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===Topic: '''''Life Itself'''''===

===Topic: ''Life Itself''===

===Group: [[Lightline TeaM]]===

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==Facilitators==

==Facilitators==

Michael: Good evening, this is Michael. Mother Spirit and I are definitely able to feel your love. As she’s said so often, you’re like little stars of personality in our firmament and we can really feel the glow of your life force. And so we reflect it back to you. Our most sincere wish is that you too can feel this really ungraspable life force that is part of you. It’s part of your personality. It’s part of God’s creation.

Michael: Good evening, this is Michael. Mother Spirit and I are definitely able to feel your love. As she’s said so often, you’re like little stars of personality in our firmament and we can really feel the glow of your life force. And so we reflect it back to you. Our most sincere wish is that you too can feel this really ungraspable life force that is part of you. It’s part of your personality. It’s part of God’s creation.

===Lesson===

===Lesson===

===='''''[[Spirit]]''''', '''''[[Creativity]]'''''====

====''[[Spirit]]'', ''[[Creativity]]''====

*Life Itself

*Life Itself

Life Itself: in one way that’s only an abstraction for you, something you can think of--everything living, from the smallest amoeba to the greatest redwood tree. Life itself--living. What is this? What is this?

Life Itself: in one way that’s only an abstraction for you, something you can think of--everything living, from the smallest amoeba to the greatest redwood tree. Life itself--living. What is this? What is this?

Creative spirit… With all these galaxies swinging about, with all the material world that you live in, your very own bodies; all following God’s impersonal laws: there is something new constantly springing up. This moment, this moment we share right now, has never happened before and it need never happen again because there is this incessant, continuous, living creativity. And this is your birthright. This is part of you, inseparable from you. This is your own creative spirit. And this is the foundation for your freedom.

Creative spirit… With all these galaxies swinging about, with all the material world that you live in, your very own bodies; all following God’s impersonal laws: there is something new constantly springing up. This moment, this moment we share right now, has never happened before and it need never happen again because there is this incessant, continuous, living creativity. And this is your birthright. This is part of you, inseparable from you. This is your own creative spirit. And this is the foundation for your freedom.

===='''''[[Free will]]''''', '''''[[Co-creation]]'''''====

 

====''[[Free will]]'', ''[[Co-creation]]''====

*Creature of Will Dignity

*Creature of Will Dignity

Think of the definition of a human being as a creature--because you definitely were created: God created each and every one of you, everyone of us--a creature--a created being--of will dignity. And this free will means that you are not just a living animal or a plant. Your creative spirit gives you the ability to originate right within yourself something as unique as you are. And this gives you a very real choice.

Think of the definition of a human being as a creature--because you definitely were created: God created each and every one of you, everyone of us--a creature--a created being--of will dignity. And this free will means that you are not just a living animal or a plant. Your creative spirit gives you the ability to originate right within yourself something as unique as you are. And this gives you a very real choice.

How lucky those souls who are taken out of this bubble willy-nilly. All the pain, all the discomfort, all the terror they feel, that suddenly everything is changing again… But in this very kind of topsy-turvy situation there lies the possibility for their creative spirit to wrestle with something real, something other, and find this glorious kind of contact once again; to realize, however painfully at first, that there is another whole universe out there.

How lucky those souls who are taken out of this bubble willy-nilly. All the pain, all the discomfort, all the terror they feel, that suddenly everything is changing again… But in this very kind of topsy-turvy situation there lies the possibility for their creative spirit to wrestle with something real, something other, and find this glorious kind of contact once again; to realize, however painfully at first, that there is another whole universe out there.

===='''''[[Adventure]]'''''====

====''[[Adventure]]''====

*A beautiful, unfathomable, endless adventure

*A beautiful, unfathomable, endless adventure

So be aware of this, my children. Realize how blessed you are that you can be aware that you are co-creating your very reality as you listen to me. For it’s how my voice is registering within you, within your soul; and that’s partly you. Yet this is not necessarily a prison of self, a tough, unbreakable bubble of familiarity day after day. Once you grasp the principle you can begin to appreciate God’s handiwork all the more: that you were set into the middle of a beautiful, unfathomable, endless adventure. You were made for it and it was made for you. This is the way God likes to treat all of his children, all of us.

So be aware of this, my children. Realize how blessed you are that you can be aware that you are co-creating your very reality as you listen to me. For it’s how my voice is registering within you, within your soul; and that’s partly you. Yet this is not necessarily a prison of self, a tough, unbreakable bubble of familiarity day after day. Once you grasp the principle you can begin to appreciate God’s handiwork all the more: that you were set into the middle of a beautiful, unfathomable, endless adventure. You were made for it and it was made for you. This is the way God likes to treat all of his children, all of us.

I just wondered if you had any clarification on that. Should we beat ourselves up? No, of course not. Should we try to recondition ourselves to think that we are spiritual beings having a human experience, or should we just proceed as humans having what we can--what spiritual we can make of it? I don’t know if that question made any sense, but I’d like a little clarity on it since it’s such a popular thing.

I just wondered if you had any clarification on that. Should we beat ourselves up? No, of course not. Should we try to recondition ourselves to think that we are spiritual beings having a human experience, or should we just proceed as humans having what we can--what spiritual we can make of it? I don’t know if that question made any sense, but I’d like a little clarity on it since it’s such a popular thing.

===='''''[[Personality]]'''''====

====''[[Personality]]''====

*Human or spirit

*Human or spirit

Michael: Yes, my daughter. Since most of you are familiar with The Urantia Book, I recommend reading again and again and again the paper on Personality Survival. For I think this gives you the deepest appreciation of that aspect of you that you can identify with. And this is even beyond spirit. This is personality. This is uniqueness of living being. Personality is created by God. I like to think that only God has the infinity of being to create a nigh infinite number of all the different kinds of personal beings.

Michael: Yes, my daughter. Since most of you are familiar with The Urantia Book, I recommend reading again and again and again the paper on Personality Survival. For I think this gives you the deepest appreciation of that aspect of you that you can identify with. And this is even beyond spirit. This is personality. This is uniqueness of living being. Personality is created by God. I like to think that only God has the infinity of being to create a nigh infinite number of all the different kinds of personal beings.

Michael: It’s the most comprehensive definition of what a human being is.  

Michael: It’s the most comprehensive definition of what a human being is.  

===='''''[[Integration]]'''''====

====''[[Integration]]''====

Student: Tell me, if I may ask further of you, would this be like having an integrated personality? I can walk like an Agondonter in this existence, and live in faith in my soul-self? Is that what you mean by integrated?

Student: Tell me, if I may ask further of you, would this be like having an integrated personality? I can walk like an Agondonter in this existence, and live in faith in my soul-self? Is that what you mean by integrated?

Michael: Hello.

Michael: Hello.

===='''''[[Self-mastery]]''''', '''''[[Stillness]]'''''====

====''[[Self-mastery]]'', ''[[Stillness]]''====

Student: This is Mike. And I’d like to sort-of dovetail off of Gerdean’s question. In regards to self-mastery, which obviously is a tremendous challenge for mortals, especially on Urantia where we struggle with a lot of uncertainty… I just want to share personally: lately I’ve been experiencing tremendous turmoil, not so much that I can’t overcome, but if I could, you know, maybe give you an analogy of that.

Student: This is Mike. And I’d like to sort-of dovetail off of Gerdean’s question. In regards to self-mastery, which obviously is a tremendous challenge for mortals, especially on Urantia where we struggle with a lot of uncertainty… I just want to share personally: lately I’ve been experiencing tremendous turmoil, not so much that I can’t overcome, but if I could, you know, maybe give you an analogy of that.

Michael: Aloha.

Michael: Aloha.

===='''''[[Birth]]'''''====

====''[[Birth]]''====

Student: I have a question in the form of some thoughts that have been floating around, concerning conception to birth. And, on behalf of my sisters on this planet, my little sisters and my others, I have researched and looked for hints about personality and birth. And I know that there are forces at work on the planet that have led to a lot of confusion around this subject of birth and conception.

Student: I have a question in the form of some thoughts that have been floating around, concerning conception to birth. And, on behalf of my sisters on this planet, my little sisters and my others, I have researched and looked for hints about personality and birth. And I know that there are forces at work on the planet that have led to a lot of confusion around this subject of birth and conception.

Insofar as you are an experiential being, your only absoluteness is in your very existence; everything else is very relative. You do not begin to experience as a personality much before birth. Upon birth and really getting that breath of life, the little baby starts to experience. And, as you know, the Thought Adjuster is not so tightly bound, but is around: and the Thought Adjuster is God all the way through.

Insofar as you are an experiential being, your only absoluteness is in your very existence; everything else is very relative. You do not begin to experience as a personality much before birth. Upon birth and really getting that breath of life, the little baby starts to experience. And, as you know, the Thought Adjuster is not so tightly bound, but is around: and the Thought Adjuster is God all the way through.

===='''''[[Experience]]''''', '''''[[Soul]]'''''====

====''[[Experience]]'', ''[[Soul]]''====

*Experience

*Experience

Upon birth you start to fulfill your destiny, you start to experience. That leads, someday, to a closer association of your Though Adjuster with your personality. So birth is not the exact beginnings of the soul for there was a kind of pre-soul, if you will, in the Thought Adjuster. But with experience the real soul, the more fully developed soul, starts then. Your personality at that moment also achieves a measure of freedom. The little child for the first time does something that is not merely a “monkey see, monkey do” kind of thing. That little child can actually make a free act, if you will. It is the birth of the free will. And, as you know, at that moment the Thought Adjuster appears as if attached to the young child.

Upon birth you start to fulfill your destiny, you start to experience. That leads, someday, to a closer association of your Though Adjuster with your personality. So birth is not the exact beginnings of the soul for there was a kind of pre-soul, if you will, in the Thought Adjuster. But with experience the real soul, the more fully developed soul, starts then. Your personality at that moment also achieves a measure of freedom. The little child for the first time does something that is not merely a “monkey see, monkey do” kind of thing. That little child can actually make a free act, if you will. It is the birth of the free will. And, as you know, at that moment the Thought Adjuster appears as if attached to the young child.

Student: Indeed it does. It’s very enlightening to hear that women, especially on this planet, are liberated from thinking the way certain elements have kept a tight grip, so to speak, on the consciousness of so many regarding birth, conception, and personality. And so any information that I can pass on to my sisters to help them through the darkness that prevails; then I feel like the bit of enlightenment that I can bestow is somehow helping someone behind them pull them up a little bit. We can stand united in our reproductive rights and know that it’s okay, and God loves us, and it’s all good.

Student: Indeed it does. It’s very enlightening to hear that women, especially on this planet, are liberated from thinking the way certain elements have kept a tight grip, so to speak, on the consciousness of so many regarding birth, conception, and personality. And so any information that I can pass on to my sisters to help them through the darkness that prevails; then I feel like the bit of enlightenment that I can bestow is somehow helping someone behind them pull them up a little bit. We can stand united in our reproductive rights and know that it’s okay, and God loves us, and it’s all good.

===='''''[[Wonder]]'''''====

====''[[Wonder]]''====

*A rebirth of wonder

*A rebirth of wonder

Michael: My daughter, what it really takes is a rebirth of wonder about personality, and about the uniqueness of when that egg and sperm get together--the physical uniqueness of human being.

Michael: My daughter, what it really takes is a rebirth of wonder about personality, and about the uniqueness of when that egg and sperm get together--the physical uniqueness of human being.

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