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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]]'''''====

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.

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]]'''''====