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<BR>DATE: August 25, 2001
<BR>LOCATION: Spokane, WA
<BR>T/R: Gerdean
<BR>TEACHER: MULLERIN
<BR> TOPIC: Human Association 101, Elemental Fraternity
<BR> Theme: The Game's the Thing!
<BR>
<BR>"Take me out to the ball game
<BR>Take me out to the crowd
<BR>Buy me some peanuts and cracker jacks
<BR>I don't care if we ever get back
<BR> and it's
<BR>Root, Root Root for the home team
<BR>If they don't win it's a shame
<BR> for it's
<BR>One, Two, Three strikes you're out
<BR>At the old ball game."
<BR>
<BR>THOROAH: Harry Carey would have been proud.
<BR>
<BR>MULLERIN: Is Harry Carey the author of the song?
<BR>
<BR>THOROAH: No, he was a baseball announcer in Chicago who made it so popular
<BR>because he sang it so bad. Unabashedly he would sing the song with joy but
<BR>it would sound awful.
<BR>
<BR>MULLERIN: How many of us sing our alma mater off key? It is a simple theme
<BR>on a simple Saturday afternoon on a summers day in peacetime U.S.A. The
<BR>game's the thing! The home team indicates the one to root for, the one which
<BR>you are a member of, part of, belonging to. From the owner, the coach, the
<BR>referees, the players, the water boys and the mascot, there is a native charm
<BR>to neighborhood loyalty.
<BR>
<BR>The galactic neighborhood indeed is a serious expansion of what it means to
<BR>be part of the neighborhood, because in the farther view you're all a part of
<BR>the same family, and so your orientation is greater and allows a lot more of
<BR>the sporting life to go on under the big umbrella. But in the regional
<BR>picture, there is character development to be found in the association of
<BR>like-minded believers.
<BR>
<BR>The culture of religion is not unlike the culture of nations. There are
<BR>patterns of behavior - superstitions, belief systems, foods, costumes, rites,
<BR>rituals, flavors - of all manner that gives variation to relationship. There
<BR>is comfort in kinship, but there is the adventure lure of learning about the
<BR>ways others think, believe, work and live which opens doors and avenues of
<BR>communication to new neighborhoods, new districts.
<BR>
<BR>These ventures can be made when you have your feet firmly planted in your
<BR>faith field, and as your support system of spirit associations (even human
<BR>spiritual associations) provides the essential support much as the family is
<BR>the foundation of the young person growing up and learning how to reach
<BR>beyond the confines of his immediate siblings.
<BR>
<BR>Of course, you play to win! That's the point of a good game, to overcome the
<BR>odds and be the victor through, by, coordination, skill, luck, talent,
<BR>miracles or whatever ammunition is available, but having the perspective of
<BR>the bigger picture makes it easier for you to be good sports, even to
<BR>attaining the point wherein the issue is not whether you win or lose but how
<BR>you play the game.
<BR>
<BR>I'm a visiting teacher, bringing another lesson in Human Associations 101,
<BR>Elemental Fraternity. It has to do with sovereignty, much like teams have to
<BR>abide by the rules, much like individuals have to abide by the rules, of the
<BR>association and the culture and the country and mores in which they find
<BR>themselves.
<BR>
<BR>Human Associations 101 is a study of the brotherhood of man, the gathering
<BR>together of sons and daughters in service not only to the Supreme but to the
<BR>Most Highs. There are always going to be forerunners. There must be
<BR>leaders. They are not excluded from the lessons in fraternity that are
<BR>essential to the accomplishment of the divine purpose.
<BR>
<BR>I am Mullerin. I am practicing for future greatness. Have you got questions?
<BR>
<BR>THOROAH: (Chuckling) I was reading that as you are on the same boat that the
<BR>rest of us are on, "practicing for future greatness".
<BR>
<BR>MULLERIN: Indeed. I appreciate your humor.
<BR>
<BR>THOROAH: I like the game and team analogies and allegories given to us. It
<BR>made me think that Europe is more of a phenomenon than we tend to give it
<BR>credit. I think in this country we have a swelled head over the fact that
<BR>we've had a united country for so long, and I look at Europe as being divided
<BR>all up, but I look at Europe now - with what you were talking about, the
<BR>culture, in each country - and they actually get along with everybody, being
<BR>able to live their culture side by side. We're having a little difficulty
<BR>dealing with that now. Over there, the cultures are together naturally, only
<BR>they're in countries. Over here, we're trying to mix all of these together
<BR>in a porridge and we're having a little problem dealing with people when they
<BR>are attracted to each other and grouping off.
<BR>
<BR>MULLERIN: I think it's true. I‘d like to remark about Europe. It is so
<BR>much older than your country, and there is nothing quite like experience.
<BR>The history that resounds in the countries of Europe is/are hundreds and
<BR>hundreds and hundreds of years old. You are rookies by comparison, and you
<BR>have an entirely different view of your reality because, in part, it is so
<BR>new. The independent spirit is uppermost in your thinking. Individuality is
<BR>a hallmark of Americans.
<BR>
<BR>But you are so young, you are limited by the resources you bring to the
<BR>table. The skills are certainly as well honed as any, and technologically
<BR>you are skimming right along, but the sense of longevity and endurance is
<BR>missing. It does almost seem as if a trend is underway conspiring to allow
<BR>each individual a sense of freedom and independence whether he wants it or
<BR>not.
<BR>
<BR>The timing is such that it's necessary for individuals to be able to think
<BR>for themselves and make those decisions in their innermost self which impacts
<BR>so greatly on everything and everyone, but this liberation matter (womens'
<BR>liberation, mens' liberation, human liberation, spiritual liberation) is
<BR>making it difficult for the little clans and clusters of yesteryear to
<BR>continue to find favor in such a swarming humanity.
<BR>
<BR>The ideal, of course, is to lead into a trust. If you have all your cards on
<BR>the table, it's possible then to see how you operate. It's the era, it would
<BR>seem, for bringing all the dark secrets out of the closets and putting them
<BR>on the table to be seen, revealing the inner workings of institutions of long
<BR>standing, exposing corruption. It's a part of the age. No more are you
<BR>allowed to hide behind the walls of cultural association or gender difference
<BR>or language barriers.
<BR>
<BR>The trend is to fling open the doors and windows wide and see how the other
<BR>guy lives. When you see that others live in peace and you, too, can live in
<BR>peace, with your family, your clan, your culture, when competition is
<BR>redirected into a healthy game instead of a cut-throat occupation, areas
<BR>enhance each other and compliment each other, even as they retain their own
<BR>unique and individual personality or flavor.
<BR>
<BR>I'm not having much cooperation from this receiver. We don't seem to have a
<BR>good connection. I'm going to send in someone else. (There's nobody there.)
<BR> Okay, good-bye.
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