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(Reevaluating your physical life)

(Reevaluating your physical life)

   

   

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 [https://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 [https://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 [https://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 [https://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 [https://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 [https://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 [https://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 [https://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 [https://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 [https://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 [https://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 [https://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.

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

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

   

   

Considering this, think not so much of the extreme [[limits]] of what the [[human]] [[body]] can do, shall we say, in some of your younger [[athlete]]s who train for years and years in [[intense]] [[competition]] to present you with those [[spectacles]] you see every four years in your [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympics Olympics].  It’s not so much what the human body is capable of doing on these competitive extremes.  Rather I would have you go through the years and think of the folks in their seventies and eighties who’ve lived very full physical lives and are still so strong and [[flexible]] and supple.  Think of some of the great [[dance]]rs who, clear into their nineties, are marvels of strength and [[grace]].  Think of the craftsman, the [[men]] and [[women]], whether in their [[work]] or their hobbies, who have found something infinitely physically rewarding and [[creative]] and new all through their lives.  Think of the enormous [[soul]] [[wealth]] of [[experience]] they have because their bodies and their minds have been actively engaged in real physical effort, real rewarding effort for a whole lifetime.

Considering this, think not so much of the extreme [[limits]] of what the [[human]] [[body]] can do, shall we say, in some of your younger [[athlete]]s who train for years and years in [[intense]] [[competition]] to present you with those [[spectacles]] you see every four years in your [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympics Olympics].  It’s not so much what the human body is capable of doing on these competitive extremes.  Rather I would have you go through the years and think of the folks in their seventies and eighties who’ve lived very full physical lives and are still so strong and [[flexible]] and supple.  Think of some of the great [[dance]]rs who, clear into their nineties, are marvels of strength and [[grace]].  Think of the craftsman, the [[men]] and [[women]], whether in their [[work]] or their hobbies, who have found something infinitely physically rewarding and [[creative]] and new all through their lives.  Think of the enormous [[soul]] [[wealth]] of [[experience]] they have because their bodies and their minds have been actively engaged in real physical effort, real rewarding effort for a whole lifetime.

   

   

Now I think you can see the problem facing you as the [[culture]] we are [[Frame of reference|framing]] here.  From the time you are very small children the human body needs great exercise for the [[muscles]] to [[develop]]; needs it throughout life for the very [[stress]] on your bones, my children, makes and keeps them strong.  Think of a schoolyard of youngsters playing and yelling and running about.  Think of the enormous amount of [[physical]] effort that the human body thrives on.  I know it [[sounds]] like some kind of [[Future|futuristic]] [[science fiction]], but think of a [[society]] in which all the individuals of all ages [[love]] and cherish engaging this [[physical]]-ness of theirs so much.  From childhood clear to the onset of extreme old age and decrepitude, through their entire lifetime they’re interested and delight in real physical activity.

Now I think you can see the problem facing you as the [[culture]] we are [[Frame of reference|framing]] here.  From the time you are very small children the human body needs great exercise for the [[muscles]] to [[develop]]; needs it throughout life for the very [[stress]] on your bones, my children, makes and keeps them strong.  Think of a schoolyard of youngsters playing and yelling and running about.  Think of the enormous amount of [[physical]] effort that the human body thrives on.  I know it [[sounds]] like some kind of [[Future|futuristic]] [[science fiction]], but think of a [[society]] in which all the individuals of all ages [[love]] and cherish engaging this [[physical]]-ness of theirs so much.  From childhood clear to the onset of extreme old age and decrepitude, through their entire lifetime they’re interested and delight in real physical activity.

You can see the [[challenge]] facing you as a [[culture]], especially now in your current [[economic]] downturn where the question becomes over and over again: where do you find the good [[work]]?  Where do you find this physical work to engage everyone?  Especially: where do you find this work when so many in your culture have come to denigrate and look down upon [[physical]] [[activity]], look down upon craftsmanship--working with your hands in combination with your [[brain]]?

You can see the [[challenge]] facing you as a [[culture]], especially now in your current [[economic]] downturn where the question becomes over and over again: where do you find the good [[work]]?  Where do you find this physical work to engage everyone?  Especially: where do you find this work when so many in your culture have come to denigrate and look down upon [[physical]] [[activity]], look down upon craftsmanship--working with your hands in combination with your [[brain]]?

   

   

As Michael said, your current [[health]] care [[debate]] is almost beside the point if your [[society]]’s basic health itself is deteriorating.  No amount of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allopathic after-the-fact care] with, as he said, however heroic [[measures]] or amazing [[technology]], can make up for this lack of physical [[exercise]] that the body really thrives on.  And so you can see this requires an enormous turning of a very [[existential]] corner.  The great excitement of your [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_revolution Industrial Revolution] was that it freed [[mankind]] from its whole [[history]] of back-breaking, health-destroying labor.  How do you get the developed cultures to turn that corner and, not go back but go forward to [[welcome]] that very [[thing]] it cost them so much on a primal level to escape?--especially in a world situation where still a great part of mankind is involved in terrible, life destroying toil under the most appalling conditions.

As Michael said, your current [[health]] care [[debate]] is almost beside the point if your [[society]]’s basic health itself is deteriorating.  No amount of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allopathic after-the-fact care] with, as he said, however heroic [[measures]] or amazing [[technology]], can make up for this lack of physical [[exercise]] that the body really thrives on.  And so you can see this requires an enormous turning of a very [[existential]] corner.  The great excitement of your [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_revolution Industrial Revolution] was that it freed [[mankind]] from its whole [[history]] of back-breaking, health-destroying labor.  How do you get the developed cultures to turn that corner and, not go back but go forward to [[welcome]] that very [[thing]] it cost them so much on a primal level to escape?--especially in a world situation where still a great part of mankind is involved in terrible, life destroying toil under the most appalling conditions.

   

   

How do you get a whole [[culture]] and the societies within it to turn that corner and, as [[individuals]], [[welcome]] this need to be more [[physical]]?  Where do you find the work for everyone?  Think how much of your crime results from this lack of [[good]], genuine accomplishment day to day.  Think of how many of your youngsters, caught up in a life of crime, would welcome with delight having good, rewarding work to do.  There is just no way of denying this [[challenge]], and so tonight I wanted to lay it very squarely and [[honestly]] before you.  The physical part of being human and the delight your body feels when it is fully engaged, wonderfully used, and then delightfully tired: how else can you know the sweetness of [[rest]] and the miracle of how your body [[heals]] and strengthens and refreshes itself?

How do you get a whole [[culture]] and the societies within it to turn that corner and, as [[individuals]], [[welcome]] this need to be more [[physical]]?  Where do you find the work for everyone?  Think how much of your crime results from this lack of [[good]], genuine accomplishment day to day.  Think of how many of your youngsters, caught up in a life of crime, would welcome with delight having good, rewarding work to do.  There is just no way of denying this [[challenge]], and so tonight I wanted to lay it very squarely and [[honestly]] before you.  The physical part of being human and the delight your body feels when it is fully engaged, wonderfully used, and then delightfully tired: how else can you know the sweetness of [[rest]] and the miracle of how your body [[heals]] and strengthens and refreshes itself?

NEBADINUIA:  Yes, my daughter, could you be a little more specific?

NEBADINUIA:  Yes, my daughter, could you be a little more specific?

   

   

Student:  I have what’s called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_fatigue_syndrome Chronic Fatigue Syndrome].  I’ve had it for about twenty years.  I’ve extremely, extremely low vitality, and [[memory]] loss--fatigue, and recently I had a very severe kidney infection that really damaged my kidneys and my body a lot.  My vitality seems to be getting worse and worse as does my [[health]].

Student:  I have what’s called [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_fatigue_syndrome Chronic Fatigue Syndrome].  I’ve had it for about twenty years.  I’ve extremely, extremely low vitality, and [[memory]] loss--fatigue, and recently I had a very severe kidney infection that really damaged my kidneys and my body a lot.  My vitality seems to be getting worse and worse as does my [[health]].

   

   

NEBADONIA:  Let me ask what you’ve done so far, who you’ve seen, who you’ve talked with about this.

NEBADONIA:  Let me ask what you’ve done so far, who you’ve seen, who you’ve talked with about this.

NEBADONIA:  You’re welcome, my dear.  Be in my [[love]].

NEBADONIA:  You’re welcome, my dear.  Be in my [[love]].

   

   

Student:  Do you think her going to see [http://www.healingquests.com/pages/about1.htm John of God] would be a [[good]] [[idea]]?

Student:  Do you think her going to see [https://www.healingquests.com/pages/about1.htm John of God] would be a [[good]] [[idea]]?

   

   

NEBADONIA:  I’m not familiar with that [[person]], but I can’t see any harm in being truly open-minded and [[entertaining]] any thought whatsoever.  Be systematic and take notes, if you will, in your meditation.  Don’t be afraid to entertain any [[theory]] whatsoever.  Don’t be afraid to go to anyone.  I’m just emphasizing she is this [[free-will]]ed creature, and this is what gives her the [[dignity]] of being a human being.  Each person has to make the [[ultimate]] decisions for them, and try their best to live by these [[decisions]]; and this personal/spiritual [[realization]] is the basis for their strength.  

NEBADONIA:  I’m not familiar with that [[person]], but I can’t see any harm in being truly open-minded and [[entertaining]] any thought whatsoever.  Be systematic and take notes, if you will, in your meditation.  Don’t be afraid to entertain any [[theory]] whatsoever.  Don’t be afraid to go to anyone.  I’m just emphasizing she is this [[free-will]]ed creature, and this is what gives her the [[dignity]] of being a human being.  Each person has to make the [[ultimate]] decisions for them, and try their best to live by these [[decisions]]; and this personal/spiritual [[realization]] is the basis for their strength.  

NEBADONIA:  Yes, my son, I had hoped to put some physical-aspect framework around that [[standard]], and point out some of the [[profound]] ironies that make it so difficult for people to envision and accept at this point in your [[history]].  With the success of your industrialization, compared to the million years of [[humanity]] that came before it, you have another [[irony]] that in the developed countries the people with their [[Mechanism|machinery]] and [[technology]] are so [[productive]] they can provide an enormous amount of [[leisure]] for so many others, compared to any time before: ironic if your very productivity is robbing folks of [[opportunity]]--the way you have [[things]] set up.  Folks are literally dying or living stunted lives through, as Michael said, lack of good [[nutrition]] and [[exercise]], even when they are available.  In the developed countries it’s more a [[Culture|cultural]] question than a strictly [[economic]] one.  

NEBADONIA:  Yes, my son, I had hoped to put some physical-aspect framework around that [[standard]], and point out some of the [[profound]] ironies that make it so difficult for people to envision and accept at this point in your [[history]].  With the success of your industrialization, compared to the million years of [[humanity]] that came before it, you have another [[irony]] that in the developed countries the people with their [[Mechanism|machinery]] and [[technology]] are so [[productive]] they can provide an enormous amount of [[leisure]] for so many others, compared to any time before: ironic if your very productivity is robbing folks of [[opportunity]]--the way you have [[things]] set up.  Folks are literally dying or living stunted lives through, as Michael said, lack of good [[nutrition]] and [[exercise]], even when they are available.  In the developed countries it’s more a [[Culture|cultural]] question than a strictly [[economic]] one.  

   

   

Your society is facing a challenge even now of what you call childhood [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity obesity], where if those young little bodies fail to develop the right [[proportion]] of muscle and bone through good diet and exercise, they’re also missing out on strength, [[flexibility]], [[endurance]], becoming, rather, susceptible to disease and stunted [[minds]] by way of constricted life experience.  Obesity not only shortens life, it limits its physical [[expression]] throughout.  

Your society is facing a challenge even now of what you call childhood [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity obesity], where if those young little bodies fail to develop the right [[proportion]] of muscle and bone through good diet and exercise, they’re also missing out on strength, [[flexibility]], [[endurance]], becoming, rather, susceptible to disease and stunted [[minds]] by way of constricted life experience.  Obesity not only shortens life, it limits its physical [[expression]] throughout.  

   

   

Student:  How about the notion of [[simplifying]] ones life by letting go the perceived need for material possessions?  Obviously we need certain basics to live, but, especially in this country, we’ve been so materially oriented over the past twenty or thirty years, at the top of the people living on this [[planet]], at the cost of their leisure.

Student:  How about the notion of [[simplifying]] ones life by letting go the perceived need for material possessions?  Obviously we need certain basics to live, but, especially in this country, we’ve been so materially oriented over the past twenty or thirty years, at the top of the people living on this [[planet]], at the cost of their leisure.

Student:  That’s what I’m saying--redefining what it truly means to be a [[human being]].  That’s the question being asked.  I noticed there’re these small [[groups]] of people in this world, even in the [[San Francisco|Bay Area]], who are trying to take things up and look at the [[good]] things, the good news, look at the other alternatives rather than big [[government]] or what’s going on in the [[status quo]].  I’ve noticed there’re hundreds of these grass-roots groups all over the world who are cracking these old ways of living.  It’s happening some places fast, and some places slow.  I know I get a little frustrated with how human beings are treating other human beings, and I know people are suffering out there.

Student:  That’s what I’m saying--redefining what it truly means to be a [[human being]].  That’s the question being asked.  I noticed there’re these small [[groups]] of people in this world, even in the [[San Francisco|Bay Area]], who are trying to take things up and look at the [[good]] things, the good news, look at the other alternatives rather than big [[government]] or what’s going on in the [[status quo]].  I’ve noticed there’re hundreds of these grass-roots groups all over the world who are cracking these old ways of living.  It’s happening some places fast, and some places slow.  I know I get a little frustrated with how human beings are treating other human beings, and I know people are suffering out there.

   

   

Oh!--I do know of John of God!  I met a group in the City (Ed: [[San Francisco]]) who had gone to Brazil and his sanctuary, and some were healed, and some got better.  So I’m aware of him.  He’s got a book as well.  I’m going tomorrow to a bookstore here where they’re showing a [[healing]] modality called [http://www.quantumtouch.com/ Quantum Touch]; because I’ve been interested in looking into [[healing]] and alleviating the [[Pain|suffering]] of others.  I came across this on the [[internet]].  It’s just like the laying on of hands if you can feel the [[vibrations]].  It just kind-of piqued my interest.  Apparently their use of divine energy can heal others--according to their website.  

Oh!--I do know of John of God!  I met a group in the City (Ed: [[San Francisco]]) who had gone to Brazil and his sanctuary, and some were healed, and some got better.  So I’m aware of him.  He’s got a book as well.  I’m going tomorrow to a bookstore here where they’re showing a [[healing]] modality called [https://www.quantumtouch.com/ Quantum Touch]; because I’ve been interested in looking into [[healing]] and alleviating the [[Pain|suffering]] of others.  I came across this on the [[internet]].  It’s just like the laying on of hands if you can feel the [[vibrations]].  It just kind-of piqued my interest.  Apparently their use of divine energy can heal others--according to their website.  

   

   

I have a sense, Mother, that this [[body]] that you talked about tonight has in our [[DNA]] the idea of wholeness and wellbeing.  That’s always there: it’s why we can heal.  We have that capacity, that innate [[potential]].  It’s just accepting that this is already true.  So…

I have a sense, Mother, that this [[body]] that you talked about tonight has in our [[DNA]] the idea of wholeness and wellbeing.  That’s always there: it’s why we can heal.  We have that capacity, that innate [[potential]].  It’s just accepting that this is already true.  So…