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===Lesson===

===='''''[[Social Movements]]'''''====

===='''''[[Social Movements]]'''''====

0802-AB:        Jack here.  I have been eagerly awaiting this [[renewed]] [[opportunity]] to join with you.  It is a [[smiling]] [[face]] that greets you, rather like the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheshire_cat Cheshire cat], having a [[countenance]] that might indicate I have [[secrets]] to convey, as if to say “I know something you don’t know.” And that is probably true but it doesn’t really matter because each of us can only handle what we can handle and deal with what is given to us and so we can all walk around like a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheshire_cat Cheshire Cat] because indeed we do all have a [[secret]] but as time goes by it is less and less a secret because a [[relationship]] with [[Deity]] is becoming more and more a [[popular]] thing and [[known]] by more and more believers. It’s not like it once was when I first started [[conversing]] with you humans. The times have truly [[changed]].  You have, in [[fact]], come a long way. It may not be apparent to you but it certainly is to me.

0802-AB:        Jack here.  I have been eagerly awaiting this [[renewed]] [[opportunity]] to join with you.  It is a [[smiling]] [[face]] that greets you, rather like the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheshire_cat Cheshire cat], having a [[countenance]] that might indicate I have [[secrets]] to convey, as if to say “I know something you don’t know.” And that is probably true but it doesn’t really matter because each of us can only handle what we can handle and deal with what is given to us and so we can all walk around like a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheshire_cat Cheshire Cat] because indeed we do all have a [[secret]] but as time goes by it is less and less a secret because a [[relationship]] with [[Deity]] is becoming more and more a [[popular]] thing and [[known]] by more and more believers. It’s not like it once was when I first started [[conversing]] with you humans. The times have truly [[changed]].  You have, in [[fact]], come a long way. It may not be apparent to you but it certainly is to me.

For example, have you given any [[consideration]] to the contribution you have made to the [[Social movement|world wide movement]] now underway in which the [[soul]] of [[humanity]] has risen up to claim its [[rights]] and assert its [[dignity]] before those of [[authority]] which would keep them [[oppressed]] or play unkind [[games]] on them and otherwise succeeding at their [[expense]].  It is hardly fair, this unequal [[distribution]] of [[wealth]] that has tilted the scales from one of [[passive]] acquiescence to one of [[revolution]].  No, the [[teachers]] have not taught [[revolution]]. They have not suggested you go up in arms over the things that bother you [[individually]] or [[collectively]], but your [[souls]] are beginning to [[act]] as if with a [[mind]] of its own, as you have been [[promised]], and as you [[act]] in concert with the [[divine]] will you can be [[assured]] of many [[changes]], all for the better.

For example, have you given any [[consideration]] to the contribution you have made to the [[Social movement|world wide movement]] now underway in which the [[soul]] of [[humanity]] has risen up to claim its [[rights]] and assert its [[dignity]] before those of [[authority]] which would keep them [[oppressed]] or play unkind [[games]] on them and otherwise succeeding at their [[expense]].  It is hardly fair, this unequal [[distribution]] of [[wealth]] that has tilted the scales from one of [[passive]] acquiescence to one of [[revolution]].  No, the [[teachers]] have not taught [[revolution]]. They have not suggested you go up in arms over the things that bother you [[individually]] or [[collectively]], but your [[souls]] are beginning to [[act]] as if with a [[mind]] of its own, as you have been [[promised]], and as you [[act]] in concert with the [[divine]] will you can be [[assured]] of many [[changes]], all for the better.

This is what you call “[[spiritual pressure]].”  This [[spiritual]] [[pressure]] business is in [[the Father]]’s [[mystery]], for if you were to attempt to apply spiritual pressure to someone it would backfire, surely. You cannot [[force]] someone to make [[spiritual]] [[decisions]]. You cannot make someone read the [[Urantia Book]].  You cannot make someone want to know [[God]].  You cannot force someone to live a [[righteous]] life.  But if you do, if you [[represent]] the [[values]] you would have others reach for and live by, the [your [[actions]]] speak louder than [[words]].  Not only that, your good [[energy]], conjoined with the good energy of others, and a groundswell commences to enter into the [[consciousness]] -- [[collective consciousness]] of [[Urantia]] such that [[change]] is coming [[literally]] as well as figuratively.

This is what you call “[[spiritual pressure]].”  This [[spiritual]] [[pressure]] business is in [[the Father]]’s [[mystery]], for if you were to attempt to apply spiritual pressure to someone it would backfire, surely. You cannot [[force]] someone to make [[spiritual]] [[decisions]]. You cannot make someone read the [[Urantia Book]].  You cannot make someone want to know [[God]].  You cannot force someone to live a [[righteous]] life.  But if you do, if you [[represent]] the [[values]] you would have others reach for and live by, the [your [[actions]]] speak louder than [[words]].  Not only that, your good [[energy]], conjoined with the good energy of others, and a groundswell commences to enter into the [[consciousness]] -- [[collective consciousness]] of [[Urantia]] such that [[change]] is coming [[literally]] as well as figuratively.

There are many things you can do to contribute further because the [[work]] has hardly begun.  This is only an indication that [[change]] must be made. [[Assuredly]], [http://occupywallst.org/ the protests] will be squelched, they will be dispersed, the crowds will be dispersed. Cold [[weather]] will come and the protestors will seek [[shelter]], but never again will the [[consciousness]] of what they have [[experienced]] be diminished nor will the [[memory]] of their [[synchronistic]] [[activity]] be forgotten, and so a step forward has been made, a new [[plateau]] has been reached.  Continue to seek [[First Source and Center|the source]], to [[embrace]] the [[power]] of [[peace]], to look for correction of worldly ways to [[reveal]] the [[divine]] [[character]].

There are many things you can do to contribute further because the [[work]] has hardly begun.  This is only an indication that [[change]] must be made. [[Assuredly]], [https://occupywallst.org/ the protests] will be squelched, they will be dispersed, the crowds will be dispersed. Cold [[weather]] will come and the protestors will seek [[shelter]], but never again will the [[consciousness]] of what they have [[experienced]] be diminished nor will the [[memory]] of their [[synchronistic]] [[activity]] be forgotten, and so a step forward has been made, a new [[plateau]] has been reached.  Continue to seek [[First Source and Center|the source]], to [[embrace]] the [[power]] of [[peace]], to look for correction of worldly ways to [[reveal]] the [[divine]] [[character]].

===='''''[[Stillness]]'''''====

===='''''[[Stillness]]'''''====

The [[simple]] [[fact]] of [[Stillness]] has provided the key here and continues to provide the key for it opens the door for your [[perception]] of a better world.  It lifts you from the [[darkness]] from which you come.  [[The master]] came and [[promised]] to lead you forth from that [[darkness]] into the [[light]] and you have been reminded of this in your life personally by spending time with [[the Master]] in [[Stillness]], allowing Him to come close to you, [[touch]] your [[heart]], amend your [[thinking]], modify your [[feelings]] such that you have begun to [[appreciate]] the qualities of [[divinity]] such as [[mercy]], [[love]], [[compassion]] and the like.  

The [[simple]] [[fact]] of [[Stillness]] has provided the key here and continues to provide the key for it opens the door for your [[perception]] of a better world.  It lifts you from the [[darkness]] from which you come.  [[The master]] came and [[promised]] to lead you forth from that [[darkness]] into the [[light]] and you have been reminded of this in your life personally by spending time with [[the Master]] in [[Stillness]], allowing Him to come close to you, [[touch]] your [[heart]], amend your [[thinking]], modify your [[feelings]] such that you have begun to [[appreciate]] the qualities of [[divinity]] such as [[mercy]], [[love]], [[compassion]] and the like.  

And so our end goal is a long way away but we have had little [[victories]], little successes that have given us tremendous [[joy]], great [[satisfaction]]. These moments of [[recognition]] of the [[truth]] of the [[evolutionary]] [[process]], the [[ascension scheme]], whereby you are raised from a [[cellular]] creature to a dignified [[Ascending sons|son of God]], is indeed a long [[process]] but if you take note of the [[changes]] and the [[progress]] along the way, you can see it! And this is a great [[confirmation]] for you on those days when you feel you are not getting anywhere and that [[evolution]] has surely taken a backward step. [[Encourage]] one another.

And so our end goal is a long way away but we have had little [[victories]], little successes that have given us tremendous [[joy]], great [[satisfaction]]. These moments of [[recognition]] of the [[truth]] of the [[evolutionary]] [[process]], the [[ascension scheme]], whereby you are raised from a [[cellular]] creature to a dignified [[Ascending sons|son of God]], is indeed a long [[process]] but if you take note of the [[changes]] and the [[progress]] along the way, you can see it! And this is a great [[confirmation]] for you on those days when you feel you are not getting anywhere and that [[evolution]] has surely taken a backward step. [[Encourage]] one another.

It gives me great [[pleasure]] to have these [[moments]] in time to be able to come here and [[encourage]] you. You provide us with encouragement.  Your [[enthusiasm]] some days is delightfully unsinkable, even in the [[face]] of your [[agondonter]] status.  To have no [[finite]] [[proof]] of [[God]]’s [[existence]] and still continue to have [[faith]] [[humbles]] us.  I know there are many who might think that you were simply being [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollyanna Pollyanna-ish], living in a [[fool]]’s paradise, pulling the wool over your own eyes so as not to see the dire straits of the [[human condition]], or looking at life through rose-colored glasses, and I [[suppose]] there are days when you might [[wonder]] about that yourself.  But I want you to consider now and forevermore that there is a [[spark]] of life within you that does know – knows beyond question, knows beyond all [[doubt]], knows with every aspect of its [[existence]] – that you are going to make it, that the [[planet]] is going to make it, also.

It gives me great [[pleasure]] to have these [[moments]] in time to be able to come here and [[encourage]] you. You provide us with encouragement.  Your [[enthusiasm]] some days is delightfully unsinkable, even in the [[face]] of your [[agondonter]] status.  To have no [[finite]] [[proof]] of [[God]]’s [[existence]] and still continue to have [[faith]] [[humbles]] us.  I know there are many who might think that you were simply being [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollyanna Pollyanna-ish], living in a [[fool]]’s paradise, pulling the wool over your own eyes so as not to see the dire straits of the [[human condition]], or looking at life through rose-colored glasses, and I [[suppose]] there are days when you might [[wonder]] about that yourself.  But I want you to consider now and forevermore that there is a [[spark]] of life within you that does know – knows beyond question, knows beyond all [[doubt]], knows with every aspect of its [[existence]] – that you are going to make it, that the [[planet]] is going to make it, also.

Not only is it going to [[survive]], it is going to become a [[shrine]] to the [[Creator Son|creator]] of this [[local universe]]! And we are going to [[proceed]] into our [[future]] as [[citizens]] who have come from this future shrine. Hold your head up! It is not your fault the world is temporarily so [[confused]] and its [[citizenry]] so [[dysfunctional]]. Find that [[clarity]] that rises within you, that [[spark]] of [[light]] and [[truth]], and project that [[divine]] [[illumination]] out over the world and everyone in it, for that is truly their [[legacy]]. That is their legacy and nothing less.  

Not only is it going to [[survive]], it is going to become a [[shrine]] to the [[Creator Son|creator]] of this [[local universe]]! And we are going to [[proceed]] into our [[future]] as [[citizens]] who have come from this future shrine. Hold your head up! It is not your fault the world is temporarily so [[confused]] and its [[citizenry]] so [[dysfunctional]]. Find that [[clarity]] that rises within you, that [[spark]] of [[light]] and [[truth]], and project that [[divine]] [[illumination]] out over the world and everyone in it, for that is truly their [[legacy]]. That is their legacy and nothing less.  

ATHENA:    Ah, my dear, I am [[glad]] to be able to [[consult]] with you about your plight, and I would say let’s jump into the boulevard.  A few venues are there for you that you have not taken full [[advantage]] of.  Perhaps you have refined your [[act]] so well to a [[spiritual]] [[audience]], you have curtailed your own [[potential]].  Spiritual [[messages]], as you know, are not limited to [[spirit]]-[[talk]], religious talk, and there are a great many people who are [[eager]] to have something new to [[entertain]] them and to [[laugh]] about.

ATHENA:    Ah, my dear, I am [[glad]] to be able to [[consult]] with you about your plight, and I would say let’s jump into the boulevard.  A few venues are there for you that you have not taken full [[advantage]] of.  Perhaps you have refined your [[act]] so well to a [[spiritual]] [[audience]], you have curtailed your own [[potential]].  Spiritual [[messages]], as you know, are not limited to [[spirit]]-[[talk]], religious talk, and there are a great many people who are [[eager]] to have something new to [[entertain]] them and to [[laugh]] about.

Have you tried the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dining_clubs supper clubs]? Have you tried the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy_clubs comedy clubs]? Have you tried the lounges, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_club jazz venues], or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues blues venues]?  I think perhaps you need a new marketing [[agent]].  We [[observe]] the [[dynamism]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pato_Banton Pato Banton] and the Now Generation and have to [[smile]] at the [[industry]] with which this now 50-year-old man approaches his [[work]], sometimes on a grueling [[schedule]], endlessly touting The [[Urantia Book]] and becoming quite [[focused]] on his [[mission]].  It’s not that his [[audience]] is limited to those who would hear about The [[Urantia Book]], no, because people are able to [[embrace]] the [[energy]] that he brings, the energy that is [[inherent]] in the [[message]] he espouses.  

Have you tried the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dining_clubs supper clubs]? Have you tried the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy_clubs comedy clubs]? Have you tried the lounges, the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_club jazz venues], or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues blues venues]?  I think perhaps you need a new marketing [[agent]].  We [[observe]] the [[dynamism]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pato_Banton Pato Banton] and the Now Generation and have to [[smile]] at the [[industry]] with which this now 50-year-old man approaches his [[work]], sometimes on a grueling [[schedule]], endlessly touting The [[Urantia Book]] and becoming quite [[focused]] on his [[mission]].  It’s not that his [[audience]] is limited to those who would hear about The [[Urantia Book]], no, because people are able to [[embrace]] the [[energy]] that he brings, the energy that is [[inherent]] in the [[message]] he espouses.  

I know there is, in [[human]] terms, a [[difference]] between being 50 and 60 – and it can be a significant difference.  Also your [[work]] is really much more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophistication sophisticated] than Pato’s, which is very [[universal]].  The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggae Reggae] beat is so elemental; it’s not [[difficult]] to get everyone to tap their toe in [[synch]] with him, thus bringing about a sense of [[unity]] and [[harmony]] which he capitalizes on very well.  I just would hate to [[think]] that you have sold out your very [[versatile]] talents by an over-[[focus]] on [[religious]] [[messages]] when those [[values]] could be spread around to much broader venues, to [[audiences]] who have become much more [[eager]] to hear [[intelligent]] and skilled artistry such as yours.

I know there is, in [[human]] terms, a [[difference]] between being 50 and 60 – and it can be a significant difference.  Also your [[work]] is really much more [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophistication sophisticated] than Pato’s, which is very [[universal]].  The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggae Reggae] beat is so elemental; it’s not [[difficult]] to get everyone to tap their toe in [[synch]] with him, thus bringing about a sense of [[unity]] and [[harmony]] which he capitalizes on very well.  I just would hate to [[think]] that you have sold out your very [[versatile]] talents by an over-[[focus]] on [[religious]] [[messages]] when those [[values]] could be spread around to much broader venues, to [[audiences]] who have become much more [[eager]] to hear [[intelligent]] and skilled artistry such as yours.

Your mastery of [[words]] and your style of delivery are lost in the [[churches]], in my [[opinion]] – although I would certainly not close the door on that venue.  There are just so many other areas available if you need to begin at this late date by opening your own club or buying into an existing establishment with someone wherein you can garner a following, similar to the ones set up by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas Las Vegas] performers.  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Newton Wayne Newton] never had to go anywhere else except that one club.  You could do the same.  Or you could do more like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pato_Banton Pato], but again, your work is sophisticated and your [[audience]] will be a bit more refined, and so you do need to cultivate the [[audience]] that you seek but it is not just to be found in the [[churches]], my friend.  Churches may be safe but they do not begin to utilize your [[potential]] as an entertainer.

Your mastery of [[words]] and your style of delivery are lost in the [[churches]], in my [[opinion]] – although I would certainly not close the door on that venue.  There are just so many other areas available if you need to begin at this late date by opening your own club or buying into an existing establishment with someone wherein you can garner a following, similar to the ones set up by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas Las Vegas] performers.  [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Newton Wayne Newton] never had to go anywhere else except that one club.  You could do the same.  Or you could do more like [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pato_Banton Pato], but again, your work is sophisticated and your [[audience]] will be a bit more refined, and so you do need to cultivate the [[audience]] that you seek but it is not just to be found in the [[churches]], my friend.  Churches may be safe but they do not begin to utilize your [[potential]] as an entertainer.

I don’t know if this has been helpful but it is my input.

I don’t know if this has been helpful but it is my input.