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<P>DATE:</B> Wednesday, July 13, 1983</P><B>
<P>LOCATION:</B> ABQ NM USA</P><B>
<P>T/R:</B> Alan</P><B>
<P>MIDWAYER JACK</P>
<P>JACK:</B> —a friendly fireside chat, a friendly chitchat, a friendly sharing
of knowledge is what we're doing. Sharing of information. From this process of
sharing information, a lot of the pressure of — even though I am a shade away,
"a veil away," a shade away, it's not a big spiritual -- I'm not that far
removed. I'm not anywhere near as spiritual as your Seraphim, spiritually
advanced, so it's not one of those things. I just happen to be in a position
where I have a certain amount of knowledge and a certain amount of knowledge is
given to me to pass on to you, for which you should be extremely grateful.</P>
<P>So. To that extent you have been "chosen" — and I know Alan hates the word.
And it's a word that should be taken under advisement.</P>
<P>So we're sharing knowledge. From the knowledge and from the sharing, the
spiritual progress develops. It's a cause-and-effect situation. Each one of you
will grow spiritually only in the manner and to the degree that you deal with
the knowledge that we share. Do you understand? </P><B>
<P>Karen:</B> We are truly socializing our beliefs. </P><B>
<P>JACK:</B> That's right.</P><B>
<P>Karen:</B> And the more we learn how to do it amongst ourselves and feel
comfortable with it, the easier it will be for us to attract other people into
it, a sharing situation — just an expansion of this and there will grow the
brotherhood. </P><B>
<P>JACK:</B> Human Associations I. </P><B>
<P>Karen:</B> Human Associations I — Diplomacy. </P><B>
<P>JACK:</B> Sharing all Knowledge. How many times have you all in a social
situation.... Mr. T? How many times have you encountered situations where you —
"What do I talk about? What shall I talk about?" </P><B>
<P>Mr. T:</B> A hundred million.</P><B>
<P>JACK:</B> "How do I best approach this person?" "Oh, yes, Emily Post, I
remember someone told me that what I should do is ask that person about
themselves. What kind of books do you like to read?" or "What kind of music do
you enjoy?" This is a technique of conversation. There's little difference
between that and sharing knowledge. A lot of people are embarrassed to share
knowledge. True knowledge. A lot of people don't know the difference. A lot of
people think trivia is knowledge. A lot of people think that— </P><B>
<P>Karen:</B> Facts and figures? </P><B>
<P>JACK:</B> Facts and figures. </P><B>
<P>Mr. T:</B> What is knowledge, Jack?</P><B>
<P>JACK:</B> What we're discussing. True knowledge is an ever expanding,
ever—growing reality. It's true, knowledge starts with a premise and grows from
there.</P><B>
<P>Karen:</B> It's the fifth adjutant mind spirit, which leads into wisdom and
worship. </P><B>
<P>JACK:</B> That is correct. There is no— (And by the way, Mr. T, you spoke
incorrectly the other day when you made the comment that we don't have to study
the adjutant mind spirits because they are no longer here — we no longer need
them. The impression was that you were shucking them. No, that's not true. They
diminish. Diminish is not erasure. They diminish in influence as you grow
spiritually. You grow spiritually as a result of wisdom, the last, seventh and
last adjutant mind spirit. Now, when you feel that you are all wise, then I will
gladly hand you a diploma in dismissal of seven adjutant mind spirits.)</P><B>
<P>Karen:</B> Excuse me, but I thought that worship was the seventh. </P><B>
<P>JACK:</B> Excuse me. Perhaps I misspoke. </P><B>
<P>Karen:</B> They are running neck and neck. </P><B>
<P>JACK:</B> 6th and 7th. Worship eventuates in wisdom. </P><B>
<P>Karen:</B> He insists. That must be the way it is.</P><B>
<P>JACK:</B> Okay? So knowledge is the forerunner of wisdom. Knowledge is the
forerunner of worship. Knowledge is the forerunner of using your mind to ask
questions.</P><B>
<P>Karen:</B> Share your inner life....</P><B>
<P>JACK:</B> To stimulate spiritual growth in other people, to plant your seeds.
We're not talking about chess and we're not talking about poker and we're not
talking about hair cutting and things like that. Those are facts. I'm talking
about the sharing of knowledge.</P><B>
<P>Mr. T:</B> Give us an example.</P><B>
<P>JACK:</B> I just did. So the productive, positive productive inter-facing,
interacting, sharing of knowledge is all a part of Human Associations. It's the
upper half. It's the ideal. It's the.... </P><B>
<P>Karen:</B> Fruits of the Divine Spirit in action. </P><B>
<P>JACK:</B> And again Rodan speaks of ideals. Your ideals should be
sufficiently high enough, should be strong enough and so on and so forth.
Philosophy is knowledge.</P>
<P>The Urantia Book — it's a problem — it's difficult because the Urantia Book
says specifically that you on the planet earth have yet to evolve a sufficient
metaphysics to bridge the gap between your knowledge and your morontia insight,
your spiritual insight, your cosmic insight, your cosmic wisdom. So. The reason
for this is — and the Urantia Book says this again — the reason for this is
because there are so few real thinkers on the planet.</P>
<P>Our — and of course the historical deprivations from the defaults — mankind,
your civilization, you people sitting here right now tonight, have been
retarded. You have inherited this retardation but you have also — up to this
point, compounded the retardation [in that] you have refused, on your own, up to
now, on your own, to do your own bridging, to develop your own standard/depth of
philosophy, to bridge that gap to morontia. To morontia. You are not ready to
evolve into the morontia life until such time as you have developed a sufficient
philosophy that is morontia-ized.</P>
<P>So no matter how spiritual you may think you are, no matter how your ego
would wish you to go from here to, say, the 4th or 5th or 6th Mansion World,
until you do this, you're going to land right smack dab on number one.</P><B>
<P>Karen:</B> I need to go to 1. I have no problem with that. </P><B>
<P>JACK:</B> That's where those deficiencies are made up. Now, I am here to help
you to develop this and so, through your Human Associations course, Human
Associations I, you can start to develop this art of sharing knowledge.</P>
<P>When you reach a point where you're not so hung up and not so involved in
your own personal trivia and your personal life trivias, then you will be able
to communicate — really communicate with your fellow man. When you can do that,
you are spreading and establishing the brotherhood of man.</P>
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