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Talk:2012-05-16-Thought Adjuster Declaration (view source)
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Ron
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Jim Cleveland wrote: Sun, May 20, 2012 at 8:14 AM
Hi Ron,
The prevailing idea that you are speaking and acting alone comes from the fact that you once stood outside the Teaching Mission framework for some years, and then later began working with a collective of other people that we still do not know. Some, like 'Big G', thought your actions were autocratic, a takeover when L&L had assembled a team to produce an online Library. It was fine that you were inspired to do it but it seemed you were leaping into a new and higher realm where you and your collective would control things and avoid the Teaching Mission .... which is really not a means to your ends.
Why do this? Because you are a solitary man. Because your belief in a working control structure more than a messy full democracy. And maybe because our first US group had become judgmental and wanted to save the movement from Calvin's 'anything goes' accusations, namely Daniel and you and others whose transmissions he believes are self-serving. It is a shame that Calvin still does not begin to understand the TR process, but that's another story.
The Salt Lake - Woods Cross group began pointing fingers and judging transmitters, and we were threatened with a legal challenge if we used the words Teaching Mission for our self-aggrandizing grandstanding and profit seeking. In history, Calvin has tangled in real life with Warren (!) and Rebecca's succeeding transmitter who turned out to be unacceptable. He is scarred. Yes, they have a history, and it helped align our pioneer group against most of the rest of us. Even so, they were bold enough to schedule a room at IC11 and do a transmission session with a few interested people curious about the Abraham-Mary group.
At the time, I didn't think Ron or anyone else wanted to put Teaching Mission on anything they were doing because Calvin intended to shroud and defend the name.
But then comes a massive flow of Magisterial Mission material, a whole new body of prophecy and epochal change, seemingly the natural extension of going into service with the basic TeaM knowledge that urges you to do so. And so I still read this material over several years now, even as I hear George Barnard debunking it to his whole global network, and Gerdean argue on one basis and Steffani on another (that it succeeds the exact truth of the Urantia Book).
This has been a tiring, recurring triad of conflict and distress over the years, augmented by the disappointment that a vast majority of our people don't want to engage in arguments or debates at all and shrink away to non-participation. Period. So we hear these same few voices reiterating and others who want more harmony shying away to personal service 'as they pass by.'
I am mostly with Marty who always intervenes and says we should read everything with a grain of salt and fit it into what our own internal spirits tell us. Sure. That's what the teachers have also recommended for more than 20 years too. They say the Spirit of Truth here is greatly underutilized. I believe that the teachers are too.
Geography factors, a lack of face to face communications, has greatly hampered us. The Celestials smoothed us into email and the Internet, but the children here are still learning to use it or disdaining the use of it. Philosophic geography-smashing discussion of the mission and how we can manage or guide it by working together doesn't happen here without the same old same old conflicts ripping it apart.
Even so, if Ron had been a charismatic leader, we would all be a giving and sharing part of his organization. If I had been such, we would have an international community publishing a magazine and subsidizing and supporting books, music and secondary material. Gerdean could perhaps have the land and a growing Zooid Colony in Wyoming. Marty's Harp of God Foundation would have donors and contributors and appreciative people in other new spirituality fields who would enjoin for mutual growth. We would be doing more to support Daniel Megow's Church Within, Daniel Raphael's Spirit Wings and sustainability networking, Mary's bright new Urantia book, Byron's well-crafted book projects .... Maybe it would all be something resembling ONE movement.
Instead of cooperation, we have too often pulled against one another, created little fiefdoms that are actually intended to be separate, or tried to fit our spiritual connections into some kind of business model or traditional ministry framework. None of this really works because the Teaching Mission is what it is, and not what anyone necessarily wants it to be.
In 1996, Manutia Melchizedek summed up the Teaching Mission task we have: "For unto you has been given the task of opening the way to a broader acceptance of celestial intervention." Simple.
In other words, we are to broadcast the reality that all humans can find great spiritual guidance through direct contact with God and his mighty minions. People don't know this, even though many go to church in a kind of dazed, semi-search for it. They pray but don't listen for a response because they are afraid of hearing voices. Bizarre.
I think the Teaching Mission should be pleased and proud to serve in this capacity and we seek to do that with the Teaching Mission Network. I do it in anything that I have or will publish in any form.
The Magisterial Mission can adjudicate the planet and I will observe and help as I can. In a field where people are still throwing long-dried cow chips at one another, I am still searching for some magic mushrooms growing out of the pasture patties to enlighten us into ... teamwork without judgments. It is okay to say that some of my friends think other of my friends are full of BS, though, since that's been the case all my life.
I don't care because you are some of the greatest, most spiritually enlightened people on the planet. (Either right as rain or wrong as hail sometimes) I will wait with some objectivity about the actual arrival of physical spiritual personalities, ETs and Michael's direct intervention. I am sure that if cats can be herded, the celestials will have the awe factor and can do it where we have failed.
In the meantime, don't forget that individuals do most all of the work. Groups don't. They try to organize and facilitate effort. But it only takes one person working alone with the spirits to create a great piece of work. Teamwork is great, but we have and will do much great work without it.
After several would-be critical readers of the Teaching Mission manuscript bowed out, too busy, I have one great reader and editor lined up to review this manuscript in June. So I will wait until these other eyes and another keen mind takes a final look at these 600 plus pages, when he has time to do it in June. One messed-up fact can mess up a book and this is an important one to get right.
I'm now finishing a strenuous final edit and pulling teacher quotes for the back cover. James will design. I need to Index it, but don't know when I'll ever find the time. Would be very good for readers. Volunteer? Word has a good indexing system. I could come up with a payment, work for hire.
Will move the mss. into Mac Pages eventually to make it easy to work in close to 30 photos of many smiling faces. Create PDF for printer.
Perhaps this book will make that 'thin veneer of the Teaching Mission' shine a little brighter. My plan is to ........ Create and Wait. The celestials are going to do what they are going to do and I'm not awfully worried about humans being perfectly apace with it.The acts are ours, the consequences go to God. So we need to elevate our acts to the very highest possible level.
Love to ALL of you ONEs.
Keren/jim
ps This all seems interesting enough to pass it to the TEAM NET administrative council and contact team. Some may consider joining TML.