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For all this [[insight]] and encouragement, this downright soulful [[assurance]] from you and the whole [[spiritual]] [[community]], we do thank you so much.  We look forward to more contact, more joyous [[communication]] with the two of you to make up some more very happy new years to come.  [[Amen]].   

For all this [[insight]] and encouragement, this downright soulful [[assurance]] from you and the whole [[spiritual]] [[community]], we do thank you so much.  We look forward to more contact, more joyous [[communication]] with the two of you to make up some more very happy new years to come.  [[Amen]].   

===Lesson===

===Lesson===

NEBADONIA:  Good evening, my children, this is [[Mother Spirit]].  Yes indeed, it is an exciting time for you to be living through.  Michael last spoke on the [[meaning]] of that [[Christmas]] carol about the [[hopes]] and [[fears]] of all the years that were met in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethelehem Bethlehem] the night [[Jesus]] was born.  And now I’m sure so many of you have taken his message to [[heart]] and found its [[response]] deep within you.  You’ve come to [[realize]] that in many ways, my dear ones, this is the same path you yourselves are taking.  You can recognize how, when you dare to hope, when you dare to open yourself to [[possibility]], when you dare to take [[responsibility]] for your own [[creativity]] out in all the world [[Encompassing|surrounding]] you, then you relax in the assurance, the deep rest you find in Michael’s [[peace]] and in my [[love]]; it does open you to all those deep [[fears]] and [[Anxiety|anxieties]] you may have been denying or suppressing, sometimes for years.

NEBADONIA:  Good evening, my children, this is [[Mother Spirit]].  Yes indeed, it is an exciting time for you to be living through.  Michael last spoke on the [[meaning]] of that [[Christmas]] carol about the [[hopes]] and [[fears]] of all the years that were met in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlehem Bethlehem] the night [[Jesus]] was born.  And now I’m sure so many of you have taken his message to [[heart]] and found its [[response]] deep within you.  You’ve come to [[realize]] that in many ways, my dear ones, this is the same path you yourselves are taking.  You can recognize how, when you dare to hope, when you dare to open yourself to [[possibility]], when you dare to take [[responsibility]] for your own [[creativity]] out in all the world [[Encompassing|surrounding]] you, then you relax in the assurance, the deep rest you find in Michael’s [[peace]] and in my [[love]]; it does open you to all those deep [[fears]] and [[Anxiety|anxieties]] you may have been denying or suppressing, sometimes for years.

===='''''[[Fear]]'''''====

===='''''[[Fear]]'''''====

(The fears that arise with hope)

(The fears that arise with hope)

Now you can truly [[rest]] in an open mind.  You’ve met all your fears and all your anxieties.  You’ve learned from all your mistakes.  You’re open-minded so you can welcome learning from the mistakes you’ll make tomorrow.  So you try [[things]] unafraid.  You know for certain the [[joyous]], if ironic, [[fact]] that the only bad [[experiment]] is the rare one that teaches you nothing.  This is how you sit loose to life.  This is how you enjoy the [[flexibility]] of a living being--enjoying your own [[body]] and [[mind]] united in [[dynamic]] [[health]], and not just living for some fixed [[abstraction]] of mind alone at the expense of your poor, suffering, mistreated and ignored [[body]].

Now you can truly [[rest]] in an open mind.  You’ve met all your fears and all your anxieties.  You’ve learned from all your mistakes.  You’re open-minded so you can welcome learning from the mistakes you’ll make tomorrow.  So you try [[things]] unafraid.  You know for certain the [[joyous]], if ironic, [[fact]] that the only bad [[experiment]] is the rare one that teaches you nothing.  This is how you sit loose to life.  This is how you enjoy the [[flexibility]] of a living being--enjoying your own [[body]] and [[mind]] united in [[dynamic]] [[health]], and not just living for some fixed [[abstraction]] of mind alone at the expense of your poor, suffering, mistreated and ignored [[body]].

   

   

This is using your [[creative]] [[spirit]], my children.  This is inclusiveness--all inclusiveness.  This is living without [[denial]], without trying to bend [[everything]] coming your way to some self-satisfying [[prejudice]].  This is seeing and delighting in [[events]] and people in their [[temporal]] and [[individual]] uniqueness.  You’re not worried about maintaining the continuity of your life through all this enhanced appreciation of the particular: you are that continuity!  Your [[potentially]] eternal [[personality]] is the living [[connecting]] link!  Your world is partly you!--and so each event that comes to you is seen not only in the continuity of [[time]], the assured [[cause]] and effect of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Law Natural Law].  You begin to [[perceive]] that [[dimension]] of God’s creativity--shared with all personal beings--that is new and unique every [[moment]].  If you can meet the [[challenge]], what a delight it is to see how the [[universe]] and everyone in it--including you--is not just endlessly, tiresomely repeating.

This is using your [[creative]] [[spirit]], my children.  This is inclusiveness--all inclusiveness.  This is living without [[denial]], without trying to bend [[everything]] coming your way to some self-satisfying [[prejudice]].  This is seeing and delighting in [[events]] and people in their [[temporal]] and [[individual]] uniqueness.  You’re not worried about maintaining the continuity of your life through all this enhanced appreciation of the particular: you are that continuity!  Your [[potentially]] eternal [[personality]] is the living [[connecting]] link!  Your world is partly you!--and so each event that comes to you is seen not only in the continuity of [[time]], the assured [[cause]] and effect of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Law Natural Law].  You begin to [[perceive]] that [[dimension]] of God’s creativity--shared with all personal beings--that is new and unique every [[moment]].  If you can meet the [[challenge]], what a delight it is to see how the [[universe]] and everyone in it--including you--is not just endlessly, tiresomely repeating.

   

   

What is there to hang on to?  [[Everything]] [[changes]], even your self-conscious you, [[growing]] and maturing, yet your unchanging [[personality]] continues as the connecting link that realizes--makes real--all else.  It is you, along with a [[presence]] of [[God]] himself, growing a [[soul]].  And this, my children, is the [[purpose]] for all of this--if you will, God’s [[desire]] to [[share]] His creativity, His [[power]], His enjoyment with you, along with an utterly innumerable host of others.

What is there to hang on to?  [[Everything]] [[changes]], even your self-conscious you, [[growing]] and maturing, yet your unchanging [[personality]] continues as the connecting link that realizes--makes real--all else.  It is you, along with a [[presence]] of [[God]] himself, growing a [[soul]].  And this, my children, is the [[purpose]] for all of this--if you will, God’s [[desire]] to [[share]] His creativity, His [[power]], His enjoyment with you, along with an utterly innumerable host of others.

Student, laughing:  That’s more palpable.  Because there are some [[philosophies]] or teachings out there that say that we are creating everything that happens to us, whether it is [[Goodness|positive]] or [[negative]].  Like, let’s say, someone’s house burns down.  Well, somehow they created that [[experience]].  There’s some notion of [[Karma]], or just thinking negatively--always having a [[[Link title]][fear]] about that--that caused it.  Or someone wins the lottery, on the other extreme; they created that, somehow.  They were open to that.  Could you comment on that?

Student, laughing:  That’s more palpable.  Because there are some [[philosophies]] or teachings out there that say that we are creating everything that happens to us, whether it is [[Goodness|positive]] or [[negative]].  Like, let’s say, someone’s house burns down.  Well, somehow they created that [[experience]].  There’s some notion of [[Karma]], or just thinking negatively--always having a [[[Link title]][fear]] about that--that caused it.  Or someone wins the lottery, on the other extreme; they created that, somehow.  They were open to that.  Could you comment on that?

===='''''[[Subjectivity]]'''''====

===='''''[[Subjectivity]]'''''====

NEBADONIA:  Yes, my son, that seems to be a [[philosophy]] of [[pure]] [[subjectivity]], that your own [[inner life]] is solely responsible for everything that happens to you.  But from our [[standpoint]], that is literally denying the objective [[existence]] of a [[Universe of Universes|whole universe]] full of--even on your one world here--billions of [[personal]] beings who are interacting with you, let alone enormous natural [[forces]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather weather] or [[geology]]--[[Catastrophism|hurricanes and earthquakes]] and such.  Even on the smallest scale, you can be a very good driver and still be blind-sided by someone who is totally out of control.

NEBADONIA:  Yes, my son, that seems to be a [[philosophy]] of [[pure]] [[subjectivity]], that your own [[inner life]] is solely responsible for everything that happens to you.  But from our [[standpoint]], that is literally denying the objective [[existence]] of a [[Universe of Universes|whole universe]] full of--even on your one world here--billions of [[personal]] beings who are interacting with you, let alone enormous natural [[forces]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather weather] or [[geology]]--[[Catastrophism|hurricanes and earthquakes]] and such.  Even on the smallest scale, you can be a very good driver and still be blind-sided by someone who is totally out of control.

   

   

[[Things]] happen to people.  From our point of view, it’s only a great pretense for a person to say they understand, or their [[philosophy]] comprehends, the total cause and effect in the physical, mental, and spiritual [[complexity]] of [[events]] surrounding a [[unique]] individual’s life interacting within his or her [[society]].  To us it’s a better part of [[humility]], and much more accurate, to acknowledge this [[transcendent]] complexity of forces and personalities involved.  This is the basis for your humility, this [[perception]] of the enormous [[encompassing]] involved in your, and everyone else’s, life; and yet not fear it.  

[[Things]] happen to people.  From our point of view, it’s only a great pretense for a person to say they understand, or their [[philosophy]] comprehends, the total cause and effect in the physical, mental, and spiritual [[complexity]] of [[events]] surrounding a [[unique]] individual’s life interacting within his or her [[society]].  To us it’s a better part of [[humility]], and much more accurate, to acknowledge this [[transcendent]] complexity of forces and personalities involved.  This is the basis for your humility, this [[perception]] of the enormous [[encompassing]] involved in your, and everyone else’s, life; and yet not fear it.  

===='''''[[Karma]]'''''====

===='''''[[Karma]]'''''====

Student:  Yes, it could lead to being afraid to think anything new, or step out the door.  Yet there seems to be whole countries whose [[social]] [[systems]] are based on that kind of [[thinking]], that phony kind of [[Karma]].  Everything that happens to people, they somehow deserved it, so if they’re born into some lower [[caste]], then that’s their due, and they always have to be that.  [[Imagine]] the [[Tyranny|oppressiveness]] of that.  It seems the notions of [[Karma]], or [[reincarnation]], or [[original sin]], are just man’s attempts to come to grips with their own sense of [[evil]]--why that happens to people.  It’s because of original sin, or something they did five lifetimes ago.  It just seems absurd.  It’s not taking into account what you mentioned about the real complexity of reality and how there’s something new and different in each event.

Student:  Yes, it could lead to being afraid to think anything new, or step out the door.  Yet there seems to be whole countries whose [[social]] [[systems]] are based on that kind of [[thinking]], that phony kind of [[Karma]].  Everything that happens to people, they somehow deserved it, so if they’re born into some lower [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Caste. caste], then that’s their due, and they always have to be that.  [[Imagine]] the [[Tyranny|oppressiveness]] of that.  It seems the notions of [[Karma]], or [[reincarnation]], or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_Sin original sin], are just man’s attempts to come to grips with their own sense of [[evil]]--why that happens to people.  It’s because of original sin, or something they did five lifetimes ago.  It just seems absurd.  It’s not taking into account what you mentioned about the real complexity of reality and how there’s something new and different in each event.

(You are [[mirror]]ed in what you do)  

(You are [[mirror]]ed in what you do)  

   

   

NEBADONIA:  Yes.  Although not perfectly--that would be another arrogance--there is a [[relatively]] valid way to see oneself reflected in the mirror, the [[feedback]] you get from interacting with ever-changing [[objective]] [[reality]].  Yet so many are unaware of how their own [[attitude]], their own [[values]] and [[judgments]] are [[color]]ing everything that comes to them.  We mentioned one time about how, if you’re cheerful and walking down a city sidewalk, most everybody is looking to catch a little bit of your [[energy]], and smiling back.  Whereas if you’re feeling down and in a mean, grumpy [[mood]], people can sense this and react to it so [[Immediate|instantaneously]], closing down in self-[[defense]], you’ll be getting your own [[expression]] thrown back at you.  If you’re not aware of these very subtle human [[connections]], you’ll end up all the more down and grumpy, blaming all those out there for your situation.  You’ll have lost the initiative to turn things around.

NEBADONIA:  Yes.  Although not perfectly--that would be another arrogance--there is a [[relatively]] valid way to see oneself reflected in the mirror, the [[feedback]] you get from interacting with ever-changing [[objective]] [[reality]].  Yet so many are unaware of how their own [[attitude]], their own [[values]] and [[judgments]] are [[color]]ing everything that comes to them.  We mentioned one time about how, if you’re cheerful and walking down a city sidewalk, most everybody is looking to catch a little bit of your [[energy]], and smiling back.  Whereas if you’re feeling down and in a mean, grumpy [[mood]], people can sense this and react to it so [[Immediate|instantaneously]], closing down in self-[[defense]], you’ll be getting your own [[expression]] thrown back at you.  If you’re not aware of these very subtle human [[connections]], you’ll end up all the more down and grumpy, blaming all those out there for your situation.  You’ll have lost the initiative to turn things around.

===='''''[[Accidents]]'''''====

===='''''[[Accidents]]'''''====

(Accidents of time and space)

(Accidents of time and space)

Student, laughing with her:  I understand.  Sometimes accidents just happen and [[challenge]] us to accept God’s, or the [[universe]]’s ways.  But if we let ourselves become more one with [[our Father]], and His will for us, it’s not from a place of [[fear]], you know, like God-fearing Christians; that’s probably a detriment to becoming more in [[tune]] to who we truly are.  It’s like uncontrived.  It’s like you said so many times--resting in [[love]] and [[peace]], relaxing into that possibility, and opening up to what’s next for us.  If we go along God-fearing, like God’s going to punish us if we don’t follow His will--which has been hammered into us by our [[religions]] down through the ages…  We can see what’s happening in the world as a result of all that deliberately created fear.  

Student, laughing with her:  I understand.  Sometimes accidents just happen and [[challenge]] us to accept God’s, or the [[universe]]’s ways.  But if we let ourselves become more one with [[our Father]], and His will for us, it’s not from a place of [[fear]], you know, like God-fearing Christians; that’s probably a detriment to becoming more in [[tune]] to who we truly are.  It’s like uncontrived.  It’s like you said so many times--resting in [[love]] and [[peace]], relaxing into that possibility, and opening up to what’s next for us.  If we go along God-fearing, like God’s going to punish us if we don’t follow His will--which has been hammered into us by our [[religions]] down through the ages…  We can see what’s happening in the world as a result of all that deliberately created fear.  

   

   

NEBADONIA:  One of Jesus’ main messages, and a major [[difference]] between the [[Hebrew Bible|Old]] and the [[Christian Bible|New Testament]], was that God is a loving [[father]] who wants only the best for all His [[children]]--no exceptions.  God certainly doesn’t condone any kind of threat of harm or oppressive teachings in His name.  As Michael recently put it: no one can force their inner spiritual understanding upon anyone else; it can only be offered.  It was how he lived his life among you, as Jesus.   

NEBADONIA:  One of Jesus’ main messages, and a major [[difference]] between the [[Hebrew Bible|Old]] and the [[New Testament]], was that God is a loving [[father]] who wants only the best for all His [[children]]--no exceptions.  God certainly doesn’t condone any kind of threat of harm or oppressive teachings in His name.  As Michael recently put it: no one can force their inner spiritual understanding upon anyone else; it can only be offered.  It was how he lived his life among you, as Jesus.   

   

   

Student:  I just started a new [[book]] whose author has a different [[interpretation]] of Jesus’ life.  He points out, at that the time, the oppressiveness of the [[Hebrew|Jewish]] [[religion]] which had so many [[laws]] and commandments, like 630 of them, and where a woman had no rights.  Jesus wasn’t so concerned with [[Rome]] and its occupation; he was concerned with how his own people treated each other.  

Student:  I just started a new [[book]] whose author has a different [[interpretation]] of Jesus’ life.  He points out, at that the time, the oppressiveness of the [[Hebrew|Jewish]] [[religion]] which had so many [[laws]] and commandments, like 630 of them, and where a woman had no rights.  Jesus wasn’t so concerned with [[Rome]] and its occupation; he was concerned with how his own people treated each other.  

NEBADONIA:  Yes, they were the ones who put him to [[death]]; however Roman [[law]] dictated that Roman soldiers do it directly.  

NEBADONIA:  Yes, they were the ones who put him to [[death]]; however Roman [[law]] dictated that Roman soldiers do it directly.  

   

   

Student:  The celebratory nature of life was sucked out of the people because of their own [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanhedrin Sanhedrin] and the laws that were imposed.  You couldn’t do this; you couldn’t do that.  You couldn’t [[breathe]]--almost.  Anyway, that’s what I gathered in the first few pages of this book.

Student:  The celebratory nature of life was sucked out of the people because of their own [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanhedrin Sanhedrin] and the laws that were imposed.  You couldn’t do this; you couldn’t do that.  You couldn’t [[breathe]]--almost.  Anyway, that’s what I gathered in the first few pages of this book.

   

   

NEBADONIA:  We mentioned once an overview of [[human]] [[civilization]] would be how only recently the tribal level of [[society]] has lead to the nation/state level, all the while their security considerations have led to endless [[warfare]].  The leaders tend to enforce their rules to insure control, but then, in a reversal of your common saying, can’t see the trees for the forest.  These [[hierarchies]] of [[authority]] who feel, because of their own inner anxieties, it’s [[necessary]] to control the people, come to consider only the over-all strategic [[political]] view and loose sight of the [[individuals]] involved.

NEBADONIA:  We mentioned once an overview of [[human]] [[civilization]] would be how only recently the tribal level of [[society]] has lead to the nation/state level, all the while their security considerations have led to endless [[warfare]].  The leaders tend to enforce their rules to insure control, but then, in a reversal of your common saying, can’t see the trees for the forest.  These [[hierarchies]] of [[authority]] who feel, because of their own inner anxieties, it’s [[necessary]] to control the people, come to consider only the over-all strategic [[political]] view and loose sight of the [[individuals]] involved.

===='''''Individual]]'''''====

 

===='''''[[Individual]]'''''====

(Individual reality)  

(Individual reality)  

   

   

   

   

Student:  And what does that freedom look like?  I think people have so many different ideas about what that would look like.  And not just some material freedom, but inner spiritual freedom, and recognition of our instinctive natures, and truth.

Student:  And what does that freedom look like?  I think people have so many different ideas about what that would look like.  And not just some material freedom, but inner spiritual freedom, and recognition of our instinctive natures, and truth.

===='''''[[Liberty]]'''''====

===='''''[[Liberty]]'''''====

(What might free societies look like?)  

(What might free societies look like?)  

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