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STUDY GROUP READING #253
January 2008

OPENING TEACHING
1. This question is from Minnesota: “How much of what we learn in this lifetime is retained for future lives, versus ‘starting from scratch’ in our next lifetime. I’m amazed at how much I’ve grown over the course of my life, but so much of it seems to be from age, experience, and maturity. When we start over again as a new baby without the benefit of experience that we remember from past lifetimes, how much do we simply have to learn over again? Are some types of learnings, for example the ability to handle our emotions, more retained than learnings that are based more on intellectual knowledge? How can we think about learning that will benefit us as a soul, and in our future lives on earth?”

2. This question is from Kentucky: “The Guides, speaking through Ron, seem to have changed their speech patterns through the years, such as tone of voice and dialect. They have also modified their teachings over the years. For instance, in the past decade or so there has been an emphasis on the importance of kindness, compassion, and love. Yet, in listening to recordings made in the 1980s, I notice that these three areas were not mentioned as such. Have the Guides changed their teachings? Are different Guides speaking through Ron, and, if so, how are the Guides selected?”

3. This question is also from Kentucky: “Many people believe that geographical orientation is important. Some people pray or meditate facing east, homes are built facing east, and some cemeteries are arranged so that the dead are buried with their feet to the east. Is there any significance to this? Are there subtle energies involved in orienting the human body in a particular direction?”
4. This is from North Carolina: “Why is it that we as humans hold so many unconscious habits, thought patterns, and feeling reactions that we are not aware of? Is it that we have embedded these unconscious patterns in past lives and must learn to unravel their origin in this life so that they don’t run us? Some philosophies recommend just ‘leaving the past behind’ and dealing with the present moment, letting go of resistance to whatever is occurring, connect to God, and go from there. How do you suggest we best deal with and handle reactive patterns in everyday life, other than, as you have so often suggested, feel the feeling, then recreate a vision of ‘truth’ to operate from? This process seems like an endless battle we need to be engaged in.”

5. I saw a wonderful documentary on TV called, “In God’s Name.” It profiled spiritual leaders of the largest religious/spiritual groups in the world. My favorites, for their being, their actions and their teachings were Amma the “hugging saint,” and the Dalai Lama. Both of these teachers seem to have such a radiant joy and happiness about them, even in the midst of life’s traumas. Is this kind of inner peace even possible in the western world with the many demands, not the least of which are the financial demands just to exist here? How can we stay in a state of joy, peace and love?”

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

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STUDY GROUP READING #254
February 2008

OPENING TEACHING
1. Our first three questions this month are from Study Group members in Minnesota: “Ron recently published an article entitled, ‘Where Do You Go When You Meditate?’ In that article he said that in deepened meditative states, ‘you can actually go to the level of cosmic existence in which you can directly experience for yourself the ongoing beauty, majesty, and love of the extraordinary spiritual beings that inspire and guide humans in their life on earth.’ I have occasionally experienced that deep level during meditation, and it is wonderful! My question is, if humans would learn to regularly go to that place of experiencing the spiritual beings, wouldn’t living a human life become boring and depressing? Wouldn’t it get more and more difficult to ‘come back’ to our imperfect human lives, and perhaps use meditation as an escape from human life on earth?”

2. “Regarding negative emotions, you have advised us many times to feel our feelings, share them with someone we trust, and then let them go. What is the ultimate purpose of doing this exercise? Is it to make the ‘bad’ feelings go away so we can have ‘good’ feelings? If so, that seems to contradict what you have told us about the truth about feelings, that is, that they are neither good nor bad. Would you clear up this confusion?”

3. “Some authors that I have read assert that there are some basic fears that we have as human beings that shape our personalities—for example, a fear of being unlovable, fear of being unworthy, fear of being incompetent, and so forth. If that is true, is there any way to eliminate our basic fears and live free and fearless lives? Or, is our real work as humans the acceptance of this ‘truth’ about basic fears, and just working to become more aware of our true natures as eternal beings living imperfect human lives, thus ‘balancing’ out the human with the divine?”


4. This question is from North Carolina: “You have said that we are in control of our thoughts, which is a concept that I understand and tend to agree with. However, many times, my reactions to situations—what people say, or events in the world—will trigger negative thoughts in my mind. That is usually a pattern of self-doubt, low self-esteem, and a web of negative thoughts that I get caught in. This is hard to change, erase, or overturn in my mind. How can we best ‘side step’ these negative reactions and maintain a positive self-appreciation, and confidence in our talents and abilities? Is there something we need to practice in order to eliminate or replace such mental patterns, or is it even possible to now change those patterns in our lives?”

5. This question is from California: “You often use the phrase, ‘when you make your death.’ How do you ‘make’ a death? Is there an optimal way to die, and how can one achieve that?”

6. This question is from Virginia: “The FDA has recently approved cloned meat for public consumption. If one is a meat eater, is there a spiritual downside to eating cloned meat?”

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

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STUDY GROUP READING #255
March 2008

OPENING TEACHING
1. Our first question is from Kentucky: “In the Bible, Jesus describes the kingdom of God as follows: ‘It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it….and…It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.’ (Luke 13:19-21). Would you explain this parable? Is Jesus saying here that God’s kingdom is a process rather than a place?”

2. This question is from Oregon: “We have been told that the human Jesus performed many healings while on Earth. Is it possible for any or all humans to perform miraculous physical healings on another person—even on an animal perhaps—like healing blindness, deafness, incurable cancers and the like?"

3. This is from Minnesota: "What actually happens to our bodies, minds and consciousness when we meditate? What happens inside us that makes physical healing, reduced stress, happiness and joy, and other beneficial outcomes possible when we regularly ‘tune in’? Does something tangible change inside us? Is it our belief in the process that just leads us to take different actions, or is it something else?"
4. This question is from California: “I am wondering about panic attacks. How much of it has to do with the health and state of our bodies/brains/nervous systems, and how much to do with our environments. How much has to do with exaggerated fears and thoughts? I know that sometimes all the self-talk and reassuring words don’t always help, but once when I thought the panic was due to a humidity and pressure change it made some sense and that helped.”

5. This is from North Carolina: “What is the best course of action to take when we are in a committed relationship and yet find others attractive? How can we love more than one person and not create problems and upset in our primary relationship? And, a related question is: if we are in a mating relationship and find another one attractive, and our mind starts comparing and wondering if we are with the right one, how can we stop or control this kind of thinking?”

6. This question is from Texas: “It seems that we have all been conditioned to believe only in what we can visibly see in the world, and what we can ‘prove’ in the physical sense. How can we break this habit and learn to believe in the reality of the soul and the reality of God?”

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

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STUDY GROUP READING #256
April 2008

OPENING TEACHING
1. Our first question is from Florida: “Often when we are happy, there is an underlying fear that the happiness will end, that something bad must happen. How can we live a life free of this kind of, ‘when will the other shoe drop’ mentality?”

2. This question is from Great Britain: “My question is based on my professional work as a therapist. The Guides have said that no damaging and difficult experiences can actually damage our souls. However, I have worked with many people who have been so abused and betrayed as children, particularly with sexual abuse, or who suffer with what we refer to as ‘borderline personality disorders,’ that they do not seem able to recover enough to have any sense of trust or safety in their lives. Any healing or recovery seems very slow, and actually quite limited. Would you help us think about what these issues mean, and how real healing could occur?”

3. This question is from North Carolina: “One of the Course in Miracles lessons states, ‘God’s will for me is perfect happiness.’ And yet, suffering, or the appearance of suffering, is present for me much of the time, and I assume that other people have this experience. It’s almost like I am holding on to an addiction, and I do not want to give up suffering in order to experience happiness. Eckhard Tolle, in his book, A New Earth, presents the

concept of a ‘pain body’ that takes over our consciousness because of the memory of earlier training and negative experiences. That pain body reacts to situations, people, or events in the place of our true self—the one that is connected to Being, or God. My question is this: Why do we seem to want to hold on to the appearance of suffering, rather than see joy, and how can we best give up this habit, or apparent addiction to suffering, so that we can be happy?”

4. Ron and I have been watching a TV show about orangutans. They are amazingly human-like in their behavior. They learn new things from each other, seem to have emotions, and have memories, in the sense that they respond to things that frightened them as a baby orangutan. I know we have asked about animals many times, but is there perhaps more of the soul, or at least intelligence, expressed through the brains of these animals than, say through a cow’s brain?

5. This question is from California: “There are many ways that one could interpret the advent of Spring, and the religious holiday of Easter. What would you say about this time of year to inspire us?”

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

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STUDY GROUP READING #257
May 2008

OPENING TEACHING
1. This question is from Minnesota: “When challenge after challenge seems to pour down on us, all happening at the same time, how do we cope? When it seems like we cannot take one more trauma, what do we do? When we feel paralyzed, and all we can do is to barely function, what is the best way to proceed?”

2. This question is also from Minnesota: “I would like to ask about dreaming. Sometimes I dream at night and don't remember anything about the dream in the morning. Then, sometimes the dreams are so vivid that I wake up with intense emotions (either positive or negative), and it takes a while to realize that the dream was just a dream, and not real. Would you speak to us about dreams? Why are some dreams immediately forgotten, and some are unforgettable? Is there a message in our vivid dreams that seem so real? Do those vivid dreams come to heal unresolved issues, or, are they merely a result of something like eating spicy food the night before?”

3. This question is from Los Angeles: “I've been watching the HBO series on John Adams and the ‘founding fathers’ of our country. What a huge and beneficial change they brought to the world. Would you give us some past life information about George Washington, or any of the other larger than life men from that time period? Surely they were rulers of some kind in other lives. They were just so wise and far-thinking.”


4. This question is from Massachusetts: “A close friend has a 25-year-old son who enjoyed a normal childhood, only to be diagnosed with a serious mental illness when he was 19. Since that time he has lived at home, basically in his own world, never going outside, other than to doctors' appointments. His parents are very loving, understanding, and supportive. Other people that I know also have children who have major mental illness. Would you speak about chronic, severe mental illness? Is there a soul’s purpose to it? How can we best support these people and their families?”

5. This question is from British Columbia, Canada: “Is it necessary for humans to reach a certain stage of intellectual or physical development before they can create, or have spiritual experiences?”

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

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STUDY GROUP READING #258
June 2008

OPENING TEACHING
1. Our first question is from British Columbia, Canada: “Is ‘channeling’ a recent form of communication with humans? Would you please elaborate on the differences and similarities between a person who channels, and someone who does what you have described in readings as ‘matching the actual energy structure of the human self to the energy structure of the soul’?”

2. Would you say that the bible, or at least parts of the bible, were channeled, and perhaps other spiritual books like that were channeled?

3. This question is also from California: “What is the point of healing our patterns from past lifetimes? Is it so that we can have a happier lifetime next time? Is it for some soul purpose that we are not aware of? What is the hoped-for outcome of healing painful past life patterns? If we don’t heal them, what then?”

4. In a personal Reading for a Study Group member in Minnesota, you said that her father, who is at the end of his life, is now experiencing a “porousness” in his personality. Can his soul communicate to his personality more clearly because of this? Would you speak about this porousness that you mentioned?
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5. This question is from Texas: “My sister, who can perceive auras, saw the presidential candidate, Barack Obama, speak in person. She said that as he was speaking, his aura, or energy field around his body, was solid gold with multi-colored jeweled prisms of light shooting out. I can also see auras, and I have observed that when Ron is speaking for the guides, his aura also turns solid gold. What does this mean? Is this a sign of divine inspiration? Or, are we imagining things and having human distortion?”

6. This question is from Seattle, Washington: “When parents do not belong to a church or spiritual group, besides being a good example to the children, what are some ways that the parents can build a foundation for the children about God and spirituality?”

7. This question is from California: “How would you, the Guides, define a ‘spiritual experience’?”

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

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STUDY GROUP READING #259
July 2008

OPENING TEACHING
1. Our first question is from the state of Kentucky: “Polygamy has been in the news recently. A few societies encourage polygamous relationships, but most prohibit them. Are there any spiritual implications here? Do our souls have intentions regarding ideal human mating relationships?”

2. This question is from a Study Group member in Kansas City: “My question has to do with the idea of Oneness. In our world of vast diversity, it is difficult to imagine how we can experience ourselves as one with each other, and one with our Source. But, my instincts, a few personal experiences, and my spiritual path seem to tell me that separation is a temporary experience that humans have until we come home to complete wholeness and unity with our Creator. Is this true?  Also, what about souls? Are they separate, or do they experience oneness with each other?”

3. This question is from the state of Maryland: “In the case of extraordinarily creative people, like the composer Mozart, it seems that they are born with special abilities. Is that because such people have attained those abilities in a past lifetime? How does a creative genius get inspiration and talents to surpass most of the rest of us?”

4. Is there also a component, with a genius like Mozart, for example, who perhaps felt unfinished in his expression of music, and he might come back in the next lifetime and begin with music very early in that lifetime? Is that a component of this?
5. This question is from California: “The Monsanto Company's decade-long research into bio altered foods is beginning to hit the newspapers again. Given the world-wide rise in food prices, and the resulting famines and starvation, many nations are beginning to accept the increased productivity of biotech foods. Is there a difference in the nutritive value of foods produced from biotech seeds, compared to foods produced from traditional farming? What should we know about biotech foods now that they are becoming more accepted?”

6. This question is from Minnesota: “I have heard you describe the transition process between life and death differently for three different people who have died. Is there a common pathway that we all take through death, or, is it different for each person? And, how does any confusion that we die with impact that transition period? Is human confusion or fear in the transition period what the Catholics describe as ‘purgatory’?”

7. This question is from British Columbia, Canada: “Would you please elaborate on the relationship that we each have with our own soul? I really appreciate the way that you explain such concepts with examples and analogies.”

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

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STUDY GROUP READING #260
August 2008

OPENING TEACHING
1.Our first two questions are from British Colombia, Canada: “I just finished reading Ron’s book, The Mystery of the Christ Force, and I was surprised to find that the book says that so many of the Bible stories about Jesus are based on actual events. Are the stories of the birth of Jesus true as well, that is, the shepherds being visited by angels, the birth in the stable, and the three wise men?”

2. This is her second question: “How is it that the counting of time, in terms of AD and BC, began with the birth of Jesus?”

3. This question is from California: “Would you tell us about the relationship between the person Judas and Jesus? Did Judas actually betray Jesus, or was he acting based on instructions given to him by Jesus?”

4. A study group member in California asks: “I was recently reading the Old Testament of the Bible, which Christians believe is the ‘word of God.’ In those chapters, God is often quoted as saying he will ‘smite the enemies’ of the Israelites, and he will cause plagues and disasters to those enemies. In Leviticus, Chapter 26, God says, ‘If you will not hearken to me and will not do all these commandments…I also will do this to you: I will visit you with terror, leprosy, scab, and the burning ague…and I will pour out my anger against you, and you shall be defeated before your enemies. And if you will not yet for all these things hearken to me, then I will punish you seven times for your sins.’ This does not seem very God-like to me. I imagine God to be all-loving to all humans. Would you speak about this?”


5. This is another question from British Colombia, Canada: “It would be interesting for us to know more about how Ron came to be a conduit for the teachings of the Guides. Would you please describe some important past lives of the ‘Ron-one?’”

6. This question is from California: “For many of us, making attunements, or meditating, often leads to falling asleep. Is there still a benefit in attuning and falling asleep that is different from just having a snooze?”

7. This question is from the State of Virginia: “I read some interesting research about the changing demographics of the world populations. Caucasian people are having fewer children. Some countries have more boy babies than girls. Muslims are moving to what used to be primarily European/Christian countries. Would you comment on what this means in the long term? Will it ultimately result in a more homogenized world? Or, will there ultimately be more separation?”

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

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STUDY GROUP READING #261
September 2008

OPENING TEACHING
1. Our first question is from England: “Would you please shed some light on the idea that is strongly promoted in the Christian and other spiritual traditions, that one should place love of God over and above love of one’s fellow humans? Perhaps the idea behind this is that one’s longing for love will never be perfectly fulfilled with another human being. But, I believe that God is in every human being, and other people are there for us to serve and connect with, whereas loving God can be quite abstract, and even isolating.”

2. This question is from Massachusetts: “The 24-year-old daughter of a close friend of mine committed suicide in April. Another friend’s 19-year-old son took his own life last November. When one takes his or her own life, what happens on the soul level immediately after death, and, how does that affect them when they come back into a new life on Earth?”

3. This question is from Kansas City: “Some of the people that I talk with appear to need proof of having a soul. I wonder what you, the Guides, would say to such people? It’s a comfort to me that you communicate to us and remind us of our truth, since so often the experience of isolation and separation feels so real inside the human experience. What are some key ideas that you might say to a person who is looking for the truth of having an eternal soul?”

4. This question is also from Kansas City: “Is there some kind of ‘portal,’ or ‘passageway,’ within our brain, heart, or nervous system, that helps us invoke clearer memories of our eternal nature? Or, should we simply trust that such memories come when we are ready? Are ‘soul memories’ something that we can consciously accelerate?”


5. This question is from Annapolis, Maryland, and it is also related to the brain: “I have been reading about the experiences of Jill Bolte Taylor, a brain scientist, who had a stroke that shut down the left side of her brain. She describes experiencing what she calls ‘Nirvana,’ in which she was not influenced by her ego, and felt that she was one with all the universe. Would you speak about her experience of having no boundaries of her body, lack of ego and ego chatter, and a lack of identification with self? Since one side of her brain was shut down, I am also curious about how the two sides of the brain work in this kind of experience.”

6. This question is from Silver Spring, Maryland: “If a genius such as Mozart comes to earth bringing his musical abilities from previous lifetimes, how is it that he can go so far beyond what he did in previous lifetimes? His music as Mozart in the 1700s was so much more advanced than anything he might have done in a previous life. From where did he get his new musical ideas, and the new tunes that seemed to just pop into his head? How could he hear a whole orchestra in his head when, in previous centuries, there were no such things as the
orchestras that existed in the 1700s?”

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

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STUDY GROUP READING #262
October 2008

OPENING TEACHING
1. Our first question is from Annapolis, Maryland: "I am asking about a teaching from a man who studies the Kabbalah. That teaching says that humans are addicted to pleasure, and that the Creator 'strikes a deal' with us to send us painful situations and people that allow us to work for our pleasure in life. This idea of a deal seems contrary to what Jesus meant when he said, 'It is my father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.' Would you speak about this? Is there some kind of 'soul contract' that we have prior to incarnation into human form? And, how do we best achieve true pleasure in this lifetime?"

2. This question is from Iowa: "Many years ago, you likened the process of leaving the body at death to the liberating experience of extricating oneself from an old, cramped shoe. From the soul's perspective, does the timing of the body's cremation or burial have any effect on the journey of the departing human self? In other words, while the one who has died is re-uniting with soul energies, and the physical body is disintegrating, is there any connection, any remaining link, between the two processes-the physical disintegration and the spiritual awakening? Or, is the connection severed at the moment that the body officially 'dies?' If this is different for different people, would you please offer us some perspectives on the subtleties of this process?"
3. That question made me think of something I wanted to ask. It made me think of a program that we watched where a person fell into a frozen pond and essentially his body flat-lined, his heart flat-lined, his brain. He was essentially dead. But they were able to then bring him back to life later, but he was flat-lined for quite a long time. Where is the personality? Is it kind of hanging around waiting to see what's going to happen, and essentially would leave if the body died, and come back if it didn't?

4. The following three questions are from New York City: "I am interested in knowing what the Guides can tell us about humor. It seems as if it is a double-edged sword. Laughter can be stress releasing, but it can also be at someone's expense. Would you help us see this more clearly?"

5. "Would you talk to us about the situation that we call 'climate change?' What alternative fuels would be most beneficial for us to develop?"

6. "The Guides have been such a positive part of my life that I would like to share my experience with everyone. What is the best way to do that?"

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

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STUDY GROUP READING #263
November 2008

OPENING TEACHING
1. Our first question is from California: "I would like to follow up on your response to last month's question about laughter and humor. I am wondering about the essence, or core nature of humor and the enjoyment of it. It seems to be an instinctive pleasure, or joy, in suddenly seeing a completely new, unexpected meaning in words or images. Is humor strictly a function of our 'animal' nature and brain, or, is it at base an aspect of our spiritual nature? In other words, do souls and other spiritual beings laugh? If not, it would be difficult for me to identify with them as higher aspects of our human selves."

2. This question is from England: "My question is about the experience of falling in love, and sexual love, that can be so blissful and intense, but then is so painful when it ends. What happens when we go through the intense experience that we call 'falling in love' with someone, and then have the experience of 'falling out of love'?"

3. This question is from California: "Scientists who study the brain have been unable to find the location of the sense of 'self' in the brain. What I am thinking of is my moment to moment experience of being me, such as my experiences of joy, fear, desire, and so forth. Is 'self' in the spiritual, or God realm? Is the sense of self a realm that connects with the soul realm?"

4. This question is from Florida: "I am curious about the location of the lost continent of Atlantis. The Edgar Cayce Foundation people have actively looked in the Bahamas for traces of Atlantis and have only found what they believe to be a long underwater seawall. Some researchers claim that the present Greek island of Santorini was Atlantis. Are there any structures anywhere in the world that are above water, or underwater, that are able to be found that were built by the Atlantians?"
5. This question is from the state of Kentucky: "The psychologist William James, in his book, The Varieties of Religious Experience, classifies one form of religious experience as being a 'neuromotor' experience. Some examples of this are Pentecostals speaking in tongues, Shakers shaking their bodies, Sufis whirling in circles, fundamentalists rolling on the floor, and certain meditators hopping on foam pads. Most of these people believe that these experiences are beyond their conscious control, and that God, or the Absolute, is actually controlling their bodily movements. Would you comment on this? Also, how are these experiences different from attunements to the Christ-Force?"

 6.This question is from Michigan: "There has been much written and spoken about a great shift in consciousness that is coming for all of humanity, and for the earth as well. Some of us are curious about this, and have listened to, or read the various interpretations. This happens to coincide with the end of the Mayan calendar, as well as with many other cycles from various traditions. This shift is predicted to occur around December 21, 2012. It has been called 'The Shift of the Ages,' 'The End of Days,' and also 'The Ascension.' There have been many predictions surrounding this event, ranging from terrible cataclysmic earth changes and chaos, to waking up one morning to a completely different reality that will be heaven on earth, with all of humanity occupying their light bodies. With all of these different takes on what will happen on this day, will it matter if we have tried to remain committed in our daily lives to act and speak with kindness, compassion, and love, and stay open to our eternal beingness? If so, to what extent? Would you please give us guidance from your perspective?"

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

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STUDY GROUP READING #264
December 2008

OPENING TEACHING
1.  Our first three questions are from California: "Many people are excited about our President-elect, Barack Obama, for many different reasons. Would you speak about him from a spiritual perspective, particularly his past lives and his soul purposes?"

2.  This is the second question from California: "Now that Obama has been elected president, it appears that people everywhere are looking at the United States with more respect, and many are feeling new hope for themselves and the entire world. Apart from our wealth, what does America represent in the world that causes such inspiration among peoples in other countries?"

3. This is the third question from California: "I would like to ask about the subconscious, and its relation to the soul. The subconscious mind is considered to be a vast substratum of mind below normal awareness. Its existence is evidenced by numerous mental phenomena, such as, hypnosis and suggestion, automatic writing in medium-ship, extreme creative genius where


the material just appears spontaneously in consciousness, and many other examples. This appears to be a vast realm of unconscious mental activity going on simultaneously with conscious awareness and thinking. How is this subconscious realm related to the soul?"

4. This question is from Minnesota: "Many of us have regrets in different areas of life, such as our parenting. Even though our mind might know that there is only God, and that our children are spiritual beings and cannot ultimately be harmed, our hearts sometimes feel these painful regrets. What is the best way to deal with such regrets?"

5. Our year ends with many different holiday celebrations, from Thanksgiving to Christmas, to Hanukkah, and others. What is most important about this time, and would you close with an attunement for this end of the year period?

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