[tmtranscripts] Lightline July 21, 2016

[Jerry Lane]

Lightline
July 21, 2016-2


Michael—T/R-JL


(Finding
and following God’s will with an open mind)


(Fanaticism,
fundamentalism, terrorism--and humility)


(To
see through prejudice)


(Orienting
to the Spirit of Truth)


(Creative
spirit in yourself and others) 


(The
individual and stereotypes)


(The
courage to wonder, to question)


(Censorship
V.S. trust)


(Thousands
of little mini-cultures)


(You
are part of everything you perceive and experience) 


(Sleep,
and rest, a new day, and a renewed you)


(The
infinity of spontaneity)


 


Dear Michael and Mother Spirit, here we are again! While
it is always a joy to be 


able to hear your lessons and actually carry on a
conversation with you, you remind us 


that this is something we can do right on our own, any
time we want to meditate and 


still our minds and then ask you questions. You even
encourage us to write these down, 


or record these, because the very next thought in our
mind can be your response, even 


the response of our mutual Father. 


Now I’ll turn the time over to you and, again, thank you
so much for making yourselves 


available this way. Amen.


Michael: My dear children, this is Michael. Mother
Spirit and I are once again delighted


to be able to address you in this way. It seems like a
rare opportunity to actually talk to


you through a human voice, but we are part of you. We do
have our influence within


you and all about you. It’s so nice when you can
recognize this and more or less


ascertain our part in your life, even if this is only a
thousandth part--we must admit in 


our humility—of what part our Father plays in all of our
lives.


(Finding and following God’s will with an open mind)


It is his will that we wish be done on earth, and on all
of our physical worlds, as well as 


in heaven. The Lord’s Prayer is a wonderful one to
orient yourself toward his will. Yet 


as the Urantia Book cautions you--very rightly so--as
you try to ascertain and then do 


God’s will, it requires a further and continuing
humility to be open-minded, not only to 


what you think is God’s will, but then as you do these
things, to continue to be open-


minded to the results.


It is so often the case that the amount of courage it
takes to carry out what you feel is 


God’s will--that focus, that very determination can lead
you enormously astray to 


where you do not stay open-minded. You are committed--as
you say--to whatever 


course of action you have decided. Yet sometimes the
results should tell you that this is 


not the will of a merciful, loving God who sees all of
his children, every single human 


being, as equal, and equally deserving of love and care.


(Fanaticism, fundamentalism, terrorism--and humility)


This very humility alone would cut out so much
fanaticism, so much of what you call


terrorism done in the name of God. We have had so many
lessons on what we call,


and you yourselves call, fundamentalism. It is an
arrogance that you have achieved


some kind of absolute fundamental reality that requires
no further question, only a


determination to carry out what you perceive. So the
most obscene acts are done in the


name of this, in the name of God. Yet this justification
is one of your greatest gifts to


give away, to refuse yourselves this kind of arrogant assurance
that what you are doing 


is absolutely God’s will. 


This is especially true once you have done something, to
be blinded then, to refuse to 


acknowledge what you have just done to another human
being. Always bear in mind 


the truth that God is no respecter of persons. He sees
everyone on an equal basis 


right through all of what you yourselves are often
wrapped up in--in terms of prejudice, 


in terms of race, or sex, or religious beliefs. These,
along with nationalities and national 


fervor, are the greatest reasons for the most inhumane
treatment of one person of 


another. 


These prejudices are all the more pernicious because
they are part of a person’s culture 


and perceptions. People literally see persons of another
race, or the opposite sex, or 


another nationality or belief system, as some kind of
inferior, less-than-human being


to be subjugated. Not only do they do obscene things to
eliminate others, but more, the


physical and mental torture that you call terrorism,
deliberately introducing terror in


others in order to get their way.


This is why a thorough understanding of God’s will
enables you to relinquish 


your prejudice, even although on a superficial level it
seems to put you at a


disadvantage to all the fundamentalists of whom you do
have to be careful. You do 


have to protect yourself from them. But you avoid
becoming one of them yourself and 


literally losing your soul. This is the most important
thing to be cautious against.


Yet how do you do this? How do you stay open-minded when
you may be surrounded


by prejudice, even having been raised this way by your
own loving parents? How do 


you become and stay open-minded?


(To see through prejudice)


The secret is in seeing individuals. It is a mark of
maturity that you let go of what we


sometimes call the “galloping generalities”--the
prejudices of your adolescence.  


See through the race, the sex, the age, the belief of
another person. See everyone as 


an individual. It requires an enormous expansion of
consciousness to do this because


you are giving up all these generalities, all these
too-easy handles by which you get a 


hold on someone else. It’s not what race are they, or
even what sex are they. It’s who 


they are as a creature of God, as a unique personality.


This is that expansion of consciousness that fills your
soul, my dear ones. After a long


life, those with whom you have shared yours are what you
have in your soul; not


generalities of racism or sexism, or culture, but
individuals--every single one! Here you 


are attuned to God’s greatest gift, this uniqueness of
every single one of you. This can 


be your perception, and we’ve teased you with the idea
of walking down a busy city 


sidewalk and seeing individuals coming towards you; and
relating this way. 


Think of that little instantaneous spark of recognition
you can share with so many, even 


with total strangers, which in a split second can make
your day. It can be the most 


beautiful thing you can experience--eyes meeting eyes—by
filling yourself with this 


attitude, this orientation. 


(Orienting to the Spirit of Truth)


This orientation is my Spirit of Truth, by which you can
begin to actually perceive this 


truth of individuals. It was one of my greatest
teachings when I was among you, when 


then, as is still today, everybody was separated even
more into small tribes and 


cultures. So often in our travels, when we would be
encountering these different tribes 


of people, my followers were amazed and even a little
shocked that I could address 


them as friends, even though the morays at the time were
that I should treat them as 


enemies. This was especially true with those of the
opposite sex, with whom we men 


were to have nothing to do at all.


This is the wealth of unique personality right before
you. This is God’s will. This is his 


Creation, this whole realm of personal beings and
dimensions of personality. To see this 


in others helps you feel it in yourself, that you too
are unique. We have talked about 


how this can lead to a loneliness--the feeling there is
so much unique to your life--that 


you can never express or share, with even your closest
loved ones.


(Creative spirit in yourself and others) 


That is partly why we are here with you, Mother Spirit
and I, and our Father too, right 


within you and part of you. We are all three someone
with whom you can share 


everything you experience. Then to recognize and to
appreciate our creative spirit in 


others leads to so much that you can share of your own life
with them.


My dear ones, these are very strenuous times when truly
your news is correct. In the 


last few years there have been hundreds of thousands of
lives horribly taken, and tens 


of millions of people displaced, turned into refugees
from their homes by deliberate 


terror. 


This is how you yourself can avoid that essential
mistake, that essential arrogance of 


fundamentalism: see and experience the wealth of God’s creation
in every single one 


you meet! And what a joy. What fun. What a real solid ground
to stand on, and 


exchange your self with others.


Now if you have any questions or comments this evening,
this is my delight--to


exchange ideas with each one of you.


Student: I don’t really have a question; just a comment:
what a great lesson! That


is the key--the individual as opposed to the stereotype.


(The individual and stereotypes)


Michael: Yes, my son, that is the essence of it. It is
such a reward to get beyond


prejudice, which is your own projection in a sense.
Prejudice is like a screen out there, 


a hazy blur covering personality, kind-of like squinting
your eyes trying to see things  


the
way you were brought up and taught. There’s a kind of ego attachment, a sense
of 


who
you are by contrast. But to see through stereotype, to let their more objective



full
reality come through to you; and yet not make the objective fallacy to assume
you 


already
have it. 


It is being open to all points of view as you get your
news to stay in touch 


with what is happening around the world. Through all
your mass media now, you can 


probably feel within yourself your own orientation--whether
you are liberal, or 


conservative, or whatever. Certain programming strikes a
chord and you say it is right, 


while with the opposite programming you find yourself
arguing with everything that 


comes across. This is being sensitive to your own
prejudices and your own orientation. 


Always have the humility to admit and then welcome it is
such an enormous universe 


out there. So thank you, my son. You definitely have the
essence of it.


Student #1: Thank you. Now if we could just explain that
to a lot of other people.


(The courage to wonder, to question)


Michael: Well, this is why I wish to acknowledge that
for so many folks clinging tightly 


to what they have been raised in, or been terrorized
into accepting; it seems like it is 


too much to ask. It seems like an immediate
vulnerability to give up their absolute


assurance that they are right in what they are doing.
Think of all the focus and 


motivation, the desire and intention and deliberation--all
that it takes to get 


moving. To give up so much of that and be unsure, to be
wondering, to question what 


they are being told? That takes great courage.


Student #1: And faith.


Michael: Yes, and faith--that outreach, that willingness
to act on what you aren’t quite


sure of; and still keep that uncertainty. Keep that open-mindedness
to avoid the 


fundamentalism. It helps to see that clearly.


Student #1: Yes. You can see why a lot of people are
afraid of such a thing.


(Censorship V.S. trust)


Michael: Sometimes alternate viewpoints are not even
presented in those countries or 


nation-states which have the most strict kind of
censorship. Different points of view 


aren’t presented at all. This has been the typical case
throughout the history of the 


human race. Yet in some of your modern democracies now
there is a whole 


range from the most liberal to the most conservative,
and from the most nationalistic to 


the most world-wide view presented.


It takes an enormous trust in other folks to not demand
that they believe as you do. We


kind-of tease folks into all the delight they can
experience in really encountering others


by opening themselves so that experience becomes part of
their soul. There’s not just 


their own projections and prejudices, but they have
actually touched something and 


some others in their life.


Student #1: Yes.


(Thousands of little mini-cultures)


Michael: This is where Mother Spirit and I are delighted
to point out the fact that your


modern electronic communications are a great force
against censorship, especially


between generations. The younger generations are constantly
being attuned to how to 


get around censorship, tune into the world, and be aware
of everyone’s different 


viewpoints in all the thousands of little mini-cultures
everywhere.


Again: thank you, my son, for your input. Are there any
more comments or questions


this evening?


If not, I will wrap up this session by teasing you all
the more. Mother Spirit


and I believe that if you love someone, you will tease
them--tease in the sense of 


dangling something out in front of them that they can
actually get ahold of. Your 


teasing is all through love, not tormenting someone with
something that is beyond their 


reach.


(You are part of everything you perceive and experience))



I remind you that so much of what you perceive is your
very reaching. You are so 


much a part of everything you perceive--that whole
reality of projection. Yet how do 


you get beyond it? This is the orientation that my
Spirit of Truth gives you. It is you


constantly reminding yourself that beyond your current
belief--what you awoke with


today--is the possibility of growing, constantly growing
forever and ever and ever;


growing as you come in contact with greater and greater
realities. 


It is a challenge that our Father—God--puts before us
all for our own good: that we 


constantly let go. We constantly let go even what has
cost us so much to achieve--


all our experience of life--to be open for more
experience. To never say, ”Dear God, 


let me stop. Let me experience no more.”


(Sleep, and rest, a new day, and a renewed you)


This is what sleep and rest are all about. You become
full-up to the brim and running


over, and so you relinquish yourself. You let yourself
totally go into his hands almost


every night, to await, refreshed, a new day with,
hopefully, a slightly new you. Be ready 


to see that aspect of reality which is not only
continuing and can be anticipated, but 


also that each and every moment hasn’t happened before,
and will never happen again.


It’s the enormity of God’s living creativity that you
are involved in. So perceive that 


freshness!


(The infinity of spontaneity)


We thank our Father for his imagination to come up with
such a reality, both for you


and for our order of being. We too--Mother Spirit and
I--we too enjoy what you can 


only conceive of as some kind of pure spontaneity!--as
is our Father’s--as is yours with 


all the potential you wish to reach for. Keep that open
mind.


So, my little ones, this is your Father and your Mother
saying: good evening. Mother


Spirit sends you her love. I bid you be in my peace.
Good Night.


Students: Thank you so much. Thank you very much. It
certainly speaks to the times.


 


 		 	   		  
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