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For all this [[insight]] and encouragement, this downright soulful [[assurance]] from you and the whole [[spiritual]] [[community]], we do thank you so much.  We look forward to more contact, more joyous [[communication]] with the two of you to make up some more very happy new years to come.  [[Amen]].   

For all this [[insight]] and encouragement, this downright soulful [[assurance]] from you and the whole [[spiritual]] [[community]], we do thank you so much.  We look forward to more contact, more joyous [[communication]] with the two of you to make up some more very happy new years to come.  [[Amen]].   

===Lesson===

===Lesson===

NEBADONIA:  Good evening, my children, this is [[Mother Spirit]].  Yes indeed, it is an exciting time for you to be living through.  Michael last spoke on the [[meaning]] of that [[Christmas]] carol about the [[hopes]] and [[fears]] of all the years that were met in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlehem Bethlehem] the night [[Jesus]] was born.  And now I’m sure so many of you have taken his message to [[heart]] and found its [[response]] deep within you.  You’ve come to [[realize]] that in many ways, my dear ones, this is the same path you yourselves are taking.  You can recognize how, when you dare to hope, when you dare to open yourself to [[possibility]], when you dare to take [[responsibility]] for your own [[creativity]] out in all the world [[Encompassing|surrounding]] you, then you relax in the assurance, the deep rest you find in Michael’s [[peace]] and in my [[love]]; it does open you to all those deep [[fears]] and [[Anxiety|anxieties]] you may have been denying or suppressing, sometimes for years.

NEBADONIA:  Good evening, my children, this is [[Mother Spirit]].  Yes indeed, it is an exciting time for you to be living through.  Michael last spoke on the [[meaning]] of that [[Christmas]] carol about the [[hopes]] and [[fears]] of all the years that were met in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlehem Bethlehem] the night [[Jesus]] was born.  And now I’m sure so many of you have taken his message to [[heart]] and found its [[response]] deep within you.  You’ve come to [[realize]] that in many ways, my dear ones, this is the same path you yourselves are taking.  You can recognize how, when you dare to hope, when you dare to open yourself to [[possibility]], when you dare to take [[responsibility]] for your own [[creativity]] out in all the world [[Encompassing|surrounding]] you, then you relax in the assurance, the deep rest you find in Michael’s [[peace]] and in my [[love]]; it does open you to all those deep [[fears]] and [[Anxiety|anxieties]] you may have been denying or suppressing, sometimes for years.

===='''''[[Fear]]'''''====

===='''''[[Fear]]'''''====

(The fears that arise with hope)

(The fears that arise with hope)

Now you can truly [[rest]] in an open mind.  You’ve met all your fears and all your anxieties.  You’ve learned from all your mistakes.  You’re open-minded so you can welcome learning from the mistakes you’ll make tomorrow.  So you try [[things]] unafraid.  You know for certain the [[joyous]], if ironic, [[fact]] that the only bad [[experiment]] is the rare one that teaches you nothing.  This is how you sit loose to life.  This is how you enjoy the [[flexibility]] of a living being--enjoying your own [[body]] and [[mind]] united in [[dynamic]] [[health]], and not just living for some fixed [[abstraction]] of mind alone at the expense of your poor, suffering, mistreated and ignored [[body]].

Now you can truly [[rest]] in an open mind.  You’ve met all your fears and all your anxieties.  You’ve learned from all your mistakes.  You’re open-minded so you can welcome learning from the mistakes you’ll make tomorrow.  So you try [[things]] unafraid.  You know for certain the [[joyous]], if ironic, [[fact]] that the only bad [[experiment]] is the rare one that teaches you nothing.  This is how you sit loose to life.  This is how you enjoy the [[flexibility]] of a living being--enjoying your own [[body]] and [[mind]] united in [[dynamic]] [[health]], and not just living for some fixed [[abstraction]] of mind alone at the expense of your poor, suffering, mistreated and ignored [[body]].

   

   

This is using your [[creative]] [[spirit]], my children.  This is inclusiveness--all inclusiveness.  This is living without [[denial]], without trying to bend [[everything]] coming your way to some self-satisfying [[prejudice]].  This is seeing and delighting in [[events]] and people in their [[temporal]] and [[individual]] uniqueness.  You’re not worried about maintaining the continuity of your life through all this enhanced appreciation of the particular: you are that continuity!  Your [[potentially]] eternal [[personality]] is the living [[connecting]] link!  Your world is partly you!--and so each event that comes to you is seen not only in the continuity of [[time]], the assured [[cause]] and effect of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Law Natural Law].  You begin to [[perceive]] that [[dimension]] of God’s creativity--shared with all personal beings--that is new and unique every [[moment]].  If you can meet the [[challenge]], what a delight it is to see how the [[universe]] and everyone in it--including you--is not just endlessly, tiresomely repeating.

This is using your [[creative]] [[spirit]], my children.  This is inclusiveness--all inclusiveness.  This is living without [[denial]], without trying to bend [[everything]] coming your way to some self-satisfying [[prejudice]].  This is seeing and delighting in [[events]] and people in their [[temporal]] and [[individual]] uniqueness.  You’re not worried about maintaining the continuity of your life through all this enhanced appreciation of the particular: you are that continuity!  Your [[potentially]] eternal [[personality]] is the living [[connecting]] link!  Your world is partly you!--and so each event that comes to you is seen not only in the continuity of [[time]], the assured [[cause]] and effect of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Law Natural Law].  You begin to [[perceive]] that [[dimension]] of God’s creativity--shared with all personal beings--that is new and unique every [[moment]].  If you can meet the [[challenge]], what a delight it is to see how the [[universe]] and everyone in it--including you--is not just endlessly, tiresomely repeating.

   

   

What is there to hang on to?  [[Everything]] [[changes]], even your self-conscious you, [[growing]] and maturing, yet your unchanging [[personality]] continues as the connecting link that realizes--makes real--all else.  It is you, along with a [[presence]] of [[God]] himself, growing a [[soul]].  And this, my children, is the [[purpose]] for all of this--if you will, God’s [[desire]] to [[share]] His creativity, His [[power]], His enjoyment with you, along with an utterly innumerable host of others.

What is there to hang on to?  [[Everything]] [[changes]], even your self-conscious you, [[growing]] and maturing, yet your unchanging [[personality]] continues as the connecting link that realizes--makes real--all else.  It is you, along with a [[presence]] of [[God]] himself, growing a [[soul]].  And this, my children, is the [[purpose]] for all of this--if you will, God’s [[desire]] to [[share]] His creativity, His [[power]], His enjoyment with you, along with an utterly innumerable host of others.

Student, laughing:  That’s more palpable.  Because there are some [[philosophies]] or teachings out there that say that we are creating everything that happens to us, whether it is [[Goodness|positive]] or [[negative]].  Like, let’s say, someone’s house burns down.  Well, somehow they created that [[experience]].  There’s some notion of [[Karma]], or just thinking negatively--always having a [[[Link title]][fear]] about that--that caused it.  Or someone wins the lottery, on the other extreme; they created that, somehow.  They were open to that.  Could you comment on that?

Student, laughing:  That’s more palpable.  Because there are some [[philosophies]] or teachings out there that say that we are creating everything that happens to us, whether it is [[Goodness|positive]] or [[negative]].  Like, let’s say, someone’s house burns down.  Well, somehow they created that [[experience]].  There’s some notion of [[Karma]], or just thinking negatively--always having a [[[Link title]][fear]] about that--that caused it.  Or someone wins the lottery, on the other extreme; they created that, somehow.  They were open to that.  Could you comment on that?

===='''''[[Subjectivity]]'''''====

===='''''[[Subjectivity]]'''''====

NEBADONIA:  Yes, my son, that seems to be a [[philosophy]] of [[pure]] [[subjectivity]], that your own [[inner life]] is solely responsible for everything that happens to you.  But from our [[standpoint]], that is literally denying the objective [[existence]] of a [[Universe of Universes|whole universe]] full of--even on your one world here--billions of [[personal]] beings who are interacting with you, let alone enormous natural [[forces]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather weather] or [[geology]]--[[Catastrophism|hurricanes and earthquakes]] and such.  Even on the smallest scale, you can be a very good driver and still be blind-sided by someone who is totally out of control.

NEBADONIA:  Yes, my son, that seems to be a [[philosophy]] of [[pure]] [[subjectivity]], that your own [[inner life]] is solely responsible for everything that happens to you.  But from our [[standpoint]], that is literally denying the objective [[existence]] of a [[Universe of Universes|whole universe]] full of--even on your one world here--billions of [[personal]] beings who are interacting with you, let alone enormous natural [[forces]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather weather] or [[geology]]--[[Catastrophism|hurricanes and earthquakes]] and such.  Even on the smallest scale, you can be a very good driver and still be blind-sided by someone who is totally out of control.

   

   

[[Things]] happen to people.  From our point of view, it’s only a great pretense for a person to say they understand, or their [[philosophy]] comprehends, the total cause and effect in the physical, mental, and spiritual [[complexity]] of [[events]] surrounding a [[unique]] individual’s life interacting within his or her [[society]].  To us it’s a better part of [[humility]], and much more accurate, to acknowledge this [[transcendent]] complexity of forces and personalities involved.  This is the basis for your humility, this [[perception]] of the enormous [[encompassing]] involved in your, and everyone else’s, life; and yet not fear it.  

[[Things]] happen to people.  From our point of view, it’s only a great pretense for a person to say they understand, or their [[philosophy]] comprehends, the total cause and effect in the physical, mental, and spiritual [[complexity]] of [[events]] surrounding a [[unique]] individual’s life interacting within his or her [[society]].  To us it’s a better part of [[humility]], and much more accurate, to acknowledge this [[transcendent]] complexity of forces and personalities involved.  This is the basis for your humility, this [[perception]] of the enormous [[encompassing]] involved in your, and everyone else’s, life; and yet not fear it.  

===='''''[[Karma]]'''''====

===='''''[[Karma]]'''''====

Student:  Yes, it could lead to being afraid to think anything new, or step out the door.  Yet there seems to be whole countries whose [[social]] [[systems]] are based on that kind of [[thinking]], that phony kind of [[Karma]].  Everything that happens to people, they somehow deserved it, so if they’re born into some lower [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Caste. caste], then that’s their due, and they always have to be that.  [[Imagine]] the [[Tyranny|oppressiveness]] of that.  It seems the notions of [[Karma]], or [[reincarnation]], or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_Sin original sin], are just man’s attempts to come to grips with their own sense of [[evil]]--why that happens to people.  It’s because of original sin, or something they did five lifetimes ago.  It just seems absurd.  It’s not taking into account what you mentioned about the real complexity of reality and how there’s something new and different in each event.

Student:  Yes, it could lead to being afraid to think anything new, or step out the door.  Yet there seems to be whole countries whose [[social]] [[systems]] are based on that kind of [[thinking]], that phony kind of [[Karma]].  Everything that happens to people, they somehow deserved it, so if they’re born into some lower [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Caste. caste], then that’s their due, and they always have to be that.  [[Imagine]] the [[Tyranny|oppressiveness]] of that.  It seems the notions of [[Karma]], or [[reincarnation]], or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_Sin original sin], are just man’s attempts to come to grips with their own sense of [[evil]]--why that happens to people.  It’s because of original sin, or something they did five lifetimes ago.  It just seems absurd.  It’s not taking into account what you mentioned about the real complexity of reality and how there’s something new and different in each event.

(You are [[mirror]]ed in what you do)  

(You are [[mirror]]ed in what you do)  

NEBADONIA:  Yes, they were the ones who put him to [[death]]; however Roman [[law]] dictated that Roman soldiers do it directly.  

NEBADONIA:  Yes, they were the ones who put him to [[death]]; however Roman [[law]] dictated that Roman soldiers do it directly.  

   

   

Student:  The celebratory nature of life was sucked out of the people because of their own [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanhedrin Sanhedrin] and the laws that were imposed.  You couldn’t do this; you couldn’t do that.  You couldn’t [[breathe]]--almost.  Anyway, that’s what I gathered in the first few pages of this book.

Student:  The celebratory nature of life was sucked out of the people because of their own [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanhedrin Sanhedrin] and the laws that were imposed.  You couldn’t do this; you couldn’t do that.  You couldn’t [[breathe]]--almost.  Anyway, that’s what I gathered in the first few pages of this book.

   

   

NEBADONIA:  We mentioned once an overview of [[human]] [[civilization]] would be how only recently the tribal level of [[society]] has lead to the nation/state level, all the while their security considerations have led to endless [[warfare]].  The leaders tend to enforce their rules to insure control, but then, in a reversal of your common saying, can’t see the trees for the forest.  These [[hierarchies]] of [[authority]] who feel, because of their own inner anxieties, it’s [[necessary]] to control the people, come to consider only the over-all strategic [[political]] view and loose sight of the [[individuals]] involved.

NEBADONIA:  We mentioned once an overview of [[human]] [[civilization]] would be how only recently the tribal level of [[society]] has lead to the nation/state level, all the while their security considerations have led to endless [[warfare]].  The leaders tend to enforce their rules to insure control, but then, in a reversal of your common saying, can’t see the trees for the forest.  These [[hierarchies]] of [[authority]] who feel, because of their own inner anxieties, it’s [[necessary]] to control the people, come to consider only the over-all strategic [[political]] view and loose sight of the [[individuals]] involved.