Talk:1999-03-30-Choose the Highest Path

copied from talkpage for this lesson.

March 23, 2013

Rob wrote: Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 12:29 PM

For many, many centuries, as your world was awaiting its next evolutionary epochal step, the status quo was on a par with a state of dormancy. Evolution transpired, yes, but only rarely did it surge forward meaningfully. Your world now is seriously surging forward, as each of you allow it. - Tomas

At the outset of the lesson above, reference is made to "Will's lesson of March 30". It is not available in any archive, and I wonder who may have a copy to share?

Gerdean wrote:Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 1:51 PM

I seem to recall a collection of Will's snippets in the form of a daily meditation. They were in existence as a mimeographed day book well before "The Correcting Time" was circulated and published.

Rob wrote:Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 1:56 PM

If you find it, perhaps you can share here as I would like to incorporate it.

Gerdean wrote: Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 7:02 PM

It was never really published, just mimeographed. And I have not seen a copy, including my own copy, since the Butler days. Maybe somebody else has their old copy. They were certainly worthy. I cannot help but wonder if they were not incorporated into The Center Within.

Rob wrote: Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 7:22 PM

I will inquire with Byron and Fred, but thanks for your encouragement!!

Rob wrote: Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 7:27 PM

Hello Byron and Fred-

While I was working through the Dialogues, I noticed a reference in this lesson to a lesson from Will dated March 30 presumably of the same year (1999). No copy is found in any archive, and Gerdean said she remembered it being circulated in a mimeographed form and that it might have been included in The Center Within. Can you confirm if this is available or send me a copy so I can include it in the collection?

Gratefully,

Rob

Steffani wrote: Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 9:10 PM

It's called 'Lessons in Enlightenment'...

Rob wrote: Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 9:15 PM

Thanks Steffani! If Byron and Fred are not able to find a copy with the reference from Tomas' lesson, I will see if they can find it using the title you have supplied. At this time, searching all archives on the title still doesn't locate a record. I expect we will turn something up soon.

Steffani wrote: Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 9:51 PM

It was...I have a copy I treasure because Will found a way to send it to me, through a guy named Adam in my UB study group, who met Fred at a bookstore in Tallahassee by Tuesday, after I read a short item in Allene's TRNN one Sunday and thought...gosh, I sure would like to read more of the teachings of this Will person...an unpublished manuscript quicker than Fed-ex could have brought me a published work from that Barnes and Noble. Adam had no interest, and tried to decline the 'gift' from Fred by "an unpublished author friend of his". When I read the blurb from Will to the 2 guys in study group, Adam got a strange look on his face, walked to his car, brought in the 'lesson book' and said..."I guess it must be for you!" This was about 2 months after IC'96 at Flagstaff, when I had first became accepting of the TeaM...If I still had any doubts about the reality of the Teaching Mission by then (I didn't... but) they would have ended right there...but I really didn't know at that time that Will was an invisible celestial, and the Tallahassee group's teacher.

Steffani wrote:Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 9:55 PM

You know, looking at the date again...I think it must be a much later lesson than the ones incorporated into 'the Center Within'...

Rob wrote:Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 10:06 PM

Thank you for sharing your experience with the lesson! It is amazing how the threads of thought are woven in and through our lives. I am sure we will witness greater visions of these weavings in time.

March 24, 2013

Gerdean wrote:Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 12:35 AM

"Will's lesson of March 30" does not necessarily have to be March 30, 1999, which is the date this lesson was transmitted. It could well have been from March 30, 1998, 1997 1996, 1995, or even earlier -- especially considering it was a Day Book.

Rob wrote: Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 10:12 AM

Thanks Gerdean! I'll be speaking with Byron later today and will see what he can remember.

March 25, 2013

Byron wrote:Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 12:42 AM

I don’t know the Will lessons by date—only Fred would have that available if anyone.

Fred Harris wrote: Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 7:26 AM

I don’t have that information available any more. I sent it all into the archives, so if it isn’t there, then I don’t know where it is. V

Rob wrote (to Byron cc to Fred) Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 2:27 PM

It is called "Lessons of Enlightenment". Someone on tml thought it might have been included in the book The Center Within.

Rob wrote (to Fred cc to Byron) Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 2:37 PM

Thanks Fred! I will see if it might be in this collection still confined to pdf files perhaps still on the lightson.net server. Until I locate it, I will keep a record of the efforts here.

Normalinda wrote: Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 4:18 PM

Here it is!

March 30 Choose the Highest Path

It is inescapable that life has it's ups and downs. The grand variety of the universe is expressed on the disorganized planets largely in the guise of chance. We realize that this is a source of frequent frustration for you who are attempting validly to organize your lives and grapple with the circumstances of life and in an attempt to hammer out a viable form of spiritual understanding and progress. Yet, I think I can assure you that, in many respects, if you were to be transported to one of the more advanced planets, you would find it to be a chafing experience. True, things are more organized, more reliable, as certain as things on the material planet can be, and it is a consistently better situation for the people as a whole as regards their personal spiritual developments, but I think I can safely say that you would be bored there. For, though those planets are well ordered and productive, there is a vitality to a planet like yours that is largely lost through the very process of settlement.

This is not to diminish the rewards consequent upon such developments, but when we look upon the product of those planets compared with the product of , say, a backward and brutal planet such as this is , we find that the people who have graduated from those systems are not as hardy, not as tough minded, not as reliable as you people are proving yourselves to be. Therefore we say , you are the lucky ones. If it were possible to reproduce the personality qualities you people carry forward into eternity, then people like you would be in demand throught out the universe. You are the lucky ones.

You people arrive on the Mansion Worlds with plenty of sharp edges and alot of hard bark upon you. That is good. It gives you a certain kind of advantage. I am forbidden to reveal the consequence. It will suffice to say that it gives you a kind of advantage [ dog howls loudly] [ laughter] . Here is a fine example of what I am talking about. A peculiar spark of tenacity and disrespect has, as we have described in the past, its upside in the positive side of the qualities which you find so troublesome in your lives are the very qualities that will serve you in your transit across eternity. You are the lucky ones.

There fore we can say to you, as a general instruction, have faith, walk forward boldly. You are far more capable than you give yourselves credit for. You spend far too much time agonizing over mistakes and the possibility of mistakes.

What is a mistake in the service of God? Each of you must be in full the person whom you were born to be. If you but have faith in the Father above, the Adjuster within and your fellows with out then you will achieve the full measure which the Heavenly father intended before you even came into existence. Have faith, you will not go wrong so long as you listen and think and observe the respectful opinions of your brothers and sisters. You will not go wrong .

It matters not whether the world showers you with gold and jewels or reviles you as a meddlesome troublemaker and a gadfly to all things which they consider important. True, it is seen that the middle road is the preferred in all but one area- the middle will never serve you as the path to spiritual progress. We exhort you. All choose the higher path, the rarified path, the path with no marks upon it, the path with heart. Your faith will guide you. That is all I have to say.

Few persons live up to the faith they really have. Unreasoned fear is a master intellectual fraud practiced upon the evolving mortal soul. Page 556.

Rob wrote:Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 4:55 PM

Thank you Normalinda! Do you think the proper date for it is March 30, 1999?

Normalinda wrote:Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 4:42 PM

I copied this right from the Will & Company "Living in Truth" Lessons for Personal Enlightenment" Teaching Mission Day Book . November 14, 1997 Draft. A gift to me from Fred Harris.

Rob wrote:Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 4:55 PM

Thank you! Now that I have made a record of it, I notice that it was included as Session 2 of series of lessons dated September 5, 1992.