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NEBADONIA:  If you’ve read the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents#Part_IV._The_Life_and_Teachings_of_Jesus Urantia book’s version of Jesus’ life], you know what a stumbling block this was for his [[apostles]].  Even at the time of the [Paper 179 - The Last Supper last supper] they were still arguing about who was to be in what position in the kingdom, in spite of the fact he had told them over and over again that the kingdom was [[Inner Life|within]].  Tonight I hoped to give you at least one or two of the many keys to this kingdom, this total personhood that you are, [[sharing]] your life with us.  

NEBADONIA:  If you’ve read the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents#Part_IV._The_Life_and_Teachings_of_Jesus Urantia book’s version of Jesus’ life], you know what a stumbling block this was for his [[apostles]].  Even at the time of the [Paper 179 - The Last Supper last supper] they were still arguing about who was to be in what position in the kingdom, in spite of the fact he had told them over and over again that the kingdom was [[Inner Life|within]].  Tonight I hoped to give you at least one or two of the many keys to this kingdom, this total personhood that you are, [[sharing]] your life with us.  

   

   

You need not always be self-aware to be in this kingdom.  This is the [[wonder]] and the reward of self-forgetfulness, that you can go for a long time being highly conscious and experiencing other things, other people, without being in the picture--so to speak.  The kingdom within continues to [[grow]], sometimes, as Michael noted, even more fully for your not standing in your own [[light]].  You’ve suspended your self-centered [[evaluation]] of how things are affecting only you to really [[touch]] and mingle with your fellows; and now you have a fuller [[reality]] of them in your [[soul]].

You need not always be self-aware to be in this kingdom.  This is the [[wonder]] and the reward of self-forgetfulness, that you can go for a long time being highly conscious and experiencing other things, other people, without being in the picture--so to speak.  The kingdom within continues to [[grow]], sometimes, as Michael noted, even more fully for your not standing in your own [[light]].  You’ve suspended your [[Self Evaluation|self-centered evaluation]] of how things are affecting only you to really [[touch]] and mingle with your fellows; and now you have a fuller [[reality]] of them in your [[soul]].

   

   

Student:  Thinking about what C brought up about [[fear]], it seems our [[cultures]] have so much fear embedded in how we interact with each other--like you said, for good [[reason]] sometimes.  Is this something as a result of the [[Lucifer Rebellion]], or has [[humankind]] always had this?  You can read every day about someone being murdered, or abducted, or just [[random]] [[violence]].  It’s hard then to be an extension of the kingdom when this fear permeates our culture.  There’s a lack of [[trust]] when people can’t look each other in the eye because if they do the response might be pretty bad.  Or like today in the paper there was a mother and her small child killed for no reason.  That’s so hard to overcome when you can see it every day.  Fortunately I do have faith in the [[reality]] of [[God]], and [[wisdom]], and [[truth]], and [[love]].  

Student:  Thinking about what C brought up about [[fear]], it seems our [[cultures]] have so much fear embedded in how we interact with each other--like you said, for good [[reason]] sometimes.  Is this something as a result of the [[Lucifer Rebellion]], or has [[humankind]] always had this?  You can read every day about someone being murdered, or abducted, or just [[random]] [[violence]].  It’s hard then to be an extension of the kingdom when this fear permeates our culture.  There’s a lack of [[trust]] when people can’t look each other in the eye because if they do the response might be pretty bad.  Or like today in the paper there was a mother and her small child killed for no reason.  That’s so hard to overcome when you can see it every day.  Fortunately I do have faith in the [[reality]] of [[God]], and [[wisdom]], and [[truth]], and [[love]].