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<DIV>Group: Northern Colorado TeaM, #57</DIV>
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Loveland, Colorado</DIV>
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<DIV>Teacher: <STRONG> </STRONG><B>Rayson</B> (TR, Daniel)</DIV>
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<DIV>Topics: <B>The Budding Morontial Soul</DIV></B>
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Your evolving "self"</DIV>
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Living life simply</DIV>
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Application of lessons</DIV>
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Continuation of meeting in groups</DIV>
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Focus on local issues</DIV>
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Practicing peace</DIV>
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Power of working groups</DIV>
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Daydreaming productively</DIV>
<DIV> <STRONG>Q & A</STRONG>: When to ask for
help</DIV>
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The personality of Jesus</DIV>
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How the Most Highs work in the affairs of men</DIV>
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Inviting clarity</DIV>
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Extrication from a grave error</DIV>
<DIV> Pre-requisites
for peace</DIV>
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How to help the suicidal</DIV>
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Assistance & responsibilities</DIV>
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Parenting</DIV><B>
<P>October 31, 2004</P></B>
<P>RAYSON: Good afternoon, my friends. This is Rayson. (Group greetings.) It is
good to be with you once more. You will note dear friends that as your lives
increase in activity, it will be more difficult to meet regularly. For numbers
of you, your lives are changing, you [are] being called into new directions and
some of you to new places. Know that we are here, we are regular, we are ready
for you. We wish to meet with you often, as we had discussed last time.</P>
<P>I will present our lesson, the first part of today’s session, and be open to
questions in the latter half. And should I rush to a close during the teaching
session, please remind me of these questions.</P>
<P>The budding morontial soul is perhaps your most important possession, one
that ironically possesses you because it contains the essence of the best of
you, the best of your decisions, the best of your service—and yes, the best of
your intentions. This budding morontial soul also shows evidence of itself in
your extended sensory perceptions. Yes, we recognize that there are individuals
among you who are adept, who are capable of psychic understanding and awareness,
which is beyond normal conscious awareness. We will set those individuals apart
from the rest of you, who gain these cherished sensory perceptions through the
growth of your budding morontial soul.</P>
<P>Now we call it the budding morontial soul, but it truly is your evolving
morontial "self." It represents the conscious evolution of who and what you are.
It will be accompanied by your personality in your reconstruction on the mansion
worlds. Now, wouldn’t it be a shock to arrive in the mansion worlds as a
personality and open up the history of your soul growth and find blank pages,
those instructions of how you would relate to and live in among the communities
in your morontial life? And this my friends, is what your soul helps you do and
aids you in your placement, in which world you will be placed, according to your
soul growth, abilities, and talents that you brought with you. So you can
imagine—if you can recall our conversation some time ago—about life on the
morontial worlds, the everyday life that you have. </P>
<P>Fortunately, if you ended up with a soul book with blank pages, there would
be others along with you that would be in the same situation, and you would be
tended and guided, nurtured and nourished by many beings of light to assist you
in learning those lessons. For you here, in this life as material beings, a
spirit captive in your material bodies, conscious of the life of Jesus, both
through the New Testament and through the teachings in <I>The Urantia Book</I>
and through other readings which are even now being produced with his
assistance, you have quite a complete instruction book for living your life
ethically, morally and in good service. </P>
<P>One of the difficulties you have is that you live very complex, very
technologically oriented lives, where the decisions you make in business are
oftentimes guided by corporate policy. We do not—well we <I>do</I> know how to
advise you concerning this situation—but you live in many economic constraints,
which you have made around your lives in servitude to employment. Living more
simply is sometimes out of the question for you, but eventually there will
present itself in your lives, an opportunity for living more simply, for living
concretely in the "now," enjoying complimentary and compatible lives with the
teachings of Jesus where you do not have to chafe about making corporate
decisions for clients that you would not make if you were on your own.</P>
<P>Many of you yearn for retirement and in those years you will have great
flexibility to live your lives as you have studied, as you have learned. Yet
some of you wish to just continue the play of your adolescence and early
adulthood in retirement; that is a choice.</P>
<P>We have begun this lesson series about the budding morontial soul for a
reason and a purpose, the same as we taught you in the first two years of your
Teaching Mission groups, the fundamentals of living in harmony, living in peace,
learning the fundamentals of responsible social living and living for yourself,
by yourself, with consciousness of others. We have spoken to you about the
energy of the universe, the capacity of your mind to project your consciousness
to other locations. We would be greatly remiss to give these tools to children
who have egoistic or emotionally laden intentions in the use of these tools.
This set of tools, which have been given to you by Christ Michael, through the
Correcting Time, and the upliftment of your world through connection of the
circuits, which has more far reaching effects than you realize—but you will get
an inkling of that when you realize that they are almost all connected to mind
and consciousness and to will. </P>
<P>When you sit in groups as this, and you have learned your lessons and you
have applied them in your lives individually, you can become very strong and
powerful groups when you work in oneness of intention through this [merkaba]
anchor. There will be a time when you no longer have a TR to assist you—not that
this one has any intention of leaving at this time—but that this is also part of
the evolution of your groups. Now, what will you do? Will you disband and go
home and suck your thumbs and feel sorry for yourselves? And think, "Oh that was
fun while it lasted. Now what do I need to get back to—oh yes, I was washing the
car three years ago. I’ll pick up there where I left off."</P>
<P>No, my friends, what you will do is you will continue to meet here together,
and you will discover your leadership among you, and you will use these times
through dedication of your will and the focus of your consciousness, for the
intention and purpose of your meeting through the anchor to do great good on
your world. Now I say that rather as a command, but it is a suggestion, of
course. You will make the decisions to do this or not. And having been so well
trained, having been one of our experimental groups, you will be excited about
some of the things that you approach, and you will discover that your abilities
are more powerful than you had determined before. And you will also determine
that you will need to focus your work on more local issues than the global,
which seem to occupy so much of your public’s attention. It is not that this is
wrong, but that it is fruitless, though you will see in the evolution in years
to come of groups such as this without a TR, where you come together in focus
with others around the globe, that then, your combined power is global in its
effect.</P>
<P>Let me give you some local examples that can be applied to almost any
community in a technologically developed nation. You could direct your influence
however you determine that intention, to the gangs of the youth in a community.
You may also direct consciousness to a pattern of education, which needs great
upliftment to increase its effectiveness with less energy and with less effort.
You may wish to direct it towards local nursing homes of the humane and ethical
care of the disadvantaged elderly. You may wish to spread your consciousness
locally for the assistance of home care education, where individuals are home
with their children and they pull them together into a common association of
good will with greater effectiveness. The list can go on and on and on; there is
much work to do. </P>
<P>You may wish to think in terms of an emotion; you may wish to again practice
peace. What does peace look like? What supports peace? Yes, and your groups will
have working committees—you will examine these—one meeting you may decide that
you do not want to, or cannot meet to focus your attention through the anchor to
some good end, but to meet together to discern how to apply your efforts to
achieve an end which you desire. In these groups you will open yourselves to the
influence of your celestial teachers, your angelic teachers, to the architects
of society, and begin at more fundamental levels of your work, and you will then
recall, "Oh yes, we have an evolving, budding morontial soul—what is it I am
feeling, what is it I am sensing? What do I see in my mind’s eye?" and you open
yourself to that, and you extend yourself like sophisticated satellite telemetry
to sense situations apart from yourself and see what is needed. Do this
individually; do this as a group. There is really no limit to what you can do as
a group. If you see as an individual, you can see as a group, and then you can
discuss this and find your consensus from what each of you saw. This is
practicing being in the morontial; this is applying in ways, which are unknown
to you, the benefits of morontial mota to your lives now. We recognize that much
of the mota is beyond your intelligence, yet you can access that through the
lower levels of your morontial awareness and you do that through right living,
day after day.</P>
<P>Much of these instructions we have given you, will be lost to your conscious
mind—we are aware of that—yet you have the wonderful facility of the TM archives
to assist you, and through your search you can glean these lessons and
instructions in how to apply them when you need in the future. You will find
within the archives, the instructions you need to move ahead, move on, and to
discover your capabilities. In those times, you will see these groups as working
groups, rather than as study groups. Then will be time to apply to yourselves
and to your community the lessons we have given you. No, these are not the "end
of times"—they are simply the times of change.</P>
<P>I will give you something to take home with you—some of you do this
already—now we have advised you, admonished you, scolded you, instructed you, to
go to the stillness at least once a day if possible. While there, we know that
your minds wander, and that is neither bad nor good, but you can put your
wandering minds to purpose by querying the wisdom that you will need to work in
this group. You can begin to practice this working in a group on your own. Some
of you think of this as idle daydreaming, but if you are not daydreaming about
washing your car or taking care of the children or some amusement and your mind
is working with your Thought Adjuster and your celestial teacher and your
guardian angel, and you are working with these concepts and how to extend your
consciousness and your sensory perceptions, you are really in one mind. You can
practice the morontial during the stillness.</P>
<P>[This is an aside from Daniel: I don’t know quite what’s going on—there’s a—I
don’t know whether it’s my stuff or whether it is from the teachers—there is a …
seems to be some concern of theirs for us, and us, the larger community of
us—not just this group…. (Pause.) I guess I’ll have to figure that out later.
I’m just really distracted today for some reason.]</P>
<P>RAYSON: This is Rayson; are there questions?</P>
<P>Student: Ham said in one of his recent transcripts, "You must come to the end
of your own human efforts before turning to the spirit, but happiness is only
found by turning to the spirit first, rather than last." That’s similar to what
we have a saying of, that "God helps those who help themselves." I have
discovered for myself that I have a difficult time asking for help until I feel
like I’ve exhausted all my own resources, and since I’m never sure whether I
have or not, I fail to ask for additional help from Michael or the rest of my
celestial friends.</P>
<P>RAYSON: Yes. This may answer your quandary, or it may not: When one is
involved with themselves in the solution of their daily problems or life
problems, they will oftentimes strive and strive and strive to find the answers
by themselves, finally getting to the point of exasperation and desperation.
They cease their efforts and realize that they have exhausted all their options,
as they know them, and then through their faith, finally turning to the source
to ask for assistance. Now, how much more profitable would it be, to co-create
the solutions early on, knowing that your human capacity is limited, and joining
that with unlimited capacity and seek those solutions early on, rather than
waiting until the end. Seeking through faith early on, knowing—yes,
knowing—which is way past faith and believing, that you will be given answers,
and that these will be presented to you. </P>
<P>Now, the discerning person—the believing person—who lives in the "now" of
their faith, does not worry about that. The person, who waits to extinguish all
the possibilities they have in mind, is really quite a "worry-wart," concerned
about the future and finding the answers themselves. Worry leading to humility
is a great aid to the exercise of your co-creative life, building it now, at
this moment, knowing that the answers will be given to you and waiting for them
to appear. Not being fully morontial in your awareness, you do not know how long
to wait. Some wait a lifetime, when common sense would have said that spirit has
another course in mind. Ham’s words are profoundly simple, profoundly full of
wisdom. We ask you to read them and read them again, night after night before
you retire, until you understand what they fully mean, and wait upon your
Thought Adjuster, your spiritual counsel to connect with you, give you the
insights, that wonderful "Ah-ha" that you seek for your question. It will be
forthcoming, and your time will be profitably spent in those days waiting.
(Student: Thank you. That will help.)</P>
<P>Student: I have another question: When Michael was created, he was given a
unique personality, equal to but different from the personalities of all other
Michael Sons, correct? (Rayson: Yes.) When he incarnated in his seven
bestowals—particularly the one as Jesus—was he given the same personality that
he had originally, or did he receive a new one, characteristic of the order of
being that he became?</P>
<P>RAYSON: He retained the essence of himself, he as Christ Michael, yet this
was a diminution of the totality of his personality as the investment of his
total personality in the figure of Jesus would have over-awed that being and
those around him, but the essence of who he was, and as a representative of the
Michael Corps was present in Jesus.</P>
<P>Student: Can you give us any insight into how the Most Highs work in the
affairs of man? Right now we are quite concerned about the affairs of our world,
with this election coming up, and I have hope but little understanding of how
the Most Highs might facilitate the highest good in our world at the present
time. Could you address that, please?</P>
<P>RAYSON: I will try. First of all, remember that neither the Most Highs nor
Christ Michael or any other representative of his hierarchy would do anything to
subvert, change, or amend the will decisions of any mortal. Knowing that, they
are not limited to the degree of influencing the minds of individuals among the
choices that are presented in those minds. It is true that the Most Highs do
have influence in the minds of the Reserve Corps of Destiny. It is true that
they do have influence in the minds of those who are not. It is true that they
participate in presenting options to the minds of those who disbelieve. It is
true that they also provide options to the minds of mankind, individuals who
make significant and important decisions about the course of your world in many,
many fields apart from government.</P>
<P>Now, let us take a moment to look at how that happens. Let us say there is a
governmental leader who has received all the information concerning a decision
about a topic [for] which they must make a decision or a significant
recommendation. They are apart from others as they ponder and sift through the
information, gleaning the information, which they feel they need to make a
decision or a recommendation. Now this is akin to stillness, as a busy executive
individual can be in some instances, and it is in those moments where this
influence from the Most Highs becomes most critical. It is not that they change
the mind or direct the mind of the individual, but present the topic thoroughly
in the mind with clarity to that individual. It is as though they had taken a
one hundred page report and sifted it down to two paragraphs, less than one-half
page, and presented it with clarity to the individual, so the individual sees in
the problem, through the problem with great depth and clarity. This is how they
work. </P>
<P>Now, how they imprint those minds of individuals is privy to their counsel.
We surmise the ways that it is possible, without subverting the mind decisions
of that individual. To present it to the mind of the individual with equity,
with balance, and with fairness, without dominating the mind, or bludgeoning it
with the power and logic and reasoning of their arguments. This is very subtle
"stuff," do you not agree? Certainly, and this is the same influence that comes
to your mind too, when you ask, invite that visitation upon yourself in your
mind for clarity to understand a difficult situation, a transition in your life,
a growth, a jump, a risk, a decision. When you pray for clarity, it will come to
you. It may not come through your own mind; it may come through the mailman who
speaks to you and greets you, "Good morning." It may come from some neighbor who
has something to say, and that particular information fits so well with you and
assists you with the enlightenment of your mind. </P>
<P>It is important in your co-creative development, the co-creation of your
lives, that you invite this clarity. Invite your Thought Adjuster, your
guardian, and your celestial teacher to assist you in making wise decisions. You
have been repeatedly told through <I>The Urantia Book</I> and through us, that
it is wise to rededicate your commitment to doing the Father’s will. This is not
an obedient direction, but one that you must willfully, deliberately and
intentionally make with good purpose. It is like greeting an old friend, whom
you have not seen for a while, and your say, "My, it is good to see you again,"
and then you give them a big hug. So too, when you reaffirm your willingness,
your willfulness to do God’s will in your life—you are willing to do God’s
will—that you reaffirm this and rededicate your commitment to doing God’s will
and to having your life develop co-creatively through that assistance. This will
help you greatly in times of difficulty when there are choices to be made. Does
that help?</P>
<P>Student: Yes. Thank you.</P>
<P>Student: This is a question that was sent to me by someone who reads your
transcripts, but is not part of our group. Speaking on the subject of Iraq, she
wants to know, "How do we extricate ourselves from this "mess," without laying
ourselves open to further attack on the part of those who seek to destroy us?
How can we as a civilization harness the power of God to protect the forces of
light and life in a world where there are so many who prefer the methods of
darkness and death?</P>
<P>RAYSON: Then present your policy and your decisions of extrication through
decisions of enlightenment. Some of the gravest errors of leaders have been
those that they later admitted that they have made errors. How will your world
view your country, if your leader said, "We apologize for this incursion into
your country. Our intentions were good, but our work was wrong, and we have hurt
many. We withdraw and will assist you according to your need. How might we serve
you when we are absent from your country?" Is it impossible to say those words?
Would your nation then suffer greater disharmony and destruction at the hands of
your enemies? I doubt it, yet the humbling of this arrogant nation, is something
that will be caused by itself, not by others. You are really asking to lead a
nation through right decisions, light decisions, decisions that are enlightened
by the greater good, rather than the selfish good of a few. It is not impossible
to do this—it may be politically impossible, but that is a decision of those who
take sides. Always will the forces of light and good from Michael support those
decisions, which bring forth light and goodness, harmony, generosity, humility.
To be humble does not mean to be weak; to be humble does not require that you
need to withdraw in shame, but with the awareness that mistakes are a part of
living.</P>
<P>You have had leaders in this country, who have apologized in the past, for
grievous injuries to others. There have been occasions when this has occurred;
it is not impossible to do once more. Thank you for your question. (Student:
That was a very good answer!)</P>
<P>Student: Rayson, I have a question. (Certainly.) When we were talking about
the groups and what they might accomplish on their own without a leader, you
mentioned something about peace and how that made you feel. Could you elaborate
on that?</P>
<P>RAYSON: Yes, what are the prerequisites of peace? Requests for peace, prayers
for peace are wonderful and worthy of being given, but the foundations of peace
also need to be attended to and recognized. What constitutes peace? I believe we
have spoken about this some months ago; I will give it to you once more. Peace
comes when there is hope. Peace comes when there is strength among those who are
less-than others. Peace comes when there is opportunity for growth. Peace comes
when there is sufficiency in the face of inequality of services, of goods, of
wealth, when there is hope for equal justice. Peace comes when individuals can
lead and live ordinary lives, which means to be free to go to school, to
worship, to have regular employment, and sufficient employment that is
compensated rightly for their effort, according to the needs of survival, even
at a minimal level. Peace comes from harmony in families. Peace comes from
communities where there is lack of fear of injury, to peacefully go to the
grocery store and return without injury is an example of ordinary daily peace.
</P>
<P>There will never be peace when there is fear. There will never be peace when
there is lack of hope. These are some of the fundamentals of peace. If you can
hold these concepts, much as a bowl of individual grapes, and you call the bowl
"peace," then pray for peace, holding in your mind’s eye what makes up peace,
what gives peace, what generates peace, which sustains peace. You have seen
symbols of peace—the laurel wreath, the grape vine, the cluster—these are
symbols of abundance. These grapes on the cluster of peace are meaningful and
taste as sweet as the whole bunch at one time. (Thank you, Rayson. That was very
good.) You are welcome. Thank you for your question.</P>
<P>Student: Rayson, your answer reminds me of a couple of seminars at the
Parliament of World Religions for me, referred to worldwide Marshall Plan and
globalization for the common good.</P>
<P>Rayson: Yes, those are concepts, which see how peace is generated. Are there
further questions?</P>
<P>So you see, dear students, what work you have in the future. Now I mention
that you may be a group without a TR in the future—which has a very likely
possibility—I suggest to you that you find the leadership among you to continue
on the work that will need to be done. This is a suggestion for this group; it
is a suggestion for other groups as well. It does not mean that these groups
will dissolve; it does not mean that the TR’s are leaving. It is simply
something to have in mind in the future when developments come into being.</P>
<P>Student: I do have another question, Rayson. (Rayson: One more "grape," huh?)
What do you suggest in a situation where an individual has been greatly harmed
and deteriorated through alcohol addiction? And this person would like to help
this person, who threatens suicide, who obviously is very much in need of help,
but when—or is there a point—where one has to say, "Well, maybe this person is
better off making their transition into the next world." Maybe trying to
dissuade them from their suicidal attempt is not for their highest good. A very
complex and difficult situation, when love is there but it is not apparent what
is the best course?</P>
<P>RAYSON: In all instances as this, it is our practice to pray and see the
highest good for this individual coming into being in their life. We have not
the wisdom, nor the authority to pass judgment upon whether it is the best for
them to pass out of existence as a mortal, or to continue on. This is for that
individual to decide. But do not lay back idly and ignore your friend, as Jesus
would not ignore them either, but engage this person—ask them how you might help
them, and ask them repeatedly, for there will be times when you ask them, they
will be drunk and you will not know it; and there will be times when they are
sober and you would not know it. Also, it is without injury to the other person,
to—in your moments of stillness—to project your consciousness of peace and
stillness and harmony, lack of worry, lack of fear—to that individual. Surround
them with the glow of Christ Michael’s love. See in their mind, the clarity of
Nebadonia’s mind. It is not too late to ask on the behalf of that individual,
that they take on the mind of Christ in their life and in their living. It is
not that you are projecting your will upon this person, but you are asking that
this person receive the mind of Christ for greater clarity in their life. Does
this help? (Very much, thank you.)</P>
<P>[Daniel: There was a little heart-felt connection there from Rayson to you
guys.]</P>
<P>RAYSON: You are beginning to see and feel, the magnitude of your capability
and your responsibilities in the assistance of others, as we do. Always striving
for the greatest good of the individual, without impinging your will upon them.
You asked about the influence of the Most Highs, and my friends, through this
exercise you are beginning to feel the responsibilities of the Most Highs as you
influence those who are in need of your influence. You are beginning to have an
inkling of what it is like, and the responsibilities of [being] a Creator Son.
</P>
<P>Many of you have children, yet you make decisions for them as though it were
<I>your</I> life—it is not, and in so doing, some of your children are injured
by the intrusion of yourself into their life. How to discern that, as they age
is most difficult, but a discernment that you must make almost weekly, for as
they grow, it calls upon you to use more responsible, mature parenting skills.
Parenting responsibly is a most difficult chore. In a world of agondonters, it
is difficult by many thousand-fold, compared to worlds where there is so much
additional conscious spiritual assistance. Yet, in your parentage, you have the
capacity to grow into [an] awareness [of] Christ Michael. You can gain the
skills of a Creator Son, guardian angel, a Melchizedek and a Most High, at the
same time. Now, you are beginning to see, also, why it is so important to have
and raise children. And why you will be required to do so, if you do not have
the requisite number here in the mortal life. The lessons are immense, they are
profound, they are infinite in duration, and affect others to a degree that you
can only be appraised appropriately, several school-worlds ahead. Parent well!
Good day. (Group gives thanks.)</P></FONT></FONT></BODY></HTML>