[tmtranscripts] Pocatello transcript 11-6-00

[Bill Kelly]

POCATELLO TEAM
November 6, 2000

Abraham (Bill): Good evening, my friends.  I am Abraham.  I am pleased to
be amongst you this evening and even though you do not regularly hear from
me I always feel at home in your midst.

Your discussions tonight regarding our stalwart companion and midwayer
aficionado, George Bernard, has stimulated a great deal of interest not
only among yourselves, but among the Teaching Mission staff as well.
Indeed have you correctly assessed the larger picture of the planetary
scope of our work which has been accelerated by the fusion of George
Bernard's platoon emergency ministry and the spiritual growth emphasis of
the Teaching Mission.  This is not the say that your only service project
will be an extension of George's work, but certainly it is clearly
Michael's wish that this major facet of midwayer ministry be welded
together with the mission as a whole.  Daniel and Minearia and other
teachers have all stated clearly that the benefit from the visit on the
part of George would be a mutuality enterprise, that you would benefit and
that he would benefit.  Indeed we have seen this pattern ever since George
began his contact with this teaching mission.  His need for family among
mortals of flesh and blood you have greatly fulfilled.  He has a sense of
belonging to a larger scope than was his experience before, and you have
discovered a man on fire with dedication and willingness to obey the
leading of God within as that is communicated to him through his platoon
connections.  The most important thing that has occurred has been this
welding of personality interaction which has both inspired you all and has
inspired our friend, George.

Indeed are you all members of the Corps of Destiny Reservists.  This is not
new information.  I have presented this concept long ago in Woods Cross and
in other settings.  To be a Destiny Reservist means that you have specific
job to do which you have been trained for and which comes out of your
dedication and/or interest in some particular area.  With George it has
been to work with midwayers in emergency and high-risk situations involving
other mortals.  He has been instructed and directed toward being a
hypnotherapist when his background in business and psychology as well as
extremely high visual ability was there to support him.  Each of you has
your background of interest and your background of training.  You are not
to become replicas of George Bernard, but your reservist job will have
connections with your interest and your background of life experiences.
More than you perhaps have realized is it true that you have been receiving
instruction in the deep mind, which George calls the delta level.  You do
not remember the material from the deep mind until it is needed.  The
ability to see in an extraordinary way is in a sense no different than the
ability to hear in an extraordinary way, and in many individuals these two
talents are interwoven.  I suggest that for those of you who are more
auditory, as is this TR, it would be to your very best interest to apply
the visualization techniques which George has shared with you.  The tapes
which are available are very well done and will provide you with the
practice format.  I suggest that you use them as George's has instructed
you for you will find that it will accelerate your effectiveness.

My friends, when we first began this Teaching Mission as a result of the
adjudication of the Lucifer Rebellion, we were not simply bringing you some
phantasmal, imaginary and idle past time.  We were announcing a major
change in reality for this planet!  This reality shift continues to
accelerate.  You are truly standing on the edge of the most momentous
moment in the history of Urantia.  The critical mass is being reached in
spiritual transformation.

Finally, I wish to make certain that you do not lose sight of the most
important thing.  The most important thing is your personal transformation.
 As exciting as it is to think of working in fields that are ready for
harvest, in all the needs of others lives, still the most important thing
remains your own growth and circle attainment.  For your goal ultimately is
not merely to take orders from midwayers or listen to grand soliloquies
from teachers, your final goal is to hear and to voluntarily obey that
voice of God within.  

This voice will not come to you as an austere voice.  This voice which you
all have heard, but will continue to hear more and more, will come to you
with overwhelming, unconditional, eternal, and changeless love of such
magnitude that your mind will be unable to conceive of it.  This voice
,which will talk in common sense terms at times, will always be gentle,
will always be truthful, and will always have the flavor of divinity.
Despite the difficulties of hearing from one's Thought Adjuster that are so
completely spelled out in your text, nevertheless it is also clearly stated
 that this is your goal as a mortal, to continue to grow spiritually until
your will and the will of your Divine Monitor are perfectly aligned.
Closer and closer and closer you will come.  But unless you pursue this
alignment and pursue it first and foremost, the other things, the service
for others, will acquire egoistic stains and your effectiveness and your
love will be compromised and limited.  
Now my friends, I say these things not because you are in danger of losing
this high priority, this first value, but because it can never be repeated
too often.  It is the single most important thing in your entire eternal
life! It is the Pearl of Great Price which is so valuable that everything
else can be sold in order to purchase it.  George has helped you to enlarge
your perspectives of your stillness practice, of your prayer life and of
your service opportunities; and while he is uncomfortable in thinking of
himself as spiritual, you are of course all correct that he is a spiritual
man.  He is indeed another David Zebedee.  He is a most treasured brother.

I believe at this time that I have concluded my remarks.  I have been given
the opportunity tonight to field your questions or comments.  Of course all
your familiar and beloved teachers are here as well.  I now open this up
for the floor's interaction.

Ken: Abraham, you made the statement in talking about George's construct
here that those who are auditory seek the visual within the construct, to
work on that goal.  I do not consider myself auditory in the respect that I
believe you referred to.  What should I seek for at that point in the
construct?

Abraham (Bill): Ken, my friend, I know how eagerly your pursue the goal of
seeing and hearing your personal teacher.  Therefor I think that in your
case your goal should be two-fold.  The visual goal I suggest that you
continue with, and that for the desire to hear you make use of a technique
which was suggested for your spouse.  At the same time I will tell you
something that you may not agree with initially, (I have been appraised
that you have had this said to you before), so this is not 100% new this
evening.  You lack faith in your own hearing, my friend.  That is to say,
you have heard and you are similar to this TR who often doubts what he
hears.  I also would suggest that along the auditory lines that you attempt
again to write on paper these things that enter your mind when you have
dedicated your mind to the will of God.  Try to suspend all judgement about
what is being said as it is happening and do not read it with evaluation
until you have finished a thought, a phrase, a sentence, a paragraph, etc.
Then look at it afresh.  Do these suggestions make sense to you?

Ken: Yes, they do, Abraham, and I do appreciate it very much and I thank
you.  My love to you.

Abraham (Bill): You are greatly loved, my son.

Ken: I hope so.  (Laughter.)

Abraham (Bill): Indeed!

Virginia: Abraham, we know that from modern science that so many things are
determined by the genes that we all have been born with.  My question is,
does George have unique genes that enable him to see and do so much more
than those of us who were not born with these hereditary genes that he has
had since childhood?  Can we work to develop and can we work to improve
where we are, or can we indeed attain what his ability seems to be?

Abraham (Bill): I am not at liberty to talk about George in the third
person, but I can address your question in more general terms, and therefor
hopefully satisfy its intention.  Your science is indeed exploring this
issue at every moment, and at the present time the evidence is mounting for
what the Urantia text has declared: that there has to be the genetic
foundation for a trait to be manifested.  At the same time without the
proper environment that trait may wither and fail to manifest in its
fullness.  This implies several things.  Looking first at the genetic
question since traits are based upon genetic foundations and traits can be
rank ordered in terms of value, then it becomes conceivable that the least
desirable traits could be genetically controlled in some manner or another.
 The traits of such things as mental illness, which has genetic
determinants, antisocial personality distortions, for example, genetically
caused cognitive deficits, for example, and the list could go on.  As to
how these lesser traits could be eliminated in the genetic structure of
humanity is not something I am permitted to discuss.  However we are
hopeful that the genetic substructure of all traits is now beginning to be
fully accepted by your scientists.  The other side of the coin, the
importance of environment has been a major concern of medicine, psychology,
education and other related fields of human endeavor for many, many years.
When it was believed that the human mind was a blank tablet upon which
anything could be written, the hopes for changing the world though changing
the environment were at their highest peak.  It is now becoming clear that
the genetic substructure must be dealt with as well.

	Now as to your question as to developing a talent which you have in a
certain amount, then the answer is rather obvious, is it not?  If you have
the substructure, the neuronal work, you have the cognitive foundation, so
that practice of that particular talent will only improve its output.   If
you are totally lacking in a trait, then of course, there is no possibility
of improvement; but most people have varying degrees of all the traits
common to humanity.  Some are geniuses in certain things, and a normal,
average person cannot achieve genius by effort and desire only.  At the
same time I would hate to be heard as saying that you make an assessment of
your ability and therefor decide that you should not make as effort because
you do not have genius status.  If you heard me say that you have totally
misunderstood what I am saying.  Some have ten talents; some have five;
some have one, but the person who buries their talent in the ground is the
loser.  Every talent you possess needs to be developed; and the largest
error that is being made at the present time is that people are not looking
realistically at themselves and the magnitude of talents that they have.
My dear Virginia, have I prodded around enough in this sensitive area to
satisfy your question?

Virginia: I think that last parable said it very well.  (Laughter.)  I will
try hard not to bury anything.

Abraham (Bill): Yes, that is exactly what I wish you to retain as it is a
danger for the person who regards themselves as mediocre or average.  They
say, "There is little that I can do.  Let the people with talent and money
and influence change the world".  That is great error, my friends, for in
the first place you are not people of mediocre talent, and in the second
place even if you were, everyone's efforts are amplified, unified and drawn
together in the evolving Supreme.  No one, however small they may imagine
themselves to be, has no value, for you are all unique individuals.  There
are no duplicates in the universe of universes.  Everyone's efforts,
everyone's work is important.

	And now, my friends, I believe that concludes that question.  Are there
any other pressing concerns?  (Pause.)  If not, then I would once again ask
you to rise and hold your hands.  Daniel, my friend, you have asked to lead
in prayer.  Please do so.

Daniel (Bill): I am Daniel.  Greetings, my dear friends.  Let us be in prayer.

	Michael, Nebadonia, our parents, we thank you for life in your universe.
We are grateful to spring from a creation so beautiful and so merciful.  We
thank you for the hard times as well as the easy, the downs as well as the
ups because in those down times we are forced to go back to the Source that
lives in each of us.  We are taken back to the experience that you
underwent as a mortal where you chose moment by moment to do God's will.

And so as these, my brothers and sisters, leave this meeting together, I
send my blessing with them.  I promise my industry to their spiritual
growth.  I commit my time with them to do always your will, as it is the
same will as the Paradise Deities.  May we all be filled with your peace
and your triumphant Spirit guide us into all truth.  Amen.