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===Topic: '''''Spirit Suggest, It Does Not Command'''''===

===Topic: ''Spirit Suggest, It Does Not Command''===

===Group: [[Lightline TeaM]]===

===Group: [[Lightline TeaM]]===

==Facilitators==

==Facilitators==

   

   

Michael: Good evening, this is Michael. Definitely, Mother Spirit and I are very thankful for your appreciation. As we’ve taught so many times, this is a part of worship, being thankful for your life--for all that you are, for all that you’ve experienced--thankful for our Father providing his outflowing of life, not only to create your essence--your personality--to begin with, but literally to sustain you, sustain you forever if that is your choice.

Michael: Good evening, this is Michael. Definitely, Mother Spirit and I are very thankful for your appreciation. As we’ve taught so many times, this is a part of worship, being thankful for your life--for all that you are, for all that you’ve experienced--thankful for our Father providing his outflowing of life, not only to create your essence--your personality--to begin with, but literally to sustain you, sustain you forever if that is your choice.

===='''''[[Discernment]]''''', '''''[[Responsibility]]'''''====

====''[[Discernment]]'', ''[[Responsibility]]''====

*Spirit suggests; it does not command

*Spirit suggests; it does not command

Tonight I would like to address the question that is in so many minds of you who follow the Teaching Mission, and that is: what to make of so much information now coming from so many different sources, not only the Transmitter/Receivers, but the spiritual points of view being expressed from different spiritual personalities. And in accepting this--something that Mother Spirit and I have taught on so many times--we’re aware that it seems very radical for so many folks: we suggest. These are only suggestions like all of our lessons; we’re definitely not telling you what to do.

Tonight I would like to address the question that is in so many minds of you who follow the Teaching Mission, and that is: what to make of so much information now coming from so many different sources, not only the Transmitter/Receivers, but the spiritual points of view being expressed from different spiritual personalities. And in accepting this--something that Mother Spirit and I have taught on so many times--we’re aware that it seems very radical for so many folks: we suggest. These are only suggestions like all of our lessons; we’re definitely not telling you what to do.

   

   

No one else is standing right where you are. Even identical twins that are born that way still are experiencing each other differently. And of course as they go through their childhood, as they grow up, they usually have more and more separate lives. So it is for each of you. No one is standing where you’re standing and seeing what you’re seeing. No one has experienced what you have experienced. This is your soul. This is the essence of you, captured by a presence of God, that gives you a certain outlook, a certain point of view.

No one else is standing right where you are. Even identical twins that are born that way still are experiencing each other differently. And of course as they go through their childhood, as they grow up, they usually have more and more separate lives. So it is for each of you. No one is standing where you’re standing and seeing what you’re seeing. No one has experienced what you have experienced. This is your soul. This is the essence of you, captured by a presence of God, that gives you a certain outlook, a certain point of view.

===='''''[[Subjectivity]]''''', '''''[[Interpretation]]'''''====

====''[[Subjectivity]]'', ''[[Interpretation]]''====

*Subjectivity: connection

*Subjectivity: connection

Think of all our lessons on being aware as much as you can of how you are influencing what you are perceiving. Mother Spirit taught on this last time, that truth for each of you--as you reach for, and search for, and feel for the  truth--you’re feeling for what is almost apart from you, what is objective, what is The Truth independent of yourselves. Yet, of course, there’s your unique subjectivity involved that you never quite escape. It’s not only that fact: it’s realizing you are involved. You are a part of that truth as much as you are trying to be objective and take yourself, consider yourself, into that assessment.

Think of all our lessons on being aware as much as you can of how you are influencing what you are perceiving. Mother Spirit taught on this last time, that truth for each of you--as you reach for, and search for, and feel for the  truth--you’re feeling for what is almost apart from you, what is objective, what is The Truth independent of yourselves. Yet, of course, there’s your unique subjectivity involved that you never quite escape. It’s not only that fact: it’s realizing you are involved. You are a part of that truth as much as you are trying to be objective and take yourself, consider yourself, into that assessment.

   

   

And to go further afield, let me suggest that this is something that not only you as an individual come into as you come into your maturity, but on the grander scale, this is something that the human race itself is coming into as it slowly works towards its maturity.  

And to go further afield, let me suggest that this is something that not only you as an individual come into as you come into your maturity, but on the grander scale, this is something that the human race itself is coming into as it slowly works towards its maturity.  

===='''''[[Freedom]]''''', '''''[[Maturity]]'''''====

====''[[Freedom]]'', ''[[Maturity]]''====

*Individual freedom

*Individual freedom

Think of the tribal level of association, of groups together where there was an absolutely rigid, almost ironclad kind of group-think of group responsibility and group authority. As the Urantia Book talks about, consider all the painful cutting that still goes on in some tribal societies, all these scars, all the tribal markings on a person’s body to give them a sense of belonging. Because in the more primitive tribes, they were nose-to-nose every day up against the relentless necessity for food and shelter. That’s a kind of an iron control over the group: necessity.

Think of the tribal level of association, of groups together where there was an absolutely rigid, almost ironclad kind of group-think of group responsibility and group authority. As the Urantia Book talks about, consider all the painful cutting that still goes on in some tribal societies, all these scars, all the tribal markings on a person’s body to give them a sense of belonging. Because in the more primitive tribes, they were nose-to-nose every day up against the relentless necessity for food and shelter. That’s a kind of an iron control over the group: necessity.

   

   

This is also true for myself and Mother Spirit. We encourage you to have this independence of being so that you not only have a great sense of what you do believe--what is the truth for you, yet at the same time have the courage to keep opening yourself, even to that which is antithetical to what you believe to be true.

This is also true for myself and Mother Spirit. We encourage you to have this independence of being so that you not only have a great sense of what you do believe--what is the truth for you, yet at the same time have the courage to keep opening yourself, even to that which is antithetical to what you believe to be true.

===='''''[[Flexibility]]''''', '''''[[Hospitality]]'''''====

====''[[Flexibility]]'', ''[[Hospitality]]''====

*This is the stretch

*This is the stretch

This is the stretch. This is the stretch we tease you with, that is required here. Just like your body needs to stretch--all those muscles need to be kept long and supple and agile; all those joints in your body need to move as much as possible, as long as possible--we refer you to some of your great dancers who are just so fluid in their movement clear into their nineties: try to be the same way in your mind. Be agile. Be flexible. It’s another example of letting go of yourself. Don’t be a dictator in your own mind and have to twist and squirm and form and shape everything to conform to what you already believe.  Be a democracy inside. Think of having the First Amendment, that freedom of speech, right inside you as  a freedom of receptivity.

This is the stretch. This is the stretch we tease you with, that is required here. Just like your body needs to stretch--all those muscles need to be kept long and supple and agile; all those joints in your body need to move as much as possible, as long as possible--we refer you to some of your great dancers who are just so fluid in their movement clear into their nineties: try to be the same way in your mind. Be agile. Be flexible. It’s another example of letting go of yourself. Don’t be a dictator in your own mind and have to twist and squirm and form and shape everything to conform to what you already believe.  Be a democracy inside. Think of having the First Amendment, that freedom of speech, right inside you as  a freedom of receptivity.

   

   

Michael: Yes.

Michael: Yes.

===='''''[[Ritual]]'''''====

====''[[Ritual]]''====

Student: What would you like for your birthday?

Student: What would you like for your birthday?

*Happy Birthday

*Happy Birthday

   

   

Michael: Yes.

Michael: Yes.

===='''''[[Discernment]]'''''====

====''[[Discernment]]''====

Student: Thank you for a wonderful lesson, as ever. Could you speak to a little bit… I mean, I love the whole idea of being open to everything because one can’t make a judgment until one’s experienced it, in a sense. But I tend to be open sometimes to a few too many things. I mean there’s an element of discernment that’s constantly brought into play also. And some things are best, perhaps, left alone. So, I would be grateful if you could speak to that.

Student: Thank you for a wonderful lesson, as ever. Could you speak to a little bit… I mean, I love the whole idea of being open to everything because one can’t make a judgment until one’s experienced it, in a sense. But I tend to be open sometimes to a few too many things. I mean there’s an element of discernment that’s constantly brought into play also. And some things are best, perhaps, left alone. So, I would be grateful if you could speak to that.

*Open and closed

*Open and closed

   

   

Michael: Certainly: be in my peace.

Michael: Certainly: be in my peace.

===='''''[[Correcting Time]]'''''====

====''[[Correcting Time]]''====

Student: Father and Mother, this is I. (name) I just wanted to share my gratitude for your words, and for the T/R’s, and for the transcribers, and for being a part of the Correcting Time, and for our dear, dear teachers, and for our being able to read, to go back and read the earlier lessons. Our group is reading Daniel’s 1992 lessons, and they ring so true today as they did twenty years ago. I just wanted to thank you.

Student: Father and Mother, this is I. (name) I just wanted to share my gratitude for your words, and for the T/R’s, and for the transcribers, and for being a part of the Correcting Time, and for our dear, dear teachers, and for our being able to read, to go back and read the earlier lessons. Our group is reading Daniel’s 1992 lessons, and they ring so true today as they did twenty years ago. I just wanted to thank you.

*Giving things their due

*Giving things their due

   

   

Michael: Yes.

Michael: Yes.

===='''''[[Thought Adjusters]]''''', '''''[[Guidance]]'''''====

====''[[Thought Adjusters]]'', ''[[Guidance]]''====

Student: I have some CD’s that I’ve got from Donna, “Experiencing Your Divine Parents,” and I’ve listened to them daily, you know, for the last month or so. Yet I still have a problem trying to make contact with my Thought Adjust. I was wondering if you have any other tips, or if there’s something that I’m not doing right, or could be of help?

Student: I have some CD’s that I’ve got from Donna, “Experiencing Your Divine Parents,” and I’ve listened to them daily, you know, for the last month or so. Yet I still have a problem trying to make contact with my Thought Adjust. I was wondering if you have any other tips, or if there’s something that I’m not doing right, or could be of help?

*Experiencing God within

*Experiencing God within

   

   

Student: Right

Student: Right

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

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

*Supreme recognition

*Supreme recognition

Michael: Sometimes, as we’ve taught, you can recognize something that is so totally comprehensive it hits you with something you’ve been thinking of maybe for days. All of sudden it hits you like that with something that comprehends everything, and is some kind of solution. Sometimes you can recognize that as coming from your own self, but your Father’s input is right at the same point--I should say <u>almost</u> the same point--in your mind as your own creative spirit. You yourself are creating your own solutions right along with him. So it’s more of a feeling, just a feeling of not being alone.

Michael: Sometimes, as we’ve taught, you can recognize something that is so totally comprehensive it hits you with something you’ve been thinking of maybe for days. All of sudden it hits you like that with something that comprehends everything, and is some kind of solution. Sometimes you can recognize that as coming from your own self, but your Father’s input is right at the same point--I should say <u>almost</u> the same point--in your mind as your own creative spirit. You yourself are creating your own solutions right along with him. So it’s more of a feeling, just a feeling of not being alone.