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==Facilitators==

==Facilitators==

===Teacher: [[Daniel]], [[Aaron]]===

===Teacher: [[Daniel]], [[Aaron]]===

===TR: [[Bill K.]], Bob Devine]]===

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

==Session==

==Session==

===Opening===

===Opening===

Daniel(Bill): A cone of energy is over us now. The movement is from the top down through each of your minds and souls and back up again, back to the source. The energy also swirls clockwise through your hands. The room is jam packed with personalities of pure spirit, or morontia being. Your Seraphim angels are here, your faithful midwayers, also. You are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses. You are in the cosmic family. Greetings. I am Daniel, your teacher, your guide, your friend, and your brother. Let us pray.

Daniel(Bill): A cone of [[energy]] is over us now. The movement is from the top down through each of your [[minds]] and [[souls]] and back up again, back to the source. The energy also swirls clockwise through your hands. The room is jam packed with [[personalities]] of pure [[spirit]], or [[morontia]] being. Your [[Seraphim]] angels are here, your faithful [[midwayers]], also. You are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses. You are in the [[cosmic family]]. Greetings. I am Daniel, your teacher, your [[guide]], your friend, and your brother. Let us pray.

Our Father, thank You for everything: our lives, our personalities, our wonderful journey of destiny fulfillment. Thank You for creating a world where people can be in relationship to each other, even as You are in relationship to the Son and to the Spirit. Thank You for the beauty that pervades the universe in its structure, in its meaning, and in its truth. I thank You for my charges here tonight, my friends, who come once again because they are spiritually hungry and have found here the sustenance for their souls. Bless us altogether that we may learn something new, that we may find opportunity to express Your love, even as Michael has shown us, we pray. Amen,.

Our Father, thank You for [[everything]]: our lives, our personalities, our wonderful [[journey]] of [[destiny]] fulfillment. Thank You for creating a world where people can be in [[relationship]] to each other, even as You are in relationship to [[the Son]] and to [[the Spirit]]. Thank You for the [[beauty]] that pervades [[the universe]] in its [[structure]], in its [[meaning]], and in its [[truth]]. I thank You for my charges here tonight, my friends, who come once again because they are spiritually hungry and have found here the sustenance for their [[souls]]. Bless us altogether that we may learn something new, that we may find [[opportunity]] to express Your love, even as Michael has shown us, we pray. Amen,.

Aaron(Bob D.): Greetings. This is Aaron I amplify my presence upon my student this evening, giving him an opportunity to communicate my words as he has shown willingness to open up. The enjoyment I have witnessing your interaction is at a high level...I will approach a different way. The mission I have this evening with you is twofold: one, to allow Bob the opportunity to attempt to receive such as he has not done so for a while; but I would also like to impress upon you my feelings of thanksgiving. I relish your interaction and your ability to communicate lightheartedly as well as in discussion over the prior lessons. I imagine that you feel a deeper sense of comprehension at times, where you can read through the lessons with each other, discussing their merits and insights we offer. Simeon is hesitant when I ask if you could share this evening about this process of studying the transcripts with each other. I would... (Transmission interrupted)

Bob D.: I can't do it. I don't feel [[comfortable]] to do this tonight. I have to back out. I am not quite ready yet. (Group discussion about [[TR]]ing discomfort and request for substitute TR. No takers from other group members, but lots of [[laughter]] until...)  

Bob D.: I can't do it. I don't feel comfortable to do this tonight. I have to back out. I am not quite ready yet. (Group discussion about TRing discomfort and request for substitute TR. No takers from other group members, but lots of laughter until...) Aaron(Bill): My friends, I continue. Thank you, Bob, for your efforts. They were excellent. You were simply like an athlete who was once used to the feel of the sport and then laid it aside for a while. The comfortable feeling that you have lost is the repetitious sameness and commonality of that exercise, so that when you go back to it the muscles are sore, the senses are acute, the effort is quite strenuous, for the experience is almost as though you are starting over. At the same time, practice effects are not diminished and therefore even though it was uncomfortable to you, you were able to do the job. I would suggest that we have some sessions

Aaron(Bill): My friends, I continue. Thank you, Bob, for your [[efforts]]. They were excellent. You were simply like an [[athlete]] who was once used to the feel of the sport and then laid it aside for a while. The comfortable [[feeling]] that you have lost is the repetitious sameness and commonality of that [[exercise]], so that when you go back to it the muscles are sore, the senses are acute, the effort is quite strenuous, for the experience is almost as though you are starting over. At the same time, [[practice]] effects are not diminished and therefore even though it was uncomfortable to you, you were able to do the job. I would suggest that we have some sessions together and practice for the [[conference]]. Would that be agreeable to you?

together and practice for the conference. Would that be agreeable to you?

Bob D: Sure.

Bob D: Sure.

Aaron: Okay, fine. Then you will be back in the saddle again.

Aaron: Okay, fine. Then you will be back in the saddle again.

I would like to elicit feedback from you regarding your experience of using the previous week's lesson as a review process and a discussion. Because this mission is basically experimental, and always has been, we like to get a direct participatory reaction from all of you who are our students so that we can improve our teaching techniques and/or we can verify the advisability of those procedures which we are using. So, how do you feel about reading last week's lesson? Address that issue and make a recommendations about whether or not it should be continued. I will start with you, Pat. (Laughter)

I would like to elicit [[feedback]] from you regarding your [[experience]] of using the previous week's lesson as a review [[process]] and a [[discussion]]. Because [[this mission]] is basically [[experimental]], and always has been, we like to get a direct participatory [[reaction]] from all of you who are our students so that we can improve our teaching [[techniques]] and/or we can verify the advisability of those [[procedures]] which we are using. So, how do you feel about reading last week's lesson? Address that issue and make a recommendations about whether or not it should be continued. I will start with you, Pat. (Laughter)

Pat: Thank you, Aaron. Well I feel that it has been invaluable for me! We are able to read it a few days after the initial lesson and then come to the next meeting and read it again with everyone's input. It certainly helps my understanding. So I would certainly like to continue with it.

Pat: Thank you, Aaron. Well I feel that it has been invaluable for me! We are able to [[read]] it a few days after the initial lesson and then come to the next [[meeting]] and read it again with everyone's input. It certainly helps my [[understanding]]. So I would certainly like to continue with it.

Aaron: Very good. Thank you. Ken?

Aaron: Very good. Thank you. Ken?

Ken: Greetings to you. Welcome, Aaron. I might say that the lessons provided to us have much food for soul growth! The listening to the lessons, the reading of the lesson, and then the discussion of the lessons is a tremendous educational tool. Listening to each person read and discuss points of interest within the lessons brings those people out and enlightens the rest of us. I do not want to see it discontinued. It is very beneficial. Sometimes there is so much food on the platter, I don't know what to sample first. But that's fine, as long as I sample. Thank you, Aaron.

Ken: Greetings to you. Welcome, Aaron. I might say that the lessons provided to us have much food for [[soul growth]]! The [[listening]] to the lessons, the [[reading]] of the lesson, and then the [[discussion]] of the lessons is a tremendous educational tool. Listening to each person read and discuss points of interest within the lessons brings those people out and [[enlightens]] the rest of us. I do not want to see it discontinued. It is very beneficial. Sometimes there is so much food on the platter, I don't know what to sample first. But that's fine, as long as I sample. Thank you, Aaron.

Aaron: Thank you very much. You both have emphasized the threefold nature of the process: hearing the lessons, reading it later, and finally discussing it. The fourth activity is the teaching of the truths learned in the lesson. All four are aspects of learning. As your proficiency increases, you will naturally share these insights, which you are already doing, with your friends, your family and so forth.

Aaron: Thank you very much. You both have emphasized the threefold nature of the [[process]]: hearing the lessons, [[reading]] it later, and finally [[discussing]] it. The fourth activity is the [[teaching]] of the [[truths]] learned in the lesson. All four are aspects of [[learning]]. As your proficiency increases, you will naturally [[share]] these insights, which you are already doing, with your friends, your family and so forth.

Bob, I realize you have a limited participation with us, but you are a professional teacher. Therefor, I value your opinion on this process, as well.

Bob, I realize you have a limited [[participation]] with us, but you are a professional teacher. Therefor, I [[value]] your [[opinion]] on this [[process]], as well.

Bob P.: It fits my learning style. I think that in the times that I do participate I tend to get more out of the reading and discussion than I do the actual transmission, just because of its staccato nature. It is easier to have the thought all together on the page and get through it that way in discussion. I think that if there is such a thing as spiritual cognition, this is where it actually occurs. I think that this process has been very helpful, more so than, perhaps, the social aspect of it was, prior to this practice. There was a sharing which I felt was a nice social piece of the meeting. But I feel that the learning aspects have increased since this has started.

Bob P.: It fits my [[learning]] style. I think that in the times that I do [[participate]] I tend to get more out of the [[reading]] and [[discussion]] than I do the actual transmission, just because of its [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staccato staccato] nature. It is easier to have the thought all together on the page and get through it that way in [[discussion]]. I think that if there is such a thing as spiritual [[cognition]], this is where it actually occurs. I think that this process has been very helpful, more so than, perhaps, the [[social]] aspect of it was, prior to this practice. There was a sharing which I felt was a nice social piece of the meeting. But I feel that the [[learning]] aspects have increased since this has started.

Aaron: Thank you very much. I am particularly interested in your assessment of the use of time where there was the social sharing, quite personal at times, which time slot is now taken up with the discussion of the lessons.

Aaron: Thank you very much. I am particularly interested in your [[assessment]] of the use of time where there was the [[social]] [[sharing]], quite personal at times, which time slot is now taken up with the [[discussion]] of the lessons.

Bob P.: Can I interject again? (Certainly) I think that part of the value of the social was to bond the group to the point of feeling comfortable in a lot of aspects of spiritual growth. I hate to catagorize on a single end something that could be thought of as a continuum, as the group tends to disperse in the cycles it goes through. It is, to me, possible that some of that social is necessary so that people can reconnect. Once that re-connection is established, then the spiritual cognition can take place again. I don't want to sound like it all has to be learning without the social connection, because there is clearly something to the group dynamic and the group intimacy that has to occur that also adds to the spiritual dynamic. I think it is an art. It is not a science or something that can be necessarily scripted from week to week. But I do feel that as the group begins to grow again, some of that social aspect is necessary.

Bob P.: Can I interject again? (Certainly) I think that part of the [[value]] of the [[social]] was to [[bond]] the group to the point of feeling [[comfortable]] in a lot of aspects of [[spiritual growth]]. I hate to categorize on a single end something that could be thought of as a [[continuum]], as the group tends to [[disperse]] in the [[cycles]] it goes through. It is, to me, possible that some of that social is necessary so that people can reconnect. Once that re-connection is established, then the spiritual cognition can take place again. I don't want to sound like it all has to be [[learning]] without the [[social]] connection, because there is clearly something to the [[group]] dynamic and the group [[intimacy]] that has to occur that also adds to the spiritual dynamic. I think it is an [[art]]. It is not a [[science]] or something that can be necessarily scripted from week to week. But I do feel that as the group begins to grow again, some of that social aspect is [[necessary]].

Aaron: And you don't have a degree in psychology?

Aaron: And you don't have a degree in psychology?

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