[tmtranscripts] Nebadonia 2.5.07

[JERRY LANE]

Nebadonia—February 5, 2007

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

NEBADONIA—T/R-JL

(The origins of thought)
(Recognizing your Thought Adjuster)
(Evaluating psychic phenomena)
(Truth, philosophical simplicity, and spiritual unity)
(Cosmic responsibility)
(There is no once for all time)
(Inner, and ostensibly outer, reality)
(Home)

Dear Mother Spirit and Michael,  Thank you for your illuminating insights 
into the spiritual dimensions of our human reality.  These past few years 
we’ve learned how to set ourselves aside and trust completely in where you 
want to take us.  We know we can later read the transcripts and thoughtfully 
chew on the more meaty parts of your message, but for now, immediately, we 
just say: Take us away where you will.  Let us once again ride along on your 
spirit and your presence.  Amen.

NEBADONIA:  Good evening, my children, this is your spirit mother Nebadonia. 
  Well, you asked for it, so let’s go.  One of the purposes of our lessons 
and the reason that Michael and I have given such extended ones is to let 
you ride along in our presence and, if you will, just follow our train of 
thought and how we reason, how we think about things.  As you say it, you 
get a greater sense of where we’re coming from.

(The origins of thought)

All this should help you recognize within yourself the origin of your 
thoughts, especially when they come from spirit.  You can hear in your 
prayers to Michael and myself when we answer you directly.  Then too so many 
thoughts that form a large part of your day come from the spontaneity, the 
generosity of your own Thought Adjuster.  And so often these can be 
recognized by their transcendental appropriateness to the situation at hand, 
especially when you yourself have thought out something and feel yourself to 
be totally stumped for an answer.  They come with a kind of inner 
relaxation, a being still within yourself, calming your panicked grasping 
for a solution and allowing yourself to perceive your Father Fragment’s 
suggestions.  In a sense you just park here in inner space and wait for the 
conditions to be right for you to recognize the input.

You were talking earlier about remote viewing, and astral traveling, and 
other inner phenomena that mostly come from your Thought Adjuster.  I’m sure 
you would find it interesting to reread those several chapters in your 
Urantia book dealing specifically with Thought Adjusters--the Father 
Fragments, the Mystery Monitors whereby our Father not only makes contact 
from himself to you and supplies the wonderfully appropriately thoughts; 
it’s also the way you share your life experience with him.

Your Urantia book calls this the personality circuit of the Father, which is 
just another way of saying our Father experiences everything you 
do—almost--as you; but here is one of the major distinctions between the 
Urantia book and our version of human individuality, and what other 
religious/philosophical systems have postulated.  According to some of these 
systems of human thought and comprehension, you do not have quite the 
freedom from the Godhead that we proclaim you do.  In these systems you are 
really little nodules of God, and not quite as divorced or autonomous from 
him as we say you are.

Many of these religions do have an intuition of your Father Fragment, your 
Mystery Monitor, but give it ultimate reality over and above your 
personality-- which they see as, basically, more or less an illusion of the 
ego, of self-perception.   Whereas we say your personality is your 
fundamental, unique reality that God truly sets free, even to the point of 
your ability to extinguish yourself, to cease to exist as an ongoing 
autonomous entity.

Tonight I would like to point out that your Thought Adjuster, this presence 
of God in your mind, is such pure spirit--the purest gift of God’s own 
spirit to indwell you, it is very contra-distinct from what you know of as 
conscience. Conscience is no more than the internalized morality of your 
particular family, culture, and civilization.  This is why we say your 
Thought Adjuster, in its pure state, supersedes all ecclesiastical 
authority, all other human beings of whatever rank or position who may try 
to inculcate within you, or impose upon you, their notions of morality.

But we, like your Urantia book, do caution you that because of its pure 
state, it rarely reaches your consciousness directly.  Just like the spirit 
of your own personality, it gets filtered down through all the ability, or 
inability, of your individual mind, your experiential mind, to articulate 
what it says.  You can see this in a comprehensive study of the historical 
evolution of philosophy through all the more detailed writings, starting 
with the Egyptians, the Indian Vedas, the early Greek philosophy; in other 
words the oldest writings of the philosophical musings of the human race.  
These peoples also had their Thought Adjusters, their Mystery Monitors, 
their Father Fragments doing their best to illuminate their partners’ human 
minds and provide the spiritual connections for their human subjects’ 
comprehension of reality.  Yet the messages needed, for these people, as 
well as for yourselves, to come through a filter--primarily of language.  A 
Thought Adjuster’s input is not limited to thoughts, but the basic 
feeling/meanings of your Thought Adjuster’s impressions, as well as those 
from your own spirit, have to be articulated in some way for you to 
comprehend them in addition to the primal feelings themselves.

This, my children, points up the main purpose of stillness, of just relaxing 
your own comprehensive abilities.  For when you try to reason and ask a 
question of yourself in a certain context, it’s hard for an answer outside 
that context to make itself felt, yet that may be the solution to the 
current situation.  You have to credit you do have this fountain of God’s 
spirit within you, separate and discrete from your own personality, that can 
suggest ideas and concepts outside of any context you have yet experienced.  
If you cannot put some stop to the business of your own mind and how you are 
presently conceiving things, how can you be open to something beyond you, 
something really new from an origin apart from yourselves?  Yet isn’t this 
the most valuable thing you can be offered?  Isn’t this the most useful tool 
your personality can be presented with?

(Recognizing your Thought Adjuster)

Many of you have known this during sleep when you have already thought about 
a problem from all different angles and have wrestled with it for awhile.  
You have an expression of “sleeping on it.”  I know most of you have had 
dreams where you are wrestling with your waking problems—be they part of 
your family life or your job—and often this process works.  Shortly after 
awaking you have one of those “A-ha!” moments you illustrate in your 
cartoons with a light bulb going on over your head.  And there is the 
answer, sometimes completely outside the context in which you posed the 
problem.  These are very thrilling and exciting, marvelous events that stick 
in your memory for a long time.

But this is why spending some time very regularly in stillness meditation is 
so rewarding.  Like almost any other, I would say, art-form you need to 
learn--whether it’s picking up a guitar, or a brush and paint--you have to 
practice it awhile.  It’s an exercise of faith.  Because however much it 
makes sense as I’m saying it now, and you can understand what I’m saying, 
still to practice it does take faith just to hang yourself out there on the 
possibility, and hang in there until it starts to work.  It may take fifteen 
or twenty minutes before you suddenly realize, yes, things are slowing down 
and becoming still inside.   A very marvelous, pregnant-feeling vastness can 
come into your mind, very exciting and thrilling because it is profoundly 
alive.  Suddenly it can seem very large inside as you wait more and more 
perfectly suspended, waiting more confidently for those wonderful 
feeling-thoughts of spiritual assurance to come.

For they usually do come from outside the context in which you conceive the 
problem or the next step to take, outside the encompassing feeling in which 
you entered meditation.  This is God’s gift to you, my children.  This is a 
way in which your soul, once it begins to form, can have an active role to 
play in your life through its co-author.  Your soul had this potential of 
being not only a passive record—albeit a spiritual record—of your 
experiences, it can provide this creative direction to your life that is so 
much more than just a mental extrapolation of your current habits and 
routine ways of going about things.

So I invite you to think deeply about the nature of this presence of God 
within you.  Read those three chapters on Thought Adjusters again to remind 
yourselves what a marvelous gift they are, and how to go about using them.  
This is that other-power, that power of spirit whose origin is God himself, 
come to indwell your mind, come to be the closest and most precious ally of 
your own self-power, your own spiritual creativity.  Give it a chance.  
Entertain the possibility, and then carry out what it gives you with 
concrete actions.  Practice your stillness meditation.  Give yourself the 
chance to hear the voice of your Father Fragment.  You are experiential 
beings, my dear children: make this contact with your Father Fragment a real 
and highly conscious experience.  Add it to your soul.

If you have any questions or comments this evening, lets experience those.

Student:  Thank you for being here, Mother.  I was just wondering if there 
was any value in pursuing psychic phenomena such as astral traveling, and 
like that?  I went to a medical intuitive once and she told me things about 
myself that I hadn’t know if she could have known beforehand.  So I was 
wondering if that had any value to be pursued.

(Evaluating psychic phenomena)

NEBADONIA:  Yes, my son, this is quite a question, for as we have been 
teaching, value is of the spiritual realm.  The value assessments you make 
do come from your own spirit, and this spiritual value permeates into all 
parts of your being—your physical and mental being as well.  But here, as 
with other questions Michael and I have been asked about the reality of 
these psychic phenomena, we encourage you to be as open and truly scientific 
as you can be.  In other words, entertain all possibilities.  Don’t 
automatically rule anything out, whatsoever.  Let your curiosity be wild and 
far-ranging.  There is so much that is possible for you to experience and to 
evaluate, we would not deny you any opportunity like this.

But as we have also said, my son, the final evaluation is yours alone to 
make.  And so we suggest you treat all phenomena equally—initially—whatever 
the source, whether you read about it in some science textbook, or in your 
Urantia book, your holy works like the Bible, or the Cabala, the Koran, the 
Upanishads. the Tao Te Ching.  Some psychic phenomena such as 
astral-travelling where you experience leaving your body and roaming around 
the solar system awhile, or what you may feel is valid remote-viewing, or in 
your case, receiving a kind of psychic diagnosis of your condition; see if 
you can treat these all alike.

For it builds your self-confidence to entertain all possibilities, and it 
definitely feeds your soul when you can start to see a lot of parallels 
between all these separate and rather discrete, often superficially 
conflicting, systems of concepts and understanding.  For this is how you 
build up your own unique philosophy of life, your own evaluation of what is 
real and what is not, your own understanding of how different systems of 
thought may be expressing the same basic reality only in different 
languages, pointing at an ever broader and more universal and fundamental 
ground that is simply the part of your human experience you can share.  
Recognize that the value you derive from your explorations can be somewhat 
independent from the sources, and in this you will be following in the 
footsteps of Jesus—Michael during his human life—when he valued the 
intrinsic meaning of things, regardless of their source.  So yes, by all 
means, explore these fascinating and potentially meaningful experiences.  
But subject them all to the same scrutiny, the same proof—if you will.  Then 
you will discover the value they have for you.  Does this answer your 
question?

Student:  Yes it does, Mother, and it puts a different light on the ideas I 
was forming in my mind.  It’s a very clear answer. Thank you.

(Truth, philosophical simplicity, and spiritual unity)

NEBADONIA:  Yes; because of your discussions before the lesson tonight, I 
went deeper into the nature of your Thought Adjusters and other spiritual 
origins, and how different cultures, at different times—different stages of 
civilization, have expressed very similar truths simply in different 
languages and philosophies.  One of the most profound and necessary 
intellectual challenges before you is to find those singular threads running 
through everything you read and experience, for they can only be found by 
being open to everything.  Keep in mind that true philosophical 
simplicity—finding these universal truths running through everything, is the 
exact opposite from what you mean by being simple-minded, or a 
fundamentalist, and settling for one small thing by excluding and denying 
everything else.  True spiritual unity is a noble ideal and goal to pursue 
in your philosophy.  So carry on in my love.  (Thank you, Mother)

Student:  Yes, Mother, a few weeks back someone asked a question about 
Martin Luther King, and you or Michael commented that the path he chose was 
his own.  Now I wonder why people like Gandhi, or Mother Teresa, or people 
who start great organizations and churches and such, why they have stepped 
up to the plate and, because of their convictions, have altered history, 
when so many of us—including myself—have not?  I mean, what was or is within 
them that propels them to take these kinds of actions that alter history, 
while so many of us don’t?

(Cosmic responsibility)

NEBADONIA (laughing a little):  Now that’s a very complex question, my son.  
There is no simple answer because it points right at the unfathomable 
individuality that you all have, and the fact that, from a spiritual 
standpoint—not only God’s, and Michael’s, and my own—but even one you 
yourselves are capable of—personalities cannot validly be compared with each 
other.  My own feeling is, the most important aspect of those personalities 
you speak of is a sense of what we call cosmic responsibility, or cosmic 
duty.

This is often expressed as: from those to whom much is given, will much be 
required.  There is a movement of inner courage in which these individuals 
allow themselves to feel the full weight of that.  And so they feel that 
their own inner vision and comprehension of what needs to be done, what can 
be done--being unique to themselves--is such a gift, they have a 
responsibility to carry it out.  This is a sense of almost cosmic 
citizenship, and goes so deep and so broad, it transcends their immediate 
situation; which is why so many have expressed it as feeling they’re part of 
the movement of planetary evolution itself.  They feel they are moving 
things along one more step congruent with the true progress of humanity.  As 
Michael pointed out with respect to Martin Luther King, and I’ll point out 
with respect to the others you mentioned, this was a constant leapfrogging 
of faith—by which they could extend themselves, and then being open to all 
the feedback they got from the world--and allowing that also to affect them. 
  The result made them effective, and not just wild-eyed dreamers walking 
around a foot off the ground.

So it was a combination of the ideals they could visualize connected with a 
inner ability to accept what feedback they got by exercising their 
faith--accepting that real experience and learning from it--growing.  So 
when you look at their careers there was this constant growth, this refusal 
to stop along the line, that carried them to the end of their days--however 
long or short.  Their commitment was constantly re-invigorated, constantly 
re-dedicated.

Again, these are just generalizations on what you requested as to their 
ability to do what they did.  We also remind you, my son, that you can do 
this day to day in your own life with the people you meet.  And you are 
doing it; you are hanging yourself out there on the faith to try our, and 
other, suggestions that appeal to your sense of values.  And taking your 
knocks; making your mistakes; accepting your so-called failures; trying to 
learn from them as well as from your glorious successes.  You take it all in 
and remain cheerful throughout.

Student:  Yes, I sometime wonder how this whole planet would be different if 
we didn’t have the Gandhi’s and the Martin Luther Kings, if John F. Kennedy 
hadn’t been assassinated?  I’m sure if Martin Luther King were here he would 
say he had no other choice, because of his convictions, and because of the 
injustices he saw.  The same with Gandhi, or Nelson Mandela.

(There is no once for all time)

NEBADONIA:  My son, here I am not in disagreement, but realize that part of 
their courage lay in the fact they were constantly presented with choices, 
and using their ability to compromise when it was in the best interests of 
their vision’s results.  In this sense it was a continuous effort.  There is 
no just stepping off once and not having to make that decision and 
commitment over and over and over again, day by day.  This points up their 
humanness, their being plagued, as with every conscientious human being, 
with doubt, with laziness, with a sense of enough is enough: all these went 
into the mix.  So that choice had to be made; and for you too has to be 
made, day by day through all the ups and downs of this roller-coaster you 
find yourselves on.  For there is in many folks’ philosophy a single 
breaking point—whether you call it Satori, or Enlightenment, or 
Samyak-Sambodhi (sp?)—a notion there is one great experience that will carry 
you the rest of your life.  Let me suggest that that great experience is the 
realization there is no such great experience. (Mother laughs, and is 
accompanied)

Student:  Or that we’re living it!

NEBADONIA:  This is the deep realization that the commitment must be made 
over and over again.  But in this there is hope, for mistakes can be made 
and yet not crush or stop you.  You can keep your beginner’s mind and start 
over again—over and over.

Student:  I guess I’m always—as you were expressing to (Name)—determining my 
values in my circle.  I am guilty of comparing myself, not necessarily to 
Martin Luther King, but I see so many people putting themselves out there, 
taking that step of courage, and I don’t know what their motivation 
is--behind that--if it’s of any good.  So I wonder if I’m personally holding 
myself back from experiencing or performing greater works.  Maybe only time 
will tell.

NEBADONIA:  This you can have very much in common with them.  Because with 
all their successes, the great leaders have also had the humility to see the 
enormity of the task ever before them.  They often had their moments of 
doubt and feeling very small indeed, comparing themselves to what they could 
see needed doing.  A few weeks ago I answered a person who felt she was 
constantly in doubt as to her own value in helping others, and we reminded 
her this was just her way of trying to open herself; and it may be your way 
too, my son.  This is your way of trying to keep yourself open to what you 
might do, and as such, is very healthy.  Just practice your stillness and 
return often to the home base of spiritual security within you, for this is 
what gives origin to the courage to exercise your faith once again.  And 
experiment! (laughing) You never know until you try.

Student:  Thank you for that.  I guess I just desire to live as God intended 
me to live—as every human was intended to live, from that primordial 
reality, that primal awareness.  As you just mentioned to (Name), be open to 
the vast array of possibilities that exist within each and every one of us.  
I guess that’s my choice, and purpose.

NEBADONIA:  Yes, we see you as very young and immature beings just starting 
out on an eternal path, and so we encourage you to be open to everything you 
encounter or can imagine.  At this very early stage, don’t close the doors 
on anything.  For what to one person might be some kind of silly physic 
phenomena, and validly so in their life, can be for another person the voice 
of their Thought Adjuster, the presence of God in their mind, coming in 
through this route--expressing its truth in this symbolical way.  So by all 
means stay open and wondering, and yet wise, using all your experience to 
evaluate, as you need to, what is real and what is not.

Student:  My only trepidation about all that phenomena, and what I see in 
the world, is that when someone experiences that, let’s say remote-viewing, 
their whole life becomes wrapped up in that.  They seem to forget the source 
of that.  For me, I feel like I want to dive into the source, and allow 
everything to find its own place.

(Inner, and ostensibly outer, reality)

NEBADONIA:  Well, most of these psychic phenomena are intrinsically 
interesting because your overt society, with its 
empirical/science-correctness culture, denies their reality.  But now you 
can see the balance between inner and outer realization, between self- and 
other-power I taught in a previous lesson.  Here it can be a balance between 
your own inner sense of meaning and validity in whatever phenomena you 
experience--this inner reality, as contrasted to what your outer mass 
culture admits as real—keeping in mind that every individual out there is 
unique and has their own unique balance.  Any expression of what is commonly 
considered to be real is itself a galloping generalization, for this varies 
enormously from one person to the next, and on different levels in each.

So enjoy your explorations.  Keep your beginners’ minds, your willingness to 
stumble and fall, and pick yourselves up and start again.  This is what 
truly fills your souls, these genuine adventures into the nature of God’s 
reality.

(Home)

And so we keep opening doors.  Like with your delightful computers, every 
time you open a door and walk into a new room, you see another dozen 
doors—endlessly, endlessly.  This prospect terrified some the earlier 
philosophers, this theme of no end…(Mother chuckles)…to anything.  But then 
that is the promise of endless life, and the feeling/vision of an 
encompassing that is not only eternal but infinite.  We call it home.  And 
we welcome you to feel it this way as well.  Be in my love.  Good evening.


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