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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>July 7, 2011</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">LOCATION:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Light Line</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">TEACHER:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Secondary Midwayer JACK</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOPIC:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Work of the Realm</P>
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"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Father God, thank you for being with us this
evening. Help us with the process, the technology, the wisdom, and all things
that we need to make this work – both the session and our lives. Thank you.
Amen.<o:p></o:p></I></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">0802-AB Jack</B> here, again and still,
observing, watching and having a good time seeing you at it -- at life, at its
challenges, at its opportunities.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I
have had the opportunity to enjoy such for many thousands of years, and while it
is often confusing, it is also almost always interesting. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>You might be interested to know
that we sometimes feel deep chagrin, consternation and worry about you and about
the circumstances we observe occurring.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It is only normal for elder brothers and sisters to be concerned about
the shenanigans that our younger brothers and sisters get involved with.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Sometimes we find them playing with
unfortunate associates, or engaging in unfortunate activities and yet with Free
Will, there’s not really much we can do about it.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>The guardian seraphim, of course,
have an opportunity to interject and sometimes we can help them avert real
danger, but for the most part, “you’re on your own” and so we do indeed observe
and bide our time until such times as this when you are in a position to be
still and hear your own thoughts and actions reflected back to you through your
elders.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Now, I am not going to set
myself up as some kind of super being; I am your cousin. I am not troubled with
the animal legacy as you are but I also don’t get to enjoy the animal legacy as
you do.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I can only pick up with you
on the same page where we find ourselves, and that would begin with the spirit
of worship and into the spirit of wisdom.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>I find so many ways you worship,
it is mind-boggling.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s been that
way for thousands of years, of course, and the Urantia text talks about the many
things you have worshipped, including yourself.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is not any different now that it was
except it might be a little bit – <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">a
little bit</I> – more advanced.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I
would say that people don’t worship rocks anymore but they do.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They exalt crystals.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They exalt elements like gold and
uranium.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They worship the wealth
that comes from these elements … these rocks, virtually. <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>They worship the ethers of air,
much as they did in the times of the ghost cults. Like the breath of life that
is emitted from the body in breathing freezing weather, they construed that as
the spirit leaking out into their environment and it is the same today as you
find yourself listening to every utterance from people’s mouth, you feel it is
spirit reality when it isn’t at all; it is merely air, warmer than the
environment. It’s hot air!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s
just a lot of hot air. And yet you continue to put it on some exalted pedestal
as if it were coming from God Himself.<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 make these observations because
I live here and I have been observing it for a long time and I marvel – <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">I marvel</I> – at the mystery of it
all.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How it is that God – <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">all-seeing, all-knowing, all-present</I> –
can be cognizant of this -- <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">all of
this</I> -- and know what to do and act correctly in each instance.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The mystery of God is beyond our
comprehension.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so we build
superstitions and belief systems and theories and postulations and all manner of
things in an effort to construct God in a way that we can understand God.<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>Actually, this is not a bad
idea.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But you can’t expect everyone
to believe in the same God-construct as you have because everyone has his
own.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Everyone should have his own
-- or her own -- construct of what God is because that’s what you deal with when
you deal with your existence, your very existence. When you ask questions of
yourself, you are really asking questions of the God within yourself.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But so often, the mind gets in the way,
the body gets in the way, the emotions get in the way and God is completely
short-circuited. Any genuine religious experience is so often completely
short-circuited by your short-term goals.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I’m not scolding anyone here; I’m just speaking my 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>I want to say that I am Gerdean’s
oldest friend on the planet, not counting her personal teachers who have been
with her since she was a child.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I
met Gerdean in 1968 and mentored her for a number of years, through her
spiritual childhood and adolescence, watched her flounder and fail and finally
rise to the occasion; she became part of the solution instead of being part of
the problem. And so you are going to hear from her, in her dealings with you and
her peers in the Teaching Mission, her programming, her conditioning, much of
which is from me.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And I was a very
no nonsense mentor.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><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 got hold of Gerdean [long
pause] … I can’t even begin to convey how far we’ve come. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But this is what happens when you
work with spirit over a long period of time – you become more spiritual, and yet
retain your mortality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Part of my
teaching always was to be both human and divine. You cannot stop being human in
order to be more spiritual; you need to reassess, re-evaluate, re-train your
material sense in order to accommodate the overriding and ever growing spiritual
sense.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>This is where the wealth comes
from the experiential wealth they talk about in morontia mota, “the combined
ministries of nature and grace.” Jesus did this; he walked a path that
incorporated both the human and the divine; he did not give up one to be the
other. He was both Son of Man and Son of God together. While you are here, that
is your task.<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 boxed her ears many times, just
like I was taught by watching the Master work with his apostles.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They were lifted up and then fall flat,
to be lifted up and brought down again on this anvil of experience, molding and
formulating, cultivating, refining the soul which will survive this life and go
on to Mansonia to be greeted by the welcoming Adjuster who will come out to meet
the soul for resurrection.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is
a serious process. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>At least, I construed it to be a
serious process, given how much heart and soul Jesus put into it. He was the
inspiration for me to turn around from being a Child in Need of Supervision to a
willing worker in the field.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I was so inspired by that man, by his life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Any student I have ever had, I have
tried to replicate what I observed him do.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Even so, he was much more effective that I am, but I am just a midwayer
and he was a Creator Son so I appreciate the difference but that does not make
me less.<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>My work is here, on the world, on
the earthly plane. I am here until such time as I am released which is not for a
long while yet, not until the planet is settled in light and life. No, not just
one or two individuals, one or two communities, but the entire planet.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s a lot of work, and so I tend to
take my work seriously and I appreciate it when my students take their work
seriously.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That does not mean we do
not enjoy ourselves. There is tremendous joy in our rejoicing.<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 tell you this because in your
culture, in your TeaM culture, Gerdean has more than once been controversial and
I am going to take a great deal of responsibility for that because I taught her.
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And I think she is doing
great.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>She is upholding what is
essential and that is the individual’s relationship with their God to formulate
their soul and then allow that soul to release itself in service to others.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is nothing in any programming or
conditioning that I have ever received that tells me I need to teach her or
other students about other entities throughout the cosmos. <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">That,</I> I was assured, is covered in the
textbook.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And even without the
textbook, living a righteous life is more than most of you can handle.<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>Of course, I am somewhat
repentant.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I lived many, many
years, many hundreds of years, thousands of years in willful disobedience to the
divine will.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And I have turned over
a new leaf.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>And how I enjoy seeing it when
others reach that point where they are eager to turn over their will to find out
what God’s will might be for them.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Not then to throw their will away, but to put their will to proper use in
serving Him and your fellows. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>This planet has got its hands
full.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There are problems all over
the map: politics you wouldn’t believe; power struggles on every street corner;
disease, virus, death. We have starvation on one side of the street and obesity
on the other. The imbalance of wealth is enough to make you stagger.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well, it’s enough to make me stagger,
and often we do stand back and figuratively speaking scratch our heads in wonder
at how you could have gotten yourself into such a mess.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I know, Lucifer didn’t help, nor did
Adam and Eve, but even so, you have so many things going for you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s time to turn over a new leaf.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Roll up your sleeves and get busy on the
problems this world has and needs served.<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 know, here in this area there
are forest fires raging.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That does
not mean you need to run out and become a volunteer fire fighter.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Further east, there are floods.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That does not mean you have to start
building boats and levies, sandbags to hold back the floods, but there is always
something that can be done, no matter how small.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And this is one of the peculiar things I
find about human beings: you have such a tremendous need to be grandiose and
heroic.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You think you need to do
something really, really great when the truth is some of the smallest acts of
kindness are what is the greatest.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>If you just accept where you are
and work within the parameters of where you are, you will find more than ample
ways to be of meaningful service.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>If you allow yourself to be open to do something, to assist your fellow
human beings, your Mystery Monitor will certainly provide you will opportunities
to fill the bill.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I know you don’t
all pick up on the opportunity that comes your way but there are so many, so
great, it would be virtually impossible to fill every need, but there are
opportunities, even so, to be a part of the solution. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>I urge you to keep your focus on
this realm.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is where you
are, this is where you live and this is where your work is, here and now. Yes,
you probably should have a general understanding of what has gone before and
certainly some goals and ideals to aspire toward – individually and as a
community.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But if you are right
with God, you will be guided and directed into service fields that will cause
you to rejoice evermore and be an inspiration to those around 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>Well, I hear rattling going on.
It tells me that you are getting anxious to participate or stand up and stretch,
maybe have a drink of water or use the restroom, so I will back off from my
podium and invite you to open the door to engage with me and with others in the
process of socializing our beliefs. In this way we bond with one another as
fellow religionists, as workers in the field, and perhaps can encourage and
stimulate each other in the huge tasks that await our attention. </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 your ears.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>In order to come back in, now, I
believe the technique is *6.<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">Eva:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Are you ready for a question
now?</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">JACK:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN></B>Yes.</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">Eva:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Oh, great.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Hi, 0802-AB.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is Eva.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’ve got my number! <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All my short-term projects, Jack, that’s
what I’ve been concentrating on. Short-term, short-term, short. Are you really
watching us? Is it just sometimes, or always? Because that is a great help.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m just wondering if I am just spinning
around sometimes I feel beat up and I put myself in situations where I need to
go.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I say situations, you know,
because there lives in me one – the Father Absolute -- who can.<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>So I roll up my sleeves, I do
one-on-one in the small opportunities.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I love helping. But, I go down the wrong path, I’ve made wrong decisions,
my ego is one of my short-term projects, hitting my head against the wall,
trying to change, and it’s all about me, really, because it’s a reflection on me
if I can succeed and, you know, none of that matters.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So it would make me feel so much better
that whatever way I’m going, we are somehow truly being directed and our lives
are being planned out.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If we are
obedient to God’s will.<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 we knew that, then I – with
all my turning around in circles and all my going down the wrong path – I’m
coming back, because my intent is good.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And He somehow has me in the palm of His hands.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Because when I’m spinning around like
that, it feels like I’m out of control, and when I’m doing something that does
not result in what I feel to be fruit of the spirit in my longer term projects,
talking about the smaller, short term … um, when I get like this, is the
Universal Father really aware?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Has
he planned my life out? Because it doesn’t feel like it.<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 then again, of course, when I
am doing something with resounding success, you know, makes my soul come alive,
helps people and they give me that smile of “You had no--<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good for you!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You made me feel--”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>People are what I hoped people could
be.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That kind of feed-back just
makes me want to go, and then I feel, “Yeah!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is planned out for me from day
one.”</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>But then again, when I’m wrapped
up in things that are old, old CD’s, then I say, “Come on, now, is this part of
the problem?” I know the universe uses everything – everything! -- but it really
does help me to hear what you just said, that we are being monitored. It’s so
important to remember – although you did say, you know, we’re on our own; we do
have to act on our own. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>But just that, even when you go
to sleep and you ask the indwelling Spirit, “Use my dreams.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Even that little bit I get such great,
great response from my indwelling Spirit. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>But I guess what I am looking for
is the kind of assurance that our lives are planned out somewhat, a little bit,
if we are obedient to God’s will, because I need a pilot.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Forget co-pilot! And thanks, Jack, if
you would just try to make sense of that because I don’t know if I was
clear.</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">JACK:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN></B>It was good to hear from you Eva.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You had quite a bit to say. I think
sometimes when we have these occasions that come up, it’s like you are like a
pressure cooker that is letting off steam that has boiled up under pressure and
must escape. Just the expression of all that must leave you feeling better, so I
will approach two or three of things you said which was interesting but no the
universe does not use everything.<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>There is a lot of roughage and
drivel that is unnecessary, but it’s allowed to take up space, just like dead
leaves and dust are allowed to take up space, whether they have any nutritive
value or saline contribution or whatever.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>But this is part of the process of gleaning what is of value and what
isn’t.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And this is something you
can determine to a great extent. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Yes, you are monitored.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Not only are you monitored constantly by
the Father through His indwelling Spirit, you are monitored also by the Spirit
of Truth which has been with you all along and intimately you are monitored by
the very active adjutant mind-spirits of the Mother.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is the element that knows when the
sparrow falls, and that every hair on your head is counted. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>You are part of a living
universe.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are so much more than
the sparrow.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so, of course, the
Father is interested in you and in your destiny.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He is not willing that any should
perish, or that any should get away, and so he is going to dog your tracks,
shine a light on the path, and whisper in your ear at every opportunity “this is
the way.”</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Now, there is discussion in the
Urantia text about predestination. Not much, but the word is mentioned and so
this gives rise to tremendous speculation on the part of creative human beings
as to what that means. And some take it extremely seriously, even down to the
last jot and tittle, to the extent that they feel that this marriage is
sanctioned in heaven, that job is what God would have them do, they were
predestined to become this particular profession, and so forth, and even to the
ludicrous extent of what kind of car or shoes you should buy.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Now, there is merit to weighing
the pros and cons of all your mortal decisions, choices, but they do not always
impact significantly on your destiny.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Much of it has to do with creature comfort and personal preference, but
that does contribute to helping you feel more comfortable with yourself and at
home in your world, and so a certain amount of “me, me, me” is understandable,
even commendable.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s when “me,
me, me” rises to the level of supremacy that it becomes problematic.<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 are not taking care of you
and your needs, how then can you serve others?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Again, there are controversial
perspectives on self-forgetfulness, but unless you have a self, how can you
forget it?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So, don’t beat yourself
up if you have thoughts about your own well-being, your own wishes or your own
ambitions. But consider what effect they will have on the overall destiny the
Father would have for you and what effect it might have on those who surround
you?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Are you stepping on the toes
of others to get what you want?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In
that case you might want to think again.<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 know that many organizations in
corporate America – and beyond that – it is important that you go for the
jugular when you are in the arena. Otherwise you will be eviscerated by someone
else.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is not a game I
encourage my students to play.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It
is really a relic from a time and day when survival was uppermost and in this
culture of today, you here have no need to concern yourself about starving to
death.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have access to friends,
neighbors, and facilities that could provide for you if you found yourself in
dire straits.<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>There is no excuse for much of
what goes on today in the name of progress or abundance, but I am not here today
to pass judgment on those situations; I am counseling you and frankly it seems
to me – and I confess I don’t know you well, but it seems to me, you are either
drinking too much coffee, eating too much sugar, or might have a hormonal
imbalance, because you are a whirling dervish of scattered energy and resolve,
and you are doing no one any favor, least of all yourself, by continuing to
function in such a chaotic pattern.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>You have a good heart and your
goals seem to be spiritual, but you are worrying so over the minor details of
life such that you are not allowing your faith to see you through.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Rest in the arms of the Comforter until
you are satisfied, and then take His hand and let Him lead you into the throng,
there to help you reveal yourself as yourself, and part of that, you will find,
is divine.</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"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Eva:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“Part of that is divine.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I wish I could take this sense of calm
that I gather when I am around like values with me into areas where I feel I am
trying to overcome obstacles that relate to long-buried memories so it is
avoiding trigger spots and that’s what I need to do.</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">JACK:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You need to then establish …</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Eva:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Boundaries.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">JACK:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></B>… a schedule with yourself to give yourself an opportunity to have
spiritual therapy.<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 do not need to hire a
therapist to help you with this because you have within you the Master Therapist
Himself and heavenly helpers who will go with you into those problem areas and
help you reveal the crux of the problem and heal you, or allow you to heal
yourself, from the choices you made that were the only choice you felt you had
at the time but which has subsequently turned out to have been a wrong choice,
or it needs to be revisited.</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 the healing
process inherent in the Correcting Time. Fear not these healing experiences.
They are the heart and soul of Correcting Time, of recovery of the planet.<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">Eva:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN></B>What do you mean, Jack,
by “needs to be revisited”?<BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">JACK:<SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN></B>Well, generally things you want to push aside from your consciousness
and not look at.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The things you
want to hide from and not want to see reveal something about yourself you might
be proud of, something you might be ashamed of or unhappy with.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It may have been an assault to y our
self-esteem or a betrayal of what you felt was a rightful relationship which
failed, and so you are angry, you harbor anger or resentment; it could be a
million things, many things that the heart latches onto and holds as an obstacle
toward appropriate self-love and acceptance.<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>These can be healed by revisiting
the circumstances, by forgiving yourself and others. It’s not easy and it’s not
quick, but it is worth it and it is essential if you expect to come out of this
experience with any real degree of happiness.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have confessed to me that you are
running around like a chicken with its head cut off because you don’t want to
sit down and look at some painful things.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>If you looked a few painful things and got them straight, you would not
have to run around like a chicken with its head cut off making matters
worse.<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">Eva:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>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">JACK:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>This is the whole point of Stillness. Get still.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Be with God.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let Him show you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you truly believe that this is a
loving God, everything that you learn, everything that you will discern that has
hobbled you and tethered you to pain, anger, resentment, or betrayal, can be
dissolved, cured, in love and compassion, with understanding, with mercy, such
that it becomes a miracle, not a nightmare: a miracle.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>God can do this. He can turn you life
inside out.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He can turn your
opinion of yourself inside out.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As
the Master points out, His gospel is to restore self-respect to those who have
lost it, and so many … so many children on Urantia today are suffering from low
self-esteem.<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 to compensate for low
self-esteem, for these very things that we are discussing, [they] go for the
jugular of others, because if they can go for the jugular of others, if they can
destroy others, they will not be destroyed themselves.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s not a pretty picture.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s not a happy solution.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In fact, it’s no solution at all.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It has to turn around, and you are in
the position of being in the vanguard, for as you turn yourself around, your
light can so shine as to reflect your blessedness on others.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Not that you have to do anything about
it <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">at all</I>.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just be yourself and He will shine
through.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your very energy will be
altered. </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">Eva:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>[Something about]
energy.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Funnel it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have a lot of it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Use it the right way.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Right.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Jack, the Master taught us that
we should resolve relationships, work two-by-two, have people to work alongside
us. Isn’t it – Doesn’t it behoove us then to have someone specific to-- even
though we have our lives transformed by God.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When we visit a therapist, I think that
I have – I believe they can help.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>We don’t have what they had in years gone by, helpers, tribes of people,
elders to help, someone to walk alongside of us.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I would think that someone around could
just contain you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In and of itself,
like balm to your soul and let the real you come out a little more.</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">JACK:</B><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>It could also be a jailer, or someone who controls you, and that’s not
what you want.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You do not want to
put yourself in a position where someone will keep you under control. You need
to be able to manage yourself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When
you can manage yourself through your own consciousness -- God-consciousness –
when you have attained a certain degree of self-mastery, then you will attract
those who also have a modicum of self-mastery and you may find them
compatible.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In that case then there
are two people who are able to go out two-and-two to spread the gospel as the
Master recommends.<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 for two dysfunctional people
to go out, we have the blind leading the blind. That is not beneficial. In fact
two such people can contribute to the others’ delusion, such that you have a
very dangerous paradigm.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I can
think of a number of couples in your Urantia history here who became rich and
famous but their dysfunction was great and so what they did was they sent
thousands of people down the river – made a fortune off of people’s willingness
to believe what they told them to believe – because so many people are unwilling
to do their own thinking, to do their own work.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s so much easier to let someone else
give us that sense of security. But it’s a false security.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>I know we lost some time at the
beginning of this program due to technological difficulties, but it is coming
around to the midnight hour, as it were.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I’ve had a really grand time this evening. I appreciate having these
meaningful discussions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is this
slow and thorough process of spiritizing that gives rise to life’s most
interesting challenges and circumstances that call for you to make those
decisions which will advance or retard your development, and so they do take
time but there is undeniable progress for those of you who are in pursuit of
Paradise.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>I will do everything I can to
encourage your efforts, to become all that you can be.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Whether you have any additional
assistance or not, you are a treasure trove of truth, beauty and goodness unto
yourself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I will give the hour one
moment more to ask if there is someone who has something they must ask before we
close this talk. [Pause]<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It would
seem that the hour has sufficed, and so I thank you with sincerity and deep joy
for the opportunity to sit with you and to share with you the inner life that
leads us to God and to a greater appreciation for what this eternal adventure is
about.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Blessed be art thou.<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>Later!</P></DIV></BODY></HTML>