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Student:  Thank you, Mother, for the [[wonderful]] lesson tonight.  The question I have is, when I pray for someone else, and also myself, what do I pray for?  What do I ask for?  I can think of a lot of [[things]]--[[health]], prosperity, well-being--but then if [[the Father]] already knows [[everything]], how can I go about praying for someone else?

Student:  Thank you, Mother, for the [[wonderful]] lesson tonight.  The question I have is, when I pray for someone else, and also myself, what do I pray for?  What do I ask for?  I can think of a lot of [[things]]--[[health]], prosperity, well-being--but then if [[the Father]] already knows [[everything]], how can I go about praying for someone else?

   

   

* [[Prayer]] (How to pray]

* '''''[[Prayer]]''''' (How to pray]

   

   

NEBADONIA:  Yes, my son: well, that’s not a bad start--[[health]], well-being, prosperity, maybe that they [[grow]] in [[spirit]]--that they too have some feeling of their [[soul]] growing within them.  This is not only their experiences as they remember them, but also a greater totality as a presence of God registers these experiences.

NEBADONIA:  Yes, my son: well, that’s not a bad start--[[health]], well-being, prosperity, maybe that they [[grow]] in [[spirit]]--that they too have some feeling of their [[soul]] growing within them.  This is not only their experiences as they remember them, but also a greater totality as a presence of God registers these experiences.

Student:  Yeah…  That’s part of the [[unknown]] as well.  It’s also faith, and [[imagining]] how [[God]] sees us.  He sees our lives in love, and [[perfection]], and [[joy]]--in our humanness.  He can see the [[potential]] we have to become as He sees us, to become that extension of His kingdom.

Student:  Yeah…  That’s part of the [[unknown]] as well.  It’s also faith, and [[imagining]] how [[God]] sees us.  He sees our lives in love, and [[perfection]], and [[joy]]--in our humanness.  He can see the [[potential]] we have to become as He sees us, to become that extension of His kingdom.

   

   

* [[Presence]] (The kingdom)

* '''''[[Presence]]''''' (The kingdom)

   

   

NEBADONIA:  If you’ve read the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents#Part_IV._The_Life_and_Teachings_of_Jesus Urantia book’s version of Jesus’ life], you know what a stumbling block this was for his [[apostles]].  Even at the time of the [Paper 179 - The Last Supper last supper] they were still arguing about who was to be in what position in the kingdom, in spite of the fact he had told them over and over again that the kingdom was [[Inner Life|within]].  Tonight I hoped to give you at least one or two of the many keys to this kingdom, this total personhood that you are, [[sharing]] your life with us.  

NEBADONIA:  If you’ve read the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents#Part_IV._The_Life_and_Teachings_of_Jesus Urantia book’s version of Jesus’ life], you know what a stumbling block this was for his [[apostles]].  Even at the time of the [Paper 179 - The Last Supper last supper] they were still arguing about who was to be in what position in the kingdom, in spite of the fact he had told them over and over again that the kingdom was [[Inner Life|within]].  Tonight I hoped to give you at least one or two of the many keys to this kingdom, this total personhood that you are, [[sharing]] your life with us.  

This has been going on so long that it’s only by the way of your [[stillness]] [[practice]] of relaxing and tuning in again to the [[miracle]] of your heart beating, or just watching something, without affecting it, you yourself can control; it’s only by getting these inner awareness’s and abilities that you can grow and sustain your faith and [[confidence]] in the face of outward threats.

This has been going on so long that it’s only by the way of your [[stillness]] [[practice]] of relaxing and tuning in again to the [[miracle]] of your heart beating, or just watching something, without affecting it, you yourself can control; it’s only by getting these inner awareness’s and abilities that you can grow and sustain your faith and [[confidence]] in the face of outward threats.

   

   

* [[Fear]] (Examine fears for their message)  

* '''''[[Fear]]''''' (Examine fears for their message)  

   

   

If it helps--and it usually does--[[examine]] each fear as it comes up in the [[light]] of a possible caution from your [[higher consciousness]] of the whole surrounding situation; say, [[imagining]] some possible [[accident]] while driving.  Your whole [[feeling]]/[[intuitive]] self may be sensing a real danger before your [[cognitive]] mind can [[imagine]] it concretely in [[thought]].  Here, rather than disregarding the fear out of [[habit]], it pays to entertain the fear for what [[information]] it may contain.  Being open to [[emotion]], while at the same time not letting it control you, can give you a subtle read on a situation, a feeling-evaluation because feeling/sensing is the fundamental [[reality]] of your total self, your higher consciousness more in [[touch]] with reality than you are at times.  So also consider fear as caution and see what message it might contain.  

If it helps--and it usually does--[[examine]] each fear as it comes up in the [[light]] of a possible caution from your [[higher consciousness]] of the whole surrounding situation; say, [[imagining]] some possible [[accident]] while driving.  Your whole [[feeling]]/[[intuitive]] self may be sensing a real danger before your [[cognitive]] mind can [[imagine]] it concretely in [[thought]].  Here, rather than disregarding the fear out of [[habit]], it pays to entertain the fear for what [[information]] it may contain.  Being open to [[emotion]], while at the same time not letting it control you, can give you a subtle read on a situation, a feeling-evaluation because feeling/sensing is the fundamental [[reality]] of your total self, your higher consciousness more in [[touch]] with reality than you are at times.  So also consider fear as caution and see what message it might contain.  

Student:  I worry our [[youth]], with so many of these things like i-pods and stuff, are losing, or never developing, the capacity to [[think]] for themselves.  What’s happening to their abilities of [[discernment]], or their ability to feel what they are doing to someone else?--the [[pain]] they’re causing?  They know it’s wrong, but they still do it.  Where is the [[spiritual]] [[understanding]]?  That’s my feeling of fear: I fear for my own [[children]], even though I [[understand]] so much of what God is, and the kingdom is.  It seems so incongruent to our true nature--who I am: but I feel the fear.  I’m not shying away from it, but it seems so unnecessary.  It’s like I’m feeling all this fear because of other people’s incongruence with their true natures.

Student:  I worry our [[youth]], with so many of these things like i-pods and stuff, are losing, or never developing, the capacity to [[think]] for themselves.  What’s happening to their abilities of [[discernment]], or their ability to feel what they are doing to someone else?--the [[pain]] they’re causing?  They know it’s wrong, but they still do it.  Where is the [[spiritual]] [[understanding]]?  That’s my feeling of fear: I fear for my own [[children]], even though I [[understand]] so much of what God is, and the kingdom is.  It seems so incongruent to our true nature--who I am: but I feel the fear.  I’m not shying away from it, but it seems so unnecessary.  It’s like I’m feeling all this fear because of other people’s incongruence with their true natures.

   

   

* [[Humanity]] (People’s true nature)

* '''''[[Humanity]]''''' (People’s true nature)

   

   

NEBADONIA:  Yes, my son, but I would caution you about too easily assuming what is a [[person]]’s, or people’s so-called true [[nature]].  Your [[Urantia book]] puts this very succinctly: the endowing of immature and imperfect beings with a [[relative]] degree of [[free will]] leads inevitably to [[tragedy]].  The [[cosmic]] [[possibility]] for wrong-doing is the price we all pay for each person’s ability to co-create their own life and [[destiny]], all the while, [[perfection]] of [[moral]] understanding and [[behavior]] is an experiential acquirement, not an [[existential]] actuality.  Again, it does no good to think of someone’s true nature as intrinsically perfect when the individual is incapable of [[realizing]] it yet through simple immaturity, lack of experience.  Prior to acquiring this experience, and [[reflecting]] upon it, a person is more or less subject to their [[heredity]] and [[environment]], their unconscious conditioning.  This was the [[meaning]] when Michael, as [[Jesus]], asked of [[our Father]] to [[forgive]] his children; they knew not what they were doing.  

NEBADONIA:  Yes, my son, but I would caution you about too easily assuming what is a [[person]]’s, or people’s so-called true [[nature]].  Your [[Urantia book]] puts this very succinctly: the endowing of immature and imperfect beings with a [[relative]] degree of [[free will]] leads inevitably to [[tragedy]].  The [[cosmic]] [[possibility]] for wrong-doing is the price we all pay for each person’s ability to co-create their own life and [[destiny]], all the while, [[perfection]] of [[moral]] understanding and [[behavior]] is an experiential acquirement, not an [[existential]] actuality.  Again, it does no good to think of someone’s true nature as intrinsically perfect when the individual is incapable of [[realizing]] it yet through simple immaturity, lack of experience.  Prior to acquiring this experience, and [[reflecting]] upon it, a person is more or less subject to their [[heredity]] and [[environment]], their unconscious conditioning.  This was the [[meaning]] when Michael, as [[Jesus]], asked of [[our Father]] to [[forgive]] his children; they knew not what they were doing.  

But you are correct in that their personality is still so totally conditioned by past events they can never achieve the real freedom of true, present-[[moment]] [[creativity]].  They are still only reactive.  They’ve never experienced that [[glorious]] moment of seeing they are no more important than the next person, and that the needs they feel as a human being, of recognition and response, are [[universal]] and have to be acknowledged and [[balanced]] with everyone else’s.  They want to play God and control life and [[death]], or even [[pain]]--through [[torture]], with another person.  They not only fail to realize they have the [[Thought Adjuster|presence of God]] already within them, but that it is also present in everyone else.  They are really and truly pathetic beings, but they are also quite dangerous.  That full reality of their humanity--their human possibilities--is something you have to deal with.

But you are correct in that their personality is still so totally conditioned by past events they can never achieve the real freedom of true, present-[[moment]] [[creativity]].  They are still only reactive.  They’ve never experienced that [[glorious]] moment of seeing they are no more important than the next person, and that the needs they feel as a human being, of recognition and response, are [[universal]] and have to be acknowledged and [[balanced]] with everyone else’s.  They want to play God and control life and [[death]], or even [[pain]]--through [[torture]], with another person.  They not only fail to realize they have the [[Thought Adjuster|presence of God]] already within them, but that it is also present in everyone else.  They are really and truly pathetic beings, but they are also quite dangerous.  That full reality of their humanity--their human possibilities--is something you have to deal with.

   

   

* [[Unknown]] (Welcoming the unknown)  

* '''''[[Unknown]]''''' (Welcoming the unknown)  

But finally tonight, the [[anxiousness]] you encounter as you try to [[meditate]] can be just a general, vague [[fear]] of the [[unknown]], yet [[ironically]], that too is what you are trying to access, to bring out of the [[shadows]] and into the [[light]] of [[consciousness]].  It’s not only the past and past conditioning.  It’s what you yourself with your own self-awareness cannot [[imagine]], but can only be open to: that which is [[transcendent]] to all you have yet experienced: all the [[potential]] that awaits you.  Welcome the unknown and see it in your future as a promise of endless [[adventure]], beings and [[dimensions]] beyond human ken, and yet too your birthright to encounter, someday.

But finally tonight, the [[anxiousness]] you encounter as you try to [[meditate]] can be just a general, vague [[fear]] of the [[unknown]], yet [[ironically]], that too is what you are trying to access, to bring out of the [[shadows]] and into the [[light]] of [[consciousness]].  It’s not only the past and past conditioning.  It’s what you yourself with your own self-awareness cannot [[imagine]], but can only be open to: that which is [[transcendent]] to all you have yet experienced: all the [[potential]] that awaits you.  Welcome the unknown and see it in your future as a promise of endless [[adventure]], beings and [[dimensions]] beyond human ken, and yet too your birthright to encounter, someday.