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Rayson; Community - As a Social Organism - Wisdom in Community - July 19, 2002 - NOCO 21

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

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

Group: Northern Colorado TeaM Group

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.

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.

      Community as a Social Organism

      Compromise, Negotiation and Agreement

  4.

      Winning for the All

      Fads and Personal Distractions

      Healing the Urantian Community

      Fundamental Issue of Revelation

      What Can You Do Today to Affect the Future?

      The Universe Is a Living Being

  16.

      Humane Treatment of Animals

      Beliefs, Intents and Goals

  19.

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.

Right now you are struggling to have communities and working families, and to become successful in your own right. Know that the contributions you make in these areas of individual growth and family development contribute mightily to the strength and structure of your new society. Think of families that do not have good internal structure. They are crystalline, and when there are tensions in their society, they will be the weak points that will crack and lend themselves to the fracturing of the larger society. You are seeing this occur in some of your nations that have been at war, where the outside is so corrosive that they cannot develop these things. And yes, it is occurring too in this nation, as you see the corrosive actions of things that are of fad and a personal distraction. There are many things to draw you away from the beliefs that maintain the solid form of a society, community, and a family.

Right now you are struggling to have communities and working families, and to become successful in your own right. Know that the contributions you make in these areas of individual growth and family development contribute mightily to the strength and structure of your new society. Think of families that do not have good internal structure. They are crystalline, and when there are tensions in their society, they will be the weak points that will crack and lend themselves to the fracturing of the larger society. You are seeing this occur in some of your nations that have been at war, where the outside is so corrosive that they cannot develop these things. And yes, it is occurring too in this nation, as you see the corrosive actions of things that are of fad and a personal distraction. There are many things to draw you away from the beliefs that maintain the solid form of a society, community, and a family.

 

Student: I have a question. (Please.) As you well know there are a number of fractures within the Urantian community, and I wondered if you would review for us or expound a bit on Jesus’ method of conflict resolution, helping to heal these kinds of divisions and antagonisms, resentments.

Student: I have a question. (Please.) As you well know there are a number of fractures within the Urantian community, and I wondered if you would review for us or expound a bit on Jesus’ method of conflict resolution, helping to heal these kinds of divisions and antagonisms, resentments.

"She couldn’t stand to be touched, so she designed a "padded squeeze machine" where she could give herself comforting "hugs" that she is unable to accept from people because they overload her senses. She knew she had to be in the public a lot, people would bump into her and it would just make her freeze up, and she needed to learn how to accept those boundaries and move among people. She started equating every bit she learned about her own needs to animals being handled by people, by being in feedlots and being crowded all the time and then being run down chutes. And she developed more humane chutes for them for inoculations, and then designed things so as they went to slaughter, they were well treated before and were taken to separate areas where it was very quick and painless, it was very humane, it didn’t create a panicked situation in the animal which tainted the meat. They just found remarkable results with her methods and she has been asked to come to every major continent and country in the world. She gives talks to cattlemen, horsemen, everybody in the animal industry concerning the animals’ environment and treatment."

"She couldn’t stand to be touched, so she designed a "padded squeeze machine" where she could give herself comforting "hugs" that she is unable to accept from people because they overload her senses. She knew she had to be in the public a lot, people would bump into her and it would just make her freeze up, and she needed to learn how to accept those boundaries and move among people. She started equating every bit she learned about her own needs to animals being handled by people, by being in feedlots and being crowded all the time and then being run down chutes. And she developed more humane chutes for them for inoculations, and then designed things so as they went to slaughter, they were well treated before and were taken to separate areas where it was very quick and painless, it was very humane, it didn’t create a panicked situation in the animal which tainted the meat. They just found remarkable results with her methods and she has been asked to come to every major continent and country in the world. She gives talks to cattlemen, horsemen, everybody in the animal industry concerning the animals’ environment and treatment."