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<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#0000ff size=5>Special Session #20 –
Charles’ view on Spiritual Pragmatism – Aug. 27, 2010</FONT></H1>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Teacher:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><B>Charles, a Mighty Messenger</B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Topics:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: green">Definition of
spiritual pragmatism<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
Melchizedek Schools and University<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
staging has been done for this current era<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
main intention is to develop a sustainable civilization<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your
attitude reflects your intention to accept change<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
universe is material, energetic and organismic<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Respect
yourself as an organism, with the world as an extension<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Appreciate the earth’s bounty<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Application of spiritual pragmatism to the BP
catastrophe<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Responding in a spiritually pragmatic way<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Assisting others to apply spiritual pragmatism</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>TR:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Daniel Raphael</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Moderator:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Vicki Vanderheyden</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3>August 27, 2010</FONT></H2>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B> <o:p></o:p></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>Vicki:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></B><I>Dear Father, as we come together,
the three of us as a team, with all our unseen helpers, we express our gratitude
for the help we’ve received in the last few days to align our lives and place us
in a better position to do our work for you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We ask that you surround us in your
loving circuit of truth, beauty and goodness, as we receive these messages
today.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Amen.<o:p></o:p></I></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><I> <o:p></o:p></I></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>CHARLES:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good morning, this is Charles.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Good morning, Charles.)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Welcome, my friends, it is good to be
with you once again.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I enjoy your
company and your willingness to bend your backs to hard work that is here now
and ahead of us.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I wish to continue
a bit, talking to you about “Spiritual Pragmatism” and try to explain this more
fully.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>Definition of
spiritual pragmatism</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Spiritual Pragmatism really is
the integration of a spiritual practice and the practicality of living
day-to-day, moment-to-moment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There
is no separation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I need to explain
this to you because most of you have lived your lives in separation, even those
of you who are devout religionists who go to church several times a week
oftentimes live in spiritual separation, where you see your religion as separate
from your personal life, that your religion is not a practical part of your
every day life of living, of the problems and finding solutions and asking for
guidance.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You pray, you provide
supplications, you beg for forgiveness, you plead and cajole God to give you
what you need, but it is there for you already; it is already present in your
life—all you need to do is accept it.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>A major difference between a
planet that is in the era of light and life, and your planet is the awareness of
citizens on a planet of light and life that they are material beings in a
spiritual world, a spiritual universe, that there is no separation.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Whether it is raising children, whether
it is seeking a profession or career, finding your right and perfect home,
determining whether you will have children or not, how you will spend your
retirement, what will be your mission and goal and criteria for attainment of
fulfillment in your life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Many of
you have determined that these are all materially related, determined by your
culture and your decisions to accept those or to not accept those in your
culture.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But on a world that is in
the era of light and life, these are all integrated into your thinking as you
are raised so that you seek inner guidance to fulfill your life in the material
realm by achieving spiritual goals.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Your career, for instance, would be one which is in agreement with your
life plan, one that contributes to the lessons you are to learn in this
lifetime, and that assists you in your morontial development, even while on that
world.<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 the same for you here,
when you accept it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can advance
your morontial career immensely by how you integrate the pragmatic realities of
spirituality into your everyday life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Many of you reject the psychic and the intuitive realm as something that
is almost nefarious; however, these are the senses, capacities and faculties of
the lower realm of morontial existence.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>To see with your mind’s eye is an aspect of the lower realm of the
morontial.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What you see is what
your mind directs, and you decide with your will, what you will to see and what
you will not to see.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What you
become and what you do in your life is determined by your state of
consciousness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This may sound
as though the semantics of this conversation are far removed from the
practicalities of everyday life, but they are not; they are intimate to your
everyday life.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>The Melchizedek
Schools and University</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: green"><U> <o:p></o:p></U></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Learning to pray, learning to
know how to pray effectively is an important facet of the practicality of your
life, here on this material world as you grow and develop into your spiritual
self.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is necessary that there be
no separation in your life’s work and your spiritual development.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will find in the Melchizedek School
and the Melchizedek University that we are integrating the spiritual training
into the practicalities of daily living, of yourself as an individual and as a
family member, and as a member of a community and extended society.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The interest of the triumvirate of
Christ Michael, Machiventa and Monjoronson, through the Correcting Time is to
infuse in your practical world of everyday life the spiritual principles of an
evolving society, evolving family structures and evolving individuals.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will have this opportunity to begin
that, whether you attend the school or the university, [or] you can begin at
home.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These two institutions of
training prepare you to work actively under the direction of a celestial
consultant, a Melchizedek, who will work with you individually and with your
teams.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is essential that you
participate in the evolution of your society when you receive your training in
the Melchizedek School and University, or on your own, apply these principles to
where you live and where you work immediately.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>The staging has
been done for this current era</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Going to another topic — this
immediate era that we and you are in right now, this era of 2010 on Urantia —
for many of you, you have already been ‘staged’, that is you have already
entered into the movements of your life, whether it is a change of residence, a
change of employment, changes in your family, someone who decides to divorce or
marry or move on to their morontial career, these changes have been taking place
gradually.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This era now, this year
and next year, is an era where you will be placed.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The staging has occurred and now the
placement will occur.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The staging
is much as a theatrical stage where the sets are moved and the scenes changed
and all the settings are put in place.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Now the actors will take up their locations on that stage and begin to
practice and act out their lives in this drama of life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So, too, many of you have been staged,
the outwork manifestations of your life have been rearranged and you are now
being placed on this stage, for a position, an act, a character, to be fulfilled
through your life, that you will play out this work in real time with your
fellow brothers and sisters on this stage, in this new era.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Some will not change; they will
remain where they are, but some of the major actors who will be a part of this
traumatic transition era have been or are being or soon will be placed on this
stage, where they will be in powerful positions to act out the roles that are
necessary to help fulfill Christ Michael’s Correcting Time in a minor way
throughout your world.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is
being done not only in this culture, but all cultures around the world.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will find many powerful players
coming together soon, to participate in this.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Do not resist these changes, nor resist
where you are.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you are not
moving, it means that you are a pillar of support in the foundation to remain in
your community, who will be an important part of this drama that is acted out,
and you will be an important element to fulfill these plans.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Not everyone can be a mover and a
shaker; not everyone wants to be, and it is not necessary for everyone to be a
mover and shaker.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is important
that there be a huge inertia, a mass that remains in place to hold fast to that
which is important, accepting new directions peacefully, knowing that there is a
divine plan in mind.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>The main intention
is to develop a sustainable civilization</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Some of you have resisted this
movement.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Some of you have seen the
elements that would move you forward or change your life and you have
resisted.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is a personal
choice, of course, and you may enjoy the results, or not.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For those of you who have been moved or
will move, it does not mean that you will have a life of ease either, for
everyone’s role will be difficult; it is the intention you have for your life as
you participate in your families, communities, society and your civilization
that will be important to develop the world that comes into existence,
peacefully.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The main intention for
all of this work for the Correcting Time is to develop a sustainable
civilization, one that provides a fertile seed bed for the elements of the days
of light and life that will surely come into your world.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All of you will determine how soon that
happens—or how long it is delayed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It is inevitable, in any way, and it requires individuals to will to do
God’s will to become active participants in this plan.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It requires those who act by commission,
rather than omission, making active decisions to remain where they are, or
making active decisions to move on, to change to become a part of this new
era.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>Your attitude
reflects your intention to accept change</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Many of these changes may not
appear to make sense to you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Families are in disruption.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Children go to college, you now have an empty nest—what do you do?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Do you two or singly rattle around in
your big house by yourself, or do you move on to a new location?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Perhaps in that new location, you will
find friends, acquaintances and associates who can be a part of your new era,
your new life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Some of you have
lost your jobs to this economic turmoil.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>For our consideration, this has not been a bad thing, as it allows us to
move people thousands of miles geographically and culturally, to positions where
they will be most useful – where once you may have lived in Northern Canada, now
you may live in Tennessee.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It would
be quite a change for you, and you would want to be an effective part of that
societal community where you move.<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>You become a much more powerful
element for us, with a positive attitude of accepting these changes peacefully
and seeing the positive, constructive good that is invested in these
changes.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Many of you see your
changes as material loss; you have sold your house at a loss, maybe you have had
to abandon your house, you’ve lost your retirement or it has diminished because
of the decrease in investments and the return on investments.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These are short-term losses, which may
have a very positive effect on the quality of your life in the future, rather
than clutching to your material security, you are willing to move on into a much
more secure social, emotional, personal, and spiritual life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The choice is yours.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your attitude reflects your intention,
and how you accept these changes.<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>Change is inevitable, it will
always be here, it will always continue.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This era of your world will be an era that will be known throughout
history as the greatest change agent and era of change in all the history of
earth, affecting more people than have ever been affected in the history of this
world.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How you play that out is
important to the ends that Christ Michael has designed for you, personally, and
with your Thought Adjuster and for your world.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>The universe is
material, energetic and organismic</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Another subject:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have reflected with you upon the
energetic changes that are occurring in this special area of the cosmos of
Nebadon.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The truth of the universe
is that it is material, it is energetic and it is organismic.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The universe is an organism.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You and this world are a part of that
organism.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are material beings,
but there is an organismic capacity to your world and to this environment, which
is living and real, dynamic and evolutionary. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You affect it; it affects you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your very bodies, your brains, your
organs—all your physicality—was once part of a supernova in space.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are the living residue of the
material organism of this universe.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You are part of it; you are it; it is you; you affect the whole and the
whole affects you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>Respect yourself
as an organism, with the world as an extension</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>In many ways, to draw a perhaps
dark metaphor, a parallel, is that your world is much like a protective, loving
dog, who is caring but who is inhabited by these fleas, which dig into its skin,
and cause it some grief once in a while.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>On the other hand, there are other organisms on this planet, which exist
and provide a symbiotic relationship to the world.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Are you a part of that symbiosis, or are
you parasitical?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are organismic
in any regard; you are part of this larger organism.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Do you respect your bodies?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Many of you do not; neither do you
respect the earth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is time for
you to respect yourself as an organism, a living organism, and that your world
is an extension of your life, and you are an extension of it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are organismically inseparable from
the universe; you are a living part of the universe; you are a living part of
the world.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your world is real; it
is living; it is an organism; it has a consciousness quotient which makes it
real and existent in terms of its potential, infinite existence in the
universe.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your living upon this
world helps its longevity or not.<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>As a living organism, to draw
another metaphor or parallel, is that the earth is much like your body:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>within that body there are cells.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You as individuals are much like cells
of that body.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When the body dies,
you eventually will die.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can,
when there is an infection in the body, the body will strive to heal itself and
reject the infection.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is
fairly accurate for the situation on your world now that there has been an
organic infection of your world due to dark consciousness, misuse of energy and
lack of thoughtful, constructive intention for living.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To again draw back to the parallel of
the dog, it is though your world has taken a bath in a stream, and that it comes
out upon the beach and shakes its coat violently to rid itself of the excess
water.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your world is now in the
process of shaking loose those elements that are destructive to it, which must
be reorganized for your world to regain its wholeness, its integrity.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is important that you think in terms
of integrity; are you an integral part of this organism, or are you an
antagonistic part of this organism?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Will you be shed in the chaos of this transition era, or will you remain
and be supported by it?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>Appreciate the
earth’s bounty</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Yes there is a consciousness of
support for elements that are friendly to your world.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is important that you gain this
understanding and appreciation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Yes, you may extract minerals; yes, you may extract oil and other things
from the outer layer of this world, but do so in the same manner as you would
lovingly dispatch an animal to slaughter.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You would praise it for its life; you would thank it for living, and you
appreciate it giving you its life and its produce for your continuation for your
sustenance.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so too, you have an
appreciation for the petroleum products, for the coal, for the minerals—the iron
that comes from the earth—and you remain in gratitude.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Would it not be quite a significant
departure to have a stockholder’s meeting where there was praise and
appreciation for the earth for sharing its bounty, with the corporation and the
dividends which were distributed?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Now that would be quite a different change, would it not?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Think about these things and apply them,
my friends.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>I am open for questions, if you
have any.</P>
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<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>Application of
spiritual pragmatism to the BP catastrophe</FONT></U></H3>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>Vicki:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Charles, could you give us an
example?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For instance, how would
you take the BP (British Petroleum) situation and apply spiritual
pragmatism?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How should we respond
in a spiritually pragmatic way, to a crisis of this sort?</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>CHARLES:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>By the BP situation, you mean the
bursting of the wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico<SPAN style="COLOR: red"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN>(Vicki:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes.)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is much like closing the barn door
after the horse is out.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is too
much thought, too late.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
spiritual pragmatism applied to this is too late; it is now time to apply
spiritual pragmatism of friendliness with the earth, the appreciation for it,
respect for it and the protection of those resources.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is a real connection between
spiritual pragmatism and material acquisition of the earth’s bounty.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is an appreciation for protecting
those resources.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>In the case of the BP problems,
there was a far more respect for protecting the financial assets of the
corporation contractor, rather than expending them to protect the assets that
were in the earth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Which weighs
more?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Which would cost more?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There has been the loss of millions upon
millions of barrels of oil into the ocean, which are worth billions of dollars,
compared to the $10,000,000 it may have cost to upgrade the protective device at
the wellhead.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is selfish
arrogance of the grandest nature.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It is beyond comprehension to understand and to give appreciation to this
kind of selfishness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>It is too late to understand the
spiritual pragmatism for this disaster.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It can only be used to appreciate what is left that remains with the
earth and to protect it through appreciation of these resources.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When you come down to it, one must
understand the organismic connection between yourselves as individuals, as
stockholders, as executives and corporate leaders to your Mother Earth, and
resources it provides to you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There
is a direct connection.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If one were
to have this attitude of spiritual connectedness, organismic connectedness, to
the earth and its environments and its resources, then one would protect those
resources.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>One would see the living
connection between those resources and your own lives, rather than seeing in
terms of the residual of cash and assets that one sees as the bottom line in
your corporate ledgers.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is a
distant relationship and it is nonexistent; the relationship is with money and
value of that nature, rather than with connectedness and integrity with the
earth, with the understanding and knowing that there is no separation.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This corporate attitude of separation
between assets and finances and those earthly resources is devastating and will
continue to wreck havoc, wherever that attitude is expressed.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There will always be mistakes because
the attitude and intention is mistaken in the beginning.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is no problem with extracting
minerals from the earth—it is here for your bounty—it is your attitude, it is
your intention, it is your oneness or separation from it that makes the
difference.</P>
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<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>Responding in a
spiritually pragmatic way</FONT></U></H3>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>Vicki:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It seems that we’ve had our share of
these blunders, and that there are more to come.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When we face these blunders that we’ve
created, then we are forced to clean them up.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Can you give us some guidelines, some
direction, in how we can respond in a spiritually pragmatic way?</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>CHARLES:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Many of you are already doing that.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You respect the earth, you love the
earth, you recycle materials, you see the recycle of and continuity between the
use and the earth’s abundance.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This
is the way to proceed; this is the connection.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There are those who do not do this, and
of course they do not help you maintain that connection.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What you can do is to help others see
that there is connection, rather than separation.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Many of these attitudes and separation
from the earth are cultural, they are part of a national ethos and it is part of
a way of seeing their world.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Those of you who are aware of
your connection on this continuity [of] integrity with your world, spiritually
and pragmatically, do much to help the future.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It would be helpful for you to help
educate those who do not see this connection, though where it really begins is
deeply within the individual.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There
is tremendous separation within the individuals who express these flagrant
materialistic attitudes towards the earth, and themselves.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They are separate, there is a lack of
integrity within themselves.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There
is not a simple, short-term quick answer to your question.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is a matter of turning around your
culture, of changing the ethos of a corporation and towards one that is friendly
to the earth.</P>
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<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>Assisting others
to apply spiritual pragmatism</FONT></U></H3>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>Vicki:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When I think about the work that we have
to do in this near future that will move us toward this new era of light and
life, I reflect upon your words and those of Monjoronson.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Both of you have stated that things like
right-mindedness, intentional consciousness, spiritual pragmatism, must begin
within.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so it seems that in
order to take the next baby step, much of our co-creative work has to do with
helping others develop this sense within.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Would you agree with that?</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>CHARLES:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Most definitely.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>Vicki:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And in doing so, we can set the examples
through the life we lead ourselves, rather than in an evangelistic manner.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Would you agree as well?</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>CHARLES:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>Vicki:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So, in spiritual pragmatism there is a
degree of tolerance?</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>CHARLES:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Most definitely.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is a need for tolerance,
forbearance, patience, forgiveness, allowance for error—in fact knowing that
there will be error, but “hanging in there,” as you would say, to remain
faithful to the best interests of everyone, knowing that deep within each
individual is a potential to become whole and integrated with others, and
integrated with themselves.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is
not an easy chore to take on the master position, the master attitude, the Jesus
the Christ-position and consciousness, but it is necessary as example to others
to provide a model to others that allows for differences knowing that the best
will eventually come forward when we assist those best interests.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>By being rigid and didactic we do not
allow others to see the flexibility, the tolerance and forgiveness that they
must extend to themselves.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is
where it will eventually come to, where the individual is self-reflective and is
self-forgiving, tolerant of their own vagaries not to be consistent, not to be
integrated or whole, but moving towards that with a positive attitude and the
correct intention.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>Vicki:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I just want to take the opportunity to
thank you, Charles.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I thought that
was a wonderful, wonderful lesson.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I think it extended our definition of spiritual pragmatism, and I really
appreciate the landscape you gave us toward the change that we are
experiencing.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>CHARLES:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are most welcome.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We can be as direct as needed to move us
ahead; yet, too, there is a need to be pliant, to be flexible, to be tolerant,
for allowance to move and “fudge a bit,” as you would say, to allow for
miscalculations as long as we are all moving together.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The need for directness is necessary in
this case, in this era, because it is necessary—it is vastly necessary to now
begin to affect the outcomes that we desire—that both you desire and we
desire—and that we come to one mind in doing this, and proceed.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It begins by awareness, a need for
education, a need for growth, for the necessity of greater awareness and
appreciation for our individual situations and that of the world.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You and we are working together and we
have many resources.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The staging
has been done and now the actors are being put into place, and the play must
begin.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good day.</P>
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