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<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5>Teachers: Daniel, Aaron and Minearsia</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt"><FONT size=5>Addicted to Diversion Part 2</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt"><FONT size=5>10-16-05</FONT></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt">KLARIXISKA<SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"> (Virginia):<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>This is Klarixiska.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></H2>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"><FONT size=5> </FONT></SPAN><I><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Father, we thank You that You are much older than these, Your children, and have no regret for age.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We would pray that both the seen and the unseen will one day stand before You and be grateful that they have lived long enough to see Your face.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As we listen to the teachers may that which we need be our reward.</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT size=5> </FONT></SPAN></I><FONT size=5>Amen.<I> </I><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5><B>MINEARSIA</B> (Nancy):<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Greetings, I am Minearisa, instructor in residence.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5>Ken:<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Good evening Minearsia.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5><B>MINEARSIA:<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN></B>Thank you, Ken.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5>It is my delight to actively participate in your gathering in this essential time of validation for each of you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>While spiritual growth must proceed through individual effort, it is in fellowship with like-minded people that these efforts are acknowledged and become more real.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is through fellowship that your experience becomes your reality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5>Tonight, we wish to continue with the topic laid before you by Aaron last week, the concept of addiction to diversion and the many forms that members of this ease-seeking society find to avoid that which is so desired and yet painful.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Before we probe this topic further, I wish to commend you for your thoughtful responses to last week’s lesson, and for your quality of group interaction preceding this time.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5>[ED NOTE:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It has been the groups practice to read and discuss the previous week’s lesson before entering into the T/R lesson.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Many of us discussed our version of addiction to diversion—the reasons for not practicing the stillness as often as we should.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Things like: having noise, music or the like playing in the back ground distracting us, not taking the time, social busyness, not focusing on the spiritual aspects of truth, beauty and goodness occurring daily, or just being lazy.]</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5>In my opening, I spoke of avoidance of that which is most desired and yet painful.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Human beings, human kind, longs for connection, for a sense of belonging, wholeness, understanding, community and love, and, at the same time, individuals fear the intimacy that such connection brings and requires.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5>In fearing intimacy there are numerous fears that are different for each person and yet have the same common source, the rebellion of this planet and the subsequent default.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As we work to understand the current society, by necessity, we will be revisiting human history and its pertinence to current conditions, globally and individually.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Pause)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>PamElla wishes for me to apologize for her sense of gaps.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>She is doing fine.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The gaps are in part mine.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5>This planet has undergone eons upon eons of betrayal—the ongoing repercussions and rippling effects of the original betrayal.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so fear of betrayal is deeply ingrained in the genetic coding of each individual.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And these betrayals are both self-fulfilling and real, for your brothers and sisters have the same history and the same inability to function with continual integrity in all situations at all times.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And, so, the experience of the first pain, the great betrayal, is re-experienced by Urantia’s children and is a leading factor in fearing intimacy, connection, love.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5>There is much, much more to be said in this area.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But rather than delving further in this direction this evening, I wish to drawback, resurface and tie these comments to the concept of diversion addiction, which is where we began.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5>By remaining busy with the many diversions that are available, one can avoid intimacy with one’s self and with others, and, through these activities, avoid pain, both real and perceived: the [real] pain of addressing one’s reality, the [perceived] pain of reaching out…[expecting] to be betrayed, rejected once again, or, just not achieve the desired result.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5>I now open the floor.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I desire to hear from you.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5>Virginia:<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Minearsia, it’s interesting because I kept expecting you to also use the word abandonment with the word betrayal.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Because in the betrayal of the Planetary Prince, he was of course taken from us, and Adam and Eve, though they left the garden, were no longer the symbol or the focus that would show us where God is, the revelation of God.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Therefore, there was abandonment there.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And I think one of the great fears in human nature is abandonment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I don’t know if that equates or not.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And I am also surprised that you said that the diversion kept us from intimacy with each other, and I really expected you to add intimacy with the Father.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Because sometimes I know I avoid quiet time, because I know it’s going to be a very difficult, painful time for me.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5><B>MINEARSIA:<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN></B>Virginia, my dear, your words are well spoken.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Indeed, do Urantians suffer from abandonment in the manner in which you indicated.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And I do include abandonment under the banner of betrayal.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For abandonment is a betrayal of the promise to be present.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And, yes, indeed, does diversion help one to avoid intimacy with the Father, one’s self and one another.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The distinction I make with regards to the Father is that the Father never betrays, never abandons.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He is always there with what is most needed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And often the pain that one experiences in intimacy with the Father reflects discomfort in the relations that one has with themselves or with others.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so in fearing intimacy with the Father, often the underlying fear is with themselves.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For the fear that can be attributed to the Father is that of being seen, being known, and that is really the fear of having the spotlight turned on that aspect of one’s being that causes pain.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5>I appreciate very much your expansion and clarification of my lesson.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you, my friend, for your wise, sensitive and vulnerable words, for vulnerability is an essential key in the healing that must be had by this planet and her people.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5>Virginia: Thank you, Minearsia, and indeed I know that I certainly exposed myself and was vulnerable.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And that I also realized that I never worried or was fearful that God would leave me.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But rather when I’m with Him in intimacy, I realize how terribly lonely I am.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And my heart cries out so much that I just avoid that pain.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So it is not in knowing the Father… it is very much at looking myself.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5><B>MINEARSIA</B>:<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>My dear, if it were in my power to relieve your personal loneliness, be assured that it would be done.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your personal loneliness, while immediately the result of the loss of your best friend and husband, is also a reflection of the conditions of Urantia.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In the loneliness resulting from the isolation of this sphere and the other rebellion planets, the loss of your Prince and, of course, the default of your parent figures, all of this is part of the intensity of the pain that you feel.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5>With the Correcting Time over many millenniums, this palatable pain known to all Urantians will be lessened.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Lessened, does not describe the degree of the “lightening”[effect].<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>On normal planets loneliness is identifiable, there are words for it, and yet the experience is almost a difference in “kind” rather than in “degree.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the goal for the peoples of Urantia.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5>Virginia:<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Thank you, Minearsia.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5><B>MINEARSIA</B>:<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>I appreciate the opportunity you provided to me, to interact with you, and to share perspectives that others may also find useful in their ruminations.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5>Is there another who would interact with me this evening?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5>Ron:<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Yes, Minearsia, I know, you know, who I am.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5><B>MINEARSIA</B>:<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Indeed, I do, my son, welcome.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5>Ron:<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>I’m not sure if you said it or it was said by another, but it was said that spiritual growth came by “hanging,” or “fellowshipping,” I guess that was the word used, with “those of like mind.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And I really don’t see that, you know, personally.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m not saying I’m wiser or smarter, but in my understanding, here on Urantia, I don’t see that as spiritual growth, hanging with just those who believe and agree as you agree and believe.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To me, spiritual growth would come from stimulation of not always hanging with people who believe what you believe but in entering, but not argumentatively, but for the purpose of understanding and the finding the truth; that spiritual growth would come in that sense.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Unless I misunderstood what you were saying.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Can you, please, explain it to me?</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5><B>MINEARSIA</B>:<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Thank you, very much, my son, for providing the opportunity for me to clarify my meaning.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>NO, indeed I am not suggesting that one should just hang with like-minded individuals, NO!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is great benefit in the diversity that the Father has created.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And through ascension, individuals with very different backgrounds, perspectives…</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5>Ron:<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Ideas?</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5><B>MINEARSIA</B>: …ideas, yes, great diversity, learn to experience unity, while retaining individuality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5>So no, this was not my intention.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My focus, my purpose, in my statement, was to express the significance of fellowship. For it is sharing with one another that one can more easily perceive themselves.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I was talking about the validating experience of you all going out, during your weeks, having your individual experiences, and coming together to share.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And how that validates the reality as you share about your common areas of struggle, as you share about your attempts to know the Father better, to serve His children, to love one another, that this experience together underscores and makes more real those individual efforts.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so I was contrasting the individual effort with the group fellowship.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5>My reference to like-mindedness had to do with the comfortability in sharing the experience for the purpose of validation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Certainly one can share with individuals that may not be like-minded. And the power of that experience, the power of the connection with the Father can be validation enough.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But sometimes this can become wearing and doubts can creep in.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And in the experience of sharing the wear and the doubts is the sense of being on the path reinforced.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5>Have I done a better job of explaining my meanings, or do we have a ways to go still?</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5>Ron: <SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Well, I [don’t] think it’s a sense of you doing a better job, I think you did a good job the first time.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I think it’s more so with maybe my understanding and my receiving what you were saying.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Because in a sense I saw, maybe through my [own]experiences, that even in the state of what you were talking about in the earlier lesson of diversion and abandonment, I think that’s why people do go to groups of like mindedness even in their teaching and doctrine, because they are afraid of being left or abandoned or not received. So they use that as a diversion.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But I do understand that; I do agree.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I think I do understand that what you are saying is that the unity can be in the understanding, should be in the understanding, of who we are with the Father in the spiritual sense, that He is the Father, we are the son.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And it’s not that we can’t have individual thought.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It doesn’t have to always agree.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But our unity in our commonality, if that’s the right word, is that of the spirit, the oneness we have as children of the Father.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5><B>MINEARSIA</B>: <SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Yes, very well said.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5>Ron: <SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>And then, if I can just inject - even at times we also pervert or retard that because of the ideas or the images of who the Father is to us.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I think sometimes, you know, I have mentioned to some people, they kind of didn’t like it, that we in a sense worship the image we have of God and not the true God himself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But what we do is we worship, and Father will receive it, because He knows that’s the highest concept to understanding at that time.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But what we are actually doing is worshiping the idea or that imagination of who the Father is.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5><B>MINEARSIA</B>: <SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>My son, your words are wise.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Reality is relative while the truth with the Father is absolute.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The understanding of His/Her nature by imperfect beings is imperfect and incomplete and unique to each individual.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Father/Mother draws all children to Her/Him through His divine gravity, through the desire of the created child to become more than the child is.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The understanding of God for each child is continually in flux for eons, upon eons, upon eons, upon eons.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All that matters is the desire to experience that communion.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so it cannot matter that one’s perception of God is imperfect.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5>Ron: <SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Thank you, Minearsia.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5><B>MINEARSIA</B>: <SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Thank you, my dear friend.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5>LaReen: Minearsia, we were talking earlier about how you don’t know how you affect somebody.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Could you give us a grade (group laughter)?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How are we doing? (Group comments: not wanting grades – maybe as a group – maybe on a curve – intention)</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5><B>MINEARSIA</B>: <SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>My dear children, every time you put God in your thoughts, every time you take the time to find quiet, you affect the whole.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I will let each of you grade yourselves, of your individual growth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Do you respond in situations differently than you did before?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5>Ron: <SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Sometimes in the worst way; sometimes in a better way.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5><B>MINEARSIA</B>: <SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Indeed, the nature of growth can often be two steps forward and one step—or a fall—back.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is the direction that counts.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is the ability to continue to look for new ways of responding, of interacting that matters, not the times when one goes on automatic, when the perceptions and emotions of a lifetime well up and become the current reality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5>Ron: <SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Minearsia, can I ask you a question, if that is ok?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Does anyone else have a question? </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5><B>MINEARSIA</B>: <SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Proceed.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5>Ron: <SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>I would like to get your advice on something.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Something that I’ve been having trouble with for a long time, and I finally said something to some individuals and it kind of stirred the waters up, within the Christian religion.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And which I ….you know, a lot of people believe me for twenty five-years that I believe what according to how they believe, but not even because… this is why I haven’t been around for awhile, because I didn’t want to be around any individual in particular.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I had to make sure I was receiving and believing, not because I read a certain thing, and now I was influenced because I read another certain thing, so I wasn’t reading [the Urantia Book] either.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And [I] came to my own conclusion that, you know, the Father did not “sacrifice Jesus,” you know, the Son, for the sins of humanity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so my thoughts… I had the opportunity to share this with some individuals, and they didn’t like it too much.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5>But, I also feel within my spirit that, and this is part of a journey that I’m going to be going on in some way shape or form, and, then again, there is also that fear of being rejected, even by them, because of what I believe.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But, you know, I want to walk in… I happen to still know them, and they are my brother because God is our Father, no matter how they believe.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But it’s just the opposite, you know, you don’t want to reject, this kind, you<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>know, one as their brother, because they don’t believe according to other (unclear).</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5>So do you have any advice?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I believe I should continue to pursue this avenue and if I’m wrong then… I’d like to know.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The avenue of sharing the truth as… </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5><B>MINEARSIA</B>: <SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Understood. PamElla is hesitant; I am allowing her to work through her personal fear.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My son, you know that you know.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Separate from what is written in the Urantia book—that the Atonement principal precedes Christianity and was in fact a compromise made with Persian religion to broaden the base of believers—you know that the Father could not require the sacrifice of any child and be the loving Father that you know.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is indeed an appalling contradiction at the heart of the religion that calls itself Christian that must be rectified.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For the concept of the type of God who would demand a blood vengeance leads to atrocities of the worst proportion.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The concept of a loving Parent and a blood sacrifice are incompatible.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5>Do that which you feel compelled to do.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Continue your quest.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Continue your stillness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Allow the courage of the spirit to help you forbear the consequences.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>At all times recognize that this concept is deeply embedded in the whole and that as you try to alter that piece in the thinking of your brothers and sisters, they may find it too hard.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be gentle; be loving; if they are not receptive, do not push.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5>I wish to share an experience from PamElla’s memory bank.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>At the time that PamElla came across the Teaching Mission, and, through it, the Urantia book, she strongly held to the concept of reincarnation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It was a part of the package that had allowed her to make sense of the world and find a loving God.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In the transition to the acceptance of the Urantia Book, she underwent much pain, for it meant relinquishing the mental constructs that she had created to experience a loving God.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your brothers and sisters know this loving God, and this loving God, in their minds, is tied up with this incorrect doctrine.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5>Be aware that in attempting to change a doctrine, it may feel to your brothers and sisters as if you are tearing away from them their loving God.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is certainly not of service, and it is not helpful.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So while it is important to share your experience as you pass by, never attack the beliefs of another.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For it is the attack they will feel, not the loving gesture.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is a balance that must be maintained.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Do you understand?</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5>Ron: <SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Yes, you know, as [does]my brother Michael, I want to enhance, I don’t want to take away from them.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But I want to enhance what they believe.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And [in] doing so, maybe enhancing and hopefully allowing the understanding of the love of the Father, become a greater understanding that they could see that He would not need a blood sacrifice.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He is not like the God of the Pagans that surrounded the Jewish people at the time.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5><B>MINEARSIA</B>: <SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>And I would draw your attention to Jesus’ life as a model for your own in His approach to the killing of the lamb at Passover.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>While He, himself, preferred to celebrate the Passover without the sacrificial lamb, He did not impose this perspective in all situations but, rather, [only] with His closest friends and companions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A reading of this part of the text might provide a helpful model for you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5>Ron, do you have further thoughts or questions?</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5>Ron: <SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>I always have thoughts and questions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you though for, for basically… I want to walk in love and wisdom.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I don’t want to force anything upon anyone.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You know I just…. If I enter into arguments then it is not of the spirit in the first place, it is according to my wanting them to believe as I believe and not the working of the Father Fragment within.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And that’s actually what I want to do.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I want to be used to stir that up within them.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5>LaReen: <SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>My sister and I didn’t talk for a month over the same subject.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5>Ron:<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Thank you very much for conversing with me and sharing with me.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And I apologize to the rest of the group for taking some of their time up.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5><B>MINEARSIA</B>: <SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Thank you for the platform and on this I give you an “A”.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You did not desire the grade, I know.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5>Ron:<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Thank you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’re right.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5><B>MINEARSIA</B>: In a different manner I will say: “my son you do well.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Continue.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5>Ron:<SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Thank you.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><FONT size=5><B>MINEARSIA</B>: <SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>My friends, the hour does indeed grow late, and many of you have a ways to go, yet, to get home.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So I will bring this session to a close.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I ask that you close in your usual format.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Another will provide the closing prayer.</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoHeader style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt; tab-stops: .5in"><I><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"><FONT size=5> </FONT></SPAN></I><I><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Father, in spite of our feelings of inadequacy and lack of perfection, we would pray that we the teachers and these your student children will prove the test as they spend their moments and their days in this next week.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>May they be aware of their inner spirit and the strength that is theirs to love in every relationship.</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT size=5> </FONT></SPAN></I><FONT size=5>Amen</FONT></P></DIV>
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