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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>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 [<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">http</del>://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 [<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">http</del>://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.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>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 [<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">https</ins>://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 [<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">https</ins>://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.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>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 [<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">http</del>://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?</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>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 [<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">https</ins>://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?</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>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 [<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">http</del>://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.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>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 [<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">https</ins>://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.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>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.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>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.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This is something that faces each of you [[individually]], and Michael and I are [[determined]] to [[share]] this with you. Believe me, my [[children]], as we are your [[spiritual]] [[parents]], we can feel with you what it takes sometimes to swing your legs out of bed in the morning and get up and go about your daily requirements of those [[things]] you have to do. We know how [[busy]] you get, how exhausted you get, and here we come suggesting that what you need is some good hard exercise for your bodies. You can call it some kind of tough-love, but we are determined to help you face this challenge even though it does mean to once again [[value]] good hard [[work]]. And so we ask you do not belittle but you [[embrace]] all those things that keep you [[healthy]] and fit. If your work does not require it, consider all those interesting hobbies and social activities where you can share this great need to get out and move around, and delight in each other.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This is something that faces each of you [[individually]], and Michael and I are [[determined]] to [[share]] this with you. Believe me, my [[children]], as we are your [[spiritual]] [[parents]], we can feel with you what it takes sometimes to swing your legs out of bed in the morning and get up and go about your daily requirements of those [[things]] you have to do. We know how [[busy]] you get, how exhausted you get, and here we come suggesting that what you need is some good hard exercise for your bodies. You can call it some kind of tough-love, but we are determined to help you face this challenge even though it does mean to once again [[value]] good hard [[work]]. And so we ask you do not belittle but you [[embrace]] all those things that keep you [[healthy]] and fit. If your work does not require it, consider all those interesting hobbies and social activities where you can share this great need to get out and move around, and delight in each other.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We [[encourage]] you to read that part of your [[Urantia book]] that talks about [<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">http</del>://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_72 life on a neighboring but more highly developed planet]. You’ll see that they too have gone through a similar kind of a super-industrialized age as you are in now, yet there has been a further decentralization of [[power]] and [[authority]] and a greater blossoming of individual [[creativity]] that leads people to voluntarily [[embrace]] and enjoy things such as growing much of their own food, doing those [[creative]] [[physical]] [[things]] you’re now overly specialized in eliminating. For example, think of how your do-it-yourself projects have given such enjoyment and appreciation to folks, just to be able to be their own handymen and handywomen.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We [[encourage]] you to read that part of your [[Urantia book]] that talks about [<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">https</ins>://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_72 life on a neighboring but more highly developed planet]. You’ll see that they too have gone through a similar kind of a super-industrialized age as you are in now, yet there has been a further decentralization of [[power]] and [[authority]] and a greater blossoming of individual [[creativity]] that leads people to voluntarily [[embrace]] and enjoy things such as growing much of their own food, doing those [[creative]] [[physical]] [[things]] you’re now overly specialized in eliminating. For example, think of how your do-it-yourself projects have given such enjoyment and appreciation to folks, just to be able to be their own handymen and handywomen.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Thank you for [[entertaining]] these notions this evening. In some of our [[future]] lessons we will make other suggestions about what you need to do as a whole [[society]] to find that good rewarding [[physical]] [[work]] and [[play]] for everyone. It’s one of the greatest challenges facing you to become more healthy, and this is a [[spiritual]] [[Work|task]], my children, because it involves [[value]]. What do you value, and how, as a [[culture]], do these [[values]] need to be re[[examine]]d to once again to find [[love]] and [[respect]] in those [[things]] you can do with these [[marvelous]] [[bodies]] of yours?</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Thank you for [[entertaining]] these notions this evening. In some of our [[future]] lessons we will make other suggestions about what you need to do as a whole [[society]] to find that good rewarding [[physical]] [[work]] and [[play]] for everyone. It’s one of the greatest challenges facing you to become more healthy, and this is a [[spiritual]] [[Work|task]], my children, because it involves [[value]]. What do you value, and how, as a [[culture]], do these [[values]] need to be re[[examine]]d to once again to find [[love]] and [[respect]] in those [[things]] you can do with these [[marvelous]] [[bodies]] of yours?</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Yes, the [[evolution]] is [<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">http</del>://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Inexorable_Evolution-2006-03-06 inexorable]. We just hope to lessen the human [[suffering]] along the way. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Yes, the [[evolution]] is [<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">https</ins>://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Inexorable_Evolution-2006-03-06 inexorable]. We just hope to lessen the human [[suffering]] along the way. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>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 [http://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 [http://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/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Middle Ages </del>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.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>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 [http://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 [http://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/<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Middle_Ages </ins>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.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>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 [http://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?</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>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 [http://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?</div></td></tr>
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</table>Rdavishttps://nordan.daynal.org/w/index.php?title=2010-02-01-Reevaluating_Physical_Life&diff=51628&oldid=prevRdavis: /* Culture, Obesity */2010-02-16T19:23:12Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Culture, Obesity</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>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.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>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.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>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…</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>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…</div></td></tr>
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</table>Rdavishttps://nordan.daynal.org/w/index.php?title=2010-02-01-Reevaluating_Physical_Life&diff=51627&oldid=prevRdavis: /* Acceptance */2010-02-16T19:20:34Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Acceptance</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>NEBADONIA: I suggest a deeper sense of [[acceptance]] and contact with these ailments to bathe them in your [[mind]] and [[spirit]]. Don’t abandon any part of yourself. It’s good, this deeper sense of, as you say, when you contact this [[Thought Adjuster|higher spirit], this higher self of yours, it does this give you a stronger [[feeling]] for what we call your [[personality]] and your [[soul]]--this deepest [[continuity]] of who you’ve been. It’s the true story of your life, and it is actually [[co-created]] by a [[fragment]] of [[God]] within you. When you contact this higher self, it can give you an [[assurance]] of who you’ve been all along. Does this [[resonate]] within you? (Yes)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>NEBADONIA: I suggest a deeper sense of [[acceptance]] and contact with these ailments to bathe them in your [[mind]] and [[spirit]]. Don’t abandon any part of yourself. It’s good, this deeper sense of, as you say, when you contact this [[Thought Adjuster|higher spirit<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]</ins>], this higher self of yours, it does this give you a stronger [[feeling]] for what we call your [[personality]] and your [[soul]]--this deepest [[continuity]] of who you’ve been. It’s the true story of your life, and it is actually [[co-created]] by a [[fragment]] of [[God]] within you. When you contact this higher self, it can give you an [[assurance]] of who you’ve been all along. Does this [[resonate]] within you? (Yes)</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This is where you derive your strength, by an acceptance, a contact, a feeling of who you are--especially physically, and including [[everything]]. As you put it, you feel more present. This is, in a sense, my daughter, all you can do. You are putting your whole [[heart]], and now your [[soul]] into this staying present and accepting your situation, learning from it, because you have to keep learning as it [[changes]]. You have to keep trying things in a very [[scientific]] way, being of a [[Clarity|clear]] mind of what you are trying, and then whether it works or not in your human [[complexity]] of having a [[body]] and [[mind]] and [[spirit]] and [[personality]] and [[soul]]. It’s a true exploration. I sense you are learning this. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>This is where you derive your strength, by an acceptance, a contact, a feeling of who you are--especially physically, and including [[everything]]. As you put it, you feel more present. This is, in a sense, my daughter, all you can do. You are putting your whole [[heart]], and now your [[soul]] into this staying present and accepting your situation, learning from it, because you have to keep learning as it [[changes]]. You have to keep trying things in a very [[scientific]] way, being of a [[Clarity|clear]] mind of what you are trying, and then whether it works or not in your human [[complexity]] of having a [[body]] and [[mind]] and [[spirit]] and [[personality]] and [[soul]]. It’s a true exploration. I sense you are learning this. </div></td></tr>
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</table>Rdavishttps://nordan.daynal.org/w/index.php?title=2010-02-01-Reevaluating_Physical_Life&diff=51593&oldid=prevRdavis: /* Inner Life */2010-02-16T04:21:18Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Inner Life</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>NEBADONIA: Yes, my son, I couldn’t be more in agreement. This innate ability exists even in those with rather extensive bad [[habits]] and [[health]]; they would have died long ago if their bodies hadn’t been continually [[healing]]. Think of the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</del>allure<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]] </del>every [[culture]] puts out through its [[media]] of what is important in life. As long as you are [[focused]] upon so much, shall we say, [[abstract]] [[measurement]] for your own [[worth]] through material possessions--keeping up with the Joneses--you have a lot of [[expressions]] for it; as long as what is being successfully advertised as the cost for all your [[entertainment]], you’re faced with the enormity of folks spending so much of their time being entertained, rather than creatively entertaining themselves. Think of all those thousand and one products designed just to soothe or exalt your [[ego]]. All these things can stand in the way and get between you and your own healing spiritual growth. As Michael says, you can totally disregard and abuse your body following some notion. You’re sacrificing your body for some object of [[mind]] alone, some hollow excitement. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>NEBADONIA: Yes, my son, I couldn’t be more in agreement. This innate ability exists even in those with rather extensive bad [[habits]] and [[health]]; they would have died long ago if their bodies hadn’t been continually [[healing]]. Think of the allure every [[culture]] puts out through its [[media]] of what is important in life. As long as you are [[focused]] upon so much, shall we say, [[abstract]] [[measurement]] for your own [[worth]] through material possessions--keeping up with the Joneses--you have a lot of [[expressions]] for it; as long as what is being successfully advertised as the cost for all your [[entertainment]], you’re faced with the enormity of folks spending so much of their time being entertained, rather than creatively entertaining themselves. Think of all those thousand and one products designed just to soothe or exalt your [[ego]]. All these things can stand in the way and get between you and your own healing spiritual growth. As Michael says, you can totally disregard and abuse your body following some notion. You’re sacrificing your body for some object of [[mind]] alone, some hollow excitement. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>But yes, we do see the corner being turned by more and more folks who are aware of these ironies, and who have a life of their own based upon contact with their own growing [[soul]], and what has made and kept them strong and free throughout. This is your [[unique]] [[inner life]] shared with us and [[our Father]]. But you have to choose to treasure your inner life and your own [[thoughts]]. Now, with your ingenious [www.apple.com/ipodclassic/ i-pods], you never have to hear your [[thoughts]], even on a [[solitary]] walk. Now you can live your life with constant [[music]], even videos, on the go; and some do. This is far, far beyond the most fantastic [[dreams]] of the ages simply because it was never envisioned as possible until very recently. And this is your own [[personal]] choice of the whole world’s [[history]] of [[music]], millions of tracks available over the [[internet]]. But when is more of a good thing too much? What does it displace of your own inner you? </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>But yes, we do see the corner being turned by more and more folks who are aware of these ironies, and who have a life of their own based upon contact with their own growing [[soul]], and what has made and kept them strong and free throughout. This is your [[unique]] [[inner life]] shared with us and [[our Father]]. But you have to choose to treasure your inner life and your own [[thoughts]]. Now, with your ingenious [www.apple.com/ipodclassic/ i-pods], you never have to hear your [[thoughts]], even on a [[solitary]] walk. Now you can live your life with constant [[music]], even videos, on the go; and some do. This is far, far beyond the most fantastic [[dreams]] of the ages simply because it was never envisioned as possible until very recently. And this is your own [[personal]] choice of the whole world’s [[history]] of [[music]], millions of tracks available over the [[internet]]. But when is more of a good thing too much? What does it displace of your own inner you? </div></td></tr>
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</table>Rdavishttps://nordan.daynal.org/w/index.php?title=2010-02-01-Reevaluating_Physical_Life&diff=51592&oldid=prevRdavis: /* Body */2010-02-16T04:19:35Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Body</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>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 [http://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 [http://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.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>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 [http://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 [http://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.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>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 <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[</del>[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 [http://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?</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>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 [http://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?</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>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 [http://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.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>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 [http://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.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>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.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>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.</div></td></tr>
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