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Group: Corvallis, Oregon

 

===Group: [[Corvallis TeaM]]===

Teacher: LinEl

 

===Teacher: [[LinEl]]===

===TR: [[Thea]]===

 

T/R: Thea

 

 

LinEL: Greetings. This is LinEL, your teacher. I hope you will forgive me for being more informal this evening but it appears that the tone of this gathering is likely to be comfortable with this. Know we enjoy your humor thoroughly. Your laughter together helps you to become bonded/ friendship/ family group. I have many things to discuss this evening about the direction of our group. I am pleased about this opening attitude because one thing I wish to encourage is less formality and more fellow feeling.

LinEL: Greetings. This is LinEL, your teacher. I hope you will forgive me for being more informal this evening but it appears that the tone of this gathering is likely to be comfortable with this. Know we enjoy your humor thoroughly. Your laughter together helps you to become bonded/ friendship/ family group. I have many things to discuss this evening about the direction of our group. I am pleased about this opening attitude because one thing I wish to encourage is less formality and more fellow feeling.

 

We are here together brothers and sisters, to become a family group. We are your brothers and sisters and you are ours. I want to encourage you to see these sessions as we are getting started in this process as something more like a conversation, or perhaps group discussion, than merely a question and answer session with me. I am perfectly willing to take your questions and will continue to do so. But I would encourage any who wish to comment during this process to please go ahead. I will also for the time being try to shorten the length of my replies so that more persons can ask questions and become involved. This process of getting to know one another takes time. There will be sufficient time ahead for me to begin more formal instruction. What is important now is for you to learn to know each other and to enjoy each others company. This group bonding is necessary before I can move ahead. I would also ask at this time that you restrict the size of your group. By this, I mean, it would be best for present not to invite others unless they are already aware of and support this mission. Your group is quite large and it will take some time for us to achieve what we need. Please do not see this as any move toward exclusivity. This will be only a temporary measure.

We are here together brothers and sisters, to become a family group. We are your brothers and sisters and you are ours. I want to encourage you to see these sessions as we are getting started in this process as something more like a conversation, or perhaps group discussion, than merely a question and answer session with me. I am perfectly willing to take your questions and will continue to do so. But I would encourage any who wish to comment during this process to please go ahead. I will also for the time being try to shorten the length of my replies so that more persons can ask questions and become involved. This process of getting to know one another takes time. There will be sufficient time ahead for me to begin more formal instruction. What is important now is for you to learn to know each other and to enjoy each others company. This group bonding is necessary before I can move ahead. I would also ask at this time that you restrict the size of your group. By this, I mean, it would be best for present not to invite others unless they are already aware of and support this mission. Your group is quite large and it will take some time for us to achieve what we need. Please do not see this as any move toward exclusivity. This will be only a temporary measure.

I am pleased to be with you again. There are many of us here learning as we go, for remember this is a learning process for us all and not just yourselves. I am excited about your progress and feel assured that we will be able to move successfully forward. For this evening, I would release you from last times assignment. I am letting you off the hook. But you can be assured that I will encourage you in this somewhere in the future. I would like to start questioning now. Who would like to begin?

I am pleased to be with you again. There are many of us here learning as we go, for remember this is a learning process for us all and not just yourselves. I am excited about your progress and feel assured that we will be able to move successfully forward. For this evening, I would release you from last times assignment. I am letting you off the hook. But you can be assured that I will encourage you in this somewhere in the future. I would like to start questioning now. Who would like to begin?

 

Mark: Hi, LinEL. I have a question about faith. I was reading in some of the other transcripts and the question of faith came up. It seems like a fairly simple concept but when I started thinking about it further, it didn't seem very simple at all. And I was just wondering if you would comment on that. And, in context, I try to take it out of spiritual faith and try to move it into, say, my faith in mankind or my faith in another person. Is that the same kind of faith?

Mark: Hi, LinEL. I have a question about faith. I was reading in some of the other transcripts and the question of faith came up. It seems like a fairly simple concept but when I started thinking about it further, it didn't seem very simple at all. And I was just wondering if you would comment on that. And, in context, I try to take it out of spiritual faith and try to move it into, say, my faith in mankind or my faith in another person. Is that the same kind of faith?

Barbara: Thank you, LinEL. Be sure to take plenty of time when you need to answer our questions.

Barbara: Thank you, LinEL. Be sure to take plenty of time when you need to answer our questions.