Changes

Prayer:  Father God, thank you for this [[moment]] in time when we can come together in unison, in [[spirit]], and, in [[confidence]] of your [[overcare]], conjoin with one another in [[trust]] and [[faith]] of our sonship, our fraternity, our [[friendship]]. Help us get as much out of this [[moment]] as we can so that we can take what we get and give it out to those we meet as we pass by, to Your [[glory]].  [[Amen]].

Prayer:  Father God, thank you for this [[moment]] in time when we can come together in unison, in [[spirit]], and, in [[confidence]] of your [[overcare]], conjoin with one another in [[trust]] and [[faith]] of our sonship, our fraternity, our [[friendship]]. Help us get as much out of this [[moment]] as we can so that we can take what we get and give it out to those we meet as we pass by, to Your [[glory]].  [[Amen]].

===Lesson===

===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 [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.

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.

Once more I will remind you of Teacher [[Ham]]’s initial [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=1992-02-01-Ham_To_General_Council message to you February 1, 1992], when he said “Welcome to Change.”  The undertaking was to -- and continues to be -- in addition to [[personal]] correcting, correcting also of the many [[dysfunctions]] entrenched in your global [[societies]], remnants of [[errors]] made long ago and carried forward into today’s [[economic]] system, [[educational]] system, and in many, many other ways, all of which are earmarked for recovery and we might as well be about [[the Father]]’s business.  

Once more I will remind you of Teacher [[Ham]]’s initial [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=1992-02-01-Ham_To_General_Council message to you February 1, 1992], when he said “Welcome to Change.”  The undertaking was to -- and continues to be -- in addition to [[personal]] correcting, correcting also of the many [[dysfunctions]] entrenched in your global [[societies]], remnants of [[errors]] made long ago and carried forward into today’s [[economic]] system, [[educational]] system, and in many, many other ways, all of which are earmarked for recovery and we might as well be about [[the Father]]’s business.  

===='''''[[Spiritual Pressure]]'''''====

====''[[Spiritual Pressure]]''====

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]], [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]].

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.  

When you are sitting around in [[Stillness]], or puttering around at your craft, your task, your work bench, [[contemplate]] those [[values]] that you would like to see [[manifested]] in a world to come. It’s not possible for you to have a full-blown [[picture]] of what [[light and life]] for [[Urantia]] might look like, but you can get [[glimpses]] of what [[values]] and situations you would find to be an improvement.  Begin to put [[energy]] into the [[visualization]] of those [[realities]].  Apply more [[spiritual pressure]] simply by holding them in your [[consciousness]], for as you have such [[visions]], as you maintain those [[potentials]] and give [[energy]] to them, this gives rise, this [[encourages]] the same [[process]] in others.  It’s about that mutual [[stimulation]] of the [[imagination]] that [[Rodan]] speaks about.  

When you are sitting around in [[Stillness]], or puttering around at your craft, your task, your work bench, [[contemplate]] those [[values]] that you would like to see [[manifested]] in a world to come. It’s not possible for you to have a full-blown [[picture]] of what [[light and life]] for [[Urantia]] might look like, but you can get [[glimpses]] of what [[values]] and situations you would find to be an improvement.  Begin to put [[energy]] into the [[visualization]] of those [[realities]].  Apply more [[spiritual pressure]] simply by holding them in your [[consciousness]], for as you have such [[visions]], as you maintain those [[potentials]] and give [[energy]] to them, this gives rise, this [[encourages]] the same [[process]] in others.  It’s about that mutual [[stimulation]] of the [[imagination]] that [[Rodan]] speaks about.  

===='''''[[Process]]'''''====

====''[[Process]]''====

And don’t be afraid to [[announce]] your goals for the [[future]] with your [[friends]] and your [[peers]]. Naturally there will be those who will scoff.  Let them scoff.  [[Eventually]] and [[gradually]] they will come around. And don’t be [[cynical]] or bitter if when they come around they come around as if it were their [[idea]], denying completely that it was you that planted the [[seed]].  It does not matter. What matters is that these [[seeds]] of [[light and life]] are planted and begin to [[grow]]. It is a [[process]]. It’s not like someone is going to [[wave]] their [[magic]] [[wand]] and stardust will settle over everything creating an [[idyllic]] state, no.  [[Evolutionary]] life is acquired [[painfully]], laboriously, [[patiently]], little bit by little bit.  

And don’t be afraid to [[announce]] your goals for the [[future]] with your [[friends]] and your [[peers]]. Naturally there will be those who will scoff.  Let them scoff.  [[Eventually]] and [[gradually]] they will come around. And don’t be [[cynical]] or bitter if when they come around they come around as if it were their [[idea]], denying completely that it was you that planted the [[seed]].  It does not matter. What matters is that these [[seeds]] of [[light and life]] are planted and begin to [[grow]]. It is a [[process]]. It’s not like someone is going to [[wave]] their [[magic]] [[wand]] and stardust will settle over everything creating an [[idyllic]] state, no.  [[Evolutionary]] life is acquired [[painfully]], laboriously, [[patiently]], little bit by little bit.  

It’s your time.  Come.  Let’s [[share]] in the [[work]].  (Pause)  Star six is the key to open the door here.  Come on down.  Come on in.  Come on out.  (Pause)  Well, I don’t know if you are just being [[shy]] or if you have nothing to say.  Perhaps you have a [[desire]] to talk to someone else in the [[TeaM]] [[hierarchy]].  I’m in the happy position of being a [[liaison]] for [[the teachers]] and other [[heavenly helpers]].  If you have a special request to talk to someone or ask someone else a question, I would be happy to comply with your wishes. (Pause)

It’s your time.  Come.  Let’s [[share]] in the [[work]].  (Pause)  Star six is the key to open the door here.  Come on down.  Come on in.  Come on out.  (Pause)  Well, I don’t know if you are just being [[shy]] or if you have nothing to say.  Perhaps you have a [[desire]] to talk to someone else in the [[TeaM]] [[hierarchy]].  I’m in the happy position of being a [[liaison]] for [[the teachers]] and other [[heavenly helpers]].  If you have a special request to talk to someone or ask someone else a question, I would be happy to comply with your wishes. (Pause)

===Dialogue===

===Dialogue===

===='''''[[Expression]]'''''====

====''[[Expression]]''====

Mark:            Well, yes.  I will ask a question, if I may.  It’s a [[personal]] thing, so I [[hesitate]], but perhaps you, Jack, or someone else who is [[authorized]], will have some [[ideas]] that might help.  I find myself [[frustrated]] in a [[career]].  I am musician, [[song]]-[[writer]], performer with a vast body of work now.  I’m 62 years old and I’ve been doing this for five decades, I guess, but I find myself having a loss for venues, for places to [[play]].  What I do is specialized [[work]]; it’s very [[theatrical]], and … but of course it’s all about the [[gospel]], really, and I do work with the [[churches]].  Perhaps I’m in the [[process]] of answering my own question here, but I do find it – it’s like there was a time when there were plenty of places to [[perform]] but now it’s a much narrower thing, but then I find myself … I just don’t know whether to hold back and wait [[patiently]] for something to open up or to throw myself out on the boulevard, as it were, and see what happens. I’ve gotten [[advice]] from both directions, so that is my plight and I come to you for [[direction]] or [[guidance]].  Thank you.

Mark:            Well, yes.  I will ask a question, if I may.  It’s a [[personal]] thing, so I [[hesitate]], but perhaps you, Jack, or someone else who is [[authorized]], will have some [[ideas]] that might help.  I find myself [[frustrated]] in a [[career]].  I am musician, [[song]]-[[writer]], performer with a vast body of work now.  I’m 62 years old and I’ve been doing this for five decades, I guess, but I find myself having a loss for venues, for places to [[play]].  What I do is specialized [[work]]; it’s very [[theatrical]], and … but of course it’s all about the [[gospel]], really, and I do work with the [[churches]].  Perhaps I’m in the [[process]] of answering my own question here, but I do find it – it’s like there was a time when there were plenty of places to [[perform]] but now it’s a much narrower thing, but then I find myself … I just don’t know whether to hold back and wait [[patiently]] for something to open up or to throw myself out on the boulevard, as it were, and see what happens. I’ve gotten [[advice]] from both directions, so that is my plight and I come to you for [[direction]] or [[guidance]].  Thank you.