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===Topic: 'The Trinity Within''===

===Topic: ''The Trinity Within''===

 

===Group: [[Marin TeaM]]===

===Group: [[Marin TeaM]]===

==Facilitators==

==Facilitators==

==Session==

==Session==

===Opening===

===Opening===

Dear Michael and Mother Spirit, We thank you for these last several lessons where you’ve encouraged us to seek deeper into the meaning of the words we use to understand reality, and examine afresh the concepts we’ve been handed. Then we can realize anew our own experiences directly, and not through just a reshuffling of an old deck of perhaps worn-out, no longer useful expressions. To do this we ask for your help in detecting and becoming one with your spirit. Help augment our own creative abilities to continue evolving, reformulating our philosophy of life. Amen.

Dear [[Michael]] and [[Mother Spirit]], We thank you for these last several lessons where you’ve encouraged us to seek deeper into the [[meaning]] of the [[words]] we use to understand [[reality]], and examine afresh the [[concepts]] we’ve been handed. Then we can realize anew our own [[experiences]] directly, and not through just a reshuffling of an old deck of perhaps worn-out, no longer useful [[expression]]s. To do this we ask for your help in detecting and becoming one with your [[spirit]]. Help augment our own creative abilities to continue evolving, reformulating our [[philosophy]] of life. [[Amen]].

 

MICHAEL: Good evening, my children, this is Michael, your father, your brother, your dear friend. You are very welcome. Mother Spirit and I appreciate your thanks, and your [[gratitude]], and your [[faith]]--your [[trust]] in us, so that when we do want to go deeper into a subject to stretch your [[understanding]], you are willing to suspend your dis[[belief]] and follow. Because of your ability to ignore us, to disbelieve us--one of the [[foundation]]s of your [[free will]]--you do give us [[reality]] within yourselves by a [[profound]] act of recognition.

===Lesson===

===Lesson===

* The '''''Trinity''''' (within)

* The '''''Trinity''''' (within)

For we are here within you, Mother Spirit’s Mind/Spirit Adjutants helping form your thinking, and my Spirit of Truth helping you sort out and understand what is happening as you go through your days. We are always with you whether you can consciously detect our presence or not, just as your Father Fragment is right within your thoughts making connections, tying those links, sometimes recognizable by the startlingly appropriate thoughts you have, as you say, "out of the blue."

For we are here within you, Mother Spirit’s Mind/[[Adjutant Mind Spirits|Spirit Adjutants]] helping form your [[thinking]], and my [[Spirit of Truth]] helping you sort out and understand what is happening as you go through your days. We are always with you whether you can consciously detect our [[presence]] or not, just as your [[Father Fragment]] is right within your [[thoughts]] making connections, tying those links, sometimes recognizable by the startlingly appropriate thoughts you have, as you say, "out of the blue."

And so you have right within you, my children, all the representatives of the Paradise Trinity for company, and very immediate company at that. I even joked about this last time, and teased you a bit by reassuring you that we are all subservient to your choices, to your free will within you, so you needn’t feel it’s too crowded in here.

And so you have right within you, my children, all the representatives of the [[Paradise Trinity]] for company, and very immediate company at that. I even joked about this last time, and teased you a bit by reassuring you that we are all subservient to your choices, to your [[free will]] within you, so you needn’t feel it’s too crowded in here.

One main theme we’ve been exploring/evolving these last few years, is to give you a handbook, an owners manual, if you will, on the kind of being you are. You weren’t given such a manual at birth, but if you think about it, you all were handed one piecemeal as you grew up, in your first few years by your family, and then the immediate neighborhood, the adults and children you encountered as a youngster. For whether they are aware of it or not, every person has a philosophy of life, including—what--they are. Every person has a human need to understand what is happening to them. Every person has a creative spirit that right from the very beginning begins to form a world view, their own personal world based upon their experiences.

One main theme we’ve been exploring/evolving these last few years, is to give you a handbook, an owners manual, if you will, on the kind of being you are. You weren’t given such a manual at birth, but if you think about it, you all were handed one piecemeal as you grew up, in your first few years by your [[family]], and then the immediate neighborhood, the adults and children you encountered as a youngster. For whether they are aware of it or not, every [[person]] has a philosophy of life, including—what--they are. Every person has a [[human]] need to [[understand]] what is happening to them. Every person has a [[creative]] spirit that right from the very beginning begins to form a [[Worldview|world view]], their own personal world based upon their [[experience]]s.

(Your own world—its wonders and limitations)

(Your own world—its wonders and limitations)

This is a necessary and rather stupendous creation, from the point of view of a small child. You can all remember those times when you extended yourself as best you could in your understanding, but then some small disappointment would totally collapse your world and you could only sit there crying in the wreckage, until, ever so slowly with halting attempts to catch your breath, this last tidal wave of emotion that had utterly swept you away would subside and leave you somewhat dazed, but at peace. Then, of course, you would start out again.

This is a necessary and rather stupendous [[creation]], from the [[perspective|point of view]] of a small child. You can all remember those times when you extended yourself as best you could in your understanding, but then some small disappointment would totally collapse your world and you could only sit there crying in the wreckage, until, ever so slowly with halting attempts to catch your [[breath]], this last tidal wave of [[emotion]] that had utterly swept you away would subside and leave you somewhat dazed, but at [[peace]]. Then, of course, you would start out again.

Though ones world view is quite an accomplishment, and a necessary one, in very primitive tribal societies, bound about by other tribes curtailing travel and contact outside of ones immediate group, this world view would be almost identical with those around one. In more modern societies with a great degree of mobility, and mass media, a young child is exposed at a very early age to a much broader view, especially since the age of television.

Though ones world view is quite an accomplishment, and a necessary one, in very primitive tribal [[societies]], bound about by other tribes curtailing travel and contact outside of ones immediate [[group]], this world view would be almost identical with those around one. In more modern societies with a great degree of mobility, and [[mass media]], a young child is exposed at a very early age to a much broader view, especially since the age of television.

Having your own world is quite an accomplishment, so much so there comes a stage when you identify with it just as a normal course of events. As it nears a kind of practical completion and seems to stick together for a while, you can mistakenly assume that this is Reality Itself. Mother Spirit said last week this was the fatal error of those who got caught up in the Lucifer Rebellion. It is also quite common among people as well. We’ve mentioned how people with a highly developed cynical, shared view of life can form a tight little group and politically take over a very large country through the use of terror, assassination, and all the other machinations of ruthless power.

Having your own world is quite an accomplishment, so much so there comes a stage when you identify with it just as a normal course of events. As it nears a kind of practical completion and seems to stick together for a while, you can mistakenly assume that this is [[Reality]] Itself. [[Mother Spirit]] said last week this was the fatal [[error]] of those who got caught up in the [[Lucifer Rebellion]]. It is also quite common among people as well. We’ve mentioned how people with a highly developed cynical, shared view of life can form a tight little group and politically take over a very large country through the use of terror, assassination, and all the other machinations of ruthless [[power]].

But even on a much smaller scale you find petty tyrants within individual homes, different small communities, whose game is forcing their world view on everyone else. Seen from outside these are pathetic individuals clinging to a tiny speck of reality they mistakenly think is the whole show. Yet because they have such a small grasp of God’s true reality, this leads to their unconscious defensiveness, their desperate need to protect their little fiefdoms even within their own minds, quite willing to resort to the most horrible, unimaginable acts upon their fellows.

But even on a much smaller scale you find petty tyrants within individual [[home]]s, different small communities, whose [[game]] is forcing their world view on everyone else. Seen from outside these are pathetic individuals clinging to a tiny speck of reality they mistakenly think is the whole show. Yet because they have such a small grasp of [[God]]’s true reality, this leads to their unconscious defensiveness, their desperate need to protect their little fiefdoms even within their own minds, quite willing to resort to the most horrible, unimaginable acts upon their fellows.

When Mother Spirit mentioned the need to turn about and actively seek God’s will, this is the turning about she was referring to. This is the enormous spiritual courage to let go clinging to your hard-earned view of the world, by recognizing that it is your own. You are a spiritual being, you have co-created along with general reality this world of your own, and you can be happy and proud that you are this kind of being with this kind of creativity. You can joyously welcome with a true humility all that other "out there"—God’s creation, his will and ways, and actively seek to know these. But this is precisely where many people fail in their growth. They are unwilling to let go their inner certainty that they’ve already got a hold on reality itself. For them humility means being humiliated, being made to feel small; and there is some truth in that. Each individuals’ co-creation--their own world, is small by comparison to God’s, as well as everyone else’s—in different combinations.

When Mother Spirit mentioned the need to turn about and actively seek God’s will, this is the turning about she was referring to. This is the enormous [[spiritual]] courage to let go clinging to your hard-earned view of the world, by recognizing that it is your own. You are a spiritual [[being]], you have co-created along with general reality this world of your own, and you can be happy and proud that you are this kind of being with this kind of creativity. You can joyously welcome with a true humility all that other "out there"—God’s creation, his will and ways, and actively seek to know these. But this is precisely where many people fail in their growth. They are unwilling to let go their inner certainty that they’ve already got a hold on reality itself. For them humility means being humiliated, being made to feel small; and there is some [[truth]] in that. Each [[individual]]s’ co-creation--their own world, is small by comparison to God’s, as well as everyone else’s—in different combinations.

Here you run into some very deep ironies indeed. Not unfortunate, but fortunate is the individual who has at some time gone, or been thrust willy-nilly into a situation that utterly destroyed, momentarily anyway, his notions that he had completed his grasp of reality. Temporally overwhelmed with some new discovery, it is only after the fact, after he’s bobbed back to the surface of this tidal wave that swept over him, after he’s experienced this small ego-death, can he break out laughing in pure glee that he has survived. And look! Look what’s new, all around then. With this experience under his belt he can begin to wonder what else there might be out there, what other adventures might be in store. There may be more to reality than was dreamt of in his philosophy to date.

Here you run into some very deep ironies indeed. Not unfortunate, but fortunate is the individual who has at some time gone, or been thrust willy-nilly into a situation that utterly destroyed, momentarily anyway, his notions that he had completed his grasp of reality. Temporally overwhelmed with some new discovery, it is only after the fact, after he’s bobbed back to the surface of this tidal wave that swept over him, after he’s experienced this small ego-death, can he break out laughing in pure glee that he has survived. And look! Look what’s new, all around then. With this experience under his belt he can begin to wonder what else there might be out there, what other adventures might be in store. There may be more to reality than was dreamt of in his philosophy to date.

You are lucky indeed if your parents had this humility and you were raised with the notion that reality itself, the encompassing within which you find yourself, is infinite. This does not relieve you of the task of forming your own world view, understanding yourself and the world about you by forming a cohesive philosophy and articulating it to yourself, perhaps sharing it with others; but you never lose sight of the fact that it is your creation, and very finite compared to infinity.

You are lucky indeed if your parents had this humility and you were raised with the notion that reality itself, the encompassing within which you find yourself, is [[infinite]]. This does not relieve you of the task of forming your own world view, understanding yourself and the world about you by forming a cohesive philosophy and articulating it to yourself, perhaps sharing it with others; but you never lose [[sight]] of the [[fact]] that it is your [[creation]], and very [[finite]] compared to [[infinity]].

Once you have crossed that threshold, once you as an adult have had your world blown asunder, then survived to an even larger reality you can creatively recognize, you may suspect that you yourself are a spiritual being. You are creative. With this glorious discovery you can set about to take response-ability for what you create. You can begin to respond by letting those others out there, your fellows human beings, be. You can recognize their freewill, their independence from you. You can drop your need to pre-judge them, and glory in the reward as they begin to emerge as individuals. And what a treasure that is, if overwhelming at first.

Once you have crossed that threshold, once you as an adult have had your world blown asunder, then survived to an even larger reality you can creatively recognize, you may suspect that you yourself are a spiritual being. You are [[creative]]. With this [[glorious]] [[discovery]] you can set about to take response-ability for what you create. You can begin to respond by letting those others out there, your fellows human beings, be. You can recognize their freewill, their independence from you. You can drop your need to pre-judge them, and glory in the reward as they begin to emerge as individuals. And what a treasure that is, if overwhelming at first.

(Come join the cosmic family)

(Come join the cosmic family)

This is another proof of God’s creativity--all those unique individuals around you, no longer stereotyped with a patina of prejudice. This is the reward of the courage to let go, to relax, to open yourself to whatever you cannot anticipate. This is trusting in spontaneity and your own creativity. And so, my children, we welcome you; we even tease you a bit. Come join us. Recognize you are already part of the spiritual community, the cosmic family. Stretch yourselves and seek the cosmic view or, at least initially anyway, a Urantia view, a world-wide view of all your cultures, all your ethnic types, all your different histories. What a great adventure this is, and, like any adventure, it takes nerve. There is such a thing as courage, and it leads to the greatest rewards of all. So again: welcome, my children, come join us. We are already here, right within you. Come pay us a visit, won’t you?

This is another proof of God’s [[creativity]]--all those [[unique]] individuals around you, no longer stereotyped with a patina of prejudice. This is the reward of the courage to let go, to relax, to open yourself to whatever you cannot anticipate. This is trusting in [[spontaneity]] and your own creativity. And so, my children, we welcome you; we even tease you a bit. Come join us. Recognize you are already part of the spiritual community, the cosmic family. Stretch yourselves and seek the cosmic view or, at least initially anyway, a [[Urantia]] view, a world-wide view of all your [[culture]]s, all your ethnic types, all your different histories. What a great adventure this is, and, like any adventure, it takes nerve. There is such a thing as courage, and it leads to the greatest rewards of all. So again: welcome, my children, come join us. We are already here, right within you. Come pay us a visit, won’t you?

If you have any questions or comments this evening, I certainly do welcome them.

If you have any questions or comments this evening, I certainly do welcome them.

===Dialogue===

===Dialogue===

Student: I thank you for the information and the talk on courage, Michael. It is something I have asked for, for many years on a daily basis, and I am starting to get it. The courage has to come before self-forgiveness and self love; and it’s time; and I thank you for touching on that. It’s helped me immensely to keep your courage--in the thought of your absolute love--as close to me as possible. Thank you so much.

Student: I thank you for the information and the talk on courage, Michael. It is something I have asked for, for many years on a daily basis, and I am starting to get it. The courage has to come before self-forgiveness and self love; and it’s time; and I thank you for touching on that. It’s helped me immensely to keep your courage--in the thought of your absolute love--as close to me as possible. Thank you so much.