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Hello Paradise Pilgrim,

I'm new to this site and I haven't had the opportunity to get to know many here or learn of their life experiences but I found your recent posts on OBE to be of interest and wanted to share a few thoughts with all.

My studies of religion are mostly limited to my personal experience of - growing up catholic [till I left home and went to college] - finding the catholic beliefs, traditions and pagentry wanting in many regards - wandering and searching for a while and eventually finding the UB - studying it regularly and then not so regularly - questioning often things I had read - and then, somehow returning to it again and again to help sort out the most recent wanderings and questionings. I think we are all apt to wander and question - it is our nature to do so. It is also our nature to experience a wide range of emotions, including frustration and fits of hopelessness. You are not alone nor are you unique in that regard. That's the good news and I would like to explain my reasons for saying it's good news.

First some assumptions I make about life on this planet and why we are all so fortunate to call Urantia our nativity planet. While I've been there and done that, I'm no longer enticed with the idea of escaping to someplace or some plane better, easier, more enlightened, or otherwise different from what I have right now. WHY? Because the only thing you or I gain from our transition to the next one is the experience of having survived! We start again from wherever we were able to advance in the nativity stage - The Urantia plane - the temporal life - the time and space environment - the place where opportunity and adventure begin. We will never return to that state of mindedness where the experience of not knowing FOR SURE if we will survive is a part of our learning matrix. Many of us have the type of reassurance that embraces the concept of survival after death but none of us, in my opinion, have ever experienced a complete life/death transition that we can claim with certitude. Hence, the good news. We who have, are, and will tarry here on Urantia for awhile, as individuals, and as group agondonters (sp?), have a unique contribution to make to the evolving Supreme Being. WE, who can believe without knowing, have a special destiny to perform in the complex and adventurous administration of the outer space levels just now made manifest by our advancing science. Be of Good Cheer as your struggles are important and a UNIQUE contribution to the evolving Supreme Being. Cherish your difficulties as best you can and no one will ask more of you than that you try your best. Stay in the game and socialize with others so we can lean on each other in times of difficulty - we need each other. Be generous in your understanding and forgiveness of others - they also are struggling with their unique contributions - and doing the best they can - or not - but hells bells, their staying in the game and giving it a go.

The good news is that the bad times ebb and fade and then visit us again when we are ready for more growth. You my friend are a sincere searcher of truth - which enables growth - which sometimes causes dissonance - a disturbance in the air - and an opportunity to tune in to a source, THE Source, that is the faithful guide on these journeys. I have faith in you, that you will stay in the game with us, succeed far beyond your own expectations, and we rejoice with you in advance.

If you haven't read it recently, read the narration in the UB about "The Boy who was afraid." I read it often - when I feel the need to be strenghtened for the tasks in front of me - and I think you will feel this story touch you at a time when reassurance is needed and we ALL NEED REASSURANCE.

Best wishes, Ray

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