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== Crossroads Discussion SLC ==
It will be helpful to those examining these textual artifacts to know something about
their origin. This requires at minimum, a brief overview of what is known as
[[The Teaching Mission]].
Judging from the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:The_Teaching_Mission:_Dialogues record of dialogues], an [[Advance Corps]] of celestial teachers
began contacts with individual human beings in the late [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60's 1960’s] for the
purpose of developing experience with humans otherwise deprived of celestial
contact and [[communication]] apart from the context of [[mysticism]]. As such,
there are a few records from the early [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/70's 1970’s] that bear witness to this effort.
It wasn’t until the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/80's 1980’s] however that more systematic contact aiming to
develop long term [[relationships]] with groups of persons began in [http://www.nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:New_Zealand_TeaM New Zealand]
where the biblical [[personality]] known as [[Abraham]] acted as the group teacher.
By the late 1980’s, other teachers were found contacting groups in the [[United
States]] who, unlike the New Zealand group, were all [[Urantia Book]] readers.
The record suggests that the contact with a [[Pocatello TeaM|group in Utah]] by the teacher [[Ham]]
was among the first, and afterwards grew into a network of small groups in the
United States and eventually throughout the world. Typically, these were
characterized by the [[study]] of The Urantia Book as a basic text though it appears
not to have been a prerequisite for [[participation]].
In early [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992 1992], the teacher Ham made an [[1992-02-01-Ham To General Council announcement to the General
Council of the Urantia Brotherhood]], then the only organization sponsoring
study of the Urantia text. In this meeting on February 1, 1992 in Los Angeles,
California in advance of a general conference of the Urantia Brotherhood,
Ham described the [[Teaching Mission]] as follows:
'''1''') Initiation and expansion of the [[Teacher Corps]] as many of you will desire to
receive personal instruction. At present we are preparing a group of [[teachers]]
who are in the first phase of our Teaching Mission. The mortals brought under
their teaching and [[guidance]] will become teachers themselves, as themselves, not in an intermediary position as is [[Rebecca]] (the ‘[[transmitter]]’) tonight. Spiritual [[enlightenment]] on [[individual]], [[group]], national, and planetary scale is anticipated.
'''2''') Also, along with the spiritual uplifting, we anticipate and desire [[cooperation]]
in other areas of human life endeavor as well, chiefly [[economic]], [[political]],
social, environmental, and technical changes. Of course we are anticipating
many years duration of this initial phase of our mission.
'''3''') I am commissioned to [[announce]] also the third aspect of our Teaching
Mission, and that is [[preparation]] for an even greater Teacher. [[Michael]] has
prepared the way. We are expanding the way. A [[Teacher Son]] will complete the
way toward [[Light and Life]] on [[Urantia]]. As for [[timing]], I cannot adequately or
accurately foresee.
The reception of this announcement was decidedly cool. Nevertheless, it was
described by Teaching Mission participants who were present as a “great
success”. No doubt, the Urantia Brotherhood had larger concerns at that time
with contests over copyright control of the Urantia text that persisted through
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/90's 1990’s] until the copyright was cancelled by a [http://ca10.washburnlaw.edu/cases/2003/03/01-6347.htm Superior Court decision] in
2001 after nearly a decade of litigation.
With copyright no longer serving as a thorn in the body of organized readers
of The [[Urantia Book]], the [[Teaching Mission]] became increasingly perceived as a
threat to the goal of presenting The Urantia Book to what was considered the
[[mainstream]] of society. Regardless of any official chagrin, it was announcements
among many Teaching Mission groups of an impending [[materialization]] of
celestial visitors in what the Urantia text describes as a [[Magisterial Mission]] that
resulted in the decline of public [[participation]] due to the manner with which
this prospect was represented by some.
Today, there are Teaching Mission lessons [[translated]] into many languages
around the world, and no doubt, lessons are being received by those who care
to listen to [[the Source]] of all spiritual guidance within every [[child of God]]
endowed with [[Ta|his presence]]. How many of these oral lessons will be shared in public is yet to be seen. It is for this reason, the following collection is offered to the pubic simply as evidence, that at best, points to a greater body of teaching well beyond the reach of words but not to any who would make the time required to learn to recognize the ''[[Ta|still, small voice within]].''
