[tmtranscripts] Nebadonia 7.17.06

[JERRY LANE]

Nebadonia—July 17, 2006

Marin TM Group—Mill Valley, California—U.S.A.

NEBADONIA—T/R-JL

(Contact with our spiritual Parents changes our inner definitions)
(Your relationship with the Supreme Being: effort)
(Growing the ability of pure effort)
(Apocalyptic catastrophe)
(Warfare and crime)
(Effort and faith)
(The trial by living)

Dear Mother Spirit and Michael,    Come visit us again.  Now although we 
know You are always here, still, feeling Your presence this way helps us 
more fully realize our human nature.  For many years we have lived--and we 
know so many of our brothers and sisters still live--without this direct 
perception of your existence.  We have experienced how this contact with You 
changes our own inner definition of the kind of beings we are.  So we thank 
You for the Teaching Mission that You’ve inaugurated, that helps us at least 
approach the full spiritual estate of being human.  Amen.

NEBADONIA:  My dear children, what joy it gives Me to see that I have this 
effect upon you and your lives.  This is your mother, Nebadonia, Daughter of 
the Infinite Spirit, Spiritual Mother to a whole family of Local Universe 
personal beings.  Yes, it is true: I am right within your minds augmenting 
your own ability to contact both impersonal reality--the physical/material 
world about you, and also I help you recognize and realize within yourselves 
the other personalities you encounter.

(Contact with our spiritual Parents changes our inner definitions)

Now you are experiencing how your own conscious prayers and requests for Our 
help, relaxing and practicing your stillness to feel Our presence, does 
indeed change your definition of what a human being is.  These genuine 
religious experiences, your contact with spirit, do add meaning and value to 
the statement that God is your Father, the Universal Father of all beings, 
and this makes all personal beings, especially your fellow human beings, 
truly your brothers and sisters.

Your own inner spiritual contact gives meaning to these words.  It makes 
them real.  It helps you perceive each other as what We’ve called little 
walking infinities. You can actually perceive in your fellows this 
bottomless-ness: you can have some intimation of another person’s soul.  So 
think about those individuals you’ve known that seem to have a lot of soul.  
What is it about them?

Your Urantia book helps you realize this by making a distinction between God 
the Father, the Paradise Father, the single Source of all creation, and that 
aspect of His that He presents to the universes of time and space.  This is 
the Supreme Being, the growing, evolving facet of Deity, of God.  It is a 
kind of summation of all the experience personal beings have out here in 
time and space.  We’ve even likened it to a Soul of the time/space creation.

It is the way in which an infinite, absolute Being, such as God is, complete 
at every instant, is still capable of growing.  And of course, you 
yourselves are a part of the Deity Absolute, the summation of all personal 
being.  Your own life’s experiences contribute to the Supreme Being.

(Your relationship with the Supreme Being: effort)

But whereas your relationship to God the Father is inherent in your 
existence as His child--a relationship of Father to son, Father to daughter, 
one you have automatically, your relationship to the Supreme Being is 
somewhat different.  It is akin to your conscious relationship to your own 
soul.  So while the essence of your relationship to God the Father is simply 
one of being, your relationship to the Supreme Being is one of doing.  Let 
that soak in a minute. (pause)

Student:  Could You repeat it, please?

NEBADONIA:  Yes.  Your relationship to the Supreme Being--the growing, 
evolving Soul of time and space--is one of doing.  How you grow your own 
soul is what you do with the life God has given you.  Every achievement of 
yours, My children, adds to the Supreme Being, the Universal Soul of 
creation.  So let’s go back to those individuals you thought of who had a 
lot of soul.  Do you know a single one of them, man or woman, who didn’t 
earn it?

Indeed, this is why those individuals who have gone through great 
tribulation and have not been crushed or annihilated by it, but have learned 
from it, seem to have this inner wealth, this genuine possession that, as We 
have said, is your only eternal possession--your souls.  Essentially this is 
all that you have, because it is all you need.  As Michael mentioned last 
lesson: this is your true possession, your only safe and secure possession, 
because it is co-authored by a fragment of God himself.

We have told you how the universe of time and space is growing, and this is 
also two-fold, both personal and impersonal.  The impersonal universe of 
matter and energy is growing.  Out there in the four levels of outer space 
are literally millions of galaxies being created in a way that does not even 
make sense to your current scientific knowledge.  Spiritual beings, Paradise 
Origin Primary Force Organizers are creating vast spiral nebula in open 
space which will, in turn and in time, give birth to millions of suns and 
planetary systems. This is going on right now as I speak.

When we look at the personal realm, we see not only the constant creation of 
new personal beings at every level of existence--all the hundreds of 
different orders, from human-type beings on up--we see also an accumulation 
of living experience within each personality.  All personal beings, even 
those existential ones within the central universe of Havona and on 
Paradise; all personal beings are growing in their experience.  And this 
experience has the potential, even for human beings, of being a series of 
rather singular events, predicated on that part of universal reality that is 
not repeating itself, but is new and unique in every moment of time.

Am I blowing your minds?  I know this must seem like a balloon that just 
keeps getting bigger and bigger.  But this is reality, My children.  This is 
what is happening.  This is why your relationship to the Supreme Being, the 
time and space soul of God, is one of doing.  One of your ancient religious 
texts expresses this truth by having even the Supreme Being speaking and 
saying: “Without My effort these worlds would perish.”

So tonight I ask if you would consider striving for perfection?  If you 
would try your best to be like God in your own human way, you need to 
welcome this essence.  Welcome feeling the need for effort.  This is the 
nitty gritty, is it not? This is that—doing--that seems for most of you, and 
most of the time, so limited.  It’s like pure usable energy itself: you can 
never have enough of it.  For, like your soul, it is another thing you 
cannot buy.

True enough, really superb nutrition containing large stores of energy, for 
a large number of the human race is not only expensive but unobtainable.  
There are still millions upon millions living impoverished lives due to 
malnutrition.  But when you think deeply about effort, you realize what a 
great psychological and spiritual component is involved too.

This points to a true spiritual blessing I can only hope that most of you 
have discovered already: the degree to which the psychological and spiritual 
component of effort builds upon itself.  Success can build upon success and, 
as Michael taught in His last lesson, try not to forget this.  As you look 
forward to the future and the need to stretch yourself to get a hold on ever 
larger expanses of reality, don’t discount what success can do, how the 
exercising of effort can build upon itself.

Most lazy souls never realize this in their first lifetime.  They see it as 
some kind of hideous joke life is playing upon them, that the more you are 
capable of doing, the more it is handed you to do—without end: why even 
start?  Yet this is the triumph right within life.  The more you exercise 
your pure effort, the more you can do; the more you grow.  Here We touch 
upon that other great possession of your personality: ability.

(Growing the ability of pure effort)

For this is simply what it means.  This is that other kind of growth 
incorporating all three dimensions of the physical and mental and spiritual. 
  For there is almost nothing you do, My children, that is strictly just one 
of the three alone.  The closest you come to singularity of function is when 
you do your best to relax your physical and mental activities and experience 
your home base in spirit as purely as possible.  And ironically, even this 
physical and mental relaxation with an increased spiritual awareness--We 
call stillness--is also an ability, a funny kind of back-handed not-doing 
that you have to learn how to do.

Here, My children, I’m trying to impart to you as best I can the way in 
which My wisdom most thoroughly co-mingles with your own human wisdom built 
up from your experience of life.  Most of you who hear My words, and who 
have known some success in life, will have immediately recognized and 
understood what I’m saying about effort.  You will know what I mean when I 
say you earn your souls.  It takes effort to open yourselves as We have been 
enticing you to do, in order to genuinely have more life.

As an aside let Me mention what has, throughout the history of the human 
races, and not only on your own planet, My children, been universal; the 
appeal of psychotropic substances--drugs, those that affect this 
relationship of you and effort.  This is especially true of the stimulants.  
They offer the illusion of getting effort for free, or just not so soulfully 
expensive.

But here the hidden cost, still far shy of any kind of genuine addiction, is 
one of spiritual value.  Every time you use a pure chemical substance to 
enable you to do something, to that very degree you are not exercising your 
own pure effort.  So in addition to all the rather undesirable side effects 
on the purely physical and mental level, you have this loss of the spiritual 
value with which you might have accomplished what you did “on the natch”—as 
your slang puts it: just with natural, complex nutrition--and gumption.

I invite you to think about this relationship between soul and effort, and 
your relationship to the Supreme Being.  Your human life adds to the Soul of 
time and space.  This is where our wisdom together, My children, can point 
the way to understanding the need for effort, for this is simply the way God 
has set things up.

Yet within this cost, this demand for effort to achieve all that is 
possible, you do find the possibility of triumph, of success, of a full life 
of unique events the lazy or the fainthearted will never know.  We are 
looking at the meaning of meaning itself--the spiritual nature of value, and 
what is involved in your prayer this evening: how do you approach the full 
estate of being human?

So rest in My loving arms, My children.  Let the sheer weight of these heavy 
considerations sink you deep into Me.  Feel My Mind/Spirit Adjuncts 
augmenting your own abilities, and thank our Father who set it all up this 
way.

Now I think it’s time for Me to say: if you have any questions or comments 
this evening, it seems to be the appropriate moment for them.

Student:  Mother, I recently read a transcript from the North Colorado 
Group. Monjoronson  (Monjoronson, N. Colo. TeaM 7.09.06)  was saying that a 
coming… no time factor, but there’s coming a decimation of the human 
species.  Human beings, from one-third to two-thirds, will be gone.  Could 
You clear that up a little bit, please?

(Apocalyptic catastrophe)

NEBADONIA: Yes, My son.  All through your lives you will need to find a 
balance between immediacy and what appear to be long term considerations.  
This is much a part of what Michael taught in His last lesson about a moral 
dimension in human reality, and how you may sometimes find yourself living 
hour to hour, even moment to moment in a pure dark opacity of not knowing 
what is the right thing to do.

As your world’s scientists and political organizations get into more 
comprehensive communications with each other world-wide, you’re presented 
with what seem to be apocalyptic visions.  The human race has as a whole 
gained such enormous power through science and industrialization that you 
can now begin to affect planetary-level balances of both weather and 
resources.

So you do your best to accept this into yourself, to consider things like 
global warming, or the fact that while large percentages of the human 
population are literally wallowing and drowning in obscene excesses to the 
destruction of their own health and spiritual wellbeing, many millions of 
others are dying or living tragically stunted lives for want of the barest 
necessities.

I ask you to recall what Michael said in one of these lessons several years 
ago.  The human race does not need to be threatened with any apocalyptic 
catastrophe.  It is already--right now--living in one.  But then in the face 
of this realization, what do you do—yourself--immediately?  Which is My 
initial point of how to get through your day and not be driven crazy by 
fear, or indifference.

You do need to find a balance between continuity and deciding what changes 
you might make in your own personal life to do your part in sharing the 
earth’s resources, and averting some seemingly unstoppable, looming 
catastrophe.

Not in any way to diminish these apocalyptic possibilities, let me remind 
you that the human race has for some three hundred thousand years now, since 
the Lucifer Rebellion catastrophe; the human race has lived in the face of 
this kind of threat, a threat that was, and still is for the most part, a 
facet of immature human nature.

(Warfare and crime)

Your Urantia book very succinctly delineates the hundreds of thousands of 
years of incessant warfare that is still, in the twenty-first century, so 
much a part of your lives.  Yet even further, can you begin to comprehend a 
world, not just without active warfare, but without the expenditures of 
resources and human effort involved in both offensive and defensive 
preparations?

Can you imagine a world without crime, without human predators preying upon 
their fellows, reaching all the way down to something so simple as not 
needing locks on doors?  Consider: here you are, finite beings on a world of 
very finite resources, and yet every night your pour how many billions upon 
billions of kilowatts of energy into the night sky, illuminating your cities 
so they can even be seen from space; and for what reason?  Your cars have 
headlights, as do your bicycles.  You have your flashlights to walk along 
your paths.  Did you ever consider, My children, why you light up your 
cities as you do?—what that energy could mean to the millions who are 
perishing?  Can you understand that, from a  spiritual standpoint, this is a 
measure of your fear of each other?  So I’ll repeat Michael’s message: You 
do not need to look to any future catastrophic apocalypse: you are in the 
middle of one—equally along with the Renaissance that is also happening.

And so We ask you to open your minds, open your hearts, to do what you can, 
and still, find a balance for your sanity between your immediate needs for 
today and tomorrow, yet taking as full a cognizance as you can, of where you 
are all headed.  The world can only be transformed one individual at a time. 
  You can only do so much.  You do need to rest.  You do need to let all 
your concerns go, and feel Michael’s presence calling you to His peace the 
passes your understanding.  Here you find your human creativity.  You 
literally create your way forward.  You have a whole Celestial Family here 
on Urantia doing all We can to help you.  But We all respect the dignity of 
your free wills.

This is all I will say this evening, My son.  I will acknowledge you have 
some truly frightening planetary developments, but I choose not to quantify 
or qualify them at this time.  I want you to entertain all possibilities, 
and yet find your rest too, so that you continue to live—creatively, with 
the dignity of being sons and daughters of God.  So be in My love.

Student: Thank You , Mother.  At one and the same time I feel relieved—with 
quite a bit to think about.   Thank You.

NEBADONIA:  You are welcome, My son.  It seems you’ve taken my lesson to 
heart.  (Yes)

Student:  Yes Mother.  There were numerous things I wanted to discuss 
tonight, but it is getting late.  One thing I thought about with respect to 
effort is, it goes hand in hand with faith, with my innate capacity to live 
and enjoy in peace.  And that through my effort and the choices I make in my 
life, and how I react in my day to day… being, I have faith that my efforts 
will be rewarded.  It may not be instantaneous, but the potential is there.

(Effort and faith)

NEBADONIA:  Yes, My son , I think you are touching upon the nature of faith 
as a kind of spiritual effort, simply because something is required of 
you—to exercise faith.  This is especially, as you mention, along the 
dimension of time, your willingness to invest yourself in some spiritual 
project simply in the hope of some future affirmation you’ve been making the 
right decisions.  Faith is a way of extending yourself out beyond what you 
yet know for sure.  It is rewarded by success.  You can extend yourself and 
then find you have made the right effort.  Your spiritual project comes to 
fruition. Your hoped-for results happen.  Your faith is rewarded by fact.  
So you know your moments of resting awhile in your success, before the sheer 
enormity of this universe you find yourself in suggests you may have to 
extend yourself again: there is still a little more out there—to have faith 
in.

So yes, My son, this is right in keeping with My lesson this evening.

On the necessity for effort and faith that God as the Supreme Being has 
built right into human reality, this you encounter and accept one small step 
at a time as you approach the Godhead.  Your life becomes a microcosm of 
His.  Without your effort this world of yours and those who depend on you, 
would also perish.

Student:  I do welcome the effort, but become cognizant at times I’m 
wondering: Can I live through this?  Hmmmmm…  Am I being true to myself?  
I’m being aware…of my own self-honesty…

NEBADONIA:  Yes.  Michael had a wonderful lesson last week—I don’t think 
you’ve read it yet—about the moral dimension in personality, an intrinsic 
ability to make these decisions, to have moral discrimination.  You own 
self-honesty informs you that it itself is not unlimited.  So you welcome 
feeling this living balance, and you gain faith through your successes in 
exercising it.  Pure effort grows in you as an ability, and makes you strong 
physically and mentally and spiritually.

Student:  I just had an image of digging for gold; and you come across 
little glimmers of it, and you revel in experiencing that success, then you 
keep digging and come across more and more and more…  It’s beyond words…

NEBADONIA:  I have to tell you, My son, the rocks in your way keep getting 
larger too.  (much laughter)  The lazy soul sees this as some kind a 
diabolical plot against him.  But you can handle the rocks as they get 
bigger.  As  you head out into the universe, the scope of your 
responsibilities does continue to grow too.

Student:  Then you realize you are not alone, as well—to get help with those 
rocks.

NEBADONIA:  To that we say amen!  (more laughter)  Thank You, Father!

Student:  Yes!--the larger the rock, the least effort it takes to move it.

NEBADONIA:  No…  (but said humorously…  with a further response of laughter) 
  It’s just that you build your capacity for effort.  (Yes)  There is still 
a very strict cause and effect operating here.  The effort is always 
proportionate to the task at hand.  You still can’t life ten pounds of rock 
with one pound of force.

Even when you take away the fear of pain or death; think of what Adam and 
Eve suffered--with the full knowledge they were immortal beings--on the 
spiritual plane, simply because of failing to fulfill their 
responsibilities.  Without the possibility of default you could not have the 
virtue of loyalty.  Without the possibility of failure you could not have 
the glory of triumph.  Without the incessant clamoring of the smaller self 
or ego for gratification you could not have the possibility of dedicating 
yourself to greater life and a higher truth.

Student:  This is what makes human beings unique?

(The trial by living)

NEBADONIA:  No, this is shared, My son, by all personal beings, I should say 
all experiential beings.  The purely existential beings of Paradise and the 
Central Universe of Havona are truly a different order of persons.  They 
have experiences, but they were created in perfection.  So they are just 
naturally brave; they don’t know the human triumph of courage.  They are 
naturally loyal; they know nothing of disloyalty or default.  So to answer 
your question, the trial by living is shared by all experiential beings out 
here in time and space.

As I said last time, we are all still shy of the Father’s perfection.  We 
are all striving for perfection.   Though we are all complete, each of us, 
moment by moment, we are not yet perfect.  We simply have the potential for 
it; which is another way of saying we are capable of growing--even as you 
are, even as He is.

True enough, once you get above a certain level, outright rebellion--or 
deliberately going against Michael’s and My plans, is unknown.  But there 
are still mistakes.  There is still a need to adjudicate decisions and 
behavior.  There are still discordant happenings between even high beings 
due to the mere size of the creation.  But these are hardly what I meant by 
the fact that the Supreme Being is growing—physically as the material 
universe, plus the number of personalities coming into existence, and then 
the accumulating experience of each individual.  Can you rest in My peace 
and love?

Student:  Yes, I can.  I just feel comforted in the enormity of this 
universe, this creation.  I don’t know why—I just do.  At the same time I’m 
not inconsequential.  My life has meaning.

NEBADONIA: It seems you have found a touch, at least, of Michael’s peace, 
and I know you do feel My love.  (Yes)

Well, it’s been a full evening.  Again.  How I do treasure being with you, 
My children.  I treasure feeling how you yourselves value this meeting with 
Me.

Student:  We treasure it too, Mother--Your presence, and Your lessons, and 
Your love.

NEBADONIA:  Let’s go forward sharing these lives of ours together.  I can 
feel you are stretching your understanding, trying to open your hearts to 
entertain the realization of what suffering there is in the world, opening 
your minds to what has been its causes and what might be its possible 
solutions.  You are even trying to look what might be a universal 
catastrophe square in the eye, and wonder what you can do about it.  You are 
reaching toward being all that is possible.  So carry on and persevere with 
My love.  I’m always here, with but a little thought and reflection, and 
prayer, within conscious contact.  Good evening.


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