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Yes, I will do what you request.  I will give you as best I can certain [[viewpoints]] of Michael’s and mine as we look upon the [[human condition]].  The order of [[human being]]s on the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 evolutionary planets] are [[unique]] among all [[personal]] beings in that you have a [[physical]] [[body]] that even the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_39 lower angelic forms] do not have.  This physical body of yours, starting out as a [[dual]] [[origin]]--two-[[parent]]--one-[[cell]]ed living [[organism]], recapitulates the [[evolution]] of Urantian [[animal]] life before you are born.  Shortly after [[birth]] you begin, in a sense, to recapitulate the [[evolution]] of the particular [[civilization]] into which you were born: your three-year-olds walking around like little [[Primitive|cavemen or cavewomen]]; coming up to your high school years and all the [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle Ages Medieval gangs] and [[groups]]; how, hopefully, as you reach [[maturity]] in your late twenties, early thirties--these days, hopefully each [[generation]] takes one further step beyond what they got from their parents’ generation.

Yes, I will do what you request.  I will give you as best I can certain [[viewpoints]] of Michael’s and mine as we look upon the [[human condition]].  The order of [[human being]]s on the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 evolutionary planets] are [[unique]] among all [[personal]] beings in that you have a [[physical]] [[body]] that even the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_39 lower angelic forms] do not have.  This physical body of yours, starting out as a [[dual]] [[origin]]--two-[[parent]]--one-[[cell]]ed living [[organism]], recapitulates the [[evolution]] of Urantian [[animal]] life before you are born.  Shortly after [[birth]] you begin, in a sense, to recapitulate the [[evolution]] of the particular [[civilization]] into which you were born: your three-year-olds walking around like little [[Primitive|cavemen or cavewomen]]; coming up to your high school years and all the [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle Ages Medieval gangs] and [[groups]]; how, hopefully, as you reach [[maturity]] in your late twenties, early thirties--these days, hopefully each [[generation]] takes one further step beyond what they got from their parents’ generation.

   

   

So there is evolution involved here in each [[individual]], both [[physically]] and [[culturally]] and, as Michael said, in spite of all of the millions of [[books]] you have now on [[http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Physiology human physiology], hundreds of thousands of books, shall we say, on blood [[chemistry]] alone, in spite of all of this, your own [[personal]] [[body]] is to each of you an [[infinity]].  For all the specialization of your [[technical]] [[knowledge]] about human physiology, no one person can begin to [[comprehend]] even one hundredth of one percent of all of that.  Your physical bodies, my children, are this partial [[mystery]] to you, [[moment]] to moment.  And so we would have you stop from time to time and just [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Psalms#Psalm_46 be still] in spite of all the [[busyness]] and the demands of your life.  Pay some [[respect]] to this living, [[breathing]] part of you.  Feel yourself breathing and see--as we’ve teased you before into trying: see if you can just feel your body breathing, which is very tricky because it’s something you [[immediately]] affect.  Yet if you get this detachment from your own physical body and approach it with newness and [[wonder]] and [[curiosity]], you can get still enough to begin to feel your own [[heart]] beating.  And what is this?  What is this activity going on inside you over which you have so little [[control]]?  What is it keeping your heart beating?  Or is it Who?

So there is evolution involved here in each [[individual]], both [[physically]] and [[culturally]] and, as Michael said, in spite of all of the millions of [[books]] you have now on [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Physiology human physiology], hundreds of thousands of books, shall we say, on blood [[chemistry]] alone, in spite of all of this, your own [[personal]] [[body]] is to each of you an [[infinity]].  For all the specialization of your [[technical]] [[knowledge]] about human physiology, no one person can begin to [[comprehend]] even one hundredth of one percent of all of that.  Your physical bodies, my children, are this partial [[mystery]] to you, [[moment]] to moment.  And so we would have you stop from time to time and just [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Psalms#Psalm_46 be still] in spite of all the [[busyness]] and the demands of your life.  Pay some [[respect]] to this living, [[breathing]] part of you.  Feel yourself breathing and see--as we’ve teased you before into trying: see if you can just feel your body breathing, which is very tricky because it’s something you [[immediately]] affect.  Yet if you get this detachment from your own physical body and approach it with newness and [[wonder]] and [[curiosity]], you can get still enough to begin to feel your own [[heart]] beating.  And what is this?  What is this activity going on inside you over which you have so little [[control]]?  What is it keeping your heart beating?  Or is it Who?

   

   

We ask you to approach this [[physical]] part of your [[being]] with freshness, my [[children]], because as a [[developed]], industrialized [[culture]] now, you’re facing some [[supreme]] [[ironies]] compared to the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents#Part_III._The_History_of_Urantia whole history of mankind]--[[literally]] the nearly one million years that people have been on the [[earth]] evolving their civilizations up to the present day.  Up until very recent times--only your last few centuries of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_revolution industrialization]--[[everything]] not of wind and water was done with [[animal]] muscle and bone, either [[human]] or your draft [[animals]].  Then came [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_engine steam power] and a little gizmo that could sit there merrily percolating along indefinitely as long as you feed it a little water and fuel.  With this [[power]] you began to [[change]] the face of the [[earth]] itself, and everything of your lives along with it.

We ask you to approach this [[physical]] part of your [[being]] with freshness, my [[children]], because as a [[developed]], industrialized [[culture]] now, you’re facing some [[supreme]] [[ironies]] compared to the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents#Part_III._The_History_of_Urantia whole history of mankind]--[[literally]] the nearly one million years that people have been on the [[earth]] evolving their civilizations up to the present day.  Up until very recent times--only your last few centuries of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_revolution industrialization]--[[everything]] not of wind and water was done with [[animal]] muscle and bone, either [[human]] or your draft [[animals]].  Then came [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_engine steam power] and a little gizmo that could sit there merrily percolating along indefinitely as long as you feed it a little water and fuel.  With this [[power]] you began to [[change]] the face of the [[earth]] itself, and everything of your lives along with it.

   

   

But these [[bodies]] of yours, my [[children]], they still [[remember]]--if you’ll allow me to use that [[concept]], they still remember, and were shaped for and by, those million years of effort and struggle and [[work]].  And so when Michael mentioned last time that you are literally perishing for lack of good [[nutrition]] and adequate [[exercise]], that are available to you, this is what that one little word “[[exercise]]” means.

But these [[bodies]] of yours, my [[children]], they still [[remember]]--if you’ll allow me to use that [[concept]], they still remember, and were shaped for and by, those million years of effort and struggle and [[work]].  And so when Michael mentioned last time that you are literally perishing for lack of good [[nutrition]] and adequate [[exercise]], that are available to you, this is what that one little word “[[exercise]]” means.

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(Sufficient exercise for optimum [[health]]: the challenge)

(Sufficient exercise for optimum [[health]]: the challenge)