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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoBodyText><STRONG><FONT color=#993300
size=5>Conversations with Monjoronson #56 – The Art of Asking and Answering
Questions – Aug. 3, 2012</FONT></STRONG></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>Topics:<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #993300"><FONT size=3>Celestials seeking
particular outcomes<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #993300"><FONT size=3>The importance of
teaching children how to ask questions:<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #993300"><FONT size=3>Curiosity opens
intellectual and cultural development<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #993300"><FONT size=3>It opens the field for
the Thought Adjuster to begin working<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #993300"><FONT size=3>Gender differences in
ability to change and adapt<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #993300"><FONT size=3>Fundamental to
intellectual and spiritual evolution of the mind<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #993300"><FONT size=3>The role of parents and
grandparents<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #993300"><FONT size=3>The necessity of
reflection and meditation<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #993300"><FONT size=3>The vital role of asking
questions to the work of social sustainability<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #993300"><FONT size=3>Challenging bigotry,
prejudice and bias<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #993300"><FONT size=3>Using parental authority
undermines children from asking questions<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #993300"><FONT size=3>Rhetorical questions
meant to support biased positions are not
sustainable<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #993300"><FONT size=3>Reflect and examine your
own capacity to ask questions<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #993300"><FONT size=3>Teams must be composed
of humble, equal individuals<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #993300"><FONT size=3>The total integrity of
this sustainability work<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #993300"><FONT size=3>The “art” of asking and
answering questions for children<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #993300"><FONT size=3>Dialog on
discernment<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #993300"><FONT size=3>Discerning moral and
ethical matters<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #993300"><FONT size=3>Examining “truth” in the
discernment process<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #993300"><FONT size=3>Critical thinking and
discernment<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #993300">Practicing discernment, asking
questions and critical thinking</SPAN><SPAN
style="COLOR: #993300"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .5in" class=MsoFooter><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>TR:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Daniel
Raphael<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>Moderator:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Michael
McCray<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3>August 3, 2012</FONT></H1>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>Prayer<I>:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Heavenly Father/Mother God, we thank you
for your presence in our lives, for the life of Jesus when he was here on our
world and gave us an example of how to live our lives with patience and
grace.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We ask for your assistance;
we know that it is always here, and so we accept your assistance, your presence,
your benevolence as always around us.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>We feel your comfort and your grace and your love for us, and we are
grateful.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Amen</I><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>[This is <B>Daniel</B>:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Monjoronson and Charles are both here,
both are very eminent, very present.]<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Roxie:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good
morning to both of you!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">MONJORONSON:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is
Monjoronson; I am here and I am present with you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How may I be of
assistance?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">MMc:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Always!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Always, you are of assistance and we
thank you very much for your assistance.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Is there anything that you wish to dialog with us
today?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><FONT
color=#993300><FONT size=3>Celestials seeking particular
outcomes<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></U></H2>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">MONJORONSON:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is a
broad panorama of activity now undergoing on your world, and some of you have
come to appreciate the breadth and depth and dimension of our work, as we have
been preparing and arranging and coordinating the development of events, without
abridging your sovereign self-will.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Some of you are in awe of our work as you are truly aware and can see the
handiwork of God, so to speak, in the development of events that are occurring
on your world.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You see this clearly
because some of you are able to perceive, or you are prescient to a degree to
know what is coming about in your world and you see how these developments are
being coordinated and developed for particular outcomes.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>What we seek are particular outcomes, to
prepare the field of work that will develop.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are now in the definite phases of
preparing the field for the days of light and life now, as we perceive these
immense global changes that are occurring on your world in your social,
political, economic, and military realms.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>These developments will not be set aside, but amended or changed or
morphed, so to speak, so that we can best take advantage of this era of change
for instilling the fundamental tenets of social sustainability and social
stability, which are fundamental to the days of light and life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You see, it is very much like an
earthquake [that] will occur in your living room.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You had always wanted to rearrange the
furniture and now you have an opportunity to do so, to put it where you want to
and start over.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so, this is
what is occurring on your world now with our participation.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Many of you are also seeing more active
participation on our part than others are, and it is you whom we seek to
cooperate consciously and directly with us through prayer and meditation and
openness between thoughts for our participation in your lives.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">MMc:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you for your participation in our
world.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>There was a question left over from last
time.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I believe that Roxie asked as
we were leaving, “Would you explain to parents why it is important to encourage
their children to ask questions?”<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#993300 size=3>The importance of
teaching children how to ask questions</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">MONJORONSON:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes,
this answer requires and will inform you of several levels of benefit from
teaching children how to ask questions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>First of all, asking questions early in the child’s life—even before they
can talk—that you teach them how to ask questions.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This offers them the opportunity to
imitate or act out what you model or provide [for] them in their life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It gives them a permission to ask
questions, which means that they are not put off by your authority and that you
both have minds that are equally capable, but one is undeveloped yet,
intellectually, and so you offer them the opportunity to ask questions
respectfully, and you accept their questions without argumentation or taking an
authoritative position against that question.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN><U><SPAN style="COLOR: #993300">Curiosity opens intellectual and cultural
development<o:p></o:p></SPAN></U></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>Secondly, asking questions fertilizes
the child’s mind to ask questions of many things.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is not necessarily questioning
authority, but to question the very process of living and all elements that come
into their life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If the child has a
curiosity, and it has the ability to ask questions, they really have opened the
spigot of intellectual and cultural development of information to them for their
intellectual and cultural and social development.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN><U><SPAN style="COLOR: #993300">It opens the field for the Thought
Adjuster to begin working<o:p></o:p></SPAN></U></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>Further, the third, it allows an open
field for the Thought Adjuster to begin working more diligently and capably with
a facile mind, a mind that is beginning to ossify and crystallize early in life,
and you have seen some of these even before their years in the teens, you see
the necessity, the benevolence that this offers the individual as they grow into
life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Asking questions is primary
to the capacity of the individual to move through their various social,
intellectual, spiritual and emotional developmental stages more easily.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN><U><SPAN style="COLOR: #993300">Gender differences in ability to change
and adapt<o:p></o:p></SPAN></U></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>[Forth,] we have found in your species,
particularly within the last few centuries, that men in particular, who are age
60+, almost rarely change their minds or have the capacity to reinvent
themselves, but that women have been seen to do this even in their 70’s and
80’s.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is something about the
genders which offers themselves to flexibility.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In this regard, we have found that men
who have an androgynous nature—meaning that they have the capacity for feminine
feelings and thinking processes, as well as their masculine feelings and
thinking processes—have much more facility to change and adapt.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN><U><SPAN style="COLOR: #993300">Fundamental to intellectual and spiritual
evolution of the mind<o:p></o:p></SPAN></U></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>Fifth, asking questions is fundamental
to the intellectual and spiritual evolution of the human mind.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This leads to the capacity of the human
mind and spirit to begin to explore the lower morontial levels of thought and
spiritual development.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is a
tremendous aid to the soul growth of the individual, and of course this truly
and heartily advances the standing of the mortal graduate into the morontial
realm, into an advance standing in their classes.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So teaching children to ask questions is
fundamental to their morontial advancement after their death as a mortal.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is nothing less than a profound
development.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN><U><SPAN style="COLOR: #993300">The role of parents and
grandparents<o:p></o:p></SPAN></U></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>Parents and grandparents are
particularly pivotal to the spiritual and soul growth development of the
individual, their child.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The parent
and grandparent can best advantage this situation when they see the child as a
mature spiritual being, but who has yet to go through the developmental stages
of infancy, childhood, early adulthood and adulthood.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When you appreciate the child as a
mature spiritual being, who is going through the experiential process of
learning during these early developmental years, you will assist them to ask
questions about themselves.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And as
I said before, to assist them in the activity of reflection, which leads to
contemplation, which leads to meditation with the practice of “no
thought.”<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN><U><SPAN style="COLOR: #993300">The necessity of reflection and
meditation<o:p></o:p></SPAN></U></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>When you enter into your meditations
with the intention of a question, then during that time of meditation your
consciousness is an open field in which your Thought Adjuster and your spiritual
helpers can plant the seeds of answers—answers that are either complete or which
you will experientially discover in your lifetime, in the days afterwards.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So, asking questions is fundamental to
the work that we do; “no questions, no answers.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is a truism now and always will be,
throughout your ascendant career to Paradise.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Even after Paradise, finaliters often
enter into dialog and speculation, asking questions that are unanswerable within
that realm of incompletion of the universe at that time.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Only after the whole universe achieves
the days of light and life, will those questions be
answered.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>So, do you see the spiritually
developmental steps that you initiate as a parent to teach your child to ask
questions?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">MMc:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, it basically paves the way for them
to do well through the rest of their career, both in this life and the
next.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#993300 size=3>The vital role of
asking questions to the work of social sustainability</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">MONJORONSON:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Exactly.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So my assignment to
you, Michael, is to develop a book on asking questions on the subject matter
that is relevant to this era of life for your planet.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It needs to move into the era of social
sustainability, and this book will be primary to the work that is achieved.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You could look at it as a most
prestigious opportunity to demonstrate the excellence of your mind.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I say this as a little bit of a
challenge, for you will grow into this and you will come away from it much more
developed than you are now, all the while providing a service to humanity the
world over, which will eventually be seen in many languages.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This book is essential to the work that
we are doing, to help guide the authentic, genuine and objective development of
the work of social sustainability.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">MMc:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am definitely learning something as I
take this on.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There doesn’t seem to
be any clear path if one were to look at what is available in the realm of
inquiry and asking questions, etc., they would find that the total realm is
broken up into several smaller classifications, but there doesn’t seem to be any
grand scheme that unites those into something that would be appropriate for what
you are asking me to do, so….<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">MONJORONSON:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is
the chore that I have given you, to meld these fields together in a way that is
applicable to our efforts to develop social sustainability in your world.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This has not been done before.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You must bring these fields together to
provide integrity of the topic for your readers.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">MMc:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I appreciate this work that you have
given me.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>Let me ask you a clarifying
question:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You mentioned teenagers
and their minds ossified or crystallizing early, and then you went on to mention
men, especially in their 60’s, who are unable to change their minds.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I believe that you wanted to make the
point that asking questions early and throughout your life helps the mind to
stay active and prevent the ossification and early crystallization and gives you
an ability to continually reassess and change your mind and stay reflective
throughout your lifetime.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Am I
correct in that?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="COLOR: red"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#993300 size=3>Challenging
bigotry, prejudice and bias</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><STRONG><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></STRONG></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">MONJORONSON:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Excellently said.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let me
further expand this into the relevant work that we are doing in the schematic
for social sustainability.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
ability to ask questions is primary to challenging your beliefs and particularly
exposing your assumptions and validating them as contributing to social
sustainability, or not.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You must
realize that the crystallization of thought is perhaps a euphemism for the words
“bigotry, prejudice and bias.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When
children are given beliefs that are contrary to social sustainability, they are
attended by many, many unspoken assumptions that reinforce those beliefs, that
it is <I>assumed</I> that this is true; it is <I>assumed</I> that this is part
of their life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But the capacity to
develop a social organization to become socially sustainable, it must thoroughly
expose its beliefs and assumptions—those that contribute to social
sustainability and those that do not.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>If you have biases and prejudices and bigotries, then your capacity to be
a helpful member on the co-creative social sustainability design team are very
limited.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will bring an inherent
bias to your thinking, and to your participation in the team.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>If you look at the overall movement of
our dialog, our discussion, you will find that your work to ask questions and to
write a book about asking questions is primary to the work of social
sustainability design teams, that this will be a primer for the inquiring
members of those teams.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The quality
of the work of a design team is directly related to their capability to ask
unbiased, unprejudiced, unbigoted questions.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To come to that forum to ask objective
questions and receive objective answers, that they have no bias against, no
position.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Am I clear so far?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(MMc:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, you
are.)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#993300 size=3>Using parental
authority undermines children from asking questions</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>So, we have woven in our discussion
here, the benefit of teaching children how to ask questions as primary to the
development of a socially sustainable society, community and family.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A family that does not teach their
children how to ask questions is usually one of ignorance, or one of
authoritarian position, where the position of the father and mother is held in
such high regard that the children cannot ask legitimate questions of inquiry,
because the parents see this as a challenge to their position or standing within
the family.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The whole premise of
developing a socially sustainable world, of developing your world as moving into
the era of light and life, is predicated upon the capacity to ask
questions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Do you now see the
importance of your work, my dear friend?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">MMc:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, yes.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#993300 size=3>Rhetorical
questions meant to support biased positions are not sustainable</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">MONJORONSON:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There
are literally millions and billions of people on your world who do not have the
capacity to ask non-positioned, unbiased, non-prejudicial questions.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is why you see so many people
asking those rhetorical questions, which are only meant to feed and support
their position.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is ludicrous to
do that to build a sustainable society; it is virtually
impossible.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#993300 size=3>Reflect and
examine your own capacity to ask questions</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>Your question, dear Roxanne, is vital
and pivotal to all the work that we are doing in your world now.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is essential that those who read
these transcripts do so in a state of reflection to examine their own capacities
to ask questions, and ask questions that further are not biased.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#993300 size=3>Teams must be
composed of humble, equal individuals</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>Let us go further into the team
environment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Within the team, you
are a team of equals; you are a team of individuals who come there without
preference or deference; you come there with a neutral curiosity; the capacity
to ask questions without a preference for answers, or a deference for your
position as a member of the team.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>If you come to the team with intellectual or spiritual or social,
economic or political prowess, then you will be of less use to us than if you
were humbly powerful and powerfully humble, without having to refer to your
social accoutrements of position, whether they are financial, social status,
authority or position.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What we ask
of you is very simple work in the team, but it is most difficult for many of you
because of what you bring, because of the “baggage,” the biases, the prejudices,
the preferences and deferences that you seek in your life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It requires self-examination, a time of
reflection with yourself to ask yourself those questions.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#993300 size=3>The total
integrity of this sustainability work</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: red"><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>I hope you are able to see the
integrity, the total integrity of what we are presenting to you, and that all of
this work is integral, with a wholeness and oneness to it, that leads from the
deepest inner recesses of your thinking and your being, to a global
society.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For you to be morontially
sustainable, you must have the capacity <I>now</I>, to begin to ask
questions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For your world to enter
into the days of light and life, (i.e. social sustainability and social
stability,) then you, as a society, must have the capacity to ask itself
questions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To do so, a
society, a civilization will then have the capacity to move into transcendent
consciousness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is a remarkable
state for any world to enter into, but it is eventual for every planet that
seeks to enter into the days of light and life.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is a desired vision that you must
hold within your teams and within your communities and your nations—and your
community of nations.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is where
you are moving, and the capacity to teach your children how to ask questions
initiates that grand process and that grand developmental progression.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Roxie:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>May I
interject a comment here, please?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>One of the things that I’ve learned from listening to your answers this
morning, Monjoronson, is that in my family, there is a tendency to go beyond the
question and give a bigger answer than the child requests.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For example, when someone asks what time
it is, our tendency is almost to tell them how to build a clock, rather than
just answer the simple question.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I
see that that has hampered our children from asking more questions, because they
do not want a long-winded answer.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And yet, when we ask you celestials a question, we often get a very
complete but wonderful explanation that takes us in new directions.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I just hope that I can use your examples
to help the children in my family grow more in terms of how they ask questions,
and how we provide answers.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank
you.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#993300 size=3>The “art” of
asking and answering questions for children</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">MONJORONSON:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank
you!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That was very well said and
very appropriate for what we are working on here.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Asking questions is an art.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The art of asking questions means that
there is a “touch” to it, a sensitivity to the recipient, much like an artist
painting on a canvas, that a very deft stroke can be as effective and meaningful
as a powerful blunt impact upon the canvas with a brush.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>[When] parents answer the question of a
child, the child is much more pragmatic and literal than the adult.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is a certain sensitivity that,
yes, the question needs to be answered, and with enough additional information
that will arouse curiosity in the child later to ask questions when they have
thought through the answer that you have given them.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is vitally important that the child
is not overwhelmed with the answer, and is not put off from asking questions
later.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The art of asking questions
is a process of teaching the child—or another person—that they can continue to
ask questions until their need to know and their curiosity is satisfied.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They must not be overawed or overpowered
by the answers that are given.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Through answering the question, you lead the child into the capacity to
ask further questions—that is the “art” of it all.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>When it comes to children asking
questions about sex, many parents are embarrassed to answer because of their own
lack of information, or their capacity to answer the child meaningfully.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>On the other hand, some parents answer
the questions too diligently, too thoroughly and with too much information,
leaving the child even more confused than before they asked the question.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Most children are naturally
curious.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you answer their
question forthrightly and authentically without prejudice, bias or taking a
position in the answer that you give, they will later come back and ask another
question.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If children ask a
question about a sensitive topic, or moral or ethical issue, it means that they
are ready to hear the answer.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They
do not need a 20 minute monolog to satisfy them; all they sometimes need is a 20
second answer, and with permission to ask further questions if they do not
understand the answer given.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>It is important that the child be left
“hungry,” still curious, that if they feel they need to ask more questions to
get a thorough answer they can.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And
when the child is satisfied with the answer, they will usually go off and play
or do something else.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>While they
are doing that, they are thinking about the answer.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Their little minds are chewing on what
they have heard and they are trying to fit that new information into the field
of data that they already have.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>There is an art to answering questions,
as there is an art to asking questions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And the art of answering questions is to provide enough posts and
positions that give orientation to the eventual total field of information.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The child may ask, even very early in
life, “Mommy, why are there boys and girls?”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You may answer, “Well, to make life
interesting, and eventually to have babies,” and that is the answer.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They will put that in their little minds
and it may be days, weeks, months and sometimes even years before they ask
another question, which means that they are ready for more.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The answers that they receive are able
to fill in the blanks.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your
question, Roxanne, is very well taken and very well given and appreciated. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The art of asking questions must also be
responded to by the art of answering questions.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Does this answer your question?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Roxie:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, it does.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">MMc:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, it does seem that there is an art
in answering questions, as well as asking them.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The child needs a certain succinctness
to have his immediate gratification early on, of having the question answered
before you augment that to other areas.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Some think of us as children also.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">MONJORONSON:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes,
and we are experiencing that in our dialog sessions here, in that I ask you,
“Does this answer suffice, or is it sufficient for your question?” and you will
say, “yes” or “no”.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And if you feel
that the answer given was incomplete, then you ask another question.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is important for the person answering
the question to seek feedback from the person who asked the question, whether
the answer has satisfied them or not.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This also gives you feedback as to how you are doing giving answers.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is sometimes rare that a child will
say, “No, mom, that is more information than I really needed.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That response would probably come from a
pre-teen or a teenager, rather than from a young child.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">MMc:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, too much information.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Answering people’s questions often in my
practice as a doctor, I basically talk until the “lights go out,” until they are
no longer listening to you, and then you stop and ask, “Well, did I answer your
question?”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Hopefully, you stop
before the lights go out, just at that point where they are so enthralled with
what you are saying, and wanting you to say more.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The telephone is much different; it is
very difficult for me, without having the person in front of me, to actually
decide when I’ve said too much or if I’ve said too
little.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">MONJORONSON:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
difficulty in our situation is the “lights are out” for this one anyhow.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Laughter.)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">MMc:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, most
definitely.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#993300 size=3>Dialog on
discernment</FONT></U></H3>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>I wanted to dialog with you today about
discernment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The terms “discern,”
“discerning” and “discernment” are good ones to know and use since they all
indicate awareness above the norm.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Discernment is also an important concept, useful for much more than just
evaluating transcripts.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m
wondering, is there a lesson on discernment that you would like to share with
us?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">MONJORONSON:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It
would be a repeat what Celestial Teacher Rayson provided to you some years
ago.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The art of discernment and
discerning requires a mind to be conscious of itself as it is checking in with
itself as the topical area is being explored.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As you say, with weighing, sorting and
sifting, evaluating objectively.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Discernment also is an aspect of the art of asking questions, that the
undiscerning mind is a mind that does not ask questions.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Discernment is a fine tuned process, an
evolved process of asking questions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Discernment is drawing opinions about something, evaluations about
something—for too much or not enough.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Discernment must have a backdrop of an absolute or a paragon of—not
necessarily perfection—but a standard that provides a rationale for the sorting,
sifting and weighing.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>What is it that you see as fulfillment
or completion or wholeness or integrity and oneness of the topic that you are
exploring?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is similar to an
artist painting a daisy, or a pansy, that the artist has in mind the perfect
color that they have seen in nature, and this hue and tone, depth and texture of
the color of the petal of the pansy represents the paragon, the ultimate, the
perfection that the artist wishes to portray on the canvas.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so they begin by mixing their paints
to achieve the field color, the base color of the petal.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then, seeking other combinations of
colors to give that petal a certain blush, by adding streaks of black or some
dark color that is in the actual petal of the flower.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so, the artist uses the actual petal
of the flower that they remember, or have in front of them, to mix their colors
and to discern whether they need more lavender, purple or black, yellow or some
other color, to achieve the discerned perfect representation of the petal.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#993300 size=3>Discerning moral
and ethical matters</FONT></U></H3>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>So when you are discerning moral and
ethical matters, then you are using the construct or the ideal, the absolute of
truth to weigh your thinking and discernment about the topic.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When you are in touch with your Thought
Adjuster, where you have given your Thought Adjuster full permission to express
itself in your life, and you are also open to the Spirit of Truth influence, and
you are well aware and are acquainted with its presence for validating truth
within you, then you have the wonderful assist in your process of
discernment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You do not have the
paragon or absolute truth in mind, knowing what that is, and you can call upon
the Spirit of Truth and your Thought Adjuster to assist you in discerning the
truth of the topic of which you are examining.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As you are morally, spiritually and
morontially imperfect, this will be an ongoing process for you as you weigh,
estimate and evaluate and discern those topics that are of social, ethical and
moral nature in your life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#993300 size=3>Examining “truth”
in the discernment process</FONT></U></H3>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>To truly, authentically, genuinely,
truthfully discern a topic, you must ask a question of the Spirit of Truth, your
Thought Adjuster and yourself, “Is this true?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is there truth here?”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you ask, “Is this true?” then you are
asking it for a perfect match with the absolute truth.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you ask, “Does this have truth to
it?” that is a discerning question that seeks to evaluate whether there are
elements of truth to it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>On the
other hand, you ask “Is there any truth at all to this?” then you are seeking to
find whether there is any evidence of truth whatsoever.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So, the process of asking questions is a
discerning process.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are, in
this process, developing the morontial aspects of your mind.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In other words, you are, through your
discernment process of asking questions, involved in the <I>intention</I> and
<I>aspiration</I> of achieving an early morontial stage of development in your
mortal life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And, truly, this is
admirable.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>Remember, however, that this becomes
more difficult when the more crystallized your thinking, opinions, biases, and
your prejudices and bigotries, exist in your mind, whether they be about
yourself or other people.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A
discerning mind is a very flexible mind.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The only positions that it takes as ultimate and archetypical are those
which are akin to Christ Michael and Nebadonia—that of perfection.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As you are not anywhere near that
position, then you must remain unbiased, unbigoted, and without prejudice in
your opinions about yourself or other people.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your question about discernment
<I>drives deeply into the heart</I> of your spiritual
evolution.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>Now, I must ask you, have I given you
too much information?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>(Laughter.)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Has this taken
you far past where you wanted to go with your
question?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">MMc:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes and no.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, you’ve taken me far past, because I
find in looking at the other things that are available, that are close to
discernment, that is asking questions that may lead you to a discerning mind,
are so much more primitively put forward than what you have put forward in your
dialog here.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So yes, you’ve taken
me far beyond what I thought I was asking for, but because I’m prepared for that
journey, you haven’t disappointed me in taking me far beyond what the question
that I asked was.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In effect, in
asking you, “Is there a lesson on discernment that you might give us, or you
might share with us,” I opened up a whole gamut for you to spend some time and
take me on that journey.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So, I was
very happy that I asked the question.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">MONJORONSON:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To
answer your question succinctly, “Yes there is a lesson on discernment that I
can give you.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And then I provided
you with the lesson, which you had not asked for.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And in doing so, I have made you more
curious.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>(Laughter.)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">MMc:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well, thank
you.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#993300 size=3>Critical thinking
and discernment</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">MMc:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In looking at what is available in
asking questions, there is a concept called “critical thinking,” that Browne and
Kelly define as “an awareness of a set of interrelated critical questions, plus
the ability and willingness to ask and answer them at appropriate times.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It would appear to me that discernment
and critical thinking would have a great deal in common.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When the discerning person asks
themselves questions about what they read or hear, I’ve not heard of a specific
set of questions associated with discernment.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I was wondering what you thought about
that.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">MONJORONSON:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let me
assist you then.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Discernment and
critical thinking are deeply connected.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The discerning individual becomes a critical thinker when they discern
that perhaps the answers they have in mind are not complete, or maybe taking
them in the wrong direction.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In
other words, the critical thinking person questions their own thinking; they
discern that there is very likely, and every possibility, that there are other
appropriate answers to the questions that they could have asked themselves, or
of the topic that they are dealing with.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The discerning individual is open to other answers besides his own, and
the critically thinking individual asks those questions of themselves.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thus, they are deeply connected.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>The discerning individual, however, has
the capacity to ask other people whether they think their thinking is
complete.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In other words, through
the process of discernment, apply the critical thinking procedures to other
people to allow them to expand their questions.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is the later stage of answering
questions to children:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Answering
the question is one thing, but you are also teaching them how to ask questions
of themselves, which is primary to discernment and the later development of
critical thinking that the child may apply to themselves.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are not talking about being
self-analytical—not at all—we are simply asking you to be open to challenge
yourself to discern within yourself that perhaps the answers that you have come
up with are incomplete.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>And further, when a critical thinker
would say, “What is it about this situation that I have not asked, and what [are
the] elements of this topic that my mind has not asked that question?”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is a bit self-analytical, I admit,
but it is important for the discerning individual to uncover their own
prejudices and bigotries and biases.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The individual who is inadequate or feels inferior, will also have a
feeling or a need to cover up those infirmities, those disabilities of
personality, and so they will present themselves as superior or bring out the
accouterments of their achievements in life as evidence of their superiority—or
their inferiority.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The discerning
individual is open to question themselves as to whether their thinking is
complete or not.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The person who
finds they are incomplete would ask “Why?” and then seek answers from a
therapist, a friend, a priest, or from their Thought Adjuster or their Celestial
Teacher.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you very much for
your question.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">MMc:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are close to an hour and I sense that
Daniel is getting tired.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have
taken us quite beyond my worldly advisors at this point in time.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The sets of questions that Browne and
Kelly have come up with are very good ones, but it is almost like training
wheels in relationship to the types of questions that the discerning mind might
be able to come up with.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I was
wondering if there is anything else that you would like to say on discernment
before we close today’s session?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#993300 size=3>Practicing
discernment, asking questions and critical thinking</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">MONJORONSON:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, I
do.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is definitely something
to be said in closing, and that is to practice.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Practice with someone who has an open
mind.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can practice back and
forth between the two of you—or the three of you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A triad is an excellent environment to
practice your skills of discernment, asking questions and critical
thinking.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It requires that three
people be similar in some respects, but can be quite dissimilar in others, but
it does require an agile mind.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If
they do not have agile minds, then it requires a mind and personality that is
open to question their own reality and then question the basis of their own
thinking.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If they are so
self-regarding concerning their opinions about themselves and their thinking,
then they will not do too well in the triad.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But practice!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Practice this with your children;
practice this with your friends; practice this with yourself; practice with the
materials that you read, the books that you read and the articles that you
read.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ask those critical,
discerning questions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are in
many ways, besides the literary critic, a critic of the open, social environment
of conversation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">MMc:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We thank you, Monjoronson.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’ve certainly improved my thinking
and given me something that [I] might actually publish in the book that we’re
looking forward to writing.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So,
thank you, thank you very much.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">MONJORONSON:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are
most welcome and if you are ever in doubt about your powers of discernment or
abilities to ask questions, then ask for assistance from your celestial teachers
and they will be most happy to assist you. Thank you and good
day.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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class=MsoBodyText2><FONT size=3 face=Verdana>[Note:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Concerning Rayson’s lessons on
discernment, see:</FONT></P>
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class=MsoBodyText2><FONT size=3 face=Verdana>NOCO group #12, March 10,
2002</FONT></P>
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class=MsoBodyText2><FONT size=3 face=Verdana>NOCO group #23, August 25,
2002</FONT></P>
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class=MsoBodyText2><FONT size=3 face=Verdana>NOCO group #36, April 6,
2003</FONT></P>
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class=MsoBodyText2><FONT size=3 face=Verdana>NOCO group #47, February 15,
2004</FONT></P>
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class=MsoBodyText2><FONT size=3 face=Verdana>NOCO group #87, August 13,
2006]</FONT></P>
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class=MsoBodyText2><FONT size=3 face=Verdana>[Note:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The book that Michael referred
to:</FONT></P>
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class=MsoBodyText2><FONT size=3 face=Verdana>Browne, M. Neil, Kelly, Stuart M.,
“Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking,” Ninth Edition, 2010,
Pearson Education Inc., USA.]</FONT></P>
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