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I feel peculiar here, in some ways, for I have seen the lessons that have been presented by my fellow Teachers. [[2000-10-22-Harmony|Ham recently spoke on "harmony."]] Most of the lessons are designed to help you [[understand]] your [[divine]] nature, your kinship with divinity, the affirmative aspects of [[soul growth]], and adapting to your ministry. Harmony is such a lesson, in that, it gives you the sense that all is well. In [[Master Universe|God's universe]], all is well. There is harmony, [[peace]], [[productivity]], industry, [[affection]], contentment - all the affirmative and [[positive]] [[attitudes]].

I feel peculiar here, in some ways, for I have seen the lessons that have been presented by my fellow Teachers. [[2000-10-22-Harmony|Ham recently spoke on "harmony."]] Most of the lessons are designed to help you [[understand]] your [[divine]] nature, your kinship with divinity, the affirmative aspects of [[soul growth]], and adapting to your ministry. Harmony is such a lesson, in that, it gives you the sense that all is well. In [[Master Universe|God's universe]], all is well. There is harmony, [[peace]], [[productivity]], industry, [[affection]], contentment - all the affirmative and [[positive]] [[attitudes]].

Let's look at [[harmony]] in terms of the [[autumn]] leaves that you are all familiar with. Look out upon the autumn leaves and see the harmony of [[nature]], even while you have evergreens standing next to the many, many [[colors]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deciduous_trees deciduous leaves] that will fall, leaving the stately [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_tree pines] to stand as [[sentinels]] throughout the [[winter]] as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_tree oak] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maple_tree maple], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birch_tree birch] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elm_tree elm] go through their seasonal adjustments of [[dormancy]].

Let's look at [[harmony]] in terms of the [[autumn]] leaves that you are all familiar with. Look out upon the autumn leaves and see the harmony of [[nature]], even while you have evergreens standing next to the many, many [[colors]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deciduous_trees deciduous leaves] that will fall, leaving the stately [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_tree pines] to stand as [[sentinels]] throughout the [[winter]] as the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_tree oak] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maple_tree maple], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birch_tree birch] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elm_tree elm] go through their seasonal adjustments of [[dormancy]].

Do you think the elm would accuse the oak of [[rebellion]]? Or the oak would say the pine was rebelling because they were a different [[color]]? Because its leaves were not the same as pine needles? Or the leaves that turn gold are in [[opposition]] to those that turn red? No. They are [[harmonious]]. They all do what they do best and they harmonize. Look out across the hillside and the [[valleys]] and see how perfectly blended [[nature]] is, all of them doing what they do best and remaining true to their [[inherent]] [[purpose]].

Do you think the elm would accuse the oak of [[rebellion]]? Or the oak would say the pine was rebelling because they were a different [[color]]? Because its leaves were not the same as pine needles? Or the leaves that turn gold are in [[opposition]] to those that turn red? No. They are [[harmonious]]. They all do what they do best and they harmonize. Look out across the hillside and the [[valleys]] and see how perfectly blended [[nature]] is, all of them doing what they do best and remaining true to their [[inherent]] [[purpose]].

Student: Before you explained that the T/R was having a hard time with your selection of [[words]], it seemed you struggled to find the word "[[artificial]]." What do you mean by that?

Student: Before you explained that the T/R was having a hard time with your selection of [[words]], it seemed you struggled to find the word "[[artificial]]." What do you mean by that?

PAULO: Open yourself to all that you can be, and that is not simply artificial, as in artificial sweetener. Your [[society]], your [[culture]], your [[Christian]] back-ground, something in you presents yourselves as turning the other cheek and behaving in such a way that would deny very real elements of your [[composition]]. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_deadly_sins seven deadly sins] have given the [[human condition]] a bad [[reputation]]. As a race, there was a time indeed when you behaved with more [[barbarism]], but now you've become more sophisticated and thus more insidious. But that does not mean you have acquired any [[virtue]].

PAULO: Open yourself to all that you can be, and that is not simply artificial, as in artificial sweetener. Your [[society]], your [[culture]], your [[Christian]] back-ground, something in you presents yourselves as turning the other cheek and behaving in such a way that would deny very real elements of your [[composition]]. The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_deadly_sins seven deadly sins] have given the [[human condition]] a bad [[reputation]]. As a race, there was a time indeed when you behaved with more [[barbarism]], but now you've become more sophisticated and thus more insidious. But that does not mean you have acquired any [[virtue]].

I am [[hoping]] to be able to help you cut to the core of what is real. If you are afraid of what is real, you will continue to ingest "[[artificial]] sweeteners" instead of genuine milk and honey, as it were. Be [[aware]] of artificial sweeteners, and see if they are covering a [[rebellion]], and if so, what is it a rebellion against, and if you are going to [[observe]] this in another, also observe it in yourself. You are no less interesting a test case and no less important in this [[study]] than those with whom you have dealings.

I am [[hoping]] to be able to help you cut to the core of what is real. If you are afraid of what is real, you will continue to ingest "[[artificial]] sweeteners" instead of genuine milk and honey, as it were. Be [[aware]] of artificial sweeteners, and see if they are covering a [[rebellion]], and if so, what is it a rebellion against, and if you are going to [[observe]] this in another, also observe it in yourself. You are no less interesting a test case and no less important in this [[study]] than those with whom you have dealings.

Student: Thank you, Paulo. That was excellent. It was really [[profound]]. I guess I just have to say that the more we can get into the [[truth]] of our [[behaviors]] that are often going to be, it's like being offered a quick course in [[self-understanding]] and I think I like that quick [[course]]. I might have to take it two or three times, but...

Student: Thank you, Paulo. That was excellent. It was really [[profound]]. I guess I just have to say that the more we can get into the [[truth]] of our [[behaviors]] that are often going to be, it's like being offered a quick course in [[self-understanding]] and I think I like that quick [[course]]. I might have to take it two or three times, but...

PAULO: [[Life]] is very [[vital]]. But it takes a [[courageous]] [[individual]] to live life to the fullest. I'm not talking about an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_Knievel Evil Knievel] kind of personality who takes that kind of [[risks]]. I'm talking about an [[ordinary]] person, a regular person, who has the [[courage]] to look within and see in there all there is to see, even that which is not innately of the Indwelling [[Adjuster]], There are [[heroic]] elements in the human, the [[animal]] who is the repository of the ages in terms of [[culture]] and contribution to [[evolution]]. All of that is in there, is a part of you.

PAULO: [[Life]] is very [[vital]]. But it takes a [[courageous]] [[individual]] to live life to the fullest. I'm not talking about an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_Knievel Evil Knievel] kind of personality who takes that kind of [[risks]]. I'm talking about an [[ordinary]] person, a regular person, who has the [[courage]] to look within and see in there all there is to see, even that which is not innately of the Indwelling [[Adjuster]], There are [[heroic]] elements in the human, the [[animal]] who is the repository of the ages in terms of [[culture]] and contribution to [[evolution]]. All of that is in there, is a part of you.

Are you going to deny what hundreds and thousands of years of [[development]] has provided and say the only [[value]], the only value is that which came from [[Divinington]]? What does that make you, then? That makes you nothing! How good is that for [[self-esteem]]? Not very good. And you need to have self-respect for your [[self]]. Tomas has talked about self-[[respect]] as a result of having an [[Adjuster]] indwell you, and this is [[virtual reality]], because the subject would not even appeal to you if you were not interested in looking at your very real self. You can't look at your very real self until such time as you yourself are very real. And the [[spirit]] is the most real part of you, but it's not ALL of you. The rest of you is real also; very real.

Are you going to deny what hundreds and thousands of years of [[development]] has provided and say the only [[value]], the only value is that which came from [[Divinington]]? What does that make you, then? That makes you nothing! How good is that for [[self-esteem]]? Not very good. And you need to have self-respect for your [[self]]. Tomas has talked about self-[[respect]] as a result of having an [[Adjuster]] indwell you, and this is [[virtual reality]], because the subject would not even appeal to you if you were not interested in looking at your very real self. You can't look at your very real self until such time as you yourself are very real. And the [[spirit]] is the most real part of you, but it's not ALL of you. The rest of you is real also; very real.

Student: No. It just makes one [[think]] a little bit more about it. Well said.

Student: No. It just makes one [[think]] a little bit more about it. Well said.

PAULO: I will ask my [[comrades]], Tomas and Aaron, if I am doing the right thing. (Pause) We would be delighted to take questions from the [[community]] at large. In fact, I [[anticipate]] we will be able to do that here in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spokane,_Washington Spokane] as you develop the [[outreach]] into your [[community]], in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought New Thought community]. And insofar as that's concerned, the [[Teaching Mission]] proponents may also have questions that have not been presented to Teachers for one reason or another and I am offering myself as a respondent. In fact, Aaron and Tomas and I are all available and willing to [[assist]] in your questions.

PAULO: I will ask my [[comrades]], Tomas and Aaron, if I am doing the right thing. (Pause) We would be delighted to take questions from the [[community]] at large. In fact, I [[anticipate]] we will be able to do that here in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spokane,_Washington Spokane] as you develop the [[outreach]] into your [[community]], in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought New Thought community]. And insofar as that's concerned, the [[Teaching Mission]] proponents may also have questions that have not been presented to Teachers for one reason or another and I am offering myself as a respondent. In fact, Aaron and Tomas and I are all available and willing to [[assist]] in your questions.

As you say, there's much to this "[[conversations]] with [[celestials]]" that needs to be [[socialized]] in the greater [[community]] so that the world at large begins to [[understand]] that we are here to stay and that having conversations with God or [[angels]] or whomever in the spirit realm is not weird anymore but a part of the growing [[reality]]. If you can't ask God, who can you ask? Thank you Mr. Walsh for opening the door to "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversations_with_God Conversations with God]." Any time God is on the best seller list, it's a good sign, wouldn't you say?

As you say, there's much to this "[[conversations]] with [[celestials]]" that needs to be [[socialized]] in the greater [[community]] so that the world at large begins to [[understand]] that we are here to stay and that having conversations with God or [[angels]] or whomever in the spirit realm is not weird anymore but a part of the growing [[reality]]. If you can't ask God, who can you ask? Thank you Mr. Walsh for opening the door to "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversations_with_God Conversations with God]." Any time God is on the best seller list, it's a good sign, wouldn't you say?

===Closing===

===Closing===

I can see that this teaching business is [[stimulating]], invigorating and [[habit]] forming. I will relinquish the [[podium]], and relinquish you as well for the afternoon, with thanks to [[Machiventa]], [[Abraham]], [[Ham]] and all the other Teachers in [[this Mission]] for paving the way and opening the avenues for further [[learning]], teaching and [[disseminating]] the New Thought, the new Social Order, the new way of [[Life and Light]]. Good afternoon.

I can see that this teaching business is [[stimulating]], invigorating and [[habit]] forming. I will relinquish the [[podium]], and relinquish you as well for the afternoon, with thanks to [[Machiventa]], [[Abraham]], [[Ham]] and all the other Teachers in [[this Mission]] for paving the way and opening the avenues for further [[learning]], teaching and [[disseminating]] the New Thought, the new Social Order, the new way of [[Life and Light]]. Good afternoon.