<div>Good to see AB-Jack bump out of his midwayer box and bring us all such prophesies. WOW!</div><div> </div><div>Monjoronson told me that your book was silly.</div><div> </div><div>Likewise he told me that Daniel Raphael's dozen or so books were all of a definite 'run-with-it Tipnerian twist' (as in Dan's real name, Norman Tipner).</div>
<div> </div><div>He also told me to prepare for the brutal decimation of the planet.... and all those' dark zombies' that would be coming out of the center of the Earth via 'the North Pole ice cap borderland portal', and re-settling somewhere in northern New Mexico and in York Pennsylvania.... hometown of 'Wizard' Besser (aka 'Wiz').</div>
<div> </div><div> </div><div>As Vern might say.... 'Much to prepare for and look forward to, kids'.......</div><div> </div><div>Marshal/Warren<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Gerdean O'Dell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gerdean@cableone.net" target="_blank">gerdean@cableone.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b>DATE:</b><span> </span>February 2, 2012 </p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b>LOCATION:</b><span> </span>Light Line</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b>T/R:</b><span> </span>Gerdean O’Dell</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b>TEACHER:</b><span> </span>0802-AB, Secondary Midwayer Jack</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b>TOPICS:</b><span> </span>“Things that go bump in the night” and
“Nail your colors to the wall”</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b>Q&A:<span> </span></b>Actualizing creative ideas</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b>Centering Prayer:</b><span> </span><i>Oh, God, Michael, it seems like you are a
world away from me right now. I’m sure it’s not you that’s moved, nor me! It
just feels like a huge chasm of empty of space there between us and I don’t like
that feeling. Help me bridge that gap, would you? Help me focus my mind on my
spirit and that which matters.<span> </span>The
superconsciousness is where I need to be.<span>
</span>I need to-- Thank you.<span> </span>I
feel myself being lifted up into a higher consciousness. This is where I need to
learn to be more often, where my mind abuts morontia reality.<span> </span>It’s a gracious state. I suspect it’s
how you, Michael, were able to be so gracious in your coming and going with
people, by staying in this state of mind.<span>
</span>The things of the earth tend to rattle us a lot less. Thank you for this
kind of serenity, this kind of knowing that “all is well,” that someone is in
charge, someone’s keeping the peace and the order.<span> </span>Of course, that would be our Universal
Father, the Infinite Upholder, without whom there would be chaos.<span> </span>I hear myself rambling.<span> </span>I hear you say, “Don’t worry about it,”
so I won’t worry about it, I’ll just allow the process to work itself
through.<span> </span>Thank you, Michael, for
expediting our session. Amen.<u></u><u></u></i></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u>Benefits of
Discipline:<u></u><u></u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b><u></u> <u></u></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b>0802-AB JACK</b> here.<span> </span>You see how easy it is, Gerdean, to go
from a state of panic and chaos into order and serenity. It hardly takes any
effort and can be done in a very brief amount of time. What a great technique
this is and how great that you have learned it so well -- all of you who have
learned to go into prayer and meditation mode when life is overwhelming or
catches you off guard.<span> </span>The fact is,
so much of your life is evolved in developing good habits. I know that much of
your life has been wasted in pleasure-seeking and simply becoming who you are,
but I need to say, those of you who have begun to be conscious of your calling,
your destiny, your purpose, your <i>higher</i> purpose, your greater reality,
you who have opted to do the will of God, who have embraced a spiritual way of
life, who have sought to be more than you were, in fact, to be all that you <i>can</i> be, you have begun to step out of
the poor associations and bad habits of yesteryear, along with the unfortunate
thinking patterns and belief systems that kept you bound down and locked into an
oppressive and unproductive way of life, have come up by the grace of God and
your own bootstraps.<span> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">You are the one, after all, who
has had to follow through on the disciplines that are required in order for you
to keep advancing, to keep from sliding into complacency.<span> </span>The disciplines of meditation and
prayer, of reflecting, of learning to focus on meanings and values, discerning
the difference between god consciousness and your conscience, these are efforts
that yield eternal results, and so any or all of you who have made progress in
any degree in this direction, my hat is off to you.<span> </span>It is an eternal attainment. It will not
be lost.<span> </span>Now, now that we are here,
let’s take full advantage of it.<span>
</span>What shall we talk about?<span>
</span>What shall we work on? What shall we develop?<span> </span>What needs attention?</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u><span> </span>“Things that go Bump in the
Night”<u></u><u></u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">One thing that has come to my
mind lately is how much concern goes on in the mortal mind about things that go
bump in the night. The entire field of human psychology and religion as well are
teeming with action and commerce surrounding the idea of evil spirits, ghosts,
shadow personalities, dead people who don’t know they are dead … zombies now are
quite popular … but I have to tell you, I live here. I am invisible.<span> </span>I live in the invisible realm and I
haven’t seen any of these.<span> </span>I
haven’t seen any of these characters or phenomenon that occupy your fancies to
an almost overwhelming degree.<span> </span>In
fact, some of you do become overwhelmed by your fears and anxieties surrounding
those things that you perceive to be evil spirits – less than good spirits.<span> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">Of course, this is one of the
reasons mature people discourage you from dabbling in this practice of talking
to invisible personalities … because it’s so easy to bring your own
consciousness into areas that can only get you into trouble.<span> </span>It is said, in human terms, especially
when you are young, “bad associations spoil useful habits” and I can say the
same thing for you who are young in soul growth: “bad associations spoil useful
habits” and while we have been working diligently for your edification, your
enlightenment, and spiritual adulthood, it is odd how many of you will allow
these fears to take hold, and even if they do not take hold in you, you observe
them in others and act as though you have no authority over what they are
experiencing and so you give it free rein by your passive acquiescence to what
they are saying is true and real.<span>
</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">I am telling you they are not
truth. They are not real. I’m here. I live here, and there is no one here that
is dead, walking around unaware that they are dead.<span> </span>There is no one here who cannot find
their way home or resist being resurrected, who somehow got lost from their
fellows.<span> </span>Not one.<span> </span>Not one.<span> </span>The halls are empty. They are completely
clear of shadow personalities. There is no one here from the Caligastia regime;
no one here from the Lucifer legacy. There is no one here to fear, and yet it
seems that some of you have a default button that reverts to fear every time you
turn around.<span> </span>Some of you revert to
fear of financial difficulty or mechanical failure or health problems or
relationship disasters, but some of you have an equal propensity to launch into
major fears about evil spirits. </p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">What a waste of time! … from my
perspective.<span> </span>But again, I say, I am
here.<span> </span>There is no one here to
frighten you.<span> </span>You frighten
yourself.<span> </span>You frighten each
other.<span> </span>You allow things that are
mystery to become scary.<span> </span>I can sit
here and tell you this all day, but unless and until you accept it, it won’t do
any good.<span> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u><span> </span>“Nail your Colors to the Mast.”<span> </span><u></u><u></u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">I learned a phrase the other day
from my mortal associates.<span> </span>It’s a
phrase having to do with affirming your position.<span> </span>It’s called “nailing your colors to the
mast.” Nailing your colors to the mast is a way of holding your position for
people to see, even when you are busy doing other things and can’t hold it up
yourself.<span> </span>Nail it up there.<span> </span>And your colors, of course, are your
beliefs, your assignments, your positions.<span>
</span>If your position is that there are ghosts in the basement or bats in the
belfry, then set forth your colors and let them be seen.<span> </span>But if it is that such things don’t
exist, then nail your colors to the mast and stand by them.<span> </span>Stand by your position.</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">There is a terrible tendency in
humanity (and it has leaked into the transmitting/receiving process) that is
more about compliance and compromise than it is about truth.<span> </span>You are so interested in getting along
…<span> </span>and indicating to others that you
have learned to get along, you will swallow things by passive acquiescence that
are not what you would represent.<span>
</span>Of course, the problem is, and you know this, if you say X is true and
another person says Y is true and another person says Z is true, and X, Y and Z
do not match, then we have three opposing positions.<span> </span>Well, fine! Then we have three opposing
positions!<span> </span>That does not mean you
have to fight to the death for one to win.<span>
</span>It means you have three opposing positions.<span> </span>But each of you has stood firm by your
own position.<span> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">I would like for you to be able
to stand firm in the knowledge that there are no evil spirits afoot in the
invisible world.<span> </span>But if you believe
there are, then perhaps you shouldn’t come here. Perhaps you shouldn’t talk to
us if you think that we are evil, or if you fear you are going to run into an
entity that will do you harm.</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">So much work has gone into this
project.<span> </span>So many years.<span> </span>So much effort.<span> </span>It cannot be lost due to superstition
and fears of “things that go bump in the night.”<span> </span>If you spent half as much time and
energy asserting that which is true, beautiful and good as you are inclined to
defend those who believe otherwise, you might get something accomplished.<span> </span>Someone might see you for your integrity
and say, “Well, that person testifies not having these fears.”<span> </span>What would we do if we didn’t lose all
this time and energy to unnecessary fears? </p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">There are things to be afraid
about!<span> </span>Things that you can say,
“Oh, my God! If I don’t get the oil changed, I’ll probably crack the block on
the engine.”<span> </span>“Oh, boy! If I don’t
take something out of the freezer, I won’t be able to cook anything for
supper.”<span> </span>Now these may not rise to
the level of real fears, but they are concerns that indicate there are things
that we can do something about.<span>
</span>They are rational.<span> </span>Rational
fears.<span> </span>Evil spirits are irrational
fears.<span> </span>It is no different than
seeing your breath on a cold day and thinking it’s your Thought Adjuster going
for a walk.<span> </span>You know better.<span> </span>Nail your colors to the mast.<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">Energy.<span> </span>Energy also is a part of the
culprit.<span> </span>So many energies are going
on in the universe, on your world, in your town, in your house.<span> </span>Energy spasms, spurts, and failings over
which you have no control because you don’t know where they are coming from or
where they are going to.<span> </span>You can’t
even see them! Like electricity.<span>
</span>It’s there.<span> </span>You know it’s
there.<span> </span>You know it works. When you
turn on the switch, the light goes on. But there are also energy spurts in the
atmosphere that you can’t see and over which you have no control. That does not
mean they are evil spirits.<span> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">I want to say, “Come on,
guys!<span> </span>Get a grip!” but I have Tomas
to [thank for being] gracious in my teaching practices.<span> </span>Gerdean can testify.<span> </span>We go back many years, many
decades.<span> </span>I have been speaking like
this to her all this time.<span> </span>In order
to become spirit-minded, you need to put your mind on what is real. The more you
entertain that which is not real, the more you put off becoming real, and so
eventually it becomes like “mental masturbation” of, well, amusing yourself,
making yourself feel better because you would still rather feel the comfort of
the unknown that brave the reality of your own destiny.<span> </span>If you want to do that, go ahead, but
don’t get in the way of those who have already launched on the high seas of
spirit attainment.</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">Some of you people, I have heard
it said, are trying to fuse on this planet - during your lifetime - and that is
not something that we will discourage.<span>
</span>Some day people will be fusing right and left on this planet, such that
we will have to build a structure to accommodate it, so it is indeed part of
your planetary destiny that you can and will be able to fuse here and that’s a
noble goal.<span> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">Some of you started out with that
goal and then found out life was difficult and so you decided to become humble
and in becoming humble you gave up your striving.<span> </span>Well, don’t quit striving just because
you’ve found out its difficult.<span> </span>You
don’t have to join the others in their sniveling and whimpering about things
that go bump in the night.<span> </span>So as to
keep each other company in this zone, this grey zone of lesser mystery.<span> </span>Nail your colors to the mast and strive
on, even if you have to do it yourself, which, in truth, we all do.<span> </span>That’s what it takes. We all have to
make our own decisions in our own time, and in making those hard decisions,
sometimes we have to lose the association of our peers and loved ones.<span> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">This is a part of your recovery
from alcoholism, drug addiction, and other dysfunctional behaviors, and if you
don’t know it by now you will learn it because this is a part of the first
morontia world teaching and learning. Many times when you think you have
overcome your handicap, when you want to throw away your crutches, when you want
to be all that you can be and you commit to that – getting sober, getting
straight, getting clean, to graduating, to get a job, to whatever noble ideal
you have opted to grasp, do something about – those that you hung out with will
do everything in their power to keep you from doing it because they, then, will
have to look at their own behavior and they don’t want to.<span> </span>They don’t want to be reminded that they
are still wallowing in the comfort of fear while you are sticking your neck out
to breathe the bracing air of truth and reality.</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">Strong character, strong
personalities, aren’t born they are cultivated. They are made. They come out of
your decisions. Challenge yourself to do the right thing and in so doing you
challenge others. Let it be a challenge, but let it be their challenge, not
yours. You know what you need to do.<span>
</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u>Conclusion:<u></u><u></u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">I just had to get that off my
chest, kids.<span> </span>I don’t care if I get
flack for it.<span> </span>I’m going to nail my
color to the wall and stand by it. And if somebody wants to nail their color to
a different mast or a different wall, that’s their business.<span> </span>But this is my job. This is my
task.<span> </span>If I am going to work with
mortals of the realm in this Correcting Time effort, these are the guidelines
I’ve been given.<span> </span>These are the
orders I’ve been given and I have to answer to my superiors just as you will
have to answer to yours, at some point.<span>
</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">And now that I have gotten that
off my chest, I feel much better. I will attempt to lighten up the atmosphere so
that we can have a more convivial environment. I know that your experience with
Teachers is that they seldom raise their voice, they seldom get too excited,
they rarely reprimand you for anything, and they are following their
instructions but mine are a little different because I am a little closer to you
than they are and I have been here coming up on 38,000 years.<span> </span>That’s not to say that’s an excuse for
me to be impatient.<span> </span>It’s just that
I’ve been looking at these “ghosts” affecting humans for that long and I’m tired
of it! </p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">There is good news.<span> </span>There is <i>really </i>good news! And that’s what I want
to focus on. That’s what I want you to focus on.<span> </span>I want you to get your mind around it. I
want you to put your heart into it and all those other figures of speech.<span> </span>Your shoulder to the wheel and your nose
to the grindstone and do it! That’s what we are here for. That’s what this is
all about.<span> </span>Otherwise, what’s the
point? </p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u>Q&A:<u></u><u></u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">Alright, I’m done.<span> </span>I want to hear about what is on <i>your</i> mind. What are you grappling with?
What are you dealing with? How are you working on your spiritual program?<span> </span>Who have you got in your face that you
need to handle or nurture or whatever?<span>
</span>What have you read lately that has stuck in your craw that you can’t
quite figure out what they are trying to tell you? What are you supposed to get
out of that?<span> </span>Same with any unique
experience you might have had recently.<span>
</span>What was that for? Was that God trying to tell me something? Or was that
me, tripping over my own feet?<span> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">I’m here to help.<span> </span>I’m your friend. I’m your cousin.<span> </span>This is our opportunity.<span> </span>Push that *6. Come on out here. Let’s
talk about it.<span> </span>[Long silence]<span> </span>Alright, Gerdean.<span> </span>Come on.<span> </span>You’re one of the students.<span> </span>What do you want to say for yourself?
[Silence]<span> </span>I’ll ask you then.<span> </span>What happened to that book you wrote?
</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b>Gerdean:</b><span> </span>What
book?<span> </span>Which book?</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b>JACK:</b><span>
</span>You know.<span> </span>The book you wrote
with Athena.<span> </span>I introduced you to
Athena … when was it?<span> </span>1971?<span> </span>And you worked with her for 20 years or
something like that to produce a book about a society of altruists.<span> </span>Whatever happened to that book?</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b>Gerdean:</b><span> </span>Jack,
you know full well what happened to that book.<span> </span>It got published.<span> </span>It has sold a couple of hundred copies.
It’s very much loved by some of its readers and some of them thought it was less
than useful, as any book might be considered by mixed reviews.<span> </span>Why do you ask?</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b>JACK:<span>
</span></b>I ask, Gerdean, because a lot of work went into that and I hate to
see work wasted.<span> </span>The book is still
good.<span> </span>The characters are still
lively.<span> </span>The principles are still
valid.<span> </span>What is standing in the way
of your promoting the values that you felt worthy of touting in the first
place?<span> </span>Values, I might add, that
Athena helped you develop.<span> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b>Gerdean:</b><span> </span>Well,
Jack.<span> </span>I got involved in the
Teaching Mission.<span> </span>Right after the
book was published – I mean finished – I got involved in the Teaching Mission
and when I started transmitting Tomas, I was afraid that I would be accused of
self-promotion and self-aggrandizement if I talked about my book through the
Teachers, so I asked Tomas if we could have a contract that he would not talk
about my work when he was teaching and preaching because I was afraid people
would think I was trying to use the Teacher Corps platform to feather my own
nest.<span> </span>And so Tomas was in
agreement.</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b>JACK:</b><span> </span><span>
</span>Of course, he was in agreement!<span>
</span>He wanted you to work with and for him, and if those were your terms, he
was being amenable.<span> </span>But there are
other ways to skin a cat.<span> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b>Gerdean:</b><span> </span><span> </span>I don’t know how
to do it, Jack.<span> </span>I don’t know how to
market it.<span> </span>I thought…. <i>I </i>thought that I had written this book –
that I was <i>directed</i> to write the book
– as a stimuli and a prototype for what became the Teaching Mission. <i><span> </span>I</i> thought the Zooid Mission and the
Teaching Mission were one and the same thing.<span> </span>And yet the Teaching Mission took off in
a different direction. <span> </span>And … </p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b>JACK:</b><span>
</span>And ….?</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b>Gerdean:</b><span> </span><span> </span>And … <span> </span>Monjoronson came along.</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b>JACK:</b><span>
</span>And?</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b>Gerdean:</b><span> </span><span> </span>I got really
twisted.<span> </span>I couldn’t see where I fit
anymore, or where the book fit.<span>
</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b>JACK:</b><span>
</span>Alright.<span> </span>Let me help you
with this.<span> </span>I know there is a lot
that you’re not sharing, but with what you have shared, let me say this about
that.<span> </span>You did the right thing to be
mindful of how easy it would have been to distort your relationship with the
Teacher Corps by using them to promote your own creation, except your creation
was <i>for them</i> <i>to use.</i><span> </span>In protecting your creation, you were
protecting yourself.<span> </span>Think about
that.<span> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">It’s not too late.<span> </span>There are still plenty of things we can
do.<span> </span>You can do.<span> </span>There are ways to weave in and out of
situations.<span> </span>You can learn to take
your losses and pick up the pieces, but you need to know where to let go and
where to nail your colors to the mast. </p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">I know full well that you were
disappointed that Monjoronson never mentioned your book.<span> </span>Never once invited it into the paradigm
of sustainable societies and all that you like to consider for a future world,
and so your nose is a little bit bent about that, but you never nailed your
color to the wall. You never said, “Monjoronson, I have a reason to be here – to
discuss with you my book that I wrote for you … that Athena used me to write for
my community.”<span> </span>It would have been
interesting, would it not, to have challenged Monjoronson way back there,
instead of challenging Ron Besser?</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b>Gerdean:</b><span> </span><span> </span>Yeah, well …
Interesting, Jack. Thanks for stirring it up.<span> </span>Gives me something to think about, as
always, when I chat with you.<span> </span>I
don’t want to take the whole time and space, though, for Q&A. I’m sure there
are others.<span> </span>No, I’m not sure.<span> </span>But there are others and others <b>may</b> have something they want to say or
ask.<span> </span>Thank you.</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b>Calvin:<span>
</span></b>Hi.<span> </span>This is Calvin from
Houston.</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b>JACK:</b><span>
</span>Hi Calvin!</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b>Calvin:<span>
</span></b>I was just thinking about starting a co-creative design team for
education, so that’s what’s been on my mind, I guess, and I dropped a class
yesterday so I don’t know if I did the right thing; (indistinguishable) student
right now, so that’s what’s been on my mind, and you asked us to share with you,
so, thanks for your help.</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b>JACK:<span>
</span></b>That’s good.<span> </span>Thank you.
That’s very exciting that you are beginning a new unit. You have people selected
already to be available for you, or are you just at the starting gate?</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b>Calvin:<span>
</span></b>No, it’s just in my mind at this point. If you assemble a group, I
suppose.</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span></span> </p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b>JACK:</b><span>
</span>Well, I would suggest that you ask the social architects to gather around
you a group of like-minded individuals, like-minded in that they too would be
interested in what field you want to pursue.<span> </span>Is this -- Education, did you say?</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b>Calvin:</b><span>
</span>Yeah, that’s correct.</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b>JACK:</b><span>
</span>And what level?</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b>Calvin:<span>
</span></b>Well, I suppose since nothing’s done yet, the very first beginning, I
guess. </p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b>JACK:</b><span>
</span>Are we talking about Kindergarten?<span>
</span>Grade school? Or are you talking about spiritual education? </p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b>Calvin:<span>
</span></b>You know, those are all good questions that I haven’t really answered
for myself, so I assume starting Kindergarten, but maybe I’ll be going in
different directions; I don’t know.</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b>JACK:</b><span>
</span>Well, ask for some divine assistance and you’ll get it.<span> </span>Of course, having assistance and getting
the work done, is no guarantee that it will find its way into the right venue.
You need to find the right channel of operation.<span> </span>This is part of the difficulty of
creative work on any level and for any reason.<span> </span>Creators sometimes don’t have the
business sense that is necessary to get it under way.<span> </span>So when –</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b>Calvin:<span>
</span></b>You mean as far as the greater co-creative design effort, or as far
as just making it happen in society? </p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b>JACK:<span>
</span></b>Making it happen.<span>
</span>Wherever.<span> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b>Calvin:</b><span>
</span>Okay.</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b>JACK:<span>
</span></b>Of course you want it to happen in society.<span> </span>You are looking for sustainable, and
altruistic and futuristic and progressive and so you want to teach elemental
minds; you want to get your ideas into the schools, into the system.<span> </span>You can sit around and come up with some
brilliant ideas, but if you haven’t got a foot in the door, or access to the
agencies that can make it happen – <i>literally</i> – then it will continue to
live in your mind and not become realized, very much like the previous querant.
Gerdean has a book about a society but it was not forthcoming because there was
no venue. </p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b>Calvin:<span>
</span></b>Yeah, I think she should put in on Kindle, by the way.<span> </span>I’d definitely buy it.<span> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b>Gerdean:</b><span>
</span>That’s a thought.<span> </span>Thank
you.</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b>Calvin:<span>
</span></b>Okay.</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b><u></u> <u></u></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b>JACK:<span>
</span></b>And I wish you well in this design team for students.</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b>Calvin:</b><span>
</span>Okay.</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b>JACK:<span>
</span></b>The whole field of education is crying for help. The whole field is
starving and needs input and ideas and a good shaking up, and it is indeed from
the minds of these little ones that, as they say, “from the little acorn, mighty
oak will grow.”<span> </span>And these little
acorns in kindergarten will grow up to be mighty oak and so you want to
cultivate them well, nurture them well so that they don’t get stunted by the
limitations of the material paradigm that only wants them to obey or to focus on
material profit, financial profit.<span>
</span>There are other things to justify and motivate people than making money –
or in addition to making money, I should say.<span> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b>Calvin:<span>
</span></b>Okay.<span> </span>I appreciate your
guidance.</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b><u></u> <u></u></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><b>JACK:<span>
</span></b>Best wishes, Calvin.<span> </span>And
thanks for checking in.</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">It looks like we are coming up on
closing time. I know we got a late start, but that does not mean that we don’t
have a life to live.<span> </span>We can’t all
be put on hold because I ran into a technical failure or any reason outside our
arrangement.<span> </span>It’s been a working
holiday here with you this evening. I haven’t had to work this hard in a long
time but there is so much to be done and every now and then I get a reminder of
how much there is to do.<span> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">And I suppose too, this being
February in your arena, a thaw is taking place and the sap is surging throughout
you young trees eager to give forth new fruit, and I am here to stimulate your
growth, to encourage this sap to flow into well-organized channels so that it
can impact Urantia.<span> </span>Not just
in a spiritual sense, but in a social sense, as you who have designs
understand.<span> </span>There is much work to
be done on every level, and it’s a very exciting … a <i>very </i>exciting time.<span> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">I’m quite encouraged.</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">I’ll see you next time.</p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">Later!</p></div></div>
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