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===Topic: ''Mission Urantia 18''===
===Group: [[Mission Urantia]]===
==Facilitators==
===Teacher: [[Michael]]===
===TR: [[JL]]===
==Session==
===Opening===
Jerry: I’ll just mention a website called Daynal.org--by Rob Davis--which has
been up and archiving since 1982 pretty much the complete Teaching
Mission, with well over 100 T/Rs; since about 2004 myself.
Greetings everyone. It's always good to be still and see what the spiritual
community has to suggest. We can always ask our dear Heavenly Father what
he too has for us this particular morning. Now let me invite Michael and
Mother Spirit to be with us as they always are—Mother Spirit being a part of
our minds, and Michael's Spirit of Truth being our faithful guide.
Dear Michael and Mother Spirit: welcome! Come be with us in this special
way. Through this wonderful electronic venue we can share your message
and broadcast it abroad in faithful transcripts. Many can appreciate how you
two delight in having conversations with us at the end of your lessons.
Today, Michael, as we are in the midst of an election season here in the
United States, I recall that you and Mother Spirit have very deliberately
avoided giving emphasis to a particular party or person. But could you
perhaps give us some general considerations to help us choose those who will
come to represent us in our democratic/constitutional republic? Thank you.
===Lesson===
Michael: Good afternoon, my dear children. Mother Spirit and I are always
glad to be with you in any way you choose to start. It is the very essence of
spirit--both of God’s, and ours, and hopefully yours too—not to impose upon
others, but always respect their free will--their need to be an autonomous
being in the midst of their lives. Most fundamentally, we encourage you to get
a feeling for the unique beings you are, right from God. This is both a truth
and a blessing for you as my dear children, yet also quite a challenge not to
feel desperately lonely in your very uniqueness, your inability to share all of
yourselves with another.
But across the enormously broad spectrum of enjoying one of God's greatest
attributes—the ability to share your lives with others—the more you know and
feel yourselves secure in God, the easier it is to give yourself away. So while it
is absolutely necessary to have some feeling for who you uniquely are--to
perceive and respect this in others, it also enables the paradoxical blessing of
self-forgetfulness. You can let yourself go entirely with someone else, trusting
in our Father that you will simply pop back up again to yourself, all the more
delighted.
Today, in your election season, I would invite you to read [[Paper 70 - The Evolution of Human Government|that chapter in your
wonderful Urantia Book on The History of Government]]. It starts with the
beginnings of organizations beyond simply co-sanguinous families, to the first
tribal groups based largely on territory. In these early times of such enormous
mortality and short lives, these early tribes were mainly directed by a Council
of Elders consisting of those who had the greatest life experience and
acquired practical wisdom. While in the midst of incessant warfare there was
always a male War Chief, often the oldest and wisest person was a woman
respected for her longevity and wisdom.
Then, for much of later human history, with the establishment of royal
families, there were hereditary leaders, hereditary monarchies. Think how
recent it was that the divine right of kings, following father to son, was
challenged and overthrown by councils of lords or elected congresses. Now
unlimited sole authority persists only in political systems headed by what you
call a dictator—someone still with the absolute power of life and death, if not
overtly then covertly through secret police. In modern times these are
individuals who have worked their way up through totalitarian parties or
religious organizations to be supreme leaders. Contrasting this are those
societies that engage in regularly held elections for their constitutionally
defined representatives. This is what you are involved in now.
Very early on in the United States the folks who created the constitution soon
realized they needed to enumerate and set down individual rights that, in the
first three articles, they just assumed everybody was aware of. But soon they
saw the necessity for specific articles. The very first of these was a
recognition that the people who did the electing needed freedom of
information. A well-educated population was the fundamental basis for a
democratic republic seeing that, historically, such enormous power could be
maintained by keeping the people ignorant of true social and political
realities. This is why one of the few things Mother Spirit and I have
commented upon politically was the virtue, the need, for the quality of
transparency in government.
People need to know what is truly happening and who is making what specific
decisions that so directly affected their lives. In this light, one of the gravest
dangers to a truly democratic system is any kind of covert censorship—not
only denying viewpoints from being expressed, but as much as possible,
keeping this censorship hidden behind an illusion of openness and
transparency. Because there is so much power in this, it is up to the individual
to do his or her best to penetrate this. The greatest tool to use is to open
yourself to the widest variety of opinions and viewpoints from opposed
sources.
Recognize that just naturally, not always purely cynically or maliciously, there
is an enormous variety of viewpoints coming from different ways of living, all
in one country. Is someone living in the heart of a big city, or out on the
broad, open farmlands? Are they encountering hundreds of relative strangers
on a walk to get some groceries, or, in a relatively small town, are they
mostly meeting those they have known since school days? There is the broad
spectrum of wealth, from those living day to day barely scraping by and
dependent upon welfare, to those individuals whose wealth is measured in
the billions of dollars, and the political influence that flows from it. Consider
your media and literally who can buy what, who can afford getting their
particular message out to the folks. Again, here is the need to avail yourselves
of the broad spectrum of opinion available through your television and
internet, and discover who is financing whom.
As for your candidates coming up for office, Mother Spirit and I have always
emphasized that part of a human being that comes directly from God—their
unique personality, and their most fundamental creative spirit—their ability in
the moment to originate something right out of themselves. How creative
does your candidate appear to be? For this evaluation, in recent times you’ve
put an ever-greater reliance upon live debates devoid of notes and
teleprompters. They help you assess what creative ability will this person have
at three o'clock in the morning in some terribly fraught situation? How
creative can they be in that critical moment?
Along with personality and creative spirit comes a living soul of worldly
experience. I'm sure this is very familiar to you, since your wiser candidates
advertise their having done many things, encountering a broad range of
people of all different occupations, faiths, and knowledge. For all of them, as
with you, a wide breadth of experience is what a person’s present creativity is
based upon, to correlate and rise above. Soul is that part of everyone that is
co-authored by God himself--the spiritual story, if you will, of life. It’s
wonderfully available to you in the kind of meditation Mother Spirit and I have
taught and recommended for so long—being still for a while in your busy lives
to give your soul’s life experience a chance to make suggestions on what to
do next on this particular day.
And so, my children, these are things you feel for. What's the soul experience
of this candidate for office? And how much is he or she a truly creative
individual, not just presenting themself as a member of some group? There is
a terrible thing called groupthink where individuals associate themselves--not
as a unique being directly from God with a unique God co-authored soul-- but
only as a member of some group which may or, so often, may not have
respect for its members. It may instead have the utmost cynical disdain for
those who can be so blindly led.
If you read your [[Paper 70 - The Evolution of Human Government|Urantia Book on The History of Government]], or The Family,
or societies in general, individuality is a hallmark of evolving civilization. Think
of your present-day societies and those that have a no tolerance for, or ability
to welcome, individuality. On the other hand, they demand an enormous
uniformity of thought and behavior, even of clothing and outward public
appearance. Think how this reflects on the inability of their supreme leaders
to handle God's great gift of variety of individual uniqueness. This is why it's
visually obvious which societies not only allow but even encourage a variety
of individual expression, as a great wealth you all can have of each other's
personal creativity. The wealth for each soul can be enhanced by such a
variety of other individuals.
My dear ones, these are tools with which to evaluate those who are applying
for your public offices at whatever level, from the city to the state, to the
nation; and even worldwide how to evaluate individuals at the head of
different societies. How much individual freedom is each strong enough to
acknowledge and welcome? Choose wisely feeling for individual creativity,
individual ability, and individual soul. Broadly experience and keep open-
minded yourselves, open to what a candidate promises, and then what they
deliver. What happens as a consequence of their authority? Choose wisely;
and be in my peace. If you have any questions or comments, go ahead.
===Dialogue===
JT: Thank you, Michael, and thank you, Jerry.
Bob: I've been trying to keep track of media. I’ve found that the majority are
either influenced or controlled by corporations or very wealthy people. This
makes it difficult to understand the policies of third parties and independent
candidates who are running. How can we better find out information on those
who would give us more variety of candidates to choose from?
Michael: Yes, my son. You're fortunate insofar as today you have the greatest
ability because of your internet. In fact, it's not that expensive for different
candidates of third, or even fourth or fifth parties to make themselves
available--compared to the past. Then there were only two major parties with
their big conventions where the decisions were made in your classical
“smoke-filled back rooms.” The amount of information available today has
never been greater. So go exploring. See what is available, if not on your
broadcast networks, then on your internet with all their different websites.
Bob: That's good advice, but even some of the internet is owned by large
corporations who influence things as well. It’s very difficult to find very much
that's not biased or influenced by wealth somehow. It’s kind-of discouraging
sometimes. Maybe there is alternate media whose sites can give opinions that
are different than on the internet. Maybe they’re out there somewhere.
Michael: Yes, my son, you're right. There has been a lot of censorship in the
websites controlled by just a few individuals. Hopefully there are always new
websites with different political viewpoints in their own internet space. So
keep looking. Don't be discouraged.
Bob: Right. You know, I think if people vote with their hearts, they’ll find
someone on the internet they like. If they vote their hearts instead of going
blindly with traditional parties, there'd be a whole different ball game. Since
independents are the largest group of voters, they could make a big
difference in what happens with our country. What do you think?
Michael: Well, as much as possible, my son, vote with your whole being--your
intellect, your heart, and your soul—your whole life's experience. What kind of
individual have you found who makes the best political leader? I’ve
emphasized looking for a broad extent of experience, not a life of nothing but
politics removed from so-called ordinary people.
Bob: Thank you so much.
Steffen: Michael, It's a pleasure to be here with you. Thank you for being with
us. You said that a truly democratic republic depends on having educated
citizens with unfettered access to information. Yet right now our information
sources are so influenced by advertising, they do nothing that's going to lose
them their sponsors. Once again, it’s large companies and wealthy people
who control the message. On the other side of it there are paywalls that
completely block people without means from getting access to information.
Oftentimes it's a combination of both. This can't be the best system. I can't
imagine this would be normal throughout the universe. How is it done on
other worlds?
Michael: Oh yes, my son. This is where your wonderful [[Urantia Book]] has a
chapter on a normally evolved “[[Paper 72|Life on a Neighboring Planet]].” Also keep in
mind the other planets like [[Urantia]] that went into such an enormous default
from the divine plan, by the spiritual heads of these worlds. Imagine still
having a living [[Adam and Eve]] on your world, to visit and talk with. In your
[[Local System]], out of over 600 planets, only 37 joined the [[Lucifer Rebellion]]
and are in a spiritually deprived state like your own.
On worlds with a continuing divine [[Planetary Prince]] and [[Material Son and Daughter|Material Son and Daughter]], think how much more democratic and well-informed their societies are, resulting from such longer-lived celestials. It’s why Mother Spirit and I
tease you with basic information on things like diet and exercise. It concerns
the great percentage of populations around the world who are so short-lived
with terribly stunted lives because they don't have the spiritual guidance for
things so fundamentally important as these.
The worlds that didn’t join the rebellion are doing wonderfully well. If you
were suddenly transported to a world about the same age as yours, say about
a million years from the time of their first human beings, you would think you
had been transported to some kind of heaven on earth. Perhaps the one
surprising thing is that most of the individuals choose to be farmers—however
technologically advanced--recognizing there's nothing so spiritually rewarding
as to be close to life, both plant and animal.
Steffen: Thank you, Michael.
Recca: Thank you, Brother Michael, for being here with us in this forum. I can
only refer to us in this group with the reminder that we have your own
bestowed [[Spirit of Truth]] here as of [[Pentecost]]. We are also imbued with the
mind of [[Nebadonia]]--Mother Spirit’s [[cosmic mind]], and her three inherences of
duty, worship, and causation. When we take the time to be quiet--as you
instruct us to be--and demonstrated to us in your mortal life--by going apart
to be with the Father--we have the inherent tool to make our choices. In spirit
we join our brothers and sisters in our local community, local state, local
country, and planet. I can only suggest to the rest of us that we put our trust
and our faith in the spirit and the intentions of the Most Highs who rule in the
kingdoms of men. Thank you.
Michael: Yes, my daughter. Thank you so much for your faith. It's obvious it
has served you well—your love for Mother Spirit and me. It’s such a blessing
for us to have our love returned so fully. So keep up the good work, my dear
one. Stay close. We are ever with you. You have great wisdom--that other
fine spirit along with worship. Comee visit us often.
Recca: Thank you.
Michael: Mother Spirit sends her love. Continue to be in my peace.
JT: Michael. Is there anything else you want to add to before we close the
T/R session?
===Closing===
Michael: Only this, my dear ones: the importance of open-mindedness in a
rapidly changing and evolving situation. It’s the wonderful blessing of genuine
curiosity, of really, truly, deeply wondering what is happening this day,
because things are enormously dynamic. Just keeping abreast is a real
challenge and requires the courage to give up past associations, even
previous loyalties, to be loyal to your own self. But it's truly in your best
interest, and theirs. As I said before, use your whole-self curiosity, your
interest in things, then the wonderful, creative mind you have to sort through
it all. So after you do take it all in, just let it settle down awhile. Take your
time. Sit and think. Wonder about what seems to emerge as the truth all by
itself. That's how you keep in touch with Mother Spirit and me. My Spirit of
Truth is nothing but a great blessing of curiosity, and the courage to follow
where it leads. Mother Spirit sends her love. I bid you: Keep abiding in my
peace.
[[Category: The Teaching Mission: Dialogues]]
[[Category: Mission Urantia]]
[[Category: Michael]]
[[Category: JL]]
[[Category: 2024]]
[[File:Teaching_buddha_small.jpg|right|frame]]
==Heading==
===Topic: ''Mission Urantia 18''===
===Group: [[Mission Urantia]]===
==Facilitators==
===Teacher: [[Michael]]===
===TR: [[JL]]===
==Session==
===Opening===
Jerry: I’ll just mention a website called Daynal.org--by Rob Davis--which has
been up and archiving since 1982 pretty much the complete Teaching
Mission, with well over 100 T/Rs; since about 2004 myself.
Greetings everyone. It's always good to be still and see what the spiritual
community has to suggest. We can always ask our dear Heavenly Father what
he too has for us this particular morning. Now let me invite Michael and
Mother Spirit to be with us as they always are—Mother Spirit being a part of
our minds, and Michael's Spirit of Truth being our faithful guide.
Dear Michael and Mother Spirit: welcome! Come be with us in this special
way. Through this wonderful electronic venue we can share your message
and broadcast it abroad in faithful transcripts. Many can appreciate how you
two delight in having conversations with us at the end of your lessons.
Today, Michael, as we are in the midst of an election season here in the
United States, I recall that you and Mother Spirit have very deliberately
avoided giving emphasis to a particular party or person. But could you
perhaps give us some general considerations to help us choose those who will
come to represent us in our democratic/constitutional republic? Thank you.
===Lesson===
Michael: Good afternoon, my dear children. Mother Spirit and I are always
glad to be with you in any way you choose to start. It is the very essence of
spirit--both of God’s, and ours, and hopefully yours too—not to impose upon
others, but always respect their free will--their need to be an autonomous
being in the midst of their lives. Most fundamentally, we encourage you to get
a feeling for the unique beings you are, right from God. This is both a truth
and a blessing for you as my dear children, yet also quite a challenge not to
feel desperately lonely in your very uniqueness, your inability to share all of
yourselves with another.
But across the enormously broad spectrum of enjoying one of God's greatest
attributes—the ability to share your lives with others—the more you know and
feel yourselves secure in God, the easier it is to give yourself away. So while it
is absolutely necessary to have some feeling for who you uniquely are--to
perceive and respect this in others, it also enables the paradoxical blessing of
self-forgetfulness. You can let yourself go entirely with someone else, trusting
in our Father that you will simply pop back up again to yourself, all the more
delighted.
Today, in your election season, I would invite you to read [[Paper 70 - The Evolution of Human Government|that chapter in your
wonderful Urantia Book on The History of Government]]. It starts with the
beginnings of organizations beyond simply co-sanguinous families, to the first
tribal groups based largely on territory. In these early times of such enormous
mortality and short lives, these early tribes were mainly directed by a Council
of Elders consisting of those who had the greatest life experience and
acquired practical wisdom. While in the midst of incessant warfare there was
always a male War Chief, often the oldest and wisest person was a woman
respected for her longevity and wisdom.
Then, for much of later human history, with the establishment of royal
families, there were hereditary leaders, hereditary monarchies. Think how
recent it was that the divine right of kings, following father to son, was
challenged and overthrown by councils of lords or elected congresses. Now
unlimited sole authority persists only in political systems headed by what you
call a dictator—someone still with the absolute power of life and death, if not
overtly then covertly through secret police. In modern times these are
individuals who have worked their way up through totalitarian parties or
religious organizations to be supreme leaders. Contrasting this are those
societies that engage in regularly held elections for their constitutionally
defined representatives. This is what you are involved in now.
Very early on in the United States the folks who created the constitution soon
realized they needed to enumerate and set down individual rights that, in the
first three articles, they just assumed everybody was aware of. But soon they
saw the necessity for specific articles. The very first of these was a
recognition that the people who did the electing needed freedom of
information. A well-educated population was the fundamental basis for a
democratic republic seeing that, historically, such enormous power could be
maintained by keeping the people ignorant of true social and political
realities. This is why one of the few things Mother Spirit and I have
commented upon politically was the virtue, the need, for the quality of
transparency in government.
People need to know what is truly happening and who is making what specific
decisions that so directly affected their lives. In this light, one of the gravest
dangers to a truly democratic system is any kind of covert censorship—not
only denying viewpoints from being expressed, but as much as possible,
keeping this censorship hidden behind an illusion of openness and
transparency. Because there is so much power in this, it is up to the individual
to do his or her best to penetrate this. The greatest tool to use is to open
yourself to the widest variety of opinions and viewpoints from opposed
sources.
Recognize that just naturally, not always purely cynically or maliciously, there
is an enormous variety of viewpoints coming from different ways of living, all
in one country. Is someone living in the heart of a big city, or out on the
broad, open farmlands? Are they encountering hundreds of relative strangers
on a walk to get some groceries, or, in a relatively small town, are they
mostly meeting those they have known since school days? There is the broad
spectrum of wealth, from those living day to day barely scraping by and
dependent upon welfare, to those individuals whose wealth is measured in
the billions of dollars, and the political influence that flows from it. Consider
your media and literally who can buy what, who can afford getting their
particular message out to the folks. Again, here is the need to avail yourselves
of the broad spectrum of opinion available through your television and
internet, and discover who is financing whom.
As for your candidates coming up for office, Mother Spirit and I have always
emphasized that part of a human being that comes directly from God—their
unique personality, and their most fundamental creative spirit—their ability in
the moment to originate something right out of themselves. How creative
does your candidate appear to be? For this evaluation, in recent times you’ve
put an ever-greater reliance upon live debates devoid of notes and
teleprompters. They help you assess what creative ability will this person have
at three o'clock in the morning in some terribly fraught situation? How
creative can they be in that critical moment?
Along with personality and creative spirit comes a living soul of worldly
experience. I'm sure this is very familiar to you, since your wiser candidates
advertise their having done many things, encountering a broad range of
people of all different occupations, faiths, and knowledge. For all of them, as
with you, a wide breadth of experience is what a person’s present creativity is
based upon, to correlate and rise above. Soul is that part of everyone that is
co-authored by God himself--the spiritual story, if you will, of life. It’s
wonderfully available to you in the kind of meditation Mother Spirit and I have
taught and recommended for so long—being still for a while in your busy lives
to give your soul’s life experience a chance to make suggestions on what to
do next on this particular day.
And so, my children, these are things you feel for. What's the soul experience
of this candidate for office? And how much is he or she a truly creative
individual, not just presenting themself as a member of some group? There is
a terrible thing called groupthink where individuals associate themselves--not
as a unique being directly from God with a unique God co-authored soul-- but
only as a member of some group which may or, so often, may not have
respect for its members. It may instead have the utmost cynical disdain for
those who can be so blindly led.
If you read your [[Paper 70 - The Evolution of Human Government|Urantia Book on The History of Government]], or The Family,
or societies in general, individuality is a hallmark of evolving civilization. Think
of your present-day societies and those that have a no tolerance for, or ability
to welcome, individuality. On the other hand, they demand an enormous
uniformity of thought and behavior, even of clothing and outward public
appearance. Think how this reflects on the inability of their supreme leaders
to handle God's great gift of variety of individual uniqueness. This is why it's
visually obvious which societies not only allow but even encourage a variety
of individual expression, as a great wealth you all can have of each other's
personal creativity. The wealth for each soul can be enhanced by such a
variety of other individuals.
My dear ones, these are tools with which to evaluate those who are applying
for your public offices at whatever level, from the city to the state, to the
nation; and even worldwide how to evaluate individuals at the head of
different societies. How much individual freedom is each strong enough to
acknowledge and welcome? Choose wisely feeling for individual creativity,
individual ability, and individual soul. Broadly experience and keep open-
minded yourselves, open to what a candidate promises, and then what they
deliver. What happens as a consequence of their authority? Choose wisely;
and be in my peace. If you have any questions or comments, go ahead.
===Dialogue===
JT: Thank you, Michael, and thank you, Jerry.
Bob: I've been trying to keep track of media. I’ve found that the majority are
either influenced or controlled by corporations or very wealthy people. This
makes it difficult to understand the policies of third parties and independent
candidates who are running. How can we better find out information on those
who would give us more variety of candidates to choose from?
Michael: Yes, my son. You're fortunate insofar as today you have the greatest
ability because of your internet. In fact, it's not that expensive for different
candidates of third, or even fourth or fifth parties to make themselves
available--compared to the past. Then there were only two major parties with
their big conventions where the decisions were made in your classical
“smoke-filled back rooms.” The amount of information available today has
never been greater. So go exploring. See what is available, if not on your
broadcast networks, then on your internet with all their different websites.
Bob: That's good advice, but even some of the internet is owned by large
corporations who influence things as well. It’s very difficult to find very much
that's not biased or influenced by wealth somehow. It’s kind-of discouraging
sometimes. Maybe there is alternate media whose sites can give opinions that
are different than on the internet. Maybe they’re out there somewhere.
Michael: Yes, my son, you're right. There has been a lot of censorship in the
websites controlled by just a few individuals. Hopefully there are always new
websites with different political viewpoints in their own internet space. So
keep looking. Don't be discouraged.
Bob: Right. You know, I think if people vote with their hearts, they’ll find
someone on the internet they like. If they vote their hearts instead of going
blindly with traditional parties, there'd be a whole different ball game. Since
independents are the largest group of voters, they could make a big
difference in what happens with our country. What do you think?
Michael: Well, as much as possible, my son, vote with your whole being--your
intellect, your heart, and your soul—your whole life's experience. What kind of
individual have you found who makes the best political leader? I’ve
emphasized looking for a broad extent of experience, not a life of nothing but
politics removed from so-called ordinary people.
Bob: Thank you so much.
Steffen: Michael, It's a pleasure to be here with you. Thank you for being with
us. You said that a truly democratic republic depends on having educated
citizens with unfettered access to information. Yet right now our information
sources are so influenced by advertising, they do nothing that's going to lose
them their sponsors. Once again, it’s large companies and wealthy people
who control the message. On the other side of it there are paywalls that
completely block people without means from getting access to information.
Oftentimes it's a combination of both. This can't be the best system. I can't
imagine this would be normal throughout the universe. How is it done on
other worlds?
Michael: Oh yes, my son. This is where your wonderful [[Urantia Book]] has a
chapter on a normally evolved “[[Paper 72|Life on a Neighboring Planet]].” Also keep in
mind the other planets like [[Urantia]] that went into such an enormous default
from the divine plan, by the spiritual heads of these worlds. Imagine still
having a living [[Adam and Eve]] on your world, to visit and talk with. In your
[[Local System]], out of over 600 planets, only 37 joined the [[Lucifer Rebellion]]
and are in a spiritually deprived state like your own.
On worlds with a continuing divine [[Planetary Prince]] and [[Material Son and Daughter|Material Son and Daughter]], think how much more democratic and well-informed their societies are, resulting from such longer-lived celestials. It’s why Mother Spirit and I
tease you with basic information on things like diet and exercise. It concerns
the great percentage of populations around the world who are so short-lived
with terribly stunted lives because they don't have the spiritual guidance for
things so fundamentally important as these.
The worlds that didn’t join the rebellion are doing wonderfully well. If you
were suddenly transported to a world about the same age as yours, say about
a million years from the time of their first human beings, you would think you
had been transported to some kind of heaven on earth. Perhaps the one
surprising thing is that most of the individuals choose to be farmers—however
technologically advanced--recognizing there's nothing so spiritually rewarding
as to be close to life, both plant and animal.
Steffen: Thank you, Michael.
Recca: Thank you, Brother Michael, for being here with us in this forum. I can
only refer to us in this group with the reminder that we have your own
bestowed [[Spirit of Truth]] here as of [[Pentecost]]. We are also imbued with the
mind of [[Nebadonia]]--Mother Spirit’s [[cosmic mind]], and her three inherences of
duty, worship, and causation. When we take the time to be quiet--as you
instruct us to be--and demonstrated to us in your mortal life--by going apart
to be with the Father--we have the inherent tool to make our choices. In spirit
we join our brothers and sisters in our local community, local state, local
country, and planet. I can only suggest to the rest of us that we put our trust
and our faith in the spirit and the intentions of the Most Highs who rule in the
kingdoms of men. Thank you.
Michael: Yes, my daughter. Thank you so much for your faith. It's obvious it
has served you well—your love for Mother Spirit and me. It’s such a blessing
for us to have our love returned so fully. So keep up the good work, my dear
one. Stay close. We are ever with you. You have great wisdom--that other
fine spirit along with worship. Comee visit us often.
Recca: Thank you.
Michael: Mother Spirit sends her love. Continue to be in my peace.
JT: Michael. Is there anything else you want to add to before we close the
T/R session?
===Closing===
Michael: Only this, my dear ones: the importance of open-mindedness in a
rapidly changing and evolving situation. It’s the wonderful blessing of genuine
curiosity, of really, truly, deeply wondering what is happening this day,
because things are enormously dynamic. Just keeping abreast is a real
challenge and requires the courage to give up past associations, even
previous loyalties, to be loyal to your own self. But it's truly in your best
interest, and theirs. As I said before, use your whole-self curiosity, your
interest in things, then the wonderful, creative mind you have to sort through
it all. So after you do take it all in, just let it settle down awhile. Take your
time. Sit and think. Wonder about what seems to emerge as the truth all by
itself. That's how you keep in touch with Mother Spirit and me. My Spirit of
Truth is nothing but a great blessing of curiosity, and the courage to follow
where it leads. Mother Spirit sends her love. I bid you: Keep abiding in my
peace.
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