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It’s all so [[subtle]], this [[inner life]] of yours. That itself is a [[blessing]], to have your inner life full of subtleties and not be tossed around inside. And so we [[encourage]]--not only in [[listening]] to us, but taking in all of that world out there with all the folks in it—you suspend your disbelief, for disbelief is as numbing and depriving you of [[opportunities]] as what you call “blind belief”--blindly believing in certain things simply because of their [[origin]] in whatever [[person]] or [[organization]]. This kind of knee-jerk, automatic disbelief is just as crippling to [[your soul]]--to automatically exclude and discount what you would be so much more [[healthy]]-minded by entertaining for a while.

It’s all so [[subtle]], this [[inner life]] of yours. That itself is a [[blessing]], to have your inner life full of subtleties and not be tossed around inside. And so we [[encourage]]--not only in [[listening]] to us, but taking in all of that world out there with all the folks in it—you suspend your disbelief, for disbelief is as numbing and depriving you of [[opportunities]] as what you call “blind belief”--blindly believing in certain things simply because of their [[origin]] in whatever [[person]] or [[organization]]. This kind of knee-jerk, automatic disbelief is just as crippling to [[your soul]]--to automatically exclude and discount what you would be so much more [[healthy]]-minded by entertaining for a while.

   

   

Don’t be [[afraid]] of this no matter what it is, because even in your nightly news you are sometimes presented with truly, truly [[obscene]] and terrible things that folks are doing to each other deliberately. This has been an aspect of all of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_history human history], this amount of deliberate harm that folks do to each other in all realms—physical and mental and spiritual. This is especially true in the spiritual realm where folks do try to [[control]] you and render you dis-spirited so you don’t have the psychic and spiritual [[energy]] to be an independent, [[free-thinking]] person. This is what starves [[your soul]], whether blind [[belief]] or automatic disbelief. It’s too much continuity, if you will, of simply what went before--whatever your [[past]], whatever kind of [[parents]] you had and their upbringing, whatever kind of [[society]] you went out into as a small child.

Don’t be [[afraid]] of this no matter what it is, because even in your nightly news you are sometimes presented with truly, truly [[obscene]] and terrible things that folks are doing to each other deliberately. This has been an aspect of all of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_history human history], this amount of deliberate harm that folks do to each other in all realms—physical and mental and spiritual. This is especially true in the spiritual realm where folks do try to [[control]] you and render you dis-spirited so you don’t have the psychic and spiritual [[energy]] to be an independent, [[free-thinking]] person. This is what starves [[your soul]], whether blind [[belief]] or automatic disbelief. It’s too much continuity, if you will, of simply what went before--whatever your [[past]], whatever kind of [[parents]] you had and their upbringing, whatever kind of [[society]] you went out into as a small child.

   

   

One reason we teach about the [[reality]] of [[your soul]], co-authored by God himself, is to relieve some [[anxiety]] about all your past. For it is certain that some of you may lose that very [[ability]] of your [[memories]] as you get older, or as you are approaching [[death]]. It is such a true and valid reassurance to know that God is co-authoring your [[soul]] and holding it sacrosanct for you. You need not be [[anxious]] in this way about the past: it is being preserved for you.

One reason we teach about the [[reality]] of [[your soul]], co-authored by God himself, is to relieve some [[anxiety]] about all your past. For it is certain that some of you may lose that very [[ability]] of your [[memories]] as you get older, or as you are approaching [[death]]. It is such a true and valid reassurance to know that God is co-authoring your [[soul]] and holding it sacrosanct for you. You need not be [[anxious]] in this way about the past: it is being preserved for you.

Then here [[Mother Spirit]] and I come offering you the [[vulnerability]] of refusing yourself--making it a [[conscious]] [[decision]] to refuse yourself this kind of seeming [[certainty]]. Ask yourselves: what is it like to live in a state of [[question]], to refuse yourself the kind of un-questioning [[certainty]] that you see in others? Here again, my children, it is a matter of [[proportion]] over a period of time, because as you live in an eternal [[now]], all your [[values]], all your [[understandings]] on both a spiritual and mental level are what are [[guiding]] you into the future. Where it might appear that, in the immediate circumstances your lack of a certainty that others seem to have leaves you vulnerable to their machinations, still there’s no other way to live given any kind of duration at all, given any [[thought]] for your future and how that future is dependent upon your [[growing]].

Then here [[Mother Spirit]] and I come offering you the [[vulnerability]] of refusing yourself--making it a [[conscious]] [[decision]] to refuse yourself this kind of seeming [[certainty]]. Ask yourselves: what is it like to live in a state of [[question]], to refuse yourself the kind of un-questioning [[certainty]] that you see in others? Here again, my children, it is a matter of [[proportion]] over a period of time, because as you live in an eternal [[now]], all your [[values]], all your [[understandings]] on both a spiritual and mental level are what are [[guiding]] you into the future. Where it might appear that, in the immediate circumstances your lack of a certainty that others seem to have leaves you vulnerable to their machinations, still there’s no other way to live given any kind of duration at all, given any [[thought]] for your future and how that future is dependent upon your [[growing]].

   

   

As we’ve said, so many human [[problems]] in the immediate now are at a kind of a loggerheads, a kind of [[balance]], that it takes your own personal [[creativity]], your own creative spirit to move forward. So you deny yourself this [[certainty]] that others might seem to have, but really don’t--no living human being is really certain of what’s going to happen tomorrow—and live in a state of [[question]], live in a state of open-mindedness and [[uncertainty]], for this is what enables you to [[grow]]. This is that inner space/room to grow, to blossom forth, to stretch out, to entertain whatever comes your way and, beyond that, to seek out and [[discover]] what can appear as a kind of hollow spot in your [[reasoning]], in your life. The easiest way, if you [[associate]] yourself inside with any particular [[organization]], is to seek out it’s opposite whether it’s in [[political]] or social realms, or in terms of national/[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Relations international relationships]. Get a sense for where you are, but then seek out the exact opposite and [[train]] yourself to entertain all of this.

As we’ve said, so many human [[problems]] in the immediate now are at a kind of a loggerheads, a kind of [[balance]], that it takes your own personal [[creativity]], your own creative spirit to move forward. So you deny yourself this [[certainty]] that others might seem to have, but really don’t--no living human being is really certain of what’s going to happen tomorrow—and live in a state of [[question]], live in a state of open-mindedness and [[uncertainty]], for this is what enables you to [[grow]]. This is that inner space/room to grow, to blossom forth, to stretch out, to entertain whatever comes your way and, beyond that, to seek out and [[discover]] what can appear as a kind of hollow spot in your [[reasoning]], in your life. The easiest way, if you [[associate]] yourself inside with any particular [[organization]], is to seek out it’s opposite whether it’s in [[political]] or social realms, or in terms of national/[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Relations international relationships]. Get a sense for where you are, but then seek out the exact opposite and [[train]] yourself to entertain all of this.

   

   

It’s that stretch we’ve [[compared]] before to having one foot on the dock and one foot out there in an untethered boat, bobbing around. It’s only you that’s holding those two things together. You have one foot in the real [[past]]—[[your soul]]--to meditate on and let come forth with your true past and all that it has held. Yet you have your other foot out there, in a very knowing way, in this untethered boat bobbing around--this state of [[question]] of denying yourself some fixed [[ideology]]. This is what orients you towards duration. In the valuable but limited [[ego]] sense of yourself, of who you are and who you’ve been, this is more towards what you are [[becoming]], for this too is a kind of [[infinity]], this [[eternity]] that you’re facing. For it’s not only of duration in extent of time--what you call forever--it’s also in the height and breadth and depth of your growth, of growing into meeting this uncertain and, to you, impenetrable [[future]].

It’s that stretch we’ve [[compared]] before to having one foot on the dock and one foot out there in an untethered boat, bobbing around. It’s only you that’s holding those two things together. You have one foot in the real [[past]]—[[your soul]]--to meditate on and let come forth with your true past and all that it has held. Yet you have your other foot out there, in a very knowing way, in this untethered boat bobbing around--this state of [[question]] of denying yourself some fixed [[ideology]]. This is what orients you towards duration. In the valuable but limited [[ego]] sense of yourself, of who you are and who you’ve been, this is more towards what you are [[becoming]], for this too is a kind of [[infinity]], this [[eternity]] that you’re facing. For it’s not only of duration in extent of time--what you call forever--it’s also in the height and breadth and depth of your growth, of growing into meeting this uncertain and, to you, impenetrable [[future]].