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DATE: February 17, 1996
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LOCATION: Pittsburgh, PA USA
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T/R: Gerdean
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TEXTUAL STUDY:
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The Urantia Book Paper 103:
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      The Reality of Religious Experience
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      Philosophic Co-Ordination
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      Science and Religion
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      Philosophy and Religion
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      The Essence of Religion
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TEACHER SESSION
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"The Conation Concept"
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===Topic: ''The Conation Concept''===
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===Group: [[Pittsburgh TeaM]]===
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==Facilitators==
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===Teacher: [[Tomas]]===
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===TR: [[Gerdean]]===
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==Session==
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===Opening===
 
TOMAS: Good afternoon. Group: Good afternoon, Tomas.
 
TOMAS: Good afternoon. Group: Good afternoon, Tomas.
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Peace prevails and in this stillness you avail yourself of those energies that are engaged in lifting you up in your capacities to begin to perceive the more dynamic and organized structures of the administration of your local universe and beyond. It is truly an organized organism you are facing and embarking upon and in order for you individually and as a unit, a group, to partake of those facets of universe management which you profess to ordain for yourselves, it is necessary that you become sensitive to the harmonics of interdependence.
 
Peace prevails and in this stillness you avail yourself of those energies that are engaged in lifting you up in your capacities to begin to perceive the more dynamic and organized structures of the administration of your local universe and beyond. It is truly an organized organism you are facing and embarking upon and in order for you individually and as a unit, a group, to partake of those facets of universe management which you profess to ordain for yourselves, it is necessary that you become sensitive to the harmonics of interdependence.
 
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===Exercise===
 
I am going to break from my lecture format today to include you in my program. I am going to pause and release even the T/R while you go get a dictionary and look up a new word. This word, along with an old word, will be our topic today. Those words are "strive" and "conation" (c-o-n-a-t-i-o-n) . We are now in recess.
 
I am going to break from my lecture format today to include you in my program. I am going to pause and release even the T/R while you go get a dictionary and look up a new word. This word, along with an old word, will be our topic today. Those words are "strive" and "conation" (c-o-n-a-t-i-o-n) . We are now in recess.
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Mrs. P: With feeling. Mrs. Ml: So, we're ready to go back now? Mrs. H: We're ready. Mrs. M: Thank you.
 
Mrs. P: With feeling. Mrs. Ml: So, we're ready to go back now? Mrs. H: We're ready. Mrs. M: Thank you.
 
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===Lesson===
 
TOMAS: On the record, once again. I appreciate your taking that time to investigate the definitions of strive and conate as there is a subtle difference, which I will address in my lesson this afternoon. The first half of my coin will be about striving and I wish to first eliminate the aspect of striving which has to do with competing or doing battle, as in "do not strive with men," but will focus instead on striving which means for you to attain in your world, in your arena, that which you would accomplish and even into your spiritual realms in terms of striving to be perfect, to be happy, to be of service, to have God-consciousness, and so forth.
 
TOMAS: On the record, once again. I appreciate your taking that time to investigate the definitions of strive and conate as there is a subtle difference, which I will address in my lesson this afternoon. The first half of my coin will be about striving and I wish to first eliminate the aspect of striving which has to do with competing or doing battle, as in "do not strive with men," but will focus instead on striving which means for you to attain in your world, in your arena, that which you would accomplish and even into your spiritual realms in terms of striving to be perfect, to be happy, to be of service, to have God-consciousness, and so forth.
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I am now receptive to your questions or your responses or your discourse.
 
I am now receptive to your questions or your responses or your discourse.
 
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===Dialogue===
 
Mrs. M: Tomas, are you saying that if we were to work together, this unfocused energy that the masses will create down there, if we were to focus together as a group being down there, that we could help build the spiritual forms which the angelic realms or the spiritual realms could work with this energy and focus it to a good conclusion? If we strive in conation together as one group at that event?
 
Mrs. M: Tomas, are you saying that if we were to work together, this unfocused energy that the masses will create down there, if we were to focus together as a group being down there, that we could help build the spiritual forms which the angelic realms or the spiritual realms could work with this energy and focus it to a good conclusion? If we strive in conation together as one group at that event?
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Love, obviously, is the answer, the bottom line, but even there, you understand, there are many interpretations of love, and so we must learn to get along that we might work together. The work is what is important.
 
Love, obviously, is the answer, the bottom line, but even there, you understand, there are many interpretations of love, and so we must learn to get along that we might work together. The work is what is important.
 
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===Closing===
 
My friends, I am going to take my leave for this afternoon. I realize I came in with a different toolbox than I normally do, but I understand that when children are unoccupied for any ungainly length of time they run into mischief and this is an opportune time for us to apply ourselves to the work at hand, not so much on the inside job, although that continues continually, but on the social and more public aspects of your individual faith and your collective body of faithers.
 
My friends, I am going to take my leave for this afternoon. I realize I came in with a different toolbox than I normally do, but I understand that when children are unoccupied for any ungainly length of time they run into mischief and this is an opportune time for us to apply ourselves to the work at hand, not so much on the inside job, although that continues continually, but on the social and more public aspects of your individual faith and your collective body of faithers.
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Mrs. Ml: Farewell.
 
Mrs. Ml: Farewell.
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