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Marin T/M Group—Mill Valley, California—U.S.A.

 

Dear Mother Spirit and Michael, After a short break we return, refreshed and extra-mindful of just how great it is to have the Teaching Mission in our lives. We get a positive reassurance when we think of how the T/R groups, and all those who will come to read the transmissions, form a spiritual community who have their faith and hope inspired by the power and truth of your words. Help us, we pray, inspire our friends and our acquaintances as you have inspired us. Amen.

Dear Mother Spirit and Michael, After a short break we return, refreshed and extra-mindful of just how great it is to have the Teaching Mission in our lives. We get a positive reassurance when we think of how the T/R groups, and all those who will come to read the transmissions, form a spiritual community who have their faith and hope inspired by the power and truth of your words. Help us, we pray, inspire our friends and our acquaintances as you have inspired us. Amen.

NEBADONIA: Good evening, my sons, this is your spirit mother, Nebadonia. Tonight I feel I will be trying to communicate through all the shock that has gone through your society today because of the horrific event that very quickly filled all the news media, not only in your own country, but around the world. This is now a world community, at least in the more technologically advanced countries where single events are very quickly shared by a great number of people, and this is a historically unique and ongoing development with both positive and negative effects. It points at the great truth of how much human society on Urantia is becoming evermore single knit, evermore tied together by your mass communications.

NEBADONIA: Good evening, my sons, this is your spirit mother, Nebadonia. Tonight I feel I will be trying to communicate through all the shock that has gone through your society today because of the horrific event that very quickly filled all the news media, not only in your own country, but around the world. This is now a world community, at least in the more technologically advanced countries where single events are very quickly shared by a great number of people, and this is a historically unique and ongoing development with both positive and negative effects. It points at the great truth of how much human society on Urantia is becoming evermore single knit, evermore tied together by your mass communications.

 

 

Your Urantia book does have the statement that a great hallmark of wisdom and maturity is a sense of proportion. This is most severely challenged when a seemingly meaningless event takes place, one that is all the more truly obscene for the reason a single individual can so wantonly inflict such an enormous amount of suffering on so many people. It takes a while to regain your sense of proportion, to be able to see such an event as this within a number of different contexts, and realize the proportional value it has in each.

Your Urantia book does have the statement that a great hallmark of wisdom and maturity is a sense of proportion. This is most severely challenged when a seemingly meaningless event takes place, one that is all the more truly obscene for the reason a single individual can so wantonly inflict such an enormous amount of suffering on so many people. It takes a while to regain your sense of proportion, to be able to see such an event as this within a number of different contexts, and realize the proportional value it has in each.

Today you had a very shocking demonstration of how truly single-knit human society is becoming, of how close--spiritually speaking--it is to a single living body. Just as within your own organism there is a great need for a careful, loving consideration of every part, so there must be within society an outreach, especially to those criminally-minded souls festering and self-seemingly thriving within themselves on hatred and anger. Reach out to them, open your hearts to feel their pain. Question too all those various elements in your society, your mass media and, perhaps, even your own soul, that thrive on the thrill of violence, or passively accept it.

Today you had a very shocking demonstration of how truly single-knit human society is becoming, of how close--spiritually speaking--it is to a single living body. Just as within your own organism there is a great need for a careful, loving consideration of every part, so there must be within society an outreach, especially to those criminally-minded souls festering and self-seemingly thriving within themselves on hatred and anger. Reach out to them, open your hearts to feel their pain. Question too all those various elements in your society, your mass media and, perhaps, even your own soul, that thrive on the thrill of violence, or passively accept it.

Wonder anew and afresh, how do you put an end to crime, this preying of one individual on another, on every scale? For this too is a highly complex challenge to you all. Begin by being as able to respond as you can within your own life. But above all, my children, keep your hearts open, keep feeling for the answer. Stay in touch with the presence of God within you, to inspire you to cut through the maze of conflicting notions. Open your hearts to Michael’s Spirit of Truth to help you find the way forward.

Wonder anew and afresh, how do you put an end to crime, this preying of one individual on another, on every scale? For this too is a highly complex challenge to you all. Begin by being as able to respond as you can within your own life. But above all, my children, keep your hearts open, keep feeling for the answer. Stay in touch with the presence of God within you, to inspire you to cut through the maze of conflicting notions. Open your hearts to Michael’s Spirit of Truth to help you find the way forward.

If you have any questions or comments this evening, I open myself to receive them.

If you have any questions or comments this evening, I open myself to receive them.

 

Student: I have no questions, Mother, just once again I thank you, and Father Michael, and all of your beings who are in my life, for giving me support, and giving this world support. Thank you.

Student: I have no questions, Mother, just once again I thank you, and Father Michael, and all of your beings who are in my life, for giving me support, and giving this world support. Thank you.

NEBADONIA: Yes. Human beings often tend to separate themselves along lines of short-term and long-term solutions to the problem of crime. We can only hope these two camps get together and arrive at a more humane way of incorporating both viewpoints. For example, it is true that in the short term you can indiscriminately lock up a lot of folks and have a temporary drop in the crime rate, but without rehabilitation you are actually creating a regressive, dog-eat-dog jungle in your prisons. You have to wonder what kind of people you are creating, who will be released some day.

NEBADONIA: Yes. Human beings often tend to separate themselves along lines of short-term and long-term solutions to the problem of crime. We can only hope these two camps get together and arrive at a more humane way of incorporating both viewpoints. For example, it is true that in the short term you can indiscriminately lock up a lot of folks and have a temporary drop in the crime rate, but without rehabilitation you are actually creating a regressive, dog-eat-dog jungle in your prisons. You have to wonder what kind of people you are creating, who will be released some day.

In terms of justice, you can assert your right of self defense, but again the wisdom of proportion must enter the picture. This is obvious when you realize it is not just to seriously injure someone with, shall we say, a gun or a ball bat, who is merely trying to steal a bicycle. You are slowly accepting this concept of proportional response. And your point is very well taken of separating out those who are addicted to physical violence upon their fellows, from those guilty of petty crime, even though the latter do cause suffering. You need to make this distinction, and save your incarceration for those who are truly dangerous.

In terms of justice, you can assert your right of self defense, but again the wisdom of proportion must enter the picture. This is obvious when you realize it is not just to seriously injure someone with, shall we say, a gun or a ball bat, who is merely trying to steal a bicycle. You are slowly accepting this concept of proportional response. And your point is very well taken of separating out those who are addicted to physical violence upon their fellows, from those guilty of petty crime, even though the latter do cause suffering. You need to make this distinction, and save your incarceration for those who are truly dangerous.

One of the great long-term challenges facing every society is the problem of providing worth-while employment. That alone would have the greatest impact on crime. But that, coupled with a genuine social acceptance of the great need, the great quality of life to be had in good employment, plus a kind of social discipline and insistence upon it, can only come about when it is provided. You cannot insist upon something that does not exist.

One of the great long-term challenges facing every society is the problem of providing worth-while employment. That alone would have the greatest impact on crime. But that, coupled with a genuine social acceptance of the great need, the great quality of life to be had in good employment, plus a kind of social discipline and insistence upon it, can only come about when it is provided. You cannot insist upon something that does not exist.

If you think about it, to say there is a lack of good work to be done, is absurd. We even approached, one time, the seeming paradox there is in humanity as a whole almost some weird fear of paradise, or utopia—the changes that would require. This is the true measure of what has developed since the revolt of Lucifer, and how things went so terribly awry because of it. You students of history, consider for a while the enormous productivity of the human race gone not only to offensive warfare but defensive preparations as well. Think of those enormous stone walls built around cities. Think of the great fleets of ships, the great armies, continuing up to the present day. Think of the hundreds of millions of lives lost not only in direct combat, but ten times as many in all the collateral effects of starvation and death from disease and exposure. It staggers your imagination to consider what the world might have been, or even could be in a very short while, if all this criminal activity, and the defenses against it, were put to constructive, lasting and enduring, beneficial effect.

If you think about it, to say there is a lack of good work to be done, is absurd. We even approached, one time, the seeming paradox there is in humanity as a whole almost some weird fear of paradise, or utopia—the changes that would require. This is the true measure of what has developed since the revolt of Lucifer, and how things went so terribly awry because of it. You students of history, consider for a while the enormous productivity of the human race gone not only to offensive warfare but defensive preparations as well. Think of those enormous stone walls built around cities. Think of the great fleets of ships, the great armies, continuing up to the present day. Think of the hundreds of millions of lives lost not only in direct combat, but ten times as many in all the collateral effects of starvation and death from disease and exposure. It staggers your imagination to consider what the world might have been, or even could be in a very short while, if all this criminal activity, and the defenses against it, were put to constructive, lasting and enduring, beneficial effect.

We very rarely bring up in this context your life to come, for we do not wish to minimize your suffering in our regard. But it is nevertheless a great truth, my son, that with respect to your ongoing life, even in the first few Mansion Worlds, let alone your continuing development in your Local System, and Constellation, and on Salvington here with us; with respect to all of this, it is a great truth that your first human life is, by comparison, but a short while of very intense challenge and response.

We very rarely bring up in this context your life to come, for we do not wish to minimize your suffering in our regard. But it is nevertheless a great truth, my son, that with respect to your ongoing life, even in the first few Mansion Worlds, let alone your continuing development in your Local System, and Constellation, and on Salvington here with us; with respect to all of this, it is a great truth that your first human life is, by comparison, but a short while of very intense challenge and response.

As to the cause of any smothering of creativity: it is unavoidably a matter of courage. Whenever administrators or teachers opt for control over nurturing creativity, you are simply face to face with a lack or nerve. This is why we once challenged you to think of a world in which you have very creative, self-fulfilled and self-determining individuals, spiritual individuals with a high sense of social responsibility. To many folks this is a recipe for chaos. They simply have no faith in their fellows. They can only think of peace on earth in terms of ever greater control, relying upon a kind of universality of weakness, an inability for violence. Which, unfortunately—actually fortunately, from our point of view—this is an impossibility. This is why we say, More power to you. Hopefully there is a dawning recognition that some of the most horrific and obscene acts done all through history have been done by truly pitiful individuals who were willing to sacrifice anyone else just to assuage their own sense of powerlessness.

As to the cause of any smothering of creativity: it is unavoidably a matter of courage. Whenever administrators or teachers opt for control over nurturing creativity, you are simply face to face with a lack or nerve. This is why we once challenged you to think of a world in which you have very creative, self-fulfilled and self-determining individuals, spiritual individuals with a high sense of social responsibility. To many folks this is a recipe for chaos. They simply have no faith in their fellows. They can only think of peace on earth in terms of ever greater control, relying upon a kind of universality of weakness, an inability for violence. Which, unfortunately—actually fortunately, from our point of view—this is an impossibility. This is why we say, More power to you. Hopefully there is a dawning recognition that some of the most horrific and obscene acts done all through history have been done by truly pitiful individuals who were willing to sacrifice anyone else just to assuage their own sense of powerlessness.

You or Michael said to me, just be a person. And I think that is what has been lost. People have forgotten how to just be human beings. And that could be taught in our schools.

You or Michael said to me, just be a person. And I think that is what has been lost. People have forgotten how to just be human beings. And that could be taught in our schools.

NEBADONIA: Yes, my son, I think I will repeat my lesson tonight about a sense of proportion, and caution you not to buy into the sensationalistic media, nor let it in any way distort your deeper feelings and experiences of your own day to day life. There is an essence of human drama that is drawn to meaning in the sense of something irrevocable. This might sound a bit abstract, but consider that you are all, perhaps not cynically, but nevertheless doubtful that everyone lives happily ever after. Even great wealth, or happiness, have very definite temporal limits and can all be lost, whereas those terrible injuries in life—loosing a loved one, having your body maimed in some irreparable way—this is unquestionably meaningful because it is permanent. Happiness is fleeting, but if you loose an arm or a leg, that’s forever—human-wise.

NEBADONIA: Yes, my son, I think I will repeat my lesson tonight about a sense of proportion, and caution you not to buy into the sensationalistic media, nor let it in any way distort your deeper feelings and experiences of your own day to day life. There is an essence of human drama that is drawn to meaning in the sense of something irrevocable. This might sound a bit abstract, but consider that you are all, perhaps not cynically, but nevertheless doubtful that everyone lives happily ever after. Even great wealth, or happiness, have very definite temporal limits and can all be lost, whereas those terrible injuries in life—loosing a loved one, having your body maimed in some irreparable way—this is unquestionably meaningful because it is permanent. Happiness is fleeting, but if you loose an arm or a leg, that’s forever—human-wise.

Student: Oh yes, it does! And there are individuals, and groups, helping through grass-root efforts rehabilitate those in need. I saw on television where some who have committed horrific crimes—murder—are meeting face to face with the families of those who were killed, and confronting their forgiveness. That was so rewarding and uplifting to see—that communication, that experience. So there is hope—as you said. Thank you.

Student: Oh yes, it does! And there are individuals, and groups, helping through grass-root efforts rehabilitate those in need. I saw on television where some who have committed horrific crimes—murder—are meeting face to face with the families of those who were killed, and confronting their forgiveness. That was so rewarding and uplifting to see—that communication, that experience. So there is hope—as you said. Thank you.

 

NEBADONIA: You are certainly welcome, my son. Be in my love.

NEBADONIA: You are certainly welcome, my son. Be in my love.

It takes time, my children, time to regain your sense of proportion—at times. So don’t be in a hurry. Seek out your stillness, just to let your spirit and soul expand to encompass even these horrific events. It helps you avoid any overly-facile generalizations, and retain the uniqueness of the individuals involved. That complexity is the true understanding, and you can expand to encompass and embrace it. It invites you to grow, and use your own creativity to capture—for yourself—the meaning and the value you can hold. This is the challenge before you, and before everyone: how to totally accept, even appreciate, everything that is happening, and still go forward, still meet your neighbor with good cheer and be that person—as you remind us—be that complete person standing there for the both of you. Be in my love. Good evening.

It takes time, my children, time to regain your sense of proportion—at times. So don’t be in a hurry. Seek out your stillness, just to let your spirit and soul expand to encompass even these horrific events. It helps you avoid any overly-facile generalizations, and retain the uniqueness of the individuals involved. That complexity is the true understanding, and you can expand to encompass and embrace it. It invites you to grow, and use your own creativity to capture—for yourself—the meaning and the value you can hold. This is the challenge before you, and before everyone: how to totally accept, even appreciate, everything that is happening, and still go forward, still meet your neighbor with good cheer and be that person—as you remind us—be that complete person standing there for the both of you. Be in my love. Good evening.