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Group: Pocatello, Idaho

===Group: [[Pocatello TeaM]]===

 

Teacher: Daniel

===Teacher: [[Daniel]], [[Minearsia]]===

 

===TR: [[Bill K.]], [[Nancy]]===

Topic: What You Believe

 

 

Daniel(Bill): Greetings, my friends, I am your teacher, Daniel. I am also your friend and your admirer. Your willingness to disclose your hearts to each other is, of course, a fruit of the Spirit as, indeed, it is a form of confiding trust. It also demonstrates your core values and beliefs. It demonstrates that you believe that the interaction between personalities, bonafide persons, at the level of honesty and compassion, has great value for you all.

Daniel(Bill): Greetings, my friends, I am your teacher, Daniel. I am also your friend and your admirer. Your willingness to disclose your hearts to each other is, of course, a fruit of the Spirit as, indeed, it is a form of confiding trust. It also demonstrates your core values and beliefs. It demonstrates that you believe that the interaction between personalities, bonafide persons, at the level of honesty and compassion, has great value for you all.

 

The technique of discovering what you believe and what you value is part of the process of spiritual growth. In some ways it appears to be the root source, but generally, as most of your testimonies reveal, this kind of introspection usually does not occur in the beginning. Because each of you has within you the divine Fragment, that part of the First Source and Center given to you when you first demonstrated your capacity for moral choice, is there a burning desire, is there a smouldering which burns in you all, and in all other people as well.

The technique of discovering what you believe and what you value is part of the process of spiritual growth. In some ways it appears to be the root source, but generally, as most of your testimonies reveal, this kind of introspection usually does not occur in the beginning. Because each of you has within you the divine Fragment, that part of the First Source and Center given to you when you first demonstrated your capacity for moral choice, is there a burning desire, is there a smouldering which burns in you all, and in all other people as well.

Daniel(Bill): I will say this. Who is capable of discovering truth? What does it require to find this most precious of treasures? The answer is....anyone who sincerely seeks shall find the truth. Knock and the door shall be opened. Ask and you shall receive, said our Master and in so saying revealed the key to discovery of truth. This is self evident and therefor I need not elaborate further. I am finished.

Daniel(Bill): I will say this. Who is capable of discovering truth? What does it require to find this most precious of treasures? The answer is....anyone who sincerely seeks shall find the truth. Knock and the door shall be opened. Ask and you shall receive, said our Master and in so saying revealed the key to discovery of truth. This is self evident and therefor I need not elaborate further. I am finished.

 

Bob P: A couple questions. One, to that last piece. Seek and you shall find or something like that. And the second has to do with asking. Seeking isn't necessarily finding, it is a path to finding but again somewhere in there, there has to be some kind of an acceptance. I am not sure I yet accept the fact that I believe . ..I agree that you can't prove the next level doesn't exist just as you can't prove that our scientific reality is the only reality. It clearly is the reality that most of us experience and most of us experience everyday and most of us can see, feel, and touch. It is not as easy as saying you can't disprove the other, therefor it is real.

Bob P: A couple questions. One, to that last piece. Seek and you shall find or something like that. And the second has to do with asking. Seeking isn't necessarily finding, it is a path to finding but again somewhere in there, there has to be some kind of an acceptance. I am not sure I yet accept the fact that I believe . ..I agree that you can't prove the next level doesn't exist just as you can't prove that our scientific reality is the only reality. It clearly is the reality that most of us experience and most of us experience everyday and most of us can see, feel, and touch. It is not as easy as saying you can't disprove the other, therefor it is real.

Daniel(Bill): One is tempted to say of previous understandings of truth that they were error. But that is inaccurate. They were not error, they were merely relative to a larger perspective, therefor less accurate. This is somewhat subtle to understand. We like to refer to the term scaffolding to describe the relationship of partial and lesser truth to larger and greater truth, for it is a necessary process in order to construct the larger building of truth. The scaffolding has to be there to make the construction possible.

Daniel(Bill): One is tempted to say of previous understandings of truth that they were error. But that is inaccurate. They were not error, they were merely relative to a larger perspective, therefor less accurate. This is somewhat subtle to understand. We like to refer to the term scaffolding to describe the relationship of partial and lesser truth to larger and greater truth, for it is a necessary process in order to construct the larger building of truth. The scaffolding has to be there to make the construction possible.