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</SPAN><B>Connectedness</B><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN>Carrying the light<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN>Responsibilities to the mission<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN>Importance of stillness<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN>Planted seeds<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN>The value of each day<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN>Understanding connectedness<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN>The flow of becoming<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN>Q & A:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Stillness or
prayer?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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</SPAN>Stillness and the super-conscious<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Teacher:<SPAN
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</SPAN><B>Gerahdt</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(TR,
Daniel)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3>January 24, 2004</FONT></H1>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">[Guided meditation included as requested for new
group members.] <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Jo Ann:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Knowing we’re all here with a group intention of uniting with our
teachers, being part of Michael’s plan for this planet, receiving celestial
guidance both individually and as a group.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And with that intention set, we begin to relax—relax into the presence of
spirit, relax into the freedom from everyday necessities.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just begin now by focusing on your
breathing, breathing slow and deep, starting at the belly, very relaxed;
breathing in the love of the universe with each breath, for that’s what it
is.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Each breath refreshes the body
with oxygen, and now refreshes the mind as well, breathing in the consciousness
of universe abundance and provision.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And with each slow, relaxed exhale, breathing away stresses and
distractions; breathing in love, breathing away with release.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Pause.)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">And as we relax, and breathe in this slow, peaceful
way, imagine just opening the energy body in the crown chakra, opening it to
universe energy, light and love.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And with each breath, feeling that flow down through your energy body,
enlightening body mind and spirit.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>With each breath now, inhaling energy through the crown, exhaling old,
stuck energy through the soles of your feet.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Pause.)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Allow that energy to flow through you and around you,
filling your energy body, filling the space around you with chi, with universal
light energy, love, let it flow on down through your mind, through all the
muscles of your body, relaxing your scalp, your throat, neck, shoulders; it
filters down in little sparkles, comforting light energy.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And let it flow right on down to your
fingertips, relaxing and soothing you as it goes; let it flow on down through
your heart area, solar plexus, all around your body; let it encompass your
digestive system, your hips.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let it
relax and nourish all of your bodily functions.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You feel it now wrapping your legs, the
muscles, skin and bones, in a relaxing, soothing energy, on down, past your
knees, calves, feet, even to the very bottoms of your feet, and tips of your
toes.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You may be more peaceful and
relaxed now than you have been for a long, long time.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And in this state of relaxation, the
creation of a space is made for meeting spirit.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let us each take a few moments now
individually, to connect with that Dear Spirit within.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Long pause.)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">And now, just solidifying our personal intentions,
perhaps something like, “Father, I am here to do your will.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In becoming aware of the group, the
circle again, and our group intention, feeling from our heart centers, the
energy flow around the circle, from heart light to heart light, until we are a
circle of light.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We feel our
spiritual intentions unite in the bright spot in our minds, and that energy
flowing around the circle, in the alternate direction, and when all our minds
unite, creating a circle of light, a dome of light appears over the group.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We have created a sacred space that
encompasses the group and more than the group around us, above us and below
us.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And we invite our Celestial
Friends; we acknowledge your presence in this sacred space.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And a column of light appears in the
center of the circle, uniting us to Universe purpose and circuits.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are now “one” and we are ready to
begin.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>(Pause.)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">GERAHDT:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Good morning, this is Gerahdt.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>(Good morning, Gerahdt.)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Welcome to the Pueblo group of the Southern Colorado Teaching
Mission.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are very pleased with
your progress during this absence of two months.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We note that you have been conscious of
your participation in this energy circuit.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>We sense your assurance that you are connected, “one” with Michael’s
group.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We see a nice glowing light
in this area, and there are others, individuals, who glow here as well.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Many of you have a conscious relationship with
Michael and Nebadonia, and your consciousness is a light that shines forward to
many people.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We wish you to be
conscious of those who are light unto this area as well, though they may not
have the awareness of a direct connection to Michael and Nebadonia and the
Melchizedeks as you do, still they carry the light.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You perhaps see the divisions among
yourselves due to the names of religions, yet as we survey this area and see
your world here, in Southern Colorado, we do not note those differences, but we
see lights of the soul, of the mind, that are brighter while some are less
bright; yes, and there are those who have no brightness at all.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">As the Magisterial Son approaches the advent of his
material arrival, we ask you to be mindful of your connection to others.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For you will find, a reaching out will
be necessary, upon his arrival.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We
of the Teaching Mission are preparing you and others to be way-showers to the
[archival] material that has been generated through the Correcting Time and the
Teaching Mission.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This effort has a
title, and it comes by other titles, other names, in other parts of the
world.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Many groups will be
announcing themselves, when this occurs.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And you will find that the responsibilities of finding “oneness” are
great.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These include your
responsibility to be forgetful of your identification with a group
identification, name, or ideology.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This identification will be strong in many people, and forgetfulness even
more so.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Even in [a] group as this, which has only recently
begun, you will feel its responsibilities and in some ways, its mission.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When his arrival is apparent, then we
would imagine—we more than imagine—that you will want to announce your
identification, who you are as a group, in subtle ways.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are not asking you to stand on street
corners, on Purcell Boulevard and say, “The Teaching Mission is here.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet this activity, these words, this
awareness will be on everyone’s mind,<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>in common conversation.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Whereas you now talk of war in foreign
countries, we expect that you will talk of this current effort, the wave of
peace and light that is brightening around the world.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And others will ask you, “How did you
become aware of this?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How did you
know it was coming?”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And you will
share what you know.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will share
the records, the archives; you will tell them how to find them.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your voice of peace, assurance,
confidence in Michael’s way, that lead to peace and confidence in your everyday
life will be words of comfort to many who are shocked and disoriented.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Could you remain patient with this, if the
Magisterial Son did not appear for another twenty years?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Some of you will have passed on by then,
and that is neither sad nor a glorious occasion—it is simply a passage through a
door, as easily as you came into this building—you will leave it as easily.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Those of you who remain will have your
work to do, and until then, your work is “inner,” coming to peace, striving to
be “one” with your Thought Adjuster, searching out the peaceful way of life,
that is progressive, constructive, yes, and filled with confidence.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">That is why your daily times of stillness are so
important.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just as you practice
this, so do we.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Stillness is
something that you will do into the eons, as you make the transitions from one
life to another in the morontial stage, into the spiritual stage.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will have this time of stillness and
it will be more like worship, feeling and being in awe of the Creator.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We know that this is most difficult for
you to do now, to actually feel the presence of the Creator through the Thought
Adjuster in you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your stillness is
a time for stillness of mind, stillness of body, stillness of emotions with the
intention of inviting in your Thought Adjuster to communicate with you, to help
lead you in the way of your life so that you grow.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">This life, this physical life that you have now, is
so brief, but it is so richly intense — it is an adventure as though you were in
survival school in the wilderness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And if you have done that, you have a sense of how we perceive your
lives—intense survival and intense purposeful living to survive not just another
night in the cold, in the darkness, but to survive into another life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It begins with your conscious dedication
of your will to God’s will that is always followed by<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>the ultimate, eternal leading from the
First Source and Center, through your Thought Adjuster, to you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Some of you have had very bright inklings or insights
into your lives, as you moved forward, and this can happen at work, play,
sitting down in the morning for breakfast, or during your quiet time at night or
in the morning, or whenever you practice it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A sudden distillation of your life, life
in the universe, an insight of where you are, and what you have
accomplished.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Perhaps you have had
that sudden “Ah-ha!” when you realized that one drop of wisdom that you just
received came from years of experience in relationship with others.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">You can rely upon those insights as a planted seed in
your consciousness by your Thought Adjuster that awakened and bloomed in your
conscious mind.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Some of you have
them rather frequently, others rarely at all.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But know that the seeds of progress,
constructive living, loving, learning how to love, care for yourself and care
for others in tender, compassionate, loving ways are given to you in the
stillness in those times before your mind goes into unconscious dreaming, when
your mind is stilled and at peace before you drop off to sleep. In those moments
your Thought Adjuster is spreading these seeds in the fertile part of your
mind.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is why your conscious
dedication of your life becomes the fertile ground.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Opening that stillness to your Thought
Adjuster is much like opening the fertile seeds in the bag.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When you do that, you have prepared your
life to receive those seeds of wisdom and insight.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then the work of your life and the work
of the Magisterial Son go hand in hand.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You have prepared yourself and your life by letting those positive
constructive seeds grow — you have prepared your life as a fertile field for the
Magisterial Son’s arrival who will plant more seeds for you to nurture.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We know that your infinite journey is past even
pondering upon; it is so huge compared to your daily life that the purpose of
your life may be more focused if you see preparing your life in preparation for
the Magisterial Son’s arrival.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Most
humans on this planet cannot grasp the measure of your life into the future,
into the afterlife.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So think in
terms of your life and its preparation for a more wise individual’s
arrival.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have taken on concepts
of living through The Urantia Book, through the Teaching Mission and Correcting
Time that are huge, that are difficult for you to get your conscious mind
around.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The successes of contemporary religions on your
planet are mainly due in large part to the fact that they home in on small
parcels of conscious living.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That
is why the phrase, “What would Jesus say?” “What would Jesus do?” is so
important to them; it can be to you too.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>For every difficult decision that must be made—ethical, moral or social
in awareness—consciousness can be applied, can be worked through by applying
these words.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thinking of your
life’s journey to the time when you will be a finaliter is a wonderful concept
that is so difficult to live out.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The best way is to take today, just today, as the most important day that
you can live in preparation for that afterlife experience.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">For some of you, it is easier yet to think of the day
in terms of a sequence of small, snap-shot vignettes, a montage of adventures or
experiences — traveling to the store, getting to the store, interacting with
others—that’s a little picture where you can make decisions about your
life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Returning home and
interacting with your children before dinner—that too is a little
adventure.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A little snap-shot of
time, that lasts seconds, or maybe an hour or two at most, an opportunity to
manage anger or resentment, or some negative emotion of some sort; an
opportunity to express patience, love, forbearance, tolerance; an opportunity to
share guidance with those who do not yet have the control, the consciousness of
making decisions about their life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>A moment to be a model to others, not to use that to show off or
aggrandize your ego or your behavior, but an opportunity to model who you truly
are, a child of God in the family of God, throughout this world—you are all
connected—deeply connected!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">As your teacher, one of the things I truly hope I can
convey to you through the duration of my time with you is your deep abiding
connectedness to everyone else.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Here you are in Pueblo, Colorado, and you are deeply connected to the
people in Montrose and Durango, and all the small towns and communities around
here.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Now to keep that in mind
would wear you down, wouldn’t it?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>But when you realize as a value, as an orientation, as a perspective,
that you are connected to everyone else, and everyone is connected to you, is a
very good beginning.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>More
importantly, what value do you place on others?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How do you see them?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Who are they to you?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Are they pawns to be used, moved about
as you wish?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Or are they
individuals to experience, to discover and they to discover and experience you
in positive ways?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I am so pleased to be here with you, and you might
ask, “Why is that, Gerahdt?”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And
that is because I get to experience vicariously your living, the important
decisions that you make every day.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The pace of your activity is much like a fast action film where the
motionless times are removed, and all that we see is a blur of activity.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The music that you are playing today speaks to the
rhythm that we live—it is paced.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Though it is methodical, there is spontaneity, it is deliberate and
intentional, it is sincere and earnest, it is the flow of the universe, it is a
way of letting go but remaining attached, being one with all but uniquely
yourself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Being one with “all,” you
are a small element of the big, large picture, but structurally important to the
integrity of the universe.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your
contributions, my contributions, Michael’s contributions—are important to the
universe. It is not a matter of the universe being successful and our efforts
being successful, for when you think of success, you also must think of
failure.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And those are not part of
the “all,” the consciousness of the universe, for it is a process of flow, of
becoming—becoming more—becoming a contributing part of God the Supreme—those
positive experiences that will always abide and remain in the
universe.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I have said my piece today.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Are there questions that you would like
to ask?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I am wondering if stillness is the path to the Thought Adjuster or
praying with thoughts, active thinking, proactive prayer to get to worship;
which is more helpful to commune with the Thought Adjuster to discern God’s
will?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">GERAHDT:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The latter prepares your mind and your state of being for the
former.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Stillness is a time of
receiving, of listening in the quietness of your mind.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When you pray, you are preparing your
mind to receive.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Active meditation
is a process of preparing yourself to receive, a time for dedicating your energy
to your growth and to assist others in their lives.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Does that help?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Student:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Yes, thank you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And is the
stillness in the realm of the super-conscious or the subconscious or….?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It seems to me it is in the
super-conscious area.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">GERAHDT:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You are correct—it is that part of the super-conscious, that area of
contact above your conscious mind and below that of the Thought adjuster.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Constructive, positive living prepares
the super-conscious mind to expand, to touch the morontial, [to] open up a
portal of consciousness for your Thought Adjuster.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The stillness provides the harmonizing
effect for that portal to be opened, where you are receptive, allowing your
Thought Adjuster to address you.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">There have been moments during the past weeks where
you have thought of this effort, you have thought of your teacher.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Know that I have been with each of you,
and many others in this area.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
do not need to pray to me—I ask you not to—you simply need to only address me,
much as you would address Christ Michael and Nebadonia.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I work with the Midwayers and we work
with you—my function here is to assist you in more direct material ways of
moving forward in constructive, positive ways of living.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Each of you has a desire for your
life—many desires—your positive desires for living are areas that we can
address.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I will close today and doing so ask our meditation
guide to bring us into awareness, slowly, to help us continue the peaceful
centeredness in which we entered this time together.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Thank you.)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Jo Ann:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Let us hold our group feeling and intention for a few moments.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Pause.)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let us remember this feeling of
peacefulness, this awareness of the presence of spiritual guidance, the
sweetness of the experience of spirit.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It is a place we never leave.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>At any time in our lives, we merely focus our intentions and experience
that awareness again, and as we prepare to return to normal waking
consciousness, perhaps each of us in our hearts and minds, would like to invite
spirit to interact with us more frequently with us during the day, would like to
set our own will toward that intention of heightened awareness.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So now, just beginning to breathe more
consciously and energetically, a few deep breaths in and out, a little
stretching, inviting spirit back with you into everyday life and awareness,
inviting yourself to notice that, that presence and the differences, and the
coincidences that appear in your life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Breathe deep, stretch and when you are ready, open your
eyes.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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