Changes

You know from your studies that [[personality]] never changes. Though my life span is centuries upon centuries long -- even more so -- I am still the one who tended [[the Garden]] those many years back. Yet I too have undergone development as an [[angel]]. I find myself in better standing than even in those days. Personality improvement is not the effort to improve, to fix or better, to change, to recondition, to decorate your personality. It is rather the alteration of the [[technique]]s whereby personality learns and expresses. Though personality ever is, it continually discovers greater methods, clearer methods, of manifestation and of [[divine]] reach.

You know from your studies that [[personality]] never changes. Though my life span is centuries upon centuries long -- even more so -- I am still the one who tended [[the Garden]] those many years back. Yet I too have undergone development as an [[angel]]. I find myself in better standing than even in those days. Personality improvement is not the effort to improve, to fix or better, to change, to recondition, to decorate your personality. It is rather the alteration of the [[technique]]s whereby personality learns and expresses. Though personality ever is, it continually discovers greater methods, clearer methods, of manifestation and of [[divine]] reach.

When we were engaged in the Garden project it was a primary teaching that the [[human]] [[soul]] could correlate the events of the material life with the [[Adamic teachings]] of the ideals of the spiritual life by realizing that not all that transpires in human events is impacted upon the [[individual]] from the external world, that deep within the [[mind]] belonging to personality is a [[creative]] [[force]] that initiates, that wills, that can alter events independent of those activities impinging upon one. In a way, if I may use the [[word]], it is a <u>"pre-[[sense]]"</u> a presence. Taking time to foster the relationship with God in [[stillness]] is the means whereby we may stimulate creative action prior to the sensory input of the world around you.

When we were engaged in the Garden project it was a primary teaching that the [[human]] [[soul]] could correlate the events of the material life with the [[Adamic teachings]] of the ideals of the spiritual life by realizing that not all that transpires in human events is impacted upon the [[individual]] from the external world, that deep within the [[mind]] belonging to personality is a [[creative]] [[force]] that initiates, that wills, that can alter events independent of those activities impinging upon one. In a way, if I may use the [[word]], it is a <u>"pre-[[sense]]"</u> a [[presence]]. Taking time to foster the relationship with God in [[stillness]] is the means whereby we may stimulate creative action prior to the sensory input of the world around you.

[[Humankind]] is progressing in the development of [[art]], and this is reckoned a beneficial progressive activity by those who hover over your world, for this is a field for the germination and sustenance of creative output. [[Imaginative]] expression gives birth to the new. You have also an institution of [[athletics]], sports. This engagement of human beings; while it demonstrates prowess, stamina, endurance, agility, and the like; it is interactive and reactive to external conditions, the playing field. The two go hand-in-hand, art and athletics. One springs forth from the creative well; the other is interactive with the many beings surrounding one. You do not need to be an athlete or an artist to apply the abilities of both to your life.

[[Humankind]] is progressing in the development of [[art]], and this is reckoned a beneficial progressive activity by those who hover over your world, for this is a field for the germination and sustenance of creative output. [[Imaginative]] expression gives birth to the new. You have also an institution of [[athletics]], sports. This engagement of human beings; while it demonstrates prowess, stamina, endurance, agility, and the like; it is interactive and reactive to external conditions, the playing field. The two go hand-in-hand, art and athletics. One springs forth from the creative well; the other is interactive with the many beings surrounding one. You do not need to be an athlete or an artist to apply the abilities of both to your life.

I am happy to be here today with you, and I would take your questions.

I am happy to be here today with you, and I would take your questions.

===Dialogue===

===Dialogue===

Jada: Concerning contact with the dead, [[Urantia Book|our book]] is so adamant that this does not occur, and there are those saying it does. Can you shed some [[light]] on this?

Jada: Concerning contact with the dead, [[Urantia Book|our book]] is so adamant that this does not occur, and there are those saying it does. Can you shed some [[light]] on this?