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===Topic: '''''Framework of Beliefs'''''===

===Topic: ''Framework of Beliefs''===

===Group: [[Lightline TeaM]]===

===Group: [[Lightline TeaM]]===

==Facilitators==

==Facilitators==

   

   

0802-AB JACK here.  Good evening, kids.  I’ll get the car warmed up, get the motor humming as it were, so we can putter on down this road and get somewhere, enjoy the scenery. We have Tomas with us this evening. He recently indicated he would like to address the group and so without further ado I will step aside and let Tomas have the floor. One moment.

0802-AB JACK here.  Good evening, kids.  I’ll get the car warmed up, get the motor humming as it were, so we can putter on down this road and get somewhere, enjoy the scenery. We have Tomas with us this evening. He recently indicated he would like to address the group and so without further ado I will step aside and let Tomas have the floor. One moment.

===='''''[[Philosophy]]'''''====

====''[[Philosophy]]''====

TOMAS:        Greetings, friends and students.  I am Tomas, your teacher.  I am a member of the Teacher Corps. I am a philosopher and part of my purpose in being here as a teacher is to introduce the field of philosophy so that we might all enjoy the benefits of philosophic thought and discussion. Not everyone is a professed religionist. Not everyone is interested in talking about God or Jesus or religion or angels or those things that you enjoy as a result of your commonality with other religionists, and yet chances are everyone would enjoy a bit of meaningful exchange now and then, a bit of philosophic tete-a-tete that stimulates the mind and prompts the heart to stir in a way that the Thought Adjuster can be activated by the will of the man, woman or child that you have engaged with in this philosophic tete-a-tete. And thus you serve by contributing to the expansion of the light of truth.

TOMAS:        Greetings, friends and students.  I am Tomas, your teacher.  I am a member of the Teacher Corps. I am a philosopher and part of my purpose in being here as a teacher is to introduce the field of philosophy so that we might all enjoy the benefits of philosophic thought and discussion. Not everyone is a professed religionist. Not everyone is interested in talking about God or Jesus or religion or angels or those things that you enjoy as a result of your commonality with other religionists, and yet chances are everyone would enjoy a bit of meaningful exchange now and then, a bit of philosophic tete-a-tete that stimulates the mind and prompts the heart to stir in a way that the Thought Adjuster can be activated by the will of the man, woman or child that you have engaged with in this philosophic tete-a-tete. And thus you serve by contributing to the expansion of the light of truth.

   

   

In this way you don’t need to … What’s the phrase? … “beat each other over the head” with the tenets of your belief. Philosophy is in many ways related to psychology, in fact, and while it includes something of how you feel about a situation or an idea, it enables you to rise above the emotional aspect of such feeling and focus on the thought behind the feeling. This mind arena of choice is where those decisions are made which advance or retard your progress, and with your progress, inherently come the progress of the human race, and so naturally we are concerned about keeping the thought processes of you, our students, up and focused on the work at hand.

In this way you don’t need to … What’s the phrase? … “beat each other over the head” with the tenets of your belief. Philosophy is in many ways related to psychology, in fact, and while it includes something of how you feel about a situation or an idea, it enables you to rise above the emotional aspect of such feeling and focus on the thought behind the feeling. This mind arena of choice is where those decisions are made which advance or retard your progress, and with your progress, inherently come the progress of the human race, and so naturally we are concerned about keeping the thought processes of you, our students, up and focused on the work at hand.

===='''''[[Belief]]'''''====

====''[[Belief]]''====

I’d like to speak a little bit this evening about beliefs.  Beliefs are not always dogma, they are not always doctrine, but they are what you are taught, directly or indirectly, from the time you are tiny, by the environment you live in, beginning with your parents and your immediate family, extending out as your grow into the extended family of aunts and uncles and neighbors, and into school where your beliefs are enlarged by and through education, and also through your own experience. And this process goes on throughout your life, never really ending, always enlarging; even when there are those who want to attain a level of belief that suits them and they want to stop growing or entertaining other beliefs, even so, the process continues because experience continues. The very act of aging itself provides opportunities for beliefs to change.

I’d like to speak a little bit this evening about beliefs.  Beliefs are not always dogma, they are not always doctrine, but they are what you are taught, directly or indirectly, from the time you are tiny, by the environment you live in, beginning with your parents and your immediate family, extending out as your grow into the extended family of aunts and uncles and neighbors, and into school where your beliefs are enlarged by and through education, and also through your own experience. And this process goes on throughout your life, never really ending, always enlarging; even when there are those who want to attain a level of belief that suits them and they want to stop growing or entertaining other beliefs, even so, the process continues because experience continues. The very act of aging itself provides opportunities for beliefs to change.

   

   

   

   

Eventually you can and do learn that many beliefs serve limited purpose, and you are eager to be done with them quicker, with less resistance than when you felt you wouldn’t be able to live without them. You are more willing to entertain new beliefs that might enhance or embellish the ones that work for you. You become more open about beliefs. You even begin to admire others for their beliefs and how well they stand behind their beliefs, or how their beliefs enable them to function in life’s situations, be they battle, retail, government or wherever.  

Eventually you can and do learn that many beliefs serve limited purpose, and you are eager to be done with them quicker, with less resistance than when you felt you wouldn’t be able to live without them. You are more willing to entertain new beliefs that might enhance or embellish the ones that work for you. You become more open about beliefs. You even begin to admire others for their beliefs and how well they stand behind their beliefs, or how their beliefs enable them to function in life’s situations, be they battle, retail, government or wherever.  

===='''''[[Revelation]]'''''====

====''[[Revelation]]''====

The value of revelation – epochal revelation – is that it provides something to believe in that is not created by your parents or your schools or your teachers or preachers. It is taught by those on high and brought to your world to provide a new scaffolding of belief under which your soul may grow, through which you may operate. And the advantage of epochal revelation is that even though everyone has their own personal interpretation of what this revelation reveals, there is a united … there is unity in the meaning and value that it holds that feeds your faith and stimulates your soul. That very reality is something you have in common. It may be one of the few things you have in common, but it is adequate. It is sufficient to band you all together regardless of the myriad beliefs you may have in that profound unspeakable appreciation of that which you know, deep within you, not because of your belief but because of your faith.

The value of revelation – epochal revelation – is that it provides something to believe in that is not created by your parents or your schools or your teachers or preachers. It is taught by those on high and brought to your world to provide a new scaffolding of belief under which your soul may grow, through which you may operate. And the advantage of epochal revelation is that even though everyone has their own personal interpretation of what this revelation reveals, there is a united … there is unity in the meaning and value that it holds that feeds your faith and stimulates your soul. That very reality is something you have in common. It may be one of the few things you have in common, but it is adequate. It is sufficient to band you all together regardless of the myriad beliefs you may have in that profound unspeakable appreciation of that which you know, deep within you, not because of your belief but because of your faith.

   

   

In the meantime, if you’d like to engage in the time we have left, open your channel by pressing star six on your telephone and as they say on The Price is Right, “Come on down!” and we can engage.  Do you have questions?

In the meantime, if you’d like to engage in the time we have left, open your channel by pressing star six on your telephone and as they say on The Price is Right, “Come on down!” and we can engage.  Do you have questions?

===Dialogue===

===Dialogue===

===='''''[[Children]]''''', '''''[[Smile]]'''''====

====''[[Children]]'', ''[[Smile]]''====

Eva:  Yes, Hi.  I have a question, Jack.  I enjoy being in the classroom.  This is Eva.  I wanted to ask you.  Why is it children smile? I’m speaking of tots. And I do appreciate what I’ve heard. It does resonate very deeply, but I’m eager to ask about this because they should, by all rights, from what I’ve observed, they are too young to be smiling and they should be doing it only when they are adults. Is this spirit imbued? Why that beautiful, heavenly, beatific smile?

Eva:  Yes, Hi.  I have a question, Jack.  I enjoy being in the classroom.  This is Eva.  I wanted to ask you.  Why is it children smile? I’m speaking of tots. And I do appreciate what I’ve heard. It does resonate very deeply, but I’m eager to ask about this because they should, by all rights, from what I’ve observed, they are too young to be smiling and they should be doing it only when they are adults. Is this spirit imbued? Why that beautiful, heavenly, beatific smile?