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Group: Northern Colorado TeaM, Lesson #17

===Group: [[N. Colorado TeaM]]===

Daniel: Let’s hook up to the [[merkaba]] individually and as you do this, see yourself linking up through the merkaba with others here in the group. See the merkaba and the equatorial line that connects us all, the lines of [[latitude]] and [[longitude]], and the orb of [[energy]] that fills a large [[space]] outside of us, way above the house and way below it.

Teacher: Rayson (T/R Daniel)

Make your statements concerning your [[intention]]s for being here, for making that connection, your sincerity, your invocation of [[energy]], and your commitment. Also use this time to project healing energy to those who have healing energy needs for this, for their [[bodies]], for their [[minds]], for their [[emotions]]. [Student makes a request for a 9-year-old neighbor girl needing a heart transplant. Other students make requests also.] And for those people whose lives, it appears, are in disarray, send them energy for [[Divine]] Order and Sequence of Developments for their lives, and for them to be aware of this. It is not just a matter of sending them this, or projecting order and right sequence of events in their lives, but an "opening of [[consciousness]]" in their minds to see this and accept it. They don’t have to necessarily be "conscious" of it, but to be "accepting" of the order, the right order of developments in their lives. Of course it is much more powerful if it is conscious and they "will" to agree to that. (Pause) Bring your attention back to center, to the merkaba.

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Rayson: Good afternoon, this is Rayson. Welcome, my friends, and as you know, I am most eager to begin today’s lesson. We will continue our discussion about [[community]], it building upon the prior lessons and discussions about the inner [[healing]] of your lives. And I hope that you are still working your "sticky notes," bringing to [[consciousness]] those issues you wish to remove, that you command to remove, and those qualities and [[values]] and [[beliefs]] you wish to, command to, be instilled and operant in your mind so that your lives become [[expression]]s of these new beliefs, and that the old beliefs are gone.

Most of you in this group are past the childbearing age, yet some of you can still bear children and raise them in a new way. You may still be raising children, and this new influence will have a positive effect upon them. And we hope that you would bring to bear upon those children your new beliefs and to instruct those children who are old enough to discuss these—what works and what does not work, and why. And of course, what works are those processes in the family that contribute to the positive, constructive growth of the [[soul]], the [[individual]] [[personality]], the [[consciousness]] of the individual to live "in the moment" with their Thought Adjuster, making conscious decisions for the direction of their life.

      Self-sustaining, Intentional Communities

      Broader Definition of Community

  3.

      Roles of Parents and Grandparents

  4.

      Leadership and Selfless Dedication

      Era of Flux and Change

  10.

      Teaching of Morals, Ethics and Values

      Determination of Individual Inherent Capacity

      Ideals of Education

      Healing the Education System

  14.

May 19, 2002

For those of you who are past the childbearing age, your children have gone on and you may become grandparents. And what a marvelous position you are in as grandparents, or grandparents-to-be. For you will have a tremendous influence upon the growth of these new children, your grandchildren, who come into their [[family]], your family, for you can be a positive influence to the child, a loving positive influence to the child during those times when you are close to them. And in their immediate family, mother and father present, there are the ups and downs, the tugs and pulls, the disciplining, the loving, the caring and the direction, that is sometimes not easily taken by children. But [[love]] perseveres; and so parents, who give love in greater measure than [[discipline]] and direction, will always find their children present. But for the grandparent, what a wonderful occasion your lives have, and if you have no grandchildren then take on some! Whether they are your neighbors or some other children, you may offer to do daycare for mothers who work and who are not home for those hours after school. And you can be a positive, passive influence to these children, an example of right [[thinking]], right [[acting]], and right [[feeling]]. And then when they go home, do not discount that a couple of hours a day is of no consequence, for some of the most tremendous life changing events can occur in a very brief time.

Daniel: Let’s hook up to the merkaba individually and as you do this, see yourself linking up through the merkaba with others here in the group. See the merkaba and the equatorial line that connects us all, the lines of latitude and longitude, and the orb of energy that fills a large space outside of us, way above the house and way below it. Make your statements concerning your intentions for being here, for making that connection, your sincerity, your invocation of energy, and your commitment. Also use this time to project healing energy to those who have healing energy needs for this, for their bodies, for their minds, for their emotions. [Student makes a request for a 9-year-old neighbor girl needing a heart transplant. Other students make requests also.] And for those people whose lives, it appears, are in disarray, send them energy for Divine Order and Sequence of Developments for their lives, and for them to be aware of this. It is not just a matter of sending them this, or projecting order and right sequence of events in their lives, but an "opening of consciousness" in their minds to see this and accept it. They don’t have to necessarily be "conscious" of it, but to be "accepting" of the order, the right order of developments in their lives. Of course it is much more powerful if it is conscious and they "will" to agree to that. (Pause) Bring your attention back to center, to the merkaba.

And the [[wonderful]] water drop of [[love]] from grandparents is a smoothing agent to the rough side of children’s [[emotions]] and personalities as they come away from school and come away from homes that are fraught with difficulties and [[contention]] and [[competition]], much of which is neither wanted nor desired by them. So in a way, you have begun to build a [[community]]. You as grandparents, grandparents-to-be are the first elements of an extended family, which is the beginning of clan, which is a beginning of community. Community, of course, involves people who are not "family," but you behave towards them as though they were family, in an open, loving way. (Ironically, in this nation and in many countries, many cultures, family is often times a difficult and non-supportive place in which to be – a relationship to escape.)

Rayson: Good afternoon, this is Rayson. Welcome, my friends, and as you know, I am most eager to begin today’s lesson. We will continue our discussion about community, it building upon the prior lessons and discussions about the inner healing of your lives. And I hope that you are still working your "sticky notes," bringing to consciousness those issues you wish to remove, that you command to remove, and those qualities and values and beliefs you wish to, command to, be instilled and operant in your mind so that your lives become expressions of these new beliefs, and that the old beliefs are gone.

So in community, new [[things]] happen. You have new, broader associations. What we wish you to do is think upon the [[community]] as a larger family of unrelated [[individuals]], and behave accordingly, as though you were grandparents. Loving, caring, somewhat distant, but connected. Not aloof, ever, but connected. In community, this is where you build the [[process]]es of a larger [[society]]. If the community is positive, helpful and contributory to the growth of individuals and families, then you will have growth of more individuals and families that are positive, constructive and functional. (Of course there are always deviants, and we will discuss that in the future.) Always keep a positive influence in mind, thinking not in terms of "what I can get," or "what I can give without return," as though you must get your personal regard and love from others for doing things. No, that would be enmeshment on your part with a larger group of individuals to pay homage to you and appreciate you and accept you. Give with the assumption, the appreciation that you will be given back…sometime. As you have been taught many times in metaphysical churches and situations, you give sometimes without ever expecting return, for when you give to the universe, it returns to you. That’s how the universe works, it is continuous. It is "the [[flow]]," and some of you call this the Tao. And there definitely is a Tao of community and of society. And when cultures have this flow in them, always individuals giving, then there is always receiving. This is how a larger project in the community is achieved with the help of families and individuals — you volunteer. You may be a volunteer fireman; you may be a volunteer home economics agent, or family development and family operation agent in your community. We know this may sound foreign to you, but your society had these community action efforts during the [[Depression]] Era to assist individuals, and then was phased out for [[economic]] reasons by your [[governments]]. But these aids and supports should exist, must exist, to help pass on those skills that are inherent in operant, functional, contributory, constructive families and communities.

Community is the next step above family. Families are the points of issuance of new individuals, new beings, new souls; individuals who work together with their Thought Adjusters. Hopefully consciously, as the era of Correcting Time proceeds, more and more individuals will be working consciously with their Thought Adjuster. The family and the individual are rather a bit like the chicken and egg metaphor: Which comes first, do we heal the individual, or do we help heal the family, so that healed individuals come from the healed family and live in balance from the first days of their lives? We are very pragmatic in the Correcting Time and in this Teaching Mission effort, in that we address both. We have addressed you as individuals in prior sessions, in training and the experiences that we have had together.

As we look upon your society and culture, and your culture now pervades Europe as well as it is now invading technologically developed Japan, it is in some ways usurping their older, cultural [[traditions]]. There is less and less functionality towards community and self-sustaining operations within the community, those agents for indoctrinating or inculcating traditional beliefs that help communities survive, families prosper, and individuals to grow and progress, are missing. And as advancing nations grow, they go through an era where these are stripped away and there is tremendous competition for economic and financial reasons. Surely, these add to the [[quantity]] of life, but they are very detrimental to the [[quality]] of life. And as I see you and visit you in your families, here and throughout the states, I see you yearning for quality of life. You have quite a stretch to work on, you reach in one way for quantity of life and you reach tentatively in the other for quality of life. You have been sold "a bill of goods," literally, by your economic prosperity in this nation that having "[[things]]" gets you happiness. And if you can’t be happy, you become numb by watching your television sets. So these lessons are to assist you in developing quality of life in all regards, for the [[individual]], for the [[family]], and for your [[community]].

Most of you in this group are past the childbearing age, yet some of you can still bear children and raise them in a new way. You may still be raising children, and this new influence will have a positive effect upon them. And we hope that you would bring to bear upon those children your new beliefs and to instruct those children who are old enough to discuss these—what works and what does not work, and why. And of course, what works are those processes in the family that contribute to the positive, constructive growth of the soul, the individual personality, the consciousness of the individual to live "in the moment" with their Thought Adjuster, making conscious decisions for the direction of their life.

You recall that Machiventa spoke last time about sustaining communities. This is a subset of a larger community development, which is [[intention]]al communities, and we spoke about [[intentional communities]] through Mor-gan and Daniel years ago. Intentional communities are communities of individuals and families that have come together, who join in a community for intentional reasons. A self-sustaining community is only one of many types of intentional communities. But the broadest intentional community is a community that sustains life at all levels for the individual and family. Materiality is a minor element of that. You’ll find that economic and financial and material prosperity issue from happy individuals, productive families, and cooperative communities. Doing so, you’ll find there is less competition, no [[war]]fare, no expressions of hostility, with social processes that provide for adjustment of differences, peacefully.

For those of you who are past the childbearing age, your children have gone on and you may become grandparents. And what a marvelous position you are in as grandparents, or grandparents-to-be. For you will have a tremendous influence upon the growth of these new children, your grandchildren, who come into their family, your family, for you can be a positive influence to the child, a loving positive influence to the child during those times when you are close to them. And in their immediate family, mother and father present, there are the ups and downs, the tugs and pulls, the disciplining, the loving, the caring and the direction, that is sometimes not easily taken by children. But love perseveres; and so parents, who give love in greater measure than discipline and direction, will always find their children present. But for the grandparent, what a wonderful occasion your lives have, and if you have no grandchildren then take on some! Whether they are your neighbors or some other children, you may offer to do daycare for mothers who work and who are not home for those hours after school. And you can be a positive, passive influence to these children, an example of right thinking, right acting, and right feeling. And then when they go home, do not discount that a couple of hours a day is of no consequence, for some of the most tremendous life changing events can occur in a very brief time.

Let us take this subset, self-sustaining community, a bit further. You probably have an [[idea]] what we mean by this. We mean far more than just material sustenance: Houses to live in, infrastructures for communications, water, disposal of waste, garbage pick-up, food, jobs, education. These are only the meagerest degrees or parts of a self-sustaining community. Surely, you can have these things already. There are already many self-sustaining communities in development now in the United States and elsewhere throughout the world. Many have come and gone, haven’t they? Why is that? Let us look at the errors, the problems of those communities that have disintegrated. Was it due to lack of food? Was it due to lack of housing? Was it due to lack of employment, education, or religion? No, none of those. Why did they disintegrate? As I was listening in on Daniel and Agatha speaking earlier today, they discerned that one of the primary reasons for the disintegration of communities in the past has been due to failure of leadership. Those societies where there is good leadership have continued.

And the wonderful water drop of love from grandparents is a smoothing agent to the rough side of children’s emotions and personalities as they come away from school and come away from homes that are fraught with difficulties and contention and competition, much of which is neither wanted nor desired by them. So in a way, you have begun to build a community. You as grandparents, grandparents-to-be are the first elements of an extended family, which is the beginning of clan, which is a beginning of community. Community, of course, involves people who are not "family," but you behave towards them as though they were family, in an open, loving way. (Ironically, in this nation and in many countries, many cultures, family is often times a difficult and non-supportive place in which to be – a relationship to escape.)

What is good leadership? Well, there are many answers and you will find them in the [[Urantia Book]]. There is primarily required a selfless dedication to the larger concerns for the [[group]], past the individual [[ego]] needs of the leader. A secondary cause of community disintegration due to inadequate leadership exists when there is no oversight for the watch care of leadership. This means that there is no self-monitoring [[process]] within a successful community for the continued monitoring of leadership, or a process for receiving grievances or complaints from populous community members about leadership that deteriorates. You may have a leader who established a community who did well, had good intentions; and has happened so often, something occurs in the mind of that leader that deflects them from their original selfless dedication. Surely they must have become bored, for they seem to have set themselves upon an agenda of self-destruction, either through [[power]], aggrandizement, [[sexual]] difficulties that violate boundaries of families and relationships, [[material]] gathering at the expense of others, differences in prerogatives between the leader and members so that there becomes a [[caste]] [[system]] between the leader, his family (or her family), and the rest of the population. We could go on, but if you examine the [[belief]] systems of those individuals, who once were good leaders, you’ll find they have become corrupted, lazy, and have lost their selfless dedication and commitment. Now this is not a chastisement I am giving you; this is simply an [[analysis]] of past failures. So, knowing that a successful community is not dependent totally upon food, housing, employment, location, geography or so on, realize that the sustaining community is sustained by something that is unmeasurable and immaterial. Not immaterial in that it does not affect anything, because it surely does affect all aspects of each individual, the family and the community as a whole, but it is not a [[material]] aspect that is measurable, quantifiable, or empirically knowable. We are talking about higher [[values]] that must be operant always.

So in community, new things happen. You have new, broader associations. What we wish you to do is think upon the community as a larger family of unrelated individuals, and behave accordingly, as though you were grandparents. Loving, caring, somewhat distant, but connected. Not aloof, ever, but connected. In community, this is where you build the processes of a larger society. If the community is positive, helpful and contributory to the growth of individuals and families, then you will have growth of more individuals and families that are positive, constructive and functional. (Of course there are always deviants, and we will discuss that in the future.) Always keep a positive influence in mind, thinking not in terms of "what I can get," or "what I can give without return," as though you must get your personal regard and love from others for doing things. No, that would be enmeshment on your part with a larger group of individuals to pay homage to you and appreciate you and accept you. Give with the assumption, the appreciation that you will be given back…sometime. As you have been taught many times in metaphysical churches and situations, you give sometimes without ever expecting return, for when you give to the universe, it returns to you. That’s how the universe works, it is continuous. It is "the flow," and some of you call this the Tao. And there definitely is a Tao of community and of society. And when cultures have this flow in them, always individuals giving, then there is always receiving. This is how a larger project in the community is achieved with the help of families and individuals — you volunteer. You may be a volunteer fireman; you may be a volunteer home economics agent, or family development and family operation agent in your community. We know this may sound foreign to you, but your society had these community action efforts during the Depression Era to assist individuals, and then was phased out for economic reasons by your governments. But these aids and supports should exist, must exist, to help pass on those skills that are inherent in operant, functional, contributory, constructive families and communities.

Let’s take this analysis to the farther extreme where a society, a community has such high [[ideal]]s, that they become draconian, they become very austere, the [[soul]] and the [[spirit]] of individuals shrivel, and [[creativity]] and variation among individuals is stifled. This is not good either. This does not allow for the expression of the individual for variance of the individual’s growth and development. So when you think of intentional community, it is a community that encompasses the broad [[spectrum]] of all positive behaviors, thoughts, beliefs, practices of individuals, and families in the community.

As we look upon your society and culture, and your culture now pervades Europe as well as it is now invading technologically developed Japan, it is in some ways usurping their older, cultural traditions. There is less and less functionality towards community and self-sustaining operations within the community, those agents for indoctrinating or inculcating traditional beliefs that help communities survive, families prosper, and individuals to grow and progress, are missing. And as advancing nations grow, they go through an era where these are stripped away and there is tremendous competition for economic and financial reasons. Surely, these add to the quantity of life, but they are very detrimental to the quality of life. And as I see you and visit you in your families, here and throughout the states, I see you yearning for quality of life. You have quite a stretch to work on, you reach in one way for quantity of life and you reach tentatively in the other for quality of life. You have been sold "a bill of goods," literally, by your economic prosperity in this nation that having "things" gets you happiness. And if you can’t be happy, you become numb by watching your television sets. So these lessons are to assist you in developing quality of life in all regards, for the individual, for the family, and for your community.

You must think past a planned neighborhood. You have these already. This house sits in a planned neighborhood, yet it is not an intentional community in terms of a sustainable community. People live here in this planned neighborhood because the streets are laid out in an interesting way, houses are within a certain variance of conformity, all the infrastructure is provided, it’s clean, it’s quiet, it’s pleasant—it may not be cheerful*—but it is uniform; and it is planned. This is not an intentional community. The only intention involved in this was to develop a planned neighborhood for [[profit]] motive, to develop barren land into a livable space, and there is certainly nothing wrong with that, in fact, it is quite admirable. [*Note: Refers to a current ego-based leadership conflict in the Home Owner’s Association.]

You recall that Machiventa spoke last time about sustaining communities. This is a subset of a larger community development, which is intentional communities, and we spoke about intentional communities through Mor-gan and Daniel years ago. Intentional communities are communities of individuals and families that have come together, who join in a community for intentional reasons. A self-sustaining community is only one of many types of intentional communities. But the broadest intentional community is a community that sustains life at all levels for the individual and family. Materiality is a minor element of that. You’ll find that economic and financial and material prosperity issue from happy individuals, productive families, and cooperative communities. Doing so, you’ll find there is less competition, no warfare, no expressions of hostility, with social processes that provide for adjustment of differences, peacefully.

But let us say that you and others want to develop a sustainable, intentional community in the broadest spectrum of thought that you can apply towards a community of let’s say, 100 families, (anywhere from 200-1000 people,) for some of these families will be extended families. If you were to do so, how would you prepare this community? Would you say, "Oh, I know someone who has land, let’s go talk to them and buy it and build houses"? Well great, you’d simply have another planned neighborhood. And someone else says, "Well, we can use the rest of the land to grow food, we’ll have community gardens and we’ll have a common well, a water source, and pretty soon you’re thinking of all the infrastructure of water filtration, wastewater disposal, garbage, recycling, a clinic—a physical clinic, and a mental/emotional clinic where people get help—you get the "[[physical]]" things in order.

Let us take this subset, self-sustaining community, a bit further. You probably have and idea what we mean by this. We mean far more than just material sustenance: Houses to live in, infrastructures for communications, water, disposal of waste, garbage pick-up, food, jobs, education. These are only the meagerest degrees or parts of a self-sustaining community. Surely, you can have these things already. There are already many self-sustaining communities in development now in the United States and elsewhere throughout the world. Many have come and gone, haven’t they? Why is that? Let us look at the errors, the problems of those communities that have disintegrated. Was it due to lack of food? Was it due to lack of housing? Was it due to lack of employment, education, or religion? No, none of those. Why did they disintegrate? As I was listening in on Daniel and Agatha speaking earlier today, they discerned that one of the primary reasons for the disintegration of communities in the past has been due to failure of leadership. Those societies where there is good leadership have continued.

Let me take you aside a bit and give you perspective of what Michael was up against. Michael started Nebadon a long time ago. Empty space! He developed the [[energy]] into a [[system]]; planets arrived; life was introduced; whole worlds were occupied by individuals, people. Not just one planet but millions of planets! How long did he work in the planning and development of his local universe? Millions of years! So, my friends, when you go about planning an intentional community, this is no small project of just buying land and building houses. How do you build individuals? That’s the "business" that Michael is in, of building individuals of [[soul]] survivable [[quality]]. Now, how would you do this? And that is not a facetious question! It’s not a rhetorical question! It is a very practical question. It is the fundamental question necessary to ask when you develop sustainable, intentional communities. How will you build an individual, or grow an individual, into soul survivable quality, allowing for all the variation of the individual to express themselves in positive, constructive ways? Well, having read the [[Urantia Book]], you know that inner structures, spiritual structures are already existent—the [[Seven Adjutant Mind Spirits|seven Mind Adjutants]], the eventually arriving [[Thought Adjuster]], a [[guardian angel]] over one individual or many, and now you have [[Teacher Corps|Celestial Teachers]]. You have a mind that is clear and not befogged by misbeliefs, you have a body that is sustainable, has no inherent flaws—and you’re saying, "Wow, that would be really terrific! What about those genetic, congenital issues that we have?" Well, in this community, you would not want them, would you? My friends, in a thousand years, these things will be weeded out. Not all populations will have advantage of those at that time, but it will be a known process of how to raise or how to beget new individuals who have no congenital issues. That’s something for you to work on!

What is good leadership? Well, there are many answers and you will find them in the Urantia Book. There is primarily required a selfless dedication to the larger concerns for the group, past the individual ego needs of the leader. A secondary cause of community disintegration due to inadequate leadership exists when there is no oversight for the watch care of leadership. This means that there is no self-monitoring process within a successful community for the continued monitoring of leadership, or a process for receiving grievances or complaints from populous community members about leadership that deteriorates. You may have a leader who established a community who did well, had good intentions; and has happened so often, something occurs in the mind of that leader that deflects them from their original selfless dedication. Surely they must have become bored, for they seem to have set themselves upon an agenda of self-destruction, either through power, aggrandizement, sexual difficulties that violate boundaries of families and relationships, material gathering at the expense of others, differences in prerogatives between the leader and members so that there becomes a caste system between the leader, his family (or her family), and the rest of the population. We could go on, but if you examine the belief systems of those individuals, who once were good leaders, you’ll find they have become corrupted, lazy, and have lost their selfless dedication and commitment. Now this is not a chastisement I am giving you; this is simply an analysis of past failures. So, knowing that a successful community is not dependent totally upon food, housing, employment, location, geography or so on, realize that the sustaining community is sustained by something that is unmeasurable and immaterial. Not immaterial in that it does not affect anything, because it surely does affect all aspects of each individual, the family and the community as a whole, but it is not a material aspect that is measurable, quantifiable, or empirically knowable. We are talking about higher values that must be operant always.

Yes, you will need nutrition, nutrition for the mother as she grows this new being inside herself, all the right nutrients at the right time for the right places, to build and sustain and grow this wonderful new creature, and the elimination of detrimental habits and detrimental intake of [[chemicals]] that would harm this new child. So step aside here again or step back and take a look at that. You need pure water. Pure water! Not with chlorine in it, but pure water, available at each house. You need produce that is without detrimental chemicals, and you have yet to figure that out, both concerning application of chemicals to plants and to genetically altered gene [[structure]]s of plants. You are just at the early, early dawn of discovering the advantages and disadvantages, the hazards and benefits of genetically altered produce. So you would have to have farms—truly, you will need farms—to grow good, pure food, economically, profitably, productively. And the individual that comes into the family, what about the pre-natal training for the mother and the father? What do they need to know for their mental well being and for their social well being so this child is raised in a peaceful womb situation? What kind of diet does a child need in the first weeks, first years of its life that will tremendously assist the full capability of development of their minds, their bodies? For every question, there is an answer; for every question, there is a connection and a product and a [[process]] within the community to provide that. And it may require the interconnection of hundreds of communities to provide what you need in each community, an interconnection of healthy communities, intentional communities. So, for our self-sustaining community, developing one becomes an awesome, awesome responsibility, tremendous dedication of many individuals to bring this into existence.

What kind of an [[education]] system would you provide for children to grow and then to become integrated into their community? Not just integrated as workers, but as parents-to-be, community members-to-be? These are deep questions and we look forward to those individuals who entertain these questions in the larger distribution of these teachings, to engage these questions and to strive to answer them through your group process. And I give you a proviso, not a caveat but a benefit, that when you do so in a group, make sure you invite a Celestial Teacher, a Community Planner—one or two or three. They are available! There is a large cadre existent of community trained individuals, who are doing what we are doing. This is the Teaching Mission and there is a Community Mission as well.

 

 

 

 

 

What kind of an education system would you provide for children to grow and then to become integrated into their community? Not just integrated as workers, but as parents-to-be, community members-to-be? These are deep questions and we look forward to those individuals who entertain these questions in the larger distribution of these teachings, to engage these questions and to strive to answer them through your group process. And I give you a proviso, not a caveat but a benefit, that when you do so in a group, make sure you invite a Celestial Teacher, a Community Planner—one or two or three. They are available! There is a large cadre existent of community trained individuals, who are doing what we are doing. This is the Teaching Mission and there is a Community Mission as well.

Before I change subjects a bit, I wish to strive to answer some of your questions that you have been asking during the last couple of weeks. The primary question that you have asked is, "Why the urgency, why the rush?" Well, there are several answers to that and one is, we are not sitting on our hands, wondering," Oh my gosh, what is Michael going to do to help us with this?" We are fully capable ourselves, we have executive qualities of mind to bring things about, and so we are "pushing your envelopes." We are striving to draw your edges farther out in front of you, and we are not resting. Machiventa has taken this on as his own project, not for Michael, but with Michael. And our Melchizedek corps is active in this. None of us bring these issues to the table to alarm you, but your nation will not stay the same as it is, it will not continue as it is. Neither will other nations. Your world is in a tremendous era of flux and change. If you think this happy era of the prosperous 90’s in America will continue, well, you have had that dispelled during your recent recession. Your nation is recovering and will do well. Do you think this wonderful era of prosperity and abundance for all will continue? No, surely not! And I am not a doomsayer; this is just reality. For example, if you look back upon the 20th Century, your world entered into an economic depression early in the century, then an awesome world war, exited that into a very debilitating world-wide depression, followed by another world war, followed by many wars among nations coming and going, and economic manipulation of nations by large corporations. These will not halt; these will continue, you know that! Don’t hide your heads in the sand, children, yet do not be afraid. You have immense, wonderful tools to do well, and to recover from any minor or major cataclysm. Of all nations on this planet, this nation and the one to the north and other nations that are prosperous, well educated, and have established infrastructures, communications and energy sources will do well.

Before I change subjects a bit, I wish to strive to answer some of your questions that you have been asking during the last couple of weeks. The primary question that you have asked is, "Why the urgency, why the rush?" Well, there are several answers to that and one is, we are not sitting on our hands, wondering," Oh my gosh, what is Michael going to do to help us with this?" We are fully capable ourselves, we have executive qualities of mind to bring things about, and so we are "pushing your envelopes." We are striving to draw your edges farther out in front of you, and we are not resting. Machiventa has taken this on as his own project, not for Michael, but with Michael. And our Melchizedek corps is active in this. None of us bring these issues to the table to alarm you, but your nation will not stay the same as it is, it will not continue as it is. Neither will other nations. Your world is in a tremendous era of flux and change. If you think this happy era of the prosperous 90’s in America will continue, well, you have had that dispelled during your recent recession. Your nation is recovering and will do well. Do you think this wonderful era of prosperity and abundance for all will continue? No, surely not! And I am not a doomsayer; this is just reality. For example, if you look back upon the 20th Century, your world entered into an economic depression early in the century, then an awesome world war, exited that into a very debilitating world-wide depression, followed by another world war, followed by many wars among nations coming and going, and economic manipulation of nations by large corporations. These will not halt; these will continue, you know that! Don’t hide your heads in the sand, children, yet do not be afraid. You have immense, wonderful tools to do well, and to recover from any minor or major cataclysm. Of all nations on this planet, this nation and the one to the north and other nations that are prosperous, well educated, and have established infrastructures, communications and energy sources will do well.

There is a symbol the Chinese use for chaos, a wonderful symbol. It is also the symbol of opportunity. Only in chaos will you find opportunity without bound, whether as economic, cultural, political or social; it’s the old "break and build" process. It’s what body builders do; break down tissue to build new tissue, but they also sustain themselves with a good diet, high in protein, lots of fluids. And for the spirit body, you must have good beliefs—Truth, Beauty and Goodness—a value system more fully developed and evolved than is existent in your nation at this time. And where will that value system be sustained, and then expand itself? In the individual, my friends! You! You lovely people here, and those who are reading these transcripts, this year, next year, a hundred years from now and longer! In you! It is such a wondrous thing and interesting; it boggles us to see what mere individuals can do in your society. There is what, 275 million, approximately, in this nation? Yet individuals have a tremendous opportunity to change the course of their nation, in ways that are unfathomable. We may aid and guide you, but what you do and what you decide not to do is a powerful influence on your society. So it is most important, dear ones, that you keep in mind and hold high the values that sustain you, are meaningful to you. And do not be afraid to share those with your family, especially new parents, parents who have impressionable children, children who will still listen, and those who have grandchildren. And you also must tell them "why" these values and beliefs work, and share that with them, too. These children are not "dummies!" They are pragmatic; these are hands-on, "doing things" kids! They want to know "why." "Why does this work, Grandpop?"

There is a symbol the Chinese use for chaos, a wonderful symbol. It is also the symbol of opportunity. Only in chaos will you find opportunity without bound, whether as economic, cultural, political or social; it’s the old "break and build" process. It’s what body builders do; break down tissue to build new tissue, but they also sustain themselves with a good diet, high in protein, lots of fluids. And for the spirit body, you must have good beliefs—Truth, Beauty and Goodness—a value system more fully developed and evolved than is existent in your nation at this time. And where will that value system be sustained, and then expand itself? In the individual, my friends! You! You lovely people here, and those who are reading these transcripts, this year, next year, a hundred years from now and longer! In you! It is such a wondrous thing and interesting; it boggles us to see what mere individuals can do in your society. There is what, 275 million, approximately, in this nation? Yet individuals have a tremendous opportunity to change the course of their nation, in ways that are unfathomable. We may aid and guide you, but what you do and what you decide not to do is a powerful influence on your society. So it is most important, dear ones, that you keep in mind and hold high the values that sustain you, are meaningful to you. And do not be afraid to share those with your family, especially new parents, parents who have impressionable children, children who will still listen, and those who have grandchildren. And you also must tell them "why" these values and beliefs work, and share that with them, too. These children are not "dummies!" They are pragmatic; these are hands-on, "doing things" kids! They want to know "why." "Why does this work, Grandpop?"

Let me finish this part by saying that there will be changes that occur in your society, and it is not to anticipate them with fear, but with the prepared, anticipation of producing something worth while out of what comes about. You have fire stations—do they go out and set fires so they can put them out to show their function? No, of course not. They are there for some anticipated tragedy. They anticipate it. And so, too, you must anticipate opportunity to build community.

Let me finish this part by saying that there will be changes that occur in your society, and it is not to anticipate them with fear, but with the prepared, anticipation of producing something worth while out of what comes about. You have fire stations—do they go out and set fires so they can put them out to show their [[function]]? No, of course not. They are there for some anticipated [[tragedy]]. They anticipate it. And so, too, you must anticipate opportunity to build community.

Your archaeologists travel to the old country of Assyria, and they dig trenches through these tels, mounds of dirt, layers upon layers of a city that has come and gone, not once or twice, but dozens of times. So, too, you will see this occur in your nation after you have traveled across the morontial barrier and look back. How will you have contributed to your new society, your new community, your new family, to your children and your grandchildren? It is important to answer that with a positive response, and we hope you do. It is not that you have to become moral evangels in your educational system, but operate where you are in the small way that you can, and success will grow.

Your [[archaeologists]] travel to the old country of [[Assyria]], and they dig trenches through these tels, mounds of dirt, layers upon layers of a city that has come and gone, not once or twice, but dozens of times. So, too, you will see this occur in your nation after you have traveled across the [[morontia]]l barrier and look back. How will you have contributed to your new [[society]], your new [[community]], your new [[family]], to your children and your grandchildren? It is important to answer that with a positive response, and we hope you do. It is not that you have to become moral evangels in your educational system, but operate where you are in the small way that you can, and success will grow.

Okay, Let us begin a new topic that is definitely related to your community building, and this is the topic of individual differences. This almost assuredly flies in the face of your social, cultural well-being and status quo at this time in your nation, but hear me out, please. One thing about the future and the process of the time is that everyone, who is here, will arrive in the future with you! You may wish to disregard the uneducated; you may wish to disregard the materially disenfranchised; you may wish to disregard the opposite gender, racial, cultural, nationality differences, but children, you are all going to be there in the future, and those differences will still exist! You can’t bury these issues, social issues by forgetting about them or not looking at them. Your nation is in a difficult situation. It has expressed its arrogance in the world in many ways, at the expense of other people, thinking that, "Well, we’ll be dominant in the future and we will have control of it then." It’s a pretty broad assumption.

Okay, Let us begin a new topic that is definitely related to your community building, and this is the topic of individual [[difference]]s. This almost assuredly flies in the face of your social, cultural well-being and [[status quo]] at this time in your nation, but hear me out, please. One thing about the future and the process of the time is that everyone, who is here, will arrive in the future with you! You may wish to disregard the uneducated; you may wish to disregard the materially disenfranchised; you may wish to disregard the opposite gender, racial, cultural, nationality differences, but children, you are all going to be there in the future, and those differences will still exist! You can’t bury these issues, social issues by forgetting about them or not looking at them. Your nation is in a difficult situation. It has expressed its arrogance in the world in many ways, at the expense of other people, thinking that, "Well, we’ll be dominant in the future and we will have control of it then." It’s a pretty broad assumption.

Let us speak principally to those individuals, and this is on an individual basis, for this is the only area in which you can positively and constructively make a tremendous contribution. The big social issues even in your local community are often times larger than the individual to resolve. So let us deal with individual differences. Let us once again begin with the child who comes into the world. Some of these children are uneducable, but they have a certain capacity for self-maintenance. Yes, there are children who will come into the world who are uneducable and who are unable to care for themselves, and who, if not cared for, would die. For those individuals, you will find no Thought Adjusters, and that is really the qualitative factor that determines who contributes, and who doesn’t in your society, in the future. Were you to know who carried the light of the Thought Adjuster and who did not, you could more easily discern how to provide services to those individuals who do not, and how to hold those individuals who have Thought Adjusters, responsible, or more responsible and accountable for their behavior in your society. But you are unable to see this.

Let us speak principally to those individuals, and this is on an individual basis, for this is the only area in which you can positively and constructively make a tremendous contribution. The big social issues even in your local community are often times larger than the individual to resolve. So let us deal with individual differences. Let us once again begin with the child who comes into the world. Some of these children are uneducable, but they have a certain capacity for self-maintenance. Yes, there are children who will come into the world who are uneducable and who are unable to care for themselves, and who, if not cared for, would die. For those individuals, you will find no [[Thought Adjuster]]s, and that is really the qualitative factor that determines who contributes, and who doesn’t in your society, in the future. Were you to know who carried the light of the Thought Adjuster and who did not, you could more easily discern how to provide services to those individuals who do not, and how to hold those individuals who have Thought Adjusters, responsible, or more responsible and accountable for their [[behavior]] in your society. But you are unable to see this.

Now, I will just cut through the buckwheat, as you say out here in the west, and get to the point. And that is, there is in each individual an inherent capacity for expression of good, for self-maintenance, for contribution to themselves, to their family, to their community and perhaps, to their society. Each individual does! How to address that? The individual capacity to contribute, or not, must be considered as part of your intentional community. Asking and answering this question ties in with the earlier question we asked, "How do you build an individual of soul survivable capacity?" More to the point, how can you bring that individual into expression of the maximum potential that is inherent in them? That’s through your educational system that begins in the family. In an intentional, self-sustaining community, the educational system reaches right down to the time the child is born, or preferably, even before the child is born, just after the child comes into existence in the womb. When the individual comes into the world as a new baby, oftentimes it is months before parents realize that their child is "okay," or "not okay" and has some inherent learning disability. It may be even into the second year before the parents realize that their child is deaf, and this has occurred. In this intentional society, the primary goal is to bring the individual to the greatest expression of potential inherent within them for the development of a survivable soul. There are only two qualifications: 1) "to develop the inherent potential;" and 2), "help assure the survivability of the soul." The first has to do with measuring the individual’s capacities: Do they see; do they taste; do they touch and feel; do they hear; do they smell? Do they have all the five senses? Those are necessary for the basic education of an average individual. An average individual will continue on into a daycare situation where they will be taught those developmental skills for physical, social, neural, psychological, and so on, as can be taught to them, to develop those inherent potentials within them. And this continues on, through their life until they are separate from the family.

Now, I will just cut through the buckwheat, as you say out here in the west, and get to the point. And that is, there is in each individual an inherent capacity for [[expression]] of [[good]], for self-maintenance, for contribution to themselves, to their family, to their community and perhaps, to their society. Each individual does! How to address that? The individual capacity to contribute, or not, must be considered as part of your intentional community. Asking and answering this question ties in with the earlier question we asked, "How do you build an individual of soul survivable capacity?" More to the point, how can you bring that individual into expression of the maximum potential that is inherent in them? That’s through your educational system that begins in the family. In an intentional, self-sustaining community, the educational system reaches right down to the time the child is born, or preferably, even before the child is born, just after the child comes into existence in the womb. When the individual comes into the world as a new baby, oftentimes it is months before parents realize that their child is "okay," or "not okay" and has some inherent learning disability. It may be even into the second year before the parents realize that their child is deaf, and this has occurred. In this intentional society, the primary goal is to bring the individual to the greatest expression of potential inherent within them for the development of a survivable soul. There are only two qualifications: 1) "to develop the inherent potential;" and 2), "help assure the survivability of the soul." The first has to do with measuring the individual’s capacities: Do they [[sight|see]]; do they [[taste]]; do they [[touch]] and feel; do they [[audition|hear]]; do they [[smell]]? Do they have all the five [[senses]]? Those are necessary for the basic education of an average individual. An average individual will continue on into a daycare situation where they will be taught those developmental skills for physical, social, neural, psychological, and so on, as can be taught to them, to develop those inherent potentials within them. And this continues on, through their life until they are separate from the family.

Some children read at age three; some children play Mozart at age four; some never learn music, some never read. Why? Is it a factor of the system, or is it a factor of their capacity? In an intentional, self-sustaining community with these two goals, its chore must be to measure and evaluate and then provide the resources to develop those inherent potentials. There are some arbitrary reasons for teaching children to read when they are ten, and some at age five or four. Some can do numbers very early on. Should they enter an appropriate educational program, or should they wait due to some arbitrary educational policy?

Some children read at age three; some children play Mozart at age four; some never learn music, some never read. Why? Is it a factor of the system, or is it a factor of their capacity? In an intentional, self-sustaining community with these two goals, its chore must be to measure and evaluate and then provide the resources to develop those inherent potentials. There are some arbitrary reasons for teaching children to read when they are ten, and some at age five or four. Some can do numbers very early on. Should they enter an appropriate educational program, or should they wait due to some arbitrary educational policy?

Let me give you a clear insight, I think you can appreciate, which you may have not thought of before. You understand sports in your schools, do you not? You have all the eighth graders try out for baseball. Some have played baseball, some haven’t. Fifty boys and girls try out for baseball, and the coach has each one of them throw, catch fly balls and ground balls, play different positions, understand the different plays, and works with each child to evaluate their capability. And out of fifty children, he ends up with seven teams and a manager. Now, do you think he’s going to put the best players with the least capable? Certainly not. How does he evaluate this? By measuring their skills, does he not? (Or she?) Certainly. What is their capacity? What is their skill level? And then assigns them accordingly to the different teams. This way, they can develop their skills simultaneously with other children who are the same age, without having to feel less-than, nor more-than other players of the same team; and therefore, they are able to develop the team working processes much more easily, rather than having internal strife among the players, let alone win games against other teams. Now, here’s the catch: Do you do the same thing in reading or writing, penmanship, history lessons, and mathematics? No! When you are age six, you go to grade one. When you are age seven, you go to grade two, whether you can read or write. And this continues on in many of your schools! It has simply become a process of passing children through without development or appraisal of skill and assigning them to appropriate levels. We do not understand why this is so! It would seem appropriate to us, that if you have a fifteen-year-old who cannot read, he may be best assigned to a grade two level of reading, where his skills are competent with those who are at that level. It may be that this same individual, who is fifteen, is mechanically adept to the point where he may be working with a high school graduate in learning welding or mechanics. But because he is unable to read the manuals, he cannot develop these skills to become a master mechanic. This is non sequitur to us! And this must be healed in your intentional, self-sustaining community, because failing to do so you have an inherent flaw that causes inherent problems, which are detrimental to the self-sustaining function of the individual, family, community, and eventually the society.

Let me give you a clear insight, I think you can appreciate, which you may have not thought of before. You understand sports in your schools, do you not? You have all the eighth graders try out for baseball. Some have played baseball, some haven’t. Fifty boys and girls try out for baseball, and the coach has each one of them throw, catch fly balls and ground balls, play different positions, understand the different plays, and works with each child to evaluate their capability. And out of fifty children, he ends up with seven teams and a manager. Now, do you think he’s going to put the best players with the least capable? Certainly not. How does he evaluate this? By measuring their skills, does he not? (Or she?) Certainly. What is their capacity? What is their skill level? And then assigns them accordingly to the different teams. This way, they can develop their skills simultaneously with other children who are the same age, without having to feel less-than, nor more-than other players of the same team; and therefore, they are able to develop the team working processes much more easily, rather than having internal strife among the players, let alone win games against other teams. Now, here’s the catch: Do you do the same thing in reading or writing, penmanship, [[history]] lessons, and [[mathematics]]? No! When you are age six, you go to grade one. When you are age seven, you go to grade two, whether you can read or write. And this continues on in many of your schools! It has simply become a process of passing children through without development or appraisal of skill and assigning them to appropriate levels. We do not understand why this is so! It would seem appropriate to us, that if you have a fifteen-year-old who cannot read, he may be best assigned to a grade two level of reading, where his skills are competent with those who are at that level. It may be that this same individual, who is fifteen, is mechanically adept to the point where he may be working with a high school graduate in learning welding or [[mechanics]]. But because he is unable to read the manuals, he cannot develop these skills to become a master mechanic. This is non sequitur to us! And this must be healed in your intentional, self-sustaining community, because failing to do so you have an inherent flaw that causes inherent problems, which are detrimental to the self-sustaining function of the individual, family, community, and eventually the society.

You know more about the gene structure of the human genome than you do about the progression and application of skills for individuals. Oh, I know that’s an exaggeration, for there are some excellent schools in your nation and communities which attend to the right development and evaluation of the skills and the assignment of children to appropriate levels where they can learn these best. But in the main, your educational system is failing, and so is your society. (Not your nation, your society.) There are inherent detrimental processes or lack thereof, for sustaining your societies, let alone your states and your cities. Look at your cities: These are self-deteriorating, self-destructive social processes. Many are too large, most have educational systems that are not beneficial to the maintenance of families, let alone the growth and prospering of the individuals and their minds and their spirits. So, dear ones, appraise individuals as they are, assign them to levels of education and training that is appropriate, and continue through that process of evaluation, appraisal and assignment. And yes, there will be individuals who become the age of eighteen who cannot read, who have been given every opportunity, every advantage by dedicated individuals, teachers, instructors, and tutors, using outstanding materials, who will not read, who cannot read. If you can say that all of your community has provided this and the individual is unable to read, then what will you do with that individual? What will they do? Where will they work? We visit your grocery stores and we see individuals working there who were born with Down Syndrome. And these are lovely individuals, as most are very happy—they understand their situation, and they love it when you say "hello" to them and call them by name and you acknowledge them. They feel that they are a part of your society. These individuals are probably working at the best capacity level of their inherent potential. This is good!

You know more about the gene [[structure]] of the [[human genome]] than you do about the progression and application of skills for individuals. Oh, I know that’s an exaggeration, for there are some excellent schools in your nation and communities which attend to the right development and evaluation of the skills and the assignment of children to appropriate levels where they can learn these best. But in the main, your educational system is failing, and so is your [[society]]. (Not your nation, your society.) There are inherent detrimental processes or lack thereof, for sustaining your societies, let alone your states and your cities. Look at your cities: These are self-deteriorating, self-destructive social processes. Many are too large, most have educational systems that are not beneficial to the maintenance of families, let alone the growth and prospering of the individuals and their minds and their spirits. So, dear ones, appraise individuals as they are, assign them to levels of education and training that is appropriate, and continue through that process of evaluation, appraisal and assignment. And yes, there will be individuals who become the age of eighteen who cannot read, who have been given every opportunity, every advantage by dedicated individuals, teachers, instructors, and tutors, using outstanding materials, who will not read, who cannot read. If you can say that all of your community has provided this and the individual is unable to read, then what will you do with that individual? What will they do? Where will they work? We visit your grocery stores and we see individuals working there who were born with [[Down Syndrome]]. And these are lovely individuals, as most are very happy—they understand their situation, and they [[love]] it when you say "hello" to them and call them by name and you acknowledge them. They feel that they are a part of your [[society]]. These individuals are probably working at the best capacity level of their inherent potential. This is good!

And my friends, lastly, concerning this topic, the waste of genius. The waste of genius is just (Heavy sigh) …oh, we are not embarrassed, but I suppose if we were human, we would be blushing, greatly! For we see genius among you, and geniuses wasted because there is not the moral fiber, ethical fiber, the values and beliefs that sustains genius in a positive, constructive way. Genius that is wasted sometimes goes awry and you will find many geniuses in prisons, mental hospitals, and as derelicts along the streets. Why did this occur? Answering these questions is a pragmatic process of developing a self-sustaining intentional community. And the wonderful thing about this whole message today is that once you have begun to design a self-sustaining, intentional community in the broadest parameters, you can replicate it over and over again, across societies, across cultures. You get down to the basic ingredients that Michael deals with in building worlds of successful individuals and surviving souls. You will have a beginning appreciation of the daunting immensity of his work. And I hope you are not overcome with this, but it is a wonderful thing to entertain and to appreciate and work on in your lives as you move forward into more capable positions in your morontial life, as you move through your Nebadon experience, and move on to Uversa.

And my friends, lastly, concerning this topic, the waste of [[genius]]. The waste of genius is just (Heavy sigh) …oh, we are not embarrassed, but I suppose if we were human, we would be blushing, greatly! For we see genius among you, and geniuses wasted because there is not the moral fiber, ethical fiber, the values and beliefs that sustains genius in a positive, constructive way. Genius that is wasted sometimes goes awry and you will find many geniuses in prisons, mental hospitals, and as derelicts along the streets. Why did this occur? Answering these questions is a pragmatic process of developing a self-sustaining intentional community. And the wonderful thing about this whole message today is that once you have begun to design a self-sustaining, intentional community in the broadest parameters, you can replicate it over and over again, across societies, across cultures. You get down to the basic ingredients that Michael deals with in building worlds of successful individuals and surviving souls. You will have a beginning appreciation of the daunting immensity of his work. And I hope you are not overcome with this, but it is a wonderful thing to entertain and to appreciate and work on in your lives as you move forward into more capable positions in your morontial life, as you move through your Nebadon experience, and move on to Uversa.

As Finaliters, this may be something you will need to think about. And when the Grand Universe is settled in the Days of Light and Life, and there is, we suppose, a dispersal of individuals, Finaliters across the broad new universe, perhaps you will become creators too, and you will be well prepared. Because the Creator will have developed every possible avenue, every possible, measurable, capacity within you to the utmost in your ascendant career.

As [[Finaliters]], this may be something you will need to think about. And when the [[Grand Universe]] is settled in the Days of [[Light and Life]], and there is, we suppose, a dispersal of individuals, Finaliters across the broad new universe, perhaps you will become creators too, and you will be well prepared. Because the Creator will have developed every possible avenue, every possible, measurable, capacity within you to the utmost in your [[Ascension Career|ascendant career]].

I leave you not in a dour sort of way, but one with hope. Of all individuals, who could take on this rather large task, people like you who are most capable of doing this chore of building a new, intentional, self-sustaining community and world. It’s why you are here. You have self-selected yourselves to be here. You have chosen the way; it is not easy, and some of you are in what you call retirement, and some of you will be in retirement, but this my friends is a glorious time for wonderful work, without constraints of having to make a daily living. Spend time in constructive ways for yourself and in association with others, who think as you do.

I leave you not in a dour sort of way, but one with hope. Of all individuals, who could take on this rather large task, people like you who are most capable of doing this chore of building a new, intentional, self-sustaining community and world. It’s why you are here. You have self-selected yourselves to be here. You have chosen the way; it is not easy, and some of you are in what you call retirement, and some of you will be in retirement, but this my friends is a [[glorious]] time for [[wonderful]] work, without constraints of having to make a daily living. Spend time in constructive ways for yourself and in association with others, who think as you do.

I won’t cut off the time today as I did previously, but allow you some moments to think of and speak some questions, if you have them. And I won’t cut you off—I’ve been chided about that –I will give you some time to think, to cogitate and to devise questions.

I won’t cut off the time today as I did previously, but allow you some moments to think of and speak some questions, if you have them. And I won’t cut you off—I’ve been chided about that –I will give you some time to think, to cogitate and to devise questions.

 

Student: So historic preservation is out, and people preservation is in!

Student: So historic preservation is out, and people preservation is in!

Rayson: As you say, there are optimal times for learning. There are optimal times for learning foreign languages, or languages in general in a child’s life, as well as there are times most opportune to learn social skills and to learn mathematics, for instance, and to learn music. These come at different eras, and if you pass them, you have passed the opportune era for "imprinting" that individual to be open to this area of potential, to explore that in larger parameters later on. We cannot go back in time and re-develop those for individuals, yet each individual has a capacity to learn and express their skills in ways they have not discovered or developed before. And this is more easily done with some individuals than others. You have to see how it works. We are always glad and able to help, but you cannot put 32 ounces in a 16-ounce jar. If you are unable to learn calculus now, you will probably be unable to learn calculus in ten years, though you may strive and you may become competent at it. Let us close.

Rayson: As you say, there are optimal times for learning. There are optimal times for learning foreign languages, or languages in general in a child’s life, as well as there are times most opportune to learn social skills and to learn mathematics, for instance, and to learn music. These come at different eras, and if you pass them, you have passed the opportune era for "imprinting" that individual to be open to this area of potential, to explore that in larger parameters later on. We cannot go back in time and re-develop those for individuals, yet each individual has a capacity to learn and express their skills in ways they have not discovered or developed before. And this is more easily done with some individuals than others. You have to see how it works. We are always glad and able to help, but you cannot put 32 ounces in a 16-ounce jar. If you are unable to learn calculus now, you will probably be unable to learn calculus in ten years, though you may strive and you may become competent at it. Let us close.

 

Blessings to you, dear ones, this day for we have begun a new era of instruction, which is most difficult and which could go on for decades. We have given you a brief—ever so brief—overview of this. As you are capable to appreciate, we will continue this and to develop it. If you don’t mind, we would like to use this group and other groups who are also attuned to this training instruction to develop these lessons, even though you may not incorporate them, use them or develop them. It would please us if you would discuss this during your break, afterward. As Michael’s consciousness does pervade this local universe, and has set upon a plan to guide the development of each world and each individual, so too, we have taken on this work to bless you with this instruction. And may you take away from this time something positive that you can contribute to your own lives and to those around you. Know that in every effort, every conscious effort you make, or decide not to make, you are blessed, you are loved, and you are supported. The same elements that we desire to see developed in children, we also wish to see developed in you and we will strive to do this till the last breath you take on this world. Our dedication is to assist you in the development of community in all ways on this planet, and this is foundational to the Correcting Time. Blessings to you. Know that many have been present here today and that there is much more to be shared with you. Good day. (Group: Thank you!)

Blessings to you, dear ones, this day for we have begun a new era of instruction, which is most difficult and which could go on for decades. We have given you a brief—ever so brief—overview of this. As you are capable to appreciate, we will continue this and to develop it. If you don’t mind, we would like to use this group and other groups who are also attuned to this training instruction to develop these lessons, even though you may not incorporate them, use them or develop them. It would please us if you would discuss this during your break, afterward. As Michael’s consciousness does pervade this local universe, and has set upon a plan to guide the development of each world and each individual, so too, we have taken on this work to bless you with this instruction. And may you take away from this time something positive that you can contribute to your own lives and to those around you. Know that in every effort, every conscious effort you make, or decide not to make, you are blessed, you are loved, and you are supported. The same elements that we desire to see developed in children, we also wish to see developed in you and we will strive to do this till the last breath you take on this world. Our dedication is to assist you in the development of community in all ways on this planet, and this is foundational to the Correcting Time. Blessings to you. Know that many have been present here today and that there is much more to be shared with you. Good day. (Group: Thank you!)