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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">DATE:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>February 14, 2010</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">LOCALE:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Rio Rancho, NM, USA</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">T/R:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Gerdean </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TEACHERS:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></B>MERIUM, ATHENA and TOMAS</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOPICS:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Self-empowerment, Counting the Cost
of</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">MERIUM:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good afternoon, girls.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is Merium, come in to open the
window and let the fresh air blow through your mind.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How are you? (Great.)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And you, Gerdean?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Fine.)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I beg to differ but what are friends
for?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>It feels like a long time since
we’ve had a friendly fireside chat.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It is not as though everything is at a standstill or in stasis but the
configuration has changed, the energies have shifted, and adaptations must be
made.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I hope you don’t conclude
that we don’t need these conversations anymore, that you are grown up now and
don’t need the props of creativity such as we are in the minds of many, or
therapists as some see us, or even figments of the imagination – magic carpets
upon which writers may ride.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>While
some of/all of this may be true, we are still a venue through which to convey
relative reality, whatever you may think that is or isn’t, and while we can
hardly profess to be the be-all and end-all of your education, we remain
teachers anyway and as such that is what we do.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>This is part of our assignment,
after all, to help you to become teachers.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>There is no talk at this point of your having become so proficient at
what we have been teaching you that you no longer need our guidance.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That would not be true.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We always need to learn from those who
go before us, who reach back and tell the others what they have discovered.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In this way you all become a Lewis and
Clark, heading out through the cosmic wilderness.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What wondrous land you will discover,
what amazing creatures, and what rigorous and heartfelt lessons you will learn
as you make your way.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And from our
perspective, we are at least as entertaining as most of what you will find on
TV.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Where shall we begin?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What shall we talk about?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Shall we talk about the weather?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Gerdean, what questions did you have in
mind to ask about?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Gerdean:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m not sure but what it may have
already been answered in your preliminary comments, Merium.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>At least nothing else is rising to the
surface of my consciousness.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">MERIUM:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What have you been engaging in that
would give rise to any questions?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Gerdean:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’ve been working on the chakra
book.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The other night I got so
discouraged, I almost decided not to do it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I had consulted many of my peers and
several other oracles and everything I looked at indicated I would meet with
failure and expense, so I had pretty much figured “the heck with it.” I wasn’t
going to do it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I also felt I would
have to spend the rest of my life defending myself against criticism because it
seems that all we do is criticize one another, and their work, and I didn’t know
if it was worth going into just to be beaten to a pulp.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I had said to myself, “Anyway, it’s just
your ego.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I don’t remember reading
anywhere where God said it was something you should do, or that you were being
assigned such a task, or you had been geared and taught and trained and
programmed to do this,” and so I thought, “Well, is it my ego that wants to do
it anyway?” and I pretty much talked myself into believing it was just an
exercise in ego and … “Never mind!”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>When I woke up, however, or at
some point shortly thereafter, I was infused with a new enthusiasm and it was to
the effect that, “I don’t care about all of that. I’m going to get criticism no
matter what I say or where I go anyway.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Evidently everybody is going to have their own opinion and none of them
are going to agree with mine 100%, so I am always going to have this
configuration to deal with.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And I
thought about that ego thing and I decided that I have a healthy ego and I want
to do it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">want</I> to do it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I don’t care if God wants me to do it or
not, or if other people want me to do it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">I</I> want to do it, and so I’m
going to do it -- and I’m going to field the spitballs.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>And what I’ve gotten since that
time is a little bit of guidance on what I might do.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you for opening the idea up to add
the exercises and meditations, in order to make it more interactive for the
reader.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That was very helpful.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am very concerned however that not
much emphasis has been placed on chakras or adjutants 5, 6 or 7 … that most of
the material seems to be around the first four.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Perhaps you could address that.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">MERIUM:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, perhaps I could, but I am going to
let someone else do that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I will be
back, but [celestial artisan] Athena will better help with that … if that’s okay
with you.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">ATHENA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Athena here.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have no idea why Bob and Lady opted to
short-change you, relatively speaking, on material for the fifth, sixth and
seventh chakras and adjutants.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Perhaps you were at a saturation point at that time and unable to
assimilate much more material, and if that is the case then you would not want
to overwhelm your readers with even more than you could handle would you?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(No.)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>If you had not decided to publish
it at this particular time and with a specific deadline, we could spend more
time on it I am sure and add more material on the fifth, sixth and seventh
chakras and adjutants, and yet I believe you are being conscious of how big this
book is because it can get expensive.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>(True.)</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>The chakras and adjutants all
contribute to your well-being, livelihood and development.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They all keep your motor humming, but I
will tell you where your focal point is: with people who are primarily still in
the second, third and fourth chakra levels.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And of course the fifth is rather
self-explanatory, at least until worship and wisdom enter in to enlarge it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In other words, without God as a factor
in your communications, you are pretty much godless and that communication only
goes so far.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>If it becomes necessary for you
to enlarge five, six and seven, you will, no doubt, be prompted to spend some
more time on it, but don’t make the mistake of waiting until your learning is
complete before you begin to pass on what you have learned. Teach as you grow
and use humility and discernment in your authority since you admittedly are also
growing and learning and thus open to new vistas of perception.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Anything else on that?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Gerdean:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>While you are there, Athena, I could ask
another question, then, and that is: should I add another segment after Part
III, to recap or summarize or opine or promise or conclude or … anything at the
end?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">ATHENA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I would suggest you do add some
appendices or a glossary or footnotes to add information or definitions as
needed. There aren’t too many but you would do well to let your readers know,
for example, what “mota” means or who “Nebadonia” is or what “Urantia” or
Ayurvedic mean.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These are words
that will help you with your audience.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>They would be able to get the gist of it without those details but it
would behoove you to have those details for those who want to know those
things.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be accommodating where
possible.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All right?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Gerdean:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is also talk about cover art,
whether it should be in color or in black and white.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Do you have any opinion on that?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">ATHENA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>I have no
suggestions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have observed the
influx of opinions and suggestions from others and find them all interesting and
convenient.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For you to decide,
perhaps you need to play with it some more.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And you will need to get prices.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are “counting the cost” here, both
in terms of whether you want to endure the persecutions that will come at you
and do you want to afford the expenses that it will take.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are up against a task and you want
to approach it with due consideration -- knowing that this is not going to be an
instant success and nor is anyone going to pay for it for you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Gerdean:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you, Athena.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">ATHENA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are welcome.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is always a pleasure to work with
you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Here is Merium, your
hostess.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">MERIUM:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I would like to let Tomas come visit you
now for he has asked to join with you in a celebration of your relationship … in
fact, his commencement of his teaching tenure here in this cosmic
classroom.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’ll be back.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOMAS:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Good
afternoon, dear friends.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am
Tomas, your Teacher. I am pleased to be in your presence once again and to enjoy
the ambiance of your environment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>As we know, your environment begins within you, in the soul self coming
forth from that citadel of the spirit and entering the external environment by
the ministry of mind.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Mind is more than machine.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Although it is mechanism, mind is also
consciousness, be it sub or super.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It is energy.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And it is
infinitely vast in its portrayal.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Many perceive mind as something “out there” – a spatial sense of
consciousness that goes to infinity, or operates between electrons and protons,
and there are those who think of mind as a calculator -- logic, reason and
linear thinking -- as a science; and there are those who think of mind as a
workplace for artists where they rise and fall in the arms of the mind and dance
across the pages and canvasses and stages of history.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The mind is far beyond your
comprehension.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>And so the mystery monitor
monitors your mind for what passes through it, and with the help of the seraphim
to juggle the balls that bounce around in your mind like in a pinball machine,
such that you have certain experiences and certain challenges on your way from
being shot out of the cannon of life and attaining the goal of disappearing down
the hole at the end of the game with as high a score as possible.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Where do you watch for your score? <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What gives you the sense of being a
winner?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What have you configured
into your mind, your consciousness, what it means to win?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What it means to exercise yourself and
be at your best or to reach your capacities?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>When you are working at your
capacities, what do your energies/ what does your mind do to the
environment?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Are you like the stone
that is tossed into the pool that causes ripples? Or the kind of rock that
splashes water and loses it to density and destruction? Or are you the pebble
that barely makes a mark on the surface of the water when it plops and hardly a
ripple is noted?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All of this is an
aspect of the mind -- <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">your</I></B> mind -- your mind in
conjunction with “divine mind.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Where and when and how you are empowered will depend upon the kind of
effect you cause with your actions, with your thought.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>We judge not what approach you
have. We observe the outcome.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We
reflect what we see.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We use that,
then, as a base for the next plateau of development.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Whether it recedes or inclines is your
choice.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Whether you stalemate is
your decision.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How fast and how
slowly you move is also your decision.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You are all part of the whole, and as you move, so moves the whole.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you do not move, the whole cannot
move forward either. But you will be glad to see that there is much advancement
being made in energetic living.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Even though, quite frankly, much of it is erroneous, it is nonetheless
educational and experiential. And so we progress two steps forward, one step
back.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>How have you been, my
children?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How can I help you this
afternoon?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Student:</B> I understand you are
celebrating a 17 year anniversary today.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOMAS:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, thank you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is an honorable day in that we’ve
maintained a loving association all these many years.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That in itself is worth celebrating, as
any friendship is worth celebrating simply for its existence.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We have covered a lot of territory and a
lot of ground.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Gerdean would like
to know what we have been doing with ourselves since we are not here with her
all the time as it seemed we were for a while.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I and we are still all very much
occupied with the Correcting Time.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>We have a perspective that we contribute just as you have your
perspective to contribute to your peer group and your arena.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And the power of your perspective
affects the energy and the mind as a whole.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>[The sound of potato chips.] </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>I see there are some things that
are dependable.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>I also am reminded of the
handicap of sensitivity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I would
like to spend a moment with you on that if I may.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There are those who feel that
sensitivity is a handicap and thus are inclined to be hurt or bruised in the
process of going through life, just because others are not as sensitive and
think nothing of such jostling of egos and agendas.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But sensitivity is a feature that is
attributed to certain personalities that constitute a necessary part of
humanity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>To forfeit sensitivity is to
forfeit much of what makes you happy, and what is required of you to make it
such that you can be creative, or be innovative.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is necessary for you to be sensitive
to what would help you meet your potential.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>When they say you must “toughen
up,” that is coming from the perspective of one who has toughened.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is the advice of someone who has the
impression they have “been there, done that” and know what’s good for you, know
what’s best and what is possible. And while there is a great deal of truth to
the fact that we are always refining and modifying ourselves to adapt to truer
perfection, it is also true that certain counsel can be disregarded as it
encroaches, intimidates, invalidates -- anything in opposition to your destiny
calling… to your right to experiential living.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>But you must count the cost of
advancing or not advancing, depending upon your own spirit of truth.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In the end it will always say “This is
the Way” and that is the way you will follow if you are following your true
path.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“To thine own self be true”
gives you the option.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It provides
you the opportunities and the risks that you will take in discovering yourself
in relationship with that which is eternal, that which will be a part of you
forever, that which will serve you for the next leg of the journey, that which
will bring you home, to that which you maintain your highest loyalty and your
undying hope.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Thank you for gathering this
afternoon in order that we were able to call these things to your attention and
consider them in light of where we are today in the Teaching Mission and in the
perspective of our mutual observations. Yes, I have been “having fun” where I
have been in other places, but I will not dwell on that now.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I will return you to Merium.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’ll talk to you another time.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good afternoon.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">MERIUM:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just so you know, Ham and Jack are both
here today and greet you affectionately.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And Abraham sends his regards.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Students:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Kisses all around.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And hugs.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">MERIUM</B>:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Go find something to eat and enjoy
yourselves.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Students:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thanks for coming by.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">MERIUM:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Bye-bye!</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
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style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
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