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<H1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="COLOR: teal"><FONT size=5>New Era
Conversations #11 – Working Co-Creatively with Spirit – Nov. 15,
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Teacher:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Charles</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Topics:</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: teal">Thanksgiving Day greeting<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: teal">The difficulty of acting on beliefs<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: teal">Asking for help on writing tasks<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: teal">Susan’s updates on her co-creative
endeavors<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: teal">How to recover from being totally
depleted<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: teal">The modern trend toward specialization of
skills<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: teal">Inspiring trust in leaders<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: teal">Teaching facilitation skills<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: teal">Asking for clarification on a personal
assignment<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: teal">A
reader’s question on zero-point energy<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: teal">Reader’s comments on using the Rothschilds as an
example<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: teal">What is different about the New Era?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: teal">Closing statements on mortal responsibilities</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>TR:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Daniel Raphael</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Moderator:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Michael McCray</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H2 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3>November 15, 2013</FONT></H2>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Prayer:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><I>Holy Father, Michael, Nebadonia,
Monjoronson, Machiventa, and all those others who are standing close to us
now.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We come to you for another
session of learning and we thank you for the truth that you will teach us
today.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Amen.<o:p></o:p></I></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>CHARLES:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Good morning!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is Charles; it is good to be with
you once again and thank you for your greeting.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008080 size=3>Thanksgiving Day
greeting</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>We have already passed the day
when Canada has celebrated its Thanksgiving Day, and we are soon to approach the
Thanksgiving Day of this country and there is much to be grateful for.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The position, the mindset of gratitude
is immensely beneficial to the receptivity of God’s word from your Thought
Adjuster, your Guardian and other celestial beings.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Though your world is experiencing some
of the most devastating cataclysms that weather can provide, there is much to be
thankful for, for being safe, having enough to eat, having the lights on and
[being] able to communicate regularly.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>There is a great forgetfulness from those who have had so much, so many
services taken for granted for so long, and it will not always be that way.<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 you may know, or have
thought about it, that these two continents, North and South America, are
continents of destiny.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They are not
specially favored, but they provide a wonderful venue for new thought, for new
ideas, new concepts and new revitalized societies, compared to the older staid
and traditional nations.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Though
your political systems seem to be in disarray, it will be much different in the
future.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Though this nation and
these two continents may become wracked with cataclysms eventually, they will,
in comparison to other continents and large land mass areas, be more
beneficially able to create new societies and new paradigms of social
living.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The energy that is invested
and enhanced is innate in these two continents is one of newness—being new, of
rejuvenation, of springing forth into new concepts.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>It is from these two continents
that the healing paradigms of social, political and economic concepts will be
generated and provided to the rest of the world.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you were a businessperson and you had
several warehouses with stocks and goods in them, you would protect the one that
would provide you the most return after a serious storm, would you not?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Of course you would, and so, these two
continents have the greatest potential for assisting the rest of the world to
recover.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These two continents will
not be spared from those cataclysms, but you have the resilience and capability
and immense resources to reconstruct and recreate your societies more rapidly
than others.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is something
about the North American continent which allows itself to recreate itself more
rapidly, even though it has a tremendous landmass.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>North America has states [and
provinces], where South America has countries, and so the sovereign lines
between the countries make it more difficult for them to recover.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These resistances to oneness will
eventually be resolved, while still retaining the uniqueness of each state, in
each nation’s identity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Business
practices have already shown that to be true.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Thank you for allowing me to
provide this introduction to today’s session.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Do you have questions that you would
like to ask at this time?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008080 size=3>The difficulty of
acting on beliefs</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you, Charles.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My awareness of reality is so poor, you
tell me things and I believe them, but I find it difficult to act on that belief
on a consistent basis.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have
told us that you wish to be intimately involved in the day-to-day co-creative
work that we do together.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Would you
like to expand on what you have told us about this previously?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>CHARLES:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Only in the regard that it is still very
early in this development, and that it will not be clear to you until months
from now.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008080 size=3>Asking for help on
writing tasks</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You’ve asked me to write a paper on
asking questions for design teams.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I’ve done some research for that paper and I am currently going over my
notes and the pieces I’ve written, getting ready to put it all together.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Who should I call upon to help me with
the actual writing of the paper?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>CHARLES:</B> <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The “who” is not important, it is simply
that you ask.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The resources will be
provided and have been already; it is for you to accept this and begin writing,
knowing that you have assistance.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Sit before your keyboard and your monitor and begin to write and put it
together.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You do not have to be so
structured in your approach to these different segments, but let your mind
embrace these and let your spiritual assistant help your mind to have the words
flow onto your screen.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Do not worry
about it being consistent or that all pieces fit together complementarily in the
beginning, but that you have ideas and concepts that are developed thoroughly
and capably, and then later on, you and your assistant can put it together in a
flowing piece of work.</P>
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class=MsoFooter> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><U><SPAN
style="COLOR: teal">Susan’s updates on her co-creative
endeavors<o:p></o:p></SPAN></U></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>Susan:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Michael, I have a question, if I may,
but I need to share something first.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I need to give thanks and share my joy with you, Charles, and our
readers.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>I’ve been witness to the
co-creative experience.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’ve been
witness to spirit movement not just in my life, but in my community and in the
lives of those within it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Two
things I want to share.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>First, our
design team:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We spoke last session
about the importance of the initial process of bonding, that it takes time and
intention. There was an incredible surge of energy and light in my team at our
last meeting.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A spark was ignited
during the meeting that felt like the life-force of the group that had initially
been provided by me, got ignited within each person that was there.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I saw it in their eyes; I experienced it
in their enthusiasm for the topics we worked through, and the flow of the
discussion, that so easily led to the values that underlie our work
together.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And for the first time, I
watched them initiate as a group, without me pushing an agenda.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It was something that was really simple,
but it was unusual and worth noting.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I’m usually the one that works to find the time so we can all meet, and
that’s no easy task with busy people, yet that night when I suggested that we
not meet again until January, after the holidays, as “one” they all said,
“No.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They pulled out their
calendars and went to work finding a time we could meet again within the
month.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They said they didn’t want
to lose the momentum that had been generated that night.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I sat back and almost cried with
joy.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I just want to say thank
you.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I felt the presence of
spirit.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>CHARLES:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you so much for your statements of
joy and authenticity concerning your group, and yes, you are witnessing how this
connection can be among strangers who begin the process, consciously and
intentionally and who understand the steps to move forward into oneness.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>Susan:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I want to also share the community tree
that I told you about, and how much thanks I have to give there—that WE have to
give—it’s enormous and quite beautiful.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>That spirit was behind this event and walking us through it each step of
the way is an understatement.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I
almost think it was God’s project, not ours.<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>We, or I, asked for assistance—I
literally asked for assistance—I asked that spirit go before us and prepare the
way.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I asked that spirit assist in
bringing volunteers and funding together to make this happen.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And then I asked that people be gathered
to actually experience it, take part in it and be enlivened by it.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It worked!<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They came, you were all there, the
people that came together were touched by something so much larger than
themselves, and it continues to be so six days later.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>People are coming forward wanting to
keep the wave of this special feeling that they had alive; they want to keep it
alive.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They are coming up with
their own ideas and volunteering their own time and energy to additional similar
projects.<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>So, again, there was no question
here; I just wanted to share these amazing experiences with all of you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thanking you just doesn’t do it justice
to the welling of gratitude that I feel, and the deepening of the trust in this
mission that I’m experiencing.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008080 size=3>How to recover
from being totally depleted</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>But, I have a follow-up:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m depleted; I’m just totally
depleted!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Every bit of personal
energy I had was used up in these two projects, plus another that happened in
tandem with these.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I am at low
ebb.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The energy that I relied on to
push me through the physical and emotional tasks of pulling the projects
together, even though with spirit, used up a lot of me; but it’s an interesting
feeling because I am not riding high on our success, I don’t have the adrenalin
surges that I experienced in my youth with success.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There’s no “high,” there’s just
satisfaction and great fatigue.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m
tired and satisfied, and there’s this deep thankfulness inside like I’m smiling
all the time on the inside, but on the outside, I just want to hide, sleep and
do nothing. . . but I can’t.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Would
you talk to me about the personal issues of working with spirit and the cautions
and get some advice?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>CHARLES:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you for your report, and thank you
for your question.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are
experiencing what each new individual experiences to the intimate work of
letting the rush of spiritual energy flow through you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We have used the analogy before of a jet
engine that is so hot, that the velocity and temperature of the particles
rushing past the insides of the jet engine tend to erode those surfaces, which
need to be replaced after many hours of use.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You, too, are experiencing the rush and
thrill of morontial energy through your body system, which is not used to
this.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You relied upon the mortal,
material surfaces of your body to hold and direct this energy and it is a
caution to you to now go into repose and into reflection and to address the
needs of your body.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, extended
sleep is not only warranted or justified, but necessary.<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>In order to continue this work at
such an evolved state and energy flow, you must protect your body from this
tremendous new experience.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will
become used to this in time, but in the beginning it is extremely tiring and it
uses your body reserves, your mental reserves and physical reserves in a way
that they have not been used before.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It is like asking you to perform some sport that you have never done
before.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You must rest and sleep and
honor those needs of your body and your mind.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can ask your celestial assistant
friends to assist in this process.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It is important that you recognize what is going on and what is necessary
to remedy it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will find that if
you strive to push ahead in your normal personal and social activities and your
spiritual activities, that you will not be performing at your best and you will
have flagging results.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If you go
within and evaluate your mental condition, you will see that you have
experienced something in your mind performance that you have not had before, and
which must be protected.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is much
like using a new muscle that has never been used before that you must flex it
and protect it over time.<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>Now, concerning the difference of
the adrenaline rush of your youth, now you are feeling the satisfactions and joy
of the results of performance that is in alignment and agreement with God’s
Will.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are seeing your
co-creative partnership pay off, or provide results that you had not anticipated
in your youthful activities.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You
are passing from the era of youthful excitement and joy and adrenalin to one of
satisfaction, fulfillment and completion.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>These will result in great soul growth for yourself and in your ascendant
career in this time of your life.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>Susan:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That was most helpful, and what I heard
that I hadn’t thought of was to simply ask for celestial help in healing and in
being able to back off for a while.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Thank you.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>CHARLES:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are welcome.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: red"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"
class=MsoBodyTextIndent>[<B>Daniel:</B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Susan, what you are experiencing is very similar to what I experienced
after my traumatic closed-head brain injury.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Quite literally, you are being
rewired.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It just wears you out!</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><B>Susan:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s a different kind of fatigue.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><B>Daniel:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yeah, it’s a different kind of fatigue
than most people experience and the best remedy is lots of sleep.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><B>Susan:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you; I’m going to tell Tim
that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(Laughter.)</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><B>Daniel:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>When I came back from my trip to Lake
Almanor, and then up to Oregon and then up to British Columbia, I came back here
and I slept—I was getting anywhere from 8-14 hours of sleep a night to
recover.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s like a tank—you
eventually get filled up.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><B>Susan:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s good to know!</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><B>Daniel:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s kind of like you can put a little
mark on the wall, saying, “Yup, there it is:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m growing.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s real evidence of morontial growth,
wiring in your brain, because we are wired for morontial something or
other.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I don’t know what to call
it.] <SPAN style="COLOR: red"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: red"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008080 size=3>The modern trend
toward specialization of skills</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>Susan:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I have one other question.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My question is about the modern trend
toward specialization of skills and the need to pull those people, businesses
and industries together who have become very specialized.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><I>The Urantia Book</I> speaks to the
advantages and the eventual dangers of specialization.<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>I was reading this recently,
regarding my community.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s easy
to see the advantages of specialization and how it has advanced areas of our
civilization, science, technology, medicine—even business services—yet from the
perspective of my small community, I’ve also been able to see how specialization
eventually weakens culture and civilization if coordination and cooperation
isn’t developed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I think I’ve
likened it to the human body, which is so intricate and finely run by the organs
and tissues within it, with all these specialized functions—the heart pumps, the
liver functions, the lungs expand and contract—and yet they do it under a
unifying force.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Without each other
they wouldn’t work, they wouldn’t exist.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And without the unifying force, they wouldn’t exist.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So, I could play with this analogy and
take it further and speculate on the unifying force that needs to happen within
these specializations, and try to liken it to the brain and the mind, but then
the analogy breaks down for me, because I can’t apply it to my community and the
need to coordinate the areas of specialization.<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>I’m envisioning a group coming
together, representing these specializations within my community—government is
an example, education, health and wellness, industry, lodging and restaurants
and services—things like that, so they come together for the purpose of
communication and perhaps coordination of shared goals, but what I cannot
envision is this group functioning without a unifying force.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It’s a secular group; I can see the
unifying force initially needs to be a leader—or two or three—who serve as the
driving force, the life-force of the coordinating effort, but then later, maybe
they simply represent or are a reminder to the parts of the group of why they
are there, what their function is and what their purpose is.<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>My concern and my question comes
from relying on one person or a couple of people for this vital function within
the group.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My concern lies in the
pitfalls of relying on humans, in a secular world, to lead.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There’s inherent danger in the giving of
so much power to one or a few people.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I probably don’t need to elaborate, we’ve seen it across history, in our
governments, our political systems, our religious organizations, so my question
is:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In designing new approaches to
this important function of coordination of specializations, how do we plan for
and remove this flaw that has taken us down troubled paths in the past?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Is that clear?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>CHARLES:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, thank you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your analogy of the body and a community
are very good; what separates the body from the community is the selfhood, the
ego, and in some cases, the almost extreme individualism that is typical in your
society.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Specialization leads to
separation, leads to isolation, leads to elitism, and so these must be worked
against by understanding the commonality of the community.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In a secular community you can use the
sense of esprit, literally the spirit of the community.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This has no religious connotation to it
at all, does it?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Of course
not.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So, you must share with the
community that it is the esprit of oneness and wholeness.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is what makes the physical body
work, that all parts are integrated, all parts work together, all parts are
dependent and also independent of organs, but that all together they
survive.<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>What you want to do in your
community, in one of your projects is to bring about this wholeness, this
oneness, by setting a clear intention that people would want to participate in
fulfilling.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your community, as you
have said in the past, is economically in difficulty at this time because your
main industry has left, so there is a need to coalesce or bring together their
efforts and energies so that all of you can survive and thrive.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There must be an intention for this
project, and this sounds like a separate project from others, in that you have
an intention, and that you want to bring this together with an intention to
bring about the oneness.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is
important that everyone understand that you are all in this together.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let’s say you have too many doctors; all
the doctors would have too much spare time and too little income and not enough
patients to support their practices.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The same thing can be said for realtors, or for hardware stores, or
restaurants, or any other service, or any other business.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That there must be recognition in this
development of this project that you are interdependent and that you create a
wholeness and oneness that prospers when there is not too many of one business
or too few.<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>Those, of course, who take
exception to this will demonstrate their egos and the necessity within
themselves for dominance and control of taking the increased market share, for
example, that they would advertise their restaurant more than other restaurants,
for instance, and so on.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is a
process that goes on in every economic community that sorts those things out
automatically, that if there are too many hardware stores, then the one with the
most debt load would, of course, go out of business first.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Those who remain will prosper, and so
there must be a recognition that in this project that you are a whole community,
that there is a wholeness there.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is quite atypical of most economic models that you see throughout
most western capitalist nations, so you would bring this new idea forward.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is not that one business would
automatically capitulate to another, but that there is a recognition of the
forces in the economy, even in the local economy that can be very visible very
quickly.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>I feel I may have gone astray
from your question.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Could you
assist me further if you have further questions?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008080 size=3>Inspiring trust in
leaders</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>Susan:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You haven’t gone astray at all; you went
into depth about the intentions that we need in coming together in this
group.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That was wonderful.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The additional part of the question is
my concern about leadership, especially in the beginning stages, because none of
us really trust leaders very much.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>I mean we do; in some cases there are certain leaders that are actually
inspiring.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I guess I need you to
talk about that.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>CHARLES:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I would be glad to.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To answer your question in the simplest
terms is that you must prepare every individual to be a leader, that somehow
when you come together with your agreed upon intention that you then have a
bonding process that recognizes this, where you talk about your businesses and
share and commiserate with each other with your difficulties and you share your
joys as well, and you then proceed to teach everyone how to become a
facilitator.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will not do well
with leadership models or roles, other than becoming an initiator or organizer.
</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN> </P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008080 size=3>Teaching
facilitation skills</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>What you are proposing is very,
very similar to the initiation of a design team.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Someone must be the initiator/organizer
and call people together concerning an agreed upon problem or situation, and
then choose roles for doing the work ahead.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>By doing this, by teaching facilitation,
this will be a tremendous assist to every business leader, every businessperson
there, as there will be situations immediately and far into the distance where
leadership may rankle others, but where facilitation is very agreeable.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>What is difficult with leadership is
that it is an old paradigm that is very workable when there is a very focused
need that is external to the community, so to speak, external to the leadership
community; everybody recognizes that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>For instance, you have too many rats in the community and that you need
to do something, and so you hire or buy animals that would be predators to these
rodents and take care of the problem.<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>But with a community, where many
people have tremendous capability and intelligence and social and cultural
prowess, you cannot lead them; you must teach them to facilitate.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so, when someone steps forward, or
several step forward and say that they would be glad to facilitate, then they
would also be transparent enough to state what their skills are.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There then would be, for instance, a
class on teaching facilitation, which is much different than leading, or having
a director, or a president.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Facilitators literally facilitate the resources that are available to
help the orchestration of those elements that are strong to assist those that
are weak, and to facilitate the weak to receive this in gratitude, rather than
in resentment.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so, it requires
a much greater authenticity on the part of everyone, a personal and social
transparency which may seem strange, but which is necessary for the survivorship
of the community.<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 will find that this whole
process of building one or several teams will lend itself to future solutions of
problems.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Social, business solution
problems will always arise and so it is wonderful to have people who are
prepared and trained ahead of time to jump into those roles.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The same can be said for the recorder
and the consultant, and for the inquiring members.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will find that if you teach these as
classes to your whole community, that there will be learned skills that everyone
can use, or is receptive to having others practice.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The very key to excellent facilitation
is [that] those with skills step forward; those who do not have the skills are
willing to receive the facilitative assistance of those who do, and so there is
a reciprocity that goes on within the team, and everyone becomes a leader;
everybody becomes a follower, and so it is like hand washing; it is like a good,
intimate coupled relationship that is complemental, rather than competitive.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>Susan:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Oh, wow! Thank you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is great; a new paradigm—that’s
what I was missing.<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>CHARLES:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I would like to add that you have
resources already.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You see the
need; you in some ways are a leader, and so you see a need that needs to be
addressed.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We feel quite surely
that if you cast around and inquire, you will find the resources available for
someone who is a facilitator, either at a community college or university, or a
professional who would be willing to come forward and assist you on a gratis
basis, simply to be able to advertise their presence in your community.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These are just simply suggestions for
you to contemplate.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>Susan:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I was going to ask you if you thought we
were ready for this, or if our community was ripe for this, and you were saying,
yes, that the resources are there and I’m assuming that the times are ripe?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>CHARLES:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, the times are right.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have, once you begin this esprit and
this feeling of oneness as your team felt in the last meeting, then you can
capitalize on that and to continue the groundswells, so to speak.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>Susan:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I see.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you, Charles.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>CHARLES:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are most welcome.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008080 size=3>Asking for
clarification on a personal assignment</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Charles, I have an additional
question.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I want to return to an
earlier line of questioning, about the project that I was asked to do—this plan
by you—and I can understand your wish to be involved throughout the course of
its production.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The significance of
this paper and its potential scope has grown in my mind, since you first
suggested it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And I’m not sure how
far my views have strayed from yours.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>What was, or is, your intention and vision for this paper?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>CHARLES:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The intention of the paper, or the
article, or book—whatever you want to call it—the “art of inquiry,” is to help
those who are curious to form more correctly stated questions, so that they are
more effective to generate more effective answers.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is a training device principally
for the design teams, but is also a cultural training tool for the masses of
your societies.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You have too many
sheep in your culture; those who are followers do not have the trained capacity
to ask meaningful questions when there is a necessity of doing so, even in the
terms of their own survival.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Asking
meaningful questions is important to assist the survival and existence and to
fulfill the three core values of social sustainability.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Does this help clarify for you?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, it does.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Have I done enough research to write a
good paper?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>CHARLES:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As you write out the different sections,
you will find that when you find associations between the sections that they
will all flow together in larger sections and that soon you will have parts and
sections of a book that relate together, and that soon you will have the whole
treatise complete.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You are making
decisions now as to this process; we do not want to interfere in this
co-creative process at this time.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>We do not want you to second-guess what to do by telling you what to
do.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will skew the whole process
away from co-creativity into a one-sided dialog from us, which would not be
helpful to your readers.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Go ahead
and experiment and to try things out with the risk that you may have to redo
them.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is simply the creative
writing process.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B> <o:p></o:p></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Do you have any more questions,
ladies?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008080 size=3>A reader’s
question on zero-point energy</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>Roxie:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, I have some.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Charles, a couple of our readers were
not happy with your answer about why we are “not ready to be given information
so that we can use zero-point energy.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Do you have any further comments about that?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>CHARLES:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>No, we do not.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is the decision of the Administrators
of this planet and those who understand the use of energy in its broadest forms
that this is a sufficient answer at this time.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008080 size=3>Reader’s comments
on using the Rothschilds as an example</FONT></U></H3>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>Roxie:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We also received considerable negative
comments from our readers over the use of the Rothschild’s example of
longevity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They felt that the
negatives far outweigh the positives.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Do you have any further comments on that?</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>CHARLES:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>No.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></P>
<H3 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><U><FONT color=#008080 size=3>What is different
about the New Era?</FONT></U></H3>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>Roxie:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>My last question:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We have been anticipating the beginning
of the New Era since the end of our summer hiatus.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How will the New Era be differentiated
from the past era that we’ve gone through?</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>CHARLES:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As we have said before, it will be more
“hands-on.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It will be much more
direct in relationship between an individual and us.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For instance, let us say that you have a
community leader or some citizen in the community who sees a need for something
in their community that would assist everyone, and that it would improve the
quality of life of everyone, and that it would help people and their community
to grow, and that it would be useful to everyone equally, regardless of their
social, or their economic, or political status.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And so, they would write this up as a
proposal—literally write up a proposal to spirit, and to ask spirit for the
opportunity to improve the proposal, to be acceptable, and then to open
opportunities to them that would provide the means to begin fulfilling that
proposal.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is as though the
individual is writing a grant proposal to God; you have seen this many times
before from people who write letters to God through their own automatic writing,
or similar process, but this is a diligent, conscientious process of intention
that is initiated by mortals to propose to spirit to make an improvement in the
social life of their community.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>This is a very graphic hands-on approach of faith.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>Many people believe in God, but
very few people have faith that God will provide what is necessary.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This New Era is that which will assist
individuals to grow in their working faith.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Just as the Quakers have had a motto,
“You must believe and have faith, but you must walk your faith with your feet,”
meaning that you use your faith in your everyday life in the development of
yourself, and in this regard, we are particularly interested in the evolution of
your societies, so that the projects and proposals we are particularly
interested in would be social proposals to bring about social
sustainability.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It could be as
small as assisting you to develop your own local team, and so you would ask for
assistance to do this, write out your proposal and then ask for opportunities to
come to you to share this with others who would be receptive.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This would be a very nominal, a very
marginal beginning, but one that is also very significant.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This process is a walking faith; this is
no longer the faith of sheer belief, but of working faith in your everyday
life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Very few people really, truly
live their lives as God participates in their life to direct the course of their
life.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>Roxie:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you, Charles.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s all the questions I have.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>Susan:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, thank you very much.</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>MMc:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Charles, do you have anything in
closing?</P>
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style="COLOR: teal"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></U></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: .5in" class=MsoFooter><U><SPAN
style="COLOR: teal">Closing statements on mortal responsibilities</SPAN></U></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B>CHARLES:</B><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>One moment.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The New Era represents a new paradigm of
<B>belief</B>, <B>faith</B>, <B>trust</B> and <B>knowing</B> in God.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It begins with something new coming
about.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Many people have prayer for
this and now it is here.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>How you
approach it is a responsibility that you have that we have given you.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We have given you an opportunity to take
responsibility for assisting your communities, your social genre in developing,
in evolving.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Only in this way will
your societies become healed and that you will eventually have social stability,
which is the foundation for peace among yourselves and with other nations and
your world.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is giving you more
responsibility in the management of your world.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is unique to Urantia; it has not
been used on other worlds to the degree and to the extent as it is being applied
here.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal>You have so much to
lose—literally “lose,” including your lives if you do not participate in
this—but so much to gain in your ascendant career when you do.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will experience soul growth of
tremendous depth; you will see a social growth that is necessary on your part to
engage your fellow brothers and sisters in this work.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You will evolve as an individual, you
will be able to express the personality that is so unique to you, and which your
Thought Adjuster is a wonderful companion to assist you to this eventual fusion
between you two.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You begin to
express that God part of your personality through these ascendant programs, how
much responsibility you take on, how you strive depends on your intention, and
remember that your worthy intentions are those the Ancient of Days will identify
in you and how well you choose and <I>will</I> to do the Father’s Will.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thank you.</P>
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