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Marin TM Group—Mill Valley, California—U.S.A.

 

 

      (Your Relationship with the Supreme Being: Effort)

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Dear Mother Spirit and Michael, Come visit us again. Now although we know You are always here, still, feeling Your presence this way helps us more fully realize our human nature. For many years we have lived--and we know so many of our brothers and sisters still live--without this direct perception of your existence. We have experienced how this contact with You changes our own inner definition of the kind of beings we are. So we thank You for the Teaching Mission that You’ve inaugurated, that helps us at least approach the full spiritual estate of being human. Amen.

Dear Mother Spirit and Michael, Come visit us again. Now although we know You are always here, still, feeling Your presence this way helps us more fully realize our human nature. For many years we have lived--and we know so many of our brothers and sisters still live--without this direct perception of your existence. We have experienced how this contact with You changes our own inner definition of the kind of beings we are. So we thank You for the Teaching Mission that You’ve inaugurated, that helps us at least approach the full spiritual estate of being human. Amen.

NEBADONIA: My dear children, what joy it gives Me to see that I have this effect upon you and your lives. This is your mother, Nebadonia, Daughter of the Infinite Spirit, Spiritual Mother to a whole family of Local Universe personal beings. Yes, it is true: I am right within your minds augmenting your own ability to contact both impersonal reality--the physical/material world about you, and also I help you recognize and realize within yourselves the other personalities you encounter.

NEBADONIA: My dear children, what joy it gives Me to see that I have this effect upon you and your lives. This is your mother, Nebadonia, Daughter of the Infinite Spirit, Spiritual Mother to a whole family of Local Universe personal beings. Yes, it is true: I am right within your minds augmenting your own ability to contact both impersonal reality--the physical/material world about you, and also I help you recognize and realize within yourselves the other personalities you encounter.

 

(Contact with our spiritual Parents changes our inner definitions)

* Inner Life (Contact with our spiritual Parents changes our inner definitions)

Now you are experiencing how your own conscious prayers and requests for Our help, relaxing and practicing your stillness to feel Our presence, does indeed change your definition of what a human being is. These genuine religious experiences, your contact with spirit, do add meaning and value to the statement that God is your Father, the Universal Father of all beings, and this makes all personal beings, especially your fellow human beings, truly your brothers and sisters.

Now you are experiencing how your own conscious prayers and requests for Our help, relaxing and practicing your stillness to feel Our presence, does indeed change your definition of what a human being is. These genuine religious experiences, your contact with spirit, do add meaning and value to the statement that God is your Father, the Universal Father of all beings, and this makes all personal beings, especially your fellow human beings, truly your brothers and sisters.

It is the way in which an infinite, absolute Being, such as God is, complete at every instant, is still capable of growing. And of course, you yourselves are a part of the Deity Absolute, the summation of all personal being. Your own life’s experiences contribute to the Supreme Being.

It is the way in which an infinite, absolute Being, such as God is, complete at every instant, is still capable of growing. And of course, you yourselves are a part of the Deity Absolute, the summation of all personal being. Your own life’s experiences contribute to the Supreme Being.

(Your relationship with the Supreme Being: effort)

* The Supreme (Your relationship with the Supreme Being: effort)

But whereas your relationship to God the Father is inherent in your existence as His child--a relationship of Father to son, Father to daughter, one you have automatically, your relationship to the Supreme Being is somewhat different. It is akin to your conscious relationship to your own soul. So while the essence of your relationship to God the Father is simply one of being, your relationship to the Supreme Being is one of doing. Let that soak in a minute. (pause)

But whereas your relationship to God the Father is inherent in your existence as His child--a relationship of Father to son, Father to daughter, one you have automatically, your relationship to the Supreme Being is somewhat different. It is akin to your conscious relationship to your own soul. So while the essence of your relationship to God the Father is simply one of being, your relationship to the Supreme Being is one of doing. Let that soak in a minute. (pause)

Most lazy souls never realize this in their first lifetime. They see it as some kind of hideous joke life is playing upon them, that the more you are capable of doing, the more it is handed you to do—without end: why even start? Yet this is the triumph right within life. The more you exercise your pure effort, the more you can do; the more you grow. Here We touch upon that other great possession of your personality: ability.

Most lazy souls never realize this in their first lifetime. They see it as some kind of hideous joke life is playing upon them, that the more you are capable of doing, the more it is handed you to do—without end: why even start? Yet this is the triumph right within life. The more you exercise your pure effort, the more you can do; the more you grow. Here We touch upon that other great possession of your personality: ability.

(Growing the ability of pure effort)

* Growth (Growing the ability of pure effort)

For this is simply what it means. This is that other kind of growth incorporating all three dimensions of the physical and mental and spiritual. For there is almost nothing you do, My children, that is strictly just one of the three alone. The closest you come to singularity of function is when you do your best to relax your physical and mental activities and experience your home base in spirit as purely as possible. And ironically, even this physical and mental relaxation with an increased spiritual awareness--We call stillness--is also an ability, a funny kind of back-handed not-doing that you have to learn how to do.

For this is simply what it means. This is that other kind of growth incorporating all three dimensions of the physical and mental and spiritual. For there is almost nothing you do, My children, that is strictly just one of the three alone. The closest you come to singularity of function is when you do your best to relax your physical and mental activities and experience your home base in spirit as purely as possible. And ironically, even this physical and mental relaxation with an increased spiritual awareness--We call stillness--is also an ability, a funny kind of back-handed not-doing that you have to learn how to do.

Group. Monjoronson (Monjoronson, N. Colo. TeaM 7.09.06) was saying that a coming… no time factor, but there’s coming a decimation of the human species. Human beings, from one-third to two-thirds, will be gone. Could You clear that up a little bit, please?

Group. Monjoronson (Monjoronson, N. Colo. TeaM 7.09.06) was saying that a coming… no time factor, but there’s coming a decimation of the human species. Human beings, from one-third to two-thirds, will be gone. Could You clear that up a little bit, please?

(Apocalyptic catastrophe)

* Catastrophism (Apocalyptic catastrophe)

NEBADONIA: Yes, My son. All through your lives you will need to find a balance between immediacy and what appear to be long term considerations. This is much a part of what Michael taught in His last lesson about a moral dimension in human reality, and how you may sometimes find yourself living hour to hour, even moment to moment in a pure dark opacity of not knowing what is the right thing to do.

NEBADONIA: Yes, My son. All through your lives you will need to find a balance between immediacy and what appear to be long term considerations. This is much a part of what Michael taught in His last lesson about a moral dimension in human reality, and how you may sometimes find yourself living hour to hour, even moment to moment in a pure dark opacity of not knowing what is the right thing to do.

Not in any way to diminish these apocalyptic possibilities, let me remind you that the human race has for some three hundred thousand years now, since the Lucifer Rebellion catastrophe; the human race has lived in the face of this kind of threat, a threat that was, and still is for the most part, a facet of immature human nature.

Not in any way to diminish these apocalyptic possibilities, let me remind you that the human race has for some three hundred thousand years now, since the Lucifer Rebellion catastrophe; the human race has lived in the face of this kind of threat, a threat that was, and still is for the most part, a facet of immature human nature.

(Warfare and crime)

* Violence (Warfare and crime)

Your Urantia book very succinctly delineates the hundreds of thousands of years of incessant warfare that is still, in the twenty-first century, so much a part of your lives. Yet even further, can you begin to comprehend a world, not just without active warfare, but without the expenditures of resources and human effort involved in both offensive and defensive preparations?

Your Urantia book very succinctly delineates the hundreds of thousands of years of incessant warfare that is still, in the twenty-first century, so much a part of your lives. Yet even further, can you begin to comprehend a world, not just without active warfare, but without the expenditures of resources and human effort involved in both offensive and defensive preparations?

Student: Yes Mother. There were numerous things I wanted to discuss tonight, but it is getting late. One thing I thought about with respect to effort is, it goes hand in hand with faith, with my innate capacity to live and enjoy in peace. And that through my effort and the choices I make in my life, and how I react in my day to day… being, I have faith that my efforts will be rewarded. It may not be instantaneous, but the potential is there.

Student: Yes Mother. There were numerous things I wanted to discuss tonight, but it is getting late. One thing I thought about with respect to effort is, it goes hand in hand with faith, with my innate capacity to live and enjoy in peace. And that through my effort and the choices I make in my life, and how I react in my day to day… being, I have faith that my efforts will be rewarded. It may not be instantaneous, but the potential is there.

(Effort and faith)

* Faith (Effort and faith)

NEBADONIA: Yes, My son , I think you are touching upon the nature of faith as a kind of spiritual effort, simply because something is required of you—to exercise faith. This is especially, as you mention, along the dimension of time, your willingness to invest yourself in some spiritual project simply in the hope of some future affirmation you’ve been making the right decisions. Faith is a way of extending yourself out beyond what you yet know for sure. It is rewarded by success. You can extend yourself and then find you have made the right effort. Your spiritual project comes to fruition. Your hoped-for results happen. Your faith is rewarded by fact. So you know your moments of resting awhile in your success, before the sheer enormity of this universe you find yourself in suggests you may have to extend yourself again: there is still a little more out there—to have faith in.

NEBADONIA: Yes, My son , I think you are touching upon the nature of faith as a kind of spiritual effort, simply because something is required of you—to exercise faith. This is especially, as you mention, along the dimension of time, your willingness to invest yourself in some spiritual project simply in the hope of some future affirmation you’ve been making the right decisions. Faith is a way of extending yourself out beyond what you yet know for sure. It is rewarded by success. You can extend yourself and then find you have made the right effort. Your spiritual project comes to fruition. Your hoped-for results happen. Your faith is rewarded by fact. So you know your moments of resting awhile in your success, before the sheer enormity of this universe you find yourself in suggests you may have to extend yourself again: there is still a little more out there—to have faith in.

Student: This is what makes human beings unique?

Student: This is what makes human beings unique?

(The trial by living)

* Experience (The trial by living)

NEBADONIA: No, this is shared, My son, by all personal beings, I should say all experiential beings. The purely existential beings of Paradise and the Central Universe of Havona are truly a different order of persons. They have experiences, but they were created in perfection. So they are just naturally brave; they don’t know the human triumph of courage. They are naturally loyal; they know nothing of disloyalty or default. So to answer your question, the trial by living is shared by all experiential beings out here in time and space.

NEBADONIA: No, this is shared, My son, by all personal beings, I should say all experiential beings. The purely existential beings of Paradise and the Central Universe of Havona are truly a different order of persons. They have experiences, but they were created in perfection. So they are just naturally brave; they don’t know the human triumph of courage. They are naturally loyal; they know nothing of disloyalty or default. So to answer your question, the trial by living is shared by all experiential beings out here in time and space.

NEBADONIA: Let’s go forward sharing these lives of ours together. I can feel you are stretching your understanding, trying to open your hearts to entertain the realization of what suffering there is in the world, opening your minds to what has been its causes and what might be its possible solutions. You are even trying to look what might be a universal catastrophe square in the eye, and wonder what you can do about it. You are reaching toward being all that is possible. So carry on and persevere with My love. I’m always here, with but a little thought and reflection, and prayer, within conscious contact. Good evening.

NEBADONIA: Let’s go forward sharing these lives of ours together. I can feel you are stretching your understanding, trying to open your hearts to entertain the realization of what suffering there is in the world, opening your minds to what has been its causes and what might be its possible solutions. You are even trying to look what might be a universal catastrophe square in the eye, and wonder what you can do about it. You are reaching toward being all that is possible. So carry on and persevere with My love. I’m always here, with but a little thought and reflection, and prayer, within conscious contact. Good evening.