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STUDY GROUP READING #193
January 2003

OPENING TEACHING
1. The nature of the conflict between what is called the “civilized world” and “Islamic extremists” seems to have changed. What was once the need to stop a wave of terrorism has become almost a new religious war with the forces of the Western nations aligning to stop an increasingly militant Islam. What is the most enlightened way to view our growing world conflict? When is war the proper response to these kinds of threats? How can we maintain a sense of inner alignment with eternal forces, even though we may be called upon to militarily defend ourselves?

2. One of our Study Group members asks the following: “Over the years, you, the Guides, have often reminded me about the importance of ‘pushing’ less in life. You say that this is not that I must be less active or engaged in life, but that I must heal the patterns of inner pushing. For me, it's a barely conscious feeling that if I'm not vigilant, if I don't stay on top of things, that life will somehow go wrong. This fearful energy is active in me much more often than it needs to be. Given the number of people who frequently talk about being too stressed, too busy, and too wound up, I'm assuming that I'm not the only one in the Study Group who struggles with this. Would you talk about this area, and suggest some steps to heal this unnecessary and unhealthy inner pushing?”

3. Some people believe that our human-animal bodies were not “designed” for our current lifestyles. That they were designed for seasonal work, longer rest periods. In the early days, in the winter time, humans slept more, rested more. The bodies were not designed to stay awake the long hours that we do today, or to receive the constant input from technology, or to encounter the pollutants and chemicals that we now deal with. Would you speak about how our current illnesses and abilities to deal with stress relate to some of these beliefs? What is the cost to our physical human being?

4. The psychologist, C. G Jung, coined the phrase “synchronicity.” He believed that tel4epathy, clairvoyance, and precognition are all synchronicity—meaningful coincidences between persons and events in which an emotional or symbolic connection cannot be explained by cause and effect. Is synchronicity a reality, or is it all in our imagination? If it is a reality or phenomenon, how does it work, and how can we develop our awareness of the synchronicity in our lives?

5. In the last two Study Group Readings you have discussed how past-life events can effect us now. You gave an example of a person seeing a tree and it stimulated a memory in his subconscious of his uncle being hanged from a similar tree, and that affected him in a negative way, presumably by causing sadness and depression. With all the thousands of past lives that we have experienced, there must be scores of unhealed wounds in our subconscious memories. How are we to know if our responses to life are influenced by these past-life memories? Is it important to know this? Some groups and therapists claim to have ways to heal these past-life traumas by recalling them in therapy. They believe that talking about the memories can help the wound to begin to heal and lessens it’s effect on us in the present. This seems consistent with your teachings. Is it possible to live to our full potential without recalling these past-life memories and being healed?
 
6. Would you please close with a message for the coming year 2003? What will be the most important thing for us to focus upon, besides kindness, compassion, and love, which you have said are always important expressions?

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STUDY GROUP READING #194
February 2003

OPENING TEACHING
1. This being the month when we celebrate Presidents’ Day, we thought it would be interesting to hear what you have to say about George Washington, the first President of the United States. What motivated his soul and made him stand out not only as a leader, but as a visionary of a new country?

2. One of our Study Group members writes the following: “Based on the Readings, I am feeling like more of our human life is based on human choice than I thought, or more than those who believe in God talk about. This makes me regret even more certain choices that I have made (consciously or indirectly) because they really were mine, and not something that was ‘meant to be’. Would you address the feeling of regret and/or guilt resulting from this idea and speak about how to work with such feelings?”

3. Assuming that a cloned human being has come into the world (or will at some point), what are the soul forces sustaining that child? Are they any different from a human being conceived in the standard manner having both a biological mother and father?

4. If a person knows that they have what is considered an incurable disease, one that will definitely limit their lifespan, what vision should be held by that person? How, and for what should one pray?
5. The prison system in the United States has become a big business. There are millions of people in prison, and, for violent offenders at least, rehabilitation does not seem to work. Are many prisoners living out a karmic pattern? What is the spiritual view of this problem?

6. Now, with DNA, it is being discovered that there are many people on death row, and some who have already been executed, who are innocent. What are the ethics of the death penalty, and upon whom should the spiritual responsibility be placed for executing the innocent?

7. One of our Study Group members asks: “Is it possible that what is considered to be the Antichrist is not a person, but is actually ‘Organized Religion’ in all its many forms today, controlled by the people and groups that control it. Aren’t most of the organized religions in the world focused on control and fear instead of the message of love from Christ.”

8. The Christians say that Jesus was the only son of God. What do they mean, and is there any truth to this saying in some sense?”

9. Would you please close with an attunement for us to use this month?

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STUDY GROUP READING #195
March 2003

OPENING TEACHING
1. A saying attributed to Buddha's is that an enlightened man needs for nothing, and yet in order to live in the physical world, we do have certain needs. Would you enlighten us on this subject please?

2. When a person dies, depending upon their level of spiritual growth and enlightenment, is there an ethereal body that continues in a familiar human-like environment, still consciously working through earthly issues and staying close to the earthly home?

3. Is it true that what we “imagine” in our minds eye is what we create?

4. Would you give us advice about weight loss? Is there a process that will help us control our food desires and addictions so that we can maintain a desirable, healthy weight?
5. Concerning sleep, why do some individuals have difficulty sleeping? Assuming that there is no physical basis for sleep difficulty, do you see that this could be related to our soul, or to a spiritual source? Does this indicate any special underlying attributes? How would you suggest this may be controlled or overcome, if it is bothersome?

6. Why do so many groups of the world despise the group of people who call themselves Jews? Is there something about the Jewish group that makes people choose them to be the focus of so much anger and attention?

7. Would you please close with an attunement for us to use this month?

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STUDY GROUP READING #196
April 2003

OPENING TEACHING
1. During this time of war, many people are concerned that we are entering a particularly dark period of human history. There is much to fear in the world, and many idealistic people are very discouraged. Until now, many of us believed that there was a “critical mass” of human beings who were becoming more aware, more compassionate, more enlightened. We believed that, through our willingness to heal our own fears, we were leading a larger move into a more enlightened age, one marked by peace, justice, opportunity, and well-being. Recently, however, with the war in Iraq, things have gotten so dark and oppressive that it now seems to many of us that we are entering a new age of violence, tyranny, increased governmental repression, and social injustice. Would you speak to this?

2. Continuing on this theme, one Study Group member writes: “To me, the world outside of myself seems to be quite insane right now. For years, I believed that the human race was evolving in consciousness. However, looking back on recorded history up to present day, it seems that we always have war. Not much seems to have changed, with the exception of the methods that we use to kill each other. Obviously, there is little that we personally can do about these external events in the macrocosm in which we exist, except to watch in horror, quite helpless to remedy the situation. Because war seems to repeat again and again, is there something that we can learn from this drama?”
3. Historically, all great cultures have eventually gone into decline. Is the United States passing its peak as a world wide influence? Is the current administration creating an anti-American sentiment from which we will never recover?

4. I recently saw an article whose headline was, “How does God sort out all our prayers?” Considering that there are multitudes of conflicting supplications to God, each side praying for victory, how does God sort out our prayers?

5. It appears, given the choices we are making as we govern this planet, that we are making it difficult to complete the souls’ desire to have a fulfilling human existence in the physical world. For those of us who yearn for a fulfilling human life, what do you have to say?

6. Would you please close with an attunement for us to use in the coming month?

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STUDY GROUP READING #197
May 2003

OPENING TEACHING
1. One Study Group member asks: “People seem to be having very strong feelings ‘for’ or ‘against’ war and other important world issues. I am struck with the righteousness in peoples’ thinking and feeling, meaning that they believe their view is the only one and every other viewpoint is wrong. I myself can get in a righteous place quite easily, but I believe this to be part of the problem. Would you speak about this human tendency towards righteousness, and how we may work with this so we can be more understanding and compassionate with others and ourselves?”

2. Why is the modern country of Israel such a flashpoint of conflict? Why can't the Israelis and Palestinians make peace? And, is this a particularly significant piece of land on the Earth? Why has this dispute over this piece of land gone on for so many thousands of years? Will they ever make peace there?

3. A Study Group member from England asks: “When we look back on our lives, I'm sure that we always do the best we know how to do according to the knowledge and experience we have gained up to that point. However, due to an increase of knowledge and experience later in life, we can realize that we did not act for the best interests of all concerned. This lends itself to the old adage, ‘I wish I were younger and know what I know now.’ How can we heal the consciousness of blame? Is ‘forgiveness’ of ourselves enough, or the simple fact of recognizing our own ignorance? Is there a method by which one can go deep into the consciousness and re-enact the old situation in a new way with the better understanding in order to ‘wipe the slate clean’?”


4. Would you speak about the origin of human language? It seems so remarkable that there are so many radically different languages and alphabets. How did humans first begin to communicate with words? Did they all speak in the same way in the beginning? How did the different languages come about?

 5. A Study Group member who works with elderly people writes: “In a past Reading, you made a powerful statement in which you said that the way the elderly are treated now would help to form the next generation of humans on earth. What you said made a lot of sense to me. But, generally, people talk about the raising of children as our heritage. Would you please elaborate on your statement concerning the elderly?”

 6. This is the time of Passover, Easter, and Spring, and, incidentally, the end of the most dramatic part of the recent war. It feels as if there is a pause in earth intensity. What is the best way to utilize this time to elevate our awareness, our consciousness?

 7. Would you please close with an attunement for us to use in the coming month?

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STUDY GROUP READING #198
June 2003

OPENING TEACHING
1. Do we really have complete free will? There seem to be such strong influences in our lives that it's hard to believe that we do. Is there such a thing as fate, or a destiny path? If there is free will, why are there times when we can catch a glimpse of the future (like in a dream or in a vision) that manifests exactly as we saw it? That implies that at least some of the future is set, regardless of the choices we make. Could it be that our free will manifests fully only before our birth, when we are choosing the circumstances of our lives to come? It seems that the rest just unfolds and we get to choose how we respond to what occurs.

 2. This relates to the previous question: You have stated that no one can predict the future with total accuracy. Why can’t you, the Guides, see the future since you are beyond time and space? And, what about the people on earth who claim to foresee the future? Would you address these two points?

 3. Following up on foreseeing the future, would you tell us if certain predictions in the Christian Bible, such as the destruction of the world, are likely, or inevitably destined, to occur?
4. In a personal reading for one of the Study Group members you made the following statement: “If you try to be so Christ-like in your interactions with others that there is no room for you to occasionally be upset, frustrated, sad, or frightened, then there is a slight negative result from your choices.” Would you please explain more fully what is meant by this statement?

5. Continuing on with the subject of Jesus and the Christ, one Study Group member asks: “I can understand that there are a handful of souls who are willing to watch over me and act as my guides. I discuss things with them, and occasionally get what appears to be direct answers to my questions. Yet, I have a hard time praying to Jesus. Even if he actually would listen and care, I wonder how one soul could take on the burden of the millions of people who count on him every day. I know that I have only a limited understanding of reality, but isn't that asking an awful lot of one soul, no matter how evolved and extraordinary he is? I am confused about this.”

6. How can we determine those aspects of ourselves that can be improved and/or modified? Would you give us a meditation to help us be open to changes that we need to make that we might be resisting, and suggest a process for changing those aspects?

7. Would you please close with an attunement for us to use this month?

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STUDY GROUP READING #199
July 2003

OPENING TEACHING
1. Some Study Group members have had dramatic experiences of expanded consciousness. Then, after the experience, they wonder if it was imagination, or something else. To throw some light on these kinds of experiences, we would like to ask the following question from one of our members. She writes: “I was sitting at my desk in the lab at work, and, in a brief moment, I had a shift from regular mundane reality to a cosmic connection with the universe. I was suddenly floating amongst the stars. The experience was ever so brief, but extremely powerful. I closed my eyes a second time and it was there again. I was seemingly at the center of the universe, surrounded by stars and darkness. I slowly opened my eyes, then closed them again but it was gone. What happened? Is this a kind of experience that can be created or repeated, and if so, how?”

2. Is there a general way to speed up our personal individual evolution? How can we make quantum leaps in our understanding?

3. The following question comes from one of our more scientifically oriented members. He asks: “Your teaching in the June Study Group Reading regarding the need to trust in, or imagine, spiritual realms in order to open the gate in the wall of doubt was profound, but seems to me to be incomplete. An intellectually oriented person can easily doubt that even a deep inner feeling proves the existence of a reality behind the feeling, such as the love of the soul. The process of trusting in, or imagining, may merely be programming the subconscious mind through repeated suggestion to eventually create the desired feelings. The unconscious is known to be extremely suggestible.
analytically inclined person needs to first convince himself or herself of the reality of spiritual realities through the study of evidence. For example, there is evidence for the reality of various kinds of extrasensory or nonphysical perceptions, which points directly to the likelihood of a nonphysical spirit or soul. There also is powerful scientifically investigated and documented evidence for reincarnation, after-death communication, and near-death experiences that cannot be conventionally explained. The study of this body of evidence seems very necessary as a first step for the analytical, intellectual type of person. Would you please comment on this?”

4. You have said in past readings that the earth was originally intended to be a beautiful place for humans to live lives of beauty and harmony. Why then is the weather on earth so destructive, sometimes killing people through floods, hurricanes, heavy snow, earthquakes, and so forth?

5. One Study Group member asks: “I have heard that we come to earth to learn and to evolve, because we can’t do that when we’re on the other side. I guess that once we’re at one with the universe, there’s nothing left to know. So, my question is: do we learn and grow in between lives? Can we learn from our lives after our death so that we don’t make the same mistakes again? Do we go from ignorant on earth, to all-knowing afterwards, and then back to ignorant when we come into earth again? How does this work?”

6. Would you please close with an attunement for us to use this month?

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STUDY GROUP READING #200
August 2003

OPENING TEACHING
1. It is said that “Patience is a virtue.” Other than annoying people when we are impatient, what is virtuous about patience, and how can we cultivate patience?

2.  Many teachings say, “The answers are within.” If that is so, why do they seem so hard to access?

3. Many years ago, Ron and the Guides made a Universal Guidance tape called “Ancient Civilizations.” One of our Study Group members who is interested in early human existence asks: “In your ‘Ancient Civilizations’ tape, you stated that some humans from Atlantis relocated to the Northern Polar region, which was at that time not covered by ice. Where exactly is this area located now, and are there structures under the ice that we might find? Did those people create a tunnel system in that area, and are the tunnels still there, or is this a fantasy? Are there any descendent groupings of those people alive today?

 4. Recently, we asked if it was possible to love more than one person in our life. You stated that we could potentially love every person. Since there are so many past-life connections, and so many people around us that we have had past mating relationships with and could potentially love intimately, does that explain some same-sex attractions, gay relationships, or bi-sexuality?
5. Although mating relationships are often difficult and painful, we do see many examples of successful romantic couples, but very few examples of successful romantic threesomes or foursomes. Why is this? Is this simply a personal choice, or is there something in the nature of monogamy that makes it more common?

6. Domestic violence is one of our societies’ most violent interactions between people who love one another. Children are often silent victims of this abuse. Would you tell us what the consequences of witnessing domestic violence are to the children, and what should be done to counteract any negative effects?

 7. Would you please close with an attunement for us to use this month?

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STUDY GROUP READING #201
September 2003

OPENING TEACHING
The answers to the following 5 questions can be listened to at this link.
1. We have always referred to the source of these Readings as “The Guides.” Who are you, “The Guides,” and what is your relationship to Ron?

2. What would you say are the main points of your teachings, and the important purposes for bringing them forth?

3. Where do you (The Guides) get the knowledge that you give us in the Readings?

4. How can a person assess the validity of these teachings and decide whether or not they would be applicable to his or her life?

5. Is there anything else that you can say about Ron’s relationship with you? Why Ron, why now?

6. In a recent personal Reading, you say: “You wish to be natural, flexible, spontaneous. At times, that could mean that you grow irritable, irritated, frustrated, and angry. You would not wish to eliminate those responses.” When we believe that somebody has done us a wrong, like stealing from us, or being rude to us, we can

become angry, irritated, and find ourselves thinking many negative thoughts. How does this align with your other admonition that we are to be kind, appreciative, loving, patient, and grateful? It seems like getting angry and frustrated with others is moving us in the opposite direction from loving them. Would you clarify this supposed dilemma and contradiction?

7. You have told us much about Jesus, his life, and his mission. Would you tell us similar things about Mohammed? Was he a prophet? Is his information from God truly the “final piece” to add on to the information that Jesus provided to the world? What was his main message?

8. The following is from a newspaper article: “Why do insults once hurled at us stick inside our skull, sometimes for decades? Why do political smear campaigns out-pull positive ones? The answer is, nastiness makes a bigger impact on your brain. And that, says [an] Ohio State University psychologist is due to the brain's ‘negativity bias.’ Your brain is simply built with a greater sensitivity to unpleasant news. The bias is so automatic that it can be detected at the earliest stage of the brain’s information processing.” Our question is, what is the soul’s purpose for this propensity to remember the negative in our lives over the positive?

9. Would you please close with an attunement for us to use this month?

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STUDY GROUP READING #202
October 2003

OPENING TEACHING
1. How can we overcome negative mental and emotional patterns, and limiting beliefs about ourselves, that get in the way of happiness? Is it even possible for humans to fully overcome them?

2. Is there an underlying purpose for our negative patterns? If so, how do we learn what that purpose is?

3.  A Study Group member asks: “It seems to me as if humans have become increasingly more self-aware, yet more self-absorbed. At the same time, we seem to be more disconnected from our environment as a whole. How and when did the split occur from an awareness of what could be called divine perfection to our preoccupation with a narrow definition of perfection based in our self-absorption?”
4. Many people feel that in order to be well informed about world events, they need to watch television news and read the newspaper each day. But, as they take in the constant flow of information about war, terrorism, economic crises, murder, and crime of all kinds, they become very fearful about the world we live in. How can we stay informed and yet not be overwhelmed by the constant flow of negative information?

5. Are there any limitations to the wisdom or information you can give us in personal Readings relating to our individual selves, to other individuals, and groups of people? Is personal private information ever withheld about our own selves because there are lessons that we need to learn on our own?

6. Would you please close with an attunement for us to use this month?

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STUDY GROUP READING #203
November 2003

OPENING TEACHING
1. In the case of a person whose body is being maintained by medical means, and is actually in a vegetative state, where is the soul? What is the personality doing?

2. When people get old and are not healthy enough to be independent, and would just as soon leave the earth, what is the purpose of their staying around? They feel like they are a burden, they are in pain, and they have no future to look forward to. Why stay?

3. Some believe that when a person dies, it takes 3 days to fully leave the body and complete the transition? What is the best way to be helpful when others are passing? Do our prayers help guide them during their transition?

4.  Studies have shown that although there are more guns per capita in Canada than the United States, the level of violent crime involving guns is considerably less in Canada. The increased violence in the United States is attributed to our television and news media that seem so focused on


emphasizing the negative and spreading fear. What is it about this country, where so many people are so blessed, that causes us to be so attracted to the negative? Is there something in our collective psyche that is being worked out by wallowing in fear and negativity? Why are Canadians so different in their approach?

5. Some people have a very strong desire to have psychic powers. They meditate and try to open themselves up to guidance from the spiritual, but find they cannot. Why is this gift seemingly given to only certain people, and how should people who long for this gift, but don't have it, view the situation?

6. Would you speak to us about how to deal with instant gratification versus long-term benefit? For example, we often want the instant pleasure of excess sweets, alcohol, cigarettes, and so forth, even though we know it could be to the detriment of our bodies. What is the driving force that causes us to choose instant gratification, and how can this best be dealt with?

7. Would you please close with an attunement for us to use this month?

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STUDY GROUP READING #204
December 2003

OPENING TEACHING
1. Would you please speak in more depth about your comment in the November Study Group Reading in which you said that our purpose is to master the human functions of thinking, feeling, perceiving, analyzing, and choosing? What do you mean by mastering these aspects?

2. We would like to follow up on the question in last month’s Reading about continuing to live when we are old, sick, or in pain. You said that it was a “triumph” if one could fully live through such negative experiences and not artificially end one’s life. The question is, why is that considered a triumph?

3.  It seems that as a culture we are losing our ability to express ourselves verbally in as eloquent a manner as in the past. People don’t read as much. Our stories are told through TV and movies, fed to us externally, visually, rather than inspiring our imagination through words. The richness of allegory, myth, and fairy tales is taking a back seat to simplistic sound bites. How does this affect our inner creative life, our dreams and imagination?
4. We are often told that time is not linear, that there is no past, no future, only now. Because of our conditioning, this is a very difficult concept to understand. Would you give us insight into the nature of time, explain why our understanding is incorrect, and tell us how we might gain a better grasp of the reality surrounding the whole concept of time?

5.  Since December is the month of Christmas, would you tell us something about the Christmas Story, the story of the birth of Jesus Christ, that could give us new insights into its meaning and purpose?

6.  Would you please close with an attunement for us to use this month?

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