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1997
Readings #121-132

Please note that these early recordings (1987 through 2001) were made on cassette tape and later transferred to digital format. The sound quality is not always as good as the later years.
STUDY GROUP READING #121
January 1997
Opening Teaching
1. When Ron does these readings, how does his personal belief system affect the clarity and fullness, of the Guides' answers. For example, if he has strong beliefs about such subjects as UFO's, euthanasia for the terminally ill, abortion, or reincarnation of pets to human form, can the Guides speak about these areas in ways that go against Ron's beliefs? Or are the Guides limited by his beliefs?

2. Would you share anything that would help us know you, the Guides, personally as well as the circumstances that led to your connection to Ron? Also, please speak about any other beings involved in your divine grouping for the purpose of these readings.

3. Please explain ghosts and why so many seem to inhabit castles in the British Isles. Are they souls, or parts of souls "caught" between being human death and the reunion with their eternal soul? Why do they seem to repeat the same acts over and over?

4. What are the causes, psychological as well as physical, of some diseases that affect muscles such as Parkinson's Disease, Lou Gherig's Disease, Multiple Sclerosis and Huntington's Chorea. These are really diseases that appear to originate in the brain. Are the causes related to past life actions and experiences? Can these diseases be caused or exacerbated by exposure to pesticides?

5. There have been reports recently that deformed frogs were found in various parts of the United States, frogs with missing legs, eyes, extra legs and so forth. You have spoken in the past about the possibility that human beings would experience severe genetic disorders, possibly in the next two generations before we would make serious attempts at cleaning up the environment. What is causing these frogs to mutate? And, are these deformed amphibians a harbinger of a more serious environmental crisis?

6. Please close with an attunement for us to use this month.


STUDY GROUP READING #122

February 1997
Opening Teaching
1. What are the spiritual consequences of the seemingly minor cheating, lying, and stealing that seem to be more widely accepted today? For example: not reporting minor income, or stretching the truth on a person's income tax; not returning a pen inadvertently picked up at a sales counter; or exaggerating insurance losses. Is it important to be scrupulously honest? It seems that there is so much excess today that it almost doesn't matter, especially where it affects an institution rather than an individual.

2. We'd like to follow up on a question about you, the Guides, that didn't get answered last month. Would you talk about the circumstances from past lifetimes that led to your connection and working with Ron in this lifetime?

3. On January 23, 1997, there was an exceedingly rare planetary alignment, a moment in time expressed in the heavens as a perfect six pointed star. This pattern comes on the exact day that three outer planets, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune are conjoined together for the first time in almost two hundred years. Not since the Renaissance have all five outer-most planets been so harmoniously arrayed. On January 23rd, this cluster of planets centered on the first degrees of Aquarius, joined by the Sun, with the Full Moon opposite them all. Thus, perhaps this pattern may also be seen as a symbolic representation of the long heralded dawning of the Age of Aquarius. What can you tell us about this momentous occasion?

4. As human personalities, we have been given the gift of a "sense of humor" expressed through laughter that often feels like a great pressure relief value, and perhaps even another type of contact with the soul as part of love. What is the equivalent of laughter, or the method of sharing a "joke" in the soul plane existence? How do souls express gaiety, merriment, humor, jest, and play, in addition to the wonderful blessing of deep vibrational love?

5. What is the true significance of circumcision? The Old Testament says that God ordered Abraham to make this cut as a covenant between Him and the Jewish people. Why the Jews? Why would nature's design of the male body need improvement? Is the significance of circumcision only what we have given it? Why has circumcision continued so strongly?

6. What is the significance of numbers? Certain numbers are reported to have certain meanings. Is this intrinsic to nature, or the soul's nature as it expresses in human life? Would you discuss this?

7. Please close with an attunement for us to use this month.


STUDY GROUP READING #123

March 1997
Opening Teaching
1. There are people in our Western culture today who are involved with Psychotherapy and "dream work." Using the depth psychology processes of Carl Jung and others, they often work with ancient "archetypes," such as those personified in Classical Greek and Roman mythology. Many of these archetypes are said to be relevant to our process of human fulfillment because they represent universal aspects of the human personality that are accessed through the collective unconscious. What can you tell us about our true relationship today with these ancient figures, Greek and Roman gods and goddesses, heroes, and heroines? What is their purpose and meaning for us today?

2. Is union with the Godhead, or that undifferentiated love of which you just spoke, the ultimate destiny of all souls? If so, what happens to a soul's sense of individual identity once such union occurs?

3. Some atheists of good loving heart and high moral values feel left out from the wisdom of these readings because their belief system does not accept "God," or external supreme beings. They do however recognize science as truth. They accept Einstein's theory of relativity that says that energy cannot be destroyed, it just changes form. They desire to express themselves through personal growth and love for self and others. If it is true that love is the fuel that gives life to light, energy, and all that is, and we are energy, whether we manifest in physical or non-physical form, then is the whole idea of God just a matter of semantics, and actually symbolic for unconditional love? Is there a way to present this material to such a person so that they could relate to it?

4. Some people in the present Charismatic Christian movement speak in tongues. Is such speaking a coherent language, perhaps one from the past that we do not recognize? If not, would you tell us what is going on within a person while doing this speaking?

5. The Course in Miracles is a book said to be dictated by Jesus Christ in the 1970's to a Jewish woman. Would you comment on this, and tell us why was this woman was chosen to receive the material? Also, our Study Group questioner writes, "When I listen to your guidance through Ron, I feel that you are the same Christ who speaks in The Course in Miracles. Are you?"

6. Please close with an attunement for us to use this month.


STUDY GROUP READING #124

April 1997
Opening Teaching
1. You touched on this first question, but perhaps you will have something to add. How do we maintain personal stability in a world where the TV and radio broadcast horrific events day after day, and how can we affect what is going on?

2. Many people are feeling that the pace of life is increasingly accelerated beyond our capacity to deal with it comfortably and effectively. What is the source of this quickening, where is it headed, and how can we best deal with it?

3. As people, we seem to work through one fear, and behind that fear, another fear pops up. For instance, on a personal level: "Do I matter? Will I be able to find my path?" Behind that, on a larger scale: "Are we destroying this planet?" Are our fears increasing because of an increased negative force?

4. For women, one of those rhythms of which you spoke is menopause. Menopause is a major transition in a woman's life. What is the spiritual link, or importance in connection with the hormonal changes, and how can women maximize this time in their life?

5. If the true nature of time is that it is not linear but simultaneous, does that mean that when our personalities make a particular choice, the options that we choose not to act on are played out in a parallel reality?

6. According to recent news reports, scientists are close to cloning human beings. What are the spiritual implications of human cloning?

7. And please close with an attunement for us to use this month.
Prayer Circle


STUDY GROUP READING #125

May 1997
Opening Teaching
1. The Hale-Bopp Comet makes a beautiful and unusual spectacle in the night sky. Someone said of another comet that it was a saint, "taking a look at us," so to speak. Is there a spiritual significance to this comet?

2. What could you tell us about the mass suicide of the 39 men and women in San Diego who believed they would be met by space beings when they died? What caused them to go so far a field in their thinking, or, was it less distorted thinking than we are supposing?

3. What can you tell us about the death and the after-death experience of these 39 people?

4. In past readings you have alluded to a hierarchy of souls, suggesting that there are "levels" in the eternal world as there are on earth. Would you speak about this subject, describing how the eternal realities are organized?

5. Is the progress, or the evolution, of the personality linear, or do we digress on occasion? Surely this is not necessarily the first lifetime of a truly evil person.

6. Please close with an attunement for us to use this month.


STUDY GROUP READING #126

June 1997
Opening Teaching
1. Is giving money back to a spiritual source important? The Bible speaks of tithing (giving 10% to the church). Is this just an old idea, or closer to truth? How does one give, and how much? How important is this idea?

2. Millions of people today are taking Prozac and other anti-depressants to treat depression. Pharmaceutical companies are working very actively to create even better anti depressants with fewer side effects than Prozac, which are expected to be available in the near future. It seems that more and more people are taking anti-depressants every day. Please tell us how taking these drugs affects a person's personality growth and spiritual growth.

3. Some people who are interested in different esoteric areas believe in such things as "black magic" or various types of curses or negative energies intended to harm others. What sort of effect do these spells or curses have on their intended victim? Do we need to be concerned?

4. Even if we are sure of what you are saying, but there is the sliver of fear of the curse or negative energy, what can we do with our mind to heal or counteract the fear?

5. Followers of the Dalai Lama believe that the same soul reincarnates as the Dalai Lama generation after generation. His followers go to great lengths to find the same being in a new body once the Dalai Lama has died. Would you give us some insights into this important spiritual event?

6. In an earlier reading, you said that, in the future, science would be able to cure and heal all illnesses. Is this still true? Would you elaborate further?

7. Please close with an attunement for us to use this month.

STUDY GROUP READING #127

July 1997
Opening Teaching
1. Would you talk about choice, fate, destiny and luck. How much of what happens to us is fate, or destiny, and how much happens by our own choosing, or lack thereof? Does just plain old good luck play a part?

2. There was recently an article in the news about a woman who had received a heart transplant and began to have unfamiliar cravings for food, and some personality changes. She also had a dream in which she saw a young man who merged with her. All of this happened before she knew from whom she had received the heart. It turns out that the heart did belong to a young man with the same food likes and personality quirks that she had been experiencing. Can you shed some light on what is taking place here?

3. You have stated to one of the Study Group members that the concept of a "holon" as a core building block of matter, of relationships, or of our connectedness, closely mirrors some spiritual truth. A holon is a complete unit, and, a part of something else at the same time-like an atom is complete, yet is part of a molecule and a drop of water. Or, a person is complete, and yet part of a larger unit of a marriage, a family, a community, and so forth. Would you please expand on this concept, and tell us how we can use it to live daily in a more accurate reflection of spiritual truth.

4. Some research suggests that a fetus enters into a dream state while in the womb. Would you tell us what the fetus might be dreaming about?

5. Your teachings are different from many Eastern and some new age teachings in that they continually invite us to integrate our divine and human natures. You often encourage us to feel negativity even more deeply as a way to know that it is ultimately not truth. This is quite different from some Eastern concepts that focus on rising above our humanness, or detaching from pain or negativity. Will you further explain why it is so important for us to live with intensity and not necessarily detachment, to live through instead of rise above negative feelings, and to merge the human and divine, not just seek to become more divine?

6. Please close with an attunement for us to use this month.


STUDY GROUP READING #128

August 1997
Opening Teaching
1. Suppose that someone has a life-threatening illness and is using affirmations as part of the treatment. The person wants to get well at the conscious level. Should the affirmations focus on the person's highest good, even if their highest good would be death, or on recovering from the illness? Might focusing on the highest good dilute the person's will to recover because it is a "whatever will be" attitude rather, than seeing physical wellness?

2. As the caretaker or loved one of someone who is ill, how can we know when to stop encouraging the terminally ill person, or seemingly terminally ill person, to continue fighting for physical life, and to shift to helping them prepare for dying, especially when the person may not have a sense themselves of whether they will live or die as a result of the illness?

3. Is there a hierarchy of souls in the animal kingdom? In other words, is a dog more evolved than a fish, and so forth?

4. Would you speak about whether it is a better choice to avoid eating animal forms of food, in terms of our soul's evolution as a human being on the earth? Is there any difference between eating a vegetable, a fish, a cow, or a dog?

5. In an individual reading for a Study Group member, you talked about "immersing our human personality in a pool of bliss," in a way that is similar to what our souls do. Would you inspire us by discussing this glorious pool. Since you have said that we all gain power or energy from it daily, what can we do to be more conscious of it?

6. Please close with an attunement for us to use this month.


STUDY GROUP READING #129

September 1997
Opening Teaching
1. In relationships, how does one know when to work through challenges, and how does one know when to walk away?

2. Why did the souls create homosexuality? Is homosexuality a natural state, or is it a challenge to be healed? What should society's attitude be toward homosexuality and homosexuals?

3. We know that violence is based on fear, but we have to deal with violence, and it appears to be intensifying. Is the violence symptomatic of an evolutionary process similar to another time, such as the fall of a previous great civilization?

4. How do we achieve a balance between our passion to fulfill our worldly or human desires, and our desire to experience an enlightened sense of non-attachment? When do you think the bulk of humanity will learn this balance?

5. In our culture that over stimulates and overwhelms our children with information and adult images, how can we help them preserve their purity of spirit and nurture their inner light?

6. In the present time, there seems to be a larger segment of society that is single than ever before. What are the spiritual and emotional reasons for this? For those individuals who want to find a mate to share their life with, what can they do to bring this about?

7. Please close with an attunement for us to use this month.


STUDY GROUP READING #130

October 1997
Opening Teaching
1. Two very beloved and globally important women died in September. We would like to ask a couple of questions about them. First of all, Mother Teresa, who died at 87, inspired many of us with her life. Will you help us gain further inspiration from her life and death now.
2. The sadness at the news of the sudden death of Princess Diana is also being felt by millions of people all over the world. Many are struggling to find meaning in the premature death of a woman who was such a loved public figure, a charity crusader, the mother of the future king of England, and someone who was finally in a position to find some personal happiness. Did Dana's soul choose to leave earth at this time? If so, why? Or was this her karma, and why? Or just a huge mistake?
3. In someone's personal reading, you talked about "seeing with the eyes of feeling." Will you discuss that idea for the whole Study Group, and help us learn to increase this skill that is available to us?
4. This next question is related. Most of us know the magical glow and exhilarated feeling of being in love. Everything seems possible, and love seems infectious. How can we generate that same feeling of love for God, or for our soul so that, regardless of our personal relationships, we can feel in love? Some feel that love for Jesus Christ, such as Mother Teresa did. What steps can we take to be in love for a lifetime?
5. Scientists are now developing methods to identify genetic predisposition to certain illnesses. How much control do we have over whether a genetic predisposition actualizes itself? Could knowing that we are predisposed to an illness cause it to manifest by our anticipation and/or our fear?
6. And please close with an attunement for us to use this month.


STUDY GROUP READING #131

November 1997
Opening Teaching
1. Historians often name a particular time period in an attempt to point out its significance-for example, the Renaissance, or the Industrial Revolution. Many people feel that the time period in which we now live has an important spiritual significance, thinking that it is a time of world transformation, or a time of great culmination, perhaps a second coming. From a spiritual point of view, how would you characterize this period? What is its significance? What name would you give this time period to help us know more about the age in which we live and work?

2. In past readings, groups of people have been told that they have spent past lifetimes together. For example, in a recent group reading, participants were told of being together during a time of Egypt, and again in Portugal. Were those who belong to the Study Group, and people who share a deep interest in Ron Scolastico's work, ever together before as a spiritual group, or as a community of some kind? Are there ties that bind this group together beyond that of being in the Study Group?

3. Would you speak about adoption, from the souls' perspective? Are there any generalizations you can make concerning adoption? Why does the soul of the child choose to be born to parents that they know will not raise them? Why do the souls of the birth parents choose to give birth to a child, knowing it will go on to be raised by other parents?

4. Is there always a soul connection, or a deeper spiritual connection between the baby and the adoptive parents, even though they may be from opposite sides of the globe?

5.Many of the people who work with your readings are interested in the Christ force. You have said that the Christ force is an important reality for human beings to attune to. Some of our Study Group members say that they have diligently tried to become consciously aware of the Christ force through daily attunements but have not been successful. If the Christ force is so important to us as humans, then why is it hidden from our awareness? Why is it that people who seriously try to become aware of the Christ force often have difficulty in doing so?

6. Please close with an attunement for us to use this month.


STUDY GROUP READING #132

December 1997
Opening Teaching
1. What is the most important theme, or primary challenge that we should focus on for 1998?
2. What can we as a group do, such as fasting, meditating, attuning, prayer, and so forth, to nourish and accelerate the feeling of love at Christmas so that the "angels" come nearer to the earth to touch their harps of gold?
3. Speaking of angels, are there different levels of evolution of souls based on how long it has been since they were created? Is there such a thing as old souls and young souls?
4. How does one raise a spiritually aware child in a household that does not practice any formal religion? Would you give us any specific examples or stories to introduce to young children?
5. At this time of year, when we traditionally focus on Jesus' birth, we would like to know more about Mary. Who was she, as a soul, and through her previous lifetimes, such that she had the honor of being Jesus' mother? And what about her life as Mary, and her qualities as a person, a woman, and a mother, would be most valuable for us to focus on today?
6. Please close with an attunement for us to use this month.