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Because so many are detached/ removed/ ignorant of their own connection to deity, they cannot see the effects of their causes. You who are god-conscious can see and you despair when these people don’t see as you see how they are harming themselves and the world.  They are making your life more difficult because of their ignorance.  This is the task we face, Marty.  This earth has a great resilience [technological gap].  You would do well to sound the alarm that continual abuse of your homeland and the homeland of every individual who lives on this planet is unacceptable.
 
Because so many are detached/ removed/ ignorant of their own connection to deity, they cannot see the effects of their causes. You who are god-conscious can see and you despair when these people don’t see as you see how they are harming themselves and the world.  They are making your life more difficult because of their ignorance.  This is the task we face, Marty.  This earth has a great resilience [technological gap].  You would do well to sound the alarm that continual abuse of your homeland and the homeland of every individual who lives on this planet is unacceptable.
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*Evolving Social Morés
 
*Evolving Social Morés
 
   
 
   
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But the problem is, you see, you are all enamored of it.  You all want it.  To some extent or another, you are all impressed with the mansion on the hill, with the limousine, with the unlimited funds.  You really must detach from that yearning and put your eggs in a different basket.  As it says in the scriptures, “Where your heart is, there your treasure will be also,” and so as you embrace your treasure of the spirit, enjoy it for all its worth, for it’s worth everything.  It is indeed the pearl of great price.  
 
But the problem is, you see, you are all enamored of it.  You all want it.  To some extent or another, you are all impressed with the mansion on the hill, with the limousine, with the unlimited funds.  You really must detach from that yearning and put your eggs in a different basket.  As it says in the scriptures, “Where your heart is, there your treasure will be also,” and so as you embrace your treasure of the spirit, enjoy it for all its worth, for it’s worth everything.  It is indeed the pearl of great price.  
 
   
 
   
But at the same time, be careful of those who would seek to inveigle you into the game they play that is no longer that entertaining but has, rather, become destructive and disingenuous.  As long as there are people starving to death, it is a vulgar display of wealth to live as a materialist.  And as a religionist, you could make that point very clearly as you pass by.  It will take time for that social moré to intervene, but it is necessary.  It is time.  You cannot allow Mother Earth to bleed out, and believe me, she is being bled, just as humanity has been bled for years and years by those who seek wealth at the expense of the less fortunate.  
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But at the same time, be careful of those who would seek to inveigle you into the game they play that is no longer that entertaining but has, rather, become destructive and disingenuous.  As long as there are people starving to death, it is a vulgar display of wealth to live as a materialist.  And as a religionist, you could make that point very clearly as you pass by.  It will take time for that social moré to intervene, but it is necessary.  It is time.  You cannot allow Mother Earth to bleed out, and believe me, she is being bled, just as humanity has been bled for years and years by those who seek wealth at the expense of the less fortunate.
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===Closing===
 
===Closing===
 
I will pray with you that the Source of us all infuse us each with as much capacity as we have to dedicate to the cause as it is presented to us and may we give ourselves to that cause with jubilant rejoicing.  Amen and farewell.
 
I will pray with you that the Source of us all infuse us each with as much capacity as we have to dedicate to the cause as it is presented to us and may we give ourselves to that cause with jubilant rejoicing.  Amen and farewell.

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