[tmtranscripts] Nebadonia 1.10.05 - Bubbles of Familiarity

[JERRY LANE]

Dear Folks,    Wow! - the notion of our 400,000,000,000-year-old Master Son 
and Mother Spirit just passing out of Their teenage years and coming of age 
not yet halfway to Their full maturity of parenting 10,000,000 inhabited 
worlds...further words escape me.  Jerry - Nytrayn at msn.com

   Nebadonia 1.10.05

Marin TM group

Dear Michael and Mother Spirit,    Welcome.  It is wonderful when You visit 
us like this.  We feel very blessed just to be alive at this time, this 
Correcting Time, when You and Your different celestial children have chosen, 
and are able to help turn this old world around.  We thank you very, very 
much.  Amen.

Nebadonia:  Good evening, My dear children.  This is your mother, Nebadonia. 
  I welcome you and thank you for coming to meet Me on this wintry evening.  
It’s always a great time when we go through some small or even large 
adventure just to be with our dear friends again.  It makes the meeting just 
that much more special.

What can we give to each other at times like these?  How can we add to and 
appreciate the feelings of friendship?  How can we continue to see each 
other anew each time?  We are all changing and growing, even Michael and I.  
How can we welcome this change, especially for those of you who inhabit a 
physical body that very definitely changes, in a society that does not 
always welcome this change?  What is this special gift that long time 
friends have for each other?  Could it be that, when you are open to it, you 
can begin to see another’s soul?  Wouldn’t this be a wonderful thing to be 
able to experience, in spite of whatever physical changes are being wrought 
by chance and circumstance - to see how we are all growing?

Isn’t this a facet or quality of love?  Not only that two old friends can 
see each other as they once were in younger days, see the ageless quality, 
the vibrant quality of life itself, but also see the growing depth of 
wisdom?  Isn’t this truly something wonderful to bring to each other, to be 
able to perceive and share?  This is the everlasting possession that you are 
capable of giving away joyfully, and by doing so, make a discovery - that in 
giving yourself away, there is more of you.  For as we have looked at 
before, there’s a great spiritual giving of yourself in setting aside your 
own self-consciousness to really take in what your friend wants to give to 
you.

This is the encompassing of love.  This is the connection that adds to both 
parties, enriches both parties, strengthens both parties.  Love makes 
possible a self-honesty that enables you to give to another a kind of 
transcendent truth which, ironically enough, is the most practical, useful 
thing you can do for another.  There is nothing so precious as the truth of 
what you have found that really works in your life, especially from one 
generation to another - in both directions, older to younger and younger to 
older.  This appreciation lets each generation know how the world is 
changing, and how each generation has different challenges to face.  So this 
is a kind of ideal meeting of souls and it demands a type of courage to just 
be.

Do you remember a short while ago My invitation to you to find a way of 
appreciating the enormity of just pure existence?  Sometimes this can only 
be found by letting go so many notions of ”living it up,’” for from the 
viewpoint of finding value only in that which is extraordinary, just 
existing seems to be almost nothing, a kind of dull failure of not finding 
something better to do.  And certainly there is nothing wrong with 
excitement, from time to time, nothing wrong with extraordinary events.  But 
when you get together with your dear friends, isn’t the most precious 
quality one of being who you are in the most fundamental way, being able to 
relax and enjoy each others company in this encompassing of love that allows 
the real, underlying God-created uniqueness of each personality to shine 
forth?

In these circumstances where all kinds of self-aggrandizing, ego-inflating 
pressures or desires are set aside, you have a chance to rediscover anew not 
only who your friends are this time, but who you are as well.  This is a 
kind of stillness meditation or tuning in to a spiritual level of your human 
reality, no matter how active or busy you may choose to be with your 
friends.  For this loving encompassing transcends and can support any 
activity.  This is the true meaning of a spiritual brotherhood, for it 
matters not what each individual believes when each has achieved such a 
level of self-confidence and self-knowledge that they have gone beyond 
needing to prove any facet of themselves whatsoever.  In these circumstances 
you are capable of the light-hearted, joyful, loving, teasing kind of 
sharing We have been inviting you to experience.

Think of yourselves as usually, in your own personal lives, going along 
encapsulated in a self-generated bubble of familiarity that is so 
traditional in human behavior as to be invisible.  A bubble of familiarity: 
think about this idea.  This is what Michael and I have been inviting you to 
burst.  We are saying, the adventure We offer you to experience is this 
close, is what is around you right now – physically, and it is what is 
coming at you, moment to moment every day of your life.  This adventure is 
not something you have to imagine or invent, but rather something you need 
to welcome by suspending this invented bubble of familiarity that you are so 
accustomed to.

Does this example or illustration help you understand what it is We are 
offering?  It is to this effect that we have suggested daily 
mini-meditations, these breaks in the habits of your days, especially for 
those of you who have regular family or work routines where you somehow feel 
the need to do the same familiar thing at a certain time of day.  Here’s 
where your small stillness periods can help break up the habit – but! - only 
if they themselves, the little meditations, do not become just another 
habit.  The stillness meditations are really working when they help you 
realize this moment never happened before, and it will not happen again.

Now if you can greet and experience your dear long-time friends in this same 
way, what a gift you have to offer: renewal of both of you.  So when you 
meet the next time, see if you can detect all the subtle little signals you 
may be sending out to reassure them that you have not changed; and just 
relax these signals, just let them drop away.  See if you can welcome the 
challenge of exchanging something fresh and new, even if it may cause a 
momentary estrangement or even some slight anxiety in not knowing who you or 
they are - this time.  You’re making some small space in which something 
unique to this moment can happen.

This, My children, is what you can fill your days with, so that at the end 
of any period of time, however short or long, you can know deep in your soul 
you have really lived.  This is the real love We wish to share with you.  
This is a gift of the possible.  This is the achievement of the real.  This 
is how you fill your soul to overflowing.

If you have any questions or comments this evening, I am always delighted to 
share these new moments with you.

Student:  Mother, my curiosity has come to mind when You said that You and 
Michael are also growing.  Can You be more…explain that more fully - what 
You mean by that?  How do You grow?  How does Michael grow at this point?

Nebadonia:  Yes, My son, I understand your curiosity.  Everything in that 
realm of creation you know most generally as time and space is growing.  
Physically the Master Universe is still growing, not only in the levels of 
outer space, but right within the old, established Superuniverses as well - 
there is still materialization.  As you have been informed in your textbook, 
our Local Universe has a sometime potential of ten million inhabited 
planets, of which we are not even to the halfway point of this “maturity” 
yet.  If you want to think of it in a humorous sense, Michael and I are just 
passing out of being teenagers.  And as it is My joy, My very nature, to 
support through My dimensions of mind-spirit adjutants the mental activities 
of not only these evolutionary worlds, but all the architectural spheres and 
all the hosts of different orders of beings, angels and such, you can see 
how Michael and I are growing constantly in personal mental realms as well 
as physical.

And so like you, My son, We are growing in experience because none of this 
has ever happened before.  As I have been encouraging you to realize this 
evening, in the realm of ever purer spirit, there’s nothing familiar in the 
human sense of clinging to an illusion of changelessness.  Now multiply Us 
by seven hundreds of thousands.  Multiply our Local Universe by seven 
hundreds of thousands.  Add in all the greater administrative and 
ministering beings up through the seven Superuniverse levels, and you still 
have only a part of that aspect of God we call the Supreme Being.  And He 
too is growing with us, as us.   And even this, My son, only partly answers 
your question.  But does it give you some idea of how Michael and I are 
constantly growing - just to keep up with all this continuous creation?

Student: Yes, Mother, it does.  It seems that You grow through experience - 
through our experiences and your relationship to these experiences.  I guess 
it would be impossible for me to really truly understand how You experience 
growth because we are two entirely different beings.  But yes it does.  It 
does give me a better understanding of how You and Michael experience 
growth.

Nebadonia:  Over the last several weeks We have tried to help you realize 
what, as Michael said once, can appear to be a contradiction or 
impossibility.  It stems from the very nature of God and His creation 
itself, because at each instant of time all of God’s creation is complete.  
It is standing there all by itself.  It needs do nothing, for the very fact 
it is God’s creation.  Yet it is also His will - the reason - there is such 
a thing as a time-and-space, growing, expanding physical and personal-beings 
universe.  This is simply His will.  This is His power, His ability.  As His 
child, you too are complete moment by moment, and yet you too continue to 
grow.  That is why we make a distinction between completeness and perfection 
- to suggest that the nature of God which is beyond any kind of movement - 
you can only imagine it as absolute stillness, and only in - from a human 
viewpoint - an instant by instant kind of way - in no way contradicts the 
unimaginable blazing inferno right inside billions upon billions of suns in 
each of millions of galaxies.

So too, you are alive, you are dynamic, you are growing, and perfection is 
your goal, as it is the goal of the physical universe itself.  And though 
the physical universe may seem unimaginably ancient to you, just as you may 
feel yourself to be from time to time, both you and it, and We are still - 
only just beginning.  This is your true nature, and if you cannot grasp 
this, then you may be closer to it than you can know.  I don’t posit puzzles 
for you, My son, just for the sheer delight of doing so, but I do try, as 
best I can, to lead you to the rim of that vast chasm of the as-yet-unknown 
so you can peek over the edge from time to time.  Do you have any other 
questions?

Student:  That’s all my questions for now, Mother.  I feel very comfortable 
with Your words and explanations, and I‘d just like to leave it at that for 
the moment.  Thank You.

Nebadonia:  You’re welcome, My son.  I enjoy your appreciation.  And be in 
My love.

Student:  Mother, tonight I read an earlier transcript and there was a 
sentence about viruses.  It seemed to imply there was something unique about 
viruses, but the transcript was not about viruses.  I wonder if you could 
add anything to it?

Nebadonia:  Well, C, I don’t seem to recall, Myself, having made any 
comments about viruses.  As you know from your textbook: because this is a 
decimal planet, the Life Carriers of Urantia tried certain new possibilities 
of evolution knowing full well that this could lead to a proliferation of 
these life forms which could plague the human race once it so evolved.  But 
they made the decision to go ahead, counting on the Material Son and 
Daughter quickly evolving human life further to the point where it would not 
be so susceptible to these miniscule life forms.  And so this is part of the 
tragedy of the default of Adam and Eve - that you are plagued with this kind 
of disease.  Was there anything more specific you cared to know about these 
life forms?

Student:  No, that explains it, that clears up the curiosity I had about it.

Nebadonia:  There is a lot more detail given in your textbook in the chapter 
describing the evolution of earlier forms of life on Urantia by the Life 
Carriers.  If you have no other questions this evening?

Student:  No, I don’t.  Just a heartfelt thank You for all Your 
contributions to me.

Nebadonia:  You are very welcome, My son.  It is good to be within you - 
experiencing your joy, your gratitude.  And doubly so, then, to hear you 
express it.  Be in My love.

Student:  Thank You, Mother.

Student:  Dear Nebadonia, I was reading about Jesus on His way to Rome - how 
He made contact with upwards of five hundred people, and yet we are told He 
was not a genius.  How was He able to be so alert?  How can we increase our 
alertness level?  I know some of these lessons about dropping our 
considerations, letting go and letting God, and having our heart centers 
connect.  But that alertness that He had, was it because of His mind type or 
genetic ability?  How can we increase our alertness, especially in service?  
Thank you.

Nebadonia:  Yes, V, your question is very much right to the point of what I 
wish to share with you this evening.  When I talked about a bubble of 
familiarity, I was trying to suggest a way in which folks go through their 
life somewhat apprehensive and ill at ease, or fearful, and so try to get by 
day to day by reassuring themselves that nothing is changing.  This is 
almost a definition of trying to get along without being alert.

Let’s consider alertness from an active and a passive internally produced 
way.  Active alertness would be a conscious, constant attempt to maintain a 
certain state of mind in and of itself.  In other words, you value being 
alert and so you try to keep yourself alert.  As you can probably see 
immediately, this has great limitations, because how do you remember to 
remember?  How do you stay alert to remind yourself to be alert?

Another kind of alertness comes about automatically as part of your animal 
instinctual nature refined by a million years of human life evolution.  You 
are most familiar with this kind of alertness in extraordinary conditions 
where you come across something very threatening - you’re driving a car and 
suddenly you are skidding sideways; or some person starts acting very 
aggressive right in your face.  But what I was suggesting tonight was a way 
of being open to the newness, the uniqueness in each moment that lies just 
beyond your bubble of familiarity, for this perception is what will arouse 
in you an alertness of curiosity-reaction.

I call this a passive type of alertness because it arises within the 
situation itself, within the oneness of you and what you perceive.  This is 
the kind of alertness that comes, not from effort, but from the courage to 
relax your need for familiarity.  It will spring up of itself right within 
the perception of something new.  It is helped along by your stillness 
meditations in which you can achieve the feeling I talked about - of just 
purely existing - this moment which has never happened before.  This 
alertness is also helped arise by good health, great energy, a sense of 
humor, a feeling of adventure, a bit of daring.  All these are a kind of 
groundwork, contributing to what we’ve called “home base” - the reality that 
lets you experience God’s continuous creation.  Reality is not like some 
clock He wound up a few billion years ago, and gave a little nudge, so 
everything flows on like it always has.  But each moment is new.

Think about almost any kind of physically creative task you set yourself, 
whether it is working on your car, or carving a little sculpture, or finding 
a few flowers in your garden, or even washing the dishes.  There’s something 
new happening in that activity, whether it’s this particular spark plug this 
day, or this little rose bush, or that spot of grease clinging tenaciously 
to your pan: this moment never happened before.  And once you begin to 
perceive this, the wondrous reality of it will help sustain you and support 
you.  It was this very ability that enabled Michael to live the most 
fantastically full life, from the standpoint of any other human being who 
has ever lived on Urantia.

You will recall from your text that Michael also had the wisdom of knowing 
when to rest, when to give Himself and His followers a few days off to visit 
with friends or mend their nets.  But even these moments can also be most 
restful and appreciated if they too happen within this encompassing of 
alertness to each moment’s uniqueness.  Does this answer your question, My 
son?

Student:  Thank You very much - it’s like a Mansion World lesson!  I can’t 
wait for the thrill of reading the Melchizedeks’ knowledge as it is taught 
on the various worlds, for increased joy, through lessons like this, which I 
know will make the Mansion Worlds all the more thrilling because it started 
down here when we were here.  Thank You.

Nebadonia :  You are very welcome, My son.  As you are aware, I’m always 
teasing you a bit with the next phase to come.  You are very correct when 
you intimate that in the next, morontia phase, when you suddenly find 
yourself in a very transcendent kind of body - and in the reality you will 
be able to perceive upon awakening, you will definitely be out of your 
bubble of familiarity. We just invite you to experience it now.  And be in 
My love.

Student:  I’ll take You up on that offer.

Nebadonia:  And so, My children, you are getting a foretaste and some 
foresight into this next phase of your life.  Keep in mind that the closest 
human equivalent, in English, of the morontia phase of reality, is what you 
call soul; and to a degree you already have one foot in that realm.  As 
Michael and I have assured you, this is a cosmic reality, as real as this 
earth you walk around on, and that sun you see come up every morning.  For 
you will be around, My children, long after this earth and that sun have 
gone their way into oblivion.  This is what we are dealing with.  Enjoy that 
vista awhile.  You are in My love now and always.  Good evening.

Group:  Good evening.  Good evening, Mother.