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STUDY GROUP READING #373
​January 2018 - "Part VII of VIII:  "The Greatest Mystery of All; You and Your Place in the Universe" (Parts I-VI can be found in 2017, September-December)
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Your Old-Age Period

1. Susan's Note
2. The Opening of Your Old-Age Period
3. Expectations, Attitudes and Habits
4. A Rejuvenating Period
​5. Intellectual Rejuvenation
6. Disengaging from Intensity
7. Turning to a Spiritual Pathway
8. The Feast of Human Life
9. Losing Loved Ones and The Closing of Your Old-Age Period



STUDY GROUP READING #374
February 2018​ - "Part VIII of VIII:  "The Greatest Mystery of All; You and Your Place in the Universe"

Death, Life after Death and Reincarnation
1. Susan's note
2. The Opening
3.  Imagine you are Dying
4. Leaving your past human life
5. A magnificent soul
6. Past and future lifetimes
7.  The temporary death experience
8.  The closing: Love, Rejoice and Fulfill 



STUDY GROUP READING #375
March 2018 - Bonus Reading No. 1 for: "The Greatest Mystery of All; You and Your Place in the Universe" series.
Psychic Phenomena and Paranormal Experience

T1-Ron’s Attunement
T-2-The Guides’ Opening
T3-Question 1: Would you amplify on what you just said a little bit? What are the reasons that we have chosen to stay within the normal experience, and what might the value be in seeking to expand those experiences into the psychic or paranormal?
T4-Question 2: How does the mind work differently from normal thinking when a psychic experience is occurring? Is something different going on in the brain?
T5-Question 3: What is taking place in a near death experience?
T6-Question 4: Are there psychic power points on earth where the energy is stronger than in other places? If so, where are they?



T7-Question 5: There are many different systems that are used to divine the future such as Tarot cards, numerology, astrology and so forth. Are they viable systems of predicting the future and understanding the personality? How do they work to take the mind beyond the limits of ordinary reality?
T8-Question 6: Some people have seen ghosts or experienced a haunted house. What is taking place when such things happen?
T9-Question 7: Some people have visions of religious figures such as Jesus, Buddha, Mary. Are these figures actually appearing to them?
T10-Question 8: How can we determine if psychic information is accurate?
T11-Question 9: Earlier you talked about the difference between psychic and spiritual vision. First of all, if we want to develop our psychic abilities such as ESP or clairvoyance and so forth, how can we activate those parts of our brain that you spoke of earlier that we don’t use, that would allow us to have psychic vision?
T12-Question 10: Do we need to be afraid of opening ourselves to negative forces?
T13-Question 11: And finally, you spoke about the spiritual vision, opening to our souls, our guid-ing ones, to the greater forces of God. Would you give us guidance on how we can go about doing that?​

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STUDY GROUP READING #376
APRIL 2018 - Bonus Reading No. 2 for: "The Greatest Mystery of All; You and Your Place in the Universe" series.
Healing Fear and Emotional Pain, Part I

T1-Ron’s Attunement
T-2-The Guides’ Opening
T3-Question 1: What is fear and why do we have so much fear?
T4-Question 2: Please help us to understand a number of different negative emotional feelings starting with feelings of unworthiness. How can we understand and heal feelings of unworthiness?​​ 
T5-Question 3: How can we understand and heal the pain of rejection?​
T6-Question 4: How can we understand and heal feelings of sadness? 
T7-Question 5: ​ How can we understand and heal feelings of depression?
T8-The closing piece this month is an excerpt From Study Group Reading #10, October 1987. It was The Guides’ opening to that Reading and I found it applicable not only to the subject of healing fear and negativity, but also to today’s global anxiety?​ 08:01 min​

STUDY GROUP #377
MAY 2018 - Bonus Reading No. 2 for: "The Greatest Mystery of All; You and Your Place in the Universe" series.
Healing Fear and Emotional Pain, Part I​I

continuing from Reading #376, April 2018
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T1- Susan's Note and Ron's Attunement 
T2-Question 6:  How can we understand and heal feelings of guilt?
T3-Question Six Follow-up: excerpted from Study Group Reading No. 223, July 2005: When we are deep into negativity and feelings of, say, shame and guilt, there is a deep need to be forgiven, and to feel forgiven. It is hard to forgive yourself when you are feeling tremendously self-judgmental. If we don’t have a religious figure that we pray to, such as Jesus, what image could we use to gain that feeling of relief and being forgiven.​
T4-Question Seven: How can we work with feelings of loneliness?​  
T5-Question Eight: How can we understand and heal feelings of jealousy?
T6-Question Nine: How can we understand and heal anger? 
T7-Question Ten: It seems like there are times where anger is a natural and justifiable response. For example, if somebody is abusing your child?
T8-Question Eleven: How can we heal the pain of the loss of loved ones?
​T9-Question Twelve and Closing: And finally, how can we uncover our hidden recurring patterns that create our emotional pain? ​

GROUP #378
JUNE 2018  - Bonus Reading No. 3 for: "The Greatest Mystery of all: You and Your Place in the Universe"          
Career and Creative Fulfillment



T1-Ron’s Attunement
T-2-The Guides’ Opening
T3-Question 1: Before we come into Earth, does our soul have a plan for the type of work we will do; if so, how can we discover what that is? 
T4-Question 2: Where do creative ideas come from? Do they come from spiritual realms? Are they in the universe, ready to be tapped? How to we tap into the realm of creativity?
T5-Question 3: Is there a method that we can use that will help us more consistently tap into that larger creativity that you speak of?
T6-Question 4: What can we do inwardly, such as affirmations or visualizations to open the doors to the perfect career or work for us?​ 
T7-Question 5: ​ If we feel that our job is meaningless, but we decide that we can't quit, how can we find some value and meaning in that work? 
T8-Question 6: How can we balance doing what we love to do with what we need to do to make money?​ 
T9-Question Seven: What about when our work violates our human values, such as someone who must make weapons for a career, but doesn't believe in war?
T10-Question Eight: How can we address the fears that we have about changing jobs and taking necessary risks associated with our careers?
​T11-Question Nine: In our modern society, both parents in many families find it necessary to work to support the family, leaving others to raise the children. Would you address this issue, please?
T12-Question Ten: Another issue of modern society is that of women in business; many women do not have equal pay for equal work and feel unable to move up the corporate ladder because of the men in business. Would you address this issue and the best attitude that women can make in business?
T13-Question Eleven: Many people want to make a difference, to have an impact on life; they want to do something important. How can they accomplish that?
​T14-Question Twelve and Closing: Finally, what specific steps could we take to create a fulfilling career?​ 

STUDY GROUP #379
JULY 2018 - Bonus Reading No. 4 for: "The Greatest Mystery of all: You and Your Place in the Universe"        Love Relationships and Sexuality, Part I

T1-Ron’s Attunement
T-2-The Guides’ Opening
T3-Question 1: What is the nature of the feeling that we have when we're in love? What is romantic love and how does it come about? What sparks it?
T4-Question 2: In general, woman seem to be more emotionally involved in sex, while men can often be impersonally involved. Would you talk about the difference between men and women in the way they view sex?​



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​T5-Question 3: What is the larger lesson that we are to learn from all of the complexity that now surrounds sex, including sexually transmitted diseases, promiscuity, pornography, confused male and female roles, and so forth?​​  
T6-Question 4: How can a person decide when the time is right to make a lifetime commitment in a romantic relationship?​  
T7-Question 5: ​ What needs prompt a person who is in a committed relationship to have an affair outside of the relationship?
T8-Question 6:  Would you give us some general guidelines for resolving conflicts in romantic relationships and committed relationships?​

STUDY GROUP #380
AUGUST 2018 - Bonus Reading No. 4 for: "The Greatest Mystery of all: You and Your Place in the Universe"      Love Relationships and Sexuality, Part II

T1-Ron’s Attunement
T-2-Question 7: How do we know when it is time to end a committed relationship, or whether we should keep at it and keep trying to make it work?​
T3-Question 8: For many people who have been in a committed relationship for a long time, that initial magic and passion has settled down considerably. Would you give us some tips on how to keep the magic alive in a long term committed relationship?
T4-Question 9:  What is it about intimacy that can be so difficult for many people and how can we achieve more intimacy in the love relationship​

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T5-Question 10: Although many do desire deep loving, committed, romantic relationships, there are many people who live alone these days, many single parents. Can't they find fulfillment in living alone or is a committed relationship, a romantic relationship necessary for a feeling of fulfillment in a life?
T-2-Question 11 and Closing: And, finally, perhaps you could guide us further in the most beneficial steps we can take towards creating a magnificent and fulfilling relationship?


SEPTEMBER 2018 - Bonus Reading No. 5 for: "The Greatest Mystery of all: You and Your Place in the Universe"
​Wealth and Prosperity

T1-Ron’s Attunement
T-2-The Guides' Opening
T3-Question 1:  Do our soul choices or past life experience affect whether we will be wealthy or poor in this lifetime?​ 
T4-Question 2: What are the personality patterns that block our prosperity and how can we recognize and change these?
T5-Question 3: 
 Along those lines of what you just said, some people do think of the ability to have wealth as a reflection of your inner spirituality and yet we see of course lots of people becoming extremely wealthy through illegal criminal means. Is there a correlation between, I mean obviously there isn't a correlation then between our spirituality. Would you address that?​​
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T6-Question 4: Some people use affirmations and visualizations to try to create wealth. How do these things actually help create prosperity?​ 
T7-Question 5: It has been said that money is the root of all evil. How are we to understand this statement?
T8-Question 6: Earlier, you talked about desires. How can we determine if our desires are based upon true needs and true impulses from our soul or simply on superficial transient desires?​ 
T9-Question 7: The use of credit in our society has allowed this country and individuals to live in a great deal of indebtedness. What does this reflect about us from a spiritual perspective?
T10-Question 8: ​There is much incredible poverty in this world and much incredible wealth today. What are we to learn from this and what can we do about the poverty?​
T11-Question 9: Personal power, value, worthiness, and respect are associated with wealth. How can we feel powerful and valuable and worthy when we are not wealthy?
T12-Question 10: Work and the pursuit of money takes a great deal of time and energy. How can we have a deeper inner life and experience spiritual realities when we are overshadowed by the need to earn money? 
T13-Question 11: And finally, would you give us a step-by-step method for creating greater prosperity in our lives and perhaps a visualization that we could use as an adjunct? 


STUDY GROUP #382
OCTOBER 2018 - Bonus Reading No. 6 for: "The Greatest Mystery of all: You and Your Place in the Universe"
Your Physical Health

T1-Ron’s Attunement
T-2-The Guides' Opening
T3-Question 1: Would you speak to us about the nature of the physical body and how it reflects our soul?
T4-Question 2: Would you explain the mechanics of how the mind affects the body?
T5-Question 3: Would you talk about disease and its cause?​​
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T6-Question 4: Would you talk more about why a soul would choose a physical body that would have an illness or deformity? What could we learn from that?​​
T7-Question 5: When we are ill, is it always beneficial to look for the emotional/mental origin of the illness?
T8-Question 6: What is the effect of the foods we eat on our health and what is the best diet for maximum health?
T9-Question 7: What is the importance of physical activity and exercise to maintaining physical health?
T10-Question 8: ​What is the function of sleep as it applies to maintaining physical health?​ 
T11-Question 9: What are the effects of meditation, prayer and visualization on maintaining physical health? 
T12-Question 10:  Finally, would you summarize for us the most important attitudes and steps that we can take for maintaining maximum health? 
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STUDY GROUP #383
NOVEMBER 2018 - Bonus Reading No. 7 for: "The Greatest Mystery of all: You and Your Place in the Universe"
Your Human Mind

T1-Ron’s Attunement
T-2-The Guides' Opening
T3-Question 1:  Our human mind is often difficult for us to understand. Would you talk about the mind and how it works to enable us to think?​
T4-Question 2: What is the relationship between the mind and the brain?​ 
T5-Question 3: From the physical point of view, it appears that memories are stored in the brain. Would you explain what memory is and how it works?​
 
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T6-Question 4: Are the unconscious and subconscious mind and superconscious and conscious mind, are these all labels that we give to the mind, or are there actual structures?​ ​


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T7-Question 5: There have been many teachings that say we create our own reality with our minds. Is that true, and if so, how does it work?
T8-Question 6: What happens to the mind and the brain in the case of mental illness?
T9-Question 7: What about those who are born with a mental illness?
T10-Question 8: When a person is unconscious or in a coma, what is taking place in the mind?
T11-Question 9: All minds are not equal in terms of intelligence. There is a wide range between a genius and someone of low intelligence. What is taking place here and what causes this difference?
T12-Question 10 and Closing: Finally, science tells us that we only use a small portion of our brain. Why is this and how can we stimulate more of our mental potential throughout our life?​
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STUDY GROUP #384
DECEMBER 2018 -  Bonus Reading No. 8, Part I for: "The Greatest Mystery of all: You and Your Place in the Universe"
Your Spiritual Path and Inner Guidance, Part I

 T1-Ron's Attunement
​ T2-The Guides' Opening
T3-QandA One: We would like you to help us understand the value of adding a spiritual path to our lives. We would also like to have help in structuring some practical ways to develop our own inner guidance. First of all, would you begin by explaining what a spiritual path is and how it differs from ordinary human experience? 
T4-QandA Two: At times there appears to be a conflict of interest between our spiritual nature and our physical nature. The spiritual seeker is often viewed as impractical and the person who follows a materialistic path can be considered to be insensitive. How can we bring these apparent opposites into harmony?​
​T5-QandA Three: Sometimes it seems difficult to have a loving spiritual viewpoint when in the physical world in modern times there are so many distractions and things to fear. Would you give us some sample experiences that we share as human beings to help give us build confidence in the greater spiritual good in the world?​​

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T6-QandA Four: There seem to be many ways for us to express ourselves spiritually. Some involve organized belief systems expressed primarily through various religions and others involve individual practices such as meditation, yoga, diet and so forth. Would you discuss the relative merits of these different approaches?​
​T7-QandA Five: Would you describe how each of us could more closely benefit from closer contact with our own souls, and explain how this contact might differ in expression from person to person?
T8-QandA Six: What are spiritual guides and how do they work with us in our lives?​
​T9-QandA Seven: So does everyone have their own personal guides, and how can we feel or recognize their influence in our daily lives?​ 
​T10-QandA Eight: Would you describe the realm of existence of spiritual guides and our souls and tell us how that realm is related to our physical world?
​T11-QandA Nine: How would you define or describe God?​ ​
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