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MONJORONSON:  That is correct.  You see when and if individuals delay childrearing until their late twenties, early thirties, by the time their children come into early adolescence, they are already in the mid-time of their lives, so that they have greater [[wisdom]] and they too, are in this pivotal area.  [[Parents]], too, are [[growing]], but they have the [[wisdom]] and [[experience]] to raise their [[children]] into becoming much more [[effective]] [[partners]] with [[society]].  Thank you.

MONJORONSON:  That is correct.  You see when and if individuals delay childrearing until their late twenties, early thirties, by the time their children come into early adolescence, they are already in the mid-time of their lives, so that they have greater [[wisdom]] and they too, are in this pivotal area.  [[Parents]], too, are [[growing]], but they have the [[wisdom]] and [[experience]] to raise their [[children]] into becoming much more [[effective]] [[partners]] with [[society]].  Thank you.

   

   

Vicki:  And that pivotal age is one that I think you should probably [[discuss]].  [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolescence Adolescence]—it certainly provides its [[challenges]], for both the [[child]] and the [[parent]], so I think I’ll direct my questions that I have there, next.

Vicki:  And that pivotal age is one that I think you should probably [[discuss]].  [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolescence Adolescence]—it certainly provides its [[challenges]], for both the [[child]] and the [[parent]], so I think I’ll direct my questions that I have there, next.

   

   

Though we are aware that [[challenges]] are a [[necessary]] ingredient for [[growth]], I am still concerned with the amount of adverse, outside [[influences]] that impact our children and adolescents every day, and it is increasingly harder to shield or protect them from these [[influences]].  What do you recommend we do at this time?

Though we are aware that [[challenges]] are a [[necessary]] ingredient for [[growth]], I am still concerned with the amount of adverse, outside [[influences]] that impact our children and adolescents every day, and it is increasingly harder to shield or protect them from these [[influences]].  What do you recommend we do at this time?

MONJORONSON:  Your question and this situation go hand-in-hand with your previous questions and my answers.  It is important that when children are brought into [[existence]] by [[parents]], that those parents have the time to rear them, and to be present with them, not on a sporadic basis, but continually so the child is raised in the [[home]] where there is the [[parent]] continuously, and that when the child goes to school, when they come home, there is the parent who is there to greet them and receive them, sit down and [[discuss]] the day and help them [[interpret]] their [[experiences]].  Very few families do that today, and those that do are exceptional, and of course raise exceptional children, who become exceptional adults.  It is important that the [[parent]] who receives the child from school be of such age themselves, as to be capable of aiding their child to [[reflect]] upon their [[experiences]] and then give them [[mature]], [[wise]], [[interpretations]] of those [[events]], in the event the child does not do so well on their own, in their reporting.  

MONJORONSON:  Your question and this situation go hand-in-hand with your previous questions and my answers.  It is important that when children are brought into [[existence]] by [[parents]], that those parents have the time to rear them, and to be present with them, not on a sporadic basis, but continually so the child is raised in the [[home]] where there is the [[parent]] continuously, and that when the child goes to school, when they come home, there is the parent who is there to greet them and receive them, sit down and [[discuss]] the day and help them [[interpret]] their [[experiences]].  Very few families do that today, and those that do are exceptional, and of course raise exceptional children, who become exceptional adults.  It is important that the [[parent]] who receives the child from school be of such age themselves, as to be capable of aiding their child to [[reflect]] upon their [[experiences]] and then give them [[mature]], [[wise]], [[interpretations]] of those [[events]], in the event the child does not do so well on their own, in their reporting.  

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Your [[cultural]] situation in [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States this nation] is truly not much [[different]] than it has been through the millennia where adolescents tend to get into [[mischief]], as they [[experiment]] with the [[challenges]] of growing adulthood, whether that is bringing a “skunk” into the tribe’s area, or whether they are in the [[Internet]], bringing pornography into their computer.  [[Attention|Vigilance]] is a [[necessary]] [[duty]] of parents at all times, in all these [[environments]].  There are many more outside [[influences]], however, which are detrimental to the [[evolving]] [[psyche]] of the child, so the parent must set boundaries and be available to enforce those boundaries for the child’s [[good]], until the child can engrain those boundaries into their own [[thinking]] and adhere to them through their own [[wise]] [[Decision|choice-making]].  

Your [[cultural]] situation in [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States this nation] is truly not much [[different]] than it has been through the millennia where adolescents tend to get into [[mischief]], as they [[experiment]] with the [[challenges]] of growing adulthood, whether that is bringing a “skunk” into the tribe’s area, or whether they are in the [[Internet]], bringing pornography into their computer.  [[Attention|Vigilance]] is a [[necessary]] [[duty]] of parents at all times, in all these [[environments]].  There are many more outside [[influences]], however, which are detrimental to the [[evolving]] [[psyche]] of the child, so the parent must set boundaries and be available to enforce those boundaries for the child’s [[good]], until the child can engrain those boundaries into their own [[thinking]] and adhere to them through their own [[wise]] [[Decision|choice-making]].  

   

   

Yes, your [[culture]] does have many [[powerful]] [[influences]], they are extremely powerful, and many of them are extremely [[violent]].  This nation is most violent and it is abhorrent to the [[development]] of your [[culture]].  It will be seen as a stain upon this culture for centuries to come—something to be overcome.  Thus [[Parenting|childrearing]] is most important and that parents of good [[mature]] [[consciousness]], with a [[commitment]] and [[intention]] to raise the child conscientiously, are present and able to do so.  

Yes, your [[culture]] does have many [[powerful]] [[influences]], they are extremely powerful, and many of them are extremely [[violent]].  This nation is most violent and it is abhorrent to the [[development]] of your [[culture]].  It will be seen as a stain upon this culture for centuries to come—something to be overcome.  Thus [[Parenting|childrearing]] is most important and that parents of good [[mature]] [[consciousness]], with a [[commitment]] and [[intention]] to raise the child conscientiously, are present and able to do so.  

Vicki:  Thank you.  In our [[culture]], when [[children]] reach an adolescent or young adult age, they are often resistant to [[spiritual]] [[guidance]], and [[parents]] find it difficult to engage them in [[spiritual]] activity.  I [[understand]] that some of this is part of our [[culture]]’s inability to provide a continuous spiritual growth throughout their childhood.  Does it also have something to do with ages and [[stages]] of [[spiritual]] [[development]] that we [[experience]] as well?

Vicki:  Thank you.  In our [[culture]], when [[children]] reach an adolescent or young adult age, they are often resistant to [[spiritual]] [[guidance]], and [[parents]] find it difficult to engage them in [[spiritual]] activity.  I [[understand]] that some of this is part of our [[culture]]’s inability to provide a continuous spiritual growth throughout their childhood.  Does it also have something to do with ages and [[stages]] of [[spiritual]] [[development]] that we [[experience]] as well?

Parental Commitment and conscious intention in childrearing

*Parental Commitment and conscious intention in childrearing

   

   

MONJORONSON:  Not so much.  Again, this [[culture]] is awfully [[busy]]; it is the [[busyness]] it has given itself [that] is far too high and occupies too much [[time]].  The time that parents took in the evenings to read bedtime stories, [[parables]] and [[morals]] to [[children]] while they were in preschool years is commendable, and there is no reason why this same [[commitment]] to time and tucking the children in bed with stories and [[wisdoms]] and later on [[meditations]] and [[prayers]], could not and should not continue.  It is the [[choice]] of the [[parent]] to be distracted by other [[things]], rather than their children.  It is unfortunate that in this [[culture]], children who go to school come [[home]] and have dinner and then every [[individual]] in the household goes their own way.  This is not how a [[family]] is built; this is not how [[communities]] are built and maintained, so that they are morally and socially sustainable.  Again, it is the parent’s [[responsibility]] to take the time to be with their [[children]] and to engage them.  It is much like teaching young [[children]] and [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolescence adolescents] [[http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial Arts martial arts]—it requires [[time]], [[patience]], [[diligence]], instruction and time to [[practice]] those [[skills]].  It is admirable to see children [[learning]] [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tae_Kwon_Do tae kwon do] and [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karate karate], and the martial arts lend themselves to [[discipline]] of the [[mind]] and [[prayer]] and [[relationship]] to the [[divine]] as well.  We see no loss of [[continuum]] in this [[learning]] [[process]].  It is a matter of your culture being too busy and too distracted by [[individual]] needs, to spend [[time]] with their [[children]].  Parents are far too invested in their [[careers]], and the obligations of their duties to their employment.  Many other [[cultures]]—even western cultures—do not invest this kind of unreal amounts of time to their careers after hours, when they are with their [[families]].  

MONJORONSON:  Not so much.  Again, this [[culture]] is awfully [[busy]]; it is the [[busyness]] it has given itself [that] is far too high and occupies too much [[time]].  The time that parents took in the evenings to read bedtime stories, [[parables]] and [[morals]] to [[children]] while they were in preschool years is commendable, and there is no reason why this same [[commitment]] to time and tucking the children in bed with stories and [[wisdoms]] and later on [[meditations]] and [[prayers]], could not and should not continue.  It is the [[choice]] of the [[parent]] to be distracted by other [[things]], rather than their children.  It is unfortunate that in this [[culture]], children who go to school come [[home]] and have dinner and then every [[individual]] in the household goes their own way.  This is not how a [[family]] is built; this is not how [[communities]] are built and maintained, so that they are morally and socially sustainable.  Again, it is the parent’s [[responsibility]] to take the time to be with their [[children]] and to engage them.  It is much like teaching young [[children]] and [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolescence adolescents] [[https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial Arts martial arts]—it requires [[time]], [[patience]], [[diligence]], instruction and time to [[practice]] those [[skills]].  It is admirable to see children [[learning]] [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tae_Kwon_Do tae kwon do] and [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karate karate], and the martial arts lend themselves to [[discipline]] of the [[mind]] and [[prayer]] and [[relationship]] to the [[divine]] as well.  We see no loss of [[continuum]] in this [[learning]] [[process]].  It is a matter of your culture being too busy and too distracted by [[individual]] needs, to spend [[time]] with their [[children]].  Parents are far too invested in their [[careers]], and the obligations of their duties to their employment.  Many other [[cultures]]—even western cultures—do not invest this kind of unreal amounts of time to their careers after hours, when they are with their [[families]].  

   

   

It begins with the [[conscious]] [[conception]].  It begins with the conscious [[intention]] of how to raise that child and that [[consciousness]].  That intention, that [[commitment]] does not end even after the child has left [[home]], but then is given to the grandchildren who come [[home]] to visit.  If you are going to be [[parents]], then commit yourself and obligate yourselves to those [[duties]].  If you are going to be begrudging or resentful of the time [[necessary]] to raise children, then it is better that you ought not to have children.  You can become a very deeply [[spiritually]] centered [[individual]] without having children, and it is your [[responsibility]] to raise those children that way, if you do choose to have them.

It begins with the [[conscious]] [[conception]].  It begins with the conscious [[intention]] of how to raise that child and that [[consciousness]].  That intention, that [[commitment]] does not end even after the child has left [[home]], but then is given to the grandchildren who come [[home]] to visit.  If you are going to be [[parents]], then commit yourself and obligate yourselves to those [[duties]].  If you are going to be begrudging or resentful of the time [[necessary]] to raise children, then it is better that you ought not to have children.  You can become a very deeply [[spiritually]] centered [[individual]] without having children, and it is your [[responsibility]] to raise those children that way, if you do choose to have them.

*The important roles of ritual]] and celebration in a child’s life

*The important roles of ritual]] and celebration in a child’s life

   

   

MONJORONSON:  Most definitely!  Each child should have a—some [[cultures]] call it an [[altar]]—but they should have a [[sacred]] place in their bedroom or someplace that is theirs; it is a [[private]] space where they can go to be alone.  Oftentimes, children have a need for space alone, away from [[parents]] and [[siblings]] and obligations of their own social networks, to be with themselves, and when they are with themselves, they can be with their [[Thought Adjuster]].  This begins early on, even in [[infancy]], where the child has time to [[play]] by themselves, to be with themselves.  It is helpful if the adult, the [[parent]], assist that child in [[interpreting]] that time alone, so that they can [[determine]] that this is a time to be with [[God]], to be with their [[Creator]] and to be within the [[growing]], [[spiritual]] [[presence]] within themselves.  

MONJORONSON:  Most definitely!  Each child should have a—some [[cultures]] call it an [[altar]]—but they should have a [[sacred]] place in their bedroom or someplace that is theirs; it is a [[private]] space where they can go to be alone.  Oftentimes, children have a need for space alone, away from [[parents]] and [[siblings]] and obligations of their own social networks, to be with themselves, and when they are with themselves, they can be with their [[Thought Adjuster]].  This begins early on, even in [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infancy infancy], where the child has time to [[play]] by themselves, to be with themselves.  It is helpful if the adult, the [[parent]], assist that child in [[interpreting]] that time alone, so that they can [[determine]] that this is a time to be with [[God]], to be with their [[Creator]] and to be within the [[growing]], [[spiritual]] [[presence]] within themselves.  

   

   

Yes, [[rituals]] are extremely important; ceremonies lesser so.  Rituals and [[preparation]] for those rituals are important.  It is much like two little girls [[practicing]] having tea, where they have little teacups and saucers and milk and so on, and they practice having tea—whether they are English or Japanese, this is a [[preparation]] for adulthood.  So, too, is time to be in [[meditation]] and [[prayer]], time alone, time to recreate with the [[Creator]]; it is a [[preparation]] for adulthood.  

Yes, [[rituals]] are extremely important; ceremonies lesser so.  Rituals and [[preparation]] for those rituals are important.  It is much like two little girls [[practicing]] having tea, where they have little teacups and saucers and milk and so on, and they practice having tea—whether they are English or Japanese, this is a [[preparation]] for adulthood.  So, too, is time to be in [[meditation]] and [[prayer]], time alone, time to recreate with the [[Creator]]; it is a [[preparation]] for adulthood.  

   

   

You have far too little genuine celebration for accomplishment.  Your sign of celebration, which we have received and congratulate you on, is the “high five.”  It is a “Yes!” to some accomplishment.  It is important to signalize, to create a spark of [[memory]], around accomplishments, and this is also [[ceremony]].  And everyone knows that when your pet frog dies that everybody is solemn and you go out and bury the frog with due ceremony and ritual.  So, too, must you celebrate when your pet gerbils have offspring, that this is a time of celebration.  When ducks fledge and swim, so too is this to be [[observed]] and [[appreciated]].  There are so many rituals and ceremonies that can be accomplished in [[childhood]] that train the [[individual]] to be in [[tune]] with special [[moments]], and this is important.  Those special moments can be daily, weekly, monthly, or on some special occurrence or [[event]].  Certainly everyone goes out for pizza and soda drinks after they have won the pennant of their [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_League_Baseball Little League baseball] [[games]], or [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soccer soccer], or [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey hockey], or whatever.  There is the celebration of accomplishment, the [[attainment]] of goals.  So, too, the goals of growing [[spirituality]] in a child is celebrated as well.   

You have far too little genuine celebration for accomplishment.  Your sign of celebration, which we have received and congratulate you on, is the “high five.”  It is a “Yes!” to some accomplishment.  It is important to signalize, to create a spark of [[memory]], around accomplishments, and this is also [[ceremony]].  And everyone knows that when your pet frog dies that everybody is solemn and you go out and bury the frog with due ceremony and ritual.  So, too, must you celebrate when your pet gerbils have offspring, that this is a time of celebration.  When ducks fledge and swim, so too is this to be [[observed]] and [[appreciated]].  There are so many rituals and ceremonies that can be accomplished in [[childhood]] that train the [[individual]] to be in [[tune]] with special [[moments]], and this is important.  Those special moments can be daily, weekly, monthly, or on some special occurrence or [[event]].  Certainly everyone goes out for pizza and soda drinks after they have won the pennant of their [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_League_Baseball Little League baseball] [[games]], or [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soccer soccer], or [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey hockey], or whatever.  There is the celebration of accomplishment, the [[attainment]] of goals.  So, too, the goals of growing [[spirituality]] in a child is celebrated as well.   

I thank you for your question, and it is a [[pleasure]] to assist you in this way.  It gives much greater [[meaning]] to [[childhood]] for [[individuals]].  Many of you look back at your childhood as being bereft of significance, of happy times, celebrations, accomplishments, and of the awareness of [[commitment]] by your [[parents]].  It is [[time]] to [[change]] that, so that all are aware of the obligations and [[commitments]] of everyone.  Thank you.

I thank you for your question, and it is a [[pleasure]] to assist you in this way.  It gives much greater [[meaning]] to [[childhood]] for [[individuals]].  Many of you look back at your childhood as being bereft of significance, of happy times, celebrations, accomplishments, and of the awareness of [[commitment]] by your [[parents]].  It is [[time]] to [[change]] that, so that all are aware of the obligations and [[commitments]] of everyone.  Thank you.

   

   

Vicki:  This is just tremendously [[practical]] [[advice]].  [[Wonderful]]!  I [[think]] many people will benefit from this.  We talked about the significance and variations in the practice of [[baptism]], and I was going to ask if there are other [[practices]] that would be particularly relevant to [[children]], but I’m [[wondering]] if in your [[reference]] to the [[fact]] that ceremonies are not as important as ritual, if you’ve already answered this question.

Vicki:  This is just tremendously [[practical]] [[advice]].  [[Wonderful]]!  I [[think]] many people will benefit from this.  We talked about the significance and variations in the practice of [[baptism]], and I was going to ask if there are other [[practices]] that would be particularly relevant to [[children]], but I’m [[wondering]] if in your [[reference]] to the [[fact]] that ceremonies are not as important as ritual, if you’ve already answered this question.

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*Celebrating the child’s first moral choice

*Celebrating the child’s first moral choice

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===='''''[[Race]]''''', '''''[[Diversity]]'''''====

Vicki:  Monjoronson, I’m going to move on to a [[discussion]] on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiculturalism blended family].  First, I want to mention the [[fact]] that I am a part of a blended family, both in religious terms, and racial terms.  My husband and I created a blended [[family]].  I’m going to start with this question:  As [[future]] [[events]] unfold[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Catastrophism], causing disruption to families, similar to what we’ve seen in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti Haiti], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile Chile], and maybe some other [[events]] that are soon to come, we can expect the [[possibility]] that there will be more [[orphans]], and that there will be more racially blended families.  Am I correct?  (That is correct.)  I’m guessing that this will have both a positive and a negative impact.  Could you speak to this?

Vicki:  Monjoronson, I’m going to move on to a [[discussion]] on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiculturalism blended family].  First, I want to mention the [[fact]] that I am a part of a blended family, both in religious terms, and racial terms.  My husband and I created a blended [[family]].  I’m going to start with this question:  As [[future]] [[events]] unfold[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Catastrophism], causing disruption to families, similar to what we’ve seen in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti Haiti], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile Chile], and maybe some other [[events]] that are soon to come, we can expect the [[possibility]] that there will be more [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan orphans], and that there will be more racially blended families.  Am I correct?  (That is correct.)  I’m guessing that this will have both a positive and a negative impact.  Could you speak to this?

   

   

*Blended families

*Blended families

   

   

MONJORONSON:  Most certainly.  On most [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 inhabited planets] that are not [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_58#PAPER_58:_LIFE_ESTABLISHMENT_ON_URANTIA decimal planets], or [[experimental]] [[planets]], as [[earth]] or [[Urantia]], there is the time where the [[races]] of men are blended with the races of [[spirit]].  Your world has not had that benefit to any great [[degree]], to be of great [[influence]] today.  Your world struggles with blended families of various [[religions]].  You can have two or three religions being [[practiced]] in one [[family]].  You can have [[individuals]] who are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasian_race Caucasian], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas American Indian], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Ethnic_groups_of_India East Indian], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African African], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_China Chinese] that are in the same [[family]].  For your world and your families, this may or may not be any [[difficulty]].  It most generally occurs that when you have a multiple blended family, racially; someone has made a [[conscious]] [[choice]] to bring those [[children]] into that [[family]].  There is [[receptivity]] to it.  It is important for this world, as it moves ahead, to have the removal of [[stigmatism]], [[prejudice]], bias, and [[bigotry]] against [[Race|racial]] aspects of your world.  This is a [[fact]] of your world; there are races that are very distinct, and it is important that this outward [[appearance]] not have any [[effect]] upon your estimation of an [[individual]]’s [[worth]].  It is remarkable, however, that you may have a single [[race]] [[family]], where each [[individual]] exhibits far, far greater [[difference]] of [[temperament]] and social [[maturity]] and [[spiritual]] [[evolution]], than a [[http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiculturalism blended family], but you [[accept]] each other as the same, because you are of the same [[Body|skin]] [[color]].  

MONJORONSON:  Most certainly.  On most [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_49 inhabited planets] that are not [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_58#PAPER_58:_LIFE_ESTABLISHMENT_ON_URANTIA decimal planets], or [[experimental]] [[planets]], as [[earth]] or [[Urantia]], there is the time where the [[races]] of men are blended with the races of [[spirit]].  Your world has not had that benefit to any great [[degree]], to be of great [[influence]] today.  Your world struggles with blended families of various [[religions]].  You can have two or three religions being [[practiced]] in one [[family]].  You can have [[individuals]] who are [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasian_race Caucasian], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas American Indian], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Ethnic_groups_of_India East Indian], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African African], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_China Chinese] that are in the same [[family]].  For your world and your families, this may or may not be any [[difficulty]].  It most generally occurs that when you have a multiple blended family, racially; someone has made a [[conscious]] [[choice]] to bring those [[children]] into that [[family]].  There is [[receptivity]] to it.  It is important for this world, as it moves ahead, to have the removal of [[stigmatism]], [[prejudice]], bias, and [[bigotry]] against [[Race|racial]] aspects of your world.  This is a [[fact]] of your world; there are races that are very distinct, and it is important that this outward [[appearance]] not have any [[effect]] upon your estimation of an [[individual]]’s [[worth]].  It is remarkable, however, that you may have a single [[race]] [[family]], where each [[individual]] exhibits far, far greater [[difference]] of [[temperament]] and social [[maturity]] and [[spiritual]] [[evolution]], than a [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiculturalism blended family], but you [[accept]] each other as the same, because you are of the same [[Body|skin]] [[color]].  

   

   

In many ways, considering the [[Ascension Career|ascendant journey]] that you will [[experience]] in your [[infinite]] [[ascension]] to [[Paradise]], in the many lifetimes that you will [[experience]] along the way, and all the hundreds of [[different]] [[planets]] upon which you will live and be educated, you will come into contact with not only one or two dozen [[races]], but [[literally]] hundreds of different races of incredibly [[different]] [[individuals]].  As you come into contact with them, even on the [[Mansion Worlds|morontial realm]], you will have capacity when you meet them, to view their [[history]] in their [[Aura|auric field]], their “record,” so to speak.  You will see whether they were of a very [[different]] [[body]] shape or style/[[type]], or metabolism, height or [[weight]], or [[dimensions]].  Most all are bilateral in [[nature]], and this is the [[unifying]] factor of all of you.  You have on this planet, the [[opportunity]] to overcome shock and amazement at seeing and having [[conversations]] with [[individuals]] who are so diversely [[different]] than you are, [[Vision|visually]].  Yet, and because of this, you have the [[opportunity]] to [[appreciate]] those [[differences]], and secondly, to look within to see who the [[person]] really is.  Remember, this is just a “[[costume]]” you are wearing; you are all [[Siblings|brothers and sisters]] of the [[soul]] within, and this is the genuine self who you really are in the [[infinity]] of [[time]].  So see this as an [[opportunity]] to [[develop]] your [[spiritual]] [[growth]] in [[different]] ways.

In many ways, considering the [[Ascension Career|ascendant journey]] that you will [[experience]] in your [[infinite]] [[ascension]] to [[Paradise]], in the many lifetimes that you will [[experience]] along the way, and all the hundreds of [[different]] [[planets]] upon which you will live and be educated, you will come into contact with not only one or two dozen [[races]], but [[literally]] hundreds of different races of incredibly [[different]] [[individuals]].  As you come into contact with them, even on the [[Mansion Worlds|morontial realm]], you will have capacity when you meet them, to view their [[history]] in their [[Aura|auric field]], their “record,” so to speak.  You will see whether they were of a very [[different]] [[body]] shape or style/[[type]], or metabolism, height or [[weight]], or [[dimensions]].  Most all are bilateral in [[nature]], and this is the [[unifying]] factor of all of you.  You have on this planet, the [[opportunity]] to overcome shock and amazement at seeing and having [[conversations]] with [[individuals]] who are so diversely [[different]] than you are, [[Vision|visually]].  Yet, and because of this, you have the [[opportunity]] to [[appreciate]] those [[differences]], and secondly, to look within to see who the [[person]] really is.  Remember, this is just a “[[costume]]” you are wearing; you are all [[Siblings|brothers and sisters]] of the [[soul]] within, and this is the genuine self who you really are in the [[infinity]] of [[time]].  So see this as an [[opportunity]] to [[develop]] your [[spiritual]] [[growth]] in [[different]] ways.

   

   

As for the [[practicality]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_China adopting] [[children]] from other [[races]], from other [[cultures]], from other nations, other ethnic [[groups]], be aware that you will be required to have great [[patience]].  You should [[examine]] your own [[personal]] [[maturity]] before you do this, as you want to be the best [[influence]] to these children, rather than giving them the lesser [[dimensions]] of your [[behavior]], of your [[personality]].  Thank you.

As for the [[practicality]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_China adopting] [[children]] from other [[races]], from other [[cultures]], from other nations, other ethnic [[groups]], be aware that you will be required to have great [[patience]].  You should [[examine]] your own [[personal]] [[maturity]] before you do this, as you want to be the best [[influence]] to these children, rather than giving them the lesser [[dimensions]] of your [[behavior]], of your [[personality]].  Thank you.

   

   

Vicki:  Yes, in having experienced that and having an adopted foreign-born son racially diverse from my husband and I, there are [[challenges]], and [with] these [[challenges]], we found there were others that extended beyond [[race]].  They included [[developmental]] adjustments that the child had to make to a new [[culture]], and also recovery from some very early harmful [[experiences]].  Do you have anything else to add to that?

Vicki:  Yes, in having experienced that and having an adopted foreign-born son racially diverse from my husband and I, there are [[challenges]], and [with] these [[challenges]], we found there were others that extended beyond [[race]].  They included [[developmental]] adjustments that the child had to make to a new [[culture]], and also recovery from some very early harmful [[experiences]].  Do you have anything else to add to that?

   

   

Vicki:  This is a [[curiosity]] question—I’m not even sure if you might have answered it, in talking about past [[discussions]] of [[genetics]]—I’ll give this a try:  As [[parents]] of an adopted and racially [[diverse]] foreign-born son, who joined our [[family]] in early infancy, we observed some cultural propensities, not typical of the culture we raised him in, but more typical of his [[ancestral]] [[culture]].  Some say that the cultural practices and orientations of our early ancestors, is deeply ingrained, and indeed stored in our [[DNA]].  Is this a valid [[assumption]]?  (Yes.)  Okay, then my next question takes a [[spiritual]] turn here:  Does our ancestral [[DNA]] then affect our leaning toward certain [[spiritual]] [[practices]] and [[beliefs]], regardless of [[environmental]] [[influences]]?  (Yes.)  Can you speak to that more?

Vicki:  This is a [[curiosity]] question—I’m not even sure if you might have answered it, in talking about past [[discussions]] of [[genetics]]—I’ll give this a try:  As [[parents]] of an adopted and racially [[diverse]] foreign-born son, who joined our [[family]] in early infancy, we observed some cultural propensities, not typical of the culture we raised him in, but more typical of his [[ancestral]] [[culture]].  Some say that the cultural practices and orientations of our early ancestors, is deeply ingrained, and indeed stored in our [[DNA]].  Is this a valid [[assumption]]?  (Yes.)  Okay, then my next question takes a [[spiritual]] turn here:  Does our ancestral [[DNA]] then affect our leaning toward certain [[spiritual]] [[practices]] and [[beliefs]], regardless of [[environmental]] [[influences]]?  (Yes.)  Can you speak to that more?

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===='''''[[DNA]]'''''====

*Culture, thinking and behavior imprinted on genes

*Culture, thinking and behavior imprinted on genes

   

   

MONJORONSON:  Certainly.  I have spoken to you before about the imprinting [[process]] of [[behaviors]] and [[cultures]] and [[thinking]], upon your [[gene]] [[structure]].  What your genetic [[scientists]] have not [[discovered]], and perhaps will not discover for quite some time, is the encoding [[process]], where it is encoded, how it is retained, and how it is [[expressed]] later in the progeny of those who have learned new [[behaviors]].  Yes, the [[powerful]] [[influences]] of your [[culture]], of your [[thinking]], of your [[behavior]], do imprint on your [[gene]] [[structure]], and are transferred to others even after the [[birth]] of your [[children]].  It is a remarkable [[process]] that few will discover, or understand thoroughly for decades, if not for centuries, as this is one of the [[mysteries]] of life.  Just as no one of your [[scientists]] will ever discover how the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_36#36:3._LIFE_TRANSPLANTATION spark of life] initiates life and imprints itself upon that [[growing]] [[embryo]], they will have as much [[difficulty]] [[understanding]] the imprinting process, upon the gene [[structure]] of individuals and its transference.

MONJORONSON:  Certainly.  I have spoken to you before about the imprinting [[process]] of [[behaviors]] and [[cultures]] and [[thinking]], upon your [[gene]] [[structure]].  What your genetic [[scientists]] have not [[discovered]], and perhaps will not discover for quite some time, is the encoding [[process]], where it is encoded, how it is retained, and how it is [[expressed]] later in the progeny of those who have learned new [[behaviors]].  Yes, the [[powerful]] [[influences]] of your [[culture]], of your [[thinking]], of your [[behavior]], do imprint on your [[gene]] [[structure]], and are transferred to others even after the [[birth]] of your [[children]].  It is a remarkable [[process]] that few will discover, or understand thoroughly for decades, if not for centuries, as this is one of the [[mysteries]] of life.  Just as no one of your [[scientists]] will ever discover how the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_36#36:3._LIFE_TRANSPLANTATION spark of life] initiates life and imprints itself upon that [[growing]] [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embryo embryo], they will have as much [[difficulty]] [[understanding]] the imprinting process, upon the gene [[structure]] of individuals and its transference.

   

   

It is both [[individual]], and it is [[cultural]], and it is [[racial]]—racial meaning, I should rather say, “[[species]] specific”—that the species of [[humankind]] holds an [[energetic]] [[cosmic]] [[mind]], [[cosmic consciousness]], planetary consciousness, that affects all those who enter into this [[energetic]] realm.  Were your children raised on the moon, they would still have ties to the [[earth]], earth’s [[population]] and the mass of humankind’s [[consciousness]], simply because they are of that kind.  So it is that your adopted children from another [[race]] often begin to exhibit [[practices]] which their parents or grandparents—or someone else—earlier in their heritage had practiced.  They will have interests that tend to move them towards areas of the [[past]].  These may [[express]] soon, or they may express later in life.  Sometimes these racial [[memories]] do not come into expression and awareness in the individual until later in life, in the 30’s and 40’s, when there is time to [[reflect]] and to have the [[consciousness]] that they are [[different]], and they begin to [[measure]] how they are [[different]], and of course this ignites a chain of [[memories]], or a chain of [[thoughts]] that [[reflect]] their earlier [[ancestry]].  

It is both [[individual]], and it is [[cultural]], and it is [[racial]]—racial meaning, I should rather say, “[[species]] specific”—that the species of [[humankind]] holds an [[energetic]] [[cosmic]] [[mind]], [[cosmic consciousness]], planetary consciousness, that affects all those who enter into this [[energetic]] realm.  Were your children raised on the moon, they would still have ties to the [[earth]], earth’s [[population]] and the mass of humankind’s [[consciousness]], simply because they are of that kind.  So it is that your adopted children from another [[race]] often begin to exhibit [[practices]] which their parents or grandparents—or someone else—earlier in their heritage had practiced.  They will have interests that tend to move them towards areas of the [[past]].  These may [[express]] soon, or they may express later in life.  Sometimes these racial [[memories]] do not come into expression and awareness in the individual until later in life, in the 30’s and 40’s, when there is time to [[reflect]] and to have the [[consciousness]] that they are [[different]], and they begin to [[measure]] how they are [[different]], and of course this ignites a chain of [[memories]], or a chain of [[thoughts]] that [[reflect]] their earlier [[ancestry]].  

   

   

This is a fascinating area of the [[Life Carriers]]; it is part of their own [[discipline]] for bringing into [[existence]] the [[survival]] capacity of a [[species]] of [[individuals]] on a [[planet]].  It is important for the [[survival]] of that species, that they be able to transfer the [[wisdom]] of the [[races]] forward.  Consciously engaging this [[process]], knowing that you are making a [[difference]] in this and future [[generations]], is perhaps one of the most conscientious aspects that you can have as a [[participant]] of a [[race]] of [[mortal]] [[beings]], who have [[Thought Adjusters]].  This is the greatest [[service]] one can provide to their world, and to [[future]] [[generations]].  Thank you.

This is a fascinating area of the [[Life Carriers]]; it is part of their own [[discipline]] for bringing into [[existence]] the [[survival]] capacity of a [[species]] of [[individuals]] on a [[planet]].  It is important for the [[survival]] of that species, that they be able to transfer the [[wisdom]] of the [[races]] forward.  Consciously engaging this [[process]], knowing that you are making a [[difference]] in this and future [[generations]], is perhaps one of the most conscientious aspects that you can have as a [[participant]] of a [[race]] of [[mortal]] [[beings]], who have [[Thought Adjusters]].  This is the greatest [[service]] one can provide to their world, and to [[future]] [[generations]].  Thank you.

===Closing===

===Closing===

Vicki:  I think that concludes our session.  I would really like to thank you, Monjoronson, for this session.  It has been one of my favorites.  I lean towards the sessions that give us [[practical]] [[advice]] and help us now, in our [[co-creative]] efforts.  You have provided a [[wealth]] of knowledge here today, and I truly [[appreciate]] it.

Vicki:  I think that concludes our session.  I would really like to thank you, Monjoronson, for this session.  It has been one of my favorites.  I lean towards the sessions that give us [[practical]] [[advice]] and help us now, in our [[co-creative]] efforts.  You have provided a [[wealth]] of knowledge here today, and I truly [[appreciate]] it.

*Practical Spirituality 101

*Practical Spirituality 101

   

   

MONJORONSON:  You are most welcome.  You have among you, several [[Melchizedeks]], who are [[Mansion World|morontial world]] [[teachers]], and they would call this, “Practical Spirituality 101.”  It is a conscious engagement of living life as a [[spiritual]] being on a [[material]] world, and this is a [[continuum]] that does not end.  It is simply a matter of [[knowing]] that you are not separated from your [[Creator]], you are not separated from [[individuals]], either by life or [[death]], by [[culture]] or [[planet]] of [[origin]].  Thank you.

MONJORONSON:  You are most welcome.  You have among you, several [[Melchizedeks]], who are [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_48#48:5._THE_MANSION_WORLD_TEACHERS morontial world teachers], and they would call this, “Practical Spirituality 101.”  It is a conscious engagement of living life as a [[spiritual]] being on a [[material]] world, and this is a [[continuum]] that does not end.  It is simply a matter of [[knowing]] that you are not separated from your [[Creator]], you are not separated from [[individuals]], either by life or [[death]], by [[culture]] or [[planet]] of [[origin]].  Thank you.

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