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<P><FONT size=2>Group: Northern Colorado TeaM
Group</FONT></P>
<DIV><FONT size=2>
Topics: Intentional Communities</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>
World
events</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>
Seek your center and
stay the course</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>
Planning essential for
achieving right intentions</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>
Universal Mind provides
template</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>
Producing individuals
of soul survivable quality</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>
Urantia’s capacity to
survive</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>
Working with
"Spirit"</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>
Benefits of
Stillness</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>
Q & A – Choosing a community location</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>
Being "Earth
Friendly"</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>
Sustainable quality of
life for all</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>
Human growth
policies</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>
Amish & Quaker
Communities</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>
Transitions</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>
Open attitude and
acceptance</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>
Maintaining
stability</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>
Worry and anxiety not
helpful</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>
Asking for the Mind of
Christ</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>
Use resources available
for help</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>
Use discernment with TR
process</FONT></DIV>
<P><FONT size=2>Teacher: <B>Rayson</B> (TR Daniel)</FONT></P><B>
<P><FONT size=2>August 25, 2002</FONT></P></B></FONT><FONT face=Arial>
<P><FONT size=2>Daniel: Let’s take a few moments of silence to connect to the
merkaba. Through our consciousness we build the merkaba using the energy that
passes through us; by our intention, we expand and forms the merkaba; our
intention directs is use and its energy. Do that and declare your intention and
your invocation for energizing your presence here. (Pause)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>You are welcome and invited to use the merkaba energy and direct
its course toward the healing of some situation or person. (Pause)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>Rayson: This is Rayson. Please bring your attention to the
center. The continuing saga of events in your world gives us great opportunity
to develop new areas of consideration and instruction for you. You are seeing a
good deal of flexing of political and military muscle in the world, and this may
come to blows and it may not. And whether it does or not, does not affect our
instruction or what we have taught you and shown you. We have alluded to many
things that will come into your world to affect your lives, your communities,
your society and your nation and your world. And these are ever present in every
world, but they seem to be most tumultuous upon yours. And these prospects of
even chaotic war and the destruction of nations are not an occurrence that is
taken lightly. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>Whatever does occur, we encourage you, we exhort you to <B>"stay
the course."</B> </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>And even in peace times, we advise you to "stay the course."
<B>Seek your center</B>; seek that which is permanent, <B>always</B> permanent,
and that which gives you peace, that source of love and example Christ Michael
gave you. For Community, we say, "stay the course." Do not be swayed or
convinced or persuaded to do otherwise, but continue with developing intentional
communities. For us, as you know, this is a developmental process, not dictated
by your calendars or the seasons or the years or the decades, but a
developmental issue that we know <B>will</B> come into existence. Not
necessarily "must" come into existence, but "will" come into existence. And
should events in your world become chaotic and disorderly, this will give you a
very positive, constructive focus to direct your energies towards and one that
would also be very beneficial to your society, to your community, to your
family, and to yourself.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>A new visiting member greets us today. This is evidence that we
continue to forge ahead, bringing like-minded individuals together. We have been
talking about developing communities, intentional communities, and as we said in
our last session and the session before, this might take much planning before
the first brick is laid or the first yard of concrete is poured. Planning saves
time, it saves energy, and it saves your abundance to be applied in the right
time, in the right way, for the right purposes and fulfillment of right
intentions. And so, now you have the acquaintanceship of a city planner and
manager. My mentioning this does not obligate this individual to participate but
is an invitation to provide a meaningful place/process to invest one’s energies.
</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>There will be other individuals who will be introduced to your
group. Although there are other existent communities with similar intentions as
the one we have been discussing, few have been brought together with such
deliberation and intention on our part. Many have been brought together through
the enthusiasm and idealism of individual mortals and groups of mortals. But you
will find behind almost every one of them, the input from Universal Mind, giving
them a template for part of that community that can be used and expanded and
experimented with. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>You may know that we have our urban planners, city planners,
intentional community planners on this side — Celestial agents/teachers who are
working with you and who will work with you as your planning committees develop
and engage the real issues of community building. In these cases, we are first
and foremost concerned to guide your efforts to the manifestation of really
doable community, operational community, ones that are guided by ideals and
fulfilled in reality, operational communities that can last. And only in these
communities that last, will come forth individuals who are whole and complete
and of immense soul survivable quality. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>Having sat in planning meetings with Michael for the Correcting
Time of the planets that were in rebellion, isolation and quarantine, it is
quite a prestigious enterprise to bring a planet, such as yours, within a short
period of centuries, out of its chaos of social living, to a point where whole
individuals can be brought into existence along with whole families and
communities on a regular basis. You have such short lives that you will not see
this, but you are participating in a rapidly quickening process to do this.
</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>Few worlds have the capacity, energy and will to survive and
grow as your planet does, as you have seen much destruction and death, torment
and abuse in your societies. You also have an immense willingness to live and
live well. Whereas other planets take tens of thousands of years to go from such
social chaos to functional societies, yours will do this in centuries. As we
spoke of last time, the process of co-creational working teams can do this very
rapidly, yet without abridging or nullifying the self-willed choices of the
mortals involved. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>These working teams will be a living demonstration of what it is
like to live and work with "Spirit." (Please put "Spirit" in quotation marks,
for that is a generalized term and is easily acceptable to many people.) You
have the opportunity to discover your own "God Within" working with you in such
an intimate co-creative way, as you will see in these working teams. And these
working teams will be a public demonstration of the awesome co-creative
abilities that lie in the union of "Spirit" and mortal mind when there is
<B>willing</B> and <B>willed co-operation</B> to do so. Few opportunities of
similar nature exist on your world, though you do see it in your own individual
lives, but you will see "Spirit" in action working with you in demonstrable ways
in a co-creative manner. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>One of the first steps of course, is to acquire knowledgeable,
capable, and competent mortal individuals to begin working on the mortal side,
and then to attract more capable individuals to work on this project. The next
step is for these individuals, if they have not already done so, to begin to
grow in their morontial capacity to communicate with us, meaning to TR, to be in
stillness and to listen. And whether you hear or whether you see, or whether you
see in metaphors, or it is through the process of omens and signs that lead and
guide you, you will be shown the way. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>This process does not necessitate that everyone believes in God,
but it is truly more capable when every individual does so. And thus when each
individual has the capacity to be in stillness and to ask questions and to be in
that stillness with intention for receiving answers, that is most helpful.
Sometimes in stillness, as you know, no answers are heard, no visions are seen,
yet there is an awakening awareness of new answers that will come forth in hours
and days ahead. You will receive that "Ah-Ha!" before you go to sleep at night,
or shortly before you awaken in the morning, or when you awaken in the early
hours of the morning at those special hours when we are most busy with your
minds. Write those down, please; they will be most useful to you. These are also
co-creative moments, where you have given us permission to participate in the
spiritual mind-surface that exists in your minds and in your spirit. And as you
know, we will never be present in minds that do not want us there. So it is
helpful to have everyone on the same page and same team, working for the same
intentions with the same interests. These instructions are not solely for this
group here, but are useful for every group everywhere that has a similar
intention.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>Returning to the earlier topic, briefly, you will find that
there will be distractions in your world that would seem to take you away from
these efforts. Some of them will take individuals away to conduct business
elsewhere as they must and necessarily do so for family or for their jobs, or
for their relationships or whatever this may be, but the continuing element of
an organized group will help give you a focus when there are many distractions.
It will give you a higher-minded purpose to occupy your time when you may be
wondering about tomorrow. Today is always the most important day, live it
well!</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>I am open for questions before we begin our next topic. Take
your time; be at peace. This is not a rushed process.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>Student: Rayson, I have a question. Bear with me, I’ve only just
formulated it. You continually speak of creating the intentional communities and
you have described that this process may well take several decades in some
cases. Once a plan has been established—I am a little unclear as to the obvious
physical construct, of this process—as you are aware, at least in North America,
we have a lot of areas that have already been taken over by individuals. Would
it be difficult to start a new community in these areas? Are we talking about
perhaps, colonizing other areas that are unpopulated, or am I thinking too
materially?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>Rayson: You are perhaps thinking too materially, yet on the
other hand, we wish you to think about an unincorporated area. There are
villages among and around cities/urban areas that would lend themselves to
incorporation as an intentional community. The difficulty with that process is
that you would then have to deal with individuals who live in that area, who do
not wish to participate in that intention, even though they may wish to live in
your geographic location. The idea of colonizing an area is a purist idea and
could also be seen as elitist. Aside from that, it offers the opportunity for a
concerted, focused, unanimous or nearly unanimous way of proceeding in a
community. Everyone would be generally in agreement about the intention of why
they were there. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>But there is certain impracticality about that, as it would be
much easier to use an already existent, yet perhaps removed area. Daniel visited
a community named Laporte, which has similar qualities of which we speak. It is
nearby a metropolitan area, has natural resources, and an established community,
yet it is a bit removed from the metropolitan area. This is something, just as
an example that could be looked at for these purposes. You see, in an
intentional community, you will need everything that an existent town or city
would need. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>You will need, of course, an infrastructure. An intentional
community is integrated with your world, your planet and could be called "Green"
or "Earth Friendly." You would want your electrical sources to come from a
renewable power. You would want to have the water that comes into your city to
be used well, and that everything, all the effluent that leaves your town is
really not effluent, but clear water, and reusable. Or the effluent could be
used in a way that is friendly to the environment, such as marshes and wetlands
that naturally cleanse the effluent. So you see, all aspects of this intentional
community revolve around wholeness and continuity. It revolves around renewable
capacity to sustain itself. It is not necessarily "ultra green," or purist in
that way, but it is very practical;’ it is a community that could exist into the
long-term future; it is not wasteful. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>All aspects of life in this area are dealt with and not ignored
and not swept under the rug. People would be going to stores in the larger city,
coming back with sacks full of groceries and goods. After emptying them and
eating the produce or using the goods, you end up with a great deal of packaging
waste. This packaging waste needs to be useful. How would you use this? How
could it be recycled? How would it be used in a fashion that would not injure
the community or the earth once it is disposed of? But, it is not ignored! You
will find in the future that which is sustainable will be encouraged; the
"head-in-the-sand, use-it-up-now, we’ll worry about it tomorrow" sort of
philosophy of living is antiquarian, it is 20<SUP>th</SUP> Century, it is out of
date and it will not sustain your lives, your communities, or your
world.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>You are beginning to see the necessity of thinking in larger
terms. We think in terms of humanity and souls; we have been planning this with
Michael’s teams for a long time. Preparations are well-laid and well thought
out. The individuals who are here today were not chosen, you self-chose
yourselves to be here. Your intentions for living has guided you here and so you
participate willingly, gladly and joyfully, and you will produce much, as you
have produced much already. So your question is extremely important. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>The beginning of "whole community" can be done already, in
existing communities that may not have the "intention" of being an intentional
community. It may be simply working with a city councilor for policy formation,
where you deal with the realities of living on a limited planet. You think your
earth is not limited? It surely is. All the resources that you will ever have
are contained on this planet; these are all that you will ever get, so using
them up now, makes it most difficult to live on this planet later. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>The quality of life that you have now is sustainable, surely it
is, and it can be sustainable in other nations and in other countries, but there
must be also intact human growth policies that are complimentary to the
sustaining of this quality of life. You see, a high quality of life is necessary
for spiritually evolved beings to come into existence. You know from your own
experience and that of others, that doing manual labor is brutish, and it blunts
the soul, the attitude and the spirit within mankind, whether man or woman. And
it is a heavy burden to growing souls; it does not give an endowment to
encourage youngsters and growing souls to come forth and build upon that of
their parents. It only begets more of the same. You must think in terms of your
communities in very responsible ways. You abhor the thought of eugenics, but it
is something that you cannot and will not ignore nor be allowed to ignore in the
future. You will necessarily think about it. The eugenic policy in China of one
child per family is effective, has been effective, but there is a cost for that
as you know. (Pause.) (Thank you.) You are most welcome.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>Student: Rayson, I have a question. I was wondering about the
Amish and the Quaker cultures and what would be the possibility of enlisting
their help in the future in developing intentional communities? It seems that
those communities do have their individuals…(Inaudible)…spiritual path. It just
seems that it would be a way to not ignore them, but to use some of their
current values already …(inaudible)….</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>Rayson: Yes, I see your question as two fold: One is to borrow
from their culture and their society, wholeness-insuring policies, and these
must be examined and looked at and incorporated, as they are necessary. I see
also the possibility of maybe incorporating, encouraging or inviting this group
to look at what you or we are doing. You will find that there are charismatic
individuals in that society as well, though they must remain cloaked, as many of
your charismatic individuals must do in this society. They see the way forward,
too, and similarly they are limited in their expression. Yet, it would be
wonderful if they were aware that they are not alone, and that there are others
who think as they do. The fundamental principles and intentions of those
societies are quite admirable. Yet they too, have the limitation of not being
sustainable. Theirs is sustainable within the confines of existent cultural
boundaries, the social practices, that which is socially acceptable, culturally
acceptable, religiously acceptable, and that which is not. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>In an intentional community, the intention is so broad as to
incorporate all of their best practices and far more. It is not limited by a
strict code of conduct, but by a generalized intention for wholeness and
completion, allowing the greatest development of soul capacity possible in each
individual. The intention is to build a whole community where individuals can be
raised in a whole manner, without limitations, without prejudices, biases or
physical limitations, where they can make free and conscientious decisions
without bounds or limits, to believe in God or not, and to participate in the
intentional community or not<B>.</B> Even a society that allows much variation
of religious practice and personal beliefs, but whose all-encompassing and
unifying intentions are all the same can evolve and aid the development of the
planet to grow towards The Days of Light and Life, albeit more slowly than one
whose religious practices are in concert.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>That may seem startling, that this is the situation that exists
on planets even now, settled in Light and Life. There are individuals who choose
to rebel, to be anti-social or asocial, or to be "not of their kind." This is a
choice, yet they have been raised in a whole community and can make that choice
consciously, knowing the outcomes that will proceed from there. But yes, none
are excluded; all those who wish to participate with similar intentions are
invited and encouraged.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>Student: Excuse me Rayson—"whole community"—could you define
this concept? </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>Rayson: We have spoken about that in past sessions. (Okay, I’ll
look it up then.) Please.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>The second topic I wish to speak about today involves
<B>transitions</B>. This small group is in a transition, as you know, and this
is very small news. There are other transitions that are always involved in
life, and we wish you to have an open attitude and opinion and acceptance of
transitions. You say that when a person passes on, that they have made their
transition. This is a wonderful word. We encourage you to use it. Nothing has
changed, they have just moved positions; they have made a transition.
</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>So, too, you will see transitions in your society. We know that
the everyday "ho hum" activities that you engage in, occupy your thinking and
your energies and your attention with tremendous power. You are obliged to meet
with individuals to make your balanced budget for the month, to live in accord
with your neighbors, and so forth. Yet, we also wish you to take an
extra-societal perspective of your life, where you live, your communities and
your nation. This will help give you some assurance of stability of when you are
in changing times. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>There may be difficulties in other areas of your nation and
world, and if you are anxious about them, then you may become anxious about your
own personal life. Yet, if you really examine it, you will see that nothing has
changed in your life, except for your expectations or your anxiety. Your
anxieties will not serve you well, for they take you out of the moment and they
cause you much worry. Worry and anxiety are always future oriented; they have no
utilitarian service for you. Be at ease and be at peace when transitions come.
You have transitions in your families; these come and they go. Sometimes you are
caught up in them and you have great difficulty. You say, "Woe is me! How will I
get through this?" Yet in a year or so, you would look back and say, "Whew! We
did it! We got through! It’s okay, everything is fine." </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>Or you have a situation that may be difficult, that you are
living with and working through. Each day is just one day in the continuum of
your lives. Do not be overly anxious about today, but think of it in terms of
many days, thousands of days, tens of thousands of days. Think of the
opportunity to look upon your life, not just as a piece of flotsam or wood, or a
chip bounced around in a violent creek, but one that is sailing along serenely,
where it is supposed to be bouncing and bumping along with the events of life.
Know that this will happen. Your anticipation of transitions is primary to a
peaceful life. Know that they are coming; anticipate them, plan for them,
incorporate the thought of them in your life. Do not worry about them.
</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>Look upon the past activities that you had. Your transitions are
most easily overcome by thought, by anticipation, and knowing that they will be
there, and of course through thoughtful planning. You can apply all of these
principles to your spiritual life, for that is what this discussion is about, is
to <B>remain centered</B>. You can remain centered, even when there is chaos
around you, whether that is in the house, in the office at work, or in your
society. This is not a higher-minded idealism, something that can only be
learned by some "guru in a cave high on a mountain," as you see in the cartoons,
but is something that you can learn and apply to your lives now. You do not live
in isolation. And when you have times when you are in doubt, as was suggested
before, substitute your mind by using the mind of Christ. Take on his thoughts
as your own; Michael is most willing to share himself with you in the most
intimate ways, in the most intimate places in your lives, and that of course, is
in your mind. And when you make decisions, he will always give you choices that
are higher-minded and will wish you to see these. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>Transitions come; transitions go. But they are here and they are
here forever. Your life will be a matter of transitions. They will of course, be
much more peaceful in the afterlife, on the morontia worlds, and those other
lives that come and go in the future. This life has a certain terminal crisis
about it from day to day because you see that death is terminal and permanent,
yet it too, is only a transition; do not be anxious about this, please. And most
of all, do not ruminate about the transitions that you did not fulfill well in
the past; do not have regrets about that, but learn from these incidents how you
can better prepare for the future by acting well today.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>Lastly, before we close, do not forget the many resources that
you have available, even here among yourselves. Although Daniel will be on
sabbatical for the next four months, he has offered to be available to you.
Further, please feel free to call upon him or us should your or your group
require. A sabbatical is not all encompassing, it is not an impermeable dam
keeping you outside, but only a way of helping the group grow and allowing for
growth within his own life. As you know, when something is gone, something else
will appear to fill its place. And we are very excited about the possibilities
of others TRing for the group and for other new groups. We wish you well in
this; invite us to be present; invite the resources that are available to reveal
themselves to you. You are not alone, you will never be alone; we are always
here. Where one road is blocked, another will open; all resources are available
to you, and when you are wondering in quandary, ask and answers will come forth.
</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>Let us remain in stillness for a few minutes and give you time
to think about these things and any further questions you may have. Of course,
our guests are always welcome to ask questions as well.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>Student: Rayson, I have a question. (Certainly.) It’s on a
different subject. I was just wondering, since we use material resources on this
planet as material beings, when we go to the morontia worlds, will we need
material resources there also, or will the resources be morontial in nature? Do
morontial forms need resources? Does that make sense?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>Rayson: Yes. When you pass on from this mortal lifetime, you
will be morontial, you will live on morontial planets, and you will use the
resources of those planets, which are completely renewable. Does that answer
your question? (Yes.)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>I realize that this session today has been much briefer than
those of the past. This is not a concluding lesson on community building, but a
closing one for today and at this time. As you know, you will have many
questions as the developmental process of community building begins. We will
engage it in even more depth, as there is more practical need to do so.
</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>We of the Teaching Mission are extremely grateful for your
consistency, your willingness to participate and to listen and to let us
experiment with you in this forum. You have not always been aware that we are
trying new techniques for revelation in this form. Yet, we have done so
repeatedly; and we have done so apparently without too many bumps and joggles
along the way. This is not a perfect process, as you know. This is not a way of
building excuses but we wish to inform you that this is a very imperfect process
at this time, on this planet, with the development of your mortal capability at
this time. There will be errors made along the way, and you can and should
anticipate that these will be forth coming. That is why, as you may remember
from our earlier lessons approximately a year ago, that we began by discussing
"discernment." This is the fundamental process of right thinking, of
participating effectively. Discern what makes sense and what does not; what is
of Michael and that which is not; which builds toward a more complete society
and that which does not; and that which builds wholeness and completeness and
integrity in your lives and that which does not. Do not be hesitant to question
what you hear through this TR process. Do not be hesitant to challenge in a
friendly manner that which does not make sense to you. We wish to validate this
process with you, and we can only do that when you are discerning of its
message. Blessings to you — good day.</FONT></P></FONT></BODY></HTML>