[tmtranscripts] Pocatello transcript 1-5-01

[Bill Kelly]

POCATELLO TEAM
January 5, 2001

Altern (Bill): Greetings my friends, I am Altern, and I have been given the
honor of addressing you this evening.  How pleased I am to be in your
presence along with my partner, Lori.  Indeed have we been partnering
together in ways which have brought me great joy, and have been beneficial,
of course, to this my dearest friend.	But tonight I have the honor of
speaking to you all.  I wish to continue the metaphor, but more than a
metaphor, of altered perspective, for indeed is this a key ingredient in a
successful portrait of life.  Your text describes the classic example of
the restriction of perspective transformed by enlargement, so that the
larger perspective holds considerably more truth and accuracy. [Ed. Note:
In the Urantia Book there is the classic example of the narrow picture of a
savage primitive man glaring and holding a weapon. The reader is not
impressed with the man's ferocity until the picture is enlarged to include
the saber toothed tiger in front of him and his family behind him.]
Perspectives can be altered in many ways.  One is by enlargement.  Another
is by a different point of focus.  A third has to do with shading and
lighting.  A fourth has to do with direction of approach, which is similar
to, but different from, focus.

Let us begin with focus.  What you pay attention to is what will occupy
your thinking.  This is obvious to all of you who give any thought to the
education process, for without attention there can be no successful input
of experience.  If one's attention is focused upon what is wrong with the
world, then indeed one's perspective will be distorted in the direction of
that blackness, and so the world will appear to be largely a place of
malevolence, discontent, despair, greed, anger, etc..  It is clear that
there is enough darkness occurring about this planet that if one were to
solely focus upon it, the light within them would be darkness indeed; and
then how great would that darkness be!  But, on the other hand, there is
evidence of progress and hope which is ignored by many in the commercial
news media because of the false belief that it would be financially
unprofitable.  Because of this focus on the negative  it takes effort and
intention to discover where God is at work in human hearts and associations
.
Coming from the direction of Spirit results in a different perspective than
coming from the direction of self.  Coming from the direction of
self-centered ego one sees the universe in revolution around oneself.  One
sees other people as objects, as means to ends; one sees a world of
scarcity, of competition, of conflict and of despair.  But come from the
Spirit, the direction of God, and the world is entirely different.  One
sees, instead of objects to be manipulated, brothers and sisters to be
loved.  One sees a world of overflowing abundance, of complete emotional
and spiritual security, of a peace that drowns all conflict, and a love
which smothers all hatred!  Coming from the direction of the Spirit one
happily allows oneself to orbit around the Center, the very First Source
and Center of the Universe, comfortable and secure in the bonds of love
gravity which draw you to that Source.

A small perspective is of necessity less truthful than a larger one, for
less information is contained in a smaller space than in a larger one.
Because we are mortal to begin with, our perspectives are limited by our
finite condition. But these mortal limitations are seldom ever reached by
the average person.  Most people are content to work within a very small
framework on a very small canvas.  Take a larger pallet, use more space,
and you have the opportunity for greater truth, beauty and enhancement to a
life of goodness.  In order to enlarge one's perspective, change and growth
is imperative.  This has been one of your major tasks for years now and I
merely point out that it continues to be a task which we will be embracing
all the way to the Paradise Corps of Finality, and even beyond that into
the unknown expansion of God the Supreme, the Ultimate and the Absolute!
 When the light of life shines in your hearts, when the wells of eternal
water spring up from within your souls, then will your shading and your
color, your mood, as it were, be altered always in the direction of
spiritual enhancement.  Often a mood will color events in a person's day so
that when the events are described to another, that person may interpret
the meaning of those events quite differently than the speaker does.  Let
us say the speaker's mood is depressed, gloomy, possibly grouchy, and then
the events of the day will all feel and taste and smell and look gloomy,
grouchy and depressed.  However to another person, who is in a good mood,
the events can be interpreted in quite a different fashion ,s very positive
experiences indeed.  You are all familiar with fact that mood can alter
memory so that its hard to remember what one thinks and feels like in a
very different mood than the one that you may be in.

You are all artists, my friends, whether or not you paint, sculpt, do craft
work, write stories, or compose music.  Nevertheless you are all artists.
You are creators of yourselves, co-creators with God; and you do present to
other people the canvas of your life in your thoughts, in your feelings, in
your actions, in your intentions, and most of all in the unconscious
overflowing of the love which dwells so deeply within your souls.

Tonight I ask you to pick up your brushes, or whatever your tools, with
renewed vigor!   I ask you to enlarge your perspectives, to change your
focus, to use all the bright colors and positive shadings which you are
privy to in your spiritual interchange with God.  Let this New Year bring
forth from you unexpectedly wonderful progress!  And I wish you all the
very best in this project.  Good evening.

Daniel (Bob S): This is Daniel.  Greetings my students, my friends, my
colleagues.  We have just been treated to an excellent presentation by our
brother.  I trust you all took his message to heart for his words will have
great value to those who seek to implement them.  I wish also to thank our
brother, Altern, for his excellent presentation.  We seek to rotate
personal teachers through the teaching corps when the opportunity presents
itself.  	We have one further item of business before us tonight.  One
moment, please, while we get ourselves prepared.

Scaramouche (Bill): Greetings my friends, I am Scaramouche, one of Bob's
teachers.  I have not permanently left the planet although there has been
some speculation along that line.  I am here to greet your New Year, and to
greet my good friend, Bob.

We have been on a most interesting journey, have we not?  Next week you
celebrate the conclusion of nine years and the start of your tenth year.
You have been brave and faithful companions.  You have opened your minds
and hearts to new experiences.  You have trusted us, and our messages to
you.  You have trusted us in our friendship with you.  You have received
our love and returned it.  Indeed is the universe a loving place.  It is so
strange to me to be on this darkened planet where so many people think that
there is not a universe of love and care, but a meaningless empty void,
devoid of purpose, where chance evolution has produced only one intelligent
race in the cosmos!  I find this astounding and totally untrue as you well
know.

My thinking for you this evening is simple.  Be not afraid of anything.
Have no anxiety.  Our Father cares for each of us as if we were his only
son or daughter.  And yet there is a vast universe of caring spirits,
angels, teachers, companions out there, as well, to do the outworking of
that over-care of love.  Remember our Master taught us that when we pray we
should be reminded that our needs are known even before we utter a word.
And God will care for us in the best way, no matter what our limited
perspective may suggest.
So I wish you well, and now Daniel is returning to offer a time for
questions and answers, or commentary.  Thank you and farewell.

Daniel (Bob S): This is Daniel.  How fortunate we have been to have two of
our eminent teachers available to speak to their prospective charges and to
their friends gathered here this evening.  We now come to the end of the
presentations and it is time to see if there are any loose items to be tied
down before we say good night.  Are there questions, comments or concerns
that you wish to raise at this point.  The floor is now open.

Lori: Well, I want to thank Altern for being there for me when I finally
decided to turn back in, and for coming what I felt was so easily.  That
means a lot.  And thanks for sharing tonight, Altern, in the way that you
do and speak.  That makes me feel not crazy.  [Laughter.]

Altern (Bill): My dear, it has been my greatest pleasure to continue this
discussion of perspective this evening.  Crazy is such a multilevel term in
your culture.  On the one hand it can mean that one is unhinged mentally.
[Laughter.]  But on the other it can mean that one is brave and willing to
step out beyond the bounds of propriety.  If you are crazy, it is in this
fashion, my dear.

Virginia: Altern, when you said ‘out of bounds,' (Is that what I heard your
say?) I thought like maybe we were painting beyond the canvas someplace.
Is that what you were saying here?

Altern (Bill): Yes, it was.  It is refusing to be limited by the box or
whatever place your perspective takes place in, and expanding and going
beyond.  There is a term in your culture ‘thinking outside the box,' that
actually was my reference point, as well as the painting metaphor.

Virginia: Thank you.

Minearisa (Bill): I am Minearisa.  Hello, my friends.  I wish to let you
know that I have not abandoned you and that I will be here this year with a
role in presenting our curriculum.  I will not at this time specify what we
have planned for you for it is always under some degree of review and
modification as per our supervisor's recommendations.  Here I refer to
Machiventa and Christ Michael.  It is however, a curriculum containing what
you may term as surprises, but then hasn't it always been that way?
[Laughter.]  It will not become dull or boring, my friends. We are excited
to see you steadfastly behind the oars of your ships of faith pulling in
the direction of your heavenly destination.

Are there further questions for these two teachers, who have spoken, or on
any other subject at this time?  [Short pause.]  Hearing none I will bring
our time together to a close.  Next week, as has been the case in the past,
we have an impressive roster of celestial guests all of whom you are most
comfortable with; and indeed the only problem will be that everyone will
not be able to address you, for we are, after all, gentlemen and ladies and
we will not step on each other's feet in our eagerness to present.

Would you all please stand and join hands while I offer worship to Christ
Michael and Mother Nebadonia
.
Dear parents: I personally thank you for coming to this space to create
your universe and bringing it into existence with all the abundant life
therein.  I thank you Michael, my Father, for the privilege of serving on
this your planet of nativity, and having a role in bringing it to its
intended completion.  On behalf of all who are here on the celestial side,
we worship you even as we, through you, worship They who are the First
Source and Center, the Second Source and Center and the Third Source and
Center.  May we Melchizedeks, mortals, Seraphim and all orders of
intelligence strive to bring this universe of Nebadon into Paradise
similitude and glory.  Bless these little ones here, brave mortals that
they be, as they take this year into their arms and embrace it, and in the
process give themselves once again to do the will of Deity.  Send them with
peace in their hearts to their homes, I pray.  Amen.
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