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===Topic: ''Function and Purpose of Life''===
===Group: [[Lightline TeaM]]===
==Facilitators==
===Teacher: [[Nebadonia]]===
===TR: [[JL]]===
==Session==
===Opening===
Dear Mother Spirit and Michael, welcome. Mother Spirit, we want to thank you again for
your last lesson given to the Mission Urantia group. It was a wonderful outline and
synopsis of our Urantia Book, especially the fourth section which you said is a modern
New Testament detailing the life of Jesus of Nazareth. This was Michael’s human life on
earth, given in modern English, and narrated by a spiritual being who was actually alive
and present at the time. It’s often a day-to-day accounting of Jesus’ life--who was
there, what was done, and what was said--all a marvelous New Testament.
Tonight, Mother Spirit, I would like you to briefly sum up for us your first three
Mind/Spirit Adjutants of intuition/perception, how you help us retain these experiences
as knowledge, which leads to our understanding. These are the three essential
dimensions of our mental abilities that you augment. Especially could you comment on
something we call “point of view” and how it pertains to our perceptions, knowledge,
and understanding?
Recently I saw a marvelous picture which teased us to consider point of view. It was a
picture of a short round cylinder that, when a light was shown on its end, cast a perfect
circular shadow. But when the light source pivoted ninety degrees and showed on the
cylinder from the side, the shadow cast was a perfect square. So here was both a circle
and a rectangle from the exact same thing. It leads us to wonder about our human
points of view, all so personal and subjective. What kind of perceptions, knowledge, and
understanding are we led to and left with? If you would comment on this spiritual
question, we thank you.
===Lesson===
Nebadonia: Good evening, my dear ones, this is your Mother Spirit. Michael and I are
both delighted that you have become interested in this subject because it reflects upon
your own subjectivity. It is critical for your spiritual growth to have a truly humble
appreciation of both the extent and the limitations of your own perceptions, knowledge,
and understanding. This appreciation helps you achieve what Michael and I have talked
about so often--the necessity of keeping a mind that remains open and curious for the
next bit of living experience to feed your soul.
(The function and purpose of life)
In that wonderful chapter called Personality Survival, your Urantia Book mentions that
your soul is a spiritual record of your human personality’s experience. Acquiring a soul is
literally both your function and your purpose as a God-created experiential human being
out here in time and space. Consequently, if your experiences cease to expand
spiritually in value, and your soul ceases to grow, you lose your purpose in a kind of
living death. You no longer have a purposeful existence to love and enjoy.
Your Urantia Book goes on to delineate in the most exquisite detail--alone of all the
books in your world’s literature--what lies before you after your physical death. Now
your modern astronomical instruments are bringing you literally trillions of worlds out
there in millions of galaxies, your Urantia Book hints at how many are devoted to the
purpose of enabling you to extend your life literally forever, if you so choose. In this
sense, the Urantia Book is a wonderful tease, a promise of endless worlds to come.
Think of the immediate hundreds of worlds you will live on while traversing our Local
Universe--the mansion worlds of your Local System, then the worlds of your
Constellation, and finally those orbiting the headquarter world of Salvington.
(Living to love, loving to live---and learn)
Every one of them offers an increasingly expanded ability of both your physical and
spiritual perception, knowledge, and understanding. Each one will be an enormously
enhanced point of view, reflecting your own God-given potential and abilities to keep
growing by learning. You’ll keep loving to live, and living to love. You’ll keep
learning—about yourself, and others, and the universe.
On and on you will be given a greater opportunity to appreciate not only the physical
creation itself, but also the higher orders of spiritual beings you will come to encounter
and live with, and acquire their greater perceptions, knowledge, and understandings.
Right along you’ll be meeting millions of other, shall we say, once human-type physical
people from an ever-increasing number of worlds where they too had their first lives.
Your Urantia Book has a wonderful section that talks about the different kinds of
humans living their lives on their different worlds in space, even to include those
without an atmosphere. Beyond them, you will definitely enhance your points of view as
you keep acquiring more and more perspectives from the hundreds of worlds you’ll
travel to and live upon, each with its own increasingly spiritual plant and animal life,
and natives.
(The intermediate, spiritually advancing worlds)
Think of these hundreds of intermediate worlds in every one of the seven hundred
thousand Local Universes in the Grand Universe, each with its graduated transition of
life forms from the physical to the purely spiritual, all to support the advancing human
ascenders. Are they not another nigh-incomprehensible hallmark of God’s infinite
creativity? There exists not only a universe of inhabited physical worlds upon which to
give residence to these ascenders, but also the orders of spiritual beings that are native
to them. They are living personal creations of our Creator’s imagination.
This is why the Urantia Book, and then Michael and I, go to such enormous detail to
tease you out of yourselves with the different points of view wrapped up in that word
“spirit”--spirit creativity. There are hundreds of orders of spiritual beings, of which you
are one. All personal creativity comes from these different points of view, extending
from your viewpoint, across the physical universe and Havona, to Paradise and the
Trinity themselves.
I think it helps to consider God’s personal creations with a sense of awe and
appreciation, and just marvel at them. Right along with the millions and millions of
galaxies your modern astronomical instruments are giving you now, Micheal and I are
emphasizing the spiritual beings who inhabit them.
(The wonderful blessing of humility)
When you come back to your earthly, day-to-day lives, you can have the wonderful
blessings of humility and humor when you think about the different political and social
points of view being contested in your national and local elections. They too are part of
God’s creativity--your own family, and friends, and neighborhoods, on to states and
nations.
Michael and I tease you to consider the differences between living in the heart of a
great city, or out on the open farmlands--the enormous variety of human life on just
your one world. The wonderful blessing of humility, my dears, is the feeling you get in
the presence of something enormous. You can feel infinitesimally tiny and insignificant,
or you can feel truly, enormously blessed just to have this perception, knowledge, and
understanding, of just how big It All is--this thing called life.
(The influences and limitations of viewpoint)
It gives you some counterbalance and ability for the open-mindedness that helps you
not get caught up in narrow-minded, parochial viewpoints. Throw in the dimension of
time and the way living human reality itself has changed--and will keep changing--over
the years. This is especially true these last few hundred years, from the Industrial
Revolution to the modern, technological/information explosion. Think what is available
to you now with the flick of a switch and the rolling of a mouse on your computer pad.
===Closing===
My dears, these facts help you appreciate and be truly grateful for everything that
constitutes different points of view, and how open-minded and curious you can remain
about them. It’s this enormous thing you call “being alive in this day and age” with all
that is available.
(Stay curious. Keep wondering. Fill yourselves)
We tease you this way to help you stay curious. Stay wondering. Fill yourselves to
overflowing, then lie down, lay your head down, and sleep. Let it all go. One of your
famous movie’s heroine ended by rising above desperation with realizing, “Tomorrow is
another day!” So much for points of view, my dear ones. It truly is quite a topic, yours
to enjoy and worship the Creator of them. Now if you have any questions or comments,
let them flow forth from this kaleidoscopic point of view. (Long pause)
If there are no questions or comments this evening, let us just rest, overflowing with
the wonders of It All. Be in my love. Michael bids you to Be in his peace. Goodnight.
[[Category: The Teaching Mission: Dialogues]]
[[Category: Lightline TeaM]]
[[Category: Nebadonia]]
[[Category: JL]]
[[Category: 2023]]
[[File:Teaching_buddha_small.jpg|right|frame]]
==Heading==
===Topic: ''Function and Purpose of Life''===
===Group: [[Lightline TeaM]]===
==Facilitators==
===Teacher: [[Nebadonia]]===
===TR: [[JL]]===
==Session==
===Opening===
Dear Mother Spirit and Michael, welcome. Mother Spirit, we want to thank you again for
your last lesson given to the Mission Urantia group. It was a wonderful outline and
synopsis of our Urantia Book, especially the fourth section which you said is a modern
New Testament detailing the life of Jesus of Nazareth. This was Michael’s human life on
earth, given in modern English, and narrated by a spiritual being who was actually alive
and present at the time. It’s often a day-to-day accounting of Jesus’ life--who was
there, what was done, and what was said--all a marvelous New Testament.
Tonight, Mother Spirit, I would like you to briefly sum up for us your first three
Mind/Spirit Adjutants of intuition/perception, how you help us retain these experiences
as knowledge, which leads to our understanding. These are the three essential
dimensions of our mental abilities that you augment. Especially could you comment on
something we call “point of view” and how it pertains to our perceptions, knowledge,
and understanding?
Recently I saw a marvelous picture which teased us to consider point of view. It was a
picture of a short round cylinder that, when a light was shown on its end, cast a perfect
circular shadow. But when the light source pivoted ninety degrees and showed on the
cylinder from the side, the shadow cast was a perfect square. So here was both a circle
and a rectangle from the exact same thing. It leads us to wonder about our human
points of view, all so personal and subjective. What kind of perceptions, knowledge, and
understanding are we led to and left with? If you would comment on this spiritual
question, we thank you.
===Lesson===
Nebadonia: Good evening, my dear ones, this is your Mother Spirit. Michael and I are
both delighted that you have become interested in this subject because it reflects upon
your own subjectivity. It is critical for your spiritual growth to have a truly humble
appreciation of both the extent and the limitations of your own perceptions, knowledge,
and understanding. This appreciation helps you achieve what Michael and I have talked
about so often--the necessity of keeping a mind that remains open and curious for the
next bit of living experience to feed your soul.
(The function and purpose of life)
In that wonderful chapter called Personality Survival, your Urantia Book mentions that
your soul is a spiritual record of your human personality’s experience. Acquiring a soul is
literally both your function and your purpose as a God-created experiential human being
out here in time and space. Consequently, if your experiences cease to expand
spiritually in value, and your soul ceases to grow, you lose your purpose in a kind of
living death. You no longer have a purposeful existence to love and enjoy.
Your Urantia Book goes on to delineate in the most exquisite detail--alone of all the
books in your world’s literature--what lies before you after your physical death. Now
your modern astronomical instruments are bringing you literally trillions of worlds out
there in millions of galaxies, your Urantia Book hints at how many are devoted to the
purpose of enabling you to extend your life literally forever, if you so choose. In this
sense, the Urantia Book is a wonderful tease, a promise of endless worlds to come.
Think of the immediate hundreds of worlds you will live on while traversing our Local
Universe--the mansion worlds of your Local System, then the worlds of your
Constellation, and finally those orbiting the headquarter world of Salvington.
(Living to love, loving to live---and learn)
Every one of them offers an increasingly expanded ability of both your physical and
spiritual perception, knowledge, and understanding. Each one will be an enormously
enhanced point of view, reflecting your own God-given potential and abilities to keep
growing by learning. You’ll keep loving to live, and living to love. You’ll keep
learning—about yourself, and others, and the universe.
On and on you will be given a greater opportunity to appreciate not only the physical
creation itself, but also the higher orders of spiritual beings you will come to encounter
and live with, and acquire their greater perceptions, knowledge, and understandings.
Right along you’ll be meeting millions of other, shall we say, once human-type physical
people from an ever-increasing number of worlds where they too had their first lives.
Your Urantia Book has a wonderful section that talks about the different kinds of
humans living their lives on their different worlds in space, even to include those
without an atmosphere. Beyond them, you will definitely enhance your points of view as
you keep acquiring more and more perspectives from the hundreds of worlds you’ll
travel to and live upon, each with its own increasingly spiritual plant and animal life,
and natives.
(The intermediate, spiritually advancing worlds)
Think of these hundreds of intermediate worlds in every one of the seven hundred
thousand Local Universes in the Grand Universe, each with its graduated transition of
life forms from the physical to the purely spiritual, all to support the advancing human
ascenders. Are they not another nigh-incomprehensible hallmark of God’s infinite
creativity? There exists not only a universe of inhabited physical worlds upon which to
give residence to these ascenders, but also the orders of spiritual beings that are native
to them. They are living personal creations of our Creator’s imagination.
This is why the Urantia Book, and then Michael and I, go to such enormous detail to
tease you out of yourselves with the different points of view wrapped up in that word
“spirit”--spirit creativity. There are hundreds of orders of spiritual beings, of which you
are one. All personal creativity comes from these different points of view, extending
from your viewpoint, across the physical universe and Havona, to Paradise and the
Trinity themselves.
I think it helps to consider God’s personal creations with a sense of awe and
appreciation, and just marvel at them. Right along with the millions and millions of
galaxies your modern astronomical instruments are giving you now, Micheal and I are
emphasizing the spiritual beings who inhabit them.
(The wonderful blessing of humility)
When you come back to your earthly, day-to-day lives, you can have the wonderful
blessings of humility and humor when you think about the different political and social
points of view being contested in your national and local elections. They too are part of
God’s creativity--your own family, and friends, and neighborhoods, on to states and
nations.
Michael and I tease you to consider the differences between living in the heart of a
great city, or out on the open farmlands--the enormous variety of human life on just
your one world. The wonderful blessing of humility, my dears, is the feeling you get in
the presence of something enormous. You can feel infinitesimally tiny and insignificant,
or you can feel truly, enormously blessed just to have this perception, knowledge, and
understanding, of just how big It All is--this thing called life.
(The influences and limitations of viewpoint)
It gives you some counterbalance and ability for the open-mindedness that helps you
not get caught up in narrow-minded, parochial viewpoints. Throw in the dimension of
time and the way living human reality itself has changed--and will keep changing--over
the years. This is especially true these last few hundred years, from the Industrial
Revolution to the modern, technological/information explosion. Think what is available
to you now with the flick of a switch and the rolling of a mouse on your computer pad.
===Closing===
My dears, these facts help you appreciate and be truly grateful for everything that
constitutes different points of view, and how open-minded and curious you can remain
about them. It’s this enormous thing you call “being alive in this day and age” with all
that is available.
(Stay curious. Keep wondering. Fill yourselves)
We tease you this way to help you stay curious. Stay wondering. Fill yourselves to
overflowing, then lie down, lay your head down, and sleep. Let it all go. One of your
famous movie’s heroine ended by rising above desperation with realizing, “Tomorrow is
another day!” So much for points of view, my dear ones. It truly is quite a topic, yours
to enjoy and worship the Creator of them. Now if you have any questions or comments,
let them flow forth from this kaleidoscopic point of view. (Long pause)
If there are no questions or comments this evening, let us just rest, overflowing with
the wonders of It All. Be in my love. Michael bids you to Be in his peace. Goodnight.
[[Category: The Teaching Mission: Dialogues]]
[[Category: Lightline TeaM]]
[[Category: Nebadonia]]
[[Category: JL]]
[[Category: 2023]]