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==Session==

==Session==

===Opening===

===Opening===

TOMAS:  Good evening, [[friends]] and [[neighbors]].  I am Tomas.  I am glad to be here.  As you might say in your [[culture]], “It is good to see and be seen.”  Social [[intercourse]] takes two and so we have a forum here; indeed, we have a [[party]], a [[dance]] hall in which to [[circulate]] and exchange vows and [[prayers]] and messages which serve to uplift and [[encourage]] you in your daily path. Yes, there are [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/frustration frustrations] along the way.  It is not always easy.  But the important [[thing]] is that you continue to try, that you don’t give up, and so let us commence.

TOMAS:  Good evening, [[friends]] and [[neighbors]].  I am Tomas.  I am glad to be here.  As you might say in your [[culture]], “It is good to see and be seen.”  Social [[intercourse]] takes two and so we have a forum here; indeed, we have a [[party]], a [[dance]] hall in which to [[circulate]] and exchange vows and [[prayers]] and messages which serve to uplift and [[encourage]] you in your daily path. Yes, there are [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/frustration frustrations] along the way.  It is not always easy.  But the important [[thing]] is that you continue to try, that you don’t give up, and so let us commence.

===Lesson===

===Lesson===

===='''''[[Experiment]]''''', '''''[[Diversity]]'''''====

===='''''[[Experiment]]''''', '''''[[Diversity]]'''''====

Greetings and [[welcome]] to you all again.  I am Tomas, your [[teacher]].  I have [[thought]] that I would like to talk to you about [[experimental]] life stations, just to [[focus]] on the [[concept]].  As you know, those of you who are students of the [[Urantia text]], [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_36#36:2._THE_LIFE_CARRIER_WORLDS every tenth planet is an experimental world].  The others provide [[continuity]] throughout the [[universe]]; they don’t have the [[adventures]] and glitches that you have here that make your life so very rugged and such a [[challenge]].  They have challenges, of course, but not to the extent that you have here [where] there are so many [[variables]] and so many unscheduled [[developments]] -- unscheduled as far as your [[perception]] is concerned although they are of course quite in hand, quite under the [[control]] of those who take care of the living [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/laboratory laboratories] of [[time and space]].

Greetings and [[welcome]] to you all again.  I am Tomas, your [[teacher]].  I have [[thought]] that I would like to talk to you about [[experimental]] life stations, just to [[focus]] on the [[concept]].  As you know, those of you who are students of the [[Urantia text]], [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_36#36:2._THE_LIFE_CARRIER_WORLDS every tenth planet is an experimental world].  The others provide [[continuity]] throughout the [[universe]]; they don’t have the [[adventures]] and glitches that you have here that make your life so very rugged and such a [[challenge]].  They have challenges, of course, but not to the extent that you have here [where] there are so many [[variables]] and so many unscheduled [[developments]] -- unscheduled as far as your [[perception]] is concerned although they are of course quite in hand, quite under the [[control]] of those who take care of the living [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/laboratory laboratories] of [[time and space]].

   

   

The [[idea]], though, of life [[experimental]] stations, or experimental life stations, whichever way you [[choose]] to consider it, is an [[opportunity]] to [[think]] about the [[flexibility]] that life provides. When you go beyond here, when you leave [[Urantia]] and enter into the greater [[community]] of [[Mansonia]], you will meet with many people who have no [[idea]] what it’s like to be from a [[sphere]] such as this.  The very [[fact]] of your [[experiences]] here, even without the [[Lucifer Rebellion|rebellion]] and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_75 the default], would render you [[unique]] and [[different]], but I have some question in my [[mind]] as to whether you truly [[appreciate]] what it is to live in an experiential life station such as [[Urantia]].  

The [[idea]], though, of life [[experimental]] stations, or experimental life stations, whichever way you [[choose]] to consider it, is an [[opportunity]] to [[think]] about the [[flexibility]] that life provides. When you go beyond here, when you leave [[Urantia]] and enter into the greater [[community]] of [[Mansonia]], you will meet with many people who have no [[idea]] what it’s like to be from a [[sphere]] such as this.  The very [[fact]] of your [[experiences]] here, even without the [[Lucifer Rebellion|rebellion]] and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_75 the default], would render you [[unique]] and [[different]], but I have some question in my [[mind]] as to whether you truly [[appreciate]] what it is to live in an experiential life station such as [[Urantia]].  

   

   

Let’s bring it down to a manageable size so that you might consider it more [[immediately]].  Take your [[society]], for example, your [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_society global] [[society]]. It is organized into different countries with [[different]] [[governments]], and they handle themselves differently accordingly.  Different [[cultures]] have their ways, their climates, their [[languages]], and each one is its own life [[experimental]] station.  

Let’s bring it down to a manageable size so that you might consider it more [[immediately]].  Take your [[society]], for example, your [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_society global] [[society]]. It is organized into different countries with [[different]] [[governments]], and they handle themselves differently accordingly.  Different [[cultures]] have their ways, their climates, their [[languages]], and each one is its own life [[experimental]] station.  

   

   

Perhaps when you were a child you [[understood]] what your experimental life station was – your [[home]], your [[family]], your [[culture]], your ways.  You were familiar with the foods you ate, how your relatives looked, more or less what they wore, how they smelled, how they [[laughed]], how they talked, how they [[worked]].  And then visiting another [[culture]] might have introduced you to people of a different [[color]], or people who dressed funny/[[strange]] compared to your [[family]].  Perhaps their food smelled [[different]] and strange, foreign/exotic, and you reacted or [[responded]] to that difference.  The same will be true on [[Mansonia]] when you encounter people from other worlds.  And you will have similar reactions and responses.  One of the [[things]] that you can learn now and save yourself and everyone else the trouble later on is to [[recognize]] that there are [[inherent]] [[differences]] at different levels of [[development]] … and for a [[good]] [[reason]].  

Perhaps when you were a child you [[understood]] what your experimental life station was – your [[home]], your [[family]], your [[culture]], your ways.  You were familiar with the foods you ate, how your relatives looked, more or less what they wore, how they smelled, how they [[laughed]], how they talked, how they [[worked]].  And then visiting another [[culture]] might have introduced you to people of a different [[color]], or people who dressed funny/[[strange]] compared to your [[family]].  Perhaps their food smelled [[different]] and strange, foreign/exotic, and you reacted or [[responded]] to that difference.  The same will be true on [[Mansonia]] when you encounter people from other worlds.  And you will have similar reactions and responses.  One of the [[things]] that you can learn now and save yourself and everyone else the trouble later on is to [[recognize]] that there are [[inherent]] [[differences]] at different levels of [[development]] … and for a [[good]] [[reason]].  

Mike:  Thirty-one.

Mike:  Thirty-one.

===='''''[[Opportunity]]'''''====

===='''''[[Opportunity]]'''''====

TOMAS:  Yes.  You have a tremendous [[future]] ahead of you here … for yourself and for those you will impact.  You have an [[opportunity]] to be a hero.  And I say this fully [[understanding]] that you think in terms of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman Superman] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiderman Spiderman] or one of those superheroes when I mention hero, or even [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odysseus Ulysses], but really I mean the kind of hero who will stand up and [[represent]] what is right, not what is popular, who will do the right thing by [[women]] and [[children]] and his fellow-men, even if it is not going to put [[money]] in his pocket or earn him an award.  These are the heroes that are needed for the [[work]] about to commence … and in some cases, already having commenced.

TOMAS:  Yes.  You have a tremendous [[future]] ahead of you here … for yourself and for those you will impact.  You have an [[opportunity]] to be a hero.  And I say this fully [[understanding]] that you think in terms of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman Superman] or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiderman Spiderman] or one of those superheroes when I mention hero, or even [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odysseus Ulysses], but really I mean the kind of hero who will stand up and [[represent]] what is right, not what is popular, who will do the right thing by [[women]] and [[children]] and his fellow-men, even if it is not going to put [[money]] in his pocket or earn him an award.  These are the heroes that are needed for the [[work]] about to commence … and in some cases, already having commenced.

   

   

Mike:  Well, thank you very much for that. That is incredibly [[inspirational]] to me, and it helps to boost my [[confidence]] in my own abilities to do just that.  That has definitely been on my mind as well.  Just to [[do the Father’s will]].

Mike:  Well, thank you very much for that. That is incredibly [[inspirational]] to me, and it helps to boost my [[confidence]] in my own abilities to do just that.  That has definitely been on my mind as well.  Just to [[do the Father’s will]].

Mike:  In times of [[difficulty]], especially, and I thank you very much, Tomas.

Mike:  In times of [[difficulty]], especially, and I thank you very much, Tomas.

   

   

TOMAS: You are welcome, Mike.  And I would like to add that in a construct of the kingdom such as this world will become when it [[matures]] as an experimental life station, you will find much [[encouragement]] and [[support]] and camaraderie from and with your [[peers]].  Right now there seems to be a tremendous amount of vying for position and much of the old competitive paradigm is still imbedded in your [[collective]] [[consciousness]] [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Collective_unconscious], but this is passing away, and an era of [[cooperation]] and mutual [[support]] is on the [[horizon]].  Not a negative support, not as in ‘enabling’ or ‘rescuing’ or ‘coddling’ but in real support: in speaking man-top-man, working shoulder-to-shoulder, loving face-to-face.  This is the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Grit_(novel) true grit].  This is the real fun.  This is the kind of stuff that makes your [[soul]] smile.

TOMAS: You are welcome, Mike.  And I would like to add that in a construct of the kingdom such as this world will become when it [[matures]] as an experimental life station, you will find much [[encouragement]] and [[support]] and camaraderie from and with your [[peers]].  Right now there seems to be a tremendous amount of vying for position and much of the old competitive paradigm is still imbedded in your [[collective]] [[consciousness]] [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Collective_unconscious], but this is passing away, and an era of [[cooperation]] and mutual [[support]] is on the [[horizon]].  Not a negative support, not as in ‘enabling’ or ‘rescuing’ or ‘coddling’ but in real support: in speaking man-top-man, working shoulder-to-shoulder, loving face-to-face.  This is the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Grit_(novel) true grit].  This is the real fun.  This is the kind of stuff that makes your [[soul]] smile.

===Closing===

===Closing===