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<P>Group: Northern Colorado TeaM Group, Lesson #18</P>
<DIV>Topics: <STRONG>Development of Intentional
Communities</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV>
Visualizing a 3-D construct of an
individual</DIV>
<DIV>
Integrated agencies and communities</DIV>
<DIV>
Preserving individual uniqueness</DIV>
<DIV> Optimal
community size</DIV>
<DIV>
Meaningful existence of contributing
individuals</DIV>
<DIV>
The need for an "inventor of
education"</DIV>
<DIV>
The teaching of morals and ethics</DIV>
<DIV>
Higher ethical development</DIV>
<DIV>
The rearing of children</DIV>
<DIV>
Dealing with homelessness</DIV>
<DIV>
Re-inventing society</DIV>
<P>Teacher: <B>Rayson</B> (TR Daniel)</P><B>
<P>June 2, 2002</P></B></FONT><FONT size=2></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>
<P>This is Rayson; I will speak here in the beginning rather than Daniel. Do
your usual merkaba work, your connection, and your intentions, your invocations
and commitments. See the mind line, and the heart line and all the lines of the
merkaba. We wish you to relax at this time, we know that you study <I>the
Urantia Book</I> during the middle of the week, and oftentimes each of you is
very busy during the remainder of the days of the week and you come to TM and
you listen attentively. Today we would like to give you space, an extended
period of time for quietude, for your time to receive solace and guidance and
information from your teachers and from Michael and Nebadonia. So we will have
an extended repose for meditation, and you can use this time to use the merkaba
to send energy to others or for your own use. This is a quiet time to enjoy, so
be prepared for an extended time of quiet. (Very long pause.) And now
consciously rejoin the group, please. You may open your eyes for a few moments
before we begin.</P>
<P>When you go into meditation, such as these quiet times, when your mind is not
working on its own but under guidance of your will, and you have some spiritual
work to do, you will find yourself extending out into the universe to assist
others, to make contact, to be receptive. And sometimes you simultaneously feel
the "glowing presence of light" of your Thought Adjuster within you. And
sometimes you feel the glow of all God’s love and presence surrounding you, and
this comes fairly close to the truth of your being in the larger universe, that
is under the First Source and Center’s watch-care. There is needed time to do
this, to feel this, to reconnect. It is not always an intellectual pursuit of
some goal, of some training, but practicing the presence, your presence meeting
the presence of the Creator within you, which is ironically infinite and yet so
finite. And this is the juxtaposition you will be in for the duration of your
spiritual careers, even through your Uversa educational experiences. It is good
to know this and feel this from time to time. And we want to provide these
opportunities to you as well as the lessons.</P>
<P>Let us continue then with the development of intentional community. The
following construct may be a bit difficult for some of you to visualize; for
others of you, it will be quite easy. But I want you to visualize a
two-dimensional schematic of a community. You’ve done this before, you’ve seen
organizational maps, organizational structures on two-dimensions, and in this
case, the focus is upon the individual. Last time we met, we spoke about the
"intention of community" is to raise and develop and to grow individuals who are
of soul-survivable capacity, to be integrated with a larger community, to make a
contribution in a meaningful way. So this schematic has the individual at a
point or a nexus; from that person radiate connecting lines to all agencies,
facilities, organizations, bodies that assist in the growth, support,
maintenance and development of the individual. </P>
<P>As comment on two-dimensional organizational charts, flow charts, they are
grossly inadequate and really give an erroneous perspective of the course of
events, such as in a complex case as community’s support for the individual, and
in return, the individual’s support of the community. So what I would like you
to do with the organizational chart is to turn it into three-dimensions; it now
has depth. And let us also give it another dimension, of time. And the way you
would record time in this three-dimensional organizational chart is from a flow,
starting from a point, let’s say on your left and it flows through time as it
proceeds to the right, so that the length of this chart would be for the
duration of the individual’s life, a "full life." So what you would end up with
is a rather large tube, a three-dimensional tube, with the flow of time from
left to right.</P>
<P>You must realize that the individual begins at a point in time before their
arrival at birth, and so the agencies and organizations that have an affect, an
effect, (both) on the individual, begins with the procreative parents shortly
before the time of their creation in the womb. (I know you can follow this as
you have also visualized the merkaba, the mind line and the heart line.) In this
case we will make it a little bit more complex because the organizational chart
will change at each significant phase of the individual’s career as a growing
mortal. And how you would do that is to have the individual as the center, at
some point in this three-dimensional construct, and then highlight the agencies
in a bright color that would be connected to the individual, so there would be
an open phase before the creation of the individual in the womb, and then
shortly thereafter, there would be agencies such as "Community Nutrition,"
"Family Emotional Health," some kind of "Family Services," and procreative
agencies in the community that would assist the mother and father during the
early phases. And as you may suspect, as you move through the trimesters of the
pregnancy, the highlighted agencies would grow, the numbers of agencies would
light up as the individual, still in the womb, travels through time to the point
of birth, and so on through the remainder of their life. There would be "Home
Education," "Nutrition," the "Home Environment," in all it’s broadest
perspectives. The individual, or parents early in their life, would have access
to all the resources necessary at those time periods for the development of the
individual, infant and child growing into adult as they age. This may sound
complex, but it is not, really, as each of you has had these experiences
already. It simply is a matter of recording these agencies, the individual’s
growth and development, and how to maximize their potentials that are inherent
within them, when they come into the world and as they grow and develop through
their lifetime.</P>
<P>And each of you, let us say for example, is living in an intentional
community, and each of you is working in one of these agencies. And so, you, in
your respective agency, whether it is "Home Health," "Home Nutrition," "Home
Education," whatever it might be, would then, look upon the individual, and in
this case the infant and also the mother and the father, as your clients. How
would you structure or develop your agency to assist and support these
individuals at these times? You would see that the broad mission of your agency
would have different goals and different objectives as the individual matures.
If you reflect upon the organization of your governmental structure, whether it
is the county or the city, the state, and the federal government, there is a
tremendous fracturing and separation among and between all these agencies. </P>
<P>But in intentional communities that will develop on this world as they have
on other worlds, they will all be <B>integrated</B>, all flow together. It is as
though you were living and working in a very large, but efficient and effective
corporation where you always are examining for areas that are ignored or
overlooked or neglected. And you give the same importance to those issues as you
do to the taxation structure, generation of income for your governmental bodies.
This plan is a plan for the development of cohesive, enduring communities.
Communities that not only beget individuals who are of soul-survivable capacity,
but also in the development of community that is enduring, that works. </P>
<P>You in this nation that is so very young, have only begun to see the pulling
together of the elements of your society into cohesive, coordinative efforts.
Take for example the drought situation, which has developed, in this state, in
this region of the United States. Some citizens are consciously holding back on
watering their lawns and using water in different ways than they used to. Yet
some individuals fear that the drought is coming and so they use even more water
now, so that their grass will remain green in the event that they have to cut
back. And others yet, are continuing life as usual, waiting for the mandate from
the governmental agencies to say, "We are now moving into emergency water
restrictions." In an intentional community, water is a primary resource, one
upon which you are dependent for your survivability and quality of life, a
resource that is not squandered, but used reasonably. When people become aware
that there is a drought they begin eliminating certain activities with water.
You may guess already that wherever this intentional community lies
geographically, it is all groomed using indigenous species of plants so that the
plants that are used survive quite well. Yet even in an arid community, there
may be certain areas that are kept green, to be used for public recreation, for
the use of all people.</P>
<P>Planning of intentional communities begins early on, yet very few intentional
communities will spring up solely by themselves in new geographic areas. The
intentional communities that you will see in decades to come are those that
evolve or develop out of contiguous geographic areas, whether they are four
blocks square, one block square, four miles square, or forty miles square. It
will be a conscious commitment by each individual to participate. These
intentional communities most likely will come into existence simply because of
the necessity of their existence to survive.</P>
<P>What values would an intentional community have? Would selfishness survive
well? Probably not, it would stick out much as a sore thumb. Yet, while each
individual has access to all the resources, they are unique in themselves, a
wonderful quality, which needs to be preserved. It is exceptional, unique
individuals who make exceptional results. Those individuals who have less
capacity than those of truly exceptional ability, and those with great
limitations due to their congenital difficulties in life, will require
innovative solutions to maximize their potentials. As we said last time, all of
you will arrive in the future. Those individuals who have congenital
difficulties, those who have abnormal social behaviors, will be there too. What
will be different is a conscious effort to minimize the development of those
characteristics that do not contribute to the individual’s exploration and
development of the potential that lies within them, and the maximization of
their latent potentials. </P>
<P>As we said, congenital difficulties will be removed in centuries to come. It
is not an issue of eugenics, my friends; it is a matter simply of <B>getting the
best results from what you have</B>. Each of you now would certainly be willing
to give up congenital near-sightedness, congenital issues related to brain
development, neural difficulties, muscular issues, and degenerative bone
problems. And wouldn’t you wish for the strengthening of your immune system
without allergies, for instance? We are really <B>not</B> talking about
developing a "super race" or "super individual;" simply using the individual
gene structure that you have now, maximizing it, while eliminating those things
which are self-destructive, self-deteriorating, and maximizing those which
contribute to your well-being. You have in your chromosomal gene structures,
genes that have been shut down or shut off, which could now help you a great
deal in overcoming many difficulties. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have these
turned on, so that you would be protected, so that you could maximize—simply use
that which you have—and it would not be neglected or cared for through medical
processes.</P>
<P>The intentional community is truly that in all regards; it is "intentional,"
and it reaches into every aspect of your being, of your living, and of the
development of new individuals. Would you willingly bring a child into your
life, one who has great potential with the opportunities to maximize their
intelligence, balance, spiritual growth and development and then be struck down
at age twenty or twenty-one due to some congenital issue? What a tragedy! Would
you be willing to accept that in the name of what you call "normalcy?" I doubt
it, if you had a choice. And we are not speaking of mediocrity; we are not
speaking of you being the same as other people, doing the same things, living
the same way; but living in socially adjusted ways that maximizes your potential
to express itself as <B>the unique individual that God created</B>, that could
be brought into existence through conscious living.</P>
<P>I would imagine that some of you are having difficulty with this flow chart
that I pointed out to you or tried to devise in your minds. Do you have
questions about that now? I wish this to be clear, as this is an important
construct for the <B>development of the intentional community agencies</B> in
all regards. You engineer-types, do you see it?</P>
<P>Student: I can certainly see a flow chart of that nature; I used that
frequently in projects. My first inclination would be, from a personal nature,
to start with time zero being "now," looking at all those aspects, but then from
your further comments, it seems that there was real value in starting with the
birth, so that you identify all of the agencies that you might neglect, starting
at a later phase in life. (Yes) And so I see that, obviously, it does have a
bearing.</P>
<P>Rayson: The benefit of beginning from the immediate time <B>before</B>
procreation occurs is to identify the agencies that will be needed and necessary
to support the care and development of the individual’s potential as they age.
Doing so, you will identify agencies, organizations, and bodies of service that
even now do not exist. And so, the next step is as you see, is to then start
from time zero now, to identify those agencies which can be integrated
immediately into an intentional community, and then to develop new agencies to
fill in the gaps where those do not exist at this time. Other comments?</P>
<P>Student: In trying to visualize the communities, how large are you seeing
them? I’m trying to visualize if we are talking about small neighborhoods or
whether you are talking multiple townships. Can you clarify that?</P>
<P>Rayson: Certainly. In the beginning, you will need a prototype to begin and
there already exist some prototype communities in the world. Most are not
complete and most do not have in existence the spectrum of agencies and services
necessary to serve individual’s growth, which also gives meaningful employment
to those who live there. In the beginning, we are talking about a community that
is perhaps 500 to 1000 individuals. But eventually, as your society grows and
matures and sees the benefit of these, there will also be a maximum or optimum
size of community, which in true reality would be groupings, constellations of
communities within a larger—I would not call it metropolitan or urban
development—as much as a cohesive, integrated, larger mega-community of perhaps
half a million people. This would be the maximum size to give the quality of
life that is necessary, and also provide the full spectrum of services that
individuals would need, which would not be provided for in the smaller
communities in which they live. For smaller communities there is no arbitrary
size other than it being a functionally sized organization and grouping of
families and neighborhoods sufficient to provide the services necessary to
fulfill the philosophy and mission of the community. </P>
<P>But would it take one person per agency? Perhaps so. One person, who may work
in a satellite office, coordinated by a more centralized office. If you were
thinking of a storeowner, let’s say you were having gas stations, how many gas
stations would you need for a given community? Depends on the number of cars and
the traffic flow. How many small neighborhood pizza parlors would you need, or
grocery stores? So the services that are provided in an intentional community
are very similarly devised and developed and put in place. Depends on the
service need. How many schools, for instance, could one community nurse serve?
Perhaps you would need one nurse per school, perhaps two. Perhaps they would
have other capacities besides physical well being, but emotional well being as
well, and so on.</P>
<P>In the beginning stages of intentional community development, you will be
dealing with only the most gross, large functions necessary to help a community
survive and sustain itself. In time, it will become more complex and replete in
its services to the individual, and so, becomes a more meaningful place to live.
If you think back to decades in the past, you will see that sometimes
individuals were raised in a community from which they adventure out but return.
For in that community, much is provided to them that is satisfying and of
interest to them for the development and fulfillment of their lives. So too,
communities in the future will not be boring places but interesting, where there
are meaningful contacts and meaningful experiences by individuals as you have
had. We are not talking about social automatons, spiritual automatons at all,
but individuals who live in a dynamic society where they can move and go from
place to place. </P>
<P>Your services may not be needed in your immediate community, but in another
one in another state or region of the country in which you live, so you would
move. And this will happen over and over as it does today. But more and more,
people will find solace and continuity in their lives where they live, and go to
other places knowing that their lives would only be slightly different than
where they came from. But this is centuries in the future. Now, these plans are
given to you as a template for you to examine and for possible and probable
implementation in the future. It will take you much time to develop a conscious
effort and you will know when to do this, for there will be a necessity around
you that requires this to occur. As I am speaking to you today, there are with
me a contingency of community developers who stand with me, providing
information to me as I give it through this individual to you. These individuals
are Celestial Teachers who have come from, and have their origins and mortal
existence on planets that had intentional communities. They have great
experience and through their training on the celestial spheres, they have a much
more complete grasp of community development, and particularly through the
Correcting Time and the Community Mission effort, their training is specific for
your planet at this time, as it is specific for the other planets that came out
of quarantine. There is much to do on all these planets, and there is a great
deal to do on yours. Although your nation is prosperous, it has taken the ethos
of the rugged individual to the far extremes where the individual is left alone
to stand and to survive on their own without the supports of community. It also
provides a very warped perspective of integration in your society, as there is
an endemic selfishness, which is not to be admired, or encouraged. Yet we do not
encourage individuals to become dependent upon social agencies for their
support, but to become contributors in meaningful ways to their own life, and to
the life and function and survival of others, becoming a sustaining influence in
their own individual right in their community.</P>
<P>There is much to overcome, yet this rugged individualism is also to be
admired because it has created in many of you a sense of hope, of capability to
move forward and to make a difference in a land of millions of individuals.
Would it not be a very disparate situation if you felt you were incapable and
could not make a contribution? In the future in an intentional community, each
of you will know you have potential to make a tremendous impact upon your
community, and especially upon the course of your life; that your life is
intentional and so is your community, and that it is not required that you make
a contribution to it, but that you become integrated into it; for the individual
who does not, will stand apart and be alone. And as you know from your readings
in <I>The Urantia Book</I>, there is no existence apart from the social entity
from which you come, for then you lose identity and the meaningfulness of your
existence and the way of maximizing the potential that lies within you. </P>
<P>Therefore, these influences, these philosophies will guide your mental health
programs, your emotional development programs for the right growth of
individuals. So too, will people need to know that they have a meaningful
contribution to make and to participate through their employment. Most everyone
will feel a connection to all others, even when they are on a tractor in the
midst of a very large field, that they are making a contribution that day to the
sustenance and maintenance of their community and to the larger state. You do
not need to be a physician or an educator to make these contributions or to feel
that, but to know that you are there. And whereas today, your meaningfulness is
measured in monetary terms, in the future, your contributions will be measurable
not only in the quality of your life, but in the quality of your thoughts, the
quality of your presence and the sureness of your presence therein in the
community.</P>
<P>Student: Rayson, I have a question. You’ve mentioned particularly in regard
to the current educational system where children are placed in classes according
to their age rather than by evaluating their capabilities and skills and placing
them accordingly. I’m wondering how I might, in this present state of affairs,
have a positive influence. I know that our educational system needs considerable
revamping, yet it seems that to abandon the public education system and go to
charter schools is not really the answer. So I am wondering where I or we might
make a more farsighted contribution in this area?</P>
<P>Rayson: Certainly. Think of your schools as a resource, rather than a
structure that is crystallized in formality and organization. Think of this
school and educators and all materials that are in that school as resources for
the individual. Rather than thinking of classrooms as graded according to age,
think of them as graded according to function. What are the main things that are
taught in your schools, the ones that help survivability and the endurance of
your communities? You need to have reading, of course, and so you would have a
classroom for reading. Rather than for the first grade, you’d have a classroom
for first level of reading capability and children would come to that classroom
and begin reading. There would be a classroom for beginning mathematics,
arithmetic, and so on. And there may be children in the basic reading who are 4
years old, they may be 5 years old, they may be 15 years old. It provides a
service for their reading capability at which they can receive guidance and
assistance and support and encouragement in their learning process. When they
learn to read, they "test out" of that classroom and proceed to the next
classroom. For those individuals who are super achievers, or who have high
capability of learning quickly, they can move through the reading system rather
rapidly. And the reading would then not only be matched to their reading
capability, but their intellectual capacity to understand that which they read.
If there are eight year old children who understand philosophical theorems that
are now presented in college, they should therefore be allowed and encouraged to
participate in reading and intellectual discovery at that level. Yet, there are
individuals who are age eight who read less than those who are age five or six,
and they should be reading at that earlier level. And so reading is not only a
means of understanding letters and words, but also of understanding content. It
becomes related to a supportive function of mind development, or intellectual
development for understanding higher concepts, and then reading becomes an
adjunct to that process. Eventually reading becomes phased out as a significant,
meaningful event or activity in their lives, but then becomes material that
contributes to their understanding of their placement and their growth in the
community and their culture and their civilization.</P>
<P>Mathematics would work likewise. You begin understanding numbers and its
function and how it relates to the larger universe of physics, geometry,
trigonometry, and to the understanding of the forces of energy in the universe
that brought about the construction and creation of the universe and its
expansion. There are children who are quite young who have the capacity and
capability of understanding large aspects of mathematics. Mathematics then
becomes a language for understanding the universe. And for their societies,
mathematics becomes a medium for understanding social concepts, for
understanding statistical information about your societies, and interpolating
that into devising a greater understanding of social process. </P>
<P>How do you do make a meaningful contribution? We are even now puzzled in
answering that question, as your society is very much stuck and staid in its
understanding of the educational process. Certainly, Mr. Dewey, who devised your
system back in the 20's and 30’s and even earlier, would be very surprised to
see how it has been developed and abused. And he would surely disagree with how
it must be maintained. You recall that Dewey devised the "Dewey Educational
System Philosophy" due to the necessities of a nation that needed to survive,
needed to educate millions upon millions of individuals who were capable of
working cohesively, and integrated in a larger society. To educate them in their
history, the history of their nation and culture, those individuals who could
become shop clerks, store clerks, and machine shop operators would need to
understand basic mathematic principles and concepts so they could construct the
where-with-all to bring a nation from the horse and buggy era into the
technological era that you see now. Certainly, this was a tremendous miracle,
but the miracle now is to turn individuals into contributing individuals who are
participating as a cohesive part of a larger society – a nation of intentional
communities. </P>
<P>You need an <B>inventor of education</B>, one who could step forward and say
this. This has been said before. We are at a loss for the time being, of how to
make this suggestion ourselves. There are individuals even now who are
contemplating new educational systems. <B>If they would think of the intentional
community, they would soon learn and understand the necessity of delivering
educational services to the level of capability of the individual at whatever
age they are, and helping that individual maximize their potential.</B> I know I
have said this many times, and you will hear it many times more, this is so
important. Know that as this issue is in your consciousness, dear child, it is
also in the consciousness of this race and this nation and other nations. It is
a concern of many and it is being resisted by organizations, whether it is labor
unions or associations of professional educators. They are not necessarily
"scared silly," but they see themselves inside this box so securely that they
cannot see outside the box of their educational philosophies that they have now.
They are stymied as how to take charge or make their wishes and their own dreams
come into being. It is as though everyone were in lock-step but going backwards
or going sideways, and they are waiting for some individual to break from the
ranks and lead them in a new direction. Could that be you? Certainly, you have
the potential to make an influence, your voice will be heard. But by whom?
Hopefully, others will hear it as well. Thank you for your question.</P>
<P>Student: When I was growing up, things like discipline, ethics, and morals
were taught both at home and in the schools. Now I see that one of the problems
is that both the parents and the schools have abdicated that responsibility; and
part of the problem with children learning is that they are so undisciplined and
spend so much time making the classroom chaotic that they do not have an
environment for learning. Could you address this? In a community, is there a
structure that we should "invent" that would re-institute these teachings?
(Rayson: These teachings?) The morals, ethics, values, and self-discipline.</P>
<P>Rayson: Yes, definitely. You have correctly identified the non-system of
ethical education that is existent in your nation now. Parents are unable or
incapable of teaching ethics and morality to their children because they do not
know what it is either. And they are so accepting of the individual child as
another free agent, as though the individual child were an adult, that they are
afraid to teach the child what they "ought" to do, what they "should" do, what
they "must" do. And schools truly are not the place to teach ethics and morality
directly, but as a supportive activity for the function of teaching ethics and
morality in the home. The educational system must re-enforce that which is
taught in the home. When both of these institutions have lost their capacity to
teach ethics and morals, you will enter into a society which is amoral and
unethical, and has the capacity to become a wild card in each individual, loose
cannons, every one, seeking their own ends, and this is extremely dangerous.
</P>
<P>Your society is entering into an era where it is in the process of
self-destructing at the highest levels, where individuals who are earning
millions of dollars a year as executives in corporations, have their own ethical
values based on their own self-aggrandizement of wealth and power, and use their
corporate structure and their shareholders as individuals to provide that,
without any conscious thought of the consequences. The financial debacles that
you have see recently in your large corporate institutions will be repeated many
times. It will cause great havoc in your financial institutions and the flow of
financial capacity throughout the world, and this must be addressed, not as
specifics, but as processes, so these incidents do not occur again. </P>
<P>How do you change the educational system to teach ethics and morals?
First,</FONT><FONT face=Arial color=#ff0000 size=2> </FONT><FONT face=Arial
size=2>begin to see this as a survivability factor. It is not any different than
teaching history; history is about the past. You can integrate ethical and moral
education into the teaching of history, for ethical and moral education has to
do with the <B>future history</B> of your communities and nation. The future is
as important as the past; the past is experience and can act as a teacher, a
source of verifying and validating wisdom that you get, that supports ethics and
morals of a positive, constructive nature. Many of your schools have forgotten
why history is taught; they teach history simply as an accumulation of
significant dates of historical fact, rather than significance of ethical and
moral value. It would be much different if the history lessons were used as
interpretations of human will – expressions of conscious participation (or not,)
in the larger civilization that you live in. So, too, must morals and ethics be
taught in a new history, a new way of looking at the future. This is not about
religion! This is not about religious values. This is about conscious societal
maintenance; it is a function that must exist. Not to teach ethics and morals
and values of a developed society, is to let the" body" deteriorate. It is to
eat popcorn and cotton candy for the rest of your life, thinking that this is
all there is, this is all we need.</P>
<P>Student: I had another image when you were speaking about children in classes
according to their reading level, no matter what age, I remembered several
friends I’ve had over the years who spoke about one-room schools that they were
brought up in, where the older children helped the younger children learn to
read and it was a very community kind of endeavor that each one would help
others along with their specialties. That came to mind as you were talking about
the reading and mathematics classes.</P>
<P>Rayson: Yes, that is a very important aspect of the educational process that
also indoctrinates individuals into providing service to those who come behind.
This is "academic" in our lives as Celestial Teachers. Those who are capable
teach those who come behind them, and this provides assurance that you know what
you have learned, and provides the assurance that you are capable of teaching it
to others. It is also a test of your capacity to participate in a larger
community, whether you are a Celestial Teacher or a mortal. Learning, and then
teaching, assures those who are observers of your life, such as the Ancients of
Days/Unions of Days that you know what you are doing, and that you are capable
of making conscious decisions and moving ahead or not.</P>
<P>Student: It seems to me it’s also the grounding place for the practice of
ethics and morals in helping each other and working in a service capacity.</P>
<P>Rayson: It is one area. The larger proof is in your other relationships,
whether you practice them separately or integrate them. As you know, life is not
a compartmentalized system of boxes of activities, but are inter-related and
inter-connected, so that what you learn in school can be applied in the ethics
of your business, and also the ethics of the consumer/client, as well as the
ethics of a service provider. Always you will be using these ethical and moral
statements and beliefs throughout your life, not isolating them for particular
areas and applying "other ethics" in other areas, but that they are truly
universal. The difficulty of your society now is that there is not the inherent
observance of ethics from within, but only those that are "required." And that
is why many of your laws are failing to help guide individuals into "right
behavior." There is not also the "right behavior thinking" in the individual.
</P>
<P>The next phase of laws then need to involve oversight committees or oversight
processes, that provide observation and analysis of behavior of those
individuals and institutions that have discretion to observe the law or not. You
see in the recent financial debacles that there was the awareness of lawfulness
or not, yet the willfulness not to observe the law. And in this case, perhaps
oversight would have provided that watch-care that is needed for individuals to
voluntarily observe the law, and the ethics required of them. Financial
institutions, such as accountancies, that use the ethics of their trade as they
wish, do not demonstrate the most positive way to proceed. There must be
guidelines, oversight, and definite penalties involved. </P>
<P>The best system is one where individuals are morally and ethically oriented
in their own lives and know that which is wrong and that which is right. We are
not talking about social conscience, but a <B>higher ethical development within
the individual</B>. What you see in your society now is that</FONT><FONT
face=Arial color=#ff0000 size=2> </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>the social
conscience of your society has degenerated to the point where the social
consciousness no longer is sufficient for the individual to voluntarily adhere
to laws. And when this happens, society deteriorates and will come apart at the
seams. It is only through the voluntary participation and observance of social
ethics that your societies stay together and can function into the future. When
this is not done, then the ragged edges of your society will fall apart. And the
hem of law that provides the border between legal and illegal, ethical and
unethical, moral and immoral are then shattered and frayed and gone.</P>
<P>Student: Have we brought about this problem ourselves by making too many
laws, and therefor people become over saturated with laws and they don’t rely of
their own common sense?</P>
<P>Rayson: Creating too many laws is a development of many proportions, one of
which is that it is always trying to cover the loopholes, which creative
individuals can always devise. Creating laws is a way out of taking
responsibility by lawmakers and by individuals who are responsible for adhering
to those laws. True law abiding citizens need few laws. The laws will never make
a lawful society.</P>
<P>Student: This causes me to think of young people, particularly teenagers, who
it seems to me do not have direction toward positive activity, and so they find
themselves seeking amusement or some kind of satisfaction in other activities
like setting fires or torturing animals or the nameless kind of activity that is
hard for us to understand. Why must they go to such lengths to get a thrill? In
looking back on my life, it seemed that young people used to feel a greater
sense of need to contribute to the society. I don’t see that happening
today.</P>
<P>Rayson: This continues to go back to the family. And it goes back even
farther to the ethic of having children. Individuals, who want to procreate and
bring new beings into existence, must ask the question, "Why?" "Why do this?" If
you decide to have children, then to do so responsibly. Children are inherently
creative, curious, always pushing the edges of social acceptance and the
allowances of society, in the family and in the community. This is nothing new.
Yet what is new is the lack of supervision, observation, and guidance, from
parents during the lifetime of the children. Their parents are more involved in
their "material comeuppance" than the "ethical comeuppance" of their children,
to have a larger SUV, a larger house, more material goods, or a huge retirement.
They are working, they’re gone, they’re absent; they have abandoned their
responsibilities as parents, and therefore will cause, create, bring into
existence children who become deviant, or who seek avenues of social adjustment
in a realm which you would not appreciate. </P>
<P>Yet all is not lost, there are many positive influences in your society,
which are kind and benevolent and good toward the uprearing of children. Having
children is becoming more of a conscious process of adults who want to have
children and are taking on and appreciating the responsibilities of having
children. If you think the loss of these individuals to immoral and unethical
living is horrendous, think of the horrendous loss of soul-capacity where
individuals were brought into a large family so they could farm, so that they
could serve a larger corporate family enterprise, and were worked for many
hours; those children who were put into factories by their families because they
could not afford to have them home. These children are souls too, and it is a
matter of perspective that oftentimes is lost in contemporary observation, but
when you look back historically at the rearing of children, and how they were
"used" in past times, it is just as soul-numbing as it is now. In an intentional
community, there are intentional decisions for begetting children or not. And
that when they are brought into existence, it is done with the understanding and
the capacity then to support them through their years of growth and education
where they become self-maintaining individuals, not only contributing to their
own welfare, but to the welfare of the larger community.</P>
<P>Student: Rayson, I’d like to return to the intentional community area. It
seemed to me in the earlier part of the discussion that each of the cities is in
effect, an intentional community of souls. Thinking about Boulder, Colorado and
its approximate population of 100,000 that is well within the limits of a
maximum-sized community. If it’s an intentional community with deficiencies, and
it seems that to address it, addressing those areas I might personally be
looking at, I would have to start looking at the deficiencies that are evident.
First thing that comes to mind are the "homeless"…how to better approach them to
help them "want" to enter into the community.</P>
<P>Rayson: Let me help you with this a bit. When you speak of "homeless," are
you speaking about adults or children? Our concern is for children, and though
they may have a domicile or residence to go to, an address on a street where
they rest their head at night, many could still be labeled as "homeless." A home
requires parents who care, parents who provide supervision. The homeless in your
society will always be with you, and that is a personal choice in many cases,
for there are many services available to individuals, who do not choose to have
responsibility of hearth and home. And in the larger community, you will realize
that there are some who cannot survive in a competitive society, but who must be
free to wander. And in their wandering, provide them with meaningful occupations
that assist in their maintenance, in their livelihood, and give them a positive
contribution to make towards their lives, a meaningful enterprise, no matter how
humble that may be. There are those who are mentally deficient, who are also
emotionally deficient, those who go through an era of great tumult, who have
lost the capability of managing their own affairs, and who must seek asylum in a
place where they would not choose otherwise. </P>
<P>Let me give you a multi-century perspective of the problem here. Your lives
are so brief, you are not capable of being effectively involved in the
reformation of your society and its processes to make a meaningful contribution
that is effective. That your lives are so brief, as capable individuals, that
you cannot see a project from beginning to end, but must hope that there are
others who see your vision, pick it up, and carry it forward. This is where the
Correcting Time, the Community Mission and the Teaching Mission come into
effect. These projects provide a multi-century perspective and influence that
helps guide your social agencies, through individuals such as you, forward in a
meaningful way, even though your contributions are just miniscule, but not
meaningless. It is through this influence that your society will re-invent
itself. It is no wonder that many of you are quite cynical about the possibility
or capability of you being able to influence your social agencies, your
government, the political process, to change or to bring about new processes
which contribute <B>positively</B> and <B>constructively</B> to the rearing of
children into meaningful adults who can make a meaningful contribution in their
lives. The box is so strong that many inside cannot see out, nor wish to. And
those who are outside of the box, as yourselves, see this, see yourselves being
so powerless, of so small a political power, so impotent to socially influence
the processes, that you feel like your capability is non existent. Yet, your
participation here today, tells us and tells yourself that you do have the
willingness to participate. </P>
<P>And even if it is only through your consciousness, your conscious
contribution to race consciousness, that is a meaningful and a powerful
influence, in that you begin to work through your lives to make something
effective in your organizations, to participate in the policy formation, and to
the planning of agencies. Somehow, you will participate in those places; your
inspiration</FONT><FONT face=Arial color=#ff0000 size=2> </FONT><FONT face=Arial
size=2>will be of great influence. This message is for this small group, but yet
for decades and centuries ahead, for thousands of individuals who are seeking
meaningful participation in their community and do not know how to do so, even
if it is just simply your consciousness and your desire and your intention (and
you must, of course, declare your intention,) that you make an influence. And if
you sit upon a planning commission or board that has influence, then you have
the opportunity to contribute in a meaningful way, for the effective development
of policies and laws and regulations help move your system forward. Currently,
your educational systems throughout America are in a morass and are in great
disarray, and have proven their ineffectiveness to produce individuals of
ethical and moral capability, except when an individual chooses to take on those
responsibilities! It is not hopeless, by any means, but it is a daunting task,
and we have set upon this to help correct this. It is only through individuals
such as you, and those who read these transcripts, those new changes can take
place. For when you co-creatively and intentionally participate with us, in
assisting the development of your societies, you <B>will have assistance</B>,
where ever you are. Declare it and we will be there! We are already ahead of
you, waiting for you.</P>
<P>Student: Rayson, I have a question that hinges on a previous entry in the
intentional community that has to do with homelessness. You mentioned that these
homeless people are in most cases, intentionally homeless in terms of the
physical structure and the responsibility that would go with that. In an
intentional community, you also mentioned that these people would always be with
us because they have chosen that path. Therefore, I can only gather that in an
intentional community that you are speaking of, we would then give some
consideration to these individuals’ choices. And something sprung to mind when
you said that, much as though when people individually walk into a restaurant
and seek the big table, the community table, or the breakfast bar, perhaps in an
intentional community as you’re speaking of, this kind of provision would be
there for these individuals, a group home, or a home that is provided for by
some means through their working a job, or whatever it is that they can
contribute, but instead of having an individual home, with a family and the
whole business, maybe they would provide a form of taxation [?] where they would
have a place to hang their hat in a community environment with others of similar
choosing. Is this something that would be part of an intentional community?</P>
<P>Rayson: That is exactly what I was alluding to, yes. It would be provided.
However, in an intentional community, you would not allow "hobo havens" as this
contributes to their further deterioration and vagrancy and is not socially
responsible by the larger community to allow this. This is the only part where
little choice is provided in an intentional community, is that the individuals
can travel about as they want, from city to city, community to community, but
these services are always provided, and in every community it is known that it
is not allowed that individuals could camp out under bridges or behind
stores.</P>
<P>Student: No necessity to beg?</P>
<P>Rayson: No necessity to beg, but always the opportunity to provide service
and receive maintenance. If you are going to live in a group home, a shelter for
the homeless, then you are welcome to live there, but you will be required to
cook or clean or paint or maintain, sweep the parking lot, be of service to
other agencies in work groups. Almost all of the agencies and services that you
can think of for the future intentional community already exist. It is simply
thinking of them as providing services in new ways, or to clients in different
perspectives. It is to re-invent your communities, or to re-invent your society,
your social process. Yes, there will be fewer options for vagrant living, but
there will be greater opportunities for contributory living. Your freedoms will
not be lost, but how it affects others may be taken into consideration.</P>
<P>I wish you to think upon these issues in the next two weeks, and raise
questions in your mind, speak to us during these two weeks, as you have
opportunity to, and share your thoughts with us. This is a large project and can
only be completed with your participation and that of others in the future. We
are surely focused upon our work and these activities, as we know what is and
will come into existence eventually. We do not know when, but we know it will,
as there are only certain social constructs of community that can survive, and
others will self-destruct. It is a matter of finding what works, and assists the
survival of individuals and community, and replicating those issues, those
factors, and discarding those that do not contribute to the survival of all and
to the individual. As time passes, there will be less and less exploration into
new areas, as those areas have been explored and proven to work or not. This is
not a decades level of issue, but a centuries level of activity and work. We are
here to guide you in this generation and all generations to come. Your world is
still a "frontier world" in many ways and has so many rough edges to it …that
the finished edges are few and far between. They must begin linking together so
that your sphere of humanity becomes a shining sphere of consciousness, of right
thinking and behaving: A wonderful place to live, an exciting place to grow in
your soul, a wonderful place to become more like your Creator, Michael, and the
wonderful influence of his compassionate partner, Nebadonia. Blessings to you
this day, I am glad you have been here.</P>
<P>Students: You’ve given us a lot to think about. We’re glad we’ve been here
also! Thank you, Rayson.</P>
<P>Rayson: Good day.</P>
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