<div>Oops.... I stand in error, Steffigator.</div><div> </div><div>Thanks for the correction. I'll take all over to those TeaMster sites you mention, if I have more to share.</div><div> </div><div>As Captain Armando might say, 'nothing like the smell of napalm in the morning.'</div>
<div> </div><div>Now for a spiritually fragrant/frothy and appropriate mediocre manner in which to sign-off. </div><div> </div><div>Will it be.... 'Faith Son', 'Love Always', 'Nemaste', 'In Loving Service' or....... ?</div>
<div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div>Marshal/Warren<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Steffani Murray <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:destinydivine@comcast.net">destinydivine@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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</div><div><div class="h5"><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>
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<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>
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