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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">DATE:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>November 6, 2013</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">LOCATION:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Rio Rancho, NM</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">T/R:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Gerdean O’Dell</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TEACHER:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Merium and Athena</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">TOPICS: The Sorority of Sisters; Artistic
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">MERIUM:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good afternoon, precious friends. It is
good to be back with you so soon. And yet it seems we have so long been away
from one another. There is much to catch up on. But we are here today and now
and this is what we deal with, and so let’s enjoy this sacred space in which we
find ourselves, this configuration of noble daughters seeking to serve in the
arena of your lives. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Indeed, it is probably the most
compelling area for women to gravitate. First to the children, the helpless, the
most vulnerable, but they also gravitate to their own kind – other women – if
only because they understand each other and truly the bonds of sisterhood
provide a tremendous font of comfort, strength and wisdom, even wit. Through the
association those associations are to be cultivated every chance you get. There
is no excuse for women to be competitive in the kingdom. There is no need to
have sibling rivalry in terms of who is serving more or less. And there is no
excuse to demean anyone’s service because it is seen as insufficient,
irrelevant, or unreal, for that is a value judgment that only can be determined
by the one who is doing the serving and not the one who is doing the observing.
</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>The sorority that exists between
daughters of divinity is as precious and priceless as the fraternity between
sons of god. There are natural differences based on the fact that men and women
cannot fully understand each other, but they are compatible, sufficiently
compatible that they should not be distrusted, nor should either gender be put
on a pedestal for their unique perspective or approach. It is what it is and you
know where you are drawn to serve better and where you are finding the field
vacant, barren and unlovely.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Some of this comes from the
maternal instinct, but not all.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>There are other instincts at play here. The spirit of intuition is alive
and well in the ministry involved in social situations that deal with
relationship problems and what relationship does not have occasional problems to
be drawn together as like minds is a gift and to stay together as compatible
friends and associates, while still a gift, also requires the work that any
relationship would require so as not to take undue advantage of the other’s or
to assume privileges which are not yours to take. The qualities of empathy and
compassion are always uppermost in your dealings with troubled waters, be they
relationships with your long-term adult friends, your young, or the young of
your associates, and indeed of your associates themselves. If you cannot
approach a relationship glitch with empathy and compassion, then stay out of it.
If you can find no real sympathy with the individual, it is probably best for
you to pass. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Many times people will prevail
upon you either directly or indirectly (passively or aggressively) and so you
are left with a sense of responsibility or duty which may well not be yours but
one which has been thrust upon you by those who would see you make a choice,
ideally you would make a choice which was in support of their concern.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is really politics, not friendship,
and here I will say that both are viable forms of association but it helps you
to know which is which because you may well answer differently depending upon
whether you feel it is political or personal, which draws you, which compels
you, which instigates more emotional response in you, which do you feel
compelled to act upon and which do you feel you need to detach from?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Detachment is a marvelous key in
Human Associations, in relationships. The value of detachment provides an
automatic time out. You have cut the ties to the emotionality of the situation,
be it personal or political. Entering stillness from a detached perspective will
more likely render you a judgment of non-involvement, such as ‘Don’t worry about
it,” “It’s none of your business,” “His will be done,” “Move along,” -- those
kinds of responses from your Mentor (or your superconscious or subconscious or
whatever it is that is impressing you with a response to your concerns).</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>When, on the other hand, you find
there is a duty involved in the situation, you need to ascertain the clear
boundaries of that duty. Is it to take over the entire situation? Is it to take
over one individual? Is it to take control of one attitude or issue? Once you
have determined what your business is and what it isn’t, then you have a lot of
peace and a lot of latitude and can allow Human Associations to go on at great
length without losing energy investing in one aspect of it or another.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Someone coming along without
conscientious time spent in meditations like these, coming in off the street as
it were, outraged or indignant, sickened or depressed about something they
encountered ‘out there,’ which may or may not have a personal connection such as
a neighbor, a fender, or any number of other connect-the-dots that would add to
the distress, without the ability to sit down and determine what their problem
is about it, are actually inclined to think it is ALL their problem to deal with
and so they throw themselves into it wholly and fully.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>They lose everything, including
their wisdom, in order to tackle this job that they now feel righteously
duty-bound to finish. Naturally, many of these scenarios end in violence or
closed doors, some of which may stay closed for generations. Witness the
Hatfields and the McCoys or certain neighbors who never speak to each other but
never miss an opportunity to observe what the other is up to. They can’t embrace
them, and they can’t let them go. There is no love, there is no real loathing,
it’s just an impasse and the planet is filled with those kinds of impasses that
are going nowhere, truly holding up the house of cards that has been built by
that kind of mentality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So what do
we do with you people who have set out to build a better bird’s nest, a better
bread box, a better scenario for your relationships with humanity? One that you
may participate in and contributed to, appropriate to yourself at this time in
your life, with its many mitigating circumstances and ramifications, not to
eliminate costs. What are you to do when blood is thicker than water, so thick
it is like glue that gloms onto you, as it were, in such a way that you can’t
lift your feet from the floor, you can’t take your hands from the wall.
Everything is so sticky and cloying. There is nothing you can do in such an
environment, under such circumstances, it is entirely too enmeshed. Better you
detach completely and move to a distant city and communicate by letters or
emails. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>People will determine their own
availability to be involved in healthy relationships. Only you can determine
what a healthy relationship is for you. We look around and see some very
unfortunate liaisons. Many of them are involved in drug users and uneducated
types who develop techniques of stealing from other people that becomes their
profession, be it fraud or outright thievery, they teach their children how to
live this way because their parents taught them this way. Some of those
situations involve sex trade and so children are introduced to that life style
by their parents who perhaps cannot afford to raise them and so they sell
them.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These anecdotes that we see
here in your midst are trouble enough. We don’t need to go too far to find such
dysfunction as racism, sexism, and a number of other very unfortunate behaviors
that degrade the human condition, such that even being around them is enough to
make you feel sullied and sordid by simply knowing they exist. And though you
detach, you wonder how can you serve?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Well, my dears, there are those
who have the constitution for it and there are those who don’t. There are many
who start out not believing they are going to get involved in such bleak
circumstances but life takes them down that street and the choices they make
allow them to pursue their course, be it to destruction or to justice. I point
this out to say that your concerns are the simple concerns of family and
friends. They are not the concerns of agencies and governments, in the interest
of war or sex trade, and so to that extent you are most fortunate.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Even as these situations you
encounter are less than fun and far from wholesome, anyone who is depressed,
thinking of suicide, anyone who is frustrated, thinking of a fix, anyone who is
poor, thinking for a way out, are all scenarios which you are completely free to
get close to and render your opinion, your advice, and you may occasionally be
successful. You may also occasionally get snookered or scammed in the process
but you will learn either how to do it better next time or not to ever do that
again. And this same things that I am telling you here at this table today are
the same things I could tell the people in the lives that you care about, that
act in these ways, that cause you to pray and meditate and look for divine
guidance insofar as how to be of service, what to say, when to get involved, and
when not to.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>You are developing wisdom in the
process; you are allowing yourself to raise yourself as a child of faith to an
adult spirit. It is the work of character building; it is the work of the field.
I am very proud of you. I am very pleased to be invited into your company. You
surely realize that your concerns are our concerns and as we work together for
our mutual concerns for the uplifting of humanity, we are unified, and our
harmony is heard on Havona.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Let’s take a break while this
large insect [leaf blower] passes by.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>[Laughter] <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p> </o:p></B></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal
align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">[RECESS]<o:p></o:p></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Gerdean:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We know you have been listening to this,
Merium, and we thought we would like to have Athena come in and talk to us about
our creative ways and means and so we don’t want you to go away; we’d like you
to stay so that we can have even a bigger tea party, and before that, we want to
thank you for your words today. It’s all good counsel. You are a good friend.
Thank you.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>I asked to have you come in,
Athena, because I am working again on the continuance of the series that I’ve
started, with your help, the one on the Advent of the Supernals.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What do you think of it so far?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">ATHENA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well, there is not much to say about it
so far. You have much further to go so I will just say, it’s looking good,
coming out of the gate, but you haven’t even gone around the track once, so
let’s not get bogged down in how it goes today, at least not before you’ve gone
a little father, but I am quite excited about it. I think you’re getting the
hang of it. You are out of practice. This T/R’ing has made you soft. You just
let us do the teaching and you have no part to play in it, but in writing you
have a serious part to play; you have to make it look like a novel.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>I know.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have heard that Timothy Wyllie’s
technique is to allow his Mentor to tell the story, to virtually tell the story,
and that is definitely a means by which the work can be accomplished but even so
he has to have it in his head before it can come out on the page. You can’t
transmit what you haven’t got. If you are not going to transmit something direct
from the Spirit, you have to embellish it with your mortal consciousness. This
is a lot what has to do with co-creation, the co-creative aspect of mortals and
invisibles working together, the spirit and the flesh. If it’s all Spirit,
that’s one thing; if it’s all mortal, that’s another, but when you attempt to
bridge the gap, when you attempt to have one foot in heaven and one on earth and
convey it in such a way that other earthlings can make sense of it, then you are
riding high.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And catching their
interest is not difficult, providing they don’t get vertigo from riding so
high.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>I think you are doing good to set
up the framework as it is, and I appreciate your allowing me to help direct the
paradigm we’ve chosen.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your work
station seems to be your greatest obstacle. Writing a book on a computer is a
different exercise for you. You basically wrote the Zooid Mission on a
typewriter and you had free pages, free-floating pages such that you could cut
and paste, move them around, add to, take from, and have them in your hands,
whereas in the computer when you cut and paste and move things around they are
not so evident and you tend to get lost.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Such is the way of your brain.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>It is another drawback that you
feel you need to work in such a tight format as the finished product. That is
entirely unnecessary.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It puts you
in a position of being -- I will use the phrase ‘creatively constipated’.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Everything being that tight, you really
do need to get loose, even if it means writing four or five pages and calling it
quits. Printing those 4 or 5 pages and setting them aside, you have those 4 or 5
pages then that are the full size (8 ½ by 11, double spaced), which will enable
you to go back and edit it manually, which is your preferred way, and there is
nothing then imprisoning you in the format. If you have a chapter or a segment
you want to write about, you can do that without it having to be the next
scheduled sector. As long as in the end they are all in the right place. It
doesn’t matter as you are writing the book if they are in the right place or
not. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>As you know, there will be
materials added as you go along and there will be materials, no doubt that will
end up on the cutting room floor but all that aside, I think you are doing fine.
The fact is, you are doing it, and it is beginning to look like a book. It is
beginning to look like something I can take pride in. I am eager to direct the
next increment but I can’t do that until you finish this one. You are on Chapter
4; let’s get moving on Chapter 5. I have some things I want to say.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And I will dedicate myself to helping
you as often as you can find time to spend on this worthy project. Let’s make it
a goal that you finish it and that you publish it before you leave for Mansonia.
That would work out well for me. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Gerdean:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Me too</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Friends:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Me, too! Me too!</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p> </o:p></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">ATHENA:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></B>Well, what else do we have going on
here, my lovely friends? You are all creative and eager to play so what do you
enjoy playing with. Of course, Elena plays the piano and plays it well!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>She doesn’t just play it, she
experiences it and so does everyone who watches her play and enjoys her music.
She’s a one man band, a full-bodied performer.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Elena:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m doing a lot more accompanying right
here in Rio Rancho and I feel that is a spirit led thing, giving me an
opportunity to work with kids, and I’m just having a lot of fun with them. I
think that’s a really good thing and I’m also excited about the two solos that I
am playing in the Christmas concerts: “Let there be peace on earth and let it
begin with me.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I feel strongly
about the selection of that piece.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I feel strongly that I was guided to that piece. <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And “Toyland” is equally compatible with
me. Everyone I’ve mentioned it to, takes it back to their childhood as a magic
time.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I looked up the words on that
and it’s a kind of a melancholy thing, about childhood passing, and looking
backward, so that’s kind of an interesting thing.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And I am kind of concerned about
arthritis that is popping up, so anything you would like to say or feedback
about that would be just great.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">ATHENA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are obviously one of Santa’s helpers
[Laughter] bringing tremendous gifts to the children. The fact that you are
working with children is a calling in itself. These young minds are in need of
encouragement and uplifting. You, of course, are a natural, and so this can do
nothing but serve the conservative community of Rio Rancho the idea of Toyland
speaking to children of young and old is a way to bond parent and child in the
magic of Christmas. It should make for a musical cornucopia.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Elena:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Any suggestions as to what I might be
doing, or if I am on the right tract?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">ATHENA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Oh, you are definitely on the right
track, but just stay open to all the opportunities you can find. Avail
yourself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you avail your
attitude and people can approach you, you may find that you can extend and
expand your giving to other events like birthday parties and reunions.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Elena:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I put out a feeler to the hospital to
play for people in pain and I didn’t get a follow up on that so ….</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">ATHENA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You may want to talk to Phyllis after I
hang up. She has some experience with that.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Music is a wonderful gift, and to
spread such a gift has an impact on everyone. Sad music, happy music, dancing
music, crying music, hugging music, or cheerful music, music is a language and
you serve well by having many words in your musical vocabulary.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Surround yourself with music-makers and
those who like to sing so that you can impromptu at the drop of a hat, take
advantage of an occasion, call up 4 or 5 of these with their kazoo or fife and
drums and descend upon a Saturday afternoon soiree or a Sunday evening
candlelight communion. It is always appropriate to be musical. Angels sing. They
blow the trumpets.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Elena:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Anything about my hands?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">ATHENA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ah, my dear, your hands will likely go
the way of all flesh. This world is so brief and it takes a toll no matter what.
Consider yourself fortunate to be in a dry climate; it could be much worse where
the humidity and dampness soak into the bones early on in life, twisting and
distorting your tree and its limbs such that you would hardly recognize yourself
by this time.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There are drugs you
can take to alleviate the pain and distress. There are other ways and means of
using minerals and supplements to extend the elasticity in your wrists and
strengthening your bones.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Massage
your muscles lovingly.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Keep your
hands warm so that they don’t become brittle from the inside out. Keep the
marrow of your bones warm and happy.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Elena:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I appreciate that.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I appreciate your words.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">ATHENA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Before we leave that topic, I would like
to see you also continue in some of your artistic electives—your paperwork, the
idea of accessories or scarves or placemats or nativity scenes or any of a
number of things that would charm you for a while that you would be able to
share with others. One of the things about art is that it has such variety. And
since your main thrust is music, give yourself encouragement and a holiday from
your mainstay by dabbling in some of these other venues. In this way you always
have something creative on your front or back burner around which you can bounce
and keep lively.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Elena:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Well, thanks.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I appreciate that.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I will!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s nice to be exposed to you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Nice to meet you, in other words.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">ATHENA:</B> I am always glad to meet those
who are dedicated to art one way or another. What have we got for you today,
Phyllis?</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Phyllis:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have no idea.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I love beauty of all kinds, especially
nature, and that is being presented to me constantly, so I like to spend a lot
of time on that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m also aware –
music is my thing.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I couldn’t live
without it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So I need to
participate in singing to heal my soul, and play with others. But one that
doesn’t usually get included as an art is <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">listening</I>.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>People can converse together and I am
absolutely astounded by what they have to tell me. It’s often people that are
disconnected; there are also people from other countries, people that might
believe something that nobody else does.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It might be a serious thing where they have been afraid to speak.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s what shows up when I walk out the
door.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">ATHENA:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is tapping into a very serious need
in people. They need to be heard. Many people are not paid attention to. They
are disregarded and their words or ideas have been dissed as well.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That is a very discouraging thing to a
creative person, to have their artistic bent decried, disdained, or
ignored.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Creativity does not
necessarily come in the painting of pictures or the making of music. It comes in
many ways.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Cake decorating,
gardening, flower arranging. Many, many fields of ministry are in fact
artistry.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Not only is the making of
dolls artistry, so is the idea of dressing up a baby as if s/he were a doll and
taking their picture. That presents artistry. They are only that little for a
very short time. Why not have them look like a character instead of just a
pretty blob of babyhood? I encourage the introduction of their ego, their
personality, as soon as possible.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And find out what it is they like to do, what they gravitate toward, and
when you find that, encourage that, as compared to discouraging it by saying,
“Oh, no, no; don’t put that in your mouth, it will poison you.” “Oh, no, no;
don’t pick that off the floor, it’s got germs on it.” Oh, no, no; don’t pick
that off the lady’s dress, she needs it.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Babies do things -- and I’m speaking here not just of infants but babes,
newbies, innocents.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They
investigate things from a naïve sense of wonder. Encourage that sense of wonder.
It opens up places in their mind that gives them somewhere to go, that exercises
the mind that reaches for the spirit. It tells a child what has allure for it
and what it finds totally dull and interesting.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Cultivate the creative nature in
the children, not just to act by rote but to manifest spontaneity and commend
them for what they do that is right and good, even if in the next breath, you
must say ‘that was wonderful!’ but you cannot do that now. Now, we must do this”
so that the child is informed and educated that that is a good thing but that
disciplines are also necessary. Disciplines, in fact, lead to good things.
Disciplines are not just a bore. There is always a reward for discipline. Effort
does not always produce joy, but there is no real happiness without intelligent
effort, and so seeing the eager young minds, wanting to be creative, and helping
them invest themselves intelligently in the process of creativity will give them
happiness and teach them how to do it better, and sometimes, as you know with
creativity, if it’s a dud, do something different with it and maybe you will
have created something altogether genius.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Necessity is the mother of invention.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Not all children are so gifted.
They may have creativity but their creativity may be in mechanics; it may be in
farming; it may be in rudimentary work like sewing, but even these humble acts
are artistic in that they augment and enhance life. What they do, matters.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And oh how little creative types love to
be acknowledged for what they have discovered or demonstrated or performed or
given, which is their act of service.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>I am winding down my words for
you this afternoon. I have certainly enjoyed myself. Thank you for inviting me.
I hope I have not bored you and thank you, Merium, for sharing your platform
with me.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Elena:</B> Well, I enjoyed hearing from
both you of you. It’s just been great. Thank you, Merium and thank you Athena.
It’s just been wonderful.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">MERIUM:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Are there any other questions before we
sign off for the day?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is
Merium, your hostess.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Group:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">MERIUM:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It has been our pleasure. Thank you for
pursuing the path of our natural philosophy involving divinity and
mortality.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Such a fun sphere we
enjoy! Our best to all those with whom you work and play.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And we’ll see you another time.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Bye-bye!</P>
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