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Frequently Asked Questions

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1- Authority
2- Confirmation of Conclusions
3- Belief vs. Spirit Logic
4- Catching the Shadow
5- Deception Consequences
6- Revelations
7- Urantia Book Readers
8- Separated
9- Making it Practical
10- Responsible Agent

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11- Love is Trust
12- The Mist

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Love is Trust

11. Love is Trust

What is the difference between a feeling and an emotion, and how does love fit into both?

Response
Good question. The short answer is that a feeling is self-contained, whilst an emotion requires fulfilling. A feeling will stand alone, with nothing else required. It can exist peacefully without expression or fulfillment. An emotion requires an avenue of expression and fulfillment both internally and externally. A pure feeling can turn into an emotion, as the deceit can arise upon a feeling, converting it into an emotion that the deception-shadow then expresses and can inflame. Pure feeling remains inwardly self-contained. Emotion always requires some form of internal or external satisfaction. This is the deceit supporting and maintaining the knower-I deception-shadow, always in a win-win situation. It can never lose, for it it gets its emotional wants, the deception is happy; and if not sad, a constantly recycling drama.

Love is trust and both are feelings that turn into an emotion when the deception and deceit are present — the shadow world of your existence. Love can be a misused word, used to explain both feelings and emotions. The true meaning for the term love is compassionate-trust lodged within equanimity of expression. It is simple, straight and honest, containing no requirement to be returned — it is unconditional, which is trust. Trusting one's trust is faith that is self-contained, preventing trust from devaluing into some form of emotional content. The emotional content is the deceit allowing the knower-I deception to be maintained, creating perpetual recycling of the emotion and keeping you within endless states of anxiety and fear. It is an uphill battle for personal evolution if you live within any form of fear or anxiety. Remove the fear or anxiety and you remove the emotion that contains both, which is the removal of the deceit. If the deceit is contained and the deception is standing aside, pure compassionate-trust will arise of its own accord and that is both a feeling and true love.

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The Mist

12. The Mist

I have a trying time differentiating between the knower and the knower-I. There is abundant information in your book but I still do not get it.

Response
The difference between the pure knower of consciousness and the independent knower-I deception and deceit — your shadow world — is easy enough to intellectually understand, but experiencing the difference will instantly usher in a new world of clarity. 'Getting it' is the experience, and that can be a trying time. No one can give you that experience, it is earned, and the earning is by resolution. Resolution is when all the dualities and the shadow world are resolved, and both disappear of their own accord. The information given in the book is complete for a total intellectual understanding. Getting the experience is your responsibility. The following may be of some assistance.

Perceiving the knower-I deception within the knower of individual consciousness is like walking through a misty evening. The mist exists within the same air you breathe. The air that maintains your physical existence is invisible and one tends to forget it exists. Consequently, you only experience or see and feel the mist that cloaks and rides upon the air. The mist can disappear and you still live. If the air disappears nothing lives. It is the invisible air that sustains and maintains life. Clear the mist then everything becomes clear.

The pure knower is the air and the knower-I is the mist that veils it. Clear the mist and the pure knower is exposed, revealing itself in absolute clarity. The pure knower has always been there from the beginning, just veiled. The unveiling lives within resolution of dualities or seeing the shadow world move. Both require effort until the effort dissolves into effortlessness. The mist then lifts of its own accord and clarity is the result.

Attempting to lift the mist directly or under direction is the chameleon knower-I deception appearing in a new disguise. Those who direct by representing themselves as realized, knowing or enlightened, may have good intentions and perfect presentation. But those good intentions, taken as direction, merely shift the mist to another position. There is a fine, and sometime obscure, line between directing and pointing that can unknowingly destroy good intentions. This form of artificially induced wisdom can be subtle entrapment in the realm of the chameleon knower-I deception, easily beguiling the new but unwary consciousness explorers. The unveiling mist created by the knower-I deception dissolves or lifts of its own accord when you ultimately face the brilliant radiance of the sun within. Its illuminating rays dissolve the veil with no effort on your part, and then you have an experiential revelation of a Knower-knower that is paradoxically a non-experience.

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