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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoBodyText><STRONG><FONT color=#800080
size=5>Conversations with Monjoronson #60 – Integrity of the Team – Sept. 17,
2012</FONT></STRONG></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Topics:</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: green"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">(Unpublished from Sept. 7,
2012)<SPAN style="COLOR: green"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: green"><FONT size=3>Teams as social
organisms<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: green"><FONT size=3>Morontial beings are
totally transparent<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: green"><FONT size=3>Emotional pain and
defensiveness<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: green"><FONT size=3>Learning to trust by being
vulnerable<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: green">Prepare a topic about the integrity of
the team as a social organism</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>Topics: (From Sept 17, 2012)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #993366; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>The integrity of the team as a social
organism<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #993366; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>To do the Father’s work, his presence must be
invoked<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #993366; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>The team is a living, social, spiritual, working
organism<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #993366; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>Finding the synergistic flow of the team<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #993366; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>Developing harmonization within the team<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #993366; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>Revealing backgrounds and skills of each
member<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #993366; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>Resolving deficiencies that hinder or obstruct the flow of the
team<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #993366; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>Every individual has some emotional, social, spiritual, mental
impediments<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #993366; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>Qualities needed in the team facilitator<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #993366; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>Team members need varied skills and abilities but similar
intentions<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #993366; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>Dealing with member “withdrawal” or
domination<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #993366; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>Self-image and self-esteem in team members<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #993366; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>Contributions or detriments to morontial
growth<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #993366; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>Without adversity there is little soul
growth<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #993366; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>Learned coping mechanisms can be detrimental to
growth<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #993366; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>Resolution of mortal problems in social
existence<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #993366; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>With celestial involvement individual healing creates world
healing<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #993366; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>Each team member must be proactive in their own
healing<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #993366; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>Revealing one’s vulnerability and asking for
assistance<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #993366; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>Celestials are involved in selecting team
members<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #993366; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>Asking for help from God and celestials<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #993366; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>Comments on the problems in the Middle East<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #993366; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>Closing statements by Monjoronson<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>Moderator:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Michael
McCray<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3>September 17, 2012</FONT></H1>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>Prayer:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><I>Heavenly Father,
Michael and Mother Spirit, we, your loving and faithful children, once again
gather in your embrace to do the work of Urantia.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We thank you for sending Monjoronson to
guide us in this work of bringing social stability to our world and it is our
hope that these transcripts will lead more Urantians into the process of
correcting the many social problems that exist so that eventually, this
beautiful world will enter into the days of light and life for your glory.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Amen.<o:p></o:p></I></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></I></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MONJORONSON:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Good
morning; this is Monjoronson.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MMc:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And how are you doing this morning,
Monjoronson?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MONJORONSON:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Perfectly, as
always!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MMc:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s good to hear.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is there anything you would like to say
to us before we start?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MONJORONSON:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let us just begin,
please.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #339966"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #339966"><FONT size=3>[Unpublished topics left
over from CWM session #59, added here for subject
continuity.]<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></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>
<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>As we are now starting to work in
co-creative design teams, I wonder if we could talk about the difficulties
involved in forming these teams to help the process proceed efficiently.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Working in teams seems to be a difficult
challenge for many<SPAN style="COLOR: red">
</SPAN>members.<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=#008000 size=3>Teams as social
organisms</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
would be glad to.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What we wish to
have you learn is that your team—any team—to be truly effective, must act and
behave and operate as a whole social organism.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And when we say, “organism,” we mean
that it lives and breathes and is able to reproduce itself with others.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A social organism must be healthy in
order for it to operate well.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If
you have a necrotic lower arm, it will affect the rest of your body, just as
would a badly infected tooth or foot.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>So it is in a team.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It
cannot develop holism and an internal and external integrity until all members
are on the same level of emotional and spiritual development.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The operational linear factors of
participating in a team or group are a learned development, but the organismic
development must be whole and integral and healthy for the team to operate
well.<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>The requirement of being a fully
operational equal member with us—and we mean “with us”—and with each other of
you, is that you must be whole emotionally, that you have healed the major and
dominating emotional difficulties of your life, so that your spirituality can be
whole and complete.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We have talked
many times, and we will repeat this many times in the future, that your
emotional development and emotional energy reflects the degree of your spiritual
development.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You cannot become a
spiritually evolved individual on intellect only, but you must have that
emotional development as well.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It
is the qualitative and quantitative; it is the contrast of process and object,
the differences between the male and the female.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Spirituality is not complete and whole
until these qualitative aspects of your being and personality have evolved and
been healed, and then are capable of moving
forward.<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=#008000 size=3>Morontial beings
are totally transparent</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>It is necessary that the individual heal
these deficits because they will be the niggling, the undermining wash of the
tides, so to speak, that undermines the foundations of a mighty fortress, the
mighty fortress being the linear intelligence of the mind.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The foundation that holds that in place
is the stability of the emotional being.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>There is always an agenda going on for individuals who do not have
emotional completion.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They may feel
inferior or inadequate.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They will
then seek for power, control and authority to put themselves into place and to
protect themselves.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We, however,
operate without an agenda, an inner agenda of band-aids to cover any
weaknesses:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>we are
transparent.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You as morontial
beings will be totally transparent; your weaknesses will be very, very evident
to all who come in contact with you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>They will never attack you, but always try to assist you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Those individuals, who have not healed
themselves emotionally, cannot be fully trusted with greater responsibilities —
it is as simple as that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So, too,
in your morontial development and evolution, you must grow into that
emotionally—if we can use that word for the morontial side of yourself—that must
be whole and complete before you can ascend to your next evolutionary stage of
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>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>Emotional pain and
defensiveness</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>It is common on your world for mortals
to carry over some of their emotional pain into their adult lives.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In the situation between some parents
and their children, <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>the parent in their authority and their
position and their role—and their own ego needs—has used the child as a whipping
post, so to speak, which in a child is interpreted in a particularly personal
way, and most children do not want to endure such criticism or punishment or
harsh treatment again in their life, so they take on a coping mechanism which
may become a shield to protect themselves, that tender part of themselves,
during the rest of their life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They
do not want to be emotionally sensitive and vulnerable and so they become
defensive and easily injured by criticism.<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=#008000 size=3>Learning to trust
by being vulnerable</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>In order for you to grow out of this
defensiveness, you must reveal yourself as vulnerable, that you desire to
improve and to ask for assistance from Christ Michael, your guardians and
Thought Adjuster.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is the case
where you proceed cautiously and carefully and ask for the tutelage and
mentorship of your guardian [angels] and others to assist you in this
process.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>By truly revealing
yourself as vulnerable, you then can trust us to assist you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Not being vulnerable, you cannot learn
to trust, and without learning to trust, you cannot learn to love.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is as simple as that.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We mean you no harm; it is that it is
very difficult to sometimes lance an abscess underneath the skin, without going
through the skin.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You must open up
the abscess to drain it, to heal it, and to put the healing balm of love on it
to bring it to closure; is quite metaphorically accurate.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It does take some skill to reach the
painful area to do so.<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>Even Jesus, as a son of Mary, had
difficulty in his youth with Mary, and that her projections upon him caused him
great unsettled thoughts.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He was
not exempt from this even as the Creator Son, and even as he was in his seventh
bestowal.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He had to go through the
same difficulties and vicissitudes that other youths encounter, other children
encounter in their childhood, in order for him to thoroughly understand the
predicament of his mortal children in the family setting.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This situation is not unique, but quite
the opposite; it is a commonality among everyone.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you were to ask what lessons he came
to this lifetime to learn, this would be one of them, and that would be
vulnerability.<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>The mistake, oftentimes, with those who
have been injured severely in childhood, is that when someone who approaches who
is helpful and loving and caring, they also interpret this as an attack.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is most, most, most
unfortunate!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Unless this lesson is
learned here, it will be learned later in the morontial lifetime,
<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>but much more intimately in the presence
and guardianship of your guardian [angel], and of a group and team supervisor,
and those who can assist you to rapidly move through this.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your advancement in the morontial realm
will be delayed until this problem is resolved.<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>Do you understand?<B>
<o:p></o:p></B></FONT></SPAN></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>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">MMc:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Yes,
understood.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: red"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008000 size=3>Prepare a topic
about the integrity of the team as a social organism</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>If I
may, I would like you to have a line of questioning eventually, in one of our
public sessions about the constitution of the team.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is important that this be shared with
all those individuals who eventually will initiate teams.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Do you understand my
request?<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>Uh, you’re asking us to put together a
line of questions?<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
correct.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I want you to facilitate
the discussion of the topic of the “integrity of the team as a social organism,”
so that we can use this as an instructional piece for our readers and
listeners.<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>Yes, I’ll do that.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(<B>Monjoronson:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P></DIV>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #993366; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>[The following is material from our CWM session #60 on Sept. 17,
2012]<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#993366 size=3>The integrity of
the team as a social organism</FONT></U></H2>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MMc:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We often find ourselves working with
others in groups, in teams.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
design team is one instance of this, but there are others.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I wonder if you would speak to us today
on a topic of the “integrity of the team as a social organism” as you requested
in our last session?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MONJORONSON:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I would be glad to.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The team, as we have formulated it for
social sustainability, to be the primary engine that leads societies towards
social sustainability is a particular—and in fact, quite a peculiar entity by
itself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You see, we do not see
teams as groups of separate individuals having come together for a particular
mission or purpose, but we see these design teams as a social organism, one who
has an integrity of its own.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And
when I say, “integrity,” I mean a holistic integrity for its functioning.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>First of all, it is a spiritual being;
it has a spiritual essence to it, and it is this spiritual essence which must be
the foundation of teams as individuals come together, that they invoke the
presence of the Creator whenever they convene, and that they surround themselves
with the Creator’s light and to fill themselves with that same light.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Without this foundation, they are simply
another team coming together to accomplish a task.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>It is not that teams who do not have a spiritual base cannot function and
provide good results to the ends of social sustainability, but it is that the
spiritually infused and invested teams add far more to the process and
eventually to the outcomes.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
see, it is the process of the team that gives it viability, gives it
“vital-ness” as an organism is vital.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This spiritual essence provides a harmonic, sympathetic, parallel of
vibrations between the individuals and the spiritual beings who are there with
them, all with the common intent of bringing about those occasional, profound
“Ah-Ha’s” of understanding, insight and wisdom.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#993366 size=3>To do the Father’s
work, his presence must be invoked</FONT></U></H2>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>Further, the team is a social organism in that individuals relate to each
other and to the team for higher purposes.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>One is that they make a contribution to the team, and this should be one
of their intentions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Each of the
areas I am speaking about this morning is part of a global intention for the
functioning of the team.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As
individuals who have come together to do the Father’s work, then the Father’s
presence must be manifest and invoked for the proper functioning of the
team.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Those of you who are well
acquainted with the functioning of the Teaching Mission and Magisterial Mission,
understand this thoroughly, that whenever two or more are gathered together, you
“invoke the presence of higher majesty of divinity,” so that your work is more
complete and full, that your minds are led by those nuances of influence from
your spiritual helpers, from us, so that in small ways you are guided forward in
the right directions.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#993366 size=3>The team is a
living, social, spiritual, working organism</FONT></U></H2>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>It is very similar to the metaphor of you driving on an interstate
freeway; you are traveling very rapidly down the highway and you come upon a
curve in the road and you make just the smallest influence in the steering
wheel, yet the car traverses around the corner as though it were on rails.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is a similar way that our spiritual
helpers influence your team, just slightly giving you more options to think
about when you are involved in the process of the team.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Truly, the team is a living organism; it
is a social organism; it is a spiritual organism; it is a working organism—it
has something to do—with all of you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You will find that through the days and weeks of your coming together,
you begin to harmonize with each other, to be influenced by others, both
verbally and nonverbally, that you become tuned into the energetic environment
of the team, so that there develops a synergism that is seemingly unexpected and
unanticipated for doing such linear work, yet this is the influence of all parts
working together.<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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#993366 size=3>Finding the
synergistic flow of the team</FONT></U></H2>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>Just as your cells and organs and parts of your body can operate
individually, they provide a new function and meaning to the whole.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So too, will your teams go through this
same process.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will also find
that there is a “flow” to this organism, just as you see a millipede crawling
along the floor or the carpet of the forest, where there are many dozens of legs
moving harmoniously along to move the whole organism of the centipede or
millipede forward.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This flow is
almost magical in its performance.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You will come away with working in these teams with a thrill and joy of
accomplishment, of completion through the understanding and the feeling of
having been a part of that flow.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You as an individual realize that you are not responsible for that flow,
but you are responsible to participate almost effortlessly in the process of the
team, so that the flow of the work does move ahead almost seamlessly.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When you see this occur in your team
environment and in the working processes of it, you know that you are working
synergistically with each other.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is a wonderful outcome.<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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>I will stop now with this and let you digest that to ask another
question, if you choose.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MMc:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, I do.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I can understand the feeling of the
“flow,” but I can also understand sometimes working in a team where the flow
stops; where there is an interruption of what’s going on.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The integrity is lost for some
reason.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In identifying… the
question I want to ask is “how do we proceed,” but I don’t think I’ve given you
enough information for you to give me an answer in that
regard.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MONJORONSON:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My dear friend, are you underestimating
me?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MMc:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>No.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Can you help me out
here?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#993366 size=3>Developing
harmonization within the team</FONT></U></H2>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MONJORONSON:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, most definitely.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When individuals come together in a team
setting, there is the necessity of harmonizing with each other.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There must be a common understanding
about why you are coming together and this must be discussed openly among the
team members.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You, perhaps, could
do this during one of your first social meetings, where the team comes together
to get acquainted with each other, to have coffee and cookies together, for
instance, when you would have chit-chat to discuss what brought you to this
group meeting, what your intentions are, what you hope to achieve as an
individual, what contributions you might want to make, and so you begin to get
acquainted with the members.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>You must remember that in the early phases of a team’s coming together,
that you may have five to eleven individuals coming together and they still
remain as individuals.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is
important for the facilitator to begin operating almost immediately to
facilitate the bonding of the team members into a oneness, so that eventually
you do have flow, you do have synchronicity, you do have a synergism that occurs
within a team setting.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
facilitator must begin by exposing those similarities and those
differences.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There may be
individuals who come with a different agenda.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They may have an agenda that is hidden,
and this will hopefully become clear when they verbally state their intentions
for participating in the team.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This
is a part of bonding, a part of developing commonalities.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There are individuals who do want to
save the world and they want to be recognized publicly; there are individuals
who want to participate, but never be recognized.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so, each one brings to the team
certain prejudices, biases, preferences for doing business, for working in a
team.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These must be made
clear.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#993366 size=3>Revealing
backgrounds and skills of each member</FONT></U></H2>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>The facilitator must also assist the team to reveal the backgrounds of
each individual who comes forward.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Now, this is not simply just a regurgitation of one’s history, but it is
a process of disclosing your resources to the team and to other team members, so
that team members can be aware of what your experiences are so they are able to
tap into that through their questions.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Each individual has with them a repertoire of experiences and skills and
abilities which they bring to the team to assist in its process.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is important that all these things be
made clear.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The facilitator is
perhaps central to the development of the team’s capabilities.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is the facilitator should have
thought about these issues before hand.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>However—and I must put a “however” in here—that oftentimes, the
facilitator is not chosen until after the team has bonded and has had a meeting
or two.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>At that time, then, the
facilitator can begin his or her work by asking the team how they think they
should proceed, and this is a legitimate way for the facilitator to gain
insights into his or her work, facilitating the function of the team.<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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#993366 size=3>Resolving
deficiencies that hinder or obstruct the flow of the team</FONT></U></H2>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>There is no need for keeping secrets or hidden processes from the
members.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Members can as easily
participate in assisting in the training and education of other members.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is an internal function of the team
and helps bond the team and to help develop confidence in each other.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is central to the function of the
team, is that there is a confidence in each individual for every other
individual in the team.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Surely, if
there are concerns about the confidence in another member, these will eventually
become openly known in the team, both through verbal and nonverbal
behaviors.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These need to be
clarified.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Though the team setting
is not therapeutic in nature, it will become readily apparent to team members
the deficiencies and efficiencies and effectiveness of each team member as time
goes by.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These need to be exposed
and resolved promptly, rather than staying and hindering and obstructing the
flow of the team’s work.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Are you
with me so far?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MMc:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m going to ask you… you say that it’s
not that the team is therapeutic, but it would seem that if there is growth of
individuals within the team, that would be therapeutic.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We may be arguing semantics here,
but…<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#993366 size=3>Every individual
has some emotional, social, spiritual, mental impediments</FONT></U></H2>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MONJORONSON:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is the degree to which the team
functions; it is not necessarily that the team proceed to examine the pathology
of each person’s personality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This
is not necessary and is not desirable, as it takes the team away from its
function and direction.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>However, it
is necessary that these problems or impediments in the team process of its
members be exposed and revealed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>How the individual resolves that is up to them.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The team may have suggestions and the
individual may ask for suggestions how to proceed.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will find, however, that if there is
someone who comes in a position of authority—let us say that one of the members
is a psychiatrist—but that this psychiatrist has some neurotic impediments,
every individual brings with them some sort of emotional, social, spiritual,
mental impediments; these can be seen also as assets to the team function.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just because someone is
obsessive/compulsive does not mean that they cannot be highly effective in the
team setting.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is not the team’s
responsibilities to heal that person’s compulsiveness.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Do you see the differentiation so
far?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MMc:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, I do.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Somebody like “Monk,”<SPAN
style="COLOR: red"> </SPAN>a television character, who was obsessive/compulsive,
and yet he was an excellent detective, so he was able to function in that role
very effectively, where he was not able to function in society very
effectively.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#993366 size=3>Qualities needed
in the team facilitator</FONT></U></H2>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MONJORONSON:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, of course.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Wonderful.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For your facilitator, you would
anticipate that this person would be a very social being, who is outgoing, who
is an extrovert.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These qualities
and capabilities can be used most effectively, whereas a person who is an
introvert and a bit withdrawn socially, may eventually come up with the some of
the most startling and profound insights into the course of the team’s work,
simply because they are thoughtful, do not engage verbally in all the chit-chat
that goes on in a team, but is taking notes and listening and observing and
adding things up in their mind until they are able to provide a summation
statement, which is most helpful, that other people perhaps had not come
to.<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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#993366 size=3>Team members need
varied skills and abilities but similar intentions</FONT></U></H2>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>So, it is not that everyone is going to come from the same socio/economic
background; it is not that everyone is going to have a similar professional
background or work background.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>These are simply not necessary.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It is, however, useful to a team that they have varied skills and
abilities.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What is important,
however, is that they are all tuned into the work of the team, they have a
similar intention for being there, and they have a similar concern for its
outcomes and they have a commitment to assist their civilization and their
communities to move ahead into social sustainability.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is important that the facilitator and
the team be able to recognize their broad palette of skills and abilities, yet
also clearly recognize what they are there for, so that everybody can stay on
track.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MMc:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As I understand it, the team should look
for the output of the team, and not necessarily look to any particular
individual to produce that output?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><U><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #993366; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>Dealing with member “withdrawal” or
domination<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></U></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MONJORONSON:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, that is correct.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just because you have an eminent
psychiatrist on your team does not mean that this person may have a head for
power and control.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What is needed
is the equal participation, not the domination or submission of individuals, but
that there be a clear presence of individuals at the table, even those people
who are dominant and those people who are socially receding.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will find it interesting to note
that the presence of individuals is highly important.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When someone withdraws even while
sitting at the table in the team setting, withdrawing while thinking of their
own personal problems, you know that they have “left the premises,” so to speak,
and that is a loss to the team, as that asset is also lost to the functioning of
their work.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is much like what
happens when an individual’s leg or arm becomes numb—you are not able to feel
it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Even though you can move your
fingers, you do not have the sensation of touch or of depth and space.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So, too, when a person withdraws within
a team, that this is noted and that the individual is assisted to become present
in the situation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You do not have
“hall monitors” to keep people in the classroom all the time, yet there is
obviously something going on with the person if they withdraw from the
interaction of the team.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It may be
that they note something particular is going on that no one else notes, and it
would be helpful for them to reveal that to the
team.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MMc:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When the team members become aware of a
problem with one of the members of the team, how should they
proceed?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MONJORONSON:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They should proceed with a sincere
concern for the individual.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What
you will find, however, in your societies, whether they are western or eastern,
is that people who are outgoing, who are extroverts, who are expressive and
effusive in their interaction with others, tend to not be questioned.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>However, if you have someone who is
withdrawn socially and emotionally in discussions in the group, others may be
concerned for that individual.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet,
what those individuals, who are concerned for the withdrawn individual should
also come to question the domination of one or more individuals, who tend to
dominate the discussion.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A person
of an over-bearing presence can be as detrimental, or even more so, to the
productive work of the team as the withdrawn member.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yet most people of even temperaments are
reluctant and reticent to question that individual, though this eventually must
be done.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is necessary for the
team.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Remember, that all team
members come to the team equally and are valued equally, and that their
participation is necessary and needed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Their prior social eminence, recognition, and status neither add to nor
subtract from the functioning of the team.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It is how well those members perform in the team that is of
importance.<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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MMc:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is a feeling of equality within
the group that everyone is… although they are not necessarily equal, they are
equal in God’s eyes and equally needed to make the group a team, so that each
individual is in a needed situation?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#993366 size=3>Self-image and
self-esteem in team members</FONT></U></H2>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MONJORONSON:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Exactly, yes.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is the self-image and self-esteem
that people bring to the team that other people will become aware of.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you have someone who has an
inferiority complex, that would become obvious very soon.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As well, they will become very aware of
someone who has a superiority complex, that this would also become known to the
team.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How the team deals with both
situations is a particularly important process.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The team truly is almost a morontial
being, simply because once you graduate from this earthly plane, the importance
you had as a mortal upon your world—or unimportance on your world—is of no
importance at all, whatsoever, in the morontial plane.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are accepted there by the
accomplishments you have achieved moving towards a full morontial being.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What lessons you had learned here may be
immense or they may be miniscule.<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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#993366 size=3>Contributions or
detriments to morontial growth</FONT></U></H2>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>It is very interesting to us to observe a person who has had tremendous
mortal achievements on the mortal plane in their world, who comes to the
morontial plane fairly well bereft of morontial skills or abilities or
achievements.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This also could be
said of the person with an inferiority complex, who feels inadequate to engage
the activities of their mortal life, and so they withdraw.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These individuals too, have chosen to
withdraw from the interaction of their mortal lives; they have withdrawn from
the mortal school of learning to become morontial.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Whereas, on the other hand, a superior
individual becomes so busy in the pursuit of their career and their
achievements, that they also come away with not having engaged the problems of
adversity and disappointments that are so common to mortals and who learn to
overcome them.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In learning to
overcome these challenges, you grow morontially, and you can move ahead in your
morontial standing, even to a completely new class, if your achievements on your
mortal plane have been great.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Do
you see how both mortal careers can contribute and can cause detriments to your
morontial career?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MMc:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, I can.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So, you are looking for that balance
again?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#993366 size=3>Without adversity
there is little soul growth</FONT></U></H2>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MONJORONSON:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are looking for balance within the
team, yes.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We do not need
individuals who are dominant or submissive, inferior or superior.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are looking for individuals who are
capable, who are capable of social engagement, to understand the
social/emotional/spiritual problems of your world.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your world is one of a tremendously
broad spectrum of adversity; in almost all phases of a mortal’s life, there is
adversity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When there is no
adversity, there is usually not much achievement or growth morontially; soul
growth is little, as one does not have to contemplate the challenges of life and
how to work through them.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That can
be said of either the inferior or superior individual.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Life is to be lived; life is a learning
process; life is a school for growing in your morontial careers.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When you have a challenge in your
personal life—no matter where it is, what spectrum of activities it is—if you
ask Christ Michael and Nebadonia, your guardians and teachers for assistance to
grow through the problems, they will truly assist you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is one of their purposes for
existence in their relationship with mortals in this realm of yours.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They are here to assist you to
grow.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When they assist you to grow
here in this realm, they have assisted you to grow and advance in your morontial
realm.<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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>If you are able to overcome the adversities and disappointments in this
lifetime, then those which you find in the morontial realm will be no challenge
to you; you will understand that this is just part of the process of living, and
that disappointment and adversity are part of the process for learning—they
simply say, “Not this way.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Adversity and disappointment does not say, “Stop, die in your tracks and
wither away to nothingness,” it simply says, “Not this way.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so, you must initiate the next
way.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If that is to request from us
our participation for you to discover the way forward, then we will most
certainly do so.<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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>You will not find that we are hesitant to relate to you or to assist
you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are highly proactive in
assisting you, once you ask!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is
important that you understand that once you ask to engage us, we will be
engaged.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Until then, we are
bystanders, striving to get your attention, so that you ask us questions and you
engage us in the mortal and spiritual realms during your
lifetime.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#993366 size=3>Learned coping
mechanisms can be detrimental to growth</FONT></U></H2>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MMc:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let me take this discussion outside of
the team for just a moment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So many
of us here are unaware of our particular deficiencies.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We have grown up in a deficient society
and in deficient families, and we have learned coping mechanisms that have
become defense mechanisms, and we sit inside our little fortresses of ideas,
defending ourselves on a daily basis from the rest of humanity, yet, we are
unaware that we are doing this, that we have cut ourselves off from growth,
simply because we persist in the same type of thinking patterns on a daily
basis.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Am I correct that there are
a great number of us here on this planet in this
situation?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MONJORONSON:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Oh yes, the vast, vast majority of
mortals on your world are coping with the difficulties that they have faced in
their early childhood, and they carry them forward.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Once they are successful with that, then
they perpetuate that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Why go
against success?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Correct?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But success in coping then protects you
from the adversities and the challenges of life as a spiritual being, who is
growing on a material world.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MMc:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When you encounter these types of
individuals within a group situation and you find that their coping mechanism
interferes with the group action, how do you suggest that we proceed in that
situation?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MONJORONSON:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is a good question.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will see it this way:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>that when you are part of a team, let us
say you are in the microchip industry, and you have a team coming together to
solve a problem concerning the architecture of the circuitry of your microchip,
then your functioning is on that, and that you are simply looking for answers
and resolution.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We sit back and
watch you, and we work with you individually, but we do not necessarily work
with you as a team, as a group.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>However, in a spiritually infused design team—a socially sustainable
design team—that has come together co-creatively with us, then we will assist
you as individuals and we will assist you as a team, to grow emotionally,
spiritually, socially and mentally so that you are more and more capable of
engaging the difficulties that come to you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You see, the architecture and circuitry
of a microchip does not deal with humans.<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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#993366 size=3>Resolution of
mortal problems in social existence</FONT></U></H2>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>The sustainability design team comes together solely for the resolution
of mortal problems in social existence.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>We need to have individuals who are whole and complete, those who are
willing to challenge themselves to grow, to even expose themselves and invite
others to assist them in their growth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This may be challenging, it may be difficult, but the individual who sees
that they are growing, sees that they need to grow, then begins to challenge
others to point out their deficiencies.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It is much like an athlete who is in weight training to participate in
the Olympics, and that they have a muscle group that is deficient.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They ask their coach or their trainer to
assist them.<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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#993366 size=3>With celestial
involvement individual healing creates world healing</FONT></U></H2>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>For you in the team setting, you would ask your celestial angelic
assistants to point out your deficiencies and lead you into situations where
those would be exposed, so that you could grow.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So too, the Olympic athlete who has a
muscle group which is deficient, which needs to be strengthened in order for
them to thoroughly perfect their athletic skills, would then begin a regime of
training to strengthen those muscles to support the work of the rest of their
body.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The parallel with the team is
very similar:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You may have a team
member who has some deficiency that they need to overcome.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It will be most difficult for the team
as a whole team, and a team of individuals to move ahead until that individual
exercises their skills at exposing and working through their deficiencies.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is far more challenging than
ordinary life!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is far more
challenging than any other setting that you would have, because we are
involved.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are involved because
it deals with the spiritual healing of your world, and we are involved because
you are working as a whole social organism that must have all of its functions
integrated, meaning that all individuals must be evolved fairly closely
together, so that one does not drag down the remainder, does not cause the team
to falter and to stop.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Teams that
enter these situations do not move forward, but disintegrate and reform in other
teams or situations.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Does this help
clarify?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MMc:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, it does.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s much more difficult than even being
in a therapeutic group, because there is the added pressure of the spiritual
aspect that is brought into play here.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Am I correct?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#993366 size=3>Each team member
must be proactive in their own healing</FONT></U></H2>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MONJORONSON:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>One of the primary facets or ingredients
we look for in a good team is that each team member is proactive in their own
healing, that they wish to come forward and expose that.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We do not support confrontational
therapeutic tactics either, but for an individual to say, “I come forward and I
think I need to have some work done on this area.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Do I see this correctly, or am I in
error?” and so this statement, this question by that individual, means that they
are willing to reveal, they are asking others to assist them in revealing and
identifying their inferior or their “inadequate muscle group,” so to speak, so
that they can become more effective in the team.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Each team member who comes to the team
must realize that they are all inadequate or insufficient in some skill areas,
but it is most helpful when the individual asks the team to help them work with
that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This gives the other team
members permission to speak assertively.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>However, we do not appreciate or support individuals who then use those
comments hurtfully against that individual, as this is a very tender situation,
where you are now in the very hand of developing intimacy between
individuals.<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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#993366 size=3>Revealing one’s
vulnerability and asking for assistance</FONT></U></H2>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>When one reveals their vulnerability and asks for assistance, this is the
very moment of developing trust, where others can contribute to their
development.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All of this must be
done positively, and constructively.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>There is no room for hostility, bitterness, cynicism or criticism, but
simply revealing what others observe in each other.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is something that the facilitator
must make known in the early phases of the team’s bonding, that there will come
occasions where team members are faced with their own limitations, and that they
realize that they have limitations, and that others are seeing those limitations
and that they wish to resolve this.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You will find that you will achieve tremendous breadth of growth and
rapidity of growth when this revealing, identifying and supportive [effort] is
done by team members.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then you
become bonded; then you become “one;” you become whole.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have confidence in other team
members that they will not betray the sacred work of the team.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is the most devastating development
that can occur in a team, when team members see the betrayal of one team member
against the progress and process of the team, such that it pales, it stops and
does not move forward.<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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#993366 size=3>Celestials are
involved in selecting team members</FONT></U></H2>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>You can rest assured, my dear friends, that we will poke you in the ribs,
and that we will get your attention so that you can begin to identify those
deficiencies that you have.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can
also be assured that the civility and etiquette of the team members probably
will not do that, but we will not hesitate to do that for the best outcome and
working of the team effort in the long term.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We have brought you together.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When teams come together, it is through
a long, enduring process of our selection and arranging so that people come
together.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Oftentimes, the first
meeting of a team of individuals is preceded by 18-24 months of us working and
selecting individuals to come together.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>We do not want to waste that effort, as we know that each team usually
has a principle function and work mission that it has come together to
accomplish.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To reconstitute another
team to do that same function would be to throw that effort out the
window.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MMc:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I wonder if it would be conducive for us
to stop at this point.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have
given me a lot to think about and I’d like to come back, perhaps next week or
the end of this week and ask you some more questions, but I’m afraid I’m going
to need some time to bring together what you have already told me, and ask
pertinent questions about that, rather than ….
(Pause)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#993366 size=3>Asking for help
from God and celestials</FONT></U></H2>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Roxie:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Michael, I’d like to ask one,
please.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Monjoronson, we have a
saying on this world that “God helps those who help themselves.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Some of us feel like we can’t ask for
help until we have exhausted all possibilities of helping ourselves.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Would you address that,
please?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MONJORONSON:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is most unfortunate.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let me go back to an earlier part of
your question, where you stated this saying that you have on your world, is that
“God helps those who help themselves.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>What is the situation for the individual who does not feel they need
help?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is not a rhetorical
question, but until one is, as I mentioned earlier, until one is able to ask for
assistance, then they will not be open to assistance, and so that is why we
stand by waiting for the individual to ask for our assistance to help them
grow.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To the second part of your
question, the answer is this:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>that
you do yourself a morontial disservice by waiting until the last moment to ask
for assistance.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You do yourself a
tremendous service by asking for God’s assistance, for your celestial teacher’s
assistance, for your guardian’s assistance, if you are unable to work through
the difficulty that you are engaged in.<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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>Of course, there are individuals who ask God immediately to answer
everything, to take care of all their needs.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This does not bring about the challenge
of adversity or potential of disappointment in the individual so they
learn.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We see these difficult
situations you bump into as learning situations, and that if you wait until the
last minute before asking for assistance, you have waited too long, and for some
individuals this means not just months, but many years.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so you have wasted many years of
your potential spiritual growth as a mortal.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You must try to resolve the problem on
your own.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If it is such that you
know that you are unable to resolve it, or it is outside your realm of
influence, then please do ask immediately for our participation, for we would be
most happy to do that, and promptly.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Does this help?<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Roxie:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s finding that “sweet spot” where you
realize that you can’t solve the problem and you need to ask for
help.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MONJORONSON:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You mean by waiting too long or asking
too early?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Roxie:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I find that I don’t know if I’ve
exhausted all my own possibilities for solution.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MONJORONSON:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Dear one, we are not asking you to
exhaust them.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are asking you to
simply come to a determination that you perhaps do not have the capability or
capacity or time to resolve the situation, and that you are faced with that, and
you know that there perhaps may be other alternatives, but that is the time to
call upon spiritual help for assistance.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Roxie:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Okay; thank you very
much.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MONJORONSON:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Michael, do you have further
questions?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MMc:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am remembering in my workdays as a
physician, I began each day with a prayer of asking for God’s help to help me
through my day.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It was not so much
that I couldn’t make the day on my own, but simply that I wanted his help and
assistance there with me.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MONJORONSON:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, that’s
excellent.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MMc:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>No, I don’t have any further questions
for today, but I would like to revisit this topic at some point in time in the
future.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MONJORONSON:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are most welcome to and I offer this
suggestion that you share this part of the session today with a spiritually
oriented psychotherapist or clinical psychologist, who has a concern for
spiritual development of individuals who understand the “Urantia Book” and who
may be of assistance to you for developing a line of questions that gives more
insight.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Remember, we are not so
much concerned about the therapy, but the pragmatics of a team’s function that
leads to accomplished work and product.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Do not get too complex and too technical and sophisticated in your
question asking, as it would not be useful to our ordinary
readers.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MMc:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Have I been too complex in questions
that I have put forward today?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MONJORONSON:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>No, no you have not.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have developed them well.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I was concerned that we would not get to
the ends which I had in mind, but you eventually did so, and so we are
pleased.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When we, as a team on this
side, come together preparatory to your own meetings, as this meeting this
morning, we have already discussed what you have been working on, as we have
been looking over your shoulder at the questions that you have developed.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Today, we were of concern that you would
not proceed far enough in your inquiry to cover the points that we wanted, but
we are sufficiently pleased with the outcome.<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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MMc:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.<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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#993366 size=3>Comments on the
problems in the Middle East</FONT></U></H2>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Roxie:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Monjoronson, before you go, do you have
any comments about the situation on our world right now in the Middle East and
what’s brewing there?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MONJORONSON:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These developments that you see, and
which are so much in front of your face, and the conclusions that you’ve drawn
from the evidence that you have seen so far, have been known to us for many,
many years.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There was speculation
about these developments over a century ago, and as the decades have passed,
this speculation has been confirmed that these developments are in place, and
that the outcome is almost inevitable at this point.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is why we are of concern that our
discussion about teams and sustainability and the publishing of these
instructions move forward.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are
of concern to have this done before your world gets in too much disarray.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What is of concern are the developments
that will occur in the next few months will be detrimental to the development of
our work, approximately one year to three years in the future.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is important that our work, our
distribution and publication of this work be in a timely manner, so that the
outcomes <I>we desire</I> be accomplished in a timely manner in the near
future.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And “in the near future,” I
mean by 18 months to 3 years—not 3 years to 5
years.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Roxie:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Do you see a likelihood that there might
be nuclear arms used in this conflict?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">MONJORONSON:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This has been a perennial concern of
ours for several decades.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is
quite a predictable development, one that is not necessarily inevitable, but I
think you will see that the development of events will make itself advantageous
to the Iranians for their own purposes.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I will say no more than that.<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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#993366 size=3>Closing statements
by Monjoronson</FONT></U></H2>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>This is Monjoronson.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I speak
with my team members beside me that we are most pleased with the development of
your discussion about the inner-workings of the team.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We have proceeded over the months in the
last two or three years, of going from the outside, global perspective of social
sustainability and healing your world, to the dynamics of workshops to teach
people about these topics and now to the mechanism of the team and the team
members in their roles, and now we have gotten to the inner-workings of the
spiritual/emotional/social/mental and even physical developments within a team
that affect the outworking of the team in its productiveness.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These are essential to the full working
of our plans.<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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>You will find that any work further from here must be dealt with in
pragmatic terms with operational teams in place.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We were most willing to clarify any
points that you wish, but if you look at the overall progress of our discussions
in the last three years, you will see a very, very clear V-shaped pattern where
the breadth of the V, the open end, has encompassed everything that we began
discussing 3-5 years before, and now we are at the point where we have discussed
almost everything, and it is now time to go to work.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Know that we will assist you—meaning
each individual in each team that comes together—in these purposes.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is important that teams see
themselves as ongoing, as functional and as making positive contributions.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can do this in the isolation and
insulation of your local community at this time, quite productively, as you
learn the inner processes and workings of your team, and how to become
productive.<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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>You have no need to be concerned about the collective productiveness of
numerous teams, or bringing their products and services together to a new
focus.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is for a future time
when those developments are needed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>You do not need to divert your attention to the future, but focus on the
moment “now,” where these principles and lessons can be put to work to bring
about local teams who are interested in working with and for Christ Michael in
the healing of this world, which will also make a huge contribution to the
healing of the other thirty-some planets which were in rebellion.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Remember, that your products here will
not be forgotten, and they will be useful on the other planets.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The progress you make here may be of
paramount importance on another planet, to which you have absolutely no
knowledge.<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; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>Also remember that you do not work alone — you work with us.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When we work with you and you are
committed to working with us, then we work as a unit, and if one of our limbs is
numb and sleeping, we will bring attention to it and say, “Wake up!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Pay attention!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let’s go to work.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Know that you are surrounded by
love—this is not just work, it is also play—play as you learn to work with each
other in these daily activities, and in this play you learn to become more whole
and complete in your being.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
will work in ways which will contribute to your morontial development, because
you will be in teams—very similar teams with the same inner-workings of the
teams as you are in now.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The topics
we have discussed today of the inner-workings of the minds and personalities in
the teams, and the team itself, will be primary and essential to your
understanding in participating effectively in your morontial teams.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good day.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3> <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><FONT
size=3>(Group gives thanks.)<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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