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===Lesson===

===Lesson===

===='''''[[Urantia Book]]'''''====

===='''''[[Urantia Book]]'''''====

My children, I would like to say a little bit this evening about some of the things that Mother Spirit brought up in her last lesson through this t/r, which so many of you enjoyed.  It did cause a bit of reflection and thinking again about some of your suppositions.  I know it helped a lot of you to once again read parts of the Urantia book with new eyes, just for having absorbed each other’s points of view.  It helped you be aware of these different points of view arising from a single text.   

My children, I would like to say a little bit this evening about some of the things that Mother Spirit brought up in her [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Races_of_Urantia-2010-11-01 last lesson] through this t/r, which so many of you enjoyed.  It did cause a bit of reflection and thinking again about some of your suppositions.  I know it helped a lot of you to once again read parts of the Urantia book with new eyes, just for having absorbed each other’s points of view.  It helped you be aware of these different points of view arising from a single text.   

Think about your Urantia book sitting there on the shelf, or the coffee table or your desk.  There it is.  It has an existential existence, a cosmic reality if you will, obeying all of God’s material/energy laws you call Natural Law.  You too have an existential existence in the very fact of your being.  You definitely are, whether or not you can fully realize this or even feel it at times: you are!  But you are also an experiential being.  We like to call you a nodule of experience out here in time and space, not only as your unique personality, but also for being a focal point in a particular time and space which gives you a uniqueness of experience as well.   

Think about your Urantia book sitting there on the shelf, or the coffee table or your desk.  There it is.  It has an existential existence, a cosmic reality if you will, obeying all of God’s material/energy laws you call Natural Law.  You too have an existential existence in the very fact of your being.  You definitely are, whether or not you can fully realize this or even feel it at times: you are!  But you are also an experiential being.  We like to call you a nodule of experience out here in time and space, not only as your unique personality, but also for being a focal point in a particular time and space which gives you a uniqueness of experience as well.   

So when you pick up the Urantia book, what you are registering in your mind is your response to this existential object; i.e. for every one of you it is an experiential object.  Some of your philosophers have realized that you never touch the thing-in-itself.  It may help you to realize this by imagining picking up your Urantia book and opening it to discover it is in some totally indecipherable language with different symbols even.  You are suddenly aware it is, in this instance, just ink symbols on paper.  But the moment you start to read it in English, instantaneously you are responding to it in a way very unique to you.  

So when you pick up the Urantia book, what you are registering in your mind is your response to this existential object; i.e. for every one of you it is an experiential object.  Some of your philosophers have realized that you never touch the thing-in-itself.  It may help you to realize this by imagining picking up your Urantia book and opening it to discover it is in some totally indecipherable language with different symbols even.  You are suddenly aware it is, in this instance, just ink symbols on paper.  But the moment you start to read it in English, instantaneously you are responding to it in a way very unique to you.  

This is the reality of the book to you.  Also, as you just discovered in your exchange of points of view, is how very different that response can be because each of you is not only unique, you have unique backgrounds.  You come from slightly different cultures.  Your conditioning is different because of the very conditions in which you were raised.  And while this conditioning at the same time gives meaning to what you read, yet it can also limit your responses, your response-ability.  

This is the reality of the book to you.  Also, as you just discovered in your exchange of points of view, is how very different that response can be because each of you is not only unique, you have unique backgrounds.  You come from slightly different cultures.  Your conditioning is different because of the very conditions in which you were raised.  And while this conditioning at the same time gives meaning to what you read, yet it can also limit your responses, your response-ability.

 

===='''''[[Subjectivity]]'''''====

===='''''[[Subjectivity]]'''''====

It is almost impossible to keep this fact in mind--of your limited objectivity, or if you will, your intrinsic subjectivity--or you should be doing nothing else.  Like enlightenment itself, this fact is not a state of mind you can carry with you.  You are much too directly involved in what is happening to you to think of carrying some state of mind, some awareness, no matter how subtle or how tenacious.    To live your life you have to let go of any such notions that would merely keep you from being fully engaged.  So to live moment to moment, especially in your very busy technological lives, is a constant process of forgetting yourself, engaging something else or someone else.  Yet it is nevertheless true that the Urantia book and all it holds is an experiential reality--for you.

It is almost impossible to keep this fact in mind--of your limited objectivity, or if you will, your intrinsic subjectivity--or you should be doing nothing else.  Like enlightenment itself, this fact is not a state of mind you can carry with you.  You are much too directly involved in what is happening to you to think of carrying some state of mind, some awareness, no matter how subtle or how tenacious.    To live your life you have to let go of any such notions that would merely keep you from being fully engaged.  So to live moment to moment, especially in your very busy technological lives, is a constant process of forgetting yourself, engaging something else or someone else.  Yet it is nevertheless true that the Urantia book and all it holds is an experiential reality--for you.