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===Topic: ''Dimensions of Being Human''===
===Group: [[Marin TeaM]]===
==Facilitators==
===Teacher: [[Nebadonia]]===
===TR: [[JL]]===
==Session==
===Opening===
Dear Mother Spirit and Michael, welcome. Welcome. Come and be with us, although
we know deep in our hearts--as we open our hearts and minds to you--that you are
always already here. Your presence is within us and all around us.
Still and all, we do admit to ourselves that your very nature is nigh incomprehensible in
spite of all the ways that the human race has personified you, in all the goddesses of
all the religions and cultures of the world. This is why we are very thankful for our
wonderful Urantia Book with its whole chapters on you and Michael, giving us all of
your attributes.
Yet still you are nigh incomprehensible! We can only imagine what it is having a
soul of experience of hundreds of billions of years now, so many times more than what
our science tells us is the age of the universe. We can only imagine what it is to be
spread out over so many thousands of cubic light years of space, attending to your
children on nearly four million inhabited worlds like ours--plus on all the architectural
spheres of our local universe.
You have invited us so often to go out on a clear, star-lit night when there is no moon
to out-shine all the little ones, just see and open our minds and hearts to the Milky Way
out there in the whole sky. We can imagine you spread out across all of that. Then
to think you are right within us, part of us, part of our minds, part of our own creative
spirit.
So, dear personal being who is on the very edge and beyond of our comprehension,
we do sincerely appreciate that you can talk to us. You delight in transmitting to us,
and you have let us know so many times that any of us—not just me and other
Transmitter-Receivers--but any of us with a mind to do it, can receive you. Anyone can
open their little recorder and record what you have to say. In this too you are truly
universal. For all of this we do thank you. Amen.
===Lesson===
Nebadonia: Good evening, my children. This is your Mother Spirit, and I thank you for
your kind and generous invitation. As Michael and I have taught so often, it is a good
thing for you to be humble, for it is a spiritual blessing to acknowledge that which is so
much greater than yourselves. It helps you keep in touch with us, for Michael and I, like
any proud parents, delight when you address yourselves to us and say hello. We really
enjoy that, so again, this is an open invitation that just anytime, anytime it occurs
to you, day or night, we appreciate it when you set aside a few minutes in your busy
lives to be quiet, and still, and say, “Hello Michael. Hello Mother Spirit. Thank you
for me.”
Tonight I would like to talk about a few of your attributes, a few of your dimensions
of being human. I think the greatest of these is the way you are so much like our
universal Father, like God himself. It is the way you can share your lives with others. It
is called companionship--your ability and desire to have companions with whom to
share your days and your nights. This is part of God’s great nature, this whole notion
of sharing oneself, or none of us would exist. We can know that each of us shares a
little spark of his infinity.
As you have been told, and it is so true, that your very personality, your
uniqueness coming right from him--as does Michael’s and mine--cannot in any way
be finally or ultimately captured. In this we are most like him, and we belong not only
to ourselves, but to him as well. We share our inner lives with him.
Then you can choose to share your lives with the others around you. This is that
magical one-and-one-makes-three because, first, you have your unique personality like
no other. Second, your companion is like you in this, in that he or she too is utterly
unique among all other people. When the two of you get together, you both share
another third dimension that is equally unique to just the two of you. This is companionship--this friendship, this shared soulful quality, because you are now
in each other forever. Your souls are as open to yourselves and to each other as you
acquire the ability to tune in--tune into yourself and tune in to each other. You can
share your histories, your actual living experience.
True companionship gives you so much. Above all it gives you a way of escaping what
we sometimes call the prison of self. I am sure you all know some poor, unfortunate
soul who is so self-centered, so totally insecure in themselves and in their life, they are
desperately clinging on to themselves and can hardly be companionable at all. You try
to carry on a conversation with them and all they are doing is waiting for you to
be quiet so they can express themselves. No matter what you say to them, if it
doesn’t directly relate to them in some way or another, it is meaningless to them.
By their example you can know in your own self, in your own soul, what a terrible
prison this is. Your own companionship and your own delight in sharing yourself and
enjoying other folks can be the most precious experiences of your life. Because if you
can let go, if you do have the wonderful quality of self-forgetfulness, you can take in
another totally. Then if they too have this wonderful quality of self-forgetfulness, this
third dimension of the-two-of-you, the companionship, becomes a very lively dance all
by itself, does it not? Who knows where it will go? Who knows what it can encompass?-
-because you are both bringing your own unfathomable souls to the present moment.
For remember: you are both somewhat infinite to yourselves. This is the state of
your existence, my children: you can only know your own souls kind-of moment-by-
moment. You await that magical transformation, sometime in the future, you will have
that promised moment of becoming one with your own soul and the presence of its co-
author, God himself. This will be the fusion of all that you are and have been, wrapped
up in this unfathomable soul of yours.
But until that transformation, what a wonderful thing to let your soul come forth
and remind you of all you’ve been. This humility of realizing all that you are and
have been gives you the ability to acknowledge all that your companion is too.
This is the promise and the actual reward of companionship, of having real, honest-to-
God, living and breathing companions with whom to share your life.
All this comes about with the help of another great quality I’d like to talk about
tonight, and that is curiosity. Let’s pause a moment to wonder: what is it? (I must
confess I am teasing you with the very thing) What is curiosity? What is it that
catches your attention, sometimes even in spite of yourself--especially when you
were younger and didn’t have that much control over yourself. What is it that captures
you and says, “Look here! What is this?”
It could be whole world all around you, strange and new and maybe even a little scary.
Think of your delightful little furry creatures and the nursery-rhyme notation that
curiosity kills the cat. Of course as you grow older, you realize that curiosity is just part
of their nature to examine everything, though perhaps the more cynical among you
would say that it is just their hunting instinct, looking for some other little furry thing to
pounce on and eat. Or maybe you have seen cats prowling around and standing up to
look out the windows like some nervous gun-fighter, wondering about some bigger cat
that might eat them.
But in human beings, curiosity is an innate soul-hunger to know what is out there. What
is all around you? Even at a very young age it includes wondering: what am I? What
are these little wiggling things on the end of my arms; then exploring and finding
you have hands and feet and even a stomach that gets hungry. All this curiosity leads
you to discover everything you know, everything you contact to understand.
It is a wonderful hunger because it can be satiated. It can be fulfilled. It can lead you to
a kind of ease for a while as you sit there with all you have come into contact, and
know, and understand. You can let it all go in a good-night’s sleep and even dream of
it all in all its mystery.
Curiosity led you to the others all around you. As you let go of your family, your
mother and father, and maybe brothers and sisters, and headed out there to school—
your first, second, and third grade, your class room; remember all the others you met
your own age, and the curiosity. Who were they? What was this sex thing? What
were boys? What were girls? Why were you and they the way you were?
What a wonderful blessing curiosity is. And what a terrible tragedy it is with those who
feel they are cursed with curiosity, that some way or another they have to numb out
to shut it off. They just want to close in upon themselves and not be curious about
others because, perhaps, they never acquired the social skills to satisfy, to share
in joy with others and satisfy their curiosity. So think of the satisfaction, my dear ones,
that has led you to know so much.
I would like to mention one other attribute that I actually help increase right within
you. If you will, I augment another real ability of yours. As I mentioned companionship-
-what your Urantia Book calls my Mind/Spirit of Counsel—helping you enjoy each other
as you counsel together and share your experience—this is the mind/creative spirit
quality of courage.
What is courage? If new experience it is one of the most crucial, welcome, and
valuable of attributes, the ability that enables you to do difficult things is itself so
precious. Seen in this light, you can never have too much of it--not the real stuff.
Instead you might have a kind of fake courage you call fool-hardiness, a lack of
acknowledgement and respect for the situation where you just charge blindly into
something, and perhaps get wiped out for that very reason.
Genuine courage is not being fool-hardy. It is exactly the opposite. It means with all
the fear and trembling that fills your soul, your mind, your spirit, even your whole body,
you are still able to act. You still to have the determination to do the right thing.
Think how this necessary attribute feeds and supports your curiosity, to not only be
curious, but to have the courage to explore it. For that exploration can extend to all the
aspects of you. Physical courage is needed to get out there and do whatever it is,
perhaps even risk your life and limb--as you say.
Then to follow your curiosity about “what if…” or “wouldn’t it be nice to…”—you can fill
in the blank—it takes mental courage to be open-minded and not just cling to what you
have already known and experienced, but to let all that go, put it all on the line because
something new suggests itself. Or you are simply in an honest experiment and you
have to find the courage to be open-minded to whatever comes out.
Some of your famous scientists have said that they suddenly encountered some new
fact that challenged everything they believed up to that point. They had to have the
courage to let all that investment in time and energy go in order to follow this new
thing that appeared to be negating everything they had known up to that point, and
simply, but profoundly, step off into the unknown. So this is another dimension of mine
that I share with you, this thing of courage, of determination, of the ability to do what
your heart, your mind, and your soul suggests.
===Closing===
Now, my dear ones, if you have any questions or comments on these attributes of
being human, or anything else, let us both open our minds and welcome them. Come
forth if you will.
[[Category: The Teaching Mission: Dialogues]]
[[Category: Marin TeaM]]
[[Category: Lightline TeaM]]
[[Category: Nebadonia]]
[[Category: JL]]
[[Category: 2016]]
[[File:Teaching_buddha_small.jpg|right|frame]]
==Heading==
===Topic: ''Dimensions of Being Human''===
===Group: [[Marin TeaM]]===
==Facilitators==
===Teacher: [[Nebadonia]]===
===TR: [[JL]]===
==Session==
===Opening===
Dear Mother Spirit and Michael, welcome. Welcome. Come and be with us, although
we know deep in our hearts--as we open our hearts and minds to you--that you are
always already here. Your presence is within us and all around us.
Still and all, we do admit to ourselves that your very nature is nigh incomprehensible in
spite of all the ways that the human race has personified you, in all the goddesses of
all the religions and cultures of the world. This is why we are very thankful for our
wonderful Urantia Book with its whole chapters on you and Michael, giving us all of
your attributes.
Yet still you are nigh incomprehensible! We can only imagine what it is having a
soul of experience of hundreds of billions of years now, so many times more than what
our science tells us is the age of the universe. We can only imagine what it is to be
spread out over so many thousands of cubic light years of space, attending to your
children on nearly four million inhabited worlds like ours--plus on all the architectural
spheres of our local universe.
You have invited us so often to go out on a clear, star-lit night when there is no moon
to out-shine all the little ones, just see and open our minds and hearts to the Milky Way
out there in the whole sky. We can imagine you spread out across all of that. Then
to think you are right within us, part of us, part of our minds, part of our own creative
spirit.
So, dear personal being who is on the very edge and beyond of our comprehension,
we do sincerely appreciate that you can talk to us. You delight in transmitting to us,
and you have let us know so many times that any of us—not just me and other
Transmitter-Receivers--but any of us with a mind to do it, can receive you. Anyone can
open their little recorder and record what you have to say. In this too you are truly
universal. For all of this we do thank you. Amen.
===Lesson===
Nebadonia: Good evening, my children. This is your Mother Spirit, and I thank you for
your kind and generous invitation. As Michael and I have taught so often, it is a good
thing for you to be humble, for it is a spiritual blessing to acknowledge that which is so
much greater than yourselves. It helps you keep in touch with us, for Michael and I, like
any proud parents, delight when you address yourselves to us and say hello. We really
enjoy that, so again, this is an open invitation that just anytime, anytime it occurs
to you, day or night, we appreciate it when you set aside a few minutes in your busy
lives to be quiet, and still, and say, “Hello Michael. Hello Mother Spirit. Thank you
for me.”
Tonight I would like to talk about a few of your attributes, a few of your dimensions
of being human. I think the greatest of these is the way you are so much like our
universal Father, like God himself. It is the way you can share your lives with others. It
is called companionship--your ability and desire to have companions with whom to
share your days and your nights. This is part of God’s great nature, this whole notion
of sharing oneself, or none of us would exist. We can know that each of us shares a
little spark of his infinity.
As you have been told, and it is so true, that your very personality, your
uniqueness coming right from him--as does Michael’s and mine--cannot in any way
be finally or ultimately captured. In this we are most like him, and we belong not only
to ourselves, but to him as well. We share our inner lives with him.
Then you can choose to share your lives with the others around you. This is that
magical one-and-one-makes-three because, first, you have your unique personality like
no other. Second, your companion is like you in this, in that he or she too is utterly
unique among all other people. When the two of you get together, you both share
another third dimension that is equally unique to just the two of you. This is companionship--this friendship, this shared soulful quality, because you are now
in each other forever. Your souls are as open to yourselves and to each other as you
acquire the ability to tune in--tune into yourself and tune in to each other. You can
share your histories, your actual living experience.
True companionship gives you so much. Above all it gives you a way of escaping what
we sometimes call the prison of self. I am sure you all know some poor, unfortunate
soul who is so self-centered, so totally insecure in themselves and in their life, they are
desperately clinging on to themselves and can hardly be companionable at all. You try
to carry on a conversation with them and all they are doing is waiting for you to
be quiet so they can express themselves. No matter what you say to them, if it
doesn’t directly relate to them in some way or another, it is meaningless to them.
By their example you can know in your own self, in your own soul, what a terrible
prison this is. Your own companionship and your own delight in sharing yourself and
enjoying other folks can be the most precious experiences of your life. Because if you
can let go, if you do have the wonderful quality of self-forgetfulness, you can take in
another totally. Then if they too have this wonderful quality of self-forgetfulness, this
third dimension of the-two-of-you, the companionship, becomes a very lively dance all
by itself, does it not? Who knows where it will go? Who knows what it can encompass?-
-because you are both bringing your own unfathomable souls to the present moment.
For remember: you are both somewhat infinite to yourselves. This is the state of
your existence, my children: you can only know your own souls kind-of moment-by-
moment. You await that magical transformation, sometime in the future, you will have
that promised moment of becoming one with your own soul and the presence of its co-
author, God himself. This will be the fusion of all that you are and have been, wrapped
up in this unfathomable soul of yours.
But until that transformation, what a wonderful thing to let your soul come forth
and remind you of all you’ve been. This humility of realizing all that you are and
have been gives you the ability to acknowledge all that your companion is too.
This is the promise and the actual reward of companionship, of having real, honest-to-
God, living and breathing companions with whom to share your life.
All this comes about with the help of another great quality I’d like to talk about
tonight, and that is curiosity. Let’s pause a moment to wonder: what is it? (I must
confess I am teasing you with the very thing) What is curiosity? What is it that
catches your attention, sometimes even in spite of yourself--especially when you
were younger and didn’t have that much control over yourself. What is it that captures
you and says, “Look here! What is this?”
It could be whole world all around you, strange and new and maybe even a little scary.
Think of your delightful little furry creatures and the nursery-rhyme notation that
curiosity kills the cat. Of course as you grow older, you realize that curiosity is just part
of their nature to examine everything, though perhaps the more cynical among you
would say that it is just their hunting instinct, looking for some other little furry thing to
pounce on and eat. Or maybe you have seen cats prowling around and standing up to
look out the windows like some nervous gun-fighter, wondering about some bigger cat
that might eat them.
But in human beings, curiosity is an innate soul-hunger to know what is out there. What
is all around you? Even at a very young age it includes wondering: what am I? What
are these little wiggling things on the end of my arms; then exploring and finding
you have hands and feet and even a stomach that gets hungry. All this curiosity leads
you to discover everything you know, everything you contact to understand.
It is a wonderful hunger because it can be satiated. It can be fulfilled. It can lead you to
a kind of ease for a while as you sit there with all you have come into contact, and
know, and understand. You can let it all go in a good-night’s sleep and even dream of
it all in all its mystery.
Curiosity led you to the others all around you. As you let go of your family, your
mother and father, and maybe brothers and sisters, and headed out there to school—
your first, second, and third grade, your class room; remember all the others you met
your own age, and the curiosity. Who were they? What was this sex thing? What
were boys? What were girls? Why were you and they the way you were?
What a wonderful blessing curiosity is. And what a terrible tragedy it is with those who
feel they are cursed with curiosity, that some way or another they have to numb out
to shut it off. They just want to close in upon themselves and not be curious about
others because, perhaps, they never acquired the social skills to satisfy, to share
in joy with others and satisfy their curiosity. So think of the satisfaction, my dear ones,
that has led you to know so much.
I would like to mention one other attribute that I actually help increase right within
you. If you will, I augment another real ability of yours. As I mentioned companionship-
-what your Urantia Book calls my Mind/Spirit of Counsel—helping you enjoy each other
as you counsel together and share your experience—this is the mind/creative spirit
quality of courage.
What is courage? If new experience it is one of the most crucial, welcome, and
valuable of attributes, the ability that enables you to do difficult things is itself so
precious. Seen in this light, you can never have too much of it--not the real stuff.
Instead you might have a kind of fake courage you call fool-hardiness, a lack of
acknowledgement and respect for the situation where you just charge blindly into
something, and perhaps get wiped out for that very reason.
Genuine courage is not being fool-hardy. It is exactly the opposite. It means with all
the fear and trembling that fills your soul, your mind, your spirit, even your whole body,
you are still able to act. You still to have the determination to do the right thing.
Think how this necessary attribute feeds and supports your curiosity, to not only be
curious, but to have the courage to explore it. For that exploration can extend to all the
aspects of you. Physical courage is needed to get out there and do whatever it is,
perhaps even risk your life and limb--as you say.
Then to follow your curiosity about “what if…” or “wouldn’t it be nice to…”—you can fill
in the blank—it takes mental courage to be open-minded and not just cling to what you
have already known and experienced, but to let all that go, put it all on the line because
something new suggests itself. Or you are simply in an honest experiment and you
have to find the courage to be open-minded to whatever comes out.
Some of your famous scientists have said that they suddenly encountered some new
fact that challenged everything they believed up to that point. They had to have the
courage to let all that investment in time and energy go in order to follow this new
thing that appeared to be negating everything they had known up to that point, and
simply, but profoundly, step off into the unknown. So this is another dimension of mine
that I share with you, this thing of courage, of determination, of the ability to do what
your heart, your mind, and your soul suggests.
===Closing===
Now, my dear ones, if you have any questions or comments on these attributes of
being human, or anything else, let us both open our minds and welcome them. Come
forth if you will.
[[Category: The Teaching Mission: Dialogues]]
[[Category: Marin TeaM]]
[[Category: Lightline TeaM]]
[[Category: Nebadonia]]
[[Category: JL]]
[[Category: 2016]]
