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

 

Dear Mother Spirit and Michael--Holy Spirit and Creator Son of Nebadon, We thank you for the gifts of spirit you give us from your point of view on the human condition, human being. You breathe hope and inspiration into our more limited scope of perceptions and restore our faith in the ultimate triumph of God’s ways. Help us discern God’s will for all of us, and then help us find the courage and the determination to live in accord with it. Amen.

Dear Mother Spirit and Michael--Holy Spirit and Creator Son of Nebadon, We thank you for the gifts of spirit you give us from your point of view on the human condition, human being. You breathe hope and inspiration into our more limited scope of perceptions and restore our faith in the ultimate triumph of God’s ways. Help us discern God’s will for all of us, and then help us find the courage and the determination to live in accord with it. Amen.

NEBADONIA: Good evening, my children, this is your spirit mother, Nebadonia. I welcome you anew with the freshness and spontaneity that is my forte. Excuse Michael and I if we seem to overuse the word delight, but this is what we feel springing up unbidden in us, to greet you. We are so thrilled when you acknowledge us and welcome us into your lives.

NEBADONIA: Good evening, my children, this is your spirit mother, Nebadonia. I welcome you anew with the freshness and spontaneity that is my forte. Excuse Michael and I if we seem to overuse the word delight, but this is what we feel springing up unbidden in us, to greet you. We are so thrilled when you acknowledge us and welcome us into your lives.

 

 

This is the essence of divinity, this discovering and sharing of God’s unity across the enormous gulf of rather pure spirit beings, such as ourselves, and spirit-endowed beings such as you are. Michael spent some time last week laying out for you all the dimensions of spirit you inhabit, and that impinge upon your consciousness. A good rule of thumb to keep in mind is that spirit is always associated with some personal being. There is no impersonal spirit abroad in the universe. Spirit’s major characteristic, from a human point of view, is one of all-inclusiveness. This is because, my children, most spirit beings do have a greater range of perception and contact with other beings than you yourselves. Your material mind is so greatly determined by the electro/chemical processes of your body that even the pure spirit of your Thought Adjuster has a hard time swimming through the sea of physical material/energy-based thought processes to reach your consciousness. So even though you are endowed with spirit and have within you all these spiritual influences, your material minds are strictly the product of your bodies, with all the evolution of Urantia involved. The whole legacy of animal evolution is wrapped up in the very structure of your bodies and nervous systems, all those millions and millions of years of survival development.

This is the essence of divinity, this discovering and sharing of God’s unity across the enormous gulf of rather pure spirit beings, such as ourselves, and spirit-endowed beings such as you are. Michael spent some time last week laying out for you all the dimensions of spirit you inhabit, and that impinge upon your consciousness. A good rule of thumb to keep in mind is that spirit is always associated with some personal being. There is no impersonal spirit abroad in the universe. Spirit’s major characteristic, from a human point of view, is one of all-inclusiveness. This is because, my children, most spirit beings do have a greater range of perception and contact with other beings than you yourselves. Your material mind is so greatly determined by the electro/chemical processes of your body that even the pure spirit of your Thought Adjuster has a hard time swimming through the sea of physical material/energy-based thought processes to reach your consciousness. So even though you are endowed with spirit and have within you all these spiritual influences, your material minds are strictly the product of your bodies, with all the evolution of Urantia involved. The whole legacy of animal evolution is wrapped up in the very structure of your bodies and nervous systems, all those millions and millions of years of survival development.

This is still something you have to contend with. This makes up a great deal of your mentality and, as I’ve said before, these are your fallback systems. When you fail to use your higher intellectual and spiritual acumen they do take over. That is their function, so you can think of the finer, more delicate and sensitive spiritual inputs and the thinking of your higher consciousness--which is the final stage of evolution, physically and then spiritually--this is what you come to only after you have matured your body and your mind.

This is still something you have to contend with. This makes up a great deal of your mentality and, as I’ve said before, these are your fallback systems. When you fail to use your higher intellectual and spiritual acumen they do take over. That is their function, so you can think of the finer, more delicate and sensitive spiritual inputs and the thinking of your higher consciousness--which is the final stage of evolution, physically and then spiritually--this is what you come to only after you have matured your body and your mind.

It takes a rather fully developed intellect to realize the necessity for the pure principle of stillness, and then get the determination to start to spend part of your living energies and your precious time in this pursuit of spiritual contact, spiritual awareness. But this is where your greatest creativity lies. This is where you find the single most appropriate, spontaneous actions and reactions to your total present situation. This is how you rise above the past and have some choice over its conditioning. The material, animal-instinct level of mind is always there like a deep, unfathomable sea upon which you are steering your little ship of soul. As you think back on your childhood, you can remember how tempest-tossed this sea was and how many times as a child you were totally overcome by all the raging emotions and desires and frustrations that would sweep you away. Those of you who are parents have been blessed with recapitulating your own life in the lives of your children, revisiting all those thousand and one small stages of development until, hopefully, your children grow up into your estate and even surpass you to carry the torch of human progress one step further.

It takes a rather fully developed intellect to realize the necessity for the pure principle of stillness, and then get the determination to start to spend part of your living energies and your precious time in this pursuit of spiritual contact, spiritual awareness. But this is where your greatest creativity lies. This is where you find the single most appropriate, spontaneous actions and reactions to your total present situation. This is how you rise above the past and have some choice over its conditioning. The material, animal-instinct level of mind is always there like a deep, unfathomable sea upon which you are steering your little ship of soul. As you think back on your childhood, you can remember how tempest-tossed this sea was and how many times as a child you were totally overcome by all the raging emotions and desires and frustrations that would sweep you away. Those of you who are parents have been blessed with recapitulating your own life in the lives of your children, revisiting all those thousand and one small stages of development until, hopefully, your children grow up into your estate and even surpass you to carry the torch of human progress one step further.

You learn to control your material mind and passions. You develop an intellect, and then, hopefully, learn beyond its limitations as you step into the realm of spirit and true creativity.

You learn to control your material mind and passions. You develop an intellect, and then, hopefully, learn beyond its limitations as you step into the realm of spirit and true creativity.

It is God’s will that you traverse this enormous panorama, to come fully up to your parents’ generation’s realizations, and then carry the torch one step further. So never be dismayed that you are human. This is one of God’s basic ways of creating eternal beings, and even the angels sometimes envy you, that each of you can personally traverse the entire gamut from a barely visible single living cell, across a universe of experience, to ultimately become a Finaliter of Paradise. We welcome you to enjoy the journey, though the hardships of life challenge your ability to keep this panorama in mind. Still, my children, do your best to keep in mind: you are just beginning! So keep your beginner’s mind. There is a long way to go, literally forever. But God gives it to you one moment at a time. If you have any questions or comments this evening, we certainly have time for them.

It is God’s will that you traverse this enormous panorama, to come fully up to your parents’ generation’s realizations, and then carry the torch one step further. So never be dismayed that you are human. This is one of God’s basic ways of creating eternal beings, and even the angels sometimes envy you, that each of you can personally traverse the entire gamut from a barely visible single living cell, across a universe of experience, to ultimately become a Finaliter of Paradise. We welcome you to enjoy the journey, though the hardships of life challenge your ability to keep this panorama in mind. Still, my children, do your best to keep in mind: you are just beginning! So keep your beginner’s mind. There is a long way to go, literally forever. But God gives it to you one moment at a time. If you have any questions or comments this evening, we certainly have time for them.

 

Student: Mother, I’m delighted to be here, and delighted you’re here, and I’m delighted that Father Michael and all the other teachers are here in such a manner. It’s really cool to get to talk to you like this. I have a question that I asked about three years ago, I believe. It’s about prayer. When I want to pray for somebody, what’s the best way to do it—somebody’s wellbeing--somebody’s physical wellbeing or mental wellbeing, or just plain wellbeing?

Student: Mother, I’m delighted to be here, and delighted you’re here, and I’m delighted that Father Michael and all the other teachers are here in such a manner. It’s really cool to get to talk to you like this. I have a question that I asked about three years ago, I believe. It’s about prayer. When I want to pray for somebody, what’s the best way to do it—somebody’s wellbeing--somebody’s physical wellbeing or mental wellbeing, or just plain wellbeing?

NEBADONIA: Yes, my son, there are roughly two great components to such a prayer. The effect to be derived from God’s presence hardly needs the asking for it is true, as you’ve been told, that he knows what we need even before we do. God is already, always, fulfilling his ultimate function, upholding all of his creation right down to the last personal being.

NEBADONIA: Yes, my son, there are roughly two great components to such a prayer. The effect to be derived from God’s presence hardly needs the asking for it is true, as you’ve been told, that he knows what we need even before we do. God is already, always, fulfilling his ultimate function, upholding all of his creation right down to the last personal being.

Student: Yes, Mother, along these same lines: if we are praying are we not focusing on their own completeness, their own innate wellbeing-ness?—that is God’s intention for them? I was thinking of a friend I’ve worked for, for twenty-four years, who’s, unfortunately, in the grips of Alzheimer’s. I mentioned to her husband, who’s having a hard time--feeling he’s losing a partner, that she is still there. When I see her, I see her—not the Alzheimer’s. I see infinite potential, as does God. I think that is what prayer is—focusing on a person’s completeness.

Student: Yes, Mother, along these same lines: if we are praying are we not focusing on their own completeness, their own innate wellbeing-ness?—that is God’s intention for them? I was thinking of a friend I’ve worked for, for twenty-four years, who’s, unfortunately, in the grips of Alzheimer’s. I mentioned to her husband, who’s having a hard time--feeling he’s losing a partner, that she is still there. When I see her, I see her—not the Alzheimer’s. I see infinite potential, as does God. I think that is what prayer is—focusing on a person’s completeness.

NEBADONIA: Very much so, my son. This is literally achieving through prayer a spiritual point of view, for this is what we have been conveying to you as our spiritual view of who and what you are. We are just extraordinarily blessed we can see your souls in their moment to moment fullness and completeness. And so if you too can see this, and really deeply know this--know this for a fact within yourself—you too are blessed and can do great good in sharing this with others who may need it so desperately, who are suffering so much the loss of their loved one’s responses. The soul, the person’s whole lifetime is still there, quite intact.

NEBADONIA: Very much so, my son. This is literally achieving through prayer a spiritual point of view, for this is what we have been conveying to you as our spiritual view of who and what you are. We are just extraordinarily blessed we can see your souls in their moment to moment fullness and completeness. And so if you too can see this, and really deeply know this--know this for a fact within yourself—you too are blessed and can do great good in sharing this with others who may need it so desperately, who are suffering so much the loss of their loved one’s responses. The soul, the person’s whole lifetime is still there, quite intact.

NEBADONIA: Some of these self-help books are too narrowly focused, and the point they often miss is that of the general good. They fail to encourage you to be more like our Father himself in being no respecter of persons. This is an ultimate challenge because you are all beset by the incessant clamoring of an ego consciousness for recognition and assurance, sometimes justification for what you’ve done in the past.

NEBADONIA: Some of these self-help books are too narrowly focused, and the point they often miss is that of the general good. They fail to encourage you to be more like our Father himself in being no respecter of persons. This is an ultimate challenge because you are all beset by the incessant clamoring of an ego consciousness for recognition and assurance, sometimes justification for what you’ve done in the past.

To see yourself with the wisdom of proportion with respect to those around you is a kind of spiritual generosity. See yourself as a part of a social group—your needs and desires, but including everyone else. That is a definition of heaven on earth, when a whole society has achieved Light and Life and no one is left behind; everyone is included. That is the point that is often missing in these books—too much the small self, losing sight of the greater self—God’s view of everyone.

To see yourself with the wisdom of proportion with respect to those around you is a kind of spiritual generosity. See yourself as a part of a social group—your needs and desires, but including everyone else. That is a definition of heaven on earth, when a whole society has achieved Light and Life and no one is left behind; everyone is included. That is the point that is often missing in these books—too much the small self, losing sight of the greater self—God’s view of everyone.

NEBADONIA: That’s certainly the right orientation. True enough, with the right attitude, a real scientific attitude, there is no bad experiment except those which don't tell you anything. All definitive feedback, in this sense, is good. So be in my love.

NEBADONIA: That’s certainly the right orientation. True enough, with the right attitude, a real scientific attitude, there is no bad experiment except those which don't tell you anything. All definitive feedback, in this sense, is good. So be in my love.