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Marin TM Group

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*Action [Willing To Act & Animal Laziness]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Willing To Act & Animal Laziness]

Michael: Good evening My sons, this is Michael. I echo your celebration of independence and your desire to grow in your spiritual maturity. It’s a noble and worthwhile, you could even say essential, ideal. For in a way you are constantly spiritually picking yourselves up, dusting yourselves off, and bracing yourselves to try again. And it takes courage to feel this whole process and not skip over the more painful moments by trying not to be here and know. This is the nerve it takes to really feel yourselves living.

Michael: Good evening My sons, this is Michael. I echo your celebration of independence and your desire to grow in your spiritual maturity. It’s a noble and worthwhile, you could even say essential, ideal. For in a way you are constantly spiritually picking yourselves up, dusting yourselves off, and bracing yourselves to try again. And it takes courage to feel this whole process and not skip over the more painful moments by trying not to be here and know. This is the nerve it takes to really feel yourselves living.

Some of your elders many centuries ago used these stimulants for ceremonial or truth-discovering purposes. But I would ask you to consider them as crutches that keep you from exercising and developing the healthy muscle of your spirit called willpower. This is the old-fashioned notion of gumption, of doing things simply because they should be done, or because of some freely chosen ideal. Think of willpower as a kind of a bio-chemical independence and see if you can’t welcome and celebrate this.

Some of your elders many centuries ago used these stimulants for ceremonial or truth-discovering purposes. But I would ask you to consider them as crutches that keep you from exercising and developing the healthy muscle of your spirit called willpower. This is the old-fashioned notion of gumption, of doing things simply because they should be done, or because of some freely chosen ideal. Think of willpower as a kind of a bio-chemical independence and see if you can’t welcome and celebrate this.

[Enslaving Traditions In Part Due To Lucifer Rebellion]

*Tradition [Enslaving Traditions In Part Due To Lucifer Rebellion]

This echoes your prayer of being free from those enslaving past traditions of social and cultural usage which have more negative impact than positive. Some go back to being instigated during the Lucifer Rebellion where you had a number of extra-human rebel beings here on Urantia deliberately, out of the strivings of perverted minds, trying to thwart rather than encourage the goodness developing in their human subjects. These were basic impulses of loyalty and love and affection, even a God-implanted idealism so that parents could visualize a kind of progressive evolution in which their children would have more of the good things of life than what they knew.

This echoes your prayer of being free from those enslaving past traditions of social and cultural usage which have more negative impact than positive. Some go back to being instigated during the Lucifer Rebellion where you had a number of extra-human rebel beings here on Urantia deliberately, out of the strivings of perverted minds, trying to thwart rather than encourage the goodness developing in their human subjects. These were basic impulses of loyalty and love and affection, even a God-implanted idealism so that parents could visualize a kind of progressive evolution in which their children would have more of the good things of life than what they knew.

This led to all these thousands and thousands of years of incessant warfare, extending a phase of planetary evolution that is usually encompassed within a much shorter and much less bloody period.

This led to all these thousands and thousands of years of incessant warfare, extending a phase of planetary evolution that is usually encompassed within a much shorter and much less bloody period.

[Solution To Endless Warfare Is With Great Growth of Individual Spiritual Freedom]

*Peace [Solution To Endless Warfare Is With Great Growth of Individual Spiritual Freedom]

As Mother Spirit taught you last week, the only way to put an end to this is with a enormous growth of individual spiritual freedom and courage so that, in a moral dimension, every person begins to pull his or her own weight. This means individuals being willing to expend the effort, sometimes the enormous effort required to get to the bottom of things in his or her own life, and making decisions relying on his or her own inner sense - in concert with Our help and with the help their Father Fragment. In other words, individuals will need less and less political or ecclesiastical authority as they grow in spirit idealism, so that some still existing very large, monolithic, dogmatic institutions of church and state can be allowed to pass away.

As Mother Spirit taught you last week, the only way to put an end to this is with a enormous growth of individual spiritual freedom and courage so that, in a moral dimension, every person begins to pull his or her own weight. This means individuals being willing to expend the effort, sometimes the enormous effort required to get to the bottom of things in his or her own life, and making decisions relying on his or her own inner sense - in concert with Our help and with the help their Father Fragment. In other words, individuals will need less and less political or ecclesiastical authority as they grow in spirit idealism, so that some still existing very large, monolithic, dogmatic institutions of church and state can be allowed to pass away.

If you have any questions or comments this evening, we have the freedom to share these too.

If you have any questions or comments this evening, we have the freedom to share these too.

[The Soul As A Parallel Reality]

* Soul [The Soul As A Parallel Reality]

Student: Father Michael, I thank You for the freedom You’ve given me. I had most of my question answered in the meeting before Your message started, unless You have some more to say about accessing my soul.

Student: Father Michael, I thank You for the freedom You’ve given me. I had most of my question answered in the meeting before Your message started, unless You have some more to say about accessing my soul.

Yet the co-author of your soul, this pre-personal Fragment of God who takes on the activities of your personality, does so from a viewpoint so much larger than yours. So your spiritual growth is necessary to the way in which you gain access to your soul. Seeing that it is a spiritual construct, contact is dependant upon your spiritual sensitivity much as your vision is dependent upon the sensitivity of your eyes.

Yet the co-author of your soul, this pre-personal Fragment of God who takes on the activities of your personality, does so from a viewpoint so much larger than yours. So your spiritual growth is necessary to the way in which you gain access to your soul. Seeing that it is a spiritual construct, contact is dependant upon your spiritual sensitivity much as your vision is dependent upon the sensitivity of your eyes.

[Using The Mind To Relive The Past]

* Mind [Using The Mind To Relive The Past]

Since you do exist in the present, but your mind may not be focused here, We have informed you that it takes creative spiritual power to relive moments of your past. So this spiritual ability is also your doorway to your soul. Your stillness is a growing spiritual ability and focus, I might say un-focus of present concerns. Since your soul is in a Morontia advanced spiritual state, the most you can do is make room for it and invite it to come join you.

Since you do exist in the present, but your mind may not be focused here, We have informed you that it takes creative spiritual power to relive moments of your past. So this spiritual ability is also your doorway to your soul. Your stillness is a growing spiritual ability and focus, I might say un-focus of present concerns. Since your soul is in a Morontia advanced spiritual state, the most you can do is make room for it and invite it to come join you.

You can deliberately, consciously pick out some past event you might want to revisit. In addition to the memories of your personal mind, make room and make time for your soul to supply that exquisite essence, singular to that particular moment, to help you enjoy that in this river of time, each moment is somewhat unique. Because in the largest way of looking at it, God doesn’t have to repeat Himself. God is the bubbling fountainhead of that river, suspended in the middle of Himself. He includes you. Does this help you, My son?

You can deliberately, consciously pick out some past event you might want to revisit. In addition to the memories of your personal mind, make room and make time for your soul to supply that exquisite essence, singular to that particular moment, to help you enjoy that in this river of time, each moment is somewhat unique. Because in the largest way of looking at it, God doesn’t have to repeat Himself. God is the bubbling fountainhead of that river, suspended in the middle of Himself. He includes you. Does this help you, My son?

[Stillness Is The Key To Accessing One’s Soul]

* Stillness [Stillness Is The Key To Accessing One’s Soul]

Student: Yes, Father, it does. It will get more clear than it was. It looks to me as though stillness is the key to accessing ones soul.

Student: Yes, Father, it does. It will get more clear than it was. It looks to me as though stillness is the key to accessing ones soul.

Michael: My son, I congratulate you on your desire for growth and wisdom. I encourage you to keep on loving that quietness, and also what I feel you are re-discovering out there on your beloved trails. It may not have occurred to you that out in the woods you’re in a timeless realm. Some of those hillsides you are looking upon have been that same way for thousands of years. Even your path you are jogging along, you can imagine has been there for a long time, going back to your Native Americans; and maybe it has. You are in a much more timeless realm than, say, walking down a city block where you can spot one particular house made about 1910 or so, and this other one made in the 1950’s; where everything is timed right down to a decade, by style.

Michael: My son, I congratulate you on your desire for growth and wisdom. I encourage you to keep on loving that quietness, and also what I feel you are re-discovering out there on your beloved trails. It may not have occurred to you that out in the woods you’re in a timeless realm. Some of those hillsides you are looking upon have been that same way for thousands of years. Even your path you are jogging along, you can imagine has been there for a long time, going back to your Native Americans; and maybe it has. You are in a much more timeless realm than, say, walking down a city block where you can spot one particular house made about 1910 or so, and this other one made in the 1950’s; where everything is timed right down to a decade, by style.

[Completeness & Perfection]

* Perfection [Completeness & Perfection]

Now I encourage you to reconsider your concepts of completeness and perfection. Completeness is a moment to moment fulfillment of all the past. As one of your wise philosophers said, All the past is but prologue to now. Whereas perfection is a way of stating or grasping the concept of God’s general trend out here in time and space. There is a total, overall evolution taking place - the growth in the physical, mental, and spiritual dimensions of the Supreme Being. In other words, the physical universe, the Mind of the Infinite Spirit, and the personalization of this whole time and space realm known as the Supreme Being, are all growing towards an ever larger completeness. And this is only part of what We can put into human words like perfection.

Now I encourage you to reconsider your concepts of completeness and perfection. Completeness is a moment to moment fulfillment of all the past. As one of your wise philosophers said, All the past is but prologue to now. Whereas perfection is a way of stating or grasping the concept of God’s general trend out here in time and space. There is a total, overall evolution taking place - the growth in the physical, mental, and spiritual dimensions of the Supreme Being. In other words, the physical universe, the Mind of the Infinite Spirit, and the personalization of this whole time and space realm known as the Supreme Being, are all growing towards an ever larger completeness. And this is only part of what We can put into human words like perfection.

By reflection you’re enabled to feel this soulful, Morontia reality already in existence, and growing with your experience, preserving your experience so that this deathless personality that you are will reawaken with the ultimate gift of your Thought Adjuster - your soul. So much larger than what you know now as the memories of your life, you can grow in the recognition of how much your soul is influencing your life, is adding value to all the circumstances and events and people that are your life. Believe Me, our Father feels your thankfulness and He wishes you to know, My children, you are truly welcome. These gifts are His great delight.

By reflection you’re enabled to feel this soulful, Morontia reality already in existence, and growing with your experience, preserving your experience so that this deathless personality that you are will reawaken with the ultimate gift of your Thought Adjuster - your soul. So much larger than what you know now as the memories of your life, you can grow in the recognition of how much your soul is influencing your life, is adding value to all the circumstances and events and people that are your life. Believe Me, our Father feels your thankfulness and He wishes you to know, My children, you are truly welcome. These gifts are His great delight.