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===Topic: ''On Intrusion''===
===Group: [[Unknown]]===
==Facilitators==
===Teacher: [[Amanson]]===
===TR: [[Mark Turnbull]]===
==Session==
===Opening===
I would like to speak tonight on “[[Intrusion]]”: intrusion into another’s [[belief]] system, intrusion into
another’s way of life, what they hold to be [[sacred]].
===Lesson===
One will often feel compelled to insert one’s self and one’s beliefs into another’s because of concerns
for mistakes we [[feel]] – not they feel but we feel – they are making. This of course is generally a mistake
on our part, no matter the [[motivation]]. When we don’t [[understand]] another’s [[thinking]] – although we
think we do; we say we do – we will attempt to supersede their thoughts and seeming illogic with
thoughts and illogic of our own! But they have their reasons; they have their story (their history) which
is [[responsible]] for their thinking and [[feeling]] the way they do.
“No two people see the same world” (as you have been told). But this can be unsettling, and so we try
to congregate with those who [[share]] a similar [[world view]]. But again, because of the different stories that
constitute such a congregation (meaning any social gathering), none of the congregates will be in
absolute lock-step. But [[colleagues]] will gather beneath a flag or church spire to secure a feeling of
belonging and [[camaraderie]]. When someone intrudes on such a bond with an eye to [[change]] or [[challenge]]
this shared thinking, it will be resented and rightfully so. For you see, any thinking that can be
challenged, that is challengeable, exists in a realm that is ultimately time-bound, and by challenging it
you [[prove]] your own thinking as [[ephemeral]] as that you would see changed.
The only response [[worthy]] of a [[child of God]] is [[Love]], which is not time-bound. Accepting the present
standing of the brother or sister who holds the views you would challenge, becomes paramount; the
[[ascension]] of [[Love]] that completes their – and your - partial [[viewpoint]] brings an [[eternal]] [[perspective]] to
the [[finite]] and [[relative]] thinking on display.
So, intrusion into another’s beliefs or fixations – even with the most [[ideal]]ized [[motives]] – is always just
that – an intrusion. But [by] accepting their considerations – whether you consider them considerations
or not! – and, shall we say, ‘absorbing’ their beliefs - and the believer’s entire [[being]] - into your fully
accepting Love, (what has been called “the cloud of unknowing”), the situation and its participants are
benefited in far greater ways and to a much greater degree than any [[confrontation]] of [[opinions]] could
hope to accomplish.
This of course does not rule out [[discussion]]. The play of [[ideas]] – [[philosophy]] – is one of the great sports of
the [[human mind]], enlarging the channels of the [[imagination]] into far greater receptacles than the shallow
streams in which they began. But it does, by acknowledging the [[respect]] each human being extends and
conversely expects, absolutely rule out [[coercion]].
===Closing===
Let [[Love]] rule the table. And Love will change what needs to be changed. I have heard you sing, “Love Is
in Charge.” Make it so. Don’t intrude, [[Inspire]].
[[Category: The Teaching Mission: Dialogues]]
[[Category: Unknown]]
[[Category: Amanson]]
[[Category: Mark Turnbull]]
[[Category: 2022]]
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==Heading==
===Topic: ''On Intrusion''===
===Group: [[Unknown]]===
==Facilitators==
===Teacher: [[Amanson]]===
===TR: [[Mark Turnbull]]===
==Session==
===Opening===
I would like to speak tonight on “[[Intrusion]]”: intrusion into another’s [[belief]] system, intrusion into
another’s way of life, what they hold to be [[sacred]].
===Lesson===
One will often feel compelled to insert one’s self and one’s beliefs into another’s because of concerns
for mistakes we [[feel]] – not they feel but we feel – they are making. This of course is generally a mistake
on our part, no matter the [[motivation]]. When we don’t [[understand]] another’s [[thinking]] – although we
think we do; we say we do – we will attempt to supersede their thoughts and seeming illogic with
thoughts and illogic of our own! But they have their reasons; they have their story (their history) which
is [[responsible]] for their thinking and [[feeling]] the way they do.
“No two people see the same world” (as you have been told). But this can be unsettling, and so we try
to congregate with those who [[share]] a similar [[world view]]. But again, because of the different stories that
constitute such a congregation (meaning any social gathering), none of the congregates will be in
absolute lock-step. But [[colleagues]] will gather beneath a flag or church spire to secure a feeling of
belonging and [[camaraderie]]. When someone intrudes on such a bond with an eye to [[change]] or [[challenge]]
this shared thinking, it will be resented and rightfully so. For you see, any thinking that can be
challenged, that is challengeable, exists in a realm that is ultimately time-bound, and by challenging it
you [[prove]] your own thinking as [[ephemeral]] as that you would see changed.
The only response [[worthy]] of a [[child of God]] is [[Love]], which is not time-bound. Accepting the present
standing of the brother or sister who holds the views you would challenge, becomes paramount; the
[[ascension]] of [[Love]] that completes their – and your - partial [[viewpoint]] brings an [[eternal]] [[perspective]] to
the [[finite]] and [[relative]] thinking on display.
So, intrusion into another’s beliefs or fixations – even with the most [[ideal]]ized [[motives]] – is always just
that – an intrusion. But [by] accepting their considerations – whether you consider them considerations
or not! – and, shall we say, ‘absorbing’ their beliefs - and the believer’s entire [[being]] - into your fully
accepting Love, (what has been called “the cloud of unknowing”), the situation and its participants are
benefited in far greater ways and to a much greater degree than any [[confrontation]] of [[opinions]] could
hope to accomplish.
This of course does not rule out [[discussion]]. The play of [[ideas]] – [[philosophy]] – is one of the great sports of
the [[human mind]], enlarging the channels of the [[imagination]] into far greater receptacles than the shallow
streams in which they began. But it does, by acknowledging the [[respect]] each human being extends and
conversely expects, absolutely rule out [[coercion]].
===Closing===
Let [[Love]] rule the table. And Love will change what needs to be changed. I have heard you sing, “Love Is
in Charge.” Make it so. Don’t intrude, [[Inspire]].
[[Category: The Teaching Mission: Dialogues]]
[[Category: Unknown]]
[[Category: Amanson]]
[[Category: Mark Turnbull]]
[[Category: 2022]]