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STUDY GROUP READING #361
​January 2017 - "Prosperity and Wealth"

An Original Universal Guidance Reading circa 1982
OPENING TEACHING
1. Would you help us understand a little bit more about the source of abundance that you are mentioning?
2. How can we more effective, each of us, as outlets for this source of abundance?
3. How then do we develop the proper mental and emotional approaches to creating prosperity and wealth?
4. Can you tell us then, what is the purpose of money and physical possessions in our lives, and      what is the best attitude to maintain toward them?
​5. Some people believe that money is the root of all evil. Would you speak to us about this belief?
6. Many people also are afraid of financial responsibility and the gaining of prosperity because they believe that they may become trapped in material pursuits. Would you expand on that?
7. What about financial irresponsibility—indebtedness and problems that seem to be besetting many of us nowadays. Would you comment?
8. Can you give us an affirmation to help those of who are dealing with the problem of indebtedness?
9. On the other side of the coin, can you help those of us who are owed money. How should we  approach our debtors?
​10. You’ve spoken so well about the issue of guilt. Can you speak about how to heal the situation of someone starting to manifest their dreams and gain financial wealth who begins to feel guilty for having so much?
11. What is the effect of holding onto our wealth or possessions?
12.  Can you tell us about the importance of giving and receiving and the relationship between them?
13. Some of us are born into poverty and others are born into wealth. It appears to be unfair to some. Would you comment on this?
14.  How then can we go forth to help our brothers, the poverty stricken one and the wealthy one?
15. How does the mastery of prosperity and wealth help people take leadership in this the New Age?
16.  As the New Age unfolds, what changes are coming about in the area of prosperity and
 wealth, particularly in regard to spiritual orientation?
17.  Would you tell us exactly how each of us can manifest our own personal desires for wealth  and prosperity and help each of our brothers and sisters fulfill theirs? Would you give us a specific step by  step method, perhaps a visualization or an affirmation?
18. Closing 

STUDY GROUP READING #362
February 2017 - “Committed Relationships and Marriage”

​​An Original Universal Guidance Reading circa 1982
OPENING TEACHING
1. What is the purpose of a committed love relationship or marriage? What does an individual gain from this?
2.  How do we decide when a committed relationship to one person is right for us?
3.  Is there a specific spiritual or evolutionary purpose that marriage serves that other types of  relationships don’t provide?
4.  For two people who are in a committed relationship, does extending this to marriage add anything to the relationship?
5. Some people attempt to find their total purpose and meaning in their committed relationship or  marriage. Would you comment on this?
6. What makes some people fear to make a commitment in a relationship?
7.  Are there any specific steps that these people could take to overcome the fear? 
8.  Why are so many people today having trouble maintaining a committed relationship?
9. Would you speak about the general causes of conflict in committed relationships that come up  day to day and give us some guidelines for dealing with these conflicts?
10. Would you describe for us the characteristics of an ideal marriage or committed relationship?
11.  Would you give us some specific guidelines that will help people grow toward that ideal relationship?
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​12. How can two people deal together with the fear of loss of the relationship?
13. What do partners do when they feel that the romance or the magic has gone out of the relationship?
14. What should a person in a committed relationship do if they fall in love with another person?  How do they decide what course of action to take?
15. What should a person do if they have been in a committed relationship or marriage for some   time, and then they begin to feel that the relationship is destructive to them?
16. Why is there so much divorce at this time, and what should our attitude be about divorce?
17. Would you speak to those who have experienced divorce or the ending of a committed  relationship and who still hold sadness or have resentment or other negative feelings toward the partner?
18. Would you speak to those who have lost a partner through death and now have a feeling of  incompletion or feel somewhat less in themselves because they had grown so used to being in a partnership  role?
19. Would you speak to those who have lost a partner and who are having difficulty finding the  right person for a new committed relationship?
20.  Can you talk about open marriage, a marriage where the primary commitment is to the mate  but no possession or jealousy influences the relationship so that other love affairs or sexual encounters are   possible, as long as it is for the highest good for all concerned?
21. Is this a form of relationship that is more feasible as the New Age is occurring, and if so, can  you give guidelines as how to make this form more effective?
22 and Closing: And finally, will you give us an attunement or affirmation or visualization to be  used together by two people who desire to work daily to grow in their relationship?

STUDY GROUP READING #363
March 2017 - "Love Relationships"
​​​​An Original Universal Guidance Reading circa 1982

OPENING TEACHING
1. ​We humans express love in so many different ways, for example, casual relationships, deep  friendships, mating relationships. How can we truly be fulfilled in each of these areas?
2. Many of us are searching for intimate mating relationships and you talked about that a little bit. Would you expand and give us some specific advice about how to improve or improve our search for  intimate mating relationships?
3.  Can you tell us more about soul mates and earth mates?
4.  In every mating relationship that we have it appears to many of us human beings that there is a great desire to merge totally with that loved one. Would you clarify? 
5. Why is intimacy so often a difficult thing for us earthlings?
6.  We want to talk with you a little bit now about the major problems that prevent successful  intimacy, for example, at the physical level. What are the causes and what are our solutions?
7.  How about the major problems preventing intimacy at the emotional level? Again, what are the causes and how about the solutions? 
8.  And now the major problems preventing intimacy at the mental level, the causes and, again,  the solutions?
9. What are the major problems preventing successful intimacy at the spiritual level, again, their causes and some solutions?
​10. Can you guide us in those times when conflict and discord become overwhelming and nothing seems to help?
11. How do we know when to continue striving towards staying together or recognize when to  end our mating relationship?
12.  How do we constructively end our mating relationship?
13.  Sometimes as we’re leaving our relationships, our mating relationships, or in the process of  leaving a relationship a transitional person will appear. A friend will become involved with one partner, or  each partner will have a friend that becomes involved with them. And that becomes a challenge toward the end of the relationship. How can we integrate the friends that are appearing to be transition figures during    that time?
14. How can we learn to live successfully with the ending of our mating relationship?
15. How can we learn then to love freely once again?
16. How can we heal the fear of betrayal and the loss of a loved one?
17. You mentioned in your introduction something about a period when you were talking about  the general purpose of human love on earth. That perhaps indicates that something is going on with human beings as they love one another in the next few years. Could you amplify on that?
18 and Closing: Then as our final request would you give us some guidance, perhaps in the form of a visualization or affirmation to inspire us to love ourselves and one another more freely?

STUDY GROUP READING #364
APRIL 2017 - "Man, Woman and Sexuality"

​​​An Original Universal Guidance Reading circa 1982
OPENING TEACHING
1. Some people believe that humans were originally androgynous, both male and female in the same form. Would you please speak about this?
2. What is the purpose beyond the purpose of biological reproduction for souls choosing to incarnate in male and female bodies?
3. Have we all incarnated in both male and female forms in our past lives?
4. Are both the male and female forms that are chosen, chosen because of a specific pattern or is it a choosing out of what would be the highest purpose at that time 
5. How would you describe the ideal female qualities in terms of the spiritual purpose of the female expression?
6. Would you describe the ideal male qualities from the same perspective?
7. Would you speak about the balance of the masculine and the feminine qualities within each of us and give us practical ways to balance these? 
8. From a spiritual viewpoint, what is the role of a man as differentiated from the role of a woman in today’s society?
9. Could you talk about the different roles in today’s society in terms of highest developments since we have chosen those particular genders to express through this lifetime?
10. But I would like the question answered because a lot of people today are feeling very confused about what it means to be a male, what it means to be a female. And I think anything you could speak on in terms of today’s society, what the different aspects that should be developed or cultivated or enhanced in each area could be?
11.  Would you speak about the purpose of sexual union between individuals beyond the reproductive function?
12.  Why is it that sex is such an intense experience for most people? And why is this such a major area of interest today?
13. Would you tell us what happens between two people at the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels when they have sex with one another, describing this in terms of a sexual union that occurs when there is a deep love and then contrasting it to unions that take place only for sexual gratification?


​14. How can people decide when it is right to express themselves sexually since there is much confusion in this area today? For example, in the case of a formerly inhibited person who is now going overboard and being very promiscuous or young adults responding to peer pressure to have frequent sex?
15.  Is there a difference between sex in marriage and sex outside of marriage?
16.  Along those lines, for a long time monogamy was considered to be an ideal form of sexual expression. Now many people are polygamous. Would you tell us which of these is the best way to express sexually?
17. We would like to explore the area now of homosexuality. Why do some people desire to express with members of the same sex and what should their attitude toward this be?
18.  What effect does masturbation have on a person in terms of their own growth and their attitude towards sex?
19. Are there common causes for the different problems in sexuality, such as frigidity, impotence, premature ejaculation and so forth?
20. Some people believe that sex depletes our spiritual energy and that celibacy brings about more favorable conditions for spiritual growth. Would you comment on this?
21. Is humanity now moving toward the evolution of androgynous beings or a unisex form of physical expression?
22. Many people are now learning to love others unconditionally. For some this leads to a feeling of falling in love with everyone. How do we decide whether we should spend our lives maintaining loving sexual relationships with many people that we love or whether we should choose one person and express our love primarily in a committed relationship?
23.  Some people have an understanding of Tantra which says that it is important to not ejaculate during the orgasm and that there is a higher level of cosmic orgasm that happens if this is held back. Can you comment on this?
24.  Finally, we would ask you to describe the highest form of sexual union that we may obtain as human beings and give us specific ways of moving toward such an experience.
25. The Guides’ Closing:

STUDY GROUP #365
MAY 2017 - "Receiving Psychic and Spiritual Guidance"

​​​​An Original Universal Guidance Reading circa 1982
OPENING TEACHING
1.We would like to begin by gaining a clear understanding of psychic and spiritual guidance. Would you first explain exactly what psychic guidance is and how it is meant to be used by us in earth?
2. The outer levels then, the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh, is that the source of the spiritual guidance?
3. Can you talk about what exactly spiritual guidance is and how it is meant to be used in earth?
4.  What are the spiritual guides and how do they relate to our earth selves and then to our higher selves?
5.  What is the relationship between spiritual Guides and God?
6. Does everyone have their own personal Guides and if they do why are most people not usually aware of their Guides?
7. Is there a time in everyone’s evolution when it is necessary or helpful to channel knowledge from their spiritual Guides or from their higher self?
        Follow-up One: How do we know when the right time is?
        Follow-up Two: Will this channeling take many different forms? Does it have to be a situation such as this? 
8. Would you describe the realm of existence of the Spiritual Guides and tell us how it is related to our life in earth as well as our existences apart from earth?
9.  Some people believe they are now receiving knowledge directly from religious personalities of the past such as Jesus, Saint Francis, Moses, Mother Mary and so forth. Other people believe that they are in contact with historical figures such as King Arthur, Napoleon, William James, Nefertiti, or ancient Egyptian pharaohs and other famous people from the past. Would you comment on this and relate it to spiritual Guides?
10.  I would like to ask further on that though. Are these people when they are receiving these channelings, is that actually coming from these historical figures or is it coming through their spiritual Guides and they are trying to put the name on it?

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11. What is the difference between our ordinary day to day consciousness and the states of consciousness in which we receive psychic and spiritual guidance?
12.  Would you give us a specific step by step method for gaining our own psychic guidance?
13. How can we tell true guidance from our own thoughts and desires besides the element of the love permeating that you just mentioned?
14. ​And how can we gain greater trust in our personal ability to attune to trust, to truth?
15. Are there any dangers involved in gaining psychic or spiritual guidance? For example, some people fear they may be invaded by bad or evil spirits.
      Follow-up: Some spiritual teachers are opposed to people channeling psychic or spiritual guidance. Why is this?
16. Would you speak about psychic powers such as telepathy, clairvoyance, psychokinesis and so forth, explaining how they occur and why? And what is their true place in our lives? 
17. How can we develop such psychic abilities and use these physical cells in the brain? Is it an alignment with that inner force and having the will and desire as you mentioned or is there something more?
18. What can you tell us about going to other people to get psychic or spiritual guidance from their source?
19.  Why is there such a difference in the quality of information given by different psychics? Some of it is quite loving and other information is negative and frightening.
20. How is prayer related to spiritual guidance and also, what is the effect of prayer on ourselves and on others?
         Follow-up: Do you have any recommendations for a kind of prayer or a way to pray?
21.  Why is there such a wide difference in many of the teachings about spiritual truth and spiritual guidance?
22. The Guides’ Closing: Finally, we would like to ask what is the highest source of guidance to which we may all personally attune and how do we go about making such an attunement? Would you give us a daily exercise to carry out?

STUDY GROUP #366
JUNE 2017 - "Healing Emotional Pain"
An Original Universal Guidance Reading circa 1982
OPENING TEACHING
1. Would you amplify some more on the meaning of balance, balancing and harmonizing?
2. We’d like to ask you about the nature and origin of certain specific emotional pains. Would you speak on the causes for the following types of emotional pain and also give us some practical healing solutions for each? The first emotion that we would like to deal with is fear.
3. Many of us experience unworthiness. Can you tell us the nature and origin of the emotional pain associated with unworthiness? And again, give us some specific causes and some practical healing solutions for each.
4.  Will you speak to us about worry?
5.  Will you speak to us about guilt?
6. Would you tell us about the nature of sadness, some of the specific causes for sadness and also some practical healing solutions?
7. How about loneliness?
8. How do we create depression and how do we heal it?
9. Many of us encounter jealousy as one of our strong feelings. Would you talk to us about jealousy?
10. How about the emotional pain associated with anger?​

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11. How about resentment?
12.  Would you talk about the emotional pain of rejection?
13. It seems as though, though all of the emotional pains that you are talking about are associated with fear, I know you commented on fear in the beginning, is there anything more we need to know about the relationship of fear to emotional pain and how we might heal ourselves?
14. Would you help us learn how to uncover our hidden recurring patterns that create our emotional pain?
15.  Many of us have learned to temporarily relieve pain and we really need to know how to permanently heal and release the pain. Could you give us some guidance in this direction?
16. How can we best serve our loved ones when they are experiencing their own emotional pain
17.  Would you talk to us about the impact of emotional pain upon our bodies?
18. What can we do about dealing with emotional pain that is already impacting our bodies? How can we reverse the process or heal from that point forward?
19.  Would you give us something in the form of a visualization or affirmation to inspire us to heal any or all of our emotional pains?

STUDY GROUP #367
July 2017- "Maintaining Physical Health"

​An Original Universal Guidance Reading circa 1982
OPENING TEACHING
1. What is the nature of physical health?
2. Can you clarify further about the seventh year? Are you saying that prior to the seventh year the conscious mind is not a factor?
3. Why do some individuals choose bodies that have illness or physical deformity at birth?
4.  Can you tell us about the nature of physical disease?
5.  Since you mentioned illness as a learning process for us at times, how can we learn to accept and love our illness.
6. Could you expand more on the intimate connection between the will and the body?
7. Can you expand a little bit more on how we can use the will to maintain our physical health?
8. Would you specifically describe the mechanics of how the mind affects the body?
9. How then do our positive thoughts enhance physical health?
10. How do negative thoughts affect our bodies?​
11. How then do we reverse its affects, the negative thoughts on our body?
12.  You mentioned the emotions and their impact on the body. Would you describe the mechanics of that? 
13. How can we specifically use our emotional expression to enhance physical health?
14. Are there so called positive emotions that help?
15.  What are the so called negative emotions and would you tell us more about them and what impact they have on the physical body?
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16. Would you give us some help on how to reverse that process?
17.  Is there anything more that you would like to teach us about our own physical bodies?​
18. Would you speak to us about the nature of the physical body and its relationship to spiritual realities?
19. Can you tell us about the effect of diet and nutrition on health? 
20. What is the importance of physical activity and exercise to maintaining physical health?
21.  Tell us more, if you will, about joy and its impact on maintaining physical health.
22. ​Are you suggesting that there is a correlation between sadness and disease? Would you amplify on that?
23. Is there a way then that we can use joy in our physical activity in exercise
24.  Can you tell us about the function of sleep as it applies to maintaining physical health?
25. What would you say about meditation and prayer and their effects on maintaining physical health?
26.  Can you tell us a little bit about the value of vitamin supplements? That seems to be something that  many of us are preoccupied with nowadays. 
27. Can you speak on vitality and how to enhance our energy levels?
28.  Will you now tell us something about the aging process?
29. What can you tell us then about how forestall or reverse the aging process?
30. Will you at this time help us, each of us to love and trust our bodies and maintain our physical health, perhaps through a visualization an affirmation a step by step process that would be of  value to each of us?

 STUDY GROUP #368
AUGUST 2017 - "Death and the After-Death State"

​An Original Universal Guidance Reading circa 1982
OPENING TEACHING
1.Death is a great mystery for us; for many it is a frightening thing. To help us understand death, would you begin by explaining why death exists? Why must we all die?
2. How is the time of our death and the cause of it decided? Do we have any choice about it, or is it up to fate?
3. In the beginning of earth was death intended as a part of the earth experience?
4.  Why do some deaths seem to be so tragic? For example, why would a soul choose to die a violent death at a very early age?
5.  You mentioned though that some people need to be shocked because they over identify with the body, but there is that loss there at the time when you realize that you will not ever be able to be with that person in a physical body again, even though the souls are in truth united all the time. How can we deal with that?
6. What exactly is death? Would you give a complete description of what happens when a person dies?
7. Does our state of consciousness have any effect on our death experience? If we have walked a spiritual path, for example, will our experience be different that one who has never thought about spiritual matters?
8. What is a person conscious of immediately after death, and what happens to the personality at that point?
9.  Would you please describe all the stages that a person goes through after physical death?
10. How is it decided whether or not the person will return for another earth life or go on to a different realm of existence?​
​11. Does a person who has completed in terms of having a heart full of love and full of God on this plane, after death is there a merger back into the oneness, or are there other realms that they would go on to? What are those realms?
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12.  What is the best way for friends and family to help a dying person make the transition?
13. What would you say about those who are terminally ill and desire immediate death rather than prolonged suffering, speaking from the point of view of the ill person as well as from the people around that person.
14. What would you say to those who want to kill themselves because life seems hopeless?
15. How can the people around such a person help them to heal the desire to kill themselves?
16. Is it possible for us in earth to contact people who have died, and if so, how we would we establish such contact?
17. Why does there ordinarily seem to be no contact between us in earth and those who have died? Why do we not have conscious awareness of the areas of existence beyond earth where the dead exist?
18.Some people believe that their dead loved ones are guiding them. Does this really happen?
19.  What can we do to heal the thought forms of fear or pain or anguish or sorrow that exist, like sometimes if you go in a room where someone has died or be at a scene at an accident. Is there anything that we can do at that time to help that?
20. Is it possible for us to avoid physical death and gain immortality while in a physical body?
21.  Finally, we would ask you to give us knowledge that will help us understand our own death and that will help us make the most perfect transition at the time of our own death.
22. Is there anything else that you would like to tell us about death?
 ​STUDY GROUP #369
September 2017
"Part I of VIII:  "The Greatest Mystery of All; You and Your Place in the Universe" (Sept. 2017 through # 385, January 2019)
The Greatest Mystery of all was a series of Readings created in 1992 for an infomercial that never happened. Fortunately we still have these wonderful Readings and I will be presenting them as monthly Study Group Readings. There are a total of 17 Readings, including 9 Bonus Readings. This month contains Part I and II. 
​PART I - YOUR EXISTENCE AS A SOUL
​1. Susan's Note
2. Understanding Your Eternal Nature
3. Before Physical Reality
4.  The Desire to Create Time and Space
5. Susan's Note


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Part II: COMING INTO HUMAN LIFE​
6. Entering the Animal Body
7. A Fascination with Intensity
8. Entering Human Life as You Know It
9.  The Birth of the Fetus Form
10. The Veil of Opaqueness
11. The Development of Your Will
12.  The Reason for Pain and Suffering   
STUDY GROUP #370
October 2017
"Part II of VIII:  "The Greatest Mystery of All; You and Your Place in the Universe"
The Greatest Mystery of All: You and Your Place in The Universe were a series of Readings that were created in 1992 for an infomercial that never happened. Fortunately we still have these wonderful Readings and I will be presenting them as monthly Study Group Readings. Parts I and II were given in September 2017; this month contains Part III: Your Development as a Child. ​
ART III - YOUR DEVELOPMENT AS A CHILD
1. Susan's Note
2. Opening
3. The first two weeks
4. The Mind
5. Weaving patterns from feelings and emotions  



​6. Choosing negative aspects
7. You are not a robot
8. Feeling alienated
9. The magic of deeper realities
10. Family
​11. Imagine you are a camel
12. Guardian Angels
13. Closing
14. Bonus Q and A about natural disasters
STUDY GROUP #371
November 2017
"Part III of VIII:  "The Greatest Mystery of All; You and Your Place in the Universe"
This Reading contains part IV and V of the eight part series,  The Greatest Mystery of All: You and Your Place in the Universe.
PART IV - YOUR ADOLESCENCE
1. Susan's note
2. Opening - Your Adolescence
3. 8, 9, and 10 years
4. Past Life influences
5. Sexual development
6. Exaggerating tendencies
7. A temporary lunacy
8. Negativity and emotional sensitivity
9. Closing - Your Adolescence


PART V - YOUR YOUNG ADULT YEARS
10. Opening - Your Young Adult Years
11. Freedom to change
12. Love Relationships 
13. Disappointment
14. Intensity of human life
15. No need to condemn self
16. Closing of Your Young Adult Years
STUDY GROUP #372
December 2017
​"Part IV of VIII:  "The Greatest Mystery of All; You and Your Place in the Universe"
This Reading contains part VI of the eight part series:  The Greatest Mystery of All: You and Your Place in the Universe. Because it was only 35 minutes, and because it is the Christmas season, I have added to this month's Study Group Reading, 4 question and answers excerpted from Reading number 24, December 1988.
PART VI - YOUR ADULT LIFE
1. Susan's note
2. Opening
3. Forgetting your magnificent qualities
4. A rather curious process
5. Seeking yourself
6. A goal
7. Challenge and negativity
8. A wonderful attitude to adopt
9. Closing
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EXTRA Q&A'S EXCERPTED FROM STUDY GROUP NO. 24, DEC. 1988

​10. Would you speak about the past lifetimes that Jesus, Mary and Joseph shared that prepared them for the one that we are familiar with and celebrate in December? 

11.  Were the angels that were reported to have heralded Jesus' birth actually spiritual guides that appeared to Mary and others?  Are all angels spiritual guides as we understand them, or are they different and, if so, how?

12. Finally, what would be the core of the teachings of Jesus and their application to modern life?
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13. And in your closing, would you give us an attunement for us to use in the coming month?
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