[tmtranscripts] Nebadonia 10.22.07

[Thea Hardy]

Dear Jerry,

Please take care of yourself! We will be sending prayers and best  
wishes for your speedy recovery, not just so we can get  
transcripts! :-) Just keep on going and things will work out somehow.  
You are loved and appreciated.

Thea

On Nov 9, 2007, at 10:25 AM, JERRY LANE wrote:

> Dear Folks,    Rats!  I'd already lost my help transcribing and had  
> fallen behind in getting our Monday night meetings out to you, and  
> now I seem to have broken my left arm and the cast will not let me  
> use my left hand for typing for another three or four weeks.  So I  
> think it best to send out what I've transcribed to date.  I'll start  
> one-handed on Michael--10.29.07 and send out his direct lesson  
> before I do any more of the questions-and-answers parts of the  
> meetings.  We'll continue our meetings and I'm sure the complete  
> transcriptions will catch up sooner or later.  Thanks for your  
> patience and understanding, and your gracious feedback that really  
> adds to the joy of this whole enterprise.  Take care, Jerry.
>
> Nebadonia—October 22, 2007
>
> Marin TM Group—Mill Valley, California—U.S.A.
>
> NEBADONIA—T/R—JL
>
> (Positive conditioning)
> (Objective and subjective history)
> (Overcoming denial)
> (The challenges of catastrophe)
>
> Dear Mother Spirit and Michael:  We are really tickled with your  
> cheerful and helpful messages on our God-given potential for growing  
> into a more free-willed life by taking responsibility for it.   
> Perhaps our negative feelings about responsibility come from the  
> fact that for so many of us the earliest presentations were always  
> coupled with a rather dogmatic indoctrination of traditional,  
> unexamined mores we felt it our duty as adolescents to rebel  
> against.  Yet we came to realize in time that our earliest  
> techniques of indifference and superficial, knee-jerk rebellion did  
> not create any good alternatives.  We appreciate your pointing out  
> it is only by way of our spiritual creativity that we become aware  
> of the full extent of this conditioning and are able to replace it  
> with something better; and this is the true duty of each new  
> generation.  And so we thank you very much.  Amen
>
> NEBADONIA:  Good evening, this is Nebadonia.  Well then: to continue  
> in this saga, your human adventure into consciousness.  For this is  
> the critical, operative word, my children, I would like to introduce  
> right off this evening. We’ve talked about the necessity to bring  
> your conditioning into consciousness so you can make free-willed  
> decisions as to what you will honor and what you will discard.
>
> (Positive conditioning)
>
> I would like to balance the scales a bit and point out all the  
> positive conditioning that is part of your day to day life. This is  
> what you normally call abilities.  These too you began to learn  
> right from the cradle—so to speak.  You absorbed them like a living  
> little sponge from your parents and siblings in your first few years  
> of life, not only the basic motor skills of crawling and standing  
> and walking, and the instinctual verbal skills of hearing and then  
> responding to the words around you, but even facial expressions and  
> body language--all this minute physical behavior.  It includes  
> attitudes, or how you consider and relate to all the thousand and  
> one small facets of your daily life.  This is all conditioning,  
> along with all the skills, all the abilities you had to learn just  
> to keep uninjured and alive in a very technically advanced  
> mechanical society full of sharp objects, dangerous chemicals,  
> fearful heights, extraordinary velocities and energies.  You can  
> consider all this as positive conditioning, all these skills and  
> abilities you use unconsciously but which form your real functional  
> wealth, they contribute so much to your success in accomplishing  
> what your free will decides to do.
>
> Ironically, it is good to be positively aware of and consider all  
> the negative conditioning you’ve seen through and outgrown yourself,  
> just in terms of social recognition—to recognize and forgive many of  
> the unintended and unconscious immature habits of your fellows.  It  
> can even be a spiritual grace to go about your society a bit thick- 
> skinned and not take offence with these unintended insults from  
> those who bruise your delicate feelings without meaning to.
>
> I said the operative word is consciousness, to be able to bring all  
> your conditioning into consciousness so you can decide now, as an  
> adult—in order to be an adult, which of these you are going to  
> continue using.  Equally important is deciding which behaviors you  
> are going to pass on to your children.  What are you going to teach  
> them by example and how are you going to help them achieve their own  
> inner freedom of choice, their own independence of spirit, their own  
> uniqueness of personality?
>
> Consider your cultural conditioning in this larger context where you  
> can be appreciative of the positive skills and abilities you've  
> inherited from thousands and thousands of years of human  
> experimentation.  This is the true history of civilization for you  
> are not born with any of this.  Each generation must appropriate for  
> itself all that has gone before it. There is no avoiding the fact  
> each successive generation will interpret history somewhat  
> differently as they too need to make their own conscious decisions  
> in the light of an ongoing evolution as to what is still, and what  
> is no longer important  This is often decried as revisionism, but to  
> a large degree it is inevitable.  You are experiential beings and  
> each new generation can only interpret the past by way of its own  
> day to day experience.
>
> This is not a bad thing for at the same time you are enormously  
> expanding your print and electronic media and gaining a much broader  
> and deeper, infinitely more detailed grasp of history than was ever  
> available before.  Your modern societies are so wealthy they can  
> devote untold billions of dollars toward archeology and other pure  
> sciences aimed at penetrating the past and then cross-referencing  
> and comparing it all.  Your modern DNA analysis allows you to trace  
> a majority of the world’s populations and their travels and  
> intermingling far back into time.  You’ve mapped nearly the entire  
> surface of planet and its ocean depths, and your telescopes are  
> peering far out into space and back into time on a cosmic scale.  So  
> of course you will reinterpret human history, even geological time,  
> in the light of these new discoveries.
>
> (Objective and subjective history)
>
> It is somewhat sadly inevitable too that the subjective,  
> experiential life of each generation is for that very reason wrapped  
> up in itself and lost to the succeeding ones.  Even as you get a  
> broader overview of what it was like to live, say, in ancient Rome,  
> the true historian realizes how little he or she can enter their day  
> to day minds that experienced reality so differently.  But you are  
> trying to.  Now you have genuinely respectful anthropologists  
> spending their time just observing some of the most primitive  
> remaining tribes of earth and not rushing in like eighteenth or  
> nineteenth century missionaries to convert native cultures without  
> any real grasp of what they were confronting.  And so they are able  
> to capture now, before it is lost, a real depth of what primitive  
> mentality is all about, and discovering that every stage of human  
> existence was, and is, both complete and transcendent.  Every true  
> human from Andon and Fonta--one million years ago, on down to  
> yourselves, has been endowed with spiritual potential just in being  
> one of God’s children.
>
> And so fear not, my children, this conditioning we’ve been  
> cautioning you to be aware of.   Embrace it.  Understand it. Enjoy  
> it.  Reach out, or should I say, reach in within yourselves to be  
> aware of it.  As Michael said last week, go forward to embrace all  
> that you are, for this implies there is a forward.   There is a  
> growth, an evolution possible.  This is God’s will abroad in the  
> cosmos, and in each individual.  All of life has this potential of  
> growth, collectively and individually. You can thrill to be a  
> conscious part of it.
>
> My message this evening is rather short.  I just wanted to review  
> the central notion of your potential, and I sincerely hope you can  
> get a greater feeling of it and not be afraid of it, even if it is  
> tied to uncertainty.  As we’ve pointed out, accepting potential,  
> accepting your need to grow into your free will estate is part and  
> parcel of realizing how much of the future is unfixed and only  
> possible, not assured, but depending upon your decisiveness.  It  
> means you have a part to play in realizing your inner uniqueness.   
> It requires the courage to stand alone, within, and grow your  
> response-ability.
>
> (Overcoming denial)
>
> There is such a human psychological phenomena as denial, where it  
> seems, contradictorily enough, the mind chooses not to be aware of  
> some disturbing facts it holds in total, but keeps them  
> unconscious.  The question is: how do you become aware of what you  
> are hiding from yourself, especially if it seems to be more  
> comfortable to remain blissfully unaware?  This is the necessity for  
> welcoming responsibility, seeing with maturity the need to respond  
> to what is happening all about and within you.  It is what enables  
> you to grow to meet what is really happening.  This is the  
> understanding, the wisdom that this orientation toward reality is  
> the only way to a better life, however momentarily uncomfortable.   
> Graciously enough: it works!  There is always a way forward.  There  
> is indeed a “forward” to seek and find, to use and enjoy.  We call  
> it God’s will for you, my children.  This is the love our Universal  
> Father pours out upon all His creation, that such a glorious reality  
> is possible.  We invite you to discover it, and then lean in that  
> direction..
>
> If you have any questions or comments this evening, let’s just feel  
> our way along.
>
> Student: Yes, Mother, we are at times confronted with situations  
> where our conditioning is kind-of uprooted, like inSouthern  
> California with the wildfires where thousands have to leave their  
> homes and stay in shelters: same with hurricane Katrina, where whole  
> sections of New Orleans were destroyed.  So many people had their  
> whole lives taken away and had to find new homes, new jobs, maybe  
> far away.  It takes a strong person to start anew and not fall back  
> into old ways.  Even with the birth of a child, like my  
> granddaughter, we need to live differently and maybe break away from  
> familiar patterns to live with this new person.
>
> With moving forward and experiencing our potential…  That word—I’m  
> pondering what that is, because from what I see, I see very few  
> people living their potential.  I know for myself there’s so much  
> I’m barely even accepting about my potential.  In a way we’re even  
> afraid of what that looks like.  So…
>
> (The challenges of catastrophe)
>
> NEBADONIA:  Yes indeed, my son, this is why we consider it a supreme  
> spiritual achievement when, confronted with a catastrophe like  
> loosing your home to fire or flood, you are able to use the terrible  
> experience positively to start anew in a way that is an improvement  
> over how you—personally--were before.  As you know from experience,  
> many do, and yet many are not able to.  It brings both to the  
> greater underlying bedrock of their physical, mental, and spiritual  
> health day to day.  The human animal is so marvelously adaptable you  
> can indulge in some unhealthy ways of living in all these three  
> dimensions of life for quite a while before you—as you say—hit  
> bottom, or a catastrophe happens, and you are forced to survive, or  
> not, in difficult circumstances.  We once pointed out your very  
> success leads you to your greatest challenge of all—to keep going  
> forward.  Michael gave his due respect to how humanly difficult this  
> is, to keep moving forward day after day, month after month, and  
> year after year.   But there is always a “forward” there to seek and  
> head toward.  You cannot exhaust God’s will and love for you.
>
> The acceptance of possible catastrophes--the wisdom of that  
> acceptance suggests that you do your best to stay healthy physically  
> and mentally and spiritually even when there is seemingly no  
> immediate need for it.  Then if some catastrophe—major or minor-- 
> does occur, you can take it in stride.  You can experience the  
> spiritual achievement of using it positively to reexamine your whole  
> life’s attitude toward experience; use it as a launching pad to go  
> on to something better yet.  We readily acknowledge, my dear  
> children, this is not easy.  But that just points up the glory in  
> the achievement.
>
> Potential is something of another one of our “ungraspable  
> imponderables”… (Mother Spirit chuckles, and the student joins in…)  
> but it is good to ponder it anyway.  What does it mean when we say  
> you are so much pure potential?
>
> To be continued
> <Nebadonia 07.10.22.doc>

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