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Elyssia: Yes. And also I wanted to ask about the part in the paragraph where it said that mind can be also [[destructive]], and so I think that's what I seem to hear in our [[culture]]. And I remember that [[Lucifer]] had a brilliant mind and . .. The [[Course in Miracles]] says when you learn to give [[names]] to things you've separated them? And so that was sort of a, I [[thought]], a way of saying that to be using your mind in that way is a way of using it in a way that things aren't joined, so I was wondering about it. I think it's true; I don't know. I was glad you said in our [[society]] everywhere one goes one counters [[anti-intellectualism]], even in the [[schools]]!

Elyssia: Yes. And also I wanted to ask about the part in the paragraph where it said that mind can be also [[destructive]], and so I think that's what I seem to hear in our [[culture]]. And I remember that [[Lucifer]] had a brilliant mind and . .. The [[Course in Miracles]] says when you learn to give [[names]] to things you've separated them? And so that was sort of a, I [[thought]], a way of saying that to be using your mind in that way is a way of using it in a way that things aren't joined, so I was wondering about it. I think it's true; I don't know. I was glad you said in our [[society]] everywhere one goes one counters [[anti-intellectualism]], even in the [[schools]]!

TOMAS: Let me speak to this for a [[moment]], and I will draw upon the [[biblical]] reference, the scriptural reference, even the Urantia reference of "get thee behind me" [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_matthew#Chapter_16] for although [[Lucifer]] carries the brunt of the [[responsibility]] of many of the ills of [[your planet]], individuals are also capable of the same destructive [[behaviors]] because of their [[free will]] choice. Just as Lucifer's free will choice was to [[tune]] [[The Father]] out, so can mortal man in and of his own right and [[decision]] making (choose or forsake Him).

TOMAS: Let me speak to this for a [[moment]], and I will draw upon the [[biblical]] reference, the scriptural reference, even the Urantia reference of "get thee behind me" [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_matthew#Chapter_16] for although [[Lucifer]] carries the brunt of the [[responsibility]] of many of the ills of [[your planet]], individuals are also capable of the same destructive [[behaviors]] because of their [[free will]] choice. Just as Lucifer's free will choice was to [[tune]] [[The Father]] out, so can mortal man in and of his own right and [[decision]] making (choose or forsake Him).

Now, if you consider the possibility that putting a label on a negative [[factor]] will [[separate]] it, then perhaps it would be a useful [[tactic]] to recognize [[envy]], for example, and say, "Oh, I am [[feeling]] envy. I don't want to feel envy. Get behind me." And so leave those destructive [[thoughts]] aside.

Now, if you consider the possibility that putting a label on a negative [[factor]] will [[separate]] it, then perhaps it would be a useful [[tactic]] to recognize [[envy]], for example, and say, "Oh, I am [[feeling]] envy. I don't want to feel envy. Get behind me." And so leave those destructive [[thoughts]] aside.