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LOCATION: PITTSBURGH PA USA
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T/R’S Gerdean (for Tomas) and Hunnah (for Merium)
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TEACHERS: MERIUM AND TOMAS
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I. STILLNESS
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URANTIA BOOK STUDY:
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(1) Paper 14, THE CENTRAL AND DIVINE UNIVERSE, Page 152:
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#1. The Paradise-Havona System;
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#2. Constitution of Havona;
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#3. The Havona Worlds;
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#4. Creatures of the Central Universe;
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(2) Paper 111, THE ADJUSTER AND THE SOUL, Page 1216:
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#1. The Mind Arena of Choice;
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(3) Paper 146, FIRST PREACHING TOUR OF GALILEE, Page 1638:
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#2. At Jotapata
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II. STILLNESS & SHARING
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The Mind Arena of Choice
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The Emotional Palette
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September 11, 1997
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==Heading==
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===Topic: ''Mind Arena of Choice''===
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===Group: [[Pittsburgh TeaM]]===
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==Facilitators==
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===Teacher: [[Merium]], [[Tomas]]===
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===TR: [[Gerdean]], [[Hunnah]]===
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==Session==
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===Opening===
 
MERIUM: I am going to open the session this evening because I can just hardly wait to be here! And we are breaking with routine. It is my custom to wait for Tomas to speak so I just thought I would surprise you and come out on the stage first and welcome you to our evening's discussion. I hope that you have your questions and I am going to call upon Tomas now. Are you ready?
 
MERIUM: I am going to open the session this evening because I can just hardly wait to be here! And we are breaking with routine. It is my custom to wait for Tomas to speak so I just thought I would surprise you and come out on the stage first and welcome you to our evening's discussion. I hope that you have your questions and I am going to call upon Tomas now. Are you ready?
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It is wonderful to be here with you all this evening and to welcome you here in the room and in the environment that watches over the room and your activities and growth strides. Your studies this evening were very fine; your minds were stimulated greatly and we appreciated your integrity in assuming to devour some of those more meaningful mota. Yes, Merium.
 
It is wonderful to be here with you all this evening and to welcome you here in the room and in the environment that watches over the room and your activities and growth strides. Your studies this evening were very fine; your minds were stimulated greatly and we appreciated your integrity in assuming to devour some of those more meaningful mota. Yes, Merium.
 
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===Lesson===
 
MERIUM: I appreciated the lesson this evening, so therefore I am going to use it as part of my format. It is understood, I hope, by now that we do not come in toting a briefcase with a very elaborate program. We have come to interact with you, not to dictate a lesson, but to waken and stir, in our friendship with you, those areas of yours that are needing a little cultivation. Perhaps you need to develop a little more trust or some courage in a particular aspect of your development, and just by association with us, as we gather together in unity, these areas start to respond. It is as if you brought out all the gardening tools and tended to the place. We do not prop up or tear down and repair or add more. We are allowing what already is to come forth and develop and show itself and it will indeed affect your daily lives.
 
MERIUM: I appreciated the lesson this evening, so therefore I am going to use it as part of my format. It is understood, I hope, by now that we do not come in toting a briefcase with a very elaborate program. We have come to interact with you, not to dictate a lesson, but to waken and stir, in our friendship with you, those areas of yours that are needing a little cultivation. Perhaps you need to develop a little more trust or some courage in a particular aspect of your development, and just by association with us, as we gather together in unity, these areas start to respond. It is as if you brought out all the gardening tools and tended to the place. We do not prop up or tear down and repair or add more. We are allowing what already is to come forth and develop and show itself and it will indeed affect your daily lives.
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When Hunnah was polishing the microphone before I started to speak, she was using the visualization of having stepped aside and become what you call a stage hand and she is in the wings listening to this dialog that she can't believe is continuing to flow. If Tomas would like to speak, we'd be glad to have him, or answer questions, or we can take a break to see how things are going to develop.
 
When Hunnah was polishing the microphone before I started to speak, she was using the visualization of having stepped aside and become what you call a stage hand and she is in the wings listening to this dialog that she can't believe is continuing to flow. If Tomas would like to speak, we'd be glad to have him, or answer questions, or we can take a break to see how things are going to develop.
 
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===Dialogue===
 
Elyssia: Well, I thought I'd ask Tomas a question because I'd already talked to him previously, a couple of years ago, about how I'm trying to figure out about mind, because-- I'm so glad that we read "Mind Arena of Choice!" I'm trying to figure out-- In our society we seem to be overcome by the whole sentimentalistic idea of "put your mind on a shelf; don't think, feel, react, if it feels good it's true," all those things, and I was wishing that Tomas might talk about mind a bit. It seemed like something he had started a long time ago, for me.
 
Elyssia: Well, I thought I'd ask Tomas a question because I'd already talked to him previously, a couple of years ago, about how I'm trying to figure out about mind, because-- I'm so glad that we read "Mind Arena of Choice!" I'm trying to figure out-- In our society we seem to be overcome by the whole sentimentalistic idea of "put your mind on a shelf; don't think, feel, react, if it feels good it's true," all those things, and I was wishing that Tomas might talk about mind a bit. It seemed like something he had started a long time ago, for me.
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TOMAS: Indeed, Merium, thank you for extending the value into the flock. I am sometimes reminded that even though this is our teacher base, it behooves us to remember that we have sheep not of this fold, which helps to enlarge our perspective, lest we become victims of the provincial tendencies of this rural planet Urantia.
 
TOMAS: Indeed, Merium, thank you for extending the value into the flock. I am sometimes reminded that even though this is our teacher base, it behooves us to remember that we have sheep not of this fold, which helps to enlarge our perspective, lest we become victims of the provincial tendencies of this rural planet Urantia.
 
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===Closing===
 
I feel that we have been well fed this evening, that there has been a feast of plenty once more provided by our superb teacher Michael, in his attentions to our nurturance and growth this evening. Always is the Master concerned for our growth and development, for our nurturance and guidance, that we, his children, will grow up to be big and strong, to be a fair representative of him, our Father and elder Brother in truth. Praise be to our Master Michael, Sovereign Lord, and to his many helpers, far and wide, young and old, spirit and mortal.
 
I feel that we have been well fed this evening, that there has been a feast of plenty once more provided by our superb teacher Michael, in his attentions to our nurturance and growth this evening. Always is the Master concerned for our growth and development, for our nurturance and guidance, that we, his children, will grow up to be big and strong, to be a fair representative of him, our Father and elder Brother in truth. Praise be to our Master Michael, Sovereign Lord, and to his many helpers, far and wide, young and old, spirit and mortal.
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Group: Farewell. Thank you. Come again.
 
Group: Farewell. Thank you. Come again.
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[[Category: The Teaching Mission: Dialogues]]
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[[Category: Pittsburgh TeaM]]
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[[Category: Merium]]
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[[Category: Tomas]]
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[[Category: Gerdean]]
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[[Category: Hunnah]]
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[[Category: 1997]]

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