<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"><FONT SIZE=2>Date: May 27, 2001
<BR>Location: Spokane, Washington
<BR>T/R: Gerdean
<BR>TEACHERS & TOPICS:
<BR> DOLORES on the creativity of the senses
<BR> MINEARSIA helps focus our creative energy
<BR> BAKIM, an artisan, provides a poem in keeping
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<BR>DOLORES: Happy Saturday, everybody. I am Dolores. I am happy to be here in
<BR>your presence, in the beauty, joy of your lives. How creative is Our
<BR>Essence, and the universe in which we live!
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<BR>In the abundance of possibility is the horn of plenty -- colors, tastes,
<BR>sounds, smells, textures -- senses are all a part of a pattern of your lives
<BR>-- much like a box of crayola colors or a sewing box of thread/ cord/ twine/
<BR>yarn and other textiles -- to weave into the fabric of your lives.
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<BR>Expand your sense! Examine your understanding of sense.
<BR> A dark cloud, a gloomy day, is akin to a grey attitude, one without
<BR>color, one without enthusiasm. A crowd of people also can represent a
<BR>palette of color or sensation. There is so much to be learned about the
<BR>universe through the senses. These powerful influences on your sense of
<BR>well-being will be a part of your personality composition forever, even as it
<BR>expands to include an explosion of yet more and varied senses as you climb
<BR>the ladder toward perfection.
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<BR>But for now, little ones,
<BR> like children larking on a summer day,
<BR>plunge into the sense of wonder
<BR> which is your mortal life.
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<BR>If you have found your mortal life to be on such an even keel as to depict
<BR>only neutral colors, change some of your patterns in order to bring in some
<BR>accent. A monotone may on one hand invoke a meditative state, as intonation
<BR>of chanting, but it can also be an indication of a tediously dull mental rut
<BR>of brown and morose depression. Thus, add a little tinkle, a little toot, to
<BR>your monotone.
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<BR>In embellishing the pattern of your lives with a sprig of peppermint here or
<BR>a branch of fruit blossoms there you have altered your environment, and often
<BR>in altering your environment <I>in your mind</I> you are impressed again with your
<BR>environment as you live it, seeing anew the common everyday miracles of life.
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<BR>Our Divine Parents are the quintessential Creators. They are the ones who
<BR>are having fun, and they have even created those points of gravity and power
<BR>that uphold the universe, much like your inventions and high-technology in
<BR>fact uphold your many soirees into creativity, thus allowing your mind/ heart
<BR>an opportunity again to probe around in the recesses of reality in order to
<BR>come up with yet another greeting card for your fellows or a post card of the
<BR>Supreme for your own enjoyment.
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<BR>Just as a sprig of the current blossom or the taste of the fruit in season
<BR>will give you a sense of continuity, so will an exotic off-color or abstract
<BR>tone lend new dimension to that which has become familiar and customary.
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<BR>As an exercise, I'd like for you to consider the associates of your immediate
<BR>era, your current sociology – the people you interact with: your family and
<BR>friends, your contemporaries and associates. How many of these individuals
<BR>are you able to communicate with readily? And to what degree? To what
<BR>extent? To what depth? To what purpose?
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<BR>The Master used parables often in his dealings with his associates in order
<BR>to convey a reality essence in the face of the incredible differences in each
<BR>individual's psychic composition. You can add another dimension to your
<BR>relationships by breaking out of the mold of logic and linear reasoning, the
<BR>typical responses of custom and convention, by adding a creative touch that
<BR>will change the look of the environment you share with your associates, even
<BR>in the environment of your mental rapport or your emotional connection. You
<BR>thus give new life to your environment and bring new and refreshing vistas to
<BR>the mind's eye of your associates, even new dimensions of awareness, by your
<BR>use of adding a dimension of the senses to your routine mental exchanges,
<BR>social exchanges.
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<BR>Those of you who have been with the Teachers for a decade, those of you who
<BR>have sat at the feet of the teachers and humbly absorbed, like a dry sponge,
<BR>the living waters that come forth, spewing from Our Father through the
<BR>personalities of the Teacher Corp and through the mouths of the many T/R's
<BR>who yearn to serve – your lives are altered eternally as a result of the
<BR>stimuli that has come to you through this simple experience of learning to
<BR>listen with ears to hear.
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<BR>The sensitivity of your new perception invites a knowledge of otherness,
<BR>other views, of infinity and finitude. You thus can learn to see with eyes
<BR>to see as a result of hearing and being stirred within. Your vistas are
<BR>altered now because of the perspective you are able to grasp and sustain as
<BR>you go about your lives.
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<BR>It is often difficult, it is sometimes impossible, to introduce a
<BR>conversation, a concept that will bring relief, ease the fears, soften the
<BR>edges, appeal to the childlike nature, of the people you encounter. Even
<BR>emotionally individuals are frequently unavailable, and so the common, human
<BR>touch of empathy and compassion is thwarted, and so we look farther and
<BR>deeper for still other ways to make a connection, to reach our fellow men, to
<BR>let them know the Father is in their lives if they but notice.
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<BR>And sometimes the simple act of touching another is a way of making supreme
<BR>contact. A tone of voice is able to speak volumes. The color you choose to
<BR>wear is a message. The flavor of your attitude is able to be tasted by those
<BR>who you encounter and so you will be recognized as to how you feel, and if
<BR>you are bitter, or sweet, if your attitude is salty or creamy, it will be an
<BR>effective method of communicating to another sentient creature what words may
<BR>not be able to convey.
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<BR>I offer a new understanding of your senses as language, as creative artistry.
<BR> If you can begin to express yourself in and through your personality you may
<BR>find that you your Self are a master, an artist, a skilled artisan, in ways
<BR>that only you and your Divine Guide can realize, but that all who pass by you
<BR>will retain as a part of the creative expression of you in conjunction with
<BR>Divinity.
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<BR>Our Creator has no limitations on possibilities. I invite you to expand your
<BR>appreciation of your creative possibilities and take authority over your
<BR>Self, your approach to service, to ministry, to personality expression, by
<BR>giving yourself permission to be an extension of the Creator in and through
<BR>his creativity as it can be understood by the mortal creatures of time and
<BR>space -- your children, your spouse, your neighbors, your co-workers --
<BR>bringing the reality of divinity even further into your arena through
<BR>conscious effort, conscientious effort in awareness and artistry.
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<BR>I would like to engage with others. I would like to have a classroom filled
<BR>with students, each having a box in which his and her creative tools are
<BR>brought into company with others, for in this way it is possible for
<BR>stimulation to occur such that each of you can look to your friend and
<BR>neighbor and see there, in their box of tools, a perspective on the contents
<BR>that may not be apparent to its owner, and in fellowship of sharing, it is
<BR>exciting – It is pink and yellow! It is lime green! – to see how a simple
<BR>idea can ascend to new heights of ecstasy and excitement in and through the
<BR>creative imagination.
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<BR>Have you been conditioned to believe that creativity is for a certain type of
<BR>individual but not for you? Have you been conditioned to believe that it is
<BR>an impractical pass time? Inefficient, ineffectual, impractical? Have you
<BR>been taught that your creative nature is frivolous? Superfluous? Childish?
<BR>That it is an attempt to avoid responsibility? A good excuse to be a
<BR>perpetual player? And that creativity is not work? Is without value?
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<BR>What a travesty! This is tantamount to saying that God is not loving, is not
<BR>joyous, is not radiant, but is indeed a stern judge, a hard task master, a
<BR>jealous and demanding disciplinarian. But none of those descriptive
<BR>adjectives are my Parent! I do not resemble such an entity and I am my
<BR>Father's daughter. I recognize when I am like my Father, when my nature is
<BR>in tune with the harmony of the spheres. I recognize how my energies are
<BR>compatible to the Divine in the exquisite dance that we engage in as we brush
<BR>upon the air of our union.
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<BR>I urge you to see beyond the veil of your culture and your training if your
<BR>training has taught you to "grow up!" and leave your childlike nature behind.
<BR> It is an encouraged elective in the Melchizedek Universities, the
<BR>opportunity to spend a thousand years in company with the celestial artisans,
<BR>in order for you to augment your understand-ing of a creative nature. It is
<BR>as essential a curriculum as it is to learn to parent, in terms of
<BR>understanding how the nature of God is visited upon his sons and daughters.
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<BR>Once you have learned to play together, it will be possible then for you to
<BR>learn how to work together. Communication is such a critical art form, and
<BR>your rational minds, your adult intentions, and your assumption of your own
<BR>maturity - not to mention your perception of your own authority - are enough
<BR>to cramp your toes as your feet grow out of the shoes that were fitted on you
<BR>for ages long past. Your creativity has become crippled by the binding of
<BR>restraints upon your childlike nature with its plethora of creative potential.
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<BR>"Creator, On High, I implore you to come into the souls of your children with
<BR>all the senses given them in the initial pattern. Invite them to realize how
<BR>wondrous is this human experience which is made more wonderful by the senses
<BR>allowed and encouraged by You, beloved Parent. Through your creative nature
<BR>You have created the vast hosts of space; You have created more personalities
<BR>and depictions of perfection than we have capacity to understand, but we
<BR>fully appreciate and adore Your wonders to behold. Give our simple hearts
<BR>and minds to realize the goodness inherent in Your creative nature and let us
<BR>feel free to make it our own. Help us to portray You, Father-Mother, as You
<BR>portray YourSelves in the fields of daisies, the singing winds in treetops,
<BR>the smell of salt sea air in front of the pounding surf. Give us to
<BR>appreciate our own creative natures and help us to portray You in our own
<BR>rendition of what gifts you have given us, Your delightful children, who
<BR>yearn to honor You and reveal You to others, that they too may learn anew the
<BR>joys of being Yours."
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