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===Topic: ''Community As Social Organism''===

===Topic: ''Community As Social Organism''===

==Session==

==Session==

===Opening===

===Opening===

Daniel: Let’s visualize our lines of energy meeting in the middle with the merkaba.

Daniel: Let’s [[visualize]] our lines of [[energy]] meeting in the middle with the [[merkaba]].

 

Rayson: Good evening, this is Rayson. Continue with your silence, please. We wish you to be at ease and at peace. In the roiling of energies within yourself, we wish you to settle these, see yourself sticking your hand into fresh soil and grounding yourself. Be at peace. During this time, you are welcome to direct energy of the merkaba and your energy towards the healing of those requests that we received today. Know that this energy is being received by those individuals. This energy does not have any distinctions, does not know, does not have a consciousness. It is completely manipulable by you. (Long pause.) Declare your intentions for yourself for being here. This is not for anybody else’s information, but just for yours, so it is a very personal declaration of intention. Now as we prepare to begin, we wish you to invoke the authority that you wish to activate this energy for this session, whether it is your own or Michael’s, or some other being.

===Lesson===

===Lesson===

Today, I would like to take you one step further into the TR process, and this is where you hear what is said and just let it lay. If you have some feelings of contention or disagreement with it or another opinion, set that aside. Let this enter as a breeze into your ears and to flow out the top of your head. Yes, you are right, when this occurs you are very vulnerable to indoctrination, as the mind is not challenging the material. But you will find that after the session you will be most able to do this easily, and that when you do read the transcript you will be able to argue with the material or to disagree or find other options. But in the TR process, this that comes through, through this individual does so without challenge on his part. And this is how one is able to set aside their ego, to set upon a stool to the side of this conscious process, and to see it flow through you. You in this position on this stool see this information flowing past you, through the passive individual of yourself, and speaking it out your mouth.

Today, I would like to take you one [[step]] further into the [[TR]] process, and this is where you hear what is said and just let it lay. If you have some [[feelings]] of contention or disagreement with it or another [[opinion]], set that aside. Let this enter as a breeze into your ears and to flow out the top of your head. Yes, you are right, when this occurs you are very [[vulnerable]] to [[indoctrination]], as the mind is not challenging the material. But you will find that after the session you will be most able to do this easily, and that when you do read the transcript you will be able to argue with the material or to disagree or find other options. But in the [[TR]] [[process]], this that comes through, through this individual does so without [[challenge]] on his part. And this is how one is able to set aside their [[ego]], to set upon a stool to the side of this conscious process, and to see it [[flow]] through you. You in this position on this stool see this information flowing past you, through the passive individual of yourself, and speaking it out your mouth.

Today, let us continue with our discussion of community. You will find that communities we have discussed are social organisms. They are brought together by designs, by intentions, and the underpinnings of them are more social, with goals and intentions in mind. Yet, there are far more challenges for you than these intellectual and spiritual pursuits, there will also be the challenges of coming to like-mindedness, to agreement with others in actually carrying out the designs and intentions for building an intentional community. Where agreement is not possible, then find compromise or workable options.

Today, let us continue with our discussion of [[community]]. You will find that communities we have discussed are social [[organisms]]. They are brought together by [[designs]], by [[intentions]], and the underpinnings of them are more social, with goals and intentions in mind. Yet, there are far more [[challenges]] for you than these [[intellectual]] and [[spiritual]] pursuits, there will also be the challenges of coming to like-mindedness, to agreement with others in actually carrying out the designs and intentions for building an intentional community. Where agreement is not possible, then find [[compromise]] or workable options.

We have discussed the issues of a physical community before when we said that community is not just buildings, but people; and not just individuals, but families and communities and larger groupings. You have been through the conference and you have had the experience recently of the TR announcing that he was going to take a sabbatical from September 1st through January 1st. Some of you have supported this and others have had different opinions about it one way or another, and so this is a microcosm that you will find will exist in all realms of human interaction, whether it is simply finding another location where you would build a community, or how you would get an existing grouping of families together to do this. It means meeting with other humans.

We have discussed the issues of a physical [[community]] before when we said that community is not just buildings, but people; and not just individuals, but [[families]] and communities and larger groupings. You have been through the conference and you have had the experience recently of the TR announcing that he was going to take a [[sabbatical]] from September 1st through January 1st. Some of you have supported this and others have had different [[opinions]] about it one way or another, and so this is a microcosm that you will find will exist in all realms of human interaction, whether it is simply finding another location where you would build a community, or how you would get an existing grouping of families together to do this. It means meeting with other humans.

The way out through this, we see from our perspective, is that you would envision and use one or more TR's who would bring through community-based Celestial Teachers who would assist you in this process of working through the tedious issues of compromise, negotiation and agreement on the issues involved in building a community. Even though most of you do not come from an adversarial background, your society is highly adversarial and competitive. Competitiveness seems to be endemic so that there would be argument and compromise and negotiation and "sides," whether it be one, two, three or many more sides to a discussion, leading to some form "of winning" by one side, with losers on the other. In a co-creative working team building a community, winning is "winning for the ALL" —the potential of devising a community that will last past the moment, into the future decades and centuries.

The way out through this, we see from our [[perspective]], is that you would envision and use one or more TR's who would bring through community-based Celestial Teachers who would assist you in this process of working through the tedious issues of compromise, negotiation and agreement on the issues involved in building a community. Even though most of you do not come from an adversarial background, your society is highly adversarial and competitive. Competitiveness seems to be endemic so that there would be argument and compromise and negotiation and "sides," whether it be one, two, three or many more sides to a discussion, leading to some form "of winning" by one side, with losers on the other. In a co-creative working team building a community, winning is "winning for the ALL" —the potential of devising a community that will last past the moment, into the future decades and centuries.

Think, too, of allowing for those transforming experiences and transitions that will come about in any group that provide a new paradigm, a new interpretation of your community in action for the individual, for the family, and for itself. Those transitions come about when new needs are not being met by old methods. Then you must sit down at the table with other people and discuss how to do this. It is meeting with other minds —other individuals who perhaps have slightly different takes on the agenda, or have an agenda that they have not shared with you of what they think should occur. These are truly mortal issues that you will deal with in building communities. We are not talking about a committee approach towards building community, but more of a co-creative working team. These concepts were shared with others approximately six or seven years ago, and they are still as pertinent and relevant and viable as they were then. In fact, perhaps more so because of the expansion of the Teaching Mission and the willingness to accept wisdom from outside sources other than mortal thinking.

Think, too, of allowing for those transforming experiences and transitions that will come about in any group that provide a new paradigm, a new interpretation of your community in action for the individual, for the family, and for itself. Those transitions come about when new needs are not being met by old methods. Then you must sit down at the table with other people and discuss how to do this. It is meeting with other minds —other individuals who perhaps have slightly different takes on the agenda, or have an agenda that they have not shared with you of what they think should occur. These are truly mortal issues that you will deal with in building communities. We are not talking about a committee approach towards building community, but more of a co-creative working team. These concepts were shared with others approximately six or seven years ago, and they are still as pertinent and relevant and viable as they were then. In fact, perhaps more so because of the expansion of the Teaching Mission and the willingness to accept wisdom from outside sources other than mortal thinking.