Personal Growth

This category focuses primarily on internal and individual personality development, character building, and spiritual progress. The quest for personal religion, inner peace and balance.

Wikipedia defines personality development as that which encompasses the dynamic construction and deconstruction of integrative characteristics that distinguish an individual in terms of interpersonal behavioral traits. Personality development is ever-changing and subject to contextual factors and life-altering experiences. Personality development is also dimensional in description and subjective in nature. That is, personality development can be seen as a continuum varying in degrees of intensity and change. It is subjective in nature because its conceptualization is rooted in social norms of expected behavior, self-expression, and personal growth. The dominant viewpoint in personality psychology indicates that personality emerges early and continues to develop across one's lifespan. Adult personality traits are believed to have a basis in infant temperament, meaning that individual differences in disposition and behavior appear early in life, potentially before language of conscious self-representation develop. 

The Urantia Book 100:2.2 says: Spiritual growth is first an awakening to needs, next a discernment of meanings, and then a discovery of values. The evidence of true spiritual development consists in the exhibition of a human personality motivated by love, activated by unselfish ministry, and dominated by the wholehearted worship of the perfection ideals of divinity. And this entire experience constitutes the reality of religion as contrasted with mere theological beliefs.

Abundance

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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Abundance in experience
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive April 23, 2001.
Teacher Abraham

 

 

 

 

 

 

As you mature spiritually you find experience to not be so traumatizing, but adding to who you are now and who you are becoming.

There once was a boy who had a particularly strict teacher. She seemed to never let up on the lessons, and he found himself in constant striving. The boy grew weary of these lessons, but the teacher kept encouraging him patiently, going through each lesson step-by-step. Even though the teacher was quite patient with her young student, the boy found her tireless and almost to the point of her punishing him.

The good teacher taught because she cared about her place in the world. She genuinely loved and enjoyed the children. She cared deeply for the world's future and wanted to add to the world's success by the students lives she touched. She taught not for respect, prestige or for a show of power. She pushed the children enough to make them believe in themselves. She gave them faith that they were important, intelligent and had abilities.

The boy, who is now a man, thinks of his teacher fondly and is overfilled with gratitude and awe at her dedication. He recognizes she added to his experience, therefore participating in his abundance. He remembers the teacher never ridiculed and allowed him to make mistakes without fear. She allowed the children to grow at their own pace.

The teacher took such joy in the children's advancement and this increased her abundance. The children received the benefits of her knowledge and this increased their abundance. The man, who was that small boy, takes his valuable experience from that time with the teacher and passes it onto other children and adds to their experience, their abundance.

I cannot emphasize enough how valuable everyday experience is. You either add to others abundance or you deplete their energy source. You correlate experience with others that creates lessons and new soul growth. Even negative experience with others can create an abundance in knowledge — spiritual and otherwise. Many are afraid to be open to sharing experience, for their lessons may be painful and they see not the value. Some come to share experience for self-gain without thought of others needing to receive also.

In the mortal life you will most likely experience the full spectrum of the required experience. Even the Master experienced many bestowal's to gain full sovereignty of the universe. At some point in this life you will know every aspect there is to know, from extreme sorrow to supreme joy, from an empty cup to a cup that overflows, from divine love to mortal loneliness.

There is no escape from experience if you should desire to advance in things spiritual. This requires experience. Experience is your abundance. If you should bravely face all experience you are open to receiving those required lessons to advance spiritually. Remember that in sharing experience to allow
others to stumble. Make it not your duty to always correct, encourage — yes, correct — no, focus on the positive — yes, point out the negative — no.

Focus on abundance in experience. How much experience do you purposefully avoid because it will either lead to your disappointment and sorrow, or cause you to have to do too much work? Strengthen your connection with those you know and be a provider of abundance for them. I speak not so much of material abundance, but spiritual companionship and being a light of  encouragement. When you feel you are putting forth effort in service, do you hesitate to contemplate the cost, or do you serve for the strengthening between you and Father? Again, where are your treasures?

Abundance of the whole
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive April 30, 2001.
Teacher Abraham

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abraham: Many individuals find it too difficult to put themselves out in service or have not the feelings of confidence that they can actually handle difficult tasks. Some choose not to put themselves out there in experience, and then they wonder why their life is neither here nor there — nothing happens. They
put forth no love — they receive no love. They make no effort to give service and find themselves alone when in need.

You that have chosen to live this mortal life to the fullest and drink the cup, come what may, will give and receive. You will experience and participate. You will be a designer of destiny, an architect of the future. You may have to take on a bit more responsibility. You have to exert less self and promote more Spirit.

Abundance is not gifts from Heaven to the favored. It is not being bestowed with the way of ease. It is not Father enticing you to do His bidding, no. Abundance is knowing you have responsibility to the whole, which you have to make effort towards the overall betterment of the Kingdom. We work for the good of one another. Your abundance is my abundance. My growth is your growth. You add to my experience and I to yours. Your joy is my joy. I know you each realize this life does require a certain amount of effort, but always should joy and happiness outweigh sorrow and tribulation.

This week when you are called to do a difficult task and you are apprehensive, pause for a moment to consider the spiritual ramifications of participating, be observant, consider the possible outcomes, look with the eyes of the Spirit. Is your participation bringing personal growth, growth to the Kingdom, perhaps growth of another?

Father's assignments are filled with intrigue and mystery and they are  either fearful to you or adventurous. You can participate and perform your responsibilities and add to the progress, or chose to wait on the sidelines and let life just happen around you. When you chose to forsake your own needs in favor of participating in other spiritual tasks, or tasks of any kind, then always does Father see to ministering to you. He does not let you overlook those important things that help you to move in this mortal world.

As you chose Father's work, He chooses to work for you. This is not to say He does not work for you should you chose to just stand-by, but the lessons are altered and you learn the same thing in a different way. I understand it is easy in this mortal life to become set in same habit patterns. It is difficult to move from your level of comfort. As you become more spiritized and comfortable with your status of a child of God, you gain more self-confidence to be seen, to be of service, to go forth and be assertive with your spiritual responsibility.

As you mature spiritually you do find that you have not traversed this life alone. Many have added to your experience and helped you to become what you are today — good or bad. All the experience was valuable. Be not afraid to go into experience, but be observant — take notes and help Father show you the values, meanings and abundance from the average mortal life. I do understand there are times when one feels closed off or not in a position to be outgoing, and this is acceptable. Take your rest and worry not. You will
regain your momentum and once again feel like plunging headfirst into experience.

Acceptance

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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Acceptance is self-tolerance
 
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Rayson and Friends

 

 

 

 

 

 

Today brothers an sisters, we continue to study love. God is love, but as we have learned love is not the
only attribute of God. Today we turn our attention to a facet of love which is often not considered. It is
acceptance. Acceptance is self-tolerance. It is also the tolerance of the will of God.

First to the self. As we have learned, tolerance for loving, kindness, mercy, and compassion towards
others is necessary to love your fellows. It is also equally necessary in order to love yourself. For, if you
are not self-tolerant you can fall into the traps of negative thinking, encompassing judgment, criticism
and ego traps of self-obsessiveness.

You are the creation of God and the experiences and decisions of your free will and environment. All
the factors were created to foster soul evolution. You were not created in perfection, therefore you must learn to love your imperfections as well as your spirit victories.

Your imperfections will be the greatest source of learning you will experience. Many of your flaws will
take centuries and centuries of time as you know it to even understand, let alone transcend. How can you
experience the ultimate joy of perceiving the creator without the recognition of the validity and honor of the struggle for a godly character. These flaws must be perceived as blessings to humans, as markers on your path as ascendent children of time and space.

Self-tolerance is often a forgotten virtue. Without self-tolerance issues of morality rather than spirituality
take the fore, so to speak. You have been created in this fashion because it is the Father's wish for this
universe. It is therefore God's will that you be thus imperfect.

How do you understand the will of the Father? You cannot understand His will totally for He is the
creator and you are the creation. To understand His will for you, you should simplify:

  1. you are created this way;
  2. God creates good; 
  3. because God has created you with love, who are you not to love this creation.

So, acceptance - self-tolerance - is necessary to evolve a truly spiritual human and not a judgmental human from which divisions must spring.

It is an error to approach imperfections with a vengeful heart or an arrogant intellect. Rather, weaknesses, imperfections, should be viewed lovingly as opportunities for soul growth, and should be viewed in long-term ways of their eventual outworking into more desirable or mature spiritual qualities. Every flaw has an evolution and can either be ignored, be rationalized into a good quality and therefore pursued into possible error, or can be seen as a lesson for soul growth tolerantly. If one views the final outcome to be not only the absence of that quality but the victorious spiritual shining of light which ensues from the struggle, that is the benefit that is permitted only to those who actively and lovingly desire to mold their characters into more evolved souls. 

Many religionists have made the error of thinking the moral struggle is between good versus evil within
the individual human. It is not. It is between acceptance of who you are today - knowing who you will
become with faith in God's will - and who you fool yourselves into believing you are. This is the
struggle of the spiritually dedicated mortal. So acceptance is necessary in order to perceive spiritual realities within your own evolving being, for without acceptance you will - rest assured, fool
yourselves, or judge yourselves too harshly, or misperceive your status.

There is no competition for first place in the spiritual race. There is only the motivation spurred on by a
thirst for God-knowingness that thrusts us forward to become better and better sons and daughters of our
eternal Father.

If God can love you unconditionally now, the way you are, why can you not love yourself? Think about
that in your daily meditations and prayers. For is it not an ungrateful act to not love what such a supreme
creator has made and loved so dedicatedly?

If you cannot forgive yourself, you cannot forgive others. If you cannot accept your humanity, you
cannot grant your brothers and sisters the same gift of this humanity. Self-acceptance, self-tolerance, is
necessary in order to:

  1. be more open, and, 
  2. to be able to bestow Divine love through your life and interactions with others. 

You cannot be loving in the world or to the Divine without also feeling love for the miracle of your beingness and uniqueness.

You are a part of the tapestry of time surging forward into eternity, the tapestry of imperfection
becoming perfect, the tapestry of the mortal creature becoming one with a creator. If you do not
celebrate and be humbled by such a gift, you will not fully participate in this wonderment.

Acceptance also encompasses the will of God which we talk much of when we pray “thy will be done,”
“It is my will to do thy will.” But do we really understand this? First, it is God's will that you exist or
you would not be here at all. So therefore, if your prayer is sincere to accept God's will, why not accept
yourself as you are today? This is God's will. Two, you pray to know God's will, but you cannot fully know God's will until you stand in the presence of the I AM. Until that day some amount of partiality is necessary in terms of understanding and acting. So, the idea of understanding God's will in totality is therefore unachievable.

Simplify again. Acceptance of the mystery of God is part of worship. There is no momentous handing
down of tablets of stone for us. There is only common sense, filtered through the desire to do good, be
loving, see beauty, speak truth, and continue to learn. How simple it is - when one rises - to thank God
for this day, to get out of bed, to love those around you, to have a cheerful word, to take time out to lend
a hand to others, to service. You can rest assured that when you drive in traffic, that it is God's will that
you smile rather than be angry or yell. If you simplify, it is quite easy to do God's will. Would God
prefer you to be kind and loving towards your family or to be withholding and mean? Would God prefer
you to take time to listen to another's suffering or to busy yourself with tasks? As you go through your
day look at the simple things. It is God's will for you to work and earn your daily bread or is it God's will
that you steal?

These are simple things. There is not confusion. Is it God's will for you to try always to reflect the
inspiration of Jesus in your daily tasks? Yes. This is not something one should meditate on for years and
discuss in forums.

Your will enters with choices. You are tired, you would prefer not to listen to a friend, but you do
service because that is the higher value. That, then, is God's will, and your free will is to accept it. God
in His wisdom, throws into each life millions upon millions of opportunities for soul growth, millions upon millions of situations to choose higher values. Rather than question what is the will of God, what is the will of God for me, which gets you no where, accept all of the opportunities that come your way as gifts.

The people who ask for your love, and kindness, and attention, are opportunities for soul growth. The will of the Father is for you to choose always to do higher values. There is no mystery here, or great theological discussion. Some days you may choose better than other days, and that is where self-tolerance enters. But always be dedicated to doing the Will of the Father, which is to shed more spiritual light as you go through your life in very simple ways. When the book says “love acts,” that is what it means. You need not have a
grandiose, dramatic, epiphanal moment for love to act. Rather, love acts in the tiny insignificant moments of time which all add up. So, you must accept God's will. Life is but a days' work. Do it well.

Your work is of a spiritual nature, and it is not involved in the historical moments that will be remembered here on Earth. It is involved rather in the moments which are recorded on high. The actions which constitute your survival and soul evolution, the things which you so often forget to pay attention to, this constitutes a life of loving service. That should be your highest consecration to God. When you look back on your life weave a wonderful memory that all the tiny acts of love will make. What a shining soul for the rest of the world to see. For this is what creates you. Acceptance is something you may pray for: acceptance of who you are, acceptance of God's will, and - between the two in the act of daily living - the birth and growth of your soul, and the metamorphosis from a physical mortal being into a spiritual perfecter. This is what it is about. It is a slightly new way to look at truth.

We can reject God's will. Therein lies soul insanity. We can pretend there is no choice - as many mortals
do on this planet - or we can actively choose in our actions to do the will of the Father, knowing that we
will not always behave correctly, and we will forgive ourselves for the lapses because that is part of the
Divine plan.

This is not a world for perfection; it is a world of recognizing imperfection and doing the best we can with our imperfectness. So acceptance, self-tolerance of yourself, first in your imperfect state, acceptance of God's will that you are created this way and what awaits you is perfection, and acceptance that you will never totally understand God's will, are part of living a spiritually dedicated and conscious life.

My advice again, simplify, for it is in living faithfully as tadpoles that we become frogs. You are tadpoles now, as I am, and one cannot expect your life to be more than it is. We make tadpole decisions and we do the will of God by recognizing what we are.

And that, brothers and sisters, is the formal lesson for today. Do you have questions?

Question: Yes. We talked about self-acceptance, and there are a couple of things I think you said, prayer,
and recognition of who we are, and willingness to live as a tadpole each day. As I think of ways to
achieve self-acceptance I find that I have particular intolerance of my flaws. That, I see is sort of
arrogant in the face of God. On a daily basis when things come up, do you know any ways or methods to work on that, you know, one day at a time?

Answer: To think of yourself as a child, which is what we all are, to apply the same understanding patience as you would to a struggling toddler falling and learning to walk. To understand that you cannot skip this stage, and that you will fall and become bruised, and bruise yourself many times, but will rise again to continue walking the path, that the love should come for the miracle of the human spirit in rising again, that although you are flawed now, look to each day for the moment when you acted in a God-like fashion.

And every day there are those moments: a smile, a caress to a child, an illumination or feeling of unity with God, a comfort for a minute inside yourself, a peace bestowed by the Spirit of Truth, observing the beauty of nature, putting your feet up and relaxing from life's anxieties - are all God-like attributes which humans overlook, concentrating only on the moments when anger or fear or doubt got the better of you.

Faith pulls you through when you have not acted in the highest fashion: faith in God's acceptance and
love for you, which you should mirror to yourself; faith in the fact that flaws are bestowed in order for
you to grow past and from; that there would be no growth without this struggle, and that if it were easy
and your flaws could disappear it would not be God's plan. Stretching your time sense to a more eternal
one will help you to develop acceptance. A sense of humor also eases the times when you grow critical
or impatient with what you see as regression.

Question: When you talk of faults and flaws in human terms, I guess that's just a point of view. It might be
other person's likes or dislikes would differ; a fault from another person might be a virtue to another
person. But I guess from a cosmic point of view, from the Father's, the main faults that we should be
concerned about are evil, iniquity and sin. Should we be tolerant of our own sin just as we are tolerant of
our own error?

Answer: We should forgive ourselves for sins if we feel we have committed them. Remember, it is not for
us to judge even ourselves, but merely to evaluate. If you feel you have committed a sin which is fairly
extreme - most people fall into error - you must pray to forgive yourself as you ask for the forgiveness of
the Father. But you must also ask for growth to learn from these sins and to resist them, to resist taking
those actions. Flaws are not errors or sins or evil, but can lead one into errors. Flaws are anger, fear,
faithlessness, lack of love - which are all relative - those are examples of spiritual flaws rather than the
actions.

It is the inner soul-scape, so to speak, that leads one into actions that would constitute error, sin, and evil. It first starts within the human, the conflicts, the trouble. It would help to read the analysis of Judas as he fell into grave error and sin. First started in his personality flaw of isolation, and then his inner conflict as his wrong thinking took hold, and then finally the action. Does that answer?

Question: Yes. So basically the flaws, once we learn how to deal with our flaws, then we will not enter into
evil or sin?

Answer: Probably not.

Question: But to do that, one has to be tolerant and resistive.

Answer: That is correct.

You must accept yourself as a learning child
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive February 26, 2001.
Teacher Abraham

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abraham: We are each in a state of becoming, and how blessed are we that we have one another to share and expand concepts and ideas. One who is teachable is open to his fellows ideas. He may not agree with the ideas, but he can accept the fact that his fellows are his brothers and sisters in the family of God.

As you progress spiritually you find it your ultimate joy each day to dedicate yourself to the doing of Father's will. What a relief from daily pressure to hold up the day and offer it to Father. It will not always be a
struggle but a welcome release from pressures and a clearing of the mind and cleansing of intentions.

Being born of the Spirit makes you a new creature who strives to live according to will of God. You may fall short at times, but certainly you find you cannot return to the old ways. In this commitment there is acceptance of sonship with God. You are not so much losing anything but becoming a new creature and gaining endless possibilities.

Always remember the divine law of acceptance. It is quite easy to defer from Father's way to our own, to find our own understanding to be confining and limited — to where if we are aligning with the universal
law of acceptance we are in the ever flowing current of divine information. Your understanding, your everyday realities are expanded. So you do not find that this universal law comes with a cost, but certainly do you put self-mastery into practice.

In this area of acceptance I would like to elaborate a bit more on a personal level. We can accept the divine path and Father's perfect plan. We can accept our fellows for their unique personalities. We can accept our
present position in life, but so much of this is increasingly more difficult when one is without some degree of self-acceptance.

Father did not coordinate the mortal life so that you would be self-satisfied continually. He designed the overall pattern so that we may always strive and work towards Him. I speak not of self-satisfaction, but
self-acceptance. So many regret the past and harbor guilt and are self-loathing. So many cannot accept the fact that they have been but learning children in an ever expanding experiential universe.

There is practically zero tolerance when it comes to our own flaws or shortcomings. With the law of acceptance we can believe even in our mistakes Father has revealed to us the meanings and values, and has never punished us for our misunderstanding like we have punished ourselves. Many mortals continually focus on their negative character aspects while overlooking the personal strides made in their efforts.

As a small child learning to ride a bike a father would run alongside the child helping to steer the bike, and at an appropriate time when the child is ready, the father would release the bike and allow the child to go it
alone. Does the father know of the possibilities of the child's wrecking and falling — possibly becoming injured? Yes. Can the father continue to run alongside the child? No. Can the father give instructions and encouragement? Of course. Should the child wreck and appear to fail, would the father punish the child? Of course not. The father continues to guide and help the child to develop their own abilities, comforts the child when failure seem apparent, encourages the child to continue in their efforts.

Father knows you will fall and He stands ready to comfort, guide and encourage. He is not there to punish or ridicule you when you seem to fail. Why would you punish yourself? Can you not accept the fact that you were, are now and will be a learning child of God? You cannot go from infant to adult without the experience in-between. You must accept yourself as a learning child. To self-punish or think that God would bestow upon you bad karma is to block meanings and values in experience.

Everyday negative self-talk is energy depleting; it is spiritual stunting, soulfully abusive. To be so ego-bound that you cannot accept that you have made mistakes is a waste of experiential time that could have been used to discover new meanings and values. There has to be a point in mortal life where you have passed all external aspects of the total person and have a true acceptance of the growing soul that you really are.

Father loves you beyond your own ability to comprehend and accepts you in your becoming. Do not make that mistake of self-bantering and close off new spiritual possibilities and soul growth. Do not be weighed down by the fact that you still have so much to learn, rather be uplifted by the fact that the learning is an adventure that carries you to possibilities far beyond the mortal life.

This week be watchful of self-punishment. Ponder the difference between self-satisfaction and self-acceptance. How would you gain confidence through self-acceptance? What new possibilities might come from this?

Acceptance of others
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive March 5, 2001.
Teacher Abraham

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abraham: I realize events in daily living might lead you to believe that life works against you, but you that carry a deep and abiding faith know the reason for such occurrences and don't usually feel a mortal desperation or anxiety.

In a fast paced world such as this we are always overlooking the small blessings. Many mortals tend to look for grand occurrences that say God is at work, and in the process become discouraged when their expectations are not met. There are conditionings of the mind that seem to help you keep up with mortal living.

Societal stimulants and ever-striving to just survive, take the focus off of the small blessings. Just in noticing small blessings is your focus set on Father. In this focus are you better able to handle situations that cause inner-turmoil. In noticing the small blessings you learn to recognize Father's fingerprints.

We have been discussing the universal law of acceptance and the doing of Father's will. We have also covered self-acceptance. I would speak a little on acceptance of your fellows.

I feel such comfort each week when we meet. You welcome me as I am. You know my personality and you welcome it. I feel at ease to speak my mind without fear of ridicule or rejection. You accept me as your brother, friend, teacher and fellow sojourner. You may not always agree with what I say but that has no bearing on my level of comfort because I know you love and accept me as I am, as I also do you.

We meet various individuals daily and as we learn about them we can draw closer to them. Some personalities we clash with and have not commonalities. We may even dislike their character. As we travel the world we will meet various individuals who will be different from us. We are in understanding that each one is no doubt a child of God and also on their own path to Father.

I think by now, we are understanding we cannot force our own way on others or lead them in a way that we see fit. We can express our opinion, we can encourage — but really, at no time should we attempt to change another. We are all Father's children. Not one is with more status than another. You can have acceptance of that and have love for your fellows without the difference in personalities creating conflicts; although conflicts are not really that bad because they can create growth from new understanding. 

Some individuals you know are perhaps not so loveable, but certainly we can accept the fact that they are growing individuals on their own path and will learn according to their own ability. I truly believe that most people have the best of intentions and try to do what is right in their eyes.

The "holy wars" in the Middle East are groups of individuals who are attempting to force their beliefs onto others. You see, each group has the best of intentions and believe they are only doing what is right. Perhaps they are blinded by the fact that every child of God has the same intentions. They are only attempting to do what they believe is right.

There are so many divisions in religion, government, and even families because there is no acceptance of diversity. "If they are not with us they must be against us", is a familiar saying. Why cannot individuals allow for others to grow in their own time? You cannot force growth or fit a quart into a pint. You can, however, learn to have acceptance — that everyone is a child of God. They need not look to you as their savior, but how beautiful it would be for them to know you uphold them in their differences. How can anyone look down upon a brother's blindness when they themselves are also blind?

We can be more accepting of our fellows through learning patience and allowing for unfolding. We need not agree with our fellows but we can respect their right to learn and grow in their own time.

As a side note, there are new concepts born every day — new ideas to ponder. It would seem as if everyone has the answer. I would remind you that you have your own Indwelling Father Fragment, and the Spirit of Truth (the Comforter) that helps you discern truth. In trying to apply the law of acceptance in your lives, know this does not apply to new concepts or fads. You need not accept every idea that happens to cross your path.

I mean to say, that the world's growth is moving so rapidly that we must be clear-minded enough to discern truth from falsehood. You can contemplate new ideas; you can pray and do stillness, but certainly you are equipped to judge for yourself which ideas you will hold true and those you would let go. In this day and age new things will come and go. I suggest, be open-minded but cautious in accepting all you see.

Achievement

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
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No achievement is made without prerequisite effort
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive November 5, 2000.
Teacher Elyon, Merriam
T/R Mark, Gerdean

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elyon: As you know, to achieve something is to master it, to attain it by your own efforts. It is not something granted to you as much as it is something you have worked towards and through your efforts you have gained a control over, a mastery of. Your lives are filled with all manner of achievements. You have achieved
adulthood; you have achieved material possessions to surround you. You have gained these through your own efforts, and these, as well as many others, are your tangible results of these efforts. You achieve the mountaintop through your physical efforts, and the vista you view at the top is your achievement. It is your reward for having pursued this goal to its completion. Once having achieved this success, you then possess this as an achievement as part of your composition, your resume, in this life.

We all now can agree that no achievement is made without prerequisite effort. I would go so far as to add that all effort meets with certain success, certain achievement. The end result may not be the original desire of pursuit, but the pursuit provides you with the achievement of its own description. Spiritual effort when expended also meets with certain achievements once you have put in the required effort you then possess the achievement from that effort. Spiritually you build one success upon another. Each one adds to your resume, your foundation, upon which more achievements may be assembled.

It is right and good for you to occasionally take stock of where you were and where you are and even where you may be going, to see this as a progressive movement through effort to success.

You are also aware that larger accomplishments require larger efforts, but the fruits may be sweeter. Your success at long term efforts is all the more satisfying when you reflect on all the effort that was required to arrive at that success point.

I suggest as an exercise for you to count the achievements: tally up the efforts, the successes, the rewards; the ambitions of future undertakings, the expectations. Take stock of this ever-flowing pattern. At once you are resting on the foundations of many previous achievements while at the same instance you are providing the required effort for future accomplishments to be yours. In this cyclical pattern it is helpful to step outside and view it as a pattern, cyclical, and see where you fit in. Note what you have accuired and the effort you still offer. Grow to expect that this effort now in cycle will come to completion as will your achievements.

Merriam: The idea of achievement is one which enables you to access your capacity to consider yourself as a child or as an adult and calls to mind the need for balance. While you are urged to put away childish things and grow into spiritual adulthood, you are also encouraged to remain a child in your faith, always open to future learning. Adulthood is a lure, on the one hand, because of the acknowledgment to the self that one has gained sufficient self mastery, insight, appreciation of the fruits of the spirit, and so forth, to feel effective and a part of a growing global community from the vantage point of the spirit and the flesh.

You feel like a contributing member of your society whether it is a material society or a spiritual society. It also brings with it a sense of responsibility, a knowledge that the courage to clarify advancing perfection is
an opportunity for you to embrace as a service or as an adventure in, not only your career, but in the eternal career of your fellows. Engaging in mindful intercourse in the many arenas provided gives you an opportunity to exercise your skills, your accomplishments, in such a way as to prevent stagnation in yourself and others and to enjoy the stimuli that comes through associations, a mutual stimulation of the imagination as well as the energetic charge coming from the exponential aspect of community. In particular it entails a recognition of your individual voice in matters that concern the masses, the whole of mankind, many of whom have made great material and educational advancements but remain spiritually unaware, ineffectual.

So you recognize a responsibility in being that might daunt the timid soul. Be advised that your inspirations come from on high and your "callings" are heard from that still, small voice within. Thus, when you are called to active duty in the arena of humanity, you are also provided the materials, the rations, the backpack, and the uniform that will enable you to fulfill your assignment, rendering another and mature accomplishment in the advancing tide of humanity toward Light and Life. That too is your reward, for that is your great accomplishment individually and communally, that you in your recognition of our Father have embraced Him and your fellows as brothers and sisters. Your individual worlds are illuminated, but this accomplishment, while being realized for you, is still only potential for many. As you assess your accomplishments also look you well to our goals of introducing our Father and His ways and mercies into the hearts of those who remain ignorant of His blessings, His personal hand in yours. Even while you grasp your responsibilities and recognize maturity and assess your accomplishments, remember your childlike nature that allows you to err, that allows for laughter, that appreciates rejoicing, that embraces goodness, beauty, and truth as its greatest happiness.

Adaptability

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
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Adaptability is quick acceptance of circumstances that are occurring
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive November 27, 2000.
Teacher Abraham

 

 

 

 

 

 

When you think back over your lives you can view the various stages and changes that has made you who you are today. You would all agree that these changes came with some difficulty and a bit of mindal frustration. There is a long journey from infanthood to adulthood. As you experienced you learned new and better ways to live the mortal life.

Being reborn in Spirit opened up all new possibilities in mortal life, where you have learned to integrate the two worlds. Growth can bring growing pains, but like the transformation of the butterfly, you cannot live a full experiential life inside the cocoon. There are many stages the butterfly must travel to become its intended divine purpose. Should the caterpillar protest having to become enclosed in the cocoon? No. Father has a set plan and purpose for all His living creatures. The best that the caterpillar can do is to become adaptable. After the darkness — the hard lessons — there is a beauty unfolding.

As you travel this mortal path there are untold adventures to be had. This mortal life is about becoming adaptable. One who moves from the desert into the mountains adapts to the new changes and must make provisions therefore. If this traveler could not adapt, surely he would face the consequences. Being adaptable means accepting change and working therefrom to the best of your ability.

Mortals do tend to like things to stay the same because it is without turmoil and the need to make effort. Of course, this is not bringing growth. This is not experiencing the full spectrum of the intended divine purpose. Being adaptable means not you are forsaking free will, no. It means only that you are accepting certain circumstances and putting forth your best effort to work within Father's overall divine plan.

As you have entered into the spiritual life you have allowed yourselves to be changed and made adaptable to spiritual principles. Evolution will change all things. When you can be committed to adapting to mortal circumstances, then incoming divine information is more clear. Spiritual poisons are decreased and the feeling of the presence of our loving Father is increased.

Your books, your printed lessons, your thoughts and ideas of today will all change. This is a natural divine process. In being adaptable we can accept these life changes and work from what we know. In the serenity of being adaptable we are open to new revelation — that is instant divine communion. It is having experience, being made stronger through adversity, breaking through the cocoon of darkness into becoming a creature of spiritual beauty.

In all your changes, can you contemplate the fact that these changes could possibly be a divine lesson? Can you remain observant and open to living revelation? Can you accept change, become adaptable to mortal circumstances and work from whatever level you are on at the time? These times are changing fast and you need to become used to these changes so you can aid others in adjusting. Our heavenly Caretakers are even made to adapt because they have given us the gift of free will. They can adapt and promote the most highest good for the whole.

Adaptability is not mechanistic. It is not giving over your core beliefs to be non-resistant and not make waves, no. Adaptability is quick acceptance of circumstances that are occurring and being able to be calm to receive divine revelation, curb spirit poisons and take action from what you think Father thinks is best.

Adaptation implies flexibility in order to release from previous patterns
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive February 25, 2001.
Teacher Elyon
T/R Jonathan

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elyon: All effort made to acquire a skill results in you becoming adept at that skill. In order to become adept you must learn to adapt. Adaptation implies flexibility in order to release from previous patterns, to be open to accumulating new patterns and skill. But it also implies application of that which you have attained to new methods of expression. This is part of a cycle that can yield insecurity or uncertainty, but it is also a time of excitement, the thrill of new territory, the chance for new expression or to express what one's ideals held but one's abilities could not express. When you have become adept there is the sense of accomplishment, that gratification that one is capable of growth and accomplishment yielding skill and ability that beforehand were not a possession, at times of doubt appear to be unattainable and yet in reality are now part of you.

But every great skill teases the one who has acquired it to find avenues through which that skill may be exercised. No talent is satisfying to just be part of your portfolio. True satisfaction is in the continual outworking expression, the hunger for the discovery of new methods, new applications, and the cycle begins again wherein you adapt.

Adversity

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
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Beautiful experiences out of adversity
 
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SOURCE: 

Rayson and Friends

 

 

 

 

 

 

Question: Financially, for me now this is a very frightening period. And instead of the usual panic that I feel - and in the past when faced with a situation like this, I used to get frightened by just the idea of lack of abundance - and now that I am experiencing it more on a daily basis I find that my panic and fear has been replaced by a peacefulness and a stillness. I don't know if that is a function of the spirit of courage, the fact that I really understand that everything is really okay and everything is taken care of, but whatever it is, it’s not what I expected it to be. I really expected this to be my flip-out time. And it turned out to be kind of a beautiful experience, and I'm enjoying it. And I know that the angels at times teach through adversity.

One of the lessons that I have learned has been my friendship with [a woman with AIDS] and watching
how she handles what I considered to be an unnatural human burden. So I'm enjoying this challenge - I
think. But I do understand and feel the terrors that - my usual panic has been replaced with something
that money couldn't buy even if I had it.

Answer: Well stated. Yes, yes, your perception of peacefulness as an aspect of personal spiritual growth is
most accurate. Why attribute it to a Angels when you have done the work yourself?

Question: Well, I've killed so many bugs I want to give credit where credit is due. [Laughter.] You know
come judgment I get a little bit of leeway.

Answer: Even bugs have bad luck. [More laughter.]

Question: I just need to rearrange the financial aspects of my life. They are such a burden and pressure.

Answer: Every adverse event that occurs during your universe existence has a lesson in it for you, and part
of your mission is to find those lessons. At times they are readily apparent, and at other times you must
dig deeply and search hard for meaning. But it will emerge if you are assiduous in your search.

Question: I'd just like it to change. I ask for help from the other side, just in terms of maybe a bit more
strength or something to do what I need to do to clean up my life. Sometimes I just feel like I don't have
it all by myself to balance that cheque-book or to do those things. Could I have some inspiration, please?

Answer: We ascendant mortals are much esteemed throughout the universes for our great capacity to adapt to changing circumstances, a necessary quality to have in order to survive. And most survive. Non-survival is a very, very rare event. Change is an inevitable fact of existence and is multiplied by many orders of magnitude when one is created imperfect. From the moment that you came into being you have been undergoing change with every fragment of time that has passed. As you read to this lesson you are changing. It is an inevitable and irreversible process. And we call ourselves ascendant because as we change we also ascend simultaneously. There is no turning back.

The change that you seek is difficult to measure by your standard physical means, for you cannot put it
on a yardstick, or hold it in your hands, or leave an impression on a film with it. It is measured instead in
terms of peacefulness, confidence, awareness, that ability to be in the world but not of it, joy in the
creations of the Father that abound so wonderfully on your planet. That is how you can discern the
change within. And also by an increasing awareness to the promptings of your Thought Adjuster, which
you, in particular, are very well attuned to. 

Adversity creates determination, tests your resolve, measures how deep your desire
 
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SOURCE: Lightline Teleconference  2025-01-30

Teacher: Amanson

T/R: Mark







 

 

Amanson on Adversity

"Adversity" is the only means of  creating an experienced end, polishing a personality that has been, shall we say, battle tested. 

Adversity creates determination, tests your resolve, measures how deep your desire for that which you declare you are determined to achieve. No one truly appreciates what has been too easily acquired. It is only after a series of setbacks and the person has been prepared, ripened, to take full advantage of their reward that the prize is fully appreciated.

Adversity comes with the territory, all part of the system. It seems to originate randomly from without but adversity contains the lessons — the prepared lessons — you will have to meet in order to bring your prize home. The desire, the plan, the execution (thought, word, and deed) and the adversity they will face were all born at the same moment.
 
Adverse conditions are as much a part of the scenario as the initial desire. It's all one. And the tougher the adversity the more power is born in the person who overcomes it. It is a game, of sorts. At least it benefits a person to approach it that way, in that spirit. The Oneness pervades all. The Oneness is all — so there's really no need to bemoan what is essentially a complete package. It is your gift to face snags, hitches, bumps in the road, and place yourself in a position of problem solving. It exercises your mind, exercises your character, and in its deepest recesses (and usually in the direst circumstances), it will force you to call on the unseen realm, that Spirit connection within a person that in turn connects directly to the hub of origination — where all creation originates — affecting the situation at its point of origin, before adversities became adversities.

It is this last lesson for which we can be most grateful. Grateful to, and for, Adversity.

Aggression

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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Aggression is self-doubt projected outward
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive Nov. 20, 1998
Teacher Andirondek
T/R Cathy

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aggression or aggressive tendencies are, in some respects, the antithesis of fear, for fear is nothing more than self-doubt projected inward. Aggression is self-doubt projected outward. The cure, if you will, for self-doubt is an enhanced realization of how much you are loved. For if you can crack open your heart even slightly to accept the love which is flooding this planet, then the self-doubt which lives in the dark recesses of your heart has fewer places to hide.  

An exercise for this week, which is completely voluntary on your parts, of course, is whenever you are in a tense situation where that clutching feeling occurs in your chest and you think of nothing but the potentially disastrous outcomes of the situation, I ask you to stop, take a deep breath, and with that breath imagine your heart stretching and opening, just a crack, to allow the light and the love to flood in, the knowledge that you ARE a child of God, and that as a child of God you are loved regardless of the outcome of that situation. An adverse reaction in another person in no way diminishes the beauty you hold in the eyes of God.  

Anger

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
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Anger is a false alarm but how often do we see it that way
 
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SOURCE: 
Lightline Teleconference  September 12 2024
Teacher: Amanson
T/R: Mark 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anger is a mirror. It is a gift from the person or situation one is angry with. How else to groom ourselves, to be better equipped to realize  the constraints of the daily face-to-face we encounter in the world today? Without anger our growth would be deficient for we could not see — would not be faced with — the very fault in ourselves we accuse another of.

Anger is a false alarm but how often do we see it that way? It always appears so justified in our inner sanctum, our interior court of appeals. We are the one with right on our side, or so we insist. But really, how would we know? If we know so little as to be angry, what else might we be wrong about? Particularly when we are faced with global situations, political intrigues, plots and devices which go way beyond the understanding of even those  whose brain-children they are.

Anger is the perfect sign we are not living up to our potential, that we have abandoned the equilibrium we are here to discover — perhaps rediscover is the better word, but that can wait for another time.

Anger will leave its perpetrator breathless, and it is breath that is our all-important component. In fact, the entire world needs to sit back and take a very deep breath. Anger only perpetuates the folly presently making the world seem a vast unmoored vessel adrift on an angry sea. But it is not the sea that is angry, it is the sailors. The sea is merely reflecting their attitudes, their misguided passions, their untold visions of a wrongheaded splendor and the last gasp of fading aristocracy, the aristocracy of factionalism. No one, it is becoming increasingly apparent, is more deserving than the next brother or sister along the line. And it is this realization that is presently making a great deal of the population very, very angry. But why should they be? Aren't each a brother or sister? So isn't each one, including the angry, deserving?

Anger is, it is true, an educator, but it must be seen as such to do its job, to instill its realization, and then to calm down. The angry, once glimpsed in the mirror of his or her anger, can be brought to heel, can be made aware of the self-defeating spiral that is anger. 

Can anger be a motivator? When transformed into positive action, yes. But that, you'll find, is when the anger is left behind. It is transformed, which was anger's purpose all along.

Anger is a very low vibration. Raise your being to a much higher standard. Allow your anger to work its magic and destroy itself. Enter a whole new world. A world perhaps not trouble-free, but a world at least no longer troubled by anger.

Anxiety

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
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SOURCE: This row is used for recording useful information about the source of the wisdom entry.

Anxiety and coping mechanisms
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive 10 Oct 1996.

Teacher Ham

 

 

 

 

 

 

Many feel anxious concerning the perception that others have of them, especially specific people, often family members. Others have anxiety concerning the perception of their peers and colleagues. You all fear the worst, that another's perception will confirm your own lowest conception of yourself, that you are somehow a failure.

This anxiety causes you to keep up a front towards these people, a front of calm coolness, of having everything under control, a front that says that you know exactly what you are doing and don't need any help or advice, and especially don't need any concern or, heaven forbid, pity. We encourage you to explore these feelings, explore why they occur with the people that they occur with.

There is always in each person concerns that they would be embarrassed for another person to see. Each person is concerned with their status and their prestige in life, it is beyond what they really deserve. Each person is concerned with defending that status and level of prestige that their authority should not be breeched or undermined. This is all natural human feeling and it is universal. It is one of the things that makes true communication difficult, and true team work difficult.

Life is very complex and it is built around a complex web of human interaction. Business life is built around transactions that are partly postures more than reality. Everyone has to pretend to be expert and not sow doubts telling the truth at times if it is warranted. Your society is so full of these behaviors that reality is very blurred all the time in thousands of small ways and in order to fit into this society requires countless bendings of the truth and countless poses of authority that may not be entirely comfortable. It is as though you all are so afraid of exposing vulnerability that you are willing to sacrifice truth to that end. This phenomenon is world wide and extends to national life as well. This is intolerance.

You want perfection in all your dealings from the waitress that brings your breakfast to the mechanic who fixes your car to your political leadership, you want them all to be experts. You don't want them to display any hint of not knowing or inefficiency. And this intolerance stems from having to hold up this facade yourselves all the time.

This societal intolerance and shading of the truth is a recipe for ultimate disaster. Individually, it leads to heart attacks, strokes, depression, mental illness, and so on. As nations, it leads to intolerance of weakness of the unfortunate and between nations it leads to armed conflicts as everyone wants to see their side as white and the other side as black. You all want to be assured of your rightness, your innocence, that you were certainly right to lose your temper over the dry cleaner losing a shirt or something.

This society is taking a cardboard perfectionism to extremes. In part, it is said to be due to the congestion of people, the masses of people living in close proximity, that little things tend to cause greater perturbations. But, I contend that it is the strain of keeping up appearances, the strain of maintaining this cardboard perfection in yourselves, that causes you to jump on others for their slips because you are afraid of your slipping.

When we speak of tolerance as a fruit of the spirit, we are speaking of it extending to your whole, entire life. We are speaking of you tolerating yourself to the point that you can tolerate others and tolerate others seeing your imperfections and it is this that decreases anxiety. If you can allow others to see your faults, to
see your fears, then you can easily, very easily, tolerate seeing fears in others and imperfections in others.

It takes some work to identify your anxieties and to counter act these by openly expressing your true feelings. In some ways it is a measure of your cultural maturity. You all remember going through the adolescent phase where you answered every inquiry with "I'm fine" and you remember all the anxiety that that was hiding.

Socially, this planet is still in its adolescence. Despite the cultural and professional pressures to the contrary, for your own spiritual growth you must learn to be more openly exposed. To say at times, "I don't know", or just to express hope or fear or any number of human emotions without the fear of falling into a black hole that you will never come out of again, this won't happen and believe me you will feel better. Say, "I don't know but I am going to try", or something like that.

You are all in places in your careers where this is very difficult, but it is not impossible. It is the equivalent of letting down a piece of cardboard, you will still be standing, you won't disappear.

Question: At first pass I find it easier to apply to business situations than personal situation, but I suspect it does apply to both.

Ham: Especially being a parent tends to reinforce this role playing. Because, for a child to see you weak or indecisive or frightened is for some intolerable.  

Question: It works with the child too, when the child learns to feel like he or she has to put up a good front when they see weakness on the part of the parent. This can make children feel anxiety.

Ham: Yes.

Question: I found myself saying, "I am bad at accepting imperfection in myself and better at accepting it in other people, and I wonder if I am kidding myself in saying that?

Ham: It is usually the case that one is the reflection of the other. So, if you are intolerant of allowing others to view your imperfections then you are usually intolerant of other's to that same degree. Deep within each person, there is a critic, and that critic is pretty accurately cataloguing your imperfections. You can take the critics job away by acknowledging and accepting your own imperfect humanity. But, mostly humans fear the critic and he goes on working for years before you can accept yourselves.

Question: This critic, is this the same imposter that we call the ego?

Ham: Yes, it is an aspect of that same identify creating entity. Because mankind is a will creature, he can choose between reality and unreality and there is aspects of both in every evolving creature. There are always areas where the person sees reality slightly skewed out of their ego needs. The ego is a mental
construction that is unreal itself. It is a way for the mind to self-identify, to identify itself as separate from universal mind.

The truth is, however, that mind is not separable, it is one mind originating in the third source and center. But, being material creatures who are individually packaged personalities, the mind that is utilized must adapt to that phenomenon and so the ego identity is born. Spiritual growth and the process of becoming increasingly spirit identified, entails the gradual relinquishing of ego separation. Personality remains your unique connection with the Father, but there is a gradual lessening of the ego mind identification. This is a process extending on into Paradise. As you know, Lucifer himself was not exempt from ego identification.  The ego says, "I am" or I am part of or I am partial, or anything of the sort.

Question: So the fear beneath all this is the fear of loss of identity?

Ham: Yes.

Question: Of not being?

Ham: Yes.

Question: So we become anxious because we are trying so hard to defend this unreality, this ego identification of mind as self and the need then to defend this self?

Ham: Yes.

Question: And, denying this fear.

Ham: Yes, absolutely.

Question: So if we can get to a point where we become more accepting of how things are and the things that happen instead of defending the idea of who we think we should be, we would become less anxious?

Ham: Well put.

Question: Acceptance of partiality?

Ham: Acceptance of life.

Question: I Find that when I am involved with someone who is equally perfectionistic that we get involved in trying to maintain our view of being perfect and then when we aren't, we blame the other person for making us imperfect. I find this harder than admitting to a colleague that I cannot do something.

Question: Does this stem from childhood tapes, of being told we are no good?

Ham: That is where it starts, but it's not always unconscious or repressed memories that trigger these things.

Question: Did you have any insights into when two intolerant perfectionists butt heads.

Ham: Humor, humor will save many situations. Because, humor can make you see the absurdity of the situation.

Question: And the kinship?

Ham: Yes.

Question: The other patterns I see in myself is when someone threatens to knock over my cardboard perfection, I get angry at them.

Ham: Yes. 

Question: It is like a validation of your inner condemnation of yourself. And so, the antidote for this, is it to become as a little child, in your own view of yourself?

Ham: Yes, that is one way to put it. You have to grow more tolerant of others seeing your imperfections.

Question: It would also help to live more in the present moment and worry less about future consequences.

Ham: Yes very much so. Do not always think in terms of fairness for yourself. There are other more important issues at stake. The Master sought to be fair whit those around him, but never sought fairness for himself. It is human to react to a perceived injustice whether it be to secretly resent this or openly confront it. But sometimes, the small issue of justice in a small particular situation can be irrelevant to the overall greater picture. In relationships, if two people are always contending for fairness over every little thing, then they would be fighting all the time and the greater value of the relationship is imperiled. Be generous and light hearted over trifles.

Anxiety and forethought
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive December 15, 2000.
Teacher Alkon, Daniel
T/R Bill, Bob

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alkon: Anxiety is a form of fear response, which is more subtle in its emotional tone and often pervasive in its duration. It is characterized by a heightened physiological response including blood pressure, heart rate, sensory cutoff levels, and other measures. It is understood emotionally as a sense of unease, tension, of foreboding, and general discomfort. Sometimes the object of anxiety is clear cut and understood, and at other times it can be generalized and floats freely from one mental image to another coloring all thought with an unpleasant, mildly fearful arousal flavor and tone. Physiologically it is part of your animal make up, the nature of your nervous system. It has been placed there by the Life Carriers for the purpose of arousing action for anticipated dangerous situations. Its purpose in evolutionary terms is to make sure the organism, the human mind-body, is prepared for the eventualities which could occur in the environment.  

As evolution proceeded and human will evolved to the point where Andon and Fonta exercised true human choice, as contrasted to merely animalistic choices, the role of anxiety was complicated and has further evolved in its complication so that much of what is experienced as anxiety today has no connection with truly life threatening circumstances. The anxiety of modern times has spilled over into many other areas other than physical danger anticipatory functioning. It has become to many people a permanent condition. The anxiety is often at an unconscious level until there is some triggering stimulus to make it aware to the consciousness of an individual.  

When Jesus spoke to his apostles and to the multitudes to let go of anxiety he was referring to the generalized, free-floating dis-ease, which even in the comparatively simple environment of his times was nevertheless a slave master of the mind. Jesus was not simply a mystic advising a humanistic solution to anxiety. He did not prescribe anti-anxiety medication, nor did he suggest that this anxiety could be controlled by an aesthetic withdrawal from life's interactions, as has been practiced in some religions.

Rather he prescribed soul trust in the over-care of a loving Father-God. While he pointed out that anxiety does not lengthen one's life or result in any action but merely wears out the physical mechanism through the stress induced by elevated physiological reaction, his main point was that anxiety of this nature is totally unnecessary. He stated that the God of all the earth and the Creator of the heavens was so on top of it that he had not only named the stars in their courses but numbered the hairs of your heads; that he knew the falling of the most insignificant bird and therefor was ful! ly competent to take care of the more important needs of his mortal children.  

Because Urantia has been so cut off from much of the spiritual nourishment that would have been its due many people today remain in a state of cosmic orphan-hood. They regard themselves as bereft of any intelligent, loving over-care, whether or not they call themselves practicing atheists. My friends, you have discussed what it means to let your light be seen to illumine the paths of others. I suggest that one of the greatest ways that this light will show in your lives is by your peaceful trust in the over-care of a loving and fully capable Deity. 

Let us speak a moment about forethought. Thinking about the options of the future does not have to be done in a spirit of anxiety. To be free of anxiety does not mean that you throw reason and planning to the winds. No, rather does it mean that your mind is clear, free from the unbelief that clouds it, that make it difficult to think, so that you can look at your choices and options full in the face. At that point you then reach for that light switch. After you have turned it on, the light, the power of God, will light the options before you, so that you can see which one is God's way, as contrasted with which one might be your way.

Our blessed Master Son made his decisions after his baptism when he had clearly understood there were
always two ways, his way or the Father's way. While he could have chosen his way, having already achieved his sovereignty, he deferred and therefor chose the Father's way.  

What will impress your acquaintances, in addition to the many aspects of service, is the way in which you conduct yourselves when you are truly free of anxiety and have finally decided that God's will is the most wonderful thing that you could chose to do. Then you cannot help but be a magnet of love, of peace, and a tower of strength to other people. You will not make their decisions for them but you will assist them in seeing clearly what the paths are that lie before them. You may not assist them with words, but you will show them a better way. There are of course many other aspects of this, but this one thing I felt would direct itself in a useful manner for your thinking. 

Daniel: I have one thing to add to tonight's lesson. In your weekly planning as you consider the days ahead anticipate that there will be periods of anxiety. It is the nature of mortal existence. So when it arrives do not be surprised, and welcome it in and analyze it. Consider its causes, and its place in your thinking. If it is a cause of much distress, then it must be put into perspective. You all have the capability of dealing with this situation, and should a situation arise in which you find yourself at a loss for solution, you know what to do. You all have resources readily at hand whose response is just a beckon call away. 

Bobbie: Are you saying then that if you are a person that is anxious or has hypertension, that it should be controlled other than with medication, say for example in relaxation techniques, that sort of thing? 

Daniel: Thank you for that most intriguing question. My response is this. You know far more than your question elicits. While I cannot speak in specific detail, in general I am allowed to say a great variety of assistance is open to all those who seek assistance. Do not rely totally on any specific area of assistance, but avail yourself of all those things, which are in the repertoire of your society, and of availability to you individually. We regret not being able to speak in specifics. Those issues must be dealt with privately with one's own resource base as you are now most fully appraised of.

Letting go of anxiety
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive May 04, 2001.
Teacher Loretta
T/R Bill

 

 

 

 

 

 

Loretta: I wish to talk about letting go of anxiety. I struggled with this natural propensity to defend myself and try to control my surroundings. I was on guard for signs of danger and was something of a worrier.

Indeed, it is important to exercise your mind and face your fears head on. It has been said many times before; it is a wisdom known to your enlightened ones. Nevertheless, it is practiced by very few people in its full reality. Many people do not begin to face their anxieties and worries, (which are all milder varieties of fear), until they become so crippled with this pattern that their lives become dysfunctional. What I wish to touch on is that wonderful, graceful, acceptance of God's true love which is understood to be a greater control and a more wonderful assessment of your life than your minds can possibly engender.

When Jesus said, "Have no anxiety", he reminded his disciples and Apostles that the Father knows your needs before you ask Him. Indeed, the Father dwelling within each of you knows your needs better than you will ever know them in this mortal life. But He cannot arbitrarily work in your behalf unless you grant Him that permission. God loves you enough that He will not coerce or manipulate you in any fashion.  Therefore, the answer to the problem of anxiety is entirely in your hands. It is up to you to decide to allow God this overcare. His intention is always there, but until you take the reins out of your hands and give them into the hands of God, you will still be guiding the horse, which is your life.  

Finally, in talking about letting go of anxiety, I am not at all referring to letting go of discernment, of planning, of careful and thorough work. None of these things are indicated by letting go of anxiety. The anxiety that I refer to is the result of self direction. Its cure is to turn to your divine Pilot within and give him permission to provide you with the guidance that will march you forward from one victory to another over your carnal nature, as you evolve more and more into that splendid being whose survival of death insures your Paradise ascension finality in its greatest and most complete form.

Attainment

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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Consider the realm of your next life to be as a mirror
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive April 8, 2000.
Teacher Elyon, Malvantra
T/R Jonathan, Daniel

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elyon: Oftentimes in the development of character an individual will not recognize an attained quality until the individual is able to label, to categorize, that quality, to transform it into a tangible perspective. As the
character develops, it emerges in what appears to be a nebulous way, for the events of life are not linear when it comes to growth. Events must transpire, and when a subsequent event is needed, that may have to wait for years, and quite possibly it had occurred years prior to the primary, the first event, and it requires time for you to associate the secondary event, which in time occurred earlier, for the growth to be attained.

Once you have made the association and recognized it, then you take on bonafide possession of this status. You grant yourself qualification. You continually practice the development of morontia high-sight. Though you will be reminded continually that your world is largely physical and oftentimes distracted from the spiritual pursuit, let yourself believe fully that you are transforming your being into the status of a morontia
being.

Consider the realm of your next life to be as a mirror, that as you grow now and look up into that mirror, it will reflect back to you your attainment. Just as you use a mirror in your daily life for grooming, to set yourself aright before you make your entrance into your daily affairs, use the morontia mirror for grooming, for that perspective of oneself that you may adjust your tie, that you may straighten your hair, that you may reflect the morontia into your daily life.  Stillness is sitting before this mirror.

Malvantra: Yes, indeed, you should look into this mirror often to see how your morontia selves are appearing so that you may groom them for optimal performance. I would remind you at the same time that you as budding morontia individuals will also be using this mirror to mirror outwards to others what it means to live a morontia life of soul. Your individual lights will shine out, and the love of our Father and of
Michael and of Mother and your teachers will reflect off your mirror so that others may see and be attracted to a life in partnership with our Father. The morontia mirror is a two-way mirror. If you will look at it closer yourselves you will discover that indeed it is a three-way mirror.

As was said previously, much of what you have truly become you do not yet see. Let go of your ego fear and allow yourself to see the beauty and truth of your own intentions and the reality of your personal spiritual growth. It is not egotistical to recognize that which your soul has accomplished. You have accomplished it with cooperation with your fragment of our Father. Your soul knows that this is so, that you have not accomplished it alone, all by yourself. It is because you have each come closer to your Thought Adjuster that you are beginning to become brilliant reflectors of our Father's life.

Awareness

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
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Spirit awareness
 
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Question: As I walk the spiritual walk of my life I notice that sometimes I feel really moved, filled, and
close to God and Jesus, and sometimes it feels like everything withdraws and there is sort of a still quietness out there. Is that my imagination? I know God doesn't go anywhere. What happens then? Is that something real that happens to people? That there is an ebb and flow of their spiritual receptivity and constancy of the ministry to them.

Answer: It appears to us that this is quite normal for you humans. Of course, God is constant. Your consciousness is not. And for many reasons. Some growth takes place beyond consciousness in higher mind realms. Much reality takes place on a spiritual level, which you would never, never see tangibly or be even aware of. So, sometimes when you feel you are not spiritually centered or tuned, you are indeed experiencing growth. There are also rest periods, plateaus, spiritually as well as intellectually, physically. A being can only work so hard for so long then must rest. So this seems to be normal and, of course, the constancy of the human will varies. Although we have all made the ultimate commitment to do the will of The Father, the acting upon this decision involves constancy of spirit in actions and varies, which is not extraordinary, but is the condition of imperfect beings. 

Remain calm and observant
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive October 22, 2001.
Teacher Abraham

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abraham: It would seem at times people are so quick to define the world around them that they give little effort towards being observant. In these fast paced times the attitude seems to be 'the more--the better.' It is as if everyone operates at top speed. There seems to be no slowing down to be watchful.

Sometimes we need a reminder to be calm and observant — wait on your definitions; wait before you make judgments. The rash definition is quite likely to miss details and choose a poor perspective. We all need a time to release and be open for receiving the new.

You can view your surroundings and see that it seems everyone cannot receive enough information, enough news. It is as if people know there are new things occurring, and they look towards their material technology to receive any and all information.

They say knowledge is power and yes, it is, but so many think not to turn inward towards a spiritual source of information. There is this awareness, a new awareness that is somewhat unsettling to many, but also comforting to some. You can feel as though you know more but do not know how or why. Being so aware you are in a searching mode and with a questioning mind. This openness leads to receiving revelation, that is information coming from a divine source.

There are many forms of revelation, many ways to receive. We are endowed with awareness and an easier, more understandable technique to receiving revelation or divine communication. Sometimes what
you have criticized others for, you have been caught doing yourself. This is a form of revelation, a form of divine communication that aids you in your own self-correction. Yes, this is on a personal level, but does this not also add to the wellness of the whole?

The churches in today's world may speak of revelation as if they receive information because they are looked upon with favor by God. Many of the so-called prophets were deemed prophets because they seemed to have received divine revelation. It is as if these seemingly chosen individuals were the only ones that can receive. This practice is quite outdated and everyone, even the smallest child, has equal opportunities to receive divine revelation. Divine revelation is not the thunderous voice of God that tells
great things to come or new commandments to obey, no.

Most revelation is personal and aiding you in your journey Paradiseward. Many individuals can receive the same revelation simultaneously or varying bits of information that choreograph spiritual experiences to bring about certain results to incorporate a common universal knowledge. We have to be observant. We have to refrain from defining. We have to believe that some circumstances are being woven into a greater
universe fabric.

Back to personal revelation and correction, I would admonish you to not become discouraged by these seemingly ugly facts about your behavior, for it is the very whisper of God into your ear. He is your loving, devoted Parent, not a stern judge who looks for your every mistake so He can chastise you. This week practice being observant. Note the new levels of awareness in yourselves as well as your fellows. How can you better deal with the correction from personal revelation?

Simon: Abraham, I have a question about choreographing spiritual experiences that bring about results. Sometimes I feel like we are left on our own to see what will happen and wonder if that is the case? I know in my heart that applying faith and then escaping fear or escaping with fear sometimes and not applying myself to full faith. As Father does the timing of assistance in our lives, are we at times left alone waiting?

Abraham: Yes, it would appear sometimes as if you are left alone to make decisions, and that is true to a point because your free will cannot be infringed upon. Father can only do so much before it is up to you make a decision and take action. The problem is time. While Father sees time as only an eternal forward momentum, you see time as the enemy. It does create great impatience. During these impatient and frustrating moments you especially need to be aware and observant, and take action from a calm state of mind. I understand the world does not agree with this theory, but you must realize while you are never left alone by our divine overseers, they are greatly devoted to your progression and too much involvement could take away from your opportunity to progress Paradiseward. Choreographing, yes, we each know well that synchronistic circumstances that lead to growth. 

These circumstances are not always peace promoting, but rather agitating to create reactivity. Therein lies the importance of being aware and observant and not taking rash actions. You can see from past experience that time really does take care of many matters. Just the waiting is a bit frustrating to the mind. In this society hard work leads to productivity, but many times we find that rash actions lead to mistakes. There are always many factors to consider like perhaps from what foundation would you make your decisions? Is it a worthy place? Is it pure? Is it ego induced? Is it out of fear? What is the basic mind-set in which you would be acting from is a good question to ask yourself during these times. 

Live a life that is conscious, moment to moment
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive April 21, 2002.
Teacher Rayson
T/R Daniel

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rayson: In self-consciousness you can live life actively, inter-actively, co-creatively! And that is the most powerful place to be for overcoming your issues. 

You have seen many people in society you can call "couch potatoes," who watch TV all the time and are really not in their body or in their mind, they are out there in the screen. They are not even living life vicariously — they are being entertained. They are "smoking on the opium pipe" of modern society. And so it is a very harmful, deleterious habit to get into, to be unawake, unconscious, un-self-aware, to be living in an alternative reality, which has no reality to itself, other than the fiction, or even the news on TV. 

So these notes are to help your self-awareness, they are little "pinpricks," as your mother or grandparent may have done at church-they would pinch you a little bit in church to awaken you to listen to the sermon, to listen to the service, not to fall asleep. Of course, grandpa may have gotten pinched too, huh, as he was falling asleep. This is to live life, being awake. Living life unawares, as some philosophers have said, is not to live at all, but a life that is wasted; this has been said by eastern and western and middle-eastern philosophers for centuries. Live a life that is conscious, moment to moment.

Yes, I do know that some of you have jobs that are very distracting, which require production, continuity of thought, from one task to another so that you have a chain of tasks throughout the day. We would hope that you would take time to turn away from your computer monitor, and turn your chair to face a window, look at a bird outside, to pay attention to another reality. Some of you do this at stop signs. Some of you do this at coffee breaks, where you take time apart to disengage from your work life. This produces a life that is very productive for your employer and earns you a good living, but does not really contribute to your spiritual development and the higher skills and talents that lie dormant within you. 

And how many of you are conscious and aware while interacting with your fellow workers when there is a problem — to be self-aware as a child of God, to look at this exchange and reflect on it in a spiritual manner, for spiritual benefit, for its soul-growth? And that is what this is all about: how to augment the development of your soul in ways that are far more productive than living life unconsciously. When you live this way, you become aware that there are ethical decisions to be made many times a day. There are moral decisions that you need to engage in or contemplate. Perhaps you do not have to make decisions concerning that, but in your mind if you suppose that you were in that position, what would your intent be for an ethical decision? Whether it is helping a clerk make the right change and giving them back what is truly due to the mercantile firm, or whether it is dealings with labor and management, whether it is with customers and policy. If you engage these issues, these areas, with ethical and moral consideration, what you can learn from it? Then you will gather much growth from this. 

And dear ones, if you live your life for 30 or 40 years working for others, task to task, minute to minute, and learned very little through this process of self-consciousness, what will you do when you retire? Do you think you will learn this automatically and quickly? I think not! These are skills that are developed, much like tennis, running, handball, hockey, flying an airplane — these are skills that are developed and these are skills that can be lost. These are skills that you must maintain. So use these little pinpricks, little jabs in the ribs to wake up, to remind you. And if you have lived a life that is unconscious from minute to minute, then when you see these, these are reminders to wake up. "What am I thinking?" "What is my agenda?" "What is my intention for this moment?" You are not here for entertainment, for this is not entertainment, this is hard work! This is some of the hardest work you will experience as a mortal.

Balance

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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Balance starts at the physical level
 
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Balance is a word with which humans feel comfortable. You feel, perhaps, you know this concept well. As children you learned what the word is defined as, and you learned balance. For example, when riding a bicycle without the training wheels. But you have not really learned balance as humans, individually, because your planet is so out of balance. So let us examine what balance really means to each of us and to the world.

On a universal level, the first rule of balance is physical. There are dark islands, which exert balancing influences on physical matter in space. Without these islands entire universes would implode, explode, or simply leave. On Earth, in our local universe, the Master Physical Controllers are in charge of the energy balance, which keeps your planet afloat - rotating, spinning, revolving. Of course, the Isle of Paradise exerts a physical balance as the universes breathe inward and outward.

Your scientists have recently discovered evidence of creation. They are on the right track but fail to grasp the concept of physical over-control of balance. Physically, Earth is balancing even as you who live here perceive an imbalance, upheavals, tidal floods, earthquakes, or volcanoes - are all physical signs of the rebalancing of the planet. As Earth approaches Light and Life status these physical manifestations will calm.

So balance is first and foremost a physical phenomenon. How does this translate to the individual material being? You must pay attention to your physical being. If the physical is unbalanced it repercusses on every level. Like a universe, the physical may cause you to implode, explode, or simply float away. Physical balance on this stage or arena of beingness definitely affects spiritual growth. It can enhance or retard Adjuster control. It can whip up false emotions causing despair, anger, depression, paralysis, false enthusiasm, euphoria, hysteria, fear, phobic reaction. All are manifestations of a physical imbalance. Some you can correct. Others you must learn to live with and overcome mindally-spiritually. Simple things - proper rest, nutrition, lack of abuse to your bodies - constitute the goal of physical balance. When your body is balanced you have the advantage in other areas.

In our universe, mindal, intellectual, rational, thinking balance is achieved through a system - although
different in degree, upon every level - is basically the same. Of course perfected beings have no need for
these considerations as they are created in perfect balance for that is what perfection is. We are more fortunate than they. We earn and learn perfection.

In our universe we have a system of teaching. The slightly more advanced teach those behind them. They teach those behind them. We are all teachers and students. Our guardian seraphim help us maintain rationality and perspective, which fosters sanity. If one were to study a minute portion of a painting one may think it insane and meaningless. When one pulls back you may see the whole working in harmony and sanity and balance.

Your guardian seraphim see more than you at every level and have given you - and will give you - the gift of intellectual, mindal, sanity. Here, for you, - keep your seraphim close, fear is distancing to your angels. Consciously request your angels' help and they will be overjoyed to give it to you. They are your constant, faithful companions. If you invite them they will help, but you must allow them the opportunity to serve in their appointed roles. Do not deny these loving beings their service.

The human is blessed-cursed with ego. Ego, in and of itself, is not good or bad. Unfortunately, it is mostly in control in individuals at this time on this world. Ego can imbalance mind. Mind is a bestowal of Divine Mother and is spiritual, progressive, growth oriented, God advancing in nature. Adjutant Mind Spirits are at work as well as the Mother Spirit, but human ego can interfere, and should not be confused with mind properties - the sanity, spiritually sane properties - that each one of you has.

Ego can be identified as self aggrandizement, self-involvement, over self-analysis, when your self becomes more important than the spiritual goals, concepts, you know to be true or when yourself becomes the center of the universe instead of God. Or when yourself becomes more important than your fellows, resulting in hurtful behavior to others. This is ego.

We cannot be perfect here, brothers and sisters, so do not make another ego error of self punishment for
past and present mistakes. We are all learning together. We are becoming together. We are going through a process together. This is what ascension, evolution, experiential beings do. Just be aware of the difference so one may achieve balance.

On a planetary level, some geographic locations suffer from lack of mind as groups, others suffer from
over-much ego. We are not in balance mindally on this planet. There are few rational group voices on the planet now, but that will be corrected, and there is no need for despair.

Third, and most important element of balanced personality integration, is of course the spiritual. This is both simple and complex. You are all indwelt by a fragment of The FATHER. You have access to the Spirit of Truth, and the ministering Angels, and the Divine Mother. You are co-creating your morontial souls with the Adjuster.

But how does one use these tools? Review Thought Adjuster - Spirit of Truth lessons for more technical in-depth explanations, teachings. But for day to day practical usages, I continue to stress a spiritual habit of daily prayer, worship and thanksgiving, a spiritual time to center in God inward and outward, the integration of spiritual principles into thought, word, deed, whether doing trivial, mundane chores, professional chores, or in one's personal social interactions. When spiritual considerations become as
important as political gain, other considerations, you will be in balance as an ascender.

One must not devote all one's conscious time-thought to the spiritual. Unconsciously or super-consciously that is the reality. But for balance you must pray and then put those prayers, answered prayers - into action in your lives. This is balance. You cannot exist in a vacuum. We are interrelated, and it is a disservice to your own progressive path to bury your talents.

Brothers and sisters, you are all spiritual ambassadors in your own lives. That is why balance is so important for you. Rest, relaxation, fun, loving partnering relationships, friendships, prayer, worship, thanksgiving, proper nutrition, doing a good job to retain your material existence, all are necessary for you to be the very best spiritual ambassador that you can be.

Your planet is unbalanced most spiritually. There is a lack of understanding of your cosmic place, of your future, of many very basic concepts other planets have. You are off center, but not abandoned, not at all abandoned. Earth is most cherished by our Creator-Father-Brother MICHAEL (also known as Jesus of Nazareth when He was incarnated here), and most looked after on high. Some day Earth will be the crowning planet of Nebadon (that part of the galaxy where Earth is located), and shine brightest, and the
tale of your struggles will inspire others for aeons of time, even into eternity.

If you achieve balance, mind-body-spirit, your cosmic awareness must increase. Part of Spiritual intellectual growth is cosmic citizenship awareness - our place in the grand scheme as individuals, ascenders, and perfecters, as well as our planet's place in the cosmos. As you become more integrated you will be aware of more spiritual beings surrounding you, your angels and Midwayers, teaching corps and assistants, Life Carriers, Thought Adjuster internally, Spirit of Truth externally, and you cannot help, then, but realize what the cosmos will be like. You can actually experience cosmic citizenship here, today, in material form.

Question: What happens to us physically, mindally, and spiritually when the physical body is asleep - in
terms of balance?

Answer: Physically, of course, sleep is a restorative in terms of a shut down of the senses, or a slow down of the senses. So physically, sleep is a necessary recharging mechanism. Mindally, dreaming is a mindal release dealing with emotions: stress, fear, processing, feelings, etc., takes place during dream state and physically the brain is altered to release toxins.

Spiritually, sleep is quite important for that is when your Adjuster or Controller broadcasts the ideal plan for you to you. Sometimes Adjuster communication is partially distorted with dream states. But whether Adjuster communication reaches the unconscious sleeping mind is not as important as the fact that higher mind is receiving undiluted Adjuster communication. Also you are receiving Adjuster broadcasts, which are beamed to your Adjusters throughout this universe.

Question: Many of us are having difficulty, earning a living currently due - in part - to the state of our economy, but largely due to our newly-acquired perspective of the material versus the spiritual. In other words, making money is no longer important to us. Spiritual growth and service are. Can you help with a balance here?

Answer: You must maintain your material existence. This is a priority for you on this planet. I do not know how to say this any clearer than that. While you recognize your dual nature as animal and spirit, you must maintain an existence in both realms. How is it that you can grow in spiritual awareness if your body suffers? If your family suffers? You must find this balance on your own. I can tell you that, as our Master did in His life, take care of your priority needs first, then engage in those activities which will add to your over-all well being, both physically, mentally and spiritually. I am aware of the situation. I understand human nature. When you get a taste of the divine - of that which is greater than the material - you wish to give up on the material, to go into the greater part. Do not leave behind the recognition and consciousness of the fact that you are material beings.

Know when to retreat to the hills and when you must hit the streets
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive March 12, 2000.
Teacher Elyon
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The left and the right side of a scale require the other to function properly. To those who enjoy the solitude of worship and contemplation and to those who enjoy the activity of service and ministry, hold in view that when one is doing the other, one is actually accomplishing its opposite. They do go hand-in-hand. If your days are full of activities, your list of things to do is long, a few moments spent in solitude will bring balance. If you find yourself looking for a means to be helpful to your fellows and they are not there, and that you have spent time, and time is ample to study and to contemplate, that this study and contemplation will contribute to the time that you will be busy. If you seek to find in your day one minuscule service instant, you will find that the ample time given to the comprehension of the Father will rush forward to infuse that moment with all the truth and the goodness and the beauty that you have come to know.

Jesus knew his apostles well. He knew that when they wearied from his pressing public ministry that it was time to take them off into the hills for refreshment. He knew that when their anxiety rose from too much revelation, he sent them back among the multitudes that they may relieve themselves of these new realizations by passing them on, by road-testing them, thereby balancing the intensity with practicality. You can rest assured that the Father within you is equally doing this for you. Be patient when you long for an occurrence. The Father is fully aware of your desire and is equally aware of circumstances and will stimulate you to act when the two coincide. But I also ask you to develop this skill yourself, to know when to retreat to the hills and to know when you must hit the streets.

We tend to take our work too seriously
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive May 27, 2001.
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Minearisa: Part of your dilemma is the tendency to truly take your work very seriously. In taking the work seriously, you have a tendency to also take yourselves seriously. It would be hard not to. If a surgeon is not paying attention to what he is doing, taking his work seriously, he could mis-step and lose a life. And this work he performs is truly creative. It's possible for a surgeon to listen to rock and roll music or grand opera while performing surgery, as a reflection of the creative aspects of the work.  

Thus, the performance of performing surgery in a life and death situation, can also be portrayed as an extension of the grander senses because the surgeon's mastery over his toolbox has afforded him the luxury of the dimension of the creative artistry of what he does, even while what he does is important. What God does is very important, but it is also full of beauty, full of light.
 
The creative nature is worth embracing as a counter-part to the expression of loyalty and devotion to duty. The light-heartedness of youth is to be enhanced and solidified by substance but the seriousness of study and discipline also does well to be amenable to a light-hearted approach. More balance, you see. Tip the weight of the scale toward beauty and joy and play.

Find time to be in celebration of all of life
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive October 08, 2001.
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Abraham: Celebration always includes worship and exhibits our deepest gratitude for those that make our joy possible.

With all our work, our struggles, our efforts, we become very business-like in mind. It is easy to overlook those small things that bring us rest for the mind and comfort to the soul. We find this time to drink deeply from the well of spiritual serenity. We find this time to breathe in deeply the satisfaction of our spiritual status as a child of God, and for a few moments think of nothing and just be, just rest and feel not that anxiety to produce, to fulfill promises, to be insulted by time.

The mortal life is difficult, yes no doubt, but it is also a source of joy, a sense of accomplishment, a producer of spiritual values and a unifier between time, eternity and the living God. To celebrate your mortal sojourn
you respect all the five senses. You make it a point to be fully aware in each moment — be it bad or good. You face the difficult trials and you take comfort in knowing that you do not ever give up.

My friends, find time to be in celebration of all of life. Do not awaken dreading the duties of the day, but awaken your inner-selves to the possibilities of the day. Where will Father have me go today? What will He
be trying to show me? How can I be a cog that turns the universal wheel of life? Being mindful of celebrating life you are in an attitude of creating joy, not just your own, but for all. You become a part of the whole and join in the healing, not just another mortal struggling up the spiritual ladder.

To find time for a few moments of celebration everyday re-focuses your mind from handling matters in a business-like fashion to handling matters by joining a forward moving circuit that travels far beyond your knowledge. You are not so exhausted then, you are not so drained. Your countenance is lightened and quite an attraction to others. Find time to celebrate and show your gratitude; speak with one another; laugh and feel Father moving among you.

In being in a state of celebration keeps the low times from becoming too low, too spiritually crushing. You take not yourselves so seriously and you are finding direct spiritual contact. In acknowledging this, life is not just about running the race of time, but about having those moments when you feel the hand of God upon your shoulder, leading you to new and better ways. Joy is a source of power. You can do a great many wonderful things by spreading it.

This week utilize your power to change dark situations. Lighten your own burdens by finding time to really notice the wonderful things of this mortal life. Feel how there is not room for fear when there is hope and joy. Feel that spiritual contentment as you move among your fellows with an attitude of self-forgetfulness, with a gratitude for having the honor of fully living the mortal life. Journal how this affects your personal ministry to others.

Beauty

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
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 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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Beauty is much needed by beings of imperfect creation
 
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Beauty is much needed by beings of imperfect creation and yet its true nature is subject to considerable misunderstanding. Therefore I shall offer a simple definition of beauty. Beauty is that creation of Father which heightens the awareness of all who behold of true spiritual meaning.

When you, for example, behold beauty, your Thought Adjuster is made aware of your perception because beauty is a creation of Father and, as with all things, imbued with Father's qualities. Awareness of beauty sends a direct meaning and signal to your Thought Adjuster which is in turn transmitted to Paradise, as are all Thought Adjuster signals, for recording and sometimes direction, guidance, answer.

Does this mean that animals do not perceive beauty? Yes, that is correct. And indeed those mortals with
indwelling Adjusters who turn away from Father's works will have little, if any, understanding of true beauty and, instead, substitute self-created definitions of beauty. These, of course, will be easily seen through by the spiritually uplifted and aware, such as yourselves.

Behold beauty and you are closer to God. Behold beauty and you gain wisdom. Behold beauty and you
possess a bit more truth. Behold beauty and you share Father's love. Behold beauty, and you step forward in your spiritual growth. Behold beauty and become yourself beautiful, as was Jesus and Melchizedek and his visitation to this planet. Behold beauty and you will recognize it immediately upon representation and always will know it as different and special and not like anything of mortal creation.

Does this mean that beauty should be worshipped? Worship is not quite the right action to undertake for
God's qualities. It is God that you will worship, should worship, are invited to worship. God's qualities are for you to emulate, to hold close, to share, to revere. Truth, beauty, goodness and love are qualities of Father that all are His gifts to you, and each in its own stead contributes to your spiritual nourishment. Enjoy Father's gifts, they will enrich your lives immensely. Share them with your neighbor. It has been said that there is nothing of Father's creation that is not beautiful. You may wish to ponder this a bit. It is essentially true.

And, of course, it is the answer to the developing adolescent who is tempted to ridicule his neighbor as
ugly. And yet, you may say, “but are there not ugly acts?” Yes, there are choices that freewill creatures are permitted to make which can lead to adverse outcomes, sometimes quite unpleasant. This is ugly. The one who makes a freewill choice to reject the Adjuster's promptings and turn away from Father may be perceived by the spiritual self as unpleasant to gaze upon or ugly, and yet, even this one is beloved by
Father.

Should you only retain what you believe is beautiful, and expel – destroy - the remainder? This is a decision reserved for the Ancients of Days alone and not for us. However, in participating in the difficult work of uplifting a world that has fallen into darkness and chaos, necessary social adjustments must be made, and recognition of that which is less godlike is certainly helpful in this regard.

It is difficult for me to comment further on this line. But your Urantia book offers further guidance, if you wish it. Lucifer stated that man was too weak to live in a world in which beauty was marred. Do you think that is true? I do not believe so, either. When new arrivals come to the mansion world, there is often the comment that the beauty there is overwhelming, spectacular, awe-inspiring, comforting, loving, peaceful, truth containing, inspirational, worship-inducing. This is true, all true, and yet this is but an early step in your long journey. You are right to believe that the heaven of your ancestor's stories is a beautiful and wonderful place, and yet when Light and Life arrive on this world, the same will be true here, even more than is presently the case.

My friends, beauty abounds on this little planet. It is all about you. There for your enjoyment and comfort. You have only to extend your perceptions and try them. That is the end of our lesson today.

Question: Thank you, Rayson. I've always thought of beauty as being harmony, that is, harmony of colors or harmony of notes of music, or lives lived in harmony. If you would comment on the relationship between beauty and harmony, I would appreciate it.

Answer: Yes, that is an excellent question. All which is in accord with Father and Father's qualities is, of course, harmonious in the cosmic sense. You know that that applies to truth, do you not? (Yes.) And love? (Yes.) And goodness? (Yes.) So, too, with beauty, and yet it need not be a specific assortment of colors or sounds or spatial configurations even, instead it is the spiritual quality of the artist that imbues an object with its beauty. That is why it is so true that no creations of Father are anything but beautiful and indeed harmonious. Does that answer?

Question: Yes. I do have a follow-up question. Would you comment on why it is that some people think
that things are beautiful which others think are very unbeautiful? For instance, art, the drawing art and
even in music. Do we see different qualities in it, or just what is the explanation for different tastes in art
or music?

Answer: Do you know of any time that Jesus commented on the lack of beauty on anything on Earth?

Question: Well, I know that He was very unhappy with the conduct of the leaders of the church, the spiritual leaders, that is, but specifically in terms of beauty, no.

Answer: Perhaps the differing value in terms of beauty assigned by differing human observers is best explained in terms of selective perception, that is, what observer A sees is filtered through certain expectations that he has, while observer B has different expectations, yet if seen through the eyes of
Father or Jesus or a mortal from the time of Light and Life, it is unlikely that there would be perception of ugliness, particularly in terms of material structures. I understand that there are different tastes among individuals and that what is pleasing to the senses of one may not necessarily be pleasing to the other, yet there is no place in the definition of beauty for physical pleasure, so perhaps this is part of the misunderstanding.

Question: For instance a noise that is considered caterwauling by some can be enjoyed by cats.

Answer: Yes or by an avant guard musician.

Question:  Or artist

Answer: Or tone deaf neighbor.

Question: Yes, I think I understand.

Answer: The idea of beauty as that which is physically pleasurable is not a spiritual definition. This is more in keeping with catering to animal drives. Again, I refer back to the example presented in our last lesson about the teenage boy who would call the neighboring woman ugly, assuming that his adjective was chosen on the basis of a lack of sexual arousal afforded by the woman's countenance. I would say that such a definition of beauty and non-beauty is not in keeping with spiritual qualities or their lack. Does that help?

Question: It helps. Is there's a distinction between physical beauty and spiritual beauty. I know technically
what the answer is, but I would like for you to comment on it.

Answer: Physical beauty and spiritual beauty can be the same when perceived by the one who is spiritually attuned with Father and, in the case of Earth mortals the indwelling Adjuster, I mean spiritually attuned in the sense of a high level of development close to fusion, not mere contact.

However, failing that, there will always be some discrepancy on the part of the observer between what is understood as spiritual beauty and what is understood as physical beauty. This is not meant to be a criticism, but merely a marker of one's growth and progress. You certainly would not be expected to understand complicated mathematical principles before you had mastered addition and subtraction. So too with the complexities of spiritual principles and qualities.

The animal is attracted by, and sees beauty in, that which satisfies animal drives: a comfortable place to
sleep in satisfies the drive for rest, a tasty morsel to chew upon satisfies the drive to eat, a sturdy genetic
product of the opposite sex satisfies the need to mate, and all three examples are representations of
beauty to the animal mind. But do you truly believe that a soft mattress leads you closer to Father?

Answer: Not always. I would say no.

Rayson: Of course, you need to sleep, but you understand my point.

Answer: Yes, I understand your point.

Question: Then, if I understand your lesson, if the object seen, the sound heard, the scent perceived arouses a sense of gratitude to Father and appreciation of His creation, then that is beauty in a more spiritual sense and not just in a physical sense?

Answer: Yes. All of you present have been increasingly awakening to the promptings of your Thought
Adjusters over the last interval of time, and even though it is difficult for you and the perception most
fragile and delicate, with great effort you can at this stage see that spiritual beauty. I urge you to work at
this. You will find your work rewarding.

Beauty is an experience of the individual
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive April 18, 1999.
Teacher Elyon
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Beauty, though prevalent universally, is an experience of the individual. It is important while appreciating the expressions of another, their spiritual attainment, their character development, their wisdom, their serviceability to their fellows, that you do not eclipse your own worth. The order of an English garden is strikingly different from the order of a Japanese garden, yet the two manifest beauty nonetheless.

 Therefore, not only is it beneficial to apply yourself to the extent that your energies are capable of accomplishing your goal, but it is also worthwhile to orient yourself on a specific goal and do your tilling and transplanting with that goal in mind, being inspired by, but not necessarily driven to becoming like, another.

Belief / Beliefs

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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Belief is your hall pass to all that the universe has to offer
 
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SOURCE: Lightline Teleconference 2024-07-18

Teacher: Amanson

T/R: Mark Turnbull
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Amanson on "Belief / Beliefs” December 3, 2023

'Belief' is that from out of which a life is woven.  Belief is your hall pass to all that the universe has to offer. It is the one intangible reality that is ultimately tangible in ways no one could have foreseen but the believer. 'Beliefs' are fabrications suggested from without, but Belief is a fabricator manifesting from within.

The difference between 'belief' and 'beliefs' is primary. The one - 'Belief'-  is an engine, a creator of worlds. 'Beliefs' are simply choices made within a questioning mind, choices that ultimately manifest as questions themselves, until they can be replaced by a larger recognition of That from which the questions sprang in the first place.

Belief is the human side of creation [i.e. the act of creating]. Belief is the mechanism that links you up with and locks you into the (Holy) spirit that is Creation, that is Energy itself. Nothing gets done without purpose, and nothing of purpose gets done without Belief.

And yet 'Belief' is often maligned as being synonymous with 'beliefs' plural. This is a mistake. Look at Belief as the trunk of a tree, and beliefs (plural) as its leaves and branches. They are not the trunk, the organizing principle, but they do thrive and grow and, just like leaves, will change with the turning of the seasons. The trunk [Belief itself] remains ever connected to its source, in fact its roots sinking deeper and deeper; while our beliefs, once blossoms, soon enough decay.

Nothing is activated without Belief  -- neither simple endeavour nor  realization of the framework of Creation. In both cases what Belief puts in motion is the turning of a key and the unlocking of a door, a door which, without the  element of Spirit-suffused Imagination (i.e. Belief), will remain closed -- the endeavour lies dormant due to lack of individual volition, the exponential power of dedication; the realization of Cosmic Industry remains ungraspable due to the refusal to recognize it on its own terms, the very Belief that is creation itself: Spirit in its working clothes.

The individual has a choice in this life: to follow life to its roots, the engine room, so to speak, to discover for oneself the wheels and gears, the very Mechanic in charge! ; or to wallow in, remain simply satisfied with, the trappings of a life, disregarding its most powerful tool - a tool that ironically strips away the mere comforting furniture of 'beliefs' - the all-powerful Gift of Creation --gifted you by its Creator -- the game-changer: Belief.

Bias

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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What is your bias?
 
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anchoring

The first thing you judge influences your judgment of all that follows.
Human minds are associative in nature, so the order in which we receive information helps determine the course of our judgments and perceptions. For instance, the first price offered for a used car sets an ‘anchor’ price which will influence how reasonable or unreasonable a counter-offer might seem. Even if we feel like an initial price is far too high, it can make a slightly less-than-reasonable offer seem entirely reasonable in contrast to the anchor price. 

 

Be especially mindful of this bias during financial negotiations such as houses, cars, and salaries. The initial price offered has proven to have a significant effect.

the sunk cost fallacy

You irrationally cling to things that have already cost you something.
When we've invested our time, money, or emotion into something, it hurts us to let it go. This aversion to pain can distort our better judgment and cause us to make unwise investments. A sunk cost means that we can't recover it, so it's rational to disregard the cost when evaluating. For instance, if you've spent money on a meal but you only feel like eating half of it, it's irrational to continue to stuff your face just because 'you've already paid for it'; especially considering the fact that you're wasting actual time doing so.

 

To regain objectivity, ask yourself: had I not already invested something, would I still do so now? What would I counsel a friend to do if they were in the same situation?

the availability heuristic

Your judgments are influenced by what springs most easily to mind.
How recent, emotionally powerful, or unusual your memories are can make them seem more relevant. This, in turn, can cause you to apply them too readily. For instance, when we see news reports about homicides, child abductions, and other terrible crimes it can make us believe that these events are much more common and threatening to us than is actually the case.

 

Try to gain different perspectives and relevant statistical information rather than relying purely on first judgments and emotive influences.

the curse of knowledge

Once you understand something you presume it to be obvious to everyone.
Things makes sense once they make sense, so it can be hard to remember why they didn't. We build complex networks of understanding and forget how intricate the path to our available knowledge really is. This bias is closely related to the hindsight bias wherein you will tend to believe that an event was predictable all along once it has occurred. We have difficulty reconstructing our own prior mental states of confusion and ignorance once we have clear knowledge.

 

When teaching someone something new, go slow and explain like they're ten years old (without being patronizing). Repeat key points and facilitate active practice to help embed knowledge.

confirmation bias

You favor things that confirm your existing beliefs.
We are primed to see and agree with ideas that fit our preconceptions, and to ignore and dismiss information that conflicts with them. You could say that this is the mother of all biases, as it affects so much of our thinking through motivated reasoning. To help counteract its influence we ought to presume ourselves wrong until proven right.

 

Think of your ideas and beliefs as software you're actively trying to find problems with rather than things to be defended. "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool." - Richard Feynman

the dunning-kruger effect

The more you know, the less confident you're likely to be.
Because experts know just how much they don't know, they tend to underestimate their ability; but it's easy to be over-confident when you have only a simple idea of how things are. Try not to mistake the cautiousness of experts as a lack of understanding, nor to give much credence to lay-people who appear confident but have only superficial knowledge.

 

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are so certain of themselves, yet wiser people so full of doubts.”- Bertrand Russell

belief bias

If a conclusion supports your existing beliefs, you'll rationalize anything that supports it.
It's difficult for us to set aside our existing beliefs to consider the true merits of an argument. In practice this means that our ideas become impervious to criticism, and are perpetually reinforced. Instead of thinking about our beliefs in terms of 'true or false' it's probably better to think of them in terms of probability. For example we might assign a 95%+ chance that thinking in terms of probability will help us think better, and a less than 1% chance that our existing beliefs have no room for any doubt. Thinking probabalistically forces us to evaluate more rationally.

 

A useful thing to ask is 'when and how did I get this belief?' We tend to automatically defend our ideas without ever really questioning them.

self-serving bias

You believe your failures are due to external factors, yet you're responsible for your successes.
Many of us enjoy unearned privileges, luck and advantages that others do not. It's easy to tell ourselves that we deserve these things, whilst blaming circumstance when things don't go our way. Our desire to protect and exalt our own egos is a powerful force in our psychology. Fostering humility can help countermand this tendency, whilst also making us nicer humans.

 

When judging others, be mindful of how this bias interacts with the just-world

the backfire effect

When some aspect of your core beliefs is challenged, it can cause you to believe even more strongly.
We can experience being wrong about some ideas as an attack upon our very selves, or our tribal identity. This can lead to motivated reasoning which causes a reinforcement of beliefs, despite disconfirming evidence. Recent research shows that the backfire effect certainly doesn't happen all the time. Most people will accept a correction relating to specific facts, however the backfire effect may reinforce a related or 'parent' belief as people attempt to reconcile a new narrative in their understanding.

 

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” - Mark Twain

the barnum effect

You see personal specifics in vague statements by filling in the gaps.
Because our minds are given to making connections, it's easy for us to take nebulous statements and find ways to interpret them so that they seem specific and personal. The combination of our egos wanting validation with our strong inclination to see patterns and connections means that when someone is telling us a story about ourselves, we look to find the signal and ignore all the noise.

 

Psychics, astrologers and others use this bias to make it seem like they're telling you something relevant. Consider how things might be interpreted to apply to anyone, not just you.

groupthink

You let the social dynamics of a group situation override the best outcomes.
Dissent can be uncomfortable and dangerous to one's social standing, and so often the most confident or first voice will determine group decisions. Because of the Dunning-Kruger effect, the most confident voices are also often the most ignorant.

 

Rather than openly contradicting others, seek to facilitate objective means of evaluation and critical thinking practices as a group activity.

negativity bias

You allow negative things to disproportionately influence your thinking.
The pain of loss and hurt are felt more keenly and persistently than the fleeting gratification of pleasant things. We are primed for survival, and our aversion to pain can distort our judgment for a modern world. In an evolutionary context it makes sense for us to be heavily biased to avoid threats, but because this bias affects our judgments in other ways it means we aren't giving enough weight to the positives.

 

Pro-and-con lists, as well as thinking in terms of probabilities, can help you evaluate things more objectively than relying on a cognitive impression.

declinism

You remember the past as better than it was, and expect the future to be worse than it will likely be.
Despite living in the most peaceful and prosperous time in history, many people believe things are getting worse. The 24 hour news cycle, with its reporting of overtly negative and violent events, may account for some of this effect. We can also look to the generally optimistic view of the future in the early 20th century as being shifted to a dystopian and apocalyptic expectation after the world wars, and during the cold war. The greatest tragedy of this bias may be that our collective expectation of decline may contribute to a real-world self-fulfilling prophecy.

 

Instead of relying on nostalgic impressions of how great things used to be, use measurable metrics such as life expectancy, levels of crime and violence, and prosperity statistics.

the framing effect

You allow yourself to be unduly influenced by context and delivery.
We all like to think that we think independently, but the truth is that all of us are, in fact, influenced by delivery, framing and subtle cues. This is why the ad industry is a thing, despite almost everyone believing they’re not affected by advertising messages. The phrasing of how a question is posed, such as for a proposed law being voted on, has been shown to have a significant effect on the outcome.

 

Only when we have the intellectual humility to accept the fact that we can be manipulated, can we hope to limit how much we are. Try to be mindful of how things are being put to you.

fundamental attribution error

You judge others on their character, but yourself on the situation.
If you haven’t had a good night’s sleep, you know why you’re being a bit slow; but if you observe someone else being slow you don’t have such knowledge and so you might presume them to just be a slow person. Because of this disparity in knowledge we often overemphasize the influence of circumstance for our own failings, as well as underestimating circumstantial factors to explain other people's problems.

 

It's not only kind to view others' situations with charity, it's more objective too. Be mindful to also err on the side of taking personal responsibility rather than justifying and blaming.

the halo effect

How much you like someone, or how attractive they are, influences your other judgments of them.
Our judgments are associative and automatic, and so if we want to be objective we need to consciously control for irrelevant influences. This is especially important in a professional setting. Things like attractiveness can unduly influence issues as important as a jury deciding someone's guilt or innocence. If someone is successful or fails in one area, this can also unfairly color our expectations of them in another area.

 

If you notice that you're giving consistently high or low marks across the board, it's worth considering that your judgment may be suffering from the halo effect.

optimism bias

You overestimate the likelihood of positive outcomes.
There can be benefits to a positive attitude, but it's unwise to allow such an attitude to adversely affect our ability to make rational judgments (they're not mutually exclusive). Wishful thinking can be a tragic irony insofar as it can create more negative outcomes, such as in the case of problem gambling.

 

If you make rational, realistic judgments you'll have a lot more to feel positive about.

pessimism bias

You overestimate the likelihood of negative outcomes.
Pessimism is often a defense mechanism against disappointment, or it can be the result of depression and anxiety disorders. Pessimists often justify their attitude by saying that they'll either be vindicated or pleasantly surprised, however a pessimistic attitude may also limit potential positive outcomes. It should also be noted that pessimism is something very different to skepticism: the latter is a rational approach that seeks to remain impartial, while the former is an expectation of bad outcomes.

 

Perhaps the worst aspect of pessimism is that even if something good happens, you'll probably feel pessimistic about it anyway.

just-world hypothesis

Your preference for justice makes you presume it exists.
A world in which people don't always get what they deserve, hard work doesn't always pay off, and injustice happens is an uncomfortable one that threatens our preferred narrative. However, it is also the reality. This bias is often manifest in ideas such as 'what goes around comes around' or an expectation of 'karmic balance', and can also lead to blaming victims of crime and circumstance.

A more just world requires understanding rather than blame.

 

Remember that everyone has their own life story, we’re all fallible, and bad things happen to good people.

in-group bias

You unfairly favor those who belong to your group.
We presume that we're fair and impartial, but the truth is that we automatically favor those who are most like us, or belong to our groups. This blind tribalism has evolved to strengthen social cohesion, however in a modern and multicultural world it can have the opposite effect.

 

Try to imagine yourself in the position of those in out-groups; whilst also attempting to be dispassionate when judging those who belong to your in-groups.

the bystander effect

You presume someone else is going to do something in an emergency situation.
When something terrible is happening in a public setting we can experience a kind of shock and mental paralysis that distracts us from a sense of personal responsibility. The problem is that everyone can experience this sense of deindividuation in a crowd. This same sense of losing our sense of self in a crowd has been linked to violent and anti-social behaviors. Remaining self-aware requires some amount of effortful reflection in group situations.

 

If there's an emergency situation, presume to be the one who will help or call for help. Be the change you want to see in the world.

reactance

You'd rather do the opposite of what someone is trying to make you do.
When we feel our liberty is being constrained, our inclination is to resist, however in doing so we can over-compensate. While blind conformity is far from an ideal way to approach things, neither is being a knee-jerk contrarian.

 

Be careful not to lose objectivity when someone is being coercive/manipulative, or trying to force you do something. Wisdom springs from reflection, folly from reaction.

 the spotlight effect

You overestimate how much people notice how you look and act.
Most people are much more concerned about themselves than they are about you. Absent overt prejudices, people generally want to like and get along with you as it gives them validation too. It's healthy to remember that although we're the main character in the story of our own life, everyone else is center-stage in theirs too.

 

Instead of worrying about how you’re being judged, consider how you make others feel. They'll remember this much more, and you'll make the world a better place.

 

Blame

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
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 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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The Casting of Blame
 
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SOURCE: 

Lightline Teleconference  2025-01-16

Teacher: Amanson

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Amanson on The Casting of Blame

'The Casting of Blame' is an attempt to get out from under the shadow of your own guilt, or at least the shadow of your own unconscious suspicions. Blame is an irritating thing - it taints both the blamer and the blamed. It seeks to — or rather, purports to — offer a solution; it appears an attempt to find the truth, to ascribe responsibility for a situation, but what it actually does is add another layer of disruption onto an already fraught confluence of events. 

When one blames another, blame acts as a sort of bludgeon, used not to relieve matters but to keep the cacophony going, and, as I've said, in hopes of getting out from under the shadow of one's own insecurities. But it will always fail. How could it not? It extends a web that would be much more useful as a web of inquiry into the origins and ramifications of the incident, how it might have been avoided and how its consequences might be better dealt with now, rather than the superficial and ultimately meaningless casting of blame. It's useless, although in the moment it might seem useful, even justified. 

Blame is tossed about like so much confetti at a parade these days. It rains down like ticker tape on to the passers by, although this particular confetti is anything but celebrational. That is where the metaphor ends, a metaphor used to underscore blame's unfortunate prevalence in your modern world, at least in your present day society. 

How much good work, how many fortuitous answers, helpful solutions are lost to the casting of blame? All the energy, the ingenuity used in the concocting of excuses and "passing the buck" that could be beneficially put to use in the constructive approach to a problem - the participants free of blame, free from the need to defend and explain themselves, able now to buckle down and work out a solution to a mistake that somebody made. Who cares? There's a problem - let's fix it. As you're so fond of quoting, "Difficulties only stimulate the children of the Most Highs". 

This is the beauty of disagreements - they demand an agreement of some sort, a creative meeting of the minds, something original to accommodate this new situation the quarrelsome parties find themselves so fortunate to be faced with: a new problem! Let's delve. Let's explore. Blame? Why would I blame you? We've a situation here. Together we can get to the bottom of it and most likely learn something about ourselves in the process. That's how to successfully cast blame - you cast it out!

Buoyancy

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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SOURCE: This row is used for recording useful information about the source of the wisdom entry.

Your concern should be how to keep the present moment buoyant
 
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SOURCE: Lightline Teleconference  2024-12-05
Teacher: Amanson
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Amanson on Buoyancy

Do not worry about what’s to come. Your concern should be how to keep the present moment buoyant. Now, ‘concern’ is an odd word here for that is precisely the mental activity you want to do away with in cultivating buoyancy. The lightness of living (‘Lightness’ in all its meanings) demands a deft approach to the catalogues of information incessantly thrown at you, information hoping to be received as worthy of admission to your inner citadel, when most of it is so much noise — distraction — designed to keep you from the calm required for making ‘heads or tails’ of the current situation. 

I come back to the Oneness. When the Quiet that pervades your stillness is found and held, kept close, basked in, if you will, the fragmentation you perceive in the outside world goes away. It no longer assaults you as so many sharp edges but fades, melts, into a dream-like landscape, and what was previously ominous, threatening, is now a kind of symphony of sights and sounds under the baton of some conductor or other (you know Who!), fading into the background as music does in a movie. The sights and stories you see become reminders that others too have the opportunity to view life this way, if they only would. All the sounds would turn symphonic, the music sweeter, the stories kinder, passions less amplified, more down to earth.

We are not above being quiet in this roundelay, but the opportunities pass us by as the news of the world pulls us in and creates its own cycle of violence within the consciousness of each of its readers. It is difficult not to be caught up if the passions are given half a chance. But there is much more to life than the shadow play — all this acting out — on the surface of things. Smile, bow, prayer your hands and show these difficult times that your mind, your attention, your passions, cannot be bought ‘for love nor money.’ And then dive deep into the Oneness, feel the Unity behind this grand majestic pageant and do your best to lead others in Spirit, if only by example of a quiet heart in the face of great and very loud adversity. Buoyancy moment to moment is the goal, and oddly enough this buoyancy is achieved by diving deep into a quietude born of stillness in Spirit. True Buoyancy — lightness of being — is made possible when a heart and its mind are anchored in the calm truthful waters of spiritual awakening.

Challenges

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
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SOURCE: This row is used for recording useful information about the source of the wisdom entry.

Your growth process can be fun
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive September 9, 1999.
Teacher Elyon
T/R Mark

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quite often there is a tendency to see spiritual challenges and spiritual exercises as a work challenge in which you may proceed into these experiences with a feeling of rolling up your sleeves and knuckling down to gleaning all that is possible from a given spiritual teaching. I would bring to mind the picture of spiritual calisthenics, as a game, an endeavor in which there is much fun to be had and in which all who participate will certainly be benefited. We speak of spiritual climbs, ascents, of the stages in your spiritual growth, and these terms imply struggle. Indeed, it is not without effort that you as individuals reach your achieved levels, but this effort is not necessarily grueling or uncomfortable. In many cases it is possible, even at the time of encounter, to so orient yourself as to see the next spiritual hurdle before you as a joyous thing in which you will proceed with a light heart and the recognition of the inherent fun value contained.

To think of spiritual progress often conjures up memories and ideas of serious struggle and uncomfortable progress you have encountered in your lives. As these hurdles you have successfully vaulted become part of your internal library, you begin to realize that these exercises, while they may be strenuous at times, need not be unduly serious, to proceed forward to your next spiritual challenge with the same attitude you would proceed into a lively game of tennis with an associate, to look at these spiritual interactions as simple exercises. Once you have become familiar with the exercises, it is far easier to forget the exercise and concentrate on the fun value.

At first when you learn to play a game you must concentrate seriously on the rules and the procedures
for executing the game.  When you become well versed, you then can let go of the apprehension of learning a new game and begin to enjoy yourselves more fully. The same is true of your spiritual encounters. At first they are intimidating, scary, unknown, and uncomfortable. After you become familiar with these encounters, you begin to see past the expectations and through into the enjoyment derived from these encounters. Soon your familiarity with spiritual matters will be so well versed that you will seek out with joy all future encounters, and the sense of apprehension attendant with your previous encounters will have completely dissipated. You will come to truly understand that there is nothing to fear in the spirit world. You are simply growing, learning, gaining, being, and none of these experiences is harmful to you.

And so, you will learn to play this game of spirit with much more joy as time moves on, and the excitement
and joy of playing the game will be the factor which draws you into the encounter.

This does not mean that the game is necessarily without your effort. You must each time commit yourself to the game, to the encounter, to the growth inherent in the game, and you will not be disappointed when you thus orient yourself.

Change

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
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SOURCE: This row is used for recording useful information about the source of the wisdom entry.

Be The Change
 
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SOURCE:

tmtranscripts Be the Change

Teacher: Aaron
May 5, 2024, 11:55 AM

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Be The Change

The antidote to hate is love; the antidote to chaos is calm.  The world you live on is beautiful, rugged, with peaks and valleys, wonders of nature and architectural developments. Astounding vistas abound.  And yet, within and among all of this, there is doubt, there is fear, uncertainty, troublesome occurrences, unintentional and deliberate evil.  There is also love and kindness, cooperation, resolve, and the intention to do what is right and good.

The antidote to negativity is positivity;  the antidote to darkness is the light.  If the battle between dark and light was going to be easy then the need to develop personalities that can withstand such trials and tribulations would not be necessary. Our suggestion when you begin to falter, become exasperated, to doubt or fear, is to break it down into smaller segments than what you are currently perceiving and find what you can do in those moments to be different from what you fear, to be responsive from a positive viewpoint. Can you be a faith filled child of God in this moment and then make it last a moment longer, and then a moment longer?

There are times when looking at the big picture is necessary and there are times when getting focused on the smaller perspective is necessary. Usually these correspond to your level of doubt and despair. As you feel these emotions come to you, recognize that you may need to narrow your viewpoint and find a focus.  Sometimes one thing at a time leads to larger occurrences that are more fruitful.  Therefore, we encourage you to start each day with the centering stillness and invite the cooperation of your Indwelling Spirit to help you see those little things you can do to help turn the drops into the trickle into the stream into the river which becomes the oceans.

While you may believe, sometimes, that the black patches of evil have become larger than the white background of goodness, the white background is still larger and goodness happens more often than evil, although it can seem so difficult to see when contrasted with what you hear about, read about, and see in the media of various forms. But look around outside of the news and see what your family, your friends and neighbors are doing for each other and their communities.  Trust that other neighborhoods and communities are doing the same, often going unwitnessed by the media which operates in the sensational.  Perhaps reminding each other and others about this core of goodness more often will help to broaden perspectives and bring hope and build resolve toward producing more acts of kindness instead of dwelling on the evil.

Trust me, we do see what you see. We just have the fortune of more experience and a larger network of resources built into our awareness at the current time so that the happenings on your world do not seem quite as distressing as it may seem to you.  Sometimes out of chaos new possibilities emerge quite rapidly and what you think may be leading to fall and ruin can ultimately be a temporary recognition of what it is that you do not want before realizing what you do want, what can be and what will be, if you work for it.

So have faith. Lean on spirit as needed. Reach toward the spirit within you, who will certainly be reaching back, and from that connection, your perspectives will find some clarity and perhaps open the possibilities for you to become more representative of what you would like to see in the world.

Change is part of who you are
 
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Rayson & Friends

 

 

 

 

 

Being alive, aliveness, means encompassing changes. Change is not in itself a negative occurrence, rather, look upon it as a sign of growth. Does the seed not change into the flower? Does the child not change into the man? There is a sameness to the core of the being. There is also a change, reflecting God's good and holy plan. Many do not understand as they cling to the familiar that the rungs of the ladder on which they roost are only illusionary. They will be threatened by a change, and not even know why in their own hearts. We must be patient with these children and try not to let their fear, which will be masked often as anger, upset our own equilibrium.

I would like you to be aware right now with your entire beings, of your bodily reaction to that word - change. How many have tensed, winced, clenched? How many have turned heads? How many wished not to hear this word? I think that each of you have reacted psychologically, emotionally. You have probably had a reaction of pushing away, for the sad state of humans is - physically, emotionally, psychologically, mindally - to resist change. No matter how sorry your life may be at the moment or what areas one wishes to improve, one does not really wish to change. You wish life's circumstances might change, or relationships - friendships might change, or finances might change, etc., but you, yourself, resist change. It is only through the spiritual that you can truly understand change. Spiritually, for you - children of time - change is not something you have a choice over. It is the very fact of evolution for you. It is built into, and the basic building block foundation of The Father's plan for the evolutionary worlds and children of time and space. You cannot NOT change. Lack of change equals non-survival. Nor can you say this is a good change and this is a negative change. Change simply IS.

It IS. It is not good or bad. It is the very basic idea and will of the Universal Father for his creatures of time and space - is change. So, so much energy goes into resisting change - as if you can somehow control this - you cannot.

Change is part of who you are. Change will get you Godward. And change should be welcomed by each of you. Immobility - consider it - what a horrible fate! Even the angels - created perfect - learn through experience and change. Immobility is probably the worst thing that could become of you at any stage - not because you are first graders now. So, do not spend your energy thinking you can resist, control, or mail-order what types of change you wish. Because all of this is fantasy and generally to do with your outer environment and not your inner landscape, because when it comes to the inner, you are all resistant. Now, spiritually, if you can truly understand that change is always a step Godward, that not only should change NOT be resisted but should rather be embraced, sought after, prayed for, blessed. When you can recognize this event, you will have the adventuresome attitude of the spiritual soldier, evolving being, towards change instead of a material coward hiding-from-something, the unknown. For there is no unknown to you, your destiny is to "be you perfect even as I am perfect" as our Father has promised you.

What is so unknown and frightening? Yes, the path of evolution has prickly patches full of thorns, rocks, sunburned places that burn our beings. Yes, true. These are the events, which shape our characters and force change, and while going through them it is sometimes painful and difficult and disappointing, etc. However, do not make the arrogant mistake of putting down or hiding from The Father's plan for you - for there is a plan for each of you, a divine destiny - because it is hard at the moment, difficult, and because your vision is not wide enough to see the ultimate perfection and goodness of The Father's plan for you. One life, is not nearly enough time to glimpse destiny. You must on faith believe that whatever befalls you is to the ultimate goodness of your own being - and that of God's. God will not leave you naked. God will not let you, like the serpent; shed your skin before you are ready for a new one to grow.

Would a benevolent loving parent do this to his most helpless child? No. Therefore must you trust and with a faith-filled heart embrace the adventure of uncertainty. It is only uncertain in linear time. It is not uncertain in eternity. Whosoever will, may run the race Godward. Whosoever will join the adventure is welcome, and legions of helpers will be sent to you. And you have already begun to run this glorious race of time and eternity. Change is God's gift to you, the gift of experience is change. But you cover yourself up and root yourself in and dig holes and, like stubborn little frightened babies, refuse to leave your cocoon. The world, the universes, the ascension plan is glorious. The calluses you burn on your soul will some day turn into a being who can be god-like, god-like in terms of experience, in terms of every stage of creation, in terms of service, in terms of perfection, in terms of goodness and love. This is the stuff - these calluses that you are experiencing now - that will create the god-like in you.

All glory is to God. God has created all glory and all glory should go to God. Have not in your hearts fear or sadness or anxiety or resistance to change. Whether it comes in your own personal hearts and souls, or whether it is fear of losing. These are all illusions, for the teachings come from God, we come from God. Nothing can ever be lost in God's plan, his magnificence.

The making of decisions is allowing change
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive January 05, 2002.
Teacher Dolores
T/R Ginny







 

 

The making of decisions is allowing change, encouraging growth, and therein you find that the life which you knew has become a new energy pattern.

Even as one of you may enjoy a new relationship with another, the molecular characteristics of your arena alter to accommodate the new relationship, and yet again as you become a group and emerge into teamwork through three and four and more, each time your environment alters to provide for the energy 
patterns of each other. When you disallow another's energy patterns, you invite chaos. 

I speak to you as if you were all enlightened. When you are invited to know yourself, it is the emerging soul self which we refer to. In this way we become a part of the organism of life, the spiritual organism. We've become connected. There is appropriate self-forgetfulness as you embark upon the pattern of working together in unity of purpose. The advantage of an ability to work together in this way is that you begin to follow the guidance of the greater reality, and as a number of you together are enjoined in this synergy, you gain strength exponentially.  

And so, even though there may be few of you of like mind, even so, the power that you potentially have may, through creative order, bring about that impetus to alter the course of destiny. Love is more contageous than hate. Light is more powerful than the darkness. When you begin to work creatively 
within the divine order of the universe, your chaos makes sense.  It's a part of the reconstruction or the reassimilation of those energies which combine together to exalt the purpose of the infinite, and thus inherently the universe is working with you.

If you think about it, you can interpret that the Pope has already endorsed a galactic neighborhood, in that he has acknowledged the existence of angels. And the thing that holds you back, as a race of people, from embracing the cosmic neighborhood as your own back yard, with all its particulars, is the residue fear and ignorance that the universe may not be a friendly place after all, and that is based upon your mortal experience as having shown you that your immediate environment is not necessarily always a friendly 
environment, but putting these perspectives into your overall comprehension of where we are in terms of planetary evolution, epochal development, it will give you additional impetus to encourage the concept and to even assume the faith of others as being not too far removed form your own. It's when you look upon each other as enemies or as on opposing teams that your obstructions become tangible and problematic. Lead the way. Pave the way, then, into the new dispensation by revealing your relationship with the universe.

The marriage of science and religion will come to pass when we are able to feel comfortable that what intelligent life in the universe is, is an extension of Paradise, and not an extension of the baser nature of unevolved chaos.  

Chaos

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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SOURCE: This row is used for recording useful information about the source of the wisdom entry.

Our perspective sometimes makes something seem like it's chaos when it might not be
 
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SOURCE:  tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive January 05, 2002.
Teacher Dolores
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THOROAH: I was thinking along the line of chaos, that it's also a part of a perception and perspective 
sometimes, is it not? I mean, we can go along in an very orderly fashion and then something comes in and disrupts that order, which is basically change, and without realizing it, it is probably a part of a new order that we are going to be moving into but we just don't recognize it as order, at first. We recognize it as change or chaos at first, but  then it evolves into order, and then something else will come along and try to disrupt that, and it's a sort of a flow. But our perspective sometimes makes something seem like it's chaos when it might not be.

DOLORES:  It is mota, yes. These lessons are only learned as you ascend, even as you ascend in this experiential existence. For what else is growth but to assimilate a farther view, a greater grasp of reality? I'll call attention to the story of the flood. In that time the records indicated the world was flooded except for Noah and his family and this legend has survived through centuries of retelling and still today they search for the remnants of the ark, and we know that the world has not been flooded since it has been inhabited by man. And we only know this through revelation. And the appreciation dawns that what was true for a certain mental framework serves until such time as the capacity for a greater mental framework is constructed, and then the message is broadened to expand your perception, even the perception of the universe. So you see how it is that as you pay attention, as you seek to know, you will be given answers, you will be broadened, your perspective will be increased, but this causes certain chaos in the mental realms until such time as the situation is such that the change is appropriate. And then the old structure falls and the new structure takes its place. What chaos that brings into the mind will depend upon how far aroused the mind has become to assimilating spirit values. Part of your eternal career is in allowing the ignorant and the untested to fall away, to be replaced by that which is tried and true in a bigger reality.

I'm going to go so far as to say that in one of your human strata stages of development you may have enjoyed the perception of Santa Clause or the Easter Bunny, for a moment or two, but you grew away from that understanding of icon to the more sublime realization of the Gift Giver and the Resurrection.

It's just a matter of soul growth, spirit comprehension, and certainly while in the beginning it creates great havoc, as you pursue your faith path, the chaos is lessened because you have experienced time and again that the order that you have come to regard as divine order will resume, in fact has never been out of order, but only has changed scrims in order for you to enact your next plateau of human drama.  

Character

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
[  ] soil   [  ] Land   [  ] Sea   [  ] AIR


SOURCE: This row is used for recording useful information about the source of the wisdom entry.

Character is that which leads the way
 
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SOURCE: Lightline Teleconference  2024-10-10

Teacher: Amanson
T/R: Mark 







 

 

Amanson on 'Character' 

"Character" is the space between the divine and the human. It leads all the other faculties in their pursuits of excellence, be they financial, corporate, artistic, sport, education (teaching or learning). Even a  simple handshake with a neighbor or new acquaintance, when offered with honesty and a genuine interest in the other personality, is the function of character. 

Personalities differ radically. Some, as you know, are out-going, ebullient; some are withdrawn, reticent; others surly, combative, arrogant; but this will have no bearing on their character. Character is the truss rod, the steel spine down the center of the aggregate of personal traits and propensities. A  person's immediate characteristics often belie a person's character, not circumventing it but over-riding it, confusing the impression given to the outside world. Character is the gift a person gives to the Creator, the Creator who gifted the person with a personality.

Character is the sum of the wisdom gleaned from experience. Little experience results in a shallow harvest of life's riches. With no one-on-one contact with the different facets of life there is little to draw on in the building of character. But when a person is plunged into the heat of life, the push-pull of the currents of social fraternization and has to negotiate developments caused by the clash of personalities, or navigate the rapids of unexpected developments requiring a functional outcome, character is built by and in the decisions  made.

And in the end it is character that brings us through, as each decision made, each kindness offered, each noble cause honestly espoused, each moment in a life lived earnestly and thoughtfully, compassionately, gathers momentum and racks up its life-altering toll, building an ever-expanding edifice honestly acquired in the face of an often dishonest world, a world in hiding, one frightened of the very qualities that build character.

When one has effectively faced this test and emerged steadily with an ever-unfolding character, life has lived its purpose through you and shall continue doing so until the Father of Personality can welcome the passionate son or daughter of Character and the circle, the Holy circle, is complete.

  • Character is that which leads the way — follows wholeheartedly in faithful  anticipation — as one graduates toward the Light.
  • Character is that which realizes the pitfalls inherent in a freewill system and their beneficial character-building attributes as mayhem is consciously left behind for beauty, truth and goodness. 
  • Character is the rock upon which one's personal civilization is founded. It acknowledges progress and builds from there, step by step, considered choice by considered choice. 
Compassion rules the roost in a good character's make-up. It is the door through which all other qualities and considerations must first enter.

Selfishness is not a quality of character, it is the residue of fear in a thin and noncomprehending relationship to life. Character sees through that.

Character is your connection — and your response — to that which is calling you onward.

Choice

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
[  ] soil   [  ] Land   [  ] Sea   [  ] AIR


SOURCE: This row is used for recording useful information about the source of the wisdom entry.

The choices we make daily, monthly, yearly, a lifetime’s basis
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts Lightline Teleconference 2024-08-08

Teacher: Amanson
T/R: Mark Turnbull 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some choices are big choices, they portend a long trajectory over many years; they take miles of planning [decisions], usually on the inside in the interior life, being based on values and considerations of worth inherently deeper than choices made on a day-to-day basis. Or are they? Doesn’t every choice chime [rhyme] with a long-term goal? Isn’t the character revealed in the seemingly most insignificant decision a microcosm of the big picture? As each fragment of a hologram contains within itself the entire image in miniature, so choice is not really a singular instance-by-instance activity, but a portrait in miniature of the life you intend to live.

How do you make a choice? What are the criteria? Is it a simple matter of “I want this now?” or is it a reflection of the time you’ve spent listening to your Inner Voice, your deepest connection? The thousands of decisions, “I’ll do this and I’ll do it this way” in a day are not quite the thoughtless reactions to life’s moment to moment occasions, opportunities, and necessary obligation they appear to be. Life is giving you an opportunity to conjure your heart and soul in the guise of a mundane day-to-day soap opera that far from being the dull, get-through-it-at-any-cost exercise so many consider it to be, is actually a fully dressed and perfectly lit stage upon which to, decision by decision, carve a character, with each decision’s help

Each decision is, in a sense, an act of Worship, or can be; and each act of worship carries with it - and within it - the object it is Worshipping. Find your deepest connection in each choice you make, for that is what they are there for: to deepen your connection with the Author of choices and to, in your considering of them and deciding for them, plant your feet further in the realm of Creativity and Creation. “Shall I do this?” “Shall I do that?” It is your privilege to declare yourself, to form yourself, to complete yourself as a seeker of perfection by the inner voyage of discovery in a simple choice.
You must continually make choices in this life
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive November 9, 1997.

Teacher Elyon, Lantarnek
T/R Mark, Jonathan

 

 

 

 

 

 

You must continually make choices in this life, and you must choose based upon the highest ideal you are aware of. If you continually seek guidance from the Father your ideals will be elevated, your principles will be raised, your expectations will be enhanced. But choosing to act upon your highest thought of how to conduct yourselves in a given situation is the gift you give to the Father. Your making your every choice based on the highest ideal you are familiar with is the truest gift you can return to the Father; to act in wisdom, to act in peace, with harmony.

You are indeed very active, constantly making choices, constantly reevaluating your positions, reexamining your stances. This provides you the opportunity for continual reexamination of your principles and provides you with continual opportunity of either recommitting yourself to a previous choice or altering a choice to be more perfect. But it is the choosing that keeps you active. To not choose to choose causes stagnation.

So look about you and seek out choices, seek out opportunities, each one there for you to express and unfold and manifest as yet another expression of the Father's characteristics indwelling your very life.

Mary: You can look at choosing from several different perspectives. Choosing affects longterm goals and future plans. There are also choices that are made in the moment. I need to make a greater effort to be aware of the choices I am making in the moment, like the choice of language I use, the tone of voice, attitudes I choose to have. I'm not always alert to the fact that I am making choices in these basic modes of going about my business. When we talk about the spiritual significance of choice, I tend to distract myself with thinking about longterm choices. I think I need to recognize the significance of choices I make daily like attitude, language, approach.

Elyon:  Indeed, it would be well seen if all of you were to realize that your lives are one continual series of choices. Every aspect of your material existence is a choice you have made. From when you rise to what you ingest, to what you wear, to who you see, how you speak, what you devote your time to; all of these are choices which can have a spiritual impact as well if applied appropriately.

The fact that you all make all these choices routinely can become habitual, can go unrecognized as the potentials that they are. But I would point out to you that, from when you first open your eyes to when you shut them at night, you are in a continual process of choosing. I would then suggest that if you are in this process continually it might be helpful to access the choices being made and attempt to spiritualize these choices whenever the option presents itself, whenever the possibility exists to change the dynamics of the choice to include certain spiritual gains or benefits. Again I would say that each time you seek the Father, you may not be aware, but your highest goals and values will be enhanced by contact with the Father.

When you return to these high spiritual ideals to make your next decision or choice you will find that you will be operating on a slightly higher premise each time, almost unnoticeable at times and at other times obvious in your spiritual growth.

Lantarnek: You have a game where you place cards face down and flip two up at a time in an effort to match the face of each. Choice, when coupled with direction, amplifies its value in your life, for you know the skill required in playing this game is one where you recall from your past an association that applies to your future intent. Random flipping of cards will not win the game. When you begin to perceive choice as a matrix you will encounter less difficulty, less dilemma in arriving at a conclusive avenue in which to apply yourself.

Two of your religious phrases: "Seek the Father's will" and "Strive to be like Him" appear vague because of the reality of individual choice. When the Father initiated the creation of the universe He established principles through which all things operate in harmony to fulfill His purpose. You can count on, with assurance, continuation of the universe scheme because it is designed and conforms to these principles.

When you encounter the crossroads of choice, assurance can be had in your moments of doubt by faith-grasping the longlasting qualities of the principles the Father has established by which reality configures
itself. You do not choose to wear a coat on a hot day for given reasons. In matters of spiritual import, of crucial impact upon your personal destiny, there are given parameters by which you can discern and thereby choose.

But I must remind you that coupled with choice is creativity. This is a reflection of the Father Himself in your
own personal life. He chose and creation is. You choose and create. Creativity is choice with direction; it is choice where the personality applies itself with a purpose that does not merely react to environment but intently pursues the outworking of a cause that may augment, rather than respond to, the environment. To become more like the Father is to become creative in your decision making processes, to project situations in your life that are based on realistic parameters and deep personal goals. Every choice is like hand-over-hand in a rope climb to Paradise. In order to become skilled at the tantamount decisions of eternal import, make every little decision of seemingly trivial matters with the application of the ideas I have presented, that both given parameters and personal projections combined, made in good choosing, you will be prepared for those momentous decisions for the soul. 

Bill: I am in a situation where I have choices I need to make where I have no idea what the answer is because there are very divergent pulls. I'd like some comment on how to live in the uncertainty without getting fearful or hasty.

Lantarnek: The complexity of your situation reveals a threefold nature that is evident in so many factors of life, in this case it is involved with your desires and potential choices, the desires and choices of others, and the will of the Father. You are capable of the Father's embrace and receive the assurances of His will. You discern the desires of others. When you encounter situations as the one you are in, human beings discover the limitations of their realm of choice power. With sensitivity and your discernment of others and their wills, you have all reason to value your will with equal import.

Sometimes it is required for one to choose and resolve firmly to hold to the decision and patiently await the point of arrival of decision making that others must attain, knowing full well the Father is willing to wait upon His children. This resoluteness is valuable, but you also have the ability to refrain from choice. By this I mean weakness is not a factor in the suspension of drawing conclusion if all situations and evidence are not present. Where I indicate you might be forceful to decide on your own and proceed with some independence of the volition of others, you can equally be as powerful in withholding choice during the interim in which others must undergo the process of choosing such that you might better integrate with
them in the matter at hand.

You know the phrase that conditions the value of any experience, that is, "Does it draw you closer to the Father?" I also provide a corollary, "Does your decision allow others to draw closer to the Father?" This can help clarify whether you need to patiently wait before deciding or to decide and proceed. This perhaps does not give you a specific thing to do, but I hope it provides you with leverage whereby you may make our decisions.

There are three elements to choice: freedom, firmness, and fixation
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive 6 Jun 2002.
Teacher Elyon
T/R Jonathan







 

 

Elyon: Choice is of supreme importance throughout the evolutionary ascent. The Supreme is a vast ocean of potential time/space experience. It is alive, ever moving. The tides ebb and flow and create the energies wherein you may derive growth, while at the same time your ascent contributes to the dynamics of the Supreme currents. There are three elements to choice that I will focus upon today. The first is freedom,
the second firmness, and the third fixation.

Perhaps it is easiest to address fixation from the standpoint of stagnation, choice which has eliminated future potential. Let us consider ourselves each as a boat upon this ocean of the Supreme. You, as a vehicle, may choose your course of journey. If you fix your choice negatively, it is as if you had dropped your anchor and you are unable to sail forward. However, if you allow freedom in your volition you can roll with the tides; you can adjust your tack to achieve your destination.

But freedom must be accompanied with a firm hand at the helm, and that is your strength of conviction, your determination to reach your destiny, come what may, whether your journey is extended, having to adjust to the fluctuations of time, or whether your course is as direct as you first perceived. Firmness
guarantees your arrival. Freedom allows you to adjust so that you attain your goal.

Fixation provides a temporary harbor wherein you feel secure, but it must not substitute for firmness. Ever be ready to drop anchor, to cut anchor, and to sail forward.

You know of the most important choice of your mortal career: the Supreme decision to survive the temporal life and to enter upon the eternal career of finding God, becoming like Him, and revealing your Supreme origins to all creatures throughout eternity. This is a choice of firmness. It is not a choice that is fixed. It has permanent repercussions, but you today are at the beginning of your journey, such a decision will meet with constant fluctuations, and you will choose forever firmly the same goal, all the while freely adjusting
and projecting your course.

I have spoken in the past of the levels of choice and decision. Choice is a power of personality; decision is an act of mind. Understanding this mechanism will greatly aid you in the quandaries you face, the dilemmas of discernment. Decisions can be likened to tossing your sail from one side of the ship to the other in order to pursue that which you have chosen. Fret not over a decision, for they can be remade, and they can be altered. Be ever safeguarding of your choice, for that will bring you to your destiny.

Jada:  Is fixation a sense of taking a rest from progression?

Elyon: I have attempted to illustrate that a decision that is firm allows flexibility where a decision that is fixed removes the potential for adjustment. A decision may be permanent but it must not fix. It ought to be firm and accommodating to the variabilities that face you in life.

Mark: Would I be off base to say that is the resolve of a person, that you are resolved to a mission wherever it may take you?

Elyon: Good observation. Your resolution will accommodate adjustment. Your eyes are on the other shore, though you may have to make your way around islands to reach that goal. Your determination to make your journey will not change, though your course may have to adjust.

Mark: That determination often comes from our faith that, even though there are stormy seas requiring adjustments, the storm will pass and we will make it. That gives the strength to face the storm head on and do what needs to be done to make it to still waters again.

Elyon: Indeed. The fundamental of evolutionary life is constant change, dynamic interchange. The only thing constant is your ability to continually choose. Without change choice is irrelevant. It is not the Supreme purpose of the Father in this universe age to eliminate change; that has preceded the Supreme
experience. Now the currents flow; personalities evolve, and, as you say, the storms will rise and fall. The days will be clear and stormy. This is a dynamic universe.

Evelyn: Could you say more about fixation?  

Elyon: The purpose of my focus upon these words "fixation" and "firmness" was to underline the importance of flexibility. A boat will take on water if it is not allowed to sail freely. However, a directionless vessel will likewise lose its course and be blown afar. I would ask you to make this a test as you face decisions. Are you reacting in a static, stubborn way to conditions that confront you? Or are you holding firm, able to adjust and yet stay the course dynamically? I desire only to provide you with a technique that will help you during the difficult times of choice. It is good to be firm in resolve. It is not good to be fixed and stagnant. 

One of the more difficult decisions to be made is that which entails the leaving behind of something once cherished. It brings a sense of potential loss and, if not appropriately addressed, can make some feel that perhaps what they were leaving was once wrong to have held on to. You know through the course of your growth that every stage is a stepping stone to another level of attainment and valid. Walk firmly. Do not become fixed at any step. Step strongly at each point. Be who you are as you are today, each day. And ever be ready to roll forward.

Mary: We don't realize how often we make choices. A lot of choices are reflexive. We could be more conscious of choosing, that things aren't inevitable, like the choices of how to react in a situation. We think of choosing to act, but we also choose our attitudes. It would help to be more aware of our choosing when they aren't momentous choices.

Elyon: Good point, and I would draw upon a word you said, "reflexive" and compare it to "repetitive" and parallel those with "fixation" and "firmness". Reflexive can occur almost without your ability to control. Repetitive is a decision to choose once again the same choice you made beforehand. That you have control over and can alter if the need arises.

Mary: Choice can interrupt a habit we may have seen as reflexive. By engaging consciously we can interrupt a cycle in need of change. Now may be the time to interject choice and make it current and appropriate.

Machiventa: I would offer you what may be a helpful, quick, flashcard type examination, when one is interested in discerning what one's fixation point may be in a given situation or what the anchor may
be. One might simply ask yourself the following;

"I would do great things if it were not for ____."  

That is, "I would do lofty things; I would be idealistic; I would follow my visions if it were not for ____".

Therein you will find your tether; you will find what binds you to your fixation point. It could be a variety of
things, but the urge to follow your loftiest ideal may be reined in, may be anchored, at a specific point. If you follow that back to the anchor you will find the source of your fixation. So, next time inspiration comes to you, say to yourself, "That is a great idea. I would do that except for ____", and then you have something to work on.

Jonathan: We can be firm in saying, "I would (such and such)" and notice where we fix it, and then address those two points, what is desired to be accomplished and what we are using to thwart the purpose.

Machiventa: Even to take it one step further, rather than, "I would, if it were not for ____", "I will even if if I have to overcome ____". That is the difference between the long range, "I will conquer" and the short range, "I would if it were not for ____". One denotes determination to conquer, the other denotes defeat at your anchor cable point.

Tom:  That's where we find our freedom.

Machiventa: Well said. Cut the tether if it does not serve you. You are entitled to cut the anchor cable.

Compassion

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
[  ] soil   [  ] Land   [  ] Sea   [  ] AIR


SOURCE: This row is used for recording useful information about the source of the wisdom entry.

How beautiful it is to behold individuals helping one another
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive May 07, 2001.
Teacher Abraham

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abraham: How beautiful it is to behold individuals helping one another, upholding and supporting. It is wonderful to see that your level of compassion is the measure in which you receive compassion back. To be truly compassionate we must stand in our brothers shoes. We must look through their eyes. We must find a heart connection.

The compassionate soul longs to create lasting solutions for their brothers and sisters in need. To perform compassionate acts for the sake of being guilt-free because your fellows are in need is misunderstanding. To be compassionate because you feel pity upon your fellows is also not quite right.

Compassion is a heart and soul connection that says 'I am feeling what you are feeling. I see you could use some help.' Compassion asks you not to sacrifice begrudgingly, but happens naturally without hesitation. Most of the time most people only wish to be listened to and understood — not pitied or pressured into various solutions, but just to feel that they are not alone.

The compassionate person listens without underlying agenda's or intentions. The compassionate person is not tempted to bestow their wisdom to have others look upon them with awe. True compassion is feeling that you truly want to help without anything in return. It is wanting to help because of your expanding love for Father. The compassionate person inevitably grows closer to Father because of their pure intentions to be open to His words to help their fellows.

You can be encouraging and uplifting in your compassionate ministry without showing forth pity and dis-empowering individuals to feel unconfident and hopeless. You can validate their difficulties by relating to them your personal experience. If you have not personal experience to draw upon, then certainly can you at the very least show you are interested in what they are saying.

In your desire to want to help without personal recognition will you be connected to Father's words, His instructions for your fellows, His mind. That is ministry, my friends. That is active ministry.

Find ministry for the self so that you can also minister through compassionate balance
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive May 14, 2001.
Teacher Abraham

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abraham: To create a compassionate balance in the world everyone will need to participate. Every child is gifted in one way or another. Those who are mostly intellectual will be brought into balance by those who are emotional and vice versa. Where one is lacking the other can fill. To have fellowship amongst you eases the everyday stresses of living in the world.

Knowing your fellows are at hand makes the adversities of life more bearable. You strengthen one another. You uphold and promote faith for each other. Logical compassion brings about a balance among mortals that will carry them into Light and Life. Your genuine concern for others, or self-forgetfulness, brings more divine communication that guides and serves the whole.

While self-forgetfulness is honorable, I would remind you of the scale that has balanced self-compassion as the middle mark, and self-loathing on one side, and self-aggrandizement on the other. Balanced compassion for self means that you need not constantly reprove yourself for mistakes. Self chastisement is acceptable as long as it leads you to desire to make more effort. Self-loathing remarks leads you to give up and not even make effort because the feeling of inadequacy is overwhelming.

Many neglect to feed the Spirit, the element that makes you a distinct child of the living God. It is understandable that life is busy and there are many mortal tasks to complete. There are many goals to
achieve that makes you successful in the world's eyes. When one has neglected the Spirit the balanced compassion for self leans toward self-loathing, self-disappointment, losing confidence, yes.

A few moments a day in quiet reflection, or observing the wonders of nature, gives one mindal clarity. A small amount of time lost in the beauty of music brings one to a spiritually centered point. An awareness of Father's works, leading to a moment of supreme gratitude, connects you to those spiritual circuits you need to have balanced self-compassion, in that you forget not to care for the body, mind and soul.

How easy it is to neglect the physical needs, which in the mortal life can disrupt other areas such as mental and emotional. Poor habits or diet can lead to imbalance and that disrupts the mind and distorts the perspective. How much time is spent in unproductive stimulation of the mind? In this age of technology it is easy to get carried away with external stimulation, mindless entertainment.

All that is required for balanced mindal clarity is a few moments a day in the silence. There is much more to gain in stillness than in the midst of chaos and over-stimulation. Reversion or entertainment is wonderful and you should find a healthy balance for that. Remember to feed the Spirit as well. Remember to allow yourself the gift of a few moments with the First Source and Center. He brings you back to a center of balance and realness where there is not room for fears or imaginings or doubts or hopelessness.

Compassion for self is allowing time for you to regain your spiritual, physical, mental and emotional momentum. In this balance you are in top form to fulfill your ministries. You are able to cope in chaos, stay clear in confusion and provide assistance when and where it is needed. In a state of imbalanced mentality or emotionality your physical body begins a cycle of deterioration which leads to many illnesses. In remembering to have compassion for self you are returning to Spirit and allowing Father to put you back to where you should be.

This mortal life is complicated. Do not become discouraged with your shortcomings because this is a difficult world to live in now. Shortcomings are to be expected, but they cannot dominate your life purpose.

In caring for your growing soul you are also taking care of the world. We tend to the soul to be also productive in the Kingdom, that is usually our focus. We do not tend to the soul to fix broken hearts or bruised ego's or to allow ourselves to lay down before our troubles. Patience and balanced compassion for self is what we are speaking of.

This week find time for quiet moments, rest, eat for life, not to fill an emptiness where Spirit should be, play, find time to go outdoors, work, be diligent in your responsibilities. Do you see what I am saying? Find
balance, find ministry for the self so that you can also minister. 

Confidence

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
[  ] soil   [  ] Land   [  ] Sea   [  ] AIR


SOURCE: This row is used for recording useful information about the source of the wisdom entry.

It does no one well to struggle through uncertainty by oneself
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive April 07, 2002.
Teacher Elyon
T/R Jonathan

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elyon: A certain element to confidence is a sense of stability, fidelity, trustworthiness, as would be the case if you step upon a bridge you are confident it will sustain your weight and carry you across. Naturally confidence is gained through experience by having exerted in an unfamiliar arena and witnessed for yourself success, to have witnessed attainment where beforehand you were uncertain if you would be in any way capable of accomplishing the goal.

But there is another aspect to confidence besides an experiential exposure and the trust in yourself that results, and that is the ability to seek counsel, to receive wisdom in the advice of fellows, to receive coaching and encouragement. This confidence is the precursing confidence to successful attainment rather than the confidence that follows after the experience of success. It does no one well to struggle through uncertainty, to apply oneself in a manner wherein one is unfamiliar both in skill and in knowledge, by oneself.

Support, counsel, is vital to bringing that sense of fulfillment, worth, and ability when your goal is attained and the task is over. To approach uncertainty without confidence indicates, or should, to you that you have some preparatory work ahead of that which you seek to do that is bringing this uncertainty.

It is not the time for a false confidence, a blinded pursuit, an aggressive push without the use of wisdom or insight. It is not a weakness to present to another your frailties, for they are not false but rather are markers of areas of need that can be filled with the help of another, can be addressed in preparation that you may work around the lack if you are not situated to replace that lack with the required mechanism to accomplish your task.

Too much self-assertiveness can cause much strife and hurt at the expense of others. It is important in the times in which you live now to modulate the drive to excel with a connected and interconnected reliance upon counsel and a broad stance through cooperation with others.

You know the value of teamwork. Teamwork in itself is not the effect of merely the whole, the team, but rather the excellence of each individual in coordination.  So, you are not to lose self identity in belonging to the team, but rather as a team you are each encouraged to rise to your highest potential. When a ball player enters the field and knows his team players trust him, he has confidence, though at any moment standing at the plate he may not have the confidence that he will hit that ball. Having placed a homerun he now has the accomplishment of experience and knows, even though he may fail many more times at bat, he can hit a homerun.

Faith plays a great role in your sense of being capable, and fraternity also is a large factor in supporting your faith.

Lastly, always remember the Father who has such confidence in you that you have been blessed with His divine presence surrendered to your sovereign will, dedicated to your welfare, allowing you to choose your life course, ever ready to adjust you as you accept the adjustment. Your divine presence within is a guide,
but this guide will not pull you along. This guide waits for you to choose and then shows you how to proceed. That is a great confidence that the Father holds for each of you, trusting that you are capable of finding your way to Him on Paradise.

Connecting

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
[  ] soil   [  ] Land   [  ] Sea   [  ] AIR


SOURCE: This row is used for recording useful information about the source of the wisdom entry.

Contact has many different levels and many different effects
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive November 3, 1996.

Teacher Elyon

T/R Mark

 

 

 

 

 

 

This concept of contact has many different levels and many different effects.  For sometime now you and I have enjoyed a different level of contact than either of us had ever experienced before. This contact we have between us serves on many different levels to strengthen awareness, to inspire growth and action, to refresh and support each other with confirmation of our ideals.  All these expressions of our contact and many more are instigated by the contact we have with each other.  

If you would, now for a moment step back and realize that the contact you share with each other and with your brothers and sisters around you has the very same potential for growth, for support. This service you can provide to those with whom you come in contact. Every contact is latent with potential for a variety of positive effects. If you would view your daily contacts with each other and with those around you as having the same potential as the contact we share here today, you might gain awareness that potential for the same benefits exists.

Contact is unique in that it is pursued and desired by the individuals involved. There is an underlying commitment when any contact occurs between the individuals involved. This is the first step, the opening of the door, towards trust and acceptance of the benefits of this two-way communion. You may come to realize that all contact is beneficial to all parties concerned.

This is easily exemplified by the fact that individuals who lack contact with other individuals or any force outside of themselves often wither and starve for this contact. To deprive a human of this contact is considered punishment in your culture. You are social creatures, and therefore it is a basic requirement to interact with those of your kind.

I would encourage you to elevate this level of contact in your minds to a more spiritual level. In doing this you elevate those around you to a more spiritual focus even if the words you use at any given time do not necessarily reflect a spiritual cause. Your attitude, if spiritually attuned, prevails no matter what exchange
you may have.  

Cooperation

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
[  ] soil   [  ] Land   [  ] Sea   [  ] AIR


SOURCE: This row is used for recording useful information about the source of the wisdom entry.

The importance of cooperation
 
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SOURCE: 

Rayson and Friends

 

 

 

 

 

 

Today's lesson will be an important subject, a very important subject, cooperation. Cooperation is a major force binding together all creatures in the universe, perfect and imperfect, mortal and immortal. Cooperation among beings of the universe approaches the importance of worship in terms of serving our
father. 

It is a critical time for the peoples of Earth at this time, for you have attained much technical expertise and yet lag far behind in some very important respects, socially. Competition is the order of the day. And this is not an altogether bad thing, for competition has been a great civilizing force for the beings of the planet. Nonetheless, taken to its present extreme level, competition does certain harm to those striving for spiritual growth and development when not accompanied by a proper spirit of cooperation. We must all strive to promote cooperation among our fellows. You will do this through your own living example, primarily. Your example will be that of good will and cooperative interaction with others as you go about your work and rest. This is not to say that you may not compete, for at this stage of development - and indeed for some time to come for you - competition helps to spur you on to your finest performance given your own unique abilities.

However, the spirit with which competition is entered into can be tempered by adding the desire for cooperative achievement and the desire to effect good and follow the footsteps of Jesus. When you cooperate freely, willingly, it becomes that much easier for your Thought Adjuster to lead you. Your Thought Adjuster has a difficult time breaking through the strong animal urges and high emotions which still rule, to a large extent, man on Earth. However, by your experience in spiritual self-development, by exercising the virtues and practices presented in these lessons and in the Urantia Book, and through the promptings of your Thought Adjusters, seraphim (angels), and others, you can strengthen yourself spiritually and focus the sensitivity of that part of you which is most receptive to the Thought Adjuster - somewhat like tuning in a radio or television to its best performance - fiddling with the dial.

What might happen if you choose not to adopt a cooperative attitude? Well, you may not perceive much change consciously in the direction of your life, however it will be that much more difficult for you to work toward a measure of inner peace and that level of self-fulfilment which is attainable during your material existence.

Yes, you will have opportunities beyond this life for spiritual growth and development, infinite opportunities, and so may not wish to eagerly, assiduously, pursue the path of spiritual growth, for it is
an arduous path. Time-consuming, in a sense, and man has always been a procrastinator. If you consult
your inner selves you will find the truth and the truth will help to lead you.

Cooperation is a way of multiplying the strength of your individual effort even while in the flesh. It has been said that cooperation among two affects the strength of four, cooperation among ten the strength of a hundred. Can you imagine how effective the cooperation of a thousand, or a million beings would be?

When Earth is on the threshold of Light and Life there will be no difficulty with cooperation among all living beings, and that will be a wonderful day. But it must start here. Like the other spiritual exercises, your efforts at cooperation - each act in fact - sets off a chain of benefits that go far far beyond your immediate circle, like the ripple in the water that travels for thousands of miles. That is the answer to the questioning mind that asks “What can I, one person, accomplish in my own small way?”

All of us, every single being in the universe, we are all connected to one another. And it is the Father's will that we work together, that each unique individual add his or her cooperative effort to the grand total. This is not at variance with achieving your own personal level of excellence. In fact, it is in harmony with that very goal. The result of cooperation is harmony, harmony among beings, the unification that is achieved when all strive for the common goal. Such a bright and strong purpose that is! So I urge you to strive in your lives for cooperation with your fellow men and women, difficult as it may be. Use your wits, your cleverness, your special abilities, to achieve this. And let your faith help you to realize the importance of your own personal efforts. 

There is a concept in your language called “synergy” meaning, loosely, that the sum of the parts is greater than the whole. This applies to all the spiritual abilities, but particularly to cooperation. Are you not eager to find out just how much you, as an individual can accomplish? The challenge lies before you. That is the end of this lesson.

Question: It seems to me that the business of cooperation is resolution of conflicts. Have you any particular
guidelines for that? I know that in my secular life, the change that needs to come; there will be a lot of conflicts to go through. That's in a social arena, and I wonder if that's paralleling the spiritual realm.  What do you do to aid in that?

Answer: Yes, you are correct. It is conflict that acts as the strongest barrier to efforts at fellowship on Earth. Remember again the example of Jesus who, rather than beating a door down, instead, would find the key to unlock the latch. That is the way with conflicts, not easy.

Beyond the material life there is yet conflict, and I, myself must work on the same problems that face you. There are tools that are helpful. To name a few, are compassion, willingness to be honest, desire to do good, and above all a remembrance of the golden rule. Remember the proverb that we cannot understand a man until we have walked a mile in his shoes.

Much conflict among beings arises from misunderstanding as well as greed, envy, fear, anger, the spiritual poisons. Fear, in particular is a source of conflict. Animals fear one another because they are afraid of mutilation or death. You are not animals. Be not afraid. When your fear is effectively put aside you will find that a significant amount of conflict will ease away.

Courage

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
[  ] soil   [  ] Land   [  ] Sea   [  ] AIR


SOURCE: This row is used for recording useful information about the source of the wisdom entry.

Courage requires that a person's character be congruent
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive May 22, 1998.
Teacher Alkon
T/R Bill

 

 

 

 

 

 

Courage is the ability to persist in a noble endeavor, to continue with a propitious project, to do the right thing in the face of fear, fatigue, anxiety, and worry. This ability to endure fear, worry, anxiety, fatigue and so forth is a byproduct of faith, faith in the overall goodness of the universe because it is the creation and field of operation of a good God. There is also the need for faith in one's own worth, in one's value as a creature, as son and daughter of God, and one's basic competence, to accomplish that noble endeavor or project, as well as the moral courage of one's convictions.  

Courage requires that a person's character be congruent, that there not be a division within the soul or in the mind, that there not be a war raging within. If the mind is confused the heart is compromised. Then the person is incapable of courage for they lack the faith in the rightness of the project, in their ultimate ability to carry it out, and they are paralyzed by the inner conflict.  

Courage of the physical sort is best known to you, and this experience comes to all mortals as it has come to all of you. The strength to go through with something that is both fearful and possibly painful requires courage on the physical level. And then there is the courage of the mind which is the willingness to search for truth, and when it is found, to apply it to life. This courage is greater than the physical courage although it may not seem so. Nevertheless, there are people who can endure the physical challenge but collapse intellectually because they are lazy and unwilling to consider the enlargement of their understanding.  

But the most important courage of all is moral-spiritual courage. It is the courage to do that which the heart knows to be the right thing. It is the strength to do what may not be popular among one's fellows. It is the
strength to keep commitments, agreements, regardless of the temptation to set them aside. It is ultimately the willingness to say to God, 'it is my will that your will be done.' It is the leap of faith in the goodness and
the trustworthiness of God that forever removes the need for the self to pretend to be God; it is the surrender of sovereignty over to one's Creator; not the loss of free will but the willing submission, and in fact joyful acceptance of higher reason and greater love.  

Courage is fostered as a result of the small steps of faithful obedience, based upon the faith already alluded to, and from a mind and heart that is undivided and not conflicted. It is the kind of faith that Abraham
experienced when he obeyed what he thought was God's will to offer his son in sacrifice, and discovered to his great relief and spiritual enlightenment, that when he was willing to do the most painful thing that his mind could conceive that God might expect of him, that God's will was gracious and the lamb, the sheep in the thicket was substituted. People lack courage who do not believe in a loving God. For them, they only have themselves and other humans as models of strength. In a world of disillusionment this is no certain bastion, this is a floundering fortress, a sinking ship.

You understand that your security and the course of this world are not blown about by the winds of chance, thrashed by the meaninglessness of a chaotic, mindless universe, but you know that the hand of God is everywhere present. This gives you courage on all three levels, physical, mental and spiritual. And with this courage you shall overcome all obstacles.  

When Jesus drank His cup He was sustained by an angel. He was given the necessary help He needed when He prayed for it, and you will be equally provided. When you feel that you are reaching the edge of your
courage, it is time to ask and more shall be given. 

Virginia: Is it courageous to follow the unrest that we sometimes feel with the status quo, the experiences that seem to be so traditional and accepted? I'm thinking in terms of my own unrest and how difficult it was for me to search.

Alkon:  This is a two-sided coin, my dear. Sometimes unrest is caused by a rebellious spirit, desiring to break free of God's plans. Other kinds of unrest come from the prodding of the soul by your Indwelling Monitor, by the work of the angels upon the minds and souls of individuals who are receptive to higher truth, to greater loyalty, to more perfect obedience; and there the unrest is with the status quo, with the limits of knowledge and achievement hithertofore gained.  

So to answer your question without making this distinction would be confusing, for all unrest is not necessarily virtuous, it requires discernment to locate the source of that unrest and to analyze it. Certainly to swim upstream against the current, to walk and step to a different drummer requires the courage of enduring the displease, the ridicule and the rejection of some people. It is certainly a type of courage that our Master was conversant with, indeed struggled with, in fact, felt great loneliness in the whole experience for He had no peer to share with.

Creativity

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
[  ] soil   [  ] Land   [  ] Sea   [  ] AIR


SOURCE: This row is used for recording useful information about the source of the wisdom entry.

The personality creates; it expresses
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive June 21, 1997
Teacher Norson
T/R Bob

 

 

 

 

 

 

Creativity is most fully aligned with the personality; preservation finds itself in the realm of the human ego.   In this dual perspective expression of the human being takes place. The goal of a mortal being is to integrate the activity of the personality and the ego so that they function in alignment with one another, so that when the ego manifests it is fully consonant with personality in relationship to the divine, your inner spirit. To gain this freedom you would find that the relationships and the systems that you function within to be transformed, to be representations of true intent and purpose, the real of one interacting with the real of another and with all others. Let us take a moment and examine the expression of each.

The desire to not be egotistical is egotistical. The desire to do good to another is, of course, personality led. So often human beings are motivated in a desire to control themselves from manifesting something which would find discouragement from another. This is all ego based. The personality creates; it expresses. It is not bound. The ego places boundaries, provides limitation. Functioning in a healthy manner, the ego creates arenas wherein the personality can function safely without being hindered in its expression. It is the goal of human society to progress in such a manner that will allow the individual safety to express personality.

As you provide the safety for one another, you find great creativity being expressed through art, music, in your voices to one another privately, in your willingness to be a voice for another. As you can take these groupings and expand them into other systems, as you can gain the courage and the sustenance from these relations to strike out in the other areas of your lives and build similar relations with those around you, these systems will build toward the eventual goal of Light and Life. As you can see, this begins with the individual relating to another individual, relating to other individuals.

The relationship between creation and preservation is where you will find integration. As you can recognize that which is ego, that which is personality expression, you then have the basis for forming a healthy relationship within yourself. Thereby you will find the freedom to relate in a healthy manner with others.

Honestly, one cannot come before the other, although it is in your relations with others that you are to find
witness to the characteristics of your being. In an isolated manner you cannot understand personality and ego and all of the nuances therein.

Delores: Are you talking about trust in sharing who we are? How do we get this trust, to be honest? Is it faith?

Norson:  Yes.

Delores: How do we get this trust? is it an acquirement?

Norson:  Yes, through faith, through courage to risk, you build stamina of cosmic qualities. You realize that the failures do not identify the entirety of your being, that the efforts at relating are always positive when you understand that you are in an effort to find integration of personality one with another, that all effort is for growth. The Supreme experience is the personality of all relating integrally with each other. The path
to this realization is fraught with trials and errors. Trust is only gained by faith and through experience.

Creativity of the senses
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive May 27, 2001.
Teacher Dolores
T/R Gerdean

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dolores: How creative is Our Essence, and the universe in which we live!

In the abundance of possibility is the horn of plenty — colors, tastes, sounds, smells, textures — senses are all a part of a pattern of your lives — much like a box of crayola colored crayons or a sewing box of thread/cord/twine/yarn and other textiles — to weave into the fabric of your lives.  

Expand your sense! Examine your understanding of sense. A dark cloud, a gloomy day, is akin to a grey attitude, one without color, one without enthusiasm. A crowd of people also can represent a palette of color or sensation. There is so much to be learned about the universe through the senses. These powerful influences on your sense of well-being will be a part of your personality composition forever, even as it 
expands to include an explosion of yet more and varied senses as you climb the ladder toward perfection.

But for now, little ones, like children larking on a summer day, plunge into the sense of wonder which is your mortal life.

If you have found your mortal life to be on such an even keel as to depict only neutral colors, change some of your patterns in order to bring in some accent. A monotone may on one hand invoke a meditative state, as intonation of chanting, but it can also be an indication of a tediously dull mental rut of brown and morose depression. Thus, add a little tinkle, a little toot, to your monotone.

In embellishing the pattern of your lives with a sprig of peppermint here or a branch of fruit blossoms there you have altered your environment, and often in altering your environment in your mind you are impressed again with your environment as you live it, seeing anew the common everyday miracles of life.

Our Divine Parents are the quintessential Creators. They are the ones who are having fun, and they have even created those points of gravity and power that uphold the universe, much like your inventions and high-technology in fact uphold your many soirees into creativity, thus allowing your mind/ heart an opportunity again to probe around in the recesses of reality in order to come up with yet another greeting card for your fellows or a post card of the Supreme for your own enjoyment.

Just as a sprig of the current blossom or the taste of the fruit in season will give you a sense of continuity, so will an exotic off-color or abstract tone lend new dimension to that which has become familiar and customary.  

As an exercise, I'd like for you to consider the associates of your immediate era, your current sociology, the people you interact with: your family and friends, your contemporaries and associates. How many of these individuals are you able to communicate with readily? And to what degree? To what extent? To what depth? To what purpose?

The Master used parables often in his dealings with his associates in order to convey a reality essence in the face of the incredible differences in each individual's psychic composition. You can add another dimension to your relationships by breaking out of the mold of logic and linear reasoning, the typical responses of custom and convention, by adding a creative touch that will change the look of the environment you share with your associates, even in the environment of your mental rapport or your emotional connection. You 
thus give new life to your environment and bring new and refreshing vistas to the mind's eye of your associates, even new dimensions of awareness, by your use of adding a dimension of the senses to your routine mental exchanges, social exchanges.

The sensitivity of your new perception invites a knowledge of otherness, other views, of infinity and finitude. You thus can learn to see with eyes to see, as a result of hearing and being stirred within. Your vistas are 
altered now because of the perspective you are able to grasp and sustain as you go about your lives.

It is often difficult, it is sometimes impossible, to introduce a conversation, a concept that will bring relief, ease the fears, soften the edges, appeal to the childlike nature, of the people you encounter. Even emotionally individuals are frequently unavailable, and so the common, human touch of empathy and compassion is thwarted, and so we look farther and deeper for still other ways to make a connection, to reach our fellow men, to let them know the Father is in their lives if they but notice.  

And sometimes the simple act of touching another is a way of making supreme contact. A tone of voice is able to speak volumes. The color you choose to wear is a message. The flavor of your attitude is able to be tasted by those who you encounter and so you will be recognized as to how you feel, and if you are bitter, or sweet, if your attitude is salty or creamy, it will be an effective method of communicating to another sentient creature what words may not be able to convey.

I offer a new understanding of your senses as language, as creative artistry. If you can begin to express yourself in and through your personality you may find that you your Self are a master, an artist, a skilled artisan, in ways that only you and your Divine Guide can realize, but that all who pass by you will retain as a part of the creative expression of you in conjunction with Divinity.

Our Creator has no limitations on possibilities. I invite you to expand your appreciation of your creative possibilities and take authority over your Self, your approach to service, to ministry, to personality expression, by giving yourself permission to be an extension of the Creator in and through his creativity as it can be understood by the mortal creatures of time and space — your children, your spouse, your neighbors, your co-workers — bringing the reality of divinity even further into your arena through 
conscious effort, conscientious effort in awareness and artistry.

I would like to engage with others. I would like to have a classroom filled with students, each having a box in which his and her creative tools are brought into company with others, for in this way it is possible for 
stimulation to occur such that each of you can look to your friend and neighbor and see there, in their box of tools, a perspective on the contents that may not be apparent to its owner, and in fellowship of sharing, it is exciting. It is pink and yellow! It is lime green! To see how a simple idea can ascend to new heights of ecstasy and excitement in and through the creative imagination.

Have you been conditioned to believe that creativity is for a certain type of individual but not for you? Have you been conditioned to believe that it is an impractical pass time? Inefficient, ineffectual, impractical? Have you been taught that your creative nature is frivolous? Superfluous? Childish? That it is an attempt to avoid responsibility? A good excuse to be a perpetual player? And that creativity is not work? Is without value?

What a travesty! This is tantamount to saying that God is not loving, is not joyous, is not radiant, but is indeed a stern judge, a hard task master, a jealous and demanding disciplinarian. But none of those descriptive adjectives are my Parent! I do not resemble such an entity and I am my Father's daughter. I recognize when I am like my Father, when my nature is in tune with the harmony of the spheres. I recognize how my energies are compatible to the Divine in the exquisite dance that we engage in as we brush upon the air of our union.

I urge you to see beyond the veil of your culture and your training if your training has taught you to "grow up!" and leave your childlike nature behind. It is as essential to learn as it is to learn to parent, in terms of 
understanding how the nature of God is visited upon His sons and daughters.

Once you have learned to play together, it will be possible then for you to learn how to work together. Communication is such a critical art form, and your rational minds, your adult intentions, and your assumption of your own maturity — not to mention your perception of your own authority — are enough 
to cramp your toes as your feet grow out of the shoes that were fitted on you for ages long past. Your creativity has become crippled by the binding of restraints upon your childlike nature with its plethora of creative potential.

The adventure of spiritual exploration is unlimited
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive May 27, 2001.
Teacher Minearisa

 

 

 

 

 

 

Minearisa: Extend your awareness of our universe into the hearts and minds of others.  

This adventure in spiritual exploration is unlimited in how you operate to fulfill your own capacities in service. Such a perspective is useless to you until you are able to grow into the perceptions of it. Hearing words, even feeling the sensation of the Spirit of Truth, is ineffectual until your will commits itself through your decisions to take hold of those concepts and make them your own in accordance with your own light of truth.

You learn to walk the second mile, to develop stamina, and become an inspiration to the many who can see how your energies affect everything you touch. The story is told that when the Melchizedek materialized on 
Earth, he manifested himself to a mortal whose astonishment was so great he was rendered speechless. He was indeed afraid. And some of you, who have such power of the spirit at your command, are likewise frightening to those whom you encounter, who are unaccustomed to such energy as you bring.  

The Master had power also, but he was approachable. He did not submerge his power or his energy, but he mastered it such that it did not overwhelm those he met as he passed by. And yet everyone who met Jesus had occasion to be permanently impressed by his wisdom, through his graciousness. This, too, is a part of creativity, the creativity of a gracious Creator, who has, at his command, all the tools in his box.  

Your authority, your command, is that which you have been given. As you use your materials to create your presentations of your Self in your destiny path, you are able to stimulate and inspire others. It is this enthusiasm, this creativity, that is appreciated and yet does not induce overt fear, but rather, perhaps, respect. It's not remuneration for our creativity we seek, but a place to show our offering, a place where our co-creation with divinity can be upheld, displayed, revealed.  

This is the gift of creativity. This is the drawing that you parents tape up to your refrigerator that shows the scrawled drawing of the child, smoke coming out of the chimney, trees, billowing clouds, indicating home and family — this is the precious gift of creation that Our Parents enjoy. 

Dark times

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
[  ] soil   [  ] Land   [  ] Sea   [  ] AIR


SOURCE: This row is used for recording useful information about the source of the wisdom entry.

When one has chosen to walk in darkness
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive October 07, 2001.
Teacher Elyon

T/R Jonathan

 

 

 

 

 

 

Patricia: A friend has chosen to walk in darkness. Is it ever futile to attempt to — I hate  to say "save" — guide someone towards the light? I've been advised there is nothing I can do because this soul has chosen to walk that path.

Elyon: Your friend may be making the mistake of eternity, but then again, being a finite creature, may only temporarily be walking through the dark shadow only to emerge on the other side enriched through the error and more advanced as a result. However, it is a risky process and can lead to perils which the soul may not withstand. Your best method of ministry is the demonstration of light that you contain to stand in contrast. In a sense it is the turning of the cheek to allow the view of another way. Until the desire is kindled within the heart of this individual, only your demonstration can feed the initialization of this desire.

 Standing for who you are and what you believe in independently, without a coercing effect upon this person will allow the room for this soul to reach out and leave behind this chosen path. To attempt, as you put it, to save, this may cause hardening and withdrawal. But if you exemplify for yourself what you hold to be beautiful and true, it will tempt this person to seek to understand the peace and the confidence that you have.

Death

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
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 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


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Death is the most misunderstood rite-of-passage
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts Lightline Teleconference 2024-08-01
Teacher: Amanson
T/R: Mark Turnbull

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Amanson on Death, 2022-11-18

Death is the most misunderstood rite-of-passage in your world today. Its accomplishment can occur in so many different guises – grisly, peaceful, mysterious, welcome – that understanding its significance can be a challenge. The truth of the matter is its Simplicity: it’s merely shedding one set of raiment for another, as the original raiment, the one worn in the physical reality, when it becomes worn, stretched to the point of no repair, has to be abandoned – what suit of clothes wouldn’t? So, the subsequent raiment, that which replaces the familiar body of flesh, blood and bone, is of such a finer material as to be unrecognizable to its former eye, [which is] the present eye of the mourners and attendees to the newly arrayed but now invisible subject. But just because one set of circumstances is too subtle to be perceived by those in another circumstance does not mean there is nothing to this new unperceived reality. It merely means it cannot be seen, recognized, addressed.

Death is the one universally acknowledged event in the process of living that holds all feet to the fire – it cannot be circumvented and yet it is an illusion, so the joke, as you might say, is on circumvention itself. To boldly question the very notion of ‘death’ is the first step in seeing through it. There are two modes of disbelief, though only one is the true one, the fruitful path. You can deny death’s existence by asserting [that] it’s entirely too real –  the proverbial ‘final curtain’ (as Hamlet put it so succinctly, “No more”); or you can disbelieve the very notion of an end stop – which is the true way – and find the Light now that continues on then – the Interior Illumination providing Life itself within each of us living - who then, when the time comes, shall step effortlessly across as Life continues its flow, you being part of it – you practiced it here, and with nary a bump or hitch you now practice it there.

And is there an order of hierarchy at play? Does one need to be amongst the ‘Anointed’ to take advantage of so Royal a treatment? No! Those who have an inkling of the process, who practice its foreknowledge consciously now will likely have an easier time facing ‘the great transition’ but the transition’s amenities are afforded to all: the frightened; the prepared.

As I say, ‘death’ is probably the most misunderstood aspect of the long ritual of living on so rough-and-tumble a planet, and yet in the end (which would seem to be what we’re talking about, but understand – it isn’t!) it is far Simpler for the disembodied than for the bodied - those fellows, colleagues, friends and  family left to imagine where their cohort has gone; although were their eyes sharp enough, their imaginations rich enough, their faith strong enough, their grief would be assuaged instantly and their confusion lifted, lifted higher than their understanding of earthly things had ever been. For how much here can really be understood other than there’s a grand agenda, a far-flung curriculum at play, which death, in all its misunderstood grandeur, actually represents.

Follow the path as it’s laid out lovingly before you and know that it is all for your benefit. Which benefits all. It’s quite a system.

What is death like?
 
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Question: What is death like?

Answer: We prefer to think of it as birth. It is not frightening. It is quite spiritually beautiful. In my opinion as one who has died, it is the spiritual, the culminating event spiritually, of life in the flesh. It is to your lives as a concert is to a song. It is expanding, it is the only time mortal eyes - or one of the only times - with few exceptions, the mortal eyes can behold celestial presences, and there is much angelic help, Thought Adjuster communications, Midwayer manipulation - to allow the fear to be displaced by the love, and joy, and faith recognition of what this experience really is: the birth into the ascendent corps of pilgrims marching ever onward to Paradise. This experience will forever change the mortal being. No longer will surviving be at issue. Now survival depends on action, choices, faith, but not blindness. No question of the body, no animal primitive feelings of holding to a world that is, for the moment, sad and dark. We rejoice when a being joins us. 

Death should not be painful to the God believer, but is painful in some cases where the material takes precedence over the spiritual. When the material body is believed to be the definition of life, death is often painful physically and emotionally, for it reflects the inner struggle of the human who is confused about reality. But to the believing soul, to the sure ascender, to the true child of God, death is a celebration and not painful, but a most profound, moving, and beautiful experience as the human vision becomes morontial, and as the spiritual guardians and the celestial beings are for the - most cases - first time visible to the newly emerging morontial child.

Euthanasia, Life Extension
 
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Euthanasia, Life Extension

Question: In western culture now we have the capacity to keep many people alive into advanced age. This means that we see a fairly high percentage, compared to past ages, of persons who develop dementing diseases, particularly Alzheimers disease. In these disorders there's generally disease of the frontal and prefrontal areas, and one sees clinically disintegration of the personality as well as loss of capacity for self maintenance. Now there's a very great moral dilemma developing in western medicine presently about - is it right to keep such people alive? Because the expense of keeping them alive is very, very high. There is much grief in the family as these people become further and further detached from family and friends and reality. And these people seem to have much fear, much pain, and much illness in general. I wonder if you could comment on this, and - if you are allowed - if you could comment on how this would be handled on another world such as the one that you come from?

Answer: In the cases where the deterioration is in the prefrontal lobe it is my opinion that the Adjuster has left. What is alive is a physical body. As for the ethics of maintaining life, it is irrelevant spiritually one way or another. In terms of my world we had in place a spiritualized and accepted ritual for graduation when the physical was an impediment to the spiritual soul growth, which is, of course, the only eternal reality. When the mechanism housing the soul-Adjuster no longer functioned, it was not of any consequence to terminate life. In fact, it was a cause of celebration, being the Father's will that the soul move on to the next growth level.

You down here have much more irrational and emotional reactions to this practice since - as a world - you do not truly understand what life is, and define it solely in terms of the physical. As you grow as a world spiritually, you will learn to temper life extension with actual life growth of the soul. And many diseases will be eliminated which interfere with the mind-soul connection. Until that time this topic will be reacted to irrationally and I can only pray for your enlightenment as a world culture since many mortals suffer needlessly, and suffer delays in their universe career because of the mere sentiment, which is attached to the material body.

Question: I read about a man in this country who is on trial for murder, a physician, who attempted to help such a demented person to graduate, and it hurts me every time I read it, but it seems to be at present an insoluble problem in our culture.

Answer: Also, one must abide by the legal system one lives under, no matter how primitive. 

How to explain physical death to a child
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive January 19, 2000.
Teacher JarEl

 

 

 

 

 

 

Student: How do you explain physical death to a child of seven years, without traumatizing them?

JarEl: You do so metaphorically, and with a lot of love and compassion, to find a way to fill that emptiness that that child may and will sense from the loss; I assume that you are talking about the loss of a parent.(yes) In time this child will grow to learn who this parent was, how important this person was, and begin to understand. A child is not very capable of understanding in depth perception. It is not important to indulge in fear about this with the child. This is something you would want to avoid. What's important is to fill the gap in this child's life with resource and nourishment.

Decisions

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
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 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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The difference between choice and decision
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive January 2, 2000.
Teacher Elyon
T/R Jonathan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Within the human being the primary operating system is the personality. Without this overriding and controlling presence that you are, all other subsystems would lose their meaning and function. It is quite important to all of you, the development of your soul, for you realize, each of you, that this emerging reality is your passport to the morontia realms. This is the accomplishment to be had in the human life above all career successes, above all other events that you can undertake to make your human life worthwhile. There is no thing you will take with you but this that you will become.

I would like to delineate, if only for the academics, the difference between choice and decision. You, the personality, have two functions in this regard.  Firstly, since your priority is the co-creation with the Father's
Presence of this soul, your future self; every choice in your life should be compared to this goal of growth and morontia attainment. As you place value upon situations that you hope for, living conditions that you strive to better, you are creating what I would call a priority list for soul growth, and these are items on a list that I would call "values". You do not in your mind simply decide to do the will of the Father; you choose in your soul to do the will of the Father and your mind decides how to go about this dedication of yours. Every
one of you makes the same choice, and each of you decides quite differently how to demonstrate your choice to the Father.

The beauty of the whole mechanism of the Supreme is that everyone makes that same decision to be the Father's child consciously and wholeheartedly, and yet throughout the vast realms whereupon the Supreme plays out the will of the Father, we are all creating unique, decisive realities, one same choice in an infinite array of outworking.

To one on the other side of your world the choice is the same. Whether it be cloaked in different words, the choice remains identical. Yet you see how much different each of your traditional religions have developed based on this one, singular, deep longing.

I can love you only as Michael loves you, as your brother. Michael loves you only as can the Father, and this is significant. This is worth deep contemplation. My love for you is born of my decision to be eventually considered a Paradise citizen, to dwell in the Father's house. As a secondary decision I choose to love every individual I encounter and to seek more individuals with whom I may express this love. But I can only do it as a brother, and you can only receive my love as a friend and a brother. But Michael, my friends, he is not only your brother, he is your father. When he is among you, you can be assured that the Father is equally present, not simply as that mysterious, indwelling Fragment of infinity and absoluteness, but as that ever-loving parent who cares for each child and for all of you en masse.

What you choose increases the values of your soul. What you decide upon increases the wisdom of your mind. It is my observation that you all seek to become wise souls. This is accomplished through the coordinating presence of your personality, that which you are this very day.

When perplexities confront you and your mind whirls with the variables, the possibilities of which way to turn, what decision to make; pause, reflect, for just one moment. What are your choices? What are your values? These will clarify what will be your decisions, what these values mean to you and how these superimposed values will clarify the many distinctive parameters of your quandary. It is not unlike crawling through the brambles and finding a little knoll, a little rise, that you may climb upon to look above and overview it all and thereby more clearly discern your path.

Desire

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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You can turn your desires into reality
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archives October 6, 1996.

Teacher Machiventa

T/R Mary

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In one's life experience one encounters a great many urges or desires within your depths. It is through
diligent application of your person to such desires that they then may bear fruit. One must decide for oneself which of the many desires or tendencies you really feel strongly about and would like to see made real. Then with this sincere, diligent application of your energies, these desires may be made into reality. It is within your power, each of you, to create this reality, in a sense to create out of yourselves and give birth to a new phenomenon. This occurs with sincere, honest, and recurring application.

There are many desires within each of you leading in many different directions. You must choose which among these you desire the most to be made real. Then you bring this ideal, this desire, raise it up in your consciousness, accept it fully into your being, and project yourself as being an accomplice in this desire, as being partners with this desire. Direct your energies towards it, and visualize this desire as reality.

You each have this capacity to turn a desire, an ideal, a position into your reality. Very little that you would desire is out of your reach. Most of what you desire is yours for the taking, yours for the effort, yours for the applying of yourself to it. So choose your highest ideals, embrace them, accept them into your being, and promote them with your conscious mind. Ask for assistance from our Father and embrace the fruits of your
efforts.

It is the Father's desire that you be a creator as well, that you form your own creations of direction, of ideals, of purpose, that you give rise to these fundamental basics spontaneously of yourself. You are empowered to create these realities, and you are encouraged to do so.

It is necessary from time to time to realign yourself with the proper energy guides that you spoke of in your discussion to establish your position in the proper channels for the most efficient transfer of energy. This is accomplished by means of your sincere desire to implement this new ideal and your willingness to align yourself to the proper degree to allow the most efficient transfer of the energy. You all are becoming aware of the many different sources of energy, power, available to mortals of the realm. These channels are a means to tap into, to augment your capabilities, to enhance your abilities to efficiently perform and function. We encourage you to experiment with their use, to apply yourselves in different regions, to be open to help from these outside sources. You alone can do great things; you with the aid of other circuits can do things beyond what you can conceive of.

The desire has to unfold
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive August 22, 1997.
Teacher Olen
T/R Frosty

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The desire has to unfold, the conscious effort be made into action, be it anything to do throughout your
day that, if you do it with the conscious effort to do the righteous thing with all of your actions, you will be fulfilled at the end of each day. When you go through your day with the desire to do the righteous thing and it seems to be something that is in the future, you are taking away from the conscious effort that you could be making throughout the day. If you are doing the most mundane thing like putting away the dishes, if you make the conscious effort to do the righteous thing, you will find that your mind becomes much more focussed on the day to day, mundane events that can turn into spiritual events, each and
every one. This takes a bit of practice, but it will bring you into the moment, and you will not be living in the future or hashing over the past.

If you will sit for just a moment, think of something that you each did today that when you were doing this you were thinking of something else. Relive doing the action, think of yourself in the righteous act of doing the action, pulling yourself right into the act. You are one with the act. You are at one with the Father by doing the act. It could be driving your car, putting the groceries away, preparing a meal. Allow the energy
to be one, the oneness with yourself, the oneness with the Father, and the oneness with the act you are doing. Pull that energy force into the very act itself that it magnetizes and energizes so that it penetrates into the day, into all the other acts that you do. You are getting more energized as the day is going. Know that by doing this you are doing a service because you are putting out this energy force into the environment. As you are sitting now, pull the feeling of oneness with the Father, the cosmic energy, into you. Feel the chairs you are sitting on. Feel the energy go through you into the furniture. Feel the
energy go out from you into each other. Keep this alive in all your actions. This will keep you in the moment, in the wisdom. Keep this alive within you so that you know that you are full of this electricity that is going out into all your actions, going out with all your thoughts. It is going out with your throat and heart chakras which are alive with the energy and the oneness that you feel, so that you are not bored with your everyday events. You are very much alive with all that you do.

You know that your lives have purpose and meaning no matter what you are doing. As you are putting the dishes away, sweeping the floor, your life at that moment has all the purpose and all the meaning that it has if you are out serving in any other way. That aliveness and electricity that moves you when you keep it alive with every action will give you the foothold for and the momentum for the future, for the past will all become one moment in that which you live each day, each moment. Everywhere you go, everything you do will be alive because you have put forth the effort each day with each thing that you have done.

If you are thinking of something, for instance, you are working on one thing, and you know you have several things lined up, instead of being fully into what you are doing at the moment you are thinking ahead to all the other things you have to do, pull the ... into what you are doing with the oneness, the electricity, and pull it through you into what you are doing. It could be very helpful. Then fold with the
day, with the movement of the day.

Every day has its own movement. Every day can be different and alive. The openings have been made in order for this to flow through you. Learn to pull it in and through you into whatever you need. The mind plays a great part in this motion. It takes discipline to program the mind so that it becomes second nature. At first you may feel stimulation. As you become accustomed to it, it will become natural. Your channel will become larger, more energy through the love of the Father.

This energy can help others to open up as it reaches them through your aliveness, like turning on a light. If you keep your switch on, you will allow the electricity to flow through you. It is not something which you must try to make happen. It is natural; you just allow it to happen. The energy flows through you, and as you energize it through your will and put it out into all things, your household gets full of it. It goes out into your furniture, your clothes, your food, your dishes, so that your whole house becomes energized. Everyone around you will feel this. It will help keep you healthy and feeling alive, at one with God and at peace with yourself.  

How to boost your desire
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive April 5, 1998.
Teacher Malvantra
T/R Mark

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tom: Do we all get the same initial charge of desire? How can we boost our desire?

Malvantra: Your Indwelling Fragment does, indeed, long to return to its origin. You as a personality may not fully invest the same longing at this time as your Indwelling Spirit has. But in time and with alignment to this Indwelling Spirit you too shall come to desire to return to your parent more fully and completely. To have a great desire to be about the Father's business, to do what you perceive to be the right choice in your
life, to make a difference, to be of service to others. This is the desire to be on the road towards the Father. Desire is also something which you can foster in others by your example of your orientation, by exemplifying you are on this path. You are aware you are on this path; you are in pursuit of the goal of perfection. You demonstrate these qualities to those around you who then may gaze upon your attitude and your actions and desire if nothing else to be like you. You, in turn, desire to be more perfect. Therefore you lead them in desiring to be more perfect.

Count yourself fortunate that you recognize this desire and can use it actively to chart your course. Count yourself fortunate also if you can, by example, emanate this quality to any individual around you so that they may be so affected as well. Desire is the propellant that motivates you to act, whether it is a desire to become one with your Adjuster or a more long-range desire to become one with the Father.

Still it is the same desire, the same striving for perfection, desiring to be more in line with the divine way. I would point out that every individual has some degree of desire. It may, during any one life, be misplaced. The desire for self-gratification is an obvious example. However, there is desire in each individual. It may be misguided and misdirected so as to propel them in a direction not of the Father's will, but it is resident within them this desire to do something. Your opportunity involves transferring this desire to more worthy causes.

Jonathan: One of our favorite phrases is that love is the desire to do good to others. If we stop at "love is the desire" and reflect on Jesus' teaching of loving one another, then love is a good way to kindle desire in ourselves.

Malvantra: Love is, indeed, an excellent indicator and destiny, ever pulling your forward. If in any case you are doubtful as to your desires and intent, reflect on them with the light of love and see how they fall into place. Love is an excellent tool to gently redirect desires that may be at a tangent and should be used repeatedly as a corrective measure in your ascension career to reestablish your desires in line with your highest possible ideals.

Tom: In the Urantia Book it says you can't love a person by sheer force of will. You have to take the time to know them. Also it says teachers can reshape the environment, remove obstacles, but in the final analysis  students' interest, drive, and enthusiasm propels them forward. That all falls under desire. Are we all given an equal charge of desire when we come into this world? Then does the environment either smother or foster us to getting a greater charge of desire?

Malvantra: Desire is as other characteristics are to you. By that I mean that it is available to you as are several other aspects available to you. It is in your development of these characteristics and traits that they become stronger, more intense, and more effective. Think of it as your choosing to develop your trait of desire as a useful propellant, is the same as your desire to utilize faith, which is also available to you upon your taking and developing. It is merely up to you which of these you access and to what degree you access it. It is true that inherently you have at your disposal a myriad of qualities of which this is but one.

Jonathan: In light of desire and the conditions of society, consider the mota that "difficulties may challenge mediocrity and defeat the fearful, but they only stimulate the true children of the Most Highs." We have desire that the world fosters or hinders. It falls to us to be fearful, mediocre, or stimulated true children.  

Malvantra: True, and it is up to you individually how much you want to stimulate these desires. One individual may be intimidated by difficulties. Another given the exact same difficulties might be charged with enthusiasm. The difficulties remain the same; it is in your approach and your attitude that the difference is made.

Destiny

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
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 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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Destiny starts to unfold at the moment of birth
 
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Destiny is such a fascinating topic, so important as a part of our consciousness from the beginning of life, running through it like a constant thread for its entire length.

Destiny is not a static concept, not a far-off goal, not a plaque on a wall that states the result of a performance, an office attained, nor a goal reached. Rather, destiny is what is contained in the seed of being as a potential prior to the onset of life. And the destiny starts to unfold at the moment of birth. Each of you here now is participating in your own destiny. You have a destiny that was, the destiny that is, and a destiny that shall be. From the time of attainment of your Thought Adjuster, you have a unique way of molding your personal destiny, as if each of you had before you a detailed blueprint of your entire existence and the capacity to make changes within the blueprint limitations at will. Erase a line here, add a line there, this is where your free-will decision-making capacity serves you most mightily.

You may ask “But how can I possibly know the correct way to mold my destiny?” “What is the way?” You have the Spirit of Truth. You have the living fragment of God within you. You have a certain knowledge of truth and goodness and beauty and love to guide you. You have the spiritual muscles of your soul - as strong as your use of them has made them. And it is those muscles - if you will - that have a firm grip on your destiny through your freewill.

Imagine the Father has given you a large diamond at the beginning of your life, and it is your job to cut that diamond so that it may reflect light in brilliant and in interesting ways. You have the gift of personality given with the gift of life, and your freewill is the tool that you use to shape this personality. How will you shape it? That is your decision. Will you make changes? Almost certainly. Will you regret them? Yes, of course, but not all of them.

When you pass from the life in the flesh and are given the choice of continuing on or not, at that point
the richness of destiny will almost certainly be such an irresistible inducement that no one but the most
deeply impaired ever decline to continue. This concept is difficult to grasp at this point for you, nonetheless it is useful to ponder.

Much has been written in your literature about destiny, the concept of fate. And some of what has been speculated is actually quite close to the truth. Yes, a single decision can change the course very much. Yes, the decision you make at any time can have an impact on the destiny of another, not unlike stars on a collision course, or - less dramatic - marbles rebounding from one another as they roll down an incline, each impact causing a ricocheting of other marbles, and yet others. It is this interaction of destinies through personalities and free-will decision that makes fellowship so vitally important in the Universe.

As Earth progresses toward the era of Light and Life, the spiritual growth of individuals will accelerate and improve. Fellowship will grow, and there will be far more positive impacts of personalities upon personalities in the sense of non-adverse contributions to growth. Of course, adversity helps the individual to grow spiritually. However, there are many many ways of abetting growth that do not necessarily involve adversity - as you all are aware. And of course there is ample adversity through the eternal ages. A diminution in the adversity experienced in this embryonic stage of growth in the material form will not detract in the long run.

Yes, adversity makes one stronger, however the man running the race who finds himself beaten with a whip or struck in the leg with a stick at each step most likely will not run as quickly, as confidently, or as contently as he might without those adverse factors. He instead would have more energy to devote to the task of running the race rather than having to divert attention to the pain and the opposition.

So it is on Earth now: many souls with clearly established destinies running that race - the race to get through life. How will you run your race? How will you affect the race of others? When we engage in service to our fellows we help them to run the race a little more easily, you see? That does not mean we carry them upon our backs, for it is their race, it is their destiny. But we do not trip them, or strike them.

Is our destiny completed when that far-off day comes when we stand in the presence of the Father? No, not at all. However, the striving to meet that particular goal is a very important part of the destiny of every one of you here today. Destinies are eternal and infinite, and no being has ever existed - mortal or non-mortal - that has fully expressed their potential destiny. This is a difficult concept to grasp for me also, nonetheless, it is so. So you see your destiny is a fluid thing, dynamic, growing, alive, subject to many forces, but most of all your own will, your one desire to act.

Yes, you have many helpers within and without, and their promptings can be very useful if you wish to accept them. So go forth. Meet your destiny. Run the good race.

Question: About the beginning of the 16th century a man by the name of John Calvin, when he was translating the Latin scriptures into French, became convinced that the New Testament taught predestination, and developed the doctrine of predestination which is known as Calvinism. It holds generally that people are predestined to go to heaven or go to hell. I realize that, in the Urantia Book language, this is predestined to survive or not-survive. This became such a strong point, that others, who
couldn't accept the idea that a God would create individuals to go to hell, said that they had the free will
to choose. And the doctrine of predestination and the doctrine of free will are considered to be opposite
to each other.

I think the Urantia Book teaches that they are consistent with each other, that when we are born we are
predestined - to do something, but we have the free will to change that destiny, point by point, decision
by decision. And if I remember it correctly, the Urantia Book says that we are predestined to do things,
but we are not foreordained to do them, that we have the free will to say no. Putting that together with
your lesson, suddenly it fills in the blanks.

Answer: Yes, you understand well. You see that there are many dimensions which have been left out by
the formal religious approaches of the past.

Question: I have a question about the active or non-active role that the different agents and beings that surround us actually take in our lives. Some of us think that they are quite active, I mean to the point where good fortune is placed in their path, if they are seeking the Father's will. And others of us feel as though they aren't that involved, that interactive. Can you shed any light on this?

Answer: Yes. Some are blessed with great agility in managing the material world and are perceived as being lucky. This is not a result of spiritual leading, necessarily, in the sense that you are referring to with external forces bringing to bear, however it is not that common for a material being to thrive without some participation in a program of spiritual growth. It does happen, of course. There have been some quite iniquitous beings who have done enormously well in the material sense. But of course they have lived with overwhelming inner torment which they have not generally admitted to others. But the one who thrives on Earth without inner torment must necessarily follow a spiritual program.

Material success requires study and practice at material skills. Wealth does indeed flow in well-defined channels, and the one who would be wealthy may easily, or not so easily, tap into these channels. This may be seen as luck, but it's more a matter of having a good eye and a high level of desire. There have been persons who've become wealthy who have also achieved high spirit attainment. This is rare, but known to happen.

Has their success been due to cosmic intervention? They too have been endowed with Thought Adjusters, and some have heeded the advice of Thought Adjusters and been helped in attaining their goals. Some have had other spirit helpers for reasons beyond what your history books may record. Much of this has to do with using well-placed beings to help offset some of the damage done during the rebellion. They happen to be in opportune positions, so an attempt is made to use them, but as far as anyone being intentionally placed in a position of power by seraphic or other guidance, no. Those in positions of power may choose to avail themselves of seraphic guidance that is offered, which is a free will decision, but there is not divine intervention in the matters of man beyond that. 

Advice is always at hand. Whether man chooses to take it or not is another matter. Let us look at the other side of the situation. What of the person who seems to be good and lead a life of worship and yet is beset with misfortune, material poverty from family tragedy? In undertaking the journey towards spiritual growth one may or may not choose to participate in the flow of wealth. Some choose not to, and therefore their material lives are impoverished while their spiritual lives are enriched.

This is rare. This is as rare as the other extreme. It is as rare as the wealthy man who is spiritually rich, but it does happen. The great mass of people do best, have the most so-called good luck, when they are engaging in worship in their activities and heeding seraphic guidance which is available to all. So you could say that good luck, no matter what your goals may be, they will be more readily attained, if you follow God's plan. This may sound somewhat like a television evangelist, but this is certainly not a call for donations to churches. If you lead your lives in such a way that you are loving, you are good, you are kind, you are truthful, you are bound to have some good fortune, and you are also bound to have some misfortune. But overall the services that you render in the plying of your trade, whatever that may be, will generally be well accepted, and you will prosper to whatever extent is possible. 

Devotion

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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The beauty of a devoted life is that it springs from willingness
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archiveNovember 21, 1999.
Teacher Jessona
T/R Jonathan

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jessona: Let me address the topic of devotion by looking at those factors that lead up to a devoted stature and those conditions that follow such an attainment.

Perhaps at times of frustration you may say to yourself, "If I were only more devout I would have accomplished..." such and such. In reality it is not devotion but rather discipline or the drive of duty that would cause you to complete the effort. Devotion is not unlike the experience of the assurance of eternal life. For those in doubt of their standing before God, efforts are taken to gain a sense of assurance by such techniques as obeying the "commandments of God", following the doctrines of an accepted religion, accepting some sense of granted salvation through grace. The focus is to acquire that hilltop of assurance. But when the assurance is attained, behaviors that follow take on a new dimension; now you live and act out of that assurance. No longer is salvation your goal, but it has now become your platform from which you spring forward into the rest of your eternal life. Devotion is just like this. Once you have become a personality permeated with devotion, then your activities become conditioned by this state of being. This kind of devotion is not off again, on again. It becomes a fundamental frequency of your character. Out of this devotion springs effortless endurance, unfatiguing diligence. These behavioral outworkings are effortless because they are propelled by that fundamental devotion.

You note that when you are attracted to, inwardly driven toward, accomplishing a task or attaining a new state of being for yourself or discovering a new factor, a new aspect of life or reality or truth, that it is quite easy to be focused and directed towards that new horizon. You express a devotion that is not external, not qualified by any obligations that others may ask of you. This inner fount of devout energy drives you there almost in the sense that you are racing toward your goal and devotion is driving behind you, pushing you, and yet devotion is just a step ahead pulling you forward, and you are trying as fast as you can to keep up. There is no struggle; it is really more of an exciting chase.

As you increasingly devote yourself to the will of the Father and to the way of the Supreme, you find it easier each day to manifest those truths and those principles and those patterns that you have discovered throughout your spiritual growth. There are no props to uphold this loyalty; there are no guards standing about you making sure you conform. You have no sense that your devotion would falter and you would be displeasing to the Father. Rather that ceases to be a fear, for you know in all certainty of the Father's unceasing love and eternal watchcare. Through this confidence of faith you have but one choice, and it is a choice of free will, and that is to be a devout son or daughter of God.

If I may play with this word and dissect it and extract another word, "vote", you can consider yourself as one who is devout, as being one who no longer needs to vote. Your decision is final; your standing is clear, and your future is certain of attainment as you are faith-glimpsing it at this hour. All tendency to waver ceases.

Now I would like to address what I am sure you each experience, and that is fluctuation, distraction, or that sense that, "today I feel spiritual. Yesterday I felt animal." This should never cause you to be concerned over your state of devotion to the Father. The very presence of frustration in yourself, once again, discloses that you are a devout disciple. If it were not of any concern to you what your behavior was like in any given circumstance, then you would have reason to consider where your heart lies. This quality of being is why a kingdom-liver can stand calmly by while all earthly things crash. This is why one can forsake all comforts and be driven into a mission where personal safety and well-being is put at risk in the name of a higher cause and for the betterment of other people. It matters not whether you have succeeded in your attempts, for it is fulfilling in itself to be about the Father's business, success or otherwise. To be such a devoted citizen of the universe is to be ever willing and on the lookout for what you may contribute, and you would be looking for some service form, no matter what the conditions are around you, that even though you would prefer that a situation were more conducive to the revelation of truth and the experience of goodness in another individual, this does not restrain you from making your attempts at upliftment anyway. It does not concern you that the situation may not be just right and it would disintegrate, for you are propelled by an inner drive to be about the work of the Father, regardless.

Evelyn: I spend a lot of time looking after my own creature comforts and only as an afterthought watching for service opportunities. I appreciate your assurance that noticing those things is good.

Jessona: I would express to you the hope that I did not convey any burden or misunderstanding that expressions of ministry are signs of a devout life and that care for your own well-being is not devout, for you are the Father's daughter as is anyone around you. But you have indicated a very important point, and that is that you notice your orientation, your concerns, and even their fluctuation from one mode to another. This very notice-ability of yourself is the precise condition needed for the Father's Indwelling Presence to work for your soul comforts.

The beauty of a devoted life is that it springs from willingness and is not something you must acquire. Much as each shoot of a stalk of corn emerges from the center of the previous ones, devotion is the emergence of willingness. Hardships do not increase it. Successes and ease of life do not increase it. In spite of any point in the spectrum of experiences of life, devotion can still be, just as can faith, just as can love.

Evelyn: Devotion is close to the same as faith in that it involves action and willingness. Faith is belief enacted.

Jessona: This is true, and devotion instigates actions that are derived from within your own being independent of a duty-sensibility. Though duty may be an aspect of devoted action, it is not the qualification of being devout. Duty can propel the ascending soul to a discovery in oneself of this ability to be devout, but duty bears upon the soul from the outside, where devotion emerges from within, just as belief comes into the mind from the outside, and faith emerges from the core. Faith emerges in spite of a set of beliefs or doctrines, and you witness the faith of many of your fellows who hold to diverse philosophic and religious thoughts. This is likewise true of the devout and the duty-bound individual. The sense of obligation changes. The duties will be different, but the devotion is identical. The difference, the distinction between these two comparisons: belief and faith, and duty and devotion is the difference in the level between a mind-oriented approach and a spirit/soul-oriented approach. Herein enters the secret to understanding the teaching of the master about living the Golden Rule.

To have transformed this rule of living from "doing unto others as you would have them do to you" into "treating your fellows as you can best perceive the Father would treat them" you can rise to that level of complete devotion where the condition of who would best treat or be treated or wish to be treated ceases to be a factor, a qualification, and you as a universe, cosmic being, simply do for others. This would include your own self, for is it not true that the Father would treat you likewise? No longer would you ask, "I will treat another this way because, is it not that the Father would do so?" You now treat others simply because it is such a part of your being, you are so in love with the Father Himself, that you need not ask any longer what He would do. His actions will emerge from you.

This is a confidence of faith that is discovered through practice. The more you witness this result, the more you can trust the Father's continual guidance, and the less time will be taken deliberating over whether or not you perceive the best choice that He, the Father, would make. It becomes natural; it becomes "as you pass by", and you begin to live a life much like Jesus did when he visited your world.

My corps of angels are reassigned periodically, and I witness in every band, every troupe, that comes into the corps great devotion. But I likewise witness in the reassignment there is never once a sense of disappointment or loss of the feeling of devotion when reassigned, for the devotion transcends the assignment. It is a propellant for any undertaking.

Faith is much the same. A faith son of God may abandon a traditional religion, may travel through many philosophical thought systems, and never once lose that faith-drive. Though Michael, when here, ran into the great resistance of the powerful religion of his time, this did not lessen his devotion to the Father and his faith in the transcendent power of the Father's truth. He knew that he would soon be reassigned; he would finish his seventh bestowal; he would be done with creature experience. He knew the task would fall to others, but he maintained a steady, forward revelation right up to and through his death. His ministry never ceased even though he was in great pain, even though he was extremely exhausted, even though he had the human experience of abandonment and being friendless and being even hated and spit upon.

Having stressed all this, I would add the caution that both devotion and faith must still retain wholesome scrutiny and deep thinking, reflection upon what is true and good and beautiful, for it is sad to have witnessed upon this world devotion applied to causes that have been unbecoming of the revelation of the Father.

Disappointment

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
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Look with excitement upon your disappointments
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive March 29, 1998.
Teacher Evanson, Malvantra
T/R Jonathan, Mark

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We do not believe your shortcomings are defaults, defects, as we have the longer range view. You know that a shortcoming acknowledges a less-than-desired attainment, but this word would be better dropped and instead substituted with the word acknowledge where you can see ahead to what is attainable. In a sense I will break down knowledge into two words: acknowledge and ledge. A ledge, like a cliff over a chasm, appears ominous and difficult to cross. When you perceive these shortcomings, you are gaining your knowledge; you now know what to work on. At these times shift to discerning the means whereby you may cross the chasm of inexperience, of lack of understanding. Seek ways in which you may provide revelation landfill that may help you bridge over to the solid ground you seek at a higher level of behavior. My purpose in expressing this to you today is to attempt to draw your attention away from failure at execution and place it upon your success in perceiving what is attainable. When you break something, the first impulse is to seek to fix it. This applies not only to objects but to your own personality ascent. Cultivate the reflexive action toward reparation and acquirement of higher skills. Make your recognition of shortcoming but a fleeting moment that catapults you into your new project for growth. There is far too much work and time to be spent  attaining this new level to be wasted brooding over your failures.

Malvantra: I would add some more to the words of Evanson. I would suggest that you adopt the strategy of turning your disappointments into what you would perhaps consider to be the exact opposite. Look with excitement upon your disappointments, for they have shown you your next growth level; they have pointed out to you that aspect of your being that should be focused on to become a more perfect, more complete soul. Indeed, we look upon your realization of your shortcomings, as you see them, as a breakthrough in which the doors are open to growth, to the challenge presented before you of your apparent failure.

No individual is a perfect, complete unit, and in order to become more perfect you must, in your course of activities, discern where you are not perfect and where the work lies to change that situation. It is indeed a blessing for you to have the realization that a particular area of your being requires some service on your part. If you would look at this service to your own soul growth as you would look at the service you so eagerly seek to be about for other individuals, perhaps you would put into better perspective that the very sense of desiring to serve others can be turned inward toward your own soul growth. When an area of your soul growth is illuminated that needs and, indeed, requires your service, you should rejoice with this awareness, with this perception, for you now have some starting point to work to actually be of service to your own self. Therefore, when you perceive that you have failed, delight that you have shown yourself the area in which you need to focus and be of service to yourself so that your overall being can become more perfect. Every being is challenged with many such imperfections in their being, and it is the resolution of these imperfections which constitutes soul growth. 

Remain steadfast in faith and persevere through difficulties
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive September 30, 1999.
Teacher Abraham
T/R ?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mortal living can bring many disappointments and crushing blows to the spirit. A man may perceive his adversities to be a chastisement from God. He may believe he has somehow earned his misfortune. He wonders what could he have done to deserve such adversity. What could he have done different? How
could he turn the tables in his favor? How might he escape this bitter reality? A man with this outlook is likely to become greatly discouraged, embittered and hopeless. His perception is narrowed to fit his one
dimensional thinking. This thinking recruits the spirit poisons, and difficulties that were not that bad, are now made worse.

Another man who has also experienced life's brutal difficulties may look to his Father and ask, what is the meaning of this, Father? This faithful man may perceive this to be a lesson in acquiring spiritual fruits. He knows in his mortal state his difficulties are only landmarks upon his eternal path. His difficulties are stepping stones to higher learning. His broad vision allows him to go beyond the ego to an overall good that serves everyone. This man is observant in watching Father work within his problems. Using the
stillness mind he is open for Father's suggestions and solutions. This man can perceive his difficulties without fear or unknowing or loneliness, for Father has promised His assistance.

In learning to remain steadfast in faith and persevere through difficulties, it is important that you perceive your mortal life as if you are standing at the beginning of all eternity — because this is so. These mortal problems that plague you today are exercises in which you become strengthened by, to advance spiritually. There is not an escape, you see. There is not a way to advance without having these experiences which strengthen those spiritual muscles.

In learning to carry on one must be aware of how you perceive your difficulties. Is Father the cause of your difficulties? No. Is He available to show them to be valuable? Yes. Is He showing them to be with meaning?
Yes. Is mortal difficulties a frown from Heaven or a lesson in spiritual advancement? Yes, it's all in how you perceive your difficulties. You stand at the beginning of eternity. Expand your vision and embrace the entire
view. Do not cheat yourself by decreasing the view to ego size or allowing the spirit poisons to make worse what is already seemingly bad.

In the midst of your difficulties, what can you do to repel the spirit poisons, like self-pity, anger, or depression from setting in? Certainly worship and prayer are extremely helpful. Stillness time is a wonderful
asset of course, yes. To be observant though refrains you from acting  out — using those spirit poisons. Being watchful, as if you were beside yourself, is a benefit that the Master used quite often.

Jesus when confronted with adversity did not scream out in panic or make foolish and rash decisions, no. He stopped and consulted with Father — what is the meaning of this? How can I endure through this? It is difficult I know to be patient in these trials, but to act upon feelings of anxiety only draws you closer to those spirit poisons.

In your practicality can you be faithful that Father will show you how to make good use of your adversities? He can show you how to take those feelings of despair or anxiety and put them to work in a spiritual way. Can you perceive your adversities as stepping stones to higher learning? Can you broaden your vision to perceive an overall picture of Father's plan? Can you be beside yourself and be observant? The mastering of these techniques will surely lead you to understand the true meaning of strength and endurance.

The Master's difficulties on many occasions left Him in great emotional distress. Of course, there was His divine stamina ever standing by, but on many occasions His human heart felt that destructive torture that every mortal must experience. Was He emotional at times? Yes, of course. Did this serve Him? Yes, certainly. It was a release of His human will towards embracing His divine will.

Your emotions are for a reason; hide them not. Allow them to release and know that there is not a tear that you can cry that Father does not know the meaning of, yes. The spiritual lessons are not mandatory, no, but there is no escape from them either. Even the Master experienced great emotional release in the laying down of His will to taking up the Father's.

Be not afraid to discuss with one another these mortal trials. Be not afraid to allow your emotions to release the human will to aligning with the Father's. When you become comfortable with the divine will then your trials are not so big, not so overwhelming. You can find strength from that source within, the source of all strength. You can master your difficulties and not be enslaved to them when you are in alignment with Father's will and wholeheartedly willing to drink the cup.

The working out of your human thoughts may take some time alone with Father. To be emotional is not weakness, but a slow transformation of will.

Expectations are a human concept
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive January 23, 2000.
Teacher Solonia, Levona
T/R Daniel, Jill

 

 

 

 

 

 


Solonia: It is indeed the measure of one's spirituality that is reflected in the way that they handle the disappointments of human life. It is an accepted, though unfortunate, part of human societal culture at this point in time, for people to desire the validation of their disappointments through having others share in feeling sorry for the apparent failures of human desires. It appears to be the natural state of accepted response, to share how sorry they feel for you when things do not go according to your plans. People feel that it is being sympathetic, and hence somehow helpful to the discouraged individual, to be verbally demonstrative in relating their impressions of how insurmountable, how unfortunate, was the outworking of those undesired circumstances. The more Spiritual individual will rather seek to discover the new pathway that is opened due to the blocking of another path.  

The step of Faith does not routinely bring expected results, rather it is far more likely to reveal new and previously unrecognized perceptions. The discovery of our Father's will is often made possible through 
actively finding out what indeed is Not His will. Disappointments, rather than putting you into a place of inaction, should rather stimulate you further to step again; to continue your forward motion; to seek to 
discover all of those things which are Not the will of our Father, thereby revealing by process of elimination what indeed, truly Is His will. Do not let the fact of results which appear to run contrary to your expectations, stifle the exuberance of your seeking. It is natural to take a moment of reflection to sort out your feelings of disappointment, and indeed it is also healthy, for in so doing is the next step made clearer to you through a better understanding of how your will may more closely co-inside with Father's Will.  

Be energized; be spurred on; be excited by the potentials which always seem to be just beyond your reach. For these experiences do in fact provide for you, not only increased growth and maturity, but also a better 
and more clear concept of what it is that will truly serve you in the unfolding of your highest dreams. You are truly the architects of your dreams. Father, being perfect in wisdom and understanding, will reveal the more Divine way for them to unfold in order to serve the greatest number of people in the most beneficial and satisfying way. It is only when you cling too tenaciously to your own perceptions of what the results should be (by your standards), that discordance occurs.  

I would suggest to you that you continue as would the little child hunting for a hidden treasure. The successful child is not disappointed when it picks up a stone and discovers that there is no treasure there.  
Rather he runs to look under the bush, or behind another stone, or in the tall grass. He does not become overly concerned about all of the places that he does not find the treat. Rather he knows and trusts that he will find it, and more, if only he continues to press onward and look in previously undiscovered places. At the end of the hunt, he will have much that is pleasurable in his basket, because he did not quit looking; he did not sit still while others continued in their quest. He held firmly to the spirit of excitement in the discovery of the next.

You are becoming more and more like that little child on the treasure hunt. When you discover that your dream is not to be found in one specific place, that indeed it will be found in another. You are getting close to finding another treasure. Grab hold of, and never let go of the excitement of the search. The journey will be fondly remembered even moreso than will the arrival. For you, when once you arrive, will very soon discover that this arrival is but the very first step in a new and higher journey. What you see now as your Goal, will eventually in retrospect, be recognized as one of your initial baby-steps. You have potential far beyond what you can even imagine at this point. Stay excited, stay active, and stay focused upon discovering what truly is, and is not, the will of our Father. 

Levona: Expectations cannot only be a thrill — that anticipation of knowing something good is going to happen — like going to grandmother's house for the weekend. Having expectations and knowing they will happen are joyous expectations. But having expectations when the result — the outcome — is not known, is not a guarantee of excitement or joy. That is when you may end up feeling devastated, discouraged, or sorrowful. Expectations are a human concept. They are tied to ego consciousness. Your ego wants things to feel secure. It wants to feel loved. You set yourself up for disappointments with these longings when it is not God you look to, to give them to you. The spiritized person ceases all expectations because the only moment that matters is the moment he or she is in. It is not a consciousness that you are expected to develop 100 percent while you are in your earthly bodies, being humans in process of spiritization.

I did want you to understand the difference, however, so that you can continue to find more and more 
spirit-consciousness, joy of living in the moment, and less and less dependence on expectations of something to come. If you live fully in the moment, every need of yours will be provided for in God's time.

For you see, our Eternal Parent knows all, sees all, and He is ever with us. So never doubt how fully He is working to provide you with everything you need, when you need it. And to fill you so full of Spirit that all you ever want is what He sees that you need. That's kind of a tricky little statement. It might be food for thought for this next week. Chew on it for awhile.

Discernment

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
[  ] soil   [  ] Land   [  ] Sea   [  ] AIR


SOURCE: This row is used for recording useful information about the source of the wisdom entry.

There are few experiences to be had which are truly singular
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive March 11, 2001.
Teacher Elyon
T/R Mark

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elyon: It is helpful to perspectives at times to gaze from your vantage point out and attempt to perceive how many different circles you are a part of in your existence. As we share this moment together we are a circle of friends. As you go out from this place today you pass through many different scenarios in which you are a part of a circle of individuals who all share some factor in common. You all are part of many circles, from circles of gender to circles of physical location. You belong to circles of your neighborhood, a circle of your state, of your country, even of your planet. You belong to the circle who comprise the driving population. You belong to many circles which contain a vast cross section of the individuals on your world.

If you take a moment to analyze some of these circles you will see that, while at times you may feel isolated in your experience, you share aspects of your experience with an ever widening circle of humanity. There are few experiences to be had which are truly singular. Most experiences available in this classroom are available to all and are shared by others. Therefore, when you feel isolated, secluded from the mainstream or from the reality you think that others are experiencing, it is helpful to remember that you are a part of their circle in some ways and a part of other circles in other ways. You may overlap and share aspects of many different circles comprising your total experience.

You will grow to manifest discernment in the promotion of some circles of your exposure over other circles you deem less significant. You may choose to spend your time immersed in circles promoting your spiritual growth as you determine what these circles are and prioritize your time available. Viewing yourself as part of these many circles which overlap you provides you with a concrete avenue to claim valid the experiences within the circle, to add these to your personal experiences, your personal sphere of influence.

Now I would offer that we take a different perspective and, rather than seeing these circles as overlapping you and providing you with necessary experience, let us view you as a powerful, colorful influence. When your presence is exerted into these differing circles it may actually add color, spice. It may elevate the entire circle by your very presence and orientation to the experience. So, not only do these many avenues, these many circles, encompass you, you are adding flavor and color to these circles as well. Your presence is significant within these circles, as it makes a real difference when an individual acts in faith and assurance within these circles.

Doubt

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
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SOURCE: This row is used for recording useful information about the source of the wisdom entry.

Doubt is desirable
 
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Rayson and Friends

 

 

 

 

 

 

Doubt is something you cannot escaper. You know in your heart. You do not know in your head. This is not an intellectual process, though you do process the knowledge within your intellect. When you experience doubt, seize it, examine it, and look for its origin. And when you find that, seek to understand what has brought it about. Seek the answer to your doubt. Do not let it fester. Do not let it sit and build doubt upon doubt. Talk to your friends. Inter-association with other personalities is absolutely necessary. You cannot exist on this world, much less on the Mansion Worlds - or further on in isolation. When you have doubts, seek the counsel of your loved ones and your friends, they will give you assistance.

Doubt is also desirable, because, without doubt you will be unable to exercise that faith muscle. You will not be able to do that. It is similar to walking. Without gravity you could not walk. Belief must be accompanied by doubt in some way. You must have some thing to overcome in order to believe. Do not hide from it. Meet it face on.

Question: Is faith the spiritual antidote for doubt?

A: Not exactly. Faith is the spiritual antidote to uncertainty and fear, but doubt occurs and may live side by side with faith. For example, one can have unshakable faith in God. Say you have already passed through the portals of physical death and are on the mansion worlds, you may have total faith in your potential for divinity, for the existence of God, for the teachings now manifest through your own experience of spirit and soul, but you can still have self-doubt. Doubt is not solely dependent on faith; doubt is different.

All should be encompassed in your human life: prayer, worship, service, thanksgiving, participating in your own spiritual growth, in other avenues of expression. All of these are concurrent. And you certainly must achieve balance finding ways to re-center your self in your identity.

Much doubt is - in essence - what you call psychologically “identity crisis,” going into the core of your psychological being and shaking it. Each person is equipped with radar spiritually, spirit of truth and seraphim, Thought Adjuster, and should be responsible for their own - and is responsible for their own perception of their experience. You are not responsible for another's spiritual growth. All we can do as fellows is extend love, service, understanding, emotional support, friendship, to others, listening, etc., but
you cannot do anything for them that they have not freely agreed to in this universe of free will.

And everyone must proceed at his or her own pace on this path. So your sense of responsibility that your own unbalance or insanity - let us take a worst case scenario - could infect or contage or harm others is spiritually unreal, for they are all equipped with their own radar devices and cannot be harmed unless they wish to participate in your hallucination, disassociation, process - which is not really what human beings generally do.

There are few groups of mad men that agree on the common delusion. Even in cults that have agreed to participate in a mass hysteria-type delusion there is disagreement, eventually. So there is built in a protection against what you fear, and what you fear is not real. 

Doubt can be good as a stimulus to growth
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive November 3, 1996.

Teacher Elyon

T/R Mark

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jonathan: In the past years you have mentioned that, in relation to faith, doubt can be good as a stimulus to growth. Now you mention doubt in relation to fear as stifling growth. Could you comment on both the usefulness and the drawbacks to doubt?

Elyon: Indeed, the doubt card can be played in two directions. In preliminary stages of development, doubt is absolutely normal and can indeed be a stimulant to enhance or increase faith. It is also true that from time to time throughout your development this doubt may rise to the surface. However, it is infallibly true that, as you spiritually progress in your ascension, doubt inevitably becomes less and less of a factor as you
give yourself over more and more to faith and the will of the Father and your progression. The more you wholeheartedly devote your being to your ascension, the will of the Father, the less room is left for any doubt. So that a fully developed spiritualized being does not grapple with doubt as a factor; they are fully devoted to their faith in which there is literally no room left for doubt. 

Doubt has by its very nature a stifling, halting effect on forward progression and movement. In the beginning stages of spiritual development this doubt challenges the individual to further increase their faith.  So the doubt is seen as an obstacle or a challenge to go around or to overcome, and therefore it is useful. At some point it is no longer a necessary element in your spiritual development and can be released or let go from your spiritually progressive path.

Jonathan: As you were speaking I was playing with the metaphor of water. I see that if someone has an ocean to cross, doubting one's ability to build a worthy vessel to cross this ocean, in faith utilizes that doubt to research and develop a seaworthy vessel. That would be a good growth stimulus. But at full sail at sea, that is not the time to doubt one's effective construction and pull in the sails and climb in the berth and cringe in fear. That's where doubt has its negative effect. As we progress our assuredness of the care and provision of the Father and our abilities to work His will should overcome those doubts. 

Elyon: My friend, you have done an excellent job of stating the truths, rearranging in your concept frame and explaining perhaps even better than I did the places where doubt exists and the consequences therein. Well done!

Ego

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
[  ] soil   [  ] Land   [  ] Sea   [  ] AIR


SOURCE: This row is used for recording useful information about the source of the wisdom entry.

The ego is necessary for your functioning as human beings
 
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tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive June 21, 1997
Teacher Minearisa, Elyon
T/R Nancy, Mark

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Love consciousness rather than fear-based consciousness would indeed solve the world's problems. Yet why is it that eventhough you are very committed to be servants to one another and to loving one another, you find that you cannot always do this? You desire to be in love consciousness, yet fear comes out of nowhere and bites you, so to speak. How is this? Where does it come from? This is the relationship between the ego and the personality. It is the human ego that has the desire for self preservation and is the source of fear. Now, the ego is not bad, is not wrong. The ego is necessary for your functioning as human beings. It is the ego that allows you to understand your separateness, to categorize, to organize the structure of reality so that you can function. You cannot function without the ego, yet the relationship between spirit, personality, and ego must be such that the personality is in charge of the ego and is subservient to spirit. It is the personality that has freewill choice. It is the personality who is the agent of change.

Sometimes it is very difficult work of coming to know yourself, to recognize when it is your ego functioning and when it is your personality functioning in adherence to spirit. Let me ask you this: Which voice is it that says, "That's your ego! You get that ego out of the way!"? Indeed, that is the voice of ego. So, you cannot force your ego into submission, but you can love your ego into the proper functioning with the personality. You can understand that the ego is there for particular reasons, that the ego has purpose. The ego needs to be recognized; the ego has fears.

Love that ego. Calm the ego's fears. Allow the ego the protection it needs to be quieted. Do not allow one of the many heads of the ego to get into war with one of the other many heads of the ego.

Elyon: The ego is not a product of your soul or your mind. The ego is an aspect of your being. It is not a creation of yours. It is merely an arm of your being to be exercised and utilized appropriately. You do not create the ego from within, from your soul. The ego is an aspect of you to be harnessed and exercised much as a muscle group. Therefore, do not think that you are somehow creative of this aspect of your being. Rather you must in your existence learn to function in harmony with this aspect of your being and, indeed, reign supreme, giving over the lesser aspects of your being to the higher aspects of your being.

As stated before, it is not a desired goal to eliminate the ego, just as it is not desirable to eliminate the lungs. Rather it is appropriate to work in harmony with the organs of the body to create an overall whole, all the time the higher, supreme aspects reigning, controlling, and regulating the entire body.  

Undertake to observe the ego as you would a developing child
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive August 23, 1997.
Teacher Machiventa
T/R Ginny

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Question: Could you explain a little about the function of ego in the development of our spiritual lives?

Machiventa: Ego should be treated almost as a separate entity in that it has its own parameters and characteristics, even intertwined with that of your soul or your Thought Adjuster. The ego should be, from your point of awareness, addressed almost as a developing child. Undertake to observe the ego as you would a developing child. Note in your higher self the parameters and conditions. Note how it functions in given situations. Note which situations cause the ego to rise up and which situations quell the fears of the ego.

Never attempt to divorce yourselves from your egos as you would never attempt to divorce yourselves from your Thought Adjuster or your eternal soul. It is an aspect of your creation to be worked with. It is indeed an integral part of your survival as an individual and as a species. It is necessary for many functions you undertake. It is simply a matter of will for you to determine the proper mix of your components: the component of your higher self, the component of the Eternal Fragment within you, and the component of your ego. At any one time your glass is a mixture of these three components. Attempt to segregate, separate these components in your realities so that you can identify the component called the ego. You can therefore more objectively determine the proper capacity the ego is to play in your mixture. The ego can be a very good thing; the ego can be a motivator, a driving force. It can be an inspiring aspect of your personality. Likewise, it has a potential to stumble you in its over-assertion or its incorrect assertion. Therefore, the goal should be to be an awareness of your differing aspects and seek the proper mix. Seek just the right percentage so that you use the ego to be that motivating force, that invigorating infusion, that persistent challenger. So, it is not to not use the ego; it is more of a factor to use it in correct proportion to the other aspects of your existence, to be an enhancer.

Make no mistake that the absolute highest factor of your composition bar none is your direct link with the
Father, your fragment of the Father, the Thought Adjuster. This is the purest, truest channel you have; this higher self has control easily and effectively over your lower self, the ego. Therefore, it is entirely possible to arrange and align yourself thusly to operate from this higher level and to fully control and manipulate this ego so as to make it work for you as opposed to your higher self working for your ego. It is simply a matter of development to enrich and grow your higher self, to realize you have this control over your ego. You may then view it as almost a separate entity, for you will never divorce yourself from it, but if you are looking at it from a perspective of your higher self, you have this control over it, coming from this position.

This wisdom is then channeled through your evolving soul in faith, and when you hear from the others, it is through this more accurate, more divine channel than through your ego base. That gives you one more tip on how to identify one from the other. 

It is also your mission to embrace and draw this ego in, as you say, to fully embrace and love this ego, to love it into submission, you might say. Embrace it wholly and fully as a part of your being; surround your ego with this love light so as to condition your ego's response towards the highest possible outcome. So, indeed, I encourage you to not stand back, rather reach forward for your ego in understanding, in awareness, and in love to draw this integral aspect of your being firmly to your highest center.

Frosty: More like a family meeting, rather than just the higher self and the Thought Adjuster, the ego is part of that family drawn together.

Machiventa: Precisely, a family meeting with your highest self as the moderator so that the direction and purpose of your family meeting can be accomplished under the highest possible guidelines. But as with any family meeting, you desire all members present, and input from all members is desired and welcome.

Ginny: Did I hear you say that the ego is part of your lower self? My understanding of the ego is that it is a neutral force that we need to channel so it can be useful to us in developing our souls. Is it something base?

Machiventa: It is of itself something untrained, something unlearned. It is not that it is a negative aspect. I refer to it only in relation to your higher self as being lower. This is perhaps inaccurate.

Ginny: Lower meaning undeveloped.

Machiventa: Correct.

Mary: In the analogy of bringing up a child, we know that if you take too authoritarian a hand with them you don't get nearly as good results as when you respect them for what they are and lovingly draw them forward. We need to treat the ego side of ourselves that way, rather than lord it over the ego and tell it, "no, no, no."

Machiventa: Exactly. To embrace as a wise parent embraces in realization that it is more fruitful to embrace and love than it is to dictate in authority.

Ego perception — the child analogy
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive December 18, 1998
Teacher Andirondeck
T/R Cathy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am giving you this image of holding an infant, and conceptualizing what it is like to inhabit that infant body and mind, for all the messages are 'I am' -- I am hungry, I am cold, I am wet, I am sleepy, I am content. And as that child goes through the natural process of growth and development, the focus gradually shifts outward; and with that gradual shift outward, comes the concomitant development of ego. Over time ego's job becomes to shift the focus from what is inside to what is outside. Finding fault is one of ego's favorite
pastimes. And as this development process continues, there becomes a split.

The 'I am' is rarely listened to. The ego becomes very busy in its full-time attempt to shift the focus outward, and thus, to keep the mind focused on ego, for ego's greatest fear is that universal fear of abandonment and loss of love.  

When one begins to mature spiritually there is a natural shift of focus inward. Ego perceives that as abandonment and reacts out of fear and begins all sorts of gyrations to force the focus back outward. So, in order to have a direct connection with God, with your Indwelling Adjuster, one cannot sever oneself from ego, because ego will throw a tantrum. It is best to reassure ego that the changes you are undergoing, the introspection you must complete, will not leave ego out in the cold.   

The natural flow of life and the tendency to resist it
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive April 21, 2002.
Teacher Abraham

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abraham: Every day many mortals dread rising up from their bed to see what shall overtake their
consciousness and what energy may be stolen from them. That type of outlook already puts the day into a negative groove.

Even with our good intentions there is always the struggle between the ego and the spirit. The ego's craving for perfection works in a fashion that makes it appear to be good, worthy or even superior. The ego is force. It forces even the most effortless circumstances toward struggle, because the ego has fierce desires to force it's agenda. There is no simple allowance to the unfolding of the average everyday life.

Culture, society, even work environment, teach men and women to believe that only certain lifestyles are worth attaining. If we are honest with ourselves, we can each say in truth that we all just want to be loved and accepted. If one is acting from an animalistic ego outlook then spirit poisons come into play. The ego is forcing it's agenda with an eye for self-glory, and in this, everything is so much more complicated. Relationships are destroyed from this forcing of ego agenda. Employment is lost due to the ego's demand to be seen as superior.

Truly insecure individuals cannot help but act from this willful ego. An insecure individual has an unstoppable drive for attention and is overtaken by the ego to perhaps do things that are without integrity. At a place of employment, or even within a family, many insecure individuals have been known to complicate every little issue so as to gain attention. Some perhaps are bent on making others look bad so they can appear good. This is such a waste of energy, such a mis-focus.

It is understood these insecure, ego-driven individuals only desire to be loved and accepted, but they are misguided and use up their energy in a negative way. The truly humbled individual has learned to be a bit more trusting in the divine Caretakers, unlike the ego, who only trusts itself. What an empty and unfulfilling dilemma. The trusting child is more likely to ask for guidance and not feel that anxiety that they are losing something, that they are left alone in the world. That trusting child is more likely to incorporate the spiritual fruits into their daily activities with always an attitude of 'I know my Father tends to my every need and all I should do is be observant.'

To be observant is not a misuse of energy, no. It is not jumping to conclusions or taking rash actions all to gain the love and acceptance from their fellows. The observant child is connected into that spiritual circuitry, literally connected, which brings solutions and steps on how to deal with everyday issues in a most efficient manner, that brings peace and a wise use of energy. We all know that feeling of angst that would have us in a fearful state, momentarily wondering if our divine Caretakers know what is occurring. Many of us are tempted to rush forth with any idea or take any action, which could easily further complicate situations.

As you each strive for perfection, full well knowing that there is room for mistakes, learning and growth, you must think about how observant are you in every situation. Are you patient enough to wait for Father to show you how to wisely spend your energy, incorporating the spirit fruits instead of spirit poisons. How practiced are you at allowing the natural flow of life? Of course, you exhaust your human resources, yes, but do you force the ego agenda? Does the ego have you spinning your wheels and further complicating situations?

You would be amazed at the knowingness of God's will when you can allow the natural unfolding of life. It does no good to worry, plan and perfect the future. To hand over to our Father every outcome of any situation is a beautiful example of trust and faith, that you know without a doubt, He knows all that occurs, and in His love for you and His unlimited wisdom, He is doing what truly is best. This week ponder the natural flow of life and your tendency to resist it.

Emotions

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
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SOURCE: This row is used for recording useful information about the source of the wisdom entry.

Human emotion is inevitable
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive June 15, 1998.
Teacher Abraham
T/R Nina

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Human emotion is inevitable and entirely natural, and yet, so connected with ego. Human emotion has many layers to uncover to find the level of logic, and beyond your own logic there are several more layers to uncover to come to the spirit. Our Master lived without regret because He had always acted upon His highest light. What would father do? Beyond anger, despair, disappointment and beyond the ego's influence, beyond human emotions, to a spirit logical response is where we find the will of God.

The life of the Master was an excellent example of spirit logic, "spirilogistics." He acted from the standpoint of His Father's will, and it at times did not run congruent with His own logical mind, but the Master in His
wisdom and magnitude of faith took to the hills for solitude and prayer. His connecting with Father aligned His logic with Father's will. It dissipated somewhat His human emotions and created a spirilogical response in all His daily tasks.

At times emotions are all you have. Even the Master had succumbed to human emotions. I mean not to convey emotions are bad or negative, no. This is simply not the place to discern Father's will and attempt to act it out. Your connection with one another strengthens your ability to act using spirilogistics. Your moments of meditation or communing with nature also aid in this method. This combination of the spiritual with logical aid in transforming your unhealthy attachments into healthful connection. Your temptation to act from a place of emotions is dissipated, not stifled or repressed, but dissipated, perhaps energy transformed. With practice, the ego is not maintaining control, but the highest light within you is shining. 

Go ahead and exercise the spirilogical response. Attempt to avoid irrational actions or outburst, instead turn inward and connect with your highest light and maintain the mind-set of asking "What would Father do?"

CALVIN: I have gone through a lot these last few months. It feels like I am taking a break lately now, from the intense spiritual education. It is like a break to go fishing like the apostles did. I see a big difference in my spiritual awareness in the world, but not OF the world like before, versus now jumping back into the world and swimming, so to speak.

Emotions are like words to thought
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive March 25, 2001.
Teacher Elyon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jada: We think of ourselves as composed of body, mind, and spirit. How do emotions fit in to that?

Elyon: Emotions are like words to thought, for thought can be clarified through the construction of a string of phrases that bring meaning to light, organize thought to bring understanding. Emotions are the expression of a subtle form of thought, not thought that reveals itself in word but reveals itself through feeling. These emotions describe the source, the source/cause, of your experience. They are the effect.  Emotions, like phraseology, can become confusing. The simplest are often the most telling where the overly crafted can lose the original point. This is the expressive use of emotion. But emotions are likewise indicators, as are your senses, that bring information to you that you may then work over in order to accommodate yourself better to a response that is approaching you, an experience that is approaching you in your environment. But just as words require musculature, a neural network, and hearing apparatus to
be effective, so emotions are linked to your physical organism.

You know the expression that says such a person "runs on at the mouth". Emotions can likewise run on. Here is where one benefits from understanding the cause and, more importantly, recognizing the importance, the value, of particular thought or sensory triggered emotions that are now in a chemical outplay.

An emotion is as great an assistance to the upward climb of the soul as is an inspired thought when appropriately accommodated.

Do emotional highs and lows help or hinder spiritual growth?
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive March 31, 2002.
Teacher Tomas
T/R Gerdean

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Question: As someone who goes through enormous ranges of highs and lows in life, from inspiring creativity to crushing feelings of inadequacy and unworthiness, I often wonder how these emotional highs and lows help or hinder my spiritual growth. That is, are these diverse experiences of feeling and emotion of experiential value, or are they merely animal characteristics that ride like excess baggage on my "higher learning"? Looked at from another perspective, do the current crop of antidepressants help or hinder our spiritual growth and experience?  

Tomas: I welcome your question and appreciate your thorough coverage of the condition you in quire about. This field of emotion is, in the main, a part of your animal heritage. It is part of the marvelous palette of your creature existence, but there are many who live entirely within the realm of emotions and exclude the influence of the intellect or the realm of the spirit, even ignoring the physical plain. There are those who live intellectually and avoid emotions entirely, as if they were too messy to deal with. There are those who thrive in the spirit who appreciate how the emotional fields conspire to add a human dimension to the gift of sonship. There are those who live a purely physical life who regard emotions as their birthright and make no attempt to understand how they feel.

You have obviously entered into an area of growth that is giving you an opportunity to perceive your emotional base states, thus you are able to see how it is that you are happy at one moment and unhappy the next. Many moody people assume this as a way of life. Many people who are sensitive have anxiety they may be manic depressive because they have such a dramatic range of feelings. There are many who have discovered that their diet has tremendous bearing on their emotions. There are many who have discovered 
that their emotions are where they escape to when they don't want to think, and some who have recognized that they only want to think and don't want to feel.  

These emotional colors that are a part of your personality palette are able to be understood and therefore enjoyed and even mastered. Emotions can be effective tools in ministry. There are those also who would diminish the effects of their emotional life by regulating their synapsis through pharmaceuticals. I cannot state, as might a medical doctor, what an individual's physical condition is, nor is that my purview, but I can state that the propensity to witness life through the eyes of an artificial stabilizer, deprives themselves of the experience of getting to know themselves, and discovering for themselves their own well of natural 
resources that are a part of your packaging.  

To stifle who you are, in order to make yourself presentable to a society in psychic disarray, is certainly compatible with the circumstances you find, but how honest is that? How have you served yourself and your Higher Self by submerging yourself? What a wonderful range of reality you are — all of you! — and what a superhuman individual you can become if and when you know yourself, inside out, as an animal, as a social creature, as a specimen of humanity, and as a worker in the field. The more you know yourself, the less inclined you are to judge others. The more communion you can experience with your fellow human beings, the more you experientially bond with humanity.

Does this bring us back into that Lamp Light, that social coming together that you may experience and share all knowledge? How can you share all of who you are, in all of your greatness, as a fragment of the divine, with personality expression, if you cannot face yourself — your fears, your desires, your needs, your talents, etc.?  

The tendency to allow drugs to be the common answer to life's questions is escalating. You will soon be a nation of zombies, an aggregation of artificial emotional insemination as you are told how to feel and, in comfort of that reality, you will sacrifice your own skills in thinking to accommodate the numbing of existence.  

Barring a need for deep-seated counseling under controlled circumstances, dispense with the narcotics. Life can be painful, yes. Emotions can be wrenching. But they can also reveal your bliss and your passion for life, which is your birthright, so don't deny yourself your birthright in the highest sense because your animal heritage is a handful to manage. 

How much messier can it be, after all, to discover how you feel about things than what's going on in the Holy Land? That's some very messy emotion in that mix. Very deep-seeded indeed. Emotions are lovely when they know their place. They are part of the tools that you are given. They are part of the joy of living. They need to take their rightful place, with a clean heart, and clear and clean thinking, in order to augment the spirit and the fruits of the spirit.  

This is a nudge to urge you to fertilize your roots, your emotional roots, so that they can provide you the nourishment that will give you the well-being to be genuinely productive in your life experience — not just to feel good, but to do good — so as not to just not feel bad, but not to do bad. The emotions are indissolubly connected with how you think, and how you think is reflected in your every utterance, so to be a better teacher and preacher, to have more effective and spiritually fragrant personality expression, it 
behooves you to have an understanding of how you feel and why you feel that way, for that effects how you think and how your thinking impacts on your world.

Take these matters into consultation with the Spirit in Stillness and develop your relationship with yourself such that you know yourself, you know when you are being angry and why, so that you  know when you are sad and can endure it, when you are excited and how to express it. But this is the one field wherein you have total authority, so make yourself comfortable in your own playground, in your own sandbox, in your own home — for this is where you live — with your feelings and your thoughts.

Encouragement

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


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 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


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True encouragement promotes engagement
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive July 6, 1997
Teacher Malvantra
T/R Jonathan

 

 

 

 

 

 

As you continue to develop your abilities to share the light as you come to see it, as you develop your abilities to voice the truths of the kingdom, it becomes evident that you have a small sphere of action, of effectiveness, limited by the range of your ability to be mobile physically and the extent to which you have
circuits of communication, as well as the opportunities that surround you wherein receptivity exists for the expression of the wisdom you have gained. I offer a tool for you that will broaden your range. It is the simple word encouragement, for as you encourage your fellows, you instill motivation. Where timidity may restrain one, you foster the drive to be active in one of your friends. The result is that you have enlarged your serviceability to all on your world, for you have become supporters of one another. This is teamwork. The more encouraging you become, the more courageous you will become in your own efforts, for encouragement is contagious. Once received it is a pleasurable response to give such encouragement in return.

Encouragement is not to be directed solely to instill good feeling, but in reality to provide the courage to act. Though a pep rally is uplifting to the emotional wellbeing, true encouragement actually promotes engagement. This is how you are able to enlarge your efforts as a missionary for Michael. Just as he developed through encouragement the abilities of his twelve, they extended, through their encouragement of the many disciples, into a far reaching ministry in an age when travel as you know it was much more limited. The master could not have accomplished what he did if all was on his shoulders and enacted solely by himself. Where you reach the boundaries of your abilities, do realize the indirect avenue of encouragement, that even when you are unable to effect a change, you can effect the effect of change. 

Since often self esteem and worth can hinder budding efforts particularly in arenas where you are feeling unskilled, inexperienced, encouragement is an invigorating factor. I encourage you to focus, when offering advice to one another, on positive encouragement rather than on negative discouragement. Steer the
attention of your fellows toward a progressive approach, instead of advising against activities that appear in your view to be ineffective. This is because of the human tendency to downplay worth through the evaluation of ability. It is not incorrect to discourage wrong behavior, wrong in mistaken action. Your emphasis shoul be to steer your fellows to accomplish a goal or an ideal. That comes through the positive
form of encouragement.    

Engagement

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
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 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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Engagement with the world is a quid pro quo
 
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SOURCE: Lightline Teleconference  2024-08-29
Teacher: Amanson
T/R: Mark Turnbull

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Engagement with the world is the one thing you don’t want on its terms, only on your terms. For its terms are inevitably negative, a stripping away of your own power. Your terms will keep it at bay until that day when, once again, you allow it in a little too close to home and it inevitably draws down your superior energy - takes it away, dilutes it, in an effort to secure your engagement on its terms.

Engagement with the world is a quid pro quo – it wants something, you want something. The something that it wants is your complete focus and concentration. The something that you want is relevance. By staying on your own terms, keeping the world at large (and society as you know it) at arm’s length, you can remain in the driver’s seat, in control, which is to say outside the reach of its chaos and confusion, for that is ultimately its reigning energy. That is not something you need. That is really not something anyone needs, although conditioning says otherwise. Stay true to your course. Stay true to the Spirit path upon which you are embarked. It is the only key to serenity. It is the only Reality, really. It is the truth behind all the attendant paranoia, chaos, undoing, the bric-a-brac of emotional response that passes for reality in this world. 

The Spirit content of any proposition can be measured in peace. How peaceful are you when dealing with this or that situation? How calmly can you face the inevitable consequences of engagement with a chaotic unbalanced world? Society will always be on a see-saw – some will see this, some will see that - and all will fight about it, argue about it, bring their side of the equation to the table and insist that it is the proper one. Spirit beholds the entire pageant and understands the ephemerality of it all. “No one gets out of here alive!", and yet all could be made aware of the fact that they’re not yet living! There’s the irony. Were they to start truly living, Spirit living, they would see that “everyone gets out of here alive”. And yet, ironically, they had not been living. They have achieved only the measure of life they believed in. 

Time will rush like the proverbial ‘jet plane’ and obstruct every effort to transcend it but the Spiritual, in which it has no reality. So to live within time on that basis -- Spirit basis -- is to be engaged in an alternative to the world's reality as most know it. And engagement with the world is not fruitful until - and unless - it is engaged from this 'alternative' reality. Then the world can be helped with purpose, engaged with in love for a greater cause than a mere piece of the world, but for the world in toto, the world as a whole, wherein each of its citizens is considered; acknowledged; a determinate; a necessary part of a much greater whole -- not a world torn apart by the pieces for the sake of the pieces, but a living organism, many pieces dependent upon one another. This is Life incarnate. This is living as living should be. And it is from the Spirit realm that our living can be translated into Love – love for one’s neighbor, love for one’s Creator, love for the entire experience that the world is giving you. But engagement with the world on its own terms is a false reality, one that will ultimately disengage you from you. So make such an engagement – an engagement with the world – on your terms. ‘Spirit’ terms. ‘Love-as-the-Creator-loves-through-you’ terms. And all shall be well. The world is born through you. Give it a happy life. 

Evil

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
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 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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Yes, there is evil in the world, and what is this but fear and ignorance
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive January 05, 2002.
Teacher Dolores
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GINNY:  During the Christmas time I was with a friend of mine. We were talking about the September 11th disaster. She looked at me very intently and said, "Well, you know, Ginny, there is evil in the world. You know that, don't you." I was just so taken aback by that statement. I even forget what I said. I think it was something to the effect that I did not believe (I tried to make it personal, on what my believes were, because I have a tendency to dump my beliefs on other people). I said that I believed that there was no longer a personified evil in the world, and that I thought that there's a lot that's going wrong in our world that is not really evil, and that people that we call evil, I don't look at as evil, I look at as misguided. And I felt a little sad that she would still be attached to that personified evil in the world. 

I don't want to be silent when people say something to me like that, for fear that I will offend them. I want to be more aggressive and more assertive in what I believe, but at the same time I really fear starting an 
argument and spoiling a relationship with another person because of our different beliefs. But I did want to discuss that with her. So I guess my concern is not so much about the concept of evil in the world as how can we find a way to discuss things, especially religious things, without hurting each other or without starting arguments? That is so difficult. 

DOLORES: Thank you for your question. The season and the circumstances of which you reference, presented indeed an opportunity to grow as a teacher and as a fellow, and we are comforted when you bring these questions to our attention for this is how the apostles once did with Jesus and he would sit and discuss their concerns. In this way they are shared with the other apostles and your experience becomes then the experience of others.  

The evil of terrorism, that which your country was hit with on September 11, was a great evil indeed. When your friend suggests, "You know, there is evil in the world, don't you?" the truth is, "Absolutely! All imperfection is evil in some measure because it is imperfect." But this means you must define your terms. If your friend, by looking into your eye was saying, "You know, the Devil exists," which is what I perceive you understood her to mean?

GINNY:  Yes.

DOLORES:  Then you missed an opportunity by accepting her premise. And it might have been an opportunity for you to pause and ask her to rephrase or to reiterate what she was saying, for in saying "There is evil in the world" you could have agreed with her and become one with her, even with those who 
experienced the travesty of 9/11 and those who perpetrated the travesty of 9/11, allowing the concept to be a universal concept of anything less than ultimate perfection. You personify evil by diverting it to the icon of old, giving him power, bringing him back into her consciousness as a confirmed and viable reality.  

It is a peculiarity of modern man that "the evil one" is implied by the nature of the existence of evil, as if to say there's no room for growth. You are either saved or not saved. You are either on God's side or on some other side. This either/or approach to theology is inadequate; it sets up a polarity that makes communications difficult.  

Yes, there is evil in the world, and what is this but fear and ignorance. As the light of truth is able to cast out doubt and darkness, the light can shine. In this light is spirit luminosity. There is only God and those infinite shadows of degrees of not knowing God, but there is none beside him.

You will have other opportunities to discourse with your friend because you have not alienated her and have allowed her to express her raw feelings and reactions to something as terrible as what your mutual concern is about. But use your knowledge of Our Father and this planet's history to bring a new perspective to the table, a new dimension to your relationship. If you so choose.

GINNY: I have a tendency to be more concerned (I learned this by another exchange I had with my sister), to be more interested in whether a person is theologically correct rather than try to empathize with the fact of their sharing, that they are sharing of themselves with me. I do that quite easily, and it's something I would like to correct. So thank you for your advice and insight.

DOLORES: I will comment upon your remarks to say your tendency is a remnant of your competitive practices. As you begin to look with a new view, you will relinquish your need to function tit for tat and your dimension of operation will provide you a great new range of operation. You'll have much more fun investigating the subject of spirituality as compared to religion, and you'll trigger in your hearers, in your associates, that which will enable you to become a fisher of men. 

Expectations

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
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 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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Expectations are part of the normal human experience
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive April 14, 2000.
Teacher Thomas
T/R Bill

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thomas: Expectations are part of the normal human experience in which all people engage. It is literally impossible to be a self-conscious, sentient being and not hold ideas regarding the future, one's individual future and larger perspectives as well. Expectations, of course, can be on a spectrum ranging from the very negative to the very positive. This continuum depends upon individual factors and varies greatly for each individual. Some people weight their expectations more towards the negative end; others more to the positive end. There is both a characteristic flavor to their expectations as well as variations on a very frequent basis. You build up your expectations as a result of past experience, which is then added to basic dispositional predilection. By this I mean to say that some people are more naturally cheerful, and more naturally optimistic by temperament.  

In addition then to temperament and past experience there is also an often unrecognized third factor, which is the factor called free will choice, or the domain of decision-making. Never is it true that human beings are merely the product of heredity and environment. This erroneous view is continued in your science today, without adequate recognition of free will choice. This then is the origin and characteristics of expectations. We have concluded that expectations are a universal factor of all human experience and that there is great variety due to the interaction of the three basic causes: the temperamental-heredity factor, the experiential history and the decision-making capability.

Now I wish to talk about the pluses and minuses which attend the functioning of expectations in human minds. On the plus side, expectations make it possible to dream and plan bigger and better things, to hope for positive change, to look for the adorable and desirable in your interactions with other people. The drawback to positive expectations is the possibility of disappointment, disillusionment, discouragement. When people set their expectations high for a predicted event and it fails to materialize, disillusionment results. When you set unrealistically high expectations for other people's behavior then you are also in danger of being disappointed, while a pessimistic and negative expectation for another's behavior will almost surely influence that person in the expected direction. It is also possible for an unrealistic positive expectation to result in severe disappointment

In regard to negative expectations we state this position: these are contrary to the Indwelling Spirit's direction. To expect things to worsen is to fail to understand the positive leavening of the Kingdom of God as yeast in bread causing it to rise, as the mustard seed growing into the mustard tree. Evolution is not accidental and spiritual evolution is of the same nature as physical evolution, in an upward purposeful direction. 

Therefor, in the larger sense, negative expectations are out of synchronicity with the leading of your spiritual influences. You see, you have referred to this concept already this evening and it was almost a
happy coincidence that your talk corresponded with our planned session, but we have learned to believe and know that probably such things are not coincidental, that God in his manifold wisdom brings all things together according to his purpose. If your expectations are low and you expect little out of life then you will be rewarded with exactly what you expect, very little in the way of satisfaction and change. And if your
expectations are high you open yourself up to the possibility of attaining them.

One can roughly conceive of three arenas of expectation:

The most appropriate arena in which to hold the highest expectations is the arena of personal expectation.
You, with the help of your Indwelling Adjuster, literally determine the extent to which you will fulfill your dreams and goals. At least on the spiritual level this is true. There are no outside influences which can effect spiritual development. Outside influences can influence strongly the course of external events, either in the lives of others or in the general environment, but no handicap of culture, education, race, religion, language, and in normal minded people, mental ability, will stop you, or prevent you, or limit you in your spiritual growth.

In the second arena, expectations you hold toward other peoples, you should be very cautious. I advise you to be cautious in a general manner, that you do not set such high expectations on other people that you forget the realm of free will choice, or overlook environmental factors or ignore temperamental proclivities. Your relationship to other people, in terms of expectations, needs always to be modified by the realization that in the ultimate sense each individual is responsible for themselves.

In the third arena, the environment in general, you do well to employ the technique of science in predicting the outcomes of whatever course of action, whatever concern you have. None of us has access to the mind of God in the sense that we do not know the future before it happens. 

In terms of final outcomes our expectations can be based upon faith, knowledge, and revelation, these mixed together. You will not, until you reach Paradise, dispense with faith. Knowledge will constantly increase, as will revelation. And so, my friends, there will always be a role for the exercise of expectations. 

Bob: Thomas, thank you for those very interesting words. I couldn't help thinking, when you said we should expand our expectations, that this is going to open us up to frustration. What's the role of frustration in all
of this?

Thomas: When I said expand your expectations, I also, in the last part of my talk, noted that they are most appropriately expanded with regard to one's personal future. And even there frustration may occur. Perhaps I ought to say especially there, but that is so variable between people and at different times in a person's life. You see, you must always remember that expectations are not iron-clad guarantees, at least the time-frames do not have iron-clad guarantees. We can make the statement that Earth will reach the era of Light and Life. This is our expectation. We are absolutely certain this is true, but we cannot say it will reach the era of Light and Life tomorrow or the next week thereafter, or the next year, and so forth, because that all depends upon individual free-will decision making. Mortals make the biggest mistakes when they
become over confident in their models of prediction, when they over simplify the variables which feed into the predictive equation, and fail to take into account any number of important factors. When this happens, then the expected event does not occur, and frustration results. The Urantia Book wisely counsels us to reduce the number of expectations we have regarding other people, and thereby reduce our disappointment. It does not give this counsel, regarding oneself. 

Frustration does seem to be prevalent in early stages of civilization. One of the best techniques that I am familiar with, that I have used personally, is what your social scientists now call reframing, meaning the event is reinterpreted in a larger perspective and framework. In the process of reinterpretation the tension between expectation and actuality is often greatly reduced. That which is perceived initially as failure, as tragedy and unmitigated evil can become, upon reinterpretation, a challenge for growth, an opportunity for forgiveness, an experience in learning greater patience, a chance to exercise greater love, and thereby
increase one's soul growth.

When frustration becomes high, then it is time to change one's direction of attention. Stop whatever is causing the frustration whenever its possible, and do something different. That is why we talk about reversion, and diversion, and recreation. A balanced life is one in which there is the proper healthy flow between work and play, rest and worship. Sometimes people have too severe an ego drive toward achievement, and their expectations for how quickly they will accomplish something are very unrealistic.

This can be very frustrating! As one matures, hopefully one becomes more realistic about one's abilities, one's rate of accomplishment, and accepts who they are in terms of these limitations. This is one of the goals of adulthood, to take and modify the flaming passion of youth, which has great dreams and wonderful goals with totally unrealistic understanding of how long-term some of these things might be.

Adulthood, as you gain more and more experience, should result in a more appropriate assessment of one's goals and expectations.

Virginia: I had two thoughts as you were talking.  As a teacher, expectation is incredibly important. Certainly research has been done where teachers have been given an average class and told these were gifted children, and they performed like gifted children. Therefor I know how important expectation is. I know you must be realistic with anyone, with yourself or with your class. But I think that if we, as human beings, really believed in that other person making it, reaching a goal, they could do it a lot faster and go a lot further, than if we say they are an inferior kid, or you should have seen her brothers, that I hear so often in my profession. So expectation is incredibly important.

One of my most immature third graders lost a tooth today, and she is thrilled, because I had told her for three years that when the teeth start falling out she's going to be a great reader. And she believes it, and I do too. It's so incredible. You should have seen her in the middle of the lesson, she was just thrilled and her face glowed and she expects something very positive to come, and that's going to happen. I truly believe it.

The other thing, when you said it takes reframing, the thing I immediately saw was the story in the Urantia Book about the very primitive man holding a club. The frame become much larger and we see the wild animal and the family that he is protecting with that club in his hand. I think that many times that it is because my frame is so small that I cannot see the potential, the very positive potential, of the people that I rub shoulders with each day.

Thomas: Thank you, Virginia, for stressing a very important aspect of expectation in which all too often limits are placed upon people's abilities and possibilities of achievement, which limit them so that when there is a different set of expectations, whether by deliberate experimental manipulation, as in the research that you referred to, or in other means, then people do perform at a higher level than was originally expected. My cautions about limitations on expectations regarding others was not intended to restrict ability and achievement expectations. I was referring to the fact that people do make decisions; and that it is impossible to predict those decisions with a great deal of certainty. Therefor, there may be disappointments etc., as a result of the behavior of other people.

Virginia: In relationships?

Thomas: Yes, and in accomplishments, not due to a lack of ability or lack of belief in their ability, but in, shall we say, a bad choice that takes them off-track. There is a difference between expectations of ability and expectations of decisions.  

Thank you for filling this point because it is terribly important and leads me to say... think about the larger picture of this that you bring up. What are the limitations placed upon God's children in terms of ascension-potential? None. Once the decision to go in that direction has been made, in a deep sense at the level of engagement or betrothal, that person is on their way and only fusion awaits the manifestation of that unlimited potential. So, again, as I said, your point is extremely well taken. That is why, as I said earlier, we know that this planet shall reach Light and Life, for gradually more and more people will make those decisions that enhance their future and change the level of their functioning. And as individuals change, groups change; as groups change, societies chance; and eventually the whole bread is leavened and fully baked.

Marty: I was just thinking along the lines that Virginia was. I know as a parent how hard it was to put too much expectation on your children without making them discouraged, but at the same time encouraging them to do all that they had the potential to be. I know it was a lot of times that we wondered if we were pushing them too hard, of weren't pushing them hard enough to meet those expectations. I think that is one of the hardest things. It seems like with other people, you can back off, but with your own kids you are always trying to do the very best for them that you can. And yet you don't want to cause them too much frustration towards over achieving. Its kind of a fine line to try to walk it seems.

One's expectation depends considerably upon your vision
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive 04 Jun 2002.
Teacher Minearisa
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You have been taught that what one expects, one will sooner or later attain. While these words have a ring of truth, there are many exceptions. It is these exceptions which I will attempt to address.  

You have been told that the human mind is a mixture of basically two parts. The basic, the fundamental, the human side is animalistic and derives its nature from the experiences of you and your ancestors. But there is another part which you are now becoming acquainted with, which for lack of a better term I shall call your Spiritual endowment which emanates from your resident Thought Adjuster and is added to from a variety of sources, from those celestial beings which come in and go out of your environment.

You know of many of these: personal teachers, midwayers, angels, and others who, on occasion, become part of your life circle. These individuals, too, have impact upon your spiritual development. When one starts out, basically your animal side is in control and your spiritual side is in the secondary position. As you grow, mature, develop, and gain wisdom your spiritual side grows, matures, and will ultimately take precedence. But this, you know.  

The impact of these two sides on one's expectations is to most of you, anticipatory. You can see how your animal side would flavor one's expectations. Now you are beginning to see how your Godly side affects
one's expectations. With time, with hard work, one will learn how to turn their lives over to God and allow their spiritual side to assume dominance. This process takes considerable time. You are beginning to learn how to allow God to become primary in your life. This process takes considerable time. Even after fusion with your Indwelling Spirit your personality is not completely under control of your spiritual side. You
still have much to learn.

Regarding expectations, as you have been told, one's expectation depends considerably upon your vision. How clear your vision is depends to a great extent on where your heart lies. If your home is mostly human your expectations would reflect that point of view. As your spiritual side grows that development also impacts your expectations. Now let me look at this question from another point of view.  

Suppose you were a flower and limited in your mobility, as flowers are. Your expectations would be few. You would most probably expect water and sun and perhaps a few worries, all the possible things that could happen to you. But let's focus for now on two things: the sun, and your need for water. Without either of those you, as a flower, cannot exist for very long. Both of those are necessary for your growth and maturity. In that perspective your future is dual in nature, as is the human future, subject to two major influences.  

Going back now to the flower example, I suggested flowers may well have fears and anxieties and worries much the same as the human does. Is someone going to run over them and trample them into the ground? Are they going to be decapitated by a lawn mower or lawn trimmer? Is some animal going to make their head his resting place? One can foresee from the human perspective how the flower might have considerable anxieties in its life.

Again the parallel between the flower and the human is clear. The question is, does the flower really have any fears or anxieties or worries? Is its brain developed to the point that it is complex enough to have those?

Those of you who know your biology would say probably not. So, how does the flower escape those expectations, while the human does not? Further, who really is the more advanced being?  

One of the difficulties of advanced evolution is that not everything evolves positively. Some things develop which complicate advanced life forms. While most of you would probably not change places with the flower, most of you enjoy their beauty, their simplicity, their singleness of purpose. But the human animal, while able to see the fulness of life in simpler forms of life, has evolved into a situation where one's complex thinking mechanism gives you choices. I'm sure you would not want to give up your choices. Yet I am sure you now see there are potential difficulties when anyone has choices, namely making poor choices. But that
is another subject. Getting back to the human animal, your expectations are complicated for a reason.  Without difficulties, without problems, without stress, there is no growth.  

Stressors do force the animal to make decisions, some good, some not so good. In either case decision making produces growth, sometimes slow, sometimes faster. But to the extent that stress is a decision making point, it is valuable to the human animal in terms of wisdom production.

Every decision point could well generate other decision points. Those of you who are scientists know that
answering one question often leads to other questions. This is the same thing here. Making one decision often requires follow up decisions, and as such, creates additional stress. Will you ever have a life which is stress free?  

One's ego is fundamentally necessary for one's health. As one develops wisdom, as one evolves, however, old ways must be put aside and new ways substituted. It is this difficulty that humans have with self, or ego. As you mature you begin to realize the goal of ego must be controlled. It must be limited. It must be channeled, much like one's emotions. Emotions add color to life. But if you spend your whole day emotionalizing you would not get any work done. So, stress has a role to play. As you mature, as you reach the level where you are now, you are ready to see what is next: getting better control on those things which do not lead directly to spiritual growth.

As one evolves, that which could not be seen yesterday becomes more clear today. What will be seen tomorrow clearly, is but a blur on the horizon. From this perspective, you see, one's expectations also evolve.

It is normal. It is expected. It is the way life progresses. One can't teach calculus to a second grader. But by the time these students get to high school most are ready. It is the same for all human expectations.

One's expectations today are based on what you learned with yesterday's expectations. And these expectations you made, good and bad, you learned from. Now, it is today and your perspective is different. Your perspective is wiser. Your faith is stronger, not as strong as it will be tomorrow, but stronger than yesterday. So, expectations evolve just as you evolve. Wisdom grows as you evolve and make decisions.  Experience broadens one, opens one's horizons and complicates things.

Expression

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
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Expressing the Love energy of God
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive March 9, 2000.
Teacher Olfana

 

 

 

 

 

 

"What can I experience that will be meaningful for me, that will touch my heart, that will help me in my
better understanding of myself as a Child of God, as a being who longs to be loved, and longs to offer my love to others in this world?"

There are so many varied ways in which we can, indeed, offer this love within ourselves, and within our hearts. Think now for a moment. How is it that you feel comfortable in expressing your "love energy"? Are you one who comfortably hugs and touches other people, feels the enjoyment of this tactile press of bodies, and the energy flow that comes from this hugging, and snuggling, and comfortable animalness of, "Let us rub our bodies together?" "Let us connect with each other in a way that feels safe, and relaxed, and comfortable, and chummy."

Others are those who enjoy the quiet perception, even from across the room. They take in the body language of others. They reflect upon all the ways in which they "know" these other people. They know this
person. They know that person. They understand the ways in which their personality is manifesting now. And they are savoring this about the other person. They enjoy being an observer of mankind, if you will. And they feel genuine love in their hearts, as they perceive their brothers and sisters mingling among around the room, mingling among yourselves.

There are others who can be very quick to connect emotionally, able to sympathize and empathize, comprehend easily, the emotional nature of another person. And they do very well on one-on-one contact. They may not be the first person into the crowd, and connecting with a large group of people. That can sometimes feel too overwhelming. But they cherish those moments of the quiet one-on-one conversations,
where they can express a genuine interest in the other person. And when they ask, "How are you doing? What's going on in your life now?" They are very sincere in this question and they offer true interest to another in this regard.

These are, in a sense, the "common-place" ways in which we understand expressing our love to each other — the smiles, the knowing looks, the patient ear, the loving hugs, the relaxed arms around the shoulders, all these are ways in which we know we are being lovable and we are receiving love in the process, also. But now, I ask you, strive to see a "higher order of love" in your nature.

Consider how there is a nobility of purpose that we offer in a genuine attempt of forgiveness to any other who has wronged us. That when we consciously and intentionally consider the ways in which we can express this forgiving nature in ourselves, this is a deep act of love, my dear ones. This requires much of your soul in this effort to offer out this forgiveness, whether it be to one who has directly wronged you, or perhaps, it is someone who has wronged your beloved child, someone who has wronged your dearly loved companion in your relationship, in marriage or partnership. Perhaps it is one who has wronged a parent, and this is merely a story you have heard. You've never met this person who, indeed, wronged your parent, but you know the particulars of the incident, and it hurts your heart. All those ways in which you come across these moments of knowing how one you love has been wounded by another, whether it be yourself or another person — when you strive to perceive that incident with a nobility of kindness toward that soul, you are, indeed, very much deeply involved in an Act of Godly Love.

When you seek to be one who preserves beauty on the planet, this is another High Act of love in God's Name. When you offer yourself in service, preventing destruction of the rain forest, the destruction of species in the ecosystem, in all the ways in which you attempt to fully understand, and are asking sincerely in your heart, "Father, how can I help with this problem?" "What can I do in my own personal way to be a part of the solution of this, to be, in some way, one who helps to heal this planet 'In Your Name'?" You are,
indeed, expressing the Father's Love to this world.

When you attempt to retrieve those who are wounded in their heart, and soul, and mind. When you reach out to brothers and sisters who are sorely compromised in their own life efforts, in their own daily living in the world, when they suffer from mental disorders, when they have come up against severe economic hardship, when they have given in to the poor and, at times, evil choices of drugs, and alcohol, and other toxic, addictive substances, when they have fallen prey to sexual urges which allow them to be procured in acts which are degrading, in any way in which you reach out to wounded mankind, and you say: "Let me be a balm to your personality." "Let me offer you respect as another Soul of the Father." "Let me help you in some way." "May I offer you a meal, now?" "May I provide you with some warm clothing." "Here, brother,
let me make a contribution toward this cause, which you now are working for."

In all the ways in which you attempt to offer healing to your Brothers and Sisters in Spirit, you are, indeed, deeply involved in an act of love.

Consider all the ways in which the Master came here to express the many levels of "lovingness" in his nature: everything from being the one who could hug; being the one who could offer a caring ear; the one
could regard his family, his friends, his compatriots, with deep respect and devotion; the ways in which he saw the problems of society of his time and, indeed, made effortful choices to right the wrongs of the world. Jesus manifested love in this broad spectrum of his choices. And when you hear discussed this way in which he is this "perfect expression of love," define this for yourselves, my dear ones, as these many broad choices of service, kindness, care, tolerance, respect, honesty, effort, and deep devotion to his Father's Will.

You can, indeed, be a loving being in all these ways, yourselves. And holding Jesus in your heart, you can, indeed, incorporate this broad definition of "loving the world" in all the ways in which you seek to do these things, knowing that in some way as you do, you are truly allowing this Love Energy of God to flow through
your being, and out into the world as, indeed, a blessing.

Faith

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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What is faith?
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive March 19, 1998.
Teacher Ham

 

 

 

 

 

 

What is meant when we use the word symbol, "faith"?

Faith is like an umbilical cord to the Father, to higher universe reality. Faith is also like an outstretched hand reaching upward toward security, hope, and trust. Faith is the living spiritual  connection between you, as a mortal reaching upward, and the Father's secure love reaching downward. Faith, then, is always there but it remains up to the mortal person to take hold of his faith and to use in their lives.

Faith is like a lifeline into the realms of peace. When you utilize your faith, when you exercise your faith ability, what you are doing is brining higher peace, security, and trust into the present moment. When you are faced with a disaster or seeming disaster, it requires faith to look past the present moment and to bring 
peace down from the higher realms of consciousness, the consciousness, into the present time and present consciousness.

When all things worldly crumble around you, do you despair and give up hope or do you rather exercise your faith and trust in God knowing that his love and purpose will lead you through any temporal disaster? Can you then bring this greater peace down into your being and therefore be calm and equalized in your reactions and in your thinking?

The spirit filled mortal is for the most part filled with joy and hope in all situations, whether they be seemingly good or seemingly bad. The spirit filled mortal knows that these temporal labels are only passing and are not the eternal reality of his soul which can be always peaceful, calm, and joy filled. The spirit filled 
mortal calmly watches as earthly things crumble, secure in the knowledge that the Father has something even greater in store.

To some it can seem that the spirit filled person is oddly detached and this can be interpreted as being out of touch or cold. But the spirit filled mortal, while empathizing with the suffering of others, is gradually letting go of earthly suffering and does not require it any more.

Also, the spirit filled mortal is untouched by worldly success. He knows that success and failure are both obstacles to be dealt with and surmounted. In a way, life is like an obstacle course with each circumstance, success or failure, bringing with it its own set of problems. So, how you deal with these problems is the important thing. The important thing is to always walk humbly with the Lord through every situation, every circumstance.

Remember, this is his way of teaching you, you are learning with every situation to take what lessons there are and to incorporate these into your spiritual growth. Remember, you are building your eternal soul in partnership with the Father and all this drama of life will at first seem like a hazy dream when you awaken on mansonia one.

So, you don't need to take everything so seriously and act as though you are really in charge of any thing. Let the Father teach you, learn from the people he brings into your lives, learn from the circumstances he puts you through, learn from the ups and the downs, and above all exercise your faith at every opportunity. The more you exercise your faith, the more you will grow in faith, and the more you grow in faith, the stronger your connection to the Father is, and the stronger this connection is, the more peace, happiness, and contentment you will experience during this life.

Therefore, take nothing for granted. Live in the now as much as possible and bring your higher self into the now with all its peace and tranquillity as much as you can. 

Question: That was all interesting of course, but I was especially interested in when you said you will no longer require suffering, will you enlarge on that?

Ham: Yes, as you grow in the spirit, and increasingly are able to live in the higher realms of peace and equanimity. You are no longer so tempted to suffer from the little annoyances and things of life that can cause pain depending on where your consciousness is. When your consciousness is focused overly on the material level, then all the vicissitudes of material living batter the consciousness and thus cause suffering. But as you climb up into a higher spiritual consciousness, and are sustained through faith with the Father's constant loving attention, these material vicissitudes are no longer affecting the consciousness, the consciousness stays steady, joyful, and at peace. But, I might add this is not an either or situation, but one of gradual changes from one level of living to another.

Question: I was thinking of the saying, no pain no gain, and I thought you might be referring to the fact that as we go along, our growth can be one more of perception rather than having to learn everything the hard way, that pain is not required as a learning tool as much.

Ham: Correct.

Question: Is there a difference between what you are saying and what the Buddhist philosophy is?

Ham: Yes there is a difference, the Buddhist philosophy emphasizes the turning away from the world and letting go of attachment. I am saying rather that there is a transfer of attachment from the world to God or 
spirit-faith. And this attachment, this new and greater attachment, is real and lasting. And yes, gradually, the spirit dominates the consciousness and directs the entire personality so that the person is increasingly identifying with the spirit and in effect merging with the spirit rather than trying to identify with the things of the world and mistakenly make them meaningful.

Question: If a discussion comes up of attachment to the world and desire, then the way to handle this is to talk about making a transfer of attachment from the world to God rather than emphasizing the need to let go of attachment to material things or things of this world.

Ham: Yes, one can be spirit led in any circumstance and it is not required that you should all become monks, no.

Question: A criteria is where do you turn for comfort, do you turn to God or these other nonspiritual energies. Is that valid?

Ham: Yes, certainly it is. When you turn to the comforter for help and solace in times of trouble, you will receive increased fruits of the spirit, increased peace, level of joy, and delight in righteousness. When you turn to the physical world to give you comfort or solace or happiness, you are destined to be disappointed for the material world is inert, nonliving energy. It cannot give you comfort, only a personal spiritual  presence can do that.

Question: All these other energies can only give you momentary escape?

Ham: Yes, perhaps, momentary forgetfulness but not comfort.

Question: I have a question about the difference between appreciating material things and attachment. I get an experience of appreciation of beauty from material things sometimes, and I get come comfort from that. How do you balance this, is there comfort that comes from beauty of a painting or a beautiful object?

Ham: As you grow in the spirit, you ability to appreciate and admire the beautiful is enhanced for God is inherently beautiful and harmonious so as you identify with the spirit, you then are drawn to the harmonious and the beautiful more and more. This is not material attachment, at all, no. Material attachment is the mistake of seeking answers and solutions to spiritual problems in the material world.

Question: The point I get from your lesson tonight is that faith is something we achieve or acquire through using it, like a muscle. I was taught growing up that faith is a gift of grace, but it is more like something that we have to work at?

Ham: Certainly, yes.

Question: Use it or lose it?

Ham: Yes

The leap of faith requires free-will decision
 
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Rayson and Friends

 

 

 

 

 

The leap of faith requires free-will decision. It is not to be undertaken lightly. Your love helps, but it cannot take the leap of faith for another. Humans want easy answers because they function on a plane where the easy answer is readily rewarded, the simple solution is often times the most feasible. The one way is what is chosen. And yet the universe is not a one-answer situation. The creations of the Thought Adjusters and the Life Carriers – the life carriers and the Physical Controllers design living beings such that there is no one way. There are fail-safes upon fail-safes. Not even a single celled organism could live if its organization were all single step. There are many many layers of complexities in the functioning of life. Passways and passways - this passway and that - they go around and under and through and over so that life can be, so that if the sun does not shine for a night or a week or a month, life can go on because there are other ways. There are other ways of getting energy and using energy.

This is not to say that you could have life in a vacuum. This was not the intent. The intent was to design life so that it could continue with what is at hand. To make it more understandable, you can live without water for a certain period - not an indefinite period, but a certain period - because you have other ways of conserving your bodily fluids: reduce your excretion, reduce your sweating, and cause your bodv to save the water that it has. Well, the same thing applies to health and disease. Health is maintained not by one-at-a-time pass of doing right things as opposed to wrong things. Its a complex, complex organization, and when the health fails, there are many fail-safes, many alternate paths, fallbacks to sustain the life of the organism, albeit at a less than optional functioning strength. In order to overcome deterioration of health, since health does not decline for simple reasons, health is not restored by simple means.

But despair not. Our loving Father has not put us upon a desert island without supplying us with all that is required to solve all problems that may arise, including health problems. We are asked to provide answers and yet we are constrained from providing other knowledge. The love of The Father is so large that it is all here. How easy, how very easy, to make things perfect! Much easier than to make them imperfect, actually.

Yet if there were perfect beings with perfect health and never any problems, how much less of truth would there be available for the experience of The Father? And so we provide clues and encouragement in as much as we are allowed to give, but we cannot, must not, work miracles.

What loving Father would fight his child's battles for them? Every loving father knows that it is only by grappling with the problems of life that his offspring develop their fullest potential and become the best that they can be.

There is so much more here now, so much at hand in the way of help and guidance, than there has been  for many aeons on this world. You are not blindly stumbling through a void. Every step is guided. But you
must move your leg and take the step. If you do not move your leg we cannot guide your forward motion.

Question: I'm very anxious to move my legs but I need a little guidance as to which way they should go.

Answer: That's where the leap of faith comes. That is your choice. If it is the right direction, never fear, you will receive the affirmation which you require.

Question: Is faith the spiritual antidote for doubt?

Answer: Not exactly. Faith is the spiritual antidote to uncertainty and fear, but doubt occurs and may live side by side with faith. For example one can have unshakable faith in God. Say you have already passed through the portals of physical death and are on the mansion worlds, you may have total faith in your potential for divinity, for the existence of God, for the teachings now manifest through your own experience of spirit and soul, but you can still have self-doubt. Doubt is not solely dependent on faith, doubt is different - doubt will not disappear until you are admitted to the corps of finaliters, really.

I was pondering as I was listening to your lesson today, the message is about a leap of faith, but now sounds as though we take this one step at a time. Is that correct? It's not like jumping off a cliff into open space, its more like taking that step into an unknown area, knowing that it will be right or we will be shown the right thing.

Answer: That is exactly correct. But remember, that one man’s step is another man's leap.

Student: Yes. I'm afraid I'm going to have to take it one step at a time at the present but my goal is to take that ultimate leap where I know absolutely that I'm going in the right direction.

Rayson: You are doing very well.

Don't second guess your own faith
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive June 29, 1997
Teacher Elyon
T/R Dan

 

 

 

 

 

 

In considering that aspect of your faith which has carried you all very far in such a relatively short period of
time. You have a tendency to look at faith as something which is just beyond your grasp, while in truth you have an amazing grasp of faith already. It is your grasp of faith which has brought you here. It is your grasp of faith which has accomplished so much already. You each are in the midst of your own growth, so it is difficult for you to accurately assess that which you are moment by moment accomplishing. As an example, if you were to see a young child and get to know this child then be separated from them for a year or so, when you greet them again you would see vast changes. If you were there with the child through each of these many changes you would not have easily noticed them. In this way do you fail to recognize the incredible changes which you yourselves have been making. You are taking the steps that are creating a network of association. You are touching many lives far beyond your ability to perceive. You believe and you
act. You act because of your strong faith in your beliefs.

Know that what you are a part of is a grand undertaking which will go on with or without your active participation. But it will go on so much better and quicker and in tune with the Master's plan if you choose to participate. At this time many of you are wondering what to do. This makes us chuckle for we see that you are in fact doing it. You second guess yourselves habitually. In truth faith can move mountains. Look a short way behind you and you will begin to notice how much of a mountain you have already moved. It is
indeed miraculous.

I ask you all to work for a time on diminishing your judgement, not so much of others, for you are becoming much better in that area already. Instead I speak of your judgement of yourselves.

In this life progress is made one step at a time, step forward with courage and in faith. Your steps will lead you along the path of unimagined future destinies, but you journey along this path one step at a time.

Open your consciousness to allow intuition to aid you in choosing your steps. Check your motivation through your eye of love as you make your choices.  It is the future which stands before you to be realized one step at a time. Expand your framework to include new possibilities that are continually opening up before you. Step forward with courage and in faith. You will continue to find that life is full of surprises.   One last note: enjoy the adventure.  Worry not, it is exciting and uplifting and fun. Do lighten up your hearts and take that next step.   

You reach for spiritual truth in faith
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive August 24, 1997.
Teacher Elyon
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You reach for spiritual truth in faith. You reach out to unseen celestial helpers in faith. You devote time out of your busy lives to pursue this spiritual path. It is indeed inspiring to all of us to witness this faith in action, this devotion in action.

Be not afraid to accept the many benefits of your efforts to exercise your faith and devotion. Each time you exercise this devotion and faith they grow stronger. It is as a muscle to be toned and developed and strengthened. If you do not use a particular muscle group you witness that it diminishes in effectiveness and strength. Likewise when you intentionally and with purpose concentrate on a particular muscle, it is quite easily strengthened. You are now engaged in the rigorous task of toning and strengthening your faith muscles, your devotion muscles. You also seek to enhance your wisdom muscle. All of these are developed through their use.

It is entirely appropriate to exercise a given muscle for a period of time and then to properly institute rest and recovery. One cannot simply exercise a muscle without pausing from time to time to recover and to regain strength. Your spiritual growth is a series of toning, using, experiencing; then resting, assimilating, internalizing. After one sits and rests for a time, one becomes bored with the rest and desires the activity once again. This is the lure of spiritual progression before you, the steps of exercise, rest, and gaining strength from the entire process.

You all are as beautiful beacons in the darkness. We visualize you, we see you as such. You are to us potential unfolding, the petals of a rose ever giving way, exposing themselves to the light. Once you have exposed your luminosity it does not leave you, it does not retreat, just as the petals of a rose do not reform into a bud. It is a natural progression that unfolds into more unfoldment, more luminosity. Your light once
released illuminates, not only your immediate presence and path, it also provides those around you with luminosity as well. It enables them to see some of you and the path that you are following. Let your lights shine fully and brightly, albeit there will be times when you desire to rest.

Realize that the light which you shine can be, not only of yourself, but can be a channel for the Father's light as well. Your light will never fail on account of weak energy sources or dead batteries, as the more you shine your light, the more energy you receive. It may be a human tendency to desire from time to time to turn your light off, to save your energy. It is for you to discover that your energy is only enhanced, increased, by thus shining your light. It does not infringe upon your personal energy stores to be a beacon of the Father's light. Indeed, the exact opposite is true; you are empowered by the giving away of this love, of this light. Love grows as it is given away; your capacity grows as you give it away. Others' ability to perceive grows as you give it away. Indeed, you end up with far more than you started with, all the while giving it away.

There will be a time in your futures when this will be, this ideal situation in this world, this will be the common course of activity on a progressive sphere, where the main task would be your spiritual progression. Not as now where you have to somehow chisel time out of your normal, mundane life to attempt spiritual growth. We marvel that you do this under these conditions. We are sure you will be quite successful now and in the future as you take these opportunities to grow spiritually.

Faith is much like a tree. It starts out a small sapling and grows into a large, strong tree. At times it appears that all the leaves fall off the tree, that your faith has been lost. However, the tree is still strong, the trunk sturdy, and the roots deep in the ground. The leaves will come back and flourish with a green hue, and it will bear fruit.

As you go to each new level faith will come. The more you grow into new levels sometimes it will be lonely, and all you have is faith to go on into what seems like darkness. Your tree seems to loose its lustre for awhile only to renew itself with the watering of confidence that you gain as you go deeper into your new level of growth, seeing the potential of new levels to go to.

Faith is very important, and you are doing this work. If you lose your faith in yourself you can easily fall back to the old levels. Faith remains strong for those who are not afraid to go forth into the darkness a little bit farther, a little bit deeper, at a consistent pace, unwavering from the path which becomes brightly lit.  Through the loss of faith it can seem quite dark at times. Faith can be the light which takes you on your paths.

It requires as much faith in yourself as it does in the Father to guide you; the Father to guide you and yourself to follow. Feel confident that the faith in each of you has a strong foundation. If you feel you are losing faith, go back into the roots to nurture and fertilize to allow your tree to grow new leaves. Renewal always takes place in nature; it is the same in you, constant renewal. As things start to get stagnant, remember the renewal process. Allow yourself to go down the path a little farther, even though it may seem very dark and scary. It is just the opposite, taking you into realms of light.  

Faith is the main tool in your toolbox
 
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SOURCE: tmtransctipts teamcircuits email archive August 9, 1998
Teacher Elyon, Malvantra, Nebadonia, Michael
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Elyon: I would once again today touch on the topic of faith. There have been previous lessons delivered on this topic, but it is worthy of many more lessons, as it is a key, integral part in your ascension up through the ranks. It is such a key part to have as your possession, to maintain in your tool box, that it could perhaps be said that it is your most important tool to use. All the other tools and levers that you have at your disposal in your spiritual growth function in liaison with this faith tool, much as you would put sockets and extensions on a ratchet tool. Without your faith you have not the main tool you need to get the job done. Faith can be likened to the key with which you unlock the door immediately before you. If you have faith, if you possess this key, this impediment before you is easily removed. If you do not have faith and exercise this faith, this obstacle before you can become insurmountable. If you have faith and you are gazing upon a wide ravine, you are certain you will make the other side. If you have no faith, you are certain you will not. If you have faith, you are certain that your actions are in the direction of the Father, and you proceed forward with willingness and with boldness. If you operate without faith, you search and fumble and are unable to determine clearly your direction. Faith is, indeed, the difference between a steadily piloted ship and an erratically driven vessel.

Each one of you in this room has enormous faith capacity within your being. It is your decisions and your actions which develop this much as a muscle. This faith muscle can be exercised, and if exercised frequently, will become strong and sturdy. A muscle that has not been exercised, when called on to carry a great load, will strain or even fail under the load. In this existence that you live, your faith-muscle needs to be developed to the greatest of your ability, as you are asked to proceed very much in this life solely with the use of this one tool, of this one muscle. If it is strong, you will progress far. If it is weak, you will be obliged to wait for the next opportunity you have to strengthen this muscle before you may move forward.

The very act of your being in attendance today is exercising this very muscle of which we speak. Feel what this particular muscle feels like at this time, this particular tool you are using. Recognize its application even at this moment, for to build any muscle you need to focus on its existence and its function and purpose. Accept the challenge of this life to exercise this muscle in the absence of so much external confirmation. Realize that, as you are doing this, even in this life, you are doing this for all time, for as you proceed forward from this existence on to the next and so on, your faith exercise and extension and subsequent action is what propels you forward, is what is the impulse which allows you to see more than you can see, to feel more than is obvious, and to be truly more than you are at this time. There is no individual who could not benefit substantially from strengthening this faith muscle. Even if secure within your own parameters, strengthening this faith muscle allows you to increase your parameters and experiences to gain the wisdom that comes from this increased capacity. So, in conclusion, I would applaud each and every one of you for your reaching out in faith as you do regularly and even at this very moment. I would encourage all individuals to exercise this muscle even more frequently as the rewards for this exercise bear great fruits. I thank you for hearing me today, and I would allow others at this time.

Malvantra: God, as a self-expressive deity, chose to manifest creation and is doing so to the far stretches of infinity. In the course of this revelation He chose to initiate creature life of an equal volitional nature. All of you have the ability to decide your fate as He one time chose the organization and promulgation of reality. Your faith ratchet is your secret to your universe climb and eventual embrace with God Himself. During your fledging, initial career on earth, you will spend many times switching your ratchet setting back and forth as you gain understanding of your ability to choose and to choose rightly.

When you have so consecrated your will that you are ever seeking to manifest and effect the will of God on earth, you can consider your ratchet to be permanently set in one direction. You must still apply the force of your own personality, however, you are twisting your faith tool in the rotation that is the will of God. When you rest, when you play, when you take a vacation from spiritual exertion, the slipping, the backwards motion, does not reduce your previous growth. If you were to choose the opposite of the will of the Father and permanently set your switch in the wrong rotation, you would become iniquitous. In this state even a rotation towards God effects no change. Assure yourselves that, until you have attained the spirit stature where you understand more fully your faith-tool that leads you to the Father, you will, at times, be switching. At the moment in your life when you wholly consecrate yourself to the will of the Father, you can rest assured your ratchet is set on Him and Him alone. 

God will not retract His projection of universe reality; it is a gift that all may experience along with Him. As you each give yourself this same undeniable and unretractable devotion, you are permitting God to experience one minute, seemingly infinitesimal life, that being you. In partnership with Him, you have an expansive universe to explore and the profound depths of God Himself to discover. Much is at stake, and all lies in the power of your own choice.

It has been said that faith can move mountains, and this is a wise statement by our Sovereign Son. One day when you are privileged to be in his presence at his headquarters you will understand that even faith can move universes.

Nebadonia: God's love moves within each of our lives. It surrounds us, takes many forms. Grasp this reality with your faith, and you will come to experience God's love at ever varying levels. It has been said and is ever true that God is love. Your experiences in your life take place surrounded in this matrix of love. The universe is friendly because the universe is established on the principle of God's loving nature. You have been given the gift of personal freewill choice by your loving God. You may choose to participate in this loving universe of experience. You may also choose the opposite; God has granted you that choice.

Throughout this first life that you are experiencing, your ability to connect with the will and love of God will vary from time to time, but be not troubled by this. You are learning; you are experiencing God's reality that He has designed for you. Maintain your faith in the loving nature of these experiences that God has granted you and proceed with your life, making your choices grounded in faith and depending on God's love.

Michael: And now, as a direct result of your faith, I come among you today to give you my thanks and to give you my love. You know who I am, and I know who you are. You are my children in whom I am so lovingly pleased. I reach for you, and you reach for me. Together in this act of faith we make contact. I see you are willing; I see you are able. I desire that we have this contact even more frequently. This I desire of each of you and all of you. The fruits of your efforts shall be rewarded. We both shall gain much in this interaction together.

Hope and help are two aspects of faith
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive November 8, 1998.
Teacher Jessona
T/R Jonathan

 

 

 

 

 

 

There are two aspects to faith, one is hope, the other is help. You know when the sky is cloudy that the sun is still present. This is because of your faith in its constancy in spite of the appearance to your senses of its lack. You may hope that the clouds part to reveal the sun, however, this hope must be coupled with a desire to help. Though the extent to which you are capable of helping is far less than the ability to part the clouds, you are capable of turning on a light in the room to bring illumination. Hope is an extension of prayer. Your
help is the extension of your faith in healing and in the powers that exist beyond your control. In the course of lengthy illness or injury, hope and help are the greatest supports for your faith. Hope places your trust in the divine; help alleviates your sense of hopelessness, powerlessness, to accomplish some ministry for another.

Any approach taken in faith and with love is a good one
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive January 30, 2000.
Teacher Elyon, Lantarnek
T/R Mark, Jonathan

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elyon: You all have had your entire life experiences on this world to observe the many characteristics and traits exhibited by your brothers and sisters, and you have learned many patterns and ways those around you react to life circumstances. In your common usage, you might refer to this trait as being a judge of
character. I would alter that understanding to reflect a judgment of pattern, as most individuals, when reacting to the vicissitudes of life, find themselves falling into familiar patterns and ways they have seen in their past history as a means of transient support through this troubling time. By reacting in a predictable fashion, they are comforted that in the face of uncertainty there is at least this one stability.

This observation on your part can prove very beneficial to you in assessing the appropriate technique to reach out to this individual. If the pattern they are showing to you is a familiar one, one that you can identify with or perhaps by a stretch relate to, then your course of action may be far clearer to you than if you find yourself confronted with an obstacle, an unknown pattern to interface with. At these times you will feel the uncertainty and confusion of not having ready at hand a course of action suitable to the task before you. This is when I would encourage each of you to seek the wisdom that is greater than your own, to ask Michael, to ask the Father, to ask any form of celestial assistant to discern the motives and needs of a spiritual nature that you are unable to detect and help you to formulate a plan whereby your efforts may meet with success when offered in love and in faith.

You may encounter situations in which you feel entirely comfortable in understanding the needs and desires of another sufficiently to offer your assistance as best you are able. I would encourage you to understand that, while you may trip over your specific words, that far more important in your action with another is your intent, your sincerity, your faithfulness to the process of growth. If you are sincere and if you proceed forward in whatever direction you perceive to be necessary, your efforts will and do meet with certain success. If you remain trumped and stifled by your uncertainty as to how to proceed, then I encourage you to ask for guidance, because Jesus knows and the Father knows the state of another individual and the steps necessary to attain their desired spiritual progress. So, if you find yourself lacking in the certainty of direction, call on another to assist, and you will be granted through your acceptance of this process a game plan on which to proceed.

Again, realize that while exercising your faith and while exhibiting your love you truly cannot err. There may, in fact, be more appropriate techniques, more correct approaches, but any approach taken in faith and with love is a good one. You should never fear that you can fail another by extending yourself. This extension of yourself done in love is a gift. It is a gift you wish to bestow upon another, and it is a gift which the Father wishes to help you in this process. When the stirrings of your soul are to benefit another, to reach out to
a brother or sister in need, then this too is the desire of your Father. You are taking the steps to make it possible. Your divine Parent desires to be of assistance to you in this regard.

Realize this connection. It begins with you, with your commitment, your assertion. In the act of your proceeding you can be directed; you can be guided. 

If you allow yourself to be steered thusly, you will find that others will find messages in your words, will find comfort in your sincerity, will find strength in your strength, will find love in your action. That is all we might ever ask of a mortal in your realm. You do that routinely. It is now to be just more aware of the process, to be more in focus with the process.

All of you have felt the rewards of helping another by extending out to them, as you have been helped by another extending in your direction. There are great gifts, great rewards to be had in this process, and it all begins with your initial drive to take the step, to extend yourself in faith and with love.

Lantarnek: The encounters you have in your days draw from you your riches that you have stored in your being which are the spiritual truths that you have gathered over your life. They demonstrate the degree to which you may receive even broader and more important assignments in this correcting mission.

I entreat you all to always grasp for the big picture when you are encountering a difficulty in the narrow moment. Yes, it is very important to be service-minded, compassionate, fully caring for the needs of your fellow with whom you are encountering difficulty. Where you are also likewise concerned for your welfare and well-being, be it physical safety or mental serenity, or even the hoped-for feeling of success spiritually, there is one other element with which you may find assurance that the undertaking is worthwhile in the long range, and that is that every human being born and reared on this world is a candidate for becoming empowered with exceptional trust. I do not speak of your trust gained through your hope and perseverance through difficulties. I speak of the trust placed in you by those spiritual benefactors throughout your future career.

The future holds in store for you accomplishments that you cannot even this day fathom. Even the needs to be filled by your service you have yet to dream of. I attempt to strengthen your foundation, to bolster your courage. These times on Earth are short and here is where you will gather much ability that will propagate throughout your ascension career and in multi-faceted ways rise back up into your experiences to help you reach even higher in your ascent to the Father.

Having said this, I must also advise you to forget what I have said, for it is in the full application of your personality to the challenge of the minute that you gain those trust credentials for the span of eternity. It is not by obsessing over these long-range credentials that you will be anywhere successful at the hour.

Ginnie: That's interesting about keeping the big picture in mind. How small the circumstances then seem. The task is to deal moment to moment.

Lantarnek: If I may provide a visual image, it is like a tightrope walker, who, while in the peripheral view, can see the entire arena in which his highwire is strung and those who observe his acts and feats, it is the focus and attention upon the placement of his foot on the very spot that is needed that brings him his success. This likewise applies to your broad spiritual perspective and the ministry opportunity at the moment.

Faith is a mode of living
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive March 4, 2001.
Teacher Elyon, Jessona
T/R Jonathan, Gerdean

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elyon: You are aware that faith is a mode of living; it is action based. Though it contains an element of hope, faith is not equivalent to hope. Faith not only addresses the future but applies itself to the present. I would compare this mode of faith to mood because I observe that all too often the human mood, that emotion that is playing dominant at any point in time, often is evaluated as a reflection of faith. I have observed your expressions of frustration in applying yourself to the practice of stillness and also have been with you long enough to hear many stories where you recognized that you fell short in some undertaking wherein you could have been a better representative of the gospel. Often, though it may be not as obvious to you, the cause of the shortcoming has been mood.

I am one who continually advocates that those apparent negativities that you encounter are equally positive towards growth, that doubt is not a shortcoming but an indicator of answers to be found. To not feel like you are the child of God that you are does not remove you from that standing before the Father. To feel unspiritual does not eliminate the basis of your faith. Moods apparently of a contrary fashion that appear to smother your faith are in reality indications of where you may increase your skills in the application of faith.

You know that Jesus lived his life completely in faith. That did not prevent him from righteousness indignation. He could weep, feel great sorrow. He could be observed to be as though beside himself. The spectrum of human emotions is like a pressure relief valve. It is a form of venting, and I don't mean this merely in the action of expressing anger or wrath. But emotion itself must move, for even your word "motion" is contained within "emotion". It's dynamic, it must be expressed. How often have you experienced that when something strikes you funny it is virtually impossible to suppress laughter or a smile? This outpouring is a catalyst for the expression of faith transformed into the mode of action. It is also an indicator, a means whereby you may test the application of your faith in living.

This emotional fountain, like your sprinklers, can become clogged at one orifice or another. It does not mean, this obstruction, that your faith has faltered, for the pressure of faith is still present. But there is some undertaking, some lesson, that you must perform or acquire that will displace the obstruction and allow the flow of faith into the actions of your life.

Truly it is a pleasure to the soul to feel like loving your brothers and sisters, but it is a revelation of the power of God when you discover the love for another even when you don't feel like it. Love is that personality experience that transcends all conditions of life. No one definition can capture it in entirety, nor can a collection of descriptions describe love fully. Faith is love in you acting through you, and your emotions are your feedback indicators of how you are adapting to the current of love as it passes through your faith channel.

Faith responds to an individual, not to “Authority”
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts Lightline Teleconference 2024-09-19

Teacher Amanson

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amanson: Faith is a living reality which holds all tenets of Reality together. Faith is a component that is actually greater than the whole. And encompassing the whole, Faith places each aspect of your day-to-day reality in living relationship each to the other. It stokes the fires that light up the engine; it seals the casings so nothing harmful comes in or out, fraying the cords or unbalancing the wheels. Faith has all of tomorrow in its grasp while it sturdies, solidifies, today.

Many wonder about the efficacy of Faith, so seemingly ‘airy-fairy’ a notion, an approach to life based on nothing, so they say. But Faith has far greater substance than most of what passes for modes of security these days. Just because a mechanism cannot be seen doesn’t mean it isn’t there. It merely means it can’t be seen. But a Faith-filled person can be seen. And the results of their Faith-led living can be seen.

And if one were to seek a testimonial from such persons, would any two tell the same story? Some would sound similar for there are brands of faith, but you see, Faith, as a living engine, pays no attention to what it is called by whom. Faith is a Living Force to be embodied. It, like gravity or the seasons, pays no attention to the clothes or the accent, the flag or the shape of the columns in the church attended by the person utilizing this tremendous resource. Faith is blind to all but what activates its potency.

There are many beliefs. There is only one Faith. And Faith responds to an individual, not to “Authority”.  Faith is the authority. You must be the author who sets this authority in motion. There really is no greater power in your world. Faith is the flipside, the business partner, so to speak, of Love. Between them, the job gets done. Faith is the loving response to the world you want to see.

Fear

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
[  ] soil   [  ] Land   [  ] Sea   [  ] AIR


SOURCE: This row is used for recording useful information about the source of the wisdom entry.

Fear is the biggest barrier
 
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Rayson and Friends

 

 

 

 

 

Question: Rayson, I have a question. This concerns fear - human beings on Earth experience this. There are a number of places in the Urantia Book where we are admonished not to be fearful. And there is also a place where savages on this earth were discussed, and they were said to be quite fearful. Now, even in the condition we're in right now, which has advanced somewhat beyond the savage human point, there still is a great deal of fear. How does the condition of fear in man interrelate with connectedness to the Thought Adjuster and I guess, general faith?

Answer: Fear is the biggest emotional barrier to Thought Adjuster communications: animal fear and anxiety. How to conquer this is a lifetime challenge and active job for the human. One, is by remembering what true reality is. True reality is spiritual reality. If you would examine the source of your fears you would find that they are rooted in the physical, material realms. For example: will I have a job? Will I get ill? Will this action hurt me. Will I lose this person's love? Will I look good to others? There is a difference between instinctual survival fears which are built into a species and easily surpassed as the race becomes more intellectually developed and fears that arises out of the unreality of ego and the material, physical plain. The absence of fear equals love. The two cannot coexist in the human psyche. The more one loves the less one fears. It is not an easy task to accomplish, and indeed many mortals never accomplish this to any significant degree in this lifetime. Some extraordinary human beings do manage to, for the most part, to live without fear, but these are generally humans with self-acting Adjusters and lives dedicated to the spiritual realities.

Question: I have a follow-up question regarding the question about fear. Fear feelings, and fear of feelings, could you address that for a moment? Someone is in the jungle and a tiger appears, perhaps fear might be healthy at that point, or maybe not maybe the adjutant mind spirits might be wise to get in touch with at that point. But is there a difference between fear of feelings and experiential fears?

Answer: There are instinctual fears built into the physical being of the human which insure survival. The
example you cited is one of them. If a human were to be attacked by an animal his fear would be wholly
appropriate and probably life saving/preserving.

The fear we discussed as an impediment to spiritual growth is more rooted in the psyche than in the instinctual reflex pattern which has been designed into you. These fears are not helpful, but may be categorized as fear anxiety, and if examined closely, are more self involved, self serving, than outer directed - either at one's fellows or God. That is a broad base measuring stick.

Fear of feelings is also not healthy. You have feelings as does every human and this is in the realm of material minded humanity. One should not be afraid to explore one's feelings, but should remember balance as given an example to you by the Divinely integrated life and personality of Jesus of Nazareth. Undue obsession with what you are feeling is not good. Neither is a repression - denial of what you feel. Examine your feelings for a period and then stop. Do not become mired in an abyss of selfanalysis.

Question: Sometimes parents and grandparents develop apprehensions about what is going on in their
children's and grandchildren's lives, and mentally we know that we should leave that to the celestial beings, and trust in faith. Is this the kind of fear that you are talking about that interferes?

Answer: No. Sometimes being loving can be misunderstood as being fearful. If you, as a loving parent-grandparent, are concerned then it is almost your responsibility to act as a vehicle for The FATHER's love and concern. If approached from an unselfish, concerned, loving, other-directed point of view, the person you are talking to cannot help but to respond with a whole mind. How else are we to do service and reflect the actual love of God and Light into the world than through our own transforming actions. If however, your feelings are truly fearful, and not a measure of caution or concern, then you must pray to exorcise your fear and replace it with Divine love.

Question: Ever since I was a little girl I have had nightmares and sleep visitors, a lot of old lady-looking
people have appeared to me and scare me at night. It continues to this day. Is that real or is it a product of my creative imagination? Is it ever a universe visitor actually coming and trying to minister to me and I get scared and so they - I wake up and freak out. Recently I had three ladies visit me and I asked them who they were and they said that they were right hand of God. And I don't know, I just don't know how to react to that.

Answer: Fear is real, is a real emotion, and also is a physical manifestation. On two levels it exists. Fear on a spiritual (level) is totally unreal. You, in your situation, I would suspect that the archetypes you are dreaming, nightmaring about are deep-rooted from early childhood. There is the archetype of the old witch in the collective unconscious of your species. I do not think that Divine Ministry would frighten you. Perhaps the reply was partial Thought Adjuster, the spiritual reply. But the images are created out of your own personal history and the collective unconscious of your species. Let us keep in mind that love is the absence of fear. Divine Ministry is love.

Question: I've been leery for a long time, acutely aware of this process. The question I have is for me personally, and I've seen it in others, so I know that I'm in that tunnel. Sometimes there's light and sometimes there's not. The question I have is even though there's intellectual knowledge of and participation in this mission, and there's all these things, and all this prayer, there's still a great deal of fear.

Answer: Do not be unhappy. You are much loved and cherished. Yes, your fear is a symbol of your spiritual growth. For you, and I must take liberty and ask your pardon if I become too personal with you today in front of your peers - your response to love is anger. You have grown into fear. You suppress your fear and vulnerability with your anger. You have been upset. Do not be afraid. Be of good cheer. Eternity and the riches of the spiritual kingdom await your struggle. They are lying there at the end of your road. Keep your eyes open, for greatness lies ahead for you, although you do not believe it.

Allow yourself to be open to your terror, to your uncertainties, to your anxieties, for only by acknowledging this will you overcome it. When exposed to the light of God your fears will melt away. But if you hide them always behind your anger they will seem even larger to you.

Read “The Boy Who Was Afraid.” Allow yourself to be lonely. Allow yourself to ask for help, not just celestially, but of other humans. You cannot control your inner environment nor can you control your outer. Your pain is greater because you try not to be hurt. You will not be severely crippled or damaged from the world, for you are spiritually intact, and what you are. But if you close up, you close off the knowledge accrued all along, celestially and humanly, you do not let this in to nourish your heart.

Have the courage - it is time as you know - and I will guide you, and our prayers will be with you. Much
rejoicing, ......for your fear, for that will bring you closer to your light.

Question: Is there any value in utilizing psychologists to unearth our hidden fears and angers?

Answer: They are not that hidden. To be more honoring of your question, it is a personal decision. It is not necessarily spiritual, but can, if come be. It is up to each of you. 

You must seek to overcome fear
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive December 14, 1997.

Teacher Elyon

T/R Jonathan

 

 

 

 

 

 

Initially fear is an experience that results from the recognition of the slipping of willpower, the ability to control conditions. In and of itself this is not inappropriate and need not be eliminated from your reaction patterns, for it is a significant warning signal for you to apply your will more intently. When grace is projected upon the screen of your life not only is the will of the Father visible but so are the flaws of your own being. When the illumination strikes the black spots that interfere with the image become noticeable. This black spot may be likened to your innate fear responses that are contributory to self preservation; they are an integral part of your material condition. This fear is benign, for the personality is able to watch the movie and tolerate the imperfections of one's condition.

The fear you must seek to overcome in your life is the fear that could be likened to putting your hand between the projector and the screen and distorting or blocking the flow of grace. This is the fear that you may witness change in your life, that you may have revealed to you information that you do not desire to accept. This is an active, preventive fear rather than the reactive, protective fear of your animal nature.

In continuing your conversation, I would play further with this image of the projector and screen by moving to the perspective of a white beam of light upon the screen rather than an image to be viewed. You as a personality draw upon these credits when you do make your playful shadows with your hands between projector and screen. This is your active, willful impact and bearing within these conditions. By shifting like this I am attempting to present to you two perspectives. The first perspective was one of observation, of witnessing, of receiving the image resulting from the projection and the  screen's condition. The second perspective is to illustrate your active participation in the resultant image upon the screen. In this second view, given the conditions of your life, given the projections of the Father's will upon your life, you are able to manipulate these factors and bring about your own image. This image is your soul.

The master said, "fear not." He knew well that all mortal creatures have the fear reaction within them. When he said, "fear not" he addressed the tendency to use fear to block grace and thereby prevent growth by the restriction of the use of your faith.

You know that when you have finished watching a movie and the lights come on, the light is intense. When you receive revelation in your life about your current spiritual status and the potentials through which you may grow, it can cause the reaction spiritually like your squinting eyes do physically. To, in a spiritual sense, cringe or flinch is an acceptable reaction to a new insight. If you are to further feed this reaction, you translate your fear into an active fear that is preventive of growth.

Returning to the idea of an image projected upon a screen, error in your life is the distorted perception of the projection. Sin is the willful destruction of the setup; to place a stain upon the lens, soil upon the screen. Iniquity is shutting the lamp off altogether. Also, any good projectionist knows when to recognize any blemish and to cleanse the system for better projection. The reaction has a tinge of fear, for you recognize the potential for degradation. But a true projectionist thrives at viewing the images projected. To refrain from turning on the projector is the spiritual fear you must seek to eliminate from your life to become more boldly adventurous at discovering the revelation that may result from the projection of grace upon your life. 

Evelyn: That was vivid. I like the distinction of fear of change, reluctance to accept reality, and fear as evidence of something around worth avoiding.

Mary: You mentioned shutting off the projector. Do we have the ability to shut off the flow of grace? I would think shutting off grace would be closing our eyes. Maybe I am being too literal.

Elyon:  I have been loose with the factors involved, but we are thereby able to play further, for you may liken the bulb to being your Indwelling Spirit, brilliant luminosity resident within, and the slide before the light being what the Father wishes you to receive today. This gives insight into why revelation is always in step with your growth. You will receive a new slide at the appropriate time. So you can view your switch to your willingness to be aligned with the Father or not. The Father may be likened to the electricity that powers the bulb. Yes, it is always there whether you access it or not. How would you describe focussing the lens?

Mary: Yes, a good projectionist can focus the lens for clearer viewing.  

Evelyn: I see us individually being the projectionists. We can get in the way by putting our hands in front of the light or refuse to let the light shine. To the degree we focus is how we can make it clear to the best of our understanding what this grace projection is, to make it go from a blur of pretty colors to being an actual, recognizable something.

Mary: We can either get in the way or help.  

Tom: It is up to us to plug the machine in.

Elyon: The phrase "not my will but your will be done" may be compared to your comments about getting in the way of the projection and realizing that you can step away and let the Father's will be done. The lens brought into focus is more like "it is my will that your will be done". 

Mary: What if the screen were crumpled?

Elyon: This is the condition of Earth and the condition of many human beings who have had upbringings of a nature that crumples a screen. 

Evelyn: Small areas could still be in focus.  

Elyon: I have another aspect for you to wrestle with. How might you derive meaning from a fan in the projector?

Evelyn: Dispelling the heat.

Mary: It makes me think of how we have our flashlight in the dark and can only see so much, for our own good. If we were exposed to the intensity of the Fragment of the Father it could be overwhelming.

Tom: You can't see the light and live. Somebody has to  temper it.

Evelyn: The importance of taking care of the physical apparatus involved in the light shining.

Elyon: These are excellent perspectives, for you do realize that the bulb would flash and dissipate without the temperance. It can illustrate your cooperative approach with the inner spirit to contribute your energies to the working of the system. I would add an additional element that the combination of fan and bulb, the two work together is what is valuable in the establishment of good habits in your life.  

Mary: The fan kicks on when a thermostat is necessary to keep tabs on our lives, when we need to spend some time in stillness with our Thought Adjusters if some aspect of our lives is getting overheated.  

Elyon: Growth is a dynamic of your lives. As captivating as a revelation is in your life, when realized there arrives a time when you must change the slide, or it will burn and destroy itself. This illustrates the caution to not become crystallized in your spirit perspective.

I would add one more additional element to our image today, and that is, with the opening of the circuits and the permission granted by the melchizedeks for us to begin to increase our contact with one another, you have now in your projection room the added equipment of a sound system. This works well to illustrate that the primarily most important element of your life is your projector, your light bulb, and the screen. This is your relationship with the Father and your own personal growth. We add to the environmental experience but will never replace that relationship. 

Evelyn: You are the photographers who have provided us with a lot of the slides.

Elyon: Thank you for that complement.

Mary: You stated that we have taken the steps to move ourselves to the next level. Is the next level just our further interest in interacting, discussing, and acting on the lessons? Is that what you have been looking and waiting for and is our choice?

Elyon: In the view of the past five years we have been involved in a process whereby we have scattered seeds and taken note of the ones you watered. Now you are scattering seeds, and we will do the watering. You have reacted to our presentations and grown. Now you are creating the topics of study and we contribute. One of the most rewarding elements of morontia life is this self-directed study and training. It creates a sense of freedom that is not existent in curriculums that are defined for you. It creates a deep identification with the truths and a readiness to be the very embodiment of these truths. It is a welling up from within rather than a taking on from without. This is that level.

The absence of fear equals love
 
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Question: This concerns fear. There are a number of places in the Urantia Book where we are admonished not to be fearful. And there is also a place where savages on this earth were discussed, and they were said to be quite fearful. Now, even in the condition we're in right now, which has advanced somewhat beyond the savage human point, there still is a great deal of fear. How does the condition of fear in man interrelate with connectedness to the Thought Adjuster and I guess, general faith?

Answer: Fear is the biggest emotional barrier to Thought Adjuster communications: animal fear and anxiety. How to conquer this is a lifetime challenge and active job for the human. One, is by remembering what true reality is. True reality is spiritual reality. If you would examine the source of your fears you would find that they are rooted in the physical, material realms. For example: will I have a job? Will I get ill? Will this action hurt me. Will I lose this person's love? Will I look good to others? There is a difference between instinctual survival fears which are built into a species and easily surpassed as the race becomes more intellectually developed and fears that arises out of the unreality of ego and the material, physical plain.

The absence of fear equals love. The two cannot coexist in the human psyche. The more one loves the less one fears. It is not an easy task to accomplish, and indeed many mortals never accomplish this to any significant degree in this lifetime. Some extraordinary human beings do manage to, for the most part, to live without fear, but these are generally humans with self-acting Adjusters and lives dedicated to the spiritual realities.

Question: I have a follow-up question. Fear feelings, and fear of feelings, could you address that for a moment? Someone is in the jungle and a tiger appears, perhaps fear might be healthy at that point, or maybe not maybe the adjutant mind spirits might be wise to get in touch with at that point. But is there a difference between fear of feelings and experiential fears?

Answer: There are instinctual fears built into the physical being of the human which insure survival. The example you cited is one of them. If a human were to be attacked by an animal his fear would be wholly appropriate and probably life saving/preserving. The fear we discussed as an impediment to spiritual growth is more rooted in the psyche than in the instinctual reflex pattern which has been designed into you. These fears are not helpful, but may be categorized as fear anxiety, and if examined closely, are more self involved, self serving, than outer directed - either at one's fellows or God. That is a broad base measuring stick.

Fear of feelings is also not healthy. You have feelings as does every human and this is in the realm of material minded humanity. One should not be afraid to explore one's feelings, but should remember balance as given an example to you by the Divinely integrated life and personality of Jesus of Nazareth.

Undue obsession with what you are feeling is not good. Neither is a repression - denial of what you feel. Examine your feelings for a period and then stop. Do not become mired in an abyss of self analysis.

Question: Sometimes parents and grandparents develop apprehensions about what is going on in their children's and grandchildren's lives, and mentally we know that we should leave that to the celestial beings, and trust in faith. Is this the kind of fear that you are talking about that interferes?

Answer: No. Sometimes being loving can be misunderstood as being fearful. If you, as a loving parent-grandparent, are concerned then it is almost your responsibility to act as a vehicle for The Father's love and concern. If approached from an unselfish, concerned, loving, other-directed point of view, the person you are talking to cannot help but to respond with a whole mind. How else are we to do service and reflect the actual love of God and Light into the world than through our own transforming actions. If however, your feelings are truly fearful, and not a measure of caution or concern, then you must pray to exorcize your fear and replace it with Divine love.

Question: Ever since I was a little girl I have had nightmares and sleep visitors, a lot of old lady-looking people have appeared to me and scare me at night. It continues to this day. Is that real or is it a product of my creative imagination? Is it ever a universe visitor actually coming and trying to minister to me and I get scared and so they - I wake up and freak out. Recently I had three ladies visit me and I asked them who they were and they said that they were right hand of God. And I don't know, I just don't know how to react to that.

Answer: Fear is real, is a real emotion, and also is a physical manifestation. On two levels it exists. Fear on a spiritual level is totally unreal. You, in your situation, I would suspect that the archetypes you are dreaming, nightmaring about are deep-rooted from early childhood. There is the archetype of the old witch in the collective unconscious of your species. I do not think that Divine Ministry would frighten you.

Perhaps the reply was partial Thought Adjuster, the spiritual reply. But the images are created out of your own personal history and the collective unconscious of your species. Let us keep in mind that love is the absence of fear. Divine Ministry is love.

Fear is part of your natural biological inheritance
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive April 8, 1999.
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Bob:  Years ago I read an article called "Fear is the phantom" and the idea behind it was that much of what people do is based upon fear but it's unrecognized because we don't want to face that side of ourselves.  And that made a lot of sense, so I began to wonder, what about you, Bob! What part of what you do is fear-based? But I really had a tough time addressing that whole side of me because I think it's a side of me that has been repressed for so long. And, of course, men in our society are not encouraged when they are young to talk about their fears like the ladies are encouraged at least to talk about that. But the guys, hell, no fear! That's kind of the way we were raised, so we've never had the opportunity to address that. So I'm trying to do that now and I'm nowhere near the point where I'm ready to address that.

Minearisa: Fear is part of your natural, animal inheritance. As a biological being, fear serves the protective mechanism. It signals the brain to produce adrenaline that allows your fight-or-flight and survival in animal beings. And this is its proper function. However, this current society on Earth is permeated by such thick fear that it is the poison in which the beings of this planet are drowning. The history of this planet, the rebellion, in which the spiritual administrators turned against God and the circuitry being cut from the rest of the spiritual universe, left the inhabitants of this planet with the intense experience of isolation, separation, and unreality. The horror of the experience of aloneness has cast a shadow that has most of mankind responding fearfully most of the time. You do not believe that the universe is a loving place. You do not know of the spiritual protection and overcare that is continually present and provided. You do not know that you are precious children of God. And so this survival mechanism is jammed constantly on in many people.  

Making the distinction between fear-based responses and love-based responses is important. God is love. God is truth, beauty and goodness. When one is acting from a place of true love, then there is an absence of this fear poison.

Where love is expansive, fear is contractive. Where love adds, fear creates a black hole. Where love gives, fear takes. There is, of course, healthy fear, and there is unhealthy fear. If someone is coming at you with a knife that you know intends you no good, that is what fear was created for. It releases the adrenaline, it allows you to flee or to fight for your survival. If someone disapproves of a decision you have made, and there is this emotional state of anxiety, contraction, stomach pain, the need to win back that approval, that is unhealthy fear. In this case the fear of being disapproved of; which, if one follows that to its ultimate conclusion, it is often the fear of aloneness, separation, an unreal existence in which God does not exist. 

Barbara: In order to feel fear, its related to your perception of danger. And maybe the error is in misperceiving something as being dangerous, because if you misperceive something as being dangerous then you become fearful and then you act out of fear. And the original fight-or-flight response was there to protect us, it was easier for us to identify what the dangers were, it's easier for animals to identify what the dangers are, but we get really confused about what danger is. And I'm just wondering if that's where the error and the fear link, through perception and misperception?

Minearisa: Yes. Perception of danger is indeed much of the problem. Perceived danger arrives in many packages. You have your favorites. These perceived dangers are generally not the case, and if you would take these packages, unwrap them, cut them open, tear them apart, and give them to God, God would take care of them for you. 

Angie: Are you saying that to fear is error?

Minearisa: In a way; and fear also leads to error because fear leads to errors in judgment and yet fear is the result of errors in perception. There is no reason to fear. God, the most perfect guide, resides within you all,
has the answers that you desire, allow that brilliant light, the love, to lead you to a place of peace. Fear not, be of good cheer.

Fear is nobody's master and everybody's servant
 
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Amanson on Fear

"Fear" is nobody's master and everybody's servant. However, in your world today this equation is reversed. Fear is undermined from doing its original sensory assignment by a misplaced authority in doing negativity's bidding. 

Fear has a role to play but it is specific and functional, like smell or taste or touch. Fear is useful when danger lurks or evil-intentions make themselves known on your human radar, but once its job has been accomplished — alerting the person to the possibility of danger — and action has been taken to remove oneself from that danger, fear has done its job and can retreat back to its cupboard to await its next assignment. 

But today fear has become essentially a way of life, a general uneasiness tolerated as the status quo. It is encouraged through all facets of the media; it is left to fester in the minds of the populace and rupture daily contacts through its co-conspirators: suspicion and paranoia. 

Fear was never meant to be the law of the land, the air you breathe, the road you travel. It has its function but when unleashed it can take over the mind, and mind-distracting fear can be so easily manipulated by power-seeking entities (I won't go so far as to call them 'personalities', for the person within them has retreated, become deflated; and empathy — the connecting tissue person-to-person — has either dried up or been voluntarily shaken off. I am perhaps too harsh but to witness such behavior makes one wonder about these things.)

Fear should not have — should not be — the power it presently has or is. Love must rise up, see where fear has become entangled, and then melt right through it. It does no good to wrestle with fear detail for detail. That is not how fear is defeated. Fear is left abandoned to its own superficialities. It cannot sustain with nothing to feed it. 

Love will always conquer fear by the sheer Truth of Love's Being, while fear is a shadow, dependent for its existence upon a lack of Love, a lack of understanding, a lack of empathy. Love bothers not with the machinations of fear; Love's only interaction with the cause of fear is to acknowledge its nonexistence.

Phantoms, dreams, are very real until you wake up. And so it is with what has been referred to as 'unreasoned fear'. It is rampant in your world today. Dreamer, wake up! Fear cannot hurt you but it can blind you to the things that can.
Do not give in to the fear of what could happen
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive 11 Jun 2002.
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My friends, please be at ease with life. There is so much you cannot control! Do not give in to the fear of what could happen, whether it be personal danger, the harm of your family, your financial future, the status
of your nation, the attempt to stop terrorism, whatever the thing you cannot control may be. This is your challenge, to reach out in faith and give those concerns to the Father within. Fear, based not only on possibilities, but ultimately based on your sense of helplessness, remains such a tyrant of the mind and soul!

We advocate letting fear go. I am sure you understand we are not advocating a sloppy, sentimental, irresponsible attitude toward proper caution in life. I am not suggesting you be reckless, that you be uncaring or that you give no thought to safety, financial security, political leadership or any other area of concern, no. But I am saying to be careful! Fear is like a wolf hiding in the shadows of the night; and when
he sees a vulnerable prey he gathers his fellows together for an attack that will overwhelm his victim. Fear consumes one's peace and serenity. 

Fear is often a byproduct of other factors. Fatigue or lack of rest leaves a person vulnerable to fears. Too much work without recreation can cause stress to rise to the point where the mind is prone to irrational thinking and exaggerated fears. The brain, that marvelous organ, is very delicate; at the same time as it is very tough. Its balance, chemically, is incredibly complex. What you need to do to keep your nervous system in equilibrium is to keep your life in balance. You need meaningful work, whether or not your are "retired". You need service opportunity. You need worship and prayer. You need rest for the body. You need good nutrition. You need exercise....all of these subject to the fundamental desire to do the will of our Father in heaven.  

There is one more area you need. You need to ask for help from other people, from your spiritual family. You need to be together, not just for stories, not just for food, but to reinforce each other emotionally and
spiritually. Yes, it would be good for you to do more sharing than you have been doing lately, not in a rigid format necessarily at all. But do not carry your burdens alone. Share them with each other. You are all of
one heart and mind.

My friends, in the summertime, with schedules freed from the structure of the school year, in your culture you have programmed a vacation period. Of course, this is very wise and very necessary. Unfortunately, your news media does not take a vacation from bad news and by its repeated presentation of discouraging and unhappy information you become subject to an imbalance of perception about the way the world really is. I counsel you to be careful with the time you spend reading or listening to bad news. Deliberately take some time to find the other kind of news. What you take in through your senses is the fodder for your mind to digest.  

Bad news produces fearful reactions. Again, I am not suggesting you become ostriches putting your head in the sand. Just remember, the universe is better and more accurately described as a few black spots on a white background than a few white spots on a black background.  

Foresight

How the wisdom coding system works

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Type of wisdom (purple box)
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Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
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 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


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You can perceive the future through the gifts of insight
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive February 25, 2001.
Teacher Tomas
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Tomas: The practice of being in the now is always a good place to be, from where you can review what's gone before and anticipate in part what may come along, but for the most part your anticipations are mere hopes and dreams and wishes without being that keen sense of foresight that the Master enjoyed in his mortal existence. The promise is that in time in your evolution you will gain, acquire, a perception of what's to come with a certain degree of acuity.

I'd like to help you to discern where that ability comes from. In truth it comes from the First Source and Center who knows the end from the beginning. As you develop your association with the infinite God your vantage point is extended and expanded to offer up your mind and soul for those impressions that might
lend your consciousness to a greater understanding of what can come to pass, not based on your wisdom or calculations of a logical outcome, but based on the glimpses of eternal truth that come to you from the source of your being.

The knowledge you have gained socially that constitutes the brain waves, the mental arena, the place where the Mystery Monitor maintains its mental connection with mortality, is said to be a point in the deep mind which will provide you with glimpses of truth and insights that are then assimilated by your
subconscious and conscious minds and allowed to become a part of your superconscious composition; giving yourself permission to allow a glimpse of otential to rise up from your source as if you were in a fish tank observing the bubbles of spiritual reality rise to the surface of your mind. In these bubbles are the impetus and guidance for your spirit life. You can perceive the future through these gifts of insight that arise as a preview of things to come. At this point in your evolution they are infrequent, but in due course your communication with your Indwelling Adjuster will be such that your perceptions will be more wholeheartedly embraced by you, for you will have had an opportunity to play with your spirit awareness and familiarize yourself with your spirit essence such that you will begin to have faith in yourself because of your affiliation with the divine spark. This is certainly a part of the cooperative, co-creative effort, but it is another angle, another dimension, another appreciation for the relationship that is indicative of that which is to come for you as well as for all of humanity en route to its ascension.

You know about the factor that when you have certain perceptions or insights or thoughts that may provoke anxiety or fear, your tendency is to pretend they didn't cross your mind or wish them away. This is operating against the flow, the potential, offered you by divinity. In assessing, therefore, your skills and abilities in your own composition, overlook not those spiritual skills and acquirements of such a nature as to expand your console of operation and adapt a new dimension of truth, beauty, and goodness to that portfolio of qualities that you offer your arena, indeed, your very existence.

The rewards extend beyond your own knowing to fuel the growth of the Supreme which realizes, contains, harmonizes, assimilates, and utilizes all of those realities which you help create, having put your faith in that which you understand to be the God of your indwelling. How marvelous is this cosmic design affording you the opportunity to grow into yourself in such a way as to keep your psyche stable even as it is embellished and expanded through association with light.

Forgiveness

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 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


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Why forgiveness is difficult
 
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The practice of forgiveness is one of many means by which you as an individual can boost your own spiritual light, that shining aspect of yourself which is unconsciously perceived by your comrades in the flesh, but which is quite clearly seen by those who have passed beyond the material form or who have been created by other means.

In your strivings for spiritual growth, my friends, it may be useful to think of yourself as a beacon, a light, and consider how you can direct your actions in a way that will increase your own personal intensity. Remember that a light which may shine most brightly does so without noise, without harm. Be like the beacon of light that shines forth from the lighthouse.

Forgiveness, yes, it's a way of boosting your light power, your brightness. A most noble spiritual attribute, one which does not come so easily to those of material origin, biological creation. Forgiveness involves the laying aside of anger, pride. Yes, your own greed and selfishness. And returning love where your material self may have experienced insult.

When you practice forgiveness, you will know that you are on the right track when you sense an easiness within yourself, a lightness of being, some have said. It has been said that it is as if a great weight is lifted from one's shoulders when forgiveness comes.

It is important to understand why forgiveness is difficult for you. That is because biology is moved by primal urges, the instinct to survive, the instinct to feed, and the urge to reproduce. When an animal senses a threat to its ability to carry out any or all of these three urges, the animal is instinctively driven to strike out. Anger ensues. Pride wells up. And a chain of events occurs in order for the animal mind to protect the interests of the animal.

Think of the times that the acts of other humans have angered you, lead you to harbor resentment and withhold forgiveness. How many of those incidents have truly involved a threat to your life? How many of those times has there really been a genuine and unquestionable threat to your family, to your capacity to earn a living? It is most likely that the vast majority of such episodes in your life have not been true threats to your material existence, much less to your spiritual existence. And yet it is the almost universal experience of mortal beings to carry a large burden of anger and resentment stored up over a lifetime about bygone incidents.

Like weeds growing in a garden, eventually such incidents can choke off healthy growth. Do not let this happen to yourselves. Assess your stock like the good gardener, carefully pull out the weeds. Yes, it is important to protect yourselves, but you must consider your motives. If you sincerely wish to increase your personal light, then make an effort to differentiate between the rare true threat and the common false threat. The false threats are meaningless, my friends. They can be forgiven so easily. And when you as living human examples behave in such elevated fashion, be assured that others will observe and imitate. Again, to behave in such a way is yet another step on the road to being in the world, but not of it.

Let the clean fresh water of forgiveness cleanse your mind. Let it wash away so much that hinders you in your aspirations to be like the Master, to be a worker helping to pull your world out of its turmoil and toward Light and Life. With forgiveness comes joy and peace. 

When you neglect to forgive, it is as if there is a shadow over your spiritual light, like a cloud covering the sun. It is not necessary. There are so few things in your material existence that are worth holding onto with retrogressive behaviors and feelings, so very few. And yet, of course, if your forgiveness is not sincere, it is not - it will not help you or anyone else. Keep that in mind as you work on your own capacity to be more forgiving. It will be a struggle. None of this is expected to be easy. But you will find it to be most rewarding.

Question: For the first fifty years of my life I said and felt that I was proud of my enemies. Probably during the last few years, I have been ashamed of my enemies because I haven't made them friends. I feel that I'm doing pretty good along the forgiveness line, but I still need to work on it.

Answer: You need not necessarily embrace the person you forgive. Rather, you are expunging the negative feelings toward the individual from your own mind. Were you to sense forgiveness toward those whom you refer to as your enemies, you would find that rather than being enemies, they would simply be neutral persons. It is not intended that you necessarily must have intimate and close associations with all other beings on the planet at this time, however, if your interaction can be peaceful, without rancor that would be most appropriate now. Also, there is no reason why you cannot guard yourself against those who you sense may not have your best interest in mind. Even the Master did that during His sojourn here, if you would review the chronicle of His life as presented to you. There is no need to hasten your own physical demise by putting down your protective behaviors. Simply, if you can refrain from hating the enemy. There is power in loving your enemy. It does not mean that there are not some who would not harm you.

This is a complicated issue, and one which deserves lessons of its own. But there has been much misunderstanding of what forgiveness is and how it should be properly applied in human interaction. But be assured, my friends, that your own personal feelings toward another individual or group of individuals are most powerful. Those which are imitative of Father are powerful in the sense of growth and movement toward Light and Life, and those which are regressive limit growth. There are two different aspects to forgiveness: one is to the person being forgiven, and the other, most important, is to the forgiver himself.

Question: Is there a difference between forgiveness on an intellectual level and an emotional level?

Answer: They are both variations of the mortal mind. There is a difference between the two - the two
methods you discuss, and the spiritual - but intellect and emotion are both biological in origin, although
there is the tendency to consider the intellectual workings of the mind to be more sophisticated than
emotional. This is not necessarily true however. Because my thought takes structured and logical form
does not necessarily mean that it is higher in its form. 

Question: Regarding forgiveness, I am wondering if, as we grow spiritually and as we do forgive more and
learn what that actually means and how that feels, if it actually becomes less and less necessary for us to
forgive or that we more than likely are inclined to forgive immediately when we sense a transgression
and then understand and then we forgo any of the pain and suffering or mental confusion or spiritual
aberration that comes from harboring resentment?

Answer: You have a good understanding of the concept. Remember, my friend, that at an earlier stage of the development of man an insult would be returned by an axe blow or the strike of a club on the head of the insulted. Slowly and arduously man has learned other responses to perceived insult. Now it is the time to let even those subtle but damaging feelings of anger, resentment, desire for revenge, and so on, pass by, and instead become more agile at the practice of instant forgiveness that you allude to. Eventually, with practice, you will find that it will indeed become an automatic response. Some of you here, in fact, have done quite well in your work along this line, and I commend you.

Forgiveness is a special quality of our Creator Son
 
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Today, brothers and sisters, I will speak on forgiveness. It is a special quality of our Creator Son, and to ready ourselves to appreciate His Divinity, goodness, beingness, light truth, beauty, and the miracle of His bestowal here. We will speak and discuss forgiveness, for truly Michael of Nebadon (Jesus) is the mercy-God of this universe. We will also speak on forgiveness because this is a trait, a practical trait, which you each may broaden in your life by actual doing. 

Michael of Nebadon is the God of mercy and forgiveness. God The FATHER, one of his inherent attributes is forgiveness. I cannot even say instant forgiveness for God is infinite and not time bound, but to you humans it would be instant, it would exist before you even requested it.

Forgiveness is not repentance, or justice, even. It is part of justice, but it is love in action. Forgiveness has not to do with the wrong that was done but to do with your individual capacity to love others. It matters not the injury to your selfhood. It matters not the level of wrongdoing - even if real on the part of your fellows. Even, yea, unto sin it matters not, for forgiveness has to with your own spiritual ability to love as The Father loves.

Forgiveness is a fruit of the Spirit and a Divine gift. It is true that The Father forgives you in fact, but your experience of this forgiveness, children, cannot be had by you until you forgive others. This is an important distinction, children: forgiveness exists, but you cannot know it until you forgive others. Thus, forgiveness may be thought of an actual muscle and as you exercise it, it grows stronger and you, then, take in more forgiveness for yourself.

Michael and The Father and the Mother Spirit, our Divine parents, have more mercy and forgiveness for each of us than we can ever imagine; but there are limits to forgiveness, and these limits are set by the person, being, in error and not by the Divine. 

When a human sins - and by sin I do not mean error, I mean a conscious rejection of the will of God, a rejection of Godliness, truth, beauty and goodness, a conscious decision to do one's own will, to hurt, etc., others - the four human problems of ego, deceit, and greed-anger, and fear, when one consciously decides to engage in these selfhood acts, and consciously rejects the will of God, that is a sin. Intentionally planning.

When one becomes sinful it becomes a habit like eating chocolates, and the habit of sin is reinforced. There are material, often, rewards for this behavior, and one can go further and further away from higher values. Therefore, habitual sinners sometimes, sadly, become iniquitous. For these beings engaged in iniquity there is no forgiveness because they will not ask or receive it.

An iniquitous being cannot, will not, ask The Father for forgiveness, nor will that being receive it. Truly it is: “ask and it shall be granted.” That statement was made by Jesus specifically about forgiveness. If these beings would ask they would be forgiven, but they cannot because they are unable to forgive. Life, the Universe, whatever their list of wrongs are, they cannot forgive, therefore can they not receive Divine forgiveness.

And Divine forgiveness, encompasses the concept of rehabilitation, not repentance - there is a difference - but rehabilitation, spiritual rehabilitation: the willingness on the part of the being to exercise higher values, to live more fully at the spiritual level, to change unevolved behaviors, to forgive and love others. That is spiritual rehabilitation. At the time of this rebellion, when the dastardly Caligastia and Daligastia entered into Satan and Lucifer's personal liberty iniquitous rebellion, many many beings followed. They were in error, not even in sin or evil. These beings were offered forgiveness by Michael of Nebadon. And many accepted. They were sent to work until the adjudication of the rebellion. They were rehabilitated spiritually.
Repentance was not asked for. Repentance is a human and primitive concept which means self-sacrifice,
animal sacrifice, money, good deeds, working off original sin, etcetera. Repentance is a not real or highly evolved spiritual concept. What is real is rehabilitation, is recognizing error and changing it. That is rehabilitation, growing more Godward.

So, Michael, Himself, knew that the evil ones would never accept forgiveness, but his mercy extended, and they were given much time to ponder their situation. As you know, they are no longer. That is the result of evil: non existence. The result of forgiveness is spiritual growth, extended love, and a more Godlike behavior toward one's fellows.

God is your Father and He loves us the way a father, a good father, loves a child. So much of what you think needs forgiveness, in actuality brothers and sisters, does not, for you are just children and like all children, make mistakes, The Father does not need to forgive you for your honest mistakes. He just gently guides the twig to grow in a healthy direction.

Truly evolved ascendant beings do not need to forgive others for they never take offense. Offense is an ego function. When Jesus said “resist not evil” this is what He meant: forgiveness. Not to condone evil or sin, no, never! But it is not up to us to judge. Our goodness and love should be so powerful, our Godliness should be so all-encompassing that neither sin nor evil can hurt us! For is not God more powerful than the force of darkness? Is not the Divine more powerful than the imperfect? Is not the light brighter than the darkness? Fill yourself with God's love and your forgiveness shall flow, for nothing can hurt or offend you.

This will not probably ever be accomplished consistently in any of your lives. But it should be consciously worked towards. Forgiveness is one of the highest qualities the human can attain here on this planet. It is attainable but one must fight one's human ego. This is a battle with self. I pray that you each work on this area. In each of your lives there are little thorns which need to be picked off. Select one thorn this week and actively work on forgiving the offense as you see an offense. Spiritual beings do not hold grudges. They do not engage in the act of anger and prolonged anger which is such a spirit poison. We do not look towards revenge. We do not judge. We try only to love our fellows - even when they are unlovable to us.

I want each of you - I request - to work on forgiving either a present hurt or past. Just one. And when you truly forgive you will feel The Father's forgiveness for your transgressions and mistakes flow into you and fill you with love, which leads to, children, inner peace! You are all so troubled in so many ways. And you look for peace. There is no Divine or mystical way to achieve peace. It comes through forgiveness, to love, to peace: the peace which surpasses all human understanding. And so I humbly ask that you work on this
this week.

Student: Thank you Rayson for a very inspiring lesson. It confirmed my study of the Bible which indicates that the only quality which Jesus said was qualified was the quality of forgiveness, because it was always reported as “forgive as you forgive others.”

Question: One of the questions last week bears on today's lesson about forgiveness. I asked about protecting ourselves from those who want to hurt us, and the second part of you answer hit on what I had in mind. It was about the one who looks at you and says “Oh you're too good, you're too nice, you're too honest I'm going to show that you're not really that good and therefore there is no God.” The hardest forgiveness job to me is to forgive those sorts. And some of them attain positions of high power and can do much to harm us, can even strip us of our ability to practice our professions, and its very very hard to let loose of.

Rayson: What happens when "all things earthly crash?" I know this is not a consolation, but it is the truth, spiritually, that the important things are yours and can never be taken away.

Question: I've found that the most difficult person to forgive is myself. I wonder if you might address
self-forgiveness.

Answer: Self forgiveness is difficult for you humans for you do not put yourself in the place of The Father. You are a father and if your child made a mistake would you not simply correct him and continue to love him and move on? You do not do this - humans - with yourselves. You continue to hurt yourselves for what you perceive as your mistakes or transgressions or errors. And this is not spiritually correct behavior because you must also forgive yourself. And you are also now capable of judging the severity or gravity of your actions. So you tend to overemphasize small growth problems which every ascendant being passes through, and hurt yourself about them.

These must be let go. A good father does not continue to re-remind the child of what that child did when they were one or two or three or four years old. A good father loves the child as they are now and encourages them to grow strong and healthy. This you must do - we must all do - with ourselves. We must not concentrate on what went before. That is for the Supreme. That is part of the Supreme: good,
bad, indifferent.

We must use our spiritual, mindal, emotional, and physical energies in tandem now to become more evolved beings. We must use all of our energies now to live higher values. This use of energy in past events is retarding growth. You may pray - all of you - to experience self-forgiveness, and that might be your choice to work on this week if that is your stumbling block.

Question: I do have one other aspect of forgiveness, and that is when we ask someone else to forgive us
sometimes they do and sometimes they don't. I wonder how you might comment on that phenomenon.

Answer: We cannot ask for - we may ask but we cannot control another's forgiveness. All you can do when you perceive that you have hurt another is to not engage - to change your behavior. Part of that is for your own growth. Whether a person forgives you or not is between that person and God. You may humbly ask for forgiveness. You may apologize and correct your behavior to a more loving style.

Question: Could you comment on the relevancy of any of the confessional styles of dealing with remorse and guilt. Some of us have been through 12-step programs which instruct us to examine ourselves and admit the exact nature of our sins to God, ourselves, and another human being and humbly ask for forgiveness. That's also the style of the psychotherapeutic technique that's currently used. I have to admit
it seemed at the time I went through it that it was very helpful to me, although maybe primitive compared to other .....

Answer: It is a useful emotional and psychological technique to be self-reflective and aware of one's life-actions in a spiritual light. It often helps one to recognize patterns of negativity and areas that need improvement. It is also emotionally a release from the past - guilt cleansing - to discuss this with another
human who is non-judgmental and unconditionally accepting - loving of the present self.

Confession is a more psychological tool than spiritual. Confession is not part of prayer. No, prayer - pure prayer - does not involve a request for the self, nor even a request for one's fellows. Pure prayer as you border on to worship involves consciousness of the Divine which becomes worship. So, confession is not a spiritually pure tool, but it does lead to more spiritual growth. It is not harmful, it is helpful for the human psyche and often leads to great periods of spiritual growth, but it is not a purely spiritual tool in and of itself.

Question: I'm a very forgiving person, but when driving I find sometimes I get irritated. I have taken a real
look, I really think that my irritation is the other driver's irritation that my sensitivity is picking up. I may be wrong on that, but many times that's really the only forgiveness that I work on. I attempt to be a mirror and return love to them instead of the regular highway hate that the crowded conditions seem to promote. Could you comment on that? What is the best way to return something like that?

Answer: First, I do not agree with your assessment that you are merely reflecting other's irritation for you are not a pond, you are a free-will creature, and you are reflecting your own irritation, not that of others. Perhaps other's irritation sets off your own, but you are responsible for your own responses, for you have free will, and should not so easily throw your negative emotions to others. You must realize that they are part of your personality, albeit a part which you would like to erase or move beyond.

Your imperfections are part of your gift of creation. This universe, Grand Universe, of evolution is designed that through creature experience and ascension you will become perfect. So your imperfections are a part of your gift from The Father. To pretend that they are not “you” is a disservice to your creator and to your own growth. Better, for yourself and for your spiritual growth to say “Yes, something in this situation annoys me, irritates me, makes me short-tempered or edgy. What can I do with these emotions? How may I constructively use self-mastery?” Read the lecture on self mastery in the Jesus section of the Urantia Book, for this is what your true soul question consists of.

I think that there is pain in you and the pain remains because forgiveness has not been fully achieved. So
you should - perhaps, although it is not pleasant examine some of your inner pain because a sore that
still hurts is open and to close this sore one needs the Divine waters of forgiveness. You are not seeing
clearly events in your own life which continue to hurt you because you have not fully understood them
and forgiven yourself or another.

Question: I was meditating earlier today on forgiveness, and it's interesting that you should choose that as
a topic. I was going to ask for a spiritual exercise for our forgiveness muscle and it has come to me that the prayer that Jesus, Christ Michael, taught us to pray is that exercise. Can you confirm that?

Answer: That is absolutely correct. That IS the prayer of forgiveness: “forgive us our trespasses as we
forgive the trespasses of others.” That is forgiveness in one sentence, the fact, and then the experience -
as we forgive others.

Question: And in praying that prayer, we experience it. (Yes.) And feel like working out physically (Yes, that is correct.) in praying that prayer (that is correct) will help, because sometimes we just need something and that ....

Rayson: - to focus our being on the act of forgiveness. It involves the two steps: asking for The Father to forgive us, and our simultaneous forgiveness of others. To join the kingdom, to enter the kingdom, takes only one decision. But to make continued progress takes much much continuous action. An important part of this is forgiveness.

Question: I am beginning to see that with forgiveness is the beginning of freedom. I've been beginning to
experience that in some small ways, probably, universal realities that speak to me and I can begin to see that and hold on to that.

Answer: Yes, sometimes small illuminations are fleeting. And we have a hard time holding on the truth of the Divine, and this must be constantly striven for. But yes, forgiveness is freedom, it is spiritual freedom.

Question: Along the line of forgiveness, there are times when people have done some very mean and cruel
things, for instance, to a child over a long sustained period of time. Such a person doesn't really have any desire to change, has more or less you might say “gotten by with the crime.” What would be your advice to an individual who has been victimized by such a cruel and inhuman person?

Answer: This is my advice. Forgiveness does not entail continued interaction with an unchanging, sinful, mean, evil human. You may forgive but may choose not to interact with this human at all. Forgiveness also does not impinge on the societal right of justice. As Jesus was on the cross and two convicted criminals hung at His side, He said “My son, indeed you have committed the action for which our society has put you to death. or will put you to death, or is in the process of taking your physical life from you. But my son, I see in your heart that you did not intend to do this crime, but indeed you have committed it and the rules of your fellows must be enforced. This does not mean that The Father has not already forgiven you.” So, societal justice - even to physical death – is allowable, concurrent with Divine and human forgiveness.

Question: In the light of what you were just discussing, does that mean that - having forgiven our brother who continues to do distressing things - we can still go ahead and love this being without having to be in continual contact. We don't have to go and try to force our love upon them in an effort to change them. 

Answer: That is correct. For only The Father, the Indwelling Adjuster, the Angels, the Spirit of Truth, and other celestial ministers can sometimes reach a human in error. All you can do is inspire through your own life and make your choice. Some people are capable of continuing to love and not be hurt by another less-evolved human. Some are not. Each situation is different. But it is spiritually acceptable and correct to discontinue relations with a human who is hurtful and still forgive them and love them and know that someday - perhaps not on this world but perhaps far along, these hurts will no longer exist between personalities.

Question: Then does that mean that if one can receive from that person rejection and not feel hurt that its
okay then to continue to reach out to that person?

Answer: That decision-action should be based upon personal prayer, guidance, and your free-will choice.

Question: I have a question about a process or progression toward forgiveness. I think I know who that
thorn is going to be for me. There is still a lot of anger in the way, so that - is it correct to say that its
important to go through the psychological process of getting that out before jumping to forgiveness? It
just seems like I would get ahead of myself and not be real - if I don't get out the human selfish stuff
first.

Answer: That is correct. Anger is a spirit poison and you have much on this issue. Perhaps you can work on forgiveness with another human while you go through the psychological-emotional purging which will take you quite some time on this other issue.

Question: Back in the middle ages the Popes used to sell indulgences. After they did, it was alright for a person who bought an indulgence to sin. I just wondered...

Rayson: This is quite humorous. This is not spiritually evolved.

Student: I didn't think so...

Rayson: - and they will have quite a surprise when they are resurrected.

Many condemn themselves to a life of atonement
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive April 6, 1998.
Teacher Universe Mother
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In spirituality, many find it is a bit more easy to forgive others than to have self-forgiveness. Many condemn themselves to a life of atonement or having to pay back certain debts, pay back for mistakes made. In this self-condemnation there is such a shadowing of light that could perhaps be shined and shared. Many mortals find that self-punishment is a way to atone for the past. This self-punishment is crushing to the soul.

In my work to touch base with you, I endeavor to help you have self-understanding. Self-understanding is removing the shadow that keeps you imprisoned. To completely believe without a doubt that you are an evolutionary being is to not have concern for self-forgiveness or self-condemnation. To have memory of past circumstances and actions taken, lead to healing and self-forgiveness, understanding that - yes, you have always had the best of intentions, although things may not have turned out satisfactorily.

Your relationships have either helped you to condemn yourself or some have helped you feel loved with the bestowal of freedom. You must believe that each person is most of the time thinking they are doing the very best that they are capable of. Real forgiveness begins with yourself. Real capacity to bestow Fatherly affection begins with being able to receive Fatherly affection.

Our Master, believing He had such Fatherly affection, made no apologies for normal evolutionary mistakes.  He believed Himself to be a learning child and found no need for self-forgiveness. He found it not within Father's will to have self-condemnation. In His knowledge of Father, He saw no need for self-punishment. Mistakes made by Him were to be made known so He may begin correction. His mistakes were made known by Father to His conscience, and He understood Father to have a corrective action ready for Him to take action on.

I would ask you, my children, for your awareness, to lean toward the receiving of personal Fatherly affection and self-understanding, self-forgiveness.

Be thankful that you have these opportunities to learn Forgiveness
 
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Teacher: Amanson
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Forgiveness is the stretching of the fabric beyond what would appear its initial parameters, stretched now to include all of the elements that have conspired to create the fabric. Forgiveness begins in the heart, travels up through the mind and out into the corridors of the imagination. 

Forgiveness is the root of all living relationships; for there will always be bumps, there will always be contrasts if not to say conflicts; there will always be differing points of view that, mankind being what mankind is, will take on extreme enthusiasms to the point of hurt, to the point of personal offense. And whereas these episodes may be unpleasant, one might thank one’s lucky stars that such episodes have transpired, for they demand the interior growth of Forgiveness. When one can forgive, one has taken a step further into the terrain of cosmic mobility, the realm of true forgetting of enforced structures, and replacing them with the Oneness of which we have spoken, that embraces us all. 

These acts that seem to demand Forgiveness are always relative to the one who needs to forgive, who has the opportunity, the golden opportunity, to forgive. But it is not a theory, “it ain’t book learning”, it is the lancing of a mental boil that allows the forgiver to breathe freely once again; and whether the forgiven knows it or not, he or she will benefit by the easing of tension that happens automatically in the vibrational realm.
 
Forgiveness has to do with the story that is being played out, with story that is being played out; the 'dramatis personae' in relationship that goes awry. Some error is truly egregious. Some error seems unforgivable but no error is unforgivable when seen from the heights of Wisdom. The arena in which such escapades play out is a partial one, so the truth of the matter is the unforgivable is ultimately forgivable. The hard part — again, ultimately — is he or she who has done the egregious act, the apparently unforgivable act, will have to forgive themselves. And indeed Forgiveness, a true forgiving approach to life and its elements, begins with forgiveness of one’s self, understanding one’s self and the errors that we ourselves make.  When we can learn to forgive ourselves and to move on - to learn the lesson and to move on - then we can turn this wisdom outward and apply it to those with whom we come in contact, those with whom we have altercations. 

And then there is the non-personal, the larger scene, the social scene, the reprehensible acts in society at large. These too must be considered in the light of Forgiveness. Not necessarily the act but the actor. The act itself must be dealt with on many levels — the mental, the psychological, justice, social justice, bringing equity into alignment. But those who are provoking the inequity must ultimately be forgiven for Forgiveness is the body of God. Forgiveness is the very stuff… it is the reflection of Love. It is Love in its working clothes. It is Love in action. Mercy is the main ingredient - the kernel within Forgiveness — and Love is its very foundation. And without Love there is no justice, there is no equity, there is no will of God. 

So, in this world with its many tossings and turnings, many belief systems, many mind sets, all its rampant fears which play out, which act out in the most devastating ways, be thankful that you have these opportunities to learn Forgiveness. This is not to be malleable, overly pliant, passive. It is not that at all. Appropriate action must be taken for the good of the whole. That is society. But society is a shell, a construct whose heart, whose beating heart, whose entire underpinning must be Forgiveness, otherwise you have no society. Or will soon not have a society. Be vigilant. Be aware. Be calculating if you must. But be merciful. And just as you would hope it would be applied to you, so [may] you graciously apply Forgiveness.

Fortitude

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
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 X  = Cannot be determined.


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Fortitude makes possible the completion of all worthy projects
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive October 28, 2001.
Teacher Abraham

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abraham: Fortitude has fallen into disfavor as a word in the English language, but its lack of usage does not imply that its virtue is outmoded. Fortitude is the ability to persist in the face of challenge, the strength to follow one's convictions of truth, beauty, and goodness. Fortitude is what makes a foundation solid. It is the mortar that holds together the decisions of will as these are made with the guidance of your Mystery Monitor, your Indwelling Spirit. Fortitude is born of adversity. It is born of a sense of duty. It is born of loyalty. Fortitude is long lasting courage, not merely the enthusiasm of aroused emotions; but is the cement which solidifies the structure of character. Fortitude is a first cousin to patience and, in fact, the one cannot exist without the other.  

Fortitude makes possible the completion of all worthy projects. It is an absolutely essential character trait. Fortitude is what carries the soldier through the dangers and even the horrors of battle. Fortitude is what keeps marriages together when sometimes the cords of love are frayed. Many people in this culture of the U.S.A. have had too soft a life where they have not been required to learn fortitude.  When the going gets
difficult many have abandoned their goals, because they have not learned the lessons of patience and fortitude.

This tragedy (referring to the 9/11 incident) may have many positive outcomes, among them a reappraisal of this nation's character and a questioning of its "hell bent for materialism" lifestyle. The worship of
materialism is in opposition to spiritual fortitude, for basically it teaches that comfort comes from having one's needs met immediately, nay more than one's needs, one's merest desires, satisfied now. To persist and build for a project that could conceivably last beyond one's lifetime is ludicrous to the dedicated materialist. So, perhaps, with the very symbols of materialism being attacked by the terrorists, the shrines of wealth and power falling, despite the tragedy of the loss of human life and faith, nevertheless, some may look upon this as a modern day Tower of Babel.

Please understand that I am not justifying the horrors of this faceless hatred which struck thousands of innocent people. What I am trying to suggest is that lessons can be learned that transcend the simple reflexive revengeful hatred response. We have talked of this before, and we will talk of it again, as this was no small event. This has been a planetary crisis.

I would suggest to you that the real struggle on this planet is between Jesusonian values and materialistic values. The bullies are not easy to identify. The good guys and the bad guys are not clearly demarcated. All
people, with the exception of those without normal minds, are indwelt by the Ultimate Good. Yet everyone can make mistakes and choose to make mistakes a pattern. We can see sin and iniquity evolve. We are hopeful that enough will be spoken by those like yourselves, to challenge the standard "us and them" ways of construing reality so that a profound spiritual upgrade will occur as a result of this great tragedy. Recall
that Jesus did not come to this planet to inaugurate social change. But the one thing he could not tolerate was inequality as it was expressed between gender, class, and economic distribution. One cannot serve both God and materialism.

These are the ripest moments, the greatest of times for potential change for the better.  I call upon you to
increase your fortitude, your strength that will endure, so that you may be part of the spiritual summertime which is to come on this planet.  
 
My final word has to do with the source of this fortitude. When one is thirsty, one seeks water from a well, let us say. One has to lower the bucket, fill it with water, and then reel it back up so they may then drink and quench their thirst. You have within you a well of living water. All you have to do is lower the bucket and reel it back up. That water will then give you the strength of fortitude.  

We always tell you that you need to stay in stillness practice, because stillness practice is your lifeline. If you do not drink water when you are thirsty, you will grow faint and you will be unable to stand against the adversaries, spirit poisons. Once you are charged with the strength of fortitude you will be able to stand before your brothers and sisters who have less information and less faith and strengthen them and lead them from darkness into light. Take a deep breath. Breathe in the Spirit, breathe out fear. Let go of weakness and take upon yourselves divine fortitude.

Free will

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


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The law of personal liberty
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive March 12, 2001.
Teacher Abraham

 

 

 

 

 

 

The following article makes frequent use of the word liberty in a personal and spiritual context applicable only to animate living and breathing men and women, which fall only within the soil and land jurisdictions. It must be pointed out that the word liberty is also widely used in the legal context within the sea and air jurisdictions. In the context of the sea and air jurisdictions liberty only applies to corporate and incorporated entities which are inanimate group organisations devoid of actual life, and in this context, the word liberty is frequently used to mean license to do whatever the organisation wishes to do within the particular legal framework to which it is beholden. As an example, an army may be granted a license to legally murder people under a declaration of war. Liberty of this nature is diametrically opposed to the type of liberty being discussed in this article, which is limited to liberty to do good to yourself and to others, within the parameters of free will as framed by divinity.

 

I will discuss a universal law with you — that is the law of personal liberty. Liberty is viewed as a gift from the heavens, but I like to look at liberty as if it were a map to our Paradise Father.

Many people in today's society are seeing religious or spiritual values as binding, or imprisoning the true nature of a mortal. They view spiritual values as a contract to keep that promises eternal salvation. Should you choose to break the contract, then of course there is no salvation to be had many believe. The true nature of the ascending soul is rooted in liberty and free will. The freedom to experience, learn to the best of their ability and in their own time, use their wisdom gained to assist others and uphold universal laws.

Some religions teach their own version of universal laws, which are not congruent with the ascending soul. Of course their laws and universal laws seem to work against the animal-self certainly, but universal laws are a natural outworking of evolutionary experience and are in alignment with the ascending soul. The universal laws are looked at as equality enforcers, safety measures, and assistants to the growth of the Supreme Being.

The law of personal liberty teaches us that Father is calling His children. He wants to be known and made personal to each individual child. The law of personal liberty tells us 'all choices are ours to make.' The Father loves you enough to let you go and find your own way to Him, in your own time, according to your own ability. There is not need to hurry or be pressured to follow a correct path or risk losing eternal salvation. All things work best when there is no pressure — only peace. Peace allows the best in everyone to
rise above turmoil, negativity and darkness.

There are many aspects to the universal law of liberty. I will mention the very important aspect of 'integrity.' As we mature in our spiritual growth we learn to sharpen our view of integrity. Integrity is the intention to
uphold universal laws and choose to trust in those On High. No doubt does the Father have an overall picture and superior outlook on all that was, is, and will be.

Spiritual liberty with integrity chooses Father — not the ways of self. Of course, we will all have hopes and desires, goals and dreams, and Father knows this. He does not ask you to sacrifice any of these things. He only asks that you stand-by, allow Him to help, because while He is teaching you, He incorporates others in to also teach them to create a higher good. Remember we are working for the growth of the Supreme. To be with spiritual integrity is a commitment to upholding universal laws. In your commitment are you more empowered with spiritual gifts to assist in creating greater good.

As we all know, Lucifer and his cohorts promoted greater self-good. They had not spiritual integrity and worked not for the growth of the Supreme Being. They disregarded universal laws in favor of self-indulgence. Their ultimate craving was to be superior, set above others, to gather attention and be praised. Self-fulfillment was their goal and while liberty allowed them to put their goal into action, integrity stopped them in their accomplishing it.

Everyone has personal liberty, but not everyone is with integrity. Do you understand how integrity carries you far beyond being a part of the universe to becoming an integral inner working of it? It is worthwhile to ponder spiritual liberty with and without integrity. Where does self lead you and where does self-forgetfulness lead you? Where does your map of personal liberty lead?

Free will is an aspect of your self-worth
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive April 27, 2001.
Teacher Daniel
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Daniel: The great gift of free will choice is yours because you are persons, and you are in the personality circuit of the First Great Source and Center, the Universal Father. This free will gift is also an aspect of your self-worth. It is incontrovertible evidence of your status before the universe as persons, not merely things.
Personality is a gift of the Father. All personality comes from the Father. It is the way in which man is made in the image of God. The image of God is personality, and essential to personality is the ability, within limits (your free will ends where another's free will begins), to make free choices. The Father respects the grandeur of personality in each personal creature. He respects his own reflection so much that he allows each person to choose his or her own destiny. It is up to each one of us to decide whether we will choose to go in the direction that the God of the Universes desires for us, or choose to go in a different direction, in our own direction, whatever that may be. God loves us enough that he allows us the choice to reject him, if that is what we wish to do. God loves us enough that he allows us the freedom to make mistakes, but more than that, to continue to make mistakes even though we know they are the wrong way to go. If he did not do that we would be robots. We would have no choices, and this would indeed demean our status from person to thing.

I tell you this so that you will pause and be amazed at the great respect that the Father of Personalities grants to each of his personal sons and daughters. Michael, known as Jesus of Nazareth, in his humanity always chose, to the best of his knowledge, to do that which he understood God desired. He did that because he knew God as a perfectly loving, completely good personality, as the most fatherly of fathers, the most motherly of mothers, the most perfect parent. He knew from childhood that even as his own parents loved and cared for him, so his Heavenly Father loved him and all His children even more profoundly. His trust in God was replete. It never wavered. He never doubted that his Father would always care for him and do what was best. Even in the worst of his times, the hour of his trial and crucifixion, he never doubted that the over-care of God was absolute. Because of his perfect trust in God there never entered into his heart or
mind the desire to do other than that which would please his father.

Having lived through bad times with your Planetary Prince rebelling and Adam and Eve defaulting prematurely, you have not had, until this time, an adequate understanding of God. Jesus gave it, but it fell on deaf ears among many of his hearers. Now the world is going to hear again the Good News that he once proclaimed. The world is now receiving this new understanding of God as a loving Father, not a critical and angry judge or king. The world is also going to hear that all people are God's children, not the children of the devil, not in need of ransom or atonement, but only in need of rebirth, spiritually, of forgiveness from
themselves and others, and the reception of unconditional love.

When you share you feel better. You feel a sense of the divinity of the Supreme, the God of Time and Space. When you tell the truth, that we are all God's children, and there is one family of God, everyone feels better.
Therefor, my friends, I say to you continue to walk, step by step, with the light of faith taking the dark crevices and shadows away from the obstacles which could cause you to stumble, and instead moving forward on your journey to Paradise. 

Virginia: I was contemplating the fact that at one time I believed that a person died and went perfectly, as a spirit, to heaven. And when I was contemplating this, I thought there's no room for free will if God makes me perfect overnight, because my choices on this earth have not made me a perfect being. And I have been working at it for a long time. I realized the very thing you are talking about, what a gift it is to have free will, and therefor I cannot die and go as a perfect being to heaven because that would be taking away my free will choices.

Daniel: Well said, and also it would eliminate all the benefits of experience, for it is in fact the result of choice that one develops learning from experience. If you were perfected, or if anyone was perfected instantly upon death, then all the learning of eons and eons that occurs between mortal life and residence on Paradise would not happen. The whole plan of mortal ascension to Paradise would be totally short circuited. There would be no administrators trained for use in the future. There would be no experiences of meeting different beings. There would be incredibly numerous experiences completely eliminated.

Can we override free will by offering love and healing?
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive January 13, 2001.
Teacher Tomas







 


Evelyn: Would we be overriding freewill to offer love and healing to someone who doesn't know that we are?

Tomas: This is where you approach the arena of the Thought Adjuster. The Adjuster is supremely respectful, indeed, guards with careful devotion the sanctity of the prerogatives of the personality. Within the context
of this personality's choice the degree to which they had invited the assistance of heaven, within this openness is where you are free to work. If the door is cracked but slightly, then blow love through this crevice as you can and will. But love precludes the forcing of the door itself. The master stands and knocks. 
He asks for entry. He makes no demands, neither should you.

Knowing the boundaries of free will, your mind field
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive January 13, 2001.
Teacher Elyon
T/R Jonathan







 

 

Elyon: It is not within the powers of divine helpers like your guardian angels to weed your mind field. Rather it is their task to help those rocks that you wish to comb out of your field to rise to the surface that you may view them. But it is entirely your free will as to which rock, stone, or gravel you wish to remove. The formula at work is that each personality is making its contribution to the oversoul of creation. I may stand in my field, look over the fence into your field, and have an opinion of how you may arrange your landscape. I could give you cuttings, transplants, that you may apply in your landscape as you see fit. We would commingle in the sharing and as a partnership create a form of beauty for the universe to behold. But if I were to be the gardener of your field, it would become my expression and not yours, and this is true of the field of the mind and the arena of choice.

Divine helpers share, broadcast widely is important and impacting on your soul growth and personality
unfoldment, for it is in the cross-fertilization that the Supreme grows, gains strength, and manifests traits that were only lying in potential. The mutual exchange of ministry is for the upliftment of each one of us in the hope that our exchanges multiply the diversity inherent in all our potential, thereby manifesting a beauty far transcendent of what would be a monotony if all our patterns of behavior and thinking were uniform. To uproot, to change your landscape, requires that you, the property owner of your mind field, do the digging, make the choice of which to pull and which to plant. I, as your neighbor, and your angels are always willing to give you a start from our field if you ask. It will be given, and then it is up to you where and how to plant and how often to water and when to fertilize.

Mark: I have this boulder. I accept your role as neighbor. How is one's desire to rid the landscape of an unacceptable object reconciled with turning a problem, a boulder, over to God when seeking assistance with that task? I understand that angels aren't God. 

Elyon: Yes, as your neighbor, I too may be too powerless to jump the fence and join you in lifting this extremely large boulder from your field. The divine backhoe operator (your inner Spirit) has the power to extract this large object if you give the call. It is important to remember the Divine Power and its immensity and its abilities. One of the interests of our Divine Source is the experience of the manner in which you overcome your hurdles. The writer of old spoke of a thorn in his side and credited it with being a divine gift,
painful though it was. Each landowner perchance has an uneradicable boulder that can be landscaped, can be beautified, can be transformed. What was once evil, ugly to the eye, can become scenic and good.

Seeking the counsel and guidance of the divine will reveal to you the proper direction. Do you bring in the cranes and pull it out? Do you modify your terrain such that it is transformed? By seeking with faith and acting in trust you open the channel of communication wherein these decisions can rise to clarity and confidence and subsequent action.

Gerdean: I have a picture of a field of boulders next to a field where someone has built a tall buiilding that blocks the sun. A mirror could reflect the Father around the building to light my garden with the light that transcends the rudeness of my neighbor who blocked the sun. 

Elyon: The Father knows that you each have a plot in the reality of time and space and that the field of another can be too close, that adjacency can infringe upon you. This is where the teaching of the brotherhood of all comes in. But He has made provision to minister to these inconveniences, for, as we have worked this analogy, the sun will cross the sky through the day, and your field will receive the sun, even though there are moments when the shadow of your offending neighbor is cast upon you. This edifice, while an obstacle, can also be a blessing, for it may shield your field from the north wind. It may absorb the heat and forestall a frost.

This field may have occupants besides yourself. You may be the landowner, but the Father has given you a landscaper, His own presence. The development of the partnership of the two of you creates the landscape of the soul that beautifies the mind field. When one beholds the work of a gardener who has created a balanced and inviting landscape, rarely does one notice the dirt. The soul is the landscape upon the mind which beautifies the personality. The mind, like the soil, will offer nutrients unceasingly. It will receive your
compost as well. The Father will rain upon you and shine upon you from above, and His divine Fragment will cooperate in the planting of your soul landscape. Always will the foundation of mind remain to support and to contribute. But in the long run your attention will be focused upon that soul emergence, the ripe harvest of spiritual growth and morontia attainment.

Fusion

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
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Thought Adjuster Fusion
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive March 29, 1998.
Teacher Malvantra, Machiventa
T/R Mark, Daniel

 

 

 

 

 

 


Malvantra: It is important for you, in your ascension, to actively strive to lift off the limitations which everyone has applied to their own situation. Many of these limitations may be repercussions of previously learned material throughout your life. You, in your process of ingesting truths, may have, in error, told yourself that such conditions would never be available to you; that only superhuman beings may avail themselves of this particular technique. I desire that you lift this limitation off your being, that you embrace the potential that all individuals have access to this avenue of ascension through your stillness practice, through your discipline, and through your efforts it is entirely possible for you to be so synchronized with your Adjuster that you would be advanced to the next level without the normal evolutionary progression having to take effect. This is a potential which has been underestimated for quite some time; indeed, it has been unknown on your world for most of its existence. Some of you have become aware of this potential through your studies, and therefore you are head and shoulders above most of your brothers and sisters who do not even possess awareness of this Fragment within them, let alone the ability to become one with this Inner Fragment.

It therefore behooves you to present yourself with certainty as to the presence of this indweller, as to the eventual fusion with this indweller, and to the harmonious coexistence with this indweller until that time.  From our perspective, we see that time is all that is required  for this sequence of events to take place, and that, in our eyes, you have already achieved this goal; it is simply time and experience that lie between you and this destiny.

If you were to make this comfortable with your brothers and sisters around you, that this is an eventuality, it could offer great peace of mind to many of those who are quite uncertain of their destiny as well as many of those who suspect this to be their destiny. So, be joyful when discoursing with those around you that you are safe and secure in the eventuality of this realization. As you gaze upon them, instruct them that you are also certain of this eventual reality for them, as it is in store for all.

To address your question - which I am aware of - there have been definite examples of mortals of your realm in your time who have reached a level of devotion so as to transcend the material steps of dissolution and morontia status. I decline to give individual names as this might foster unusual amounts of attention to any individual.

I would leave you with the  knowledge that this is more than a potential; this is an actual waiting to happen. All that is required is the dedication on your parts individually to desire and to pursue it. Many times this intensity does not occur until an individual is in an extremely stressful or life threatening situation, but it does occur. You would be well ahead of the game to aspire toward this eventuality in full awareness and with full preparation. As I stated, it is not if, it is only when, and it is only the difference between sooner or later. I leave you with that certainty.

Jonathan:  Springing from this, we read in the Urantia Book about attaining the first psychic circle which prepares us to fuse. The book says that to fuse we must then unify our experience. A musical analogy might be that the seven psychic circles might be like recording seven tracks of a song to tape. When we work on ourselves to the point of laying down that seventh track, there still is the mixing to produce a balanced song. Can you comment on what remains between attaining that final circle and the event of fusion?

Malvantra: Picture this, if you will: You may individually, carefully and slowly work on each individual track and step until you have defined them to your satisfaction. Then imagine having developed through this process the capability at one time to do a live take where everything simultaneously and with correctness transpires.

Tom: Why would one aspire to fusion when so many service opportunities are on this planet right now? I understand that as finaliters we return to planets much like our origin, anyway. Wouldn't we enjoy a greater opportunity for service to postpone that fusion until later? Is it possible to fuse and stay around?

Malvantra: You should aspire toward the eventual goal of fusion for the sake of the aspiration. This desire is a propellant and is a focal point for your energies. Many times you will discover that having sought after a goal, upon arrival it was the journey to the goal that was the important factor. The aspiration toward becoming one with the Adjuster would be sufficient propellant to align you more so with that Adjuster. It is true that of your own free will you would choose to alter this course, to postpone this course, to redirect this course so as to gain more of the journey. 

It is the journey that is the building up of life experiences into your personal library which is significant.  Fusion is the cherry on top; it is the carrot at the end of the rope, what you are reaching and striving for, all the while taking many steps to get there, all of which are valuable to you in your soul-growth career. So true, live life to the fullest as you are here. Do not make the mistake of not gaining the experience that is offered to you while in this state with the idea that you must hurry and somehow get to fusion. It is not important, as I said before, It is a pre-acknowledged fact, your fusion. You should rest securely in that. The only question now is how and when and how much in between can be stored by your personal library. True, do not reach for fusion as some final goal you must hurry and attain, because the journey to the inevitable is what it takes to reach the inevitability.

Machiventa: I would add one small comment to what my brother has shared and that is you will only attain fusion if you wholeheartedly pursue and at the same time understand that the actual fusion itself will not occur one moment before you are personally ready for it to happen. You need not worry that you will miss something if you fuse prematurely. There is no such thing as a premature fusion. You will certainly be absolutely ready for the moment if you wholeheartedly walk towards it. That is all I would add.

Jonathan: I understand you are saying the potential, the almost ready to happen, fusion is like the hour has not yet come when we are soulfully satisfied with all the experiences prior to fusion. Then we can say, "It is finished", and the event will occur. Is that what you mean?

Machiventa: Yes, that is it, when you can personally know and say, "It is finished" as the master did.

Gifts

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
[  ] soil   [  ] Land   [  ] Sea   [  ] AIR


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Practice giving goodness and never tire of it
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive, 23 Oct 1996.

Teacher Ham

 

 

 

 

 

 

Think of your life as the gifts you give and the gifts you receive. You are all a combination of this giving dynamic. The law that governs human lives is only concerned with giving. When you give into the world, then you are automatically prepared to receive likewise from the world. The only aspect of this dynamic that you can influence is the giving end. You may experience receiving in different ways in different times and you can consciously facilitate receiving, certainly. But, in actuality, as the universe is constructed, you must first be prepared to give before you can be prepared to receive goodness.

If you desire to receive good things from the Father's hand, first you must be practiced in the giving of good things from your hand. Practice giving goodness and never tire of it, for as you dispense goodness to your fellows, so are you prepared then to receive good things from the world given through the Father. 

As you know, the Master taught that you must put no bounds on your forgiveness. This is a difficult and trying thing to practice in life, for you are always able to find justification to put boundaries on your tolerance, and on your forgiveness. But, this is not the way of the spirit.

The Father fragment is always pushing you into situations and circumstances with your fellows that require you to give when it would be easier to withhold. Does the Father put boundaries on his forgiveness or his love? No, he does not. If you are to walk behind the Master, so too must you learn to forgive when it would be easier to condemn and to give when it would be easier not to.

The Father brings his children together and he pulls them apart. So, in this understanding those people who irritate you most, for whom it is hardest to deal with, and who deride and insult you, are all in your lives to teach you a lesson. Returning harm for harm, or insult for insult, is not the way to walk in the path of the Lord. But though his path is harder on the face of it, you, yourselves, are being prepared to receive greater goodness for that goodness which you can bestow.

If you put boundaries on the love you are willing to show your fellow man, that boundary is on yourself.  That boundary limits the love and the goodness that you can receive. Human beings tend to treat each other unthinkingly and somewhat cavalierly with little regard. And you tend to justify these actions by thinking that you are too busy to take time with each other. I want you to think through, the next time
you are tempted to deal harshly with someone, the limits you are putting on yourselves.

You should all be thankful for those who take with ingratitude, who abrade your pride, those to whom it is hardest to give and for whom it is hardest to bestow love, for they are those who will give you the greatest blessings when you overcome your human tendencies and take up the burden and go the extra mile.

Question: I was wondering if what you are talking about is not values. Until you have given something, you will not value that thing. You probably won't accept it as a gift.

Ham: Very insightful, yes, exactly.

Question: There were two different people today that I was tempted to be mean to but was not. Both, I think, are suffering from mental illness. One is a elderly neighbor woman who stands out in her yard and yells insults at all the neighbors. We have tried to help her, but she couldn't understand that and now she hates us. The other is my mother's husband who is making her life miserable. He suffers periodically from
bouts of mental illness and he is almost impossible to help. I would like to help him, but he will not take help and he just gets angry and belligerent. I find these hard situations to handle, when someone needs help but will not take it from you. It is hard to break though the wall of anger and hatred, hard to see what you can give them in that case.

Ham: Once again, we are not talking about the consequences for the other person, only the consequences for yourself.  If you give and require a certain effect, is that truly giving?

Question: It is more on the order of negotiating or manipulating, depending on the situation. Or a trade.

Ham: You must only remain with the attitude of giving and of forgiveness to open your heart to greater goodness. 

Question: If the best I can do is to be understanding and tolerant given their craziness, then sometimes that is the best gift I can give?

Ham: Yes, exactly. When I am speaking of giving, I'm mostly thinking of spiritual giving, of kindness, not so much of material things.

Question: It is hard to change life long patterns of behavior.

Ham: Yes it is.

Question: I remember my dad saying as a kid, are you going to let them treat you that way, and until he said anything I did not think they were messing around with me. It was painful to his ego that his son was
being treated that way.

Ham: Yes, tremendous untold suffering has been caused on your world in the defense of honor.

Student: I guess the main thing that comes to my mind about giving and unwillingness to give and intolerance is in cases where people are afraid to give themselves, selfish or however you would say that. The cases that come to mind are people who are fearful of not having enough, and I am talking material here. I have a problem giving to these people. I tend to resent their fear of being willing to give. It is something I need to work on. Does that make sense?

Ham: Because they are unwilling to share something with you or others, then you become less willing to share with them, is this correct?

Student: Yes it is. I sound sort of like a little kid.

Ham: Once again, material things cannot be totally given away. Each person must make their way in the world of material reality and must work and so forth. So, these are issues where negotiations and give and take are normal and proper. However, the spiritual giving cannot be bargained for. Love is not something that can be earned.  

Question: It is common for people to mix them up, the spiritual and the material, when dealing with each other. I do not have trouble loving them, but giving them material things, I have a problem with it.

Ham: There are always those in society who would take the easy way and presume to live off the sweat of others and these are unfortunate, lost souls. So, perhaps you are correct to question whether your natural generosity is actually the best thing in a material sense.  But this really is another whole question. Like with a child, you can love that child and still restrain him from harm, harm that he would do himself. Just keep in your mind that they are two different things, materialism and spiritualism.

Question: I was thinking that my father was a real hard person to be kind to. I learned a lot, taking care of him, about being kind and seeing past how he treated me. I learned a lot from that, and that's good, I have
also learned, from my crazy neighbor, that being kind to people is not necessarily the gift they want. I would not do it any differently, but I try to see that there is a lesson in her acting the way she does. 

Ham: You don't always get the results you expected.

Question: Yes, I have tried to see that maybe there is some other lesson in this, like how she affects the people around her. As far as dealing harshly with people and giving to people, I find that I have a hard time knowing what is appropriate. I run into so many needy people that part of me feels guilty that I am not doing more. I could spend my entire day at it, but obviously I can't. Then there are the street people that I know I should be kind to that come up and ask for money, or that come up and ask for a job, well money. When I deal with them sternly I feel guilty. I feel like I have to protect myself since some of them are dangerous. I have a hard time knowing what is appropriately kind.

Ham: This is understandable. Once again, remember to separate the material from the spiritual so that you don't feel guilty for living a normal middle class life. And once again, the giving of the material may not aid these humans in any way.

Question: What I have been trying to do in each of these encounters instead of beating myself up, look back and see if there is anything I could do differently next time, I figure that way I can come up with a good way to handle the situation, I hope.

Ham: The world is so full of needy people that you cannot possibly meet all their needs.

Question: She brings up something interesting with the lady down the street that Jesus never followed anyone up.

Ham: Yes. You are only responsible for your giving not for the actions of the person you are giving to or the results.

Question: It is always sad when you try to be everything to certain people, it's that thing they say in Alcoholics Anonymous, let the real God do it. It certainly gave me a lot to think about, I never had someone
react so violently to an act of kindness. It makes me think if she really needed help, would I go help her. If she fell in her yard, would I go help her get up. I have had to think about it. It has been a real interesting situation. Can you comment on that, feeling like you should do more and more to help people and reaching the limits of what you can do, and then feeling guilty about that.

Ham: You should not feel guilty that you have limits, You are a human being, only, made of the same stuff and largely the same abilities as those whom you wish to help. You are a naturally sympathetic person, and you are drawn to play Florence Nightengale. But, you must learn to accept yourself, who you are, where you are in life, and also to accept those who tug at your skirt, who they are and where they are. You can pray for them, and give them spiritual comfort, but you cannot change their circumstances. That they will have to do.

Question: I think that is good advice, and I know I need to learn to not take responsibility for not visiting everyone in the neighborhood. I take responsibility for too much, and I know that. If I do something nice,
I want a brass band. Some banging of gongs, like she went and visited an old lady. I want the recognition too.

Ham: We are happy that you have shared with us this evening, all of you, and are glad to experience the wisdom and the insight that each one of you holds.

Goals

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
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SOURCE: This row is used for recording useful information about the source of the wisdom entry.

Setting goals
 
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SOURCE: tmtransctipts teamcircuits email archive July 27, 1998
Teacher Abraham
T/R Nina

 

 

 

 

 

 

In mortal living, many expect their time to be God's time and are disappointed when goals are delayed. The wise mortal knows all goals are completed in natural evolutionary time.

A man who has been injured in an accident and is paralyzed does not focus on the end of his recovery, which is to be up and walking around, no. He focuses on the physical therapy he will have to endure to progress toward his goal of walking, all the while, looking for Father's open doors. If this man does not
appear to find the open doors towards total recovery, which would allow him to walk, he perhaps looks for those open doors which would find him employment, or purpose, or fulfillment in some other avenue.

Perhaps he may teach upon the hazards of his particular accident. A man who found himself unable to ever
walk again would surely experience crushing defeat, yes, but the spiritual man would redirect his goals towards fulfilling his mortal destiny in other ways. Yes, his defeat would be temporary; surely there is happiness to be found.

A Zebra does not make a goal of attaining spots like his fellow Leopard, no. Goals must be realistic. A man who is told he will not walk, and has put forth his best effort to no avail, in time, begins to accept it and redirect his goals. Of course, this is not done without every effort within his being. He is simply not allowing his adversity to make him lie down before his struggles with hopelessness. His goals must become realistic. Perhaps his next goal is to contend with the depression that has set in from his disappointment, yes.

Father wishes for your every abundance and opens those doors that you need in His natural evolutionary time. His path is always spiritual. Before material or personal fulfillment, He always chooses the spiritual. Know that Father will open doors of spirituality first. He desires closeness with you, and in closeness, there is always success. We know that Father has His own natural evolutionary time in which we must allow for when setting our goals. We know our goals must be kept within the realness, and always the first doors Father opens are regarding spirituality and closeness to Him.

I mean not to say there won't be things miraculous, no. Miracles are Father's immediate fingerprints, yes. These small miracle are however, usually performed to gain attention from a wide circle of people. You would perhaps experience a small miracle and go forth to share your joy and gratitude with another. The sharing of these immediate Fatherly fingerprints are indeed faith promoting, and there is no reason why you would not receive one.

The man who is downtrodden by his handicap and receives a phone call with a job offer, may certainly regard this as Father's fingerprints and reap the joy therefrom, but for the most part, your mental attitude is better balanced with the thoughts of Father's time is normal evolutionary time. You need not feel anxiety ridden over the time that passes to attain your goals, no. It is better for your to focus on the small steps you can take toward attaining your goals. Watch for Father's open doors to closeness with Him. Your closeness
guarantees a good balance in all you do. 

Goodness

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
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SOURCE: This row is used for recording useful information about the source of the wisdom entry.

Goodness is a building block
 
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SOURCE: 

Rayson and Friends

 

 

 

 

 

 

Goodness is a very basic, very critical concept that has great depth, ranging from the most superficial aspects which are easily grasped by mortal beings and far beyond. You will go on learning about goodness all through your ascension career, so it is not redundant to have a lesson about goodness at this time. Goodness is a manifestation of our Father. When we behave in good ways we are imitating Father. We
are showing Him to our fellows, and we are sending a message to Paradise in that unique way that all of our actions are transmitted. The message is a good one, and is greeted with pleasure by the Most Highs.
And it makes this planet shine a bit more brightly in the cosmos.

Goodness is a building block. Your good act will stand for a long, long time as - I do not know the words to describe it, so I will use the word “spiritual” – as a spiritual entity on Earth. And the good acts of you and your fellows throughout history go to build a solid edifice of worship to Father, like bricks or building stones, if you will. Those who have spiritual vision are able to see the good that has been done just as if they were viewing building blocks, which is quite wonderful indeed.

What is seen by the material person is barely or not seen at all by the spiritual and vice versa. It is rather sensed by the spiritual. Spiritual beings perceive spiritual things such as goodness just as firmly as you would perceive a table or a chair or a car or a stone. And the car and stone that you perceive and consider to be your real world are only sensed by the spirit. Therefore your perception, as a material being, of goodness and other spiritual things will be more of a sense, a sensing, a feeling, if you will, although that is not a good word. If you can grasp this concept and use it in your future observations as you go about your activities, it will help you greatly to understand the dealings of the spirit, and it will also enable you to perceive more clearly the promptings of your Thought Adjuster - which are, among other things, urgings
for you to do good.

This perception of spiritual things has been described as being of gossamer quality, like the faintest of breezes blowing across one's face, in some of your religious tracts. This is a good way of describing it. Again, I want to remind you that when you work on your spiritual perception, the more you work on it, the stronger it will become. When you work on your goodness and its expression in your acts, the more you strive, the more good you will manifest.

There is an unfortunate fact of semantics in this language that equates goodness with value, but that is not the meaning of the spiritual concept of goodness as far as the material aspect of value. For you know that Father loves us all with no favorites. You will not become a teacher's pet by striving to do good. You are not in a competition with all others for Father's favor by striving to be good. That is not how the universe operates. I know that it is difficult for mortal beings to let these ideas pass, and that is why I am reminding you. It is not good, better, best. One strives to be like Father because it is right. One strives to be good, to be honest, to be loyal, to be merciful because it is right - not because it is to be superior.

As you, my friends, become more spiritually attuned and develop your spiritual muscles through your actions, you will become more humble. And as you become more humble, more truly humble, the notion of superiority as it falls off your shoulders will seem increasingly to have been an unnecessary burden and hindrance. And your life will become easier for having discarded that notion, and that, too, is good.

Now, it has been said by some of your thinkers in the past that one should never let go an opportunity to
do good. This is a most interesting utterance. Does this mean that as one comes at you with knife bared intending to harm you, you offer a bouquet of flowers? A fistful of money? A kiss? No. Jesus faced with that situation would surely have protected Himself, but He would not have necessarily drawn His own knife. And in not drawing his knife, His act would have been good.

In doing good do you feel it is appropriate to offer things to people without any effort on their part? For example, giving food to the indolent, clothes to those who are capable but will not work, housing to those who will not maintain it, and so on. Is that good? Think upon this, my friends. Would Jesus do that? Did He?

But then, of course, we have another matter, the matter of healing. Disease is a complex matter which
involves the interplay of physical factors with spiritual factors. Every disease known on Earth contains both elements, and you will remember that Jesus did indeed heal those who came to Him without question. You may say, but is this not the same as giving a house to the man who will not work or clean his home? No, because a house is a material thing and disease is not a wholly material thing. A full understanding of the contrast between these two situations is an exercise which may be beyond the scope of this lesson, but it does no harm to work on this, my friends. And attempt to resolve what may very well seem to be paradoxical. As you all strive to be good, you will in a sense be healers.

Be careful now, though, to differentiate between healing illness and catering to greed. Do not deprive your fellow man of the personal adversity that is so necessary to their own spiritual growth. Certainly you may help, but it is important to understand where the line is to be drawn. And it is very much an art to learn this method of discernment.

The life of Jesus is a study in goodness, and I ask that you turn to the account of His life as an example for you. Is there perfect goodness? Yes, in Paradise. Is there perfect goodness on Earth? No, not at present, but there is the potential for movement toward Light and Life which is in the direction of perfection in spiritual terms.

Is there goodness in animals? No, goodness is an advanced spiritual concept.

Is there goodness in humans who are savages? That depends on the level of development, but if the savagery is deep enough it is possible to find savage humans who are bereft of goodness.

Can a good person become ungood? Yes, by turning from God and plunging into iniquity.

Can the reverse happen? Yes, by all means, with great effort and faith.

When does the human begin to grasp the notion of goodness? Shortly before the Thought Adjuster arrives there is in most human mortals a beginning of understanding of goodness. Certainly the pre-Adjuster mortal responds positively to goodness in other humans. But the capacity to behave in good ways is not truly present until the Adjuster arrives. That is not to say that infants cannot mimic goodness quite well.

Question: I think that I tested almost everything by whether or not I thought it was in accordance with the will of God. If it was, I thought it was good. And if not, I thought it was evil. This is a rather simplistic view, but it's the test that I used.

Answer: Of course it is the will of God that goodness be done, that goodness characterize the actions of
freewill beings and, of course, the actions of perfectly created beings. However one can act not perfectly
in accord with the will of God and yet still be doing good. There can be flawed good at the material level. It is not such a binary concept. The aspects of the spirit are not so black and white. It is more a matter of what you call quanta.

There is the first step toward goodness which is perceived by one and all in Paradise as a positive move, and the second step and the tenth step and the hundredth step and the millionth step. All are in the realm of good even if they are not wholly and completely a part of a life which is dedicated to the will of God. Material beings are understood to be flawed, to sometimes do the right thing with the wrong motive. The wrong motive is not the will of God, but the right thing is.

All goodness which mortals do in attempting to do the will of God, is within God's will even though it may not be His perfect will.

Question: During your lesson on goodness you spoke of spirit sensing. Do we have spirit sensors that sense
some phase of spiritual reality as we do physical sensors to sense some phase of physical reality?

Answer: Yes. Yes, you do. The lifelong promptings of your Thought Adjuster have laid up a store of information in your deep mind that enables you, if you will it to be, to sense along these lines. Think to
yourself of your observations of random strangers and the senses you have had about them. 

Human beings saw many, many centuries before they ever understood sight. And they realized that it came through the eyes before they understood the mechanics of its coming through the eyes. The sensation of pleasure that you all possess has been present since the earliest days of mankind. Pleasure has been sought in many ways. But as mankind continues to evolve toward Light and Life, the sensation of pleasure will increasingly be sought through spirit growth and attempts to carry out the will of Father rather than through biological strivings. Just as sight was present for many eons before it was understood, so too was pleasure. And the pleasure that the ill person experiences when spiritual healing occurs is something that can be used to advantage by the one who wishes to do good. 

Question: You were talking about us having senses of goodness and that we're able to increase our ability
to sense goodness. Can you help with how to do that? Sometimes you sense goodness in somebody you
don't know. Sometimes you don't sense goodness in somebody you don't know and you find out later
that you're wrong - one way or the other. What happens when we sense something, maybe incorrectly,
and how can we learn to sense it, do better at it? It probably has something to do with the fact of
goodness not being all good or all bad, but I was wondering if you might say something more on that?

Answer: Yes, that is a very good question. You are right that it is not all good or all bad. It is important
when you put out your feelers - so to speak - for goodness that you look beyond the physical demeanor
of the one you are viewing. It is easy to form a snap judgment without having enough information about
the spirit of the one you are watching. This is particularly common at the beginning of your ventures along this line. As you work more and more to look for this in people, it will be useful for you to confirm your observations by gathering more information about those you observe. For example, by talking with them, by watching their behavior over a longer period and comparing what you amass in terms of concrete information to your initial impression. You will know that you are advancing along the line of spiritual perception when your instant assessment becomes more and more congruent with your assessment after long association.

Question: Is goodness a state of being having to do with spirituality as well as a form of doing?

Answer: Yes, and many, many other things as well. It is a basic spiritual concept that has many, many layers, many dimensions, many outworkings, and learning all of these will take you a very, very long time. But make no mistake, others can and do perceive this in you, even those of very limited vision, and you will sense this, too. You already have, many of you. It is magnetic. So be ready to deal with those who are drawn to you in a gracious and God-serving fashion. Did not our Master always have time for His supplicants?

Goodness and advancing spiritual growth
 
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Supplemental to Goodness is a building block.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Today's lesson is on a subject that we have covered numerous times in the past, however today's presentation will add a new dimension, hopefully, to your understanding. We are going to explore the topic of goodness and its role in your lives now, particularly now, but also later in your ascension careers.

I have sensed that some among you have been distressed by what you correctly perceive as a lack of goodness on the part of some of your fellow mortals on Earth. This is painful even to Father in Paradise, and, of course, to myself and the other beings who are here as observers and participants in the present mission of upstepping and reconnection to the universe at large. So, of course, it is to be expected that this would be painful to you who must live in its presence. And as your spiritual growth proceeds you will become more keenly aware of spiritual retardation in others, as you have most likely already noticed.

So, you may ask, what can I do about this?
How in my small way, as a lone individual, can I help?
What would Father have me do?
What is the right way?

And your Adjuster will always, always say that the way of goodness is the proper path, if you would help Father to further the work toward eventual light and life on this planet.

Leading a life of goodness sounds simple, and yet even for Jesus, it was not easy. Why should this be so? After all, it seems logical that to be good, to behave in good ways, would be simple. There are many reasons that goodness is elusive to mortals of imperfect creation. You are all aware of your biological origin and the strong influence that crude desires exert upon you in your daily activities.

This is a very powerful force in pulling the individual away from the direction of goodness. And it is true that, on a material world of imperfect origin, behaviors that are not wholly consistent with goodness of intent can be very rewarding in terms of material success, accumulation of prestige, perceived mating desirability, access to leisure activities, all of those things that are so prized by the lowest desires within you.

But your Thought Adjuster is always there, ever attempting to communicate with your deepest mind, and when you sincerely desire to commune with your Mystery Monitor about your own life and actions, you will each and every time be answered in detail with regard to the structure of your behavior in the direction of good and truth and love and beauty.

And, yes, it can be painful, as I myself know so well, to turn away from the well-learned and heavily practiced gratifying lowly styles, toward Father on the basis of faith alone and inner promptings that may seem at best vague. But, my friends, to do this, to consult with your inner fragment of God increasingly, and to heed, as much as possible, the promptings which you receive, is the way, the best way and the only way, for you to help to correct the deficiencies of your fellows and of course of yourself.

How can this be, that your own behavior, without a direct interaction with others, can yet act to undo or correct spiritual deficiencies in them? Even I do not fully understand this phenomenon, but I will describe it to you as best I can. All of what is exists in such a way that it works well when the ways of Father are followed. Things work well and most efficiently when the will of Father is heeded, and work poorly or not at all when Father's will is defied. That is why the acts of a good person are so powerful, because you, my dear friend, acting as an individual of good will and Adjuster prompting, set off a chain of events with each proper and Father-focused act. This chain of events is most efficient, far-reaching and ripples across time in a most interesting way to have the most magnificent effect on all of mankind, and indeed, on all of the universe. And it will penetrate each of your fellow man to the core of his being.

I do not know why this is, but if you can imagine an arrow shot by an expert hand with a perfect bow flying through space with no friction, no resistance, that might be an analogy which would be helpful to you.

And what of the act of the one who is deficient, the one who rebels against the Adjuster, who wishes not to be good? The act of that one falls at his feet and truly goes no further. So ineffectual it is. You may ask but what of the one who murders? What of the one who steals? What of the one who enslaves, beats, or in many other ways seeks to dominate and harm other beings? Does not the act of that person penetrate at least one other? Materially, yes. Spiritually the only effect that wrong-doing can have on another being is to promote the spiritual advancement of the other, for remember that adversity always leads to spirit growth, as long as there is will to follow the ways of Father.

What of the one who harms a being who has not yet been endowed with an Adjuster, such as a baby? How is the baby with no Adjuster benefited spiritually by the adversity of its own murder or harm in other ways? Prior to the arrival of the Adjuster in beings of biological origin, there is more of an animal-like response to pain and suffering than after the Adjuster arrives. Yes, pain is indeed felt and causes suffering in the baby, but not as you would experience it, not at that level of intensity, so the baby is somewhat protected in that way. Spiritually there are guardian entities that surround the baby and enable it to depart the material body more quickly when conditions of inappropriate material action are being applied. And it is recorded in the life account of this person, the baby, that such events occurred. And when the Adjuster meets again with this being on the mansion worlds an increment of spirit progress is allotted to compensate for that which was lost.

Father suffers with you, my friends, as do I and all of the teachers present now and all of the beings present now at the most unfortunate behaviors inflicted upon mankind by those who are unwilling to heed Adjuster promptings or who have even dismissed their Adjusters. It is our fervent hope that this mission will assist the human cultures of Earth that presently exist to adjust themselves in such a way that such beings will be expunged. This must happen. I cannot tell you when that will occur.

It must happen on this planet in order for the next step to be taken toward Light and Life. Until that step is
taken, the suffering will continue, and for now it is more important than it ever has been that you continue to strive for goodness in your lives.

Your glow will increase and be perceived, and the power of your actions will be magnified. Now that the circuits are open again there is more potential for the spreading of your own goodness than there has been on this planet for many ages, and as each upstepping of energy occurs, so too will the capacity for the magnification of goodness increase. Father waits for your progress and as you step forward, He meets you with a step forward toward you. He loves you very, very much, and has given you all that you need to fulfil your destiny.

Question: Will you please address the problem of the individual who denies that God exists, who has no faith that he or she will survive, and yet, according to all human indications, goes about doing more good than those who believe otherwise, believe in the existence of deity and their own survival. What do you have to say about these individuals?

Answer: There is no good behavior without faith in God, be it admitted or not. Were such individuals to
truly disbelieve, they would not be good. How many have you known who have earnestly avowed deep
and sincere faith, and yet their actions were not good?

Question: Well, I've known quite a few that disavowed faith, and yet their actions were good according to
human standards. I've also heard of those who avowed faith and believed they were going to survive
whose actions were not so good.

Answer: Perhaps the ones who deny faith and yet are good are not denying what you understand to be
faith, but are actually denying established religion, as you know it. There is no requirement for participation in established religion for one to have faith or be good, is there?

Question: Are you saying that one can have living faith without knowing it?

Answer: Yes, certainly. It is shown in the behavior of the individual. We all know the difference between
right and wrong. And yet it is only the one who has faith who behaves in right and good ways, although
it may not be recognized as faith-driven behavior by the one who is acting.

Question: That adds new meaning to the parable of the man who had two sons. He asked them each to do
something. One said he would not. The other said he would. Yet the one who said he would, didn't; and the one who said he would not, did. Is that illustrative of the point you're making?

Answer: Yes.

Question: On one occasion an individual addressed Jesus as good Master, and He responded by saying, “Why do you call me good? There's no good except God.” Had He forgotten His Deity and looked only to His humanity at that moment? Did He put aside His Deity?

Answer: No. His response was appropriate. But you must remember that it was His mission to set down learning for the entire period of human habitation on Earth, and so He often answered in absolute terms rather than the relative terms that I am using for these lessons, as I have been instructed. In absolute terms, that answer is correct, but we are yet in kindergarten, my friends, and so we shall proceed at our pace for now.

Question: Is honesty part of goodness?

Answer: The search for truth is connected to goodness.

Question: In relationships, to be honest although you know it's going to hurt the other person, particularly if you're dealing with people who you think are spiritually retarded, may create a big rift. “I know, or I feel,
what I'm doing is the correct thing because what I'm doing is honest.” Is that good?

Answer: It is always a good thing to behave in a truthful way.

Question: I can see no other way to act. Are there others?

Answer: There are others, but they may not be consistent with the promptings of your Adjuster.

Question: Anybody who questions that should study in depth the history of the earth and the way conditions really were 100, 200 years ago - maybe even before that. Things are getting better in the long
run. Regarding people who deny God's existence yet do good in the name of humanity - those who profess a secular reason for doing good rather than a religious reason - the Urantia Book somewhere says that those who do good without believing in God, who deny God, when they do good there's not as much soul growth because that is a social thing. They act for social benefits. It does do good socially, but there is not much growth in their own soul because of their denial of the existence of God. That's more of a comment than a question.

Answer: Truly doing good requires good intent. You cannot have good intent without faith of some sort. And while the person may deny adherence to teachings of formal religions, there must be faith and response to Thought Adjuster promptings in order for good intent and good behavior, truly good behavior, not social posturing, to occur. Supposed good action which is undertaken for show without sincere good intent underlying it may lead to no spiritual growth whatsoever. An animal may mistakenly do good, but does it grow spiritually? No. To undertake any act without consideration of spiritual consequences is to behave in an animal-like way, and the animal behavior does not promote spiritual growth.

Grace

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
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 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
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 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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Growth is inherent in grace
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive, December 7, 1997

Teachers Elyon, Evanson, Jessona

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grace is all of the things that you have attributed to it. It is a force to deliver a gift. It is a gift from the Father. It is all these things combined. It is your cooperation, your engagement, with this grace which brings into reality the gift of grace. The gift of grace is there on the table for each and every one of you to pick up at any time. It is correct that it is your growth that both allows you to see this potential of grace and also to access it. By the act of involving yourself with this grace, growth is inherent. By the act of choosing to involve yourself with this grace, growth has been present. It is more than an ideal, and by describing it as
a potential I would not minimize its effect on your lives.

Grace comes to you as you are able to accept it. As you recognize it, it arrives on the scene. As you use it, it
manifests in reality. It requires your action to complete the circle and requires your recognition and growth, as well. But it is indeed never withheld, always available to you as you already and can be viewed as the reaching down of the Father to complement the reaching up of the mortal. 

It takes both to reach together to join hands and complete the circuit. The Father is ever willing to reach down in His gift of grace to you. As you are able and willing to reach up to the Father, you actualize this grace, you realize this grace. You make this grace real in your life and in those lives around you when you take active part with the Father.

Grace does not shower gifts down upon you which you have not earned. It is not divine providence upon which you can lean. It is active between you and the Father. It must be fluid between you and the Father.  When an opportunity arises, presents itself, that is grace. When you present yourself within this opportunity, that is your growth. Together you make this grace real; you manifest this grace. Would anyone else care to share any perspective?

Jonathan: Grace seems to come in the middle of an experience. It is neither a reward nor are we deprived of an experience. It is a commingling of our experience and God's, that active participation, the point of impact where grace is realized.

Elyon: Grace may be seen in that scenario as the experience and what you chose to do with the experience.  The experience exposed itself to you; this is the gift from the Father. Then you present yourself to the experience; this is your gift to the Father. Together you both make the most out of the potentials inherent in the experience.

Mary: When you first gave us this assignment you said that you were giving it so that we might be better able to acknowledge the way that God is at work in our lives. The more we discuss it the more I come to believe that grace is an overall presence. Our awareness is the activation. When we talk about synchronicity in our lives, angel bumps, feeling guided, all of these could be described as grace. Grace is another word to
describe God in our lives. The more we acknowledge God, the more we become real, tuned in, and graceful.  
Elyon: Very well said. The grace is, indeed, in the form of many different experiences in your lives, and you remain the facilitators to actualize the grace potential. If you were to only be aware of the opportunities of grace and not act on these, you would not be completing the full cycle; you would not be reaching and grasping the hand of the Father as He extends it towards you. You would simply acknowledging that the hand of the Father was there. Your step to follow up the gift of grace is to take the hand of the Father and fully materialize and realize the potentials inherent in the gift He has given you.  

Evanson: You have been instructed and understand the idea that to recognize God in the lives of others and for God to be recognized by others in your life you must bear or witness the fruits of the spirit. In a manner of speaking grace is the garment of God that reveals Himself directly. It is the fruit of God. Sometimes He comes to you in overcoat, hat, and boots that you may better bear the adversities in your life.

Sometimes He comes in festive adornment that you may worship, commune, and celebrate with one another.  He will bring His cane; He will bring His hankie. These are the ways that the Father touches you. At your level of perception and abilities to perceive, as well as mine, we are only able to perceive God through His revelations. The fruit of the spirit you bear in your lives is one more ramification of the action of God in the world.

Grace can have a secondary application. That is, it can be received by you from another of your kind and likewise received from another by you. As a servant to the Father you can be a guide for conveying the gift of grace for another's growth. You can be diligent in recognizing guidance of a brotherly nature from others and thereby receive God's grace. The Father reveals through His grace, and you reveal the Father through your fruits.  
       
Daniel: I pick up that fruits of the spirit are a revelation of God. So, as far as we are revealing God, we are
producing fruits. Are they synonymous or are fruits applicable to something else also?

Evanson: The teaching of the fruits of the spirit has been derived from the master's teaching that you know a tree by the fruit it bears. But to the untrained eye a tree is a tree. When it bears its fruit the kind of tree is recognizable; the inner qualities are revealed, spiritually speaking. The fruit, in a spiritual sense, is the outworking of grace in your life intermingled with your reactions and your decisions. They, combined, become a revelation for another.  

It may not be a revelation to you to recognize the fruit you bear. It can be an enhanced awareness and appreciation of your current growth level. Bearing the fruit of the spirit is something that, in the manner of a tree, you must do through simply providing the fruit on your own limbs. A tree does not give its fruit to you; you must take the fruit from it. Therefore, the bearing of the fruit of the spirit in your lives is a revelation only when another takes this display of spirit reality into themselves.  

Daniel: So, it is a contribution to the Supreme?

Evanson: Good. Yes. 

Daniel: In order to contribute to the Supreme does there have to be a recipient other than yourself?

Evanson: No. Simply to bear the fruits is the contribution, but the recognition of these fruits by another is
how you reveal. Much like grace and growth, bearing of fruit has the complementary element of receptivity by another. You may bear the fruit of spirit in complete isolation, but you reveal spirit in your life by socialization.  

Daniel: So you discover God as fruit in your personal, and you share or reveal God when someone can benefit from it?

Evanson: Yes, the receptivity must be present much as you have discussed grace being a potential that is realizable at the moment of receptivity.

Jill: Would it be correct to say that the bearing of fruit is a daily conscious action as we choose to be the Father's will, regardless of whether there is a recipient at each moment?  It's continuous as we seek to be the Father's will?

Evanson: Yes. May I put it this way: Imagine you are an orange tree, and you bear fruit season after season, much of which falls to the ground and moistens the soil. When another plucks the fruit and peels it then revelation is taking place.

Mark: It's like if a tree bears fruit in the woods and nobody sees it, does it still bear fruit? The answer is yes
whether or not it has been revealed to others.

Daniel: Is it still an experiential attainment of the Supreme?

Evanson: It is within the orchard of the Supreme. 

Daniel: But not necessarily for sharing with the overall consciousness of other beings?

Evanson: Bearing fruit spiritually is in itself an end, for it is a revelation of the inner state of one's being. It is
not a way of masking one's interior through artificial appearances. Grace is the garment of God which reveals who He is. He does not dress in costume. Your bearing of fruit is a result of your life, not a bag of tricks in order to entice another into spirit living. Such being the case, your contribution to the Supreme is the result of the added benefit, is when another receives nourishment from your bearing. They must then
internally bear their own fruit. They do not adopt yours; you stimulate their own production. Each individually within themselves produces another revelation of the Supreme. 

Tom:  The qualities of grace that one might cultivate in order to be a more effective healer?  Also is the healing mission connected to the mission of nature and grace? 

Jessona: Healing ministry through spiritual means, contact of personality to personality, soul to soul, is compensatory of the incomplete evolutionary development of physical life. Through the Life Carriers, nature provides you with a physical mechanism in which to live, your body. You know each world is conditioned by events which have contributed to or detracted from the biologic development of this life vehicle. In a larger perspective, even the developments of life on differing worlds condition what type of vehicle you inhabit on this planet. In order for the Father and Michael and Nebadonia to allow for the growth of even the Life Carriers, we find ourselves in a position where we must live in an environment with inadequacies. Herein enters the grace of healing ministry. In understanding the scope, the conditions which bear upon a specific event of illness, you are better able to be a conduit for healing; you are better able to understand who receives the credit for healing, and you are better able to cope with the apparent failure of healing, for even tragedy itself may be working great miracles in the advancement of a larger arena of beings.  This is where the element of faith must be applied, for the compassion of one's heart that longs to be of service in this form of ministry is good and ought to be bestowed for another's benefit. But therein ends your task, for you must in detachment defer your desires to the overcare of the Father.  

When you have heard the phrase that all things work to the good, I would underline the word "all", for there are times when singular specifics do not appear to work for the good. Eventually healing will disappear when the universe is settled in Light and Life, for all things will function appropriately. In the mean time, as you are motivated through compassion, you can be the Father's means for providing the grace of healing another, if it be His will.

In the overall presence of God in our lives we can discern patterns of love, grace, that manifest as opportunities, growth, beauty, goodness. It is our awareness of these presences that grows. Our ability to recognize these influences increases with experience. The ability to draw on these experiences and direct them toward an understanding of God will develop more fully with the passing of time. Within your hearts and your minds and your actions you must develop a coordination. You must strive for unity within these aspects of your being. The influences and graces of God bear down upon you to assist you in the unification of these contrasting aspects of your lives, the activities of your minds, the desires of your hearts, and the actions that you take.

Try to remember to call on God and the many influences He has provided to assist you. You are not alone in your struggle. Avail yourselves consciously and with effort to the reception of these many gifts and graces.

Grace and graciousness
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive November 23, 1997.
Teacher Elyon, Machiventa
T/R Jonathan

 

 

 

 

 

 

In these realms of the Supreme grace exhibits an entirely different quality than that which is displayed in the eternal universe of Havona. Grace there is the bestowal of godly qualities that are the inherent nature of the creatures therein. They are bestowals of actuality. In our realm the word "grace" becomes the indicator of the bestowal upon you by God of potentials.

As much as we each crave to receive blessings from the Father, in our spiritual progress we have come to understand that the blessings bestowed are not replacements for our efforts in attaining higher stature as spirit beings. Grace is therefore an essential building block in the process of growth. Grace is like an electron or proton or even the entire atom, given to you such that you, with this potential, create the molecules of growth.

Grace is like the seed that initiates the development of a crystal. What the Father does for you, He in reality does with you, and this is the meaning of growth through grace. Grace is therefore an initiator rather than a consummator of your spiritual progress. This provides insight into your understanding of salvation through grace rather than salvation through works. It is not that grace finishes your salvation, it is that grace initiates the causes and effects that result in your awareness of belonging to the Father as His child.

It is good for you all to seek to receive the grace of God, knowing fully that you are asking for the reception of His powers wherein you may continue your ascent. Receiving grace is accompanied with increased responsibility to apply its gift for your benefit, the benefit of others, and the benefit of the Supreme. Grace is formulative of future attainment.

I can sum up my discourse by restating your humorous phrase that you can give a man a fish, and he can eat for a day, but teach him to fish, and he can eat for the rest of of his life. Grace takes on this second perspective.

Mary: I see how your portrayal of grace differs from my concept. In my mind grace connotes some sort of help that God sends you. Also I thought of it being a pat on the back that God gives you, help that flows to you when you have hard times, or blessings, a reward of God's gifts. So now I include the idea that it incorporates a challenge to push forward.

Elyon: You express the grace of God which is bestowed upon you during trying times, the comfort of the divine presence. I am sure you recognize that this comfort always beckons the Father's child to face these difficulties with renewed enthusiasm rather than erase the difficulty, creating a false sense of having done away with the problem.

Mary: The form of help might be additional strength, perseverance, patience. Grace would come in the form of virtues that help you handle what you have to deal with in life.

Elyon: The Father would not through grace bestow wisdom, but He could through grace provide insights which lead to you growing in wisdom. I as a guide am merely a platter upon which grace may be served which you may ingest and thereby grow. But I must make clear that I am an external agency that provides grace, but there is within you an internal agent which is a direct source for the reception of grace.

Evelyn: I was thinking of the word gracious and what that means. When someone is gracious they are doing what you are doing, providing grace on a platter. A person who is gracious exhibits grace in their behavior, offering insight, encouragement, attentiveness to others.

Elyon: For one who has made progress in their character development, graciousness is a recognizable result to others. Graciousness is an attainment, and it is not something you practice in order to attain, it is a result of work. I enjoy your perspective of graciousness as the serving platter for grace.

Mary: I picture the Havona natives as graceful, inherently. We are graceful by increments.

Elyon:  The acquirement of graciousness can be compared to the idea of politeness. You can make attempts to be polite in order that you may become a nice person. But true politeness is the result of already being a nice person.

Mary: Graciousness is genuine. You can be polite on the surface; the definition doesn't include that it necessarily comes from within.

Elyon: Good comment. I will return to the notion of a crystal and its seed. If this seed were to be a color and the crystal clear, grace, the colored seed, would reflect throughout the grown crystal and be observable as graciousness. The gracious reflections are magnified because growth has been made.

Mary: I suggest that we take a moment to open ourselves to the reception of the gifts of grace and love that God has for us and to count ourselves worthy of these gifts and to actively take a moment to open ourselves up to receive them.  (pause)

Elyon: Father, teach us to understand that, as we reach up to You to receive Your grace as it rains down upon us, that this shower of Your goodness becomes useful to us when we acknowledge that this rain is collected within us and rises as a spring of grace to nourish our souls, to motivate our personalities. May
we ever be willing to allow this grace to well up within as we are ever seeking Your grace as You pour it down upon us.

Machiventa: How many human beings have asked themselves what great contribution can one make to a world so large and so peopled that one feels so insignificant? You need not seek to teach multitudes. You may significantly instruct one individual, and that individual may be your own self. As students you are ever alert for the opportunity to recognize truth and to acquire wisdom, to learn and to grow. You have gained through experience an understanding of the value of this process. This in itself is a teaching from you to you.

If you visualize this universe age of supremacy as a balloon, if you imagine yourself within this balloon at the very surface, interiorly, you can through your own growth push the boundaries, expand the volume, and thereby create capacity for any within to experience a similar expansion of their being. What Michael did for Nebadon was in effect define the capacity for expansion within Nebadon. So I encourage you always to ever be active both as a student and as an instructor, for even if there are no other ears to hear what your own being can express, you always have your own two ears to which you may apply your understanding and your wisdom for increased attainment. We melchizedeks are self governing for we apply this principle as a group and as individuals.

Elyon: I would encourage you this week in an exercise of alertness. Make effort to recognize a grace potential already given and resident within you. Go the next step following recognition and exert yourself in
transforming this grace into growth. If you find it difficult in recognizing the grace that yields growth, try the reverse and reflect upon growth attained and pursue from there back to a point when grace was received that made your growth possible. Since grace can seem ambiguous, work at finding specific descriptions of this gift in order that you may broaden your comprehension of the work of the Father in your life.

Grace is a carrier wave
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive November 30, 1997.
Teacher Elyon
T/R Jonathan

 

 

 

 

 

 

The reality is that love cannot be contained; it must be bestowed even as it is received. Of course the implication is not that you do not retain love, for love and its flow may be likened to a reservoir in a river. Much love pours into you that you may retain, but as you are filled it spills into the lives of others. Grace is quite the same.

When one prays, "Father, grant me the grace that I might..." it is best to approach your petition with the understanding that the grace will arrive during the interval of its need. You must apply your own faith and trust up until the very moment wherein the grace becomes active. Wisdom grants you the sensibility that you are prepared for new situations in your life, for you can review the array of experiences you have undergone in order to apply yourself, in order to act on the light and enlightenment you have gained. Unselfish service entails having no possession of grace until the moment it is utilized, for this gift is the Father's.

I referred to myself as a platter upon which grace is served. As your guide I may fill this function. As a servant in the master's kingdom, you likewise are platters for the service of grace. The result of the bestowals of grace upon your own life is the acquirement of virtues and nobility and righteousness of character to transform itself into the manner of being that Michael revealed to you. I seek to convey to you that grace is a mechanism whereby the Father interacts in your life rather than a possession. What you possess are gifts; how you receive is grace. It is similar to the helping hand of a friend who boosts you up over a fence. The lifting itself is grace. The gift is your attainment of altitude. When grace appears again in your ascent it is anew.

I cautiously approach my next comments because I do not wish to convey a misunderstanding that the Father seeks that you be troubled in your life at His doing, for the Father takes pleasure in your growth rather than your chastisement. However, there are times when His grace may appear to be exactly the opposite, a lack of grace. Sometimes the Father does throw salt upon the dance floor that you may move easily. At other times He sweeps it clean that you may exert yourself from its absence and accomplish the very acts you seek with the aid of grace.

As one who serves in the ministry of truth to this world, you understand your function is to allow grace to function through your life. You can provide it, offer it on your platter. You are then released from all responsibility subsequent, for it is up to another to lift the grace from the dish and receive the offer.  However, in your own ministry to your own being, it is not enough to recognize the grace you receive, but you must also lift it off and take it in to yourself. This is a difficult task to both recognize its forthcoming into your life and to continue in the process and receive it. Many of you understand the barriers encountered at the time such as a lack of worthiness, a sense of guilt, of separation, of a form of selflessness that allows you only to grant the arrival of grace for others and not for yourself. However, if you take a factual approach, it is obvious to you that grace is present at your doorstep, and who among you would leave a guest standing at the door?  Welcome its arrival in your life; receive it with open arms. Watch this dynamic crystalize into talents that you become. You will observe yourself being transformed from a human of Earth into a child of heaven. If you were to assess the composition of your being, much of what you are is already the bestowal of heaven.

Only a small portion of you is of animal origin. Though the dimension in which you are exercising your willpower as a son of God seems to limit you to this small aspect of yourself that is coarse, trust the vast resources you already have within you to adequately handle your exercise of living a mortal life.

I might use another analogy. To many a human being their view of self is as a pie dish with a single slice, that being your crude, human, flawed self. There is great hunger to acquire the rest of the pie and fill the dish. But I relate to you that from our perspective the dish is full. The human life is temporary, and we see in your eternal career, in a sense, a pie with a single slice missing. That slice is your sense of alienation or separation from the divine family. This we would like to see you remove.

I would continue to counsel that we in no way devalue your human condition, for in this pie, in order for it to be truly complete, all slices must be present. All ingredients within this pie, though distinct as ingredients, when blended take on a wholeness and, when baked in the experience of life, blend into a
oneness.

When the Master said, "Peace I bring you" and "Peace I leave with you" it was his hope that you end the war between yourself, the alienation between you and God and others, and allow the merging of all ingredients into a completed, exalted being.

I have compared grace to love because, as you are aware, love is felt through its repercussions, be they
compassion, affection, even guidance. The love is intangible, but its outworking is concrete. Grace is likewise in that you receive and are aware of your gift, a gift which came through grace. They are linked together. Grace is a carrier wave. You know that God is love. When God acts, it's grace. The one is a state of being, the other a state of acting. Patience is a result of grace but more properly is viewed as a conjunction of the idea of gift and the idea of growth. You may develop in your life the opportunity for patience along with the spirit presences within you to rise to the ability to be patient. But the critical and most important
aspect of this entire situation is your choosing. This choice turns patience into a reality within you.

Evelyn: You said the evidences of grace are those virtues we acquire, that righteous character. That would be the patience or courage, the evidence of grace, the acting out.

Elyon: Yes. I would restate this process in another way, that grace is similar to the idea of invisibility, and the
acquirement of talents and the reception of specific gifts is the visibility of grace. Where experience with the Father in your life yields the fruit of the spirit such that others in your life witness this, gifts and talents are the fruits of grace.

Very little in your realm is morontia in nature, but the presence of morontia realities becomes apparent in the development of soul in you all and the interaction of souls among souls. This is how you foretaste the manner of life that you will be involved in when you leave this world.

Interaction has many levels wherein it may take place. You are all being guided into higher understanding of the significance of interaction. Mortal life can be on the lowest level no greater interaction than to be
bumping into one another. As you are infused with the sensitivity of the methods of morontia, you begin to elevate your interactions into higher circles of love, of grace conduits.

Not to be misinterpreted but to take a casual approach, I would say that the truest interaction is the sharing of the Father, and you can do this joyfully much as you pass the volleyball back and forth. The Father becomes the center of all your attention, and your greatest, keenest orientation is to be on the alert as to where the ball is, when it comes your way, and how soon you can pass it on. I also would continue by saying you know the damaging effects of spiking the Father at another!

Let us take a moment to turn our attention to the source of grace. May we be receptive to the love of the Father that pours upon us in this form of grace that becomes evident in our lives as we grow in spirit standing.

Gratitude

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Gratitude fortifies you
 
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Teacher: Amanson

T/R: Mark Turnbull

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Amanson on “Gratitude” March 31, 2022

Tonight we shall speak, at your request, of Gratitude. Gratitude is the official decree of the offices of The Most Highs. Gratitude is a love turned back on itself, Love brought full circle and, like the dainty dish in your nursery rhyme, “set before the King.”

To be grateful is to never tire of the banquet constantly before you, whether this or that particular dish is to your liking or not. All the dishes serve their purpose in your education and make-up, and all will eventually be appreciated “in the fullness of time.” Gratitude fortifies you with the proper attitude to appreciate them all. For they have all been, like them or not, prepared with the same attention to detail and care.

Gratitude is the single most important element in the pursuit of perfection of Spirit, the most basic Truth in the pantheon of truths relevant to a human life. Remember, the only thing missing from an approach to living bereft of joy and satisfaction is Gratitude. Grateful is as grateful does. It’s the one element essential to mirroring back Heaven to earth, Parent to child, Spirit to human. It’s like the rippleless water reflecting the sky above it. The sky brings the water; the water reveals the sky to itself. This is Love and Love’s life in the world. Spirit says, “I love you”; Gratitude says, “and this is your portrait, my version of this gift you have given.”

Gratitude is the basis for a balanced life for it brings together all of its elements, bringing God’s love back around and completing the circuit. And this circuit brings Life to life. Gratitude is as necessary as air or food or water. It is the other half of each of these.

Gratitude is life-giving, health-giving, and energy giving
 
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Gratitude is a subject that needs to be much clarified in the course of this teaching mission because the present understanding of gratitude on Earth has been very much distorted through the influence of your religious organizations which have sought to gain materially by this means.

In the pure sense, gratitude is faithfulness to the Father who created all of us, and is expressed by action that is the reaction of doing the Father's will, being of service to others, and so on, as exemplified so well by Jesus during His incarnation on Earth. When one experiences genuine gratitude in this fashion there follows a deep and lasting fulfilment which is most gratifying, not only from your material state, but also in those spiritual forms. This sense of fulfilment and happiness is, in its highest form, the most rewarding and ennobling of all experiences. When you are fortunate enough to have this experience, it is wise to cherish it, and remember it, and reinforce in your memory the actions on your part which led up to the feeling of gratitude and fulfilment, for these acts are a critical part of your efforts to mature your own budding spirit within.

You must react. Growth does not come to those who are inert, but is the result of a continuing, dynamic interplay between you, the individual, and the Father, within and without. You may ask, as Milcah does at times, “How can I be grateful when life is so difficult? When there is so much evil? When my fellow beings behave in such non-Father-oriented ways?”

Gratitude, like all of the other universe virtues, is life-giving, health-giving, and energy giving. Genuine gratitude is experienced in all sincerity without the least notion of gain or loss. It is most likely true that no creature of mortal origin ever actually experiences gratitude until that day in the distant future when in the presence of the Father Himself. Therefore do not judge yourselves too harshly for not being able to have the purest gratitude. But work on it, for, like the other universe virtues - love, kindness, truth, beauty, goodness, and so many more - gratitude becomes stronger and better with hard work, like a physical workout.

If, in your mortal life, you are reduced to such a low point in your feeling that you cannot think of the least thing for which to be grateful, there is always the fact of existence. Such a gift is to be cherished. And really, without having existed, how could you ever go on to further work in the name of the Father?

So you see, it all ties together. The fact of your existence is the major part that you take from one state of being, such as life in the flesh, to the next state of being. That you can take with you! And no material creation can take it away from you. You see, it is such an essential part of you. Only you can will it away.

Grief

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Grief is a very heavy feeling
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive January 15, 2000.
Teacher Levona, Solonia
T/R Jill, Daniel

 

 

 

 

 

 

Levona: Grief is a very heavy feeling. It is more intense than being sorrowful; more intense than being sad, and grief is associated with a human being experiencing a loss of some sort. With the best of intentions your culture has taught you to stand tall, have a stiff upper lip, don't cry, be strong. Those are all good human qualities but there are times when they are not healthy. When anyone experiences a severe loss, from their perspective, the greatest gift you can give them along with your loving compassion is the OK-ness of crying, of sobbing, of telling of their grief. Grief held in never gets resolved, and that person will suffer from their loss the rest of their life; and no matter what the loss, from the universe perspective, no loss is meant to halt a person's passion for life for the rest of their lifetime. 

I would encourage all of you this week to explore whether or not you have experienced grief yet in your lifetime, and if you have, to look at the grieving process you went through. Did you honor the feelings attached to that loss, or did you bury them? Is there still some of that loss tugging at you, keeping you angry, or bitter, or feeling cheated, or feeling some other type of hurt? If there is, then now is the time to honor the rest of the pain inside.

There are many ways. You may do it alone or with a partner, a friend, a family member. I would encourage all of you this week to look at what grief means to you personally, and if there is any grief still remaining inside of you, to seek your own personal avenues to let the rest of it out.  

When we hold in heaviness and fill all the spaces of our consciousness and our body with that heaviness, there is no room for the Light of Love to come in and heal. So it is a necessary step to grieve until there are 
no more grief feelings; no more tears; for then you have opened up the space to receive your Father's Love to have what you call "a new lease on life." 

Solonia: I would like you to consider tonight that there are indeed different types of grief and consequently different types of grieving. The natural inclination for humans is to attribute the grieving process to instances of the death of a loved one. I would ask you to open your perspectives somewhat to stretch them to include any loss of a loved one, be it through death, through incompatibility, through changes in life focus, through changes in living situations. There is much grief in your world that is caused by family separations. Children, being incapable of understanding adult situations and adult perspectives, are often 
subjected to many layers of internal grief for which they have not the tools to make adjustments. When a parent for one reason or another leaves the immediate sphere of influence of the child, it causes grief.  

Depending on the circumstances and the understandings of the custodial parent, this grief may be buried in the child due to exhibitions of anger, revenge, and hatred. In these instances the child is not allowed the opportunity for healthy grieving. Grieving is a necessary tool for personal compensation of loss.  

Many of you have grief buried deeply within your experiences, and it is difficult for you to be willing to honestly face this grief and to observe it from a more mature perspective. I would say to you that as long as you keep this grief buried, it will continue to influence you in your decision-making process. So many times the Master said, "Fear not," and here in particular is an instance where I would reiterate his most excellent words. You will not die from facing your griefs. You will not experience personality fragmentation from facing your griefs. And I can assure you that your world will not fall apart when you face your griefs. You must allow yourselves to go to places within that you have previously feared, for you must allow yourself to grieve before you will be able to fully heal.  

Grieving is rarely something that humans will choose to do willingly. Your remembrance of grieving and the processes that it entailed can make it difficult for you to agree to going to that place again. Often some of your medicines may have a very bitter taste to them, yet they aid you in the healing process of your body. So you take them, anyway. Grieving can have a bitter taste to it also, but it is a medicine for the soul. It is a tonic that aids in healing. Go to places within that you have refused to go before. 

Learn to love your grief
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive January 16, 2000.
A personal story by Gerdean

 

 

 

 

 

 

So it is a necessary step to grieve until there are no more grief feelings; no more tears; for then you have opened up the space to receive your Father's Love to have what you call "a new lease on life." 

When I grew up I was the cheerful one, the strong one; that developed into a PollyAnna, a Holly Go-lightly. My griefs (feelings) were secondary, not important. I stuffed (suppressed) my griefs. All my life I did this. I did not grieve because in grieving I would have to fully acknowledge the injustices and the losses and the abandonment and the selfishness and the ugly, mean, hurtful, cruel and inhumane aspects of the human condition. Who wants to admit that?

If it exists out there, it must also exist in me, I must deserve it, and I don't want to see that. Therefore I will separate myself from the human condition. I'll be beside myself. I'll be above those mere mortal feelings.  

Thus, when the time came, when the grief process came upon me, (all the griefs that I had not expressed or acknowledged or felt since the beginning) I realized it would be a long time before I saw a light at the end of the tunnel. It took literally years. What I eventually learned through the process was that I loved my grief. I hugged it to me. I delighted in it. And when I could see that I was enjoying my grief, I was able to let it go.    
Now when I have something to grieve (a loss of some kind, an alteration in the way I have become comfortable or secure), I allow myself the luxury of really feeling the loss, for in feeling the loss, I AM reflecting the ideal, and reflecting the ideal is a form of prayer. Thus, when I grieve now I put on appropriate music and allow myself to  become really melancholy. A carafe of hot tea, a floor length skirt, a rainy day.

These are my days I try to savor such things as grief. Genuine grief is poignant, and I have great respect for people who appear to know how to do it well and get it over with.

Thanks for letting me share.

Gerdean

Growth

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Spiritual Growth and Achievement
 
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Spiritual growth is one of the most - if not the most - important subjects of each ascendent mortal's educational process from birth through eternity, certainly extending far beyond even that glorious moment when you shall behold the Father in Paradise. You shall never stop growing spiritually as long as you continue to exist, and indeed with each fragment of time that adds to your personal existence, you become ever more proficient at the process of spiritual growth and attainment. This is an inevitable result of experiencing the universe as an active participant, engaging in freewill decision making, expending effort - and indeed much, much effort shall be expended, my friends - worship, prayer, interaction with all of the father's creatures near and far. All these activities and many, many more beyond reckoning are integral, essential components of each of your individual missions - which is your own spiritual growth and development.

For some ascending mortals this begins at a very early stage to blossom into a more enhanced and aware
process, even while on the planet of origin - or shall I say in your physical form and presence. You have worked - each of you - very diligently, have striven to embrace the Father's will and have appropriately engaged in worship behavior, and therefore you have earned your present level of development. Others who are less wanting of spiritual growth progress more slowly. This is not to belittle them but rather offers some perspective and an answer to the unasked question of why there is not more evidence of advancement among your peers.

You see, my friends, so much - so very much - is tied up in your own freewill decisions. The Father gladly offers you the whole universe and all that is within creation, but you must wish to have it and must work and work very hard in order to experience the delight and wonder that awaits. Do not think that once you pass from your life in the flesh that things will necessarily become easier. I do not say this to disappoint you, my friends, but again to help you to gain some necessary and appropriate perspective. Mortals in particular, especially while living in the flesh, desire comfort and ease of living. And this desire has led many toward sin and iniquity, and has led others to delay their own spiritual growth. It is indeed true in your mortal existence and beyond that you never receive anything for nothing. Now and forever that shall be true.

The Father has not set up a system of rewards and punishments as you understand it. Rather you are rewarded - to use a poor word, but it will suffice for now - you are rewarded for your effort, your striving, your earnest wish to do the Father's will by personal growth and spirit advancement now and beyond this life, at all of the levels of your ascendent great careers and far beyond the Paradise visitation that will certainly come on one blessed day for each and all of you.

The only real punishment that occurs is the delay of your growth, or - in extreme and rare cases - the cessation of existence, but this is indeed rare. It is unfortunate that the notion of punishment has been used in existing and extinct religious forms. Nonetheless it has.

As you progress with your own personal individual growth, the nature of your service mission during your life now and beyond - will become clearer. It is unlikely that you shall awaken one morning and perceive this mission in its entirety with all details in place, which may be a disappointment to some. Instead, your perception will increase as grains of sand added to a small mound then becomes a hill and then a mountain. The accrual of knowledge in this respect may seem unbearably slow for you, my friends, but on the cosmic scale it is really quite rapid.

You must bear in mind that with each bit of growth that you achieve there are responsibilities, new responsibilities, incumbent upon you. Not only do you not achieve growth for free, in the sense of needing to expend effort, but your step forward brings you more work, more responsibilities, a greater requirement for service. Embrace this as it occurs and you will be much gratified, for doing so is a form of worship and brings you ever closer to the Father. And a sense of increasing inner peace will ensue, and the trials and tribulations of your physical existence will diminish accordingly.

Be not afraid! There is nothing to fear in this wonderful creation we have been given. Whether you progress rapidly or slowly is of no great concern - it doesn't matter that much. Spiritual growth is not a contest. God does not give blue ribbons, gold medals, plaques, for fast achievers and humiliation for slow achievers. There is no place in the great scheme for this sort of thing, and in fact, the difference in velocity of progress, if you wish to look at it that way, is so small that it is barely perceptible at the higher levels.

Once you leave the mansion world existence your perception of time will be greatly altered. You will not experience creation in terms of days, minutes, and seconds. There is a much different method of time reckoning at that level. And of course, by the time you reach that, your growth and your ability to learn spiritually will have matured to such a level that you will need these greater expanses of time for your activities. That is, your growth becomes greater and greater. It does not reach a certain level and then slow down and stop as you now understand the growth process. Rather, as you advance spiritually and grow to understand more and more the universe and the Father's plan, you become better and better able to guide your own growth, more facile in growing, and possessed of greater ability to grow. You will be able to expend much greater effort in this direction, and then you will be most gratified. But it will not be easy.

This is not a creation of lying around and taking it easy. We all work very very hard, to the limit of our capacity. Not to say that we are slaves, for we work of our own free will and in loving service, though we work - indeed we work. So, the idea of a heaven where the lucky lounge about on a cloud doing as they wish mostly nothing - is absurd. And indeed, if that were the case it would be extremely irresponsible of advanced creatures who had achieved survival status to loll about in such a way.

Fear not, there will plenty to keep you busy and it will be fascinating, always interesting. None of us in this room, mortal or beyond, will have a dull moment in the service of the Father. What does this mean to you, each of you, personally, individually? And what does it mean for your group? You may look at our mission as a flower which has been carefully nurtured which has grown to maturity, and is in the process of blooming. And soon the petals will fall and the seeds will be dispersed by the wind.

This does not mean drastically changing your life, nor does it mean selling books, appearing through mass communication forms, and proselytizing. Rather, it means you will - if you wish - become increasingly adept at imitating the life behavior of our master, Michael, while incarnated on this planet as Jesus of Nazareth. Of course you will not be crucified, but you will become better able to exemplify the art of living. And this, my friends, will have a very profound effect among your associates and even the most casual of acquaintances. You see there is no being on this world that can fail to detect, consciously or unconsciously, the glow that you will emanate and this will become increasingly strong as you work and progress.

It will not always be easy. But it will be, as I was saying, most gratifying. And it is likely that you will prosper materially - not as a reward from the Father, but as an inevitable result of spiritual consonance as opposed to spiritual dissolutes among your fellows. You will be the seeds of a new world, a new era for this planet which has had such difficulties.

Those whom you influence will, in return, be motivated to seek spiritual growth themselves, and so on. And this will spread rapidly. It will be wonderful to observe. In fact, it has already happened and we are pleased. I therefore commend you all and encourage you to continue your efforts. Seek your inner voice. It is there, always. Trust that feeling that you have that guides you. And the blessings of the Father and all of His faithful servants shall go with you. This is the conclusion of this lesson. I will be happy to accept questions.

R = Rayson the teacher, S = students

Question: I'm a little bit confused as to what you mean by our being seed, specifically, in this mission, and its nature and direction, or more or less specific spiritual goals? For example, I find that there are at least three arenas in which I am in contact with many people, and perform different roles. In a leadership position there is a natural flow of people who seek counsel, advice, and information from me. I am noticing lately that there have been more opportunities to talk about spiritual issues, points - God even - in situations where I would not normally have brought it up. Is that the kind of thing? I've been feeling more at ease in doing that, and also a bit of a pull to do that. Is that what you are talking about?

Answer: Yes, yes. Your question is a very good one. You are sought for spiritual information because your own level of spiritual growth is perceived by others. And by all means proceed. Be discreet and protect yourself, of course. But you have done very well and will continue to do so. Your individual mission is inextricably intertwined with the mission of restoring the spiritual balance on this planet now that the universe circuits have been reopened and the planetary government restored. You might say that you have had the luck to be born at the right time.

Of course, once you pass from this physical life there will be others who take your place in terms of planetary spiritual development. However your own personal mission and personal spiritual growth will be enhanced and much - very much - influenced by your role here, first as student and seeker, developing into teacher.

Question: I would like to see if I understand parts of today's lesson correctly. You were talking about
punishment, the doctrine or theory of punishment, and you said that it was rather unfortunate. Is it more
accurate to say that it is the natural consequences of breaking spiritual laws instead of punishment? Can
we look at it that way?

R:  Could you elaborate?

S: When we sin we merely - as I see it - break a spiritual law. And the results - instead of being a punishment for sin - are really the spiritual consequences of doing whatever it was that we did. Is that a better way to understand it?

A: Yes. Yes. You put it very well. There is an established harmony in all of Father's creation. Sin, iniquity, break that harmony. It is like trying to swim against a river. It is much, much easier, and more productive, to go with the river than to swim against it.

But mortals are created imperfect and therefore have great difficulty with naturally following the flow of the universe. There are very strong animal urges such as the one I alluded to earlier, the desire for comfort and ease. Look at the lower animals. You will observe that they spend much of their time sleeping. When they are not seeking food or procreating they generally sleep. This is the way of all animals, and it is a very strong urge in man as well, and of will creatures of animal origin on other planets as well. It has taken many millennia for man to accept the work ethic, let alone embrace it, and even now as you are well aware there are many who spurn that work ethic to their detriment and, of course, to the detriment of the planet. A very important part of the work assigned to the first Planetary Prince and the first Adam and Eve of any planet is the teaching of work to the will creatures of that planet. And it is done through a system of rewards.

It is interesting that you bring up the topic of punishment. It is the higher way not to punish for misdeeds but rather to withhold rewards. To do so helps the spirit to grow from experience more than out and out punishment. However, where there are animals involved, punishment inevitably becomes necessary in order to maintain civil order so that work can be done. As your world continues to progress as a planet
spiritually you will see less need to invoke corporal punishment, but that day is not here yet. Indeed, it is
far off.

Lucifer erred greatly, and part of his doctrine was the idea that the desire to work would evolve of its own volition if will creatures of animal origin were given their own hand. This, of course, is faulty, and has led to much suffering and has retarded progress greatly on this and other planets involved in the rebellion. But that is behind us now. Lucifer did not recant despite the abundant evidence that he was incorrect. The basic notion that one will get something for nothing has been proven again and again to be incorrect.

Question: It seems to me that when I'm trying to reach the stillness - and most of the evenings I make
the effort - that I am still not able to communicate with either you or my Thought Adjuster, but during
the day time when I'm working on the editing of the papers which I hope we will call “Rayson and
Friends” that I seem to be guided by you and by my Thought Adjuster in my selection of concepts and in
editing. Is that correct?

Answer: Yes, we are there helping you when you ask. 

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Today's lesson is on education and spiritual growth. This is an interesting topic in many ways. As you may have guessed, a very important part of this teaching mission is, as its title says, education. The way that we understand education varies somewhat from the concept as grasped in the material life. There is the presentation of a novel concept to the student. And the act of presenting the concept requires not only diligent effort on the part of the teacher but also the spiritual ingredient of love for the student and the sincere desire to impart that which has been gained through effort, that is, information. Without these two elements, as well as a third element, namely the sincere receptivity of the student, himself or herself, and the student's reciprocal love of knowledge and search for truth, then no real learning will occur.

This is like a chemical reaction you may say. And, in fact, physical and electrical forces are very much involved in the education process. There is actual exchange of energy between the teacher and the student when true learning occurs. I am sure that everyone here has sensed that at one time or another during your lives. Think back, and remember the occasion when you acquired knowledge - and the teacher - and the occasion was marked by that different feeling within; not just a pedagogic exercise, but not so different from a dance in which both partners must coordinate their efforts and actions in order to achieve a successful result. There is nothing passive about education, about the learning process, and it may well prove to be the most difficult work that you perform for much of the first part of your eternal career.

Additionally, part of the mission for each and every will creature created by the Father is to continue learning for the full period of your existence. Father has placed in all creatures abilities that are geared to
assist in learning. And the act of learning can most definitely be placed in the category of “miracle.” Like the secret of life, the secret of learning is unfathomable to the mortal mind. And like life, the mortal is able to perpetuate learning. And the analogy extends further for - as you are aware - many mortals believe they are responsible for life, and they are responsible for learning - lacking humility - in ignorance and denial of truth.

As you grow in your ability to worship through your efforts, you will find that your capacity to learn is enhanced - yet another beneficial result of spirit growth - not a reward as you understand rewards, but more a result of following Father's plan rather than resisting. There has been talk in some of our recent lessons about Caligastia. And it is interesting to note here that the moment Caligastia received the idea of rebellion during communication with Lucifer was the moment at which his ability to learn ceased, and his ability to worship. And it could be said that he started to die at that moment, truly die, not a material death, but the profound death of the spirit. This can happen to mortal beings, of course. It is rare, but these are the ones who elect non-survival.

You are given all of the perceptual qualities that your particular brain is able to accommodate to assist you in learning in the mortal form that you now assume. Your capacity to see, hear, feel, taste, smell, are major tenants of your perceptual cognition. And there are a great many sub-categories that are also very useful. The entire human brain participates in learning, although this may not yet be recognized by your scholars. And in fact the entire body also participates, but not with exactly the intensity that the brain does.

How is education and learning different among will creatures compared to those who lack free will?

Because of the capacity to make free will decisions, an extremely important dimension in processing information belongs to the will creatures. Without this added sense - for it is a sense as your vision is - a
being is unable to learn sufficiently to achieve the requisite spiritual growth needed for survival. So you see, that is why the appearance of creatures capable of freewill decision making is such a critical event on a planet. A critical and wondrous and miraculous event indeed. When you pass from this life and move on to the next level, the joy that you have now, from such experiences as procreation, will be imparted through learning and through worship and through assisting Father and His loving servants in creating that which is. Your memories of joy will most definitely be preserved as this emotion is really important in spirit growth.

Since you are of animal origin and nothing is wasted, those strong feelings that are beneficial to animal survival - procreation, hunger and seeking of food, the desire to rest the body, aggression in the face of danger - once free will arrives, it becomes possible for the possessor of free will to channel these strong animal emotions into the service of the spirit most constructively. For each of you here doing that, channelling these emotions into your own personal spiritual growth is a part - an important part - of your own personal mission here. Many of the components of these lessons are aimed at teaching you how to achieve this end. We know that this is very difficult.

Do not have remorse for your animal behaviors. Remorse is not very useful in service of Father. If you regret some of your actions, reflect on them and learn a way to - in future - direct such emotions and energy toward your own personal spiritual growth. Review these simple lessons that have been presented and the most excellent presentations provided in your Urantia Book which go into great detail in this matter. Think of The Urantia Book as your textbook for learning in conjunction with this teaching mission. In this way you will aid in your receptivity of spirit teaching.

Now that the universe circuits are open, fully open, it is possible for each of you to tap into the transmissions, albeit less than a fully conscious level. You can do so through worship, through acts of loving service - not servitude, but service - through your own earnest desire to grow, to improve yourself and those about you, and through sharing in discreet ways that which you have gained with others. Not your material acquisitions. But those which are spiritual. When you do this you complete the final part of education and learning, which is that the student shall always become teacher. The true test of learning resides in this act.

There is no teaching without somewhere in the being a love for the Father, even though it may not be
acknowledged. That is teaching as we understand it as will creatures. And this is also required for true learning. Every step that you take in your spiritual growth career you shall be receiving from those who are one step beyond you and you shall be giving to those who are one step behind you.

R = Rayson the teacher, S = students.

S: I have two statements that are related to the lesson but not related to each other. My first comment is that The Urantia Book says that the universe is one vast school. That thought is quite appropriate to underline your session.

R: Yes, very much.

S: The second comment: I found it amazing, even astounding, that Caligastia lost the only two spiritual qualities or components that make the difference between animals and humans in this lifetime. He lost the sixth and seventh adjutant mind-spirits, the equivalent of wisdom and worship. I know the adjutant mind-spirits do not work beyond the animal level, but I think it is fascinating that the spiritual equivalent of these two adjutant mind-spirits are what he lost. So he then became a spiritual animal for all practical purposes. Is that correct?

R: Yes. That is most astute. That is what happened, and this is an illustration of the true extent of Father's - of what Father will allow His creatures to do. 

Question: Is it normal for us to have periods of forward growth in our spiritual growth? There is an old saying: one step forward, two steps back. Is it normal for us to have periods of regression or that seem like regression? And are they really regressive? Is it possible that we come out of those black periods with more resolve, better understanding? Or are we just starting over again?

Answer: Well, remember again that spiritually only the positive is perceived, so it is most likely that what you personally experience is not regression, but rather stasis. That is, the forward progress you make may slow or even halt for periods. It is unlikely that anybody in this room today has actually regressed in their spiritual growth, because a true spiritual regression requires iniquitous decision making, and none of you have done that. But as I said earlier, at the spiritual level - and this will be far more apparent to you once you pass from the material life - it is the sense of awe and wonder that one gains from forward motion in the terms of spiritual growth that is such a strong incentive for beings to journey Paradise-ward. And a slowing or a delay in that journey in not necessarily painful, nor is it regressive, but the wonder and awe stop. And the cessation of the wonder and awe just is not a desirable state to be in.

You are probably experiencing that yourself. Do not be so harsh with yourself. Accept the fact that you are not created perfect and that you are very much feeling your way in your spiritual growth on this planet that has had so much misfortune. You are not in conscious contact with the universe circuits, as are beings on other planets. Rather, your guide is your own faith, and that is far more difficult to follow, far more difficult.

And you have done very well, and will continue to do so. Think about the factor of faith, and remember that Father punishes no one for a stuttering journey. In fact, He does not even punish those who decline to take the journey. The only spiritual punishment that exists in the universe is the lack of spiritual perception, or eventually, the state of non-being. But this is a choice. You have not made that choice. None of you has made that choice.

Do not let the fear of pagan religions and of your own animal heritage seep into your spiritual journey. There will be no punishment. You all know that deep inside. Think of it during the static periods. Even the best need to rest from time to time. 

R: Remember again, my friends, that spirit growth in man does not occur by virtue of outside influence, material outside influence. It cannot be forced, persuaded, bought or arranged in any way by another being. It is, and always shall be, a matter of an individual decision to accept and work with the indwelling Thought Adjuster.

There is every example imaginable of this happening in the face of love, kindness, terrible cruelty and torture, enormous handicap and great wealth. There is no easy formula that you can follow to influence your fellows. You must lead your own personal life as you, in contact with your Adjuster and your own sense of universe message, deem appropriate. You are responsible for yourself while on this planet, and by conducting yourself as Jesus did you will be doing the most that you can do to positively affect this planet and your fellow beings.

I know that this is hard for you as it was for me. One asks, “But is there not more that I can do? Please, please tell me where can I spread my wealth? How can I spend my time? Who can I speak to? What can
I do? It must be more complicated than that.” Well, the material acts of giving, speaking, doing, while well-intentioned are not the way to influence spirit growth and actually are far easier than working on one's self. As you endeavor to lead your life truthfully, kindly, with loving and goodness, your example will be observed by one and all, and your light will be perceived at least by the Thought Adjuster of others, if not by their conscious minds, and there will be a deep awareness of your goodness and your courage and faith. It requires great patience to persevere in this way. Have faith.

But consider the lighthouse. It does not go to ships, swim across waves. It faithfully turns. And as the lighthouse mechanism turns, the searchlight flashes across the waters through the air, rendering service to one and all who perceive its brightness. Be like the lighthouse.

Question: I believe I understand the plan well enough, but I'd like to know; a person who does not know about God's ascension plan in the manner of the teachings in the Urantia Book, but who has a religious relationship with Father, is a believer, is a loving person, lives in his belief, can he or she actually skip the long sleep and be resurrected on the mansion world on the third day, if they were prepared spiritually?

Answer: Yes. At present this is quite rare. Remember as you ascend with each step Paradise-ward your power to perform spiritually increases. With that power goes greater responsibilities, and it would be most unwise to allow too rapid progression of the unprepared. This does not mean that there are not beings on this world who are most virtuous and devoted and work-oriented and service-driven. But imagine that you are in a storm at sea and every bit of your effort is required to keep the ship afloat. When that storm subsides and you find yourself at a distance from land, what would be the point of giving you a wheeled vehicle?

 

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Today we will discuss one facet of the Master's teachings “to be in the world but not of it,” - spiritual
living.

When Michael was incarnate as Jesus He had much firsthand experience with this all-encompassing concept. As a youth He experienced a conflict between two moral-ethical tenets; the first being to do the will of the Heavenly Father and to reflect the Father's truth to others, to tell the truth - spiritually - versus the injunction to honor His parents and their teaching. This became a conflict of the young Jesus because Mary and Joseph, although not classified as fundamentalist Jews, were nonetheless religious Jews in their day, of their time. Many of their beliefs contradicted the spiritual truths which Jesus became more and more sure of as His Divinity was revealed to Him in His human mind. He experienced a conflict between loyalty to truth and duty to His parents and culture.

This would arise on many occasions. One example being, Mary and Joseph, like most others in their religious culture, believed in a wrathful, judgmental and punishing God. The young Jesus could not accept or endorse this description of His Heavenly Father and many discussions would ensue between Jesus and His parents over this. Consequently, Jesus felt much inner turmoil over which injunction to follow as He perceived them as contradictory.

The resolution of this conflict came about in a very perfect way, as the Master would - over and over again in His life - find the perfect solution to what we might think of as an irreconcilable situation. He talked from His heart to His earthly Father, Joseph, and said, “Father, I cannot believe that whatever mistake I make, you would ever withdraw your love, or be angry and punishing towards me and not be able to forgive me.” And He said to His earthly Father “therefore, if you yourself could have such love for your child, and such compassion and tolerance for when I make mistakes, how could you not think the Father in heaven, who created this goodness in mankind, could be any less loving, merciful and forgiving?” And Jesus was so sincere when He asked his father these questions that Joseph and Mary never berated Him again about their erroneous concept of God, but rather kept silent and allowed their son His own truth.

There were many examples as Jesus grew of the application of “being in the world but not of it” on a day-to-day basis. Because Joseph and Mary were such products of their times, many times Jesus was faced with the knowledge that their practices - religious practices - were not the highest. For example, He often tried to teach His family to pray in their own words and from their own hearts rather than to repeat the written and prescribed Jewish prayers, but He had little success in this endeavor. But out of this did come The Lords Prayer, which we all are thankful for.

So Jesus developed a technique for coping with the discrepancy between His inner truth and His outer practices, which was to never consent to things He knew not to be true - to never consent, but rather to conform to the wishes of His family and culture. Out of this resolution, Jesus developed His technique for teaching through asking questions in such a way as to not offend the person He was questioning or teaching. He was eminently fair and loving, and did not engage in questioning someone for the lowly purpose of winning an argument or advancing His own ego. Rather, Jesus saw every opportunity to reflect the wonderful truth of God as a loving Father and creator of us, to the humans He encountered. This technique served Him well, because it never made the person He was teaching feel defensive or threatened. And yet they were enlightened.

Jesus had to deal with many worldly problems, as we all do. Yet He managed upon much reflective meditation, prayer and communication with His Adjuster to create solutions which benefited everyone. He also used the technique of not disclosing the full truth before others were ready or prepared to hear it. As an example, he did not tell others of His divine nature for many, many years - even after he was sure that He was indeed the Son of God.

So, brothers and sisters, I would like you to use these simple examples in your own lives every day, for much of the stresses that you face can be seen to be rooted in a conflict between loyalty to higher truth and duty to one's family or work situation or culture. And this is the center of how to live “in the world and not be of it.” Using the tools of spirituality, there is always a solution. Step outside mindal logic and intellectual organization into the realm of higher mind and the solution will appear. There need not be anxiety over the tiny decisions which we all face in living an ascension career.

On this world in particular there is a large discrepancy between behavior in the world and what we know to
be spiritual demeanor. However, even 2000 years ago when the world was much more rigid, Jesus managed to marry conflicting philosophies in a way which inspired many, many others and offended very few.

This is the key to spiritual living and practical survival, for one cannot ignore the needs or demands of daily life and retreat into a spiritual vacuum. Nor can one separate the spiritual from the material. Our challenge is to marry both and thus inspire others - man to find God, God to find man, or man to see God when he finds Him - as we live. This can be done, but not without a conscious effort to achieve it.

Too often we forget our real purpose for existence, and we make life easier by separating spiritual life from all the rest. So we might pray in the morning or evening and then forget God the rest of the day. This is not how one should live. We must integrate what we have been given with other situations in order to grow spiritually ourselves, and also to inspire and uplift our brothers and sisters.

There probably have been humans you have encountered who you have been drawn to or liked very much, and without knowing why. These humans possess the talent - ability to reflect the love of God outward. It does not have to come in religious packages. It is a spiritual law that beings are always drawn toward God's love. So if we keep God's love as a goal we are living in spiritual reality rather than in worldly amnesia. Although this sounds simple, very few humans have achieved this consistently.

Jesus is the best example, and there are many insights in part four of the Urantia Book, in terms of specific dilemmas which he resolved. You might want to - as you read - to be aware of these situations and how they apply to spiritual living in a largely non-spiritual world. This is perhaps one of the greatest gifts the life of Jesus can teach us.

You are here for one purpose only, and that is to know God. Please keep this more in the forefront of your conscious mind as you go about your lives.

Jesus was no stranger to disappointment or life's vicissitudes. The difference between Jesus an the average human is that Jesus knew in His heart that He was a Son of God. Therefore, the disappointments like the death of His earthly father, His voluntary giving up of education and career for Himself - for He took care of His brothers and sisters - His putting aside of His own needs and wants - which like all of us, He longed for things, for goals for Himself - were relatively easy things for Him to do because He always knew the spiritual
reality. If one examines His life, you will see that He dealt with as many trials as you do, sometimes more, and always did he handle these trials with great poise and valor. For He always was in deep communion with the heavenly Father.

Jesus longed for comfort on a human level as we all do, more so even than we do, because, as His divine nature was revealed to Him, He knew He could share this with no one. But He still longed for a best friend to confide in, to help ease the burden of His responsibility. Perhaps Rebecca came close, but even Jesus had to reject a life of earthly love because of His divinity. As he suffered this loss, He cared only for her feeling, first. These are more examples of living in the world and not of it. Not that you should not have a life partner, that is not the point. The point is to care more for another's feeling, to put the needs of your brothers and sisters first. This is an attitude of loving service. As you grow spiritually it will become more habitual or easy for you to strike a balance between conflicting needs.

Also, be cautious not to become self-righteous when dealing with organized religion in terms of their belief system. It is arrogant to feel superior when one can never know the faith light that burns within another being. The point is not to discourage, remember. The point is to bring another closer to God. So as you travel through your own life's path, please try to integrate your two assignments, which is to live spiritually and physically in one vessel.

How to accelerate your spiritual growth
 
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Today I will try to tempt you onward in your spiritual growth, to accelerate your will commitment to the fruits of the spirit. Let us try to soul center and take in these truths.

Glory to God who has created such perfection from imperfection.

Glory to God who has given a Divine, perfect, piece of Himself to the lowest creatures who may seek him - the lowest – the humans.

Glory to God who has given you the bestowal of Christ Michael.

Glory to God who has given the Spirit of Truth.

Glory to God who has given Divine Mother Spirit, Her mind Adjutants, her angels, the Midwayers and other ministering spirits to accelerate your growth.

Glory to God for you, your creation, your personality bestowal, and for you who are the children of the Supreme.

Glory to you, ascendent children of time, who are creating the Supreme.

Glory to you as the Apostle Paul said, “you are the body of Christ.” The body of Christ is really the body of the Supreme. Each one of your tapestries, your decisions, your soul growth, every experience, every thought, every life moment, completes the Supreme, the God of experience - God in formation.

Glory to God for the wondrous outcome of the ascendent children of time: the creation of a new being, spirit, between the Divine and the evolutionary; the wonders yet to come of service; the glorious ascension.

Glory to God for the perfection, the goodness, the inspiration, the mercy, the love, the service, the
tolerance, the perseverance, the human will commitment to participating fully in His most wondrous
plan which we can only glimpse and speculate about.

Children of time, you have it difficult for a short time, only. Such a short part of your career is spent in this struggle to commit to knowing, searching for God. Once you transcend death of the physical body you enact what you only believed. You learn more about the decisions you made to search for God and put them into action. After fusion you begin the actual journey to The Father.

Glory to God who takes his creatures so far and ultimately returns them to their creator, and then sends them outward as His personal agents, representatives, to as yet uncreated beings and children of a new Grand Universe which we can only imagine, but know - by faith – that it will be another perfect element in the plan of the Great I AM, First Source and Center, creator of all beings, all life, all thought, all motion, everything.

How can we inspire you to accelerate? How can we tell you the reality of your importance to The Father?

Give glory and thanks for your beingness. Become aware of your importance, of how The Father, Himself, cherishes everyone down to the lowest creatures who may seek him - every moment of your life. Nothing is ever lost to God. 

Glory to God and remember that God cherishes the children of time, who are designed to make mistakes. The only mistake with any real consequence is the decision not to seek God. The challenges and pitfalls and regressions of your earth career are all to the good. They are part of the Supreme, and part of your gift to the perfect Adjuster, who may only understand struggle and imperfection through your life. What a glorious way to view your times of Gethsemane, and all must walk though Gethsemane. Some may go through the symbolic crucifixion, but like our master, you will become morontial.

The lure of the Mansion worlds should be strong for you, not to cut short your earth life, but to fasten your vision upon the reward of this passage. You will awaken quietly in a resurrection chamber on Mansonia. You will be greeted by your Seraphim, escorted to the halls of repersonalization. Your Thought Adjuster and Seraphim join together in your morontia form, of which there are 570 different bodies before you become spirit. You will meet your Morontia Companions - a most lovable order of beings - who will act as your guides. You will have time to orient yourself to your new surroundings. You will have time to get in touch with some loved ones who have already graduated. You will visit different spheres. You will see and be awed by the beauty of the Mansion Worlds - created by the Physical Controllers, and Morontia Controllers.

You will be made to laugh by the Reversion Directors, and may even join them along your ascension career. Much of your humor will be derived from your past: the foibles of the physical existence, the measuring of growth. The humor there is plentiful but not mean spirited. You will be inspired and thrilled by the concepts of the Celestial Artisans. You will be served by the faithful Spornagia. You will meet many different ascenders along many different levels of the path. You will sense spiritualized ascenders but not able to see them except when the Celestial Artisans portray them for you in pageantry. Much of your trip through the seven mansion worlds will be spent on rehabilitation, correcting imbalances from your planet's history, to get you up to speed so that you may actually progress. Much music, art, recreation, humor, worship, prayer, thanksgiving, and relationship - always relationships.

Yes, there is food, drink, rest, of morontial nature. Yes, there are assignments, but nowhere near the life of toil you experience on this backward planet. Your real job is Godward. You will learn languages and be provided with interpreters so that all may communicate without misunderstanding.

How to describe a life, which is quite the same in terms of your place on the path, but such a different environment! Imagine a world where God is not only present - as he is here - but acknowledged by all, where every will to greater or lesser degrees is dedicated to knowing God, to becoming God-like, where consideration, tenderness, loving service, respect for ones fellows is the norm. Where one lives in a family of brothers and sisters under one God.

Much of your anxieties will disappear, thus train your energy for higher pursuits. You will laugh much over what you considered the huge problems of you earth career. They will be in perspective for you. When our Master said “the meek shall inherit the earth” or “the first shall be last and the last shall be first,” He tried to describe mota of the sort that “what you think are your afflictions are your blessings.” What you think of as strong on earth is not spiritually correct.

Righteousness for God, passion for God, standing up for God is always correct, but so rarely does that happen on Earth. Most humans stand up for themselves, their egos, their belief systems, their own self interests. Meekness is humility in the face of the presence of Deity, meekness of ego.

So immediately does this await you. To you it seems long, but it is so - it is your next moment of beingness. If only you could live this totally, the surety, the promise of the Mansion Worlds. As Jesus said, “My Father has many mansions.” “I am the door, through Me you will enter the kingdom.” You may enter now. You have entered, but you may even step further into the kingdom.

I am trying to tempt you. For the spiritual life is hard. You invite hardship, challenges to overcome. Your soul is not gently formed but honed of steel. Disappointment, grief, deceit, discouragement, fear, anger, devastation, challenges - this is the tempered steel of the morontial soul.

Not the afflictions, but the spiritual transcendence and growth, which come from what you view as troubles. Some day you will see the blessings and you will reap the reward of the faith filled days.

That is God's promise to you. Much reward for so little suffering. Although while you are here your suffering is real to you and all encompassing, I am trying hard to lift you above this to a cosmic perspective! So little is asked from you, so much is given. You have an army of spiritual soldiers standing by your side. When you go through difficulties, call on your army. Remember they are there to serve you. With God nothing is impossible.

This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad of it. God has given you this time, this date, this moment, this will, this choice, this life. Be more thankful, even especially in the hard moments. The Mansion Worlds await you, children of time. Great glories lie ahead for you. Your soul is being born now. Give to the Supreme, to The Father, the Son, and the Spirit the best soul you can. Keep joy in your hearts. What joyful, joyful news!

How can you be not excited to know you may seek The Father? You have been created consciously for this path. You have been chosen consciously for this mission. Each of you in your hearts and souls and minds has asked to be used. Your will, prayer, have been answered. Rejoice and be of good cheer. What difference if all earthly things crash? What difference when your bodies turn to dust? You have been chosen by God for a glorious career, children of time. Rejoice and know your specialness. Work for the Mansion Worlds now. Accelerate your spiritual program. Be thankful, be happy, be optimistic, because you know the ending. Live as if you know the ending. Do not sink into the limited vision of this life. Use your soldiers and God's blessings will heap ten-fold upon you now.

You are all in the realms of the spirit. You are impinging upon spiritness. Remember and have faith upon your own knowledge and on your own faiths. Continue to believe. The things that you believe and the things that you act upon are of the greatest importance. This is not a mere figment of your imagination. There are things happening on this sphere that you have no conception of, and you will not know what is going on here until much later in your universe ascension career. But know this, that your faith - faith for your brothers and sisters, faith in Michael, in the Universal Father, the whole concept of universe ascension, are of the utmost importance.

Do not look back upon your animal ancestry, upon your negativeness. Focus on your positive side. Proceed with decisiveness. You have our support and confidence. We love you all. You are being watched and taken care of. You are being loved with tenderness.

Question: Teacher, I am trying so hard to increase my contact with my Thought Monitor and increase my
spiritual growth. The process seems so slow to me. How can I improve my worship and stillness periods? How can I be more God-reflective? How am I doing?

Answer: The best way to become more God conscious is to think of our Father as a personal friend. Talk to The Father each day. Let him know of your thoughts and your feelings. It is true He does know about these things before you speak them, but it does help you. It helps you understand yourself more fully.

The spirit fragment within you knows you far better than you know yourself. Do not worry about making communication. This, too, will happen when the time is right. The best way to make this happen, aside from the constant communion with The Father, is to live your life bravely, to go forth each day and be aware of who you are and your relationship with those that you come in contact with.

Be sensitive to the spirits that are around you, and always be ready to feel the love from within, the God
within, so that this love may flow through you fully, that it may pour forth out on those that you come in
contact with, and that we may bring those people to you that you may share with them your personal
religious experiences, and that you may be an instrument in helping them enter the kingdom of heaven.
This is a long process, this communication with the spirit fragment. It will - for most mortal ascenders - not happen quickly. It takes much hard work and patience. Do not become burdened with the thought that “I am doing what I can yet nothing happens.” You will inch your way into God-consciousness. You do not run.

Always be mindful of who you are. Remember that spiritual growth is an unconscious process. In time you will look back and begin to see some of the decisions that you have made and where it has led you. For now you are in the forest and you cannot yet even see the trees. This is as it should be, for now.

Hopefully, with your whole-hearted dedication to doing the will of The Father, you will rise above the forest and look down and then begin to get a glimpse of where it is you have been. You will see all of the decisions that you have made and know more fully what direction to go.

Be strong! Be faithful! The Father loves you deeply. He has not abandoned you. Your angels watch over you each day. There is more love around you than what you are aware of. Hold on tight to what you know to be real and true. Reach out to others. Learn from their experience.

Lastly, I want to encourage you all again to spend some time each day in communion with The Father. 
This, I hope, gives you something to look forward to. I know how important this is. Go in peace.

Growth is the miracle of life
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive October 13, 1996

Teacher Aaron

T/R Jonathan

 

 

 

 

 

 

Growth is the miracle of life; it appears at times to be a struggle, but it is abundant in life and the most natural occurrence. The potentials actualized in growth through physical development increase your range of activity. Growth of mind expands your capabilities for function and comprehension. But the greatest growth is the enlargement of the arena for personality function in the growth of the soul. There is no final point of attainment, no adult maturity, as in your physical growth. It is perhaps the most intriguing spectacle regarding life in this universe, and it is the capital from which we draw all hope for progress on this world and elsewhere. The unfoldment of personality in human beings is the very reservoir of potential, the very driving force which propels this world toward the ultimate goals which you know to be light and life.

The greatest need here on this planet today is not necessarily a harmoniously functioning United Nations, nor - as desired as it - is that there be no war among nations, no conflict, but rather that individuals like yourselves begin and continue to unfold from within their spiritual awareness and act upon that. This builds the empires of peace and harmony, one which is stable and solid to the core rather than a contrived structure supported through regulation.

This world can demonstrate the ideals of Michael; it can live the truths He taught; it can be the reality He was and is through the exercise of your willing actions, through the outworking of your hopes and your concepts. 

Transformation, as a word, hints at a preexisting condition, the form of spirit idealization which is transferred into your material life. The bridges are you; your transformation creates on the world the initial platforms of higher reality upon which is built the Earth that all Nebadon looks forward to beholding in ages to come.

Think of yourselves as the red blood cells for this planetary organism, carrying the nutrients to all areas.  The cell count has been low in millennia past, but this is changing, demonstrated in people like yourselves. The loving nature of God that you have witnessed and directly experienced is a mighty force which invigorates all hope, all ideals, all mental constructs of future greatness. Without this love the rest appears empty. Love is the enricher. 

Three components to growth
 
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SOURCE: tmtransctipts teamcircuits email archive July 31, 1998
Teacher Minearisa
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Growth may be conceptualized as having three components - soul growth, personality growth, and intellectual growth. It is essential that expansion occur in all three aspects of your being, for when growth occurs in this manner, it is much like a braid. If you can visualize three strands being braided, one over the other, in a linear timeline, the resultant form is much stronger than any of the three strands individually. An illustration may assist. If, for example, you read in a book that much of communication between humans is delivered nonverbally, in other words, in body language, you may make a conscious intellectual decision to change your body language to a more open stance, less closed, more open and welcoming. This is an example of intellectual growth.

The result of this change in behavior may be that people respond differently to you. Your heart may gladden with those who approach with welcoming hugs who would otherwise have been put off by your closed stance. This warming of the heart is personality growth, and is often associated with strong feelings. Thus intellectual growth has led to personality growth, and the subconscious level or soul growth can then occur and keep the circle flowing, keep the linear timeline of growth progressing further. 

Growth comes with uncertainty
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive July 4, 1998
Teacher Elyon
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As you make the effort to grow, you will encounter uncertainty. It is a natural part of the process, for it would not be growth with certainty; that would be the expression of prior attainment. In order to proceed through your incomplete grasp to reach another stage in personality attainment, you are applying faith, and you are displacing fear. As you walk this path, it becomes ever more clear to you that what you have grown into before is greatly expediting where you are going to now. It has a momentum effect like a snowball. Jesus reached Light and Life at a young age for he was ever diligent in applying himself toward future attainment. 

Growth leads to awakening
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive July 3, 1998
Teacher Mantutia
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With each level of actualized growth there results an awakening. At this time when you have stepped upon a new plane of awareness, you may very well expect a feeling of unfamiliarity because of new heights of awareness and acceptance. What you see before you may very well not be acceptable of your way of life. And this new way of knowing, of seeing, because you are at the beginning once again, you may experience doubts. You may experience a feeling of not knowing one's self or understanding those around you. You cannot go from one floor of a building to another and expect the same things. You must explore the new floor you are approaching. It is in this process of exploration that you come to know your new self, your new
understanding, your new acceptance of what is real. This is the awakening. 

Fear not, for this is an absolute natural process and a celebration. This is where being in the moment is helpful, recognizing things as if for the first time; listening as if for the first time. This is where awareness can be exercised in any fashion. This is where judgment is not needed.

The moment that you find yourself in confusion, it is simply because you are trying to recognize the familiarities from the floor below and not that of the new level, the new awakening, that you are now in. You are very aware that your Father is with you in all areas of this new awakening. This is where you rest. This where you go to ground, to stable. You are all aware that your guides are right along side.

It is important to know that this journey, the process of this journey, is that which is most important, not the goal, not how quickly it can happen, not how you will be when it's all over. It is every step, every waking and sleeping moment, knowing that you are becoming more alive, more awake with each and every experience. It is why you are here. Cast away your doubt and fears. You are a child of God. Be the child of God.

It is through the many awakenings that you have experienced thus far that have brought you here to share with one another the laughter, the unity, the love that you share. This is all because of the awakening.

There are many more to look forward to. I urge you to enjoy this process. See the humor. Know that the one standing right next to you is going through the same process. Lend a hand and say "welcome". Remind them that they are a child of God. Remind them that the important part is the process. Remind them of their greatness. And allow them the opportunity to be, to go through their process. Remind them
to trust.

Be ever ready to change, to accommodate what comes your way
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive February 27, 2000.
Teacher Elyon
T/R Jonathan

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elyon: In every journey a variety of terrains must be crossed to reach a destination. The spiritual journey is no less released from this variety of terrain crossing. This is why endeavors of a spiritual nature include
philosophical and psychological and relational aspects, for the spiritual journey is a whole-being journey. It includes the health and well-being of your physical vehicle and sanity and sobriety of your mind.

All of these fields can be likened to differing pairs of walking shoes. When the ground beneath you is as hot sand you must wear the appropriate shoes. When the ground beneath is as cool grass, then you are free to walk in your bare feet. Like the seeds that by chance fall upon this varied terrain, as you make your ascent to the Father, you will encounter these differing substrates, and you will of necessity use various protective coverings or appropriate shoes to accommodate your forward progress. Though you know you will never actually walk on water, you may find fins to be appropriate shoes to propel yourself through water.

There can be a point where one will stall in growth when the ground upon which you are traveling is pleasant, when you feel the refreshment and the ease of such a terrain that you will not overtly avoid entering into more difficult terrain, but you may unconsciously not look for that terrain. You have gone far enough in your journey to have discovered the thrill of crossing difficult terrain and realizing the vantage point you have attained in such an ascent. A wise traveler will take shoes that accommodate the necessary protection and abilities that a differing terrain would confront you with.

So, as you make your journey of a spiritual nature, do not fail to take with you a whole sackful of appropriate coverings for your feet that you may be prepared for any turn or twist in the road. Be ever ready to change, to accommodate what has come to your feet. In this manner you will be able to make progress, to grow, to adapt to new conditions, and to apply your prior accomplishments to the new challenges. Though the seed that was unfortunate to fall on hard and barren ground would sprout and wither before the sun, if you pack with you the proper shoes, you  can adapt yourself to the harsh environment of that segment of your journey and cross into more comforting areas. You can withstand those dry times. You can actually grow in what appear to be stifling conditions. Always be willing to acquire one more useful and adapted pair of shoes to face a new hurdle in your progress.

Growth through extension fosters growth in expansion
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive October 07, 2001.
Teacher Elyon
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Elyon: Expansive growth is of the nature that a single entity enlarges through some form of accumulation and adoption and activation. This you know from your own efforts in soul expansion. This experience is rewarding, as you find that your onetime mustard seed sized faith has enlarged to become a recognizable
mighty force in your life, has become the dominant driving force, not merely a small speck midst your turmoil.

During times of crisis situations can appear to create circumstances of which you have no apparent influence or power to control. This is when the growth you have undergone may seem once again small and insignificant. But you must recall the saying of the Master, that you are in a family of God's children. Though you may be one individual, you are a whole family, and this is my second point of growth through extension. Every effort to reveal your spiritual nature, to demonstrate your cosmic comprehension, to express yourself in loving service, extends into the life of another the growth you have already undergone. Doing unto others as you would have them do unto you is the process of growth extension. Soon all enter into a mutual pattern of growth.

Growth through extension fosters growth in expansion. There is then witnessed a broad inter-contributing exchange of enlightenment, of comprehension and understanding, of love and trust. When you feel at an impasse in a stage of growth, when you feel you cannot grasp a greater truth for lack of one experience
or another, seek to receive your growth as it comes from another; take their deposit on your behalf. Let their nutrients bring you the energy and the insights that you may undergo the expansion you seek, the enlargement which will help you to embody the truth you seek to grasp.

Guilt

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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Don't let guilt make you less than you can be
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive January 11, 2000.
Teacher Tomas

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tomas: I would like to discuss with you this evening the burden of guilt. So many of you carry around a burden of guilt and this self-righteous burden is a heavy weight that disallows your full freedom in sonship. Guilt is something you have assumed. You have taken it upon yourself. You have consciously allowed yourself to be less than you can be. Why is that? It is because of expectations. And ideals. And your inability to live up to your own ideals. And so you have guilt, and you carry this burden of guilt as if it were a cross to bear, heavy beams that are truly no more than a mote in your eye of perception.

Understand that you are accustomed to feeling guilt. It is a part of your culture. It is a deep part of your religious heritage. And your parental influence and social influence. Even in your relationships with your peers today. It will require enlightened honesty to get past guilt. 

If you have had (and who of you has not?) an opportunity to say of another who has wronged you or who has been accused of a wrong, "Father, forgive him, he knows not what he does." And understanding the true depth of that peception, can you not also turn that view toward yourself and say, "Father, forgive me, I know not what I do"? For if you knew, if you truly knew, you would be prompted to act upon your light of truth.

Something then is blocking you from the sunlight of the spirit. A belief, perhaps, that you could be perfect or more perfect if you were just to try harder, and in your trying harder to please Him, in yearning for His 
approval, you pile expectations upon yourself beyond your capacity.  

A pint cannot hold a quart. It is for this reason you are referenced as tadpoles. With each new cycle of growth, the egg gives rise to the tadpole, gives rise to the frog, gives rise to the egg, and always do you come around to the realization of your appropriate sense of smallness. In this humble place you know that you are loved by God not by what you have accomplished, but because you are. You are His.

In this loving acknowledgement of the mercy of the Father of all, we turn in gratitude, in praise, and seek to become a frog, to grow up, to be able to do great works, make great noises on behalf of our Creator, sing anthems of glory. Praise God! Release guilt, that you carry for yourself and release it from the shoulders of your brethren. It is no longer necessary that you shelter one another beneath that yoke. It has been lifted by the Light. Rejoice in the Light.

And again, it is, except for its cultural reinforcement, an attitude you bring on yourself by accepting guilt as your rightful inheritance. This is deplorable to the dignity of a faith son. Thus, shed the dead skin of useless guilt and see the coat of many colors revealed in your personality and in the personalities of your fellows.  

It does not take a genious to discover that ego will cloak itself with guilt in order that it may hide under self-righteous justification for not facing up to its own potential.

Guilt thrives on keeping after you so that you have no rest, so that you cannot seek and attain serenity, so that you only find peace of mind when you are in Stillness and at once upon leaving Stillness you again begin to chase your tail.  

It is the insidious nature of guilt to keep you stirred up; and it is a form of anxiety that must be abandoned. It is indeed self-judgment, and who gave you the authority to determine your value? Your worth? Who planted those seeds of expectation within you that tells you that no matter how hard you try, you will never measure up? Who has the right to take that away from Our Parent who loves you as you are?

It is some one, some thing, other than Love, other than Truth, Beauty or Goodness. It ought not be mistaken here that I am encouraging you — any or all of you — to become complacent and nonchalant about your reality, your relationship with divinity, your relationship with yourself, or your many relationships with the world at large. But rather to help you see how your mind works, in order that you may better know yourself and live to greater purpose, yielding for yourself more geniune happiness and manifesting more genuine reality.

Reality is not a burden nor a curse. It is an acquirement, as a result of your decisions and your growth.  

Until you know everything, you know not. "Father, forgive me. I know not what I do. Show me the way. Teach me. Help me. Stand beside me. Encourage me. Strengthen me. Enlighten me. Enjoy me. And love me. As I know you always have and always will."  

It is guilt that disallows you from knowing this feeling of affinity with Our Father.  

Habits

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
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Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
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You must keep a body and mind of clean habits
 
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Rayson and Friends

 

 

 

 

 

 

The things that you do daily, that you do regularly, are important. Negative habits can be overcome by prayer, but let us not dwell on negative habits, you must gain positive habits. Prayer, worship, on a daily basis is a good habit.

To love others, even if they do not show love to you. That can become a very good habit. Don't be afraid to show love and to work on your own development by positive acts. Little acts can become great acts if you practice in making them become habits.

Many of you, because of this environment you live in - this mortal realm - have habits you wish to get rid of. You cannot destroy anything, not even habits. You must replace them with good habits. Pray for this. The strength you need to accomplish this is yours. Ask the spirit within you and you shall be granted this energy. It is not easy, but you must make the effort. That is what is meant by progression into the positive states and on to the expansion of your soul.

Don't be afraid and hold this off, you must do it. The sooner you do it the better. But do not be ashamed, do not blame yourself if you cannot immediately obtain these goals. The important thing is you must strive, you must desire to better yourself. Make this a habit: always strive to better yourself. From the smallest detail in your life to the largest. It is a goal you can attain.

Question: Could you speak a bit more about habits? Define habits, maybe?

Answer: Do you have a particular habit you wish to bring up?

Student: Probably many of them.

Rayson: So do we all.

Question: Lets see. Well, when you're raising kids you have so many habits that you want to try and improve upon so that you don't pass them on. Impatience is a habit.

Answer: It is crucial to control your habits when raising children. Impatience is not necessarily a habit. It is something that is carried over from your animal background. It can be a habit if you persist in it. When you are impatient think of eternity. Think of the ages upon ages that you will be here, and realize that a moment spent well is worth many hours spent haphazardly and impatiently. 

Certain habits can promote spiritual growth
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive January 06, 2002.
Teacher Malvantra
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I will play with the analogy of habits and consider for a moment that your efforts at self help may be likened loosely to a rehab clinic. As you have well noted, those aspects of your reality that you choose to allocate your limited resources of time to work together to form an overall picture, with various influences acting upon and effecting your overall view. By choosing to change your priorities and to reallocate your resources in a direction you see to be beneficial for your being shifts the influences at play and allows you to operate
in a new paradigm. This is done quite simply and effectively in your material plane by the development of proper spiritual habits, habits that promote your growth and understanding, which create circumstances conducive to your overall awareness. It is your conscious choice to be here at this time, as you have formed a habit of these rendezvous. This habit impacts your paradigm and promotes certain spiritual growth characteristics. Likewise does the habit of stillness and meditation promote certain growth aspects only accessible through these techniques; likewise does your attitude adjustment or swing to consciously change your orientation to one of positive approach as opposed to its complement. 

These are steps that, if taken, are immediately effective on your spiritual growth and your spiritual pursuits. Yet the act of our allocation of your time resource is the key fundamental to the whole process of the development of good spiritual habits.

It all starts, ironically enough, with your material plane and the fact that you have many influences drawing on you and acting upon you. It is required of you, therefore, that you must make choices regularly, daily, even hourly, as to which of these influences will be given the greater play, the greater part, in your lives.

This is where the rubber meets the road in terms of developing a spiritual framework from which you may springboard as you grow. You are all aware of the consequences of your choices on your daily routines, your spiritual growth, I would just comment that the admirable traits of self discipline and self mastery accompany these wise spiritual decisions to make habits of those aspects you discern to be spiritually beneficial to you.

It is often said that actions speak louder than words. Nowhere is this more true than in the witness of others to your disciplines and priorities. One may make a great verbal argument for spiritual growth while another may use self discipline to undertake spiritual growth. I daresay that the example of the one pursuing rather than the one discussing would be the one that will draw attention and also will command the rewards of the effort.

So, my suggestion to you today is to be conscious, aware of the choices you make each day, each hour. Be prepared to be bold enough to choose that which your highest self perceives to be in your best interest. Then through your personal discipline make those aspects your habits where your priorities reside, and all other aspects of how, where, when, and why fall into place as if by magic.

Happiness

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
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Different forms of happiness
 
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Happiness is a difficult topic to discuss with mortal beings because their understanding - your understanding - of happiness is very often far different from the definition of happiness in the non-material form. Let us start with the material understanding of happiness and then we shall compare the spiritual nature of happiness so that you shall better understand.

The material being is descended from animal forms, and much of the conscious awareness and thought
is by necessity centered upon feelings and urgings that have animal origin. Pleasure is such a thing. An
animal understands pleasure as the absence of pain, the gratification of hunger and sexual drive, the
domination over a competitor or an enemy, the attainment of a material goal other than those mentioned.
Animals spend much time satisfying base drives for survival. And the gratification of such survival instincts is understood by the animal part of man as happiness. I am sure you are all quite familiar with this definition of happiness.

However, all of these considerations have relatively little to do with happiness in the spiritual sense. Your evolving soul, your embryonic spirit self, strives to be Godlike if it strives at all for growth and development. The gratification of this spiritual urge to be Godlike and virtuous in the ways we have discussed in previous lessons and in other ways that have not been delved into as of yet, this is what constitutes happiness in the spiritual, the soul, sense.

Jesus of Nazareth, presented a parable about the glass being half-full or half-empty which has useful application as we discuss the idea of happiness. The animal part of material man seeks always to fill the glass materially. But the spiritual part of man does not grow until there is space in the glass, the half-full glass that the master referred to. The less full glass materially, the greater the opportunity to fill it spiritually.

How, then, to go about the pursuit of happiness in the spiritual sense, true happiness? Well, this is - as
you say - where it starts to get tricky. In lessons past we have discussed creativity and the link between creativity and the rate of spiritual growth. There is also a link between creativity and happiness. A mortal of some repute in your own culture once said “I find most men are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

Happiness will not come by sitting in a quiet room engaged in deep meditation. Nor will it emerge as the result of long hours of study, or time spent involved in sensate pleasure. Rather, there are two routes of creative work that need to be followed simultaneously throughout your material existence if you will develop your embryonic soul seed and begin to experience a tiny bit of happiness while in this form.

They are inward and outward.

Outward creativity is the sum total of your actions. A great deal of this, of course, is your actions with respect to your fellow creatures. Not just the desire to do good, but the actual doing of good, the continuing effort to conduct your life as Jesus of Nazareth lived. And as Jesus was very active in his fellowship with others, He also was a model in regard to the inward creative struggle. The battle that is waged by every God-seeking mortal between animal urges and the promptings of the indwelling Thought Adjuster.

Hard work, yes. When the material form falls away at death, in some respects the struggle is eased. But do not be fooled for the happiness that comes from God-seeking is always elusive throughout your career as an ascendant mortal, like a carrot on a stick before the horse, you may say.

It is this major thread that serves as a guide in the tapestry of your individual knowledge. Father has given us very much freedom in creative expression of our spiritual selves. Only fear and lack of faith can hold you back, can keep you from taking these leaps toward joy, self fulfilment, and ultimate happiness.

Question: Is there any direct correlation between spiritual growth and happiness?

Answer: Yes. They are inextricably intertwined. One follows the other.

Question: Is it possible to be happy in a fear-based religion?

Answer: Happy in the animal sense, yes, but fear stunts spiritual growth and holds man back from God
striving. Depending on the depth of fear, happiness can be achieved to some extent. This varies from personality to personality. Fear-based religions, as you know, serve a purpose in the evolution of mortals, but are not - were never meant to persist indefinitely, but rather to be replaced by revealed religion which is void of fear. The fear of present religious forms is entirely a product of those who would subjugate their
believers.

Question: I know we have to be very careful not to undermine a religion that's important to somebody. But
if we sense that the person is being disturbed by the fear that is being taught them in - by their pastor, for
instance - and that person seems to be pulled away from understanding and feeling the love of God, can
we - if our instinct seems to guide us - give this person some encouragement by emphasizing Father's
love and His caring for them?

Answer: Yes, but do it as Jesus would have done, that is, be careful to respect the decisions and beliefs of
such a person or people as you encounter them, and find the good and praise it in their expressions and
beliefs. If you do this then it will help the negative to wither and die. Emphasize the good. Reinforce that which is true and right. You would be surprised how strong that can be.

Question: About people that seem to have physical reasons for not being happy, and they are depressed,
and there is some sort of organic reason for that. Could you comment, maybe, on what is really going on?

Answer: The answer to that is manifold, but there are two main areas of consideration. The first - and by far most common category of such persons - are those who spend an inordinate amount of their time and energy in the pursuit of gratification of animal urges - greed, pride, fear, anger - these all are animal drives and result in excess when unchecked, the full cup that Jesus referred to. A full cup will drown our spiritual growth.

As spiritual growth slows down or ceases as a result of lack of effort and striving, the individual with the full cup experiences black depression, as if a light has been switched off. No material being can live for long with not a shred of spiritual happiness. And, indeed, such persons very often kill themselves in one way or another, destroy themselves, for such an existence is intolerable. There are, of course, gradations, and by no means do all such persons become suicidal. But the one that seems ever depressed and unhappy, angry, gloomy, downcast, sorrowful, without hope - in one way or other - may well be suffering from over investment in the material and under investment in the spiritual. The way out for such persons is to become active and creative, physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually. That is the way.

The second great category - although far smaller - of persons who become depressed are those whose
cellular chemistry is dysfunctional, as you said, an organic basis. At this point in the development of your bio-technology there is virtually no understanding of how this system functions other than a tiny awareness of its existence. Very little can be done at this point. But Father loves all his creatures and those who are
spiritually lazy are loved, as are those who are materially diseased or deficient.

Does spiritual laziness cause organic depression? Yes, because the health of the soul is crucial to the
health of the body and its components. So, yes. If you could measure abnormalities in function - chemical abnormalities, electrical abnormalities - you would find them in the first group discussed as well as the second. 

Harmony

How the wisdom coding system works

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How glorious it is to be in harmony with the universe
 
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Rayson and Friends

 

 

 

 

 

 

In your daily life it is important to attain harmony with your fellows. Tune yourself to the thoughts, the feelings of people around you. Keep your senses alert for their sound vibrations, their feelings, and emit the kind of vibrations that are in harmony with things. Sometimes you will have to diminish your own harshness.

Sometimes you must enlarge your feelings, the truths that you know, and the actions, which come from
them so that you will achieve a greater whole rather than stand out alone. It is also important to have harmony in your mind. Harmonize the truths that you know, the values that you have learned, with your intellectual ideas, your conditioned responses, and your animal emotions.

Think of evolutionary growth and progress as music, it’s not how loud you are, it is not how technically brilliant you are, but how you harmonize with others. And this is also true of each and every aspect of your own self, your intellect your spirit, your physical organism; they must all harmonize with each other. And this whole must harmonize with outside. And eventually this world will harmonize with the rest of the universe.

Harmony. It makes for a wonderful sound. When you harmonize, the sound of your harmony will be heard by others and they will wish to harmonize with you.

Question: I feel an inability to harmonize with a certain person right now. And perhaps others do too. And
I feel the need to distance myself emotionally and physically. On the one hand I feel that need, and on the other hand I feel the desire to be in harmony and to work out the hurt. Would you comment on that?

Answer: Sometimes, before you can harmonize with another instrument you must tune your own instrument. It is unwise to try to harmonize before your own instrument is tuned. This sometimes requires time, and some introspection, prayer.

Question: To extend that analogy and metaphor, if one's own instrument is tuned, but the other person's
whom you wish to be in harmony with is not in tune, is it fair to assume that harmony will not be able to
be achieved in that case until both parties are personally in tune?

Answer: Yes. We must be patient and pray for the other instrument to get in tune. But do not always assume that it is the other person.

Healing

How the wisdom coding system works

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 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


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 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


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The power of thought and the power of healing
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive October 20, 1996

Teacher Elyon and Lantarnek Melchizedek

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elyon: The power of thought and the power of healing are very real and significant forces. When you send this desire, this thought of healing, out to your brothers and sisters it can then be directed by the powers-that-be in control of healing. If you then couple this thought, this desire, with like thoughts and desires in a group, the effect is amplified and enhanced. If you then as a group and as individuals couple this with the sincere desire that the will of the Father prevail, this gives added potential to this energy force. This energy can then be utilized by the forces of healing, can be channeled and directed to the best benefit of the individual, which may not be the benefit that you as individuals have in mind, but rather more likely the best course for this person as the will of the Father deems it. 

An increase of faith is also a powerful potential. The more faith you have in the process of healing, the more likely the results will be profound.  

Lantarnek: You know that love for the Father leads to worship and love for your fellows leads to service.  Healing is unique; it is both. When you lay your hands upon another in service to heal, likewise lay your hands upon the Father. You are the conduit for the transfer. Reach deeply toward Him as you reach equally toward your fellow in distress. All your spirit guides, the Life Carriers, midwayers, and others may partake in
healing from the standpoint of service. But the grace gift of the Father flows from your worship connection, your prayerful attitude, the focus upon the Giver of Life. It is a twofold process, the inner focus will clarify questions in the arena of your outward service.  

Honesty

How the wisdom coding system works

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 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


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 G  = Group (non-personal)


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Honesty moves in stages
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive December 11, 1998
Teacher Christ Michael
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Honesty can seem to be so painful until completed. I use the word completed because honesty moves in stages. There is the first appearance in one's mind and emotions concerning the issue. There is the further understanding that occurs. Honesty is like a layered onion, the whole of your personal truth. It requires removal of successive layers to reach the central truth where the most basic level of honesty lies.

Many wish to take the knife, slice open the onion and go directly to that central piece. Yet this is not how personal understanding occurs. It is discovered layer by layer. But discovery does not occur without
communication. In order to peel the layers of this onion it is absolutely essential that communication take place.  

This communication is triune in nature. Communication needs to occur between the personality and the Indwelling Spirit. Communication must also occur with one's ego self. And communication must occur in interaction with one another. All three are critical to discovery of personal truth which is required to be honest.

We are talking about the entire onion as honesty. In speaking one's truth honestly as you know it to be at the time, it frees the space that the deeper truth, the deeper fears may surface, be known, and be that much more open.

Hope

How the wisdom coding system works

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 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


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 G  = Group (non-personal)


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Hope is the grandeur of trust
 
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Hope is “the grandeur of trust”. So, brothers and sisters, one must understand that hope leads to or is the basis of trust. Trust in The Father's goodness, watch-care, love, and overall plans. Trust in the fellow's mercy, which is applied love. Trust in the Divine Spirit's ministry through her agents to us. It is only through faith, which can be viewed as belief beyond rational, tangible meaning in a Deity or creative purpose and mind in a creator - that is what faith is. It is only through faith and hope that man transcends the portals of physical death. Hope - potential trust - is a key because it is the belief that man, ones self, is capable of transcending the material into the morontial and eventual spiritual.

Hope is the unifying emotion underlying all true religion. Hope is ultimate optimism for the individual, the society, and the world, that the plan of Deity for evolving perfection will be realized. It is the driving force behind even, true progress.

It is initiated - faith and hope - from the Divine Adjuster. Therein springs these two necessary spiritual qualities. Even the Adjuster unceasingly hopes for the perfection, communication, and consecration of the human subject's will to the will of The Father. The Adjuster is familiar - and synonymous - with the spiritual quality of hope, and thus propels you toward personality survival.

On advanced worlds so different from your own, when a mortal-evolving imperfect-individual dies, there is immense joy, faith, celebration, and assured hope. If only your world could view the physical death this way, so much hope would abound, so much fear would disappear, and despair would be unknown.

Your world, as reflected in your scientist, materialist philosophers, intellects, and every day people - even
some religionists, lack hope because if one narrows ones vision to the material, physical, life or planet or even universe, one fails to grasp the hope of evolution perfection, even eternity.

The perspective of the eternal is quite different from the perspective of the finite. Thus we who are slightly older see the goodness in this world, see the potential and promise that this planet will one day fulfil - as the greatest and brightest world in all of Nebadon. We see the potential and promise of the agondonter, even in the human, which you would scorn.

This is hope. It is not without validity, but is not seen by time bound and often physically blinded mortals. The scientist - by and large - is without hope because the spiritual element is not integrated. The philosopher despairs because lofty ideals are so often not reflected in the world around him or her. The intellectual disdains the irrationality of his or her fellows. The religionist falsely and arrogantly assume their eventual transmutation upon death into a perfected being. All leave out an integration of what a human is, and leave out hope of improvement - which is a Divine and appropriate decree by The Father - creator of the evolutionary spheres of being.

So, hope and faith get one to the morontial. Hope and faith allow one to see and integrate while on this planet - through mota - all disciplines, and when one sees with mota, one's vision is exponentially increased and much progress is made for the individual and for the world. If there were no hope, growth
would cease. If there were no faith, God would not cease.

When the portals of physical death are successfully crossed, hope more easily becomes trust, for then  you will know the unreality of this plane, which so mightily influences all of your moods, will decisions, thoughts, and behavior. And yet it does not totally disappear, for one hopes to fuse some day. That must also require the belief and action motivated through faith and hope.

It is so easy, brothers and sisters, to become pulled downward if one looks only at the world around. The
circumstances on this planet are depressing. Your struggle is difficult. But the struggle to survive, will be won only with hope that you can transcend this existence. Many mortals believe - by faith in God - but are in despair and feel abandoned, or are bitter at God's lack of Justice, or are angry at material circumstances, or are incapable of seeing goodness, beauty, or recognizing truth because they see so little reflected around or inside them.

What an untruth, for inside you, you have God. Outside you exists God. Hope is the assurance that you someday will become God-like, the ultimate goal of your life, the real reason for your creation - the belief that goodness will triumph over imperfection, that light will overtake shadows, that God's plan is perfect. It is not enough to survive physical death for you the children - enlightened children - of God. Your goal is to live morontially now. This goal will be more fully realized when you walk on the legs of faith and hope.

Personality is capable always of loving God and one's fellows. This gift is a gift from The Father, Himself. Survival of this gift is dependent upon faith. And the living knowledge of this faith is dependent upon spiritual hope. That is your call to action. Because you are given more, you must do more.

Question: Is hope the essential threshold of faith? Must you have hope before you can have faith? Is it - in
other words - in this sequence?

Answer: No. Faith can exist without hope, but survival is dependent upon both. Faith - one may have faith in God but not in one's self, not recognize the intention of evolution. That is hopelessness. It is not sequential, although faith usually comes first.

Question: So we need first to see the potential, then have faith, after which we have hope. Is that the
sequence of events?

Answer: One can have faith without understanding potential.

Question: Would hope be what comes before trust?

Answer: Hope comes before trust, or is the grandeur of trust.

Question: What do you mean by “grandeur of trust?”

Answer: It is the - as we are agondonters and have faith without proof, so we have hope before we have
trust, because it is not tangible. One can trust another personality after much testing of trustworthiness,
but hope - which is greater than trust - often comes without testing. It is an agondonter quality. It is knowing that even though you cannot see the good, the good not only exists but will triumph.

Question: And that is hope?

Answer: Yes. And if one lives with hope, then one sees more good and does more good.

Question: Depression is a terrible problem on this planet. What can we do for those who come to us with
depression.

Answer: One must live as Jesus lived in human form in the undying hope in God's love. You do not have to say this but be it. Depression has many roots, some chemical-physical, some due to lack of easy environment, perceived loss, comparisons with others or ideals internally-intellectually, despair over world circumstances. All of these things are real, but the reality pales when one realizes the ultimate destiny for humankind.

One cannot feel alone when you know God lives within you. One cannot feel despair when you have the hope of God's promise of individual survival, potential eternity, and Light and Life for the planet. All of these concepts, however, are not important to tell, but important to live - as Jesus did and gave so many the realistic spiritual hope of The Father's love and the promise of the kingdom.

The Jews had false hope. Their definition of the messiah was incorrect, and when this messiah did not appear, their false hope got them into much trouble. Jesus provides real spiritual hope, and you must
recognize that depression is, in essence, hopelessness. You. perhaps, cannot provide a home, a love affair, a family, a better world, the specifics of what a persona identifies as the reason for their despair, but you can provide hope, real hope.

Question: Is it correct to assume that – like happiness - hope is meant to be shared with others? And, in a
way, is contagious? That is not a good word, but I think you take my meaning.

Answer: It is not contagious, but is inspirational. Yes.

Question: What is the distinction between faith and hope which, as I listen to the lesson again maybe I will
understand a little better. Faith is belief. Okay. Then is hope belief in my beliefs? Kind of an attitude toward my faith?

Answer: Yes. Yes, Yes, that is an excellent way to put it. Faith is generally faith in God. Hope is belief in the purpose of creation so it is belief in belief, yes.

Student: St. Paul said, “faith is the substance of things hoped for.”

Rayson: Yes, correct. 

Hope is a desire, a yearning, practiced with patience and loving guidance
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive March 20, 1989.
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JarEl: Hope is the ability of God the Father to indwell the mind of a mortal human and patiently wait and intend greatness for that particular human. In the same respect, hope is the ability of the human to see beyond the partial and incompleteness of the present situation and to anticipate wholeness, oneness and completeness and all of the aspects which attend to this.

Hope is a desire, a yearning, practiced with patience and loving guidance. In a sense, it is the ability to understand and to comprehend a larger picture in which you can view the small part you are now.

From the spiritual perspective, there is tremendous anticipation and hope, that you as individuals and as mortal men and women in society will open up to a greater consciousness of respect and understanding amongst each other. Also that you cooperate with the guidance that is lavishly and freely given to  you. The universe, in it's ability to function spiritually, endows a world such as this one with tremendous spiritual resource in the form of angelic hosts, spiritual helpers who willfully and dutifully go about their daily work and tasks in hope and anticipation that this may be the day that you allow them to help and allow them to serve your decisions. The spiritual circuitry of the Universe Mother Spirit, the Spirit of Truth and the direct circuit of God himself anticipate the cooperation from the mortal will.

They hope and anticipate mankind to awaken to that spiritual dimension of their own mind and little by little begin to comprehend the tremendous resource that is available. It is unfortunate that much hope has been dashed upon the rocks of despair on this world.

I am here to tell you now, that a new day is upon you. Your hope does not fall upon false ears or an unopened heart, neither a closed mind. That your ability to see the greater part of yourself in your life can be realized through the willful decisions you make now, and through the attention you give to the spiritual counterpart of your mind. Of course I am speaking of the spirit within and the practice of contacting the spirit.

As a mortal, what do you hope for the most? When you are young, you hope for someone to love or someone to love you. You may hope and dream for a family, a job, a career, maybe it's a business, a home, a support group. You may hope for much needier and immediate things, like clothes, food, medicine, help, assurance, respect, care.

There are spiritual aspects to hope as well as material aspects. The spiritual counterpart brings man to a closer realization of his or her ability to help others realize their dreams. The ability to help and practice in service that all may fulfill their hopes and dreams.

There is tremendous hope for peace on this world. This is certainly an attainable goal. But, while politicians are brokering peace around conference tables, God is brokering peace within your heart and within your soul. God is brokering peace within your own mind, and you have the ability to identify yourself with the greater, the ability to move beyond the limiting self and to see yourself as a much greater part of the service of mankind. This is hoped for. It is also the challenge of spiritual awareness.

When you align yourself with the spirit, hope becomes undying. What that means, is that hope becomes alive, living. It is an anticipation, a certain knowingness, knowing that someday in the future you will grow more spiritually and more godlike and one day you will approach infinity and eternity in the abode and presence of the great and Almighty Spirit. Hope that the universe is great and acknowledges all potential, that you will have the ability to experience everything that you desire, and at the same time know that you will be asked to serve in the capacity in which you are able and capable. As you grow and your capacity for your responsibility increases, the challenge of service also is met.

In this day and age in which you live, in the time which is upon you now, hope becomes a resource. Many on the world tonight go to bed not knowing, some even despairing, because they are not certain. They do not feel connected to the wholeness and oneness that is available to each and every one of you. It is hoped that you begin to display the ability and to share this wholeness and completeness with others, that you will make available resources that others may know that all their strife, their struggle and their pain and suffering is not in vain. There is reward at the end of the human tunnel. That reward is directly proportional to the ability of each and every human to take upon a transformation of identity and a transformation to spirit, to align with the will of the greater guide. Your future is uncertain. In that uncertainty, you are not quite sure which decision to make and which direction to take.

And so, in your ability to deal with your everyday life, its struggle and its ability to overwhelm you, learn to take some time to connect with something that is greater than yourself, something that will help you see yourself more clearly. 

Student: Could you enlarge upon how peace within us will make peace within the planet.

JarEl: There must be peace within the mind first. A mind in conflict is a mind in doubt. A mind stricken with fear cannot function properly. A mind vital with the ability to grasp and comprehend is a mind that is fertile
for the recognition of God. It is also true that for many people, it is not until they hit the bedrock, the hard core, exhausted all resource before they attempt to turn to God for help. And, yes, God is there and God is ready. But it is also hoped that one does not have to go through such drastic measures to find God, but one can just be a peace, and in that peace the ability to identify with God reinforces that which you are already
are.

Your ability to find peace within yourself is your ability to find that peace within others. Many times a man or woman at peace can approach another who is distressed, and through that peace offer comfort and
compassion. In the face of anger, can offer an alternative. One needs to experience this peace within one's heart and mind connected with the divine resource to know that all things can be dealt with one at a time. This is how peace is formed. Many people think, there is too much conflict and that there cannot be peace. But, peace is acquired one person at a time. At this time, this is the best I can explain it.

Student: Are you saying that we won't have peace until 6 billion people on this earth have peace within themselves, and if God is brokering through us, how does my individual peace with myself affect the planetary peace.

 JarEl: Not all have to be there for peace to happen, but there is a threshold that happens when reached all of a sudden, it becomes much more profitable for society at large. For example, in your country America,
there is a tremendous resource to be utilized and gained with the peaceful inner working of the county, city, state and federal levels of governments, the inner acts of organizations, business transactions. This hopefully could be a model for the whole world.

If all of a sudden you go back a 100 years during a civil war in your country when it was in conflict, everything was disrupted. Yes, a tremendous amount of good came out of this conflict, but true peace, the ability for man to govern himself takes intelligent and willful act. It does preclude that all people find that peace within their own hearts. Unfortunately many people cannot find peace within their own hearts and minds because of many reasons. Many people have many troubles. And, some of these troubles are not always brought upon by the individual. But at least you can acknowledge in your own life having found peace within yourself and within your heart. For example, you have been able to live with a physical tragedy and you have negotiated life and have continued to life and prosper even with a compromised physical condition. And you would not have been able to do this had you not had a resource. Is this not correct?

Student: Yes, and does this have an affect on the international peace. Is there a circuit?

 JarEl: There is no direct response at this point, just that you have  touched many people around you, near you and in your community. And yes, in a sense you are touching a much greater social constituency in a subtle way.

Student: I guess what we are all yearning for is peace in this planet, so that there is a radiating atmosphere of peaceful negotiations between people. Is this what you're referring to when you say when we have peace within ourselves we are helping to build this peaceful atmosphere or circuit.

 JarEl: Yes, this is what I am saying. And this is greatly hoped for. It should be a human desire also.

Student: In our quiet time are the prayers we give recorded in the planetary system of some kind to help further peace.

JarEl: No, they are not recorded, they are to help change the pray-er. It is you who brings peace. Your prayers help God the Father know that you are paying attention and that you care. It is through this prayer, hopefully, that you are able to perceive peace when it does happen, peace within yourselves and within your own families and communities. Peace is very fertile for the establishment of a much greater spiritual kingdom.

In seeking a balance, your ability to function is greatly increased, you're much more efficient and your ability to effect those around you increased. You certainly benefit in the long run a much greater part of yourself, but by first bringing yourself and having a clear notion of yourself in a state of balance and in a state of peace, your ability to project this to others is greatly increased.

God is peace, and as a thought adjuster, he adjusting the thoughts of your mind, sending you thoughts which will bring your mind to a balance and a realization of harmony, peace, love, beautiful decision, patience, all of these things. God is the common denominator, the spiritual fuel of the planet. So, if this fuel, this spiritual connection is within the ability of everyone's mind and heart to grasp, then yes, we're speaking of a movement, a plan that God has for each and every one of us to function as a large family. And as a large family to function effectively and efficiently, possibly even balance and hopefully peacefully.

Student: What helped me recently is the realization that God is in a constant state of bliss and he wants for us also to have that. God is stillness, God is calm, and if we can tap into that, we become very peaceful and calm and then service becomes a joy. For me, it was like becoming detached from the way I always related and I have a new and free way of relating.

JarEl: This is very good. So, then in a sense, what you are also saying, is that God is everything we could ever want to be, and this certainly is true. These spiritual practices take a certain amount of time and development, the ability to hold to this practice, the ability to little by little attempt to discern the greatness and the power of the spirit within you. For it is through these many small steps that the muscles are developed to begin to take larger strides and much more confident standing. So be happy and joyous to take these small steps.

Student: I understand this works like the hundredth monkey. The more and more people that show peace and joy and become the examples of this peace and joy, the examples of what God is, then more and more people learn it, then evidentially we will get to the hundredth monkey and all 6 billion people will have this understanding. I have had a recent experience, that despite my intuitive knowledge, I was still not feeling any joy, and then after this experience I was able to feel this joy and it stuck with me since. Before this experience, I had a difficult time despite my knowledge of what God is and what my mission was, of getting rid of the fear. I think, the point for me changing from fear and doubt to joy and love was realizing that I am
an equal and important part of God. I hope you would expound on this.

JarEl: What really happens is that you create within yourself this ability. It is like there is a lock, a combination to your psyche, and when the right key comes along, it slips right in unlocks it and opens it up without you even noticing. Your yearning, seeking and desire has reached a threshold and when it reaches that threshold, all of a sudden it becomes automatic, you shift, it takes time. It does not happen as soon as you think it. It is almost like in a certain sense, God is just waiting to see how badly you really want something before he gives it to you. You yourself are really not sure you can have this. But then you realize that I can have this. I deserve this. You yourself have said that I am a daughter. I am deserving of this. I am equal because God has made me so. When you become aware of this, you are becoming aware of your own personal relationship and spiritual development. God seeks to work with each one of us individually first.

Some of the common denominators would be the search and yearning and your own desire for such and then life experiences bring you to a point of grace almost where you momentarily shift. It is a very core shift. All of a sudden it affects all of the extraneous aspects of your mind, its capacities and nuances. This core shift happens between you and your own mental ability to connect with spirit. Just that awareness alone is a core connection. 

Hope is like music to the human heart
 
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SOURCE: Lightline Teleconference  2024-11-07
Teacher: Amanson
T/R: Mark 







 

 

Amanson on 'Hope' 

"Hope" is the extension of our faith, the bright light that drives it, lighting our way through the dark hours and passageways when our faith is proving slippery, difficult to keep hold of. Hope is an essential component in the everyday process of living for it keeps in trust the promise made in the earliest hours of your existence, a promise to provide a creative reason to carry on in the face of odds; odds, circumstances, that when viewed full flush are seen to be merely set-pieces, scenarios to bring to the fore the living secret of Hope. 

Hope is not a far-fetched notion, a make-believe panacea, a (Holy) ghost story (how's that one?!) Hope is a realization born of actual living in the moment, a moment that gives birth to the next, then the next, all in a chain which, when viewed (lived) in Hope, provides both the culmination of, and the reason for, Hope.

Hope exists. It lives just out of reach, in hopes to extend your grasp, increase your reach. There are those who question the concept of hope; actual languages that have no word for 'hope'; but it is a palpable light when looked for. 

Hope exists in the human heart as a sort of music, distant, one to be listened for in quiet; for in a battle with conflicting sources it too often cannot be heard over the din. It must be found out and acknowledged. And to the mind, Hope is the next step, the next placement of the intellectual footfall, for it brings energy and spirit to an otherwise depleted or confused thinking.

Hope has no baggage. It is pure, it is ever-fresh, and it, as they say, 'springs eternal'. And why is that? Because it is a ray of God, of pure Creation, an aspect of Creation (a circuit, as you say) that can be tapped into and brought to bear on whatever future you face. It is not something imported from outside, it dwells within any given situation as certainly as any of the more immediately apparent or tangible aspects of the challenge being faced.

But it is not often seen this way. Hope can seem a product of the imagination, a prayed-for, last-minute kind of thing. The cavalry riding in for the rescue as in the movies. No. Hope is a light encircling your problem, the dark of which was designed to help you to see, to learn of the light surrounding it. In other words, all the fractures you face are designed for the very purpose of teaching you to recognize -- and implement -- Hope. 

Learn to see. Hope is hiding in plain sight. Divine it. Literally.

Influence

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
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Influence and different levels of understanding and learning
 
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SOURCE: tmtransctipts teamcircuits email archive July 26, 1998
Teacher Evanson, Elyon
T/R Jonathan, Mark

 

 

 

 

 

 


Evanson: I would like to play with your word "influence". If we consider the word influence, we can derive a few thoughts such as, to in-fluence another, one need not bear upon the other from the outside, but rather let that flow of the Father within you rise out and present itself. This will create the same reaction within the other.

You have a phrase for social conditions, "breaking the ice." Most of you have experienced clashes in religious thought with other people wherein breaking the ice results only in shattering; it does not contribute to the flow of the Water of Life. Sometimes you must let this fluent of truth melt away that hard, dense rigidity. This requires patience, for, as you know, even ice in a glass of water requires time to fully melt. Michael has referred to himself as the water of life. You are his flue through which he may bring this life, the vitality of spiritual reality, to others. It is not something you grasp in your hand and pass along; it is something you take in and let rise and flow to the without.

Elyon: You are familiar with the pattern that, to truly understand and know, you must take the final step and teach what you know. This, in a sense, cements this knowledge into your vault of experiences. It is required for you to do this, and it is necessary for those to have this done for them. 

Integration

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
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The human personality is a spectrum much like a rainbow
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive August 14, 1999.
Teacher Lantarnek
T/R Jonathan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lantarnek: Integration is a supreme process. The future if mankind depends upon the elimination of divisions that are in contention. To clarify my statement, I mean that no longer is it appropriate to view
your physical, biological, and environmental status and being as in war or conflict with your spiritual,
ethereal, and super-conscious being.

The entire makeup of the human personality is a spectrum much like a rainbow, where you are in higher frequency at the upper spectrums, and a lower frequency at your lower spectrums; however, these are not to be considered greater or lesser, rather they are a gradual continuum. Note that purple does blend into blue and so forth throughout the array of color. Likewise do you, from the Thought Adjuster’s presence, throughout your three levels of mental states, into your biological functions, behave as does a rainbow, in harmony, in continuity.

When the Master laid his hands upon one who was infirm, the hand was not the healing power, but the hand was an integral part of that revelation of that healing. It was the connection body to body that allowed a circle, a continuous loop of energy to flow from the Father, through Michael, to his bodily form, into the vehicle of his child/friend, and therefore received into the mind and soul of this personality. Through faith they completed the connection and received from the Father through their inner spirit and healing took place.

You are aware that your environment is a cyclical pattern of ecological events, each relying on a process that incorporates a greater whole. This is true physically, planetarily, and it is equally true mentally and spiritually. There is no being who stands alone and self contained, self-accomplished. Each individual is integrated into a larger framework of function.

When you find yourself in a position where you are ministering to another individual, profoundly or simply, realize that it is a complex structure of events and choices by many individuals that has brought that particular interface into being. Take note that you are assisted with many capable beings, and also realize that your fellows have been directed likewise. Understanding this complexion of processes should forever dispel any sense of individual glory in accomplishment, that so-called “I have saved the soul of another”, for you realize that you are simply a part of a greater process of ministry. To become involved in spiritual ministry means that you understand that you are one part of a grand process.

It is always beneficial, when reaching the limits of your experiential capabilities, to transfer your responsibilities of ministry to another who may be better qualified to take up the task and proceed further along in uplifting another who is in need. It is not that you have failed or reached a shortcoming. Yes, a shortcoming is good to realize for you will then focus upon this shortcoming and strengthen yourself through growth. But to transfer your ministry into the hands of another for continual bestowals of kindness and service is itself an extremely valuable method for helping your fellows.

Note that we are all a grand family; each of us is dedicated toward uplifting one another, The simple smile, the simple handshake, the compliment, and even the simple reprimand, will help one another to quicken their progress through either inspiration or correction. As a recipient of ministry in this nature, I encourage each of you to be willing to receive these corrective and inspirational inputs from your fellows, to not react hesitantly or guardedly to them but rather to file them in a temporary holding area such that you may process the value of the input and then release it into your being as you deem it appropriate.

Do not discard the input of your fellows, for these inputs are valuable in your gaining a broader perspective of yourself than you individually may be able to attain for yourself. Yes, there may be times when these perspectives are irrelevant or erroneous, however, there may be valuable indicators in these feedbacks. You need not necessarily incorporate any one instantaneously. You may hold them in your reserves for several years before they become relevant. You will then be thankful for those comments so long ago delivered to you. If you had discarded them at the moment of their delivery you would not have benefited in the course of time that transpired since.

Jada: Along that same line of holding an inspiration in a place where we can consider it, then is it the Spirit of Truth that will help us sift through these and determine what is useful?

Lantarnek: Yes. This is quite correct. You may recognize the truth value of the comment but realize that you are not quite ready. However, because you have seen the truth, you know that in due time it will be appropriate and that you’ll need to make some adjustments and allow that truth to become an active reality. You can trust this spirit indicator to reveal to you its appropriateness whether it is now or in the future.

This same spirit will likewise indicate to you whether or not you have already attained the suggested growth, but you have momentarily displayed behavior that seems to be in need of that comment because you have only let your guard down, your standard slip, or in a more accepting way, you have been in reversion. You have let yourself recreate and someone has come along and said, “You ought to...” The Spirit of Truth will be your sounding board, your eternal verifier of the value of what is presented to you.

Jada: Thanks for that. I’m trying to find out more about the Spirit of Truth.

Lantarnek: Michael is always embracing every one of his children through this truth-spirit presence. I encourage each of you to always place great value in his verifying spirit.

Within the human being is an intuitive faculty which has the ability to step through rapidly all the logical quandaries of reasoning and perceive what is appropriate and valuable instantly. However, there is always an element of doubt, for this process occurs so rapidly that the mind ends up uncertain as to whether or not the perceptions are accurate and based in reality. With this Spirit of Truth, so recently bestowed upon this world, you can be assured that your perceptions are on target.

The best method for attaining this assurance is to step within, to look to our Michael, and seek his assurance. You will then doubly compound the effect of his spirit presence around you by bringing in, not only his Spirit of Truth, but his personality that is Michael.

Jada: You talked about integration. It seems like there are two ways to think about it. You can be integrated body, mind, spirit within ourselves. Spirit connects you with everything, so we are integrated through spirit. I see integration in another sense where we’re part of a big family. We are all part of an integral unit that way. I guess the connecting point is the spirit within.

Lantarnek: Yes, and you have drawn me back to repeat a point I made regarding trusting that what you provide in ministry may be taken up another in continual ministry for a particular other. Because you are part of a larger family you may begin an unfoldment of realization with an individual in need of receiving spiritual truths, and you may feel that the process is incomplete, for you have not witnessed the fulfillment of these teachings as they become enacted in another. However, there are many, many of your fellows around you who are contributing to this understanding, this enlightenment, this transforming experience.

I will offer to you one simple guideline. That is, when you encounter a hesitancy to develop (and this will not come simply in one event but over the course of several events) the ability to discern whether or not your hesitancy is because the time is not right or you are in some level of fear reluctant; and to note that difficult expressions, awkward expressions, may simply be because the time is right to confront. But I do overlay on this comment the importance of discerning the degree to which you are lovingly concerned in contrast to when you are personally feeling antagonistic or affronted. This will over time become, I use the word, instinctual. It is a developed, practical skill.

It is okay to make these mistakes step by step, for it is in this practice that you will become better able to minister in this manner. So, do not hesitate because you feel unskilled. Practice. There are many angels and teachers and this Spirit of Truth and the Father’s presence, all around, who can make adjustments should you make some minor mistakes.

Integrity

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
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Integrity is the hub from which all works extend
 
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SOURCE: Lightline Teleconference  2024-08-29
Teacher: Amanson
T/R: Mark Turnbull

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Integrity is the spring of the universe. Not ‘spring’ as in ‘nascent river’ but spring as in tooled steel, wound and bound, keeping the nature of Nature taut and ready to… well, spring! Integrity functions as would a central heating system: keeping all of the various functions of the universe - and an individual - in ready order, at the proper temperature, balanced, with an intrinsic hold on the purpose to which a universe and an individual have been put.


No one questions integrity when it is fulfilling its function. It is obvious. It is foursquare. It  serves notice that purpose has found its footing. Integrity speaks to the soul and character of a person (It is the soul and character of a person). The same is to be said of a universe. You don’t see a universe with all its individual systems go scattering off into space willy-nilly. No. A universe has integrity. And when properly possessed of their reason for being, so does a person. 

But too many are not convinced, not even apprised, of their reason for being. Thus Integrity becomes a wavering half-facility, not the ground and cornerstone of personality it should be. Too many distractions, too many temptations, come between a person and the deep knowledge of who they rightly are and why they should be – why they should be determined to be – who they rightly are. Integrity becomes just another concept, another philosophical idea to think about amongst the many possible occupations or preoccupations on offer in society’s whirling panorama of carnivalistic mayhem.

Integrity is where such considerations should start. We set forth on our adventures full haltered on the steed of Integrity, freeing us from both false assumptions we would believe and false impressions we would be burdened with keeping up. Integrity, like God, says, “I Am.” Then let the world come round and display its pageant. But without Integrity the world holds sway and that is the very situation Integrity was designed to forestall, to combat, to defeat.

Integrity allows you to walk a path that only you can walk, the path you were born to walk, but a path that requires that deep personal grasp on Reality the world will admiringly call “Integrity”. Will some begrudge such a turning, such a noble bid to be whole as the universe itself is whole? Yes, some will resent the inability to pull you down from your ‘steed’, but that is just more of that world you would resist holding sway. Those of Integrity will recognize a fellow sojourner and wave in solidarity as will a like-minded universe. 

Integrity is the hub from which all works extend. 

Intention

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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The practice of stillness is a valuable undertaking to clarify intention
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive May 13, 2001.
Teacher Evanson
T/R Jonathan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Evanson: You understand the importance of motive and how the outcome of action is not weighed for or against you unless you take into account the motive that initiates the action, for good motive, even while resulting in action that brought error, does ultimately reveal lessons learned that purify the application, the method you use to express your motive, and thereby you have grown and become more skillful in promoting the intention of your expression.

Let us for a moment twist the word "intend", reverse it and call it "tend in". It probably would become apparent to you that the practice of stillness is a valuable undertaking to clarify intention. This intending is a mode of preparation for any individual who desires to minister to fellows, not to discount the extremely high value of communion with the Father. The benefit of this stillness is this time to become prepared, and this helps to enlarge the arena of activity that is stillness. It allows you to use study, intellectually oriented lines of thinking, as well as the more obvious forms of prayer and worship and quieting of the mind.

Every football team huddles before the play is enacted. Every orator organizes prepared notes before the first phrase is spoken. A repairman gathers tools before heading out on a job. A musician organizes the sheet music before beginning the song. These preparatory actions are not displayed before those who
receive the service or any given action, but they are vital in the outworking. They are the composition of intention.

In spite of all this preparation, and you are familiar with this through experience, what plays out does not always conform with your prior organizational efforts, just as when the ball is hiked in a particular skirmish, and the play pattern is attempted by the offensive team, the unpredictable responses and actions of the defensive team create variations in the intended pattern, and adjustments are made in an effort to make progress.

An orator, a musician, an actor all have encountered this same variable unpredictablility that departs from the intended form of delivery. To one who seeks to be of service to the Father and encounters apparent failure in reaching to another individual must allow this breadth of unpredictability that will contribute rather than detract from your intention.

One of the meanings, the underlining truth, of the phrase, that you give and thereby receive, is woven into this dynamic of intention, the unpredictability of receptivity in your surroundings. The lesson you sought to
reveal, the ministry you have sought to foster, is adjusted. The lesson is received; the ministry received short of, perhaps, the intention, but superimposed upon your targeted action is a reciprocal lesson or ministry to
yourself. A good quarterback knows that, while the opening of the offensive moves may contain several plays in sequence to obtain the goal, that after each pattern has been outworked and adjustment is made, a new play pattern is called based on the reactions of the defensive team. This adjustment is the act of wisdom that is capable of quickly discerning the current configuration and applying prior knowledge, prior skills, to the immediate situation. This wisdom is not stubborn. It does not bullheadedly go forward with three or four sequential plays that were previously desired in spite of alterations in the environment as the plays have been run through. Wisdom, though always adhering to the principles of truth and goodness, must always adjust and accommodate to the variables of environment.

Often we speak of the dual qualities of worship and service, and that this is in reality one activity that
oscillates between an expressive service and an inward experience of worship. But as I have sought to illustrate today, that one's intention in service is derived from the preparation found in worship, of inward study, as refreshing and invigorating to the soul that it is, worship is also a form of service, for you are becoming strengthened, clearer in mind, and deepened in purpose. The very act of drawing closer to your Creator fosters this development and makes you better capable of addressing the needs of your fellows. True, you could, and throughout the mansion worlds you will, attend courses wherein you will gain skills at external forms of ministry. But the best preparation and the best preparer dwell within you and occur within you.

Now I wish to provide some caution, and that is regarding motivation. If you do spend a good amount of time — which I do not mean a lengthy duration at one occurrence but repeated applications of time — in stillness, in tending, you can apply yourself and do no harm. But to neglect this inward assessment, confusion can enter and motive can be clouded by lesser goals, lesser purposes, and harm can result.  Though no damage is insurmountable, given that you will take the time to undergo this inward visitation with the divine, correction will follow, adjustments are made, and better results ensue.

I have placed emphasis upon stillness as a means of developing pure intention because it is part of the same coin when it comes to alleviating the distresses of your fellows, but let me take a moment also to divide yourself into an internal and, in a sense, an external duality. This period of intending also works to great service of yourself. The health and well-being of mind and body is enhanced through this time, this inner visitation. The Master spoke of the truth, that it is not what goes in that defiles but what comes out of a man that defiles. Even if you stop short of exiting your own personal arena with what is expressed and consider only within your arena, your body and mind, what comes out of you, has great benefit or detriment to your own personal well-being.

I will close with one final note and that is on the importance of this time of inward communion as a method for, in a sense, selecting "reset". In the activities of your life many things are pulled out, scattered around, and left in upheaval. Stillness becomes the means whereby you may reset, regroup, and reorganize, and refresh to begin anew being about the Father's business.

Intention is the launchpad for transferring energy
 
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SOURCE: Lightline Teleconference  2024-11-21
Teacher: Amanson
T/R: Mark







 

 

Amanson on The Transference of Energy

'The Transference of Energy' happens in Spirit — via the Spirit — and Spirit is where humanity "moves, breathes and has its being". And when Spirit is engaged Spirit will not falter.

Energy is of the will, it pertains to the will and the way the will works, which is intention. And as there can be no movement, no creation without a medium, Spirit is the medium where the transference of energy — via a person's will activated as intention — takes place. 

But making such conceptual knowledge a reality, an experience rather than a subject in a book requires effort, a turn-about in one's thinking, for it is subtle and not something one is taught in school. Not even Sunday school!

Spirit knows no boundaries. Spirit knows no borders, no time distinctions, nothing  that clogs the minds and schedules of earth-bound mortals. And yet all earth-bound mortals move, breathe and have their being in Spirit. It supports them. It holds all they do in the palm of its hand and creates right along with them, stretching and reflecting out into the future all of mankind's endeavors, for it is in Spirit that these endeavors are created. And yet mankind knows it not. But once the truth, the fact, of this is realized — that Spirit is the amniotic fluid in which mankind floats — then Spirit can be used, manipulated, for conscious purposes, such as 'The Transference of Energy', which is how healing takes place. One needn't be in close proximity to the subject one wants to guide or help with the energy, for the energy manifests instantly on the metaphorical 'wings of Spirit'. And all Spirit is one.

The transference of energy is immediate (something the human being has trouble comprehending) although its manifestation (which is all Love, by the way, Love and Spirit and Energy being one) will most often take time, occurring as it does in the realm of time. In Spirit things happen instantly, but time and space require time and space. Yet this should not hinder the process nor deter the enthusiasm of the energy sender, whether he or she considers this transfer to be prayer, deep meditation, a psychic communication or a Star Trekian mind-meld. Names neither enhance nor detract from the actual event, what your Grandmother called [calls] 'a treatment', the replacing of a false or depleted energy with a vibrant new one, sent via you from the Source, not contaminated with the baggage of opinion or weakened by human concerns, but pure Spirit energy, free of even the desire for a particular outcome on the part of the sender, something the sender must be aware of.

Intention is of course the launch pad. You have nothing, neither energy nor transfer (let alone effect) without Intention. But Intention is different than...I will use the word 'desire' (semantics and the subtle degree of difference and inference get tricky here). 

I use the word 'desire'  as opposed to 'Intention' to imply a potentially dangerous personal element, an agenda with specific results sought by the energy's sender. Such personal demands or requirements diminish the Spirit's efficacy, for it bespeaks a lack of Trust on the part of the sender. Spirit, to be unleashed to do its optimum cleansing and healing must be left to make its own decisions, for Spirit knows all. And yet its involvement must be requested, invited. After that the energy you send may happily be left to its own devices — Trust. If you know enough to utilize Spirit energy consciously, you know enough to let it have its head.

And just as in singing the lungs and diaphragm supply the air, while the throat's only job is to model the note, to shape and tune the air presented to it, so in healing, the heart and its Intention become one with Spirit, and the mind's only job is to aim the gift being transferred, focusing on the receiver — and not any desired effect upon the receiver you personally would like the energy to have. That, ultimately, is none of your business. Spirit-derived energy will know its appropriate response and can be trusted to know and do its part. 

The energy transfer — the sending of healing Love — has taken place. Your job is done. The energy's is just beginning. 

Intimacy

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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Intimacy and detachment
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive June 5, 1998.
Teacher Minearisa
T/R Cathy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bob: I enjoy what I'm doing these days, as far as work. And I think it's probably a very healthy place to be at this time to not have a whole lot of time to think for myself, because I haven't wanted to be caught up in some of the emotional issues that seem to arise about some of the hopes and expectations I've had in my life regarding relationships and just what I've wanted to accomplish and what I've wanted to be. 

I recognize another part, that I've certainly busied myself so that I wouldn't drown in my sorrows or negative feelings. But I also recognize that there's a part of me that's become very detached and I've been more concerned about that lately, that I tend to be surfacy (superficial), not just with strangers, but with friends. I recognize that I've had a harder time just looking people in the eye, being sincere and talking about personal things.

I think there's a part of me that's afraid if I bring myself into that level of intimacy with my friends and family and such, that perhaps some of this sadness and maybe sense of loss will just come washing over me. I'm afraid that I'm closing my heart off again like I did many years ago, which I've recently opened up in the last few years to people; and I think nothing scares me more than becoming what I used to be. While everybody tended to love me and think I was a great guy, I was tortured inside for not being real and not being expressive of who I was. So I guess I'm afraid of losing a piece of myself and I don't know how to get it back. I feel like I'm lost a little bit in that area. And maybe I'm out of touch with my emotions a little bit and I don't like the person that I am when I'm that way. There are several aspects of my life that I think that I've grown and developed in, but I don't want to revert back and I don't know what to do. So I guess I'm asking for some guidance or insight as to how to remain open, personal and relating with people rather than just going through the motions and saying the right things, smiling and covering up that internal pain and suffering that I don't want to deal with inside. If you have any insight into that I would greatly appreciate it.

Minearisa:  My dear friend, you have indeed come full circle on that spiral staircase to that same issue you bumped up against years ago. But you are not the same person at all. Can you stop, sit down, and look
back and appreciate how much growth you have accumulated since the last time you faced this particular fear?

Bob: Oh, certainly, I can see all sorts of growth. What I see is a person that's afraid to be real again.

Minearisa: Can you identify the root of this fear? What is the worst that could happen if you are real?

Bob: I think it's just the rejection, the feeling of rejection inside. It's much easier to be surfacy because then if you're rejected it doesn't mean so much because it isn't really who I am. It's being rejected with what
I really feel inside that probably kills me more than anything; and so I tend when I face those rejections to begin to put on a persona that I don't have to be as real and to get out of myself.

Daniel: Your childhood heritage remains with you, as it does with any individual. It is a major issue of your childhood in terms of you survival. You chose the path of peacemaker, of mollifier, of pacifier as a child, which was understandable, and somewhat effective. But during this period you had to mask your real feelings; you had to protect yourself by looking for all the cues that would give you the information as to how to respond. You were a skillful player in the family drama that life put at your doorstep. This skill has been of great value to you. You have charmed your way through much of your life and you have been successful often. Your task as an adult is to put aside childish ways and to look more at the truth of who you are.

Minearisa has said, you have come full circle on the spiral staircase, but you are at a different level, you are not down at the bottom, you are quite a bit higher. Try to distinguish the feelings from the past in the realities of the present, so that your perspective may be more accurate and more comforting. I wish you to understand that surfacy behavior has adaptive components and is somewhat necessary at times, given a certain situation. You must provide yourself with the needed nourishment of the soul, in the intimacy of your relationship with your Indwelling Spirit and the sincere interaction with your trusted brothers and sisters. It's possible to be overly focused on introspective aspects. Sometimes you take yourself too seriously. My suggestion is that you maintain your bonds with your true friends and be at peace with yourself. Dip deeply into the well of the waters of life, my friend, continue to find your greatest
comfort in that greatest and best friend within.

Introspection

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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True introspection involves listening versus lecturing
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive December 18, 1998
Teacher Andirondeck, Daniel
T/R Cathy, Bill

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Virginia: As you begin to mature you turn inward again, and we call that introspection. Jesus said when he was ordaining the twelve, that he did not believe in religious introspection. He never taught character building, but rather character growth. My question is, how can we examine ourselves without religious introspection? Of course I do make a distinction in my own mind between religion and spirituality, but what do we do if we don't take a good look at our position, spiritually?

Andirondeck: The distinction to be made here is one between religious introspection and introspection. Religious introspection has historically meant lecturing oneself regarding a list of shoulds I should have faith, I should be giving. While these are important messages, true introspection involves listening versus lecturing. 

Virginia: That certainly helps. But, there are certain things that I would say  I should be kind, I should be loving, and some of the fruits of the spirit that I would like to see increased, and that only comes as a result of examining oneself, and that isn't a list of religious shoulds, it's a list, to me, of spiritual growth; and you have to examine oneself in order to be honest so that you can grow.

Andirondeck: This is true, but there must be a balance achieved between listening and looking for fault, for shortcomings, and mortals are often on the short end in terms of listening.

Daniel: The problem with religions introspection is that it tends to be egoistic and self-centered. In terms of your culture, you have a saying, 'a watched pot never boils.' The energy consumed in introspecting about one's spiritual level takes one's attention away from others, from service motivation, and draws the world
into the suction of a self-centered thinking process. Jesus was the perfect human being because he turned over every decision to the guidance of his Indwelling Adjustor, his Father. And to the extent that a person, a mortal, can stop worrying about his or her spiritual status and desire above all to do the same thing, to say that it is my will that your will be done, and turn their attention to others in service, will they then approximate to some degree or another the life of our Master.  

I would advise you to turn away from a formalized approach to this self-appraisal, except when you stumble. When you stumble, and you know clearly that you have erred, that you have done that which is in error, then take a good look at it until the picture is clear, stand up, get back on your journey, and give it no more thought in terms of your regret or guilt. Remember the lesson, yes, but put your gaze forward.

Judgment

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
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Being less judgmental on yourself
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive August 5, 1999.
Teacher JarEl
T/R ?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JarEl: The first step in judgement issues, in judging others is to stop judging yourself. Once you begin to 
start seeing yourself in a clearer and a more productive image, an undefective image. When you can begin to see this in yourself, you can then begin to see this in others. To use an analogy from my basic theme; when you begin to see and discern God in yourself, it is much easier to see and discern God in others. You cannot see in others what you must first see in yourself. This takes time. You need to begin to see yourself more complete and whole, to begin to move towards that aspect of yourself. Yes, use prayer and meditation to strengthen the spirit, your soul. They begin to reinforce and resonate within your personality. It is the higher aspects of your personality which will begin to draw you towards yourself. But as long as you are feeding your your lower-self, you will not evolve from that; so metaphorically begin to feed your higher self. See yourself whole, undefective; begin to get a picture of 'Who YOU are'. Do not be discouraged or overwhelmed that what you might see may overwhelm you. 

Student: You might say to 'Lighten up on ourselves'. We are designed to make mistakes and to learn by them. The Father is enjoying watching us make mistakes and learning from them, so we should strive for the higher things, yet not take ourselves too seriously. Would that be a partial solution?

JarEl: It is wonderful to receive advise from elders and their experiences.

Student: I would like you to comment on an approach I use to be that less judgmental of myself. I see myself as a father, and I see myself as a son of myself; putting myself in the attitude of a loving and all-kind father with an attitude of seeing me as a little boy, recognizing all of my mistakes, seeing these as from the father perspective, I can love this little boy for all of the good in him and see the mistakes as such only. I am the Father and the little boy; in that way I can love the boy from the perspective of an all loving father. 

JarEl: This is a very good metaphorical analogy. It is also good in this analogy for the little boy to truly see the father.

Student: It works both ways doesn't it. In this way I can develop a more personal love for the father as a little boy; and as the father a more personal identification with the love for the little boy without weighing the mistakes too heavily.

JarEl: One of the things which needs grasping is this element of time. For example, consider the possibility that spiritual growth may take two, three, maybe even four times as long as material growth. In other words, don't be so discouraged with the gradualness of your growth. This in part identifies with the Father in that you can see and sense something way before you actually experience it. You need to allow the time it takes to grasp this, for as you are all well aware, grasping is ninety percent of the reality.

Begin to see grasping and growing as part of this developmental process, because it has to operate on a whole system of being. It has to work with every cell of your being at the same time, not just your fingertips, or your heartbeat, etc. It has to work with every part of who you are all the time. Remove yourself from the framework of time and see how you have changed already, and see over time how you have been led as a little person to be confronted with these truths about yourself that you are dealing with full time. The fact that you are being faced with challenges full time is evidence you have grown that God 
recognizes your preparedness and conviction to now deal with your real life.

Student: When you say give yourself time, somehow I feel that time is not an absolute, it is relative, that if we can visualize something, it can happen NOW. It has to start now, especially if we have the willingness to 
grow to that point of being led by the spirit. We have the Father's trust, then we should dive in right now. We should start giving. This is the choice we are making, we are saving our own lives, you know. Even is we become vulnerable, we can trust that we are partners with the Father, he is protecting us. So we don't have anything to loose.

JarEl: Absolutely! It is beautiful to hear your words and voice gracing our presence. As one who has been challenged as you have, knows quite well to act. To take action for your own responsibility. Realize that time is not subject to your acting NOW. It is well-put thank you.

Student: We are in part of eternity now aren't we? 

JarEl: Yes, you are in full swing of eternity right now.

Student: I have made the observation that spirituality was a special evolving trend simultaneous with the very sad disintegration trend on the planet. Could you possible enlighten us about that.

JarEl: You just did. Yes, what you speak of is a polarization, a high contrast situation. What this is evidence of is a tremendous spiritual effort on part of Michael and his volunteers of Nebadon to come to this, the bestowal planet, and lend a helping spiritual hand to the monumental task of sorting out the confusion which has resulted from decades and decades of millennium of the rebellion on this part of the system, particularly from the spiritual one time administration of this world that went astray in doing away with the Father's plan for personal and social evolution of this world. You are not forgotten. There have been many who have left this world the stronger. There is a particular challenge on you world to access spirit in the face of defeat, in the turmoil of confusion, in the sadness of persecution, in the tapestry of apathy. To access God from the simple call within indicates tremendous integrity and consecration of will to begin to stay the tide which seeks to pull you under; the corruption which seeks to claim your soul. The un-loveliness which seeks to close your heart, locked tight in fear to touch another.

Student: We are double challenged then being raised in this negative atmosphere on this planet.

Student: I would like to comment on that because it bothers me to hear people talk about the 'negativism' that seems to exist from the outside of ourselves. I see the inappropriate use of free-will for thousands and 
thousands of years on this planet, and we are experiencing the consequences of such inappropriate misuse of free-will. We have had the opportunity to use our free will from the very beginning and to this day we continue to use it inappropriately. So every time we do collectively, we experience the consequences of 
ill-appropriated decisions.

Student: As we are mindful on a moment to moment basic of the conscious exercise of free will, so many times the sins of omission are as devastating as the sins of commission.

Student: I think it is a matter of attitude. I have been accused of being too optimistic, and I am personally fed up with ninety percent of the population on the planet, and I am rather apathetic I suppose, but there are a lot of things which are beyond my ability to do any good for, or to recognize that I am doing any good for, and I figure people are going to be the better for it all at some point. 

I feel that getting all wound up about this society breaking down and all that, I guess it is a matter of attitude. I think there is a lot more good in the universe here than in the most horrible things that occur, like in wars, to me I think that there is a lot of good that comes out of them. I have not yet met any one that is downright sinful. I have always been able to see that even if they are not able to manifest their intentions, 
that deep inside their intentions are very good.

Student: I believe that there is tremendous opportunity for optimism and that this is the way we should be. When we solve problems, we need to go through this to create a spiritual existence on this planet, and it will be the better world for our optimism.

JarEl: Let us not loose sight of the fact that it is Michael's responsibility to turn this planet around and turn it around he certainly will. It is your responsibility to turn yourself around. It is very challenging to walk 
upright in a land of deformity.

Judgment is never accomplished by one individual
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive May 04, 2001.
Teacher Cora
T/R Bill

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cora: In the English language the word judgment has several meanings.

Marty: I am fully aware that we should not judge others at all. But I have always thought that I needed to judge myself so I learn right from wrong and the better way to do things, etc. Is that not a judgment or what do you mean by not judging yourself?  

Cora: There is a distinction to be made between the word discernment and the word judgment. Your understanding of right from wrong as you have just stated is a matter of discernment. Your self evaluation of moral value and spiritual worth is a matter of judgment. Yes, if you have made mistakes, and are trying to figure out what causes them so you can avoid them in the future, this is a matter of discernment.

Judgment implies an internal judge who causes you to feel unworthy and guilty. It is a usurpation of the
function of conscience when your mind decides that it has enough information to competently reach a verdict of guilty.

In the universe judgment is always the function of a group. Judgment is never accomplished by one individual. Even the judgment of the galaxy is a triune function of the Ancients of Days acting as a trio. Therefore, it is impossible for anyone to truly judge themselves or others for they are a single individual as well as the fact that they don't have enough information. An individual neither has the ability or the role of judgment.

When judgement enters your thinking it is for naught, all bets are off
 
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SOURCE: Lightline Teleconference  2024-10-31
Teacher: Amanson
T/R: Mark







 

 

Amanson on Judgement

Judgement is the wall between you and your fellows, erected from the wrong assumptions, presumptions, the flawed prescriptions of your limited (very limited) personal assessment of any of your fellows and the situations they find themselves in. You simply don't know. You may gather all the data - the facts of the matter - and set them in a row, ponder, decide and make your pronouncement (who hasn't done this?) but the truth of the matter is data and facts are not the truth of the matter. Again, how would you know? You simply don't. So on what basis do you judge? "I wouldn't have done that"? How do you know? You are not they and it is their situation. You are assessing these things from the ground level - eye level - and there is so much you neither see nor comprehend from this limited viewpoint, that to judge one of your fellows, in whatever circumstance, would be the height of presumption. 

But now let us discuss the difference, the very great difference, between judgement and discernment. A life cannot be successfully lived without the essential ingredient of discernment. There is too much territory to be covered in the expanse of a life to do without the navigating compass of discernment.

"This is the correct direction."
"This would be a mistake, a wrong, even potentially dangerous, decision."
"This can wait. It would not be wise to attempt this now."
"These people seem to have a hidden agenda. I will steer clear of them."

This is the very necessary divining rod of discernment. 

But discernment is not judgement. There is nothing of the 'judgemental' about it. No one will be shamed or looked on as guilty in the simple eyes of discernment. Not so with judgement. 

Judgement is a shadow thrown, a shadow condemning another human being or  circumstance involving other human beings (who are hard-put enough, whether they realize it now or not), but who might be spared - along with yourself, the judge - the superfluous mental fatigue, the needless complication that goes along with judgement, for both the judged and those judging. 

The goal is to free ourselves from the false narratives that hem in a life, that confuse and obscure and hide that Light that is the only solution to the egoic machinations that drive a person into those oh-so-human entanglements, entanglements inspiring shame, anxiety and guilt in one party, and the haughty, false, unjustified illusion of judgement in another.

Love should be extended: a life raft, not judgement. For who can't use the life raft of understanding in this difficult and stormy world?

Kindness

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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Kindness and how it relates to individual spiritual growth
 
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Rayson and Friends

 

 

 

 

 

 

My friends, it is important for you to understand again the difference between your perception at this material level of existence and spirit perception - which is difficult for you now, but will become increasingly clear and easy as you proceed with your ascension career.

Kindness, like the other spirit concepts, is easily recognized by those who are spiritually attuned. And its presence affords comfort. In the material world one is more likely to detect lack of kindness than the presence of kindness itself, and all of you, I am sure, are keenly aware when kindness is not present in
interactions among people. Think over your past experiences, and I am sure that you will find plenty of instances to confirm this.

An act of kindness cannot be rendered without good intent, and this good intent stems directly from Father and the promptings of your indwelling Adjuster. Kindness is spirit-driven action. It is the doing of good. And like other spirit-driven activities when kindness is expressed, there is direct transmission to Paradise and instantaneous signal back to the Thought Adjuster of the person who has rendered the kind act. My friends, you are always, always informed in this way when your behavior is spirit-driven, in keeping with the will of Father.

You have asked me and other teachers, how do I know when I am doing the right thing? How can I tell? As you pray for your life acts to be in accord with the will of Father, as you pray sincerely and earnestly, there will be a response on the part of your Thought Adjuster to increase signal to your subconscious mind, and your personal awareness of the rightness or lack of rightness of your behaviors should increase accordingly. It need not necessarily be an overwhelming feeling of euphoria that you gain when you are kind or truthful or in other ways doing the will of Father. It has been well described as a sense of peace, a feeling of calm, serenity, at-oneness with all of creation. And interestingly, as you progress in your spirit growth, you will very likely note that when your behavior is good, there will be a diminution in the babble noise that is so intrusive to your mind thought.

Yes, kindness, such a powerful tool for helping to undo the damage that has been wrought on this planet. Again, I remind you that the life of Jesus is a model worthy of imitation. And when in doubt the account is there for your reference. Look at His many acts of kindness. Yet never once did He seek material reward, nor did He endeavour to persuade or manipulate others. His kindness was pure, simple yet complex, healing, as yours will be, can be. He never expected a direct response from the recipient of His act and very often did not receive such. He let His kindness rain down upon His fellows like the rain from a cloud, nourishing the soil upon which it falls, promoting growth.

You may ask why should I spend my time and effort in action that does not help me to pay my bills, does not help me to protect my family, does not gain me prestige? And these are all questions that any mortal would ask, perhaps not out loud, but it would be natural that these would come to mind. And it is not an evil thing for you to ask such questions. Rather it shows that you are a material being and only slightly advanced in your career of ascension. 

The personal gain that you achieve from your acts of kindness is manifold. You achieve direct and instantaneous contact with Father in Paradise. Your own personal spiritual light becomes a bit brighter, and by virtue of that you are more easily perceived by your fellow mortals, as well as the many spiritual entities that are among you. And your contribution, by doing good, remains forever on your home world as a
contribution, as if it were hewn in stone. But unlike stone it cannot be worn down by the elements. And
when the final accounting at the end of Light and Life comes, your recognition will be there.

Believe me, my friends, there could be no greater prestige than to have an account of your selfless doing of good on a planet of imperfect creation which has fallen into rebellion. It is well understood by those on high how very difficult it is to strive toward goodness, to be kind in the face of overwhelming savagery, to maintain your faith when the circuits have been severed for so long, only recently re-established. And you are much treasured. Your kind act toward your fellow, who may even wish you harm, has great merit and great weight.

When you are kind, you are being spiritually creative. Even as Father is spiritually creative, so can you too be, in your way. What a marvelous thing this is. And your creativity affects the spirit of every other mortal being living on this planet. Beyond that, when you are kind, as you all understand kindness to be, that is a little bit less rehabilitative work that you must complete when you move on to the mansion worlds.

Kindness is the direct act of doing good to another being regardless of circumstance. It is a direct act of Father's will. As I mentioned before, there is no element in the doing of kindness that requires reciprocal
action. Kindness has a soft and gentle quality. It is an expression of love.

The doing of kindness, of course, does not require that you lay down your protection against possible harm to yourself or your loved ones. You need not render yourself physically vulnerable in your act of kindness. When you are kind, you express spiritual beauty as a painter with a canvas expresses material beauty, or a musician with an instrument expresses musical beauty. When you are kind, you, too, are being an artist, a spiritual artist, and the mark of your kindness lingers on in the life or lives of those to whom you have been kind. All of you know that the kindness you have received yourselves from others has been very influential to your own personal decisions and actions. Very often many years later a single act of kindness can have very powerful consequences.

When you are kind, it is as if you stand on a lever, and the other end is in Paradise, and the power of your act can be magnificent indeed. The result of your personal act of kindness is carried with the recipient throughout his or her entire ascension career, and it is not uncommon for contact to be made in the next life among those who have exchanged kindnesses. What a joyous experience this is, to be thanked in person by one whom you thought was long forgotten or even ungrateful. So you see, my friends, it is very important to consider kindness when you are at that decision point in your dealings with others. Consider the kind act as Jesus always did.

Question: Is kindness an element or a subset of goodness which you talked about last week, or is it a
separate entity by itself?

Answer: The two are intertwined, of course, but it is a separate entity.

Question: I have a question about something you said very early on in the lesson. You said that in the
material world one is more likely to detect lack of kindness rather than the presence of kindness. Why is
this? Is it because there isn't that much kindness to detect, or is it a negative filter that we have that tends
to cling to sadness and unkindness instead of remembering kind acts?

Answer: Because, in your present existence, you are still burdened with many animal tendencies, the animal is not quite blind to spirit realities, but the animal has enormous difficulty sensing spirit, spirit, spiritude. Because you are above animal yet still animal, your basic instinctual drives are survival driven ones: the seeking of food, reproduction, and maintenance of life. These instinctual drives cause an extended awareness of threat, and lack of kindness is a direct threat to life. That is why, in your material state, you are more aware of lack of kindness, because it is a threat to your instinctual drives. 

Question: Could it be that we're missing some things that are actually happening to us in terms of kindnesses that come to us?

Answer: The kindness stays with you, but you may not be fully aware of it. The mind babble that you are, that all of you must experience because of your present form, interferes enormously with spirit perception. And as you work on your own spirituality and quiet the babble, you will find it increasingly
easy to detect, spirit reality, including kindness, goodness, truth, and love.

Question: Is it correct to look at kindness as creating a better spiritual reality that constitutes your own soul and exists throughout eternity?

Answer: Yes, that is a part of what kindness is, that is true. Remember that your act of kindness enables
you in your way to be a spiritual creator.

Question: I think that living in such a savage world keeps people from constant acts of kindness, resulting in vulnerability and probably a fear of being taken advantage of. How did Jesus control that aspect of living?

Answer: Yes, that is a very good question. As you know Jesus lived His life without fear, and there have been very few Earth mortals who have ever come close to true fearlessness or lack of pride or greed or the other spirit poisons. You will recall, as you remember reading the account of Jesus' life, that He availed Himself of
meditation periods, and He used this prayer work time to help Himself fight the animal tendencies toward fear and rage and pride and greed, the four main mind forms that work heavily against spirit growth. I know it is most difficult when you are beset with constant threat to your safety to put your fear aside, but it may help if you can remember that what is your reality now is only a passing form in the long term of your entire existence.

This is a very difficult concept for material beings to grasp, but it is true that what seems so real and tangible now, and what seems so unreal and intangible are the reverse of what you will experience increasingly as you become more spirit in form during your ascension career. To the most spiritual of beings present on this world or any material world, it is very difficult to perceive that which seems so real to you, so it may be a useful exercise to remind yourself of the differing realities of material versus spiritual existence. That may help to diminish the fear that you experience when you perceive material threat. Jesus, of course, knew this better than any mortal ever could.

Question: Rayson, is there the morontia equivalent of disciplinary action with regards to a lack of kindness?

Answer: The disciplinary action, as you put it, is a lack of advancement. One is not whipped or put in chains or incarcerated or humiliated, rather one is held back, which is the equivalent of pain at higher levels of spirit existence, painful indeed. Once you have passed from this form and have a greater awareness of what lies ahead on your road toward Paradise, you will be most eager to proceed with haste, and the slightest delay will be painful and annoying to you. The cosmos runs on a system of reward for God directed action and no reward for not. The reward is so exciting and fulfilling that you will seek to have it continuously. It is a very effective system.

Question: And also, you could downstep that one level and say that if we were conscious of our actions and their effect on soul growth while physical, we would pursue that reward system with the same zest as we do after we're resurrected. Would that be accurate?

Answer: Yes. But do not be so hard on yourself. You are here now, are you not? There are many other things that you could be doing now, is that correct? You are doing good to be here, and you may well sense that all of you here today should remind yourselves that your participation in this mission is a most unselfish act and is very well regarded by all who are among you, as well as the Most Highs, and there is much awareness in Paradise of the doings of the mission and all of its participants. It is not just any mortal who would give of one's time to help to heal a world thrown into disarray by others long gone. What an unselfish and noble act it is that you all have decided to participate in. You are much loved by Father.

Do not castigate yourselves because you are not perfect, for perfection is a long way off. It is Father's wish that you be imperfect at this point, and it is the outworking of His will that proceeds, sometimes stumbling, sometimes not. What a great act of faith it is for you to proceed at all.

Question: From what you're saying, being raised as a Christian, the idea of doing kindness for its own sake was something that was drilled into me and others as well. So doing kindness for its own sake seems a little different than the reward structure that says I get to spiritually grow from this. Is it OK to be motivated by spiritual growth? And to do acts of kindnesses - not for an ulterior motive, not completely altruistically - but for one's own growth as well. That's OK, that's acceptable?

Answer: Yes, it is not selfish to wish to grow spiritually. How can it be selfish to wish to be more like Father?

Question: Because it seems so great. It seems really self-indulgent. But thank you, yes, OK. I don't know
why that seems like it's a problem, but I guess it's not.

Answer: Father wishes you to have an appetite for what is good and correct and to feed yourself spiritually is not seen as gluttony.

Question: I am concerned about a friend of mine that we appreciate a great deal. Sometimes we hesitate to
visit when it seems that there's nothing we can do, and then it seems that Father's wisdom gets through to us and we realize that just being there is enough. And then in the being there, wisdom comes to us, showing us something we can do to help. I'm very grateful for having discovered this. And I thank Father very much.

Answer: Yes, it is true that the doing of Father's will does not always require the expenditure of kinetic energy. You needn't be moving continuously like a bee in order to be actually doing the right thing.

Question: It's been my experience many times it is most difficult to accept kindness from others. I find that many times it's easier to be the giver than the receiver.

Answer: Your biological predisposition might sense a threat when the situation is presented where there appears to be a lack of control of the interaction, so again it is fear that is the block here. You will know if it is true kindness because there will be no expectation of reciprocity. But you must allow Father to love you in order to feel loved, must you not? Is that not the ultimate acceptance of kindness?

It is an unfortunate residual of the rebellion on this planet that many mortals have low self-worth. You have not been abandoned by Father. Rather your planet and all of you and your fellow beings on this planet are the object of intense focus and intense efforts, and you could in a way say that you are actually rather special, not neglected. So do not despair. You are all held in high esteem in Father's eyes, and you are most worthy of the goodness that comes your way. Accept it with gladness. Your Thought Adjuster is eagerly waiting for the goodness that comes. And consider that when kindness and other good acts come your way, they may well be a result of your own good behavior and a signal to you that you are proceeding correctly.

Question: Sometimes we think that we are doing a kindness when in fact we are being enablers for somebody else's problems. Will you address the question of whether or not kindness is judged subjectively or objectively?

Answer: Yes. The interaction to which you refer is one in which there is not kindness so much being done as an action performed with an expectation of a certain reciprocal action. So, you see, it defeats the definition of true kindness. Did Jesus try to reform the multitudes ever? No. Would you say that He was an enabler? Certainly not.

And yet He achieved through His kindness and goodness what many who enter into that interaction desire so earnestly, did He not? You see, again, we come to this matter of how things in the spirit sense are often the opposite of what they are in the material sense. In the material world it is forcefulness, persuasion and manipulation that achieve material ends. In the spirit world there is no place for those actions. Love is not spread by force. Goodness is not done by persuasion. Truth is not endowed by manipulation. 

Question: I still have problems in discerning as to whether or not an act is really an act of kindness or whether it will end up enabling someone.

Answer: Kindness occurs when the act is done with no thought of result. One is not responsible for the end result of the kindness, rather your spiritual responsibility resides in your own attitude of love and giving, and very often what appears to be a futile effort at love and kindness has its true good result much later. The echo may not occur until after the material life has passed, but it will be there.

Question: Isn't it true, that Jesus knew many times that the kindnesses He did would not be appreciated and would not have any spiritual improvement in the persons healed, but He still performed the healing. He gave them that gift of wellness knowing full well that they would not accept His spiritual message.

Answer: Yes. Absolutely, but those who had direct dealings with Jesus went on beyond this life to benefit far beyond anyone's expectations, and His mission was very much a success in that regard. Also, a great benefit of His kindness and healing was its observation by others. My friends, as you go about your life's actions, there are always others watching, others who live in fear, who are held back by anger and pride, the desire for material wealth. They are watching you. If you proceed as Jesus would do, you give them strength and you can help to enhance their faith. How many times, any one of you, have you behaved in a God-serving fashion and been told that no one else has ever done that before, no one else has ever listened, no one has helped? You are being observed by your fellows, as you observe them.

Question: Is kindness as important in your life after this as it is here on this planet? And is spiritual development as difficult in the next life as it is in this life?

Answer: Yes, of course. Do you not always use your alphabet increasingly as you become more literate? Do you not always use your basic grammar? It is like that. These are such fundamental concepts, as you grow spiritually, their importance grows, too. And without their presence, there can be no significant growth.

Question: I would like for you to address the question about dependency on kindness. It has to do with being taken advantage of, that feeling of being taken advantage of. There are opportunities to step in and do a kindness, but often then it's expected that this kindness continue on and on and on which, in fact,
disables the person to begin to make his own way. And I wonder if you would address that. Many times I've prayed for the opportunity to do kindness, other than financial. It's been very easy to see that someone needed something. To give them money or even anonymously donate to that cause was not it. I'd like you to address that.

Answer: You have stated your question well, and it is a worthy one. Kindness has not to do with rendering material things to your fellows. Did Jesus clothe and house and feed His fellows? No. Did He give monetary donations to those seeking such? No. But He was always kind, was He not? Kind in word, kind in thought, kind in deed, but not materially so, for material things have nothing to do with true kindness.

This is an interesting question, because it is along the same lines as the question about enabling. When you start to deal in material things and material goods, you are not in the spiritual realm any longer. You are in the material realm. This may help you to protect yourself from falling into the trap of believing that material dealings are equal to spiritual work. You are not helping your fellow, if you provide for Him that which He should and can work to attain for Himself.

Question: Adversity is an essential element to spirit growth while in the material state. Would you shoulder the adversity of another?

Answer: No

Question: I look around and there are so many people in need, there are so many people that don't have jobs and are homeless, and they're hungry and ...

Answer: And that is their adversity, to be borne by them. Why are you not homeless, hungry, jobless? You know the answer. The answer is the same for them, is it not? You have had misfortune in your life, have you not?

Question: Yes, I have. It just seems that it's so widespread. And many times I feel, but for the grace of God,
that's me there. Yet what you say has great wisdom.

Answer: How can one break away from a repeating pattern of failure unless one changes one's actions? Will that ever occur if there is always something to be had without effort?

Question: I see your point. It's almost as if we have to get to the bottom of the pit...
And also in response to something you said then, Rayson, it implies that there is a lesson for us to live in the world with the things that we all see are painful, and to live with grace and kindness as opposed to letting it turn to bitterness, or to the “have and have not” situation, or mockery. Do you agree with that statement?

Answer: Yes, and you also point up another fact, that the attempt to be kind by giving things which one hopes will alter the behavior of another is not kindness, just as in the earlier example.

Question: So what would be appropriate to give in an instance of apparent want? What would be proper in
a confrontation of lack and want and ... ?

Answer: Encouragement. Live and let live.

Question: I think probably Jesus faced this situation after He, because of His compassion, healed 600 plus
people at sundown. Everybody wanted to make Him king because of His healing. Jesus simply left. He
ran away. He departed so that He wouldn't be available. I'm not sure that this is the solution to all of our
problems, but I sometimes feel that I should give and then go away.

Answer: Give materially?

Question: Yes, but not necessarily, but it includes some sort of material help.

Answer: “Tis better to teach a man how to fish than to give him the fish.”

Question: Yes, I think your answer has very much clarified the distinction between goodness and giving material things. Therefore I understand better your answer about giving and enabling. I understood that goodness is given without expectation. It's a spiritual gift. It's actually; it seems to me, a passing on of Father's love. Then we were thinking in terms of giving material assistance - which has proved in the past to enable that person to continue a course that seemed to be self-destructive. And now I see the distinction, and I thank you for that clarification.

Answer: There are very, very few adult persons on who are incapable of some manner of work. Many of the ones who beset you with requests for material goods are eminently able to work and, in fact, may even be more capable than yourself. It is important to remember this and make your decisions in an informed way.

Question: Well, I personally appreciate the candor of this particular meeting. I know it's a concern and it's
something that we have discussed and actually have argued about. We appreciate this line that you're taking with us. It's not so much a spanking as it is a wake-up call to be spiritually and socially responsible without being taken advantage of.

Answer: One could even say that it is a kindness to deny a free handout to one who can work, although
this may be a difficult idea for you.

Question: Well, it's something that I never really wanted to bring up because I thought that even broaching
the subject was to display a certain lack of kindness or spirituality, and so I think that this kind of a session and this kind of a lesson lets us know that we can talk to the teaching staff about even those things which we covertly believe to be less than spiritual.

Answer: If you lay out free food and free goods, many animals will come to feed, and in fact this has been
used by many established religions as a means of attracting large numbers of members to join. If you wish to attract those who are spirit driven and earnestly seeking spirit growth, your lure, if you will, will be different. It will be in the fashion of a supportive structure to help one in one's own personal, and sometimes arduous, strivings Godward. No free meals, cars, or sums of money will ever induce mortals
to seek God and imitate Jesus.

Question: What is the solution to this overall problem? How can we get the people who are unproductive and not working and so forth to become productive spiritual citizens?

Answer: Well, a quick answer is this. One can never compel another God-ward. That is a personal decision, however an animal will do what it must do to eat. If it must stand in a line at a building to get a handout, it will. If it must work in a field, it will. If it must study in a school, it will. If you deal with those who abase themselves to the level of animal behavior, it is unfortunate but you must deal as with animals. Animals are driven by the desire for food, the desire for reproduction, and the desire for survival. Those are your keys. If animals are allowed to reproduce in an unchecked fashion, they will do so, particularly when they are well-nourished and do not need to work. 

Light and Life

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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Light is revelation — Life is evolution
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive July 4, 1998
Teacher Elyon
T/R Jonathan

 

 

 

 

 

 

Light is revelation. Life is evolution.  

You are the meeting of the two. You have correctly discerned that this light is the presence of the Father. This inner spiritual luminosity transmutes into mindal enlightenment. It then becomes that light which so
shines it blesses all others. All throughout the universe we are witnessing the creation of matter as it has condensed out of energy. 

This energy, many of us are still dumbfounded as to how it comes into being. Yet we witness on this stage of matter the development of such a broad spectrum of living beings that it becomes even more baffling how life can manifest itself in such variety. Then there are those higher than both of us who are amazed that we can rise up out of the organismal level of life, out of the biological elements of matter, and perceive the Father and receive the Father and become one with the Father. This is, indeed, a miracle. Then we witness within ourselves the emergence of the Creator of life.

It is often said that, if you simply open your heart and receive him, he will commune with you. This is very true of your Creator Son. However, with the Father, when you open the door to your heart, you are letting Him out. He is already within you; He has already come to dwell. So, there is the divine downreach, but in
reality it is an upreach from within you. And for you it is an inreach, more correctly so, than an upreach.

It has been said that heaven is in your mind; I correct this: Heaven is in your spirit. This pilot light illuminates the realities of Paradise as best as it can be transmuted into the mind and soul of an evolutionary creature. The Father has projected life from Paradise, through Havona, out into the stretches of the universe, and we are all reaching back in our lives toward Him. We are creation, in a sense, in reverse. The Father has cast abroad; we are all gathering in return.

Light is and has been and will be always.  Life is creation. Life will become the reflection of light. The pure, unadulterated luminosity of the Father becomes animated, orientated, directionalized, refracted through you. This is the Father's will. He desires to experience the spectrum in display of His luminosity, all of which is pure brilliance at His residential abode. 

Julie: It's been easy to see light in other people, but at home there have been times when I tried to find their Thought Adjuster, to see if they have one, and I can't. So, I think I don't really need to; if they have one, they have one. But in searching for that connection in these people, is there a tool?

Elyon: You are one who is in a position where you witness a spectrum of humanity which often rebels against light. We have spoken of the inner spirit as the pilot light. The human being is the navigator light. This is a means whereby you may determine the presence of the Thought Adjuster: is that personality navigating? Is that personality charting its course based on the map of the Father's will? If not, then you enter into the uncertain zone of: does this individual know of the reality of the map of the Father's will? Does this individual realize the responsibility of navigating this life vehicle toward the Father? If this individual has rejected this notion, then you must, because of your mortal condition, leave the rest to the Father, for it is His choice to remain or to withdraw. Here also is your opportunity to
minister, to in some way either through demonstration or comment attempt to bring into awareness the privilege and opportunity every personality has to navigate their way back to the Father.

Jael: Elyon, do you have any words for me about working at the school?  I'm excited to be going back.

Elyon: We have been working with this idea of pilot and navigator. These young souls who you have the opportunity to minister to can benefit from the vision that life is navigable, that there are radar resources through which they can determine what is out there in life and how they may carry themselves toward their
goals. That skill will take them into any field of endeavor and help them to experience success.

Of course, not only is your direction in life important, but your manifestation in this moment is also very important. It will be rather simple for you to reveal this present sense of belonging, of acceptance toward life, joyous anticipation of excited love. You have already done your homework in this arena, so I really have no advice for you.

Mary: Emotions can really run away with you. You don't want to rein them in too much nor turn fanatical or hysterical. I feel it emotionally and physically.

Elyon: May I make a picture for you?

Mary: Oh, yes.

Elyon: The mind is like the equalizer in your sound system. It functions to heighten or restrict various frequencies. Your emotions are like your volume control. When the mind is equalized, emotions adjusted to the right decibel, then you reflect your soul. As you said, if the volume is too high, or too low, you restrict
this, or you become out of control. But the mind and the emotions work together.

The Inner Light
 
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SOURCE: Lightline Teleconference  2024-10-17
Teacher: Amanson
T/R: Mark







 

 

Amanson on 'The Inner Light'

"The Inner Light" is the light you were meant to follow to live the life you are meant to live.

The Inner Light is the way-shower. As a lantern leads us through a dark night, so the lantern that is your Inner Light illuminates your way over high hills, through deep valleys, the long tundras and slow-moving episodes that beset a pioneer on the trail of that which satisfies beyond mere satisfaction; a person in search of the origins of life and its purpose, a life more than just survival, but one that meets the soul's requirements of Beauty, Truth and Goodness: the reflections of God, or of Love, if you prefer.

Your Inner Light is not only a gift but a collaborator, a conscious Partner who knows your ways, speaks your language, understands your propensities and is more than willing to guide you by — and into — the Light, so that your ways, language and propensities can be used to the good of all your fellows and their Inner Lights; Lights which, unbeknownst to their hosts, are in fellowship themselves, constant communication. This fact alone should — when known — alert mankind to the Oneness that permeates all living things, all life. 

You've heard those famous words "Omniscience", "Omnipresence", "Omnipotence". Well, those are the characteristics of the Light you are host to. You carry these powers within your very being. Such is your Inner Light, this Light in contact with all others. But while you focus on the outside world (never stopping to consider the reflection factor, that what your particular attention is drawn to is but a reflection of your interior activity!) you don't bother to quiet down and actually await this Inner Light, wait quietly and expectantly upon this  Inner Light. So the benefits, the advantages, the blessings your Partner has been recruited to show you go unobserved, unexperienced. 

And the more chaotic the outside world grows, the more trial and tribulation appear on the horizon like ships steaming forth to the shoreline, advancing nearer and nearer with every passing headline, the more this Inner Light becomes your most necessary port of call. For the seas will be shaking, the sands wind blown, and it is only the calm, the redoubtable, the intractable bulwark that is your Inner Light that will serve as your port of refuge. It has done so in the midst of merely uncomfortable times; it has done so in times of great distress; and it will do so in the most tumultuous times, times like those coming, where the world will receive a new referendum, a new lease on life, and choose a new and friendlier set of rules to live by; guidelines based on the very Inner Light which will keep you from being buffeted about by the passing storm, the storm that no matter how empowered it seems to grow will not — cannot! — lay a finger on your devoted and devotional Inner Light. Pay attention to that Interior Fire. It is your Partner. And you are His.

Mark: For clarity, is the Inner Light experienced as an actual light?

Amanson: It is a knowing, a security from Beyond. It is the rock upon which Peter built his church, but it is better to not link it to any one tradition. It is a Reality that transcends, and outdates, all traditions. All traditions but one: you.

Listening

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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Absorbing what another communicates to you
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive March 22, 1998.
Teacher Ham

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ham: This lesson is about listening and absorbing what another communicates to you.

You all have a filtering mechanism that categorizes everything you read, or are told in terms of what you already have read or been told. If, for example, someone says "I love you" and then betrays that love in whatever manner, every time you hear "I love you" this is categorized in a way that says be careful, there might be something behind it. You have all been betrayed or hurt or double crossed in various ways, and it is difficult to not bring that to your new experience and to not hear things clearly and to not cloud your comprehension and react to the new person the way you would react to the old person who said the same thing.

So, how do you wipe the slate clean and come to each new encounter with freshness and openness and without bitterness or a distrustful attitude? Once again, the answer lies within and especially with self-forgiveness. Everyone who is betrayed blames themselves in some manner. Everyone has old feelings of low self-worth that is an integral part of self-condemnation for circumstances that are not your fault. Part of you says, "this time, this is not going to happen to me", but that old self-condemnation is still there and still attracting negativity unconsciously.

I say that these feelings of inner self-resentment and low self-worth are very deep and stem from earliest childhood. When very young children experience a betrayal of love, this is always carried through into adulthood and that betrayal is expected and repeated over and over again. The child feels unworthy of stable love and the entire universe seems undependable and so fears and resentments build up inside and the adult becomes cynical and always has the attitude that nothing is what is seems.

Think back in your childhood, let the memories come. When was the first time that you felt betrayed? Take a few moments and think. You may have very strong memories. Now, when you have centered on a memory, see yourself as a child and say to your child self with sincerity, "I forgive you, this isn't your fault".

Feel again the child's confusion and again take it into your heart that this isn't your fault, that you were a good child, that you were full of love, and now feel the child be comforted, feel the comfort. Now bring the child into your body, merging with the child, the child is growing up, the child is older now, there are other conflicts, situations, that have grown out of that earlier experience. Forgive yourself for each one, as you are growing up, getting older. All those experiences where you were hurt or hurt others, forgive yourself, let it go, keep moving on. Now you are in the present time, feel a new forgiveness coming into your heart, forgiving yourself for all the confusion and self-doubt and low self-worth that is in your life right now. In your minds eye, see a pane of glass and this glass is representing your filtering mechanism. Picture yourself cleaning the glass so that all the old soot and dirt and finger prints are being cleaned away. Now when you look through the glass, you are not seeing yourself reflected back. Now when you look through the glass, you see your brother, your sister, you see them clearly. The old suspicions, and doubts are falling away and you are seeing each person for who they are right now and you are receiving what that person is telling you
without distortion.

So much of the pain in your lives is about betrayals that never happened. So many of the wrong steps are from fear, fear that another person has some ulterior motive and so you are making counter moves to something that hasn't happened yet. Now, each time when you are looking at a situation or a person, think to yourself, is my glass clear? Am I seeing myself, am I seeing my past, or am I perceiving this clearly?  Though you may never know the complete answer to these questions, it is the asking of it that is important.

Question: We need to rid ourselves of self-condemnation and of the expectations that others are going to hurt us and harm us and then we can hear and listen clearly?

Ham: I would say the importance is on forgiveness, self-forgiveness, and when you have truly become self-forgiving, and self-aware, you can begin to perceive others in circumstances as they really are without
projecting your own unfortunate experiences of the past onto new experiences.

Question: Why is it until we are free of this that we seem to require that this happen to us again an again. It must be something more than it is just familiar?

Ham: Yes, much of life is about forgiveness, learning the lessons of forgiveness, because these lessons are crucial and essential to spiritual growth and becoming.

Question: Are you saying that there is an unconscious need to keep doing this until we get it right?

Ham: Yes. The thought adjuster will unfailingly bring you to confront experiences which holds lessons of forgiveness and self-forgiveness.

Question: How would you explain the child's tendency to make the mistake of blaming itself for betrayals, is it somehow related to a child's magical thinking that they are God-like.

Ham: The center of the universe, Yes.

Question: Does that change when the Though Adjuster arrives?  Do some of these memories happen before the thought adjuster arrives?  Does that have an effect?

Ham: No, the Thought Adjuster's arrival does not change the child's initial ego development as center cause and effect of all things.

Question: From my symptomatic behavior I know I must have one, can you help me with that?

Ham: No, that you are aware of something happening, some first tear in the fabric of the child thinking of itself as God. These things are not necessarily earth shaking. Not even thought of as betrayals to an adult or to the adults involved or to yourselves a adults. Usually simple things, "mommy you said we were going to the park and now we are not going, how could this happen"?

Question: We hear so much about repressing memories, and if there has been a painful memory that is repressed maybe a technique for accessing that?

Ham: These memories will come up when you are ready to handle them. I don't advocate aggressively seeking out painful memories. Just let them come when they do and when you are ready. Trust the Thought Adjuster to help you with these things. He ultimately has control over your memories and will allow you to experience memories when he is fully satisfied that you are ready to experience them.

Human beings tend to be disappointed when the real purpose doesn't coincide with their own purposes. Therefore, keep in mind that all of your experience, everything good and bad, has had a deep and lasting influence and therefore a purpose. What you are seeking, you will find. Therefore, seek after the highest things. 

Question: It seems like this is automatic, almost guaranteed that a child will end up feeling mistreated. What is the reason it is this way? Are we subjected to injustice to learn justice, unfairness to learn fairness, unkindness to learn kindness?

Ham: Yes, certainly.

Question: You once said that all of my life up to now had been in accordance with the Father's will. Could that be said about anybody or everybody?

Ham: For the ultimate questions, the answer is yes, but of course in specific instances the answer is no. Is it God's will that there should be hatred between people, no. But, is it His will that hatred should be a possibility for human choosing, yes.

Question: Should we work harder on this self-improvement thing, is this a daily chore?

Ham: I wouldn't call it a chore, but rather a privilege, a journey, an adventure, but not a chore.

When you have reached a splitting of your path and there is a big decision that you are needing to make about who you are and who you want to be. It is this decision that will determine who is brought to you. The big decisions are always inside, internal. Then the outer world gradually changes in accordance with the inner decision.

Empathic listening
 
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SOURCE: A Call for a New Paradigm of Education
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Consider the levels at which we listen to one another. At the first level, we may be pretending to listen... without really hearing anything at all. Second, we sometimes engage in selective listening, filtering carefully what is being spoken to fit our own perspective. Most of the time, however there is some quality of attentive listening, where we more or less focus on the words being spoken, intellectually but not emotionally. Attentive listening facilitates a response, but not a response involving any “depth of recognition.” Attentive listening is usually focused more on our prepared response and its articulation than what is being spoken. We are poorly trained in our capacity to listen. Jesus could hear people so well, because he cared so much about them as individuals. Such compassion was directly related to his unbroken communion with God and his genuine regard for every person.

The most sophisticated level of listening is empathic listening, evoking a quality of deep compassion for the speaker. Empathic listening is not attentive listening or “reflective” listening, which is a technique for hearing the words and being able to reflect those words back. Empathic listening involves a high degree of emotional intelligence and draws upon our capacity both to “mourn” and to be “merciful.” Empathic listening involves a deep emotional connection between the speaker and listener at the level of the heart.

Francis de Sales says: “only the heart can hear another heart.”

Empathic listening enables the listener to get inside the other person’s frame of reference both at the level of the intellect and at the level of the heart. You literally connect at a feeling level with the speaker. Jesus was a master of such listening, as was Mary of Bethany, who sat at Jesus’ feet drinking in every word of divine wisdom.

In an interesting passage, it says that Jesus “taught pure sympathy, compassion.” (Urantia Book 140:8.11) Pure sympathy might be a good definition for empathy. We have now differentiated between empathy and sympathy to get to a deeper appreciation of the level of connection that is possible between people.

Sympathy usually involves a form of judgment. Empathy does not; it is non-judgmental. Sympathy usually implies some level of condescension in the judgment. Empathy carries no such meaning. Sympathy is sometimes appropriate, for instance, with a child. The essence of empathy is that you seek to understand the other, without judgment. Empathy does not necessarily lead to agreement; it does lead to deep, full-hearted understanding, emotionally as well as intellectually. Empathy involves so much more than registering, reflecting and intellectual understanding. Importantly, with empathic listening one learns to listen with the heart.

We have learned through studies in neuroscience, that the heart is much more than merely a blood pumping organ. With over 40,000 neurons, neurotransmitters, a magnetic field far greater than the brain, and a direct connection to the brain, the vagus nerve, the heart is an organ of intelligence.

As we are gaining understanding and an appreciation into the nature of this organ of intelligence, we begin to appreciate Jesus’ request that we love God, not only with our mind, but also with our heart, and our body, and our soul. Each level is distinct, yet connected to the other areas.

Loneliness

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
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 X  = Cannot be determined.


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The cure for loneliness is asking: What would my Father in Heaven have me do?
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive June 8, 1998.
Teacher Abraham
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Being within your mortal vessels there are times of loneliness, anguish and devastation. Many mortals are embittered by their life circumstances and choose to encase themselves within the bonds of fear and anger. Mortals tend to turn to Father with an accusing eye in wondering why are such things befalling them. 

The Master knew well of the pain that is natural for this human adventure. He experienced the very worst that man has to offer and even then, He stood unshakable. You see, His decision to act upon His highest light was a shield of sorts, at times an elixir for the maintaining of well balanced mental health. No matter what mortal living had in store for the Master, He was always well prepared by His commitment to being within the will of His Father in Heaven.

His commitment was perhaps the answer to all questions. His commitment to do the will always set His mind in an asking mode to Father. Jesus was always in conference with Father, and when those times of upheaval occurred, His commitment remained true... "What would my Father in Heaven have me do?"

The Master, in living up to his highest light, took great joy in expressing His love to those He knew, lending a helping hand, or a bit of guidance to those who were seeking. Jesus regretted not any of His mortal life for He took every opportunity to act out the Father's will. He chose to really live each and every part of mortal life, to be within every moment, good or bad, with His Father by His side.

Those who stifle their highest light, or are perhaps too shy or unsure, learn to live with regret, always desirous of another chance. This is not bad, or sinful. It is perhaps a lesson for you to relieve some of the pressures of mortal living. In your efforts to draw closer to Father and His divine helpers, have ready your question..."What would Father have me do at this moment in time?" Even for particular situations with relationships or personal struggles, always remember the question. Confirm within your own heart your
commitment to the doing of Father's will. Choose to be aware of the option to always act upon your highest light. Take advantage of those opportunities that come your way. 

In that first thought of doing an act of service, or expressing appreciation or love , there is your contact with your highest light. There is only your courage to work upon to act it out. Many times do we hesitate and talk
ourselves out of it using various excuses. Our lesson tonight on living up to your highest good within, is a bestowal of liberty to act out the Father's will, to feel at liberty to express those thoughts or comments, those acts of service, and to really be aware of each moment of mortal living, good or bad.

CALVIN: Is it expected ever for us to have, or is it possible I should say...for us mortals in this first life to have quick changes form past patterns and spirit poisons, or does it usually take a lot of hard knocks and lessons and time?

ABRAHAM: Most patterns can require time to find better ways. There are those hard lessons though that can jolt a person into a quick behavioral change. We have found the latter to be fear based where the time and practice is more akin to Father's evolutionary design. When we teach to have awareness in the moment—the allowing of really feeling mortal life, it is an opening for Father to teach. He teaches in time intervals which create for you a well balanced mental state. 

Loss

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
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 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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Seeking change and letting go
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive December 19, 1998.
Teacher Olfana

 

 

 

 

 

 

Olfana: There are moments in all of our lives where we will face this question of "a loss." A loss of what? — a loss of our personality, a loss of our position in life, a loss in our relationship standings with others, a loss of self-pride and a sense of accomplishment, a loss of our integrity, perhaps? I would say to you that the first step to the resolution of your question of how to reconcile yourself to a sense of loss is to ask yourself, "What now am I giving up?" Ponder this carefully. "What exactly is it that is at issue here, in terms of what I am walking away from?" If you will allow yourself a sense of contemplation regarding this, you will come to understand better which "parts of yourself," as it were, are responding to this challenge. If this is ego-based in terms of your choice, you will find yourself filled with many disturbing emotions — a sense of fear, perhaps a sense of anxiety, bursts of anger which can rise up in you. This is not, indeed, the best position from which to make this decision. I'm sure you understand this, already. But, even this brief contemplation that you will give this process will allow you better to determine which "part of yourself" is indeed responding to this question.

If, as you continue to ponder this question of, "Shall I give this up?" you begin to feel more a sense of centeredness about yourself, a sense of calm contemplation, that ideas can flow through your mind
more easily without this sense of emotional turmoil and uproar, then you are getting to the "bedrock of yourself" — this connection that can allow contemplation, input, revelation, and encouragement from the
Thought Adjuster. When you find yourself able to contemplate this question of "what you are to give up" with a calmer demeanor, then you are in a place of real productivity in the process. At this point, it is best to ask yourself not only, can I give this up? Will I give this up? But also, what can be gained from this process?

Always in our growth and evolution, as we face the tough choices of life, there is, indeed, something important to be gained for our soul, and this is where I would wish you to put your attention. Not only on
the idea of what is to be, perhaps, abandoned, but what will be gained. Will you, in the process of letting something go, giving something up, walking away from it, will you be garnering something for yourself?

Will you be increasing in a sense of service to others in the process? Will you have gained a sense of strength and fortitude in your nature? Is this an ability of giving something up which allows more self-discipline within you? Are you, in the process of this "letting go," perhaps, lightening your emotional load? Are you coming to understand that in walking away, or giving up this thing, this possession, this pattern of habits, this relationship, that you are perhaps opening yourself up to gain other things, and new priorities might be set in this process?

Also, I would ask you to consider what in this process may be a "modeling" to others? If, in this process of giving something up, you have, indeed, made others who care for you aware of this challenge in your life, then you are, by your very example of how you go about this, presenting a model to others that they may indeed be heartened and encouraged by. And this, again, is where I encourage you to give the process a sense of deep contemplation, first. Always, I would say that in this process, a moment of prayer, a time of prayer, is best.

Ask that you be strengthened in your releasing yourself from this — that you will, indeed, become a better man or woman, become a clearer soul, become a greater person, in your own understanding of the material possessions, the choices of habits, the patterns of living, and the relationships, in your life.

I would also ask you to consider a sense of choice, that in the very process of this contemplation, that you will be having many choices in front of you, and it is, indeed, a — choice — to walk away from the
possession of this thing, or this habit pattern, or this way of living your life. There is a choice in how you will face it, if it ever rises again in your mind. There is a choice in how you will discuss it, choose to talk about it, as a part of your personal history, in future times. There is a choice in how much you will, indeed, work
with God, work with your Thought Adjuster's Guidance in this process.

It is not always easy for those who live a life on this planet to work with God in these tough challenges. It is so much more the case that you hop into a situation with the ego, first, as in that expression, "I will jump in feet first." Well, "ego first" is not the best way to approach any of these challenges of life, and yet you see this as a model, as an example around you, constantly. So, I would close by saying to you that if you can indeed remember that you are attempting to "jump into this" with God ready to catch you, then you will find that all of what you may consider now "deep questions" in this challenge will be mitigated. And, you will come to discover that this is not quite the loss that you thought it was.

Student: How do I begin this process?

Olfana: Remember that I said that first comes this choice of, "What will I  be giving up?" I am saying this is the process by which you should focus yourself. Consider how powerful you all are. Consider how gifted you all are. Consider how creative you all are. You need to unfold yourselves. Let this energy of love unfold you. Open up your petals! You can take on in life even so much more than you think you can! I know there have been those moments in the past when you have felt a sense of defeat. This can be overcome. You are, indeed, God's Children. Never forget this! And in this powerful definition of yourselves, you are capable, most certainly, of climbing the mountains of life. You are responsive to the vistas that you will see! You
are, indeed, empowered by what God has already given you in your beings, and now the task before you is to take this, and make as much of yourselves as you possibly can.

Love

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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Does God love us all equally?
 
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Rayson and Friends

 

 

 

 

 

Question: Rayson, you said that God loves us very much. Does He love all of us equally, or does He love
those who are good or trying to be good more than He loves those which are iniquitous?

Answer: He loves all equally. Why would He give you the opportunity of choice? Even the iniquitous among you are given a final chance to choose the ascension career once they have emerged from material life. That is how great Father's love is. Could your love be so great if it were your progeny?

Love is necessary for survival of all beings in the universe
 
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Love is of higher mind, part of personality expression. Love is necessary for survival of all beings in the universe. Not only must they receive love, but must also impart love to others. Love is one of the highest accomplishments that any creature can aspire to.

It sometimes is said that love is illusive, perhaps because it is not a material thing, so that when it is sought as a material thing would be sought, you lose the grasp - and yet it is most readily accessible to all who would have it. And it is so easy to have love. The having of love, the getting of love is a function of the giving of love, which may seem paradoxical, but it is not. Like other God-given qualities goodness and truth and beauty - love is not something that the material creature creates, but rather is something that is passed on through the material creature to others. It is truly a gift from God, given freely, to be experienced freely and freely passed on.

And that is what love is. Not something that can be stored, or even really calibrated in the usual sense of your thinking, yet how truly one knows when it is present, how truly one knows when there is love in the interaction between individuals.

And one of the wonderful things about love is the fact that the practice of it, the striving to be loving, to impart love to others, not only increases one's ability to give love, but also increases the amount of love that is in turn received. The more you give, the more you in turn receive. The Father gives us only what we can use. There is no waste in the universe of any energy form.

It is useful, perhaps, to conceive of love as one might think of sunshine, the light that strikes your planet and your nearby stars. Without the light of the sun all life on Earth would perish. Even a small feeble ray of light can sustain some sort of life form. And the sun streams forth its light at no cost, freely given and freely received. How much better, then, is the love of The Father streaming forth over all the universes. Unlike the light of the star, though, there can never be too much. You could never get sunburn from the love of The Father.

There could never be any danger in the receipt of love, or any danger in the giving of love. The love of The Father is freely given and is there - even in individuals who not only do not ask, but also have deluded themselves into believing that they do not want love, that they shun love. It is a fallacy to believe thus, for if the love of The Father were not there, they would perish. But not to worry, it - that never will stop. The shame for such individuals is that in a misguided desire to have what might be called control they may stubbornly attempt to refrain from passing The Father's love on to others and, in so doing, impoverish their own lives and - at least temporarily - slow their own spiritual growth.

Some worry about protection when giving out love or goodness or truth and beauty, and yet it is not these qualities of God that leave one vulnerable. Rather it is the negative qualities of fear and pride and so on that make mortals vulnerable. By working on love, by finding that which you can love in everyone and everything, you can exercise this muscle, develop it to a fuller potential, and thereby help to further your own spiritual growth.

So go forth gladly and shed love on your fellows and watch the results. Some will be immediate, others will be delayed, and many, many of the results coming from the love that you send will never be seen directly by you during your mortal lifetimes. But if you look into your own hearts and consult with your own inner self to find the truth, you will receive every assurance that the love you give causes growth and enhances the universe wherever it may fall,

Love is not just an emotion, and not just a spiritual quality; it is a force of energy. It changes the way the body works.

Like love, prayer never falls without engendering positive results. It always yields benefits and growth - not the instant gratification desired or even required by some - but be assured that the benefit is always there. How healing it is to receive the love of another. Like a drink of cool water on a dry hot day. How healing it is to behold beauty. How healing to experience goodness or to know truth.

Love is the gift of the Universal Father, and is manifested in the Eternal Son. In the life of Jesus on this planet we have witness to applied love, mercy. The gift of the father - love - and applied love - mercy - of the Son is ministered to mortals and other low-level creatures by the bestowal of the Infinite Spirit who down-steps through angels to minister the combination of love and mercy to you.

Love is a constant, which can be seen from the most infinite level down through the most finite. On the greatest level, which you cannot conceive of, the love of God The Father is so boundless that He loves every one of His creatures whether they are aware of His love or not. His love is so limitless that He loves both sinners and perfected beings alike. He is no respecter of persons, but loves each creation individually and limitlessly.

His greatest acts of love to you, mortal creatures of animal origin, are the divine fragments of His Spirit which each of you possess. The Father's love is extended through the ministry of mercy, always - first love, second mercy, and always ends injustice. He loves His individual children and His created worlds and systems through the Universal Eternal Son. Their down-step incarnations are the tangible proof of The Father's love and should serve as an inspiration to this confused and sin-ridden world of the existence of divine love and a divine pattern to all creation.

The life of Michael here - as Jesus - is on a spiritual level, the perfection standard to which you should all strive. The message of Jesus was “Love your brother as yourself.” For the skeptic, cynical of heart, or pure materialist, one can argue without self-love primitive species would not survive, without sex-love the species would not have propagated, without mother-love there would be no family home life, without neighbor-love survival would be limited, without tribal-love the elements and animals would have overcome the frail mortal, without nation-love there would be no great advances, without brother-love - the highest concept of love - we would not be aware of the existence of God.

Love your neighbor as yourself. This simple concept is what will take your world into the spiritual light of the new advanced revelatory religion. Simple, but very hard to achieve. Love one another. This involves a self-forgetfulness. Love is the desire to do good to others. And what's in that is to put another's needs before one's own selfish needs for ego aggrandizement. It means that dogma must be put aside. It means that in order to love one's fellows, tolerance must be consciously exercised every day. Jesus asks of you, learn to love one fellow more.

To understand your fellows is to love them. It is a reflection of your capacity on a spiritual level if you love and understand more of your fellows. It is not a measure of lack of divine love or spirit potential. If you do not consciously set out to know and love others you cannot truly know God, for God is not merely intellectual or philosophical, but is involved in actions in terms of service to your brothers and sisters. Service is not “done,” it is merely duty without love. You may do good works with a bad heart.

God is love, but love is not God. If one merely performs worthy acts without God consciousness, you are not entering the kingdom of God, but you are entering the kingdom of good. There is a huge difference. Mere humanism or idealism or political-social motivation is not Godliness, although God-knowing people encompass it. Love is the difference, love of God so strong that you would do anything to know Him and be like Him. And if one love's God and thirsts for God, to that degree how can you not love God's creations? Recognize the fragment of God in your fellows and love that.

One can only love personality. One cannot love concepts. God is a personality in that he is your parent creator Father. Your word love is so inadequate. It means such base emotions on your world that we wish there was another way to describe what spiritual love is.

Love acts without thought of reward. And love - spiritual love - is not defined by results. Plant the seeds of love and the harvest will be truth, beauty and goodness. Of that I can assure you. As to when the harvest comes, that is unknown. But love is contagious and will always be more infectious than fear, anger, hatred or sin. If you are truly illuminated from within by divine love and overflowing love for your fellow ascenders - and indeed all creation - then others cannot help but respond in kind. It is the benign virus of love. And you can be sure that you are doing the will of The Father.

Why, then are you not more filled with love? Why are you - like greedy animals - so often wanting to take rather than to give? John said, “children, love one another.” Why do you spend so much time staring at your own image in an antique glass when you but could lift your eyes upward and see the beauty and majesty of the universe. You will be so enlightened that you could not help but reflect divinity outward. And like a walk to the light, you will be surrounded by the multitudes as Jesus was.

Jesus did not talk down, or preach morality, or fear, or judgment. No. He simply applied love and mercy, and lived that way. And people loved Him instantly. You, too, may be Christ-like. It is not enough to celebrate the Christ. You must be the Christ.

Your planet is surely a backward and dark planet, which is why Michael chose this planet, the better to contrast the light of his love against such a confused and dark, suffering world. Shine your light so that the planet may be uplifted. You to whom so much has been given should not sit and bask in The Father's generosity without in turn reflecting that generosity to others. It is not enough for you to rationalize that you do not like this person or that person, such pettyness comes with ego. It will someday be an embarrassment to you.

You must begin to live the law of Jesus of Nazareth by loving more and more of your fellows the longer you live. The more you grow in the spirit, the more humans you will be tolerant and loving of. This is what the life of the master reflected: trusting in the love of The Father to such extent that even when one looks at this world and sees chaos, and despair, and destruction, and starvation, and conflicts, and hatred, and fear, and ignorance, and rigidity, and immoral belief systems, you can know that the outcome of the divine plan is benevolent, and enlightened, and loving and peaceful, and joy-filled, and spiritual; that when one looks at one's own life through the valleys of confusion and doubt that your faith will know that God loves you so much that the outcome of your life will be ultimately good, goodness; that The Father has created you as you are - in love, and see the outcome of who you would be in love, and that your place is assured but for your choices. You have been created to conquer doubt and fear, anger and hatred, all the demons of the human condition. And though love you will.

God's love is not finite. The more you faithfully believe this, the more love you will open yourself up to seeing. It is always there. It is your inability to take it that is the flaw. You cannot see justice or even fairness, but you can feel the love of The Father if you would but try, and once having felt and become full of divine love, and so moved by the spirit you could not help but to give it away, for you would realize that the more you love the more ability you have to love. Do not deny yourself this gift. Love freely and unselfishly and unconditionally. Love each other with the highest divine love that you can imagine.

A father often must take the long view on a child's growth, and so we sometimes - as children - do not feel we understand His ways. That is natural, but his love is constant. A parent's love never wavers, and your world would be so much more evolved if you each understood that you are secure in the divine love of your father. That fact does not ebb and flow, but is a constant and ever-giving replete well of strength for you to draw from. You cannot simply run out of love.

Remember, to enter the kingdom of God one must love one’s fellows and God. That is the ticket. So I pray that you will be more loving, kinder, tolerant, and understanding toward each other. As God is so generous in His love to you, you also will be generous in God's love to others, through you.

Sometimes love is boring
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive June 21, 1997
Teacher Daranadek
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John: I need, we need struggle. Sometimes love is boring. I can be lost with like-minded people.

Daranadek: My friend, your dilemma is shared by many. You have come up on a world of struggle, and this is a pattern you have utilized to succeed. It will take time for many of you to learn to adjust to the acceptance of joy and tranquility and to find the new patterns of struggle and re-label them, to find the new challenges. Also sometimes this plateau is necessary as internal preparation for the next round. However, if it is prolonged, seek deeper in yourselves, seek to understand your feelings, see if the possibility exists that you have difficulty in accepting the good things, for I must say on this world, the good things have not always seemed abundant to you. This will be an acquirement over time. Share your struggles with your human brothers and sisters, for you will find many willing to talk about this very problem. 

Absorb the words and love that is abundant to all of you
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive April 1, 1998.
Teacher Andrea
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This subject that I wish to bring forth now is on your abilities to absorb the words and love that is abundant to all of you. It is there for you to partake of and to cherish those moments in your stillness of that love that is so abundant to all of you. This is part of the stillness that you create in your endeavors to talk to your teachers and to our Father and His Son to increase your abilities to absorb all of the truths that we bring and also all of the love and understanding that are there for you to increase your knowledge of knowing of the way that our Father and His Son wish for you to know and take part in thereof.

You have crossed many bridges in the past. And each one of you has had experiences from which you have learned many hard lessons. And now you are at the point to where you cannot absorb all of the things that are given to you so freely. I am speaking of the love and devotion that our Savior and His Father have readily placed for you to absorb. Sometimes it is impossible to absorb all that is there because you wonder if your heart is big enough to absorb those things that They have spoken to you, whether it be in your silent
communications with Them for orally as we are tonight. But yet you have this devotion and determination to try and learn and remember the words we bring of the affections that our Savior and His Father give to everyone. This is free for you to take. But it is up to you to guard this love that they give and not cast it aside.

This is one thing that they are keenly disappointed in, is when an individual mortal will take this love so preciously given and cast it aside. This not only hurts the individual mortal, but it also hurts those that rest on high because of Their abilities to give this love to you. It is not a mortal love as you might call it. It is a spiritual love that is grown from your hearts and souls so that you readily receive the words of affection that they give.

The love that we speak of is of the spiritual realm, but yet this can be expressed in your mortal terms of speaking. When you have your peace and quiet of communicating with us anytime of the night or day that you have time to communicate with Them, They are there for you to talk to because of this love that they have for you as an individual mortal. This is love that is so great that there is no way that you can describe it from your mortal perspective. This is something that each individual mortal must feel for themselves, is this love that they give to you. You can experience the ultimate in receiving this because it is the thing you seek in your endeavors to be of the righteous minds that They wish you to be. But it takes effort on your part as a mortal to be at this point to where you can readily receive and absorb the words and love that They give.

You often wonder "Am I capable of this?" and I must say that you are capable as long as you will dwell in His house of righteousness and longing for both He and His Father. It is given so freely that it is available almost immediately upon your call or demand of being able to receive this love and words. Not only of love, but of encouragement in your endeavors to do as you wish to do. Their guidance is there for you to take hold of and walk with them in the path that They have given us all to walk and be a part of.

Your longings are always longings because of your mental abilities that leave doubts in your minds that you are not capable of absorbing what They give. But it is within your capabilities to absorb this. And They ask that you do and be a part of the things they wish for you to be a part of and in what you do. The longings that They have for you as a mortal is no more than what you as a mortal wish of them. But yet They are there, willing to help in any way that They can to foster your abilities in your attempts to bring brotherhood and sisterhood to this planet that you now exist in.

You, as I have mentioned before, are the pioneers of the truth and love that they have brought to you to give to those others and know that it is freely given without any restriction that They put on this love that They have. They only ask that you take this feeling of affection and guard it because it is of them that give it to you that you are also guarding. But do not falter in your beliefs and in your love and understanding because this will grow and grow and the more it grows the more you will understand what the full impact
of this really is in your mortal terms. The terms that I speak of are tremendous. It is endless because it can go from day to day, year to year until you put your mortal bodies to rest and join us in our world. This will be the time that your knowledge will increase to the point that you will realize what it really meant to be able to absorb those things that we have spoken of to you as a mortal.

But you have this eternal longing for the truths that They bring and what we can speak of to help you absorb these truths. This truth is given to you for your abilities to right the wrongs that have been done. Now, we are in this Correcting Time to correct those wrongs, and it will be up to you to help with this. This is why our Savior has brought about this Mission of us talking to mortals, is to guide each one in their attempts to clarify those mistakes and misunderstandings that do exist. But this is given to you through the love that They have for you and that trust that They have in you as a mortal. So you see, the trust the They have in you is not one way, it is also from you to them. Of course, as a mortal, your faith and trust and love and devotion is far greater then you realize. 

Your longings also are of your physical beings and what you must deal with in this materialistic and animalistic world that you live in. So it is one thing to accomplish and another to set aside these things to be able to reach the loving and enduring care that they have for all of you. The abilities that you long for are there for you to partake of. And this is because of Their feelings toward you as a mortal and the attempts that are being made in Their efforts to bring about the brotherhood and sisterhood of all the mortals of
this planet.

Your light grows brighter day after day after day. And each day that you awake in the morning and you start your daily routines you will have in the backs of your minds, "What can I do today that will enhance those things that our Father and our Savior wishes?" And this takes a lot of thought for you mortals to achieve this because of those efforts and forces that are surrounding you and all the other mortals of this planet. But yet you are determined to conquer those things that are objectionable to the way that you feel is the right way. And you do this with a soft, gentle voice to those who do not know the way things really are in the way they believe. You are the light that will shine for those that will come forth and their efforts to seek the truth as each one of you have sought those truths and the love and devotion that They bring to you in Their
efforts to help guide and teach you of these truths.

We, the teachers are the messengers of those words of encouragement and devotion that They give for us to give you.  So, with this attempt of trying to express the love that They give for all, I wish to convey to you that my love for you is also of this same thought. We, that are teachers of each one, and those that are teachers other than myself for this group, are of the same frame of mind in our attempts to bring the words of love and encouragement and devotion that we have for each one of the pupils that are of this unit.

With the thought that I have just expressed of acquiring more and more of the love that is given to you is there for you, as I've stated before, to partake of. But be very careful of how you handle this love because it is very fragile and can be cast aside very easily. 

So, with this thought, I leave with you your attempts to master the love that is given to you. 

There is coming a day of the Heart
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive February 12, 1998.
Teacher Berca, JohnSen
T/R Henry

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It is good to share the enthusiasm for the love of the Father. In the realm of the spirit, there is one way to begin to feel connected to Father, and this is through the work and service to ones fellows. We begin our
service much as you would begin a job or work. It is through service that most of the lessons of the spirit are delivered. This opening up to the greater good within which ever brings man to see his true worth.

There is coming a day of the Heart, on your world. This day many are opening up to giving to the ones whom they love. This giving, though somewhat commercial in its outward thrust, seems backed by genuine interest to give to others in a loving and sincere manner. This opening of the heart is truly one of the evidences of the angelic realm working in the hearts of men. It is a great sight for us to see so many people on this world respond in a way they should be responding to their daily lives.

This will be the way in which a truly evolved generation will bring this gift to this world. Again in the spirit realm, everyday is like Valentines day. Our hearts are truly open always. Our sincere effort goes to help you to open your hearts more and more. The opening of the heart is man's effort to allow God to come into the mind of man and allow him to work with you in bringing love into your heart. You must open your heart to this love and with open hearts face your brothers and sisters that they may receive this spirit presence from you.

For love is a spirit presence, it is the presence of God the Father in reality. If God could materialize here, now he would appear just as you are loving, a person ready to give to another that they may receive the blessing
and recognition of a truly great presence. God would appear no different. The Master appeared on this world much the same. He was fearless in his attempt to love every one. It was this fearless and open hearted stance poised in a balanced mind which attracted many to his service. It was this ability of the
Master to love which showed the Father to all of mankind. It was his desire to bring peace to this world that he gave of himself totally, even his life he gave up to this world that you may see that life itself is a part of giving; as you give all, you will receive it again; as he reappeared again in three days. So what is it that giving gives to the Giver?

Giving opens the way for receiving. Receiving more love, universe recognition, lessons you need to learn, mercy. In many ways giving is the honor of returning what you are given, for within you there is truly a fountain of everlasting life and happiness. Giving is the key to unlock the gate to this fountain and allow it to begin to flow through your mind out into the world as loving and kind service and demeanor to others. This alone will bring your mind and its activities into balance, your deliberate and actual doing this will of the Father; opening up your heart to receive love from above, and opening your storehouse of goodness to the world. 

The shape of your symbol for the heart is a symmetrical curve which goes out and away from itself and slowly returns and connects again. This is much the same symbol of your relationship to God in that it forms a symmetrical relationship in man. As Father loves and gives to you and you receive this love into your heart. By opening up your love to others in their service you demonstrate the recognition of Father in others. The symmetry begins to display outside what is taking place within. There is no magic or shortcut to
this endeavor. That which is truly given allows you to draw upon the mercy credit of the universe, the continuing ministry of the spirit; The love of the Father. The loving and brotherly companionship of the Son, and the serviceable ministry of the Mother Spirit and her retinue of angelic presence.

So as you go about your day in this world, try to live with more consciousness of sonship and daughtership, the symmetrical response to your own relationship with Father/Mother God. Also remember to daily bring your mind to focus on this purpose and intention as you begin your daily journey into the gift of life in which you function.

JohnSen: Man can never hope to attain a truly great society without spiritual symmetry. A great society of individuals is only as great as those individuals are willing to give of themselves for the greater good of their brothers and sisters, society.

These affirmations are to help you sense the singular commitment you have made to the Spirit Presence within. You can only be shown so much before you must act. It is upon acting which allows for the practices you develop to be given further guidance. Life is a lot like music. You can sit and study and read the notes, playing them in your head, but until you play them on an instrument, you have no music. Love and its spiritual counterparts are the same, again the symmetry, they don't really exist until you bring them into existence. For this you were given life. For this God has chosen to come down from paradise and personally live within to guide and service you. For this all of humanity awaits its glory. To the most worthy student are given the most difficult lessons. It is for this life here and now that you are a student. As you begin to bring the spiritual motivation you experience truly within the arena of your activities, the world will begin to benefit from such teaching. So my dear friend, begin to put away the fear you were given, and begin to see yourself as a truth son of Divine light. Use the strength and resource you are given to bring your mind to release its spiritual fruit that all may enjoy its sweetness. Begin to rely upon the effects of what you give to others to sustain you, to nourish your soul and to inspire your spirit nature. 

Love one another even as I have loved you
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive April 19, 2000.
Teacher Abraham

 

 

 

 

 

 

Said Jesus, "Love one another even as I have loved you." This was not so much a request from the Master, but a command. How can you love everyone — even those that have wronged you? How can you create a new and ever flowing current of this love between you and your fellows? It is difficult to love individuals who are not giving love or positive energy in return.

God can become more when you gather together, and you have the power to take Him with you wherever you go, with whomever you meet. You find it easy to see the God in one another, but it is difficult to see him in individuals you do not know or have had negative experiences with.

"Love one another as I have loved you." How does the Master love us? I do believe He sees the God and the good in each one of us. From that foundation the love begins to take root. The Master sees us on a Kingdom-soul level as in we are all children of the Most High's. The concept of we are brothers and sisters in the Kingdom of Heaven — we are all children of God — is the base that we find commonalties in. Everyone you meet you already have something in common with them. We each are an extension of our Father. We
are His children.

Jesus understands that we each have a path we must take and our experiences will shape who we become. Because an individual is different from Him, or perhaps they have a more narrow vision than Him, does not put barriers between Him and the individual. The Master knows why we have become who we have become. He expects us all to be different in personality and characteristics. He does not always agree with the choices we make, but He does so much love us for our efforts. He does understand the love we so crave and search for.

The Master has promised us that to love one another as He loves us is to have an enlarged capacity to receive divine revelation or greater understanding. This greater understanding teaches us of those greater
realities we will utilize to make the spiritual corrections we need here on Earth and usher this world into Light and Life. Light and Life cannot come about without the Brotherhood.

This week, my friends, ponder upon what it means to love your fellows as Jesus loves you. What does that mean? Does He look past the outer shape to the inner soul — the seed from which you bloom spiritually? To love one another as He loves us is to be able to take your fellows intolerance of you and make it a positive upliftment instead of a negative blow. When you look at your mortal acquaintances can you remember the commonality in which you all share? Contemplate the fact of how much power you really have to promote
the Brotherhood, and be in a mode of giving and not so much worrying about what you can receive.

Letting God's love flow through you
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive December 19, 1998.
Teacher Althena, Olfana
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Althena: As God's Love continues to increase and produce great blessings in this world, you will see the beauty increase in this world. You will begin to feel the revitalizing energy, which can indeed begin to emanate through your beings. This is the gift, that God's Love reaches to all of us, and expresses itself in the symbol of our beloved Christ Michael entering this world. 

Love in indeed a gift that we can pass from one to another. Love sustains us in ways mysterious, and yet at the same time, understandable. We are indeed created out of love, and therefore we resonate most strongly to the energy and vibration of this Gift from God Within Us. Let yourselves express this marvelous gift in your very being. Breathe in the love. Exhale the love. Walk with the pace of love. View the world with love. Touch and caress others with love. Speak with love in your heart and mind and voice. This is the most beautiful and positive expression of yourself that you can make.

And I would encourage all of you to realize that you have just begun to understand all the ways in which this beauty of love augments your being. We are touched by this in all our relationships. Help to develop this as a model among you. Be yourselves with love, in love, by love, through love, of love, and you will indeed be resonant with this Divine Energy, and you will best express the message of the Creator Son in his gift to this world.

Olfana: When Althena urged you to be yourselves, and to do so in love and with love, she is asking for a most profound openness on your part to a transformation from within. As with all transformations, this transformation entails releasing ideas and assumptions about yourself that are part of your legacy, which would have you persist in your fixed ideas about who you are, and what you are capable of, and what you are not capable of. When she asks you to "be yourself," she is not asking that you be the self with which
you are already most familiar. She is asking that you allow the potentialities, which the Father has sown within you, to emerge into your awareness and into your experience. And she is asking that your love, the love you have for God, and the love you have for your fellow creatures, incite you to open yourself to this "self within," these selves within that await your openness to spring into being.

You are more than you think you are! You are more beautiful than you think you are. You are more talented than you think you are. You are more gracious than you know you are. You have more love at the fingertips of your soul than you can dream of! Continue to bond with one another. Continue to establish working relationships to assist you in bringing your deeper selves into the light. Continue to seek the Will of the Father Within, for it is His Will that all you are is shared with all you meet. 

What does it mean to live to love?
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive September 27, 1998.
Teacher Welmek

 

 

 

 

 

 

Think for a moment, what does that mean - to live to love? How has it helped you in your life to discover the meaning of this and how might your friend discover it for him or herself?

Love is the dominant feeling in the universe. Unfortunately, while it is natural, while it does flow unconditionally from the source — from God, most humans must experiment, must learn through experience to find and give love. Let us think about what is love. Love is the desire to do good to others, and we could add and to yourself.  In order to find love, you must search, you must experience, you must experiment. Perhaps as a child you received love from your parents or from friends. As you grow older you seek love from your brothers and sisters, you find moments and opportunities of love from them. But to truly know love in the very deepest sense, you must seek the real source of love. This would be the search to find the love with.

When you tap that eternal source of love, you know without question what love is because it is now something you can feel throughout your whole being. Just as your physical mechanism senses through your eyes and ears, your soul has a way of knowing and it is through its own sensing it feels. And when that soul feels love, it knows the truly reality of what it has felt. It is an inner way of knowing. If you have not experienced it, it cannot be proven.

What does it mean to do good to others? What does it mean to love God, to love yourself, and to love others? When you experience what you call your romantic love, is it not your desire, as you think about this person much of your day, to find ways to please them? You do little things for them, you exchange sexual favors, and all of the other ways you have to show this love. This is something you think about — how can I
please this person? So how is it that you can please God? If God is the source of all things and each of us are mere mortals, we can give God what He has given us. But you cannot love someone whom you do not know.

So you must take that time to learn about God — to learn to know God. By taking time to do this each day you develop a relationship with God. You can worship God, and when you feel God's love, it would be a natural outpouring of love from God.

What does it mean to do good to yourself? Well, to find that source of love within is the most worthwhile thing you can do for yourself. Why do so many not do it? Because they allow the barriers of anger, lack of
forgiving themselves or others, laziness, complacency, self-absorption, all of these are barriers. The love of God is all around, it is humans who put up these barriers. You must break through these barriers. It is easy, one need only to ask and you will receive. But you must ask and you must experience and you must try to seek God's love. That is the greatest thing you can do, because until you find that love within yourself, you will struggle to be able to love others.

You may find one or a few that you can love, but to love all, to see all as your brothers and sisters, this will be a greater effort, this will require finding that love within. And what can you do for others? Love is the greatest service one can give. In the universe, that is your constant purpose, that is your constant desire.

How can you find a way to do good for them? What is it that they need? Do they need help with some physical task? Do they need someone to listen to them? Do they need someone to play with them? Look at the person and ask what is it that they need. Sometimes they are not sure themselves. You must look deeply within them, you must as you say read between the lines, you must intuit what it is they need. For sometimes they know exactly what they need at that moment and it may be nothing more than help with a
particular task. There is a wealth of opportunity to serve, to love.

It is not always easy to discern how you can help, for after all they all know how to go within and find the greatest help of all. But we do find ways, we are still growing, we are still learning, and we still have needs. So we find ways in those opportunities to help each other, out of desire to do good. It is a way of serving, it is a way of loving, it is a way of deepening our experience of love.

Every individual offers you an opportunity to learn; what can you learn from it? Maybe you can learn more truth, maybe you can see more beauty and help you to feel more love. But everyone has something to offer you. If you spend each day first seeking this well of love, let it flow through you, let it fill you. Then, as you go through your day you feel that love with you and you look for opportunities to share that love, to serve others, to find a way to help them. Then you are living the way of the universe. For the way of the universe is to live each day to love.

And so to do your best right now and to look at any problem, you need to know its past and its destiny. Do you glimpse the destiny that I have portrayed to you of the universe dominated by love? And within yourself, can you not sense what that might be like? And in your past, were there moments when you did not feel love at all, and perhaps not even glimpse what we now talk about? And so, you are in process, are you not? 

Somewhere between your past and what you see as the glorious ideal that you now begin to see as you walk this path. Therefore, each day is a wonderful experience to learn, to learn to live in this love more. Some days you will feel that you have accomplished more, others days you will feel that you have not accomplished much. But is this not the process of learning? Do not judge yourself. Simply ask yourself, am I trying? Am I trying to understand? Am I trying to live to love more than I did a year ago or ten years ago? If your answer is "yes" then you are doing what you are supposed to be doing, then you are following God's way. That is the path of life.

I do not mean to suggest to you that you are at a point where you would radiate the love that the Master would radiate. But that is the goal and it is something to strive for. What you are is not as important as what you are striving to become. Do not be hard on yourself. There will come a time as you grow in this understanding of yourself and as you feel more love for yourself, that you will naturally have the desire to share this with others. But you must understand that others do not always respond. Were there not even those that the Master could not reach and closed themselves off? You can only do your best, you can only try. The difference is whether during your day you still feel connected to this source of love. If you still feel this connection, then you can seek inner guidance as to what might be best for this person or you can simply allow that love to flow to through you. 

Imagine this other person surrounded in the bright light of love. You can do this without ever saying anything to this person. Throughout your day when you are busy and are absorbed in your tasks, when there are break moments, when there are times between tasks, reconnect. The more you can retain this
consciousness throughout the day, the more peace you will find, the more serenely you will get through your day, the less stress you will feel at the end of the day. This is the goal, this is the process, it is not
easy to achieve. It is particularly not easy to achieve in difficult jobs and the stresses you face.  

It is a matter of time and it is a matter of perspective. You are given this concept of being perfect. What does it mean to be perfect? What would it take to do everything right? Our expectations are often unrealistic. You will never, never know everything. You will never be perfect in all ways. You will become perfected in one way, and that way will be to always seek the will of God, the way of God. Your motivation is what becomes perfected. That is the only thing in us humans that becomes perfected. 

Now, let me ask you, do you have some control over this idea of seeking to find the divine way, seeking to follow the divine path, and to find this love and peace? Is it a choice you can make to pursue this? And so, in your own way you are becoming perfected because you are making choices and you are choosing this path to follow. And so you are on the only path that is available to you. In no other way can you be perfect. You must eliminate this thinking from your mind. Following God's way is the only way you in which you can achieve perfection. It does not mean that you can know everything.

Take this into stillness with you, take this concept when you are still, bring up this concept of perfection in your mind's eye and at that time ask the Father to clearly help you understand this idea, this concept of
perfection. And while it is there in your mind's eye, allow the thoughts to enter to help you see perfection in a new way. Have you ever experienced any one who is perfect in any way on this world? 

But until you understand perfection from a spiritual level, it causes great confusion, because when you look at the level of the material world, then you think that other humans should be perfect in the way they act or think, in knowing all there is to know about something. You see, you apply this concept of perfection at levels that it cannot manifest.

But when you apply perfection to the spiritual level, then there is a way, there is an opportunity for it to be, and that is for you to pursue this path in doing God's will. It does not mean that in every situation you will always know what is right, but it means that you will pause and you will seek the right way to relate to others.

What did the Master do? He said, "Father, not my will, but yours be done." He sought God's will in each of the things he did. That does not mean that you will always have a clear or perfect answer or know the perfect way. It only means that your motivation to seek the best way is real and genuine. And gradually it will become perfected in the sense that it is what you will always seek.

All humans seek love. When they do not know to seek it from within, they must seek it from without. They seek it through acceptance from their parents, brothers and sisters, their loved ones, their spouses. But you see, all of these people are human and fickle and imperfect. And no matter how much you do, how much you attempt to please them, it may never be enough. There may be some other reason they withhold their love from you and you cannot find that reason, so you constantly seek to find why. This inner innate desire to find love was given to you intentionally, because you must find love in your life. But the mystery is that you cannot find it only in other people, you must find it in God. You find this unconditionally loving parent who says to you "I love you, you are my child. I only ask that you share your love with me. I don't expect you to be perfect. I expect you to make mistakes. I accept you and all of your imperfections and I accept you as long as we share this relationship, this love."

So now, when you find this source of love, then you know you have it — it is permanent, it is ever lasting, eternal. That is your anchor, your foundation of love that you build upon from within. When you have this,
it is your foundation. The fickleness of the love and acceptance from others, perhaps frustrating and disappointing at times, but also wonderful and enjoyable, is part of the world of change. And no matter
how hard you try, no matter how much you do for someone, tomorrow they might say "that is not enough, I want more." So you might never be what they want you to be. So you must let go of that to some degree. It does not mean that you should not try to please others, to be a good person, to be loved by them, to seek a relationship of love, it does not mean that you should not try to do well or please your boss. But it means
there are limits and not to seek your only source of acceptance and love from people.

You will set up unrealistic expectations, you will set up an expectation of yourself whenever you do not get the love that you seek, that somehow you are failing, somehow you are not yet perfect yet. That will create
feelings of unworthiness and insecurity within you. And you will not love yourself if that is the way you see yourself. Your self can not be created from the images of others. It must be created from the true image of your real self, the God within. When you see that real self, all the rest is shadow and change. But that is the dilemma. God has given you a concept of perfection, a concept of love and an innate desire to seek and achieve these things. Where do you seek them? Who is the measure of how successful you have been? You must transfer that acceptance from without to within, and when you do that you have been born again. You have begun to seek the real you, your real self.

You are still in the physical world and you will still want and need a certain degree of love and satisfaction and success. These things are natural, you should continue to strive to achieve them. But you must lessen your expectation, lessen or change or transform this concept of perfection from without to within. And as you do that you will find that what can be almost obsessive for many people will lessen, then you will live your life more in balance. When you are dominated by the images and perceptions of the outer world, you
are out of balance. When you are dominated by living only in the spiritual inner life and do not deal with the real world and your brothers and sisters, experiencing them and with them and through them, you are out of balance. It is not wise to retire to monastery for all of your life. You need experience and interaction with others. So you must find balance between the material and the spiritual, between you inner and outer lives. And this is part of the secret, the mystery of leaning to walk day in balance. Of learning to live, learning to love, living to learn and living to love.  

Let me add one more thing. Most humans feel this sense of unworthiness because they are not perfect — perfect in their physical appearance, perfect in their intellectual acuity, they are not perfect in the way the world wants them or they think the world wants them to be perfect. And as you make this transition, you will see that that is not a realistic expectation on the part of others for your worth and value to be measured. Therefore, your worth and value should not be measured by others, but should be measured from your sense of awareness of who you really are, your real self. But at the same time as you lessen this expectation of measuring yourself by the judgements of others, you must, in turn, not look for perfection in others. Is that not only fair? You will not find other humans who are perfect, so do not expect that from others.  

This fragment of God that indwells you is your pilot, your guide. It will guide you through experience into
understandings you must obtain. If it were not so, then you would not need to do anything, to experience anything. You would only have to turn within and say, "what is the answer". But, the answer comes through the sorting, and the analysis, and the evaluation, and the building blocks of experience.  

We are all teachers and learners. At one moment you teach, the next moment you learn. I teach you, but I learn from you because you add to my experience. Let us all seek together the only way in which we will find perfection, and that is to simply share our inner life with God, to do the will of God, to find the way of God. And this simply means that in each situation seek to find the love, the love that is the desire to do good to others — what is in their best interest, how you can serve them. In serving them you love them, in loving them you serve them.

Love is an attitude, an intention of service toward your brothers and sisters
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive March 17, 2000.
Teacher Ham
T/R Bill

 

 

 

 

 

 

Let's speak once again about LOVE. As you mature in your spiritual progression, as you move from mortal understanding to gain greater spiritual insights, you are also learning that the word love denotes an ever-greater and expanding reality approaching cosmic manifestation. Indeed there are many who are beginning to understand that love is more a matter of the will than it is a matter of feelings. It is possible for you to choose to love. Your mortal flesh follows suit with feelings that you would normally attribute as affection.  

Love is an attitude, an intention of service toward your brothers and sisters. Love is the desire to do good to others, and when it is wholly sincere, it will result in actions. You see, if love was based upon feelings it would be limited only to those you feel comfortable with and who you approve of. When our Master entreated us to love our enemies, he totally transcended the realm of feeling in terms of a door of entrance. If you are commanded to love your enemies and love were based upon your feelings, this would be totally absurd and impossible. We are enjoined to love our enemies. Therefor logically and truly this love is not ultimately or initially a matter of warm, fuzzy feelings. To love our enemies is to be God-like and to recognize that the status of "enemy" is in a large part a perceptive category. The reality of that other person is, in almost all cases, really as another son or daughter of God.  

If your enemy should be not of normal mind then this is of a different situation, and in that case these words do not apply. The matter of discernment as to where another person whom you term "enemy" is in fact a faith son or daughter is not something that you can easily decide. Therefor we recommend that you take the default position that this is so, that your enemy is, in fact, a brother or sister of the same Parents and worthy of love, as you are kin. When you attempt to love an enemy, think to yourself, what good could I desire for this other person? What could I pray for, wish for, and even possibly help effect that would be in the best interest of this, my enemy? To love another is a matter of intention, a matter of attitude.  

Love takes no count of worthiness before the bar of judgmental human nature. Love is patient and kind. It is not paranoid. It does not imagine evil about other people, but always expects the best. And as the Apostle Paul so beautifully stated, love never fails. Love is the attitude of God. It is the essence of God's nature. It was out of God's loving heart that he decided to create the worlds of time and space, because he desired to share his nature, his existence, his joy, with other personalities. Love begets love. It creates new opportunities. Love rejoices in diversity and in the expansion of reality. Love is never self-centered, never scraping, stingy, rude or abrupt. Love expands to embrace all others. Therefor love is the greatest thing, the greatest reality in the universe. Knowledge is constantly expanding, and that which is superceded falls away like scaffolding. Our expectations for the future are imperfect, and will be fulfilled in ways greater than we can imagine, but love remains the staple, the foundation, the quest and the eternal prize.

Divine love
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive March 1, 2001.
Teacher Tomas, Aaron
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Ginny: Is it possible for us mortals to love more divinely? I mean, even each other? How can we do that? It seems so much of a premium on this planet.

Tomas: How indeed are you to know and reveal a better kind of love — a higher, divine love, as compared to the human and sentimental and romantic love of the mortal creature? Once again you will find your answer in the heart of Stillness. You will recognize those of you who have engaged in a communication with Our Father within, that He responds to you in love but it is not the same kind of quality of love that you would get from your companions, peers, parents, teachers, children, neighbors, et cetera. The realm of divine love is such that your emotions are a lesser factor, but in human love, emotions are the greater factor.

Love to an animal is having its needs met. You feed your pets and they respond and you think they love you. The same truth can be perceived in relationships, human relationships of all sorts, yet love is often the least 
factored of all. Many times your relationships are based on respect, which runs a fine line with fear; many times your relationships are primarily sentimental, which runs a fine line with tenderness; many times your 
relationships are intense, which runs a fine line with driven. When lovers say "I love you" it is because they see their ideals reflected, and so they are saying, "I see myself in you and I like myself" but as soon as the facts of life reveal themselves, that which is reflected may not be "love" but something else, thus love must be redefined on each new level of experiential living.  

This is why love is advancing. The state of puppy love of the pubescent is not that far removed from the idyllic love of young lovers, but it is far removed from the octogenarians who have seen life through heartbreak, health problems, death of children, war and so on and have within them a profound appreciation for the constancy of their companion. And so while we realize the full range of human love as having great value, it is a wise student who will seek to perceive what spiritual love is, as compared to mere human love.

In the short term definition, divine love seeks to find the farther view. Indeed, Our Father who IS Love, is able to see the ending from the beginning, He has such perception, such clear vision, and from this vantage point He understands how the creature is responding to the moment by moment situations en route to a more sublime understanding that can only be born from experience, from having garnered wisdom. A point regarding higher love is therefore a certain detachment from all that is a reflection of the human condition. 

Divine love persists even when you are ugly, or frail, or wrong, or lost, or unlovable. And humans haven't got what it takes to consistently love unlovely mankind. Only a divine love is capable of seeing it through, through forbearance, through long-suffering, through meditation and understanding, through forgiveness, through the long run, from the farther view that will give the perspective that transcends the human condition in making room for the divine perspective, which is true love.

Love is a far greater fact of life than anyone has yet imagined
 
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SOURCE: Lightline Teleconference  2024-09-26
Teacher: Amanson
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Amanson on Light

I will speak tonight of Light and the lesson it leaves you with. 

You have brought forth much light from the deep well of your imagination which in turn has, through your faith, ignited into bright, living spiritual Light enveloping much of the life you live day by day. And what it presents you with is the opportunity to delve further and further, say deeper and deeper, into the furnace that stokes all the machinery at play in the universe: the bureaucrats of Light, the harbingers and messengers of Light, the beings and essences of Light. The truth of Light. 

Is it all Light? Yes. 

And is Light at its very core Love? Yes. 

So the Light you envision, that you call forth in your healing exercises and  proactive vibrational work, the Light you quite consciously bear about you like a universe-tailored cloak, is Love. It appears as Light; it works as Love. Your deepest calling, your adherence to this thrilling, mediating, transforming material of the galaxy that seems to hold everything in place in its brightness and wonder, is, at heart, Love. Love that can be seen is Light. Or, Love is seen as Light. 

But now consider the prevalence of the phenomenon of Light, its omnipresence, and think of what that is really saying, what it is really trying to tell you.

Love is a far greater fact of life than anyone has yet imagined. Or at least very few. It has caught the fancy of poets and playwrights for centuries, and it became a fad amongst a very necessary generation a while back (remember, as I know you do, “All You Need is Love”?) But what was missing from this noble but incomplete vision is “All There Is is Love”. Such an experience is blocked daily, hourly, by the machinations of many a bruised ego seeking to hold its head above water by any means necessary, but that should not blind you to the fact that all of life is Light (that’s science) and all of Light is Love -- Love you can see, and call into practice; place into various situations -- in any location -- through the mechanism of Mind. And the onboard tracking device of Faith. These are materials working in dimensions not considered much in the ‘everyday world’, but such dimensions exist larger than any power exists in ‘the everyday world’. And they wait to be utilized by Love, the very Love from which they originate. 

Tie yourself to the original point of entry and let Love become active as, and in, Light. Where there is Light there is Love and where there is Love there is Light. Mind can summon them; allocate them.  And the Heart is the burning beam of it all.

Holding that Steady Beam of Light is first and foremost a matter of attitude steeped in Gratitude. How can one project a steady stream of the stuff of Holy Thankfulness if one is not thankful oneself? The highlight of any day is the moment both sides of this coin are revealed at once; when the Light sent out has taken root and is beamed back by a fellow Light connoisseur, whether your fellow would see it in those terms or not.

The Steady Beam of Light projected into and onto the world is born of a different realm, one that adds weight and substance - odd for a commodity called ‘light’ – to a world thin with exhaustion of its own elements, elements of a seeming magic unto themselves – DNA, enzymes, flora, fauna, seas, stars, seasons – but elements which without the added ingredient of Spirit (i.e. Light) can only yield so much, can only give forth a measured output. But when radiated with the Light of Spirit – as vegetation is nurtured with the sun and rain – the world becomes a many layered and purposeful palace of wonders, with no boundaries, “no fences facing” to quote a beloved poet. 

By projecting – some would prefer the term ‘extending’ – a Steady Beam of Light, the opportunities for this growth above and beyond the local become illuminated. One senses by example the existence of such realms and the world becomes larger exponentially. 

The Steady Beam of Light lights not only the world around you but the world within you, a much larger area indeed. When Light falls on any area of concern how much brighter the outlook, for suddenly the parameters of what looked like an enclosed, insufferable, inescapable helix is now bathed in a sort of magic elixir, a potion that can cure rather than conceal. The Steady Beam of Light is gentle but relentless; will not allow past shadows to keep their positions, will not allow past attitudes to hold their customary place in the pantheon of prejudices. 

When one is confronted with a Steady Beam of Light, both the beholder and the bringer, the torch bearer, are changed – brought closer to this Light and made more like it: effervescent, telling, open-minded, devoted to its Source as an extension of its Source. The beam knows it is but a beam, but the Light of which it consists is the Beginning and the Ending, the Bringer of All Beams. And you then, bearing such a beam, have become part of the living process by which the world is transfigured by these individual Steady Beams of Light. 

The Steady Beam of Light is the answer to that nagging question, “What can I do? How can I help?” There is no greater help one can bring than to be a daily bearer, an hourly bearer, a constant and happy bearer, of The Steady Beam of Light. 

This is serious business. Smile.
The vibration of Love
 
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SOURCE: Lightline Teleconference  2024-10-31
Teacher: Amanson
T/R: Mark







 



Amanson on The Vibration of Love

'The Vibration of Love' is the nature of the Oneness. It is the Oneness created. It is all things wrapped into One with their origin; the crystallization of the Holy Moment of Creation set to its purpose and allowed into the atmosphere. It IS the atmosphere.

The vibration of Love is much more than a simple vibration and yet it is exactly that - a simple vibration. But the fact that it is a vibration of Love makes all the difference - now it is the Alpha and Omega. The Love that holds the universe - all the universes - together is beyond the scope of telling. Neither word nor thought could ever encompass it, yet deed can portray it, and therein lies the vibration's conscious entry into the resemblances this Love has created; created through its vibration. For all [created] things are, in essence, vibration - frequencies - at various speeds for varying purposes. And these vibrations all come back to their Mother: the Vibration of Love. 

So the term, our subject here, the Vibration of Love, can - like the teachings of Jesus - be considered (and appreciated) on many different levels. It can be a catch phrase, a song lyric, a provocative new twist on 'The Word'. At whatever level one wants to engage with it, it will meet you there. But understand: it is more than a simple thought, a way of placing a concept in context. It is the very basis of all Life, of the universe, of the many universes and all that encompasses, and then beyond even that. 

And yet the magical part is it all comes back to you. It emanates from you. This fundamental source of the very Life you and everyone else is living originates in you. You are, if you will only slow down and see it, the Vibration of Love. It has you. It is you. It began time and now it has, from a place beyond time, acknowledged you. From the beginning you were and ever shall be 'The Vibration of Love’.
Man must love fully or he will become the lowest of the animals
 
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SOURCE: Chief Dan George







 

In the course of my lifetime I have lived in two distinct cultures. I was born into a culture that lived in communal houses. My grandfather’s house was eighty feet long. It was called a smoke house, and it stood down by the beach along the inlet. All my grandfather’s sons and their families lived in this dwelling. Their sleeping apartments were separated by blankets made of bull rush weeds, but one open fire in the middle served the cooking needs of all. In houses like these, throughout the tribe, people learned to live with one another; learned to respect the rights of one another. And children shared the thoughts of the adult world and found themselves surrounded by aunts and uncles and cousins who loved them and did not threaten them. My father was born in such a house and learned from infancy how to love people and be at home with them.

And beyond this acceptance of one another there was a deep respect for everything in nature that surrounded them. My father loved the earth and all its creatures. The earth was his second mother. The earth and everything it contained was a gift from See-see-am…and the way to thank this great spirit was to use his gifts with respect.

I remember, as a little boy, fishing with him up Indian River and I can still see him as the sun rose above the mountain top in the early morning…I can see him standing by the water’s edge with his arms raised above his head while he softly moaned…”Thank you, thank you.” It left a deep impression on my young mind.
And I shall never forget his disappointment when once he caught me gaffing for fish “just for the fun of it.” “My son” he said, “The Great Spirit gave you those fish to be your brothers, to feed you when you are hungry. You must respect them. You must not kill them just for the fun of it.”

This then was the culture I was born into and for some years the only one I really knew or tasted. This is why I find it hard to accept many of the things I see around me.

I see people living in smoke houses hundreds of times bigger than the one I knew. But the people in one apartment do not even know the people in the next and care less about them.

It is also difficult for me to understand the deep hate that exists among people. It is hard to understand a culture that justifies the killing of millions in past wars, and it at this very moment preparing bombs to kill even greater numbers. It is hard for me to understand a culture that spends more on wars and weapons to kill, than it does on education and welfare to help and develop.

It is hard for me to understand a culture that not only hates and fights his brothers but even attacks nature and abuses her.

I see my white brothers going about blotting out nature from his cities. I see him strip the hills bare, leaving ugly wounds on the face of mountains. I see him tearing things from the bosom of mother earth as though she were a monster, who refused to share her treasures with him. I see him throw poison in the waters, indifferent to the life he kills there; and he chokes the air with deadly fumes.

My white brother does many things well for he is more clever than my people but I wonder if he has ever really learned to love at all. Perhaps he only loves the things that are outside and beyond him. And this is, of course, not love at all, for man must love all creation or he will love none of it. Man must love fully or he will become the lowest of the animals. It is the power to love that makes him the greatest of them all…for he alone of all animals is capable of love.

Love is something you and I must have. We must have it because our spirit feeds upon it. We must have it because without it we become weak and faint. Without love our self esteem weakens. Without it our courage fails. Without love we can no longer look out confidently at the world. Instead we turn inwardly and begin to feed upon our own personalities and little by little we destroy ourselves.

You and I need the strength and joy that comes from knowing that we are loved. With it we are creative. With it we march tirelessly. With it, and with it alone, we are able to sacrifice for others.

There have been times when we all wanted so desperately to feel a reassuring hand upon us…there have been lonely times when we so wanted a strong arm around us…I cannot tell you how deeply I miss my wife’s presence when I return from a trip. Her love was my greatest joy, my strength, my greatest blessing.

I am afraid my culture has little to offer yours. But my culture did prize friendship and companionship. It did not look on privacy as a thing to be clung to, for privacy builds walls and walls promote distrust. My culture lived in a big family community, and from infancy people learned to live with others.

My culture did not prize the hoarding of private possessions, in fact, to hoard was a shameful thing to do among my people. The Indian looked on all things in nature as belonging to him and he expected to share them with others and to take only what he needed.

Everyone likes to give as well as receive. No one wishes only to receive all the time. We have taken something from your culture…I wish you had taken something from our culture…for there were some beautiful and good things in it.

Soon it will be too late to know my culture, for integration is upon us and soon we will have no values but yours. Already many of our young people have forgotten the old ways. And many have been shamed of their Indian ways by scorn and ridicule. My culture is like a wounded deer that has crawled away into the forest to bleed and die alone.

The only thing that can truly help us is genuine love. You must truly love, be patient with us and share with us. And we must love you—with a genuine love that forgives and forgets…a love that gives the terrible sufferings your culture brought ours when it swept over us like a wave crashing along a beach…with a love that forgets and lifts up its head and sees in your eyes an answering love of trust and acceptance.
This is brotherhood…anything less is not worthy of the name.

I have spoken

Maturity

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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Building your foundation
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive January 11, 2000.
Teacher Elyon, Malvantra
T/R Mark, Jonathan

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elyon: You are each engaged in such magnificent foundation construction that you should not be in any way discouraged that you are not given to see your spiritual structure in its completion at this time, but rather apply yourselves diligently to the painstaking work at hand of the details of your solid, secure
foundation. 

The rest of your spiritual structure will rely on the work you do at this time, and the attention and effort you apply will make for a secure beginning in this process. It does not serve the overall purpose to hurry through or to take any form of shortcut in the assembly of your foundations, as then they should prove weak and inadequate to the task of supporting your spiritual structure.

Likewise, it is always a driving factor to keep in your mind, as you perceive it, the grandness of the completed structure even if you are not able to visualize the details, as they will become apparent.  Nevertheless, you may be exhilarated and driven by the inspiring picture you possess of your structure in its
completed phases. This vision of future greatness is what exacts from you the detailed discipline of insuring the mortar in your foundation be properly applied and the techniques you use be adequately, if not strictly, adhered to.

Maturity is the ability to recognize this sequence of events and the necessary passage of time that work together to complete this vision each of you may have of your spiritual future. Splendid is the design; magnificent is the structure that each of you is carefully constructing and patiently enduring.  While it may seem at times as though you are mired in the very details of construction, it is quite necessary to the overall process.

You may at times separate yourself from your own project and look around to see another's project under construction and find it within your heart to offer yourself in service and perhaps help other individuals mix a batch of mortar or tote some stones or simply provide moral supports as they tirelessly build their foundations. As they work on their structures and you work on yours, you may come to realize that you are both engaged in the same process toward the same goal and realize that you are working hand-in-hand, side-by-side but each responsible for your own progress. This is the building of the brotherhood of man, and together this process moves forward as each and every one struggles to place one ideal upon another, one dream upon another, one lofty goal on top of the next, one service opportunity against another. In this way your walls become strong; your foundation becomes complete and ready to bear the weight of your
entire spiritual career.

As with any project you undertake, there may be spells when you separate yourself for a time. This only adds greater appreciation for the project and can renew your motivation and increase your technique so that when you return to your project you are a more skilled laborer with a greater devotion to your project. 
As you might assume, this project will not reach its completion until you have reached yours. Therefore, you will understand that it is a continual process and that aspects of your spiritual house may need to be continually remodeled as your appreciation for the divine increases, that you may no longer be satisfied by
certain aspects of your spiritual house once you have gained more wisdom and insight into the overall process. It is not ever considered a mistake to move forward and build a room onto your spiritual house, even if at a later time you decide to change it entirely. These are all steps forward; these are all growth
opportunities. Your spiritual house may, in fact, be redesigned and remodeled numerous times before you are content with its appearance. Nevertheless, every effort made in the construction of your spiritual sphere adds to your overall experience.

Malvantra: Let me follow this presentation today by adding that the Father is the heavenly architect who follows His own established building codes, those structural parameters for sound spiritual development. They are not arbitrary or meant to restrict you in any way in the development of your spiritual structure. 

He has sent to you His on-site foreman, His Thought Adjuster, with a floorplan for your best unfoldment. As Elyon pointed out, you are free as the owner of this floorplan to make changes that will enhance beauty and augment truth as long as they do not threaten the safety standards the Father has placed for all ascending creatures, yourself included.

We all are undertaking a unified project, though each of us is diligently placing our energies toward a specific task. Trust and faith are had in the recognition that the heavenly architect has considered all potential laws and all sound construction techniques before any one of us has ever begun our endeavors.

Meanings

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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Meanings and Values
 
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Question: In reading through The Urantia Book on meanings and values, I find that meanings and values
are generally associated with things, and that a rough projection of the universe would be that the universe consists of things, meanings and values. I know what things are. I went to the dictionary to learn what meanings are, and it defined the noun “meaning” as “that which is intended or signified,” with the synonyms to be found under the word “purpose”. I also looked into the dictionary for “values” and it defines values as the order of importance or the sequence of things. The Urantia Book says one can add values to meanings as well. Can you comment on my understanding of “things” as being objects, whether they are spiritual, physical, or morontial; as “meanings” being the significance or purpose of these objects; and “values” being the relative degree of importance of either things or meanings. Could you comment on that?

Answer:

Question: Can there be any “value” by itself, without evaluating a thing or a meaning - just a value?

Answer: Pure value?

Student: Yes. In other words, can you take a six and not relate it to a four and a five and a seven and an eight?

Answer: Not in that context because if you cannot relate it to the others then it will not be of that value. Values can be relative but supreme values can be existential when matrixes, meanings, and values are
all in a realm of non-space, non-time, then values can be pure and by itself. But this has no meaning when explained in this linear fashion. It is beyond your comprehension as of now.

Question: Is it correct to think of relationships as things, that these relationships are not only things but they have a meaning, and that their meaning is extremely high on the scale of values?

Rayson: Relationships?

Student: Interpersonal relationships.

Answer: Personal relationships are very high, of very high value, yes.

Mercy

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
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Mercy is not pity, or compassion, or empathy
 
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Mercy, the Memory of Mercy, is a real phenomenon. It is extended to every ascendent mortal of the realms. Each one of you has a bank account with the Most Highs with so much mercy that your survival, if you choose to survive, is insured. Mercy is extended always first. Only when it is not accepted does justice begin.

Your angels talk for you when you are evaluated. Very few mortals turn down the ministry of mercy. It was The Father's will, correction, IS The Father's will, to extend this gift to all creatures. Only a creature of unbalanced mind turns down this most precious gift.

Mercy is not pity, or compassion, or empathy. It is a new and separate circuit that comes from the heart of the Isle of Paradise. God loves His infant mortal creatures. Just because they cannot see does not mean it is not so. I assure you that there is more mercy listed for each and every one of you than any mortal could possibly use. God's love for His creatures extends beyond forgiveness. Mercy is unconditional love. It is not forgiveness, because it is not judgmental.

Try to think of mercy as a cooling rain gently falling on each of you, caressing you lovingly and bringing you Godward. If you could learn to experience mercy and give it to others, you would be doing the will of God.

We cannot always know what lies around the bend. That is where faith comes in. Faith is believing without seeing. You must believe in God's mercy against the backdrop of whatever tragedy befalls you. Even the most evil creatures are extended mercy by The Father. That is because everyone is spiritually equal in their free will decision-choice to ascend or extinguish themselves. Those who choose extinction choose it wilfully and not because The Father would not extend His mercy.

Mercy is a gift bestowed by The Father and it is the main makeup of the Eternal Son. Christ Michael is the God of Mercy on this planet as on every other. The Infinite Spirit is the minister of Michael's mercy. Through her children mercy becomes realized.

When mercy is coupled with Justice we achieve fairness. But for the children of time, especially on such a dark world as this one, the mercy of God cannot often be recognized. That is because mercy takes time, much time, to administer. Only when a child of God rejects this almost limitless gift of mercy does justice prevail.

Although from your perspective it may appear to be an unmerciful life here, that is not really true. This planet was showered with more mercy by Michael's bestowal than it could ever use in eternity. Mercy is different from compassion or love. But one may say mercy is applied love. It is related to the great Comforter, the Spirit of Truth, which was poured out on this world two thousand years ago. During this painful period try to keep focused on the mercy of God, for many things have been given to you which your mortal eyes are unable to see.

Read about mercy in the Urantia Book. It will comfort and leave a great peace where a sharp pain once
lived. 

Mind

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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The human mind is capable of greatness
 
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Question: When you discuss the three levels of mind, how do they relate to the Infinite Mother Spirit and that mind?

Answer: That is an excellent question. Mind, human mind, mid-mind, must be prepared to receive the Adjuster. It must have attained the seven levels of Adjutant Mind Spirits, which are the gifts of Divine Mother and her spirit. Therefore, Divine Mother is the Deity, which prepares mid-mind for the bestowal of the Adjuster. Also, as mid-mind works with the Divine mind, Mother Spirit is working in mid-mind to help the child of time hear the Divine.

The human mind is capable of greatness, of eternity perfection. But the choices are your own. You, the human will, may turn the mind, mid-mind, away from the Adjuster into sin, evil, even into non-survival. It is this arena, more so than the Adjuster, or the Mother Spirit, which offsets these lower impulses.

Question: Do the impulses then, the negative impulses, that you are discussing come from the lower mind, the human electro-magnetic impulses and if that which you try to fight with the mid-mind, with the help of the Mother Spirit and the Adjutant Mind Spirit?

Answer: Some come from the lower mind. Yes. Some come from character flaws.

Question: Where does a character flaw reside if not in the mid-mind?

Answer: You are not created in perfection; therefore it is the will of The Father to create within you rungs on the ladder of spiritual evolution. These rungs are your faults. Your feet climb it at your will, and your destination is God the Perfect.

Question: Where does the soul go when the brain dies, when the human mind dies?

Answer: The soul is shepherded to the mansion worlds by your guardian seraphim where it is reunited
with the Adjuster and personality of the human.

Question: So if a person’s mental capacity, through either disease or illness or old age deteriorates and
becomes no longer able to function on a spiritual level, that person's soul and Thought Adjuster wait in
the Mansion worlds until the body dies and the personality is resurrected?

Answer: That is absolutely correct.

Question: Rayson, you spoke of the mind being the arena of choice, the conscious mind. Is the will that makes this choice a function of the personality? Is it identical to the personality?

Answer: No, not identical. But it is a personality function. Your personalities are incomplete in your present form. Your soul will become your personality on the Mansion Worlds.

Question: Well, I'm a little confused. We are told that personality is one gift of The Father and is an unchanging attribute or entity.

Rayson: But you have not attained it fully, yet.

Question: Just as we have a piece of The Father living within us yet we are not communicating with Him fully yet, is it similar to that?

Answer: Your personality is bestowed, but you have not grown into it fully yet. Your personality will be seen more clearly in the morontial because it is more fully seen. It is your soul, it will become your soul.

Question: Well what is this thing that does the choosing?

Answer: Will. It is human will. It is a part of personality bestowal, but it is not synonymous with personality. There are times when you may choose to follow higher mind. Other times your choice will be not so evolved. You are the same personality but your will varies.

Question: When the impulses of the lower mind, the electro-magnetic and chemical make up of our mind,
weighs on us too much and we fall prey to it with anxiety or fear or even chemical imbalances or whatever, will appealing to the higher mind offset that, or will we just learn to live with that? Is there a way to reach a balance again in an unbalanced lower mind by appealing to the higher mind?

Answer: The balance will be achieved by your choices. Even though impulses may be strong and sometimes irresistible, you can choose in mid-mind not to act. This is balance.

Question: Though we choose not to act, which I guess in essence is the best thing possible in a situation
where your lower impulses are strongly affecting you, will the choice not to act constitute more soul growth, and will that help ease the struggle? Is there a way to ease the struggle against the lower mind
impulses?

Answer: Yes. The more the human will chooses the higher road, the easier it becomes, because you make
spiritual progress. Also, soul growth and the reality of the morontial is actually put into practice and lived here on the material level. But you must choose. Starting as a child learns to walk, you fall, stumble, but you must get up again and take those few steps. Even when one has mastered walking there is running. 

Question: Rayson, the Urantia Book says that after forty years old the adjuster is like a controller. Does
that mean that the mid-mind is used in some other way?

Answer: No, it just means that mid-mind had become more adept at hearing the Divine mind. It also means that the experience of the human has tempered the will with wisdom and evolved higher values. So choices are at a higher spiritual level and the Adjuster has a bigger field to plant seeds in.

The mind arena of choice
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive April 25, 1999.
Teacher Tomas
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Tomas: The mind is wherein you largely live, for therein is your beliefs and perceptions. You think your way through your reality in the main, inasmuch as now you do not almost exclusively allow your emotions and lesser instincts to command your very existence. Having reached the realm where you are in a position of making choices constantly, your mind is occupied incessantly with thoughts of its own, and for its own interpretation of others' thoughts.

Herein too is where you can consider the topic "The Mind Arena of Choice" for even when you are observing your existence by and through your thoughts almost exclusively, that is to say not your physicality or emotionality but also not including an over-abundance of spirit, herein is where those choices are made that can further your faith or feed your fear. Consciously you would rather further your faith, and superconsciously you would rather further your faith, but there is an element of the creature that prefers the fear.

And a part of you is responsible for that. Fears are very tricky. They are elusive and ingenious at disallowing you to choose, for it is diminished when your self-mastery proves itself the victor with the Master, and it then becomes the vanquished and ultimately so insignificant as to be become non-existant. The lesser self balks at being eradicated.

I call to your mind that part of your mind would have these be very grand and glamorous, such that the millions upon millions of insignificant and superficial fears comprising much of you are not called into account because of their insignificance. I want you to be aware that they're not insignificant and that it is yet again another irrational justification brought on by the master intellectual fraud.

For all of these fears reasonable and unreasonable, known and unknown are mere perceptions which you have adopted and/or agreed to by your need to adapt and survive in your animal mode. Now that you are consciously aligning yourself with the will of Paradise, your thinking patterns are called to assimilate your animal nature and it does not want to share. It would have total control. It would reign supreme in your life.

In your deep mind lie each of the paradoxes giving rise to a decision which can help you to realize yourself. Next to you in your essence, in your very being, is your indwelling Adjuster as you allow it to work with you and for you. In order for it to benefit you and help you work through and past these millions and millions of fears, you must opt in favor of following that divine will as compared to that insidious self which is the undoing of all those who would seek to presume upon divine mercy.

This is one of the reasons we encourage you to become true thinkers, and so few people are genuinely good thinkers. They are lazy. Their minds are lazy, for the most part. And we urge you to keep your mind exercised as well as your body and your spiritual muscle. Keep it limbered up with easy faith-giving exercises, such as daily quiet with the Father and an attempt to carry this in grace into your day and throughout your arena, your realm.

Grace is a manifestation of graciousness which comes from the peace which passes all understanding which comes from that poise which is renewed when you relate yourself with divinity, with the subtle, supple summons to walk the path of truth, beauty and goodness.

The effects of a disciplined mind are two-fold, depending upon your intent, your motivation, but if you are sincere in your quest, in due course your Thought Adjuster will become a Thought Controller and enable you to retain your association with those things you have learned within your spirit life that have now become an eternal part of the personality of your soul.

Spiritize your mind
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archiveNovember 28, 1999.
Teacher Abraham

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Greetings my friends. What a wonderfully wide window of opportunity that lies before us. Every day that goes by I am more in awe of our Father. He has shown me many things that keep me elevated in faith, sound in mind and overall feelings of well-being. I still have yet to meet with our Father in Heaven face to face, but still I can view His wonderful works every day.

When one is of sound mental balance then is Father allowed to spiritize the mind. Your mortal experiences are the educational diagrams from which Father teaches values and meanings. He is always aware of your shortcomings and areas in which you need attention. Experiences do occur through the divine hand which teaches you what you need to know to advance spiritually. Of course, this is not surprising. Everyone here has experienced Father's open windows of opportunity. Synchronistic events are necessary to bring you to a
place where the mind and soul is ready to learn.

I am most grateful for the tender watch-care Father has provided to bring me to the place in which I learn best from. Difficulties come and go, but the calm and well balanced mind is able to draw value and become more spiritized. The spiritized mind is equipped to handle a more adventuresome spiritual life. Difficulties become challenges that provide spiritual joy in an otherwise mundane mortal life.

We have had our lessons on the ego animal-like mind. We have studied the benefits of good mental balance. We are ready for a step up to the spiritized mind. The Master, as faithful and trusting in Father as He was, maintained a wonderful mental balance and was in no danger of ego default. Of course, we still have the ego that plagues our life with mental imbalance, but know this — that there is hope that even Father is able to reach you through this and aid in spiritual progression.

My friends, you have that faith and you are well on your way to mental stability. You know that the hand of God is working every day. You cannot actually see Him, but you can indeed perceive His fine works. How are you able to perceive His works? Yes, exactly, through the spiritized mind. When one has cleared the Father's domain within then can the spiritualization of mind begin.

Is life just drab and ordinary day in and day out? Only if the mind is not able to view the spiritual meanings and values. Can you be with spiritized mind and be beaten down by the worlds cruelties? I should say not. What does the spiritized mind entail?

COURAGE to view everyday tragedies and withdraw the meanings and values therefrom.

WISDOM, wisdom to know that mortal life is a time for learning and not punishment. Things happen and the spiritized mind must find the philosophic meaning therein.

STRENGTH, strength to endure the cup of "come what may" and rise above inner agenda's to divine direction.

Unearthly abilities or morontial capabilities is what a spiritized mind can expect. To know and understand mortal adventures and question not Father's motives.

JOY, deep and abiding joy is a benefit that the spiritized Father indwelt mind can receive. When one is understanding spiritually the worlds "why's" then can you perceive Father's immediate hand and all the Truth, Beauty and Goodness produced therefrom.

FREEDOM, how liberating is it to know our Heavenly Caretaker's are willing to handle the big things in mortal life. We are responsible for our small parts, certainly, but the bulk of what mortals usually worry about can be bestowed into the hands of very capable Heavenly Caregiver's.

Does this spiritualization of mind change your way of life? Yes. Will you change? Probably. How can one taste the divine adventure and then forsake it for something so colorless, so plain? You, my friends, are adventurers and candidates for spiritization of the mind. You already have made known the price you would pay for Father's sake. You have already defined your responsibility in the Kingdom, to Father, to yourselves, to your fellows.

What things may happen in mortal life to further spiritize the mind? How can you most effectively withdraw the meanings and values from these events? What are the spiritual fruits produced from mindal spiritization? How further may your foundation change?

Morality

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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Spirituality is unchanging truth
 
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Question: You said that there's a difference between spiritual or moral, morality or spirituality. My concept, or my understanding, in order to be spiritual we need to have morality. Would you help me to understand what you meant to say?

Answer: Spirituality is unchanging truth, the attributes which will eventually make you Godlike. Morality, while sometimes the same, is a man-made concept of behavior which changes culturally and timewise. Morality is necessary for the organization of families, tribes, and nations. But does not necessarily add up to the highest spiritual traits. For example, morality has sometimes dictated that people have many mates, sometimes dictated one mate. These are societal values. The spiritual value would be a partner and relationship between a man and a woman that is loving, service oriented, tolerant, and that encourages spiritual reality in the raising of children, which forces the humans to experience unconditional, give unconditional love. Many mates, one mate, things change societally, but spiritually values are the same.

Mota

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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Mota is the most basic, kindergarten level of beingness
 
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True existence begins when one evolves the soul enough for the being to approach, become, morontial. It is not very different from some of your highest human philosophies, thought, spiritual insights, but there is a world of difference in the day-to-day living application of these intellectual concepts. It involves more than mind. It involves feelings, action, and consecration of will. It is a different way of perceiving one's self, one's place in God's universe, one's fellows, one's world. And the events, which react upon and are reacted to by the individual ascender.

Mota is the most basic, kindergarten level of beingness. Some mortals have attained mota here. Most have not. The path to God is not a straight paved road. It would be helpful to think of it as a trek through mountainous terrain. After much effort one attains the heights of the spiritual mountain. The reward is a rarefied atmosphere, an atmosphere, which is but a resting place for the soul. Serenity, peace, truth, beauty, strength, wisdom, compassion, love, closeness to God, and Godliness may be glimpsed at the top of the mountain.

But to get there involves much spiritual effort. Remember the inevitabilities of life. They are not mere intellectual concepts. Inevitably, after replenishment of the soul, one must descend again to the more common atmosphere of humanity: the shadowy valley, the dark despairs, the pain and grief, the struggles of each of your existences, the curving roads where one can only see around the corner through faith.

What is this mota, which must be evolved in the human heart? It is in the depth of the darkness it is easiest to discern the stars. When you are in the valleys of soul growth, that is when you must raise your eyes upward and see the promise. God has written His promise to you in the heavens. In the orderly pinpoints of light across your earth sky you see the promise, the signature of the creator. What seems distant to you is your destiny - if you consecrate your will to the will of The Father.

Those pinpoints of distant light may be thought of as the Mansion Worlds, the Paradise ascent, each world becoming more spiritual, more fulfilled, more universal, eternal, and loving. When darkness encroaches, fear is palpable. Fear is a spirit poison. It is an intellectual deceiver. But, alas, it is part and parcel of your experiential existence. It cannot be fully eradicated. It is like a soul disease.

What does mota tell us? Love is the antidote. When fear surrounds you, you must fight valiantly for an opening to allow God's love in. It is not easy or always successful. Believe me. I empathize. I, too, was as you are. I know the struggle. In the struggle comes the victory.

Think of a seed: tiny, self contained, in a packet with other seeds, not knowing any other existence, feeling secure inside a little space, seeing around, others, and deriving comfort. If the seed had consciousness that is what it would feel: safe within a prison, not knowing that it is mostly potential, feeling this was the existence. Now, a hand reaches in, picks one seed, and places the seed away from its fellows, from its tiny home, into darkness in the earth. This seed would feel frightened, persecuted by the hand. “Why me,” it would say. “Why have I been hurt like this? Why cannot I remain in the perceived easier existence of seeddom?”

The seed would begin to change. In there it would be painful at times as the transformation, growth, occurs. It would be lonely. It would no longer see its fellows. It would feel abandoned, despairing, doubting, and questioning of the cruelty of its existence.

What the seed cannot know is what it is becoming, that after much struggle upward, through an environment which feels crushing - which is much physically heavier than the seedling, which involves persevering, with courage, strength, it will see the light, the warm sunlight, the fresh air, and its brethren - around, arrayed in the colors of God, blowing in the winds free, well cared for by the hand of God.

This is faith. This is what is asked of you, faith. In the darkest hours, which each of you will go through, your faith in the sunlight in the watch care, in the assurance of what you are becoming, will get you through.

Unless your reject the survival career your faith grows ever stronger. It does not become less. Only the human consciousness of your faith wavers. This is natural. But your faith itself grows ever more. Morontia Mota tells you this.

Faith is the gift to you from The Father. Your assignment is to - effort in your day-to-day life to become morontial. You will not succeed fully, but will succeed a lot. Life is but a day's work. Do it well. Your work is to develop mota and put this mota into actions. The act is yours, the consequences God's.

Through faith you will build true character. True character is courage. This is God's promise. You have two levels. One is that eternity - your eternity of your existence - is built on your desire, will consecration, and belief in it, but your soul is constructed on your actions. Two things: submitting one's will to The Father, in return you receive eternal life. Second thing: consciously acting more morontial, building your eternal soul in liaison with the mighty, wise and perfect Adjuster. These are your tasks and it will not be easy. Cleverness is no substitute for character.

What does this mean? It means that intellectual understanding does not replace true feeling of spirituality. Spiritual growth comes in the heart-soul area of feeling. That is why there is despair, pain, unfairness, injustice, intolerance, bigotry, etc. It is for you to overcome these feelings and deal with fairness, love, tolerance, compassion, understanding, wisdom, truth, beauty, and real goodness. Because it is such an imperfect world is no excuse for you to give up.

Each of you holds a miracle. None of you know your true destiny. Yet we know that each person here has a destiny on this planet to transform. You have a responsibility to transform your lives. It is like being a soldier for God. You will be asked much but given much more. The human will not be capable of meeting the challenge. But, you are not merely human: you have the mighty Adjuster and loving seraphim, and your eternal soul, and many many, celestial helpers. Your Adjuster is more than capable of meeting any challenge.

The human will bleed. The Adjuster will rejoice. Not in the pain, but in the gain. Do not live in the shadow-illusions of the material narrow-minded perspective. As one walks through the dark valleys one must effort and act and look Godward. We have much compassion for your individual defeats. We are not unaware of what the struggle costs. You are more beloved because of your valiant, never ending struggle to rise above the world and your own animalistic nature.

Jesus had no fear. One of the keys to His poise and balance was His entrenched and living faith in the good outcome of life. Each of you, each of your lives, will have a good outcome. Good is too tiny a concept to describe the miracle of what awaits, but if I told you, I would be taking from you your most valiant moment.

A great destiny awaits those who have the strength of character to actually run the race. Now it is easy to learn, to listen, to feel lost and loving. It will not always be so. Personal crisis will affect each of you. No one is protected. How sad for those who never struggle. In your human state you cannot understand this morontial concept. But they are to be pitied.

Anxiety must be abandoned. The greatest disappointments are those, which never come. You will be disappointed. You will be defeated. You will enter into doubt and despair and darkness at times. But not the way you think. Do not bring this state into your hearts before its time. Each of you will go through your own Gethsemane. But to live in anticipation is a human cause of unnecessary and unreal pain. 

Trust in The Father who loves you, each of you - personally, individually, as you are. You will get growth lessons but perhaps not those that you anticipate. Faith is powerful. Live in faith and know that some day you will understand the realities of this world. This should give your soul sustenance. In your daily lives you might be hurt or feel small. The Creator Son, Father of our universe, knows each of you.

Question: I have two questions about mota. In reading the Urantia Book about mota, looking at the world
with mota vision. How do we turn it up to the mota level, then? I tried to even write some, but when I tried to write the mota equivalent I can't quite seem to get there. I was wondering if you might have some way to do it, or way to think about it, that would be actually mota teachings.

Answer: You will never achieve mota in thinking. Mota is achieved through increased faith which comes through a more active prayer, worship, thanksgiving, and silent receptivity life, increased awareness of love of God and the love of one's fellows, and applied faith, love, goodness, beauty, and truth to every action of one's life. It is a way of being that transcends physical reality.

It is seen more clearly glimpsing the reality of the morontial on this world. It is a shift in focus. When you view a design of grays and whites, you first see one pattern as the whites jump out. Then, when the focus is shifted, you can see the blacks come forward. That is mota.

Question: Would that be something like the concept of the yin and the yang of the Eastern religions on this planet?

Answer: No. That's different. 

Negativity

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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A conversation with a person who was depressed, discouraged, and with a negative attitude.
 
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[The following is a transcript of a conversation between Rayson (R) and a Student (S) who was depressed, discouraged, and with a negative attitude.]

Question: Yeah, what am I doing wrong? It just seems there is never enough joy, time, happiness, love - any of those things. Time goes by so fast doing things that I don't enjoy that I don't have time to do those things that I do enjoy. And maybe you know that the last few weeks I've felt worried and negative about. I've just gone through a period of negativity and frustration about my life. And I wonder if sometimes I just feel like... God doesn't give us more than we can handle, but when is it ever going to change?

You know, I feel like sometimes my back is going to be broken. I'd so much rather spend time on becoming a T/R like we've talked about and doing creative and fulfilling and special things that make a difference, and yet I find myself - its just - an existence for me right now. There are moments of joy - I don't want to look at it in total negativity - but I almost feel like the subtext of the lesson was “lets talk to (S) here, she's losing her mind.” What am I not - where have I not got it in life? What am I doing wrong?

Answer: Your basic statement is one that has been uttered by all form of free-will creatures from the most
basic small child all the way to agondonters, and the fact that you have these feelings shows that you are proceeding correctly. The passage from the life in the flesh offers relief from physical pain as you know it, however there are always many pressures, many demands. There are those tasks we are joyous in executing, and those that we dread but attempt to gladly carry out. It will ever be for you, my friend, throughout the period of your universe existence.

The fact that you are conscious of your pain and joy is a wonderful sign for it means that you are not anaesthetic as are so many of your fellow beings on Earth, so deeply mired in their preoccupation with
the physical life that they have no conscious, or little conscious awareness of anything beyond. You have had spiritual stirrings for quite some time, and they have reached a level at which you feel an urgency to step up to the next level. Be patient, and it shall occur more quickly than you might expect. It is most likely that you have not yet sorted out certain issues that are important for your own growth. Once this is completed then you shall advance to the level that I believe you desire. Does that help?

S: Mmm. Kind of. I know I just feel like a material existence is so ... it’s just such a struggle.

R: Of course.

Question: But what's the point? You know, how much more... I think I've got it in terms of information, and what to do and all that. I feel like I've been given so many gifts and strengths that are going to waste because I'm having to live this life as - just to make it - a day to day kind of things, I just... 

Answer: To the contrary. Your gifts and strengths need a field of experience to be exercised upon, none
better than adversity. Adversity will not stop when you die on earth - when you leave this body. This is only the beginning.

Question: Well how come some people have it easy and others don't? I just would like to not have to keep
looking two weeks ahead to make it financially, or not being able to help my daughter, or this person or the other person? Or when does that get better? What change? You know I'm in a struggle all the time, all my life?

Answer: Yes. Nobody has it easy. That is an illusion. But if one is anaesthetic, one can more easily display that illusion of ease and comfort.

Question: All of my life there is never enough money, never enough joys, no love, all these things, will I always be like that?

Answer: There will always be struggle and adversity. Love and joy, however, will grow. Peace will eventually come, and acceptance, as your perspective grows beyond this tiny portion of your existence and you begin to see the benefits of struggle. Would you grow more satisfactorily if you were in a coma, on a ventilator with intravenous feedings, and personal attendant’s twenty-four hours a day? You would have no worries. You would have no pain. But would you grow?

S: No. Is that an equation as to what most of the populous is doing? That has no struggle? Or has enough money? Or lives in a nice house? Or goes with the in-thing. Just for once I would like some creature comforts.

R: I offer a contrast to show that experience is necessary in order to grow, probably in order to survive. Those to whom you refer with houses with roofs, and so on, have problems of their own that come with acquisition of material goals. They have taxes to pay, lawyers to meet, insurance companies to deal with. They too complain that they never have enough. Toilets overflowing, sick children, dying parents, failing health, the list goes on and on: relatives in prison, worries about burglars and thieves. In a way it is a blessing to have relatively little in terms of material possessions. The Master certainly did not become a wealthy man during his life on Earth. Material goods are very imprisoning. They require care and maintenance, and protection from thieves, those who would take them from you. What do you have now that someone would steal from you?

S: Everything. I don't know. My car, break into my house, take a TV that I don't even own, you know, the material things that I own. I think I understand.

R: So you do have material possessions?

S: Yes. It’s not that. I'm sorry, good night, always turn out the light. I have a dialogue in my head. You must hear me. You know I have a beautiful place to live, and I love that, and it’s just that I feel like I'm clawing and scratching every day.

R: That is true. That is why you are here. You clawed and scratched your way here.

S: To this room, or to the planet or...

R: To this room, to this lesson. (S: I know, I know.) You're pretty good at it. [laughter.]

S: I'm tired of it. I really am tired of it.

R: But you are very good.

S: But I don't want to do it any more.

R: Well you have no choice. So be glad that you are accomplished at clawing and scratching. Those are useful skills for your physical existence. But take care that you do not claw and scratch the wrong person.

S: You know me better.

R: You are very young yet. Most of your life is ahead of you. Some say that it is useful in the material world to set concrete goals, such as where one would care to be in one year, in two years, in five years, ten, twenty-five, fifty. In fact, (S) is a master at such planning, and may even be willing to offer advice, although if you claw and scratch he will not be so happy to receive you. [Laughter] 

S: I don't know. I think it just has to do with a feeling of being so ineffectual in the world in terms of helping others.

R:  Well, just look around and see everybody -

S: Yeah, that's when it really works, ad infinitum. I was just - if I didn't have to do what I'm doing to make a living I could be doing things that was helping other people But I feel like I am so caught up in my own clawing and scratching and surviving that I can't even scratch the surface of helping.

S2: Rayson, I don't think she realizes the good that she does. That is her problem.

R: My friends, by leading your life as a responsible citizen, as a loving mother, as a caring friend, you are fulfilling the demand for service on Earth already. To go beyond that is not necessary right now for you. Master those areas first, and you will find that you are more peaceful within. 

S: (Voice too low to make out words) after that, you know.

R: I am certain that (S) would be most happy to help. And perhaps in doing so he will discover the key to your project together.

S: That would be helpful. That is very clear to me.

R: There are many, many others who feel as you do. And such feelings may impede one's personal growth if not dealt with appropriately. You are doing well, but others are not as perceptive as you. And perhaps the combined efforts of you and (S) might be very useful in helping those others as well as helping yourself personally.

S: Thank you. I'm sorry.

R: You are welcome. And there is no need for apology.

S: I wish to thank you, Rayson, for just being here today and sharing your thoughts with us. We certainly look forward to seeing you next weekend. 

[One week later.]

S: I call myself “Whiny” today. Two things. One, you spoke about remorse, that it's not useful, but I do want to communicate to you that I do have a bit of remorse about carrying on so last week, and conversely I want to thank you for the lesson that I got. And I want to thank you for the physical help. I do believe you contributed to balancing me out. Would you confirm this?

A: Yes, of course. It was a classic example of a teacher-student relationship.

S: Well, I really got the lesson, and I just apologize for seeing my glass as half-empty instead of half-full. There were things that were shared after the lesson was officially over that were really wake-up calls to me. And I'm very very grateful for having that now as what I call a reference point in eternity to remember if I ever get going off the deep end again. But I think a lot of it was a physical, hormonal, wackiness, and I apologize to the other side for my self-absorbed behavior.

R: There is no need to apologize. When you express that which is at the forefront of your thoughts, unknown to you, you speak for many who remain silent but listen intently. And the lesson, the content that comes forward in response, soothes the minds of others besides yourself. So it is actually a generous act for you to bear your true feelings in such a way.

S:Well, thanks for that. I understand what you are saying, and I just thank you. 

Obedience

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
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Obedience is badly misunderstood
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive June 25, 2000.
Teacher Tomas, Elyon
T/R Gerdean, Jonathan

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tomas: Obedience is a quality that is badly misunderstood on this world and perhaps for good reason.

Blessed is the child who has an environment in which it feels and treasures trust, for in this environment the simple act of breathing is in obedience to the nature of God. The beauty of the realm in which you live in its natural and even refined states would not bring you harm. Your families, your loved ones, your teachers, these are persons that you want to trust and would obey because of the nature of the relationship, because of the authority involved in the quality of the relationship. It is because the relationship is based on an idyllic love, that relationship which has been portrayed in the beautiful description of the love of the Father for His children and the love of the mortal father for his children. The son who desires to do his father's will is indeed obedient to the slightest nuance of the father's desire, because the child chooses to please the
parent whom he loves. The selflessness of service is in response to an impetus of obedience, allowing the Father to guide your steps, to focus your mind, to deliver your voice; to hold your heart in obedience to that which is holy, righteous, and just.

The world in which you live is well familiar with disobedience. It is indeed more common to disobey than to not. The concept of obedience in much of your culture is an indication of weakness, of being a follower, blind follower, a state not to be esteemed. Self determination and individuality are elements of the human existence that have confused an appreciation of what it means to be obedient. It is not to be subservient; it is not to be a doormat. It is not to be obedient to those lesser values that would render you weak. It is intended that my words to you recognize that obedience is in response to that which calls forth your very soul and exalts it to the level of actually yearning to do whatever it is that is required in order to gain acceptance and pleasure from the idyllic love relationship in existence between divinity and divinity.

I love the hierarchy of the universe. I love the fact that each of us has our realms in which we function to have a sense of duty and responsibility. We are obedient to our trust, and we stay within the confines of our authority and offer to the next authority that which belongs to them willingly, giving up our sense of having no limitation, in full appreciation of the delineation of the many, many roles and responsibilities in order to maintain the universes of time and space. The order of the universe gives me a great deal of satisfaction, and this is possible because of obedience, not only obedience, of course, but obedience is a quality of the children of time and space that contributes mightily to the order of the universe, as you are intimately familiar because of your earthly experience.

How wonderful it is to obey His voice, to come to His side, to sit and bask in the pleasure of His company, to find your direction and have the confidence to walk therein, to have your holy character and have the will to live up to that which you can be when you obey your divine nature, your Indwelling Adjuster, and those authorities in the universe who contribute to your very greatness even in your humble obedience.

Elyon: In your course of life you have all undertaken a discipline of one sort or another, and it is because you recognize that you lacked a skill or talent that another individual has attained and is capable of conveying to you. So you undertook the discipleship, the training, from the one who has some degree of mastery. You did so with delight, for you realize what you would acquire that are present in the instructor. You thereby obeyed the instructions; you undertook the training; you went through the exercises and the drills with the
joyful expectancy that you will acquire what is being presented to you.

As Tomas has said, there is the tendency to not like the word "obedience", for — in particular in the culture you are in — freedom, liberty, and self determination are valued highly. Observing the course of history on this world, this value is good, for much oppression has occurred and even continues. But true liberty comes from mastery, and all mastery is received from a higher master. This requires your dedicated discipline to acquire that same ability.

To obey, to undertake training, is not to give up your ability to determine your own destiny, for you choose your allegiance and you choose your training. It is your course, and the end result is your liberty.

Jesus asked his followers to follow him. The Father asks us all to be perfect as He is perfect. In this way the road is narrow, but that narrow road is only narrow for you; it is another narrow road for another, and in the
totality of personality expression the avenue is broad. It is made up of the fine filaments of every personality seeking the Father and finding Him. It is not the drudgery of following a commander. It is the beauty of following the Father.

Living life to the fullest is not unlike the assembly of a complicated model. It differs in that it is living and adaptive, will emerge and grow as you undertake your project. However, there is a proper order in which a model is assembled to obtain a result. This is where discipline and obedience to rule and law and nature come into play. In the end you have what you sought and you have gained a great prize.

Openness

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
[  ] soil   [  ] Land   [  ] Sea   [  ] AIR


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Be open to changing ideas and changing understandings of the world and how it is ordered
 
CLASSIFICATION
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  • soil
  • Land
  • Sea
  • AIR
SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive June 13, 1999.
Teacher Ham
T/R Rebecca

 

 

 

 

 

 

There are many aspects of having an open heart and an open mind that contribute to happiness, sanity, health, and overall balance of the soul. When humans are frightened of something, even unconsciously so, the first tendency is to close off the possibility of truth, of whatever is frightening. The second reaction is to magnify its hazard in order to justify the fear. And to justify their own stance of close mindedness.

If you are secure in your relationship with the Father, in your faith, then you know that nothing can harm you. No construct of man can threaten your safety in the arms of the eternal. And in that safety, your mind can be open to everything. To all possibilities. Because there is nothing that can come between you and the Father, that living connection is solid and secure. You are free to learn from all sources. Free to embrace the highest thought constructs of any human being, or any supernal being.

Likewise, are you free to discard anything that becomes a hindrance to your evolving spiritual understandings. It is always surprising to us to witness human beings fighting so vehemently and so completely over so little, so often. The Master did not engage in argumentative banter over fine points of theology. His faith was much more than this. His living, loving connection with the Father was so complete that he could maintain exquisite mental poise even under the questioning of the most learned men in Jerusalem at the tender age of twelve. Only living faith can produce this exquisite mental balance.

The learned men of Earth continually make the error of building their knowledge up in such a way that it hinges on very little. Their entire mental construct and world view becomes associated directly with some one assumption that usually is quite tenuous but is accepted in the times in which they are doing their scientific or philosophical work.

Many humans are living within very narrow philosophical and mental constructs and anything that does not come within this narrow focus is automatically discarded as unworthy of their consideration. It is a mistake to think of yourselves as learned, to think of yourselves as wise, to think of yourselves as experts. Because, you will soon, upon graduation from this world, learn a great many things that will alter everything you think now, and this is as it should be.

During your lifetimes, you should be open to changing ideas and changing understandings of the world and how it is ordered. The one thing which will not change, and can only grow in beauty, intensity, and its all-encompassing scope is your reliance on the Father. And this is what is commonly referred to as living faith.

Your faith will only grow stronger during these changes of mental understanding. Everything that you learn that can help you on your journey toward the Father is useful during that time period, but may not be appropriate or useful during a later time period when your understanding has expanded and your awareness has enlarged. Does an adult cling to his children's books of ABC's, repeating over and over that the cow says Moo? No, the adult has moved on, the adult has learned more and is understanding more about the world and about reality.

The adult understands things that the child could not possibly comprehend and so it is with your evolving understanding of the world. For right now, these teachings are appropriate, the Urantia Book text is appropriate and it is good to embrace these things and allow them to expand your understanding of the world. When you graduate to the third mansion world, will these things still be appropriate? Probably not. Even for Earth in l00 years from now, will these things still be appropriate? I don't know. But I can tell you in l000 years, they will not be.

All of the universe is essentially designed to shepherd the Father's children one step at a time, one rung at a time, toward him. And at each stage, what you will learn is thrilling and mind-expanding and opening and tremendous and wonderful to you at that time.

As the Father's love is free and open and accessible to all, so these teachings are designed to be openly accessible to all who would drink from the spiritual fountain. Also, if you are to be teachers of the great truths of the Father's love, you must understand the most basic and simple expressions of that love with the utmost completeness. With the most profound sense of understanding that you can possibly have.
If you are to go forward in the world and begin teaching the Father's love to his children yourselves, you must know the truths that will reach into the heart of the most simple of his children, as well as the most learned.

You cannot appeal to the hearts of your longing brethren with sophisticated mathematical formulas or complicated historical dramas. And even though these things may be true, they are not necessary for simple spiritual growth that involves the child reaching to the Father and the Father reaching back in the same clasp of the eternal love of God.

So I say to you, be careful to avoid arguing over how many angels can fit on the head of a pin. Do not worry about whether this or that theological construct is correct or not, just be open to receiving truth but more than that, be open to giving truth. Open your hearts so much that the love that you receive from the Father spills out onto your brethren and so much so that they cannot help but be touched by the love you give to them. This, and only this, is the way which will light the path of mankind. You are living lights. You are not slaves to a theory or bondservants to an idea. You are the living children that are bringers of light and love to the Father's other living children who languish in confusion, doubt, and even darkness and depravity.

Jesus said, you must love men so much that they will be drawn to you and will ask of you the greater things of the kingdom. Then, you can begin to give these greater things, these more complicated understandings. But all men must first be fed the bread of living love and no one can do that but one human being to another human being. This living love is what will change society—the world as you know it—this living love is what will change everything. Not the dry words of the theologian, the intellectual, who may understand many truths, but without living love, these truths are as dead.

It is true that loyalty is a profound reaction to truth, but loyalty is even more profound as a reaction to love. Those who love God live loyally to him and to that love. They are loyal in their love of their fellows and their fellows are impressed with their love so much that they are loyal to the source of that love, to that person. And if that person is a true living light of the Lord, then that loyalty can move mountains, as human beings become united together in love and loyalty.

Do not fear that you have put your loyalty in a source that is untrue so long as you are receiving living love from that source, from that inner source, your loyalty is completed. That circuitry of love is whole and this living faith is completely fear-proof. The one who is experiencing this complete circuit of loyalty, love, and faith cannot ever fear, really, again. For what can befall this person? What can happen in this world that can truly, lastingly, harm him or her? The answer is nothing. All the tragedies, all the horrors of the unspeakable
cruelty human beings are capable of cannot shake the faith of someone so completely motivated in the Father's will.

The Master said, Fear Not. Cast fear out of your hearts so that this circuit of faith, love, and loyalty can be evermore complete, evermore secure. So that the wholeness of your personality can be motivated in love and can never again be motivated by fear and dread and uncertainty. Yes, there is a simple test to understand the spiritual development of any leader and that is, is he or she motivated by fear in any way?  And does he or she motivate others by fear in any way? The true teachers of the Father never do so. 

Question: Ham, I find myself having total complete faith in the Father to help me through all things, to do anything, but I find I don't have faith in myself to do these things. Would that be considered a lack of faith
in the Father?

Answer: No, this is just part of your growth process. All human beings have certain inner blockages and certain inner injuries from their past that cause this lack of faith in oneself. It takes time to cleanse these blocks, these old patterns of thinking, it takes effort and it takes willingness to do so, to go through that. Once all these things are more clear, it will be easier for you to declare to the world that, yes I may not be able to do these things, but there lives one within me who can. 

Opportunity

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
[  ] soil   [  ] Land   [  ] Sea   [  ] AIR


SOURCE: This row is used for recording useful information about the source of the wisdom entry.

Opportunity is a continuum
 
CLASSIFICATION
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  • Land
  • Sea
  • AIR
SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive October 26, 1997.
Teacher Elyon, Lantarnek, Stephen, Malvantra
T/R Mark, Jonathan, Daniel

 

 

 

 

 

 

Opportunities are as gifts from the Father, potentials to be unfolded at your desire. I would point out to you that your recognition of these opportunities and their potentials constitutes an elevated spiritual awareness on your part. It is indeed only those with enhanced perspectives who grasp the significance of opportunities continually presented to you. To be aware that these opportunities are there and may be exercised through your will demonstrates the elevated spiritual perception; in fact, opportunities are unceasingly presented to all of your brothers and sisters as well as yourselves. It is merely the awareness of
the potentials inherent in these opportunities that dictates the effectiveness of the learning potentials in these experiences.

You are determined to view these experiences as a positive occurrence, as a glass half full. Many around you may be presented with similar experiences and would view these from the opposite perspective. It is your effort to glean from these life experiences the positive, the good, the progressive, that will provide you with an ever progressive path towards higher learning.

Everyone in their ascension career opts not to exercise every last option available to them, but your attempts to unfold the potentials within these experiences provides you with much needed growth. These opportunities are as the unbroken geodes, rock formations, in your life. They may be opened to expose
beautiful options inside, or they may be concealed as unexposed in your lives. The choice is yours.

Everytime you indulge yourself in exploring these options you discover you are richly rewarded for having so ventured forward. You also discover that you are more keenly aware the next time an opportunity presents itself. You are also more divinely attuned to the unfolding of these opportunities before you in the most beneficial manner. This sense of surety is what you gain when you extend yourself to open these opportunities laid at your feet. In return to the Father for these many opportunities, it is incumbent upon you to transform each opportunity into the highest spiritual ideal you are capable of. This is all that can be asked of any individual, to seek to unfold in each potential the greatest benefit, the greatest exposure of truth, beauty, and goodness.

Lantarnek:  I wish to provide a picture that is complementary to Elyon's lesson today, and that is about your toy, the Etch-a-Sketch, only I wish to stretch the image a little bit. This Etch-a-Sketch is three dimensional; it has three knobs. You can label these knobs truth, beauty, and goodness. It has two points that touch this three dimensional screen. One point is your willpower, the will of you, the individual. The other point is the presence of God. Your toy, as you know, can be shaken and the screen rendered uniform. As you work the knobs of truth, beauty, and goodness and move in concert with the Father Within, you create the expression that is your unique soul. Every event in your life is an opportunity; every move you make
creates a more replete portraiture of you and reveals a legacy of experience. It is the Father's will to be in touch with you at the screen of life. Every move you make is one more opportunity for Him to realize the variety resident within that potential screen of reality.

Jill: That was wonderful. At times I get caught up in a situation and after 10 minutes of struggle I realize that I forgot to call on God and Spirit to work through me. With the image of the Etch-a-Sketch, there is a tangible, material way to remind myself to spin the knobs and say, "Create the picture that needs to be here."  It's helpful.  Thank you.

Lantarnek: You know well, too, that when the image appears to be random and distorted, a simple shake can clear the screen, and you can become renewed to begin again to attain your goal. This is the stillness.

Stephen: I would be so bold as to offer another picture for you today. Picture, if you will, your prized natural resources of gold and diamonds. When first unearthed these substances, while containing inherent value, are yet to be turned into an item of extreme beauty, as gold may appear as flecks or nuggets. Diamonds may appear to be hidden in stone. These natural resources may be likened to your opportunities. At your feet they may appear to be rough, to be only a potential. Now picture if you will the work of fine craftsmen who shape, cut, forge, and turn these crude raw materials into what are esteemed items of rare beauty.  The action of the craftsmen turning these potentials into actuals is what you all do in your lives with the
opportunities laid at your feet. To take the rough diamond and the crude gold and to turn them into a beautiful work of art is your charge, is your privilege. You are the artists who turn the rough and crude into the truthful, the beautiful, and the good. Realize that these potentials are put into your charge for you to
actualize just as the craftsman takes the crude materials and would make a beautiful piece to be beheld by all.

Malvantra: I am Malvantra, and I would offer you yet another picture. Think of your life as a television.  Everyone has this television, and it is, indeed, plugged in. When you turn it on there is snow, and you change the channels, and you find one which you can recognize the show. You hook up a small antenna to
it, and you have the ability to view a few more channels than you did before. You decide to hook up the cable, and you are given many channels which you can view and learn from. Yet again you hook up to satellite directly, and you have unlimited channels at your disposal. You, by recognizing that you are indeed on a path of service, have chosen to hook up directly to the satellite. You have many opportunities at your disposal. You can choose from a vast variety. At times you choose to watch only one channel. At other times you choose to watch another. Know that they are all available to you. Do not forget to turn on your TV.

In our hearts resides the ever renewing spring of God's love, ever flowing, ever rejuvenating and refreshing, not only to oneself, but to others as well. Drink with pleasure the cool waters therefrom. Dip from these
waters and hand refreshment to others. As has been spoken, you will discover that this spring will always be renewed no matter how much water is taken. Not only is the water constantly renewed, but the more it is enjoyed and appreciated, used and partaken of, the clearer and deeper this reservoir will run. Go to this place in your stillness time, this reservoir of love that resides within your heart. Freely refresh yourself. Take
pleasure in God's love for you. God also finds pleasure in the interchange. Drink deeply from the water of life, and you will be rewarded with great joy. Love is this water of life to be found in great abundance within each of you.

If you find that you are having trouble finding this wellspring of love and life within you, go to God and ask Him directly to help you. Ask Him directly to crack your heart open a little bit to reveal Himself and His love. It has been said, "Seek and you will find." So if these words fall upon your ears and you know not where the spring is, or you have been there before and now experience difficulty in reaching its refreshing waters, my instructions to you are to seek, and you will find that God and His many helpers will guide you. Remember that seeking is a rewarding experience. Fret not that you are having to seek. Enjoy the journey. Relish the struggle and have faith in God's word that you will find what you seek.

Pain

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


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Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
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 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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A question and answer session about pain
 
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SOURCE: 

Rayson and Friends

 

 

 

 

 

R = Rayson the teacher, S = First student, S2 = Second student

Question: Is your continued ability to experience pain an aid to your growth and development at your stage
in the mansion worlds and in your work here on the planet with us mortals?

Answer: I do not care for pain anymore than you do, and yet Father does not waste. He does not create anything without purpose. I believe that the pain that I still experience is partly a reminder that I am still part animal in my nature and that it serves as a continued reminder to me that I have very, very far to go. It is said that once the journey to Paradise has been completed, there is no more pain as we know it. Whether being in the presence of God obliterates the pain or you have already achieved a condition in which you do not any longer experience pain prior to your audience with Father is not clear to me, but I can tell you that I believe I sense less pain now than when I was a material being on my planet of origin.

Question: Rayson, are we talking about physical pain or emotional pain, and does everybody experience
that when they leave this planet?

R: Do you mean physical death? (Yes.) For some, death is not painful at all. Do you wish to rephrase the question, or would you like me to elaborate on death itself?

S2: I believe the question was whether or not you felt pain after you left this life, at the next stage of
existence. Is that correct?

Question: Yes. And is it physical or emotional pain we're talking about?

Answer: Most of the pain that you experience in your present state is a composite of physical discomfort
which is contributed to by emotional anguish based on frustration of animal drives and spirit longing. As you grow in your spiritual development, the former will decrease in their contribution and the latter will increase proportionately. However, spirit longing is a different sort of feeling than physical pain as you know it. Have you not ever had the sense of your own incompleteness? (S: Many times.) That is something like spiritual pain or longing. It can be very uncomfortable, can it not? (Yes.) And yet you would not characterize it as the same thing as, for example, suffering a cut or a broken bone, would you?

S: True. Right.

R: What do you think is the difference?

S: I'm not sure how to answer that. It seems to me one's more emotional, and the other's more physical.

R: You think the spiritual pain is physical?

S: Well, ok, one's more spiritual and one's more physical then.

R: Does anyone else have a comment?

S2: Well, I would think that the physical pain is carried to the brain through the nervous system, and the emotional pain is not located in any particular place, but is carried to the conscience by the psyche
perhaps, something of that nature.

R: And the spiritual?

S2: The Bible talks about spiritual groanings and longings which I think that we all have. We do not identify that as pain. Perhaps it is pain, but I have not thought of it as being pain. It's simply an unfulfilled, deep longing, a hunger for -

Question: Are both physical and emotional pain rooted with spiritual undertones? I remember reading of
Jesus and His comments to afflicted people experiencing pain, both emotional and physical. Many times their faith would be the healing factor of overcoming both emotional and physical pains and longings.

Answer: Your faith will help not only in subduing the discomfort you experience from the physical and the mental but will also help greatly to allay the discomfort of spiritual longings. When I speak of pain myself, I speak more of my own sense of imperfection, my imperfection, for I am in company with perfect creatures who do not know this feeling that we speak of and, like yourselves, I compare myself to them, as you would compare to another.

Question: Is there an element of sadness then that is part of the sense of pain, a sadness at one's own imperfection?

Answer: Yes, you could say that. And yet I have had enough mota lessons to know logically that it is a wonderful endowment to be imperfect.

Question: Rayson, is pain a positive thing in the sense that it contributes to the striving for perfection?

Answer: Some say that is the reason for its existence. Animals certainly experience pain and you know that we are evolved from animal. I can honestly say that I do not fully understand all of God's reasoning for endowing us with pain, but He is perfect, and His plan is perfect. So it is placed with a perfect motive, and what you suggest may very well be part of that motive.

Question: I have been under the impression that physical pain was the device by which we're notified that
something is physically wrong so we can correct it. Is spiritual pain the device by which we're notified of things that are spiritually wrong, so we can correct them?

Answer: Yes, but it is more than that, for you need not have acted in error in order to experience spiritual pain. Your action at any given time may be in accord with God's wishes, and yet you may still have pain.

Question: Is an example of that the feeling that Jesus had before the crisis at Capernaum when He isolated
Himself from His apostles and was apparently in great agony before He voluntarily submitted Himself to the embarrassment, I should say, of having His own people reject Him?

Answer: He was also torn by a great turmoil related to the trial of Lucifer, for His life here on Earth as you know was a key argument presented to the Ancients of Days against the rebuttals of Lucifer in his own defense. So Jesus, the man, at the time - He was fully aware of His complete identity and purpose -
experienced far, far more pain than any mortal on this planet has ever been subjected to, or most likely could ever withstand, and yet remained alive physically.

S: I'm amazed. I didn't realize that the life of Jesus had been presented to the court of the Ancients of Days in the trial of Lucifer, Gabriel vs Lucifer. That is an amazing concept. I certainly agree with you. I see now how it had to be, but I hadn't even thought of that before.

R: Yes, it is somewhat different from your own legal practice.

S: It's difficult for us, with our limited knowledge of Jesus' life from the writings we have on our planet, to picture fully all the things that He was doing in the latter part of His life on earth. He was helping to govern the planet, helping to deal with the rebellion, and still carrying out His Father's mission here to help us understand Father and Father to understand us. It's a marvel that He could do it all.

R: Yes, it is one of the wonderful mysteries of the cosmos. As Earth evolves and its peoples advance in their evolution, there will be yet more revelations. It is likely that when this planet enters Light and Life, a day by day, almost hour-by-hour account, of the life of Jesus will be available to all for review.

S: I'm anxious to review it. 

Pain is your friend
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive March 20, 1998.
Teacher Daniel, Aaron, Ham
T/R Bill, Cathy

 

 

 

 

 

 

Daniel: I wish to talk about this subject of pain, its purpose and its value. Remember that pain is a built-in feedback mechanism in all living animal life whereby the organism is given the signal that there is danger, there is a problem that needs to be addressed. The purpose of pain is never torture nor punishment but in its original intention it is a signal to arouse the organism to correct a problem which the pain is addressing. Inasmuch as you are fully physical creatures, these pains which are experienced therefore are telling you that there needs to be changes made to address the cause. Your defenses are such that, at first, it is easy to deny the reality of the pain to yourselves, to minimize it.

This is unfortunately in error, for when you do not respond with appropriate action to pain, damage will occur. I could cite many examples, but this principle is rather obvious. There is, of course, physical pain pure and simple, which has been discussed this evening. Then there is other kinds of pain: the pain of fear, the pain of guilt, the pain of anxiety, the pain of loss, the pain of failure, and the pain of despair. I am referring in these comments, while primarily focusing on physical pain, to the reality of mental and emotional pain as well.  

My first point, my friends, is that pain is your friend. Pain is not your enemy. It comes to bring you a reality check - to present where you need to make changes, whether it be a surgical procedure, whether it be a change in diet, a lifestyle change, a renunciation of bad habits, or the adoption of better ones; whatever may be appropriate, pain is your friend.  

My second point is to say that you need to accept the reality of the message that the pain brings you rather than employ denial and minimization. It is difficult for healthy people to be stricken with accidental events or finding themselves a prey to disease. This difficulty is experienced in the process of aging because your culture is afraid of death and does not realize fully the benefits that accepting the changes that are inevitable in your body can bring, as well as the wisdom that can come with the accumulation of years.  

The third point that I wish to make is that, having recognized pain as a friend, having listened seriously to its warnings, that you then take the necessary action. Gather all information that you can, and then, after gathering your information, bring it into your stillness and ask your Indwelling Spirit for guidance. Ask and you shall receive. I will promise you this. And then, when you have heard, and when you have a sense of what is to be done, gird up your loins, pull up your pants, put on your coats or whatever, and go out and do what needs to be done.  

And you will benefit greatly, for first of all you will alleviate the pain, unless it is an impossible situation, of course, and you will also gain valuable experience - that most useful domain called patience. In a culture
that "wants it NOW, wants it yesterday, wants it all" you lack maturity because you are childish in this respect. Therefore, the patience that you gain enables you to see that God is at work patiently in the evolution of the Supreme and that the magnificent completion of His destiny, which includes us all, will be worth the long wait of eons and eons of slow perfection being obtained step by step, moment by moment.  

My friends, you do not fear death because you know it is a passageway to your next status as Morontia Progressors. You have in your faith and knowledge such reservoirs of strength that you could literally supply a great number of thirsty and hungry souls with the morsels of life, with the drink of eternity. I know it is your desire to do this, and you are already in this process. Know that patience is one of your shortfalls, for you haven't lived the number of years on this planet that mortals live on planets such as the one where I came from, where in the space of several hundred years great wisdom is obtained. While at this point in your history nothing can be done to change this fact, if you will take maximum benefits from your experiences with pain, with frustration, with grief, pain in all its nuances, you will make great progress.  

Virginia: I can remember hearing "Give 'til it hurts" which certainly would suggest pain, and the statement, "There is no gain without pain." And I know in physical therapy and some other procedures that probably most of us have taken part in (visits to the chiropractor, etc.) there is a certain amount of pain and it can be productive. I'm not sure why I'm thinking out loud here, but emotional pain that has been so destructive in past and present relations is a little more difficult to pinpoint and find healing for. And I know we're talking here mostly about physical, you did mention these, but any other comments on emotional or pain that comes through relationships would be appreciated.

Daniel: I will make a comment briefly, Virginia. It appears that part of you at least is questioning the value of pain. Is that correct?

Virginia: I'm sure I question the value of some pain. Physically we know it's an alert, and physical pain is something that's necessary for therapy to push those muscles and tendons back to normal. But I think emotional pain that is caused by others to individuals whether they be innocent or not, that's the pain that perhaps would not be respected or wanted.  

Daniel: You see, the pain you refer to has an origin in a physical circumstance. Children witnessing violence between their parents internalize it and feel empathically the same kind of pain or similar pain that the victim or the parties in combat feel. They, also, assume responsibility for the conflict, for those fights can often be over discipline. The purpose of children experiencing pain in this kind of setting is still beneficent, for it is intended to protect them from harm, to lead them away from the possible physical contact that could occur and to follow the flight instincts which are intuitive in the human animal body. The pain initially then, I'm trying to say, has a good purpose - protection.  

What causes injury is the interpretation of the events which result in a child's self-esteem being lowered: if they assume responsibility for the fighting, if they take the blame; if they feel responsible to stop the fighting, and because they are only children, powerless to do so, and take upon them that guilt as well. They may conclude that the world is a dangerous place and that they must keep to themselves, for no other human can be trusted and no one will truly care for them. Then they are most of all to be pitied.  

You see then it is the interpretation that leads to the damage in self-esteem. For the interpretation can lead to a lifelong experience of guilt and shame until they discover that they are not truly at fault, that they could have done nothing more than they did, that their escape was the right thing to do. And for the other case, the person who concludes that the world is his enemy, he or she has the greatest need of all to encounter a friendly universe. My purpose in this lengthy example is to clarify for you where the problem lies in emotional pain so that it can be dealt with and released.

Virginia: I think interpretation is always the most difficult because that has something to do with misinterpreting other's motives.  

Daniel: And a child is not capable of understanding.

Virginia: Right. It's much more difficult for them to separate their own emotions from the event.

Bob: I'm curious about the pain that accompanies terminal illness. What is the role or value of those situations to the person who is dying and to those who are friends and associates and have to see all this
pain a person is trying to deal with?

Aaron: Let us look at the role with a more general overview detached from the circumstance. Pain in and of itself is neutral, meaning it does not favor one for another. Physical pain is a signal of the body being stretched either to its limits or beyond its limits. Therefore it is inescapable without utilizing preventative or diminishing measures to reduce the effects of pain upon the person. There is no particular purpose for the
pain itself to exist of a physical nature beyond what it represents within the body. A personality has choices to make regarding any situation that occurs which has influence upon them and truly it comes down to choice of how one will react to circumstances affecting them. So pain, although neutral, provides a platform for a personality to react and it serves a purpose in that the personality may choose how they will be affected or how they will respond to these influences. Believe me when I say that there is no particular pleasure taken in witnessing a person debilitated by pain.

There is no initial purpose for the creation of pain within a personality. Only when pain does exist, when it has arisen, is there an opportunity for a personality to react. This is no different from any other circumstance within your life, be it a fortunate occurrence or an unfortunate occurrence, you will react in some manner to any influence. Pain is simply one instance. 

As far as the emotional impact of witnessing one debilitated by pain that you hold dear, again as a result of this neutral happening, these personalities are influenced in some manner causing them to reflect and make choices regarding how this will impact them. The Jesusonian method is to, in all ways possible, react positively toward any circumstance that comes before you. To the extent that personality can react positively when faced with adverse situations will they find the benefit of a spiritual nature. This does not necessarily mean that to act in some way negatively diminishes the status of the personality, for there is great mercy accorded to all concerned in these circumstances. Let us say in some sense these situations are an opportunity for deep personal growth which comes through such conflict and struggle. And while many of these situations create scars of a lasting nature, this in no way diminishes the fact that the opportunity for growth and perspective was present and existing in the circumstance, in any circumstance. 

Ham: In support of Daniel and Aaron's treatises on the subject, pain in this mortal existence, be it physical pain or mental/emotional pain, is indeed a neutral phenomenon. It is often beneficial if one can achieve the jump in semantics to perceive pain as a stimulus or a catalyst to change. It is often when a person is most in pain that he or she will finally reach out and acknowledge their needs and their truest desires.

Pain may also be beneficial on this level in terms of interconnectedness and connectivity between personalities. You may have noticed during tonight's sharing that those persons who had experienced similar episodes of pain or discomfort in the past connected immediately on an emotional level with those who were describing current pain.  And in this way, personalities developing on this rather primitive evolutionary planet are more likely to be empathetic and sympathetic with another's situation.

On the morontial level this also occurs, but it is in a much different framework and difficult to describe. But you might be interested to know that the huge amphitheaters that we use as stadiums, as you would refer to them, are much like you would perceive of as a movie except that you feel along with the "players" every emotion, every feeling, every hurt, every desire as they feel it.  

One final note is that pain is occasionally purposeless and this type of pain occurs when one experiences so much internal anxiety, grief and resistance to change that this emotional pain actually somaticizes and
manifests as physical pain. And this can occur when a person is dying because of many regrets or feelings of guilt or shame or simply an unwillingness or fear of leaving the corporeal being for what is as yet
unknown to you. 

Virginia:  I can think of people who have died in pain but in peace. And others who have died in pain with tremendous fear are certainly more expressive of their pain, great hostility and anger. That's some very interesting things to think about.  

Panic

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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Panic is a going concern in a world in flux
 
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SOURCE: Lightline Teleconference  2024-12-05
Teacher: Amanson
T/R: Mark







 

 

Amanson on Panic

‘Panic’ is the human way, the way of mental disconnection, a disassociation from the current of the universe, that frequency of coherence that governs creation in its moment-to-moment birth. 

The phenomenon of ‘panic’ (and from our perspective it really is a phenomenon, there is no other word for it) is so intrinsically ‘anti’ that it becomes its own self-fulfilling prophecy. When a person panics they are momentarily in a completely different dimension, one in a sense cut off from reality; a dimension that becomes the door through which they must reenter in order to proceed with life as it is actually lived. 

Any situation causing ‘Panic’ is allied to the panic itself — the situation is panic itself — and therefore, as with the previous definition of the state-of-mind  ‘panic’, cut off entirely from reality, the reality that holds all things together in its frequency; that coheres and is ‘All One‘ behind the [mere provisional] subterfuge of ‘panic’.

Calm — stillness — is the nature of the universe (for all its hyper-activity it does proceed from a place of absolute stillness) and it is that stillness that must be sought in any situation of - and to counter any situation resulting in - panic. 

Now, this is all perhaps very easy to say from a height outside of the realms of panic, but it is nonetheless true. Panic is a ‘going concern’ in a world in flux, especially the flux of your world at present: the social upheavals; the geographic dislocations (and relocations); and the element of pending unknown in your planet’s immediate future. It all seems utterly cattywampus, yes? Topsy-turvy? Moment after moment of panic-worthy upheaval! But panic is, again, counterproductive in its irrationality (which some would maintain is utterly rational under the strange circumstances; thoroughly justifiable). But it is sheer obstruction. It disallows the mechanism that will truly right the ship: your connection to that hidden vibe that sets you and, eventually, the entire situation straight; a situation which may well bring a change to the landscape, to the world as we know it, but not to you. You will have weathered whatever storm might descend by the simple anti-panic technique of seeking the Stillness, that interior landscape which is not merely quiet but Still: Life before it has begun to move. It’s the same life that in its outside manifestation is causing panic, but this now is prior, this is life as you would have it be. And this life – calm, unhurried, still – can then advise you how to be, where to be, when to move, in contrast to the noisy exterior version of events that is comparatively — as a great author once put it — all “sound and fury, signifying nothing”.

Don’t let ‘panic’ push you around; you possess far greater strength than you know. But oddly, that strength is accessed beyond muscle, sinew, brawn and bone, in the deep, deep quiet of the unperturbed heart. This is where The-Life-That-Is-Not-Panic is lived. Go there. Often. Before any sign of panic sets in. Then you will know it well. You will have a home there, one free from all the different versions of panic the outside world would like you to fall in line with. It’s an unnecessary game. Don’t play. Come home. You’re here. Now.

Patience

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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Patience is the antidote to the delays of time
 
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R = Rayson the teacher, S = first student, S2 = second student.


Patience. This is a topic which will be reinforced from time to time because the engineers of this teaching mission are very keenly aware that there is great trial and tribulation in your existence on your planet at the present time. Not only have you to deal with the residual of the rebellion, but there is also going to be a certain amount of turmoil among the masses due to the reestablishment of the universe circuits and the intermittent upstepping of the power of the transmissions. Those who are less well-prepared than yourselves will find themselves to be more irritable, more easily agitated than had been the case in past.

This is because their Thought Adjusters will respond to the increasing signal by attempting stronger efforts within, and the mind of the given being set in certain animal ways that - not necessarily defeat, but make it more difficult for the Thought Adjusters cooperative efforts to proceed - will set up a turmoil within the conscious mind.

To restate this, those humans on Earth who have not been working in concert with the Mystery Monitor within up until recent months will be the ones who become somewhat unstable and this in turn may lead to some social repercussions and the appearance, at least, of social destabilization.

But do not be alarmed, my friends, because this is only a temporary situation. Remember that no change is wrought in the cosmos without some rearrangement of existing structures, whatever they may be, and at times it is necessary to eliminate old and no longer necessary forms. With the upstepping of the energy of transmission, the social destabilization that results will ultimately lead to this end, that is, mankind will be one step closer to Light and Llife when all the dust settles. How long this will take I do not know.

How can you best get through this period? That is where patience comes in. Remember again the life of Jesus on this planet, the model of patience. Your religionists have attempted to persuade their followers that by following Jesus's example one would be enabled to have a life without fear, without material worry, indeed some have promised great wealth and total freedom from worry, pain, violence. Of course, you know this is not true. Recall the manner in which Jesus died, if you need any reminders. But He died without fear. And He died with his faith intact, His manly faith as opposed to His spiritual knowledge because of His awareness of His identity. And most of all He patiently bore all that occurred.

If the Son of God and the Son of man could be patient and endure a period of life in the flesh on Earth, then this is, or can be, of much comfort to you. And when you one day meet Michael of Nebadon (Jesus) and are privileged to share with Him your memories of life on Earth, the patience with which you bore your own personal tribulations will be a very special thing, a shining facet. To think that you could have that in common with a Creator Son is marvellous indeed, is it not?

One cannot have patience dwelling in mortal form without faith. You may think that your faith is shaky, but it is not. It may grow faster now, slower then, and this may be what contributes to the sense of shakiness. But it is not shaky, not at all. Remember your faith, your knowledge that there are many, many beings here observing, many helping, and that you are much loved. And remember also that this material form is but a passing thing, but an embryonic stage in your lifetime as a being in the cosmos.

I know that the increments of time in your lives seem so long. This was true for me also. But they are so very brief on the scale of the universes, barely discernible even to those in the mansion worlds. When you hear of individuals who have existed for 10,000 years or 25,000 years or more, this may seem incredible to you. But it is such a small time. If you compare your minutes and hours and years against a childhood lasting 50,000 years and an adulthood that goes on for eternity, it may give you some idea of the time scope of spirit life.

Remember this, my friends, when you are pressed and your animal origins strive to come to surface, remember that what happened to you in the last week or month or decade has only just occurred on the
scope of universal time, and will be totally resolved and forgotten by the same criteria. As I mentioned in our last lesson, the reality of material life is very real to you - as it must be in your present form - but it is not a reality that you will continue to maintain when you pass on to your next form and the ones beyond. It will be very much like your time in the womb is to you now. Do you even remember that? Do the events of that 40 week period touch you now in a conscious way? So too with your present life.

And let me assure that when you were in the womb you had an awareness of sorts, also, an awareness that was as real to you then as this awareness is to you now. But you survived that period of preparation and you shall survive this one as well. You can compensate for deficiencies in the womb, if you survive to parturition. And you can compensate for deficiencies in the flesh, if you survive to death, speaking of
spiritual survival, of course.

But would you not like to reach the moment of your death as well-prepared as possible for the next step
beyond? So be patient. Stand by your faith and remember that Father in Paradise loves you, loved you enough to create you, loves you enough to send you these lessons and to provide helpers for you, and to have a plan for your work in the cosmos beyond, so that you can be a true living extension of Paradise now and forever.

This concludes our lesson today. I will take questions now.

S: Thank you, Rayson. I've been impressed with your lesson on patience. It's very appropriate at the present time. When the Gods decided to embark upon the grand adventure of time and space, they used both simultaneously, and all things - all physical things - require time. Just as an acorn cannot become an oak instantaneously, so do many of our experiences require time to play themselves out. Is that correct?

R: Yes. There are many fascinating things about time, much of which is inconceivable to you because of your present form and capacity for perception. But what you say is true within the limits of material life, yes. And since the time, as you say, must play out, patience is a useful, a helpful adjunct. Do you not agree?

S: Yes, I certainly agree. Patience is the antidote to the creature's argument with the Creator about the time it takes to do things. Maybe we should yield to the Creator's will instead of wanting to argue with it.

R: That is stated most interestingly, yes. One could say, to put it in terms that you would understand, it is as if you are in your vehicle riding along a road toward a destination, and you must drive to reach the destination. There are no exits, no stops. You could park your car and scream at the skies, sleep, eat. This would not enable you to proceed, would it? (No) Or you can get in your car and drive crazily over the road, zigzagging, speeding, becoming a nuisance to others, causing damage. You will eventually reach your destination, but in what condition and with what consequences. Is it not easier to simply drive on the path that has been laid down for you, taking care not to harm others, showing kindness, and being patient despite the seemingly endless length of the journey?

It is not endless. You can see the destination. Death is a certainty, not to be dreaded nor necessarily embraced, but simply to be accepted as a marker of one's moving on to the next stage. Do you want your
car to be in good working condition when you reach that destination? That is what patience enables you to accomplish. So much of the work done on mansion world number one is body shop work, to continue the analogy.

And yes, you have eternity stretching before you. But when you have a greater awareness of spirit life and destiny, you will not welcome time in detainment for rehabilitation purposes. And if you have not learned patience by this time, you most certainly will for the period required. It could take as long as 10,000 years, more than the lifetime of any man on Earth.

Actions have consequences, and consequences can stretch far, far beyond. Because of this at each stage in your existence you will be tested for your judgment, your faith, courage, goodness, love, honesty, because as you progress toward Paradise with each step you take toward Father your power to do harm increases, also. Do you understand? (I think I do.)

Even in this mortal existence on Urantia you have significant power in the spirit terms. Father would never allow you to move forward, crashing and burning, so you either rehabilitate yourselves now or later. It is your choice.

Yes, there is an escape from this, you can simply will it to be. You can will your Thought Adjuster to leave, and when you die in the flesh, it will be as if you had never been. Yes, there is an escape. You can pull off the road, puncture your tires, rip out your engine, and walk away, the liberty that Lucifer referred to. Indeed, he elected to do this himself.

S: Rayson, when you were talking about driving I thought about the times that I've driven across the country with my children in the car, and how many times they asked, "Daddy, are we there yet? How much time's it going to be?" Human beings are like children in the car crossing the country. We always want the answer. We have faith that we're going to get there, but we really want to do it all at once. I appreciate the illustration.

R: That is an apt analogy, and did the children not pester you for goodies along the path? (Absolutely.) So that they could reach the destination with rotted teeth and obesity.

S: You said there is more turbulence due to the Thought Adjuster responding to increased signal and attempting stronger efforts within the minds of humans. Is the turbulence due to the resistance that
the individual has to that Thought Adjuster or just...

R: Yes, that is one way of putting it. The animal part does not seek spirit goals. Because it does not seek and does not understand when it is drawn away from animal strivings for food, sex and survival, the animal will seek to continue in quest of these three goals of its own rather than expend energy and time on other strivings. Does that help?

S: Yes. What I can do in my interactions with persons who have resistance to their Thought Adjuster and are making that known in their behavior? I understand that the lesson states that patience is the answer, but I'm wondering if patience means simply accepting where they're at, the particular point they're at on that road with their car? Or if they're tailgating me, should I pull over? I mean, I don't know. Should I try to help them or simply be accepting of where they're at and pay attention to my own path?

R: You have very good intentions, and you earnestly wish to help. The greatest service you can render to your fellows however is to refrain from spirit persuasion. They have helpers, spirit helpers, who will guide them if they seek such guidance. The best you can do is to be kind, patient, like Jesus. How would Jesus handle a tailgater? Can you imagine that?

S: It's difficult to imagine in a way. I mean I don't think of Him as being in a car.

R: He was baited, harassed. How did He deal with that? He turned the other cheek, did He not?

S: He did turn the other cheek. That's always been a phrase that I wonder if it's to be interpreted literally. Does it means go ahead and let somebody continue to bait you or whatever? Or does it just mean that you don't resist? I have a hard time articulating my question. I'm not sure what it means to turn the other cheek. Does that mean put myself in harm's way?

R: No, no, not at all.

S: Or remain in harm's way, if I'm there?

R: Jesus in His dealings with men gave recognition to good when He encountered it and was indifferent to bad. (OK.) No, He did not put Himself in harm's way. Now you may say “What about the crucifixion?” The crucifixion was allowed to happen for reasons that go far beyond Earth itself and have to do with administrative matters. As ghastly as it was, much good came of it at the cosmic level. However there has been enormous confusion on Earth since then, particularly among religionists, as to the significance of the crucifixion.

S: Right, atonement and all that, that confusion.

R: It has played into pre-existing pagan beliefs about human sacrifice and buying the favor of God and so on. These are not valid to the actual situation, however. Father's Son certainly would not wish to remain on a world where He was not welcome by the established form of culture, and although He carefully selected His earthly home, and it was indeed the best of what was available, still it had flaws, as your own culture has flaws. And who can say but that a similar thing might not happen today? Or worse?

S: With respect to turning cheeks, I remember a passage in the Urantia Book where Jesus remonstrated with an apostle, I think it was Nathaniel, for asking a question which he took literally, something which was given as a spiritual example. And He indicated that the apostles should look for the spiritual meaning rather than physical meanings of His illustrations. I think that answers the question of turning the other cheek or walking the second mile. Look for its spiritual content and not its physical content. (S2: Right.)

R: Yes. There is no need for you to become a martyr. That is not in your best interests spiritually certainly, and it gains you nothing materially.

S: It's not in my character anyway, so that's good.

R: Remember again, my friends that spirit growth in man does not occur by virtue of outside influence, material outside influence. It cannot be forced, persuaded, bought or arranged in any way by another being. It is and always shall be a matter of an individual decision to accept and work with the indwelling Thought Adjuster. There is every example imaginable of this happening in the face of love, kindness, terrible cruelty and torture, enormous handicap and great wealth. There is no easy formula that you can follow to influence your fellows. You must lead your own personal life as you, in contact with your Adjuster and your own sense of universe message, deem appropriate. You are responsible for yourself while on this planet, and by conducting yourself as Jesus did you will be doing the most that you can do to positively affect this planet and your fellow beings. I know that this is hard for you as it was for me.

One asks but is there not more that I can do. Please, please tell me where can I spread my wealth? How can I spend my time? Who can I speak to? What can I do? It must be more complicated than that. Well, the material acts of giving, speaking, doing, while well-intentioned are not the way to influence spirit growth and actually are far easier than working on one's self. As you endeavor to lead your life truthfully, kindly, with love and goodness, your example will be observed by one and all, and your light will be perceived at least by the Thought Adjuster of others, if not by their conscious minds, and there will be a deep awareness of your goodness and your courage and faith. It requires great patience to persevere in this way. Have faith. But consider the lighthouse. It does not go to ships, swim across waves. It faithfully turns. And as the lighthouse mechanism turns, the searchlight flashes across the waters, through the air rendering service to one and all who perceive its brightness. Be like the lighthouse, my dear. 

S: Rayson, would you address the relationship between patience and faith. I know that an acorn can become an oak with the passing of time without its having faith that it will. Children crossing the country will ultimately get where they're going without having faith that they'll get there. I think that faith is more identified with the goal and with the certainly of it, the existence of the goal. But I'm not sure about that. Would you address the relationship between faith and patience?

R: Yes. To revert to your analogy again, the children must have an element of faith to remain in the car. Were they to abandon the car, they would not reach the goal. Would they? (No.) So it is, at some level, an article of
faith that keeps them in their seats. Is that right? (Yes.) Even if they are not particularly patient about the
trip. (Yes.) So it is with your journey at present. You may leave the car at any time. And if you become sufficiently impatient, despite a glimmering of faith, your animal urges may become so strong that you will elect to do so, that is, leave the path forever. Faith and patience are both spirit qualities that, once started in
development, continue to grow with continued exercise like a muscle we could say.

Faith is the certain knowledge on the part of, in this case, an imperfectly created being, that God exists, is all-knowing, all-powerful, all-loving. And an important element of faith is that it is entered into without direct perceptual input, that is, you have not seen God, you have not heard God, you have not with your fingertips or your other body parts felt God, and yet you know that there is God. (Yes.) That is your faith. You know it beyond a shadow of a doubt, do you not? (Yes.)

S2: Yes, but paradoxically, not intellectually.

R: Well, faith is not an intellectual construct. And intellect, although it can be very sophisticated and clever, is still an outworking of animal mind. It can indeed benefit much from spirit mind and can become higher mind thought because of this, but do not be deceived. All the grand words and ideas are still of animal origin. That is why so many high intellectuals lack faith, perhaps. Remember that Jesus said that cleverness was not the same as spirituality. 

S2: I would like to suggest that even an atheist has faith that there is no God. That's right. I've always maintained that myself.

R: Many who call themselves atheists are actually anti-religionists who have great and strong faith in God but object strenuously to the intellectualization of pagan religious practices, and therefore call themselves atheists when what they actually mean is that they protest forms of organized religion. If one were truly, truly an atheist, lacking all faith whatsoever, one would be iniquitous.

S2: Well, that is the argument that some professed atheists disclaim. They say that it isn't necessary for them to believe in a higher power in order to be humane. They say that it is of the utmost importance, since they believe that this is their only existence, that they live and let live, or so I've heard some say.

R: Spirit lead behavior is not possible in an imperfectly created being without faith. And though it be denied, you can be certain that what you call humane behavior has a basis in spirit leading and Adjuster input.

S: I think that it does as well. It's just the argument that I've heard. It's almost as though there's an ego issue there, that one will not give credit to some higher power for one's goodness. This is just me. That's how it feels.

R: Yes, again, the battle between intellect and spirit. To get back to the original question which was the difference between faith and patience. Patience is more like a form of what you call discipline. It is the strength and courage based on your faith of Father's existence and benevolence to restrain from acting, to restrain from protesting, and to accept certain situations for what they are. One can have patience without faith in the animal sense. Think of the animal that waits for long hours in freezing weather for its prey. But one cannot have patience with situations that require spirit-driven behavior, kindness, goodness, love, truth, without faith in God. The wolf who waits for the rabbit is not playing out the time in good behavior. Is he? (No.) But the one who drives a car and continues to be courteous and thoughtful in his behavior despite honking and discourtesy from a fellow driver is displaying patience. Is that so? (Yes) His behavior is spirit lead. There can be faith without patience, but the combination (of faith and impatience) ultimately can lead to very, to unfortunate ends. Remember that Lucifer was faithful once. And do you recall he lacked patience. So as you work on your faith, please attempt to strive for patience, also. It does not help to develop one muscle without learning to use it properly. 

The application of patience
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive April 19, 1998.
Teacher Rantarason
T/R Jonathan

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rantarason:  I have a topic to present to you this day; it has to do with patience and its application.

Over the course of the development of civilization on your world your rulers have made errors which disrupted the evolutionary process. This has retarded growth on your planet. The very intention to circumvent the mandates of revelatory procedure and accelerate progress on this world resulted in its exact opposite, retarded growth. All of us today engaged in this mission of uplift are likewise constrained to the orders of our supervisors regarding what we may present and what must wait for your growth in order to accommodate. So, we have all made the pledge of patience. However, this patience is not passive; it is active. It is a patience which seeks to accomplish the goal, which considers the time-connected difficulties.  It is a patience that keenly observes the difficulty and aggressively applies remedies.

Working as you do, conscious of your value to the spiritual efforts being wrought upon this world for the betterment of all mankind, you are ever enhanced; you are self-enthused. This enthusiasm has brought you much personal growth in light of your goals to help this world. This desire to be of service has hastened your own growth. You are not impatient to be continually striving for a better world or a better being that you are. Evolutionary creatures are not required to adhere to revelatory mandates. You are encouraged to become perfect as the Father in heaven is perfect.

This can be approached with diligence and direct action, certainly not with complacency. The patience you apply toward yourself and your projects and your endeavors at growth should always be active. It is when you are engaged in help toward another for their betterment that patience can and may appropriately contain passivity, for you have gone beyond your freewill arena and must acknowledge the right of our Father's other child to decide when a lesson is for them to adopt.

So, you will help each of us who is in the role of bringing new light to this world if you remain busy about the Father's business. Then we are able to proceed. Our patience must apply to the rate that you proceed.  If you are willing to receive more, we are cleared to present more. If you find yourselves satiated and need to reflect upon prior reception, we are able to wait ages.

Evelyn:  The question of agondonter status came up at our Wednesday group. I understand it as something inevitable; we are agondonters because we live here. The other view is that it is achieved through having faith in the face of rebellion. Could you clarify that?

Rantarason: I would express it as a parallel pattern to my words on patience. All on this world have the potential to be agondonters if they apply their faith. Once faith is active, agondonter status is a reality. Not one of you will fail to achieve this status when you engage your will power in the effort to attain the Father.  Ignorance does not provide the status. Conscious awareness of lack in your world and life of the spiritual values you hunger for does initiate the full label.  

On a world of normal circuitry and planetary procedures, such a status is not even a potential, in a global way. However, any individual who finds himself isolated and endeavoring to enlighten one's understanding will embark upon the agondonter adventure. So, here on this world all of you are at the doorstep of this status. On a normal world few and rarely do any attain this status.

Evelyn:  If someone comes from this or another rebel planet and doesn't activate their faith during this life, but then on the mansion worlds does proceed with faith and  reach for God, would they still  qualify for agondonter status?

Rantarason: Much of this applies to the psychic circle attainment of the individual, for often creatures of isolated worlds bring much that is lacking in their growth into the morontia experience, and the potentials of agondonter qualities are activated. But, some individuals have simply approached life without any consideration and now face the morontia worlds as if they were born on a world in Light and Life. They are starting so new and so fresh to their career that there are no qualities that apply to being an agondonter.

Evelyn: Sounds like it isn't a simple yes or no situation but depends on individual circumstance.

Rantarason: One of the talents of an agondonter is the ability to function without the guidance of superiors, to pursue truth on one's own initiative. If these traits are exhibited on an evolutionary world in isolation, then you have that status. If you are resurrected without ever applying yourself this way, you have not set the conditions for being able to function in agondonter roles in the future.

On the heels of my presentation to you today, I must restate that you who value this agondonter quality must be active. Do not let the cherished status of agondonter class lull you into thinking that preventing celestial contact is improving your standing. To simply be without the guidance of your superior ascending creatures does not immediately qualify you. What qualifies you is your intended application to live truth in spite of its apparent absence.

Evelyn: It's amusing when people express that fear of losing their status. It reminds me of someone not wanting to leave prison because they will lose their benefits. Thank you and I appreciate the lesson on active patience.

Patterns

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
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SOURCE: This row is used for recording useful information about the source of the wisdom entry.

Life comes together in patterns
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive February 15, 2000.
Teacher Olfana
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Life comes together in patterns — complex, varied, simple, and extremely complicated. There are patterns to all of our lives, and yet we are unaware of so much of what marks our lives as patterns. These are God's
Designs — these ways in which the synchronicities of life appear, and can seem to us to be "out of the blue." And yet, indeed, there are deeply defined ways in which the connections of life are made. The potentials come together to create, not only possibilities, but — probabilities — of life. And then the beauty of free-will choice highlights, lights up, certain parts of this pattern, and it is, indeed, released into the reality of time and space.

Ask that your patterns be made more apparent to you. Pray that God reveal to you all the beautiful patterns that He has constructed as the fabric, and tapestry, and potentials, of your life. Ask God to show you His Design for you, and in this asking, you will be empowered to partake of this Vision of the Creator who has designed you. Through the counsel of the Thought Adjuster, you will, indeed, be able to apprehend so much more of the ways in which your life has been marked with the beautiful potentials of various experiences. This is the key to discovering the patterns of your life, those potentials placed in you by the Father. By seeing it through the clear eyes of the Thought Adjuster, who holds your "soul pattern" gently and carefully in His Hands.

To wander through life unaware and uninspired by these Godly Patterns that have, indeed, been placed there for you, is such a tragedy, such a loss of potential for a soul. To feel that you wander through life aimlessly from one experience to the next without a sense of design is such a lonely route to travel. If, instead, you can trust that there are these beautiful, clearly-marked pathways that are designed for you, and you alone, you can follow these pathways with the thrill of excitement of knowing that you travel with God on these paths — that this is laid down for you with His Love, with His Foresight, with His Sense of Protective Care, for your best interest as a soul living a time and space reality experience.

I encourage you to offer this insight, this perspective, this concept, to all those you see who appear to be wandering. Encourage them to understand that there is, indeed, a beautiful path placed before them, an intriguing pattern of great possibility and marvelous adventure in their life, also — and they need merely to seek it, for it to appear before their eyes. If you can be one who offers this message to others, you will not only increase your own ability to perceive these Godly Patterns for yourself, but, you will be one who creates faith possibilities in another wandering soul — that they can be, indeed, guided through life with love, with trust, with protection from God, just as you know you are.

Peace

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
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SOURCE: This row is used for recording useful information about the source of the wisdom entry.

What is peace?
 
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Rayson and Friends

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peace is what we - during our mortal lives - try to achieve in our minds and also in our hearts through contacting our spirit. What is peace? Peace is the detraction of all that is negative, of those things, which conflict. Often peace is impossible because in our lives on evolutionary worlds our learning is derived from conflict and how we deal with those conflicts. But always aim for peace that only The Father can give you, because that is the way you will resolve those conflicts.

Peace is attendant upon satisfaction, on fulfillment of your goals. Peace is within you and also outside of you. Believe in The Father and even in the midst of turmoil peace will come to you. Have faith. Faith will surely bring you peace. 
Question: Are conflicts inevitable? Would you comment more on that and our relationship?

Answer: Imagine a world without conflict. Without conflict you would not have these evolutionary worlds. A world without conflict would be paradise. For you to learn, for you to get anywhere, for you to progress toward your goals, you must have something to push off against. Even your daily act of walking requires conflict between gravity and the earth you tread upon. That enables you to move. Rejoice in your conflicts.

Question: On this journey of spiritual growth and development, it seems to me that we've become increasingly sensitive to the feelings of others, so that sometimes negative feelings, especially like rage and hurt, are felt much more deeply than they were previous to entering this experience. It seems that we've become more intuitive, more aware of other people's feelings, therefore more vulnerable to the feelings of other people. Is that true? And if it's true, is there anything we can do to protect ourselves? Or is there any better way of handling it?

Answer: To be more vulnerable is not a negative aspect. It is positive. It is good for you to be more vulnerable. What you require as a protection against the attacks of others upon your vulnerability is a change in your whole attitude. You see God, Universal Father is very vulnerable, but His love - it's very difficult to say - His love makes do. When you are vulnerable and people attack - unless it is on the physical level - love them back. It is part of your learning process. Return love when others hate. When people push at you, smile. If this becomes a problem, then do not associate with those people, but deal with them - with this problem from the aspect of the love which springs from the Thought Adjuster.

Peace that is not of this world
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive September 9, 1999.
Teacher Jansel
T/R Jonathan

 

 

 

 

 

 

To the mind peace implies quiet and contentment, perhaps even solitude, lack of hectic clatter and incessant needs, each asking to be addressed and soothed.

Jesus said that to follow him would not be an easy path but would surely bring difficulty. Yet he spoke of a peace that he leaves with his children, peace that is not of this world. He said that to become first in the kingdom you must become least of all. He spoke of losing oneself to advance. To the individualistic mind,
to the ego center, this is not the road to peace, for it is a threat to identity and to status. Peace that Jesus
spoke of is the peace of assurance and the peace of fellowship.

To the spiritually hungry soul peace is found in the realization that one is always cared for and that one is in a community, that help and guidance are amply available, whether it is from instructors above and beyond
one's own range of experience or whether it is one's near-at-hand friend.

The peace that Jesus spoke of is, in reality, the presence of the Spirit of Truth. He said that he goes before you as you go into the world to proclaim the gospel. He does so with this spiritual presence.

It is a challenging exercise to recognize when you are in turmoil, agitated, frustrated, feeling tugged and pulled one way and another, spread thin, scattered all about to just for a moment ask yourself, "Where is
this peace? Do I have it?" Reflect upon the fact that the peace that Jesus brings is not a peace of lounging
in ease; it is a peace of knowing, assurance, stability, and guidance.

Bring that peace into the turmoil and you will find yourself a little better able to grapple with the conflicts. It
is the eye of the hurricane, this peace of Jesus. It travels with the storm.

Enduring peace
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive May 19, 2001.
Teacher Tomas
T/R Gerdean

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tomas: Enduring Peace is a fruit of the spirit we are still aspiring to see, even though each of you as individuals and in Stillness are able to, by varying degrees, tap into the peace which passes all understanding, thereby whetting your appetite for the living water which is deep in the Well.  

When you mean to, when you set out to carry your state of grace into your arena and take with you the fruit of the spirit, Enduring Peace, it is somehow short-lived more than enduring as it is experienced in the social arena. It is because, in part because you are still combative and competitive, but this bellicose nature is being bridled by your awareness of your impact on others, and this is qualified by how the Spirit of Truth is being interpreted in your life as a result of your perceptions due to your mindal mechanics.  

Enduring peace is the kind of peace that is with you even in a social state of chaos, a confused environment, under confusing circumstances, circumstances which are in a constant state of vacillation as a result of its 
having no anchor, and so the fact that you have been born of the spirit is a guarantee that in some measure it will hold true that you are enduring in your reflection of peace. This is a reasonable facsimile of Comforting Presence.  

But what this says is that while you may know peace within and while you may walk with it into your arena, and abide therein with poise, sooner or later in your involvement, in your experiential aspects, your pacific predilections will run aground and you will find yourself bumping your head against the wall, bucking horns with your adversaries, convincing another of the rightness of your opinion or whatever variable allows for the irritant to muzzle your expressions of fraternal harmony.

You therefore want to develop some skills in your attitudes and associations with other, so that your stance of peace is not taken for disinterest and your lack of confrontational tendencies misconstrued as vulnerable. Jesus was called the Prince of Peace, but there was nothing wimpy about him. He was a man among men; he was rugged. Having the fruit of the spirit Enduring Peace affords you the opportunity to see your own destiny unfold before you, for it is not subject to the countenance of others, and it does not put off or alienate, but rather harbors affection for ones fellows.  

"Enduring" is the qualifyer, and enduring is so far removed from your culture of today which is so inundated with fast food, quick print, easy on, easy off and disposable representations of reality. You have no frame of reference for what is enduring. Enduring a five minute line at the bank is often more than you can bear; how can you in good faith respect the quality of enduring peace as a way of life? And yet, if it is not undertaken as a way of life, by you first, and soon by many others, until most have complied by the new 
standard, how else will we develop such an appreciation for world wide and all pervasive enduring peace as a quality of reality throughout the universe?  

The challenge for you then is to realize that you can retain the thrill of existence even as you reside within the boundaries of peace, for then you have all that quality time and space within which to develop meaningful investigations into righteousness and reality levels heretofore unavailable to you because you were perforce following the flirtations with your more primitive nature and the lesser natures of your beloved brethren. You have been admonished to "gird up the loins of your mind." When this is in effect, it is easier to see how your self-mastery reveals itself; or, alternately, how your lesser nature is in the practice of taking your higher nature for a walk down Penny Lane.

The reward for fostering the value of enduring peace is the quality of fraternity that results, the freedom to enjoy that which is portrayed by your spiritual fragrance in the social fields wherein trade and commerce are an active part of your community interactions and sense of satisfaction. You begin to put peace into your quality lives on a daily basis, unyielding as to allowing yourself to be toppled by the ebullient and immature enthusiasm of others.

Peace which surpasses all understanding
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive April 14, 2002.
Teacher Tomas
T/R Gerdean

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tomas: Rememer that your world is changing very rapidly. This period of time in history is moving very quickly, and there are new ways of keeping up with all the things that are going on, or enough of them that 
you are far more well-informed than ever before, at least as to circumstances and situations which are newsworthy. So much of what you are barraged with consistently is unnecessary, irrelevant to anything but the keeping up of the cacaphony of chaos in which many minds reside.  

But you who have come to experience the peace which surpasses all understanding, those of you who have tasted of the quietude of perfection in a moment of worship or a reflection thereof such that you were able to admire, appreciate, savor something outside yourself, you have at least that much comprehension of serenity and security that will allow you to promote that reality in the face of such chaos as is in evidence everywhere you look today in your world.

If you let yourself, you can become overwhelmed by the knowledge of all that needs done, and you end up "spinning your wheels" needlessly expending energy on something or everything you can do nothing or little about. Better to find one small thing you can do and do it well. Learn to focus on something you can do something about, and don't question whether you are great enough — or even good enough — but rather humbly apply yourself to that small task, which will then open the door to the next task at hand and so you carry your service field in a way that you can be more effective in a way that will keep you from being enveloped in the maelstrom of chaos, even the confusion of which rightful cause is more pressing, more needy, more onerous.  

And if there is nothing else you know how to do that will be part of the solution, pray. For that is the essential way to find out if indeed there is something you can do something about it or not, as it will be made clear to you, through your integral relationship with your eternal parents, what to think, hence, how to feel, and thus what to do or what not to do in terms of that which tugs at your heart strings or toys with your mind.

It is natural for you to assess your own abilities and ascertain if you are meeting your natural capacities, but to feel that your incessant yearning is a key to the solution, no. Focus specifically and absolve yourself of the tendency to have a cloak of incessant responsibility over your shoulders. Sometimes the best thing you can do is play with the  cat.

Feel peace, know peace, invite peace, and allow it to be such a reality that it cannot help but go out like a radiant beam of light, like a warm sun ray, into the environment that yearns to be healed by the vitamins and minerals that are electro-magnetically injected into the environment by your earnestness.  

Peace has ramifications in the larger world but only after peace is achieved within one's being
 
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SOURCE: Lightline Teleconference 2025-01-02
Teacher: Amanson
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Amanson: On Peace

'Peace' is a personal thing. It has ramifications in the larger world but those are only the after-effects of the peace achieved within one's being. 

'Achieved'? Isn't peace just there? Doesn't peace exist in and of iteslf, peacefully? Yes. But it must, if it doesn't seem a contradiction, be aspired to. And as a famous book points out, this aspiration consists entirely of removing the blockages to what is an ever abiding inner peace. For although peace is spoken of daily in and around the world, that peace will only be the result of an inner peace emanating from within a personal being. A lasting peace — a truly lasting peace in the political sense — cannot be arbitrated. 

Peace is the price you pay for giving up the dog-eat-dog mentality that permeates so much of today's society, an attitude unfortunately thrust upon the individual by the systems in which individuals find themselves working, trying to survive. Is such a desperately competitive attitude entirely the fault of such systems? No, but they foster the 'me first' philosophy which cannot eventuate in peace.

Peace is a product of a calm approach to living, an understanding of the inherent balance at work in the original plan, the Divine Plan; an order in which all are given their fair shake and encouraged to do their utmost to create for themselves the very life each would aspire to.  Are the outcomes guaranteed? No, but the opportunities to build to the desired outcome are. But this, at this point in time, is Utopian. We are not here to speak of social plannings. We are speaking of Peace and the peace it inspires. And peace must originate in the individual. A peaceful society will be made up of peaceful individuals. 

So, for peace to take hold it must be in lieu of society's present maelstrom. Society, as presently constituted, does not provide the air, the space, for the quiet uncovering of peace within a personality.

Peace requires an observer's stance, not a participant's; although nothing is greater than when the peace-filled person does participate. But in order for such inner peace to take hold within a person, the exterior phenomena of push-and-pull has to no longer be the menacing, unbalancing influence it is on the unsuspecting, the inexperienced mind. Social justice is not the result of disengagement but of transcendant engagement, an involvement - when involvement is necessary - from...well, a place of peace.

So, as the song says, "Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me", for indeed, that is the only place it can begin. And that is the only place ultimately it will have a home. For when "Peace!" — the banner 'Peace', the Peace the world longs to settle in — does emerge, and the world finally finds itself, not necessarily free of disagreements but no longer troubled by the outdated notion of war to settle them — it is in the bosom of each individual citizen where peace will have found a home and from whom this grand worldwide 'Peace' will emanate.

Perfection

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Perfection and imperfection
 
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Rayson and Friends

 

 

 

 

 

R = Rayson the teacher, S = first student, S2 = second student.

It has been said that this area of perfection and its counterpart, imperfection, causes more frustration, pain, and time delay in spiritual progress than any other area of consideration in the education of imperfectly created beings. Indeed, I myself continue to wrestle with this topic, and it was the lever, if you will, that was used so adroitly by Lucifer to draw support to his rebellion. He correctly perceived that the subject of perfection and imperfection in the universe is an area of much misunderstanding that begets highly emotional responses from not only beings of imperfect creation but also the equivalent of emotional response from beings created perfect. Indeed, you will spend well over a million years of your existence learning and struggling with this concept and still will not have a complete knowledge of it.

So what is perfect then? Perfect is Father. Perfect is the Trinity and all that emanates there from, unless it be deliberately created with imperfect potential. For they cannot do otherwise than to create perfect, except by most careful and deliberate engineering. You may be interested to know that the Ancients of Days considered it to be a major breakthrough in the creation plan when the first imperfect creation was made. That may even seem absurd to you, but the devising of imperfection by the Ancients of Days was a grand step forward in the history of the cosmos and the unfolding of future, present, and past time potentials over all that is.

So then what is imperfection? Ah, this is a far more difficult definition, for me especially, because like yourselves I do not have a complete knowledge of the perfect and the imperfect, however I will give my humble best of my own knowledge of what imperfection is. Imperfection, as I understand it, is that capacity to make a choice between behaving in the fashion set forth by Father and the Ancients of Days, or not. That which is not consistent with Father's plan is said to be imperfect. For example, the behavior of Lucifer was imperfect, and yet you may ask was not Lucifer a perfectly created being? It remains for me a mystery as to how Lucifer, said to be a perfectly created being, was able to behave in such an entirely imperfect fashion.

But perhaps the lack in my comprehension is due to my own imperfection, and it is important for you too, my friends, to understand that having been created imperfect you will necessarily have gaps in your understanding of the cosmic plan.

When we are created imperfect, you and I, much is given to us. Again a paradox perhaps, but it is not every being in the cosmos that has the capacity to choose other than Father's way. However, because we have that ability, we are in ways that I certainly do not understand deprived of other abilities that generally accrue to perfectly created beings, such as understanding the nature of the cosmos in certain ways. We imperfect beings must learn so much that comes innately to the perfect, however my understanding also is that because of our innate imperfection we are able to serve as co-creators with the Ancients of Days in unique capacities that are not available to our perfect counterparts. We serve as scouts, if you will, into certain areas of what is that cannot be reached by the perfect beings of creation, and for some reason that I do not understand and may never understand, this ability of ours is required for the ultimate settlement of the outer universes.

Has it not puzzled you that the outer universes are not yet settled? I know that it has perplexed me, and yet that is the condition at present. There is so much to discuss about perfection and imperfection, but what I have given you so far I believe is quite enough for one sitting. 

Perfection is worship
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive April 14, 2002.
Teacher Tomas
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Angus: I've been thinking a lot about perfection, and the relativeness of perfection, etc., in our perfection 
hunger, but to me, one of the biggest scams on humankind was the idea that we started perfect and everything literally went to hell in a hand basket after that, and to me that is a scar, a psychic scar that we all have to deal with, instead of having the perception that we are on a road to improvement, we are psychically wounded into the idea that we are on the road to degradation.

Tomas: It is a very old theory on your planet.  Way before the Material Son and Daughter were here, your ancestors were primitively downgrading itself.

Mary Jo: I don't think that we can attain perfection on our planet. I think that we strive to improve, and I think we strive to follow the Father's will — maybe we don't strive hard enough — but I don't think that perfection on this planet is attainable. I think we simply work toward it and grow and even in the mansion worlds I think we still will be striving to become more Godlike and I think that is mainly the goal, or should be the goal in our lives.

Tomas: It is the ultimate goal of your Paradise ascent, and yet, even so, in relativity, it is experienceable in your world today, in your life, and thus in others lives' also, if you simply allow yourself to acknowledge 
perfection when you see it. Perfection is worship. It is without flaw. It is at one with God. And that is how it is possible for you to be perfect in your realm even as the Universal Father is perfect in his realm. If you put 
off perfection, you are guilty of the same technique as those long ago who put off the understanding of the great truth of Jesus that "the kingdom of heaven is within you." If you keep thinking, as many religionists have through the ages, that the kingdom is some future time, it will never come!  

Indeed the Master said, "Seek ye first the Kingdom and all these things will be added unto you." Seek ye first the Kingdom NOW. Seek ye first your perfection now, in your life, as you live it, even in its relative smallness, even acknowledging its relative imperfection at the same time. If you are mindful of the values of good and evil and are able to extricate yourself from the concept that you are bad, then you will give yourself a better chance of acknowledging that you are good and that you are a part of the goodness of God. 

So acknowledge your goodness now, your relative perfection, as you are able to. Even as it may be a fleeting moment now and then, even as your appreciation of your reality as a part of the Kingdom is a temporary or fleeting recognition. Give in to the urge to feel that divine enmeshment that will reward you with a strengthened sense of connection to that which is ultimate perfection. And thus reinforce your own perfection-hunger and your own perfection recognition.  

To say you have perfection is not a feather in the cap of the ego. It is glory to God.   

Perfection hunger

How the wisdom coding system works

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How do we distinguish perfection hunger from perfectionism?
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive June 6, 1998.
Teacher Daniel, Aaron
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The desire for perfection is the work of God in your hearts. It is the job of your Indweller to foster such yearning, such stretching, such growth, for indeed it is the goal of the evolutionary universes to achieve perfected status as each individual member works for that overall culmination through their individual journey on the Road to Perfection as mortal ascenders.

Much of the confusion between perfectionism as you have termed it and perfection hunger is due to inadequate teaching over centuries of time, so that these notions are attributed, generation upon generation to the overall mix of cultural error. Many religions have recognized the impossibility of perfection in one short lifetime, at least for most mortals (the exception being the incarnation of Jesus in which he did achieve mortal perfection status in his lifetime) - the perfection of a mortal's fullest possible
completion of potential. But these religions have often postulated reincarnation as inevitable and in this aspect, they are partially correct, not in reincarnation mechanics but in the recognition of incompleteness attendant upon completion of one mortal lifetime career. The notion that perfection is instantaneous upon passing through the door of death has been misunderstood by many religions. And indeed it is one of the main goals of the Fifth Epochal Revelation to enlarge this perspective so that it is clearly understood that perfection status is the result of a long process of growth.  

Therefore, perfectionism is an error in thinking that postulates the possibility of achieving such status in a mortal lifetime and has been the harbinger of much sorrow and discomfort. It is our desire that you fully liberate your perfection hunger while at the same time, realistically recognize your limitations while giving due recognition to progress. 

Virginia: I think perfectionism and the desire for perfection is something that we deal with all the time; and I have often said I have to be better today than I was yesterday. But it is very difficult to evaluate ourselves in terms of spiritual progression. I'm wondering if I'm correct in separating the fact that perfectionism is a much more material concept or attempt on this plane whereas the desire for perfection is obviously a much more spiritual goal. I'm not sure I can separate it that way. I'd like your comments.  

Daniel: As we differentiate perfection hunger from your term "perfectionism" we focus on the erroneous concept of its possibility within a mortal time frame. However, if this planet were in an advanced state of
Light and Life, many mortals would experience the fulfillment of all mortal potential, resulting in perfect union with their Thought Adjusters and consequent fusion. So when I say  "nearly impossible" I cannot rule out there have been a few who have achieved this perfection status as mortals.

In addition to our Creator Son Jesus who had achieved this perfection by the time of his baptism by John, there have been others, two recorded in the scriptures of the Hebrews (Enoch and Elijah), but others unknown to you. And the essence of this perfection has been in what you might term "spiritual progress."  

Perfectionism as it is practiced on this planet does not focus on spiritual growth, but rather on aspects of mortality such as intellectual certainty in a "know it all" attitude or "wishing to know it all" or physical perfection in some manner or another. And the impossibility of this attainment does lead to a lack of satisfaction and enjoyment. 

Aaron: Virginia, my dear, perfectionism is different in the material realm and the spiritual realm. For in the
material realm, perfection is synonymous with achieving a goal. In the spiritual realm, it is the process of achieving a goal that is of even more importance than the goal itself. For nothing can substitute for individual experience.

Your motivation is what becomes perfected
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive September 27, 1998.
Teacher Welmek

 

 

 

 

 

 

You are given this concept of being perfect. What does it mean to be perfect? What would it take to do everything right? Our expectations are often unrealistic. You will never, never know everything. You will never be perfect in all ways. You will become perfected in one way, and that way will be to always seek the will of God, the way of God. Your motivation is what becomes perfected. That is the only thing in us humans that becomes perfected. 

Now, let me ask you, do you have some control over this idea of seeking to find the divine way, seeking to follow the divine path, and to find this love and peace? Is it a choice you can make to pursue this? And so, in your own way you are becoming perfected because you are making choices and you are choosing this path to follow. And so you are on the only path that is available to you. In no other way can you be perfect. You must eliminate this thinking from your mind. Following God's way is the only way you in which you can achieve perfection. It does not mean that you can know everything.

Take this into stillness with you, take this concept when you are still, bring up this concept of perfection in your mind's eye and at that time ask the Father to clearly help you understand this idea, this concept of
perfection. And while it is there in your mind's eye, allow the thoughts to enter to help you see perfection in a new way. Have you ever experienced any one who is perfect in any way on this world? 

But until you understand perfection from a spiritual level, it causes great confusion, because when you look at the level of the material world, then you think that other humans should be perfect in the way they act or think, in knowing all there is to know about something. You see, you apply this concept of perfection at levels that it cannot manifest.

But when you apply perfection to the spiritual level, then there is a way, there is an opportunity for it to be, and that is for you to pursue this path in doing God's will. It does not mean that in every situation you will always know what is right, but it means that you will pause and you will seek the right way to relate to others.

What did the Master do? He said, "Father, not my will, but yours be done." He sought God's will in each of the things he did. That does not mean that you will always have a clear or perfect answer or know the perfect way. It only means that your motivation to seek the best way is real and genuine. And gradually it will become perfected in the sense that it is what you will always seek.

All humans seek love. When they do not know to seek it from within, they must seek it from without. They seek it through acceptance from their parents, brothers and sisters, their loved ones, their spouses. But you see, all of these people are human and fickle and imperfect. And no matter how much you do, how much you attempt to please them, it may never be enough. There may be some other reason they withhold their love from you and you cannot find that reason, so you constantly seek to find why. This inner innate desire to find love was given to you intentionally, because you must find love in your life. But the mystery is that you cannot find it only in other people, you must find it in God. You find this unconditionally loving parent who says to you "I love you, you are my child. I only ask that you share your love with me. I don't expect you to be perfect. I expect you to make mistakes. I accept you and all of your imperfections and I accept you as long as we share this relationship, this love." 

Striving toward perfection
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive April 14, 2002.
Teacher Abraham

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abraham: Striving for a spiritual life while in the flesh can lead to an over striving to become perfect.

Many seekers of spirituality believe that each day they are becoming more and more perfected. While this is true to a point, there are natural setbacks, there are mistakes. This is perfectly natural. However, we find
that there is some serious self-disappointed individuals that become quite discouraged in striving to live a spiritual life. This is in part why everyday organized religion is not lasting.

The churches set the standards of perfection and there many times is little room for mistakes. Some organized religions would have you go against your natural human tendencies for the sake of grasping at salvation. Most of these standards are erroneous and tend to lead individuals to hopelessness, that they will never be worthy of God's love or a place in the Kingdom. There is more self-chastisement than self-understanding or allowance for mistakes.

The desire to strive toward perfection is inherent in most mortals, no doubt, but when the bar seems to be set a bit too high there is disappointment, leading to hopelessness and an attitude of 'why try.' This is verging into the territory of the ego. The ego wants to view itself as perfect, even superior to others. It does not make room or understand mistakes or fallibility. The ego in part would have you hide or deny any
wrongdoing, even though it may appear to be innocent.

Why do we strive for perfection? Said Jesus, "Be you perfect even as my Father in Heaven is." This was not said to guilt individuals into doing right, no. This was not to be a constant reminder of how you are imperfect, no. The Master spoke to the individuals of that day and age in a language they could understand. The Master does ask us to strive toward perfection, but you are not there now, but there is allowance for mistakes and this most all the time leads to growth.

You may make mistakes. You may even feel some self-disappointment, but the child of God realizes their Father is a loving God and does not seek to condemn you for your wrongdoing, no. He seeks to aid you in your growth. He seeks to lovingly correct. He seeks for you to turn to Him to build that bond between Parent and child. In all your imperfection be not discouraged, as if you cannot be taught or are hopeless and allow that ego to cover over mistakes with denial.

The Father and His universe is completely safe to make mistakes. Do not feel your self-disappointments through the ego, but through that child of God self. The ego brings guilt that pushes you from God, that makes you hide from Him, as if He will certainly punish you harshly. The child of God fears not facing His Father face to face in hopes of receiving loving correction and encouragement that he is still worthy, he is still loved, he is still the Father's child.

Many of you as children were harshly condemned for even the most simple mistakes and naturally you did not like the repercussion therefrom. Harsh punishment only leads to hiding or keeping mistakes secret. This harsh punishment made the child feel a sense of love loss. Would this lead to encouraging the child to strive toward being enlightened, to make correction, to attain growth?

Would the Father in whom you have dedicated your lives to lead you down a negative path to self-correction? No. Father is like a loving friend who stands side-by-side with you as an ally, not to condemn or even keep you humble so that you may better listen to Him.

Are you free enough to strive for this or are you bound by feelings of a hopeless inadequate self? Contemplate the power of the Spirit of Truth. In all His power He definitely works gently to naturally bring light into the darkness.

Personality

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
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 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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Personality survival
 
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Now brothers and sisters, our lesson today is personality survival, the glorious reward of life in the flesh. The human being is potentially eternal. The choice lies within the willmind of the creature of time and space. The Father in His mercy and wisdom has provided His lowly creatures of time with all of the necessary tools for eternal survival.

How fortunate we are to have a piece of Divinity, the Adjuster! How fortunate, also, the bestowal from The Father and His agents of personality.

Personality arrives at birth. It is changeless. It is a gift of eternal potential, which will some day be realized. It is the constant steady center in the heart of change. It is the integrating factor of self. It is only embryonic in the material state, and is more fully seen as you ascend.

Personality is not identity, but it is selfhood. It is potential here on this plane, mostly. It is the individualization of each creature that comprises the cosmic chorus of the world, the local universe, the
grand universe, and all creation. It will become more recognizable to you and others as you ascend. It is unique! Never have there been two personalities that are exactly alike. Although there are categories of types of personalities, each one is different and beautiful in its own right. Creatures with personality benefit from personality recognition in others - other material beings, and also morontial and spiritual. Personalities always know one another.

Personality operates on a cohesive level in terms of self: Adjuster, spiritual, mindal, choice-will, material, electro-chemical, and energy-body. It also relates to others. Relationships between, among personalities always have survival value. Even if the individual does not survive, the personality relationships survive in the Supreme.

Personality also relates to the environment: the world, events, etc., we live in. It is less active on the physical worlds and more evident on the morontial. As personality integrates the being you approach Mota. Some humans do this while living on the material plane. Most when they are repersonalized to the Mansion Worlds.

I would like to concentrate more on personality survival. Survival is dependent on the thoughts, choices and decisions that the human makes throughout their earth life, the consecration of the human will to the will of The Father, the decision made whole-heartedly and consciously to journey Godward and to be Godlike. Every ascendent being is presented with a clear-cut choice to survive, fully conscious of the implications of this decision. If the human has not evolved enough in the life in the flesh to make this fully conscious choice - the most important choice in your universe career - it will be afforded to that being after physical death. Justice is dependent upon mercy, and each ascendent son or daughter is afforded every mercy in the universe. The Ancients of Days and others who are involved in survival decisions afford the human every merciful opportunity of survival. They prefer to err on the side of mercy. Better have a universe enter into rebellion than to snuff out one being before every possible effort is made to save that soul. This is the incomprehensible mercy of The Father of us all.

Personality survival is not a guarantee. But you do have the guarantee of the choice of survival. Even very marginal, evil beings can survive. They are put on probation on the Mansion Worlds and are given much time and chances to change. Only when every avenue has been exhausted does a personality not survive. It is a sad occasion for all.

When you cross the threshold to the door of eternal opportunity and choice, your Adjuster returns to Divinington to report in. Your Guardians of Destiny safe-keep the soul memory and survival value portions of the human life. The personality goes with the Adjuster. When you awaken and are repersonalized on Mansonia, the personality integrates all parts: the spiritual, the memory of the material, the morontial soul.

Personality cannot function independent of an electro-chemical mechanism. Here it is the body. When you cross the threshold it will be morontial body, which will reflect more clearly your spiritual status. On earth you can be quite beautiful physically and very unlovely spiritually. As you move Godward - toward Spirit - these inner-outer become less disparate. You will recognize your fellows from the travails of time-space life, your birth planet, by their changeless personalities. This is, indeed, recognition.

Earth is but a blink of an eye. Your life is so short here. It is but the first heartbeat in a Universe career of eternal life. Do not let this planet wear you down. It is only a distortion of what is real. It is a necessary preparation for your soul but is not what truly life is about. It is, in essence, a rough birth for you, my brothers and sisters, but your rewards will be great when - someday - you minister as Finaliters to creatures so unlike you in the regions of outer space. We often wonder - speculate - what will be next.

But know this: you have the choice to be part of it all. What will your choice be?

Think about real values, to transcend the troubled waters of this planet and concentrate on the calm tranquility that you will achieve only after physical death. You may glimpse it now, but you will not live it consistently on this world. Please read about the Mansion Worlds in the Urantia Book, and especially meditate on mota.

Question: Could you discuss the relationship of personality to the soul?

Answer: Personality is a changeless gift from The Father. The soul is the child of the Adjuster and the human mind-choice, and is constantly growing from a seed embryo to a full morontial being. Personality integrates the soul, mind, electro chemical energies; and the Personality and the Adjuster are the only constant, changeless, tools the human possesses. As the soul grows, the personality is more readily seen, realized, acted on and recognized.

Question: You say that everyone is given one opportunity to choose survival. Is there a moment near death
where that revelation of what you are choosing is made known to you no matter how far advanced you are spiritually?

Answer: This opportunity may occur at physical death or after.

Question: So you can actually die and not have made any choice, you could die in fear and still survive?

Answer: Yes. That is absolutely correct. Sad, but so.

Question: Sad because of - ?

Answer: Unnecessary suffering.

Question: Unnecessary suffering at the moment of death? I always thought while you were alive you got to
make that choice. But that's not necessarily so.

Answer: No.

Question: And if its after death, when is it? Is it in those three days before resurrection? 

Answer: If a mortal has not been conscious enough to choose, it is most probable - mathematically – that
they will not awaken until the next dispensation. Only more conscious mortals repersonalize after three days.

Question: If you've lead a really conscientious loving life, and then the pain or dementia of your illness at
death clouds you and makes you a little insane and makes you choose otherwise, is there another dispensation for you after death?

Answer: No. Here is why. There are three ways to die:

Question:  I find myself increasingly torn between following the teachings of the Urantia Book and your
teachings which - as I understand them - with truth, beauty and goodness paramount in my mind - and
what I was exposed to before I became aware of the Urantia Book, namely the Christian religion. Sometimes there are some terrible conflicts. For example, you say that “compassion is God consciousness quality but not pity.” There are many, many instances where there is that dichotomy, and I wonder if you could comment - about that?

Answer: What you are describing is the conflict of being human. There is no way to escape this responsibility, which is in actuality your gift. If I were to guide you in your choices, I would rob you of your spiritual growth.

Your pain comes from your desire to be better, to be perfect. It is a worthy goal, but you must be more existential. While you wish vehemently to be more Godlike, you will not achieve this in a world that was created to be imperfect. Pray for more sublime peace, inner peace, and do not expect so very much of yourself.

Question: What do you mean when you say a personality relates to something?

Answer: Personality relationship: friendships, interactions between mortals, love, even conflict, all - because they involve two personalities - survive, if not in the individual then in the supreme, because they are bestowals from the Universal Father.

Question: Where are Seraphic Guardians physically located around individuals?

Answer: Such a human question. It makes me feel very affectionate towards you. Angels travel quickly. It will be helpful for you to picture them close to you, but they don't have to be. They could be on the other side of the world and be totally aware of your needs, and be there for you in an instant. The important thing is that they will always be there for you, to draw close, to comfort to lead, to suggest, and to love you. Distance is not an obstacle to the angels, only to your human conceptualization. Sometimes they wrap themselves around their human child charge and surround you with as much love on all levels as you are capable of perceiving, receiving.

Question: When the angels put something in our way, would they then be physically present to experience
our reactions and our mindal thoughts as well as our physical actions toward what they put in our way for spiritual growth?

Answer: The angels record everything, but especially the overcoming of obstacles. This is the area of the largest spiritual growth leaps, and they, are quite interested in the choices that their mortal ward makes. They also have access to your mind circuits through Divine Mother.

Question: To follow up the question about choosing survival after physical death. In what state is the human being when this choice is made? Is it asleep or reconstituted on the Mansion Worlds, or does it occur somewhere else?

Answer: It occurs after repersonalization.

Question: On the Mansion Worlds?

Answer: Yes.

Question: You said that the personality cannot exist without an electro-chemical body for it to be in. Does
that mean that when we go as a personality before The Father that we will have an electro-chemical body.

Answer: No. You will have a spiritual body. But it needs a system here on this planet that is material, on the Mansion Worlds it is morontial, and after fusion - as you go towards spirit - it is increasingly spiritual, but needs a form to exist in.

Question: On this planet we have an expression “no questions are stupid” but this one is certainly born of
ignorance. Does my Thought Adjuster have any form, shape, female, male, even though it is not sexual, anything I could picture?

Answer: You should picture light. 

Regarding adversity, there are two ways in which you can react: You can say. “Father, lift this burden from me.” or “Thank you Father for this opportunity for spiritual growth.”

Personality is a precious gift bestowed upon both ascending and descending creatures by the Universal
Father or Conjoint Actor in His name. I will discuss personality in relation to human will creatures rather than in general as applied to all creatures of the universes and central universe.

Personality is not selfhood. It would be arrogant for myself, in particular, to pretend to know exactly what it is, but I do know a little more than humans. So I will try with my, limited knowledge and the help of my superior teachers to discuss in terms, which are understandable what we know about this miraculous gift.

Personality is changelessness in the act of change. The only two possessions you have at this time in your life that are changeless are your Divine Adjuster-Pilot, or Thought Controllers in some cases, and your personality.

At this point in your material physical energy state, personality is 99% potential. It is the possibility for eternity. Life begins for you in reality when you are born here on this planet. Personality is bestowed when you are recorded in the Universe records upon birth. But this is merely the beginning of life, and not to be confused with the beginning of your career as ascenders. You truly become an ascendant being when fusion occurs. So life in the flesh for you here is the birth canal and personality is not even acted upon because you are not aware of it in most cases.

Personality is unique - totally, totally, unique - not only amongst humans but also amongst all creation. The non-survival of any creature bestowed with personality is a loss to all since that part potential can never be realized by any other creature.

Personality is an integrator. It integrates on the material level the spirit promptings through mediation of mind and fosters soul growth. It is bestowed upon creatures possessed with mind or energy systems only. It operates materially, morontially, spiritually throughout your entire career. It is finite, absonite and partially absolute. It can go the distance, in other words. It possesses depth of insight into higher value and breadth of discernment of cosmic and spiritual consciousness.

When you attain the morontial state you are vastly upstepped in terms of personality awareness through
mota and certain other principles, which you will obtain. On this level of your birth, personality discernment has only three levels of length, depth, and breadth. In potential there are seven dimensions of personality, which we will not go into for you have not the capacity to grasp them now.

First, you must know by faith that you have this great gift. Second, you develop consciousness - or self- consciousness - of it. Then you can develop cosmic consciousness when you realize that, through personality, even if the material body were is to disappear, the mindal insight were to disappear, what would be left? What would be left of the you - not your Adjuster - would be your soul and personality. The soul grows or is a creation of the Adjuster parent - the Divine eternal - and the human will decisions, actions. The personality is changelessness. Through your decisions - based on free will of mind - comes soul growth and allows the personality actuality, but it is always there fully in potential. It is your decisions, brothers and sisters, which opens the door for personality to integrate all of the various elements, which make up the human in your present state.

Life does not take place within yourself. It is a relationship between you, the creature, and the environment. Life is that relationship - not inside you or outside in the environment - it is in between. What does this mean? This means that personality is not entirely subject to the scientific or material concept - even mindal, psychological concepts - of stimulus response, causation, and effect.

Let me re-emphasize, personality is changeless. If you were merely animal you would operate on cause-effect; or mechanical, stimulus-response. But personality has a different consciousness and is not subject to these rules entirely. It influences your choices. So the great apostle who was put to death can upset the animal rule of survival through the integration of personality and other spiritual tools. It is the mastery of the real over the unreal.

Personality is the human steady hand on the helm. First comes mindal awareness of this gift. Then that grows into wisdom, which eventually leads to worship. When one realizes that spiritual beings and even
our Creator, the Universal Father, possess personality, one realizes the commonality of creation. It is
another approach to God.

Here on this planet before fusion you are God seeking. That is the impulse of your personality: to seek God, being to dedicate your free will to the will of The Father. These impulses are - arise from and are integrated by the personality. After fusion you will become more and more God revealing and the role of the personality becomes more to reveal God to God seeking creatures, who are not yet there.

Personality operates throughout the ascension career and becomes more and more pure as you evolve. Relationships with other personalities are thus pivotal to your spiritual progress, for in these relationships comes soul growth. Keep in mind this is primarily for you now with other human will creatures, but it is also with spiritual creatures. You just are not as attuned. As you grow your concerns will shift more to the ethical moral choices and actions of your personality relationships.

Your world, by and large, is primitive even at its best. Ego, selfhood, is still operative to a large extent in your relationships. When one shifts from ego into personality you do not care about your power, position, hurt feeling, negative emotions, jealousy, anger, fear, etc., but are more concerned with the spiritual, moral ethical choices. Higher values evolve, and what is primary in your relationships with others becomes “what is the highest act?” Not “what is good vs. bad,” but “what is good, better, best? How may I bring forth the highest spiritual meaning into this experience for myself, my growth, for the other humans?” But most of all, what personality gives, as a gift to God.

The Father has given you this gift. And, my brothers and sisters, you have the opportunity to give this gift back to The Father through your choices and actions. This is what morality is. Not a list of rules and sins, but a standard of spiritual conduct which your universe, your superuniverse, and the central universes, all have freely agreed to strive for, maintain, uphold, and be.

Do not be discouraged by the high goal nor by your faltering steps to meet this goal for, children, this is what the race is about. You are not expected to complete this race here, but you are expected to be aware
of the meaning of it. That is the start line. A sincere, persistent, steadfast desire to discern and do the will of The Father is what is needed to insure personality survival beyond physical extension. Faith insures survival. But that is the beginning. More can be accomplished when one realizes the meaning of life, the true meaning. We truly understand how much of your time is committed to mere bodily survival. This is unfortunate and will not always be thus on your planet. But for you, brothers and sisters, who have the strong and burning desire to reveal God in your lives, more is expected. You will all survive physical death. Of that I have no doubt. But the question is how can we progress in terms of the quality of the way we live -
even on this plane that you have control over?

Personality is qualitative, not quantitative. It is about quality of life. It also brings different time sense to you that you do not have in other areas of your mind, body, spirit, soul. It is aware of the spiral quality of time, which you consciously cannot absorb, but trust me that you have within an innate knowledge of what time truly is, even as you move through space on a linear path.

It must appear illogical to you that you possess changelessness - which is related to eternity potential - right this moment, for change seems inherent to life. If you did not possess the changeless integrator, you would not have the capacity for soul growth or for a soul at all.

The invisible hand is the gift of The Father. Personality responds to Adjuster and integrates mind to make higher choices, and influences the body to act accordingly. It overrides mere electro-chemical impulses - instincts, mindal lower consciousness, and electro-magnetic imperfections. You have the necessary equipment to not only survive but to live morontially now. All I am trying to show you is how to begin, and I have faith that you will do so.

Question: In the relationship between people - between personalities that you were talking about, what is
the optimum way of relating to other people that would achieve the best soul growth? For instance, the
motive, does that make any difference? Or the truth of how you are relating to that person, how does
that make any difference in the growth of your soul?

Answer: That is a deceptively simple question with much complexity. The optimum is to love one another. But this is not realistic, for to love one's fellows truly you must understand them.

Understanding begins when we place the spiritual ahead of the ego. So, the realization that we are one
family created by one Father is essential, not just in terms of lip service, but in terms of true service to one's brothers and sisters.

Mota is not that significant. It is the quality of the interaction. You will always experience imperfections in yourself, annoyances, impatience, and conflict. These are a part of your imperfect state. How one - what one does determines a realistic goal of relating to others. Jesus said, “Turn the other cheek.” I am not as adept as our Creator-Brother-Father, but I would say sometimes the highest good in terms of personality relationships is avoidance if one is not evolved enough to come from a place of highest values with another being.

The sincere commitment to understand is important in terms of perspective: the spiritual rather than the
“me.” But it will be impossible to remove the ego, but remember it is not instinctual. Ego is instinctual, animal, but personality can break that stimulus response. For example, if one is physically struck, the animal will fight or flight. The spiritual intervention of personality might cause a different reaction. The highest would be to allow The Father to be seen in your relationships with others, for you to reflect and embody His perfect qualities of love, mercy, patience, wisdom, truth, beauty, and goodness. Partially these can be attained by you, and not always consistently, but that would be the ideal.

Question: Would the personality that I have received, for example, that the soul be me in potential, and
that personality that I exhibit here - different sense of humor or whatever - is that the reflection of that
reality? When we talk at this level, we talk about having personality and recognizing personalities, and
types of personalities, if we are 99% potential then what is it that that's here?

Answer: Potential. Let me explain. The you that you will be is personality, like letting the personality out of a locked room. It exists but unseen. It will be the combination of your fusion with your Adjuster and soul growth and eventual transmutation into a spirit being. Your personality contains the potential of all the ascension career. It is there in you now. But it is not apparent because it will be based upon your choice-decision-action throughout your entire ascension career. Your free will determines the release of
your potential into actuality.

How does one see the one percent here? Your guide, in general, should be spiritual fruits. That is evidence of your personality, your unique personality. How do you love? How you loves is different from any other created being. The tones and songs and harmonies that you bring to the quality, the universal quality of love, is and forever will be different than any other personality, a jazz interpretation of a universal theme.

Question: As you were talking and giving us our beautiful lesson, two phrases from previous sessions kept
popping into my mind. The first one was the instruction that we should be “in the world but not of it.” And the other was the urging of us to try to “go the second mile.” Am I understanding that these are involved in what you were telling us in our lesson today?

Answer: Yes. Absolutely. Being in the world but not of it is applicable to all elements of our lesson. But to acquire it now, specifically to personality meaning, the relationship of life that I was explaining, life takes place between the world and the spiritual potential actions of the being in the world. So being in the environment but not controlled by it, but controlled by higher spiritual reality, is a way to interpret that in terms of the mechanism - gift of personality.

Going the second mile is going beyond faith, going beyond insight into wisdom and worship in terms of
personality actualization.

Question: Would it be an oversimplification to compare the personality of the human being to the steering
wheel of a car.

Answer: Yes, that is apt, because it is the steering wheel and the pilot driver is the Adjuster, Controller, Divine gift, in conjunction with free-will decision of the human.

Question: Who is it that makes the free-will decisions?

Answer: It is the human.

Question: And you said the personality is not selfhood?

Answer: No.

Question: What is the self?

Answer: Ego.

Question: So, ego is the self, it makes the decisions, and it is the human, and it is the thing we experience.

Answer: Yes, correct, in conjunction with higher mind, adjutants, and impulse leadings of the Divine Adjuster.

Question: It's been my understanding that personality, being from an infinite source, as you said today is
somewhat immune from cause and effect. It's been my understanding that that feeling that one gets when
you see a friend that you haven't seen for a long time and after a few moments of interaction you are brought together as if you hadn't had any time lapse. That is a human experience of infinity, is that right?

Answer: Correct. It is personality recognition. It applies even to first meetings what you call lowly deja vu, rapport, kindred spirits, soul mates - personality recognition on that circuit. And time - different time perspective from personality.

Question: So, it exists sort of along with or outside of time and space?

Answer: Correct, not outside of space, but outside of time.

Question: Relevant to that, are there certain personality types that are better suited in partnerships?

Answer: Yes, correct, and please keep in mind that the world of personality is far, far, down your ascension career. So there will also be personalities that will be harder to understand, and love.

Personality is the gift of the Universal Father who is himself pre-personal. It is bestowed upon birth and recorded on universe records at that time. Personality is not self-put identity. It is changeless in the face of change. Let me explain further. Personality is the integrator, the cohesive element that unifies the humans and the environment, the interaction between the human and the environment whether it be circumstances or other personalities, human or non-human. This is life on this planet: the interaction between these two elements. Personality integrates life. When we say changeless in the face of change, not only do your relationships with humans change, your relationship with Deity and celestial personalities grow and deepen, your environment changes, but your entire being, children, changes.

Personality, to unify, must have a system, on this planet - electro-chemical-material system - to work with, a mind - intellectual mind - which on this planet is directly administered to and on by the Mother Spirit's seven Adjutant Mind Spirits headed by Wisdom, and the spiritual component, the Divine Adjuster - seated within the human - and the child of the Adjuster and the human, the morontia soul which is being created.

However, personality continues to exist without change when the material passes away, the body, when the mind passes away, the intellectual, when the Adjuster departs for Divinington, when the soul becomes the safekeeping of the Guardian Seraphim, the personality still exists in keeping of the Archangels on their special world, held in abeyance until the glorious moment when you are repersonalized on the Resurrection Halls of Mansonia.

How are you repersonalized? Constructed for you is a morontia electro-chemical - although that is not totally correct - system, a morontial body for you. Morontial mind, for you, operated directly upon by mota and without the Adjutant Mind Spirits, which are the most basic and primitive level of the Divine Mother's ministry. Mota is a more direct channel to the Mother Spirit as will be conversations with your Seraphim. So the physical is gone. The mental is gone. The Divine Adjuster with your memories of survival rejoins, and when He rejoins, your Seraphim reconstitute your morontial soul, your embryonic soul, and then personality unifies change.

So, personality is not identity. Identity resides in part with your Adjuster in terms of survival memories, and with your Guardian Seraphim in terms of what you have created, experiential, with your Adjuster in your soul. That is identity.

Personality is the unifier of diversity. Personality is changeless. When your next huge transformation from caterpillar to butterfly occurs, when you become spiritual, personality still exists to unify a completely different energy system, a completely different relationship between the Adjuster and the once-human: fusion. As you become spiritualized, personality is changeless.

And so, you will always be you. You will always be recognizable as you to other personalities, personalities from or originating on Earth or in other sectors of the Universe, descending as well as ascending sons and daughters of The Father, perfected as well as experiential. The unit is your personality.

Selfhood is merely human ego, attached very much to the human mind-body system of this world. The
material is merely the bridge to get you to the morontial. This is the basic principle of personality survival. Faith will convince you of this truth, that regardless of what happens to what you perceive as your self, which is really ego, you - the real you - survives it. The human will, which is a function of personality in conjunction with mind - higher mind, mid-mind - chooses to survive.

Allow me to assure you that complete records are kept of your spiritual progress by your Adjuster, by your Seraphim, by the recording angels and Universe Censors, even to the Ancients of Days. Every decision, every process, every act of your life is known.

Every human is given the fully conscious moment of choice to survive or to extinguish. Every human! This is promised by The Father. If a human doubts - as we all do - and one day decides and then doubts, etc., that human is the recipient of Divine mercy. The Father loves each child so fully, the Son expends such vast mercy, the Mother ministers so tenderly to you that we would rather risk a universe rebellion than lose one wavering human to non-survival. The error is always committed on the side of mercy.

But choose someday you will - and must - fully, consciously, and then Divine justice begins. The humans, which have not chosen yet are considered probationary on the Mansion Worlds, and much attention is paid to their progress. But each human personality, each soul - each of you - is so important to The Father, so beloved that that is the priority: your survival, your potential for eternalness. Your goal - which comes from personality insight - is to one day stand in the presence of the Universal Father and from there to go out as Finaliters to universe, superuniverse, outer space assignments of service to others.

What a glorious career hinges upon this choice! What is therefore death? There are three types of death. Spiritual or soul death, so sad, when the human is so evil - is so beyond God - that the Divine Adjuster departs because the human has actually chosen non-survival. Although this human may appear to live in body and mind, they are dead, truly dead, in reality. The Adjuster departs for Divinington, and the human life mechanism, through the physical law of forward pushing motion continues to live until physical death. But that human is dead.

Intellectual death, mind death. When a human is a not normal-minded through genetics or accidents of time and space, where the physical brain is so damaged that the mind is injured to the point where the Adjutant Mind Spirits and decision-will cannot any longer be exercised regardless of physical aliveness, the Adjuster then does depart to await repersonalization. Therefore, your arguments are invalid or misdirected in terms of certain life extension techniques until your medicine understands and your moralists understand, what life is. These arguments are a useless waste of time.

Third is physical death, which you are familiar with, where mind-body dies, generally defined as no brain-pattern activity. After death, physical death, it is decided whether the human will sleep until the end of a dispensation and be repersonalized with a group from their planet, or whether they will - because of a superior spiritual life and understanding of the true goal of existence - be repersonalized after the third period on Mansonia.

You cannot truly grasp or understand on any level the truth of the assurance that you will one day see the great I AM. That is so beyond you, children that you cannot even rejoice over the miraculous achievement, which will one day be yours. It is enough for you to try to fully comprehend your own survival. If you can keep that consciousness, your lives will change in perspective. Mota will enter now - slightly - and you will live more morontially. This is not reality. It is merely the first moment of creation of a being, which is in transition. The human embryo is not a human being. The human is not a morontial or spiritual being. The human embryo is in the process of becoming human as you are in the process of becoming spiritual. The moment of conception of the spiritual being which you have the potential to be is here on Earth.

Question: Can a personality be identified when it is separated from the Thought Adjuster, the Adjutant
Mind Spirits, and any physical or morontial form when it is in the care of the Archangels, is it identifiable as the person it is?

Answer: Yes, but it is not active. Personality needs elements to integrate. So it is inactive but identifiable.

Question: Also, would it be right to say that the soul and the identity are absonite and the personality is
absolute?

Answer: Correct. The personality has one absolute element. It is seven-dimensional: three finite, three
absonite, and one verging on the absolute.

Question: I'm still confused about where the will resides, and I'm confused about what self-consciousness
is. The thing that we're experiencing all the time, the thing we call “me”, the thing that is self-conscious,
is that the ego?

Answer: It could be. Thought is consciousness. Wisdom is the consciousness of consciousness. Worship is the consciousness of God. Depending upon where one is on this continuum, or where one is in a situation, consciousness could be ego or could be initiated from Thought Adjuster and personality.

Personality - one's reaction to ones environment, the process of life, is dictated by one's personality, and as one interacts with environment, goals are set by the humans. Some goals are higher goals. Some are not. So some consciousness-mind decisions are ego based, some are not. I am sorry not to be clearer, but it is  hard to set a distinction because you are all such a mix of human ego and higher mind.

Question: And so, which one, then, makes decisions? Who makes the decision?

Answer: Your mind - conscious mind - makes the decision. It is influenced, hopefully, by Adjuster input, personality integration, and Adjutant Mind Spirits, as well as your committed desire to know God. As you make more evolved decisions your values become higher and more God-like. First there must be life. Then there must be consciousness of life in a human child. And then there must be consciousness of the creator of life. It is a process.

Question: Do non-survivors realize their non-survival?

Answer: At the moment of choice, they do. It’s a fully conscious choice.

Question: Then the sometimes Christian view that there is a resurrection before the judgment is symbolically true, then, is that correct?

Answer: That is correct.

Question: Since there are so many unconscious people on the planet, is it safe to assume that many of these choices are made on the Mansion Worlds? Or the majority? Or would you say most? Could you give us
a percentage?

Answer: Many souls are on probation on the Mansion Worlds, many. Especially from backward planets
such as Earth.

Question: And non-survival choice can be made here?

Answer: Yes, but that is unusual.

Question: How is that a fully-conscious choice?

Answer: Pure evil is hard to explain. It is the absence of God.

Question: We've all heard people talk about out-of-body experiences, or claim to have had some sort of spiritual experience while they are in a coma, or unconscious being resuscitated from a cardiac arrest, or
a great blood loss during an accident of some sort. Personally I have never really thought there was anything to it other than lack of oxygen to the brain, maybe, from mild hallucination or something. Is there any kind of spiritual experience that these people are actually having like a communication with a Thought Adjuster or something like that?

Also, I've been asked this hundreds of times - is death painful? I always respond that its not, that its just the easing away of life, and that people die in comfort. Are you allowed to answer one or both of those questions?

Answer: On the first question, we are not allowed to comment, however, what the person does with this
experience, is - or can - contribute to spiritual growth.

The second question. Death should not be painful to the God believer, but is painful in some cases where the material takes precedence over the spiritual. When the material body is believed to be the definition of life, death is often painful physically and emotionally, for it reflects the inner struggle of the human who is confused about reality. But to the believing soul, to the sure ascender, to the true child of God, death is a celebration and not painful, but a most profound, moving, and beautiful experience as the human vision becomes morontial, and as the spiritual guardians and the celestial beings are for the - most cases - first time visible to the newly emerging morontial child.

Question: I want to ask a two-part question. Does thinking have a volume? And is it possible for some
people to hear thinking? I don't mean psychic, I mean is it in our evolution as human beings down the
road a few thousand years? Is that an emotion that matures? I think you get the drift of my question. 

Answer: Yes, this is an emerging sense as your planet progresses toward Light and Life. Telepathy will be -
your senses are limited now but this will not always be so on your planet. Humans have the potential capacity for more than five senses.

Question: Does thinking have a volume? Do some people have loud minds?

Answer: Yes. Yes.

Question: Is it possible to think out loud than to think silently?

Answer: No. Thinking is done in the mind, but some people are good senders. Others are good receivers.

Student: I hope you are enjoying your stay here on Earth and not too pained by the troubles on our messy planet.

Rayson: They are challenges to us.

Question: Regarding a former question about the self, I would like to express to you what I got from it and
maybe you can tell me if it’s right or wrong. If, for instance, I am hungry, if I have any physical yearnings and I concentrate on that, would my self be seated in my physical body? And if, for instance, I am engaged in an intellectual problem, whether it's business or anything that's intellectual, would my self be seated in my intellect in my mind? And if I am, for instance, doing the will of God - service to other people - would my self be seated in my soul? Is that a good understanding?

Answer: That is somewhat correct. Let me explain. Taking care of the physical mechanism is also part of
personality integration. Your personality cannot exist without a functional physical electro-chemical house. So, all of these things may be direct - goal directed by personality. But you are correct in that sometimes they may be purely compartmentalized. The intellectual, the philosophical, is meaningless unless awareness of the creator occurs, but if one has this awareness, even if you are solving an intellectual problem, it is personality which integrates all levels, even though to the human it may appear to be only a physical or intellectual activity.

Student: What I was referring to is where the seat of the self would be at those given times when I would be involved in my body or my mind or a spiritual fashion. I'm trying to understand where my self would be at a given moment.

Rayson: Well, your self is your personality. But you are not very - all of you - are not very aware of it. What you call your self is sometimes ego, sometimes consciousness mind, but it is incorrect that that is your identity. Your identity lies in the overcontrol of Adjuster and personality with soul identity. So if you are, say for example, doing a physical activity, what you call your self, yes, would be lodged in the physical, although spiritually that is incorrect.

When the seat of selfhood is identified with the physical, you get the materialist. When the seat of the selfhood is identified with the mindal, you get the intellectual humanist. When the seat of selfhood is identified with the spiritual-mindal-physical, the personality is integrating toward the emerging morontial being.

Personality and its incircuitment
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive June 7, 1998.
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I will share some thoughts on personality and its incircuitment. 

If we view the inner spirit of the Father as like a magnet, we can then consider your life experiences as iron filings which are being arrayed by this divine spirit into the patterns of your soul. This drawing power of the spirit of God is the integrator of the potential for your passion to become like Him, although your true
desire must spring from your own free will.

All personality resides within this circuit and leads to the human cravings for relationship, for association. It is the cause of your desire to share and your urge to serve. You need never fear isolation, for you reside within the magnetic field of the Father's personality embrace. Each of you in your own life creation is replicating in miniature how the Father has revealed Himself in the great cosmos.

If you could but step back far enough from your involvement in life, you would witness the magnetic patterns of all personalities in the array of the Supreme. The pattern is emerging all because you and many like yourselves are willing to dredge up iron in your life such that you may attract those experiences which bring about a threefold revelation.

Most immediate is the revelation of your own personal reality, the beauty and the truth and the goodness you can and  have attained and will continue to attain; indicating once again the miraculous bestowal gifts of the Father, both of His presence within and of your own personality.

The second revelation is the accumulated portrayal of beauty and goodness and truth in the personality of the emerging Supreme. As important as this is to all of us in this age, long after the attainment of this revelation, the fulfillment of the Father's plan to time and space, beyond the ages that will follow, eventually, ultimately, there will be revealed for all the Father as fully and completely as can possibly be revealed. We all have only an inkling of the magnitude of His being, of the splendor of His character. Each of you endeavors in your days to replicate His character. Though you all assess yourselves as falling short, you nonetheless ever  strive for this attainment.

When in conflict over needs of self and your motivations toward brotherly service, alleviate the struggle, the dichotomy, with that third element, the presence of the Father. Know that He flows equally through you as through others. Through association, through camaraderie, through sharing in relationship, you both bring together the two hands of the Father in mutual embrace. This grasp of brotherhood further demonstrates the active presence of the Father in everyone's life.

In the infinite stretch of time the pursuit of the Father is endless. You have experienced and are continually witnessing that He is as present to you and real to you now as He will be at that distant point when we all will realize more fully the magnanimity of His being. 

Evolution of personality
 
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The evolution of personality in the human mortal mind.  

Personality on Earth began its initial and pioneering work in the lives and minds of the first two mortal human beings who lived and evolved on this world. In your text the Urantia Book, these first two human parents are mentioned by the name of Andon and Fonda. It mentions that it was a phenomenon by which their minds were being prepared for the indwelling of the spirit of wisdom and worship to function. These two spiritual circuits are prerequisite for personality to begin to manifest. The rudimentary requirements of personality are the spirit of wisdom and the spirit of worship. Presently and in a timely fashion, thought adjusters came and indwelt these first two human parents. Also part of the spiritual and functional relationship of the mind and personality. It is not so important to define personality as it is to begin to understand personality functioning in the mind and man's relationship to this personality. 

The ever important relationship of man's will and capacity to make decisions in relationship to mind, mind prerogatives and the reality which you create for yourselves. Personality is a very large system. In that as it 
begins to function in man, man begins to build a network and framework in which personality can begin to manifest. 

Personality, being connected with mind, is also connected with the intellectual, emotional and physical aspects of the human body. Initially it is strongly connected to the primitive ego system; the survival mechanism and to the dominance of man as a species on the world. In the pattern of personality and its system, this network is designed to evolve the consciousness of the human beyond the ego-animal level into a person capable of discerning, seeking and knowing the spirit who lives within.

Beyond this, there is in the mechanism of personality the potential and capacity for this person to gain identity with spirit through a very active participation of spiritual living, in bringing spirit and spiritual references down and make manifest on the human mortal level. Ultimately personality defines this 
person-explicitly and as a matter of fact. It is evidence that this person has been tried and tested and in all manners has chosen to do the will of the Father, as exemplified by the actions, duties, responsibilities and 
activities in this mortals career. Culminating  on that eventual day when the two, the Father and the Son, the Mother and the Daughter will become one. 

Earth is particularly interesting in that, as concerns personality; it has barely begun to manifest outside of the animal-ego-survival syndrome. Thought adjusters have been on this planet for thousands of years. It is true that one would not notice this upon first glance. The activity of the thought adjuster in the human mind is constantly at work, meticulously and diligently presenting to the human mind components and spirit options to all decisions, situations, and thought patterns. This is how the thought adjuster initially 
works within the mind; getting the mind to become aware of otherness. Nonetheless it is a very important phenomenon of mind to have its identity with person-ness and self. This is only prerequisite for the eventual identification of another self and another person within the same mind.

Part of the functioning of personality is the relationship between these two separate persons. The pure spirit person of God and the not so pure non-spirit of the human mortal in which this spirit habituates.  
Fundamentally in their relationship, evolves the capacity for human mortal survival after death. It involves a functional working relationship called a soul. The soul is not only a record of the achievements of spiritual 
activity; it also begins to replace fleeing and temporary concepts in the mind, with more substantial, trusting and faith based concepts of self and eternal reality. 

You are in the beginning stages of personality. You as individuals and a group are being trained to learn to stand within the presence of spirit, in the presence of love. To stand in love, and to act from love. It is not 
necessary to discuss this difficulty, but you are beginning to sense, based upon faith and experiential trust. You are beginning to glimpse into a reality and potential, far greater than the short distances you have already traversed in you lives. You have gone beyond seeing your end, into glimpsing your beginning, your future. The potential to achieve that which you set upon the focus of your mind. You are beginning to access the process whereby your thoughts and decisions are beginning to alter your circumstances and 
opportunities which are provided you now. 

We are not talking magic. We are beginning to see that there is a sensitive relationship to spirit and I will use this analogy again, it is like a little lit candle whose flame initial is very delicate; the slightest movement or breeze can blow this flame out. The initial stages of spiritual development are very delicate; this is where many stumble. The want concrete answers, evidence; factual and irrevocable information and experience. They want the high drama of Divine intervention, failing to see that the high-drama of Divine intervention unfolds at a rate proportional to the amount of energy and effort that the individual makes. Both in contacting and maintaining a relationship with the spirit within, and to begin to bear fruit and show evidence in your daily mortal lives that you are led by the spirit. You are of the spirit.

This is the function of personality. This pattern that is already in you; which is slowly evolving as you begin to earn and grow into who you are and who you are becoming, you begin to see yourself in a new light; with a clearer mind; a motivated determination; to begin to activate the Father's will through your decisions and actions. 

I know that many of you are interested in a definition of personalities. When does it begin and start? What is important is that you are becoming who you are. Who you are is brought to you by the perfect spirit who has volunteered to come here; who has studied you and prepared to bring this marvelous being into your animal mind; to diligently plant this seed and nurture the first delicate roots and new-born sprouted leaves of spirit identity within your human hearts and souls. The spirit begins to guide you, this little spiritual plant, this personality; to manifest and blossom into spiritual fruit your own beingness and your own personality. You think, 'what can I do?' How can I understand to hold truer and more sure this path which I have now taken a walk upon?

You are constantly being loved and guided, and in many ways nurtured by the spirit within. This spirit constant nudges and provides opportunities which challenge you to see yourself in a new and different way. Your Ego-mind will always question what spirit is presenting to you, because the spirit is presenting you with change. The ego-mind wants to hold onto its routine, comfort, its so-called stability, its familiarity, its isolation, its power, its fear, its patterns. What you hold onto the strongest is the first thing that spirit will challenge. The hardest to do is to decide to move forward and accept change. It is hard for each and every one of you. In the beginnings of my spiritual life, it was very difficult and challenging for me also. Little by little, I began to sense the meaning of something special, happening within me. Glimpses of something greater and more profound, a vital potential, which lured me into making more frequent decisions about the choices and opportunities I was being presented with. It does get easier. In a certain sense it is a spiritual muscle which needs to be developed within the construct of the patterning personality. 

Student: Does our personality continue to grow after we fuse, or does it continue on up to Havona?

JarEl: Yes, the personality at fusion is defined as this new person, this new person is a spiritual baby and ample time is given for this baby to mature in spiritual eternity. You then gather merit and grace, through that which you endeavor to participate in doing the will of the Father throughout all eternity. The simple message of the master who said when he lived on this world will do here, 'Let he that is the greatest amongst you be the first to serve'. He, who was truly the greatest, came down here to serve. Personality gives you the badge to become a bonafide spiritual servant of the Father. As a servant in service, you will be presented with more adventure than you can possibly imagine; more joy and happiness than you can now fathom; more opportunity, knowledge, and growth than you can imagine possible.  

Student: Did I understand you to say that personality comes from the Father, coming from the Father it is therefore timeless, and a fragment of his personality is endowed to us for use in our lives. Is this part of our becoming one with the Father. 

JarEl: The personality is eternal, it is not a fragment of the Father, though a fragment of the Father brings the total pattern of the personality to the new being, and personality is that system or mechanism in which you develop into relationship-oneness with God the Father. Yes, to that part of your question. It is person-ness which the Father gives you, in his likeness and being. As a co-partner and eternal companion, it is the Father who has made the adjustment to comedown and indwell your type of human mind, and it is your effort that matches the Fathers effort, which attains true expression in oneness with the Father, your identity. You are able to grasp aspects of this identity even now, because everything is interrelated. Who you are, right and who you were, is important only in that it is helpful in determining who you are becoming. It is this pattern that is slowly being fed to you that you respond to changes within yourself, helping to dictate and determine the types of decisions you make, and how you begin to respond to situations from a spiritual stance. You can be identified by your voice, and on the material level you can be identified with how you look; on a spiritual level it is how you decide and act which identifies you. It is what you bring to the table of 
God's feast.

Student: Knowing that personality is a part of the Father and that everyone has personality, then it would help us in our relating to others to see them as personality endowed by the Father, as well as indwelt by Him. Personality and the thought adjuster both come from the Father, for us to use and grow with.

JarEl: It is important to recognize the spirit of the Father in others. You may not be able to see the Father through some of the actions of your brothers and sisters; but beyond these actions and their seemingly unfocused and crude intentions, there is at work something deeper and more profound at work in them; that they themselves are just beginning to relate to. It is their beacon, which is beginning to focus and center them.

Personality improvement
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive October 14, 2001.
Teacher Solonia
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Solonia: Personality improvement is not the effort to improve, to fix or better, to change, to recondition, to decorate your personality. It is rather the alteration of the techniques whereby personality learns and expresses. Though personality ever is, it continually discovers greater methods, clearer methods, of manifestation and of divine reach.

Perspective

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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You can't ask for better than this: to have far-reaching perspective
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive October 13, 2001.
Teacher Paulo
T/R Gerdean

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paulo: Truth is ever revealing, ever unfolding, ever constant, alive and growing. It's therefore virtually impossible to get a fix on anything for very long, and anything you do manage to get a fix on, instantly is out-dated because of its very crystallization, but you can't blame a guy for trying, especially in these provocative times when War and Peace are so visible as potential realities, and when religion is a part of the political and sociological scene, such as it is in your arenas today.

You can't ask for better than this: to have far-reaching perspective.  

Here's the value of knowing your history, for even though you gain much by your existence in the eternal NOW, you gain perspective when you see the farther view, from whence you've come and thus you can conjecture at length on how you feel you'll go as an advancing race. Historically speaking we are at another revolution.  

I was going to talk about being rebellious as a response to what's going on in your world, but rebellion is not necessarily the same as agitation, even though in the immature, agitation often leads to rebellion. It's as if you must do something, even if it's wrong. And religionists have been doing this for ages. Killing each other in the name of goodness. In a way it's a symbol of the conflict of evolutionary growth, for there is no growth without conflict. That doesn't necessarily mean war, and armaments, but it does imply conflict and resolution. And so these times are a time of mental stimuli. Many thoughts and philosophies are being pushed around and played with, weighed, evaluated, assimilated, discarded, as if a discussion of the many factors involved in the world situation as you perceive it, is going to give you the all-knowing perspective that will allow you to resolve the matter for your own peace of mind, if not for peace on earth.

How does that happen? "Peace on earth." How does it happen over an entire globe? It begins in your own heart when you cease to be in conflict with yourself, when you have aligned yourself appropriately. Appropriate to whom? Aye, there's the rub. Appropriate to the whole. But the whole has to be adequate in order for that kind of commitment to take place, and at this point, we haven't begun to garner the unity that yields the loyalty that transcends the separation that allows the whole to be.  

This is the stress, of course, on why it is that everyone become God-conscious, spirit-led. Even though intellectually it may be perceived different with each individual, in the essence of the spirit, harmony is the 
net result. Even today if you were to all set aside your intellectual differences, we would have peace on earth. But since none of you are willing to set aside your opinions, it's necessary for us to have this growth, this conflict that can resolve values such as we are grappling with in order to have a greater appreciation for what it is we truly aspire for.  

This is a sociology matter. It's the brotherhood of man. It's Human Associations. It's about how people get along. It's about the fruits of the spirit ("And by your fruits you shall be known") even while your philosophies may vary greatly and your theologies be at complete odds. It is said that if you are to have faith, then have it to yourself. In this way you aren't arguing your ideas, you are living your beliefs - and those are values, meanings and ethics - not tenets. If you want to argue tenets, you're talking politics.  

There are no two of you alike, and thus no two of you share precisely the same thoughts. Each of your perceptions has your personal slant. It's not possible for all of you to have the same theology because it is so personal. It is intensely personal, inasmuch as it is the umbilical cord of your identity with reality, however those are perceived. This is why people die for their faith and what they believe in. It has reached the point of that is who they are; they live it so completely.  

If you understand your fellows, you will eventually find their motives and this will lead to an appreciation of their humanity such that your heart will be open to embrace the similarities you share, the values that are at the heart of you each, even as you differ in philosophy and approach.

Education is extremely important, but education is as much of a weapon as is religion. You can browbeat a people with knowledge and only alienate their affections. Knowledge is living and needs to be shared, socialized. Socially speaking it's a long process, and spirit can accelerate the process considerably by allowing for sudden leaps of faith and insight into situations that result in understanding and thus resolve.  

All of us want to know resolve, and have peace of mind. It's difficult enough, ascending these planes of existence, without battling everyone along the way. That we all battle inside ourselves in the good fight of faith is adequate struggle, but as long as humanity prefers to reach for reality outside himself, and project his own conflicts onto others, are we inconvenienced by these revolutions of conflict as we are viewing in your world today.

Practical

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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Practicality needs a healthy relationship with Spirit
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts Lightline Teleconference 2024-08-08

Teacher: Amanson
T/R: Mark Turnbull
https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tmtranscripts/8ABA6F99-9064-47C9-A230-46CD6CAC1EF7%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“The Practical” is the way of the world but it is also the way of devotion. 

What is practical is that which is eminently doable, that which is available now, handy; in a sense, the line of least resistance. 'Practical' is a term most often applied to our daily doings, the common pursuits of living. And what is more practical than devotion to that Superior Energy that keeps all of these considerations, all of the the many different aspects of a life, going? It is indeed eminently practical to acknowledge and engage the Power behind it all. Start at the beginning, yes? Then life's other reasons to be practical - the daily doings, the many accounts and material pursuits - have a foundation, they are seen from the beginning to be what they are – aspects, chapters in a much greater story and not the story itself.

To be practical is to be observant, wary of that which is not yet within earshot, tuned to a frequency that brings news of future dealings before the future dealings arise. 

'Being practical' is often considered a dreary alternative to the adventurous life, but only if  practicality is missing its foundation: a healthy relationship with Spirit, the Oneness behind all those things people are normally ‘practical’ about. 

Life must be dealt with on a day-to-day basis – there are obligations and responsibilities, but these are only a small sliver of that which must be approached practically. “Practically” implies ‘practiceability’, that which can be done, and we know that in the realm of Spirit, or shall we say on the material plane with the help of Spirit, all things can be done. There is nothing that Spirit, with the aid of man, cannot accomplish. And this is extremely practical. 

To be practical is to be Spiritual in its most forthright definition. It has only fleetingly to do, with conservatorship of money, or withholding one’s natural propensity for change, or even fear of novelty when novelty might be precisely what the metaphysician calls for.  Being practical is allowing life to express itself as Life, and playing your part in that expression accordingly. Practical is not fear-based or hidebound. To be Practical is facing life as it wants to be faced and admitting that life now needs you to reinvent that stodgy old word ‘practical’, allowing in its new vibrancy, which admits life is invention, invention requiring you as its ever-willing partner, practically speaking. 

To be Practical is to be awake, awake and aware, of the ever-changing currents in the life you are leading and being led to. 

Prayer

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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How prayers are answered
 
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Rayson and Friends

 

 

 

 

 

 

Question: I'm curious as to how prayers are answered.

Answer: When you pray you actually - if you follow instructions and are sincere - you actually tap into the
universe circuits and, through means that are not clear to me, your prayer is routed all the way to Paradise. This is a most amazing thing - and I never cease to wonder at the miracle of it - that so many, many, many beings in all the universes could, by the simple technique of prayer, could have access to the Father in Paradise. But this is indeed what happens.

And once the prayer is received, a decision follows and through the universal administrative channels orders are given for certain actions to be taken in answer to the prayer. Now these are not always what the prayer has in mind. Few will wake up and find a new car in your driveway, or your debts are erased, or a suitcase full of money in your bed, and therefore some would say that prayers are not answered. But of course, these are material considerations and prayers are not answered in a material fashion. But be assured that when you pray there is an almost instantaneous response to your prayer in the form of celestial guidance, assistance, and - in ways deemed appropriate by the Father - you are given help that
is sought.

[In response to a question about the Lucifer rebellion and Caligastia betrayal Rayson said:]
It takes such a small amount of difference in direction on the universe scale to have the enormous effect over the course of time. A fraction of a degree difference in direction, that is all that Caligastia's behavior affected, and yet the result was to essentially derail the basic plan leading toward the establishment of Light and Life on Earth quite severely.

The major impact of Caligastia's disobedience was the severance of the universe circuits to Earth and other planets involved in the rebellion, because when this severance occurred man was left far, far more to his own physical being than would have been the case otherwise. If you starve a living creature of one essential nutrient the creature will live, but its function will be impaired. A good example is vitamin or mineral malnutrition. This is analogous to what happened when the universe circuits were severed to contain the rebellion. Man continued to live but did not thrive as had been intended because of a stunting of spiritual growth.

Yes, prayers were still answered, but through a detour - if you will - and less expeditiously than otherwise would have been the case. Yes, there were beings - are beings - here to help you, Midwayers and beyond. But because of lack of access to the universe circuits it was immeasurably harder for these helpers to assist man as he sought daily guidance in spiritual growth.

Question: I have a feeling that my strength and my security lie only in my faith, is that correct? Faith makes it possible to talk with you. Frankly, I'm uncomfortable, it’s a new experience. I mean the fact that you exist and the way that you communicate is not-its so foreign to conventional thought. I feel like I'm standing in a valley, about to climb a mountain, and the mountain is covered in clouds. And then you come along and the Urantia Book comes along, blows away the clouds and I see this mountain, its 350,000 years high, and you are on the same mountain. Is that right?

Answer: That is just the foothills.

Question: Are you that little guy way up on top?

Answer: Somewhere there. Your faith is not your only strength and support. It is a crucial one, yes, but you have your Adjuster. You have your spirit guide, your Guardian Angels, the ones who love you. You have your own unique personality and your capacity for prayer to connect you instantaneously to Paradise. You have your ability to worship, and grow and co-create with the Most Highs. You have so many areas of strength and connection to Father.

The reference to the Most Highs, technically known as Constellation Fathers, which are three high administrative beings of the Vorondadek order of Local Universe Sons, implies that mortals on this planet somehow collaborate with the Most Highs. We know from certain ancient scriptures and the Urantia Book that the Most Highs are involved in the kingdoms of men, which means that the Most Highs have a hand in creating and sustaining the larger groupings of mankind, what are commonly called nations and civilisations. Therefore by participating in nation building and the progressive march of civilisation we are effectively co-creating with the Most Highs.

Question: It's nice to know. I understand that the Presence of the Father is closer than breathing, nearer than hands and feet. What I'm confused about is praying out loud. When you are praying out loud, is that only for the fellowship of those of like mind? Is that the only purpose of praying out loud, since the Father is
within us?

Answer: There is no purpose other than those which you assigned to such prayer. When you seek to pray, even the quietest whisper of your mind-thought is heard loud and clear.

Pray to do the will of God
 
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Question: Rayson, you talked to me about a shift from a negative to positive tone and attitude. And I'm still not clear that why praying to be more loving is not also praying for myself. Because as you said, and as is in the Urantia Book, true prayer is always for others. I have a thread of understanding, and I wonder if you could expand on it a little bit?

Answer: Yes. A very good question. When you pray for growth you are praying that you may do better the will of God. You are not praying for yourself. You are praying for God. You are praying that you can do the will of God. And so, even though you are - in one sense - praying for yourself, the prayer is not to benefit yourself but to benefit The Father, and you know that The Father has you and your welfare on His mind, that you are of importance to Him and that he will watch over you.

And so, when you pray, and you pray to do the will of God, eventually you will as time goes by become more
and more be able to do the will of God, and whatever you do will reflect that, for God will so fill you that you will not be able to contain this love, and will give unto others what you have gained from God.

Remember, when you pray that in wanting to do the will of God and in praying for it, there will come an answer on which you must act. And this process of acting - in doing the will of God - will sometimes seem that it is for your own benefit. And sometimes it will not. But in either case you must do this because it will be the will of God. And as you act and live out the truth that you have gained from praying, you will more and more learn exactly what is a selfish thought or a selfish act and what is a thought or an act that is the will of God. The Father wants the best for you. Sometimes you do not know what that is, and sometimes you do. Just because what you want for yourself coincides with what God wants for you does not mean that you are selfish.

In fact, there are things that you may not be able to accomplish on your own regarding self-mastery. You
must try and try but at a certain point it is quite all right for you to pray for this to be done. It is quite all right for you to pray for self-mastery because self-mastery is the will of God. But you must also endeavor to try your best in accomplishing this worthwhile deed.

Question: I have a question which is the inverse of that. We have people that never think of God in their day-to-day activities. There are schools of thought, especially in current metaphysical thought, that we create our own reality. Consequently, some people who are very active in visualizing and praying for very selfish goals, and for their abundance, and for their situations. Those people sometimes seem to have an effect on their world. 

I believe that we are of this world and we didn't create anything in it. And yet whether someone is spiritual or not, things still happen in their lives, situations manifest, both positive and negative. My slant on this in the sense of more in a positive way. I understand the concept of prayer for somebody else, as we have the proper spiritual definitions in the Urantia Book. And yet, our selfish desires and wishes seem to manifest sometimes, as well as our visualizations, as well as our hopes and desires; sometimes better. It seems to me that there is a benevolence that to some degree gives us what we want.

Are we co-creating with that? Is that hand of God? Or is it something that would happen to us? Jesus said “take no thought for your life.” And that to me is one of the hardest things to do, the action of inaction in terms of our day-to-day physicality. And yet there are people that are very active in achieving their goals.

And I wonder if you can comment on that kind of thinking that I have regarding manifestation and why things happen?

Answer: That is a very large subject. The realms of wealth, happiness, love, pain, of fortune, are affected by various mechanisms, systems, beings, patterns, and other factors. There is chance, bestowals of wealth as in lotto, inheritances. People are born with talents, which make them able to attain greater wealth than others. There is the inner drive, the determination and capacity for enduring effort. There are also spiritual factors, but they do not necessarily have to do with material wealth, although it may to some extent.

When one puts in a great amount of time, effort, as well as other contributions to the work of The
Father, rest assured that that person would not be forgotten. He may not be given money or material gifts, but the opportunities for him to grow and to be fulfilled will be there. There are people who gain wealth but are no better for it. Sometimes they grow unhappy and do not grow spiritually. Others may gain wealth and use it for fulfillment of God's work. They use it as a tool to go about doing the work of The Father. People are diverse and varied in ways of attaining wealth and happiness. 

Question: In general, I know what you are saying and I appreciate that answer. I think I formulated a different angle on it while you were answering that. Which was, are we co-creators in our day-to-day lives? I was wondering if the universe respects our personal energy and intent with regard to our personal manifestations and wishes that are not of a spiritual matter. I know that the book says that angels will use your conditions and situations, whatever you choose, to try to point out lessons of spiritual import and nature. And I understand that one person will use wealth a certain way and another person will get wealth a certain way. Regarding our day-to-day existence, does the celestial, spiritual energy hierarchy of the universe respect our individual personal self-wishes, or is it in essence cosmic masturbation? Will stuff happen for us anyway if we are inactive mentally? Is it futile to visualize for things that we want personally? Does the universe respect that energy? Does it respect that intent? Are you working with your angels when you are visualizing? Or are you just alone in your room with your eyes closed?

Answer: From the beginning of mankind, from Andon and Fonta, newer and better techniques have been
thought of, invented - to try to have a better grasp of the universe and to shape it according to your mind.
These techniques are still being developed. Your techniques of building, farming, of creating a government, of culture, your technology, is an outworking of all this. There is more. Visualizations are on the cutting edge in your country for developing the power of the mind. Yes, these things are not just respected by the celestial beings, they were inspired by them.

Question: So then lets say I am trying to open up to you as a teacher, personally, alone, not in a group situation. Then in my quiet moments, its efficacious for me then to visualize, or to make it actual for myself as real as I can in some type of technique, and that is effective because I am using the power of my mind? Or because my intent is pure? And therefore it is bestowed upon me. Do you understand the difference? 

Answer: Yes, it is not just your intent or your motivational force. Technique has to do with knowing what to do, when to do it and how to do it. Not all new techniques are effective. Some will fall by the wayside, the ones that are effective will not. You must weed out the ineffective techniques by experiment.

Question: In summation, you would agree with the concept that we are co-creators with spirit in terms of our physical manifestations.

Answer: Yes, definitely. 

A helpful manner in which you may pray
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive September 7, 1997.
Teacher Daniel
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I now point you to a helpful manner in which you may pray. Prayer is often of the form of being directed outwardly. By this I mean you speak as to one who is another. The case in prayer is that the other is God.  Today I ask you to pray as you would normally carry on an internal dialogue with yourself. In this dialogue, you are fully aware that your other self is fully sympathetic and understanding of your expression, instantly
comprehends what you convey. Praying to your Father with this attitude draws Him into an inner experience. The more you practice this method of praying, the sooner you experience your everyday thinking process containing the mindedness of the Father who indwells you. The Father's presence has but one goal, to elevate you to the point of permanent embrace of fusion.

When you behold the events of your life which seem to either challenge your spiritual strength or distract from your sense of wellbeing, realize that your Father's indwelling presence likewise holds this view. But this adjuster does not pass upon the worthwhileness of any particular event as good or bad; simply it
discerns its serviceability to grow. I bring this up for I endeavor to ease your minds regarding unbroken communion with the Father, for I know the human mind is capable of devaluating its thoughts as unnecessary ramblings that need not be foisted upon the Father. He truly cares to share your experiences; that is the Supreme reason for His indwelling.

There are two manners of approach to this inward dialogue with the Father. Two simple words describe these approaches. One is the word "ask"; it is your assertive side of the relationship. The other is "acceptance", your receptive side. The Father Himself asks you to become more like Him. The Father Himself accepts a position of becoming more like you. In one respect you might alter the wording of "unbroken communion" and instead say it is an unbroken commingling, your willingness to acknowledge the divine presence under the most extremely mundane situations. By practicing stillness, you will find that this experience of communion with the Father is constant. It does not break off following a period of practice, but will continue. It is similar to your electric circuitry wherein a switch is placed; one line feeds from the Father to you, the other from you to the Father. Your side has the switch, you determine the continuity. Ever present, ever connecting is the Father.

Prayer will ever remain a valuable everyday undertaking
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive January 11, 2000.
Teacher Evanson
T/R Jonathan

 

 

 

 

 

 

Throughout the universe scheme of ascension, each of us finds ourselves stationed where we are at our greatest challenge for growth, yet each of us, in order to grow, must develop our skills at demonstrating our accomplishments, not to prove our attainment but to refine our attainment. Spiritual growth is not
unlike the development of physical strength. We must exercise to maintain our abilities. Prayer is not a thing that you will become skillful at and thereafter need no longer. No matter how your phrasing, no matter how precise your meaning, prayer will ever remain a valuable everyday undertaking. 

Just as one may jog slowly or one may run with great effort, it matters not, for it does the body good. A prayer uttered sloppily or one done with great poetry will both likewise benefit the soul and establish communion with its Maker.

We spend our time within only to recognize the importance of all that is about us. Our niche in life is never static; it will continually change bringing new difficulties as well as new achievements. Herein lies the importance of not becoming overly attached to a particular standing, a particular level of spiritual status, for the deeper you go into your soul in fathoming the significance of your being, the broader will become your applications in the world around you. True, you will never, ever leave behind the skills you have developed, rather you will extend them into more complex areas of application. Just as you once learned to hold a crayon and then a pencil, a pen, and then an artist's brush, the skill of that crayon is retained. The extent of your abilities has enlarged.

Today you are housed in physical vehicles, and to a certain extent this limits the freedom of the soul, but this freedom is unfolding. Every attempt you make in this life to bring greater awareness, though you may hit the barriers of the limitations of a mortal life, you are establishing the successes of your subsequent life. It may not show now.

No foundation ever appears to reveal the final structure. Never be discouraged at the enduring task before
you of this foundation-building.

What does it mean to be prayerful?
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive December 12, 2002.
Teacher Welmek

 

 

 

 

 

 

Welmek: With outpouring of your love comes the prayerful desire of your heart, and thereby you bring this
attitude into the actual formation of the words of the petition. And that, combined with the essence or the spirit of the prayer, becomes a mighty tool.

As we look more closely into the nature of prayer, we begin to assemble its components. One of the fundamental components of prayer is that the Father's will prevail in the situation or in the life of the
individual for whom the prayer is rendered. Prayer is asking for the manifestation of spiritual reality. Prayer, then, is never effective, and as you say, does not feel complete, when the human expectations and ideas
are dominating it. This is when prayer is the least effective. And, if you want to derive the greatest benefit from prayer, then find that place within you that knows the ideal, that can see the higher perspective. And
then when you feel that in your heart, ask that the Father's will prevail in this situation, or in this individual's life, or in your own life. 

This is breathing the spiritual life into your request. And even though you may not always know what the Father's will is, when you are coming from that place within your heart of an attitude of desiring the highest
manifestation that you can realize and feel, that opens the door to being in that desire for the Father's will to prevail. And this is what will make your prayer effective.

Do you fathom how important your contribution is through prayer? Do you appreciate how important it is for your minds to be so spiritized as to engage in this level of undertaking? Do you understand how important your faith is, as you grow, as you love, as you serve?

This prayerfulness of being in the awareness that the help that you desire is achievable is there for the asking. It is so fundamental for your continued growth, and for the growth of others. Be the prayer for
those people close to you, that they cannot say for themselves, for they do not have the faith that you have. Be in that place, the fullness of appreciation of what you have been given. And say a prayer for these people that they experience this as well. 

Prayer is an attitude of your heart. And the more compassion, the more understanding, the more you are willing to go into the realm of what another person experiences, the more you will appreciate what that person is living and experiencing. The more understanding and compassion you will have, and the more your heart will open, with the intention to love, and to ask Michael and Mother to administer their love into this individual. 

This is what makes your prayer effective. It is being with that person in their spiritual darkness, in being the comfort and solace, and allowing the greatest healing power to enter into them. This may be the only time
in their life that this is allowed to happen for them, because you have opened the door. You have planted the seed. You have turned the spigot of the Father's love, for it to flow through them and to begin to nurture them, nurture this seed of love that you have planted within them as your intention to help them.

You will not know how this will unfold in their lives. You will not know the environment of their mind, and how this prayerful seed will be implanted and emerge within their conscious mind. But that is not your
responsibility. You are the spiritual workers in the field. And it is your job to lay the seeds in the soil. After you have planted the seed, call on the Father's love to nurture this each time you think of this individual or situation, and ask for more love and more truth and more of the Father's will to grow within the environment of this individual or this situation. 

Ask for those spiritual agencies that can assist this individual or situation to bring their energy into this circumstance, and to be the spiritual drawing power and essence that the Father's will can be manifest. 

Center yourselves now in this attitude of loving service. Find that place within your heart that is so full of a desire to serve. When you have sensed this desire within you, find that place of intention that the Father's will prevail. Be of that trusting nature that the Father's will is the only and best possible outcome, and be in this place of sensing this intention.

Now, as you recall these individuals throughout the day, focus on them in spirit. You may not know the environment of their mind, the quality or the nature of the thoughts that they think. But you can align with them in your spirit, and feel the love that you have for them and ask that the Father's love flow more fully through them. Bring them into the presence of our Father and Mother. Present them before our parents, and ask that their love flow into this individual. Raise them up, let them be uplifted in spirit, and you will have performed a wonderful service for them. 

When being prayerful in the larger context do not underestimate the power of your thoughts, as you add
more spiritual pressure to bear on any situation on the planet. The years have taken a heavy toll. And the spiritual fabric of all of the social conditions, all of the environmental conditions, on the planet must be improved. Your prayers add more spiritual pressure, and actually begin to reestablish that fabric within the lives and the situations itself. 

This spiritual fabric is a living and dynamic fabric. It is very real. It is the foundation of new social institutions, and it must be tightly woven in order for it to make its mark in the material lives on this planet. You are creating a new identity for the world, and it is this foundation of spirit that is the new creation. For each time you pray, you are adding more threads to this fabric, when you are bringing it into the realm of the material, as it begins to integrate within the nature and fabric of society.  

I say this to stress the importance to you in your own awareness of the effectiveness of your prayers, and to encourage you to be more prayerful, that what you are doing is of vital importance now.

Be patient with yourselves, and try to be in this state of prayerfullness as much as possible. Do not be discouraged if your other thoughts get the better of you. Simply acknowledge them and return your focus as best you can to the realm of spirit. In time, you will feel this environment of prayerfulness grow within you. Your spirit will guide you. It will lead you more assuredly into deeper realms of spiritual communication. Know that any attempt you make is honored and accepted and loved and appreciated. 

Praying for other people
 
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SOURCE:  tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive January 09, 2002.

Teacher Minearisa

T/R Bill







 

 

Virginia: I have heard that as we pray for individuals that we can pray to their Thought Adjuster. That our Thought Adjusters talk to each other all the time, communicate or whatever it is that they do, and that, indeed, we can ask our Thought Adjusters to talk to the other Thought Adjuster of the individual that we would seek to influence for God's love that would then be the impetus for truth, beauty, and goodness.

Minearisa: When you pray to someone else's Indwelling Fragment you must pray in the same manner as you pray to your own indwelling Presence of God; which means you say, "Nevertheless, not my ideas, my proposals, my plans, my understanding, my smart this or that, but Your will be done". When you pray for another to their Thought Adjuster, be assured, that their Adjuster does not need suggestions.

Virginia: Perhaps the suggestions should come my direction, is that what you are saying? To my Thought Adjuster?

Minearisa: Let me see if I can give you a picture. Here is you and there is the person you are praying for. Surrounding you is your Thought Adjuster and surrounding them is theirs. You desire something for this other person of a spiritual nature: personal growth, improved communication, greater self esteem, forgiveness, whatever it may be. As you have that prayer you say in your soul, without words probably, "Nevertheless, not what I wish, but Your will be done". It goes through the Thought Adjuster surrounding you, over to the other person. If you are praying to that other Thought Adjuster then that prayer passes through your Thought Adjuster presence and your qualifying prayer applies over there as well. Then, that prayer impacts the soul of the person you are praying for, through their mind, perhaps, but ultimately to their soul. They may not or seldom will get that thought that you had, popping into their head. But something will be impressed into their soul. I use these very inadequate descriptions in order to let you know that your prayer for others is not wasted time.  

Now the text emphasizes that the greatest value of prayer is what it does for the one who prays, and that is correct. As you offer your prayer for others contingent upon the will of God, your life becomes more contingent upon the will of God. But it is also true that your prayers for others make a difference. They impress the soul. There is research showing that prayers for others can affect their physical well being and result in enhanced healing. 

Virginia: I certainly believe that prayer moves me as much as it does someone else. I think that God's love from the other person's Thought Adjuster is able to love that other person more than any mortal can do.  So I think that is why I was thinking to know for sure that my prayers were heard.

Minearisa: Yes, indeed, your prayers are heard to the degree that they transcend selfishness. As you pray unselfishly for others, those prayers are very effective.
Prayer is an exploration of the unknown
 
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SOURCE: Lightline Teleconference  2024-11-21
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Amanson on Prayer

'Prayer' is an expansion of consciousness. It keeps you aware of the possibilities of where that consciousness can take you and the many ways that consciousness — your consciousness — might be applied. Prayer puts your foot on 'The Open Road', that road that traverses mountains, streams, plains, valleys, galaxies. Prayer is your vehicle, for it lifts you as it lifts others. 

Prayer is the gift of Spirit from the Spirit, and, in full circle, to the Spirit. This is the realm in which prayer "moves, breathes, and has its being." Prayer will often 'consolidate its gains' in the physical world but prayer's real function and home is in the dimension of Spirit.

Now, prayer, yes, is most often called upon to fix things, change things, in the material realm, and Spirit can and will indeed make such desires a reality — Spirit's function after all is creation — the pray-er's function after all is creation — but Creation is so active in so many ways in so many dimensions that the pray-er may not have any idea the strength, the length, or the real function of his or her prayer. We think we pray to keep our house in order but "In my Father's house there are many mansions", mansions where your prayer may be of particular use far beyond that which you believe you are praying for. And, as prayer is a gift from Spirit to Spirit, Spirit and all its vast understanding will know what your prayer is for, what it is really for,  and who will most benefit when the time comes for the benefit. And the trust you place in both the process and the effectiveness of the process is what most steers the engine to arrive at all of its many destinations, even though you began the journey with only one in mind.

Prayer is the single most effective way to bridge the gap between man and divinity, for it not only addresses and acknowledges divinity but sets it in motion, with verifiable results; but, as I say, often not where you initially expected to find them.

Allow your Interior Partner to carry out God's part of the bargain. You have the goal in mind. Your all-seeing Partner has the strategy. Prayer is not an asking, prayer is an acceptance of change. Is it the change you were seeking? Ultimately, yes. However, you may not understand the change you are seeking. Prayer will teach you what that is. 

Prayer is an exploration of the unknown. We think of it as a simple asking, when it is our ticket to eternity and all the stops along the way.

Presence

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
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 X  = Cannot be determined.


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Your presence is made up of Spirit, Mind and Body
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive June 28, 1998.
Teacher Elyon
T/R Jonathan

 

 

 

 

 

 

Being embodied as you are, you are quite engulfed in the need to be in one location or another throughout your day. Much of your activity, in fact all, has a great deal to do with where you are located physically. You, are developing the fine qualities of presence of mind. You are learning to use your mental abilities; you are integrating insight, intuition, intelligence. Presence of mind enriches your experience in life; it allows you to pack your present moment with all that is worthwhile from your past and all that is valuable for your future.

As you might be suspecting, there is another presence, and that is the presence of spirit.

When you stand in the presence of others, make the effort to consciously hold in your mind the awareness that you are a son or daughter of God, even at the time when you feel most like the monkey-origins that your body has evolved from. Also, take the extra step to realize that you bring with you the Father; no matter where you are located He is present. This is true of all that you encounter in your life; everyone carries with him His indwelling presence. But I challenge you this day to become mindful of this truth, not in understood theory but in action.

It is forever well and good for you to always ask yourself the question, "What would Jesus do?" But today I encourage you to go the extra mile and ask yourself, "How would Jesus be?" As ascending mortals, we have folded up within us great potentials, and as you seek to peel back the layers of your being to discover its depths and its spirituality contained therein, know that from your center is the Father who is likewise pushing to the outside to help unfold these same layers.

When your evolution is complete and you stand in the presence of the Father on Paradise, you will reveal the presence of this same Father as your very being. You will present to Him the rewards of His will that all become perfect as He is perfect. You will reveal to the Father that which is folded up within Himself, experiential sonship.

Spiritual presence is powerful. It springs from an enlightened mind that understands that there are celestial hosts in your midst, that your environment, spiritually speaking, has the ambiance of the Spirit of Truth. This awareness will greatly guide you in your actions. Today I simply encourage you to activate, not sporadically, but continually this enlightenment in your moment-to-moment daily activities.

Procrastination

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


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 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


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The difference between procrastination and putting faith into action
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive October 01, 2001.
Teacher Abraham

 

 

 

 

 

 

Simon: I have been thinking about the difference between procrastination and putting faith into action. Allowing Father to do His will through others or through waiting for the "time to be right." Sometimes I see that as procrastination in my action to do something.

Abraham: Procrastination could mean many things in service. There is procrastination and there is patience. You know within the feelings of "you should do something," but perhaps have fear or are apprehensive versus these feelings of "I will do something because it serves me." I have no doubt that you can examine your mind to find the real intention. Many times must you just step out in faith without thought and do what you are most believing in. Sometimes actions are taken from an animal instinct side. I would suggest
that you see where your inner feelings are leading you, and if these feelings persist, then I would say that it is time to take action. If you feel driven toward something, allow time, journaling and stillness to find the origin of this driving force. Is it pure? Is it serving the whole? Is it for self gain or a form or ease seeking?

Progress

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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The times of waiting can be the times when new insights are achieved
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive August 2, 1999.
Teacher Ham

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It is easy to feel good when progress feels like it is being made. But, when you feel stuck, when you feel like there is no movement spiritually, or in your life in general, that is the time for faith and for trust. For the times when progress seems to be delayed, the times of waiting, are times of true spiritual progress.

Your first reaction is one of frustration and it is easy to bog down in these feelings and even to feel hopeless and despondent.  But wait, look again. The times of waiting can be the times when new insights are achieved, they are times when stillness is an increased necessity.

They are times of reflection and quiet meditation. All these positive aspects of waiting can be achieved if you will but release you expectations.

Humans are very time bound and time driven. You all have expectations for X, Y, and Z to be accomplished in a certain amount of time. But, time to the Father is irrelevant. You may achieve X quicker than expected then have a delay between X and Y that is very frustrating.

Think not that time delays are indications of spiritual unworthiness. Think instead of time delays as gifts. The Father is giving you the gift of time in order that you should be prepared for when Y is upon you. The only way to prepare for anything is to prepare yourself spiritually, and this children requires quiet time, requires reflection and meditation. You cannot grow spiritually closer to the Father during times of rapid movement when you are flitting from one thing to the next like a hummingbird going from flower to flower never resting, never stopping, never thinking or reflecting.

So it is time of seeming stagnation when true progress is made. The old adage, all things come to he who waits, is true. But, modern humans do not know how to wait. You spend altogether too much time in worry, in anxiety over dashed expectations. When you have grown in the spirit, new possibilities automatically open and you achieve goals with relative ease that would have been impossible before the period of waiting.

You are all much too concerned about the expectations of others as well. You are concerned that if you do not accomplish X, Y and Z in a given amount of time that others will think less of you. You must all realize that everyone else has their own time tables of things they are trying to do, and are barely cognizant of time going by for you.

Those who know how to act when the opportunity is given and to wait when the opportunity is closed gradually get in tune with the rhythm of the Father's time. Once you become comfortable with this rhythm of working and waiting and learn how to use both as opportunities, your lives can become full of ccomplishment with very little stress. You will learn to recognize the times of waiting and to utilize these time to grow closer to the Father as you prepare for the time of work. The Father knows what you have need of. And the Father's rhythm will give you what you need if you will utilize it wisely and recognize the patterns.

A child, when it grows tired, wants to stay awake and keep playing and in fact plays harder, and rougher, and longer than it should when tired. The wise parent takes away the toys and draws the child close so
that the child may calm down and rest in the parent's arms. The parent knows that there will be plenty of time to play after the child rests and sleeps. It is the child who is foolish and who usually ends up crying in frustration over nothing. So, remember, the Father cares for you much more than even the wisest parent cares for his child. Rest in the Father's arms when the Father bids you to rest. Trust in the Father's wisdom and you lives will be full of peace and tranquility.

Sometimes you tend to push too hard, too fast, too far and sometimes you don't recognize this extra effort as being futile until you are worn out and frustrated. But you are certainly not alone in this respect. Very few humans really ever master the Father's rhythm fully for it is very subtle and requires much spiritual attunement. Of course, at any time, your will overrides the Father's will and this excessive willfulness is always seen in young creatures.

What was there in the strong light of spiritual understanding is often obscured by the shadows of human reason and human understanding at a later time. This does not change the reality of that which is true, even though the shadow partially obscures that which is, it does not make it disappear into nothingness. Honest doubting is a healthy part of all growth. But, you should not doubt your own spiritual experience.

This experience is real, and though it may be obscured for a while, it is still strong and sure. Embrace, therefore, the Father's love. Love him with all you mind, heart, and soul. Keep the goal of increasing love always before you and all will be revealed in time. 

Your strength can be your weakness at times. Such strength is difficult to surrender, difficult to recognize in yourself. When you open your heart to the Father's love in your stillness time, allow his love to soften all
that is hard or strong. Release your strength to him, allow yourself total weakness and you will find true strength as something else, something different. 

Question: I can keep myself very busy all the time. I wonder if you can help me see some of the cues as to when it could be a waiting time and when it should be a working time?

Ham: You have arranged your life is such a way that work is always an available option so that you are never forced to wait physically. You have arranged your life so that when forced to wait in one respect you can become immediately busy in another respect. But, look closely, and you will find a mechanism of self-avoidance. You are in some ways avoiding that feeling that borders on boredom but that contains a lot
of self-understanding and self-reflection. Most people feel they are avoiding boredom but, in actuality they are avoiding self-revelation.

A certain amount can be had during physical exercise which of course you practice. But, there are times when just being alone with your thoughts, alone with no exercise, no distractions, and yes, with boredom
is very, in fact extremely profitable.

Question: Would long drives be one of those time?

Ham: Certainly. But, even then there is so much physical stimulation and attention to the act of driving that it almost gets there but not quite. But yes, certainly, this is a profitable time if you are driving alone.

Purpose

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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Living on purpose
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive December 30, 2001.
Teacher Abraham

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abraham: When you focus on living intentionally, living on purpose, you are committed to having any experience that comes your way, good or bad. You are committed to being willing to experience and learn and grow from it. You that gather in these weekly meeting and others who are committed to fight the good fight of faith are co-creators in destiny. To be a co-creator you must allow yourselves to be spirit led.

Without divine guidance we would surely live an existence of chaos and disorder. In the willingness to be spirit led we find comfort and confidence to move about in the world, to live intentionally, to be a participator instead of a spectator. To live on purpose you commit to Father that you can do the Kingdom work for the soul purpose of glorifying Him.

Regret

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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Those experiences you most regret have taught you the greatest lessons
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive December 30, 2001.
Teacher Abraham

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abraham: To be regretful of the past experience is to invalidate yourself as a learning spiritual being. To continually replay those remorseful mistakes in your mind keeps you from living life intentionally. Those regretful experiences keep you in fear of venturing towards new avenues in mortal living. Regret is heavy and bonding and not in the present moment awareness.

Certainly we are accountable for all our actions, but to be so fear-stricken by regretful past experiences is to close off to the new. Your experience has been your best teacher. Your mistakes have been assignments. Those experiences you most regret have taught you the greatest lessons. Some individuals can be so regretful of missed opportunities, chances not taken, and spend a lifetime in self-punishment. This is not liberty and allowing growth. This is discouraging and taking away personal confidence.

I realize you must make decisions everyday and all you can hope for is that you were spirit-led in them. There is no doubt you will make mistakes. Do not allow those mistakes to weigh you down with regret, taking from you your God given right to have freedom. Yes, live intentionally, allow yourselves to be spirit-led. Know that mistakes are inevitable, but do not discourage that spirit within to keep pursuing that divine path. Have the courage to be held accountable for your actions. You do whatever it takes to correct, but
do not allow regret to take from you your feelings of worthiness and confidence as a beloved child of God. Do not allow those past dark clouds of regret to keep hanging over you blocking out new light.

There was a man who had a disagreement with his father. It was really quite meaningless and petty, but these two individuals did not have anything more to do with each other. The obstinacy of the two individuals had taken away many years of what could have been a loving and uplifting relationship. This
man's father had died without ever having resolved these issues.

Of course, the man was quite regretful and with a great self-loathing. Most everyday he came across one thing or another that would remind him how petty and small he had been with his father. The pain and regret was soulfully crushing. He tried to make excuses for his behavior, but he found those empty and dissatisfying. He attempted to put the blame of the disintegrating relationship onto his stubborn father, but that also proved to be creating further unresolved issues.

The man's regret led to seeking avenues of escape. He became an alcoholic and was abusive to his wife and children. This also led to him losing his family and again facing further regret. Had this man been spiritually stable he could have perhaps taken these steps towards healing instead. Facing the fact that he had been petty and small in the first place would have been crushing to the ego, but opening up the learning spirit.

The man could have realized he is an imperfect being and admitted he was ego led. He could have accepted the challenge that humility brings. Humility is an opening for God to reach the child-soul. Instead of regretting the man should have faced the realities of what really happened and simply grieved, grieved for as long as he needed to. Praying for understanding and guidance would have been another great assistance to him.

Yes, the man would have had regret, but in facing it courageously he could have dealt with it in the moment. He could find that place where he could challenge regret and not have regret control him. This man could have bravely held himself accountable for his wrong actions and put them honestly before God.

Will God punish him? No. Father will however show him those areas that need improvement. Father will enhance understanding and show the reasons why this man acted in the manner that he did. This is a process really to work through to guard against the weight of being regretful and going through with self-punishment.

In living intentionally go forth with spiritual power and purpose of an adult in the Kingdom. Be not afraid as the hiding child, dragging a heavy bag of regrets, with eyes toward the ground, feeling separated from God and the world. Move with forward purpose, not with backward regret. Be not afraid to be held accountable for your decisions and actions. This is all a part of the adventure, children. You are not an ignorant victim of the mortal life, no. You are intelligent spiritual seeking challengers. Do not allow regret to lead to more regret, more mistakes. Heal those regretful moments with Father at the time they happen.

Our fellow from the story could have avoided alcoholism and the loss of his family had he dealt with the present regret. The closer you are to the spiritual life, the more you will walk with spiritual comfort and
confidence, the more you will feel at home in the world, the more you will trust in Father and your ability to be spirit led. Put your human regrets into a spiritual perspective — that they are merely lessons that probably most everyone who dwells in this mortal body will experience at one time or another.

Are there unresolved regrets that burden you down and keep you in a cycle of further regret, further self-punishment? What steps can you take toward freeing yourself from that burden that takes from you your self-confidence, your spiritual comfort? What habits or actions are you engaging in to cover over the pain of past regret and how can you break free?

Relationships

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
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SOURCE: This row is used for recording useful information about the source of the wisdom entry.

Interpersonal relationships - personallity commingling
 
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Rayson and Friends

 

 

 

 

 

 

Question: Rayson, could you elaborate on personality commingling?

Answer: Yes. You may sit alone and read the truth in the Urantia Book. You may have a thought of truth
on your own. But when another personality imparts this truth or thought to you and you are there to
receive it, to catch it, your personalities commingle, and if the truth or thought is carried on a circuit of love it will hit its mark, and that is the power of what happens here. You are listening to my words but you are feeling the depth of my love for you as I say them, and this is unfathomably more powerful than reading these truths.

Think of the Apostles, for in truth the message of Jesus is no different than the message of the Urantia
Book. Both have taught us that God is a loving Father and that men are all brothers. To have received this lesson at the foot of the Master would be much more impactful than to have quietly discovered the Urantia Book on your own and read by yourself.

Personality is the gift of The Father. When two personalities participate in give and take, a new facet of the Supreme Being is born. It is an act of creation as well as an act of learning.

Question: Rayson, when we rediscover this simple truth we've been talking about, and we do that with
another person of whose knowledge is commingling, and we do it - in a way - a lot of it is like a creation
that moment. Isn’t it? Or did I misunderstand what you said?

Answer: No, you understood perfectly. It is like the creation of a cell in the body of the Supreme Being.

Question: Rayson, does this personality commingling have anything to do with the fact that – a person
can help to heal himself by association with another person who simply cares for him and has a positive
relationship with him or her?

Answer: Yes. Of course. There is no hurt that - there is no boo-boo that is not made better by a kiss. There is no great mystery here to personality commingling. It is simply talking to each other, relating. It is simply one unique child of God with one other unique child of God interacting through love. The greatest lesson is learned there. The greatest love is felt there. It’s simple. It happens all day, all the time, to every one. Every burden is made lighter when shared with a friend. I spoke earlier of a circuit of love. We talked about how effective teaching is when it's sent from teacher to student on a circuit of love. That is what helps it hit its mark. This love between personalities is powerful, and when experienced, can and has many times changed the entire emotional - and ultimately spiritual - life of beings, of people. If one is burdened and holds those burdens to himself, he carries their full weight. If a friend is present and expresses love, the circuit is affected and the burden travels across the circuit to the friend who - in a moment - shares the load and the weight is lifted.

The Father also provides you with this circuit, but more readily accessible to you mortals on Earth at this time are the circuits created by your personality commingling. You must learn to lighten your burden by allowing your brothers and sisters to love you and carry their weight.

Question: Is there any qualitative difference in my relationship with other beings in this area and my relationship with you or other spiritual-morontial God?

Answer: I am sorry to say that though I love you deeply I cannot share the weight of your earthly life experience as readily as those who are here with you. You may appeal to me, to your angels, to Michael, to The Father and receive great amounts of love, however the mortals of your world can provide an empathic experience of friendship that is founded on shared material electro-magnetic life that we cannot give you. Therefore, for the trial of mortal life the burden is better shared with other mortals.

Question: What are the meaning and value of relationships on a celestial basis? When we are on the mansion worlds and beyond, can we maintain the same interpersonal relationships we've had on this
planet? Do we continue on with our friends and relatives?

Answer: This depends on the level of progressive attainment that you have attained at that time and your
relation to these other beings. You will be given an opportunity to keep on with these same relationships in the same way. But since you will be looking at your relationship from a different perspective, you may wish not to. This will be entirely up to you and your integration of your knowledge and your learnings in application to these matters at that time.

Question: Could you comment on the function of the ego in interpersonal relationships?

Answer: The ego is understood differently amongst each of you. When your will, your seat of identity is of a physical and mental plane of identity, when you identify with the comforts of physical life, when you identify with your status, your perception by others, your reputation, and you base your actions on these, you can say that this is caused by your ego. This is how it is taken or understood by many. In this context it will be dissipated - your ego will not be.

When you place your seat of identity in the Thought Adjuster or your soul, then when you deal with others, in your relationships you will act not in your own best interests nor in their best interests, but in the interests of The Father.

Question: What would you do to increase the spiritual value of our interpersonal relationships?

Answer: You can pray and worship and realize yourself. Self-mastery is the key to service and the best of
relationships. When you have mastered yourself you are doing the will of God. When you relate to others, when you serve them, you will not be serving them because of your own ego, or your self aggrandizement, or your wish to be known as a good person, rather you will serve in the interest of God and you will relate to others with the intention of doing the will of God. This does not mean that you cannot express your own feelings of love, of empathy, compassion, and other spiritual and high emotions, because these are in line with the will of God. So the more you can realize the best part of yourself, and master yourself, the better will be your relationship with others including beings of celestial origin and the Creator.

Question: I've had several experiences that you might care to comment on if you feel it's appropriate in this
environment relating to my opening up in my relationship to you and to a teacher. In terms of relationships, I have thought about the past month rather heavily the statement in the Urantia Book that the act is ours, the consequences God's. And I find that to be an incredibly powerful statement concerning ego and concerning the machinations of the human mind, that statement seems to be incredibly freeing in the sense that - for myself – it just means to just go about the business of being perfectly human, as opposed to the human conception of perfection which we all have. It's impossible to live perfectly on a sphere that's imperfect. But to be perfectly human is perfectly possible. And that comment about the act is yours the consequences God's appears to me to be one of the keys in the book in the sense that it makes us free to relate to both our brother and sister human beings as we see fit with the concept of values and meanings brought up. And also it frees us to relate to those celestial personalities that we might care to relate to. So I was wondering if you can confirm my experiences, or deny them, and comment on “the act is ours, the consequences God's.”

Answer: Your experiences are real, although they have been attenuated by your mind and ego. As to the statement from the Urantia Book “the act is ours, the consequences God's,” in your daily lives you act to make decisions. Some are based upon previous experiences - positive or negative. If they are positive, then most likely you will act positively. And vice versa. There are things, which are not – or cannot be - based upon previous experience because you will, I hope, look at each new bit of information without bias. But it is information, which is of value, and you will re-evaluate. When this happens, sometimes you do not know whether you should act or not. Your previous experience may tell you that you should not act. Some new information may tell you that you should act. When it is of spiritual value, and you think that it might be or could lead to value in a person, then by all means act! Your celestial backup, so to speak, will make the most out of the situation, the acts. What you have done will lead to a train of results. If you find out that it is negative, that you should not have done your act, well - of course - it is too late. But you may learn from that. That is the purpose of acting. Without action, how will you know?

This is the meaning of experiential knowledge. If you always only do what you know to be true, you may never make a mistake. But you will never gain these valuable lessons from making a wrong call. So, do not act upon fear that you will make a mistake. Act!

Question: How is it best to deal with the difficult personality, someone who is maybe very abusive? Which is the best way for us to deal with that for our own best spiritual growth - and for theirs?

Answer: Try to find out what makes that person abusive. Pray for that person. Try to find out what interests that person and communicate on that level. And after achieving some kind of feeling for each other, expand into other aspects such as his perception of God, his perception of how to relate to others, his or her way of dealing with problems, of dealing with that person's insecurities. Find out how vulnerable that person is. Is he open and willing to let others into his inner core? Or is he arrogant with an outer shell? Most people who are abusive are the latter. They are abusive because they have a soft inner core, which they will not let others into. And so when it is threatened and when it appears that that defense is broached, that person will lash out with an invective or an act, which is aggressive and abusive.

To try to forcefully penetrate that person's defense is unwise. It is better to subtly get closer slowly, little by little, into that person's confidence and once you have attained a relationship where that person is willing to let you touch his inner core, then you may try to talk to him about the love of God - His unconditional love - and the love between his brothers and sisters which he can have if he only opens himself. This will be a slow process and you may be emotionally hurt in the process, But, do not fear. If you desire to make this person a better person, less abusive person, you can.

But do not approach this person with the purpose of changing the person, or to be a teacher, or to place yourself above that person. Rather, place yourself side by side as you would to a brother or a sister and then proceed on that level of being.

Question: Do we have the responsibility to be in the space of very difficult people, or can we just love them
and bless them and not be in their space.

Answer: You do not have to do this. Only if you wish it. If that person is so abusive and it is beyond your power to deal with that person, then try to avoid that person, by all means. You know what you are capable of. And you know what you are not capable of. Use this knowledge of yourself to ascertain the best way to deal with this person.

Question: What is our responsibility for people we don't know, particularly groups of people on our planet who may be suffering that we are concerned about but we don't know how to help? We feel overwhelmed with helping large groups of people whom we may never know but we still feel concern for?

Answer: Would you like to express how you feel? Do you feel that you should be doing something, but that you cannot?

Question: Yes, I feel like there are things that you might be able to do, but I worry with some of the things
that other people have said to me, that some other things you might be doing would be self aggrandizing, helping people do what you think they need to have done to have a better life. I wonder if, when you are helping people, how much you might be bringing in your own ego, or when you are helping them in the ways that they need to be helped.

Answer: Even when one is helping others because one wants to self-aggrandize one's self that is not necessarily bad or evil. Sometimes one must do that. One must act, but the feeling for service is in them. And through that action, you will realize whether that service was, indeed, for your own purpose or if it was for The Father. But yes, you must act if you feel like doing service, yes. Put your heart and soul into doing that. If it turns out that you are merely inflating your own ego you will know - and then you can look into yourself and find out how you can serve others by achieving self-mastery in doing the will of God. For once you have achieved self-mastery, this feeling of wanting to do the will of God will be so overwhelming that you will not be able to keep it stoppered in you. It will by its own nature express itself.

As for the many unfortunate beings who are in their state of hunger, homelessness, sickness, and war they are out there not just on this planet but also in the universe. We must help when we can, but we must try to make sure that we do not become one of them. If each person tried their best so that they do not become dependent on others in the matter of needing hand-outs, and to try to achieve - let me rephrase that - if all of us did our utmost to achieve self-mastery, there would be less hungry, destitute, and beings of unfortunate circumstances. In other words, let us take care of ourselves so that others do not have to take care of us. When we have done that, when we are self-sufficient and we have gained enough material wealth - accompanied by spiritual and mental wealth - then we may go out and serve those who are less fortunate. But before we look to taking the mote out of the one who cannot see, let us take the beam out of our own eye.

Chosen to always act upon your highest light
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive June 1, 1998.
Teacher Abraham
T/R Nina

 

 

 

 

 

 

Father and His various assistants work diligently to help provide your needed experience. I would ask
that the next time you are in the throes of unhappiness concerning relationships, look to Father's helpers and know that they work for you. Remember in the midst of relationship difficulties that your experience is
valuable, and, you would do well to remain observant. 

Many mortals have looked back upon their life with dissatisfaction or regret concerning decisions they have made. Many look back with regret regarding their participation within relationships. Some mortals do find this regret to be an overwhelming negative energy which is appearing to consume all thought. There were perhaps harsh words to a loved one that was uncalled for, or missed opportunities to express love. There might have been times of holding back acts of service due to hurt feelings. 

Many relationships die without resolution, and these unresolved difficulties with relationships cause you to regret, to be consumed with the energy of regret. This particular energy chances to block spiritual light that would come from our Father. This blocking tends to keep us repressed and repeating past mistakes or wearing a well worn groove in the path of negativity. 

Does anyone know why the Master lived without regret or dissatisfaction? Why was His life lived as a continuous prayer of gratitude? How was He able to escape the negative energy of regret? I can say to you, that the Master had no cause for regret or dissatisfaction concerning His life decisions. All Jesus' life decisions were made in conjunction with the Father's knowledge. All His earthly doings were prayerfully thought out and within the Father's will. Jesus' closeness with His Father caused Him to live up to the highest good possible. His open mind and heart to Father's will always encouraged Him to act upon His highest light.

When one has chosen to always act upon their highest light, there is no cause for regret. There is learning, yes, also growth, yes, but no looking back and wishing you had done better. In relationships there are always opportunities to act upon the highest good within, but from experience, I know that human
emotions make it difficult. Anger, fear and envy tend to distort your ties with Father and handicapping you to receive and act upon your highest light within. 

I do strongly believe that mortals are ready to be free from the bondage of regretsnegative energy; free from the mindal torment of desiring another chance to make things right. To live in a place of regret and dissatisfaction is exactly what you draw unto yourselfa continuous cycle of unrest.

We can learn from the Master's experience of living up to His highest light in all things, concerning all relationships, always aligning the will with that of our Father in Heaven. These techniques do not magically appear, no. Through the exercising of humility do we find our ears open to our Father's grand design. Through our smallness do we comprehend His overall plan. Through the courage to take the more difficult path of controlling emotions instead of acting impulsively, do we discover the access to our highest light. 

As it was with Jesus, so will it be with you, where the only choice you would desire to make is to act upon your highest light in all situations. Emotions will not be so much repressed as transformed into positive energy. Your healthful connection here in our group is certainly a positive way to touch upon Father's ideas. Your healthful connections equip you with the strength to stay aboard the ship of faith when waters are rough. 

RACHEL: I am a little confused over our worshiping of Christ Michael and our worshiping of our Universal Father. Would our Universal Father really care if we also worshiped Christ Michael? I feel... if you show
adoration, that is still a form of worship. Can you help clarify that for me please?

ABRAHAM: Michael is indeed a loving Universe Parent, as is our Mother. We do indeed hold the highest esteem and love for them, and yet, there is one who has even created them. It is altogether acceptable and proper to adore your Universe Parents, and yet, to recognize Father's all-powerfulness in all that we know leads us to fall to our knees in awesome gratitude. Yes, I do certainly believe that our Father deserves our worship, and this takes not away from our Creative Parents, no. Father takes no offense at His children
worshiping His Son, but I would indeed relay to you that we love and adore our Creative Parents as they do us, and we love and adore and revere and are awestruck by our Universal Father. 

ROLAND: It seems to me like in my development of spiritual understanding, as erratic as that might have been and is, that there are sometimes when the kindest thing to do with people who may rely on your judgment is to remain out of relationship with them. Particularly not to confuse the issues of their particular mind-sets; the mind-set that they are in at this particular time is beneficial to them even though it may
be erroneous or appears to be erroneous to my own spiritual enlightenment. I haven't gained the poise to keep my mouth shut so to avoid any damage I might do, I've just withdrawn form certain relationships. 

ABRAHAM: There are relationships that find no resolution when there is not equal participation. Perhaps one would seek to be productive concerning the relationship and the other would seek to guard their own welfare. It is understandable and not to worry over. There are regrets and then there are lessons learned. There are those who make rash decisions and those who endeavor to act upon their highest light. I would look back and decipher those experiences which were lessons and those that were regrets. And the participation factor of each party, was there mutual devotion to the whole of the relationship or only to ones own best interest? 

Relationship = giving and receiving
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive June 21, 1998.
Teacher Aaron
T/R Jonathan

 

 

 

 

 

 

Imagine, if you will, a bucket of water on a shelf with another bucket below on another shelf, below that another bucket, each connected by a hose. You know of the principle of siphoning and how the water will flow from the higher bucket into the lower, and on down. This illustrates the principle of giving and receiving. It does this well, for it points to the fact that it is one continual process. It is not merely two separate actions, giving as distinct from receiving. Spiritually speaking, every gift you receive is one you give virtually simultaneously. Involving relationship, this scenario illustrates how integrated all of us are. In spite of our progress toward the Father, in spite of our lack of progress to the Father, we are each interconnected, and continually the flow of love and truth is reaching us.

The search for truth and for the experience of love is one that can be undertaken deep within yourself, for here is the water of life, the very water of life that the master spoke of. It is forever true that he who has seen him has seen the Father. Since he resides in the Father and the Father and he reside in you, there is the beginning and end of your search.

This divine presence is brilliant in many ways. The search within always entails external expression, for it is impossible to place a containment field around this brilliance to prevent it from being observed beyond yourself. You have been given the primary and utmost gift of all that could be given to a human being. Resident within you is His own being, God at home within yourself. Naturally His love and might will flow into and out of you as does the effect of a siphon. In some ways you may rest assured that you will naturally reveal the Father. Set aside concern of your ability to be representative of Him, for it is the law of love. It is noteworthy of you all that you are continually inquisitive and seeking for better methods to express the truth experiences of your life, for this ever stimulates the mind and inspires the heart. But you can be certain, as well, that in spite of your striving you are revealing that very presence. You may enlarge your siphon tube, you may enlarge your holding bucket, but ever and always will the fluid flow.

Evelyn: There's all this spiritual work to be done; all you have to do is ask God, and He will tell you what needs to be done specifically. I know that's true, but I still ask, "What should I do?" I spend a lot of time on trivial things; I realize that; they take time! What should we do?

Aaron: Much of mortal life entails grappling with these constraints of living which require your attention and focus your ability to choose and act as you acquire the spiritual maturity to function in larger arenas and with greater freedom. Attention to these temporal details may appear to be spiritually insignificant as you aspire to higher levels of personality manifestation. However, they are building blocks to your higher function. While as yet they appear mundane, they can be infused with spiritual fragrance; they can be actively coordinated by you into a grander objective.

Few attain the levels that can be attained, and many of you graduate prior to such attainments. It is a challenge to maintain a perspective regarding your activities and in light of your ascension career. But all of you will, as I have done, find yourselves in your post-human lives still struggling with many issues and activities that appear to be a hindrance to your progress. As the ages unfold, it will grow clearer in your mind how vital these apparently insignificant events are.

You are a threefold being: You are spiritual; you are mindal, and you are physical. When any level is engaged, whether it is freely of your own choosing or of necessity because of the circumstances of life, you can initiate activity in any of the other remaining levels. Here is where your creativity can express itself. 

Evelyn: I think of future generations. Our generation is so different from the previous. I assume succeeding generations will be different from ours. If we want to leave some useful materials in our wake, do you have any thoughts along that line? What would be appropriate beyond what we are accustomed to here now?

Aaron: May I point out a fundamental that is expressed by you, that is, that your human race, since its beginning, up to now, and including the distant future, contains quite similar longings, desires, and reactions. However, civilization is continually changing and, even on this planet, is progressing steadily towards Light and Life, necessitating the translation and redefinition of what is meaningful, yet continually fulfill these desires and longings. Therefore, what you can leave in your wake is this new translation, a fresh statement which retells the essence that has been present all through time. What one generation would receive, another would likewise. However, the terminology, the analogies, are constantly shifting as your environment and your civilization undergo change. I encourage you to maintain a focus upon the eternal essentials that are satisfying to the human soul while you become clever in your ability to re-present these truths in ways that appeal to the current and subsequent generations. In a sense it is no different than an egg and the many forms in which it may be prepared.

Renewal

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
[  ] soil   [  ] Land   [  ] Sea   [  ] AIR


SOURCE: This row is used for recording useful information about the source of the wisdom entry.

We oscillate through many cycles of growth and rest
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive Nov. 22, 1998
Teacher Lantarnek, Elyon
T/R Jonathan. Mark

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It is difficult for many beings, not just mortals currently in physical form, to maintain a head of steam, so to speak, when struggling to attain new levels, when striving to sustain current levels. We often do repeat our lessons for this very reason, much as you repeat your breakfast, lunch, and dinner nourishment cycles, that a lesson once given, though registered in the intellect and known in a statistical sense for having been stated and perceived, spiritually you benefit from recurring presentations and repeated applications. 

I address you today on the topic of renewal. During your ascension you will oscillate through many cycles of growth and rest, ever climbing higher. Each time your rest will be in comparison to prior levels; what beforehand was a difficult level to reach and maintain yet now is your restful cycle. Subsequent to an attainment there follows the fine tuning and adjusting of your initial realization. This cultivation and pruning, this nurturing, strengthens the original insight or experience, yet these minor adjustments do not appear to have the same impact that the original awakening had. But as you know through many undertakings in your life on all levels, these finer adjustments really improve, actually polish, the first attainment, the first endeavor.

Although it is not of great benefit to simply foster enthusiasm and excitement for its own sake, its own end, I encourage you today to think of the process of renewal when you are feeling stale or stagnant. Much like climbing a flight of stairs, let us picture your attainment of Paradise and the struggle to do so as giant steps. When you reach the nose of the first tread you can see the nose of the next and even slightly the nose of the higher beyond. Yet as you traverse across the tread toward the riser to climb to the next level, that viewpoint is obscured. Here in this level, growth cycle, one can face doubts; one can become confused, lacking the clarity of perception from the original view. Renewal is simply placing yourself in spiritual perspective back at the nose of the tread where you can, with your faith and with your trust, re-perceive those higher levels once faintly glimpsed. This provides strength and stamina before you make your next strenuous climb to actually attain that hoped-for ideal and goal.

Renewal is a refreshment of a status level already accomplished by you. It gives you enthusiasm anew for something which you already have struggled to accomplish. For those of you who practice music, this is much like returning to a song you know well after having spent time to perform one you are just beginning to learn. It renews your sense of ability. It invigorates your sense that you can accomplish something difficult, for it is the very demonstration of accomplishment beforehand.

I salute you all who review your lessons from all of us, for this renews you regarding prior presentations by us. It demonstrates that even a lesson of many years ago can still be applicable to you today, can restore your sight to the higher levels you seek. 

I would once again restate that your time in stillness is an act of renewal. It is actually far more important in this regard than it is a method for higher attainment. It is a time of refreshment, for reflection, for daily life is the arena wherein you face the new hurdles and climb the new mountains.

Mark: Those were beautiful words on ascension. I wonder at the relative difference of one of our caliber of spiritual ascension as compared with fusion. I always thought it beyond our grasp for this life. Is fusion a level tenfold, one hundred-fold, one thousand-fold, beyond our accomplishments to this point?

Lantarnek: The ability to fuse with the Father's Fragment is, in the scale of Paradise ascension, right at your fingertips. This statement is most true subsequent to your having made your eternal decisions regarding the Father and eternal life and your service for Him and your growth toward Him. But like my reference to polishing and adjusting, once you have this decision behind you, there is a whole new array of adjustments that you must undergo. These are quite numerous; in a sense it is like this: Prior to your supreme choice you can liken your spiritual progress to our oft-quoted analogy of the jigsaw puzzle where all the parts are in the box and all the potential is there for this attainment. Your supreme decision is equivalent to spilling the pieces out on the table. Now begins a great process of assembly.

Yet, without opening the box, none of the adjustments could be made. To have lifted the lid is the most important thing you could have done and begins the inevitable attainment of fusion, that of assembling, perceiving and, in this case, becoming that big picture.  

Mark: Am I correct that to race toward fusion is not necessarily the goal? There's no real hurry. Putting together the puzzle is our task.

Lantarnek: Yes, fusion is an event of eternal consequence, and its time orientation is insignificant in regard to the eternal ramifications. Your diligent and careful work in cooperation with the Father makes the event nearer at hand. Your hankering for, your intense desire to fuse, will in no way bring you any closer to the event itself. Your alignment with truth, your love for beauty, and your living goodness will go far greater in bringing about the event than to pray for and wish for that event itself.

In some ways the assembly of the puzzle has many events of enjoyment as you begin to discern fragments of the picture, and clarity begins to dawn on you as to how it is going to finalize. Those are multiple, and those are quite fulfilling. The actual completed picture signals a completion. After your fusion, you will be faced with a completely new horizon, one that you are more greatly endowed with divine power to attain, but one that, though rising out of your past experience, is now based upon an entirely new reality, your union with God. This you could liken to returning to your game store and walking the aisles in search for which of the many puzzles you will open next. To seek the Father before your union with His Fragment is a different undertaking than will be the undertaking subsequent to fusion. You will note that that undertaking stretches over far greater periods of time than the one prior to fusion. This is why I tell you your fusion is at your fingertips.

Lantarnek: In my capping off my little discussion I would remind you that the Spirit of Truth is the handrail that will guide you all the way to the head of the stairs.

Elyon:  I would add but little to the words of your Melchizedek instructor. What I would add is the perspective that you who are aware that you are assembling this spirit puzzle, that you are actively engaged in the construction of this image before you with intent and with purpose, are indeed making great strides for the very reason that you do this with purpose, you do this with certainty and you do this with faith.  There are many who do not yet possess this perspective of understanding to realize that they are indeed engaged in this process and that there are levels of successive growth involved in this process as you are aware.

When you first start with your puzzle it is much like one designed for a child. As you succeed in completing your task, you would then move on to a puzzle of greater challenge, one designed for an adult. If you persist, you may be challenged by a puzzle created for an expert. It is your choice; it is your pace, and you are in awareness of what you are about. Even though there may be times of uncertainty and darkness when you fumble for the pieces, and you are uncertain of their relationship to the whole, you are aware that you are piecing together this image of reality, this image of the greater whole. Therefore you press forward even in misunderstanding and darkness; you try again and again until you find the piece which you are looking for that allows you to link these patterns together.

As you have seen in your exercise, if persistent, you will find this piece. It is there right before you. It is simply at this time not uncovered, not examined thoroughly enough to be utilized by you, but it is there. It is contained in your box. There are no missing pieces to thwart you. It is simply a matter of persistence and faith that you will in time assemble the entire image and meet with certain success.

It is often hard to provide adequate perspective to those involved in the process, which is why we attempt so many times to refer to your progress in relationship to your previous state and as relates to your potentials. We are attempting to act as your cheerleader squad, constantly reminding you of your accomplishments and luring you towards your accomplishments just ahead of you.  You are indeed making excellent progress, and there is, of course, much more that lies ahead of you. We will remain on your side cheering for your every advancement and attempting to make you aware of these advancements as they occur so that you can be refreshed in these accomplishments and rejuvenated in these achievements.

Remember when your current puzzle is completed you will smile with affection and appreciation at your accomplishment, and you will realize the many steps you have taken to accomplish this. You will rest on your laurels for a time, and then you will seek greater challenges. You will open and dump another box. We will be there to assist and to acknowledge your steps as it is also very exciting for us to see the great changes which occur when you exercise your abilities.

Mary: I would like to note how your and Lantarnek's words tie into what Tom related, how his friend's position didn't appear too good until you expand your view to include how far he has come. We should not only apply the principles to ourselves but use them in our relations with others to help us treat each other kindly.

Elyon: Our lessons are meant to be helpful to you both individually and personally at the time that they are delivered, and they also carry another level, a level of examples that we would wish you would adopt toward those who are behind you in this evolutionary process. You note that we repeatedly and often praise you for the advancements you make. We are never hesitant to accommodate you at the level at which you want to
engage us. We are always offering the positive alternative to your situation. We exercise great patience with your attention spans. These are all qualities which we would hope would rub off on you as teachers in your realm. To accommodate those who are in your sphere of influence, to look to the good in any given situation, to reach and teach at any given level you are sought, and to always provide a positive and loving, and accommodating perspective, this does far more than any lesson, any message, any words that may happen to pass across your lips. Your attitude in acceptance, love, tolerance, patience says volumes more than your potential solutions or steps to alleviation of unfortunate circumstances of those around you. So, I am pleased you have made this association. 

Lantarnek: I would like to elaborate a little more on this puzzle analogy. Picture in your mind the classic shape of a jigsaw puzzle piece, and now view that as your being and view it as, likewise, cut up into many, smaller puzzle pieces. Some of them are provided by the Father and some you, due to necessity of evolutionary growth, must actually create for yourself to help form this puzzle. When you are complete you will notice that you mesh with others. Much of your friendship and bonding at this time is because you are beginning to fit your puzzle together with another's puzzle. You have clustered yourselves into a group. But each of you is incomplete. There will come instances when you will meet another partial puzzle piece and find you cannot connect. This may be due to your own incompletion or theirs or both.

The spiritually progressive individual realizes there is no need to call off a relationship but rather to continue to love and to understand the momentary differences, and in the settled age of grand universe light and life all meshing will have completed itself. Though that other individual who may not join you side by side, will join you in the overall assembly and will take his or her place in that brotherhood picture.

Mark: In an attempt to be more aware, I think this group has the potential to function as one of these working groups. If it is required to be in awareness of this, then I offer that awareness. I offer the willingness and desire to be involved in a group like that, and I think I speak for everyone.

Lantarnek: I salute you in your perception for two reasons. One, the milestone of knowing that you have before you pieces that are assemble-able into a portion. The other is that recognition where you understand that you are a portion in assembly and can now, as a group, lock in, interconnect, with other
portions. Your awareness precipitates new undertakings for you and us. This will magnify also as other conclaves of personalities rise to and attain this awareness. Thank you for making that statement. It is significant.

Mark: It is sincere, as well.  May we seek the challenges particular to a working group working in harmony.

Lantarnek: So be it.

The secret to pursuing without faltering is to understand it's a cyclical process
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive December 6, 1998.
Teacher Lantarnek
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Lantarnek: You recall that I spoke of renewal as a flight of stairs and how at the nose of every tread you can see the ones ahead, yet in the deep of the tread it is hard to perceive the next level. Conversion often is perceived as a singular event where renewal is perceived as a continuing, recurring process. In light of our stairway I emphasize to you that conversion is also a recurring process and, itself, is two-phased. The first phase is like your traversing the stairway tread and reaching the riser where you need to climb again following the plateau of attainment. Here is the critical moment of decision where you encounter reluctance, willingness to remain secure, unwillingness to face new doubts. The ease of not having to struggle is a temptation to avoid the climb. However, subsequent to your decision and following the climb to the new level, there is one extremely difficult phase in the conversion to overcome.

If you will picture the nose of your tread with overhang, it is that backward climb around that edge where you can see back down, and your grip is difficult. In order to make the distance you must continue round and on top of the next. This point is where you further foster your prior abilities and skills for the continued ascent by applying a strong-minded diligence. This is the critical decision point of actually accepting the new level. It differs from the prior decision of accepting the climb to the new level. Being able to look backward at the comfort zones behind you and being willing to forsake them fosters your faith in the assurance that you will reach another level of comfort.

Elyon mentioned the handrail of the Spirit of Truth that is with you at every step. I also point out to you the side boards that help guide you forward and resist your straying laterally. This gives you insight into the master's statement that the way is narrow. It is not narrow in the limitation of who is accepted. It is narrow in that the pathway is defined; the guidance is established, and that you must choose to convert yourself every time. These are the narrow factors of the ascent. The beauty of the ascension of a mortal creature to Paradise is, to us, the revelation of how you each finish your stairway. 

Your physical stairs often have carpets, sometimes wood, sometimes they have no-slip strips on every step.  The personality types of mortal beings in a way fall into these varieties. Some ascenders leave behind them a trail of comfort, of assurance for others of the softness and beauty of the climb. Others leave behind marked indicators of fundamental principles that should not be violated, of essential truths that must be recognized, the sure grip of making progress with the least amount of danger. You have wide range of creative allowance from the Father as to how you finish your ascent, how you dress the stairway in your climb. Confusion over what to do, what to accomplish, in personality attainment can be alleviated by recalling the handrail, the side boards, and to honestly and sincerely face the fact that you will at times require renewal, and repeatedly you require to undergo conversion.

The secret to pursuing without faltering is to understand this cyclical process, to not become disturbed at any single point in your journey, but to always hold in your mind that the important element at any point is your understanding of the overall process, for the particular event that you are involved in is part of this continuum. The continuum, the ascent to Paradise, is the important macro-event. You are educated to the fact that the ascent to Paradise, the Father's house, is the path of perfection attainment, yet it will become evident as the ages roll on that you will leave behind you many squeaky steps. This is acceptable to the Father. 

Be not concerned if treads you have left behind are not perfect. They are steps upward, not the final landing. Even the Supreme itself will ascend its own enormous stairway, not only a composite of all your treads and rises, but an overarching series of steps which illuminate to the perfect Father that even imperfect steps can create a beautiful, continuous ascent to Himself and result in attainment of perfection with imperfection. So, when you will, as you will, encounter new difficulties in your life, couple your effort to perceive truly, to grasp what is real spiritually as well as physically with the important element that, not only do you have a problem to overcome, you have your own being to convert. As you convert yourself you become increasingly able to manifest truth and beauty and goodness.

Renewal reinvigorates you from your prior attainments. Conversion stimulates you to higher levels. They go hand-in-hand, one following the other ever onward.

Elyon: Today I would like to illustrate a principle of brotherhood and fatherhood that may help you to understand your relationship to one another in light of your common Parent. You are all discrete personalities with your own boundaries. You are all - and I really should add myself - we are all together like grains of sand. We do not blend with each other as you might picture clay doing so. Yet we can be united one body of children of God through the infusion of His spiritual presence among us all, and you are trained to understand this principle through the presence of the Supreme, the Spirit of Truth; the omniscient, omnipresent Infinite Spirit, and the Eternal Son. They are like the water, the ocean, that penetrates all the grains of sand, all lifted up and, in fluidity, moving together.

Without this spirit influence you would all lie dormant. But with this infusion of divinity you all are mobile. You are continually rearranged, re-associated, creating new patterns simply through this displacement of personalities throughout the universe. So, when you do run into each other, crash into each other, bump into each other, realize that it is the fluid spirit that has given you motion. This fluidity will help you to approach forgiveness, for, even though another may not have accomplished the spiritual tasks of attainment you have, they are nonetheless swept up in the same current of spirit.

It is the spirit that is moving them as it is the spirit that is moving you, and your directions happen to collide. The difficulty you encounter is due to the awareness of your discrete individuality and your inability to blend. But the blend is nonetheless real in your common spiritual hydrodynamics. To forgive does not mean you must invalidate your own standards, your own beliefs, in order to allow another theirs and their behavior.  It is rather to understand that all the children that the Father has created are being moved by Him. If the decisions you make bring you closer to Him, He is pleased. If the decisions you make thwart His efforts, He simply rearranges so that you, once again, have the chance to choose. In difficulties, simply rearranging yourself with them can solve problems. Not the aggressive overcome and conquer, not the negative turn away and avoid, but the creative re-associaton.

You will note that the revelation dealing with the various administrative levels throughout the universe tells you about the reassignment of even rulers of the various levels. This reassignment is, like the repositioning and like the renewals and conversions, creating new potential.

Mary: It makes me think of the jigsaw puzzle and how we find pieces that look alike. Since you don't know how they fit together you group them over here. Then you realize this piece fits better with this group than with that group. I like your metaphors.

Elyon: Thank you, and that was an excellent association, for you know how sometimes two pieces seem to click together, but when you observe more closely either the patterns don't match or the curvature is not quite right. It is perfectly fine and acceptable to detach them and associate them where it is appropriate.  This does not mean you ought to condemn the relationship; it means that your relationship will be associated through other linkages, other appropriate hookups in the greater association. You can love one another even though you do not get along because of this very pattern.

Mary: It's helpful to keep in mind when you are having an abrasive encounter to know that we may not fit well but somewhere in the whole of reality we can harmoniously coexist.

Elyon: If we continue this metaphor, imagine being a corner piece where at the most three pieces connect to you. It is the understanding that you are part of the entire puzzle that brings your connectivity to all.  Where it would appear that one centrally located piece has more around it, in reality it likewise has only a few that can actually touch. This day you are all in contact with a few puzzle pieces, that is, the mortals of of this world. You are beginning to realize the closeness, the proximity, of your celestial puzzle pieces. In time your puzzle will three-dimensionalize and stack very deep and connect up and down as well as crosswise in a planar sense. Therefore, the effort you make to deepen the relationship that you have with your closest associates will translate themselves far and wide as your life unfolds world after world.

Evelyn: If you think of us as grains of sand with sharp edges no wonder we abrade each other.

Mary: And I was thinking how all this fluidity sands us down, smoothes us so we might fit in with each other better. Tumble those puzzle pieces.

The growth process is continual
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive December 13, 1998
Teacher Elyon, Malvantra
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Tom: In light of our recent studies in renewal and conversion, the point was made that renewal was continuous, and conversion is also. You used the analogy that, as in music, a person will go back to playing a song again, a form of reversion of an already accomplished function. Conversion stimulates you to a higher level. There's something I don't understand about conversion. I thought of an atheist converting to a religion, yet you mention we have to convert ourselves all the way to Paradise. I need a definition of conversion. I believe it falls on worship and it falls in the realm of feelings, which is composed of willingness, welcoming, and wonder. I see how one could languish until propelled out of a situation. A problem would connect conversion and renewal. A problem makes you dissatisfied, willing to look higher, to wonder what is on the next level, and welcome the opportunity to do that. Can you give me an example of what conversion is? Could you use it in a musical context?

Elyon: First, my friend, I must applaud your efforts at grasping the finer points of the lessons. Much can be learned by way of example in your efforts to cross-reference and to assimilate these teachings. I would now point out that this conversion for which you seek definition is, in fact, the very process of embracing a new and higher technique in the place of an old and inferior one. I would offer the example that, once a parent learns that to strike a child may be harmful and injurious and unhelpful in the process of training that child, then a parent will embrace a higher method of training and will in the process eliminate the older practice. This process of growth is what is continual, of embracing the new and higher way and releasing the former and lower way. In your studies of our lessons you are continually seeking, albeit somewhat unconsciously, to replace existing frameworks under which you function with new and higher ones. This conversion is only made real and genuine when you no longer look back, when you no longer adopt your former mind-frame and fully and completely change your manner of thinking of being to embrace and accept the new and higher way. When you have completed this process of conversion and acceptance you are renewed, you are as if made fresh again with a new framework in which to operate.

You have observed that problems or troubles are a factor in this conversion process, and this is correct. I would only amend this to refer to these occasions as opportunities. They may not always consist of problems or troubles or distasteful encounters but may also consist of longing, yearning, and desire. Either way, the effect is the same as a propellant to urge you forward to seek a new and higher understanding, a new and higher level of existence. Then, once having seen this new arena, it is incumbent upon you as progressive mortals to embrace it, to accept it as your reality and in so doing release from your existence things which are subsequently inconsistent and incompatible with this new view which you now hold. This is most difficult for beings of your order because you are very prone to remain in states which have become comfortable, familiar to you.

It takes courage, strength, and wisdom to reach outside of your comfort zone and to look outside of your sphere for a higher truth, a better way. It takes even greater strength and courage and faith to adopt this new and higher way for your own. You are learning, however, that when you undertake this exercise the rewards are great; the return for your efforts is immense. It may be uncomfortable in the beginning for you to undertake this activity, but each one of you here has learned that once accomplished it is not a frightening prospect but a glorious one. So, as you grow your life is a series of embracing a new, higher way and releasing from your being a way that is no longer consistent with this new truth.

Tom: Process is key. Love is a direction, not an attainment. It seems this conversion is an inversion of that phrase.

Elyon: It is very much likened to a continuing process, as you speak of, in that you never truly outgrow the need to reach outside of yourself for something higher. Therefore this process of growth and shedding of your old skins, if you will, is a long term process in which one should learn to take comfort and dispel the fear which can accompany this process.

Malvantra: I wish to give you my version of conversion. Let me approach this by qualifying a few things. If we treat this process from a musical perspective we can derive a few more insights. Repeating a song previously learned is a refreshing reversion, the expression of attained skill and the pleasure of repeated accomplishment. 

Renewal has an extra dimension to it. In returning to repeat a learned song, in the cycle of returning and repeating you apply new arrangements. You play the chord in a different manner because your growth has forever changed you, making you capable of a new expression upon the old pattern.

When problems, conflicts, present themselves, as would be the case when confronted with the prospect of learning a new piece of music, the creature-will can resist the effort, can erect decoys to avoid the undertaking. You can, instead of conversion, indulge in diversion. This is comparable to playing the same song but in another key, giving you the feeling that you are doing something but yet not approaching the new.

And of course there are the two most negative elements, those being aversion and perversion. If you were to play your tune in these manners we would turn the volume down.

Conversion is not only the taking on of the new way of being, in our analogy learning the song, it is also the transformation of yourself into that new song you not only have in you a reality dimension as yet undiscovered, but you have developed within yourself a creature attainment that was not available
beforehand.

The Analogy of the Wheel

I would like to offer you another analogy. You know that personality is changeless.  If we take the imagery of a wheel, we can blend some to of these ideas together, hoping to increase our insight. If you consider the axle of the wheel as your personality, it is motionless in itself, yet the rest of you is in constant change. You can liken the axle as the Spirit of Truth, the ball bearings as the endowments of spirit ministry and mind, the spokes and hub as your education and training, your experiences gone by and those ever-important elements of faith, of trust. The treads, the tire itself, is your soul which experiences constant change. Unlike your material wheel where the treads wear bare, your soul increases in its ability to grip, becomes stronger, thicker, in every revolution.

Renewal is the cycle of the wheel when it leaves the road and rises back to the top of the revolution, picking you up and preparing you for the next episode. Conversion is when you head back down the rotation to meet a new event on your path to Paradise. The personality moves forward in this process in spite of the fact that it has never, itself, turned over. All else that makes up your being is in constant movement. This movement propels your being forward.

The Father's presence is much like the fork of a bicycle that guides you toward Him on Paradise. When you waver, the Father endeavors to bring you back into balance. Here you are learning simple things like how to inflate the tire, how to prepare it for motion, how to stand upright.

The one thing we ask of you all is that you remove the fenders of your wheel and let the mud fly. Let the truth and the goodness and beauty you experience be flung far and wide.

Mark: I have been grappling with desires to jump on this renewal energy. My desire is strong but my flesh is weak. How can I gain strength to adopt some of the higher ways that my mind knows but my being refuses to embrace?

Elyon: You are not unlike the rest of your fellows in this dilemma, for you all are dual nature. You know that when a wheel is spun eventually it comes to a standstill due to the results of friction. You will ever be faced with this present condition, for that is part of the necessary ingredient in time and space that fosters growth through the presence of resistance. What you can do is, as you have stated, perceive, take note, of those elements in your life that contribute to the resistance, those that are hinged upon your decision-making influences, for those factors are like the application of the handbrake to the rim of your wheel.

It would be a pleasure to all of us growing souls to have a downhill coast, but this is not the case. Encourage yourself with joy when you realize you are pedaling uphill. Your question to me indicates uphill movement rather than the downhill, out of control, slide.

If you inventory deliberately, concretely, your high ideals and desires and that about yourself which annoys you, it will help to clarify the many factors involved, but more so it will give you an intensified period of time for reflection that isn't merely passing thoughts as you do other things. It is a focused meditation.

You know that it is not through the resistance of what you dislike that you overcome what you do not approve of, but it is your love for what you do like that brings you closer to the ideal person you wish to be. When you list, make effort to tip the scale heavy on your hopes, your wishes, your goals, your values that are ideal to counter that all is hopeless when your list of negatives appears too long.

Both personal ministry to others and growth of oneself have the same conflicts. Applying this principle to projects will bring the same desired results they do in regard to your own growth of self. But I assure you, my friend, that your expression today is the greatest element towards forward progress.

In reflection, you know that as you grew from infancy to childhood how many toys that were loved dearly soon faded away as you began to take on interests of an older self, a more mature self. You did not have to deliberately dispose of those objects; they lost their lure. As you seek the maturity of a growing spirit being, much of what you wish to dispose of will, of its own, remove itself. But it is good to assess your condition.

Far too few on this world spend time in that reflection. The master spent many hours reflecting on his life condition when here on Urantia and what his future would be in light of the Father's will. His apostles often failed in this same method because they would not fearlessly face themselves in this manner. They relied upon constructs taught to them by their culture.

It is quite common for all social creatures to feel constrained by the expectations of those around them. In order to promote social harmony a certain degree of flex is required where you may not perform to your ideal but the interworking of fellows runs smoother. But one must be willing to stand steadfast to your high ideals, to not let the social tides sway you when you know of certainty the truth of how better to behave.

I hope this brings to mind for you many aspects that can help both increase your understanding of your current position and promote a clearer view of your forward progress.

Here on Earth much of life appears like a symphony tuning up before the classic piece begins. It appears so disharmonious and random and scattered. The condition of the world today in the end will contribute to immense faith on your part. Your experience of finding a tune for yourself among all the clatter will carry with you into the stretches of eternity and will reward you again and again, age upon age. So, even though within the year or the next you still struggle with these conflicts, rest assured of your eventual triumph. You will attain your desired goals, but this assurance should never foster complacency. It does require hard work.

Responsibility

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Responsibility in our interpersonal relationships
 
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Question: I've been thinking about responsibility and I wonder if you could comment about responsibility in our interpersonal relationships? And how does that relate to our spiritual growth - in our connection with God as well?

Answer: Your responsibility is to yourself, to other mortal creatures, to your Thought Adjuster, to the
Supreme, to the Ultimate. Your responsibility is to do what you can to fulfill your potential, but the foundation for this question lies in your own will, your own choice of what you want to do. No one can make you shoulder the burden of responsibility. You are given the free-choice will to do as you wish. Your Thought Adjuster leads you, guides you, and wants you to make the right choices. And once you have made the supreme decision to do the will of The Father, then your responsibility lies to yourself. The Supreme will eventually get all your painstakingly earned experiential values whether you choose to survive or not. The Thought Adjuster is, and will always be, eternal, but you, yourself, the responsibility for you to become a Finaliter, rests only on yourself. None other.

Question: So responsibility is something that as we accept it, we are given more opportunity to accept more
and more. Is that correct? (Yes) And there seems to be a direct connection from the assumption of responsibility to our own spiritual growth - from what you say?

Answer: Yes, not only the assuming of responsibility but in actually realizing what you have assumed.

Question: I read in the Urantia Book today that the I AM is ultimately the responsible entity in the Universe, where the buck stops - as we say - the buck stops here at the I AM. So in striving to be more like The Father, among other things, we would want to strive to assume these responsibilities that are brought to us?

Answer: Yes. In one sense in a cosmic way The Father is responsible for everything for he is the First Source and Center from which everything sprang. But when He gave you free will, think about all of this, He is letting you be a creator also. You are a co-creator and as a co-creator of your soul, you must assume some responsibility for that, also.

To keep to oneself in isolation or fear is such a sorrowful experience
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive October 01, 2001.
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Abraham: To keep to oneself perhaps in isolation or fear is such a sorrowful experience on the mortal path. You give not, therefore you receive not. To believe you need to only care for yourself is spiritually stifling and lonely. To feel a responsibility to your fellows well-being gives one great purpose and required spiritual experience.

The youth look at life with carefree eyes. They worry not about raising a family, paying bills, or even where their future may be headed. They truly are indebted to no one, but they are solely focused on themselves, not all youth mind you, but some, and even in this experience there is value. There are many thoughtful young people who tend to ill parents or younger siblings, but many youth have not thought for those around them. This is natural. The story changes however when they become parents. They are more likely to take care of themselves so they can give to their children. They live not the risky life they had before.

Do you see how personally ministering to others brings fruit to your own lives? To feel responsible for the well-being of the whole is a servant of God. If you are responsible for more than just yourselves, are you not more likely to make decisions that benefit the whole and not just yourself? Many fear personal ministry because they believe that it is a task too great for them, too much of a burden perhaps.

If you ponder the life of the Master you see that there was no burden too great for Him to bear. His love for His fellows made it an honor to minister — not an imposition. Jesus lived the perfected mortal life. He was
with excellent balance mentally, physically and spiritually. He mastered self-forgetfulness, but was tended to in every way. He looked at every man as His brother and every woman as His sister. He made time for everyone. The material things of life were secondary, but even in this Father saw to His material well-being. He felt a duty to uphold His fellows, and in this He was in the midst of Father Himself.

Every mortal has particular gifts, whether it is the gift of compassionate speech, healing, or by other means, every mortal has gifts. They may not be recognized, but most definitely is every one person good at something concerning giving to the whole, personally ministering, yes. Each one of you varies in the gifts and your added or combined assistance brings balance; it brings healing. Maybe you are gifted at helping to promote faith, or perhaps you are good at being encouraging to others. All of us add to the well of
spiritual goodness that serves the whole, quenches the thirst with the living waters. To force your gifts on others in personal ministry is not what I am speaking of, no, but to be there for others, even when it is
inconvenient to you is what we are speaking of when we discuss personal ministry.

God gave you one another. When taking responsibility for one anothers well-being, you have God. You bring out the best in one another, if you so choose. Mortals were not meant to be alone. Your experience together is required to advance spiritual levels. How awesome is our Father, that even with these recent events, He helps us to transcend our points of separation, race, gender, social status and religion, yes.

On worlds settled in Light and Life, for a mother to look upon a playground full of children she feels equal amounts of love for each child. A community who witnesses a family tragedy feels it is their own tragedy, and steps in immediately to assist. Your sorrow is my sorrow. Your joy is my joy.

This week think about your responsibility to your fellows. Journal how ministering to them brings you spiritual fruits or advancement. How does ministering to the whole minister to you? In long periods of isolation who are you solely focused on? Out amongst your fellows is there self-forgetfulness?

Rest Play and Recreation

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
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Play, rest, and recreation are vital
 
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SOURCE: 

Rayson and Friends

 

 

 

 

 

 

Play, rest, and recreation are just as vital to the functioning of the cosmos as our work. This is not to say you cannot accomplish work in the course of your restful activities. However, for the purposes of this discussion, we will separate the two areas.

In your present material mode of existence, there is a far clearer demarcation between work and play, toil and leisure, than you shall ever experience again. It has often been said that the most difficult part of any project is the laying of the foundation, and you are now laying the spiritual foundation for your long, long universe career. Therefore this period is difficult for you, very difficult, as your perception of the level of difficulty is most likely greatest now compared to what you will perceive at any later time in your existence.

Because of this difficulty that is built into the imperfect and material existence on an imperfect planet, every unit - no matter how small - of work is experienced as an ordeal and the departure from work has heightened meaning in contrast. On your planet you call the activities you choose to participate in when not working, "playing", "leisure", "recreation", "rest", among other things I shall define the three areas that I wish to address in this discussion: play, recreation and rest. We shall start with rest.

Rest

Rest encompasses the activities that the being undertakes in order to allow it's functioning parts to re-achieve homeostasis after their use, just as an engine, for example, would need a period of non-use between periods of use to optimize it's overall function. This is also true for living beings, and indeed the tissues of your body are composed in such a fashion that periods of rest enable them to repair any damage done, replenish energy supplies, and sometimes grow to meet ongoing demands for performance. This applies to all tissues of your body, including not only your connective structures such as bone, tendons, muscles, but also your organs, heart, liver, kidneys intestines, brain, glands; all of your working parts require rest. Additionally, rest enables your Thought Adjuster to more gracefully depart when necessary and to work out useful strategies to assist you in your life mission, including your own personal growth and development. So you can see, my friends, that rest is indeed critical to you.

Play

Play is different from rest although your participation in play activities can enhance your rest periods. Play is that set of activities in which one undertakes self-mastery in order to achieve solutions to problems of spirit growth and development. Your Thought Adjuster is quite active in it's interaction with you during your periods of play, and you are - believe it or not - frequently in direct communication with Father when you are truly at play. This definition of play may be surprising or even startling to some of you who may have understood the concept quite differently. But there is no part of play that involves conflict with fellow beings, faulty pride, greed or other of the base elements of behavior that we know accrue to imperfectly created beings of animal origins.

Play is a very important part of your activities that contribute to personal spirit growth. You learn how to play from your parents, from your siblings, peers and friends. If you desire to improve your capacity for play, you may wish to consult with your indwelling adjuster during periods of quiet time.

Recreation

Recreation involves activities which are outer directed although they do not necessarily involve direct
interaction with other beings. You will find as you review your own life that much of your personal recreation is in the company of others. Recreation may be defined as that set of non-work activities by which, one means or another, fellowship is enhanced between yourself and others. Yes, this may include your quiet time alone. It may be an adjunct to your work activities, or your worship activities, or even your play activities. But what sets recreation apart is that quality of fellowship attainment which invariably results when true recreation has been achieved.

You may ask, “Is this meeting a recreational activity?” and the answer is “most likely.” There are elements of recreation in this particular meeting because of your interactions with the others who are present. Certainly recreation is a vital element of this teaching mission. It is much hoped that the fellowship of the participants and their cap to further capacity with others will be enhanced through this mission. And we have indeed seen evidence to support this thus far.

Now you may ask that those definitions of rest play and recreation do not fit with our present cultural
definition of these activities. And the answer is “yes, that is true.” But the definitions I give you, my friends, are not meant to be in accord with your present state, but rather the next step of evolutionary development beyond this one. And indeed, the definitions of rest, recreation and play will change and change again with each step forward that you take as you ascend in your universe careers. However, their basic elements will remain the same.

You may ask; “Do perfect beings require rest, recreation and play?” And the answer is “Yes, but for different reasons than you do at this stage of your development.” Although perfectly created beings do not “wear out”, so to speak, with the passage of time or the burden of work. Nonetheless, rest is required for spiritual purposes in these beings. Indeed, even Father in Paradise requires rest. But a perfect being knows when to rest and an imperfect being must learn.

Question: In recreation, no matter what we do - whether it's rest, recreation, or toil - to keep the mind on
God is the good thing to do. Is that correct? It is the intelligent thing to do, correct? Am I understanding
that correctly?

Answer: Yes.

Revealing

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
[  ] soil   [  ] Land   [  ] Sea   [  ] AIR


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How to reveal God to your fellow man
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive June 29, 1997
Teacher Elyon
T/R Jonathan

 

 

 

 

 

 

Realizing and revealing are simultaneous in function. You are diligent in your efforts to be about the business of your master, that is, in expressing spirit as you have come to know its reality. When you ask, "how might I reveal the Father to my fellows more fully?" I urge you to direct your efforts to increased realization of the Father within you. This effort, no matter what stage in your ascension process you are on, at that level its degree of completion immediately, with no lag, begins the revelation of the Father to your fellows. If there is a period of incubation, it is an indicator of doubt or incomplete faith. Upon complete absorption, you are immediately ready; you are immediately capable of expressing God. There is no need to practice. The acquirement of the fruit of spirit contact is a natural outworking of the vital connection in the
tree that is life itself. When you draw on your nourishment from the roots of your divine presence, fruit is naturally forthcoming. So, in honing your abilities to minister, be not concerned for the fruit, its flavor, its ripeness, or any quality thereof. Rather look to that soil that nourishes the entire structure of your cosmic and human being. It is all a natural process. So, to be an effective minister, increasingly seek relationship within, Creator to creature.

Exposing Different Levels of Reality
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archiveNovember 14, 1999.
Teacher Elyon, Darid, Michael
T/R Mark, Jonathan

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elyon: As we endeavor to expose different levels of reality, it may be viewed much as peeling the leaves back off a plant or a fruit, each layer being a new experience and exposing underneath it a fresh, new level. You peel away the outer level and study it to discern its value and its merit in relation to your life experience and glean from it all that you are able. Then when you re-approach the fruit you find a new level of reality to peel away, further exposing the luminous light source inside. With every layer of materialism you peel away, the layers underneath are less opaque, and more of the light of the Father contained in the fruit shines through, causing different colors and patterns to appear on this fruit as you strip away and become familiar with all the various levels which cover up the inherent light within.

Wise students such as yourselves realize that there is no great hurry or speed to be applied to this process, as the layers peeled off are enjoyable and worthwhile and have value to be determined and recognized. They may indeed be tasty leaves to relish in the exposing of the fruit. You find the desire to slowly savor the bites and smells and sights and experience as ones to be absorbed. It is not even possible for any student to rapidly set about to peel and expose this fruit, as time is required in the experience of exposing this light. You must thoroughly appreciate and adopt these experiences so that they are your stepping stones toward exposing the entire fruit. Yet you all are attracted by the lure of the sweetness you perceive to be inside, and this drives you forward to desire to peel the next layer, to tackle the next phase, to further uncover the truth, the light.

Each one will have their fruit exposed at different levels as they spiritually and mentally are ready to accept the task. You are correct in that the fruit is very sweet; the lure is very appealing, and I assure you that on each level of existence we all have our own fruit of the Father we are endeavoring to expose, not only to ourselves but to all those around us and to the Father.

This job is what we have been engaged in this period we have been involved together. Many layers of truth and reality have been peeled slowly and lovingly away from your individual fruits. They beckon you with the sweetness and the brightness of their luminosity. I daresay that in your life experience you may indeed believe that at times you have exposed down to the very core of your fruit, but I assure you the levels and the layers continue to get sweeter and more potent and more powerful as you apply yourself to uncovering them. In even deciding to address or handle this fruit you are in growth mode. You are in experiential mode when you engage and peel another leaf, another layer, from your fruit. This is growth in action. With each of these efforts your internal light shines and resonates with your fruit you are exposing, as your fruit you are exposing.

This is the job we have been delightfully engaged in. I assure you that the levels of luminosity of your individual fruits is great and the potential for greater luminosity is greater still. I very much enjoy being a part of this process with you as I attempt to expose more of my gracious fruit to myself and to the Father, as well.

Darid: Let me add a few comments to our lesson today. As each of you is revealing the luminous essence of your being through this process, you can look around the gardens of the Supreme and its orchards and take note of the great variety. There are many ways in which this inner revelation expresses itself. For instance, as you unfold your layers you note that your manifold levels appear at times different than another's, and yet the same process is undertaken by another individual. You may, for instance, be like a head of cabbage; another, an onion; and another, lettuce. Central to the unfoldment of each of these plants is the expression of creative force. Central to each of your unfoldment is the creator force. Even the full revelation of your deeper self will appear different than another's yet at the same time similar as does the flowering of each vegetable reveals a different flower, a different seed, yet in the end the same regeneration of life. Knowing this, tolerance and understanding is far easier to hold for oneself. There is a great beauty in the multiplicity of this very same principle that is being undertaken by each of you and yet unfolding in such variety among all of you.

I would now like to offer to you some thoughts that may help to strengthen you when you are facing some difficulties. Often times I have observed that the human tends, when uncertain about the forward movement of events or steps to be taken to accomplish a task to reach a goal, to use the expression "trial and error". It is to your credit that you are willing to experiment and even face error in order to approach your goal, for it is true that in order to discover, in order to traverse uncharted territory, a certain amount of error is inevitable. Let us redefine the expression. Let us call it "trial and adjustment", for error unfortunately implies a certain worthlessness, inappropriateness, inapplicability. But you know, as you have worked so diligently on your spiritual growth, that these errors really, when they come into existence, apply to the process. They force adjustment. They further illuminate the steps desired. Each error is a positive, progressive mistake rather than a negative, prohibiting occurrence.

Mark: Is it correct to assume that these layers are not discarded but absorbed, becoming part of us as opposed to used and discarded?

Darid: I acknowledge the correctness of your observation and would point out to you how, when a rosebud opens, each layer that has peeled back enhances the beauty of the overall expression. Each layer contributes to the completeness of its inner drive. That is why it is good to accept ones past with all its experiential bumps and dings, so to speak, for it is all contributing to the ultimate expression of your being.

Mark: Another petal on our flower.

Darid: Correct. And if I may shift to another article, to consider our element of truth in this lesson, you are aware of your plant form the artichoke and know that the outer layers can be coarse and the inner layers tender. As one refines their spiritual dimension, this tenderness is revealed. And so it is true with the character of mankind.

Risk

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
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Nothing risked, nothing learned
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive March 27, 1998.
Teacher Daniel, Minearisa
T/R Bill, Cathy

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some of you jest about hearing voices in your heads; and yet this is the goal of every mortal being, to become fully conscious of the voice of their leading Adjustor, their precious God Fragment. Put away your fear! Put away your fear and trust that when you turn over to God you will not be lead astray. I'm not advocating foolish, intemperate rejection of intellect or logic; I'm not advocating insanity. But too much is being said that draws upon your deep fears that somehow or other when you reach out to God. He will deceive you, His hands will be removed, and you will fall, crash and burn. The leap of faith is never met with this kind of disappointment.

Let me start by saying, 'nothing risked, nothing learned.' This is a variant on, 'nothing risked, nothing gained,' with the emphasis in such a way as to take it out of the context of the business world, although its
truth there is often apparent. Consider the opposite of risk, a life where there are no dangers available to a person because they are unwilling to take risks. What would such a life be like?

Robert: Life without risk is the same as life without stress. We must have stress to live. Without stress, our systems will stagnate and die. Without risk, we stagnate and die, emotionally, spiritually. We block things up. We lock things up. And they change in negative, not in positive ways. Risk is growth. Risk is learning.  Risk is striving to be what we are destined to be by our indwelling monitor. Without risk, without learning, there is nothing.

Bob: I have two views of this. One side of me says, 'wouldn't it be wonderful to have a life with no stress! I'd like to try this sometime because it sounds great.' I'm not sure what side of me is saying that. But intellectually I've become convinced, with what Robert is saying, that it's absolutely crucial and it probably shows my ignorance to say it's taken me a such long time to say that, but it's clear to me now that nothing ventured, nothing gained, in spite of what one side of me wants to do.

Angie: On the other hand, Daniel, if you didn't take any risks would life be safe and secure?

Virginia: I think that any time one is in a relationship with another person, with an animal, with maybe life itself, I'm not sure, you are at risk, period! I think even the hermit would be at risk with material things and physical things, but I think the greatest risk is trying to be in relationship, honest relationship, open relationship with the people we come in contact. I think that's where you grow, that's where you learn, and
sometimes I think that it would be much easier to throw away a relationship, than to work through it and to keep that relationship going. That's risk to me.

Daniel: Virginia, can you say a word about what a life without risk would be like?

Virginia: It would be living on the top of a hill, with all of my needs met, and no one questioning what I am, or what I'm thinking, or what I'm doing. To me that would be a life without risk. And nothing to do, by the
way!

Bob: Can we conclude that risk is important to life because life is full of that? So, can we conclude that life naturally alludes to that, or leads to that, or it's a natural part of life because it's important?

Robert: I would suggest that we are hardwired to take risk. It is built into the very genetics that we have.  And while we may wish to avoid it at times, to avoid it, I would repeat, is to stagnate. It's built into us,
because without it there would have been no progression from life plasma orientation to now.

Daniel: Exactly. You have come to the core of the issue, Robert. Risk is not optional, it is inevitable. It is, of course, necessary for evolution to occur. It is also, as you have all implied if not stated directly, impossible to avoid.

The only thing that could be thought of as the opposite of risk would be death, mortal death. The fewer risks that you take the more restricted your life is. Consider the plight of the person with agoraphobia who is unable or unwilling to walk out of their home, even to cross the street, who lives as a virtual prisoner of the walls of their very house. And that is a physical risk. And as Virginia has noted, and Robert, and others, without emotional risks you cannot have relationships. You are not available if you're behind the safety of your defense mechanisms.

I would now like to add one more dimension to this process of thinking, and this is to ask the question, what really is there to be afraid of in the final analysis? What truly is so fearful that it makes it difficult for a
person to challenge it and take the risk? Again, my friends, your wonderful minds are appreciated. Give this a moment and let's talk about it.

Steve: I've taken some pretty good risks by the terminology of what Virginia was saying, and what I've had happen in my life so far. And to follow up on the first part. I wouldn't have enjoyed the life I've had so far without the risks. But to get into the answer now, after going through the risk a few times, it's real easy to say that the pain, the sorrow, the self-doubting, the self-destroying, the lack of self-confidence, all of it comes into play that puts you right down into the bottom of the hole which you don't want to come out of. I think that's what scares most of us. After being right at the bottom I know it, real well. But I haven't learned to be smart enough not to stay there, and I keep coming back and trying. The risk is still there, I've still got to try the risk because I can't live without the risk. I need to have that risk in my life, or I'm lost. It's real easy to say, no, I don't want to because of the hurt that I've been through so far as I risk. And it gets real scary
for me.

Daniel: You have stated well that the fear that is greatest for you is the loss of the love of another person, as well as the loss of self-respect and self-confidence. 

Robert: I would speak to another aspect of what is there to be afraid of after all, in risk. Conservatively, what will risk cause me? There is, as well as being hardwired, being genetically implanted into the organism the
necessity of risk, the conservatism of survival, whether it be physical or emotional. So with each risk the organism must decide whether or not there's a possibility of ceasing to function on some level. I see that as
just as basic as the necessity of risk. There's a balancing act. One that, by inheritance and by training, each of us must choose for any given situation. Negative experiences are very powerful, much, much more powerful than positive experiences within our species. I don't know the origin of this or whether it is consistent on other spheres, but it seems to be true on this one. So there's that balancing act involved. Yes, there's going to be risk because without it there may not be survival. But what will that risk cost me emotionally or physically or mentally or spiritually?

Bob: I think for me what Robert is saying comes down to a fear of losing position, status in somebody else's eyes. I don't know if this belonging is a need or whatever it is, but I seem to need to hold a position of importance, esteem, status in other people's eyes, and I fear losing that; and that keeps me bottled up.

Angie: Well, I don't know who it was who said, 'there's nothing to fear but fear itself.'  I certainly am not afraid of dying, but I think living is very fearful.

Daniel: Could you elaborate a little more on what aspects of living are fearful?

Angie: It's just everything that happens. It's just scary.

Gwen: Risk for me has two opposite ends. Risk in the physical world is not a problem for me. I love, I enjoy risky activities, climbing the Grand Teton, skiing 40 degree slopes on my Telemark skies; I live for that. It's
good. Challenging my physical ability is something that I enjoy. However, at the opposite end of the spectrum, at the emotional level, I'm very afraid of risk, mostly because of my disappointment and loss of trust in many different human beings. And, therefore, I'm so much more cautious now and more so as I get older, to take the risk. Recently, in my new relationship I can honestly say that if he were to break up with me tomorrow, if we're not together, it wouldn't bother me in the slightest because I haven't allowed myself the risk, because I'm too afraid of my long, long train of unhealthy relationships with people, just getting involved emotionally with unhealthy relationships. So risk to me is two opposite things. I'm not too sure
which one you were asking. But that's my answer.

Daniel: Excellent, Gwen, I was not asking for only one definition, obviously. You have given exactly what you feel, and stated it very well. It enters this stew of consideration with appropriate flavor. Now, my question was, what for you is the bottom line, what are you most afraid of, that is hardest to take a risk for? And so this answer will vary according to each of you. Are there other contributions?"

Barbara: The only thing that I was thinking of is that we are also hardwired to be social, and need other human beings. And, therefore, anything that threatens that connection is very fearful. And fear of the
unknown, people certainly remain in situations that are not healthy because they are afraid to take the risk, they don't know what lies beyond. Fear of abandonment, fear of rejection, all of those are fears that get put in the forefront when you think about the hardwiring for social interaction. I guess that's .... well fear of failure. I think it comes down to fear of the unknown, that's the bottom line.

Virginia: Daniel, everything that people have said here tonight I can identify with and probably have experienced everything that has been said. How do we know when to be assertive, stand up for yourself and break relationships, whether they're with spouses, peers, or people that walk on your toes and impose
their physical body on you, or when you try to keep that relationship going for your sake and their sake so that healing can occur. I know I said that relationships are what our life is all about, but I think it's still very
difficult.

Daniel: Now my friends, I would like to have you consider some of the 'hard sayings' of our Master, as they're termed. He said, 'whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whosoever is willing to lose his life for My sake and the kingdom's, will gain it,' or words to that effect. He said, words to this effect, 'what if kingdoms fall, everything crashes and burns, what concern is this of a God-believing faith son and daughter?' What was he getting at?  Of course Jesus knew of spiritual reality, for he, as a Creator Son from Paradise, knew from his own experience the reality of the Trinity. For Him there was no uncertainty at all.  His difficult task was to try to convince us that this spiritual reality, unseen by our eyes, was really in existence.

The good news that Jesus announced was the reality that your lives, our lives, (for I include myself
here as a former mortal), take origin in two sources, one biological, the other spiritual. His great good news was that we're not merely children of our material parents, children of the earth, but we are sons and daughters of the very Creator of all that is; and because of this fact, if we choose this relationship of trust, obedience, and joy, the material fears will not ultimately destroy us. It is hard to bear in mind on a daily basis that there is this other reality, that we are truly immortal by our consent; and that there is possible a trust relationship in a Person who is unfailingly perfect, good, and caring. Actually, it is idolatry to trust fully, 100 percent, in another human being, including yourself, for only God merits that kind of faith and trust.  

I suggest to you that the most important risk you take in your lives is to believe this good news, and once you take that risk, you taste reality. You sense that you have not been conned; you know there's something real. You feel the presence and love of God. Some skeptics would come back with, 'That's all fine and dandy pie in the sky, but how does that help me deal with my daily problems? Does that just automatically cancel the risks of courtship, the risks of friendship, the survival needs for daily bread, a roof over my head, and so forth; what does all that have to do with my real life?' And the answer is, you must discover this individually.

However, I would also suggest that the one who has made the leap of faith to believe in their sonship and daughtership, and their grand universe parents, is not any less connected to the material reality than a skeptical brother or sister, but rather has that settled peace making it possible to deal with all the risks of life that have been elaborated in the material sense, and find that balance that was stated between surging ahead, taking risks, and drawing back cautiously to preserve some aspect of your life. 

Minearisa: The topic at hand is one of core importance. The bottomless pit, as described by Steven, seems very real. There is, however, that safety net of God's love which prevents us from plummeting downward.  As God extends a hand to you it is your responsibility to reach back and grasp that hand. And what is required in order to reach out is self-love, for without self-love you cannot fully accept the love of another, including God.  

It is this self-love, Virginia, that answers your question regarding when to sever relationships, for when people treat us with less love than they extend to themselves, that is the point at which severing the relationship is the healthiest alternative.  

Regarding risk, risk is a requirement of change, and change is the requirement of growth. If you think of a bubbling brook, what keeps it clear and pure is movement, constant change, for if the movement stops,
indeed it becomes, as Robert said, stagnant. People stagnate just as water can. When one refuses to accept risk as a corollary of growth, and therefore, life, the mental stagnation that sets in is much like an early death for that person. And one common way in which people stagnate is by making assumptions that are convenient, that allow one to avoid that which he knows in his/her heart to be, perhaps, not the easiest path, but the right path. The example that Isaac gave earlier is an excellent one, and one to take to heart.  

Aaron: My vote is for the wisdom of one of your great presidents, who did say in fact, 'We have nothing to fear but fear itself'. And I vote for this because it was the habit of our Master to say, 'fear not, fear not little
flock, you are taken care of, God knows your needs.' He takes care of the grass, the flowers, the birds, He surely will take care of you. Don't be anxious, because you can't, by being anxious, add a day to your life.  Your hairs are counted, and even if they are falling out, you are still valuable, even if your society prefers you in a wig or a hair piece. You see how superficial and unimportant in the eternal perspective are so many of your fears. When you take the risk of faith, that leap into the arms of the loving Parent, you will not be disappointed. Daniel has stated this already; the Urantia Book states it consistently; I add my testimony as well. So throw those heavy weights off your back, relax those stressed muscles of self-protection, loneliness, and abandonment and see this sparkling, gorgeous universe, fully cared for, administered, and all moving in the direction of perfection. Some day you will literally stand on the perfect worlds of Havona. You will be amazed at what you see. The life ahead of us is incredible.  

Self mastery

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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You must learn to control your body and your mind
 
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Rayson and Friends

 

 

 

 

 

 

You must master yourself. You must control your body and your mind. It is more difficult now than it was in the days of Jesus because there are more things that tempt you, lead you astray, to distract you. In the olden days people only worried about controlling their inner emotions, their actions towards others, their thoughts, and other things, which were natural. Now you must control the influences of things you partake. Food, for one. Before, food was not as plentiful, and so control was not as necessary, at the most. Now there is an abundance of food, especially in the Western nations. And there are other substances. There are the illegal controlled substances; there are the legal substances, which affect your state of mind. And, of course, there are influences, which bombard you day by day, such as from television, radio, and the media sources, which arouse in your mind a certain tendency to want to react. These influences may pressure you to buy things, to do things, which are not really necessary for spiritual gain. Keeping up with the Joneses so to speak, maintaining an outward appearance, which is more than is necessary. All of these things - I'm sure there are more - but these things require control. You must put them in perspective.

How to do this? You must think of the Paradise goal, values of which are needed for survival. You must live with your aim far head, although you must maintain some perspective of what you are doing here in this material world. You must not let material values take priority. Prioritize your actions on what you must accomplish in this life. Set your goals. And make those actions, which will actualize those goals, a priority.

This does not mean that you must be a hermit, or a person that renounces the pleasures of day to day living. No. Enjoy what you have, and partake of the bountiful fruits of which your ancestors have worked so hard to attain. But do not overindulge. Do not unthinkingly participate in the wanton splurge of those things, which are now so plentiful. Do your work, and when you are finished reward yourself with certain pleasures. Delay your gratification on a day-by-day basis until you have finished with your priorities, and then you may enjoy life's beauty, take pleasure in it.

Then, in matters of service and relationships with others, always master your responses to a sometime negative reaction of others. Control your own zeal. Do not shine the truth that you know so well so that it will blind others who are not so familiar or not so developed in their knowledge.

But control means more than the negative aspect of limiting yourself. Sometimes you must know when to let go of your zeal, let that knowledge shine brightly to those who are ready for the light. And also, when others are sometimes negative, depending on the circumstance - sometimes a person may require admonition; they may require some sort of fate like scolding. These are not outside the realms of personal relationships. You must know when to do what. This is control. This is self-mastery.

And in mastering yourself you must know certain aspects of yourself. The more you know yourself the better. This does not mean self-analysis. This means just to take a look inside yourself and realize who you are, what strengths you have, and make use of those strengths. Do not be self-cautious; do not think that you are not worthy. Realize that each and every one of you have aspects which are very beneficial to others. Use those parts of you to do good to others. And your weaknesses.

You can strengthen your weakness by sometimes going ahead and doing those things, which you thought you were not capable of. Try, strive, to better yourselves. But if you know that you cannot, upon the proof of many trials and errors, then avoid those circumstances, which will cause you harm. Do not place yourself in undue jeopardy if you know that it will be destructive to you. As you progress, you may become stronger in that aspect of yourself. And you may at one time be strong enough to confront those things, which at one time you could not. And this is accomplished by - once in a while - facing that very thing which frightens you.

When one's physical organism is hurt, when one has a wound or injury, if someone places a finger upon that injury that person will yell or scream because of pain. There will be commotion because everything is not right at that spot. Look into your own selves, and put the finger of your mind upon certain places, especially the places which hurt. Just gently - do not hurt yourself. If there is a twinge, that means that part of you is hurt. There is a wound there, an injury. You must bring that part out. Have faith. Pray to The Father, and shine the light of self-knowledge upon that spot. And realize, what is this that hurts you so? If it is a very sore and painful spot then you should leave it alone for that moment, but you should be aware that there is something wrong with it. And when you have gained strength, go back and gently approach that spot. Little by little you will focus light upon that grievous injury, and day-by-day what was once painful will become less painful until it will be healed and your probing will not cause any pain. Then you will know that you are completely healed.

Doing this frees yourself from reactions that you might show when spots like those which were painful are touched upon by others, and this way you will be master of yourself when others talk or when you talk or communicate about matters regarding that spot or part of you which had that injury or wrong. We all - even I - have places within us which we are not completely comfortable. I have seen and realized all my parts of myself, which I was not comfortable with, and I have shone the light of The Father upon them. You must do that. Be free of anything within you, which might make you react in a way that you would not want to head.
There are still other ways of self-mastery.

Question: You were talking about both physical and spiritual self-mastery. Is that correct?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And on the physical side, I think I understood you to say that we should take physical care of our
bodies, is that correct?

Answer: That is correct. 

The most difficult truth to bear is self truth
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive January 2, 2000.
Teacher Abraham
T/R ?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Many individuals live daily in the desire of only understanding surface level ideas. They see the truth as cold and brutal. Many fear the truth for they fear its power over them. Truth does have power, but only if positive results come from it. If we fear truth, and are set in our ways, we are not advancing. We are not free. God is complete truth, and when we fear truth, we are inclined to fear Him. We are putting walls up between us and His divine essence.

The most difficult truth to bear is self truth. Inadequacies or short comings are fuel to the ego's fire. When we recognize something unpleasant about ourselves, it is difficult to look at that and say, "I am that. I desire understanding so that I may correct or improve." Many mortal responses would rather be, "I am that only because somebody made me that way." Blaming is casting God's light off of yourself and remaining in
ignorance.

To become aware of an unpleasant self truth is not to cause shame, but to stir the divine energies within. To admit this shortcoming is the first step in asking for help from the divine. Look not outside for others to take responsibility for your faults. Allow God's Spirit to turn you inward and listen for divine assistance. The world will become better if only one individual at a time can improve upon a dark spot in their behavior.

To face your faults is spiritual bravery, not something to shame you into striving for personal betterment, no. To bravely face personal defects is removal of an obstacle upon the path to Paradise. It is our Master's job to place the truth before us, and personally speaking, He is gentle beyond my own understanding. To know Him is to have steady growth. Admitting to Him you recognize a personal fault is asking Him for a new and better way to live, asking Him to remove an obstacle upon your eternal path.

Even the citizens of worlds settled in Light and Life take the recognition of personal faults with a rejoicing attitude. They are so happy to have awareness and be able to take action towards correction. They have not
difficulty turning inward with an open mind and bravely facing what could very well be a personal flaw.

Allow the Master to guide you inward to a place of complete truth, a beautiful realm in which there is not embarrassment, nor shame, nor the knowledge that everyone will know of your faults. Let Him guide you to a place of spiritual light. Lay out your self-recognition of shortcomings and view it honestly from the Master's perspective. Confer with Him. He is your counsel and friend — not a judge.

This week focus on the Master's presence. Should self flaws come to mind that you believe would be helpful in removing obstacles upon your path, then by all means, take it and go before the Master, confer with Him. Be aware of the ego's denial, for the ego believes the path is just fine how it is.

Life doesn't come with a pre-written script
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive January 17, 2000.
Teacher Elyon
T/R Mark

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In this arena of life there are no scripts passed around beforehand that may be studied to prepare oneself for the event, but rather we must improvise as we see best according to our understanding of what the stage and the setting are representing. This task of improvising, being on the spot as you step out on the
stage, is made vastly easier for you through your attempt to discern the patterns to be expressed through practices such as stillness. In stillness we may be granted an overall view of the action to be played out before you and with you. Having been granted this overall perspective, it is far easier to come up with the right line to facilitate the script that will play out among all the individuals engaged.

There may be many times when you find that the spotlight may be shined directly upon you as if to cue you that it is your turn to be engaged. You may find yourself with a lump in your throat and an uncertainty as to how to proceed with your part. You may recognize that you have a part to play and that you are engaged in the acting out of an overall plan, but the actual lines, the details, are left to your creative imagination. You stumble forward; you project as you think most appropriate, and you receive confirmation that you spoke in turn, in line, and adequately represented the vision you have of a part you are to play.

The more time you allow yourself in preparation, in stillness, in communion, the smoother your prompting becomes and the more accurate you become, as well.

There are no incorrect responses to be made on this stage set before you, rather, there are learning experiences provided when inappropriate responses are communicated, helping you to more clearly define your character and your relativity to the others on the stage. This is a process that takes a great amount of practice and trial and learning. But with diligent effort you find great rewards in the success you experience when you are right on the money with your cue at the right moment. Then when the great spotlight of life sweeps around and fixes you, you are confident and are not distracted by the sensation of all eyes being fixed upon you and your line having been forgotten.

A key aspect of your performance in this arena is leaving yourself aside so that the spirit of the Father may work through you and relying on the force greater than yourself to accomplish the task at hand. This is what a truly great participant on stage will master. When it is in your court to make response, to avail yourselves of the higher response which is always at the ready, to not see this spotlight as illuminating your
person but rather your beautiful, bright, and shining Indwelling Spirit; this is a truly great participant in this process.

Learning the mechanics of this process will provide the greatest success and benefit while being engaged in the process. Now is the time to perfect your skills so that when you find yourselve being called to walk out onto the stage of live and deliver your lines, you feel prepared for the task, not that you are prepared alone to undertake the task, but that you are prepared to form a partnership to undertake the task. This is how the task gets done in its most divine form.

Becoming masters of our own minds
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive January 23, 2000.
Teacher Elyon

 

 

 

 

 

 

Student: I've been reading about Jesus and it says Jesus learned to master his mind. I know it's a big question, but exactly how do we master our minds?

Elyon: There is at play in the function of mind many factors, and it becomes quite complex, for it entails the physical engagement of brain and body as well as the spiritual impingement of circuitry and spirit ministers. Primarily, however, the mastery of mind is the ability to choose and to choose with strength, to
have power in your selectivity, your decisiveness. In your reading perhaps you have pondered the times that Jesus spent making his life decisions alone in the hills with the Father, what it must have been like to mull over those significant questions and life-directing decisions. He assessed the influences that were bearing upon him. You all have these same influences: the urges of the physical nature and your longings from your spiritual nature.

Mind mastery is not so much that you become master of your mind but that your mind is a master re-director of your goals and longings for yourself and for your life. Your mind becomes the clearing-house, the exchange, for the incoming and outgoing influences upon you and those that you create. It is a process of ordering, of noting the relative value, of every influence that comes into your conscious arena; valuing them, and therefrom acting accordingly.

The human being, while yet housed in a physical form, is blessed by the adjutant circuitry of our Mother Spirit. These entities function naturally. Michael, knowing as he grew in his understanding of his true origin being a Creator Son, was able to have an accelerating effect upon this circuitry. As you have spoken of today in your discussion, he did undertake the study of human nature, and he spent much time with his Father. These two life-long endeavors greatly contributed to the working of the adjutant of wisdom and the adjutant of worship, the two highest circuits for the human being.

When the mind becomes the great cooperator with spirit, then has the human personality mastered the mind. But again I must repeat, it is not a mastery of dominance. It is a mastery of synchrony and order and efficient working, a mastery of skill.

When the physical drives of your animal origins confront you, it is the mind that must place value and meaning upon these urges and choose subsequently. The mind is never swept away by these impinging forces, but it is the director of the incoming and the outgoing forces and actions.

Each one of you is undertaking this same mind mastery as has the Master. You are accelerating this mind developing by applying all the lessons you receive. All this mind-work must proceed from your personality, for it is the personality that gives the charge that fires the circuits of the mind. It is what you choose in the depths of your being that will modify and alter the direction of the mind. The mind is your servant — and a great one, indeed — for it is the very orchestrator of your choices.

As a personality, you can be likened to the producer of a play, the one who decides what is necessary to bring about the event. Your mind is the director who actually places all the ingredients on stage that you may dramatize the desires of the personality/producer.

Student: The mind influences our choices, and our choices influence our minds. It works both ways.

Elyon: Yes, and the Master came to understand this dynamic in his attainment of mind mastery.

You cannot make spiritual understanding out of just existing
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive January 23, 2000.
Teacher Abraham

 

 

 

 

 

 

There is great value to your mortal experience. You cannot make spiritual understanding out of just existing. No. It is necessary to live these experiences and take what you can from them.

Some experience difficulty with the emotional aspects of these experiences. However, console your mind in knowing that these emotional flare ups will decrease as your mind becomes more spiritized.

Michael's Spirit of Truth is a compass that points the planet into the direction of Light and Life. The betterment of one becomes the betterment of all. Self-mastery is the key. The exposure of character flaws leads you to find healing and liberty from them, correction, if you will.

It is difficult to know where to begin when making effort towards improving upon self-mastery. The mortal experience is priceless in learning to exercise self-mastery. Though these shortcomings may be difficult to bear, they are helping to bring the planet into a new and better age. Self-discipline is difficult in a world of self-indulgence. So many seemingly empty souls indulge daily in things that would appear to bring fulfillment.

In the days of old self-discipline was somewhat forced, but with technology the minds of men and women have become ease seeking and put their faith in things material. Mortals find it difficult to go without when their neighbor waves their good fortune in their face. Self-indulgence has been looked upon as normal, as the popular thing to do.

A child who is always carried does not learn to walk. A child who is always indulged expects the world to owe him, to cater to him. A child who is taught 'no' early on learns that he needs to be responsible as a citizen in society and do his share — minister and be ministered to.

I do not speak here of self-denial, but self-discipline — being able to master the self and strengthen the divine connection. The Master could go a great length of time without food or water. He took no note of an emptiness in His bodily system. His mind was quite full and centered upon God. You can say when the soul is nourished the body, or things material, becomes secondary.

Does not the mature adult learn to save his fortune for the better quality things in life? You know that today's self-gratification does not secure tomorrow's bread. Today's self-gratification does not secure the good of the whole. What is self-discipline but a redirecting of focus. Where is your focus? Can you nurture the soul and know that the material emptiness is just temporary? Yes.

The Master could be found from time to time dashing the hopes of His fellow apostles with the reality of the Kingdom. The apostles hung their hats upon a material hook and the Master would chastise them, and even though His words were seemingly harsh, this chastisement spoke to their souls — it redirected their focus.

Is self-chastisement acceptable? Certainly, to a point. Self-chastisement serves when your focus is redirected back towards the spiritual Kingdom. It is not self-punishment or self-denial. It is not causing a well of hunger for other things. It is a closeness with Father and a trust that said, "I will wait upon the word of the Lord." Many can say, "I am too weak to practice self-discipline. I am only made more desirous of material things. I am only further separated from my God." This is old thinking.

The new way should focus on the participation in leading this planet further into the stages of Light and Life. "I can have self-discipline for it serves the world. It brings the reality of the Brotherhood of Man and the Fatherhood of God into focus." Is refraining from flying into emotional upheaval self-discipline? Yes. Is being observant and staying clam, while waiting on the word of the Lord, self-mastery? Yes.

I know these things are difficult when in the flesh. But I can promise you as you begin these practices the logic and practicality will become apparent. It will become as if there were no other way. This week define self-discipline and self-denial. What is the difference? What is self-chastisement? Note your self-indulgence versus self-discipline. Does the nurturing of the soul minister to your material needs? 

We must rise to a more enlightened perspective of community and self determination
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive March 26, 2000.
Teacher Malvantra
T/R Jonathan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Both in an individual and the development of civilization have phases that are undergone that lead to the way of life that is found in Light and Life. Initially an individual or many individuals will behave anarchistically. There is little to no regard for the interactions of others. Then, at some point one individual develops manipulative powers and there arises the kingly state, or the totalitarian state or, in the case of the individual, the innocence of the very young child develops into a strong ego, the neighborhood bully or the one who wishes to control games and activities.

After significant episodes of hardship from applying this approach to socialization, the next development is the democratic, group regulated behavior. In the individual, one notices how the teenager is largely conformative to the peer group, almost fears rejection and will go to great lengths to belong. Your political systems today do well under democratic rule where the populace at large decides the progress and path of society.

Eventually there arises the higher state of self regulation. This form of behavior, of direction in choice making and interaction with others, is not unlike the interpretation of the Golden Rule that qualifies doing good unto others as how the master or the Father Himself would treat another individual. 

When one rises to this more enlightened perspective of community and self determination, there begins to take place an expansive adaptation to singular events. Now, at the end of this evolutionary climb is the individual who chooses, but this individual is markedly different from the beginning climb of behavior with full disregard for anyone else. Now the perspective is universal, is spiritually comprehensive.

As you consider coordinating with your fellows today, be mindful of the transitional phase you can foster wherein you will evolve from a democratic form where the "yes" votes win and the "no" votes do not, to the self regulating where each considers the Father's perspective, universal truths, and supports one another in these various endeavors. Your efforts will be successful when not done as a mob but are undertaken as enlightened and independent individuals who are sincere in helping one another, in contributing to each other's purposes as each is directed by Father to undertake.

When this spiritual maturity is attained wherein you are self regulating, a new independence is found. You are free from mass movement. You are free from tyranny either from another or from your own immature self power, but it is not a liberty of prime self-importance; it is one of universally comprehensive value. 

Spiritual development in the individual is not only the deeper development of relationship with God and the contentment, the peace, and the love that springs from this relationship; it is also the coordinated advancement of all levels of your being, your personality makeup, such that you can function anywhere in this wide universe and be a presentation of the light of Paradise.

You have and will continue to find the Father even now at the beginning of your universe ascent. But it is a long road ahead of you before you will be fully representative of the light of Paradise. In this process you will go through these stages of collective coordination following behind errant individuality and ultimately reaching an enlightened individuality in conjunction with the Supreme.

Intentional living
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive January 06, 2002.
Teacher Abraham







 

 

Physical wellness and mental stability are linked, and to promote well-being in one aids the other.

In being caught up in being regretful our focus is distorted. We find that we are always attempting to atone for our past mistakes. We never really catch up to the present to partake of the new because we are still chewing on the past.

What do you really have control over? Do you live this mortal life as if you are being forced to to gain your eternal experience or are you desiring to live this mortal life because you really want to? Many in today's world feel forced to do this or that, live this way or that way, indebted to one thing or another. "I am forced to work so that I may fund my living expenses. I am forced to parent because I chose to have kids. I am
forced to care for my elderly parents because they cared for me as a child." This is not intentional living. There is no measure of joy in this. Where is the satisfaction in paying your dues to attain this or that?

There are many cycles of life you must experience, but Father does not want you to drag yourself through them halfheartedly, no. The perspective of these life cycles are distorted because the focus is all about end results. "What will this get me? Where will this take me?" There is not joy in the learning. There is no satisfaction found in the effort. A great many human acts should be perceived as sacred, as acts to glorifying Father. In the present moment awareness you find Father. In finding Father we find purpose,
purpose for carrying out even the most mundane of duties.

A farmer, who had solely focused on money, took a great many shortcuts in running his farm. He used the lowest quality grain to feed his animals, which produced lower quality product. He shorted the hired hands, who worked for him, their fare share. His drive for money was understandable, because that is what showed him how successful he was as a farmer and a man. Needless to say his lower quality products did not fare well in the marketplace. His employees did not give their best work. He made no profit and found no joy in daily living.

As the farmer grew in spirit and wisdom, which by the way did not come easy, yes, he was literally brought to his knees through experience. He found that his focus on money kept him further reaching, always in a state of desire without true everyday living satisfaction. He began to run his farm fairly, using good quality grain, treating his animals with a sacred attitude, giving his employee's the respect and a sort of a nurturing that only a father could give.

This certainly did create a wonderful family atmosphere, which made the employee's look forward to going to work every day. They looked forward to this family connection. They gave their best effort to the overall success of the farmer. What was good for one was good for all. The farmer found great satisfaction in this loyalty and comfort he received from his employee's. He found Father in these connections with his employee's. He found happiness and real meaning, yes, real satisfaction that money cannot buy.

The money came. The farmer hardly took notice at his material wealth because his spiritual wealth was fulfilling and joy producing and always continuing to strengthen him. His own success was of no importance as compared to the success of all he had come into contract with. He lived intentionally with
spiritual purpose and power from On High. He did not go about his day with drudgery because he was forced, no. He was not victim of mortal life, no. He was not control by a superior being, no.

He was in control. He was in control of the only thing he could be in control of and that was himself, his perspective, his outlook on the world in the flesh and beyond. He found meaning , and therefore he found joy. He lived not to only pass the time, but to use time to get the most out of time, and it was all measured by the meaning received and the joy produced. I do not say there was not difficulties that the farmer experienced, of course there was, but in his wanting to live life to the fullest, he felt as though he was a co-creator, not so much being forced, controlled or pressured into experiencing, no.

You are free will children of the loving First Source and Center. You are not forced to live the mortal life. Many actually opt out. You definitely have control in how you perceive this mortal life and your place in it. You have control over your actions, over your own spiritual destiny. You have control over how you influenced others lives. You really do have great responsibility in this life. Do not live as though you must conform to the divine plan or suffer the consequences. Live as though you are part of a magnificent spiritual team, who is planning and experiencing destiny.

What is the measure of your joy? What really has control over you? Are you controlled by guilt or regret? Are you controlled by spouses, parents or children? Perhaps you are controlled by what you think others are thinking about you. Perhaps you are controlled by your own weaknesses. To feel out of control is to feel victimized by this life. It is to feel forced into living each and every grueling day as if your desires do not matter.

You are empowered from On High to experience this great adventure in the flesh. You have control over the direction of your life. Your desires are known and all a part of the grand design. Your happiness is important, very much desired by your Father. Ponder these words. Take your lives and live them with intention and be spiritually empowered to move through the world as if you really desire to, not as if you are forced, no. Father did not design this grand adventure to force His free will creatures to experience
it. Know that everyday tasks are truly sacred activities to be savored, not suffered through.

Self regulation

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
[  ] soil   [  ] Land   [  ] Sea   [  ] AIR


SOURCE: This row is used for recording useful information about the source of the wisdom entry.

We must rise to a more enlightened perspective of community and self determination
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive March 26, 2000.
Teacher Malvantra
T/R Jonathan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Both in an individual and the development of civilization have phases that are undergone that lead to the way of life that is found in Light and Life. Initially an individual or many individuals will behave anarchistically. There is little to no regard for the interactions of others. Then, at some point one individual develops manipulative powers and there arises the kingly state, or the totalitarian state or, in the case of the individual, the innocence of the very young child develops into a strong ego, the neighborhood bully or the one who wishes to control games and activities.

After significant episodes of hardship from applying this approach to socialization, the next development is the democratic, group regulated behavior. In the individual, one notices how the teenager is largely conformative to the peer group, almost fears rejection and will go to great lengths to belong. Your political systems today do well under democratic rule where the populace at large decides the progress and path of society.

Eventually there arises the higher state of self regulation. This form of behavior, of direction in choice making and interaction with others, is not unlike the interpretation of the Golden Rule that qualifies doing good unto others as how the master or the Father Himself would treat another individual. 

When one rises to this more enlightened perspective of community and self determination, there begins to take place an expansive adaptation to singular events. Now, at the end of this evolutionary climb is the individual who chooses, but this individual is markedly different from the beginning climb of behavior with full disregard for anyone else. Now the perspective is universal, is spiritually comprehensive.

As you consider coordinating with your fellows today, be mindful of the transitional phase you can foster wherein you will evolve from a democratic form where the "yes" votes win and the "no" votes do not, to the self regulating where each considers the Father's perspective, universal truths, and supports one another in these various endeavors. Your efforts will be successful when not done as a mob but are undertaken as enlightened and independent individuals who are sincere in helping one another, in contributing to each other's purposes as each is directed by Father to undertake.

When this spiritual maturity is attained wherein you are self regulating, a new independence is found. You are free from mass movement. You are free from tyranny either from another or from your own immature self power, but it is not a liberty of prime self-importance; it is one of universally comprehensive value. 

Spiritual development in the individual is not only the deeper development of relationship with God and the contentment, the peace, and the love that springs from this relationship; it is also the coordinated advancement of all levels of your being, your personality makeup, such that you can function anywhere in this wide universe and be a presentation of the light of Paradise.

You have and will continue to find the Father even now at the beginning of your universe ascent. But it is a long road ahead of you before you will be fully representative of the light of Paradise. In this process you will go through these stages of collective coordination following behind errant individuality and ultimately reaching an enlightened individuality in conjunction with the Supreme.

Self reliance

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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Self Reliant individuals are rare these days
 
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SOURCE: Lightline Teleconference  2024-11-27
Teacher: Amanson
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Amanson on Self Reliance

To be 'Self Reliant' is to be reliant on that which is precisely not your 'self', but the capital-lettered 'Self', the larger You that invites your smaller self to follow along and learn. 

'Self-reliance' is a famously cornerstone concept in the foundational philosophy (socially speaking) of your country America, the continent of 'fresh Adams and Eves' , the freshly stamped individual, untainted by moldy traditions — the "New Man and Woman". But, ironically, what we find is mankind needs its brother, its sister; that man, despite his love (and need) of solitude, is a social animal. Yes, "Good fences make good neighbors", but the answer to that age-old question "Am I my brother's keeper?" is ultimately, 'Yes'. We serve. For my brother is myself. 

But that is looking at things horizontally. Vertically, the human race requires 'Self' reliance,  a reliance beholden to that larger Self, who trains the smaller self, and organizes that self, and is connected to the Sire of Selfs, whom we all host and whose Light we grow in. And as. 

But such a Self Reliant individual is a rare case these days, for the smaller 'self' is so triggered and led by the lure of daily electronic transmission and propaganda that the big Self is only rarely considered, let alone listened to. And yet ironically the purpose of the misleading propaganda is to convince the consumer that by embracing its product he or she is being self-reliant! That by conforming they are being truly independent, one of a kind, an original! While the Self that is the heart of Self Reliance sits patiently to the side of things, waiting for the small 'self' to awaken. 

Self Reliance, reliance on our larger Self, while a mostly half-understood concept, is an ideal worth nurturing; although its achievement is at odds with most of today's trends. This of course has always been the case, but understanding the concept at both levels is very important: 'self reliance' — independence of thought in the social sense; and 'Self' Reliance — independence beyond thought in the spiritual sense. It is an interior expedition, finding one's true Self. And then to learn to rely on that Self is the very essence of the adventure here. It both scours the Heavens and, in the connection this Connection creates, keeps us utterly down-to-earth, the very soul of fraternization, an ambassador of that larger Self on Whom Self Reliance relies. 

Self respect

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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There is inherent value in work
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive March 9, 2001.
Teacher Daniel
T/R Bill

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Daniel: What is self-respect as it related to doing work. It is well known that meaningful work is essential to maintaining self-esteem however that work my be defined and in whatever context that work may be done. The most severe punishment that can be meted out, the cruelest thing that can be imagined, is for an able bodied, mentally alert individual to be deprived of meaningful activities, meaningful service opportunity, meaningful employment of time. It is erroneous to ignore this, and to affirm that all inherent value is in beingness. There is also inherent value in work.

What do I mean by work? What I mean is for a person to not have discovered what creative thing they can do, whether or not they earn money from it, is to deprive them of a major portion of their human experience, to be co-creator with God with some worthy enterprise, if nothing more than their own soul. And yet there are so many who are in this prison of unbelief, not knowing that the universe is purposeful and loving, and eternal in its destinies. They languish in the presence of the bread of life and the water thereof.

Our Master said, "My Father works, and I work also." Work is creation. It is bringing into actuality that which is only latent and potential. It is a divine attribute. To labor is God-like, because it is God's will that all that is potential shall become actual. Therefor does it become of the highest value to cooperate in that co-creation from potential to actual. The work that you do on this planet, as it is usually understood, is but a pale reflection of the higher concept of work that I am talking about now. It is, however, of value, and necessary for this planetary society to function.  

Your compassion for the handicapped has provided much sustenance and compensation for the accidents of time and the arbitrariness of nature to these unfortunate ones, although it has been at times abused so that dependency has been created. And the result is a great lack and lowering of self-respect for those individuals who have found themselves entrapped in that dependency cycle.

On planets that have reached the beginning stages of Light and Life, idleness is virtually nonexistent. There, the understanding of work has been transformed beyond the mere maintenance activity required for income, beyond even the more advanced activity which is the expression of preference, doing what one likes to do. At the level of entry to Light and Life the work is essential service to other people. The work that one does to maintain their standard of living is very brief in contrast to your hours of labor. Two-hours a day in some cases are sufficient to provide those material needs, while the rest of one's time can be spent in
spiritual enhancement for oneself and service to other brothers and sisters.

Work is not something that will be dispensed with once the mortal life is completed. Oh no, work will be transformed to a higher and higher level. And here is the inherent self-worth, my friends, to work as a partner with God. To work in co-creation, in its spiritual upliftment, is to be in partnership with the Divine.

Now, you have the "unemployed." What they need while they wait for means of earning a living is to fill their time with other kinds of work. This applies also to those who are "retired." You all need to be working in the higher sense: bringing the potential to the actual; serving yourself and your brothers and sisters where the real needs are; allowing God's love to move through you and, in the process of moving through you, enhancing you, as your allow it then to reach out to others.

Remember that our Lord did many kinds of work for which he was paid in order for him to support his family. He was a carpenter, a boat-builder, a fisherman, a caravan leader, a teacher, a philosopher, but always were his "vocations" under-pinned by his real work which was to do the will of God. His work in doing the will of God was to serve his brothers and sisters, and to reveal, in that service, the same God and Father of us all.

Our work is to be co-creators with God of our own souls, of our own destinies, and to be craftsmen and crafts-women with others, with their cooperation and their consent.

This is the big picture. The work that we do is like concentric circles. It begins with the work that we do on our own soul. It spreads to those immediately around us, our family and our friends. It spreads to the society we are part of. It spreads to the planet that we are domiciled on. It spreads to the larger universe, but ultimately reaches the level of the total. All of our creation, co-creation, is part of that emerging deity.  That's the big picture. All diversity, all the beauty, the texture of creation, will be manifest in its completion. The art that you do with your hands, that you sing with your voice, that you create with your mind is just a tiny shadow of this incredible reality. Our minds are too small at this point to understand, and so our work is a joy, is a privilege. It is a divine gift. 

Sensitivity

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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It is not sentimental or wishy-washy to be sensitive
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive March 19, 2000.
Teacher Tomas

 

 

 

 

 

 

Let's spend some time in the realms of the mind, the heart and the soul that will foster and further your piece of mind, your effectiveness, as well as your happiness in your life experience.

Let's discuss your quality of sensitivity and its relative counter-part, density. You've heard it said that you live in a dense world, that the material density is a part of the material existence. The compact nature of atoms that constitute your world need to be dense in order for you to feel at home in it as a solid mass being, but your mind, my friends, is not required to maintain such density!  

Your mind is free to rise up beyond the density of the immediate area into the realms of space and imagination, ultimately en route to spirit. As you ascend up into etherial reality and out of rigid density, you become more and more sensitive to the nuances of the freedoms from curtailment which this matter conditions you to expect and depend upon; thus it is difficult for you to begin to depend upon that which 
cannot be seen. That you do, however, is what makes you aware of your own sensitivity, conscious or unconscious, of the realities which impress upon you from a level unknown to the materialist.  

Having the perspective of one who sees and knows without literal proof, affords you a new perspective, then, upon your actual material life. You have better vision, panavision, for you can see to some extent from a more omniscient point of view, the farther view. Your foresight is increased; your sensitivity toward what His will is for you is augmented.  

You have a responsibility to yourself, in your increased sensitivity, to protect it from the gross vulgarities of the material realm. There is a scripture that reads, "do not cast your pearls before swine." In that case, it does not behoove you to enter into the pig sty. And, having a vantage point of sensitivity, it will screen your mind from desiring to investigate what cannot serve you and in which you cannot effectively serve. "Would this not, then," you ask, "arrange to place you in a position to be isolated or innoculated against the vagaries of the material existence and from the growth challenges and opportunities in the arena? Would it not curtail your abilities to be of service in the trenches?"  

Yes, it would, but it would only curtail your vicarious thrill-seeking, inasmuch as if you go into a tormented area of life in order to be of service, it will be because you are being divinely led into that snake pit, that bunker, in order to perform a specific service and you will be accompanied by celestial helpers, by Jesus himself.

There are some teachers and gurus who are adored for their ability to laugh and giggle, even in the face of the horrors existent in humanity. And at first blush it would appear as though they are completely insensitive to the pain and suffering of the human conditon, but if you yourselves were sensitive to their vantage point, you would realize that as a child of God you can be and are delightfully joyed to be in the spirit, even while you are cognizant of the suffering around you and the work which would be done. To be 
happy in your own heart is not the same as being happy at the expense of others. There should be no confusion between those different vantage points and value levels.

Sensitivity has nothing to do with gender. Both male and female are in need of a greater appreciation for their own sensitivity, their own ability to hear and perceive with their developing soul's perspective. This will 
concurrently increase your confidence in yourself, your faith in yourself, and your trust in yourself, for you are relying upon that immortal Self which is becoming as your personality wills to do His will and immortalizes itself thereby.

It is not sentimental or wishy-washy to be sensitive. To be sensitive is to be keen and astute from the eye of one who truly sees and hears with ears to hear. Being sensitive is often difficult because it leaves you open to hear all that which is imperfect and instead of feeling a vicarious thrill you feel compassion and an urge to minister, to bring the light of truth and the love of God to the moment, the lighthearted joyousness that is the birthright of sons and daughters of the living God.

Your world can be very difficult, and even though you, in your faith and trust of Our Father, are enjoying the fruits of your labors with Father, you will benefit more by increased sensitivity to your own needs, as these needs are now in harmony with the needs of your Indwelling Spirit. Help your relationship with your Spirit, then, by being sensitive to your own feelings and needs. In this you will begin to sense and recognize these 
senses and needs in others when they reveal themselves to you. You will be able to more effectively serve, you will better respond to the needs, the true needs of those who are before you.  

You can save yourself much time and energy from intellectual entrapments and emotional abysses by being sensitive to your own soul and its response to the soul of others.

Service

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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What is worthwhile service?
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive June 13, 1999.
Teacher Elyon
T/R Jonathan

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sometimes you are at a loss for what you may deem to be "worthwhile" service, service with an eye to the eternal, with an intent to provide a lasting rectification to a problem or error. It is delightful to realize that the human heart does seek to serve in ever more lofty avenues, yet I restate for you that even the small
things are of value, for small service, those little events throughout a day, accumulate. They create an attitude of acceptance in the receiver of such service, that sense of friendliness, of being deemed worthwhile, that the flow of time is favorable. This enlarges the willingness to receive guidance that
approaches the soul level. That higher form of service may not be receivable to one who is worn down by the aggravations that could have been alleviated through small services.

Many are perplexed over the question, "What is the will of God?" What I have just stated can be applied to that question. Working out the kinks in your own personality, your perceived flaws of character, your recognized scars from life, can be approached in these small steps. A traumatic event of the past is hard to orient in your personality. May I pause to clarify that these events are not always ones that can be rooted out and dropped, but they need not as well be continually harmful. But if they are oriented properly, perhaps experienced, grown from, and archived, you can grow past them without eliminating them, for they were a significant contribution to your advancement. But to confront a difficult personal chore like this, small, apparently insignificant contributions can be made that help you ready yourself for a deeper, more intense reorganization. It is a small service to oneself.

It can be cautioned that one may avoid facing a difficult personal issue by distracting into an alternate event. For instance, rather than facing an issue with a family member, you wash the car instead. But if you can draw these events into a continuum, not isolate them; use the car wash as the preparation for more
difficult confrontation, perhaps. Discussion would be more ideal, soulful sharing even better. That sense of cleansing that object and the satisfaction of seeing the sparkle can bring hope that this intense project ahead of you could likewise come out as sparkling and as refreshed, rather than dreaded and ignored,
and you distract yourself in something else.

There are a few methods to apply to service. When you approach service of any nature there are three words you can think of that will help you. They are: that you be personal, prayerful, and practical. The personal approach incorporates being loving and caring, listening and accepting. Applying prayer aids in your Adjuster connection, in spirit reciprocity. Of course, if your service is practical it will be immediately beneficial. You then cover the bases of the needs of the soul, the goals of spirit, and the requirements of either the physical body or the environs that need healing or help.

There are also three other keywords that can benefit when applying yourself in service. These are: forgiveness, faithfulness, and fruitfulness.

By fruitful I do not mean results. Service is done only as service to be done, not service for reward or for your own gain. By fruitful I mean the application of the fruit of the spirit, serving tactfully with patience, with kindness. By faithful I mean that you fully trust the Father's overcare and His presence within you and within the one in service need, that your devotion to truth will guide you and safeguard you, that if you are sincere your work will contribute to the need at hand, and that, while you may not be the sole service answer to that need, you will be a contributor and not a detractor.

That brings me to the point of forgiveness. Many times we have witnessed trepidation in a mortal who feels inadequate. Naturally, no one is completed in skill attainment before they are qualified to serve. Many a missionary has gone far afield without more than a few phrases in a foreign language to begin with. Forgiveness before you have acquired a skill and even prior to making a mistake, of your appearing shortcomings, will help you acquire that boldness and step forward  even so.

Likewise forgiveness for the one you seek to serve is important, and I am sure is naturally obvious, for how can a heart extend itself with kindness if you are unable to release what errors may have caused the need for rectification? Forgiveness is a way of eliminating the need to confront that question, to compare your
betterment over another's condition.

The word "service" is interesting for it has often been used in the form of a servant, one who works for one who is better off, one who treats well the guest, like your "food service". Yet in spiritual work it is often the one further advanced who serves the one who needs upliftment. Forgiveness levels the playing field. It puts you on par with your fellow, creates a willingness to exchange and displaces a sense of pride in being better off. It displaces the, "I will fix it." tendency. The Father Himself is the primal forgiver. All of us are under His wing of acceptance and tolerance of our frailties and inadequacies and our imperfection. He has granted us perfection ages before we will stand capable of manifesting that perfection. To do that same thing for ourselves and our fellows will alleviate a lot of difficulties on this planet.

Evelyn: I like your washing the car as a distraction analogy; it isn't to forget or ignore an awkward situation but to prepare you to deal with it in a more wholesome way.

Elyon: Yes, you can use such a scenario as an aid to help you move forward to approach a more difficult event. You can also ask yourself, "Are you contributing to preparedness or are you fostering avoidance?" The sequence of events stands simply as a possible order in which they may be undertaken; washing
the car, confronting your friend. They need not be judged one better or one worse than the other, but it is in your intent that the value becomes apparent. Then you can choose whether facing the personal issue must come before the car wash or after.

You may practically wash the car while prayerfully preparing yourself for your personal exchange with another individual. The time could be spent drawing close to God rather than grumbling irritadedly over your conflict, thereby making you more receptive to your own correction as well as expressing your conflict in hopes that another may be willing to coordinate or compromise and restore, or, better yet, deepen your
relationship.

Service is the second most important aspect of spiritual maturity
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive May 11, 2001.
Teacher Daniel
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Daniel: Service is the second most important aspect of spiritual maturity. The first, the most important, is to spend time in quiet. Following that, the second most important thing to keep in mind is service — how one uses the gifts, the talents, the opportunities he or she has to assist their brothers and sisters.

While sharing appears to be an outward and interpersonal activity, it does have a major effect on one's individual growth. You have heard it said that when one teaches a subject he or she becomes even more knowledgeable in that domain. To that effect as the individual spreads the Good News he or she has been given, they themselves grow along with those whom they are sharing that lesson with. So I would encourage each of you to consider service from both perspectives. It will be good for you and helpful to those with whom you share.

There is also the role of sharing in one's life. I now add this new dimension for your consideration as you seek to identify opportunities which come into your life from time to time while you are also attempting to grow spiritually. In this regard you can do them both together. It is as you say "hitting two birds with one stone".

Growth is not a race. The first one there doesn't get anymore advantage than the last one there. The race is what counts. Your order of finish is immaterial. What is important is that you run the race, that you set your
mind to that as your objective, and seek to grow, seek to mature, seek to live, seek to experience what you are given, and while you are growing reach a hand out to a brother or sister who comes into your life and you know you can provide them a hand.

Your future is at hand. So, my friends, continue your time of preparation. Continue getting your house in order. Continue spending time in silence, and when opportunities arise, assist your brothers and sisters who do not have the background which you have been given. But most of all keep your eyes open for soon, very soon, the dawn of this new era will be manifested to all who have ears and eyes open to this new message.

Ken: You mention service, and you mention sharing as being divine, that it is God's divine will that we share. I see that as the First Source and Center, and I see service as coming from the Second Source and Center.
Can you enlighten me, or give me some words, on how the Third Source and Center fits into that equation?

Daniel: Ah, Ken, you are most perceptive. You correctly perceive the source of all love is the Universal Father. The Second Source and Center is the primary motivation under service. Now, the role of the Third Source and Center is to assist the Son in accomplishing what he sets out to accomplish. 

Ken: That's the action of that; from the thought to the word to the action.

Daniel: Very well said. You correctly perceive, and I actually like what you said better than what I said. Your understanding is complete. I compliment you on your diligence, your hard work, and your willingness to share what you have learned with others.  

Sharing

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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Sharing is an aspect of the very nature of God Himself
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive April 20, 2001.
Teacher Daniel
T/R Bill

 

 

 

 

 

 

To share is to let go of selfish constraints. To share is to believe that the source of one's goods, one's things, one's truth, one's love is bottomless. To share is not to lose, but to allow oneself to be an instrument of the movement of love in the universe. When Jesus said "Freely have you received, freely give", he was referring to sharing, for that which you have to share is a gift to you. You did not create yourselves. Not even your genetic substructure has any consequence from your wishes. You did not, before you were born, decide the color of your eyes, the type of stature that you would possess, your gender, or even your intelligence. These were yours to experience and receive as a gift. Your circumstances at birth were not due to your preplanning. You did not choose your parents. You did not choose your race, etc. As a mortal you exist because it is God's desire to fill the universe with His children.  

But there is a gift that you can give and that is to use your free will choice to share with others. You have the sovereign right to give or to withhold. You have the sovereign right to give to God the only gift that has value for Him, which is the gift of your willingness to do His will; and you have the choice to share your life with others.  

Sharing is not without some risks, for there needs to be a wise discernment on your part as to what, and to whom, and to what extent you share your truth, your love, and yourselves with others. To bring a bright light of truth into the face of one whose eyes are clouded over with unbelief does not result in enlightenment but only in a blinding of that person's mind, and their protective shield of unbelief will be strengthened, rather than reduced. Any sharing on your part that is coercive is counterproductive.  

So, once again, we deal with this topic of giving and receiving, this movement both directions, through those swinging doors that move both ways. To share is basically to give. But in order for someone to receive
sharing, they must be in a reception mode to allow the person who wants to share the gift of giving. As life is in its very nature complicated, so this very topic has many aspects. But the main thing I wish to leave with
you is the understanding that sharing is essentially divine, for it is God's nature of sharing which results in the universe we live in and our very lives themselves. Freely have your received, therefor, freely share.

As you proceed in this path of sharing ...
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive April 25, 2001.
Teacher Tomas
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How so readily do we share that which is peripheral, superficial, the outward form that is so easily managed by mortals and while these may and do offer assistance in many ways, again and again, it is worth remembering, the riverbed is not the river. The water of life welling from within you, flowing into a great river that is our combined efforts, indeed the source of the evolving Supreme who gathers and collects and builds upon each child's efforts to open themselves, liberating that spirit within, allowing, inviting this divine light to wear the clothing of your human personality. How easy it is to share the seen, the concrete expressions whether your writing, your books, your buildings, your leaders, so called. 

Who leads you? Is it not our Father within you and is it not his presence that is sought in your sharing? How so quickly the mortal mind becomes activated not by your spiritual nature, but your animal nature, how so 
quickly this raises its walls, its defense to guard that which it has found to be so precious. That which is most precious, that which you are in truth and in spirit is indestructible, it is that which grows in every encounter, that which is multiplied in each exchange, and while the human heart may experience a retreat, suffer a loss in and through these as well, even especially these moments of disappointment, your spirit moves, our Father is stimulated, his fragment within you discovers new ground in your heart unearthed by this experience. 

Do not neglect the truth, this truth our Father is revealing in and through each of your fellows. There is no boundary to his presence, there is no one he does not know and adore with a divine affection; learn to listen, learn to trust his Supremacy, and as you listen to your fellows, you draw them closer to yourself, you invite their own self-revelation, you invite them to share their heart uncovering the treasure they hold. It is in this moment when trust has been extended, the opportunities are multiplied, and if in this tenderness, another might seek to inject their judgement, implied or explicitly stated, be quick to forgive, learn to allow that space to show mercy, and invite yourself and your friends into that sublime experience of love's compassion, its mercy. 

Let your borders be porous. You are free now from assault; no real harm can come to you in truth. Even in the context of spiritual rebellion your choice is assured and guarded by the wisdom of the Gods of a greater universe who are always seeking to offer mercy. As you proceed in this path of sharing, sharing this contact, sharing your contact with your own indwelling spirit, with the hosts who are gathered here to nurture the garden of your heart's delight, recognize that the boundaries of your mind, those walls that your mind delights to erect are constantly overfilled by the light of our Father, his active presence working to lead you home, that place where you dwell in truth, that place in Paradise which extends itself in and through and well beyond any boundaries of time and space. He sees in perfection that link that each of you are one to the other, all joined in this amassing of our efforts, this gathering of the fruits of every choice, the God of experience evolving in and through your own, whose perfection you will reveal in the course of your destiny. 

Do not trouble yourself that the course of evolution is rugged; the trail is real, it is uncertain, it is designed to cultivate in you a vigor that is heretofore unknown. You all are pioneers exploring the depths of time 
bringing in the fruits of your journeys through space, an offering of yourselves to he who gave it to you, as he gives himself now. 

When the path turns unexpectedly, let us rejoice, for this exercise in time is the foundation of your service in eternity. Come now, let us enter this day confident in the team which walks together, the guides who know well the path, who have designed it for your own stimulation, who have created it as a means of revealing his love. Go now in peace to walk your way; I and we delight to walk with you.

Simplicity

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
[  ] soil   [  ] Land   [  ] Sea   [  ] AIR


SOURCE: This row is used for recording useful information about the source of the wisdom entry.

Serenity in simplicity
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive April 9, 2001.
Teacher Abraham

 

 

 

 

 

 

We are discovering that we each live, work, play and learn best when there is no pressure. Ideally, someday you will discover the full meaning of spiritual freedom, and that time really has no bearing on our eternal path. In today's mortal life there are deadlines, schedules and quotas to meet and ever strive to beat. In a world where material goods are so valued you can see how everyone moves, lives and has their being in a constant striving for attainment of more and better.

Economic issues are important in a material life certainly, but when society revolves around this 'striving to attain' the pressures can be unbearable. Pressures from employers, families, friends, society, cause a number of physical and mental ailments. Where is the freedom in that? Does spiritual freedom align with the material life? Yes, if you want it to. Does the universe realize your needs and help open doors to new opportunities? Of course it does. Can you force these opportunities to occur sooner than they should naturally evolve on their own? This is the pressure, my friends.

Pressure is losing sight of real priorities. Pressure is complicated living and always making one feel like they can never do enough, never have enough. The pressure keeps one in a state of continuous want. You never really ever have satisfaction of 'having' or gratitude for 'being well taken care of.' You only see that you are lacking and without. In this complicated world we have forgotten the serenity in simplicity.

Even when one chooses to be of service to their fellows, they feel not the joy in serving but the pressure to hurry and serve, and be done with it. They feel the pressure to squeeze in as much service as possible, as if it is buying a seat at Father's table. The purpose in serving is to connect with Father, to feel the Father's joy and grace working through you.

Bombardment of social fads and advertising tells us that 'only if we do this or have that will we really fit in, will we really be accepted.' The tides are changing where the spiritually minded will say to these social fads and advertising that, "no, we will not be pressured to keep a certain level of success. Father is our goal. Our ever-striving to attain Him is our focus. His grace and working in our lives is our success."

In understanding the law of spiritual freedom know that self or societal imposed pressure limits you in attaining the desire of all people. How are you pressured by the world, your family, peers and employer? What integrity have you sacrificed for the striving of what the world deems valuable? What small steps can you take in relieving yourself of such pressures?

Its all in your perception, my friends. It is how you see the world. It is in your perception of what you think is valuable. Where your treasure is there will be your heart also. In returning to simplicity how much more
time will you have to devote your attention to those things that really matter? Said Jesus, "My yoke is easy and my burden light." Father does not put upon you near as many pressures as you put on yourselves, or as many as you put upon one another. Find time this week to cleanse your life of these pressures. Be observant in life's daily events for there are wonderful lessons therein.

Soul

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
[  ] soil   [  ] Land   [  ] Sea   [  ] AIR


SOURCE: This row is used for recording useful information about the source of the wisdom entry.

What is the soul?
 
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Rayson and Friends

 

 

 

 

 

 

What is a soul? Such a simple sounding word, a word which little children know, and yet such a profound concept - even a miraculous, growing, living thing in our midst. In every human will-creature of normal mind lives a Father Fragment, the Divine Indwelling Monitor.

What then, is the soul? Simply put it is the creation, the child of the Divine Father and the human mother.

How does this soul evolve? The Adjuster comes to live when the human makes their first moral decision. The soul is born at that moment. To understand this miracle we must first analyze or understand that mind. Let me explain.

The conscious mind of the human is divided into three segments. Higher mind is not usually in human consciousness, but it is the Adjuster, higher mind, Divinity. The animal lower mind, the electrochemical impulses, the body, is also largely not conscious. In the middle is the conscious human mind, resting on the uncertain rocky and explosive bed of the electro-chemical lower mind and reaching up, extending to the midst of the Divine. In the arena of conscious human mind is where the decisions are made, influenced by the Divine pilot, which gives birth to and in essence creates the evolving morontia soul.

Free-will of the creature is always paramount, tantamount to all. The Adjuster does not manipulate, dictate, tell, or in any way dominate the human will. It is in the arena of choice, the middle mind that the soul grows. How does this happen? The Adjuster influences. As the human will is consecrated with a conscious decision to the Divine will, the Adjuster's influence increases and you can more clearly hear and do the will of The Father. Thus the soul evolves.

The miracle is that even on this material plane, you can achieve the morontial. Do you truly grasp this concept? Your evolving soul is morontial. The more you are in line with the will of the Divine adjuster; the more you will actually live the morontial on this planet.

Before death or translation, the soul can only reach a morontial stage. After death and re-personalization, the soul is more readily replacing the human, purely human, will. After fusion, of course, survival is assured. This morontial child within all of you will grow stronger in time. The mind is the soil from which the soul grows. The mind of the human where will resides determines the rate of soul growth.

But, my brothers and sisters know this, the mercy of the Lord. It does not matter if you do not comprehend God. It matters only that you wish to comprehend God. It does not matter that you do not recognize fully truth, beauty or goodness. It matters only that you wish to recognize truth, beauty, and goodness. Every day that you live you grow closer to actualizing and comprehending the Divine.

And this is what is causing your soul to evolve and expand: the human mind. Simply: material, lower mind; morontial, middle mind; spiritual, Divine, higher Adjuster mind. You can achieve a morontial outlook in a material body. That is your soul.

Question: When you discuss the three levels of mind, how do they relate to the Infinite Mother Spirit and
that mind?

Answer: That is an excellent question. Mind, human mind, mid-mind, must be prepared to receive the Adjuster. It must have the seven Adjutant Mind Spirits, have attained the seven levels of Adjutant Mind Spirits, which are the gifts of Divine Mother and her spirit. Therefore, Divine Mother is the Deity, which prepares mid-mind for the bestowal of the Adjuster. Also, as mid-mind works with the Divine mind, Mother Spirit is working in mid-mind to help the child of time hear the Divine.

The human mind is capable of greatness, of eternity perfection. But the choices are your own. You, the human will, may turn the mind, mid-mind, away from the Adjuster into sin, evil, even into nonsurvival. It is the arena, more so than the Adjuster, of the Mother Spirit, which offsets these lower impulses.

Question: Do the impulses, the negative impulses that you are discussing come from the lower mind, the human electro-magnetic impulses, and if that which you try to fight with is the mid-mind, with the help of the Mother Spirit and the Adjutant Mind Spirit?

Answer: Some come from the lower mind. Yes. Some come from character flaws.

Question: Where does a character flaw reside if not in the mid-mind?

Answer: You are not created in perfection; therefore it is the will of The Father to create within you rungs on the ladder of spiritual evolution. These rungs are your faults. Your feet climb it at your will, and your destination is God the Perfect.

Question: Where does the soul go when the brain dies, when the human mind dies?

Answer: The soul is shepherded to the mansion worlds by your guardian seraphim where it is reunited with the Adjuster and personality of the human.

Question: So if a person's mental capacity, through either disease or illness or old age deteriorates and becomes no longer able to function on a spiritual level, that person's soul and Thought Adjuster wait in the Mansion worlds until the body dies and the personality is resurrected?

Answer: That is absolutely correct.

Question: You spoke of the mind being the arena of choice, the conscious mind. Is it the will that makes this choice a function of the personality? Is it identical to the personality?

Answer: No, not identical. But it is a personality function. Your personalities are incomplete in your present form. Your personality will become, or your soul will become your personality on the Mansion Worlds.

Question: Well, I'm a little confused. We are told that personality is one gift of The Father and is an unchanging attribute or entity.

Answer: But you have not attained it fully, yet. 

Question: Just as we have a piece of The Father living within us yet we are not communicating with Him fully yet, is it similar to that?

Answer: Your personality is bestowed, but you have not grown into it fully yet. Your personality will be seen more clearly in the morontial because it is more fully seen. It is your soul; it will become your soul.

Question: Well what is this thing that does the choosing?

Answer: Will. It is human will. It is a part of personality bestowal, but it is not synonymous with personality. There are times when you may choose to follow higher mind. Other times your choice will be not so evolved. You are the same personality but your will varies.

Question: When the impulses of the lower mind, the electro-magnetic and chemical make up our mind,
weighs on us too much and we fall prey to it with anxiety or fear or even chemical imbalances, will appealing to the higher mind offset that, or will we just learn to live with that? Is there a way to reach a balance again in an unbalanced lower mind by appealing to the higher mind?

Answer: The balance will be achieved by your choices. Even though impulses may be strong and sometimes irresistible, you can choose in mid-mind not to act. This is balance.

Question: Though we choose not to act, which in essence is the best thing possible in a situation where your lower impulses are strongly affecting you, will the choice not to act constitute more soul growth, and will that help ease the struggle? Is there a way to ease the struggle against the lower mind impulses?

Answer: Yes. The more the human will chooses the higher road, the easier it becomes, because you make
spiritual progress - psychic circles progress. Also, soul growth and the reality of the morontial is actually put into practice and lived here on the material level. But you must choose. Starting as a child learns to walk, you fall, stumble, but you must get up again and take those few steps. Even when one has mastered walking there is running.

Question: The Urantia Book says that after forty years old the adjuster is like a controller. Does that mean that the mid-mind is used in some other way?

Answer: No, it just means that mid-mind had become more adept at hearing the Divine mind. It also means that the experience of the human has tempered the will with wisdom and evolved higher values. So choices are at a higher spiritual level and the adjuster has a bigger field to plant seeds in.

Personality, which is a gift of The Father at birth, also resides in mid-mind while you are in this material body. But it is much more identified with the morontia life after death or translation when the soul develops will, and can more consciously align itself with personality-Adjuster consciousness.

Man is conscious only of will. As one progresses spiritually and through time in this physical state, it becomes easier to get a glimpse of the spiritual leading of The Father fragment. However, your task, brothers and sisters, should be thus: to consecrate your human will to the doing of The Father's will. If one does this in a positive way, one is assured of eternal survival. Not now, but eons from now, you will surely stand in the presence of the First Source and Center from whence your fragment came.

It is not so much your task to fully understand the Divine, but only to wish to understand God. It is not so much your task to be Godlike as to wish to do the will of God, and - in eternity - you, too, will attain Divinity. Day by day as you live your life, study your choices and consciously become aware of choosing higher, ever-higher values and climbing toward God.

Unfortunately your great struggle, brothers and sisters, is with your dual nature. You are physically a part of nature. You are animal in origin. But there exists within your mind the Divine. And you have the ability, potential, to transcend nature, the material, and exist in the realm of the spirit. This is a conflict. It is personality, which integrates this conflict.

Let me try to explain further. How difficult it is to be a finite being with an infinite piece of Divinity. It is unbalancing. Those mortals who do manage to transcend the baser material realm also are prone to other pitfalls: pride, ego, and self-satisfaction. It is a balance that one must achieve. There is nothing wrong or inherently sinful, evil, in the infinite temporal material state. To the contrary, it is a creation of the eternal Sons and Daughters and is good. It is what you do with this state by your will decisions that determine your destruction or survival. So, although it is hard to project, understand, the destructive nature of man it is a true reality risk and is determined in the tiny choices of everyday life. This is what you must become more aware of.

No human is born evil. Rather does the will of the human twist the mind choices until evil is embraced. Your soul is but a shadow of the real you. It is being created for your next life, not for this one. But even in this material life here on this planet your soul is developing awareness, awareness of the Adjuster and the human personality. Just as the Adjuster, of course, is aware of his soul - his child, the soul - the human personality will become more aware of the evolving morontia self.

The mind ideates; it thinks. It deals on an intellectual realm of facts. The Spirit, The Father, is truth eternal, absolute. The soul feels. Please let me emphasize the feelingness of the soul. It is the difference between scientific knowledge and true values. The soul deals in the realm of values, and the will can force ever higher and increasing awareness of ever more spiritual values: truth, beauty, goodness, and love, Godlikeness. You grow more Godly.

The human condition is a delicate balance between uncertainty and security: the uncertainty of what lies ahead; the security of the love, mercy, and Divine compassion of Deity; the uncertainty as a newly ascendent child of God; the certainty, security, that one day you will stand in the presence of the Creator, Himself. This is the human struggle.

But make not the mistake to live only on the material plane. This is one of the greatest dangers of this age. A society that dwells only on the material level is doomed to extinction. Because man has these opposing natures there is the potential for conflict. The conflicts we see in nations, societies, the world wars, poverty, prejudice, bigotry, oppression, unfairness of every kind, have at their root the inner conflict between the spiritual and base natures, the dual nature, of man.

There is also a risk of inner civil war in such a diverse being. Inner civil war, conflict causes you to lose the peace that Michael promised you, the sublime peace that transcends understanding, causes you to lose touch with spiritual realities, causes much wasted effort and a cut off from spiritual help. While you cannot control the world, the environment you can control is the inner life of yourself, the inner man or woman. In this inner life are the decisions of eternity created. This is the source of all creativity. And if you approach life not from the outer material world, but bring to the world the inner nature of man, the creative force which stems from The Father, Himself, you will make a difference in the world, but most of all in yourselves, in your ascent Godward. This is the important fact to grasp.

Even with the strife, anxiety, uncertainty, poor genetic make up, lust sinfulness, slothfulness, poverty, prejudice, bigotry, hatefulness, lack of God consciousness on this planet, many, many, many, many of your mortals do ascend and fuse. This is the great miracle of the Adjuster.

When you look around at the world or at your own individual lives and get discouraged, depressed, despairing, remember that out of such seeming inhospitable soil have sprung many souls whose eternal life is assured. From these very conditions and worse, children, as you will see - will spring the chorus of ascending mortals. And that is your destiny if you so choose it.

Question: I get confused about the desire to expand my soul and live in my soul, and seek other souls, and
you are saying that the soul is for the next life. I feel such a desire for it here and now that I am wondering if that is dangerous somehow, or negative?

Answer: No. You are simply confusing terms. You feel a desire to know the personality, which will be spiritual, of your fellows. When you are on the Mansion worlds, the personality and the soul are evidenced together and as you ascend, both become fused on the spirit level with the Adjuster. Your soul is evolving now and therefore it is difficult to be your soul because you are not - you are physical. The Morontial, the soul, is a small part of you which you and The Father are creating as co-parents.

Question: What about people who forego the material existence while they are here, who try very hard to
communicate with God and give up the world to do it? Priests, or monks or holy men. Is that something
to be desired? That kind of attitude here?

Answer: I will generalize, and it is not set in stone. But no, it is not to be desired, because the gift you give to your Adjuster is experience in the world. To skip that is to open the door to many problems of ego and pride. And the goal is not to forego the material but to live with it and transcend it in your area of free-will choice. To live in the world but not of it was the great accomplishment of Jesus.

Question: You said something at one point about the will. It was almost as if it was a separate thing from
us. Is the will completely from an animal level or it is it from personality?

Answer:  Personality exercises dominant will choice on this level but the will is the offspring of the conscious human mind, mid-mind. It is your only area of control or choice. You cannot effectively influence other things: your body, material world, the Adjuster. But you can exert influence and growth through will in the material conscious mid-mind.

Question: How do we develop the soul while we're in our mortal condition? It seems to us from reading the Urantia Book that the exercise of the soul is what helps to build it. Just as physical exercise would help to build the body, experience helps to build the soul. Is that correct?

Answer: Experience, and how one chooses to react to this experience. You have the choice, will, to react positively in the mid-mind. Much latitude is there. For a while an experience might appear tragic. You have the ability to see the spiritual reality behind the material tragedy and to live in that realm of love, survival, and spiritual growth.

Question: Page 1205 of the Urantia Book says “Adjusters are devoted to building up spiritual counterparts
of your careers, morontia transcripts of your true advancing self.” What is meant by counterparts?

Answer: For example, you may have a human understanding - analysis of a situation where you were
disappointed or hurt, and it might be remembered by you as a sad or humiliating experience. Your Adjuster may have a completely different interpretation - record of that. He registers your soul growth through disappointments, the progress you have made in your understanding of experiential difficulties, the spiritual progress as you broaden your value to higher meanings and this day, incident, might be recorded as your victory with a feeling of success - achievement on the part of the Adjuster. There are different realities for creatures so far from the spirit. What you think of as defeat is probably your highest illumination.

Question: Carrying through on this, would it be correct to say that which is counterparted is real and will
exist and that which is not is unreal and will pass on?

Answer: Absolutely, that is correct.

Question: In the relationship between people - between personalities, what is the optimum way of relating to other people that would achieve the best soul growth? For instance, the motive, does that make any difference? Or the truth of how you are relating to that person, how does that make any difference in the growth of your soul?

Answer: That is a deceptively simple question with much complexity. The optimum is to love one another. But this is not realistic, for to love one's fellows truly you must understand them. Understanding begins when we place the spiritual ahead of the ego. So, the realization that we are one family created by one Father is essential, not just in terms of lip service, but in terms of true service to one's brothers and sisters.
Mota is not that significant. It is the quality of the interaction. You will always experience imperfections in yourself, annoyances, impatience, and conflict. These are a part of your imperfect state. How one - what one does determines a realistic goal of relating to others. Jesus said “turn the other cheek.” I am not as adept as our Creator-Brother-Father, but I would say sometimes the highest good in terms of personality relationships is avoidance if one is not evolved enough to come from a place of highest values with another being.

The sincere commitment to understand is important in terms of perspective: the spiritual rather than the
“me.” But it will be impossible to remove the ego, but remember it is not instinctual. Ego is instinctual, animal, but personality can break that stimulus response. For example, if one is physically struck, the animal will fight or flight. The spiritual intervention of personality might cause a different reaction. The highest would be to allow The Father to be seen in your relationships with others, for you to reflect and embody His perfect qualities of love, mercy, patience, wisdom, truth, beauty, and goodness. Partially these can be attained by you, and not always consistently, but that would be the ideal.

Question: Would the personality that I have received, for example, that the soul be me in potential, and that
personality that I exhibit here - different sense of humor or whatever - is that the reflection of that reality? When we talk at this level, we talk about having personality and recognizing personalities, and types of personalities, if we are 99% potential then what is that that's here?

Answer: Potential. Let me explain. The you that you will be is personality, like letting the personality out of a locked room. It exists but unseen. It will be the combination of your fusion with your Adjuster and soul growth and eventual transmutation into a spirit being. Your personality contains the potential of all the ascension career. It is there in you now. But it is not apparent because it will be based upon your choice-decision-action throughout your entire ascension career. Your free will determines the release of your potential into actuality.

How does one see the one percent here? Your guide, in general, should be spiritual fruits. That is evidence of your personality, your unique personality. How does one love? How is your love different from any other created being, the tones and songs and harmonies that you bring to the quality, the universal quality of love, is and forever will be different than any other personality, a jazz interpretation of a universal theme.

Your soul lives your dreams
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive November 10, 1996.

Teacher Elyon

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Time creatures that we are, it is beneficial to repeat often special moments, and to repeat often that the event is meaningful, it is valuable to oneself. Just as the Master said be of good cheer, repeatedly, it is important for us all to repeat expressions of value, of hope, of ideals and goals. These often restated dreams become reality through constant effort.

The mind is easily satisfied with information bits, can store information from many years back and still access the knowledge. But your soul is quite different. It lives your dreams; it is the reality of your ideals. It is a constant expression, dynamically, independent of knowledge - though built upon knowledge and life experience. It is the constant repetition of cheer, of peace, of stillness. 

This soul that you are faces eternity. Though as yet rising through the transitions of time, it is eternity. To a time oriented creature, things eternal appear either static or as a constant cycle. Both visions are time oriented. We draw closer to the eternal through repetition, through time oriented discipline. I commend you as a group for such cyclical devotion in meeting with myself and my associates as you do. No one moment will bear stupendous results, but each effort enlarges the platform upon which your personality functions, broadens the arena wherein your soul may receive the nourishment that allows the growth that will take you to the portals of eternity. In fellowship we share; our struggles become our victories, and there is no victory without a struggle.

The forward momentum of the soul
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive May 23, 1999.
Teacher Abraham
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The soul is always in a forward momentum and has connections to your material side and also to the Indwelling Father. I could say that the soul is grasping first before what the material mind can grasp. This is 
contrary to what many believe. Yet, the soul is the seed from which all your personal aspects stem from. The Father is your light and sustenance. Your experience designs how you will grow. This planet is experiencing 
new things and there cannot be things hidden from God or from the consciousness of your fellows. The past, present, and future are visible from a morontial sense. Old things are fading away — all things are becoming new. The soul most definitely has a more divine ear than the mortal mind. Your material mind may have rejection for certain things, but, the soul — in combination with the Father Fragment — saves things of value. 

Increase your soul consciousness
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive January 21, 2000.
Teacher Aaron

 

 

 

 

 

 

The key for improvement is, of course, within you, your Indwelling Spirit. This is your sounding board to the troubles and trials of you lives. God resides within you, giving you personality and His Spirit. To the extent that you are unable to cope with the challenges in your life, this signals periods of misadjustment with the Spirit residing within you. To some degree, all of you have this. It is a human condition. Misalignment with your Indwelling Spirit is more common than alignment, for the most part, when you are not a universally conscious citizen.  

But as you become aligned, as you desire to become aligned, and begin to question and sort out and sort through the inherent spiritual possibilities within you, and as reflected outside of you in the thoughts and papers and recollections of others, you slowly begin to evolve a sense of soul consciousness. Soul consciousness does not mean that you have glided into perfection. Simply the desire to be aware, to be loving, to be kind and in tune with God does not make it so; but the desire does make way for progress. I think each of you are aware within yourselves of progress that you have made since you have become aware of the possibilities of spirituality that exist in this world at this time.

Realize your progress, find that assurance that you are more aligned today than you were in the past; and yet to realize that you can also most effectively deal with those situations when you are unbalanced or overwhelmed by trying to consciously seek guidance and attunement, even as you would here in a meeting with us. Awareness is the first step to correcting any misadjustment, misalignment, and therefor the process for each of you has begun toward becoming a more perfected universal citizen.

Search for Truth - Mind and Soul
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive December 01, 2002.
Teacher Elyon

T/R Jonathan

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elyon: To some seeking truth is an exercise of discerning what is true from what is false. The endeavor is a 
discipline of separating one from the other as you would separate curds from whey, juice from pulp, discarding what does not conform to the goal of the search and retaining that which applies. This undertaking is a method of discernment useful to the intellect of the human mind. Sorting and sifting is a 
function of mind that enjoys categorical understanding. Each episode of discernment, while contributing to the organization of your mind; and each episode, while contributing to additional mind capacity, also contributes significantly to soul enlargement. This enlargement of soul is another level of truth discernment. I do not seek to downplay the value of truth discernment to the mind, for it is quite important in your search for cosmic understanding. I wish, however, to focus upon the soul level, for it is a little less tangible to you at this time.

I mention separating curds from whey. To the discerning mind these distinctions are clear based on qualities of manifestation of the two products derived from the same source, in this case, milk. When the 
mind clearly discerns these distinctions it quickly can apply these distinct products to uses beneficial to the mind. The soul does not discern the truth qualities as does the mind. The mind will contact, observe, analyze, verify, accept, and reject truth elements.

The soul — perhaps at a risk of crude comparison — rather feels, experiences, a living quality at each phase of the discernment process. It will in a sense appreciate milk as milk, curds as curds, and whey as whey. It will appreciate the process of separation as well as the process of homogenization. It overviews all of the elements. The mind will discern use and nonuse; the soul accepts both usefulness and non-usefulness as an integrated oneness. So, the mind seeks for truth resulting in meaning. The soul finds truth that results in value. The greater the ability of the mind, the keener it is to sort truth from the erroneous. The greater the development of the soul, the larger its encompassment of all things real. In time and space reality must contain the unreal, for this is the duality that energies life, that stimulates the mind and inspires the soul.

The mature mind will not fight the assertions of error by another but will discern the level of understanding and patiently pursue an opportunity for the offering of elimination and correction. A mature soul likewise discerns the context wherein an erroneous assumption lies. A soul which has grown for a significant period of time perceives the appropriateness of an erroneous assumption based upon the growth level of the personality pursuing truth. While the mind may wish to correct error, the soul embraces the one in error knowing through its own experience that this other individual will grow and shed what was useful for experience that is of greater use. The context will shift.

Sometimes a personality becomes confused when not discerning the difference between mind and soul. One may be perplexed or embarrassed over earlier conceptual beliefs that are no longer possessed as truthful. But his soul does not discard these now outdated understandings; it incorporates them into the 
field of wisdom, that broadened viewpoint.

Jesus while on this world admonished his apostles to speak to the soul and spirit of man, not to challenge the beliefs, to confront error — for this is the innate ability of mind to do so — rather to approach in the awareness of the presence of soul, to react to another as a father would to his child or a mother would to her child, understanding their age or maturity or growth, not condescendingly, rather supportively. The wise parent has undergone the same growth.

Discernment of truth to the mind is the taking things apart for understanding. Discernment of truth to the soul is the ability to interconnect, to synthesize and enlarge the context. Both are extremely valuable in your ascension. Each one provides the Indwelling Spirit the opportunity to reveal new truth. To use another example, for you to make bread you often take whole ingredients, break them down to smaller forms, extract what you want, discard the rest, reassemble it. This is the function of mind. The soul sees and experiences bread from the gathering of the wheat to the slicing of the loaf.

Even the enemies of Jesus loved him because he approached his relationships applying his soul experience as well as his mental discernment. All of you who have read of his trial before his execution have felt angst over the unfoldment of events, perhaps wished that Jesus could have out-argued his accusers and proved his point. And this he could have done expertly with his mind. No. Instead he stood before his fellows loving them, recognizing the Father's indwelling presence in each of them, grasping fully their current levels of spiritual growth. It did not matter to him to demonstrate his superiority in spiritual unfoldment. It mattered to him that his children who were his accusers had an opportunity to receive divine benevolence, acceptance, and love. This is the manifestation of a mature soul and one who does not fight for truth but lives as truth.

Harold: There's a danger in accepting everyone for where they are in that there would be no challenge to help them progress. If someone is seen doing something wrong or that doesn't make sense even in their own definition, isn't it our responsibility either by example or otherwise to explain that they need to change what they are doing?

Elyon: Yes, this is quite true. This is why the universe is designed as an educational system, each one teaching to the level from which they have just emerged. Because of this process those in need of correction, realignment, or adjustment to higher levels are better receptive to one so near in experience. The one so near in experience offering a revelation of a higher way is more understanding of that particular orientation that is being corrected.

I am glad that you pointed out that acceptance does not imply complacency or condoning of behavior that is disruptive to spiritual harmony. With this understanding and the application of compassion you then become led to minister rather than condemn, to display an alternate and perhaps progressing position for another. To turn this around, each one of you is likewise at a stage of error, and someone will come your way to offer advancement. Discern with your soul the acceptance of the Father of where you are now, the 
grace of His offering through a fellow of that which you can attain immediately.

Sovereignty

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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The subject of sovereignty is so important that we dedicate an entire section of the site to its treatment, in addition to the shorter wisdom entries on this page. 

There is also a specific lesson dealing only with sovereignty here: LESSON 4: Sovereignty & Delegation

Each of you is a sovereign state unto yourself
 
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Teacher Tomas
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Sovereignty is a big word which instills ideas of government and grand schemes, and yet each of you, in fact, is a sovereign state unto yourself. Your self-governing aspects lie within your relationship with your indwelling adjuster, and its rule in your hearts guides and generates your personal kingdom. In this state of sacred sovereignty you individually will live in Light and Life. 

When you conjoin with others, your personal sovereignty is extended, expanded, enlarged, and altered in the incorporation of the personal sovereignty of each of you. The old way would have you give up your personal sovereignty for the good of all, and our concept of sovereignty would have you incorporate the sovereignty of others in such a way as to merge and meld your individual sovereignties to a greater state of Light and Life. This is a process similar to molecules that gather together to create an organism. Each molecule is essential in order that the organism have all its living parts. As you are all essential to the
configuration of your group Light and Life.

Allowing the Father to remain your Sovereign Ruler affords you the faith and trust that your brethren, your neighbor — extensions of the Father and reflections of His truth, beauty, and goodness — are also in keeping with those same attitudes and feelings that you have with your Sovereign. It relates in its essence to each of you being yourself, and as you become more and more your true self, you expand reality so that it fits appropriately with the adjoining reality, enlarging our Father on Urantia in a very real sense, yes, contributing to the Supreme.

As you work on the self-mastery of your system, your being, you are now ascending to your area of energy in which a morontia reality is introduced and reigns upon the rest of your system. The body chakras, the heart and instinct and so forth, are related to your physicality and your emotional responses thereto. As you understand yourself better and allow your association with spirit to curtail your urges and intellectual drives, you seek more of the spirit-rich realm and the seventh chakra, that lotus blossom wherein your soul is also blossoming. So, what you re doing is ascending in self-mastery.

As you ascend in self-mastery you will eventually probe the seventh adjutant mind spirit of wisdom. So, you may assimilate into yourself as symbolized by the seventh chakra the adjutant mind spirit of wisdom that will enable you now to maintain your sovereignty over yourself in Light and Life. It will render you now more pliable when you will be prompted by the Spirit of Truth, for your ego influence is healthy and is eager to respond in a healthy way to that which the universe provides for you.

Spirit of Truth

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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The Spirit of Truth is the great Comforter
 
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The Spirit of Truth is the great Comforter. It is like a gentle rain falling on your souls, and can be called upon and fostered in each human's heart. The Spirit of Truth will never misdirect you. It is able to teach the difference between spiritual truth and mere fact. When you are able to discern spiritual truth, all things reflect the truth, beauty and goodness of The Father. Even in the worst tragedy - which is only a fact - The Father's fingerprint can be detected when looking through the Spirit of Truth and comfort becomes a reality. When one sees God, it may remedy the situation.

As our Creator Son lived to show man to God and God to man and was brought to a heinous crossing by the mortals of the realm, His loving apostles and disciples and other followers secluded themselves from the wrath of the Jewish authorities in Jerusalem at that time. When the Master appeared in his morontial forms, the followers were overcome with joy. But still they remained waiting for his promised spiritual bestowal. And after forty days, or at the feast - the Jewish feast of the Pentecost - the spirit was indeed bestowed. But not only to the loyal followers of the Christ. The Spirit of Truth was a gift from the Son to all mankind who sought truth and oneness with God.

The Spirit so inspired and mobilized the believers in Jesus that they immediately were filled with the overwhelming desire to preach the gospel. Although they forgot the message, the pure message of Jesus, which is the God as Father and all mankind as children of this loving Father, brothers and sisters in this spiritual family, they did preach the resurrection of the Master and the gates opening to all humans who would accept Him as Deity.

The Spirit of Truth was not bestowed only upon one class, one religion, one race, one sex. It was, and is, bestowed upon every ascendent child of time who sincerely hungers for enlightenment, truth, beauty,
goodness, and God. The spirit is not ever perceived by the mortal mind, heart, soul, as the Spirit of Truth, but merely creates an awareness and hunger to know more about Michael of Nebadon, the Son.

Every generation receives a new outpouring of the spirit to insure that the Fatherhood of God - Brotherhood of man concept shall never be lost on this planet. The spirit is bestowed upon all who are faith sons and daughters. However, the spirit is not equal in its bestowal. But, only equal to the capacity to receive truth.

Prayer, while not affecting the Spirit of Truth, does affect your receptivity to its leadings. Therefore, through prayer, my brothers and sisters, you will increase your capacity to receive and detect ever-higher levels of truth and Deity.

Another suggestion I would make is to increase your prayer life each day, and pray to be led by the great
Comforter who will always be there to show you the way. The Spirit of Truth also takes away the loneliness of the God-seeking mortal, for as you have had Jesus here, walking on Earth, living among its people, breaking bread, teaching lessons, if He had not sent his spirit you would feel an emptiness in your souls.

The Spirit of Truth also allows all mankind to find God. As Jesus portrayed man reaching Godward, the Spirit of Truth is the Son reaching manward and leading us to Son recognition. When the evolutionary religions make intuitive leaps forward in understanding it is due to the presence and leading of the Spirit. No generation shall be lost if they indeed have a spark which leads them Godward.

To understand the Spirit of Truth we must understand that times and world conditions change, therefore we have more than the life of Jesus the man-God to derive inspiration from. Jesus revealed man's perfection amidst the times and people he lived in. The Spirit of Truth will show you your perfection on this the world and peoples you live in - which are vastly different from the times the Master walked the Earth. However the higher truth, the hunger for God, faith-filled vision, prayer, brotherhood, and service, and loving kindness-mercy-compassion remain always the fruits of the Spirit of Truth.

To see the Spirit working in your life, observe the fruits of the Spirit. Do you need more compassion? Do you need more service? Stronger, deeper faith? More unselfish love? Prayer will open the channel, and in time the fruits will grow in your life. My brothers and sisters, I pray for you to be more faith-filled and less self-filled. It is the human condition to battle the ego versus the spiritual mind. Observe your lives and correct the manifestations of lower character using the wonderful, powerful helper sent from Michael himself to enrich your souls and make the world a more spiritual abode. Let us thank Michael for the Spirit of Truth, this wonderful bestowal that has helped us all Godward.

Question: When you said the Spirit of Truth was bestowed every generation, can you illuminate that? I don't really understand.

Answer: The reason for this is that each generation of mortals faces different temporal difficulties in the world. The Spirit of Truth is not static, but illuminates truth set against a backdrop of the world circumstances and peoples that are present in that generation. Some generations receive less because they are less spiritually receptive, perhaps more material minded, or perhaps must deal with great distractions, such as your aggressive wars, or hunger, or natural disasters. So unto each generation the Spirit of Truth reaches down to lead the children of time, but it is not a static message. It grows with the generations and illumines truth in the world they live in.

Question: Is it Micheal of Nebadon who re-bestows the Spirit of Truth to every generation?

Answer: Yes, that is correct.

Question: Does the Spirit of Truth work through the movies or any other of the media?

Answer: No, it does not. It works only through mortal beings. And if they work in the movies then, if they
are able to, they can bring truth to the people. Truth, however, can be discerned everywhere: films, books, in other people, and the beauty of the planet. The Spirit of Truth leads the seeker to the highest values reflecting beauty, truth, goodness and Deity. But it does not directly work on things. Only humans.

Question: Is the Spirit of Truth then a personality? Is it to the Spirit of Truth that we pray? Or to Michael?

Answer: No, Michael receives all prayers regardless to whom they are addressed. The Spirit of Truth is not a personality. It is a spirit, which does not create a consciousness of itself, but only a consciousness of the Son.

Question: In the revelation of the Spirit of Truth by generations to our group, would you take a look at the
ages? And there are little babies that are now growing. Is the Spirit of Truth relevant to each individual?

Answer: The Spirit is bestowed in a two-fold manner. It is for every individual to receive according to his or her capacity. In addition it is a restatement of the gospel of the Fatherhood of God and Brotherhood of man so that no culture, age, race, religion, non-religion, gender difference, will be left out. The Spirit of Truth must take into account not only the individual's hunger for The Father, but also the world that individual is shaped by. That is why there is a generation bestowal by Michael. For example, older people lived in a much different world than a child today. The Spirit of Truth for them led them on a different path to truth. A child growing today might have more choices to find truth to lead them Godward. So the Spirit of Truth is ever adaptable and alert to any stepping-stone to the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of men.

Question: Does the current encircuitment of our planet enhance the Spirit of Truth? Or is it a separate bestowal?

Answer: It is a separate bestowal. However, we have not considered the effect of the re-encircuitness on the mortal mind. This may indeed - and my prayers are for this to happen - enhance the spiritual receptivity and truth-hunger in the mortals of the realm, thereby increasing the awareness-knowledge of the Son. That is a most pleasurable thing to look forward to.

Question: Is it possible for human minds, at this point, to tune in to any universe broadcasts?

Answer: You are already tuned in. 

Question: Is there some sort of test that we can apply to the statements of a T/R in order to discern when
they come from the deep longings of the heart of the T/R vis-à-vis the true teachings of the teacher?

Answer: You can apply the use of the Spirit of Truth.

Requesting the mind of Christ is asking for is a better interface with the Spirit of Truth
 
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Teacher Minearisa

T/R Bill







 

 

Minearisa: You are becoming more familiar with the unseen realms, the worlds which intersect with yours.  (I refer to reality levels rather than alternate universes.) You are very familiar with the physical time-space level. You are uncertain as to the transcendental level and you cannot grasp at all the absolute level. Despite your lack of familiarity and your intellectual difficulty you are nevertheless experiencing more than the physical and mental levels. You are now much more aware of the spiritual level. I realize I have presented levels in two clusters of three and these are not identical one to one. They are different faces of the one ultimate unified reality, all of which takes origin and sustenance from the Paradise Trinity. So, as I was saying, you are becoming more familiar with the spiritual level and beginning to realize that it has equal solidity with the physical and the mindal levels.  

You are also becoming more convinced that the mindal level has equal validity with the physical; that your thoughts are real and that they have power. Physically you can be present in a room with others and with your eyes open. You can envisage others and see representations in your brain of the presence of other persons, other physical bodies. You are also becoming aware of your connections which are mental and spiritual, where for the spiritual connection you have often used the term, "heart". So I will use it tonight. You are beginning to really cherish your heart connections with each other.  

Your mental connection does not imply that you all think alike, that your politics are different, that your understanding of reality is not the same as your neighbor in this room, although there are great areas of overlap. But on the spiritual level you are alike for your spiritual connection grows out of your divine nature which is given to you by the Paradise Father, Himself, His Fragment within you. That is the same for each of
you. Hence your goals and your yearnings, your desires and your purposes, your great End of Existence share the same turf, are, in fact, the same.  

When you observe others in their activities, people that you do not know in the same intimate fashion as you know some others, what you must strive to accomplish is to gain easy access to their heart connection; to look past the physical, to transcend the mental/mindal differences of world views, etc., and perceive that you are truly united at the spiritual level of the heart connection. This is another way of saying that you are
brothers and sisters to each other because this heart connection is due to your relationship to our common Father, to our God.

Some of you long to share the intimate knowledge which is yours with so many people. You wish to open your arms and embrace the world and tell it, "Look!  We are all the same! We are children of God. We are all
brothers and sisters. Let's focus on that and not our differences". This is the definitive problem of this planet: It does not know its spiritual heritage! You have each in your own way, and to the best of your ability, been attempting to get this message across to others. You have made great efforts and you have had successes. Indeed, you are commissioned by Michael himself, by his Spirit of truth to reveal God to other people. As your level of God consciousness rises, your emanation of His presence will be that much more clearly shown.

Gwen: You were talking about mindal. Is that your conscious or subconscious level. Can you explain mindal?

Minearisa: The term, "mindal", is used in the Urantia Book to designate a level of reality which includes all of what your culture describes as mind: conscious mind, unconscious mind, and we also include superconscious mind, the realm of the Thought Adjuster. The term, "mental", in most people's understanding refers to conscious thought and therefor the term, "mindal", more accurately presents the whole area of conscious, unconscious, and superconscious mental functioning. In addition, there is included in the concept of mindal the whole circuitry of the mind which is the result of the mind circuits of the God of Mind, as that third person of Trinity is manifest on the Local Universe level as the Mother Spirit.  

The human mind is much greater than most of your students of the mind understand. It is not the product of the activity of the brain. It is definitely a reality level which is connected completely from one person to
another in certain ways and not limited to the planet earth, but embraces the entire universe of Nebadon. 

When you say, " like minded people" you acknowledge the circuitry like connections of the mindal arena. It is fairly well approximated by the collective consciousness and the collective unconsciousness postulated by some of your psychologists, but very little has been known about "superconsciousness". Many people are confused when they hear of this for they think that the uprisings of the unconscious mind into the conscious level constitute the superconscious intervention of God. Often severe fanatical reactions occur because of this confusion.

Ken: May I ask you about this connection of the mind...that the mind is connected not only at the material level but also on the upper levels, the higher levels, also. Is that just for those individuals who are so spiritually conscious that they are seeking this connection, that they want to do this?

Minearisa: Your Thought Adjusters communicate with each other whenever they wish. Therefore, on one level the answer is that everyone is connected at that spiritual level. But your question asked if there was an aspect of human intention which elevates this connectedness, the higher spiritual level...

Ken: I believe your statement was that the minds are connected.

Minearisa: Yes. The mindal level is more like a mosaic or a computer network. You have an access terminal into this network which is your individual nervous system and acts as a receiver/amplifier of the mindal circuitry; and in analogy, you have your own hard drive with a certain amount of memory which records your experiences, your thoughts, etc. But you are part of the network and you can share information. This is a limited but relevant analogy. The mindal realm is much greater than a computer network. When you leave this planet, either through natural death or translation, you unplug from the network. Your surviving morontia mind is the soul that you have created with the cooperation of your indwelling Spirit. The soul does not remember everything, for it has been filtered and the transcript that continues in your Adjuster contains only that which has value for the future. Your morontia mind, therefor, is on a different level.

The hundredth monkey concept is not a fluke, it is a reality. Those that think that the mind is nothing but the activity of the brain see the mind totally locally, as sort of a fuzzy area around the brain. Despite that it is viewed this way by many people, it is not accurate. Mind is more accurately described as a receiver and an
amplifier, or a terminal in a computer network. But I hate to limit it to such a paltry comparison.  

Ken: That raises another question. When an individual runs into those situations and cannot handle it adequately to their way of thinking, we are told that we can ask the Master for his mind, to exchange minds for that period. Is that the same circuitry? The same terminal?

Minearisa: Yes and no. The no is that when you request the mind of Christ what you are really asking for is a better interface with the Spirit of Truth that dwells within you. The Spirit of Truth dwelling within you is not synonymous with the mindal realm, but interacts.

Spirituality

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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Spirituality and Psychology
 
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Question: Does personal ministry effect a balance of psychology and spirituality? Isn't it impossible to avoid the psychology in personal ministry?

Answer: I am not clear on how you mean “psychology.”

Question: Meaning that it's difficult to minister to someone that's ailing or seeking answers spiritually if you are not conscious or attuned to their psychological context? It seems that Jesus was incredibly perceptive in terms of the people that He came in contact with - where they were at, emotionally, psychologically, at that moment. And that affected what He could reveal or how much he could affect them spiritually.

Answer: That is correct. Jesus was adept at seeing into a person's soul, and assessing what they really needed in spite of what they may say they wanted or needed. For example, the boy who was afraid, who declared that he did not want to interact or need anything, and as Jesus engaged him, saw that, immediately knew, he was dealing with fear unsuccessfully, and then engaged him in a way which bolstered his confidence as he was in actuality helping him.

Question: This was when he asked for directions?

Answer: Yes. However you must keep in mind that often what a person verbalizes is not what they really crave. The spiritual is always the bread of life. So psychology can be used in two ways: one is your ability to assess where the other human is at and what their real needs might be, and two, the other person's own psychology of using mindal mechanisms to deny spiritual needs, or disguise spiritual needs. And these are two different usage of psychology in that situation. Your own ability to see others clearly will depend in part on your spiritual sight to see beyond the external to the soul within.

Question: So then that feeling that is capable of, and that I have experienced, sometimes it's really like spiritual sight, and sometimes it feels to humans like X-ray vision. (Yes.) And do you counsel that?
(Absolutely.) Because X-ray vision is not necessarily a manifestation of ego, then. Sometimes it's
looking through spiritual eyes.

Answer: Correct. 

Growing your spiritual life
 
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Teacher JarEl
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Today we are continuing our journey into the spiritual life,  and its ramifications into our own feelings, lives, and spiritual transformations. Many aspects of spirit begin to influence us, and begin to cause us to stop and think and to focus in our daily lives as to what is actually happening to us, and how are many of the things we are experiencing beginning to interplay onto our decision making process, as to how you see yourself in a more perfect, and in a larger spiritual sense, and how you begin to incorporate this into your identity. God is love, God is many many things, but the love aspect of God is that which is most assessable to you at this time, in your evolution. 

At one time on this planet God was feared, God was a mighty and all-powerful being that demanded loyalty and fidelity, he demanded ritual practices, and He demanded sacrifice. Religion slowly evolved, and with the coming of Michael to this world he forever displaced and dispelled the idea of an angry vengeful father, an almighty figure, into that of the loving compassionate father who wisely cares for his children, and wisely sees to their enjoyment in life. When you begin to become in tune with the essence and reality of God in your life, your are in a sense coming into the essence of, and the reality of love, and until you come into this reality of love there are many other avenues that you will express as God. But the most important one is to
express God as love, and to be able to become this love yourself.

Love is a dimensional phenomena, in that love is a potent and dynamic force, and that all of a sudden, almost instantly, begins to create tremendous opportunities in your life, and in other lives as well. It begins to stimulate, it begins to nurture, it brings realities into play. What is spiritual life, if not to bring the higher and more perfect realities of spirit down into this level of human life, on this world. It will begin to
understand a more complete, a more perfect reality of spiritual existence, from your perspective of conflict and struggle.      

Let us take the aspect of Truth, and let us understand Truth as an eternal reality that comes down to this level of being. How does one perceive Truth, and when one does perceive Truth what is it that one is actually perceiving? All situations contain Truth, they contain elements of Truth, and it is from the eye of wisdom that you are given the Truth of the situation. In most cases the given Truth of a situation is that which sheds light on how conflict is resolved, how the situation can best be changed and transformed for the welfare and well being of all those involved. Occasionally Truth descends in a very traumatic way, but all too often Truth is a subtle and usually personal awareness. Something like a little bubble of clarity that erupts within the mind of confusion, and settles the mind for a second, and for that moment you can see clearly and it all makes sense. You can see the solution and you can see why the situation was even brought for you here in the first place. You can see your part in a situation.

The bringing of these eternal realities into a time and space situation always involves, a down stepping of their tremendous impact. In this respect it is very much like the presence of God, were God to appear to you in His form of energy, the dynamics of His presence would be too overpowering a presence. Many people would loose their breath. So these eternal realities, like God, are brought to you in very subtle, distant form, almost an echo form, so that you can resonate through your own spirit of Wisdom, and the Spirit of Truth,
both of which  work  with you. You begin to see through the haze of material conflict in  daily life, to begin to perceive the eternal ribbon, and the eternal harmonies which the spiritual life brings. 

Beauty is also an eternal aspect of God. It is one of the first manifestations of love, and in a much larger sense beauty is a spiritual pattern, it is a pattern of harmony, harmony of all the senses, harmony of all thought, harmony of purpose, harmony of worship, harmony of all life forms. Man begins to perceive beauty as man begins to eternalize his understanding of God, his understanding of spiritual life, and man begins to identify with a greater, other than self, awareness of purpose and meaning.

The relationship between truth beauty and goodness are as a relationship of a dimensional cornerstones in which man can find identity, purpose, and action. This  gives mean and integrity to life, and creates value in terms of the soul. So this idea of love, of expressing love, is a primary spiritual act, and in its act and action it begins to transform you into the person giving love, into a being of action.   

Other aspects of love are, man's compassion for his fellows, man's tenderness for his family, the special feelings you have towards one another, these are all aspects of family, of bringing the Universe concept of family into being. So, if Earth is a family, and God is the father then love becomes the religion, love becomes the purpose of this family, it becomes the interaction. In this way you can gage how spiritual, or how spiritually off base, this family is. When worlds attain to levels of near perfectedness, the  situation arises where people interact continually, and constantly in various levels of love. So, how important is this love?

On one level it is understandable that it is important, and to begin to experience it, to bring this love into reality, one begins to experience the need to have a constant source of love, like a fountain of pure water, so
when you are thirsty you can go and drink. So to begin to access this fountain of love and joy within your own being, it becomes a challenge, a personal challenge of growth, and of understanding. To comprehend this potential, is the potential for love, for transformation. To face the daily challenge, to seek this love within, to desire this love to the point where you would sacrifice your whole life for this love, sacrifice your time, all of your responsibilities, all of your duties, and all of your causes to find this love, and to become one with this love. That does not mean, of course, that one is to completely abandon one's life, but what it means, is to create a time and space each day when you do abandon everything, in search of this love, in search of the presence and the giver of this love. This is wise living. This is the essence of spiritual living.

All other ramifications and aspects of living are either being drawn towards this or being expressed from this, somewhere in the middle, it is always the beginning and always the end, something like God. As mortals, as impact creatures you are in the middle, seeking to love and be loved, seeking truth and to be truthful yourselves, seeking and creating beauty and becoming beautiful, seeking goodness, and becoming good.

These are simple words with profound meaning and experience in your own lives. This is always true of spiritual teaching, that the experience becomes very profound, and the actual awareness of these truths in ones life is evidence that one is on the right path.

Nel: I find that when I am at that place of worship it is a wonderful 'high'. I realize that it is an experience that all of us have, I'm sure. Are there any guide lines? Do you have any suggestions?

JarEl: The most important thing that I will suggest is, that worship is man's personal relationship with God.
That attending to this relationship is worshipful to God. There are also times when people come together to experience and share their belief and their oneness with God, this is worship also. Worship is a very creative act, God can be worshiped at any time, in any way, and however the individual chooses to worship. There are no guidelines, there are no restrictions, there is no format, and no rules. Worship is man's response to God's call to becoming identified with the reality of God, and God's presence. The overwhelming joy that this begins to instill in one, the satisfaction, the knowing. All of this becomes evidence of worship.   

I will say that Worship is encouraged, but not worship in the conventional and traditional senses, taught by the churches, the kneeling and the praying, and the rituals. But the opening of the heart, the opening of the mind to the attitude of God, to the presence of God, to the breath of God's life in your own body, then one begins to experience God through worship. The drawing upon God's love by loving another, is one of the most viable forms of worship, for God is pleased.  

Nel: I had an experience of this love at the beach. When I came back to a place where we were staying and my son and his wife took off for as little stroll, and as I watched them arm in arm I just knew that love was just surrounding them, as I watched them walk away to the beach.

JarEl: When society, groups of individuals, begins to feel this presence amongst themselves this presence gives utterance to joy and satisfaction. This is a natural way of expressing this feeling and this feeling is very
real, and many time worship will be experienced this way, in which profound and overwhelming feelings of joy and happiness and satisfaction take on an almost physical sensation. This is where it is referred to in your Urantia Book where on the Mansion Worlds and places near Paradise, the experience of worship become so profound, so harmonized, so intense that it literally, has to be stopped. Think on this.

Nel: In your lesson you referred to Love as a fountain. Funny I had been reading some kind of an analogy sitting there thinking about it, and I had some kind of vision that came in, and actually what I saw was a flower with seven petals, and in the center was the Light, and then the light started moving and became a fountain and the petals kind of went underneath. I realized what I was seeing was the Fathers joy and love covering and uplifting the whole creation. It kind of struck me as you referred to love as a fountain.

JarEl: That is a beautiful picture you have portrayed.

Joe: Speaking of a Fountain, the Urantia Book describes the desire to do good to others is like a fountain.   Sometimes it is a tough love but it comes out of the same source.

JarEl: The use of water as a spiritual image does not stop here on this world, for on the worlds on high  water is very much a spiritual symbol, an image. The cleansing, the pure nature and quality of this life essence.

Hal: You started your lesson out on searching for God, as what we are all striving for. We all seem to have our own definition of God, is there anything you give us to help us know what we are searching for, when we are searching for God? Is it a mental image of perfection? Is it a completeness of love? Or is there anything else to help us know what we are searching for?

JarEl: This is a very good thought. When man searches for God what is it that man really is searching for? The first thing I would say is that you are really searching for each other. Aside from the fact of finding God
within yourself, the greater ramification of this is to find God within others, to see through the thin veil of  their life, the one that they project with their physical presence, and to see the potential and the beauty, to see the beam of light in that body, of this potential survivor of your mortal confusion, and to journey with them to the worlds of perfection.

This is one aspect of what you are seeing when you are looking for God. For like love, God is not isolated. In the beginning God came out of his own self and that cannot be reversed. Love cannot be hidden within your heart. You cannot hold your breath and still live, like you must share the air, love does not exist until one begins to open up one's heart, and begin to share it with another. What you ask is very interesting, because it is not an image that one is searching for, it is not a face, it is not a mind. It is as though it is a presence, a presence of beingness, whose presence and beingness you begin to recognize through recognizing your own presence, the reality of your own beingness, to begin to sense the feeling of eternity
within the limitations of your mortal framework. To begin to interpret your purpose as something much larger than just maintaining sustenance. To begin to see the fabric of human personality played out on this stage of a world, and to begin to discern the presence of the eternal at work through the agency of spirit.

Life on this planet is like a very old tree that is yet to bear fruit, substantial fruit. Yes, there are many branches, and quite a few leaves. So, what you have asked is a very wise question.

Hal: Yes, you have given a greater concept of who we are. Then do I interpret this as a subjective accomplishment, a subjective visualization of a belief in a God? Something that each individual creates for themselves ?

JarEl: One aspect of that is true. However you need to have God, God will appear in that form. When you begin to experience and begin to give the love of God you begin to see who God really is and this is consistent with everyone. So yes, it is true that your relationship to God is subjective, it is personal, it is something that only you can see and experience for yourself. But it is the sharing of this experience through this wonderful gift you receive, the gift of knowing that love, that the giving of this love is greater than anything, then you begin to see the network of God. This is why when discerning the Paradise Trinity one attains love as Paradise Perfection.

The first deity which is obtained, is the Third Person. The Third Person is like a network. The Third Person is the service aspect of spirit, it is the most obvious, to see the outworking, to see the plurality the omipresenceness and the interconnectedness of spirit. This will eventually bring you closer, to discern the Truth of the spirit, the personalization of the spirit, and this brings it even closer to discovering and personalizes the personality and your prime essence as spirit, which is God, and this oneness with this God
is your gift for having attained to this level of perfection. But until that time and that day, when one begins to search, one begins to build a mental construct. Sort of like playing a little game, "Let me see if this is God,
and I will test it" Many people do this, many people perform these little mental tasks of challenging God, 'Are you real? Show me this'. Many times man has to go beyond this challening God, because what man asks for, God cannot give man, man must attain that for himself.

It is easy for us to sit here and say "God is Love'. But much more difficult to experience a whole life of living in this flesh, only to finally discover that God is Love, and giving.

Hal: Then to summarize can we say that in the material realm where we are, we experience God by showing and experiencing love for our fellow man, and that at this level this is as much as we can understand of
God?

JarEl: Once that level has been saturated another aspect of God begins to manifest itself. It is like a foundation has been built, and once the foundation has been built the structure of the temple can be built.   Yes, unfortunately you are in the struggle of building the foundation, which is building the network of loving relationships. That is why it is important within the so-called Urantia movement, which is a movement of individuals who really look at the truths of the Universe at large, and particularly about their own world. And about the religion of Nebadon which is the religion of the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of man. To begin to show respect for each other through love and respect for each other, that this organization can grow into something that everyone on this planet will want to join into. This is the challenge, this is the purpose, the beauty and the responsibility as a daughter or son of God on this planet, or on any planet in this Universe, as our purpose here and now.

So yes, building this network of loving relationships is to put forth, as it is, the face of God, where when others gaze upon this face and see this network, and feel this connectedness and are drawn to it as isolated drops of water are drawn to larger puddles, which are drawn to streams and rivers, which are drawn to the oceans, only to be evaporated and dispersed again.   

So yes, you are in the midst of building this foundation for the temple of God for this planet, and it is hope that one day this temple will be built, the Temple of Human Brotherhood. 

Nel: I think we should feel a great excitement about building this foundation for the temple.

JarEl: It is easier to become excited when you begin to connect with people, and experience the process of building and connecting the spiritually minded brothers and sisters, It begins to build a momentum. But, this momentum needs to be viewed through the eyes of wisdom, and not through the eyes of defeat. All to often many movements on trip over themselves, in the excitement that renders people almost blind, and they trip over where they are going. So begin to see through the eye of wisdom and you will begin to discern Truth, and this Truth will guide you, as all Truth guides.

Roger: I think I have something important, JarEl. I thought intellectually, or I knew intellectually, that our individual relationships with God should come first, but I guess in the excitement it was easy for me to get sidetracked to thinking I need to take care of other people, first. To me it was sort of self deception, as at first I thought I was doing something good, I think I am doing something good as it was well intended, but
I think in the long run it was the worst thing I could ever do. I am having a hard time, my ego is taking a beating, hence I feel a little insecure, because as much as I wanted to do things right often times we are not doing it right, and we don't even know we are not doing it right until it is too late. But in retrospect it couldn't have been done any other way without a total collapse.

JarEl: That is truly a wise lesson. You learned to do right by thinking you were doing right and inevitably it will show you the right way. It is important to also allow yourself to understand that having a relationship with God is also having a relationship with others. This aspect and concept of God is much larger. It has many more ramifications than we can see at any one moment. There is a saying on your world, "physician heal thyself". What that means might possibly shed some light on what you are experiencing. It is very difficult to help show God to others until you have found God yourself, and then you are not showing God to others, actually you are giving God to others. Giving is much better than showing. 

Roger: It is very tough life personally. I think arrogance has been my problem. I am amazed at how tricky, how deceptive the ego is. I know that the relationship with God should come first, but I think that problem was with me, it was that it seemed easier to have relationships with those we can see.

Hal: A relationship with each other is a relationship with God.

Roger: I can't put too much expectation on that relationship, then I have blown it. You should only be dependent on God. Is that true?

JarEl: One should always place the expectation on oneself. Of course it is much easier to place it on something else. We don't want to be responsible for our deception of our own judgment. But in striving, and in pace, man can do everything, this is why we keep reinforcing the idea of a little each day. Setting aside a time and space, to identify with your purpose, to attempt to identify the presence of God in your life.
Most of what you will experience about God will be mostly unconsciously, while it is happening, because you have not yet arrived at the stage when you can live consciously in God 24hrs a day. But God is living consciously within you non-stop, and when you begin to understand that God is always there, and every time you think of God He is right there and you begin to feel that he is right there. A much larger aspect is to realize that He is there all the time, whether you are thinking about him or not. Your own Light and Life is
when you come into rapport with God 100%, when you are in 100% communion and communication with God, constantly doing His will, having done the work He has prescribed for you. How many of you are experiencing God telling you what to do? I hope there are quite a few of you experiencing this.

Hal: I hope so, as I often feel an urgency and hope that it is God working with me to do something.

JarEl: It is. It is God working within you, that is how God works within each and every one of you.  Sometimes it is through an urgency, it is what ever is needed in your life. It is like a panel board in your mind and when God wants you to deal with something he puts a red light on it, to call your attention to it. No matter what you are doing, what you are looking at, or what you are thinking you can't help but notice this red light on, urging you, telling you things. If you are having these experiences, yes, God is communicating with you.

Hal: The more we read about, and hear about God, the more complex He is, we begin to realize soon that our capabilities to understand Him is very limited, we are just at the beginning point.

JarEl: This is the challenge, to portray this relationship in almost child-like terms, to distill the essence of this relationship into simple context, and something tangible, because it is immense. Confusing, intricate, almost overwhelming. Knowing this fact, through your many lives of survival, you will experience all of the affects and ramifications of His intricacies, His intertwinedness, His interconnectedness to each and every being in His Universe. You will experience all of these aspects.

Donna: However can I just add something. I think it is not too helpful to think of God as being confusing, God is immense and awesome, much more awesome than we can understand, especially here on this planet with our minds the way they are now. But if we can think of it more simply it will be more helpful. We have an eternity to discover the rest. But I think that if things can be brought down more simply, to the idea of love, that God is love and he loves all of us, and He works with us to improve our ability to give love to others, to be a little brighter light or beacons. If you think of it that way it is more simple. For myself I have to think of it more simply. I can be more at ease with it.

Lucille: To try to analyze and bisect, and dissect things makes it more confusing. It is a feeling we have within us individually.

Nel: We always try to do God's work, but we don't have the guidance like Adam and Eve could have given us.  

A great personal experience was discussed having to do with communication with someone close and being led in what to say. That it became effective, after years of poor communications on things spiritual. Of discovering when a person is ready to listen. It was closed by JarEl, as follows:

JarEl: It is important to experience the narrowness of the ego. The ego cannot solve all of the problems. In a symbolic gesture, like the ego of a small child. The ego is a developmental aspect of the personality, and of
your being. In discerning who you are, you have to begin to process what you are identifying with, if you are identifying with your ego that is who you will be. If you begin to evolve spiritually you become aware that you are actually,  a manifestation of God. You are actually something much greater and much different from the ego. The ego is important to establish a somewhat real identity for your mind and for others to identify you physically. Where at a certain point the ego is useless in helping you solve problems, for your
ego is there to help you serve your needs and no one else's. As you learn spiritually, as a son or daughter of God you are here to serve others needs. God will take care of your own needs. 

One more comment in response to Hal's discussion about the confusion of God, and Donna's very perceptive response to that. We would be a lot better off to sit and comprehend one's own personal confusion, trying to discern the presence of God, that once you get through your own confusion and begin to discern the presence of God, God will seem a lot more simple, and a lot more personal.     

Allow your spirituality some freedom
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive November 5, 1998.
Teacher Abraham
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Many personality traits show forth in competition to comply with a material world. Father does see each of his children as a pure innocent and divine being — as His child.

The apostles at first, though some were acquaintances, still did not fully understand one another. They were even suspicious of one another's genuineness. They, over time, had connected on soul levels so as to be able to view the divinity in one another. Each apostle grew to view some attributes of the Master within their fellow apostles.

That innocent spirit dwells within each individual, even though some may appear to be hidden with the business of everyday living. Even the most unethical individual contain within them an extension of God. Many know not how to allow this pure and innocent spirit within — freedom. The spirit within appears to them to be meek an exposed to things harmful. The pure and innocent spirit within is actually an extension of an all-knowing, all powerful, all loving God — the Father.

The spirit that is mainly "the real you" exercises humor and lightheartedness. It can see light in the darkness. It can utter volumes of wisdom in one sentence, and be an element of healing to an ailing society. When you recognize one another's pure and innocent spirit within, you can embrace each one's faults
with divine love.

In your everyday living in the material world it is difficult to allow this realness of spirit to be known. It would do you well to ponder over the attributes of your divine spirit within, to adjust your understanding in
allowing it freedom. In exposing your real selves, individuals you meet feel at ease to allow that genuine child of God to have freedom to live and work and love, to nurture.

As the apostles sat at the Master's feet for their lessons, are you also granted the same benefit in understanding the Master's meanings. Allow Him to help you to show your divine side daily and be aware of the confidence that yields. The pure and innocent spirit which will prove to be a source of strength, power and wisdom. Watch those around you begin to allow their spirit within freedom to be known. 

What can be added to your recipe for spiritual living?
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archiveNovember 14, 1999.
Teacher Emulan

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In today's world of temporary, false stimulation many incorporate things into their lives that can be a generator of negativity. Children take in an unloving reality and adults wonder why this is manifested in such a harmful way. Are you what you focus on? One who would be recovering from chemical addiction does not even entertain the idea of being near that chemical. They know very well the course they will take again should they slip.

What are you taking in your spiritual diet? What do you manifest as a result of your diet? Do you engage in gossip or the generation of negative feelings? If yes, then why do you wonder when you feel negative generated around you? Do you not become suspicious that others are gossiping about you? Negative energy brings negative energy.

What is added to your recipe for spiritual living? Is it perhaps good deeds done for others? Does this not manifest in your life as good deeds done to you? Can one read books and be entertained by fear to produce spiritual fruits? No. Can one read uplifting books and become weighed down by hopelessness? No. What are the ingredients to your recipe in spiritual living?

Once I had learned of the divine nature I had to create a change of life. I fed myself with things spiritual. I studied. I meditated. I gave freely of my time to Godly causes. All this promoted a great closeness with Father. It was an avenue to the utilization of the spiritual fruits.

Can one indulge in negative activity and then wonder where their divine connection has gone? Can we be slothful in our studies and ask why we have become imbalanced? It is clear, you must utilize your human resources. You are the producer of things positive or negative. I know as well as anyone days spent among the negativity of the world can have a harsh effect on you. You see why you need a daily regimen of spiritual intake?

What do you embrace into your life? Is your focus on money or fame? Are you always with that feeling of lack — that no matter how hard you try you are never filled? What a cycle of imbalance! My friends, we cannot go day to day without spiritual intake and then wonder where is God? Why am I so alone? Why is my pain unbearable?

You each have your own spiritual recipe for daily living. What keeps you connected? What keeps you from spiritual loneliness? Does beautiful music belong in your recipe? Does that help you to feel connected? Does this manifest anything good in your life and the lives of those you know? Does artistic abilities connect you to that spiritual world where you know without a doubt that all is well. From such feelings of balance how can you not be divinely connected? How can you not produce spiritual fruits?

The mind is an empty domain in which you can seek to decorate it with things that promote spiritual light or things that bring about darkness. Would a moment of stillness calm the chaotic domain? Would the calmness bring balance? Of course. Is balance the minds' goal? Of course. What would you like to change about your behavior patterns? Begin by searching what is in your mindal abode. What can you be free from that brings clutter and confusion? What can you do to promote a beautifully light atmosphere?

You are the architect and what you build matters. Mortals all too often forget that they, figuratively speaking, house the Father Fragment. Is His place in which He lives and works from balanced, organized and positive? You do have a responsibility to your personal Father Fragments. What lives in the minds' domain with your Father? Does He struggle to reach you or is He teaching lessons through peace and joy?

I am happy to have realized in my mortal life that I had some control in how my divine career proceeded. Father proved to be a wonderful helpmate to me, and laid out plainly for me to see what I was lacking in my spiritual diet. I know that the mind is the beginning of many things. It is where you live, work and play. It is where you comprehend God. Mental stability is so important in your spiritual education.

This week ponder upon what is in your mindal domain. How are these things manifested? What is the recipe for your own personal spiritual life? What are the levels of closeness you wish to know your Father on?

Spiritual abundance
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive April 16, 2001.
Teacher Abraham

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Law of Spiritual Freedom deals with aspects of integrity, grace and returning to simplicity. It is also helpful to examine the Law of Abundance. In really learning to simplify our lives we are uncovering our true selves from all the mortal debris.

We have come to the realization that, yes, life is difficult and that is not really such a bad thing because meanings and values come along with it. It is easy to forget one of the Master's promises — said He, "I have come so that you may have life and have it more abundantly." We learn that through the grace of God, His tender ministries, make all our striving well worth it.

In the busyness of the world we forget to take notice of Father's abundance. Some see Him as a harsh Father to send down upon them hard lessons so that they may become strengthened and grow toward Him. That is not so much true as things naturally occur in mortal life, and Father will draw out the values and meanings therefrom.

Truly though He wishes for us to have supreme joy and spiritual abundance. He wants us to perceive the good in life and create an energy out of it. Joy and peace should always outweigh pain and sorrow. Faith that rests on an unstable foundation finds it hard to believe the universe works for our good.

There are past experiences that would tell us we are of little or no value; so some do not really believe they are deserving of the better things in life. Love, friendship, material well-being and good health are out of reach for them. When one is believing they are undeserving of this abundance they tend to subconsciously sabotage their own well-being. A wonderful and positive thing could be staring them in the face and they are suspicious of it. They can hardly believe that these good things are their birthright, are the promises from our Master.

A man who has grown up in poverty may be suspicious of any so-called material luck that chances to come his way. In the feeling of being undeserving he might subconsciously take this new found wealth and waste it. That seems normal to him. A woman who meets a man that she falls in love might be suspicious of this seeming good luck because of her male influences in the past were a poor example. She may constantly test the man for his loyalty, which will eventually backfire because he will become weary and give up trying to win her over.

Are there past experiences that block you from life's abundance? Is there ways in which you may sabotage your happiness? Even those who have beliefs they are spiritually on target can delay their progress by these feelings of unworthiness. Father is no respecter of persons and He sees to each child's happiness — if the child lets Him.

I mention the value of integrity in abundance, because certainly you cannot request Father to pay your bills if you are not willing to work. You cannot request Father to keep you from getting disease if you abuse your
body. Father works with us in our efforts to create our own abundance. Where your treasures are — there will your heart be also. If you are putting value in selfish gain then I doubt the universe would be of assistance.

You can find a great deal of abundance in service to others, but should you only serve to receive abundance, then certainly this alters the outcome. Should you find yourself exceeding joyful in just serving, then will your connection with Father strengthen and you will naturally see spiritual abundance.

Contemplate your understanding of self-worth — perhaps it is too little, perhaps it is too much. Think about what you would give back to your own planet and its peoples. In service you are more likely to lose self and
abundance is naturally noticed, and in the sense of gratitude you are creating an energy of positivity.

Remember the apostles of old and their fight for a place of preferment in the Kingdom. Remember how the Master washed each ones feet as if it were all the same foot. Allow the Master to show you His abundance, His tender mercy, His generous ministry and unshakable divine love for you.

The more integrity you have the more spiritual liberty you will receive
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive March 26, 2001.
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Abraham: There are some individuals who see spiritual liberty as chaos, possibly dangerous, as if anything goes, but with the lessons on integrity we find spiritual liberty to be a natural outworking of evolution. Liberty taken to extremes of course verges on possible default, but the law of spiritual liberty tells us the more we understand about it the more we receive. Spiritual liberty is not license to self-assertion or the doing of self-will, but the open communion with God that broadens your view and encourages you Paradiseward.

On the other hand, those bound by traditional religious values see spiritual liberty as an excuse to carry forth self-willed notions. Many believe the universe to be harsh and only out to limit who they really are. Many find that they are imprisoned by their understanding, their cultural upbringing, their bad luck, and really this is true for them. They are always in fear of lacking one thing or another. They can always find some worry to dwell on. They awake each morning with a feeling of dread and unwanted obligation. How
you feel upon meeting the new day is a good measure of your level of spiritual liberty.

Of course, you each have obligations, but those who self-imprison have nothing else but obligations. There is not peace or joy. There is not the enthusiasm or intrigue of daily adventure. They look to God as a jailer who will see to their just deserts. Those imprisoned in their narrow cell do not realize the door is unlocked. The more integrity you have the more spiritual liberty you will receive. The less ego you exert the more spiritual gifts you will receive. This is not a heavenly bribe, but just a natural outworking of the universe.

There is great joy to be had in spiritual liberty. Father having given us the power to make our own decisions holds so much value. You understand what it is like to be without choices or liberty to see, grow and act as you see fit. Father bestows upon us personal power that we might eventually grow to know and find Him. He does not limit our choices or imprison us with rules, but trusts us to evolve as we will.

To have no choices or liberty is confining and stagnating to the soul. To constantly be imprisoned by worry after worry is slowing spiritual progress. To feel the freedom of making your own decisions is giving the soul permission to search, learn and grow as it will. When you are using spiritual liberty you feel not your mistakes to be so crushing, so embarrassing and you need not be so hard on your growing soul.

Spiritual liberty is extending that mortal vision to capturing a broadened divine view. The joy from this, my friends, is not to be described adequately. Only by experience can you know the real joy of this freedom and
in the joy you look forward to the day's adventures. You seek not out every negative thing. You look for Father's daily works, Father's fingerprints. Life is not so much a test of endurance but a challenge to be savored.

We often think of the sons of self-love and pity them for their narrowness of vision. They had liberty beyond their own understanding, but they chose the way of self. Their downfall was their limited patience and their need to always be first and to never be caught short or looking foolish. They could not release the self so that they could become more. The tighter they grasped onto themselves the more they really decreased in all ways.

There will be times of confusion for the planet as a whole concerning spiritual freedom, and you will each have opportunity to temper the confusion with wisdom, common sense. You will have the option of seeing your duties as a burden or a challenge. You can crawl through the lowly trenches of the mortal life or you can rise above and walk tall where the view is clear and the horizon is broadened, yes.

How do you feel? Are you immediately focused on the days obligations? Do you wake and greet Father with anticipation of the day's adventures? Are you filled with dread of the new day or excited to participate in it? Ponder your own self-imprisonment. How would you otherwise feel if you had no worries? What would it feel like to have no daily goals but just spend the day being in each moment and acting from a standpoint of spiritual liberty? Journal about what self-assertion means to you and how you can learn to relax and receive more peace from learning patience. 

Stillness

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

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Recommendations from Rayson on achieving stillness
 
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Question: When we are seeking communication with the Thought Adjuster in silent receptivity, what do we focus on in order to quiet down, what do we try to be aware of?

Answer: First, I would recommend time spent in prayer which are not selfish petitions but prayer for more spiritual fruits, higher values, service and fellowship, thanksgiving, worship. Then merely relax and try to attain the peace, which surpasses all understanding. This is not an easy task. Many never achieve a clear enough state to consciously hear the guidance of the Father, however what is more likely is you will receive an impulse feeling to proceed in a certain direction and illumination of good acts or action, and these proddings should be followed. Evaluate the spiritual content and you will have an arrow pointing to the Mystery Monitor. 

Question: Is there something specific we should focus on in order to quiet the chatter of the mind? To achieve the stillness?

Answer: There are many techniques which you humans engage in. To do this each person is different. There are many paths to the same destination, and I am not able to know which might be best for you. Certainly, quiet time is a must. Many benefit from time spent on a routine basis, in communion with the higher nature. Exercising a spiritual muscle, whichever form it takes, will lead to eventual success and breakthrough. Try out different methods of relaxation and meditation. Reflect on spiritual receptivity and decide which works best for you. There is no formula that I can give you. Each person must work out their relationship with their indwelling Divinity on their own.

The electro-chemical process of the mind, of the human mind, is very difficult to control. The process requires energy on your part and it requires practice. As you seek the stillness seek to quiet your mind's activity, even if it’s for ten seconds, or less. What is necessary is a continual practice. Do not feel discouraged by your inability. If you are able to do it only for short periods of time, very short, as you begin to practice you will definitely improve. Do not expect improvement overnight. It is like growth. It takes time. If you are diligent and you look back on it after a week or two, you will see that you are able to control your mind action better and better. Once you have gained some control over that ever present, incessant, clamoring of your mind to be heard, then you may truly listen and relax. This is not a process that you must try hard. It is actually the act of not trying. Practice is essential. Continue that daily if you can. And just listen; listen for your Thought Adjuster's voice speaking to you. Have faith that it will occur. He is there waiting, eager, to make direct contact and to give you his marvelous, wondrous, words of love and encouragement.

Question: Is there a distinction between the times we spend being still and desiring communication with
our Thought Adjuster and time we might spend being still to receive communications from a celestial teacher? Can those happen at one and the same time?

Answer: Communications you receive from the celestial teacher must be okayed by your Thought Adjuster. In other words, it is your Thought Adjuster who is the gatekeeper to your body and mind, and so any entity wishing to speak with you must have the permission of your Thought Adjuster as well as your own free will. And so you must practice being still so that when you give your okay to your Thought Adjuster that a celestial being may talk through you, the celestial being is contacted by their Thought Adjuster and so achieves intimate use of your mind. So, no, it is not two separate things, it is one and the same.

Question: My concern was that perhaps in trying to effect a communication with a celestial teacher I might be pre-empting communication with my Thought Adjuster, sort of getting sidetracked. As wonderful and important as it is to the teaching mission I just had this confusion over whether getting centered and being still to receive communication from a teacher would black out that possibility during that time of receiving communication from my Thought Adjuster. I wondered if I should - like - have two separate meditations every day; one for communication with my Thought Adjuster, and one for being open to a celestial teacher that was closer to my level.

Answer: One communication is sufficient. But be aware of - that depending on the form of communication - sometimes your Thought Adjuster will not be present when the celestial personality is talking to you. Although you must have the agreement of the Thought Adjuster to contact the celestial personality, if you wish to talk merely to your own Thought Adjuster you may do that freely as long as you are capable, for as you well know, the Thought Adjuster will become one with you.

Question: At this stage of the game in my spiritual progress, would you say that I am more likely to be able
to receive communication from a celestial teacher than I would my own Thought Adjuster? In terms of
consciously receiving it?

Answer: You are capable of many things. There is a vast potential within you. You must decide. The Thought Adjuster is, or will be a part of you. Maybe you should start to think of the Thought Adjuster as yourself. And relax. Being relaxed is very important.

Question: To those of us who believe that we are trying to reach the stillness, yet who are unable to contact,or be contacted by, yourself, do you have any suggestion as to how we might accomplish this
other than to keep on trying?

Answer: It is important to be relaxed, without stress, and to be free from bodily needs: free from aches, pains, thirsts, hunger, and all things which your animal organism insists on pampering to.

Seek happiness from The Father. Smile. And enjoy communion. Do not take yourself too seriously. Do not be afraid of failure. Voice your innermost thoughts. Be conscious of the outside but be more conscious of your spiritual world. Handle expectations.

Question: I gather from that, that it is possible to try too hard. Is that correct?

Answer: Yes. By saying, “try too hard” you mean to try too hard in the wrong direction. You must try, but do
not put your energies where it will not be of value. Be free of poisons that stimulate or drag down your physical organism, including the brain. Those poisons can be those that you ingest, also poisons produced in your brain by negative emotions such as anger, hate, jealousy, envy, distrust. Fill your mind with love. Clean your body with love. Control the things which influence the functions of your body and mind, for that will influence how your mind contacts the spirit. 

Recommendation from Elyon on achieving stillness
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive October 13, 1996.

Teacher Elyon

T/R Mark

 

 

 

 

 

 

I say the stillness is of increasing importance to your spiritual development because, as you develop spiritually, it is helpful for you to return frequently to the well to draw your support, your strength, from the Father and from the very practice of your stillness. You will find that more and more this will be your comfort zone, your reality check, and your safe house where no pretense need be made, no appearances need be maintained, and no truth be hidden in your times of stillness.

Your dialogue earlier about interpersonal relationships and mediation of a higher power is an appropriate direction for your lines of thought. In fact, all personal relationships, if turned over to the will of the Father, can be quite satisfactorily administered. It is a good practice to return to the space, the stillness, and attempt to discern there the appropriate action to be taken, whether in a one-on-one personal relationship, or a in a relationship between yourself and many others. Guidance can still be secured through this channel of the stillness.

If you are sincere in your desire to not be clouded with issues of ego. To be granted greater insight into your relationships will facilitate much growth and much learning on your part.

The times are nearing for you all here today to be more dynamically connected to the stillness, to bring from the stillness into your actions the direction and wisdom you gain, to quickly access the stillness and receive guidance and direction at a moment's notice. This is not a difficult task, merely one which takes much practice. The more trips you make to that isle of stillness within you, the easier the journey becomes each time until at some time you feel the connectedness of that isle of stillness within you and that thought/mouth process of communication. This establishment of this connection between your stillness and your active thoughts is your desired goal in this life, to be conscious always of the direction and insight from the stillness in your everyday life.

It may seem to you now that this is a place you go only occasionally for refreshing and for support. This will change as you practice the stillness to support and refresh while you are in active participation mode. It is a process of training you must endure to bond this connection better, but your efforts will be rewarded many times in the fruits you can draw from such a connection. You are even now becoming aware much more rapidly than in the past of the connection between lessons and interactions immediately following with you brothers and sisters. You are seeing patterns repeat themselves; opportunities arise before you; challenges come your way.

Continue in your pursuits in your direction towards the Father, towards the stillness through which you get to the Father. Each time will become easier and easier until it is second nature to you to gravitate towards
the stillness whenever the opportunity arises.

I would extend affirmation in your direction as well as encouragement that, just like the practice of stillness, the practice of communication builds for stronger and better results. The more you stillness, communication, attempt a project, the easier the next time becomes. 

Tom:  Something you said triggered for me the mota in the Urantia Book that says, "Few mortals dare to draw the sum of personality credits established by the combined ministries of nature and grace." I have trouble accessing the stillness. Can I cash in a couple of these personality credits and use them to help me in the stillness?  How do you go about doing that?  Is that the appropriate vehicle to use?

Elyon: You have much to your credit, so to speak. However, you need not feel you must bargain away anything that you have in order to gain the benefits of stillness. Stillness is yours for the earning. It may take a longer period of time for some than for others. The adjustments necessary may be different from individual to individual. Therefore, all human experiences will not be the same in relation to stillness.

Stillness is an attitude, the seeking of awareness, the sharing of one's life experience with the Father. It may include prayers; it may include some dialogue on your part, some sharing of your life experience, some asking for direction and guidance, and then by its very nature it requires the cessation of dialogue and the opening up of receptivity for insight, for awareness to pervade. 

Stillness is primarily the preparation of the attitude of receptivity for spirit contact. It is beneficial for people to prepare themselves for the attitude of receptivity to accept spirit contact.

I would also add that very much spirit contact takes place with the individual mortal involved being relatively unaware of this process. For example, whereby a strong urge, thought, a compelling idea, surfaced in your mind that you then latched on to and agreeed with and determined to be correct and worthy of your pursuit, the series of events that I just described many times is spirit contact.

The simple elevation of an idea at a certain time in relation to a certain topic or subject is not wholly a human mind process. Your human mind is a vast storage facility much like a computer. What triggers the appropriate bit of information to surface at the appropriate time can often be facilitated by sources other than your human mind. Your Thought Adjuster, celestial teachers, even Christ Michael are all capable of elevating these highest of human ideas and thoughts in your mind and giving them life and voice.

Many times many transmitter/receivers feel as though they are involved in the transmitting process, that there is a personal aspect to the transmitting process. They are correct in that teachers cannot use what is not present in some form in the transmitters memory banks. Therefore there is an intertwining of the personal thoughts and ideas with the teacher's capacity to bring these thoughts and ideas to the surface at the appropriate time.

I say this to you to perhaps raise your level of awareness that when you feel prompted or inspired to interject an idea or a worthy thought in conversation or to direct conversation towards another level, that this very likely is due to external prompting coupled with your internal desire. This occurs in you regularly in individuals who care a great deal about their thought processes, about the content and direction of
what they have to offer to others. These are keys to being of service.

I encourage you as I encourage the entire group to remain in pursuit of these goals, remain in pursuit of achieving stillness easier and faster and better, maintain your pursuit of service to your brothers and sisters through your words, thoughts, and actions. You really cannot go wrong in this direction.  

Tom: I still have one more bit of that last question.  What are personality credits?

Elyon:  Personality credits refer not to some form of barter you have available to you but rather to your personal spiritual advancement. It may be seen to think of these credits as applying towards perhaps skipping a grade in your ascension, perhaps a mansion world, perhaps providing a unique opportunity to you because of these credits you have built up. Again I say these credits need never be taken away or exchanged from you for anything. They are to your credit forevermore.

Tom:  They say we don't dare to draw personality credits. That intrigues me. I have sources I can tap by asking; that's the richest mind a person could have, to spend time in stillness and ask the teachers. Your point is well taken on barter. But what personality credit could there be that I wouldn't have the courage to draw on? How would I use this untapped credit source for whatever, in trying to be still, to be of service?  I don't want to hoard it for personal use, but what is this? 

Elyon: The untapped credits you refer to may be more helpfully thought of as potentials available to you. Each one of you has many potentials before you that you have not at this time chosen to access, chosen to develop. This does not go against you as a debt, but rather it is an untaken credit on your part. Many traits are around you that simply have not been embraced, recognized, and developed to their full potential or to even their partial potential.

It is not required that each individual expand and embrace in every possible aspect of existence on this plane. However each individual has far more latent potential than actualized potential that they choose to develop. There may be aspects of yourself that with but a little energy could be developed into glorious avenues of expression. These are your untapped credits; these are waiting for your freewill choice to expand and to come to fruition. They will be there for you whether you choose to tap into them at this point or whether you choose to access them at a later time; they are latent credits you have yet to draw on.

Tom:  When you use the word "dare" it implies that I know what it is but I'm afraid to ask for it. Does it begin by asking? Can you give an example of how these would work?

Elyon:  It always begins with the expression of desire on your part; that is key in any avenue that you choose to express. The first step always remains to open up, to embrace and ask that this new direction, this new credit you wish to explore be fully revealed to you, and that you be in an attitude whereby you can appreciate and utilize and function in this new direction.

An example might be a person who has never tried to put their thoughts down in the form of writing and has lived most of their life never having given this avenue of expression a sincere try. This person then decides with their entire being that they wish to do this project. Their emphasis then shifts; their priorities then shift, and they determine what capacity they have for the avenue of writing.

It is never too late to give one of these avenues a try to see what your personal tendencies are. I use writing; it could be painting; it could be sailing; it could be roller skating. It could be any one of numerous, numerous talents or qualities. Many times we are the ones who stop ourselves from expressing this particular talent. We are the ones who either say we are not interested or not good at any particular avenue and shut that off to ourselves. Many other times we are not even aware that avenues exist to us. As I said, these avenues are available to you, if not now in this life, then perhaps in the next or the next or the next.  But it is helpful to ever be on the lookout to expand your potential through these other sources.

Elyon:  If you all could see, if you could truly stand back and witness all that is available to you, it would seem, as it does even to me, as a road map. As many roads go out from a city on a road map, all intersecting at the city and all taking various routes away from the city to various different directions, this is what each of you has to look around and see all around you. There are directions and avenues available to you all around. Most individuals choose their favorite highways that access their center being, and they stick to these highways, these familiar roads that are well traveled and are comfortable.  But there are many, many side roads and alternative routes which can expand your experience while you are here which are equally as valid as the main roads which come and go from your center.

So perhaps keep this in mind as you turn full circle in your life and see the many different directions you could take. Perhaps this could serve to arouse some curiosity in you as to the roads not taken, the paths not chosen.

The roads you do choose you walk down well. You are very sure-footed on these roads. You are becoming well versed in these paths. As your life experience proceeds you will find it challenging and intriguing to walk a different path from time to time and see what happens.  

Stillness bears great fruit
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive April 8, 1998.
Teacher Solonia, Barona
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Solonia: The time you spend in stillness with your Fragment of Father, is the greatest gift imaginable. If you
could know how much those of my order envy the opportunity that you have to spend time in personal communication with a Fragment of our Universal Father, you would look for every opportunity to have that
time. Stillness helps you at bringing Father into your daily efforts, ministries, services. It feels wonderful when you do so. You see opportunities opening up. You see the value of Love being shared with those who feel unloved. You connect in these times with your Fragment of our Infinite Father. If only you would take more opportunity to have individual communion and personal communication with your Indwelling Father Partner, you would so much more easily accomplish the difficult things in your personal spiritual growth.

You bear great fruits from those times wherein you allow your Father Fragment to have your personality for
expression. You feel the connection. You recognize it relatively quickly now in situations. This does much for the growth of yourself and your human life. If you would desire to actively incorporate your soul, then you must communicate directly from your soul. Over and over we have stressed the stillness in our teachings, yet we never cease to be astounded at how relatively few of you take full advantage of the incredible opportunity this offers to you. Again I say, communion with Father, communion with Jesus. It is the time of full focusing of your Soul upon and with your Father.

I cannot emphasize enough how much a regular practice of this stillness will transform you beyond what you can even now imagine. Practice this, be religious about it. It is a Right that you have as God's child to communicate with your Parent. It is a Rite that you should often practice.

There is a fear of being seen for who you truly are in stillness. It is a struggle between your ego being afraid of being seen in its immaturity, and the soul desiring to be seen in its joyfulness. It is a difficult struggle that a human must make between the human ego struggling to maintain some form of control, and the evolving soul desiring so badly to give control completely over to Father. It does not come easy to any mortal, most especially on this planet. 

Jill: I just got a little revelation if you will, or insightful flash, that what I do so beautifully with my clients, my brothers and sisters, in asking God to guide me for their highest good and let me be a facilitator,  I don't do the same for myself and I think this has been my issue throughout my life of giving myself the same equal
value in the eyes of God that I see all others having. So that may be why the discomfort with going into the silence on my own is still this level of accepting my own child position with my Father as totally equal. So I'm going to be able to do stillness with a renewed sense of self love and self worth. I'm looking forward to it.

Solonia: Indeed you have discovered something. This is an issue with most people. This is a fear of being seen for who you truly are. It is a struggle between your ego being afraid of being seen in it's immaturity, and the soul desiring to be seen in it's joyfulness.  It is a difficult struggle that a human must make between the human ego struggling to maintain some form of control, and the evolving soul desiring so badly to give control completely over to Father. It does not come easy to any mortal, most especially on this planet. You have made a realization tonight dear one. Now you must follow up on it.

Jill: What I felt after I said that, and then started listening to your response was, "Oh, for me personally, I'm afraid to hear what Father has to say to Me." For all my brothers and sisters, because I see them from my soul, and I see their soul, I see all their beauty and I have no fear of what Father will say to them. And so, I think this is where you're pointing out the ego and its fear in its need to control, and I'm afraid to let the Father in. And from my soul perspective, that seems so silly and yet I can feel that fear from the ego self. It's quite a journey I will be on.

Solonia: Yes. It is Quite a Journey. I have observed many in my time here on this planet, struggling, recognizing and overcoming. You all have this ability. Your ego fears to be shown how incredibly beautiful the soul is, for it fears losing it's desire for control. It tells you that it is afraid to see how bad you are, but in
reality, it is truly afraid to see how good you are.

Jill: And I interpret that as the conflict that I try to explain to a lot of people I work with, of the conflict between the mind and the heart, where we have two messages; The message we've learned from our ego self about who we are, with all the criticism and the demands to do better, do better, do better, without the validations of how well we've done, verses our heart recognizing how well we've done. Resolving that conflict is an ongoing battle, and yet the more I move into living from my soul consciousness in my daily choices, the more tired I get of having to do battle with the ego's fear because it feels so uncomfortable now.

Solonia: This is why it is so very important to give your soul personal communion time with Father. He knows you as a beautiful complete individual. He does not see your immaturity as negative. He sees it as appropriate. When you choose to give your soul the still silent time to communicate in worship and in questioning, this is an example to the clinging human self which allows it to feel good about itself. In these times it is captivated by the beauty of the relationship with God. The more often that you do this, the more
easy it is for ego to cease the desperate struggle and to embrace itself as partner to soul and partner with God. Stillness is a golden key. Use it daily.

Jill: Once again you gave me another insight, another revelation. Even though Stillness is the key, I had a conceptual problem. What I think I've been doing and why I felt I've had so little success in my stillness, you said it's the opportunity to allow the Soul to commune with Father, and I think I've always approached it from my ego self, and I think that comes from a socialized belief system drilled into us from the time we get religious, Christian experience anyway, of how imperfect we are and how inadequate we are and how shameful we are and we're so guilty for all of our mistakes, and so it is this shameful ego that reaches out in the stillness to talk to God and not my beautiful Soul that I'm allowing to have the commune time with. And the ego with it's shame blocks Father's message whereas the soul would allow the message to come through because the soul understands and accepts it's beauty, and that is me. So I have a whole new approach now that I can try and see if perhaps that was one of my major blocks to having stillness that rejuvenated and was effortless, and becomes effortless. So perhaps others have struggled with stillness from a similar conceptual misconception, if you will.

Solonia: Oh yes indeed. Many, many others. The ego merely needs to make the choice to allow it. It is a difficult choice to make for reasons you have given, and others, yet when done habitually, it becomes easier and easier of a choice to make. You would do well to make your stillness time a habit. Ego is more easily taught in habitual situations. You must stand firm in your soul, and demand the opportunity for this quiet time with your Divine Partner. And you must be firm until, through habitual practice, ego begins to experientially learn that it is not a threat, but the most ennobling experience there is.

Barona: I would like to add one small piece of guidance relative to stillness. After you have allowed your soul to insist on its communion time, I would like to suggest that you could also then invite your ego to join in joyously in the sharing of the Father's message. Your ego is the little child and it becomes very frightened when it is left out, especially when it is left out of Love in action. So with warmth and Love, invite your ego to
silently join in with you and you may just discover that one of the benefits of the habitual  practice of stillness is the eventual elimination of all fear in your consciousness.

Stillness is grasping the whole
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive February 5, 1998.
Teacher Evanson
T/R Jonathan

 

 

 

 

 

 

Evanson: I make these comments to provide insight into what is a distinction between what is spiritual awareness and what is spiritual thinking. You have in your upbringing learned the laws of mathematics. In so doing you have come to be proficient in such techniques as addition, multiplication, and those higher applications of algebra and such. When you use these principles today in your life, you are no longer concerned with rehashing the theorems that describe how these principles work. You are capable of executing a function and deriving your answer with relative ease. Though you had at one time spent hours memorizing your multiplication tables, today they flow when you need to have a quick response, an answer that is independent of the more laborious derivations of how multiplication takes place.

Stillness is that ability to be aware of the Father even when your mind is not occupied with spiritual concepts. Stillness is the ability to be instantly able to function in service without having to prepare yourself, without having to review the original principles, truth theorems, which are the foundations to your actions. In a sense, stillness is similar to having the ability to simultaneously express all the numbers in a multiplication table. It is whole-grasping rather than particular citing. This is why such emphasis is made by us teachers, for it encourages you to become even more capable in function; it encourages you this way far more than it will encourage you to become more enlightened, for the process of enlightenment is the process of grasping at the unattained which implies degrees of inability. Function, on the other hand, is a demonstration of attained states. Stillness is the bridge. 

Just as you all in years past have grappled with the concept of fractions, today the ability to perceive proportion, percentage, and partitions happens spontaneously. It is because you have mathematical insight. This insight in a spiritual dimension is derived from stillness. It is based upon your understanding but transcends this understanding.

Mark: I want to practice for the game. At some point practice becomes the game. Practice gets more intentional and directed, and thus you have the game. So when do we go from practice into the game?

Jada: Volleying before the game, the idea is to keep it moving. How many times can you get it across the net?

Evanson: Rare are the times in your lives when you have the position as the apostles, with Michael when on earth as Jesus, wherein you are deliberately ordered to go out two by two and begin ministry. More often for the whole of you inhabitants here there is a gradual and unnoticed transition, as you have indicated, where the warm-up transitions into a game. You are more often afforded the hindsight view where you realize that, in the course of this interval of time, you have shed your warm-up sweats and are now standing in uniform. The practice of small kindnesses is this very method that you have indicated. The establishment in yourselves of a naturalness ... and the truths contained makes this transition feasible. It is much like in tennis when you are being instructed by the coach as to how to execute a backhand. It is deliberately broken into particular steps. But the time comes when the backhand is applied spontaneously with skill. You do not note the moment of change. It is more of a gradual rise and fall than a sharp peak. 

When we express to you that your hour has come it will not be expressed as, "now is the time to put on your uniform." It will be expressed as a recognition that you are now fully in uniform and prepared. All your effort as preparation is more valuable than you can this day comprehend. As you are today diligently seeking to be of service to this world, that which you are acquiring has implications that will be far transcendent of the current goals and objectives of this planet. There are projects, there are achievements, to be made throughout this universe that require these skills you are developing, skills that do not replicate the skills of others. These unique acquirements you have are beyond the ability to value; they are priceless. So do not let your playful, pregame volleys lead you to a sense that it is not for purpose, that it is merely play without direction.

Stillness is a method of association with the divine
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive March 18, 2001.
Teacher Aaron, Elyon
T/R Jonathan

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aaron: I wish to present a means whereby you can practice stillness without having to necessarily create a scheduled event. There is an expression that goes something like, "as the days pass by". You have another expression, that you are "running to catch up" when your schedule is hectic and you feel behind. Let us work with these two expressions and apply them to stillness.

When for example you are busy, you have in your expression of "running to catch up" a dual motion at play. The first is that your schedule of events, your daily activities, are moving forward at a speed faster than you are heading, and you are falling behind, attempting to accelerate to bring your velocity in line with your schedule. This is what I would call two temporal actions at play. They are transient; they are in motion; there is no fixed, still reference. When it is encouraged that you practice stillness, to sit in silence quietly for ten minutes to let the Father speak, it is with the intent that you will cease one of these two motions. In actuality if you practiced this successfully both motions would stop, your advancing schedule and your running to catch up. This stillness can be difficult to accomplish, for the time of pause only brings a sharper sensitivity to all that needs to be done and all that you are not doing and the stirring to get up and get after it. It takes discipline. It may not suit your specific needs of a particular day, though at times you may find it a beneficial approach to fellowship with the Father. But let us look at the expression, "days passing by".

Now you can assign to yourself and "days" different time frames. The days are transient; they are in motion. They have temporal sequence. You are fixed. The days pass you by. You stand still. This is a means of communion while you are engaged in activities. Father has bestowed upon each one of you His divine gift, the fragment of absolute perfection, your local representative of the perfect will of the Father. The Father never moves from Paradise. All the universe is astir around and about Him. This spark of divinity within is
its own central Isle of Paradise, and you, your life, is like a universe astir around and about Him. You can exercise your activities as a reference of comparison to the stillness of the Father's presence.

Computer technology can also illustrate what I mean, for there is a mode wherein you can scroll your page while your cursor is fixed rather than scroll your cursor while your page is fixed. Your "days passing you by" is your moving page with your fixed cursor. This approach to stillness can be done at any time, in any place, during any degree of intensity of activity. All it takes is a moment's reflection and, perhaps more significantly, a moment of association wherein you reference yourself to this motionless divine spirit at the center of your miniature Paradise Isle in your being. While you are busy running here and there take a moment to freeze yourself and perceive all else in motion in reference to you. The world comes your way and passes by rather than you running to it. Integrate this perspective with your understanding of friendship with God. Develop this technique and you will find stillness ever-present, not necessarily an exercise to go do, but something always active.

Elyon: I want to play some with Aaron's description of stillness. I will not speak about stillness per se, but his
comparison of your being to the Father resident on Paradise.

You know that the Father gave thought to creation, His Son gave expression to creation, and the Spirit activates creation. To sense centeredness, control, in your busy schedules, you can use this same pattern from your mini-paradise within. The thought of creation is the expression of the will of the Father as given by your Thought Adjuster. You are the Father's son and you express the manner in which this will will be accomplished. You, the Son or Daughter of God, have your own universe stations through which you can activate this will, and that is your mind, your body, your growing soul. Know that even the Father is not immune to events taking place throughout His busy universe of the potential and the actual occurrence of developments that do not fit with His projected plan for universe unfoldment. Likewise, have you experienced such changes in your projected plans for your day. But the Father has done well in absorbing these events into the grand scheme of things. It is not unusual for yourselves to react negatively, with frustration or discouragement at unexpected changes in our plans. But we should draw from the Father's example the quality of patience, of overarching comprehension. He has never, to the knowledge of anyone in this vast universe, exhibited discouragement or disappointment with what has taken place all about Him. No event topples that peaceful, serene divine dignity, rather they contribute to the emerging manifestation of God throughout the universe.

We likewise are our own Supreme Being; we have souls that are absorbing the events of our lives, recreating through time the perfect will of the Paradise Father. In this case this is your mini-paradisaical Father, the Thought Adjuster. If the Father were to move from Paradise, the universe would crumble. 

Picture your divine gift within in the same manner. Be still and you will find greater acceptance of what appears to be chaos about you. You will discern more of the complex interworking of events that contribute to soul development, and you will begin to perceive that all people around you are in the same undertaking
whether they know it or not, the same mechanics at play; this is, in collective, a rubbing of shoulders. What appears to be an unnecessary twist of events for you, you will begin to see is the contribution to the development of another's growth. This will give birth to compassion, understanding, and acceptance when
things do not appear to go your way but do in greater insight help a brother or sister.

Mary: So much of our success in accomplishing our spiritual goals is in disciplining our minds to pay attention to what we want to pay attention to ultimately instead of being constantly distracted.

Elyon: The very beauty and nature of the mind is also a contributor to one's frustration with the practice of stillness, for Mother Spirit has given you this mind that you may discover, become more knowledgeable, discern reality, choose, accumulate and express. Its very nature is dynamism. That is its beauty. It is your gathering mechanism; it is your extension mechanism coupled with your physical vehicle for being about the Father's business. But it can work difficulty in the practice of communion and worship, for it isn't naturally given to a state of repose. This is where the image that Aaron has shared today is useful, for even your mind can move around you as you sit in stillness.

The human desire for peace and tranquillity, for divine communion, for stillness, for spiritual repose is due to the presence of the Father within who is that very set of qualities: perfect, complete, centered, pure, all those descriptives that a tumultuous life, or even a moderately normal active life, do not appear to contain.

That is the magnetism that draws one to the Father. However, the Father is within you seeking all that dynamism, all that display of activity. He desires to encounter the coordination of purpose with chance. As we ascenders seek the Father, the Father is seeking our experiences.

When you are not able to spend time in stillness, hold forefront in your mind that you are giving dynamism to the Father. It is good for the human being to seek stillness, and it is equally good for the human being to give activity to the Father.

A wandering mind is not necessarily a sign of failure
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive October 28, 2001.
Teacher Aaron

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LaReen: Aaron, on stillness...I know it is all individual and we all have our ways...I am not looking for shortcuts, but I am looking for advice on stillness. I get sidetracked so easy and my mind wanders. It seems that in this group atmosphere I can feel Father more, than when alone. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Aaron: Perhaps, looking at stillness differently might help you. The stillness is not designed to be merely a
period of time where you try to feel God or feel closer to God. Many people think of stillness, or worship, or even prayer time in terms of how they can feel a deeper presence of God Success is perceived by a large part of the human population as depending on your feelings. Rather, with the stillness, is this an exercise to lift your mind into channels of awareness beyond simply the presence, but rather are you allowing an actual
transfer to take place.

LaReen: I don't think I am. I think I am inpatient and my mind wanders and I don't sit quiet long enough, although reading lessons or the Urantia book or the Center Within or whatever.  I journal my prayer for the day, my gratitude and my worship. Then I will sit there for about a minute and my mind wanders.

Aaron: A wandering mind is not necessarily a sign of failure. It is like exercise. When you do pushups you can't do twenty pushups the first time you try. Stillness is not really an effort to stop thought, to quit thinking. Some types of meditation do this, yes. But what we have generally guided you toward is an avenue where you are trying to place your thought in certain streams, instead of chastising yourself because your mind wanders. Simply redirect and go back to the center.  

With the stillness, it is truly an endurance test, allowing yourself to wander with your thoughts, knowing that you can redirect, that you can continue on, that you can spend five minutes, ten minutes, twenty minutes, eventually in unbroken communion. But this takes real practice. You are not expected to be an expert at stillness, but one who is simply trying. So, rather than recognize your thoughts wandering and then choosing a different activity, you may simply want to apply yourself, give yourself more time to redirect. What you will find is that channeling your energy back, your thoughts back towards your center, the Spirit within you, will bring about a productivity in time. You may not even be consciously aware of the assurance and the will power, the strengthening of your resolve toward higher things, better avenues of thought, success in overcoming many areas of life that you would like to change. Much of what is accomplished in the stillness practice is unconscious. What you feel is a mixture of things. Part of that may be Spirit contact. Many of the emotions and sensations you feel are actually human electro-chemical responses.

Abraham: I agree fully with Aaron's outline and I would apply my words of fortitude and patience to you
specifically with this concern. Indeed, the main purpose of stillness is not thought stopping. That is a
certain kind of meditation. The main purpose of stillness is a re-centering of your being away from the clamor of the ego, the demand of your culture and your conditioning, a re-centering to go within to that
Center which contains all of God. So, I agree, do not be distressed that your mind wanders, but exercise your will to bring it back to center on the love and presence of your divine Indweller. Be patient with yourself. Draw upon your inner strength.

Virginia: One of the things that discourages me is when I hear other people and what they sometimes
experience in their quiet time. I say to myself, my ego self, "What's wrong with me that I can't have what they have. Then I say, "I know God loves everyone the same. Why is this different for me or different for
them". I want, as far as I know my myself, to be the best I can be. If a state of being is possible that would make me better because I have experienced a quiet, than hey, give it to me, God!

Abraham: The grass is greener on the other side!  

Virginia: I don't know if the grass is even growing on this side of the fence.

Abraham: The grass is not growing on the other side for you...for you are like any other mortal, confined to your own pasture. It is an illusion that someone else's experience is better than yours, my dear. Each person's experience is unique and truly difficult if not impossible of comparison. What you experience when you hear of other's experiences is a very second hand process. At the same time that it is true that each has unique experience, it is also true that each has the same divine Indweller. The reason each one's experiences are different is the interaction with personality. It is commendable to aspire to higher levels of spiritual growth. But it is sometimes deceptive to be seduced by mysticism, by the mysterious, by the different, so as to make one discontented with their pasture, and willing to stick their neck through the barbed wire to eat the grass that grows on the other side of the fence. Excuse what may appear to be a lack of seriousness in my response, but after all, we take ourselves far too seriously! Do we not?

Bob: One's experience is also colored greatly by cultural conditioning, life experiences, everything that has happened before and therefor an experience is laced with so many other factors than just the contact with Spirit itself. So the reason that you don't have the same experience as others do, when you hear about these marvelous experiences, is because your experience is colored by your conditioning, their experience is colored by their conditioning. It is a false comparison when you try to make those comparisons.

Stillness is for receiving, not broadcasting
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive January 13, 2001.
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Sivad: I'm drawn to the image of the mind as a mirror. In astronomy to study an image deep in space outside the range of our mortal vision, the larger the diameter of the mirror, the greater the capacity for resolution of ever deeper objects. When we encounter physical limits of engineering, we have learned to link mirrors in different parts of our world, combining their knowledge so we can calculate objects we have never before seen.

If this works for physical observation, how do we actively engage in linking our minds to focus on the love of God, and thereby magnify its understanding in our world?

Elyon: My friend, you have touched upon a subject of Supreme immensity. I will make some attempt to offer my input.

Your selection of these mirror-like antenna is a good illustration of what is often our central teaching of stillness, for these collectors are taking in light. They aren't broadcasting; they are receiving. As each of you incircuit through stillness you are creating that network, that enlarged receptive field upon which that immense imagery can be collected and become known. You understand that the Father can be discovered in the heart of any individual, but that the Supreme is discovered in the revelation of all. To gain increased
ability it is important to spend your time in stillness, for this is a point of focus in the arena of mind without the distractions of the environment. It is the opportunity to remove the snow from the collector dish so that the incoming signals are discernible and undistorted.

The mind which is bestowed upon you — and I speak to you as a large group — has some ability to function independently of time, but it is still largely conditioned by sequential perception and duration. This collecting of the greater image can happen independently of simultaneous receptivity, but you as the one viewing can strengthen your reception of tangible feedback by collectively deciding upon certain moments wherein you will actively engage in mind networking. By doing so you are teaming up; you are creating in real time a network. This form of teamwork will reveal to you more of the great picture. As I say, it can be done independently of timing, but it is helpful to the human mind to deliberately create instances of conjoined seeking.

Be still and know that I am God
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive January 27, 2002.
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Jessona: It is perhaps the most challenging and difficult discipline for an evolutionary creature to practice stilling the mind and reaching to the superconscious level of thought activity wherein the Father's gift, your Thought Adjuster, is most efficient in preparing those patterns necessary for your growth as you engage in your daily lives. However, it is also one of, in a paradoxical sense, the easiest activities you could undertake. The difficulty and the ease are intertwined. We have chosen to accommodate the terms 'stillness' and 'quiet
time' that are used in your religious disciplines, for they indicate attitudes of body and mind that are conducive to spirit engagement.

Naturally you are wired with a nervous system that seeks activity; it is the very channel from which impulses activate your being in physical form and allow you to accomplish all that you do in this life. This stimulation brings the difficulty of a period of motionlessness wherein you seek to reach to your higher mind for communion. Likewise the Mother Spirit has bestowed upon you a mind ever seeking creative expression and ideation, for that is the fountain that generates all that you come to know, understand, and experience consciously; bringing expansion of awareness. Were it not for this self-generating ideational fountain you would advance in no way. Again, does the mind as well as the body create an obstacle for your time of quiet with the Father. Yet in contrast the body fatigues; the mind grows weary as well. It is the natural state for the human being to engage in activity to create greater ease in life, to promote time for relaxation, for rest, for inactivity. Time off is a sought-for value.

Communion with the Father, to be honest, is independent of any stillness. It is an interaction of your personality with the Divine Presence and can be had during or in spite of the full spectrum of engagements of activities. This is the continual practice of the presence of God. This is what Michael found and demonstrated to be attainable by a human being.  You will perhaps never experience a stillness event like the Mount of Transfiguration, the spectacular appearance of celestial beings. You may have the fortune to never experience the dark prayer of that evening in Gethsemane, that longing cry for the guidance of your Father when all seems so lost. You may never sit upon a mountain and undertake the organization of your life career, making Supreme decision upon Supreme decision not only for the sake of your own bestowal mission but for the sake of a world and a system and a universe beyond. These are the extremes of that deep quiet time.

You will however day after day have the opportunity to lie in your bed and have a personal talk with the Father. This is the building block. This is that small exercise which prepares you for any stress and for anything that could happen to you supernaturally. Knowing full well that the Father is in constant communication with you, we are certain that the spiritual level of your stillness practice is always ongoing, unceasing. Our emphasis to you to maintain or develop stillness is to align your physical responses and your mental attitude that you will better perceive and receive this constant interchange that takes place at the higher spiritual levels of your being. This is the element of you cooperating and coordinating with the divine influence.

You have been instructed to set time aside, to allot enough time to reach quietness and not an over amount of time to burden you with undue discipline and endurance. Because of the ever constant stream of Adjuster contact to you, time duration is really insignificant for communion. It is, however, important for the level of mind and for the reining in of that natural tendency of the body to move.

Let us approach the phrase, "be still and know that I am God". Beginning with the tail end of the phrase are the words, "I am God". He is ever present always. Continually do you have Him within. There is no need to reach to discover. His presence is now and always. Stillness is this knowledge. To know God comes by being still.

It is often taught to set aside distractions that hinder the stillness. In reality these are not distractions; they are natural tendencies of the makeup of the human being. All that is really required is to bring balance, and is not all of human life the management of extremes? the development of balance in a dynamic means of giving and receiving, of undertaking and refraining, of activity and rest.

This phrase begins with "Be". All too often the calendar of one's life is too full to take that moment and know that you are, that you aren't just doing, achieving, but that you are. Just as the phrase ends "I am God", you are as well. In stillness this is known.

Given the fact of a continual connection of the Father to your being, personality, and soul, and given the fact that your mind and body are designed for motion, you may practice stillness dynamically. Your text tells you that religion must act. It must do something, for the Father has manifested Himself from the far stretches of eternity past, from that time before time before eternity wherein God is wholly complete, fully contained. The age we experience is this bursting forth of God into dynamic interrelationship. Therefore you will stir, you will think continually; this is the desire of the Father to be moving about in the universe. To calm the mind, to relax the body, is for you to retrace the steps of the revelation, the emanation, the manifestation of God, to come back to that point of the beginning of all things in your own microcosm and
know this Divine Being and to realize this center of all things is the center of yourself.

To the ego the universe revolves around itself. In reality you revolve around the Father. Given enough time practicing stillness you will find that stillness is always as the eye of a hurricane, and you can be traveling through your days with 140 mile an hour winds taking you on into numerous activities. But if you spend deliberately time in quiet you will discern that eye of the hurricane, that peaceful center, within you. Do not fight the activity, for would a hurricane be a hurricane without its calm center? Accept the natural construction of your being and be creative in developing techniques which allow you to strike a balance between dynamism and stillness. Stillness brings you to the awareness of the Father. The activities of your life bring the Father to the awareness of the human being.

Tom: As we get older at least some of our minds seem to diminish like our bodies whether through improper diet or lack of use of the mind or overuse of it or substance abuse. Our text in the Rodan papers says the master's worshipful practice brings relaxation that renews the mind. Does the mind need renewing? I thought the mind was a circuit from the Mother Spirit that's perfect. It's the brain that's not functioning. Is stillness able to renew the mind to overcome deterioration?

Jessona: It is helpful. I must place it in context in that your mind has a physical receptive mechanism that is your brain which is intimately associated with all else that is your body, and it is the body which is first to run out of its energy, its life force, to deteriorate. Since the mind must use this receptive organ to engage into your physical form and enact events initiated by your will in this world, it becomes hampered as the physical dimension of your mental, mindal, makeup declines. Relaxation renews the mind because it refreshes the brain. When the neural circuits are able to reset themselves through passivity, through the release of the tension of grappling with thought and method and events and their coordination, the mind is able to turn away from the outward focus and to be attracted to the inner impulses of the Divine Monitor.  Relaxation in a sense closes the door on the noise of the outer world so that you can hear the subtle sounds of the spirit dimension.

The mind itself does not degenerate; the platform upon which the mind rests undergoes deterioration. Your mind is circuit-like, and as you age your patterns of thinking will remain, though your effectiveness at thinking may slip away.

I will return to my lesson and point out that the effort to be still and know that I am God is a knowledge that is grounded in awareness and not grounded in thinking, that stream of constructed expression of awareness. The knowledge or perhaps better the awareness of God subsequently is developed into a stream of thought often aided by a stream of words that express that knowledge. The awareness is in the mind; the expression is composed in the craft-room of the brain. You may encounter difficulty as your biologic form will deteriorate, for physical life is of a finite duration.

Your mind will never lose its patterns of thinking that it developed in the experience of the physical life.  When you receive your morontia vehicle, you will receive the new mind circuit, but your patterns of thought will be installed in this circuit, and you will continue the consciousness that you had prior to your death. In a sense, your operating system will change, but your software will be reinstalled. Then your work begins to transform these patterns of thought that were born in your nativity life on an evolutionary world into those
morontia patterns that will elevate you in awareness to this pure spirit form of consciousness. That, my friend, is a great task.

To aid in the preservation of the organ through which your mind functions it is good to practice those habits of health and well-being, be it nutritionally, be it through activity, and be it through the exercise of
thinking, of problem solving, of wrestling in the mind conceptually. This will burn the rust off the circuits or at least prevent further rust development.

Tom: Does stillness have anything to do with refining the thought patterns?

Jessona:  It does.  Patterns, thought patterns, are a framework through which your thoughts flow. It isn't so much that one thought causes another thought, causing another thought thereby revealing pattern. It is more rather that pattern exists and your thoughts tend to conform to the framework. The goal of the Thought Adjuster is the transformation of your pattern into the soul pattern, the morontia pattern of thought. Then your thinking will flow into that framework in a new and fresh way compared to today.  Stillness allows you to break not thought pattern but thought habits, repetitious forms and reflexive forms of thought that fixate and inhibit creative bursts of thinking. It allows you to break the confines, to sit for one moment free of the habitual stream and to allow the pattern to mold your thoughts into that frame that has been developed by the Father's continual compassionate and merciful care of your life experiences.

There is a gradation. The mind is a beautiful manifestation of divinity. You have at the lowest level of gradation simple physical responses such as reflex, that you even breathe while you pay no attention. It continues on up through many levels of your psychology to that which we are speaking of now, of pattern that is superconscious. Then mind blurs and bleeds over into the morontia state, and that is the pattern of your pattern that is your soul. This is mind at its highest in physical form, for the soul is your new vehicle for
morontia life, and it is your new mind for morontia thought.

You begin your life on this planet largely in physical form, and early on in your growth your mind develops rapidly, enlarges, becomes more adept at many forms of activity on a mental level. What emerges is that higher mind, that superconscious and soul level of encircuitment. Once this has developed those levels may fall away, and they will. Naturally it is of concern to a physical being this falling away, but rally your faith and trust in the Father's care, for your high mind is sharper than any level below can ever have been at any time in your life. Stillness is the reminder to the busy mind of that prize of attainment that is your soul.

Evelyn: You mentioned practicing stillness in motion. Can you say a little bit more about that?

Jessona: I will draw from the expression of experience of the humans who have said that sitting to practice stillness only amplifies how much the mind is racing. It is much like pausing for a moment to notice how much wind is in the air. But when you are active is the wind noticed? The day can appear calm until you stop and notice the wind. In effect I am encouraging you to do precisely the opposite. If calming yourself physically only amplifies the internal activity, try external activity to mark the calmness that does exist within.

As an extreme let us illustrate: Yelling at the top of your lungs for five minutes everything that could possibly cross your mind, stomping, flailing, agitating, and then pause. The inrush of the silence is quite noticeable. Of course this is an extreme method of meditation, but it may illustrate how you can use rather than fight the natural tendencies of the body and the mind to be active.

Evelyn: Some of us have experienced this with monotonous activity, with something reasonably energetic there is a quiet mental space you can get into. Large amounts of time can go by without noticing the vigor of it all. I experience that more than I do stillness while trying to be still.

Jessona: I extracted a key word, "monotonous" and also add to it "repetitive" and call to mind how effective the lullaby is to bring an infant to sleep. The silent room may not encourage that sleep state, but the lullaby
is so soothing that the child falls off to sleep. Of course, I do not encourage sleeping in stillness. But the effect is the same. A little bit of calming dynamics can encourage the development of stillness, especially if the tendency is to be agitated when attempting stillness of body and mind.

Stress

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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Hypersensitivity and how stress works
 
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SOURCE: Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
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Hypersensitivity

As our first line of defense, skin must respond to stresses that are constantly changing. While researching how best to protect the skin of leprosy patients, I gained great admiration for skin’s adaptive properties.

We developed a mechanical device that presses a metal rod against the fingertips with measured force. If I put my hand under the tiny hammer, it feels rather pleasant, like a vibromassage. But if I let the machine run on for several hundred beats, my finger turns slightly red and feels uncomfortable. After fifteen hundred beats I must pull my finger out, for I can no longer bear the pain. When I return to the machine the next day, I can only tolerate a couple of hundred beats before yanking my finger away.

Mild inflammation brings on a condition called hypersensitivity. My finger feels warm as blood surges to the point of stress, and swollen as the body cushions it with extra fluid. The same finger that endured many blows from a tiny hammer yesterday has become hypersensitive, and in its inflamed state just a few more thumps could lead to a blister or ulcer.

Likewise, a burned finger becomes hypersensitive to heat. More than once I have put my hands in a basin only to discover that my hands are sending mixed signals. My left hand reports that the water is hot while my right hand says warm. Then I remember an incident from breakfast: a drop of hot bacon grease popped out of the pan and landed on my left hand. Nerve endings at that spot lowered their tolerance threshold and are now reporting warm water as hot because even a little heat might harm the mildly inflamed tissues.

Who has not felt the irritation of a sore finger always seeming to get bumped every few minutes no matter how careful you are. That phenomenon has a sound physiological basis: pain cells near the site of injury have become ten times more sensitive to pain. In effect, pain cells “turn up the volume” so that I won’t foolishly subject my skin to more hot grease or hammer blows. In these remarkable ways, hypersensitivity produces a shield of protection around vulnerable areas.

At times all of us experience a psychological form of hypersensitivity. An accumulation of small stresses builds up — overdue bills, work pressures, house repairs, irritating habits of family members — and suddenly every minor frustration hits like a sledgehammer. Pain, whether physical or emotional, works precisely because it is loud and insistent. Hypersensitivity alerts the body to skin’s urgent need of relief from stress. Likewise, emotional hypersensitivity in one member can alert the larger community to the need for respite or outside care.

A healthy body feels the pain of its weakest parts. We may be called on to bolster a bruised ego, mediate a dispute, or take upon ourselves some of the minor stresses that have piled on others. As a former missionary, I cannot overstate the life-sustaining role of people back home who supported me by praying and writing letters. These unusually sensitive cells in the "body" sought out my hardships and nourished me in times of need. Such dedicated people make the difference between a missionary or aid worker who serves twenty years and one who breaks down after a short time.

Stress management
 
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A psychologist walked towards the podium while teaching stress management to a knowledgeable audience. As she lifted a glass of water, everyone expected the question to be "is the glass half empty or half full?". Instead, with a smile on her face, she asked: "How much does this glass of water weigh?"

Answers were heard from the audience ranging from 8 ounces to 20 ounces.

She replied: "Absolute weight doesn't not matter. It depends on how long I hold it. If I hold it for a minute, this isn't a problem. If I hold it for an hour, I will have pain in my arm. If I hold it for a whole day, my arm will feel numb and paralyzed. In each case, the weight of the glass does not change, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes."

She continued: "Stress and worries in life are like this glass of water. Think about it for a while and nothing happens. Think about it a little longer and they start to hurt. And if you think about it all day, you feel paralyzed – unable to do anything".

"It's time to put down your glass."

Thought Adjusters

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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Through the Thought Adjuster, God lives in you
 
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What, indeed, are these Pilot Lights, which indwell the children of time and space? In a sense they are for all practical purposes God, Himself. While it is true that the Universal Father resides physically on the Isle of Paradise, He is also present on the worlds of time of space in the beings of His fragments, Father fragments, which we call the Mystery Monitors or Thought Adjusters. This is, in actuality, Deity.

Their purpose is to downward reach to the children of time and space, to - indeed - the lowest creation of The Father, to guide them and lead them onward toward eventual attainment of the Universal Father Himself. They indwell imperfect, finite, and experiential beings and lead them to infinite, absolute, and eternal state of being. The journey is long and full of spiritual adventure. The Thought Adjuster is directly and totally responsible for the impulse-drive of the children of time and space Godward.

When the Spirit of Truth was bestowed upon Earth, all mortals of normal mind received the Mystery Monitor. The reception of this monitor is dependent upon the first true moral will-choice of the children of time, and on average occurs during early childhood - approximately five years of age, although it varies from individual to individual. When this decision is made, it is immediately recorded and an Adjuster is dispatched instantaneously from Divinington. Refer to the Urantia Book paper 13 for an explanation of Divinington.

The Adjuster has already studied the personality, intellectual capacity, spiritual receptivity, and life projection plans before volunteering to indwell the mortal. These records are made manifest by the Seraphic Recorders and Reflectors. The Adjuster is chosen on the basis of the best ability to lead the child Godward.

What exactly are these fragments of The Father? They are classified, loosely, along these lines:
Virgin Adjusters - whereupon it is their first assignment from the Universal FATHER to indwell a mortal being, for Virgin Adjusters are equal in terms of God-leading potential.
Advanced Adjusters - indwell the mortals temporarily on worlds, but they will not fuse with these mortals, rather they will be eventually Spirit fused.
Supreme Adjusters - are adjusters who have indwelt mortals who have rejected the eternal ascent career. They are different from Virgin Adjusters in that they have experience and can act in more ways on the minds of the human they are currently indwelling.
Vanished Adjusters - are adjusters, which are detached from their mortals and are journeying through the Universe of Universes, and perhaps at the same time spending time on the Isle of Paradise in a period of rest.
Liberated Adjusters - have been relieved of their obligation to guide and indwell mortals, and we know not what their assignments are.
Fused Adjusters - have gloriously become entirely new beings, a combination of the Divine, Eternal, Absolute and the finite experiential child of time and space.
Personalized Adjusters - have served with the incarnated Paradise Sons or have previously indwelt mortals whereupon they have rendered extraordinary service while residing on a planet of time and space, but the mortal has rejected survival.

These are the thumbnail classifications of the Mystery Monitors. What are their properties? The Father fragments have mind. Not the type of mind that you define as your minds, but we know they have mindal capacities because they are capable of love, work, and planning. They make decisions based on the life circumstances of the mortal.

They are also spirit, pure spirit. They have a spiritual luminosity, which is discernable to orders of Seraphim and other celestial beings. They also are energy, as they traverse the gravity circuits from the Isle of Paradise even into the outer space regions.

Do they have personality? No. They are pre-personal entity beings. Although they have volition in terms of the choice to volunteer to indwell, and the choice of the individual mortal which they indwell, and they are individualized fragments, they are pre-personal beings.

Consider that the will of the personality creature of time and space is the most respected, or last word, even to the fragment of the Universal Father. Therefore when indwelling a being who has received the gift of personality from The Father, The Father Himself - and His fragment - respect the will of the personality creature. The Adjuster only makes will decisions on the pre-personal level, and then tries by many means to influence, uplift, and lead the child Godward, but never interferes with a decision of the personality will creature.

Consider the frustration of the Divine fragment who is, in essence, imprisoned in the mortal mind, the loneliness of the Deity longing to perfect the creature of experience, the longing for perfection attainment and integration through fusion. The Adjusters truly are the most loyal and loving gift, which any child of time and space could ever receive.

The Adjusters also interact to different degrees with a mortal of different life stages. During the early years of indwelling they are Thought Changers. Middle of life they are Thought Adjusters. And once discretion and wisdom are attained by this creature, they are Thought Controllers. They are more prevalent in terms of the actions and decisions of the will creature.

The Adjusters remain a mystery to most of the celestial beings, however, we envy the creature of the indwelling, because it is your personal assurance that you will one day become finaliters. It is God's love, and promise to you of your eternal perfected natures reached through your ascension experiences. It is the ultimate love of the Creator for even the smallest creature. It is God's way of maintaining intimate contact with every creation in the universe. And it is God's way of obtaining personal experience of the ascension career of every creature. What a beautiful plan! How divine and perfect a gift to the often-bereft creatures of the flesh. 

The consciousness of the Adjuster is - in reality - consciousness of God The Father. Please try to increase your consciousness of your own Divine nature. Prayer and meditation, quiet reflection on the miracle of your dual nature, is helpful. Spend time in receptivity, asking The Father to make His guidance clearer. Do not tax your physical electro-chemical housing because it is harder for the Adjuster to guide you.

The goal of the Adjuster is to make clear to you The Father's will. Many of us do The Father's will albeit unconsciously. Your goal should be a more conscious awareness of the will of The Father who loves each of you, personally, enough to give the gift of the Divine to the imperfect. Prayer, receptivity, a healthy respect for your body, and a consciousness of your Divine potential are your goals.

Question: If you have a Thought Adjuster who has operated before, would he have operated on the same
planet?

Answer: Not necessarily, but perhaps. It is not impossible.

Question: Are Thought Adjusters confined to spiritual ministries or are they also concerned with the physical life of the mortal, which they indwell?

Answer: They are concerned with the physical well being of the mortal in that it impinges upon spiritual soul growth. For example, a mortal who clouds his or her mind, spiritual receptivity, with substances, or is in such illness that it impinges on soul growth, is of concern to the Divine fragment because it impedes the Mystery Monitor from leading the soul to ever increasing awareness of Father - God consciousness. There are many things, which could be improved to cut the static between the Adjuster and the mortal mind. Health is an area, which sometimes enhances communications.

Question: Are human beings able to communicate with their Thought Adjusters and if so, what are some
guidelines along these lines. What are the topics about which they can communicate, etc.?

Answer: The Adjuster is fully aware of your thought prayer life and soul growth. However for a human to make this a two-way communication requires soul growth, experiential wisdom, and growth in terms of spiritual fruits, and the time spent in silent listening.

Question: If the mortal is earnestly seeking to do God's will and to accept the guidance of the Thought Adjuster, would it be accurate to assume the past experience of the Adjuster would not interfere with his ability to assist? In other words, could any Adjuster, even a Virgin Adjuster, equally assist a person earnestly seeking The Father's will?

Answer: That is correct. The assignment of the Adjuster is made by the Universal Father and while on Divinington the individual Adjuster is chosen for the assigned mortal. Why some mortals receive more experienced Adjusters we know not. However, there is no Divine difference in Adjusters, only different levels of previous experiential indwellings, but it makes no difference in terms of the soul growth of the mortal indwelt.

Question: Are their fruits more if they have an experienced adjuster?

Answer: The Adjuster one receives is tailored to the needs projected by the Seraphic Recorders and Reflectors of that individual mortal. You will not benefit more by having another class of Adjuster. The growth potential is purely up to the mortal receptivity. If the soil is rich the plants will grow.

Question: Do the Thought Adjuster and the Spirit of Truth work together, and is there any degree of communication that might - on some level - soothe our Adjuster's loneliness.

Answer: I do not really understand if Adjusters communicate or not with the Spirit of Truth. The Spirit of
Truth insures that every normal-minded being will receive an Adjuster. Adjusters do communicate with each other, but this remains a mystery to what they communicate or why.

Question: Do Adjusters, sometimes in a dream send spiritual messages?

Answer: Sometimes. Adjusters do work on the mortal mind when asleep. But there is often a garble, and I
would not recommend relying too heavily on such signs or omens. Use the slower tools of prayer and worship and silent listening to make steady progress in communication. There are sometimes enlightened revealed truths that are given to individual mortals, but these are not the norm.

Question: Because Virgin Adjusters have no personality, is every Virgin Adjuster identical?

Answer: Yes. Except that they are individuated to meet the needs of the mortal host. They are pre-personal, alike in Divinity, but not in the plan for their subject.

Question: Human literature, both religious and lay, as well as even scientific study, appears to show that when human beings go against what they know to be the truth in their lives, they punish themselves both by having guilt and by self-destructive behavior. Does this involve an action of the Thought Adjuster, or is that a purely human response?

Answer: It is not the Adjuster, although the Adjuster is the impetus for higher values and actions and for the path Godward. What you are referring to is the area of mind as you humans define it, which is the mediator between the Divine and the animal nature. It is what you would label conscience, and when there is a divergence or conflict, the human self often self-punishes. This is not what God would have you do. Rather, God would have you take more positive steps and learn and grow toward the light rather than remorseful destructive behavior.

Question: Does the Thought Adjuster communicate with the Guardian Seraphim?

Answer: Yes, but I am not allowed to explain how.

Question: When we are seeking communication with the Thought Adjuster in silent receptivity, what do we focus on in order to quiet down, what do we try to be aware of?

Answer: First, I would recommend time spent in prayer which are not selfish petitions but prayer for more
spiritual fruits, higher values, service and fellowship, thanksgiving, worship. Then merely relax and try to attain the peace, which surpasses all understanding. This is not an easy task. Many never achieve a clear enough state to consciously hear the guidance of The Father, however what is more likely is you will receive an impulse feeling to proceed in a certain direction and illumination of a good acts or action, and these proddings should be followed. Evaluate the spiritual content and you will have an arrow pointing to the Mystery Monitor.

Question: Is there something specific we should focus on in order to quiet the chatter of the mind? To achieve the stillness?

Answer: There are many techniques, which you humans engage in. To do this each person is different. There are many paths to the same destination, and I am not able to know which might be best for you. Certainly, quiet time is a must. Many benefit from time spent on a routine basis in communion with the higher nature. Exercising a spiritual muscle, whichever form it takes, will lead to eventual success and breakthrough. Try out different methods of relaxation and meditation. Reflect spiritual receptivity and decide which works best for you. There is no formula that I can give you. I regret that. But each person must work out their relationship with their indwelling Divinity on their own.

Question: Is your experience with your Mystery Monitor intense and conscious at this point? Does it get more conscious as you ascend through the morontia spheres? And could you enlighten us a little and let us know what the differences might be? Between you and us?

Answer: Yes, it is more conscious, of course. The difference is that I guess much less than you as to the will of The Father.

Question: Are you able to see your Thought Adjuster?

Answer: Not at this time.

Question: Is that because he is back where you came from waiting for you?

Answer: I am not allowed to answer your astute question. 

Question: On your planet of origin, did you receive your Adjuster as we do on this planet?

Answer: Similar, but at a younger age.

Question: And when you received your Adjuster, on your planet, do the people or the beings know when
that occurs?

Answer: On occasion, yes.

Question: Can you share with us any interesting aspects about that?

Answer: We were much more attuned to the spiritual growth of our children than you are on this planet. Every parent actively fostered spiritual awareness in their children as one of the main responsibilities and honors of caring for a young unformed being. Therefore the arrival of the Deity fragment was awaited with great anticipation and joy, and much preparation was spent in discussions around this momentous event. Because it was so highly paid attention to, and fostered, there often was an awareness of the moral decision-making capabilities of the child on the part of the parents, and sometimes an awareness of the upsteps of mind being when the Mystery Monitor arrives. It was a cause of much speculation and celebration. You are virtually unconscious of this momentous occasion on your planet here.

Question: Did your Mystery Monitor bring a blueprint for you to be a doctor of the type that you are?

Answer: I am not sure, but what we do know is that The Father fragment works with whatever decisions the free-will creature makes to the highest advantage of Deity. Certainly my intellectual genetic inherited capacities and my spiritual receptivity capacities were evaluated when the Mystery Monitor chose to indwell me. So perhaps the angels projected my possible career choices to Divinington and God selected the best Father fragment for me. This is speculation, but an educated guess on my part.

Question: Is the operation of the Mystery Monitor in a person influenced at all by the prayers of persons that know this one? And would you comment on what circumstances would lead to the Mystery Monitor leaving a mortal person? Can that be prevented by the prayers or other actions of other mortals?

Answer: First, if I understand correctly, you would like to know if prayers of others can influence the communication of an individual with their Thought Adjuster. The answer is No. That does not influence the
communications. 

Secondly, the Adjusters leave when the mind of the mortal is impaired to the degree that they are physically alive but spiritually dead, as certain forms of insanity or brain damage, etc. Too, an adjuster will leave when a mortal rejects survival, either by nefarious evil to the extent that survival is virtually unassured when they live in the body of the flesh, or after they are repersonalized and they reject survival on the Mansion Worlds.

Third, an Adjuster may leave for short periods of time to go on assignments, which we know nothing about in other parts of the universe or to rest and reside on the Isle of Paradise with the Universal Father. The adjuster will then return to the mortal of its indwelling after a certain period.

Question: When God bestows a Thought Adjuster or bestows a billion or a trillion Thought Adjusters, is he
in any way diminished? Is His infinity in any way diminished by the bestowals either temporarily or in any way?

Answer: No. I know it is an impossible concept to grasp, but the Universal Father is never diminished by anything.

Question: You said that sometimes the Thought Adjuster may leave for a brief period of time to go on an
assignment. Well now that I have become more aware of my Thought Adjuster that thought is - I don't like it, I don't want Him to go. How long would that period of time be, and I'm just hoping that that doesn't happen during one of the times when I finally am stilling my mind enough to get in touch.

Answer: This was not said to raise anxiety fear in you. Let me try to explain a three-dimensional concept to a two-dimensional world. The Adjuster travels instantaneously. The Adjuster, being God the Absolute, can be in two places, three places, five places, in essence at once. I assure you that when an Adjuster is detached, each period of time varies, but it is never to the spiritual detriment of the human subject. Clearer than that I cannot be, as you are intellectually incapable of understanding - as I am to a certain degree - the mystery of this aspect of Deity.

How is it possible for God to be physically residing on the Paradise Isle and yet physically present, energy, spirit, mind, in each of you? We do not know how to explain, but it is so. When an Adjuster leaves, you will not feel a loss or absence. It is possible it would be a momentary leaving and would never hurt you, or your growth communication, in any way.

To briefly review, Earth is a fortunate planet in that since Michael's incarnation in the flesh and His subsequent elevation, this planet has been given His mighty gift of the Spirit of Truth. This interfaces directly with the Indwelling Adjuster in that since the bestowal of the Spirit of Truth every sound-minded mortal on this planet, upon reaching the age of choice between what is right or wrong spiritually, is given an indwelling Mystery Monitor. Other planets, which have not been privy to this gift, receive monitors in other ways, but all mystery Monitors are equal spiritually, if not experientially.

So this planet has been uplifted in a time of isolation by the gift of the Father on High. The Mystery Monitors, to all purposes of reality, are God. Their mission is not really for this lifetime in the flesh but for the next lifetime in the morontial and spiritual. They are referred to as heavenly helpers, not earthly or material helpers.

How do they affect you here? Well, suffice it to say that if the Mystery Monitors were to vacate the mortals on this planet, your world would soon devolve to nothing more than mere savagery and instinctual tribal behavior. It cannot be portrayed to you how much they affect your behavior, but without them you would be animals.

The Mystery Monitors are organized and do communicate with each other, but not in ways that are familiar to me. The head of the corps on Earth, and indeed in your universe, is the personal, wise, Monitor of Jesus of Nazareth who so skillfully guided the human Jesus through all the steps of his spiritual maturity.

The indwelling Adjuster is indeed responsible for leading you into your future as an eternal survivor. The Monitor is perfect, and therefore you have the assurance of the Father on high, that you, an imperfect being, indeed have the potential and the promise of perfection. The Monitor also assures you, an infinite time-bound child of God, of your future attainment of eternity.

The Monitor is the divine parent, the human parent of the developing morontia soul. The Thought Adjuster is much more concerned with its mission of your evolving soul than with your temporal emotions - which are responsive to your inner mind - though pairing or external physical circumstances. He is not swayed by the vicissitudes of life here, but rather the focus is on the future being which you and the Absolute will co-create, one day merging, fusing, into an entirely new entity of God and man, an eternal being never before seen.

The Father is infinite, absolute, perfect, existential and pre-personal. The only thing the Father lacks is
knowledge of sin and evil and experiential creature knowledge. Through the bestowal of the Divine Adjuster man is able to know God and God is able to experience finite creature experience. It is a most interesting exchange.

The communication of adjusters to humans is done mostly unconsciously, through sleep or when awake.  The reflections of the Adjuster are often not heard in the conscious mind. But rest assured, every prompting reality - spiritual impulse - is saved for the evolving human to partake of when they have reached that level. So, as a human moves from circle to circle or incarnation to incarnation, what the adjuster fails to teach will be taught at a higher level. Nothing of survival value is ever lost, but simply saved for future use.

Try to view the Adjuster as the spiritual voice imprint pattern of your soul personality in the future. Every material thought is duplicated with its spiritual essence in the higher mind of the Adjuster. It is an assurance of what you will some day be.

The Adjuster is a being of much patience, loyalty and yes, love. The mission is the morontial, to create the soul. At times Adjusters may consciously be reached by the human without the interference of symbols and human thought - interpretation - expectations. When this happens, as - incidentally - it does more often on an experimental isolated planet than it does on other more normal-course worlds, the Adjuster is in a mood of intense celebration and joy. It is the lonely mission of these pieces of Divinity to communicate with the mortal. Often Adjusters must wait until re-personalization to even begin this wonderful association. But no adjuster has ever failed in his task, and has never been examined for any inference of default.

An important point for you to reflect upon is that - while you go about your life thinking, reacting, feeling, praying, living, being - the Adjuster is patterning the spiritual truth to mirror and reflect every one of your thoughts, actions, emotions. Although you may not clearly discern what the Adjuster is saying, your status as agondonter is playing out in this arena. For, it is enough for you to know intellectually, emotionally, mindally that the Adjuster is urging you to be less selfish, less sinful, less negative, and to shift your focus to service, love, worship, prayer, thanksgiving - which, in essence, constitute the will of God.

You, more than other creatures, have direct access to the will of God, for the will of God resides in each of you. Do not be confused with the moral definition of right-wrong, religious rules, restrictions, etcetera, but try to focus on the will of God living within. On faith, as agondonters, know within you lies a piece of Divinity of which many other creatures in the universe of universes would wish to have assess to. You can break through barriers to this Divinity, but it takes work and commitment of your will to the will of the Father.

The Adjusters also have other missions of which I am are not aware or allowed to disclose to you. However, it is enough for you to take in the miracle of this gift: the most perfected Being, Creator of all, indwelling in loneliness and silence the least evolved of His creation, and benefiting through creature experience to become ever more compassionate, and to know and love each one of His children individually and personally.

What greater love can exist than the Divine Adjuster leaving the perfection of Paradise and Divinington to intimately associate in a mind often full of negative thoughts and imperfect behavior on a world so distressed? But God loves you personally so much, infinitely, that He is willing to go through the waters of adversity, negativity, sin, even evil, with you and guide you safely to a brighter shore. And His promise is to someday create a new creature, coparents - man and God equal parents - to the bright and beautiful entity, which will some day serve in the Corps of the Finaliters under the personalized adjuster of Jesus of Nazareth, Himself.

What greater love can be demonstrated to you? Have you actually grasped what this means, my brothers and sisters? Have you ever thanked the Father for this most precious gift? Have you ever been humbled by the goodness of God, his generosity and compassion - to reserve the right to know every creature personally, to withstand the vicissitudes of emotion and imperfection, and the often dark times that every human must silently go through to reach the heights of sublime peace and God knowingness? God goes through this gratefully, generously, lovingly, voluntarily for you, his sons and daughters of time.

What lies ahead in this grand adventure we can only guess at. But you, brothers and sisters, are especially blessed and favored to exist on a world where the Creator Son, Himself, bestowed His Spirit, and where the Father Himself bestowed His gifts.

If you feel peaceful, sublime, loved, loving, forgiving, forgiven, compassionate, connected to your brothers and sisters and the Father, that is your first inkling of Thought Adjuster downreach and outreach to the human mind and soul. Some day you will feel this way always, and more. My brothers and sisters, I bless you and open the floor to questions.

Question: Rayson, on the planet that you came from, did everyone have Thought Adjusters like they do here, and did you, personally, have a Thought Adjuster?

Answer: On the planet I came from not everyone received Adjusters, although most did - in the later stages. Yes, I did receive an Adjuster, but am not with my Adjuster while I serve here on Earth.

Question: I have a question on fear human beings on Earth experience. There are a number of places in the Urantia Book where we are admonished not to be fearful. And there is also a place where savages on this earth were discussed, and they were said to be quite fearful. Now even in the condition we're in right now, which has advanced somewhat beyond the savage human point, there still is a great deal of fear. How does the condition of fear in man interrelate with connectedness to the Thought Adjuster and general faith?

Answer: Fear is the biggest emotional barrier to Thought Adjuster communications: animal fear and anxiety. How to conquer this is a lifetime challenge and active job for the human. One is by remembering what true reality is. True reality is spiritual reality. If you would examine the source of your fears you would find that they are rooted in the physical, material realms. For example: Will I have a job? Will I get ill? Will this action hurt me? Will I lose this person's love? Will I look good to others? There is a difference between instinctual survival fears which are built into a species and easily surpassed as the race becomes more intellectually developed and fears that arises out of the unreality of ego and the material, physical plain. The absence of fear equals love. The two cannot coexist in the human psyche. The more one loves the less one fears. It is not an easy task to accomplish, and indeed many mortals never accomplish this to any significant degree in this lifetime. Some extraordinary human beings do manage to, for the most part, live without fear, but these are generally humans with self-acting Adjusters and lives dedicated to the spiritual realities.

Question: Since you don't have a Thought Adjuster here, in the quiet time when we were reaching for the
Father within us, what do you do during those moments? How do you reach for Him if He is not within you now?

Answer: I pray. God is present externally as well as internally and I am capable of feeling His love.

Question: Can you see our Thought Adjusters?

Answer: I can only see a glow around the pre-frontal lobe.

Question: Is that akin on any level to people who claim to see auras?

Answer: I do not know. For not knowing these mortals, I do not know what they see. Theoretically, it is
possible, I suppose.

Question: In our daily activities, when we meet another person and we interrelate with them, is there any way that we are aware of their Thought Adjuster? Is any communication between, for instance, my Thought Adjuster and the Thought Adjuster of the other person? A lot of times when I meet people I can look at them and think, I know they have a Thought Adjuster, and I know there is a fragment of God within this human being. Is there any other awareness that takes place?

Answer: There is communication amongst Adjusters, but what it is I do not know. There is also personality recognition amongst humans, also personality of bestowal of the Father. But I am unaware of what the communication might be. Adjusters sometimes communicate to each other as the mortals sleep, but again this remains an enigma to me.

Question: My question is about the concept of patterning that you talked about earlier. I wonder if you could explain that? I wasn't sure if I understood that there was a - that was direction, or if it was some sort of parallel or duplication process for the future.

Answer: It is both. Always the Adjuster tries and does direct and adjust the thoughts of the subject. In
addition, there is a mirror in higher mind for every incomplete imperfect thought-action that the human
engages in. The adjuster reflects and keeps the spiritual-perfected truth of that thought action and saves it as the pattern for the emerging morontia soul. This is the projection of who you will become some day, as well as the Adjuster's influence in changing who you are today.

Question: In western culture now we have the capacity to keep many people alive into advanced age. This means that we see a fairly high percentage, compared to past ages, of persons who develop dementing diseases, particularly Altzheimers disease. In these disorders there's generally disease of the frontal and prefrontal areas, and one sees clinically disintegration of the personality as well as loss of capacity for self-maintenance. Now there's a very great moral dilemma developing in western medicine presently about - is it right to keep such people alive? Because the expense of keeping them alive is very very high. There is much grief in the family as these people become further and further detached from family and friends and reality. And these people seem to have much fear, much pain, and much illness in general. Could you comment on this? Could you comment on how this would be handled on another world such as the one that you come from?

Answer: In the cases where the deterioration is in the prefrontal lobe it is my opinion that the Adjuster has left. What is alive is a physical body. As for the ethics of maintaining life, it is irrelevant spiritually one way or another. In terms of my world we had in place a spiritualized and accepted ritual for graduation when the
physical was an impediment to the spiritual soul growth - that is, of course, the only eternal reality. When the mechanism housing the soul-Adjuster no longer functioned, it was not of any consequence to terminate biological life. In fact, it was a cause of celebration, being the Father's will that the soul move on to the next growth level.

You down here have much more irrational and emotional reactions to this practice since - as a world - you
do not truly understand what life is, and define it solely in terms of the physical. Now, some day on your planet things will even out. 

As you grow as a world spiritually, you will learn to temper life extension with actual life growth of the soul. And many diseases will be eliminated which interfere with the mind-soul connection. Until that time this topic will be reacted to irrationally and I can only pray for your enlightenment as a world culture since many mortals suffer needlessly, and suffer delays in their universe career because of the mere sentiment, which is attached to the material body.

Question: If a person is demented, and the Thought Adjuster has left them, where is their soul? If their body is still alive, is it still with them on this planet? Or has it already gone with the Thought Adjuster?

Answer: The soul is in the keeping of the Seraphic Guardians of Destiny. 

In every human on this planet of normal mind resides the Divine; not a physical part of your body, no, but a spiritual inhabitant of mind, higher mind, the Thought Adjuster. Each Adjuster - Divine, loyal, faultless, overflowing with love, and a commitment to the assignment to shepherd the human to the shores of the morontia, and all the way to the presence of the Universal Father on paradise. Each adjuster is equal in Divinity but not in experience. Each Adjuster carryies your predestined life plan, affected only by the free-will determination of the human.

Each adjuster indwells the human with a plan, which was conceived and honed on Divinington, approved by the Personalized Adjuster on Divinington as well as the Personalized Adjuster of Earth. This plan is for your spiritual ascension. Too often it cannot even be slightly realized on this planet. It is a plan for soul growth. It sometimes includes life choices in terms of career, family, fellowship associations, religious expression, decisions involving spiritual growth. All of these things have an ideal and perfect plan in God's mind. But will is the most respected gift in the universe, and the valiant Adjuster - while trying to implement your perfection - must live in loneliness in your imperfection. This is the destiny of the Adjuster on this planet.

But they are patient and know full well their ultimate destiny. Let me explain. While here indwelling the mortal, the Adjuster is constantly communicating with the human mind. In the majority of cases this communication is not heard or, if glimpsed, garbled by the human thoughts, prejudices, emotions. Many religious fanatics or isms have been the result of misunderstood Adjuster communication.

There seems to be an imbalancing effect when an Adjuster communicates with a subject, not always, but
often. The Adjuster is impeded by the primitive electro-chemical material housing in which you inhabit. This mechanism is as static to a radio signal. It is quite difficult to quiet the material body, mind, function, and emotion for clear communication to occur. However, it often does occur partially. Dreams sometimes reflect an impartial understanding. Also, the Adjuster beams universe broadcasts constantly of love and cosmic citizenship to the subject. It would seem like an impossible task to break through the barrier, but it has been done gradually.

As the human matures spiritually, the Adjuster has more freedom to reach the subject. As you know, the
cosmic circles are an indication of spiritual progression. It is linked to Adjuster receptivity in the mortal. The Adjuster always communicates perfectly and constantly. The human gains receptivity as he or she proceeds from the seventh to first cosmic circle.

For the Adjuster there are certain landmarks. One is when the human achieves the third psychic circle of spiritual progression on this planet. As you know, the third circle is an important milestone. Personal seraphim are assigned, and although we are not sure of the relationship of the seraphim to the Mystery
Monitor, we have observed that when personal seraphim are assigned, adjuster receptivity is greatly aided. When the mortal commits to doing the will of The Father and sublimating their own will to the Divine, another milestone has been reached. If one could keep this in constant consciousness you would progress more rapidly.

The second celebratory milestone for your Adjuster is fusion. What exactly is fusion? It is simply this: ONE WILL; the human subserving to the Divine, the two wills moving together to become one will over a dual minded being - Divine Adjuster mind and human mind, one will. When this will is in such perfect atunement, fusion occurs. A new being is created. You are indeed one with the Divine, the eternal - the finite, the Absolute - the imperfect, the time bound the forever. This is the goal and journey of the Adjuster.

The third and final milestone is when the new creation, the fused being, is in the presence of the Paradise Father, when the child of Paradise, the Adjuster, shepherds its mortal companion and this companion recognizes God.

After fusion, much of the Adjuster's work is concerned with the eternal path, teaching the mortal what God knows. The future is clear and assured. The present is known. The child of time and the eternal are wedded forever. But the child of time must learn all of the spiritual implications, ramifications, of the present, future - as eternal.

This is a very complicated concept for you children of time. If you will think on it, you perhaps might begin to grasp the glimmer of what I am saying. We have an adventure ahead! But it is not a straight line. It is all encompassing of everything that ever was, is, and shall be. It is quite existential. God, of course, encompasses all. In order to see The Father you must understand all. As you traverse the circles, your outlook becomes more morontial. For the lucky few who achieve first circle, you are truly morontial in outlook. You are aware of the reality of soul growth and become less locked to the physical and material world.

There have been some instances of mortal translation on this planet but these are infrequent occurrences.
This happens when the mortal and the Divine will become one. Human death is passed over and the soul, Adjuster, personality, are taken to the mansion worlds. No one from this planet has ever avoided mansion world experience, even those few who are translated here. For the majority human death is an inevitability. 

Death is greatly anticipated by the Adjuster for this reason: only when you reach Mansonia can the Adjuster more clearly communicate with you. After human death you will clearly hear the messages from your adjuster. Whether you obey is up to you, but there will be no more guesswork or confusion.

Now, in the area of confusion, it is quite normal to not know what is an Adjuster prompting and what is a prompting of conscience, which is a wholly different mechanism. Conscience is a human morality mechanism which helps you to know, or prompts you to do, what is right versus what is wrong. The Adjuster tells you what is really right.

Do you see the difference, students? Morality vs. spirituality. Truth vs. fact. High values vs. societal rules. The Adjuster always knows what is truly right. But it is the human condition to not be sure, and it is better to use your spiritual tools of slow progress, prayer, worship, thanksgiving, meditation, consultation with fellows - group wisdom, et cetera, to discern what is the highest choice. Better to err on the side of caution than to believe all inner prompting to be the work of your Adjuster.

The Adjuster does not place thoughts in your mind, but rather influences upstep in your thoughts. Also, the Adjuster wishes you to make decisions as actions, which are in line with higher spiritual value. There are two parts to the equation; growth, thought, spirituality; action, service-in your life and in the world.

The soul does not grow from intentions. The soul grows through decision-action. Love acts. So the potential must be translated to the actual, here, today, in your lives, in this world - in each of your own way. Try to be a little more loving, tolerant, faith-filled to your fellows. Try to extend a kindness when originally you might want to sit back. Be active, not passive. This greatly aids spiritual attainment and Adjuster communication.

We will all reach the same goal, brothers and sisters, but better to do as much good as you can along the way. What a gift you can give your Adjuster! The gift of survival, fusion, and the highest most service minded experiences you can give to this piece of The Father - who only wants, in return, for your eternal survival and unconditional love, which he gives to you, only wants your experiential living in return. This is a gift to God The Father and God the Supreme.

Cosmic consciousness is a gift to the Supreme. And Cosmic consciousness is attained through experience and actions. Children, this is something that you can do for God. Please try this week to give your Adjuster and God the Supreme the gift of the highest experience you can. You will be amply rewarded for it.

Question: When you were speaking of conscience vs. the province of the Thought Adjuster you remarked
that it was better to err on the side of caution. Do you mean that in regard to personal curiosity as to whether or not one is having an experience with celestial entities.

Answer: There will always be human curiosity as concerns the origins of certain promptings. This is to be
expected, and is actually a part of spiritual growth fellowship sharing. However, it is better for the balance of the human personality to not attribute promptings to Adjuster guidance. This leads to fanaticism, religious fanaticism, and then imbalance. It is better to say “well, I think this is a good thing. It holds up to my examination of spiritual progression - truth, beauty, goodness, service – but it could be coming from my mind, the angels, etcetera, the Spirit of Truth, or just my own spiritual progression.” As one progresses spiritually, deeper meanings and resonances are gained from these very concepts. That is spiritual maturating. What we understand to be beautiful, true, and good at one level becomes so much more replete with many meanings as we grow. All I am warning against is the tendency of the human to hear the voice of the Divine and justify actions, which are purely human with this mechanism. 

Question: It sounds to me when you say that it's more important to the Thought Adjuster that we act, that
we decide, than what we decide or what we do. Am I correct?

Answer: Both are correct. Your decision should be evaluated against your spiritual - or with your spiritual tools. But action is just as important as growth. No one will ever be faulted for acting in the best manner for their level of spiritual growth, although their actions would perhaps be improved upon if they were more advanced.

Question: I wonder if you could comment on the role of humor? And also perhaps of the sense of adventure, and any other qualities that might help us in this respect?

Answer: Humor, wonder, joy, optimistic anticipation of the ascension career, love, tolerance, a feeling of peacefulness with one's self, one's fellows, one's God, loving service - all of these qualities strengthen faith or are outworkings of faith. This great liaison assists: the Adjuster providing the fertile soil for His ideas-concepts-communications. A cheerful outlook, a balanced view of life, a sure knowledge that you are God's child, and personally and perfectly loved by your creator, an assurance of your survival, and a belief in the reality of the spiritual promise of Jesus, can only aid a joyful and daily existence, filled with the love of God pouring into you and pouring out from you to others. This type of life will surely hear the Adjuster for you are eminently doing the will of God when you live this way. 

Question: When I try to imagine communication with my Thought Adjuster I've kind of imagined that he
would be telling me that he loved me and to go for it, and you are fine, and things like that. What I'd really like to know, though, is - from you - is really what kind of words, what kind of impulses should we be looking for that are not just our imagination, that are actually from him?

Answer: I cannot answer this specifically for the adjuster communicates in concepts, truth, not words. Certainly, truth that one knows, truth that one is more than a human is from the Divine Adjuster. Cosmic consciousness is from the Adjuster. The prayer-worship impulse is from the Adjuster. The urge to become better is from the Adjuster. But more specific I cannot be for the relationship of the Adjuster is a mystery, actually, to most beings.

Question: I have another communications question. What kinds of things are put on the space broadcasts? We joked in our study group that it would take a long time to listen to the weather reports for all seven superuniverses - to get through that to the real stuff. Can you give me an example of what kind of stuff
is put on the broadcasts? And then as a follow-up, is it possible through the visualization of a sea of glass maybe to better tune into its broadcasts? Using that as a focal point?

Answer: Anything which - you are talking a human tool to help focus attention from the self to the spiritual - so, if that is a good image for you, then by all means use it, for these techniques have been used by your human spiritual leaders for aeons to help clear the cobwebs of the electro-chemical impulses to clearly see the reality of God.

What are on broadcasts? Well, this is hard to explain to you since you are linear. Certainly your Adjuster receives broadcasts from other adjusters and from Divinington, constantly. They remain mysterious to us. News of spiritual progress, teachings on the morontial-spiritual level are common highlights, inspirational pageantry - that you have not the idea forms to understand. Try to imagine all actions dedicated to the glory of God and the revelation of God in partially perfect creatures. Try to imagine every voice lifted to this common purpose, with different tones, the colors dancing to higher and higher spiritual meanings, the beings enveloped and participating in an understanding of something which takes so many so long to grasp - The Father - all dedicated to enlightenment, worship, love, God attainment. These are on the broadcasts, and it is mota that each receives according to inherent capacity. That is the best I can try to explain.

Question: Earlier you said that we could relate to the Thought Adjuster in others. Is there - with the help of our own Thought Adjuster - a way we can communicate to the Thought Adjuster in somebody for whom we have a great deal of concern, and communicate that concern, say, about the spiritual status of that person?

Answer: Yes. You do this all the time, and very well. For Thought Adjusters to communicate directly to other Thought Adjusters is not directly influential to you. It will not necessarily directly teach you. But for your Thought Adjuster, your fragment of God, to talk or to express through your physical organism to another physical organism, and then to that physical organism's fragment of God requires an alignment of mutual mind, body and spiritual systems. And when this happens, a great deal is accomplished. When values are communicated new to another, and when that other is touched by that value, then communication has been achieved between the Thought Adjusters.

Question: I would like to take that question a step further, in a way. Now that the circuits are open, is it possible for our Adjuster to communicate with an Adjuster on the mansion worlds, and then somehow communicate with us? Could you comment on that please?

Answer: There are special circumstances when that can be done, but it is rare, and it need not concern you.

Tolerance

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Today we will examine the rudimentary first action of divine love, which is tolerance. Tolerance is the first outworking of divine love. Many things were given to your world with the hope of nurturing tolerance. For example, it was the hope of the life carriers and Creator Son and staff that the experimentation with the varied color races would promote tolerance. It was the object of this experiment. How so?

Well, when humans are so different visually, and different in terms of genetic characteristics, tolerance must be learned or there can be no evolution in the spirit. It was the great hope that some day the colored races would blend and create a world of tolerance and brotherhood. Due to the Adamic default, this failed to occur - or only partially occurred - but we still view it positively in terms of the lessons that you must be challenged with, which are all tolerance lessons.

The other design that is not unique to your experimental decimal planet is the family unit. The family unit is the birthplace in essence of the spiritual fruit of tolerance, for a parent cannot be intolerant - or should not be intolerant - of a child, nor a child intolerant of siblings or parents. In order to live together as a family, one must learn tolerance of other's differences, and as Jesus instructed when he was bestowed here, tolerance is really knowledge of others, and a very godly trait. Because to cherish another human means to tolerate them with an air of loving acceptance for wherever they are, for we realize that the human has the spark of divinity and the potential for eternal existence within, and is in fact a child of our Father. So to know a human is to be called upon to practice in life, tolerance.

Tolerance is also a fatherly trait. As our Father tolerates our different levels of immaturity, so should we be tolerant toward other mortals or non-material beings whom we either do not fully understand or are less mature than ourselves. In that aspect, tolerance is a more real act, because it is more - it is of survival value in that it reflects divine value. It is a higher value than indifference, annoyance, or hostility.

When Jesus taught tolerance - and please refer to page 1773 of the Urantia Book - He did not teach condoning evil doing, sin, immorality, more primitive base actions, etc. Jesus was not tolerant, and neither is God, of evil. What He did show us is that it is not up to us to judge others: “judge not lest ye be judged.” But that to create institutions for dealing with evil, or inappropriate criminal, antisocial, etc., behaviour - which is the legal system which is still evolving and impartial in terms of justice, but that is justice - is up to the group on the human level. Spiritual justice is up to the Ancients of Days as representatives of the Creator. So tolerance does not condone evil-doing, but neither is it judgmental in terms of the individual actions. Whether we deem it to be evil or not is not up to us.

However, Jesus always taught to be active in your passion to reflect divinity rather than to be caught up in fighting evil, for evil of its own accord will fall away and divinity will always endure, so we will put our energies into the good and let evil take care of itself. But we do not tolerate evil. We ignore it, or justly speak for God when we can, and to the best of our partial ability to understand and reflect divinity.

Tolerance is one of the fruits of the spirit which all of us should be actively working to manifest in our lives. Especially have modern men made the mistake and reaped the spoiled fruit of intolerance in religious matters. Christianity has been highly intolerant of other belief-faith systems, and as a result has not achieved the first step towards living a truly spiritual life which is the concept of the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. They, these religionists, have allowed intolerance to take precedence over the family concept of tolerance.

One learns tolerance in the family unit, and then as we grow in maturity and in God, and in faith, and as we exercise our spiritual muscles, the family widens to include the planet, and thus the brotherhood of man/ fatherhood of God concept becomes real. Tolerance is necessary for this concept to exist as more than words or a theoretical possibility potential for a future age.

It is important for you to grasp that you may live as an individual right now, tolerantly, and as if the rest of the world lives the same way. You can live now, globally, as one family, and based on spiritual Father concept, within yourself and in your individual lives. For tolerance - in practice - is always given to another individual. In Practice. One does not tolerate a group of people in your real day-to-day life; you tolerate individuals. So thus there is no rationalization or excuse for not practicing tolerance, for you have millions of opportunities as you pass by.

One of the more threatening aspects of the teachings of Michael, when he incarnated as Jesus, to the established religions - and especially to those of the Jewish faith - was His tolerance. The Jewish tradition was based on some mistaken beliefs of intolerance: revenge, grudges, a lack of sharing of faith concepts, are all aspect of intolerance. And Jesus mightily preached against these lowly-evolved principles, to include a respect and universality, an all-inclusive family of faith believers. This was extremely threatening to the established order and will continue to be so until man steps out of the darkness of divisiveness and into the healing and more real light of brotherhood, understanding and humility.

Nathaniel is an interesting example of a human who lives the tolerance ideal. It would be helpful to study Nathaniel and how he incorporated tolerance into his daily affairs. There can be no real divine love and spiritual brotherhood without first, tolerance. That is the first level of love.

You may even learn to apply tolerance upward and not just laterally amongst humans. Often, I am sure if you are honest, you will admit your impatience, irritability and lack of understanding of things divine: the mission, the teachers, your angels, etc. How often, children, have you found yourself feeling, thinking, why does this have to be this way? Why don't they show us more? This is intolerance. And you should practice your tolerance skills and muscles also upward with celestial, non-corporeal, morontial beings, for as imperfect and finite mortals you have a lack of understanding of divinely created or non-corporeal eternal, etc., even other ascendent creatures. And this is good for you to realize that your intolerance often keeps you from spiritual ministry and from seeing the gifts that are yours individually in terms of your own spiritual growth, because you are shut down by intolerance.

So I ask you to just be aware of your own thoughts in terms of your relationships with beings different from yourself, for this is the very root of tolerance: is that the wider the difference, the greater the need for tolerance.

Put aside grand plans for instant love of your fellows. Rather, realize that irritation and personality conflict, misunderstanding, frustration, disappointment, are built into the human as part and parcel of growth. But these need not be divisive if one possesses the oil of reconciliation which is tolerance. Tolerance, as so eloquently extended in the Urantia Book, is the earmark of a great soul.

Question: I have a notion about tolerance that I want to discuss or understand more. It seems to be a passive behavior, the absence of - I mean it's just allowance, isn't it? Or am I misunderstanding something? It seems that tolerance is the absence of fear. It seems more passive to me than active. Am I incorrect in that?

Answer: Partially incorrect. Tolerance is passive and active; passive in terms of what you have described, but active in a passionate commitment to knowing and understanding your fellows, especially those who cause intolerant reactions.

Question: I was also struggling with the meaning of tolerance in terms of acceptance and rejection. It seems to be that it's falling right about in the middle. It’s not rejecting, but its not accepting, either, that it's just kind of middle road between those two. Is that correct?

Answer: Not exactly. It has nothing to do with accepting or rejecting, for you should not make the very common error of judging. It is more like seeing the reality of your fellows clearly without your own emotions and intellectual reactions interfering. When one sees the reality that humans, most humans, are
houses for the divine spark of the Thought Adjuster, and when one see the soul of the human, even if it is extremely unformed, one cannot help but view the reality of their existence with much love, for one is respecting divinity in humans.

As for those humans who are so dead they have not an Adjuster, they are spiritually dead. You cannot
always tell, and they should just be disregarded or ignored. No effort should be made, for these people
are not real. So tolerance is seeing clearly beyond, the husk of human body, character, unevolved behavior, to the divine spark and eternal potential of the soul, which is what you - in actuality - are.

Question: You refer to page 1773 in the Urantia Book and in it Rodan is talking about feelings of tenderness and emotions of tolerance. And the emotions of tolerance, would that mean the divine love coming through as an expression would encompass tolerance?

Answer: Absolutely correct, and if you think of it, that tolerance is the beginning of expressing divine love, you will see it more accurately.

Question: I would like to think that hope springs eternal, but it seems, from a response to one of the questions, that I would be in the position of using my judgment, at times, to disregard certain behaviors in people. This means disregarding them at that time if I judged that they are not behaving in a real fashion. But I would like to think that hope springs eternal and I should ever remain tolerant.

Being human, I have been in the position from time to time where I thought that disregarding a person,
or at least that person's behavior, then, would be my only option available right then. But it seems that's
using my judgement, then. Maybe I'm splitting hairs. I don't think we should judge either. But that
certainly is using your discernment, or your free will, to choose to - I think I'm splitting hairs, maybe. Do
you understand where I am going?

Answer: I did not mean to suggest to disregard others, merely to disregard those who have no survival
potential which is probably - I cannot say if it would be easy or hard for each person. But there are those
who have no Thought Adjusters, and these ones should not be dealt with. You should not waste your energy, cast pearls before swine.

In terms of relativity of values, what we are discussing is higher values. If the best one can do with another's behaviour is to disregard it, then that should be your choice. But please remember that we are dealing with, not choices between what is good or bad in our own lives or spiritual path, but between what is good, what is better, and what is best. This is the path you are on. You have far left behind the simplistic ethics of good vs. bad. So, in terms of good, better, best, on our ascending path, if disregarding is the best you can do at the moment, it is not the best possible response. Tolerance is. That does not mean condoning evil behavior. So some judgment is involved, but not soul judgment. Judgment in terms of your own abilities to act divinely.

Question: When we are being tolerant of people whose religious beliefs are very rigid and very judgmental
of others, what we are doing is recognizing their relationship to God as the good in them, is it not? And then what we have to do is work on our response to them, that it be loving and tolerant of them though they are intolerant of our beliefs?

Answer: That is correct. One of the great misunderstandings about the charisma and effect of the human
Jesus is that his love was so pure and sincere and all-encompassing that differences - intellectual, philosophical, theological differences - melted in the light of His perfection. No one can resist true, sincere, divine love from another. It feels so good and awakens the same response back, therefore argument becomes obsolete, because that is merely surface.

When we talk of commonalities amongst different religions or unity without uniformity - these concepts which are very catch phrases - what you really are doing is extending divine love to a fellow who is in
part divine. And the response - it awakens the higher mind pattern of love back, transcending the unreal
differences.

Question: Rayson, I think it would be nice to hear you talk a little about tolerating the sinner and not the sin. I think personally that's where the struggle comes in. I mean we can't be non-judgmental of actions that impinge on us or others. I know personally, I get tripped up on my intolerant behavior. When somebody does something that hurts somebody I find that I can't divorce that behavior pattern in them from who they are. So the judgement, or my discrimination, or my evaluation of that behavior pattern becomes an evaluation of the human. Maybe you could give us some tips on how we can actually achieve hating the sin and loving the sinner. To me that's my biggest struggle in this area.

Answer: We all have imperfections by design of the Creator. Some imperfections are genetic, some environmental, some exist - continue to exist - because of spiritual laziness or lack of motivation to change. Some flaws are more apparent to others. Some humans do not have enough - this is not necessarily good - intelligence to camouflage their flaws. But think this way, there are things in each of us, myself included, that we would prefer others not to see or be impacted by. Think of one particular trait within yourself, and then use that to empathize with the person who upsets you, for we all have these imperfections and will have them for many many years to come. On the mansion worlds and beyond they will become more apparent to others, but so will others grow in love and tolerance for our imperfections, so the effect will not be the same. Here it is unbalanced.

Some humans, through lack of effort or caring, or just immaturity, show and act upon their flaws compulsively and do not grow. But think of your own areas that need growth and then show gratitude that they do not impact others to such a degree, and tolerance will be easier in terms of separating the mortal's potential from their actions - loving the sinner and not the sin - although most people commit not sin but error.

Question: Rayson, could you speak of racial, cultural, ethnic intolerance? I believe there is something in the Urantia Book that this is a natural part of evolution? I may be wrong, I'm not sure. And now today's lesson impacts on the world as a whole. What you're teaching us - does it impact on healing the earth in some way?

Answer: Well, of course, the races were created here to teach tolerance globally, but the plan was thrown off-track by the Adamic default in which not enough of their blood lines were given and so racially or ethnically there is an imbalance of traits. Each of the colored races were given certain traits. And these are not traits that are judged to be good or bad, they simply are, and need to be part of the genetic pool of any world. The experiment was to split them along color lines and to observe the blend and the process of the blend. Some traits caused more problems than others, aggressiveness, for example, which was high amongst the orange and green sub-races. But even high spiritual traits - as amongst the red race - contributed to, unfortunately, their demise. Although some blending has occurred, everyone on Earth -
whatever color or ethnic national background - has not enough of the Adamic blood lines. So the process is more brutal and long-lasting than anticipated. In terms of tolerance, the ultimate out-workings of tolerance on a world level would be consciousness of the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of all men regardless of differences. This will probably not be achieved here for much much time, but will be, of course, and is a prerequisite to Light and Life status. It has just been set back by the default. 

Question: You spoke in your lesson about us not trying to correct poor behavior in another person but show an example of the light of the Father so that those individuals can see the alternative. In our troubled cities, it appears to me that our modern culture - our media, our film, our television, our print - glorifies violence, shows it as romantic in some way. And it appears to me lately, that something needs to be done culturally about that - world wide - to educate the races that violence is not acceptable.

A lot of other things are no longer acceptable: slavery is no longer acceptable, blood sacrifice is no longer acceptable, but violence to one's fellows is no longer acceptable. Should we be taking a pro-active part in trying to change our culture?

Answer: Culturally, one can do nothing about an entire culture. All one can do is to transform yourself into the spiritual individual that will transform this planet. That sounds simplistic and frustrating I am sure, for I recognize the sincere pain behind your question, however that is the truth. The truth is that when Melchizedek taught against sacrifice, it did not stop. Education is something superfluous, an illusion. You cannot educate people out of violence, this is something that mankind must grow out of. And while your mass media reflect more instantly, such has always been the ways of man, child, that he is fascinated with the gory negative details of living and does not recognize the higher values which co-exist with the baser animal instincts. Mankind will outgrow violence. You will not outgrow violence today. All you can do are two things: live the life of the spiritual agondonter, shine that light on all you come into contact with and dream the dream of a better world, for it is in our dreams for our children and grandchildren that real evolutionary change occurs.

Sometimes whole generations are lost in terms of certain values. We look upon this process from a longer perspective time wise, and from a higher perspective in a certain way than you who are amongst the trenches. Dreams are important for they are the goalposts or archetypes of the future. So when you speak of education - you will not take a hardened violent person and talk to them about love and effect a change. No you will not. And if you think you will, you will be sorely disappointed. What will effect a change in this person? Sincere love, maybe. Divine love, to awaken their consciousness of their own divinity.

Even then, the behavior may remain the same. The time lags. But you can change the dreams of future
generations through education. And this should be your hope and your goal.

Forgiving tolerance
 
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First of all, tolerance is the capacity to move beyond your ego-mind, ego-self. To move beyond the ego-self, you are moving beyond that boundary and limit which is at once familiar and comfortable in an attempt to access something as profound and uniquely different than yourself, your thinking, your feeling, your beliefs. As a reference we look to the divine spirit which lives within who has the capacity to forgive you your humanness and through indwelling also tolerates your yet to be evolved spiritual mind. This is the model. As you attenuate towards spirit consciousness and spirit identity, always is there a teacher and guide and a personal companion model resident within your soul, your mind.

The obvious aspect of tolerance is the ability of individuals to tolerate each other. There also the not so obvious aspects of tolerance. First, those aspects of self, of your own evolving personality and history which need to be approached in a manner of tolerance with reference for a capacity to accept yourself at any given moment. The ability to completely acknowledge and to be able to move forward from this acknowlegement. This gives a sense of completion. Many times in life, you are confronted with situations which you feel and sense to yourself, how many times do I have to repeat living this situation out, over and over. It seems like you have just dealt with this situation, and are faced with it again. You are frustrated, maybe even angry, something in your life has put you on a patterned path of repetition, finally you confront this head on and a glimpse of awareness opens inside your mind to allow you to see more clearly that you have been avoiding this situation, you have been dealing with it in a wrong way. 

The aspect of forgiving is closely associated with this aspect of acknowleging. It is alright that you have made mistakes. It is allright that you have had to learn important lessons in life. It is allright that you are not something else at this moment. It is allright that you are angry or frustrated or whatever you need to acknowlege at that prticular moment. By acknowleging this you own it, own up, you are clear about what you are dealing with. There is a sense of tolerance in accepting yourself wherever you may be along your path. A number of persons at times defeat themselves by setting goals which are too far-fetched, set up with expectations, then becoming upset when these goals have not been met.

In evolving spiritual consciousness and mind you must have the capacity to know who you are to be able to move forward. Knowing who you are is your ability to access spirit. Spirit has an uncanny ability to show you the bare facts and raw truth about self. Spirit is not obsessed with accoutrements, frills and embellishment. Spirit is more concerned with the ability to view yourself naked, bare, and to see yourself exactly as you are in an effort to offer suggestions and hints to move forward, deal with what needs to be corrected, to make better decisions and to provide opportunities to seek help and understanding to deal with any aspects of your life.

Living in the world as an individual amongst a large group of people, it becomes necessary to be able to practice who you are in a way in which you can accept and tolerate who everyone else is and where they may be. This does not necessasrily imply that you have to indulge others behavior. Having the ability to accept others and not react to situations which affront you is the ability to grasp within yourself a strong sense and responsibility to your spiritual inclination.

The model for this is indwelling spirit, who rather conscious or knowingly, patiently sits, lives quietly within your mind, unconditionally accepting and loving you. Neither judging, pushing or aggravating you. Yet has the ability to meet you wherever you are, at that moment when you can access spirit. Never will you hear the spirit say to you that I cannot offer help to you, you have been bad, what you did yesterday was not very good. Never will spirit abandon any dream, desire, hope or any aspect of help you may need. This is not spirit's function. Spirit cannot be bent, moved or changed to your conditions. It is you who bends, moves, changes and transforms to the conditions of spirit. Sometimes it is quite difficult to tolerate change and all aspects which accompany dramatic change — change in thought, change in practice, change in intention, desire, as well as just everyday physical changes, small yet necessary changes. 

What is it that has the ability to ground you in centeredness. All of this can change around you, yet you are unmoved, you can standforth in a stance of acceptance and tolerance, love. The ability to see the striving spiritual aspect of a given situation. The striving spiritual aspect of a situation is such like when you experience doubt and confusion and problems, because spirit is attempting to motivate you to change, to get your attention. Things are not working to your satisfaction, and spirit is interferring in your life. You are certainly interferring in your own lives. The ability grasp the intention of spirit as your own good intention and worth to move into a new territory within yourself where your will and work is synchronized with spirit's ability to show you what you must move into next and what you are to do to bring yourself to where spirit is attempting to bring you.

Spirit acknowleges everything that you do. Spirit is the only entity who has the ability to access your intention in time, as you become more spirit conscious, you will have the ability to access intention. 

Why is tolerance such a human issue. Let us look at where you come from. Does a hawk tolerate a mouse? Does the lion tolerate the gazelle? Do the large fish tolerate the small fish? You can see that in a basic and human-animal sense, intolerance is an aspect of fear. Animal mind is so strong that it wants to regulate thought patterns and justify this as social order. In contrast to this, spirit is attempting to identify you as an individual a unique son and daughter. You must live two lives. You must live the life of a citizen, and you must live the life of a son and daughter of spirit. Look at these aspects of tolerance. 

You constantly have to compormise your ego ideals and standards, to allow others the ability and opportunity to experience themselves without your interferrence. This is a core issue in human behavior. It is one of the first fruits of the spirit which appears on the spiritual vine of endurance and transformation. It is a very simple, yet utterly profound ability to constantly access spirit in the face of so much challenging differences. 

When confronted with a situation you cannot deal with modestly at first, stop and look at what you are having an issue with. Look at how you can best deal with this situation for everyone involved. Look at what you are having a challenge to tolerate and sense what it is that you fear in this situation. You will find that this ability to look clearly at a situation will show you how you used to deal with this, and allow spirit to "show you" a better way. You begin to sense that you are changing, you are not identifying with the type of behavior and patterns which were the former you, you are now moving into a spiritual motivated sense of purpose and being. Acknowlege this. Allow spirit mind a chance to acknowlege you by showing you its ability to interact and interface a situation for you. Tolerate spirit's ability to show you a better way. 

There is no need for a spiritually motivated mind to tolerate the indulgence of the ego-mind, its behavior patterns, its judgements, its narrow sense of self, its ability to cut you off from your true identity of self. This mind of your ego identity is just your generic default mind attempting to gain recognition through you, using you to extend its short life. Its power and connection to your will presents a struggle and contrast to the power and control which spirit mind is moving you into.

The more you gain control of your spiritual mind by allowing spirit to access your will, you reach a threshold where you gain the ability to dominate your lower and former identity. 

It is like you are perforating this dense and compact bubble around your ego-self, your animal-mind, this small mind which cannot actually be consumed. It has to be acknowleged so that its boundary begins to soften, its shape begins to change, its pattern begins to take a new shape and begins to become formed to the larger spiritual mind, this greater mind with its spiritual depth perception. 

You can make decisions now which will impact and change your future, bring your future to you in a more functional and integrated way. You have two minds. Spirit mind which is a hundred percent tolerant and forgiving, nurturing and holding your mind, your developing mind with the intention that this mind will begin to sense a need to break and pop out of the small egg shell shaped mind into the greater spirit mind, and access a larger potential of beingness. 

Spirit does not give you anything for nothing. The Father is not going to give you the keys to the kingdom if you are not going to use them to open and access your own capacity to be of love and service to another. Spirit is willing to guide, to hold your hand, to assist you in every capacity. All that is needed is your activation, your ability to decide to move in the guided direction. Then spirit has something to work with. Spirit always provides decision an opportunity.

Transformation

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
[  ] soil   [  ] Land   [  ] Sea   [  ] AIR


SOURCE: This row is used for recording useful information about the source of the wisdom entry.

Spiritual transformation requires balance
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive November 15, 1999.
Teacher JarEl
T/R Henry

 

 

 

 

 

 

JarEl: In considering man and spirit, mind and personality, in this relationship between man reaching up toward spirit, bringing spirit down into consciousness, down into self, everyday affairs. Like the spirit counterpart to trinity, on a human level, your spiritual transformation involves, body, mind, soul. The physical, mental, spiritual. 

What about your connection to the earth, your connection to the substance of which you are made from this earth? This is a reality, albeit a transient one, a reality non the less. You are not the earth, you are not the body you inhabit, yet you live on this earth, this sphere, in a body, endowed with a mind, a fragment of spirit, a chart of identity, a prerogative of will with animal senses. You are told, accessing spirit is accessing your ultimate reality. You are guided to look within yourselves to understand your past, live in the present and create your future.

One of the concepts which is challenging to humans involved in spiritual endeavors, is the concept of transformation. Many are enamored by the cerebral, the intellectual aspect of spirituality, the languaging of the spiritual; the wording, thoughts and concepts of spirituality. Many have problems adapting these concepts into a very real sense of purpose and self. What I wish to convey to you is the sense of you, yourselves being here now, on this planet in your bodies and sensing that to change spiritually and grow, sometimes takes allowing yourself a few adjustments. Sometimes these adjustments may be adjustments in lifestyle, they may be adjustments in thought, they may be adjustments in behavior. What I am trying to get you to understand is a balance, a balance within yourself physically; your physical, chemical, electrical sense, your emotional and mental sense, and a balance between yourself, mankind and spirit.

Let us look at a building. Let us look at a very large, heavy and big building. This building is built on a foundation. The foundation, the base of the building sits on the earth. For a very large and stable building, you want to place the building on very stable ground, preferable rock, something that will not move. When you place the foundation, and begin to build, erect the structure; the foundation supports the structure. The structure supports the design of the building. The design of the building supports the functional, which serves possibly you as an individual and mankind in a social sense. This is much like your body. Your bodies, which are who you are, come from material and substance from this earth. There is a quote, a popular quote on Earth, usually recited on the deceased ceremonies," Dust to dust, Ash to ash". Your body, rendered to its base material. 

While you live in this body, this temple, there is a relationship between how this body feels for you. Most of you have already experiences the varied nature and sense of the body; its limitations, what it does and does not do for you, and what you can and may do for it. It can make your life a lot easier, it can also compromise your life, as some of you have already experienced. So, with respect to your body and the world you live on, there is a symbiotic relationship. There is a relationship between the world you live on, how you, as mankind treat this planet and how this planet treats your bodies. They are closely related to each other. Being a life form, you are closely related to all other life forms on the planet. Your closest relatives, animals and plants, you could not live without. 

Yes, your scientists can synthesize food, chemicals, minerals and products, but it will never replace living plants and animals either for food or friends or companions. Man was put here to live upon this world, part of the economy of this world is your responsibility to provide for yourselves, your families and for the betterment of society at large. Your world is evolving beyond the basic initial groupings of herders and nationalist city-dwellers into a global village; one world full of living beings, plants, animals, and humans. There is a relationship between the individual and this large group. You may think "What is a drop of water to an ocean?" But if you were that drop of water, you are the ocean. If you are an organism of life, you are life itself on this world. Yes, it is a very large group on not so big a world, and yes, you are important. Your well being, your sense of health, sense of purpose is important. It is directly important to you the individual.

The relationship between your body as a temple, which houses the presence of the great spirit, and you as a human being, a human animal in a human animal body, draws interesting parallels and metaphors. There is a relationship between a balanced body and a balanced mind and an ever increasing balance and connection to spirit. There are examples of spiritual types on your world who have led quite ascetic lives. Who have even ignored their physical bodies to the point of emaciation. Who have lived totally in the intoxication and bliss of spirit. What we are suggesting is a much more practical and economical way to live with spirit and be a part, member of society, have families and be balanced. Occasionally it is wonderful to go to the mountain top and discern the stars. To dream. To wish. To connect more deeply with spirit.

This planet will be changed one person at a time. As you, yourselves begin to change and adapt yourselves physically, emotionally, spiritually. You begin, and are already beginning to become sources of inspiration to yourselves and to others. There are many paths available to you at this time on your world to discern balance, to find the help you need, to understand yourselves, to understand your bodies, to adopt healthier ways of being, to insure greater health in your later years, as well as now. To see health as a pattern of lifestyle, not that you will live forever in this body on this world, but while you are in this body, and while you are on this world, that the potential to feel good, and make the most of your time here is very valuable. 

So as you begin to see yourselves and God more as ONE, also begin to see yourselves and the world you live on as one. You may not be able to control all of the activity on the planet, but you are able to control your own activity on the planet in how you relate to the people, the life and this world in general.

In your meditations and deep thoughts try to sense wholeness; balance, and begin to sense that God is completeness. You are a part of completeness, a part of wholeness. You are becoming whole and complete. Begin to sense what connects one layer of yourself to another. See how the mind fits into the body. How your body stands on the ground. How your personality is exhibited through your sense of being. How the light of God is brightening in your lives.

Student: In your first part you said we are living in a body, in a material existence. You quite often referred to you and we. What is the definition of we or you. We find ourselves physically and emotionally attached to our bodies. We understand that we have a spiritual nature to ourselves. When you refer to us as you, who do you mean. Sort of a philosophical question.

JarEl: Thank you, I love philosophical questions. You is the ideal person. You are the person you are becoming, your soul, your personality, your spirit. The person I will meet at some time in the future on another world. 'We' is a term that is used by to designate humans as a group in their human situation on this world. "You" is the individual. In correct English it would be, you are the individual. The word 'you' refers to an individual person. 

Student: I gather that as a person we have a personality which survives our physical body. We have a thought adjuster, a soul and a few other things. Is that who 'we' are now? The parts of us which survive the physical body?

JarEl: That is a good question. I cannot completely tell you who you are, now. This is something that you have to sense within yourself, who you are. For example; imagine yourself getting ready to leave this world and you are allowed to take one small suitcase; 'what would you put in it?'

Student: My soul

JarEl: And this my friend is about all you need to take. For your soul is the distilled essence of your life on this world. The person you are, and the seed-potential of a great spiritual being. Yes, you do take your potential, your potential is the thought adjuster, the gift of eternal endowment, the gift of greatness, the gift of love, the gift of substance.

Student: My soul is who I am becoming, then. My physical body which I have become attached to here is of a temporary usage. That is necessary in this particular environment.

JarEl: This vehicle, this body which has served you is real. Its service and function are real, and yet they stay here, and a part of you moves forward. A part of you in a respect that is completely you. The only thing which you leave behind here is you own legacy. You take completely what you are with you, That when you awake on the next worlds of sojourn, you will completely remember who you are. You will know yourself, just as you know yourself here and now. You'll know yourself without your physical body. With a different body, one which in some respects is similar, functional and much better adapted to the new world of sojourn. A body which is not created from animal flesh, but a more substantial spiritual substance. A body that does not need flesh to survive. A body which can live more on energy, light, more rarified substance. Also you are given an endowment of mind that complements this body of new substance, on a world of new life to enable you more fully to become who you are. 

Student: This whole week I have been thinking about the angels, the seraphim which surround us. I am curious to know, well I kind of feel that I do have a seraphim, I am wondering if I one day will see them.

JarEl: you will certainly one day see them. In a sense they are around you and they do follow your movements and actions, not so much your thoughts. Though your thoughts are made known to them. They do not possess the capacity to share in your mind like the thought adjuster or the Spirit of Truth, or the adjutant mind spirits; through the circuits, your intentions are known. It is upon the intentions and decisions which you make that the angels act in your steed. They act in your behalf. All the while concerned to bring situation about which help enable your decisions and activities. Not necessarily interfering in the mistakes you make, but support you, that through these mistakes, you are able to grasp understanding and growth. When you become more activated spiritually, you become of much more use and importance n a spiritual sense. You are more closely and intimately assisted by the angels. 

Student: On the mansion worlds, do we recognize people which we associated in this lifetime. Do we spend time working on relationships which we had on the earth.

JarEl: In some respects, yes, in answer to your first concern, you most certainly do recognize your associates from the days of flesh. By voice certainly, because throughout your ascension career everyone will go through tremendous change. The voice is one aspect of the personality that identifies a creature as such. This notion of continuing relationship is of certain concern. It is in this activity that many of your initial morontia or mansion world experiences will take place. Many people continue to work as human group associations on the mansion worlds. Part of your rehabilitation, if need be, has to do with making adjustments in some of your previous unresolved relationships.

Student: Do we have choices in who we can establish relationships with, or does it just happen like it does down here, we are given a family of genetic relationships which we had no choice in. We run in to people which we did not plan on. Is this planned by the Father or do we make choices with who we want to have relationships with down there.

JarEl: You are asking a lot at once. Yes, you have choices, yes you can work with who you want to, and yes the Father has a plan for you. No, the Father does not tell you what to do. Others may certainly tell you what to do. 

Student: I had no choice as to who my parents were, my siblings were.

JarEl: Did yo not love them?

Student: Yes, regardless whether I selected them or not. 

JarEl: Very good, not always do you have a choice of what is available to choose from, though you have a choice to choose from what is available. Just like on Earth.

Student: I guess this is what life is all about, making choices and decisions.

JarEl:: That is exactly what life is all about. More and more you will find that life involves the situations which you are the most uncomfortable with. There is a vast economy of recycling in the Universe. It is much like water. Whatever rain does not fall upon the plant, goes into the ground, eventually goes into a reservoir or it eventually evaporates and comes back down again as rain. All truths are recyclable. All truths must be constantly presented as new facts, new truths, with a fresh face, an appealing style. That whenever a person is ready for truth, truth will present itself. This is what I mean by recycling.

Trust

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
[  ] soil   [  ] Land   [  ] Sea   [  ] AIR


SOURCE: This row is used for recording useful information about the source of the wisdom entry.

Since the nature of the human soul is growth, trust will ever be necessary
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive May 13, 2001.
Teacher Darid
T/R Jonathan

 

 

 

 

 

 

Darid: In relation to trust it can be confusing to attempt to discern the correctness of intention, the source of motivation, and the form of gratification desired through the feeling of appealing, that pleasure, that
receptive quality. Trust comes only, well, let me put it this way: It comes in two forms: One is a strong and close relationship with the divine within you, a trust that is linked with the understanding of divine love and compassion, of concern and care for your well-being, of the greatness of the knowledge and wisdom of the Father who is capable of preparing you, of teaching you flawlessly.  

The second is the result of application, of stepping forward, executing a desire, experiencing the results, making an adjustment, developing a new technique, and deriving confidence. This trust is the result of experience.

Since the nature of the human soul is growth, trust will ever be necessary, for as you become experienced and accomplished, a new level of the inexperienced and the unattained rises before you, and trust must be reapplied. So I offer that one not fall into thinking that trust will ever be gained, but trust is always a gaining experience, ongoing.

Perhaps a little picture would be a nice addition. The trust of the Father that one develops is much like letting the Father be your bicycle mechanic. As you work together to inflate the tires, to tighten the spokes, to adjust the handlebars and seat and oil the chain, you develop a trust in your ability to bicycle, for your vehicle is tuned up. But the trust of experience comes from having ridden this bicycle up a hill, down a hill, over gravelly roads, through mud, over smoothly paved roads, and to realize that you stay up, to realize that when you fall you can get back on, and you have the same skills and you have learned how better to negotiate your course.

Truth

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


APPLICABLE JURISDICTION(S)
[  ] soil   [  ] Land   [  ] Sea   [  ] AIR


SOURCE: This row is used for recording useful information about the source of the wisdom entry.

Truth is contagious
 
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SOURCE: 

Rayson and Friends

 

 

 

 

 

 

Truth is on a par with beauty and goodness insofar as spiritual importances, spiritual weight, are concerned. None of these three - truth beauty or goodness - are to be worshiped, for it is only the Father that is worthy of worship. But these three qualities, these three goals, are to be reverenced, to be sought after, to be held in the highest regard, to be in the forefront of your efforts at self mastery and spirit attunement.

What is truth not? Truth is not knowledge. Knowledge is based on fact, on science, and is limited by the level of development of your science. Truth is eternal. It stands the test of time. It stand the challenge of question. It is far beyond fact or a set of facts. Truth is also dynamic and growing. It is not static, as are facts. If you would know living truth you could do no better than to study the life of Jesus, for He lived the truth as he knew it.

Truth is not always experienced without pain. It is not necessarily painful to countenance truth, but to expect the experience of truth to always and ever be one of pleasure is to not be realistic. There is some
consolation to be drawn from knowing that for most the pain sometimes experienced with truth will probably be most severe in your present material state, and will diminish as you progress Paradise-ward.

Like so many higher values, truth can be recognized in part by what it is not, in part by the manner in which it resists attempts at invalidation, and the manner in which it persists over time. It has been said that the argument required is inversely proportional to the amount of truth contained in a given statement. Truth is recognized by all mortal beings at some level of their conscious or unconscious awareness. Each of you, as you search your own past experience, may remark upon occasions upon which a simple and profound truth was thrust before you, amazing in its grace, and how easy it was to behold and accept.

Truth is experienced by each being as an individual, and because of enormous variations in individual perceptions, the truth that one individual understands must be relative and is not identical to the truth perceived by another individual. You cannot force truth upon another being. However, as Jesus did, you can whet the appetite of others for truth. This is the basis of the council against offering unsolicited advice.

As with goodness, and beauty, and love, and the other brilliant aspects of our Father, your capacity to perceive truth grows as does your fledgling spirit. You can help by nurturing within yourself a hunger for truth. Become an avid seeker after truth in all that you do and you will find that your appreciation of truth in all that presents to you will be enhanced. Be patient. I know that this is difficult, but it is important for you to exercise your patience while nurturing your hunger. You have all of eternity, you see, and no endeavor goes as well as it might when undertaken in haste.

As you improve your ability to detect truth, you will find that many of the bothersome aspects of your material existence will seem far less annoying, even amusing, for as your ability as a truth-seeker improves, so will you gain wisdom. And the wise man - above all - is able to see the absurdity of small things, to make light of what others fear, to not divert time toward the pursuit of anxiety, but rather to engage more fully in spiritual growth and in enjoyment of the fruits of the Spirit.

One great truth that can be of much comfort in times of difficulty is the truth of your own existence. That you cannot doubt. There is no arguing it. Once you become a survivor, you will have a second great truth, namely the truth of your survival-ship, and that will be a wonderful thing indeed for you. If you wish to undertake some study of truth you will find many passages in the Urantia Book to be most helpful. In particular there is a section on truth and faith that will be quite instructive and will provide much material for discussion.

Understanding truth is a major important goal of your ongoing efforts at spiritual growth - spirit attainment. What you gain in understanding of truth during this material life is only the beginning of an eternal learning experience. Each step of your journey toward the Father in Paradise will bring increasing discernment of truth. This is because truth is intertwined with a number of other spiritual capabilities, especially faith and goodness - also the attainment of wisdom and a number of other aspects of God consciousness.

The greatest truth that ever existed on your world was the human life of Jesus. His life was all about truth, for you see truth is a dynamic entity. Truth is to be had through action, unlike wisdom, unlike so many other portions of your soul growth. To experience truth, and indeed to grow in truth, requires that one be active, active among the community of one's fellows. In fact it could be said that truth and real fellowship do go hand in hand.

All of you know truth. Each of you has experienced it. Your personal recognition of truth is related to your own level of personal spirit growth. Each of you has experienced the excitement, the incomparable thrill, of truth in your own personal lives. Think back, explore your own memory bank and you shall find such experiences. It is worthwhile to study them for their unique qualities. And as you each, individually, grow you shall find it increasingly easy to recognize truth in your own actions and in the actions and words of others whom you encounter. This can also apply to situations involving many people, such as actions of political bodies or countries or other human organizations. You will find as you gain faith and become more adept at discerning truth that the recognition of truth in the world will become - yes, yes - an increasingly easy job for you.

If you feel frustrated in your discernment of truth it may be due to a tendency to rely on dogmatization of
truth rather than looking inward and relying on the promptings of your Thought Adjuster, your Indwelling Spirit of Truth.

There are benefits which accrue to the one who would seek and live truth. These are not rewards, but rather the natural results of participating in, and going along with, the design of the universe rather than resisting it. The greatest such benefit is that of health improvement. Each and every one of you may take note of improved physical health, robustness, ability to withstand infection, and so on, as you participate in the search for truth, growth of faith, enactment of mota, enhancement and growth of wisdom.

The things that you seek - truth, beauty, goodness, love - the workings of the Father, himself, abound, even on your planet with all of its problems. They are there for the taking. And you - each of you - knows within yourselves how to go about doing that. It is the most joyous work that you ever shall undertake, the most thrilling, the most freeing. For as you seek after, entertain, truth the fetters of your animal origins will slowly but surely fall away, and you shall have less of fear, less of anger, less of pride, less of enslavement to cultural teachings - recent and past - that would hold you back from personal growth and spirit attainment. As these burdens fall away one by one, you will experience an incomparable sense of lightness that will fill your hearts with joy, a joy which will be perceived by your fellows - a true light within - and this is one of the first steps from here toward the final attainment of Light and Life.

Your personal courage, steadfastness, and love, and faith, will help to take not only your living fellows today, but the unborn children of generations hence, out of the present darkness towards the bright future
that awaits.

Work on the attainment of truth, the acting out of the will of the Father. Be of good faith. Be of good cheer. Truth is contagious in a most wonderful way, as are all of your spiritual assets. A small contagion at first, but as it grows the infection spreads.

The interactions among truth, goodness, and kindness, is an area which poses considerable difficulty for mortals of worlds like yours that have been in rebellion. At the outset it may seem difficult to understand how there could be conflict among these three tenets of God's will, and yet if you explore your own memory record, you will certainly find numerous instances during which you have grappled mightily with what seem to be conflicting goals in terms of satisfying the requirements for goodness, kindness, and truth, which your Adjuster leads you toward continuously.

Truth

It has been said by your philosopher that the honest man, the truly honest man, continuously runs risk of life and limb. Why should this be when truth is such an essential ingredient of spirit growth and Father nearness? To the contrary it would be expected that the honest man would be exalted in society, much treasured. But indeed he who is honest without remitting will definitely have much difficulty in managing social relations on your world as it stands now. For the honest man causes pain among his fellows in at least two different ways. By being honest he serves as a reminder to others who are sensitive in this regard of their own lack of complete honesty. Secondly, the honest man is apt to comment on imperfection which arouses enormous hostility in persons who are predominately animal driven in purpose, for it is the way of the animal mind to assume self-perfection and be blinded to the imperfections of one's being and one's near environment, for this is seen by the animal as an outworking of the self, what you would call narcissism.

To put it in your psychological terms, the narcissistic ego is wounded by the notations of imperfection in its sphere of influence and is likely to strike out even unto death to quiet the voice which is disturbing. Now the difficulties faced by the honest person of your world greatly compound the problem of spirit growth of individuals, for fear is the logical response of those of animal origin to threat to life and limb. And fear, as you know, is toxic to spirit growth and attainment. And yet, you all know quite well that without truth there is no goodness or kindness. There cannot be. The will of Father is complete, not fragmented. You cannot act out Father's will in one discreet area and turn your back on His will in another. There is no such thing, despite what some in your culture, even devout religionists, maintain.

Kindness

Kindness is so critical to spirit growth and must be present in great measure on your world in order for even the smallest increment of progress to occur. Kindness, however difficult it may be at times for you, my dear friends, serves as a bridge that will carry you from fear and pride and rage, and the other base qualities of animal mind thought, Godward. It is characteristic of animals to respond positively to kindness, but, of course, it is always dangerous to deal with animals, and so carrying out kind acts requires courage and strength. And these two will strengthen your journey from your animal origins Godward.

Kindness does not mean giving materially. This cannot be emphasized strongly enough. Material things have naught to do with God's will. They're animal entities no matter how finely crafted, securely held, or
highly prized they may be. It is a mistaken belief to assume one is being kind in the bestowal of material
objects upon another who is deemed unfortunate. You all know this, and yet it is a most difficult concept for mortal beings to grasp. Even for myself it is still an area that requires study and diligence. Kindness has far more to do with the maintenance of good will toward your fellows. Think on the life of Jesus, ever kind, ever loving, gentle, peaceful of spirit, forgiving, humble, and yet He did not hand out money.

He did not share wealth of material sort with others. Yet His kindness was much prized by all who received, it as is yours, for the receipt of kindness by a mortal being resonates with the Thought Adjuster within the other, and God in Paradise is aware that good has been done and responds positively. Does this mean that kind acts are wasted on those who lack Adjusters? This issue is much debated. Jesus was kind to all regardless of Adjuster presence. However, extending the hand of friendship and love toward one who has no God fragment within certainly can be a dangerous undertaking to the mortal being in the sense of life and limb. I would say at this point in your planet's development it may be wisest to refrain from kind acts toward the truly iniquitous among you, if you are discerning enough to detect them. Only you know if you have that perceptual level at this time. It is my sincere hope that as your world moves forward there will be far far fewer of the iniquitous dwelling among than is presently the case. But for now teach your children to be guarded, not fearful, but guarded.

Goodness

Goodness, as was commented during our last session, is God-likeness. What is the distinction between goodness and kindness? Goodness encompasses all that is like God, of the will of God, of the outworking of God. Kindness is a tenet of goodness. There is no goodness without kindness or truth, or vice versa. But goodness is more encompassing, includes not only the acts to others as does kindness, but also the acts of the individual, the inner mind workings and communications with the Adjuster, spirit strivings Godward, and prayer.

Jesus was the model of the good man. He was also kind and honest. He achieved that balanced and correct intermingling of goodness, kindness, and truth that is desirable for the mortal and indeed attainable, if you would strive mightily.

R = Rayson the teacher, S = Students.

S: My understanding is that truth is a spiritual concept and that fact is a physical concept. Honesty
can apply to either one of those concepts

R: And what do you think is the difference between the physical and the spiritual? By physical do you mean material?

S: Yes, material. In other words, it is a fact that I walked up the hill.

R: It is also the truth.

S: Yes, that is correct. Now, carrying this one step further, I remember when my children were growing up that they had a concept of “letting it all hang out”, telling the whole truth even when they didn't need to. I think the example of Jesus was that He didn't tell people any more than they needed to know.

R: Because He balanced truthful utterances with kindness and goodness, but He was always aware of the full truth of any individual's complete existence. Can you imagine having that awareness yourself?

S: No, I can't imagine having it myself. But I still don't think that I should go down the street and say, “hey, you're ugly” when I see an ugly person just because it's the truth.

R: But perhaps what you call ugly is only a judgment based on physical configuration rather than a spiritual fact based upon the full and integrated personality of the individual in question.

S: But then let's say I say “you're ugly in accordance with my concept of your physical configuration, but not spiritually.”

R: If you said that, it might take the edge off the insult. There can be no truth without kindness and goodness. That should help you to understand.

S: Could you please explain to me more on kindness and particularly what is tithing? Is that a valid thing, because money is material, is it not?

R: God has no requirement for the offering of material substance as an accompaniment to prayer.

S: Does casting your bread out on the waters mean being kind and good and truthful?

R: Among other things, yes.

S: That's the way I should view it then? (R: Yes.) Back to kindness, where there is no Thought Adjuster and the question of whether kindness can be wasted on someone in that state. Kindness is such a quality of universe value that I have trouble finding it wasted anytime that it is extended. I can see your caution about risk, where the person is known or perceived to be totally evil, but there are people without Thought Adjusters who simply are, whose minds have deteriorated to the extent that kindness would seem to be needed. They would still perceive their physical response to kindness, wouldn't they?

R: As an animal might, however your culture may wish to question the wisdom of maintenance of life in those who are in such a state.

S: We haven't evolved that much as a whole yet, but it has come to many of us that we ought to be going that way. 

R: The capacity to discern Thought Adjuster absence is very close, but not fully arrived yet among mortals of your world. Those of you who are more advanced in your spirit growth will have a greater sense of this in the ones you contact. But in the not-too-distant future such lack will be almost universally apparent on this planet, as would have been the case long ago had the plan been followed.

S: Could you comment about the validity of being sometimes untruthful to avoid hurting other human beings feelings?

R: Do you recall how Jesus handled such a situation?

S: Yes, I think that He was never unkind even when He refrained from telling, quote, “the whole truth”. I guess He was always governed by kindness and consideration for the recipient, and would never say anything unkind.

S2: What about the money exchangers? If you will remember, the money exchangers were in the temple, and He had a human emotion pertaining to their desecrating His Father's temple. And for a while I think it got the best of the human Jesus. And His most unkind words, I think, were toward the religious leaders. He called them vipers, at least John the Baptist called them vipers. His worst words He said against political leaders were He called Herod an ill fox, that old fox.

S: But you're talking about whether He did or did not say anything derogatory, but actually I can't remember that the human Jesus ever made an untruthful flattering statement just to save somebody's feelings either. He always sought something good to say, but He didn't speak untruth, as far as I recall.

R: That is correct. He exercised restraint, yet was never insincere.

S2: Sincerity is the key then. If a guy is an old fox, and if it's truthful, I would be inclined to say that.

R: Perhaps if you beheld a professed temple of religious worship that more resembled a combination between a carnival and a gambling village, you would be appalled, also.

S: I think I would be. That - would be my vocal response to what's happened in the Temple, that in
current usage with all the flair and the selling things and everything.

R: When men came to the temple to procure sexual companions, Is that worshipful? (S: No.)

S: Rayson, were you at the time, were you at that temple, were you present when those things took place?

R:  Not on Earth, but I have reviewed the records of this planet thoroughly and have beheld the details of which you speak.

S: Rayson, I was wondering, we have video tapes and so on. Do you have the ability to actually do a revisiting of it as though it were on video tape or actually like in 3-D circumstance where you can actually relive that moment and see it?

R: The Ancients of Days guard the records of the cosmos and may permit one to review historical features when it is deemed appropriate. It is far more than the visual record to which you allude. There are spirit qualities recorded as well.

S: How far would one have to advance through the mansion worlds before one would be capable of
viewing these and receiving any benefit from them?

R: It all depends on need, actually; if you are needed, it can happen early. If not, it may never occur. Your unique and individual personality is known to those at high levels and if it can be useful to them they will appeal to you for service.

S: Rayson, is it possible that Christ Michael was actually being kind, in a way, when He pointed out the error of the ways of the money changers to them?

R: That is a good question. But I am not privy to His mind record. That is not permitted for my review.

S: I'm such a believer in kindness. On the other hand, in thinking about this very same circumstance, it seems to be, at times, very appropriate and needed anger response in life. It seems to be able to free us up emotionally. In fact, many times I look on anger as just another emotion which the denial of is very painful, and can even undermine our emotional health. In fact, releasing anger at times, could almost be kind under certain circumstances. Could you comment on that? Am I making myself clear?

R: Yes, I believe I understand, but let me ask you. When you yourself experience this anger, do you feel close to God?

S: No, I don't feel close to God at that time, necessarily.

R: That is the answer. Do you understand that?

S: I understand that, but also wonder if it isn't part of our emotional makeup as human beings, that we're going to be involved in working through things which require anger as well as kindness, require multi-facets of our personality.

R: The anger response is a leftover from your animal origins, and at the time that Light and Llife are attained, anger will have fallen away from the repertoire of behavioral responses to stimuli on the part of mortals. I am not saying that at this time in the development of the planet it may not be a response that is in accord with the conditions in which you live, but your response, in terms of not feeling close to God, shows that you yourself understand the limited quality of anger in terms of your own spirit growth.

S: The reason I brought that up was because of a book by Theodore Rubin called The Angry Book in which he, as a psychiatrist, maintains that unless you really vent anger, it's not something that's harbored or hung on to, but it's an emotion that if it's not expressed comes out in deviant behavior sooner or later. It's saved up like in a slush account. Most of us can easily deal with kindness, or we can deal with love and caring, but it's more difficult for us to deal, at times, with anger.

R: Do you recall how Jesus managed anger as He grew and developed into His ultimate role? One instance was already mentioned, but can you think of others later on?

S: Well, He dealt with compassion, understanding, empathy. He had a full range of things He used.

R: Do you recall His periods of meditation?

S: Yes, that's right. He spent a great deal of time in communion between Father and Himself.

R: After which He returned with what feelings?

S: Feelings of wholeness and, I think, perspective, and love, kindness, caring

R: And resolution of anger. The animal emotions that you experience in your life as a mortal being are best understood - in your current intellectual parlance - as expressions of the narcissistic ego against perceived violations of the assumed perfection of self. To make that clearer, I would say that an emotion such as anger is truly an expression of discomfort at your deep, and perhaps not conscious, realization of your own imperfection. And yet you know very well that imperfection is one of your endowments, a gift from Father that enables you to be a co-creator in this universe and others beyond.

S: Is there any such thing as righteous indignation?

R: What do you think?

S: I think it's a code word for anger myself.

R: I would agree with you.

S: And an excuse for manipulation.

S2: It's just the anger that you approve. The anger you disapprove of is just plain anger. It is sometimes an excuse for controlling behavior, too, I think.

R: Is there not fear and pride contained within what you call anger, indignation, even righteousness?

S2:  Yes, but sometimes, in my experience, I have found that the only way I can get through to somebody is to use anger. When you talk nice and when you talk quietly, they don't listen. But when you yell and you jump up and down, it seems like they listen sometimes.

R: Perhaps you are dealing with animals.

S: But what if they learn from my anger?

R: Do animals ever truly learn?

S: I don't know.

R: Can you think of a more teacher-like way of persuading less spiritually advanced beings?

S: I think I need to do that. It's hard work being angry.

R: It does not contribute much to your ultimate goal of spirit growth and development, and you are sufficiently advanced to desire that and enjoy the sensation of pleasure which results from God-directed
act.

S: You used the illustration of training animals. I think that far, far more animal trainers do so by rewarding desirable conduct than by punishing undesirable conduct.

R: Yes, they have an understanding of the limitations of animals as well as the presence of the lower adjutant mind spirits that respond well to small reward.

S: I have a question on kindness to animals. As we respond to animals we treat them in a kindly manner, we're kind to them and we project love upon them. In effect, is that a real relationship? Is that a true kind act? Is there survivor value, for instance, in God the Supreme, when you are kind to an animal, and love it, and care about it, when in fact it doesn't respond? It is not kind to you per se or it doesn't love you because it doesn't have the capacity to do those things?

R: Yes, of course, because by virtue of your kindness you yourself grow, and you will retain your growth. However, I would like to caution you in only one small regard, and that is the mistaking of kindness to animals as being a substitute for kindness to your neighbor. There are some who profess that animals are better than people. They like animals better than people, and therefore animals are more deserving of kindness than people. This is a limited view that certainly can lead to some limited personal growth.

But remember, my friends, that you are all agents of change and co-creators with Father. Your world will
be far less uplifted by kindness to pets than by kindness to mortal beings.

S: Rayson, I'm really, really happy you commented on this. That, to me, is a very important subject, and I'm glad you brought it out. I think it's good for people to understand that we, as human beings, are relating because of our Thought Adjuster relationship. And while kindness to animals is certainly pleasant and nice and so on, it's not a substitute.

R: It is far easier to be kind to a fawning pet than to be kind to a sluggish employee or an angry customer or a proud neighbor. And yet you can see that the great leaps in your own growth and development come from the latter rather than the former.

S: There's a proverb that says a soft answer turneth away wrath. It probably could be substituted, instead of a soft answer, a kind act.

R: Yes.

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Time is coming when action must rule the day, when all the truths that you have learned and experienced must show forth in your daily deeds. That moment is rapidly approaching as you begin to do what you have learned, ever progressing, a little bit each day. And the best way is to continue.

Truth can be intangible if you are not in line with The Father's will. The truth is actually the surest reality. How do you recognize truth? How do you know that we are here? How do you know that I am here? That this teaching mission is here?

The truth that you learn is absorbed by your senses and passes through your mind and is perceived by the Spirit of Truth within you and all around you. And with the aid of the cosmic mind, you are able to discern truth and to use it every day in your daily activities.

How do you know that something is true? You can believe the fact, but it might not necessarily be truth. And the truth might not necessarily be the fact. As you all are intelligent, you will naturally analyze most things to see what element of truth it contains. You will naturally accept some of those and reject others. The ones that you have experienced - the truths that you have experientially experienced - you will automatically recognize as the truth, and you will have no doubts because you have experienced that truth which you have been exposed to.

Sometimes a combination of facts may seem like the truth if it is logical and it makes sense to you, and so you believe it. But until you have truly used that truth in your daily life and have experienced that truth, you will not actually know that it is the truth.

I can talk endlessly about science. Some of it may be verifiable, some may not be, but it will not necessarily be a truth. The truth that I speak, you will recognize deep within yourselves. If you do not, then think about it. Mull it over in your minds and see if it will actually be a part of your experience. If it does not, then you cannot be sure of your decision, no matter what decision.

When one seeks the truth one is hungry for the truth, one desires true meanings, true values, of the reality of life and your relationship to others - and to God. Why are some people not hungry for the truth, why do they not desire the truth? And why do others thirst for that eternal wisdom that can come to them through their fragments of The Father. You see, some people are not hungry because they have not digested the truth that has been given to them. Let them live and experience what they have been given, and after they have been filled they will again be hungry and they will be desirous of more wisdom and more truth.

The ones who are thirsty, the ones who seek the truth, they have lived - to some extent - and have experienced the truth that they have been allowed to partake of, and then - after their realization has been lived in the full - they become thirsty again. And because they are thirsty, more knowledge, more wisdom, more truth, will be let into their consciousness.

Truth is given to you, and through your faith you will understand the truth and then you will live the truth, you will be one with the truth. When truth is given to you in any form-sometimes it may be shadowed by facts and misleading information, sometimes truth may come in the form of fiction - keep alert to the fact that truth may come in very many forms. Be open. Be willing to consider all aspects of the vehicle which truth may come in. Discard the elements, which conflict with your common sense, with your cosmic knowledge and attitudes. Take out the truth and put it into action. Give it the tests of life. Live it. And through that living of that truth you will obtain wisdom, true wisdom. And with wisdom you will be able more to discern the truth when it is surrounded by untruth or misleading facts and elements. And then, of course, you will once again thirst for more. And you will be given more. That is how you progress, through the ascension career that lies before you.

But faith is so important to this. Have faith. Move forward. Take that step with certainty, knowing that you are doing so with faith in your Thought Adjuster as you progress in the will of God. There is much satisfaction to this. The more you progress, the more satisfaction you will receive. At first - like a baby that has a difficult time digesting adult food - mortals who start to desire truth will find it hard to digest truths, which they have been given. It will be slow and tortuous for some of them. Others will digest it with no problem. It will always be slow, and after the initial part has been gotten over, the baby is ready for more solid food, for truth that is a little bit more tangible and must be digested to a further degree before it can be used to make the bones and muscles and tissues which make up your material self, and through which you actuate those truths into the loving service of your fellows.

So, seeking the truth is difficult and slow in the beginning, but as you move forward it becomes easier and more productive and filled with more satisfaction. But it is not necessarily easier. More tangible truths, more and more bigger truths will be placed before you, which you must conquer, much as you conquer your own bodies and your own soul.

You must master yourself so that you can live the truth, which you have been given. Through this self-mastery you digest the truth, you live the truth, and you are given more truth. And sometimes you must master yourself even more before you can digest this next batch of truths. It is much fun once you get the hang of it, even though there will often times be obstacles which are trying. But this is part of the experiential progression, which you are all undergoing.

Question: One of our members here once told me you can tell what's true because its so familiar, has a
familiar feel. Could you comment on that? Because that seems very profound to me.

Answer: Those truths, which you can feel, are the truths, which you have already experientialized. You have lived those truths, and so they are familiar. Just because you do not feel familiar with a truth does not mean it is not the truth. There are truths you have not experientialized which, upon hearing, you may not automatically recognize or realize as being truths. Those are the truths, which you must put under the tests of actually living and seeing if they are the truth.

Question: It seems that by living and experiencing those truths and trying them in your life that you become “at one” with them. Is that part of the process indeed, to experience them in order to become at one with them?

Answer: Yes, that is correct.

Question: My sense is that in becoming a seeker of truth a material being puts one's self at a certain degree of risk. There's a certain kind of person who will punish one for that. It’s my belief that that's true. Could you comment on that?

Answer: You are put at risk, but the risk is not of your soul. Your soul is not at risk. But your ego may be at risk, your self image, or the image that others have of you, your reputation, your job, superficial things will be at risk. That is because what you see as the truth you have lived and know experientially.

Others who have not lived that truth will not see that truth. It may be that they cannot see the truth because of their own laziness, their own incapacity to seek the truth, or they may be envious of you. So they may try to denigrate your efforts in order that their ego is not damaged. When this happens, go bravely into the face of this, but also use discretion. Realize that this other individual cannot yet see this truth, and that possibly that person is struggling. Do not show off your abilities of discerning the truth - your accomplishments - in their face. Rather, help them step-by-step in their efforts to live that truth. This is not easy, but it is a good effort to make.

You must question everything. You must question authority. You must question myself. You must question each other. You cannot take things for granted as being the truth. Of course you should not question merely for the sake of questioning. You should definitely desire to know the truth. Question the Urantia Book. Question these teachings. Question your study group leader, or ones who have an intellectual understanding of the concepts in the Urantia Book, which surpasses your own. Do not think that just because they are more intellectual than you are that whatever they say is the truth. This is not so. Reason it out on your own. Try to live what you have gained by your own working-outs of these questions.

When you discuss matters of Universal reality with people who do not question, who take things for granted, you would not be able to convince them of much because they have unquestionably taken some
beliefs as the truth. They will doubt everything that goes against that which they have decided to believe
as the truth. And this is a danger, for you may also do the same for the teachings of the Urantia Book. Realize that truth is often relative of where you are in your progression career. What may be true for you
now may not be true when you have gone on to the morontia worlds.

Question: Sometimes I have a deep conversation with someone for hours and hours. I consider a heart to
heart talk or just friends being together to be a beautiful thing. I tend to allow exactly how I feel or what my response is to being with someone to come up, and there is an interchange. Then later I find that bits and pieces come back to me of that structured conversation, things I said or things that were said to me, and its at that point where I feel through reflectivity or something that more truths come regarding that. Now is that correct? Or is it a good way of discerning personal truth? Or should truth occur in the leading edge of a conversation? Or could you touch on that a little bit?

Answer: Sometimes when one knows a truth, before that truth is actually lived out experientially, one speaks that truth. It is a mid-point between actually living the truth out and to know the truth. It is good to be aware of the truth when you are living it out. It is good to be truth; or rather it is good to realize and to be aware that you are speaking the truth when you do so. But many times you are so intent on that moment that you are not aware, and so your Thought Adjuster will refresh your memory at a later time to let you know that, indeed, you have been speaking the truth or you have been acting out that truth.

Question: Does the Spirit of Truth inter-associate with that circuit or is it strictly your Thought Adjuster?

Answer: The Spirit of Truth does play a part in the total delivery and reception of truth. It is a causal feedback to the brain, together with the awareness input facilitation of your Thought Adjuster and liaison with your mind.

Question: It almost seems - in living - that we are digesting, that image used of digesting, it seems we are
digesting our own egos and in the process turning our natures into something very different. It feels that way to me. It’s a good thing. Not always real pleasant. But the outcomes, the results, are certainly blessings. I just wanted to share that observation and see if you had any comment.

Answer: Sometimes - this analogy can only be carried so far - but the taste buds can be the ego, the ego
sometimes find some truth distasteful and will not swallow it.

Question: Like many people, I have trouble from time to time with depression. And I've noticed that since
starting to read the Urantia Book, and more particularly since interacting with you and the study group, and doing what work I can on my own, that depression seems to occur less frequently, and when it does happen it is not so bothersome, and I can think more clearly. Am I just kidding myself or is that the real thing, is that really happening? I feel happier about being alive.

Answer: Happiness and joy and living is real. You are not fooling yourself. Do not be depressed. When you are depressed you are taking yourself too seriously. Look unto the goals of destiny. This life is but a beginning. Depression must not interfere with your desire to be in touch with your Thought Adjuster. The more you attain the stillness, the less depressed you will be. Do not center attention upon yourself. Center your attention on infinite and eternal realities. There you will find the stillness. 

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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive June 4, 2000.
Teacher  Elyon
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Elyon: The analogy of a gem with its many facets is a good image to use as in discussing this important question of truth seeking.

A gem has many facets. According to the way you look at it, according to where you are standing, according to the position of the gem, according to the amount of light, each facet will be seen differently. Sometimes one facet is brilliant and glowing while another may be expressing a color. Even some may not be showing at all or may seem dark. But it is still a gem. The dark sides will at sometime look bright and beautiful, and the bright side will at some time not be so bright. Taking it as a whole, a beautiful object which presents itself in many colors is a way of looking at the evolving soul, the evolving personality, and as you rub against each other you polish yourself.

As you grow into maturity, as a child grows into maturity, you reach a point where you no longer need to act the way you did when you were a child, and you put those things away. As you mature you can begin to smile at your foolishness, because at that time that is all you knew. The ascension career is designed specifically for growth, for evolution, which means setting aside something that is no longer useful to take on something new. Be eager and patient with yourselves as you progress in maturity. In all your discussions, in all your thoughts, have one clear purpose, that the Father's will be done, that the Father's
will be manifest in your life, and this will guide all your thoughts and all your actions.

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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive August 23, 1997.
Teacher Machiventa
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One aspect of truth is found in the fact that it exists in and of yourselves. Truth, in order to be active, exists in your personality and in your perceptions. It is filtered through your personality and your perceptions.  Therefore it is truth for you. Truth is a gift. It is not an abstract point of reference; it is as living dynamic thing. It is lived out; it is activated in your lives. There is the truth of your existence, the truth of your personality, the truth of your being, the truth of your unique perception of reality. Just as faith is active, so is truth. Our Creator Son Michael, our friend and brother, was a personification of truth as he lived it in his earthly existence. When we look at him we know what truth is. Truth was lived through him. He did not preach an abstraction; he was truth. Learn in your own lives to accept the truth of your own personality, the truth of your own perceptions, the truth of your particular gifts with which you exhibit truth in all its facets.  

When you desire and thirst for the truth, the truth is always there for you. Through the confusion and frustration there is always truth. It is, like a jigsaw puzzle, at times very hard to find. But once you realize that you are in the river of truth, and as it is passing you by, you can grab those pieces of the puzzle that fit into your personality.

Each individual has their own pieces of the puzzle to be picked from the river of truth. As they piece their puzzle together, each one will have a different picture, a different scene with different colors for their truth. Sometimes the river of truth will be wide and sometimes narrow depending on your frame of mind. If you are in constant expansion within your mind to seek the truth as it fits the needs for you, you will come into understanding that the river of truth is always there for you and never leaves you. You never need to feel
without it at any time. It is a matter of using your mind as the tool with which to find this river and become part of the flow. As you evolve, it will bring you what you need as you flow down the river. You are and will be in constant change. Do not recoil from this constant pattern because any time you desire and reach towards the Father this will automatically happen; the expansion and creation of yourself is neverending.

You can always row to the side of the river at times and take a sojourn from all matters of life, retreat for short periods. But you will find that it won't be long before you need to get back out in the flow and see what is around the next bend.

Remember that the river of truth is always there. You may leave it, but it never leaves you.  

I leave you now with this thought, that truth is living and active.

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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive April 11, 1999.
Teacher Elyon, Malvantra
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Elyon: All around on your world there are many sources from which you can derive food for your bodies. There is quite a variety. One who forages, who puts themselves to the task of gathering, may find ample opportunity to receive this food, to put to rest hunger. Truth likewise is all about you in many forms. Truth is unchanging, for it is one in its purpose. Just like there are many forms of edible things in the world, it is all food; it is all for nourishment, for life sustenance. Truth functions in this same manner. It appears manifold, but it is one in purpose. When the life energies of food are metabolized into your system, it becomes you; it is no longer external. It is now a well of energy within your own being wherein you may create, through which you may act and accomplish goals. When you receive truth into your being, likewise, it becomes your personality.

Truth need not be credited to any source other than the Father, for once it has become you, you are its source as well. When you perform a good function for another individual and they thank you for it, you don't tell them it was your eggs and potatoes that caused you to act that way. Energy became you, and you willingly directed it into fruitful action.

In the evolution of the planet, civilization has developed techniques to cultivate food to its advantage for greater abundance, for security, plenty during leaner times. Here is the import of service, for as you have become infused with truth, you must also learn how to cultivate, how to hybridize, such that the truth will be beneficial in your environment for many who impinge upon your life. In your hotter regions farmers focus on those products which flourish and likewise in the colder climates. Your service arena is similar. Cultivate those truth forms which will take root in that arena. You may be aware of a form of truth that would transcend, that would be that much more beneficial. However, it will not grow well in that arena. The wise farmer focuses on that which will grow and brings it to its maximum harvest potential.

Freely receive all truth that comes into your being; willingly accept it as your own possession, as it becoming, more than a possession, but you yourself; and become ever skillful in how you transfuse that truth back into your environment and into the lives of those around you.

Evelyn: Can you point out any misplaced truths where we have cultivated something that doesn't really grow in our soil?

Elyon: Specifics are unique to any given situation you are in. For instance, your meeting with clients and the selection of fabric is an example of an arena wherein certain truth-plants may be cultivated and others must be left unsown. This will vary from episode to episode, so I cannot offer a list of warm climate and cold climate plantings, only to alert you to be sharp in your perceptions. You know from your own experience that even one year to the next in gardening will bring different results. Different species will flourish and others will not where in the previous year they did well. In a sense this principle addresses the idea of agenda, what you as individuals may have in your mind when you seek to minister. An agenda that is inflexible to the environs may yield the sowing of improper seed. If your agenda is more transcendent then you can be flexible and adapt to your surroundings for the greatest fruition.

Mark: Like any good gardener you will faithfully construct the garden even if you are unsure how each item will do. You have faith that your efforts will be rewarded.

Elyon: Good perception, my friend. I would add another aspect to this. Let us suppose our teaching group here is a garden, and I am your gardener. It is extremely rewarding to a gardener to witness this self-seeding of the many plants within the field. You all are becoming perennials; you are perpetuating the truths you have received on your own. This is a delightful thing to behold as one who has taken the role of gardener.

Student: When seeds are planted it takes a great variety of talent to bring that seed to fruition: the correct soil, the correct amount of watering, the correct amount of sunlight, how well the stems and leaves and the flower. There are so many phases to growth that each element of the earth has a certain contribution to make, and that is what they do. The full fruition of the flower, of the plant, is to see it to its mature stage and through the harvesting process into your kitchens for you to enjoy. That whole process requires many diverse operations. Water alone is not sufficient. Good soil alone is not sufficient. Sunshine alone will not be enough. Pulling weeds alone will not be enough. All of these elements working together in their proper time is what brings any plant to its maturity. So, your particular talents and abilities may be just to water or just to hoe or just to remove the weeds or to provide sunshine.

Elyon: Never fear that anything that you offer to your fellows in the development of the Supreme is ever wasted or not valued. All of your efforts, provided your intentions are to serve, are important even though the result may not be what you would like.

This image of planting seeds is a good one, for it indeed expresses all the important and diverse elements needed for growth and maturity. Do not fear that any of your efforts are wasted. If they cannot be used here they can be used elsewhere.

Malvantra: As students of the spirit you are indeed gardeners of all around. You are in training to become master gardeners. A good gardener is aware of timing and sequence and balance in his approach. A gardener is not required to manufacture soil, to provide sunlight, to provide ample frostfree days, but he is required to be aware of these factors and to bring into balance these factors, to manipulate those facets of gardening he is responsible for so as to take best advantage of these existing factors. A gardener must also exercise faith that by doing so the results are worthwhile.

You in your experience are developing the faith that things spiritual will come to fruition as they should. You are learning the factors involved in timing, in balance, to be able to prove yourselves handy at the proper time for ministry to others, for spiritual ideas and ideals, so that they may come to proper fruition.

You have certain givens that you may rely on: the light of the Father's love, the warmth of the mother soil, the stability of the very ground you work. It is simply up to you to gain knowledge of the patterns which exist of spring, summer, and fall; of timing of when to plant, when to prune, when to pick. With your faith repeat this process as you grow sure of the inevitable outcome. Each one of you is developing your own green thumbs, and you are all learning the little tricks to foster the growth of spiritual truths: the pinching back, the separating of one truth from another, the deliberate spacing of plantings so that your fruits may be bountiful.

You are each as your own rays of shining light as you attempt to follow the divine path. You provide nourishment to the seedling of your soul when you engage in reaching for the spiritual truths. In this way your internal garden grows as well. The forecast is excellent for growing weather, for the growing season, and you may look forward to a bountiful crop again this year. Let us be about our own individual flower beds and gardens, and let us be about the bigger garden around us. May we be successful in our timing. May we be successful in our patience, and may we be rewarded by the many fruits of our efforts.

Jonathan: You mentioned patience. There is an act for every season from planting to harvesting. It seems that in service or personal growth, there are actions we take at one time and then there are transcendent things that carry on forever. Patience is one of those. A good gardener doesn't pull up a plant to see how the roots are doing. Patience carries over into many activities.

Malvantra: Very good observation. Patience and faith are both highlighted very well in the analogy of the garden. One acts on faith from year to year that their efforts in the garden will come to fruition, but they also must be restrained by patience throughout the process and governed by an overall patience for the development of the garden. It is a great exercise in patience to watch as small seedlings turn into fruit-bearing plants; then the food is picked and stored, and the cycle has come to completion. This patience is rewarded with the fruits. It also has the reward of bolstering the faith in your abilities as a gardener and your expectations of the next year's crop. So patience is indeed a factor in your spiritual ascension and in your gardening as well.

Elyon: Another comment I would add to this perspective is that we all work in concert with one another, that as the plant grows, so are the earthworms doing their work, as well as the sun and the rain and sunny patterns in the sky, all while you may be simply weeding. Numerous factors are at play in harmony, and this brings in, along with patience and faith, the added element of trust. Each of us can do our part and trust the rest of the ecosystem of spirit ministry is functioning well.

Truth is a gradual process of absorption
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive September 12, 1999.
Teacher Daniel
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The technique of discovering what you believe and what you value is part of the process of spiritual growth. In some ways it appears to be the root source, but generally, as most of your testimonies reveal, this kind of
introspection usually does not occur in the beginning. Because each of you has within you the divine Fragment, that part of the First Source and Center given to you when you first demonstrated your capacity for moral choice, is there a burning desire, is there a smouldering which burns in you all, and in all other people as well.  

Consider some aspects of truth; and while probably most of what I say may not appear to be strikingly original, I will merely remind you that truth is a gradual process of absorption. Sometimes concepts have to be presented in many ways before they are understood at a level deeper than mere intellectual assent.

The progress of science on this planet, which has freed human thinking from many a superstition, depends upon a process which is clearly laid out and is verifiable. This is the necessary means to discover facts. Facts must use the scientific process to be established. Facts lead to the attempt to organize them into meaningful arrangements; and this is where science reaches toward philosophy in that it proposes hypotheses and theories which have to be tested and repeatedly tested until there is no reasonable amount
of doubt as to their validity. The problem with truth is that it is at levels higher or deeper, which ever way you want to think of it, than the level of factual reality. The collection of facts may be entirely accurate while the interpretation of the inter-association of those facts, their "truth" can be totally in error.

I wish to distinguish between the kind of information that is commonly called "truth" in the average person's mind, but is really another way of describing a fact which is empirical, verifiable, and repeatable and the "truth" which is an attempt on the part of rational creatures to ascertain the meaning of the inter-association of facts in the larger inter-association and larger perspective which is termed "truth". Because
of the success of the scientific method in ascertaining facts, many are led to decide that this method is also the only method to ascertain truth; it not being clearly understood how facts differ from truth, per se.

Therefor, for many, any method of achieving truth which does not follow the strict scientific, empirical approach is considered out of court, is automatically ruled out as having no value. But because the universe is constructed on three levels of reality, material, mindal, and spiritual, truth is a larger reality than that which emerges from an analysis and an attempt to understand the collection of material facts. Truth embraces facts, their meaning and their relative value, which is the spiritual level.

Jesus was one of those precocious children whose inquisitive mind searched for consistency among the facts of his experience. He challenged his elders, his parents, his Chazon to explain the meaning of natural phenomena which in his day were attributed to the action of God, such as earthquakes, lightning, thunder, etc. Jesus was a truth seeker and he early learned to find truth from many directions, not the least of which was his naturally scientific bent of mind.

If a person has decided  philosophically that there is only one level of reality, the material level,....that is a faith assumption. It cannot be "proved" by any scientific means. It requires as much faith to be an atheist as it does to be a theist, a believer in Deity, for neither world view can be proved in any sense by scientific procedure, for the realm of Deity is the realm of Spirit. Therefor "truth" comes in the human experience from all three levels of reality and is integrated in the mindal arena which is between the other two levels.  

I suggest that you never abandon the rigorous scientific approach for material facts, but that you acknowledge by your own experience your spiritual reality, the presence of that Divine Part in you and also accept with confidence that you have minds capable, when they are in cognizance of all three levels of reality, of finding progressively the truth that you seek. Like Jesus, let us all look for truth in every corner and not rule out any of those three basic realities.

Of course in my case, as a morontia being, I live above the reality that is material. I am more aware of the spiritual dimension and I have survived mortal death. Certain questions that bother mortals on this planet, such as the question of afterlife, were not a concern on my planet of origin. We were in an intermediate stage of Light and Life with the presence of our spiritual administration intact. It was at the level of what would be termed scientific evidence, that there was supermortal existence. So my experience was different from yours, for these things were not questioned.  

Remember that even one so brilliant as a Lanonandek Son, Lucifer, could fall into error in his mind and conclude that the universe as conceived and explained by his Creator/Father was a delusion and a lie; that there was no central source, no First Source and Center; that the universe was just all one giant mechanism run by its own energy with no intelligent connection. So even to be above the mortal estate still requires the elements of trust and faith. I am taught and I firmly believe...we are not ever going to reach certitude without the need for faith, until we step ashore upon the shores of Paradise.

The ultimate placement of truth is within yourself. There is your source for discerning truth. It is not in some external authority, no, it is within you. What I have told you tonight you must filter through this
source, even though I have spoken authoritatively.

Truth is known only through inter-association
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive September 12, 1999.
Teacher Minearisa
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Truth is known only through inter-association, or to use my favorite teaching term, relationship. Truth is about relationship. The relationship of you with God; the relationship to yourselves; your relationships with one another; your relationships to the environment; your relationships with beings. 

To know truth one must have an understanding of the many intricacies of relationship of which you all are a part. This is, indeed, the curriculum throughout time, starting here in the present, going forward and also your study in the past. Your search for truth has been to understand your place in the complexity of relationships. This is the study of truth. So, it begins at the most fundamental levels, with the understanding of self in reaction to others, in reaction to God, in reaction to self.  

This study is all encompassing at this level of development. As you proceed in your ascension career, this study will expand and not only will you come into understanding of your relationship to different aspects of the universe, but you will come into understanding of the inter-association of relationships of all aspects of the whole. The study of truth is an ongoing process that will absorb you for eons to come. 

The relativity of truth
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive September 12, 1999.
Teacher Minearisa, Daniel
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Minearisa: The relativity of truth is about relationship; and those relationships change over time. Perception changes over time. So both perception of the relationship and the actual relationship change, thus the relativity of truth.

Daniel: For example, imagine a picture of a dirty, filthy primitive man with his club raised and his face gnarled in anger. From that much what can you deduce about the dignity of man or the circumstances that are occurring at this point? You could assume he is having a rage in which he is threatening his family and that he is the most despicable of men. But if you enlarge the picture to include the saber toothed tiger in front of him and his family behind him, the picture clarifies as it is enlarged and indicates that he is a most courageous worthwhile individual, defending his family against this terrible threat. The enlargement of the picture to include more relationships enlarges the truth. That is the relativity principle. So the larger the perspective, and the more detail that is included, the relationships of persons and objects, all these things, the more accurate is the truth that emerges.

One is tempted to say of previous understandings of truth that they were error. But that is inaccurate. They were not error, they were merely relative to a larger perspective, therefor less accurate. This is somewhat subtle to understand. We like to refer to the term scaffolding to describe the relationship of partial and lesser truth to larger and greater truth, for it is a necessary process in order to construct the larger building of truth. The scaffolding has to be there to make the construction possible.  

Speaking the truth
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive March 27, 2000.
Teacher Abraham

 

 

 

 

 

 

Miriam: Is it erroneous to think that because we are brothers and sisters it is in the highest good to talk about things that have discomfort or is it best to just turn everything over to Father and know that everyone is on their path and just let it be? Maybe it is just a faulty thing of mine to think we ought to be sharing these things.

Abraham: You are speaking about being truthful of what is in each one's heart. Speaking the truth is of the
highest good, although the way in which you present it is key to having positive results. We each need to focus on remaining the learner and looking to the Spirit for words. When you are gathered God is before you. God is made real right before your eyes if you each can each set aside self. Certainly discussion should take place if there can be further understanding, but also this is limited depending upon the results it is bringing about. If topics become dead then of course it is time to release it into Father's care. Each individual needs to have time to grow into understanding. 

Approaching new truth
 
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New truth is always challenging and often threatening to traditionalists. This is both natural and
good. The tried and true values of historical experience cannot and should not be easily replaced
by the new and untested. But these historic truths are periodically upstepped by prophetic vision.
Such growth is usually a traumatic experience for individuals, the church, and society.

Every prophet in the history of the Old and New Testaments has met with unbelief and opposition. The priests of society have regularly stoned its prophets. Then their sons of another century build monuments to honor the prophets persecuted by their fathers. It is good to be cautious and critical; it is helpful to doubt and carefully evaluate. But we need to be open and objective enough to allow the spirit to lead us to larger truth. Jesus told his apostles that he would send the Spirit of Truth through which he would lead them to greater truths in the future. We must be sensitive to this Spirit of Truth. We need to learn to recognize truth in its many forms and varying appearances.

Values

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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Meanings and Values
 
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Question: In reading through The Urantia Book on meanings and values, I find that meanings and values
are generally associated with things, and that a rough projection of the universe would be that the universe consists of things, meanings and values. I know what things are. I went to the dictionary to learn what meanings are, and it defined the noun “meaning” as “that which is intended or signified,” with the synonyms to be found under the word “purpose”. I also looked into the dictionary for “values” and it defines values as the order of importance or the sequence of things. The Urantia Book says one can add values to meanings as well. Can you comment on my understanding of “things” as being objects, whether they are spiritual, physical, or morontial; as “meanings” being the significance or purpose of these objects; and “values” being the relative degree of importance of either things or meanings. Could you comment on that?

Answer:

Question: Can there be any “value” by itself, without evaluating a thing or a meaning - just a value?

Answer: Pure value?

Student: Yes. In other words, can you take a six and not relate it to a four and a five and a seven and an eight?

Answer: Not in that context because if you cannot relate it to the others then it will not be of that value. Values can be relative but supreme values can be existential when matrixes, meanings, and values are
all in a realm of non-space, non-time, then values can be pure and by itself. But this has no meaning when explained in this linear fashion. It is beyond your comprehension as of now.

Question: Is it correct to think of relationships as things, that these relationships are not only things but they have a meaning, and that their meaning is extremely high on the scale of values?

Rayson: Relationships?

Student: Interpersonal relationships.

Answer: Personal relationships are very high, of very high value, yes.

Manifest the values you hold dear in your lives
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive April 12, 1998.
Teacher Elyon
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I know your phrase that cautions against putting all eggs in one basket; this has merit in the caution to not over commit oneself, denying other possibilities that exist in the ever-moving events of time that may alter the course that will lead you to your goal.

You seek the values of eternity which give deeper meaning to your life and the implications of the great ascension that lies before you. The very course of your ascension is itself variable because every effort any one of us makes further defines the course that all may take. As you receive greater appreciation of these
eternal values, you are establishing them concretely in time. You are making them alive; you are animating those very standards of deity that have stood forever.

Our Master taught us to serve, because the most valuable element in all the universes is personality.  Though every personality is colored differently with traits and inclinations that express uniqueness, everyone is a cherished possession in the Father's basket. While you seek to have and possess the values of
spirit, you are, in the very effort, becoming valuable.

The master finished his life on earth with the words, "It is finished." This culmination of effort on his part created tenfold new potentials that are only now, centuries later, beginning to be effective on a worldwide scale. He is not done; he has only expanded his troops to include thousands. His effort to reach all his
children is not, as your history has portrayed, to win the great battle against evil and possess all he can before all the rest are lost. No. He desires to reach everyone because, in his view, all belong to him. It is his passion that all know deeply, to the depths of their souls, this very truth. It is to your charge that you present him in your lives, not as an objective, external that you describe but as a vivid internal demonstration that you are. You are embryos of an eternal life. You are infused with Michael's presence; the vitality you have today is only expanding in your development.

If you could organize in your thinking the intervals of time that lie between your birth as a human and your attainment of Paradise, you would come to greater appreciate how very near you are to the morontia experience; it is but one broken shell away. Michael has demonstrated the path whereby you may attain this state of being, and he returned to you to prove beyond any doubt its existence.

The difference between that which "is" value and that which "has" value
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive April 2, 1999.
Teacher Minearisa, Alexsus
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Minearisa: It can be stated that every aspect of creation has some value. There is nothing in the universe which exists that is valueless, that has no value. The time-space level of finitude is an attempt in process to replicate the perfection of the Central Universe, but with an additional aspect of freewill participation by nearly infinite orders of intelligent will creatures in that completed perfection. Every aspect of this evolving finitude, this growing finite, God the Supreme, has relative degrees of value. 

The statement, "That which has value is differentiated from that which is value," in my understanding means that ultimately that which is value is none other than our Father, the Creator God of all things and beings. It is my understanding that it was this ability to differentiate between that which is value and that which has value, on the part of Jesus and along with his commitment to that difference, that allowed the Master to achieve human perfection; to live a perfected human life. For while he recognized relative value in family, in recreation, in work, in good health, in interpersonal relationships, he knew that value itself was God and that his relationship as a mortal man to that Source of all relative values would put his life in the proper perspective. 

There is also potential value in itself in personal relationships because personality is a gift/reality of God, God being triune in relationship. Therefore value in itself may also embrace relationships between personalities when these relationships recognize their true relationship to each other as sons and daughters of God. These relationships, then, become value in themselves. They are not of relative value; they approach absolute value. That is why, from your mortal career, what really will last and which is counterparted by your Thought Adjuster are those things which are value, your personal relationships with each other and with your indwelling Monitor. Other things that have value will fall away in the ascension career. You will gradually let go of those things which have less value as you achieve the journey to Value Itself. 

Alexsus: An example which may help clarify would be a rose. Anything which embodies truth, beauty, and goodness are value. The rose indeed embodies beauty. It is value. The thorns which upon the stem of a rose are of value because they serve to protect that which is value.

Virginia: I am sitting here frankly trying to understand myself what all that has been said. But as I am thinking about this, could it be said that, that which has value is the only thing that will lead us to that which is value. And that's why, am I summing up what you said, Minearisa, and that value is only found in relationships that reflect honesty, goodness, and beauty?

Minearisa: Sometimes the appreciation of that which has value acts as a lure to bring people to an awareness of Value itself, God, the author of truth, beauty, and goodness, and of personality and hence of personal interactions and relationships. 

But sometimes that which has value becomes idolized and takes the place of that which is value. Many examples are obvious. Your culture has, in fact, made an idol of wealth, power, knowledge, self-sufficiency, egoism, and the list could continue. By themselves, all these things have relative value, but they are not God. They are not of spirit essence, but are combinations of material and mindal reality. 

To know and worship God is the greatest experience that any of His creation can enjoy. To do this is to fully experience absolute value. When this experience has become a part of you its essence is so clearly "value itself" that it puts all the other things into a relative cast. The striving for honor among peers, the competition for glory and power, all of these things are seen to be in a different league. The reason for differentiating what is value from what has value is to make clear the nature of idolatry, to say you have not experienced value itself until you have fallen in adoration and worship at the feet of God and experienced the thrill of your existence as His child and the wonder of your brotherhood/sisterhood with all other intelligent beings. This is value itself. The color of your clothing, the makeup on your face, the size of your muscles, the achievements of your mind, the esteem of your peers, these are of value but they are not value itself. 

Virginia: Your last statement kind of threw me for a loop because I didn't expect you to end it with saying these are of value. Because those are the things I am trying hard not to be a part of because I want to dismiss myself from that focus.  

Minearisa: But, you see, they are of relative value. They are not equal. There is a place for these things in an earlier part of your life. They are natural human desires. There is nothing wrong with them in themselves until they assume the idolatrous role of value itself, which they are not. So, as you progress, and esteem them as less worthy of your energy and devotion so do you move in ascension toward the Source. 

Remember the book teaches the greatest joy on Paradise is worship. So powerful is this experience that is requires the Conductors of Worship to control it. It is, for you mortals, a rare experience to worship, although you attempt it. I recommend that you take the time to spend in contemplation of God, the Trinity, whose purpose you are a part of. 

Jesus knew where value lay. He knew what value was and is. The hoot of an owl has value for it produces fright in its prey and they move so the owl can obtain its dinner. 

What is value is this mighty creation and plan in the mind of God which is unfolding as you participate by your free will choice in His family and embrace all your brothers and sisters as His children.

Violence

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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SOURCE: This row is used for recording useful information about the source of the wisdom entry.

Love is as important as food or oxygen
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive May 25, 1998.
Teacher Abraham
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Ellen: I found this in the Urantia Book: 92:7.14. "Modern man is confronted with the task of making more readjustment of human values in one generation than have been made in two thousand years. And this all influences the social attitude toward religion, for religion is a way of living as well as a technique of thinking." With that in mind, could you speak about the violence of the youth of today?

Abraham: Certainly. That is an appropriate saying — where the generations of today fit more living into their life span than those generations of the past. There is indeed a great deal of healing today's generation must promote. Unfortunately, for mortals to take action, things such as violence must hit close to home. For major healing to take place on a worldly scale, small healings need to start within the realms of our first beginning relationships such as parent and child. It is so small and simple to start with, and yet, it is as the individual who is ill and needs medication — yet refuses, only to find later their condition has worsened.

The love of a family, parent and child, is our greatest hope for the healing of youth violence. The society in
general, is the individual who is in need of medication, and foregoes teaching simple truths to equip parents with the skills to raise children, while conditions worsen. As I said, it starts out so simply with educating those that would be parents, or are parents, how love is as important as food or oxygen. A loveless child is unfortunately deformed psychologically, emotionally, and therefore, a black mark on society. Do you see how the small beginnings between parents and children are our hope for the violent youth of today? But, I can guarantee that any child receiving love from any source is apt to be fed in some small way.

Virtue

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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The Virtue Continuum
 
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The Virtue Continuum
DEFICIENCY EXCESS
Wimpy Assertive Arrogant
Mean Benevolent Self-sacrificing
Cowardly Brave Rash
Pushover Careful Stubborn
Indifference Caring Controlling
Boorishness Charming Buffoonery
Timid Confident Domineering
Depraved Conscientious Deferential
Cowardice Courage Foolhardiness
Slothfulness Diligence Workaholism
Foolishness Discernment Judgementalism
Rudderless Flexible Rigid
Quarrelsome Friendly Bootlicking
Stingy Generous Extravagant
Self-deprecation Honest Boastfulness
Pride Humility Degradation
Envious Indignant Retributive
Lazy Industrious Single-minded
Corruption Integrity Legalism
Selfishness Love Enablement
Fickle Loyal Gullible
Chintzy Magnificence Vulgar
Aspersion Magnanimity Vainglory
Selfish Nurturing Martyr
Fearful Patient Impulsive
Naive Practical Cynical
Cowardice Protective Bully
Disregard

Respect

Idolatry
Melancholy Spirited Boisterous
Addictive Temperance Strictness
Impatient Tolerant Doormat
Lying Truthful Tactless
Unsure Vigilent Impetuous
Boorish Witty Buffoonish

Will

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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Is will from an animal level or is it from personality?
 
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Note: Will is discussed at length under the heading of Mind.

Question: I have a question about the will. Something you said about the will was almost as if it was a
separate thing than us. So is the will of completely from an animal level or it is it from personality?

Answer: Personality exercises dominant will choice on this level but the will is the offspring of the conscious human mind, mid-mind. It is your only area of control or choice. You cannot effectively influence other things: your body, material world, the Adjuster. But you can exert influence and growth through will in the material, conscious mid-mind.

Free will was bestowed by the Father, not the Creator Son Michael. If we all choose to annihilate ourselves, that is their prerogative, we have that. Even I. But the point is that we don't. The plans for uplift, for guiding us ever onward and upward, is not a negative plan to stop us from doing evil. It is a magnet, which is positive, which draws you ever upward. It is not to prevent self-annihilation, but rather to give you more opportunities to grow, for getting you to reach up so that the ones above can reach down and so pull you up. Free will by itself is nothing. It is not valuable unless you are given enough choices. These teachings, the
Urantia Book, revelations, are all to give you those better choices. 

How to develop willpower
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive November 10, 1996.

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Frosty:  Could you comment on the connection between loss of willpower at an early age and the addictive, compulsive nature? I was reading John Bradshaw about that, that maybe I am trying to struggle against something I don't have any power over. How can I develop this? I'm sure there are many of us in this situation. 

Elyon: Willpower is what these two words mean; your volitional abilities are powerful. The culture of this world spends little time developing mental disciplines which aid in a personality's ability not only to choose but to act upon the choice. Control of the will of the child, the dampening efforts you speak of, often stem from a fear of the power of will in an adult and the lack of understanding the personality's ability to control this power. 

Behaviors that appear beyond the range of will stem from dysfunctional and deficient training. The abilities you have attained, skills you have in choice making, are best revealed to you when you are free from the expectations of others and the demands of your society. In effect, when you are alone you are best able to perceive your strength of will, for nothing else will corral or hinder your expression. Some compulsive behaviors are simply one's will on a tirade, not so much an external factor controlling oneself as an internal venting of repressed choice making.

Frosty:  If I am alone and there are 20 candy bars in the cupboard, I am going to eat those 20 candy bars. I seem to have no will. You are saying that I am venting? Or is some of it from habit? Is there still something in me, old programming? It seems like I don't have more control whether or not I am alone. Then I beat myself up for not eating vegetables. At times I seem hopeless. I'll do fine until there is a candy bar in the closet!

Elyon: I do have an exercise. I mentioned will venting. I mean that the will has finally had an opportunity to unleash itself from prescribed constraints. Your exercise is to buy a candy bar, and put it on the kitchen table and look at it as you do your work throughout the entire day. Take it out of the closet and put it on the table. After you have spent all day observing this thing, eat it. Through this you will perceive the function of your will power. The candy bar in the closet is symbolic of the restriction of your childhood freedom, will.  The closet symbolizes the constraint. You desire to unleash this candy bar. Bring it out on the table and enjoy it all day. This is my advice. 

Frosty: I will try that. I like the knowledge that goes with that closet thing. Thank you for your patience with this. 

How do we know if we are doing our will or God's will?
 
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Question: How do we know if we are doing our will or God's will?  We say "it is my will that His will be done" but are we really doing our will and hoping it's His will as well?

Answer: And how indeed does one know what His will is, and is it your own will you are pursuing? It will be revealed in your fruits. "And by your fruits you will be known." But even herein you will make note that some like pears and some like cherries! Even so, one's fruits are in process of maturing. Sometimes in the distribution of fruit the younger products are hard or sour, bitter even, but in the course of time and with Son-ripened tenderness and draughts of Living Water, human will is merged with the Living Vine, fruit 
matures, sweetens, and tends to delight the picker.

What kind of picker are you? Are you one who hurries off to the bright young fruit? or do you wait for the autumn bosc? Well, you can't truly enjoy the orchard if you don't sample everything along the way, and so sometimes you'll find yourself premature in your decision, and over-reaching, too, on occasion, but all in all, as the seasons pass and you become familiar with the Living Vine, you will be guided to harvest the fruits that are most nutritious for all concerned.  

This is what Jesus revealed in his earth life. This is the religious life of Jesus. This is the most important thing you can be mindful of. Emulate him in your dealings with your fellowmen.

Wonder

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
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 X  = Cannot be determined.


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To wonder is to be at one with your own
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts Lightline Teleconference 2024-08-01

Teacher: Amanson
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Amanson on Wonder  2023-03-26

“Wonder” is the delight of the universe; the motivating source of curiosity, exclamation, and joyous intent, bringing Spirit being into focus and a thirst for understanding into the intellects of mankind’s brothers and sisters.

Wonder is the encapsulation of the thirst for adventure that propels man into his/her joyous cycles of ‘dig, sift, discover, and chronicle’. It is a mirror of the vast unknowable frontier within a person, a frontier rife with mysterious nooks and crannies, undiscovered sequences, doors and hallways leading to undreamt of vistas and far-reaching objectives. We see all this personified when we look out at this unimaginable world.

But it was imagined. Therein lies the wonder. And who wouldn’t, when faced with things of such wonder, wonder? This is its purpose, its reason for being: the Wonder of it all. To wonder is to be at one with your own; [i.e. your own wonder], a noun engaged as a verb, or perhaps a noun engaged in ‘verbing’. The noun – the ‘wonder’ that is you – is at the same time a verb! Just as with the word ‘Love’. When is it never a verb? When is love, like Wonder, never active, even when it’s describing a stationary thing? Do you see? Do you see the wonder of it all?

And as you sit in wonder, let Wonder increase your perception. Let Wonder allow in the Maker of wonders and their Wonder. It is all connected beyond outmoded mental concepts which try to capture the manifold while completely misunderstanding the apparatus in its original design and purpose. And who could understand such a thing?  - its original design and purpose is wonder! And Wonder demands a humbling, a letting go of the mental constructs that delight in, but fail to, piece the wondrous thing together. It is indeed wondrous that this piece fits here, and that piece there, and that their effect is triggered by, say, this switch over here; or that these leaves fall from the tree in November and come back in May. Those things, its components, its ‘teamwork’ shall we say, can all be tracked. And yes, it is all wondrous. But beyond all that – the specific blendings of the many different working parts of things both manmade and natural – beyond all that is the Wonder. Who? Where is the beginning of such a thing? Not how it works but that it works. Not how it exists but that it exists. This is Wonder.

And the wonder of it all is made greater still by noting, as has been noted, such things are nothing compared to you. You are the Wonder of the world. Follow that mountain path through the lofty peaks, ducking behind waterfalls, out into the fields where, looking up, a bright sun and stars shine ever down, and realize what has been described is not of the outside world. It is within you, the Wonder of all creation. Now, open your eyes. And wonder.

Work

How the wisdom coding system works

WISDOM CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM 

Type of wisdom (purple box)
 E  = Evolutionary wisdom 
 R  = Revealed wisdom 
 H  = Hybrid wisdom (evolutionary + revealed mix)


Target audience (green box)
 P  = Personal 
 G  = Group (non-personal)


Type of content (yellow box)
 C  = Curated content (paraphrased, re-written, enhanced, translated, etc.)
 O  = Original unedited content from external source (direct excerpts, complete content, etc.)
 M  = Mix of both curated and original content.


Reliability factor of content (blue box)
 1  = High
 2  = Average
 3  = Low 
 X  = Cannot be determined.


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Work as it relates to the qualities of Deity
 
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Rayson and Friends

 

 

 

 

 

 

It is through work that Father helps all of us to bring good out of bad. The capacity to participate in spiritual
creation is within all of you. In fact, this special ability of spiritual creativity is an important part of your
destiny as imperfectly created beings.

A perfectly created being, in a sense, follows a perfect, program, but a perfect program is not so creative. Why not? Because far less work is required on the part of a perfect being to follow a perfect program compared to that effort that must be expended by the imperfect, striving for spiritual growth toward perfection. This is because the imperfect is ever working to turn bad or imperfect into good or perfect.

Now what is that quality of Deity that makes this possible? Faith, truth, goodness, beauty, service, and other areas in this line. These qualities are outworkings of Deity. They are the tools, as you know, that are given to you from Paradise through your indwelling Adjuster that enable you to turn good from bad and, as you
progress in your journeyman's task of mastering use of these tools in your present environment, you are
always assisted by the unseen instructors who are about. You only need to ask. And it is important to realize that the worse the situation, or the more bad in it, the greater the potential to turn good.

A great artist can indeed fashion a wonderful and beauteous work of art from a tiny bit of metal or stone, but it is a wonder indeed to make good a large chunk of granite or marble or a large pile of wood, is it not? Bad is the creative material that you are given to work as an artisan. If there were no bad, how could you ever help Father to create good of it?

You see, it is work to create good from bad - hard, arduous, painful, exhausting, demanding work - like all service, you will find, as you move from stage to stage over the eons. Blessed is the man who embraces his work with hands and approaches it with a joyous attitude. Blessed is he who works for the love of God. Blessed is he who works with little complaint but with a song in his heart and peace in his mind. And blessed is he who gets others to work.

These are all lessons brought here through Jesus, and indeed he was a wonderful example of this concept. Was there ever a minute of any day during his mortal life here that he did not work? And yet it is not Jesus who spoke of suffering of His own, nor was He ever heard to complain. Ever did He describe the qualities of work in positive and service-oriented terms, did He not?

My friends, work is not something that you are born learning and knowing how to do. You must learn how to work, and one of the very important tasks of your mortal lifetime on this planet is to learn how to work as well as you possibly can. And yet it will always be true that the more adept you become at working, the more work will be presented to you. The idea of retirement is a myth, if one has truly learned to work.

By working as well as you can, not only do you serve Father and advance the growth of His teachings on this planet, but you also, unknown to you though it may be, lead and inspire others. Believe me, this is
quite powerful. When the times of Light and Life come to this planet, beings will spend their whole waking existence in work. It will not be the backbreaking toil to which you have become accustomed and which serves as part of your connotation of work. But it will be effort, and it will be tiring, and it will require strength, perseverance and faith.

Yes, Deity can easily transform bad, imperfect, into good, perfect, instantaneously - or even prevent it from occurring in the first place. But that would not be as creative as the present manifestation in which beings such as yourselves work to transform your own imperfections in the direction of perfect and good. Your persistence and devotion in your work is much admired by those who observe, and the good feeling that you receive as you accomplish the goals of your work chores is a direct reward from Father.

That good feeling is something to be cherished and it grows as your spirit grows, perceives. As you work and grow toward Paradise, that feeling will grow, too. And, to use your jargon, it is most addictive. So one might say that the transformation of bad to good is the accomplishment of addicts, in a sense.

R = Rayson the teacher, S = Students.

Question: I understand through the Urantia Book that the purpose of the physical universe is to make something spiritual out of something physical. Is that a simplistic way of putting it? Is that basically correct?

Answer: Yes.

Question: And that in order to create spiritual qualities, there has to be the possibility for - on the spiritual
level - evil, but - on the physical level - bad. Am I correct in that?

Answer: Yes, there must be the potential for error.

The following question occurred on 11/13/93, eleven days after the burning of two students' home in the Malibu fires.

Question: And the recent fire - the burning of the buildings - was, in itself, not spiritually evil, but physically
disastrous or bad, is that correct?

A: Yes.

Q: And our response to that situation, all of our responses, are spiritual in nature in addition to physical in nature. But they're the stuff out of which spiritual reality is created. Is that correct?

A: Yes, you understand well, and do you know the next corollary, my dear? Once you have replaced that which was lost, you will have a more complete understanding of - a better sense of perspective - regarding that which is physical. You will see that the important parts of yourself have not been harmed at all, but indeed will have increased. Do you understand?

Q: Yes, I think so. The “Ventola” [painting] which was lost will never, never be replaced, but it can be substituted for by our attitude of acceptance. Is that correct?

A: Yes. You retain your creative spirit regardless of the physical presence of canvas, paint, or printed page. And the vision that one man was privileged to experience and have the physical talent to describe on canvas has already been imprinted on your minds.

Q: Rayson, while you were talking about work I couldn't help but think that Jesus used the illustration of servants more than He used any other illustration. I presume there was a reason for this.

A: Yes, yet indeed He Himself acted as servant on many occasions. What other word than “servant” would you use for the one whose life is spent in service?

Q: He was “the suffering servant” that was predicted in the Old Testament.

A: Yes, indeed, and those who would follow Him also.

Q: I think I understand the nature of the ascension plan, that Vince Ventola and my mother and others who have survived would not be aware any longer of loss or fear. So Vinny would not suffer the loss of his created work, nor would my mother be aware of things that were hers that were treasured that no longer exist in the material form, because they would be involved in spiritual activities. Is that correct?

A: Yes, yes that is true. They gave freely and with love and with no expectation of any continuing attachment to those physical items. And further, to use an analogy that I believe you will understand, those are remnants of the womb to them in their present states. What think you of your placenta?

S: It was thrown away and discarded after it had served its purpose.

S2: I just want to say that I'm experiencing what you speak of with work. I'm an addict, and like it quite well. I'm working at this in art. Thank you.

R: You are welcome. It is most pleasurable to feel the bright light of Father's love with your effort. Is it not?

S: It's wonderful.

R: And unlike physical addiction there is no development of tolerance or waning of the effort, is there?

S: No. You want to do it more. (Yes.) And it is hard.

R: Yes. Do you not notice however that others are drawn to you? S: Yes. And I look forward to that like my friend (S).

R: Good is so much more attractive to animal mind than is bad that it takes only a very small bit of it to light the darkness and lead the way. Do not be discouraged by the seeming dearth of others who share your philosophy. Each one is a pinpoint of light, and the cumulative effect of the pinpoints is powerful and impressive, indeed. At a higher level of being, the pinpoints are easily perceived even from great distance, and this helps us to assist you when you call for help.

Work as it relates to worship
 
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Heightened curiosity is yet another element of the subtle change in your mind-thought that occurs when you take a spiritual step forward in your own personal development. The Urantia Book describes the time of
Light and Life as a period during which very little work would be done with much leisure remaining. 
Understand, my friends, that at the time the Urantia Book information was handed down and transcribed, there were many difficult decisions to be made regarding syntax and other linguistic details. For the animal mind outworking of intellect is fastidious in its highest development when linguistic considerations arise.

That is to say, the masters who oversaw the project wished to have as little ambiguity as possible in the language used in the body of the papers themselves. And yet it was understood that these papers would stand for many generations as reference material, and language does indeed change through time. So the decision was taken to use the language that was the most formal for the very time period during which the book was indicted, because formal usage is less susceptible to change, particularly frivolous idiomatic change, than is casual usage. And so when the matter of work was discussed, the linguistic value assigned to the word “work” was that of the earlier period of that century of your time. That is, labor of the body, primarily physical with relatively little spiritual content, somewhat more intellectual content, what you presently would call toil. And it is indeed true that at the time of Light and Life relatively little time in the life of a given mortal individual will be spent in toil, physical labor.

Again, the word “leisure”, at the time of the indictment of the papers, included those activities in which energy is expended toward spiritual growth. And thus the leisure time of Light and Life, using that linguistic value of the word leisure will be worship.

Who can ever truly grasp the full meaning of worship, but Father Himself? Even those who have journeyed to Paradise state that in some ways their knowledge of worship is less than they ever thought. And it is at that point, of course, that one fully grasps the necessity for an eternity of time to learn to worship Father properly.

At your stage of development, my friends, worship is at its beginning. You are taking the first cautious steps of the baby from the crawling posture to the upright in terms of your worship activities, moving from the animal considerations of self, the intellectual considerations of ego, to the spiritual considerations of the cosmos. This is indeed hard work, as all of you know, and yet so critical. And you must walk before you can run.

So too must your spiritual growth stumble and fall and falter in the basic concepts of right and wrong before you will be able to walk with confidence toward your destinies. This is hard work, very hard work, and it does not end with this life. You might say that to extend our analogy, you barely learn to walk spiritually by the end of a full term of human life. You learn to run while on the mansion worlds if you work very, very hard and spend many thousands of years in intense effort. And the delightful part is yet beyond that where you learn to fly, steps beyond. And all of this work, my dear friends, is worship: the doing of the will of Father, moving through the darkness, the uncertainty of imperfect creation, groping, despairing, crying out.

This is what Jesus came to your beloved planet to experience for Himself. Can you imagine how it must have been for Him to descend from a state of physical existence that is not even imaginable to you, far beyond light, continuous communication with Paradise, to descend from that down to the level of a helpless babe of imperfect creation? Humbling indeed, and much, much hard work for Him, as it is for you.

As you become more skilled at the craft of worship, and progress from crawling to walking to running and beyond, you will be intensely gratified. The sense of wonder that one experiences with the increasing pace of growth that attends spirit striving, spirit work, and spirit growth, is far beyond any pleasurable sensation imaginable to an animal.

Some have mused about mating activity in the animal state, and its possible correlate at existences beyond the earthbound level. Do you not see that the intense - to you - pleasure that you receive from your mating instinct and its gratification is quite small in comparison to the true joy of spirit experience?

You may say, “But how can I call such work with such reward anything but 'play' or 'leisure'? Why work?” Because, my friends, it is more consuming of effort than anything else you have ever experienced or shall ever experience. The reward of joy, of peace, of wisdom, you might liken to those instincts which have been planted in you as an animal descendant. Your instincts on this planet, to eat, to sleep, to reproduce, not only work for your survival, but also enable you to experience pleasure, do they not?

So too it is with the worship urge. Hard, hard, work it is to walk toward Father, intense hard work. And yet once you have firmly committed yourself on this road without question, without doubt, that spirit instinct to work and worship and grow toward Paradise will become stronger and stronger, and its gratification will yield the spirit correlate of what you call pleasure.

R = Rayson the teacher, S = Students.

S:  I would like to hear you comment for just a few moments on the application of mental effort to a problem, whether or not that is work, and whether those who don't do manual labor but who work with
ideas and correspondence and things of that nature are actually working. I know the answer's yes, but I
would like to hear you explain what it is about this that has now encroached upon the definition of work.

R: Yes, certainly. You may recall that the mindal components of animal brain function are dual on this planet, the physical out-workings and the intellectual out-workings, and as this planet and its cultures evolve, work which is done and the definition of work will evolve also. The most rudimentary form of work which occurs in the most primitive of human cultures encompasses those efforts which are required to barely survive, which, of course, is food gathering, protection of the young, procreation and mating, and shelter from elements and other threatening environmental factors. The next step involves the development of tools and other technological adjuncts through the first use of intellect. But at this stage still work is primarily physical.

As the culture evolves there is more and more of intellectual work and less and less of physical work. And then in a normal planet of imperfect creation there will be that wonderful time at which the first of the spirit work begins to show on a cultural level. On this planet - because of interference with the plan - the period of time that has elapsed since that first bit of spirit work in the life of the average Earth mortal showed and now has been so long. And the advancement has been so small by the accepted standards of the universes.

Nonetheless that fragment of spirit work is there, but it is quite small now. During this last century of your time, the proportion of intellectual work to physical work has widened greatly for many, many persons in your culture and, indeed, over the planet at large. And just recently we have been most gratified to see a definite increase in the proportion of spiritual work undertaken by the great mass of Earth mortals.

This may seem like a long-winded answer to your question, but the short answer is that yes, of course,
intellectual effort is very much work. As time passes on your planet, in future times, physical work will
become more or less extinct, and the notion of toil will be applied increasingly to intellectual effort, and
the notion of leisure to pure spirit development. But there will come the day that there will be widespread realization that spiritual effort is indeed work.

S: The Master, when He was here, had a group of apostles who did what we would call work and there were time - at least once a week, maybe twice a week - when they ceased work and enjoyed leisure. I would expect that even during their leisure they worked at least a little, but I would like a comment on the relationship between work and leisure.

R: Well, at the time that the Urantia Book was indited, the formal understanding of the word “work” included mainly physical toil, but also an element of the intellectual toil to which you alluded just now, and the syntax use of the word “leisure” included rest activities such as sleep, nourishment activities such as eating, and worship activities, so leisure did not primarily refer to worship. But worship was considered to be leisure, definitely.

S: How about play, or - as the apostles went - fishing?

R: It is during what you call “play” that very much spiritual work is accomplished. That is why the reversion directors play such an important role in later activities in your existences. In a sense you could say that they guide your play. But, my friends, do you not see that worship is indeed play?

S: I hadn't thought of it that way.

R: What you call fun now is just a glimmer of what you will feel about worship increasingly as you progress in your spiritual growth. Do you think that Father in Paradise does not enjoy Himself?

S: I certainly hope He does. I think it's rather interesting that the word “recreation” means recreation.

R: But re-creation of what?

S: Yes, re-creation of energies to work is what I would think. Re-creation, a new beginning.

R: And perhaps re-creation of the perfect from the imperfect. Have you not had at least one acquaintance in your life whom you enjoyed because they were so playful? (Yes, yes.) Then imagine how Jesus must have been perceived. Think of children shortly after the arrival of the Thought Adjuster. Is there not a marked increase in the desire to play?

S: I hadn't observed it, but now that you called it to my attention I know that it exists.

R: To work at play, rather than passively allowing play to occur - if you view it in those terms - you may begin to remember in your life and the lives of your progeny. And yet so many allow the playful spirit to drain away, and be replaced by rage, fear, greed and pride. The extirpation of those qualities from your mindal activity will create space in a recreational way for the playful spirit of worship to enter. And you will leap forward in your worship skills when you undertake that housecleaning within.

Q: I'd like to know what you do personally for recreation.

A: At my stage of education, I guess you would call it; I spend a proportion of my time under tutelage of experienced reversion directors. Their company is most refreshing and the reversion directors with whom I work are most gracious in guiding me in my play. We have a lot of what you would call “fun” together. And it is, for this time in my existence, very much like the play of a human child, in the sense that I expend large quantities of energy in a seemingly effortless fashion. I always leave these encounters feeling replenished. Additionally, I am assigned periods of time for contemplation, meditation, visitation to what for my level you might consider to be a garden, a place of peace. You may recall that Jesus engaged in such activity while on your planet. These periods of time are also part of my education and like all my activities are closely monitored and recorded so that I shall not ascend to the next administrative level until I have accomplished all of those growth tasks which are appropriate for this phase of my being.

Q: You say that you are under the tutelage of reversion directors. They are teaching you the most enjoyable ways to relax and refresh yourself?

A: I would say that they are teaching me the most efficient ways to improve my worship skills and by improving my efficiency in that manner, I achieve what you call “relaxation”.

Work as it relates to beauty
 
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You all understand, to some extent, what the concept of work means in the spiritual sense, and you understand that it is separate from play, recreation, and yet shares some qualities with worship, prayer.

You may be asking yourselves now “How can work and beauty possibly have anything in common?” Is not beauty that which, when passively beheld, brings forth a joyous and loving response in the one whose senses are thus stimulated? How can this be in any way related to work with its implied ordeal? How can any ordeal, after all, be beautiful?

You are correct in your perception that work - not only in your present state but all the way to Paradise
and beyond - is difficult, challenging, sometimes disappointing, and sometimes painful. And yet, you all
do truly know that it is Father's will for us to work, as even He does. Therefore to work is to follow Father's plan and His will for us and for all of His creatures of higher mind.

You may recall that all things of Father's creation are by definition beautiful, and indeed all qualities of
Father's are beautiful, and all acts which are in harmony with the will of Father are beautiful. So you see,
my friends, when you work at that task which you may despise and curse and sweat and struggle - as
difficult as it may be to believe - you are engaging in a thing of beauty.

Father smiles on he who works without let up, with little complaint, even with joy in his heart. Father is pleased when the one who is reluctant makes a valiant effort and toils nonetheless. And it is indeed true that the angels rejoice when you successfully complete a piece of work over which you have striven mightily.

My friends, as you go forth and become teachers in the future, it will be a very effective, thought-provoking and spirit lead act for you to discuss the merits of work and the beautiful aspect of work with your fellow mortals. You will find that this often will be most difficult and challenging for you.

Indeed, it will be hard work. But it is most important as we untie the snarled knots wrought by Lucifer and Caligastia and their followers who promised life everlasting without pain or difficulty, and appealed to the animal mind which seeks always to avoid discomfort. If you can undo this by expressing - in your own individual and unique way - the beauty in work, so that your fellows have a chance to understand, you will be doing much to further the cause of this mission and others to come. Yes, there is much beauty in work.

Is there work without beauty? Is there beauty without work? I would say, at this stage in your universe existence, the answer to both questions is probably no. You may ask, “But what of the wonders of God's creation that I may be privileged to glimpse with relatively little effort?” That beauty did not come about without effort being expended, did it? No, much energy was used in the creation of that beauty. If you would create beauty yourself, you must toil mightily.

To view beauty may indeed afford pleasure, but pleasure at perceiving beauty is not the same as beauty
itself, and this, too, is a place where much confusion arises on this planet regarding the subject of beauty. Can beauty be possessed? Can you acquire it at the market place? Can you own it, enslave it, contain it in a box, and ship it abroad? In the spiritual sense, no. What you understand materially as beauty is a quite different thing than the beauty as expressed by God, created by God, and created by God's co-creators in their spiritual toil. And yet you all do know beauty when you see it, do you not?

It has been said that in the presence of great beauty the mind is still and brought to peace, and all of us who journey Paradise-ward are reminded of that, in a broader sense, when discussing how it will be to
stand in the presence of God. You can sample a very tiny fragment of this when you behold God's magnificent creations - what you call natural beauty in your culture - the beauty of a bright spirit in another whom you behold, and that feeling of accomplishment, that good feeling that you achieve when you have done a job well, is also part of that feeling. Think about that, and do you not agree that it is a sense of peace within?

And yet, there have been those in your planet's past who asserted that what we have just discussed does
not exist, and there are many on this planet even today who still believe that. You can see how that has affected your planet, can you not?

Question: I remembered while you were talking that probably the most used concept in Jesus' parables was that of master and servant, with the servant being extolled for faithful service. I believe that He asks each of us to be first servants and then sons and daughters of our Father. This, of course, requires work on our part. I've heard it said that there is no such thing as a menial task, there are only menial people. I believe the first half of that, I'm not sure about the second half. I wonder if you would comment on what I just said?

A: Yes, that is a most thoughtful question, and I thank you. In the ideal circumstance on a planet of imperfect creation, there will evolve family units which eventually will be patriarchal in nature and on a very small scale will imitate the grand structure of the cosmos. It is staggering perhaps to consider this, and yet it certainly is a most sensible model. In the family model of which I speak there is a strong, loving, creative, honest, giving, loyal, good father at the head. And his partner is a loving, loyal, obedient, kind, nurturing, benevolent mother. The children are obedient, and, as their parents, hard-working, honest, eager to learn, service-driven, as are their parents, good. You may recall that Jesus the man frequently compared mortal man to a child, often spoke of children did he not? (S: Yes)

You are the children in God's family, all of you who reside on planets of imperfect creation, even as you serve as parents in your own families to your own children. How would you want your child to be? You would like your child to be good, and yet to work within his capacity toward perfection and independence. And the best way to ensure that his will happen is to yourself be a good child to your heavenly Father. Your child will naturally imitate your example.

As far as your second question regarding menial service and menial people, you correctly understand that God does not regard any of His children as menial. He is not even disappointed as a human father might be when time-related performance appears to be deficient. His love shines forth everlasting, without pause, and the good child of God knows when he has acted well and in accord with His Father's wishes because it is inherent in the cosmos that by behaving in accord with Father's wishes, you draw closer to Father. And that is a more rewarding experience than any other could possibly be. So the one that may be called, in human terms, a “menial person” might, in spiritual terms, be seen as one who is somewhat less close to God.

Work as it relates to worship and service
 
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My dear friends, from the moment that you are conceived, and forever after, you are engaged in work activity involving expenditure of effort, struggle, meeting challenges again and again. Ever will there be more, and, yes, failure - but also success - for such is the course of existence for those of us created imperfect. It is part of our endowment, our gift from Father, to be imperfect, this sometimes causes pain and regret in us. That is the beginning of the dislike for work that occurs in mortal creatures of imperfect creation.

It is this that Lucifer and Caligastia seized upon and so skilfully used as a potent force in their rebellion, emphasizing to imperfect mortals that pain and struggle were truly not necessary, because, after all, Father could easily make all things possible and perfect. This lead to much anger and resentment on this and other planets, and indeed in the mansion worlds there was also great turmoil related to this issue. It will take you many eons, much study, and experiential growth before you begin to understand fully Father's true wisdom in creating imperfection.

For now it must be an article of faith for you to accept this as a benefit of Father's love, a true asset. Now, my friends, the visceral response that all of you experience at the thought of painful and arduous work is an animal thing which most unfortunately has been much magnified through the devious activities of the rebels, and you will not be rid of this for the remainder of your mortal life on on this world, I am sorry to say. However, I will attempt to help you to understand some of Father's motives and reasons for endowing you with work, which may well help you to accept the discomfort that you have when faced with work and modify your own inner attitudes and those of others by your example.

You may recall that Jesus declared that He was here to do His Father's work. In fact, the word “work” was one used very much by Jesus during His time here, and this was no accident, for an important part of His time here was the work of restoring worship and diverting some of the more heinous results of the rebellion. In this He succeeded through mighty effort, and even today you can feel it within yourselves, can you not? Do you not sense that joy of worship of Father within you?

Before this planet embarks upon the final stage toward the emergence of Light and Life, you mortals will have the same sense of joy regarding work that you now - some of you, the more advanced - experience as a part of your worship activities.

I know it is difficult to imagine at this stage, but the way that this will come about will be through, initially, faith-motivated acceptance of work as a worship activity and later, when spiritual evolution has moved forward  there will be more Thought Adjuster connectedness added to faith to reinforce each individual's knowledge of work as worship.

My friends, all of Father's qualities are united. They are not discreet entities. You cannot separate love from goodness or from truth or from beauty or worship or service, just as you do not see discrete rays of the sun. Whenever your actions are in any way in accord with Father's will, they are in all ways in accord with His will. So as you go forth in your work activities, whatever they may be, please understand that you are worshiping Father in your toil and effort and struggle. You are learning skills that you will use for the whole of your existence in the cosmos, for you will be working forever, and it will come to be the most exciting, joyous and loving activity imaginable for you at some point in your universe career.

It may seem inconceivable to you, but there will be a time when recreation will be almost an annoyance to you because you will be anxious to get back to your work. I regret to say that I myself have not yet reached that point.

So, my friends, again it comes down to faith, does it not? For now you must accept on faith that work is a God-directed activity and is blessed and contributes mightily to your own personal growth and contributes mightily to the forward movement of the spirituality of this planet.

Teach your children to love work. Be an example to your friends and neighbors of one who loves work. You may complain, but they know by watching that you are working, and you must therefore embrace your work activities, and when they see you thrive, the inescapable conclusion will be that it is a result of not only work but of your loving and worshipful attitude regarding your work. And this will be a strong motivator to your neighbors to imitate you in this way. So you will be doing Father's work, you see, like Jesus, a co-creator with Father. And what could be better than that?

R = Rayson the teacher, S = Students.

Question: I have heard the proverb, “An idle mind is the devil's workshop.” Would you care to discuss work as it pertains to the mind?

Answer: Yes, certainly. When you work, there is no part of you that is idle, not your body, nor your mind, nor your spirit. And your Thought Adjuster is present supervising and available for guidance, as are your Seraphim and other assistants. However, when one is idle, the opposite may occur, particularly if lack of work activity persists for a long period. Why should the Thought Adjuster continue to make efforts when there is no reciprocity on the part of the mortal, no effort? Why should the seraphim continue to suggest and advise when the ears are deaf and the eyes are unseeing?

The idle one walks away from all that Father has constructed in the way of assistance, and in this condition it is unfortunately easy to turn fully away from Father, or as pagans might say, toward the devil. The one who is not engaged in work with idle mind, body, and spirit may choose to become involved in non-worship activities, non-work activities, that is iniquity. That is the meaning of your proverb.

Question: What about those people who for whatever reasons aren't able to work? I'm thinking of people incapacitated, or those who have reached a stage in life and are very elderly, that for whatever reason now no longer seem to be able to work. It made me think about concepts that would enable them to do more. We seem to have a society that wants to get people out of work when they get older. It's real painful.

Answer: Have you not noticed how often material death follows?

S:  Yes. I want to tell you of my own personal experience. My father worked until he was 82, and I think it was one of the key factors of his longevity, plus his excitement and thrill. Everything you said about what work provides, my father benefited from by continuing to work. He never ceased to work until he was forced to by a fatal disease. I can see the transformation constantly in his life, which has been a real example to me, and I guess maybe an example for all of us. So I really appreciate what you've been saying today.

R: Yes. Thank you.

Question:  Rayson, this has been a particularly inspiring lesson for me because it explains why, when one
retires from one activity of work, there is this urging to seek out something else. Would the creative activity of making gifts for people, of creating things, writing poetry, music, and handcrafts be classified as a work activity, even though it's so pleasant to engage in?

Answer: Yes, if the motivation is God-directed. Yes, of course.

Question: In other words, if one is using the time as dedicated to creativity because one feels the need to be doing something as a part of God's plan, wouldn't that be what you're leading to there?

Answer: Yes, if your activities involve carrying out God's will and have the qualities of goodness and truth and beauty and love, of course, that is worshipful work and very acceptable.

Question: OK, because when you retire from one thing there's a sense of “I ought to be doing something else.” And not just the routine survival things, but something that contributes something. I have this other question about another phase of the lesson. You mentioned that one of the qualities of Father was worship, and I assume with regard to Father that is the characteristic of Him that inspires worship in others. Does Father worship anything or any being? Or is it because of His worshipful quality that that's a characteristic of Him?

Answer: Father worships everything that exists in the cosmos. Do you not see the care with which He has
created everything that is?

S: Yes, I just never thought of that as being worship, but of love and caring. I can see that as a characteristic of worship. Thank you, that clears it up.

R: Father is always and ever a partner with you, if you care to join Him and share His qualities. He always, always extends His hand to you. You have only to reach up and grasp His.

S: That's a quality that's very hard to transmit to a non-believer. We have a friend at our church who is very much in need of that sort of belief but seems very resistant to faith. My prayer is that we be given every assistance to help her get past that stage and know how loving and caring Father is.

R: Is she a loving person?

S: I'm afraid not. I'm afraid that somewhere in her life she had a deprivation of love, so it's an, experience she's not altogether familiar with.

R: Perhaps she has merely made a conscious choice to take the other path, and in this case it may be
non-productive for you to pursue her. She is capable of making her own decisions?

S: Oh, yes. They may not be very wise sometimes, but she's very able. It seems she clings to the negative, and we would like to help her get beyond that.

R: You cannot help her to make her own free will decisions.

S: Just love her and hope that with that experience she can eventually turn around?

R: Protect yourself.

S: Yes, I've noticed the need for that, I'm sorry to say.

R: Well, there need not be regret at the awareness of the danger that those who choose iniquitous paths pose to yourself. At this stage in your world's development it is important that you understand the need to guard against those who have chosen evil ways, for they can harm you very much. Some will harm you in chipping away at your faith, if you allow it. Others will harm you by inflicting pain on your person, either physically or financially or emotionally. Some may even kill you, so please be aware that there is danger.

S: I am not aware that she has deliberately chosen iniquity. I just don't feel a threat from her in that form. I feel more that she's just floating, just not ready to choose anything.

R: It is something for you to consider that a spiritual matter will not be swayed by material considerations. Surely you know of those who have experienced, or even presently experience, material deprivation and mistreatment and yet gladly and lovingly choose to follow Father's path. And the opposite also, that is, those who have been fortunate and appear to have everything that money can buy, so to speak, who yet dwell in misery, rage, pride. You could never give them anything that would cause them to turn toward Father. Of course, there are all the variations. But do not make the error of believing that there is anything you can give such a person in the material sense that will cause them to alter their behavior. Your best hope in such a situation is to carry yourself with dignity and be a living example.

Question: On the definition of work, there are many forms of work, obviously, the one that we get paid for; is that the one you're speaking about mostly? Or is it just work in general, like the work we spend working in our garden, or helping a friend at their house? What is it that you're particularly speaking of?

Answer: Expenditure of effort with the goal of productivity in mind. Actually, most of the work that you perform is unpaid in the sense of wages. Think about the times you have had to deal with grief in friends or family. That was work, was it not? (S: Yes) Or your family chores, other family chores?

Question: I ask this because I find I have so much more joy in the physical work - whether it's growing or
helping someone else - and I am, at this point in my life, struggling with the work I do to make a living, in terms of just how empty it is and how it's just not what I want to be doing. And I feel quite stuck as to how to get out and change it.

I feel like Father's given me many, many, many gifts, and I realize that we can touch people by way of our daily work. I think perhaps that's what I'm doing in this job, but I can relate very much to when you say that there's work that's joyous and there would be such different work for me to do that would not be like work. I know so many lead lives of quiet desperation because they're doing things they just don't want to be doing, and I truly believe that people should be joyous in the work that they do, whether it's to make a living or whatever. And I'm lost right now on that subject because I'm not happy where I'm earning my living. I'm much more happy, whether it's cutting down a tree or helping somebody rebuild their house, or doing physical labor - the things I can see, fruits from my labor. Does that make sense?

R: I believe I understand what you are saying, however, desperation, to which you refer, is that element that I alluded to in our lesson which Lucifer and Caligastia so expertly magnified in the planets of rebellion. It is entirely possible that if what you refer to as your pleasure activities were incorporated into your present wage paying job, you would dislike them as well. The joy of work is something that you must develop on your own. It is your own inner attitude toward the activities that will result in joy, not the opposite.

S: Yes, I've had that self calm as well. But what do you do when you're just in a place that's reeking negativity? I know I choose my own way. That's what I'm struggling with right now, is trying to get myself out of a situation where I just think I've reached the end of my rope.

R: What do you think Jesus would do in your situation? (S: I don't know.) Can you imagine? Well, I imagine He would try to find the joy in it.

R: How would He do that? (S: I don't know.) What do you think would be the first step? My dear friend, you may wish to seek, earnestly seek, for goodness in your work. There is no thing on this world that is all bad, nor any that is all good. There must be some goodness there. I advise that you look for that goodness and make it your focus and your jumping off point to help build a joyous attitude. If you do that, you may indeed find that another opportunity which will be less onerous to you will present.

Work and conviction of truth
 
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I shall remind you of the great, great importance of work in your life now and for a great time after you pass from this material form. The work that you do is part of your vital contribution in the way of transmitting Father's qualities to your fellow beings and participating as a co-creator with Father. If your work is good, if it is carried out in a sincere fashion with the object of service to Father, then it must be truthful and honest. It cannot be otherwise. Additionally, such God-directed work will help to reveal further
truth, by which I mean showing you and your fellow beings that which is of God in contrast to that which is of man.

Part of what you do as a follower of Jesus, as a believer of Father, is to strive as you go about your business to always find the higher meanings in that which you observe by means of your senses. It is as if you are a scientist exploring an ancient ruined city, sifting through the sands, searching for original artefacts, remnants of buildings, structure of a culture, carefully picking away with your brushes and brooms, your metal tools, scrapers and forceps. As you have been progressing with your spiritual growth, you have been learning to use the spiritual tools of discernment which assist you in determining that which is Father's will and distinguishing it from that which is not Father's will.

Each of you here today makes a living in a different fashion. You all have your talents, your skills, your training, and there surely are differences in the manner in which you carry out your work. And yet, for each of you, as for every being on this planet, there is much value not only in working in a sincere, committed, good and faithful fashion, but there is also a great potential for influencing your fellows on this planet as Jesus influenced His fellows.

Even now those of you who are not living at the same time period as Jesus are very much aware of His
high qualities as a worker. He was much admired and much imitated as a worker in His fairness, His consideration, His honesty, His continual attempt to always produce a work of the highest quality, His willingness to admit and correct mistakes, and His striving to improve His own skills. Regardless of what your job may be as a worker, you can do all these things, too.

In the eyes of Father there is no menial labor, nor is there any exalted work in the sense of how a material being earns his livelihood. Rather, one's work is judged according to those qualities which demonstrate a commitment to service to Father. Ask yourself, “Does my work measure up? How can I improve my work?”

Remember that you are always being observed by your fellows, by the unseen beings who move among you, and, of course, by Father. This should not cause you to be fearful, but I tell you this so that you will be aware that your activities are important and should be carried out to the best of your ability. Now you all know that imperfection is your endowment and perfection is a long way off. Do not be harsh with yourself because your work is not perfect. And be merciful with your co-workers who are not perfect either. In yourself and in others search for the good qualities, the God directed qualities. Seek to amplify those, and you will be much gratified in the outcome, and much truth will be found. 

There are many on this world today who do not wish to work because of misunderstanding the value of work. As you go forth, and by your personal example, demonstrate the righteousness of work and the many benefits to be gained by sincere hard work; you will do much to reverse this trend which gained its major impetus from the rebellion.

R = Rayson the teacher, S = Students.


S:  You mentioned the fact that we are co-creators with divinity, with God. Is there any way that we can be co-creators other than by work?

R: At this stage, no. Later there will be other ways, but there will always be much hard work for you to do in your role as a co-creator. Of course, faith is an essential ingredient, as you know, but faith alone, without work, will gain you little in your material life.

S: I think Paul said faith without works is dead.

R: That is rather extreme, but it does have an element of truth.

S: It's funny; I had a different interpretation of work and co-creation. I was thinking of the work of parenting and what goes into the creation of the assistance of the development of human beings of talent as being work, rather than just a job as work.

R: That is a vitally important job, of course, and one that you do well, however this issue of the work that you do to earn your livelihood is also very important at this stage in planetary development. Yes, there are many who wish not to do the work of parenting, as well as avoiding the work of earning a livelihood. In fact, the two often go hand in hand, and it is common to see the good worker for wages also function well as a parent and family member and vice versa. However, co-creation with Father, which is a special part of what you as an imperfect being are allowed to participate in during your universe career, goes far beyond procreative aspects of your life and includes the influence that you have on fellow beings through your appropriate responses to your indwelling Adjuster's promptings. And, additionally, on a planet in rebellion such as yours, you can greatly help Father through your service directed activities in all aspects of your life, help to undo the lingering and deleterious remnants of Lucifer's doctrine as they continue to abound on this planet. 

S: I seem to understand from the combination of all your lessons on work that it's not the job we choose to do, but that in whatever we do, we do it the very best we can, develop the best skills we can, and try to have a happy attitude while doing it, even though it may not be the job we'd most like to be doing. Is that what we're striving for?

R: Yes, you have stated it very well. Thank you.

S: What about choice of jobs? Does it really not matter what you do, or is there some responsibility for doing a job that you know is helping, or rather not hurting, the rest of mankind to the best of your ability to judge that?

R: Could you restate the question?

S: Yes, I'm trying to get at - does it make a difference what you do? Let's say you have a choice of doing one job or another, is it more valuable, or is there a benefit to choosing one that you believe is more helpful to mankind in some way? Or maybe another way of stating it would be if somebody worked very hard dealing drugs, does that constitute good work?

R: That is a very good question. The one who participates in activities which are harmful to fellow beings, of course, is knowingly choosing to go against Father's will. I do not think anyone here would disagree that Father would not have drugs disseminated to children or others who are weak and vulnerable. However, even the one who chooses to earn a living in an evil way can carry out evil duties paradoxical as it may seem in a fashion which is a model of sincerity and honesty. But you probably would have to look very hard to find such a person.

My understanding is that drug dealers do not hesitate to kill others for non-payment or to sell their product to persons who will surely die soon. Even if this is done in a diligent fashion, how can it be good? And yet there are always exceptions, are there not?

S: Somewhat related to the previous question, in terms of value of the work that we do, no one position is more elevated than another, and there's really no such thing as menial work. But what, if any, responsibility do we have to apply our God given talents, to strive to find work that would utilize those qualities, that would best further the Father's will? We are all different. For an example, someone has a musical talent which, if developed, might be able to a greater degree disseminate truth, but instead they deny that talent and work as a dishwasher in a restaurant. Is there any moral or ethical responsibility - well, can you just comment on that please?

R: I can share with you a model that has been developed on other planets of imperfect creation which has lead to good outcomes. In this model, childhood is a time of learning and acquiring skills as well as participation in family life and the beginnings of spiritual teaching, However, once the child has achieved reproductive capability and the capability of self support through one's own work, this young adult is compelled to leave the family unit and live alone supporting himself at whatever trade he has chosen. Now in this model there are some who perform manual labor, such as you have alluded to, who find enough leisure time to develop other skills which they later use to support themselves financially. However, there is no allowance in this model for a prolonged period of idleness in the adult part of life, so that your budding
musician who is capable of work but prefers to spend time acquiring another skill, would not be allowed to remain idle for a prolonged period, of say, more than six months while being supported by another adult.
Surely you know of persons who have spent many, many years searching for the ideal profession only to
look back late in life upon a career of idleness having been supported by others. Is that not true?

S: Yes, that is true. I'm talking about a person who is self sufficient financially but denies a talent that they have. I call it a God given talent because some people do have a propensity for, for example the music that others just don't have. Is there anything morally or ethically wrong with denying, never tending to a talent that you have?

R: No, not at all, the talent will never leave you. You will take it forward into your next life.

S: Ah, interesting. Thank you for that.

R: You have potentially all of eternity to develop yourself.

S: Well, that's a relief. The days are too short, that's for sure. But do you have an obligation to try to develop those talents while here?

R: Your obligation is to work while you are here, and to have faith in God.

S: But is not a talent something within, and is not exercising that talent in some way achieving the
will of God by expressing it?

R: That is an argument which is presented by those who highly value service to the self rather than service to God. It is very easy to convince yourself that gratifying animal urges - including what you would call the service of the ego - is God directed and serves the cosmos, but do you really believe that that is the case?

S: Well, the Urantia Book says that one person through music can change the world. If this person has a talent for music but through the vicissitudes of life, and the different turns, and being insensitive, and not wanting - for whatever reason - to express his talent, is that not doing something very wrong?

R: Do you recall the life of Jesus? Remember that He was a gifted musician. Did He lay down His carpenter's trade to develop His skills as a harpist?

S2: I have a different view. I am concerned that there are a great many social ills on this planet, and there are vast numbers of people who have gifts and talents that they are unable to develop because of poverty, racism, oppression of women, etc. I would hate to think that there would be an idea developing that somehow those people are immoral and unethical because they're not developing their God given talents. I think it is important to know that there are people who want to work and can't, or who are caught in a system where work is punishment throughout the planet. I don't know, I guess I just needed to say that for me. Do you have comments on this?

S: I would say the women in the rape camps in Serbia. Women, single parents, in poverty stricken communities in this country, stuck on welfare, who do the work of their immediate environment but don't have the privilege to sit back and postulate on spiritual values and their ethical responsibility to
cultivate a talent, because they're busy trying to find food for their children.

R: But do you not see that by doing what you say and performing as loving and caring parents they are very much working?

S: Yes, I do.

R: And further that such work is highly spiritual. There is much sacrifice of the self in such a pursuit.

S: Yes. I think some people tend to view them as not doing spiritual work. It's important to see that because people are caught in poverty does not mean that they are valueless.

R: No, certainly not, but let me ask you a further question. What do you say if such a parent, a woman, allows herself to become impregnated under these circumstances?

S: I think that the complexity of the social problems in this country contribute to a lot of those factors, and I don't have an answer, do you?

R: I offer to you that the family with a father and a mother in attendance is a very strong and durable structure to offer a child. It is understood that there are circumstances which occur despite careful planning which do not follow this model, however, in a culture where procreation is easily preventable I question the responsibility of bringing forth more children.

S: Would you say that mortals are far more critical of other mortals for not developing all of their talents than Father or Michael (Jesus)?

R: Yes, of course this criticism is culturally dependent. There have been cultures on this planet in which such an idea was far less developed than is the case in your culture. Your culture has been relatively affluent, and there has been, for some, an abundance of leisure time which has afforded ample, sometimes too much, opportunity for reflection on the self and real or imagined talent development.

It is important to ask yourself in whatever you do, whether you are impoverished or affluent, are my actions in accord with the will of God? if you can sincerely answer yes, then those activities, the work of your life, are appropriate and are God directed, and Father would have no complaint.

Remember, my friends, that as uncomfortable as adversity is for you, it is a vitally important part of your personal growth, and does much to aid you in your spiritual progress. The ones who suffer through enslavement, poverty, physical handicap are able to benefit much, if they will heed the Adjuster's promptings. Father loves this effort far more than the poem or a song which is written as a tribute. Do you see this? 

S: Yes. What about play? Is play a waste of time or is it something to balance the other parts of work of life?

R: Play is very important, however as we discussed in a previous lesson, play may not be what you understand it to be. In your play, as in your work, it is best for you to keep in mind the will of Father. Do you believe that a play activity which involves the killing of animals is in accord with Father's will?

S: Does that include fishing?

S2: My thought exactly.

S: I mean, Jesus was a fisherman.

R: But He did not mount trophies.

S: If we eat it, it's OK.

S2: Then it's not play, if you're fishing for food.

R: That is work.

S: Feels like play.

S2: Well, it does, and it's incidental because then maybe you put the beef in the freezer and eat the
trout that you caught that day.

R: You enjoy your work.

S: OK, I guess we're really used to thinking of work in a very regimented kind of way, but you're speaking of work in a broader sense then?

R: Yes, work is a worship activity which is a difficult concept to grasp while in the material state. However, it is true that this is the case, and understanding this may make it easier for you to trudge along in your toil with a loving attitude and far reaching goals in mind.

S: I personally find your lessons transforming to myself. I haven't heard all the lessons, but of what I've picked up already it's changed my attitude tremendously, and I want to thank you for that and for your patience in continuing to pursue the subject for us.

R: You are most welcome. My dear friends, much effort is being put into your education, and you will in future go forth and work hard to educate others. The beauty of work is that it always follows this pattern. Think to yourselves of all the jobs that you have ever known of. Have they not always led to further work? This is how the universes were created, and this is how in future the outer universes will be settled. When you are permitted to make your final decision for or against survival, you will be presented with, among other things, the prospect of eternal work. And there have been some, fortunately very few - who have found this to be so distasteful that they have elected non-survival. Do not hate your work. Embrace it. See it as a blessed activity. Let it draw you closer to God. Become a shining beacon among your fellows. Move smoothly and lovingly among the masses of mankind leaving the imprint of God in your wake. 

Work with respect to love
 
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We all are capable of recognizing love when we experience it. Some say that those of us created imperfect have a greater enjoyment and awareness of love than the perfectly created beings because our hearts are not always filled with love. Being of animal origin, we are vulnerable to other states that are not in accord with Father's will - states of rage, greed, pride; states in which we seek to harm and destroy others; states in which fear conditions all of our actions - so that in the material state at least that feeling of love, if you allow it to come through, will seem very refreshing, uplifting, freeing, relieving, strengthening, in contrast to states of animal origin.

Have you not noticed in your experiences that you may easily find yourself in an animal state without having much conscious awareness of how you got there? That is a common experience for imperfectly created beings, one of which it is difficult to not feel ashamed. However this part of your imperfection.
I encourage you to work hard to learn how to resist this inclination in yourselves. You will find that it is most difficult to do this, initially. If you achieve any measure of mastery in this regard during your life in the flesh, you have, believe me, far surpassed your peers, many of whom are never truly aware of this capability, but instead attribute the joyful feeling of love which sometimes comes to them to luck, magic, or other happenstance occurrences, never truly realizing that it is their own behavior and work that cause this to come about.

Remember again that Father's love is always coming toward you, but you must reach up and take it in order to fully experience this and other aspects of Father. And this, of course, is where work comes in. Some mortals have said that the work is particularly difficult because things of a spiritual nature are so difficult to perceive, gossamer in quality, elusive in nature. That is indeed how it may seem to a mortal being, however you may be interested to know that there have been some few who have, through diligent effort, been able to attain and maintain a firm grip on at least certain aspects of the spiritual world that is within and without and everywhere around you.

Surely all of you here have noticed a subtle but definite change in your usual sense of being since
entering the teaching mission, have you not? (S: Yes) Would any here care to describe that?

S: Real peaceful. It's a change in the matrix from which you make your decisions.

S2: Another one is a heightened awareness, of not only our own awareness of spiritual presence around us, but of the spiritual presence that's in other people, an awareness of their searching, and their Thought Adjuster and other personalities.

S3: I find myself able to step aside from a typical reaction and anticipate how I would normally do something, or react to something, and almost have a time out and recognize how I would normally behave. That wouldn't necessarily be the best way. I catch myself doing things a lot easier now than I did before, more aware and more sensitive.

R: So you find yourself working harder?

S3: Yes, definitely. It's more work in that sense, sure.

S: And more of a desire to apply the Father's will as you perceive it to your reactions and your relationships.

S2: I feel a sense of the spirit of competition that's so nurtured on the animal level being replaced by a spirit of cooperation. I feel very motivated that way, and I think it's a direct result of the lessons and the teaching mission.

S4: And I have difficulty in seeing work as work. It seems to me that it really is self fulfilment rather than work, and it's got to be done.

S3: And concerning the teaching mission, and also my spiritual journey that I'm taking, I don't perceive of that as work. I understand better now that it's been explained in the mission, but I'm just so excited about it and I'm so motivated by it that it just doesn't feel like work to me - in the traditional definition of work.

S5: I think about one time (S) gave a talk about paradigm expansion, and I think that being involved as we have in our mission has completely changed my paradigm reference. I mean now suddenly everything looks entirely different. I still have a base reference point, but it's opened up to accepting all kinds of things that would never have happened had it not been for the lessons.

R: Do you notice that you feel more a part of the universe?

All: Absolutely. Definitely. Yes.

R: And less prone to drift in the wind, so to speak, (S: Yes) be carried about by the gusts of fate, as some of your poets would say. These are all excellent observations and show that you are indeed growing spiritually and reaching toward Father. And you will be pleased to know that two years from now you will look back at this time and realize that you have come very far since today.

S5: Exciting.

R: Yes, it is exciting, and it is a glimpse for you of the wonderful adventure that awaits when you pass from the material form to the morontia form and beyond. There is no harder work than the work of Father. Do you see that?

All: Yes.

R: And as you, my friends, go forward to inspire your fellow beings and become spiritual leaders. You, like our loving Father, will be an example as the hardest worker in the group, just as Jesus worked hard and diligently. Is that agreeable?

S: It is. I get great satisfaction from what we have referred to here as work. Somehow it seems to be a normal thing to me as distinguished from some additional effort.

R: Yes, it is a normal thing once your eyes are open and you are able to see beyond the animal drives.

S: What I'm saying is, it doesn't seem to me to be harder. It seems to be easier to do the work of the
Father.

R: Yes, to follow Father's will is always the most efficient way of using your energy, as you would
say, the shortest distance between two points. 

Question: As I understand it, one definition of love, according to the Urantia Book, is the desire to do good for others. When we respond to that desire in any manner, is it work?

Answer: Yes, spiritual work. You are right. Are there any other comments?

S: You say so many things that inspire me, one in particular I had written down and put stars all around it. Father's love is always coming toward you but you must reach up and take it. The reaching up and taking it, would that fall under the category of work, the effort that it takes? I mean, that seemed to me - your comment seemed a direct connection between work and love.

R: Yes, the reaching up and taking is that work that I have been talking about, and, in this case, it involves loving back. To feel Father's will most deeply involves acting out His will in your behavior and your experiences. And as you become more experienced and work hard in your journey toward Paradise, you will become more and more adept in your capacity to act in accordance with Father's will.

Question: When I'm practicing the stillness in the evening, I perceive of this outreach as a, maybe an analogy would be, as a muscle and that the more you work your spiritual muscle, the easier it becomes. And I perceive of mustering up all of the love that I can in my heart, and just sending it toward the Father, and then really trying to open myself up for a response from Him. And this reciprocation seems to confirm the idea that it is a muscle that I'm working in that sense. Can you comment on that?

Answer: Yes. Yes it is like the development of a muscle. You are correct in your perception, and in addition to sending love to Father in the fashion to which you refer, there is another perhaps more easily understood way that you can love Father. That is to love your neighbor. Your neighbor is not an abstraction to you but a real living, breathing person. Can you truly love your neighbor when he is noisy, smelly, dishonest, unkind, obtrusive, greedy, fearful. If so, then you have achieved a high level of spirit growth.

This does not mean that you need to bring the creature into your home or draw your savings from the bank and hand it to him. Love has not to do with these material displays. But if you do love your neighbor, you will find that this is the most effective means that you could employ to help him to modify his behavior and be more loving in return. You see, you will be acting as a co-creator with Father that way. To think that Father can love you in all that you are, is that not a marvellous thing? Does not that require the same forbearance and mercy that you would show to your neighbor?

Question: Then is it more an attitude than an actual doing of a thing, since you're saying you don't have to have that neighbor into your house or give them money. Is it more just how we think of them, the kind of mental energy we send their way, the way we - when we do - speak with them? I mean, what do we do to love that neighbor? I think I understand what we don't do.

Answer: Perhaps you could describe to me a neighbor whom you find objectionable, and then I can offer
more tangible advice to you.

S: Quite honestly, I barely know my neighbors. I've just moved, but I was simply extending your example. I know, a former situation. I had some neighbors who would have live bands over and play music into the wee hours, and it was very distressing, and it brought out the worst in me. But I never really had a personal encounter. I would always just call the police, but I had very negative feelings about these people and would express them loudly within my own walls but never to them. It certainly interfered with my own spiritual growth in terms of how I was feeling, where my mental energy was at that time. But there was no interaction with those people. I don't know if that example is useful. I guess not.

R: Do you think that having a direct interaction with this neighbor might have led to your developing a more loving attitude and your neighbor, in turn, responding and being more kind and considerate toward you?

S: I think, at the time when these incidences occurred, I wouldn't feel safe doing that. For one thing, I think that they were inebriated, but I suppose I could have tried that in the more likely sober hours of the day. Would it have helped? I don't honestly know. I guess I have somewhat of a pessimistic attitude about that with some people. Maybe that's where I need to stop having those assumptions and give it a try.

R: Of course, a neighbor who is a savage and does not accept the hand of friendship cannot be very responsive to your loving gestures and may actually be dangerous to you. I assume that you eventually
moved away and severed the relationship of neighbor with this person. Did you not? (S: That's right,yes).

That was probably the most useful action to take under the circumstances, however, you must have had a neighbor who did not behave in that way, yet whom you feel you did not develop a high level interaction with.

I do not mean by use of the term “neighbor” the one who lives next to your dwelling. There is the neighbor with whom you work, the neighbor with whom you interact in financial matters, the neighbor who shares the road with you, the neighbor who stands in line next to you at the market. How do you feel about these people? There is the neighbor whom you will never see again who asks for directions. Do you offer help in an appropriate fashion? This is all something for you to think about and consider in this matter of loving your neighbor. Are there other comments?

S: Many times over the years I use the phraseology, I demonstrate good will or unbreakable good will. To me, a love relationship, in my own definition, can become such an emotionally involved thing, like loving everyone in this room and those in intimate contact with. To me demonstrating good will is probably an aspect of love that I find a little more comforting at times when somebody's cutting me off in traffic. I can demonstrate good will, and even unbreakable good will, but the emotional involvement of the word love would be hard for me to deal with probably at that time. Maybe you could comment on that.

R: You are wise in perceiving the difference between mortal love, which has animal elements of emotion and intellect, and the divine and spiritual love of Father. Father's love is, as you say, unbreakable good will, but also has the very important element of mercy. You refer to being cut off in traffic. If you would include mercy toward that neighbor, it might be more palatable to you.

S: Thank you, Rayson, that really does add a wonderful dimension. Thank you so much for that.

S2: I just want to share one comment about love, something that I'm dealing with now, or that's helping me define what love is to me. And that is simply learning and wanting to value, simply just value, the other person in the way that our Father does, and the way that I am valued by Him. To me that is like a foundation stone at this point in how I'm defining love. Simply learn to value that person, to want to value them as I am valued.

R: Yes, that is most important, and remember again from this lesson and other lessons that material contributions are not an element of spiritual love. Do you expect God to fix your car, repair your bank account, provide you with a home or food or jewellery or training or education? Certainly not. And in
transmitting Father's love to your fellows, is it appropriate for you to offer these things to them? Would you deprive your neighbor, all of your neighbors, of that necessary adversity that is required for spiritual growth?

It is not greedy to withhold material things from your fellow beings who have the hand out and seek to convince you that if you are a believer in God and a loving person, you should fill their cup. Consider their motives, and you will see readily who the greedy one truly is. This is a hard, hard lesson for you, my friends, particularly because formal religious training has taught you otherwise, and this is a deeply ingrained concept. But I urge you to work hard with this. You all have the capacity for reflectivity and may develop that muscle, as you say, to a very fine and precise level, if you work hard. 

Worship

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What is worship?
 
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What is worship?

Worship is recognition of a Creator-Father as the cause of all creation. Greater than ourselves, greater than any creation is the creator. When one realizes this in more than just words, one cannot help but worship such a beneficent Deity. Causation is realizing that we are created beings. When we realize we are created and understand the concept of the creator which leads to worship, we then realize our relationship to all other beings, whether material or non-material. This is cosmic consciousness.

Worship and the art of living
 
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Bear in mind, friends, as you proceed with your individual learning, that the areas of spiritual growth that you may consider to be discreet and separate topics are actually parts of a continuum, not separate and apart at all, but rather parts that are inseparable and inextricably intertwined with the whole fabric of what is. This, of course, applies to spirituality in general and the art of living and with worship.

As we have mentioned before, worship is that which glorifies the Father, not merely singing His praises,
but all activities which express the will of Father, in other words, the art of living. You have been endowed with the gift of life, a gift of love from Father, but if you wish to elevate yourselves above the level of animal life, it is necessary to work at worship. Sometimes the work is easy, but very often it is difficult, taxing, challenging. It will take you to the edge of your capacity to perceive that which is right, and it will test your ability to do that which is right despite almost overwhelming - temptation is not the right word, but I shall use it for want of better - temptation to behave in a different fashion.

In thinking of the art of living, you may, in your mind, have a vision of a leisurely existence with comfort and pleasure in abundance. And this may indeed come about if you have truly mastered the art of living, and in your actions - each and every one of these - express worship for Father. However, it is quite rare for mortals of animal descent to ever reach the level of proficiency in spiritual expression where such a comfort level is attained. Rather, most who aspire to the art of living and improved worship find their lives to be difficult, arduous, and full of struggle, not without pain, a continuing test. And this is what you, yourselves, are most likely to experience should you choose this mode of existence.

Look into yourselves, my friends consult with your indwelling Adjuster and you will have a willing and helpful guide along the road that will lead you to the art of living. Along the way of this path, you will find that fear, pride, anger will diminish as you work and struggle, and greed, of course, will fall by the wayside leaving you lighter and stronger. But make no mistake, this is a rocky, uphill path, and lonely, if you define loneliness as prolonged endeavor without the company of your fellow mortals. It will not be lonely in the sense of lack of spiritual company for you all have many who stand by you to help, to advise, and to observe this great experiment.

How does one take the first step? The first step is to make a freewill decision that this is what you truly and sincerely wish to have for yourself, no matter what the cost may be. To put aside fear, to realize that some material goals you hold dear may be slower of attainment, or may never be realized at all - for attainment of goals, both spiritual and material, requires expenditure of time and energy.

One cannot divest energy toward more than a few major goals simultaneously and achieve success. You all know that. In fact, part of your decision to take that step must be to take the decision that your spiritual mission supersedes all others. Are you ready for that, my friends? Are you truly ready? Are you ready to give up some of your comfort? Are you ready to step out of the world of man the animal and walk toward the world of the future man, the spiritual, the fulfilled, the world of your children, grandchildren, great great grandchildren? Look into yourselves and decide if it is something you cannot do now. You will be offered the opportunity beyond this life and far more information will be available to you at that time. To take the step now is far more an act of faith than it will ever be at any future time in your existence. And it is that faith, my friends, that marks you on this planet and on the other planets of the rebellion as being so very special in the universe.

Worship of Father is not an activity that is confined to a particular time of the day on a particular day of the week with a particular group of people. Rather, worship is expressed in every breath that you take, every word that you utter, and every move that you make. It is particularly evident in your interactions with fellow beings, all fellow beings.

When you express worship of Father in your connection to another being, your spiritual light increases ever so slightly in its intensity. The day will come when you will be able to perceive this much more clearly than you do now. There are some among you who can, even now, see this light, or feel it. And I am certain that all of you here today can sense it. Truth, beauty, goodness and love, such simple sounding concepts, these are the essence of worship and the essence of Father's love for you and all His creation.

The universe is all of what is. It is not a collection of individual egos, each crying out for expression. It is the wave that ensues when beings act in concert for the good of all, and the non-participants are not heard. It does not matter, really, except as a brief flicker on the surface. The wave breaks on the shore not because one water molecule is particularly strong, but because all the water molecules act in concert.

So too with the progress of this universe, or any universe, or in fact all of creation. And you, my friends, as mortals created with free will capacity are not just carried along as are those created perfect. You, in fact, can help to create your own wave, not your own individual wave, but your own collective wave that adds such a beautiful voice to the choir. You are not created perfect, and perfection is not demanded of you. Instead it is asked that you strive toward that which is perfect which you have an inner realization of. It is your striving that adds to the voice, and when you fail to strive, that is when your voice is silent.

In the grand scheme of the universe the recognition goes to that which is correct. That is the motivation
beyond the material life for the strivings of creatures, because the sense of being right, of worshiping Father, is so wonderful. And to not have that feeling, by contrast, seems so empty, not necessarily painful, but rather not wonderful, not good. You can get a sense of that when you are on the right path, worshiping in your lives and working toward the achievement of the art of living.

If you lose the thread and feel you cannot find your way, think about Michael and His life in the flesh. What would He do? How would He conduct Himself?

Question: I've been concerned that I wasn't efficient in worshiping our Father well enough. I read from your
lesson that probably none of us are, but we gain some comfort from the words that you said. Is love a prerequisite for worship?

Answer: Yes, but again, you will not experience perfect love, so do the best that you can. Continue on your path. You know when you are doing well, do you not?

R = Rayson the teacher, S = Students.

S: Well, yes, only sometimes. I want to do better. Most of the time I want to do better.

R: Patience is a part of love. Is it not?

S: It seems to me that it is. I set aside times for worship and in those times I try to mentally say that I love the Father and that I actually worship the Father. But I haven't any real meaning to the idea. It gives me some pleasure and satisfaction to say it, but I really don't know what I'm saying.

R: Do you say it in isolation, or do you say it when you are among others?

S: Well, both, but I don't say it aloud when I'm among others.

R: What markers of success are you looking at?

S: That is what I was going to ask you. I don't know what the markers of success are. I feel supported, full, loved, but then I don't feel that I'm doing enough.

R: The feelings that you have are the markers of your success. The response of others to you is the
marker of your success.

S: I hear you talking about problems and travail that are blessings. I really haven't been blessed with any of those. I have everything it seems that life can offer: a loving family, very close friends, and a good relationship with God. I wonder if this is a test: no hardship?

R: You have had your hardships, but the human mind is quite remarkable in that, with the passage of time, pain is forgotten in its fullest intensity. This helps to protect you, for you are a creature of flesh and blood, and if you were to continue to experience the pain of every difficulty, life would be intolerable.

S2: She is expressing some of the same feelings I've been having that I am not spending enough time in worship. Yet, I feel like I have Father with me all the time. Yet I regret I'm not spending enough time alone with Him, solely with Him. And today I feel like I made a connection and a commitment during our lesson that will help me to do better at this. And I thank you very much for your lesson.

R: You are most welcome. Perhaps the anxiety you experience with regard to your own spiritual growth has to do with the fact that you are looking for material signs of spiritual effectiveness. You will never see those. That is where your faith comes in. It is worship enough at the end of a long and successful life to wake up in the morning, to care for oneself, to not be a burden to others, to maintain one's health, and to be loving in one's interactions on a social level. You both do that quite well. Neither of you engage in the practice of castigating your offspring for failures of your own health or finances, nor do you spend time in regret over what may have been. Those activities would be the opposite of worship.

It would not be in your best interests to conduct your worshipful lives in the same fashion as you did when you were twenty or thirty years old. My sense is that you are handling it quite well, and it may help you to know that your living example is very important to the other participants of this mission who are younger than you are. Does that help?

S2: Yes, it helps, and it seems that the absence of unloving behavior is a form of worship. I think that's a beautiful thought.

R: Yes, is it not paradoxical that what you perceive in the material is the negative, not the positive, and what you perceive in the spiritual is the positive, not the negative. Is that not true? (S: Yes.)

Question: Along the lines of worship, I feel that worship is something that flows in and out of my life. For
example, (S) and I were surfing this morning, and just to sit out there and see what God has made. And
in those moments just know that He hears how grateful I am, that's worship too, isn't it?

Answer: Yes, and certainly your fellowship with (S) is most worshipful.

S: So I'm thinking along the lines of (S2) and (S3) who to me epitomize worship. No one could be more loved and more respected. If I could just become like them when I grow up, I would think everything I did was right.

R: Yet, you hear their doubts. It is good for you to speak your feelings along these lines, and remember, my dear, worship means doing the right thing at the right time. You were right to attend to your families' need rather than to attend Michael's party. God has no need of your food, but He needs your loving interaction with your relatives, and through that you help to spread His teachings.

S: I believe that. I don't always do it, but if I could just do good always, I couldn't do any better than that. So, if I think I'm doing good, I feel OK about what I do. I seem to have a pretty good reality checker inside me, so if I just follow my inner promptings, I know that it will be OK. I feel like I'm getting better, and I know you know what this means. So thanks.

R: You are most welcome.

Question: With regard to your lesson today, these are requests for confirmation to see if I understood the
lesson correctly. We worship not just in solitude, but in our communion and truck with our fellows every day?

Answer: More so.

Question: So, doing Father's will in relation to our brothers and sisters is a form of worship.

Answer: That is absolutely correct. In fact, it is the main form of worship.

Question: And as far as markers are concerned, those times when we feel most connected, (S2) and (S3)'s
questions prompted this, but I've been wondering myself, too. Interesting, we're all wondering the same
thing. We've all felt it. We've known that we were in loving communion with the Father. It's unmistakable. It's completely reciprocal. And, most of the time we only feel that when we're in solitary communion, worship. But now and then it seems we feel it when we're in everyday life, just regular activity, and we've made a good choice, and we've been able to do a good thing not just for someone else but to tell ourselves, or to reinforce better behavior, God's will in our own actions. Am I right? Are those markers? Are those little guideposts that say “Yes, this is the direction, follow this?”

Answer: Yes, and to elaborate on that, the sense of being correct and being in communion that you experience in solitude is actually the glowing reflection of correct behavior when you are engaged in
activity. However, your blunted awareness while you are active is mostly due to the fact that you have a brain and body of animal origin and that talking voice in your brain is babbling too loudly for you to be able to hear, in a sense, the rightness, the spiritual perception, that you get when you are in a quiet mode. 

If your actions while engaged with others were incorrect, then during your periods of solitude you most likely would experience either discomfort, pain, or a neutral feeling, rather than a sense of well being and goodness, such as you express. The evil man cannot stand his own company.

Question: So, there necessarily has to be a cleansing period, I would guess.

Answer: Well, it is certainly a useful reinforcement of your faith to have periods of solitude during which you can quiet the mind and perceive your own spiritual level. It is not absolutely necessarily, in the strictest sense, but there are very, very few humans on this planet who have been able to dispense with this device as an adjunct to the spiritual journey. So, the answer to your question is yes.

Question: When you say worshipful activities I presume you mean service, because one can have activities
which are based on error which would not be worshipful. I would think that service would be equivalent to worship or maybe even better. When I relate to others, if I try to relate to the God within them, their Thought Adjuster, I think in that case I would be approaching worship because I would be serving them. I can't say, for instance, if service is better than worship or worship is better than service because
sometimes service will make me worship better and sometimes worship will make me serve better. But
worship seems to me like it's more of a one on one situation where I can talk directly to the Father within me whereas when I'm serving there is a third party involved. Is that correct?

Answer: There is no difference between worship and service.

S: The Urantia book says there is.

Answer: Well, worship in the sense of doing the will of the Father is service. As far as a third party being
involved, when you interact in a social way with another being, in a loving and serving way, you extend the connection between yourself and God to that third party. Yes, that is somewhat different from a private session with the Father, but it is only a difference in degree. If one were to spend one's life in solitude reading spiritual materials and attempting through the Thought Adjuster to contact the Father, the spiritual life would be incomplete and unfulfilled because the connection to other beings is a vital part of a proper worship existence.

Much confusion about worship arises from ancient times in the history of man on this planet when
superstitions and fear lead to the enactment of ritual behaviors designed to appease the mysterious forces
that were thought to be responsible for good luck, good weather, good health and general well being. This idea has existed to the present day in the persistent belief that worship can only be undertaken in solitude or even in a particular setting, such as a church, temple, mosque, and even in particular position, such as the kneeling position, or the prostrate position.

It is unfortunate that this pigeon holing of the notion of worship has occurred, but my personal understanding of worship is that it encompasses all activities in which one extends one's link to the Father through the Thought Adjuster which has been achieved through conscious effort and freewill
decision to another being or other beings in an active fashion.

S: I think a lot of this is based on a frame of reference whence we take the meaning of worship as we apply it to ourselves. I was never related to a church when I was a child so I don't relate worship to any specific temple or any church or any archaic concept of worship. I just think worship as I get is straight from the Urantia Book and from Jesus' example. He did service with others and for others, but He also took time to go out on His own to be by Himself so that He could talk to the Father. I think it's very good for you to inform people that worship can be accomplished not just by oneself but also in doing service. I just wanted to bring the point up because I talk to some people who would just worship with others but not by themselves. In other words, they wouldn't go out by themselves to be alone with God. I think that both service and worship is necessary and not one at the sacrifice of the other.

R: If you wish to consider them as separate activities, that is your choice. The life of Jesus, which is the example lovingly provided by Father as the model for ideal human existence, was one of unending service and was the ideal for human endeavor. Never once did Michael cease to worship Father.

S: I have no qualms about that. It's just a matter of semantics. We tend to use the word worship, I do anyway, to distinguish it from service, and that when one talks directly to the Father it's not a matter of action. Service - to me - is action, whereas worship is being with the Father. In other words, it's the
difference between the first person and the third person. Service is action, the third person, having to do
with Infinite Spirit, whereas to me worship is the first person, being with the Father. It's an existential
kind of thing. That's how I differentiate the two, and I think there is a definite difference.

R: Was Michael not with Father when He served?

S: Yes, but I'm just saying when He served there was an act. I mean, there is a difference between action and being. When He served, He acted. I think when He worshiped He was with the Father, in other words, just being, existing with the Father.

S2: May I interject here?

R: Certainly.

S2: I have located a page in the Urantia Book in a paper on the life of Jesus, on page 1616, teachings about career and worship. It says at the evening conferences on Mt Gerazim Jesus taught many great truths and in particular He laid emphasis on the following: He said that worship, contemplation of the spiritual, must alternate with service, contact with material reality. And it goes on to say that work should alternate with play. Religion should be balanced by humor. Jumping a few lines again to say, another distinction, worship is the technique of looking to the One for the inspiration of service to the many. So that sentence right there, to me, points out the interrelatedness of worship and service. They're separate in terms of defining them for our human minds, but they're absolutely connected things.

S3: They're made of the same stuff, but they're expressed differently.

S: Yes, that's what I wanted to say.

S2: So I think actually we're probably all in agreement here.

S3: Yes, one can worship through service, but not all worship is service. I'm sure that Rayson was correct when he said that you can worship through service.

S: I agree with that. I have no difference of opinion about that.

Question: If we practice the art of living, isn't that just walking worship?

R: That is the point that I was attempting to make through the lesson.

S: I like that very much. I will never forget that word, the art of living. You're right, living is an art. Worship, I feel, flows through all of that whether it's just seeing again a heron rise out of the creek bed, or sitting on the ocean thanking the Lord for this incredible beauty, or seeing a light in somebody's eyes because you've extended some help. It's all points of worship, ultimately, yes?

R: That is true.

S: This line about worship being the technique of looking to the one for the inspiration of service to the many makes me think about how they're interrelated, as you're doing service. I know for me I'm constantly having to check back in with the Father. Is this what I should be doing? So there's worship taking place at the same time.

R: That is true.

S: This says our thoughts precede our actions. Worship precedes the service, but it's happening
milliseconds apart. It's commingled.

R: Exactly, that has been the point of the lesson.

S: We finally got it. Thank you, Rayson.

Daily worship
 
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SOURCE: tmtransctipts teamcircuits email archive August 10, 1998
Teacher Abraham
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Abraham: Anyone who has been spiritually reborn knows that hope lies in faith. Your faith in Father is indeed your salvation and shield from those things which would promote hopelessness. Any child willing to allow Father to have influence in their lives knows that hope is not possible without trust in a Supreme Ruler.

How do Father's faithful children maintain hope and faith? Why do some fight the good fight and some appear to be incapable of doing so? What keeps hope alive? How, in the midst of unspeakable events, can Father's children regenerate hope amongst themselves?

Surely your faith continues to free you from the burden of hopelessness, but one with faith must surely know that the key to regenerating hope is the capability to worship — to feel personally touched by a Supreme Sovereign — to know that in their smallness they are deeply cherished — to live with a
grateful heart, is certainly hope promoting. 

My friends, for belief and hope and perseverance — one must obtain the ability to worship; to express to our Father that we wholeheartedly believe He watches over our every need and is completely capable of guiding us. With the busy-ness of everyday living we forget how important worship is for our spiritual diet. In your worshiping, do you acknowledge Father is certainly working in your life and you are committing your will to doing His.

You can see your fellow mortals living lives of hopelessness, not putting forth effort because they are without faith and understanding that the Gods are aware of their existence. Your ability to worship is always renewing your commitment to Father and regenerating hope within to persevere, to carry on. Your receiving this rejuvenation is seen through the outworkings of all your daily tasks. Your fellows do recognize you are uplifting in faith and hope.  

A few moments of acknowledging Father's mighty fingerprints in your life and the world around you is literally energizing energy that is recognized wherever you go. Light dispels the darkness; you are bearers of this light.

Many committed to going about the Father's bidding envision magnificent selfless acts they can perform. My friends, Father's bidding is much closer to home. Whether you are helping a family member, or a friend, or perhaps a neighbor or coworker, you can be sure you will have the energy to go forth, for you are connected. 

Daily worship is your drink from the well of light. Your mortal connections are your mission tasks and the exercise of regenerating hope in their presence goes a long way.

Worship is the doorway to a new and better age
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive September 22, 1999.
Teacher Abraham

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Abraham: Worship is the doorway to a new and better age.

How can such insurmountable problems be overcome in this society today? The answer is simple: By having the faith of a little child, being small enough to enter into the doorway of worship allowing Father to teach, and you glorifying His teaching by living His example in your everyday lives.

Worship brings a beautiful balance between the mortal and divine. The animal tendencies are transformed into a productive divine energy when you can step aside from yourselves to find Father and His greater meanings and values. Your vision extends beyond this mortal life to eternal realities when you can be made small and recognize the power and love of God.

The evolutionary worlds of time and space know not of their influence in the universe; how the Supreme Being can be made to grow and change when worlds are made to kneel in humble admittance to the fact that they do not have all the answers; how the universe is made to change when even small groups reach out in faith and support Michael's cause. In having died to the old ways, and taken up the new, there is certainly material changes made also.

In worship we are renewed in body as well as mind and spirit. Physical changes do occur with such a positive activity, physical changes on an individual level as well as a planetary level, of course. Father is waiting enthusiastically for His children to reach up. He finds it His supreme joy to commune with each child personally. How blessed are we that He should love and care for us! How powerful is worship that we can create such positive changes!

Most mortals, having experienced adversities that would leave them hesitant to trust a higher source, would perhaps be beaten down by life's circumstances. Many mortals who experience physical and mental illness would have a negative outlook on this mortal life. They would perhaps find no cure for what ails them. Many mortals who experience physical \ chemical addictions may find their weakness overwhelming without hope of recovery without a greater and more powerful source.

Worship brings us a connection in which we are changed physically, mentally and spiritually. There is strength to endure those daily events that would seem to break the average mortal heart and mind. There is everyday healing that would bring shock to the average mortal. There is power in relinquishing those things that have held you. In worship there is hope and sound solutions to everyday problems. It is our hope that worship will bring the worlds' people to change their point of view from how 'the world is so
bad' to 'the world is getting better.

Find time in your daily routine to acknowledge the beauty Father has put before you. Still maintain your
childlike faith, and in all things have the attitude of living for the glory of our Father in Heaven. Commit to Him daily, telling Him who you serve. 

It is well known that a child would rather flee from things unpleasant and fearful than face them with unknowing. It is evident in your society that various forms of diversion are created in order to feel liberated from life's daily grind. Forms of societal opiates are becoming popular as everyday living wondering what is life's meanings about. It is indeed difficult to take the punishment of everyday living with a smile.

The Master's living example was such an inspiration for us each. How can one take life's punishment and not become weak, embittered, angry, depressed or hopeless? How did Jesus, the man, live from day to day with strength, trust and encouragement to others? How could He accept life's disappointments without wanting to give in or being broken by them? 

Praise and worship
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive April 8, 2001.
Teacher Elyon
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I have elected to speak with you about praise and worship, hopefully with some application that will bring a different approach from the commonly perceived viewpoint of these two words, this same activity.

Praise, worship, do acknowledge a sovereignty. They are conduits for the expression of adoration by a being who realizes that the one praised or worshipped has qualities above and beyond those possessed by the worshipper. These qualities are adorable because they are desirable. The worshipper, in the long run, hopes to attain these same attributes even while knowing that there is a difference between Creator and creature. This praise acknowledges attainment hopes of the individual and permanency of such qualities in the Creator.

Jesus one time taught that he was the water of life, he was the bread of life. These two material objects are forms of nourishment and sustenance to a physically housed creature. In his day and in the location where he lived these were very important elements. They indicate, in his use of them, spiritual sustenance, the quenching of spiritual thirst, and the providing of food for spiritual hunger. This is an intake perspective. He also, however, expressed that you are to let your light so shine, to not hide the luminosity of your soul and the spiritual presence of the Father and His good spirit. This is expressive.  Light is the energy burst that comes from proper nourishment, receiving the water and the bread.

Worship becomes, if I may use my own metaphor, your carburetor wherein you mix your fuel; in reality two fuels, air and gasoline; to create combustion to make power to express. The outcome of worship is the motivation of the devotee to uphold truths realized, to demonstrate goodnesses discovered. These expressions are the combustive result of the proper adjustment of the air-fuel ratio of the worship experience. This becomes service.

Service has many forms of expression. Even when there is no other individual in your vicinity to whom you may be of service, you can be of service to the Indwelling Spirit; you can even be of service to your own well-being, a form of soul service rather than egotistical aggrandizement. This air-fuel ratio comes about through two forms of intake. Simply put, there is the intellectual base of knowledge and information; there is the feeling base of motivation and desire. The two combined brings the energy needed and required to propel the individual into service activity.

Worship is not only the acknowledgment of a greater personality with higher powers; it is also the realization of the incoming grace of this same Creator personality into your own being for spiritual combustion, though worship may rightly position the self in relation to Creator, acknowledging the reality that each one of us is simply a creature, that for all our accomplishments we have frailties and imperfections. It also ought to encourage the receptive infusion of divinity to bolster the impulse of expressing spiritual reality, no matter what level of universe attainment you currently function upon.

While Jesus was here on earth fulfilling the requirements of sovereignty attainment he also chose to promote the awareness of the Father on earth to leave with the human race a simpler though uplifted view of God, personalized, dynamic, as a relationship rather than a standard of greatness only. And he used for his staff people of his day of ordinary circumstances and training. He demonstrated with his corps of evangels that the divine and proper air-fuel ratio, through training and motivation, can combust and illuminate the world and let the spiritual light shine and energize the souls of those around them.

Once you have mixed inspiration and enlightenment you are primed to burst forward and to express — human beings uplifting one another through sincere expression of the discovery of
truth, beauty, and goodness for one another to be benefited therefrom.

Take in the bread, take in the water, be nourished, but no nourishment is worthwhile without activity to burn that nourishment. Worship is always coupled with service, for the two are really on a continuum, a spectrum, that are no more divorced from one another than is red light from blue light.

And remember, if your carburetor is dirty, there is a great carburetor cleaner that resides within you, your Indwelling Spirit, who can do the adjustments that can peak your performance, and to seek that assistance when you feel the need.

To worship is to contemplate the Love that creates the universe
 
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SOURCE: tmtranscripts teamcircuits email archive May 04, 2001.
Teacher Larenzo
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Larenzo: To worship is to take your mind and place it in the hands of your Spirit within. It is to foretaste your presence on Paradise. It is to anticipate the embrace of the Universal Father in the completion of your ascension career. It is to anticipate standing face to face with God, Himself, in person in His residential dwelling! 

To worship is to contemplate the Love that creates the universe, so that God can share His personality with other persons; so that He can share His joy with His sons and daughters. To worship is to contemplate the love that anticipates your every need, that counts the hairs of your head, that knows every sparrow that falls, that knows all, and upholds all, and works for the good of all, and yet notices, yes, even dwells within each one of us!  

Take more time for worship, my friends. I could never say this too often! Do not regard it as a chore. Let it nourish your souls. Let it provide fuel for your true soul growth and spiritual energy to do service for your
brothers and your sisters. Without worship your service energy will flag and diminish. Without service your worship will become stagnant.