[tmtranscripts] LightLine Teleconference 3-23-06

[Kelly O'Hara]

LightLine Teleconference March 23, 2006

Teacher: Michael

Transmitter: Jerry Lane

Subject: Joy of Living

Jerry: Dear Michael and Mother Spirit, come be with us, or rather since 
you are actually and really and truly here all the time, help us be 
aware of your presence. Help us in our moments of stillness to be aware 
of you and our Holy Father right within us. Bless our efforts to contact 
you all through our busy days, just to stop from time to time, and from 
the depths of our hearts say “Thank you.” Amen.

Michael: Good evening everybody. This is Michael. I certainly do welcome 
you this Thursday evening here on Urantia. As you know, if you have been 
reading these transmissions, it is quite a delight for Mother Spirit and 
I to be able to contact you this way. We can feel within you what a 
treasure it is you to be able to talk with us so directly. But we always 
remind you that you can talk to us any time, any time at all.

Clear your mind for a few moments. Take a deep breath. Just feel this 
glorious, glorious time you have of being alive. Say hello. It doesn’t 
even have to be formal. You can say, “Hi, Dad. Hello, Mom. Thank you so 
much for this life.” And then feel if you can, my children, how we thank 
you for this recognition, for this appreciation. For we are able to live 
through you; our joy is in yours. Your pain is ours too. And when we can 
feel each other, you can be aware of us experiencing your life with our 
mutual Father. What joy this is.

I would like to be this main message tonight, is the almost 
inexpressible joy I had as a human being. Your beloved Urantia book says 
that you should not think of me as a man of sorrows. But tonight I would 
like to put it much more emphatically and positively than that, and just 
tell you this enormous joy, not only I but all my followers had. 
Excitement at times, with all the troubles and tribulations we went 
through, but enthusiasm, the feeling that we were discerning the 
Father’s will and being able to follow it. This joy was so great that we 
shared that this is truly what enabled my followers in those trials they 
had to go through themselves. This is what sustained them, not some of 
the more profound truths, in a philosophical or even psychological 
sense, but the joy we were able to share, the good times we had, the 
effect we could see we were having on the folks around us, and then 
their delight too, coming back to us. I don’t know that this was ever 
fully captured or conveyed in the Bible or even The Urantia Book, so I 
want you to know it right here and now. What a delight! What joy we 
shared during those days, walking those roads, meeting the people.

Now this is something you too can try to appreciate within your own 
lives, the joy that finding God’s will, the delight this can bring to 
your hearts, the assurance it can bring to your minds and to your 
spirits that there is a soul developing within you capturing all this. 
So everything of spiritual significance like this that you discover and 
share with your fellows, this is forever. These moments are what you 
will most treasure throughout eternity, is what you can share and give 
to each other. All these material things surrounding you have their own 
delight, their own uniqueness and kind of a projected soul, if you will. 
All those familiar, beloved little things you have. But what you will 
remember most, what forms the greater part of your soul, are these folks 
around you, are your dear friends, your family. This we would have you 
appreciate. This we would have you give value, for this is the dimension 
of spirit that really knows no bounds.

And what a blessing it is when you can see those around you as what 
we’ve kind of coined a phrase as “little walking infinities.” To realize 
the amount of soul that is behind those eyes that look back into yours, 
this is your discovery, this is the greater reality there, these are 
God’s greatest creations. And then some day, of course, you will look 
around in not too mild surprise to see that there are other personal 
beings beyond number, almost beyond kind and type for you to discover.

So this I would ask you to remember of this evening, my children, to 
appreciate the sheer joy of discovery, of sharing, of this divine spark 
that you encounter every day of your lives. Treasure it, hold it dear to 
your hearts. And when you have a time, just say, “Thanks, Dad. Thanks, 
Mom. We appreciate the gift of our Father to all of us.”

Now there is quite a gang here this evening, so if you have any 
questions or comments, we can share those too.

R: Thanks, Dad. Thanks, Mom. And I love you. And I really appreciate 
hearing that enthusiasm and joy are the whole reason for doing things, 
although some times for me its hard to remember that when I get bogged 
down in the emotions of things and I try to remember that you’re there 
uplifting me. So I thank you so much for that.

Michael: Well, you are very welcome, my daughter. The pain, the sorrow, 
the fear of life are all very real too. This is what is part of God’s 
plan. This is the reality of being human, and not to be in any way 
belittled or just sloughed off or develop a cavalier attitude towards, 
especially as you recognize these in others – the pain and the fear that 
they know and you may help alleviate by sharing with them, by accepting, 
by reaching out a hand to make that human contact. These too are real. 
And so its so important to appreciate when everything tips in its living 
moment to moment way, and we can recognize the larger encompassing of 
life itself. We find joy in this absolute, just pure existence that God 
has given us, and open our hearts to all that life has. So I thank you, 
my daughter. Be in my peace.

K: Michael, this is your son, K. I have been reading a bit lately in 
Conversations with God and some other places about the idea of conscious 
creation – how you created us with this power to create our own reality, 
that we can do as creators or co-creators. I wonder if you would care to 
expand a bit upon the idea of our powers of creation, how that works for 
us individually creating our own visions, our own goals, and also 
perhaps collectively, how we work together to create our vision of light 
and life.

Michael: Well yes, my son, you know if you’ve been reading the 
transmissions how Mother and I have come at this question of the 
intrinsic creativity of your personality. This is, if you will, the 
spiritual aspect of your personality. We have even gone so far as to 
coin this phrase that you are “little nodules of God” out here in time 
and space, creating with Him your own personal universe as you perceive 
it, how this is very much a part of what you psychologically know as 
projection – the fact that what you perceive as exterior to yourself is 
so much shaped by your own perception of it, your own values.

So this is always happening, this is a part of your personality. To 
understand this is to become more conscious of it. So the move from 
unconscious to conscious creativity is necessary for you to have some 
conscious control of the process. And most critical for an advancing 
civilization, both on an individual and collective level is to begin to 
take responsibility for your own creation, to recognize that what you 
see out there in others, this is to a large degree equally dependent 
upon you yourself, that as you change the way you look at things through 
this understanding, through this taking responsibility, these things 
themselves, whether they be objects or people, are capable of changing. 
This is the most important reason you strive to understand and move from 
an unconscious reaction, always behind the eight ball, as you say, never 
quite catching up, never quite becoming here and now, but always lagging 
behind. It is necessary to bring these processes into your consciousness 
to where then you can choose, you can have some choice as to where you 
will devote your precious will.

I just told a fellow the other day that this creation comes from within 
you, its part of your intrinsic nature. So you need not wait for some 
other signal outside of yourself, what you call inspiration, to create. 
You simply have to step off, be ever more aware, strive to be aware of 
what all you are doing to yourself, with yourself, with others. This is 
what we mean by making your creativity more conscious. Then this is the 
glory and the reward of doing so. Does that help you my son?

K: Yes, thank you very much.

Michael: You are very welcome. Be in my peace.

M: Dear Papa, this is M. I would like to ask you a question about your 
human technique of reading the other personality when you used to meet 
them. I’ve heard in different transmissions and I’ve read that the way 
to understand and the way to read some other person’s soul is to look 
through into their eyes and really listen. I’d like you to please expand 
on that a little bit, and also the fact that when I try and see someone 
into their eyes I’m not quite sure how do that. If I try and focus onto 
both of their eyes, that just doesn’t seem to happen for me. At least if 
I try and focus on one of the eyes, that doesn’t seem very natural. So 
I’m just a little bit confused if I’m missing something obvious, or is 
there something that I have to grow to learn?

Michael: Well yes, M, you have to back up, you have to kind of compose 
yourself before the moment. So let me explain. The degree to which you 
are able to be open and take in another person depends on an inner 
quality of we could call it self-confidence, or a kind of feeling of 
your actuality, the fact that in being confident on a very deep, 
existential level that you are there, that you are not going to go away 
if you practice what we call the spiritual discipline and blessing of 
self-forgetfulness.

And this is essential in order for you to be able to let yourself go, 
and in this eye to eye confrontation, this meeting with another person, 
you more or less unfocus yourself. You don’t in any way try to you say 
look from one eye to the other or look through them. Its more or less a 
kind of unfocusing your attention so that you take in the whole person, 
and this is hard to explain. You just have to practice it, because it 
does not mean an unfocusing really visually. You can see this person 
clearly, but you are so relaxed inside, so self-confident, so able to 
let yourself go, you can then take them in. There is, if you will, room 
for them.

You’re most of aware of relinquishing your own ideas in conversation. 
Instead of thinking of what you are going to say next, or try to carry 
and maintain your own train of thought, I think you can see now how you 
have to let this go in order to really hear what they are saying. And 
I’m sure you’ve all had occasions where no matter how you tried to 
express something to another person, you can tell they were just 
thinking of the next thing they wanted to say. They weren’t really 
deeply interested or perhaps even capable of hearing what you had to say.

So this is what we’ve been giving so many lessons on openness, how to be 
open. And it requires this self-confidence, this self-assurance that if 
you let go of yourself, you really see the person, take them in, hear 
what they are saying. Just trust that you yourself will pop up again and 
be able to respond even more adequately. And this is what gets to the 
really lively conversation back and forth, because that is something 
transcended to both of you, a kind of oversoul, if you will, it lets 
that come into play. And then it gets really lively. Then it gets really 
rewarding, because neither of you then know exactly what is going to 
happen next. Does that help you, my son?

M: Yes, everything rings very nicely. Thank you so much.

Michael: It would take a bit of practice. This ability to maintain an 
equanimity within yourself, to walk down a busy sidewalk and meet the 
eyes of those coming towards you and beam love towards them. Just kind 
of extend yourself towards them, your good wishes toward them, but then 
accept with total equanimity however they react. You will meet some who 
will be happy to see you, others might be glaring back at you, or “what 
do you mean by looking at me?” Others will totally ignore you. But to be 
able just to welcome whatever comes to you with this inner equanimity, 
this is what you slowly get only by practice. So good luck in the 
endeavor. I think you will find it very rewarding. Be in my peace.

M: Thank you.

R: I’ve been practicing realizing that the person has our Father’s 
presence within them, and the Father within me, and so really there is 
four persons there, and if three of us are thinking about the fourth 
person who I am looking at, there is plenty of room for conversation 
between somebody, even though I am not saying anything. So maybe the 
Adjusters are speaking with each other, or something. But we’re a group, 
and we’re for that moment together, and anything can happen.

Michael: I think you’re hitting on a very profound truth here, my 
daughter, and this is glorious that you connect experiences and feel 
this. For true enough, your Adjusters are in contact, in communication, 
although it is not quite what you think of as talking back and forth, 
but you can be aware of this, and this is where, as M was asking, 
sometimes you have these intimations from within yourself, deep 
intimations and feelings that most adequately tell you about this other 
person. Because if your reactions are not coming from a self-centered 
need to justify yourself, or even to express yourself, if you truly let 
yourself go and be like a sponge in those moments, your own inner 
feelings then can tell you much about this other person’s soul. And it 
is truly coming from an Adjuster to Adjuster contact. And then this, in 
a very complex but very instantaneous way, can inform your perceptions 
as to why this person is as they are. So your intuitions and your 
intimations, my daughter, are very correct. And isn’t it wonderful when 
this happens?

R: Yes, and it is practice. It happened once when I was driving down the 
street, and I just happened to look at the other drivers, and I thought, 
“they are gone, but there they are, they are still somewhere”, and 
walking through crowded streets and knowing that everyone is 
accompanying, we are all around together. And some of us aren’t talking, 
and some of us are, and we all can be listening to each other.

Michael: Well, congratulations my daughter, you are just touching on the 
Morontia level now. You are having some little intimation, a little 
preview of what is going to happen over on the other side where this is 
just so much more obvious. Also there comes into play the recognition in 
this other person that you recognize them, this leads to a very tight, 
high arcing, glorious spiral where you are suddenly realizing that you 
are responding so well to each other. This is lovely because this is 
love, this sharing those moments with someone else.

R: Can you speak, Father-Brother, to the reality of our participation, 
or our encircuitment with our Planetary Supreme Urantia, and in these 
same kind of moments where we are in groups, we are part of the swirling 
progress and the co-creation of the directions, the realities that we 
want to see, we’re these nodules of the Father, and also Urantia’s 
co-creators, co-conspirators, and how there is the feeling of the 
individual contact with someone and their Adjuster and our Adjuster, but 
there is also being in the presence, or trying to be in consciousness of 
our whole planetary creation, our whole planetary society that we 
contribute to by our actions. Could you speak to that?

Michael: Well, my daughter, this is just further dimension of spirit, it 
you will. And it is not impossible, but from a human standpoint you can 
only conceive of the spiritual, the levels, if you will, of spirit such 
as the Supreme Being, or even the Planetary Supreme, as being rather 
undifferentiated from your viewpoint. They impinge upon you as just 
spirit, which is why again we have given lessons that, true enough, all 
spirit is personal, all spirit emanates, is focused if you will, in some 
kind of spiritual being. But when you get to the Planetary Supreme, the 
spiritual counterpart of the experience of humanity itself, you have to 
keep in mind that as the Supreme Being is the spiritual record of the 
entire universe of space and time, all the personal beings within it, so 
on a much smaller level, but equally profound, a Planetary Supreme 
relates in a sense to the whole. That is it’s nature. That is, if you 
will, her nature. This is something you can tap into, but this does not 
respond to you in quite the same way as a more personalized entity such 
as myself or Mother Spirit, or right within you the presence of our 
Father. It is a culminating or a summation of an entire planet’s people, 
and so it is not quite responsive in the same way. It is more something 
you can tune into and try to feel, but from the standpoint of a single 
human being it is truly gigantic, is it not.

R: Yes, it is, and the joy you speak of in the individual apprehension 
of knowing that Father is within us and helping us to co-create out 
here, is this joy is somehow when I look at the whole of humanity at 
this moment, and then this next moment, I mean I know I don’t know them, 
I don’t see them, I don’t feel them, but I know that just my being aware 
that we are doing what we can or want to or will to do at each moment, 
that excitement and drive and desire in each one of us to move forward 
moment by moment is a joyful thing to participate. But not, you’re 
right, in any kind of personal way, knowing a person, but knowing that 
we are moving toward the future.

Michael: Well, this is that hunger for perfection that you are also 
endowed with, and this is very much a part of the spirit of the Father 
within you that makes those connections, suggests that next step, 
especially when you yourself cannot. Because you yourself are creative, 
you yourself can discern what is best for you and, in a sense, humanity. 
Where does this whole planet need to go next? Which is part of the 
reason that The Urantia Book spells out as it does all of the stages of 
general planetary evolution. This is to give you some notion of what 
needs to happen next on a planetary scale, and then see if you can 
incorporate it into your own value system.

Keep in mind that a large part of what Mother and I have been trying to 
express to you is our view of you and the enormity of just your own 
individual soul. how much greater this is than you are capable of 
realizing at your present stage of development, just a human being. And 
how you almost have to wait for the next phase of your lives to have 
this become more conscious and available to you. And just grant that 
this is there, that this is capturing all these thousands and thousands 
of hours that you have already lived. They still exist in a way that is 
your true possession. This is just your own single individual soul. So 
equally, some time in the future, my daughter, you will have this 
greater ability to comprehend and enjoy the planetary soul as well.

R: It is a good thought.

Michael: Yes, it is something we tease you with.

R: Good parents.

Michael: Be in my peace. I hesitate to disturb the stillness to ask if 
there are any other questions or comments this evening? They are 
certainly not necessary.

So my children, can you feel this living expansiveness? This is our 
practice, this just being aware of life itself. Just being sponges. Just 
being open to whatever it suggests itself. And there is not limit to 
this either. This is a kind of resting, a kind of feeling the energy as 
it flows through. It’s a little bit like floating in a living stream, 
yet somehow we are not swept downstream. There is something holding us 
in place while we feel the stream of life just flowing through us. So 
that where we feel this flowing of life, the more still we become. The 
more it expands outward. The greater pregnant silence and stillness and 
completeness that will give birth soon enough to the rest of our lives. 
And so Mother and I enjoy sharing this with you, for it puts us 
together, in touch with our Father. And He delights too when we just 
say, “Hello.” And just become aware of his unfathomable gifts, all that 
eternity that lays before us, capable of being fulfilled.

R: I ask, Dad and Mom, that your will here on the planet be done through 
me every day in the people that I meet and the work that I do.

Michael: Amen to that, my daughter. Let it be so.

R: Let it be so.

Michael: So I bid you a joyous and happy good evening, my dear children, 
my dear friends. Thank you for bringing me into your life. Thank you for 
giving me reality in your souls, your wishes. Be in my peace. Good evening.

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