SET
Y, Volume I (January through June, 1999)
STUDY
GROUP READING #145
January 1999
1. What is important
for us to know, or to focus upon in this last year of the 20th Century?
2. A number of Study
Group members’ parents have died this year, including my Mother. We want to
ask a question about the process of a person who has lived a full life, is ready
to die, expects to see their loved ones on the other side, and dies a natural
death that is without medical intervention. Our question is about the first few
weeks after their death. What is their process? Where are they? Are they aware
of, or thinking about their loved ones left on earth?
3. Can we learn to
communicate with those who have died? If so, how?
4. What can you tell us
about the legend of Atlantis? What is important about it for us today?
5. Human life is often
seen as a condition that needs to be overcome. For instance, many Eastern
religions see life as a wheel from which we should strive to free ourselves.
Christianity believes in original sin and that our goal is to rise above our
flaws so we can gain the prize of eternal life. New Age versions of this appear
as people hoping that this is their last lifetime, while others see the souls
who manifest as a human being as a "low ranking" soul, as if being
human is a kind of punishment or "booby prize." Is there a larger
truth behind these beliefs, or is it all fear and confusion? Would you give us a
more realistic, and hopefully more positive view of our expression in a human
personality?
6. Would you please
close with an attunement for us to use for the coming month?
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STUDY
GROUP READING #146
February 1999
1. Last month you
beautifully described the journey of a person who dies a "normal"
death as they go from personality structure to soul awareness. Can the grieving
of the loved ones left in earth hold back that process?
2. If we wish to pursue
the study and understanding of our dreams and we have nightmares or bad dreams,
how can we get past the fear of nightmares or bad dreams?
3. Science has
discovered a rare chromosome (XYY) in the physical makeup of certain serial
killers and other career criminals. These people seem to lack conscience,
remorse, or any emotions, positive or negative, even when raised in a loving,
supportive environment. Science says that individuals with this genetic makeup
are predisposed to murder, mayhem, and lives of crime. Do souls occasionally
manifest certain human beings intending that they express negatively? Please
explain the cause and purposes of such anomalies, and why certain infamous
humans appear to be born to express negatively, unrelated to their environmental
conditioning.
4. Before we are born,
when our soul chooses our parents, do we also choose how long we will live? If
so, how does this affect free will during our lifetime?
5. You have said before
that animals do not have individual souls. If this is so, why do animals seem to
have such distinct personalities? When we feel love for an animal, what exactly
are we feeling a connection with?
6. Would you please
close with an attunement for us to use for the coming month?
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STUDY
GROUP READING #147
March 1999
1. You addressed this
question in your opening, but I’ll ask it for a little more information. It
seems that the souls’ plan for human beings was for us to essentially forget
our eternal nature, past lifetimes on earth, and other higher realities when we
incarnate in a human body. Why then are some of us now being reached on a
conscious level with this fountain of information, love, and guidance that comes
through Ron’s readings?
2. Can young children
then remember their past lives if we encourage it? Are they more easily aware of
their guides or their guardian angels than adults?
3. You have said that
in the period of blank sleep, the souls are teaching us. Would you give us a
description of the actual process of what happens during that blank sleep
period? Is there a way that we can maximize that learning process?
4. Do most of our
fears, worries, and phobias come from past-life experiences? What is the best
way to heal such patterns from our past lifetimes?
5. If we have a certain
personality pattern that we have carried from lifetime to lifetime, how can we
know when we have fully healed that pattern such that we will never have to
repeat it?
6. Would you please
close with an attunement for us to use this month?
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STUDY
GROUP READING #148
April 1999
1. How do we train ourselves daily to
recognize our intuition and to follow it in a concrete way?
2. Please give us steps to help us
consciously converse with our spiritual guides on a daily basis.
3. Is there a way to access deeper
levels of love and intimacy without having to gain this wisdom through pain,
suffering and loss?
4. When we are moving ahead in our
lives, how do we release the expectations, resentments and judgments of others,
particularly those close to us, that hold us back from fulfillment and success?
5. Some of us who have experienced the
guides, you, are interested to know about the relationship between the guides
and the Christ force?
6. Where are our collective, primitive
archetypes and early imprints to be found in our modern technology? And how can
modern technology lead us back to the knowledge we once all shared?
7. Would you please close with an
attunement for us to use this month?
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STUDY
GROUP READING #149
May 1999
1. When many of us think about
violence, it is easy to say, and honestly believe, that violence begets
violence, and that violence is never a good answer to a problem. Yet, in a
specific situation like what is now happening in Kosovo, after the failure of
diplomatic and peaceful attempts, it is hard to imagine not matching Milosevic's
violence with physical force strong enough to stop his so-called "ethnic
cleansing." When this kind of violence is being perpetrated against a group
of people because of racial and religious differences, is it still true that
violence is not a good answer, or, are there cases, such this one, where it is
the only way? What is the highest and most morally appropriate response for
those of us who are attempting to understand this or any other such violence and
conflict?
2. To watch the events in Kosova is
painfully reminiscent of World War II. How can we better understand such
atrocities like "ethnic cleansing?" How can we as individuals help? Is
there a danger of this war escalating and perhaps including more U.S.
involvement? Could this war come to U.S. soil?
3. We know that each person goes
through stages of growth in their life, and that in each succeeding life they
encounter new challenges that they must work with in the process of transforming
and illuminating themselves. However, from a larger perspective, does humanity
as a whole also go through stages of awareness as it develops and grows? If so,
what are the struggles that humanity is now encountering in its development, and
how does this age fit into humankind’s overall journey toward ultimate
spiritual illumination?
4. When we see a photo of someone who
we know is in great pain, and we place our hand on their photo and send love,
imagining that we are actually touching that person’s physical head in person,
does it actually transmit that love in a way they can feel?
5. What about sending love to a
non-human object, say a car or a computer, again with our hands? Can that
actually help that machine to function better?
6. If we really trust in God, will we
be taken care of like so many spiritual teachings describe?
7. Would you please close with an
attunement for us to use this month?
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STUDY
GROUP READING #150
June 1999
1. There are documented cases of
past-life regression therapy resolving such things as phobias, medical
conditions, and relationship issues. Also, after past-life regression therapy,
people have also been reacquainted with talents and strengths that they had in
prior lifetimes, and have been able to bring them out more fully in this
lifetime. Would it be valuable for most individuals to explore past lifetimes,
and how could this therapy be most effective for people?
2. When there are a large number of
people who die at one time, for example, in the recent earthquake in Colombia,
are there as many individual soul reasons for their death as there are people
who died? Or, is there a "group choice" taking place?
3. You have said that loved ones greet
a person when they die. What about a young person who has no one from their
present lifetime who has preceded them in death? What do they experience?
4. When we are facing a difficult
decision in our life, is there a process you can suggest that can help us make
that decision?
5. You speak so often about the
importance of healing fear. What exactly is the point of healing fear? Is it so
that we can live a lifetime without any fear? Is that really possible in earth?
6. What is ritual, and what is its
purpose?
7. Would you please close with an
attunement for us to use this month?
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SET
Z, Volume I (July through December, 1999)
STUDY
GROUP READING #151
July 1999
1. If a past personality has mastered a
particular ability in one lifetime, like patience for example, why would the
soul create a new personality lacking in patience, as you have suggested in a
recent Study Group Reading?
2. Although our souls are free from the
constraints of time, it appears from what you have said before that our earth
incarnations only move forward in time. Why is this? For example, why can’t we
reincarnate in an earlier century than our last lifetime, or return to the same
time period for another lifetime?
3. Endings in life, and in
relationships, can be very difficult. We often hold on to things longer than we
would like. Is there something we could learn about this?
4. This is a question that could have
been asked by many. I’m going to ask it the way it was written and ask you to
address the answer to the whole group. One Study Group member writes: "I am
truly grateful for all that I have, the things that money can’t buy. But, what
am I doing ‘wrong’ in the prosperity and wealth area that is causing
scarcity?"
5. If the souls had a perfect
existence, as you have said, why was the physical world with all the pain,
suffering, and negativity created? You have said that the souls did not intend
for the physical world to have negativity, but why did they create a world where
there was even the possibility for negativity to come about? Why didn’t they
just keep on enjoying their perfect eternal existence?
6. Is there a particular pattern that
is common for those who have completed their human experience on earth, and
whose souls choose not to reincarnate again? For example, did they find a source
of knowledge, such as the wisdom from the Guides, to help them complete their
personal human evolution? Did those who have completed earth have a deeper
curiosity and knowledge about spiritual matters, or could they have just bumbled
their way through earth incarnations?
7. Please close with an attunement for
us to use this month.
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STUDY
GROUP READING #152
August 1999
1. What is the relationship between
physical pain and growth? Can we make major inner change without physical pain?
If so, how?
2. There have been psychic and
astrological predictions that this summer, specifically the period from late
July to mid August, will be a time of great importance for humanity. Some feel
there will be great stress or social upheavals. Others see it as a growth
opportunity. What is the basis for these predictions? Is there anything
significant about this period of time, from a spiritual or an earthly
perspective? If so, how can we best handle it?
3. It seems that where we live creates
a certain group consciousness and also reflects certain choices and
commonalties. For example, those of us living in Southern California have
different perspectives than those in Iowa or in London. To what degree does our
location affect or reflect our group psyche? And, to what degree do non-physical
factors connect and influence us?
4. Children today are growing up with
an increased exposure to violence, drugs, sex, and a lack of values. Would you
give us advice on how to best parent and teach in this difficult environment?
5. You’ve said in a private reading
for a Study Group member that we as human beings don’t understand the aging
process well, and that it’s not strictly necessary for our mental processes to
decline with age. Please advise us how we can stimulate our mind and body to use
them to the fullest capacity.
6. The public reaction to the death of
John F. Kennedy, Jr. seems larger than the man himself. Would you help us
understand why there is such a profound impact from his death and why this
unprecedented reaction to him specifically?
7. Would you please close with an
attunement for us to use this month?
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STUDY
GROUP READING #153
September 1999
1. How do you prove to a doubter that
there is a spiritual essence to life?
2. A number of people have been asking
what will happen to "The Guides" when Ron is no longer with us? Will
there be somebody to take Ron’s place? Will the readings with the Guides stop?
Will someone else become the "live voice" for the Guides? Is Ron to
train an apprentice to take over some day? What can you tell us about this?
3. Is it true that each of us has a
"soul group" of like-minded souls that we study with between
incarnations, and often reincarnate together as family members/friends across
lifetimes? What is it about certain souls that draw them to each other this way?
Are these groups fairly static, or does membership change as individual souls
evolve?
4. Would you discuss arthritis, it’s
cause, and any suggestions for alleviating some of the pain caused by it?
5. Please close with an attunement for
us to use this month.
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STUDY
GROUP READING #154
October 1999
1. There appears to be an increase in
short term and long term memory loss in younger as well as older people. There
also appears to be an increase in Alzheimer’s disease. Because they both deal
with memory loss, are they connected? What are the causes of these dysfunction’s?
2. Does schizophrenia relate to a brain
disorder, or is there a spiritual connection to past life memories?
3. Centuries old hatreds and distrusts
between peoples are causing killings and destruction in several parts of the
world. For example, in East Timor and Bosnia. How can the distrusts and hatreds
be healed and cooperation, even love, be restored? What can we do to help?
4. In attuning to receive spiritual
help, how do we learn to pay attention to the help that is offered, and at what
point do we stop asking for help and enact the changes ourselves?
5. As we make connections to higher
consciousness and feel the alignment to our soul’s purpose, moving beyond the
ego mind, at that point, has human choice become moot? How do human choice and
soul choice interact?
6. Would you please close with an
attunement for us to use this month?
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STUDY
GROUP READING #155
November 1999
1. During a personal reading through
this source, how much does the questioner’s state of mind, and/or the presence
of stress in that person, affect the outcome, quality, or accuracy of the
reading?
2. It seems apparent that hurt and
negative emotions that are carried within a person can harm the physical body.
Besides exercise and physical care of the body, how can we best clear out the
so-called "bad" feelings so they don’t affect our health? Positive
thinking seems to just shove them under, and doesn’t actually clear the
negativity.
3. In a personal reading, a Study Group
member asked why he cried so when he walked through the memorials along the
Normandy coast, and especially in the cemetery at Omaha Beach. He had visited
the site twice and each time had an overwhelming sadness and sense of loss. He
was alive in this lifetime at the time of the invasion, but was only about 9
years old. You told him that his soul was administering to the dying soldiers
during the invasion, and he has a vivid sense-memory of that. Would you explain
how we can help others in very powerful ways while not having personal awareness
of it at the time? Are we in some way a guide or angel, in the sense of being an
invisible agent to others while we are alive? Does this take place while we are
asleep?
4. Does each person share their
personal spiritual guides with other living human beings, or are those guides
exclusive to each individual?
5. Scientists believe that it is not
possible for humans to travel at the speed of light. If that someday does become
possible, what kind of technology will bring it about?
6. Would you please close with an
attunement for us to use this month?
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STUDY
GROUP READING #156
December 1999
1. Are there any specific techniques to
allow a teacher to be a more open channel when teaching a group, to empower
themselves on the mind/body/spirit level?
2. How can we best help people who are
dying to deal with physical and emotional pain, fear of death, healing past
relationships, and overcoming regrets in order to make a smooth transition with
as much spiritual attunement as possible?
3. There are many beliefs in our world
that our thoughts create our own reality, and that if we can only control our
own thoughts, then we have the key to creating the reality we want. Is this
completely true? And, would we best benefit ourselves, regarding how much
control we have over our lives, by just working on our thoughts? Or, is there
more involved in the creating of our reality?
4. If we are expending lots of energy
in a passionate pursuit, and we are getting frustrated with the slow progress,
at what point should we release that pursuit?
5. In meditation, and in personal
readings or study group readings, we often feel the love of the Guides and of
souls who may have been parents or siblings of ours in this lifetime, but who
have died. How can we use this love, pouring forth into us, to heal any
remaining emotional hurts and pain created in these human relationships with
those parents or siblings?
6. What kind of collective trends can
we anticipate becoming mainstream in the next ten years?
7. Would you please close with an
attunement for us to use this month?
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Volume
II, SET A (January through June, 2000)
STUDY
GROUP READING #157
January 2000
1. Would you give us
the next level of information about the nature of our souls and the purpose of
life on earth? You have said that the purpose of life on earth is to experience
intensity, and that this somehow helps our soul to expand. What is the purpose
of expansion? Where is this all leading to, and what are the souls experiencing
when they are not in earth?
2. In terms of earth
time, how much longer will souls choose to inhabit human bodies? What would
cause the souls to stop inhabiting human bodies?
3. What is the impact
of the practice of toning and chanting, like that used by the Buddhist monks, or
the aboriginal tribes with the didgeridoo, or the western spiritual practice of
toning? Does it make an impact on our consciousness or physical healing, and if
so, how can we use it more in our daily lives?
4. Genetically
engineered foods have been practically outlawed in Europe because they are
considered unsafe to eat and a danger to the environment over the long term.
Here in the United States, we are only now beginning to sense the potential of
danger. Are genetically engineered foods unsafe to eat and a danger to the
environment?
5. As we begin the 21st
century, some people fear that we are entering a new age of terrorism in our
country. What is the best way to protect ourselves against terrorism? Can you
give us an approach to help us avoid creating fear and negativity, and to create
a protective positive energy around ourselves and others?
6. The computer chip,
and thereby the internet, has been such an important invention in the 20th
century. Access to the internet is rapidly becoming as common as the television.
From a spiritual point of view, what impact has this had, and will have, on the
evolution of humanity?
7. Would you please
close with an attunement for us to use for the coming month?
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STUDY
GROUP READING #158
February 2000
1. Would you talk about
the choices that souls make after completing their earth experience? It seems
that if those souls who complete earth move on, then we are left with a lot of
confusion and pain without the wisdom of souls who have mastered earth. Shouldn’t
they be coming back to help heal the chaos of earth?
2. Confucius was a
Chinese philosopher who lived around five hundred years BC Would you speak about
him, his soul, and the importance of his role in the spiritual evolution of
earth?
3. There are a number
of quite virulent strains of the flu sweeping the planet right now. Clearly,
because of the ease of widespread travel, these viruses get passed around more
quickly, but this year they seem particularly debilitating. Is there something
to learn about this wave of illness from a spiritual perspective?
4. Research on the
effectiveness of prayer on healing seems to show that unconditional prayers
asking for no particular result work better than a specific prayer asking for
specific healing for specific conditions. Is this a correct view, or is there
more to this?
5. Could I ask then, if
we had a friend dying of cancer, what would be the best prayer or best inner way
to work with that?
6. Would you please
close with an attunement for us to use for the coming month?
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STUDY
GROUP READING #159
March 2000
1. A serious health
problem that many individuals struggle with at this time is obesity. Some
statistics indicate that more than half of the people living in the United
States are overweight. Individuals often describe themselves as experiencing
constant hunger. This leads to further health challenges for many, such as heart
disease and diabetes. Would you explain, from both a physical and spiritual
perspective, why this has become such a serious problem for so many in recent
years? Please give guidance as to how those facing this challenge can overcome
it.
2. The technological
explosion that is now connecting the globe brings a new era of human
communication. Through the internet and wireless technology, individuals can now
maintain personal contact anywhere on earth through the written word, sound, and
pictures. It is believed that this revolution in communication will have more
impact on the way we live than did the Industrial Revolution which totally
transformed the economies of the world. Does this technological revolution have
any spiritual significance? Does it reflect a new stage in man’s emotional and
spiritual evolution, perhaps by manifesting a physical expression of our
spiritual oneness? Would you comment on this phenomenon?
3. You, the Guides,
have told us that the souls did not intend negativity, but that humans created
negativity. Did the souls not understand physical pain that humans experience?
How did the souls intend for man to respond to physical pain, emotional pain,
damage to our physical bodies, the limitations of the physical world—especially
when we have been programmed to forget that we are not our bodies?
4. It seems that it is
important to focus our personality selves around an inner center, a core of
being that is not affected by the outside world. It is here that one can
experience what has been described in religious terms as "the peace that
passeth all understanding." Would you comment on this concept of an inner
core, or center, and give us some clues on how to find and maintain that place
of trust and love?
5. Would you please
close with an attunement for us to use this month?
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STUDY
GROUP READING #160
April 2000
1. Why do so many spiritual and
creative people struggle financially. From a standpoint of being on a spiritual
path already, what practical adjustments and characteristics are needed to make
money?
2. This seems to be a period of
unprecedented economic prosperity. Is this a major shift to a new economy, or is
an economic crash forthcoming?
3. Please describe a step-by-step
process to program and use our dreams to give us answers and guidance that we
need in our lives.
4. Other than acknowledging, healing,
and releasing our deep seated, underlying emotional fear-based issues, what can
we do to eliminate our subconscious, mental critic that often springs forth with
self diminishing chatter and less than supportive suggestions. Is there, for
example, some kind of altered state work that we could do?
5. How does the human personality
benefit from having a lifetime with mental disorder such as schizophrenia. Where
does choice come into a schizophrenic expression? Is there a choice here?
6. What are the after death experiences
and consequences when a person who has believed to have a terminal disease
chooses assisted suicide or euthanasia, or just refuses all possible treatment
to hasten the death process?
7. Question 6 follow up: What kind of
confusion? What do you mean by confusion?
8. Would you please close with an
attunement for us to use this month?
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STUDY
GROUP READING #161
May 2000
1. Would you discuss the following
biblical quote: "Seek and ye shall find...ask and it shall be given."
What is the metaphysical principal here, and how do we ask so that it will be
given?
2. When a traumatic accidental death
occurs that has been preceded by stark terror, such as going down in a fatal air
crash, it is hard to see any benefit for a person having to experience such a
death. It seems that the amount of panic and terror involved before perishing
would color and distort the death experience in such a way that the personality
would be left to grapple with those feelings after death, even though it was an
accident that caused those feelings and not their own emotional patterns. Would
you shed some light on why people would need to go through such a terrible
experience?
3. In reference to the previous
question, during such a terrible event, are the individual personalities helped
by their souls and guiding ones?
4. Mary Magdalene is the most often
mentioned woman in the New Testament, after Mary, the mother of Jesus. Although
for most of the last 2000 years she has been described as being a prostitute,
modern theologians tell us that there is no actual biblical reference for that
at all. All four New Testament writers declare that Mary Magdalene was the first
person Jesus appeared to after his resurrection. Would you tell us about the
relationship between her and Jesus? What is her significance spiritually?
5. Is Jesus just like us, except that
he was the first to merge with the Christ Force, or, is he different in a way
that makes his designation as "The Son of God" meaningful?
6. What existed before the creation of
souls, and time and space? In other words, how did the unmanifest, the God
force, or God consciousness itself originate? Realizing that this is a very
esoteric question, can you give us a simple explanation that we can relate to
and understand?
7. Would you please close with an
attunement for us to use this month?
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STUDY
GROUP READING #162
June 2000
1. The following question from a Study
Group member reflects the feelings of many, so I will leave it in the first
person and ask it that way. "I see all of the famine and misery in the
world, people who do not have food, shelter, safety, or many material
possessions. Almost daily, we are informed about people, especially children,
dying of malnutrition and disease, and we are not concerned about that. I then
look at all of my possessions, the lack of worry as to my food, shelter, and
safety. I see that my country consumes most of the worlds consumer goods. What
will be our karma for not being more generous? Wouldn't our lives be more
fulfilling and satisfying if we gave more of ourselves and of our possessions
and privileges. I am concerned that if I do not do more, and give more of
myself, that I am failing, or at least not acting in as larger a capacity as I
could. I am worried that if I do not do more, then I will find that in my next
lifetime I will have to make up for this lack of generosity. Bottom line: I am
feeling guilty for having so much when there are so many others that have so
little, particularly in Africa."
2. We are in an era of "instant
millionaires." People win money in lotteries, game shows, the stock market,
money from law suits. How does that affect their spiritual development? Is there
a consequence to gaining prosperity this way?
3. When we are having problems
communicating in a relationship due to pain and fears, what can we do besides
keep an open mind and heart? Can we communicate telepathically, or resolve
things on a higher level, or must it be worked out on the physical level?
4. This next question relates to what
you just said. The question is, how do we keep from closing our hearts and
distancing ourselves from people when we are hurt or depressed? That is the time
when we need others most, yet there is something that makes us withdraw. You
just said in the last answer to try to put ourselves in the thoughts and
feelings of the other person, to love and understand them. That’s difficult to
do because then you lose the opportunity to punish that person. Can you give us
some clues and some ideas on how to move past that first very closed heart place
where it’s just so difficult to open that place? I think it does have
something to do with that feeling of wanting to punish the other person.
5. Would you please close with an
attunement for us to use this month?
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Volume
II, SET B (July through December, 2000)
STUDY GROUP READING #163
July 2000
1. Do our guides come to us when we enter this
earth plane? Do the guides change as we change, or do we have the same guides
throughout this experience?
2. Do we have the same guides throughout our
lifetime?
3. What can we learn about life from death?
4. How can we use our time here on earth to
maximize what needs to be done for ourselves individually, and for others?
5. How does what we eat affect us? What is the
ideal human diet? Are we designed to eat one type of food more than another, for
example, protein versus carbohydrates, meat versus vegetarianism? Have we
forgotten important foods? Are any foods protective against disease?
6. Regarding the human race, where are we on
our spiritual path, and what would the guides like us to know that we might be
missing on our spiritual journey?
7. Please close with an attunement for us to
use this month.
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STUDY GROUP READING #164
August 2000
1. This is a follow up to last month’s
question about diet. Would you clarify what you mean by "light
protein?"
2. In the last Study Group reading, in the
closing attunement, you talked about "….celebrating all humans, for the
love flows from you to them." One of our Study Group members writes that
she is having difficulty reconciling this statement with some of the truly
terrible humans who cause pain, misery, abuse, and crimes. She says, "I
know these humans are eternal souls, and these terrible things are their ‘actions’
and not their essence, but how do we get past the fact that these humans used
their abilities and free will to cause pain to other people? How does ‘love’
flow out of these humans? We are instructed to rejoice in our human pathway. How
can these humans, who do terrible things, rejoice in such a pathway? How do the
rest of us deal with the fear stirred up by these abusive humans?"
3. Why did humans evolve with different
colored skin, and with such different physical characteristics? Can this be
explained simply by the differences in weather, living conditions, diet, and so
forth? Or, were these differences intentionally created by the souls? Are there
spiritual reasons for these differences?
4. In past readings, you have referred to
writings made by Jesus of Nazareth that were lost in the fire that destroyed the
ancient library of Alexandria. Would you give us some insight into what was
contained in those writings?
5. When we feel that we are continually being
blocked in something important that we are trying to achieve in the physical
world, such as success in a career, how can we tell which of these two factors
is involved: (1) our spiritual guides are trying to steer us away from what we
are pursuing because it is not for our highest good, in which case we will
simply give it up without further striving; or, (2) that we should continue to
pursue our goal, with the lesson being to learn to persevere and overcome the
roadblocks?
6. In this lifetime, do we pick up where we
last left off with relationships from our past lifetimes? Do we start
relationships in this lifetime at the same level of confusion and challenge that
we may have had in some past lifetimes, or, are we are growing and changing in
the intervening lifetimes so that our potential to heal the challenging
relationships may be enhanced in this lifetime?
7. Would you please close with an attunement
for us to use this month?
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STUDY GROUP READING #165
September 2000
1. A study group member asks the following
question: "I have a very strong intuitive sense that this Study Group with
Ron and the Guides has not come about by accident. It seems that it fulfills a
very important need for those who have been drawn to it. The Readings from the
Guides seem to take us beyond the information that is available in the normal
course of studies. From your point of view, was there a decision made by the
souls to have this Study Group formed? I understand that we as humans had to
exercise our free choice to become a part of the group, but was there an
intention on your part to attract those who now make up the Study Group?"
2. Will these teachings live on in earth after
Ron and I are gone and still attract people? Will they be imp in the future in
earth life?
3. Ron and I, and some Study Group members,
have had some unusual, altered-state experiences that we’d like to ask about.
Firstly, we’ve had out of body experiences where we seem to be visiting people
currently alive, or visiting present places. In some cases, we verified that we
were actually seeing real places that we had never before seen physically. It
appeared that our awareness was actually there in some form or another. How does
this happen, and what part of us is traveling to that distant place?
4. In one of my own (Susan’s) out of body
experiences, as I returned to my body, I seemed to pass through a kaleidoscope
of color. Was that merely my subjective experience, or is there an actual
reality to that?
5. The second altered-state experience we want
to ask about is one of visiting the past. Some of us have had experiences,
generally in a dream state, of visiting the past of this lifetime and seeing
people and places as they were in the past. Yet, we felt like the experience was
happening in the present. We felt like the past was existing now. The experience
had a different quality to it than the usual dream. It felt quite real. Does the
past exist somewhere in a real way in some dimension that’s not just
imagination. If so, can that dimension be visited, and for what purpose would we
make such a visit?
6. The out of body type of experience, altered
state experience, can be enlightening and fun. For those who would like to
pursue this kind of thing, without ignoring their earth life, of course, as you
said, but who would like to pursue it, is there a technique or a method that you
could recommend for the out of body experience?
7. In a recent Study Group reading, while
responding to a question which concludes, "What is the karma here?"
you say, "First of all, we would say to yourself that thoughts about this
idea of karma are usually confused." Would you give us your teachings about
karma?
8. Please close with an attunement for us to
use this month.
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STUDY GROUP READING #166
October 2000
1. There are several different physical
methods for dealing with psychological traumas that have been developed. What
are the most effective methods for removing psychological traumas through
physical modalities and manipulations?
2. What separates our circumstances in life
from each other? Why does it appear that some people are chosen to suffer and
others are not?
3. How do we learn to recognize physical,
mental, and emotional pain and suffering as a spiritual opportunity for healing?
4. Many of the members of the Study Group are
writers. We would like to know how we can make ourselves most receptive to
wisdom, truth, brilliance, and inspiration that could come through us from the
souls and our own inner resources.
5. Knowing that one must accept before we can
forgive, how can we accept the unacceptable and then make the leap from
acceptance to forgiveness when we have the intent and the longing to? How can we
forgive what feels to be unforgivable, both in personal relations with a parent
or a mate, and in a larger context of the world?
6. Many people seem to easily come to, or
inherently possess, a strong conscious inner knowing of spiritual truth. How can
those of us who do not have this, and cannot believe something merely because it
makes us feel good, develop this inner knowing?
7. Would you please close with an attunement
for us to use this month?
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STUDY GROUP READING #167
November 2000
1. During times of personal challenge and
difficulty, religious teachers, as well as ancient texts, often tell us to
"give our problems over to God." This is an appealing suggestion,
however, it does present us with a conflict. Human experience teaches us that if
we are in a crisis of any kind, we are likely to remain in it if we are simply
passive and do nothing. Given that we are living a physical existence, it seems
that taking some action in the world is usually the most effective and most
immediate thing we can do to resolve a crisis. Since we seem to no longer be
living in an age of miracles, how can we best "give our challenges over to
God?"
2. One of our Study Group members feels that
you often make many positive references to intellectual pursuits and
accomplishments, and you rarely make reference to physical labor or clerical
type work. She wants to know if intellect is a part of higher spiritual
awareness. What about spiritual people who are not brilliantly educated, but
hold simple bread and butter jobs? Are intellectual achievements valued by the
souls more than the simple life? What about people who have failed at
intellectual achievement?
3. You have said that splitting our male and
female energies is like being a parent that is too busy to give attention to
more than one child at a time. What are some focal points that would assist us
in enhancing our abilities to use both male and female energies, to both think
and feel simultaneously in our everyday conscious awareness?
4. You said in a recent Study Group reading
that, although very complex, it is actually possible to change the past. Would
you tell us in a general way how this could be done? If we were able to change a
particular incident in our past, would it completely wipe out what originally
had occurred, including erasing any learning we had attained from that event, or
would both versions of the event somehow exist in our memories? How would one
know if it were truly beneficial to change the past?
5. Today, the divorce rate is hovering around
50%, thus there are many children who spend time with two parents, but not at
the same home. A recent study suggests that the damage of divorce is
irreparable, even if the two parents are mature about it and get along for the
sake of the children. These studies intimate that, for our children’s sake, it
is better for the parents to remain in a loveless marriage. Please give us some
guidance on this issue. How can we help our children from divorced families grow
into well adjusted happy adults?
6. Would you please close with an attunement
for us to use this month?
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STUDY GROUP READING #168
December 2000
1. Is it possible to know what our future
lives on earth will be? Can we know where we will incarnate, and who we will
come back as, since we will have no memory when we come back? If we cannot know
about our future lives, why is that?
2. At the recent spiritual retreat in Malibu,
you said that when we leave earth as a human with negativity there is a dark
cloud of energy that hangs on the earth that must be released by the entity that
caused it. Therefore, a soul returns to earth choosing a life that presents
experiences that make it possible to release the negative energy by new
opportunities to learn and grow. Next, we understand that on the "other
side" we spend time learning and growing, from our past life, from all
lives, and from each other’s experience. This indicates that we must have some
type of growth on the other side. Do we carry that growth and understanding with
us into the next human life, or, do we return into earth with no more knowledge
than when we left?
3. In a recent personal reading for a Study
Group member, when asked about the reason for, and purpose of
"miraculous" events, you said that because of some complex
interweaving of human energy patterns that are intended to play out within the
realm of space and time, certain soul-desired plans would be adversely affected
if a particular human choice was allowed to go forth. But, you have also
repeatedly said that we are eternal beings, impervious to the limitations of
space and time, and that we have forever to work out patterns. He would like you
to clarify this apparent contradiction and expand on the true purpose of
miraculous soul intervention in human affairs.
4. We wish to ask about the Biblical story of
Jesus’ anger in the temple (when he drove out the money changers). Did this
happen as described in the Bible? If so, was this anger an expression of his
human side? What meaning or teaching does this have for us?
5. You have said that joy and love are the
human experiences that come closest to the energies of God. For this Holiday
season, would you please expand upon this?
6. Would you please close with an attunement
for us to use this month?
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