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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Northern Colorado TeaM Group,
#67</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Loveland, Colorado</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Teacher:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><B>Rayson</B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Topics:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Love and friendships</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Fundamental element of love</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Acceptance of self & others</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Love of the universe</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Fundamental social relationships</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Parents learn as friends of their
children</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Avoid enmeshment and co-dependencies</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Integrating the world by
friendliness</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The stability of the Teaching
Mission</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Q & A:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Linear/creative minds</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>SRC—how to proceed</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Level of God Consciousness rising</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Youth looking for Spirituality, not
religion</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Innate goodness of children</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">TR:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Daniel Raphael</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=5>April 17, 2005</FONT></H1>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">RAYSON:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good afternoon, this is Rayson.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Group welcome.)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you for your hospitality and thank
you for your welcome.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is always
good to be here with you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I feel
that I am in the presence of friends, those people who hold no judgment about
me, myself, or what I do, those who accept me as I am.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And please know that you are friends of
ours; we hold you in similar esteem and regard.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Some of you do not know how to
love.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Some of you do not know how
to give love or receive love.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Today
we will speak of love as friendship.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It is not by coincidence but by design that we speak of love and
friendship today.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have felt
this among yourselves; you were sitting at the table enjoying your conversations
before this session began, and you held everyone—each of you—in similar esteem
and regard, accepting them as they are, where they are, without regard to what
they were wearing, the position that they held—or didn’t hold—the income that
they made or didn’t make, their social standing and economic status and all the
other elements, traits of social bearing for your society.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is a fundamental element of love,
and that is acceptance where you are, acceptance that you are accepted in
return, acceptance of others as they are.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Love is the aspect of friendship,
which you feel as affection; there is an affective feeling between yourself and
others.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You enjoy their presence
and they enjoy their presence with you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It is reciprocal.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So, too,
it is in the universe where you are appreciated fully and completely, as you
are, where you are, under the circumstances of your life now.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is not that you are loved for what
you will become, but surely that is an aspect of the development of your
potential.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The universe loves you
as you are and as you accept and love yourself as a good friend.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So, too, do you allow yourself to grow
without hesitation, without judgment, without caution—simply being yourself,
with yourself.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Friendship is one of the
fundamental elements of social relationships in the universe.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It may go by other names on the morontia
worlds, but there is immediately the acceptance of others.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, there are some early members in the
afterworld who still have caution within themselves, those animal traits within
their old, ancient memory that they have brought with them, which will be erased
in time.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">You can accept that when you meet
others from other realms, whether they look like you, or greatly dissimilar, you
can accept that they are friendly, that there is no innate animosity, that there
is no nationality, there is no differentiation except this oneness that you
are.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Some of you will be more
developed than others, some of you less so.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet, even those you recognize as being
less developed, you will not have an innate hostility towards.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will accept them as they are, where
they are, and they will be received well by you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This assists them greatly in their
forward progress.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Parents can learn a lot by being
good friends to their children, without being overly familiar, which is a
different word.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You must recognize
that children are innately the same as you, only not developed; they are lacking
in experience.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They sometimes have
excellent judgment yet have no way of knowing why that is so.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You, as a child’s friend, can assist
them in their growth as they relate to others in their milieu, in their schools,
in their churches, in their play yards, and wherever else they may be.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">So too, you are uniquely
yourself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are an
individual.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are not others, and
others are not you – you are unique.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This, too, is a very important element of friendship, so that boundaries
are not crossed, so that individuals do not become enmeshed with others.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Enmeshment is not a good sign of
friendship; it does not beget good friendly relations, but expectations and
co-dependant behaviors.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Realize
that you are one; you are unique.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">In your world, you would do great
good by being friendly to others, innately, immediately, rather than being
overly cautious and hostile.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So
much good could come into your world by an innate, friendly approach towards
others.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are not speaking
naively, that your innocence would be trampled by others who are more worldly,
and who would take advantage of you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>But really, your demeanor is first of all friendly and then afterwards,
as situations reveal, to be cautious and to withdraw.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are not suggesting that by
withdrawing you are then hostile, or unfriendly, mean-spirited, or denigrating
towards the other person.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Simply
withdraw yourself from being a susceptible individual, who could become a
victim.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your friendly approach as
an individual, family, clan, city, county, state, and nation is important, as
you become more integrated in the world through various means.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Everyone seems to be very
friendly when they want to sell you something, and then, after you buy the
product or service, then it is “business as usual.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We would suggest that this change to a
bearing that is always friendly.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Being friendly allows for the great potential of deeper affections and
deeper love to develop.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Friendliness is an open door; it is an attractive element of your social
bearing.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can have much good
come to you through your friendly bearing that you would otherwise have
reflected or deflected from you by an unfriendly demeanor.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Do you see the difference between being
friendly and aware, and being unfriendly and unaware?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Yes.)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is important that you know these
differences so that you can make reasonable, conscious decisions as to your
demeanor.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Now, I wish to talk to you about
the Teaching Mission.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Teaching
Mission is a stable element of Christ Michael’s Correcting Time.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It will be with Urantia long after you
have passed from this world.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet,
you will see it mature and grow in its development through your lifetime.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It will continue to do so and become a
stable element.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet, you will see
your fellow brothers and sisters come and go, through interest and
disinterest.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will see others
who are politically motivated within this environment.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We wish you to continue on stalwart and
solid as the program that you have enjoyed thus far.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Do not be errant in your attitudes
towards this work, but be receptive and serving and giving.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">It would be easy for you to
concentrate on the negative, yet we wish you to concentrate on the
positive.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There will always be
naysayers and those who want to deflect other’s interest in what is central to
them, and have them be attracted to what they are interested in.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We, however, wish you to pursue your
interests as you perceive them, as you feel them, as you wish to grow.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is important that you become your
full, individual self, rather than being a reflection of your friends.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">The Teaching Mission has provided
you with many topics of discussion.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It has delineated many areas that were unknown to you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We wish that you would continue to
question your materials of learning and expand your horizons of belief.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Pause.)</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">[This is Daniel.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There seems to be a certain solemnity to
him today, isn’t there?]</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">(Long pause.)</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">RAYSON:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is Rayson.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This one I speak through is quite
tired.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is not a physical
tiredness, but a tiredness that runs through his being at this time.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We will entertain your questions,
please.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have a question arising out of the
lesson we had last time.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When you
were talking about the linear mind and the existence of the creative side of our
mind and you said you “wished us to explore those therapies, those mind
expansion techniques which will assist you in unlocking the creative side of
your mind.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I would ask you to
expand on that please.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">RAYSON:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Certainly.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I would suggest you think of yourself as
an artist, whether you choose one color for a background as opposed to
another.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is because there is not
a duality that you see.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is a
continuum of color.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have a
creative side to yourself that is also intuitive.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have an interest, which is greater
than the frame of the picture.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
wish to express something through yourself that was not there before.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You want to interpret your reality in
ways that give you much satisfaction, in ways that you have not seen
before.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Surely, you can take a
linear picture by a photograph, or by a digital imprint of a picture or
surroundings and you can adapt it through that means.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are a creator; you have many facets
of your being which can be opened.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">When you read, you read through
your linear mind, yet as you read, your creative mind wanders and thinks about
what you are reading, is devising new ways of interpreting what you have
read.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is no right or wrong
way to that, it simply is a new way of interpreting what you have read.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And you may not even be thinking about
what you have read, but your mind has gone to some topic, which was freed during
the process of reading.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is
totally creative, and you have an opportunity to think in these ways.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Your literature is quite complete
at this time for the mental sciences that you have in your universities and in
your spiritual groups, to go to these sources and discover more about the
creative mind.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Do not be concerned
about the linear mind, as it will be useful to guide you to these sources.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You simply go to the library, which is
linear, and you go through the catalog or through an index of interests and
topics, and then you choose.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
will find many interesting books and topics and subjects, that relate to this
and to your question.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">We urge you to see this as an
exploration of yourself, as a way of getting to know you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Simply by going through and finding what
is important and what is not important, what is of interest and what is not of
interest to you, also will tell you a good deal about yourself and what you can
explore and what you can develop within yourself.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I will not mention specific books, but
simply suggest that you pursue this investigation in this way.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Thank you.)</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Rayson, I have a question that has been
brought to me.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You were talking
earlier about the Second Revelatory Commission and looking at the Urantia [Book]
in terms of making perhaps ten topics, major groupings of the subjects.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Could you give us a little more
elaboration on that please?</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">RAYSON:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And what is your question?</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well the question is that there is a
member of the Urantia teachings—he’s a leader and he has received information
about the same thing we are talking about here, about looking at the Urantia
Book in terms of perhaps ten major groupings of papers.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Can you elaborate on that?</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">RAYSON:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes I can.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How would you like me to proceed?</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well, any way you’d like.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you want to tell us what you think
those groupings would be, that would be wonderful, but I have an idea that you
will leave that up to us.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just tell
us a little more about it and perhaps why this is important and perhaps there
are certain parts of the Urantia Book that should be looked at first, over other
parts of the Urantia Book.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">RAYSON:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The approach to the investigation of the
Second Revelatory Commission, could proceed in many different ways:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>One is linearly from the beginning of
the book to the end—or backwards.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You can start with a paper, or you can start within a paper.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can start by personalities, or by
topics, or by groups of beings.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We
suggest that you—not you personally, but you as a group—approach this in ways
that are helpful to your living, towards your life now.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You surely must have questions about
your life, your living in this century, and what is occurring in your world
now.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You surely must have topics
that are of interest to you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There
could possibly be listed well over a thousand topics that would be of interest
in the book to pursue an inquiry.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>We do suggest that you select topics that are relevant to your life, to
life as a human, to life as a human on this planet, to your growth as a
social-spiritual being becoming.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>These are of course, topics that have relevance to you and the
significant word is “relevant.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">You must have an <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I>intention</I></B> to do all this
work.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is definitely an
intention by the Second Revelatory Commission to exercise and to satisfy.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Within that broad intention, mortals are
most welcome to design your intention for co-creating this investigation.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is not happenstance; this is not
simple intellectual inquiry; this is not tit-for-tat, this is not a political
game.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is vital to your
survival as a mortal, to the growth of your soul and your entry to the mansion
worlds as a morontial being.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We
suggest that you clarify your intentions as individuals and as bodies of
individuals who are intent upon this investigation.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will find this most helpful to have
this clarified, as that will assist the midwayers and angels and other
non-physical beings to assist you in satisfying your questions, your
inquiry.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Does this help? <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Yes, thank you.)</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Rayson, I’ve been thinking about the
fact that there have been two occurrences lately that really show how much God
Consciousness there is on this planet, the tsunami in Indonesia and the death of
the Pope.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am curious as to
whether this increased awareness of God is sufficient for the coming of
Monjoronson?</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">RAYSON:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is significant only as a
signifier.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is a signifier that
spirituality is an important aspect of an individual’s life and of their
thinking, that few people see their life as immaterial, unimportant, terminal,
and passé.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Most people, even those
who are reticent to indicate that they believe in the hereafter or God or
angels, are reluctant to say that this is ”it” and there is “no more.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Remember that hope is a primary and
beginning element of belief and knowing.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Hope is held by all and as your world becomes more perilous, hope will
grow.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Oftentimes on your world it grows
in fascinatingly diverse and divergent ways, whereas on other worlds, which are
less difficult than your own, hope generally always points toward the larger
good of the afterlife, of a personal relationship in the afterlife with the
Creator in one form or another.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This awareness of the spiritual essence of life is an indicator.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It does not demand the arrival of the
Avonal Son, but simply is an indicator that more people are receptive to that
which is not material, that which is other than mortal. </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">There are some in your society
who are deeply interested in the occult, the evil occult, of monsters and
entities that have paranormal abilities, extra human abilities.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These also are signifiers in a negative
way of the preparedness for the arrival of the Avonal Son.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We would point out that the work of the
Avonal Son will be immense, to help people understand the nature of tsunamis and
the nature of men as heads of state and heads of churches.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The revelation of these truths will be
quite catastrophic to traditional religions, and it will bring out the awareness
of many individuals that there is far more to life than destructive waves and
old men who die as heads of churches.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Does this satisfy your question?</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Somewhat.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The teachers have said many times that
certain things must occur before Monjoronson will be ready to make himself known
here, and from a human point of view, it seems like now is a really good
time!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Much laughter.)</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">RAYSON:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>From a human perspective, you are
right!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>No my friends, we will not
provide you with omens to look for, signs and darkness in the sky, or bolts of
lightening or openings in the earth, tsunamis or any of those things.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He will be here when it is time for him
to be here, on Christ Michael’s schedule.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I was thinking more in terms of the fact
that things look very positive right now, in that regard.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It seems to me that a larger percentage
of our population is God conscious now, compared to the past years of my life,
for example.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It just feels like
there is so much going on in people’s hearts and minds about spirituality and
God consciousness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is there a
relevant question in there somewhere, or is it just my curiosity?</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">[Daniel:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He has no reply to that.]</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Student:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I might bring up something related to
that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yesterday’s paper had an
article about youth—quite a good percentage—that they were indeed interested in
spirituality—<I>not religion</I>, but spirituality.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And within the Urantia group and in our
particular church there is a question of how do we respond to this need in our
youth?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We know there are some
answers in the Urantia Book, but I wondered if you would care to address that
with suggestions?</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">RAYSON:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Certainly, it is a very good question
because it addresses the child in everyone.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The earlier statement that people are
more interested in spirituality than religion, says a lot about what they are
seeking, and what they are not.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>They are not seeking structure or interpretations of spirituality.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What they wish to experience is
spirituality first hand, without a box of beliefs, without doctrines.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is very much like the butterfly as a
friend—you must release it and if it comes back to you, then it is yours.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So too, with your children; rather than
obligating them to a religion of their parents, introduce them to the freedom of
their spiritual relationship with God, and their spiritual relationship with
others.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">There is innate in children the
goodness that they came with.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There
are of course, temperaments and race memory, which they bring with them, but on
the whole children come into the world as good beings.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And the world as a whole is a good place
to live, except for that which mankind—individuals—have determined to take
advantage of at the cost of others.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It is important that children learn that they are good, that they are
inherently good, and that they are capable of making good decisions, that they
are capable of being good friends with their mortal friends and a good friend to
the supernatural, to Christ, to Nebadonia, to the Infinite Spirit.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is important that they know that this
exists without churches, that they come together to exercise that relationship
in those domains without religion, to share with others their affirmations of
relationship to the Divine, that there is true joy in this sharing, not the
obligations of beliefs and the statements of beliefs as the criteria of being
acceptable to God or not.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Your children are our children;
your children are God’s children, just as you are.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>God does not make religions for you; you
have made religions for yourself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Where you may appreciate the Divine through these practices, others may
not, but see them as obligatory and demeaning.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How do children learn that they are
spiritually invested already?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That
their lives are experiences of expressions of that spirituality?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You as parents are primary to these
early expressions, these early beliefs about death.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">It is important that you give
them primal beliefs about their relationships to God, and even more importantly,
God’s relationship to them, that they might know how to behave towards their
fellow brothers and sisters and to their parents, and how they may anticipate
their parents will treat them as spiritually evolving individuals.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your social environment is truly a
church of expression for friendship, as we spoke about before.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your social relationships are the
practice environment of budding spirituality.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your social relationships are truly a
church that is hallowed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your
relationships say much about who you are, not who you will become.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can determine that for yourself as
friends, as children of God, by your decisions and how you treat each other and
how you treat yourself.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">And now my friends, it is time
for me to retire.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am going to
withdraw today and bid you adieu and let you choose your next meeting time.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good day.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Group gives
thanks.)</P></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>