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I would like to spend a moment this evening with you in fact discussing personal [[perceptions]] of [[reality]], much as in a [[parable]], even as in [[revelations]], but more specifically as to your own [[minds]], for if you are [[sympathetic]] to my message, you will [[appreciate]] that what is true for you today may or may not have been true for you yesterday.

I would like to spend a moment this evening with you in fact discussing personal [[perceptions]] of [[reality]], much as in a [[parable]], even as in [[revelations]], but more specifically as to your own [[minds]], for if you are [[sympathetic]] to my message, you will [[appreciate]] that what is true for you today may or may not have been true for you yesterday.

As I indicated last week, the [[truth]] is living, and that once it becomes crystallized, it dies; the same is true for any truth, even your [[beliefs]]. And so, what you believed several years ago and which was [[worthy]] of everyone's belief in your eyes, may have subsequently altered, changed, [[grown]], evolved, such that it is no longer as [[vital]] to you as what is vital to you today, your new truth. But believe me when I say that your [[truth]] for today also will [[become]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molting molted] as the snake's skin. It will be peeled away in order that you may [[discern]] the deeper [[truth]], the more meaningful truth, which again, in [[time]], will be cast aside for yet greater [[reality]].

As I indicated last week, the [[truth]] is living, and that once it becomes crystallized, it dies; the same is true for any truth, even your [[beliefs]]. And so, what you believed several years ago and which was [[worthy]] of everyone's belief in your eyes, may have subsequently altered, changed, [[grown]], evolved, such that it is no longer as [[vital]] to you as what is vital to you today, your new truth. But believe me when I say that your [[truth]] for today also will [[become]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molting molted] as the snake's skin. It will be peeled away in order that you may [[discern]] the deeper [[truth]], the more meaningful truth, which again, in [[time]], will be cast aside for yet greater [[reality]].

This is not to say that you have no [[value]] in [[Spacetime|time/in space]] at the [[moment]], no! For your value is [[inherent]] in your sonship/daughter-ship. Your perceptions are [[fallible]], however, and [[evolutionary]], and so I would ask you to be aware of and even beware of your own [[perceptions]], for no matter how [[noble]] they may be, they may be only true for today, and only true for you! How can you [[project]] on someone else a perception that tomorrow will lack [[reality]]?

This is not to say that you have no [[value]] in [[Spacetime|time/in space]] at the [[moment]], no! For your value is [[inherent]] in your sonship/daughter-ship. Your perceptions are [[fallible]], however, and [[evolutionary]], and so I would ask you to be aware of and even beware of your own [[perceptions]], for no matter how [[noble]] they may be, they may be only true for today, and only true for you! How can you [[project]] on someone else a perception that tomorrow will lack [[reality]]?

TOMAS: Merium, you are my able co-teacher. I appreciate your [[presence]] here and your contribution. No [[problem]]. Are there questions?

TOMAS: Merium, you are my able co-teacher. I appreciate your [[presence]] here and your contribution. No [[problem]]. Are there questions?

===Dialogue===

===Dialogue===

Celeste: I was thinking about [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars Mars] because now that we're [[exploring]] Mars, I think I [[read]] in the [[49:2 Planetary Physical Types|Urantia Book that on this level we are mid-breathers]], and if there is life on Mars, that life - they are sub-breathers. And I thought it was kind of interesting that if we send somebody up there, they might have a little trouble. Suddenly they would have to [[breathe]] the air of a sub-breather.

Celeste: I was thinking about [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars Mars] because now that we're [[exploring]] Mars, I think I [[read]] in the [[49:2 Planetary Physical Types|Urantia Book that on this level we are mid-breathers]], and if there is life on Mars, that life - they are sub-breathers. And I thought it was kind of interesting that if we send somebody up there, they might have a little trouble. Suddenly they would have to [[breathe]] the air of a sub-breather.

Hester: I don't think we'll be able to do that without taking our air with us.

Hester: I don't think we'll be able to do that without taking our air with us.

TOMAS: I was reminded during your [[reading]] this evening regarding [[Paradise]], that there was a time when you did not know what it was like to be in a place without [[gravity]], and now your [[scientists]] know how to comport themselves without gravity through [[technology]], even for extended periods of [[time]]. You can eat and [[sleep]] and so forth, even without gravity. And so in due time, the [[concepts]] presented in and around [[Paradise]], like no time and no space, you will see it come to pass.

TOMAS: I was reminded during your [[reading]] this evening regarding [[Paradise]], that there was a time when you did not know what it was like to be in a place without [[gravity]], and now your [[scientists]] know how to comport themselves without gravity through [[technology]], even for extended periods of [[time]]. You can eat and [[sleep]] and so forth, even without gravity. And so in due time, the [[concepts]] presented in and around [[Paradise]], like no time and no space, you will see it come to pass.

You may even see it come to pass that there is some sort of [[life]] in your own [[galaxy]]. Be [[confident]] of your [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_wars Star Wars] technology. That, coupled with the [[adventurousness]] of your advanced [[races]] and the [[competitiveness]] of your several races, you could have some exciting [[games]] in space ahead. Try to [[encourage]] your contemporaries, however, to let go of the idea of [[war]] and disgusting-looking [[aliens]]. It is such an [[offense]] to [[the Father]] that the incredible, [[miraculous]], wondrous, beauteous and orderly universes should be besmirched with the [[primitive]] concept of [[combat]] and deformity in its creatures. It is popular, this [[science fiction]] stuff, and if you were clever you might be able to utilize that as an avenue of introducing [[universal]] [[ethics]] to your [[peers]]. We really must let go of that [[animalistic]] [[nature]] at some point.

You may even see it come to pass that there is some sort of [[life]] in your own [[galaxy]]. Be [[confident]] of your [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_wars Star Wars] technology. That, coupled with the [[adventurousness]] of your advanced [[races]] and the [[competitiveness]] of your several races, you could have some exciting [[games]] in space ahead. Try to [[encourage]] your contemporaries, however, to let go of the idea of [[war]] and disgusting-looking [[aliens]]. It is such an [[offense]] to [[the Father]] that the incredible, [[miraculous]], wondrous, beauteous and orderly universes should be besmirched with the [[primitive]] concept of [[combat]] and deformity in its creatures. It is popular, this [[science fiction]] stuff, and if you were clever you might be able to utilize that as an avenue of introducing [[universal]] [[ethics]] to your [[peers]]. We really must let go of that [[animalistic]] [[nature]] at some point.

I am reminded of the [[reference]] in [[life on a neighboring planet]] wherein the [[society]] had begun to look with [[disdain]] upon the super-[[wealthy]], as if it were in poor taste, and you could begin an entire new [[movement]], an advanced movement, if you were to begin to plant the [[seed]] that [[combat]] in [[space]] and such hideous creatures is really insulting to [[the Father]]. Now, I don't suppose, truly, that the Father is insulted, but it insults me, and it should insult any [[intelligent]] [[human being]] who, on one hand, desperately cries out for a [[reality]], who so needs and yearns for an [[experience]] of being "[[embraced]] by the [[light]]," who has found such merit in [[angels]] and asking your angels. How can the cry for [[truth]] be so great on one hand and be so fouled with scaly horned creatures from the primal depths of dark space on the other? It makes no sense.

I am reminded of the [[reference]] in [[life on a neighboring planet]] wherein the [[society]] had begun to look with [[disdain]] upon the super-[[wealthy]], as if it were in poor taste, and you could begin an entire new [[movement]], an advanced movement, if you were to begin to plant the [[seed]] that [[combat]] in [[space]] and such hideous creatures is really insulting to [[the Father]]. Now, I don't suppose, truly, that the Father is insulted, but it insults me, and it should insult any [[intelligent]] [[human being]] who, on one hand, desperately cries out for a [[reality]], who so needs and yearns for an [[experience]] of being "[[embraced]] by the [[light]]," who has found such merit in [[angels]] and asking your angels. How can the cry for [[truth]] be so great on one hand and be so fouled with scaly horned creatures from the primal depths of dark space on the other? It makes no sense.