<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"><FONT SIZE=2>DATE: May 12, 2001
<BR>LOCATION: Spokane, WA
<BR>T/R: Gerdean
<BR>TEACHERS & TOPICS:
<BR> PAULO: The Galactic Neighborhood
<BR> Q & A: Composition of Cosmic Neighbors
<BR> NEBADONIA: All My Children
<BR>
<BR>PAULO: Good afternoon, boys and girls, I am Paulo.
<BR>
<BR>I am glad to be a part of your gathering today, glad to be a part of your
<BR>socializing process, and a fellow communicant of ideas and ideals in
<BR>existence and in potential which will allow us to experiment in these
<BR>adventurous explorations of our existence in any configuration we find
<BR>ourselves in. That is to say, whether it is the universe between your ears
<BR>or the Grand Universe, or any spectrum therein. We ought to be able to find
<BR>mutual value and stimulation by our investigations.
<BR>
<BR>One of the objections to the topic that you are inviting and we will embark
<BR>upon this afternoon is: How far removed it is from the essential needs of
<BR>Urantia today!
<BR>
<BR>The question arises, "How can you be investing your energies in speculation
<BR>of what may be going on in outer space when you understand the tremendous
<BR>needs of Urantia?" I am amused by such an approach for the fact is the
<BR>perspective of a galactic neighborhood is the perspective that will give you
<BR>the vantage point that will enable you to be sufficiently motivated in a
<BR>social sense, in a political sense, in a scientific sense, that will help
<BR>apply the spiritual pressure that will bring about the realization that we
<BR>are all about life.
<BR>
<BR>When you have been isolated, as is the case on Urantia and these other
<BR>neighboring worlds which have been separated by the quarantine, there is what
<BR>we might call a very ‘provincial' attitude about the, what we might call
<BR>‘metropolis' of the cosmos at large. I'm reminded of some of your quaint
<BR>attitudes of limiting your perspectives by your own reasoning, such as, "If
<BR>it ain't broke, don't fix it!" Well, it may not be broken from your vantage
<BR>point but if you take the farther view, you may see that while you are moving
<BR>along at a merry clip, your neighbors are hobbling and even crippled, but if
<BR>you don't care about your neighbors, what difference does it make? Don't
<BR>bother with it. "It ain't broke; don't try to fix it."
<BR>
<BR>And an idea of minding one's own business is and has been of great value in
<BR>your evolutionary scheme of things and in some instances is even pertinent
<BR>today – nationalistically speaking, for example, or neighborly speaking in
<BR>general. But it's not an invitation to meddle where you don't belong by
<BR>allowing yourself to have a greater perspective on what the situation is, for
<BR>this grants you a vantage point that removes you from that stance of
<BR>ignorance and prejudice that limits the advancement of everything.
<BR>
<BR>You've become intrigued, in your circles, having to do with a recent
<BR>broadcast and revelations regarding the contact registered between your world
<BR>and visitors to your world. And while you have all become quite accustomed
<BR>to the presence of the Teachers in your midst, many of you somehow feel that
<BR>any other kind of personality is some kind of invasion, and this is a blanket
<BR>observation across the board about humanity, for on one hand it will accede
<BR>to the existence of God and angels, while in the practical affairs of life
<BR>God and angels have, in their mind, little to do with what they feel they
<BR>need to do in order to make life go on. And so you're not the only ones who
<BR>opt to believe a little bit of this but not that.
<BR>
<BR>I'm reminded of the Foreword of the text that you use, the one that describes
<BR>the frame of reference the authors will be using in putting forth their
<BR>revelation. And think what an advantage it would be to have a similar
<BR>glossary of terms in terms of these different types of life in the universe.
<BR>And the great chasm between a science fiction understanding of space ships
<BR>and alien life as compared to the appreciation for angels, God, and your
<BR>supernal teachers in the Teacher Corp. It's as if you needed to decide
<BR>between them and they are both quite plausible, and as you understand reality
<BR>better, they are in fact essential.
<BR>
<BR>It comes, again, from your isolated vantage point. And now you are opening
<BR>up as is SETI and becoming adamant that what you see is true. What you
<BR>believe is a fact. It's very much like faith. If you put your foot down and
<BR>say, "I know that I know," there isn't much can be done in argument to change
<BR>your mind from what you know to be true. In a way it's an advantage, because
<BR>it's an affirmative; it's a more advantageous vantage point and approach than
<BR>those who have the unglorious job of proving that it isn't so. Faith will
<BR>win out.
<BR>
<BR>The circuits are opening and the light of truth is flooding your world and as
<BR>it has been pointed out to you before, some of you at least, the universe is
<BR>rushing, flooding to your aid. The emphasis of aid has been spiritual
<BR>because it is essential that your souls expand in proportion to your
<BR>technology. Science has had a bit of an upper hand, and religion has
<BR>remained emotional and dogmatic, essentially causing a bigger rift between
<BR>peoples than science, which has begun to foster the family of man by its
<BR>essential realizations of, for example, medicine and aerospace.
<BR>
<BR>This glossary that I suggest you think about has in it words which you are
<BR>already familiar with. Let's see. We have the word supernal. Is there a
<BR>dictionary in the house? I'd like to see what your dictionary says about
<BR>what a supernal is so that we have a mutual appreciation of what we're
<BR>talking about in terms of definition of terms.
<BR>
<BR>GINNY: Supernal: It comes from supernus, meaning upper. Super, above.
<BR>"Of, from, or as though from the heavens or the sky; celestial, heavenly, or
<BR>divine."
<BR>
<BR>PAULO: Alright. Now I'll have the definition for extra-terrestrial, which
<BR>should be among your words by now.
<BR>
<BR>GINNY: Extraterrestrial : as an adjective it means, "existing, taking
<BR>place, or coming from outside the limits of the earth." As a noun, it's "an
<BR>extraterrestial being, as in science fiction."
<BR>
<BR>PAULO: Alright, very well. Have you got in there a word called "alien"?
<BR>
<BR>GINNY: I'm sure we do! Alien Alien as adjective is "belonging to another
<BR>country or people; foreign. 2. Strange; not natural, (like, cruel words
<BR>alien to his lips)". A third definition "opposed or repugnant; 4. Of
<BR>aliens" – The noun: "a foreigner. 2. A foreign-born resident in a country .
<BR>. . 3. An outsider. 4. A hypothetical being in or from outer space, as in
<BR>science fiction."
<BR>
<BR>PAULO: Alright, and one final work IF you have it in your dictionary would be
<BR>"other-terrestrial". Is that available?
<BR>
<BR>GINNY: No.
<BR>
<BR>PAULO: Alright then, I'll add that to the Glossary as we pass by. First let
<BR>me point out the fact that if we go by your dictionary, all of the Teachers,
<BR>including Ham and Abraham are aliens, and even extra-terrestrials as well as
<BR>supernals. And if we look at a concept such as space ships, isn't it true
<BR>that they too are coming from some-where else besides earth, somewhere above,
<BR>inasmuch as it is coming out of the sky, and are they not also then supernal
<BR>as well as extraterrestrial and even alien?
<BR>
<BR>Alright, let's get back to reality as it is portrayed in text, as that is
<BR>your favorite frame of reference, and in it, it is portrayed that you are
<BR>(and you won't like this) "lowly". If you acknowledge your "lowliness", it
<BR>stands to reason that any other form of life experienced beyond yours,
<BR>whether it is material, morontial or spiritual, is going to be supernal.
<BR>Even conceivably extraterrestrial. "Grays" are making the news these days,
<BR>and they even come from somewhere else.
<BR>
<BR>Thus you have a heightened sense of anything new as being alien. It's all
<BR>something strange, all coming from another place, all something not
<BR>understood, all potentially dangerous and all very frightening.
<BR>
<BR>About now you ought to be able to see how your perspective as one who has an
<BR>idea of the vastness of the universes of time and space, and with the cast of
<BR>characters as presented by the Urantia text in discussing the descending
<BR>sons, the ministering spirits, the planetary administration, ad infinitum,
<BR>your perspective on this ought to enable you to support a premise that
<BR>intelligent life in the universe is indeed attempting to make contact with
<BR>you, and knowing that it is a friendly universe and that God is love, it will
<BR>also be true that although it is unknown and strange, it is also to your
<BR>advantage to approach other-terrestrials and supernal existences as if it
<BR>were a force of good rather than evil.
<BR>
<BR>You have, thus, now a new perspective on language that will help you to edify
<BR>your friends and neighbors in the field as to some lasting value, some real
<BR>precepts, because you have the SETI phenomenon as a material topic, a
<BR>scientific scenario, assisting you in introducing a perspective of
<BR>intelligent life in the universe that includes spiritual intelligent life,
<BR>such as angels.
<BR>
<BR>Let's talk for a moment about the architectural spheres. Your architectural
<BR>sphere is material, dense materiality made to accommodate your mortal
<BR>existence. Many millions of worlds throughout the seven super-universes are
<BR>similarly inhabited by material beings, and many of these (if not most) are
<BR>far in advance of you, inasmuch as it is true that the many super universes
<BR>which preceded the formulation of Orvonton are already well underway and a
<BR>lot of these inhabited worlds have evolved to the point where light and life
<BR>has been a long-established reality.
<BR>
<BR>One of the additional factors is that some of these worlds and their advanced
<BR>population have attained the point whereupon the material life experience is
<BR>a clear understanding of the cocoon existence prior to the ... chrysalis
<BR>existence prior to the emergence of the morontial mind and body of Jerusem
<BR>status. Such is the nature of the evolving worlds.
<BR>
<BR>Returning again to the plight of Urantia, from your provincial point of
<BR>reality, just emerging out of the darkness of the quarantine, you are being
<BR>observed, of course, by your neighbors and even contacted and studied because
<BR>of the peculiar circum-stances of your lives here and now in terms of your
<BR>planetary emergence into your standard system of things. Constellation-wise,
<BR>you are being re-assimilated.
<BR>
<BR>If there are architectural spheres to accommodate other worlds, having an
<BR>advanced status/ population, such as is the case in worlds long settled in
<BR>light and life, and the many mansion worlds of progressive evolution and
<BR>spirit attainment, there is no reason to exclude a concept of advanced
<BR>material life that is capable of reaching out to its potential co-operatives
<BR>in universe advancement, in yet another attempt to get to know you better and
<BR>to help you advance in your understanding of the universe at large.
<BR>
<BR>The consensus seems to be that the spirit-minded feel there is only a spirit
<BR>reality in the universe, and the science-minded feel there are only science
<BR>fiction aliens, and they may be good or bad but they may or may not have a
<BR>spiritual reality, when in fact if one has a recognition of the retardation
<BR>of Urantia and these sister worlds from isolation, you will readily recognize
<BR>what tremendous advances are yet to be made in your perspectives and then in
<BR>your acceptance of all your potential, spiritual and material.
<BR>
<BR>"Extraterrestrials" is an unfortunate phrase, in that, it seems to connote
<BR>alien qualities of weirdness and violence, perhaps disease and anal probes,
<BR>or abductions and the bar scene in Star Wars. But it is an intelligent
<BR>universe, and those who have been able to manage to steer a course of
<BR>balanced development, have been able to bring with them the necessary
<BR>understanding of the laws of the universe as well as the dynamics of
<BR>experience. And thus they have inherently had the advantage of understanding
<BR>the qualities of divinity that induce us in an enhancement of our
<BR>appreciation of truth, beauty and goodness.
<BR>
<BR>I therefore applaud your fascination for galactic exploration, even while
<BR>many of you have the provincial attitude that "If it ain't broke, don't fix
<BR>it. What do we need to be going out into outer space for, into orbit,
<BR>looking at the other side of the moon or striving to reach Venus?" Well,
<BR>it's part of the growing pattern of all young things. Any toddler will learn
<BR>to crawl and then scramble like mad as he approaches the next step which is
<BR>standing and walking and then he'll run like mad, and that's what you guys
<BR>are doing in your humanness. You have stood up with the Father holding onto
<BR>your hand and now you're looking around and scrambling. Soon you'll be on
<BR>your feet and running pell mell into the galactic adventures that are your
<BR>birthright. But you're not going anywhere prematurely, so, nobody needs to
<BR>worry about that. You still need to eat and pay rent as I understand it.
<BR>And so as long as you have your feet on terra firma, you cannot harm your
<BR>situation by being mindful of greater life in the universe, for all of it is
<BR>under God, and infiltrated with the divine essence in one form or another, so
<BR>why not embrace the unknown of the galaxy as readily and earnestly as you
<BR>embrace the unknown of our Father's/ Mother's love.
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