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Esu, I ask for clarification on behavior and how we react with others. I particularly mean people that we feel threaten us or people we feel are obviously in error. My impression is that we can’t judge them, and it is our responsibility to make sure we are not in error first. I ask you to speak to that, if you will, and to make comments on how we should begin to develop more compassion and tolerance. I feel this is a major problem in America and I see ingrained attitudes that are inflexible and ego driven in a harmful way. I also ask for updates that are possible and guidance in my own awareness.

Yes, Jess, I have things to say to the questions you have raised. The attitudes that form the basis of much of the behavior and reactions to other people in America are only superficial attempts to understand the core of a universal relationship between two entities. This means that surface emotions and physical responses determine the depth of commitments, not an understanding that all are part of Christ Michael and that each individual soul has its own personality and set of issues it must address as it pursues its personal goals towards self-awareness.

People generally bristle emotionally at remarks they determine are addressing them in a way that demeans them or attempts to undercut what they perceive to be their position of authority. There is no position of authority that places them over another person. There is no judgment of superiority that allows them to assume their beliefs are better than another’s and to belittle the other person because of what they have stated.

A person’s own sense of incompleteness fosters this need to argue they are better. They must convince themselves and, instead of going within and exploring their motives and shortcomings in their own self analysis, they latch on to what they perceive as a similar shortcoming in another and public draw attention to that as a way of distracting others from their own inadequacies. This often takes the form of ridicule to belittle the person, or verbal attacking to undercut the authority they feel they lack in themselves.

This is a game that is played because you have been conditioned for eons to overpower others. The enormous baggage of memories you carry with you unconsciously forces you to slip into these behaviors and triggers recurring emotional reactions that support the reactions you engage.

Who are you to judge the behavior of others? Who gave you the authority to determine your way is correct and someone else’s is wrong? Christ Michael honors the exploration of individuality in each person and recognizes that no one can have an awakening to the light without first having experienced the dark in some fashion. Having a greater awareness than others is not a status that is ranked better. It is only viewed as a level of enlightenment that relates to personal evolution.

The Urantia book is clear on this. If Christ Michael and his advisors allowed Lucifer and Satan to work out the results of their rebellion without direct intervention and elimination initially, then surely you can allow a sense of compassion and awareness of difference without condemning someone. Lucifer chose to be uncreated finally in 1984, rather than accept the light. Condemnation is anger and self frustration and is a waste of energy that can be more effectively used through an emotional vehicle that conveys the unity expressed in Christ Michael’s love for his Universe.

Your role, Jess, is to be sure of your own motives and your own sense of self. You must make decisions based on a clear evaluation of your own goals and purpose. Everything in your life should be determined by its effectiveness in helping you work toward those goals. Your behavior and your reactions to other people should also be colored by your sense of personal direction and the means you must take to follow that path. Weigh each decision on its value for your own purpose. Don’t pursue actions that are detrimental to you. Make certain your analysis is clear in determining the goals you are working toward.

If you are strong in your own goals and in your own awareness of your individual path, then so called attacks, or personal animosity against you will have little impact on your balance and self control. Your lack of response or retaliation is not weakness, but strength of individual assurance and security of personal perception.

I say to all reading this that the time is here for you to begin the sorts of behaviors that look to your own core values and not to those of others you perceive to be less than the perfection you imagine should be pursued. Who determines perfection? Who can say that the behavior that you feel is a threat or ridicule is not the catalyst you need to examine your own growth?

Esu, Planetary Prince of Urantia.