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Indeed you are such a [[complex]] [[being]] and your [[consciousness]] is constantly shifting around between all these various [[parts]] of you which are more or less [[integrated]] and [[united]], and more or less not yet.  Still, your [[personality]] does have an amazing [[ability]] to [[identify]] you with various parts of your [[being]].  As you are living with a [[time-and-space]] conditioned [[physical]] [[manifestation]], you can [[experience]] and identify—[[totally]] at times--with some [[physical]] sensation, your hands doing some [[joyful]], [[amazing]] thing; or a big toe you’ve just stubbed.  At times you can identify with some [[concepts]] and spend hours on your own, [[thinking]] about a [[project]] you’re involved in; making [[plans]], [[considering]] dozens of [[alternatives]].  You can be wrapped up in the [[soulful]] [[meaning]] of [[different]] [[experiences]] you’ve had: all these super-[[animal]] [[associations]] and [[wealth]].  For there is your [[spirit]] [[part]] of you that [[evaluates]] and quite [[literally]] [[experiences]] [[value]] or, at times, even the sad lack of it in some [[activity]] you’re doing, or some [[memory]] of something you’ve done.

Indeed you are such a [[complex]] [[being]] and your [[consciousness]] is constantly shifting around between all these various [[parts]] of you which are more or less [[integrated]] and [[united]], and more or less not yet.  Still, your [[personality]] does have an amazing [[ability]] to [[identify]] you with various parts of your [[being]].  As you are living with a [[time-and-space]] conditioned [[physical]] [[manifestation]], you can [[experience]] and identify—[[totally]] at times--with some [[physical]] sensation, your hands doing some [[joyful]], [[amazing]] thing; or a big toe you’ve just stubbed.  At times you can identify with some [[concepts]] and spend hours on your own, [[thinking]] about a [[project]] you’re involved in; making [[plans]], [[considering]] dozens of [[alternatives]].  You can be wrapped up in the [[soulful]] [[meaning]] of [[different]] [[experiences]] you’ve had: all these super-[[animal]] [[associations]] and [[wealth]].  For there is your [[spirit]] [[part]] of you that [[evaluates]] and quite [[literally]] [[experiences]] [[value]] or, at times, even the sad lack of it in some [[activity]] you’re doing, or some [[memory]] of something you’ve done.

   

   

But for the most part you are a living [[combination]] of all of these [[simultaneously]], your [[personality]] identifying with a [[complex]], ever changing combination of all these [[factors]].  You’ve only to [[think]] how a severe toothache can [[radically]] [[change]] what you can [[concentrate]] on and the [[value]] you are giving these [[moments]] of pain because they seem to affect [[everything]].  Or on the [[contrary]], those of you with great inner [[discipline]] and [[soul]] can to a large [[degree]] not let such [[physical]] discomfort or [[pain]] of [[mental]] anguish disturb your [[spiritual]] [[awareness]] and [[realization]].  This [[reality]] your [[Urantia book]] freely acknowledges in the chapter--[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_112 Personality Survival]--by [[immediately]] stating there’s no way [[personality]] can ever be exhaustively [[defined]] in [[words]] or [[concepts]], no matter how [[subtle]] they are.  A [[book]] can only list and offer some of the [[qualities]] and [[functions]] [[personality]] has.

But for the most part you are a living [[combination]] of all of these [[simultaneously]], your [[personality]] identifying with a [[complex]], ever changing combination of all these [[factors]].  You’ve only to [[think]] how a severe toothache can [[radically]] [[change]] what you can [[concentrate]] on and the [[value]] you are giving these [[moments]] of pain because they seem to affect [[everything]].  Or on the [[contrary]], those of you with great inner [[discipline]] and [[soul]] can to a large [[degree]] not let such [[physical]] discomfort or [[pain]] of [[mental]] anguish disturb your [[spiritual]] [[awareness]] and [[realization]].  This [[reality]] your [[Urantia book]] freely acknowledges in the chapter--[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_112 Personality Survival]--by [[immediately]] stating there’s no way [[personality]] can ever be exhaustively [[defined]] in [[words]] or [[concepts]], no matter how [[subtle]] they are.  A [[book]] can only list and offer some of the [[qualities]] and [[functions]] [[personality]] has.

   

   

A [[Foundation|bedrock]] [[concept]] you can build on in referring to the [[creation]] as it exists and has existed, is that one primal division of [[cosmic]] [[reality]] is into its [[personal]] and [[impersonal]] aspects.  [[God]] is [[personality]] and your [[word]] God refers to those aspects of [[deity]] which are personalizable to you.  [[God]] is the [[quality]] of being a [[personal]] being, a [[quality]] of [[creative]] [[abilities]], in His case the ability to [[create]] other [[personalities]] and grant them a [[relative]] [[autonomy]] from Himself.  He is the [[origin]] of [[personality]] and it is distinguished from [[impersonal]] reality by this [[individual]] creativity: [[personal]] [[beings]] can even [[share]] [[Doing the will of God|His will]], and have [[individual]] [[intent]].  This distinction is most [[apparent]] [[compared]] to the inanimate part of [[impersonal]] [[reality]]--pure [[material]] and [[energy]][http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_42], but also in your own [[human]] [[experience]] with the lower forms of [[planetary]] life, all the way from a single-cell [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoeba amoeba] up to the most [[intelligent]] and highly [[developed]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primate primate].

A [[Foundation|bedrock]] [[concept]] you can build on in referring to the [[creation]] as it exists and has existed, is that one primal division of [[cosmic]] [[reality]] is into its [[personal]] and [[impersonal]] aspects.  [[God]] is [[personality]] and your [[word]] God refers to those aspects of [[deity]] which are personalizable to you.  [[God]] is the [[quality]] of being a [[personal]] being, a [[quality]] of [[creative]] [[abilities]], in His case the ability to [[create]] other [[personalities]] and grant them a [[relative]] [[autonomy]] from Himself.  He is the [[origin]] of [[personality]] and it is distinguished from [[impersonal]] reality by this [[individual]] creativity: [[personal]] [[beings]] can even [[share]] [[Doing the will of God|His will]], and have [[individual]] [[intent]].  This distinction is most [[apparent]] [[compared]] to the inanimate part of [[impersonal]] [[reality]]--pure [[material]] and [[energy]][https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_42], but also in your own [[human]] [[experience]] with the lower forms of [[planetary]] life, all the way from a single-cell [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoeba amoeba] up to the most [[intelligent]] and highly [[developed]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primate primate].

   

   

[[Impersonal]] [[reality]] is not [[individually]] [[creative]].  It follows [[absolute]] [[natural law]]s of [[chemistry]] and [[physics]], living [[biology]], and even what you might call higher [[animal]] [[mind]].  [[Consider]] how the highest [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primate primates] with a fantastic [[associative]] [[ability]] are still not [[creative]] in the sense that a [[human being]] is.  They are still [[responding]] to [[stimulus]] no matter how [[complex]] and [[subtle]] it is.  They do not have truly [[creative]], [[wondering]] [[personalities]] and [[initiative]] such as you have.  [[Individual]] [[creativity]] or the lack of it is a prime [[difference]] between [[impersonal]] [[reality]] and [[unique]], discrete individual [[personal]] [[beings]], of which you’ve been informed [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_30 there are thousands of orders] in the [[cosmos]], the [[human being]], being just one.

[[Impersonal]] [[reality]] is not [[individually]] [[creative]].  It follows [[absolute]] [[natural law]]s of [[chemistry]] and [[physics]], living [[biology]], and even what you might call higher [[animal]] [[mind]].  [[Consider]] how the highest [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primate primates] with a fantastic [[associative]] [[ability]] are still not [[creative]] in the sense that a [[human being]] is.  They are still [[responding]] to [[stimulus]] no matter how [[complex]] and [[subtle]] it is.  They do not have truly [[creative]], [[wondering]] [[personalities]] and [[initiative]] such as you have.  [[Individual]] [[creativity]] or the lack of it is a prime [[difference]] between [[impersonal]] [[reality]] and [[unique]], discrete individual [[personal]] [[beings]], of which you’ve been informed [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_30 there are thousands of orders] in the [[cosmos]], the [[human being]], being just one.

   

   

This is the [[reality]] of [[personality]].  Each one, being created [[unique]] by [[God]], though similar to others of its order, still has something which is theirs alone to [[share]] as best they can with each other and with their [[the Father|Father]].  Michael and I gladly, [[humbly]] acknowledge and [[respect]] this [[ultimate]] [[connection]] between the [[Creator]] and each of His [[children]], and the [[love]] you have for each other.

This is the [[reality]] of [[personality]].  Each one, being created [[unique]] by [[God]], though similar to others of its order, still has something which is theirs alone to [[share]] as best they can with each other and with their [[the Father|Father]].  Michael and I gladly, [[humbly]] acknowledge and [[respect]] this [[ultimate]] [[connection]] between the [[Creator]] and each of His [[children]], and the [[love]] you have for each other.

===='''''[[The Supreme]]'''''====

===='''''[[Supreme|The Supreme]]'''''====

This is your [[absolute]] reality, my [[children]].  This is the [[reality]] of who you are as you [[persist]] through [[time]].  All of [[creation]] is complete as it is [[moment]] by moment and within each moment because it is [[God]]’s [[creation]], yet this very completeness is capable of [[growth]].  Though that might seem to be some kind of [[science-fiction]] [[temporal]] [[paradox]], it is nevertheless the [[expression]] of both the [[potentiality]] and [[actuality]] of [[supreme]] [[reality]].  You too are complete in each [[moment]], but by God’s will there is something called [[universal]] [[time]] and [[change]], something of a [[universal]] [[development]] and [[evolution]] of which you are a part.  As your [[personality]] is the unchanging [[persistence]] of you, this [[growth]] of yours is what we call your [[soul]].  It is the complete [[story]] of your life as co-[[authored]] and taken on by an [[Thought Adjuster|individual presence of God within you]].  The growing, evolving culmination of [[God]]’s [[awareness]] of every [[individual]] [[soul]] out here in [[space and time]] is what we call [[the Supreme Being]].  This is a [[facet]] of [[our Father]], of [[God]].  It is [[God]]’s [[experience]] of all the [[personal]] beings’ [[experience]] and it is [[growing]]--as time goes by as yet another aspect of His will.

This is your [[absolute]] reality, my [[children]].  This is the [[reality]] of who you are as you [[persist]] through [[time]].  All of [[creation]] is complete as it is [[moment]] by moment and within each moment because it is [[God]]’s [[creation]], yet this very completeness is capable of [[growth]].  Though that might seem to be some kind of [[science-fiction]] [[temporal]] [[paradox]], it is nevertheless the [[expression]] of both the [[potentiality]] and [[actuality]] of [[supreme]] [[reality]].  You too are complete in each [[moment]], but by God’s will there is something called [[universal]] [[time]] and [[change]], something of a [[universal]] [[development]] and [[evolution]] of which you are a part.  As your [[personality]] is the unchanging [[persistence]] of you, this [[growth]] of yours is what we call your [[soul]].  It is the complete [[story]] of your life as co-[[authored]] and taken on by an [[Thought Adjuster|individual presence of God within you]].  The growing, evolving culmination of [[God]]’s [[awareness]] of every [[individual]] [[soul]] out here in [[space and time]] is what we call [[the Supreme Being]].  This is a [[facet]] of [[our Father]], of [[God]].  It is [[God]]’s [[experience]] of all the [[personal]] beings’ [[experience]] and it is [[growing]]--as time goes by as yet another aspect of His will.

===='''''[[Soul]]'''''====

===='''''[[Soul]]'''''====

As we said in our last few lessons, this [[soul]] [[reality]] of yours, my [[children]], is the fullness within your [[memories]].  The [[spiritual]] [[dimension]] of your [[personality]] makes [[reality]] for you, a [[co-creation]] along with the [[creation]] itself—your world.  You—your [[personality]] real-alizes what is happening.  Those of you who have known deep [[meditation]] and [[prayer]], or a kind of highly [[conscious]] [[reverie]]--not just day-dreaming but the [[opposite]]—a highly [[conscious]] [[appreciation]] of your life akin to [[worship]]--know there is no bottom or top or sides to your [[soul]].  Your own [[soul]] is a [[transcendent]] [[reality]] to your [[conscious]] awareness of it.  It’s part of the [[light]] you will come to know more and more, this special [[reality]] we call [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_48 Morontia Reality], a combination of your [[personal]] [[experience]] as it is also [[being]] experienced and taken on by an [[Thought Adjuster|individualized presence of God]].   

As we said in our last few lessons, this [[soul]] [[reality]] of yours, my [[children]], is the fullness within your [[memories]].  The [[spiritual]] [[dimension]] of your [[personality]] makes [[reality]] for you, a [[co-creation]] along with the [[creation]] itself—your world.  You—your [[personality]] real-alizes what is happening.  Those of you who have known deep [[meditation]] and [[prayer]], or a kind of highly [[conscious]] [[reverie]]--not just day-dreaming but the [[opposite]]—a highly [[conscious]] [[appreciation]] of your life akin to [[worship]]--know there is no bottom or top or sides to your [[soul]].  Your own [[soul]] is a [[transcendent]] [[reality]] to your [[conscious]] awareness of it.  It’s part of the [[light]] you will come to know more and more, this special [[reality]] we call [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_48 Morontia Reality], a combination of your [[personal]] [[experience]] as it is also [[being]] experienced and taken on by an [[Thought Adjuster|individualized presence of God]].   

   

   

These are the great [[facts]] of [[human]] [[existence]]: that there is a [[First Source and Center|single source and center]] of all [[creation]], and it is [[personal]].  [[Personality]] is real.  It is a [[persisting]] [[essence]] of ''selfhood'' by God’s will, [[enduring]] through another [[dimension]] of His will—[[time]].  Personality grows soulful [[experience]] and keeps building upon [[experience]] to the endless reaches of [[time]].  Since you have a [[soul]] co-authored by an [[Thought Adjuster|individualized presence of God]] making a [[transcendent]] [[record]] of your own life for the both of you, [[everything]] you do of [[spiritual]] significance in your life, no matter how you may look at it from [[moment]] to moment with a [[time]]-[[limited]] [[viewpoint]], this is your [[possession]].  You were created with the [[potential]] to become one--absolutely consciously [[united]]--with this [[soul]] of yours and its co-author.  This is another great [[cosmic]]/[[personal]] [[event]] you have to look forward to--becoming utterly united, [[Fusion|fused]] we say, with the [[Thought Adjuster|presence of God]] within you that has been with you, and a part of you, from the beginning.

These are the great [[facts]] of [[human]] [[existence]]: that there is a [[First Source and Center|single source and center]] of all [[creation]], and it is [[personal]].  [[Personality]] is real.  It is a [[persisting]] [[essence]] of ''selfhood'' by God’s will, [[enduring]] through another [[dimension]] of His will—[[time]].  Personality grows soulful [[experience]] and keeps building upon [[experience]] to the endless reaches of [[time]].  Since you have a [[soul]] co-authored by an [[Thought Adjuster|individualized presence of God]] making a [[transcendent]] [[record]] of your own life for the both of you, [[everything]] you do of [[spiritual]] significance in your life, no matter how you may look at it from [[moment]] to moment with a [[time]]-[[limited]] [[viewpoint]], this is your [[possession]].  You were created with the [[potential]] to become one--absolutely consciously [[united]]--with this [[soul]] of yours and its co-author.  This is another great [[cosmic]]/[[personal]] [[event]] you have to look forward to--becoming utterly united, [[Fusion|fused]] we say, with the [[Thought Adjuster|presence of God]] within you that has been with you, and a part of you, from the beginning.

The interesting [[thing]] I want to look at tonight is how this [[self-conscious]]-[[self]] is the seat of your [[decisions]], your decisiveness, what you call [[free will]]—that [[God]]-shared [[individual]] [[intention]] I mentioned earlier.  To get a better [[feeling]] of this, think of the times you had success, a [[temporal]] victory doing something, and how your [[creative]] [[imagination]] blossomed forth with a hundred other notions of all the things you [[thought]] you could do now.  You see yourself doing [[amazing]] [[things]].  This is your [[ego]].  It is also the [[feeling]]/[[reality]] you get when all of a sudden one of those projections fails miserably. [[Adjusting]], you feel deflated as if you had puffed yourself up with all those [[expectations]] that time has proven impossible to fulfill: the [[moment]] is gone.  Another [[person]] may deliberately try to hurt you with an insult, and you may feel that [[pain]] for days, but where?

The interesting [[thing]] I want to look at tonight is how this [[self-conscious]]-[[self]] is the seat of your [[decisions]], your decisiveness, what you call [[free will]]—that [[God]]-shared [[individual]] [[intention]] I mentioned earlier.  To get a better [[feeling]] of this, think of the times you had success, a [[temporal]] victory doing something, and how your [[creative]] [[imagination]] blossomed forth with a hundred other notions of all the things you [[thought]] you could do now.  You see yourself doing [[amazing]] [[things]].  This is your [[ego]].  It is also the [[feeling]]/[[reality]] you get when all of a sudden one of those projections fails miserably. [[Adjusting]], you feel deflated as if you had puffed yourself up with all those [[expectations]] that time has proven impossible to fulfill: the [[moment]] is gone.  Another [[person]] may deliberately try to hurt you with an insult, and you may feel that [[pain]] for days, but where?

   

   

This [[self-conscious]]-[[self]] of yours feels both [[glory]] and [[suffering]] and both are undoubtedly real because this self-construct—who you [[think]] and [[feel]] you are right now--has some [[cause]] and [[effect]] in your life.  Your [[ego]] is not a [[total]] [[illusion]] as [http://cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521397261 some philosophies] consider it to be.  It is the seat of your [[conscious]] [[decisions]]: they are all made in [[part]] within your [[ego]]’s notions of what is possible, especially when an ego-maniacal [[personality]] identifies [[totally]] with this self-made structure to the exclusion--or the [[ignorance]], or the ignoring--of [[soul]], within themselves and others.  Think too of the imagined [[assumptions]]—some correct, some not--you infer from your [[experiences]] to get a sense of [[possibilities]], [[alternatives]] with which to step off into another [[adventure]] of life and give them a try, and see the results.

This [[self-conscious]]-[[self]] of yours feels both [[glory]] and [[suffering]] and both are undoubtedly real because this self-construct—who you [[think]] and [[feel]] you are right now--has some [[cause]] and [[effect]] in your life.  Your [[ego]] is not a [[total]] [[illusion]] as [https://cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521397261 some philosophies] consider it to be.  It is the seat of your [[conscious]] [[decisions]]: they are all made in [[part]] within your [[ego]]’s notions of what is possible, especially when an ego-maniacal [[personality]] identifies [[totally]] with this self-made structure to the exclusion--or the [[ignorance]], or the ignoring--of [[soul]], within themselves and others.  Think too of the imagined [[assumptions]]—some correct, some not--you infer from your [[experiences]] to get a sense of [[possibilities]], [[alternatives]] with which to step off into another [[adventure]] of life and give them a try, and see the results.

   

   

Your [[ego]] is no [[pure]] [[illusion]] but a [[tool]] you use even if, [[ironically]], it is a tool your [[personality]] can be captured by.  A [[person]] can identify so much with this [[part]] of themselves, they can choose [[death]] rather than a diminution of what they [[consider]] to be their [[conscious]] [[free will]].  You have those [[famous]] [[words]] of your statesman: [http://www.history.org/almanack/life/politics/giveme.cfm Give me liberty or give me death].  People can give their lives for their loved ones with this sense of themselves and their [[dedication]].  So to a large [[degree]] this [[self-conscious]]-[[self]] of yours, my [[children]], is an [[experience]].  It is also a basis, another [[point of view]] for [[experience]].  It’s both what you create and what the world around you [[reflects]] as how they see you--and how you register that, or not.  A product of your own [[essential]] [[creativity]], your [[ego]] is also a basis for your [[projections]] that [[interpret]] what you [[perceive]].

Your [[ego]] is no [[pure]] [[illusion]] but a [[tool]] you use even if, [[ironically]], it is a tool your [[personality]] can be captured by.  A [[person]] can identify so much with this [[part]] of themselves, they can choose [[death]] rather than a diminution of what they [[consider]] to be their [[conscious]] [[free will]].  You have those [[famous]] [[words]] of your statesman: [https://www.history.org/almanack/life/politics/giveme.cfm Give me liberty or give me death].  People can give their lives for their loved ones with this sense of themselves and their [[dedication]].  So to a large [[degree]] this [[self-conscious]]-[[self]] of yours, my [[children]], is an [[experience]].  It is also a basis, another [[point of view]] for [[experience]].  It’s both what you create and what the world around you [[reflects]] as how they see you--and how you register that, or not.  A product of your own [[essential]] [[creativity]], your [[ego]] is also a basis for your [[projections]] that [[interpret]] what you [[perceive]].

   

   

One of the greatest [[illusions]] people can have is that they have [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatta totally eliminated or gotten rid of their ego], and now they are some kind of un-[[self-conscious]], [[purely]] [[spiritual]] [[personality]].  It’s equivalent to a claim they have [[totally]] [[Annihilation|eliminated]] all their [[subjectivity]] to arrive at some kind of purely [[objective]], [[fundamental]] [[reality]].  The saving [[grace]] is that this you--this [[ego]] you identify with—you are capable of [[growth]] and [[enlightenment]].  By [[tuning]] in to your [[soul]] and adding that [[experience]] to who and what you [[consider]] you are, you can be [[aware]] of [[spirit]], you can be [[aware]] of your own incessant [[co-creativity]].  You can be [[self-conscious]]ly [[aware]] of the [[fact]] that you are more than this [[temporal]] construct.  Your [[personality]] was created by [[God]], and your [[soul]], as we’ve said, is a [[transcendent]], enormous [[reality]] of your [[experiences]] you can only tap into and fully relive for a few precious [[pure]] minutes—so far.     

One of the greatest [[illusions]] people can have is that they have [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatta totally eliminated or gotten rid of their ego], and now they are some kind of un-[[self-conscious]], [[purely]] [[spiritual]] [[personality]].  It’s equivalent to a claim they have [[totally]] [[Annihilation|eliminated]] all their [[subjectivity]] to arrive at some kind of purely [[objective]], [[fundamental]] [[reality]].  The saving [[grace]] is that this you--this [[ego]] you identify with—you are capable of [[growth]] and [[enlightenment]].  By [[tuning]] in to your [[soul]] and adding that [[experience]] to who and what you [[consider]] you are, you can be [[aware]] of [[spirit]], you can be [[aware]] of your own incessant [[co-creativity]].  You can be [[self-conscious]]ly [[aware]] of the [[fact]] that you are more than this [[temporal]] construct.  Your [[personality]] was created by [[God]], and your [[soul]], as we’ve said, is a [[transcendent]], enormous [[reality]] of your [[experiences]] you can only tap into and fully relive for a few precious [[pure]] minutes—so far.     

You can [[self-conscious]]ly acknowledge [[spirit]] in [[prayer]] and [[meditation]] as [[appreciation]], as [[worship]].  You can identify as well with your deeper [[personality]] and the [[morontia]] [[reality]] of your [[soul]].  The [[realization]] that you are, with [[respect]] to your [[ego]], so limited by [[time and space]] and the often [[anxious]], ever-changing present [[moment]]: all of these [[realizations]], my [[children]], just because they are real, give you greater [[freedom]] to [[accept]] your own constant [[creativity]] and [[response-ability]].  You are more than a [[self-conscious]] [[self]] that can be blown up out of [[proportion]], or hurt by insults.  As you identify less and less with your [[ego]] while still being [[aware]] of it, you can more and more identify/[[recognize]] the [[encompassing]] of your larger [[self]].  You [[experience]] more and more of your [[soul]]’s [[participation]] too in your life as both [[cause]] and [[effect]].

You can [[self-conscious]]ly acknowledge [[spirit]] in [[prayer]] and [[meditation]] as [[appreciation]], as [[worship]].  You can identify as well with your deeper [[personality]] and the [[morontia]] [[reality]] of your [[soul]].  The [[realization]] that you are, with [[respect]] to your [[ego]], so limited by [[time and space]] and the often [[anxious]], ever-changing present [[moment]]: all of these [[realizations]], my [[children]], just because they are real, give you greater [[freedom]] to [[accept]] your own constant [[creativity]] and [[response-ability]].  You are more than a [[self-conscious]] [[self]] that can be blown up out of [[proportion]], or hurt by insults.  As you identify less and less with your [[ego]] while still being [[aware]] of it, you can more and more identify/[[recognize]] the [[encompassing]] of your larger [[self]].  You [[experience]] more and more of your [[soul]]’s [[participation]] too in your life as both [[cause]] and [[effect]].

   

   

You can [[grow]] to [[recognize]] more and more [[soul]] and [[character]] in all those you meet, right from the littlest baby’s [[potential]] to the oldest gentleman’s or lady’s [[fulfilled]] life.  You need not seek some kind of [[Annihilation|self-oblivion]].  You need not in any way try to punish yourself.  Rather, simply see through any [[ego]]-puffing, self-centered, [[narcissistic]] type of [[behaviors]] for what they are.  [[Ironically]], as Michael and I have taught, when you [[realize]] how many times you’ve been taken out of yourself since you were a baby--in both [[glory]] and [[suffering]]--and still [[survived]], you get ever greater [[confidence]] that you can [[trust]] and [[relax]] into [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_3#3:5._THE_FATHER.27S_SUPREME_RULE self-forgetfulness] too, and [[grow]] your interest in [[everything]] and everyone not you.  You begin to feel this greater [[spirit]] [[encompassing]] which is not only y[[our Father]], and [[Michael]] and myself, but even your own [[Thought Adjuster|creative spirit]].   

You can [[grow]] to [[recognize]] more and more [[soul]] and [[character]] in all those you meet, right from the littlest baby’s [[potential]] to the oldest gentleman’s or lady’s [[fulfilled]] life.  You need not seek some kind of [[Annihilation|self-oblivion]].  You need not in any way try to punish yourself.  Rather, simply see through any [[ego]]-puffing, self-centered, [[narcissistic]] type of [[behaviors]] for what they are.  [[Ironically]], as Michael and I have taught, when you [[realize]] how many times you’ve been taken out of yourself since you were a baby--in both [[glory]] and [[suffering]]--and still [[survived]], you get ever greater [[confidence]] that you can [[trust]] and [[relax]] into [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_3#3:5._THE_FATHER.27S_SUPREME_RULE self-forgetfulness] too, and [[grow]] your interest in [[everything]] and everyone not you.  You begin to feel this greater [[spirit]] [[encompassing]] which is not only y[[our Father]], and [[Michael]] and myself, but even your own [[Thought Adjuster|creative spirit]].   

   

   

This is the [[freedom]] you seek.  [[Spirit]] is [[unity]], all-[[encompassing]].  By this [[power]] you [[realize]] and unify within more and more.  You become more internally [[consistent]] and less self-abrading by identifying more and more with what is [[persisting]] and [[growing]]: [[wisdom]].  This opens you to [[Doing the will of God|God’s will]] so you can [[perceive]] and [[humbly]] acknowledge your [[temporal]] [[limitations]]: a priceless [[gift]]: what to [[work]] on next.  You can [[feel]] more and more that your [[potential]] is right alongside your [[actuality]]: what might be as [[part]] of what is.  You have your life [[moment]] by moment as you live it, as you are [[self-conscious]], yet you also have the [[ability]] to forget yourself, to give yourself away, to enjoy being [[focused]] on some [[work]], some [[art]]--some [[creative]] thing, some loving and helping another.

This is the [[freedom]] you seek.  [[Spirit]] is [[unity]], all-[[encompassing]].  By this [[power]] you [[realize]] and unify within more and more.  You become more internally [[consistent]] and less self-abrading by identifying more and more with what is [[persisting]] and [[growing]]: [[wisdom]].  This opens you to [[Doing the will of God|God’s will]] so you can [[perceive]] and [[humbly]] acknowledge your [[temporal]] [[limitations]]: a priceless [[gift]]: what to [[work]] on next.  You can [[feel]] more and more that your [[potential]] is right alongside your [[actuality]]: what might be as [[part]] of what is.  You have your life [[moment]] by moment as you live it, as you are [[self-conscious]], yet you also have the [[ability]] to forget yourself, to give yourself away, to enjoy being [[focused]] on some [[work]], some [[art]]--some [[creative]] thing, some loving and helping another.

   

   

You let yourself go.  You [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_3#3:5._THE_FATHER.27S_SUPREME_RULE forget yourself] to fill your [[soul]], [[trusting]] that once again, like so many times before, you will pop up again to yourself.  Your [[ego]] just kind-of comes and goes unafraid, for now it exists within a larger [[personal]] [[consciousness]] that it is not all that you are.  It is not the only, nor even the greatest [[continuity]] of you [[persisting]] through [[time]].   

You let yourself go.  You [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_3#3:5._THE_FATHER.27S_SUPREME_RULE forget yourself] to fill your [[soul]], [[trusting]] that once again, like so many times before, you will pop up again to yourself.  Your [[ego]] just kind-of comes and goes unafraid, for now it exists within a larger [[personal]] [[consciousness]] that it is not all that you are.  It is not the only, nor even the greatest [[continuity]] of you [[persisting]] through [[time]].   

   

   

So [[consider]] these [[things]], my [[children]], how [[God]], the [[origin]] of the [[human]] [[pattern]] of a living [[spiritual]] [[being]], put your [[freedom]] within the [[limitations]] of your [[consciousness]], along with how to grow that consciousness ever more beyond what it has ever been.  This is how you [[grow]] and come to ever greater [[experience]], so even as your present [[body]] and [[mind]] fade away, as they must--that too is in [[Ascension Career|The Plan]]--you identify more and more with this [[soulful]] [[character]] you’re [[earning]].  Then, my [[goodness]]!--what [[beauty]], what [[love]] there is, being able to [[perceive]] and [[appreciate]] this in others, for they are your true [[soul]]-[[wealth]].

So [[consider]] these [[things]], my [[children]], how [[God]], the [[origin]] of the [[human]] [[pattern]] of a living [[spiritual]] [[being]], put your [[freedom]] within the [[limitations]] of your [[consciousness]], along with how to grow that consciousness ever more beyond what it has ever been.  This is how you [[grow]] and come to ever greater [[experience]], so even as your present [[body]] and [[mind]] fade away, as they must--that too is in [[Ascension Career|The Plan]]--you identify more and more with this [[soulful]] [[character]] you’re [[earning]].  Then, my [[goodness]]!--what [[beauty]], what [[love]] there is, being able to [[perceive]] and [[appreciate]] this in others, for they are your true [[soul]]-[[wealth]].

   

   

They are your [[companions]] in this great [[adventure]] and by being this extra-ordinary [[self]] you are [[literally]] [[demonstrating]] what is possible.  People who live their lives not only with a great sense of themselves, but live their lives for other people--your [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ saints], if you will--are those who continue to be the greatest [[gift]] to their fellows.

They are your [[companions]] in this great [[adventure]] and by being this extra-ordinary [[self]] you are [[literally]] [[demonstrating]] what is possible.  People who live their lives not only with a great sense of themselves, but live their lives for other people--your [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saints saints], if you will--are those who continue to be the greatest [[gift]] to their fellows.

   

   

We thank you, Father, for the [[original]] [[idea]]--(Mother Spirit [[chuckles]])--of such [[amazing]] [[creatures]], such creative [[beings]] of yours and ours.  These are Your [[children]]; these are our children.  But above all You have given them themselves and each other.  It is for this [[freedom]] we do thank You.  

We thank you, Father, for the [[original]] [[idea]]--(Mother Spirit [[chuckles]])--of such [[amazing]] [[creatures]], such creative [[beings]] of yours and ours.  These are Your [[children]]; these are our children.  But above all You have given them themselves and each other.  It is for this [[freedom]] we do thank You.  

NEBADONIA:  Yes, my son, as I said, these are [[experiences]] of theirs captured in their [[souls]] as well as in the souls of their [[victims]].  These are the lives they have known.  This is what they have done with the [[potential]] given them, [[limited]] about and conditioned by their [[experience]] of life.  This is why the [[human]] [[soul]] holds both of what you might [[consider]] both [[positive]] and [[negative]] [[experiences]].  Yet their [[souls]] are also co-authored by an [[Thought Adjuster|individual presence of God within them]]--however [[ignored]]--with nigh infinite [[understanding]] of all the [[causes]] and [[effects]] of their lives and how they came to be what they were.

NEBADONIA:  Yes, my son, as I said, these are [[experiences]] of theirs captured in their [[souls]] as well as in the souls of their [[victims]].  These are the lives they have known.  This is what they have done with the [[potential]] given them, [[limited]] about and conditioned by their [[experience]] of life.  This is why the [[human]] [[soul]] holds both of what you might [[consider]] both [[positive]] and [[negative]] [[experiences]].  Yet their [[souls]] are also co-authored by an [[Thought Adjuster|individual presence of God within them]]--however [[ignored]]--with nigh infinite [[understanding]] of all the [[causes]] and [[effects]] of their lives and how they came to be what they were.

===='''''[[Mansion Worlds]]'''''====

===='''''[[Mansion Worlds]]'''''====

Every [[human being]] who survives to the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_47 Morontia realms] will [[awaken]] to their [[soul]]-[[wealth]] of [[experiences]], seen a little more [[spiritually]] [[sensitive]] to God’s [[point of view]].  Obviously they will also have to face and deal with those they have treated so, for these will be their [[companions]] over there.  And so they will come to [[realize]], as will you, what they have done from the [[soul]]-[[perspective]] of those they have affected.  For some who have caused such [[pain]] and loss of life, this will be a [[horror]]; for others who have lived a loving, giving, [[sharing]] life, a [[glory]].  

Every [[human being]] who survives to the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_47 Morontia realms] will [[awaken]] to their [[soul]]-[[wealth]] of [[experiences]], seen a little more [[spiritually]] [[sensitive]] to God’s [[point of view]].  Obviously they will also have to face and deal with those they have treated so, for these will be their [[companions]] over there.  And so they will come to [[realize]], as will you, what they have done from the [[soul]]-[[perspective]] of those they have affected.  For some who have caused such [[pain]] and loss of life, this will be a [[horror]]; for others who have lived a loving, giving, [[sharing]] life, a [[glory]].  

   

   

Student:  That’s certainly a [[different]] [[perspective]].  

Student:  That’s certainly a [[different]] [[perspective]].  

   

   

NEBADONIA:  Remember and [[consider]] what we’ve taught about reawakening on the [[Mansion worlds]] with an enormously expanded [[consciousness]] based upon and in an enormously [[Morontia]]-evolved [[matter]]/[[energy]] [[body]], [[soul]]-infused [[mind]], and expanded [[spirit]] [[awareness]] and [[sensitivity]].  That [[experience]] alone, and continuing, that none will ever [[forget]] in all of [[eternity]], has a great…[[healing]] [[effect]]--shall we say.  They will have [[survived]]!—and in this [[survival]] can try to put to rest so much of the [[fear]] and agony they knew as [[human being]]s which lead to the [[acts]] they did.  There is great [[mercy]] built right into this [[pattern]] of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_112 human survival], my son.  It is hard to [[express]] in a few minutes like this, but everyone will reap the [[spiritual]] [[effects]] of their [[soul]], and, as we’ve taught so many times, [[eternal]] life is not [[Coercion|forced]] upon anyone.  That [[choice]] is the [[ultimate]] [[freedom]] of the created [[being]].

NEBADONIA:  Remember and [[consider]] what we’ve taught about reawakening on the [[Mansion worlds]] with an enormously expanded [[consciousness]] based upon and in an enormously [[Morontia]]-evolved [[matter]]/[[energy]] [[body]], [[soul]]-infused [[mind]], and expanded [[spirit]] [[awareness]] and [[sensitivity]].  That [[experience]] alone, and continuing, that none will ever [[forget]] in all of [[eternity]], has a great…[[healing]] [[effect]]--shall we say.  They will have [[survived]]!—and in this [[survival]] can try to put to rest so much of the [[fear]] and agony they knew as [[human being]]s which lead to the [[acts]] they did.  There is great [[mercy]] built right into this [[pattern]] of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_112 human survival], my son.  It is hard to [[express]] in a few minutes like this, but everyone will reap the [[spiritual]] [[effects]] of their [[soul]], and, as we’ve taught so many times, [[eternal]] life is not [[Coercion|forced]] upon anyone.  That [[choice]] is the [[ultimate]] [[freedom]] of the created [[being]].

===='''''[[Thought]]''''', '''''[[Creativity]]'''''====

===='''''[[Thought]]''''', '''''[[Creativity]]'''''====

As you [[wonder]] where [[ideas]] and [[concepts]] come from, they come from your very own [[nature]].  You are a being [[endowed]] with [[creative[[ [[spirit]], and you using it all the time, even as you sit here [[reading]] this and [[evaluating]] what I’m saying.

As you [[wonder]] where [[ideas]] and [[concepts]] come from, they come from your very own [[nature]].  You are a being [[endowed]] with [[creative[[ [[spirit]], and you using it all the time, even as you sit here [[reading]] this and [[evaluating]] what I’m saying.

Student:  I guess that’s what you mean by us being experiential beings.  That’s how we learn.  

Student:  I guess that’s what you mean by us being experiential beings.  That’s how we learn.  

NEBADONIA:  Yes, that’s what we’re doing out here.  We [[understand]] this as the deepest [[reason]] for the [[universe]] of all these [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_30 thousands of different orders] of experiencing [[personal]] [[beings]], all [[creative]], all [[acting]] and [[reacting]] with each [[other]].  It’s not just the [[physical]] [[universe]] your [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescope telescopes] reveal, but these [[personal]] [[beings]] your [[Urantia book]] was designed to present.  It’s why it teaches about [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_39 angels], and [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_77 Midwayers], and [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_35#35:2._THE_MELCHIZEDEK_SONS Melchizedeks], not only because it’s true, but also to increase your [[wonderful]] [[spiritual]] [[blessing]] of [[humility]] of: Oh my [[goodness]]!—look at all that out there!--as well as all of this in here.

NEBADONIA:  Yes, that’s what we’re doing out here.  We [[understand]] this as the deepest [[reason]] for the [[universe]] of all these [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_30 thousands of different orders] of experiencing [[personal]] [[beings]], all [[creative]], all [[acting]] and [[reacting]] with each [[other]].  It’s not just the [[physical]] [[universe]] your [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescope telescopes] reveal, but these [[personal]] [[beings]] your [[Urantia book]] was designed to present.  It’s why it teaches about [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_39 angels], and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_77 Midwayers], and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_35#35:2._THE_MELCHIZEDEK_SONS Melchizedeks], not only because it’s true, but also to increase your [[wonderful]] [[spiritual]] [[blessing]] of [[humility]] of: Oh my [[goodness]]!—look at all that out there!--as well as all of this in here.

   

   

Student:  It shows us a deeper, richer, more [[profound]] and expansive [[community]] that we’re a part of, of the whole [[cosmos]].  

Student:  It shows us a deeper, richer, more [[profound]] and expansive [[community]] that we’re a part of, of the whole [[cosmos]].  

Student:  It’s interesting how you talk about our [[limitations]] and yet you’ve also taught about our being little walking [[infinities]].  Is that a [[paradox]]?  I guess that is what [[stillness]] [[meditation]] is all about, to open up and [[discover]] that’s where [[free will]] comes in.  We open up and allow without [[coercion]] or anything manipulating or forced upon ourselves; allow that infinitude that we all are.  Without categorizing or labeling we just allow and gain familiarity with that [[potential]].  

Student:  It’s interesting how you talk about our [[limitations]] and yet you’ve also taught about our being little walking [[infinities]].  Is that a [[paradox]]?  I guess that is what [[stillness]] [[meditation]] is all about, to open up and [[discover]] that’s where [[free will]] comes in.  We open up and allow without [[coercion]] or anything manipulating or forced upon ourselves; allow that infinitude that we all are.  Without categorizing or labeling we just allow and gain familiarity with that [[potential]].  

   

   

NEBADONIA:  Yes, my son.  This is the truest [[worship]], being aware of and [[appreciative]] that all you [[experience]] has a [[Creator]]—[[God]] initially, then all of us out here, individually [[co-creating]] with Him our own lives and [[souls]].  This [[realization]] helps diminish any [[feelings]] of fatalism, that you can [[play]] no part in your life.  [[Ironically]], a [[feeling]] of fatalism is only part of your own created [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_140#140:4._YOU_ARE_THE_SALT_OF_THE_EARTH philosophy of life].  You can [[grow]] out of it.  

NEBADONIA:  Yes, my son.  This is the truest [[worship]], being aware of and [[appreciative]] that all you [[experience]] has a [[Creator]]—[[God]] initially, then all of us out here, individually [[co-creating]] with Him our own lives and [[souls]].  This [[realization]] helps diminish any [[feelings]] of fatalism, that you can [[play]] no part in your life.  [[Ironically]], a [[feeling]] of fatalism is only part of your own created [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_140#140:4._YOU_ARE_THE_SALT_OF_THE_EARTH philosophy of life].  You can [[grow]] out of it.  

   

   

Student:  It seems we are the only [[creature]] that can go against our own true [[nature]].  

Student:  It seems we are the only [[creature]] that can go against our own true [[nature]].