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So consider all these stages from the most primitive all the way up to the present day and see if you can appreciate and [[marvel]] at the enormous [[civility]] that has been evolved just to enable you to live your fantastically [[complex]] lives.  Think of all the intricate inter-[[relationships]] in your modern [[societies]].  There are those of you who have never planted a seed, never watched a carrot come out of the ground, or ever butchered an [[animal]].  At the same time, how many farmers have made their own tractors, right down to the spark plugs?  How many of you have worked on the roads that are tying you all together, or strung the telephone lines, or now--fiber optic cables?

So consider all these stages from the most primitive all the way up to the present day and see if you can appreciate and [[marvel]] at the enormous [[civility]] that has been evolved just to enable you to live your fantastically [[complex]] lives.  Think of all the intricate inter-[[relationships]] in your modern [[societies]].  There are those of you who have never planted a seed, never watched a carrot come out of the ground, or ever butchered an [[animal]].  At the same time, how many farmers have made their own tractors, right down to the spark plugs?  How many of you have worked on the roads that are tying you all together, or strung the telephone lines, or now--fiber optic cables?

   

   

This is one [[essence]] of [[appreciation]], just looking around and marveling at this enormous, world-wide, complex interaction.  Think too of the specialization.  It wasn’t too many centuries ago where [[wealth]]y individuals who could [[Reader|read]] and [[Writer|write]] and have a [[library]] of even two hundred books--maybe one tenth of one percent of the [[population]] then--were considered to be well-rounded in their studies.  Can you feel some sense of acceleration here?  A few decades ago you had an [[expression]]--[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_shock future shock], where, with various social [[revolution]]s taking place, there were those folks who quite [[honestly]] said, “Slow down!--I’m not ready for this yet!”  Yet there’s another apropos saying: the cat’s out of the bag.  No matter how [[Nostalgia|nostalgically]] you may want to bring back some previous, less [[complex]] time, you can’t.  There’s a fundamental [[difference]] between such nostalgia that simply blurs over in pure [[sentimentality]] some previous time, and the fullness and completeness of true soulful reminiscence.  One small example: how many of you want to go back a century to the dentistry of that time?

This is one [[essence]] of [[appreciation]], just looking around and marveling at this enormous, world-wide, complex interaction.  Think too of the specialization.  It wasn’t too many centuries ago where [[wealth]]y individuals who could [[Reader|read]] and [[Writer|write]] and have a [[library]] of even two hundred books--maybe one tenth of one percent of the [[population]] then--were considered to be well-rounded in their studies.  Can you feel some sense of acceleration here?  A few decades ago you had an [[expression]]--[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_shock future shock], where, with various social [[revolution]]s taking place, there were those folks who quite [[honestly]] said, “Slow down!--I’m not ready for this yet!”  Yet there’s another apropos saying: the cat’s out of the bag.  No matter how [[Nostalgia|nostalgically]] you may want to bring back some previous, less [[complex]] time, you can’t.  There’s a fundamental [[difference]] between such nostalgia that simply blurs over in pure [[sentimentality]] some previous time, and the fullness and completeness of true soulful reminiscence.  One small example: how many of you want to go back a century to the dentistry of that time?

===='''''[[Evolution]]'''''====

===='''''[[Evolution]]'''''====

And so you may [[wonder]]: is this in the Big Plan?  Was It All set up this way?  Was this evolving need for world wide civilization always [[potential]]?  Yes.

And so you may [[wonder]]: is this in the Big Plan?  Was It All set up this way?  Was this evolving need for world wide civilization always [[potential]]?  Yes.

   

   

From the time our children the [[Life Carriers]] arrived on the [[planet]] and, with [[Mother Spirit]]’s and the [[Superuniverse|Super Universe]’s [[agents]], created the first living [[cells]], all this potential was there for this particular planet.  Predating this [[event]]: your [[Urantia book]] talks about the [[evolution]] of a whole [[Local Universe]] and how we are all [[learning]], [[Mother Spirit]] and myself, along with our Life Carrier sons.  They, on the [[Constellation]] level, compare notes in a kind of [[medium]] we can’t begin to describe to you, of what they’ve all learned on neigh onto four million evolutionary planets so far.  So your world, in spite of its checkered [[history]], was a recipient of all our Local Universe evolution too.  As on the [[Cosmos]] level, as on the Local Universe level, there is a kind of [[perfection]]-pressure, let’s call it, which drives the evolution on every planet as well towards evermore [[civil]], evermore [[connected]], worldwide civilization, eventually the [[status]] of [[Light and Life]].

From the time our children the [[Life Carriers]] arrived on the [[planet]] and, with [[Mother Spirit]]’s and the [[Superuniverse|Super Universe]]’s [[agents]], created the first living [[cells]], all this potential was there for this particular planet.  Predating this [[event]]: your [[Urantia book]] talks about the [[evolution]] of a whole [[Local Universe]] and how we are all [[learning]], [[Mother Spirit]] and myself, along with our Life Carrier sons.  They, on the [[Constellation]] level, compare notes in a kind of [[medium]] we can’t begin to describe to you, of what they’ve all learned on neigh onto four million evolutionary planets so far.  So your world, in spite of its checkered [[history]], was a recipient of all our Local Universe evolution too.  As on the [[Cosmos]] level, as on the Local Universe level, there is a kind of [[perfection]]-pressure, let’s call it, which drives the evolution on every planet as well towards evermore [[civil]], evermore [[connected]], worldwide civilization, eventually the [[status]] of [[Light and Life]].

 

===='''''[[Cosmology]]'''''====

===='''''[[Cosmology]]'''''====

(Universal evolution)

(Universal evolution)

This [[universal]] [[evolution]] is truly beyond the scope of any one [[group]], any one nation state, or any one religion.  For all that [[collective]] [[authority]], whether social or political or religious, there are still those individuals, those living, breathing [[men]] and [[women]] who are the [[leaders]] of those societies, [[economic]] [[systems]], and religions.  Who’s in charge of it all? Think about that.  Think about how this seemingly extra-human pressure towards social, political, economic and religious evolution brings about an equally inexorable need for more individual [[freedom]], [[responsibility]], [[realization]] and [[expression]].

This [[universal]] [[evolution]] is truly beyond the scope of any one [[group]], any one nation state, or any one religion.  For all that [[collective]] [[authority]], whether social or political or religious, there are still those individuals, those living, breathing [[men]] and [[women]] who are the [[leaders]] of those societies, [[economic]] [[systems]], and religions.  Who’s in charge of it all? Think about that.  Think about how this seemingly extra-human pressure towards social, political, economic and religious evolution brings about an equally inexorable need for more individual [[freedom]], [[responsibility]], [[realization]] and [[expression]].

   

   

This is that special, evolutionary [[movement]] of spiritual [[creativity]] from an overall view of the cosmos.  It actualizes the potential of all individuals.  On [[Urantia]] it [[manifests]] through living people and again, as your [[Urantia book]] reminds you, every child born must recapitulate this whole evolution.  You have that delightful story about [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_sawyer Tom Sawyer] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn Huck Finn] where the boys weren’t at all certain they wanted to be “sivilized” yet.  Every child has to be tamed.  Thank [[goodness]] your little three-year-old, in the midst of one of his or her tantrums, doesn’t have the [[power]] to annihilate you.  No [[parents]] would [[survive]].

This is that special, evolutionary [[movement]] of spiritual [[creativity]] from an overall view of the cosmos.  It actualizes the potential of all individuals.  On [[Urantia]] it [[manifests]] through living people and again, as your [[Urantia book]] reminds you, every child born must recapitulate this whole evolution.  You have that delightful story about [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_sawyer Tom Sawyer] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn Huck Finn] where the boys weren’t at all certain they wanted to be “sivilized” yet.  Every child has to be tamed.  Thank [[goodness]] your little three-year-old, in the midst of one of his or her tantrums, doesn’t have the [[power]] to annihilate you.  No [[parents]] would [[survive]].

   

   

This is incidentally why [[Mother Spirit]] and I always--even when I lived among you as [[Jesus]]--this is why we self-limit ourselves to [[work]]ing with and through [[individuals]] to try to bring about all the good works we see in prospect for your world.  We do not violate the basic [[spiritual]] [[laws]] which God has established for the whole [[Spacetime|time/space]] realms, and that is to create individuals--[[unique]] [[personalities]]--unique personal beings who can have a hand, first in their own evolution and then, in combination, the evolution of the whole--the whole family, the whole town or city, the whole nation, the whole planet, the whole Local Universe.

This is incidentally why [[Mother Spirit]] and I always--even when I lived among you as [[Jesus]]--this is why we self-limit ourselves to [[work]]ing with and through [[individuals]] to try to bring about all the good works we see in prospect for your world.  We do not violate the basic [[spiritual]] [[laws]] which God has established for the whole [[Spacetime|time/space]] realms, and that is to create individuals--[[unique]] [[personalities]]--unique personal beings who can have a hand, first in their own evolution and then, in combination, the evolution of the whole--the whole family, the whole town or city, the whole nation, the whole planet, the whole Local Universe.

(The Big Plan)     

(The Big Plan)     

   

   

Yes, this is the Big Plan, and yes it is inexorable--unstoppable.  It will happen in the whole because God’s will always obtains in the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_12#12:7._THE_PART_AND_THE_WHOLE whole].  It is nevertheless dependent upon each individual personal being doing his or her best.  The potential lies within living personal beings and the [[actuality]] coming down [[moment]] by moment is their [[activity]].  God has set the whole thing in [[motion]] initially, but then He has shared His [[creative]] [[power]] out to truly [[relatively]] [[autonomous]] [[personal]] beings--all His children.  This is one more example of how He is not separate from us but is living within and riding along in these [[adventures]], of each of ours, with us.   

Yes, this is the Big Plan, and yes it is inexorable--unstoppable.  It will happen in the whole because God’s will always obtains in the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_12#12:7._THE_PART_AND_THE_WHOLE whole].  It is nevertheless dependent upon each individual personal being doing his or her best.  The potential lies within living personal beings and the [[actuality]] coming down [[moment]] by moment is their [[activity]].  God has set the whole thing in [[motion]] initially, but then He has shared His [[creative]] [[power]] out to truly [[relatively]] [[autonomous]] [[personal]] beings--all His children.  This is one more example of how He is not separate from us but is living within and riding along in these [[adventures]], of each of ours, with us.   

   

   

So let yourselves stretch, my dear ones.  Try to be aware of both the forest and the trees, the [[community]] and the individuals.  See the shared [[reality]] of being human in everyone and see in each pair of eyes you meet another unique [[soul]] of experience, that [[wealth]] of [[difference]] you have to offer each other: if you will, infinity piled upon infinity.  It’s all in The Plan.  God is that infinite [[potential]]; you are the [[actuality]].  As Mother Spirit said, you are the living cord tying your kind of unique universe together.  This is the fun of it all, and that deep [[insight]] into the [[Play|playfulness]] of it all.  From the standpoint of pure potential, none of the [[creation]] had to be.  So we [[glory]] that it is.  Thank you, dear Father, for me.  And thank You for all of us, that we can have each other.  

So let yourselves stretch, my dear ones.  Try to be aware of both the forest and the trees, the [[community]] and the individuals.  See the shared [[reality]] of being human in everyone and see in each pair of eyes you meet another unique [[soul]] of experience, that [[wealth]] of [[difference]] you have to offer each other: if you will, infinity piled upon infinity.  It’s all in The Plan.  God is that infinite [[potential]]; you are the [[actuality]].  As Mother Spirit said, you are the living cord tying your kind of unique universe together.  This is the fun of it all, and that deep [[insight]] into the [[Play|playfulness]] of it all.  From the standpoint of pure potential, none of the [[creation]] had to be.  So we [[glory]] that it is.  Thank you, dear Father, for me.  And thank You for all of us, that we can have each other.  

(Keeping your own hearts beating)

(Keeping your own hearts beating)

   

   

MICHAEL, chuckling:  Well, I’ll take them one at a time, my son.  It is quite literally true you are not keeping your own heart beating.  Just feel it.  (long pause)  From the standpoint of your personality--the most fundamental [[essence]] of who and what you are, you are given a living [[body]] insofar as you [[transcend]] this [[body]].  When this body returns to dust you will be reborn into a wholly [[Mansion Worlds|different kind of world]] with a wholly different kind of plant and [[animal]] life, and [[celestial]] [[beings]] that we tease you, you will be encountering.  You will once again have a very distinct, but highly advanced body and [[perceptions]] with which to contact and experience [[Paper 42 - Energy - Mind and Matter|impersonal reality]]--[[material]] and [[energy]]--as well continuing, as now, to experience other spiritual beings with your own spirit, only much more [[directly]].  

MICHAEL, chuckling:  Well, I’ll take them one at a time, my son.  It is quite literally true you are not keeping your own heart beating.  Just feel it.  (long pause)  From the standpoint of your personality--the most fundamental [[essence]] of who and what you are, you are given a living body insofar as you [[transcend]] this [[body]].  When this body returns to dust you will be reborn into a wholly [[Mansion Worlds|different kind of world]] with a wholly different kind of plant and [[animal]] life, and [[celestial]] [[beings]] that we tease you, you will be encountering.  You will once again have a very distinct, but highly advanced body and [[perceptions]] with which to contact and experience [[Paper 42 - Energy - Mind and Matter|impersonal reality]]--[[material]] and [[energy]]--as well continuing, as now, to experience other spiritual beings with your own spirit, only much more [[directly]].  

   

   

Your [[body]] is a gift, and one that we are truly sorrowful to see so many folks misusing and disrespecting.  Within your more developed countries so much of your [[disease]] and [[Pain|suffering]], and your failure to develop further, is due to life-style [[choices]] that are within each individual’s [[free will]] to [[change]].  We sorrow that you spend so much time [[arguing]] and posturing about this current health-care [[debate]] and fail to realize that unless you all, [[individually]] and [[collective]]ly, simply get more healthy, right within your available choices, it is in part a misdirected effort.  No amount of after-the-fact care with however amazing [[technology]] and heroic efforts can make up for years of neglect and unhealthy indulgence in your knowingly bad habits, and your lack of good, available [[nutrition]] and [[exercise]].

Your [[body]] is a gift, and one that we are truly sorrowful to see so many folks misusing and disrespecting.  Within your more developed countries so much of your [[disease]] and [[Pain|suffering]], and your failure to develop further, is due to life-style [[choices]] that are within each individual’s [[free will]] to [[change]].  We sorrow that you spend so much time [[arguing]] and posturing about this current health-care [[debate]] and fail to realize that unless you all, [[individually]] and [[collective]]ly, simply get more healthy, right within your available choices, it is in part a misdirected effort.  No amount of after-the-fact care with however amazing [[technology]] and heroic efforts can make up for years of neglect and unhealthy indulgence in your knowingly bad habits, and your lack of good, available [[nutrition]] and [[exercise]].

   

   

Rather, my son, we would have you expand your [[wonder]] that the [[heart]] beating in your chest is a [[pure]] [[gift]] of life from [[God]], from [[Mother Spirit]] and me, and it is susceptible to your [[choices]] about health and well-being in which [[love]] and [[respect]] play a great part.  Love and respect this beating heart of yours, this gift of a body that is, for all extents and [[purposes]], and in spite of your hundreds of thousands of [[books]] on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_physiology human physiology] in all your libraries, is still a living infinity to each of you personally [[moment]] to moment.  [[Tune]] in to your heart center as often as it occurs to you, and pay some respect to this living, beating organ that ties you in to life itself.  This is not some figurative [[symbolism]] but an actual [[spiritual]] [[connection]] you can feel, through your heart, that can give your life more [[meaning]] and [[value]].  It’s not the these [[word]] [[symbols]] pointing at an [[experience]] but the actual experience itself you have to go for, and know for yourself.  Pause now and tune in to your heart.  (long pause)

Rather, my son, we would have you expand your [[wonder]] that the [[heart]] beating in your chest is a [[pure]] [[gift]] of life from [[God]], from [[Mother Spirit]] and me, and it is susceptible to your [[choices]] about health and well-being in which [[love]] and [[respect]] play a great part.  Love and respect this beating heart of yours, this gift of a body that is, for all extents and [[purposes]], and in spite of your hundreds of thousands of [[books]] on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_physiology human physiology] in all your libraries, is still a living infinity to each of you personally [[moment]] to moment.  [[Tune]] in to your heart center as often as it occurs to you, and pay some respect to this living, beating organ that ties you in to life itself.  This is not some figurative [[symbolism]] but an actual [[spiritual]] [[connection]] you can feel, through your heart, that can give your life more [[meaning]] and [[value]].  It’s not the these [[word]] [[symbols]] pointing at an [[experience]] but the actual experience itself you have to go for, and know for yourself.  Pause now and tune in to your heart.  (long pause)

 

===='''''[[Sharing]]''''', '''''[[Wonder]]'''''====

===='''''[[Sharing]]''''', '''''[[Wonder]]'''''====

As for how you get more folks to come to these meetings, you have to do your best to [[share]] with others why you yourselves have been so [[Loyalty|loyally]] coming for so many years.  Open your hearts and let others feel what this means and has meant for you.  Isn’t it this [[experience]] what you want to [[share]]?  Isn’t it out of some [[generosity]] of [[spirit]] that you wish more folks could be here and know the deep [[joy]] we’ve known?

As for how you get more folks to come to these meetings, you have to do your best to [[share]] with others why you yourselves have been so [[Loyalty|loyally]] coming for so many years.  Open your hearts and let others feel what this means and has meant for you.  Isn’t it this [[experience]] what you want to [[share]]?  Isn’t it out of some [[generosity]] of [[spirit]] that you wish more folks could be here and know the deep [[joy]] we’ve known?

This is what you’re pointing at, my son, an [[entertainment]]-[[value]] contest between irreversible loss like a car [[accident]] or someone’s house burning down, and the cynical or resigned [[attitude]] that the [[good]] [[things]] in life are all too [[Temporal|fleeting]] and not--as you say--news worthy.  This [[Perspective|viewpoint]] seems especially true to a [[person]] who is getting most of their opinions of life through the level of news you’ve mentioned.  The [[joy]] of life can seem so conditional and provisional while the sorrow and [[pain]] can seem so final.  This fatalism is further magnified by the person’s poor health brought on by such an attitude.  As a person looses their [[sensitivity]] and any [[inner life]] of their own, it takes ever rougher sandpaper--so to speak--to register on their jaded nerves.  

This is what you’re pointing at, my son, an [[entertainment]]-[[value]] contest between irreversible loss like a car [[accident]] or someone’s house burning down, and the cynical or resigned [[attitude]] that the [[good]] [[things]] in life are all too [[Temporal|fleeting]] and not--as you say--news worthy.  This [[Perspective|viewpoint]] seems especially true to a [[person]] who is getting most of their opinions of life through the level of news you’ve mentioned.  The [[joy]] of life can seem so conditional and provisional while the sorrow and [[pain]] can seem so final.  This fatalism is further magnified by the person’s poor health brought on by such an attitude.  As a person looses their [[sensitivity]] and any [[inner life]] of their own, it takes ever rougher sandpaper--so to speak--to register on their jaded nerves.  

   

   

This is why we invite our [[children]] to strive toward greater [[physical]] and [[Mind|mental]] [[health]] and [[sensitivity]], spiritual [[liveliness]] and [[generosity]], so they can begin to see what Mother Spirit and I see--the overwhelming true [[drama]] of human life: all the [[love]], all the [[sharing]], all the [[sacrifice]], all these [[noble]] qualities by the hundreds that are derived from [[truth]] and [[beauty]] and [[goodness]]. [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_56#56:10._TRUTH.2C_BEAUTY.2C_AND_GOODNESS]

This is why we invite our [[children]] to strive toward greater [[physical]] and [[Mind|mental]] [[health]] and [[sensitivity]], spiritual [[liveliness]] and [[generosity]], so they can begin to see what Mother Spirit and I see--the overwhelming true [[drama]] of human life: all the [[love]], all the [[sharing]], all the [[sacrifice]], all these [[noble]] qualities by the hundreds that are derived from [[truth]] and [[beauty]] and [[goodness]]. [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_56#56:10._TRUTH.2C_BEAUTY.2C_AND_GOODNESS]

   

   

So thank you, my son, for bringing up this spiritual [[challenge]] to see the real [[goodness]] of life so often hidden behind the melodrama of the evening news.

So thank you, my son, for bringing up this spiritual [[challenge]] to see the real [[goodness]] of life so often hidden behind the melodrama of the evening news.

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