can I do? Because I don’t want to say it’s wrong, it’s animalistic, because it is part of being human. So I’m at a quandary of how I can re-integrate this passion, and see this other human being for who she is.

Secondly, even though (Name) is gone, and I have my daughter in my house, we have another roommate. We’re giving her a month’s time to see how things work out, because she’s supposed to have had some difficult experiences rooming with others. So I was wondering why was this person here, living with us; and further, something I have to deal with since she is a beautiful young woman…(laughter)…is my own sexual attraction and energy. Because of my expansiveness--of my consciousness, and my awareness of sensitivity, and my empathy towards other human beings, when I do experience this passion, it can be quite disconcerting. I have a difficult time handling it, or re-focusing it. And so I do ask, what can I do? Because I don’t want to say it’s wrong, it’s animalistic, because it is part of being human. So I’m at a quandary of how I can re-integrate this passion, and see this other human being for who she is.

NEBADONIA: Well My son, that is a bit to look at. (laughter) Taking it in the order you presented it: I’m delighted you are proving the point I made earlier, that with an increasing sense of your own spiritual worth and values, in a deeper and growing inner self-confidence, you are then able to welcome so many different facets of spirituality of folks from all around the world--from so many different disciplines and ways of behaving and expressing spiritual truth. For this inner self-confidence has to come first. In a sense, you have to pay your dues and build yourself up inside, and experience this spiritual unity, in order to let go the need to see some kind of conformity, or uniformity without. This, of course, has been, and continues to be the most critical cultural and societal need in the world today. People have to grow their own inner self-confidence in their own spiritual values in order to reach out and embrace all the different cultures being pushed into more and more intimate contact.

NEBADONIA: Well My son, that is a bit to look at. (laughter) Taking it in the order you presented it: I’m delighted you are proving the point I made earlier, that with an increasing sense of your own spiritual worth and values, in a deeper and growing inner self-confidence, you are then able to welcome so many different facets of spirituality of folks from all around the world--from so many different disciplines and ways of behaving and expressing spiritual truth. For this inner self-confidence has to come first. In a sense, you have to pay your dues and build yourself up inside, and experience this spiritual unity, in order to let go the need to see some kind of conformity, or uniformity without. This, of course, has been, and continues to be the most critical cultural and societal need in the world today. People have to grow their own inner self-confidence in their own spiritual values in order to reach out and embrace all the different cultures being pushed into more and more intimate contact.

Student: Forgive me for interrupting, but I noticed my own reactions to hearing everyone, was I didn’t feel any sense of being threatened in who I am, or what I believe. I didn’t feel—and I’ve seen this in others—a kind of one-ups-manship, like I’m more spiritual, or I’ve read more books, or whatever. It’s seeing where other people are at in their own development, and appreciating that. That was quite--for me—quite enlightening.

Student: Forgive me for interrupting, but I noticed my own reactions to hearing everyone, was I didn’t feel any sense of being threatened in who I am, or what I believe. I didn’t feel—and I’ve seen this in others—a kind of one-ups-manship, like I’m more spiritual, or I’ve read more books, or whatever. It’s seeing where other people are at in their own development, and appreciating that. That was quite--for me—quite enlightening.

NEBADONIA: Good. As to the various reactions and responses you have to someone who can be an undeniably sexually attractive person, here I think the keynote is something you are reaching for--for you are asking of Me, and sincerely praying for--a way to continue to acknowledge this other person’s autonomy. This is the basis for the need for respect. It comes with acknowledging deep within yourself a spiritual awareness of free-will.

NEBADONIA: Good. As to the various reactions and responses you have to someone who can be an undeniably sexually attractive person, here I think the keynote is something you are reaching for--for you are asking of Me, and sincerely praying for--a way to continue to acknowledge this other person’s autonomy. This is the basis for the need for respect. It comes with acknowledging deep within yourself a spiritual awareness of free-will.

NEBADONIA: Yes, but all the while you do your best to tune into spirit, you have to be very careful about ascribing to God what is merely happenstance--a lot of small pieces jostling about in a very enormous situation. But it is right you feel for the spiritual meaning.

NEBADONIA: Yes, but all the while you do your best to tune into spirit, you have to be very careful about ascribing to God what is merely happenstance--a lot of small pieces jostling about in a very enormous situation. But it is right you feel for the spiritual meaning.

Student: Yes...yes. I do have one more small thing. It seems like a lot of people in the group I went to yesterday believe in reincarnation. I know we’ve talked about this before, but supposedly certain people do past-life regressions where they can go back into someone’s past lives and heal them of something that’s happening today because of something that happened then. I was just wondering what are they actually doing and seeing because this is part of their belief system. What are they actually doing?

Student: Yes...yes. I do have one more small thing. It seems like a lot of people in the group I went to yesterday believe in reincarnation. I know we’ve talked about this before, but supposedly certain people do past-life regressions where they can go back into someone’s past lives and heal them of something that’s happening today because of something that happened then. I was just wondering what are they actually doing and seeing because this is part of their belief system. What are they actually doing?

The regression situation becomes extremely complex because of your very creativity. Within the context of someone suggesting you relive previous lives, even the dullest soul among you, inundated with hundreds upon hundreds of characters and plot-summaries, from endless years of watching television and movies, is capable of creating the most complex and wonderfully imaginative story-line in their mind, and genuinely believing it to be some previous experience. Here they are doing no more than any playwright, or novelist, or short-story writer is doing.

The regression situation becomes extremely complex because of your very creativity. Within the context of someone suggesting you relive previous lives, even the dullest soul among you, inundated with hundreds upon hundreds of characters and plot-summaries, from endless years of watching television and movies, is capable of creating the most complex and wonderfully imaginative story-line in their mind, and genuinely believing it to be some previous experience. Here they are doing no more than any playwright, or novelist, or short-story writer is doing.

Also, as Michael said, there are various relative truths within a number of different philosophies of reincarnation. But underlying it all is the power of what you call projection, the way the human mind orients itself and interprets everything it perceives inwardly and outwardly in the context of basic beliefs. So if you believe devoutly in reincarnation, it can seem to explain so much of otherwise inexplicable phenomena, especially if you have a deep conviction that God is absolutely just. Whereas what We are suggesting may be even harder to accept for so many folks: that for so long as you are human, and even well into the next phases of your coming life, there will continue to be mysteries so deep and so profound, it will appear to you sometime in the future that it was a kind of arrogance to indulge in the belief you could explain phenomena known only to the Supreme Being. To the Supreme Being, to God out here in time and space, there are no accidents, there is no meaninglessness, there are no mysteries. But this cannot be said of any subordinate being. This is why We say that the very presence of God within your mind is a Mystery Monitor, and why We say there are unfathomable mysteries happening all about you in the lives of others that cannot be explained by any philosophies, let along those of reincarnation. Reality is transcendently complex, and there are only relative truths within all these various philosophies of it. And that, I’m afraid, is as far as we can explore this topic this evening.

Also, as Michael said, there are various relative truths within a number of different philosophies of reincarnation. But underlying it all is the power of what you call projection, the way the human mind orients itself and interprets everything it perceives inwardly and outwardly in the context of basic beliefs. So if you believe devoutly in reincarnation, it can seem to explain so much of otherwise inexplicable phenomena, especially if you have a deep conviction that God is absolutely just. Whereas what We are suggesting may be even harder to accept for so many folks: that for so long as you are human, and even well into the next phases of your coming life, there will continue to be mysteries so deep and so profound, it will appear to you sometime in the future that it was a kind of arrogance to indulge in the belief you could explain phenomena known only to the Supreme Being. To the Supreme Being, to God out here in time and space, there are no accidents, there is no meaninglessness, there are no mysteries. But this cannot be said of any subordinate being. This is why We say that the very presence of God within your mind is a Mystery Monitor, and why We say there are unfathomable mysteries happening all about you in the lives of others that cannot be explained by any philosophies, let along those of reincarnation. Reality is transcendently complex, and there are only relative truths within all these various philosophies of it. And that, I’m afraid, is as far as we can explore this topic this evening.

Student: It is a lot to digest. (laughter) Just one clarification?—about what You said--about being careful--about saying what God wants—about this person moving in with us?--because God obviously doesn’t have a need or a want? But is it kind-of like, could I better clarify it by saying this was created for me—for my soul-growth?

Student: It is a lot to digest. (laughter) Just one clarification?—about what You said--about being careful--about saying what God wants—about this person moving in with us?--because God obviously doesn’t have a need or a want? But is it kind-of like, could I better clarify it by saying this was created for me—for my soul-growth?

NEBADONIA: No—that is the same error. Because God does want. He wants for you and everyone to live the fullest lives possible. But God does not direct all the small choices that individuals make, that lead to the situations you find yourself in. On the contrary, He goes to great pains not to interfere with all the free-will decisions that brought this girl to your doorstep; and the interplay of you and your daughter--your free wills choosing to try this experiment of her staying with you. God actually has a hands-off Self-limitation with what We present to you as happenstance, because it involves the free-will choices of so many others. It is a matter of faith that this policy of His all works out for the greater good.

NEBADONIA: No—that is the same error. Because God does want. He wants for you and everyone to live the fullest lives possible. But God does not direct all the small choices that individuals make, that lead to the situations you find yourself in. On the contrary, He goes to great pains not to interfere with all the free-will decisions that brought this girl to your doorstep; and the interplay of you and your daughter--your free wills choosing to try this experiment of her staying with you. God actually has a hands-off Self-limitation with what We present to you as happenstance, because it involves the free-will choices of so many others. It is a matter of faith that this policy of His all works out for the greater good.

NEBADONIA--joining in: If I’m not mistaken, I just did. (Yes)

NEBADONIA--joining in: If I’m not mistaken, I just did. (Yes)

 

 

Well, My sons, it is interesting to see how your minds have the ability to wonder what are the implications when your understanding suddenly shifts. This is another facet that makes life so interesting—how, in this hard, dusty, old nitty-gritty world you live in, how life itself is so plastic, so flexible--responsive. But this is what makes it fun; scary at times, but fun too. And so it’s a good check on your spirit to see if you feel a little afraid of this unfathomable quality.

Well, My sons, it is interesting to see how your minds have the ability to wonder what are the implications when your understanding suddenly shifts. This is another facet that makes life so interesting—how, in this hard, dusty, old nitty-gritty world you live in, how life itself is so plastic, so flexible--responsive. But this is what makes it fun; scary at times, but fun too. And so it’s a good check on your spirit to see if you feel a little afraid of this unfathomable quality.

Don’t be worried if you find yourselves feeling your way along moment to moment, for this only means you are becoming more fully engaged. And so it becomes even more valuable for you to practice your stillness and take a break. This is the way We would see you grow: both in your depth of detachment--enjoying a pure, alive vastness at home base; and at the same time, being able to find a deeper commitment and enjoyment in all your many activities. Feel yourselves growing in both these dimensions--both toward a greater stillness of pure spirit, and an ever more spirited activity. Be in My love. Good evening.

Don’t be worried if you find yourselves feeling your way along moment to moment, for this only means you are becoming more fully engaged. And so it becomes even more valuable for you to practice your stillness and take a break. This is the way We would see you grow: both in your depth of detachment--enjoying a pure, alive vastness at home base; and at the same time, being able to find a deeper commitment and enjoyment in all your many activities. Feel yourselves growing in both these dimensions--both toward a greater stillness of pure spirit, and an ever more spirited activity. Be in My love. Good evening.