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MICHAEL:  Yes and no--(Michael laughs).  You are correct that the [[personality]] you are, just staring out here, starts from scratch but with a [[physical]] [[heredity]] from your [[parents]] and grandparents.  Then you acquire the [[culture]] into which you were born.  These are just given to you, and so, true enough, your [[personality]] has to [[emerge]] out of this more or less [[chance]] circumstance to earn your [[individuality]] and [[character]], both for yourself and others.  This is what [[Mother Spirit]] called somewhat whimsically, a “conglomeration of circumstances” from the [[standpoint]] of your [[personality]].  

MICHAEL:  Yes and no--(Michael laughs).  You are correct that the [[personality]] you are, just staring out here, starts from scratch but with a [[physical]] [[heredity]] from your [[parents]] and grandparents.  Then you acquire the [[culture]] into which you were born.  These are just given to you, and so, true enough, your [[personality]] has to [[emerge]] out of this more or less [[chance]] circumstance to earn your [[individuality]] and [[character]], both for yourself and others.  This is what [[Mother Spirit]] called somewhat whimsically, a “conglomeration of circumstances” from the [[standpoint]] of your [[personality]].  

   

   

You had no previous [[existence]] from which you [[chose]] your particular world situation of your [[parents]] and so forth.  So yes, you have to slowly find ways to [[express]] yourself out through all this stuff that was just put upon you, that both gives your life [[meaning]] and yet also threatens to stifle your [[unique]] [[expressions]].  In the more [[primitive]] [[societies]] great [[individual]] [[expression]] is simply not permitted.  Due to the oppressive [[necessities]] of [[economic]] [[survival]] and constant [[warfare]], it cannot be afforded.  Rather, each [[individual]] seeks--quite unconsciously--not to stand out but to copy and be like everyone else for [[security]].  The chief and [[leaders]] of the tribe are just as much [[enslaved]] in their own way to the [[taboos]] and mores as are the least members in this truly [[organic]] [[unit]].  As the living [[human]] [[energies]] needed for [[economic]] [[survival]] and [[self]] [[defense]] lessen there is a [[complimentary]] [[adjustment]] towards a more [[liberal]] [[attitude]] regarding [[self]] [[expression]] and [[individual]] [[choice]] in all aspects of [[behavior]].  This is the [[growth]] of [[individual]] [[recognition]] and [[freedom]] in the ways I mentioned earlier.  

You had no previous [[existence]] from which you [[chose]] your particular world situation of your [[parents]] and so forth.  So yes, you have to slowly find ways to [[express]] yourself out through all this stuff that was just put upon you, that both gives your life [[meaning]] and yet also threatens to stifle your [[unique]] [[expressions]].  In the more [[primitive]] [[societies]] great [[individual]] [[expression]] is simply not permitted.  Due to the oppressive [[necessities]] of [[economic]] [[survival]] and constant [[warfare]], it cannot be afforded.  Rather, each [[individual]] seeks--quite unconsciously--not to stand out but to copy and be like everyone else for [[security]].  The chief and [[leaders]] of the tribe are just as much [[enslaved]] in their own way to the [[taboos]] and mores as are the least members in this truly [[organic]] [[unit]].  As the living [[human]] [[energies]] needed for [[economic]] [[survival]] and [[self]] [[defense]] lessen there is a [[complementary]] [[adjustment]] towards a more [[liberal]] [[attitude]] regarding [[self]] [[expression]] and [[individual]] [[choice]] in all aspects of [[behavior]].  This is the [[growth]] of [[individual]] [[recognition]] and [[freedom]] in the ways I mentioned earlier.  

   

   

So yes, my son, it is a kind of [[emergence]] of the [[personality]], yet not so much beyond the [[body]] and [[mind]]--leaving these behind, but [[actually]] using these as a means of [[expression]].  You will always have an [[energy]]-[[form]] [[expressive]] of your [[personality]] which is [[analogous]] to your present [[physical]] [[bodies]], only more accurately/[[spiritually]] so--inside to outside--as [[time]] goes on and you [[advance]] from one [[sphere]] to the next.  Does this seem to be in [[accord]] with what you [[understand]]?

So yes, my son, it is a kind of [[emergence]] of the [[personality]], yet not so much beyond the [[body]] and [[mind]]--leaving these behind, but [[actually]] using these as a means of [[expression]].  You will always have an [[energy]]-[[form]] [[expressive]] of your [[personality]] which is [[analogous]] to your present [[physical]] [[bodies]], only more accurately/[[spiritually]] so--inside to outside--as [[time]] goes on and you [[advance]] from one [[sphere]] to the next.  Does this seem to be in [[accord]] with what you [[understand]]?

MICHAEL:  We look forward to it.

MICHAEL:  We look forward to it.

   

   

Student:  Yes, Michael.  I’ve been reading the [[Course in Miracles]] because I wanted a blend of [[Buddhist]] teachings and…well, something I felt wasn’t being met.  The teachings are [[beautiful]] and [[enlightening]], and opened for me a whole new [[paradigm]] of man’s [[nature]] in the here and now.  But something was nagging me, maybe my own [[resistance]] or [[ambivalence]]; but the [[experience]] was very [[profound]] with the teachings and the meetings, and the [[healing]] exercises too.  Then the [[Course in Miracles]]--which are supposedly the teachings of [[Jesus]]--gave me the same open and expansive [[feelings]] as when I was [[participating]] in the other [[groups]].  It was like manna from [[heaven]], like: Yes, this is what I was looking for in the meetings, and meditating on, and wondering about.  It’s very similar to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascended_Master_Teachings Teachings of the Masters], and the ''Great Freedom'' workshops.  It opens up new [[visions]] of what really is.

Student:  Yes, Michael.  I’ve been reading the [[Course in Miracles]] because I wanted a blend of [[Buddhist]] teachings and…well, something I felt wasn’t being met.  The teachings are [[beautiful]] and [[enlightening]], and opened for me a whole new [[paradigm]] of man’s [[nature]] in the here and now.  But something was nagging me, maybe my own [[resistance]] or ambivalence; but the [[experience]] was very [[profound]] with the teachings and the meetings, and the [[healing]] exercises too.  Then the [[Course in Miracles]]--which are supposedly the teachings of [[Jesus]]--gave me the same open and expansive [[feelings]] as when I was [[participating]] in the other [[groups]].  It was like manna from [[heaven]], like: Yes, this is what I was looking for in the meetings, and meditating on, and wondering about.  It’s very similar to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascended_Master_Teachings Teachings of the Masters], and the ''Great Freedom'' workshops.  It opens up new [[visions]] of what really is.

   

   

They say that as you [[mature]] then you are more open to broader [[meanings]] in what these teachings have always [[expressed]], but you weren’t ready for yet.  So that’s where I’m at.  I’m [[understanding]] things I first encountered in 1976.  I had to pay [[attention]] to this feeling nagging at me that I was still missing the point, even though I might have heard it before.

They say that as you [[mature]] then you are more open to broader [[meanings]] in what these teachings have always [[expressed]], but you weren’t ready for yet.  So that’s where I’m at.  I’m [[understanding]] things I first encountered in 1976.  I had to pay [[attention]] to this feeling nagging at me that I was still missing the point, even though I might have heard it before.

   

   

MICHAEL:  Yes, my son, I [[think]] you are in accord with what I talked about this evening.  You notice that, after a few years when you go back and read the same thing--be it a [[philosophical]] or [[religious]] [[text]], or a work of [[literature]]--a great [[novel]] or [[play]]--even, or especially, the [[Urantia book]] with its [[complexity]]--you can see it in a whole new [[light]].  A book is a [[physical]] [[thing]]; it hasn’t changed: the new [[reading]] is giving you a sense of how you have changed and [[grown]] in the meanwhile.  And this is not only what we call [[material]] [[mind]], [[physical]] [[brain]] and [[nervous system]] changes; this is your [[soul]].  This is the [[meaning]] and [[value]] of life itself that you’ve acquired, being [[reflected]] in [[everything]] you [[perceive]], especially a great work of art or something like the [[Course in Miracles]].

MICHAEL:  Yes, my son, I [[think]] you are in accord with what I talked about this evening.  You notice that, after a few years when you go back and read the same thing--be it a [[philosophical]] or [[religious]] [[text]], or a work of [[literature]]--a great [[novel]] or [[play]]--even, or especially, the [[Urantia book]] with its [[complexity]]--you can see it in a whole new [[light]].  A book is a [[physical]] [[thing]]; it hasn’t changed: the new [[reading]] is giving you a sense of how you have changed and [[grown]] in the meanwhile.  And this is not only what we call [[material]] [[mind]], [[physical]] [[brain]] and [[nervous system]] changes; this is your [[soul]].  This is the [[meaning]] and [[value]] of life itself that you’ve acquired, being [[reflected]] in [[everything]] you [[perceive]], especially a great work of art or something like the [[Course in Miracles]].

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*(Nagging feelings of unfulfilled potential)

*(Nagging feelings of unfulfilled potential)