Changes

Try it, my children.  See if you can just feel yourself breathing, continuously, if only for several minutes at first.  It begs, but immediately answers the question: what is the [[relationship]], the connection, between you and all the rest you are, between what you can consciously control and what is simply given each [[moment]] of life?  See if you can feel with [[gratitude]] and [[respect]] this living [[encompassing]] of yours that’s so very rarely [[conscious]] throughout your days and nights.  This is why every [[religion]] you have evolved over the millennia has [[discovered]] these exercises of heart and breath meditation.  It’s how men and women have discovered a way of accessing their larger selves by focusing their minds on some actual part of them that is alive beyond their own doing, and in so doing, are able to relax the anxious [[busyness]] of their [[minds]].  The [[purpose]] of this, apart from honoring your living body, is to let your mind become still of itself and allow something present and new to occur.

Try it, my children.  See if you can just feel yourself breathing, continuously, if only for several minutes at first.  It begs, but immediately answers the question: what is the [[relationship]], the connection, between you and all the rest you are, between what you can consciously control and what is simply given each [[moment]] of life?  See if you can feel with [[gratitude]] and [[respect]] this living [[encompassing]] of yours that’s so very rarely [[conscious]] throughout your days and nights.  This is why every [[religion]] you have evolved over the millennia has [[discovered]] these exercises of heart and breath meditation.  It’s how men and women have discovered a way of accessing their larger selves by focusing their minds on some actual part of them that is alive beyond their own doing, and in so doing, are able to relax the anxious [[busyness]] of their [[minds]].  The [[purpose]] of this, apart from honoring your living body, is to let your mind become still of itself and allow something present and new to occur.

   

   

Michael mentioned how strange this seeming non-activity must be to someone who is so outwardly oriented and inwardly self-centered and selfish with themselves they are consumed with busily building up and maintaining a sense of [[momentum]] in their lives.  Now to suggest they deliberately bring that momentum to a halt in a [[profound]] [[stillness]]?  <u>How silly it must seem to them if you were to turn around your familiar saying to suggest: don’t just do something, sit there!</u>  You can see how difficult this is, how immediately it brings about a near-[[existential]] [[fear]] of losing themselves, losing control by [[relaxing]] their grip that they so desperately feel they need.

Michael mentioned how strange this seeming non-activity must be to someone who is so outwardly oriented and inwardly self-centered and selfish with themselves they are consumed with busily building up and maintaining a sense of [[momentum]] in their lives.  Now to suggest they deliberately bring that [[momentum]] to a halt in a [[profound]] [[stillness]]?  <u>How silly it must seem to them if you were to turn around your familiar saying to suggest: don’t just do something, sit there!</u>  You can see how difficult this is, how immediately it brings about a near-[[existential]] [[fear]] of losing themselves, losing control by [[relaxing]] their grip that they so desperately feel they need.

 

===='''''[[Ambition]]'''''====

===='''''[[Ambition]]'''''====

* (Let go craving ambition)

* (Let go craving ambition)

Yet unless one lets go their craving [[ambition]] completely and then discovers they survive the [[event]], how else are they to discover that they are already complete?  Unless something new is allowed to come into their [[Inner Life|inner world]], they’re only going around in the same-old, same-old [[circle]]s and actually starving their [[souls]] of the very completeness that is their birthright to discover.  This is why it takes [[patience]] and [[courage]] to let a hyper-conscious [[stillness]] come into being, for your complete personhood, my children, the totality of yourself, though always real to us, is only [[potential]] to your self-aware experiential self--you.  It does little [[good]] for some religious [[dogma]] to tell you how complete you are if you yourself cannot experience it.  This is what we offer you, a way of testing out what we say.  One of the greatest gifts we can give you, my children, is a way for you to [[discover]] and fulfill yourselves with all you are, a way for you to access your own soul, your own [[higher consciousness]], and your own creative spirit independent of the past.

Yet unless one lets go their craving [[ambition]] completely and then discovers they survive the [[event]], how else are they to discover that they are already complete?  Unless something new is allowed to come into their [[Inner Life|inner world]], they’re only going around in the same-old, same-old [[circle]]s and actually starving their [[souls]] of the very completeness that is their birthright to discover.  This is why it takes [[patience]] and [[courage]] to let a hyper-conscious [[stillness]] come into being, for your complete personhood, my children, the totality of yourself, though always real to us, is only [[potential]] to your self-aware experiential self--you.  It does little [[good]] for some religious [[dogma]] to tell you how complete you are if you yourself cannot experience it.  This is what we offer you, a way of testing out what we say.  One of the greatest gifts we can give you, my children, is a way for you to [[discover]] and fulfill yourselves with all you are, a way for you to access your own soul, your own [[higher consciousness]], and your own creative spirit independent of the past.

   

   

Michael spent much of his last lesson trying to give you a feeling for how you are constantly creating, if mostly unconsciously, your own [[interpretation]] of the [[reality]] around and within you.  Now you need to let go some of the [[busyness]] in your normal [http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2734358809/ waking life], if only for twenty minutes or so, to be still and experience what your incessant [[creativity]] is doing.  Look around: feel within.  This is how you access the [[encompassing]] and [[transcendent]] truth of all you are always doing, for this realization is something you will be engaged in for all [[eternity]].  Why not start now?  Have [[faith]] that you are all this full personhood and [[consciousness]] we’ve offered for your [[understanding]] and [[wisdom]].  Have the [[courage]] to let go your habitual need to be entertained.  Just be still and see what happens.  We’ll be right in here pulling with you, so be still that you can feel our [[presence]] too.

Michael spent much of his last lesson trying to give you a feeling for how you are constantly creating, if mostly unconsciously, your own [[interpretation]] of the [[reality]] around and within you.  Now you need to let go some of the [[busyness]] in your normal [https://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2734358809/ waking life], if only for twenty minutes or so, to be still and experience what your incessant [[creativity]] is doing.  Look around: feel within.  This is how you access the [[encompassing]] and [[transcendent]] truth of all you are always doing, for this realization is something you will be engaged in for all [[eternity]].  Why not start now?  Have [[faith]] that you are all this full personhood and [[consciousness]] we’ve offered for your [[understanding]] and [[wisdom]].  Have the [[courage]] to let go your habitual need to be entertained.  Just be still and see what happens.  We’ll be right in here pulling with you, so be still that you can feel our [[presence]] too.

   

   

Now if you have any questions or comments this evening, this is something you can bring forth.

Now if you have any questions or comments this evening, this is something you can bring forth.

Student:  Thank you, Mother, for the [[wonderful]] lesson tonight.  The question I have is, when I pray for someone else, and also myself, what do I pray for?  What do I ask for?  I can think of a lot of [[things]]--[[health]], prosperity, well-being--but then if [[the Father]] already knows [[everything]], how can I go about praying for someone else?

Student:  Thank you, Mother, for the [[wonderful]] lesson tonight.  The question I have is, when I pray for someone else, and also myself, what do I pray for?  What do I ask for?  I can think of a lot of [[things]]--[[health]], prosperity, well-being--but then if [[the Father]] already knows [[everything]], how can I go about praying for someone else?

   

   

* '''''[[Prayer]]''''' (How to pray]

===='''''[[Prayer]]'''''====

*(How to pray]

NEBADONIA:  Yes, my son: well, that’s not a bad start--[[health]], well-being, prosperity, maybe that they [[grow]] in [[spirit]]--that they too have some feeling of their [[soul]] growing within them.  This is not only their experiences as they remember them, but also a greater totality as a presence of God registers these experiences.

NEBADONIA:  Yes, my son: well, that’s not a bad start--[[health]], well-being, prosperity, maybe that they [[grow]] in [[spirit]]--that they too have some feeling of their [[soul]] growing within them.  This is not only their experiences as they remember them, but also a greater totality as a presence of God registers these experiences.

   

   

Student:  Yeah…  That’s part of the [[unknown]] as well.  It’s also faith, and [[imagining]] how [[God]] sees us.  He sees our lives in love, and [[perfection]], and [[joy]]--in our humanness.  He can see the [[potential]] we have to become as He sees us, to become that extension of His kingdom.

Student:  Yeah…  That’s part of the [[unknown]] as well.  It’s also faith, and [[imagining]] how [[God]] sees us.  He sees our lives in love, and [[perfection]], and [[joy]]--in our humanness.  He can see the [[potential]] we have to become as He sees us, to become that extension of His kingdom.

   

   

* '''''[[Presence]]''''' (The kingdom)

===='''''[[Presence]]'''''====

* (The kingdom)

   

   

NEBADONIA:  If you’ve read the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents#Part_IV._The_Life_and_Teachings_of_Jesus Urantia book’s version of Jesus’ life], you know what a stumbling block this was for his [[apostles]].  Even at the time of the [Paper 179 - The Last Supper last supper] they were still arguing about who was to be in what position in the kingdom, in spite of the fact he had told them over and over again that the kingdom was [[Inner Life|within]].  Tonight I hoped to give you at least one or two of the many keys to this kingdom, this total personhood that you are, [[sharing]] your life with us.  

NEBADONIA:  If you’ve read the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents#Part_IV._The_Life_and_Teachings_of_Jesus Urantia book’s version of Jesus’ life], you know what a stumbling block this was for his [[apostles]].  Even at the time of the [Paper 179 - The Last Supper last supper] they were still arguing about who was to be in what position in the kingdom, in spite of the fact he had told them over and over again that the kingdom was [[Inner Life|within]].  Tonight I hoped to give you at least one or two of the many keys to this kingdom, this total personhood that you are, [[sharing]] your life with us.  

   

   

You need not always be self-aware to be in this kingdom.  This is the [[wonder]] and the reward of self-forgetfulness, that you can go for a long time being highly conscious and experiencing other things, other people, without being in the picture--so to speak.  The kingdom within continues to [[grow]], sometimes, as Michael noted, even more fully for your not standing in your own [[light]].  You’ve suspended your [[Self Evaluation|self-centered evaluation]] of how things are affecting only you to really [[touch]] and mingle with your fellows; and now you have a fuller [[reality]] of them in your [[soul]].

You need not always be self-aware to be in this kingdom.  This is the [[wonder]] and the reward of self-forgetfulness, that you can go for a long time being highly conscious and experiencing other things, other people, without being in the picture--so to speak.  The kingdom within continues to [[grow]], sometimes, as Michael noted, even more fully for your not standing in your own [[light]].  You’ve suspended your [[Self Evaluation|self-centered evaluation]] of how things are affecting only you to really [[touch]] and mingle with your fellows; and now you have a fuller [[reality]] of them in your [[soul]].

This has been going on so long that it’s only by the way of your [[stillness]] [[practice]] of relaxing and tuning in again to the [[miracle]] of your heart beating, or just watching something, without affecting it, you yourself can control; it’s only by getting these inner awareness’s and abilities that you can grow and sustain your faith and [[confidence]] in the face of outward threats.

This has been going on so long that it’s only by the way of your [[stillness]] [[practice]] of relaxing and tuning in again to the [[miracle]] of your heart beating, or just watching something, without affecting it, you yourself can control; it’s only by getting these inner awareness’s and abilities that you can grow and sustain your faith and [[confidence]] in the face of outward threats.

   

   

* '''''[[Fear]]''''' (Examine fears for their message)  

===='''''[[Fear]]'''''====

* (Examine fears for their message)  

If it helps--and it usually does--[[examine]] each fear as it comes up in the [[light]] of a possible caution from your [[higher consciousness]] of the whole surrounding situation; say, [[imagining]] some possible [[accident]] while driving.  Your whole [[feeling]]/[[intuitive]] self may be sensing a real danger before your [[cognitive]] mind can [[imagine]] it concretely in [[thought]].  Here, rather than disregarding the fear out of [[habit]], it pays to entertain the fear for what [[information]] it may contain.  Being open to [[emotion]], while at the same time not letting it control you, can give you a subtle read on a situation, a feeling-evaluation because feeling/sensing is the fundamental [[reality]] of your total self, your higher consciousness more in [[touch]] with reality than you are at times.  So also consider fear as caution and see what message it might contain.  

If it helps--and it usually does--[[examine]] each fear as it comes up in the [[light]] of a possible caution from your [[higher consciousness]] of the whole surrounding situation; say, [[imagining]] some possible [[accident]] while driving.  Your whole [[feeling]]/[[intuitive]] self may be sensing a real danger before your [[cognitive]] mind can [[imagine]] it concretely in [[thought]].  Here, rather than disregarding the fear out of [[habit]], it pays to entertain the fear for what [[information]] it may contain.  Being open to [[emotion]], while at the same time not letting it control you, can give you a subtle read on a situation, a feeling-evaluation because feeling/sensing is the fundamental [[reality]] of your total self, your higher consciousness more in [[touch]] with reality than you are at times.  So also consider fear as caution and see what message it might contain.  

   

   

Student:  I worry our [[youth]], with so many of these things like i-pods and stuff, are losing, or never developing, the capacity to [[think]] for themselves.  What’s happening to their abilities of [[discernment]], or their ability to feel what they are doing to someone else?--the [[pain]] they’re causing?  They know it’s wrong, but they still do it.  Where is the [[spiritual]] [[understanding]]?  That’s my feeling of fear: I fear for my own [[children]], even though I [[understand]] so much of what God is, and the kingdom is.  It seems so incongruent to our true nature--who I am: but I feel the fear.  I’m not shying away from it, but it seems so unnecessary.  It’s like I’m feeling all this fear because of other people’s incongruence with their true natures.

Student:  I worry our [[youth]], with so many of these things like i-pods and stuff, are losing, or never developing, the capacity to [[think]] for themselves.  What’s happening to their abilities of [[discernment]], or their ability to feel what they are doing to someone else?--the [[pain]] they’re causing?  They know it’s wrong, but they still do it.  Where is the [[spiritual]] [[understanding]]?  That’s my feeling of fear: I fear for my own [[children]], even though I [[understand]] so much of what God is, and the kingdom is.  It seems so incongruent to our true nature--who I am: but I feel the fear.  I’m not shying away from it, but it seems so unnecessary.  It’s like I’m feeling all this fear because of other people’s incongruence with their true natures.

   

   

* '''''[[Humanity]]''''' (People’s true nature)

===='''''[[Humanity]]'''''====

* (People’s true nature)

NEBADONIA:  Yes, my son, but I would caution you about too easily assuming what is a [[person]]’s, or people’s so-called true [[nature]].  Your [[Urantia book]] puts this very succinctly: the endowing of immature and imperfect beings with a [[relative]] degree of [[free will]] leads inevitably to [[tragedy]].  The [[cosmic]] [[possibility]] for wrong-doing is the price we all pay for each person’s ability to co-create their own life and [[destiny]], all the while, [[perfection]] of [[moral]] understanding and [[behavior]] is an experiential acquirement, not an [[existential]] actuality.  Again, it does no good to think of someone’s true nature as intrinsically perfect when the individual is incapable of [[realizing]] it yet through simple immaturity, lack of experience.  Prior to acquiring this experience, and [[reflecting]] upon it, a person is more or less subject to their [[heredity]] and [[environment]], their unconscious conditioning.  This was the [[meaning]] when Michael, as [[Jesus]], asked of [[our Father]] to [[forgive]] his children; they knew not what they were doing.  

NEBADONIA:  Yes, my son, but I would caution you about too easily assuming what is a [[person]]’s, or people’s so-called true [[nature]].  Your [[Urantia book]] puts this very succinctly: the endowing of immature and imperfect beings with a [[relative]] degree of [[free will]] leads inevitably to [[tragedy]].  The [[cosmic]] [[possibility]] for wrong-doing is the price we all pay for each person’s ability to co-create their own life and [[destiny]], all the while, [[perfection]] of [[moral]] understanding and [[behavior]] is an experiential acquirement, not an [[existential]] actuality.  Again, it does no good to think of someone’s true nature as intrinsically perfect when the individual is incapable of [[realizing]] it yet through simple immaturity, lack of experience.  Prior to acquiring this experience, and [[reflecting]] upon it, a person is more or less subject to their [[heredity]] and [[environment]], their unconscious conditioning.  This was the [[meaning]] when Michael, as [[Jesus]], asked of [[our Father]] to [[forgive]] his children; they knew not what they were doing.  

   

   

But you are correct in that their personality is still so totally conditioned by past events they can never achieve the real freedom of true, present-[[moment]] [[creativity]].  They are still only reactive.  They’ve never experienced that [[glorious]] moment of seeing they are no more important than the next person, and that the needs they feel as a human being, of recognition and response, are [[universal]] and have to be acknowledged and [[balanced]] with everyone else’s.  They want to play God and control life and [[death]], or even [[pain]]--through [[torture]], with another person.  They not only fail to realize they have the [[Thought Adjuster|presence of God]] already within them, but that it is also present in everyone else.  They are really and truly pathetic beings, but they are also quite dangerous.  That full reality of their humanity--their human possibilities--is something you have to deal with.

But you are correct in that their personality is still so totally conditioned by past events they can never achieve the real freedom of true, present-[[moment]] [[creativity]].  They are still only reactive.  They’ve never experienced that [[glorious]] moment of seeing they are no more important than the next person, and that the needs they feel as a human being, of recognition and response, are [[universal]] and have to be acknowledged and [[balanced]] with everyone else’s.  They want to play God and control life and [[death]], or even [[pain]]--through [[torture]], with another person.  They not only fail to realize they have the [[Thought Adjuster|presence of God]] already within them, but that it is also present in everyone else.  They are really and truly pathetic beings, but they are also quite dangerous.  That full reality of their humanity--their human possibilities--is something you have to deal with.

   

   

* '''''[[Unknown]]''''' (Welcoming the unknown)  

===='''''[[Unknown]]'''''====

 

* (Welcoming the unknown)  

But finally tonight, the [[anxiousness]] you encounter as you try to [[meditate]] can be just a general, vague [[fear]] of the [[unknown]], yet [[ironically]], that too is what you are trying to access, to bring out of the [[shadows]] and into the [[light]] of [[consciousness]].  It’s not only the past and past conditioning.  It’s what you yourself with your own self-awareness cannot [[imagine]], but can only be open to: that which is [[transcendent]] to all you have yet experienced: all the [[potential]] that awaits you.  Welcome the unknown and see it in your future as a promise of endless [[adventure]], beings and [[dimensions]] beyond human ken, and yet too your birthright to encounter, someday.

But finally tonight, the [[anxiousness]] you encounter as you try to [[meditate]] can be just a general, vague [[fear]] of the [[unknown]], yet [[ironically]], that too is what you are trying to access, to bring out of the [[shadows]] and into the [[light]] of [[consciousness]].  It’s not only the past and past conditioning.  It’s what you yourself with your own self-awareness cannot [[imagine]], but can only be open to: that which is [[transcendent]] to all you have yet experienced: all the [[potential]] that awaits you.  Welcome the unknown and see it in your future as a promise of endless [[adventure]], beings and [[dimensions]] beyond human ken, and yet too your birthright to encounter, someday.