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===Group: [[Rio Rancho TeaM]]===

===Group: [[Rio Rancho TeaM]]===

==Facilitators==

==Facilitators==

===Teacher: [[Bob]]===

===Teacher: [[What About Bob]]===

 

===TR: [[Gerdean]]===

===TR: [[Gerdean]]===

==Session==

==Session==

And knowing that, we observe how many people do make resolutions and how many of them are so short-lived.  It is more often an [[exercise]] in frustration and self-defeatism than it is a self-stimuli package.  But that said, it is always intriguing to test your own capacities, your own [[disciplines]], your own [[endurance]] levels.  It’s always good to challenge yourself, particularly when you have an [[idea]] of what your capacities are and you pretty well [[function]] within those capacities effectively.  It would seem “If it ain’t broke, don’t try to fix it.”  But sometimes, making that extra effort, going that extra mile – just one more push up – will set a new record toward your sense of accomplishment.

And knowing that, we observe how many people do make resolutions and how many of them are so short-lived.  It is more often an [[exercise]] in frustration and self-defeatism than it is a self-stimuli package.  But that said, it is always intriguing to test your own capacities, your own [[disciplines]], your own [[endurance]] levels.  It’s always good to challenge yourself, particularly when you have an [[idea]] of what your capacities are and you pretty well [[function]] within those capacities effectively.  It would seem “If it ain’t broke, don’t try to fix it.”  But sometimes, making that extra effort, going that extra mile – just one more push up – will set a new record toward your sense of accomplishment.

   

   

Much of the work of the [[spirit]] is being your cheerleader and coach.  Inasmuch as [[love]] is the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_100#100:4._PROBLEMS_OF_GROWTH benign virus], it is constantly seeking to infuse you with positivity. Even about yourself.  And so when you are vulnerable to [[feeling]] less than optimistic about “[[things]],” the mere reach for higher [[values]], expanded [[consciousness]], [[divine]] [[intelligence]] will help lift you up and over the edge into a plateau of operation that is better than the alternative, which would be that couch potato you referenced.  It’s similar to adding a [[dimension]] to [[reality]] that creates [[morontia]] reality over and above mere [[metaphysics]].

Much of the work of the [[spirit]] is being your cheerleader and coach.  Inasmuch as [[love]] is the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_100#100:4._PROBLEMS_OF_GROWTH benign virus], it is constantly seeking to infuse you with positivity. Even about yourself.  And so when you are vulnerable to [[feeling]] less than optimistic about “[[things]],” the mere reach for higher [[values]], expanded [[consciousness]], [[divine]] [[intelligence]] will help lift you up and over the edge into a plateau of operation that is better than the alternative, which would be that couch potato you referenced.  It’s similar to adding a [[dimension]] to [[reality]] that creates [[morontia]] reality over and above mere [[metaphysics]].

===Lesson===

===Lesson===

===='''''[[Isolation]]'''''====

===='''''[[Isolation]]'''''====

I wanted to speak to you a bit today about the tendency of [[mortals]] to languish in [[isolation]], which is a tendency that can be cultivated as a response to the limitations that beset you in a [[cultural]] [[paradigm]].  The more [[populated]] the world becomes, it would seem, the less opportunity you have to feel that pinch of isolation that would lead to languishing, but in [[truth]], a crowd is a very lonely place to be.  It is like the [[maelstrom]], the exterior of the hurricane in which you find yourself in the peaceful eye.  You really don’t want to hang around in that energetic [[chaos]], [[progressive]] but destructive, any longer than is avoidable, but the alternative is the isolation of self-imposed [[exile]] from others whose [[existence]] is another [[whirling dervish]].  This is the [[manner]] of electro-[[chemical]] [[beings]].  They are able to bounce off the walls and off of each other much like bumper cars until such [[time]] as they have [[Cosmos|order]] and a good orderly direction, which often requires rules, guidelines and [[disciplines]] which most folk are not willing to undertake even to accomplish the [[peace]] which passes all [[understanding]].

I wanted to speak to you a bit today about the tendency of [[mortals]] to languish in [[isolation]], which is a tendency that can be cultivated as a response to the limitations that beset you in a [[cultural]] [[paradigm]].  The more [[populated]] the world becomes, it would seem, the less opportunity you have to feel that pinch of isolation that would lead to languishing, but in [[truth]], a crowd is a very lonely place to be.  It is like the [[maelstrom]], the exterior of the hurricane in which you find yourself in the peaceful eye.  You really don’t want to hang around in that energetic [[chaos]], [[progressive]] but destructive, any longer than is avoidable, but the alternative is the isolation of self-imposed [[exile]] from others whose [[existence]] is another [[whirling dervish]].  This is the [[manner]] of electro-[[chemical]] [[beings]].  They are able to bounce off the walls and off of each other much like bumper cars until such [[time]] as they have [[Cosmos|order]] and a good orderly direction, which often requires rules, guidelines and [[disciplines]] which most folk are not willing to undertake even to accomplish the [[peace]] which passes all [[understanding]].

   

   

Let’s take this a bit further and socialize it.  If you can follow my illustration here, think of each of you as that electrochemical whirling dervish, grounded by the [[immediate]] and [[eternal]] [[Stillness|point]] of [[reference]] that is unchanging.  You have then the [[challenge]] of recognizing and identifying with, even working with that unchanging [[personality]] reality of another [[entity]] all the while by-passing and stepping over the constant effects of the electrochemical [[environment]] that lays between you like a moat.  The [[atmosphere]] must be by-passed. And yet each of you spill so much into your atmosphere, it is coming at you and going out from you almost incessantly, simply by the [[nature]] of your [[physical]] and [[chemical]] composition.  You may seek to [[function]] completely from [[Thought Adjuster|the center within]][http://press.daynal.org/catalog/center_within.html], but no matter how earnest and sincere your efforts are to be perfect and to [[reflect]] [[perfection]], you cannot control what happens to the [[energy]] you call your own when it escapes from your [[sanctuary]] and explodes into the external [[environment]], which lays between you and your [[peers]].  And still one languishes in [[isolation]].  So how does one overcome that middle ground / turf?

Let’s take this a bit further and socialize it.  If you can follow my illustration here, think of each of you as that electrochemical whirling dervish, grounded by the [[immediate]] and [[eternal]] [[Stillness|point]] of [[reference]] that is unchanging.  You have then the [[challenge]] of recognizing and identifying with, even working with that unchanging [[personality]] reality of another [[entity]] all the while by-passing and stepping over the constant effects of the electrochemical [[environment]] that lays between you like a moat.  The [[atmosphere]] must be by-passed. And yet each of you spill so much into your atmosphere, it is coming at you and going out from you almost incessantly, simply by the [[nature]] of your [[physical]] and [[chemical]] composition.  You may seek to [[function]] completely from [[Thought Adjuster|the center within]][https://press.daynal.org/catalog/center_within.html], but no matter how earnest and sincere your efforts are to be perfect and to [[reflect]] [[perfection]], you cannot control what happens to the [[energy]] you call your own when it escapes from your [[sanctuary]] and explodes into the external [[environment]], which lays between you and your [[peers]].  And still one languishes in [[isolation]].  So how does one overcome that middle ground / turf?

   

   

You are admonished to learn to [[perceive]] the presence of God in one another and in yourself.  Many people [[think]] that this is a [[state]] of [[sublime]] [[peace]] and it is, but it is much more.  It is [[Everything|all things]]; it is all [[encompassing]]; it even encompasses the [[chaos]] that is your environment.  It is [[expectations]] about what [[God]] is or how people should project that [[energy]] that causes such social unrest.  This is also why people will put up with the chaos and imperfection that is part of the [[human condition]], even to the extent of putting up with [[abuse]] – so as not to feel the pinch of [[isolation]]. Yes, it is possible to live within your sanctuary with God as your constant companion, but it does not render you useful to the world outside if you cannot relate to the world outside and identify with it, even in its chaos.

You are admonished to learn to [[perceive]] the presence of God in one another and in yourself.  Many people [[think]] that this is a [[state]] of [[sublime]] [[peace]] and it is, but it is much more.  It is [[Everything|all things]]; it is all [[encompassing]]; it even encompasses the [[chaos]] that is your environment.  It is [[expectations]] about what [[God]] is or how people should project that [[energy]] that causes such social unrest.  This is also why people will put up with the chaos and imperfection that is part of the [[human condition]], even to the extent of putting up with [[abuse]] – so as not to feel the pinch of [[isolation]]. Yes, it is possible to live within your sanctuary with God as your constant companion, but it does not render you useful to the world outside if you cannot relate to the world outside and identify with it, even in its chaos.

===='''''[[Balance]]'''''====

===='''''[[Balance]]'''''====

WHAT ABOUT BOB:  When you live on that [[transcendental]] plane, yes.  When you live in the [[finite]] world, however, you are subject to the vagaries of the finite [[existence]], and it is not always so [[evident]].  Nor can one simply forego one’s own will to the point of perpetual non-existence.  One must have a will to make [[choices]]!  So a good [[balance]] is a good [[perspective]] -- one which offers the [[polarity]] inherent in contrasts, such as [[male]] and [[female]], providing perspectives on an issue; or the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_114#114:6._THE_MASTER_SERAPHIM_OF_PLANETARY_SUPERVISION angels of the churches and the angels of progress] having differing perspectives; but overall [[growing]] while maintaining the stabilization necessary to allow the growing to be constructive rather than destructive.  Rather like the positive and negative [[play]] together to provide the [[balance]] necessary for my companion and I to interact and interchange our [[gifts]] and [[tools]] to the situation we apply ourselves to in [[service]].  Left foot, right foot; left foot, right foot; [[Thought Adjuster|adjuster]], [[Guardian Angels|guardian]]; adjuster, guardian; [[breathe]] out, breathe in, breathe out, breathe in.  [[Balance]].  

WHAT ABOUT BOB:  When you live on that [[transcendental]] plane, yes.  When you live in the [[finite]] world, however, you are subject to the vagaries of the finite [[existence]], and it is not always so [[evident]].  Nor can one simply forego one’s own will to the point of perpetual non-existence.  One must have a will to make [[choices]]!  So a good [[balance]] is a good [[perspective]] -- one which offers the [[polarity]] inherent in contrasts, such as [[male]] and [[female]], providing perspectives on an issue; or the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_114#114:6._THE_MASTER_SERAPHIM_OF_PLANETARY_SUPERVISION angels of the churches and the angels of progress] having differing perspectives; but overall [[growing]] while maintaining the stabilization necessary to allow the growing to be constructive rather than destructive.  Rather like the positive and negative [[play]] together to provide the [[balance]] necessary for my companion and I to interact and interchange our [[gifts]] and [[tools]] to the situation we apply ourselves to in [[service]].  Left foot, right foot; left foot, right foot; [[Thought Adjuster|adjuster]], [[Guardian Angels|guardian]]; adjuster, guardian; [[breathe]] out, breathe in, breathe out, breathe in.  [[Balance]].  

   

   

Student #3:  [[Patience]], [[Obedience]].  My [[guardian angels]].  

Student #3:  [[Patience]], [[Obedience]].  My [[guardian angels]].  

WHAT ABOUT BOB:  Indeed, you seem to make a [[practice]] of shaking your own faith just to have something to do.  This brings me back to what we talked of earlier about how much [[work]] we do with you in your [[mind]] is to help you rally against the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune and even when it’s not that outrageous, you seem to think it is.  This is a result of your unfortunate heritage, one which will take some time to overcome but we are determined to do that, and when I say we are in the [[process]] of overcoming this, please know it is not simply for the [[Correcting Time]] of [[Urantia]], it is a part of your rehabilitation so that you are prepared to advance in the cosmic realities of right living On High.  

WHAT ABOUT BOB:  Indeed, you seem to make a [[practice]] of shaking your own faith just to have something to do.  This brings me back to what we talked of earlier about how much [[work]] we do with you in your [[mind]] is to help you rally against the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune and even when it’s not that outrageous, you seem to think it is.  This is a result of your unfortunate heritage, one which will take some time to overcome but we are determined to do that, and when I say we are in the [[process]] of overcoming this, please know it is not simply for the [[Correcting Time]] of [[Urantia]], it is a part of your rehabilitation so that you are prepared to advance in the cosmic realities of right living On High.  

   

   

In shedding the mental malfunctioning of yesterday’s mental paradigm -- you could call it [[brainwashing]], [[cosmic]] brainwashing of a higher kind, rinsing away the smoke and dust of a former age to allow the [[mind]] to live in the clear stream of [[consciousness]] that is without [[fear]], the one which is advertised in [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents#Part_IV._The_Life_and_Teachings_of_Jesus Michael’s message] and throughout the [[Urantia text]], trickling into the consciousness of all God’s children who opt to hold high the mission, who are the light workers, the troops, the soldiers, the warriors, the workers, the band, the merry band of spiritual activists who are helping keep the good cheer afloat as you on this [[sphere]] undergo the trying and testing times of [[physical]], [[financial]], [[political]], [[ecological]], [[philosophical]], [[economic]] paradigms so topsy-turvy today.

In shedding the mental malfunctioning of yesterday’s mental paradigm -- you could call it [[brainwashing]], [[cosmic]] brainwashing of a higher kind, rinsing away the smoke and dust of a former age to allow the [[mind]] to live in the clear stream of [[consciousness]] that is without [[fear]], the one which is advertised in [[Paper 170 - The Kingdom of Heaven|Michael’s message]] and throughout the [[Urantia text]], trickling into the consciousness of all God’s children who opt to hold high the mission, who are the light workers, the troops, the soldiers, the warriors, the workers, the band, the merry band of spiritual activists who are helping keep the good cheer afloat as you on this [[sphere]] undergo the trying and testing times of [[physical]], [[financial]], [[political]], [[ecological]], [[philosophical]], [[economic]] paradigms so topsy-turvy today.

===Closing===

===Closing===

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